Briefly For home delivery, call 773-2725 BY JOHN FLESHER Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — As chants of angry protesters filled the Capitol, Michigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthink- able defeat to organized labor in a state that has been a bastion of the movement for generations. The Republican-dominated House ignored Democrats’ pleas to delay the passage and instead approved two bills with the same ruthless efficiency that the Sen- ate showed last week. One meas- ure dealt with private-sector workers, the other with govern- ment employees. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed them both within hours, calling them “pro- worker and pro-Michigan.” “This is about freedom, fair- ness and equality,” House Speaker Jase Bolger said during the floor debate. “These are basic American rights rights that should unite us.” After the vote, he said, Michi- gan’s future “has never been brighter, because workers are free.” The state where the United Auto Workers was founded and labor has long been a political titan will join 23 others with right-to-work laws, which ban re- quirements that nonunion em- ployees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services. Supporters say the laws give Mich. OKs right-to-work law B EAUTY ON DISPLAY BY SHARON SEMANIE For the Daily Call [email protected]PIQUA — Candles will illuminate walkways leading to historical places of worship on Friday, when the Piqua Arts Council sponsors its holiday Art Walk. Local residents and their families are invited to participate in the free self-guided tour of historic churches and a synagogue nestled close to downtown Piqua from 4-7 p.m. “It’s a great opportunity for fam- ilies to celebrate the holiday season and learn about the architecture, art and music of these beautiful houses of worship which have such a rich spiritual heritage in our com- munity,” said Chris Schmiesing, PAC vice president and chairperson of the ArtWalk program. Participating churches will have docents available to discuss the history, art and stained glass win- dows, for example, and many will be providing musical entertain- ment. Maps of participating loca- tions are available at each of the Art Walk churches, as well as the Piqua Public Library, Arabella salon and spa, Piqua Government Complex, Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce and many downtown Piqua businesses. The eight participating locations include St. Mary Catholic Church, St. Paul’s Evangelical & Reformed Church, Greene Street United Methodist Church, Congregational Christian Church, True Vine Church, Congregation Anshe Emeth, Westminster Presbyterian The altar at St. Mary Catholic Church is decorated for the Christmas season. St. Mary Church will be one of the featured historial churches for a self-guided tour during Friday’s holiday ArtWalk, hosted by the Piqua Arts Council. Following the Art Walk, the Piqua Public Library will host a reception from 6-8 p.m. with cook- ies, hot chocolate and coffee. The Congregation Anshe Emeth synagogue will be among the local houses of worship that will be featured in Piqua Arts Council Holiday Art Walk. Churches, synagogue participate in Piqua Arts Council’s Art Walk Rohr Public Official of Year JOPLIN, Mo. — Gov- erning Magazine, a na- tional magazine focusing on state and local govern- ments throughout the United States, has an- nounced that Joplin City Man- ager Mark Rohr h a s been named a “Public Of- ficial of the Year.” Rohr was city manager in Piqua prior to moving to Joplin. “I am honored by this award, but the story of Joplin’s recovery is not the PIQUA — The Piqua Development Department has announced the recent release of a draft Com- plete Street Policy for the city. The streets policy pro- vides a vision and strate- gies for ensuring future transportation and devel- opment projects balance the needs of all users, in- cluding motorist, pedestri- ans, bicyclist, freight carriers, emergency re- sponders, transit providers and adjacent lands uses, and promote a more livable community for citizens of all ages and abilities. The content of the document is based upon the insights and sug- gestions offered by biking, City street policy draft released Moments in Time The Park Avenue Ele- mentary School was built in 1874 on the northeast corner of Park and Broa- day. Courtesy of the Piqua Public Library an award-winning Civitas Media newspaper VOLUME 129, NUMBER 247 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012 www.dailycall.com $1.00 Commitment To Community 6 74825 82101 2 MAGAZINE: Check out iN75 in today’s Daily Call. HEALTH: Still searching for answer. Page 7. SPORTS Piqua boys fall to Springfield. Page 9. Today’s weather High 42 Low Mostly sunny and chilly. 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For home delivery, call 773-2725
BY JOHN FLESHERAssociated Press
LANSING, Mich. — As chantsof angry protesters filled theCapitol, Michigan lawmakersgave final approval Tuesday toright-to-work legislation, dealinga devastating and once-unthink-
able defeat to organized labor in astate that has been a bastion ofthe movement for generations.The Republican-dominated
House ignored Democrats’ pleasto delay the passage and insteadapproved two bills with the sameruthless efficiency that the Sen-ate showed last week. One meas-ure dealt with private-sectorworkers, the other with govern-ment employees. Republican Gov.
Rick Snyder signed them bothwithin hours, calling them “pro-worker and pro-Michigan.”“This is about freedom, fair-
ness and equality,” HouseSpeaker Jase Bolger said duringthe floor debate. “These are basicAmerican rights rights thatshould unite us.”After the vote, he said, Michi-
gan’s future “has never beenbrighter, because workers are
free.”The state where the United
Auto Workers was founded andlabor has long been a politicaltitan will join 23 others withright-to-work laws, which ban re-quirements that nonunion em-ployees pay unions fornegotiating contracts and otherservices.Supporters say the laws give
PIQUA—Candles will illuminatewalkways leading to historicalplaces of worship on Friday, whenthe Piqua Arts Council sponsors itsholiday Art Walk.Local residents and their families
are invited to participate in the freeself-guided tour of historic churchesand a synagogue nestled close todowntown Piqua from 4-7 p.m.“It’s a great opportunity for fam-
ilies to celebrate the holiday seasonand learn about the architecture,art and music of these beautifulhouses of worship which have sucha rich spiritual heritage in our com-munity,” said Chris Schmiesing,PAC vice president and chairpersonof the ArtWalk program.Participating churches will have
docents available to discuss thehistory, art and stained glass win-dows, for example, and many willbe providing musical entertain-ment. Maps of participating loca-tions are available at each of theArt Walk churches, as well as thePiqua Public Library, Arabella
salon and spa, Piqua GovernmentComplex, Piqua Area Chamber ofCommerce and many downtownPiqua businesses.The eight participating locations
include St. Mary Catholic Church,St. Paul’s Evangelical & Reformed
The altar at St. Mary Catholic Church is decorated for the Christmas season. St. Mary Church will be one ofthe featured historial churches for a self-guided tour during Friday’s holiday ArtWalk, hosted by the PiquaArts Council. Following the ArtWalk, the Piqua Public Library will host a reception from 6-8 p.m. with cook-ies, hot chocolate and coffee.
The Congregation Anshe Emeth synagogue will be among the localhouses of worship that will be featured in Piqua Arts Council HolidayArtWalk.
Churches, synagogue participatein Piqua Arts Council’s Art Walk
RohrPublicOfficialof Year
JOPLIN, Mo. — Gov-erning Magazine, a na-tional magazine focusingon state and local govern-ments throughout theUn i t edStates,has an-nouncedt h a tJ o p l i nC i t yM a n -a g e rM a r kR o h rh a sbeen named a “Public Of-ficial of the Year.” Rohrwas city manager inPiqua prior to moving toJoplin.“I am honored by this
award, but the story ofJoplin’s recovery is not the
PIQUA — The PiquaDevelopment Departmenthas announced the recentrelease of a draft Com-plete Street Policy for thecity.The streets policy pro-
vides a vision and strate-gies for ensuring futuretransportation and devel-opment projects balancethe needs of all users, in-cluding motorist, pedestri-ans, bicyclist, freightcarriers, emergency re-sponders, transitproviders and adjacentlands uses, and promote amore livable communityfor citizens of all ages andabilities. The content ofthe document is basedupon the insights and sug-gestions offered by biking,
City streetpolicy draftreleased
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Village of Bradford Coun-cil has scheduled a spe-cial meeting at 6 p.m.today in village hall. Thismeeting will take placeprior to the regular sched-uled meeting at 7 p.m. Thepurpose of today’s specialmeeting is to review gen-eral fund finances.
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Jane JacobyPIQUA — Jane Jacoby,
81, of Piqua, died at 2 a.m.M o n -d a y ,Dec. 10,2 0 1 2 ,at herr e s i -dence.S h e
w a sb o r nAug. 7,1 9 3 1 ,i nRichmond, Ind. to the lateCarlton F. and Lillian(Teague) Rothert. Shemarried Robert Jacoby onSept. 22, 1968, in Sidney;and he survives.Other survivors include
a son, David (Linda) Ja-coby of Oldsmar, Fla.; and15 grandchildren. She waspreceded in death by twosons, Richard and DavidDrudy; and three step-sons, Dean, Donald andDouglas Jacoby.Mrs. Jacoby was a 1949
graduate of RichmondHigh School. She was amember of the YWCA ofPiqua, the Altrusa Cluband an active member of
the Upper Valley Commu-nity Church. As a giftedartist, she created manybirth and marriageplaques, which could befound in homes all acrossthe country. She was anavid bridge player havingbeen a member of a cardclub. She loved her familyand life and will be deeplymissed by many friendsthroughout the country.A service to honor her
life will begin at 10 a.m.Friday at the Jamieson& Yannucci FuneralHome with the Rev. PaulJetter, Jack Chalk andLay Minister RichardFeightner co-officiating.Burial will follow at For-est Hill Cemetery.Visitation will be from
4-7 p.m. Thursday at thefuneral home.Memorial contributions
may be made to St. JamesEpiscopal Church FoodPantry, 200 W. High St.,Piqua, OH 45356. Guest-book condolences and ex-pressions of sympathy, tobe provided to the family,may be expressed throughjamiesonandyannucci.com.
Edythe F. MartinPIQUA — Edythe F.
Martin, 76, of Piqua, diedat 8:11p . m .M o n -d a y ,Dec. 10,2 0 1 2 ,at theUpperVal leyM e d -i c a lCenter.S h e
was born March 14, 1936,in Troy to the late Haroldand Marjorie (Penney)Bowman. She marriedDavid A.Martin on July 6,1962, in Troy; he precededher in death March 6,2003.Survivors include a
step-mother, Agnes Bow-man of Troy; five brothers,Larry L. (Karen) Bowmanof Piqua, Harold H.(Robin) Bowman of Troy,Robert D. (Barbara) Bow-man of Casstown, Donald(Pat) Felver ofLawrenceville, and Geor-gia, Alfred “Bud” (Juanita)Felver of Piqua; a sister,Rose D. (Robert) Anderson
of Gainsville, Ga.; and sev-eral nieces and nephews.Mrs. Martin was a 1956
graduate of the MiamiValley Hospital School ofNursing and retired as aregistered nurse from theUpper Valley MedicalCenter following a long ca-reer of helping others.A Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebratedat 10 a.m. Saturday at St.Boniface Catholic Churchwith the Rev. Fr. ThomasL. Bolte officiating. Burialwill follow at Forest HillCemetery.Visitation will be from
4-7 p.m. Friday at theJamieson & YannucciFuneral Home where aprayer service will be con-ducted at 4 p.m.Memorial contributions
may be made to the Re-served Education Fund ofSt. Boniface CatholicChurch, 310 S. DowningSt., Piqua, OH 45356.Guestbook condolencesand expressions of sympa-thy, to be provided to thefamily, may be expressedthrough jamiesonandyan-nucci.com.
Lenora Ann (Boyer) ElsnerHOUSTON — Lenora
Ann (Boyer) Elsner, 92, of6 0 6 0HoustonR o a d ,H o u s -t o n ,p a s s e da w a yp e a c e -fully atF a i r -h a v e nN u r s -i n gHome at 2:30 a.m. Tues-day, Dec. 11, 2012.Lenora was born Jan.
12, 1920, in ShelbyCounty, the late Hamerand Nellie (Miltenberger)Boyer of Houston. On Dec.25, 1940, she marriedRonald Elsner and he pre-ceded her in death onJune 9, 2000.Lenora is survived by
her son, Larry and hiswife Karen Elsner, of Sid-ney; three grandchildren,Andrew Elsner, Nick El-sner, and Lindsey Elsner.Lenora was preceded in
death by one brother, Clif-ford ‘Bud’ Boyer and onesister, Margaret Bailey.Lenora retired from the
Upper Valley Joint Voca-tional School, in Piquawhere she worked as acook. She also had priorservice with the HoustonSchool District. She was a
life time member of theDisabled American Veter-ans Auxiliary, the Fort Lo-ramie American LegionLadies Auxiliary and theHouston Grange.Lenora belonged to the
Houston CongregationalChristian Church inHouston. In her sparetime, she enjoyed sewingand reading. She was adevoted and lovingmother and grandmotherand she will be deeplymissed.Funeral services will be
held at 10 a.m.Monday atthe Adams FuneralHome, 1401 Fair Road,Sidney, with Pastor JamesManuel officiating. Inter-ment will follow at theHouston Cemetery.Family and friends may
call from 1-4 p.m. Sundayat the funeral home.In lieu of flowers dona-
tions may be made to theHouston Outdoor AthleticComplex, c/o ShelbyCounty Community Foun-dation, Wilson Hospice,10836 Fairington Drive,Sidney, in Lenora’s mem-ory.All arrangements are
in care of the staff at theAdams Funeral Home.Condolences may be ex-
pressed to the family atwww.theadamsfuneral-home.com.
Rev. Lon William MindtPIQUA — The Rev. Lon
William Mindt, a residento fP i q u aManor,f o r -m e r l yof En-g l e -w o o d ,went toh i sh e a v -e n l yh o m eDec. 8, 2012, following theeffects of Alzheimer’s.He was born Nov. 21,
1926, in Blue Grass, N.D.to William E. and Sophie(Ballinsky) Mindt. He waspreceded in death by hisparents; three brothersand one sister. One sister,Violet Dittus of Washing-ton and brother, CliffordMindt of Montana survive.Leon was married to Es-ther (Mindt) Mindt onNov. 27, 1947. The couplewas able to celebrate 65years of marriage. Shesurvives, along with theirthree daughters, Cynthiaand the Rev. Floyd Sollen-berger of Camp Hill, Pa.,Sylvia and Ray Daniels ofWabash, Ind., and the Rev.Dr.Arlys and Jerry Fogt ofPiqua. They share thewonderful memories of alife well lived. His legacycontinues with sevengrandchildren and 15great-grandchildren.He served in the Army
after World War II endedduring the occupation,stationed in Korea from1945-1946 and upon hishonorable discharge be-came an apprentice black-smith and welder. He feltthe call to Christian min-istry and began college atGeneral Beadle in Madi-son, S.D., while serving asmall church in Ramona,S.D. He continued his col-lege education and gradu-ated in 1064, fromKearney State in Kearney,Neb., while servingchurches in Elm Creek,Neb., Taylor, Neb., Al-mena, Kan. and in Scotia,Neb. After graduation hemoved his family to Day-ton to begin seminary
training atUnited Theo-logical Semi-nary andcontinued serving variousstudent pastorates inLebanon, Eaton and Sid-ney. He graduated with aM.Div. from UTS in 1968,and was ordained in theDakota Conference of theformer EvangelicalUnited Brethren Churchand choosing to stay inOhio he accepted a call toserve the United Churchof Christ in West Milton.Although he served cari-ous churches in differentdenominations, he alwaysfelt his calling was to be ashepherd to everyone inany community in whichhe lived. He spent 10years as an instructor incarpentry at the formerMiami Valley Joint Voca-tional School. Leon spentmany ours building anddelivering his specially de-signed storage barns of allsizes. After formally retir-ing, he continued to sub-stitute both in the pulpitand the classroom. Hispassion was doing smallwood projects for people asgifts and creating some-thing out of materials oth-ers threw away. He alsoenjoyed serving the VFWPost 7741 as a life mem-ber and chaplain for manyyears on the local, countyand district levels.Funeral services will be
officiated by the Revs.Floyd Sollenberger andGeorge Sidwell at Engle-wood United MethodistChurch at 1 p.m. Thurs-day. Visitation will be onehour prior to the service atthe church. Burial, withmilitary honors, will be atPiqua Forest Hill Ceme-tery immediately follow-ing the service.In lieu of flowers, con-
tributions can be made tothe Englewood UnitedMethodist Church, 107 N.Walnut St., Englewood.Donation envelopes willbe available at the service.All arrangements are incare of the staff at theHale-Sarver FuneralHome, West Milton.
Irene J. GoodinLONDON, Ohio —
Irene J. Goodin, 89, Lon-don, Ohio, formerly of TippCity, passed away Friday,Dec. 7, 2012, at MadisonSenior Living Community.She was born April 27,
1923, in Troy, to the lateEarl and Halcie (Em-swiler) Haaga. She alsowas preceded in death byher husband, RoscoeGoodin, to whom she wasmarried 65 years spendingthe last 35 years inKissimmee, Fla., before re-turning to Ohio after herhusband’s death to be nearher family.She is survived by her
children, David A. and hiswife Marjorie Goodin ofBrookville and ElizabethA. and her husbandMichael Green of London,Ohio; grandchildren, Brad(Nicole) Ostendorf, BlakeOstendorf, Beth Ostendorf,Tracy (Jeremiah) Hunt,Benjamin (Lindsay)
Goodin and DanielGoodin; great-grandchil-dren, Mikayla, Sofia,Grayce, Lillian, Amandaand Kylee; and great-greatgrandchild, Alexis.Irene was Valedictorian
of the class of 1941 fromTippecanoe High School.During World War II sheworked at Wright Patter-son Air Force Base. At theend of the war she mar-ried her husband and to-gether they raised theirfamily.A graveside service will
be held at 12 p.m. Satur-day in Section 1 at MapleHill Cemetery, Tipp City,with Pastor Bonita Woodofficiating.Arrangements have
been entrusted to Fringsand Bayliff FuneralHome, 327 W. Main St.,Tipp City.Condolences to the fam-
ily may be expressed atwww.fringsandbayliff.com.
