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L IMA — Failed levies and cuts to staff and programming didn’t stop Delphos schools from not only maintaining its rating on this year’s state report card but jumping up to the top spot.
The district earned the highest designa-tion, Excellent with Distinction, according to preliminary report card data released Wednesday. It is a first for the district, which has had a tough few years. Super-intendent Frank Sukup calls it a tribute to the district’s teaching staff.
“I have to give a lot of credit to these people,” he said. “They did not get down. It could have been easy to say, ‘Heck with it,’ and, ‘I don’t care,’ but it just shows the quality of people that we have in this sys-tem.”
The state released additional state report card data, including school and district rat-ings, Wednesday. The information comes nearly two months later than usual.
Some information came out last month, but ratings, Performance Index and atten-dance rates were held as the state auditor investigated allegations of data manipula-tion by some districts. The investigation continues, and the official report cards won’t be released until later. The investiga-
tion does not involve any local schools.Twelve districts in the nine-county area
moved up a designation, while 12 dropped. The rest maintained their designation.
The lowest rating went to Quest Academy in Academic Emergency. Lima schools dropped from Continuous Improvement to Academic Watch, and Upper Scioto Valley schools dropped from Effective to Academic Watch.
The rating didn’t surprise Lima schools officials, who have been evaluating pre-liminary data since the beginning of the school year. Superintendent Jill Ackerman said principals and staff are already break-ing down data.
“Everyone is under a tremendous amount of pressure, but they need to be and they recognize that they need to be,” she said.
Lima fell because it did not meet Ade-quate Yearly Progress, which measures success of pupil subgroups such as racial minorities, special education and economi-cally disadvantaged.
KEY CONCERNSMany panelists talked about the uncer-
tainty of the reform itself, with the presiden-tial election still undetermined, particularly if Gov. Romney were to take office and appeal the legislation. Bob Armstrong,CEO of Lima Memo-rial Health System, along with Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, both expressed concerns regarding the individual mandate to be implemented in 2014. The idea is for everyone to have health coverage by requiring it. However, that may not necessarily be the case if people instead opt to pay the penalty (which is smaller in the beginning) of not taking insurance. While the reform will introduce new solutions to health care, it may also perpetuate problems, such as continually rising premium costs.
LIMA — A Lima man has died from the West Nile virus, the Allen County Health Department reported.
David “Kim” Sunderhaus, 58, died Saturday at Kindred Hospital in Lima, surrounded by his family, according to his obituary.
His death was reported Wednesday to the Allen County Health Department, which did not release his name, and marks Ohio’s sixth death attributed to the virus.
“We would like to extend our condolences to the family and friends of this individual,” said
Kathy Luhn, Allen County health commissioner.
Also on Wednesday, the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Pre-vention reported the number of West Nile virus cases nationally has reached 4,531, making 2012 the nation’s second-worst year on record for the disease.
There were three individuals in the county who were infected with the virus in August, accord-ing to officials at September’s Allen County Health Board meet-ing.
Becky Dershem, Allen County Health Department director of nursing, said people were con-tinuing to be hospitalized and in critical condition at the Sept. 14 meeting.
The three cases she described were a 40-year-old man who thought he contracted the virus in Allen County, a 56-year-old woman who believed she was exposed to the virus in Texas, and an 84-year-old woman who thought she was exposed in Allen County. All three were hospitalized.
“We do have reports of people continuing to be hospitalized,” Dershem said, “And some of them are now in critical condition. So just be aware.”
The milder form of the mos-quito-borne disease causes flu-like symptoms and is rarely lethal, but the neuroinvasive form is much more severe.
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in a “Gangnam Style” parody video are getting their jobs back.
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prize won six years ago.
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West Nile outbreak one of the largestThere have been more than 4,530 cases and 183 deaths reported to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
*As of Oct. 17
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1 10 50 150 500 1,355Reported cases*:
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Madi Brantley, 9, a fourth-grader at Franklin Elementary School in Delphos, takes a math test Wednesday.
West Nile virus kills Lima manBy SARAH STEMEN
David “Kim” Sunderhaus, Lima’s West Nile virus victim, worked as a salesman at Sears and was a husband, father and grandfather.
Better great than never
By BETH L. JOKINEN419-993-2093
[email protected] THE DOZEN12 schools that improved scores
• Bath• Bellefontaine• Benjamin Logan• Delphos City• Findlay Academy• Hardin Northern• Indian Lake• Kenton• New Knoxvillle• St. Marys• Sidney• Wapakoneta
12 schools where scores declined
• Arlington• Bluffton• Columbus Grove• Fairlawn• Findlay• Fort Recovery• Heir Force Academy• Lima City Schools• Minster• Parkway• Upper Scioto Valley• Van Wert — From 66 schools in
nine-county region. See graphic, Page A5
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State ratings leave local schools determined
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Lima health care pros outline
ObamacareBy KATE MALONGOWSKI
419-993-2092 [email protected]
LIMA — More than 100 small-business own-ers and professionals gathered at the City Club in downtown Lima on Wednesday afternoon to discuss how the health care reforms of the Affordable Health Care Act would affect them. Health care professionals also addressed their concerns, good and bad, about the health care reforms.
The primary purpose of the luncheon was for local employers to understand what they need to be doing right now with their employees, particularly with W-2 forms, information about small businesses that could be eligible for a health care tax credit, and what else needs to be filed to keep proper records. The event was organized by the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce.
The panel included Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bob Armstrong, the CEO of Lima Memorial Health System, John Renner, vice president and chief financial offi-cer at St. Rita’s Health Partners, Connie Miller and Becky Waggamon with Webb Insurance Agency, and Randee Henson with Stolly Insur-ance Group.
Electronic medical records are being expanded during the next few years, providing a central database for physicians all across the country. But attendees were concerned about the safety and confidentiality of medical files.
“The challenge we all face is that so many people have access to it,” Armstrong said. “There are people that know how to hack into those things.”
“We have the exact same standards that the
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“I will be surprised if there is a symphony in this town five years from now. They get rid of the Mae-stro and it’s over.”
There, I said it. Those are my own words. Sharp, certain and leaving no room for error.
And 17 years old.I spoke those words almost two
decades ago as news began to spread through the community that the Lima Symphony Orches-tra’s board was preparing to end its contract with its beloved, long-time conductor. They seem ridicu-lous now, the hyperbole of a kid with too much enthusiasm for one man and not enough faith in his community. I bring them up, not because I enjoy publicly acknowl-edging how wrong I can be, but because I’ve heard similar lines spoken in recent weeks, and some-times, addressing the past can put today’s news in perspective. I sus-pect this is one of those times.
A few weeks ago, it became public knowledge that the current symphony board of directors has decided not to offer its conductor and musical director another con-tract, meaning this will be his last season in front of Lima’s orchestra. Crafton Beck has been on that podium for the past 16 years and has earned a reputation as a great leader, a thrilling conductor, and a bright and genuine man. And so now we see a repeat of the same
debate that took place before Beck came to town, a pitched and public bout between the board and a body of fans and musicians who fear, as I once did, that the man makes the band.
I am here to assure you, he does not.
Before I go any further, I will offer up the mandatory full dis-closure. In addition to my work at this paper, I have been, for the past 12 years, the director of the Council for the Arts of Greater Lima. It is a volunteer position, but one that requires I serve as a cheerleader of sorts for local arts. The council, like all community arts providers, has a responsibility to support all groups who work to enrich and animate this commu-nity through the arts. There is no question that the Lima Symphony belongs near the top of that list, so I have some skin in the game.
That said, as a fan and ticket buyer, I also have a vested interest in having the very best local orches-tra we can stage. And there is not a doubt in my mind that Crafton Beck has given us that. When Joe Firszt stepped down after almost three decades as conductor, many of us were convinced no one could fill his tails. But Beck brought new
energy and a fresh sense of musical-ity to the stage. In time, he began to pull in new musi-cians who, in turn, brought new life to the orchestra. The result is an orches-tra today that is markedly better
than it was in 1996. My apocalyptic commentary from 17 years ago has been proved decidedly wrong.
So the people who are out there today, passing petitions and writ-ing letters in an effort to keep Beck are right. And as a man who has often felt alone in my enthu-siasm for local arts, I have to tell you, it’s pretty damn great to see people talking publicly, even get-ting riled up, over an orchestra. I am sure the symphony board members are sick of the clamor, but they should take heart in knowing that there are people out there who care passionately about their product.
The symphony board no doubt has reasons for making its decision to end Beck’s contract. I would argue they’ve done a poor job of communicating those reasons to the public, but that is not really their responsibility. As trustees of a nonprofit, board members have two main responsibilities, to direct the long- and short-range planning
for the organization and to assist in raising funds to assure the group can continue to fulfill its mission.
Beck’s responsibility is to make sure he has a great orchestra and to program what he considers to be the best musical offerings his players can perform. The two jobs should never cross over. Beck may offer his suggestions, but he has no vote in the decisions made to make the symphony a sustainable organization. And the volunteer board members, no matter how much they may think they know, should never interfere with Beck’s artistic decisions.
That is the arrangement all arts organizations should adhere to and, if they ever hope to get money from major granting institu-tions, they will. But it can also lead to conflict when trustees decide the conductor’s artistic decisions are hurting their efforts to raise money. They cannot and should not tell the director what to do, so the alternative is to find a new director who shares their views.
I do not know for a fact that is the case with the Lima Symphony, but I suspect it plays some role. It is unfortunate, but it is also unavoidable.
In the end, we all need to under-stand a few things.
First, there are no bad guys in this scenario. Both the board and Beck have a job to do, and both
are doing it in the way they believe is best for our community. We should be grateful for that.
Second, no one decision should alter our support for an organiza-tion as vital to our community as the Lima Symphony. Threatening to withhold support because they make a decision with which you disagree is the act of a petulant child and serves no useful pur-pose. If they make this move and the orchestra sucks, then you have my permission to put your season tickets on Craigslist. Until then, feel free to state your case, but understand that when you are dealing with nonprofits, the most-heard voices are those that offer answers and support.
Finally, we need to look to the past and realize we are in a steady loop of events. When Maestro Firzst left town, many of us were certain it was the end of the orches-tra as we knew it. We were right, because we ended up with some-thing that was different and mea-surably better. I would hate to see Maestro Beck go, but if he does, the orchestra will continue to play. It may be worse for awhile, it may be better, but the important thing is, it will play on. And, with any luck, two decades from now, we’ll be having his debate all over again.
Hopefully next time, I’ll be able to look back on these words and say I was right.
The orchestra will play on, no matter who the maestro is
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“Hey LACNIP board members ... what kind of president of an orga-nization wants to make a busi-ness deal, yet provide no financial information to show “they” are capable of financing “their” finan-cial responsibilities? Are you all crazy or just incompetent?” — Linda Balson, on LimaOhio.com
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“These folks have completely missed the point! The ‘point’ of a plea bargain is to accept a lesser sentence. It can work for both sides. If you ‘risk’ a trial, you ‘might’ get off but you ‘might’ get a stiffer penalty. Going to trial ALWAYS carries that RISK. Who DOESN’T know this? And if you are looking for a role model, pick another family. Judge Warren got THIS one right.” — Michael Ste-phen Williams, on LimaOhio.com
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“I have been left scratching my head, wondering why there is so much opposition to children’s safety. I do agree that bullying can and does build character in some, but in others it causes death or permanent injury. There are 2 such tragedies in our national news now and how many more go unreported. These are chil-dren! Those to whom we have a duty to protect. The story that was run the Lima New last week had some very interesting com-ments posted on the web page. 2 lima teachers stated that the unruly students have actually prevented them from doing their jobs to teach occasionally. They are in favor of the levy but were
unknowingly agreeing with us. Is the bullying partially responsible for the academic failure? YES, according to these 2 Lima City school teachers.” — SusanHaggard, on LimaOhio.com
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Drayton faces a felony assault with a deadly weapon charge carrying a possible penalty of up to six years in prison and a mis-demeanor battery-domestic violence charge that could get him six months in county jail, according to jail records.
He was being held on $23,000 bail at Clark County jail pending an initial court appearance on Thursday. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
Drayton, whose public persona includes wearing a big clock on his chest, was an original member of the politically and socially mili-tant rap group Public Enemy in the 1980s and ’90s.
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MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (AP) — One day after their contentious, finger-pointing debate, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney vied aggressively for the support of women voters Wednesday, as they and their running mates charged across nearly a half-dozen battleground states in the close race for the White House with 20 days to run.
Not even Republicans dis-puted that Obama’s debate performance was much stronger than the listless showing two weeks earlier that helped spark a rise in the polls for Romney. The two rivals meet one more time, next Monday in Florida.
The first post-debate polls were divided. At least some of the voters who asked the questions in the town-hall style encounter remained uncommitted. “If Gov. Rom-ney could actually provide the jobs, that would be a good thing because we really
need them,” said Nina Gon-zalez, a 2008 Obama voter, neatly summarizing the uncertainty confronting vot-ers in a high-unemployment economy.
Obama wore a pink wrist-band to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month as he campaigned in Iowa and then Ohio, and reminded his audience that the first legislation he signed after becoming president made it easier for women to take pay grievances to
court.Romney took no position
on that bill when it passed Congress, and his campaign says he would not seek its repeal. But Obama chided him, saying, “That shouldn’t be a complicated question. Equal pay for equal work.”
He also jabbed at Rom-ney’s remark during Tues-day night’s debate that he received “whole binders full of women” after saying he wanted to appoint more of them to his administration.
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Violent crimes rise 18% in 2011
Violent crimes unexpect-edly jumped 18 percent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade. But experts said the new gov-ernment data fall short of signaling a reversal of the long decline in crime.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday the increase in the number of violent crimes was the result of an upward swing in simple assaults, which rose 22 percent, from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million last year. The incidence of rape, sexual assault and robbery remained largely unchanged, as did serious violent crime involving weapons or injury.
Property crimes were up 11 percent in 2011, from 15.4 million in 2010 to 17 million, according to the bureau’s annual national crime victimization sur-vey. Household burglaries rose 14 percent, from 3.2 million to 3.6 million. The number of thefts jumped by 10 percent, from 11.6 million to 12.8 million.
NEW YORK
Man arrested in bank bomb plot
A Bangladeshi man who wanted to “destroy Amer-ica” tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan on Wednes-day, but the explosive was a dud provided by agents as part of an FBI sting, authorities said.
The FBI and New York police said the would-be bomber and al-Qaida loy-alist, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, was arrested in a hotel room after several futile attempts to detonate the fake bomb by remote con-trol. He was arraigned in federal court hours later on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempt-ing to provide material support to al-Qaida.
AUSTIN, Texas
State backs Bible cheer banners
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednes-day he will defend high school cheerleaders who want to use Bible verses on banners at football games.
Abbott has filed court papers to intervene in a lawsuit that cheerleaders at Kountze High School filed against the school district complaining that a new policy violated their freedom of speech. In Sep-tember, district officials told the cheerleaders to stop using Bible verses at football games after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained.
The atheist group argued using banners with phrases such as, “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me,” violates the First Amend-ment prohibition on the government establishing a religion.
PHILADELPHIA
Lawyer: Penn State accuser a fraud
A man who says he was the unidentified victim in the 2001 shower assault by Jerry Sandusky is a “charlatan” seeking “to profit from the suffering of real victims,” a lawyer for one former Penn State administrator said.
Attorney Tom Farrell, who represents former university Vice President Gary Schultz, questioned the man’s claims in a state-ment released Wednesday.
Citing discovery mate-rial obtained in his client’s defense against perjury and other charges, Farrell charted several instances in which the alleged vic-tim changed his story with investigators prompting doubt among prosecutors about his credibility.
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NATIONwatch 9/11 defendant lectures judgeGUANTANAMO BAY
NAVY BASE, Cuba — The accused architect of the 9/11 attacks was allowed to wear a camouflaged vest to the war court Wednesday then, cloaked in the costume of a fellow combatant, lectured his Army judge on national security.
“Your blood is not made of gold and ours is not made out of water. We are all human beings,” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said in an unin-terrupted monologue that mocked U.S. sadness at the loss of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.
Governments can torture, detain kids and do targeted assassination in the name of national security, he said at the end of daylong legal argu-ments on whether the CIA program that water-boarded Mohammed 183 times, to uncover al-Qaida plots, can be made public at his even-tual death-penalty trial.
Col. James Pohl, the judge, made no decisions on what classification restrictions would govern the trial of Mohammed and four alleged accomplices. But he rebuked Mohammed’s attorney, David Nevins, that his client’s com-
mentary was not permitted in court.
Mohammed, 47, made clear he knew about last year’s death and disposal of Osama bin Laden. “The president can take someone and throw them in the sea in the name of national security,” he said.
It was Day 3 of a week of pretrial motions and specta-tors got a taste of the con-troversial 40-second delay and sound kill-switch at the special court designed by the Pentagon to prevent release of state secrets.
As a Navy lawyer described hypothetical interrogation
techniques a court censor cut the sound to specta-tors. Pohl ruled the descrip-tion fit for the public. Sound restored, the lawyer repeated himself for court watchers.
