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The Tuolumne County Planning Commission late Wednesday turned down a proposal to builda 9,100-square-foot Dollar General near Columbia State Historic Park.

Commissioners heard &om several dozen people who spoke passionately about how such a business would harm the char-

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Within the past two months, county law enforcement have responded to several reports of stolen mail and stolen packages.

Sgt. Andrea Benson, public information officer for the Tuolumne County SherifFs Office, said within the past two months, the SherifFs Office received approximately 11 reportsofm ailtheftacrossthe county.

On Dec. 8, two mail theft incidents were reported in Twain Harte between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Broken Bough Lane and Ontario Drive, which are about four miles apart. Another report stated mail was all over the road on Lakewood Drive.

Kathy Lassa, a resident of Plateau Road in Sonora, said mail was stolen &om her mailbox so many times in the past, she set up a P.O. box.

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5-2 to deny a permit to Cross Development of Texas, which would own the property and lease the building to Dollar General.

A few townspeople spoke in favor.

The developer has 10 days to appeal the decision to the Tuolumne CountyBoard ofSuper-

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Commissioner John LaTorre, speaking by teleconference &om a business trip in Petaluma, said he had been moved by the testimony of opponents.

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Leslie Hartzell, of the California Department of Parks and Recreation (above), speaks in opposition to a proposed Dollar General store during a hearing Wednesday at 49er Faith Hall in Columbia. Heidi Wall, of Columbia (below), speaks in favor of the store.

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By TORI THOMAS The Union Democrat

Well over 200 people corralled into the brightly lit Church of 49ers Faith Hall, most of them wearing gold sashes reading "Keep Columbia Historic" that were handed out at the door.

Claudia Carlson told commissionersa proposed Dollar General store in Columbia is a direct threat to the livelihoods of momand-pop businesses like hers.

Carlson, owner of C laud's Columbia Market, was one of more than 40 people who spoke against the Tennessee-based discount retailer's proposal to build a store at Howser Lane and Par-

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Stolen Santa returned to Morning Star Santa Claus usually comes to town in a sleigh, but one Santa found his way to Morning Star Drive via police cruiser.

Grant, a mannequin dressed as Santa, was reported stolen between Friday night and Saturday morning &om 89-year-ol d Lydia McClenahan's front porch on Morning Star Drive in Sonora.

Grant wasreturned Wednesday morning

after he was found about a half-mile away &om McClenahan's home.

Sonora Police Chief Mark Stinson said a call came in about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday &om the Social Security Administration building, also on Morning Star Drive.

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"Ilook attinsashabitatfornotjust all these animals, but also peoplehabitat for a certain kind of people," he Tuolumne CountySupervisor Evan said, his voice trembling. "These are Royce couldn't contain his emotion people that I grew up around, people Tuesday while discussing his reasons like my grandpa. And those kind of for opposing a proposed sale of the people are disappearing."

400-acre Ackerson Meadow to a trust The discussio n over the sale lasted for Yosemite National Park. more than 90 minutes Tuesday, with The transfer would further impinge testimony&om the landowners, Yosemon the county's long history of cattle ite Superintendent Don Neubacher and grazing, the Tuolumne County native members of a ranching family that has said,ahistory he feltdeserved protec- grazedthe landforgenerations. tion as much as wildlife habitat and natural resources.

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The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted 3-2 in opposition to a proposed sale of the 400-acre Ackerson Meadow to a trust for Yosemite National Park.

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Straight out of Summerville High School, Rachel Wagner was working in an office, defying conventional millennial norms with job search skills she picked up in high school.

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Silver Spur Camp and Conference Center assistant program coordinators (from left) Matt Hughes and Erin Hilliker interview Summerville High School freshman Gianna Tippett.

Wagner said. "Mrs. Horak reallyhelps students create a career for yourself."

"It'sscary for someone to go to a job interview. I would say about 30 percent don' t know what to expect," Horak said. "Most are 14 and never worked before."

This was the 11th year Horak hosted Hire Me First! some constructive criticism," Before that, the program Horak said. tract a n i n t e rviewer f r om was led by Partners in EduHorak teaches a freshman what y ou' re d iscussing," cation. The group of busisino.

And Tuesday, she taught other students how to land a job at Hire Me First!, a mock-interview process put on by Kathy Horak, Summerville business and work experience teacher.

"The goal is go through a job interview and learn what they' ve done right and get

keyboarding class required for graduation. The class includes resume building, cover letter writing and interview conduct — all leading up to an end-of-the semester mock interview.

The class helped in reallife interviews, Wagner said.

"Ithelped prepare me by learning to avoid annoying mannerisms that could dis-

Mother Lode business representatives participated in mock-interviews Tuesday to prepare Summerville High School students for real-life job searches. Participants (from left) include Matt Hughes, Larry Bertucci, Summerville teacher Kathy Horak, Ronaldo Pascal, Kristina Herrera, Matt Maddox, Dave Horak, Danielle Chapel, Erin Hilliker, Jeffrey Johnston, Brian Machado, Molly Hakue and Pamela Meyer. ness owners and supporters s topped coordinating t h e program as federal funding ceased.

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"I was already doing a little bit of resumes and cover letters in my class," she said. "I was really doing everything but the interview."

For the first time, students may actually get hired based on their performance this year.

Silver Spur Camp and Conference Center in Tuolumne asked two students to follow up by submitting applications for seasonal part-time positions.

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the spot because interviewers wanted to keep the proContact Sean Carson at cess a school project, said scarson@uniondemocrat.corn Erin Hilliker, a program co- or 588-4525

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Library staff also recommend stocking up on books and other materials in advance of holiday closures.

All branches will be closed from Dec. 24 to Dec. 26, as well as Jan. 1, 2016.

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"The work that Mrs. Horak has them do is far and away more than what we get from a normal applicant," Hilliker said. "That they have a resume — that would be unique."

The students displayed personali ty, character and excitement in talking about what they wanted to do, Hilliker said.

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Shirley was a f a i t hful are published at a pre-paid fee based onsize.The deadline is 5 member of St. Joseph's Cathp.m. two business days prior to olic Church and the secupublication. Call 532-7151, fax lar Franciscan Order. She 532-5139 or send to obitsounion- loved adventures, reading, democrat.corn. knitting, traveling abroad, Memorial ads are published and staying connected with at a pre-paid fee based on size. her family. Shirley's favorThe deadline is noon two busiite memories include being ness days prior to publication. raised by loving grandparPlease call 5884555 for complete ents, visiting the leper colony information. in Kalaupapa, Moloka'i, and feeling its special spirit, as well as seeing the Pope on a Shirley Rowe visit to the Vatican. She was (Rhodes) Dodson proud of her Native AmeriAug. 17,1929 — Dec. 7, 2015 can and Irish ancestry.

Shirley is s u rvived by six of her c hildren: William Anthony Rhodes, of Reedley, Jeanne Trickey, of Waterford, Kristi C a puccini, of Tuolumne, Rosemary Rhodes, of Tuolumne, Suzanne Johnson, of Reedley, and David Rhodes, of Clovis; 15 grandchildren: Stephanie Rhodes, Patricia Rhodes, Ryan Rhodes, Alexander Rhodes, Christopher Rhodes, Elizabeth Monroe, K atie Keo, Annie Macias, Jennifer

S hirley A d el e Ro w e (Rhodes) Dodson was born in Bakersfield on August 17, 1929, and passed away at her home in Tuolumne on Dec. 7, 2015. She was 86 years old.

Shirley had spent the last 42 years living in Tuolumne County, with the exception of two years, when she worked for Indian Health Services and lived on reservations in Arizona, Idaho and Nevada.

Shirley grew up living in Parlier and Prescott, Arizona. She married William C. Rhodes on Nov. 16, 1947, and lived in Reedley. They had 7 children. She then attended Reedley College and Fresno City College and became a registered nurse. She divorced, moved to Modesto, and married John C. Dodson in October 1967. They moved to Tuolumne in 1973.

Shirley wo r ke d for Modesto City Hospital, Visiting N urses Association, Tuolumne General,and Sonora Community. She contin-

Fleish, Lauren Plummer, Megan Houseberg, Timothy Jantzen, Cameron Rhodes, Will Rhodes, and MacKenzie Rhodes; and 21 great-grandchildren.

Shirley was preceded in death by her father, Clarence Dewey Rowe; mother, Velma Quick Rowe; stepfather, Noah Berry; husbands, William C. Rhodes and John C. Dodson; brother, William Rowe; and son, Joseph P. Rhodes.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Dec. 22 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Tuolumne. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Joseph's guild or the secular Franciscans. Cremation by Terzich and Wilson, Sonora.

Death notices Death Notices in The Union Democrat are published free of charge.

They includethe name, age and town of residence of thedeceased,the date ofdeath; service information; and memorial contribution information. The deadline is noon the day before publication.

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islaus State College, earning BAYONNE — Jeanne Baya degree in Public Health onne, 90, of Jamestown, died Nursing an d e v entually Wednesday at Oak Terrace worked for Tuolumne Coun- Memory Care in Soulsbyville. ty Health Department. After Terzich and Wilson Funeral retirement, she volunteered Home is handling arrangefor Hospice and worked as a ments.

CALENDAR For complete arts and entertainment listings, see the Weekender, published Thursdays in The Union Democrat.

ing, 5:30 p.m. sign-ups, reading 7 to 8 p.m.,Sonora Joe's Coffee Shoppe, 140 S. Washington St., downtown Sonora, 532-6561.

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Murder trial results in hung jury BALTIMORE (AP) — The first effort to convict an officer in Freddie Gray'sdeath from a broken neck in a Baltimore Police van ended Wednesday with a hung jury and a mistrial.

Officials appealed for calm as small crowds protestedalong streets lined with police officers. The situation was

quiet at North and Pennsylvania, the intersection where the worst rioting happened in April as parts of West Baltimore were set on fire.

William Porter's mistrial is a setback for prosecutors trying to respond to a citizenry frustrated by violent crime and allegations of police misconduct.

Homicides have soared and the pressure on city officials has been unrelenting since Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged six officers in Gray's death.

About 30 protesters chanting "send those killer cops to jail" outside the courthouse switched gears after the mistrial was announced, chanting "No justice, no peace!" and "Black Lives Matter."

The case hinged not on what Porter did, but what prosecutors said he didn't do. He was accused of failing to get medical help for a critically wounded Gray and wascharged with manslaughter, assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment, carrying

maximum sentences totaling 25 years.

The judge planned to discuss a possible retrial with both sides in his chambers on Thursday.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and the new police commissioner she installed after last April's riots warned peopleagainst more violence. ''We will not, we cannot be defined by the unrest of the spring," the mayor

four charges," the judge said Wednesday. 'You have clearly been diligent."

The Baltimore NAACP asked people to control their "frustration and anger" and respect "the rights ofallpeoplerespected, on all sides."

At least two activists were arrested,

including Kwame Rose, a young black man who called the mistrial an "injustice."

'Vile are going to fight for justice unsaid.

"Protesters who are lawfully assem- til it becomes a reality in our lives. A bled have a friend in the Baltimore Po- mistrial means that the prosecution lice Department," Commissioner Kevin did not do their jobs good enough," he Davis said. "Folks who choose to com- said. mit crimes and break things and hurt Erika Alston, a West Baltimore compeopleare nolonger protesters." munity leader who founded Kids Safe Mosby wouldn't comment: "Gag or- Zone after the April riots, said she felt der," she said, smiling and shaking her there was reasonable doubt that Porhead inside the courthouse. ter committed manslaughter, but "it' s Attorney Billy Murphy, who obtained early. It's one of six."

"I'm not expecting our community to a $6.4 million settlement for Gray's family from the city before Porter's repeat April, but it is a bit of a kick in trial, called the mistrial "a temporary the chest," she said. bump on the road to justice."

Activist Duane "Shorty" Davis acThe racially diverse jury of seven cused the prosecution of deliberately men and five women deliberated for putting ona weak case to preserve its about 16 hours over three days. They relationship with the police. "They' re indicated they were deadlocked on not going to eat their own," he said.

Tuesday, but Circuit Judge Barry WilPorter left the courthouse after conliams told them to keep at it, even as he ferring solemnly with defense attorney denied their requests for help.

Joseph Murtha, and was shielded by "It is clear you will not come to a deputies from the media. Murtha deunanimous agreement on any of the clined to comment.

NEWS OF RECORD TUOLUMNE COUNTY The Sonora Police Department reported the following: TUESDAY 7:25 a.m., rmkless driving — A blue Toyota Corolla was all over the road and ran two stop signs off GreenleyRoad and Sylva Lane.

8:16 a.m., weapons violation — A woman on Greenley Road found "sword-length" knives.

8:46 a.m., traffic accidents — A possibly impaired man driving a blue Chrysler on Greenley Road hit another vehicle.

11:54 a.m., harassment —Two men harassed and threatened to fight another man at a Sanguinetti Road business.

4:10 p.m., disorderly conduct — A woman pepper sprayed a man and tried to damage his vehicle on South Washington Street.

5:56 p.m., suspicious circumstance —A woman and two men appeared to be doing drugs at a West Stockton Street business.

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2:52 p.m. Tuolumne — A woman threw papers at the back of a person's head in front of a Carter Street school. It may be part of an ongoing issue.

3:24p.m.,Tuolumne — Theft occurred at a Tuolumne Road North business.

4:37 p.m., Sonora area Sheep escaped a Dusty Trail pasture.

5:16 p.m., Columbia — A Shaws Flat Road home was broken into and a rifle and shotgun were stolen.

7:29 p.m., Jamestown — A drunk man attempted to kick in the door of a Main Street residence.

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8:07 p.m., San Andreas — Two The Sheriff's 0$ce reported pe ople were shooting at builda the following: ing on Pool Station Road.

TUESDAY Felony bookings 1 a.m., Valley Springs —Trespassing occurred on Harper TUESDAY Street.

5:30 p.m., Sheep Ranch8 a.m., Copperopolis — A suspicious man drove slowly Jeremy John Trotter, 22, of the through the area of Rock Ridge 12000 block of Armstrong Road, was booked on suspicion of carLane and Saddle Creek Drive.

8:32 a.m., Mokelumne Hill rying a concealed dirk or dagger — A suspicious man, possibly and misdemeanor disorderly on drugs, was outside on North conduct after an arrest on ArmMain Street and Persall Avenue strong Road. for at least 20 minutes.

8:37 a.m., Copperopolis — A Arrests go-kart was stolen from a carport on Pamo Court.

