Briefly For home delivery, call 773-2725 Index ‘Quarter Mania’ starts Tuesday SIDNEY — The Lehman Catholic High School Music Boosters are hosting their second annual “Quarter Mania” on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Harriet J. Frantz gym at the school. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the raffle be- gins at 7 p.m. Admission is $2. Gift cards, cash, gift bas- kets and other items have been donated by the fami- lies of Lehman music stu- dents for the raffle. Most items will make ideal Valen- tine’s Day gifts. Attendees will purchase tickets for $.25 each. Each raffle will be for one or two tickets depending on the value of the item. The value ranges from $10 to $100. No bid will be more than four tickets. Approximately 100 items will be auctioned off. Light concessions also will be available throughout the evening. For more information, contact Darla Cabe at [email protected]. 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Today’s weather High 28 Low Complete forecast on Page 3. 14 COMING Wednesday Commission meeting Lottery CLEVELAND (AP) — The following are Sun- day’s winning Ohio Lottery numbers: ■ Midday 3 7-8-7 ■ Midday 4 3-0-1-8 For Mega Millions, visit www.ohiolottery.com BY MELODY VALLIEU Civitas Media [email protected]A Piqua graduate died as the result of an explo- sion in a detached garage in Troy on Saturday night, according to reports. Troy Police Department Sgt. Joe Stutz confirmed Sunday that Scott Edgell Jr., 28, died in the fire that started when he, along with a second man, were working on removing a gas tank from a vehicle in- side the garage at 1009 S. Mulberry St. Edgell resided in Columbus.The call came into 9-1-1 at 5:53 p.m. Saturday, while firefight- ers were still on the scene of a blaze at 820 W. Race St., that caused substan- tial damage and displaced multiple families. Stutz said something went wrong during the removal of the gas tank, which is yet unclear, and an explo- sion erupted inside the garage. A second man, reported to be Edgell’s brother, Shawn Detrick, jumped from a garage window to safety. Detrick was taken by Tipp City EMS to Upper Valley Medical Center where he was treated for injuries and later released, according to reports. Troy Fire Department Platoon Commander Don Pemberton said Saturday night the state fire mar- shall was called in to in- vestigate the fire. As of Sunday, no more information was available on the cause of the fire. The garage and its con- tents are a complete loss and there was no damage to the home, Pemberton said. Edgell was transported by the Miami County Coroner’s Office. Piqua grad identified in fatal fire BY JOHN HAUER For the Daily Call [email protected]PIQUA — After more than 40 years in educa- tion, Becky Dickinson, third-grade teacher at Fa- vorite Hill Primary School, will be retiring at the end of the school year. She started teaching in the early 1970s and has seen many significant changes in teaching and schools. Dickinson grew up in Dayton and graduated from Fairview High School in 1967. She was a member of the drill team, the Scotchettes, and she was in the Future Teach- ers of America club. “Teaching was a natural path for me,” she said. “My brother, sister in-law, mother, an aunt, and a cousin all landed in educa- tion.” Dickinson retires after four decades Class Act Agenda includes contracts Chase ends in Troy man’s arrest STAFF REPORTS PIQUA — A high-speed pursuit through the streets of Piqua ended with an arrest late Saturday night. Lt. Bill Collins of the Piqua Police Department attempted to initiate a traffic stop around 10:45 p.m. Satur- day on a pickup truck bearing Ken- tucky plates. The driver of the truck attempted to flee, driving through neighbor- hoods in and around Washington, Nicklin and Cherry Streets at speeds in excess of 60 miles per hour. As the truck turned north on State Route 66, Collins observed one subject in the bed of the speeding pickup truck. The chase turned on to Hardin Al- ternate Road where the driver lost control on the snow covered road and slid off the roadway. Police reports indicate that, in ad- dition to the driver, identified as Michael Minnich, 45, of Troy, there were three other adults in the front seat of the truck and one riding in the bed. Minnich was arrested and booked into the Miami County Jail. He is charged with failure to comply, driv- ing under the influence, reckless op- eration, failing to stop for traffic sig- nals and driving without headlights. The charge of failure to comply (flee- ing) is a third degree felony. The charges of OVI and reckless opera- tion on a public roadway are misde- meanors of the first degree. The other occupants of the vehicle were released. No injuries were re- ported. The incident remains under in- vestigation by the Piqua police de- partment. Minnich remains in jail awaiting arraignment. MINNICH See Agenda/Page 3 See Piqua grad/Page 3 BY BETHANY J. ROYER Staff Writer [email protected]PIQUA — Economic Development Director Bill Murphy will provide an economic development up- date following a number of resolutions on Tues- day’s commission meeting agenda. Some of those items will include the reappointment of a num- ber of members to the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, along with accepting the resignation of Denise Uh- lenbrock as a member of the Park Board. Commission will give a second reading to amend storm water fees that will make up the difference be- tween expenditure over MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTO Becky Dickinson works with students in her Favorite Hill School classroom last week. See Dickinson /Page 3 Provided photo The Piqua High School varsity competition cheer squad celebrates at Springboro High School on Sunday afternoon after becoming the cheerleaders ever to quality to represent Piqua High School at state level com- petition. The Piqua squad qualified in Regional cheer competition in Division I and will travel to The Ohio State University on March 3 to compete at state. Brother treated for injuries MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTO Former Piqua graduate Scott Edgell Jr., 28, died in the fire that started when he, along with a second man, were work- ing on removing a gas tank from a vehicle inside the garage at 1009 S. Mulberry St. in Troy on Saturday night.
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For home delivery, call 773-2725
Index
‘Quarter Mania’startsTuesdaySIDNEY — The Lehman
Catholic High School MusicBoosters are hosting theirsecond annual “QuarterMania” on Tuesday, Feb. 5,in the Harriet J. Frantz gymat the school. Doors openat 6 p.m. and the raffle be-gins at 7 p.m. Admission is$2.Gift cards, cash, gift bas-
kets and other items havebeen donated by the fami-lies of Lehman music stu-dents for the raffle. Mostitems will make ideal Valen-tine’s Day gifts.Attendees will purchase
tickets for $.25 each. Eachraffle will be for one or twotickets depending on thevalue of the item. The valueranges from $10 to $100.No bid will be more thanfour tickets. Approximately100 items will be auctionedoff.Light concessions also
will be available throughoutthe evening.For more information,
A Piqua graduate diedas the result of an explo-sion in a detached garagein Troy on Saturday night,according to reports.Troy Police Department
Sgt. Joe Stutz confirmedSunday that Scott EdgellJr., 28, died in the fire thatstarted when he, alongwith a second man, wereworking on removing agas tank from a vehicle in-side the garage at 1009 S.Mulberry St.Edgell resided in
Columbus.The call cameinto 9-1-1 at 5:53 p.m.Saturday, while firefight-ers were still on the sceneof a blaze at 820 W. RaceSt., that caused substan-tial damage and displacedmultiple families. Stutz
said something wentwrong during the removalof the gas tank, which isyet unclear, and an explo-sion erupted inside thegarage.A second man, reported
to be Edgell’s brother,Shawn Detrick, jumpedfrom a garage window tosafety. Detrick was takenby Tipp City EMS toUpper Valley MedicalCenter where he wastreated for injuries andlater released, accordingto reports.Troy Fire Department
Platoon Commander DonPemberton said Saturdaynight the state fire mar-shall was called in to in-vestigate the fire.As of Sunday, no more
information was availableon the cause of the fire.The garage and its con-tents are a complete lossand there was no damageto the home, Pembertonsaid.Edgell was transported
PIQUA — After morethan 40 years in educa-tion, Becky Dickinson,third-grade teacher at Fa-vorite Hill PrimarySchool, will be retiring atthe end of the school year.
She started teaching inthe early 1970s and hasseen many significantchanges in teaching andschools.Dickinson grew up in
Dayton and graduatedfrom Fairview HighSchool in 1967. She was amember of the drill team,
the Scotchettes, and shewas in the Future Teach-ers of America club.“Teaching was a naturalpath for me,” she said. “Mybrother, sister in-law,mother, an aunt, and acousin all landed in educa-tion.”
Dickinson retires after four decadesClass Act
Agendaincludescontracts
Chase ends in Troy man’s arrestSTAFF REPORTS
PIQUA — A high-speed pursuitthrough the streets of Piqua endedwith an arrest late Saturday night.Lt. Bill Collins of the Piqua Police
Department attempted to initiate atraffic stop around 10:45 p.m. Satur-day on a pickup truck bearing Ken-tucky plates.The driver of the truck attempted
to flee, driving through neighbor-hoods in and around Washington,Nicklin and Cherry Streets at speedsin excess of 60 miles per hour. As thetruck turned north on State Route
66, Collins observed one subject inthe bed of the speeding pickup truck. The chase turned on to Hardin Al-
ternate Road where the driver lostcontrol on the snow covered road andslid off the roadway.Police reports indicate that, in ad-
dition to the driver, identified asMichael Minnich, 45, of Troy, therewere three other adults in the frontseat of the truck and one riding in thebed.Minnich was arrested and booked
into the Miami County Jail. He ischarged with failure to comply, driv-ing under the influence, reckless op-
eration, failing to stop for traffic sig-nals and driving without headlights.The charge of failure to comply (flee-ing) is a third degree felony. Thecharges of OVI and reckless opera-tion on a public roadway are misde-meanors of the first degree.The other occupants of the vehicle
were released. No injuries were re-ported.The incident remains under in-
vestigation by the Piqua police de-partment.Minnich remains in jail awaiting
PIQUA — EconomicDevelopment Director BillMurphy will provide aneconomic development up-date following a numberof resolutions on Tues-day’s commission meetingagenda. Some of thoseitems will include thereappointment of a num-ber of members to theMiami Valley RegionalPlanning Commission,along with accepting theresignation of Denise Uh-lenbrock as a member ofthe Park Board.Commission will give a
second reading to amendstorm water fees that willmake up the difference be-tween expenditure over
MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTOBecky Dickinson works with students in her FavoriteHill School classroom last week. See Dickinson /Page 3
Provided photoThe Piqua High School varsity competition cheer squad celebrates at Springboro High School on Sundayafternoon after becoming the cheerleaders ever to quality to represent Piqua High School at state level com-petition. The Piqua squad qualified in Regional cheer competition in Division I and will travel to The OhioState University on March 3 to compete at state.
Brothertreated forinjuries
MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTOFormer Piqua graduate Scott Edgell Jr., 28, died in the firethat started when he, along with a second man, were work-ing on removing a gas tank from a vehicle inside thegarage at 1009 S. Mulberry St. in Troy on Saturday night.
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Emily Jeanette GrillotRUSSIA — Emily
Jeanette Grillot, 85, ofRussiaR d . ,Russia,died 6p . m .Friday,Feb. 1,2 0 1 3 ,at Ver-saillesHealthC a r eCenter.She was born Feb. 1, 1928,in Russia, to the late Nor-bert F. and Bertha M. (Pe-piot) Monnin. She marriedMarion A. Grillot on May3, 1947, at St. RemyCatholic Church, Russia.He survives in Russia.She is also survived by
children, Jane Laloge,Piqua, Sharon and JoeMorelock, Piqua, Jim andDiane Grillot, Versailles,Bill and Connie Grillot,Versailles, Kathy andMike Magoto, Russia,Marj and Ken Gaier, Min-ster, Charlie and LisaGrillot, Ft. Loramie,Elaine and GregBergman, Versailles, Car-olyn and Phil Eilerman,Ft. Loramie, Emily andPaul Turner, Ft. Loramie,Marion J. and BonnieGrillot, Versailles, AnnaCruz, Versailles, AndyGrillot, Wapakoneta,Steve Grillot, Newport,Julie and Dan Knoop, Sid-ney, Jenny and AndyBusse, Russia, Jackie andTracy Frazier, Russia,Gina and Mark Hoying,Russia, Beth Bell, Russia,daughter-in-law TheresaGrillot, Houston; 75
grandchildren; 2 stepgrandchildren; 95 great-grandchildren; 5 stepgreat-grandchildren; sis-ters and brothers, JuneYoung, Sidney, RichardMonnin, Russia, Caroland Bill Dunkel, Russia,Shirley and Larry Simons,Versailles, Lyndon andBetty Monnin, Russia; sis-ter-in-laws, Audrey Mon-nin, Russia, JeanetteMonnin, Russia, LeonaMonnin, Versailles.She was preceded in
death by her parents, sonPhilip Grillot; grandchildMaria Busse; daughter-in-law Becky Grillot; son-in-law Donnie Cisco;brothers John, Denis,Donald and Kermit Mon-nin.She was a member of
St. Remy Catholic Churchand a 1946 graduate ofRussia High School. Shewas a cook for the RussiaCommunity Center for 18years. She was also ahomemaker, loved flowergardening, genealogy andsewing.A mass of Christian
burial will be held at10:30 a.m. Wednesday atSt. Remy Catholic Churchwith the Rev. Frank Am-berger celebrant. Friendsmay call from 2-8 p.m. onTuesday at theHogenkamp FuneralHome, Russia, and from9-10 a.m. on Wednesday.Burial will take place inSt. Remy Cemetery. Me-morials may be made to acharity of the donor’schoice. Condolences maybe made atwww.hogenkampfh.com.
