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Legislature still faces spending, tax issues

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers still fatigued from a record budget standoff with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf may not get much of a break from the partisan battles as the start of the new fiscal year approaches.

Both chambers of the Legislature resume session in Harrisburg today, with six weeks for Wolf and Republican majorities in the House and Senate to iron out sharp differences over taxes and spending for the 2016-17 fiscal year, which starts July 1.

The fall election campaign looms for most incumbents, and no one in the Capitol seems to want a repeat of the stalled approval of a final 2015-16 spending plan that was resolved only last month.

Despite lawmakers’ talk of an improved relationship and optimism about the process ahead, negotiating positions at this point suggest the coming weeks could be rocky.

Wolf has proposed a $33.3 billion spending plan, an 11 percent increase over the

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA received an honorary degree from Rutgers University President Robert Barchi during the school’s 250th anniversary commencement Sunday in Piscataway, N.J. Obama used his commencement speech there to tear into Donald Trump’s positions on immigration, trade and Muslims, without ever mentioning his name. See story on Page 7.

Democrats: Chairman’s actions damaging Benghazi committee

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House Benghazi committee’s Republican chairman is ignoring statements by his own former lawyer indicating that the U.S. military acted properly on the night of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Libya, the panel’s Democrats said.

Reps. Elijah Cummings and Adam Smith said Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., omitted the lawyer’s comments

when he fired back at the Defense Department for criticizing the GOPled investigation into the attacks that killed four Americans.

Gowdy’s actions, coupled with delays that have pushed the 2-year-old inquiry into the heat of the 2016 presidential race, “have damaged the credibility of the Select Committee beyond repair,” Cummings and Smith wrote Sunday in a letter to Gowdy.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter.

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Cummings of Maryland is the senior Democrat on the Benghazi panel; Smith, of Washington state, is the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. He also serves on the select Benghazi panel.

The criticism by the two Democrats is the latest volley in an escalating, election-year fight over the Benghazi panel’s actions — or inaction. The panel, created in May 2014, has not conducted a public hearing since October when former SecreContinued on Page 4

Clinton woos Kentucky voters

By CATHERINE LUCEY

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More robot cars may mean more traffic on nation’s highways

By JOAN LOWY WASHINGTON — Selfdriving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety and convenience. The problem, say transportation researchers, is that people will use them too much.

Experts foresee robot cars chauffeuring children to school, dance class and baseball practice. The disabled and elderly will have new mobility. Commuters will be able to work, sleep, eat or watch movies on the way to the office. People may stay home more because they can send their cars to do things like pick up groceries they’ve ordered online.

Researchers believe the number of miles driven will skyrocket. It’s less cer-

tain whether that will mean a corresponding surge in traffic congestion, but it’s a clear possibility.

Gary Silberg, an auto industry expert at accounting firm KPMG, compares it to the introduction of smartphones. “It will be indispensable to your life,” he said. “It will be all sorts of things we can’t even think of today.”

Cars that can drive themselves under limited conditions are expected to be available within five to 10 years.

Versions able to navigate under most conditions may take 10 to 20 years.

Based on focus groups in Atlanta, Denver and Chicago, KPMG predicts autonomous “mobilityon-demand” services — Continued on Page 12

HILLARY CLINTON

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press

NEW YORK — As he tries to charm Republicans still skeptical of his presidential candidacy, Donald Trump has a challenge: On several key issues, he sounds an awful lot like a Democrat.

And on some points of policy, such as trade and national defense, the billionaire businessman could even find himself running to the left of Hillary Clinton, his likely Democratic rival in the general election.

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Trump is a classic Republican in many ways. He rails against environmental and corporate regulations, proposes dramatically lower tax rates and holds firm on opposing abortion rights.

But the presumptive GOP nominee doesn’t fit neatly into a traditional ideological box.

“I think I’m running on common sense,” he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “I think I’m running on what’s right.

I don’t think in terms of labels.”

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky voters pick their favored candidate for president on Tuesday, and Hillary Clinton is making a big, final push for their support. But rival Bernie Sanders hopes to add Kentucky to his string of wins and further delay Clinton’s clinching the Democratic presidential nomination.

Big-name surrogates have been sent, television ads are playing and Clinton is tour-

ing walls, but building bridges.”

While Clinton leads Sanders by nearly 300 pledged delegates going into Tuesday’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, the Vermont senator continues to win contests and has pledged to stay in the race until the July convention.

With Donald Trump set as the presumptive Republican nominee, those on Clinton’s team would like to turn their attention to the general election contest, but they Continued on Page 12

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ing the state in advance of Tuesday’s voting. On Sunday, the former secretary of state dropped in at Louisville churches and held rallies in Louisville and Fort Mitchell. Sanders on Sunday made a swing through Kentucky as well.

“We need a president who will work every single day to make life better for American families,” Clinton said at a union training center in Louisville. “We want somebody who can protect us and work with the rest of the world. Not talk about build-

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Republican-crafted $30 billion budget package that Wolf let become law without his signature to end the stalemate. It did not, he has said, fix a long-term deficit that has damaged Pennsylvania’s credit rating or do enough to help public school systems that had the nation’s biggest funding disparity between wealthy and poor districts.

Big increases for public schools, pension obligations, human services and prisons would drive up the spending, under Wolf’s proposal.

To fund it, Wolf has proposed a $2.7 billion tax hike that rests primarily on an 11 percent increase in the state income tax to 3.4 percent. Taxes on natural gas production, casino gambling, insurance premiums, tobacco products, movie tickets and basic cable television service also would rise.

Wolf’s press secretary said the governor remains committed to finding more money. But Republicans have not committed to a tax increase of any sort for Wolf’s new proposal, and say they are working now with the Wolf administraContinued on Page 12

Perhaps Trump’s clearest break with Republican orthodoxy is on trade, which the party’s 2012 platform said was “crucial for our economy” and a path to “more American jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living.”

Trump says his views on trade are “not really different” from the rest of his party’s, yet he pledges to rip up existing deals negotiated by “stupid leaders” who failed to put American workers first. He regularly Continued on Page 12

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Monday, May 16, 2016 — Page 3

Amtrak survivor faces life and limits after crash

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Levine didn’t feel like a miracle.

After three weeks in an induced coma, the oldest survivor of last year’s deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia struggled to accept how severely his injuries had limited him.

His 80-year-old shoulders and ribs were crushed, his right lung was punctured and spinal fractures left him partially paralyzed.

Machines kept him breathing and fed.

It would be months before he could walk or move his hands.

The May 2015 crash that killed eight people and injured 200 more had turned Levine — an active lawyer, art collector and world traveler — into an invalid.

Aaron and his 77-year-old wife, Barbara, of Washington, D.C., were heading to New York for an art show when the train left the tracks. Investigators said the train entered a sharp curve at 106 mph — more than twice the posted speed limit — when it crashed. The National Transportation Safety Board is meeting Tuesday in Washington to deter-

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AARON LEVINE and his wife Barbara posed for a portrait May 12 at ther home in Washington. mine the cause.

A few days after the derailment, the Levines were supposed to jet off for Europe.

Instead, Aaron lay in intensive care in Philadelphia considering what his life had become and how it would end.

He called one of his sons and asked him to research assisted suicide. “I thought it was all over for me,“ Aaron said in a recent interview. “I’m 80 years old. The end of my career. And now I’m totally decimated. So, I figured, I wanted out.“

Aaron’s son wouldn’t oblige.

Fine, the old man said. He didn’t need help. He would jump out the window instead. “My son said, ’You can’t get to the window!’“ Aaron recalled, a stroke of humor balancing the darkness. “After that happened, I kind of had my mind set — I decided to live.“ Aaron doesn’t remember the crash.

The walls of the train car — the second car behind the locomotive and the mangled business class car — caved in on him as it hur-

tled off the tracks and came to a rest on the side where he and his wife were sitting.

According to an NTSB report on the medical response, Aaron was the oldest person to survive the crash. At first, it wasn’t clear if he would. “They said I had one foot in a coffin and the other on a banana peel,“ Aaron said.

Barbara, thrown from her aisle seat, screamed for him.

She couldn’t move. Her pelvis was fractured in five places.

The Levines said they may attend Tuesday’s NTSB meeting in Washington, but are hesitant to believe the investigators’ findings. The couple worries about crumbling infrastructure and a lack of adequate funding for public transportation.

Aaron, who made a career of representing women harmed by defective pharmaceuticals and medical devices, wants someone held accountable. “It wasn’t an act of God. It was an act of stupidity,“ he said.

Emergency responders took crash victims to eight different hospitals using ambulances, police vehicles and city buses, de-

pending on the severity of their injuries.

Barbara went to Hahnemann Hospital near downtown on a bumpy ride in the back of a police wagon.

She and her family tracked down Aaron at Temple University Hospital, a trauma center closer to the crash site in North Philadelphia.

Two days after the crash, Barbara was transferred to be by his side.

Temple University Hospital received 39 patients, more than any other hospital. Aaron was the most critically injured and the last to leave, almost 80 days after the crash.

Aaron was 15 when his family moved into Barbara’s family’s Brooklyn apartment building. Her father, a pharmacist, filled prescriptions for his father, an optometrist.

They married a week after her college graduation and settled in Washington while he finished law school. He started his own firm there in 1967.

In the 1970s, his litigation helped get the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine contraceptive, pulled from the market after it was found to cause severe inflammations and the loss of fertility.

Aaron and Barbara had three children — two

lawyers and a doctor — and now have five grandchildren.

Now, they are among dozens of passengers suing Amtrak to cover the cost of their recoveries.

The Levines’ costs include a $3.5 million bill from Temple.

A year after the crash, Aaron’s condition has improved, along with his outlook.

He can walk short distances and lift his hands to his head. He’s resumed working on a limited basis but isn’t sure he’ll ever be able to try a case in front of a jury again. And, with regained movement in his hands, he’s back playing the piano with Barbara — his accompanist on trumpet — by his side.

Last week, the Levines hired a driver to take them to New York, to complete the trip to the art show they had started when they boarded the train a year ago at Union Station in Washington. Sean Kelly, a friend and gallery owner, saw Aaron in the hospital the day after the crash. “I think it’s fair to say that none of us thought he was going to make it,“ Kelly said. “He’s like bloody Superman to have survived this.“

Uncle Sam wants you to fight Zika Police: Man threw

By JENNIFER KAY

when the country eradicated mosquito-borne viruses. In a 1945 film, the U.S. government encouraged kids and scout troops to do their part in keeping their neighborhoods free from dengue and yellow fever.

Volunteers now are needed to collect mosquito eggs in their communities and upload the data to populate an online map, which in turn will provide real-time information about hot spots to help researchers and mosquito controllers respond. Some local surveys have been revived as dengue fever and other viruses creep back into the country, carried in the blood of travelers and transmitted through mosquito bites.

But that data hasn’t been centralized, and the gaps are clear to CDC researchers, whose national maps only roughly show the possible spread of two disease-carrying mosquitoes.

The CDC’s maps are based on historical reports, recent research and surveys sent in February to mosquito control districts nationwide, but evidence remains thin for habitat estimates. They suspect that Aedes aegypti could carry

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MIAMI — The mosquitoes that can spread Zika are already buzzing among us. The U.S. government could use some help figuring out exactly where.

No experience is necessary for what the U.S. Department of Agriculture envisions as a nationwide experiment in citizen-science. Teenagers already have proven themselves up to the task in tryouts involving a small number of high school students and science teachers.

Now it’s time for the Invasive Mosquito Project to scale up and fast, since Zika has been linked to serious birth defects and health officials are preparing for the possibility of small outbreaks in the United States. But there’s little money in government budgets to track its spread. “We don’t have a lot of data — good, solid data,� said John-Paul Mutebi, an entomologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

What the USDA is proposing is the kind of population survey not seen in the continental United States since World War II,

Zika well beyond the Southeast during the summer, and the more coldhardy Asian tiger mosquito could be biting into the Midwest and Northeast.

Both species are capable of spreading Zika, but experts have considered the Asian tiger less of a threat for triggering outbreaks than the Aedes aegypti.

The Invasive Mosquito Project is coordinated by Kansas-based USDA entomologist Lee Cohnstaedt, who has explored crowdsourcing as a budget-conscious way to sample mosquito populations and cites research supporting volunteers’ capabilities for collecting large-scale data.

Now he’s pinning his hopes for consistent data collection on students needing to do their homework, year after year.

He’s thinking big: Participation from a fifth of U.S. schools. Adapting lesson plans for middle schools,

scout troops and gardening clubs. Making mosquito surveys as common as public bird counts for conservation groups. Turning classroom routines into a life-long habit of mosquito vigilance.

Since high school biology teacher Noah Busch incorporated the USDA project into his lesson plans, his students in Manhattan, Kan., have made the connection between news reports about Zika and the mosquito traps they set near tires or backyard swimming pools. “I had more parents afraid of this project than any of my students,� said Busch, who teaches protocols for avoiding bites. “The parents were thinking we were attracting mosquitoes. No, the mosquitoes are already there.�

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gas, killed woman BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities on Sunday charged a Philadelphia man accused of throwing a cup of gasoline on his girlfriend while she was smoking, starting a fire that killed her after a dispute between the two.

Kevin Small, 46, of Philadelphia, was arraigned on homicide, arson and other charges Sunday afternoon in the death of Mellissa Bacon-Smith, 46.

The fire started in a room of the Lincoln Motel in the Philadelphia suburb of Bensalem, police said.

Small told authorities he bought the gasoline from a

convenience store across the street from the motel, according to a criminal complaint.

The blaze was reported around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.

Fire crews reported thick black smoke coming from two rooms. The blaze was declared under control in about a half-hour.

When reporters asked Smith if he had anything to say to Bacon-Smith’s family, he responded, “I’m sorry.“ It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney to comment on his behalf.

At least three people were rescued from second-floor rooms following the fire.

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OBITUARIES David Bagley David L Bagley, 73, of Clymer, passed away early Saturday, May 14, 2016, at Memorial Medical Center, in Johnstown.

Dave was born in Alverda and was a son of James C. and Cora A. (Fleming) Bagley.

He was a veteran of the Vietnam conflict and served with the 1st Cavalry Division where he received the commendation medal for Distinguished Service.

He was a member of the national American Legion; life member of VFW Post 1989, of Indiana; and a member of the Disabled American Veterans.

Dave was a member of Graystone Presbyterian Church.

Dave devoted his time to coaching. He organized the Clymer Clippers in the early 1970s and helped get the baseball field started in Clymer. In the early 1980s, he started Clymer’s Senior Legion baseball team and resurrected Clymer’s Junior Legion team in the early 1990s. In addition to baseball, he was also an assistant football coach in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Dave enjoyed spending time with his family and liked watching his grandchildren participate in their school sports. He also enjoyed gardening, fishing, boating and going to his camp.

He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Elaine (Betsa) Bagley; son and daughterin-law Dave and Gina, of Indiana; son and daughterin-law Mark and Mandi, of

Safety Harbor, Fla.; his three grandchildren, Brooke, Lauren and Mark; and his brother, Merv Bagley, of Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Cora, of Alverda; his father– in-law and mother-in-law, William and Ann Betsa, of Clymer; his brother, Richard, of Athens Ohio; and his brother Carl, of Cherry Tree.

Family and friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home in Clymer. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Bill Milligan officiating. Interment will be in the Protestant Cemetery, Sample Run. Military honors will be accorded by VFW Post 1989, Indiana.

Contributions can be made in honor of Dave to Out Reach Project for Veterans, 524 YoungstownPoland Road, Struthers, OH 44471.

Online condolences may be offered by visiting rbfh.net.

Ruth Ann Hazlett Ruth Ann (Marcinko) Hazlett, 92, of Penn Run, died Friday, May 13, 2016, at Indiana Regional Medical Center.

She was the widow of Vernon W. Hazlett, who died in 1989.

Born Jan. 26, 1924, in Donora, she was the daughter of the late John and Elizabeth (Ondovcak) Marcinko.

Ruth was a homemaker.

She was a member of the Church of the Resurrection, Heilwood.

She is survived by her children, Dale T. Hazlett (Joyce); Sandra Miller (Terry), of Smicksburg; and Vernon W. Hazlett Jr., of Penn Run. Five grandchildren and several great-

grandchildren also survive her.

In addition to her parents and husband, Ruth was preceded in death by her brothers, Joseph and John, and by her sisters, Ann, Mary, Helen, Helena, Margaret, Pauline and Irene.

Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home, of Clymer. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of the Resurrection, Heilwood, with the Rev. Anthony Klimko as the celebrant.

Interment will be in St. Patrick’s Cemetery at Cameron’s Bottom.

Online condolences may be left by visiting rbfh.net.

Donald Lockhart Donald W. Lockhart, 91, formerly of Hillcrest Drive, Towanda, passed away peacefully Saturday, May 14, 2016, at the Bradford County Manor, West Burlington Township, after a long struggle with Lewy Body Dementia.

Donald was born in Rossmoyne, on July 31, 1924, and was the son of John Donald Lockhart and Margaret North Lockhart.

He was a graduate of Plumville High School. He served as a signalman with the U.S. Navy during World War II, where the destroyer he was on, the USS Drexler, was sunk by kamikaze pilots at Okinawa.

Donald was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., for 10 years.

On June 24, 1950, he married the former Lois Walp in Washington, D.C. Donald was subsequently employed by the Silverlith Printing Company, in Maryland, and transferred to E.I. DuPont, in Towanda, in 1972 where he remained until his retirement in 1986.

Donald was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Towanda; Union Wyalusing Lodge No. 108, F & AM, Towanda; Northern Commandery No. 16 Knights Templar; Northern Council No. 24 Royal and Select Master Masons, Athens; Ancient Accepted Order of Scottish Rite Bodies Valleys of Towanda and Williamsport; Bradford County Shrine Club; and the Irem Temple Shrine of Dallas, where he was a member of the Shrine String Band for many years.

Donald loved music and was a member of Dean Balcomb’s Band, “Deano’s,” which provided entertainment for various area functions and to residents of local extended care facilities.

He also served as a volun-

teer for the American Red Cross for a number of years.

Most of all, Donald will be remembered as a loving and devoted father, grandfather and friend to many.

Surviving are his son and daughter-in-law, Jeffrey D. and Tammy (Miller) Lockhart, of Towanda; grandchildren Brianna Brimmer and husband Matthew, of Towanda; and Kyle Lockhart and wife Elisabeth, of Apalachin, N.Y.; greatgranddaughter Braylee Brimmer; sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Sidney Blair, of Indiana; sister-inlaw Elizabeth “Betty” Lockhart, of Carlisle; as well as several nieces, nephews and cousins.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Lois Walp Lockhart, on Dec. 12, 2011, and brother, Dr. Philip N. Lockhart, on Feb. 20, 2011.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday at the MaryottBowen Funeral Home, 217 York Ave., Towanda. Union Wyalusing Lodge No. 108 F&AM will hold a service of remembrance at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday at the funeral home followed by a funeral service at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Rachel Stahle, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Towanda, officiating.

Towanda American Legion Post No. 42 will accord military honors at the funeral home. Interment will be on Friday in the Gilgal Cemetery, Marion Center.

The family suggests that contributions may be directed to Shriners Hospital for Children, 3551 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19140, in Donald W. Lockhart’s memory.

Memories and condolences may be expressed by visiting www.bowenfuneralhomes.com.

Patrick McCreary Patrick McCreary, of Indiana, died Thursday, May 12, 2016, in Latrobe Area Hospital following a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 67 years old and surrounded by love.

Patrick spent the past 33 years as Faculty Technical Director of IUP’s Department of Theatre and Dance, having previously served as the Faculty Technical Director for the Dance and Drama Divisions of Bennington College in Bennington, Vt. (1979-1983), and as the Technical Director/Resident Designer for Livingston College Theater Program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. (1972-1977).

Patrick carried a bachelor’s degree in theater arts from Livingston College (1975) and an MFA in theater technology and design from Mason Gross School of The Arts (1979), both part of Rutgers University.

Prior to teaching, he was an operator, first class (Sp4) in the United States Army Engineer Corps.

Patrick will most be remembered by the people he supported not only through his teaching, but through how much he cared. He spoke with interest to anyone he came across, truly reached out to those in need of a listening ear or caring heart, and hugged everyone who needed it.

His superpower was encouraging students to find theirs — and to embrace whatever they found! His mentorship and guidance crossed color, gender and age lines. Alumni speak of having confidence to follow their dreams, stand up for themselves and pick up a power tool, all thanks to his help.

Patrick’s legacy will live on in the artists, technicians, teachers and citizens he inspired in life. His presence

in helping raise the special friends and serving as a dad away from home for so many is what will be most missed about this amazing and inspiring man.

Patrick is survived by his wife, Mary; daughter Sara and her husband, David, and their two sons Tommy and Zac; daughter Katie and her partner, Tim; his brother Kevin; and sisters Cathy and Marion; plus a large extended family both related and chosen.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and by brothers Tommy, Carey and Paul.

Patrick’s family will receive visitors from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Bowser-Minich Funeral Home in Indiana. A memorial service will be held in Waller Hall on IUP’s campus at noon Saturday, followed immediately by refreshments and a celebration of life. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite Patrick memory or story to share if they feel so inclined, or just sit back and listen.

In lieu of flowers, the family will be setting up a scholarship fund with IUP per Patrick’s wishes. Please hold donations until that time. To continue Patrick’s legacy, everyone is asked to share a hug or do something altruistic in his name.

And, as Patrick would say “if you don’t know what ‘altruistic’ means, then look it up!” www.bowserminich.com

Marcia Paul Marcia A. Paul, 88, of Fort Myers, Fla., formerly of Indiana, died Thursday, April 7, 2016, at Heartland Healthcare in Ft. Myers.

She was born May 19, 1927, in Scenery Hill.

She was the daughter of the late Homer B. and Irene Kimmel Hedge.

She is survived by her sons: James “J.R.” Paul, of Greensburg; William H. Paul, of Steamboat Springs,

Colo.; Samuel C. (Diane) Paul, of Greensburg; and Thomas E. Paul, of Indiana.

Also surviving are three grandchildren: Clarissa “Callie” Paul, Ian J. Paul and Tessie Paul.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, William H. Paul, on Nov. 21, 2002.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Louise Pecsenye Louise Pecsenye, 83, of Indiana, went peacefully to be with Our Lord on Friday, May 13, 2016, with her loving family by her side.

Since last October she had resided at Beacon Ridge Nursing Home, which also became home to the whole family and where many Indiana friends visited her and Dwight, because he was always there! The family has tremendous gratitude for those visits to share special memories and for the staff of Beacon Ridge that became an extension of their family.

Louise was the daughter of Lillian and Audley Alexander, and was born March 12, 1933, in Swissvale, where she resided until she attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, met the love of her life and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in home economics.

Surviving are her adoring husband of more than 60 years, Dwight Pecsenye, of Indiana; her brother, John Alexander, and his wife, LaVerne, of Olde Lyme, Conn.; her children; Timothy Pecsenye, of Philadelphia; Drew Pecsenye, of Crestview, Fla., and his two daughters, Jessica and Erica Pecsenye; her daughter, Susan Turner, and her husband, Howie; and daughters Ashley and Madison Turner, of Duluth, Ga. “Weezy” loved life and found joy in making others around her happy. She constantly made meals to take to friends who were sick and for friends to come to the house and play a game of Farkle after a good meal.

Hundreds of homemade Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls were constantly in construction in her sewing room to send to those she knew that just had a baby.

They were her “trademark” of love!

The grandchildren loved to learn to bake with grand-

ma and each made their own quilt.

She loved any excuse to celebrate life and made lots of traditions with her Easter egg hunts, card games, picnics to Blue Spruce Park and just always wanting to help others in any way they needed.

Being a long-standing member of Graystone Church since 1958, she actively served her church family through Meals on Wheels, serving PEP luncheons, baking cinnamon rolls for fundraisers, and sewing anything that needed done such as choir robes, church camp flags and baptism banners.

As an original “Dingaling,” she helped coordinate many of their functions, including lots of pranks that are fond memories still spoken of today.

Louise’s family and those who knew her are blessed with a lifetime of wonderful, fun-loving, unforgettable memories.

Friends and family of Louise will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home, 955 Philadelphia St., Indiana. Her funeral will be held at 11 a.m.

Wednesday at Graystone Presbyterian Church, 640 Church St., Indiana.

Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery.

Online condolences may be offered by visiting rbfh.net

Donna Jean Waddell Donna Jean Waddell, 78, of Black Lick, formerly of Indiana, passed away Friday, May 13, 2016, at Lynn Haven Personal Care Home, Black Lick.

A daughter of the late Curtis and Pauline Stiteler Hockenberry, she was born Oct. 23, 1937, in Plumville.

Mrs. Waddell was a 1955 graduate of Shannock Valley High School. She was a homemaker and a member of Calvary Presbyterian Church.

Donna Jean was an avid Pirates and Steelers fan.

She will always be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister.

