Briefly For home delivery, call 773-2725 Jerrod Rees Grade 2 High Street BY ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — A gunman killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech parking lot Thursday and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baffling attack that shook up the campus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shoot- ing rampage in modern U.S.history. The shooting took place on the same day Virginia Tech officials were in Washington, fighting a govern- ment fine over their alleged mishan- dling of the 2007 bloodbath where 33 people were killed. Before it became clear that the gunman in Thursday’s attack was dead, the school applied Gunman kills officer, himself BY ROB KISER Call Sports Editor [email protected]PIQUA — Piqua basketball fans are guaranteed of one thing when they attend a varsity boys or girls basketball game this win- ter. Some of the best PA (Public Ad- dress) announcing around. Between them, John Hauer (boys) and Duane Bach- man (girls) have manned the mike for more 70 years — and you don’t have to be at a game long to un- derstand why. They have broadcast games at the highest levels — and their voices are on par with the compe- tition on the floor. “It is nice to have two guys with that kind of ex- perience,” Piqua ath- letic director David Palmer said. “As a game manager, that is one less thing you have to worry about. They both have their own styles and I think having two guys of that caliber definitely adds to the atmosphere of the game.” Hauer said it comes natural. “I started out teaching English — talking, doing PA, it is all the same,” Hauer said with a smile. Hauer is probably best known as the voice of Vandalia-Butler basketball — he did boys games from the mid 1980s to 2008 and the girls games from the late 1990s to 2008. “I blame that on Ray Za- wadzki,” Hauer said with a laugh about the legendary Vandalia- Butler boys basketball coach. Hauer started out as a floater at Vandalia games in the 1970s at the “Pit” — he would work Piqua has talented duo of PA announcers D RIVER REMOVED Piqua Fire Department paramedics work to remove the driver of a vehicle that crashed head-on into a bridge support on the southbound entrance ramp to I-75 off County Road 25-A north of Piqua at about 10:45 a.m. Thursday. The driver, identified as Linda Martin, 68, of Loveland, was transported up Upper Valley Medical Center for treatment and evaluation. She was listed as a patient, but a con- dition could not be obtained. A dog that was in the vehicle is believed to have died in the crash. Piqua police are investigating the crash. Duane Bachman mans the microphone as public address an- nouncer at Piqua a girls basketball game. Public address announcer John Hauer has some fun with official Lee Barlow before a Piqua boys basketball game BY BETHANY J. 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Briefly
For home delivery, call 773-2725
Jerrod ReesGrade 2
High Street
BY ZINIE CHEN SAMPSONAssociated Press
BLACKSBURG, Va. — A gunmankilled a police officer in a VirginiaTech parking lot Thursday and thenapparently shot himself to deathnearby in a baffling attack that shook
up the campus nearly five years afterit was the scene of the deadliest shoot-ing rampage in modern U.S. history.The shooting took place on the
same day Virginia Tech officials werein Washington, fighting a govern-ment fine over their alleged mishan-dling of the 2007 bloodbath where 33people were killed. Before it becameclear that the gunman in Thursday’sattack was dead, the school applied
PIQUA — Piqua basketballfans are guaranteed of one thingwhen they attend a varsity boysor girls basketball game this win-ter.Some of the best PA (Public Ad-
dress) announcingaround.Between them,
John Hauer (boys)and Duane Bach-man (girls) havemanned the mike formore 70 years — andyou don’t have to beat a game long to un-derstand why.They have broadcast games at
the highest levels — and theirvoices are on par with the compe-tition on the floor.“It is nice to have two guys
with that kind of ex-perience,” Piqua ath-letic director DavidPalmer said. “As agame manager, thatis one less thing youhave to worry about.They both have theirown styles and Ithink having twoguys of that caliber
definitely adds to the atmosphereof the game.”Hauer said it comes natural.“I started out teaching English
— talking, doing PA, it is all the
same,” Hauer said with a smile.Hauer is probably best known
as the voice of Vandalia-Butlerbasketball — he did boys gamesfrom the mid 1980s to 2008 andthe girls games from the late1990s to 2008.“I blame that on Ray Za-
wadzki,” Hauer said with a laughabout the legendary Vandalia-Butler boys basketball coach.Hauer started out as a floater
at Vandalia games in the 1970sat the “Pit” — he would work
Piqua has talented duo of PA announcers
DRIVER REMOVED
Piqua Fire Department paramedics work to remove the driver of a vehicle that crashed head-on intoa bridge support on the southbound entrance ramp to I-75 off County Road 25-A north of Piqua atabout 10:45 a.m. Thursday. The driver, identified as Linda Martin, 68, of Loveland, was transportedup Upper Valley Medical Center for treatment and evaluation. She was listed as a patient, but a con-dition could not be obtained. A dog that was in the vehicle is believed to have died in the crash.Piqua police are investigating the crash.
Duane Bachman mans the microphone as public address an-nouncer at Piqua a girls basketball game.
Public address announcer John Hauer has some fun with officialLee Barlow before a Piqua boys basketball game
TROY — Back in October, nu-merous representatives from theEnvironmental ProtectionAgency, the Ohio EnvironmentalProtection Agency and Ohio De-partment of Health, along withmany Troy city officials, water-shed groups and residents con-gregated at Van CleveElementary to discuss a chemicalpollution or plume beneath sec-tions of the city.Officials report plans are con-
tinuing to monitor the affectedarea.The meeting was held to up-
date the general public in regardsto 36 homes in a 25 block radiusthat were to be tested for volatileorganic compounds (VOCs) thatare present in the groundwaterthat can lead to vapor intrusionsfrom foundation cracks that canthen contaminate indoor air.The area of investigation is
bounded to the north by the
Pollutionmonitoringplannedin Troy
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Bachman, Hauerbring decades ofexperience to mike
See PA announcers/Page 2
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Va. Tech again scene of deadly shooting
Virginia Techpolice officersconsole oneanother as theymove towardthe scenewhere a fellowpolice officerwas killed in aparking lot oncampus Thurs-day in Blacks-burg, Va. See Gunman/Page 2
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the lessons learned duringthe last tragedy, lockingdown the campus andusing a high-tech alert sys-tem to warn students andfaculty members to stayindoors.“In light of the turmoil
and trauma and thetragedy suffered by thiscampus by guns, I can onlysay words don’t describeour feelings and they’reelusive at this point intime,” university presidentCharles Steger said. “Ourhearts are broken againfor the family of our policeofficer.”The officer was killed
after pulling a driver overin a traffic stop. The gun-man who was not involvedin the traffic stop walkedinto the parking lot andambushed the officer. Po-lice did not know what themotive was.A law enforcement offi-
cial who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity con-firmed the gunman wasdead, but wouldn’t say howhe died.While authorities
wouldn’t confirm specificdetails about the gunman,they released a timeline ofevents.At about 12:15 p.m., the
officer called in the trafficstop. After a few minutespassed without hearingfrom the officer, dispatchtried to get in touch withhim, but didn’t get a re-sponse. About 15 minuteslater, police received thefirst call from a witnesswho said an officer hadbeen shot at the CassellColiseum parking lot andthe gunman had fled onfoot.Local, state and federal
officials responded imme-diately. At 1 p.m., an officersaw a suspicious man in aparking lot known as TheCage. The man had a gun-shot wound and a gun wasnearby.
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wherever they need him,whether it be taking tick-ets, running the score-board or doing in the PA.“The first time (the PA
guy wasn’t there), thescoreboard operator didthe PA and I ran thescoreboard — that was alot of fun,” Hauer said.“Then, I made the mistakeof doing the PA one game.Ray (Zawadzki) said hedidn’t want us switching.He wanted the same guydoing the same thingsevery night.”Thus, a legendary an-
nouncing career waslaunched.Along with being an
English teacher and guid-ance counselor at Van-dalia, Hauer workednumerous sports includ-ing basketball, wrestling(more than 30 years), But-ler track (25 years), alongwith working the FlyingTo the Hoop and numer-ous district, regional andstate tournaments.“When the Flying To
The Hoop started, it wasat Vandalia,” Hauer said.“So I ended up workingthe first game at the Fly-ing To The Hoop.”He has been the voice of
GMWA wrestling tourna-ment for 14 years and isthe voice of the GWOCtrack meet.“That is interesting be-
cause you are at a differ-ent place with a differentsound system ever year,”Hauer said.When the Student Ac-
tivity Center opened atVandalia, it meant a lot ofwork for Hauer.“We had 35 to 45 tour-
nament games a year,”Hauer said. “Things reallytook off then. It was like aregular job.”In 1997, he worked 73
tournament games in afive and a half week pe-riod.He has manned the
mike at the state volley-ball tournament for thelast 17 years and hasworked all over the MiamiValley at stadiums — heeven did one inning ofbaseball at Fifth-ThirdField.But, probably his most
memorable moment wasdoing the final high schoolboys state basketball tour-nament at St. John Arenain 1998.“It is (something he will
always remember),” hesaid. “They have breaksbetween the games.Everybody would leave toget something to eat and Iwould sit there and stareat all the history.”After retiring, Hauer
came to Piqua as a guid-ance counselor and isworking the boys basket-ball games full time thisseason.“I enjoy it (being around
the kids),” Hauer said.“When my son and daugh-ter were playing, I wasgetting paid to watch mykids play. That was great.And like Tuesday night(Piqua’s win over Tippeca-noe). That was excitingwhen you have a gamelike that.”Bachman is no stranger
to the Piqua community.It was near the end of
his career as superintend-ent that he first made hispresence felt on a micro-phone — he then went to
a successful second careerannouncing games forWPTW— and has contin-ued to do PA at differenttimes for Piqua over thelast 30 years.“When Dean Hecker re-
tired, Ed Purk asked meto do a football game,”Bachman said. “I am notreally sure why.”Bachman has been a
natural ever since, evenhaving a sports talk showon WPTW at one point.But, he also understood
the clear difference be-tween when he is doingPA and when is broad-casting on the radio.“I think the PA guy is
not there to do play byplay,” Bachman said.“When you are doing PA,you have to make sure youare not giving them toomuch information.”Bachman has also done
various sports and has notrouble pinpointing themost difficult for him.“Soccer,” he said. “There
are so many players goingin and out. That is toughone.”And you really can’t
talk about Piqua athleticswithout talking aboutBachman, who also does anumber of games at Fly-ing To The Hoop.“When I first started,
one of the reason was Iwas doing sports where Ihad kids playing,” he said.“After that, it became away to stay involved withsports at Piqua.”One of the reasons
Bachman is so popular isthe work he puts into it.“First, I think a PA an-
nouncer needs to makethings interesting,” Bach-man said. ” I don’t think a
monotone voice is good.Whenever someone comesinto a game, I will an-nounce them, not the per-son they are replacing.You don’t ever want to em-barrass anyone.”And he uses the same
philosophy when an-nouncing the score of thegame.“Normally, I will an-
nounce the score at theend of each quarter,” hesaid. “But, if it is a lop-sided game, I won’t. I don’twant to embarrass theteam that is losing. And Ibelieve you need to pre-pare if you are going to doPA. Find out the pronun-ciations of the players onother team before thegame. Especially thetough ones. Nothing willget you attention fasterthan mispronouncing aname.”Hauer said there is only
one problem with an-nouncing.“I have spoiled myself,”
he said. “I can’t just sitand watch a game, even athome — I always have tobe doing something.”Just like Bachman and
Hauer are spoiling localbasketball fans with theirPA work — as they havebeen doing for years.
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Lucile Weber SmithOCEANSIDE, Calif. —
Lucile Weber Smith, 96,died at 11:10 a.m.Wednes-d a y ,Aug. 31,2011, ata hospi-tal inOcean -s i d e ,C a l i f . ,a f t e rsuffer-ing afall ather residence.A resident of Oceanside,
Calif. since 1991, she wasborn in Phoenix, Ariz. onFeb. 17, 1915, to the lateFrank H. Weber andGrace R. Weber, both ofPettisville. She marriedJoseph E. Smith in Pet-tisville on Aug. 20, 1938.He preceded her in deathon Jan. 13, 2011. Heryounger brothers, Johnand Lawrence also pre-ceded her in death.She is survived by her
son Doug, of Los Angeles;her daughter, MarianCouchot and her husband,Ron, both of Oceanside;and numerous nieces,nephews and cousins.Mrs. Smith graduated
in 1933, from WauseonHigh School, Wauseon,and she earned her bache-lor of science in educationat Ohio Northern Univer-sity in 1937.Moving to Miami
County with her husbandafter his graduation fromOhio Northern, theybegan a lifelong partner-ship that lasted more than72 years.An active member of
Greene Street MethodistChurch, she worked in thechurch office, assisted andled many of the churchchoirs and youth activi-ties. She also was busi-ness secretary at thePiqua YWCA.After “snow-birding” be-
tween Piqua and South-ern California for severalyears, she and Joe movedto Oceanside in 1991,where they had residedsince that time.A memorial celebration
of her life was held Sept.22, 2011, at Eternal Hillsof Oceanside, Calif.Memorial contributions
may be made to GreeneStreet Methodist Churchor to the Piqua EducationFoundation, 719 E. AshSt., Piqua, OH 45356.
Patricia (FahnestockPiquignot) Vaughn
SIDNEY — Patricia A.(Fahne-s t o c kPequig-n o t )Vaughn,77, of1 0 5 3R i v e r -b e n dB l v d . ,Sidney,passeda w a yat 2:20 p.m. Wednesday,Dec. 7, 2011, at DorothyLove Retirement Centersurrounded by her lovingfamily.She was born Feb. 3,
1934, in Sidney, thedaughter of the late Jacoband Blanche (Cable)Fahnestock.Patricia was married to
Ronald D. Vaughn and hesurvives.Also surviving are chil-
dren, Rebecca (Jerry)Thomas of Seattle, Wash.,Kathleen (Doug) Spain ofTroy, Andrew (Sarah) Pe-quignot of Barry, Texas,John Anthony (Vicki) Pe-quignot of Aurora, Ill.,Julie (Todd) Deeter of Ver-sailles, Rhonda Hickmanof Houston; stepsons,David Vaughn of Sidney,
Tony (Tammy) Vaughn ofSidney, Shane Vaughn ofIndiana; 20 grandchil-dren; and 21 great-grand-children. She waspreceded in death by sixbrothers; three sisters;and one daughter,TheresaPequignot.Patricia was retired
from Copeland Corpora-tion. She loved playingcards and the organ andspending time with herchildren, grandchildrenand great-grandchildren.She will be greatly missedby all of her family andfriends.Funeral services will be
held at 11 a.m. Monday atAdams Funeral Home,1401 Fair Road, Sidney,with the Rev. PhilipChilcote officiating. Burialwill follow at Cedar PointCemetery, Pasco.Friends and family may
call from 1-4 p.m. Sundayat the funeral home.Donations may be made
to Wilson Memorial Hos-pice, 1081 FairingtonDrive, Sidney, OH 45365in Patricia’s memory.Online memories may
be expressed to the familyat www.theadamsfuneral-home.com.