Cited on suspicion of driving Felony bookings 12:35 p.m., Sheep Ranch — A under the influence of alcoholor man took wood from an Armdrugs: TUESDAY strong Road property.

2:48 a.m., Phoenix Lake12:52 p.m., Valley SpringsMichaelJames Wagoner, 24, of Theftoccurred on Rose Street.

TUESDAY the 18000 block of Main Street, 2:22 p.m., San Andreas —Lar2:23 p.m., Valley Springs — A Tuolumne, was booked on sus- man slept on the steps of High- ry Bing Stanley, 74, of the 5900 picion of false impersonation way 26 business. block of McCauley Road, Valley of another and misdemeanor 4:58 p.m., Sheep Ranch —An Springs, was booked after an arevading a peace officer after an arrest was made after an incident rest on Main Street. arrest on Phoenix Lake Road.

3 a.m., Phoenix Lake —BritWEDNESDAY 1:23a.m. vandalism — A gas tanie Rachelle Sanders, 21, of pump wasvandalized ata M ono the 18000 block of Main Street, Tuolumne, was booked on susWay business. picion of false impersonation The Sheriff's Office reported of another, being an accessory to a felony and misdemeanor the following: possession of drug paraphernalia after an arrest on Phoenix TUESDAY Lake Road.

7:49 a.m., Jamestown — A 2:09 p.m., Twain Harte —lan person repeatedly trespassed on Cameron Duncan Jones, 36, of property at Karlee Lane and Jackthe 23000 block of Twain Harte sonville Road.

Trimming,HazardousRemovals, Drive, was booked on suspi8:08 a.m., Twain Harte — A cion of assault after an arrest on Beetle Infestation 8 Butte Fire Clean-Up man found the door to his SycaTwain Harte Drive. more Circle cabin unlocked and damage to the property.

Arrests 9 a.m., Sonora area —A truck dropped asphalt while driving up Cited on suspicion of driving Phoenix Lake Road.

10:10 a.m., Twain Harte — A under the influence of alcoholor Fuller Road cabin was burglar- d/'Ugs: ized.

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All I want for Christmas is economic freedom It's Christmas time again, and with it comes the dreams of better times. Families struggling with the consequences of the most recent recession will be happy to know that there is a simple way to improve their lives and keep or make more money in the process. It's called economic &eedom, and the United States used to be very good at main-

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Economic &eedom is measured by, among other things, levels of personal choice, the ability to enter markets and the security of privately owned property. According to the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom of the World report, the United States ranks 16th in terms of being an economically free country. It is a significant fall&om itssecond-place status in 2000.

"A weakened rule of law, the so-called wars on terrorism and drugs,and a confused regulatory environment have helped erode economic freedom in the United States," explains Fred McMahon, one of the report's authors.

There is a vast amount of literature on the ben-

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Exxon's weapons ofm assconfusion

efits of economic freedom. For instance, a review of 45 studies by economists Chris Doucouliagos and Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu shows a strong relationship between economic freedom and growth. But it is also associated with higher income levels (i.e., more money in people's pockets) and better environment outcomes (better living conditions).

Better yet, as my colleague Matthew Mitchell documented in several places, more economic freedom also means less of the things we don't want — such as national insecurity, crimes and infant mortality-

There is a constant fiow of headlines these days confirming the mess we' ve made: "Looks Like Rain Again. And Again"; "Alaska Will Keep Melting"; "Climate Change a Worry to Central Bankers, Too"; Warning on Climate Risk: Worst to Come."

This is far from a natural phenomenon.

A handful of corporate interests are causing these catastrophes. Oil, coal, auto and a few other industrial powers have profitedfordecades by spewing fossilfuelcon-

and more of the stufF we do want, such as literacy.

taminants into the world's atmosphere.

He writes, "The balance of evidence is overwhelming that economic &eedom corresponds with a wide variety of positive outcomes with almost no negative tradeoffs."

The same results can be found at the state level.

For instance, an article called "More Economic Freedom, More Jobs," published in the October 2013 issue of Regulation magazine, looks at what could explain the large differences in unemployment rates among the states. Though they acknowledge that the gradations can be partially attributed to demographics, hangovers from the housing crisis, or the oil-and-gas boom, the authors wanted to attempt to measure the impact that economic &eedom can have on unemploymentrates.

Their main finding is that there is a strong negative relationship between economic &eedom and unemployment across the states, even when controlling for many other factors that affect the labor market.

Having a job — versus not having one — is obviously great and means more money in a family' s pocket. But another source of financial improvement for families could come from actually getting rid of

Some experts were speaking out about this mess nearly 40 years ago: "There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release &om the burning of fossil fuels," wrote James Black in 1978.

"Overthe past severalyears,a clearscientific consensus has emerged," said Roger Cohen in September 1982. 'There is unan-

a bunch of government programs and regulations.

There are so many that I can't list them all, but obviously, ending the decades long war on drugs seems like a no-brainer. It would bring tremendous benefits to many families whose loved ones are locked up and theli ves thatare destroyed because big-government policy dictates what individuals can and cannot consume. Indeed,some 80 percent of drug-related arrestsareforpossession alone.

But smaller changes in policies would also save Americans a lot of money. At The Heritage Foundation, economist Salim Furth lists 12 &ee market reforms that would save the average American house-

hold $4,440 a year. At the local level, these policies include ending or limiting zoning laws — such as parking minimums and height restrictions for buildings. At the state level, ending occupational licensing laws and implementing medical tort reform, among other things, would improve economic &eedom and save Americans their hard-earned cash.

Not surprisingly, the biggest savings would come &om reformsat the federallevel.Getting rid ofthe ethanol mandate, which requires refiners to use corn for gasoline, would save the average household $255 a year. Getting rid of the Obama administration's Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards would save the average household $448 a year. Lifting crude oil export restrictions would save the average household $227. And reducing the complexity and compliancecosts ofthe corporate income tax would save the average household $230 per year.

I am sure that making or keeping more of their own money is on many Americans' Christmas lists this year. Maybe Congress should put improving economic &eedom on its New Year's resolution list.

Veroniquede Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatua Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the US. economy,

the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition and financial privacy.

imous agreement in the scientific commu-

nity that a temperature increase of this magnitude would bring about significant changes in the Earth's climate, including rainfall distribution and alterations in the biosphere."

The significance of these early calls to action is that they came from Exxon!

Inside Climate News revealed in an investigative series released this fall that the oil superpower (now infamous for its relentless campaign of lies to discredit climate science) was briefiy a paragon of scientific integrity. From 1978 through the '80s the corporation's research headquarters were a buzzing hive of farsighted inquiry into the "greenhouse effect," as the process of climate change was then called.

But in 1988, the elegant space inhabited by principle was suddenly invaded by the indelicate demands of profit. Dr. James Hansen, NASA's renowned climate expert, testified to Congress that fossil pollution of Earth's atmosphere had already surpassed the crisis point. "Global warming

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Then the United Nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change issued an authoritative study in 1990 concluding that the warming was happening and the cause was emissions from fossil fuels.

With that, Exxon dismantled and defunded its research team. Ever since, it' s been theshameful,self-serving leader of a voodoo "science" campaign to keep the world hooked on the fossil fuels that provide its profits.

Their strategy was to create an incessant noise machine, fueled with hundreds of millions of industry dollars, to spread the falsenarrative thatscientistsare "uncertain" about climate change.

In aconfi dential1998 memo, ExxonMobil's senior environmental lobbyist stated the Orwellian goal of this corporate campaign: "Victory will be achieved when ... average citizens 'understand' uncertainties in climate science," and when 'recognition of uncertainty becomes part of the 'conventional wisdom.' " Their many tactics included: Forming a lobbying combine in 1989 to sow doubt among public officials about the need for government acti on; placing a very costly, decade-longseriesofessaysin newspapers denigrating the very scientists it previously nurtured and the science reports that it published; and trying to get the government's chief global warming official to decry the uncertainty of climate research (then, when he refused, got the incoming Bush-Cheney regime to fire him). They also made their CEOs into hucksters of bunkum, with such lines as "the earth is coolertoday than itwas 20 yearsago"and "it is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of next century will be significantly afFected whether policies are enact-

Oh my $125 per tree have these guys called a tree service lately. That's a deal.

These guys just got a pretty healthy rate increasejustdo yourjob,remove the trees and maybe look in house to save money say To the Editor: lay off 30 percent ofyour people and half "This is for Syria," a man shouted when your administration. he slashed three people in a London underground station. If he had not a knife but Richard Shears an AR-15, we would talk about a dozen or Columbia more deaths.

That's the difference gun laws make.

Gunlawsmake adilerence

"massive government control of the econ-

omy ... and every aspect of our lives" ) and Jeb (who said, "It's convoluted. And for the peopletosay the science isdecided on this is just really arrogant").

The deniers are not only on the wrong side of science and history, but also on the wrong side of most voters. A New York Times poll taken last January found that only 13 percent of our people (and only 24 percent of Repubs) said they would be moreli kely to vote for 2016 presidential candidates who contend that climate change is a hoax and America should keep burning oil and coal. A September poll by three GOP firms found that 56 percent of Republicans agree that the climate is changing and 72 percent support accelerating the use of renewable fuels.

The real power, and our great hope, is in the People's rebellion: marches, civil disobedience, trainings, teach-ins and other actionsto pressure leaders to put people and the planet over corporate profiteering, while also raising global public awareness about the crucial need to get off of fossil fuels and into renewable energy. As 350. org puts it, "Politicians aren't the only ones with power." So the coalition will be in the global streets, on the Internet, in schools, churches and all other available forums, to rally you and me to save ourselves.

Jim Hightotaer ia a native Texan,

columnistand author ofseven books.He serued two terms as Texas Agriculture

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peace on Earth and you will go to Heaven.

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Caltrans oNcial charged in bribery SACRAMENTO — A California Department of Transportation official has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribesto award contractsfor making public walkways accessible to the disabled.

Alex Morales III of Sacramento was arrested and

rine who was injured there.

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced the decision Wednesday in a news release. He said the finding that the shooting was terroristinspired came after an extensive investigation by the FBI and Naval Criminal Investigation Service.

'This determination allows the Department of the Navy to move forward immediately with the award of the Purple Heart to the families of the five heroes who were victims ofthisterroristattack,aswell as to the surviving hero, Sgt. Cheeley," Mabus' statement reads.

The FBI earlier labeled shooter Muhammad Abdulazeez, a naturalized U.S. citizen, a homegrown violent extremist but declined to say what might have motivated him. Ks family said he had problems with drugs and depression that prevented him from holding on to a job. He was also in debt, and considering bankruptcy at 24.

charged with bribery on Tuesday. He remains jailed and it's not immediately known whether he has an attorney. A call to a phone listing for him wasn't immediately returned.

Morales is a Caltrans statewidecoordinator for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Ks job is to make sure that public walkways and bridges comply with the act's accessibility requirements.

Prosecutors say over four years,Morales took at least $100,000 — in theform of monthly payments and a new Ford SUV — to ensure that Caltrans contracts went to certainpeople or companies.

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proposals that would allow fracking for shale gas below national parks, world heritage sites and o ther designated areas of natural beauty.

The measure, which is opposed by e n v ironmental groups, was endorsed Wednesday by 298 v otes to 261 and paves the way to more extensive fracking three-fourthsofa m ile below parks.

The fracking process involves pumping huge volumes of water, sand and chemicals underground to split open rocks to allow oil and gas to flow.

It hasproduced major economic benefits in some countries, but also raised a num-

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The opposition Labour Partysaid afterthevotethat there should be a moratorium untilbetter safeguards are in place.

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LOS ANGELES ( A P) California r egulators have unveiled a roadmap that would let consumers begin using s elf-driving cars, though manufacturers would have to prove the emerging technology is safebefore a licensed driver could get chauffeured

over if the machine fails.

Google, which is pushing to get cars without a steering wheel or pedals to consumers, expressed "grave d isappointment" with t h e rules, which the tech giant said would slow deployment of technology with huge lifesaving potential. around town.

Though no manufacturer The approach California's has said it thinks the cars Department of Motor Ve- are ready just yet, at least hicles offered Wednesday in a dozen are developing the precedent-setting dry reg- technology. Google has sugulations is cautious, though gested a model could be it does allow that Califor- readyforlim ited use sooner nians could be behind the than the public expects. In wheel of a self-driving car September, the safety chief by 2017. of its self-driving car project, Among other s a f ety- Ron Medford, said the techrelated requirements, the nology is "close to working cars must have a steering pretty damn well." wheel, and a licensed drivCaliforni a's go-slow aper must be ready to take proach could benefit Texas,

Syrian balance

of power restored BEIRUT (AP) — Weeks of Russian airstrikes in Syria appear to have restoredenough momentum to the government side to convince President Bashar Assad's foes and the world community that even if he doesn't win the war he cannot quickly be removed by force.

That realization, combined with the growing sense that the world's No. 1 priorit y is the destruction of the Islamic State group, has led many to acknowledge that however unpalatable his conduct of the war, Assad will have to be tolerated for at least some time further.

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which this summer emerged over the coming months beas a competitor in the de-

fore they are finalized, and

ployment of s e l f-driving the industry is sure to lobby cars when officials in the for significant changes.

That process will further capital city of Austin welcomed Googleprototypes for delay rules that were due at company-sponsored testing. the startof2015.

"Given the potential risks There are no comprehenassociated with deployment sive federal rules addressof such a new technology, ing the technology, and as DMV believes that manu- the largest auto market in facturers need to obtain the U.S., rules in California more experience in testing are a landmark in the develdriverless vehicles on public opment of self-driving techroads prior to making this nology. technology available to the Under California's framegeneral public," the agency work, manufacturers would said in a written summary receive apermit for three ofitsdraftregulations. years, during which time Those draft rules set out consumers could lease the how the DMV wants to cars b u t man u f acturers move beyond the current would be required to keep small-scale testing of pro- tabs on how safely they are totypes on public roads. The driving and report that perDMV can change the rules formance tothe state.

Fed raises its key interest rate for the first time in nine years WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserveis raising interest rates from record lows set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, a shift that heralds modestly higher rates on some loans.

The Fed coupled its first rate hike in nine years with a signal that further increases will likely be made slowly as the economy strengthens further and inflation rises from undesirably low levels.

Wednesday's action signaled the central bank's belief that the economy has finally regained enough strength 6'/2 years after the Great Recession ended to withstand modestly higher borrowing rates.

"The Fed's decision today reflects our confidencein the U.S. economy," Chair Janet Yellen said at a news conference.