She is survived by three children: Gregory A. Waddell and wife Mary Beth, Blairsville; Gary Lee Waddell, of Indiana; and

Brian Scott Waddell, of Indiana; a sister, Jo Ann Lewis, and her husband, Clyde, of Homer City; two grandchildren, Brandon Waddell and fiancee Jade Marie, of Indiana, and Zachery Waddell and fiancee Deena, of Saltsburg; and a nephew, Jeff Lewis, of Blairsville.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert G. Waddell.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Robinson-Lytle Inc., Indiana, where a funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Dr. Richard Cassel officiating. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery, Indiana. www.robinsonlytleinc. com

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action damaging Continued from Page 1 tary of State Hillary Clinton testified.

Democrats call the panel a thinly veiled excuse for Republicans to criticize Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Republicans say the Obama administration has dragged its feet, failing to produce needed documents or interview subjects, delaying a final report.

U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was among those who died during the twin assaults nearly four years ago. Previous investigations blamed management failures at the State Department for a lack of security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, an issue that has dogged Clinton and other Obama administration officials.

Cummings and Smith cite comments by retired Army Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman, who served as chief counsel for Republicans on the Benghazi panel from August 2014 until last January.

Chipman “repeatedly commended the military’s actions on the night of the attacks during closed interviews with Defense Department officials,” Cummings and Smith wrote.

Chipman, a former judge advocate general for the Army, attended a closeddoor interview with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Jan. 8.

Cummings and Smith quote Chipman as telling

Panetta: “I think you ordered exactly the right forces to move out and to head toward a position where they could reinforce what was occurring in Benghazi or Tripoli or elsewhere in the region. And, sir, I don’t disagree with the actions you took, the recommendations you made and the decisions you directed.”

Chipman later told Panetta he was “worried” that U.S. officials were caught by surprise during the Benghazi raids, which occurred on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Still, Chipman told Panetta: “Nothing could have affected what occurred in Benghazi,” Cummings and Smith wrote.

The letter from the Democrats comes after Gowdy sent a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter complaining that a top Pentagon official had intentionally mischaracterized the House inquiry. Gowdy said comments by Stephen C. Hedger, assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs, were “riddled with factual inaccuracies” and did “a disservice to the public” and employees at the Defense Department.

Hedger, in an April 28 letter to Gowdy, expressed frustration with the Benghazi panel, citing a “crescendo” of costly, duplicative and unnecessary requests, including a few based on claims made on Facebook or talk radio.

Verizon, unions set to return to bargaining table WASHINGTON (AP) — Verizon and union officials representing about 39,000 striking landline and cable workers in nine eastern states and Washington, D.C., agreed to restart negotiations, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez said he met with both sides on Sunday in Washington, D.C. “The parties had an open, frank and constructive dialogue about finding a comprehensive way forward to resolve disputed issues and get people back to work,” Perez said.

The two striking unions, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, represent installers, customer service employees, repair-

men and other service workers in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., for Verizon’s wireline business, which provides fixed-line phone services and FiOS Internet service.

Workers walked off the job on April 13. They had been working without a contract since August.

The unions have said they’re striking because Verizon wants to freeze pensions, make layoffs easier and rely more on contract workers.

The telecom giant has said there are health care issues that need to be addressed for both retirees and workers as medical costs have grown.

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PROTESTERS MARCHED Saturday near oil refineries in Anacortes, Wash.

52 climate activists arrested in Washington

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press

SEATTLE — Authorities cleared the railroad tracks of protesters and arrested 52 climate activists Sunday morning in Washington state, after a two-day shutdown.

About 150 people spent the night in tents and sleeping bags on the tracks near two refineries in northwest Washington, according to BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas.

They were asked to leave at about 5 a.m. and most gathered their belongings and left the area near Anacortes, Melonas said. “It was peaceful,� he said. “Eighty percent removed their belongings and cleared out.�

The 52 people arrested were cited for trespassing, according to the Skagit County Department of Emergency Management.

One person was also cited for resisting arrest.

Skagit County Sheriff Will Reichardt said that before anyone was arrested, officers advised protesters that they could move to another designated location and demonstrate.

A spokeswoman for the protesters said she expected everyone arrested would be processed and released from police custody.

Emily Johnston said protests would continue around Anacortes on Sunday, but she didn’t expect people to return to the railroad tracks.

Johnston, who had participated in a blockade of the Seattle harbor to protest Shell Oil’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, said the success of protests like the one in Anacortes can mostly be seen in the way they inspire people to speak out about climate change. “People power matters,�

Johnston said.

She also spoke about the contrast between arresting people for protesting about saving the planet and the lack of government action

against the fossil fuel industry. “We really need to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable,� Johnston said.

The rail line had been closed since Friday because of the protests, and trains were expected to begin running again Sunday afternoon after a cleanup and safety sweep of the tracks, he said.

Protesters in kayaks, canoes, on bikes and on foot also took place in demonstrations near Anacortes, about 70 miles north of Seattle, to demand action on climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal.

Hundreds marched to the refineries Saturday and a smaller group blocked the railroad, all demanding energy policy changes. The railroad knew about the protest in advance and rerouted rail traffic to avoid the area.

The railroad spur provides rail transportation for the nearby Shell and Tesoro oil refineries, as well as animal feed and other products.

The protests are part of a series of global actions calling on people to “break free� from dependence on fossil fuels. Similar demonstrations were held around the country during the weekend.

In upstate New York, climate activists gathered Saturday at a crude-oil shipment hub on the Hudson River in an action targeting crude-by-rail trains and oil barges at the Port of Albany.

A group of activists sat on tracks used by crude oil trains headed to the port.

Albany is a key hub for crude-by-rail shipments from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale region.

In Washington state, organizers targeted two refineries that are among the top sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the state.

Tesoro has started shipping Bakken crude oil to its refinery, and Shell is proposing an expansion project that would similarly bring

Fatal bus crash probed LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Federal investigators and local authorities are working to determine what caused a charter bus to crash in far South Texas, killing eight people and injuring 44 others in a onevehicle rollover.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived Sunday in Laredo and will continue their work today. The agency will look at the operations of the

charter bus company as part of its investigation, and it has requested inspection and maintenance records and examined the bus and the scene, spokesman Keith Holloway said.

Determining the cause could take months, he said.

Meanwhile, a Texas state trooper said Sunday that the state Department of Public Safety is conducting an investigation separate from the NTSB.

in Bakken crude oil by train.

Officials with Shell and Tesoro said in earlier statements that they respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully, and that safety is their highest priority. Crowd estimates of Saturday’s march ranged from several hundred to about 1,000 people, Skagit County spokeswoman Bronlea Mishler said.

Bud Ullman, 67, who lives on Guemes Island, participated in the march, which he described as good-spirited, peaceful. “The scientists are right.

We have to get away from our dependence on fossil fuels, and it has to be done in a way that takes into serious consideration the impact on workers, families and communities,� he said.

Many of the nearly 40 groups involved in organizing the event also participated in large on-water kayak protests against Shell’s Arctic oil drilling rig when it parked last year at a Seattle port.

AP reporter Phuong Le contributed to this report.

DETROIT — Michigan lawmakers trying to glue together a plan to fix Detroit Public Schools using taxpayer money are staring down more than a decade of failure with what was once among the largest public education systems in the nation.

It’s a story that stretches back to the 1990s, when poor academics, abhorrent graduation rates and low test scores opened the door for the state to wrest control from an elected school board. The district was set free in 2005, but budget missteps, corruption, financial mismanagement and enrollment losses ushered in the current state oversight — yet debt and deficits continue to rise. “It hasn’t worked. It clearly hasn’t worked,�

Juan Jose Martinez, a Detroit school board member in the late 1990s, said of state oversight. “It’s a shame things are in the condition they are in. ...

I’m a man of faith and I have to keep praying that it’s going to get back on solid footing.�

The latest of five stateappointed financial managers has said the district can’t continue unless legislators pitch in to pay off the debt and include funding to allow resources to be directed back to classrooms.

With encouragement from Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, the state Senate has approved a plan to pay off the district’s estimated $467 million debt and provide $200 million in transition funds for a new, separate district that would educate students and have its finances overseen by a commission of state appointees. The plan effectively commits Michigan to a decade of new spending until the old

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DPS debt is retired. The House version would pay off the debt and provide $33 million for transition costs. “We recognize that the future of Detroit’s schoolchildren is on the line,� said Republican Rep. Al Pscholka, House budget committee chairman. “There’s never been an indication ... that we would not help the children of Detroit. It doesn’t matter to me today who’s to blame.

Assigning blame doesn’t solve it.�

In the late 1990s, thenGov. John Engler, a Republican, wanted to intervene in districts where more than 80 percent of students failed the state proficiency test or the dropout rate was higher than 25 percent.

The state said the graduation rate of the 180,000student Detroit district was about 30 percent; district officials said it was closer to 52 percent.

Its school board eventually was replaced by a reform board.

Detroit was “not performing to levels they needed to do justice to kids in those schools ... parents felt completely abandoned by the system,� said Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop, who was then a state senator. “It was an absurd outcome that no elected member of government who represents human beings would ever ignore.�

But parents began sending their children to public

charter schools or suburban schools — something that contributed to current financial problems. “We lost 11,000 students almost immediately as a direct result of the takeover,� said LaMar Lemmons, a current school board member and Democratic state representative in 1999 who opposed state control. “Many middle-class parents weren’t going to be in a district that was so bad that the state had to come in.�

By 2003, enrollment was down to 150,000 students.

Five years later, it dipped to 91,000. There are now 46,000 students, and millions of dollars in state perpupil funding has been lost.

The state returned control to an elected board in 2005, even though Detroit students still ranked among Michigan’s worst on standardized tests, the district was $48 million in debt and had a $150 million budget shortfall. “There was never anything pointing to this financial crisis� before the takeover, said Martinez, who with other school board members were forced from office in 1999. “When we left office, I remember them saying we had a $90 million surplus.�

By 2007, the FBI had opened a corruption probe. Later, it came to light that some vendors billed the district for unperformed work and services.

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MICHAEL J. DONNELLY President and Publisher

HASTIE D. KINTER

STACIE D. GOTTFREDSON

Secretary and Assistant Treasurer

Treasurer and Assistant Secretary

JOSEPH L. GEARY Vice President and General Manager

R. Hastie Ray Publisher, 1913-70

Lucy R. Donnelly Publisher, 1970-93

Joe Donnelly Publisher, 1970-2000

“The Gazette wants to be the friend of every man, the

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

A humane revolution n 1903, New Yorkers executed an elephant on Coney Island, effectively torturing her to death. Accounts vary a bit, but it seems Topsy was a circus elephant who had been abused for years and then killed a man who had burned her on the trunk with a cigar.

After her owners had no more use for her, Topsy was fed cyanide, electrocuted and then strangled with a winch.

The Edison motion picture company made a film of it, “Electrocuting an Elephant.”

So maybe there is an arc of moral progress. After many allegations of mistreatment of animals, Ringling Bros. this month retired its circus elephants, sending them off to a life of leisure in Florida. SeaWorld said this spring that it would stop breeding orcas and would invest millions of dollars in rescuing and rehabilitating marine animals.

Meanwhile, Walmart responded to concerns for animal welfare by saying last month that it would shift toward cage-free eggs, following similar announcements by Costco, Denny’s, Wendy’s, Safeway, Starbucks and McDonald’s in the U.S. and Canada.

This is a humane revolution, and Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, has been at the forefront of it. Alternately bullying companies to do better and cooperating with those that do so, he outlines his approach in an excellent new book, “The Humane Economy.” These corporate changes have vast impact: Walmart or McNicholas Kristof Donald’s shapes the living condiwrites a column tions of more animals in a day than for The New York an animal shelter does in a decade.

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many other causes, from the environment to women’s empowerment to global health: The best way for nonprofits to get large-scale results is sometimes to work with corporations to change behavior and supply lines — while whacking them when they resist.

The Environmental Defense Fund and Conservation International do something similar in the environmental space, CARE works with corporations to fight global poverty, and the Human Rights Campaign partners with companies on LGBT issues.

Critics sometimes see this as moral compromise, negotiating with evil rather than defeating it; I see it as pragmatism. Likewise, Pacelle has been a vegan for 31 years but cooperates with fast-food companies to improve conditions in which animals are raised for meat.

“Animals jammed into cages and crates cannot wait for the world to go vegan,” Pacelle told me. “I’m quite sure they want out of this unyielding life of privation right now, and once that question is settled, then sensible people can debate whether they should be raised for the plate at all.”

At a time when the world is a mess, Pacelle outlines a hopeful vision. The public has always had some impact with charitable donations, and there have always been occasional boycotts, but sometimes its greatest influence comes by leveraging daily consumer purchasing power.

“As the humane economy asserts its own power, its own logic and its essential decency, an older order is passing away,” Pacelle writes in his book. “By every measure, life will be better when human satisfaction and need are no longer built upon the foundation of animal cruelty. Indefensible practices will no longer need defending.”

It’s true that atrocities continue and that the slaughter of animals like elephants persists. There were some 130,000 elephants in Sudan 25 years ago, while now there may be only 5,000 in Sudan and the country that broke off from it, South Sudan, Pacelle writes.

Yet there is a business model for keeping grand animals like elephants alive. One analysis suggests that a dead elephant’s tusks are worth $21,000, while the tourism value of a single living elephant over its lifetime is $1.6 million. Countries follow their enlightened self-interest when they protect elephants, just as McDonald’s pursues its self-interest when it shifts toward cage-free eggs.

It’s also astonishing how sensitive companies are becoming to public opinion about animals. After Cecil the lion was shot dead in Zimbabwe, animal protection groups lobbied airlines to ban the shipment of such trophies. Delta, American, United, Air Canada and other companies promptly obliged.

In the pet store business, two chains — PetSmart and Petco — have prospered without accepting the industry’s norm of selling dogs and cats from puppy mills and other mass breeders. Instead, since the 1990s they have made space available to rescue groups offering animals for adoption. PetSmart and Petco don’t make money off these adoptions, but they win customer loyalty forever, and they have helped transfer 11 million dogs and cats to new homes.

I believe that mistreatment of animals, particularly in agriculture, remains a moral blind spot for us humans, yet it’s heartening to see the consumer-driven revolution that is underway.

“Just about every enterprise built on harming animals today is ripe for disruption,” Pacelle writes. In a world of grim tidings, that’s a welcome reminder that there is progress as well. We’ve gone in a bit more than a century from making a movie about torturing an elephant to sending circus elephants off to a Florida retirement home. But, boy, there’s so much more work to do.

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

Letters to the editor may be submitted via our website at www.indianagazette.com; by email to mepeter sen@indianagazette.net; or by mail to Mike Petersen, editorial page editor, The Indiana Gazette, 899 Water St., Indiana, PA 15701.

Facebook and conservatives n Monday last week, Gizmodo reported that a former Facebook contractor had revealed the company discriminates against conservative news and news sources when curating the site’s “trending topics” section.

Facebook officials denied the allegations, but Sen. John Thune, R-N.D., the Commerce Committee chairman, sent a letter to Facebook demanding details about its news distribution efforts.

Does government have a role in overseeing Facebook’s news decisions? Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk, the Red-Blue America columnists, debate the issue.

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JOEL MATHIS Oh dear. Republicans are complaining about the media again.

It might be yawn-worthy except for one thing: They might have a point.

Facebook has incredible power over the dissemination of news in this country. So much so that government regulation and scrutiny of the company might actually be in the best interest of U.S. citizens.

Maybe it’s time to start treating Facebook as a utility. And maybe Sen. Thune’s inquiry is the place to start.

Consider this: Digiday reported last month that Facebook’s control over traffic to news websites had reached unheard-of proportions. “Last year, Facebook surpassed Google as a referral source for publishers,” the tech website reported. “Some publishers now see upwards of 75 percent of their social traffic coming from Facebook.”

And the company wants more. Instead of merely linking to stories, videos and memes on news websites, Facebook is encouraging publishers to post that content directly to Facebook itself.

One other relevant fact: In the first quarter of 2016, Facebook reported it had 1.65 billion users around the world. Astonishing! The company additionally claims that users spend more than 50 minutes a day with Facebook and its sister apps, Instagram and Messenger.

If there were a real competitor out there, maybe the thing to do would be to toast Facebook’s success and

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Ben Boychuk, left, associate editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, is a conservative with a contrarian streak; Joel Mathis, associate editor for Philadelphia Magazine, is a liberal with a libertarian streak. Red-Blue America is distributed by Tribune News Service. wish it well. (Twitter, try as it might, doesn’t quite count.) But the free flow of news and information is essential to the workings of our democracy.

Facebook — with its unparalleled access to the audience and ability to influence the financial fate of news organizations — has become too critical to that flow.

“The company’s power is vast,” Vox.com noted this week, “and that power is not always deployed in ways that are transparent and accountable.”

The U.S. government has a long — if somewhat neglected — history of trying to ensure media evenhandedness, from the so-called Fairness Doctrine on broadcast airwaves to requirements that keep companies from owning newspapers and TV stations within the same market. Facebook’s power might require updating those traditions for the 21st century.

BEN BOYCHUK News that Facebook tacks left is hardly surprising. Nor is it particularly shocking that Facebook employees have given more than $118,000 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, outstripping donations to other candidates by a sizable margin.

Facebook employees flocking to Donald Trump’s campaign — now that would be news!

But the revelation that Facebook’s newsfeed curators evidently went out of their way to exclude right-leaning news sources and promote liberal news outlets should trouble everyone.

Facebook is the largest media company on the planet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is vastly more influential than any of the press barons of old.

Facebook has the power to reshape public opinion in ways William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer could only dream about.

That makes Facebook dangerous.

But the last thing Republicans should do is start regulating media companies again, tempting as it may be. It really isn’t the federal government’s job to ensure or enforce “fairness” in the media — history notwithstanding.

Truth is, the Fairness Doctrine wasn’t fair at all. Broadcasters complied with the rule by shutting out differing points of view and only airing the blandest of opinions. From time to time, presidents would use the Fairness Doctrine to squelch dissenting opinions. Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration used the rule to harass right-wing broadcasters. Richard Nixon used it to silence opponents of his Vietnam War policy. Only after the FCC repealed the rule in 1987 did the airwaves become safe again for robust disagreement.

Facebook is a publicly traded company and can do whatever it wants, as long as its shareholders (and maybe its users) are happy. Are they?

Although the site is huge, it isn’t really a monopoly. Readers have other options. (Yes, Twitter really does count.) There is no shortage of websites aggregating conservative content. Don’t people use bookmarks and RSS feeds anymore?

But if Facebook wants to make this problem go away, Zuckerberg and company should be a great deal more transparent about how it pushes and promotes content. If you’re going to be the largest media company on the planet, readers need to trust the source. No trust, no clicks. No clicks, no profits. It’s just good business.

Reach Ben Boychuk at bboychuk@ city-journal.org, Joel Mathis at joelm mathis@gmail.com.

Politicians are mean — just like us ccording to custom, the governJust listen for two minutes of almost ment and opposition benches in any speech given by reality TV star the British House of Commons turned presumptive GOP presidential are separated by a length equivalent nominee Donald Trump. to “two swords and one inch.”

Or look at his Twitter feed.

The practice harks back to a time It is largely a catalog of insults, when members of Parliament regu- sometimes bordering slander, and larly carried blades. veiled threats issued to his critics and Presumably, the distance political opponents, Rewas meant to guard against publican and Democrat the possibility that verbal alike. sparring could easily erupt Trump is the most notointo physical confrontation rious current offender, — an event that wasn’t unbut he’s not alone. known on the floor of the During an early DemoU.S. House in past centuries, cratic presidential debate, either.

Hillary Clinton boasted to The tradition remains inthe audience that the tact today, a reminder “to “enemy” she was most seek resolutions by peaceful proud of making is “probmeans.” ably the Republicans.”

We’ve come a long way Perhaps more disturbsince the days when armed ing than her response combat was a possible resowere the cheers and aplution to political disputes. plause from the audience.

We are, in some ways, more That’s because politicivilized than our forebears. Cynthia M. Allen cians like Trump and ClinAnd in our modern is a columnist for ton, for all their faults, are democracy, good people on the Fort Worth merely playing to an opposing sides of an issue Star-Telegram.

American public that welcan engage in cordial-but- Her column is comes this view of one’s spirited debate on a contro- distributed by the political opponents. That versial subject without tear- Tribune News is, those who disagree Service. ing each other to shreds. with you aren’t just wrong, At least that’s what we’d like they are evil. to think.

With the ubiquity of social media, But one need only open the morn- we live in a society full of people who ing paper, click an Internet browser regularly espouse malevolence for or turn on the television to see that al- those who do not share their opinthough it is absent long swords, our ions. current political environment is comRead the comments on almost any bative and trending the wrong direc- news article or opinion piece — or tion. maybe better yet, don’t.

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sented, the majority are full of ad hominem attacks on the author and other commenters.

Or consider the “discussions” that take place on social media.

Just last week I watched with a combination of amusement and disgust as a Facebook page for local moms erupted in insults when its members began debating a new policy regarding transgender students in public schools.

I cringed when I read the comments of one participant who assailed a woman who did not share her opinion by claiming that an Internet search revealed that she was widely disliked in the virtual world.

In the profound words of the late Andrew Breitbart, the ever-controversial but insightful right-wing journalist, “politics is downstream of culture” and not the other way around.

So while we blame our politicians for playing to our basest instincts — which they seem to do with zeal — they often just reflect the lack of civility that drives our daily interactions.

Indeed, our cultural devolution is driving our political decline and not the other way around.

Instead of swords we have comment boxes, Facebook “debates” and Twitter feeds.

Instead of fists we use insults and slander.

The damage caused by our incivility may not be physical, but it is no less dangerous to democracy.

And unlike our forebears who had the “two swords and one inch” rule to compel their good conduct, we operate without constraint, perpetuating a culture of incivility. cmallen@star-telegram.com

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Attacks, bombings leave 29 dead in Iraq BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group launched a coordinated assault Sunday on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others, Iraqi officials said.

The dawn attack on the gas plant began with a suicide car bombing at the facility’s main gate in the town of Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad.

Several suicide bombers and militants then broke into the plant and clashed with security forces.

The dead included six civilians and eight security forces; 27 troops were wounded.

Elsewhere, four separate bomb attacks left another 15 people dead and 46 wounded in the fifthstraight day of IS-claimed attacks in and around the Iraqi capital.

Since Wednesday, more than 140 people have been killed in a spate of bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere.

Okla. eyes Medicaid expansion

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — Despite bitter resistance in Oklahoma for years to President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, Republican leaders in this conservative state are now confronting something that alarms them even more: a huge $1.3 billion hole in the budget that threatens to do widespread damage to the state’s health care system.

So, in what would be the grandest about-face among rightward leaning states, Oklahoma is now moving toward a plan to expand its Medicaid program to bring in billions of federal dollars from President Obama’s new health care system.

What’s more, GOP leaders are considering a tax hike to cover the state’s share of the costs.

“We’re to the point where the provider rates are going to be cut so much that providers won’t be able to survive, particularly the nursing homes,” said Republican state Rep. Doug Cox, referring to possible cuts in state funds for indigent care that could cause some hospitals and nursing

homes to close.

Despite furious opposition by conservative groups, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin and some GOP legislative leaders are pushing the plan, and support appears to be growing in the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature. Details have not been ironed out but the proposal is based on an Indiana program that received federal approval.

President Obama called on states to expand their Medicaid insurance for low-income residents as part of his 2014 health overhaul designed to shrink the population of uninsured Americans. Most Democratic-led states did so, along with a handful of GOP states.

But in Oklahoma, even with 20 percent of its population on Medicaid, it’s been no way, no how. Until now.

A bust in the oil patch has decimated state revenues, compounded by years of income tax cuts and growing corporate subsidies intended to make the state more business-friendly.

Oklahoma’s Medicaid agency has warned doctors

S. Korea, U.S., Japan plan joint drills

and other health care providers of cuts of up to 25 percent in what the state pays under Medicaid.

“We are nearing a colossal collapse of our health care system in Oklahoma,” warned Craig Jones, the president of the Oklahoma Hospital Association, which represents more than 135 hospitals and health care systems in the state. “We have doctors turning away patients. We have people with mental illnesses who are going without treatment. Hospitals are closing, and this is only going to get worse this summer if the Legislature does not act immediately to turn this around.”

In the poverty-wracked southeastern corner of the state, where 96 percent of babies in the McCurtain Memorial Hospital are born to Medicaid patients, most health care would end, said hospital CEO Jahni Tapley.

“A 25 percent cut to Medicaid would not put my hospital in jeopardy, because we are already in jeopardy,” Tapley said. “A 25 percent cut would shutter our doors for good, leaving 33,000 people without access to health care.”

Nursing homes have been warning residents that they may be closing. Asked where she would go if the Beadles Nursing Home in the small town of Alva closes, Jeanie Yohn, 89, said: “I just can’t imagine. I have three daughters, but they don’t live here.”