An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, Hina Shamsi, had earlier in the day called the sound delay unconstitu-tional. If the accused speak in court about what they claim the CIA did to them, the public has a right to hear it, she said. The government can gag the agents and inter-rogators, but not those who want to allege what was done to them.
“Thoughts, experience and memories belong to human beings,” she said. “They do not belong to the govern-ment.”
Justice Department attor-ney Joanna Baltes defended the government’s right shield properly classified top secret information and called Shamsi “disingenu-ous” for saying federal courts don’t have the same rules. She called the 40-second delay a convenience created specially for Guantanamo because “no courtroom in the United States has the same type of technology.”
America’s favorite dietary supplements, multivitamins, modestly lowered the risk for cancer in healthy male doc-tors who took them for more than a decade, the first large study to test these pills has found.
The result is a surprise because many studies of indi-vidual vitamins have found they don’t help prevent chronic diseases and some even seemed to raise the risk of cancer.
In the new study, multivitamins cut the chance of devel-oping cancer by 8 percent. That is less effective than a good diet, exercise and not smoking, each of which can lower cancer risk by 20 percent to 30 percent, cancer experts say.
Multivitamins also may have different results in women, younger men or people less healthy than those in this study.
“It’s a very mild effect and personally I’m not sure it’s significant enough to recommend to anyone” although it is promising, said Dr. Ernest Hawk, vice president of cancer prevention at the University of Texas MD Anderson Can-cer Center and formerly of the National Cancer Institute.
“At least this doesn’t suggest a harm” as some previous studies on single vitamins have, he said.
Hawk reviewed the study for the American Association for Cancer Research, which is meeting in Anaheim, Calif., where the study was to be presented on Wednesday. It also was published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
About one-third of U.S. adults and as many as half of those over 50 take multivitamins.
Study: Vitamins may kick cancer
By MARILYNN MARCHIONEThe Associated Press
Campaigns targeting women
• Associated Press
Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is accompanied Wednesday by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a campaign rally at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea.
A district that does not meet AYP for two consecu-tive years and is at Continu-ous Improvement or higher drops a designation. This is the case with Lima, but Ack-erman said she believes it can meet it this school year. She said officials knew last year’s district restructuring would likely impact scores in the first year.
“We just have to stay focused,” she said. “We have to continue to know where every single individual kid is and where they need to go. And if we stay focused and stay on course, it is not going to be difficult now that we are settled.”
When coming to Upper Scioto Valley schools in May, Superintendent Den-nis Recker started looking at data and working on cur-riculum, including using an existing staff person to work directly with teachers on designing lessons. Recker believes the hard work will pay off.
“Teachers are really work-ing hard and they were devastated with these pre-liminary results,” he said. “I
think we will start seeing the uptick in performance this year and after next year, the corner will be turned for these people.”
Five local districts are in Continuous Improve-ment, while 15 are Effec-tive. Thirty-five are deemed Excellent, including every
district in Putnam County.St. Marys dropped to effec-
tive last year, missing indica-tors in fifth-grade math and eighth-grade science. The school picked those back up this year and moved back to Excellent.
“It is important. It makes the school feel good about itself and obviously the community feel good about what the schools are doing,” Superintendent Shawn Brown said. “It is our report card and when the state says we are doing an excellent job, we are proud to have them say that.”
Delphos was joined by six other districts in the region to earn Excellent with Dis-tinction ratings. Shawnee earned the rating for the sec-ond year and New Knoxville moved up from Excellent.
Sukup said Delphos staff members were ecstatic with its results, saying it shows that their hard work paid off.
“I am just extremely proud to be part of this fine organi-zation,” he said. “I think they are prepared to continue to do the hard work necessary to achieve as good as we can get.”
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SHAWNEE HIGH SCHOOL“Committed To Excellence”
Randy Crites– 1980 –Beth Belton
– 1974 –
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– 1972 –Pamela Fox– 1971 –Ted Bush
– 1969 –Keith Wandell– 1968 –L. Michael Hone
– 1968 –George Rable– 1968 –D. Michael Crites
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Jerald Clemans– 1965 –Joanne McKibben
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David Breese– 1964 –Laura Archer Pulfer
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Charles Hunsaker– 1962 –Charlotte Miller
Binkley– 1960 –
Daniel Spyker– 1960 –
Larry Spees– 1956 –C. Thomas Settlemire
– 1955 –Charles Kerr– 1946 –Ray Harshman
– 1944 –Hugh Downs– 1938 –Odos Craig
– 1938 –Robert Townsend– 1938 –Kent McGough
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DEFINITIONSAdequate Yearly Progress (AYP): This federal mandate holds schools accountable in the areas of reading and mathematics pro�ciency and test participation for schools and districts as well as students in sub groups, such as ethnic and racial minorities, economically disadvantaged or students with disabilities. Graduation and attendance goals are not evaluated for sub groups. Failure to meet any of the goals results in missing AYP.
State Indicators: There are 26 performance indicators that schools and districts can earn. Indicators are based on achievement tests, Ohio Graduation Test, graduation rate and attendance rate.
Performance Index Score (PI): This measure rewards the achievement of every tested student, not just those who score pro�cient or higher. Schools and districts earn points based on how well each student does on all tested subjects in grades 3 to 8 and on the OGT. The score can range from 0 to 120.
Value added: Recognizes that districts and schools may be making signi�cant academic improvements even though they may not have met the standard for student achievement. The measure re�ects how much progress was made since the prior year in fourth- through eighth-grade reading and math.+ A plus symbol indicates that a district or school has achieved more than one year of expected growth in student progress✓ A check symbol indicates that a district or school has achieved one year of expected growth in student progress− A minus symbol indicates that a district or school has achieved less than one year of expected growth in student progress.
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Source: Ohio Department of EducationGraphic: NATE WARNECKE, BETH JOKINEN, DAVID TRINKO • The Lima News
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ALLEN COUNTYAllen East EX 26 ✓ 101.7 MetBath EX 25 ✓ 101.2 Not MetBluffton EX 26 ✓ 107.4 MetDelphos City ED 26 + 101.2 MetElida EF 22 ✓ 98.1 MetHeir Force CI 5/12 NA 88.7 Not MetLima City AW 3 — 80.6 Not MetPerry EF 21 ✓ 94.8 MetQuest Academy AE 1/8 — 61.8 BelowShawnee ED 26 + 103.2 Not MetSpencerville EX 25 ✓ 99.9 MetW.C. Learning Academy CI 6/12 ✓ 88.4 Not Met
AUGLAIZE COUNTYA.C. Educ. Acad. NA CI 5/12 NA 88.7 Not MetMinster EX 26 ✓ 109.5 MetNew Bremen EX 25 ✓ 105.3 MetNew Knoxville ED 26 + 107.1 MetSt Marys City EX 26 ✓ 101.0 Not MetWapakoneta City EX 24 + 99.0 Not MetWaynes�eld EF 22 ✓ 97.0 Not Met
HANCOCK COUNTYArcadia EX 26 ✓ 102.8 Not MetArlington EF 23 — 100.0 Not MetCory-Rawson EF 20 ✓ 97.2 Not MetFindlay City EF 23 ✓ 99.0 Not MetLiberty-Benton EX 26 ✓ 102.8 Not MetMcComb EX 20 ✓ 100.2 MetVan Buren EX 26 ✓ 106.2 MetVanlue EF 22 ✓ 98.9 MetFindlay Academy CI 5/12 NA 85.7 Not Met
HARDIN COUNTYAda EX 26 ✓ 102.1 MetHardin Northern EX 20 + 96.5 MetKenton City EX 22 + 97.1 Not MetRidgemont EF 20 ✓ 96.2 MetRiverdale EX 24 ✓ 100.3 MetUpper Scioto Valley AW 8 — 85.2 Not MetHardin Community Sc. NA NA 1/1 NA NA Met
LOGAN COUNTYBellefontaine City ED 25 + 98.0 Not MetBenjamin Logan ED 26 + 101.2 Not MetIndian Lake ED 25 + 99.4 MetRiverside EF 22 ✓ 95.9 Not Met
MERCER COUNTYCelina City ED 25 + 100.0 Not MetColdwater EX 26 ✓ 107.6 MetFort Recovery EX 26 ✓ 106.1 Not MetMarion Local EX 26 ✓ 109.6 MetParkway EF 26 — 102.8 MetSt. Henry EX 26 ✓ 107.6 Not Met
ALLEN COUNTYEX 100.3 EX 94.1EF 99.0 ED 99.0ED 106.8 EX 104.4EX 101.2 EX 98.5EF 97.9 EX 96.6EF 89.4 CI 88.7CI 80.6 CI 80.5EF 96.3 EX 93.0AE 67.6 AW 70.4ED 104.2 EX 100.7EX 101.5 EED 98.8CI 87.3 EF 90.8
AUGLAIZE COUNTYNA 87.7 CI 67.7ED 109.8 ED 107.8EX 105.7 EX 105.3EX 104.5 EX 103.1EF 99.5 EX 100.0EF 99.0 EF 97.4EF 95.3 EF 92.4
HANCOCK COUNTYEX 101.5 EX 101.2EX 101.6 EF 98.7EF 99.8 EF 98.7EX 99.0 EF 96.9EX 103.9 ED 102.6EX 100.7 EF 96.7EX 105.0 EX 102.0EF 98.8 EF 95.5AW 75.2 CI NA
HARDIN COUNTYEX 100.5 EF 97.2EF 91.4 EF 92.0EF 95.7 EX 93.9EF 96.9 EF 96.1EX 97.9 EF 96.2EF 92.3 CI 88.9NA 67.5 NA NA
LOGAN COUNTY EX 95.7 EF 92.4EF 97.8 EX 96.7EF 96.7 EX 94.9EF 95.3 EF 91.4
MERCER COUNTY ED 100.0 ED 99.3EX 106.8 EX 107.2ED 106.6 EX 106.0EX 108.7 EX 107.2EX 101.8 EX 101.8EX 109.0 EX 108.1
PUTNAM COUNTYColumbus Grove EX 24 ✓ 102.7 MetContinental EX 26 ✓ 102.7 MetJennings EX 26 ✓ 103.2 MetKalida EX 26 ✓ 105.6 Not MetLeipsic EF 22 ✓ 97.0 Not MetMiller City EX 26 ✓ 108.3 MetOttawa-Glandorf EX 26 ✓ 103.9 Not MetOttoville EX 26 ✓ 106.8 MetPandora-Gilboa EX 26 ✓ 105.6 Met
SHELBY COUNTYAnna EX 26 — 105.5 MetBotkins EX 26 ✓ 108.8 MetFairlawn EX 22 ✓ 100.2 MetFort Loramie EX 26 ✓ 109.0 MetHardin-Houston EF 21 — 99.1 Not MetJackson Center EF 24 ✓ 99.5 MetRussia EX 26 ✓ 106.7 MetSidney City EF 21 ✓ 93.3 Not Met
VAN WERT COUNTYCrestview EX 26 ✓ 102.8 MetLincolnview EX 24 ✓ 100.8 MetVan Wert City EF 23 ✓ 99.8 Not MetLifeLinks Community NA CI 1/7 ✓ 72.4 Met
PUTNAM COUNTYED 104.2 EF 98.6EX 101.4 EX 100.8EX 104.3 EX 105EX 106.4 EX 106.3EF 97.0 EX 101.5EX 107.9 EX 107.1EX 104.4 ED 103.7EX 108.2 EX 105.2EX 103.2 ED 104.7
SHELBY COUNTYEX 106.5 ED 106.3EX 107.6 EX 108ED 100.2 EF 93.9EX 107.3 EX 107EF 98.4 EF 97.2EF 99.2 EF 93.7EX 106.6 EX 107.1CI 92.5 EF 91.8
VAN WERT COUNTYEX 102.2 CI 98.8EX 100.3 ED 100.1ED 99.7 EF 97.4NA 57.5 NA NA
THE RATINGExcellent with distinction (ED): Earned when a school or district has been designated excellent and is above expected growth for value added.
Excellent (EX): Meets 94 to 100 percent of indicators or scores 100 to 120 on the Performance Index (PI).
Effective (EF): Meets 75 to 93.9 percent of indicators or scores 90 to 99.9 on the PI.
Continuous Improvement (CI): Meets up to 74.9 percent of indicators or scores up to 89.9 on the PI and meets AYP, or meets 50 to 74.9 percent of indicators or scores 80 to 89.9 on the PI and missed AYP.
Academic Watch (AW): Meets 31 to 49.9 percent of indicators or scores 70 to 79.9 percent on the PI and missed AYP.
Academic Emergency (AE): Meets up to 30.9 percent of indicators and scores up to 69.9 on the PI and missed AYP.
• 26 possible indicators can be met by school districts.
• The lowest a district can be rated if it meets AYP is CI. A district that does not meet AYP for three or more consecutive years, and does not meet AYP for goals for more than one student group in the most recent year, can be rated no higher than CI.
• A high school in AW or AE that improves its PI by at least 10 points over two years, with at least a three-point increase in the current year, can move up one designation, but no higher than CI.
• If a district achieves above expected growth for value added, then it can be bumped up a designation. A district or school may have its designation reduced if it receives a “below expected growth” value added score for three consecutive years.
A6 Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Lima News
Neither candidate scored the clear vic-tory Tuesday night that Mitt Romney racked up in the first presidential debate 13 days ago. But this is life. And in life, there are winners and losers:
Winners• President Obama: It was a near certainty that he
would improve on his mystifyingly bad performance in Denver. And he did. But he did more than that. After coming out a little too hot — Obama was on the wrong side of the passionate/angry divide — the president moderated his tone to the sober yet force-ful persona that he needed to project in this debate.
Debates are about moments, and Obama had three: his line about how his pension wasn’t as big as Romney’s; winning, against all odds, the scrap about the Benghazi attack (with an assist from moderator Candy Crowley); and his strong close in which he used Romney’s “47 percent” comments as a cudgel.
Obama’s performance wasn’t flawless, and he didn’t score a clean win as Romney did in the first debate. But he was the better performer this time around.
• The questions: Town-hall formats tend to be hit or miss. When regular people get to ask the ques-tions — unedited by that darn mainstream media — you either get blunt queries that force the candidates to think or banal generalities that don’t. With a few notable exceptions — gas prices, gun control and why are you so misunderstood — the questions on Libya, whether we are better off than we were four years ago and how Romney differs from George W. Bush were pointed and interesting.
There weren’t enough of them, but that was a func-tion of the two candidates talking too much. And although Romney seemed to get the tougher ques-tions, but complaining about the rules is a loser’s game. (More on that below.)
• Apple: iPad and iPhone both get mentions in the debate! As if Apple needs more free publicity!
• Binders: Not since Trapper Keeper’s heyday have binders been such a big part of the public dialogue.
Losers• Mitt Romney: The Republican nominee abso-
lutely had his moments in this debate. He was excel-lent when laying out the case for why we are not better off than we were four years ago and why he has a better claim to a track record of success than the president does.
But as noted above, these debates are about moments. Romney thought he had one when it came to what Obama said on the day after the Libya attack. But while trying to catch the incumbent in what he thought was a clear mistake, Romney was hoisted on his own petard at Crowley in what will be the single most memorable (and replayed) interac-tion of the debate.
Yes, we are aware that there is considerable con-troversy already over whether what Crowley said regarding Obama’s statement was accurate, but remember that the average viewer simply isn’t going to read everything written about the subject to get to the bottom of it.
Most viewers are going to watch the debate and think: “Obama looked strong there.” Allowing Obama to win — or come close to it — on what should have been his weak spot in the debate was a miss by Rom-ney. And he was clearly jarred about how the Libya fight turned out; he didn’t regain his footing for 10 minutes or so afterward.
• Bickering about rules: These are the two men who are competing to be the leader of the free world. Do we really need to see them reduced to fighting over who gets to speak last or who is or isn’t following the rules of the debate? Both men did it — although Romney did it a bit more — and it looked small and unseemly. Can we please ban this in the future?
• Undecideds: Can you say with a straight face that there was anything in that debate — style or sub-stance — that would convince an undecided voter to get off the fence? We can’t. The argumentative tone from both candidates is the sort of stuff undecided and independent voters don’t like a bit — and affirms for them why politics is broken.
• Apple: Yes, the tech company got lots of free pub-licity, but Crowley noted that its products are made in China! Ouchy.
Chicago Tribune
Confronted with a do-or-die debate on Oct. 3, an energized Mitt Romney surprised America — and that lifeless opponent standing to his left. You knew that President Barack Obama, confronting a similar ultimatum Tuesday night at Hofstra Univer-sity, would display more energy. Asked and answered.
As these minutes unfolded, though, we tried to look past the reassuring theatrics — yes, this debate engaged both men, and neither stumbled — to explore three hard questions facing voters:
Would Obama talk about Rom-ney or about … Obama? On Oct. 3, the president spoke four min-utes longer than Romney did, but
obsessed on trying to undercut his opponent rather than defending his own record. This time Obama offered stronger defenses of his policies and performance and four times accused Romney of saying things that are not true.