Susie ‘Sue’Carolyn (Lees) BortonBRADFORD — Susie
“Sue” Carolyn (Lees) Bor-ton, 70, of Bradford,passed away in her homeTuesday morning, Dec. 6,2011, after her courageouseight month battle withlung cancer.She was born in West
Milton on Dec. 20, 1940, tothe late Robert and Flo-rence (Cloyd) Lees.She was preceded in
death by brother, RobertCloyd Lees; and nephew,Robert Eugene Lees.She is survived by her
husband of 22 years,Richard Borton; siblings,Judy (Richard) Buetler ofGreenville and Samuel(Julie) Lees of NewCarlisle; children, JeffreyTodd of Lake Worth, Fla.,Tonya Todd of Arlington,Va. and Pamela (Eric) Ed-wards of Alexandria, Va.;stepchildren, Todd Bortonof Centerville, KarenBrumbaugh of West Mil-ton and Kelly Borton ofFlorida, her belovedgrandchildren, John Mc-Comas, Bryan Edwardsand Alex Edwards, ninestep-grandchildren, (onedeceased); nephews,Sammy and Todd Lees;and nieces, Kimberly Mar-tin and Kimberley Lees.Sue graduated from
Milton-Union High Schoolin 1958. and began work-
ing at Hobart Manufac-turing in Troy. Later shewas an Avon Representa-tive while staying at hometo raise her children. Shesettled into employmentagain at the former HillsDepartment Store andthen at the Industry Prod-ucts Co., both in Piqua.She was a member of andmarried at the NashvilleUnited Church of Christin West Milton and lovedmusic (especially Elvis),visiting with friends fromhigh school, camping, gar-dening and spending timewith her grandchildren.The family will receive
friends at the Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home,131W.Oakwood St., Brad-ford, from 3-5 Sunday, andagain from 10-11 a.m.Monday. Pastor John Shel-ton will lead the memorialservice immediately fol-lowing. Afterward, agraveside service and in-terment will be held atHarris Creek Cemetery inBradford followed by a re-ception at the BradfordChurch of the Brethren,120 W. Oakwood St.In lieu of flowers, con-
tributions may be made toHospice of Miami County,P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH45373. Condolences maybe made to the family atwww.stockerfraley.com.
Forest Glen ‘Frosty’YoungTROY — Forest Glen
“Frosty” Young, 89, ofTroy, passed away at hishome Wednesday, Dec. 7,2011, with his specialfriend and beloved pup;“Diamond” by his side.Mr. Young was born
Nov. 13, 1922, in HarrisonTownship, MontgomeryCounty.He was preceded in
death by his parents,Frank and Iva Young;wives, Mary Alice, Nellie,Fran and Mary.He is survived by his
loving children, Roger D.“Wayne” Young and hiswife Christine of Troy,Virginia A. Campbell ofNew Carlisle, Michael L.Young and his wife Can-dice of Covington, FredaR. Bodiker of StrawberryPt., Iowa, Homer Baldwinand his wife Sheila of
New Carlisle, Beulah F.Gee of Tipp City, andLoris Jean Weaver of Bal-sam, N.C.; as well as nu-merous grandchildrenand great-grandchildren.Forest had been a fore-
man for Tip Top CanningCompany, Tipp City. Hewas a member of the TippCity Lions Club and theEagles Lodge 2201.Funeral services will
be conducted at 6 p.m.Monday at Frings andBayliff Funeral Home,327 W. Main St. TippCity. Visitation will befrom 3-6 p.m., prior to theservice, at the funeralhome. Entombment willtake place in Fort MyersMemorial Gardens, FortMyers, Fla.Condolences may be ex-
pressed to the family atwww.fringsandbaylifff.com.
VAUGHNSMITH
Obituaries
PIQUA — Roosevelt Grant, 52, of Piqua, passedaway Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.Arrangements are pending with Fisher-Cheney
Funeral Home, Troy.
Death notices
CorrectionThe Get Up and Go column in Wednesday’s iN75
contained an error.The Elvis Aaron Presley Jr. show atthe Rockford Belle in Rockford is on Saturday at 7p.m., not Sunday as the paper stated. The Daily Callregrets the error.
STAFF REPORT
PIQUA — The city manshot repeatedly Mondayeveningw h i l es i t t i n gin aparkedautomo-bile inthe 1300block ofForestAvenuen e a rF o u n -t a i nPark re-m a i n shospital-ized, butis im-p r o v -i n g ,family members said.Michael Butts, 22, was
struck four times by thegunfire. He was shot in thechin, the right chest, the
right abdomen and rightarm, family members said.Butts was removed from
the intensive care unit atMiami Valley Hospital inDayton on Wednesdayevening and is continuingin his recovery.Meanwhile, police are
still searching for shootingsuspect Aaron Tubbs, 22,at large.Tubbs is known tofrequently travel betweenFt. Wayne, Ind., andPiqua, in a black Cadillacwith Indiana plates,JS9923.Authorities have filed a
warrant against Tubbsand have charged himwith felonious assault, asecond-degree felony.Police are not releasing
other details at this time,including a possible mo-tive.Anyone with informa-
tion regarding the where-abouts of Tubbs is urged tocontact the Piqua PoliceDepartment at 778-2027,or through the anonymousCrime Stoppers tips lineat 615-TIPS.
Local shooting victimcontinues recovery
BUTTS
TUBBS
Suspect beingsought by police
PIQUA — The commu-nity-improvement groupPositively PromotingPiqua’s Citizens Commit-tee met Nov. 14 atHartzell Propeller inPiqua.PPP Steering Commit-
tee Chairman Dan Frenchkicked off the meeting byannouncing that CraigBarhorst, of 298 LindenAvenue in Piqua, hadagreed to serve as chair-man of the citizens com-mittee and that WaydeDavis, of 1005 ColleenDrive, had stepped up toserve as vice chairman.Barhorst is employed byHartzell Propeller andDavis by Koverman-Dick-erson Insurance Agency.French stated that PPP’sSteering Committee has“every confidence thatCraig andWayde will workwell together and lead theCitizens Committee inmany great projects for ourcity. Both of these menhave a clear vision of themission of PPP and thepositive impact we canmake as a group of dedi-cated citizens.”During the meeting, cit-
izens committee membersdiscussed the positive re-sults from local election is-sues that appeared on theNov. 8 ballot.Positively Promoting
Piqua took an active rolein supporting the PiquaCity Schools School bondlevy and the five city ofPiqua charter amend-ments — all of which wereapproved by Piqua voters.For the school levy, PPPsupporters distributedpositive yard signs andbuttons, posted daily in-formation about the levyon PPP’s Facebook page,encouraged PPP support-
ers to step up and speakout in support of the levy,and circulated manyemails in favor of thelevy’s passage. Stacy Scottreported that Piqua CitySchools SuperintendentRick Hanes was very ap-preciative of PPP’s efforts,sending along after theelection “a huge thank youto PPP for your belief inour community and thesupport you provided ourbond issue.”The citizens committee
also discussed the encour-aging results from PPP’sparticipation in the PiquaChamber’s Regional Busi-ness Showcase, held onOct. 13 at Piqua HighSchool. PPP leaders AlissaBlankenship and StacyScott led PPP’s participa-tion in the project, includ-ing the design of its boothfor the event. Scott re-ported that a number ofpeople from PPP’s Steer-ing Committee and Citi-zens Committee attendedand assisted with theShowcase booth. Shenoted that PPP’s partici-pation in the Showcase“allowed us to feature ourpeople — some of the out-standing citizens fromacross Piqua who havestepped forward to helpour community be the bestit can be. We discussedwith showcase visitorswhat PPP is, how it works,and what it is doing tohelp improve and promotethe Piqua community. Wealso provided a variety ofliterature and informa-tion, detailing the make-up, beliefs and currentprojects of Positively Pro-moting Piqua. All in all,we were very pleased withthe support we receivedand heard at the Show-
case, from both active PPPsupporters and others inthe community.”Several of the citizen
committee’s subcommit-tees had great news toshare at the Nov. 14 meet-ing. Jim Vetter, speakingon behalf of the GreatNeighborhoods Subcom-mittee, reported the com-pletion of the Mote ParkShelter. Vetter noted thatthe shelter “was com-pleted after months ofplanning, generous dona-tions and four weekendsof hard work by a tirelessgroup of diverse commu-nity volunteers, includingrepresentatives from theSouthview NeighborhoodAssociation, PPP andP.O.I.N.T.” He noted that aribbon-cutting ceremonyfor the shelter will be heldsometime before the endof the year.Earl Slater, speaking on
behalf of the city to the cit-izens subcommittee, had anumber of things to sharewith the what is happen-ing in the city. Amongother items, he announcedthat the city would havefour new business expan-sions representing ap-proximately $4.5 millionof new investment in thePiqua community. He alsoreported that the demoli-tion of the old hospitalbuildings at the corner ofPark and Nicklin avenueswill begin in early 2012,and reminded everyone ofthe use to which this sitewill be put with the newschool building to beerected as a result of theschool levy’s passage.Slater also reported thatthe South Main StreetProject has begun andnoted that there is a verygood probability of new
restaurants opening soonin the Miami Valley Cen-tre Mall and the FortPiqua Plaza.The citizens committee
meeting concluded with areminder that PositivelyPromoting Piqua is partic-ipating in the Holiday Pa-rade and the Festival ofTrees to be held in down-town Piqua in early De-cember.Those interested in
learning more about PPPcan visit its web site atpositivepiqua.org or findPositively PromotingPiqua on Facebook.
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This year’s Jan Mulder Citizenship Award winners were announced at the Piqua City Commission meet-ing Tuesday evening and recipients were honored for their actions during the vicious Sept. 11 dogmauling of Sandra Getzendiner, who also received the award, but was not present at the meeting. Fromleft to right are,Vicki Schneider; James McMaken; Brittanie Evans; Nancy Mulder, the widow of the lateJan Mulder; Caleb Hunter and Richard Richmond.
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Deer-hunting seasonhas started.I know,because of thecomplete and total absence of deer.The herd of seventhat have been snacking on my saplings, my garden
and my lawn every morning and evening for the last 11months have disappeared towho knowswhere.Forevery treeandbushIcage,thereare three thatgomiss-
ing. I don’t carewhat people say—there is nothing that deerwon’t eat.“Rhododendrons! The leaves are poisonous, and the deer
won’t touch them.” They touched mine right down to theground. It also seemed to increase their fertility.“Humanhair.Ask your barber for all the hair he clips and
hang it innylonbags aroundyour property.”Thedeer ate thehair and the bags.“Kitty litter. Spread it
around your garden.” I think itattracts them.Myherdgrewbythree.For 11months, I yell at deer
from my back porch. No morethan 30 feet away, they ignoreme. “Oh, it’s him again. Justkeep eating,” they tell one an-other.Now they are gone,not to be
seen again until hunting sea-son ends.Then they will make up for lost time, stripping thebark from my trees and munching every living, expensivething that is not indoors.I know it’s hunting season because of the randomand un-
comfortably closebangsandpops Ihearwhileworking in theyard.Somedays I feel as if I’m living next door to aCivilWarre-enactment—not a skirmish,but ahugebattle,aShiloh,aGettysburg. I wonderwhat all the shooting is about, becausethe only deer still heremust be the very few that are deaf.Allthe others have gone south for thewinter.I could understand hearing one shot every now and then.
You have sighted your prey, you have waited patiently, youhave brought down your prize with a single shot.What puz-zlesme are the other 16 shots.OK, youmissed the first timeand the deer bolted. It is no longer standing still.Sowhat areyou shooting at? A running, jumping deer in the middle of aforest? Good luckwith that; you’ll need it.There’s yetanother reasonIknowthat it’shuntingseason:
the list of gun-related “accidents” in the paper.“What a terrible accident. If only he hadn’t drunk a six-
pack for breakfast.” If only the shotgun hadn’t been loadedwhenhepulled it outof the trunk,barrel first.If only shehad-n’t beenoutsidehanging clothes on the line onopeningday.Ifonly they hadn’t let the black standard poodle out to do itsbusiness.If only their cowshadbeenpaintedsafety orange.Ifonly he hadn’t dressed in deerskin and antlers.The list goeson and on and on.But the results are all pretty predictable.Calling them “accidents” is like saying the new baby was
“unplanned.” Really? Think hard — was there nothing thatcould have been done to prevent that?Ialsoknowit isdeer season fromall the strangecarsgoing
downmy road at 6mph.They are looking for a spot to hunt.The local guysalreadyknowwhere tohunt.These clownsarefrom out of state or from the city.The polite ones will stop bythehouse and say:“IsBobhere?He’s a friend ofmine,andhealways lets me hunt down on the flats.” Bob hasn’t lived inthis house for 15 years. You’d think his friends would knowthat.I know it’s deer season because I saw a car at the gas sta-
tion today with a big buck strapped to the roof, headed off tothecut-upplaceandthe taxidermist.Iaskedtheguy,whowaspumping gas still wearing camo and a safety orange vest,where he bagged it. He pointed to the front of his car, allsmashed and dented. It looked like he’d been doing about 45when he hit it.
JimMullen’s newbook,“Now inPaperback,” is now in pa-perback.You can reach him at jimmullenbooks.com.