Under the proposal, which would be funded in part with a $1.50-per-pack tax on cigarettes, Oklahoma would shift 175,000 people from its Medicaid rolls onto the federal health exchange created by the Affordable Care Act. That would make room for adding to Medicaid roughly the same number of working poor who are currently uninsured. Participants would pay nominal premiums and co-pays.

The move, by increasing the number of uninsured people covered, would allow the state to tap into the extra money offered under the federal law. Beginning in 2017, the federal government would cover 95 percent of the state’s Medicaid costs, decreasing to 90 percent of the share in 2020.

Fallin, a former congresswoman who voted against

FISH CRISIS

Obama swipes at Trump in speech

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold their first joint military training next month focused on cooperating to detect signs of missile launches from North Korea and trace missile trajectories, a Seoul defense official said today.

The drills, set for around June 28, will be held on the sidelines of biennial multinational naval exercises scheduled for waters off Hawaii from June to August, which the three countries regularly attend, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department rules.

The trilateral drills will involve Aegis-equipped ships from the three countries, but they will not involve missile-interception training, the official said.

The three countries have held joint search-and-rescue drills in the past.

Woman hospitalized with shark on arm BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — News reports say a 23year-old woman was bitten by a small nurse shark in Boca Raton.

The South Florida SunSentinel reported the woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance Sunday with the shark still attached to her arm.

A spokesperson for the Boca Raton Ocean Rescue told the newspaper the woman remained calm and there was a little blood. A splint board was used to support the woman’s arm and the shark as she lay on the stretcher.

The Boca Raton Regional Hospital operator told the AP that the woman had been treated and was in the process of being released Sunday afternoon.

Police: Man used chip bag in robbery try ROHNERT PARK, Calif.

(AP) — Authorities say a man tried to rob a car wash in Northern California with an empty potato chip bag and an alleged handgun.

Rohnert Park’s Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the man entered KaCees World of Water car wash Friday night and dropped an empty potato chip bag on the counter.

He told the cashier to fill it with money, warning that he had a gun.

The man gestured that the weapon was in the empty bag, but the cashier saw it held only a piece of cardboard and called a coworker for help.

Police say when the other employee approached, the suspect fled on foot.

Obama’s health plan when it came before the House, argues that the plan doesn’t amount to expanding Medicaid because the program’s rolls don’t grow. Rather, she said, it “transitions 175,000 Medicaid enrollees to the private insurance market.”

No matter what state leaders call it, conservative groups aren’t happy about the idea of more government health spending.

“They can call it Medicaid rebalancing, but there’s only one federal program that offers a 9-to-1 federal match, and that’s Obamacare,” said Johnathan Small, president of Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs, a free-market thinktank that opposes higher taxes.

The opponents have called for covering health costs by cutting spending for less essential programs.

Americans for Prosperity, another conservative thinktank backed by the billionaire philanthropist Koch brothers, David and Charles, also has launched a campaign against the proposal and is hosting a “NobamaCare” event at the state Capitol to voice their opposition.

By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

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FISHERMAN Joaquin Martinez walked on a beach blanketed with dead sardines in Tolten, Chile, on Sunday. The government has declared an emergency zone along Chile’s south coast as it deals with the algae bloom known as red tide, which kills fish with a toxin that paralyzes the central nervous system, and small-scale fishermen are demanding compensation.

Al-Qaida turns to Syria, with plan to challenge Islamic State

By ERIC SCHMITT New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida’s top leadership in Pakistan, badly weakened after a decade of CIA drone strikes, has decided that the terror group’s future lies in Syria and has secretly dispatched more than a dozen of its most seasoned veterans there, according to senior American and European intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

The movement of the senior alQaida jihadists reflects Syria’s growing importance to the terrorist organization and most likely foreshadows an escalation of the group’s bloody rivalry with the Islamic State, Western officials say.

The operatives have been told to start the process of creating an alternate headquarters in Syria and lay the groundwork for possibly establishing an emirate through alQaida’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, to compete with the Islamic State, from which Nusra broke in 2013. This would be a significant shift for al-Qaida and its affiliate, which have resisted creating an emirate, or formal sovereign state, until they deem conditions on the ground are ready. Such an entity could also pose a heightened terrorist threat to the United States and Europe.

Al-Qaida operatives have moved in and out of Syria for years. Ayman al-Zawahri, the group’s supreme leader in Pakistan, dispatched senior jihadists to bolster the Nusra Front in 2013. A year later, Zawahri sent to Syria a shadowy al-Qaida cell called Khorasan that American officials say has been plotting attacks against the West.

But establishing a more enduring presence in Syria would present the group with an invaluable opportunity, Western analysts said. A Syria-based al-Qaida state would not only be within closer striking distance of Europe but also benefit from the recruiting and logistical support of fighters from Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.

Zawahri released his first audio statement in several months in early May, and it seemed to clear the way for the al-Qaida figures to use the Nusra Front to form an emirate in Syria with his blessing.

Some Nusra leaders, however, oppose the timing of such a move, so the affiliate has not yet taken that step.

“The combination of an al-Qaida emirate and a revitalized al-Qaida central leadership in northern Syria would represent a confidence boost for the jihadi organization’s global brand,” Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, wrote this month in Foreign Policy.

“Al-Qaida would present itself as the smart, methodical and persistent jihadi movement that, in contrast to the Islamic State, had adopted a strategy more aligned with everyday Sunni Muslims,” Lister wrote.

Al-Qaida and the Islamic State have the same ultimate objective to create an Islamic state, but they have used different tactics, Lister and other scholars said. The Islamic State moved quickly to impose harsh, unilateral control over territory in Iraq and Syria and declare its independence. The Nusra Front has painstakingly sought to build influence over areas it wants to control and with other Syrian rebel

groups opposed to the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

American officials say the Islamic State has largely eclipsed al-Qaida in the global jihadist hierarchy, with al-Qaida hemorrhaging members to its more brutal and mediasavvy rival. Many of the Khorasan operatives, including their leader, Muhsin al-Fadhli, have been killed in eight American airstrikes in northwest Syria since September 2014.

The Islamic State has between 19,000 and 25,000 fighters, roughly divided between Iraq and Syria, American intelligence analysts estimate. The Nusra Front has about 5,000 to 10,000 fighters, all in Syria.

An emirate would differ from the Islamic State caliphate in the scale of its ambition, in that a Nusra emirate would not claim to be a government for all the world’s Muslims.

Some senior American and European intelligence and law enforcement officials say the small but steady movement of important alQaida operatives and planners to Syria is a desperate dash to a haven situated perilously in the middle of the country’s chaos. These officials say al-Qaida operatives in Syria are determined but largely contained.

“There’s always been a steady trickle, and it remains,” said Col. Steve Warren, a military spokesman in Baghdad for the Americanled campaign in Iraq and Syria.

Nonetheless, the presence of a senior cadre of experienced alQaida leaders in Syria — some with multimillion-dollar American bounties on their heads — has raised alarms in Washington as well as in the allied capitals of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama cast Donald Trump’s positions on immigration, trade and Muslims as part of an ignorance-and-isolation philosophy that the president says will lead the U.S. down the path of decline.

Obama used his commencement speech Sunday at Rutgers University to tear into the presumptive Republican nominee, without ever mentioning his name. Time and again the president invoked specific Trump policies to denounce a rejection of facts, science and intellectualism that he said was pervading politics.

“In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,” Obama told some 12,000 graduates at the public university in New Jersey. “It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about,” the president said.

“And yet, we’ve become confused about this,” he added.

Trump has barreled his way toward the nomination by emphasizing the profound concerns of Americans who have felt left behind by the modern, global economy, summed up in his ubiquitous campaign slogan of “Make America great again.” He’s called for keeping Muslim immigrants out of the U.S., gutting Obama’s trade deals with Asia and Europe, and cracking down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

In his speech, Obama told graduates that when they hear people wax nostalgic about the “good old days” in America, they should “take it with a grain of salt.”

“Guess what? It ain’t so,” the president said, rattling off a list of measures by which life is better in the U.S. than in decades past.

Yet Obama cautioned that both Democrats and Republicans were responsible for over-magnifying the country’s problems. And he appeared to push back gently on Sanders, whose rallies are packed with young Americans cheering the candidate’s calls to uproot an economic system he says is rigged in favor of the extremely rich.

“The system isn’t as rigged as you think,” Obama said.

Looking out at a sea of red and black gowns at High Point Solution Stadium, Obama said the pace of change on the planet is accelerating, not subsiding. He said recent history had proved that the toughest challenges cannot be solved in isolation.

“A wall won’t stop that,” Obama said, bringing to mind Trump’s call for building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. “The point is, to help ourselves, we’ve got to help others — not pull up the drawbridge and try to keep the world out.”

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As yearbooks die, colleges lose link to past

By CARRIE WELLS The Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE — For 126 years, the annual yearbook of the Johns Hopkins University — called, at different times, the Debutante, the Hopkinsian and, most enduringly, the Hullabaloo — has documented a range of life on campus and beyond: the great tug-of-war team of 1892 and protests against the Vietnam War, the Class Yell and the deaths of the school’s graduates in World War II. This year, for the first time in decades, graduating seniors won’t have a yearbook to buy. Hopkins and colleges around the state and country are phasing out yearbooks in an age when students who already document their experiences themselves — and can access their memories — on social media are less interested in shelling out $100 or more for the hard copy. Towson University published its last yearbook in 2009. Morgan State University is scaling back to print-on-demand.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, printed its last in 1986.

Nationwide, the University of Virginia, Wesleyan and Purdue are among the many that have discontinued yearbooks in recent years. Virginia revived its book, Corks & Curls, last year.

Kelley Callaway, president of the College Media Association and yearbook adviser at Rice University in Texas, said yearbooks appear to be shrinking nationally, as the number of yearbook advisers with whom she stays in touch has shrunk in recent years. The association plans to start tracking the phenomenon.

They’re not all going away, Callaway said, but “they’re definitely morphing and changing.”

When universities stop publishing their yearbooks, they lose not only a once-cherished campus tradition, but also future historical records.

“I don’t know how people will replace this resource,” said James Stimpert, a senior reference archivist for Johns Hopkins’ Sheridan Libraries. “Even though (the Hullabaloo) was a shell of its former self in recent years, it still was something. It had some photographs, it had some documentation of student clubs and other activities. So going forward, I don’t know how that is going to be documented.”

Change has long been coming, Callaway said.

While yearbook staffs in the past featured portraits of all the students, she said, some of today’s colleges have so many students that they’re scaling down the portraits to focus more on pictures of campus life or sports.

Some are shrinking the number of pages to cut down on costs.

While some seniors might not be thinking about the yearbook as they prepare for graduation, Callaway said, they might come to regret not having one decades down the line.

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JAMES STIMPERT, senior reference archivist at the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, held copies of the university’s first yearbook from 1889 and last yearbook, published in 2015.

“There’s a lot of prestige to having an old yearbook and having something that is cherished in a way that newspapers and magazines won’t be,” she said. “You’re just losing that end-of-the-road piece, especially for seniors.”

At Johns Hopkins, the earliest editions of the yearbook were filled with flowery prose and poems written by the editors.

Smaller classes made it possible for the editors to write a detailed biography of each student — most of which were intended to be humorous. One laid-back Johns Hopkins student in 1928 was described as having “a most happy college career without having become embroiled to any great extent in extracurricular activities or intensive study.”

Hullabaloo adviser Joan Freedman struggled last year to find students interested in putting together the yearbook. The last edition sold 228 copies at $75 apiece.

“I can’t put my finger on when it became a problem,” Freedman said. “We just tried to sustain it as long as we could. Students will make time for things that they’re passionate about, and this just wasn’t one of them.”

Coppin State University has a different formula for its yearbook.

Unlike yearbooks assembled by students, the Eagle has an adviser who compiles the bulk of the book himself. It’s given free to all graduating seniors.

“There’s something about having a yearbook that you can’t replace with social media,” adviser Jason Goode said.

Ryan Almon, the co-owner of Balfour Yearbooks’ Houston office, said three universities in the Houston area have dropped their books in recent years.

The industry is trying to provide the schools with resources and training for producing yearbooks, he said. It’s also trying to pitch reluctant students and advisers on the value of them.

“It’s definitely been a challenge

and a battle to make sure that the yearbook is still relevant on campuses,” Almon said. “I think that’s what campuses are struggling with, is trying to convince students in the social media age that the instant information that they’re able to access now on their phones will not live and reside forever.

“It remains to be seen whether we can win the battle. Obviously, on some campuses, we’ve lost.”

At Towson University, archivists have been developing ways of documenting campus life since the Tower Echoes ceased publication in 2009.

They’re asking student groups to submit fliers, meeting minutes and more to be kept in the library’s collections, and trying to obtain software that can automatically archive students’ social media postings.

“Nowadays, they’re leaving their legacy and their mark in other ways,” said Ashley Todd-Diaz, head of Towson’s special collections and university archives.

“They’re in social media, they’re creating more events on campus.

“It’s been kind of a challenge for the archivists to meet them where they are and figure out how we can still document their experience without something like a yearbook.”

The University of Maryland yearbook dates to 1897, when the school was the Maryland Agricultural College and the yearbook was called the Reveille.

The university has digitized many of its yearbooks and put them online. Alexandra Green, editor of the 2015-2016 edition, said the yearbook is still going strong.

The early Reveille concerned itself with nicknames, inside jokes and the male students’ alleged prowess with the ladies. The oldest books also featured poetry written by the editors and handdrawn cartoons and sketches.

In 1935, it changed its name to

the Terrapin, which is how it has been known since — except in 1971 and 1972, when it was called “Us.” The 1971 edition blasted authority figures in the federal government and at the university, called for the end of the Vietnam War and chronicled campus unrest. It included pictures of police appearing to beat student protesters. Editors wrote that the campus was “infiltrated with state and federal undercover agents” and that “marijuana users are persecuted for a personal freedom which has yet to be proven harmful.”

The 1972 yearbook had virtually no text at all — just page after page of uncaptioned photographs of empty classrooms, a dirty urinal and unsmiling students.

Among the items that could have been lost to history, if not for the yearbook, were the class yells, to be hollered at campus events.

In 1897, the Maryland Agricultural College had several. One started off “Hippity huss! Hippity huss! What the — is the matter with us?” (The Reveille offers no guidance on how to fill in the blank.)

Johns Hopkins’ class yell in 1892 was “Rah! Rah! Black! Rah! Rah! Blue!”

Anne Turkos, the university archivist at College Park, said the yearbook played a larger role in documenting events in the early years because there was no student newspaper until 1910.

As the campus has grown from a small agricultural school founded in 1856 to the state’s flagship university with 27,000 undergraduate students, it has become more difficult to document clubs and individual students.

“My impression here is that people relate more to their [departmental] college rather than the overall university, or a particular group that they’re involved in,” she said. “With this being such a large institution, having a yearbook that covers the entire institution may not be as effective.”

Many students are opting against having their pictures taken for the yearbook, Turkos said.

“When people come and say, ‘Can we see (Google co-founder) Sergey Brin’s picture in the yearbook?’ — he didn’t get his picture taken,” she said.

Green, the Terrapin editor, said there is still a great deal of interest in the yearbook, even though she has had to tell many people that it still existed.

Green, a junior from Sparks, said it’s important to keep a physical memento of the past.

“I think people will hopefully eventually realize that a yearbook isn’t the same as if you have it online,” Green said. “The great thing about the yearbook is it’s been around for so long. I can look at my grandma’s high school yearbook from 1940 — the hairstyles and activities have changed, but the premise is pretty much the same.”

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Speaking of learning lessons from past events, what can we learn from that Bernie Madoff character?

He’s the guy who pulled off a $50 billion Ponzi scheme by ripping people off for decades, claiming to be investing their fortunes, paying them inexplicable returns on their money and all the while stealing from them blind. There are several important lessons we all need to learn from this bit of history. These are my top five: NUMBER 1: Know what you own.

No matter what type of assets or investments you have, make it your business to know exactly where your money is. If your fund manager or broker cannot give you an explanation you can understand, that is not necessarily a reflection on you; it could be that person is more unsure than you are. Keep asking questions, keep researching and keep digging, and don’t stop until you are able to describe each of your assets and investments in 25 words or less.

NUMBER 2: Know who’s managing the store. Madoff’s clients were too trusting when they handed their money over to this mysterious stranger. I can imagine that the mystery surrounding the old gent gave some of them some kind of weird confidence.

That was dumb.

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lievable deals. Remember the old adage: If it’s too good to be true, you can bet that it is. Get rid of your lottery mentality. There are no get-rich-quick deals out there.

If you think you see one, figure out what it really is; then run.

NUMBER 4: Trust, but verify. I don’t know what kind of annual accounting documents and records Madoff’s clients received, but now we know that whatever they may have received was all fake. A moderate effort on his clients’ behalf to verify their tax returns would have probably shown the truth.

NUMBER 5: Don’t assume someone else will protect you. There’s no doubt the Madoff crowd assumed they had some kind of protection against being stung by a scoundrel. After all, most securities professionals and others carry insurance to cover clients in

the event of an embezzlement scandal. Apparently, the unsuspecting investors in the Madoff scheme never thought to ask about insurance. Whether you think you’re protected or not, speak up. Ask questions, even if you think you might appear dumb.

Perhaps the best thing we can learn from the Madoff caper is this: Dumb questions are a lot better than dumb mistakes.

This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually.

Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website and the author of “Debt-Proof Living,” released in 2014.

To find out more about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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By The Associated Press MINNETONKA, Minn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Security was tight as mourners packed a Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witnesses Kingdom Hall on Sunday evening for a memorial for megastar Prince, who worshipped there before he died last month.

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Some people who werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to get inside before the church filled up were able to obtain programs, which they shared with reporters outside.

The program said the service was to begin with the song â&#x20AC;&#x153;He Will Call,â&#x20AC;? followed by an opening prayer. It also included an â&#x20AC;&#x153;interviewâ&#x20AC;? with Larry Graham, the former Sly and the

PEOPLE Family Stone bassist who was Princeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiritual mentor and introduced him to the Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witnesses faith. The program was to conclude with the song â&#x20AC;&#x153;See Yourself When All Is Newâ&#x20AC;? and a closing prayer.

On the back was a quote from the Prince song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beautiful, Loved and Blessedâ&#x20AC;? from his 2006 album â&#x20AC;&#x153;3121.â&#x20AC;? It read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I were to ever write down my life story, I could truly say

with all the fame and glory, I was just a piece of clay in need of the potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand.â&#x20AC;?

In an interview with The Associated Press two weeks ago, Graham said it was important to Prince to give his fans joy with his music. But the most important thing to Prince was being able to share scripture, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His joy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his biggest joy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was sharing the hope of everlasting life,â&#x20AC;? Graham said. â??â??â??

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; President Barack Obama joined

forces with the rap artist Macklemore to improve efforts to reach out to those addicted to opioids and those who overdose on the drug often found in prescription painkillers.

Obama and the rap artist appeared on a video in the White House weekly address to talk about a problem that has been rapidly growing worse in recent years. Macklemore noted that he abused the drugs and battled addiction.

The president said his administration is pushing for

improved treatment, and he noted that Congress has moved ahead on several measures to address opioids. The House last week passed measures setting up federal grants and taking other steps to battle the drug epidemic. Democrats complained the package is not adequately funded and anti-drug advocates called it a needed but modest first step.

The House is preparing to begin negotiations with the Senate, which approved its own version in March.

prison break during the 2011 uprising that eventually brought him to power.

American Pharoah won the Preakness in a driving rain, keeping alive his Triple Crown bid, which he achieved at the Belmont Stakes the following month.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthdays: U.S. Rep John Conyers, D-Mich., is 87. Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker is 85. Jazz musician Billy Cobham is 72. Actor Danny Trejo is 72.

Actor Bill Smitrovich is 69.

Actor Pierce Brosnan is 63.

Actress Debra Winger is 61.

Olympic gold medal gymnast Olga Korbut is 61.

Olympic gold medal runner Joan Benoit Samuelson is 59. Actress Mare Winningham is 57. Rock musician Boyd Tinsley (The Dave Matthews Band) is 52. Rock musician Krist Novoselic is 51. Singer Janet Jackson is 50. Country singer Scott

Reeves (Blue County) is 50.

Actor Brian F. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Byrne is 49.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Ralph Tresvant (New Edition) is 48. Actor David Boreanaz is 47. Political correspondent Tucker Carlson is 47. Actress Tracey Gold is 47. Tennis player Gabriela Sabatini is 46.

Country singer Rick Trevino is 45. Musician Simon Katz is 45. Entrepreneur Bill Rancic is 45. Actress Tori Spelling is 43. Actor Sean Carrigan (TV: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restlessâ&#x20AC;?) is 42.

Singer-rapper B. Slade (formerly known as Tonex) is 41. Actress Lynn Collins is 39. Actress Melanie Lynskey is 39. Actress Megan Fox is 30. Actor Drew Roy is 30.

Actor Jacob Zachar is 30.

Actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster is 26. Actor Marc John Jefferies is 26. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Ashley Wagner is 25. Actor Miles Heizer is 22.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, May 16, the 137th day of 2016. There are 229 days left in the year.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Highlight in History: On May 16, 1966, China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical, youthdriven reform movement aimed at bolstering Chairman Mao Zedong while purging the country of â&#x20AC;&#x153;counter-revolutionaries.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been estimated that during the decade of upheaval that followed, hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps more, died as a direct or indirect result of the Cultural Revolution.

On this date: In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

In 1866, Congress authorized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shield nickel.â&#x20AC;?

In 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him.

In 1916, during World War I, France and Britain secretly ratified the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which concerned postwar partitioning of Arab lands held by the Ottoman Empire.

In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV. In 1939, the federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y. In 1946, the Irving Berlin musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Annie Get Your Gun,â&#x20AC;? starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, opened on Broadway.

In 1957, federal agent Eliot Ness, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d organized â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Untouchablesâ&#x20AC;? team that took on gangster Al Capone, died in Coudersport, Pa., at age 54.

In 1960, the first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., by physicist Theodore Maiman.

In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court, in California v.

Greenwood, ruled that police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.

In 1991, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress as

she lauded U.S.-British cooperation in the Persian Gulf War. Ten years ago: The Pentagon released the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters and killing 189 people on 9/11. Richard Hatch, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d won $1 million in the debut season of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Survivor,â&#x20AC;? was sentenced in Providence, R.I., to more than four years in prison for failing to pay taxes on his reality TV show prize and other income. Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden, the winningest coaches in Division I-A football, were elected to the college football Hall of Fame.

Five years ago: A judge in New York refused to release on bail the chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. (The charges against Strauss-

Kahn were later dropped.)

The Vatican told bishops around the world it was important to cooperate with police in reporting priests whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d raped and molested children and asked them to develop guidelines for preventing sex abuse; however, victims groups immediately denounced the recommendations as â&#x20AC;&#x153;dangerously flawed.â&#x20AC;? Endeavour blasted off on NASAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nextto-last shuttle flight commanded by Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

One year ago: U.S. commandos killed a man described as the Islamic Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head of oil operations in a rare ground attack inside Syria. An Egyptian court sentenced the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first freely elected leader, ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to death over a mass

Indiana County, My Home The Indiana Gazette invites readers to submit their photographs of Indiana County for publication in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indiana County, My Home.â&#x20AC;?

This springtime collection was submitted by several local Indiana Gazette readers.

Three fawns along our driveway.

Photo submitted by MARCIE PUTT

Spray tanning for teenager is not recommended DEAR ABBY: My ex-husband has suggested and arranged for a series of spray-tan sessions for my 12-year-old daughter. I feel that telling my preteen girl that she should spray tan is sending her the wrong message, and we should instead be teaching her that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful just the way she is.

How do you feel about this? Should I allow my 12year-old daughter to tan? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TAN OR NOT IN TEXAS DEAR TAN OR NOT: No! Your exhusband may mean well, but unless a product is 100 percent safe, I Dear Abby is cannot written by endorse Abigail Van using it on Buren, also a minor known as child.

Jeanne AccordPhillips, and ing to Darwas founded rell Rigel, by her mother, M.D., proPauline fessor of Phillips. dermatology at New York University, any absorption of DHA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the main ingredient in spray tans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; can pose a potential risk of genetic mutations, especially in repeated users of the product and those in higher risk groups such as pregnant women and young children. (By the way, salon workers who apply these products repeatedly throughout the workday should also be aware of this.)

For more information about this, visit: abcn.ws/ 1K0p8x9. The ABC investigative report is a mustread. Frankly, it curled my hair.

DEAR ABBY: I work at an urban high school.

Recently there was a campus-wide fundraising campaign during which one of

DEAR ABBY

the teachers sold brownies.

A student bought all of them for $1 each, then resold them at lunch for $2 apiece for his own profit.

My co-workers insist this was wrong, while I feel it was representative of an enterprising spirit.

My co-workers say it was immoral to make money off a fundraising event. I maintain that the charity was already paid for the brownies, and what he did with them after he bought them is immaterial. What do you think? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; WONDERING IN PENNSYLVANIA DEAR WONDERING: Having purchased the brownies, the student could dispose of them as he wished. If other students were willing to spend $2 for $1 brownies, well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capitalism. Perhaps next year the teacher who sold the brownies should raise her rates.