The Fed said in a statement after its latest meeting that it was lifting its key rate by a quarter-pointto a range of 0.25 percent to0.5 percent.Its move ends an extraordinaryseven-year period of near-zero

borrowing rates. But the Fed's statement suggested that rates would remain historically low well into the future, saying it expects"only gradual increases."

"The Fed reaffirmed that the pace of rate hikes would be slow," James Marple, senior economist at TD Economics wrote in a research note. "The Fed's expectations forrate hikes next year are setalongside a relatively cautious and entirely achievable economic outlook."

Stocks closed up sharply higher. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been up modestly before the announcement, gained 224 points, or 1.3 percent, for the day.

The bond marketdidn'treactmuch. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose slightly to 2.29 percent.

Rates on mortgages and car loans aren' t expected to rise much soon. The Fed's benchmark rate doesn't directly affect them.

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sign of that came Tuesday with the statement

by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Assad's future will be determined by the Syrian people, suggesting in the clearest way yet that he can stay on for now and be part of a transition.

That statement — less a reversal than the culmina-

tion of a rethink that had been underway for months - was doubly piquant coming in Moscow, where Kerry was discussing the Syria question with Russian officials.

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"They j u s t rum m age through — there's nothing specific it looks like th ee going for," she said. "Any kind of personal identifying information, they will try to use."

Unlocked mailboxes are high on the target list because Janna Collins /Union Democrat they are easily accessible, Mail is strewn about a yard in the Lakewood area of Benson said.

Twain Harte. Several mail thefts have been reported "We urge residents to get recently in Tuolumne County. locking mailboxes," she said, adding that people can reThere is no specific area in tern so (if it is delivered), it' s quest anote be left at their the city where mail thefts are through a drop slot in your door to pick up packages at reported more, Stinson said. door," he said.

"Most of it's done for idenmail carriers' buildings.

Unlocked mailboxes allow Benson recommends peo- tify theft," he said. easy access, he said.

"Anybody that walks by can Stinson said during ¹ ple check their mail multiple times a day. vember and December, mail open up the box, take whatev"If you' re going on vacation, theftreportsincreasetoabout er they want — and move on," the post office can hold your four per month. he said. "That goes for outgo"For mail, they' re normally ing mail too. We tell people if mail for a specific amount of time," she said. looking for gift cards and they have checks they' ve writAs a whole, the Sonora Po- cash," Stinson said, adding ten, they need to take them to lice Department gets mail that "anything" is targeted in the post office and drop them theftreports about once a packages. off inside." month, Chief Mark Stinson Stinson recommends peoContact Tori Thomas at said, with credit card appli- plesetup a postoffice box,or cations, new credit cards and install a secure home mailing tthomas@uni ondemocrat.corn bank statements typically system. or 588-4526. Fol lou/ her on "Set up some type of sys- Zai tter @Tort Thomas UD. targeted.

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Dick Pland, of the Tuolumne County Planning Commission, tells people to respect the rights of someone speaking in favor of a proposed Dollar General store in Columbia during a public hearing Wednesday at 49er Faith Hall.

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'The problem that we have with the Dollar General is it will bleed us dry," she said.

"You'llbe losing another local business that spends their money locally and cares about their community."

In anticipation of the large turnout, th e c ommission moved the location of the hearing to the church instead of the typical meeting spot Well over 200 people attended the hearing, most wearin the Board of Supervisors ing gold sashes reading "Keep Columbia Historic" that chambers in Sonora. They were handed out at the door. also laid out ground rules ahead of time that limited thought those in opposition huge line formed, stretching eachspeaker on eitherside of were spreading misinforma- from the podium at the front the debate to three minutes.

Bev Shane, director of the county's Community Resources Agency, was given 15 minutes to outline the developer's proposal. She said the county received and responded to 130 letters received during an earlier public comment period.

'The overwhelming com-

McClenahan bought Grant about seven years ago in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She described Grant as a family heirloom that will be passed from generationto generation.

When Rogers r eturned Grant, McClenahan said she cried "happy tears."

"I just bawled," McClenahan said. "It was a very happy experience."

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thisproject,theway it'sbeen proposed and designed, does not fit in with the style and historic motif of Columbia," she said.

Proponents were t h en given their time to speak, including Dell of Cross Development.

Dell said he agreed that the original design of the Dollar General store was "way off base."

'Through countless phone calls and meetings with the county, we arrived at the design that in our opinion fits very well within the design guidelines of Columbia," he said. "We' ve taken painstaking measures to get to this design."

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Grant, a mannequin dressed as Santa Claus, was returned Wednesday toLydia McClenahan, 89,ofSonora.

He was reported stolen earlier in the week. back together and dressed him in a new Santa costume.

She said Grant will be out side on her porch during the day, and taken inside at dusk.

"For now, he' ll come in every night until Christmas is over," McClenahan said, adding that her 7-year-old Shih

MEADOW Continued from Page Al For the past three years, the Trust for Public Land has worked closely with Nancy and Robin Wainwright, the property's owners, to purchase the resource-rich meadowland that borders the western boundary of the park just north of the entrance on Highway 120.

The eventual plan is for the trust to donate the land to the park for future management and preservation.

"It's a remarkable environmental area," Robin Wainwright told the board at Tuesday's meeting. "We think adding it to Yosemite National Park would be a way of preserving the integrity of that."

The Wainwrights purchased the land in 2006 from the descendants of Tim Carlon, who originally bought the land in the late 1890s. Ware Holdings LLC, a trust in the name of Nancy Wainwright's mother, is the technical owner.

Carlon's grandson, Tim Erickson, has run cattle on the property through a telephone agreement with Nancy Wainwright. The two had never met in person until Tuesday's meeting.

"The Wainwrights have been very gracious to me," he told the board, adding that Nancy Wainwright declined to accept payment from him

Tzu, Max, will watch Grant from a window of her home during the day.

"After Christmas is over, h e's going to stay in t h e house," McClenahan said.

No suspects have been identified and no workable leads have been reported.

In regard to complaints about the store being incompatible with the historic corridor leading to Columbia, Dell said he didn't agree because there's already commercial development along Parrotts Ferry Road south of the town to Highway 49.

Though they were far outnumbered, some voiced supportforthestore.

Heidi Wall, of Columbia, who recently posted a sign for Dollar General promoting the project that was subsequently vandalized, said she

"We can beat on the table all we want, butfactually, that

property is going to the trust. What can we do to make the best out ofit~ What type of mitigations could we come up with that would make it as palatable aspossible~" — John Gray, TuolumneCounty District 4 Supervisor

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est Service and Trust for Public Land, in an effort to find concessions that would appease the board.

Though the board does not have a hardline policy, it generally doesn' t supportthe transfer ofprivate land to public agencies. More than 75 percent of the land in Tuolumne County is already in public holdings.

Some of the mitigation measures includedtransferring a portion of the meadow west of Evergreen Road to the Forest Service, an easement forthe road to ensure public access would not be impeded by fees or tolls, and an agreement requiring the trust to pay the equivalent of 10 years of properly taxes on the land at thetime itistransferred tothepark.

of the room to the entrance.

"Columbia has an air-

The first three people to port, a state park, a college speak were from the Califorand it should be one of the nia Department of Parks and main economic and tourist Recreation, which submitted powerhouses for Tuolumne a letter opposing the project County, but it isn' t," she said. as presented. Some of them "We have a relatively small spoke about their concern group of very well organized over the risk of Columbia and vocal activists that have being delisted as a national characterized every endeavor historic landmark due to enas some sort of existential croaching development.

"Preservation of the histhreat to Columbia's existence." toric setting and surrounding Several people heckled rurallandscapes arejustone Wall as she was speaking, aspicofthenationalhistoric forcing Commissioner Dick landmark designation," said Pland to intervene and re- acting Columbia Superinmind people torespectothers tendent Greg Martin. "This right to speak. being when visitors get off Another supporter, Nor- the highways and drive down man Nickerson, said the es- the winding roads of Parrotts tablishment of a Dollar Gen- Ferry." eral in Columbia would help Many residents of Columtake some ofthe pressure off bia spoke about how they Sonora, where he lives, as don't want a chain store like the retail hub of Tuolumne Dollar General diminishing the historic integrity of the County.

Nickerson urged the peo- town, including 10-year-old ple in attendance to consider Brooklyn McSparin. the positive effects the store Her mother, Courtney could have on the commu- Rodes, said the girl was denity's economy. termined to attend the hearBob O' Connor, who lived ing and voice her opposition.

"I'm against the Dollar in Columbia for 15 years and frequently does business in General storebecause itdoes town, said the competition not fit in," McSparin told the provided by the store to lo- commissioners. "It takes only cal businesses will help bring 10 minutes to get to the Dolprices down for those with lar General store in Jamesless money. town."

"Competition will finally Other concerns voiced by get everybody in line and those in opposition included make it easier for many of the the proposed signage (two denizens of Yankee Hill, Big attached to the building and Hill, Italian Bar — those are one 32-squarefoot,5-foot-tall the people who really need monument sign out front), init,a he said. "Nobody is going creased traffic along Parrotts to travelfar to gethere."

Ferry Road and potential When the time came for chemicals sold in products at the opponents to speak, a the store.

fer was Supervisor John Gray, whose district encompasses the land in question.

Gray talked about how the land being a part of Yosemite would add value to the upcoming Rush Creek Lodge off Highway 120 that's scheduled to open in spring. He also noted the parkservice's support for a $12

millio n reinstruction ofEvergreen for2014 due toim pactsfrom the previous year's Rim Fire.

However, Erickson spoke at length againsttransferring the land to the park. He said it would hurt his cattle grazing operation because the ¹ tional Park Service won't allow the practice.

Shaun Crook, president oftheTuolumne County Farm Bureau, also spoke against the transfer on behalf of his organization, citing the National Park Service's widely reported $12 billion maintenance backlog as a reason to believe the agency won't be a good steward of the land. aFor over 100 years, the land has been managed through grazing and logging," he said. Proper forest management has allowed the survival of the (Great Gray) Owl and meadow. ... I strongly fear we will lose those qualities if it's turned over to the national park."

Tuesday's debate followed months of negotiations between county staff, the National Park Service, U.S. For-

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"They reported two trash bags with unknown items in them," he said.

Sonora Police Officer Chris Rogers responded.

Grant was found disassembled in two large garbage bags outside the doorway to the building, with his feet sticking out of one of the bags, Stinson said.

He was returned to McClenahan shortly aRer. McClenahan said Grant was naked, but his pants were found in one of the garbage bags.

"Everything else was gone — from his Santa hat, to his beard, to his sunglasses — everything,a she said.

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"Here we' re arguing a point of whether we' re going to support something, but the bird's out of the cage," he said. cWe can beat on the table all we want, but factually, that property is going to the trust. ''What can we do to make the best out of it? What type of mitigations could we come up with that would make it as palatable as possible?

Those are the mitigation measures we came up with."

However, the board ultimately sided with the ranchers in a 3-2 vote to oppose the transfer of Ackerson Meadow to the park, but support the mitigation measures developed in meetings over the past several months of the various entities in"I do think it's a win-win situation volved. forboth parties,"Neubacher told the Both Royce and Supervisor Randy board. 'The park spends anywhere Hanvelt voted no because they origibetween $80 million to $90 million a nally moved to oppose the transfer yearreall y managing our resources without acknowledging the efforts well." made toward coming up with the The only member of the board to mitigation measures. offera show ofsupport forthetransIn the end, the decision of whether

the land goes to the park will not be made by the board.

Robin Wainwright said he was disappointed about the board's decision, as well as their general lack of discussion on the mitigation measures that county staff spent dozens of

hours to negotiate.

"A great deal of energy was expended by some of the well meaning and responsible members of the Tuolumne County team," he said.

"None of that was discussed. The Board of Supervisors knew how they were going to vote and didn't even take the time to look at what their staff had done."

Wainwright, who moved to Tuolumne County in 1992 but has visited since the 1950s, said he sought the board's supportin an efforttobe respectful and remedy any concerns they might have about the transfer.

Despitethe board's opposition, Wainwright said the sale of the property should close in the coming weeks, and the transfer to the park is inevitable.

"Sadly, for all this noise and everything, it still will go to Yosemite National Park one way or another," he

said. 'That's what was intended and we want to make sure, in the long haul, that's what happens."

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There will be a training session for volunteers in January at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Sonora.

"We have many clients and need volunteers that are willing to just be a friend," a press release said.

The training is free.

Water, coffee and snacks will be provided with an hour for lunch to go out or bring a sack lunch and eat in.

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These days, according to a large U.S. National Institutes of Health survey, 10 percent of Americans have had a drug use disorder (DUD), and 4 percentare currently struggling with the use of narcotic pain medicines, marijuana, amphetamines, club drugs (such as ecstasy), heroin, cocaine, sedatives and tranquilizers.

But only one-quarter of folks with DUD are getting help, and that's a shame, because the health risks of abuse are huge (over 200 people dieevery day from drug overdose). Treatment and recoverysave lives and allow people to reclaim a productive life. So, if you' re struggling with drug use, here's info that can help you move toward sobriety: • Addiction affects neural brainreceptors and isa treatable disease. Want to find a treatment option in your area? Go online to www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov.

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The University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging is conducting a research project aimed at helping older adults in rural communities who are depressed.

People over 60 can qualify to get 12 weeks of free case management and mental health counseling or selfguided support with a Senior Peer Counselor.

Participants will receive gift cards as financial incentive to participate. Interventions are conducted in the client's home.

For more information, call the Mother Lode Office of Catholic Charities and ask about the Sparrow Project at 532-7632. All calls are confidential.

Diadetes group meets monthly Sonora Regional Medical Center sponsors an Adult Diabetes Support Group endorsed by the American Diabetes Association.

The group is for people living withType 1 or Type 2 diabetes.

Each session will include a topic of interest and time for discussion.

Light refreshments will be served.

The Adult Diabetes Support Group meets monthly, alternating between day and evening schedules, on the third Tuesday of each month.

Meetings will be held at Sonora Regional Medical Center in Conference Room 3 on the ground floor. For more information, call Jodie Rodriguez at 536-3728.

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It'sa good idea to always be prepared for emergencies when traveling in the Mother Lode during winter, where going off a trail, getting lost, sliding off the road and getting stuck in the snow could lead to hypothermia.

Hypothermia and frostbite are real concerns if a person gets stuck out in the elements, health and safety experts say.

"The general advice is dress in layers, if you' re going to a snowy Lgo place, if God f orbid something would happen, wear a base layer, a warming layerand a layer to protect you from the elements, like waterproof and windproof," said Dr. File photo / Union Democrat Liza Ortiz, Tuolumne County Pub- Devin Crouse puts his head in the snow while on a family trip to Calavlic Health officer. eras Big Trees State Park.

