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Senate to OK $1.1B to fight Zika

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After a three-month delay, the Senate is acting on President Barack Obama’s request for money to combat the Zika virus.

The Senate is slated to vote today on three competing plans to battle the virus, with a bipartisan plan that cuts Obama’s $1.9 billion request to $1.1 billion having the greatest chance to advance. The procedural vote would pave the way to add funds for the government’s response to Zika to an unrelated spending bill.

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STUDENTS AT Eisenhower Elementary recently held an assembly to announce that the school raised $7,056 for the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation. Pictured are Katie Yancy’s fifth-grade class, which raised the most ($1,831), and Carolyn Detweiler’s fourth-grade class, which raised the second most ($969). Lochlan and his father, Zach Whited, stood at back right.

Hope in sight: Son’s rare vision disorder spurs couple to action

By CHAUNCEY ROSS

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Starting day care is a big step for a child.

It was the biggest and most unexpected step ever for Lochlan Whited.

Lochlan’s care providers were the first to pick up on something unusual about his eyes, on his first days at Grand Beginnings West in early 2014.

“The teachers there noticed his eyes were shaking, just shaking back and forth,” his father said. “They hadn’t been doing that when my wife was home with him.”

Lochlan was just 3 months old.

His parents are Lindsay and Zack Whited, known to lots of folks in the

area for their work in education.

Zack teaches at Eisenhower Elementary School in White Township, and Lindsay is a speech-language pathologist with the Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit.

That shaking in Lochlan’s eyes puzzled them, and it frustrated the experts, too.

“That started the process of visiting doctors,” Zack Whited said. “We had a number of different diagnoses as we have gone through this. It’s hard to identify and look through an infant’s eyes to see what it is and get a clear picture.”

Lochlan’s vision was getting bad.

The doctors had him wearing glasses when he was just 6 months old.

MC budget shows $136,000 shortfall

Theories came and theories went.

Doctors in Pittsburgh, Akron and Los Angeles tried to figure it out. By last summer, Zack said, doctors thought it was Lochlan’s optic nerve. Then that was ruled out.

Finally it was the specialists at the Cleveland Clinic who figured it all out after a physical exam and studying genetic tests. In February, the doctors said that Lochlan has retinal dystrophy, a progressive and degenerative condition that leads to blindness, and it’s caused by a genetic disorder that has only been identified in the last 10 years or so.

“It’s a recessive trait generally passed from one parent and it Continued on Page 4

By RANDY WELLS

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MARION CENTER — The Marion Center Area School District is facing a nearly $136,000 shortfall as the school directors approach next week’s consideration of a tentative budget for 201617.

Richard Martini, the school district’s business manager, Monday recommended to the school board a 2.6 percent increase in the district’s real estate tax, the maximum allowed under

President bestows Medals of Valor on police officers

By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called on the nation Monday to support and listen to its law enforcement officers as he bestowed the Medal of Valor on 13 officers who risked their lives to save others.

In a ceremony in the East Room, Obama draped the purple-and-gold ribbons around the necks of officers who intervened in shooting rampages, hostage situations and an armed robbery. He pledged to keep working toward a bipartisan overhaul to make the criminal justice system fairer, smarter and more

effective so that officers are well-equipped to enforce the country’s laws.

“We can show our respect by listening to you, learning from you, giving you the resources that you need to do your jobs,” Obama said. “Our country needs that right now.”

Three Santa Monica, Calif., officers — Jason Salas, Robert Sparks and Capt. Raymond Bottenfield — were honored for their response to a 2013 rampage on a community college campus that left five people dead. Confronting 23year-old gunman John Zawahri in the campus library, the officers shot and killed him when he pointed his

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PRESIDENT OBAMA awarded the Medal of Valor to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Donald Thompson during a ceremony at the White House Monday. assault weapon at them.

Obama also honored Gregory Stevens of suburban Dallas, who exchanged gunfire with two armed men outside an exhibit hall holding a provocative contest for caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Both gunmen were killed, heading off what investigators suspected was a

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Supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders were accused of throwing chairs and making death threats against Nevada Democratic Party chairwoman Roberta Lange. They contended that the party leadership rigged the results of the convention, which locked in seven more delegates who pledged to support Hillary Clinton, compared with the five Sanders gained.

The raucous affair ended Saturday night when security at the Paris Las Vegas casino said they could no longer ensure an orderly event.

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Martini presented a proposed preliminary general fund budget for the next school year of $24,521,908, a 1.6 percent increase over the current budget. That spending proposal has a shortfall of $135,868.

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$12M earmarked for traffic signals HARRISBURG (AP) — A 2013 law that increased gas taxes and motorist fees is helping 109 Pennsylvania municipalities improve their traffic signals.

The Wolf administration said Monday it was distributing $12 million in grants for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Green Light-Go program.

The grants pay up to half the cost to obtain modern technology, retime signals, install lightemitting diode signals and make other upgrades.

This year’s projects include pavement markings, traffic monitoring devices, audible pedestrian signals and new traffic signal hardware.

Judicial ethics court suspends judge HARRISBURG (AP) — A Pennsylvania district judge has been suspended without pay after he was charged last week with stealing more than $113,000 from his office and the volunteer fire company where he served as treasurer.

The Reading Eagle reported the state’s judicial ethics court ordered the suspension of Wyomissing District Judge Timothy Dougherty late Monday afternoon.

Dougherty is accused of stealing more than $15,000 from his office in Berks County, which collects fines and court costs. He is also accused of taking nearly $98,000 from the Wyomissing Volunteer Fire Company.

Dougherty was arraigned on Friday on theft, conflict of interest and related charges. His arraignment had been scheduled for Thursday, but his attorney said Dougherty broke his shoulder blade falling down some stairs.

Human remains found on llama farm MILFORD (AP) — State police said they have found human remains on a llama farm in northeastern Pennsylvania during a search for a 17year-old girl last seen in the area on April 18.

Police haven’t identified the remains and have stopped short of saying whether they believe they’re the remains of Leanna Walker, 17.

The Dingman Township girl left her home with her 24-year-old boyfriend, Sky McDonough, the afternoon she was last seen.

McDonough has been jailed on unrelated charges since April 26.

That’s when police arrested him on a burglaryrelated arrest warrant out of New Jersey. Pennsylvania state police say the couple had been camping in the area of the llama farm when Walker was last seen.

The remains were discovered about noon Sunday in Milford Township, Pike County.

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Judge grants time for claims in Paterno suit STATE COLLEGE (AP) — Lawyers for Joe Paterno’s relatives and the NCAA can have more time to look into newly disclosed allegations about claims of abuse against the late Penn State football coach’s former assistant Jerry Sandusky, a judge said Monday. Judge John Leete is presiding over a lawsuit by the Paterno family against the NCAA. He gave the parties 45 days to explore claims that a boy told Paterno in 1976 he was molested by Sandusky, and that two coaches witnessed Sandusky abusing children in the late 1980s. The information was made public this month when a Philadelphia judge ruled in

a lawsuit by Penn State over insurance coverage for Sandusky-related claims.

Penn State’s lawyers “will, as appropriate, approach victims in the Sandusky matter to ascertain their willingness to take part in voluntary discovery,� Leete wrote after a Monday conference in the case. “The court will take all necessary steps to protect the confidentiality and anonymity of any such persons.�

Paterno’s relatives have rebutted the 1976 accusation, and an attorney for some Sandusky victims has said it is not irrefutably supported.

Also, prosecutors have called the

1980s claims unreliable.

The claims were briefly described in a May 4 order by Philadelphia Judge Gary Glazer, but there were few details.

The Associated Press and three other news organizations filed a request last week seeking to unseal related court records.

The Paternos say the NCAA’s use of a Penn State-commissioned report damaged their commercial interests. Two former Penn State coaches, Jay Paterno and Bill Kenney, are also suing the NCAA, saying the report made it impossible for them to find comparable jobs.

Leete’s order said he may adjust a

timetable he laid out in March that established deadlines in the case through mid-October.

Messages seeking comment from lawyers for the NCAA and the Paterno family were not immediately returned.

Paterno died in 2012, two months after state prosecutors first charged Sandusky with child molestation.

Sandusky was convicted later that year of 45 counts of child sexual abuse and is serving a 30- to 60year state prison sentence. He has maintained his innocence. A hearing in his ongoing appeals is scheduled for Friday at the courthouse near State College.

U.S. Rep. Fattah: Consultants to blame for crimes

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

the indictment.

Renee Chenault-Fattah has not been charged, and both husband and wife insist they did nothing illegal.

Chaka Fattah, 59, blames his family’s travails on a lengthy FBI investigation that he considers a witch hunt.

Federal prosecutors painted a starkly different picture. “The congressman stole from federal agencies, from taxpayers, from nonprofit groups he created to pay his political debts,“ Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Gray said in opening statements. “He even stole from his own campaign.�

Four associates are also on trial while two others pleaded guilty and are expected to cooperate. Fattah’s lawyers told jurors that campaign consultants Greg Naylor and Thomas Lindenfeld acted alone. “The government’s case rests on the word of those

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PHILADELPHIA — Lawyers for U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah blamed his former political consultants for any financial crimes that flowed from a costly, failed bid for Philadelphia mayor in opening statements at his corruption trial Monday.

Prosecutors told jurors that Fattah took an illegal $1 million loan to prop up the 2007 mayoral campaign and obtained federal funds and charity grants to pay $600,000 of it back.

Fattah, a Philadelphia Democrat, is on trial just weeks after losing a primary race to retain the congressional seat he had held for two decades.

The loss comes in a year that has seen his namesake son go to prison for five years in a related fraud case and his wife lose her TV anchor job after being linked to a bribery count

CHAKA FATTAH two convicted felons,�defense lawyer Mark Lee said. “Chaka Fattah’s lifestyle is not on trial.

Philadelphia politics are not on trial. (Congressional) earmarks, donations, grants to nonprofits are not on trial.�

The seven-figure campaign loan, which exceeded new donor limits for the

2007 Philadelphia mayor’s race, is one of five schemes outlined in the racketeering indictment.

The others include the use of nonprofits Fattah set up as “pass throughs� for federal grants to reach Fattah’s family and friends, prosecutors said.

The loan came from a close Fattah friend, Albert Lord, the former CEO for Sallie Mae. When the economy turned sour, Lord sought to be repaid, prompting the series of illegal financial moves, prosecutors said.

Defense lawyers questioned whether friends doing something for Fattah should really be accused of bribery or whether they were simply performing favors.

Lawyer Robert Welsh, representing co-defendant Herbert Vederman, who had earned a fortune from the Charming Shoppes, said his client helped out

Fattah’s son, Chaka “Chip�

Fattah Jr., simply because the young man was “in the throes of a gambling addiction.�

Welsh said the case falls apart when considering the timing of events surrounding Fattah Sr.’s pitch to President Barack Obama for Vederman to be named an ambassador or Vederman’s allegedly sham $18,000 purchase of Chenault-Fattah’s Porsche. Prosecutors say the car never left her garage. “They do not add up to bribes. They add up to examples of people helping out each other,“ Welsh said.

The other co-defendants include Bonnie Bowser, who managed Fattah’s district office and served as his unpaid campaign treasurer during the 2007 mayor’s race. Her lawyer said she simply took direction from the congressman.

The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks.

Republicans push to get Amish, Mennonites to polls LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Republicans with ties to Newt Gingrich and Ben Carson have launched an effort to drive Amish and Mennonite voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio to the polls in record numbers this fall.

The campaign is raising money through an organization called Amish PAC

and aims to, in part, build on a similar effort in 2004 on behalf of George W. Bush.

But leaders said they aren’t affiliated with a candidate, LNP newspapers reported.

Leaders of the Arlington, Va.-based committee estimated they’ll spend $41,000 on newspaper ad-

vertisements and billboards during the next six months and said their efforts could be vital in what could be a close presidential race. “The Amish and Mennonites are one of the most conservative blocs of potential votes you have in this country, and Republicans have done a very poor

job over the years of doing that outreach,� said Ben Walters, the committee’s co-founder.

Analysts said it’s unclear whether Amish voters will support Donald Trump this fall. “It’s very hard for me to know,� said Donald Kraybill, an authority on Amish and Mennonite communi-

ties and a retired professor at Elizabethtown College. “I think on the one hand they respect business leaders and they view him as a successful business leader.

On the other hand his personal style and his sense of hubris and vanity are completely antithetical to Amish values of humility and so on.�

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OBITUARIES Curtis Aul Curtis E. Aul, 43, of Pasadena, Md., passed away on Thursday, May 12, 2016, at the Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Chester.

He was born on Aug. 25, 1972, to Raymond Aul and Cathy Walters-Aul in Lewiston, N.Y. Curtis worked as a Pilot car escort driver.

Curtis is survived by his father, of Kittanning; his mother, of Port St. Lucie, Fla.; life partner, Sabrina Kurpicski, of Pasadena, Md.; daughter, Casey Aul, of Catonsville, Md.; son Curtis Aul, of Pasadena, Md.; three brothers: Stephen Aul, of Little Britain, Gregory Aul, of Little Britain, and Eric

Aul, of Morgantown, W.Va.; and three uncles and eight cousins.

He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Lawrence Aul, and grandmother Nova J. Minser-Aul. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Carson/Boyer Funeral Home Inc., 724 W. Main St., Rural Valley. A funeral service will immediately follow at 8 p.m.

Additional visitation and a funeral service will be held in Maryland.

Burial will take place in Maryland. www.carsonboyer.com

Rick Barnett Rick L. Barnett, 47, of Marion Center, died Sunday, May, 15, 2016, at Allegheny General Hospital.

He was the son of Gerald and Margaret (Craft) Barnett and was born March 24, 1969, in Indiana.

Rick was a 1989 graduate of Homer-Center High School and a 1991 graduate of Vale Tech. He enjoyed going and participating at demolition derby with his sons. He also enjoyed automotive restoration and was an excellent backyard mechanic. Rick was employed at Walmart and the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home.

He is survived by his wife, Susan Barnett, of Homer City; two sons: Shawn Barnett, of Homer City, and Zack and fiancee Sarah Dorbritz, of Irwin; father, Gerald Barnett, of Lucernemines; siblings Barbara Grey, of Goose Creek, S.C.; Jerry (Kimberley) Barnett, of Goose Creek, S.C.; and

Tammy Barnett, of Johnstown; sisters-in-law, Ronda (Jim) Leasure and Connie (Kirk) McCoy, both of Clymer, and brother-inlaw, Mike (Brenda) Haight.

He is also survived by nieces and nephews Hayden, Mikalia and Cameron Haight; Alysha and Dylan Grey; Amber and Brittany Barnett; Alicia Leasure and Conner and Cassandra McCoy. He was preceded in death by his mother, Margaret (Craft) Barnett, and his brother, Martin Barnett.

Friends will be received Wednesday from 9:30 until time of service at 11 a.m. at the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City, with Raymond McIntire officiating. Interment to follow in the Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana.

Elizabeth Campbell Elizabeth Jean (Smith) Campbell, 86, of State College, died on Monday, May 9, 2016, at Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College.

She was born April 25, 1930, in Indiana, the daughter of Donald Richard and Virginia (Stewart) Smith.

In December 1996, she married Merle E. Campbell, who died in 2006.

She graduated from Etna (PA) High School and Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University), Richmond, Va., and a master’s degree in library science from Rutgers University.

Jean was an art teacher in the Richmond Public Schools from 1952 to 1959; assistant art historian at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., from 1961 to 1964; and the first Arts and Architecture librarian at the Pennsylvania State University from 1964 until she retired in 1989.

She was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and most recently a member of the Upper Spruce Creek Presbyterian Church. Jean was also an active member of the Historical and Ge-

nealogical Society of Indiana County, the Centre County Genealogical Society and the Centre County Historical Society, of which she was a board member.

She had a love of old houses, particularly her mother’s family home in Indiana.

Jean was devoted to the support of historical preservation and animal welfare.

Jean is survived by stepdaughters Kay (Joel) Burd, of Centre Hall, and Kim (Greg) Chaklos, of Washington, Pa. She is also survived by cousins Cornelia Davis, of Pittsburgh, and Patricia (Joseph) Grabey, of Carlisle.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Foxdale Village, 500 E. Marylyn Ave., State College, with the Rev. Robert Hicks officiating. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Indiana.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Centre County PAWS, 1401 Trout Road, State College, PA 16801 or the Centre County Historical Society, 1001 E. College Ave., State College, PA 16801.

Arrangements are under the care of Koch Funeral Home, State College. Online condolences and signing of the guest book may be entered at www.kochfu neralhome.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

Harold William Roush Harold William Roush, 83, of Indiana, formerly of Plumville, passed away on Sunday, May 15, 2016, while at the Indiana Regional Medical Center.

The son of George A. and Dorothy (Hawk) Roush, he was born July 12, 1932, in Smicksburg.

Harold had been employed over 42 years by Douds of Plumville. After retirement, he worked for the Keystone gas station in Indiana.

For many years he and his wife were active in the Ox Hill Fair. Harold enjoyed hunting and spending time watching his granddaughters play softball.

Surviving are his sons,

William (Doris) Roush, of Indiana, and Timothy (Julianne) Roush, of Home; and grandchildren Kassandra and Alexis Roush, both of Indiana.

Preceding Harold in death were his parents and his wife, L. Jean (Stonebreaker) Roush.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home.

Funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Lefdahl Chapel with Rev. Micah McMillen officiating.

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Budget shows $136,000 shortfall Continued from Page 1 district can establish its own millage rate. He projected that the value of each mill of real estate tax in the Marion Center district after the reassessment will be $480,099, and an increase of 0.283 mill will be needed to close the gap between revenues and spending for next year.

It’s too early, Martini said, to calculate how much of an annual dollar increase that millage hike will be for the average property owner in the district.

Martini also outlined for the directors some shortand long-term financial concerns he has for the district.

Among those, he said, are a projection that the district’s state aid ratio could be reduced because of the county reassessment, and the loss of state subsidies to the district could reach $300,000 in the 2017-18 year.

Also, he warned, collec-

tion rates for real estate taxes are estimated to drop by 2.5 percent, and that could cause a reduction in taxes for the district of $144,000.

Martini said he is also concerned that enrollment by owners of agriculture and timber land in the state’s Clean and Green program could reduce the district’s taxes by about $275,000 starting in 201718. Added to those financial challenges, the Public School Employees Retirement System rate will increase by 16.22 percent for the 2016-17 year, meaning the Marion Center district will have to pay in $167,000 more than currently.

And medical insurance rates are increasing 5 percent and wages are slated to increase 0.95 percent, a $99,567 cost increase for the district, Martini said.

The directors must have a final 2016-17 budget adopted by the end of June.

Ken Kirkland, the district’s

maintenance and transportation supervisor, had some encouraging news Monday for the directors.

He said an infrared thermography scan of the roof of the McCreery Elementary School last month detected “very little issues with wet insulation. That’s a good thing,” he said, and will leave open more options for repairing leaks in the roof or replacing the roof because much of the insulation already in place can remain there.

Kirkland recommended that representatives from the architectural and engineering firm of HHSDR come back to the school board’s September meeting to review roof repair and replacement options, and then bids can be requested to perform the work during the summer of 2017.

In other action at Monday’s work session, the directors approved an overnight trip by five students who won the Indiana

County Senior Envirothon May 4 to next compete for the state title May 24-25 at Susquehanna University and Camp Mount Luther.

The directors congratulated the latest group of Students of the Month. They are McCreery kindergarten student Adah McClellan, Rayne Elementary kindergarten student Maya Desmond, Rayne first-grader Chastity Voorhies, McCreery first-grader Tyler Phillips and senior Vanessa Pappal.

Elementary principal Susan DeVaughn invited the directors and the public to several events this week.

They include an elementary art show at Rayne beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday; sixth-grade recognition starting at 9:45 a.m. Thursday in the high school auditorium; McCreery PTA bingo night at 7 p.m. Friday; and the McCreery PTA 5K Color Run at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Marion Center Park Hall.

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Continued from Page 1 doesn’t have an effect unless the other side also has some sort of issue,” Zack said. “Generally, your body will create another good strain of DNA to compensate for it.”

The culprit is the CRB1 gene, one of an estimated 20,000 genes in the human genome but among only about 450 in the array of genes that influence retinal development. That’s what makes Lochlan’s kind of retinal dystrophy so rare. A mutated CRB1 alone has no effect, and it must combine with one of a limited number of other problem genes to cause vision mayhem.

It’s beyond the capacity of medical science to test couples ahead of time for every possible genetic flaw, especially ones that might combine to create problems if they have children. Geneticists are steadily finding ways to identify the genetic triggers for things like Lochlan’s retinal dystrophy — specifically, Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis — after they arise.

“They’re still trying to narrow it down. This is a new field and they don’t even have all the genes mapped and haven’t pinned down exactly what’s causing the other side of the DNA not to work,” Zack said.

But science is truly in a race against progressive diseases to find ways to halt or cure them. With that in mind, the Whiteds have immersed themselves in the work of a fledgling foundation formed by parents of other children like Lochlan.

Organizers grabbed the name of the offending gene, CRB1, and turned it into the name of their cause. The Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation coordinates fundraising efforts and awards research grants to develop possible treatments. They promote their work on the website www.crb1.org. The Whiteds said researchers are planning clinical trials of a promising gene therapy technique. Testing on patients could begin in 2018.

“They basically use a viral vector to inject a virus directly into your eye,” Lindsay said. “The virus would carry a working copy of a good CRB1 gene like cargo; it would go into your DNA, deaden the mutated gene and replace it. Then your body would basically start to reboot, start making the proteins, your visual cortex would start processing vision again.

“They think they can reverse blindness this way, because they already have done it with a different gene, RP65.”

Research and trials cost money, and the Whiteds are leading efforts in the Indiana area to both promote awareness and raise funds.

And they don’t want to waste time. “There’s no way to stop it and there’s no real accurate timeline,” Zack said. “Everyone’s vision is affected in different ways.

And it’s a rare disorder so there just isn’t a lot of data on it right now.”

Since the Whiteds were given the CRB1 diagnosis in February, the Indiana Area School District, United School District and Indiana University of Pennsylvania have been among the first to step up for the cause.

Lindsay said she reached out first to the Greek Life office at IUP and the response was fast. “When I went to IUP, I knew the Greeks had to do fundraising for their philanthropies,” Lindsay said. “I emailed Betsy Sarneso (director of the Center for Student Life, Student Leadership and Greek Life at IUP), and asked if anybody would want to help us.

“She emailed all the sororities, and Delta Gamma replied right away.

“Their philanthropy is service for sight, so every Gamma Delta chapter in the United States raises money for blind and visually impaired people. They

contacted their national office to see if they could dedicate all their funds to the CRBF. They got permission to do that in one day.

“Usually, they fundraise and send all their money away and they never know what happens to it,” Lindsay said. “But this has been special for them, because they got to know Lochlan, we have attended events with them … and they know who their work is going to benefit.”