DEAR ABBY: Why do friends ignore a woman after being friends for many years because she is now widowed? I am not the only one who says this. At the senior center they all agree.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m willing to pay my way for dinner, concerts, movies, etc. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect anyone to pick up my tab.

Still, I am no longer invited to lunch or dinner gatherings.

Someday, these friends may be in my position.

They claim to be kind and caring individuals, and I miss them. I have invited them over, but they never reciprocate.

What can I do? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LONELY WIDOW IN FORT MYERS, FLA. DEAR WIDOW: Unfortunately, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much you can do to change the behavior of the people you thought were your friends.

However, that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean you must live in isolation.

There are things you can do to lessen the loneliness youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re experiencing. Chief among them would be to cultivate new interests and, along with them, new friends.

Jimmy in Spring. Photo submitted by JENNY RAIRIGH

At the library.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spring has Sprungâ&#x20AC;?

Collection of Spring blooming ďŹ&#x201A;owers photos.

Submitted by DREW THOMAS

Library on 1st Street.

Robin Hill Road.

Face painting anyone?

Cherry tree, my yard

IUP Punxsutawney Campus.

9th Street creeping on cement house foundation.

A survivor on Chruch Street.

IUP Indiana Campus.

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M Mini in i F Fact: ac t : Find Find a ssummer ummer reading reading log log here: here: bit.ly/1qlmqgI bit.ly/1qlmqgI and a nd win win books! bo oks!

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• In “Mrs. Ravenbach’s Waay” by William M. Akers and illustrated by Anna Wilkenfeld, a strict German teacher and her new student, Toby, clash in the most hilarious way. “Mrs. Ravenbach’s Way” is the first book in a series, “The Amazing Escapades of Toby Wilcox.”

• “Science Experiments You Can Eat” by Vicki Cobb and illustrated by Tad Carpenter stirs up suspensions, syrups and meringues with delicious results. image courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• “The Girl Who Could Not Dream” by Sarah Beth Durst is about a 12-year-old named Sophie. Her parents own a bookstore with a secret shop below, but when they disappear, Sophie sets out to find them.

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For grades 1-3 • “EllRay Jakes Stands Tall”

by Sally Warner and illustrated

by Brian Biggs is the final book in a series about a third-grader.

EllRay wants to play basketball.

But to get noticed, he has to come up with a daring plan.

• “Insects” by Seymour Simon starts out by explaining the difference between insects and bugs. Then it goes on to introduce kids to all kinds of creepy crawlies with big, colorful photographs.

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• “Raymie Nightingale” by Kate DiCamillo tells the story of Raymie, who thinks if she wins a contest, she can lure her dad home.

olf • In “From Wo to Wo oof!” written and illustrated by Hudson Talbott, we learn the story of how wolves came to be tamed and eventually evolved into the dogs we love today.

• “Mister Cleghorn’s Seal” by Ju udith Kerr is the first illustrated novel from this writer in 37 years! It follows the adventure of a quiet man who unexpectedly becomes the caretaker of an orphaned seal pup.

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For grades 3-7

• In “The Mechanical Mind of John Coggin” by Elinor Teele and illustrated by Ben Whitehouse, John and his little sister, Page, escape a future of making coffins in the family business by running away with an amazing group of strangers.

Resources On the Web:

• “Nice Work, Franklin!”

by Suzanne Tripp JJu urmain and illustrated by Larry Day tells the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who became president during the Great Depression and helped the United States overcome its biggest challenges.

• biblionasium.com • ala.org//alsc/ 2015-summeralsc a reading-list • summerroadtrip.scholastic.com

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Making your summer reading list? Let’s explore some great books to enjoy while school is out!

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• “Diana’s White House Garden” by Elisa Carbone and illustrated by Jen Hill recalls the true story of Diana Hopkins, who lived in the White House in 1943. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the idea of Victory Gardens, Diana started one on the White House lawn, with the help of Mrs. Roosevelt and the White House gardener.

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Issue 20, 2016

At the library: • “Wild About Books” by Judy Sierra • “Library Lion” by Michelle Knudsen

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Words that remind us of books in our list are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: BASKETBALL, BOOKS, COFFINS, CONTEST, DEPRESSION, DOG, DREAM, EXPERIMENT, EXPLORE, INSECTS, READING, ROOSEVEL LT, SCIENCE, SEAL, SECRET T, STUDENT T, TEACHER, VICTORY.

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Betty: What do you call a lima bean’s favorite hat?

Bob:: A lima beanie!

Eco Note Researchers from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, have found that birds from urban environments are smarter and even healthier than their country cousins.

The scientists found big differences, especially when it comes to problemsolving and temperament. They say city birds are far bolder.

You’ll o need: • 1 (14.5-ounce) box whole-wheat thin spaghetti • 2 tablespoons canola oil • 1 teaspoon sugar • 6 tablespoons soy sauce

• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar • 2 cups snow peas • 1 cup cubed ham • 1 cup thinly sliced cucumber, peeled • 1 (8-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained

What to do: 1. Break spaghetti into shorter pieces and cook according to directions.

2. Drain spaghetti pieces and mix in canola oil.

3. Combine sugarr, soy sauce and vinegar. Pour over spaghetti and mix well.

4. Add snow peas, ham, cucumber and water chestnuts.

5. Serve warm or cold. Serves 8 to 10.

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* You’ll need an adult’s help with this recipe.

Cook’ Cook’ss Corner Corner

Make a list of your top five books to read this summer. Compare your list with a classmate’s.

Teachers: For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: bbs. amuniversal.com/teaching _ guides.html

Answers: vacation, camp, sports, reading.

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Actress Guerrero writes about fractured family

By E.J. TAMARA

actress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went through many stages. I went through depression, which is something that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often talk about when LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; One afternoon upon we look at undocumented communities returning from school, Diane Guerrero and deported families.â&#x20AC;? found her home empty. The TV actress Her love for the arts started in high was only 14 when she was left completely school, at the Boston Arts Academy. She alone after her parents were detained and later attended Regis College and studied deported to their native Colombia. to be a paralegal until she decided to sign The depression, anxiety and emotional up with a Boston casting agency and fiinstability that followed are some of the nally pursue her dream. personal struggles the 29-year-old actress â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s light at the end of the tunnel,â&#x20AC;? reveals in her new memoir, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Coun- said Guerrero. try We Love: My Family Divided.â&#x20AC;? She also â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that things are scary and we discusses her later development as an ac- may have a lot of fears, but what we can tress and working on the popular Netflix do now is educate ourselves, we can eduseries â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orange Is the New Blackâ&#x20AC;? and The cate others, we can join this movement, CWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jane The Virgin.â&#x20AC;? we can understand that our stoIn essence, the 257-pages book, ries are valuable, that we are imjust released by Henry Holt and portant and that ... like it or not, Co., illustrates one of the heartwe make up the fabric of this breaks of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immigration cricountry and we have to fight to be sis: U.S.-born children who are left part of it because we are part of it, alone when their parents are deregardless of how many people ported. About 4.1 million Ameriare telling us that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t becan children have at least one parlong.â&#x20AC;? ent who lives in the U.S. illegally, Guerrero first told her story in according to the Migration Policy November 2014 in an article in DIANE Institute. the Los Angeles Times. She was â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of comments on GUERRERO inspired by so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreamers,â&#x20AC;? the news, we have a lot of rhetoric who publicly acknowledge they over what an immigrant is and what a de- grew up in the U.S. without documentaportee is, but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear any real sto- tion but who are fully assimilated and feel ries. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we ever had the chance very much like Americans. to really tell our side,â&#x20AC;? said Guerrero, reReaction to the article was immediate. sponding in a recent interview to why she A few days later, she met President Barack wrote the book.

Obama at an event in Las Vegas where he â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am here, a citizen of this country and expounded on his just-announced execIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, the system failed me. I utive order offering dreamers a pathway am a good citizen. I contribute to this to documentation. country and here I am sharing my story.

Guerreroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orange Is the New What are you going to do now?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she Blackâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jane the Virginâ&#x20AC;? has yielded added. success and popularity that she is now Guerreroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s older brother was also de- using to promote citizenship and voter ported, but she decided to stay behind registration among immigrants, in colwith friends because of her firm belief laboration with organizations like Immithat America offered many more oppor- grant Legal Resource Center and Mi Fatunities than Colombia. milia Vota. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents were clear from the beginThe actress says writing â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Country ning (about the possibility of deporta- We Loveâ&#x20AC;? has been a cathartic experience tion). That was a topic of every day, so I for her. was very well aware and my father did a â&#x20AC;&#x153;After coming out with the book and my good job of preparing me if the inevitable story, I feel a lot better, a little clearer happened,â&#x20AC;? said the actress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to about who I am and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m follow my dreams and finish what my lying to other people and, most imporparents started when they came here for tant, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lying to myself,â&#x20AC;? better opportunities. It was a difficult de- said Guerrero. cision and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if, in hindsight, I â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want immigration reform to come would have changed it.â&#x20AC;? into fruition and I want it to be compreAt one point, Guerrero was so de- hensive and I want it to have a path to citpressed over the absence of her parents, izenship and I want to be involved politimounting debt and other problems, that cally every day,â&#x20AC;? she added. she tried to take her own life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing that and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling better â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once I got to college, that anxiety and because before, I was just kind of floating, pain and confusion kind of came forth. ... you know, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being a political being Everything that I did or tried to do was and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where my responsibiliharder than normal because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have ties lied in my community and now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve my parents and their support,â&#x20AC;? said the found that.â&#x20AC;?

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A SHOPPER passed by the Nintendo logo at an electronics store in Tokyo. The Japanese video game maker announced today it is eyeing the movie business.

Nintendo Co. eyeing filmmaking for growth

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer

TOKYO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. is eyeing the movie business for growth.

Company spokesman Makoto Wakae said today details are undecided but the work might be a theater release or a DVD. Nintendo, which makes the Wii U home console and Nintendo 3DS handheld machine, has licensed its game characters in the past, such as with its Pokemon movies, but it is now thinking about make its own film content.

It wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t become a fullfledged film studio, but filmmaking is an area it has chosen for future investment of proceeds from selling its stake in the major league Seattle Mariners, planned for later this year, according to Kyoto-based Nintendo.

The Japanese daily newspaper Asahi reported today

that Nintendoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work might be 3-D animation.

It said Nintendo is in talks with various film companies on a possible partnership.

Wakae said an announcement will be made, but even the details of the Mariners sale have not yet been announced.

Nintendo has seen its growth stagnate in recent years amid competition from smartphones and other devices, and films could revive interest in its franchise, which also includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Legend of Zelda.â&#x20AC;?

Nintendo reported a $216 million loss for JanuaryMarch, bigger than the loss it reported the previous year.

For the fiscal year ended March 31, it earned $148 million, down 61 percent from the previous fiscal year.

Recent Wii U sales have lagged behind rivals Sony Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PlayStation 4 con-

sole and Microsoft Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Xbox One, including the key year-end holiday shopping season.

After years of scoffing at the threat from smartphones, Nintendo did an about face last year and entered an alliance with Japanese mobile game company DeNA Co. to develop games for mobile devices.

It has also said its new game platform codenamed NX will be launched globally in March next year.

In April, Nintendo of America said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selling its majority stake in the Seattle Mariners to a group of minority owners led by new chairman and CEO John Stanton.

Nintendo is selling all but 10 percent of its stake in the franchise and the regional sports network ROOT Sports. The deal is subject to approval by Major League Baseball, expected during league meetings in August.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Civil Warâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tops, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Money Monsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grabs $15M

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Captain Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? weekend at the box office once again by a large margin, but even with $72.6 million in earnings, the superhero pic left some room for other newcomers like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Money Monster,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Darknessâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lobsterâ&#x20AC;? to play, according to comScore estimates Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Captain America: Civil Warâ&#x20AC;? dropped 59 percent in its second weekend in theaters, in line with the second weekend showings of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avengers: Age of Ultronâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Man 3.â&#x20AC;?

While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the higher end of second weekend falls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney and Marvel film is still performing phenomenally well. In just two weeks, it has earned $295.9 million in North America, passing the total domestic grosses of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Captain America: Winter Soldierâ&#x20AC;? by over $35 million.

Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jungle Bookâ&#x20AC;? remained in second place with $17.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $311.8 million after five weekends in theaters.

Meanwhile, the R-rated George Clooney and Julia Roberts financial thriller â&#x20AC;&#x153;Money Monsterâ&#x20AC;? got off to a healthy third-place start with $15 million, beating expectations in its first weekend in theaters after

premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. The film cost only $27 million to produce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We felt like in the wake of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Captain America,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; we could open to $10 million.

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State Legislature still faces spending, tax issues Continued from Page 1 tion to find ways to save money and blunt cost increases.

House Speaker Mike Turzai, RAllegheny, said he is aiming for spending growth of about 2 percent, or about $600 million.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre, said an overhaul of the state’s major public sector pension system benefits should come first before a tax increase.

“I’m trying not to draw lines in the sand, but we’re certainly not interested in doing any revenue without pension reform,” Corman said.

Turzai said he wants a dedicated source of money — even if it is a tax increase — to pay off a justapproved bond that would fund the state’s school construction commitments. He also said the state must hold down rising costs for pension and debt obligations.

“You can’t keep asking for additional revenue for increasing debt service if you’re not going to do something to lower the debt service increase,” Turzai said.

The 2016-17 deficit is estimated at $1.8 billion by the Legislature’s independent fiscal agency, and this year’s tax collections aren’t providing much help. Collections

More robot cars may mean more traffic on nation’s highways Continued from Page 1 think Uber and Lyft without a driver — will result in double-digit increases in travel by people in two age groups: those over 65, and those 16 to 24.

Vehicles traveled a record 3.1 trillion miles in the U.S. last year. Increased trips in autonomous cars by those two age groups would boost miles traveled by an additional 2 trillion miles annually by 2050, KPMG calculated.

If self-driving cars without passengers start running errands, the increase could be double that.

And if people in their middle years, when driving is at its peak, also increase their travel, that yearly total could reach 8 trillion miles.

“This could be massive,” Silberg said.

Driverless cars are expected to make travel both safer and cheaper. With human error responsible for 90 percent of traffic accidents, they’re expected to sharply reduce accidents, driving down the cost of insurance and repairs.

But the biggest cost of car travel is drivers’ time, said Don MacKenzie, a University of Washington transportation researcher.

That cost comes down dramatically when people can use their travel time productively on other tasks.

A study by MacKenzie and other researchers published in the journal Transportation Research: Part A estimates that the vehicles can cut the cost of travel by as much as 80 percent. That in turn drives up miles traveled by 60 percent.

“You are talking about a technology that promises to make travel safer, cheaper, more convenient. And when you do that, you’d better expect people are going to do more of it,” MacKenzie said.

There’s a fork ahead in this driverless road, says a report by Lauren Isaac, manager of sustainable transportation at WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff, that envisions either utopia or a nightmare.

In the best case, congestion is reduced because driverless cars and trucks are safer and can travel faster with reduced space between them.

Highway lanes can be narrower because vehicles won’t need as much margin for error. There will be fewer accidents to tie up traffic.

But those advantages will be limited as long as driverless cars share roads with conventional cars, likely for decades.

But that scenario depends on a societal shift from private vehicle owner-

ship to commercial fleets of driverless cars that can be quickly summoned with a phone app.

Driverless fleets would have to become super-efficient carpools, picking up and dropping off multiple passengers traveling in the same direction.

The congestion nightmare would result if a large share of people can’t be persuaded to effectively share robot cars with strangers and to continue using mass transit, Isaac said.

A study last year by the International Transport Forum, a transportation policy think tank, simulated the impact on traffic in Lisbon, Portugal, if conventional cars were replaced with driverless cars that take either a single passenger at a time or several passengers together.

It found that as long as half of travel is still carried out by conventional cars, total vehicle miles traveled will increase from 30 to 90 percent, suggesting that even widespread sharing of driverless cars would mean greater congestion for a long time.

Airlines also may face new competition as people choose to travel by car at speeds well over 100 mph between cities a few hundred miles apart instead of flying.

Transit agencies will need to rethink their services in order to stay competitive, especially because the elimination of a driver would make car-sharing services cheaper.

To make the shared-vehicle model work, government would have to impose congestion pricing on highways, restrict parking in urban centers, add more high-occupancy vehicle lanes and take other measures to discourage people from traveling alone in their self-driving cars.

Land-use policies may need to be adjusted to prevent sprawl, or people will move beyond the fringes of metropolitan areas for lowcost housing because they can work while commuting at high speeds.

Taxes based on the number of miles a personal vehicle travels are another way to discourage car travel.

All these policy changes would be controversial and difficult to achieve.

While there are “loads of likely positive impacts for society associated with driverless technology,” people are right to worry about potential for huge increases in congestion, Isaac said.

“Without any government influence,” she said, “human nature is to get into that single occupancy vehicle.”

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at the end of April were running $122 million over estimate, or less than 1 percent over last year, according to the Department of Revenue.

Wolf’s spokesman Jeff Sheridan said the governor is “willing to have that conversation” about Republicans’ proposed pension system changes, which revolve around replacing part of the traditional pension benefit for future state and school employees with a 401(k)-style benefit. But Wolf also is adamant about increasing state support for public schools, Sheridan said.

“The governor wants to work

with Democrats and Republican leaders to accomplish investing more,” Sheridan said.

Wolf had agreed to a Senate Republican pension proposal last year, but the House rejected it in December, marking the third straight year that a governor-supported pension bill had stalled.

House and Senate Republicans have unresolved differences about many aspects of pension legislation, and Corman said Republicans will seek other concessions from Wolf in exchange for a spending increase on public schools.

In any case, decades of history

suggest Wolf’s pursuit of a major election-year tax increase may not succeed.

And it’s unclear whether anything has changed since last year, when Wolf proposed a multibillion-dollar tax increase. Every cent of it ultimately went down to defeat in the House.

Republicans eventually opted for a budget balanced with about $1 billion in reserves or postponed payments.

Some Republicans say that if no deal is in sight by late June, they may be able to sway enough Democrats to pass a veto-proof budget package.

Clinton woos Kentucky voters Continued from Page 1 still can’t fully make that shift.

A win in at least one of the two upcoming contests would give Clinton momentum heading into the primaries in California and New Jersey in early June. Oregon is favorable terrain for Sanders, but Clinton’s campaign thinks the race is competitive in Kentucky, where she planned to spend today courting voters.

“It will be close, but either way, as with all the contests this month, we will gain additional delegates and move that much closer to clinching the nomination,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in an email.

Clinton easily won the Kentucky primary over Barack Obama in 2008. But this time she has come under criticism in parts of the state after saying in March that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Clinton later said she misspoke, but the comment has drawn fire in mining communities.

On Sunday in Louisville and in Fort Mitchell, Clinton touted her plan for coal country. Her proposals include protecting miners’ health care coverage

and retirement programs, investing in infrastructure in mining communities and repurposing mines.

Before a cheering crowd in a Fort Mitchell backyard, Clinton pledged to put husband Bill Clinton — who won the state in 1992 and 1996 — “in charge of revitalizing the economy.”

She provided no further details, but during Bill Clinton’s administration, economic growth averaged 4 percent per year, median family income rose and the budget deficit was turned into a surplus.

Clinton said that when people feel left behind, they “become very interested in easy answers and the kind of demagoguery we’ve seen in this election.”

Clinton only briefly mentioned Sanders at both events, repeating a critique that he did not vote to fund the auto industry bailout.

Sanders has accused Clinton of mischaracterizing his record on the issue.

Clinton focused most of her fire on Trump, calling him a “loose cannon.” She said his record will “be a big part of the general election, because Americans, regardless of our political affiliation have to really take this vote seriously.”

High-profile advocates campaigning for Clinton in Kentucky include Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Reps. James Clyburn of South Carolina, G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Hakeem Jeffries and Joe Crowley of New York.

Clinton is spending about $325,000 on Kentucky ads. Sanders, after seeing her reserve airtime, followed with $126,000 in ads, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG. Going into Tuesday, Clinton has 1,716 pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses, compared with 1,433 for Sanders. Adding superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton holds a much wider lead. She remains on track to reach the 2,383 needed to win the nomination by early next month.

Clinton and her supporters have avoided calling on Sanders to drop out of the race. But they worry that Sanders could damage her chances by staying put.

The Vermont senator’s economic hits on Clinton could benefit Trump, as he seeks to appeal to independent voters.

In addition, Clinton can-

not start wooing Sanders supporters until he is out of the way and she must continue campaigning in primary states, rather than general-election battlegrounds.

A Trump adviser told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the campaign was hoping to appeal to Sanders supporters in the general election.

“You see Democrat support for Bernie Sanders that is potential Trump support, when it’s indicated that they will never vote for Hillary Clinton, and when you analyze who those people are that are saying it, they’re the very demographic that Trump is appealing to in independents and crossover Democrats,” Paul Manafort said.

In the audience for Clinton at the Louisville rally Sunday was local resident Nancy Hatcher, 69, who said she liked Clinton’s experience, though said she wasn’t sure if she could win in Kentucky.

“I don’t know,” she said.

“There’s a lot of people that are in love with Bernie Sanders, but I don’t think he is electable and she is.”

Associated Press writer Julie Bykowicz in Washington contributed to this report.

Trump leans left on some policies Continued from Page 1 slams the North American Free Trade Agreement involving the U.S, Mexico and Canada, and opposes a pending Asia-Pacific pact, positions shared by Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.

“The problem is the ideologues, the very conservative group, would say everything has to be totally free trade,” Trump said.

“But you can’t have free trade if the deals are going to be bad. And that’s what we have.”

Trump long has maintained that he has no plans to scale back Social Security benefits or raise its qualifying retirement age. The position puts him in line with Clinton.

She has said she would “defend and expand” Social Security, has ruled out a higher retirement age and opposes reductions in cost-of-living adjustments or other benefits.

“There is tremendous waste, fraud and abuse, but I’m leaving it the way it is,” Trump recently told Fox Business Network.

It’s a stance at odds with the country’s top-ranked elected Republican, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who has advocated fundamental changes to Social Security and other entitlement programs.

But it’s also one that Trump argues keeps him in line with the wishes of

most voters.

“Remember the wheelchair being pushed over the cliff when you had Ryan chosen as your vice president?” Trump told South Carolina voters this year, referring to then-vice presidential candidate Ryan’s budget plan. “That was the end of that campaign.” Ryan was Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012.

Complicating the efforts to define Trump is his penchant for offering contradictory ideas about policy.

He also has taken recently to saying that all of his plans are merely suggestions, open to later negotiation.

Trump’s tax plan, for instance, released last fall, called for lowering the rate paid by the wealthiest people in the United States from 39.6 percent to 25 percent and slashing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent.

Trump described it as a massive boon for the middle class. Outside experts concluded it disproportionately benefited the rich and would balloon the federal deficit.

Close to clinching the nomination, Trump now appears to be pulling away from his own proposal.

While he still wants to lower taxes for the wealthy and businesses, he now says his plan was just a starting point for discus-

sions and he would like to see the middle class benefit more from whatever changes he seeks in tax law.

“We have to go to Congress, we have to go to the Senate, we have to go to our congressmen and women and we have to negotiate a deal,” Trump said recently.

“So it really is a proposal, but it’s a very steep proposal.”

Trump has a similar take on the minimum wage.

Trump said at a GOP primary debate that wages are too high, and later made clear that he does not support a federal minimum wage. Yet when speaking about the issue, he says he recognizes the difficulty of surviving on the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

“I am open to doing something with it,” he told CNN this month.

On foreign policy, Trump already appears working to paint Clinton as a national security hawk who would too easily lead the country into conflict.

“On foreign policy, Hillary is trigger happy,” Trump said at a recent rally, He listed the countries where the U.S. had intervened militarily during her tenure as secretary of state and pointed to her vote to authorize the Iraq war while she was in the Senate.

Trump’s own “America First” approach appears to lean more toward isolationism. One of his foreign policy advisers, Walid Phares, recently described it as a “third way.”

“This doesn’t fit any of the boxes,” Phares said.

Clinton has advocated using “smart power,” a combination of diplomatic, legal, economic, political and cultural tools to expand American influence.

She believes the U.S. has a unique ability to rally the world to defeat international threats.

She argues the country must be an active participant on the world stage, particularly as part of international alliances such as NATO. Trump has criticized the military alliance, questioning a structure that sees the U.S. pay for most of its costs.

“No, I think I’m much tougher than her on foreign — and I think we won’t have to use it,” Trump recently told Fox News when asked whether he might come to Clinton’s left on some foreign policy issues.

“You know, I appear that I might — maybe to the left. I believe in very, very strong defense. I believe in world peace. I want to help other countries.”

Associated Press writer Lisa Lerer in Washington contributed to this report.

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STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS • Game 2 • Lightning at Penguins • 8 p.m. • TV: NBCSN

Pens hope to provide stiffer test

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — Ben Bishop’s mind raced as the Tampa Bay Lightning goalie writhed in pain on the ice after awkwardly twisting his left leg in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night.