Iremember when the civilrights movement wascresting in the late 1950s
— not only in the South —sitting at jazz concerts andother public events, linkinghands with blacks andwhites in the same row,some of whom I didn’t know,as we were singing “WeShall Overcome.”We haven’t overcome. I
was a friend of Dr. KennethClark, a psychologist andprofessor whose research contributedsignificantly to the Supreme Court’sunanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Edu-cation decision that racial segregation inthe public schools was unconstitutional.Clark was jubilant that day. Youngblacks, he told me, could “now be proudthat they are Americans.”The high court, however, kept weak-
ening the impact of that ruling untilClark, a strong integrationist, said to metoward the end of his life: “I feel my lifehas been wasted.”Here we are, entering a presidential
election year, when Sam Dillon reports(“Districts Pay Less in Poor Schools, Re-port Says,”The NewYorkTimes, Nov. 30):“Tens of thousands of schools serving(mostly black and Hispanic) low-incomestudents are being shortchanged becausedistricts (due to lawful residential segre-gation) spend fewer state and local dol-lars on teacher salaries in those schoolsthan on salaries in schools servinghigher-income students.”In most big cities, the public schools
are very markedly racially segregated—including where I live, New York City,whose self-anointed “education mayor,”Michael Bloomberg, has said nary a wordabout this segregation that results in anincreasing deep racial gap in students’achievements.All too obviously, along with education,
future prospects are dark — not only forblack citizens but also for so many oth-ers with grimly limited means andpainfully few present and foreseeable re-sources.Blacks lead the list of Americans feel-
ing at a dead end. Reports the Nov. 28New York Times: “Jobless rates amongblacks have consistently been about dou-ble those of whites. In October, the blackunemployment rate was 15.1 percent,compared with 8 percent for whites. Lastsummer, the black unemployment ratehit 16.7 percent, its highest level since1984.”In the same Nov. 28 report, “As Public
Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hard-est,” Timothy Williams focuses on a sub-stantial reason for black unemploymentthat I have not been aware of. The NewYork Times should have put this hard-edged news on the front page that con-cerns “tens of thousands of once solidlymiddle-class African-American govern-ment workers — bus drivers in Chicago,police officers and firefighters in Cleve-land, nurses and doctors in Florida —who have been laid off since the recessionended in June 2009.”For millions of Americans of various
classes, including, for another example,government post office workers, the fes-tering recession has not ended. Thelargely overlooked point that Williamsmakes is:
“Such (black) job losseshave … undermined thestability of neighborhoodswhere there are now fewerblack professionals who ownhomes or who get up everymorning to go to work.”This made me remember
a conversation I had withDuke Ellington in the 1950s.The already internationallyknown composer and or-chestra leader, whose musicwas often about his people’s
continuing history here, said to me:“There are blacks working in the post
offices who could have been Ph.D.s — ifthe way there was possible for them. Butmost importantly now, they do havethese jobs.”Williams quotes Robert H. Zieger,
emeritus professor of history at the Uni-versity of Florida and a scholar on raceand labor:“The reliance on these (government)
jobs has provided African-Americans apath upward. But it is also a vulnerabil-ity.”In the past, a Dec. 4 New York Times
editorial (“Pain in the Public Sector”) em-phasizes, “millions of African-Americans— one in five who are employed — haveentered the middle class through gov-ernment employment.”Further illustrating this vulnerability
that Zieger describes is the rising num-ber of government workers around thecountry, including blacks, who are beingdismissed as local, state and federal gov-ernments strive to reduce their deficits.Williams puts a human face on how
blacks are hit hard by disappearing pub-lic sector jobs: “Pamela Sparks, 49, a 25-year Postal Service veteran in Baltimore,has a brother who is a letter carrier anda sister who is a sales associate at thePostal Service. Her father is a retiredstation manager.”“With our whole family working for
the Post Office,” she tells the Times, “itwould be hard to help each other out be-cause we’d all be out of work” in view ofthe acute financial crisis affecting thePostal Service.And Don Buckley, the Times reports, is
an unemployed Chicago Transit Author-ity bus driver who now lives in hismother’s basement and “his mother, aPostal Service employee, (has) growntired of him ‘eating up all her food. She’sready for me to get up out of here.’”When he was earning $23.76 an hour,
says Buckley, “I was living the Americandream. … Then it crumbled.”On Sept. 12, on blackvoicenews.com,
Marjorie Valbrun reports bitingly: “Re-cent public opinion polls show that morewhites than African-Americans believethat the United States has entered a‘post-racial’ era in which racial bias does-n’t exist.”I haven’t heard anyone sing “We Shall
Overcome” for a long time.How will our next president end the
crumbling of the American dream formembers of all of our races?
Nat Hentoff is a nationally renownedauthority on the First Amendment andthe Bill of Rights. He is a member of theReporters Committee for Freedom of thePress, and the Cato Institute, where he isa senior fellow.
BY THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS
Excerpts of recent edito-rials of interest from Ohionewspapers:
The (Cleveland) PlainDealer, Dec. 2
It says something aboutthe global consensus on cli-mate change that expertsand diplomats are now atwork at their 17th annualconference since a 1992U.N. pact was signed. Themeeting began this week inSouthAfrica, and concludesnext Friday.More than 190 nations
are involved in these jointefforts to understand thescope, dangers, challengesand most effective ways toslow human-caused plane-tary warming. …The need is evident.
What’s lacking is even ashard of agreement on whowill do what, when or howcosts can be managed in arocky global economy. …The Kyoto Protocol that
held most older industrial-ized nations to emissionslimits although not theUnited States, which re-fused to sign becauseChina, India, Brazil andother emerging economicpowers weren’t restrictedwill expire next year withno clear template for whatcomes next.But doing nothing is not
an option. Given the longtime spans required to re-balance greenhouse gases,all emitting nations need toaccept responsibility for re-ducing their share of emis-sions while helping themost vulnerable impover-ished populations aroundthe world cope with cli-mate-change-related dis-ruptions.
—————Steubenville Herald StarOhio State took a giant
step toward polishing itstarnished image recentlywhen it hired UrbanMeyeras its next football coach.…The team has been reel-
ing since it was discoveredthat former coach JimTres-sel knew that some of hisplayers received cash andfree or discounted tattoosfrom a man who was thesubject of a federal drug-trafficking investigation.Meyer brings solid cre-
dentials to his new job. …His career has includedhead coaching jobs at Bowl-ing Green, Utah andFlorida. Meyer’s teamshave a combined record of104-23 and a record of 7-1in bowl games. …That track record means
there is reason for opti-mism. There are, unfortu-nately, some pendingquestions and hurdles thatseem to lie directly ahead.Ohio State is still facing
NCAA sanctions in addi-tion to its self-imposed twoyears of NCAA probationand the loss of five scholar-ships during the next threeyears. …Then there are legiti-
mate questions about hishealth and a desire tospend more time with hisfamily that led him to walkaway from the Florida jobtwice.
The Village Idiot
Deer knowwhen it’s timeto skedaddle
When will U.S. bepost-racial society?
Moderately Confused
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1.There is muchmore tothe play here than meetsthe casual eye. Oddlyenough, you should playthe three of hearts onSouth’s four! To play theking or queen amounts togiving up on the hand.Let’s see why. You start
by assuming that Southhas the king of spades,since you cannot make thecontract unless he has thatcard. But once you makethis assumption, it followsthat South cannot alsohave the ace of hearts, ashe would not have passedoriginally with the A-K ofdiamonds, the king ofspades — which circum-stances compel you to as-sign him — and the ace ofhearts.Your only real chance,
therefore, is that South hasthe J-10-x or J-10-x-x ofhearts, in which case yourlow heart play will drawNorth’s ace without wast-ing your king or queen. Toplay an honor on South’sfour would be tantamountto conceding defeat with-out attempting to avoid it.2. Win the heart, draw
trumps and cash the ace ofdiamonds. If both oppo-nents follow suit, the slamcan be assured by leadinganother diamond and play-ing low from dummy! Thisguards against a 4-1 dia-mond division and guaran-tees 12 tricks.If you play the queen on
the second round of dia-monds and the suit divides4-1, you’ll have to fall back
on a spade finesse. Itwould be wrong to subjectyourself to that risk whenconceding a diamond trickgives you a sure thing.True, this will cost you 20pointsmore often than not,but that is a very tiny pre-mium to pay for ensuringthe slam.
Tomorrow: Doubling theodds.
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his age. In fact, he oftenwhines when he doesn’tget his way. He’s allowedon the Internet withoutsupervision, and I havewalked in and caught himsurfing naughty pictures.When I told his dad, helaughed and said, “Boyswill be boys!”Abby, I’m afraid for my
6-year-old daughter. Afew weeks ago, Dale de-cided he wanted to play“good guys/bad guys”with her. When hegrabbed my daughter in achoke hold and held a toygun to her head, she be-came hysterical. I havesince had nightmaresthat Dale will find a realgun, think it’s one of hisplay guns and shoot mydaughter.I think Dale’s obsession
is unhealthy, and I don’tthink it’s healthy for mydaughter to be aroundhim. How do I handle thiswith my boyfriend? I lovehim and would like tospend the rest of my lifewith him, but I cannotmarry him at the expenseof my daughter.
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DEAR PARANOIDAND PERPLEXED:How did your boyfriendhandle the “goodguys/bad guys” incidentwhen you brought it tohis attention? The answerto that question will pro-vide you with insight intohis ability to parent hisson, and what your andyour daughter’s futurewill be like if you marryhim. If his reaction wasn’tto your satisfaction, thenyou must place yourchild’s safety above yourheart’s desire, and youhave assessed the situa-tion correctly.
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POMONA, Calif. — There’s aproblem on the set of “Fear Factor.”The squirming leeches that are
supposed to stick to a pair of pro-duction assistants who are testinga gross-out challenge keep fallingoff their nearly nude bodies beforethe wormy critters can be chewedup and swallowed. Inside a control-room truck parked outside a barnon the site of the L.A. County Fair,the show’s producers scramble tosave the slimy stunt.Instead of couples taking turns
dipping into a chilly tub filled withthe blood suckers, the producersquickly decide that only the bikini-clad female halves of the teamswill be submerged in the leech-in-fested water, and their male coun-terparts will be tasked withyanking the creatures off theirteammates’ skin with only theirmouths before the pair gorge onleeches.When the actual contestants
tackle the slimy gag, it movesswiftly and without issue, well,any issue that would concernsomeone responsible for the likesof “Fear Factor.” The bloodcurdlingscreams, violent vomiting andemotional breakdowns that ensueduring the leech sucking-and-eating exercise delight the admit-tedly twisted producers inside thecontrol room.“When we do a stunt like today, I
feel it’s as good, if not better, thanthe gross stunts that we did in thepast,” executive producer Matt Ku-nitz said unapologetically during abreak from filming earlier thisyear. “We made the right call be-cause the girls were all freakingout. If the guys were in the tub,they would’ve been stoic about it,and it would’ve been boring.”It’s been five years since Kunitz
and his team last worried aboutways to freak out reality TV con-testants, and time doesn’t seem tohave hindered their mission fortension-building sadism on theover-the-top NBC contest. (Kunitzand most of his colleagues havebeen working on the splashy ABCobstacle course competition “Wipe-out” for the past three years.)“Fear Factor” debuted in 2001
and promptly became a popularguilty pleasure, long before suchtrashtastic fare as “Jersey Shore”and “Keeping Up With the Kar-dashians.” Ratings eventuallydwindled though, and after a seriesof gimmicky installments, includ-
ing Miss USA and military edi-tions, “Fear Factor” slithered awayfrom NBC after six seasons in2006.Network executives approached
Kunitz about resurrecting theshow last year when “Fear Factor”reruns airing on the horror-themedcable network Chiller, which isowned by NBC Universal, keptsucking in viewers. The revived“Fear Factor,” which begins Mon-day on NBC at 8 p.m. EST, will bebroadcast in high definition butwill feel familiar to viewers —same logo, format and host.“Fear Factor” ringmaster Joe
Rogan likened coming back to theshow to waking up from a coma. Inthe five years since “Fear Factor”left the airwaves, the in-your-faceactor-comedian and UltimateFighting Championship color com-mentator married his longtimegirlfriend, became a father of twodaughters, covered his arms in tat-toos and joined Twitter.“If it was a good show and it paid
good money, but the environmentsucked and it wasn’t fun, I proba-bly wouldn’t have returned, but it’ssuch a fun crew,” said Rogan. “It’slike 80 percent of the same crewfrom before. Also, I think I’d proba-bly be sick if I was watching it athome and someone else was doingit.”Outside the barn in a nearby
parking lot, stunt coordinator PatRomano and his team are busyconstructing the next challenge,which will feature the contestantsstrapped to the front of a cementmixer as it barrels down the road,plowing through breakable walls,stacks of boxes and feather-filled
crates, while contestants grab flagsoff the obstacles.Romano, who worked on “Fear
Factor” the first time around, saidhe tests and tweaks such chal-lenges with his crew months beforearriving on location. He noted thattechnological advancements overthe past five years have allowedhis team to construct bigger stuntsthat are safe enough for the aver-age person to attempt withoutbeing killed.“Everything is more computer-
ized now,” said Romano. “Our limitto pull someone through the airused to be 100 feet and to dropthem was like 10 feet, but yester-day we pulled someone 600 feetthrough the air and dropped them150 feet. There was no way that wecould’ve done that six years ago. Itbasically means we’re just alwaystrying to top ourselves now.”The series’ eight new episodes
don’t tinker with the established“Fear Factor” format: four pairs ofcontestants will take on suchstunts as searching for flagsthrough a flaming tower, driving acar sideways through a semi-truckand devouring varmint-filled bur-ritos. The team who best completesthe final challenge will win theshow’s $50,000 grand prize.“It’s a challenge,” said Kunitz.
“The audience should be able totune in and feel like they haven’tseen this before, but it’s still ‘FearFactor.’ Ultimately, if we’re havinga good time on set, and Joe is hav-ing a good time, then the audienceis going to have a good time whenthey’re watching at home. If we’rebored, we’re not doing somethingright.”
‘Fear Factor’ comescrawling back to TV
MICHAEL WEAVER/AP PHOTO
In this image released by NBC, contestants are whisked to safety bya helicopter after completing a task in the “Heli Truck TNT Crash” stuntin the premiere episode of “Fear Factor,” airing Monday on NBC.
Baldwin apologizes to passengers, not airlineSHAYA TAYEFEMOHAJERAssociated Press
LOS ANGELES — AlecBaldwin issued an apologyWednesday to fellow pas-sengers on an AmericanAirlines flight that was de-layed by his refusal to stopplaying a cellphone game— but stopped short ofapologizing to the airline orthe flight attendant helater mocked on Twitter.The “30 Rock” actor's
note, posted to the Huffing-
ton Post, instead lamentedthe state of modern airtravel. Baldwin noted thefinancial struggles of air-lines, saying the result isthat air travel has devolvedinto an inelegant experi-ence, akin to riding a Grey-hound bus.Baldwin said the level of
service on U.S. carriers hasdeteriorated.“Filthy planes, barely ed-
ible meals, cuts in jet serv-ice to less-traveledlocations,” Baldwin said.Baldwin writes that in-
creased security on com-mercial airplanes post-9/11has resulted in a “paramil-itary” aura around airtravel.“September 11th was a
horrific day in the airlineindustry, yet in the wake ofthat event, I believe carri-ers and airports have usedthat as an excuse to makethe air travel experience asinelegant as possible,”Baldwin writes.Baldwin's letter is the
latest volley in a dustupwith American Airlines,
with the airline taking tosocial media Wednesday tomaintain it was followingfederal regulations when itbooted an “extremely vocalcustomer” from a flight forrefusing to shut off his cell-phone.The airline, which earlier
cited passenger privacy indeclining to discuss thematter, said on its Facebookpage it decided “to providethe actual facts of the mat-ter” after Baldwin statedpublicly he had gottenkicked off the flight.