Jackie W. Barnes Sr.COVINGTON— Jackie
W. Barnes Sr., 70, of Cov-ington,passedaway at9 : 4 5a . m .S u n -d a y ,Dec. 9,2 0 1 2 ,at theHeart-l a n dN u r s -ing Home Piqua.Jackie was born Nov. 20,
1942, in Evarts, Ky. andthe son of the late Bill andNeva (Haney) Barnes.He retired in 2005 from
Hobart Brothers of Troy,and was a veteran servingin the U.S. Navy. Jackiewas a member of the Hick-ory Grove United BaptistChurch of Greenville, theEagles Lodge of Covingtonand the Bradford Commu-nity Club.In addition to his par-
ents, he was preceded indeath by a daughter, Kim-berly Michelle Morgan;and two brothers, RonnieJames and Bobby RayBarnes.Jackie is survived by his
wife, Rose G. (Jones)Barnes of Covington.Theywere married June 12,1965. Also by his sons anddaughters-in-law, JackieW. andMichelle Barnes Jr.of Piqua, Christopher M.and Shannon Barnes of
Mu r f r e e s -boro, Tenn.and AndrewJ. CindyBarnes of Piqua.There are13 grandchildren; sevengreat-grandchildren; sis-ters and brother-in-law,Linda and Earl Curry andBrenda Barnes, all ofGreenville, brother andsister-in-law, Doug andBev Barnes ofGreenville;and numerousnieces, nephews andcousins.Funeral services will be
held at 2 p.m.Thursday inthe Zechar Bailey Fu-neral Home, Greenville,with the Rev. Tom Jonesand Pastor Gary Wagnerco-officiating. Burial willfollow in the Miami Me-morial Park CemeteryCovington.The GreenvilleVeterans Honor Guardwill conduct Military Hon-ors at 2 p.m.Thursday inthe funeral home.
The family will receivefriends from 5-8 p.m.today in the funeral home.It is the wishes of the
family that memorial con-tributions be given to theHickory Grove UnitedBaptist Church ofGreenville, Hospice ofMiami County or Heart-land Nursing Home ofPiqua.Condolences for the
family may be expressedthrough www.zecharbai-ley.com.
Dorothy June RudyTROY — Dorothy June
Rudy, 91, of Troy, formerlyof Pleasant Hill, passedaway Monday, Dec. 10,2012, at Koester Pavillion,Troy.She was born Sept. 27,
1921, in Dayton, to Pauland Mayme (Folker)Caron.Dorothy graduated from
Newton High School andon Jan. 5, 1940, she mar-ried David S. Rudy. Sheworked for the Arens Cor-poration in Covington andworked as a ward clerk forStouder Hospital in Troy.She was a former memberof the Eastern Star andwas a member of the St.John’s United Church ofChrist. She enjoyed travel-ling and loved the theirfarm in Pleasant Hill.Dorothy was preceded in
death by her parents, herhusband, and her son,David Scott Rudy.She will be missed and
remembered by her daugh-
ter-in-law, Judy Rudy ofPleasant Hill; grandchil-dren, Jeffrey Scott andTeresa Rudy of Tipp City,Sue Ann and Wade Hickleof Vandalia, Gary Davidand Samantha Rudy ofVandalia; great-grandchil-dren, Taylor and NicholasRudy and Katheryn andSarah Hickle; numerousnieces and nephews.Funeral services will be
held at 10:30 a.m. Fridayat Jackson-Sarver Fam-ily Funeral Home, 1 S.Main St., Pleasant Hill.The Rev. Dr. KeithWagnerwill officiate with inter-ment following at PleasantHill Cemetery. The familywill receive friends from9:30-10:30 a.m. Friday atthe funeral home.In lieu of flowers,memo-
rial contributions may bemade to Hospice of MiamiCounty. Online memoriesmay be left for the familyat www.jackson-sarver.com.
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PIQUA — The PiquaHighSchool ChoralDepart-ment will present its an-nual Holiday Concert andCookie Walk on Sunday,Dec. 16 at 2:30 p.m. and4:30 p.m. in the HartzellCenter for the PerformingArts at the high school.Thechoirs are under the direc-tion of TomWestfall.The concert will begin
with a mass choir number,“Joy To TheWorld.” Thechoirs will be ac-companied bythe Gotham CityBrass Quintet,DavidBroerman,organ, BrendaVetter, piano andstudent percus-sionist,Will Ciss-ner on tympani.The Women’s
Chorus will per-form “Jingle BellRock,” followedby “Infant Holy,Infant Lowly”with organistDavidBroerman.“Here ComesSanta Claus” is next andthe choir will close theirportion with “A StarDances,AnAngel Sings”ac-companied by the HandbellChoir.The Handbell Choir is
made up of Piqua CitySchool staffmembersDavidBroerman, Pam George,
Greg Hawk, Dustin Horn-beck, LindsayMuhlenkampand community membersJoan and Greg Heroon.The Gotham City Brass
Quintetmembers are LindaHolt and Jim Vetter, trum-pet, Annie Shilt, Frenchhorn, Ray Marion, trom-bone, and John Streb, tuba.The Quintet has been play-ing together formany yearsand gives concerts and pro-
grams in the Miami ValleyArea.The Men’s Chorus will
sing “It’s The ChristmasTime of Year” with studentWill Cissner on chimes, fol-lowed by a Ukrainian folksong, “Sleigh Bells”. Thesong “Goin’ To Bethlehem”will have vocal percussion
provided by studentsMasonStevens and John Klenk.TheGothamCityBrass andorganist David Broermanwill join the choir in “SingWe Now of Christmas.”The PHS Show Choir,
“TheCompany”will presentits Christmas show of“Santa’s On His Way Med-ley,” “Grown Up ChristmasList,” and conclude with“Yule Be Swingin.’” Both
songs will feature studentsoloists.The Concert Choir will
beginwith “Bell Carol of theKings” featuring the Hand-bell Choir, followed by a tra-ditional Hanukka song,“S’Vivon,” sung in Hebrew.They will also sing “Once inRoyal David’s City” joined
by the Handbell Choir andviolinist, Paul Hrivnak.Something new this year
will be a performance of thePiqua Junior High 8thGrade Choir. They will per-form at the 4:30 p.m. pro-gram only and will do threesongs. The Eighth GradeChoir is a graded class thatmeets 1st period everydayunder the direction ofWest-fall.
The concertwill concludewith theGothamCity Brass andDavid Broermanon organ accom-panying the“Hallelujah Cho-rus.”Members ofthe audiencewillbe invited to jointhe ConcertChoir on stage tosing along.The annual
“Cookie Walk”will begin at 1p.m. and con-tinue throughthe concerts.Thecookies are pre-
sented on beautifully deco-rated tables and are sold bythe pound. This is a majorfund raiser for the PHSMusic Boosters.The concert is free and
open to the public. Formoreinformation, call the PHSoffice at 773-6314 duringschool hours.
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PROVIDED PHOTOWarren Lodge No. 24 Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, 217W. High St., Piqua, recently held its elec-tion of officers. Each officer is a Master Mason in good standing and will hold that position for the2012-2013 inspection season. Michael S. Foster was elected worshipful master and will head thelodge and its activities. Front row, pictured from left to right, Stu Shear, treasurer, Michael Foster,worshipful master and Sherman Deaton, senior seward. Second row, left to right, Nathan Coppock,junior warden, Howard Lambert, chaplain and Dixson Clement, senior warden.Top row, left to right,James Lambert, secretary, Douglas Smith, senior deacon, A. J. Marrs, junior deacon, and DonaldMumford, installing officer. The lodge was founded and granted a charter from the Grand Lodge ofOhio in November 1840, and was located on the second floor of Tamplin’s Tavern on the southwestcorner of Spring and Ash Streets in Piqua.The present building built in 1848, as a Baptist church, be-came the home ofWarren Lodge, after extensive renovation, in 1929.The lodge supports many com-munity efforts including the State Route 66 highway cleanup, Christmas bell ringing for the SalvationArmy and other community service endeavors.
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boys in K-4th grade are in-vited to join in the YWCA’sannual “Rudolph’sRecipes” class from 4:30-6p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18.Children will help create,bake, and decorate bakedgoods and then take homedozens of cookies and hol-iday treats to share withtheir families.“This is a great way to
get your youngsters in theholiday spirit,” said Jen-nifer Anderson, one of theYWCA Cookie Ladies whowill be instructing theclass. “We try lots of differ-
ent recipes so the childrenwill have a variety of good-ies to enjoy at home aswell as the fun of sharingsomething special withtheir families that theymade. One fun food wewill make is Reindeerfood. The kids will lovemaking this for Santa’sreindeer too.”For more information
on class fees or to register,stop at the YWCA Piquaat 418 N. Wayne St., call773-6626, or [email protected].
Time Warneraccepting new,unwrapped toysPIQUA — Time Warner
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Christmas dinnerCOVINGTON — There
will be a free ChristmasDinner from 4-7 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 20, at theformer HealthCare Phar-macy/Grandma’s Kitchen,8264 W. State Route 41,Covington.Turkey, dressing,
mashed potatoes, greenbeans and desert, cateredby Stillwater Catering ioCovington, will be served.Residents from Coving-
ton, Bradford, PleasantHill and West Milton areencourage to to attend.
High school choir presents holiday concert
YOUNGSTOWN (AP)— Police in northeastOhio made a curious dis-covery after finding astolen car — a full-grownpot-belly pig in the backseat.Police reports said offi-
cers responding to a callabout an abandoned carMonday found the NissanCube with air bags de-ployed, two flat tiresand heavy damageto the front end.And there was a250-pound pot-belly pig namedPenelope in the back seat.
The (Youngstown) Vin-dicator reports that offi-cers had the car towedwith the pig inside.
The owner, who lives inPennsylvania, was con-tacted and said she wasvisiting a friend inYoungstown. She said shedid notice the vehicle —and the pig — missing butthought the “kids took it.”Police contacted animal
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Police find pot-bellypig in stolen car
Sam J. CurcioKETTERING — Sam J.
Curcio, 93, of Kettering,passed away Sunday, Dec.9, 2012, at the SterlingHouse of Troy, Troy.He was born Nov. 22,
1919, in Dayton, to the lateDominic and Lucia (De-Sando) Curcio. His wife,Suzanne (Netzley) Curcio,preceded him in death in2010.He is survived by his
son and daughter-in-law,Craig and Alison Curcio ofTroy; two sisters and abrother-in-law, Alice Stef-fen of Centerville andTheresa and ForrestMcMichael of Kettering;two grandchildren, Jacoband Ella Curcio; andnieces and nephews, SaraHinders, Diana (Larry)Flemming, David (Karen)McMichael, Bonnie (Ron)Hershey, and Lisa (John)Mock.In addition to his par-
ents and his wife, Sam waspreceded in death by twosisters, Mary Hinders andCatherine Franklin.He was a graduate of
Roosevelt High School.Sam was a U.S. ArmyWorld War II veteran and
a memberof EastD a y t o nChurch ofChrist. Heretired from Truman Opti-cal, Dayton.Funeral services will be
held at 11 a.m. Thursday,at East Dayton Church ofChrist, 3409 Linden Ave.,Dayton, with Pastor ScottVanDyke officiating. Inter-ment will follow in PolkGrove Cemetery, ButlerTownship.Friends may call from 5-
7 p.m. today at Baird Fu-neral Home, 555 N.Market St., Troy, and from10-11 a.m. Thursday atthe church.Memorial contributions
may be made to AcclaimHospice, 7887 WashingtonVillage Drive, Suite 350,Dayton, OH 45459.The family would like to
extend a special thank youto Sterling House, KoesterPavilion, and Acclaim Hos-pice for the care they pro-vided Sam.Friends may express
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Just weeks away looms the ‘fiscal cliff,’ a combina-tion of automatic tax increases and spending cutsthat everybody inWashington claims they want to
avoid.Republicans want to work with the president to steer
our economy clear of the fiscal cliff in a way that finallybegins to solve the problem of our nation’s debt.We have a huge national debt because Washington
spends too much, not because it doesn’t tax peopleenough.During the campaign, the president spoke of a ‘bal-
anced’ approach to the fiscal cliff and our debt — a com-bination of new tax revenuesand spending controls, usedin tandem to reduce thedeficit.When the president says
‘new revenues,’ he meansraising tax rates. Republi-cans are opposed to that be-cause it will hurt smallbusinesses and destroy jobs.“But there’s another way
to get the president the rev-enue he seeks. By cuttingspending and closing special-interest loopholes in the tax code instead of raising taxrates,we can avert the fiscal cliff in a way that helps oureconomy instead of hurting it.Accordingly, Republicans have signaled our willing-
ness to accept some new revenues, if they come from taxreform instead of higher tax rates and are accompaniedby meaningful spending reforms that begin to addressthe drivers of our country’s debt.In re-electing a Democratic president and a Republi-
can majority in the House, the American people gaveboth parties a mandate – not to raise tax rates, but tofind common ground and act in the best interests of ourcountry.I’ve cited the 1986 tax reform agreement between a
Republican president,Ronald Reagan, and aDemocraticSpeaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, as one model of sucha bipartisan accord. That agreement helped to pave theway for the strong economic growth America experi-enced in the years that followed.A more recent model exists as well, in the form of the
proposal President Clinton’s formerWhite House chief ofstaff, Erskine Bowles, presented last year to the biparti-san Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (‘su-percommittee’).The proposal is basically this: both parties would
agree to a balanced deficit reduction package that in-cludes significant spending cuts as well as $800 billion innew revenues.To avoid doing harm to the economy, the new revenues
would be achieved not through higher tax rates, butthrough pro-growth tax reform that closes special-inter-est loopholes and deductions and lowers rates.“On the spending side, the plan would cut $900 billion
in mandatory spending and another $300 billion in dis-cretionary spending.These would be cuts over and abovethe spending reductions enacted via the 2011 BudgetControl Act.This plan is a middle ground that would enable us to
avert the fiscal cliff without doing harm to the nation’seconomy.“On Dec. 3, we sent this plan to the president as our
counteroffer to his own fiscal cliff plan.The president’s plan calls for a $1.6 trillion tax hike—
double what he campaigned on — as well as billions innew ‘stimulus’ spending and the authority to raise thenation’s debt ceiling to infinity.The huge revenue increase in the president’s plan
would be achieved through higher tax rates on smallbusinesses and others.And where are the spending cutsthe president promised?Republicans won’t be party to an agreement that
shields big businesses and preserves special-interest taxbreaks while raising tax rates on small businesses andhurting our economy.Our proposal instead offers a way for Democrats to get
the revenue they seek along with meaningful spendingreforms, without tax rate hikes that will cost jobs.“To date, though, the president has refused to consider
our plan,while also refusing to offer a viable alternative.The proposal put forth byHouse Republicans is a rea-
sonable framework. If the president won’t accept it, hehas a responsibility to offer a plan of his own that canpass both chambers of Congress.“Slow-walking our economy to the brink of the fiscal
cliff is not a strategy worthy of theWhite House. For thesake of our country, the president must lead.
Boehner represents Ohio’s 8th District, which includesall of Darke, Miami, and Preble counties, most of ButlerandMercer counties, and the northeastern corner ofMont-gomery County. He was first elected to Congress in 1990.
To the Editor:The St. James Episco-
pal Church food pantryhas ministered to the res-idents of Piqua and thesurrounding areasthrough another difficultyear.We have experiencedan 18 percent increase inthose in need this year.Wehave given out over 91tons of food, personal careand donated items to over600 families monthly,which equates to over16,000 people annually.The food pantry again
this year will provide toour clients through a ran-dom drawing 100 “Christ-mas Dinner” boxes, whichinclude a ham, sweet po-tatoes, mashed potatoes,corn, green beans, dinnerrolls, apples, oranges, anapple or cherry pie, milkand butter.We could not do this
without our many volun-teers, donations andgrants so we would like tosay thanks to all thosewho made this year a suc-cess in providing for thosein need. Especially DeeGastineau, our grantwriter, Shared Harvest,Walmart, Red Lobster,Kroger, Aldi, Big Lots,Everett Lavy (Piqua areafarmer), Piqua Paper BoxCo., Trinity EpiscopalChurch in Troy, all thoseorganizations whoawarded the pantrygrants, all the organiza-tions and individuals whoprovided us donations(monetary and food), andall the special volunteerswho work the food pantry.We could not serve the
people of Piqua withoutthem. We feel blessed tobe able to continue thisministry and serve thosein need and hope thatnext year will bring a bet-ter year for all of us.Thank you again.
—Marisa LittlejohnSt. James EpiscopalChurch Food Pantry
Volunteer.