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Elizabeth ‘Liza’Gray BensonJACKSON, Wyo. —
Elizabeth “Liza” GrayBenson, 28, resident ofJackson, Wyo., passedaway suddenly in a skiingaccidentc au s edby ana v a -l a n c h eon Sun-day, Jan.2 7 ,2 0 1 3 .L i z aw a sborn onJune 28,1984, in Troy, to proudparents Elizabeth BravoBenson and Peter AllenBenson and older sisterAdrienne. She was thegranddaughter of Robertand Lucia Hobart Bravoand Libby Stover Bensonof Troy; great-grand-daughter of Rachel andWilliam Hobart, AdelaideAllen and I. Kell Stover ofTroy. The family of foursoon moved to Westfield,NJ., where youngerbrother Peter ColemanBenson made it a family offive. The Bensons movedto Columbus in 1990. As alittle girl, Liza was a per-petual motion machine,busily keeping up withher older sister andfriends. She developed astrong work ethic as anacademic and started as aswimming pool attendantand guard at age 14 inColumbus. She playedcompetitively throughgrade school. In highschool, goalkeeping for theUpper Arlington GoldenBears women’s soccerteam, Liza held the Ohiostate record for the mostsaves in goal for manyyears. Seeking a betterchance at college place-ment, Liza attendedboarding school atLawrence Academy inGroton,MA. On the soccerfield there she was se-lected Massachusetts AllState Team for 2001,’02and ’03 and graduatedcum laude and an awardin Latin in 2003.Her hard work and ded-
ication paid off when Lizaattended her dream-school, Colby College inWaterville, ME. Liza con-tinued to be a powerhouseon the soccer field as a na-tionally-ranked goalie forthe Colby College Mules.She was selected ‘Devas-tator of the Week’, in ‘05and ‘06, by the college ath-letic department, as wellas all-state for four years.Between matches andworking as an assistantathletic trainer, Liza pur-sued rigorous studies inbiology, attaining dean’slist, and graduating withhonors in June 2007. Dur-ing the summers, sheacted as soccer coach forkids, worked at MarineEnvironmental Researchin Blue Hill ME., and laterfor the Nature Conser-vancy in Martha’s Vine-yard, MA, even travelingto Mongolia for biology re-search.Upon graduation, Liza’s
adventures began. She ex-plored Europe, theMediterranean, and Mo-rocco on a 36-foot woodensailboat before sailingacross the Atlantic. Sheand the ship’s captainplayed very many crib-bage games on the slowcrossing. Her quests on
the sea led to adventuresin the mountains whenshe moved to Jackson,WYwith her family after herfather’s demise in 2006.Liza’s focus on health andfitness triggered her inter-est in the medical field.She worked first atEmerge-Care clinic in Yel-lowstone Park. Hired at23 years old, she wasyoungest medical assis-tant at Teton Orthopedics.Impressed by her skills,the doctors there encour-aged Liza to pursue a ca-reer in medicine. Inmid-winter of 2011, Lizawas accepted to the Uni-versity of Washington’sPhysician Assistant pro-gram (MEDEX) andawarded one of twentyseats in WWAMI, aWyoming medical scholar-ship. She attended classesand clinical rotations inSeattle,WA before movingto Pinedale,Wyo., for ruraland acute care rotations.Liza was on-track to grad-uate in August 2013.She held a NOLS cer-
tificate as captain for sail-ing, a PADI divingcertificate, a certificatefrom EXUM mountainguides for the ascent ofThe Grand Teton, andAVY-I avalanche trainingclass certificate. An ad-venturous athlete andcompassionate healthcareworker, she won friendseverywhere with her in-fectious smile. Liza wasdedicated to squeezing themost out of life, whether itwas in her classes, theocean, or on the moun-tains. Liza was a raresoul, bursting with youth-ful ardour, living life en-thusiastically to thefullest each day of hershort life. Liza is survivedby her mother, ElizabethBravo Benson; sister Adri-enne Benson; brotherPeter Coleman Benson;and boyfriend Jason Rayof Pinedale. She is prede-ceased by her father, PeterAllen Benson. They andher uncles, George Bensonof Casper and Kell Bensonof Jackson, their wives,children and her mother’sBravo/Hobart relativeswill forever treasure herlife in their memory.A memorial service was
held Friday, Feb. 1, at St.John’s Episcopal Church,Jackson, Wyo. A funeralservice will be held at 10a.m. today at Trinity Epis-copal Church, Troy, withinterment to follow atRiverside Cemetery inTroy. A lunch reception atthe Troy Country Clubwill follow the service.Arrangements are en-trusted to Fisher-CheneyFuneral Home, Troy. Con-dolences may be left forthe family at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com.The family asks that
donations be made inLiza’s name to: High FivesFoundation, benefitingathletes that have suf-fered a life-altering injurywhile pursuing their pas-sions and hobbies (PO Box3212, Truckee, CA 96160);Tip Top Search and Res-cue (PO Box 400,Pinedale, WY, 82941); theTeton County Search andRescue (PO Box 1063,Jackson, WY, 83001); orthe Physicians’ Assistantprogram (MEDEX) at theUniversity of Washington,Seattle.
BENSON
James ‘Jim/Jimmy’GravesCOVINGTON— James
F. “Jim/Jimmy” Graves,80, ofCoving-t o n ,passeda w a ypeace-fully onSatur-d a y ,Feb. 2,2 0 1 3 ,at 5:15a.m. athis residence. He was bornon June 9, 1932, in Ver-sailles, to the late Chelland Lottie (Nixon) Graves.He is survived by his
wife, Wilma (Staudt)Graves of Covington,whom he married on Nov.23, 1979; daughter JillGraves of Verona; sonsand daughters-in-law,Timand Cathy Graves of Ver-sailles andCary andT e s sGraves ofPiqua; stepdaughterand caregiver Janet Etterof Covington; grandchil-dren, Jaimee Strayer, Jes-sica (Doug) Barry, Jim(Mandy) Graves, Stacy(Derek) Dirksen, ChristyGraves, Charles Graves,Casey Graves and ClaytonGraves; great grandchil-dren, Cora, Andrew,Justin, Briana, Carly, An-drea, Grady and Easton;step grandchildren,Amanda Turner, SarahBullis, Ross Etter, GraceMeyer, Paul Etter andVicki Etter; step great
grandchildren, Lilly,Sandy and Joann; sister inlaw Cecilia Etter of Ver-sailles.In addition to his par-
ents he is preceded indeath by brothers, Joe andCharles Graves; sisters,Christine Weedman andMary Lou young; stepdaughter Sandy Etter;step son John Etter.Jimmy was a member
of the United States Armyduring the Korean Con-flict. He retired from Gen-eral Motors in Daytonafter 32 years of service.He was a member of theVersailles Masonic Lodgeno. 290 and 32nd DegreeMason of the Ancient Ac-cepted Scottish Rite, Val-ley of Dayton. He lovedgardening, fishing, andHarness Races at TheGreat Darke County Fair.The Versailles Masonic
Lodge will be conducting aMasonic Memorial Serviceat 7 p.m. onWednesday atBailey Zechar FuneralHome, Versailles. A serv-ice will follow with PastorEd Ellis officiating. A bur-ial will be held at the con-venience of the family at alater date. Family will re-ceive friends prior to theservice from 3-7 p.m. onWednesday at the funeralhome.It is the wishes of the
family that memorial con-tributions be given to theMiami County Hospice.Condolences for the familymay be expressed throughwww.zecharbailey.com
GRAVES
Mary Alice ‘Mickey’ FarlingPLEASANT HILL —
Mary Alice “Mickey” Far-ling, 79, of Pleasant Hill,died Saturday, Feb. 2,2013, at Upper ValleyMedical Center, Troy. Shewas born June 25, 1933, inYorkshire, to the late Caryand Mary (Curtis) Meeds.She was a member ofPiqua Baptist Church,Troy Moose Lodge 2611,and a lover of cats.She is preceded in
death by her parents;three children, Randy Kel-lar, Sandy Houshel, andJeff Kellar; grandson,Shawn Houshel; andbrother, Doyle Meeds.Mickey is survived by
her loving husband of 43years, Jack Farling; sixchildren, Debbie and herhusband, Gary Maier ofCovington, Brenda Nelsonof Pleasant Hill, Debbie
Priest of Troy, Bruce andhis wife, Leslie Farling ofPleasant Hill, Kim andher husband, Randy Kellyof Laura, and ChristianNelson of Pleasant Hill; 18grandchidlren; 23 greatgrandchildren; brother,Gene Meeds of Piqua; sis-ter, Donna Deal of Piqua;and other relatives andfriends.A memorial service will
be held at noon Saturdayat Bridges-Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home,Covington, with PastorDon Wells officiating. Thefamily will receive friendsfrom 10 a.m. until time ofservice Saturday. In lieu offlowers, contributions maybe made to Hospice ofMiami County. Condo-lences may be left for thefamily at www.stockerfra-ley.com.
Robert F. HouserTROY — Robert F.
Houser, 73, of Troy, passedaway on Friday,Feb. 1, 2013,athis residence, in the lovingcareofhis threegirls.Hewasborn on Jan. 15, 1940, inPiqua, to the late Robert E.andDoris (Schlosser)Houser.His wife, Judith A. “Judy”(Ritter) Houser, precededhim in death on March 9,1995.He is survivedby threedaughters: Sandra (Bill)Rouse of Destin, Fla., Julie(Tom) Hufford of Troy, andChristina Bruner (FianceRoger Schaeffer) of Troy;brother Larry Joe Houser ofFort Myers, Fla.; sistersHelen Kay Shaffer of Piqua,andKathyMillerofGulfport,Miss.; nine grandchildren;Lindsay,Ashley,Chris,Tren-ton, Shannon, Ashley, Tyler,MatthewandTaylor;and sixgreat-grandchildren.Hewaspreceded indeathbyhispar-ents, his wife and his secondwife Carolyn.Robert Houser was a
member of the FranklinLodgeno.14F&AM,AmvetsPost 88, VFW Post 5436,
American Legion Post 43,Troy Fish and Game, andTroy Eagles Eerie 971. Hewasaretiredmachinist/CNCOperator fromTrojanManu-facturing.Funeral services will be
heldat2p.m.onThursdayatBaird Funeral Home,Troy.Intermentwill follow inMiami Memorial Park, Cov-ington. Friends may callfrom 2-4 p.m. and from 6-8p.m.onWednesdaywithMa-sonic services at 7:30 p.m. atthe funeral home. In Lieu offlowers, memorial contribu-tionsmay bemade toMiamiCounty Library, 419 WestMain Street, Troy, OH,45373.Robert leaves numerous
family and friends behindand as he always said, “Astranger isa friendI’venevermet.”Friends may express con-
dolences to the familythrough www.bairdfuneral-home.com.