People traveling in the snow or going up to the snow need to take litteris your friend. An ice scraper a good idea ifyour car battery dies gloves, multiple pairs of socks, wa- is a good idea too. In a pinch, a cred- and your cellphone battery dies, terproofshoes or boots,Ortiz said. it card will do," Ortiz said. you will still have light, which can Many families with visiting relaPack granola, water and trail also beused to signal for help,he tives enjoy going up to see the snow, mix, and food that isn't perishable, said. and not everyone has heavy duty Butzler said.

People go off the road in inclemsnow gear, but it's important people During the winter, drivers should ent weather all of the time, Butzler wear the most appropriategear always pack chains, even if the ve- said. they can, Ortiz said. hicle is four-wheel drive, Butzler During and after storms the People hiking or skiing should al- said. Fill up your vehicle's gas tank Highway Patrol officers sweep their ways stay on the path, Ortiz said. before you go out in the weather, be- beat areaschecking the roads for Every hunting season, hunters cause you might get stranded and peopleto see if anyone needs help, get lost in the wilderness and have that way you can keep the car run- beforeitbecomes a life-threatening to be found, said California High- ning for a while longer for heat, he emergency, he said. way Patrol Officer Tobias Butzler, of said.

When exposed to cold temperathe San Andreas office.

The Highway Patrol also recom- tures, your body begins to lose heat It's agood idea to keep extra mends people have an emergency faster than it can be produced. blankets in your car, a shovel and kit in their car with an extra jackIf a person is wet, it can happen a kitty litter for traction, Ortiz said. et, blankets, road fiares and flash- lotfaster,Ortiz said.

Hand and foot warmers are good lights.

The human body is usually 98.6 for a short period of time, but won' t Road flares are good so that degrees.

Ifa person'sbody temperasave someone from getting hypo- someone can see you, but also so ture goesdown to 95 degrees, that thermia, Ortiz said.

"If you' re stuck in the snow, kitty

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While recent FDA guide- Seems the research commulines say voluntary labeling nity may have lost some of of foodthat is and is notbio- that focus. engineered may suSce, what Those USPSTF-reported company would label a food gaps exist because of a lack as bioengineered, with all of research into how to screen the backlash against it? Plus, women for: 1) intimate partthe House of Representatives ner violence, illicit drug use passed H.R. 1599, and if it and mental health conditions; passes in the Senate, it would 2) thyroid dysfunction; 3) vitadeny states the ability to re- min D deficiency and osteopoquire labeling and prevent rosis; 4) cancer; and 5) how to the FDA from mandating a implement clinical preventive nationwide "Bioengineered" services. So here's how YOU labeling system. can take charge of your health Our position is the same as in these areas. that of 90 percent of Ameri• If you' re the victim of cans and 64 other countries, partner violence, call ¹ including Russia and China: tional Domestic Violence Homandatory labeling for all tline at 800-799-SAFE (7233).

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ACA support group meets A support group called Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families meets twice a week in Sonora.

The group provides support to a diverse group of recovering people that includes adult children of alcoholics, codependentsand addictsofvarioussorts.

The groupmeets at 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday at the Alano Club, 19421 Village Drive in East Sonora.

For more information, call 604-8816.

Local relief for seniors available Call a Day is a &ee service available to seniors in the Mother Lode region.

The programismade up ofabout20 women who each day call seniors between 8 and 9 a.m. ''We phone whoever wants to be phoned between 8 and 9 a.m. to see if they' re alright," said volunteer Virginia Wiest.

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1. Increase your intake of omega-3 fattyacids, found in salmon (Coho salmon has 523 mg per ounce) and ocean trout. Eat four servings of those fish weekly or take 900 mg of algal-based DHA omega-3 oil daily.

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It focuses on blood into your brain," she said.

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Fitness classesoff ered The Murphys Senior Center ofFers free fitness programs including Zumba and aerobics. There is also a food pantry.

The senior center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

Lunch is served at noon for $5. The center is at 65 Mitchler Ave., in Murphys.

For more information, call 728-1672.

Hospital offers fitness classes for patients The Live Well Be Well Center at Sonora Regional Medical Center offers two sessions of Living Well Fitness, an exercise class designed for people living with chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, obesity, back pain or joint pain.

Regular exercise can improve quality of life for those with chronic disease by helping them manage symptoms and build strength, endurance and flexibility.

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The groupwas developed forpeoplewho have had bariatric surgery. Friends and family are also welcome.

The group will meet from 5 to 6 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month in Conference Room 4 at the Medical Center. For more information, call 536-5041.

This m akes h y pother- ture, but do not give alcomia particularly dangerous holic beverages. Do not try because a person may not to give beverages to an unknow it is happening and conscious person. won't be able to do anything After body temperature about it, the CDC said. has increased, keep the perHypothermia is most like- son dry and wrapped in a ly at very cold temperatures, warm blanket, including the but it can happen even at head and neck. cool temperatures (above Get medical attention as 40 degrees) if a person gets soon as possible. chilled from rain, sweat, or A person with severe hyfalling in cold water. pothermia may be unconFor adults, warning signs scious and may not seem to of h y pothermia i n clude have a pulse or to be breathshivering, exhaustion, con- ing. Even if the victim apfusion, f umbling h a nds, pears dead, CPR should be memory loss, slurred speech provided. CPR should conand drowsiness tinue while the victim is The CDC offers advice on being warmed, until the vicwhat to doifmedical care tim responds or medical aid isn't available, so people can becomes available. In some start warming the affected cases, hypothermia victims person, as follows: who appear to be dead can G et the victim i nt o a be successfully resuscitated, warm room or shelter. the CDC said.

If the victim has on any Frostbite happens when wet clothing, remove it. there is d ecreased blood Warm the center of the flow to body parts like finbody first — chest,neck, gers and toes. head, and groin — using an The cells get damaged electric blanket, if available. and aren't getting the help Or use skin-to-skin contact from regular oxygen and under loose, dry layers of blood flow, Ortiz said. blankets, clothing, towels, or The first signs of frostbite sheets. are pale or white skin, stiff Warm beverages can help skin and lack of sensation or increasethe body tempera- numbness, Ortiz said.

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EQUIPMENT OPERATOR- HAZ ($18.88-$22.95 / HAZ $19.80-$24.08 per hour) Will operate heavy power-driven equipment, trucks and other types of equipment in support of our solid waste and green waste at our Integrated Waste Division. Equivalent to graduation from high school and three years of experience operating heavy equipment. Class A req'd. For detailed job flyer and specific application process please visit htt://hr.calaverasgov.us FFD: Open until filled. EOE

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Greed only hurts children in messy divorce nipulation or parental alienation by him orhis parents, and give a copy to your lawyer. It may also help to get counseling for your children (and for you) to weather the storm. our money is being spent on lawyers DEAR ANNIE: I would like to add because he insists on fighting over ev- to your response to "Wiser Nowa and erything. His need to hurt me is only "Foolish Daughter," whose parents left hurting the children. estates to children who were less inThere are no rules at Dad'8 house, volved in caring for them. because he wants the kids to be able The hurt feelings caused when to do things with him that they can' t parents show favoritism not only afdo with me. He uses money to gain fa- fect the child who has been slighted, vor, and I believe he thinks they will but also the relationship the child has live with him if he wipes me out. How with the sibling who was favored —not do I get him to put his children ahead to mention residual feelings toward of his hate and greed? —FIGHTING the parent.

FOR MY KIDS My parents have been dead for DEAR FIGHTING: It is truly sad years, but I am still acutely aware that so many parents are willing that my sister was Mom'8 favorite. to hurt the children in order to AntI while I have a relationship with punish the spouses.You camtot my sister, it is always in the back of my force your husband to be more mind that my mother's treatment of grown up, so protect yourself. her was different than her treatment Document every instance of ma- of the rest of us. This is especially

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painful because my sister eventually abused my mother, and yet she still received what amounted to an equal portion of her estate because Mom forgave a large outstanding loan.

STILL BITTER DEAR BITTER: We have stated before that the bequests in a will are often perceived by children as areflection on how much they were loved by the parent, especially when the bequests are unequal between siblings. Parents may think they are doing the right thing, but the results can poison the relationship between siblings forever.

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Body can't tell natural from artificial immunity DEAR DR. ROACH:I am an advocate of flu shots (and other immunizations) to protect both myself and others around me, and I have just had mine for this season. I have a friend, though, who refuses to get flu shots under the assumption that if she allows her body to confrontthe viruses and deal with them on its own, her immunity will be strengthened naturally. I actually have encountered this philosophy &om severaldifferentpeopleovertheyears,and would appreciate it if you could provide a short explanation as to why this is or is not correct. It'd clear up what seems — to me,anyway —to be a fairly common area of confusion. — KW ANSWER: There is some truth to this theory, in that there are many conditions where if your body successfully fights off the infection, you get long-lasting immunity. However, the situation is more complex than it first appears.

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I was truly hoping that we would come out of this on good terms and be able to co-parent like adults. But my husbandblames me foreverything.He was raised in a home where he was indulged and never had to take responsibility for his actions. He has ttot been honest with his parents, which might explain why they are upset with me.

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To Your Good Health Keith Roach, M.D. is so overwhelming that people die kom it. Tetanus and rabies are examples where the infection is often or usually fatal. Some infections, like polio, may causeseriouscomplications.

There also are infections where the

Influenza infection also leaves a person day to help with mood swings. IB this vulnerable tobacterialpneumonia. safe to take, and if so, for how long?

Immtmizations are a way to strength- Does it increase my risk for cancer? I'I en the body'8 immune system without 77,in great shape,do lots ofexercise the full-blown infection and its risks of and never had any surgeries, nor took death, complications and a weakened hormone replacement.—A.B. immune system. Modern vaccines use ANSWER: There are several forms either weakened live germs or highly of progesterone, and I am going to aspurifiedcomponents of bacteria and sume you are taking natural micronviruses to "prime" the immune system ized progesterone, based on your dose.

— in efFect, allowing the body to rapidly This dose protects against uterine candefenditself should it ever encounter cerand doesnotappeartoincreaserisk the fully infectious and virulent organ- ofbreastcancer orheartdisease.So,it ism. The body doesn't make a distinc- seemstobesafeforlong-term use. tion between "natural" immunity from However, its benefit for mood swings surviving an infection and "artificial" isn't completely clear, although I am

virus constantly changes, so the immu- immunity from a vaccine.

seeing it used more commonly for this.

nity you got from successfully fighting it ofI'last time doesn't help. Influenza is thebestexample ofthis.Approximately 2,500 Americans die of influenza yearly.

There are other conditions where even if you successfully fight off the infection, your immune system is left weakened for years, making you more suscepti bleto other infections.M easles is the most important example of this, and it wasn't understood why for years.

Please let me know how well it works.

Finally, as you suggested, by taking a vaccine instead of getting the infection, you don't expose others. There are many people now with immune system disease, from HIV, autoimmune disease or treatment for cancer and other conditions who could become seriously ill or diefrom exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases.

DEAR DR. ROACH:My doctor has prescri bed progesterone at 100 mg a

IORSSC IPE Birthday for December17. Devote yourself to passion to love like a magnet. Set the stage for a gathering. Invest projects this year. Saturn in your sign favors personal in your home. Stop short of overkill. Slow and easy does achievement. Home improvements after spring lay the tables it. Get family to help. Feather your nest and snuggle up. for gatherings as a new year-long social phase begins with Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):Today is an 8 — Consider all Jupiter'8 ingress into Libra (9/9). Your career reaches new possibilities. Make an amazing discovery together. Talklevels next autumn, requiring home adjustments. Tend love. ing about fantasies leads to solid plans. Friends have the perfect connections. Pesky regulations could interfere.

Don't get cocky. Diplomacy with authority works better To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. than resistance. Use your charms.

Aries (March 21-April 19):Today is a 7 — Join a good Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):Today is a 6 — Build a team. Romantic promises made now go the distance. Dis- strong foundation. Hide out, if necessary. Circumstances cover a structural problem. Your partner offers excellent demand responsible money handling. Stifle rebellious support. Accept a challenge. There may be a few tears. tendencies urging blind expense. Pay bills before spendLet family know if plans change. Love finds a way. ing on extras. Little things express your love, like poetry, Taurus (April 20-May 20):Today is a 7 — Don't make symbolism, art, music and words. assumptions. Be patient with a resister. Send a romantic Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):Today is an 8 — Invest in work you love. Your attitude is persuasive. It's a good message up the flagpole. The old way doesn't work.

Notice dreams regarding advancement. Feminine charms time to askfor money. Try a more romantic look. Take get through. Accept gifts graciously. Practice kindness. a leap of faith. Enjoy sensual pleasures like delicious Provide food for body and spirit. flavors, fragrance and views.

Gemini (May 21 June 20):Today is an 8 — Express Capricorn (Dec. 224an. 19):Today is a 7 — You don' t love in a new way. You plus a significant other equals have to start from scratch. Look at what you have newly. passion. Team up with a genius, and form a creative An old dream couldcome true now. Seek change and allow it to happen in its own time. Give space to frustrapartnership. The lines blur between friends and family.

The outcome is even better than expected. tions and focus on love.

Cancer (June 214uly 22):Today is a 7 — Change your Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Today is an 8 — Social routine to accommodate a collaboration. Put your energy gatherings can benefit your career and family. Parties into current projects. Creative work pays well. Put your and meetings provide solutions. Others follow your lead. talents to work. Pay back a debt. Make new contacts. Re- You' re very persuasive now. Visit with an influential supply locally. Reserve something for a rainy day. female. Find a friend who can teach you. Collaboration opens unimagined avenues.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Today is a 5 —Share your concerns with someone you trust. Listen, even when you don't agree.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20):Today is a 6 — Finish Accept criticism gracefully. Failure teaches you what doesn' t a tough job. It's worth the satisfaction. Get help, if work, which is important. Study in seclusion, to get done necessary.

Which proposalmakes the most sense'?Ask faster. Teach what you' re learning later. someone older, and try their trick. You can push through Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Today is an 8 — You' re drawn a glass ceiling. Achieve a new level of understanding.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to

answer individual letters,but will incorporate them inthe column whenever

possible. Readersmay email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 82803.Health newsletters

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Today in history Today is Thursday, Dec. 17, the 351st day of 2015.

There are 14 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 17, 1865, Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, known as the "Unfinished" because only two movements had beencompleted, was first performed publicly in Vienna, 37 years after the composer's death.

On this date: In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.