Guest columnBalancedapproach toavoid fall off‘fiscal cliff’
Food pantryorganizerssay thanks
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How are the “fiscalcliff ” negotiationsgoing? Reportedly,
Republican leaders andPresident Barack Obamaare in a stare-down. How-ever, many rank-and-fileRepublican membershave blinked, apparentlyready to fold a demon-strably losing hand.These Republicans havebegun to recognize that both morallyand economically, the tax rates on thewealthy must return to those of theClinton-Gore era. But Republican lead-ers apparently feel that the rich gettingricher — their rates are lower thanyours, dear reader — is more importantthan getting our country’s long-term fi-nances in order. The negotiations beganwhen Treasury Secretary Tim Geithnervisited Republican Senate MinorityLeader Mitch McConnell and gave himObama’s proposal to read. McConnell,by his own account, read it, smiled andthen “burst into laughter.” Geithner, ap-parently a little stunned, said, “I don’tthink I’ve ever seen you smile.”Obama then asked the Republicans to
present a counter-proposal. SpeakerJohn Boehner called the president’s pro-posal “la la land,” then offered to raisejust half the revenue Obama proposed,and to do that by closing unidentifiedloopholes. White House press secretaryJames Carney characterized their rec-ommendation as “magic beans and fairydust.”In 2001, tax rates changed, becoming,
in effect, a vacation from taxes for thewealthy, and tax relief for 98 percent ofall Americans. Obama wants to end thatvacation. His proposal also includesabout a $25 billion in stimulus spendingfor jobs growth and the extension of thepayroll tax cuts. The Republican pro-posal repeats Mitt Romney’s plan: Closeunspecified loopholes and cut safety netprograms, specifically Medicare and So-cial Security.There’s only one problem:The Repub-
lican position was thoroughly debated,debunked and rejected in the electiononly a month ago. Voters chose Obama’sposition, a balanced approach of spend-ing cuts and increased revenues. A re-cent Washington Post poll confirmsmost Americans agree the wealthy getbetter tax breaks, and they want thedisparity to end. And voters have over-whelmingly insisted that Congress nottouch Social Security and Medicare ben-efits. If an agreement isn’t reached, aWashington Post-Pew Research Centersurvey shows 53 percent of Americanswill blame the Republicans for pushingAmerica over the fiscal cliff. ThroughoutObama’s first term, Senate Republicansmarched in lockstep to McConnell’s di-rections. They opposed everything. Mc-Connell even appeared to call the shotsin the House during the 2011 debt limitnegotiations. But Senate Republicansmay be hearing a different drum. It’snot surprising. McConnell’s stated No. 1priority, defeating Obama, failed. And
he failed to increase thenumber of Republicansenators. And Romneyfailed, in part, because hefollowed McConnell’s“blame Obama” strategy.Four senators have al-
ready stopped marchingblindly after McConnell.This week another sena-tor, Bob Corker of Ten-nessee, joined them.
Corker told a Reuters reporter that hisfellow senators were beginning to seevalue in assenting to restoring taxes onthe super wealthy, in return for holdingthe debt limit hostage once more, in thenext Congress.That’s one step away from the cliff
and one step toward the ditch.Holding the debt limit hostage
worked well for McConnell and Boehnerin 2011, but not so well for the rest ofthe country. On the same day thatBoehner’s boast, “I got 98 percent ofwhat I wanted,” made headlines, thiswas also a headline: “Dow Drops 512Points.”However, it seems Republicans still
want to play “blink at the brink.” WhenBoehner offered a modest loophole clos-ing, Sen. James DeMint attacked it, say-ing, “Speaker Boehner’s $800 billion taxhike will destroy American jobs … whilenot reducing our $16 trillion debt by asingle penny.” Veteran political ob-servers saw this as a scripted “good cop-bad cop” moment, meant to giveBoehner an excuse and a way out. Hecan now claim the “modest loophole clos-ing” is the best he can do because of con-servative pressure. That’s a cop-out,because Boehner remains in charge. Hepurged four dissidents — conservativeRepublicans — of their chairmanshipsthis week, sending a clear message of “toget along, go along.” He replaced themwith … other conservatives, who haveno doubt agreed to play nicely andmarch in rank.The easiest and simplest thing for
House Republican leaders to do is toallow a vote on the Senate-passed mid-dle class tax cuts. House Democratsfiled a discharge petition to automati-cally bring the middle-class tax cuts tothe floor, with 178 signatures and count-ing. Meanwhile, a White House advisertold the Los Angeles Times, “The onlytime these guys have ever moved onsomething is when they have felt theoutside pressure.” Boehner sent Con-gress home without having done any-thing to compromise. Maybe voters willbuttonhole them while they’re homewith a little citizen pressure.The clock is ticking. It’s time that
members of Congress listen to their con-stituents and honor only one pledge: toadvance the common good for the sakeof the Republic.
Donna Brazile is a senior Democraticstrategist, a political commentator andcontributor to CNN and ABC News, anda contributing columnist to Ms. Maga-zine and O, the Oprah Magazine.
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BY E.J. TAMARA ANDNATALIACANOAssociated Press
LOS ANGELES — Jenni Riveralaunched her career hawking cassetterecordings of her songs at fleamarkets,but a powerful voice, soulful singingstyle and frank discussion of personaltroublespoweredher to theheightsofamale-dominated industry,transformingher into the one of the biggest stars ofthe genre known as grupero.Her life was cut short at its peak on
Sunday by an airplane crash in north-ern Mexico that also killed six friendsand co-workers.The 43-year-old mother of five and
grandmother of two became a symbolof resilience formillions of fans on bothsides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Herfamegrewasshebranchedout intoact-ing, appearing in independent film, re-ality TV and the televised singingcompetition “LaVozMexico.”She had recently filed for divorce
from her third husband, was once de-tained at a Mexico City airport withtensof thousandsofdollars incash,andpubliclyapologizedafterherbrotheras-saulted adrunken fanwhoverbally at-tacked her in 2011.“I am the same as the public, as my
fans,” she told The Associated Press inan interview lastMarch.Rivera sold more than 15 million
copiesofher12major-labelalbumsandwon a string of Latin music awards.Her shows filled both the Staples Cen-ter in Los Angeles and Mexico’s Na-tional Auditorium, a feat few malesingers in her industry achieved.Manyofher songsdealtwith themes
of dignity in the face ofheartbreak,andher showswere known for their festiveatmosphere and her intimate interac-tions with her fans. Shewould fill songrequests from fans who had sufferedheartbreak and setbacks, and would
often pull women and girls onto stageto personally tell them to keep movingforward.The plane, being flown by two pilots,
wastakingherandherpublicist,ArturoRivera, her makeup artist, JacobYebale, and two friends, one namedMario Macias and another who wasonly identified as Gerardo, to the cen-tral Mexican city of Toluca after a Sat-urdaynight concertbefore thousands inthenortherncityofMonterrey.Allwerekilled.After the concert she gave a press
conference during which she spoke ofher emotional state following her re-cent move to divorce former MajorLeague Baseball pitcher EstebanLoaiza,whoplayed for teams includingtheNewYorkYankeesandLosAngelesDodgers.Rivera announced in October that
she was divorcing Loaiza after twoyears ofmarriage.“I can’t get caughtup in thenegative
because thatdestroysyou.Perhaps try-ing to move away from my problemsand focus on the positive is the best Ican do. I am a woman like any otherand ugly things happen tome like anyotherwoman,”shesaidSaturdaynight.“The number of times I have fallendown is thenumberof times Ihavegot-ten up.”Rivera’sparentsmigrated fromMex-
ico to California and founded the labelthatalsopropelled twoofher fivebroth-ers,Lupillo andJuanRivera,to careersas well-known singers of gruperomusic.Born on July 2, 1969 in LosAngeles,
California, Dolores Janney RiveraSavedra studied business administra-tion and often said with pride that shestarted her singing career in flea mar-kets in the Los Angeles area, sellingcassette tapes to fans.She formally debuted on the music
scene in 1995 with the release of her
album“Chacalosa”.That successful album was followed
with two other independent albums,one a tribute to slain Mexican-Ameri-can singer Selena that helped Riveraexpandher following.By the end of the90s,shewonamajor-label contract,andbuilt a loyal following that knewher asthe “Diva de la Banda.”At the end of the 1990s, Rivera was
signedbySonyMusic and released twomore albums, “If YouWant to See MeCrying,” and “Queen of Queens.”In 2002, she received her first Latin
Grammynomination,forbestalbuminthe bandmusic category.Evenmorewidespreadsuccess came
when she joinedFonovisa and releasedher 2005 album titled “Partier, Rebel-liousandDaring,”whichpositionedheras one of the most renowned gruperosingers and songwriters.She was also nominated for Latin
Grammys in 2008 and 2011.Shewasalsoanactress,appearing in
the indie film“Filly Brown,”whichwasshown at the Sundance Film Festival,as the incarceratedmotherof characterFilly Brown.“Though she’ll be remembered as an
iconic singer, she was also a powerfulactress whose full range of talents theworld was just beginning to discover,”the directors, producers, cast and crewof “Filly Brown” said in a statement.Her most recent album, “Joyas
Prestadas,” or “Borrowed Jewels,” wonwidespread praise and awards andhelped cement her status as one of thebrightest stars of Mexican-Americanmusic.Shewasalso filmingthe thirdseason
of “I Love Jenni,”which followed her asshe interacted with her family andtoured throughMexico and theUnitedStates.Shealsoplayedakey role in thereality shows: “Jenni Rivera Presents:ChiquisandRaq-C”andherdaughter’s“Chiquis ‘n Control.”
DEAR ABBY: I havebeen married for 14 yearsto a man who had twofailed marriages. I neverfelt insecure in my mar-ried life until I read hisanswers to a Yahoo An-swers poll that asked, “Doyou dream about the onethat got away?” and,“Have you found the loveof your life?”My husband responded
that he thinks about hervery often, especially onher birthday and Valen-tine’s Day. To the otherquestion he replied he hadfound the love of his life,but the relationship hadended in divorce, which headmitted was his fault.I know he was talking
about his first wife. I feelso sad and insecure. NowI must deal with the factthat on Valentine’s Dayhis thoughts are withsomeone else. How can Iget over this? I no longerbelieve him when he sayshe loves me because Ihave proof that he hasn’tmoved on yet. I can’t be-lieve he said that evennow he still thinks abouther. Please help.
— SAD HEART INSAN JOSE
DEAR SAD HEART:Your husband postedthose thoughts on a publicforum? Rather than feelhurt and insecure, youshould be furious. Howwould he feel if the personanswering that poll hadbeen you? (Of course, youwould have had betterjudgment.) By now itshould be clear to you thatyou did not marry a rocketscientist. You have mysympathy because hisfirst marriage has beenover for nearly twodecades and he — alongwith his obvious short-comings — are no longerher problem, but yours.However, your pain maylessen if you look at thebright side: He treats youwell 363 days a year, andmany of the women whowrite to me are not solucky.
DEAR ABBY: I havebeen involved with a manin a long-distance rela-tionship for two years. Icare about him very muchand I believe he cares forme.Things were going great
until he was devastatedby a downturn in his busi-ness. He had planned tomove here, but was unableto sell his home. We used
to see each other everytwo weeks, but no longer.It has been almost twomonths. He calls once aweek, but nothing else.We have been close and
he has shared his life, hisworries and personal in-formation with me. Ihaven’t pressured himand I don’t need a com-mitment now, although Iwould like one someday.Abby, he seems to be drift-ing away. Is it OK to writeto him, email him, sendencouraging notes once aweek and continue to sup-port him? Is it too much toask for more frequentcommunication from him?I have offered to travel the1,000 miles, but he hasevaded my offer. I’m notready to walk away. Wehave been great togetherand this is difficult for me.Advice?
— HOLDING ON INCOASTAL
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DEAR HOLDING ON:It’s fine to be supportive,but don’t overwhelm himright now. You may haveto let this play out in itsown time.Your friend mayhave retreated becausehe’s concentrating his en-ergy on reviving his busi-ness. He may be lickinghis wounds or he mayhave met someone, whichis why he discouragedyour visit. That he stillcalls you is encouraging.Because you have knownhim for two years, I rec-ommend you simply ASKhim if he’s met someoneelse. If the answer is no, itwill put your mind at ease.But if the answer is yes, atleast you’ll be clear aboutwhat happened.
Dear Abby is written byAbigail Van Buren, alsoknown as Jeanne Phillips,and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips.Write Dear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com orP.O. Box 69440, Los Ange-les, CA 90069.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENAdvice
There are times whendeclarer must make whatappears to be an unnaturalplay, because that is theonly way to make his con-tract. South did exactlythat in this deal and scoreda game as a result.First, a word about the
bidding. South had a prob-lem of sorts in choosing hisopening bid.He consideredthe possibility of openingwith five diamonds, but de-cided, correctly, that hishand was too strong for apre-emptive bid. He there-fore bid only one diamond,
hoping to increase hischances of reaching a po-tential slam contract if hispartner had a moderatelygood hand.As it turned out, South
had to play well just tomake five diamonds. Westled a spade, declarer fol-lowing low from dummy,and when East won thetrick with the king, Southplayed his queen on it! De-clarer later successfully fi-nessed dummy’s ten ofspades to acquire his 11thtrick.Had South played the
four of spades on East’sking — certainly the more“natural” thing to do — hewould have scored only onespade trick and gone downone.While it is true that
dropping the queen ofspades under the king is anunusual play, since it ap-pears to reduce declarer’snumber of spade tricksfrom two to one, the queenplay is correct because it of-
fers the only real chance toscore two spade tricks. It istherefore not as odd a playas it might at first seem.Most declarers holding
the South cards wouldprobably play low fromtheir hand at trick one
from force of habit, but thismerely emphasizes the factthat there’s almost no suchthing as an automatic playin bridge.
Tomorrow: Strike whilethe iron is hot.
Any port in a storm�� Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker
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Complete thegrid so every row,column and 3 x 3box containsevery digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.
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Another week has al-ready passed and itis time to write the
column again. We havealso entered the lastmonth of 2012.Where doestime go so fast? I keepthinking next week will beless busy and before Iknow it the week haspassed. Daughter Verenawill have her 15th birth-dayon Dec. 10. How canshe be that old already? Itonly seems short years agothat she was a baby. I’llnever forget the day Ver-ena was born. I woke up at2:30 a.m. and woke up myhusband Joe. I told himthat I think he will have togo wake the neighbors andask to use their phone.Themidwife, Sylvia, which isJoe’s aunt, didn’t have aphone so a driver wouldhave to be called to go pickher up. =Joe wasn’t in toomuch of a hurry as ourfirst two children didn’tcome very fast. He said hewould just wait until hesaw lights on at our Eng-lish (non-Amish) neigh-bors, which was usuallyaround 4;30 a.m. He thenwent over and called adriver to go get Sylvia andby the time she came itwas after 5. Joe took thesame driver to take ourdaughters Elizabeth andSusan over to my parentsand bring my mother backwith him. Mother was al-ways a comfort to haveduring these times.Mothercame prepared to stay allday. By the time Joe wasback with my mother itwas almost 6 a.m. Motherdecided to make breakfastfor everyone. Meanwhile,Joe wanted to go out andmilk our cows and do thechores, since he stillthought we had plenty oftime before the baby’s ar-rival. But before anyonecould get started on any-thing Verena was ready tobe born. She arrived at6:32 a.m. and we wereblessed with another pre-cious, healthy daughter.We were all surprised thatthings went so fast. Sylviawas not quite finished atour house when the drivercame for her as she wasneeded by one of Joe’scousins. If I rememberright Joe’s cousin had herbaby an hour after Verena.Verena was always full ofenergy and getting intoeverything at 6 months.She would crawl from oneend of the room to theother before I knew it. Shehas been through a lot inher 15 years. At times shestill does get post-concus-sion episodes but it usually
only affects her memory.Whatever happens duringa post-concussion spell shewill not remember. She haslearned to cope with it andover time it seems to begetting better. We praysomeday they will leavecompletely and are thank-ful how she has healed sofar. She also seems to bedoing well after her sur-gery to lengthen her heelcords on her right foot, asymptom of her musculardystrophy. She is doingwell and is an eighth-grader at school.Yesterdaywe did the laundry andhung it on the lines in thebasement. It seems duringthe winter months we al-ways have laundry hang-ing in the basement. Weusually do laundry onMondays, Wednesdays,and Fridays. I am glad wehave a place to hang it in-side and don’t have coldhands hanging it outside.We used to hang ourclothes outside all winterto let our clothing freezedry. It was a cold job put-ting it out and getting it in.Our church won’t have theChristmas potluck untilDec. 30 this year, so thatmakes it a little less hecticbefore Christmas. Here isa recipe for you readerswho are onion lovers. Myonions didn’t do so well so Iam already out of themand having to buy them.
LOVINA EICHERThe Amish Cook
It seems only ashort time ago ...
ONION RINGS
2 good sized onions1 egg, slightly beaten1/2 tsp. salt1/2 tsp. baking powder1/2 cup flour1/4 cup milk2 Tab. vegetable oil
Peel and slice onions.Slice fairly thick at least1 /4 inch thick. Separaterings and use only thelarger ones. Refrigerateuntil ready to use. Beategg. Add rest of ingredi-ents and mix well. In alarge saucepan heat oilor shortening. Fill pan atleast half full. When oilis hot enough dip onionrings into batter andcook until golden brownon both sides
Dear Grandparenting:Mydaughter-in-lawblewhertop about me getting on hernerves.Sheneeds“space.”I’llgive her plenty of space.Thenext timethephoneringsbe-cause shewants a babysittermaybe I’ll be busy that day. Iput my life on hold after shehad the twins. I was the bestgrandmother anyone everhad. Just ask my husband.He said I am a slave to mygrandchildren. But that wasOK with me until she got inmy face and told me to buttout. I deserve more respectafter all I’ve done.Here’s ex-actly what happened. She
comeshomefromher jobandopens the door.All I saidwassomethingabout takingLau-ren (my granddaughter) tothe doctor because she had abad cough. Then my daugh-ter-in-law got all uppity andtoldmeoff so I left.NowIaskyou. Who’s in the wrong?Thatwas three days ago. I’mstill waiting for her apology.
—H.W.,Waynesboro,PA
Dear H.W.: Of all thefamily connections in thegrandparentinguniverse,therelationship between agrandmother and daughter-
in-law is most fraught withperil. There’s often a compe-tition,anatural tension.Nowtake that and multiply by itby the forces playing on yourdaughter-in-law – job pres-sures, perpetually bone tiredand run ragged keeping upwith her young twin torna-dos, and dealing with theguilt produced by having towork instead of staying athome to raise her brood. Shewalks through that doorafter work, she’s one tightly-wrapped bundle of stress.
The lines of communica-tion between grandmothersand daughters-in-law can
clog up.Adaughter feels freeto level with her mother, butadaughter-in-law,wishing toberespectful,ismore inclinedto grin and bear it. We sus-pect that your well-inten-tioned remarks about seeinga doctor were the last strawona badday for your daugh-ter-in-law – one of thosetimes when opinions comeacrossas criticisms.Yousaid,“take her to a doctor.” Sheheard, “you’re a bad motherfor not seeing a doctorsooner.” Your daughter-in-law is probably mortified byher outburst, so get over it,give her the benefit of the
doubt, and get back to thebusiness of being a grand-mother.
