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Inside PHILADELPHIA — An af- filiate of Versa Capital Man- agement, LLC (Versa) has announced the completion of its acquisition of four commu- nity newspapers from Freedom Communications, Inc.: The Telegraph in Alton, Ill.; The Journal-Courier in Jack- sonville, Ill.; The Sedalia De- mocrat in Sedalia, Mo.; and The Lima News in Lima. “We are pleased to conclude the transaction and to add to our community newspaper platform. We look forward to continuing to serve the com- munities in which these papers operate with quality, locally-fo- cused content and services, both in print and online.” “These four publications are an important part of their com- munities and are well-recog- nized as valuable sources of local news and information,” commented Gregory L. Segall, Versa CEO and founder. “We are pleased to welcome them into our growing community newspaper portfolio in the Midwest.” Among Versa’s portfolio companies is Ohio Community Media, which owns and oper- ates 14 daily newspapers, in- cluding the Sidney Daily News, Piqua Daily Call and Troy Daily News, and 30 weeklies Going, going gone Central School sold for $18,000 BY JENNIFER BUMGARNER [email protected]Central Elementary School went to the highest bidder for $18,000 during an auction on Saturday. Sidney resident Darrell Nichols stood and watched as his wife, Charlene, won the school in the auction with the highest bid. With the sale fi- nalized, Charlene joked it was “the first school I’ve ever bought.” Darrell also joked that he “didn’t have anything to do with it. She’s the one who bid.” The Nichols family doesn’t have any immediate plans for the building. “It depends on what the city will let me do,” said Dar- rell. “Right now I have no idea what we’re going to do with it. I just didn’t want to see the building go for nothing.” The final date for closing is July 2. The former school was appraised at $50,000. The auction was conducted by Tom Roll of Realty 2000 Group and Versa completes purchase of newspapers SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg The Minster High School baseball team celebrates winning its second state championship in a row Saturday after defeating Cuyahoga Heights 5-4. For more on the game, see Page 13A. Also in today’s newspaper, Houston High School’s graduation is on Page 10A and Jackson Center Community Days is on Page 12A Two in a row For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg AUCTIONEER TOM Roll, of Sidney, auctions off fams from Central School as fellow auction- eer Justin Vondenhuevel, of Maplewood, grabs one that was sold during the auction Satur- day. For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com See AUCTION/Page 2A See PURCHASE/Page 3A
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75°For a full weather report, turnto Page 3B.
“If America forgets whereshe came from, if the peoplelose sight of what broughtthem along, if she listens to thedeniers and mockers, then willbegin the rot and dissolution.”
— Carl Sandburg, Americanwriter (1878-1967)
For more on today in his-tory, turn to Page 2B.
American Profile• Fred Thompson has trav-
eled the country gatheringrecipes from backyard barbe-cuers. Inside
Obituaries and/or death no-tices for the following people ap-pear on Pages 3A, 5A today:
• Dr. D. LaMar Keiser• The Rev. Linphord L.
“Chip” Hall Jr.• Kimberly Rose Peters• Ruth Ann Frey• The Rev. Charles B.
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• See what's in store for the Troy Streets Alive eventcoming up this month. Also, Ginghamsburg Church pres-ents its Concert on the Lawn, and a Vandalia security com-pany talks about protecting your home or business. Inside
PHILADELPHIA — An af-filiate of Versa Capital Man-agement, LLC (Versa) hasannounced the completion ofits acquisition of four commu-nity newspapers fromFreedomCommunications, Inc.: TheTelegraph in Alton, Ill.; TheJournal-Courier in Jack-sonville, Ill.; The Sedalia De-
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the transaction and to add toour community newspaperplatform. We look forward tocontinuing to serve the com-munities in which these papersoperate with quality, locally-fo-cused content and services,
both in print and online.”“These four publications are
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Central Elementary Schoolwent to the highest bidder for$18,000 during an auction onSaturday.Sidney resident Darrell
Nichols stood and watched ashis wife, Charlene, won theschool in the auction with thehighest bid. With the sale fi-nalized, Charlene joked it was“the first school I’ve everbought.” Darrell also jokedthat he “didn’t have anythingto do with it. She’s the onewho bid.” The Nichols familydoesn’t have any immediateplans for the building.“It depends on what the
city will let me do,” said Dar-rell. “Right now I have no ideawhat we’re going to do with it.I just didn’t want to see thebuilding go for nothing.”The final date for closing is
July 2. The former school wasappraised at $50,000. Theauction was conducted by TomRoll of Realty 2000 Group and
Versa completes purchase of newspapers
SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg
TheMinster High School baseball team celebrates winning itssecond state championship in a row Saturday after defeatingCuyahoga Heights 5-4. For more on the game, see Page 13A.
Also in today’s newspaper, Houston High School’s graduationis on Page 10A and Jackson Center Community Days is onPage 12A
Two in a rowFor photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com
SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg
AUCTIONEER TOM Roll, of Sidney, auctions off fams from Central School as fellow auction-eer Justin Vondenhuevel, of Maplewood, grabs one that was sold during the auction Satur-day.
For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com
See AUCTION/Page 2A
See PURCHASE/Page 3A
A house fire on Satur-day morning sent oneSidney teenager to thehospital.Sidney firefighters
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the house was completedby firefighters and therewere no other victims.There were reportedlyno working smoke detec-tors in the home. Thehome is occupied by theJames Eichelbergerfamily.Assistant Chief Cam
Haller was the incidentcommander on thescene. A box alarm wasdispatched to recall all
off-duty personnel andAnna Fire Departmentfor mutual aid. Perry-Port-Salem Rescue andAnna Rescue also re-sponded to the scene.The fire was quickly
controlled and extin-guished. Dayton Powerand Light responded andsecured electrical powerto the building. The Red
Cross is providing assis-tance to the occupants.The residence sus-
tained heavy fire dam-age. Loss to thestructure is estimated at$25,000 and loss to thecontents is estimated at$10,000.The cause of the fire is
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Fire, rescueSUNDAY
-3:27 a.m.: accident.Sidney paramedics re-sponded to the 1000block of North KutherRoad on a report of a sin-gle vehicle roll over acci-dent. Shelby CountySheriff ’s deputies re-sponded. No further in-formation was availableat press time.
SATURDAY-10:52 p.m.: acci-
dent. Medics respondedto a report of a motor ve-hicle accident at the in-tersection of RussellRoad and WapakonetaAvenue.
-4:44 p.m.: accident.Medics responded to areport of a motor vehicleaccident at the intersec-tion of Fair Road andKuther Road. ShelbyCounty Sheriff ’sdeputies responded. Nofurther information wasavailable at press time.
-3:47 p.m.: medical.Medics were dispatchedto the 3000 block of Cisco
Road on a medical call.-2:14 p.m.: medical.
Medics were dispatchedto the 500 block of WestNorth Street on a med-ical call.
-6:52 a.m.: medical.Medics responded to amedical call on the 1100block of Hayes Street.
-5:55 a.m.: medical.Medics responded to amedical call on the 800block of South Ohio Av-enue.
-1:17 a.m.: medical.Medics responded to the500 block of GearhartRoad on a medical call.
-1:13 a.m.: medical.Medics responded to the200 block of West CourtStreet on a medical call.
FRIDAY-3:49 p.m.: injury.
Medics responded to areport of an injury onthe 600 block of SouthHighland Avenue.
-8:22 a.m.: alarm.Firefighters were dis-patched to 1200 Chil-drens Home Road on areport of a fire alarm. Itwas a false alarm due toa power outage.
Sheriff’s logSATURDAY
-5:08 p.m.: assault.Shelby County Sheriff ’sdeputies responded to515 S. Pike St., Anna, ona report of an assault.
Fire, rescueSUNDAY
-9:03 a.m.: medical.Houston Rescue re-sponded to a medical callon the 600 block of CrossTrail.
SATURDAY-6:12 p.m.: medical.
Anna Rescue respondedto the 15800 block ofSanta Fe-New KnoxvilleRoad on a medical call.
-1:55 p.m.: medical.Jackson Center Rescueresponded to the 8600block of County Road 23North on a medical call.
FRIDAY-6:20 p.m.: accident.
Perry-Port-Salem Res-cue, Port Jefferson Fireand Shelby CountySheriff ’s deputies re-sponded to 16890 StateRoute 47 on a report of asingle vehicle accident.No further informationwas available at presstime.
-6:11 p.m.: medical.Houston Rescue re-sponded to the 9200block of Fessler-BuxtonRoad on a medical call.
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DAVE STUEFEN, of Brookville, sits next to some old lockers while taking abreak from bidding on items from Central School Saturday. The school itselfwas also auctioned off.
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the school was sold in as is conditionwith no warranties. The three-story,25,000 square foot building is knownto contain asbestos which will have tobe addressed by the new owner if theproperty is used as a school or publicservice building.Desks, computers and school sup-
plies, along with kitchen and athleticequipment, also went up for sale bythe Sidney City School Board of Edu-cation. Last month, workers removedthe large bronze bell from atop the oldschool building. it will soon spend therest of its days in a prominent placesomewhere between Sidney HighSchool and school board offices onFourth Avenue.Central Elementary was open Sat-
urday for people to take one last lookaround the building which some for-mer teachers chose to take advantageof. Velma Lindsey retired from teach-ing 25 years ago and spent part of hercareer at Central Elementary.
“I think I started working at Cen-tral in 1961 and taught there for twoyears,” said Lindsey. “I then went toteach at Orange and also Emerson.”Lindsey attended the auction to
take one last look at her former class-room and to get a chance to walkaround the rest of the building. Shespent more than 30 years in educationstarting in a small mining town inKentucky before moving to the Sidneyarea.As Lindsey toured around the
school another teacher left his markon the building. Teacher Aaron Bern-ing taught at Central Elementary thelast four years the building was open.As a tribute to the staff, Berning wentfrom room to room, writing eachteacher’s name on their former chalk-boards.“I wanted to leave our mark on the
building,” said Berning. “I wanted tocome and walk through it one lasttime.”
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Dr. D. LaMar KeiserDANVILLE,
Ky. — Dr. D.LaMar Keiser,69, of Danville,Ky., died Satur-day, June 2,2012.Born June 10,
1942, he was theson of the lateErnest Bradford andDora Elizabeth EadesKeiser.He attended the Ohio
State University for bothundergraduate and den-tal school, playing forseven years in the OhioState Marching Band.LaMar practiced generaldentistry in Danville, Ky.from 1969 to 1990 and atRed Bird Mission in ClayCounty, Ky., from 1990 to2011.He was a member of
the original AdvocateMessenger Brass Band inDanville and was a char-ter member of the Ken-tucky Bass Club. He wasa member of CentenaryUnited MethodistChurch. LaMar was anavid sportsmanwho lovedhunting, fishing, guidinghis dogs and being out-doors.He is survived by his
wife of 44 years, Virginia;one daughter, Deborah;
one son, Gordy,his wife, Kirstin,and their son,Henry; andadopted nephew,Lucian.A celebra-
tion of lifeservice will beheld Wednes-
day at 11 a.m. atDanville CentenaryMethodist ChristianLife Center, Danville,Ky., by Dr. QuentinScholtz and the Rev.Walter Brown Size-more.Honorary pallbearers
are Bob Floro, RogerGamertsfelder, Jerry Kel-ble, Jerry Plunkett, JohnRobinette, Tom Skinner,Jim Duncan, Mike Floro,Mitchell Frisby, MarkNewton, John Tumey,Clay Warren, and mem-bers of theKentuckyBassClub, past and present.Memorial Contribu-
tions are suggested toWilderness Trace ChildDevelopment Center inDanville.A guestbook is avail-
able for signing atwww.wlpruitt.com.Arrangements are
under the direction of theW.L. Pruitt FuneralHome, Hustonville, Ky.
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The Sidney swimming pool opened Saturday but most of the swimmers left when it started raining.
Opening day rained outFor photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com
‘Housewives’ actressKathryn Joosten diesLOS ANGELES (AP)
— Kathryn Joosten, acharactera c t r e s sb e s tknown ast h ecrotchety,yet love-a b l e ,K a r e nM c -Cluskeyon “Des-perate Housewives” andthe president’s secretaryon “The West Wing,” hasdied. She was 72.Joosten, who had bat-
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through our tears.”Joosten won two
Emmy awards for herportrayal of Mrs. Mc-Cluskey, who kept aclose eye on herWisteriaLane neighbors on “Des-perate Housewives.” Thehit show ended its eight-year run on ABC lastmonth with a series fi-nale in which Joosten’scharacter passed away.Her character’s battlewith cancer was a storyline in the show.Joosten’s “Desperate
Housewives” co-starstook to Twitter to ex-press their condolences.“Rest in peace, she
was an amazing womanand a wonderful ac-tress,” Felicity Huffmanwrote.Brenda Strong said in
a tweet: “Wisteria Lanewon’t be the same with-out you.”
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The Rev. Linphord L.‘Chip’ Hall Jr.
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The Rev. Lin-phord L. “Chip”Hall Jr., 65, 301E. RobinwoodSt., passed awayFriday, June 1,2012, at 2:37a.m., at LimaMemorial Hos-pital in Lima.
He was born on Dec.29, 1946, in Toledo, theson of the late Linphordand Violet (Staler) HallSr.
On Aug. 17, 1964, hemarried Sandra Kay(Frost) Linphord who isliving.
He is also survived byfour children, Patrickand wife Jen Hall, ofWillshire, ChristinaKessler, of Waynesfield,Randolf Hall, of Sidney,and Stephen Hall, of Sid-ney; eight grandchildren,Courtney Greene, TaylorHall, Baylee Hall, AliciaKessler, Raquel Kessler,Stephen Hall II, KayleeHall and Leah Kessler;one brother, DonaldChandler, of Lam-bertville, Mich.; and onesister, Rosetta Garver, ofToledo.
Preceding him deathwere four brothers andone sister.
The Rev. Hall gradu-ated from Ashland Uni-versity in Ashland, witha bacholor’s degree. He
then went on toAshland Theo-logical Semi-nary andgraduated witha Master’s De-gree in Psychol-ogy, and aMaster’s Degreein Theology. The
Rev. Hall then went onto pastor several UnitedMethodist Churches.First the Ai Church inSwanton, then Leipsicand Bethal U.M.C. inLeipsic, the Grover HillU.M.C. in Grover Hill,the Memorial UnitedMethodist Church inSidney, and last at theWestminster U.M.C. inHarrod.
Chip, as he is fondlyknown, will be greatlymissed by all his familyand friends.Memorial services
will be held on Fridayat 7 p.m. at the West-minster UnitedMethodist Church inHarrod with PastorDavid Burkhart offici-ating.
All arangements arein the care of Cromes Fu-neral Home, 302 S. MainAve.
Condolences may beexpressed to the Hallfamily at the funeralhome’s website,www.cromesfh.com.
MINSTER — TheMinster Village Councilwill meet on Tuesday at6:30 p.m.
The council will dis-cuss and hear the secondreading of an ordinancerelating to weeds andgrass on private prop-erty as well as a secondreading of an ordinanceto establish a four waystop at the intersectionof Parkview Drive andSettlers Lane/HarvestCourt.
The council will alsodiscuss the expansion ofa playground at SeventhStreet Park and trucktraffic on Fourth Street.
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She was bornon Aug. 19, 1967, inWin-chester, Ky., the daugh-ter of Rozella Fee, ofWinchester, Ky., and thelate Roy Daniels Jr.