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GREENVILLE — Betty J. Gordon, 88, of Greenville,formerly of West Milton, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 3,2013,atHeartlandofGreenville.Arrangementsarependingat theHale-SarverFamilyFuneralHome,WestMilton.
UNION—JerryTurner,ofUnion,passedawayonSat-urday,Feb.2,2013,athis residence.Arrangementsarepend-ing at the Hale-Sarver Family Funeral Home, WestMilton.
SIDNEY — Douglas W. “Yahoo” Elsner, 59, of 405Fifth Ave., passed away Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at his resi-dence.In following family wishes, Douglas’ body will be cre-
mated. AMemorial Service celebrating his life will be heldat a later date at the convenience of the family. Arrange-ments are in the care ofCromes Funeral Home & Cre-matory, 302S.MainAve.Condolencesmaybeexpressed tothe Elsner family at ourwebsite:www.cromesfh.com
MARYSVILLE— JoyceD.Money, 85, of 840 Catalpa,Marysville,and formerlyofSidney,passedawayFriday,Feb.1, 2013, at 1:15 p.m., at the Ohio State University MedicalCenter.Private family services will be held onTuesday from the
Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave., with the Rev.Jackie Burns officiating. Burial will follow at GracelandCemetery.Therewill benopublicvisitationprior to theserv-ice.The family suggest thatmemorialsmay bemade to theShelbyCountyHumaneSociety inmemory of JoyceMoney.Guestbookcondolencesandexpressionsof sympathymay
be made to the Money family at Cromes Funeral Home’swebsite,www.cromesfh.com.
SIDNEY — Gloria Jean “Effie” Johnson, 51, of 410SycamoreSt.,passedawayat4:15a.m.,Friday,Feb.1,2013,at SidneyCare Center,where she had resided a short time.FuneralServiceswill beheldWednesdayatCromesFu-
neralHome,302S.MainAve.,with theRev.ErnestWilsonofficiating.Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery in Sidney.Condolencesmaybe expressed to theJohnson family at ourwebsite,www.cromesfh.com.
MESA,Ariz.—ThomasR.Evans,77,formerlyofPiqua,diedat7:03a.m.,Sunday,Feb.3,2013, inMesa,Ariz.His fu-neral arrangements are pending through theJamieson&Yannucci FuneralHome.
Tree committee meeting canceledPIQUA—Thisnotice is to informthepublic that theTree
Committeemeeting has been canceled forThursday,Feb.7,due to the lack of agenda.Thenext regularly scheduledmeetingwill beat6:30p.m.
Thursday,March 7.
Southview Assoc. meeting slatedPIQUA — The Southview Neighborhood Association
would like to co-sponsoracommunityEasterEggHunt tobeheld in theupcomingEaster season.Thehunt is tentativelyset be held at the Mote Park Community Center on thelawn.Southview is seekingapartner tohelpplanand carryout this event. Persons or groups interested in this projectshould contact Jim Vetter, president of Southview Neigh-borhoodAssociation at 778-1696.
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Gun classesofferedPIQUA — First Steps
firearm instruction, re-sponsibility and safetytraining is the NationalRifle Association’s re-sponse to the Americanpublic’s need for a firearmorientation program fornew firearm purchasers.New firearm owners areencouraged to take the‘first step’ of obtainingtraining, and the NRAFirst Steps program is de-signed to provide a hands-on introduction to the safehandling and proper ori-entation of one specificfirearm model. Classeswill be held at the PiquaFish and Game, located at9344 N. Spiker Road,
Piqua. Dates for theseclasses are March 16,April 27, June 15, July 27,Sept. 21 and Oct. 19. Classwill be conducted by NRAcertified instructors. If in-terested, contact EdDanielewicz at (937) 446-6362 or Chuck Walker at(937) 418-7814 for addi-tional information.
Democraticwomen to meetTROY — The Miami
County DemocraticWomen will meet at 7 p.m.Monday, Feb. 11, at theTroy Hayner CulturalCenter, 301 W. Main St.,Troy. The speaker will beLoren Blauvelt fromPlanned Parenthood inMontgomery County. All
Miami County Demo-cratic Women are invitedto attend this meeting andbring a friend.
Hayner Centeroffers coloredpencil portraitsclassesTROY — Marla Fair is
back teaching at theHayner Center. Join thefour-week Colored PencilPortraits classes being of-fered at the Troy-HaynerCultural Center, 301 W.Main St., on Feb. 6 and/orMarch 6, from 1:30-3:30p.m. or 6:30-8:30 p.m.There are two class timeseach day for you to choosefrom. The first class youwill learn colored pencil
techniques and turn abeloved photo into a price-less portrait whether youcan draw or not! Bring 2-4clear photos to the firstclass to choose from. Thesecond class you will learncolored pencil techniqueswhile creating a portraitof your pet whether youcan draw or not. Bring 2-4clear photos to the firstclass to choose from. .The Troy-Hayner Cul-
tural Center offers a widevariety of classes in artand other subjects forboth children and adultsyear round. Contact thecenter for more informa-tion on registration andclass fees, at 339-0457.You can also sign up forclasses on the Haynerwebsite www.troy-hayner.org.
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RememberingScottFamily and friends of
Scott Edgell Jr., 28, wholost his life in a tragicgarage fire Saturdaynight said the world willmiss a genuinely goodguy.Edgell’s aunt, Betty
Brownlee of Piqua, saidthe 2003 Piqua HighSchool graduate, who
played football for thePiqua Indians, was ahelpful person that woulddrop anything to be therefor friends and familywhen they needed him.Edgell, who attended
Otterbein University,spent Christmas Evewith Brownlee and herfamily — which was thelast time she saw him inperson.“This is a nightmare,”
Brownlee said, throughher tears. “He was like
one of my kids.”Brownlee said former
fraternity brothers andfriends are reaching outto honor Edgell, who hadresided in Columbus forthe last several years.She said he also was ahuge movie buff that al-ways was on top when itcame to movie trivia andremembering lines.“Everyone is just say-
ing what a great guy hewas. So helpful to others,”Brownlee said.
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She enrolled in KentState University andearned a bachelor’s de-gree in education in 1971.“I chose KSU because itwas close, but not tooclose,” she said. Later in2005, she received a mas-ter’s degree in educationfrom Marygrove College.She is a certified giftededucation teacher.When Dickinson grad-
uated from Kent, she wasrecruited to teach inPiqua and taught atSouth Street School for21 years. A job transferfor her husband movedthe family to Texas whereBecky taught a 3rd gradegifted class which re-quired her to take extracoursework. “After sevenyears, my husband wastransferred back to Ohio,and I was hired again byPiqua City Schools toteach at Favorite Hill,”she said. Dickinson has
been in third grade at Fa-vorite Hill the last 14years. “I like the third-graders because they aredeveloping a blossomingindependence,” she said.“But, they still have aninnocence about them.”She credits Betty
Straker, her mentoringteacher at South Street,with helping her in theearly years. “Betty tookme under her wing,” Dick-inson said. “She showedme how to be a successfulteacher.” Dickinson saidshe has been lucky tohave always worked withdedicated teachers. “Thethird grade team at Fa-vorite Hill is great,” shesaid. “We collaborateclosely for the benefit ofthe students.”Dickinson has seen
many changes, both posi-tive and negative, in edu-cation. “New technology iscreating a whole new ap-proach to teaching,” she
said. “No more chalk-boards or overhead pro-jectors. SmartBoards,Elmos, laptops, and iPadshave advanced learningto a new level.”While technology is a
positive, the currenttheme of doing more withless can be a negative.“There are more demandson teachers today,” shesaid. “More testing, morepaperwork, and moremeetings have made theprofession more stressfuland less fun.” Less fund-ing has lead to fewer re-sources being available toenrich or intervene withall levels of students. “Wehave to meet more andmore state and nationalstandards, but we haveless money for resourcesto do so.”In her classroom, a proj-
ect that really grabs theattention of Dickinson’sthird-graders is a waxmuseum. Students re-
search a famous person,write a report, dress likethat person, and presentthemselves and a short bi-ography to other studentsand staff at Favorite Hill.At home, Dickinson en-
joys reading, walking,working jigsaw puzzles,and traveling anywhere.She and her husbandScott have been married33 years. They have twosons. Ryan is married andis a software engineer inWashington, D.C. Alan ismarried and a senior in-teraction designer in NewYork City.Dickinson said she is
looking forward to retire-ment, but she will missthe students and seeingher colleagues on a dailybasis. “Teaching has beena big part of my life. I havemade many valued friend-ships over the years,” shesaid.
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revenue for the next twoyears.According to previous
discussion related to theamendment, residents willsee a 50-cent increase for2013 and a 25-cent in-crease for 2014 that willamount to an overall in-crease by the latter year of$9. Before giving a thirdand final reading to an or-dinance in regards to va-cating a portion of publicright-of-way and returningto a formerly tabled mid-December resolution per-taining to a contract for thedesign, installation, andmaintenance of a fiberoptic network.New business will begin
with a first reading on an
ordinance to amend por-tions of the municipal codeestablishing meeting re-quirements, with eight fol-lowing resolutions to bediscussed: Award a con-tract for the purchase oftransformers for the PowerSystem. Authorize a con-tract with CDM-Smith fora high rate treatment sys-tem pilot study at thewastewater treatmentplant, while contractingwith Kruger Inc. for a pilotunit and operator. An ap-plication with the Ohio De-partment of NaturalResources (ODNR) for fi-nancial assistance withrestoration related to por-tions of the Great MiamiRiver Recreational Trail.Enter into an agreementwith the Ohio Department
of Transportation (ODOT)for the Safe Routes toSchool (SRTS) project.Contract to Demmy Sand& Gravel LLC for thewater main extension proj-ect on U.S. Rte. 36. Author-izing a purchase order toPiqua Materials Inc., forthe supply of stone andcold patch for the 2013Street and Alley Mainte-nance program. A projectthat will include a resolu-tion to contract with Bar-rett Paving Materials Inc.and Valley Asphalt Corp. Commission meetings
are held every first andthird Tuesday of the monthat 7:30 p.m. at the commis-sion chamber on the sec-ond floor of theGovernment MunicipalComplex. For those seekinga more informal opportu-nity to speak with theircity leaders, a commissionwork session is being of-fered once a month in thecommission chambersstarting at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited and
encouraged to attend withmeeting agendas availableonline at www.piquaoh.org.