GRANDREMARKOFTHEWEEK
Piper from Laconia, N.H.gave grandson Rory a bighugwhenhearrivedwithhisfamily forThanksgiving.
“Rory, I just love you topieces,” said Piper.
Rory lookedatPiperwhiletrying to make sense ofthings.
“ButGranny,I loveyoube-cause you’re all together!”
Dee and Tom, marriedmore than 50 years, haveeightgrandchildren.TogetherwithKey, theywelcome ques-tions, suggestionsandGrandRemarksof theWeek.Send toP.O.Box 27454,Towson,MD,21285.Call 410-963-4426.
TOM & DEE HARDIEKEY KIDDER
Columnists
Butt out�� Grandparenting
BY SANDRA G.BOODMANKaiser Health News
A distinguished vascu-lar specialist in his 80sperforms surgery, thengoes on vacation, forget-ting he has patients in thehospital; one subsequentlydies because no doctor wasoverseeing his care. An in-ternist who suffered astroke gets lost going fromone exam room to anotherin his own office. A belovedgeneral surgeon withAlzheimer’s disease con-tinues to assist in opera-tions because hospitalofficials don’t have theheart to tell him to retire.
These real-life exam-ples, provided by an expertwho evaluates impairedphysicians, exemplify anemotionally charged issuethat is attracting the at-tention of patient safetyexperts and hospital ad-ministrators: how to en-sure that older doctors arecompetent to treat pa-tients.
About 42 percent of thenation’s 1 million physi-cians are older than 55and 21 percent are olderthan 65, according to theAmerican Medical Associ-ation, up from 35 percentand 18 percent, respec-tively, in 2006. Their ranksare expected to increase asmany work past the tradi-tional retirement age of65, for reasons both per-sonal and financial.
Many older doctors re-main sharp, their skillsup-to-date and their judg-ment honed by years of ex-perience. Peter Carmel,the AMA’s immediate pastpresident, a 75-year-oldpediatric neurosurgeon inNew Jersey, recently wroteabout “going full tilt.”
Unlike commercial air-line pilots, who by lawmust undergo regularhealth screenings startingat age 40 and must retireat 65 — or FBI agents,whose mandatory retire-ment age is 57 — there areno such rules for doctors.Nor are any formal evalu-ations required to ensurethe continued competenceof physicians, many ofwhom trained decades ago.Most states require con-tinuing education creditsto retain a medical license,but, as Ann Weinacker,chief of the medical staff atStanford Hospital and
Clinics in California, ob-served, “you can sleepthrough a session, and ifyou sign your name, you’llget credit.”
“The public thinks thatphysicians’ health andcompetence is being vigor-ously monitored and as-sessed. It isn’t,” saidgeriatrician William Nor-cross, 64, founding directorof a program at the Uni-versity of California atSan Diego that performsintensive competencyevaluations of doctors re-ferred by state medicalboards or hospitals. Theprogram -- known asPACE, for Physician As-sessment and Clinical Ed-ucation -- is one of about10 around the country.
Norcross, who evaluates100 to 150 physicians an-nually, estimates thatabout 8,000 doctors withfull-blown dementia arepracticing medicine. (Be-tween 3 and 11 percent ofAmericans older than 65have dementia.)
Studies have found,Norcross noted, that ap-proximately one-third ofdoctors don’t even have apersonal physician, whomight be on the lookout fordeteriorating hearing, vi-sion or motor coordination,or the cognitive impair-ment that precedes de-mentia.
The Effects Of Aging“Doctors are not im-
mune to the effects ofaging,” Norcross said,adding that the onset ofdementia is often insidiousand gradual. Too often, hesaid, health problems be-come impossible to ignoreafter a catastrophic event,such as the death of a pa-tient. “Doctors with cogni-tive and neurologicalproblems almost neverhave insight into theirproblems,” he said, andmany deny that anythingis wrong.
While few expertswould argue that agealone should control whocan continue to practice,some studies suggest thatdoctors’ skills tend to dete-riorate over time. A 2006report found that patientmortality in complex oper-ations was higher amongsurgeons older than 60than among their youngercolleagues.
To address the problemin a systematic way, a
small but growing numberof hospitals -- includingthe University of VirginiaHealth System, StanfordHospital and Clinics, andDriscoll Children’s Hospi-tal in Corpus Christi,Texas -- have recentlyadopted policies requiringdoctors over a certain age-- 70 at U-Va. and Driscoll,75 at Stanford -- to un-dergo periodic physicaland cognitive exams as acondition of renewingtheir privileges.
Diane Pinakiewicz, for-mer president of the Na-tional Patient SafetyFoundation, a Boston-based information and ad-vocacy group, calls thepolicies “a fabulous idea”that is long overdue.“Without a rule, it’s left tosomeone’s personal deci-sion” to self-monitor.
New Hampshire health-care consultant JonathanBurroughs, who hasworked with hospitalsseeking to implement test-ing policies for older physi-cians, estimates thatroughly 5 to 10 percent ofinstitutions have adoptedthem and that interest isgrowing.
“Colleagues have a codeof silence,” said Burroughs,who spent 30 years as anemergency departmentphysician. During his ca-reer, Burroughs said hefollowed several elderlydoctors around, quietlycorrecting their orders toprevent mistakes. Such ex-periences, he said, arenearly universal in medi-cine.
“Most medical staffslook the other way, think-ing, ‘There but for thegrace of God.’ This personhas been a good doctor,and we’re not going to be-tray them,” Burroughssaid.
But that kindness canbackfire, he added, sub-jecting patients to poten-tially disastrousconsequences such as seri-ous injury or death, andthe faltering physician to amalpractice suit or the lossof a medical license.
John Schorling, a pro-fessor of medicine whoheads U-Va.’s PhysicianWellness Program, saidthe policy adopted lastyear was prompted by“general concerns” aboutpatient safety and is mod-eled on aviation industrypractices. “Pilots have peo-
ple’s lives in their hands,and so do doctors,” he said.
‘Fred Flintstone’Care
But some hospital ad-ministrators dispute theneed for such testing. Fit-ness to practice, theymaintain, is already para-mount in decisions thathospitals make every twoyears or so to renew aphysician’s privileges. Andthat process, they say, hasgotten more stringent inthe past decade with theproliferation of perform-ance data on doctors.
“In medicine, I thinkyou need to look at peopleindividually,” said DavidMayer, 59, vice presidentof quality and safety atMedStarHealth, thelargest hospital networkin the District and Mary-land. “To just put a num-ber there and say, ‘Youneed to be looked at moreclosely’ because of age isnot justified.”
Brian Johnston, chair-man of the emergency de-partment at WhiteMemorial Medical Centerin Los Angeles, agrees. “It’sjust very hard to make ahard-and-fast rule basedon age,” said Johnston, 74,who is still pulling regularshifts in the fast-pacedspecialty. Testing everyonewho hits a certain age is“unnecessarily ham-handed.”
But Marty Makary, aJohns Hopkins surgeonand author of “ Unac-countable: What HospitalsWon’t Tell You and HowTransparency Can Revolu-tionize Health Care,” saysthat screening can weedout those who should nolonger be practicing whilegiving “those who are fullyfunctional the freedom topractice without thestigma of ageism.”
Although an older doc-tor can be a font of wisdomand experience, Makarywarns that too often pa-tients receive what hecalls “Fred Flintstonecare” from doctors whoseskills have not kept pace.“Some older surgeons areall over minimally inva-sive surgery,” he said, “butmany have just ignoredminimally invasive tech-niques.” Their patients, hesaid, may receive state-of-the-art care — for 1976.
Aging doctorsface greaterscrutiny
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BY KEVIN BEGOS ANDSETH BORENSTEINAssociated Press
PITTSBURGH — In theColoradomountains,a spikein air pollution has beenlinked to a boom in oil andgasdrilling.About 800milesaway on the plains of northTexas, there’s a drillingboom, too, but some air pol-lution levels have declined.Opponents of drilling pointtoColorado and say it’s dan-gerous. Companies point toTexas and say drilling issafe.The answer appears to be
that drilling can be safe or itcan be dangerous. Industrypractices, enforcement, ge-ography and even snowcover can minimize or mag-nify air pollution problems.“It’s like a vehicle. Some
cars drip oil,” said RussellSchnell, deputy director ofthe federal Earth SystemResearch Laboratory inBoulder, Colo. “You havewells that are absolutelytight. And you have otherplaces where a valve givesout, and you have hugeleaks.”The good news, nearly all
sides agree, is that the tech-nology exists to controlmethane gas leaks andother air pollution associ-ated with drilling. The badnews is that the industry isbooming so rapidly thatsome companies and someregulators can’t seem to getahead of the problems,which could ultimately costbillions of dollars to remedy.The worries about what
drilling does to the air areboth global and local, withscientists concerned aboutthe effects on climate changeas well as the possiblehealth consequences frombreathing smog, soot andother pollutants.Hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking, has made it possi-ble to tap into deep reservesof oil and gas but has alsoraised concerns about pollu-
tion.The industry andmanyfederal and state officialssay thepractice is safewhendone properly, but environ-mental groupsand some sci-entists say therehasn’t beenenough research.Some environmentalists
say if leaks and pollutioncan beminimized, the boomhasbenefits, since gas burnsmuch cleaner than coal,emitting half the carbondioxide.Al Gore told The Associ-
ated Press that it’s “not irre-sponsible” to look at gas as ashort-term substitute forcoal-fired electricity. ButGore added that the maincomponent of gas, methane,is a more potent heat-trap-ping greenhouse gas thanCO2. That means that iflarge quantities leak,thead-vantage over coal disap-pears, the former vicepresident said.In Colorado, the National
Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration estimatedthat 4 percent of methanewas leaking from wells, farmore than previously esti-mated, and that people wholive near production areasmay be exposed to worri-some levels of benzene andother toxic compounds pres-ent in oil and gas.Across the industry, the
technology for stoppingleaks canbeas simple as fix-ing seals and gaskets, or itcan involvehundreds ofmil-lions of dollars of new con-struction.“I think it’s totally fix-
able,” Schnell said. “At leastthe bigger companies, theyare really on top of this.”Gore added that when
companies capture leakingmethane, they end up withmore to sell. “So there’s aneconomic incentive to cap-ture it and stop the leaking,”he said.Another major source of
worry is the industry’s prac-tice of burning off, or flaring,natural gas that comes outof the groundas abyproduct
of oil drilling. Over the pastfive years, the U.S. has in-creased the amount of flaredand wasted gas more thanany other nation, thoughRussia still burns off farmore than any other coun-try.In some places, energy
companies haven’t investedin the infrastructureneededto capture and process thegas because the oil is morevaluable.In the Bakken Shale oil
fields of North Dakota, forexample,about 30percent ofthe natural gas is flared off
because there aren’t enoughpipelines yet to carry itaway. The amount of gaswasted in the state is esti-mated at up to $100 milliona year.And officials inNorthDakota said lastmonth thatthe situation there mightnot be completely solveduntil the end of the decade.NOAA scientists also say
natural gas production hascontributed to unusual win-tertime smog in the West,particularly in regions sur-rounded by mountains, andespecially in snowy areas.Ozone, the main compo-
nent in smog,typically formswhen sunlight“cooks”a low-lying stew of chemicals suchas benzene and engine ex-haust.Normally, the processdoesn’t happen in coldweather.But NOAA researchers
found that when there’sheavy snowfall, the sunpasses through the stew,then bounces off the snowand heats it again on theway back up. In some cases,smog in remote areas hasspiked to levels higher thanthose in New York or LosAngeles.
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Restaurant inspectionsare performed by MiamiCounty Public Health. Theycan be reached at (937) 573-3500, by email at [email protected] onthe website at www.miami-countyhealth.net.These violation reports
were provided by theMiamiCounty Public Health andwill be printed bi-monthly.Nov. 27• Logan’s Roadhouse,
1750 W. Main St., Troy —Floors under equipment un-clean. Unlabeled chemicalspray bottle. Fountain popholdersat barunclean.Han-dles unclean to equipment.Low sanitizer concentration(<100 ppm) in bar, threecompartment sinksandsan-itizer basket. Old date stick-ers on unclean pans. Notongs provided at lemons.Brushes for sauce and meatnot being sanitized everyfour hours. Observed slicer,tomato dicer and knivesstored as clean with foodresidue on them.Old carbonbuild-up on sheet trays.•Speedway,1894W.Main
St., Troy — Observed hotholding sandwiches held at125 degrees,not 135 degreesor greater. A thin-tippedmetal-stemmed thermome-ter must be present to taketemperatures of thin massfood. Observed leak underdump sink and at faucethandleat the three-compart-ment sink. Soap in restroomis not functioning properly.Clear food debris and seal incooler/freezer when needed.Walk-in cooler door is notclosing properly.• Covington Elementary
School, 707 Chestnut St.,Covington — Ensure cornerof walk-in cooler FRP boardis sealed tightly to wall. Ob-served some ice on floor andsmall ice drops on ceiling inwalk-in cooler.Nov. 28• The Dish, 7031 S.
CountyRoad25-A,TippCity—Torn gaskets to refrigera-tion units. Lights in walk-incooler not working properlyor burned out. No caps onsmall opening on greasetrap. Concrete floors in backexitareaareno longersealedand found unclean. Removetowel from beer walk-incooler. Mop sink in drivethrough side unclean. Ob-served areas of clutter ondrive throughside.Observedsupport beam removed fromwalk-in cooler; beam foundleaningonsideof coolerwall.Ceiling found bowing incooler.• High Street Cafe and
Bakery,109N.HighSt.,Cov-ington — Dump sink, handsinks, prep sink and three-compartment sinks havehardwaterbuild-upor coffeeresidual build-up. Observedresidual build-up on bottomof cooler. Clean prep sinkdrain of build-up.Nov. 29• Railroad Restaurant,
629 S. Crawford St., Troy —Handles to equipment un-clean. Residential use onlyequipment in kitchen (crockpots, etc.). Open can oftomato juice in refrigerator.Damaged tile in men’s rest-room and damaged floors atbar. Observed fruit flies atbar. Missing thresholds atdoorways allowing for floorsto not bewatertight.• Skyline Chili, 1775 W.
Main St., Troy — Observedlow areas of grout in front oficemachineandarea in frontof freezer. Open employeedrinks on back area preptable.Cheese foundat44de-grees,must bekeptbelow41degrees. No ammonia teststrips to ensure proper solu-tion.Nov. 30•CassanosNo. 49, 975W.
Main St., Tipp City — Han-dles to equipment unclean.Garlic butter setting oncounter requiring refrigera-tion. Drain to pop machineunclean. Ice dispenser un-clean. Observed salamidated for eight days, insteadof sevendaysallowed.Foundoutdated ham (11-20) andsalami (11-26).Observedem-ployee handle cheese for subwith bare hands.
County healthviolations
Energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner
Welcome to parttwo of my tale. Ifyou remember,
back in my last column Isaid, “The last two weekshave been full of so muchjunk, I think I’ll just haveto dive in the middle andput the rest in another col-umn.” Well, this is theother column. Thanks forhanging with me!OK, so I had gotten re-
ally tired of my sugarbeing all over the place, soI decided to make somechanges. After 26 years ofdealing with somethingday in and day out, it’shard to admit you don’tknow everything, butthat’s what I had to do. Iwould change my siteevery three days likeyou’re supposed to andstart writing everythingdown. I did blood sugarchecks before and twohours after each meal andtook note of the readings,carbs eaten, bolus givenand what foods I ate. I alsowas taking the time to re-ally look at packages orask for nutrition informa-tion at restaurants beforeI bolused.
What did I learn fromall this? That I was way (Iwould write that in allcaps if I could) over bolus-ing! At McDonald’s oneday, I was all set to bolus13, but I stopped myself,flipped the tray liner over(That’s where McDonald’shas their nutrition info forthose of you who didn’tknow) and took the time toadd up the carbs in thefood I would be eating.Eight! That’s what Ineeded to bolus. Eight not13!So, that is embarrassing
for me to admit and it putsme in a tough position.Sometimes you don’t havethe carb content and youhave to guess.Well thanksto myMcDonald’s scenariomy confidence went rightdown the toilet! Plus, somefoods affect people differ-ently than they should, sodo I up it when I think afood will hit me like thereare more carbs in it thenthe info says, or am I justoverestimating? I find my-self wondering that a lot.I also found that I was
over treating my lows. Sohere’s how a day in my life
would go, I’d eat and overbolus for the food, then golow and over treat for thelow which would take mehigh, I’d do a correctionbolus and go low and thecycle would continue.Well,once I made these changesand started enteringthings in my pump andletting it do the calculat-ing (I had to admit, in thiscase it was smarter than Iwas) my sugars were awe-some. In fact, one day mypre lunch reading was 83.My post lunch … 83! Nowthat’s some good bolusing.OK, so you know things
couldn’t keep going thiswell for long. I had a com-mitment I had to be atfrom 4:45-10:30 p.m. nowthat throws a wrench intoeating on schedule andwriting everything down. Iwas starving by the time Igot home, so I stupidly gotsome fast food. I woke upthe next day in the 300s. Ibolused to correct andthen dropped low andthat’s when the phonerang. It was the supplierof my continuous glucosemonitoring sensors lettingme know that my insur-
ance was saying that theorder I placed a few daysago wouldn’t be covered.In fact, they didn’t coverthe order I placed back inMarch either and I owed$705 because of it! So thisof course led to a hysteri-cal breakdown in the mid-dle of my kitchen.Through my sobs, I criedout “I can’t do this! I can’tcheck my sugar and countcarbs and write every-thing down and makechanges and fight with theinsurance company!”So after I decided to
fight rather than cry Imade many, many phonecalls and finally got an an-swer! Although no onecould tell me why, appar-ently for 2012 there was “achange in verbage” in mypolicy that caused theclaim to need a manual re-view rather than justbeing approved.There wasa note in my chart thoughthat said that it should beapproved. Well, thatwould’ve been nice toknow about five phonecalls ago! I’ll fast forwardto the end and let youknow that they did end up
covering my order. And,some good things did comefrom the fiasco. I’m nowusing a new supplier formy Dexcom supplies, andthink they’ll be much bet-ter. And, I may just be up-grading to the newestDexcom, the G4, when mywarranty expires Dec. 20.I’m looking forward to thecolumns I can write if I getit because you know I’llhave a lot to say!And on one final note, I
want to offer a reminder.Many people with chronicdiseases have met theirinsurance deductible bynow. If you can getcheaper supplies afteryour deductible is met,place an order ASAP.Mostof the time at the begin-ning of the year, that de-ductible is reset.