In 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec was scuttled by its crew, ending the World War II Battle of the River Plate off Uruguay.

In 1979, Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally injured after leading police on a chase with his motorcycle in Miami.

(Four white police officers accused ofbeating McDuffie were later acquitted, sparking nots.)

In 1981, members of the Red Bngades kidnapped Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe, from his home in Verona, Italy. (Dozier was rescued 42 days later.)

In 1994, North Korea shot down a U.S. Army helicopter which had strayed north of the demilitarized zone.

The co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, was killed; the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall, was captured and held for nearly two weeks.

In 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong II died after more than a decade of iron rule; he was 69, according to official records, but some reports indicated he was 70.

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"Sixpack" by Allan DeSerpa is about Six 10 42 South Ace Roman Key Card Blackwood, which occurs 4 A J53 when a partnership has bid and supported two T 1 09 7 2 suits. The six key cards are the four aces and I 54 both agreed-suit kings. There is also discussion of several bidding situations.

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S outh W e s t No r t h Ea s t "Better Signalling Now" by Mark Horton is the third edition of a book first published in Dbl. Pass 34 Pass 1994. It covers all of the basic aspects of de3 NT Pa s s P a s s P a s s fenseand several more advanced methods.

"Conventions Today" by Brian Senior gives Openinglead:t K the basics of many bidding styles (for example, better minor) and conventions, often with the author explaining his preferences.

This is one of the easier deals from Horton's book. After that competitive auction, South is in three no-trump. West leads the diamond king. How should East plan the defense?

South made a negative double to show four hearts. Then, looking fondly on her club queen, she bid three no-trump, hoping to have nine runners on a spade lead.

For West to lead a diamond, not a spade (West surely couldn't be void in spades), she has to have good diamonds. East could encourage with the eight, but it is much better to overtake the king with the ace snd return the jack. Here, the defenders take the first six tricks.

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SAN FRANCISCO(AP) — Johnny Cueto has finalized his $130 million, six-year contract with the San Francisco Giants, passing a physical ~il) N~ Wednesday.

The right-hander will be formally introduced during a Thursday news conference at AT&T Park.

Cueto posted a photo on Twitter of him at the ballpark Wednesday, writing: "It's an even year and I'm ready to roll. Glad to be on board.

Vamos!" or "let's go!" in Spanish. The reference is to the Giants'World Series championships in even years: 2010, '12 and '14. They missed the playoffs in 2011, '13 and this year.

Under the agreement, Cueto can opt out after the 2017 season and become a free agent again. He is due to earn $46 million before the opt out.

In San Francisco's new-look rotation, Cueto joins right-hander Jeff Samardzija, who was introduced last Friday after formalizing his $90 million, five-year contract

Gookin is top defender

Suns 128-103 on Wednesday night.

Stephen Curry "RR' added 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting and seven assists as Golden State returned home from its two-week road trip that ended with its lone defeat, 108-95 on Saturday at Milwaukee. That also ended a 28-game overall winning streak by the Warriors, seundlongest in NBA history.

Draymond Green had 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for his fourlh triple-double this season, while Thompson hit15-of-22 shots and 8-of-13 3-pointers in his first 40-point game this season.

Mirza Teletovic scored 24 points off the bench for the Suns, whose poor showing sent

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The Sonora Wildcats traversed the M other L ode League undefeated, stormed through the division V SacJoaquin Section Championships and earned the school's first state playoff berth, and a pair of juniors led the way and earned two of the top postseason awards.

Bradley Canepa, a fullback/linebacker was recently named the MLL's Most Valuable Player and Nate Gookin, a fullback/defensive lineman, was named Defensive Player of the Year.

Canepa specialized in terrorizing ball carriers, scoring touchdowns from short range and overall was a menace to the opposition.

Gookin was the master of the quarterback sack and proved to be one of the most difficult players in the league to block.

Canepa, known as "The Hammer,"was the most physical player in the MLL. He set the tone for the defensive unit and opposing coaches had to gameplanand figure outhow to stop him at fullback and how to block him at linebacker.

"Whether he was running the football or he was playing defense, you gotta make sure you get him blocked and you gottamake sure you fi nd a way to tackle him, just that

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Abby Wambach threatened to score several times in the final game of her extraordinary career, but China shut out the World Cup champion United States 1-0 on Wednesday night to hand the Americans their first loss on home soil in more than a decade.

Wambach played 72 m inutes, managing two threatening headers and a shot from inside the penalty area before subbing out of a match for the final time.

The careerleaderin international play — for men and women, with 184 goals —kicked off her cleats and hugged each teammate on the field before walking to the bench, smiling, to embrace her coaches and remaining teammates as the crowd chanted her name.

China scored in the 58th minute, when forward Wang Shuang volleyed in a bounding cross from Wang Shanshan, The U.S. had gone 104 home games without losing since falling 3-1 to Denmark in 2004.

the sellout crowd to the exits

midway through the fourth.

Thompson's big quarter was reminiscent of his NBA-record,37-pointoutburst in the third quarter of a career-high, 52-point performance on Jan. 23. He helped the Warriors turn the game into a rout with a remarkable 67-23 run, making 9 of 11 shots in the third and 4 of 6 3s.

Golden State won its eighth in a row at home against Phoenix, fifth straight overall and 13th in 16. The Suns sit in third place in the Pacific Division behind Golden State and the Clippers.

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Dylan Byrd is 6-foot-4 with long arms and good vision. He is a basketball coach's dream. But following his junior season where the Calaveras Redskins football team failedto make the postseason for the first time in nearly two decades, Byrd decided to bypass basketball and focus fulltime on football. His decision paid and Byrd recently was awarded the Mother Lode League Offensive Player of the Year.

Byrd was coming off a junior season where he was at the helm of a 5-5 Redskins squad. His numbers didn't jump off the page. He threw for 737 yards, three touchdowns and eight interceptions and averaged 73.3 yards per game. He knew he could do better. He was right.

"You could tell that he had some high goals set for himself," teammate Trevor Ramirez said. "He really stepped up in the weight room and

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After nearly nine months of constantpractice,repetition and hard work, Byrd was ready to lead Calaverasback to the playoffs.

Byrd led Calaveras to an 8-4 record and was 12 minutes away from playing in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Championship.

Even in head coach Jason Weatherby's run heavy offense, Byrd still lit up the San Andreas skies, throwing for 1,489 yards and 17 touchdowns.

He threw for 120 yards per game.

In the midst the tragic Butte Fire thataffected many ofthe Calaveras players and coaches, Byrd threw four touchdowns in a 38-25 road win against Modesto Christian. He had his most well-rounded game of the season at home against Bret H arte, completing 7 of 9 passes for See REDSKINS / Page C2

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The Sonora Wildcats girls' basketball team won a pair of games Monday and Tuesday.

The Wildcats started the week Monday with a 67-57 victory over former Valley Oak

,„;",".,'; roundup at Bud Castle Gym. Riley Henington scored a game-high 17 points, five reboundsand four assists to lead the Wildcats, who have won four straight and have won five of six to start the

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"Riley played really well and scored from everywhere," said Wildcat head coach Amy Santos.

Also for Sonora, Makenna Poole scored 13 points and grabbed four rebounds and made four steals, Michelle See ROUNDUP / Page C8

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Sonora gets 9 placed on All-MLL 1st team

By GUY DOSSI Jh BILL ROZAK The Union Democrat

The back-to-back Mother Lode League Champion Sonora Wildcats are reaping the rewards for another outstanding season.

Sonora has nine members of its squad as members of the 2015 All-MLL First-Team.

For the Wildcats to be successful, a good offensive line is a must. Blake Graham, a 6-foot, 240-pound senior and Killian Rosko, a 6-foot-4,220-pound junior were the strength and power of the Sonora offensive line. They both lined up at guard and the Wildcats knew what they had in Graham, but Rosko's blocking is a big reason for Sonora's success.

touchdown against Summerville. He had 804 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns. As a receiver, Faughnan was a valuable target for Page with 254 receiving yards.

"Wyatt could probably get first team on anything," Craig said.

"He's just a pure athlete and is good at whatever he does. He's a well rounded athlete."

Page was at the helm of Sonora's triple option offense which scored525 points for an average of 40.3 points per game. In two years as a startingquarterback, Page has lost just three games. He lost to Central Catholic in the 2014 section championship, to Oakdale the opening game of the 2015 and to Hanford in the state playoffs. With Page at quarterback, Sonora is 23-3.

Page threw for 898 yards with 11 touchdowns and only three interceptions.He also rushed for 713 yards and scoredfourtimes.

"Sammy is an all-around quarterback," Craig said. "Dylan Bryd threw the ball very well, but then you' ve got Sammy who runs the ball and throws the ball. In the triple option, you' ve gotta be a tough kid.You've gotta read stuff, gotta be smart. Our quarterback has to do a little more than the other quarterbacks, not to discredit them in any way, but Sammy does it all for us. Sammy is our

'Vile needed that other guard with Zerek (Saldivar) leaving and he filled that spot," Sonora head coach Bryan Craig said. "He did a great job. Blake was another guy who was a starter at the end of last year and we had big hopes to come in this year and he' s done agreatjob.Our guards are a big part of how successful we are at running the ball."

Sonorahad two ofitsbetter skilled playersreturning forthe 2015season, and runnmg back WyattFaughnan and quarterbackSammy Page li ved up to the expectations.

Faughnan rushed for 153 yards and Garrett Bozzo was a quiet standa score against Amador, 119 yards out at defensive end. The 5-foot-9, and three scores against Argonaut, 180-pounder helped the Sonora deand 107 yards on four carries with one fense allow an average of 21 points

per gameand only 19.8 during league play. The senior had 48 solo tackles and 5.3per game. He also collected 1.5 sacks. Bozzo had back-to-back 10 tackle games against Argonaut and Calaveras.

"Bozzo probably hasn't said five words in the years I' ve coached him," Craig said. "He just goes out there and quietly does his job. He goes out there and gets in the right spots, he does the right things. I bet half the people in the league don't know his name or hisnumber but they go, 'Wow, we can't get him blocked.' " Shane Petrey is a defensive linemen on the smaller side at 5'9 180

"At linebacker, him and Bradley most ofthe year and now him and Blake, our run defense speaks for itself," Craig said. "It's that d-line with Gookin and those two guys that you mentioned at linebacker, Bradley and Killian."

Faughnan and sophomore sensation Kane Rodgers were two of the best defensivebacks in section, let alone the league.

Faughnan had 65 tackles &om his safety position and took down 5.1 ball carriers per game.

He recovered two fumbles and intercepted one pass. Faughnan recorded 11 total tackles at home against

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difficult players to block on the 'Cats defensive line. Petery had seven quarterbacksacks,63 solo tackles, 13 tacklesfor a loss and averaged six tackles per game. He had a season-high 12 tackles against Summerville.

"Almost like him and Nate are kinda the same, that's why we call them the Shate sandwich," Craig said.

"He's another smaller guy, not your prototypical d-line sized guy, but he gets off the ball fast, strong, smart does the right things."

Rosko not only had an outstanding season as an offensive guard, but the junior was one of the best linebackers in the league. He had 78 tackles, 68 of which were solo. He averaged 7.1 tackles per game and had two sacks and had a season-high 10 tackles against Bret Harte at Dunlavy Field.

Rodgers had a career year, and he' s only a sophomore. He was second on the team with 93 tackles and averaged 8.5 takedowns per game. But his most impressive stat is his 11 interceptions, a school record. Rogers was a ball hawk and made quarterbacks pay foreven the slightest misplacement.

Offensively, Rodgers rushed for 775 yards on 91 carries and scored 10 touchdowns, five of which were dur-

ing league games.

"There'sa lot of respect in the league for Kane," Craig said. "He' s still got some learning to do which makes it scary that he's only a sophomore, because if you look at him, his instincts are way beyond being a sophomore. He's just a phenomenalplayer on both sides ofthe ball.

We' re looking for great things from Kane."

DB Ziehlke, DE Westberg earn top honors for Bullfrogs

By GUY DOSSI The Union Democrat

Bret Harte head coach C asey Kester wanted t o build a team of "Frog Warriors" in his fi r st

Ziehlke may have been more explosive running Bret Harte's triple option from his quarterback position, but he quietly became one of the top shutdown cornerbacks in the league. When Bret Hartefaced Calaveras, Ziehlke kept fellow first team receiver

season as the head of the prog am Nine of his "Warriors" played well enough to be named as Trevor Ramirez without a All-League players. catch.

"He started playing more Two Bullfrogs were named to thefirst team and they are defense toward games three defensive end Brady West- and four," Kester said. "He berg defensive back Mike became a real shutdown deZiehlke. fender. He took a lot of pride Westberg helped anchor a in that. We put him on whomuch improved Bret Harte

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defense from years past and ceiver was and he shut them was a team leader on the de- down. fensive side of the ball.

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Jordan Porras, Brock Rizzo, Colin Preston, Nick Osborn, Hunter Van V l iet, Ryan Plunkett and Joey Kraft all got rewarded for their impressive play.

Porras, a senior, was the B ullfrogs m a i n pu l l i n g guard. Though Bret Harte runs a triple option offense, it also ran power from it and Porras led the way.

Rizzo, a senior linebacker, blew out his knee early in the season when he got rolled up during practice. Bret Harte coaches thought they lost

of the season, it wasn't pain good for us next year," Kesfree. ter said. "They are very good "He was hurting every sin- and they are also great team gle game," Kester said. "He leaders." was the leader I was looking Plunkett, a 5-fo ot-8, for. That's the kind of atti- 163-pound senior was an tude I need to have instilled undersized linebacker, but in this program. Here is a se- didn't let that stop him from nior guy who's hurting every being one of the premier play, and he's the guy I need tacklers in the MLL. Plunto exemplify what I want this kett called the defensive team to be." plays and was always around Bret Harte had a strong the ball carrier. d efensive l i n e inc l u d- "He's just a tough, tough ing Preston,6-foot-5, 260 kid," Kester said. "He's underpounds, Osborn, a 5-foot-11, sizedbut he developed a real 215 pounds and Hunter Van nose for the ball. He really Vliet, 5-foot-ll, 187 pounds, blossomed into being a tough, him for the year. However, all juniors, who were all sec- nasty linebacker for us. Pound less than a m onth l ater, ond team players. for pound, Ryan is tough as "These are three juniors nails. Anything that he could Rizzo was back on the field.

Though he played the rest who are going to be really read, he was attacking."

things when you nominate him for MVP, all the other coaches just shake their heads and agree."

Since watching and playing alongside his cousin, Serge Kiriluk, the MVP last season while playing the same positions, Canepa's goal this

"I was really happy," Canepa said.