The internal “what ifs” ran the gamut. What if the leg was broken? What if his season was over?

“It’s funny how much you can think about in such a short amount of time,” Bishop said Sunday.

The one thought that didn’t

even occur to Bishop was whether backup Andrei Vasilevskiy could step in and do the job.

“I think the guys in the room, I know myself, we have full confidence in him,” Bishop said. “He’s a great young goalie. He’s got a future.”

And, it seems, a present too.

While Bishop’s initial fears were allayed when tests came back negative, it’s still uncertain when he’ll return or if he’ll be back at all during the playoffs. Having him in the lineup for Game 2 tonight seems like a long shot at best even if Tampa Bay coach Jon

Cooper did not rule it out as the Lightning try to take a 2-0 lead with them back to Florida.

“He’s getting better with each day, and it’s encouraging to say,” Cooper said.

The fact it’s even up for discussion is remarkable considering Bishop’s obvious distress after he twisted the leg while trying to scramble back into position 12:25 into the first period of Tampa Bay’s eventual 3-1 victory in Game 1. The pain was so acute Bishop figured he’d been slashed even though there wasn’t a Penguin within a stick length of him at the time. He left the game on a

stretcher and when doctors removed his pads to get a closer look, Bishop was half expecting to see bone sticking out.

The damage turned out to be far less serious. The leg is structurally intact and Bishop managed to spend a little informal time on the ice before Sunday’s practice, though he was long gone by the time the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy and the rest of the Lightning went to work.

Pressed into his first extended playing time in more than a month, Vasilevskiy turned aside 25 of the 26 shots he faced, aided Continued on Page 17

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LIGHTNING GOALIE Andrei Vasilevskiy took a break during Sunday’s practice.

INDIANA COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Reveling in the routine After pro ball, Edwards settled into life at home • EDITOR’S NOTE: This is

second of a seven-part series profiling the individuals who will be inducted into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame.

Tomorrow: R.K. Shoemaker.

CHRIS EDWARDS

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GERRIT COLE pitched eight shutout innings against the Cubs on Sunday.

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By MIKE CRANSTON

PIRATES 2, CUBS 1

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CHICAGO — While the attention was on Jon Lester’s quest for a second no-hitter, Gerrit Cole kept quietly matching zeros with him.

After the Pirates’ bats finally solved Lester and the Pittsburgh ace delivered a much-needed win, Cole had a message for the major league-leading Cubs.

Starling Marte singled with one out in the seventh inning to end Lester’s nohit bid, then scored on Jung Ho Kang’s double to put the Pirates ahead in a 2-1 victory over Chicago on Sunday.

Kang added a ninth-in-

ning home run to help the Pirates beat the Cubs for the first time in six tries this season.

“It was just an opportunity to try to salvage the series,” Cole said. “I don’t really think they’re the best team in baseball.”

Cole (4-3) allowed three hits in eight shutout innings, striking out seven in a 95-pitch performance.

Mark Melancon gave up a run in a shaky ninth but held on for his 11th save in 12 chances to give the Pirates a lift after a frustrating two weeks against their NL Central rivals.

Continued on Page 14

For weeks now, it’s been all about the Penguins, so let’s talk about the Pirates for a minute.

On Sunday, it was all about them.

It’s what Pirates fans have been waiting for. It’s what they’ve been wanting to see out of this team. Gerrit Cole pitched great, and the Buccos scored a 2-1 win over the MLB-best Cubs.

The Pirates had been outscored 37-11 by the Cubs this season and were 0-5 against them. They needed to prove to themselves — and everyone else — that they could beat their division rival.

After Saturday’s loss, fans started throwing around phrases like “they can’t beat them” and “they should just forget about it.”

The Pirates were bound to beat the Cubs eventually, just based on odds.

Continued on Page 14

CARLY KROUSE

Carly Krouse is the assistant sports editor at The Indiana Gazette.

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Day pacifies doubters with another win

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

JASON DAY

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jason Day had a crystal trophy at his side and a pacifier in his pocket.

Only after he completed a wire-to-wire victory in The Players Championship did Day reveal that his 3-year-old son, Dash, had kept him up the night before with a stomach ailment. Exactly how the pacifier wound up in his pocket remained a mystery, though it was an illustration of his week at the TPC Sawgrass.

Nothing unsettled him.

Nothing was going to stop him.

“I’ve got no stress in my life,” Day said after his four-shot victory, his seventh in the last 10 months. “Other than Dash waking up last night ... Dash woke up and he threw up everywhere. How funny is that?

I’ve got this pacifier here because it’s in my pocket for some reason. But like that’s one thing that I’m sitting here (because) I was enjoying myself. I prepped well, had great work. I felt good about my swing.

“Everything was coming along nicely.”

For the rest of the PGA Tour, it must be frightening.

Dating to the Canadian Open last summer, Day’s seven victories include a major, The Players, a World Golf Championship and two FedEx Cup playoff events. He already had won twice this year. And yet when he arrived at the TPC Sawgrass, all he heard was that he has not played this golf course very well. His most recent round was an 81 last year to miss the cut.

That now seems like a long time ago.

Continued on Page 17

Chris Edwards has a routine. He gets up early before the sun rises, puts on his work uniform and drives the 3½ miles to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he works as a custodian in the Stapleton Library.

Every day from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., Edwards navigates the corridors and facilities of the four-floor library, making sure all is clean and operable for the thousands of students and faculty members that make their way in and out every day.

After he clocks out, he returns home to watch sports. Some days he takes a trip to Meadow Lane Golf Course on the outskirts of town to play a quick nine holes. On Fridays and Saturdays, when the work week is over, he meets up with anywhere between four and 20 of his golfing buddies to play a round and reminisce.

At 55 years old, Edwards follows his routine, which is one much different from the daily grind he found himself in more than 30 years ago when he was pitching in the minor league system for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

At that time, it was baseball every day. Some days, he was on the practice field in Greenwood, S.C. Most days, though, he and his teammates were traveling to play a game somewhere in the South.

Edwards looks back fondly on the time he spent in the minor leagues. And although the dream of playing professional baseball is one that many aspire to, he’s not quite sure he would trade his life for the time he spent as a 19-year-old.

“It’s not a glamorous life,” Edwards said of his days in the minors. “As much as I love baseball, I don’t know how these major leaguers do it. It’s just every single day. I love baseball, but I’m not sure I’d really want to be there every day. I think maybe that would take some of the fun out of it.”

Congratulations Chris on your in nduction into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame.

Wel e l done.

Age: 55 Hometown: Indiana Education: Indiana High School, 1980 Occupation: Custodian at IUP Family: Mother, Marjorie Stadtmiller; father, Sonny (deceased); stepfather, Larry Stadtmiller; daughters, Brooke and Carley; and brothers, Jeff and John.

Career highlights: Played four years of varsity baseball at Indiana High …

Drafted by the Pirates in 13th round of 1980 major league amateur draft …

Played two seasons of minor league baseball, compiling a 6-4 record and a 4.02 ERA … had a 20-strikeout game in the Indiana County League …

Has won four club championships at Meadow Lane Golf Course (1999, 2002, ’05, ’09).

After he was drafted in the 13th round by the Pirates in 1980 — straight out of Indiana High School — that was exactly where Edwards found himself. He used his $2,500 signing bonus to purchase his first car, the same one he drove to Pirate City in Bradenton, Fla., where he spent the next year playing with the other draftees in the rookie league.

It was baseball every day.

It was three square meals, some days practice, and most other days a game. It was living paycheck to paycheck while bunking with a teammate. And most of all, it was realizing just how difficult it was to stand out among everyone else, when a 90 mph fastball was no longer a trump card.

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RANGERS SECOND BASEMAN Rougned Odor, right, punched Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista in a fight that broke out between the two teams Sunday in Arlington, Texas.

Rangers survive slugfest

By The Associated Press A feud simmering since Jose Bautista’s bat flip in last year’s AL Division Series boiled over into a wild brawl in the final game of the season between Toronto and Texas, a 7-6 victory for the Rangers on Sunday.

Bautista and Texas second baseman Rougned Odor got into a fistfight behind the bag after a hard slide by the Toronto slugger in the eighth inning. Players from both teams rushed the field as Odor landed a punch to Bautista’s face.

Umpires needed about 10 minutes to restore order, and Blue Jays reliever Jesse Chavez (0-1) hit Prince Fielder with the next pitch when the game resumed. He was ejected after an earlier warning for both teams when Bautista was hit by a pitch from Matt Bush.

Toronto manager John Gibbons was among eight ejections in the game.

RED SOX 10, ASTROS 9: Xander Bogaerts hit a three-run homer and Ryan Hanigan had three singles and drove in four to lead Boston past Houston.

Boston’s Jackie Bradley Jr. had a single to extend his majors’ longest hitting streak this season to 21 games.

Luis Valbuena had a three-run homer and five RBIs for the Astros, and Carlos Correa added a solo homer.

YANKEES 7, WHITE SOX 5: Pinch-hitter Chase Headley lined a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, Carlos Beltran launched his 400th career home run and New York wrapped up a successful homestand with a win over Chicago.

A day after striking out all four batters he faced, Dellin Betances (1-2) was wobbly. He took over in the seventh with a 5-4 lead, but Jose Abreu and Todd Frazier greeted him with singles and Melky Cabrera hit a tying double. Betances recovered to retire the next three batters.

Aroldis Chapman closed for his third save. Matt Albers (1-2) took the loss.

TIGERS 6, ORIOLES 5: J.D. Martinez and Miguel Cabrera homered on consecutive pitches in the eighth inning, and Detroit ended Baltimore’s seven-game winning streak.

The home runs came against Darren O’Day, who fanned the first two batters in the eighth with Baltimore up 5-4. O’Day (2-1) thought he struck out the side when Martinez checked

his swing with two strikes, but first base umpire Mark Wegner ruled the batter did not go around.

Manny Machado homered for the Orioles.

ANGELS 3, MARINERS 0: Hector Santiago pitched eight innings of two-hit ball and Daniel Nava’s two-run, twoout single in the eighth inning gave Los Angeles the cushion it needed to complete a three-game sweep of Seattle.

Santiago (3-2) struck out five, allowed only one base runner to reach second base and matched a career high in innings pitched.

ATHLETICS 7, RAYS 6: Danny Valencia hit three home runs, including a two-run shot in the ninth inning that lifted Oakland to a win over Tampa Bay. Valencia’s final homer — his fifth of the season, all in the three-game weekend series — came on the first pitch from Steve Geltz (0-2), Tampa Bay’s fifth pitcher.

Brandon Guyer went deep twice for the Rays in a game that featured seven home runs.

Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria also connected for his seventh homer.

TWINS 5, INDIANS 1: Tyler Duffey pitched seven scoreless innings, Eddie Rosario drove in three runs and Minnesota won its first road series of the season.

Duffey (1-2) allowed six hits and struck out six, giving the Twins backto-back wins for only the third time this year.

Jorge Polanco hit his first major league home run in the seventh.

NATIONAL LEAGUE CARDINALS 5, DODGERS 2: Matt Carpenter homered for the fifth time in eight games, Yadier Molina had a tiebreaking two-run double in the top of the seventh inning and St. Louis beat Los Angeles to avoid being swept in the three-game series.

Corey Seager homered twice for the Dodgers, the first multihomer game of his career.

MARLINS 5, NATIONALS 1: Jose Fernandez struck out 11 over seven innings and drove in two runs during a three-run sixth to help Miami defeat Washington.

Giancarlo Stanton hit his 11th home run as Miami salvaged a fourgame split.

Fernandez (5-2) threw a careerhigh 117 pitches while allowing the one run on four hits and three walks.

GIANTS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 1: Manager Bruce Bochy successfully challenged to get a game-ending double play after Brandon Crawford singled in a run in the ninth inning and San Francisco completed a four-game sweep.

Bochy challenged that Rickie Weeks was safe at first base on what turned out to be a 4-6-3 double play.

If the call had stood, the tying run would have scored from third.

Santiago Casilla escaped the trouble for his ninth save.

The Giants had just one hit — Trevor Brown’s home run — through eight innings. But they opened the ninth with three singles off Brad Ziegler (1-2).

ROCKIES 4, METS 3: Pinch-hitter Ryan Raburn came through with a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning that carried Colorado past New York for a three-game sweep.

Tyler Chatwood (5-3) pitched seven solid innings and Carlos Gonzalez also homered for the Rockies.

Yoenis Cespedes homered but it wasn’t enough for the Mets.

Jacob deGrom allowed just three hits until Gonzalez went deep with two outs in the sixth.

REDS 9, PHILLIES 4: Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run homer, Jay Bruce went 3-for-3 and Cincinnati rebounded from a difficult loss with a win over Philadelphia.

Dan Straily (2-1) pitched five scoreless innings Odubel Herrera had two hits and two RBIs for Philadelphia.

BREWERS 3, PADRES 2: Chris Carter hit a towering solo homer and a tiebreaking RBI double, breaking out of a long slump and leading Milwaukee to a victory over San Diego.

Carter was mired in an 0-for-23 slide before he belted a 443-foot homer off the scoreboard in center field in the third. Carter, who finished with three hits, doubled home the winning run against Kevin Quackenbush (1-2) in the seventh.

Jonathan Lucroy also homered for Milwaukee.

INTERLEAGUE ROYALS 4, BRAVES 2: Kendrys Morales hit a walk-off two-run homer with two out in the 13th inning and Kansas City overcame a rare blown save by Wade Davis to defeat Atlanta.

Alcides Escobar, who had four hits to match his career high, singled before Morales’ blast off Jason Grilli.

Cole outduels Lester in Bucs’ victory Continued from Page 13 The Cubs took all three games in Pittsburgh early this month, then the first two in this series. Pittsburgh had been outscored 37-11 by Chicago while falling nine games back in the division.

But Cole stopped that. The righthander’s six wins against the Cubs since the start of 2014 are the most of any pitcher, and he hasn’t allowed a homer at Wrigley Field in 45 innings.

Lester (4-2), who threw a no-hitter with Boston in 2008, had permitted only two walks and retired 16 straight batters before Marte’s opposite-field liner to right on a changeup.

“We play the game, keep playing the game,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “Everybody in the park knows he’s got a no-hitter. He’s not winning.

“The longer you go without a hit and you think you can hit, the better your chances are to get one. We felt we were due. We felt we were due for a while against these guys.”

Marte stole second and scored on

Kang’s drive to the gap in right-center, chasing Lester after 109 pitches and alleviating a potentially difficult decision for manager Joe Maddon because of Lester’s high pitch count.

“You’ve got giant numbers out there telling you what your pitch count is at and you have a giant scoreboard telling you you haven’t given up any hits,” said Lester, who struck out nine. “But it really doesn’t matter now.”

Kang sent Hector Rondon’s 96 mph fastball into the left-field bleachers for his fourth homer, and it turned out to be the decisive run.

Melancon walked Dexter Fowler and allowed Jason Hayward’s broken-bat single to put runners at the corners with nobody out in the ninth. But the closer retired the next three batters, including Anthony Rizzo on a sacrifice fly.

The Cubs’ third loss in 13 games denied them their sixth series sweep of the year and dropped them to 27-9 after Lester came close to producing the club’s second no-hitter of the

season.

Jake Arrieta shut down Cincinnati in a 16-0 win on April 21, part of the Cubs’ best start since the 1907 season.

The Cubs got little going against Cole. One of their three hits came when Fowler was credited with a double after shortstop Jordy Mercer lost a popup in the sun.

Rizzo went 0-for-3, ending the majors’ longest active streak of reaching base at 26 games.

“As close as it looked, both guys were just on their game,” Maddon said. “Jonny was fantastic. That’s as good as we’ve seen Cole in a while, so give him credit.”

NOTES: Pirates left-hander Cory Luebke (hamstring) came off the disabled list and right-hander A.J. Schugel was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis. … Pirates left-hander Jonathon Niese (3-2, 5.63 ERA) faces Atlanta right-hander Williams Perez (1-0, 3.54) tonight in Pittsburgh to begin a stretch of 24 straight games outside the NL Central.

When: 7:05 p.m. today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh On the air: Root and WCCS-1160 AM All-time series: Pirates lead 1,097-1,020.

Last season: Pirates led 4-2. The Pirates took two of three games in each a home and road series, both played in June.

Managers: Pirates: Clint Hurdle (sixth season with Pirates, 450-396). Braves: Fredi Gonzalez (sixth season with Braves, 434-412).

About the Pirates: The Pirates are 19-17 after losing two of three games in a series with the Cubs. ... The Pirates haven’t played a home game since May 4. ... Prior to Sunday’s win, Andrew McCutchen had reached base safely in 12 straight games, rasing his average to .252. During that stretch, the center fielder tallied seven extra-base hits, six RBIs and nine runs scored. ... Jung Ho Kang has reached extra-bases on six of his seven hits since returning from the disabled list. ... Jon Niese has struggled in his last three outings, pitching to an 0-2 record and allowing 14 runs over 16 2-3 innings. The left-hander has given up five home runs during that stretch. ... Mark Melancon is tied for fifth in the league with 11 saves. The right-hander has struck out 12 batters over 15 innings. ... With Starling Marte due to take paternity leave, Triple-A utility player Alen Hanson is likely to be called up to take his spot on the 25-man roster. Hanson is batting .288 with seven extra-base hits in 27 games with Indianapolis.

About the Braves: The Braves are 9-27 after losing two of three games in a series with the Royals. ... The Braves own the worst record in the majors. ... The Braves are last in the league with nine home runs. Freddie Freeman (6) and Mallex Smith (1) are Atlanta’s only starters with a home run. ... Julio Teheran hasn’t received much help from his offense. Despite pitching to a 1.48 ERA in his past five starts, the right-hander remains winless. ... Mike Foltynewicz has turned things around in his last two starts. The right-hander has allowed just two runs over 15 innings and has struck out 12 batters. ... A.J. Pierzynski played his 2,000th career game on Thursday, becoming just the 10th catcher in MLB history to do so.

Probable starters • Williams Perez (1-0, 3.54) vs. Jon Niese (3-2, 5.63) • Aaron Blair (0-2, 4.05) vs. Juan Nicasio (3-3, 4.34) • Julio Teheran (0-4, 3.14) vs. Francisco Liriano (3-2, 4.99) • Mike Foltynewicz (1-1, 2.89) vs. Jeff Locke (1-3, 5.45) Projected lineups Pirates Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. John Jaso 1B .277 3 12 2. Andrew McCutchen CF .252 8 16 3. Gregory Polanco RF .283 4 19 4. Jung Ho Kang 3B .292 4 18 5. Francisco Cervelli C .277 0 16 6. Matt Joyce LF .333 4 12 7. Josh Harrison 2B .305 2 18 8. Jordy Mercer SS .274 1 14 9. Starting Pitcher SP — — — Bench: Chris Stewart (C), Sean Rodriguez (utility), David Freese (INF), Matt Joyce (OF), Cole Figueroa (INF), Starling Marte* (OF), Alen Hanson (utility).

Bullpen: Mark Melancon (R, closer), Tony Watson (L), Neftali Feliz (R), Arquimedes Caminero (R), Jared Hughes (R), Ryan Vogelsong (R), Cory Luebke (L).

Braves Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. Nick Markakis RF .258 0 21 2. Ender Inciarte LF .186 0 1 3. Freddie Freeman 1B .277 6 10 4. Kelly Johnson 2B .225 0 7 5. A.J. Pierzynski C .220 0 9 6. Gordon Beckham 3B .295 0 6 7. Eric Aybar SS .187 0 5 8. Starting Pitcher SP — — — 9. Mallex Smith CF .239 1 10 Bench: Tyler Flowers (C), Daniel Castro (INF), Jeff Francoeur (OF), Chase d’Arnaud (OF).

Bullpen: Arodys Vizcaino (R, closer), Jason Grilli (R), Alexi Ogando (R), Eric O’Flaherty (L), Hunter Cervenka (L), Bud Norris (R), Ian Kroll (L).

Next: The Pirates welcome the Colorado Rockies to PNC Park for a three-game series, Friday through Sunday.

Pirates pick up much-needed win Continued from Page 13 Sunday’s game was more than that, though. It was an all-around solid win over the top team, and that’s what people have been waiting for.

Jon Lester took a no-hitter into the seventh inning for Chicago, but Cole was just as good, pitching a shutout through eight. Cole is the Pirates’ top starter but hasn’t always looked like the No. 1 guy this season.

He had a few good starts, but his start Sunday wasn’t a quality start — it was finally an ace-like performance. He allowed just three hits and struck out seven on 95 pitches. A game like that was a long time coming for Cole.

Something else fans had been waiting for was the return of Jung Ho Kang. They speculated for the first month of the season about what Kang would bring to the team when he came back from his knee injury.

He quickly put an end to that with a multi-home run game in his return to the majors last week.

In the seventh inning Sunday, Starling Marte singled to end Lester’s no-hit bid. Kang then hit a double, scoring Marte, to give the

Pirates the 1-0 lead. Kang homered in the ninth to put the Pirates up 2-0. He showed why fans were patiently awaiting his return to the lineup.

Mark Melancon pitched the ninth for the Pirates and allowed a run but closed out the game nonetheless for his 11th save in 12 chances.

The ending wasn’t perfect, but with the Pirates entering Sunday’s game winless against the Cubs, they just needed to win.

And it was a good win.

Cole’s pitching was stellar, and they got the right hits at the right time. They proved that even on a great day for the Cubs, the Pirates can be better.

That doesn’t mean they’re the better team. That doesn’t mean they’ll be anywhere close to winning the NL Central. And one win out of six isn’t ideal. But it shows promise, and it demonstrated what they’re capable of. They showed up to the fight.

One win doesn’t change a season, but it feels like a big relief to fans and players, who have been waiting for a performance like that against the World Series favorite.

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Edwards revels in life at home Continued from Page 13 “It’s a different ballgame down there,” Edwards said. “Everybody throws 90 mph. I played with quite a few guys that made it.”

Edwards, an Indiana native, spent two years in the minor leagues, one with the Gulf Coast League Pirates in rookie ball and the other in Class A with the Greenwood Pirates in the South Atlantic League. And once his pro career ended, Edwards tried his hand at golf. Since then, he has become a regular at Meadow Lane, where he has won four club championships.

For those accomplishments and because of his ability to maintain a lifelong status as a successful multi-sport athlete, Edwards will be welcomed into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday as a member of the 2016 induction class.

Some athletes are referred to as “naturals.” For Edwards, there is no truer sense of the word.

“Chris is good at everything he does,” Edwards’ stepfather, Larry Stadtmiller, said. “He was good at baseball, basketball, golf and softball.

He was even a great bowler when some people talked him into bowling.

He was good at anything he tried. He’s a natural athlete. It’s not hard for him to learn; he just has it in him.”

Edwards took a liking to sports at a young age, and he wasn’t far into his journey when he realized how gifted he was. He discovered as a Little Leaguer that he could throw a baseball hard.

“I was throwing harder than all the other kids,” Edwards said. “Every time I beamed one of them, it would hurt them.”

All that Edwards learned about sports was passed on to him from his father, Sonny, who was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989.

Much like Chris, Sonny was a talented athlete in multiple sports. Sonny was one of the few to have played football and scored in almost every way possible — field goal, touchdown pass, rushing and interception return.

Sonny was still playing softball and golf when Chris was young. Sonny passed away unexpectedly when Chris was 13, but Chris learned plenty about the world of sports from his father before that fateful day.

Learning about sports was a family affair. Chris’ father taught him and his two brothers how to play baseball, basketball and golf, and he even coached some of their youth teams.

Edwards played Little League baseball and church league basketball with his father coaching the teams. As for golf, he had some humble beginnings.

“My dad brought home two irons that I think someone must have been trying to throw out or just gave to him, and the one I had to use had electrical tape for the grip,” Edwards said. “He gave one to each me and my older brother, and he gave us about a dozen Whiffle golf balls. My older brother didn’t want anything to do with it, but I loved it.”

And after falling in love with the sport, Edwards tried his hardest to butt his way into the gentleman’s game.

“I remember my dad would go golfing with his friends, and I would beg him to take me,” Edwards said. “I’d say, ‘Dad, I promise I’ll stay out of everyone’s way. I promise.’ I said, ‘I’ll just tend to the flag.’ Of course, I got in everyone’s way while they were trying to putt, so I think I was only allowed to go one time.”

That didn’t stop Edwards from playing on his own. He found some neighborhood kids who liked the sport, and any time the opportunity struck, he begged his mother, Marjorie, to drop him off at the course for the day.

Edwards continued to play golf, baseball and basketball after his father’s passing. The decision to stick with baseball was an easy one.

In basketball, “I was always a big man,” Edwards said. “I didn’t have too many dribbling skills. When I quit growing at 6-foot and all the other guys behind me kept growing, I ended up sitting on the bench.”

As for golf, it was all about his wandering eyes.

“I kind of quit when I was in high school because girls were more important,” he said.

Baseball was the sport that stuck.