Jennifer Runyon hashad type 1 diabetes for 25years. She can be reachedat [email protected].
Tough position but undefeated
JENNIFER RUNYON
Columnist
�� Surviving Diabetes
Getting an answer from insurance company part two
Church.Afterward, everyone is
invited to gather in thebeautifully decorated lobbyof the Piqua Public Libraryfor a reception from 6-8p.m.Holiday cookies will beprovided by the Arabellasalon and spa with coffeeand hot chocolate suppliedbyWinans.Members of the Full
Sound Chamber Group ofZanesfield will perform aconcert of classical and sea-sonal music during the re-ception at the library. Thestring quintet, which per-formed at the PAC ArtShow in September, in-cludes musicians who per-form on the violin, viola,cello and double bass.Their21-song repertoire willrange from music such ascarols Away in the Manger,Silent Night, Holy Nightand O Come, O Come Em-manuel to Overture fromMessiah (Handel), Waltzfrom the Christmas TreeSuite (Rebikov) and Jesu,Joy of Man’s Desiring(Bach).The Rev. Kazy Blocher
Hinds ofWestminster Pres-byterian Church is amongthose pastors who will beparticipating in the ArtWalk.Having recently cele-brated its 200th anniver-sary,Westminster will openits doors to visitors to hearseasonal music and hymnsperformed by organistDavid Broerman. Churchmembers will also be pres-ent to discuss Westmin-ster’s stained glasswindows and its prayershawlministry.Tours of thesanctuary also will be pro-vided.TheArtWalk also will in-
clude St. Mary CatholicChurch where musical di-rector JohnWright and oth-ers will provide organ andpiano music. The Rev. Fr.Thomas Bolte notes hostsalso will give tours of thestained glass windows andprovide handouts of theparish’s history.Background music will
also set the mood for TrueVine Church, according toStacey Scott,who notes twoart pieces will be displayedby the Rev. Eric SamuelTimm, along with churchhistory pamphlets andcandy canes distributed toArtWalk guests.Greene Street United
Methodist Church will bedecked out for the holidaysand, according to SherryHeath, there will berecorded music and possi-ble live organ/piano musicprovided throughout theArtWalk.Dee Gastineau will be
playing a 1923 SkinnerPipe Organ throughout theevent at the St. James Epis-
copal Church. Tour guidesor “station experts” also willbe available at displays toexplain the church’s stainedglass windows, carved rere-dos behind the St. Jamesaltar, pipe organs, red doorsand building history. Parishmember Rick Paldino, willbe available to discuss hispottery and other art hehas produced for thechurch. The Rev. JeffreyBessler will also be presentto discuss Episcopal liturgi-cal traditions for those in-terested. Handoutsprepared by Violet Das,church historian, will alsobe available.Congregation Anshe
Emeth, a Reform JewishSynagogue, was organizedin 1958, according to Presi-dent Eileen Litchfield. ArtWalkers are encouraged tostop and view the sanctu-ary, which dates back to1920, and listen to back-ground music while view-ing a hallway painting byJanet Garlikov to resembleaged Jerusalem stones as
well as other artwork. Thesynagogue will only be openfrom 4-6 pm. in observanceof the Jewish holiday.St. Paul’s Evangelical
Church will be providingthree hours of both pianoand organ music by churchorganist Jane Ann Vest.Bells of St. Paul’s will chimeevery 15 minutes. Accord-ing to Marilyn Halteman“this is probably one of thefew churches in which thehand-ringing of bells is stillused — a tradition datingback to 1888, when the belltower was built and thethree bells installed. Alongwith music, a printedbrochures of the church his-tory will be provided to allvisitors and it is anticipatedstained glass windows willbe lighted from the outside“so the beautiful art workcan be seen in the sanctu-ary after dark,” Haltemansaid.For more information
about Friday’s Art Walk orupcoming programs, visitwww.piquaartscouncil.com.
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Orthopedic surgeon RalphBlasier agrees. In a 2009review article entitled “TheProblem of the Aging Sur-geon,” Blasier wrote that“essentially every treat-ment technique taught 25years ago has been aban-doned and replaced,” in-cluding the treatment oftraumatic fractures andjoint diseases. “All surgicalspecialties,” he continued,“have had similar turnoverof treatment methods.”Blasier, 62, who prac-
tices in Escanaba, Mich.,has cut back his practice inrecent years. He no longerperforms certain demand-ing operations, such asarthroscopic shoulder sur-gery, because he doesn’tthink he does them as wellas he did at age 50, whenhe was at his peak.One reason Blasier be-
lieves doctors are loath toretire is that they haven’tplanned for it. Five yearsago, he earned a law degreefrom Wayne State Univer-sity and is handling sev-eral legal cases, in additionto his reduced surgicalpractice. In a few yearswhen he retires, he plans topractice law.“If I screw up a legal
case,” he said, “nobodydies.”At Stanford, Weinacker,
chief of the 1,800-membermedical staff, said that re-action to the policy, whichaffects about 25 doctors,has been mixed. Severaldoctors, she said, have de-cided to retire instead ofundergoing testing. “Ithink the main thing Istressed with people wasthat this policy is intendedto be supportive,” not puni-tive. Anyone found to haveproblems will be referred tothe PACE program for amore complete evaluation.At U-Va., Schorling said
that 28 of the 35 doctorsolder than 70 completedscreening and passed eas-ily. The other seven decidedagainst participating andno longer have hospitalprivileges there, althoughthey are free to practice
elsewhere.
Still PracticingAt 101
R h e u m a t o l o g i s tEphraim Engleman, whowill turn 102 in March,said he plans to never quit.One of the nation’s old-
est practicing physicians,Engleman drives from hisSan Mateo home to thesprawling medical campusof the University of Cali-fornia at San Franciscothree days a week. Therehe sees about eight long-time patients per week andspends most of his time di-recting the Rosalind Rus-sell Medical ResearchCenter for Arthritis, an ad-ministrative post he hasheld since it was created in1979.“I’m very much opposed
to retirement,” said Engle-man, an accomplished vio-linist who plays once aweek with a chambermusic group. “As long asI’m able intellectually andphysically, I’m going to con-tinue.” Engleman, whograduated from medicalschool in 1937, loves beinga doctor and said, “I can doeverything I ever did.” Hisonly impediment, he said,is severe spinal stenosis,which has left him stoopedand dependent on a cane. “Iwalk like an old man,” hesaid.Informed that Stanford,
his undergraduate almamater, has recently begunrequiring doctors olderthan 75 to be tested, hequipped, “I’m glad theydon’t do it here.” But En-gleman said that he is notopposed to such evalua-tions and that he has askedhis colleagues to tell him ifthey believe he is slipping.“By all means, let me know-- and I’ll get the hell out ofhere,” he said he told them.
Kaiser Health News isan editorially independentprogram of the Henry J.Kaiser Family Foundation,a nonprofit, nonpartisanhealth policy research andcommunications organiza-tion not affiliated withKaiser Permanente.
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A nativity scene is among the holiday decorations at St. Mary Catholic Church,which is one of the stops on the Piqua Arts Council’s ArtWalk on Friday
work of any one person, butrather the collective effortsof a host of people who didwhat they needed to dowhen faced with this terri-ble tragedy,”Rohr said.“I ac-cept this honor on behalf ofthe fellow city employeesand officials, the citizens ofJoplin, the 154,000 regis-tered volunteers and allthose who have helped us inour time of need.”Rohr provided direction
and led the staff throughoutthe disaster response to en-sure that the citizens ofJoplin received efficient andeffective services that wouldallow them to recover in thebest and most appropriatemanner for their individualcircumstances.“The tornado’s effect on
this community was inde-scribable. But with our citi-zens’ resilience, the hardwork ofmany, at all levels ofgovernment, the local, stateand federal, Joplin is mak-
ing great progress in its re-covery,” Rohr said.During a recent press
conference, Rohr noted that79 percent of the dwellingsdamaged or destroyed in thetornado have been rebuilt,repaired or filed a buildingpermit to do so.“As we continue to work
on the rebuilding efforts andrecovery of our community,we will not forget those wholost their lives and theirloved ones, as well as themanywhose lives have beenchanged since May 22,2011.”Rohr has been with the
city of Joplin since Novem-ber 2004. During this time,Rohr has led numerous ini-tiatives, including the suc-cess of• Completing 10 blocks of
downtown streetscaping im-provements, which have ig-nited new interest indowntown revitalization;• Leading the initiative
for a Public Safety Tax that
allowed for an additional 30police officers and the con-struction of the city’s firstpolice substation in thesouthern portion of the city.The tax also allowed for thehiring of 30 additional firefighters and the construc-tion of a new fire station inSouthwest Joplin, whichopened in Spring 2012;• Developing and imple-
menting a “Blueprint for theFuture” which establishesshort-, mid- and long-rangegoals and objectives over thenext 10 years;• Creating a public trans-
portation system in 2007utilizing fixed routes and in-corporating city’s historicmining district as the themeof service; since inception,this program has doubledrider usage;• Creating and executing
a Neighborhood Improve-ment Program that engagesleaders in both public andprivate sectors tostrengthen partnerships for
success.• Completing Phases I
and II of community athleticcomplex that offers baseball,soccer, softball and tennisfacilities and programs forresidents and sports teamsand organizations; andRohr has also written a
book about the city’s first sixmonths following the disas-ter. It is entitled “The Mira-cle of the Human Spirit.”Prior to his work in
Joplin, Rohr served as citymanager in Piqua from1998 to 2004;worked as citymanager in Punta Gorda,Fla. from 1995-98, and filledthe citymanager position inWashington Court Housefor five years prior to that.He also was city manager ofNewton Falls, Ohio for ap-proximately three years.Rohr received a master’s
degree in public administra-tion from Xavier Universityin Cincinnati and a bachelorof arts degree in political sci-ence fromMiamiUniversity.
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running, and walking en-thusiasts who live andwork in the Piqua commu-nity.
Residents of Piqua areinvited to review and com-ment on the draft policy,which is now available forviewing at www.pi-quaoh.org/projects.htm.
Residents also are invitedto attend the Piqua CityCommission work sessionat 7:30 p.m. Thursday tolearn more about thisitem.
The meeting will beheld in the CommissionChambers located on thesecond floor of the Munic-ipal Government Com-plex.
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workers more choice andsupport economic growth,but critics insist the real in-tent is to weaken organizedlabor by encouraging work-ers to “freeload” by with-holding money unions needto bargain effectively.Protesters in the gallery
chanted “Shame on you!” asthemeasureswere adopted.Union backers clogged thehallways and groundsshouting “No justice, nopeace,” and Democratswarned that hard feelingsover the legislation and Re-publicans’ refusal to holdcommittee hearings orallow a statewide referen-dum would be long lasting.U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and
other Democrats in thestate’s congressional dele-gation met with Snyder onMonday and urged him toslow things down.“Formillions ofMichigan
workers, this is no ordinarydebate,”Levin said after theHouse vote. “It’s an assaulton their right to have theirelected bargaining agentnegotiate their pay, benefitsand working conditions,and to have all who benefitfrom such negotiationsshare in some way in thecost of obtaining them.”Although numbering in
the thousands, the crowds
were considerably smallerthan those drawn by right-to-work legislation in Indi-ana earlier this year and inWisconsin in 2011, duringconsideration of a law cur-tailing collective bargainingrights for most state em-ployees. Those measuresprovoked weeks of intensedebate, with Democratsboycotting sessions to delayaction and tens of thou-sands of activists occupyingstatehouses.In Michigan, Republi-
cans acted so quickly thatopponents had little time toplan massive resistance.Snyder and GOP leaders
announced their intentionslast Thursday. Withinhours, the bills were hur-riedly pushed through theSenate as powerless De-mocrats objected. After alegally required five-daywaiting period, the Houseapproved final passage.The governor said he saw
no reason not to sign thebills immediately, especiallywith demonstrators stillhoping to dissuade him.“They can finish up, and
they can go home becausethey know …making morecomments on that is notgoing to change the out-come,” he said. “I view thisas simply trying to get thisissue behind us.”
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The Piqua girls bowlingteam had an impressiveshowing at the GWOCPreview, beating all theGWOC North teams andfinishing fourth overall.Piqua was in third place
with a 2,551 total afterthe first three games andwas solid in the Bakergames, with a 1647 totalfor the 10 games to finishfourth overall with 4,198.“I was concerned going
into the tournament onSaturday, because we didnot practice very well lastweek with our spareshooting,” Piqua coachCraig Miller said. “Spareshooting in Baker gameshas been our downfall allalong.“It was probably just
the girls getting used tothe Baker format of onlybowling two frames in agame and not seeing thelanes breaking down be-tween their frames.”Shae Doll led Piqua, fin-
ishing seventh overallwith games of 203, 150and 233 for a 586 series.Hayley Ryan was 12th
with a 562 series ongames of 179 213 and 170.Other Piqua scores
were Kaili Ingle with a490 on games of 147, 180and 163; Hayley Huebner
481 on games of 146, 165and 170; Alaina Mikola-jewski with games of 143and 153; and Emily Wen-rick, who rolled a 136.The Piqua boys finished
15th overall and fourth inthe GWOC North with a4,373 total.The Indians were hurt
by a 1,659 total in the 10Baker games.Brandon Devaudreuil
finished 18th overall witha 605 series to lead Piqua.He rolled games of 202,
223 and 180.Mike Haney rolled a
585 with games of 214,212 and 189; while BradAnderson had a 559 serieson games 192, 166 and201.Josh Homer rolled a
473 series on games of142, 182 and 149; and ZacMason rolled games of 170and 191.
won the 200 IM, 2:17.40;and 100 breaststroke,1:08.31; while AndrewKramer won the 500freestyle, 5:32.65; and 100backstroke, 1:05.44.Cole Poeppelman added
a win in the 100 butterfly,1:08.81.Versailles will swim at
the Vandalia-Butler Invi-tational Saturday atWright State University.
Kiefer wins two racesat Waynesville meetLady Tigers first at Tippecanoe quad
Extra Inningsto hold clinicThe Pro Player Holiday
Camp will be held fromnoon to 5 p.m. Dec. 29 and30 at Extra Innings-Troy. The staff for this camp
will include Reds Hall ofFamer Tom Browning,along with former Red'splayers Jeff Shaw and JeffBranson. Other members of the
instructional staff are localprofessional baseball play-ers Craig Stammen,Washington Nationals;Adam Eaton, Arizona Dia-mondbacks; Tyler Melling,St. Louis Cardinals; ChrisPeters, Toronto Blue Jays;and Brian Garman, Mil-waukee Brewers.
For more information,contact Extra Innings at937-339-3330 or atwww.extrainnings-troy.com
Piqua eighthstays perfectThe Piqua eighth grade
boys basketball team willtake a 4-0 record to Troytonight.The Indians are coming
off a 47-29 win over Van-dalia Tuesday in theirhome opener.Nathan Monnin and
Storm Cook both recordeddouble-doubles, whileHunter Hawk held Van-dalia’s leading scorer tofour points in the secondhalf.Monnin had 13 points
and 12 rebounds, whileCook had 10 points and10 rebounds.
PIQUA SCORINGCook 10, Patton 9, Lawrence 1, Hecker
1, Hawk 4, Smith 7, Monnin 13, Bayman 2.
Lady Roadersdrop JH gamesThe Bradford junior high
girls basketball teamswere swept by Tri-Villageand Ansonia.Against Tri-Village, the
seventh grade lost 19-9with Ivee Brubaker scoringfive points.The eighth grade lost
32-16 with Alley Bookerscoring four points.Against Ansonia, the
seventh grad lost 20-11,with Bailey Wysong andHannah Fout scoring fourpoints each.The eighth grade lost
The Cleveland Indianshave traded outfielderShin-Soo Choo and in-fielder-outfielder JasonDonald to the CincinnatiReds for outfielder DrewStubbs."It was very difficult
giving up home-growntalent, but we thinkChoo can fill the missingparts in our lineup bothoffensively and defen-sively," Cincinnati RedsPresident of BaseballOperation and GeneralManager Walt Jockettysaid. "He is an excitingplayer, and we expecthim to set the table forPhillips, Votto, Bruce,Ludwick and the rest ofour run producers."The deal came Tues-
day night. The Indians are work-
ing on other deals, in-cluding one that couldinclude shortstop As-drubal Cabrera.Choo, who has been
Cleveland's primaryright fielder for the Indi-ans since 2006, willlikely play center andbat leadoff for Cincin-nati.Dealing Choo was al-
most a necessity for theIndians. He was enteringthe final year of his con-tract and is eligible forfree agency in 2013.
The Indians have notbeen able to work out adeal with agent ScottBoras, who has turneddown several extensionsin recent years.The 30-year-old Choo
batted .283 with 16homers and 67 RBIs in155 games last season.Donald hit .202 in 43games.Choo and Ian Kinsler
of the Texas Rangerswere the only players inthe Major Leagues in2012 with at least 40doubles, 15 homers and20 steals. Choo joined Roberto
Alomar and Grady Size-more as the only playersin Indians history toreach each of those sta-tistical marks in a singleseason.Stubbs has played
center exclusively for theReds. He batted .213 with 14
homers and 40 RBIs, andstruck out 166 times in493 at-bats.