"They were calling out all the names, the allleague and defensive playerof the year and I was hoping I got one of those awards. And then they called me for MVP and I was stoke."

Canepa's award is not surrounded with big statistics. His value came &om being the first person opposing coaching staffs would account for his whereabouts.

Canepa at fullback gained just 216 yards and six touchdowns on 44 carries. Overall, he had 493 yards and 11 touchdowns, tied for team-high honors, on 96 carries. At linebacker, the hard-hitter had 66 tackles in nine

year was to win that hardware.

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Continued from PageCl in itself makes him a very valuable commodity," said Wildcat head coach Bryan Craig. "And as far as the leadership he brings, he's one of our captains, it's a no-brainer as far as we were concerned. It's one of those

"Last year Billy (Serge) got it and this year I strived to be the MVP and tried my hardest. That was my goal," Canepa said.

Then, after watching film Monday of the Wildcats beating Bear River for the Sonora's second section title the Saturday before, Coach Craig read the list of MLL award winners.

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Canepa missed the final regular season game against Bret Harte, all three section playoff games, and the stateplayofflossto Hanford lastFriday dueto an artery bleeding behind his kidney.

'Vr'e missed him a ton," Craig said.

"He's the guy that sets the physical

bar for us out there. He hits hard and everybody wants to equal that. So when he puts that leadership ability out there and sets the bar, everybody played to that level."

Gookin made a case for DPY in the Wildcats' first league game against Argonaut.

With the score tied 20-20 in the fourth quarter in Jackson, Gookin came up with big play after big play.

Argonaut had scored on its three previous drives and it had just taken possession with 5:57 le after the Wildcats tied the game.

Gookin made two consecutive sacks to put the Mustangs in thirdand-21 and they eventually punted.

After Sonora did nothing with the ball, Argonaut took over with 1:16 left and had a shot to win the game.

The Mustangs completed a 29yard pass to the Wildcat 35 with 1 minute left.

But again Gookin came up with two straight sacks forcing Argonaut back into its own territory.

Torrebecame Byrd'sfavorite practicemy routes.Ifeltthat target. The two connected 25 I was a contributor to the Continued from PageCl times for452 yards and five team." touchdowns.

Nathan Threet, a 5-foot-9, 173 yards and two scores.

Torre had a career-high 163 180-pound junior made a sigAnd to complete the perfect yards and a TD against Bret nificant impact on the Calavgame, Byrd rushed for his Harte and had a season long eras defense from his defenonly touchdown of the season 68-yard reception. sive end position. He had 40 on a 1-yard sneak. Calaveras When Byrd wasn't con- tackles, 28 which were solo. won 36-8. necting with his large target Threet averaged 4.4 tackles B locking for B yrd w a s at tight end, he had Ramirez per game and had two quarGarrett He%ngton, who was split out wide. Ramirez had terback sacks. awarded the Mother Lode a lot to prove after his juPerhaps his most memoLeague Lineman of the Year. nior season at Calaveras. rable moment of the season H effington had a s e a - He caught seven passes and came in the first round of the son-ending injury midway found the end zone once. He CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Divithrough his junior year, and and Byrd became as close as sion IV Championships. Early the 6-foot-5, 280-pound tackle brothers during the offseason in the third quarter, Threet was determined to make the and the two became the most stepped in front of a Center best out of his senior year. He deadly passing duo in the screenpass for the intercephelpedprovide the holes for MLL. tionand rumbled 41-yards for the Redskins to rush for over Ramirez ended his senior a touchdown.

3,000 yards. season with 706 receiving Senior defensive lineman Senior tight end Shane yards and eight touchdowns Austin Garant was a two-way Torre was pound-for-pound on 30 receptions. player also starting at full"I wanted to be remem- back. He finished the season not only the best tight end in the MLL, but perhaps all of bered," Ramirez said. "I with 46 tackles, 26 solo. He the Sac Joaquin Section. The w asn't content with my j u - averaged 4.2 tackles per game 6-foot-3, 240-pounder had a nior season. If I wanted to be and recorded one sack. breakout senior season and somebody, I knew that I had Perhaps the heart and soul midway through the year, to lift weights and constantly of the Redskins defense was

The game went into overtime and the Wildcats prevailed 28-26.

Gookin had 5.5 sacks in the win, and also a season-high 17 tackles, and finished the season with 16.5 sacks in 14 games. He had 10.5 sacks during MLL play. He also returned a fumble for a touchdown against MarysviHe in the first round of the playoffs.

"Nobody could block him," Craig said. 'He finished with a bunch of sacks and that in itself is great but the tackles that he makes, people could just not block him. He gets off the ball low, hard and fast and when he gets there he delivers a thump. So yeah, defensive player of the year, no doubt."

"I was pretty ecstatic," Gookin said.

"It felt pretty great to be a junior and recognized like that with everybody else here."

Gookin led the Wildcats in total tackles (97) and solo tackles (87).

"I remember I'd see someone coming right at me and I would think,

Kraft, a junior, was in a quarterback battle during the summer and the beginning of the regular season.

When Ziehlke won the job, Kraft focused his attention to running the ball and also being a strong defensive back.

"He reallyblossomed on the defensive side," Kester said. "He was always around the ball and was fast and quick enough to react. He made a lot of tackles in open space and was a pleasant surprise for us. He had a great attitude and loved to play."

Jacob Cunningham received the Character Award forhisdedication to the Bret Harte program.

Yeah, I'm gonna light this dude up,' " said Wildcat junior linebacker Killian Rosko."All of a sudden Gookin swoops in and gets my tackle. And then he' d say, 'Well, get there first.' It's all in fun. He's a great player."

Defensive linemen usually come in big-bodied packages.Gookin is5-foot8, 185 pounds and snap after snap went up against bigger competition.

"He'sjustalittleguy foradefensive lineman, but he's real fast and stronger than anybody thinks," Canepa said."Anytime the quarterback drops back you know Nate is coming."

With the two of their top players returning next year in Canepa and Gookin, and also Rosko, a first team All-MLL player on both offense and defense, the Wildcats look to be in good shape.

"I haven't really thought about it, but now I think of it, next year will be amazing," Canepa said. "I can't wait to come out. I mean Gookin, Rosko and me on defense. It's gonna be a good time."

junior linebacker Nick Quin- hit the ground. Gonzalez had day. The 5-foot-9, 200-pound 53 tackles, 35 solo and averlinebacker was called up &om aged 5.3 tackles per game. He the JV for the final two games recovered two fumbles and of the 2014 season. Heading intercepted one pass. Twice into 2015, he was looked at to Gonzalez recorded double be theleader ofthe Calaveras digit tackles. defense. It didn't take long for Sophomore John Kelley him to fill that role. was named a second team "It meant a lot that Coach center. Kelley saw varsity ac(Doug) Clark (defensive co- tion his &eshman year, and ordinator) viewed me as a was named the starter early leader early on, so I knew I in the offseason. Though he had to step up and be a lead- might not have the size of a er," Quinday said. "I felt like I prototypicalcenter,5-foot-10, played to the best of my abil- 205 pounds, Kelley had the ity throughout the season." tenacity for the position and Quinday led C alaveras the smarts. with 90 tackles and averaged Junior running back An8.2 takedowns per game. 43 of thony Giangregorio has the his tackles were solo. He also numbers that s cream first had one quarterback sack. team. But in a league domiQuinday recorded 15 tackles nated by running backs, the against Escalon and against 5-foot-10, 175-pound back Sonora. perhaps drew the short straw.

JJ Gonzalez was one of the Giangregorio rushed for1,197 most sure tacklers in the Ca- yards and 13 touchdowns. He laveras secondary. Anytime had 1,355 all-purpose yards No. 34 had a ball carrier in and 14 total touchdowns. He his sights, more often than had four 100-yard games and not the runner would soon rushed for a career-high 214

yardsagainstModesto Christian. He found the end zone in 10 of 12 games.

Caleb Hodgson was named to the second team for his play at defensive end. Hodgson had 31 tackles, 17 of which were solo .He also intercepted one pass.

Linebacker Wade McCann was second on the team with

62 tackles and had 35 solo.

He averaged 6.2 tackles per game. McCann played in the semifinal game against Sierra with a cast on his left hand as aresultofa bone fracture suffered the week before in the Redskins win over Center.

Junior Noah Preuss was given the Character Award.

Preuss missed the first seven games of the season because of transfer issues. In five games, Preuss rushed for 689 yards on 63 carries. He averaged 172.3 yards per game and scored seven touchdowns.

He alsointercepted two passes.

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Elkins, Warnock earn top Summerville grid awards first-year head coach Sean Leveroos.

"I don't think there is a single playerwho gave more to our program than Kole Elkins did," Leveroos said. "His drive to be the best athletecould be was near spotless. He did what we needed him to do on the field, but afterpractice, he was a coach with our JR Bears football team. He is a beacon for our program, and showing the future youth what it means to be a Bear, I don't think anyone went above what he did."

Warnock is the only Summerville defensive player to make the first team. He had 49 tackles and 27 of them were solo.

"Kenney's willingness to do all the necessary dirty work without complaining was what was most impressive, " Leveroos said."He did whatever he had to do for the team

with a willingness to not be selfish.

He's just a very polite, humble, look you in the eyes, do the right thing when nobody's looking kind ofguy."

S ummerville tight e n d C o le Brewster,at 6-foot-4, 190 pounds, is tall enough to go aRer any pass and strong enough to be a sixth lineman. Brewster had his two best games of the season in the final two weeks. He scored on a 54-yard pass &om Jake Fulkerson against Calaveras. He finished the game with a season-high 74 yards. Two weeks laterhe had 50 yards receiving and one score.

The Bears have a pair of receiv-

and Adrianna Albanez each had four rebounds.

Continued from PageCl "I thought that coming into this week, we were a little ofF," Santos Reis had 10 points, Haylie Santos said.But Ican see a lotofprogress, had nine and Gabby Stewart and they' re doing a lot of good things. I'm Riley Carpenter each had six points. excited."

Carley Copello paced Sonora on The Wildcats will finish the week Tuesday with 11 points in the Wild- Friday by hosting the Oakdale Muscats' 50-34 victory overthe Bulldogs tangs at 7:15 p.m. in Ceres.

Also for Sonora (5-1), Reis scored boys basketball eight points, Poole had eight points, Sonora 3V

Evan Bearden and Kane Rodgers led Sonora with 11 points each.

Andrew Zheng scored 10, Midas Calides and JefF Allen scored eight, Mitchell Comacho scored seven, Joe Thomason scored six, Colton Pimentel scored four and Thomas Johnson scored two.

"I'm seeing growth and we are trying toget better every game," said Sonora head coach Lloyd Longeway.

By GUY DOSSI The Union Democrat

The Summerville Bears had a very Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2015 season.Two of its losses were

by a combined two points.

Though Summerville missed the playofF s with a 4-6 record, two key Bears were named to

the All-Mother Lode League Erst-Team and seven players were named to the second team.

Offensive lineman Kole Elkins and defensive lineman Kenney Warnock were the Bears representatives on the first team.

Elkins, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound senior, played left tackle and was one of the Bears captains. When Summerville had success running the ball, it was usually behind him.

However, it wasn't just his play on the field that meant the most to

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final six games of the season.

Senior JT McCready fought injuries all season. Even so, the speedy senior had 407 receiving yards and six touchdowns. He also returned one kick for a score.

Nathaniel Ulvevadet was referred to the heart and soul of Summerville numerous times. Though he was a physical presence at linebacker, his work at fullback got him second team honors.

The senior rushed for 541 yards and 10 touchdowns. Before Fulkerson injured his knee in week four, it was Ulvevadet who paved the way for the explosive running back. ers who were named to the second Fulkerson, a senior, was poised team. First-year player Eli McLau- to be one of the most dominating rin acted like a veteran on the grid- players in the MLL. His first three iron. He had 463 yards receiving games of the season he accounted and seven touchdowns and aver- for 695 yards of total offense. In aged 17.8 yards per grab. McLaurin week four, he hurt his surgically rescored a touchdown in each of the paired knee and was sidelined until

The Wildcats started the week Monday by defeating the Manteca Buffaloes 53-45 at home and followed that Tuesday with a 43-25 drubbing of the Ceres Bulldogs on the road.

'The good news is we are off and running with a 7-0 record right now," said Wildcat head coach Jim Stead.

"The scary news is that we are not playing to our full potential yet."

Sha'nece Garrett led the Wildcats past the BufFaloeswith 21points,six Wildcat 3V girls hoopsters five rebounds, four assists,four thumps Lathrop, 67-47 rebounds and four steals. steals and four blocks, Henington Sonora'sJV team defeated Lath- move to 7-0 on season Also for Sonora, Caitlin Baker had seven points, Elyse Quennev- rop Tuesday night 67-47. The WildThe Sonora Wildcat junior varsity scored 20 points, grabbed four ille scored six points and hauled in cats had a dominating first quarter, girls' basketball team ran its record to boards and made foursteals,Bri 7-0 this week with a pair of victories. Spring netted eight points, Maddie eight rebounds and Delaney Ditler outscoringthe Spartans 18-2.

week nine. He played quarterback the final two games of the season and had his second knee surgery weeks after the Bears final game.

Fulkerson was also awarded the Character Award for a season filled with trials and tribulations.

Summerville senior quarterback Travis Rodgers statically had a strong year. The mobile quarterback threw for 1,079 yards and 13 touchdowns while throwing four interceptions. He averaged 107 yards per game and also returned a kickofF for a score against Sonora. He rushed for 127 yards and three scores.

Tres Machado is the only freshman on the all-league list. The freshman defensive lineman was called up from the JV team on his 15th birthday and was put into the starting lineup against Sonora.

Machado started the remainder of the season.

Fong hauled in 12 rebounds, Reese Parkan grabbed eight boards and scored four points and Emily Berry and Rashawnda Richardson each scored four points.

Garrettscored a team-high 12 points and also made five steals,

dished four assistsand grabbed three rebounds in the win over the Bulldogs.

Also for the Wildcats, Baker scored eightpoints grabbed four rebounds and dished four assists, Fong netted eightpointsand grabbed fourboards and Parkan added four points.

The Wildcats will go for their eighth straight win at 5:45 p.m. Friday against Oakdale at Bud Castle Gym.