She is survived byfour children, RonnieDaniels, David Rawlinsand wife Chelsea, andJustin Rawlins, all ofWinchester, Ky., andMisty Fuller, of Sidney;one brother, GordonDaniels and wife Lisa;one sister, Becky Amosand husband Johnny,both of Winchester, Ky.;five grandchildren; andcompanion, Shawn.
She was preceded indeath by one sister,
Maria Lane.Ms. Peters
was employedt h r o u g hStaffmark forNKP in Sidneyas an inspector.She enjoyed herlife spendingtime with her
family, especially hergrandchildren, who willmiss her greatly.In keeping with Ms.
Peters’ wishes, herbody will be cre-mated. A memorialgathering in celebra-tion of Kimberly’s lifewill be held at a laterdate at the conven-ience of her family.
Arrangements are inthe care of Cromes Fu-neral Home and Crema-tory, 302 S. Main Ave.
Condolences may beexpressed to the Petersfamily at the funeralh o m e ’ s w e b s i t e ,www.cromesfh.com.
The Rev. Charles B.Rohrkemper
CA R T H A -GENA — TheRev. Charles B.R oh r k empe rdied Thursday,May 31, 2012,at St. CharlesCenter inCarthagena.
Born in Day-ton, a graduate of Cham-inade High School, theRev. Rohrkemper com-pleted seminary studiesat St. Gregory andMount St.Mary, and wasordained for the Arch-diocese of Cincinnati byArchbishop John T. Mc-Nicholas in 1943.
Following ordination,the Rev. Rohrkemperwas named assistant atSt. William Parish,Cincinnati, with teach-ing duties at Elder HighSchool. In 1948, he wasassigned to St. Augus-tine Parish on BankStreet, Cincinnati, whilecontinuing to teach atElder.A 1951, transfer toSt. Vivian’s Parish,Cincinnati, as assistantpastor and faculty mem-ber at Julienne HighSchool. In 1956, he wasnamed chaplain to theSisters of Notre Dame atVilla Julienne, Daytonand continued teachingat the high school.
In 1961, the Rev.Rohrkemper receivedhis first pastorate, St.John Fisher, in New-town, Cincinnati, withmission at St. Ann,Williamsburg. Fouryears later, he was ap-pointed pastor of St.Francis de Sales,Lebanon. In 1968, he re-ceived the call to be pas-tor of St. Boniface,Piqua. There he re-mained until 1976, whenhe was asked to assumethe pastorate of St.MaryParish, Greenville. Twoyears later, in 1978, theRev. Rohrkemper wascalled to be pastor at Sa-cred Heart Parish, Mc-Cartyville, where heserved until his retire-ment in 1987.
Active in retirement,the Rev. Rohrkemper
continued toserve the Arch-diocese, offeringMass and ad-ministering theSacraments on aregular basis atSt. PatrickParish in Troy,and in other
parishes where his serv-ices were welcomed.
The Rev. Rohrkemperregularly offered Massat several local nursinghomes. At Lehman HighSchool he also occasionalpresided at Masses forthe students.
He was preceded indeath by his parents Al-bert and HelenRohrkemper; and by histhree sisters, MaryShultz, Sister AlbertaRohrkemper and CeceliaBenezra.
He is survived byseven nieces andnephews, Helen andRobert Alig, Cecelia andRobert Grewe, Davidand Tina Benezra,Michael Benezra, MaryAnn Messing, Katherineand Michael Jenkins,and Elizabeth andRonald Warnock; and anumber of great niecesand nephews.Reception of the
body will take placeat St. Patrick Church,Troy, from 9 a.m. to10:15 a.m. on Fridaywith a Mass of Chris-tian Burial followingat 10:30 a.m. withArchbishop DennisSchnurr celebrant.Burial will take placeat Calvary Cemetery,Dayton.
Memorial donationsmay be made to the St.Charles Nursing Center,Carthagena. Also a spe-cial thank you to thestaff at St. CharlesNursing Center for tak-ing wonderful care of theRev. Rohrkemper.
Ruth Ann Frey, 72, ofWapakoneta, died at6:57 p.m., on Thursday,May 31, 2012, at the VanWert Hospice Center.
She was born May 19,1940, in Richmond, Ind.,the daughter of Haroldand Mildred (Layman)Laine, who preceded herin death.
OnMarch 4, 1972, shemarried Richard D.“Dick” Frey, and he sur-vives.
Other survivors in-clude a daughter,AndreaClarke, of Hartford,Ala.;three stepsons, Harry A.Frey, of Lima, WarnerWolfe, of Sidney, andRichard (Martha) Wolfe,of Fort Loramie; two stepgrandchildren; twobrothers, Jim(Willie) Laine, of Brad-ford, and Jack Laine, ofConover; and three sis-ters, Pat Pritchard, ofBradford, Linda(Harold) Simons, ofUnion City, and Janet(Jim) Miller, Covington.
She was preceded indeath by a son, Perry
Jones; and a sister,Diana Laine.
A homemaker, Ruthhad worked at ClarkGas Station, CertifiedGas Station, Troy Sun-shade, andWalmart,Wa-pakoneta. She enjoyedriding motorcycles andshopping.Funeral services
will be at 10:30 a.m.on Tuesday at the Wa-pakoneta CommunityWorship Center, Pas-tor Dan Holbrook offi-ciating. Burial willfollow in the PearlCemetery, Swanders.The family will re-
ceive friends from 2to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8p.m. today at theBayliff & Eley Fu-neral Home, Ohio 501,Wapakoneta, and onehour prior to the serv-ice, Tuesday at thechurch.
Memorial contribu-tions may be directed tothe Wapakoneta Com-munity Worship Center.
Condolences may beexpressed at www.baylif-fandeleyfh.com.
Irma L. FeldmanMINSTER — Irma L.
Feldman, 100, 31 W.Fifth St., died at 3:05a.m., on Saturday, June2, 2012, at Hospice ofDayton Inpatient Unit.
She was born Feb. 6,1912, in Fort Loramie, tothe late Christopher andCaroline (Stueve)Boerger.
She married RussellWoehrmyer in 1937, andhe preceded her in deathin 1944. She married hersecond husband HenryFeldman in 1948, and hepreceded her in death in1983.
She is survived bychildren, RobertWoehrmyer, of Dayton,Carol Ragalie, ofSharonville, John Feld-man, of West Chester,and Mary and TomSwett, of Ridgefield,Conn.; 11 grandchildren;and 13 great-grandchil-dren.
She was preceded indeath by her parents;both her husbands; herdaughter-in-law, CaroleWoehrmyer; and broth-
ers and sisters, HenryBoerger, Irene Coleman,Luella Blair, Marie Fis-cher, Leona Schlusher,Robert Olding,Viola For-rester, Elmer Olding.
She was a member ofSt. Augustine CatholicChurch,Minster, and theCL of C of the church.AMass of Christian
Burial will be held at10 a.m. on Wednesdayat St. AugustineCatholic Church, Min-ster with the Rev.Rick Nieberding cele-brant. Burial will bein St. AugustineCemetery.Friends may call at
the Hogenkamp Fu-neral Home, Minsterfrom 4 to 8 p.m. onTuesday and from 9 to9:30 a.m. on Wednes-day.
The family requestsdonations be made to theSt. Augustine BuildingFund.
Condolences may bemade at the funeralhome’s website atwww.hogenkampfh.com.
Additional obituariesappear on Page 3A
MinsterCouncilto meet
Lecture setWAPAKONETA —
The Auglaize CountyHistorical Society willhost a presentationabout “Gravestone Sym-bolism” Friday at 7:30p.m. at the NewKnoxville United Churchof Christ. Karen Bennett,a certified genealogistand member of the boardof trustees for the OhioGenealogical Society, willexplain what all thesymbols on tombstonesreally mean.The event isfree and open to the pub-lic.
The New KnoxvilleUnited Church of Christis located at the corner ofSt. Marys and Bremenstreets in New Knoxville.
The presentation ismade in conjunction withthe Gravestones for No-tices workshop, whichwill also be held in NewKnoxville Saturday.There is a charge to at-tend the workshop, butnot the Friday presenta-tion. For more informa-tion, contact theAuglaizeCounty Historical Soci-ety, (419) 738-9328, oraug l a i z e c oun tyh i s [email protected]. The His-torical Society is also onFacebook.
Founded in 1963, theAuglaize County Histor-ical Society collects, pre-serves, interprets, andshares the history ofAuglaize County and itspeople through exhibits,programs, and publica-tions.
COLUMBUS (AP) —When John Blaine real-ized 11-year-old MattWoodrum was strugglingthrough his 400-meterrace at school in centralOhio, the physical educa-tion teacher felt com-pelled to walk over andcheck on the boy.“Matt, you’re not going
to stop, are you?” he en-couragingly askedWoodrum, who has cere-bral palsy.“No way,” said the
dozens of Woodrum’sclassmates — many whohad participated earlierin the school’s field day—converged alongside him,running and cheering onWoodrum as he com-pleted his final lap underthe hot sun.The race on May 16,
captured on video byWoodrum’smother, is nowcapturing the attention ofstrangers on the Internet,many who call the boyand his classmates an in-spiration to be more com-passionate toward eachother. A nearly five-minute YouTube videoposted this week by theboy’s uncle has receivedmore than 680,000 views.Woodrum, who has
spastic cerebral palsythat greatly affects hismuscle movement, saidhe had a few momentswhere he struggled.“I knew I would finish
it,” said the soft-spokenWoodrum, who attendsColonial Hills Elemen-tary School in suburbanWorthington. “But therewere a couple of parts ofthe race where I reallyfelt like giving up.”It was his fourth race
of the day, and one he did-n’t have to run. Only ahandful of students optedto give it a try, said AnneCurran, Woodrum’smother. She said her sondoesn’t exclude himselffrom anything, playingfootball and baseball withfriends and his two broth-ers.“He pushes through
everything. He pushesthrough the pain, and hepushes through howeverlong it may take to com-plete a task,” she said.“Hewants to go big or gohome.”The sometimes shaky
footage shows Woodrumbeginning the race on asteady pace with hisclassmates, though hequickly lags. As several
students pass him ontheir second lap aroundthe grassy course, Blainewalks over to make sureWoodrum is OK.“The kids will tell you
that Matt never gives upon anything that he setsout to do,” said Blaine,who has been Woodrum’steacher since kinder-garten. “They knew hewould cross that finishline, and they wanted tobe a part of that.”During his second lap
and with Blaine by hisside, Woodrum is sud-denly joined by class-mates encouraging him tokeep going. Clapping andrunning by his side, thegroup begins to yell inunison, “Let’s go, Matt!Let’s go!”
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AARON COWAN, director of the Reed Gallery at the University of CincinnatiDAAP, displays several drawings done by Orville Simpson, Friday in Cincin-nati. Simpson, 89, who never finished high school and had no formal trainingas an architect donated thousands of drawings done over his life of his “Vic-tory City” to the university’s architecture and design college.
AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Lisa DeJomh
CHARDON HIGH School students (front row l-r) Carita Haverlock, Halle Her-ringshaw, John Martillotta, Ann O’Brien and Anna Parker recite the Pledge ofAllegiance during their commencement ceremony at the Mentor Schools FineArts Center in Mentor on Saturday. Chardon High School was the subject ofa school shooting on Feb. 27 in which 17-year-old T.J. Lane admitted firing atstudents sitting at a cafeteria table killing three and seriously wounding two,authorities say.
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THIS IMAGEmade Saturday from a video posted onYouTube on May 27, 11-year-old Matt Woodrum(third from left) is joined by physical educationteacher John Blaine (fourth from left) and other stu-dents during a 400-meter race at Colonial Hills Ele-mentary School in Worthington. The May 16 racecaptured on video by Woodrum’s mother, is nowcapturing the attention of strangers on the Internet,many who call the boy and his classmates an inspi-ration to bemore compassionate toward each other.
CHARDON (AP) —Graduating seniors at anOhio high school havecelebrated how theirclass pulled together inthe aftermath of a shoot-ing that killed three stu-dents and wounded twoothers earlier this year.Graduates and teach-
ers wore special red andblack ribbons as a sign ofunity and remembrance
as 265 Chardon HighSchool students receivedtheir diplomas Saturday.S i x t e e n - y e a r - o l d
Daniel Parmentor, 16-year-old DemetriusHewlin and 17-year-oldRussell King Jr. werekilled and two otherswere seriously woundedin the Feb. 27 shooting.Seventeen-year-old T.J.Lane, who attended a
nearby alternativeschool, has been charged.Senior class officer
Kelsey Crowley says thestudents became closerin the aftermath of theshooting, and they “triedto turn tragedy intosomething beautiful.”Principal Andy
Fetchik says the seniors“have helped us all toheal.”
Grads reflect on school shooting
Runner with cerebralpalsy becomes hit online
Ohio design school usesself-taught designer’s plansCINCINNATI (AP) —
When an 89-year-old,self-taught architecturaldesigner approached theUniversity of Cincin-nati’s design school aboutdonating his plans for acity of the future, officialsdidn’t just politely acceptthe six decades worth ofwork — they jumped atthe opportunity.Using the work of
someone who not only isself-taught but whonever even finished highschool is not typical fortop research schools, butofficials with the univer-sity’s College of Design,Architecture, Art andPlanning say OrvilleSimpson’s work is far
from typical. They wereso impressed with theCincinnati man’s intri-cate drawings and plansthat they were eager touse them as tools for in-spiring innovationamong students, facultyand researchers.“When I saw his work,
I thought he was a ge-nius,” said college deanRobert Probst. “His workis just amazing and farahead of its time.”Simpson started
thinking about ways tosolve urban sprawl prob-lems such as pollutionand dwindling resourceswhen he was a child rid-ing with his familythrough rural areas
under development. In1936, at the age of 13, hemade a rough drawing ofa model city housed in asingle building, but sayshe didn’t show it to any-one “because I thoughtthey would laugh.”A dream about an
ideal city became sovivid a few years laterthat he had to put itdown on paper. Simpsonhas since produced amountain of paper in-cluding everything fromrough scribbled sketchesto intricate drawingswith finely worked-outspecifications.“I would draw when-
ever I had another idea,”he said.
Teen dies hours before graduationELYRIA (AP) — A car
carrying five teenagerswent airborne as it spedover railroad tracks innortheast Ohio earlySunday and crashed,killing the 18-year-olddriver hours before hishigh school graduationand two of his passen-gers, the Ohio StateHighway Patrol said.The other two passen-
gers, one of them also animpending graduate,were hospitalized.Less than 13 hours
after the crash,Brunswick High Schoolstudents left empty seatscovered with flowers attheir graduation cere-mony to rememberdriver Jeffrey Chaya andKevin Fox, who was crit-ically injured.“It was very sad,” Su-
perintendent MichaelMayell said after thecommencement cere-mony at the Universityof Akron. “There were alot of tears.”The 2001 Chevrolet
Cavalier was traveling ata high speed just aftermidnight when Chayalost control in ColumbiaTownship, troopers atthe Elyria post said. Thecar went airborne and offthe right side of the road-way, then swerved acrossthe left side of the road,hit a ditch and tree, thenflipped over, according tothe troopers’ report.Chaya, a senior foot-
ball player, and two pas-sengers, 17-year-oldBlake Bartchak and 16-year-old Lexi Poerner,were killed, the patrolsaid.