For all the jousting, we wish Obama had acknowledged that his plan to raise taxes on high-income Americans would eliminate only about one-tenth of the annual federal deficit. That said, we also wish Romney had offered more specifics on the deductions and loopholes he’d limit to pay for his most ambitious goal, broad cuts in tax rates.
Neither man told Americans about the sacrifices on the hori-zon: Obama didn’t admit that federal spending, and specifically spending on Medicare and Social
Security, is unsustainable without major reforms. Romney didn’t admit that his tax plan includes anticipated revenue increases from a growing economy — a pleasant hope but still a hope — to avoid creating more debt.
Which Romney would take the stage — optimistic and command-ing, or flummoxed and remote from his audience?
The presence of a stronger Obama didn’t create a weaker Romney. He was at his best when repeatedly steering atten-tion to promises that Obama had made but hasn’t fulfilled. Romney ticked off a long list: the pledge to halve annual deficits that instead have doubled, the prediction that unemployment by now would be well below 6 per-cent, the promise to put forth a
comprehensive immigration plan in Year One, the assurance that the agony of home foreclosures would diminish, the suggestion that household income would rise. “If you elect President Obama, you know what you’re going to get,” Romney told Amer-icans. “… This is a president who has not been able to do what he said he would do.”
Do voters have a choice of two agendas, or merely of two men? Liberal pundits in particular had goaded Obama to specify fresh ambitions that would justify a second term (“When did Obama lose ‘the vision thing’?” snapped The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein). But this format proved an inclement place for new propos-als. The discussion was spirited, the talking points familiar. View-
ers did, though, see both men at their best, taking questions from Main Street Americans worried about issues close to their lives: jobs, gasoline prices, taxes and — the unifying theme — fears for the United States of tomorrow.
We’ll know soon whether Obama stopped the bleeding that began Oct. 3: Romney holds a small but persistent lead in the RealClear-Politics polling averages — thanks in part to a swing toward him among women in battleground states. That trend explains both men’s overt appeals to women vot-ers Tuesday night.
Choose your own winner, then, and be grateful: This month’s debates have animated what had been a dispiriting slog to Nov. 6. The final round comes next Mon-day in hard-fought Florida.
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A more assertive Obama, a still robust Romney
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A few observationsworth sharing
Did you ever notice it’s easy for peo-ple to find you to borrow money, but it’s hard in finding them when you want paid back? The Facebook in The Lima News is great. I enjoy your views and you people are awesome. I love reading editorials and Facebook. Keep it up.— Donavan R. Cockerell, Spencerville
What? Josh Mandeltell a lie!
What a shock. Josh Mandel was caught lying again. Now he says he has no opin-ion on the auto bailout or his opinion depends on who he is talking to.
In August, he told a Columbus news-paper Sherrod Brown was “un-Ameri-can” for voting for the auto bailout. The Wall Street Journal wrote his campaign has been one of the most dishonest in the country and has been awarded 14 “Pants on Fire” awards. Sending people like him to Washington is what got us in this mess in the first place.— Stephen R. Miller, Lima
Two-way streetsa needed improvement
Thank you to Lima City Engineer Kirk Niemeyer and staff for the wonderful transition of Elm and Spring streets to a two- way traffic pattern. Travel from Central Avenue West to Wood-lawn (shortly to Cable) has never been quicker. The old one way streets have long ago lost usefulness.
When the business district was full of commercial activity, the one way system was of benefit. Now most of the time only one or two vehicles are traveling in a given block (certainly no need for two lanes in the same direction). I’m looking forward to the next phase for Wayne and West Streets, to proceed shortly.— Joe Bowsher, Lima
Lima Symphony givesunforgettable concert
Saturday night proved to be a phe-nomenal Lima Symphony Orchestra concert. If you were unable to attend, you missed a world-class performance that will be remembered for years.
Russian Pianist Alexander Ghindin worked with Maestro Crafton Beck of the Lima Symphony Orchestra enter-
taining the audience with the rare and difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor by Rachmaninoff. Ghindin then concluded with FOUR encore pieces to the delight of all. His final solo encore was La Campanella from Violin Con-certo No. 2 by Liszt, arranged by Paga-nini and it was spellbinding.
Many have told me that Lima has little to offer in the area of the arts. I submit that more of our residents should get season tickets to the Lima Symphony— every concert is a memorable production.— Michael J. Ayers, Lima
A handgun can beyour best friend
The plethora of domestic killings recently causes me to consider a solution.
I suggest the potential victims arm themselves with a Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) permit and appropri-ate handgun. When the potential victim requests a protection order a police offi-cial could offer guidance on the value of self-protection. An officer, preferably a female, could provide a brief handgun introduction and its use.
Handgun dealers are willing and expert in the types available, advantages of each type, use by a female and cost. They also provide practice shooting ranges, instruc-tion and classes necessary for obtaining the CCW permit. Many folks say they could never shoot another person. The choice is between being shot or confront-ing a potential killer with a well-aimed gun and willingness to defend yourself and your children. Guns are safe when properly handled. Training provides the comfort level to know how and when to use a gun to provide the protection when the police can’t.— Frank Klatt, St. Marys
‘Atlas Shrugged II’a must-see movie
I had the pleasure of watching the movie “Atlas Shrugged II” twice this weekend. I would encourage anyone concerned about the state of our nation to pay for a ticket.
The movie is based on the novel “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. It depicts what our nation could become if the progressive movement continues to gain control of our government.
The subtle inferences of phrases we hear on the news “fair share,” the Con-stitution being the old way, government takeover of industry and the 99% group
make it very timely.Sadly, “Atlas Shrugged I” did not play
in Lima. We drove to Perrysburg to see it. We spoke to others at the theatre who had driven to Fort Wayne last year to be able to view it. Luckily, it is avail-able on DVD and Netflix for anyone needing to catch up.
Spend the time, spend the money and listen to what it is saying.
I am looking forward to “Atlas Shrugged III” .— Dona Sunderland, Lima
It’s time to takeyour vote elsewhere
When a business wants to survive amid competition in the market, there’s an incentive to provide reliable goods or ser-vices at prices compelling to consumers.
Doesn’t it stand to reason when a politi-cal party wants to win elections its leader-ship seeks the best candidates for the high-est offices? If they want your continued support, shouldn’t you rightfully expect them to earn it as long as they promote reliable individuals with track records that match their campaign rhetoric?
If this makes sense to you, I then must ask why are so many conservatives, who supposedly believe in smaller government, supporting Mitt Romney so fervently?
His track record, as governor of Mas-sachusetts and prior to that, are the polar opposite of his platform. I’m supposed to believe that Romney has experienced a change of heart on abortion, gun control, taxation, spending and the individual health insurance mandate and business regulation and TARP and other corporate bailouts and raising the debt ceiling and overall growth of government?
I’m supposed believe he’s seen the light on all nine of those issues? That defies common sense and you know it.
But, I see instead of holding firm on principles people endlessly making excuses for Romney. That is not conserva-tism: that’s capitulation to the status quo.
So, while they enjoy all this blind support, what incentive is there for the Republican Party to alter their ways?
I’ve taken my business elsewhere. I’m taking a stand for true liberty and voting for Gary Johnson. Be Libertarian with me for just one election. You can always go back to the status quo if freedom is that unappealing. — Don Kissick, LimaChair Allen County Libertarian Party of Ohio Candidate for Allen County Com-missioner
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Most cases in Allen County have been neuroinvasive in nature, Dershem said. That means the patients have taken on a more serious form of the virus, with symptoms such as headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, dis-orientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weak-ness and even paralysis.
“The majority of cases we’ve seen in Allen County have required hospitaliza-tion,” Dershem said. “The individuals have been very sick, some requiring exten-sive treatment. And as I said, we do have reports now of
some folks currently hospi-talized and in bad condition.”
The CDC reported another 15 deaths from the virus last week, bringing the total to 183 deaths nationwide.
According to Allen County health officials, Ohio had 110 recorded human cases as of Oct. 11. In 2011, there was a total of 21 cases in the state. They said four out of five people infected with the virus will not develop any symptoms of the disease.
With the cooler tempera-tures, mosquito activity and the cases of West Nile virus are declining.
bank and finance industries use,” Renner said to reassure the crowd.
The health care reform bill passed in 2009. The implementations of health care reform are going to be implemented until as late as 2015 and 2018, if it’s not repealed before then. There’s a lot of uncertainty with this reform with the presidential election still undetermined.
For Armstrong, in addition to men-tioning the changes taking place, he said his concerns from a hospital per-spective at Lima Memorial stem from problems that still exist in health care, reform or not.
“The real issue is there are so many different variables that go into why our health care cost is going up: demand, expectations, the baby boomer population. But … the biggest problem we have in our health care system [is that] the person using the care is not the person paying the full ride for the care. Otherwise, I don’t think we’d be having this conversa-tion,” he said. “It’s an ethical issue, it’s a societal issue. Unless you’re paying for the service, you’re not going to be focused in on what you’re getting.”
Renner said that big health care costs come from preventable causes, including the results of tobacco use and physical inactivity.
“We’ve got to have solutions and ideas,” Renner said.
Armstrong and Renner said there are also many positive things being imple-mented with reform. For instance, Renner said everyone is given the opportunity to have access, one way or another.
“I like the fact that they’re starting to address the concerns that patients have, which is being able to exclude people with pre-existing conditions. I think it’s a good thing that we’re doing away with that,” Armstrong said.
He also cited more transparency and reimbursement incentives to make hospitals more quality competitive as examples of things in the health care world that are much needed that the reform will provide. However, there are consequences. Allowing people with pre-existing conditions drives up premiums.
Things to take effect in 2013 as far as the reform goes includes improvements on electronic medical records, which is to reduce paper-work administrative burdens and costs, an increased hospital insur-ance tax for high-wage workers, an increased income threshold for claim-ing itemized deductions for medical expenses, and establishing a medical device excise tax.
A big concern of Armstrong’s is that employers may decide to pay penal-ties rather than providing insurance to
employers, because there would be a significant cost savings in doing that, at least at the beginning of the imple-mentation in 2014. Same for employ-ees. These individual mandates were a topic that Hinkle also discussed in detail.
In 2014, Armstrong said employ-ees can bypass health insurance for an average of $400, saving perhaps thousands of dollars that health care would inevitably cost. Those fines
continually increase year by year. But that then begs the question, will more people have insurance in the United States than before if mandates can easily be bypassed? The trends will only be truly known these implemen-tations begin to take effect.
“One of the key challenges for us is just trying to figure out where this is going because we’re driving in the dark,” Armstrong said. “It’s a little bit unnerving.”
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Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, addresses Wednesday a healthcare reform luncheon at City Club in Lima.
LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Scientists may never know exactly how the moon and Earth were formed 4.5 bil-lion years ago, but this week their understanding of the cataclysmic event made a sig-nificant leap forward.
In a slew of studies pub-lished Wednesday, planetary scientists provided new evi-
dence supporting the long-standing — but imperfect — theory that the Earth and moon formed after the proto-Earth collided with another huge planetary body, some-times referred to as Theia.
Some of that evidence comes from super-precise measurements of the zinc in lunar rock samples collected
by Apollo astronauts. These findings, reported in the jour-nal Nature, support the idea that the moon’s birth had to have resulted from “a big event with lots of energy,” strong enough to vaporize rock, said study leader Fred-eric Moynier, a geochemist at Washington University.
Separately, two studies
published in the journal Sci-ence detailed two scenarios of what such a powerful crash might plausibly have looked like.
Both collision-simulation papers may solve an intrac-table problem with the clas-sic story scientists told about the moon’s birth. That story goes something like this: Two
planets, one Earth-sized and one Mars-sized, slammed together. The smaller body, Theia, was obliterated com-pletely, its materials flung asunder to form a disk around the Earth that before long coalesced to form the moon.
The theory explains the dis-tance between the two bod-ies, their relative sizes and
other physical properties. But in the last decade or so, a problem arose: The chemis-try didn’t match up with the physics.
“What’s happening now is an attempt to salvage the theory,” said Erik Asphaug, a planetary scientist at the Uni-versity of California, Santa Cruz.
Reports put a new spin on moon’s creation
Skydiver’s feat could influence spacesuits
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Now that the dust has settled in the New Mex-ico desert where supersonic skydiver “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner landed safely on his feet, researchers are exhilarated over the possibil-ity his exploit could someday help save the lives of pilots and space travelers in a disas-ter.
Baumgartner’s death-defy-ing jump Sunday from a bal-loon 24 miles above Earth yielded a wealth of infor-mation about the punishing effects of extreme speed and altitude on the human body — insights that could inform the development of improved spacesuits, new training pro-cedures and emergency med-ical treatment.
A NASA engineer who spe-cializes in astronaut escape systems said Baumgartner’s mission “gives us a good foundation” for improving the odds of survival for pro-fessional astronauts, space tourists and high-altitude pilots and passengers.
“What I would hope is that, perhaps, this is just the first step of many, many advance-ments to come” in emergency bailouts, said Dustin Gohm-ert, who heads NASA’s crew survival engineering office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
In an interview after
Baumgartner became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, Gohmert noted that researchers have spent decades working on self-contained space escape systems, with no significant advances since Joe Kittinger in 1960 jumped from 19.5 miles up and reached 614 mph, records that stood until Sunday.
Baumgartner’s feat was sponsored by energy drink maker Red Bull, and NASA had no role. But Dr. Jonathan Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon who lost his wife, Laurel, in the space shuttle Columbia accident and dedi-cated himself to improving crew escape systems, was in charge of Baumgartner’s medical team.
And he was thrilled at how much was learned.
By going well beyond Mach 1, or the speed of sound, Baumgartner provided even more data than anticipated. Wearing a pressurized suit and helmet, he accelerated to an astonishing 834 mph and was supersonic longer than expected. The speed of sound at that altitude is close to 700 mph.
“It was Mach 1.24, which is really huge. I mean, that’s a much higher level than we’d ever anticipated, so we learned a lot by going faster and higher,” said Clark.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Days after police stormed one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dan-gerous shantytowns to seize back territory long held by a powerful drug dealing organi-zation, city health and welfare workers are working to ease the despair and devastation
left behind among hundreds of crack cocaine addicts sud-denly without drugs.
Since Sunday, when more than 2,000 heavily armed officers stormed into the Manguinhos and Jacarezinho complexes, crews work-ing with police support by
Wednesday had rounded up 231 crack users, and another 67 who had migrated else-where looking for the drug.
The area had been Rio’s biggest open-air crack mar-ket, known as “cracolandia,” or “crackland,” where hun-dreds of users bought the drug, consumed it and lin-gered in shacks and on blan-kets, picking through trash for recyclables to sell so they could buy more.
“These people have to be cured and treated,” Jose Mariano Beltrame, who heads security for Rio state, said dur-ing a Tuesday visit to the area. “They’re not coming back to Jacarezinho and Manguinhos; the area is now occupied.”
Drug dealers tired of the hassle posed by the addicts and by incursions of city health and welfare workers earlier this year banned crack in Mandela, one of the slums. Police now have taken over the entire complex housing about 70,000 people as part of a state program to make Rio safer before the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
In the days after the occu-pation, officers were still searching for guns, drugs and suspects, but other city services were already mak-ing headway. The garbage removal company ran its own mega-operation, remov-ing 220 tons of trash. City utility workers replaced more than 300 street lights.
The crew of welfare work-ers, psychologists and others who provide help rounded up drug users found in the streets and took them to shelters.
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U.N. Syria envoy calls on government to start truce
BEIRUT (AP) — The international envoy to the Syrian conflict on Wednesday called on President Bashar Assad’s regime to take the lead in implementing a cease-fire during a major Muslim holiday later this month.
Lakhdar Brahimi said rebel represen-tatives have assured him they will also observe the truce if the government takes the first step.
“The Syrian people are burying hundreds of people each day, so if they bury fewer people during the days of the holiday, this could be the start of Syria’s return from the dangerous situation that it … is continuing to slip toward,” he told reporters in Beirut.
Brahimi’s push to get Assad and rebels seeking to topple him to stop fighting for the four-day Eid al-Adha feast set to begin Oct. 26 reflects how little progress international diplomacy has made in halting 19 months of deadly violence in Syria. Activists say more than 33,000 people have been killed.
Unlike his predecessor as joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan, Brahimi has said he has no grand plan to end Syria’s civil war. Instead, he presented the truce as a “micro-scopic” step that would alleviate Syrian sorrow temporarily and provide the basis for a longer truce.
Even a short-term cease-fire faced hur-dles. Both sides in the past have verbally
signed on to cease-fires only to then bla-tantly disregard them. And before Brahimi spoke, Syria’s government dismissed the plan, saying the rebels lack a unified leader-ship to sign the truce.
“There is the state, represented by the government and the army on one front, but who is on the other front?” asked an edito-rial in the Al-Thawra daily.
The scores of rebel units fighting a brutal civil war against the regime have no single leader, and many don’t communicate with each other.