ATLANTA (AP) A risingnumber of parents in morethan half of states are opt-ing out of school shots fortheir kids. And in eightstates, more than 1 in 20public school kindergart-ners do not get all the vac-cines required forattendance, an AssociatedPress analysis found.That has health officials
worried about possiblenew outbreaks of diseasesthat were all but stampedout.The AP analysis found
more than half of stateshave seen at least a slightrise in the rate of exemp-tions over the past fiveyears. States with thehighest exemption ratesare in theWest and UpperMidwest.It’s “really gotten much
worse,” said Mary Selecky,secretary of health forWashington state, where 6percent of public schoolparents have opted out.Rules for exemptions
vary by state and can in-clude medical, religious orin some states philosophi-cal reasons.Parents’ reasons for
skipping the shots vary.Some doubt that vaccinesare essential. Others fearthat vaccines carry theirown risks. And some findit easier to check a boxopting out than to get theshots and required paper-work.Still others are ambiva-
lent, believing in oldervaccines but questioningnewer shots against, say,chickenpox.The number of shots is
also giving some parentspause. By the time mostchildren are 6, they will
have been stuck with aneedle about two dozentimes with many of thoseshots given in infancy.Thecumulative effect of allthose shots has not beenstudied enough, some par-ents say.“Many of the vaccines
are unnecessary, and pub-lic health officials don’thonestly know” the effectsof giving so many vaccinesto such small children,said Jennifer Margulis, amother of four and parent-ing book author in Ash-land, Ore., a small liberalcommunity that has un-usually high vaccinationexemption rates.But few serious prob-
lems have turned up overyears of vaccinations, andseveral studies haveshown no link betweenvaccines and autism, atheory from the 1990sthat has been widely dis-credited.To be sure, childhood
vaccination rates remainhigh overall, at 90 percentor better for several vac-cines, including those forpolio, measles, hepatitis Band chickenpox. In manystates, exemptions arefiled for fewer than 1 per-cent of children enteringschool for the first time.Health officials have
not identified an exemp-tion threshold that wouldlikely lead to outbreaks.But they worry whensome states have exemp-tion rates climbing beyond5 percent. The averagestate exemption rate hasbeen estimated at lessthan half that.Even more troubling
are pockets in some stateswhere exemption rates
are much higher. In somerural counties in north-east Washington, for ex-ample, vaccinationexemption rates in recentyears have been above 20percent and even as highas 50 percent.“Vaccine refusers tend
to cluster,” said SaadOmer, an Emory Univer-sity epidemiologist whohas done extensive re-search on the issue.Parents who let their
kids skip some vaccinesput others at risk, healthofficials say. Because novaccine is completely ef-fective, if an outbreak be-gins in an unvaccinatedgroup of children, a vacci-nated child may still be atsome risk of getting sick.Studies have found that
measles has suddenly re-emerged in some commu-nities with higherexemption rates. Vacci-nated kids are sometimesamong the cases, or chil-dren too young to be vacci-nated.And measles isn’t the
only risk. Last year, Cali-fornia had more than2,100 whooping coughcases, and 10 infants died.Only one had received afirst dose of vaccine.“Your child’s risk of get-
ting disease depends onwhat your neighbors do,”Omer said.While it seems unlikely
that diseases like polioand diphtheria couldmake a comeback in theU.S., immunization expertDr. Lance Rodewald saysit’s not impossible.“Polio can come back.
China was polio-free fortwo decades, and just thisyear, they were infected
from Pakistan. And thereis a big outbreak of polioin China now.(OOTC:CINW) The samecould happen here,” Rode-wald, of the federal Cen-ters for Disease Controland Prevention, said in anemail.He cited outbreaks of
Hib, a disease that canlead to meningitis, amongthe Amish who don’t con-sistently vaccinate theirchildren. Russia had ahuge diphtheria outbreakin the early to mid-1990s,he said, because vaccinecoverage declined.For its review, the AP
asked state health depart-ments for kindergartenexemption rates for 2006-07 and 2010-11. The APalso looked at data stateshad previously reported tothe federal government.(Most states do not havedata for the current 2011-12 school year.)Alaska had the highest
exemption rate in 2010-11, at nearly 9 percent.Colorado’s rate was 7 per-cent, Minnesota 6.5 per-cent, Vermont andWashington 6 percent, andOregon,Michigan and Illi-nois were close behind.Mississippi was lowest,
at essentially 0 percent.The AP found 10 states
had exemption rate in-creases over the five yearsof about 1.5 percentagepoints or more, a rangehealth officials say is trou-bling.Those states, too, were
in the West and MidwestAlaska, Kansas, Hawaii,Illinois, Michigan, Mon-tana, Oregon, Vermont,Washington and Wiscon-sin. Arizona saw an in-
crease that put that statein the same ballpark.Exemption seekers are
often middle-class, college-educated white people, butthere are often a mix ofviews and philosophies.Exemption hot spots likeSedona, Ariz., and ruralnortheast Washingtonhave concentrations ofparents who prefer alter-native medicine, as well aslibertarians who fear giv-ing government too muchauthority.Opposition to vaccines
“is putting people togetherthat normally would notbe together,” observedElizabeth Jacobs, a Uni-versity of Arizona epi-demiologist looking atthat state’s rising exemp-tion rates.A national survey of
roughly 750 parents, pub-lished last month in the
journal Pediatrics, foundthat more than 1 in 10parents said they refusedor delayed shots mainlybecause of safety concerns.Many exemption-seek-
ing parents conclude thatthe dangers posed by vac-cine-preventable diseasesare less important thanthe possible harm fromvaccines.“We are being told this
by every government offi-cial, teacher, doctor thatwe need vaccines to keepus safe from these dis-eases. I simply don’t be-lieve that to be true. Ibelieve all the diseases inquestion were up to 90percent in decline beforemass vaccines ever weregiven,” said SabrinaPaulick of Ashland. She’sa part-time caregiver forelderly people and motherof a 4-year-old daughter.
JOSEPH PISANI
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — Makeroom in the toy box for theiPad.Crayola allows tots to
doodle on the iPad usingits iMarker just as theywould a crayon on a color-ing book. Tweens are ableto belt out their favoriteMiley Cyrus and SelenaGomez tunes on a Disneymicrophone that turns thetablet into a karaoke ma-chine. And technology ac-cessories company Griffinenables teens to fly its toyhelicopter by using theiPhone as a remote con-trol.This holiday season, toy
makers have turnedApple Inc.’s pricey tabletand smartphone intoplaythings for kids. Theyfigure in this weak econ-omy, parents will be will-ing to splurge on toys fortheir children that utilizedevices they already have— or want — themselves.Tiffany Fessler of
Gainsville, Ga., certainlywas willing to do thateven though when she ini-tially bought her $829iPad she never imaginedshe’d be sharing it withher 20-month-old son. Butwhenever she sat down tocheck emails on the iPad,he’d climb into her lapwanting to use it.So, Fessler decided to
get him the $29.99 Cray-ola iMarker, which trans-forms the iPad into adigital coloring book usinga Crayola’s free ColorStu-dio HD application thatparents can download.
Kids can draw and colorusing the iMarker, whichhas a soft tip so it doesn’tscratch the tablet’s glassscreen.“When you have a
screaming toddler in arestaurant or any publicarea, you want to havesomething to calm himdown with,” says Fessler,39. “This is just anotherway to keep him enter-tained.”That the iPad and
iPhone have infiltratedthe $22 billion toy marketthis season is no surprise.Smartphones and tablets— particularly Appleproducts — are more pop-ular than ever with peopleof all ages. This year,Apple is expected to dou-ble the number of iPhonessold to 90.6 million world-wide, according to re-search firm Gartner, whilethe number of iPads sold
is expected to triple to46.7 million.And Apple products
have a certain “cool factor”with kids that toy compa-nies, which can make upto half of their revenueduring the holidays, arehoping to tap into. In fact,the iPad and iPhone areamong the most covetedelectronics this holidayseason among kids. About44 percent of 6- to 12-year-olds want the iPad thisyear, according to a surveyby research firm Nielsen.The iPod touch came inthe No. 2 spot with 30 per-cent, followed by theiPhone at 27 percent.Not to mention, anyone
who’s a parent knows alltoo well that babies andolder kids alike love to fid-dle with or drool all overmommy’s iPad. Nearly 40percent of 2-to 4-year-oldshave used a smartphone,
iPad or video iPod, accord-ing to a survey by non-profit group CommonSense Media. That num-ber rises to 52 percent for5- to- 8 year olds.And even10 percent of infants haveused one of the devices be-fore their first birthday.“It’s mostly something
for kids to use in the caror at the doctor’s office,”says Chris Baynes, a toyanalyst. “It’s a way to getthe kid to be quiet.”With that in mind,
Crayola teamed up withNashville, Tenn.-basedGriffin Technology, whichis mostly known for sell-ing iPhone and iPad casesand car chargers, to makethe iMarker and the Col-orStudio HD app for kids.The iMarker, which is likea stylus that resembles aCrayola marker, is tar-geted at children agesthree and up.
“Regardless of who theybuy it for, once it is in thehousehold, we know thatkids use it,” says VickyLozano, vice president ofmarketing at Crayola,which makes the iMarker.Other toy makers also
have gotten into thegame:— Griffin’s $49.99 re-
mote-controlled toy heli-copter is aimed at teensover 14. Called the“HELO TC,” it flies usinga device that plugs into aniPhone, iPad or iPod. Afree app turns the touch-screen of the devices intoa cockpit that controls thehelicopter.— Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-
Price unit is selling “TheLaugh and Learn Apptiv-ity Case” aimed at babiesfor $15. The case locks theiPhone into a colorful,easy to grab case thatlooks like a big round rat-tle. The case stops babiesfrom making unwantedcalls and protects theiPhone from somethingelse: drool. Parents canopen up three free appsthat play music, readwords aloud and countnumbers. The companyplans to release an iPadversion of the case thisspring.— Disney has three of-
ferings. The “Disney Spot-light” microphone, whichis $69.99 or $99.99 for awireless version, plugsinto the iPad and allowskids to sing along to Dis-ney songs from showssuch as “Hannah Mon-tana” — or to their ownmusic — and record theirown music video. Disney’s
$79.99 AppClix digitalcamera enables kids toupload their pictures toan iPad and a free app al-lows them add MickeyMouse and Donald Duckinto the photos. And Dis-ney teamed up with Cana-dian toy maker SpinMaster to create “App-mates,” a toy car based onthe characters from thecompany’s “Car’s 2” ani-mated movie. One carsells for $12.99 while atwo-pack goes for $19.99.Using a free app, kids can“drive” on differentcourses by moving the caracross the iPad screen.— Spin Master, which
makes toys such as AirHogs and Bakugan,started a new line thisyear of toys for the iPadand iPhone called“AppFininity.” Its first toyin the line is the $19.99AppBlaster, a plastic gunfor kids over age eight.After slipping an iPhoneor iPad touch on top of theAppBlaster, kids canshoot at aliens that popup on the screen.Analysts say these toys
are just the beginning of anew niche for toy makers.Indeed, most of the com-panies say they plan toroll out more products forsmartphones and tablets— including some thatuse Google Inc.’s Androidsoftware— next year.“I think it’s going to be
a growing segment,” saysJim Silver, editor-in-chiefat toy review websiteTimeToPlaymag.com.“Next year, there will beeven more (products) thanyou can possibly imagine.”
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This undated product photo provided by Crayola, shows the Crayola Color Stu-dio and iMarker. Children can doodle on the tablet using Crayola’s iMarker justas they would a coloring book.
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More kids skip school shots in 8 states
JEFF BARNARD/AP PHOTO
Sitting in her home in Ashland, Ore., Jennifer Mar-gulis shows off empty vials of vaccine that she savesin case one of her children has a bad reaction. An au-thor of books on parenting who has written aboutchildhood vaccines, Margulis is one of a growingnumber of parents questioning the government’sschedule of mandatory vaccinations for children.
TROY — Katie Lantis’ worldchanged in a single moment.Five years ago, seven monthspregnant and at a local hospi-tal, her obstetrician prescribedmedication for the nausea shewas experiencing. When shewas given a shot in her buttock,the needle pierced her sciaticnerve.“I screamed terribly, and I
lost my whole leg in an instant,”Lantis recalls. “I walked in, andI was wheelchaired out.“It took me a year to learn to
walk again,” she said, as she de-scribes the trauma to her leftleg. “I have permanent nervedamage. I can’t move any of mytoes.Complicating the damage to
her sciatic nerve is the ReflexSympathetic Dystrophy, orRSD, that developed, whichcontinues to cause her chronicand debilitating pain that lim-its her daily life.“I deal with constant pain. It
doesn’t stop,” she said, and de-scribed the pain sensation inher left leg as “very cold. It’sfreezing inside, like zero de-grees.“When winter hits, like now,
you’re not going to see me out-side, because it literally feelslike my bones are just going tocrack in my leg when I walk,”she said. “It’s constantly pulsat-ing. It feels like somebody istaking a hammer and justbanging me over and over andover again. I can’t stop it.”“The more I do, the worse it
gets,” she added. “The pain canget so bad that I’m just on theground screaming, and I won’twalk for three days, because Idon’t want to move.”The 28-year-old has tried
treatment after treatment tomanage her pain, but nothinghas brought relief from herRSD, a condition also known asComplex Regional Pain Syn-drome, or CRPS. There are twotypes of the disease, Type 1 andType 2, the first the result ofsomething as simple as atwisted ankle or insect bite, andthe second the result of nervedamage.Those with Type 1 often go
into remission, but Lantis, whohas Type 2, has no chance ofthat happening.“She’s one of the 5 percent (of
RSD patients) that does not re-spond to any type of treatment,”Lantis’ mother, Kimberly VanKirk, said.