Lindsay also encouraged students at United Elementary School, where she is assigned, to adopt CRB Foundation for their Mission: Kindness! program. The students raised almost $1,300 in March.

Zack Whited’s faculty colleagues and the student body at Eisenhower School staged a series of events in a competition among the classrooms. The school raised more than $7,000 in less than two weeks and donated the money to CRBF at a schoolwide assembly on Thursday.

The Whiteds said the staff at Grand Beginnings has supported Lochlan, and local businesses and area families also have contributed. And before they finished the spring semester at IUP, the sisters of Gamma Delta brought in almost $18,000 for the cause.

“Our total so far is getting close to $30,000,” Lindsay Whited said. “Checks are coming in. The collection cans are everywhere. I’m dumping cans every day and we’re getting several hundred dollars a day.

“We’re about to start a Tshirt sale, with ‘Love for Lochlan’ shirts. So it’s gotten close to $30,000 in a matter of three months.”

How fast and effective the research will be is anyone’s guess. “I know that everyone needs money, that’s the way it goes,” Lindsay said.

“But Lochlan is just this perfect, typically developing little boy who is going through an absolutely terrifying and heartbreaking thing.

“We don’t want him to have to live in the dark, so we’re doing what we can to fundraise.”

The Whiteds said the idea of preparing a 2-year-old for a loss of sight was something they never expected, but it’s the hand they’ve been dealt and the cards they have to play.

“His vision is being taken from him and it’s so hard to swallow that pill. He could have had a beautiful life — well, he still can, there’s still hope,” Lindsay said.

“The biggest thing for us is adjusting to what our view of a perfect life is for him,” Zack said. “When you’re a parent you want your kid to have a life that’s better than yours.”

“I’m thinking about the activities I should get him into now? What can he continue to do?” Lindsay said.

“How do I talk to him? What words do I use? What special adaptations are we going to have to start making at home?”

“The adjustment has been on us moreso than on him,” Zack said.

“We’re working against the clock,” Lindsay said.

The Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation gets it.

“Some of the children have already lost almost 100 percent of their sight,” CRB says in its mission statement. “Many of the children still have some useable vision, but it will deteriorate if nothing is done to stop the degeneration. We are working to stop that degeneration and ultimately restore all CRB1 vision!”

“Our goal is just to keep the story going and see what we can do,” Zack said.

“We want to thank the community for supporting us during a really hard time for our family, helping us feel like we’re making a difference and for giving us hope,” Lindsay said.

For more information on retinal blindness or to donate, visit www.crb1.org.

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EMERGENCY PERSONNEL worked at the scene of the fatal derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia on May 13, 2015.

Official says transmissions distracted Amtrak engineer

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press

NEW YORK — An Amtrak engineer whose speeding train jumped the tracks along a curve in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, was distracted by radio transmissions, a U.S. official briefed on the investigation said Monday.

Engineer Brandon Bostian told investigators three days after the May 12, 2015, crash that he recalled radio traffic that night from a commuter train operator who said a rock had shattered his windshield. The official was unable to say whether those were the transmissions that distracted Bostian, but the engineer spoke about no other radio chatter when interviewed by federal investigators, according to material released previously by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The official was not authorized to comment publicly because the probe is still underway and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

The revelation came a day before the NTSB is scheduled to meet to detail the probable cause of last year’s fatal derailment. The cause won’t be determined officially until the board’s vote at the conclusion of that meeting.

NTSB spokesman Peter Knudsen said the agency would not comment ahead of today’s hearing.

Bostian’s attorney didn’t immediately return an email sent after business hours on Monday.

An Amtrak spokesman said the agency will have a comment after today’s hearing.

The official briefed on the report’s findings Monday said that investigators also believe there were some issues with the train’s emergency windows and several people were killed because they were ejected through those windows.

The investigation also found police transported many of the injured people to the hospital instead of waiting for ambulances, the official said.

The NTSB is expected to recommend that engineers be retrained about distractions and recommend the city wait for ambulances to take injured people to the hospital at mass-casualty incidents.

The city’s emergency management office is finalizing a revised mass-casualty plan that will continue to allow police to transport victims but will aim for better coordination with the fire department, spokeswoman Noelle Foizen said.

Investigators are looking into why the train from

Washington, D.C., to New York was going double the 50 mph limit around a sharp curve about 10 minutes after leaving Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station.

Early in the investigation, the NTSB focused on whether the Amtrak train had been hit with a rock or other projectile minutes before the crash.

Bostian told investigators he was concerned about the welfare of the commuter train’s engineer and “a little bit concerned” for his own safety, but he never indicated in either NTSB interview that his train had been struck.

“There’s been so many times where I’ve had reports of rocks that I haven’t seen anything, that I felt like it was unlikely that it would impact me,” Bostian told investigators, adding that he figured whoever damaged the commuter train had probably left the area by the time he rolled

through.

Trains operating in the Northeast are frequent targets of rock-throwing vandals. Other nearby trains reported being hit by rocks that evening not long before the derailment. A grapefruit-sized dent was found in the windshield of Amtrak 188’s locomotive.

Bostian, regarded by friends for his safety-mindedness and love of railroading, has been suspended without pay since the crash.

A letter from Amtrak in the NTSB files shows he was suspended for speeding.

The lack of clarity on what caused the train to speed has frustrated crash victims, some of whom have racked up millions of dollars in hospital bills and are continuing to rehabilitate from injuries. Dozens of victims have sued Amtrak for compensation.

Michael R. Sisak in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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The Intercept, whose founding editors were the first to publish documents leaked by Snowden, released on Monday the first batch of nine years’ worth of the newsletters, which offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the NSA’s work. The newsletters reveal efforts to eavesdrop on a Russian crime boss, the search in Iraq for possible weapons of mass destruction and help with interrogations at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

An article in the May 2003 newsletter describes how NSA spent “many months” obtaining the phone number of a Russian organized crime figure so his calls could be intercepted.

The State Department asked the NSA for information on the boss of the Tambov crime network in Russia — a figure known only as “Mr. Kumarin” — and whether he had any ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The man later was convicted of fraud and money laundering and sentenced to 14 years behind bars.

In a newsletter article published Dec. 22, 2003, an NSA liaison officer recounts a temporary duty assignment at Guantanamo Bay where the task was to provide intel-

ligence to support Defense Department, CIA and FBI interrogations of detainees picked up off battlefields.

The job entailed relaying information back to NSA, based at Fort Meade in Maryland. But sometimes, NSA would share “sensitive NSA-collected technical data” to help the interrogators.

According to Intercept, “Neither the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s detention and rendition program (which confirmed the existence of two CIA facilities at Guantanamo) nor a 2008 Senate Armed Services Committee report on detainee abuse by the military addresses the role of the NSA, at least in the heavily censored versions that have been made public.” It was serious business, but in their off hours, NSA liaisons at scenic Guantanamo Bay could visit the “Tiki Bar,” or enjoy water sports, such as sailing and snorkeling.

“Learn how to operate a boat in a weekend,” the liaison wrote. “Become a certified open-water scuba diver within weeks. ... The local dive shop has all the gear and tips to ensure a perfect outing.”

In a more taxing assign-

ment, the newsletter reports on a rendition where six Algerians, linked to a plan to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, were moved from Bosnia to Guantanamo in early 2002.

The U.S. rendition program involved secretly sending foreign captives to other countries that have more lax practices for the humane treatment of detainees.

A Bosnian judge ordered the Algerians released for lack of evidence, but the U.S. persuaded the Bosnian government to turn them over to U.S. custody.

An NSA staffer wrote about the movement in the newsletter, as part of a series replete with stories about working overtime for the agency. As soon as they were released, the Algerians were to be transported from Sarajevo to another Bosnia city and then on to Guantanamo. The staffer’s job was to watch the route for a possible ambush from a military convoy.

The Algerians’ release “was delayed for several hours due to a large demonstration outside the building they were being held in,” and “the convoy did not leave Sarajevo until after midnight,” she wrote.

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Forecasting in age of Trump

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ay Fair of Yale University says that if his election forecasting model is correct, the Republican nominee is likely to win the presidency by a convincing margin.

John Sides of George Washington University agrees; the “fundamentals,” he says, give the Republican about a 60 percent chance of winning. Alan Abramowitz of Emory University gives Republicans a solid shot at the White House too; his model gives the GOP the edge — but in “a very close election.”

But thanks to Donald Trump, their carefully honed forecasting models may have lost their predictive magic — a possibility the professors themselves acknowledge.

“This time may be different,” Abramowitz told me last week.

For decades, political scientists and economists have concocted statistical models to try to predict presidential elections even before the actual campaigns were underway.

Their aim wasn’t merely to pull off the parlor trick of predicting a winner; more important (to them, at least) was figuring out what makes voters tick. Their underlying theory was that most voters’ behavior stems from a combination of fundamental factors and not from anything the candidates say or do.

Abramowitz’s model, for example, uses three factors: economic growth, the current president’s popularity and how long the incumbent party Doyle McManus has held the White House. is a columnist for Starting with that last item: It’s the Los Angeles hard for one party to keep the White House for a third term, as Hillary Times. His Clinton is trying to do. It’s only been column is done once in the last half century, distributed by when George H.W. Bush succeeded Tribune News the popular Ronald Reagan in 1988.

Service.

Abramowitz calls this the “time for a change” factor, and it puts the presumptive Democratic nominee at a significant disadvantage.

Right now, the economic fundamentals don’t look good for Clinton either. Most forecasts suggest that growth will remain well below 3 percent all year, a sluggish rate that favors the party out of power.

Obama, on the other hand, is actually helping Clinton’s chances; his job approval rating in the Gallup Poll has averaged about 50 percent over the last six months, just high enough to give her a chance of winning.

Add all three factors together, and the result is “close to 50-50, maybe a little below” for the Democrat, Abramowitz said. “So based on the fundamentals, you would expect this to be a very close election.”

Now add a new factor: Trump.

A model like Abramowitz’s “doesn’t take into account attributes of the candidates. It captures arguably the most important things, but not everything,” Sides told me.

“These forecasting models assume that you have mainstream candidates who will unify each party,” Abramowitz conceded. “Trump doesn’t fit that pattern.

He’s off the charts. And it’s very hard to predict how that’s going to play out.”

Despite the chilly indifference of the forecasting models, he noted, candidates and their campaigns do matter.

In 1972, Democrat George McGovern did worse than the models would have predicted, presumably because many voters saw him as too far to the left. In 1988, Michael Dukakis also did worse than the models predicted, “probably because he had the worst campaign in recent memory,” Abramowitz said.

So even though the forecasting models say this should be a Republican year, the polls don’t agree. An average of recent polls puts Clinton ahead of Trump, 47 percent to 42 percent. The Iowa Electronic Market, one of several “prediction markets” that crowdsource forecasting, projects that Clinton will win 58 percent of the popular vote.

And the conventional wisdom among pundits — not that we’ve been particularly prescient of late — is that Clinton could win in a landslide.

Trump isn’t just disrupting the Republican Party, he’s disrupting political science too.

One of the potential problems with the models in an election like this one is that they assume voters aren’t really paying much attention to politics.

The models — and their underlying theories of voting behavior — rest heavily on how voters feel about the economy on Election Day. In a sense, they suggest that voters decide many elections on the basis of James Carville’s slogan from the 1992 campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

That’s not entirely rational.

As political scientists Christopher M. Achen and Larry M. Bartels point out in their recent book, “Democracy for Realists,” voters who choose based on the economy are often holding an incumbent president and his party responsible for events beyond his control. (Besides, they note, economic voters choose based on how the economy is doing in the months before Election Day, not during a president’s entire term.)

“The result of this kind of voter behavior is that election outcomes are in an important sense random,” they write — a matter of whether a given president has been lucky or not. “Economic voting may be little more than a high stakes game of musical chairs.”

Love him or loathe him, Trump may have changed the equation, forcing voters to think more about whom they want in charge instead of letting GDP growth rates effectively determine their preference. He’s made voting important again. doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com

DOYLE McMANUS

Unless labeled as a Gazette editorial, all opinions on the Viewpoint page are those of the authors.

Losses without gains “If you won’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” — quote attributed to numerous sources

While politics has always been a rhetorical combat sport, the insults thrown by Donald Trump and his supporters have taken political disistorically, when our nation has course — if it can even be called that transitioned from one way of life — to a new and depressing low. Such to another, there has usually language keeps us from solving, or been some optimism even discussing, the real about what was to come. problems this country faces.

That was true at the time A book by an “anonymous of the American Revolucongressman” titled “Confestion and it was true as we sions of Congressman X” is moved from an agrarian scheduled for publication on society toward the IndusMay 24, according to Daily trial Revolution in the midMail.com. In it, the writer, 18th through mid-19th who is reportedly a man and centuries. a Democrat, mocks the Even during World War country he supposedly II, the song “White Cliffs of serves as a “nation of naive, Dover” with its lyric self-absorbed sheep.” He “There’ll be love and says he and most of his collaughter and peace ever leagues never read the bills after. Tomorrow, when the they vote on and spend most world is free,” looked forof their time raising money. ward to a better day. It did“My main job,” he writes, “is n’t quite turn out that way, Cal Thomas to keep my job, to get reas wars persist, but opti- writes a elected. It takes precedence mism kept us going with column over everything.” the hope that a new and distributed by Given the behavior and better world was about to Tribune Media history of so many members dawn. of Congress, who doubts his Services.

Today we are gripped not claim? by optimism but by a deep It was thought once that pessimism, even cynicism, that per- our leaders should possess good meates virtually every layer of our character. In this election, however, it culture. According to a Real Clear Pol- appears voters will be forced to itics Poll, more than 66 percent of choose for president — if they vote at those surveyed think this country is all — between a boastful, superficial, headed in the wrong direction, yet narcissistic, misogynist and a corlike a man who is lost but refuses to rupt, entitled, shady, lying, unaccomask for directions, we keep barreling plished woman who has ignored her full steam ahead. husband’s affairs in the pursuit of

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power.

Are these two candidates a reflection of our cynical and increasingly secular culture? They must be, otherwise so many voters would not have propelled them to the top of their respective parties. If we are willing to settle for less than the best, we can be sure that less is exactly what we will get.

Another character quality that is in decline is modesty. A new Calvin Klein ad features an “upskirt” photo of a young woman’s underwear. Victoria’s Secret catalogs and shopping mall displays, visible to children, feature barely clad women with “come hither” stares. Some of the sexiest films ever made were produced during Hollywood’s “Golden Age” when women and men kept on most of their clothes. Films and TV today go for the blatant, mainstreaming sex scenes, flaunting nudity, so much so that a movie’s “R” rating could just as easily stand for “raunchy” as “restricted.”

Scriptwriters put words in the mouths of actresses that “would make a sailor blush,” as the old saying goes. Yet, we are supposed to regard this as progress and equality.

Do I sound “old-fashioned”? There is something to be said about old things. Some things endure because they have proven to work for the individual and for society at large. Nations built to last generally do; nations allowed to rot from within do just that.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Obama right to visit Hiroshima

veryone won’t agree on this, by any means, but I’m glad that President Obama will be making a stop at Hiroshima during his imminent trip to Japan.

I’m less concerned about whether such a visit would look like an apology to Japan than I am about our willingness to use the brutal deaths of many thousands of people as part of an argument, 71 years later, about who was right and who was wrong.

That fact is, the mass destruction of a large civilian population, such as the one that occurred at Hiroshima, ought to be considered — and commemorated — apart from the political and military circumstances in which it occurred.

I decline to take a position on whether Hiroshima was justified or necessary, or whether the deaths of 140,000 mostly noncombatant civilians balances with the many thousands or hundreds of thousands of American and Japanese lives that would probably have been lost during an invasion of Japan.

Ghastly calculations such as this one distract from the breathtaking event itself. On Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 based in Tinian, reached Hiroshima after a six-hour flight and dropped “Little Boy,” a small atomic bomb by

today’s standards, at 8:15 atomic bomb was dropped a.m. on Nagasaki a few days The bomb detonated later, the long war with about 2,000 feet above the Japan came to an end. city’s center. The classic acAnd who’s to say this wascount of the explosion’s n’t a fitting ending to our impact is in John Hersey’s global history’s most brutal short book, “Hiroshima,” and destructive war? published in Hiroshima gets 1946. Hersey inspecial considerterviewed suration because of vivors of the blast the first use of and recounted the atomic the stories of six bomb, but it of them, ordinary wasn’t the most people attending destructive to ordinary tasks episode of the on an ordinary war, even for a day. single air raid.

In some reOn March 9, spects, Hiroshi1945, 300 B-29s ma was an experdropped 1,665 iment. During tons of incendithe war, the city ary bombs on had been largely Tokyo, producspared from ing an immense John M. Crisp bomb damage, firestorm that teaches English and the atomic killed, by some at Del Mar bomb itself had estimates, been rushed College in Corpus 200,000 people. through develop- Christi, Texas.

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for the first time against a target.

But even the comparatively small “Little Boy” was surprisingly effective: The city’s center was essentially flattened; 80,000 people were killed almost immediately; within a few months the death toll reached 140,000; and after another

In a prequel to World War II, during six weeks in 1937, Japanese soldiers killed an estimated 300,000 unarmed Chinese civilians in Nanking.

In fact, given enough time, the human capacity for the destruction of other humans is impressive. During World War II, the Nazis

killed 6 million Jews. As the time frame gets longer and the numbers get higher, estimates of the destruction get hazier: Over the several centuries of the “conquest” of North America by Europeans, the death toll for American Indians soars into the uncountable tens of millions.

My point isn’t that all of these genocides were necessarily equivalent.

But at the time the destruction was being carried out, it had a rationale, whether good or bad, and few of the perpetrators were spending much time wondering if their actions, decades or centuries later, would be something that future generations would regret or need to apologize for.

As much as anything, Hiroshima says that we should be careful with the enormous destructive capacity that lies at our fingertips, which is why presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s cavalier attitude toward the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons is particularly worrisome.

So, yes, I’m happy that President Obama is visiting Hiroshima. If the opportunity arises, so should Donald Trump. And Hillary Clinton.

So should we all. jcrisp@delmar.edu

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Pastor drops Whole Foods lawsuit AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A gay Texas pastor who sued Whole Foods alleging that a cake he bought from the grocer had an anti-gay slur written on it in icing has dropped his lawsuit.

Jordan Brown, of Austin, issued an apology on Monday, saying he was “wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story.”

Whole Foods vigorously denied the allegation when Brown first came forward in April. The Austin American-Statesman reported that the company released surveillance video that it said showed Brown was lying and filed a countersuit against him.

The company said in a statement Monday that given Brown’s apology and public admission his story was false, it sees “no reason” to move forward with its lawsuit.

World leaders meet on Syria

By MATTHEW LEE and GEORGE JAHN Associated Press

VIENNA — World and regional powers met today in an attempt to overcome stubborn divisions among Syrian factions that have led to the rise of Islamic extremists and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since violence turned to war five years ago.

But the session is not expected to substantially advance efforts to find peace.

A diplomat familiar with the talks said participants

will agree on a document focusing on trying to firm up a shaky cease-fire and improving efforts to deliver humanitarian aid. He demanded anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss the statement before its release.

The talks include U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, as well as foreign ministers or other senior officials from more than 20 countries and organizations.

They were convened after discussions meant to re-

duce differences between rival factions sputtered to a halt last month in Geneva amid a flare-up in fighting.

Any statement is not expected to touch on the fate of Syrian President Bashar Assad. But going into the talks, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier repeated the position held by the West and the Saudi-backed opposition that a peace agreement should outline steps leading to the end of his rule.

“This is necessary because there can be no lasting future for this country

with Assad,” he told reporters. “This is why we must start negotiations here in Vienna ... about what a transition government could look like.”

The current effort to end the five-year Syria conflict was largely spearheaded by Kerry and Lavrov, backed by major global and regional powers that formed the International Syria Support Group.

A truce brokered by the U.S. and Russia sharply reduced violence in March, but has since been steadily eroding. The Vienna confer-

Dozens killed in Baghdad bombings

Babysitter allegedly takes kids to robbery SEVERANCE, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman is accused of taking two children she was babysitting to a bank robbery.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office said Rachel Einspahr, 28, went through the drive-through of a bank in Severance with the two children on Friday. She allegedly sent a note through the vacuum tube saying that there was a man in her car who wanted money and was threatening to hurt her children. Investigators say the teller at the Colorado East Bank & Trust in Severance gave her $500.

Sheriff’s office spokesman Matt Turner said there wasn’t a man in the car with them.

Einspahr was being held in jail Monday but hasn’t been formally charged.

Yellowstone bison calf euthanized HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A bison calf that tourists loaded into their vehicle at Yellowstone National Park because they were concerned for its welfare could not be reunited with its herd and had to be euthanized, park officials said Monday as they reasserted the importance of avoiding wildlife.

The incident last week and several other recent cases led to fresh warnings that park rules require visitors to stay at least 25 yards from all wildlife and 100 yards from bears and wolves.

Visitors brought the newborn calf to a park facility on May 9, which officials called a dangerous move because adult bison are protective and will attack to defend their young.

Rangers took the animal back to where it was picked up, but they could not get it back with the herd after several tries.

ence was called after U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura appealed last month to Washington and Moscow to directly intervene in putting the Syria dialogue back on track.

The Geneva talks foundered after the Western- and Saudi-backed opposition suspended formal participation in the indirect talks with Assad’s envoys to protest alleged government cease-fire violations, a drop in humanitarian aid deliveries and no progress in winning the release of detainees in Syria.

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press

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DEMONSTRATORS stood outside the Supreme Court building in March as the justices heard arguments in the Zubik v. Burwell case in Washington.

Justices return contraception case to lower courts for review

By ADAM LIPTAK

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, in an unsigned unanimous opinion, announced Monday that it would not rule in a major case on access to contraception and instructed lower courts to explore whether a compromise was possible.

The ruling was the latest indication that the eight-member Supreme Court is exploring every avenue to avoid 4-4 deadlocks, even if the resulting action does not decide the question it had agreed to address.

The case, Zubik v. Burwell, No. 14-1418, was brought by religious groups that object to providing insurance coverage for contraception to their female employees.

Less than a week after the case was argued in March, the court issued an unusual unsigned order asking the parties to submit sup-

plemental briefs on a possible compromise.

In Monday’s ruling, the court said those briefs suggested that a compromise was possible, but that it should be forged in the lower courts.

The Supreme Court urged the lower courts to “allow the parties sufficient time to resolve any outstanding issues between them.”

The justices emphasized that they were deciding nothing.

“The court expresses no view on the merits of the cases,” the opinion said. “In particular, the court does not decide whether petitioners’ religious exercise has been substantially burdened, whether the government has a compelling interest, or whether the current regulations are the least restrictive means of serving that interest.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a concurrence, which was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, un-

derscoring the limited nature of the court’s action and cautioning lower courts not to read anything into it.