Brahimi spoke following meetings with top Lebanese officials as part of a regional tour. He said all countries must work to stop the bloodshed by halting arms ship-ments so the conflict doesn’t spread.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are sym-pathetic to the rebels and are believed to be facilitating their acquisition of weapons or arming them directly. Iran and Russia are Assad’s biggest supporters and provide the Syrian military with most of its advanced weaponry.
“These countries need to realize, as we heard today in Lebanon, that it is not pos-sible that this crisis will stay inside Syrian border forever,” Brahimi said. “Either it has to be taken care of or it will spread and spill over and consume everything.”
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CINCINNATI — College campuses have become more than a backdrop for the presi-dential campaign in Ohio as both sides are vying to sway young voters to their side.
President Barack Obama continued his cam-pus tour of Ohio on Wednesday with an evening rally at Ohio University in southeastern Ohio. It was the fifth Ohio college the Democratic presi-dent has visited in less than a month.
Not to be outdone, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has made the rounds to the state’s universities.
Ryan, a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, spoke Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace University near Cleveland, where he talked about the growing debt and lack of jobs for young people getting out of college. He blamed Obama for both.
“He gives us a growing debt and no solu-tions,” Ryan said.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Rom-ney and Ryan recently visited several Ohio campuses. Last weekend, Romney had a rally at Shawnee State University, while Ryan tail-gated with Bowling Green State University football fans and then spoke at Youngstown State. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, made
his alma mater one of his first stops after being named as Romney’s running mate, and he also visited with fans at the Miami-Ohio State foot-ball game in Columbus soon afterward.
At Ohio University, Obama told the crowd he has two daughters and doesn’t want them to be paid less for the same job as a man.
Student Paris Aaron said he is voting for Obama because he wants to help give the pres-ident a chance to finish what he has started.
“I don’t think starting all over again will help out the country at all,” said Aaron, 19, of Columbus.
LIMA — He’s spent his share of time in the last two and a half years driving the short distance to “ham-burger row,” but now University of Northwestern Ohio student Tyler Wright has a better option.
“For a small college, something like this is very nice,” Wright said Wednesday from the school’s new food court, located inside the new Student Commons. “Students sometimes complain that there are not enough things to do. Having something like this is sort of an
icon for this small campus.”UNOH and community officials
dedicated the new 55,000-square-foot Student Commons on Wednes-day. The building has been open to students for just more than a month. It came out of neces-sity, President Jeffrey Jarvis said, because of the school’s growth.
“This was necessary to enhance our students’ academic and more important social growth in the cen-ter of the campus,” he said.
The 400-seat food court is open to the public and features items from six different food stations, includ-ing a grill, sandwich bar, salad bar and complete hot meal bar. The
Student Commons is located off Hartzler Road on campus.
A highlight of the building is the Dr. Cheryl A. Mueller Library. Muel-ler is vice president of academic affairs/provost. The new library
LIMA — After pleading guilty halfway through his trial, a man who tried to shoot another man to death spoke Wednesday of issues he said are plaguing the black community.
“View the big picture. This is all in refer-ence to drugs and alcohol. Drugs, alcohol and guns. My life is filled with drugs, guns and alcohol,” said Terry Felton after entering his guilty plea in the Sept. 25, 2011, shooting that wounded a Lima man.
Felton, 38, pleaded guilty to felonious
assault with a gun and aggravated robbery with a gun after shooting Markese Davis. Felton was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Davis was shot four times in the body and once in the head during a robbery prosecu-tors said was over drugs. The shooting took place inside a house at 607 Fairview Ave.
Felton said he is not the only person on the south side of Lima with this experience.
“We need to get it together as black people, period, and that’s all I have to say,” he said.
Judge Jeffrey Reed seemed taken back by Felton’s remarks.
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LIMA — Eat healthy. Be active. It’s the mantra for the Activate Allen County initia-tive that is working to improve the health and wellness of Allen County residents.
It’s also going the slogan that’s going to be emblazoned on the side of a donated Allen County Regional Tran-sit Authority bus that’s being transformed into a mobile produce market as part of the Activate Allen County effort. The partners involved unveiled the project Wednes-day during Lima Mayor David Berger’s weekly news briefing.
“It’s important to mention what an innovative program this is for a community this size. As far as we’re aware, I don’t believe there’s another community our size that has taken on a project like this,” Gary Bright, chief executive officer of the West Ohio Food Bank, said. “The places we’re looking at our places like Chi-cago, Kansas City. I under-stand there may be buses in Columbus and in Cleveland. For a community our size, I think this is pretty new.”
The concept is to take fresh produce out to so-called food deserts, places that are underserved or not served by a market that has fresh produce or where the population can’t afford fresh produce, Bright said. The United Way of Greater Lima
UNOH students welcome commonsNew building brings better library,
eating options to campusBy BETH L. JOKINEN
LIMA
Woman falls off cycle, driver flees scene
After a passenger fell off the back of a motorcycle on Interstate 75 Tues-day evening, the driver of the motor-cycle took off, the Lima post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.
Terry King, 63, of Lima, was northbound on I-75 near milepost 127, the state Route 81 exit, riding a 1984 Honda motorcycle, when Erin M. Mulcahy, 31, of Lima, fell off the back of his motorcycle around 8 p.m., patrol officials said.
She landed in the right lane of northbound traffic on the interstate. The vehicle behind King’s motor-cycle swerved to miss Mulcahy and struck the concrete median wall, according to patrol officials.
Officials said King left the scene of the crash. He was later arrested at his home on Metcalf Street in Lima. He is being charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and aggravated vehicular assault.
Mulcahy was taken to Lima Memorial Health System by Bath EMS, with serious injuries, patrol officials said.
WAPAKONETA
Woman dies after Monday I-75 crash
A Texas woman died after a crash on Interstate 75 Monday just south of Wapakoneta, the Wapako-neta post of the Ohio State High-way Patrol reported.
Lorraine Harrison, 62, of San Antonio, was taken to Lima Memo-rial Health System, where she died.
The crash happened near the U.S. Route 33 exit at 11:15 a.m. Monday. Susanne Borders, 47, of Wawaka, Ind., was eastbound on Route 33 in a tractor-trailer when she attempted to exit onto I-75.
Borders lost control on the exit ramp and crossed both southbound lanes of traffic, crossed the median and crashed through the median cable to enter the northbound lanes of traffic, where she struck a Lincoln MKS head-on, according to patrol officials.
The Lincoln MKS was operated by Randy Harrison, 64, of San Antonio. He was also taken to Lima Memorial Health System, where he underwent emergency surgery Monday.
Borders was taken to St. Rita’s Medical Center. Lt. Scott Carrico of the Wapakoneta post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said she was talking to officers and alert at the scene of the crash.
DELPHOS
Four in Delphos face drug charges
Four people from Delphos were indictment on drug-related charges after search warrants were exe-cuted, the Delphos Police Depart-ment reported.
David W. Nelson, 50, was charged with two counts of a fifth-degree felony trafficking in marijuana and one count of fourth-degree felony trafficking in marijuana. He was found at his home in the 400 block of East Suthoff Street and arrested without incident.
Cynthia A. Kline, 53, was charged with three counts of trafficking in marijuana, a fifth-degree felony, and one count of possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, another fifth-degree felony. She was aware she had a warrant for her arrest and turned herself in at the Allen County Sherriff’s Office.
Dustin W. Lehmkuhle, 23, faces charges of one count of possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony. He was found at his place of employ-ment on Gressel Drive in Delphos and arrested without incident.
Jennifer R. Wallace, 29, was charged with one count of tamper-ing with evidence, a third-degree fel-ony. She was located at her home in the 500 block of North Main Street and was arrested without incident.
• From staff report •
Admits ‘My life is filled with drugs, guns and alcohol’
Terry Felton looks to the back of the courtroom after his attorney Greg Novak made a change of plea during his trial on Tuesday.
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• The Lima News
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Dr. Jeff Jarvis addresses those in attendance at the ribbon cutting for the new UNOH Student Commons.
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R E G I O N & O H I OFUNERALS
BIRTHS
NOTABLE DEATH
LIMA
Paul J. ScarrettPaul J. Scarrett, 77, passed
away Oct. 16, 2012, at St. Rita’s Medical Center.
He was born Aug. 14, 1935, in Wellston, the son of the late William Delbert Scarrett and Sylvia Mae Vititoe Scar-rett.
Paul was a veteran of the Marines Corps, hav-ing served during the Korean War. He retired from Ford Motor Co. He was a former member of the American Legion Post 371 and Veter-ans of Foreign Wars Post 9092, both in Wellston, and Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 370, Lima.
He is survived by eight children, Ruth Ann Scarrett, of Wellston, Gary Lee Scar-rett (Robin), of Hamden, Michael R. Scarrett (Tina), of Wellston, Penny C. Scar-rett, of Lima, Sylvia Christine Sargent (Joe), of Columbus Grove, Tina Marie Scarrett, of Lima, Paula Regina Neel (Jerry), of Indiana, and Cindy Lou Warren (Tobby), of North Carolina; three sis-ters, Mary Richards (Rob-ert), of Lima, Helen Perry, of Wellston, and Violet Davis (Danny), of Lima; close friend, Shirley Elkins, of Lima; and 21 grandchildren and several great-grandchil-dren, nieces and nephews.
Besides his parents, Paul was preceded in death by brother, Charles Thomas McNeely; and two sisters, Rosie Jonas and Wilma McNeely.
Calling hours will be Satur-day from 12 to 1 p.m. at McWil-liams Funeral Home, Wellston, where funeral services will fol-low at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Ridgewood Cemetery, with military honors by American Legion Post 371.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at mcwilliams-funeralhome.com.
MCGUFFEY
Rubena “Ruby” Prater
Rubena “Ruby” Prater, 86, died at 11:48 p.m. Oct. 16, 2012, at Kenton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Ken-ton.
She was born March 5, 1926, in Magoffin County, Ky., to Mennefee and Alta Patrick Pat-ton, who preceded her in death. On Sept. 11, 1943, she married Herbert “Hebert” Prater, who died May 30, 2005.
Mrs. Prater was a home-maker and retired from North Electric Co., Kenton, after several years. She was a member of McGuffey Church of Christ, McGuffey. She was a member of TOPPS. She was an artist who painted landscape scenes and loved canning from grandpa’s gar-den.
Survivors include a daugh-ter, Beverly (Roy) Justice, of Alger; a daughter-in-law, Linda Prater, of Orlando, Fla.; five grandchildren, Angela (Charles) Jeffrey, Robert Amos Prater, Douglas Todd (Lisa) Prater, Jonathan (Shelly) Prater and Deborah Flint; 11 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchil-dren; a brother, Ed (Gloria) Patton, of Kenton; and four sisters, Diane Hamilton, of Kenton, Cathy (Darrell) Tackett, of Findlay, Patty Patton, of Indiana, and Jenny Woofter, of Findlay.
She was preceded in death by a son, Robert Douglas Prater, who died May 17, 1995; a grandson, Phillip Jus-tice; five brothers, Delmar, Johnny, Dorsey, Danny and Phillip Patton; and a sister, Ailene Capps.
Services will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at McGuffey Church of Christ, McGuffey. Pastor Jacob Huber and Pas-tor Ron Briggs will offici-ate. Burial will be in Preston Cemetery, Alger.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Hanson-Neely Funeral Home, Alger, and one hour prior to ser-vices Saturday at the church.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hardin County Hospice, Kenton.
Condolences may be expressed at hansonneely.com.
Scarrett Prater
BELLE CENTER
Doris M. “Betty” Wurth
Doris “Betty” M. Wurth, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Belle Center, passed away Oct. 10, 2012.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m., Satur-day at the Palm Harbor Chapel of the Moss Feaster Funeral Homes, Clearwater, Fla.
Betty was born one of five children, to John and Jea-nette Bradley, in Belle Cen-ter. She dedicated her tal-ents to taking care of her home and family. She was an adventurous active, fun-loving woman who enjoyed fishing, bowling and rooting for her favored Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, but most of all she enjoyed playing golf.
She was preceded in death by her parents, siblings and her husband of 56 years, Carl F. Wurth.
She leaves a daughter, Susan Grismer; three grand-sons, Mark, Eric and Adam Grismer; and two great-grandchildren, Garrett and Madison Grismer.
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Wurth
CLOVERDALE
Jason Lee WrightJason Lee Wright was born
September 23, 1970, at St. Rita’s Medical Center. Now has gone to be with his Sav-ior in heaven at 7:50 p.m. October 15, 2012.
He left behind his wife Lisa Wright, the love of his life. His eldest son Nic Wright, Stephanie, Tori, Gabriel, Hannah, step sons Bradley and Jamie.Jason’s chil-dren were the center of his heart. He was the loving son of Leslie Wright Polley. He also left behind his sister, Susan Rae Wright Claypool, and brother Wade Philip Wright. His family was EVERYTHING to him and Lisa referred to him as her “rock”. His mother, Leslie, called him Her “my baby boy”, even as a grown man. He was a caring, lov-ing husband, father, son and brother. His loss to us is heavens gain. He is forever in our hearts. Our blessed hope is knowing that we will all be together again.
We wish to thank Dr. Nor-man Moser, whose care once again for our family was with love and compassion that God has filled him with. We also wish to thank Dr.’s Shee-han, Shaheen, Kuchipudi and Kamepali, who took wonder-ful care of Jason Lee. The nursing staff worked tire-lessly. May God richly bless you all.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Harter and Schier Funeral Home, Del-phos, with Pastor Mark Fuer-stenau presiding. Memorial contributions may be made to the family.
Wright
OBITUARIES
WAPAKONETA
Patsy J. FosterPatsy J. Foster, 82, died at
9 a.m. Oct. 17, 2012, at her residence.
Arrangements are incom-plete at Schlosser Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Wapakoneta.
OTTAWA
Rita Jane GibsonRita Jane Gibson, 87, died
at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 17, 2012, at Putnam Acres Care Center, Ottawa.
Arrangements are incom-plete at Love Funeral Home, Ottawa.
MINSTER
Geneva M. KerberGeneva M. Kerber, 92, died
at 10 a.m. Oct. 17, 2012, at her daughter’s residence in Findlay.
Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 9:30 a.m. Satur-day at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Minster. The Rev. Rick Nieberding will offi-ciate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m Friday and 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. Saturday at Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster.
ST. MARYS
Arthur R. ReedArthur R. Reed, 81, died
Oct. 16, 2012, at Joint Town-ship District Memorial Hos-pital, St. Marys.
Services will begin at 1 p.m. Friday at Miltonville Baptist Church, Miltonville. Pastor Jessie Combs will officiate. Burial will be in the Miltonville Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Gilbert-Hartwig Funeral Home, New Bremen, and 11 a.m. until time of services Friday at the church.
OTTOVILLE
George L. RickerGeorge L. Ricker, 90, died
at 2:25 p.m. Oct. 17, 2012, at St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.
Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Ottoville.
Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday at Love-Heitmeyer Funeral Home, Jackson Township, where arrangements are incom-plete.
AELKER, Agnes M. — Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at SS. Peter & Paul Catho-lic Church, Ottawa. Burial: church cemetery. Visitation: 2 to 8 p.m. Friday at Love Funeral Home, Ottawa, where a Scripture service will be held at 2:30 p.m.
BECKMAN, Lena A. — 1 p.m. Friday at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Shawnee Chapel. Visitation: 11 a.m. until time of services Friday at the funeral home.
BOHN, Jackie L. “Jack” — 10 a.m. Friday at Cham-berlain-Huckeriede Funeral Home. Burial: Gethsemani Cemetery, with military rites by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1275. Visitation: 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
COOKSON, Richard Ray — 2 p.m. today at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation ser-vices, Bluffton. Burial: Hasson Cemetery, Orange-Van Buren Township.
EMMERLING, Jane A. McCaughtry — Memorial service will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the Four Seasons Room at Cypress Glen, Greenville, N.C. Visita-tion: following the service.
EVERS, Dorotha M. — 11 a.m. Saturday at Crossroads Church of God. Burial: 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Salem Men-nonite Cemetery, Elida.
HOUSER, Tony R. — 10:30 a.m. today at Cisco Funeral Home, Celina.
HUBER, Alice E. — 10 a.m. today at Chamberlain-Huckeriede Funeral Home. Burial: Rockport Cemetery, Rockport.
HUBER, Edgar E. — 11 a.m. today at Grace Menno-nite church, Pandora. Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluff-ton, with military rites.
JOHNSTON, Evelyn Pearl — 11 a.m. today at Heitmeyer Funeral Home, Continental. Burial: Monroe Cemetery, Continental. Visitation: one hour prior to services today at the funeral home.
KAUFMAN, Ralph S. — Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10 a.m. today at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic church, Ottawa. Burial: church cem-etery.
KIMMET, Donald W. — Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 3 p.m. today at Immaculate Conception Cath-olic Church, Ottoville. Burial: St. Mary Cemetery, Ottoville, with military rites by VFW Post 3740.