Fox, a back-seat pas-senger, was thrown fromthe car into a ditch,troopers said. He wasflown to ClevelandMetro Health MedicalCenter, where he waslisted in critical condi-tion. Fox, 18, also wasscheduled to graduateSunday.The fifth person in the
car, identified by troopersas 17-year-old JuliaRomito, was taken toSouthwest General Hos-pital, which wouldn’t re-lease information on her.Fox and Chaya were
called during the com-mencement, which in-cluded a moment ofsilence and commentsabout the tragic accident,Mayell said. More than600 students graduatedSunday.
NEW YORK (AP) —Richard Dawson brought asaucy, unabashedly touchy-feely style to TV game showsas host of “Family Feud.”The British-born enter-
tainer, who died Saturday atage 79 from complications re-lated to esophageal cancer atRonald Reagan UCLA Med-ical Center in Los Angeles,earlier had made his mark inthe unlikely 1960s sitcom hit“Hogan’s Heroes,” whichmined laughs from a NaziPOW camp whose prisonershoodwink their captors andrun the place themselves.But it is as the kissing,
wisecracking quizmaster of“Feud” that he will be remem-bered.The show, which initially
ran from 1976 to 1985, pitteda pair of families against eachother as they tried to guessthe most popular answers topoll questions such as “Whatdo people give up when theygo on a diet?”Dawson made his hearty,
soaring pronouncement of thephrase “Survey says…” a na-tional catchphrase among theshow’s fans.He won a daytime Emmy
Award in 1978 as best gameshow host. Tom Shales of TheWashington Post called him“the fastest, brightest andmost beguilingly caustic in-terlocutor since the late greatGroucho bantered and parried
on ‘You Bet Your Life.’” Theshow was so popular it was re-leased as both daytime andsyndicated evening versions.And it was quickly vali-
dated by “Saturday NightLive,” with Bill Murray in asatirical homage to Dawson asa leering, nasty figure whoeven slapped one contestant(John Belushi) for getting toofresh.Not that everyone ap-
proved.
In his classic 1981 culturalanalysis “Within the Contextof No Context,” George W.S.Trow identified “the impor-tant moment in the history oftelevision” as the momentwhen Dawson asked his con-testants “to guess what a pollof 100 people had guessedwould be the height of the av-erage American woman.“Guess what they’ve
guessed,” sniffed Trow, harp-ing on the meaninglessness of
such an enterprise. “Guesswhat they’ve guessed the AV-ERAGE is.”Obviously, “Feud” fans
would have feuded withTrow’s dismissive attitude.For one thing, Dawson
played the show, and his du-ties presiding over it, forlaughs.On one episode, he posed
this question to a contestant:“During what month of preg-nancy does a woman begin tolook pregnant?”She blurted out “Septem-
ber,” then, too late, realizedthis was a ridiculous re-sponse.All the better for Dawson,
who couldn’t stop laughing —or milking the moment forcontinued laughs from the au-dience.His swaggering, randy
manner (and working-bloke’sBritish accent) set him apartfrom other TV quizmasters,who, more often than not,tempered any boisterous incli-nations with defiant smooth-ness. Not Dawson, who wasovertly physical, prone to in-vading his contestants’ per-sonal space — and especiallythe women, each of whom hekissed without exception.At the time the show bowed
out in 1985, executive pro-ducer Howard Felsher esti-mated that Dawson hadkissed “somewhere in thevicinity of 20,000.”
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Acommercial airliner crashedinto a densely populated neigh-borhood in Nigeria’s largestcity on Sunday, killing all 153people on board and others onthe ground in the worst air dis-aster in nearly two decades forthe troubled nation.The cause of the Dana Air
crash remained unknown Sun-day night, as firefighters andpolice struggled to put out theflames around the wreckage ofthe Boeing MD83 aircraft. Au-thorities could not control thecrowd of thousands gatheredaround to see the crash site,with some crawling over theplane’s broken wings andstanding on a still-smolderinglanding gear.Harold Demuren, the direc-
tor-general of Nigeria’s CivilAviation Authority, said all onboard the flight were killed inthe crash. Lagos state govern-ment said in a statement that153 people were on the flighttraveling from Nigeria’s cen-tral capital ofAbuja to Lagos inthe nation’s southwest.The flight’s pilots radioed to
the Lagos control tower just be-fore the crash, saying the planehad engine trouble, a militaryofficial said. The official spokeon condition of anonymity ashe was not authorized to speakto journalists.Rescue officials fearedmany
others were killed or injured onthe ground, but no casualty fig-
ures were immediately avail-able. Firefighters and local res-idents were seen carrying thecorpse of aman from one build-ing, its walls still crumblingand flames shooting from itsroof more than an hour afterthe crash.President Goodluck
Jonathan later declared threedays of national mourning in
Africa’s most populous nation.Jonathan “prays that God
Almighty will grant the fami-lies of the victims of the planecrash the courage and fortitudeto bear their irreparable loss,”a statement from his officeread.The aircraft appeared to
have landed on its belly intothe dense neighborhood that
sits along the typical approachpath taken by aircraft headinginto Lagos’ MurtalaMuhammed International Air-port. The plane tore throughroofs, sheared a mango treeand rammed into a woodwork-ing studio, a printing press andat least two large apartmentbuildings in the neighborhoodbefore stopping.
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Zimmermanback in jail
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MIAMI (AP) — GeorgeZimmerman, the formerneighborhood watch volun-teer charged with murderin the killing of TrayvonMartin, surrendered to po-lice Sunday andwas bookedinto a central Florida jailtwo days after his bond wasrevoked.Zimmerman’s legal team
said in a tweet Sunday af-ternoon that he was in po-lice custody. Circuit JudgeKenneth Lester revokedZimmerman’s bond on Fri-day, saying the defendantand his wife had lied to thecourt inApril about their fi-nances so he could obtain alower bond.About 40 minutes before
the 2:30 p.m. Sunday dead-line to surrender, the Semi-nole County jail websitelisted Zimmerman as an in-mate. He was being heldwithout bail and had $500in his jail account, the web-site showed.
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RESCUE WORKERS search for survivals after a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday. A pas-senger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, gov-ernment officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged bythe crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.
AP Photo/Randy Ramussen, File
IN THIS June 25, 1980 file photo, as host Richard Dawson(center) watches, Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett(right) grimaces and Cowboys cheerleader Suzette Scholz-Derrick waves happily after Suzette beat Dorsett with a cor-rect answer during taping of the “Family Feud” game show atABC television studios in Los Angeles.
Plane crash kills 153
‘Family Feud’ host Richard Dawson dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) —After a record-breaking 25hours on a Ferris Wheel,Los Angeles police Detec-tive Gus Martinez likelyknows better than anyonethat what goes aroundcomes around.Martinez climbed aboard
the 130-foot-tall wheel atSanta Monica Pier's PacificPark at 7:30 a.m.Thursday.Except for hourly five-minute breaks, he didn'tstop riding it until 8:30 a.m.Friday.Several hours into his
run,he didn't even bother totake some of the allottedbreaks.“He finished quite
solidly,” said GuinnessWorld Records adjudicatorPhilip Robertson,who trav-eled from London to thepark to verify that an offi-cial Guinness record wasbeing set. The previousmark, 24 hours and 30min-utes, was set by awoman inDublin, Ireland, last year.
ParamedicsmurderedMORELIA,Mexico (AP)
— Police in Mexico havefound the tortured bodiesof three young paramedicsand a salesman with gun-shot wounds along a high-way in the western state ofMichoacan.State prosecutor’s
spokesman JonathanArredondo says the menwere last seen by their rel-atives two days beforethey were discovered Sat-urday near the town of LaAngostura.Arredondo said Sunday
the motives for the killingsare not clear.The men were aged 18
to 23 and came from theneighboring state ofJalisco.
Mubarak receives life sentenceCAIRO (AP) — Former
President Hosni Mubarak hasreceived a life sentence for fail-ing to stop the killing of pro-testers during Egypt’suprising. But he and his sonshave been cleared of corrup-tion charges, setting offprotests for greater accounta-bility for 30 years of abusesunder the old regime.By nightfall on Saturday, a
large crowd of up to 10,000was back in Cairo’s TahrirSquare, the birthplace of theuprising, to vent anger overthe acquittals. Similar protestswent on in the Mediterraneanport city of Alexandria andSuez on the Red Sea.“Justice was not served,”
said Ramadan Ahmed, whoseson was killed on Jan. 28, thebloodiest day of last year’s up-rising. “This is a sham,” he saidoutside the courthouse.Protesters chanted: “A farce,
a farce, this trial is a farce” and“The people want execution of
the murderer.”The case against Mubarak,
his sons, and top aides wasvery limited in scope, focusingonly on the uprising’s firstfew days and two narrow cor-ruption cases. It was nevergoing to provide a full ac-countability of wrongdoingunder Mubarak’s threedecades of authoritarian ruleenforced by a brutal policeforce and a coterie of busi-nessmen linked to the regimewho amassed wealth whilenearly half of Egypt’s esti-mated 85 million people livedin poverty.Mubarak, 84, and his ex-se-
curity chief Habib el-Adly wereboth convicted of complicity inthe killings of some 900 pro-testers and received life sen-tences. Six top policecommanders were acquitted ofthe same charge with chiefJudge Ahmed Rifaat sayingthere was a lack of concrete ev-idence.
That absolved the onlyother representatives ofMubarak’s hated securityforces aside from el-Adly. Itwas a stark reminder thatthough the head has been re-moved, the body of the reviledsecurity apparatus is largelyuntouched by genuine reformor purges since Mubarak wasousted 15 months ago.Many of the senior security
officials in charge during theuprising and the Mubarakregime continue to go to workevery day at their old jobs.In many ways, the old sys-
tem remains in place and theclearest example of that is akey regime figure —Mubarak’s longtime friend andlast prime minister AhmedShafiq — is one of two candi-dates going to the presidentialrunoff set for June 16-17. OnSaturday, Shafiq’s campaignheadquarters in the cities ofFayyoum and Hurghada wereattacked and damaged.
The generals who took overfrom Mubarak have notshown a will for vigorouslyprosecuting the old regime.That is something that nei-ther Shafiq and challengerMohammed Morsi may havethe political will or the muscleto change when one is electedpresident.Shafiq last week declared
himself an admirer of the up-rising, calling it a “religiousrevolution” and pledged therewould be no turning of theclock while he is at the helm.On Saturday, he said the ver-dict showed that no on wasabove the law in today’s Egypt.Morsi of the fundamentalist
Muslim Brotherhood quicklytried to capitalize on the angerover the acquittals, vowing ina news conference that, ifelected, he would retryMubarak along with formerregime officials suspected ofinvolvement in killing protest-ers.
CrackdowndefendedBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian
President BasharAssad de-fended his government’scrackdown on opponentsSunday, saying a doctor per-forming messy emergencysurgery does not have bloodon his hands if he is tryingto save a patient.In his first speech since
January, Assad appearedunmoved by scathing in-ternational criticism of hisferocious response to the15-month-old revoltagainst his rule, which haskilled up to 13,000 people,according to activistgroups. He also denied re-sponsibility for last week’sHoula massacre of morethan 100 people, sayingnot even “monsters” wouldcarry out such an uglycrime.
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LOCALIFECOMMUNITY CALENDAR
This Evening• Minster Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m.
at the Minster Historical Society Museum, 112Fourth St., Minster.• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of
Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell RoadChurch, 340 W. Russell Road.• Women of the Moose meets at 7 p.m. at the
Moose Lodge, on the corner of Broadway Avenueand Russell Road.• Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for
anyone desiring to stop eating compulsively, meetsat 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. MainSt., Bellefontaine.• Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new mem-bers are welcome. For more information, call TomFrantz at 492-7075.• TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7
p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road,New Bremen.• Anna Civic Association meets at 7:30 p.m. at
the Anna Library. Newmembers with new ideas al-ways are welcome.
Tuesday Morning• Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster
will offer stories in Paris Street Park at 10 a.m.
Tuesday Afternoon• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at
Work, meets at noon at St. John’s LutheranChurch, 120 W.Water St.
Tuesday Evening• Head, Neck and Oral Cancer Support Group
for patients and caregivers meets at St. Rita’s Re-gional Cancer Center in the Garden ConferenceRoom from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, call(419) 227-3361.• PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Les-
bians and Gays) meets at 6 p.m. in the second floorboard room of the Public Service Building on theOSU/Rhodes campus, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima.For more information, call (419) 581-6065, [email protected].• Asthma Awareness educational classes will be
held at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital,St. Marys, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Registration is notrequired and the class is free. For more informa-tion, call Stacy Hilgefort at (419) 394-3335, ext.2004.• Minster Veterans of Foreign Wars meets for
lunch at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall onSouth Cleveland Street,Minster.A meeting will fol-low the meal.• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the
Basics, meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Apostolic Temple,210 Pomeroy Ave.• Pleaides Chapter 298 Order of the Eastern
Star meets at the Masonic Temple at the corner ofMiami Avenue and Poplar Street at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Morning• The Downtown Business Association meets at
8 a.m. at TWT Shirts, 115 E. North St.• The Sidney Kiwanis Club meets at 11:30 a.m.
at the Moose Lodge. Lunch is held until noon, fol-lowed by a club meeting and program.
Wednesday Afternoon• Jackson Center Senior Citizens meets at 1 p.m.
at the Jackson Center Family Life Center.
Wednesday Evening• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Labor of
Love, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian Church,320 E. Russell Road.• GriefShare, a recovery seminar and support
group, meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at St. JosephParish Life Center, 101 W. Pearl St., Wapakoneta.All adults experiencing grief are welcome. Call(937) 693-6251 for more information.
Thursday Morning• Super Star Storytime takes place at the New
Bremen Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Stories andcrafts for children 6 and under who can sit inde-pendently of parent.
Thursday Afternoon• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at
Work, meets at noon at St. John’s LutheranChurch, 120 W.Water St.• Shelby County Toastmasters meets at noon at
the Sidney-Shelby County YMCA. Guests are wel-come. For more information, contact Ed Trudeau at498-3433 or [email protected] or visitthe website at shelby.freetoasthost.ws.• The Amos Memorial Public Library offers
homework help from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Thursday Evening• The Narcotics Anonymous group, All in the
Family, meets at 7 p.m. at First United MethodistChurch, 230 Poplar St.• Minster Garden Club meets at 7 p.m. at the
Old Minster Council Chambers, Minster.
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ation! Here is a sugges-tion to try: Make a pasteof flour and hydrogen per-oxide. You want it dampbut still a thick consis-tency. Place the paste ontop of the stain.Cover thearea with plastic (you cantape around the edges tokeep it in place, but usepainter’s tape). Let it sitfor 24 to 48 hours. Scrapeoff the paste and rinse thearea with water. Thispaste should draw out thestain. Repeat steps ifneeded.If you are still having
trouble after a few at-tempts, call a stone spe-cialist. — Heloise
GOODY BAGSDear Heloise: At my
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bags. They were super-cute and also very handyfor later. It was such agreat idea that I now usereusable bags as gift bags.They come in many nicedesigns, and usually arecheaper than actual giftbags.— Linda, via emailYou are right, Linda—
these bags are cute! Andit is a gift that keeps ongiving! — Heloise
SOUND OFFDear Heloise: How do
you feel about trying todecipher the expiration,sell-by or use-by dates onover-the-counter drugs orfood? It drives me crazy. Ifeel there should be clear,permanent and easily de-cipherable dates. Theyoften are impossible tofigure out — companiesseem to have their owncodes. It should take a fewseconds to know the expi-ration, use-by or sell-bydate and what it means,whether in a store or onmy shelf at home!—Car-olynWall, via email
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Troy — WACO His-torical Society will offera first aid/CPR classJune 16 at the WACOAir Museum, 1865 S.County Road 25A.The course will cover
how to react to a stroke,cardiac arrest, and otheremergencies. It also willcover how to treatwounds and care for theinjured. Participants willreceive a completioncard for first aid/CPRand automatic cardiacdefibrillator (AED)training. The DaytonAero Cadet Squadron706 based at WACO willprovide the certified in-struction.The event will be from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with anhour for lunch. Partici-pants will be responsiblefor their own lunches.The registration fee is$20, and the registrationdeadline is June 11.Class size is limited. Toregister, send name, ad-dress, phone, email ad-dress, and check payableto WACO Historical So-ciety to 1865 S. CountyRoad 25A, Troy, OH45373.To register online,go to www.wacoairmu-seum.org and click the“events” tab. For infor-mation, call (937) 335-9226 or [email protected].