The Piqua boys basketball team lost to Springfield 79-49 Tuesday night.Xavier Harrison (above) brings the ball up the floor against Henry Alexan-der. Josh Holfinger (below) goes up for two points.
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CINCINNATI (AP) —Light rain had just endedwhen Josh Brown lined upfor a 52-yard field goal tryin the third quarter, thegame on the line. For thelast three months, he'dhoped for this test.Made it with room to
spare.Brown connected on all
four of his field goal triesfor the Cincinnati Bengalson Sunday, including that52-yarder in the thirdquarter of a 20-19 loss toDallas. The Cowboys wonit with a field goal of theirown as time ran out.For Brown, it was a
solid first step in trying toshow the rest of the NFLthat he's not finished."It's a positive note,"
Brown said. "It just reas-sures you that you're notdone playing yet. To beable to bang out a 52-yarder and to do it withconfidence — it's all reas-suring that I'm moving onthe right path to gettingback in the NFL."The 4-for-4 performance
just might jump-start hiscareer, even if it turns outto be his only game withCincinnati.The Bengals needed a
kicker on short noticewhen Mike Nugent hurthis right calf during prac-tice last week. Theybrought in several kickersfor a tryout, and Brownwon them over with hisconsistency.He'd been trying to get
another chance since theJets released him at theend of training camp,keeping his leg in shapeby kicking three times aweek on the West Coast.There was a lot of pres-sure on him Sunday atPaul Brown Stadium —the Bengals (7-6) are inthe thick of the AFC wildcard chase.Brown was good from
25, 33, 25 and 52 yards,bailing out an offense thatstalled near the goal line.If Cincinnati would haveheld on at the end, Brownwould have been theirMVP for the day.One very good day
helped his career outlook."In a ton of ways,"
Brown said. "You get re-leased from one job, youdon't make the team withthe Jets for certain rea-sons, then you're just re-assuring people that OK,he can still play, he canstill kick off. Thirty-threeis not old for a kicker. I
feel I've still got seven oreight years left in me."
Brown was Seattle'sseventh-round draft pickout of Nebraska in 2003.He played five years withSeattle and four with St.Louis, making 220 fieldgoals in 272 attempts(80.9 percent). When theJets let him go, he learnedwhat it's like to be akicker trying to get backinto the league.His wife runs a busi-
ness in Seattle, so he tookcare of their three chil-dren while kicking asmuch as he could."I went home and just
stuck to the plan of kick-ing three days a week —Friday, Sunday, Tuesday— wherever I could findroom," Brown said. "Highschool fields, parks."He'd fly to San Diego
and work out with otherkickers, trying to staysharp for when the call fi-nally came. It was a bigadjustment."I played nine straight
years, so I never had todeal with it," Brown said."Now I do. The moregames I get in this year,the more it's going to helpme to try to get on a rosterin February and keepmoving forward."It's unclear how long
he'll be in Cincinnati.Coach Marvin Lewis wasnoncommittal aboutwhether Nugent would behealthy enough to kickduring a game on Thurs-day night in Philadelphia.Brown knows that in anycase, he won't be aroundfor very long.By making the most of
his chance, he's hoping toget another one next sea-son with some team."It's important to me,
especially going into nextyear," he said. "This reallyhelps."
NOTES: Nugent didn'tparticipate in practice forthe second straight dayTuesday. ... DE MichaelJohnson (toe) and RBCedric Peerman (ankle)also sat out for the secondday in a row. .. CB DreKirkpatrick was held outof practice after goingthrough a full workout onMonday. He missed Sun-day's game against theCowboys while recoveringfrom a concussion. ... LBRey Maualuga (shoulder,knee) and LB VontazeBurfict (shoulder) werelimited in practice.
Impressive‘return’Brown perfect in Bengals loss
Josh Brown had a lot to smile abour Sunday.AP PHOTO
NEW ORLEANS (AP)— Finding fault withnearly everyone tied to theNew Orleans Saints'bounty case, from thecoaches to Roger Goodell,former NFL Commis-sioner Paul Tagliabuetossed out the suspensionsof four players Tuesdayand condemned the teamfor obstructing the inves-tigation.In a surprising rejection
of his successor's over-reaching punishments,Tagliabue wrote that hewould "now vacate all dis-cipline to be imposedupon" two current Saints,linebacker JonathanVilma and defensive endWill Smith, and two play-ers no longer with theclub, Browns linebackerScott Fujita and free-agent defensive linemanAnthony Hargrove.Tagliabue essentially
absolved Fujita, but didagree with Goodell's find-ing that the other threeplayers "engaged in con-duct detrimental to the in-tegrity of, and publicconfidence in, the game ofprofessional football."It was a ruling that al-
lowed both sides to claimvictory more than nine
months after the leaguefirst made "Saints boun-ties" a household phrase:The NFL pointed to thedetermination that Good-ell's facts were right; theNFL Players Associationissued a statement notingthat Tagliabue said "previ-ously issued disciplinewas inappropriate."Vilma, suspended by
Goodell for the entire cur-rent season, and Smith,suspended four games,have been playing for theSaints while their appealswere pending. Fujita is oninjured reserve; Hargroveis not with a team.Tagliabue, appointed by
Goodell to oversee a sec-ond round of player ap-peals, criticized the Saintsas an organization thatfostered bad behavior andtried to impede the inves-tigation into what theNFL said was a perform-ance pool designed toknock targeted opponentsout of games from 2009 to2011, with thousands ofdollars in payouts.A "culture" that pro-
moted tough talk and cashincentives for hits to in-jure opponents — one keyexample was Vilma's offerof $10,000 to any team-mate who knocked BrettFavre out of the NFCchampionship game at theend of the 2009 season —
existed in New Orleans,according to Tagliabue,who also wrote that"Saints' coaches and man-agers led a deliberate, un-precedented and effectiveeffort to obstruct theNFL's investigation."The former commis-
sioner did not entirely ex-onerate the players,however.He said Vilma and
Smith participated in aperformance pool that re-warded key plays — in-cluding hard tackles —while Hargrove, followingcoaches' orders, helped tocover up the programwhen interviewed by NFLinvestigators in 2010."My affirmation of Com-
missioner Goodell's find-ings could certainly justifythe issuance of fines," theruling said. "However, thisentire case has been con-taminated by the coachesand others in the Saints'organization."Tagliabue said he de-
cided, in this particularcase, that it was in thebest interest of all partiesinvolved to eliminateplayer punishment be-cause of the enduring acri-mony it has causedbetween the league andthe NFL Players Associa-tion. He added that hehoped doing so wouldallow the NFL and union
to move forward collabora-tively to the more impor-tant matters of enhancingplayer safety."To be clear: this case
should not be considered aprecedent for whethersimilar behavior in the fu-ture merits player suspen-sions or fines," his rulingsaid.Tagliabue oversaw the
second round of player ap-peals to the league in con-nection with thecash-for-hits program runby former defensive coor-dinator Gregg Williamsfrom 2009-2011. The play-ers initially opposed hisappointment.Goodell had given
Vilma a full-season sus-pension, while he gaveSmith, Fujita and Har-grove shorter suspensions.Tagliabue cleared Fu-
jita of conduct detrimentalto the league.The former commis-
sioner found Goodell's ac-tions historicallydisproportionate to pastpunishment to players forsimilar behavior, whichhad generally been re-served to fines, not sus-pensions.He also stated that it
was very difficult to deter-mine whether the pledgesplayers made were gen-uine, or simply a motiva-tional ploy.
ANNA — Anna ralliedfuriously in the final pe-riod to overcome a 10-point deficit and send thegame to overtime.But the Russia Raiders
dominated the extra ses-sion and came away withtheir first win of the sea-son, 62-52, in SCL boysbasketball action Tuesdaynight.The win was Russia’s
first of the season andputs the Raiders at 1-4overall and 1-2 in the SCLwith Fort Loramie comingto town Friday night.Anna drops to 0-4 after
its second straight over-time loss and makes theshort trip to Botkins Fri-day in league action.Russia increased a five-
point halftime lead to a10-point margin afterthree periods at 43-33.But in the final period,
Anna got big threes fromCarter Bensman, who hadfive in the game, and BradBoyd, and knotted thegame up at 50-50 afterregulation.But it was all Russia in
the overtime, the Raidersoutscoring the Rockets 12-2 to post their first win ofthe season.Russia had four players
in double figures. TrevorSherman and Kyle Polinghad 13 apiece and Tregand Nolan Francis bothhad 12 points.
For Anna, Bensman fin-ished with 17 and Joel Al-bers added 14.“We finally got some de-
fensive stops in the fourthquarter, and that, coupledwith the three-pointers,brought us back,” saidAnna coach NateBarhorst.Russia was 22-for-51
from the field and outre-bounded Anna 29-24.
Cats win againFORT LORAMIE —
Houston won its fourthgame in a row Tuesday,going on the road andbeating the Fort LoramieRedskins in County boysbasketball action, 40-35.The Wildcats go to 4-1
on the year and 2-1 inSCL play with Fairlawncoming to the Houstongym Friday night.Fort Loamie lost its sec-
ond straight, both in SCLplay, to fall to 0-2 in theleague and 2-2 overallheading to Russia Fridaynight.The one statistic that
jumps out from the gameis Fort Loramie’s freethrow shooting.The Redskins at-
tempted only one in thegame.That enabled Houston
to overcome its own less-than-ideal performance atthe line as the Wildcatshit just 6-for-14.
Houston had to over-come an early deficit afterFort Loramie streaked toa 15-8 lead after one quar-ter.But theWildcat defense
took over, limiting Lo-ramie to just nine pointsin the middle two periodscombined.That was half of what
Houston put up, leavingthe Wildcats with a two-point lead heading intothe final period.“Evan Winner really
was a key for us defen-sively,” said Houstoncoach John Willoughby.“We had him get up ontheir point guard a littlemore.“He didn’t create
turnovers so much as re-ally getting everybodygoing.”Houston actually shot
better from the field thanfrom the line, hitting 16-for-47 for 47 percent.The scoring was spread
out, with Nate Ritchieleading with 11 points.Fort Loramie canned 15
of 43 shots from the fieldfor 34 percent and wereled in scoring by SethGuillozet, who also had11.Loramie outrebounded
the Wildcats 19-14, withLogan McGee pullingdown six.Jesse Phlipot also had
six rebounds for Houston.
Both teams committedjust nine turnovers in thegame.
GIRLSEast beats GreenonCASSTOWN —
Greenon and Miami Eastwere deadlocked at theend of the first half Mon-day.But coming out of locker
room, the Vikings pickedup their intensity on bothends of the floor, allowingMiami East to emergewith a 47-29 win inCasstown, getting revengefor one of their rare lossesfrom last season.The Vikings allowed a
mere seven points in thesecond half. On offense,Ashley Current led thebalanced attack with 14,while Trina Currentadded nine points andeight rebounds.Angie Mack scored
eight and Abby Cash hadseven points and 10 re-bounds.Miami East (5-0) plays
at Franklin MonroeThursday in CCC action.
Lady Roaders fallBRADFORD — The
Bradford girls basketballteam struggled in a 72-32loss to MechanicsburgTuesday.Brooke Dunlevy scored
13 points and Haley Pattyadded 10.
Houston, Russia get SCL winsLady Vikings pull away from Knights in second half
BEREA — Even as hisrumored replacements fig-uratively line up outsidehis office door, ready totake over if he gets kickedto the curb, Browns coachPat Shurmur says he islocked in on the Washing-ton Redskins and nothingelse.Strange to tell, Shur-
mur had to answer ques-tions about job stabilityand whether he is doingthe math on what it wouldtake for the Browns tomake the playoffs in thesame press conferenceMonday.The Browns are 5-8.
The Colts at 9-4 and Steel-ers at 7-6 are currentlythe AFC wildcard leaders.The Bengals (7-6) and Jets(6-7) are next followed bythe Browns.The Browns are ahead
of the other 5-8 teams âthe Chargers, Dolphinsand Bills, based ontiebreakers.“I’m not going to focus
on that,” Shurmur saidMonday. “Our energy, ourefforts are all going to bedirected to the Redskins.“It’s a little bit easier to
be narrow-minded andshort-sighted with threegames to play. We have tomake sure we stay in themoment.“The math changes in
those situations if youdon’t take care of businessthis weekend.”The Browns close with
road games in Denver andPittsburgh.Shurmur’s job status
continues to be the biggerfocus.He was 4-12 last season
in his first season as headcoach. The current three-game winning streak isthe longest for the Brownsin three years.The latest name ru-
mored to be on the shortlist of candidates to re-place Shurmur if teamowner Jimmy Haslam andCEO Joe Banner make achange is Josh McDaniels,currently in his secondstint as Patriots offensivecoordinator.McDaniels, born in
Canton in 1976, was 11-17before being fired in 2010with a month to go in hissecond season as headcoach of the Denver Bron-cos.The thread between
McDaniels and theBrowns was developed byGreg Bedard of the BostonGlobe. He bases his notionon Mike Lombardi beinghired as general managerand surmises Lombardiwould select McDanielsbecause of Lombardi’sclose ties with Patriotshead coach Bill Belichick.Lombardi worked for
the Browns as a scout orin the personnel depart-ment from 1987-1995, andhas also been linked topersuading Nick Saban toAlabama to coach theBrowns.“I’m not worried about
saving my (job), I’ m wor-ried about doing my joband that’s it,” Shurmursaid. “Just want to do myjob.”Previous owner Randy
Lerner shook the Be-lichick coaching tree twiceand it did not work welleither time. Romeo Cren-nel, Belichick’s defensivecoordinator from 2001-2004 in New England, wasthe Browns head coachfrom 2005-2008. He went24-40.Belichick fired Crennel
and hired Eric Mangini,another Belichick protege.Mangini was a defen-
sive assistant under Be-lichick from 2000-2004.He was the Patriots’
defensive coordinator in
2005 and the Jets headfrom 2006-2008.Mangini was 10-22 in
2009-10 as Browns headcoach.Saban was the Browns
defensive coordinatorunder Belichick from1991-94, which is whenLombardi , Saban and Be-lichick developed theirbond.“No one really knows
what’s going to happen inthe future,” rookie righttackle Mitchell Schwartzsaid in a conference callMonday. “I think one ofthe stranger things is wedon’t have any clue what’sgoing to happen.“I think we’ve done a
pretty good job of trying topush that aside and justfocus on doing on our job.You don’t really have toomuch time to be thinkingabout anything else.”Rookies have made 72
starts for the Browns thisseason.The Colts are second
with 44 rookie starts.It is no surprise the
Browns are playing betternow than at the beginningof the season when theywere 0-5. They have wonfive of their last eightgames.“I’ve always been fond
of our team,” Shurmursaid. “What I like aboutthis team is theyâ retough.They play hard andwhen we ask them to dothings they respond.They’re a very coachablegroup of guys.“There’s a mixture of
young guys and older guysthat have been aroundhere a long time. Whenyou see it all come to-gether and they have suc-cess, as a teacher or acoach, that’s where youget your joy.”The Browns need to win
one of their last threegames to assure their bestrecord since going 10-6 in2007.
� The Browns alreadyhave more sacks thanthey did in 2011 and witheight more over the lastthree games will posttheir highest total sincedumping quarterbacks 43times in 2001.Brady Quinn was
sacked five times in the30-7 victory over theChiefs on Sunday to runthe team total to 33. Thesacks are spread around;Juqua Parker leads withfive. Frostee Rucker andJabaal Sheard have foureach. D’Qwell Jackson has3.5 sacks and JohnHughes has three.The team record for
sacks in the expansion erais 43 set in 2000 and tiedin 2001.“The veteran guys they
brought in here, JuquaParker, and Frostee, havebeen good in the meetingrooms and helping theyounger guys out,” Sheardsaid Monday in a confer-ence call. “Last year, wewere kind of short withme and Phil (Taylor) com-ing in and not really get-ting to know the scheme ofthe defense. We had tomature pretty fast. I justthink right now thateverybody has a grasp ofthe defense and what’sgoing on. We’ve got a bet-ter feel on defense.”Parker and Rucker
were the only two playersGeneral Manager TomHeckert signed in freeagency.The Browns have
posted 14 of their 33 sacksin the last four weeksafter Ahtyba Rubin re-turned from a calf injury.Taylor returned from hispectoral surgery one gameearlier.The pair started in Dal-
las when the Brownssacked Tony Romo seventimes.