KUNZ, Sharlene “Sue” — Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 11 a.m. today at St. John the Evangelist Catho-lic church, Delphos. Burial: church cemetery.
MOWERY, Belva M. — 1:30 p.m. today at Bayliff & Son Funeral Home, Cridersville. Burial: St. Matthew Cemetery, Cridersville. Visitation: noon until time of services today at the funeral home.
OVERHOLT, Charles R. “Paps” — 1 p.m. today at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cre-mation Services, Shawnee Chapel. Burial: Bechtel Cem-etery, Van Buren. Visitation: one hour prior to services today at the funeral home.
PUTMAN, Ruth Marie — Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, Van Wert. Burial: Woodland Cemetery, Van Wert. Visitation: 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today and one hour before to services Friday at Cowan & Son Funeral Home, Van Wert, where a rosary service will be held at 8 p.m.
ROWE, Suzanne K. Barnes Delgado — Graveside ser-vices will begin at 1 p.m. Sat-urday at Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima, with military rites by VFW Post 1275. Visitation: noon Saturday at Bayliff & Son Funeral Home, Criders-ville.
SNETHKAMP, Carol W. — Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10:30 a.m. today at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, St. Marys. Burial: Gethse-mane Cemetery, St. Marys.
TENNEY, Charles F. — Memorial services will begin at 2 p.m. Friday at Siferd-Orians Funeral Home.
St. Rita’s Medical CenterOct. 15 — Arianna Selhorst and Moises Paniagua Jr.,
Ottawa, boy.Oct. 16 — Keisha and Dan Larimore, Elida, girl; Kathy
Campbell and Jonathan Stover, Lima, girl; Kendra and Jason Mathias, Lima, girl.Lima Memorial Health System
Oct. 16 —Josyln Haithcock and Martrevius McGill, Lima, boy; Sierra and Michael Slusser, Ottoville, girl.
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Non-sense was big business for Larry Sloan, who co-founded a Los Angeles publishing company in the 1960s to print books that were blue-prints for silliness.
The series of word-game books, “Mad Libs,” became absurdly popular and marked its 50th anniversary in 2008. More than 110 million of the slim paperbacks have report-edly been sold.
Sloan, the last survivor of the trio of founders of Price Stern Sloan publishing, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medi-cal Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, said his daugh-ter, Claudia Sloan. He was 89.
He was looking for a career that was more “distin-guished” than being a Holly-wood press agent, Sloan told Publishers Weekly in 1973, when he was by contacted by two men who had come up with the idea for “Mad Libs” — TV writer Leonard Stern and television personality Roger Price.
“In the early ’60s, Larry Sloan, a dear friend from high school who had always been a grammarian par excellence, joined us as a partner and CEO,” Stern wrote in an offi-cial “Mad Libs” history, “and we became the publishing company Price Stern Sloan.”
Sloan “eventually became the business man behind ‘Mad Libs,’” Stern told The Washington Post in 1994.
Working from offices in West Hollywood, Sloan directed the editing of manuscripts that often emphasized humor. As of 1973, the company had 150 titles — mainly original softcovers that sold for a dol-lar — and expected to gross about $1.6 million that year.
In the late 1970s, Sloan discovered a hand-made “Wee Sing” book that led to the firm’s popular line of “Wee Sing” books, audio-tapes and videos for children, his daughter said.
Commissioner candidates focus on health care at Shawnee Manor
By SARAH STEMEN419-993-2101
LIMA — What was designed to be a question-and-answer session for Allen County commissioner candi-dates at Shawnee Manor turned into a health care debate on Wednesday.
Republican candidate Cory Noonan and Democratic candidate Connie Miller stood in front of Shawnee Manor residents and staff members and fielded questions, which were mostly concerning health care and the budget.
There were also two members from President Barack Obama’s campaign there.
Both candidates went over the ballot for their parties and the offices for which they were running.
Both spoke to why health care costs were not going down and insurance premiums were steadily increasing. Miller said she knows firsthand that insurance premiums are still increasing.
“I sell health insurance for a living. Health insurance pre-miums have been increasing exponentially for years. The people who oppose the changes that have come about because of the Affordable Health Care Act, are saying that it’s going to increase your premiums,” Miller said. “Person-ally, the increases that I’m seeing on my plans are no larger or smaller than the increases that I’ve been delivering to them for the last eight years.”
Noonan pointed out the penalty that companies and individuals would face if they elected out of coverage, should the Affordable Health Care Act stay in effect.
“You’ll have to pay $1,400 if you don’t get the health care. We haven’t had anything to drive the cost of health care down. But what you also have to understand is that Obamacare is not fully implemented. There are things that don’t go into effect until 2014. Ask yourself, why 2014? The election is over,” he said. “So there’s a lot of things that have yet to come into effect, like the penalty, and other things that we haven’t seen yet.”
But he highlighted the Republican party’s promise to reform many major social programs if Romney were to take the White House in November.
“When it comes to our country, we’re dealing with some serious fiscal issues and reforms need to happen,” he said. “And you’ve seen through the debates the gover-nor’s vision and the congressman’s vision of where they’d like to see the United States go. I know there are a lot of concerns with Medicare and Social Security. I can assure you, the plan that they have proposed, for people over 55, it will not affect the plans, the premiums of what you are receiving.”
Miller also chimed in on what she referred to as a life-style problem in Allen County.
“We have a lifestyle problem here in Allen County. We have a lot of people who have unhealthy lifestyles — smoking, obesity, alcohol,” she said. “What we’re being told now from our economic development leaders is that it’s costing businesses more money to do business in Allen County than in other places and it’s having an impact on our ability to get new businesses to come here.”
Don Kissick is also running for county commissioner, listed on the ballot as the Libertarian candidate. The elec-tion is Nov. 6 and the newly elected commissioner will take his or her seat Jan. 2.
POLICE CALLS3000 block of North Thayer Road, Lima — On Tuesday,
a 62-year-old man said someone dumped several loads of lumber and steel on his property.
1000 block of Breese Road, Lima — A 39-year-old man reported someone cut a hole in the side of his work trailer and removed items from it Wednesday.
1300 block of Neubrecht Road, Lima — On Tuesday, a 23-year-old man said someone removed his rear license plate from his truck.
1939 Elida Road, Lima — A Hertz Corp. employee reported a 2010 white Toyota Matrix is missing from the business inventory and has been missing since December 2010.
2000 block of Coon Road, Lima — On Tuesday, a 58-year-old man said someone came onto his property overnight and stole gasoline from two of his cars.
1050 N. Thayer Road, Lima — A Lima Kennel Club employee reported someone broke into the kennel and removed items, including a John Deere green gator on Monday.
1 Spartan Way, Lima — On Tuesday, Lima police reported a student walked through the lunch room, picked up a chair, and shouted a string of expletives that caused other students to begin shouting as well.
1300 block of West Market Street, Lima — A man and woman said someone stole a 55-inch Smart TV, a Toshiba laptop, a Compaq laptop and $950 from their residence after a door was left unlocked on Tuesday.
333 N. Jackson St., Lima — On Tuesday, a Wellman Services employee reported someone stole the company’s trailer with a Gator on it.
The Columbus Dispatch
MARYSVILLE — It took several hours — preceded by a scrapped plan to hold the court hearing in a garage — but a man accused of burning down a Union County church in January pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Stephen Beightler, 31, was in Union County Common Pleas court Wednesday for a routine hearing to set a date for his expected trial on charges related to his burn-ing of the New Horizons Baptist Church. Instead, he pleaded guilty to charges of arson, vandalism and break-ing and entering.
He waived a pre-sentence investigation and Judge Don Fraser sentenced him today to three years in prison on the vandalism charge and 17 months on an arson charge to be served consecutively, for a total of 53 months. The breaking and entering charge was not considered because sentencing rules wouldn’t allow it.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped charges of receiving stolen property and possession of criminal tools.
Beightler, who grew up in Union County, stole a BMW from his roommate in Philadelphia and drove the car through the night to Marysville, where he drove through the doors of the
church on Paver Barnes Road. Then he set the building ablaze on Jan. 10.
He was arrested at the scene, swinging on a swing set and watching the fire after he called 911 from a cellphone. He had a dispos-able lighter in his pocket and gasoline on his clothes.
The church was destroyed, at a loss topping $968,000, but no one was injured.
Court officials were set up Wednesday to hold Beightler’s hearing in the garage connected to the Union County Courthouse, a first as far as anyone could recall.
The extraordinary set-ting was because when Beightler was in court in Champaign County in May to answer to charges that
he assaulted a jail guard and a police officer while in custody on this case, he urinated on the floor of the holding cell.
The planned garage hear-ing was only the latest tac-tic used by court officials to keep Beightler under con-trol. At a hearing in Union County in April, Beightler was heavily shackled and wore a mask to prevent him from biting or spitting on others. Several extra dep-uty sheriffs were on hand, and they wore protective gloves, also an uncommon courtroom practice.
He also had repeatedly made in appropriate ges-tures while in court and has made inflammatory state-ments toward prosecutors and judges.
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RTA offering free bus rides
The Lima/Allen County RTA will be holding its Cus-tomer Appreciation Day on Oct. 26.
Bus rides will be free all day. There will be hot dogs and soda at the transfer sta-tion from 10 a.m. until sup-plies run out. Join the fun and ride the bus for free.
VAN WERT
Candidate to stump today
Angela Zimmann, the Democratic candidate for the 5th Congressional Dis-trict, will speak at a school board meeting, have a meet-and-greet, and visit a small business today in Van Wert.
Zimmann will speak at the Northwest Ohio Regional School Board meeting at Vantage Career Center, 818 N. Franklin St., from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. From 7:45 to 9 p.m. there will be a meet-and-greet with the Van Wert County Democratic Party at 147 E. Main St., Suite A. At 9:05 p.m. she’ll visit Simply Irresist-ible Bakery & Sweets, 229 S. Washington St., to speak with owner Travis Tribolet about his small business.
COLUMBUS
Fungal meningitis update
The Ohio State Depart-ment of Health has released a list of 64 health care pro-viders who purchased medi-cations from New England Compounding Center, linked to spreading fungal meningi-tis to hundreds of people in the United States.
This list included two facil-ities in the region: The Eye Surgery Center of Western Ohio, Lima, and the Findlay Surgery Center, Findlay.
The Ohio Department of Health is encouraging all health care providers to fol-low up with patients who received any injectable prod-ucts from the Massachusetts facility.
Unlike bacterial or viral meningitis, fungal meningitis cannot be spread person to person. Ohio has seven cases of fungal meningitis (no deaths), all linked to back injections with ste-roids distributed by NECC. The case numbers for Ohio could change as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adjusts its case definition and Ohio further evaluates each patient.
The list of all Ohio facili-ties that carried products from the NECC can be found at http://j.mp/QtSyWH.
CINCINNATI
Man charged with stabbing at bus stopPolice say a Cincinnati
man is in jail after alleg-edly stabbing one woman numerous times and slap-ping another at a bus stop in what authorities say were apparently random attacks in southwest Ohio.
Cincinnati police said in court documents that Jerome Raven told them he intended to kill 24-year-old Tiara Metcalf and she wouldn’t hold still.
Police say Metcalf is expected to recover.
Police say the 31-year-old Raven allegedly stabbed the woman at a downtown bus stop Tuesday and was arrested on charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and assault.
WARREN
Woman, 500 pounds, hospitalized
A 500-pound Warren woman is in hospital inten-sive care while investigators try to determine how she ended up bedridden in filthy, bug-infested conditions.
Police also expect today to question the 41-year-old woman’s four children, who are now staying with an aunt, according to Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green.
Officials said she has been bedridden for about two years and that she had a bro-ken hip.• From staff and news reports •
ABOVE: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accompanied by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaks at a campaign rally Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea.RIGHT: President Barack Obama greets a girl in the audience Wednesday at a campaign event at Ohio University in Athens.
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COLLEGE VOTE • from B1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Breanna Williams, from Jackson,
said she also is supporting Obama. Williams, 20, says she believes he is “really geared” toward col-lege students and that funding and affordability of higher education are among the top issues for her.
Exit polling in 2008 indicated Obama won two-thirds of the vote among college-age adults as he car-ried Ohio, a state expected to be close this year and possibly crucial to winning the White House. Under-scoring the importance of Ohio and its college vote, Obama officially kicked off his re-election campaign in May at Ohio State University.
In a return visit to OSU last week, Obama urged students to take buses provided for them at the rally to go to early voting locations, saying: “Everything we fought for in 2008 is
on the line in 2012.”But the Romney campaign thinks
it will make inroads with young voters this year, and a campaign official said it is well-organized on campuses across the state.
“We are making a huge push on the campuses,” said Scott Jennings, Romney’s state campaign director. “This is a different environment for Obama than it was in 2008. The economy is sputtering along, and these college kids know they are about to graduate into a world that may not have a job for them.”
Obama campaign officials say they are well-positioned on cam-puses. They say the president has been getting enthusiastic crowds, with students waiting for hours to see and hear him.
University of Cincinnati student
body president Lane Hart recalled that the campus excitement in 2008, when Obama spoke at a huge UC rally, “was really palpable.” But Hart, who said he is impartial on the presidential campaign, disputed that students aren’t as interested in this year’s race.
Hart, a 22-year-old Lewisburg native who majors in information systems and finance, pointed to an enthusiastic, larger-than-expected turnout Tuesday night at a campus center to watch the second presi-dential debate. Organizers were kept busy adding hundreds of chairs for arriving students, with more than 500 on hand by the time it started.
“I would say more young people are engaged,” he said. “I think every-one here understands the impor-tance of Ohio; and Cincinnati, Ham-
ilton County and the young vote. I sense a feeling of duty and respon-sibility.”
First-year Ohio State student Emily Rees of Chagrin Falls said she has been pushing her fellow stu-dents to vote, even if they disagree with her support of Obama.
“I’m like: ‘Listen, you need to vote. It’s your duty to your country.’ Obvi-ously, I want the president to win. ‘Like, I don’t care who you vote for, but it’s your voice. You just need to vote,’” she said.
Despite the ability to vote early, she’s going to wait until Nov. 6 to cast her ballot for president for the first time.
“I just want to be caught up in the election craziness,” said Rees, 18, dual-majoring in music education and Russian.
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Lancaster girl injured in fallLANCASTER (MCT) — An 11-year-old Lancaster girl is
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Lancaster police said they were told Wednesday that Eliza-beth Fuller is in critical condition.
The girl suffered a broken leg and arm, and head trauma, according to the police incident report.
The girl slipped and fell from the Devil’s Kitchen area of Mount Pleasant at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. A friend with her called 911.
Medics could not find Elizabeth immediately. Two police officers then scaled down 40 feet from the summit and found the girl tangled in a tree. The officers placed a neck brace on her, and lowered her about 10 feet down from the tree to the waiting medics.
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“It’s a wonderful hands-on learning activity that gives them real life skills. It’s not something we just make and then throw away when they’re done,” said Doug Bodey, high school direc-tor at Apollo Career Center. “They’re going to see the bus out on the road and know that over 100 students had an oppor-tunity to participate in the design or fabrication of doing this. Our students are also so good about helping the community. They have a genuine desire and a real care to help the com-munity. This is another way for them to give back.”
Bright said officials are hopeful the bus will be ready to hit the road sometime early next year.
“It will be neat to see this in the neighborhoods,” Berger said. “I think the mere fact it will be out in the neighbor-hoods will self-advertise as well as the fact that once it’s there the community will come to rely on it.”
“I’ve been on the bench 13 years and I’ve been trying to figure this out,” Reed said. “I wish it would stop. It doesn’t seem like anybody wants to stop it. It’s not only destroying one and two families at a time, but it’s destroying a whole community.”
Davis’ mother, Cynthia Davis-White, told Felton he destroyed their family.
“I just want you to look at my son. You know what hap-pened that day,” she said. “You changed our lives forever. My son is here and he can’t see anymore.”
Davis-White urged Felton to take the 10 years in prison to change his life in a positive way.
“The path you have walked is not the right path,” she said. “Take this opportunity to get it together.”
The shooting victim, Davis, 30, sat in the courtroom in front of his mother. He declined to comment. The shooting left him blind in both eyes.
The plea came before testimony resumed Wednesday morning when Felton asked his attorney about a plea deal.
After the hearing, Assistant Allen County Prosecutor Dan Berry said he believes Felton saw the evidence piling up against him during the first day of trial.
“I think he decided the best thing he could do was to just try to cut his losses,” Berry said.
Berry met with Davis and his family after Felton asked for a plea deal to make sure they were OK with it.
UNOH • from B1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––brings the book collection from 10,000 to 25,000 and has 48 computers, up from 16 in the previous library.
“It is just so much more open,” said library assistant Amanda Johnson. “Students can appreciate the amount of books and computers we have now.”
Johnson also points to the addition of six group study rooms. It allows students to work in small groups or get tutoring. The rooms are almost always full, she added.
Tyler Wright, a freshman business and administration student, worked on a project in the library Wednesday night.
“I think it is beautiful,” he said of the building, being equally impressed with the library and food court. ”Now you can actually sit down and eat and have a good meal.”