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The Republican Na-tional Committeechose to hold its re-
cent winter meeting inCharlotte because NorthCarolina was a rare brightspot in last year’s presiden-tial election. Although itwas the high-profile site ofthe Democratic NationalConvention, North Carolinabecame one of just twostates won by BarackObama in 2008 that went for Mitt Rom-ney in 2012. (The other was Indiana.) Sobeing in North Carolina made Republi-cans feel a little better.But not much.The 168members of the
RNC grappled with the consequences oflosing the presidential race, losing theSenate and losing seats in the House.Everybody knew something was wrongwith the party. To fix things, some em-phasized outreach to Hispanics. Someemphasized modernized voter turnoutefforts. Some emphasized the search forbetter candidates. No one pushed justone solution; most saw the answer as amix of those and other ideas.But they might also start by asking
themselves the most basic of questions:Other factors aside, did Republicans in2012 address the concerns of the over-whelming majority of Americans whocite the economy and jobs as the nation’smost pressing issue?The answer, mostly, is no. But some
Republicans did. At the RNC’s openingnight event, at the NASCAR Hall ofFame, members heard from one of thoseRepublicans, new North Carolina Gov.Pat McCrory.McCrory first ran for the state’s top of-
fice in 2008. He lost to Democrat BevPerdue in what became a brutal lessonin the overwhelming power of theObama wave. “In ‘08, I got killed by theObama ground machine,” McCrory re-calls. “We didn’t even know it was hap-pening. The amount of money Obamaput on the ground was something we’venever seen before in North Carolina.”Defeated,McCrory reassessed and de-
cided to run again in 2012. But he knewhe had to run a smarter race the secondtime around. He started earlier. Hethought through his positions and theway he articulated them. He built rela-tionships with more people across thestate. He worked harder.The new and improved McCrory
stressed jobs, the economy and educa-tion. He highlighted — and did not runfrom — his 14 years of experience asmayor of Charlotte, even though thatbig-city resume was not a plus withmany rural voters. He took advantage ofPerdue’s disastrously bad performanceas governor. And on Election Day, Mc-Crory defeated Democratic rival Walter
Dalton by nearly 12 points.In addition to winning a
big majority of whites, exitpolls show McCrory won 13percent of blacks— nothingto jump up and down about,but a pretty good showingfor today’s GOP. He alsowon a solid 46 percent ofHispanics. And among allgroups, he won big amongthe majority of North Car-olinians who cited jobs and
the economy as the state’s most pressingissues.McCrory also refused to be drawn into
the squabbles that doomed some Repub-licans around the country, like contro-versies over off-the-wall statementsabout rape. And on another hot-buttonissue, when a panelist in a gubernatorialdebate cited a recently passed bill tolimit abortions and asked McCrory, “Ifyou’re elected governor, what further re-strictions on abortion would you agree tosign?” McCrory’s answer was, in its en-tirety: “None.”His bluntness and brevity temporarily
stunned the moderators and audience,not to mention his opponent. But it wasa sign McCrory intended to stay on mes-sage, and the message was focused onthe pervasive economic insecurity felt byso many North Carolinians.Now he has to produce. North Car-
olina has a dismal 9.2 percent unem-ployment rate — fifth-worst in thenation. “People are hurting right now,”McCrory says. “I’m seeing it. You go tosome small towns, they are shut down.They’re just boarded up. It’s tragic.”In his economic plan, McCrory is em-
phasizing energy exploration, includingoffshore drilling. He’s pushing regula-tory changes. And he wants to reformthe state’s antiquated tax code, to stresstaxes on consumption more than in-come.He’s also enthusiastic about trans-
portation infrastructure. “Not enoughRepublicans talk about Eisenhower,”Mc-Crory says, citing that Republican presi-dent’s highway-building program. ToMcCrory, it’s an example of infrastruc-ture spending that’s most valuable notfor the jobs created during construction,but for the private-sector economicgrowth it made possible.Finally, as for the Hispanic outreach
effort currently dominating discussionsat the RNC, McCrory is all for it. But hereminds: “They want to hear about jobsand the economy, too.”In coming months, Republicans will
talk a lot about how to appeal to a widerrange of voters. They could learn fromsomeone who’s actually doing the job.
Byron York is chief political correspon-dent for TheWashington Examiner.
In some GOP circles,reform under way
Commentary
BYRON YORKColumnist
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peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Where to WritePublic officials can be contacted throughthe following addresses and telephonenumbers:� Lucy Fess, mayor, 5thWard Commis-sioner, [email protected], 615-9251 (work), 773-7929 (home)
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�Miami County Commissioners: John“Bud”O’Brien, Jack Evans and RichardCultice, 201W.Main St., Troy, OH 45373440-5910; [email protected]
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Editorial roundup
Excerpts of recent editori-als of interest from Ohionewspapers:The Columbus DispatchNo one disputes that the
nation’s ongoing recoveryfrom the recession thatbegan in late 2007 is themost sluggish since theGreatDepression.The ques-tion of what’s causing thesluggishness and whatshould be done about it,though, highlights a deepideological divide amongAmericans and their lead-ers.Richard Vedder, professor
emeritus of economics atOhio University, makes acompelling argument thatthe anemic growth of theU.S. economy in recent yearsis a result of, instead of a jus-tification for, expanded gov-ernment aid in the form offood stamps, extended un-employment benefits andSocial Security disabilitypayments.Writing in the The Wall
Street Journal recently,Ved-der said that this type ofgovernment support hasmade it more attractive notto work, which has led to adrop in the percentage ofAmericans in the work forceand an attendant decline ineconomic output….A number of other econo-
mists, including ones whohave gone on to work forPresident Barack Obama,have noted a link betweenunemployment benefits anda disincentive to work….Meanwhile,Congress just
renewed the “emergency”unemployment benefits ex-tension for another year aspart of theNewYear’s “fiscalcliff” deal, and governmentpolicies in recent years seemaimed specifically at ex-panding, not paring, pro-grams such as food stamps.Government has no
magic powers to instantlyheal the economy. But poli-cies that create disincentivestowork and therefore inhibitgrowth can have the oppo-site effect.
___Warren Chronicle TribuneOhioans who believe they
can rely on criminal back-ground checks towarn themagainst hiring dangerousemployeesmay be wrong. Infact, the state Bureau ofCriminal Investigation is, ineffect, lying about some ex-convicts’ records becausestate law requires it.A complex bill the Gen-
eral Assembly enacted lastsummer is to blame. Some-times referred to as SenateBill 337, the measure dealswith a wide variety of crimi-nal law issues. Part of it isintended to ensure that for-mer criminals who havepaid their debts to societyare able to get jobs once theyleave prison.But state officials have in-
terpreted part of the law in-volving sealing of criminalrecords to mean that whenemployers do backgroundchecks on potential newhires, they are not to be toldthe whole truth in somecases.That has Attorney Gen-
eral Mike DeWine con-cerned.Hehas discovered 24situations inwhich potentialharm could have resultedfrom less-than-candid re-sponses by the BCI to back-ground check requests.
BY KANTELE FRANKO
COLUMBUS (AP) — Republican Josh Mandel isn’tready to write off his political future after his unsuc-cessful challenge to U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown last fall inone of the most bitter, closely-watched and expensiveelections in the country.Mandel confirmed this week that he plans to seek re-
election as Ohio treasurer next year.“Obviously it’s impossible to predict the future, but
you know, I think the best course forward for me is justdo a good job as state treasurer, which I believe we havebeen doing and I’ll continue to do,” Mandel said Thurs-day during a legislative preview session for journalistsorganized by The Associated Press.Asked to reflect on the rancorous campaign and its
potentially damaging effect on his political ambitions,Mandel rattled off a few Ohio politicians who he saidbounced back after their “political obituaries” were writ-ten. He noted that George Voinovich had a double-digitloss in a 1988 Senate race before becoming governor andlater U.S. senator, and that current Ohio Attorney Gen-eral Mike DeWine lost a 1992 challenge to then-Sen.John Glenn but won a Senate seat two years later.DeWine lost the seat to Brown, a Democrat, in 2006.Mandel said he’s glad voters will decide whether he’s
re-elected treasurer, not politicians like the state partyleaders.Shortly after November’s election was decided, Ohio
Democratic Party chairman Chris Redfern suggestedthat the 35-year-old would be remembered as the can-didate who chose to accept $40 million in special inter-est money and “wallow in the mud.”“He’s six months away from appearing on Fox News
as a regular analyst,” Redfern said at the time. “He willjoin the likes of Ken Blackwell and others who will slipaway into the past. And we’ll recognize him from timeto time as that fellow who followed Sarah Palin.”Mandel vowed in his concession speech to continue
promoting government accountability, lower taxes andfiscal responsibility.“I feel comfortable putting it in the hands of the vot-
ers,” he said Thursday of re-election.Mandel credited Brown with running “a very effective
campaign” and said he blames himself, not his staff orconsultants, for falling short in the race.Mandel said theelection taught him that he and other Republicans mustdo a better job communicating with black voters andthat he must be more accessible to media informing thepublic.Mandel went nearly two years as treasurer without a
news conference regarding the business of his office, andduring that time was criticized for ignoring his officialduties to attend far-flung fundraisers and campaignevents.More than half the money spent in the Senate race
came from outside groups, including the U.S. Chamber ofCommerce and Republican strategist Karl Rove’s Amer-ican Crossroads organization. The onslaught of mostlynegative ads against Brown is thought to have damagedMandel in the eyes of Ohio voters who favored Brown bya 6 percent margin.Secretary of State Jon Husted, who was speaker of the
Ohio House when Mandel was a fledgling state repre-sentative, sat next to Mandel during this week’s panel.He chimed in with support.“If I were the Democrats, and Josh was out there, I’d
want to write his obituary, too, but a guy that … did aswell as he did, who’s in his mid-30s, he’s got a very brightfuture,” Husted said.
Kantele Franko covers politics for TheAssociated Press.
Guest ColumnMandel hopefulfor his politicalfuture in Ohio
Moderately Confused
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DEAR ABBY: We’re amilitary family and havemoved often since my hus-band and I married. In thepast, relocatingwas alwayseasy because our two sonswere younger, but we havelived in the same commu-nity for more than fiveyears now. Our older son is14 and a freshman in highschool.My husband has reached
a point in his career wherehe can either retire fromthe military or re-enlist tofinish out his 30 years. Ei-ther way, it will probablyrequire another move. Our11-year-old son is a freespirit who seems to adjustwherever we are.The prob-lem is, our teenager is beg-ging us not to movebecause of the friends hehas in school.I’m torn. I understand
my son’s reasons, and peo-ple who had to move asteens agree it’s difficultwhen they’re in highschool. We live in a verysmall town, and I’m surethe move will take us to alarger area. I know my sonwill see he’ll have more todo andwill make a lotmorefriends. But he doesn’twant to leave and is becom-ing very emotional about it.My husband is willing to
leave without us, get set-tled and let our son finishhigh school here. I don’twant to separate the family.Can you help us?
— NOT “AT EASE” INGEORGIA
DEAR NOT AT EASE:Do not separate your fam-ily. If this were your son’slast year of high school, Imight feel differently.How-ever, there is still plenty oftime for him to make newfriends at a new highschool. Because he doesn’twant to lose his old ones, hecan stay in touch withthem electronically. Whatyour son is experiencing isone of the realities of mili-tary life, and it may teachhim to become more adeptat social relationships. Sothink positive and do notlet his fear of change holdyou back.
DEAR ABBY: I have apet peeve and it’s an aggra-vation I encounter fre-quently. For some reason,people do not understandhours of business. Our
hours are always clearlyposted, so PLEASE don’tknock on the door beforethe business is open.My personal irritant has
to do with closing time.When the sign says weclose at 9 p.m., it means thedoors lock at that time. Itdoes NOTmean that if youcan slide in the door 30 sec-onds before closing that wemust stay and serve yourneeds for however long youare present. If you can’tcomplete your business ator before closing time, thencome back tomorrow or finda business that stays openlater.There are still a lot ofduties to be finished afterthe last customer leavesand before we can go home.
— HAD A LONGDAY, RICHLAND,
WASH.
DEAR HAD A LONGDAY:Not only was it a longday, it appears to have beena bad one. If it wasn’t, youwouldn’t have forgottenthat the most importantthing in running a businessis customer service. Thissometimes canmean bend-ing the rules.If you find this too diffi-
cult, you can always refuseto open your door early and“remind” anyone who en-ters just before closing thatyou lock your doorpromptly at the postedhour for the reason youstated. Individuals whowant more personalizedservice are, indeed, free toshop at stores with moreflexible hours. (And theywill.)
Dear Abby is written byAbigail Van Buren, alsoknown as Jeanne Phillips,and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips.Write Dear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com or P.O.Box 69440, LosAngeles, CA90069.