Not worriedabout jobShurmur focused on Redskins
Record Book
FootballNFL Standings
National Football LeagueAll Times EST
AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PAy-N. England 10 3 0 .769 472 274N.Y. Jets 6 7 0 .462 245 306Buffalo 5 8 0 .385 289 352Miami 5 8 0 .385 240 276South
W L T Pct PF PAx-Houston 11 2 0 .846 365 263Indianapolis 9 4 0 .692 292 329Tennessee 4 9 0 .308 271 386Jacksonville 2 11 0 .154 216 359North
W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 9 4 0 .692 331 273Pittsburgh 7 6 0 .538 278 264Cincinnati 7 6 0 .538 321 280Cleveland 5 8 0 .385 259 272West
W L T Pct PF PAy-Denver 10 3 0 .769 375 257San Diego 5 8 0 .385 292 281Oakland 3 10 0 .231 248 402Kansas City 2 11 0 .154 195 352
W L T Pct PF PAy-Atlanta 11 2 0 .846 337 259Tampa Bay 6 7 0 .462 354 308New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 348 379Carolina 4 9 0 .308 265 312North
W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 9 4 0 .692 323 279Chicago 8 5 0 .615 308 219Minnesota 7 6 0 .538 283 286Detroit 4 9 0 .308 320 342West
W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 9 3 1 .731 316 184Seattle 8 5 0 .615 300 202St. Louis 6 6 1 .500 236 279Arizona 4 9 0 .308 186 292x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionThursday's GameDenver 26, Oakland 13Sunday's GamesMinnesota 21, Chicago 14Washington 31, Baltimore 28, OTCleveland 30, Kansas City 7San Diego 34, Pittsburgh 24Indianapolis 27, Tennessee 23N.Y. Jets 17, Jacksonville 10Carolina 30, Atlanta 20Philadelphia 23, Tampa Bay 21St. Louis 15, Buffalo 12Dallas 20, Cincinnati 19San Francisco 27, Miami 13Seattle 58, Arizona 0N.Y. Giants 52, New Orleans 27Green Bay 27, Detroit 20Monday's GameNew England 42, Houston 14Thursday, Dec. 13Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.Sunday, Dec. 16Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1 p.m.Minnesota at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Washington at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Miami, 1 p.m.Denver at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Carolina at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Detroit at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.Seattle vs. Buffalo at Toronto, 4:05 p.m.Kansas City at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.Pittsburgh at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.San Francisco at New England, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Dec. 17N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 8:30 p.m.
Bowl GlanceCollege Football FBS Bowl Glance
Subject to ChangeAll Times EST
Saturday, Dec. 15New Mexico BowlAt AlbuquerqueNevada (7-5) vs. Arizona (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN)Famous Idaho Potato BowlAt Boise, IdahoToledo (9-3) vs. Utah State (10-2), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Dec. 20Poinsettia BowlAt San DiegoSan Diego State (9-3) vs. BYU (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Friday, Dec. 21Beef 'O' Brady's BowlAt St. Petersburg, Fla.Ball State (9-3) vs. UCF (9-4), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
(ESPN)Las Vegas BowlBoise State (10-2) vs. Washington (7-5), 3:30 p.m.
(ESPN)Monday, Dec. 24
Hawaii BowlAt HonoluluSMU (6-6) vs. Fresno State (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday, Dec. 26Little Caesars Pizza BowlAt DetroitCentral Michigan (6-6) vs. Western Kentucky (7-5),
7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Dec. 27Military BowlAtWashingtonBowling Green (8-4) vs. San Jose State (10-2), 3 p.m.
(ESPN)Belk BowlAt Charlotte, N.C.Duke (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)Holiday BowlAt San DiegoBaylor (7-5) vs. UCLA (9-4), 9:45 p.m. (ESPN)
Friday, Dec. 28Independence BowlAt Shreveport, La.Louisiana-Monroe (8-4) vs. Ohio (8-4), 2 p.m. (ESPN)Russell Athletic BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Rutgers (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)Meineke Car Care BowlAt HoustonMinnesota (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN)
Saturday, Dec. 29Armed Forces BowlAt FortWorth,TexasRice (6-6) vs. Air Force (6-6), 11:45 a.m. (ESPN)Fight Hunger BowlAt San FranciscoArizona State (7-5) vs. Navy (7-4), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN2)Pinstripe BowlAt NewYorkSyracuse (7-5) vs. West Virginia (7-5), 3:15 p.m.
(ESPN)Alamo BowlAt San AntonioTexas (8-4) vs. Orgeon State (9-3), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN)BuffaloWildWings BowlAt Tempe, Ariz.Michigan State (6-6) vs.TCU (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN)
Monday, Dec. 31Music City BowlAt Nashville,Tenn.Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), Noon (ESPN)Sun BowlAt El Paso,TexasGeorgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (7-5), 2 p.m.
(CBS)Liberty BowlAt Memphis,Tenn.Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)Chick-fil-A BowlAt AtlantaLSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Tuesday, Jan. 1Heart of Dallas BowlAt DallasPurdue (6-6) vs.Oklahoma State (7-5), Noon (ESPNU)Gator BowlAt Jacksonville, Fla.Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Northwestern (9-3), Noon
(ESPN2)Capital One BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC)Outback Bowl
At Tampa, Fla.South Carolina (10-2) vs. Michigan (8-4), 1 p.m.
(ESPN)Rose BowlAt Pasadena, Calif.Stanford (11-2) vs.Wisconsin (8-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN)Orange BowlAt MiamiNorthern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 8:30
p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday, Jan. 2Sugar BowlAt New OrleansFlorida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Jan. 3Fiesta BowlAt Glendale, Ariz.Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 8:30 p.m.
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 18 4 .818 —Memphis 14 4 .778 2Dallas 11 10 .524 6½Houston 9 11 .450 8New Orleans 5 14 .263 11½Northwest Division
W L Pct GBOklahoma City 17 4 .810 —Utah 12 10 .545 5½Minnesota 9 9 .500 6½Denver 10 11 .476 7Portland 9 12 .429 8Pacific Division
W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 14 6 .700 —Golden State 14 7 .667 ½L.A. Lakers 9 12 .429 5½Sacramento 7 13 .350 7Phoenix 7 15 .318 8Monday's GamesGolden State 104, Charlotte 96Philadelphia 104, Detroit 97Miami 101, Atlanta 92San Antonio 134, Houston 126, OTDallas 119, Sacramento 96Portland 92, Toronto 74Tuesday's GamesL.A. Lakers at ClevelandNewYork at BrooklynDenver at Detroit,Washington at New OrleansL.A. Clippers at ChicagoWednesday's GamesBrooklyn at Toronto, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Orlando, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Golden State at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Houston, 8 p.m.Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Sacramento at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.Dallas at Boston, 8 p.m.Memphis at Phoenix, 9 p.m.San Antonio at Utah, 10:30 p.m.Thursday's GamesCharlotte at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at NewYork, 8 p.m.San Antonio at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
Men’s USA Today PollThe top 25 teams in the USAToday-ESPN men's col-
lege basketball poll, with first-place votes in parenthe-ses, records through Dec. 9, points based on 25 pointsfor a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-placevote and last week's ranking:
Record Pts Pvs1. Indiana (25) 9-0 769 12. Duke (6) 9-0 749 23. Michigan 9-0 705 34. Syracuse 10-0 663 45. Florida 7-0 644 56. Louisville 8-1 609 67. Ohio State 6-1 586 78. Arizona 7-0 568 89. Kansas 7-1 537 910. Illinois 10-0 465 1411. Missouri 8-1 450 1112. Cincinnati 9-0 447 1213. Creighton 9-1 338 1314. Gonzaga 9-1 325 1015. San Diego State 7-1 292 1516. Minnesota 10-1 225 2117. UNLV 7-1 224 1818. North Carolina 7-2 222 1619. Michigan State 8-2 213 1720. New Mexico 10-0 207 2021. Georgetown 7-1 163 2322. Kentucky 6-3 125 1923. Oklahoma State 7-1 116 2224. Notre Dame 8-1 110 2525. N.C. State 6-2 93 24Others receiving votes:Wichita State 88, Pittsburgh
Men’s APTop 25The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college
basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,records through Dec. 9, total points based on 25 pointsfor a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-placevote and last week's ranking:
Women’s USA TodayThe top 25 teams in the USAToday-ESPNWomen's col-
lege basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,records through Dec. 10, total points based on 25 pointsfor a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place voteand last week's ranking:
Women’s APTop 25The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's
college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parenthe-ses, records through Dec. 9, total points based on 25points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
EASTSC State at Albany (NY), 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Fairfield, 7 p.m.Hartford at Niagara, 7 p.m.Towson at Temple, 7 p.m.Coppin St. at UMBC, 7 p.m.Dartmouth at Vermont, 7 p.m.
SOUTHRio Grande at Campbell, 7 p.m.North Greenville at Presbyterian, 7 p.m.Bethune-Cookman at UCF, 7 p.m.Lenoir-Rhyne at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.Monmouth (NJ) at Maryland, 8 p.m.Louisiana Tech at McNeese St., 8 p.m.Nicholls St. at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
MIDWESTSavannah St. at Ohio St., 7 p.m.Green Bay at Wisconsin, 9 p.m.
SOUTHWESTLIU Brooklyn at Rice, 8 p.m.Lamar at Baylor, 9:30 p.m.
FARWESTDePaul at Arizona St., 9 p.m.Colorado at Fresno St., 10 p.m.Oregon St. at Portland St., 10:35 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 13EAST
NC A&T at NJIT, 7:30 p.m.SOUTH
Middle Tennessee at Belmont, 7 p.m.Anderson (SC) at Coll. of Charleston, 7 p.m.S. Virginia at Longwood, 7 p.m.Wichita St. at Tennessee, 7 p.m.FIU at Florida Gulf Coast, 7:05 p.m.Toccoa Falls at Coastal Carolina, 7:30 p.m.Southern U. at Louisiana-Monroe, 8 p.m.Troy at Alabama St., 8:30 p.m.
MIDWESTPresbyterian at North Dakota, 8 p.m.
SOUTHWESTHouston Baptist at Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m.Eureka at Texas-Pan American, 8 p.m.
FARWESTWashington at Seattle, 10 p.m.LaVerne vs.UNLV at Orleans Arena, LasVegas, 10 p.m.Jackson St. at Washington St., 10 p.m.Idaho St. at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10:05 p.m.
Women’s ScheduleWomen's College Basketball Schedule
All Times ESTWednesday, Dec. 12
EASTAuburn at George Washington, 7 p.m.Princeton at Villanova, 7 p.m.Southern U. at Rutgers, 7:30 p.m.
SOUTHN.C. Central at North Carolina, 11 a.m.S.C. State at Charleston Southern, 7 p.m.Jacksonville St. at Chattanooga, 7 p.m.Penn St. at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.McNeese St. at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.
MIDWESTUrbana at Wright St., 7 p.m.Oregon at Illinois, 8 p.m.
SOUTHWESTOral Roberts at Baylor, 7 p.m.
FARWESTSan Diego at Arizona St., 1 p.m.Cal State LA at Nevada, 2:30 p.m.Santa Clara at San Jose St., 10 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 13EAST
Merchant Marine at Army, 7 p.m.SOUTH
Georgia St. at Belmont, 1 p.m.Converse at Coastal Carolina, 5 p.m.UCF at FIU, 6 p.m.Kennesaw St. at UNC Asheville, 6 p.m.Nicholls at Alabama St., 6:30 p.m.Morgan St. at Elon, 7 p.m.Davidson at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.Bluefield St. at Liberty, 7 p.m.Norfolk St. at Radford, 7 p.m.New Orleans at Louisiana-Lafayette, 8 p.m.ETSU at LSU, 8 p.m.
SOUTHWESTChicago St. at Rice, 8 p.m.
FARWESTCS Bakersfield at Air Force, 9 p.m.Cal State Fullerton at Oregon St., 9 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 14SOUTH
Md.-Eastern Shore vs. Campbell at UNF Arena, Jack-sonville, Fla., 1 p.m.Jacksonville St. at North Florida, 3:30 p.m.Oral Roberts at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.Alabama A&M at Memphis, 8 p.m.
MIDWESTRoosevelt at Ill.-Chicago, 8 p.m.
FARWESTFresno St. at Portland, 8:15 p.m.Louisville at Colorado, 9 p.m.Weber St. at Wyoming, 9 p.m.Carroll (Mont.) at Idaho St., 9:05 p.m.Seattle at Pepperdine, 10 p.m.
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BY JOHN KAMPFWilloughby Herald
The defensive line OhioState will field in 2013 gota whole lot younger onMonday afternoon.Already faced with hav-
ing to replace three de-parting seniors, OhioState learned that juniordefensive linemanJohnathan Hankins willforego his senior season toenter the NFL draft.Hankins’ decision is
not a surprising one. He iswidely regarded as beinga first-round draft pick inthe April 25-27 draft.“I have decided, with
the support of my family,to forego my senior seasonat Ohio State in order toenter the NFL draft,”Hankins said in a state-ment on Monday after-noon. “I will always begrateful for the family Ihave gained here at OhioState."The 6-foot-3, 322-pound
All-Big Ten selection fin-ishes his career at OhioState with 138 tackles, 161/2 of which were tacklesfor a loss, and five quar-terback sacks.This past season, Hank-
ins had 55 tackles andfour tackles for a loss.“I have enjoyed coach-
ing and getting to knowJohnathan Hankins overthe past year,” CoachUrban Meyer said. “Hishard work on and off thefield has given him an op-portunity to move on tothe next level. The coach-ing staff and I wish himall the best.”Hankins’ departure
means Ohio State will
have four new starters onthe defensive front linenext season.John Simon, Nathan
Williams and GarrettGoebel all just finishedtheir senior seasons.If there is a position at
which Ohio State has thedepth to afford a loss tothe NFL, it’s on the defen-sive line.Playing integral roles in
the Buckeyes’ rotation onthe defensive line thispast season were SteveMiller, Noah Spence, J.T.Moore, Michael Bennett,AdolphusWashington andTommy Schutt. FreshmanSe’ Von Pittman will alsobe in the mix after red-shirting this season.Meyer is also bringing
in a strong group of defen-sive line recruits this sea-son, with verbalcommitments so far fromJoey Bosa, Michael Hill,Tyquan Lewis, DonovanMunger, Billy Price andTracy Sprinkle.The last Ohio State
player to leave early forthe NFL was Euclid’sThaddeus Gibson in 2009.With Hankins having
made his decision to makethe move to the NFL, at-tention is turned to twoother Buckeyes who havesimilar choices to make,running back Carlos Hydeand defensive backBradley Roby.Hyde, a junior, ran for
970 yards and 16 touch-downs this past season.Roby, a redshirt sopho-
more, was third on theteam with 63 tackles. Heintercepted two passes,broke up 17 and defended19 others.
Johnathan Hankins will enter the NFL draft.AP PHOTO
OSU D-linegets youngerHankins leaving early
NEWYORK (AP) — Al-abama is No. 1 when itcomes to All-Americans.The second-ranked
Crimson Tide placed fourplayers on The AssociatedPress All-America teamreleased Tuesday. Amongthem was center BarrettJones, who became a two-time first-team selection.No other team had
more than two players se-lected to the first team.The Tide also led with sixplayers chosen to all threeteams.Notre Dame, Texas
A&M, Stanford andFlorida were second withfour players on the threeteams, though linebackerManti Te'o was the onlyFighting Irish player tomake the first team.Alabama faces top-
ranked Notre Dame in theBCS championship gameJan. 7.
Texas A&M HeismanTrophy winner JohnnyManziel was the first-team quarterback.Wisconsin running back
Montee Ball and Georgialinebacker Jarvis Jonesalso became two-time All-Americans.Nine Southeastern Con-
ference players made thefirst team, more than anyother conference. The Pac-12 was second with sixplayers on the first team.No other conference hadmore than two.The team was voted on
by a panel of 16 AP collegefootball poll voters.Barrett Jones, a senior
who made the All-Americateam as a tackle last sea-son, was joined on the firstteam by Alabama team-mates guard Chance War-mack, linebacker C.J.Mosley and cornerbackDee Milliner.
Alabama tops inAll-AmericansTide has four on first team
NEW YORK (AP) —Heisman Trophy historysuggests it will never getbetter for Johnny Manzielthan it did this season. Inthe 78-year history of theHeisman, only one playerhas one more than one:Ohio State's Archie Griffinin 1974 and '75.But even if another
Heisman is not inManziel's future, there'sstill plenty left for JohnnyFootball and Texas A&Mto achieve before he's donein College Station, Texas."First and foremost,
there's the Cotton Bowl,"Manziel said Saturdaynight. The 10th-rankedAggies play No. 12 Okla-homa in Dallas on Jan. 4."From there, I have to
be the guy who starts themotor for a run at the na-tional title next year.That's our goal. If moreawards come, they come."That goal doesn't seem
farfetched at all after theAggies' scintillating firstseason playing in theSoutheastern Conference.Manziel was joined onstage at his post-ceremonynews conference by coachKevin Sumlin and A&Moffensive coordinator KliffKingsbury, the former starquarterback at TexasTech.Manziel turned 20 this
week. Kingsbury is 33.Sumlin is 48. It's not hardto look at them and seethe future of the SEC. Es-pecially after the Aggieswent 10-2 this season andleft no doubt that theirfast-paced, spread offensewould not sputter in thebig bad SEC.Texas A&M averaged
552 yards per game and44 points. Manzielsmashed Cam Newton'stotal offense record with4,600 yards passing andrushing."You look what our of-
fense did this year. Peopledidn't really think that wewere going to have mushsuccess in the SEC. Theysaid these smashmouth,hard-nose defenses andthis gimmick offense ...won't work."For us to come into Al-
abama and some of theother games and reallystress tempo, tempo,tempo. We want to movefast. We want to make
people uncomfortable.That was our main goalthis year. Our offense withcoach Sumlin and whatcoach Kingsbury did, Ilove it. I love everythingabout it.“It's definitely some-
thing that can work if youhave the right people inplace for it."Kingsbury said he and
Sumlin didn't quite real-ize what they had inManziel early on."All spring coach Sum-
lin would blow the whistlebecause the defense wasclose, and (Manziel would)come over ... spike the ball,'God! They wouldn't havegot me.' I'm like, 'OK,Johnny, sure they would-n't have got you.' Come tofind out they wouldn'thave got him."Potentially, Texas A&M
will have many of its bestpieces in place next sea-son. Receiver Mike Evansis a freshman, too, and hasfuture first-round draftpick written all over him.Texas A&M has an offen-sive line that rivals Al-abama's with two studtackles in Luke Joeckeland Jake Matthews. Both
of those big boys are jun-iors. The first-round of theNFL draft could await —Joeckel is being projectedas a top-10 pick.Getting them back to
College Station for an-other year will be tough.But if Aggies fans are al-lowed to dream, there's noreason whyA&M's offensecan't be even better nextseason.Even if Manziel's num-
bers aren't.There's only so much
defenses can do to hem inManziel, who is a masterof making something outof nothing.But football is a game of
adjustments. Defenseswill search for ways torein in Johnny Football.Sumlin's response mightbe to get his runningbacks more involved. TheAggies figure to have astable of good ones nextseason.Manziel could be as
good or better next season,but not be able to put upthose same video-gamenumbers.It's a common tale in
Heisman history.BYU's Ty Detmer won
the award as a junior in1990, but finished a dis-tance third behindDesmond Howard in 1991."The hard parts win-
ning it again because theexpectation level goes up,"Detmer said earlier thisweek. "I felt like my senioryear I was a much betterplayer than my junioryear. Smarter, lessturnovers. Didn't have asgood a stats, but I felt likeI was a better player mysenior year. But the expec-tations were different."Expectations will by sky
high in College Stationnext season. The move tothe SEC, hiring Sumlinand the second Heismanin the history of the pro-gram — and first sinceJohn David Crow in 1957— have Aggies' hopessoaring."The award for the pro-
gram is huge," Sumlinsaid. "There's a lot of pro-grams out there that don'thave one. It took a longtime for Texas A&M to getto two."Maybe Manziel can
buck the trends again andA&M won't have to waitso long to add a third.