The Student Commons also houses all medical information technology
and Master of Business Administration classes, the Academic Skills Center and counseling services. An outdoor gathering area for students will be completed in the spring.
Jed Metzger, president of the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce, said during the dedication ceremony that UNOH is one of the county’s great assets.
“It is not just all the contractors, all the jobs, students who come here and spend their money at the various businesses in town,” he said. “But it is the quality of life that this university presents to our community.”
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Target, Best Buy to match online prices at holidays
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Target and other brick-and-mortar retail-ers are treating this holiday season as an offensive against online rivals such as Amazon.com, using tactics such as price-matching to win back dominance of the Christmas shopping season.
Tired of being used as showrooms by cus-tomers testing products in person before buying them online for less, Target and Best Buy have both pledged to offer the same prices in stores as major Internet shops.
This week, Target said its debut price-
matching program would run between Nov. 1 and Dec. 16, with prices on in-store items meeting the same prices offered online at Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Toys R Us.
Target also said that it will extend the same policy for products in its stores available for less on Target.com or in printed advertise-ments from local competitors. That program runs from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24.
Last week, Best Buy said it would match prices for appliances and electronics Nov. 4-17 and again from Nov. 27 through Dec. 24. The big-box chain said it will also offer free shipping for products out of stock in stores.
People attend a workshop Wednesday, “New York Get Your Business Online,” at Google offices in New York. Google, working with the Small Business Administration and Intuit, is hosting a series of workshops to provide small-business owners the tools and resources to establish a website, find new customers and grow their businesses.
Wine experts: worst grape harvest in 50 yearsBRUSSELS (AP) — Winemaker Cherie
Spriggs had watched the bad weather over southern England’s vineyards all season long. It just wasn’t good enough for Nyetimber, her award-winning sparkling wine.
Spriggs was left with only one option and the company decided to forego the 2012 harvest.
Few have gone as far as Nyetimber but drought, frost and hail have combined to ravage Europe’s wine grape harvest, which in key regions this year will be the smallest in half a century, vintners say.
Thierry Coste, an expert with the Euro-pean Union farmers’ union, said Wednesday that France’s grape harvest is expected to slump by almost 20 percent compared with last year. Italy’s grape crop showed a 7 per-cent drop — on top of a decline in 2011.
France’s Champagne and Burgundy regions were hard hit by weather conditions that particularly affected the prevalent Char-donnay grape, used to make the world’s most famous sparkling wine and the luxurious whites from those regions. Nyetimber also depends on Chardonnay.
Stock market edges up
NEW YORK (AP) — A surprisingly strong housing report helped push the stock market mostly higher Wednesday, while weak earn-ings reports from Intel and IBM weighed on the Dow Jones industrial average.
Even though the two tech giants disap-pointed, overall earnings results have come in much better than some investors had feared,
said Dan Veru, chief investment officer at Palisade Capital Management in Fort Lee, N.J.
“Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief that things aren’t all that bad,” Veru said. “That’s what you see happening now.”
The Dow edged up 5.22 points to close at 13,557, barely managing its fourth straight day of gains. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 5.99 points to 1,460.91.
Better results from Mattel, Goldman Sachs, and Johnson & Johnson shot the stock market higher Tuesday. For the week, the Dow is up 1.7 percent and the S&P 500 is up 2.3 percent.
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BOWLING GREEN — Police said one boy “made an admission” to involvement in at least one of two racially charged incidents of graffiti and vandalism this week.
Police Lt. Brad Biller said four juveniles, ages 15 to 17, were questioned about a swastika and “white power” being written in chalk on the driveway of Bowling Green State University’s men’s basketball coach Louis Orr. One of the juveniles reportedly admitted to participation in the graffiti, Lieu-tenant Biller said.
The juvenile told police it was a “prank,” and that one of their classmates — who they con-
sider to be a friend — lives at that house. The boy also reportedly said the suspects were “engaged in other criminal mischief” Saturday night, including smashing pumpkins.
The teens have not been linked to the sec-ond incident, which was reported to police Monday afternoon.
Chad M. Franklin, 24, told police that someone smashed a watermelon on his car in the 200 block of East Merry Avenue and left a note with a racial epithet.
Lieutenant Biller said information would be given to the Wood County Prosecutor’s Office to determine if charges will be filed.
“Every indication is that they thought they were being funny,” Lieutenant Biller said.
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Windy City Players captivate Golden Bridge Academy pupils
A row of children watch intently as actors from the Windy City Players performed “Beauty and the Beast” for them Wednesday at Golden Bridge Academy in Lima.
ABOVE: Rachel Krueger (right) reaches for fellow actor Madelaine Schmitt as the pair from the Windy City Players performed “Beauty and the Beast” for children Wednesday at Golden Bridge Academy.
RIGHT: Rachel Krueger (center) walks through a crowd of children Wednesday.
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Playoff berths on the line as Celina visits ElidaBy TOM USHER419-993-2089
ELIDA — Elida freshman Logan Alex-ander is growing up in a hurry.
Two weeks ago Alexander took over as the Bulldogs’ starting quarterback. He proved he could run en route to rushing for 113 yards in a last-minute 14-13 loss to unbeaten Ottawa-Glandorf.
Then last week in a 42-20 win over Bath, he engineered several big drives, includ-ing throwing for 187 yards and four TDs.
This week it’s the matchup of Elida and its rookie quarterback and Celina and its three-year starting quarterback Braden Billger.
Celina (6-2, 5-2 Western Buckeye League) travels to Elida (6-2, 5-2 WBL) at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Kraft Stadium.
Elida is scoring 26.6 points and is giving up 16 points-per-game. Celina is scoring 38.1 and giving up 22.
The game also has plenty of computer points on the line for the playoffs. Elida stands eighth in region 10 of Division III. Celina stands 10th in region 8 of Division II.
For the year, Alexander has com-pleted 34 of 73 for 504 yards. He’s thrown seven TDs and has five inter-ceptions. He’s also run for 182 yards and two TDs.
Helping Alexander ease into the tran-sition is a standout receiving unit that now includes former quarterback Clark Etzler. The group is led by Brandon Stinson (43 receptions, 605 yards, seven TDs), who made another leaping grab over a defender for a TD last week.
Nick Pauff has 35 receptions for 476 yards and six TDs. Tight end Quentin Poling has 14 catches for 193 yards and two TDs.
The offensive line did a nice job last week in giving Alexander time to throw.
Defensively, the Bulldogs are led by the linebacking unit of Poling (102 tack-
les), Dominic Painter (57 tackles) and Kevin Russell (41 tackles). Lineman Chance Weitz (40 tackles, three fumble recoveries) can dominate the line of scrimmage.
Celina has made a U-turn after going 2-8 last year. The Bulldogs had 13 returning starters including Billger, who threw for 2,700 yards last year.
Celina is coming off a 46-42 shoot-out loss to Kenton last week. Billger completed 30 of 42 for 246 yards and four TDs. Three of the TD passes went to Mason Ross, who finished with six catches for 62 yards.
For the season, Billger has thrown for 2,248 yards and 29 TDs. The Bulldogs’ leading receiver is Bralen Bader (40 receptions, 582 yards, nine TDs).
Last year Elida routed Celina 56-0, but that was a graduated Reggie McAd-ams at quarterback. Elida has won the last three meetings, with Celina’s last win in the series coming in 2008, 34-13.
Final round
Shawnee’s Venegas set to end prep career at state
By TONY WOLFE419-993-2085
SHAWNEE — No one gets very far in golf without patience and mental tough-ness.
It is something every player and coach will tell you.
Shawnee senior Raven Venegas has learned this, and it is a big reason why she will be competing again in the Division I state girls golf tournament on Friday and Saturday at The Ohio State University Gray Golf Course. Venegas will tee off on hole No. 10 at 9:48 a.m. Friday.
“I’ve really gotten strong mentally,” Venegas said. “Before this year, I would count my strokes at the end of every nine, and I would
always panic a little bit if I wasn’t doing well. This year I’ve relaxed a lot more and had more fun.”
Two years ago, Venegas went to the Division II state tournament with Shawnee’s team as a fifth man in the rotation. Shawnee finished third that year. Venegas fin-ished tied for 49th at that
DON SPECK • The Lima News
Elida’s Brandon Stinson (7) stiff-arms Bath defender Hayden Atkins as Stinson heads upfield during the first quarter Friday at Elida Stadium. Elida won, 42-20.
GAME OF THE WEEK
JAY SOWERS • The Lima News
Shawnee golfer Raven Venegas fine-tunes her swing after school Wednesday at the Swingrite Golf Range in Lima.
RICHARD PARRISH • The Lima News
Elida’s Torie McAdams (center) spikes against Shawnee’s Lauren May (28) and Bethany Pohjala during Wednesday’s Divi-sion II sectional volleyball match at Lima Senior High School.
RAVEN’S TEE TIME Shawnee senior Raven
Venegas will be compete in the Division I state girls golf tournament on Friday and Saturday at The Ohio State Univer-sity Gray Golf Course. Venegas will tee off on hole No. 10 at 9:48 a.m. Friday.
See VENEGAS • C3
Shawnee, Celina wins set up finals showdownBy MARK ALTSTAETTER
419-993-2085 [email protected]
LIMA — Experienced volley-ball players tend to step up at the right moment.
Each time Elida made a run, Shawnee’s veteran players made the big play en route to a 25-15, 22-25, 25-19, 25-21 victory over Elida in a Division II sectional semifinal Wednesday at Lima Senior.
With the win, Shawnee advances to Saturday’s sectional final at 4:45 p.m. against No. 1-seed Celina. Celina defeated Bath in three straight games in Wednesday’s other sectional semifinal at Lima Senior.
Senior Bethany Pohjala led
Shawnee with 14 kills and seven blocks. Senior Ashley Strawn dished out a game-high 23 assists for the Indians.
After Shawnee (7-16) controlled the first game, Elida (9-14) came back in the second set, putting Shawnee on its heels.
Shawnee coach Amy Knight said her team made too many unforced errors in the second game.
“We made too many mistakes in a row. You can’t have that many mistakes in a row and expect to win,” Knight said.
In both the third and fourth games, Shawnee fought off Eli-da’s runs to slip out with the victory.
“Credit them. …They know how to put the game away and we
didn’t know how to finish points,” Elida coach Kevin King said. “I thought we came out dead and they came ready to play. That was the difference in my mind.
“We played a competitive game, but we didn’t rise above it and finish the points. I just really thought they wanted it more than us, tonight.”
Torie McAdams led Elida with 13 kills. McAdams and Aubrey Williams each had two blocks. Katie Hawk had 28 assists. Erika Kiel had 22 digs. Ally Bader served up three aces for the Bulldogs.
CELINA 3, BATH 0Bath put up a tough battle, but
Celina still managed to sweep
DIVISION II SECTIONAL VOLLEYBALL SEMIFINALS
See VOLLEYBALL • C3
By R.B. FALLSTROMThe Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Carlos Bel-tran limped to the trainer’s room, taking the St. Louis Cardinals’ biggest clutch October bat with him.
Turns out they had the per-fect substitute.
Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer after subbing for Beltran and the Cardinals chased Matt Cain before a 3-hour rain delay in the seventh inning of a 3-1 vic-tory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night for a 2-1 NL championship series lead.
Beltran strained his left knee running out a double-play ball in the first innings and the Cardinals said he was day to day.
Kyle Lohse worked around a season-worst five walks in 5 2-3 innings. Mitchell Boggs struck out Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt with two on to end the seventh. Jason Motte earned the first two-inning save of his career to reward what remained of a sellout crowd of 45,850 — perhaps a third — that stuck around for a game that lasted 3 hours, 2 minutes, about a half-hour shorter than the delay.
“They said if we didn’t score I was going to go out there. I was in the clubhouse running around, I’ve never really had to sit around like that,” Motte said. “It was probably the most nervous I’ve ever been.”
Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro had two hits and a clean game in the field, two days after Matt Holliday rammed him breaking up a double-play ball. Manager Bruce Bochy had said there would be no retaliation, and Game 3 was collision-free.
Beltran’s sub boosts Cardinals in Game 3
ALCS POSTPONED Game 4 of the AL
championship series between the Tigers and New York Yankees was postponed to 4:07 p.m. today because of storms. New York will send ace CC Sabathia to the mound against Detroit’s Max Scherzer. Game 5, if necessary, would be Fri-day in Detroit.
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SecondQuarter
It had been quite a while since I had gone to a Cleveland Browns game in person.
In fact, I can’t even remember the last time.
All I know is that they probably lost.
Since returning to the NFL in 1999, the Browns win-loss record is abysmal — how about 69 wins and 145 losses. And that includes a 10-win season in 2007.
So when the invitation came from friend Steve Maurer to join him for the Browns-Bengals game this past Sunday, I was not opti-mistic of seeing a victory.
The Browns had already lost once to their state rival, and had not won a regular season game since last November.
But how could I not turn down the offer to watch a Browns game in person?
We left at 7:30a.m., which with a 1 p.m. kickoff, I thought was more than enough time to tailgate before
the game. But after stopping for breakfast, and park-ing near Quicken Loans Arena, which is nowhere near Cleveland Browns Stadium, our time of arrival was 12:30 p.m, which meant tailgating would be reduced to $7.50 beers inside the stadium.
Taking the escalator to our seats, which were in the 500 sec-tion of the stadium, the moving stairwell suddenly stopped. Is that an omen of what was going to happen with the Browns today? Again? Ugh.
“No, the Browns are going to win,” said my friend Steve. “I have been telling you that since Tuesday.”
Based on what? They hadn’t won a game in nearly a year. Hello.
“I hope you are right,” I responded. “But I don’t see it or feel it, for sure.”
That’s the negative part of a Cleveland pro sports fan.
You believe some-thing bad is always going to happen. Your optimism is
going to turn into disappointment.Once in our seats, high atop the
stadium, I look around and am dumbounded by (a) the amount of empty seats, and (b) the amount of people whoare walking outside the stadium, coming to the game late. Do you know how much a ticket is to a Browns game?
Standing for the national anthem, I start to get emotional. I harken back to my days as a kid, going to a Cleveland pro sporting event in person, with my dad, with friends, with my fam-ily. I love this town and I love my Browns, Indians and Cavaliers. It is a tough love, but I continue to stick by them.
The game starts bad for the Browns. After driving on their opening possession, QB Brandon Weeden has a pass deflected and then intercepted. “Here we go, again,” I yell to Steve.
“We are going to win this game,” he reiterated.
He would be right. But even the guy who was optimistic about the Browns winning their first game in nearly a year had a weak moment.
The Browns had intercepted a pass and ran it in for a touchdown to take a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter.
But the Bengals scored on a long pass play and after holding the Browns to a three and out, were driving again with a chance to get even closer.
And there was Steve-so posi-tive earlier, shaking his head in disbelief. “We can lose this game, unbelievable.”
That’s what happens to Cleve-land pro sports fans. It’s happened
before and it can happen again. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
But this time the Browns won. It was disappointing to see a half empty stadium as the clock wound down.
The team’s first win since last November — how could you not sit there and enjoy the moment.
We stayed long after the game had ended.
My voice was hoarse from all of the barking and cheering.
And I loved every moment of it.We even got to stay in Cleveland
that night and continued to revel in a rare win.
You always feel better after the Browns win a game, don’t you?
We just haven’t had that feeling very often since ’99.
Steve, when are we going back to Cleveland?
I’m ready to watch another one.(You can comment to Koza: [email protected])
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“ I think really the difference is, sometimes (Alex Rodriguez) forgets
he’s the best. ... Where, I don’t.”
Kobe BryantThe Lakers star gave struggling Alex Rodriguez a pep talk recently.
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TODAY’S EVENTSoccer sectional finals
The high school tourna-ments have reached the sec-tional final round. Of note, in boys soccer at Wapakoneta, Elida plays St. Marys at 5:30 p.m. before Celina plays Shawnee. In girls soccer, O-G plays Shawnee at 5 p.m. and Bath plays Elida at 7 p.m.
AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Arm-strong stepped down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity and Nike severed ties with him as fall-out from the doping scandal swirling around the famed cyclist escalated Wednesday.
Armstrong announced his move at the charity in an early-morning state-ment. Within minutes, Nike said that it would end its relationship with him “due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong par-ticipated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade.”
Nike said it will continue to support Livestrong.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a massive report last week detailing allegations of widespread doping by Armstrong and his teams when he won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005.
The document’s purpose was to show why USADA has banned him from cycling for life and ordered 14 years of his career results erased — including those Tour titles. It contains sworn statements from 26 witnesses, including 11 former teammates.
Armstrong, who was not paid a salary as chairman of the Lance Arm-strong Foundation, will remain on its 15-member board. His duties leading the board will be turned over to vice chairman Jeff Garvey, who was found-ing chairman in 1997.
“This organization, its mission and its supporters are incredibly dear to my heart,” Armstrong said in a state-ment. “Today therefore, to spare the foundation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career, I will conclude my chairmanship.”