One ofthe thingsthat hassu r p r i s e dLantis andher familymost overthe last fiveyears, asshe has en-dured 22s u r g e r i e sand proce-dures to tryto find re-lief, is the response of others toher condition, including manywho are skeptical that her painis real.“I’ve had people go, ‘Oh, if she
just has a positive attitude,she’ll be fine, it will go away,’ or,‘If she just exercises,’ or ‘If shegoes to physical therapy,’ or‘She’s faking it.’“It’s kind of like any person
who goes through pain, theymust be lying,” said Lantis, whois married to husband Chad,and whose daughter, Mae, is 5years old.“It’s really hard for me,” she
said. “It’s my disease. It’s mytragedy. How can somebodyvery healthy go around talkingabout my disease and how Ishould act and shouldn’t act,and how I should be andshouldn’t be, where I should goand where I shouldn’t go? Itdoesn’t make sense.”“People just don’t have a clue
what she lives with every day.They don’t have a clue,” VanKirk said.All the negative comments
kept herdown for along time,but Lantisf i n a l l yfound hervoice and isnow usingher experi-ence to ad-vocate forchange.In late
September,the Troy
High School graduate traveledto Columbus to speak to theOhio Senate, as it consideredSenate Bill 40, also known asthe Complex Regional PainSyndrome Education Act.She put a face to the disease
for senators, as she told themthe story of what she has beenthrough.She was accompanied by
family members, who didn’tknow beforehand just what shewas going to say.“She blew me away,” Van
Kirk said. “My son (Seth) is noteasily impressed. He sat behindme, secretly videotaping whileshe was speaking, with tearsrunning down his face.”“Yeah, my husband cried too,
so it was hard,” Lantis said. “Hedoesn’t cry.”“She was quite the talk of the
Senate, with her story,” hermother added, “mainly becauseshe didn’t try to get up thereand convince anyone. She justwent up as Katie and said ‘thisis me, look at my leg.’”Last week, Lantis received
word that the Ohio Senate hadpassed the bill that day, and itnow goes to the Ohio House forconsideration.She will return to Columbus
to testify again, if it seems nec-essary, but she said the expec-tation is that the House alsowill approve the measure,sometime after the first of theyear.What Senate Bill 40 does is
recognize the month of Novem-ber as Complex Regional PainSyndrome Awareness Month inthe state of Ohio, and directsthe Ohio Department of Healthto include information aboutthe syndrome on its website.The hope is that such recog-
nition will bring about in-creased awareness of thedisease and more funding forRSD research.As for Lantis, she also is pur-
suing another avenue to spreadthe word about RSD. She iswriting a book detailing herjourney with the condition andits effects on her life and thelives of those around her.That includes her parents,
Kimberly and Ralph, at whoseWestbrook home she and Maespend each evening while herhusband sleeps at their eastTroy home, prior to his third-shift job at Goodrich. She needsconstant help with her daugh-ter, and that means relying onmom and dad.“I don’t like being with my
parents all the time,” she said.“We don’t like her being here
all the time, either,” her mothercountered, the two obviously
joking with each other but stillpinpointing another limitationimposed on Lantis by her dis-ease — a loss of independence.The course her disease will
take in the future is unpre-dictable.“What will happen to me is,
eventually it just may killeverything,” Lantis said. “It canspread all over my body. Rightnow, it’s just from my kneedown, and it’s killing my calfmuscle. It can eventually gointo the thigh.“But right now, with the foot
turning in, it’s knocking myknee out of place, my hip out ofplace, and I’m starting to getarthritis in the back.“Eventually, I’ll be in a
wheelchair,” she concedes, andnotes the disease already hasspread to her eyes.“They burn constantly like
fire,” she said. “There’s nothingthey can do for that.”But many of Lantis’ fears re-
volve around her daughter.“I can look back and go, ‘God,
I had such a great childhood,’and I don’t want my daughterlooking back on her childhoodand being, like, ‘my mom wassick,’” she said, choking up asshe talks about Mae. “I alreadygo through that now. Since she’sin school, it’s hard because Icouldn’t do the first field tripbecause it was hiking, and Icouldn’t take her trick or treat-ing.”Lantis did take her child
along to Columbus when shetestified in the Senate.“I took her to Congress, I had
her sit in Congress. My parentswere like, “You’re bringingher?’ and I said, ‘It’s somethingI want her to see.’ Then whenshe grows up, she can stand upfor anything and everythingthat she believes in, not beafraid of it. She can look backand be proud of me,” Lantissaid.Her daughter is one reason
she will continue to fight herdisease and use her voice toraise RSD awareness.“It’s a fight I’m going to just
keep doing,” Lantis said. “Ihave my hard times, I havedays where I hate the world,and I don’t understand why,and I don’t like certain people,and they are really bad days.“I shield my daughter from it,
and I’ll continue to shield mydaughter from it,” she added,and promised, “I’m going tokeep fighting, and you’re goingto hear my name everywhere.”• For more information about
analysis of an event’s epi-center.”Seven of the eight
earthquakes this year inMahoning County hadepicenters near the wellowned by D&L EnergyInc., the newspaper re-ported.D&L has said that the
brine is injected at pres-sures that are regulatedby the state and are safe.
The company did not im-mediately return a call forcomment Wednesday.Brine pumped under-
ground by the well is abyproduct of a drillingprocess called hydraulicfracturing, or fracking,which uses water lacedwith chemicals to free upgas locked in under-ground shale.A massive formation
known as the MarcellusShale, underlying NewYork, Pennsylvania, Ohioand West Virginia, hasdrawn drilling companiesto the region. Environ-mentalists say fracking isdangerous and could poi-son water supplies, butthe natural gas industrysays it’s been used safelyfor decades.
Katie Lantis and her daughter, Mae, 5, play a game together at the Westbrook home of Lantis’parents, Kimberly and RalphVan Kirk.The pair must stay with her parents each evening so Lan-tis can help with her daughter while her husband sleeps and goes to work.
Ohio’s quake-brine link to be monitored
Troy womanspeaks to OhioSenate on painsyndrome bill
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The pain can get shobad that I’m juston the ground
screaming and I won’twalk for three days be-cause I don’t want tomove.
—Katie Lantis”
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COLUMBUS (AP)— Ohio has fallen to36th in an annualhealth ranking of thestates.The United Health
Foundation says Ohioslipped three placesfrom its No. 33 spot in2010 as smoking andthe percentage of chil-dren in poverty in-creased.The study says the
state’s challenges in-clude high levels of airpollution and relativelylow spending on publichealth programs.Ohio’sstrengths are said to in-clude widespread im-munizations, a low rateof deaths on the job anda moderate level of stu-dents completing highschool.Vermont topped the
list as the healthieststate for the thirdstraight year.For the 10th year in
a row, Mississippiranked as the leasthealthy state.
Ohio slipsto 36th inhealthranking
YOUNGSTOWN (AP)— New monitoring equip-ment will help determinewhether earthquakes inthe northeast part of thestate are resulting fromthe disposal of brine usedin natural gas drilling, astate official said.Four new seismographs
have been set up in theYoungstown area of Ma-honing County, which hasexperienced eight minorearthquakes this year,
said Andy Ware, deputydirector of the Ohio De-partment of Natural Re-sources. The latest was amagnitude-2.1 quake,generally too small to befelt by people, on Nov. 25a few blocks from a brineinjection well, The Vindi-cator newspaper reported.“ODNR is very closely
monitoring and will con-tinue to monitor the seis-mic events in theYoungstown well area,”Ware told the Youngstownnewspaper. “This equip-ment will be able to pro-vide us with immediatereporting and accurate
Equipment set upto study processused in gas drilling
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BRADFORD — TheBradford Public Library ishosting its annual CookieExchange from 11:30 a.m.to 1 p.m. Saturday.Each participant is
asked to bring two tothree dozen homemadecookies of your choice tothe Cookie Exchange. If
participants would like toshare the recipe, librarystaff can assist. At theevent, each person willleave with a variety ofcookies for the winter hol-idays. For further infor-mation, contact thelibrary at 448-2612.The library also is an-
nouncing its winter breakhours. The library will beclosed on the followingdates: Saturday, Dec. 24,Monday, Dec. 26 and Sat-urday, Dec. 31. The librarywill be open for its regularand expanded winterbreak hours from 9 a.m. to7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27
and Thursday, Dec. 29 andfrom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fri-day, Dec. 30 and will beopen from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday, Jan. 2.Watch thelibrary website and news-papers for a brand new,every Saturday event be-ginning sometime in Jan-uary.
COLUMBUS (AP) —Ohio nursing homes haveslashed thousands of jobsamid recent cuts in federaland state governmentfunding, according to in-dustry surveys. Advocateswarn that patient care willworsen as there are fewerworkers to tend to them,but the state says more pa-tients are moving to home-based care, an area wherejobs are opening up.Member nursing homes
surveyed by the OhioHealth CareAssociation re-ported that some 2,800 jobswere eliminated since July1, mainly nurses and nurs-ing assistants, the tradegroup’s executive director,Peter Van Runkle, said.Another group, Leadin-
gAge Ohio, said its non-profit nursing homemembers have cut morethan 300 jobs in recentweeks.The reductions have
come against a backdrop ofgovernment cutbacks. Thefederal government an-
nounced in July that itwould cut Medicare pay-ments to nursing homes by11 percent to correct an un-intended spike in pay-ments this year because ofa glitch in a formula.Meanwhile, the state hastrimmed Medicaid reim-bursements to nursinghomes by an average 5.8percent per patient, theDayton Daily News re-ported.The government pro-
grams cover 70 percent ofthe costs of nursing-homecare.“Nursing homes were
expecting the state cuts …but were caught by sur-prise when the federal gov-ernment cut Medicarepayments,” Van Runklesaid. “That hit (nursinghomes) hard.”The quality of care and
nursing home employmentwill be hurt over the longhaul by the more limitedfunding, said John Alfano,president and CEO ofLeadingAge Ohio.
Ohio nursinghomes reportjob cutbacks
Miami River, south byRace Drive, west by Mar-ket Street, with WilliamsStreet finishing thesquare to the east.How Troy’s water
health affects Piqua re-volves around current re-search on whether tobuild a new water treat-ment plant solely for thecity of Piqua or connectwith Troy’s current, 40-year-old treatment plantthat would leave Piquausing Troy’s water.U.S. EPA Community
Involvement CoordinatorDon de Blasio and U.S.EPA Remedial ProjectManager Shari Kolakwere hosts of the fallmeeting as part of EPARegion 5 that serves Illi-nois, Indiana, Michigan,Minnesota,Wisconsin andOhio.Blasio and Kolak
stressed the meeting wasnot meant to be alarmistin nature and that thearea’s finished drinkingwater was not affected asthey went on to explainTroy’s primary contami-nant PCE (Tetra-chloroethylene) was foundin groundwater and soilgas, along with TCE(Trichloroethylene).Both TCE and PCE are
man-made chemicals,with PCE widely used fordry cleaning and metal-degreasing.
As a nonflammable liq-uid, PCE evaporates eas-ily in the air and has asweet odor, while TCE is acolorless liquid with asomewhat sweet chloro-form-like odor and sweetburning taste. Likewise,TCE has been used for de-greasing of metal partsand widely used in auto-motive and metal-fabri-cating industries from the1950s to 1970s.According to (HAS)
Health Assessment Sec-tion of the Ohio Depart-ment of Health (ODH)single exposure of PCE inhigh enough concentra-tions may cause dizziness,headaches, sleepiness,confusion, nausea, diffi-culty in speaking andwalking, unconsciousnessand death.With the Inter-national Agency for Re-search on Cancer (IARC)classifying it as a Group2A carcinogen meaning itis “probably” carcinogenicto humans.IARC also classifies
TCE as a Group 2A car-cinogen, while the U.S.EPA had classified it as aB2 carcinogen - a probablehuman cancer-causingagent. However, a classifi-cation update this fallfrom the EPA to the Inte-grated Risk InformationSystem (IRIS) database,“characterizes the chemi-cal as carcinogenic to hu-mans and as a humannoncancer health hazard.”
Because the plume ofcontamination was foundto be migrating towardsthe well fields of the city,the U.S. EPA proposed theTroy site (East Troy Con-taminated Aquifer Super-fund Site) to the NationalPriorities list.Troy is not alone in
terms of ground water pol-lution in the Miami Valleyas TCE and other VOCswere found beneath Behr-Dayton Thermal, a manu-facturer of heating and airconditioning automotiveparts about two milesnorth of downtown Day-ton.The Dayton VOC plume
involved 76 residentialand commercial proper-ties with Van Cleve Ele-mentary, some 1,600 feetsouth of Behr, going so faras to relocate after indoorair samples tested aboveHAS screening levels in2007.Like Dayton’s plume it
is unknown how long thecontamination has beenpresent in the impactedTroy neighborhoods orwhether residents werebeing exposed in the past.Between July 2006 and
April 2007, the U.S. EPAcollected sub-slab and in-door air samples from 85locations: 78 residences,two churches, four schoolsand the Troy Police Sta-tion.Elevated indoor air lev-
els were found in 16 resi-
dences and one school.Vapor abatement units
were installed that sum-mer with confirmationsampling showing the sys-tem was working accord-ing to a healthconsultation report by theU.S. Department ofHealth and Human Serv-ices from July 29, 2008.As posed by the HAS re-
port in 2008, “less than 15percent of the homes inthe area of concern havebeen sampled and it islikely that other homes inthis area could be abovethe screening levels aswell.”As noted in both reports
and the fall meeting inTroy, until the source ofthe plume can be identi-fied, and thus removed,contamination poses a po-tential public health haz-ard for residents living inthe area both presentlyand for the future.“We haven’t done any of
the sampling, so no infor-mation to report,” saidKolak in a message lastweek when asked aboutany updates on testing inthe affected area.Right now the group is
shooting for testing thismonth once they’ve se-cured a lab.For more information
visit: www.epa.gov/re-gion5/cleanup/troyvoc.Stay tuned to a future
Daily Call for more infor-mation.
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COLUMBUS (AP) — Aleading Republican in theOhio House has intro-duced a plan to avoidholding two primaries inthe key presidential bat-tleground state.State Rep. Matt Huff-
man said Thursday hisbill would move all of nextyear’s local, state and fed-eral primaries to May 8.The GOP-controlled
Legislature voted in Octo-ber to shift the state’s
presidential and U.S.House primaries to Junewhile keeping state, localand U.S. Senate primarycontests in March.It would cost taxpayers
an estimated $15 millionto hold a second primaryelection.A dispute over Republi-
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MIAMI COUNTY —With an informal and un-planned fly-over Thursday,bald eagles gave theirblessing to the new addi-tion to their neighborhoodas the Miami County ParkDistrict dedicated one ofthe last phases of the GreatMiami River RecreationalTrail in honor of the DukeFoundation.“This is a great tribute to
my father and my brother,”said Pat Robinson, presi-dent of the Paul G. DukeFoundation.The recognition area for
the “Paul G. Duke Memo-rial Bikeway,” which willextend from Lytle Road toEldean Road. This sectionof bikeway was funded byThe Paul G. Duke Founda-tion and named in Duke’shonor.