“Today’s opinion does only what it says it does: ‘affords an opportunity’ for the parties and courts of appeals to reconsider the parties’ arguments in light of petitioners’ new articulation of their religious objection and the government’s clarification about what the existing regulations accomplish, how they might be amended, and what such an amendment would sacrifice,” Sotomayor wrote.

“As enlightened by the parties’ new submissions, the courts of appeals remain free to reach the same conclusion or a different one on each of the questions presented by these cases.”

The case was the court’s second encounter with the contraception requirement and the fourth time it has considered an aspect of the Affordable Care Act.

Low-income high-schoolers to get Pell grants for college courses

ISS makes 100,000th orbit of Earth

By JENNIFER C. KERR

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s 100,000 laps around Earth and counting for the International Space Station.

The space station reached the orbital milestone — 17½ years in the making — Monday morning. NASA said these 100,000 orbits are akin to traveling more than 2.6 billion miles. That’s equivalent to 10 round trips to Mars, or almost one way to Neptune.

Each orbit takes about 90 minutes; 16 orbits comprise a station day.

Astronauts have been living continuously aboard the 250-mile-high complex since 2000. Construction began two years before that. Since then, 222 people have lived or visited there, the vast majority of them — 189 — men, according to NASA. Altogether, there have been 47 permanent crews representing the U.S., Russian, Canadian, Japanese and European space agencies.

WASHINGTON — For the first time, thousands of low-income high-school students in nearly two dozen states will soon be able to get federal grants to take college courses for credit, part of a program the Obama administration plans to begin this summer.

The experimental program allows high school students to apply for federal Pell grant money to pay for college courses. The “dual enrollment” program is designed to help students from lower-income backgrounds.

The Education Department says the administration will invest about $20 million in the 2016-17 school year to help about 10,000 students.

On Monday, the administration announced 44 colleges that are expected to participate.

Education Secretary John B. King Jr. says too many students in need aren’t getting challenging coursework to help prepare and motivate them beyond high school.

“The courses students take while in high school and the support they get to succeed in those courses are major factors in not only whether students go to college but also in how well they will do when they get there,” King said in a call

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with reporters. “The more rigorous and engaging the classes are, the better.”

The schools had applied for the program after it was announced last October, and can start offering Pell grants to eligible students as early as July. Pell grants are for lowincome people and do not have to be repaid.

Most of the institutions selected for the dual enrollment program are community colleges.

Among the schools expected to take part: Germanna Community College in JOHN B. Fredericksburg, KING JR. Va.; Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, N.C.; Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown, Md.; Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Mass.; Illinois Central College in East Peoria, Ill.; and Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis, Tenn.

In the 2010-11 school year, more than 1.4 million high school students took courses offered by a college or university for credit through dual enrollment programs. By offering grant money to kids from

lower-income families, the administration is aiming to use the experimental program to help better prepare students in need for college.

According to the department, less than 10 percent of children born in the bottom fourth of household incomes earn a bachelor’s degree by age 25, compared to over 50 percent in the top fourth.

Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell said participating high school students would begin using their Pell eligibility while participating in the dual-enrollment program. The goal, he said, is that this program would lead directly to careers or a transfer into a fouryear degree program for students.

“Rather than burning Pell dollars, these Pell dollars will accelerate students’ trajectory toward completing a degree on time, or early, at cost, or lower cost,” Mitchell told reporters after the selected colleges were announced.

Pell amounts change each year.

For the 2016-17 award year that begins in July, the maximum award is $5,815. The amount a student receives varies, depending on financial need, cost of attendance, status as a full-time or part-time student, and other factors.

Students can receive Pell grants for no more than 12 semesters or roughly six years of college.

BAGHDAD — A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad today, killing at least 54 people, officials said — the latest in deadly militant attacks far from the front lines in the country’s north and west where Iraqi forces are battling the Islamic State group.

In an online statement, IS claimed responsibility for the deadliest bombing of the day, which took place in Baghdad’s northeastern Shaab neighborhood and where at least 28 people were killed and 65 others were wounded.

In that attack, a roadside bomb first exploded outside the concrete blast walls surrounding the open-air market, followed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up as people gathered to help the victims of the first explosion, a police officer said.

The IS statement said the attack was carried out by an Iraqi who targeted members of Shiite militias. The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of the statement but it was posted on a militant website commonly used by extremists.

A bit after the Shaab attack, a parked car bomb struck a fruitand-vegetable market in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Dora, in southern Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 22 others, another police officer said.

In Baghdad’s eastern Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, a suicide car bombing hit a crowded outdoor market, killing 18 people and wounding 35 others.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

Commercial and public places in Shiite-dominated areas are among the most frequent targets for the Sunni militants seeking to undermine the Iraqi government efforts to maintain security inside the capital. Since its blitz in the summer of 2014, IS has controlled significant areas in northern and western Iraq, including the country’s second-largest city of Mosul.

A wave of bombings in and around Baghdad over the past week has killed almost 200 people. But the Islamic State has not confined its latest attacks only to Baghdad.

Earlier today, Iraqi oil workers resumed work at a natural gas plant north of Baghdad, two days after a coordinated IS dawn assault left at least 14 people dead there, a senior Oil Ministry official said.

Sunday’s spectacular attack in the town of Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad, saw a suicide car bombing at the facility’s main gate, followed by several IS fighters breaking into the plant where they clashed with security forces for hours before the attackers were repelled.

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

Closed-circuit television images showed an explosion that sent thick black smoke rising above the plant. As flames engulfed the facility and nearby palm trees, pedestrians were seen running for cover. The top of one of the gas-processing units was blown off.

It took hours before Iraqi troops repelled the attackers.

Health

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Keep eyes healthy, safe

May is Healthy Vision Month. Celebrate with the National Eye Institute (NEI) by encouraging friends and family to make eye health a priority.

Your eyes are your windows to the world. Learn how to keep them healthy and safe.

GET A DILATED EYE EXAM Getting a comprehensive dilated eye exam is the only way to catch eye diseases early, because with many, there are no warning signs.

You might think your vision is in good shape or that your eyes are healthy, but visiting your eye doctor is the only way to be completely Dr. Rebecca certain.

Wincek When it Bateson, an comes to optometrist, common has a private vision practice at 678 problems, Philadelphia many comSt. mon eye diseases such as glaucoma and diabetic eye disease often have no early symptoms; an eye exam is the only way to detect these diseases in their early stages.

LIVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE Living healthy can lower your risk of eye disease. Living an overall healthy life is good for your eyes.

You can start taking steps toward living a healthy life by maintaining a healthy weight, eating healthy foods, not smoking and managing chronic conditions.

Many conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension and multiple sclerosis, can greatly impact vision, resulting in inflammation of the optic nerve, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and even blindness.

Managing these conditions with the help of your health care provider can often prevent these eye problems from occurring.

KNOW YOUR FAMILY HISTORY We get our eye color from our parents, but did you know that eye health can be hereditary, too? Talk to your family members — including parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles — about their eye health history. It’s important to know if anyone has been diagnosed with an eye disease, since many are hereditary. This will help to determine if you are at higher risk for developing an eye disease yourself.

USE PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR Keep your eyes protected when doing chores around the house, playing sports, or on the job.

Did you know that each day, about 2,000 U.S. workers have a job-related eye injury that requires medical treatment? Or that every 13 minutes, an ER in the United States treats a sports-related eye injury?

Protecting your eyes with the right eyewear can prevent those injuries from happening.

WEAR SUNGLASSES Most people know the sun’s rays are bad for our skin. But did you know they’re just as bad for our eyes? Sunglasses are a great fashion accessory, but their most important job is to protect your eyes from the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays.

Some of the sun’s effects on the eyes include cataracts, a clouding of the eye’s lens that can blur vision; macular degeneration, resulting from damage to the retina that destroys central vision; and pterygium, a tissue growth over the white part of the surface of the eye.

When purchasing sunglasses, look for ones that block out 99 percent to 100 percent of both UVA and UVB radiation. A widebrimmed hat offers great protection, too!

For more information visit www.aoa.org or https://nei. nih.gov/

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Patient receives 1st penis transplant in U.S.

By PHILIP MARCELO and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press

BOSTON — A 64-yearold cancer patient has received the nation’s first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many U.S. veterans maimed by roadside bombs.

In a case that represents the latest frontier in the growing field of reconstructive transplants, Thomas Manning, of Halifax, Mass., is faring well after the 15-hour operation last week, Massachusetts General Hospital said Monday.

His doctors said they are cautiously optimistic that Manning eventually will be able to urinate normally and function sexually again for the first time since aggressive penile cancer led to the amputation of the former bank courier’s genitals in 2012.

They said his psychological state will play a big role in his recovery.

“Emotionally he’s doing amazing. I’m really impressed with how he’s handling things. He’s just a positive person,” Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, who was among the lead surgeons on a team of more than 50, said at a news conference. “He wants to be whole again.

He does not want to be in the shadows.”

Manning, who is single and has no children, did not appear at the news conference but said in a statement: “Today I begin a new chapter filled with personal hope and hope for others who have suffered genital injuries. In sharing this success with all of you, it is my hope we can usher in a bright future for this type of transplantation.”

The identity of the deceased donor was not released.

SAM RILEY/Mass General Hospital

THOMAS MANNING gave a thumbs-up after being asked how he was feeling Friday following the first penis transplant in the United States.

The operation is highly experimental — only one other patient, in South Africa, has a transplanted penis. But four additional hospitals around the country have permission from the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation’s transplant system, to attempt the delicate surgery.

The loss of a penis, whether from cancer, accident or war injury, is emotionally traumatic, affecting urination, sexual intimacy and the ability to conceive a child. Many patients suffer in silence because of the stigma their injuries sometimes carry; Cetrulo said many become isolated and despondent.

Unlike traditional lifesaving transplants of hearts, kidneys or livers, reconstructive transplants are done to improve quality of life. And while a penis transplant may sound radical, it follows transplants of faces, hands and even the uterus.

“This is a logical next step,” said Dr. W. P. Andrew Lee, chairman of plastic

and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

His hospital is preparing for a penis transplant in a wounded veteran soon, and Lee said this new field is important for “people who want to feel whole again after the loss of important body parts.”

Still, candidates face some serious risks: rejection of the tissue, and side effects from the anti-rejection drugs that must be taken for life. Doctors are working to reduce the medication needed.

Penis transplants have generated intense interest among veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, but they will require more extensive surgery since their injuries, often from roadside bombs, tend to be more extensive, with damage to blood vessels, nerves and pelvic tissue that also will need repair, Lee noted.

The Department of Defense Trauma Registry has recorded 1,367 male service members who survived with genitourinary injuries between 2001 and 2013. It’s

not clear how many victims lost all or part of the penis.

A man in China received a penis transplant in 2005.

But doctors said he asked them to remove his new organ two weeks later because he and his wife were having psychological problems.

In December 2014, a 21year-old man in South Africa whose penis had been amputated following complications from circumcision in his late teens received a transplant.

Dr. Andre van der Merwe of the University of Stellenbosch told The Associated Press that the man is healthy, has normal sexual function and was able to conceive, although the baby was stillborn. But his recovery was difficult, with blood clots and infections, the doctor said.

For congenital abnormalities or transgender surgery, doctors can fashion the form of a penis from a patient’s own skin, using implants to achieve erection.

But transplanting a func-

tional penis requires connecting tiny blood vessels and nerves.

A bigger challenge than the surgery itself is finding donor organs.

“People are still reluctant to donate,” van der Merwe said. “There are huge psychological issues about donating your relative’s penis.”

In the U.S., people or their families who agree to donate organs such as the heart or lung must be asked separately about also donating a penis, hand or other body part, said Dr. Scott Levin, a hand transplant surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania and vice chairman of UNOS’ committee on reconstructive transplants.

In Boston, Cetrulo said the transplanted penis has good blood flow and so far shows no signs of rejection.

He said that Manning should be released from the hospital soon, and that the surgery had three aims: ensuring the transplanted penis looks natural, is capable of normal urination — which he hopes will resume in a few weeks — and eventually normal sexual function.

Reproduction won’t be possible, he said, since Manning did not receive new testes.

Dr. Dicken Ko, who directs the hospital’s urology program, said Manning has been shown post-operation photos but hasn’t actually seen his new penis, since it is still bandaged.

A big test, Ko said, will be when reconnected nerves start to take hold, bringing feeling back to the organ.

“We don’t know how he would feel until that times comes,” he said.

Associated Press writers Patrick Mairs in Philadelphia and Maria Cheng in London contributed to this report. Neergaard reported from Washington.

Stroke happens regardless of age, race, gender Mayo Clinic News Network May is National Stroke Awareness Month, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke.

Often called a brain attack, a stroke occurs when a blockage stops the flow of blood to the brain or when a blood vessel in or around the brain bursts.

Although many people think of stroke as a condition that affects only older adults, strokes occur in people of all ages.

“Your stroke risk does increase as

you age, but stroke can happen to anyone, regardless of age, gender or race,” says Dr. David Miller, medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus.

While death rates for stroke are falling, it remains the leading cause of disability in the U.S., according to the 2015 update from the American Heart Association, which estimates issues such as paralysis, speech difficulties, memory issues and emotional problems are significant in stroke patients.

“Recognizing the signs and

symptoms of stroke, and getting emergent medical attention is critical, since some of the treatments are time sensitive,” Dr. Miller says.

“Thanks to advances in technology and medicine, we now have new treatments and therapies to treat stroke and reduce one’s risk of permanent damage — or death.

But, the faster we can accurately diagnose a stroke and begin treatment, the better possible outcome.”

KNOW THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS Stroke symptoms typically occur

suddenly and affect one side of the body. The most common signs of stroke include: • Weakness or numbness in the arms or legs • Difficulty speaking or understanding • Facial drooping • Loss of balance or coordination • Double or blurry vision, or sudden blindness in one eye • Severe or unusual headache If you recognize one or any of these signs and symptoms, call 911. Stroke is a medical emergency.

Senior health about more than disease

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON — Grandma’s cholesterol is OK, but maybe the doctor should be asking about her social life, too.

Think about health during the senior years, and a list of common ailments pops to mind.

But that’s not the whole story.

New research suggests factors such as loneliness and whether they’ve broken any bones since middle age also play a role in the well-being of older adults.

In fact, layering on that extra information better predicts whether a senior’s next five years will be fairly robust or whether they’re at higher risk for death or disability than just focusing on what chronic diseases they have, researchers reported Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Aging is not a linear process of wear and tear,” said University of Chicago biopsychologist Martha McClintock, who led the study.

“It’s a different way of thinking about aging.”

Using a government study of 3,000 middle-aged and older people, the researchers compared the medical conditions that doctors look for in the average check-up — blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, cancer

“AGING IS not a linear process of wear and tear. It’s a different way of thinking about aging.”

Martha McClintock, biopsychologist

— with information about psychological health, mobility, hearing and other sensory capabilities, and additional characteristics of day-to-day functioning.

Of course, having a cluster of serious diseases and being frail can mean a greater risk of death. Having uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure was particularly risky on top of other illnesses.

But factoring in the extra harder-to-measure characteristics showed some seniors with chronic diseases actually were more likely to survive the next five years than their medical charts indicate.

And about half who by disease diagnoses alone would be considered healthy really were more vulnerable to decline, the study found.

Those extra factors “are harbingers, they’re canaries in the coal mine of some biological processes that are aging,” said McClintock, who hopes the findings spur policymakers to focus more on these other nondisease condi-

tions of aging.

The work may help redefine how doctors determine older patients’ vigor and quality of life, said Dr. John Haaga of the National Institute on Aging, which funded the research.

“We really have to look at more than the collection of diagnoses that they have.

We’ve got to look at some of these life circumstances and really ask a few questions about mental health, about recent events, that will help trigger more watchful care,” he said.

Among the findings: • Poor mental health, which affects 1 in 8 older adults, makes people more vulnerable to certain illnesses.

The researchers weren’t measuring a diagnosis of depression, long known to complicate overall health.

Instead, they asked whether people feel lonely, if they’re socially isolated, if they have trouble sleeping, if they’re anxious or stressed or have low selfesteem.

Why did that matter?

Separately, McClinton has studied the biology behind social isolation in rats caged separately or in groups, and found the loners got more aggressive breast cancer sooner, with a worse prognosis.

The isolation triggered physiologic changes — hormones that overreacted to the stressors of everyday life, and differences in fatty breast tissue that supported the growth of

cancer cells.

• Breaking a bone any time since age 45 is a marker of future health problems.

That’s surprising, and needs further study, said NIA’s Haaga, adding that meanwhile it’s something doctors might consider.

A broken hip during the senior years has long been known to send patients on a downward spiral.

But this study implicated long-healed fractures of any type as early as middle age to poor health later on.

Those breaks might be an early signal of bone-thinning osteoporosis, or the beginning of balance and muscle problems that increase the risk of later frailty, Haaga speculated.

• Good mobility — no

trouble walking quickly or getting up from chairs — is one of the best indicators of well-being.

Indeed, prior fractures were a risk for poor later mobility.

• Obesity seems to pose little risk to seniors as long as they’re otherwise in good physical and mental health — without the diabetes or heart disease that so often accompanies extra pounds.

Haaga noted there’s controversy about whether being overweight in the senior years is helpful.

• Sensory function — problems with hearing, vision and smell — also plays a role in seniors’ vulnerability. McClintock said it contributes to social isolation, mobility and nutrition.

Acupuncture & Fibromyalgia According to a recent study, acupuncture may help ease fibromyalgia pain.

After ten weeks of treatment, patients reported a 41% drop in pain in the acupuncture group compared to a 27% reduction in a group given a simulated acupuncture treatment. Fibromyalgia is a condition characterized by chronic, widespread pain; the nervous system is sending an abundance of pain signals to the brain. Acupuncture may help by calming the nervous system and slowing the pain signals. It may also improve blood flow which can improve oxygenation of tissues. Experts say that

By Rob Kasisky, R.PH. acupuncture may be a good adjunct therapy.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Tuesday, May 17, the 138th day of 2016.

There are 228 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 17, 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.

On this date: In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street.

In 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides, ridden by Oliver Lewis.

In 1912, the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene V. Debs for president at its convention in Indianapolis.

In 1939, Britain’s King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in Quebec on the first visit to Canada by a reigning British monarch.

In 1940, the Nazis occupied Brussels during World War II. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation’s railroads, delaying — but not preventing — a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.

In 1961, Cuban leader Fidel Castro offered to release prisoners captured in the Bay of Pigs invasion in exchange for 500 bulldozers. (The prisoners were eventually freed in exchange for medical supplies.)

In 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.

In 1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.

In 1987, 37 American sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane at-

tacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. (Iraq apologized for the attack, calling it a mistake, and paid more than $27 million in compensation.)

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. (“Megan’s Law,” as it’s known, was named for Megan Kanka, a 7-yearold New Jersey girl who was raped and murdered in 1994.)

In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.

Ten years ago: The FBI began digging at a Michigan horse farm in search of the remains of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa; the two-week search yielded no evidence. It was announced that Paul McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, had agreed to separate.

Broadway producer Cy Feuer died in New York at age 95.

Five years ago: Queen Elizabeth II began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier. (Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, had announced their separation on May 9, 2011.)

Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, 74, died in Scottsdale, Ariz.

One year ago: A shootout erupted between bikers and police outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, leaving nine of the bikers dead and 20 people injured.

The contested city of Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s largest province, fell to the Islamic State group in a

major loss despite intensified U.S.-led airstrikes.

Pope Francis canonized Sisters Mariam Bawardy and Marie Alphonsine Ghattas, two nuns from what was 19th-century Palestine, in hopes of encouraging Christians across the Middle East who were facing a wave of persecution from Islamic extremists.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Peter Gerety is 76. Singer Taj Mahal is 74. Rock musician Bill Bruford is 67.

Singer-musician George Johnson (The Brothers Johnson) is 63. TV personality Kathleen Sullivan is 63.

Actor Bill Paxton is 61.

Boxing Hall-of-Famer Sugar Ray Leonard is 60.

Actor-comedian Bob Saget is 60. Sports announcer Jim Nantz is 57.

Singer Enya is 55. Talk show host-actor Craig Ferguson is 54.

Rock singer-musician Page McConnell is 53.

Actor David Eigenberg is 52. Singer-musician Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) is 51.

Actress Paige Turco is 51.

Rhythm-and-blues musician O’Dell (Mint Condition) is 51. Actor Hill Harper is 50. TV personality/interior designer Thom Filicia is 47.

Singer Jordan Knight is 46.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Darnell Van Rensalier (Shai) is 46. Actress Sasha Alexander is 43.

Rock singer-musician Josh Homme is 43. Rock singer Andrea Corr (The Corrs) is 42.

Actor Sendhil Ramamurthy is 42. Actress Rochelle Aytes is 40.

Singer Kandi Burruss is 40.

Actress Kat Foster is 38.

Actress Ayda Field is 37.

Actress Ginger Gonzaga is 33.

Folk-rock singer/songwriter Passenger is 32.

Dancer-choreographer Derek Hough is 31. Actor Tahj Mowry is 30. Actress Nikki Reed is 28.

Singer Kree Harrison (TV: “American Idol”) is 26. Actress Leven Rambin is 26. Actress Samantha Browne-Walters is 25.

Actor Justin Martin is 22.

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Wife eager to get pregnant must face stalling husband DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together for eight years, but married only a few months.

It took him a long time to finally marry me, and it ended up that I was the one to propose.

I am 30 and he’s 39. I know he loves me.

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When I try to get him in the mood, he always finds an excuse.

I told him he has had plenty of time to let me know if he doesn’t want children.

I love him more than anything, but I do not want to miss out on being a parent.

This is a deal-breaker.

I am getting older and I don’t know what to do. — FUTURE MOMMY IN WISCONSIN DEAR FUTURE MOMMY: Settle this now by asking

DEAR ABBY

your husband directly why he is either unwilling or unable to perform in the bedroom.

You are entitled to an explanation, because he may be having second thoughts not only about starting a family, but also the marriage.

If he has changed his mind about having children, talk to a lawyer because you may be able to get an annulment.

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend who is in the Navy.

We have been friends for a year and a half, but have never met in person. He’s 19 and I’m 17.

We Skype at least once a week.

He has fallen for me and doesn’t know what to do because he’s in an arranged marriage he doesn’t want to be in.

He doesn’t know the girl, doesn’t know what she looks like or even know her name.

All he knows is she lives in Russia.

I have fallen for him, too.

He is only going through with the marriage because his grandparents did it. I thought I would ask for some advice on what I should do. — MISS CONFUSED DEAR MISS CONFUSED: Are you sure this person is who he has represented himself to be? “Because his grandparents did it” is not a good reason to go through with a marriage to a stranger.

If his story is true, it appears this young man’s family has his future mapped out for him, and he isn’t independent enough to resist.

If you continue this Skype romance, I see nothing but sadness ahead for you.

You would be happier if you found someone closer to home, someone whom you can meet in person.