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Hazen was East, andSouth reached six spadeson the bidding shown.West led a diamond, andhere is Hazen’s account ofwhat happened after that,as related by him inBridge World magazine:“I was of course disap-
pointed when declarerruffed the opening lead.South then went into along trance and finallyemerged from it by cash-ing the ace of hearts andleading the ten of spadesnext.“My partner discarded
a heart, and I reacted likethe typical young lawyer Iwas. The first thing you
learn in law school is to besuspicious. You spend sev-eral hours a day beingsuspicious of people, ofthings and of ideas. Ifyou’re really good at it,you eventually developthe ability to be just ab-stractly suspicious.“I found it easy to be
suspicious at this particu-lar moment. What was de-clarer trying to do to me? Ididn’t bother to work itout. I just knew that if de-clarer wanted me to takethe ten of spades, it could-n’t be good for me tooblige him. So I played thethree and stared at de-clarer with a cold legal
eye.“South went into a new
trance and then led the A-K of clubs. By now I wascarried away by the spiritof the thing. I had refusedone trump trick, and no-body was going to bullyme into taking another.“So I discarded a heart
instead of ruffing. Southstruggled quietly for awhile but eventually wentdown one.”Of course, Hazen had
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SIDNEY — LehmanCatholic High School’sMusic Department ChairElaine Schweller-Snyderhas announced the cast forthis year’s all-school musicalGuys and Dolls. The produc-tion, which will mark the35th annual all-school mu-sical at the school, will bepresented April 11, 12, and13, 2013 at the school.Set in Damon Runyon’s
mythical New York City,Guys and Dolls is consid-ered by many Broadway en-thusiasts to be one of theGreat White Way’s best ro-mantic comedies. With afast-paced book by Jo Swer-ling and Abe Burrows andmusic by Frank Loesser,Guys and Dolls is the storyof a gambler (Sky Master-son) who woos a SalvationMission girl (Sarah Brown)to win a bet and ends up in
love.The story features a par-
allel plot that includes anightclub performer (MissAdelaide) and her devotedfiancé of 14 years (NathanDetroit). Nathan Detroitmakes the bet with Sky tobankroll his floating crapgame.The show features many
songs that have becomeBroadway classics. Thosetunes include “Luck Be aLady Tonight,” “Sit Down,You’re Rocking the Boat,”“Adelaide’s Lament,” “Marrythe Man Today,” “My Timeof Day,” “Fugue for Tin-horns,” and the title tune.Cast in the role of Sky
Masterson is senior DannyDavis, son of Greg and BethLarger of Sidney. SarahBrown is senior MillieWildenhaus, daughter ofDonna Wildenhaus and
John Wildenhaus of Piqua.The role of Nathan Detroitwill be played by juniorJohn Schmiesing, son ofKevin and Anne Schmiesingof Sidney. Miss Adelaide willbe played by junior KatieHeckman, daughter of Boband Jennifer Heckman ofPiqua.The trio of Nicely-Nicely
Johnson, Benny South-street, and Rusty Charliewill be played by JakeWatkins, Gabe Berning, andKristopher Lee respectively.Other gamblers includeDylan Sherman as Harrythe Horse, Nick Neumeieras Big Jule, Riley Pickrel asAngie the Ox, Erik Jacksonas Liver Lips Louie, MitchBosse as Society Max, Quin-ton Malone as MemphisMike, and Michael Reinhartas Scranton Slim.The Mission Chorus will
include Patrick Blenman asArvide Abernathy,MaKenna Cabe as Agatha,Nate Bosway as Calvin, andMicayla Hanover asMartha. The Mission Bandincludes Janelle Gravunder,Katie Karr, Emily Reinhart,Teddy Jackson, and LaurenVanderhorst.Other speaking roles in-
clude Sarah Cabe as Gen-eral Matilda Cartwright,Louis Gaier as Lt. Branni-gan, Allen Armstrong asJoey Biltmore, and JaredSeger as the waiter.The Hot Box Girls are
Samantha Neumeier, Clau-dia Fatone, Grace Jackson,Meghan Safreed, MarlaSchroeder, Olivia Sehlhorst,Elaina Snyder, and ToriTullis.The Cuban Dancers are
Grace Jackson, SamanthaNeumeier, Meghan Safreed,Olivia Sehlhorst, MitchBosse, Kristopher Lee, NickNeumeier, and Dylan Sher-man.General chorus members
include Samantha Comer,Diana Gibson, Kaitlin Gill-man, Sloane Glover, Caro-line Heitmeyer, EmilyHoersten, Kassie Lee,Emma Simpson, Allie Sow-ers, and Abbie Vogann.Directing this year’s mu-
sical is Barb Saluke. Salukeis Lehman’s English De-partment Chair and seniorguidance counselor.The producer is
Schweller-Snyder. She willalso direct the orchestra.Jenny Weber also will
have dual roles behind thescenes. She will serve as thevocal coach and pianist forthis year’s show.Choreographers for the
chorus numbers are 2008Lehman graduate LibbyGalbreath and 2006 gradu-ate Chad Hewitt. Englishteacher Liz Maxson willchoreograph the solos andduets.Darla Cabe is again in
charge of the costumes andparent committees. DelCabe, Bradly Gravunderand Rich Watkins are thedesign staff. A host of par-ents and students will be in-volved behind the scenes.Rehearsals for the pro-
duction have already begun.Ticket information as wellas advanced ticket sales willbe available prior to theshow dates.
PROVIDED PHOTOMillie Wildenhaus of Piqua and Dan Davis of Sidney rehearse one of the numbersfor Lehman Catholic’s upcoming production of Guys and Dolls.
Lehman Catholic topresent ‘Guys and Dolls’
Little theater set for big renovation in spring DAYTON (AP) — A
small-town, single-screenmovie theater in southwest-ern Ohio is about to meetthe 21st century.The scrappy but cher-
ished Little Art Theatre inYellow Springs is set to un-dergo a $475,000 renovationthis spring.The Dayton Daily News
reports that the theater willbe equipped with the digitalprojection and sound needto show movies once 35 mil-limeter film is phased out.The theater also will getnew seats, a new screen andan increased floor incline forimproved sightlines.No date has been set for
when work will begin and orhow long it will last but the-ater managers hope it willonly be closed for twomonths.The update is a long time
coming for the theater,which has been virtuallyunchanged since it openedin 1929.In 1987, a concession
stand was installed and newseats were swapped in, butthe seats were 12 years old.“As long as I’ve been asso-
ciated with it, it’s never beenstate of the art, which ispart of the charm,” saidJenny Cowperthwaite,who’s managed the theatersince 1978.
Cowperthwaite boughtthe theater in 1998 andturned it into a nonprofit in2009, a move that forced herto give up ownership butthat likely saved the theaterfrom going under.“I could see I wouldn’t be
able to maintain it muchlonger with my own blood,sweat and tears,” she said. “Ineeded help,” she said. “Wejust limped along.”Three years after she
made that move, she saidshe has no regrets and at-tendance even went up.But in 2011, Cowperth-
waite got a letter from lead-ing distributor ofindependent films, Fox
Searchlight Pictures, tellingher that it no longer woulddistribute 35mm films by2013.“I felt this knot in my
stomach,” she said.So last August, the Little
Art board launched a capi-tal campaign and withinfour months, met its goal ofraising $475,000 to go digi-tal and to fix all the otherproblems in the theater, too.Cowperthwaite credits a
$250,000 gift from the Mor-gan Family Foundation inYellow Springs and a$30,000 gift from the YellowSprings Community Foun-dation with the campaign’ssuccess.
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TROY — The Troy CitySchools kicked off the schoolyear with a generous dona-tion and a new vice-presi-dent.The board nominated to
re-electDougTrostleaspres-ident for another year andtapped Stephen Lucas asvice-president. As part of itscommitment to the Troycommunity, ConAgra do-nated $20,000 to Troy CitySchools.SuperintendentEricHerman thanked ConAgraplant manager Scott Adkinsfor their support of theschools and bringing morejobs to the city ofTroy.Music department head
and band director KathyMcIntosh and support staffpresentedavideoonthehighschool band’s recent visit toChicago during the Thanks-giving Parade where theyperformed in frontof400,000paradegoersandatelevisionaudience of 3.5million.McIntosh also presented
information on the band’sLondon trip to perform onthe New Year’s parade in2013 through Jan. 4, 2014.McIntosh said she expects atleast 85 bandmembers to goon the international trip outof 155 marching band stu-dents.McIntosh said the boost-
erswill besellingdonutsout-side the Strawberry Festivalto help defer costs of the tripwhich is expected to cost$1,000 per student. Directorof curriculumMichaelMoore
updated the board on theRace to theTop goals.Mooresaid a pilot teacher’s evalua-tion will soon be ready forspring evaluations. Mooresaid he believes a state ap-proved “Waiver Day” forteacherswould be “timewellspent”next fall to go over thequestionsandconcernsof themandated teacher evalua-tion process.Moore said Ohio has
joined Massachusetts insharing software called“ThinkGate”to trackdata ofeach student to “showwherethey’ve been andwhere theyneed to go.”Hermansaid thedistrict chose to use DataMap software which is simi-lar toThinkGate.Herman said it took the
states approximately threeyears to choose a softwaresystem, and the reason thedistrict chose its own soft-ware.Moore said overall teach-
ersandstaff on theRttTcom-mittee has been positive.Herman also recognized theboard as a whole andthanked them for their serv-ice during“School BoardAp-preciationmonth.”All regularboardofeduca-
tionmeetingswill be held onthe second Monday of themonthbeginningat5:30p.m.at the board office located at500N.Market St.The board adjourned in to
executive session to discussthe use of property the dis-trict owns.The next board ofeducation meeting will beheld Feb. 11.For more information,
visit www.troy.k12.oh.us.
HOUSTON — TheHardin-Houston SchoolDistrict conducted its2012-13 spelling bee re-cently in the school auxil-iary gym.The winner was sixth-
grader Olivia Bowser,.The contest consisted of
45 students in fourth toeighth grades. Brent Newserved as the pronouncer,and teachers serving asjudges were ConnieWalker, Julie Kies, CarrieLarger and Kim Vestal.The first runner-up was
Hannah Hollinger, a fifth-grader and daughter ofChad and Beth Hollinger.The second runner-up wasfourth-grader MacyDuhaime. The third run-ner-up went to Houstonseventh-grader LaurenBrubaker.Bowser, Hollinger and
Duhaime will move on tothe County Spelling Bee,which will be held Feb. 11at 7 p.m. at Botkins LocalSchool junior high gym.
TROY — It’s no wonderLois Wright is an inspira-tion to the other membersof the Troy Curves.She shows up at the fit-
ness facility six days aweek, rarely taking a dayoff. She completes theworkout circuit twice, andis even known to drop tothe floor to do a fewpushups.Oh, and by the way, the
Troy resident is 94 yearsold.“She does the circuit
twice like every othermember, at her own pace,”said Troy Curves ownerJennifer Perrault. “I thinkthe amazing thing is, theinspiration is, she stillcomes in six days a weekwith no excuses. She couldhave more excuses thananybody else.”“I get things moving,”
Wright said of her daily
workout. “If I don’t comein, it’s a bad day. It juststarts my day, and I usu-ally get a good laugh here.It’s just a good way tostart your day.“I had an aunt who
used to take a shot ofwhiskey in the morning toloosen up her bones. I justcome here,” said Wright,who worked in the MiamiCounty Auditor’s Officefor 25 years, before retir-ing as chief deputy in1984.“She comes six days a
week to Curves, Mondaythrough Saturday,” Per-rault said. “We’re closedon Sunday, or otherwiseshe’d probably come onSunday.”“I go to church on Sun-
day,” saidWright, who is alifetime member of St.John’s United Church ofChrist in Troy. She alsovolunteers at the freelunch program atRichards Chapel in Troy.She has been a member
of Curves since the Troylocation, 2309W.Main St.,opened 10 years ago.Wright said she was look-ing for activities to fill herdays, because her hus-band, James, had died a
couple of years earlier.“We were quite the
travelers. We traveled theworld,”Wright said. “We’dbeen to every continentbut Antartica.“He loved to take
cruises because we’ddance from 2 o’clock in theafternoon until 2 o’clockin the morning,” she saidof her husband. “We had agood time.”Wright is still a fre-
quent traveler. Her threedaughters, Carol, Robinand Nancy, are scatteredabout the country, in Ari-zona, Oregon and Findlay.She is planning a trip toOregon this summer, andis going on a CincinnatiReds bus tour to Pitts-burgh with a friend inMay. The grandmother ofsix grandchildren andfour great-grandchildrenis considering taking thegrandkids on a Redscruise in November.“I’ve been on 27
Caribbean cruises,” saidWright, who concedesthat at her age, she likeshaving someone travelwith her. “Any more Idon’t see that well, and Idon’t hear that well, and Idon’t walk that well,” she
said with a laugh.She may be stretching
the truth a bit. Perraultnoted that Wright stillmaintains her Westbrookresidence, does yard workand all of her own cook-ing, and is sure the exer-cise Wright gets each dayplays a big part in hercontinued good health.“If she quit on exercise,
I think it would be a dif-ferent life for her,” Per-rault said.“I don’t feel old. I don’t
know how I’m supposed tofeel. I feel fine,” saidWright, who said she usedto walk three miles a dayfor exercise.“A lot of members do
talk about Lois and howshe does inspire othermembers in here, whetherit’s when she’s doing herpushups or whether it’sher consistency,” Perraultsaid. “When it’s cold out-side, or it’s hot outside,she always comes in. I al-ways ask her, ‘Where doyou get it from?’ She said,‘You just stop making ex-cuses.’”“You have to push your-
self a little bit,” Wrightsaid. “Just enjoy your life.I enjoy my life.”