“We were talking about how he never made it home in time for dinner because he was always playing ball somewhere,” Stadtmiller said. “With Little League, legion, varsity and then the pickup games, (baseball) was a big part of his life.”

A hard-throwing right-hander who moonlighted as a corner infielder, Edwards made the varsity team at Indiana High School as a freshman. Indiana won the Tri-County Conference championship that season, with Edwards pitching to a no decision in the title game.

Edwards improved as a sophomore and junior and came into his own as a senior.

“In high school was where the strength in his arm developed,” Stadtmiller said. “He was throwing harder than the other kids.”

Edwards leafed through a scrapbook compiled by a former girlfriend.

He stopped on a page that listed his stats from his senior season in 1980.

He pitched two one-hitters and one no-hitter and recorded 104 strikeouts.

Edwards recalled scouts attending most of his games, and one invited him to a workout in nearby Johnstown. Stadtmiller had the unique experience of standing in as the catcher

“I WOULDN’T change a thing. It would have been nice to get to the major leagues, become a millionaire and live somewhere nice. I wouldn’t change a thing, though. I enjoyed everything.”

Chris Edwards

when another player invited to the workout failed to show up.

“It wasn’t so bad as he was warming up,” Stadtmiller said, “but as he started to throw harder it was a little difficult for me. All I could do was knock the ball down and pick it up and throw it back to him.”

That was the first time Edwards remembers having his fastball clocked.

“I didn’t know how hard I threw the ball until I went down to the Pirates tryout and they clocked me at 90,” Edwards said. “So, I guess I threw in the high 80s and low 90s, and I had a curveball.”

After his success as a senior and at the tryout, Edwards convinced himself that he had a good chance of being selected in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.

“I expected to get drafted,” Edwards said. “I knew I wouldn’t be a top pick, and I didn’t know where or how high I would get picked, but I thought I had a good chance.”

“We had asked him to go to college instead of playing ball and had taken him to a number of different schools that were interested in him,” Stadtmiller said. “But he wanted to play baseball.”

Edwards was selected in the 13th round, 334th overall. He was the ninth player and fifth pitcher from Pennsylvania selected.

Rick Renteria and Terry Francona were two of the players drafted in the same class as Edwards. Both went on to memorable careers in the major leagues. Francona, the current manager of the Cleveland Indians who won the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and ’07, was the first player selected out of Pennsylvania.

Renteria, who managed the Chicago Cubs in 2014, was the Pirates’ first selection.

The way Edwards caught news of his selection was much different from the television broadcasts and months of mock drafts that surround current drafts. Edwards was playing a baseball game in the Indiana County League when his mother and stepfather informed him of the news by making a poster that read “13th round.”

“That’s how I found out,” Edwards said. “They were holding it up as I walked off the field.”

Of course, the fact that he was picked by the Pirates made it all the more special.

“I was really happy it was the Pirates,” Edwards said. “I grew up watching them. I couldn’t ask for a better team to draft me.”

So, Edwards’ dream came true. But with time to spare and a contract to negotiate, he made sure to leave his mark on the Indiana County League.

Edwards went out on top with a 20strikeout performance in his final game that season.

The next step was to hash out a contract. So, Edwards made multiple trips to Pittsburgh to negotiate a deal before settling on one that rewarded him with a $2,500 signing bonus. For comparison, as the Pirates first-round pick, Renteria received a $100,000 bonus.

So Edwards bought a car and headed south to begin his pro career.

It was culture shock for an 18-yearold.

“I was never really anywhere on my own,” he said.

Suddenly he was living hundreds of miles from home, meeting new teammates, learning a new routine, following some rules and committing his life to the sport he loved.

“It was professional ball,” Edwards said. “I didn’t know anything about it, but I was excited.”

It was hardly a high-profile life.

Rookies received room and board but didn’t make a lot of money.

“In some ways it was a learning experience,” Stadtmiller said, “having him down there and understanding that this was not the big leagues. You didn’t fly places or anything like that.

You live on a very meager amount of money.”

But Edwards was all in. In the rookie league he pitched in 13 games, making 11 starts, and compiled a 3-4 record with a 4.14 ERA and 30 strikeouts. He averaged six innings per start.

In his next season, playing for the Greenwood Pirates in Class A, Edwards faced a new set of challenges.

He said goodbye to the camp-like setting in Pirate City. He moved to a new town, Greenwood, S.C., and had to find a place to live and a roommate.

“We had to find our own place,” Edwards said. “They don’t pay you much either. They gave you enough to live on. You found a place and roomed with a couple teammates. When you are on the road, you get money for food and things like that. When you are playing at home, you’re on your own.”

Road games meant bus tours of the South.

“The schedule was just like the major leagues,” Edwards said. “We had games every day, and if not games we had practice. It was all baseball.

But we traveled on buses because our furthest trip may have been a couple

hours at best.”

Another challenge came in transitioning from starter to reliever. Edwards appeared in 14 games for Greenwood, but he chalked up just three starts.

Edwards responded well to the transition. He pitched to a 3-0 record with a 3.88 ERA, striking out 35 batters over 58 innings.

However, Edwards was released at the conclusion of his first season in Class A. He was surprised, but it is a move he grew to understand.

“Everyone threw as hard as I did,” he said. “I don’t think I stood out, but I don’t think I was lacking anything either. They just didn’t think I was going much further, so they just let me go. I didn’t see it coming, but that’s just how they do it. I had some arm problems, but that wasn’t why. I was kind of bummed.”

So, Edwards packed up and returned home, knowing he had to find a job. He talked to some friends and found a job working in the mail room at the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Co. in Indiana. He eventually became a member of an underground surveying crew for the company.

“He’s so mild-mannered and quiet about everything,” Stadtmiller said.

“When he came back he didn’t brag or anything. He just came back and fit in.”

Edwards didn’t let sports fade from his life. He spent the next few years playing for NBOC, the Indiana-based team in the ICL. As he grew older he took up fastpitch softball and played for Coney Island for 10 years.

And he continued to play golf, and the more he played the more improved.

“I didn’t get really good until I stopped playing baseball,” Edwards said. “I don’t know if a baseball swing messes up a golf swing. I just kind of figured it out and got pretty good at it.”

Some players have a slight slice or a draw when it comes to striking the ball off the tee. For Edwards, slight was a generous description.

“He started out as the king of the banana ball,” Stadtmiller said. “He’d start the ball out along the tree line and it would slice back into the fairway. He was very competitive and he was able to control that. He would play with a group of us every Sunday morning.

Chris was always right up in the top in terms of scoring. He worked at it and got his game straightened out where he didn’t have that slice any longer.”

Edwards learned by watching.

“I taped Freddie Couples playing and tried to learn some things watching his swing,” Edwards said. “That’s kind of how I learned how to do it the right way. I study that kind of stuff sometimes.”

Arch Brocious, 77, a six-time Meadow Lane club champion, plays with Edwards regularly.

“He beats me like a drum now,” Brocious said. “He’s a very strong driver and he’s an excellent iron player. He may not think he’s a good putter, but I know he’s good at it.”

Edwards won his first of four club championships in 1995, the same year he shot his career-low round of 65 while playing with 1990 Hall of Fame inductee Walt Wiggins.

His second club championship didn’t come until 2002, but Edwards was always among the top finishers.

“I’ve lost count of how many second places I’ve had,” Edwards said. “If I don’t win, I’m right there at the top every year.”

Three years later, in 2005, Edwards captured his third title, beating out his closest competitor by three strokes. In his fourth title, he again won by three strokes.

Since grabbing his fourth title, Edwards has come close to pushing his total to five. In 2014, he lost to fourtime champion Colton Wiggins in a playoff, and last season he finished nine strokes back in third place.

“I’m sure I could win that fifth championship, but I can see my game starting to go downhill,” Edwards said.

“I’m losing distance now. It happens with old age, and I can see myself starting to go downhill. Putting is the biggest thing. If you lose confidence in that, it’s difficult.”

Regardless of performance, Edwards plans to keep playing.

“With golf, even if you aren’t very good, you can still enjoy it,” he said.

“It’s just nice being outside. The best thing about golf is that you can play ’til you’re 80 years old. You might not be any good anymore, but you can still go out there and play.”

Edwards looks back at his career in sports, proud of the journey.

“I wouldn’t change a thing,” he said.

“It would have been nice to get to the major leagues, become a millionaire and live somewhere nice. I wouldn’t change a thing, though. I enjoyed everything.”

And just as his father was recognized 27 years ago, Edwards’ own time for recognition has finally come.

“My dad passed away when I was 13 and I remember when he was inducted,” Edwards said. “He was inducted posthumously, so my mother had to go up and give his speech. I was there, and I remember feeling pretty proud that he got in. I thought maybe some day that might be me.”

Edwards is one of the few to follow a parent into the Hall of Fame.

“It makes us feel very good, particularly since his dad is in there, too,” Stadtmiller said. “There are a number of father-son recipients, and I’m really happy that Chris is another one. That’s pretty fine company when you come to think of it.”

Monday, May 16, 2016 — Page 15

AROUND THE AREA

By The Indiana Gazette

Blairsville earns top seed in playoffs Two local teams earned a first-round bye in the District 6 softball and baseball playoffs.

Blairsville (15-3), the two-time Heritage Conference baseball champion, earned the No. 1 seed in the Class A bracket, and Homer-Center (13-5) drew the No. 3 seed. The top three teams in the bracket advanced with first-round byes.

The Bobcats will play host to the winner of a matchup between eighth-seeded United (10-8) and ninth-seeded St. Joseph’s (9-8), which will take place Thursday at United.

The Wildcats will welcome the winner of a game between No. 6 Claysburg-Kimmel (11-6) and No. 11 Williamsburg (7-8), which will be played Thursday at Claysburg-Kimmel.

Northern Cambria (9-10) drew the No. 10 seed and will travel to Juniata Valley (11-8) on Thursday.

In the Class AA bracket, Ligonier Valley (11-6) grabbed the 13th seed and will head to Mount Union (16-3) on Thursday.

In the Class A softball bracket, Northern Cambria (12-7) earned the No. 7 seed and a first-round game at No. 2 Glendale on Monday, May 23.

Seventh-seeded Marion Center (12-4) and No. 10 Blairsville (9-5) will meet in the first round of the Class AA softball bracket. Ligonier Valley (16-3), the Heritage Conference champion, plucked the No. 4 seed and will play host to No. 13 Mount Union. Both games will be played Thursday at the site of the higher seed.

Colts blank Apollo Jays in ICL APOLLO — Blairsville sent 17 batters to the plate in a 12run second inning, Jarred Pennavaria limited Apollo to just two hits and the Colts defeated the Blue Jays 15-0 in an Indiana County League baseball game Sunday.

The game was shortened to five innings due to the mercy rule.

The two teams worked to a scoreless tie through one inning before the Colts found their stroke. In the second inning, the Colts used four walks, four singles and a triple to plate 12 runs.

The Colts pushed across three more runs in the top of the fourth inning and held the Blue Jays scoreless to enforce the mercy rule.

Pennavaria pitched three innings to earn the win, striking out two batters. He was 1-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored.

Scott Thompson finished a home run shy of completing the cycle and drove in four runs for the Colts.

Mike Pish took the loss for Apollo after being tagged for 10 runs on seven hits and four walks over 1 1-3 innings.

Blairsville plays at New Derry on Tuesday, and Apollo visits West Lebanon on Thursday.

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West Branch at So. Huntingdon, 4 p.m.

Northern Cambria at Glendale, 4 p.m.

Semifinals Thursday, May 26 Bishop Carroll-Claysburg winner at Conemaugh Valley, 4 p.m.

West Branch-Southern Huntingdon winner vs. Northern Cambria-Glendale winner, TBA

First Round Thursday’s Games St. Joseph’s (9-8) at United (10-8), 4 p.m.

Blacklick Valley (7-10) at Conemaugh Valley (13-6), 4 p.m.

Bishop Guilfoyle (6-13) at Portage (14-5), 4 p.m.

Williamsburg (7-8) at Claysburg-Kimmel (11-6), 4 p.m.

Northern Cambria (9-10) at Juniata Valley (11-8), 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals Monday, May 23 United-St. Joseph’s winner at Blairsville (15-3), 4 p.m.

Blacklick-Conemaugh winner vs. PortageBishop Guilfoyle winner, 4 p.m.

Williamsburg-Claysburg winner at HomerCenter (13-5), 4 p.m.

Northern Cambria-Juniata Valley winner at Ferndale (14-4), 4 p.m.

CLASS AA First Round Thursday’s Games Westmont Hilltop at Richland, 4 p.m.

Forest Hills at Penn Cambria, 4 p.m.

Mount Union at Ligonier Valley, 4 p.m.

Bishop McCort at Cambria Heights, 4 p.m.

Blairsville at Marion Center, 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals Monday, May 23 Richland-Westmont winner at PhilisburgOsceola, 4 p.m.

Forest Hills-Penn Cambria winner vs.

Mount Union-Ligonier Valley winner, TBA Bishop McCort-Cambria Heights winner at Bald Eagle, 4 p.m.

Blairsville-Marion Center winner at Central, 4 p.m.

SANDLOT BASEBALL INDIANA COUNTY LEAGUE BLAIRSVILLE 15, APOLLO 0 Blairsville — 15 Culler 3-0-2-2, Pennavaria 5-2-1-3, S.Thompson 2-1-2-4, B.Thompson 4-1-2-1, Truscott 4-1-1-1, Doak 1-2-0-0, Gabelli 1-0-00, Jack 3-2-1-1, Emerick 4-3-2-1, Doak 1-3-12, Totals 28-15-12-15 Apollo — 0 Baylor 2-0-0-0, Lippencott 2-0-1-0, Perroz 20-0-0, Crawford 2-0-0-0, Marchak 2-0-0-0, Pish 2-0-0-0, Brown 2-0-1-0, Galo 1-0-0-0, Ament 10-0-0, Johnson 2-0-0-0, Totals 18-0-2-0 Blairsville 0(12)0 30 — 15 12 1 Apollo 000 00 — 0 2 2 2B — S.Thompson. 3B — S.Thompson.

W — Pennavaria 2 K, 1 BB. L — Pish 1 K, 4 BB.

CLASS AA First Round Thursday’s Games Everett (7-12) at Bedford (14-4), 4 p.m.

Bald Eagle (11-7) at Forest Hills (13-7), 4 p.m.

Southern Huntingdon (14-6) at Central (145), 4 p.m.

Ligonier Valley (11-6) at Mount Union (163), 4 p.m.

Bellwood-Antis (12-7) at Bishop McCort (14-5), 4 p.m.

Penn Cambria (13-7) at Juniata (11-4), 4 p.m.

Chestnut Ridge (12-6) at PhilipsburgOsceola (11-6), 4 p.m.

Tyrone (7-11) at Richland (13-4), 4 p.m.

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TORONTO — Less than two weeks ago, Kyle Lowry was struggling so badly that he stayed past midnight to work on his game after a tough playoff loss.

Now a red-hot Lowry is carrying the Toronto Raptors into their first ever Eastern Conference finals.

Lowry scored 35 points, DeMar DeRozan had 28 and the Raptors reached the conference finals by beating the Miami Heat 116-89 on Sunday. They play in Cleveland on Tuesday night.

After Toronto’s overtime loss to Miami in Game 1, when Lowry scored seven points and missed 10 of 13 shots, he stayed behind for more than an hour to practice his shooting alone while work crews picked up garbage from beneath the Air Canada Centre seats.

Things were a lot different in Sunday’s Game 7 when

Lowry topped 30 points for the second straight game and the third time in the series. A standing-room-only crowd of 20,257 cheered every one of Lowry’s baskets, roared in appreciation when he was subbed out with the game winding down, and then chanted “We want Cleveland” as the final seconds ticked away.

Toronto will need Lowry and DeRozan to continue pouring in points to have any chance against the Cavaliers, who are unbeaten so far this postseason.

The two All-Stars have been inconsistent in the playoffs but seem to be finding their form. They’ve combined for more than 50 points in three straight games.

Toronto won two of three against the Cavaliers in the regular season, with both wins coming at home by a combined six points.

Toronto’s loss was a lot more lopsided, 122-100 in Cleveland on Jan. 4.

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DOVER, Del. — Matt Kenseth had eluded the wreckage that turned Dover into a junkyard. He never felt he could escape the pressure that Kyle Larson put on him — the anointed future star racing door-todoor with the former champion.

“He was all over me,” Kenseth said.

“I think if he would have snuck inside, it would have been over.”

Twenty-one years older that Larson, Kenseth used some of his veteran experience to find the high groove on the mile concrete track and surge to victory Sunday in the wreck-filled race at Dover International Speedway.

Kenseth snapped a 17-race winless skid with his 37th career victory — and denied Larson his first Sprint Cup victory.

Larson made Kenseth work for the victory that secured him a spot in the Chase.

But it was third-place finisher Chase Elliott that may have cost Larson as much as Kenseth’s late-race maneuvering. Elliott, the secondgeneration rookie who replaced Jeff Gordon in the No. 24, made an aggressive run and briefly passed Larson for second. Their brief battle took enough steam out of Larson’s push that Kenseth was able to create a needed gap and become the fourth Joe Gibbs Racing driver to win in 2016.

“I think the last 20 laps is about as good as anybody could drive a racecar,” Gibbs said.

Larson matched his career-best finish for owner Chip Ganassi. Elliott had the top finish of his first season at Hendrick Motorsports.

The Next Generation has to wait for the confetti shower in victory lane.

Larson refused to bump Kenseth out of his path over the final thrilling laps and wanted a clean pass in the No. 42 to earn the win.

The 2003 Cup champion, Kenseth led the Daytona 500 headed into the final lap before JGR teammate Denny Hamlin took the checkered flag, setting the stage for an 0-for-11 start.

“That is probably the longest streak I can remember being on without having any real good finishes,” Kenseth said.

Kenseth, Larson and Elliott were among the survivors after Jimmie

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GREG BIFFLE (16) wrecked into the back of Kyle Busch (18) during a pileup in Sunday’s race at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del. Johnson triggered a late-race crash that eliminated several contenders.

He started a pileup straight out of the Talladega Superspeedway highlight reel that knocked out a slew of drivers who raced up front all race and brought it to a halt with less than 50 laps left.

Johnson, a 10-time winner at Dover, failed to jump off the restart because of a faulty transmission in the No. 48. The six-time champion could not shift the Chevy into third gear and 18 cars — stacked and off at full speed — were collected in the melee.

He was leading in the outside lane as he closed in on the start-finish line. Martin Truex Jr. nailed the 48 from behind and Dover soon looked like the site of a gnarly demolition derby.

“In my career, I’ve never had a transmission do that to me,” Johnson said.

Truex, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Kyle Busch were among the drivers that had their cars piled up on the concrete.

Truex led 47 laps and seemed poised to earn his first win of the season.

Busch, the reigning series champion, knew there was nowhere for the 18 to go but into the pile.

Aric Almirola said he suffered a broken finger in the wreck.

The race was stopped for 11 minutes, 22 seconds — and quickly had another caution shortly after it resumed. Carl Edwards suffered a brutal blow when the No. 19 slammed nose first into an inside wall protected by SAFER barriers. Larson made contact with Edwards and shot the JGR driver into the wall.

Here other things of note: STEWART SMOKED: Tony Stewart’s run was felled late in the race by a broken track bar that punctured the oil tank in the No. 14.

Stewart finished 34th and is mired in 37th in the point standings. He needs a win and to finish inside the top 30 to make the Chase in his final season.

TRUEX’S TUMBLE: Truex, one of four drivers who raced for the championship in the 2015 season finale, appeared to have the car to beat at the site of his career Cup win. He even survived a minor scare when the Toyota wiggled over spilled grease on the concrete and he deftly kept the 78 off the wall.

It’s the second straight week Truex had a dominant run end in disaster; he had led 172 of the first 211 laps at Kansas before a loose wheel thwarted his run. He couldn’t avoid Dover’s version of the big one off the restart and fell from contender to ninth.

Penguins hope to provide stiffer test Continued from Page 13 by a defense that did an excellent job of pushing Pittsburgh’s potent offense to the perimeter and keeping Sidney Crosby and company from generating consistent pressure in front of the net.

Filling in capably has kind of become a thing for Vasilevskiy, who stepped in for an injured Bishop in Game 2 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals and became the first goaltender to earn a win in relief during a Cup Final in more than 80 years.

Vasilevskiy started Game 4 of the series and played solidly in a 2-1 loss.

While the Russian is quick to point out those impromptu performances were nearly 12 months ago, Cooper pointed out Vasilevskiy has only matured in the interim.

“He was called on in the biggest moments last year,” Cooper said.

“Talk about pushing somebody a little bit down the learning curve a little faster than we wanted to. But there’s clichés thrown around all the time, guys who are first in the rink and last to leave and all those types of things, but with that kid, it’s actually true.”

The Penguins hope they can do a better job of testing how far Vasilevskiy has come in Game 2 than they did in the occasionally choppy opener. Pittsburgh generated 35 shots overall but most of them came from well outside the crease. The Lightning controlled play long enough after Bishop went down for Vasilevskiy to get comfortable. Once he did, Tampa Bay’s lead was never in danger.

Blues open Western finals with win over Sharks By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Brian Elliott had another standout game in net, David Backes and Jori Lehtera had goals and the St. Louis Blues opened their first Western Conference final in 15 years with a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.

Tomas Hertl scored on a first-period deflection for the Sharks, who outshot St. Louis 32-23 but “You have to get better as the series goes along, you have to adjust a little bit,” said Crosby, who assisted on Pittsburgh’s only goal in Game 1 but hasn’t put the puck in himself since the first round against the New York Rangers. “You can’t focus on another team or necessarily a goaltender ... from game to game you have to trust and believe in what you do out there, regardless of who is in the net.”

Trust and belief hasn’t been an issue in Pittsburgh almost from the moment Mike Sullivan took over as head coach in mid-December. The Penguins haven’t dropped consecutive games with the normal allotment of men on the ice since the first week of Sullivan’s tenure (there was a two-game skid in January that included an overtime loss to Chicago).

They fell behind Washington in the second round then ripped off three

couldn’t quite solve Elliott.

The Sharks were the best road team in the NHL in the regular season at 28-10-3, but have dropped four in a row on the road in these playoffs, including all three in the second round against Nashville.

They had seven goals in three road losses to the Predators and were 0 for 3 on the power play, which had been a major plus. San Jose had been converting on 33 percent of its power plays in the postseason.

Game 2 is on Tuesday night. straight victories on their way to upsetting the President’s Trophy winners.

Whether it was an emotional hangover, spectacular counterattacking by the Lightning or just a case of bad puck luck on Friday night, Sullivan doesn’t care.

“I don’t think they saw our best ... but by no means was it a bad game,” Sullivan said. “We’ve got to heed the lessons from Game 1, and we’ve got to just be ready to respond the right way.”

NOTES: Cooper said Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman (fractured leg) practiced and is “looking good” but Cooper remains uncertain when Stralman will be cleared to play. ...

The Penguins are sticking with rookie goaltender Matt Murray for Game 2. Murray gave up three goals on 20 shots the opener.

Day quiets doubters with another win Continued from Page 13 Day started this tournament by tying the course record with a 9under 63 and breaking the 36-hole tournament record at 15-under par.

He survived the scariest day at Sawgrass when the greens were as slick as ice. He overcame some errant shots and a few doubts on the front nine Sunday. And then he finished with yet another flawless performance on the back nine, where he played bogey-free all four rounds.

One year after Rickie Fowler turned in the most dynamic finish in Players Championship history, Day made Sunday look inevitable.

“I’m very motivated to win as much as I can right now,” he said.

Day never let anyone closer than two shots the entire final round, though there were a few anxious moments, especially when he muffed three chips from just 40 feet right of the green on the par-5 ninth. A potential birdie turned into an unsettling bogey, and he had to make a 6foot putt to avoid the score being worse.

Day rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on No. 10, another 15-foot birdie putt on No. 12, and the 28-year-old Australian never came close to bogey the rest of the way. He closed with a 1under 71 to become the first wire-towire winner at The Players since Hal Sutton in 2000.

That was the year Sutton finished off Tiger Woods by saying, “Be the right club today,” with a 6-iron into the 18th to sew up the victory. Day needed nothing that dramatic. Kevin Chappell was 5 under over his last 10 holes to finish second, though he never was a serious threat to win. No one was.

“It’s no coincidence he’s No. 1 in the world,” Justin Thomas said after closing with a Sunday-best 65 to tie for third. “He drives it extremely far, extremely straight. He hits it to the moon, so he can access pins that most people can’t. His short game is ridiculous. I think I’ve pretty much covered it all there when it comes to the golf.”

Day finished at 15-under 273 for his 10th career victory on the PGA

Tour. Only Rory McIlroy with 11 has more victories among players still in their 20s.

Day is the third No. 1 player to win The Players Championship, joining Greg Norman (1994) and Tiger Woods (2001 and 2013).

Perhaps even more telling about the state of his game is that he joined Woods, Tom Watson and Johnny Miller as the only players since 1970 to go wire-to-wire twice in the same season. Day led from start to finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.