DEAR ABBY: I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I say yes to everything!

I say yes to people I don’t even want to.

I agree to plans that override those I have already made.

Then I have to lie my way out of events and other stuff I don’t want to do, or never had any intention of ever doing. I need help. It’s ruining my life.

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Danson to return to NBC with new comedy

By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — Ted Danson returns to NBC’s Thursday night lineup this fall as part of a conservative scheduling strategy announced Sunday for a network that is holding off much of its new material for other times in the year.

NBC also reached a lastminute deal with producers of the popular comedy “The Carmichael Show� to bring it back next season.

The network released its scheduling plans Sunday in advance of Monday’s presentation to advertisers in New York, the first of the broadcasters that will do so this week.

Danson, the memorable barkeep in “Cheers� on NBC more than two decades ago, will star in “The Good Place.� He plays Kristen Bell’s guide to the afterlife in a comedy produced by Michael Schur, whose credits include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine� and “Parks and Recreation.� “It’s basically a redemptive story about a young woman who hasn’t made the best choices in life finding herself with a chance to course correct,� said Jen-

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JOHN LITHGOW, right, and Nicholas D’Agosto are shown in a scene from the pilot episode of “Trial & Error.� nifer Salke, NBC Entertainment president.

The network is doing some schedule shuffling, moving the sophomore thriller “Blindspot� from Monday to Wednesday, the drama “Chicago Med� from Tuesday to Thursday and “The Blacklist� back an hour to 10 p.m. on Thursday nights.

But of the 12 new series

NBC plans to introduce next season, only three are on the fall schedule. Besides “The Good Place,� the other two are the dramas “Timeless,� about a criminal who steals a secret time machine with the goal of destroying America by changing its past, and “This is Us,� a drama-comedy starring Mandy Moore about three strangers

whose lives intersect in odd ways.

Among the shows NBC plans to roll out later in the year are “Chicago Justice,� the fourth in Dick Wolf’s series of Chicago dramas, a spinoff of “The Blacklist,� a remake of the movie “Taken,� a “Wizard of Oz� reimagining, a comedy based on Marlon Wayans’ life and another comedy

that will return John Lithgow to NBC’s schedule with “Trial & Error.� Also returning later is Steve Harvey’s kids’ show “Little Big Shots� and “Celebrity Apprentice� with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which won’t be on the air until the electoral fate of the show’s original host, Donald Trump, is known.

The strategy illustrates the changing nature of TV, when new shows premiere year-round, and NBC touts its stability. But the conservative fall lineup is noticeable in a year where NBC has the powerful platform of the Summer Olympics in August to promote its programming. “For the first time in a long time we’re not running around throwing shows up against the wall and hoping for the best,� said Robert Greenblatt, NBC Entertainment chairman.

NBC will take advantage of the Olympics attention by airing an episode of the comedy “Superstore� during the Games, and when they conclude in late August will air a new reality show that follows Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw and George Foreman on a trip across Asia.

TED DANSON NBC executives and Twentieth Century Fox Television were haggling over the number of episodes of “The Carmichael Show� that would be ordered for next season. They settled on 13, announcing the show’s pickup three hours after the network had released next season’s schedule. It’s unclear when the show will be back on the air.

NBC said it still is discussing whether one of its high-profile pilots, a remake of the movie “Cruel Intentions� starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, will find a place on its schedule.

Fox’s lineup includes two new fall dramas and a comedy

By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — Fox’s fall schedule will feel like a trip to the multiplex, with its two new dramas being remakes of the popular movies “Lethal Weapon� and “The Exorcist� and a one-time new version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show� booked for Halloween week.

The network unveiled its first season schedule in a decade and a half without “American Idol,� announcing a total of 11 new series.

They include a short run of a familiar Fox franchise, “24: Legacy,� which will premiere in February directly after Fox’s broadcast of the Super Bowl. “Lethal Weapon,� which will air on Wednesday nights prior to Fox’s most popular show, “Empire,� stars Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans Sr. as the crime-fighting duo Riggs and Murtaugh. “The Exorcist� will air on Fridays, the story centered around two priests trying to cure a family of demonic possession. “This is an intense psychological thriller that’s scary as hell,� said Gary Newman, chairman and CEO of the Fox Television Group.

Premiering two familiar titles in the fall gives Fox a leg up on marketing since viewers are already familiar with the concepts, said

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Actress Laverne Cox is featured as Dr. Frank-nFurter in the new version of “Rocky Horror.� Tim Curry, featured in the 1975 original movie, will appear as narrator.

As is becoming typical in television, fall is no longer the sole premiere season.

Fox will sprinkle new series throughout the year, and promised that more than 90 percent of its schedule next season will be original programming. “Our audience is not interested in repeats and that requires a tremendous amount of original programming,� Walden said. “Empire� creator Lee Daniels is making a new music-based series, “Star,� which will take over the “Empire� time slot when the established show goes on a midseason hiatus.

Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt are featured in “Star,� which follows three singers trying to make it in show biz.

The drama “Pitch� is about the first woman trying to make it Major League Baseball, and its premiere will coincide with the start of the next baseball season.

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Fox is bringing back “Prison Break� for a shortrun event series. Network executives also said the stars and creator of “The XFiles� are on board to make more episodes, but they won’t be ready for the upcoming season.

Midseason comedies include “The Mick,� with Kaitlin Olson starring as a young hustler, and “Making History,� a time-travel story about three friends from different centuries.

The reality series “Kicking & Screaming� will pair survivalists with nature-phobic partners in a competition Walden described as

“‘Simple Life’ meets ‘The Amazing Race.’� “Bones� will begin its final season on Fox next year.

Fox also defended the renewal of “Sleepy Hollow� for a fourth season despite some unusual criticism from fans who wondered whether it was worth bringing the show back after one of its two lead characters, Abbie Mills, was killed off.

The renewal doesn’t necessarily mean it will be the last season; Walden said there were still stories to tell involving the Ichabod Crane character. “While there was backlash, there was also a

tremendous amount of enthusiasm about the show being back,� Walden said.

Television Writer Frazier Moore contributed to this report.

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Chevy Chase kitchen renovation finished

By CHAUNCEY ROSS

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Leaders at the Chevy Chase Community Center in White Township unveiled the center’s newlook kitchen and welcomed guests Friday at an open house.

With community support including donated materials and supplies, cash contributions, donations from businesses and contractors and volunteer labor, the center’s kitchen has been renovated with all new furnishings and appliances from floor to ceiling.

Ellen Ruddock, of Indiana, the leader of a volunteer fundraising and project coordination team, said the center serves meals daily for children attending the New Story school, and prepares an average of 30 meals a day for challenged individuals from group

homes in the region and neighborhood residents.

The center also operates summer meal programs for students and plans to reinstate an after-school program that includes tutoring, age-appropriate activities and a hot meal.

“The kitchen is now safe and efficient,” Ruddock said. She said the dishwasher, range and ovens had problems that kept them from working to full capacity.

“They now have a gas range with six burners and a griddle, two ovens and a warmer.

They also have a fire suppression system for safety.

Instead of two aging refrigerators and several freezers, they now have one energy-efficient refrigerator and one freezer adequate in size to meet all their needs,” Ruddock said.

Soup kitchen service at

President bestows Medals of Valor Continued from Page 1 endorsing protesters’ complaints about racial profiling and mistreatment by police.

In his remarks on Monday, Obama steered that conversation toward his push for a sentencing overhaul and other changes to the justice system, an effort that has found backing in both camps.

Obama said he holds out hope that legislation can be passed this year despite the heavily politicized climate ahead of the November election.

The need for change has been a rare point of common ground between Democrats and Republicans, and though momentum appeared to have sputtered earlier this year, a new Senate proposal has raised hopes that the issue can be successfully revived.

One of those honored, Police Maj. David Huff, of Midwest City, Okla., saved a 2-year-old girl being held at knifepoint after negotiations with her captor deteriorated.

“Obviously, the last few moments were tense. There was a countdown going on,” Huff told reporters after the ceremony. “There was just no way I was going to let that little child get hurt.”

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation’s top law enforcement official, said there were no words or medals that could begin to pay the debt the country owes the officers.

“It has often been said that the price of freedom is constant vigilance,” Lynch said. “Know this: they pay that price on our behalf.”

One Philadelphia officer died from a gunshot wound and was honored posthumously. Sgt. Robert Wilson III drew fire from assailants during a robbery while saving store employees and customers. Wilson’s family accepted the award on his behalf.

“We honor those who didn’t come home,” the president said.

The other officers honored with the medal Monday are: • Miami-Dade police Officer Mario Gutierrez, who was stabbed multiple times while subduing a knife-wielding man who tried to set off a massive gas explosion that could have caused massive casualties.

• Johnson City, N.Y., Patrolman Louis Cioci, who chased and captured at a crowded hospital a gunman who had just killed a fellow officer. Investigators believe Cioci saved the lives of hospital staff, patients and visitors.

• Los Angeles police Officer Donald Thompson for, while off duty, crossing two freeway dividers and braving first- and second-degree burns while pulling an unconscious man from a burning car to safety.

• Omaha, Neb., police Officer Coral Walker, who shot and killed a man who had killed and injured multiple people during a shooting rampage.

• North Miami, Fla., police Officer Niel Johnson, who endured gunfire from an assault weapon in pursuing and capturing a man who had shot a Miami police officer and two bystanders.

• FBI Special Agent Tyler Call, who while off duty with his family helped rescue a woman whose exhusband was holding her at gunpoint.

• Niagara County, New York, sheriff’s Deputy Joey Tortorella, who confronted and subdued a gunman who had shot and wounded his parents inside their home, preventing the gunman from threatening the safety of students at a nearby elementary school.

the Chevy Chase center has expanded from two to five days because of the upgrades to the kitchen.

The programs there, Ruddock said, serve people in need from every ZIP code in Indiana County.

Ruddock headed a corps of former winners of the Athena Award to generate funds for the project. The Athena is awarded annually in recognition of professional excellence, community service and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills.

Contributors may address donations to Chevy Chase Community Action Council Inc., 640 N. Fifth St., Indiana, PA 15701, and earmark checks for “kitchen project.”

The center is registered as a nonprofit organization.

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THE CHEVY CHASE Community Center held an open house last week to show off renovations that were recently completed. Pictured, from left, are Patti Holmes, board member; Beverly Stiffler, director; Shirley Neal, kitchen assistant; and Lera Veney, lead cook.

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LONGTIME Indiana resident Chuck Mikesell used a reel lawn mower to cut his grass Monday, after a rain-filled weekend.

He said he finds that the manual mower is all he needs for the size of his yard in the 600 block of Locust Street.

Senate set to approve $1.1B in Zika funding Continued from Page 1 summer mosquito season, but officials say outbreaks in the U.S. are likely to be limited. To date, there have been more than 500 cases of Zika in the continental U.S., all of which so far have been associated with overseas travel.

Obama requested the funding in February and has been forced to tap unspent 2015 funds from the successful battle against Ebola to finance almost $600 million in antiZika efforts. They include research on the virus and Zika-related birth defects, response teams to limit Zika’s spread, and helping other countries fight the virus.

The White House and its Democratic allies have been sharply critical of Republicans controlling Congress over delays in providing additional funds, which they say is required for mosquito control, purchasing diagnostic tests and developing and manufacturing a vaccine.

House Republicans on Monday unveiled their Zika proposal, which would slice Obama’s request to $622 million and pair it with offsetting spending cuts to unspent Ebola funding and leftover money at the Department of Health and Human Services. The House measure will advance as a stand-alone bill.

“This funding is critical to stop the spread of Zika, and to protect our most vulnerable people both here at home and abroad. Every child de-

serves the chance at a full and healthy life, and every mother deserves to see her child thrive,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky. But Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, the top Democrat on the panel, said the GOP proposal will delay work on vaccines and diagnostic testing and doesn’t provide enough money to control mosquitoes. “Pinching pennies on these basic investments will inevitably heighten costs — in dollars and lives — down the road,” Lowey said.

The bipartisan Senate measure was negotiated by Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Patty Murray, D-Wash. It is relatively close to what the White House has asked for, except it does not pay back very much of the alreadytapped Ebola money or give Puerto Rico, a Zika hot spot, help with its Medicaid program.

The administration is urging lawmakers to deliver additional antiZika funds before Congress recesses for Memorial Day. A more likely deadline is early to mid-July, when lawmakers leave Washington for a seven-week recess.

An alternative Senate plan by Florida Democrat Bill Nelson and GOP Sen. Marco Rubio that largely mirrors Obama’s request is unlikely to overcome a filibuster, as is a GOP proposal by Texas Sen. John Cornyn that taps a prevention fund established under the Affordable Care Act to offset the Zika funding.

Pall hangs over voting in Ky., Ore. Continued from Page 1 bottle amid the ruckus. “There’s no reason to do that. That’s the kind of shenanigans that they do on the other side.”

On Monday the ugliness continued as the Nevada Democratic Party kept its offices closed for security reasons and wrote a letter to the Democratic National Committee warning of what it called the Sanders campaign’s “penchant for extra-parliamentary behavior — indeed, actual violence — in place of democratic conduct in a convention setting.” The party’s lawyer, Bradley S. Schrager, said Sanders’ supporters may use similar tactics at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Monday that it “is investigating threats being made to the Democratic office/members.”

The Nevada dissension does not change the likely outcome of the Democratic nominating contest, in which Clinton holds a commanding lead in pledged delegates and is expected to lock up enough to clinch the party’s presidential nomination following primaries on June 7. But it points to the challenges Clinton will face in converting Sanders’

supporters to her side as Trump also targets disaffected Democrats who supported the Vermont senator.

Trump has repeatedly talked about how Sanders is being treated poorly by the party establishment, and his aides suggest he could make inroads among some of the voters who have backed Sanders’ insurgent bid. Sanders himself often criticizes Trump as a racist in his stump speech, but he has said the responsibility for Democratic unity lies largely with Clinton.

Clinton has been preaching unity. After notching a big win in Pennsylvania’s primary on April 26, she said, “Whether you support Sen. Sanders or support me, there’s much more that unites us than divides us.”

Steve Schale, a Florida consultant who ran Barack Obama’s campaigns in that state, said he thinks Sanders voters will return to the fold. He said that Clinton is winning a larger share of Democratic votes in current polling than Obama did at this point in 2008.

“Empirically, despite the public acrimony that’s going on between volunteers, the data says we’re going into this more unified than we were eight years

ago,” Schale said.

Nevada was the third state to vote in the Democratic nominating contest, but it has continued to be a flashpoint for months.

Clinton won the February statewide Nevada caucuses 5347. But Sanders supporters flooded county conventions that would select delegates to Saturday’s state convention, hoping to give their candidate an edge on actual delegates who would be sent to Philadelphia.

Sanders issued a statement on Friday night calling for backers to work together “respectfully and constructively” at Saturday’s convention. But Sanders’ supporters did not seem to heed his advice. They booed when a set of convention rules was adopted over their objections, forcing Lange to bang the gavel in futile attempts to restore order.

“So many of these young people who have worked so hard want to make the country a better place, and I feel like they were shut out,” said Erin Bilbray, a Sanders’ supporter who’s one of Nevada’s eight superdelegates. “I was really, really heartbroken.”

Anger swelled further after a credentials committee disqualified nearly 60 would-be Sanders’ delegates, saying they didn’t pro-

vide proper identifying information or were not registered Democratic voters by a May 1 deadline. The Clinton campaign turned out 33 more supporters to the convention than the Sanders campaign, enough to cement a 20-15 edge among Nevada delegates heading to Philadelphia.

As the event dragged on three hours past its scheduled end, hotel security said they could no longer staff the event and it was closed down.

In a statement, the state party accused the Sanders campaign of “deliberately sharing misinformation about how the convention operates to get people riled up. And after starting this fire, they had no — and no desire — to control their own supporters from hurling threats and insults and being disruptive to the proceedings.”

Tick Segerblom, a Nevada state senator and Sanders’ backer, said in an interview Monday that he didn’t think the state party did anything improper but that it needed to reach out to the Sanders’ supporters.

“They need to know the process was fair,” Segerblom said. “When one side says it wasn’t fair, you tend to listen to that.”

Many charges dismissed against ex-mayor

By MARC LEVY Associated Press

HARRISBURG — Former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed won the dismissal of 305 of the 449 charges against him Monday in a case in which prosecutors accused Reed of illegally spending public money to buy thousands of artifacts for museums that were never built.

The order, by Senior Judge Kevin Hess in Dauphin County, agreed with Reed’s lawyer Henry E. Hockeimer Jr. that the statute

of limitations had expired on the counts.

However, Hess left intact charges that stemmed from investigators allegedly finding scores of the city-owned artifacts, including antique firearms, in Reed’s home or a separate storage facility, and his alleged attempts to sell the firearms on consignment. The artifacts also included a life-size sarcophagus, a full suit of armor and a life-size buffalo head.

“We’re pleased with the decision,” Hockeimer said. “We be-

lieve that this has been an illconceived prosecution from the start, and we look forward to vigorously contesting the remaining charges at trial.”

A trial date has not been scheduled for Reed, 66, who served 28 years in office. During his time in office, prosecutors say he obtained the money for the purchases by secretly diverting funds borrowed by municipal agencies and other entities for other purposes that later helped the debt-laden city careen toward bankruptcy.

Reed’s lawyer has argued that Reed carried out the activities in public view with signoff from other government agencies.

Reed left office in January 2010, and Hess ruled the statute of limitations expired in January 2015, six months before Reed was charged.

The state attorney general’s office could not immediately say whether it would appeal Monday’s decision.

It had argued that the statute of limitations should have run another eight years.

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INDIANA COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Part of a dynasty Shoemaker earned three rings at Mount Union • EDITOR’S NOTE: This is

third of a seven-part series profiling the individuals who will be inducted into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame. Tomorrow: Garry Wurm.

R.K. SHOEMAKER

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TEAMMATES MOBBED Sidney Crosby after he scored the game-winning goal 40 seconds into overtime to pull the Penguins even with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference finals.

Sid Shows Up

Crosby ends scoring drought with first career OT winner

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PENGUINS vs. LIGHTNING

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PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby wasn’t sure Bryan Rust saw him, so the Pittsburgh Penguins captain gave his impromptu linemate a quick yell just to make sure.

“I tried to let him know I was there,” Crosby said.

A deft drop pass from Rust and a flick of Crosby’s wrist later, the superstar’s lengthy postseason scoring drought was over. So were the chances of the Penguins falling into a deep hole against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference finals.

Crosby’s shot sailed high and hard over Andrei Vasilevskiy’s stick 40 seconds into overtime on Monday night, lifting the Penguins to a 3-2 victory and tying the best-of-seven series at 1. Game 3 is Wednesday night in Tampa.

“It feels good to get rewarded,” Crosby said after collecting the first overtime playoff winner of his NHL career. “I feel we deserved it tonight.”

Crosby hadn’t scored a goal since Game 4 of the opening round against the New York Rangers — a stretch of

Best-of-7; x-if necessary Lightning lead series 1-0 All Games at 8 p.m.

Game 1: Lightning 3, Penguins 1 Game 2: Penguins 3, Lightning 2 (OT) Wednesday: Penguins at Lightning Friday: Penguins at Lightning Sunday: Lightning at Penguins x-Tuesday, May 24: Penguins at Lightning x-Thursday, May 26: Lightning at Penguins eight games — though Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper downplayed the idea that the two-time MVP was in a slump, pointing out a cold streak for Crosby is a hot streak for most others.

Yet most others aren’t Crosby. With his team in danger of heading south down 2-0, Crosby generated scoring chance after scoring chance, including a backhand in the second period that appeared destined for an open net before Vasilevskiy stretched his glove out to make a save that could

have tilted the balance of power in the series.

Instead, it only seemed to lift the Penguins to another level. Pittsburgh dominated most of the night, outshooting Tampa Bay 41-21 while spending most of the game in the Lightning zone. Only the brilliant play of the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy — filling in for injured starter Ben Bishop — kept Tampa Bay in it.

“He was outstanding,” Cooper Continued on Page 17

MLB: Pirates 8, Braves 5

Joyce jumps on opportunity

By JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Matt Joyce made the most of his opportunity filling in for Starling Marte.

Joyce homered for one of his three hits and drove in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.

Gregory Polanco had three hits and three runs scored, and Jon Niese pitched six effective innings to help the Pirates snap a fourgame home losing streak.

Joyce stepped into the starting lineup and played right field as Marte was placed on the paternity list before the game after his wife gave birth to their daughter Monday morning. Polanco moved from right field to left to take Marte’s spot on defense.

“We have a very talented outfield here so it’s tough to crack the lineup very often,” Joyce said. “I’m just happy to contribute when I get an opportunity.”

Joyce is hitting .372 with five home runs after signing a minor league contract early in Continued on Page 14

It’s difficult not to imagine what could have been.

It might be even harder when you’re denied the opportunity to truly find out.

Richard “R.K.” Shoemaker, whose senior year and college football career ended abruptly with a knee injury, can only look back fondly on an improbable run that netted him three national championship rings over his first three seasons at Mount Union College in the late 1990s.

Always on the move and hard at work with a fast motor and vigorous build, Shoemaker still sports the image of a blue-collar, homegrown athleteturned-collegiate star nearly two decades since he first donned a practice jersey in Alliance, Ohio.

Shoemaker, 38, the son of Richard L. and Willa and the third-generation owner and director of Shoemaker Funeral Home and Monuments, is a native of Blairsville. Tasked with the eventual upkeep of the family business, along with his sisters, he quickly acquired a consummate work ethic that his former coaches continue to rave about today. He will be inducted into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday as part of the Class of 2016.

An all-around athlete who played soccer and basketball and competed in track and field, Shoemaker made his mark on the football field as the anchor and leader at center on Blairsville High School’s stout offensive line.

Intent on continuing his playing days after high school, he put college on hold for a year to attend The Kiski School, an allmale boarding and preparatory school in Saltsburg, which undoubtedly readied

Indians’ season ends in first round

By JUSTIN GERWICK

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him for the rigorous life of a full-time student athlete.

It was after he left Indiana County, though, that Shoemaker witnessed and contributed to one of the greatest winning traditions in modern football, even if it ended just a little too soon.

“What was nice about Mount was you fulfilled a lot of dreams with, one, playing ball at another level, and two, you won some national championships,” Shoemaker said.

“If I could go back, I wouldn’t change my position for anything. I loved playing the line and I loved where I went. It was definitely an experience, that if Continued on Page 15

WPIAL BASEBALL PLAYOFFS: Mars 6, Indiana 2

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MATT JOYCE was greeted in the Pirates dugout after he hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning Monday night.

Age: 38 Hometown: Blairsville Occupation: Owner/ director of Shoemaker Funeral Home and Monuments Family: Father, Richard L.; mother, Willa; wife, Meghan; sons, Richard III “Tripp” and Waylon; and sisters Melissa and Kelly.