Troy resident Lois Wright gets in a workout at the Troy Curves one recent morning. Wright said she visitsthe gym six days a week.
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At 94, Troy woman inspiresothers with her workoutsLois Wrightat the gym6 days a week
MIAMI COUNTY —Recent research publishedin the New England Jour-nal of Medicine high-lighted just how startlingthe decline in life ex-pectancy is for smokerscompared to nonsmokers,while showing thatwomen have “caught up”to men on lung-cancerrisks.The two-part study
tracing smoking trendsover 50 years showed that
smoking cuts off an aver-age of 10 years from a per-son’s life. Male smokersfound their odds of livingto 80 reduced from 61 per-cent to 26 percent, whilewomen saw their chanceshrink from 70 to 38 per-cent.Sarah Jones, oncology
nurse specialist at theUVMC Cancer Care Cen-ter in Troy, said the find-ings are not surprising,given that the disease isoften already in its ad-vanced stages when diag-nosed.“We don’t have good re-
liable screening mecha-nisms, so it’s difficult toidentify it early,” Jonessaid. “Occasionally doctorswill discover it as an inci-
dental finding in earlystages on x-rays or scansthat are ordered for otherpurposes.”Patients may also con-
fuse the symptoms of lungcancer as usual side ef-fects of smoking.“While patients with
lung cancer do often showsymptoms of cough andshortness of breath withactivity, these signs arevague and easily over-looked, as they are symp-toms of chronic smoking,”Jones explained.With many cases al-
ready in advanced stages,the cancer is more difficultto treat, and the survivalrates are much lower com-pared to other cancers.However, the mortality
rate has been on the de-cline for both sexes, ac-cording to AmericanCancer Society statistics.The death rate for menbegan decreasing in 1991,with women’s rates dip-ping in 2003.“Gender differences in
lung cancer mortality pat-terns reflect historical dif-ferences in the uptake andreduction of cigarettesmoking over the past 50years,” Jones noted.The good news, though,
is quitting can add yearson to former smokers’lives. Dropping the habitby age 40 significantly de-creases or even eliminatesthe risk of smoking-re-lated death, the studyfound.
UVMC nurse:Reliable screeningnot available
NEWPORT —The New-port Sportsmen Club will behosting the 21th annualSpaghetti Dinner to benefitWilson Hospice of WilsonMemorial Hospital Sundayat its home grounds onRange Line Road.Serving time will be from
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.The dinner will include
all-you-can-eat spaghetti,tossedsalad,garlicbreadandbeverage.Again thisyear,pa-tronsmaydine at the club orrequest carryouts.Donationswill againbeaccepted for thedinner, with 100 percentbeing donated to the hospicegroup.The clubwill againbe fea-
turing its homemadespaghetti sauce. Every year100 gallons of sauce is pre-pared to be used for theevent. The members startearly in the morning theSunday before the dinnerpreparing the sauce.Dick Barhorst, club presi-
dent, said, “rom our experi-ence the sauce needs to becooked and then re-cookedthe day of the dinner.Spaghetti sauce is one ofthose items that acquires abetter taste if you can leaveit set and then re-cook it be-fore you serve it.”At last year’s event the
club served about 700 din-ners.Themembersaveragedmore than five servings perminute again last year.Manyattendees visitwith
hospice volunteers, familyand friends.Donations from the event
were more than $8,000 forhospice last year.During the first 20 years
of the benefit, more than$116,000 has been donatedtoWilsonHospice.The folks attending this
dinnerhavebeenverygener-ous in the past 20 years, or-ganizers said. The CountryConcert at Hickory HillLakes isamong largedonors.In 2012 Wilson Hospice
celebrated its25thyearofex-istence.Thehospiceprogramisdesignedtobringqualityoflife and compassionate caretopeople facinga life-limitingillness or injury.Barhorst said, “20 years
ago when we started thisdinner there were very fewfolks who knew or under-stood the benefits of thisgroup.Todaymore andmorefolks are understanding andusing these wonderful serv-ices. The hospice group andits volunteers are there tohelp and support the entirefamily.“Barhorst said the club
sponsorsotheractivitiesdur-ing theyear for profit to fundits hospice event.“Over the last 20 yearswe
have had many membersbenefit fromthisgroupsowefeelwe are just giving back alittle for what our membersand their families have re-ceived.”
Benefit slatedfor Hospice Care
Schools receive $20Kdonation from ConAgra
Bowser winner of spelling bee
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“The rest of theyear took a turn onTuesday when I gotmy new driver. It justchanged my wholedeal."
VANDALIA — Piqua 138-poundfreshman Hunter Bryant smiled whenasked about the improvement he hadmade on the wrestling mat since thestart of the season.“I think if you showed me tapes from
the beginning of the season, I wouldprobably laugh at myself,” Bryant said.
It wasn’t pretty for much ofthe first half.But, the Piqua boys basket-
ball completed a stretch of fivegames in nine days by explod-ing for 28 points in the thirdquarter and cruising to a 71-47win over Belmont Saturdaynight at Garbry Gymnasium.“It was just a matter of doing
the little things,” Piqua coachHeath Butler said. “Like jumpstopping and making goodpasses.”The Indians did that to per-
fection in the third quarter.After scoring just 20 points in
the first half, making five fieldgoals and turning it over 14times, Piqua got untracked in abig way in the third quarter.After Belmont had closed to
25-23, the Indians went on a 19-2 run to blow the game open.
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Lady Tigers getpast Miami EastCovington girls edge NewtonVERSAILLES — In a
matchup of state-ranked D-IIIpowers Saturday afternoon, theMiami East girls opened a 37-29 halftime lead on Versaillesand held on for a 63-52 victory.“We were able to get some
stops on defense in the first halfand force them into somethingthey don’t like to do — press-ing,” Miami East coach PrestonElifritz said. “I am proud of thekids for executing today. Theseare the kind of games we lookforward too. This is the type ofrivalry we need and thrive on.”Angie Mack led Miami East
with 18 points.Abby Cash had 12 points,
seven rebounds and seven as-sists; while Madison Linnadded nine points and four as-sists.Ashley Current had nine
points and five rebounds.Leah Dunivan added eight
points and five rebounds; whileTrina Current had seven pointsand four rebounds.Katie Heckman had 12 points
and five rebounds to lead Ve-
railles.Rachel Kremer scored 10
points and Amanda Winneradded nine.
Lady Buccs winPLEASANT HILL — The
Covington girl basketball teamhad another battle with NewtonSaturday.This time it was the Lady
Buccs who came out on top 29-25.The girls wanted this one,"
said Covington coach GeneGooding. "After playing the waywe played them the last time,the girls really wanted to winthis game."Covington in fact did get the
win 29-25, but it wasn't easy byany means."They're a good team,"
praised Gooding of Newton."They get after it on defenseand make you work hard at theoffensive end."Cassidy Cain led Covington
with nine points.
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Piqua eighthgets big winThe Piqua eighth grade
boys basketball team gotsome huge performancesin a 51-48 win over Mi-amisburg in the GWOCGold Flight tournament.Piqua, 11-5, will play
Fairborn Baker in the quar-terfinals at Trotwood Satur-day.Nathan Monnin had 27
points and 20 rebounds inthe win, while Storm Cookhad 23 points and six re-bounds.Cook made 16 of 18
free throws and was a per-fect 10-for-10 in the fourthquarter.Hunter Hawk (5-foot-6)
and Austin Hecker (5-8)combined to hold Miamis-burg’s 6-4 post player to12 points.Gage Smith had eight
rebounds, while CalebPatton only had oneturnover and both playedgood defense.
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Monnin 20.
Russia moveson in SCLHOUSTON — The Rus-
sia seventh grade boysbasketball team advancedto the SCL semifinals witha 50-33 win over JacksonCenter.Jake Dapore scored 22
points.Brandon Koverman had
12 and Dion Puthoff added11.Russia will play Anna at
6 p.m. Thursday at Hous-ton.Anna defeated Houston
49-24.Bradley Wiggins led
Houston with six points.
Bradford JHgets CCC winThe Bradford eighth
grade girls basketball playat Miami East Tuesday inCCC tournament.The Lady Railroaders
defeated Tri-County North43-14 Saturday.Mandi Bates led Brad-
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Colton Bachman had 11points and an assist toLuke Karn for two moreand Karn added sevenpoints in the quarter.“They were moving in
and out of a zone defense,”Butler said. “You have tohave played a lot of bas-ketball to read somethinglike that and Colton(Bachman) did a great. Ithought the seniors did agreat job of settling usdown and it was just anoverall good team win.”The game had started
with Piqua turning theball over on its first sixpossessions and goingmore minutes, before abasket by Josh Holfingerput them on the board.“They say you can’t win
a game in the first quar-ter,” Butler said. “Andtonight was a great exam-
ple of that.We just neededto quit trying to blockevery shots and stealevery pass.We switched toa zone. I told the guys justto settle down and makesure they boxed out.”With Erik Vonden-
huevel and Karn scoringsix each in the openinghalf, Piqua was in front20-15 at halftime, beforepulling away in the secondhalf.It was a balanced attack
for the Indians, withBachman leading the waywith 16 points and six re-bounds.Karn had 13 points and
six rebounds, Vonden-huevel scored 12 pointsand Holfinger had eightpoints and 12 rebounds.Tate Honeycutt and
Xavier Harrison alsoscored eight points.