Manziel faces tough encoreJohnny Football focused on Oklahoma, Cotton Bowl
Johnny Manziel will have a tough act to follow next year.AP PHOTO
For Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012ARIES (March 21 to April 19)The New Moon today is the perfecttime to think about what furthertraining or education you could get toimprove your job or enhance your life.Any ideas?TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)What can you resolve to do to reduceyour debt and feel more in control ofyour finances? Think of two thingsthat will make you feel more finan-cially secure.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)Today, the only New Moon oppositeyour sign all year is occurring. Whatcan you do to improve your closest re-lationships?CANCER (June 21 to July 22)Give some thought to how you can im-prove your job or how you do your job,or perhaps even how to get a betterjob. Similarly, what can you do to im-prove your health?LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)It’s important to balance play withwork; however, we are a work-orientedsociety. Do you give yourself enoughplay time?VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)The New Moon today is the ideal timeto think about how you can improveyour home and your family relation-ships. It’s the best day all year forthese resolutions.LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)Clear communication is vital to sur-viving in society. Think about whatyou could do to make all your commu-nications with others clearer.SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)Your attitude about something affectshow it manifests in your life. What isyour attitude toward money? If youthink it is evil, you won’t keep it forlong.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)Today the only NewMoon in your signall year is taking place. Take a realis-tic look in the mirror and ask yourselfwhat you can do to create a better im-pression in your world.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)Are you in touch with the values thatguide you? Do you think about themmuch? Today’s newMoon is the perfectday to ponder this.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)Your friends influence your mind,which influences your decisions —hence your life. Are you happy withyour friends? If you want to have morefriends, be friendly!PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20)Give some thought to your attitude to-ward the authority figures in your life.The New Moon today is a good time tothink about how you can improve yourrelationship with parents, bosses andVIPs.YOU BORN TODAY You overlooknothing. You’re attentive to detail be-cause you believe in taking care ofeverything and working slowly toachieve what you want. You work forlong-range results. You’re an observerof the human condition and are veryperceptive. Many of you work withyour hands to create things. In theyear ahead, you will work to build orconstruct something important to you.Birthdate of: NeNe Leakes, actress;Taylor Swift, singer; Steve Buscemi,actor.(c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
HOROSCOPEBY FRANCES DRAKE
Monday’s Answer
Monday’s Cryptoquip:
14 Wednesday, December 12, 2012 PLACE YOUR AD IN THE CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK 877-844-8385 OR ON THE WEB AT WWW.DAILYCALL.COM • PIQUA DAILY CALL
NOTICE OF JOB OPPORTUNITYThe Shelby County Department of Job and Family Services is seeking a qualifiedapplicant for a Fiscal Specialist.
DUTIES:� Reviews, tracks and approves monthly foster care and adoption subsidy activity.� Reviews, enters and tracks manual claims and adjustments for subsidized child care.� Prepares, executes and monitors agency contracts and agreements.� Additional duties include; monitoring children’s services allocations and completing quarterly reports,
procuring agency supplies, collecting payments for clients and maintaining agency RMS system.� Wage from $12.32 to $21.24 with supplements paid for education. This position is Classified,
Certified Civil Service and may require passing a Civil Service Test.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:� Completion of undergraduate major core coursework in accounting or finance or similar field of study.� Or three courses or eighteen months experience in accounting, two courses or twelve months
experience in finance, one course or six months experience in written communication for business, andone course or six months experience in typing, keyboarding or word processing that includedgenerating a spreadsheet.
� Or education, training, and/or experience in an amount equal to the Minimum Qualifications statedabove.
� Degree is preferred but not required.
FRINGE BENEFITS INCLUDE:• Work Hours: M,W,TH,F 7:30am- 4:00pm- Tuesday 7:30am-6:00pm• Health insurance available• Prescription drug card• Paid sick leave if leave available• Paid vacation (after 1 year of service) or after accumulated if applicant has prior countable service• OPERS pickup• Deferred compensation plans available
Anyone interested in this position should submit a resume and cover letter no later than, December 14, 2012.
Remit to: Patricia Raymond- Administrative SupervisorShelby County Department of Job and Family Services227 South Ohio AvenueSidney, Ohio 45365
Shelby County is an Equal Opportunity Employer 2348171
NOTICE OF JOB OPPORTUNITYThe Shelby County Department of Job and Family Services is accepting resumes forthe position of CLERICAL SPECIALIST 3 within the Administration team.DUTIES:
� First Backup for Receptionist. Excellent Customer Service. Answer telephone calls, Scan itemsbrought by consumers to be distributed to the worker, Print and distribute receipts for items brought tothe agency
� Post outgoing mail� Process incoming mail; Open, date stamp, scan and distribute mail� Responsible for monthly and quarterly report distribution� Responsible to schedule maintenance of agency vehicles� Track JFS Expense requests� Assist Child Support Unit with clerical duties
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:� 1 year experience as a Clerical Specialist 2� -or formal education in arithmetic that includes addition and subtraction, and reading and writing
common English vocabulary along with Computer Skills-Excel, Word, Databases. Also requires onecourse or six months experience in typing or keyboarding and one course or six months experience inword processing. In addition, applicants must have an additional twelve months previous clericalexperience in a position similar to a Clerical Specialist 2. Customer Service experience a must
� -or education, training and/or experience in an amount equal to the Minimum Qualificationsstated above.
PAY FROM: $-10.01 to $15.84- per hour based on experience.
FRINGE BENEFITS INCLUDE:• Work Hours: M,W,TH,F 7:30am- 4:00pm- Tuesday 7:30am-6:00pm• Health insurance available• Prescription drug card• Paid sick leave if leave available• Paid vacation (after 1 year of service) or after accumulated if applicant has prior countable service• OPERS pickup• Deferred compensation plans available
Anyone interested should submit a resume and cover letter by December 14, 2012 to:
Remit to: Patricia Raymond-Administrative SupervisorShelby County Department of Job and Family Services227 South Ohio AvenueSidney, Ohio 45365
Shelby County is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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CAUTIONWhether posting or re-sponding to an advertise-ment, watch out for offersto pay more than the ad-vertised price for theitem. Scammers will senda check and ask the sellerto wire the excessthrough Western Union(possibly for courier fees).The scammer's check isfake and eventuallybounces and the sellerloses the wired amount.While banks and WesternUnion branches aretrained at spotting fakechecks, these types ofscams are growing in-creasingly sophisticatedand fake checks oftenaren't caught for weeks.Funds wired throughWestern Union or Money-Gram are irretrievableand virtually untraceable.
If you have questionsregarding scams likethese or others, please
contact theOhio Attorney General’s
office at(800)282-0515.
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NOTICEInvestigate in full beforesending money as anadvance fee. For furtherinformation, call orwrite:
Better BusinessBureau
15 West Fourth St.Suite 300
Dayton, OH 45402www.dayton.bbb.org
937.222.5825This notice is providedas a public service by
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105 Announcements
OPEN HOUSE, Handcrafted garden stone, fea-turing 3 local stone artists,Stonescapes, Patt's Gar-den Treasures, KRB De-sign, Thursday Friday &Saturday 9am-5pm, 1020Statler Road, Piqua, ByInterstate
125 Lost and Found
FOUND MONEY in TroyWalmart parking lot be-tween 1:30-1:45pmWednesday the 28th(937)335-2362
LOST DOG Black andWhite Boxer named Sa-die, Boone Street area,very lovable. Call(937)570-2920 or(937)570-8641.
LOST: Female Jack Rus-sell, approx. 10 mos old.Lost in area of Hardin Rdand Landman-Mill Rd.Goes by "Shorty". Had onshock collar.(937)606-0918
MISSING BOSTON TER-RIERS (1) male, (1) fe-male, male 32lbs, black,some white, brindle, Fe-male 19lbs, black, somewhite, Brother & sister 2years old, West Miltonarea, Reward offered(937)689-0880
MISSING CAT, MaleBengal with distinct blackspots, weighs around18lbs, answers to nameGeorge, Missing from Col-leen Drive/ Eagles Nestarea, Please call,(937)418-6001 or(937)606-2445
135 School/Instructions
PIANO LESSONS, Regis-ter NOW! Professionaland private piano lessonsfor beginners of all ages.30 years experience.Makes a great Christmasgift, (937)418-8903
200 - Employment
235 General
DELIVERPHONE BOOKS
Work Your OwnHours, Have
Insured Vehicle,Must be at least 18years old, Valid DL.
No ExperienceNecessary!
(800)518-1333Ext. 224
www.deliverthephonebook.com
ELECTRICIANNEEDED
Journeyman industrial,commercial, residentialservice electrician. Fulltime with benefits.
Apply in person at:Hiegel Electric
3155 Tipp-CowlesvilleRoad, Troy
MIAMI COUNTYCHILDREN'SSERVICES
has an opening for afull-time
PlacementCaseworker
Must possess aBachelor's Degree in
Social Work or relatedfield. Salary range
$14.60-$20.43 DOQ.
Send resume to:MIAMI COUNTYCHILDREN'SSERVICES
Attn: Julie Holmes510 W Water Street
Ste. 210Troy, OH 45373
EOE
NOW HIRING:Companies desperatelyneed employees to as-semble products at home.No selling, any hours.$500 weekly potential.Info: (985)646-1700Dept. OH-6011.
SALESREPRESENTATIVES
MM Industries in Troy,OH excitedly hiring forVerizon Sales Repre-sentatives. Great op-portunity with growingearning potential!
TREE TRIMMER, Localcompany. Requires expe-rience with rope, saddle,bucket truck. Drivers li-cense preferable,(937)492-8486.
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LABORS: $9.50/HR
CDL Drivers: $11.50/HR
APPLY: 15 IndustryPark Ct., Tipp City
(937)667-6772
240 Healthcare
Experience theJoys and Rewards
Of Being AComfort Keeper !
Are you looking for arewarding career? As amember of one of themost rapidly growingnetworks dedicated tosenior home care,Comfort Keepers offerscareers with personaland professional growth.Currently, we havecaregiving positionsavailable throughout theMiami Valley. To learnmore about ComfortKeepers or to apply forthis rewarding opportu-nity visit us at
www.ComfortKeepersMi-
amiValley.com
or call us at:
TROY - 335-6564SIDNEY - 497-1111PIQUA - 773-3333
COMFORT KEEPERSOFFERS:
• Paid training• Flexible work hours• 401K• Performance Bonus
Program
Each Office Independently Owned
and Operated
260 Restaurant
BARTENDERS/ WAIT-RESS, Experience Pre-ferred, but will train, Applyat END ZONE, 601 EastBroadway, CovingtonOhio, (937)473-2433
265 Retail
BUFFALOWILDWings Sidney and Troy.Hiring a Manager withminimum of 3 years res-taurant management ex-perience, and experi-ence managing a res-taurant with a full bar ispreferred. Join a teamthat is all about sports,great food and friends.To apply, fax resume to:(937)660-3300.
280 Transportation
Class-A CDL Driver
• 2500-3000 mi/wkavg
• No-touch truckloadvan freight
• Good balance ofpaycheck andhometime
• Terminal in JacksonCenter, OH.
2 yr experience required
1-800-288-6168
www.risingsunexpress.com
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CDL Gradsmay qualify
Class A CDL required
Great Pay & Benefits!
Call Jon Basye at:Piqua Transfer &
Storage Co.(937)778-4535 or(800)278-0619
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UTILITYSUPERVISOR
Continental ExpressInc, a leader in thetransportation indus-try, is accepting appli-cations for a workingSupervisor in ourUtility Dept. Idealcandidate must be de-pendable, have pastsupervisory experi-ence and a steadywork history. Experi-ence operating orworking aroundsemi’s or large equip-ment a plus. Personwill be responsible forsupervising a crewthat washes and fuelstrucks. This is a dayshift opportunity onTuesday -Sa tu r dayschedule. We offerexcellent pay & bene-fits, uniforms, and aclean work environ-ment.
Apply atContinental Express,
10450 St Rt 47Sidney,OH
or contact Mark at937/497-2100
300 - Real Estate
For Rent
305 Apartment
1, 2 & 3 Bedroom,Houses & Apts.
SEIPEL PROPERTIESPiqua Area OnlyMetro Approved(937)773-99419am-5pm
Monday-Friday
1 BEDROOM, upstairs,431 West Ash, stove, re-frigerator, no pets $335,Credit check required,(937)418-8912
1 BEDROOM, 322 S MainSt. downstairs, stove &refrigerator furnished.$385. No pets. Creditcheck required,(937)418-8912
PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD ONLINE-24/7JobSourceOhio.com
POLICY: Please Check Your Ad The 1st Day. It Is The Advertiser’s Responsibility To Report Errors Immediately.Publisher Will Not Be Responsible for More Than One Incorrect Insertion. We Reserve The Right To Correctly Classify, Edit, Cancel Or Decline Any Advertisement Without Notice.
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PIQUA DAILY CALL • PLACE YOUR AD IN THE CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK 877-844-8385 OR ON THE WEB AT WWW.DAILYCALL.COM Wednesday, December 12, 2012 15
Advertisement for BidsCity of PiquaIFB 1232
DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERSSealed bids for the purchase of Distribution Transform-ers for the City of Piqua Electric Distribution Depart-ment, will be received by the City of Piqua PowerSystem, 201 Hemm Ave., Piqua, Ohio, until 2:00 P.M.,on Monday, January 7, 2013 at which time the bids willbe publicly opened and read.
The Bidding Documents, which include Specificationsand Bid Form, may be obtained at the City of PiquaPurchasing Department, 201 W. Water Street, Piqua,Ohio at no cost. You can also download a copy of theforms from our web site www.piquaoh.org.
Bids must be signed and submitted on City bid formsincluded in the bid package. The sealed envelope mustbe marked “IFB 1232– DISTRIBUTION TRANS-FORMERS.”
Each Bid must contain the full name of the party or par-ties submitting the Bid and all persons interestedtherein.
No Bidder shall withdraw his Bid after the actual open-ing thereof.
The City reserves the right to reject any or all Bids,waive irregularities in any Bid, and to accept any Bidthat is deemed by City to be most favorable to the City.
Beverly M.Yount, CPPBPurchasing AnalystCity of Piqua, Ohio
Resolution No.: R-2-12
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SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
Case No.: 11-504JPMorgan Chase Bank, NAvs.Jason K. Schaeffer, 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 December19, 2012 at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-021490Also known as: 509 Orr Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Two Thousand and 00/100($42,000.00) 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.David W. Cliffe, Attorney11/28, 12/05, 12/12-2012
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CANDLES, tart burners,wreaths, artificial flowerarrangements & more.Half price sale on all items- Moe's Creations - homescents. Great Christmasgifts. December 10through 14, 3pm-6pm.10775 North State Route48, [email protected].(937)214-4810.
CRIB, real wood, goodcondition, stationarysides, $75(937)339-4233
GOOD STUFF Cheap forChristmas, Lead CrystalCompote, plus and oth-ers; oil painting 32x27;new and used- mens Bur-berry coat, London Fogjacket, all weather, silkand cashmere scarves;womens cardigan andpullover pure wool sweat-ers, Lambskin short coat;Beautiful China 10 placesettings plus; WilliamRogers silverware 12place settings plus, Swissblue Topaz AAA necklace8.5 ct, earrings 2.5 ct.each, all items fraction ofretail, details, pricing, ap-pointment, cell(937)497-1929 evening orlater
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Word of the Weekartificial — imitation; simu-lated; sham
How manydifferentcareers canyou find men-tioned in thenews? Whatpreparation doyou think was needed foreach of them?Choose one page from
the newspaper, and thenthink about how many differ-ent jobs are involved in cre-ating that one page. Listthem.
NewspaperKnowledge
Math is all around you. Examples include ticket prices,sports statistics and the cost of music or lunch. Mathlearned in school will help you be successful in life, notjust in jobs you may have as adults. You need mathskills to shop for food and not spend more money thanyou have.You need them to compare prices and get thebest deals. You need them to understand sports statis-tics, read schedules or plan outings with friends or fami-ly.
The print, electronic or Web edition of the newspaper isa great resource for building math skills. As a class orwith a partner, use the newspaper to solve the followingproblem based on just some of the ways math is in thenews.You may use a calculator.
1. Count the number of times the president of the UnitedStates is mentioned on the front page of the newspaper
(or home page, if you are using the newspaper’s web-site). Add that number to the expected high temperaturein your community today.
2. Divide that number by the number of photos on thefirst sports page.
3. Add to that amount the number of women pictured inthe entertainment or features section.
4. Multiply that number by the number of game showson TV between 7 and 9 p.m.
5. Subtract the number of points scored yesterday bythe professional sports team closest to your community.
6. Add that to the closing total of the stock market yes-terday to obtain your final answer.