Career highlights: Standout offensive lineman at Blairsville High School and The Kiski School ...

Three-year letterman at Mount Union College, which won three consecutive NCAA Division III championships during what was then an all-divisions record 54-game win streak in 1996 to ’99.

NATRONA HEIGHTS — Indiana knew its prospects would have been better heading into the firstround WPIAL Class AAA playoff game against Mars if things had gone a bit differently during the regular season.

With seven seniors and a 2015 Section 2-AAA championship in tow, the Indians expected to defend their title and draw a higher seed and more favorable matchup come playoff time.

But the Indians tripped at times and fell down the rankings before forcing their way back into the No. 2 spot in their section.

And what Indiana ended up with was a 6-2 loss to Mars, the No. 1 team from the highly competitive Section 5AAA, at Highlands High School on Monday.

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Indians’ season ends in first round Continued from Page 13 them down Monday. Indiana (9-9) left 11 runners on base, Mars (13-5) put its leadoff batter on base in five of six innings, and the Fightin’ Planets advanced to the quarterfinals by ending Indiana’s season.

“We expected more this season,” Indiana coach Larry Cadile said. “We expected a section championship and a better seed. We just didn’t have the season we expected.”

The Indians gave themselves the best chance they could by putting top pitcher Zach Schultz on the mound.

Schultz, the section pitcher of the year, had tossed a nohitter against Yough in his previous outing. On Monday, he never reached that stride.

“He didn’t have his offspeed pitches today,” Cadile said. “He was letting the first base runner on every inning, and that makes it tough. He’s not as good from the stretch as he is from the windup.”

Schultz allowed the first batter to reach base in each of the four innings, and each scored.

“That first runner gets on and (Schultz) seems to struggle,” Cadile said. “It seemed like every inning he pitched, that first base runner was getting on base. That led to some runs.”

Mars pushed across one run in each of the first two innings and scored two more in the third to take a 4-0 lead. By the time Schultz left the game, Mars held a 5-0 lead with three innings left to play.

Schultz often dazzled batters with his slider, striking out seven. But Mars got to him just enough, scoring five runs on seven hits and three walks.

“They just hit the ball well,” Indiana shortstop Cole Shaffer said. “There’s not much else to say other than that.”

Mars finished with nine hits, including three for extra bases, and tacked on another run in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 6-0 lead.

Indiana had opportunities, but the Indians left at least one runner on base in each inning. The Indians loaded the bases with one out in the third and failed to score.

“Every inning we left runners on base,” Cadile said.

“But tonight, uncharacteristically, we struck out a lot.”

The Indians went down on strikes 11 times.

“We haven’t struck out like that all season,” Cadile said.

“I don’t know what it was. I think we were just so amped

up, batters tried to do too much and it led to strikeouts.”

Dave Anderson pitched six scoreless innings for Mars, striking out nine and limiting the Indians to five hits and four walks.

“He mixed it up well,” Cadile said. “He wasn’t overpowering, but he had a nice curveball. Our hitters were saying that they weren’t picking up the curveball out of his hand. We got guys on base and we just couldn’t get them around.”

Anderson often pitched his way out of trouble, stranding multiple runners in three separate innings.

“He was very good when he got deep into counts or got two strikes,” Shaffer said.

“He’s pretty tough mentally to be able to bear down and throw strikes in those kinds of situations.”

It wasn’t until Dylan Rotz came on to pitch in the seventh inning that the Indians were able to score some runs.

Cameron Allmendinger drove in Schultz from third base with a line single into right center field, and Shaffer later scored on a balk.

Allmendinger had the Indians’ lone RBI, and Chase Kromer tallied two singles.

Taylor Squiric came on to relieve Schultz in the fifth inning and allowed one run on two hits and three walks over two innings.

The Indians will have some overhauling to do in the offseason with seven seniors set to graduate. Cadile has led the Indians to the playoffs in each of his two seasons as head coach, but it could prove difficult to do so again with a young squad next season.

“We had a lot of talent coming back (this season),” Cadile said. “We had most of our pitching staff coming back, and we had our top two hitters coming back in Zach and Cole. Because of that, we had high expectations.”

With the win, Mars ended a stretch of more than two decades without a playoff victory and advanced to a quarterfinal-round matchup with Hopewell, which defeated Mount Pleasant earlier in the day.

NOTE: Kromer (catcher), Shaffer (infield) and Schultz (pitcher) were named to the Section 2-AAA first team.

Tommy Budash (outfield) was named to the second team, and Trajan Jones (outfield) and Allmendinger (outfield) received honorable mention.

Joyce makes most of opportunity Continued from Page 13 David Freese had two of the spring training. The Pirates 13 hits by the Pirates (20-17). and San Diego Padres were Francisco Cervelli and Josh the only two teams interest- Harrison each had two RBIs. ed after he batted .174 with Cervelli drove in a run with five homers for the Los Ange- a groundout in a three-run les Angels last season. first inning off Williams Perez Joyce, 31, worked with two (1-1) and had an RBI single in hitting instructors in the off- two-run third. Harrison also season near his home in the had a run-producing Tampa, Fla., area and groundout and also played winter tripled in a run in the ball in the Dominican fifth to push the lead Republic. to 6-0.

“It feels great to be Perez gave up six able to have this type runs and nine hits in of success after the six innings as the work in the offseaBraves lost for the son,” Joyce said. “I ninth time in 11 didn’t know which games in falling to a way my career was major league-worst 9going to go. I’m exJON 28. tremely happy that Atlanta’s runs came NIESE I’ve bounced back to on a pair of home show I can still be a major runs — a two-run shot by Jeff league player.”

Francoeur in the sixth inning Joyce connected for his off Niese that made it 6-2 and fifth home run, a two-run a three-run shot by Kelly shot deep into the right-field Johnson in the eighth off bleachers, off Alexi Ogando Cory Luebke that made it 8-5. in the seventh inning to inIt was the first multi-homer crease the Pirates’ lead to 8-2. game since opening day for Niese (4-2) allowed two the Braves, who have gone runs and five hits with six deep just 11 times in 37 strikeouts and two walks. It games, easily the lowest figwas just Niese’s third quality ure in the major leagues. start in eight outings this sea- Francoeur and Johnson conson, though the Pirates are 6- nected for the first time this 2 in the games he has season. pitched, and he improved his Alen Hanson was recalled career record against the from Triple-A Indianapolis to Braves to 10-6. take Marte’s roster spot. He The Braves put the leadoff struck out as a pinch-hitter in hitter on in each of the first the sixth inning in his major four innings, but Niese es- league debut. caped unscathed each time.

Braves right-hander Aaron “I pitch fast but I just tried Blair (0-2, 4.05 ERA) will look to slow myself down and I for his first win in his fifth cawas able to make some big reer start tonight. pitches when I needed to,” Pirates right-hander Juan Niese said.

Nicasio (3-3, 4.34) is 1-3 with Mark Melancon pitched a an 8.44 ERA against the perfect ninth inning for his Braves in nine career appear12th save in 13 opportunities. ances, including six starts.

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CINCINNATI’S BRANDON PHILLIPS was caught trying to steal third base as the Indians’ Juan Uribe and Francisco Lindor defended in the first inning of Monday’s game in Cleveland.

Tigers escape with win

By The Associated Press Nick Castellanos hit a tie-breaking homer in the seventh inning and the Detroit Tigers avoided a humiliating loss Monday night by beating the Minnesota Twins 10-8.

The Tigers led 8-0 after one inning with AL ERA leader Jordan Zimmermann on the mound, only to see the Twins come back to tie the game in the seventh. Detroit manager Brad Ausmus was ejected in the middle of the rally for arguing a called third strike. During the argument, he took off his sweatshirt and used it to cover up the plate.

Castellanos homered off Pat Dean (0-1) in the bottom of the seventh to put Detroit back in front. Dean had entered the game in the first inning and threw 90 pitches in 5 1-3 innings.

J.D. Martinez, whose dropped fly ball allowed the tying run to score in the seventh, homered in the eighth to give the Tigers a two-run lead.

ATHLETICS 3, RANGERS 1: Marcus Semien homered in the seventh in support of Sean Manaea, who allowed four hits over 6 2-3 innings, and Oakland beat Texas.

Manaea (1-1) earned his first major-league victory in his fourth career start. He entered the game with a gaudy 11.37 ERA. He gave up a run, walked one and struck out two.

Texas starter Derek Holland (3-3) turned in a quality start, though the one bad inning cost him. He gave up two runs and three hits over six innings. Holland walked one and struck out one and is winless over his last three starts.

RAYS 13, BLUE JAYS 2: Curt Casali hit a three-run homer, Tim Beckham and Steve Pearce each hit tworun blasts and Tampa Bay had four homers while beating Toronto.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was ejected by home plate umpire Mike Winters for arguing a called third strike in the fourth. It was the third ejection of the season for Gibbons and his second in two games — he was one of eight tossed in a game Sunday against Texas that included Rougned Odor’s punch to the jaw of Jose Bautista.

Toronto has lost three straight.

Desmond Jennings also homered, and the Rays set season highs in runs and hits (17).

Drew Smyly (2-4) allowed one run and four hits in five innings to win for the first time in four starts.

The Rays roughed up Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ (5-1).

NATIONAL LEAGUE MARLINS 5, PHILLIES 3: Marcell Ozuna and Justin Bour hit solo homers, Adam Conley threw six effective innings and Miami beat Philadelphia for its third straight win.

Conley (3-2) gave up one run and eight hits, striking out five. A.J. Ramos allowed a run in the ninth but earned his 12th save in as many tries.

Philadelphia’s Jerad Eickhoff (1-6) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings. He’s winless in his last six starts.

Bour drove his seventh homer the opposite way to left-center to make it 3-1 in the sixth.

INTERLEAGUE DIAMONDBACKS 12, YANKEES 2: Jake Lamb broke open the game with a three-run home run and Arizona snapped a five-game losing streak with a rout of New York.

Paul Goldschmidt, 1-for-14 in the Giants series, also homered off Chad Green (0-1) in the Yankee right-hander’s major league debut.

Robbie Ray (2-2) allowed two runs on six hits in seven innings, his longest outing of the season, and got his first career RBI. The left-hander struck out six and walked one.

ANGELS 7, DODGERS 6: Albert Pujols and Mike Trout combined to drive in six runs and the Angels beat the Dodgers for their fourth straight win in the opener of the Freeway Series.

Matt Shoemaker (2-5) allowed three runs and six hits in five innings, struck out five and walked two. The right-hander made it past four innings for just the second time this season.

Fernando Salas retired the side on 11 pitches in the ninth for his second save.

Pujols singled in two runs in the seventh, extending the Angels’ lead to 6-3. Pujols went 3-for-4 with three RBIs. INDIANS 15, REDS 6: Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and had four RBIs, and Cleveland rallied from an early four-run deficit to beat Cincinnati.

Marlon Byrd hit a two-run homer in a five-run sixth and the Indians erased a 4-0 deficit while recording season highs in runs and hits.

Francisco Lindor, who was 3-for-5, Jason Kipnis and Mike Napoli all had two RBIs for the Indians, who had 19 hits.

Kipnis’ two-run single broke a 4-all tie and helped the Indians take a three-run lead in the fourth.

Players need to police themselves

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famer Joe Morgan knows that for more than a century, baseball players have policed themselves.

Like it or not.

Seven months after Jose Bautista’s famous bat flip against Texas in the AL playoffs, he got hit by the Rangers and responded with a hard takeout slide that led to a brawl Sunday.

“If you were willing to show the other team up and to do that, then you’ve got to be willing to take what goes with it,” Morgan said Monday.

Baseball is likely to issue discipline today for the weekend fight, which led to six of the eight ejections in Toronto’s 7-6 loss.

It was the last meeting of the regular season between the teams, and Bautista was facing the Rangers for the final time when rookie Matt Bush opened the eighth inning with a 96 mph fastball that hit the slugger on the left arm and ricocheted off a thigh.

Plate umpire Dan Iassogna warned both benches, and Justin Smoak bounced to third with one out. Bautista slid hard and late into the right leg of second baseman Rougned Odor and 8 feet past second base. Odor shoved Bautista with both hands, then threw a punch to his jaw that made Bautista’s head snap back, causing his sunglasses and helmet to fly off.

Dugouts and bullpens emptied.

Fans chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and “Let’s Go Rangers!” while also maligning the Blue Jays.

By the time the game resumed nine minutes later, Smoak was called out for an inning-ending double play, Bautista, Odor, Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson and Texas bench coach Steve Buechele were ejected. Jesse Chavez hit Prince Fielder on the right thigh with the next pitch, causing the

ejections of the reliever and another coach.

Tension stemmed from Oct. 14, when Bautista hit a tiebreaking three-run homer against Sam Dyson in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the AL Division Series, admired the ball for a couple seconds until it glanced off the front of the second deck in left and then flipped his bat dramatically. After the home run trot, Edwin Encarnacion raised both arms — one holding a bat — in an effort to calm people in the crowd who were throwing objects on the field. Dyson took the gestures the wrong way, and dugouts and bullpens emptied as players gathers and shoved one another.

“The players set the tempo for that kind of stuff,” former big league manager Jim Leyland said. “So where do the players draw the line?

Did Bautista go over the line? I don’t know.”

Leyland thought back to a different era.

“I’ve seen black-and-white films, and I saw Babe Ruth rounding second base, taking his hat off, waving his hat to the crowd and everything.

Well, was that offensive?” Leyland said. “So it’s not like this stuff just started.”

Texas did not retaliate until the seventh meeting between the teams this season.

“I thought it was pretty cowardly of them too to wait until my last atbat to do that in the whole series,” Bautista said. “They could have come out and done it, if they wanted to send a message. Again, it shows a little bit more of their colors.”

The brawl triggered debate throughout baseball, “Odor also dropped his arm on that play to possible hit @JoeyBats19 in the face,” retired All-Star outfielder Torii Hunter tweeted.

“You know you’re taught to throw low to prevent a guy from coming in

high,” Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander responded on Twitter.

Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage criticized Bautista during spring training for the flip.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred responded by saying “our younger players taking control of the definition of those unwritten rules is a lot better than some guy who’s 67 years saying I did it that way and you do it the same way.”

But Manfred also said “the various groups that participate on the field are going to have to work through a middle ground.”

Many complain that having umpires issue warnings — which lead to automatic ejections for subsequent hit batters — complicate policing the game.

“In my era, in the ‘80s and even before that, players took care of the business on the field — they just did,” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. “They did it in a lot of different ways — they did it sliding hard into second base; they did it by drilling guys — but when it was done, it was always done. But that’s not the world we live in now. You just do what the rules say we do.”

MLB Senior Vice President Joe Garagiola likely will issue suspensions after consulting with Chief Baseball Officer Joe Torre.

Morgan said he didn’t have a problem with the bat flip. And he also took no issue with the Rangers’ response. And with Bautista’s reaction.

“I’ve seen guys flip bats, not like these guys do now, but I’ve seen guys flip bats and they get hit and everybody moves on,” he said. “But also we see what happens. And then when Bautista gets to first base, it’s just normal human nature. I guarantee you his arm was still hurting, wherever it hit him. The guy throws pretty hard, so wherever he hit him, it was still hurting, and he said I’m going to get me somebody at second base.”

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Shoemaker was part of dynasty Continued from Page 13 I could do it all over again, I would probably do it the same way.”

Already rising in the ranks of Division III football powers after earning its first national title in 1993, Mount Union was set to become a staple in college lore.

The Purple Raiders returned to the postseason in each the ’94 and ’95 seasons, but it wasn’t until ’96, Shoemaker’s freshman year, that their assault on college athletics as a championship dynasty really began.

On Sept. 16, 1996, Mount Union won the first game of what would become an NCAA all-divisions record 54 consecutive games, including three straight national titles. Denied a fourth straight title in ’99, Mount Union began the next season with the first win in what would become a 55-game win streak that still stands as the NCAA record. Three more national titles came with it.

After spending three years clawing his way up from spot duty, Shoemaker cracked the starting lineup during his senior season.

But just four games into the season, Shoemaker suffered a torn left ACL. The winning streak reached its conclusion on Dec. 11, 1999, in a 24-17 overtime loss to Rowan in the national semifinals, nine weeks after Shoemaker’s final career play.

Shoemaker started a hanful of game before his senior year and proved invaluable as the team’s sixth offensive lineman and backup right tackle.

GROWING UP in Blairsville, Shoemaker was assigned the typical chores and mundane busy work that most kids are given by their parents. He washed cars, did yard work and went outside to play; he just did it all outside a funeral home, and some of those cars he washed were hearses.

The family business opened in 1951, and following the untimely passing of R.K.’s grandfather, Richard K., in 1953, his grandmother, Dorothy, operated the funeral home until his father came of age.

The family lived upstairs at the funeral home, a unique arrangement that never bothered Shoemaker and his sisters.

“Everyone is curious,” Shoemaker said. “We had friends over. We lived above it, so that was a little different growing up, but when you grow up there, it was kind of the way of life. That’s the way you grew up and you kind of knew what was going on, and you knew what you could and couldn’t do. Your life kind of molded around that.

“I washed cars, and when I got old enough, I parked cars in the parking lot, that kind of thing. I pulled weeds, cleaned up outside, it was kind of a rite of passage for a kid growing up in a funeral home. It was cool.”

Shoemaker engulfed himself in sports at a young age, although he does admit to watching an afterschool fight or two. But as long as he wasn’t getting into trouble, and he wasn’t wasting time indoors, his parents allowed him and his sisters to find their own ways, not pushing them into any particular athletic endeavor or extracurricular activity.

“My dad, he never pushed me into that kind of stuff,” Shoemaker said. “He just kind of let it play out, and if you wanted to play, you were going to play. He was busy. He’s busy now. He’s a hard worker.

“He never pushed me into doing any of that stuff. He didn’t push any of us. We weren’t going to sit around — he didn’t want us doing that — but he wanted us to figure out our own path and go from there.”

IT WASN’T UNTIL high school that Shoemaker’s love of football really came to fruition.

Excitement, competition, tradition and especially the chance to make the short trip up Route 119 to play rival Homer-Center all contributed to what became a life in the trenches for Shoemaker, who was 5-foot-11 and 235 pounds and still growing as a senior.

“Everyone wanted to be a Bobcat then,” Shoemaker said. “Everyone wanted to play high school ball like the guys you looked up to when you were young. You really wanted to be like them. My sister was friends with a lot of those guys and I went to a lot of games. You always wondered what it was like playing, going to games on Friday night. You lived for that.”

Shoemaker took over as the starting center as a junior.

During his senior year, Blairsville went 6-2-1, narrowly missing out on a trip to the playoffs. Injuries quickly took their toll, particularly on quarterback Brian Brozeski, who went on to play receiver at

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Penn State, and Blairsville’s runbased, option offense suffered as a result.

With one game remaining, though, the Bobcats faced their Super Bowl, and the game was against their biggest rival.

Homer-Center, which went on to win the 1994 District 6 championship, traveled to Blairsville with an undefeated record. It left battered, bruised and blemished following a 6-0 defeat, one which Shoemaker happily remembers and surely reminds the Wildcats of whenever possible.

“Homer was always our rival, but you were always friends with those guys,” Shoemaker said. “All our Homer City games were that way.

It’s just the way it’s always been because they’re so close. It didn’t take much to get up for one of those games because you were always battling with them, jawing at them.

You didn’t have social media or phones or anything back then like they do now, so I’m sure it would have been fun. Those kind of games were always fun.

“Those are the things you miss when you get older. You definitely miss that kind of stuff.”

It’s unclear how much chattering across the line of scrimmage Shoemaker actually did between snaps at Blairsville’s Memorial Stadium — probably a lot — but it was his calm demeanor and leadership at practice that immediately caught the attention of his coaching staff.

“R.K. was always a quiet leader, but without a doubt, he definitely was a leader for the team that he was on, there’s no question about it,” said Jim Meighan, Shoemaker’s offensive line coach at Blairsville, who will be inducted along with his former student on Sunday. “He was one of the smartest centers that I’ve ever coached, and an extremely hard worker. He had a combination of size, strength and just natural agility to play center, and he did a great job for us.”

“He was always very respectful, always under control when it came down to playing a game,” said Ab Dettorre, a 2013 inductee and Blairsville’s head coach for 26 years, from 1987 to 2013. “He was always a good worker, and he still is to this day with his family business. Those are all the attributes that were established early in his life, and he never lost touch with them.”

Following graduation in 1995, Shoemaker turned to Kiski to refine himself physically and academically.

He made the transition over to guard, lettering in his lone season with the program and earning a spot on the Independent-Parochial School League first team, helping pave the way for coach Marcus Muster’s Wing-T offense.

Shoemaker came to appreciate the structure the private school offered, and that ultimately most prepared him for life in college as a student and football player. “(Headmaster) Jack Pidgeon was no joke back then,” he said. “He was the real deal. He put the fear of God in you going in there.

“School was tough. If you put the effort in and they noticed you were putting effort in, you would succeed because they would help you.

It was a big deal. I really liked being there. I wish I had been there for four years, not that I wouldn’t have missed Blairsville, but those two types of schools are totally different as far as what they offered for you. I liked Blairsville and I always dreamed about being a Bobcat, but when I got there and saw what it

was like, it was cool. I really liked it.

You either liked it or you didn’t.”

SHOEMAKER WAS recruited by The Citadel (S.C) and drew interest from Indiana University of Pennsylvania as well as a multitude of community colleges. If he moved far from home, his family might rarely get to watch him play, and with the vast talent at IUP, a Division II championship contender at the time, he might have had to scrounge for playing time.

So, while on a family vacation and continuing to weigh options, the Shoemakers made a visit to Mount Union’s campus. That’s all it took, and his parents never missed a game.

At the time, outside recruiting was far less common in Division III athletics, making Shoemaker a rarity on coach Larry Kehres’ predominately Ohio-based roster. Of the 48 players who dressed for the 1998 championship game, only four, including Shoemaker, hailed from outside Ohio. But Shoemaker had a familiar face with him. Andy Dunlap, a Blairsville alum who graduated in ’95, joined Mount Union as a punter in the same freshman class.

Still, making the transition to the college ranks was difficult and the competition was fierce. Mount Union also ran a spread offense, which meant refining pass-blocking skills and techniques he was never forced to master at Blairsville or Kiski, “There was no doubt about it, they didn’t make it easy for you at practice,” Shoemaker said. “It wasn’t a cakewalk. (Kehres) told me as a freshman going in, that these guys, these upperclassmen, they wouldn’t give up their positions easily to people coming in. So you’re not guaranteed you’re going to play.”

At first, he didn’t play, but he grew.

By the end of his career, Shoemaker checked in at 6-1, 275. While Shoemaker dressed for nearly all the games as a freshman, he was scratched for his first run to the playoffs. But it didn’t take long before he made his presence felt, particularly with a future NFL star.

While playing against John Carroll, Shoemaker got under the skin of linebacker London Fletcher, who would become a Pro Bowler in the NFL. Fletcher took out his frustration on the young lineman.