Howard Merriweatherdid the bulk of the damagefor the Bison, with 27points and 12 rebounds.Piqua was 23 of 41 from
the floor for 56 percentand 20 of 25 from the linefor 80 percent.Belmont was 21 of 63
from the floor for 33 per-cent and five of nine fromthe line for 56 percent.Piqua won the battle of
the boards 32-30, but had25 turnovers to Belmont’s13.The Indians lost the JV
“That’s how much bet-ter I have gotten. I haveworked hard. My brother(former Piqua state placerKyle Bryant, who wrestlesfor Kent State) cominghome during the breakand helping me, that washuge.”Piqua wrestling coach
Scott Kaye wouldn’t does-n’t deny Bryant’s improve-ment after he led theIndians with a third-placefinish at the GWOCwrestling tournamentover the weekend at theVandalia SAC. Caje Kin-dred (145) and Drew Du-rand (195) both finishedsixth.But he is not surprised
by Bryant’s success either.“He is a kid that sets
high goals for himself,”Kaye said. “That’s whatyou have to do. He stillhas some big goals hewants to accomplish (thisseason). The biggest dif-ference from the begin-ning of year is he waslosing a lot of closematches — now, he is win-ning those matches.”And if Bryant needed
any extra motivation inhis third-place match withJacob Keller of Beaver-creek — the fact thatKeller was seeded thirdand Bryant was seededfourth was plenty.“Actually, it did give me
some motivation,” Bryant
said after his 13-5 win.After a scorelesss first
period, Bryant dominatedthe final two periods,recording six takedownswithout giving up one.“I wrestled a really good
match,” Bryant said. “Ifeel good about that. Espe-cially, after the matchwith (Jordan) Branham inthe semifinals. He’s good,but I didn’t wrestle like Ican in that match. I hope Iget another chance at dis-tricts.”Which is a good possi-
bility, after the top seedand returning state placerrecorded a 12-3 major de-cision, Bryant’s only lossin the tournament.He rebounded by gut-
ting out a 6-2 win overBrad Carroll of Fairmontin the consolation semifi-nal to get to the third-place match.“He was a little tired
after the match withBranham,” Kaye said.“That next match was atough match for him, buthe was able to get past it.”Which led to an impres-
sive win over Keller.“The way Hunter
(Bryant) wrestled thatmatch and came afterhim, the kid was fightingall match to get out ofthings,” Kaye said. “It wasjust a matter of time be-fore his legs began to weardown. Hunter just wres-
tled a really solid match.”Kindred, after losing in
the quarterfinals Friday,began Saturday with a 12-9 win over ArmandEtionne of Vandalia-But-ler.After beating Brandon
Abney of Centerville 9-0,he lost to Joeseph Millerof Wayne 15-0 by tech falland ended up in the fifth-place match against un-seeded Jordan Holbrook ofFairmont.Kindred, the sixth seed,
was leading 4-1 in the sec-ond period before givingup a five-point move.He was trailing 8-6 in
the third period beforegiving up a four-pointmove and eventuallybeing pinned in 4:35.“Caje (Kindred) was
wrestling a real solidmatch,” Kaye said. “Then,he got caught in bad situ-ations a couple times. Hegets himself in trouble bytrying to do some crazything he doesn’t need to doinstead of just wrestlinghis match.”In a loaded 195-pound
class, Durand battled backfrom a first-round loss Fri-day.He started the day by
pinning Matthew McGill-vary Troy in 35 secondsand defeated RichardRollins of Springfield bydefault. He followed thatup by pinning Tim Bush of
Vandalia-Butler in 1:30,before being injured in theconsolation semifinal withDean Broderick ofLebanon and having to de-fault.Durand had to watch
the final on crutches, de-faulting his fifth-placematch to Gunnar Parr ofFairborn.“I think he planted
wrong and has a hyper ex-tension,” Kaye, who hopesto have Durand back forsectionals in two weeks. “Idon’t think his season isover by any means. Cajeand Drew had some bigwins.“They didn’t have any
easy matches in this tour-nament.”Hayden Weldy (106)
was pinned by HaydenUpchurch of Fairborn in3:50 in a consolationmatch; while Dalton Price(160) was pinned byMicah Chizever of Beaver-creek in 2:21.Tanner Chambers (170)
was pinned by Chris Ed-wards of Fairborn in 3:34;and Jake Hetzler (285)was pinned by BradBooher of Lebanon in2:25.Piqua will be back in ac-
tion Friday at Troy,wrestling a quad that in-cludes Greenville andSpringboro.Opening matches are
scheduled for 6 p.m.
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Piqua’s Caje Kindred controls Centerville’s Brandon Abney in a 145-pound match Saturday.PHOTO PROVIDED BY NICKI HOGSTON
Piqua girls can’t find basket against WaveBY ROB KISERSports Editor
Piqua girls basketballcoach Rory Hoke couldn’tfault his team’s effort Sat-urday against GWOCNorth rival Greenville.But, unfortunately for
Piqua, effort doesn’t putpoints on the scoreboard.The ball has to go
through the basket forthat — and it was a strug-gle again for the Lady In-dians in a 42-23 loss to theLady Wave.“I told the kids it is a
shame we can’t scorepoints with the effort wegive on the defensive end,”Piqua coach Rory Hokesaid. “The kids gave agreat effort. There is noquestion about that. Andwe did a better job of box-ing out today — it wasn’tperfect, there were still afew times we didn’t. But,
for the most part we did agood job of that.”But, Piqua managed
just two field goals andseven points in the secondhalf, making just eight of47 shots from the floor forthe game.
In spite of that, theLady Indians led much ofthe first quarter.They were leading 10-7
late in the first quarter,before Haleigh Luce hitfrom the baseline andTara Guillozet added ajumper before the buzzerto give Greenville an 11-10 lead.The bank was open on a
3-pointer by HannahWentto give Piqua a 13-11 leadto start the second quarter— but Guillozet immedi-ately answered with a
three of her own and theLady Indians would scorejust two points the rest ofthe half.“We just beat our-
selves,” Hoke said. “Some-times we don’t get goodlooks, because we makelazy passes the preventthat from happening.”The backbreaker came
with Piqua trailing just16-13. In a 20-secondspan, the Lady Wave’s 5-3guard Jessica Kerg scoredfour points — first on anoffensive putback, fol-
lowed by a steal and layup— to make it 20-13.Guillozet added another
three and by halftime, theLady Wave was in control27-16.“That what I am talking
about beating ourselves,”Hoke said. “We just haveto keep working on cor-recting our mistakes. Iknow at some point, weare going to put it all to-gether.”Piqua held Greenville
Hoke pleasedwith ‘D’ effort
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BRUNSWICK RICHARDS HUELSKAMP
Putting upbig numbersBrunswick scores 35in Lady Chargers winKIRTLAND — Kendra
Brunswick continues tohave an amazing seasonfor the Edison CommunityCollege women’s basket-ball team.Coming off being
named OCCAC Player ofthe Week, the sophomorefrom Fort Recovery filledout the stat sheet againSaturday in a 95-35 rompover Lakeland.Brunswick had 35
points on 15 of 19 shootingfrom the floor, includingfour of five from behindthe arc.She added nine re-
bounds, seven steals andfive assists in just 27 min-utes of playing time.Brooke Richards added
18 points and nine re-bounds.Morgan Huelskamp
had 11 points, four steals,three assists and three re-bounds, while Tori Purkhad 10 points and five re-bounds.Jo Steva added seven
rebounds off the bench,while Emily Mowbray hadsix steals.Alicia Smychnsky led
Lakeland with 16 pointsand eight rebounds.Edison was 41 of 93
from the floor for 44 per-cent, including seven of 26from 3-point range for 27percent.The Chargers made six
of 10 free throws for 60percent.Lakeland was 13 of 49
from the floor for 27 per-cent, including three of 15from 3-point range for 20percent.The Laker made just six
of 14 free throws for 43percent.Edison won the battle of
May 1-0-2, Morgan Huelskamp 5-1-11, ToriPurk 4-2-10, Brooke Richards 9-0-18, JoSteva 2-2-6, Dakota Sowders 0-0-0,, EmilyMowbray 1-0-3, Kia Perin 0-0-0, TerraVanover 2-0-6, Chris Johnson 2-0-4, PaigeNewlon 0-0-0. Totals: 41-6-95.Lakeland (35)Brittany Morr 3-0-6, Tierra Martin 1-2-4,
Elizabeth Guilford 0-1-1, Stephanie Ziegler1-3-5, Janelle Jirousek 1-0-3, Kelly Flani-gan 0-0-0, Alicia Smychynsky 7-0-16. To-tals: 13-6-35.3-point field goals — Edison: Brunswick
Ervin plays bigin Edison lossLakers stay unbeaten in OCCACKIRTLAND — Former
Tippecanoe standoutBrandon Ervin had a hugegame, but the EdisonCommunity College men’sbasketball team came upshort against Lakeland inOCCAC action Saturday.The Lakers, unbeaten
in the OCCAC, won 92-73.Ervin led the Chargers
with 17 points and 17 re-bounds.Eric Beckstedt had 12
points, while Kelly Kirtzhad a complete game with11 points, seven reboundsand seven assists.Nick Tingle had nine
points and seven re-bounds, while Jacob Be-nanzer added nine points,eight rebounds and fiveassists.Jaron Isaac dished out
six assists off the bench.Lakeland used 46
points from its bench, ledby Chaz Rollins who had18 points, seven reboundsand three steals.Charles Oliver scored
19 points, Daishon Robin-son netted 12 and ChrisJeffries added 10.Martell Medley had six
assists.Edison will host Cincin-
nati State Wednesday inOCCAC play.
BOXSCOREEdison (73)Nick Tingle 4-1-9, Jacob Benanzer 4-0-
9, Brandon Erivin 8-1-17, Eric Beckstedt 5-0-12, Kelly Kirtz 4-0-11, Jaron Isaac 2-1-6,Corey Decker 0-0-0, Jesse Davis 2-0-4,Evan Barger 0-0-0,William Plummer 2-1-5.Totals: 31-4-73.Lakeland (92)Richard Smith 2-3-7, Marcus Fleming 2-
2-6, Deran Benton 3-3-9, Charles Oliver 5-6-19, Martell Medley 2-0-4, MariusPaulauskas 0-0-0, Isiah Boddie 1-1-3, Dais-hon Robinson 5-1-12, Michael Turman 1-2-4, Chris Jeffries 5-0-10, Chaz Rollins8-2-18. Totals: 34-20-92.3-point field goals — Edison: Benanzer,
scoreless the first fourminutes of the third quar-ter.But, the Lady Indians
couldn’t score until 2:42remaining in the thirdquarter on a shot by MacyYount.A three by Janise Hum-
mel and two free throwsby Katie Allen was allPiqua would get the restof the game as Greenville,coached by former MiamiEast standout KyleVanover, improved to 10-8overall and 6-2 in theGWOC North.Allen led the Indians
with nine points, includ-ing seven in the first half.Guillozet had a game-
high 15 points for
Greenville and MeganGalloway had 11 points.Piqua will play at Trot-
wood-MadisonWednesdaynight in GWOC Northplay, before closing theregular season at homewith Troy Saturday.
BOXSCOREGreenville (42)Haleigh Luce 2-0-4, Tara Guillozet 6-1-
Katie Allen 3-2-9, Janise Hummel 2-0-5,Tasha Potts 0-1-1, Heidi Strevell 0-0-0, Mor-gen Grunkemeyer 0-0-0, Danajha Clemons0-0-0, Hannah Went 1-0-3, Chelsea Hill 0-0-0, Teija Davis 0-0-0, Conner Brown 0-0-0.Totals: 8-4-23.3-point field goals — Greenville: Guil-
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Piqua girls toplay VandaliaEast, Versailles, Russia, Covingtonall receive high seeds at sectionalThe Piqua girls basket-
ball team received the15th seed in the DaytonD-I supersectional.The Lady Indians, 7-12,
will play 7-11 Vandalia-Butler at 6:30 p.m. on Feb.18 at Lebanon HighSchool in the Dayton 2sectional.The winner will play
17-1 Fairmont, the topseed, at 6 p.m. Feb. 21.
Tipp D-IIIIn the Tippecanoe D-III
sectional, Miami East re-ceived the top seed andVersailles received thethird seed.The Vikings, 14-1, will
play Milton-Union at 7:30p.m. Feb. 13.The winner will play 6-
12 Dubar at 7:30 p.m .Feb.19, with the sectional finalschedule for 11 a.m., Feb.23.The Lady Tigers, 17-3,
elected to go in the samehalf of the bracket as sec-ond seed Anna, 12-4.Versailles will open sec-
tional play at 7:30 p.m.Feb. 14 against the ninthseeded West Liberty-Salem.The winner will play
eighth seed Arcanum, 9-10, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20.The sectional final is
scheduled for 12:30 p.m.Feb. 23.
Brookville D-IVCovington, 13-8 re-
ceived the second seed inthe Brookville D-IV sec-tional.The Lady Buccs will
open play against seventhseed Bradford, 8-12, at
12:30 p.m. on Feb. 16.The winner will plaay
sixth seed MississianwaValley, 7-13, at 7:30 p.m.Feb. 19.The sectional final is at
1 p.m., Feb. 23.In the lower bracket,
Newton received the fifthseed.The Lady Indians, 9-12,
will play 10th seed Bethel,1-19, at 2 p.m. Feb. 16.The winner will play
ninth seed Catholic Cen-tral, 4-15, at 6 p.m. Feb.21.The sectional final is at
2:30 p.m. Feb. 23.
Sidney D-IVRussia received the
third seed in the SidneyD-IV sectional.The Lady Raiders will
play the winner of sixthseed Troy Christian, 16-3,and fifth seed Botkins, 10--10, at 6 p.m. Feb. 19.Lehman, 5-15, received
the ninth seed and willplay second seed Mechan-icsburg, 16-3, at 12:30p.m. Feb. 16.The winner will play
10th seed Fairlawn, 2-18,at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19.The sectional final is at
noon, Feb. 23.Houston is in the lower
bracket and received theseventh seed.The Lady Wildcqats, 9-
11, will play fourth seedTriad, 14-5, at 3:30 p.m.Feb. 16.The winner will play
eighth seed Jackson Cen-ter, 14-5, at 7 p.m. on Feb.20.The sectional final is set
for 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 23.