The Duke Foundation,which was established in1983 by Paul G. Duke,founder of Chem-Lawn,hasbeen providing philan-thropic support for nonprofit organizations in
Miami County and beyondfor nearly 30 years.“This will be fun and the
eagles gave us an informalfly-over — so that’s great,”Robinson joked.The 1.6-mile portion of
the bike path was dedi-cated with a brief and briskceremony at the site of theformer Duke Nursery, nowthe Apostolic Church ofChrist, 1624 N. CountyRoad 25-A,Troy.
Robinson said she’s mostproud of how the DukeFoundation has continuedto give and share with thecommunity.“Dad loved nature and
he would have loved this,”
she said.According to Scott
Myers, deputy director ofthe Miami County ParkDistrict, the portion of thebike path will include parkbenches for bikers and trailenthusiasts to stop and restand enjoy the views. Thepark also plans to includefour plaques outlining thehistory of the Dukes’ entre-preneurial endeavorsthrough the ChemLawnCorp.The dedicated bike path
will be completed in thespring,Myers said.“It’s fitting where the
shop (former Duke Nurs-ery) was, there will bebenches, the four signs andtrees for a rest area,” saidBob Shook, chairman of theMiami County Trails TaskForce. “The signs will havethe history of the DukeNursery and the start ofChemLawn.“We’re grateful for all the
recognition and it’s fun togive back,” Robinson said.For more information
about the Miami CountyParkDistrict, visit www.mi-amicountyparks.com.
PROVIDED PHOTOScott Myers, deputy director of the Miami County Park District, thanks Pat Robinson, daughter of Paul G.Duke and president of the Duke Foundation at a dedication ceremonyThursday.The recognition area for the“Paul G. Duke Memorial Bikeway” extends from Lytle Road south to Eldean Road.This section of bikewaywas funded byThe Paul G. Duke Foundation and named in Duke’s honor.
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SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-380Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.vs.James R. Polhamus, Jr., et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-002690Prior Deed Reference: Volume 752, page 780Also known as: 233 East North Street, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Thirty Nine Thousand and 00/100($39,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Christopher M. Schweiterman, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
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Case No.: 11-415BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka CountrywideHome Loans Servicing, LPvs.Janet M.Verhage, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-092680Prior Deed Reference: 737, page 495Also known as: 1611 South Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred TwoThousand and 00/100($102,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Maria T.Williams, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
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Case No.: 11-207Mutual Federal Savings Bankvs.David A. Zimmerman, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Shelby County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-077850Prior Deed Reference: Volume 799, page 499Also known as: 2005 Navajo Trail, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Ninety Thousand and 00/100($90,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value downtime of sale and .5% of appraised value for con-veyance and recording, balance within 30 days ofconfirmation.Michael A. Staudt, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
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Case No.: 11-207Mutual Federal Savings Bankvs.David A. Zimmerman, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Shelby County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-078162Prior Deed Reference: Volume 763, page 359Also known as: 2216 Navajo Trail, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Ninety Thousand and 00/100($90,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value downtime of sale and .5% of appraised value for con-veyance and recording, balance within 30 days ofconfirmation.Michael A. Staudt, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
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SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-588Unity National Bank, a Division of The Park NationalBankvs.Bobby J.Young aka Bob J.YoungPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Newberry, County ofMiami, and State of OhioParcel Number: H16-009170Also known as: 11411West US Route 36, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Twenty Nine Thousandand 00/100 ($129,000.00) Dollars and cannot be soldfor less than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Kyle E. Timken, Attorney11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011
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Case No.: 11-539Bank of America, NA successor by merger to BAC HomeLoans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Serv-icing, LPvs.Deborah K. Clark, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described prem-ises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and Stateof OhioParcel Number: N44-030830Prior Deed Reference: Volume no. 756, page 394Also known as: 349 Young Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Thirty Six Thousand and 00/100($36,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Bethany L. Suttinger, Attorney11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011
2238230
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-557United States of America, acting through the Rural De-velopment, United States Department of Agriculturevs.Perfecto Valverde, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28,2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of Covington, County of Miami,and State of OhioParcel Number: H19-011740Also known as: 319 Adams Street, Covington, Ohio45318A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Sixty Six Thousand and 00/100($66,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Stephen D. Miles, Attorney11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011
2238234
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-262The Bank of NewYork Mellon fka The Bank of NewYork,as Trustee for the Certificateholders CWABS, Inc., AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-24vs.Justin Doggett aka Justin Lane Doggett, et aalPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described prem-ises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and Stateof OhioParcel Number: N44-049450Prior Deed Reference: Book 778, page 701Also known as: 515 Cherry Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Ninety Nine Thousand and 00/100($99,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Ashley R. Carnes, Attorney11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011
2238229
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-222U.S. Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Mort-gage Pass Through Certificated, Series 2007-1vs.Benjamin D. Davis, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-033140Prior Deed Reference: Volume 716, page 561Also known as: 519Wilson Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00)Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds ofthe appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Christopher J. Mantica, Attorney11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011
2238228
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-209PNC Mortgage, a Division of PNC Bank, National Asso-ciation successor by merger to National City Mortgage, aDivision of National City Bankvs.Barry M. Davis, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described prem-ises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and Stateof OhioParcel Number: N44-067380Prior Deed Reference: Volume 789, page 572Also known as: 1343 Stratford Drive, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand and00/100 ($159,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for lessthan two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Jennifer N. Heller, Attorney11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011
2238232
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-486PNC Bank, National Association, successor by merger toNational City Bank, successor by merger to National CityMortgage Co.vs.Karolyn Dee Wills, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the abovename cause to me directed by the Court of CommonPleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale inthe lobby of the Sheriff on January 4, 2012 at 10:00o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and Stateof OhioParcel Number: N44-046290Prior Deed Reference: Book 717, page 642Also known as: 1022 Caldwell Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Fifty Seven Thousand and 00/100($57,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Elizabeth A. Carullo, Attorney12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011
2239131
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-646Fifth Third Mortgage Companyvs.Clifford D. Shefbuch, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-095560 & N44-095480Also known as: 1409 Broadway Street, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Five Thousand and00/100 ($105,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold forless than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value downtime of sale and .5% of appraised value for con-veyance and recording, balance within 30 days ofconfirmation.George J. Annos, Attorney12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011
2239134
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-517JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.vs.Phyllis I. Fitzwater, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-018410 & N44-018390Prior Deed Reference: Volume 770, page 516Also known as: 500 Riverside Drive, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Seventy Eight Thousand and 00/100($78,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.S. Scott Martin, Attorney12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011
2239178
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-503JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Associationvs.Seth I. McKinney, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-054340Prior Deed Reference: Volume 758, page 527Also known as: 1706 Nicklin Avenue, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Sixty Three Thousand and 00/100($63,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Maria T.Williams, Attorney12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011
2239180
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-578CitiMortgage, Inc.vs.Timothy W. Fortner, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Newberry, County ofMiami, and State of OhioParcel Number: H17-022470Prior Deed Reference: Book 795, page 921Also known as: 7900 West Miami Shelby Road, Cov-ington, Ohio 45318A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand and00/100 ($168,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold forless than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.S. Scott Martin, Attorney12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011
2239183
SHERIFF’S SALESHELBY COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-207Mutual Federal Savings Bankvs.David A. Zimmerman, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Shelby County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-077306Prior Deed Reference: Volume 794, page 284Also known as: 1024-1030 Eleanor Drive, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Ninety Eight Thousand and00/100 ($198,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold forless than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Michael A. Staudt, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
2241438
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-563Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.vs.Mary C. Swartz, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11,2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-027840Prior Deed Reference: Vol. 767, page 267Also known as: 704 Cherry Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Fifty Seven Thousand and 00/100($57,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value downtime of sale and .5% of appraised value for con-veyance and recording, balance within 30 days ofconfirmation.Elizabeth A. Carullo, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
2241423
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-422PHHMortgage Corporation fka Cendant Mortgage Cor-porationvs.Sharon Dawson aka Sharon K. Dawson, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described prem-ises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, andState of OhioParcel Number: N44-026870Prior Deed Reference: Vol. 725, page 881Also known as: 1212 Lindsey Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Sixty Nine Thousand and 00/100($69,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Christopher M. Schweiterman, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
2241435
SHERIFF’S SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 10-513The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New Yorkas Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWALT 2005-01CBvs.Judith Lamoreaux aka Judith Ann Williams aka JudithWood aka Judy Lamoreaux aka Judith A. Lamoreaux. et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the abovename cause to me directed by the Court of CommonPleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale inthe lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and Stateof OhioParcel Number: N44-027880Prior Deed Reference: Instrument No. 0416895Also known as: 1512 Madison Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of theRecorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00)Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of theappraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Carrie L. Rouse, Attorney12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011
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The Piqua bowlingteams will be back in ac-tion today.The Piqua boys lost
their tri-match to Fair-mont and MiamisburgWednesday at WoodmanLanes. The final scoreswere Fairmont 2,583, Mi-amisbur 2,254, Piqua2,114. The boys were led in
game one by freshmanJosh Homer with a 241and Lee Small with a 200. In game two the boys
bowled better than thefirst game total with JoshHomer leading again witha 220 game and JonathanWirt with a 203 game. In the baker games the
boys were red hot at thestart with a 231 game, ingame two the boys strug-gled with a 147. “The boys bowled ter-
rific tonight,” Piqua coachEric Wagner said. “Just afew bad breaks or it couldhave been a differentstory against Miamis-burg.”The girls split the tri-
match.Team scores were Fair-
mont 2,207, Piqua, 1,847,Miamisburg 1,720.Shae Doll led the girls
with 377(188-189), fol-lowed by Michaelia Bakerwith 334 (174-160). Other scores were Hay-
ley Ryan 317 (157-160),Haley Huebner 133, KailiIngle 127, Emily Wenrick126, and Natalie Thobe125.The girls had Baker
games scores of 171 and137. “The girls bowled well
tonight as a team, butagain spares are going tobe "key" to the success ofour program and we didnot do very well in oursecond Baker game withsix open frames,” Piquacoach Craig Miller said. The teams will be back
in action on Friday nightat Poelking South lanesagainst Springboro andCenterville.
HOMER DOLL
Piqua dropsmatchesLady Indianssplit tri-match
The 1909 football sea-son was one of ‘change.’Leroy Hager was replacedas Head Coach by OttoBailey and after a fiveyear absence Troy re-turned to the schedule.Interestingly, the last twogames of the season werewith Troy, with the finaleon Thanksgiving Day, atradition that lasted formany years. Two games with Lima
and two games with Sid-ney, after a hiatus of 2years, along with a newopponent, Middletown,made up the nine gameschedule.A preview of the season
exuded enthusiasm. “Yesterday afternoon
Capt. Chamberlin took hissquad of twelve footballwarriors over to the grid-iron at Athletic Field. Ar-riving there he soonstarted the ball rolling in
the way of hard work.Munger was last year’sstar center, and was againplaced in his old position.Geyer was placed at righthalf, Hunt at left. “Geyer is having trouble
with the faculty aboutplaying this year. ‘Peanut’Hunt is light but fast andwill make opposing endsand tackles look sick try-ing to pull him down. “Friday afternoon a
dozen or more men willdon their uniforms and re-port with the men of yes-terday’s workout. “Fenton Ratcliff, a vet-
eran of last year’s team,will then report for prac-tice. Last season heseemed to have somethingbesides football on hismind. “When Thanksgiving
arrived he certainlyawoke to the fact that hewas playing foot ball and
not ping pong. Mercer,Hunter, Meeker, Kiser,McMaken, Summer,Young and Prince, all oflast year’s team will notreport for practice. “Prince, McMaken, and
Meeker graduated, whileHunter and Kiser decidedto go to Chautauqua fortheir education, Mercer ,Young and Summer areworking.”The 1909 opener was
against Sidney. “A large crowd consist-
ing of rooters from Sidneyand local rooters wit-nessed the game yester-day between Piqua Hi andSidney Hi. “The day was an ideal
one for spectators but itwas a little warm for thepigskin warriors. “The two teams played
two different styles of football yesterday afternoonwith the result that P.H.S.came out the victor withfour touchdowns and onekick goal from touchdownsto its credit. “The final score was
twenty one to nothing.Piqua High has a mascot.It is Romulus. “Romulus is a dog and a
big one at that. Some ofthe high school boys deco-rated him with the schoolscolors, red and blue”Traditional rival Day-
ton Steele was next on theschedule.
“Steele fulfilled thefondest hopes of her fol-lowing yesterday by de-feating Piqua high, 23 to0. “Both teams played
clean, hard football, butSteele’s superior traininggave the game. The gamewas marred by only oneaccident. “Mercer was laid out
with a sprained anklenear the end of the secondhalf. The game waswatched by a large crowd,composed almost entirelyof students.”The next week Piqua
hosted Lima. “Lima Highmet defeat yesterday atthe local athletic park atthe hands of the local foot-ball artists by the score oftwelve to nothing. “No time during the
game was Lima able to get
Season of change for Piqua footballBailey replaces Hager as coach for 1909 gridiron squad
DUANE BACHMANThe History of Piqua
AthleticsA JournalFall 1909
See HISTORY/Page 14
Holiday ticketsare on saleTickets for the Buckeye
Insurance Group HolidayClassic basketball tourna-ment Dec. 29-30 are onsale in the Piqua HighSchool athletic office.Pre-sale tickets are $4
for students and $6 foradults.All tickets at the door
will be $6.Ticket sales are cash
only.Tickets sales will end at
PHS on Dec. 12.Joe Thoma’s Jewelers
will sell tickets from Dec.21-29 at 4 p.m.
Piqua JH boysget big victoryTROY — The Piqua jun-
ior high boys basketballteam went on the road andgot an impressive 32-20win over Troy Tuesday.Nathan Monnin had a
double-double with 19points and 13 rebonds asPiqua improved to 2-0.Hunter Hawk scored 10
points and Gage Smithpulled down eight re-bounds.
PIQUA SCORINGHawk 10, Monnin 19, Smith 3.
Scores to airhoop gamesScoresBroadcast.com
has the following gameson its upcoming broadcastschedule:
Friday: Fairlawn boysat Jackson Center, 7:10p.m.
Saturday: Russia girlsat Fort Loramie, 2:10 p.m.;Minster boys at Russia,7:40 p.m.
Monday: Tippecanoegirls at Anna, 7:10 p.m.