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Norbert Homan, ofSidney, will celebratehis 90thbirthdayS u n d a yat ano p e nh o u s efrom 1 to4 p.m. att h eH o m a nInc. Har-v e s tBarn, 6915 Olding Road,Maria Stein.He requests that gifts
be omitted.Homan was born
June 11, 1922, in St.Rose, the son of the lateHenry and ElizabethThieman Homan. Hegrew up in Osgood andmarried Anna Gutman,who died in 1997.They have a son and
daughter-in-law, Tomand Christine Homan,of Sidney; and threestepgrandsons: CraigHeitzman, of Tipp City,and Christopher Heitz-man and Cole Heitz-man, both of WestMilton.Homan worked at
Rutschilling Sawmill inSt. Henry and retiredfrom Sidney Truck &Storage. He served inthe U.S. Army in the Eu-ropean Theater duringWorld War II.Homan is a life mem-
ber of the American Le-gion and he is a memberof Holy Angels CatholicChurch.Cards can be mailed
to him at 840 S. MiamiAve., Sidney, OH 45365.For information, call538-6223.
Homan
90th birthdaycelebration set
Three teachers fromHoly Angels CatholicSchool have taught theirfinal lesson plans andhave retired after a com-bined 94 years of serviceand dedication to theschool.Ginny Lauber, Jill
O’Leary and CindyWag-ner said goodbye to stu-dents for the last timewhen the school yearended recently.Lauber has been a
teacher for 39 years, allof them at Holy Angels.Originally from Botkinsand now living in Sidney,Lauber remembered herfirst-grade teacher in-spiring her at an earlyage. She attendedBotkins High School andwent on to get her de-gree in music educationfrom the College ofMount St. Joseph.Lauber then received adegree in elementary ed-ucation from WrightState University and hermaster’s degree from theUniversity of Dayton.She originally taughtmusic and math at HolyAngels, but later transi-tioned to teaching sec-ond grade which shetaught for 34 years.
‘Sparkle’“I love seeing the
sparkle in my students’eyes, that light bulb thatgoes on when they catchon,” said Lauber. “That isabsolutely the best.”One of Lauber’s fa-
vorite things about beinga second-grade teacherat Holy Angels is prepar-ing her students forFirst Communion.“Over the years, I
have helped prepareclose to 1,000 studentsfor their First Commun-ion. This will remainvery special to me,” shesaid. “I am not retiring. Iam finally graduatingfrom second grade!”She is looking forward
to gardening, golfing andtraveling with her hus-band, Steve, during herretirement. She is alsoexcited to have more
time to sew and quilt.Lauber is the mother oftwo children who wentto Holy Angels andLehman Catholic HighSchool.O’Leary taught at
Holy Angels for 20 yearsand had been an educa-tor since 1969. She re-tired from teaching thirdgrade but had taughtother grades while atHoly Angels. O’Learypreviously taught atLehman Catholic HighSchool and PiquaCatholic School. Bornand raised in Sidney,O’Leary attended bothelementary and highschool at Holy Angels.She received her degreein elementary educationfrom the College ofMount St. Joseph.‘Loved children’“I have always loved
children and knew Iwanted to be a teacherafter baby-sitting andbeing a Girl Scout coun-selor,” O’Leary said.Her favorite thing to
do with her students wasto visit the church. Sheloved being a teacher ata Catholic school be-cause, she said. “It al-lows me the freedom toshare faith in any sub-ject at any time. That isa joy.”All six of O’Leary’s
children attended HolyAngels and then went toLehman Catholic HighSchool. She has four ofher grandchildren at-tending Holy Angels.O’Leary is excited
that her retirement willallow her to spend moretime with her 15 grand-children, she said. Herhusband, Jim, is also a
r e t i r e dC a t h o l i ceducator.They planto travel toE u r o p ethis sum-mer to seetheir sono r d a i n e das a dea-c o n .
O’Leary said she will notmiss grading papers andwill instead use her timeto read, work crosswordpuzzles and play cards.Wagner has retired
from Holy Angels after35 years.Wagner also at-tended Holy Angels forboth elementary andhigh school. Holy AngelsHigh School transitionedinto Lehman CatholicHigh School during hersenior year, makingWagner a member of thefirst graduating class ofLehman. She went on toreceive both her Bache-lor of Science and Mas-ter of Science inelementary educationfrom the University ofDayton.‘Become teacher’“I knew I wanted to
become a teacher when Iwas 8 years old and inthe second grade,” Wag-ner said.She spent 31 years as
the kindergartenteacher. She came toHoly Angels after threeyears at St. Albert theGreat in Kettering.Wag-ner was a third-gradeteacher during her firstfour years at Holy An-gels. She accepted thekindergarten positionafter another teacher,Gail Frantz, urged herto do so.Wagner enjoyedseeing things from herstudents’ perspective.“I love the way they
see the world,” she said.Wagner will help her
daughter, who is pursu-ing a certified registerednurse anesthetist de-gree.Wagner will be tak-ing care of her 1-year-oldgranddaughter whileher daughter completes
clinical internships. Sheand her husband, Tony,will also stay busycheering on their othertwo grandchildren atsporting events.“I look forward to
having the freedom toenjoy my family,” Wag-ner said.She and Tony, who is
retired from educationas well, have threedaughters and threegrandchildren. All threeof their daughters at-tended both Holy AngelsCatholic School andLehman Catholic HighSchool.Lauber, O’Leary and
Wagner agree thatteaching at Holy AngelsCatholic School was aprivilege.
‘Life lessons’“It’s a total student
education,” Lauber said.“We are able to bring inlife lessons of being agood Christian at anytime during the day.”Kevin Behr, a former
Holy Angels student andLehman graduate, hastwo daughters at HolyAngels. His daughtershave had some of thesame teachers he hadwhen he was a studentthere.“Teachers staying so
long at Holy Angels is atestament to the missionof Catholic education.Holy Angels studentsare so blessed to havesuch great role models,”he said.“We are so thankful
for the years of hardwork these teachershave given our school,”said Kara Sollmann,school board vice presi-dent.
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The Sidney Noon KiwanisClub has named Mark RyanHumphreys its June 2012Teenof the Month.Humphreys has just gradu-
ated from Fort Loramie HighSchool, where he ranked sec-ond in his class with a grade-point average of 3.94.He is the son of Mark and
Norma Humphreys. He hastwo siblings, Jace, 20, and Jor-dyn, 15.Humphreys’ academic activities,
honors and awards include NationalHonor Society, class officer, studentcouncil,Mathlete, History Club, Span-ish Club, elementary volunteer,teacher’s aide and JETS. He was the
salutatorian of his class, anAmerican LegionAmericanismTest winner, and earned ascholar athlete award and anOHSAA Scholar AthleteAward.Among his extracurricular
and community activities, hon-ors and awards are football,basketball, flag football coordi-nator, Buckeye Boys State andMass server. He was part of the
district basketball championship teamin 2010, the state playoff runner-upfootball team in 2010 and made threestate playoff appearances in football.Humphreys plans to attend the
Ohio State University to major in zo-ology and premedicine.
The Sidney Rotary Club will raffle two, three-daystage-front seats, including deluxe catered meals,VIP-area access, and photo opportunities with someof the stars at Country Concert 2012 in Newport.The event takes place July 5-7. Entries must be
received by June 28. Tickets are $5 each or a bookof five for $20. Rotary members also have raffletickets available. The drawing will take place June29.Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Rotary
Club’s annual scholarship program, which providesfinancial assistance to high school graduates.A raffle ticket order form is available on the
home page of the Country Concert website atwww.countryconcert.com. Buyers may print, com-plete, and mail the form with a check to the RotaryClub.“We are very pleased to be a partner with Coun-
try Concert 2012 organizers for this fundraiser,”said Rotary President Scott Barhorst. “The realwinners of this project will be local students whowill be receiving scholarships from the proceeds.”The prize package was donated by Country Con-
cert 2012 to the Sidney Rotary Club.
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Humphreys named Teen of Month
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67 graduate from Houston High SchoolHOUSTON — Hous-
ton High School held itsgraduation ceremonySunday afternoon in theschool’s athletic annexwith 67 graduates re-ceiving diplomas.The invocation was
given by Pastor DonTrumbell of the Locking-ton United MethodistChurch. The class vale-dictorians — HeatherBrubaker, Austin Dit-mer, Kristi Elliot,Bethany Reister and Al-lison Roeth — and salu-tatorian Jill Walker —then addressed the audi-ence.The Class of 2012 se-
lected camouflage as theclass color, and the classflower is the dandelion.The class motto is “Life’sa garden. Dig it.” Theclass song is “Tattoos onthis Town” by JasonAldean.The ceremony fea-
tured a senior slide show.Seniors HeatherBrubaker, Gary Phipps,Allison Roeth and JillWalker worked withteacher Glenn Brown tocreate and produce theslide show.Those receiving a
Diploma with Honorswere John Bickel,Heather Brubaker,Austin Ditmer, AdamMullen and AllisonRoeth.Students receiving
the Award of Merit wereMallorie Bell, NoahClark, Josh Dulaney,Brandon Ike, David Lo-raine, John Bickel,Heather Brubaker,Kristi Elliot, AlishaHuffman,Ashley Jacobs,Adam Mullen, MeganPhyllaier, Bethany Reis-ter, Allison Roeth, JillWalker and Luke Win-ner.The Top Ten Scholars
are Bethany Reister, 4.0;Austin Ditmer, 4.0, Alli-son Roeth, 4.0; HeatherBrubaker, 4.0; Kristi El-liot, 4.0; Jill Walker,3.9795; Alisha Huffman,3.9777; Adam Mullen,3.9564; Luke Winner,3.8559; and John Bickel,3.844.Scholarships recipi-
ents include GaryPhipps, $500, Scott Ayers
Memorial; Allison Roethand Adam Mullen, $250,Hardin-HoustonAthleticBooster; Kristi Elliot,Houston Band Booster;Heather Brubaker,Adam Mullen, BethanyReister and Luke Win-ner, $300, Hardin-Hous-ton Board of Education;Luke Winner, $1,000,Hardin-Houston Educa-tionAssociation;HeatherBrubaker, Kristi Elliot,Adam Mullen, AllisonRoeth and Jill Walker,$500, Houston Commu-nity Improvement Asso-ciation; HeatherBrubaker, $1,000, Kauff-man Family Foundation;Bethany Reister and Al-lison Roeth, $1,000,Mary E. Patterson Schol-arship; Adam Mullen,$1,000, Clarence KnouffMemorial; Alisha Huff-man, $1,000, GraceKnouff Memorial;MasonYingst, $250, PepsiScholarship; and MeganPhyllaier, $1,000, Royand Getrude Roeth Me-morial.
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HOUSTON HIGH School seniors pray with Pastor Don Trumbell during their graduation ceremony Sunday. This is the first class tograduate from the new high school.
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HOUSTON HIGH School class President Allison Roeth gives her student address duirng the HoustonHigh School graduation ceremony Sunday. Roeth is the daughter of Roger and Sharon Roeth.
‘Snow White’ puts bite on box office with $56.3MLOS ANGELES (AP)
— “Snow White & theHuntsman” turned outto be a fairer box-officebeauty than Hollywoodanticipated.According to studio
estimates Sunday, Uni-versal Pictures’ actionyarn inspired by thefairy-tale princess de-buted strongly at No. 1with $56.3 million do-mestically. That’s about$20 million higher thanindustry expectations.Without the built-in
business that generallygoes with a sequel,“Snow White” was aquestion mark as a drawfor young males whotypically make up mostof the action crowd. Themovie wound up draw-ing a fairly even audi-ence, with female fansaccounting for 53 per-cent of viewers.“We weren’t even
thinking we could do be-yond $40 million, espe-cially for a title whereyou didn’t know if themales are going to showup. And they did,” saidNikki Rocco, head of dis-tribution for Universal.Overseas, “Snow
White” added $39.3 mil-lion in 45 markets, put-ting the worldwide totalat $95.6 million for themovie that stars KristenStewart, CharlizeTheron and ChrisHemsworth.“Snow White”
bumped Sony’s “Men inBlack 3” from the topspot and into second-
place with $29.3 million.The Will Smith-TommyLee Jones sequel raisedits domestic total to$112.3 million after twoweekends and added$78.6 million overseasfor an international takeof $274.6 million and aworldwide gross of
$386.9 million.Disney’s superhero
sensation “TheAvengers” remainedstrong at No. 3 with$20.3 million, lifting itsdomestic total to $552.7million. “The Avengers”climbed past “The DarkKnight” at $533.3 mil-
lion to become No. 3 all-time on the domesticrevenue chart, behind“Avatar” at $760.5 mil-lion and “Titanic” at$658.5 million.Adding $12.4 million
overseas, “TheAvengers” pushed its in-ternational haul to
$802.5 million and itsworldwide earnings to$1.36 billion. Thatraised it past last year’s“Harry Potter” finale at$1.33 billion to put “TheAvengers” at No. 3 in all-time revenue worldwide,also behind only“Avatar” ($2.8 billion)
and “Titanic” ($2.2 bil-lion).Ridley Scott’s “Alien”
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LOCAL NEWS Sidney Daily News, Monday, June 4, 2012 Page 11A
Time is auniversal
healerDR. WAL-
LACE: Twomonths ago myex - b oy f r i endand a friendwere killed in aterrible car acci-dent. Their carveered off theroad and both ofthem died in-stantly whenthe car rolledover and downan embank-ment. When I heardabout it, I went into totalshock, and I couldn’teven bear to attend thefuneral and see him inthe casket.We had broken up
four months ago and hadbeen discussing the pos-sibility of getting back to-gether again. I thought Iloved him, but I wasn’tquite sure. But now, I re-alize that I really didlove him, and I keepthinking about himevery waking moment.The last words that Iheard him say to me onmy cellphone were,“Honey, I love you.” Andnow I will never hearhim say those wordsagain.I’m a high school sen-
ior, and I will be attend-ing college in the fall, so Iam trying to keep upwith my studies, but Ihave trouble concentrat-ing in class. I feel so help-less and depressed, but Idon’t know what to do toease my pain. Please tellme what I can do to getback on track. — Name-less, Somewhere in Fla.
NAMELESS: Theysay that “time” is the uni-versal healer of allwounds, both physicaland emotional. Your de-pression and sadnesswill eventually fade andmemories of happiertimes will remain. Youwill never forget thistragic event and the lossof your close friend, butas you begin the newchapter of your life, youwill be busy creating newfriendships and memo-ries to add to the happyones of the past.If your depression con-
tinues and you feel youare incapable of over-coming the loss of yourfriend, please seek pro-fessional counseling.Contact me in a fewweeks and let me knowof your healing process.