“I played against him my sophomore year,” Shoemaker said. “He punched me in the head and got kicked out of his last game. That’s my most memorable college game.

It’s kind of cool playing a game against a guy like that. He played 15 years in the NFL.” A few weeks later, following a 6112 drubbing of Lycoming in the national championship game, Shoemaker was getting his finger sized for his second championship ring, and he was quickly becoming a leader and mentor for the Purple Raiders heading into his third year.

Shoemaker made his most extensive contributions on the field as a junior, helping retool an offensive unit that had lost four All-American tackles and its quarterback over the past two seasons and provided stability for a team that no longer was surpassing 60 points each game.

“We’re thinking then, ‘Are we going to be able to reproduce what we have to do with everybody leaving?,’” Shoemaker said. “We didn’t struggle through the schedule my next year, as a junior, but we weren’t blowing teams out like we were. We had closer games. Then we went on to beat Rowan in the national

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championship game.”

Notching win No. 42 in a row, Mount Union topped Rowan, 4424, for the second time in three years to again claim the title.

The following year, with Mount Union one game shy of tying Oklahoma’s then-record of 47 wins, the Purple Panthers pulled out a 57-51 victory in triple overtime over John Carroll. It was Shoemaker’s last game.

Shoemaker tried to seek a medical redshirt so he could return for a fifth year, but he wasn’t eligible because he had played in too many games that season.

“It stunk,” Shoemaker said. “I was done playing sports. I think what was even worse was they told me I couldn’t get a redshirt. Then it was kind of settling in that I was done, I would never play again.”

“I just felt really bad because I know how much he loved playing the game,” Dettorre said. “I think any time you have an injury like that, you’re going to feel bad, and in particular when someone puts so much into the game as a lineman who basically is there for the love of the game, because they obviously don’t get a lot of the hoopla and big headlines and so forth. To be a lineman at that level, especially collegiately, you really find yourself playing because you love to play football, because it can become very tedious. It is a job. The competition is extremely high and it demands a lot of time, not only during the season, but year round. So obviously it was a tough pill to swallow.”

Shoemaker graduated in 1999 as a three-year letter winner with a degree in sports management.

His alma mater has since won eight more national titles.

“A very dedicated man while he was here, a good student,” Kehres said. “He battled some leg injuries but he fought through it and continued his career despite those injuries. I’m very proud of his contributions to our success in the late ’90s.”

SHOEMAKER RETURNED home to help maintain the family business while raising a family of his own. He and his wife, Meghan, have two boys, Richard III “Tripp,” 3, and Waylon, 1.

He volunteered as a coach for his high school team, as the business promotes athletics by sponsoring local youth baseball. Despite some recent surgery, Shoemaker still appears capable of pancaking a rival from down the road.

His focus now is on business and family, and he’ll allow his children to choose their own paths, same as his parents did.

“I’m not going to push them,” Shoemaker said. “If my oldest son is really thin like my wife and decides he’s going to be a swimmer, more power to him, or play soccer or something like that, I don’t care.

Hopefully they’ll have fun and be responsible adults and make good decisions.”

As a youngster, Shoemaker attended Hall of Fame banquets with his father to recognize the former Blairsville greats who were being inducted. He never figured he would count himself among them.

“I didn’t, actually,” Shoemaker said. “I used to go to these banquets as a kid with my dad, and I loved going to the banquets with him. …

I’ve been to a ton of these. I never thought growing up that I’d have the opportunity to get inducted with a group of guys into this. It’s cool, especially at this age. Most of them are older.

“You’re kind of shocked because you think of the guys who have gone through here before, guys who were really the top-end athletes in the county growing up, to be included with those now. You see the kind of effort you have to put in during your career to make yourself better. It’s gratifying to know that it’s paid off.”

His high school coach knows how much his former pupil deserves induction.

“I was excited for him,” Dettorre said, “and I’m happy for him, because to have the opportunity to play at that level on a team of that level, it took a lot of work on his part to rise to a starting position. A lot of people don’t quite understand that playing college football, everybody is very good. You don’t just get there because you wish for it. He had to work very, very hard.

And a lot of times, you rarely see anybody start at the college level more than one, maybe two years.

So that is a major accomplishment.

That alone made him very deserving of this honor, and to come home with three national championship rings, I think that speaks very highly of what he accomplished.”

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Homer-Center wins regular-season finale MARION CENTER — Homer-Center wrapped up its regular season with a 4-3 victory over Marion Center in a Heritage Conference baseball game Monday.

The Wildcats scored two runs in the first inning and two in the third and held on for the win. The Stingers plated a run each in the second, third and fourth innings.

Levi Bruner and Matt Alexander finished with two hits apiece, and Alex Arone had two RBIs for Homer-Center.

Eric Stitt was 2-for-4 to lead the Stingers. Matt Gaston, Erik Hicks and Stitt each drove in a run.

Stephen Novak pitched five innings to earn the win.

He allowed six hits and three walks.

Jordan Williams took the loss. He struck out five, walked five and allowed six hits in four innings.

The Wildcats (14-5, 13-3) garnered the No. 3 seed for the District 6 Class A playoffs and earned a firstround bye. They will play host to the winner of Thursday’s game between Claysburg-Kimmel and Williamsburg on Monday at a time to be determined.

Marion Center concluded its season.

IUP’s Kirsch earns region honor IUP’s Max Kirsch has been named to the Division II PING All-Atlantic Region team, which was announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America on Monday afternoon.

This is Kirsch’s third straight all-region honor after leading the Crimson Hawks with a 76.82 stroke average in 10 events this year. The junior placed in the top 10 in six of those events, including a pair of top-five finishes. He entered the postseason ranked eighth in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and 16th in the Atlantic Region in scoring average.

He ended the year by tying for 14th at the Division II Atlantic/East Region Championships with a 9over 225 during the three round tournament, shooting an even-par 72 in the final round.

Kirsch’s top finishes came at Clarion’s Hal Hansen Invitational and West Chester’s Dr. Edwin B. Cottrell Invitational, finishing tied for fourth with a sevenover 151 at both.

Gilgal wins Church League softball game Gilgal Presbyterian beat Summit Church, 11-8, in an Indiana County Church League softball game Monday.

Scott Bowman smacked three hits and had three RBIs to lead Gilgal. Jason Cribbs added three hits and two RBIs, Peggy Cribbs had two hits and two RBIs and Matt Traver finished with two hits and drove in a run.

Jason Johnston and Charles Waller chipped in two hits apiece.

Ding-A-Lings to hold golf outing The Ding-A-Lings Sports Club will hold its ninth annual golf outing on June 4 at Deertrak Golf Club.

The four-man scramble will have a 9 a.m. start, and the outing will benefit Ding-A-Lings charities.

The price is $260 per foursome. There will be a $20,000 hole-in-one, mulligans, skins and a putting contest.

For information, contact Pete Shoup at (724) 5492044, Dave White at (724) 525-4253 or Deertrak Golf Club at (724) 783-2185.

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MONDAY’S BOX SCORES MARS 6, INDIANA 2 Indiana — 2 Budash cf 4-0-1-0, Lorelli 3b 2-0-0-0, Schultz p-1b 3-1-0-0, Shaffer ss 3-1-1-0, Jones rf 4-0-1-0, Allmendinger lf 3-0-1-1, Kromer c 4-0-2-0, Decker dh 3-0-1-0, Palmer 1b 2-0-0-0, Dixson 2b 0-0-0-0, Boyer pr 0-00-0, Squiric p 1-0-0-0, Gray ph 1-0-0-0, Totals 30-2-7-1 Mars — 6 Wetherholt 2b 2-3-1-0, Simkovich cf 3-1-10, J.Anderson dh 3-0-2-1, Swann c 0-0-0-0, D.Anderson p-1b 4-0-2-2, Rotz 1b 2-1-1-1, Romano 2b 2-0-0-0, Michalski ss 3-0-1-0, Brooks rf 3-0-1-1, Johnson lf 2-1-0-0, Heim pr 0-0-0-0, Totals 24-6-9-5 Indiana 000 000 2 — 2 7 2 Mars 112 101 x — 6 9 3 2B — Wetherholt, Rotz, J.Anderson.

W — D.Anderson 9 K, 4 BB. L — Schultz 7 K, 3 BB.

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Homer-Center — 4 Alexander ss 2-1-2-0, Cavalier 2b 3-1-1-1, Lee p 1-0-0-0, Arone 3b-1b 2-0-1-2, Davis rf 3-0-0-0, Novak 1b-p 2-0-1-0, Alcon dh 1-0-00, Bruner cf 3-0-2-0, Perry p 2-0-0-0, Miller 3b 0-0-0-0, Moore rf 0-0-0-0, Bretz c 0-0-0-0, Rankin dh 2-0-0-0, Saiani c 1-0-0-0, Totals 22-4-8-2 Marion Center — 3 Gatson 2b 3-0-1-1, Johnston cf 4-0-1-0, Hicks ss 2-0-1-1, McCunn 3b-p 3-0-1-0, Gordish dh 3-1-0-0, Marshall ph 1-0-0-0, Stitt lf 4-0-2-1, Ruddock 1b 4-1-0-0, Williams p 11-1-0, Goss 3b 1-0-0-0, Morga rf 3-0-0-0, Brendle c 0-0-0-0, Totals 29-3-7-3 Homer-Center 200 200 0 — 4 8 3 Marion Center 011 100 0 — 3 7 3 2B — Alexander.

W — Novak 0 K, 3 BB. L — Williams 5 K, 5 BB.

DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS CLASS A First Round Thursday’s Game 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 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.

Quarterfinals Monday, May 23 Everett-Bedford winner vs. Bald EagleForest Hills winner, 4 p.m.

Southern Huntingdon-Central winner vs.

Ligonier Valley-Mount Union winner, 4 p.m.

Bellwood-Bishop McCort winner vs. Penn Cambria-Juniata winner, 4 p.m.

Chestnut Ridge-Philipsburg winner vs.

Tyrone-Richland winner, 4 p.m.

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DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS CLASS A Quarterfinals Monday, May 23 Bishop Carroll at Claysburg-Kimmel, 4 p.m.

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

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.

Crosby lifts Penguins in OT Continued from Page 13 said. “You never want to lose your No. 1 guy in (Bishop) but .... Vasi was probably the reason why the game went to overtime in the first place.”

Vasilevskiy finished with 38 stops but darted toward the dressing room after he moved too far to his left when squaring to face Crosby, giving the Penguins captain all the room he needed to score perhaps the secondmost important goal of his life — after his overtime winner for Team Canada in the gold medal game of the 2010 Olympics.

That goal proved cathartic for his home country. This one could do the same for Crosby’s adopted city, one in desperate need of a Stanley Cup to bookend the one Crosby helped claim in 2009.

The Penguins still haven’t lost consecutive games of any variety since January and none with the usual allotment of men on the ice since coach Mike Sullivan’s first week on the job back in December.

“We just stayed with it,” Sullivan said. “We tried to play the game the right way.

“That’s what I like the most about the group. As the game wore on we got better and better.”

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Matt Cullen and Phil Kessel scored during Pittsburgh’s two-goal burst to start the game, and Matt Murray rebounded from a shaky start to finish with 19 saves, including stuffing Alex Killorn on a breakaway late in the second period of a tie game.

“It was a huge save, there’s no doubt,” Sullivan said. “Matt’s history has been he’s always responded pretty solid when he thinks he could have had one or would have liked one back.”

Anton Stralman scored in his return to the lineup from a fractured left leg and Jonathan Drouin picked up his second goal of the series, but the Lightning lost for just the third time in 12 postseason games.

“It’s hard for us to swallow,” Drouin said. “You could have a 2-0 lead going to your building, but we’ve got to go home and make sure we’re ready.”

The Penguins pointed to an inability to generate quality chances from in close as a major problem in Game 1.

In danger of falling behind by two games for the first time in the postseason, Pittsburgh wasted little time trying to make Vasilevskiy uncomfortable, scoring a pair of early goals on scrambles from in front to go up 2-0 less than 10 minutes in.

Then just as suddenly, Pittsburgh’s momentum vanished. Stralman collected a pretty cross-ice feed from Jonathan Marchessault and lifted the puck over Murray’s outstretched glove to cut the lead in half with 3:23 to go, and Drouin’s knuckler from the right circle tied it with 50 seconds remaining.

Yet the Penguins stuck with it, peppering Vasilevskiy relentlessly in the third period and remaining upbeat even as the 21-year-old goaltender pushed the game to overtime. Once there, Crosby’s 47th playoff goal provided a boost Pittsburgh hopes it can carry south.

“He worked hard all game,” Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin said. “He played right and it was a tough game.

He’s our leader and we believe in him and we believe in everyone here.”

NOTES: The Lightning were 0-for-1 on the power play. Pittsburgh was 0for-2. ... The Penguins scratched struggling defenseman Olli Maatta and replaced him with Justin Schultz. ... Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos skated in a regular jersey with his teammates on Monday morning but remains out while dealing with a blood clot. ... Tampa Bay forward Ryan Callahan sat out while battling the flu.

NBA PLAYOFFS: Thunder 108, Warriors 102

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By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. — Outside his locker room, first-year Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan received a round of handshakes and hugs for pulling off something no other team has this postseason.

The Thunder beat the defending champs at Oracle Arena.

Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Oklahoma City dazzled in the fourth quarter the way the Warriors have done so many times during their record-setting season, rallying from 14 points down for a 108-102 victory in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals Monday night.

“You have to have a mindset coming into these kinds of venues. Our guys, I think they understand what they’re walking into,” Donovan said. “You don’t just walk in here say, ‘Oh, everything’s going to be OK.’ You have to have a mindset to understand. The first thing is to embrace the fact it’s going to be hard.”

Durant scored 26 points and made a key 17-foot jumper with 30.7 seconds left, while Westbrook scored 24 of his 27 points in the second half. Westbrook also had 12 assists and seven steals in the opener of the Thunder’s fourth West finals in six years.

“We just stayed with it on the defensive end and when we got the shots late in the game we were able to focus in and knock them down,” Durant said. “We’re just a resilient group and keep fighting ‘til the end.”

Game 2 is Wednesday night at Oracle Arena. If this one was any kind of preview of what is coming, this should be a dandy of a series between the NBA’s highest-scoring teams from the regular season.

“We’ve just got to compete,” Westbrook said. “It’s going to be a tough game. It’s a tough building. They have a lot of great players on their team, but I know we’re a great team and when we put our minds to it, tonight we didn’t play our best game and we came out with a win.”

Steven Adams made a pair of free throws for Oklahoma City with 1:01 remaining, and Klay Thompson

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OKLAHOMA CITY’S Kevin Durant blocked a shot by Golden State’s Stephen Curry during the second half of Monday’s opening game of the Western Conference finals. missed a reverse lay-in moments later on the other end. Adams finished with 16 points, 12 rebounds and two blocked shots.

MVP Stephen Curry had 26 points and a playoff career-high 10 rebounds, but the Warriors missed too many shots down the stretch. The Warriors’ 42 second-half points and 14 in the fourth both were lows for this postseason.

“We got rushed and tried to go for the home-run plays. Sometimes it works,” Curry said. “Defensively we were getting enough stops and rebounds. We got out of character a little bit. It’s something we’ll learn from going forward.”

With his team down 105-102, Steve Kerr begged for a traveling call on Westbrook at midcourt with 17.2 seconds left, with the NBA Coach of the Year signaling with his arms before

going into a squat. Oklahoma City got a timeout instead. Westbrook made one free throw with 14.5 seconds to go.

“I do think we lost our poise a little bit,” Kerr said. “And that had a lot to do with the quick shots.”

Thompson scored 19 of his 25 points in the first half, but shot 3 for 10 over the last two quarters. Curry’s 3pointer to beat the halftime buzzer gave Golden State a 60-47 lead at the break.

Durant scored to get his team within 88-85 going into the final quarter and then knocked down a tying 3 just 12 seconds into the fourth. Dion Waiters’ layup at 10:30 put the Thunder ahead for the first time since the opening quarter.

Westbrook missed nine of his first 10 shots before finding a groove and scoring 19 points in his team’s 38point third quarter. His jumper with 5:03 left pulled Oklahoma City to 7368 before Thompson answered two possessions later. Westbrook stole the ball from Green and drove the length of the court for a dunk at the 3:07 mark of the third, and that helped swing momentum.

Durant, Serge Ibaka and Adams each had double-digit rebounds — a focal point for Golden State after the Warriors won 121-118 in overtime on Curry’s long game-winner at Oklahoma City on Feb. 27 despite being outrebounded 62-32.

Westbrook took a hard hit to the face

by Andrew Bogut for a foul ruled a Flagrant 1 after a review at the 5:37 mark of the first quarter. Trainers checked Westbrook’s mouth.

“Time of the year you’re going to get hit but you’ve got to find a way to get back up,” Westbrook said.

Curry was 9-for-22 from the field, including a 6-for-14 performance from beyond the arc, and committed seven turnovers to go with seven assists.

He hit a 3-pointer in his 45th straight playoff game, breaking Reggie Miller’s record set from 1995-2000.

“It’s not a good feeling losing Game 1, especially at home,” Curry said. “It’s fun to have this opportunity to come back, show what we’re made of.”

Tiger progresses but sets no date Associated Press

BETHESDA, Md. — Tiger Woods grimaced as he took three warmup swings after sitting in a chair for 30 minutes on a cool, blustery Monday morning at Congressional talking about his upcoming tournament. Hitting a ceremonial shot from a forward tee on the par-3 10th hole, he chunked his first attempt into the pond short of the green.

He asked for another ball. That one splashed, too. With officials from his foundation egging him on, he tried one more time. The last one cleared the pond, but not by enough. It landed on a steep bank and rolled down into the water.

His efforts at Congressional — home to the Quicken Loans National, which he hosts and which benefits his foundation — put to rest most of the lingering questions about whether he’ll be ready to return to competitive golf anytime soon.

“I have been practicing at home, and I’m progressing nicely. I’m hoping to play,” Woods said. “That’s the overriding question I keep hearing: When are you coming back, when are you playing? I get it all the time. If I knew, I’d tell, you, because it’d be fun to know.”

Woods, who underwent two back surgeries last fall, said he’s getting stronger and hitting the ball better.

The tournament at Congressional will be played June 23-26, the week after

the U.S. Open, and it certainly appears that Woods will attend only in a noncompetitive role.

Woods, 40, hasn’t played since last August, and he’s fallen to no. 524 in the world ranking. He said Monday he can’t spend nearly as much time practicing as he used to. He’s been playing friendly games at Medalist, his home club in Florida, but he’s yet to play 18 holes, although he said he’s physically capable of playing a full round.

“Everything about my game is coming around. Now it’s just a matter of being consistent with it,” Woods said.

“And then being able to do that not only at home against the boys at Medalist and trying to take their cash, but trying to come out here and doing it against the best players in the world is a completely different deal.”

If he were healthy, June would be a busy month for Woods, starting with the Memorial and then the U.S. Open at Oakmont, where he tied for second in 2007, followed by the Quicken Loans National, which he’s won twice.

While Woods did not confirm that he would be absent from those events, he said it’s frustrating not to be able to play at places where he’s been successful.

“I want to play. Trust me, I want to,” he said. “The plan is to get well, and whether that’s by next week or it’s a year from now, I don’t know. My doctors don’t know, I don’t know.”

Woods also said he considered walking away from the game after his first back surgery, a microdiscectomy

I-Med tops YT

By The Indiana Gazette Dylan Cindric struck out 11 in a complete-game effort, but it wasn’t enough as Young Township lost, 4-2, to visiting I-Medical in an Indiana County Youth Legion baseball game Monday.

I-Medical scored three runs in the top of the second, and Young Township answered with a run in the bottom of the inning. Young Township added a run in the fifth, and I-Medical tacked one on in the seventh on a sacrifice fly.

Darren Byers picked up the win, pitching four innings with four strikeouts and two walks.

Alex Greenblatt went 3for-3 for Young Township.

Cindric suffered the loss.

I-Medical travels to Marion Center on Thursday, and Young Township (1-1) plays at Kovacik Insurance on Friday.

MARION CENTER 4, SHOEMAKER FUNERAL HOME 1: Tyler Howells threw a complete-game four-hitter to earn the win as host Marion Center improved to 3-0.

The score was tied at 1 entering the bottom of the sixth inning, but Marion Center pulled away with three runs.

Brendan Mondi smacked two doubles to lead Marion Center, and Matthew Badzik added two hits.

Mike Hrebik took the loss for Shoemaker. He pitched all six innings and had nine strikeouts.

Shoemaker travels to S.W. Jack today, and Marion Center plays at Clymer Legion on Wednesday.

ARMSTRONG 15, KOVACIK INSURANCE 0: Three pitchers teamed up on a no-hitter, and host Armstrong crushed Kovacik Insurance in a game that was shortened to five innings due to the mercy rule.

Paul Cypher, Jordan Dillard and Caleb Harriger teamed up for eight strikeouts while allowing no hits.

Armstrong scored nine runs in the second inning on an RBI single by Nick Parisi, a two-run triple by Chris Klukan, a two-run single by Tanner Bordick, a two-run double by Eddie Morris, an RBI double by Jacob Gross and an error.

Kovacik’s Jacob Mocek walked four and struck out two.

Both teams play Wednesday. Armstrong plays host to Walbeck Insurance, and Kovacik welcomes Fox Township.

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in 2014.

“Do I want to go through that whole process again of getting back? Some part of me said yes, some part of me said no. Because it is hard,” Woods said. “Nerve pain — if you’ve never experienced it, man, it’s something else.”

He said he no longer has any nerve pain, although he’s not pain-free.

Still, Woods believes he can still generate the same clubhead speed that he did when he was younger, and he showed little interest in changing his aggressive style of play to protect his body.

“Ironically enough, my speed’s higher than it’s been in a few years.

And I’m not trying. My technique just changed. That’s a good sign. When I get stronger and I do crank it up, I’ll have the speed I used to have, which will be nice,” Woods said. “... Guys who are on the shorter side have success, but when they’re not quite on their game, they’re missing cuts.”

While sidelined, Woods has watched admiringly as his friend Jason Day has solidified his hold on the No. 1 ranking. The two are in touch frequently and Day, who won the Players Championship on Sunday, has spoken about the valuable advice he’s gotten from Woods.

“I think it’s fantastic how he’s playing, how he’s handling himself, how focused he is and how committed to improving” he is, Woods said. “He practices with purpose and you can see it when he plays.”

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Turkey hunt is a success Spring gobbler hunters are now permitted to hunt all day rather than just until noon.

After attending the National Wild Turkey Federation banquet over the weekend, I decided that work could wait on Monday. The forecast of possible frost made it easy to hit snooze several times, and it was well after daybreak before I awoke. By the time I had breakfast and stopped at Innovations of Home for a few Quaker Boy diaphragm mouth calls, the morning chill was long gone.