Madison Linn and Miami East received a top seed.MIKE ULLERY/CALL PHOTO
GirlsContinued from page 7
Megan Rutledge ledNewton with 10 points.
Lady Roaders rollSIDNEY — Bradford
dominated the second halfto pull away from Fair-lawn and win 44-25 innon-league girls basket-ball Saturday.Brooke Dunlevy led
Bradford with 20 pointsand Bree Bates scored 11.
Lady Cats winDEGRAFF — Houston
led from start to finish inposting a 47-22 win overRiverside in non-leaguegirls play Saturday.The Lady Wildcats, 9-
11, led 27-12 at the halfover the Lady Pirates,who are now 4-17.Houston had no one in
double figures but fourgirls had seven or more,led by Nicole Maier andAlyssa Stang with nineeach.Macey Stang scored
eight points for Houstonand Kortney Phippsadded seven.
Lady Cas loseNEW KNOXVILLE —
Lehman trailed by only 10at the half against tal-ented New Knoxville, butthe Lady Rangers held theLady Cavs without a pointin the third quarter, lead-ing to a lopsided 60-26verdict in non-league girlsbasketball Saturday.Lehman got eight
points each from JuliaHarrelson and AvaSchmitz.
COVINGTON — RogerCraft will always beknown as "Coach".After all, he's coached
and taught at Covingtonfor 26 years and has hadan impact on kids whonow have kids playing inthe youth basketball pro-gram.Not only has he been a
coach, he's been a father, ahusband, a teacher, anathletic director, a friend,and most importantly apillar in the Covingtoncommunity working withkids for nearly threedecades.Which made Coving-
ton's game against Cold-water one of the biggestgames in recent historydue to the fact that theschool was honoring Craftfor his long-time contribu-tion to the kids in the Cov-ington community."I was thinking before
the game about this onebeing for Roger Craft,"said Covington coach MattPond, who took over thisyear for Craft, who retiredfrom coaching last spring."I didn't have to say any-thing to the kids about it -you could sense that theyknew it was for him. Theyunderstood that the gamewas bigger than them-selves."And that's the way the
Buccaneers played thegame. They played a
brand of team basketballthat makes their old coachproud — a coach that wasrecognized before thegame for his faithful con-tribution to Covingtonathletics over the past 26years."How great was that,"
said Pond in regards a cer-emony that was keptunder tight wraps and onethat had Craft's family athis side. "Talk about a guywho does it for the kids,who does it for Covington.The word couldn't get outabout this (ceremony) be-cause Roger wouldn't havewanted. He is that hum-ble."The Buccs went on to
win 63-54, with Craft’s sonRyan leading the waywith 20 points.Troy Cron netted 12
and Cole and DylanOwens each added ninpoints.Covington is at
Franklin Monroe Friday.
East gets defensiveCASSTOWN — The
Miami East boys basket-ball team won a defensivebattle with Graham Sat-urday, pulling out a 38-33victory.“We are very excited to
beat another quality teamwith 10 wins,” Miami Eastcoach Allen Mack said. “Itwas a total team effort.Wehad seven guys that
scored.”Luke House led Miami
East with 15 points andA.J. Hickman scored nine.
Newton drops gamePLEASANT HILL —
The Newton boys basket-ball team lost 62-39 toMilton-Union in non-con-ference action Saturdaynight.Bobby Gerodimos
scored 15 points andDaniel Vance added 10.
Cat boys loseHOUSTON — Houston
ran into a strong TroyChristian team Saturdaynight at home and lost 62-43 in non-league boys bas-ketball.TheWildcats are now 8-
11 going into a Fridaygame at home againstRussia in County play.“They do a lot of good
things,” Houston coachJohn Willoughby saidabout the Eagles. “Theypenetrated and did a goodjob of kicking it out, sothey got a lot of goodlooks.”The Eagles made it pay
off with 10 three-pointersin the game.Houston got the lead
down to eight points in thethird quarter but couldget no closer.Jesse Phlipot had 11
and TJ Martin 10 for theWildcats.
Roger Craft (with his family) was honored at the Covington game Saturday.BEN ROBINSON/GOBUCCS.COM PHOTO
Buccs win for CraftMiami East gets past Graham 38-33
Versailles’ Amanda Winner drives to the basket. Saturday as Miami East’sAbby Cash looks on. For more on the game, see page 7.
MIKE ULLERY/CALL PHOTO
A ‘Winner’ Drive
At press time, Bal-timore was leadingSan Francisco 34-29 in Super BowlXLVIII.
LINCOLN,Neb. (AP) —Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 21points and No. 11 OhioState held off a late Ne-braska surge for a 63-56victory Saturday night.Ohio State (17-4, 7-2
Big Ten) led 53-38 after apair of free throws byAaron Craft with 9:05 left.Nebraska (11-12, 2-8)then made its comeback,outscoring the Buckeyes15-5 and cutting the leadto 58-53 on David Rivers'free throws with 2:40 re-maining.Following an Ohio State
miss, Nebraska's BrandonUbel and Andre Almeidaeach missed shots at therim and Ubel missed a 3-point attempt. Craft hit apair of free throws with 56seconds left to put theBuckeyes up seven.Ohio State won the
game at the free throwline. The Buckeyes made23 of 28, including all 10of their first-half at-tempts. Nebraska wasjust 4 of 5 from the line.Ohio State won its third
straight game and sev-enth in a row against Ne-braska, including all foursince the Cornhuskersjoined the Big Ten.The Buckeyes travel to
No. 1 Michigan on Tues-day.Ohio State established
a working margin late inthe first half. Trailing 19-17, the Buckeyes went ona 13-0 run capped byLaQuinton Ross' long 3-pointer with 2:05 left.Ohio State led by nine athalftime.Nebraska cut the lead
to 38-32 on Dylan Talley's3-pointer with 15:58 to go.Ohio State then went on a15-6 run, going up 45-34on Deshaun Thomas'short jumper with 13:42remaining.
OSU holdsoff Huskersfor victoryBuckeyes 7-2in Big Ten play
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Word of the Weekforceful — full of force; power-ful; vigorous
Gravity Facts• Objects with mass are attracted to eachother, this is known as gravity.• Gravity keeps Earth and the other plan-ets in our solar system in orbit around theSun. It also keeps the Moon in orbitaround Earth.• Tides are caused by the rotation of theEarth and the gravitational effects of theMoon and Sun.• Because Mars has a lower gravity thanEarth, a person weighing 100kg (220pounds) on Earth would weigh only 38kg(84 pounds) on Mars.• It is thought that Isaac Newton’s theorieson gravity were inspired by seeing anapple fall from a tree.• While Newton’s older law of universalgravitation is accurate in most scenarios,modern physics uses Albert Einstein’sgeneral theory of relativity to describegravity.• Acceleration of objects due to the gravityon Earth is around 9.8 m/s2. If you ignoreair resistance (drag) then the speed of anobject falling to Earth increases by around9.8 meters per second every second.• The force of gravity 100 kilometers (62miles) above Earth is just 3 percent lessthan at the Earth’s surface.• The human body can handle increasedg-forces as seen in activities such asdragster races, airplane acrobatics andspace training. The highest known accel-eration voluntarily experienced by ahuman is 46.2 g by g-force pioneer JohnStapp.• While formula one racing drivers mayfeel around 5 g’s under heavy braking,they can experience over 100 g’s if acrash causes them to decelerate extreme-ly quickly over a very short distance.• Some roller coasters have been knownto include g-forces of around 4 to 6 g.• The higher something is, the greater itsgravitational potential energy. Back in theMiddle Ages, weapons called trebuchetswere used to take advantage of this princi-ple, using mechanical advantage and thegravitational potential energy of a counter-weight to hurl rocks and other projectilesat or over walls. In modern times we usethe gravitational potential of water to cre-ate hydroelectricity.
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SWING ON A PENDULUMYour children can discover
the laws of physics when theytry to swing on a pendulum atthe playground.
WhatYou'll Need:• Swing set• Partner• StopwatchHow to Swing on a
Pendulum:Step 1: Have your kids sit
in a swing and have their part-ner push them gently. Timehow many times they go backand forth in one minute. Makesure they don't pump theswing. Just let it go on its own.
Step 2: Their partner canuse a stopwatch to time pre-cisely one minute while yourchildren count.
Step 3: Then have yourchildren's partner push yourchildren as hard as possible.Again, make sure they don'tpump the swing. Count howmany times they go back andforth in one minute. Is it anydifferent?
Step 4: Now have them trythe same experiment, butpump the swing by them-selves. Does adding a forceaffect the frequency of theswing?
WATCH AN OUNCE LIFT APOUND
It may sound like it can'thappen, but have your childrenlearn about centrifugal forceand watch an ounce lift apound.
How to Watch an OunceLift a Pound:
Step 1: Have your childrenthread a five-foot piece of fish-ing line through an empty cot-ton spool. At one end, theyshould securely fasten the 1-oz object so that it can bewhirled about without danger.Then have them fasten a 1-lbrock to the other end of thefishing line.
Step 2: Have your kids gripthe spool so that they are alsoholding the string beneath it.Let the heavy rock dangledown about ten inches. Rotatethe light object in a horizontalcircle above their head.
Step 3: When the lightobject is spinning around fast,your children can release theirgrip on the string below thespool. As they continue to spinthe light object, they will seethe heavy object begin to riseon the string that goes throughthe spool. (Make sure they usea strong line and fastenobjects securely so that theobjects don't fly off.)
Word Search
Gravity is an invisible pulling forcebetween two objects. These two objectscan be anything from a grain of rice to aplanet in the solar system. Nothing canescape it.
The amount of gravity that an objecthas depends on a few things. Once ofthese things is where on the planet youare. Believe it or not the amount of grav-ity varies from place to place on Earth.Another thing that effects the amount ofgravity an object has is how big theobject is. The bigger the object’s massthe more gravity it will have and thesmaller the mass of the object the lessgravity. The final thing that affects gravi-ty is the distance between two objects.The closer they are the stronger thegravity will be.
Why is gravity important?Gravity is very important to our
everyday lives. Without Earth's gravitywe would fly right off it. We'd all have tobe strapped down. If you kicked a ball, itwould be fly off forever. While it mightbe fun to try for a few minutes, we cer-tainly couldn't live without gravity.
Gravity also is important on a largerscale. It's the Sun's gravity that keepsthe Earth in orbit around the Sun. Lifeon Earth needs the Sun's light andwarmth to survive. The planets them-
selves rely on gravity when they wereformed and to stay together.
Who discovered gravity?The first person who dropped some-
thing heavy on their toe knew some-thing was going on, but gravity was firstmathematically described by the scien-tist Isaac Newton. His theory is calledNewton's law of universal gravitation.Later Albert Einstein would make someimprovements on this theory in hisTheory of Relativity.
What is weight?Weight is the force of gravity on an
object. Our weight on Earth is how
much force the Earth's gravity has onus and how hard it is pulling us towardthe surface.
Do objects fall at the samespeed?
Yes, this is called the equivalenceprinciple. Objects of different masseswill fall to the Earth at the same speed.If you take two balls of different massesto the top of a building and drop them,they will hit the ground at the sametime. There is actually a specific accel-eration that all objects fall at called astandard gravity, or "g". It equals 9.807m/s2.
Science Projects: Laws of Gravity and Motion
Find the words hidden in the puzzle. The wordscould be straight, spiral or wiggly, starting off tothe right or down.
Gravity
ValentineCard Challenge
Hey Elementary Schools!Have your class make cards out of materials (preferablyreused items) to give to patients at Dayton Children’sMedical Center and area nursing homes. Use your creativ-ity to give someone a great Valentine’s Day card. Make
this a class project and the classwith the most cards made wins
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