DR. WALLACE: Myhusband and I are both20, and we have a 2-year-old daughter. We have
never had ababy sitter be-cause mymother helpedus when wewere luckyenough to get anight out alone.About a
month ago, mymom and dadhad to move toSacramento be-cause of his job.We will now
have a 16-year-old neigh-bor girl be our regularsitter whenever we goout. She has a baby-sit-ting certificate from theRed Cross; she is depend-able; and she has baby-sat for other neighbors,so I feel comfortable withher. This is very impor-tant for me, and I need toask your advice. Shouldwe set the hourly rate orask the young lady whather rate is? Also, are weexpected to supplysnacks and if so, whatkind? I really appreciateyour help.—Mother, SanJose, Calif.
MOTHER: It’s not ab-solutely mandatory, butthe great majority of par-ents supply snacks forbaby sitters.As you know,teens have insatiable ap-petites. You should con-tact the sitter and ask herabout her hourly rate (itusually increases aftermidnight).While chattingwith her, find out whather favorite snacks areand then make themavailable. You should al-ways leave written in-structions for the sitter, alist of emergency num-bers, and your cellphonenumber or the number ofthe place where you willbe. Also, leave the num-ber of another adult fam-ilymember or close friendin the event you cannotbe reached right away.An experienced and
reliable sitter is worthevery penny she is paid.You are indeed fortunateto have an excellent sub-stitute for your mom!
Dr.RobertWallace wel-comes questions fromreaders. Although he isunable to reply to all ofthem individually, he willanswer as many as possi-ble in this column. Emailhim at [email protected]. To find out moreabout Dr. Robert Wallaceand read features byother Creators Syndicatewriters and cartoonists,visit the Creators Syndi-cate website at www.cre-ators.com.
’Tween12 & 20Dr. RobertWallace
YOUR HOROSCOPES
BY FRANCIS DRAKE
What kind of day will tomor-row be? To find out what the starssay, read the forecast given foryour birth sign.For Tuesday, June 5, 2012
ARIES (March 21 to April 19)This is a tricky day because it’s
a fun-loving day, yet it’s also anaccident-prone day for your sign.Be careful. Think before youspeak or do anything.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)This is a good day for business
and commerce, because you feelconfident about financial matters.You’ll also enjoy shopping. (Travelplans might change.)GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)Everyone enjoy being in your
company today. Nevertheless,keep an eye on your bank accountand anything having to do withshared property to avoid sur-prises.CANCER (June 21 to July 22)Even though you are happy to
be behind the scenes today, some-thing unexpected will occur withpartners and close friends. You’llhave to deal with this; you haveno choice.LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)Your relationships with others
are warm and friendly today.
Enjoy good times. Canceled meet-ings, computer crashes and staffshortages are likely at work.VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)You might be attracted to
someone in a position of author-ity today. Meanwhile, others willseek your creative advice. Parentshould be extra vigilant abouttheir kids today, because this isan accident-prone day for them.LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)Travel anywhere will delight
you today, because you feel ad-venturous! You want to learn newthings. Pay attention to mattersat home, because minor accidentsare possible.SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)This is a passionate day for ro-
mantic partners. It’s also a goodday for financial negotiations ordividing something like an inher-itance. (Guard against accidentstoday.)
SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
Relations with partners andclose friends are especially warmand friendly today. Nevertheless,expect a few financial surprises.Guard your possessions againstloss or theft. Keep your receipts.
CAPRICORN(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
Things will go smoothly at
work today because co-workersare friendly and supportive. De-spite this assistance, somethingwill catch you off guard. Expectsurprise detours to your day.
AQUARIUS(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
This is a fun-loving, flirtatiousday! Enjoy the arts, sports, ro-mance and playful times withchildren. However, be on guardfor hidden surprises, because theyare there!PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20)Home and family are warm
and fuzzy today. Relations withfamily members, especially par-ents, are good. This is also an ex-cellent day for real-estatenegotiations. (But a friend mightsurprise you.)
YOU BORN TODAY You areso modern and original in yourtake on things, others frequentlydo not understand you. You havean excellent sense of humor anda quick mind. You’re an organ-ized, systematic thinker. Peopleare attracted to the enthusiasmyou have for your ideas and proj-ects. In the year ahead, you beginan entirely new nine-year cycle.Open any door!Birthdate of: Bill Moyers, jour-
nalist/TV host; Amanda Crew, ac-tress; Mark Wahlberg, actor.
BY FRANCIS DRAKE
What kind of day will tomorrowbe? To find out what the stars say,read the forecast given for yourbirth sign.ForWednesday, June 6, 2012ARIES (March 21 to April 19)Because you have lots of energy
to work today, youwill make a goodimpression on bosses, parents andVIPs. Nevertheless, relations withpartners and close friendsmight bestrained.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)Plans to travel or study some-
thing interesting energize youtoday. Don’t let someone older (es-pecially at work) discourage you,which might very likely happen.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)Today you can make a lot of
changes to improve things at homeor within your family. Neverthe-less, difficulties with romanticpartners and increased responsi-bilities with children are likely.CANCER (June 21 to July 22)You’re unusually forceful in all
your communications with otherstoday. This is a good day for thoseof you who sell, market, teach ordrive for a living. Don’t be discour-aged by criticisms from an olderfamily member.
LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)It’s a popular day for you!
Everyone wants to see your face.Be patient with co-workers whomight not agree. (Oh, dear.)VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)This is an energetic day to so-
cialize, do business or both. How-ever, keep an eye on your finances.Make friends with your bank ac-count.LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)Today you have the energy to
make positive changes at home.(You are always affected by the ap-pearance of things.) Probably, anolder family member wants thingsto stay the same. (It was everthus.)SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)This is a mildly accident-prone
day for your sign, so be careful.Slow down and take it easy. Allowextra wiggle room for everything.
SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
This is an interesting day foryour finances and cash flow. In oneway, it’s positive, because you’reambitious to boost your earnings.However, something unexpectedcould create a setback. Be careful.
CAPRICORN(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
You’re quite emotional today,
because the Moon is in your sign,lined up with fiery Mars. Just doyour thing. Don’t let bosses orsomeone older rain on your pa-rade.
AQUARIUS(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
Behind-the-scenes researchcould yield the answers you need.Be careful that you don’t step onany toes, especially legally speak-ing. Be smart.PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20)Social situations, especially
with groups, will be positive andupbeat today. The only downsideis that there might not be enoughgoodies for everyone. Be aware ofthis.
YOU BORN TODAY You areartistic, original and creative.You have a vision that inspiresyou. Because of this vision,you’re extremely goal-oriented.If possible, you like to enlightenothers around you. Sometimesyou are viewed as eccentric orbizarre because you insist onbeing true to yourself. In theyear ahead, you’ll have a strongfocus on partnerships and closefriendships.Birthdate of: Robert Englund,
actor; Emilie-Claire Barlow, jazzsinger; Bjorn Borg, tennis player.
The annual meetingof the Shelby CountyDi s t r i c tH e a l t hAdvisoryC oun c i lwas heldrecentlyand elec-t i o n swere heldfor 2012officers.Shelby
County CommissionerJulie Ehemann waselected as chairwomanfor another term andBob Guillozet of ClintonTownship was elected assecretary.There were also two
positions for healthboard members. Thefirst position is for a fullterm that ends in 2017.This position is held byTom Finkenbine, who isnot seeking re-election.The other open seat isthe term that ends in2015 that was being heldby Bruce Metz, who hadto resign due to beingappointed as village ad-ministrator for JacksonCenter. Dennis Barkerwas elected by the boardto serve the term thatends in 2015 and TedHolthaus was named toserve the term ending in2017.The board then heard
the presentation of the
annual Health Depart-ment Report fromHealth CommissionerSteven Tostrick. Accord-ing to reports, the de-partment is operating onreduced budgets and ispreparing for a 30 per-cent budget decreaseover the next threeyears.Margie Eilerman, di-
rector of nursing, dis-cussed the Help MeGrow Program, WellChild Clinic, Immuniza-tion Programs and Bu-reau for Children withMedical Handicaps,Communicable DiseaseControl, Newborn VisitProgram, School HealthProgram,Health Promo-tion Program, Women
Infants and ChildrenProgram and the PublicHealth Emergency Pre-paredness Program.Kent Topp, director of
Environmental Health,discussed the Food Pro-gram, Plumbing Pro-gram, Swimming Poolsand Spas, Waste Dis-posal, Smoke Free WorkPlace, Sewage Treat-ment Systems, Hous-ing/Nuisance Conditions(bed bugs) PrivateWaterSystems and the Build-ing Inspection Program.Topp also advised thatnew rules for privatewater systems and alsopublic swimming poolswent into effect in 2011and were being handledby the department. He
also advised that theOhio Department ofHealth is supposed tocome out with new rulesand regulations for pri-vate sewage systems in2013; however, he hasnot seen or heard any-thing about them at thistime.Plaques were pre-
sented to departingboard members TomFinkenbine and BruceMetz for their service toShelby County and theHealth Department.
JACKSON CENTER— Cooler temperatureswelcomed people to theJackson Center Commu-nity Days over the week-end.The festival started
on Thursday night withthe Queen and LittleMiss Jackson Centercontests. Grace Prenger,6, daughter of John andSue Prenger was namedLittle Miss Jackson Cen-ter and Madilyn Him-meger, 17, daughter ofMatt and Larissa Him-meger was crowned theQueen.On Friday, many ven-
ues began operating at 5p.m. Temperatures onFriday didn’t rise above61 degrees which Jack-son Center Village Ad-ministrator Bruce Metzbelieves kept some peo-ple home.“The crowd was down
on Friday night but wefigure the cool weatherhad a big part in that,”said Metz. “Had an excel-lent Saturday crowd allday and had a few show-ers in the early eveningbut it did not seem to ef-fect the crowd.”The Hoop Shoot was
held on Friday night inthe high school gym.There were boys andgirls competitions byages 8-9, 10-11, and 12-13. For girls in the 8-9age group, Morgan Kip-
ker placed first andKennedy Jackson placedsecond; for the 10-11 agegroup, Katelyn Sosbyplaced first and ChloeReese placed second; andfor the 12-13 age group,Cassie Meyer placedfirst and Nicole Fogtplaced second. For boys,in the 8-9 age group,Aidan Reichert placedfirst and Trevor Sosbyplaced second. Sosbywon in a shoot off withCarsen Regula. For boysin the 10-11 age group,
Garrett Prenger placedfirst and ChristopherElchert placed second.Elchert won in a shootoff with Calvin Winner.For boys in the 12-13 agegroup, Brady Wilder-muth placed first andBryce Sosby placed sec-ond.On Saturday morning,
runners hit the pave-ment for the 1-mile funrun and the Tiger Trot5K Tiger Challenge.Aaron Bauer took firstplace in the Tiger Trot
with a time of 16:20.3and Kyle Minnich placedsecond with a time of17:39.0. In the 1 mile funrun, Christopher Elchertwon with a time of 6:38.5and Kyler Carnes tooksecond place with a timeof 7:07.8.Children’s tractor
races were also held onSaturday morning. Theraces were sponsored bythe FCCLA and FFA. Inthe first class, the win-ner was Tristan Woolleyand the runner up wasCarson Davis. For thesecond class, Sierra De-Weese won and PrestonSeer was runner up.Third class winner wasMoran Kipker and therunner up was BrysonRoberts.
A dodge ball tourna-ment was held on Satur-day afternoon. Thewinners in the 13 andolder division were AlexMeyer, Trey Elchert,Andy Hoying, Troy Op-perman, NathanWahrerand Jonathan Forsythe.The winners in the 12and under division wereConnor Pipke, OliviaClark, Haley Rogers,Parker Morris, BradenHeitkamp and AllanNash.The Backroom Execu-
tives Bike Club hostedthe 14th Annual Com-munity Days Car, Bikeand Truck Show earlySaturday evening. Theevent was sponsored bythe Growth Association.There were reportedly
103 entries in the show.The Community Days
parade was held on Sun-day afternoon. Therewere more than 50 en-tries and according toMetz it was a “greatturnout.” This year’stheme was “CelebratingJackson Center.”The following awards
were presented to paradeparticipants:Rolling Stock Award
— LoneWolf Jeepers.Civic Award — Faith
Community Ministries.Masters Award —
Shelby County DairyBoosters.Senior Award— Jack-
son Center UnitedMethodist Church.QueenAward— Little
Miss.
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TYLER ROGERS, 15, of Jackson Center, playsdrums as he marches in the Jackson Center Com-munity Days parade Sunday. Rogers is the son ofVince and Melanie Rogers.
SDN Photo/Bryan Wahrer
SARAH SWIGER, 6, of Jackson Center, grabs candy thrown during the Jack-son Center Community Days parade Sunday. Sarah is the daughter of Travisand Tina Swiger.
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PERFORMING AN accurate imitation of a duet withsinger “Meat Loaf” in the entertainment ten Sun-day are Candee Esser (left) and Matt Kohler, bothof Jackson Center.
SDN Photo/Bryan Wahrer
NATHAN WAHRER, 17, of Jackson Center, com-petes in the Jackson Center Community Daysdodgeball tournament Saturday. Wahrer is the sonof Bryan and Lori Wahrer. Behind Wahrer is AndyHoying, 18, of Jackson Center, son of Doug andCarol Hoying. Their team, which also included AlexMeyer, Trey Elchert, Troy Opperman and JonathanForsythe, won the 13 and older competition.
SDN Photo/Bryan Wahrer
LAUREN HUGHES, (left) 7, of Lewis Center, daugh-ter of Eric and Lisa Hughes, twirls around with Lan-don Reese, 7, of Jackson Center, son of Jeff andMisty Reese, on a carnival ride Sunday.
SDN Photo/Bryan Wahrer
THE JACKSON Center Thunder Cat mascot holdsthe U.S. flag during the playing of the national an-them before the Tiger Trot 5K Saturday. Wearingthe Thunder Cat outfit is Steven Dearwester, 18, ofJackson Center. Riding with Dearwester are (l-r)Bryson Roberts, 7, son of Dan and ShannonRoberts, and Preston Serr, 4, son of Garrett andMeghan Serr, both of Jackson Center.
SDN Photos/Bryan Wahrer
ERIC SHAFFER, of JacksonCenter, (top photo) looks at a1948 Chevrolet Master Sedanowned by Tom Woodruff, ofJackson Center, that was on dis-play as part of the car show Sat-urday. Corinne York, 4, (leftphoto) of Jackson Center, is allsmiles as she competes in thetractor pull competition Satur-day. Corinne is the daughter ofAllen and Melanie York.