ScoREs R MORE 4 21n602o'/2 Wednesday's games Indiana 107, Dallas 81

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Local Matherlode league Rxrtball awvards

MVP —Bradley Canepa, Jr., Sonora Linemen at the Year — Garrett Heffington, Sr., Calaveras efensive Bayer af the Year — Nate Gookin,

Jr., Sonora

ONensive Phyer of the Year — Dylan Byrd, Sr., Calaveras Coach of the YearBryanCraig, Sonora RRST TMM — OFFENSE Brent Humphreys,sr., OL, Linden Killian Rosko,Jr., OL, Sonora Blake Graham,Sr., OL, Sonora Kole Elkins,sr., OL, summerville Shane Torre,Sr., TE, Calaveras

Thor Ramie, Sr., WR, Calaveras

Arik Williams,Sr., WR, Amador Jacob White,Sr., WR, Argonaut WyattFaughnsn,sr.,RB,Sonora DylanThetfonl,Jr.,RB,Amador Chad Boyd,Sr., QB, Argonaut Sammy Page,Sr., QB, Sonora DEFENSE Cole Schwark,Sr., DE/OLB, Linden Brady Westb9rg,Sr., DBOLB, Bret Harte Garrett Bozm,sr., DBOLB, sonora Kenney Wsmock,Sr., DL, Summerville Shane Petrey,Sr., DL, Sonora

Reese Gilmore,Jr., DL, Amador Austin Garsnt,Sr., DL, Calaveras IGllisn Rosko,Jr., LB, Sonora NickQuindsy,Jr.,LB,Calaveras Robbie Hahn,Sr., DB, Amador JJ Gonzalez,Sr., DB, Calaveras Kane Rodges,So., DB, Sonora Wyatt Faughnan,Sr., DB, Sonora Michael Ziehlke,Sr., DB, Bret Hane Maximo Rodriguez,Jr., K/P, Linden

SECOND TEAM — OFFENSE John Kelley,So., C, Calaveras Travis GrilIin,Jr., OL, Amador Niko Esposo,Sr., OL, Linden Jonhn porras,sr., OL, Bret Harte David Crowhurst,Jr., OL, Argonaut Francisco Angles,Jr.,O L,Linden Cole Brewster,Sr., TE, Summerville Bi McLaurin,Sr., WR, Summerville JT Mccready,Sr., WR, Summerville Hunter White,Jr., WR, Linden Nathaniel Ulvevadet,Sr., RB, Summerville Anthony Giangregorio,Jr., RB, Calaveras Mikey Vierra,Jr., RB, Argonaut Jake Fulkerson,Sr., RB, Summerville Trsvis Rodgers,Sr., QB, Summerville AnthonyCraven, Sr., QB, Linden DEFENSE Brsndon Cook,Jr., DBOLB, Amador Ben Hayes,Jr., DBOLB, Argonaut Caleb Hodgson,Sr., DE/OLB, Calaveras Brock Rzzo,sr., DE/OLB, Bret Hane Ryan Sober,Sr., DL, Argonaut ColinPreston, Jr., DL, Bret Ha rte Nick Osbom,Jr., DL, Bret Harte Hunter Van Vliet,Jr., DL, Bret Harte Tne Machado,Fr., DL, Summerville Cole Murphy,Sr., LB, Amador Ryan Plunkett,Sr., LB, Bret Harte Wade McCsnn,Sr., LB, Calaveras

David Crowhurst,Jr., LB, Argonaut Brsndon Wright,So., LB, Amador Gio Casillas,Sr., DB, Argonaut

Enc Monaco,Jr., DB, Amador Joey Kraft,Jr., DB, Bret Harte

Character Award Tyler Bardin - Amador Dustin Armstrong -Argonaut Jacob Cunningham - Bret Harte Noah Preuss - Ca laveras Brandon Carr - Linden Jesus Rodriguez - Sonora Jake Fulkerson - Summerville

Basketball National Basketball ssociathn EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 1 6 10 .61 5 Boston 14 1 2 .5 3 8 2 New York 12 1 4 A 62 4 Brooklyn 7 1 8 .28 0 8 ' / 2 Philadelphia 1 26 .0 3 7 1 5'/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 15 9 .62 5 Charlotte 14 1 0 .5 8 3 1 Orlando 14 11 .5 6 0 1 ' / 2 Atlanta 15 12 .5 5 6 1 ' / 2 Washington 10 1 4 .4 1 7 5 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 16 7 .696 Chicago 15 8 .652 1 Indiana 15 9 .625 1' / 2 Detroit 15 1 2 .5 5 6 3 Milwaukee 10 1 7 .3 7 0 8 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 22 5 .815 Dallas 1 4 12 .5 3 8 ' r / 2 Memphis 14 1 3 .5 1 9 8 Houston 1 2 14 A 62 9' / 2 New Orleans 7 1 8 .2 8 0 14 Northwest Division W L Pct GB 17 8 .680 11 1 4 A 40 6 10 14

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11 1 6 A 07 7 9 1 6 .3 6 0 8 Pacilic Division W L Pct GB G olden State 25 1.96 2 L.AClippers 16 10.615 9 Phoenix 1 1 16 407 14 ' / 2 Sacramento 10 15AOO 1 4 ' /2

Orlando 113, Charlotte 98

Miami 104, Brooklyn 98 Detroit 119, Boston 116 New York 107, Minnesota 102 Chicago98,Memphis 85 Oklahoma City 106, Portland 90 Atlanta 127, Philadelphia 106 San Antonio 114, Washington 95 New Orleans 104, Utah 94 Golden State 128, Phoenix 103 LA. Clippers 103, Milwaukee 90 Today's games Toronto at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Houston at LA. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

WARRIORS 128, SUNS 103 PHOENIX (103) Tucker 0-2 (M 0, Leuer 3-6 0-0 7, Chandler 3-5 0-0 6, Bledsoe 3-1 2 Oo 6, Knight 7-16 3-3 17, Warren 9-1 5 1-2 19, Teletovic 9-1 3 3-3 24, Leo 3-6 0-0 6, Price 1-6 6-6 9, Booker 0-4 0-0 0, Goodwin 36 3-4 9, weems ao 0-0 0. Totals 41-91 16-18 103.

GOLDEN STATE (128) Rush 4-8 0-0 11, Green 5-14 4-4 16, Bog ut 0-0 0-2 0, Curry 10-14 3-5 25, K.Thompson 15-22 5-5 43, Iguodala 2-4 1-1 5, Ezeli 3-7 1-2 7, Livingston 0-3 2-2 2, Barbosa 2-6 0-0 4, Speights 3-7 5-6 11, Clark 1-2 0-0 2, McAdoo 1-1 0-0 2, J.Thompson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 46-88 21-27 128.

Phoenix

28 18 19 38 — 103 Golden State 26 33 46 23 — 128 3-Point Goals — Phoenix 5-22 (Teletovic 3-5, Lever 1-2, Price 1-3, Tucker 0-1, Warren 0-1, Booker 0-3, Goodwin 0-3, Knight 0-4), Goldenstate 15-32 (K.Thompson 8-13, Rush 3-5, Green 2-3, Curry 2-5, Livingston 0-1, Clark 0-1, Iguodala 0-1, Barbosa 0-3). Fouled Out —None. Rebounds — Phoenix 46 (Warren 8), Golden state 54 (Bogut 12). AssistsPhoenix 28 (Bledsoe 8), Golden State 32 (Green 10). Total Fouls — Phoenix 20, Golden State 17. Technicals — Phoenix defensive three second. A — 19,596 (19,596).

Hockey

W L T P c tPF PA 1 0 3 0 . 7 6 9281 225 8 5 0 . 6 1 5331 243 6 7 0 A 6 2299 326 3 10 0 .231 250 334 National Confwence East w L r pe t PF PA Washington 6 7 0 A 6 2281 307 Philadelphia 6 7 0 A 6 2301 322 N.Y. Giants 6 7 0 A 6 2338 320 Dallas 4 9 0 . 3 0 230 8 305 South W L T P c tPF PA y-Carolina 13 0 0 1.000 411 243 Tampa Bay 6 7 0 A 6 2288 322 Atlanta 6 7 0 A 6 2279 295 New Orleans 5 8 0 .3 8 5323 397 Norlh w L r pe t PF PA 9 4 0 .6 9 2317 245 8 5 0 . 6 1 258 5 255 5 8 0 . 3 8 272 5 314 4 9 0 . 3 0 267 8 336 West w L r pe t PF PA x-Arizona 11 2 0 . 8 46405 252 Seattle 8 5 0 . 6 15340 235 St. Louis 5 8 0 . 3 8 5210 271 s an Francisco 4 9 0 .30 8188 315 x-clinched playotrspot y-clinched division Today's game Tampa Bay at St Louis, 5:25 p.m.

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

Satunlay's game N.Y. Jets at Dallas, 5:25 p.m.

Sunday's games Chicago st Minnesota, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at New England, 10 a.m.

Buffalo at washington, 10 a.m.

Kansas city at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at Seattle, 1:05 p.m.

Green Bay at Oakland, 1:05 p.m.

Miami at San Diego, 1:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m Denver at Pittsburgh, 1:25 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Monday's game

California Baylor Colorado St LSU

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Claimed S 6 7 ( 6 P/2) Air Fo rce 2'/2 2 (6P/2) North Carolina Akeem Davis off waivers from Seattle.

Released LB Edwin Jackson from the 3 3 (56) Nev ad a 7 7 ( 7 Y/2) T e xas Tech practice squad. Signed RB Laoarius PerAuburn 2 '/2 2'/2 (6F/2) Mem p h i s kins and LB Amarlo Herrera to the practice Mississippi St P/2 5 (58'/2) NC S t ate squad.

Texas 8&m 2'/2 PK (50) Lou i sville JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Waived USC 3 3 (50) Wisc o nsin WR Rashad Lawrence. Signed RB Jonas Roiida St 6 /2 7 'I54/2) Hous t o n Gray from Miamrs practice squad.

Alabama 9'/2 10 (47) M i chigan St MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived OL Jeff Oklahoma 1 F / 2 ( 66 ) Clem s on Linkenbach. Signed QB Logan Thomas Tennessee 9 8 (45 ) N o rthwestern from the practice squad.

Michigan 4 4 ' /2 (4o'/2) Flor i d a NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — PlacedRB Ohio State 6/2 6/2 'I54'/2) Notre Dame Leoarrette Blount on injured reserve.

Stanford 8/2 8/2 (5$/2) Iowa Released WR DamarisJohnson. Signed Mississippi 6'/2 7 ( 6 8 ) O k lahoma St DL Ishmaa'ily Kitchen. Released RB Trey Georgia 6 '/2 6'/2 (41) Penn St Williams from the practice squad. Signed Arkansas 12 11 (5P/2) Kan sas St LB Kevin Snyder to the practice squad.

TCU 1 '/2 PK (78 ) Oreg o n NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — ReleasedDE West Virginia +1'/2 1 (6P/2) Ar i zona St Phillip Hunt.

NFL NEW YORK GIANTS — Released S BranThursday don Meriweather.

Favorite OpenradayO/U Undedog ST. LOUIS RAMS — Waived PK Zach At St Louis 1 8 / 2 ( 4 1 ) T a mpa Bay Hocker. Signed DT Louis Trinca-Pasat from the practice squad.

Saturday Ny Jets 3 F / 2 (41'/2) At D allas Sunday at Minnesota 4'/2 5'/~ (42'/~) Ch i cago At Jacksonville2 3 (49) At lan t a • g • At Indianapolisoff off ( o ff ) Hou ston Kansas City 7 7 (41 '/2) At Baltimore Buffalo Pk 1 (44 )At Washington At N. England 1o'/2 14 (47) Tennessee Arizona 3/2 3 (50 )At Philadelphia Carolina 4 5 (48) AtNYGiants At Seattle 1F/214/2 (4F/2) C l eveland Green Bay 3 3 (47) A tOakland At San Diego 1'/2 2 ( 4 5'/2) Miam i At Pittsburgh 4 '/2 8/2 (44/2) Denv e r Cincinnati 4 4' / 2 (40)At a Frandsco Monday At N. Orleans 3 (5ov2)

Transactions Baseball

American League DETROITTIGERS — Agreedto terms with

C Albert Cordero on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with OF Daniel Nava on a one-year contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS — DesignatedLHP Tyler Olson for assignment. Claimed RHP Pregame.corn A.J. Schugel off waivers from Arizona.

NBA National League Favorite o pen 0 /U Unde rdog ATLANTA BRAVES — Assigned OF Dian a t charlotte 1'/2 ( 1 96 ) Toron t o Toscano outright to Gwinnett (Iu. Agreed at Cleveland 3 (205 ) Oklahoma City to terms with C Tyler Flowers on a two-year Houston 6 (213) A t LA Lakers contract. Named Ricky Alcantara trainer of Gwinnett ou, Luis salazar manager and College Basketball Favorite Line Underdog Kyle Damschroder trainer of Mississippi Marshall at West Virginia 20 (SL), Ralph Wheeler manager and Nick at USC 1o'/2 Cal Poly Flynn trainer of Carolina (Carolina), Dan Meyer pitching coach and Joe Luat trainer NHL Favorite une Un d erdog une of Rome (SAL), Robinson Cancel manager -130 st New Jersey Florida +120 and Gabe Luckert pitching coach of Danville At Philadelphia -130 Va n couver +120 (Appalachian) and Nestor Perez manager, Anaheim -125 At B u ffalo +115 Mike Alvarez pitching coach and Nick JenSan Jose -115 At T o ronto +105 sen trainer of the GCL Braves.

-108 A t M ontreal -102 CINCINNATI REDS — Sent 3B Todd Frazier Los Angeles At St. Louis -135 Nash v ille +125 to the Chicago White Sox, who sent 2B At Minnesota -120 N Y Rangers +110 Micah Johnson,RHP FrankieMontas and At Chicago -205 Edm o nton +185 OF Trayce Thompson to the L.A. Dodgers.

At Dallas -210 Calg a r y +190 The Dodgers sent INFs Brandon Dixon and At Arizona -1 20 C o l u mbus +110 Jose peraza and OF scott schebler to the -110 A t Colorado +100 Reds.

NY Islanders College Football COLORADO ROCKIES —Agreed to terms Bowl games with INF Mark Reynolds on a one-year Favorite Op e nrodayO/U U nderdog contract.

Arizona 10 9 (65 ' /2) New Mexico MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to Utah Z/z Z/z (52'/2) BYU terms with 3B Will Middlebrooks on 8 minor Appalachian St P/z rr2 (55) Ohio league contract.

San Jose St 5 Z/2 (55'/2) G e o rgia St NEW YORK METS — Named Dick Scott Louisiana Tech 1'/2 2 (6'r/2) A r kansas st bench coach.