Day also won the Dell Match Play, winning six of his seven matches before they reached the 18th green.

Adam Scott referred to this run as “Tigeresque.”

“That’s one of the hardest things to do when you are hot like that, to keep pushing,” Scott said. “But he has a very strong desire to achieve so much, and I think probably his goals are changing throughout this period, and he’s expecting more and more of himself. He’s got that ability to push himself and accomplish.”

U.S. hockey on brink of elimination

Bomb threat disrupts Manchester game

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Germany beat the United States 3-2 on a lastminute goal by Korbinian Holzer at the world ice hockey championship on Sunday, putting American qualification for the quarterfinals in doubt.

However, Finland’s 5-0 rout of Slovakia later in the day relaxed the pressure on the U.S., which will now qualify if it does not lose in regulation to Slovakia on Tuesday and France does not beat Canada today.

The third defeat in six games leaves the U.S. fourth in Group B, one place behind Germany with one game remaining against fifth-placed Slovakia. The top four advance to the quarterfinals.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A fake bomb left behind during a security exercise led police to evacuate Manchester United’s home stadium, disrupting the final day of the English Premier League season and bringing embarrassment to one of the world’s bestknown sports teams.

Police initially described the device as “incredibly lifelike” as United’s planned match with Bournemouth was cancelled, to boos from some fans, and a controlled explosion was carried out.

But hours later, bomb technicians reported it was a fake.

And a later statement by police said the device had been inadvertently left in a toilet during an earlier training exercise involving sniffer dogs.

Anthony-Towns voted Rookie of the Year UNDATED (AP) — Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns has been voted the NBA’s Rookie of the Year, according to a person with direct knowledge of the award.

The No. 1 overall pick from Kentucky posted the best rookie season for a big man since Tim Duncan. He averaged 18.1 points, 10.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks and helped the Timberwolves win 13 more games than they did the previous season.

Williams puts end to title drought ROME (AP) — Serena Williams ended a ninemonth title drought with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Madison Keys in an all-American Italian Open final Sunday.

Williams’ previous title came in Cincinnati in August — a month before her attempt at a calendar-year Grand Slam ended with a semifinal loss to Roberta Vinci at the U.S. Open.

In the men’s final, Andy Murray celebrated his 29th birthday by beating Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-3 on clay for the first time in a match that Djokovic argued should have been stopped due to rain.

Verstappen becomes F1’s youngest champ BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Max Verstappen of Red Bull became Formula One’s youngest race winner at age 18 with a victory at the Spanish Grand Prix after Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg crashed into each other on the first lap on Sunday.

Verstappen took advantage of the early crash involving the favorites and held on for the victory only a few days after moving up from feeder team Toro Rosso in a controversial driver switch with Daniil Kvyat.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen was second and teammate Sebastian Vettel third.

Kalitta wins NHRA Southern Nationals COMMERCE, Ga. (AP) — Doug Kalitta beat J.R. Todd in a near dead-heat Sunday in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway for his second consecutive Top Fuel victory of the season.

The margin of victory between the Kalitta Motorsports teammates was .0000, becoming the closest Top Fuel race in NHRA history.

Matt Hagan won in Funny Car, Jason Line in Pro Stock and Eddie Krawiec in Pro Stock Motorcycle.

Russian minister apologizes for doping MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has a “problem” with doping and is “very sorry” that its cheating athletes were not caught sooner, the country’s sports minister said.

Russia, a track and field powerhouse, was suspended by the IAAF in November following a WADA panel report that found state-sponsored cheating.

“Serious mistakes have been made by the federation management, along with athletes and coaches who have broken anti-doping rules and neglected the principle of fair play,” said Vitaly Mutko, writing in British newspaper The Sunday Times. “Let us be clear. We are ashamed of them.”

Mutko did not, however, admit any involvement in doping by the Russian government, a central charge in both November’s WADA report and recent allegations that test samples were switched at the Sochi Olympics.

Povetkin fails drug test MOSCOW (AP) — Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s title defense against Alexander Povetkin has been postponed by the WBC after the Russian challenger failed a drug test, and Wilder’s promoter says it could be canceled altogether.

The WBC says the May 21 fight in Moscow is off, pending an investigation, with no backup date.

“Keeping the priority of safety and also the principle of justice, the WBC will continue the investigation into the case,” the WBC said in a statement.

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The successful bidder will be required to furnish and pay for satisfactory Performance and Payment Bonds on the forms provided, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price and executed by an acceptable surety company.

Bidders for this contract shall have completed projects similar in character and scope and will be required to provide with their Bid the following documents: ● 10% Bid Bond ● Statement of Qualifications for prime contractor. ● Non-Collusion Affidavit of Prime Bidder. ● Certification of Non-Segregated Facilities. ● Public Works Employment Verification Form The County will reject bids that do not include the executed documents specified above with the bid form. As a prospective bidder see the Project Bid Package including but not limited to Project Manual/Bid Package and Technical Drawings and (Construction) Specifications for detailed information, responsibilities, and instructions.

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724-349-6900 888-349-6800 • Joyce M. Overdorff • Jaci N. Reefer • Donald Altemus MLS# 1203455

112 4th St., Ernest

$59,900

1163 Grant Street, Suite 104 Indiana, PA

www.joyrealty.com joy@joyrealty.com

Unfurnished Apartments

1 BDR, 1st floor, range & frig, parking, clean, no pets, $495 month + electric. Call (724) 465-2420

1 BEDROOM apartments available now in Homer City. Rent ranges $385 to $450 some utilities included. (724) 479-9759

1-3 BDR Apartments Westgate Group Apartments: Quiet community near campus and shopping. Pet friendly! Free parking! W/D on site.

Gym and pool access.

Call 888-516-9172 for a tour & customized quote!

BLAIRSVILLE 2 bedroom, residential area, yard, porch, laundry hookup, no pets, $550/month + gas & elec (412) 527-2533

3 BDR, 1.57 acres, Located along Rte 403 P.M. S.D, 1 3/4 bath, garage, fin. bsmt, dual heating system, public water, appliances, paved d/way, deck. $170,000, Serious inquires. (814) 749-7696 or esifinski@yahoo.com, pictures upon request.

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Lots & Acreage For Sale

STERLING HILLS Development, Indiana - Lots starting at $25,000 with Public Utilities. Call (724) 349-4914.

THE Indiana Gazette Classifieds... What a great place to buy or sell. Call us at (724) 349-4949 to place your advertisement.

CLYMER: 1 or 2 BDRS avail., can be furn or unfurn, $500/mo or $550/ mo incl. free heat, very clean. No pets, Non smoking. 724-254-4777 COLONIAL MANOR 1 bdr furnished. & unfurnished. 2 bdr unfurnished.

Call for info.

(724) 463-9290. 9-4pm. colonialmanorindianapa .com 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

Real Estate Transfers Dennis R. Haynes to Dennis R. Haynes and Rita A. Haynes, White Township, $1 Helen Marie Gamble Est. AKA Helen M. Gamble to Clances Gamble and Sue Ann Gamble, Blacklick Township, $1 Whipstock natural Gas Services LLC to US Energy Exploration Corporation, Cherryhill Township, $175,000 Frederick Family TR by TR to Frederick Family TR by TR, South Mahoning Township, $1 Frederick Family TR by TR to Dennis L. Fisher and Esther L. Fisher, South Mahoning Township, $1 Frederick Family TR by TR to Wendell H. Frederick, Shirley J. Frederick and Donald R. Schrecongost, South Mahoning Township, $1 Frederick Family TR by TR to Sherwood W. Frederick and Felicia Frederick, South Mahoning Township, $1 Ruth G. Varner KNA Ruth Varner McNaughton to Western End Properties LLC, Pine Township, $19,000 Robert Sankey AKA Robert W. Sankey and Kathy J. Sankey to Robert E. Kane and Kristen H. Kane, Cherryhill Township, $50,000 Michele L. Bartlebaugh to Timothy K. Pearce, Montgomery Township, $1,400 Jessica Griffiths, John Mark Ramer Est. and Mark Ramer Est., Vernon Harmann and Nancy Hartmann, White Township, Rayne Township, $95,000 Delia B. Nance, Carolyn J. Nance and Ardyth Mae Nance to Ardyth Mae Nance, White Township, $1

MONDAY, MAY 16, 2016

by Phillip Alder

IGNORE POINTS WHEN FINESSES WORK Aldous Huxley, an English novelist who died in 1963, said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

In today’s deal, it is a fact that NorthSouth had only 19 high-card points between them, but that didn’t stop South from taking 10 tricks in a spade partscore.

What do you think of the auction? How did South win 10 tricks after West led the heart queen?

East’s opening bid was no thing of beauty, especially opposite a passed partner, but he was bidding his best suit,

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Unfurnished Apartments

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

ACTION- Have you tried using the Gazette Classified Action ads yet? Join the growing number of satisfied sellers who got quick results at little or no cost to them. People are always looking for great bargains and Action ads bring sellers and buyers together.

Items such as clothing, sporting equipment , musical, appliances and much much more can be sold through the Gazette Classifieds.

Call (724) 349-4949 for details on our Class Action program

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and no one passes with 12 points these days. After South’s thin overcall, West made a textbook negative double, showing hearts.

North had a nearmaximum pass and would often have cue-bid two clubs to show a strong spade raise, but his hand was replete with losers, so he sensibly settled for two spades. When this came back to West, I think he should have doubled for takeout again, planning, if East bid three clubs (as he would have), to continue with three diamonds to show 4-5 in the red suits. This would probably have failed by one trick.

Two spades almost played itself. South won the heart-queen lead with his king, drew trumps ending in the dummy with the aid of the winning finesse, and led the club jack, which conveniently pinned West’s 10.

South lost only one heart, one diamond and one club.

Afterward, West said that next time he would lead his club. Then it could go: club to the ace, club two (his lowest card being a suitpreference signal for diamonds) ruffed, diamond to the ace, club ruff.

COPYRIGHT: 2016, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Houses For Rent

MARION Center Area: very clean, 2 bedroom, some utilities. $410/mo.

Call (724) 349-9026

Nice 2 bdr duplex in McIntyre , newly remodeled, $495/mo (724) 840- 2399 Nice 2 bdr in Aultman, appliances included , $650/mo. (724) 840-2399 PATIO home near Chestnut Ridge G.C. Amazing view, contemporary 2 bdrm, ceiling fans, AC, skylight. (724) 459-7514 VARIETY of Rentals, short or long term, furnished or unfurnished. $455/mo. to $1200/mo.

(724) 463-9000

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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

ASTROGRAPH ❂✵✪ ❂ Your Birthday TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016

by Eugenia Last Reconnect with coworkers or an old friend you lost touch with. Check out unfamiliar groups and activities that offer a different perspective on life, love and happiness.

If you expand your mind, you will be enlightened by what you discover.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Avoid arguments if you want to accomplish your goals. Staying focused and being open to new things will result in firm progress.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Look closely at a proposal that offers the impossible. You are better off doing your own thing and taking responsibility for the outcome. Don’t get tangled up in an iffy venture.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — If you offer to help someone from your past, you will establish a better, more promising relationship. Make adjustments to your timetable that give you greater freedom to do things you enjoy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t waste time criticizing others or complaining about the way they do things. Step up your game and take charge to ensure that you get the results you want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Open up about the way you feel and how you want to see projects and situations develop. Taking care of children, loved ones or your personal needs should be your aim.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Don’t be afraid to share your emotions. The only way to resolve a festering situation is

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Help Wanted

(2) ASSISTANT GIRLS’ BASKETBALL (1) JR. HIGH VOLLEYBALL The Homer- Center School District is accepting applications for two Assistant Girls’ Basketball and one Jr. High Volleyball coaches for the 2016-17 seasons. Send letter of application, resume and Act 34 and 151 clearances and FBI Fingerprinting to Dr. Charles J. Koren, Superintendent, Homer- Center School District, 65 Wildcat Lane, Homer City, PA 15748. Deadline is May 27, 2016

Sell through the Indiana Gazette Classifieds Action Ads.

Houses For Rent

BLAIRSVILLE: Nice remodeled 2 Bdr, $695/ mo.+ util. & 1 Bdr $495/ mo.+ util. (724) 858-7813 BLAIRSVILLE: Nice remodeled 3 Bdrm, $745/ mo. + util. (724) 858-7813 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.

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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to communicate honestly. Find out where you stand, and act accordingly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22)— A personal relationship will develop into something special.

Make plans to share interesting experiences. Discuss alternate living arrangements or an unorthodox path.

Romance is featured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Keep your communications honest and factual. If you choose to embellish instead of sticking to facts, you’ll end up paying for your indiscretions.

Make personal improvements that encourage health and fitness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Consider how you currently live and how you want to live in the future. Cut corners, downsize or look for investments that will allow you more freedom. Do things differently.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — You are best off disregarding criticism or complaints. Strive to make personal changes and work to get ahead professionally. Invest in your health, skills and personal assets.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — You may need to step outside your comfort zone if it will help find a solution to a problem. Don’t be afraid to speak up and offer your services for a price.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — A change in your financial situation looks promising. Don’t let anyone speak or negotiate on your behalf. You will represent what you have to offer better than anyone.

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Help Wanted

ACM III Is currently recruiting 15 temporary farm laborers for tree planting, harvesting & grading, and to plant/harvest cabbage in Indiana County, PA beginning 4/1 and ends 11/15/16. Wage is $11.66. Guaranteed ¾ of contract hours. Free housing provided for non-commuting worker.

Conditional transportation/subsistence reimbursed at 50% of contract, or sooner if appropriate, for eligible workers. Work tools/equipment/supplies provided at no cost. To apply, contact the nearest Employment Service office (9991841)

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The Marion Center Area School District is accepting applications for 50% Reading Specialist Teacher. Application requirements can be found at www. paeducator.net. Applications posted by May 25, 2016 will receive priority review.

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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

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 349 N. 4th St., Indiana Ask for Managers John or Mike.

MOTOR MART

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.

EOE/AA/M/F/H/V.

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NOTICE The Purchase Line School District is accepting applications for the following positions: •Special Education Supervisor (K-12) •Physics Teacher •Elementary Teacher(s) •School Nurse Aide •Boys’ Basketball Coaches (1 Head, 3 Assistants) •Girls’ Basketball Coaches (1 Head, 3 Assistants) •Cheerleading Coaches (1 Head, 1 Assistant) •Substitutes in all areas For more information, please select the “Job Opportunities” link at www.plsd.k12.pa.us or contact the Superintendent’s Office at 724-254-4312 Ext. 4019.

Deadline for applications is May 26, 2016.

EOE.

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

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Cleaning Services

Only Chem-Dry® Carpet Cleaning uses “The Natural”® for a deep clean that’s also green and dries in 1-2 hours.

CALL BRENDA AT CHEM-DRY® OF INDIANA COUNTY

Parts/Body Shop Wood Chevrolet Plumville is seeking a person with knowledge of parts and body shop for a full time position.

Body Shop Appraisers License $$$$$. Salary based on experience.

Computer knowledge a must. Benefits include medical and retirement.

Apply in person - 270 Main St Plumville PA 16246

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.

724-286-3044 Independently Owned & Operated Serving Indiana County For 26 Years!

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PA# 1621

AN HONEST & REPUTABLE CONTRACTOR SERVING THE AREA FOR 28 YEARS! 7248402143 8147490584

“A CALL FOR QUALITY”

CROSSWORD Bridge, and Sudoku puzzles..

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

TREE MONKEYS

We Specialize In Hazardous Trees

KENMORE Washer, 2 years old, high eff., excellent condition. $200.

Call (724) 783-6159

Professional Tree Service - Pruning and Removal - Stump Grinding Fully Insured

724-465-4083 PA059590

HAULING Need your unwanted items hauled away. Call 724-463-8254.

MAYTAG Refrigerator side by side, water & ice in door, $200. Manard range, smooth top $100.

(724) 349-6204

102 Residential & Commercial Paving • Sealing Line Striping

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Health and Fitness

VIAGRA!! 52 Pills for Only $99.00! Your #1 trusted provider for 10 years. Insured and Guaranteed Delivery. Call today 1-800-492-0828

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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

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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

ATTENTION...

ADS FOR FREE PETS Your beloved pet deserves a loving, caring home.

The ad for your free pet may draw response from individuals who may sell your pet for research or breeding purposes.

Please screen respondents very carefully when giving away your pet.

Your pet will thank you!

This message compliments of

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Household Goods

Beautiful glass top coffee table & 2 end tables, excellent cond., $75, (814) 948-7529 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 HOSPITAL Bed with side rails and a vinyl covered mattress. Excellent condition. $75 obo. (724) 463-0385 MATCHING 80” Sofa & 57” loveseat, dark green leather, good condition, $300 for both. (724) 465-8252 Sell through the Indiana Gazette Classifieds Action Ads.

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Sports Equipment For Sale

Bo-Flex x-xtreme, like new, power rod technology, no assembly, only $365 Call (724) 599-5420 Total Gym Exercise Equipment, like new, excellent cond. asking $100 Call (724) 388-5597 TRIPOD Corn feeder 50 GAL, good condition nothing wrong, asking $65. (724) 464-8195

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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 LADIES BOUTIQUE is going out of business, clothing & accessories, display, inventory , all for sale , great value, start your own business quickly,for more info. Call (814) 935-1035 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

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Pools: 19’ x 31’ above ground, $899 installed FREE- site prep extra.

1-800-548-1923

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RV Units For Sale

2009 FOREST River Wildcat, 25RL, 2 slideouts, electric jacks, awnings, heat & a/c, tvmicrowave-full oven- 3 burners, very clean, always kept inside, asking $15,000 or offer. Call (814) 257-8544

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1997 BUICK LeSabre, 103k, loaded, no rust, asking $1,800. Call John 724-479-8636 5-9pm only 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

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

Vehicle Repairs

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4 TIRES, 215-75-r14, excellent condition, whitewalls, 1 does have plug, used on antique car, asking $125/all. Call (724) 801-2291

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RENTAL? Rental and Leasing

4 TIRES, Brand New, mounted on rims, 215/70/14, white walls, $220/all.

Call (724) 5495891

1874 Oakland Ave. INDIANA

724-349-7007

302 FORD V8 Engine with automatic overdrive transmission, 28,000 miles. $350. (724) 549-5891 TIRES: Dunlop Grand Trek AT 20 P265/65R17 2, only 12 mos of wear.

Off 2013 Toyota Tacoma TDR. $200. Leave message. (724) 479-5588

Autos For Sale

201 S. Jefferson St. KITTANNING

724-545-2888 www.leewayrentals.com

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Motorcycles For Sale

2006 KOWASAKI Motorcycle , custom , 900 cubic inch, fuel injected, 4,385 miles low mileage, ready to ride, asking $3300.

Call (724) 549-5891

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PEOPLE read the Gazette classifieds every day. It’s a great place to advertise.

Phone (724) 349-4949 to place your ad.

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.

Appliances For Sale

GE Upright freezer, excellent condition. Asking $100. (724) 388-0923

PRO 1 PAVING Work Wanted

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Independent Contractor Route Available in:

Independent Contractor Walking Carrier Routes Available in:

BLAIRSVILLE BOROUGH • East Market St. • Brady St. • South Spring St.

HOMER CITY BOROUGH • S. Main St • Jefferson Ave.

Call The Indiana Gazette Circulation Department at 724.465.5555 for details.

GOLDEN Champion fold down handicap scooter, $950. 724-465-4907 or 724-840-8111

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Boating Needs

INDIANA BOROUGH/WHITE TOWNSHIP GARAGE

WANTED Boat with TwoLick Pass. Call (724) 349-4030

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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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•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

10ft. BRILLION Cultimulcher, inside, good condition, $1,500 GRAVITY Box, 125 bushel, $900. (724) 349-3652

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Livestock & Poultry For Sale

GOATS, 4H / FFA / meat.

Call (724) 286-9986 YEARLING Beef bulls for sale, Angus X, Simmentel X, 724-244-0765

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Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

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

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HERE’S HOW TO: 1 make grilling fish easier.

Fish can be cooked in various ways. Many people bake their fish, while others are partial to broiling or frying.

While fish also can be grilled, many people shy away from grilling fish out of a fear that they will overcook the meal or their fish will turn flaky and crumble over open flames. But there are some tricks to grilling fish that grillmasters can employ to avoid disasters the next time they throw some fish on their grills.

PURCHASE FISH WITH THE SKIN ON

Skin prevents fish from flaking over open flames, essentially holding a fillet together while it cooks and ensuring it does not fall apart when you try to remove the fish from the grill.

Many people find the skin adds a crispy flavor to grilled fish as well. If you don’t want to eat the skin once the fish is cooked, slowly remove it after taking the fish off the grill.

WRAP FISH IN FOIL

Wrapping fish in foil is another way to cook fish on a grill. While the flavor might not provide that familiar grilled food taste, wrapping the fish in foil does ensure you don’t have to be watching the oven and grill when cooking for friends or family members who prefer fish over more traditional grilled foods. Spray the foil with cooking spray prior to grilling so you can easily remove the fish once it’s finished cooking.

COOK ON A PLANK

It’s possible to grill fish by placing the fish on a wooden plank and placing the plank directly on the grill. Soak the plank in water for several hours before cooking, and then keep an eye on the fish while it cooks. If the grill seems especially hot, move the plank to a part that is not as hot.

2 cut your costs at the grocery store.

Parents know the cost of raising a family can be considerable. While some of the expenses associated with raising a family, including healthcare premiums, are largely beyond parents’ control, moms and dads can take steps to cut costs and start saving money.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2014 Annual Expenditure Survey, parents devoted about 8 percent of their family spending to groceries in 2013.

Families with more than two children no doubt spend even more on groceries, which may be stretching their budgets very thin.

Fortunately, parents concerned about their grocery bills can employ various strategies to lower those bills and start saving more.

NEVER SHOP WITHOUT FIRST MAKING A LIST

Modern grocery stores are much bigger than they might have been when today’s parents were growing up. While that might be more convenient by ensuring parents can find all their groceries under one roof, it also can lead to more impulse buys as shoppers stroll aisles and pass display after display.

After checking your pantry and refrigerator to determine what you have and what you might need, make a list before heading out for the grocery store. Such lists can help you avoid purchasing items you don’t need.

KEEP THE KIDS AT HOME

Kids have a knack for finding unhealthy snacks and beverages, and parents may cave to the temptation to purchase such items in an attempt to get youngsters to calm down. By keeping kids at home while you grocery shop, you can limit distractions and get out of the store quickly. That reduces the likelihood that you will buy items you don’t need, which will save you time and money.

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GROW YOUR OWN HERBS AND VEGETABLES

Cooking with herbs is a wonderful way to add flavor to any meal, and vegetables are an essential element of a healthy diet. While store-bought herbs and vegetables may not break the bank, over time the cost savings of growing your own herbs and vegetables can be considerable. And many people find gardening a relaxing and rewarding hobby they can enjoy on their own or with their children.

USE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN ABANDONED IN YOUR PANTRY

Few people, especially parents, wait until their pantries are completely empty to go grocery shopping.

If your pantry is full, clean it out and place some of the older, unexpired items on the counter, resolving to use them for meals during the week. This is a great way to make use of items you already purchased but might have forgotten about while also ensuring your money is not going to waste.

3 perfect your makeup application.

People rely on makeup to put their best faces forward.

Cosmetics can enhance natural beauty or completely transform a person’s appearance for a dramatic effect.

Women are most likely to wear makeup, and many rely on it to cover up subtle flaws and bring out their best features.

Makeup application is a skill that requires technique, and that can take years of practice to master. While it’s possible to get by with basic application abilities, knowing some of the tricks of the trade can offer the flawless look women seek.

EXFOLIATE YOUR SKIN

The most precise makeup techniques can be hampered by unprepped skin. Start the process with clean, exfoliated skin to ensure that dry skin and any errant flakes are removed and will not clump up under the makeup.

Use products designed for your skin type. Consult with the expert at your favorite cosmetic counter to find out which formulations will give you the desired results.

Exfoliation does not require expensive equipment. You may be successful with just a mild cleanser and a nubby washcloth.

Finish with an SPF-containing moisturizer.

APPLY A PRIMER

Primers can help concealer and foundation set. Applying primer is similar to a painter prepping a canvas. Even without foundation, primer can soften the appearance of your skin.

HIDE DARK CIRCLES AND BLEMISHES

Use concealer to even out your complexion. According to the experts at Laura Mercier, it’s a myth that concealer should be a shade lighter than your skin tone.

Select a matching color and apply in little stripes with a makeup brush to blend evenly and to avoid a masked look.

BRUSH ON FOUNDATION

You may be tempted to apply foundation with your fingers. While effective for a sheer application, applying foundation with your fingers can introduce bacteria and oils to your face. Foundation brushes can offer more precision. With regular cleaning, brushes will not add germs to your face. Light brush strokes can be blended together to give a matte, airbrushed effect. A light dusting of powder, particularly in the spots that tend to appear shiny, can set the foundation.