Hannah Pond battles for a losse ball against Mississinawa Valley Thursday night.BEN ROBINSON/GOBUCCS.COM PHOTOS
Covington’s Cassidy Cain dribbles the ball Thursday,
�� Baseball
Pujols signswith AngelsDALLAS (AP) — Albert
Pujols could have been awealthy Cardinal for life.Instead, exactly six
weeks after leading theCardinals to a second titlein one of the most thrillingWorld Series ever, he de-cided to accept the sec-ond-highest contract inbaseball history for a newfuture in southern Califor-nia with the Los AngelesAngels.The three-time NL MVP
agreed Thursday to a $254million, 10-year contractwith the Angels, leavingbehind a heartbroken fanbase by jilting one of thesport's traditional teams.
COVINGTON — Covington coach ChrisBesecker knew his team was in for a tussleagainst Mississinawa Valley due to the factthat the visiting Blackhawks returned allbut two players from a team that handed theLady Buccs two defeats a year ago."I knew this would be a tight game and it
was," said Besecker after his team gutted outa 50-37 win. "They beat us by two twice lastyear and they have some quality kids back."Covington had a 13-0 run in the fourth
quarter to take a 50-34 lead and put the gameaway.Julianna Simon lead all players with a
game-high 23 points, 12 of them coming onfour huge treys.Shelby Kihm came off the bench to score 13
points, while freshman Cassidy Cain scoredseven points.The victory improves Covington's record to
3-2 overall and 2-0 in the CCC, while Mis-sissinawa Valley drops to 1-2 on the seasonand 1-1 in the league.Covington has a week to work on its game
before traveling to rival Newton Thursday inanother CCC showdown.
Lady Buccsgut out winSimon nets 23 in ‘W’
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within scoring distance ofthe goal by straight football ortrick plays.“The weather conditions
were very poor for a footballcontest for both players andspectators.“The ground was wet and
the air was damp and chilly.At times a slight drizzle felland this caused the lookersmuch discomfort.“However, the game was full
of exciting plays made to thelocal boys and they helped tokeep the blood circulating.The game was still beingplayed, but it was getting darkand the plays were hard to fol-low. The game ended in dark-ness.“The crowd was fairly good
and the rooting was greatlyimproved over that of twoweeks ago.The only thing thatmarred the game besides theweather was the wranglingthat was carried on betweenplayers and officials.“Several times the game
was delayed for some timeuntil the chewing the tagmatch was over. The swearingwas not so greatly noticed onthe local team as on the Limaboys side.“However, it was on only one
fellow and he will know betterthe next time. Doctor Craw-ford and Doctor Swan werefair and that is all two officialsneed to gain a good reputa-tion.”
Piqua traveled to Sidneythe next week.“Sidney was defeated by
Piqua by the score of 5 to 0.The game was very scrappy.Piqua was kept busy trying toget the pigskin over the goalline and on the last play of thegame, it was a trick play thatcaused the downfall of theShelby County boys.”A group of graduates made
up the roster for the nextgame.“Before a good size crowd of
admirers the P.H.S. footballteam and the alumni trottedout upon the gridiron yester-day at the athletic field for thepurpose of playing whatturned out to be one of thegreatest games played here inthe last two seasons. P.H.S.won by the score of 6 to 0.“The halves were twenty
and fifteen minutes and fromthe time the whistle blew tostart the game until time wascalled the spectators werekept excited and warm by thefierce and hard bucking of thealumni backs and the holesthat were made for them.“The day was an ideal one
for the lookerson but was a lit-tle warm for the players. How-ever, the teams played so fastand furious that the heat wasnot noticed by the warriors.”
The following week Piquatraveled to Lima.“Lima High won its first de-
cisive victory in eight yearsagainst the Piqua eleven yes-terday on the College campusat Lima.“The Piquads have always
been considered terrors byLima High, and in formeryears have been glad to holdthem down to a small score,but this year Coach Swan de-manded something better torepresent Lima High schooland after many weeks he got itin a bunch which drubbedPiqua to the tune of 14 to 6.“The game was called on ac-
count of darkness, crowningLima High with victory in oneof the nerviest battles everplayed on a local gridiron.”A preview of the next oppo-
nent, Middletown, appeared inthe Call.“Friday afternoon P.H.S.
will have the pleasure of see-ing a team of gridiron warriorsfrom Middletown do battlewith the local lads at the Ath-letic Park.“This is the first time Mid-
dletown and Piqua have evermet in any kind of an athleticcontest, and it is the sincerewish of many that the twoschools will get upon suchgood terms that athletic rela-tions will always remain close.“Tomorrow afternoon a
stranger first arriving in ourcity will, if he is near Ash andMain streets, about threeo’clock, think that there is afire over in the eastern part of
the city.“The reason of the stranger
forming such an opinion willbe caused by the fact that somany people will cross the Ashstreet bridge on their way tothe football field.“It is expected by the local
school management that overfifteen hundred people willturn out to see Middletownand Piqua High’s meet on thegridiron for what is expectedto be the greatest game of theseason.”
“Piqua High scored 23points while Middletown man-aged to grab a touchdown andthen kick a goal for a pointthis making six points for theboys from near Cincy.“When the two teams lined
up for the kick off yesterdayafternoon the combination re-minded many of a Yale-Har-vard game as far as themakeups were concerned.P.H.S. football warriors worethe crimson jerseys while Mid-dletown wore the blue.“The result was that it was
very easy to follow the plays ofeach team without getting theplayers mixed up in one’smind.“The crowd as far as num-
ber was concerned was verysmall and the local Highschool management is now inthe hole good and proper as tomoney matters.“However, the Thanksgiving
game with Troy will be playedhere and that means somecoin on the right side of theledger for Piqua, so don’tworry Mr. Dougan.“Before the game started
the two captains and DoctorCrawford and Mr. Blakely gottogether and decided on whatshould be the rules govern-ing the two team’s play.When the game ended the
members of each team gottheir lungs a working andcheered long and loud for eachother, the right kind of spirit.”
Since Piqua and Troy hadnot met each other on the grid-iron for five years, the pre-game hype of the media wasexpected.“Are you going to Troy with
the boys tomorrow afternoon?What for and what boys?Well, tomorrow is the day thatPiqua High sends its squad toTroy for the purpose of meet-ing the Troy warriors on theirgridiron for what is going to bethe greatest game of the sea-son except the Thanksgivinggame to be played here be-tween the two teams,Troy andPiqua.“That certainly is news for
me. I thought Piqua and Troyhad decided to play only base-ball with each other.“Is not there such a bad feel-
ing between the two schools?No! Piqua and Troy studentsalways were the best offriends.“The persons causing the
trouble of several years stand-ing are outsiders who only de-sired to have trouble betweenthe two schools.“However, it is likely that
those persons have found outtheir mistake and that theyare now willing to help the twoschools return once more tothat standing of good fellow-ship and good athletic rela-tions.“Now are you sure the two
teams will play tomorrow?Well, I guess yes. “All right Iam going. What time does theteam leave? At one o’clock.Come on and let us go with thebunch. That’s a go. Good byeand don’t forget the time.”
The first of the two finalgames with Troy did not gowell for Piqua.“Last evening when the D.
and T. car pulled into this cityfrom Troy about six o’clock abunch of youngsters werestanding in front of the stationwatching the passengersalight. Finally one smallurchin spied the person hewas looking for and ran up tohim and asked, ‘What’s thescore?’“Of course the party knew
what score the youngster re-ferred to and answered, ’17 to5 in favor of Troy.’ The onlysentence that escaped the lipsof the disappointed boy was‘Gee.’ The other youngsterjust said, ‘Let’s go home.’
“Well, that is the way everytrue blue Piquad thoughtwhen he heard the score, ‘Let’sgo home.’ The score is ratherone-sided and it does not tellof the game struggle our boysmade. Troy is the winner andall credit is due that great lit-tle team but it comes down toa question which team is thebetter.“It is no boasting for us to
say the Piqua has a team thatwill defeat Troy on Thanksgiv-ing day.”
The final game of the yearagainst the Trojans was notwithout concern.“Last evening the athletic
committee of the Board of Ed-ucation and SuperintendentDietrich and PrincipalEllabarger met for a discus-sion of the coming footballgame between Troy and Piqua.“It was decided to have Mr.
Doyle of Springfield to offici-ate and also to have plenty ofprotection and for keepingpeople off of the gridironwhile the teams are in action.“No person will be allowed
upon the field but officials,representatives of the pressand substitutes.”The Call offered this pre-
view.“What is tomorrow? Tomor-
row is the last Thursday inNovember and is also Thanks-giving day and besides that itwill bring two of the best Highschool teams of this section ofthe state together upon thegridiron – Piqua High andTroy.“Every lover of the strenu-
ous sport interested in P.H.S.knows of Troy’s victory overthe local lads last Friday atTroy by the score of the 17 to5.“The writer, if he may have
permission to express histhoughts, is not ashamed ofthis score as he has many atime helped team mates todown the Trojans and has oncein a while, not so often, helpedhis mates to swallow the bitterpill of defeat given to us byTroy.“When we did swallow we
always were willing to haveTroy try it once more and theresult was that the Trojanplayers took the dose in thesame way that we did –likegentlemen.”“Piqua wins and Troy loses
and that is what all true blueand loyal Piquads had longedand hoped for.“The 5 to 0 victory was
cleanly and fairly won, but itrequired the very best effortson the part of the best squadto put it over the next best inthe Miami Valley.“The game was scheduled to
start at two thirty but it wasalmost three o’clock before of-ficial Doyle called the twoteams upon the gridiron.“Before the game started
the entrances to the athleticpark were crowded with men,women, girls and boys, all in-tent upon getting upon thefield so that they could see thegame.“The colors of both schools
were to be seen upon everyhand, pennant and streamersof ribbon were carried andworn by the admirers of theschools.“Upon the west side of the
field, Piqua High rooters gath-ered while Troy, over two hun-dred strong, sent its friendsover to the east side of thegridiron.“When the timekeepers an-
nounced that time was outand the game was over, thePiquads gathered togetherand gave their opponents arousing cheer while the Troyboys responded.“Then the great crowd got
busy and people in the south-ern part of town were able tohear the mighty cheers thatwere given for the greatestbunch in the state.”
Editor’s Note: DuaneBachman is a retired superin-tendent of Piqua City Schoolsand personality for WPTWRadio.His column will appear
every other Friday. Much ofthe information in thesecolumns came from The PiquaDaily Call and Piqua LeaderDispatch.
HistoryContinued from page 13
PLEASANT HILL — New-ton’s girls took turns getting hot.Bethel’s took the chance to get
a little bit better than their lastgame.In the end, though, three Indi-
ans scored in double figures andthe Newton defense made ittough for the Bees to score — de-spite plenty of Bethel success onthe offensive glass — in a 43-25Newton victory Thursday nightat Newton.AndeeWelbaum led all scorers
with 13 points, Fawn Kingscored 11 and Marina Snipesadded 10 to power the Indians toa 4-1 record — including a 2-0start in Cross County Confer-ence play.“The 4-1 part is nice, too,”
Newton coach Ken Ford saidwith a laugh about the unbeatenconference start. “Conferencegames are always tough, andwe’ve still got a bunch of toughones left.”Bethel, meanwhile, has yet to
win a game at 0-5, 0-2 in theCCC. But for the Bees, it’s allabout learning and using thoselessons the next time out —while picking up new tricks allthe time.The Indians’ defense forced 31
turnovers in the game — 11 inthe first quarter — and Kingknocked down four jumpers inthe first eight minutes for eightpoints to help Newton edgeahead 10-4.Things remained tight at the
half with Newton leading 18-12— before Welbaum caught fire.She hit three shots in the firsttwo minutes of the third quarter,giving the Indians a 10-pointlead at 24-14.“We’ve had balanced scoring
throughout the season,” Fordsaid. “We don’t really depend onany one player.Whoever is hot atthe time kind of carries us.”Snipes scored six in the fourth
quarter, and Newton went 10 for13 from the free throw line in theframe to ice the game.Aryn Doseck led Newton in re-
bounds with eight and addedtwo points, and point guardTrista Lavy, despite scoring onlyone point, distributed the ballwell with six assists.“Trista does a good job at the
point. It really helps to have agood point guard,” Ford said. “Wedidn’t box out nearly as well aswe needed to tonight, but our de-fense kept us in the game untilwe finally started making someshots.”Newton travels to Dixie Sat-
urday.
East rolls to winCASSTOWN — Miami East
played as close to a completegame as a team can Thursdaynight.Angie Mack was solid from
the field, the post trio of Ashleyand Trina Current and LeahDunivan controlled the boardsand Madison Linn did a bit ofeverything in a 68-24 CrossCounty Conference victory overFranklin Monroe.Mack scored 19 points, going 8
for 14 from the field — including3 for 4 from 3-point range. TrinaCurrent had a double-doublewith 20 points and 10 rebounds,while Ashley Current added sixpoints and seven rebounds, andLinn had nine points, five as-sists, five steals and three re-bounds.The Vikings (3-0, 1-0) built a
20-2 lead after the first quarterand never looked back."We just started out blazing
and led 20-2 after one," MiamiEast coach Preston Elifritz said."Angie Mack shot the lights out,and Trina and Ashley and Leahall rebounded real well. Andwith our young backcourt, weonly had seven turnovers in thegame— that's good for us at thispoint in the season.""We played pretty even in the
second quarter — a couple oftheir girls got hot, and they hitthree of their four 3s in thatquarter — so we talked at thehalf about finding their shooters.We made a couple of tweaks de-fensively and held them to 10points in the second half."Miami East faces Greenon on
Monday.
Lady Raiders winRUSSIA — Russia edged
Botkins in a Shelby CountyLeague thriller Thursday, 36-34.The win puts the Lady
Raiders at 1-1 in the County and4-1 overall.Botkins is now 1-2 and 2-2.Russia led 11-5 after a quarter
but Botkins stormed back totake a 17-14 lead at the half. Itstayed close the rest of the way.Kylie Wilson led Russia with
11 points and Ashley Borchersadded nine.Logan Pitts was tops for
Botkins with nine.
JC stunsWildcatsHOUSTON— Jackson Center
senior Brooke Richard put on ashow Thursday night at Hous-ton, pouring in 40 points to leadthe Lady Tigers to a 72-53 upsetwin over Houston in SCL girlsbasketball action.Jackson Center entered the
game at 1-2 compared to 4-1 forthe Lady Wildcats, but Houstoncould not withstand the barrageof points put up by the LadyTigers in the second quarter.Jackson Center led 16-11 after
one period, then outscored Hous-ton 27-4 in the second quarterfor a 43-15 halftime lead.Richard was the catalyst, hit-
ting three 3-pointers and scoring18 of her 40 points in that periodalone.“She did a good job of taking it
to the basket,” said Houstoncoach GregWard of Richard. “Wedidn’t rotate over, and didn’t stopher drives. And even when wedid, she just stroked it.“Jackson deserves a lot of
credit,” he added. “They wereready to play, and defensively,they totally took us out of our of-fense.”Kristi Elliott got 20 to lead
Houston and Bethany Reisteradded 14.