W Kentucky 3 '/~ 2/2 (6P/2) South Florida ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Named Adam olsen trainer.

Utah State 7 6'h (4 8 ) Akron T emple PK 1" / 2 ( 51 ) Toled o FOOTBALL Boise St F/2 F/2 ( 5 6 ) N Ill i nois National Football League Bowling Green TY2 7Y2 (6P/2) Ga Southern BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed OT MarW Michigan F/ 2 3 (6 3 ) M. Tennessee cel Jones to the practice squad.

Cincinnati 2 1 (57/ 2 ) S an Diego St BUFFALO BILLS — Placed CB Stephon Marshall 4 4 (44) Uconn Gilmore on injured reserve. Signed DE Max Washingtonst2 3 (62 '/2 ) Miami Valles from Oakland's practice squad.

Washington 8/ ~ 9 (5 6 ) Southern Miss CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed QB Keith Indiana 2 2 (68) Duke Wenning from the practice squad and WR Virginia Tech 14 1 3 ( 6 2 ) Tulsa Michael Bennett to the practice squad.

UCLA 6/2 6/2 (61 ) Neb r aska CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived WR Navy 5 3 (56) Pitt s burgh Darius Jennings. Claimed RB Raheem Minnesota 6 6 (49) Cent. Michigan Mostert off waivers from Baltimore.

Detroit at New orleans, 5:30 p.m.

National Hockey League EAST' CONFERENCE Athntic Division G P W L O T l t s GF GA Montreal 32 20 9 3 43 101 73 Boston 30 17 9 4 38 96 80 Detroit Ottawa

31 16 9 6 38 79 79 3 2 16 1 1 5 3 7 9 8 9 5 Tampa Bay 3 2 16 13 3 3 5 78 73 Flo ada 3 1 15 12 4 3 4 8 1 7 5 Buffalo 3 2 13 16 3 2 9 74 86 Toronto 2 9 10 13 6 2 6 68 81 Metropolitan DMsion G P W L O T l t s GF GA Washington 3 0 2 2 6 2 46 91 64 N.Y.Rangers 3 2 1 9 9 4 42 94 74 N.Y. Islanders 32 1 8 9 5 41 90 77 N ew Jersey 3 1 1 6 1 1 4 3 6 76 75 Pittsburgh 30 15 1 2 3 33 68 74 P hiladelphia 3 1 1 3 1 2 6 3 2 66 86 Carolina 3 1 12 14 5 2 9 7 7 9 6 Columbus 33 11 1 9 3 25 76 100 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division G P W L O T l t s GF GA Dallas 31 23 6 2 48 107 80 St. Louis 3 2 18 10 4 4 0 82 78 Minnesota 29 16 7 6 38 79 68 Chicago 3 2 17 11 4 3 8 85 78 Nashville 3 1 15 10 6 3 6 8 1 8 1 Colorado 3 2 15 16 1 3 1 88 88 Winnipeg 3 1 14 15 2 3 ) 85 95 Pacilic Divhion G P W L O r l t s GF GA LosAngeles 3 0 1 9 9 2 40 7 8 6 6 San Jose 30 15 1 4 1 31 78 79 Arizona 3 0 14 14 2 3 0 81 95 Calgary % 14 1 4 2 80 104 Edmonton 32 14 1 6 2 30 87 S6 Vancouver 32 11 1 3 8 30 81 92 Anaheim 29 11 1 3 5 2 7 56 73 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday's games Washington 2, Ottawa 1 Boston 3, Pittsburgh 0 Today's games Anaheim at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Florida at New Jersey, 4 p m. vancouver at Philadelphia, 4 p m.

San Jose at Toronto, 430 p.m.

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LosAngelesatMontreal, 4:30 p.m .

Nashville at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago,5:30p.m.

Calgary at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Football

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed S Adrian Phillips and QB Brad Sorensen from the practice squad. Signed S Matt Daniels and CB Keith Lewis to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Placed RB Dexter McCluster on injured reserve. Signed S Josh Aubrey from the practice squad.

Signed QB Mike Kafka and WR Nick Harwell to the practice squad WASHINGTON REDSKINS — SignedTE Ray Hamilton to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Assigned FColin Jacobs from Rochester (AHL) to Elmira

(ECHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Reassigned F Joseph Blandisi on loanto Albany (AHu. PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Assigned D Jesper pettersson from Lehigh valley (AHu to Reading (ECHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled F Brian Hart from Greenville (EcHu to syracuse (AHL).

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Both have basked in the glory that comes with being named Colorado Professional Athlete of the Year, as declared by Mile High Sports Magazine. Martin Truex Jr.'s Furniture Row

race team, which made the "final four" in Homestead, is based in Denver, two time zones removed from all of the other Cup Series teams, and

Homish Jr. has never enjoyed much success in stock cars, but he won the Indy 500. Next KEN'S CALL:Only

Kenseth gets into Logano, helping spring Gordon to victory

if it's a necessary money move. Otherwise, no way.

By Godwin Kelly

Will Chris Buescher make the No. 34 go faster?

Over th e n e x t s e v e r a l weeks, NASCAR This Week will count down the top- five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

KEN'S CALL:You' d

think the Jack Roush affiliation would help, but Jack wasn't exactly haulin' the mail this year.

Vegas has Kevin Narvick as the 2016

championship favorite at 5-to-1 odds.

Smart money?

GODSPEAK: His

average points finish the past two years is 1.5. Yes, that's worth $2 down.

KEN'S CALL:Not

sure, but I'd take a flier on Danica at the current 500-to-1.

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EX T R A S

news-journalonline. corn/iiascar facebook.corn/ nascardaytona CInascardaytona Questions? Contact Godwin Kelly at godwin. kellygnews-jrnl.corn or Ken Willis at ken.willis@ news-jrnl.corn

earnings. Then there are the personal endorsement deals and the driver' s cut of merchandise sales. So while it

ments and merchandising.

GODSPEAK:Sam

go faster; could be one ofthe fastest Fords.

driver's contract grants him between 40 and 50 percent of the official race earnings, with the rest going to the team's treasury. But the driver also has a contract that guarantees him a set salary, along with his cut of the

you include salary, personal endorse-

ShouldSam Homish consider returning to IndyCar?

deal, the No. 34 will

Those race-day earnings are only part of the equation. In most cases, a

half of that... but his income likely went well north of that figure, when

so sure even Kyle Busch could take that car to Victory Lane. But you never know.

Roush money comes with the

Huh?

million, he probably got "only" about

KEN'S CALL:I'm not

GODSPEAK: If the

lion (remember, he missed 11 races).

Joey Logano was second with $9.66 million. What we don't know: what the drivers actually earned.

might look like Harvick earned $11.7

has themakings of either a big breakthrough or major bust. Flip a coin.

question.

don't know. What we do know: Harvick topped the 2015 Sprint Cup Series with $11.7 million in race earnings, while Busch was third with $8.39 mil-

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races held in 2 015. We start

from the bottom and work our way up to N o . 1. T h e

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second r ace at Ma r t i n s v i l l e

was his time to shine.

Gordon announced before thestart of the s eason that 2015 would b e

his last as a full-t ime Cup Series driver. He had made 32 starts without nabbing

it appears to have given that area's sports fans something to talk about other than its traditional sports. Along with Manning, other recent winners were Carmelo Anthony (NBA) and Joe Sakic (NHL).

Wait... Did you say 'athlete' ?

Sorry, out of room here. Can't dive into thedrivers-as-athletes debate.

a victory in 2 0 15.

After a short tussle with Denny Hamlin, then fending offa late charge by Jamie McMurray, Gordon found himself with the No. 2y Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in Victory Lane for onelastmoment of racing glory at the halfmile oval.

"This is turning into one of these incredible storybook finishes to this year, to this career," Gordon said after the race. "Of all years, I mean, of all years, I cannot believe this. I'm so excited it's happening this year.

Speedway came in a s t h e Round 2 of the Chase.

After going hard into fifth-best race of season. the wall with Kenseth pushing, he finished 37th Maybe in terms of race at Martinsville, and his value, from the green chances of getting to the flag to the checkered, the Goody's Headache Relief Championship Round on points were all but dashed.

Shot 5oo may falla bit "It was just a complete short; but what this race coward move, especially lacked in competition, it for a championship racegained back in raw emocar driver and race team," tion and a victory by a Logano said. sentimental favorite.

After the race, Kenseth Jeff Gordon scored the denied the hit was inten93rd and final triumph of tional, saying his race his illustrious NASCAR c ar would no t t u r n a f t e r Sprint Cup Series driv" That was cl u t c h . T h a t making contact with Brad ing career at this pivotal was huge. Yeah, we had a K eselowsk i' s No . 2 For d Chase playoffs round at few things that fell in our about 2,0laps before tanMartinsville Speedway. favor. But you got to be gling with Logano.

He got there with an there and beready for that Logano and Keselowski assist from 2oo3 Cup moment when it comes, are teammates.

Series champion Matt and we were."

"It's a tough sport " Kenseth, who used his No. McMurray was second, Kenseth said. "Some days, followed by Hamlin, Dale 2o Toyota to clobber the you' re the bat, and some r ace-l ead ing No . 22 For d , Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle days, you're the ball. Iw as Bus ch. wheeled by Joey Logano. the balla few weeks ago, The official NASCAR Gordon's win sent him and I was the ball again race report reads, "Lap into the Championship (with Keselowski at Marg55: No. 20, 22, accid en t Round, where he finished tinsville), so that part is turn 1." third in the Cup standn ever fu n . " This was no accident. ings behind Busch and Upon further review This was payback.

Kevin H a r v i c k , th e 20 14

by NASCAR officials, Logano had nudged champion.

Kenseth was suspended Kenseth out of the way Not bad company for a for two races and put on for thelead and vicg4-year-old driver headed probation, ending his tory at Kansas Speedway for the exits with four championship hopes. He two weeks before this NASCAR Cup titles in the was allowed to return for incident, which helped bag. the season finale at Homespark the "Mugging at "We couldn't make stead-Miami Speedway.

Martinsville." it a little bit better and B ack to M a r t i n s v i l l e .

Logano, who drives for couldn't keep up with When Logano got his i t," G o r d o n sa id . " Bu t I Team Penske, arrived nose shoved into the at Martinsville riding a thought we showed what three-race winning streak, wall by Kenseth, Gordon we' re made of and what inherited the lead, and it sweeping all the races in got us here."

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

N ASC A R S T A T S Expanded NASCAR Sprint Cup Series statistics for the top-10 drivers in final standings: 1. Kyle Busch:5 wins, 12 top-5 finishes, 16 top-10s, 1 pole, 735 laps led, 2 did not finish (DNF), $4,887,217 race winnings 2. KevinNarvick: 5 w ins, 23 top-5 finishes, 28 top-10 finishes, 1 DNF, 1 pole, 2,294 laps led, $9,018,421 race winnings 3. Jeff Gordon:1 win, 5 top-5 finishes, 21 top-10 finishes, 1 DNF, 4 poles, 265 laps led, $6,026,506 race winnings 4. Martin Truex Jr.:1 win, 8 top-5 finishes,22 top-10 finishes, 1 DNF, 0 poles, 567 laps led, $5,391,296 race winnings 5. Carl Edwards: 2wins, 7 top-5 finishes, 15 top-10 finishes, 2 DNF, 3 poles, 376 laps led, $4,590,413 race winnings 6. JoeyLogano: 6 w ins,22 top-5 finishes, 28 top-10finishes, 0 DNF, 6 poles, 1,431 laps led, $8,405,613 race winnings 7. Brad Keselowski: 1 win, 9 top-5 finishes,25 top-10 finishes, 1 DNF, 3 poles, 1,185 laps led, $6,497,671 race winnings 8. Kurt Busch:2 wins, 10 top-5 finishes, 21 top-10finishes, 0 DNF, 3 poles, 788 laps led,$4,675,011 race winnings 9. DennyNamlin:2 w ins, 14 top-5 finishes,20 top-10 finishes, 2 DNF, 3 poles, 529 laps led, $6,537,373 race winnings 10. Jimmie Johnson:5 wins, 14 top-5 finishes, 22 top-10 finishes, 1 DNF, 1 pole, 558 lapsled,$7,238,747 race winnings

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Petty hands the No. 9's keys to Brian Scott Ssm Homish's second stint as a full-time Cup Series driver is now over. Richard Petty Motorsports announced this psst weekend that it will replace Homish with Brian Scott in the No.9 car.

Marcos Ambrose in that car last year, but had just three top-10s in 36 starts — one at Talladega and the other two attheroad-courseevents.

Scott, who will turn 28 before next season,

Hom ish hadreplaced

has been apart of the NASCAR scene since 2007, with modest results. He has a pair of

Truck Series wins (one in2009, the other in 2O12) and five straight top-1O seasons in the Xfinity Series (2011-15), though no wins h1208

career starts on that circuit. In 17 Cup starts since 2o13, all with Richard Childress Racing, his best finish was a12th at Kansas this year.

Still, that didn' t dampen the obligatory optimism coming from the Petty camp, via press release. "We' re happy to welcome Brian to the team," said King Richard. "He's made a steadyprogression through the ranks, and now we feel he's ready to compete in the Sprint Cup Series."

Homish's full-time Cup options mightbe over for now. The 36-year-old former IndyCar champion had three full-time seasons from

no wins, three top-5s, 12 top-lOs.

More moves

2OO8-2O1O, a2O-race stint inzO12, and then

Xfinity Series champ Chris Buescher willbe the new full-time driver for Front Row Motorsports in that team's No. 34 entry, which has also announced a "technical alliance" with Roush Fenway Racing, Buescher's Xfinity employer. Buescher replaces Brett Moffitt in the No. 34 Ford.

Buescher has been apicture of progression basically since earning his driver' s license. At the ages of 16and 17, heran 15ARCA races jn 2OO9-1O, winning two. He completed his teen

all36racesthispastyear.In 167careerstarts:

years jn ARCAin 2011-12by finishing second

and first in the championship stsndings and winning seven races.

In 2014, Buescher ran his first full-time Xfinity season and finished seventh in points with a win and < 1 top-1Os. Then caine this year's championship run, which included two wins and 20 top-los in 33 starts.

• David Gillilandis apparently out of a Front Row Motorsports ride, since the team is

reportedly downsizing from three to two cars.

• Trevor Bayne and his wife welcomed the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Kate, last week.

• Kyle Petty announced his marriage to Morgan Csstano this psst weekend. The new bride is executive director of the Kyle Petty Charity Ride, the motorcycle fundraiser that raises money for the Victory Junction Gang Camp.

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