Foundation spokeswoman Kather-ine McLane said the decision turns over the foundation’s big-picture stra-tegic planning to Garvey. He will also assume some of the public appear-ances and meetings that Armstrong used to handle.
Armstrong strongly denies doping, but did not fight USADA accusations through arbitration, saying he thinks the process is unfair. Once Armstrong gave up the fight in August and the report came out, crisis management experts predicted the future of the foundation, known mainly by its Livestrong brand name, would be threatened. They said Armstrong should consider stepping down to keep the charity from getting dragged into a debate over doping.
Armstrong’s inspiring story of not only recovering from testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain
but then winning the world’s best-known bike race helped his founda-tion grow from a small operation in Texas into one of the most popular charities in the country.
Livestrong says it had functional expenses totaling nearly $35.8 million last year and 82 percent of every dol-lar raised went directly to programs, a total of more than $29.3 million.
Sister: Earnhardt could be back next weekend
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Earn-hardt Jr.’s sister says NASCAR’s most popular driver could be back racing next week at Martinsville Speedway.
Earnhardt will miss his second consecutive race Sunday at Kansas because of two concussions suffered in a six-week span.
Kelley Earnhardt Miller wrote in a post Wednesday on JRNation.com that Earnhardt is on schedule to test a car early next week. If all goes well, said says he can race again Oct. 28 at Martinsville.
Earnhardt Miller says her brother has been resting per doctor orders, but has been allowed to watch some television and play some video games.
NFL responds to Vilma, NFLPA lawsuits
NEW ORLEANS — The NFL is again urging a federal judge to avoid interfering in Commissioner Roger Goodell’s efforts to discipline four players for the Saints’ cash-for-hits bounty pool.
In a response Wednesday to papers the players filed earlier this week, the NFL says its collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union
gives Goodell the power to handle dis-cipline involving conduct detrimental to football “at his discretion.”
U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan is considering the players’ request to overturn varying suspensions to Saints linebacker Jon Vilma (full sea-son), Saints defensive end Will Smith (four games), free agent defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove (seven games) and Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita (one game). The players also want Berrigan to appoint a “neu-tral arbitrator” to handle any disci-pline in the matter.
The NFL argues that the players’ request “turns the CBA (and the law) on its head.”
Ravens LB Lewis ‘designated to return’; Suggs back
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Bal-timore Ravens haven’t completely abandoned hope of having Ray Lewis back in uniform this season.
Lewis tore his right triceps in Sun-day’s game against Dallas and was scheduled to undergo surgery on Wednesday. Although coach John Harbaugh said Monday that the 37-year-old linebacker is out for the year, the Ravens placed Lewis on injured reserve with the “designated to return” tag.
Wednesday’s move makes Lewis eli-gible to return in six weeks. He does not count against the 53-man roster.
The loss of Lewis coincides with the return of linebacker Terrell Suggs, the 2011 NFL defensive player of the year. Suggs practiced Wednesday for the first time this season after miss-ing months with a torn right Achilles tendon.
Armstrong stepping down as Livestrong chairman
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Lance Armstrong said Wednesday he is stepping down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity so the group can focus on its mission instead of its founder’s problems.
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Ottawa-Glandorf
running back Tristan Parker
(center) makes a cut past several
Kenton defenders dur-
ing the Western Buckeye
League game Aug. 31 at
Titan Stadium in Ottawa.
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Ottawa-Glandorf (8-0, 7-0 Western Buckeye League) at Bath (5-3, 4-3 WBL)
When: 7:30 p.m. FridayLast meeting: Oct. 21, 2011 — O-G,
35-18When O-G has the ball: In last Friday’s
62-0 victory over St. Marys, O-G rolled up 484 yards (362 rushing, 122 pass-ing). Tristan Parker led the Titans, rush-ing for 132 yards on 13 carries and four touchdowns. Quarterback Caleb Siefker completed 11 of 17 passes for 118 yards and a TD. On the season, O-G is averaging 41.8 points per game.
In last week’s 42-20 loss to Elida, the Bulldogs managed to get 323 yards (136 rushing, 187 passing) against Bath’s defense. On the season, Bath has given up 31.9 points per game.
Edge: O-GWhen Bath has the ball: Bath’s
offense is centered on quarterback Doug Sanders. He will both pass and run the football. Against Elida, Sanders threw for 165 yards and rushed for all of his team’s 164 yards.
For the year, Sanders has thrown for 1,685 yards and rushed for 1,011.
Defensively, O-G has been solid. The Titans held St. Marys to just 159 total yards. On the season, O-G is giving up just 11.1 points per game.
Edge: O-GOdds and ends: O-G has won the last
eight meetings with BathThe Brass Tacks: O-G has control of
its pursuit of winning a WBL title. Bath will try to rebound after last week’s loss to Elida.
Delphos Jefferson (6-2, 4-2 Northwest Conference) at Ada (8-0, 6-0 NWC)
When: 7:30 p.m. FridayLast meeting: Oct. 21, 2011 — Ada,
33-26When Delphos Jefferson has the ball:
The Wildcats look to run the football. In its 47-10 win over Perry last Friday, Jef-ferson rushed for 345 yards, while pass-ing for 36. Quinten Wessell rushed for 106 yards on 12 carries and had four TDs. Drew Kortokrax rushed for 158 yards on 15 carries and had two rushing TDs.
In last week’s 42-14 win over Allen East, Ada did give up 255 rushing yards. The Bulldogs are allowing 12.4 points per game.
Edge: Draw
When Ada has the ball: Last week, quarterback Mason Acheson threw for 353 yards and four TDs in Ada’s win over Allen East. Micah Roberson caught five passes for 121 yards and a TD. The Bulldogs also can run the football. Against Allen East, Kellen Decker rushed for 85 yards on 13 carries and two scores. The Bulldogs are averaging 46.1 points per game.
Defensively, Delphos Jefferson is giv-ing up 18.9 points per game.
Edge: AdaOdds and ends: Ada is riding a four-
game winning streak against Jefferson.The Brass Tacks: Ada cannot afford
to have a letdown against Delphos Jef-ferson if it wants to stay in the hunt for a conference title.
Leipsic (8-0, 7-0 Blanchard Valley Conference) at Liberty-Benton (7-1, 6-1 BVC)
When: 7 p.m. FridayLast meeting: Oct. 21, 2011 —
Leipsic, 27-0When Leipsic has the ball: Leipsic
has several weapons. In last week’s 48-12 win over Cory-Rawson, quarter-back Zach Kuhlman completed 11 of 18 passes for 224 yards and four TDs. Devin Mangas hauled in seven balls for 157 yards and three TDs. The Vikings’ running game was solid as well, as Jor-dan Chamberlain rushed for 149 yards and a score and Tyler Harris had 134 rushing yards and a TD. Leipsic is scor-ing 38.8 points per game.
Defensively, L-B has allowed 11.1 points per game.
Edge: DrawWhen Liberty-Benton has the ball:
In last week’s 49-0 win over P-G, L-B rushed for 263 yards and quarterback Mitch Linhart threw for 168 yards. On the season, L-B is averaging nearly 50 points per game.
Defensively, Leipsic is giving up six points per game.
Edge: DrawOdds and ends: Leipsic has been vic-
torious in the past three meetings with L-B.
The Brass Tacks: This is a huge BVC matchup. Neither team can afford a loss.
Crestview (3-5, 1-5 NWC) at Columbus Grove (5-3, 3-3 NWC)
When: 7:30 p.m. FridayLast meeting: Oct. 21, 2011 —
Grove, 46-20When Crestview has the ball: In
last week’s 30-17 loss to Spencerville, Crestview managed just 190 yards rushing and 73 passing. Malcom Oliver rushed for 142 yards on 20 carries to lead the Knights.
Columbus Grove, defensively, is giving up 25.3 points per game.
Edge: DrawWhen Columbus Grove has the ball:
In Grove’s 57-18 win over Paulding on Friday, the Bulldogs rolled up 411 yards (215 rushing, 196 passing). Joey War-necke rushed for 129 yards and a TD. Dakota Vogt added 77 rushing yards on five carries. Quarterback Collin Grothaus passed for 159 yards and three TDs. Grothaus is a dual-threat at quarterback, showing the ability to both pass and run.
Crestview’s opponents are averaging 26.8 points per game.
Edge: Columbus GroveOdds and ends: Crestview has lost to
Columbus Grove the past six seasons.The Brass Tacks: Both teams are
striving to finish out the season with winning records.
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THE GAMES
O-G, Ada look to stay unbeaten
DON SPECK • The Lima News
Ada running back Kellen Decker looks upfield Aug. 31 in Spencerville as Spencerville’s Danny Settlemire tries to wrap him up.
VENEGAS • from C3 –––––––––––tournamentwitha two-daytotalof192.
“Ithinkshecanreallytakea lot fromthatexperience,”ShawneeheadcoachNancyClumsaid,whohascoachedVenegas throughout highschool. “She knows whatshe needs to do to keepher head in the game andnot letthejittersgettoher,andmakesuretorelaxandenjoythegame.Itreallyisanaccomplishmentjustgettingthere,sopartofitwillbejustenjoyingthemoment.”
Venegas has maderemarkable strides sinceher sophomore year, whenshe shot scoresof 101and91at thestate tournament.Though those scores weregoodforasophomore,thisyear’s scores have beenconsistently well belowthose numbers. She shota third-best 82 at section-als,andasecond-best86atdistricts. Her best score ofthe seasonwasa79 in theThunderbird Invitational atHawthorneHills.
“It’s been a pretty typicalseason forher,”Clumsaid.“She’sjustlikealotofgolf-ers. She started off reallywellcomingoffofhersum-
mer season, and then hit arough patch in the middleoftheseason.Butnowshe’sputhergamebacktogetherand done the things she’sneeded to do to improveand that’s really strength-enedherseason.”
Venegashasmadesignifi-cant changes to her gamein her senior season, thebiggestofwhichhasbeeninherputting.
“I’vereallyworkedonmyshort game,” Venegas said.“That has actually becomemy strength where it usedtobemyweakness.SoI’vekind of re-evaluated mygameandgivenmyselfalotbetterchanceatsuccess.”
There’snoquestionitwillbe a bittersweet weekendfor Venegas, who will playherfinalroundsofherhighschool career this Fridayand Saturday. But that’ssomething that will likelyset inafterthefinalholeisplayed.
“I’llbeverysad,”Venegassaid.“So,I’lltrynottothinkabout it as being my lastround. I’ll try to look at itas just another round, andanother chance for me togetbetter.”
the Wildcats 25-21, 25-15,25-23 in Wednesday’s firstsectionalsemifinal.
Michaela Wenning ledCelina(13-10)with16kills.Teammate Emily Dorstenhad11assists,whileMack-enzie Dzendzel had fouraces.
Kirsten Davis led Bath(8-16) with nine kills.Camille Martin dished out13assistsfortheWildcats.
Wednesday’s victory wasredemptionforCelina.Lastweek,BathdefeatedCelina
inaleaguematchup.“It was really eating at
me,”CelinacoachAmySut-ter said. “So we focusedthisweekonbeingpositiveandfocusingourenergyonwhatweneededtodonext.We came out positive andreadytowin,tonight.”
SaidBathfirst-yearcoachKelsey McCluer, “We werestruggling on serve-receiveand they were servingtough.We’reusuallystrongat serve-receive, but nottonight.”
VOLLEYBALL • from C1 –––––––––
RICHARD PARRISH • The Lima New
Shawnee’s Bethany Pohjala (18) spikes against Elida’s Aubrey Williams during Wednesday’s Division II sectional volleyball match at Lima Senior High School.
From staff reports
OTTOVILLE — Rachel Schumacher delivered 5 aces and 33 assists for Columbus Grove in a 25-5, 25-8, 25-18 Division IV sec-tional volleyball semifinal winover Continental at Otto-ville on Wednesday.
Grove will face the Cory-Rawson at 7:15 p.m. Sat-urday at Ottoville for the sectional finals. Emily Tabler had 5 aces for Grove (17-6), Julia Wynn had 9 kills and Sydney McCluer had 19 digs.
Continental finishes the sea-son 0-22.
Cory-Rawson (14-9) beat Delphos St. John’s (6-17) in the second match 25-9, 25-23, 19-25, 25-19. No stats were available.
Leipsic 3 Miller City 0
BENTON RIDGE — Leipsic swept Miller City 25-2, 25-11, 25-14 in the Divi-sion IV sectional match at Liberty-Benton. Leipsic will play Arcadia at 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Liberty Benton.
Arcadia beat North Balti-more 25-9, 25-12, 25-19.
Emily Ellerbrock had 21 assists for Leipsic (19-3), Maddie Steffan had 8 aces, Amber Gerdeman had 9 kills and Nikki Kreinbrink had 10 digs. Catie Hermiller had 10 digs for Miller City (1-21) and Brianne Rosengarten had 6 digs and 3 assists.
Ottawa-Glandorf 3 Van Buren 0
FINDLAY — Kelley Selhorst finished with 23 assists, 15 digs and 4 blocks
as Ottawa-Glandorf won the Division III sectional semi-final. O-G will play Patrick Henry at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Findlay.
Niki Ellerbrock had 4 kills and 3 aces for the Titans while Stacy Walker had 10 kills and 3 blocks.
Patrick Henry 3 Allen East 0
FINDLAY — Patrick defeated Allen East 25-14, 25-14, 25-14. No stats from Allen East were reported. Allen East finished the sea-son 12-9.
St. Henry, New Knoxville advance
COLDWATER — St. Henry knocked off Spencerville 25-9, 25-7, 25-9 in the Division IV sectional semifinal round. St. Henry (19-3) will play New Knoxville (17-6) at 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Coldwater in the finals. New Knoxville beat Parkway 25-17, 15-19, 17-25, 25-21. Parkway fin-
ishes the season 8-15 while Spencerville is 5-18.
Boys SoccerContinental 4 Liberty Center 1
CONTINENTAL — Conti-nental struck for three goals in the second half as the Pirates won the Division III sectional match. Continental will play Cory-Rawson at 2 p.m. Saturday at Continental in the sectional final.
Dallas Geckle scored twice for Continental, Joey Swager had a goal and Derek Troyer added the final score on Zach Schwarz-man’s assist.
Girls SoccerAshland 11 Lima Senior 0
MANSFIELD — Lima Senior lost its Division I sectional semifinal match. Spartans keeper Jayla Wash-ington had 11 saves.
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Bowling season
gets rollingBy JACK HAMMILL
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The Lima Bowling Asso-ciation Officers Tourna-ment used to be the event that opened the Lima area bowling season. This Singles event will be rolled Saturday at Norada Lanes in Ada.
In recent years different tournaments have gotten the season rolling prior to this one, most notably the professional events in the area and the 600 Club, which is an event for women in our area who have topped the 600-mark in league and tournament play.
Now, there is also the collegiate play of The Rac-ers from UNOH, making the early part of the sched-ule busy.
The 600 Club event remains a handicap tour-nament with even greater impact on that category as this season it lacked the occasion of bowler of the year points for the victors in the A Division.
Elaine McBeth grabbed the top handicap honors with a four-game total of 944. Liz Behnke grabbed second place with an 875 demonstrating the domi-nance of McBeth in the event.
Shelley Ambroza repeated her title of last season taking the Actual honors and the coveted Jeannie Miller award.
Amy Muniz took both honors in the B Division, which this season actually had fewer participants than the A Division. She rolled a handicap score of 673 to outdistance Audra Pyles who shot 626.
The disparity in the scores is due to some extent that the A Division rolls four games and the B Division scores are based on three games.
— UNOH conquers WHAC season opener
Their season opened with the third annual Racer Classic, with teams from around the United States.
Since that time the Rac-ers battled in a Tier One contest in Milwaukee, Wisc. and then traveled this past weekend to Adrian, Mich. for the first tournament in this sea-son’s Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference.
The Racers had a modest performance in Milwaukee with the men ranking in the top third of the large field and the women in the top half. The Milwaukee tourna-ment featured a highly competitive field.
In the event at Lenawee Lanes in Adrian, the UNOH men won the title and the ladies grabbed third.
Phil Austin said the pat-tern in Adrian was difficult and voiced pride that the men took the title with an average just under 190 for the weekend.
The Racers will be in Dayton this weekend at another premier event, the Black and Orange Invita-tional of Pikeville State.
— Looking for just that right bowling artifact
I had the opportunity this past summer to write a brief series on bowling for the Reminisce section of this paper. We explored the history of bowling in the Lima area. I wish that I would have happened into Relics a vintage store, on Auglaize Street in Wapak, at the time of the article.
While the store is filled with a broad array of items it is the bowling objects in the store that caught my attention, especially a lamp with a bowling pin base. There were items as well ranging from repurposed bowling balls to old Brunswick era settees to a vintage bowl-ing game that would be the perfect centerpiece for any bowlers man cave. Make the trip to Wapak and check it out.