USE A LIGHT TOUCH

It’s easier to add than take away with regard to applying eye shadow. Therefore, start with a light hand and build up to the desired smokiness. To learn even more eyeshadowing techniques, go for a professional application and ask for some instruction. Purchase those products and keep practicing at home.

Makeup can play up a person’s features, hide any imperfections and help individuals look their best.

Techniques are easy to learn and can be perfected with time and patience.

4 organize the pantry.

Since the advent of supermarkets and warehouse stores, many food shoppers have embraced buying in bulk. Buying in bulk can help shoppers save money and avoid last-minute trips to the grocery store in search of missing ingredients, but all those extra items also necessitate more careful pantry planning.

People already short on space may need to reorganize their pantries to make room for items purchased in bulk. Purging a pantry of expired items and developing an organizational strategy that works may take a little time. But once a system is in place, cooking and meal planning should become a lot easier.

DECLUTTER

It’s difficult to get organized if you’re holding on to items you no longer use. Therefore, go through the pantry and find any expired foods and half-eaten items that have gravitated to the back of the cabinet or closet. After you go through everything, you will likely find that you have much more room than you once thought.

EMPTY THE REST

Before placing items back in the pantry, take inventory of what you have. Getting them out in the open will enable you to see exactly what’s there and get an idea of what you purchase the most. This will help you set up food zones or purchase containers that will fit your pantry better. If you have unspoiled foods that you are unlikely eat, donate them to a food bank. Now that the pantry is empty, take this opportunity to clean and adjust the shelves.

DOWNSIZE FROM BULKY PACKAGING

Bulky packages may not fit in your pantry. Invest in plastic or glass containers with lids that will keep foods visible, neat and fresh.

ESTABLISH FOOD ZONES

Establishing food zones is a great way to organize a pantry and make meal time more efficient. Group breakfast foods together and store pastas and sauces near each other.

Use a basket for baking items, including smaller spices or things like baking powder that can get lost in large cabinets. Then all you have to do is reach in and find something easily.

KEEP A RUNNING INVENTORY

Routinely look in the pantry to determine what you need.

This prevents overspending on items you already have and also ensures your pantry won’t grow cluttered with repeat items.

Organizing pantries may take a little time, but a little organization can open up a lot of space and make it easier to prepare meals each day.

5 maximize your trip to the farmers’ market.

Community-based farmer’s markets can introduce shoppers to an array of foods they may otherwise never experience. Farmer’s markets are great places to find fresh, locally grown foods, and many market customers are happy to know they’re benefitting both the environment and local businessess with every dime they spend.

Farmer’s markets can range from the very large to the relatively small, and first-time visitors may not know where to begin. The following are a handful of ways to maximize your visit to farmer’s markets of all sizes.

TAKE TIME TO EXPLORE

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Farmer’s markets tend to have many of the same fruits and vegetables you can find at the local chain grocery store, but farmer’s markets also are known for offering more than what you may find in the produce aisle.

Take time to explore the market and you may just find foods you typically only find at your favorite restaurant.

Exploring also may introduce you to new foods you may otherwise never have tried.

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CONSIDER THE TIMING OF YOUR VISIT

The popularity of farmer’s markets has increased dramatically as more and more people embrace the concept of buying locally grown foods. While that’s great news for the planet and local farmers, shoppers should keep that in mind when planning their visits.

If you love trying new foods, arrive early to the farmer’s market before the more unique offerings have been snapped up. Foods that have small yet devoted followings may not be available in abundance, and you may end up leaving empty-handed if you arrive late. If it’s a bargain you want, then visit later in the day when farmers with substantial remaining inventory may be more inclined to lower their prices.

KNOW YOUR SEASONS

Some fruits and vegetables are better at certain times of the year than others. Freshness draws many people to farmer’s markets, and foods that are in-season are more likely to have that unforgettable freshness than those that are out of season or nearing the end of their season. Knowing the seasons is important for budgetconscious shoppers as well. If you’re shopping on a budget, purchasing foods while they’re in-season may save you some money, and you can always stock up on your other favorites later on when it’s their turn to be inseason.

SPEAK WITH THE SELLERS

First-time farmer’s market shoppers may feel like they’re lost in the woods while everyone else seems to know exactly what they want and where to get it. If you find the farmer’s market somewhat intimidating, speak with the sellers. Shopping at the local farmer’s market tends to be more intimate than shopping at the chain grocery store, and many sellers would be happy to offer you some tips and make some suggestions based on the meals you like.

Farmer’s markets are great places to support local businesses and find fresh foods.

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6 help protect our honeybees.

Honeybees flitting from flower to flower is one of the first signs that warm weather has arrived. Honeybees are a welcome presence in the garden, pollenating plants and contributing to local honey supplies.

Despite their importance in the ecosystem, honeybees are in grave danger. In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama created a task force composed of various agencies to address the growing issue of rapidly diminishing honeybees and other pollinating insects.

This initiative was a response to reports from American beekeepers indicating hive deaths have been on the rise, gravely affecting the honeybee population. Honeybees pollinate many fruit trees, nut plants and vegetables, playing a crucial role for many nations’ food industries.

In addition to government involvement and honeybee conservation methods designed by environmental agencies, there are many things that regular citizens and homeowners can do to protect honeybees this summer.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Pesticide Action Network offer these tips.

■ Use caution when applying any pesticides to home gardens. Be especially cautious when applying pesticides when bees are likely to be flying. If you must apply pesticides, do so only after dusk.

■ Stagger your planting throughout the growing season.

Rather than planting everything at once, stagger planting for flowers and other plants that have blooms. This gives bees plenty of pollen sources throughout early summer and into fall.

■ Provide clean sources of water. A small garden feature or a rainwater collection is enough to provide bees with a drink when needed.

■ Honeybees and other bees require some sort of shelter. Dead trees and plants provide adequate shelter, so don’t be so tempted to pull out all of the undergrowth in the name of aesthetics.

■ Plant a garden that will attract bees. Resources for planting a bee-friendly garden can be found by visiting www.panna.org/sites/default/files/ Bee-FriendlyGardening_PAN.pdf.

■ If you come across a hive, leave it alone. It’s best not to disturb a hive and honeybee colony. If bees are located where they can become a nuisance, contact a local bee expert to see if the hive can be moved.

■ Think about becoming a beekeeper yourself. There are many different resources available to help you get started.

7 find healthy foods while on the go.

Nice weather often equates to an uptick in road trips.

During such trips, motorists and their passengers will need to take breaks to refuel both their vehicles and their bodies.

Rest stop and convenience store snack options are often unhealthy, and it can be difficult for nutritionminded travelers to find acceptable fare. But a little creativity coupled with some smarter choices can ensure road trips don’t derail healthy diets.

BRING FOOD ALONG

One of the easiest ways to eat healthy while traveling is to bring meals and snacks with you. Look for portable foods that may not require much refrigeration, such as fruit bars or trail mix. If you have room in the car for a small cooler or insulated lunch packs, fill them with fresh fruits and sandwiches. Opt for lean lunch meats like chicken and turkey. Avoid using cheese or dressings like mayonnaise that can quickly spoil. Some other easily portable foods include applesauce cups, oatmeal packets (all you need is hot water from a rest stop) and low-sodium, low-fat jerky.

Pack plenty of water, a healthier choice than soft drinks that will also keep you hydrated when sitting in the car for extended periods of time.

FIND HEALTHY FAST FOOD

If packing food is not an option or if you just prefer the convenience of getting something along the way, you can still make informed choices. Opt for foods that are roughly 500 calories or less and boast plenty of protein and whole grains to help you feel full longer. You may not be able to enjoy low-sodium foods, as many fast food options go heavy on the salt. Just steer clear of extra condiments that only increase those already considerable sodium levels.

If you must opt for fast food, do not order sides of fries or chips, which will only make meals less healthy. Also, avoid sugary sodas. Many fast food restaurants offer some healthy fare, such as grilled chicken sandwiches.

Order such sandwiches plain or with extra lettuce and tomato for a healthy crunch. Order sandwiches on whole-wheat buns when possible.

Kids’ meals tend to have healthy portion sizes. If possible, purchase a kid’s meal and opt for a side of sliced apples or another healthy alternative.

MAKE SMART CHOICES AT SIT-DOWN RESTAURANTS

It’s important to stay focused on healthy fare even when you pull off the highway and patronize more traditional sit-down restaurants. Again, think smaller portions.

Consider splitting an entrée with another person in your traveling party. Some chains will offer the nutritional information right on the menu, or put a special symbol next to their healthiest offerings. Substitute steamed vegetables for starchy or fattening side dishes and always ask for sauces to be served on the side.

It’s not always easy to eat healthy when traveling. But travelers can often find healthy fare, even if they need to bring it along themselves.

Don’t make yourself crazy trying to master a recipe with an endless ingredient list on a Wednesday night.

Weeknight meals don’t have to be perfect or exotic.

Even the simplest recipes can make for delicious meals.

CHANGE IT UP

Skip those time-consuming, last-minute trips to the grocery store for missing ingredients by replacing them with something similar that you already have on hand.

ELEVATE YOUR MEAL FROM SIMPLE TO SOPHISTICATED

Pairing weeknight meals with the perfect wine can elevate midweek meatballs to something more memorable. Versatile and budget-friendly, Greystone Cellars wines are approachable and easy to drink.

Since 1995, Markham Vineyards has been producing a small amount of Greystone Cellars wines exclusively for the Culinary Institute of America, which receives a portion of the proceeds for each Greystone Cellars bottle sold. Befitting their connection to the institute, Greystone Cellars wines enhance any meal, making them ideal options for cooks whose weekly meal schedule includes pasta, pork chops and everything in between.

GET A HEAD START ON PREP WORK

Whenever possible, reduce the stress of weeknight meals by doing some of your meal prep long before dinnertime. Chop veggies for the week on Sunday nights or take a few minutes each morning to gather ingredients for that night’s meal.

MAKE IT A FAMILY AFFAIR

Make weeknight meals more fun by involving the whole family. Parents can let the kids peel carrots or measure rice or perform other age-appropriate activities.

Nightly family dinners help families build stronger bonds, and weeknight meals need not be lavish undertakings.

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midweek meals made easy Delicious and easy-to-prepare, this recipe for “Maple-Barbecue Pork Meatballs” from Katie Workman’s “Dinner Solved!” makes the perfect weeknight family meal. Pile them on rice or couscous or quinoa with a few extra spoonfuls of barbecue sauce for an easy and different weeknight dinner.

MAPLE-BARBECUE PORK MEATBALLS Serves 6

3⁄4 cup panko bread crumbs 1⁄2 cup barbecue sauce, plus more for dipping if you like 1⁄2 cup grated peeled apple 1⁄3 cup minced onion 1 large egg, lightly beaten 1 tablespoon maple syrup

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1 1⁄2 pounds ground pork 1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly oil a rimmed baking sheet.

2. Combine the bread crumbs, barbecue sauce, apple, onion, egg, and salt in a large bowl. Add the maple syrup and stir to blend. Add the pork and combine well using your hands, but try not to squeeze the mixture too much. Form 1-inchround meatballs and place them on the baking sheet.

3. Bake the meatballs until cooked through, 16 to 20 minutes. Serve hot, with extra barbecue sauce on the side.

The challenge working parents face in maintaining worklife balance is often compared to a juggling act. Finding time together, especially on weeknights when family schedules tend to be hectic, is no small task.

But finding time together, particularly at the dinner table, can pay a host of dividends. According to the Family Dinner Project, studies have linked regular family dinners with higher grade-point averages and self-esteem in children, as well as lower rates of obesity and eating disorders in both children and adolescents.

Cook, writer, activist and mother of two Katie Workman knows full well how difficult it can be to make nightly dinners together part of a family’s routine. But Workman, whose latest book, “Dinner Solved!” (Workman Publishing), provides 100 family-friendly recipes and variations to ensure that everyone at the table is happy, relishes the opportunity to help others make family dinners a fun part of their nightly routines.

“Many of us put so much pressure on ourselves when it comes to family meals,” says Workman. “But when we ease up on that pressure, dinner actually seems to happen more often, and the meals are a lot more fun.”

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Maintaining energy throughout the workday can sometimes be difficult. For busy professionals, compromised energy levels can be especially problematic, causing workers to fall behind and maybe even forcing them to work extra hours just to catch up.

While infrequent days of low energy should not pose too great a threat, working professionals who routinely find their energy levels sagging by the end of the workday might want to take certain steps to boost their energy and ensure their productivity doesn’t wane.

MAKE SURE YOU’RE GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP Failing to get adequate sleep can have an adverse impact on your career. According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, failure to get enough sleep, even for just one night, can impair a person’s ability to function by affecting his or her ability to focus and access high-level cognitive functions.

A panel of experts from sleep, anatomy and physiology, as well as pediatrics, neurology, gerontology and gynecology convened by the National Sleep Foundation in 2015 recommended adults between the ages of 26 and 64 get between seven and nine hours of sleep per night. Make a concerted effort to get more sleep if you’re falling short of those recommended guidelines.

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BRIGHT COLORS

Bright colors go hand in hand with warm weather.

Keep bright-colored items you typically wear during other seasons so they can be paired, if necessary, with summer staples. This may include a thick sweater for cooler nights on the beach or trousers for formal evenings out on the town.

MAXIDRESSES

When shopping, invest in maxidresses. They’re easy and cool for hot days and nights, but they also can be refashioned if you wear them with long sleeves or knit sweaters. When covering up, use a waist-cinching belt or scarf to add structure to the look.

VARY SHOES

While flip-flops and other sandals may be summer staples, have a few other pairs of more traditional shoes at the ready as well. One can get away with boots with a maxi-dress. Ballet-style slippers are delicate enough for the season and provide extra foot coverage for comfort. If you walk a lot, look for shoes with structure, as summer footwear tends to provide less support than footwear worn during other times of the year.

Transitioning clothing from one season to the next takes a little ingenuity. While it may not require a person to keep all of his or her clothing out of storage, transitioning from one season to the next may require reserving a couple of versatile items that can be worn throughout the year.

EAT A PRODUCTIVITY-FRIENDLY LUNCH

If afternoons are when your productivity really starts to drop off, it might be time to reconsider what you eat for lunch. The body, which converts the foods we eat into glucose that energizes our brains and promotes alertness, processes different types of foods differently.

So the food you eat for lunch may affect your energy levels for the rest of the day.

For example, eating pasta provides a quick burst of energy because pasta releases glucose quickly. But that burst is often followed by a noticeable downturn in energy levels sparked by fading glucose levels that make it difficult for the brain to focus.

In contrast, fruits and vegetables aid in the production of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps the brain stay motivated and engaged. Including some fruits and vegetables in your lunch or snacks may just lead to a more productive workday.

SQUEEZE IN A MIDDAY WORKOUT

Numerous studies have shown the many benefits to daily exercise, but professionals may not know that exercise can help improve their productivity at the office.

A 2005 study from researchers at the then-named Leeds Metropolitan University in England asked 200 workers to answer questions regarding their productivity on days when they exercised at lunchtime and days when they did not exercise. Sixty percent said their job performance, including their ability to meet deadlines and manage their time, improved by a considerable amount on the days when they exercised.

LIMIT CAFFEINE CONSUMPTION

According to the Mayo Clinic, consuming more than 500 to 600 milligrams of caffeine per day can contribute to insomnia and lead to feelings of nervousness, restlessness and irritability, among others. While that afternoon cup of coffee might provide an immediate jolt, it could be contributing to sleeping problems that will affect your productivity in the days to come.

10 transition your wardrobe.

People who put a lot of thought into their wardrobes know that one of the challenges presented by the changing seasons is figuring out what to wear and when. For example, as spring transitions into summer, the occasional chilly day is to be expected, removing summertime attire like shorts and sleeveless shirts from consideration.

Such sudden changes can be problematic, as not everyone has the room to store multiple seasons’ worth of clothing in their closets and drawers. Yet, with a little ingenuity, men and women can make their seasonal wardrobe transitions a little easier.

LAYERING

Layering is the key to keeping comfortable no matter the weather. Layering enables you to take off layers or put them on as needed. Lightweight sweaters or blazers can be worn over short sleeves or sleeveless ensembles when temperatures have yet to reach their midday highs.

Layers also can prove invaluable in office settings where the air conditioning may make working environments especially chilly. Leggings can be worn under skirts or dresses and then removed as temperatures rise.

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11 find the right father’s day gift.

Father’s Day, June 19 this year, is an annual celebration of fathers and the contributions they make to their families. Dads get their due on Father’s Day, when sons, daughters and wives typically give dad a few gifts to show their appreciation for all he has done for them and how much he means to them.

Finding the right Father’s Day gift is not always so easy.

No two fathers are the same, so while a silk necktie might bring a smile to one father’s face, such a gift may fall flat with other dads. By asking themselves a few questions in the weeks before their dads’ big day, Father’s Day shoppers can narrow down their options and find gifts that Dad will appreciate.

WHAT ARE DAD’S HOBBIES?

Even if your father or husband loves what he does for a living, a gift that indulges one of his favorite hobbies may be just the thing to make this Father’s Day extra special. Outdoorsmen may prefer some new camping or fishing gear, while fathers who have an artistic side may prefer some new paint brushes and canvasses. If Dad’s a car guy, book a day at a nearby racetrack where he can race around the track and embrace his inner race car driver.

WHAT DOES DAD NEED?

Sometimes the best gifts are what a recipient needs as opposed to what he wants. If you no longer live at home, ask your mother if there’s anything your father needs that would make his life easier or more enjoyable. If you live at home, pay close attention to your father to see if there’s anything that could lighten his load. For example, if Dad loves spending time in the garden, take a sneak peek at his gardening tools and replace any that have grown dull or rusty.

WHAT DOES DAD WANT?

For the Dad who doesn’t seem to need anything, consider something he may want that he’s never had before. If Dad loves to cook but has never had formal training, enroll him in a cooking class. If Dad loves a local sports team but hasn’t been to a game in years, purchase tickets to a game and go with him to make the day even more special.

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Covering shoulders and/or arms with a lightweight top also can protect against the rays of the sun. Choose among your most versatile long-sleeved shirts, meaning basic colors that will blend well with any outfit.

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Composting is relatively simple and serves as a costeffective way to enrich soil and suppress plant diseases and pest infestations. Homeowners who want to try their hand at composting can consider the following advice from the EPA.

A compost pile or bin should be placed in a shady area close to a water source. Shade will help ensure the pile does not dry out too quickly, especially for those homeowners who live in warmer climates. Those who live in colder regions may want to locate their piles in spots that get some sun exposure to trap some solar heat in their piles. Build the pile over lawn or soil instead of over surfaces like asphalt or concrete.

ADD MATERIALS AS YOU COLLECT THEM

The EPA notes that composting requires three basic ingredients: water, brown materials and green materials.

Brown materials include dead branches, leaves and twigs, while greens include grass clippings, vegetable waste, fruit scraps and coffee grounds.

Chop larger materials as necessary, adding both brown and green materials as you collect them and watering dry materials as necessary.

BURY FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WASTE

When adding fruit and vegetable waste, bury it beneath 10 inches of compost material. You can do this by mixing your pile with your pitchfork or shovel.

13 prolong the life of your hair color.

Men and women have been coloring their hair for centuries, experimenting with different materials and chemical combinations to achieve their desired looks.

In the mid-1800s, chemists began to work with nonnatural dyes for the textile industry. At least one of the chemicals used in a dye derived from coal tar formed a color when exposed to air. This molecule, called paraphenylenediamine, or PPD, eventually would go on to form the foundation for many permanent hair dyes.

Both men and women color their hair, but women tend to be more avid colorists. Many women stick to a strict schedule of color maintenance, returning to the salon every four to six weeks for touch-ups.

At an average cost of between $50 and $80 for a single-process permanent color, according to polling

by Angie’s List members (foil treatments and balayage highlights can cost more), the price of keeping color looking fresh and vibrant can add up.

It’s understandable that women would be interested in prolonging the life of their color to help stretch out their budgets.

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Composting is not expensive, but you will need a few tools to help maintain your compost pile. A pitchfork or square-point shovel will be necessary so you can periodically mix or turn the compost. In addition, a water hose with a spray head can help maintain the pile.

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UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRODUCTS

Hair color can come in different formulations. Semi- and demi-permanent colors deposit color without lightening and will wash out gradually after a certain number of shampoos. Permanent hair colors use a combination of components to open up the hair cuticle so that natural hair color can be lightened and color deposited as well.

Someone unsure of a color may want to try a semipermanent formulation and then look to the permanent equivalent when satisfied so that the color will last longer.

WASH WITH COOLER WATER

Keep color longer by turning down the thermostat in the shower. Hot water can cause the hair shaft to expand and lead to more dissolution of hair color molecules.

Washing and rinsing with cool water can lock in the color longer.

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Color-extending products come in two varieties: those that deposit small amounts of color to help keep the overall shade fresh, and others that don’t add color but help seal the cuticle so that existing color will not fade away. The Good Housekeeping Research Institute tested nine brands, including 24 products, and found most of the products, such as color shampoos, helped dyes last longer than regular shampoos.

Quite simply, the odds of winning the lottery are not in your favor. Most of us have a better chance of getting struck by lightning. Spending just $10 a week over 20 years adds up to more than $10,000. Put that into a savings account, and you’ve already won.

IMPULSE BUYING

A little self-control can go a long way to lining your wallet. Become a smart shopper by researching prices and options before making significant purchases. Plan ahead to save additional money by packing lunches or snacks instead of eating out.

Warmer temperatures lead to an increase in outdoor dining. Grillmasters anxiously wait to show off their skills while guests gravitate around the barbecue in the backyard.

No matter the temperature outside or the size of the crowd around your dinner table, food safety is a concern whenever foods will be transported inside and outdoors or enjoyed in the fresh air.

Your skin is not the only part of the body that needs to be shielded from the sun. Ultraviolet light can cause premature fading of hair color. Look for a product that defends against UV damage, and wear hats when out in strong sun.

A survey conducted by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that, while most people realize the months of May through September are prime times for the threat of food poisoning, consumers still are not practicing correct outdoor food safety procedures.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are around 76 million cases of foodborne illnesses each year in the United States alone. Those involve hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. The CDC warns that people need to be even more diligent during warmer months to prevent food-related illnesses.

By following some easy hair care tips, anyone can keep their color lasting longer. Clients should speak with their stylists if they need more direction and advice about hair color.

FOOD SAFETY STARTS AT THE STORE

Food can spoil even before making its way into your kitchen. When food shopping, put the cold and frozen items on your list in your cart last. This will help keep them fresher longer.

14 identify where you waste money.

Always use plastic bags to protect other foods against raw meat or poultry juices that can leak. Bag these items together at checkout so that you’ll know to immediately put all of the perishable items away when you get home.

Many consumers waste money every day without even noticing it. Yet, rethinking our habits could provide savings that add up quickly over time. Here is a list of the top ways we waste money. Are there any areas where you could improve?

Some people invest in insulated, reusable tote bags that can keep cold food cold on the ride home. Even if you use such bags, always head directly home after food shopping; do not stop along the way and leave food in a warm car where it can quickly spoil.

PAYING CREDIT CARD INTEREST

Always aim to pay off credit card debt as soon as possible. Consider moving balances from high interest credit cards to one with a lower interest rate. This will allow you to pay off debt faster.

SAFETY AROUND THE GRILL

Preparing foods involves avoiding cross-contamination between uncooked and cooked foods. That means switching utensils so that bacteria will not transfer from uncooked or partially cooked food to fully cooked food.

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Caulk cracks and crevices around doors and windows and invest in a programmable thermostat.

It’s doesn’t take big sacrifices. Resolve to make some small changes more often to save.

Sulfates are detergents used in shampoos that produce those lush suds many people equate with cleanliness.

Sulfates can strip dyes from the hair and lead to premature fading.

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Combat the problem easily for instant savings. Top up attic insulation with an easy-to-install batt product which can also be used to insulate crawl spaces, basement headers and walls for greater energy efficiency.

Did you know that most bottled water isn’t any better for you than tap water? In fact, some bottled waters come from municipal sources and are repackaged for consumer consumption. Switch to tap water and a reusable bottle to save money and the environment.

Use a cooler to keep refrigerated foods cold until it’s time to put them on the grill if you’re cooking away from home, such as at a public picnic site.

WASTING FOOD

The average household throws out about $600 worth of food each year. Meal planning and budgeting for food can reduce waste significantly. Learning how long food keeps and the truth about expiry dates can also help, as can cooking in bulk and freezing meals.

Otherwise, wait until the grill is hot and ready before bringing out foods that need to be cooked.

Rely on a cooking thermometer to test the internal temperature of foods to ensure they reach temperatures that will kill bacteria or other pathogens. Hamburgers should reach 160 F and chicken breasts 165 F. When reheating fully cooked meats like hot dogs, grill to 165 F, or until steaming hot.

SPLURGING ON COFFEE

Café-quality coffee is an indulgence, and a cup of Joeto-go can cost between $2 and $7. Consider investing in a quality coffee maker or espresso machine for your home or office, and put your daily savings to better use.

Discard any unused marinades so that they do not contaminate cooked foods.

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