COLUMBUS — The onlytime all night they got hisname right was when theycalled him up to get hismedal.But Devon Poeppelman
didn’t care, especially at thatparticular time, just a few mo-ments after his two-out singleto left scored Jay Eilermanwith the winning run in thebottom of the seventh, givingthe Minster Wildcats a 5-4victory over CuyahogaHeights and back-to-back Di-vision IV state baseball cham-pionships.It was a dramatic finish to
a game that Minster domi-nated for the first six innings,taking a 4-0 lead into the topof the seventh against a Red-skin team that could notmuster much offense.But it appeared the base-
ball gods had other ideas, as acouple of bad-hop singles anda walk got things going, andCuyahoga stunned the Wild-cats with a four-run rally thatknotted the score.But Austin Knapke, who
was touched up for those fourruns, got the final big out withthe go-ahead run aboard topreserve the tie, and withMinster having the top of theorder up in the bottom of theseventh, the Wildcats werestill in command.Leadoff man aboardLeadoff hitter Jay Eiler-
man got the job done, strokinga two-strike pitch to left to putthe leadoff man aboard. Headcoach Mike Wiss went by thebook when he had Knapkesacrificing, and the bunt wasa beauty, putting Eilerman atsecond.Minster’s leading hitter,
Adam Niemeyer, then poppedout to shortstop for the secondout, but Poeppelman camethrough with a base hit to left.The ball was bobbled by theleftfielder, taking away whatappeared would be a closeplay at the plate. When Eiler-man crossed the dish, theMinster bench emptied andcaught up with Poeppelmanbetween first and second. Hewas mobbed.“Two in a row is just awe-
some,” Poeppelman said as hewas surrounded by reportersfollowing the game. “I was sit-ting fastball. I knew he wasgoing to give me somethingdecent and not walk me. Theguy at third was pretty talland I was just looking to get itover top of him.”Poeppelman, who was
called “Doug” over the publicaddress system every time hecame to the plate, said he did-n’t realize the game was overon his hit until he turned andsaw his teammates chargingat him from the dugout.“I was thinking we’d have
to go back out and play de-fense,” he said. “It didn’t reallyclick until I got tackled.”
Another gemMinster starter Doug
Huber, who also started thesemifinal game, turned in an-other gem for the Wildcats.Through five innings, Heightshad just one hit and onlythree balls that left the in-field. But after Huber pitchedfive innings on Friday, hecouldn’t go anymore in thechampionship.“Doug, five innings yester-
day and five innings today,
and what, one hit?”Wiss said.“He says, why’d you have totake me out coach? I said Iwant to make sure if we winthis we don’t forfeit. Doug isone of those guys where hisarm doesn’t get tired, or atleast doesn’t tell the coach heis.”Wiss said he expected his
squad to have its hands full inthe championship game.“I told their coach, I’ve seen
you play twice and I have alot of respect for what you do,”saidWiss. “He responded thata lot of people have respect forwhat we do. We have kidsthat had a second medal hungaround their necks. Why’sthat happen to us? I don’tknow. But I can tell you thatwe pitch pretty good, playgood defense, and have timelyhitting. You know, I don’twant to make baseball hard.I’m not one of those kind ofguys.”Wiss said the one thing he
wasn’t going to let happenwas allowing Austin Lane ofHeights to beat his squad. Hewas the tall third basemanPoeppelman spoke of.
Loud outs“We weren’t going to let
Austin Lane beat us,” Wisssaid. “Last night (Friday) hewas 4-4 with two home runsand five RBIs. That was themain thing we came into thegame thinking. I figured we’dsee the lefty (Heights starterAlex Zander) and I was happywith the first inning. Wehaven’t seen many lefties thisseason, but we got a run anda couple of loud outs.”Minster got a run in the
bottom of the first after thefirst two hitters struck outagainst a hard-throwing Zan-der. Niemeyer coaxed a walkand Poeppelman and Huberfolowed with singles.The Wildcats then added
three more in the bottom ofthe fifth and at that time, itappeared it would be morethan enough. Drew Elsondrew a four-pitch walk andwas sacrificed to second.Knapke then followed withan RBI double. Niemeyerthen singled to put runnerson the corners, and afterPoeppelman fanned, Knapkecame home on a wild pitchand Huber singled in thethird run of the inning tomake it 4-0.Knapke breezed through
the top of the sixth, but ran
into problems in the seventh,giving up a walk and threesingles, although two of thehits came courtesy of badhops at third and second. Thetying run came in on agroundout.
RejuvenatedHeights was rejuvenated,
but still had to face the top ofthe Minster order. And Wisswas confident.“Got a little tense when
Adam popped up with twoout,” said Wiss. “Then Devonin the four hole. We movedDevon from one to two to fourover the course of this year be-cause we needed someone tohit behind Adam. And Devonhas done that very well.”Poeppelman, Eilerman and
Huber all had two hits apiecefor the Wildcats.Huber allowed jujst one hit
and noe runs, with threestrikeouts and two walks inhis five innings of work.Knapke got the win to fin-
ish the season with a 9-2record.Minster, with only five sen-
Huber, Knapke (6) and Wolf; Zan-der, Browning (5) and Tesler.
Records:Minster 26-6, CuyahogaHeights 25-5
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SPORTS
BACK-TO-BACK
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THE MINSTER baseball team gets together to hoist the Divi-sion IV state championship trophy after a thrilling 5-4 victory
over Cuyahoga Heights Saturday night at Huntington Park inColumbus. It was Minster’s second state title in a row.
Minster repeats as D-IV state champs
SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg
MINSTER’S JAY Eilerman is run down by Cuyahoga Heights’ pitcher Alex Zander after he pur-posely let himself get caught in a rundown in an attempt to get a runner in from third. The rundid not score on the play.
SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg
MINSTER’S AUSTIN Knapke goes into his slide as CuyahogaHeights pitcher Zach Browning waits for the ball after he un-corked a wild pitch that allowed Knapke to score from thirdbase in the state championship Saturday.
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FORT LORAMIE’S Meg Westerheide nears the fin-ish of the 800 run in the Division III State TrackMeet Saturday. She finished fourth in both the 800and 1600 runs.
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MINSTER’S DEREK Collins runs the anchor leg inthe 1600 relay Saturday during the Division III StateTrack Meet. Minster won the event.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
COLUMBUS — Sid-ney High standout Jas-mine Glover cleared5-feet, 8-inches Satur-day, and that was goodenough for second placein the Division I statehigh jump competitionin Columbus.It was her third con-
secutive appearance inthe state high jump.Twoyears ago, she placed13th, then improved toninth last year with aheight of 5-4.It was one of the high-
lights of the weekend forCounty and area ath-letes.Leading the way were
the Versailles girls, whocaptured the Division IIIstate championship afterfinishing second lastyear (see page 15).Russia sophomore
hurdler Jackie Siefringfollowed a seventh-placefinish in the 100 hurdles,with a third-place finishin the 300 hurdles.“There are so many
great runners over here,”Siefring said. “To bethird is great.”Siefring looked more
like herself in the 300hurdles — running a45.95 — after running a47.13 in prelims Friday.The only problem was
it left her in lane eightfor the final — runningout in front of everyone.“I hate being in lane
eight,” she said. “Youcan’t see anyone. I couldkind of see a couple ofpeople out of the cornerof my eye — but it allworked out.”Fort Loramie’s Meg
Westerheide had an out-standing meet, finishingwith two fourths in the800 and 1600 runs. Shenearly placed in threeevents, but the LadyRedskins 3200 relayteam finished ninth.Houston’s Allison
Roeth and Russia’s Lau-ren Francis couldn’thave been happier withthe way their seasonsended in the 3200.Roeth, a senior, ran in
the top five the entirerace, finishing fourth in11:12.40.“I am really happy,”
she said. “I went outfaster than I normallywould. I had to if I wasgoing to stay with thosegirls up front. I decided Iwas going to stay withthem no matter what.”Roeth, who will run
for Ohio University nextyear, was shooting forthe podium.“I got higher on the
podium than I thought Iwould,” she said. “I amexcited about next year.”Francis’, a junior who
was coming off a stressfracture, was thrilled to
finish eighth in 11:25.97and make it on thepodium.“I lost track at the
end,” Francis said. “Ithought the girl in frontof me was eighth and Icouldn’t quite get her. Ihad to do a lot of swim-ming and other thingsjust to get back.”Senior Brittany Bai-
ley of Botkins alsoreached the podium, cap-ping off her career bytaking sixth in the 800.It gave this area three ofthe top eight finishers inthe event, with TammyBerger of Versaillesthird and Westerheidefourth.Minster’s 1600 relay
team of Gabrielle Barga,Olivia Enneking, NatalieFausey and SamanthaHoelscher took second in3:57.9.In the D-IV boys,
highlighting the day wasthe first-place finish ofthe Minster 1600 relayteam, which won in3:21.3 with the team ofTroy Kauffman, PaulDues, Korey Schultz andDerek Collins.In addition, Francis
Slonkosky took seventhin the 1600.Anna had two relay
teams competing andboth placed. The 400team of Jeremy Bens-man, Brady Cates, NateBollheimer and Cole
Furgason was seventh in43.96, and the 800 teamof Kyle Dersham, Cates,Bollheimer and Furga-son was sixth in 1:31.57.Lehman’s Justin
Stewart also placed, fin-ishing seventh in the400 in 50.17.Stewart, a sophomore,
was disappointed withhis seventh-place finishin 50.17 — after finish-ing third at state yearago.“I never put the train-
ing in like I did last yearto get my times down. Itis definitely going to mo-tivate me next year,” hesaid.
County athletes do wellin state track competitionSidney’s Glover takes second in D-I high jump
SDN Photo/Dean Stewart
JEREMY BENSMAN (right) of Anna hands the baton to Brady Cates in the fi-nals of the Division III 400 relay at the State Track Meet in Columbus. Anna fin-ished seventh in 43.96, the other two runners being Nate Bolllheimer and ColeFurgason. Bollheimer, Furgason, Cates and Kyle Dersham also finished sixthin the 800 relay in 1:31.57.
SDN Photo/Dean Stewart
NEW BREMEN senior Ben Chaney put a nice finishing touch on his track ca-reer by placing seventh in the Division III 110 hurdles at the State Track Meet.
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In the D-III boys,Samuel Prakel of Ver-sailles put on quite ashow.Prakel erased any
doubts that few can par-allel him as a high schooldistance runner in Ohio.After winning the Di-
vision III state crosscountry title in the fall,he doubled Saturday bywinning the 1,600 and3,200 — after anchoringthe Tiger boys to a sec-ond-place finish in the3,200 relay on Friday.And if that was not
enough — he not onlyran PRs in both races —he defeated the defend-ing 1,600 state championSteve Weaver in the3,200 for good measure.“I am in disbelief that
I was able to do that,”Prakel said after win-ning both distance raceswith about an hourbreak in-between. “I did-n’t really expect to beable to do that. And torun PRs in both races, Iam very happy withwhat I was able to dotoday.”
BY ROB KISEROhio Community Media
COLUMBUS — TheVersailles girls track andfield team left JesseOwens Stadium Satur-day with the big prize.And provided a fitting
end to the careers of sen-iors Abby Barlage,Tammy Berger, NatalieGrillot and JacquieMoorman.“Words really couldn’t
describe it,” Barlage saidas she led the LadyTigers on a victory lapwith the Division IIIstate championship tro-phy in her clutches. “It isan amazing feeling. Thisis just so cool.”It came down to the
last event, the 1,600relay, for Versailles tooutlast the Waynesfield-Goshen sister duo of Ivyand Megan Horn.Between them, they
combined for 34 pointsin the seven events theycompeted in.“You have to give
them a lot of credit,”Ver-sailles coach MikeGoubeaux said of the sis-ters. “They were a two-girl wrecking crew allweekend.”Versailles had 33
points going to the 1,600
relay, and while the four-some of Taylor Winner,Berger, Moorman andAmandaWinner had thefastest qualifying timeand needed just a sev-enth-place finish to se-cure the team title,Goubeaux was takingnothing for granted.“There were so many
strange things that hadhappened in this meet,”Goubeaux said. “Like thegirl falling down in the800 relay and moving usup from third to second.I told the girls, ‘Don’tdrop the baton, don’t runout of your lane, don’trun over anyone.”And freshman Taylor
Winner admitted shefought some negativethoughts before the racestarted.“I was thinking about
false starting,” she said.“I just had to block thatout and run my race.”She put the Lady
Tigers in third place andthey held that positionthe rest of the race.“It is completely dif-
ferent from my fresh-man and sophomoreyears, when I was an al-ternate at state,” Moor-man said. “To be a partof it and scoring points,it is pretty special. This
was a unified team. Wewere all so close.”And Amanda Winner
had no negativethoughts on the finallap.“I don’t really think
that way,” the sophomoreanchor said. “It is prettyneat to score the win-ning points. I saw a lot ofour girls smiling as I wascoming to the finish line.It was a great team ef-fort.”And for Berger —
someone who has alwaysbeen so focused on theteam — it was a fittingend to an amazing ca-reer.After being on the
3,200 relay team (withGrillot, Chloe Warveland HannahWenig) thatfinished second Friday,Berger was second in the1,600 (5:01.21), third inthe 800 (2:15.15) and onthe 1,600 relay teamthat was third.“Tammy didn’t win
any state championshipslike she has the last cou-ple years,” Goubeauxsaid. “But, look at whatshe did — she had a sec-ond, a third, a secondand a third. She washuge. Without a doubt,we couldn’t have wonthis without her.”
Berger’s second in the1,600 came only becauseof a career race by WestLiberty-Salem junior,Meghan Vogel.“I mean, she broke
five minutes (4:58.31),”Berger, who seems tobring out the best inother runners, said. “Shegave me a big hug after-wards and told me shecouldn’t have done itwithout me. I guess Idon’t realize what a biginspiration I am to otherrunners at times.“I would have really
liked to have won the1,600, because I hadn’twon it before. But,Meghan ran a great race.I knew the points wereimportant, and at Ver-sailles, it is all about theteam.”The 800 relay (Lauren
Bohman, Barlage,TaylorWinner, Amanda Win-ner) was second in1:46.19; while the 400relay (Bohman, GwenKeihl, Megan Hemmel-garn, Barlage) was sixthin 50.54, after barelymaking it to state at re-gionals.“It’s just amazing,”
Barlage said. “This justmade all the hard workpay off. I never expectedto accomplish this.”
Versailles girls win D-III state track title
SDN Photo/Dean Stewart
TAMMY BERGER of Versailles runs in the 1600 dur-ing the Division III State Track Meet in ColumbusSaturday. She helped the Lady Tigers bring homethe state championship.
STATE From Page 14
SDN Photo/Dean Stewart
BRTTANY BAILEY of Botkins runs to a sixth-placefinish in the 800 meters at the Division III StateTrack Meet Saturday in Columbus.
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP)— Tiger Woods was athis best Sunday at theMemorial. He hit nearlyevery shot just the wayhe wanted, worked thegallery into a frenzywith one last charge overthe final hour and lefteveryone buzzing — es-pecially Jack Nicklaus— with a shot they willtalk about for years.Better yet was the
timing of his 73rd win.Woods tied Nicklaus
for career PGA Tour vic-tories at the tournamentthat Jack built. And the14-time major championsuddenly looks equippedto resume his chase ofanother Nicklaus markthat is more significant— 18 major champi-onships.The U.S. Open starts
in 11 days.With a chip-in that
evenWoods called one ofthe toughest shots heever made, he birdiedthree of his last fourholes to close with a 5-under 67 and turn a two-shot deficit into atwo-shot victory overRory Sabbatini and fast-closing Andres Romero.Coming off a two-putt
birdie on the 15th,Woods hit 8-iron over thegreen at the par-3 16thand into an impossiblelie. It was buried in deeprough, the pin 50 feetaway along a ridge.Woods hit a full flopshot, hopeful to givehimself a reasonableputt for par. Far morelikely was the ball goingshort and down a slopeaway from the pin, orcoming out too strongand rolling into thewater.No one was thinking
birdie, not even Woods,until he took two stepsand delivered an upper-cut when the ball fell inthe right side of the cup.Nicklaus was gushing
from the broadcastbooth. “The most unbe-lievable, gutsy shot I’veever seen,” he said.“Under the circum-
stances — the circum-stances being Tiger hasbeen struggling — itwas either fish or cutbait,” Nicklaus saidlater. “He had one placeto land the ball. He’splaying a shot that if heleaves it short, he’s goingto leave himself again avery difficult shot. If hehits it long, he’s going toprobably lose the tourna-ment. He lands the ballexactly where it has toland. Going in the holewas a bonus. But what ashot!