Newton girlshandle BeesEast cruises to win
Colt McCoy dives for the end zone in the first quarter Thurs-day night at Pittsburgh. McCoy was ruled down at the one-yard line. The Browns trailed the Steelers 7-3 at halftime atpress time.
AP PHOTO
BrownsTrail 7-3 At Half
NEW YORK (AP) —Commissioner DavidStern rattled off a list ofitems he insisted willchange the NBA for thebetter.Meanwhile, a block-
buster trade sendingChris Paul from New Or-leans to the Lakers wasproving that for now, it'sstill the status quo.No, small-market teams
won't yet get the help theycrave, but in time, Sternsaid the "tortured jour-ney" of this 161-day lock-out will have been worthit."We think it's a very
good deal, and it's going towithstand the test oftime," he said of the newcollective bargainingagreement owners andplayers ratified Thursday.Thus ends the lockout,
with training camps andfree agency to open Friday.Together with an ex-
panded revenue sharingprogram, Stern said teamsand fans will see an im-proved league in comingyears."It's a new beginning in
a way," he said. "It's goingto take a couple of years towork its way out, butwe're very excited aboutits prospects."The 10-year deal prom-
ises owners savings of per-haps a quarter billiondollars a year in playercompensation, but largely
leaves intact the softsalary cap system that theplayers fought hard tomaintain.Stern and Deputy Com-
missioner Adam Silver an-nounced the deal during apress conference, puttingan end to nearly two yearsof difficult negotiationsthat resulted in the secondshortened season in NBAhistory. A 66-game sched-ule will begin on Christ-mas and run throughApril 26, forcing everyteam to play on threestraight nights at leastonce.Owners approved the
deal, which allows eitherside to opt out after sixyears, by a 25-5 vote. Theplayers' association said86 percent of the morethan 200 players whovoted electronically ap-proved the deal.
Union executive direc-tor Billy Hunter did notattend the press confer-ence and no union officialswere quoted in their pressrelease, issued just asStern began speaking.Owners also agreed to
an expanded revenuesharing plan, and Sterncalled both agreements "awatershed moment" forthe league. The plan,which will begin in 2013-14, more than quadruplesthe revenue currentlyshared by teams, withStern saying they couldnow receive in excess of$20 million and at leastsix teams could pay $50million into the plan.Stern said the current
net transfer among teamsof about $40 million annu-ally would exceed $160million. But that's of littlehelp now to a team such
as the NBA-owned Hor-nets, the latest small-mar-ket club to watch one of itsstars leave to create a su-perteam.The framework was in
place Thursday on a three-team deal that also in-volved Houston and wouldsend Paul to the Lakers,where he would join KobeBryant in the backcourt ofthe league's biggest rev-enue team, people withknowledge of the deal told
The Associated Press.Yet Stern said the new
labor deal can't be judgedby that, or anything elsethat may happen rightaway."I believe in free
agency," he said. "We havea deal where a player whohas completed his time ata team under a contracthas a right to go some-place else. And then thereare potential judgments tobe made by teams aboutwhether there's a timewhen they want to con-sider getting somethingmore for that player in theevent he will leave than ifhe stays. So nothing haschanged about that. Thatdynamic is the same. But,yes, this is going to be amore competitive leagueover time."Saying they lost hun-
dreds of millions a yearunder the old collectivebargaining agreementthat owners believed fa-vored large-market teams,the league sought signifi-cant changes in these ne-gotiations. Ownersrefused an option to letthe CBA run another year
and opened negotiationsin January 2010 with aproposal that called for ahard cap, the eliminationof guaranteed contracts,rollbacks of currentsalaries and a massive re-duction in the players'share of basketball-re-lated income.After locking out play-
ers on July 1, the two sidesreached a tentative dealaround 3 a.m. Nov. 26,heading off the potentialdisaster of a canceled sea-son and avoiding a possi-bly costly and lengthycourt battle had playersproceeded with an an-titrust lawsuit.The remaining issues fi-
nally were agreed to lateThursday morning, afterplayers already had begunvoting electronically.Though owners insisted
they wanted competitivebalance just as much as achance for profit, there'sno proof yet they achievedit. With the Paul deal itseems supremacy is stillenjoyed by the major mar-kets, whose teams cleaned
COLUMBUS (AP) —Jared Sullinger missedNo. 2 Ohio State's lastgame with back spasms.His teammates think he'llmake it back for Satur-day's game at No. 13Kansas."Jared looks kind of
tough, but he's a big teddybear," point guard AaronCraft said of the 6-foot-9sophomore All-American."He was walking aroundreally gingerly about fouror five days ago but nowhe's looking a lot better.Now he's got the bounceback in his step."Sullinger has not prac-
ticed with the Buckeyesyet this week and coachThad Matta said it will beSullinger's decisionwhether he plays at AllenFieldhouse.But Sullinger did sound
a note of optimism whenhe spoke with Matta onThursday afternoon."He just told me he feels
great.That was three min-utes or five minutes ago,"Matta said. "He said hewoke up and was dancingthis morning— but I don'tknow what that entails."The Buckeyes (8-0)
need Sullinger — who isaveraging 19.1 points and10.3 rebounds a game —against a tall-and-talented Kansas (6-2)team that features 6-10Thomas Robinson and 7-0Jeff Withey on the frontline. The Jayhawks are
outrebounding their oppo-nents by nine per game.Kansas coach Bill Self
is counting on Sullingertaking the floor."If I were a betting man,
I'd say Thad's not a verygood poker player, becauseI think that he'll probablyplay," he said.If Sullinger is not able
to play, his roommate willtake his place in the start-ing lineup. Junior transferEvan Ravenel took overfor the absent Sullinger inthe Buckeyes' 64-35 winover Texas-Pan Americanlast Saturday and had acareer-high 11 points andtied a personal best withseven rebounds.He was asked to shed
some light on how thehappy-go-lucky Sullingerhas handled the pastweek's back pain."Since he hasn't had
practice, he's been prettyenergetic," he said with alaugh. "He's been layingaround but he's still thesame fun guy to bearound. When we don'thave school, we play Xboxa lot more."Ravenel called
Sullinger perhaps the bestrebounder he's ever seen,but he didn't rate hisvideo-game ability thathighly."Jared's terrible on
Xbox," he said. "Wow. He'sterrible."The Buckeyes will be
hitting the road for the
first time this season.They'll also be makingOhio State's first trip toAllen Fieldhouse since1999.Matta was asked if he
had to prepare two gameplans, one if Sullingerplays and one if he does-n't.
"Do you think he makesthat big of a difference?"he said with a grin. "We doand we don't. We've hadsome time this week toput some things in thatwe've been talking aboutdoing anyway. But to rein-vent the wheel, we're notgoing to do that.“But I like the progress
we've made this weekwith some of the thingsthat we've added."Craft played on an AAU
team with Sullinger andhas seen him when he'srundown or injured."He would go through-
out the weekend andmaybe not feel the great-est and then come out andhave 40 points and 20 re-bounds," Craft said. "It'shard to get a read on a guylike Jared."Matta said he had con-
sulted with team doctorsand Sullinger's father.Whether Sullinger playswill come down to howmuch discomfort or painhe can tolerate."It's kind of on him, just
sort of how he feels,"Matta said.
OSU hopes to haveSullinger SaturdayBuckeyes travel to Kansas in first road game
Jared Sullinger hopes to be back Saturday when Ohio State plays Kansas.AP PHOTO
NBA ratifies labor agreementPaul could beheaded to LA
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Adam Silver and David Stern smile after the NBA labor deal was ratified.AP PHOTO
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FootballNFL Standings
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AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PANew England 9 3 0 .750 362 247N.Y. Jets 7 5 0 .583 290 260Buffalo 5 7 0 .417 278 304Miami 4 8 0 .333 246 220South
W L T Pct PF PAHouston 9 3 0 .750 310 189Tennessee 7 5 0 .583 249 229Jacksonville 3 9 0 .250 152 238Indianapolis 0 12 0 .000 174 358North
W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 9 3 0 .750 296 192Pittsburgh 9 3 0 .750 268 195Cincinnati 7 5 0 .583 266 250Cleveland 4 8 0 .333 175 240West
W L T Pct PF PADenver 7 5 0 .583 256 292Oakland 7 5 0 .583 274 308Kansas City 5 7 0 .417 163 268San Diego 5 7 0 .417 287 289
W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 9 3 0 .750 393 269Atlanta 7 5 0 .583 269 244Carolina 4 8 0 .333 290 324Tampa Bay 4 8 0 .333 218 329North
W L T Pct PF PAx-Green Bay 12 0 0 1.000 420 262Chicago 7 5 0 .583 291 242Detroit 7 5 0 .583 333 277Minnesota 2 10 0 .167 246 330West
W L T Pct PF PAx-S. Francisco 10 2 0 .833 288 161Seattle 5 7 0 .417 216 246Arizona 5 7 0 .417 232 269St. Louis 2 10 0 .167 140 296x-clinched divisionThursday, Dec. 8Cleveland at PittsburghSunday, Dec. 11New Orleans at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Kansas City at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.Houston at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.Philadelphia at Miami, 1 p.m.New England at Washington, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.Chicago at Denver, 4:05 p.m.Buffalo at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.Oakland at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Dec. 12St. Louis at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 15Jacksonville at Atlanta, 8:20 p.m.Saturday, Dec. 17Dallas at Tampa Bay, 8:20 p.m.Sunday, Dec. 18New Orleans at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Seattle at Chicago, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Carolina at Houston, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.Detroit at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.New England at Denver, 4:15 p.m.Cleveland at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.Baltimore at San Diego, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Dec. 19Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 5Texas vs. NationAt San AntonioTexas vs. Nation, 2 p.m. (CBSSN)
BasketballUSA TodayTop 25The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN
men's college basketball poll, with first-place votesin parentheses, records through Dec. 4, pointsbased on 25 points for a first-place vote throughone point for a 25th-place vote and previous rank-ing:
Record Pts Pvs1. Kentucky (19) 8-0 763 12. Ohio State (11) 8-0 754 23. Syracuse (1) 8-0 713 34. Louisville 7-0 654 65. Duke 7-1 611 46. North Carolina 6-2 594 57. Baylor 7-0 582 8
61, California 32, San Diego State 30, MichiganState 29, Indiana 23, Saint Louis 18, Murray State8, Northwestern 8, Stanford 7, Kansas State 4,Purdue 4, Saint Mary's 4, Virginia 4, Cincinnati 3,Cleveland State 3, Washington 3, Arizona 2, Tu-lane 2, George Mason 1, Northern Iowa 1.
BowlingBrel-Aire Scores
Top 25 PollThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press' col-
lege basketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-theses, records through Dec. 4, total points basedon 25 points for a first-place vote through one pointfor a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
141, Michigan St. 135, San Diego St. 50, Virginia26, Saint Louis 25, Stanford 23, Purdue 12, Califor-nia 11, Cleveland St. 9, Florida St. 7, Kansas St. 6,Arizona 5, Indiana 4, Murray St. 2, N. Iowa 2, Ore-gon St. 2, UC Santa Barbara 1.
Women’s Top 25The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press'
women's college basketball poll, with first-placevotes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, totalpoints based on 25 points for a first-place votethrough one point for a 25th-place vote and previ-ous ranking:
14, Southern Cal 13, LSU 12, Florida St. 9, Virginia9, California 8, Arkansas 5, Arizona St. 3, Tulane 3,Georgia Tech 2, Gonzaga 2, Northwestern 2.
Club 523200 games (Men) — D. Selsor 205, F. Mertz
219-209, M. Maxwell 214, E. Wagner 218-222, M.Cool 205-203-227, B.Wright 207, D. Cantrell 216-214, D. Morris 231, D. Divens 203, G. Schwieter-man 200, R.Shirk 204-211-208, E. Lavey 202, B.Lavey 210-236-202.600 series (Men) — F. Mertz 600, E. Wagner
632, M. Cool 635, D. Cantrell 601, R. Shirk 623, B.Lavey 648.
STANDINGSMaxwell 60-28Joe Thoma Jewelers 52-36Morris Htg. & Cooling 48-40Trent Karns 46-42Norm & Larry & Tom 42-46Divens 41-47Sidney Tool & Die 34-54We Hate Bowling 29-59
Women’s ESPN PollThe top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN
women's college basketball poll, with first-placevotes in parentheses, records through Dec. 5,points based on 25 points for a first-place votethrough one point for a 25th-place vote and previ-ous ranking:
BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationNEW JERSEY NETS—Named P.J. Carlesimo
and Mario Elie assistant coaches and Jeremy Bet-tle strength and conditioning coach.UTAH JAZZ—Named Michael Sanders player
development coach.FOOTBALL
National Football LeagueBUFFALO BILLS—Placed K Rian Lindell on in-
jured reserve.Canadian Football LeagueEDMONTON ESKIMOS—Signed DL Steven Fri-
day.HOCKEY
National Hockey LeagueNHL—Suspended Edmonton D Andy Sutton in-
definitely for his hit on Carolina F AlexeiPonikarovsky in a game on Dec. 7. Suspended Col-orado F Kevin Porter for four games for kneeingVancouver F David Booth in a game on Dec. 6.BOSTON BRUINS—Signed D Dougie Hamilton
to a three-year contract.MINNESOTAWILD—Recalled F Jeff Taffe from
Houston (AHL). Placed F Devin Setoguchi on in-jured reserve.OTTAWA SENATORS—Recalled D Matt
Carkner from Binghamton (AHL).PHOENIX COYOTES—Activated D Michal Roz-
sival from injured reserve.TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Recalled F Blair
Jones from Norfolk (AHL).
up during most of theold deal when the Lakers,Celtics and Mavericksclaimed the last fourchampionships.Stern knows the own-
ers, particularly in thesmall markets, didn't geteverything they wanted,but he said "this is goingto be a more competitiveleague over time.""While it's not perfect,
the deal addresses signifi-
cant issues on both sidesin a very productive way,we believe," he added.Player salaries were re-
duced by 12 percent, andStern emphasized newprovisions will allowteams to more easily es-cape difficult contractsand become competitivemore quickly.But with the revenue
split and system issuestaking so much time,
there was little opportu-nity to change the non-economic issues.
The draft age limit willremain 19 years at leastthrough the 2012 draft —the league would haveliked to go to 20, the play-ers would like to abolish itentirely — and blood test-ing for human growth hor-mone won't beimplemented this season.