I settled into the woods, and the first series of calls brought an instant response. The excitement Zeke Wilson began. covers the Initially, I was outdoors for conservative The Indiana with the Gazette.

Email: sports@ calling, until an overhead crow indiana cawing yielded gazette.net. a gobble moving further from my position. After moving another 60 yards downhill closer to the field edge, I got aggressive with an excited series of clucks followed by six sweet yelps.

In no time I was faced with the dilemma of which way to watch. As is often the case, terrain and vegetation inhibits a hunter’s vision and a gobbler’s ability to respond. A pair of gobblers were already above me and closing in on my initial setup. It is tough to pick the perfect spot to set up and call; however, once a spot is chosen that offers good vantage, it is best to be patient.

Had I stayed put, the gobblers would have been in range and on the same level as me. Now they had the upper hand as I struggled to scan the thick vegetation.

Just as it seemed that the hunt was going south, another gobbler approached to my left with a pair of hens. At 45 yards I tightened the trigger on the 10-gauge and crumpled the first legal bird I could. The unseen pair of gobblers above me gobbled at the report of the shot as the hens scattered away from the now-still jake.

As I admired my prize and began to fill out my tag, I was somewhat surprised to see that it was only noon. Upon returning to my truck I was greeted by the property owner, who was happy to hear of my success.

Hunting pressure and hens heading to their nests have always put emphasis on a gobble heard after 10 a.m. In most instances, the bird is willing to respond to calls if they come from an accessible spot. If turkey are known to be in the woodlot, finding the perfect spot to set up and then waiting it out will often help fill a tag.

Known strut zones are perfect for getting comfortable and waiting it out. Not enough is discussed on simply sitting in the woods and listening, but when the location of the quarry is unknown, that is the first step toward success. As hens become less interested in the gobblers and predators key in on their calls, tom turkey vocalization decreases. Having a gobbler respond to your set up without ever announcing his intentions will become more common in the weeks to come.

Being comfortable and staying still will allow you to have the upper hand when the gobbler struts into range.

With the spring gobbler season halfway over, taking a few shots from the shotgun in a hunting position will help instill confidence and insure everything is still working properly. Changing choke tubes daily is not uncommon as hunt locations deviate, with full choke being the best for hunting the woods now.

• Trout-stocking efforts continue and some good family fun is only a short drive from anywhere. Checking the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission website will reveal several spots that have fresh batches of trout available.

With trout being a put-andtake resource, it is often best to be there sooner rather than later. Larger streams offer better chances to catch fish throughout the spring, although they often require more angling ability and knowledge.

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BRIEFS

TROPHY TROUT TOURNAMENT

By The Indiana Gazette

Bass tourney slated at Glendale The Cambria Bass Club will hold an open buddy bass tournament on Sunday, Aug. 7.

The top 10 teams in each tournament will receive payouts.

For more information, call (814) 2476106.

Hope Fire Co. to hold tourney The Hope Fire Company will hold its 27th annual open buddy bass tournament on Sunday, June 19, at Glendale Lake.

The top 20 place finishers receive payouts, with the first-place finisher guaranteed $1,000.

For more information, call (814) 6599563.

Turkey shoots set at Twolick

ZEKE WILSON

TOM PEEL/Gazette

THE YELLOW CREEK Trout Club served as the host for the Allegheny-Kiski Health Foundation 14th annual Trophy Trout Tournament on May 6. Eighty anglers and 40 volunteers came together to raise approximately $20,000 for the AKH Foundation’s charitable programs. The event has generated nearly a quarter-million dollars since its inception. Pictured are, top, from left, John Pastorek, president of the AKH Foundation; Steve Renosky, president of the trout club; Todd Allshouse, of Natrona Heights; Nathan Derringer, of Creighton; Al Derringer, of Natrona Heights; and Mike Keryeski, of Lower Burrell; and below, Vernon Phillips, of Plum; and Andrew Clevenger and Seth Tassos, of Indiana.

CHERRY TREE — The Twolick Valley Rod and Gun Club will hold turkey shoots on Saturdays, May 21, June 11, July 23, Aug. 27, Sept 10, Sept 24, Oct 15.

Registration begins a 1 p.m. followed by the shoot at 2.

The club is located at 487 Dogwood Road, Cherry Tree.

For information, contact Patti at (814) 421-1539.

Shelocta club sets handicap day SHELOCTA — The Shelocta Sportsmen’s Club will hold its annual handicap fishing day on Saturday, May 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Turkey shoot slated at Shelocta

Warming Up

SHELOCTA — The Shelocta Sportsmen’s Club will hold a turkey shoot on Saturday, May 28.

Registration begins at 6 p.m., and the shoot follows at 7.

Crappies one of the first species targeted

Blackleggs group meets monthly

By JEFF KNAPP

sports@indianagazette.net

It’s mid-May, and despite the intermittent snow showers of Sunday, summer is a mere few weeks away. Summer brings a host of angling opportunities, including challenging fishing for crappies.

Crappies are one of the first warm-water species to get the attention of anglers each spring. Once the water starts to warm, and crappies move shallow to feed and spawn, the action is good. By summer, though, crappie interest lags. Most of the fish vacate the shallows; the easy pickings are over.

On flatland reservoirs like Pymatuning the movement is often to brush piles, stump fields and cribs found in deeper, main-lake areas.

And though this year’s crappie fishing at Pymatuning has been phenomenal, finding such hot spots in a 16,000-acre lake can be a challenge. Trolling can be the answer.

Trolling isn’t commonly thought of as a crappie tactic. But trolling not only puts crappies in the boat, it’s also a great search tactic. You cover water quickly, keeping baits in the water.

And once you make contact you have the option of doubling back over the productive area to find out if there’s something present holding fish. If there is, you can then switch over to a vertical tactic like a blade bait, slip-bobber rig, or yo-yoing a jig or bait rig.

Small crankbaits make perhaps the best presentation for crappie trolling, at least when it comes to searching. They can be trolled at 1.5 to 2 mph, a much faster pace than drifting a jig-n-minnow, or backtrolling a bait rig.

Smaller crankbaits like a 2-inch Hot-n-Tot, a No. 5 Shad Rap (also, 2 inches) and 2.5-inch Cordell Wally Diver are similar in size and profile to much of the bait crappies are feeding on at this time of year; definitely not oversized for the maw of a decent-sized slab.

Since crappies can be in deeper zones at this time of year, you’ll likely need to make some adjustments to get one of the previously mentioned crankbaits down to the sweet zone, par-

ticularly on a relatively short line. A short line gives you better control over where the bait is in relation to the bottom, as well as providing a more accurate account of where the fish was when you caught it.

The two basic tools I use to short-line troll near the bottom are: a moderately light-action trolling rod/reel (with linecounter) loaded with 30-pound test superbraid line, which has the same diameter as 8-pound mono; and a half-ounce keel sinker (a.k.a. trolling sinker).

I tie a snap to the end of the superbraid line on my trolling setups. When I want to add a trolling weight, such as in this instance, it’s a simple matter of clipping it on the snap. The trolling weights I use feature a snap off their tail end. To this a clip a 3- to 4-foot fluorocarbon leader (the leader is tied with a barrel swivel on one end, a snap on the other). Then the lure is added to the leader snap.

With this setup you can run small crankbaits down in the 18- to 25-foot zone with around 50 to 75 feet of line, when trolling at a 1.8 mph clip. When you add a weight like a trolling sinker the lure will run deeper the slower you go; conversely, it will run shallower when you speed up.

After you have your rods set up and have established a starting trolling speed simply payout line, engaging the reel occasionally so the line “stretches out” and lure achieves its depth for that let-out. Repeat the process until you begin bumping bottom. Then you can reel in a bit of line to get the lure up off the bottom. The lure will run at that approximate depth, as long as you maintain the same basic speed. If the bottom’s snaggy (stumps, cribs, etc.) — as it likely will be when searching in crappieholding areas — or you’re spotting suspended fish up off the bottom, bringing in more line will get your baits higher.

Even basic GPS units feature ground speed.

Most also have a tracking features and the ability drop some sort of “event marker,” both of which are valuable when retracing your steps to determine if a certain spot is worth refishing.

SUCCESSFUL HUNTERS

YOUNG TOWNSHIP — The Blackleggs Trout Nursery and Watershed Association holds its regular monthly meeting the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Saltsburg Sportsman Club.

For information, contact Art Grguric at (724) 972-8675 or Jon Neese at (724) 9101947.

Cowboy Action Shoots slated Cowboy Action Shoots will be held at the Indiana County Bow and Gun Club on the following Sundays: May 22, June 26, July 24, Aug. 28, Sept. 25 and Oct. 9.

Registration will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. followed by a mandatory safety meeting.

The entry fee is $15.

Shooters under 16 years of age must be accompanied by a parent. No shooters under 12 are allowed. Single Action Shooting Society rules apply, and appropriate dress of the late 1800s is required.

For information, call (724) 479-8838 or (724) 349-8847 or visit www.stewartsregulators.com.

HUNTER EDUCATION COURSES Hunter-trapper education courses will be held at the following sites. Prior to attending a class, participants must complete an online independent study, which will take approximately four hours. To register for classes and to access the online training log, visit ww.pgc.state.pa.us.

When: Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Moss Creek Rod and Gun Club Contact: Larry Olsavsky, (814) 247-8968 Address: Moss Creek Road, Northern Cambria When: Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Colver Sportsmen Club Contact: Larry Olsavsky, (814) 247-8968 Address: 570 Wolfe Road, Colver

SHAWNEE STEAR, 11, of Sagamore, bagged her first turkey on April 23 in South Mahoning Township.

When: Saturday, June 18, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Dilltown Sportsmen’s Club Contact: Ralph Muir, (724) 459-5468 Address: Oneida Road, Dilltown When: Saturday, June 18, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Rossiter Sportsmen’s Club Contact: William D. Aaron, (814) 938-2835 Address: 4315 Juneau Road, Punxsutawney

COLLIN CRAIG got his first turkey on April 30 while hunting with his grandfather, James Craig, and his father, Don Craig. The turkey had a 9½-inch beard and 1-inch spurs.

When: Saturday, June 25, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Keystone Sportsmen’s Club Contact: Melvin Fairman, (724) 397-2631 Address: 198 Hollow Road, Creekside Submitted photos

BRAD ANTHONY, 14, of Plumville, shot his first turkey on May 7 in South Mahoning Township while hunting with his grandfather, William Bailey.

Submit your outdoors photos Send photos to sports@ indianagazette.net.

Call (724) 465-5555, ext. 266, with questions.

When: Sunday, June 26, noon to 7 p.m.

Where: Northern Cambria Civil Defense Contact: Larry Olsavsky, (814) 247-8968 Address: 813 Lion Road, Northern Cambria When: Sunday, July 10, noon to 7 p.m.

Where: Barr Township Rod and Gun club Contact: Larry Olsavsky, (814) 247-8968 Address: 678 Dutch Run Road, Nicktown

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Family

Page 20 — Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The Indiana Gazette

Man, 101, shares his secret to long life

By CHRISTAL HAYES Orlando Sentinel

HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. — Every day for the past 30 years Woody Blevins has gone about meticulously landscaping an acre of land bordering his home, turning it into his own private park.

He dons a straw hat and often spends eight hours a day with his mower, trimmer and clippers to make sure the manicured lot along State Road 19 keeps its curb appeal. But like a lot of older people who have spent too many days mowing, pulling weeds and sweating, he finally decided it was time to cut back.

He’s now 101.

Blevins and his wife, Leah, recently donated the land to the tiny Lake County town about 35 miles northwest of Orlando so it can serve as a public park for residents to enjoy beyond admiring it from the road. Howey-in-the-Hills has taken over maintenance, although Blevins can’t resist helping out.

“I didn’t realize I was making a park,” he said. “I just thought my lawn looked good.”

The lot is bordered by oak trees, and at the center sits a flagpole and a large circular shrub. Blevins dug trenches and installed an intricate electrical and irrigation system for the lot, which houses about a dozen large globe lights and 200 plants, including bougainvilleas, gardenias and lilies. He used concrete bricks to border plants and has poured about 300 bags of river rocks and mulch throughout the area.

“I love working hard and would much rather be outside helping grow something beautiful than out golfing,” Blevins said. “Every-

CHRISTAL HAYES/Orlando Sentinel

WOODY BLEVINS, who recently turned 101, has worked for the past three decades to create his own personal park on land bordering his home. thing you see out there, I did. I’m happy it’s going to be something that everyone will enjoy for years to come after I’m gone.”

An Ohio native, Blevins worked as a contractor for engineers and in construction, which helped provide him the skills to transform the lot from an old orange grove along the highway that cuts through the community of 1,200 into a park.

His lot has become well-known in the area through the years, drawing admiring glances from passing motorists and occasionally causing someone to stop with a blanket and picnic basket, not realizing it’s not public property.

One of Blevins’ neighbors, Richard Messersmith, has watched the land take shape for two decades.

“It’s amazing. He’s out there for hours and hours every day, making sure everything looks perfect,” said Messersmith, 76.

Blevins’ green thumb has spread around the neighborhood. Many homes, including the one of Messersmith and his wife, Susan, also have well-groomed yards and polished gardens.

Blevins has invested about $25,000 in the park, but when the town’s water rates increased, it got to be an even more expensive project.

He said his water bill one month topped $400.

Mayor Chris Sears said Blevins had approached him about his water bills, and the pair came to an agreement that gives the Blevinses free water for life in exchange for the land, which is on

the tax rolls for about $24,000.

“I told him we’d name the park after him, and it would serve as a great tribute to all the work he’d done to make it such a beautiful display of Florida landscaping,” Sears said. “It’s just a win-win situation for everyone.”

The mayor said the lot is in a great location because motorists coming into town and traveling through to Clermont or Tavares pass by it. Blevins said it was an easy decision to donate the lot to the town, which was incorporated in 1925, when Blevins was 9.

“I could have sold it or built a few houses there, but I don’t want the money.” Blevins said. “I just wanted someone to take care of it since I couldn’t.”

Sears said Howey’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board has been making plans for the park, including an idea to transform it into a tribute for veterans and call it Blevins Patriot Park. The town is responsible for upkeep, but Blevins still helps out occasionally while also tending a small landscaped area near his home.

“Of course, I get a bit worried about him out here, but this is what he loves doing,” said Leah Blevins, 86, who says she’s her husband’s “backup quarterback.”

Woody Blevins, who has one daughter, a grandson and two great-grandsons, said he doesn’t have any plans to limit his time outdoors.

“My doctor says he can’t find anything wrong with me. In fact, one of the last times I went, he told me I was in better shape than him,” Blevins said, laughing.

He attributes his health to two words.

“Working hard.”

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Phil Chido, Indiana • Jerzey Coble, Marion Center • Naomi Cochran, Blairsville • Virginia Freed, Blairsville • Mary A. Hicks, Indiana • Todd Larrimer, Indiana • Kimberly Miloser, Home • Ed Palmer, Black Lick • T.J. Pynos, Cranberry Township • Darlene Shields, Creekside • Brett Stiteler, Smicksburg The Gazette would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday!”

To have a name added to the list, call (724) 465-5555, ext.

265.

If you leave a message, be sure to spell out the first and last name of the person celebrating their special day and remember to tell us the day and the town where they live.

Messages left with incomplete information will not be run on the list.

Be hip to what’s happening!

See Thursday’s Calendar page.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Did you know volunteer work is real work? Volunteer service can enhance a résumé.

Not looking for employment?

Retired? Looking to change career fields? Want to give back to your community? Or just love volunteering?

Indiana County has numerous opportunities for adults to volunteer. Where does your interest lie?

ANIMALS • Four Footed Friends can use your help with animal care, walking dogs and as a foster parent.

(724) 349-1144 • Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to bathe, groom and walk the animals. (724) 465-7387/3977

CLERICAL • American Red Cross needs help with front desk/clerical support. For more information, call (724) 465-5678.

• Community Guidance Center needs volunteers to file and do data entry. Contact Kerry Ray at (724) 465-5576, ext. 128.

• Four Footed Friends is looking for a volunteer receptionist. (724) 349-1144 • Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) needs volunteers to answer the phones, type and do filing. (724) 465-2657 or (724) 248-9555 • Indiana County Humane Society can use assistance with filing, mailing and answering the phone. (724) 465-7387/3977

DISASTER ASSISTANCE The American Red Cross is looking for volunteers for the Disaster Action Team Health and for safety instructors. (724) 465-5678

EDUCATION • ARIN has a need for tutors to work with adults to improve basic math and reading skills in preparation for the GED. Also, tutors are needed for the English as a Second Language Program. (724) 463-5300, ext. 2329

• Indiana Free Library needs volunteers to reshelve books from 3-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Contact John Swanson at (724) 465-8841.

• Torrance State Hospital needs a library aide, GED and literacy tutors and computer tutors. Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

• Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County is looking for a library volunteer. Contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 4639600.

MEDICAL/SOCIAL WORK/ CHILD CARE • accessAbilities Inc. is looking for volunteers who can provide companionship for their consumers by making crafts, playing cards or board games, reading or doing small home repairs. (724) 465-6042 • Aging Services Inc. is looking for volunteers who can help with group activities such as crafts, reading, music and card games; and provide friendly one-on-one visits. Contact Jim McQuown at (724) 349-4500.

• Alice Paul House is seeking volunteers to provide crisis intervention and counseling to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, juvenile offenders, and other crime. By completing a training course in paraprofessional crisis intervention counseling, volunteers will be able to assist and empower individuals in crisis first hand by answering the crisis hotline and interacting with shelter residents and clients. For more information, contact Whitney Mottorn at (724) 349-5744.

• Aging Services Inc. is looking for ombudsman volunteers. If you have two hours of free time a month to help ensure the quality of life and care of long-term care residents, they need you. Call (724) 349-4500 for more information.

• Aging Services Inc. is looking for APPRISE volunteers to assist older adults with services and in-

formation on health insurance benefits, Medicare and Medicaid eligibility, claims filing, benefits counseling, telephone assistance, consumer protection, referral to other resources, and advocacy.

Call (724) 349-4500.

• Communities at Indian Haven needs volunteers to assist residents in wheelchairs, assist residents with activities and religious services; bring appropriate pets to visit, share craft ideas/skills and join the adopt-a-grandparent program. (724) 465-3900 • Indiana County Community Action Program needs mentors and child care providers at its shelters. (724) 465-2657 or (724) 248-9555 • Big Hearts Little Hands Mentoring Program, a program of the YMCA of Indiana County, is in need of positive, caring adults to provide guidance, care and emotional support to one of Indiana County’s youth in need.

Those interested must be 18 years of age or older to be a Big. For more information, call (724) 463-9622

VNA • VNA Family Hospice needs volunteers to assist with grief support and companionship for patients and their families, respite relief, running errands for families and other activities. Contact Mary Edith Cicola at (724) 4638711.

• CareNet, a service of the Visiting Nurse Association, is looking for volunteers to provide friendly visits, transportation or shopping assistance to the elderly and disabled in the community. Those interested may contact June Stewart at (724) 463-6340 or jstew art@vnaindiana.org.

• Hopeful Hearts, a service of VNA family hospice, needs peer support group facilitators, family greeters and food servers. Contact Diane Giever at (724) 349-3888.

OUTDOORS • Historical & Genealogical So-

ciety of Indiana County is looking for building and grounds volunteers to help with upkeep and janitorial tasks. Contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 463-9600.

• Evergreen Conservancy is looking for volunteer board members, a volunteer secretary for the board, organizational help to manage membership and social media, and environmental educators to teach children at the Tanoma AMD Wetlands outdoor classroom and other locations; and water monitors to install water probes in streams, download data from data loggers, help with maintenance of data loggers and obtain water samples for testing. For more information, call (724) 471-6020 or (724) 463-8138.

• Habitat for Humanity is in need of volunteers skilled in building trades such as masonry, framing, carpentry, electricity, plumbing and heating, roofing and siding, dry wall finishing, flooring/carpet laying and painting.

Also needed are people willing to be trained in these skills or general labor. A willingness to help is all that is needed.

For more information or to volunteer, call (724) 397-5546 or (724) 422-5042.

WEB/TECH • Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County could use an experienced IT volunteer. For details, contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 463-9600.

OTHER • Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) can use your assistance in the food warehouse. For details, call (724) 4652657 or (724) 248-9555.

• The Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to assist with grant writing and publicity.

For more information, call (724) 465-7387.

• Evergreen Conservancy is looking for volunteer board mem-

bers who will attend board meetings the first Thursday of every other month and committee meetings (the opposite month), and work with their accounts to track day to day expenditures and revenues, chair the finance committee, etc.

(724) 4716020 or (724) 463-8138.

SPECIAL EVENTS • accessAbilities is in need of volunteers to assist with 5K Run/Walk and a murder mystery dinner. For more information, call (724) 465-6042.

• The American Red Cross needs volunteers at blood drives to serve as walkers, greeters or canteen workers.

For more information call (724) 465-5678.

• Four Footed Friends needs special event volunteers. Call (724) 349-1144 for details.

• ICCAP can use help with Care and Share Day and other special events. For more information, call (724) 465-2657 or (724)248-9555.

• Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to assist with the county fair, school presentations and fundraising.

Call (724) 465-7387/3977 for details.

• Historical & Genealogical Society needs a collections assistant and special events volunteer.

Contact Jonathan Bogert at (724) 463-9600.

• Torrance State Hospital needs assistance for special events (picnic, auction, holiday events) through the year.

Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

SENIOR CORPS is a national volunteer organization. It provides volunteers age 55 and over with volunteer opportunities in nonprofit agencies. Benefits include free accident, personal liability and access automobile insurance while volunteering. Contact Janeen Love at (800) 648-3381, ext.

236, or at jlove@jccap.org for more information.

Always leave a fragrance, never an odor I have something very cool to share with you today, but first I have a story to share about my friend Herta. It’s been a few years now since she and her husband Al Email came to visit for questions or a few days. In tips to their graciously mary@every kind manner, daycheap they brought skate.com or gifts. I thought Everyday I’d heard of Cheapskate, every hostess 12340 Seal gift, but one of Beach Blvd., these gifts left Suite B-416, Seal Beach, CA me wide-eyed and sputtering 90740. to find a good response, which I am not sure I did.

Privately, I concluded that this

EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE small, supremely elegant spray bottle that Herta was visibly so excited about must be something special in her country. To me, it was it was oddly foreign.

The name on the bottle left me stuttering: Poo-Pourri BeforeYou-Go Toilet Spray. Herta took me into the powder room to demonstrate. “Look, you just spritz the surface of the toilet water before you go. It stops bathroom odors before they ever begin!” Herta was so excited to show me this fabulous new product. Me? I was like, whaaat?

I have to admit that I couldn’t wait to try it, and I did. You know what? It really works. The product is oily. When you spray Poo-Pourri in the toilet bowl (before — not during or after), it sits on the sur-

face of the water and creates a kind of sealant against, well, let’s just say it: fumes. It traps the odors, sending them down the drain, not out into the room. Get it?