“I don’t think underthe circumstances I’veever seen a better shot.”Woods, who finished
at 9-under 279, won theMemorial for the fifthtime. At age 36, he is 10years younger thanNicklaus when theGolden Bear won his73rd tournament at the1986 Masters. SamSnead holds the PGATour record with 82wins.It was vintage Woods
at Muirfield Village, thefifth course where he haswon at least five times.And it was the perfectway for him to end hisworst stretch as a pro.After winning at BayHill in March, he tied for40th in the Masters,missed the cut at QuailHollow and tied for 40that The Players Champi-onship.
Tiger rallies to win Memorial
HOUSTON (AP) —Cincinnati Reds starterBronson Arroyo enteredSunday’s game lookingto get his first win innearly a month.Instead, the last pitch
he threw was hit byHouston pinch-hitterJustin Maxwell for atwo-run home run thathelped the Astros to a 5-3 win.“Those are the chess-
match battles that gowrong sometimes,” Ar-royo said. “It was a bat-tle, but we just got beat.”The first six innings
looked a lot like many ofArroyo’s starts this sea-son. He held the oppo-nent close but didn’t getmuch run support. De-spite entering the gamewith a 3.59 ERA, Arroyo(2-4) gave up a season-high five earned runs toremain winless sinceMay 7.It was Arroyo’s fourth
consecutive start wherethe Reds failed to scorefour runs.“I’ll take 15 next time
out,” Arroyo joked.“Right now, it’s beentough to score two orthree when I’ve been inthe ballgame.”
AstrosdownReds
DOVER, Del. (AP) —Jimmie Johnson was themane man at Dover.Wearing an afro clown
wig — tufts of green, red,yellow and blue could bespotted from the stands— Johnson had to admitit was hard to take himseriously while heplayed the role of racejester.Some guys just have
all the fun.That especially in-
cludes on this track.Johnson romped
again at Dover Interna-tional Speedway, racinghis way into the track'shistory books on Sundaywith his seventh win onthe concrete, matchingthe mark held by Hall ofFame drivers RichardPetty and Bobby Allison.
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BY CAROL STRAYER
Others already havedescribed the naturalbeauty of the ShelbyCounty Master Gar-dener’s Memorial Gar-den located in the AgCenter/OSU ExtensionOffice courtyard.
To fully appreciatethis garden, however,one needs to understandits genesis and evolutionthrough the historic lensprovided by a little-no-ticed bronze plaque lo-cated on a brick wall inthe courtyard that hon-ors a “History of Firsts”in Shelby County agri-culture.
This Shelby CountyHistorical Society plaquetells of Shelby Countyagricultural firsts, in-cluding milestones in theestablishment of agricul-ture-focused organiza-tions that have benefited
the residents of ShelbyCounty in a variety ofways.
Some of these “firsts”involve the Farm Bu-reau, Farm Aid, PioneerRural Electrification,and Extension. And theShelby County MasterGardener program hadits beginnings under theOSU Extension programin 1996.
In the best traditionof agricultural groupsbringing county resi-dents together to sup-port one another, at a2001 Shelby County
Master Gardener(SCMG) meeting, mem-bers decided to plant atree as a memorial afterthe death of the previousyear’s club president,Kay Roth. This set off aseries of events that ledto the creation of the me-morial garden.
Next, donations werecollected to buy a smallornamental tree, a Sar-gent crabapple. Whatwas needed then was aplace to plant it.
Roger Bender, OSUExtension ag agent atthe time, said: “TheShelby County HistoricalSociety had recently putup a plaque honoringagriculture on the wall inthe Ag/Extension com-plex. Since the plaquewas some distance fromthe sidewalk, what wasneeded was a way to di-rect people to go up closerto read the plaque.”
SCMG membersagreed that they couldbuild a walkway up tothe plaque and by theway they could alsoplant some perennials tomake the space looknicer. This area couldalso be a place to plantKay Roth’s memorialtree.
Around this sametime, John Gutman, amember of the SCMG,said his mother-in-lawhad recently died. In hermemory, John wanted todonate to the memorialfund that would be usedto start the memorialgarden. John would alsocontribute later to thegarden by building abench and two arbors.
A memorial gardencommittee was formedand a design plan for-mulated. Memorial do-nations were collected,and along with the
Shelby County Commis-sion’s support, the me-morial garden became areality. A stepping-stonewalkway was built,many perennial flowersand a wild flower areawere planted, hardscapeitems were built, includ-ing the bench, arbors, abird feeder, and a con-crete bird bath and afew landscaping rockswere added.
The memorial gardenhas evolved over theyears. Each year some-thing new has beenadded, such as anotherperennial area, morehardscape in the form ofold wagon wheels and awater feature. A few an-nuals also are includedin the mix each year.
SCMG membersmaintain this memorialgarden to educate thepublic and beautify theAg Center/OSU Exten-
sion offices. Most of theplants are labeled so vis-itors can learn plantnames and to use ideasfor their own gardens.
The Shelby CountyHistorical Society’splaque honoring firsts inShelby County agricul-ture provides an inter-esting perspective onthe role of agriculture inShelby County, and itfits well in a garden thatis a practical example ofthe successful creationsof agricultural organiza-tions in the county. Nexttime you are in the areaor visiting one of thoseoffices, take a side steponto the pathway up tothe plaque; you will likewhat you find in a “His-tory of Firsts” for ShelbyCounty agriculture.
The writer is a ShelbyCounty Master Gar-dener.
Producers arereminded of theacreage-report-ing require-ments that mustbe met prior toreceiving pro-gram benefits.
Filing a cur-r e n t - y e a racreage reportfor all crops andland uses, including failedacreage and/or prevented-planting acreage, can pre-vent the loss of benefitsfor a variety of programs.These include the annualDirect CountercyclicalPayment (DCP) and/orAcreage Crop RevenueElection (ACRE) pro-gram, Conservation Re-serve Program (CRP),Non-insured AssistanceProgram (NAP), PriceSupport for the commod-ity loan, possible LoanDeficiency Payment(LDP), and crop insur-ance programs.
Failed acreageFailed acreagemust be
reportedwithin 15 days ofthe disaster event andprior to disposition of thecrop. Any preventedplanting shall be reportedno later than 15 daysafter the final plantingdate or June 5 (corn) orJune 20 (soybeans).
Acreages shall be re-ported accurately and in-formation submitted oneach field will include thecrop, planting date andmethod of planting (no-till, minimum tillage orconventional).
The RiskManagementAgency (crop insurance)could also access FSAacreage reporting infor-mation to comparerecords submitted by aproducer to their respec-tive agency.
The deadline for timelyreporting acreages is 15days prior to harvest orgrazing of a crop and nolater than June 30 forsmall grains (wheat, bar-ley, oats) and July 15 forall other crops (soybeans,corn, etc.) and acreagesenrolled in the Conserva-tion Reserve Program.After these establisheddeadlines, a late-file fee($46 per farm) will apply.
Appointments to re-port this information aremandatory. Please con-tact the county office at492-6520.
ElectionNominations from pro-
ducers for the committeeelection that will be heldin Local AdministrativeArea (LAA) 1may be sub-mitted to the FSA officethrough Aug. 1.
This LAAcomprises Cyn-thian, Loramie,McLean, TurtleCreek andWa s h i n g t o ntownships. Anyeligible voter inthis area is en-couraged tonominate or benominated as a
candidate and completeform FSA-699A for thisimportant committeeelection.
County Committeemembers provide a vitalrole in the administrationof USDA programs at thelocal level. They overseelocal county office opera-tions and render criticaldecisions on how FSAcommodity, conservation,disaster programs, andother important agricul-tural issues are deter-mined within ShelbyCounty.
Socially disadvantagedor minority producers(women, Hispanics, Pa-cific Islanders, AmericanIndian, etc.) are encour-aged to participate in thiselection. FSA committeeelections are open to alleligible voters without re-gard to race, color, reli-gion, national origin, age,sex,marital status, or dis-ability.
Tax informationUSDAand the Internal
Revenue Service have es-tablished an electronic in-formation exchangeprocess for verifying com-pliance with the adjustedgross income (AGI) provi-sions for farm programs.Written consent is re-quired fromeach produceror payment recipient forthe tax review process.Noactual tax data will be in-
cluded in the report thatIRS sends to FSA.
This ensures that pay-ments are not issued toproducers whose AGI ex-ceeds certain limits. Thelimits set in the 2008Farm Bill are $500,000nonfarm average AGI forcommodity and disasterprograms: $750,000 farmaverage AGI for directpayments: and $1 millionnonfarm average AGI forconservation programs.
Participants in CCCprograms subject to aver-age AGI rules must sub-mit formCCC-931 to theirlocal FSA county office toavoid interruption of pro-gram benefits. This formmay be obtained fromlocal FSA and NRCS of-fices or online athttp://www.fsa.usda.gov/ccc931.
HEL, wetlandProducers intending to
remove fence rows, con-vert woodlots to cropland,install new drainage, orimprove or modify exist-ing drainage must notifythe FSAand update FormAD-1026. FSA will notifyNRCS and the districtconservationist will makehighly erodible land(HEL) and wetland tech-nical determinations.
Farmers with HEL-de-termined soils are re-minded of tillage, cropresidue and rotation re-quirements per their con-servation plan. Failure toobtain advance approvalfor any of these situationscan result in the loss of el-igibility and all federalpayments.
The writer is executivedirector of the ShelbyCounty Farm ServiceAgency.
The Shelby Soil andWater Conser-vation District is offering a $1,000scholarship to people entering thenatural resources conservation field.
Applicants must be Shelby Countyresidents pursuing further educationat either a college or technical school.Any high school graduate, current col-lege student or high school senior iseligible. Three letters of recommenda-tion must accompany the application.At least one of the recommendationsmust be from someone not school-re-lated. A copy of the summary page(SAR Report) received from the FreeApplication for Federal Student Aidmust also be included with the appli-
cation if applicants want financialneed to be considered as a componentof the selection process.
Checks will be written to the col-lege or technical school at the begin-ning of the second quarter/semester.Proof of admission and minimum 2.0grade-point average are required be-fore checks will be issued.
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Monday, June 4, 2012You’ll be developing several new, sig-nificant friendships with a number ofpeople in the year ahead. Chances areyou will all find that you have a lot incommon, regardless of any age differ-ences.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Inaccu-rately evaluating the power of some-one who opposes you is not onlyfoolish, but is also likely to cause youto handle the situation in ways thatlead to utter failure.CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Some-one who knows how to pump peoplefor private or secret information islikely to pick on you. Be on your guardwhen discussing delicate matters.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Be positiveand expectant of good results, butdon’t base your hopes on false expec-tations or wishful thinking. If you’reunrealistic, every payoff will be dis-appointing.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Eventhough your probabilities for successare quite strong, you still may experi-ence failure because of the way youhandle things. Don’t turn your oppor-tunities into regrets.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — In youreagerness to paint a glowing picturein hopes of encouraging others to fol-low your lead, you might go over-board. Stick to the truth and you’llhave no problem wooing others toyour side.SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — This isnot one of those days when you shouldbe speculating in unfamiliar areas.Unless you understand what you’regetting into, you could lose muchmore than you anticipate.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) —Seeking an easy out could be muchmore harmful than facing up to whatneeds to be done. If you bite the bul-let, you’ll find the pain to be farweaker than you feared.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Foryour own reasons, you’ll prefer takingthe difficult, necessary road over afacile cop-out. It’s the right decision:Honesty attracts admiration whiledeceit destroys it.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Inyour involvements with others, yourassessment of matters might be quitedifferent than the views of the peoplewith whom you are negotiating. Keepan open mind.PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Don’texpect any desirable results if youallow others to make decisions and doyour thinking for you. They’re goingto do what is best for them, not foryou.ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Even ifit’s painless for you to make a bigpromise, when it comes time to keepyour word you might have to pay ahuge price. Be sure to look before youleap.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — It’sfine to give something of yours to an-other if that’s what you want to do,but if it’s an item that doesn’t belongto you, it isn’t your prerogative to doso.COPYRIGHT 2012 United FeatureSyndicate, Inc.
HOROSCOPE CROSSWORDTODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, June 4,the 156th day of 2012. Thereare 210 days left in the year.Today’s highlight in his-
tory:On June 4, 1942, theWorld
War II Battle of Midwaybegan, resulting in a decisiveAmerican victory againstJapan andmarking the turn-ing point of the war in the Pa-cific.On this date:� In 1783, the Montgolfier
brothers first publicly demon-strated their hot-air balloon,which did not carry any pas-sengers, over Annonay,France.
� In 1812, the LouisianaTerritory was renamed theMissouri Territory. The U.S.House of Representatives ap-proved a declaration of waragainst Britain.
� In 1892, the Sierra Clubwas incorporated in SanFrancisco.
� In 1912, Massachusettsbecame the first state toadopt a minimum wage law.
� In 1919, Congress ap-proved the 19th Amendmentto theU.S.Constitution guar-anteeing citizens the right tovote regardless of their gen-der, and sent it to the statesfor ratification.
� In 1937, one of the first,if not the first, shopping cartswas introduced by supermar-ket chain owner SylvanGold-man in Oklahoma City.
� In 1939, the Germanocean liner St.Louis, carryingmore than 900 Jewishrefugees from Germany, wasturned away from the Floridacoast by U.S. officials.
� In 1940, during WorldWar II, the Allied militaryevacuation of more than338,000 troops fromDunkirk,France, ended.
� In 1954,French PremierJoseph Laniel and Viet-namese Premier Buu Locsigned treaties in Paris ac-cording “complete independ-ence” to Vietnam.
� In 1972, a jury in SanJose, Calif., acquitted radicalactivist Angela Davis of mur-der and kidnapping for heralleged connection to a deadlycourthouse shootout inMarinCounty in 1970.
100 Years AgoJune 4, 1912
Clem and Alva C.Chambers of this cityhave formed a partner-ship and will engage inthe manufacture ofbuilding materials, suchas door frames, stairs,interior finish and gen-eral wood work. Theyhave leased the oldRobert smith warehouseon Jefferson Street nearSecondWard School andhave installed a full andcomplete line of the lat-est improved machinery.
———The budget commit-
tee met in the county au-ditor’s office thisafternoon and organizedby electing John Duncanchairman and H.T.Ruese secretary. Prose-cuting Attorney C.C.Hall is the other mem-ber of the committee.The members of the
Mt. Vernon Baptist con-gregation, who recentlypurchased the Denmarkproperty on Park Streetfor the purpose of build-ing a new church, havecommenced the work ofputting in the founda-tion for the church.
75 Years AgoJune 4, 1937
Mrs.Mary J.Taylor, ofAlliance, recently namedby the board of trusteesas superintendent atWilson Memorial Hospi-tal, arrived in Sidneytoday to take over herduties here. Mrs. Taylorhad been superintend-ent of nurses at the Al-liance hospital for thepast five years, servingpart of the time as act-ing superintendent.
———Paul Billing, Donald
Brandt, and OrlandoElshoff, members of theAnna F.F.A. chapterhave been honored bythe Ohio Association ofFuture Farmers ofAmerica by being nomi-nated for the degree ofState Farmer.
———The session of the
First Presbyterianchurch has called ameeting of the congrega-tion of the church forJune 13, for the purposeof the considering the re-port of a special commit-tee named to makerecommendations forthe improvement of thechurch property.
50 Years AgoJune 4, 1962
Last fall an Osgoodarea farmer fell fractur-ing both heels. Theneighbors came to therescue and picked thecorn for him. Thisspring, William Brack-man, that same farmer,was preparing land forplanting corn when thetractor ran over himfracturing a leg. Thistime the neighbors cameand prepared the landand the 16-year -old sonDonald planted the corn.
———William Cottrel be-
came president of theFairlawnAlumni Associ-ation when the annualreunion was held Satur-day in the high schoolbuilding. Other officersnamed to serve with himwere John Sargeant,vice president; Mrs.Wayne Snavley, secre-tary; Marie Kies, treas-urer; Mrs. Sam Fogt,assistant secretary, andMrs. Charles lemon, as-sistant treasurer.
———Completion of a
5,000-square foot addi-tion to the Burean-Hol-loway Knitting Millsplant on East PikeStreet has been an-nounced by company of-ficials. The expansion, itwas said, will lead to apeak employment of ap-proximately 140 work-ers. At present, about100 are on the payroll ofthe company.
25 Years AgoJune 4, 1987
Members of the 1987Class at Houston HighSchool were encouragedto develop and keep asense of humor as theyjourney through life.Valedictorian ConradBooher spoke aboutlooking toward the fu-ture. Co-salutatorianJennifer McVety notedthat her classmatesmust open the door ofthe future and walkthrough it. The other co-salutatorian,Miles Mey-ers, wished his fellowgraduates luck and saidhe hopes to see them allat the class reunion.
———Thirty-two graduates
received diplomas dur-ing commencement cer-emonies held Sundayafternoon at FairlawnHigh School. Hundredsof people crowded intothe school gymnasium tohear speeches given byguest speaker BarbaraJean Lundy, valedicto-rian Erick Young andsalutatorian MelissaAnn Critchfield.
———About 300 persons
were on hand Sunday af-ternoon when the 23seniors at Jackson Cen-ter High School weregraduated in ceremoniesat the school’s athleticcomplex. Student ad-dresses were deliveredby Kimberly Davis,Vale-dictorian, and classSalutatorian TammeraSchaub. The featuredspeaker for the gradua-tion was Donna Jordan,Anchorwoman and re-porter for WDTN televi-sion in Dayton.
Mosquito bites have a name
Woman searches for recourse to ex-hubby’s abuse
DEAR DR.DONOHUE: Welive in the South,where mosqui-toes are very bad,even in coolweather. I have a6-year-old grand-son who seems toattract mosqui-toes. When hewas younger, he’dscratch the bitesand make sores.Now he rubsthem when theyitch. The doctor gave himan ointment to apply tostop itching.The other day he was
bitten right by his eyeand on his ear. When Ibathed him the nextnight, he had bites on hisshoulder and lower arm.There were so swollenthat they formed a knot.The next day the swellingwent down, but the bitewas still red. I am at a
loss about what todo. Should testsbe run? Is hemore allergicthan other chil-dren?Will he out-grow this? I sprayhim and hisclothes before hegoes outside. —M.
A N S W E R :Some people at-tract mosquitoes.It’s due to theamount of carbon
dioxide those people emit,along with other chemi-cals that attract mosqui-toes. Giant mosquitobites might be a newlynamed syndrome calledskeeter syndrome. I’m notkidding — there really issuch a thing. It happensmostly to infants andyoung children. The mos-quito bite gives rise to anitchy, giant hive that en-larges over eight to 12
hours and takes three to10 days to go away. It’sthe mosquito’s salivathat’s responsible for thisreaction.Children do out-grow it.What mosquito repel-
lent do you spray on theboy? Ones that containDEET are good. So areones that have picardin.For greater protection,apply a repellent contain-ing permethrin on hisclothes. Read the labelscarefully to see whenthey need to be reapplied.Antihistamines lessen
the itch.Cetrizine, fexofe-nadine and loratadineare good ones. If the oint-ment you use works, con-tinue. If it doesn’t, trycortisone cream orcalamine lotion.I can’t give you 100
percent assurance thatyour grandson has thissyndrome.Why not checkit out with the family doc-
tor when the boy has newgiant bites?
DEAR DR. DONO-HUE: I am 63 and hadtwo different types ofmalaria while inVietnamwhen I was 20. Now Ihave nerve problems inmy lower back and excru-ciating pain in my legsand knees. I have been tomany doctors, but none ofthe recommended treat-ments has made me feelany better.My question is
whether my nerve andmuscle issues could haveany connection to themalaria I had.— B.J.
ANSWER: I sawmany cases of malariawhen I was in Vietnam. Ican assure you with rea-sonable certitude that themalaria you had decadesago is not responsible foryour current back, legand knee pain.
DEAR ABBY:I’m divorced witha young son. Myex-husband and Ishare joint cus-tody, and for themost part it hasworked well. Myproblem is thatmy ex is very bit-ter about our di-vorce and the factI have moved onwith my life. Heconstantly makesderogatory comments tome in front of our son andothers.It is bad enough that
my sonmust witness this,but my ex has taken it astep further. He is the ed-itor of a small newspaperand is now making dis-paraging comments aboutme in his column. He istrying to improve hisimage at my expense;however, I am unable to
respond becausehe won’t print arebuttal in hispaper.The abuse con-
tinues despite thedivorce, but nowthe audience iswider. Is this ethi-cal journalism,and how can I puta stop to it? —FRUSTRATEDEX
DEAR FRUS-TRATED EX: Using anewspaper column to con-tinue a personal vendettaover a failed marriage isnot ethical journalism, al-though it may make fortitillating reading.You donot have to tolerate hispublic sniping. Take theoffensive clippings to yourlawyer and ask him orher to write a strong let-ter to the publisher of thenewspaper — because
THAT’Swhowill be liableif there are grounds for alawsuit.
DEAR ABBY: My hus-band and I attended awedding in September oflast year. We purchasedexpensive crystal for thebride and groom, whichcost us nearly $600. Thiswas separate from thebridal shower gift we gavethem inMay.We have notreceived thank-you notesfor either of these gifts.My husband told me
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Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held onMonday, June 18, 2012, as part of the Planning Commission’smeeting, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Cham-bers, Municipal Building, 201 W Poplar St, Sidney, Ohio. ThePlanning Commission is to make a recommendation in the mat-ter of:THE CITY OF SIDNEY IS PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
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He raised his sword high above me andbrought the blade down fast and hard.
When I opened my eyes, the sword hadgone from the top of my head all the waythrough me to my feet. But I had felt nothing.
It was like the blade was made of air. I wasstill alive but a little confused.
"Perhaps my sword ees a bit dull, no?" hesaid, as if reading my mind. He began to roarwith laughter, like he'd said the funniest thingever.
I was too stunned to say anything."Please to excuse my leetle prank," he said,
shoving his sword back into its scabbard. "Letus make up and be friends." He offered to shakehands.
I reached out to shake, but my hand wentright through his. I looked at my hand inamazement.
This really tickled his funny bone. But Iwas beginning to realize he didn't have anybones. He erupted with the biggest belly laughI'd ever heard. "You have been bamboozled,"he said. "I think Americans these days call eet'punked'."
Even though I had believed in Felix before,seeing him in person for the first time was real-ly freaking me out. I tried to speak. "You're...you're... you're..."
"Your vocabulary ees quite limited, no?" hesaid, his eyes twinkling.
I jabbed a shaky finger toward him."You're the real thing. An actual ghost!""That I am, dear fellow. I would have
thought that was obvious long before now. My,but you are a slow learner."
He made a deep, sweeping bow. "FelixLaBauve, at your service. Ze greatest journalistze world has ever known."
"Also, the most modest," I said, taking achance at humor myself.
"You should show me ze proper respect,"he said proudly. "Though perhaps your irrever-ence ees not all bad. Eet shows ze fighting spir-it. Eet will come in handy, no?"
"You do know that I don't work for thenewspaper anymore, right?" I said. "My mommade me quit,"
"I am quite aware of that," he said. "Still,theese nincompoop of an editor needs ourhelp."
"I thought you said Jake was a loser, andyou weren't risking your freedom for him," Isaid.
"That was before I found out a deadly lee-tle secret," he said. "Now I have no choice. ButI will require your asseestance, because ghostshave certain restrictions. There is only so muchze great LaBauve can do alone, n'est pas?"
The last time I said yes to a plan without
knowing what I was getting into, I had foundmyself in a space suit, fighting off an attack ofkiller fruits and veggies.
"I wouldn't have to pretend to be a space-man, would I?" I asked.
"Definitely not," he said."That's a relief.""But perhaps eet ees similar," he added.Even though I wasn't in my alien costume,
my antenna went up. "There's no flying, isthere?"
"Maybe a wee bit," he said."Forget it. No way.""Perhaps eef I show you something, eet
weel change your mind," said Felix."Come. Your despicable sheriff hascalled a meeting with his leetle possefor tonight."
"How do you know that?" I asked."There ees not much that happens
in ze old courthouse that I do not knowabout," Felix said. "I visit eet often. Thatees how I deescovered ze sheriff's secretmeeting room. He can hear anyoneclimbing ze concrete stairs. So we musttake another route."
Going with a ghost to spy on thesheriff sounded pretty dangerous, so Itook Humpty over to the gazebo and hidhim under a bench. "Hey, buddy, I'mleaving you here where it's safe."
"Don't try to sugar coat it," he said."You're ditching me in favor of some-one more exciting."
Humpty looked so sad that I felt alittle guilty. But Felix needed my help.
Felix and I crept toward a tall oaktree near the French Castle courthouse.It was the same tree Jake and I had usedfor the space alien stunt. A light shinedfrom a round window halfway up theclock tower.
Above the window was the bigclock I mentioned earlier. According tothe story that was passed down, it hadbeen stuck at 5 o'clock ever since theMatlocks killed Felix long ago,
Felix pointed toward a limb thatstretched toward the window. Then hethrew an arm around my shoulder andgave his goatee a tug. I couldn't feel hisarm, but the next thing I knew I was fly-ing through the air up to the overhang-ing limb.
As I gripped the tree trunk, I couldhear voices coming from a room in thetower.
"Look closely," Felix whispered. "Agood journalist uses his powers ofobservation. I have noticed that yoursare excellent. Now, you must use themon Sheriff Matlock."
From our perch on the tree limb, Ilooked through the window at the sher-iff. His loose jowls reminded me of a
bulldog. He chewed on a fatcigar as he glared across adesk at a man and a woman.
"I saw those two withthe sheriff when I was onthe courthouse roof," I said.
"Yes. They are fat asthieves," said Felix.
"I think you mean thickas thieves," I said.
"Enough of theese cor-recting ze Frenchman," hesaid. "Eet ees I who eesteaching you. Speaking ofwhich, ze man in ze plaidleisure suit - he ees namedClint Ratchett. He ees aused car salesman and parttime sheriff's deputy."
I tried using my powersof observation on Mr.Ratchett. He had thick, jet-black hair that tilted to oneside. "He's wearing a wig,"I said.
"Good eye," said Felix."I prefer ze French word foreet - toupée. Now, let ushave a leetle fun."
He waved his finger in acircular motion toward the
window, and a crank on the inside slowlyopened it. Then he placed his palms beside hismouth and blew. A gust of wind blastedthrough the open window, lifting Clint's toupéeoff his head and onto the floor.
"Eek!" screamed the dark-haired woman,leaping onto her chair. "A rat!"
Felix wiggled his finger, and the hairpieceflew off the floor toward her mouth. "Bonappétit!" he said.
Her eyes grew huge, thinking she wasabout to swallow a rat. She batted away the
black wig with such force thatit slammed into the wall before it slid to thefloor. Her loud shriek almost shook me fromthe tree.
"Allow me to introduce your esteemedJustice Court Judge, Lulu Roberts," Felix said.I jammed my hand over my mouth to stifle mylaughter.
Judge Roberts calmed down when she sawClint's bald head, as he bent over to pick up histoupée. "Oh my goodness," she said, fanningherself. "It's not a rat after all. It's your, uh...hair." Still a bit unsteady, she eased herself backinto her chair.
Clint slapped the wig onto his head. "I don'tappreciate your calling my hairpiece a rat. It isfinely woven, human hair, Lulu. And it cost mea small fortune."
"I'm so sorry," she apologized. "It's my ratphobia. Just the thought of the nasty littlebeasts is terribly upsetting."
"Clint, the next time that fur piece comesflying off your head, I swear - I'm gonna shootit and cook it for dinner," the sheriff said.
That did it. Trying to muffle a laugh thathad been building, I finally let out a sound likea strangled hyena. The sheriff's posse all jerkedtheir heads in our direction.
"What was that?" asked Clint.They raced to the window, searching the
darkness outside. The sheriff lifted a flashlightand shined a beam of light on the ground. Itbegan to move up the tree.
"Uh-oh," I said to Felix. "We're dogmeat!""I'm afraid eet ees you
who ees ze meat of zedog," said Felix. "I aminveesible to them."
"Thanks a lot!" I said,as the circle of lightclimbed up the tree towardme.
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Place one large plain chocolatecandy bar in a microwave safedish. Microwave for 15-30 sec-onds and stir well. If not com-pletely melted, microwave 15seconds longer. Stir in choppednuts if desired. Wash strawber-ries and cut off tops. Poke astrawberry on a fork and dip inchocolate. Eat and enjoy!
STRAWBERRY HISTORYThe Name Strawberry was derived from the berries
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Strawberries, as part of a 5 a dayfruit & vegetable program, canhelp reduce the risk of cancer &heart attacks.
In medieval times, strawberrieswere served at important func-tions to bring peace & prosperity.
Folk lore states that if you split adouble strawberry in half andshare it with the opposite sex,you’ll soon fall in love.
In France, Strawberries werethought to be an aphrodisiac.A soup made of strawberries,thinned sour cream, borage, &powered sugar was served tonewlyweds.
Over 53 percent of seven to nine-year-olds picked strawberries astheir favorite fruit.
Eating strawberries, which arerich in nitrate, can increase theflow of blood & oxygen to themuscles by 7%. This preventsmuscle fatigue, making exerciseeasier.
In a test, subjects who ate nitraterich foods like strawberries, beforeexercising burned 100 more calo-ries than those who did not.
Strawberries are the only fruitwith seeds on the outside.
The average strawberry has 200seeds.
• The ancient Romans believed that strawberriesalleviated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, allinflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidneystones, bad breath, attacks of gout, and diseases ofthe blood, liver and spleen.
• To symbolize perfection and righteousness,medieval stone masons carved strawberry designson altars and around the tops of pillars in churchesand cathedrals.
In parts of Bavaria, country folk still practice theannual rite each spring of tying small baskets of wildstrawberries to the horns of their cattle as an offeringto elves. They believe that the elves, are passionate-ly fond of strawberries, will help to produce healthycalves and an abundance of milk in return.
• Madame Tallien, a prominent figure at the court ofthe Emperor Napoleon, was famous for bathing inthe juice of fresh strawberries. She used 22 poundsper basin. Needless to say, she did not bathe daily.
• Strawberries are the first fruit to ripen in the spring.
• There is a museum in Belgium just for strawberries.