I’m not sure if Herta made the first introduction of Poo-Pourri to America or not, but I like to think so. What I know is that it’s here now.

I see Poo-Pourri in the finest powder rooms around (my friends know who they are). Not long ago, I noticed a discreet supply of Poo-Pourri in the ladies room at church. Herta would be so pleased.

I do wonder about a couple of things: First, who came up with this?

The idea itself is great, but the person who came up with the name is brilliant! Second, why is it so expensive? At about $5 for 1 ounce, that works out to about $640 per gallon. Don’t laugh. I

think about these things, and I’m sure there are plenty of households, dormitories and frat houses — to name a few — that could use it by the gallon. For those folks (and you), I have the best news: You can make it yourself.

And you can use the same kind of discreet little spray bottle for dispensing.

MAKE-IT-YOURSELF POO SPRAY 3 tablespoons vegetable glycerin 2 tablespoons rubbing alcohol, 70 percent 40 drops any essential oil ½ cup water Mix all ingredients directly into a 4-ounce (or similar) spray bottle. Or mix in a bowl, and then, using a small funnel, dispense solution into smaller 1-ounce spray bottles. Recipe multiplies well.

To use: Shake the bottle well.

Spritz about 10 times to cover the

surface of the toilet bowl water.

Proceed. (Ingredients posted on the Everyday Cheapskate site.)

My late friend Rich Buhler taught me a very useful life principle to rely upon when dealing with challenging situations and difficult people.

No matter how difficult that person or situation may be, always strive to leave a fragrance, never an odor.

Thanks to Herta and Rich, I’m leaving fewer odors than I would be if not for our friendships.

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.

Food

The Indiana Gazette

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 — Page 21

Turn chicken from blah to bliss

By DANIEL NEMAN

Meanwhile, in a separate pan, melt the butter over medium-high heat and cook until browned and nutty, about 4 minutes. Stir in the capers and lemon juice.

If using eggs, fry them, keeping the yolks runny.

Spoon the sauce over the chicken, top with an optional egg and optional anchovies, if desired.

Per serving: 731 calories; 39 g fat; 14 g saturated fat; 258 mg cholesterol; 39 g protein; 55 g carbohydrate; 1 g sugar; 5 g fiber; 537 mg sodium; 45 mg calcium.

– Adapted from a recipe by Thomas Keller in Food & Wine and a recipe from Bon Appetit

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’ve always held that reasonable men and women may disagree over matters of substance, such as boneless, skinless chicken breasts.

Some follow the sincerely held position that chicken breasts are dreary, insipid and bland. Others argue just as passionately that they are boring and flavorless. And a third group holds that they are just plain blah.

Can’t we all just get along?

Can’t we agree that boneless, skinless chicken breasts are bland, boring and blah?

Now that we are all united in peace and harmony, perhaps we can work together to improve the situation.

Perhaps we can strive to make chicken breasts exciting again.

It can be done.

For instance, you can pound them flat, dip them in a crispy coating and then fry them. In other words, you can turn them into chicken schnitzel.

I used to think that schnitzels, by definition, ought to be made from veal. People who make them out of pork are just trying to save a little money and should be met with disdain. And chicken schnitzels? I thought that chicken schnitzels are not even worth the energy it would take to view them with contempt.

But then I started going to a restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, that made absolutely the best chicken schnitzels ever, and my world was changed. It was as if a great weight had been lifted off me; I was blind, but now I see. These days, I’m all about chicken schnitzels.

So I combined two recipes for chicken schnitzel, using the batter for one and the sauce for the other.

Both used panko breadcrumbs, which are the key to getting the perfect crunchy crust. Then I added the traditional toppings for a Holstein schnitzel, a fried egg and anchovies, and came up with a delectably tender and crispy piece of meat that could hold its own even against that restaurant in Toledo.

If you don’t want egg or anchovy on your schnitzel, don’t add them. It is very nearly as good without them.

Another way to dress up an otherwise uninspiring chicken breast is to shred it or dice it and then stir fry it.

Because of their very blandness, chicken breasts are the perfect medium for stir frying — they are a blank canvas for all the other flavors in the dish.

I made one of my favorite stir fries from one of my favorite cookbooks. The recipe for Chicken and Peanuts With Chili Peppers is perhaps the most stained page in my copy of “Regional Cooking of China” by Maggie Gin, which I have had since 1984. It’s a simple dish, and any vegetables for your meal will have to come from somewhere else, but it has a marvelous flavor.

Specifically, the flavor is peanuts, which comes both from peanuts themselves and the peanut oil in which it is cooked. A bit of minced ginger and soy sauce lend their indispensable flavors, but what truly ties the meal together is just a hint of mild rice vinegar sweetened with a dash of sugar.

If Mexican food is more to your liking, you can use chicken breasts to display the bold flavors of Guanajuato, a state smack dab in the middle of Mexico. Chicken Guanajuato uses orange juice (and orange zest) as a base on which to layer an unusual array of herbs: thyme, marjoram and cinnamon.

Add sliced carrots, potatoes and a sauce of tomatoes, onions and garlic, and you end up with a brighttasting and unexpectedly satisfying meal. The combined miasma of flavors is the perfect foil for the chicken breast.

But what if you want to strike out on your own and be more creative? Then you should think about taking a chicken breast and stuffing it.

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CHICKEN GUANAJUATO, above, is flavored with garlic, thyme, marjoram, cinnamon and orange juice. Below, anchovy fillets top Chicken Schnitzel.

Think of it as a pita made of chicken. You simply slice it horizontally almost all the way through, forming a pocket. Then, fill it with a stuffing of your choosing.

I was feeling ambitious, so I created four different stuffings. Because I love Italian food, I made one from sautéed tomatoes, basil and Parmesan cheese.

I added mushrooms and Swiss cheese to another, essentially taking the toppings of one of my favorite grilled chicken sandwiches and putting them inside the chicken.

A third I stuffed with a classic combination of shallots, mushrooms and asparagus. And I looked toward Asia for my fourth, combining shallots, mushrooms, ginger, scallions and soy sauce.

Each, in its own way, was special. I stayed with traditional combinations that go well with chicken, but when you stuff a chicken breast you can let your imagination soar. I once made one with sauerkraut and sundried tomatoes. That may be why I stayed with the traditional combinations.

But you can take the concept and run with it.

You will see that there are a million ways to make chicken breasts exciting.

CHICKEN SCHNITZEL Yield: 4 servings 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, pounded to ¼-inch thickness Salt Black pepper 1 cup all-purpose flour 3 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 cups panko (Japanese breadcrumbs) ¼ cup canola or corn oil, plus more if needed

BECAUSE OF their blandness, chicken breasts are the perfect medium for stir frying, right.

Below, think of chicken breasts as the pita, and fill it with Italian favorites or mushrooms and Swiss.

6 tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons capers 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 4 eggs, optional 8 anchovy fillets, rinsed, optional Season the chicken breasts well with salt and pepper. Place flour on a plate. In a bowl, mix together eggs and mustard. Place panko on a plate. Dredge the chicken in the flour,

shaking off any excess, then dip in the eggs and coat thoroughly with the panko, pressing lightly to adhere.

Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

Add 2 of the breasts and cook, turning once, until golden and crispy on each side, about 3 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels.

Add more oil if necessary, and cook the remaining 2 breasts in the same way.

CHICKEN AND PEANUTS WITH CHILI PEPPERS Yield: 4 servings 2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves 2 quarter-sized slices ginger root, minced 1 teaspoon cornstarch 2 teaspoons light soy sauce ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup peanut oil 1 cup skinless peanuts 3 or 4 dried red chili peppers ½ teaspoon granulated sugar 1 teaspoon rice vinegar Dice chicken breasts.

Combine with ginger, cornstarch, soy sauce and salt.

Set aside.

Heat peanut oil over high heat in a wok or skillet and stir fry peanuts 2 minutes until lightly golden brown.

Remove with a slotted spoon, leaving oil in pan, and set aside. Add chili pepper to pan and stir fry 1 minute until browned and pungent. Remove with slotted spoon, leaving oil in pan, and set aside. Stir fry chicken 2 minutes. Add sugar, vinegar, reserved peanuts and chilis and heat through. Serve hot with rice.

Per serving: 405 calories; 33 g fat; 5 g saturated fat; 36 mg cholesterol; 23 g protein; 7 g carbohydrate; 3 g sugar; 3 g fiber; 424 mg sodium; 40 mg calcium.

– Recipe from “Regional Cooking of China”

by Maggie Gin CHICKEN GUANAJUATO Yield: 6 servings 1 pound tomatoes (in season) or cherry tomatoes Salt Black pepper 6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 cup thickly sliced white onions 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 6 sprigs fresh thyme or heaping ¼ teaspoon dried 6 sprigs fresh marjoram or heaping ¼ teaspoon dried ¾-inch piece of cinnamon stick 1¼ cups fresh orange juice Zest of orange 12 very small new potatoes, unpeeled 5 medium carrots, peeled, cut into 2-inch lengths, and quartered Note: While this dish should be served as soon as it is cooked, it could be prepared and refrigerated up until step No. 5, when you add the chicken.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut whole tomatoes in slices or cherry tomatoes in half. Spray a pan with nonstick spray, place over medium-high heat, and cook tomatoes until beginning to char on both sides.

Set aside.

Heat oil over mediumhigh heat in a large ovenproof casserole or pot with a lid (the breasts have to fit in one layer). Season the breasts well with salt and pepper and cook to a deep golden color on both sides _ you may have to do this in 2 batches. Remove from casserole, sprinkle with more salt and pepper, and set aside.

Take out all but 2 tablespoons of the oil from the pot. Sauté the onion and garlic gently, without browning, until translucent.

Blend the unskinned tomatoes until smooth.

Add to the pan, together with the thyme, marjoram and cinnamon stick, and saute over high heat for 3

minutes, occasionally stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan.

Add the chicken pieces, orange juice, orange zest, potatoes and carrots. Cover and bake for 15 minutes, then turn the chicken pieces over and bake until tender, an additional 10 to 15 minutes. Serve with plenty of the sauce and vegetables.

Per serving: 483 calories; 11 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 73 mg cholesterol; 34 g protein; 64 g carbohydrate; 12 g sugar; 8 g fiber; 127 mg sodium; 87 mg calcium.

–Adapted from “The Essential Cuisines of Mexico,” by Diana Kennedy STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS Yield: 4 servings 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves 3 tablespoons butter, divided 1 cup dry white wine Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Make a pocket in each breast by cutting it horizontally almost all the way to the far side. Stuff with one of the following stuffings, or make one up yourself. Close pockets with toothpicks.

In a large skillet over medium-high heat, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter.

Without crowding the pan, cook chicken until golden brown on both sides; you may have to do this in two batches. Do not clean this pan. Transfer chicken to a rimmed baking sheet or a pan (or pans) large enough to hold the breasts in a single layer. Cook in oven until done, about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, over medium-high heat, reheat the original pan in which you cooked the chicken (skip this whole step if you made Asian-Style stuffing). Add the wine and use a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Boil the wine until it reduces by about half. Remove from the heat and add the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter, swirling it in the pan until it is completely incorporated with the reduced wine. Pour this sauce over the cooked chicken, and serve.

Per serving: 243 calories; 12 g fat; 6 g saturated fat; 96 mg cholesterol; 27 g protein; 1g carbohydrate; no sugar; no fiber; 66 mg sodium; 18 mg calcium.

• Italian-Style Chicken Breasts: Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a medium pan over medium-high heat.

Sauté cup plus 2 tablespoons diced tomatoes or sliced cherry tomatoes until softened. Add ¼ cup thinly sliced basil and remove from heat. Stir in ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, and stuff in equal portions into chicken breasts.

• Mushroom ‘n’ Swiss Chicken Breasts: Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a medium pan over medium-high heat. Add 1 cup sliced mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until mushrooms release their liquid. Stuff into chicken breasts in equal portions, and add 1 ounce of sliced Swiss cheese to each pocket.

• Springtime Chicken Breasts: Snap off bottom few inches of 4 asparagus spears and steam stalks in a little boiling water until cooked through, about 3 to 4 minutes. Cut into ¼-inch slices. In a medium pan over medium-high heat, melt 1 tablespoon butter.

Add ¼ cup shallots and cook until translucent, about 3 to 5 minutes. Add 1 cup sliced mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and cook until mushrooms release their liquid.

Stir in chopped asparagus and stuff into chicken breasts in equal portions.

• Asian-Style Chicken Breasts: In a medium pan over medium-high heat, heat 1 tablespoon oil. Add ¼ cup chopped shallots and 2 teaspoons minced ginger and cook until shallots are translucent, about 3 to 5 minutes.

Add 1 cup sliced mushrooms, season with pepper, and cook until mushrooms release their liquid.

Stir in ¼ cup soy sauce and 1 tablespoon chopped scallions. Stuff into chicken breasts.

– Recipe by Daniel Neman

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NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the following Ordinance will be considered for adoption by the Board of Supervisors of White Township at their meeting to be held on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. at the White Township Municipal Building, 950 Indian Springs Road, Indiana, PA. ORDINANCE NO. 1074 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITE ESTABLISHING AND ADOPTING THE “OFFICIAL MAP” and “OFFICIAL MAP NARRATIVE” WHEREAS, the Township of White is a second class Township of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Article IV of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968 as reenacted and amended, the Township is authorized to establish and adopt an “OFFICIAL MAP” for all the Township with inset map which may show appropriate elements of the Township Comprehensive Plan including but not limited to existing and proposed public streets, water courses and public grounds including widening, narrowing, extensions, diminutions, openings or closing of same, existing and proposed public parks, playgrounds and open space reservations, and support facilities, easements and other properties held by public bodies as described in Section 301 of the MPC, including historic and resources, other unique natural areas; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Article IV of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, the Township desires to reserve for future taking or acquisition for public use certain proposed public grounds including but not limited to; roadway improvement and transportation corridors; and WHEREAS, the Township Planning Commission has prepared an “OFFICIAL MAP” for the Township depicting and describing the foregoing elements and the Board of Supervisors desire to adopt as the White Township “OFFICIAL MAP”.

NOW, THEREFORE, be it ordained and enacted as follows: 1. The Township hereby adopts the “OFFICIAL MAP” of the Township of White all that certain Map thereto designated as the “White Township Official Map” dated ____ ____, 2016.

2. The property depicted as proposed Township property, including roadway improvement and transportation corridors may be reserved for future taking or acquisition for public use.

3. For acquisition of lands and/or rights-of-way pursuant to the Official Map, boundary descriptions by metes and bounds descriptions shall be made and sealed by a licensed surveyor.

4. The Township directs that upon adoption of this Ordinance, a copy of the “OFFICIAL MAP” verified by the Board of Supervisors, shall be submitted to the Recorder of Deeds of the County of Indiana to be recorded within sixty (60) days of the effective date hereof.

5. The adoption of the Official Map shall not, in and of itself, constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishment of any street nor the taking or acceptance of any land, nor shall it obligate White Township to improve or maintain any such street or land.

6. After adoption of the “OFFICIAL MAP”, or part thereof, all streets, watercourses, and public grounds and the elements listed in Section 401 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code on final, recorded plats which have been approved as provided by this Act shall be deemed amendments to the “OFFICIAL MAP”. notwithstanding any of the other terms of this article, no public hearing needs to be held or public notice given if the amendment of the “OFFICIAL MAP” is the result of the addition of a plat which has been approved as provided by this Ordinance.

7. For the purposes of preserving the integrity of the White Township Official Map, no permit shall be issued for any building within the lines of any street or public ground shown or laid out on the “OFFICIAL MAP”. No person shall recover any damages for the taking for public use of any building or improvements constructed within the lines of any street or public ground after the same shall have been included in the “OFFICIAL MAP”, and any such building or improvement shall be removed at the expense of the owner.

8. When the property of which the reserved location forms a part, cannot yield a reasonable return to the owner unless a permit shall be granted, the owner may apply to the Board of Supervisors for the grant of a special encroachment permit to so build. Before granting any special encroachment permit authorized in this section, the Board of Supervisors may submit the application for a special encroachment permit to the White Township Planning Commission and allow the Planning Commission thirty (30) days to review and comment on the special encroachment permit and shall give public notice and hold a public hearing at which all parties in interest shall have an opportunity to be heard. A refusal by the Board of Supervisors to grant the special encroachment permit may be appealed by the applicant in the same manner, and within the same time limitations as is provided in the Article IX of

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9. The Board of Supervisors may fix the time for which streets, watercourses and public grounds on the “OFFICIAL MAP” shall be deemed reserved for future taking or acquisition for public use. However, the reservation for public grounds shall lapse and become void one (1) year after an owner of such property has submitted a written notice to the Board of Supervisors announcing his intentions to build, subdivide or otherwise develop the land covered by the reservation, or has made formal application for an official permit to build a structure for private use, unless the Board of Supervisors shall have acquired the property or begun condemnation proceedings to acquire such property before the end of the year.

10. All Ordinances and parts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

11. This ordinance shall become effective in accordance with the provisions of the Second Class Township Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Appliances For Sale

GE Upright freezer, excellent condition. Asking $100. (724) 388-0923 KENMORE Washer, 2 years old, high eff., excellent condition. $200.

Call (724) 783-6159 MAYTAG Refrigerator side by side, water & ice in door, $200. Manard range, smooth top $100.

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Musical & Stereo Equipment For Sale

FREE Upright Piano, needs tuned, just haul away, Call (724) 388-5024

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Pets & Supplies For Sale

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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 PRO-FORM Walk Tread Mill, excellent cond.,folds up for storage, asking $100, (724) 397-2834 TRIPOD Corn feeder 50 GAL, good condition nothing wrong, asking $65. (724) 464-8195

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by Eugenia Last Participation is encouraged. Don’t sit at home waiting for things to come to you.

Make changes to the way you do things in order to free up time for interests you want to pursue and places you want to visit.

Don’t settle for less than what you want.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Live in the moment and take time to enjoy the people you love and the things that make you happy. It’s up to you to take responsibility for your success.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Review personal finances to find out where you stand and what you can afford.

Temptation will rear its head if you become restless. Put your possessions and money in a safe place.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Host an event at your place.

Offer suggestions to old friends and make a point to listen to ideas and collaborate with someone you think would make a good business partner.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Let your personality shine.

Take part in events that challenge you and make you think about your life and available options.

Stop worrying about others and start doing what’s best for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Look at the big picture and gather all the information you can.

You will benefit from a change of pace or from tweaking your skills or reevaluating your beliefs. Romance is highlighted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — You’ll be challenged if you

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Partnerships will depend on priorities.

No matter what the deal or who is involved, don’t rule out an obscure idea or plan if it feels right to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’ll be taken advantage of if you are overly friendly or accommodating.

Don’t get involved in a scheme you know little about. Get the lowdown before you give the go-ahead.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Avoid anyone who is emotionally unpredictable. Look for projects that will improve a very special personal relationship as well as your home environment.

Romance will add excitement to your life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Steer clear of anyone trying to pressure you. Avoid a disagreement with someone close to you. Putting in extra time at work will help you get ahead.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — Being a participant will encourage you to stand up for your rights and concerns.

You can make a difference if you are precise and detailed with your reasoning and solutions.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — Don’t let a co-worker or superior make you feel guilty or doubt your ability. Don’t be afraid to negotiate, and don’t hesitate to take charge of your future. Update your resume.

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4 TIRES, Brand New, mounted on rims, 215/70/14, white walls, $220/all.

Call (724) 5495891 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.

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Autos For Sale

2001 PONTIAC Firebird Coupe, V6, auto., 106K, new red paint & tires, clean sharp car, Dynoflo mufflers, R Title, garage parked in winter. $3,200.

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1200 HARD BACK Books, romance, kids books, autobiography, time life, good condition.

All for $150 obo. (724) 541-4228

SPRINGER SPANIEL, can be puppies or adult dog, want the color to be liver & white and a full coat. Call (412) 678-7300

3/4” SOFT Copper Tubing, 19 ft, Two 12 ft, 21 ft, $1.00 per ft. (724) 422-1044

WANTED Christmas Trees, Fraser Fir, Concolor or what have you.

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Bell Collection, assorted styles & materials, $200/all.

Call (724) 397-8124 LIONEL TRAIN Set with board, $200. Good working condition. (724) 397-2993 Small children’s swimming pool, pump incl., used 1 summer, $50, (724) 422-3957

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

4 TIRES, 215-75-r14, excellent condition, whitewalls, 1 does have plug, used on antique car, asking $125/all. Call (724) 801-2291

AUCTION SALE THURS., MAY 19 4:00 P.M. 32 Tunnelton Road, Clarksburg, PA

Watch for arrows off Route 286 at southern area of Clarksburg.

FARM MACHINERY & RELATED ITEMS International Md. 2400A diesel tractor w/3 pt. hitch-high lift-newer rear tires & shuttle shift, 2 Ferguson Mdl. 30 tractors w/3 pt. hitch, Ford 3 bottom plow, Ford 2 bottom plow, Deerborn 2 bottom plow, Ferguson 2 bottom plow, spring tooth harrow, back blade, 5’ rotary mower, cultivator, disc-all, 3 pt. hitch, Meyers 8’ snow blade, Ford 309 2 row corn planter & 1 for parts, newer lime & fertilizer spreader, 1995 Ford E350-14½’ box truck w/lift gate, 7.3 diesel engine-new brakes & good tires (subject to confirmation), Troy-Bilt rototiller, garden tools, gas string trimmers, Simplicity SunStar 20HP lawn tractor w/46” snow blade-60” mower deck-hydraulic lift-turf & ag. tires & chains, Coleman 6.5HP 60 gal. compressor, 36” steel toolbox, Dayton 100,000 BTU kerosene heater, tandem trailer-no title, table saw, hand tools & other misc. items.

Please be on time-not many small items. Bring truck. Refreshments & restroom on grounds. An old fashion country sale.

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TERMS: Cash or check subject to approval. No out-of-state checks.

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INDIANA: Huge Garage Sale, 20 Stevenson Ave., Watch for signs off East Pike. May 19th, 20th & 21st, Items include furniture, tea cart, kitchen booth, wicker, quilt frame, quilts, rorotiller, cultivator, antiques, dishes, small appliances, linens, books, puzzles, Avon’s Cape Cod, crocks, pictures, clothes and much more, come early, stay late, stop on your way to the May Mart

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10ft. BRILLION Cultimulcher, inside, good condition, $1,500 GRAVITY Box, 125 bushel, $900. (724) 349-3652

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NEAR Dog Hollow Speed way, 1629 Tipperary Rd, starting 5/18-?; 10am6pm. Something for all!

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YEARLING Beef bulls for sale, Angus X, Simmentel X, 724-244-0765

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Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

HEDGE Trimmer , 20” cordless, asking $25, Call (724) 464-9443 SIMPLICITY 20 hp garden tractor, 48” deck with snow plow, excellent condition, asking $2,000.

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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.

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