Columbus Grove spikes Continental in sectional semisPREP ROUNDUP
Temple, Ottoville advance to sectional finalsBy MIKE MILLER
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ELIDA — It is usually about which team can control the net and both Temple Christian and Ottoville accomplished that Wednesday night at Elida in Division IV volleyball action.
Temple knocked off Waynesfield-Goshen in five games in the opener before Ottoville bested Perry in three games in the night cap.
In a repeat of regular season action that also went 5 games, the Pioneers won by scores of 26-24, 25-15, 25-27, 26-28, and 15-8 over the Tigers and the right to advance to play Ottoville. Temple Christian and Ottoville will meet at 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Elida for the right to advance to the Van
Wert district.The tight match came down to
sophomore Lynnea Clay and junior Amanda Sutton taking over in the fifth set with blocks and kills as the Pioneers pulled away for the victory.
Temple Christian (14-7) was led by Clay with 15 kills, 3 ½ blocks and 7 aces while Sutton complimented that effort with 14 digs and 14 kills.
The Tigers (6-16) bounced back from losing the first two games to win the next two and force the fifth game.
“There were times they got down but they pulled themselves back up and played competitively,” Waynes-field-Goshen coach Karen Dunson said. “I’m proud of what they did and how they played tonight.”
The Tigers were led by Chelsea Spencer with 11 digs while Kiersten
Wilcox had 12 kills and Bailey Col-lins added 11 kills. Taylor VanHorn led the Tigers with 10 assists.
“We weren’t getting the ball to our hitters and then we started to get it to Clay and Sutton,” Pioneers coach Tim Acklin said. “Those two were keys for us tonight.”
The nightcap saw Ottoville, with a huge size advantage, knock off Perry 25-13, 25-18, 25-21.
They were led by 6-foot-2 senior Abby Siefker, who has committed to play basketball at Bowling Green State University.
Siefker had eight kills, four blocks and five aces while Tonya Kaufman added 13 assists and Annie Linde-man chipped in with seven kills and two aces.
The Big Green improved to 9-13 on the year and must continue to find
the right girls with the ball if they wish to move on in postseason play.
“We play a really tough schedule so our record is a little deceiving,” Big Green coach Kirt Martz said. “When we serve and receive well we play very well, we have to be able to get the ball to the target.”
Perry (6-16) refused to quit despite their tallest player measuring only 5-foot-7.
“We tried to make them play away from the net in order to keep their height advantage to a minimum,” Perry coach Gina Shively said. “I had four seniors who played their hearts out and gave it their best shot.”
The Commodores were led by seniors Haley King with 25 digs and Abbie Patton with 9 kills, while junior Autumn Fetter chipped in with 8 assists.
JAY SOWERS photos • The Lima News
ABOVE: Temple Christian’s Hannah Rone (left) returns the ball during the Division IV sectional Wednesday at Elida High School. RIGHT: Teammates congratulate Ottoville senior Abby Siefker (facing camera) for a score against Perry.
By TOM COYNEThe Associated Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert has had to work a lot harder this year to accom-plish a lot less personally, discovering that being the best receiver on the field draws a lot more attention.
Defenders are double teaming him and forcing him out of his routes, making it harder to be as productive as last season when he set the school record for catches by a tight end with 63. He was held without a catch against Michigan State, had just one against Michigan and two against Miami, a span where sometimes his contribution came as more of a blocker than a receiver.
The soft-spoken senior from Fort Wayne doesn’t let it faze him, though. After mulling a decision to turn pro after last season, he’s just happy to be part of the unbeaten fifth-ranked Fight-ing Irish (6-0) as they prepare to play Brigham Young (4-3) on Saturday.
“It’s just nice to be win-ning,” he said. “I’d rather come back and be winning than losing. But either way I would have been happy to be back.”
The Irish could use a big game by Eifert against the Cougars, who rank third in the country in rushing defense at 68 yards a game.
Eifert hasn’t let the lack of production frustrate him, saying it simply isn’t his style. He said he learned that last season from watching receiver Michael Floyd, a first-round draft pick with the Arizona Cardinals. That’s when Floyd was the focus of opposing defenses and Eif-ert flourished from being the guy who was getting single-
coverage.“You just keep playing. It’s
a long game. Be patient,” Eif-ert said.
Linebacker Manti Te’o said his teammates notice Eifert’s work ethic and lack of self-ishness.
“He hasn’t had the kind of receptions and numbers that he would like, but you never would see Tyler complaining. As long as we’re winning, he’s happy,” Te’o said. “He leads by example. He leads by his work ethic, and just really, really doing his best to ensure that our team wins.”
While the number of catches he is making this sea-son has dropped, the plays he is making have been big. Eifert has only 15 catches this season, yet 10 of those have been for first downs or touchdowns.
Against Stanford, Eifert tied the score at 10-10 on the first play of the fourth-quar-ter with a 24-yard TD recep-tion on third-and-18 where he used his 6-foot-6 height to get above a pair of 6-1 Stan-ford defenders to catch the pass from Everett Golson. His only reception against Michigan was a 38-yard catch on a third-and-4 that allowed Notre Dame to run out the
clock and make sure Michi-gan, which had won three straight games in the final 27 seconds, didn’t get a chance for a comeback.
He also had four catches for a career-high 98 yards in a victory over Purdue, where his father was a former bas-ketball standout.
Coach Brian Kelly said he’s enjoyed watching Eifert develop from being a quiet player who sat in the back of the room into one of the best players on the team who sits up front and is a leader.
“You know you’re moving your program along when your best players are your best workers,” Kelly said.
Eifert continues a growing list of standout tight ends at Notre Dame that includes former second-round draft picks Anthony Fasano and John Carlson and Kyle Rudolph in the past seven years.
If Eifert can raise his pro-ductivity a bit he can break the school record of 128 career receptions by a tight end set by Ken MacAfee from 1974-77. Eifert has 105 career catches now.
”That would be pretty amazing when you really think about it,” he said.
Thursday, October 18, 2012 C5The Lima News S P O R T S
By TOM WITHERSThe Associated Press
BEREA — Joe Banner didn’t want to make any promises or pre-dictions. It’s not his nature.
But just as he helped transform the Philadelphia Eagles into consis-tent winners, the new CEO of the Cleveland Browns has a plan to fix a franchise trapped inside a vortex of failure.
He just hopes it doesn’t take five years.
“I’ll be in a straitjacket if it takes that long,” Banner joked.
On the same day GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan rerouted his campaign trail through Cleveland’s practice, the Browns ushered in a new administration as Banner was introduced by new owner Jimmy Haslam III, whose $1 billion purchase of the fran-chise was approved at the NFL’s fall meetings on Tuesday.
Banner spent 19 years with the Eagles, spending the final 12 sea-sons as team president. During his time in Philadelphia, the Eagles went to the playoffs 11 times, won six NFC East titles, advanced to five NFC title games and one Super Bowl. The 59-year-old knows that other than losing, the only constant in Cleveland over the past decade has been change.
He’s aware that other executives have tried and failed to turn around the Browns, who have made the playoffs just once since 1999. Ban-ner isn’t going to dwell on past mis-takes or make any rash judgments as eases into his new position. He’s only interested in delivering a win-ner to Cleveland’s long-suffering
and passionate fans.“I don’t want to be the next per-
son to make a bunch of promises,” he said. “I want to go out, do the work and let them see the result.”
Banner won’t officially begin han-dling the Browns’ day-to-day operations until Oct. 25, when Haslam’s acquisition of the team from Randy Lerner will be
finalized. By then, the Browns (1-5) will have played seven games and both Haslam and Banner will have a better sense of the work ahead.
After resigning as Philadelphia’s president in June, Banner stayed on as a consultant to owner Jeff Lurie with the Eagles and kept one eye on his next challenge. He
met with Haslam, and from his first conversation with the truck stop magnate, Banner knew he had found something worth pursuing.
The Browns had everything he wanted: a franchise with untapped potential, a passionate owner and fervent fan base. For Banner, it was so much like what he had experi-enced almost 20 years ago when he started in Philadelphia.
“I thought this would be a year or two process to find the situation I was looking for and the right own-ership and the right city and every-thing like that,” he said. “To be hon-est, I wasn’t even sure I would ever find it. But I certainly thought it would take a while. To have found somebody like Jimmy and to be in a market like Cleveland, with a love of the team and love of the game like this, in a matter of four or five months to me is remarkable and very, very lucky.”
Banner’s arrival signals the end of Mike Holmgren’s tenure as Browns president and could lead to a further shake-up in Cleve-land’s front office. Holmgren is expected to stay on until the end of this season, his third with the club, and then retire.
While Holmgren’s future is known, the prospects for Browns coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert are uncertain.
• Associated Press
The Cleveland Browns’ new CEO Joe Banner (left) speaks during a news conference Wednesday in Berea as new owner Jimmy Haslam III listens. Banner spent 19 years with the Eagles, 12 seasons as president, before leaving the club last season.
New CEO Banner hopes to make Browns winners
CINCINNATI (AP) — Cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick is getting close to his injury-delayed debut.
The Cincinnati Bengals’ top draft pick hurt his left knee while working out during the summer, forcing him to miss out on the chance to compete for a starting job during training camp. Finally, the knee is healed and the 17th overall pick in the draft is ready to get on the field for the first time.
It could happen Sunday night against Pittsburgh.
“It’s possible,” coach Marvin Lewis said on Wednesday. “We’ll see what happens through the week.”
The Bengals (3-3) have struggled to overcome injuries to defensive backs all season, starting with Kirkpatrick’s
knee. They have only two intercep-tions, tied with Pittsburgh, Indianap-olis and Detroit for second-fewest in the league. Dallas has only one.
Cincinnati has repeatedly shuffled its secondary, finally deciding to start Terence Newman at corner-back opposite Leon Hall and mov-ing cornerback Nate Clements to safety, which has been a problem area. They also brought back safety Chris Crocker, who has one of the two interceptions. Defensive line-man Michael Johnson has the other.
Kirkpatrick expected to be playing long before now. He recovered from the knee injury in time to practice in August and was hoping to play in the final preseason game at Indianapolis.
He developed tendinitis in the knee after a few practices, forcing him to back off the workouts.
He was cleared to resume practice on a limited basis two weeks ago, and has gradually increased his number of plays.
“I’m coming along,” Kirkpatrick said Wednesday before practice. “I’m getting there. Every day is a process, and I’m managing it well and going as hard as I can every day.”
Kirkpatrick still gets treatment on the knee, but said it hasn’t given him any problems. He found it easy to be patient when he was just starting his rehabilitation program.
“Early on it was because I knew I couldn’t go out there,” he said. “Now it gets frustrating sometime, but my
dad is a pastor and he is putting wis-dom and the right things in my head.”
The Bengals have to decide whether to let him play on Sunday night against Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers (2-3), or sit him one more game and then give him the bye week to do more catching up. The Bengals play against Denver and the Giants coming out of their bye.
Kirkpatrick knows that Roeth-lisberger, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning will make a point to test a rookie cornerback.
“It’s not going to be easy,” he said. “Every day is a challenge. That’s why I look up to the leaders to help me in the film room and show me what I’m not doing right.”
Bengals cornerback Kirkpatrick close to debut
• Associated Press
Cincinnati cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, the Bengals’ top draft pick, injured his knee over the summer.
Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert (right) is unable to catch a pass Oct. 6 at Soldier Field in Chicago as Miami line-backer Eddie Johnson defends.
Eifert presents big targetNotre Dame
tight end drawing
opponents’ interest
Top 25 ScheduleThursday
No. 2 Oregon at Arizona State, 9 p.m.Saturday
No. 1 Alabama at Tennessee, 7 p.m.No. 3 Florida vs. No. 9 South Carolina, 3:30 p.m.No. 4 Kansas State at No. 17 West Virginia,
7 p.m.No. 5 Notre Dame vs. BYU, 3:30 p.m.No. 6 LSU at No. 20 Texas A&M, NoonNo. 7 Ohio State vs. Purdue, NoonNo. 8 Oregon State vs. Utah, 10:30 p.m.No. 10 Oklahoma vs. Kansas, 7 p.m.No. 11 Southern Cal vs. Colorado, 6 p.m.No. 12 Florida State at Miami, 8 p.m.No. 13 Georgia at Kentucky, 7 p.m.No. 14 Clemson vs. Virginia Tech, NoonNo. 15 Mississippi State vs. Middle Tennessee,
7 p.m.No. 16 Louisville vs. USF, 3:30 p.m.No. 18 Texas Tech at TCU, 3:30 p.m.No. 19 Rutgers at Temple, NoonNo. 21 Cincinnati at Toledo, 7 p.m.No. 22 Stanford at California, 3 p.m.No. 23 Michigan vs. Michigan State, 3:30 p.m.No. 24 Boise State vs. UNLV, 3:30 p.m.
ScheduleThursday, Oct. 18
SOUTH
Hampton (1-4) at NC Central (4-2), 7:30 p.m.SOUTHWEST
Houston (3-3) at SMU (2-4), 8 p.m.FAR WEST
Oregon (6-0) at Arizona St. (5-1), 9 p.m.Friday, Oct. 19
EASTUConn (3-4) at Syracuse (2-4), 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 20EAST
New Hampshire (5-2) at Maine (2-4), NoonRutgers (6-0) at Temple (3-2), NoonSacred Heart (2-4) at Duquesne (4-2), NoonCCSU (1-5) at Robert Morris (1-5), NoonWagner (3-3) at St. Francis (Pa.) (3-4), NoonBowling Green (4-3) at UMass (0-6), NoonPenn (2-3) at Yale (1-4), NoonCornell (3-2) at Brown (3-2), 12:30 p.m.Bucknell (1-5) at Lehigh (7-0), 12:30 p.m.Georgetown (3-4) at Colgate (3-3), 1 p.m.Holy Cross (1-5) at Lafayette (4-2), 1 p.m.Bryant (1-6) at Monmouth (NJ) (3-3), 1 p.m.Harvard (5-0) at Princeton (3-2), 1 p.m.Dartmouth (3-2) at Columbia (1-4), 1:30 p.m.Pittsburgh (2-4) at Buffalo (1-5), 3:30 p.m.Rhode Island (0-6) at Delaware (4-2), 3:30 p.m.Indiana (2-4) at Navy (3-3), 3:30 p.m.Gardner-Webb (1-5) at Stony Brook (6-1), 4 p.m.Old Dominion (5-1) at Towson (3-3), 7 p.m.Kansas St. (6-0) at West Virginia (5-1), 7 p.m.
SOUTHTennessee St. (7-0) at Jacksonville St. (3-3),
NoonVirginia Tech (4-3) at Clemson (5-1), NoonAuburn (1-5) at Vanderbilt (2-4), 12:21 p.m.Wake Forest (3-3) at Virginia (2-5), 12:30 p.m.Morgan St. (3-3) at Howard (4-2), 1 p.m.San Diego (3-3) at Jacksonville (6-1), 1 p.m.FIU (1-6) at Troy (3-3), 1 p.m.Presbyterian (2-5) at Charleston Southern (2-4),
1:30 p.m.NC A&T (3-3) at Delaware St. (3-3), 1:30 p.m.Georgia Southern (5-1) at Furman (2-5), 1:30
p.m.Coastal Carolina (2-4) at VMI (2-4), 1:30 p.m.Edward Waters (1-3) at Savannah St. (0-6),
2 p.m.W. Carolina (1-6) at Elon (2-4), 3 p.m.Boston College (1-5) at Georgia Tech (2-4),
3 p.m.Va. Lynchburg (1-5) at Grambling St. (0-6),
3 p.m.Wofford (5-1) at Appalachian St. (5-2), 3:30 p.m.South Carolina (6-1) at Florida (6-0), 3:30 p.m.Villanova (5-2) at Georgia St. (1-6), 3:30 p.m.Concord (4-3) at Liberty (2-4), 3:30 p.m.South Florida (2-4) at Louisville (6-0), 3:30 p.m.NC State (4-2) at Maryland (4-2), 3:30 p.m.James Madison (5-1) at Richmond (4-3), 3:30
p.m.FAU (1-5) at South Alabama (1-5), 3:30 p.m.Norfolk St. (2-5) at Bethune-Cookman (4-2),
4 p.m.MVSU (2-4) at Jackson St. (3-4), 4 p.m.Louisiana-Monroe (4-2) at W. Kentucky (5-1),
4 p.m.Davidson (0-6) at Campbell (1-5), 6 p.m.Samford (4-2) at Chattanooga (3-3), 6 p.m.SC State (2-5) at Florida A&M (3-4), 6 p.m.North Carolina (5-2) at Duke (5-2), 7 p.m.Georgia (5-1) at Kentucky (1-6), 7 p.m.Idaho (1-6) at Louisiana Tech (5-1), 7 p.m.Middle Tennessee (4-2) at Mississippi St. (6-0),
7 p.m.Marshall (2-4) at Southern Miss. (0-6), 7 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff (4-2) at Southern U. (3-3), 7 p.m.Alabama (6-0) at Tennessee (3-3), 7 p.m.East Carolina (4-3) at UAB (1-5), 7 p.m.UCF (4-2) at Memphis (1-5), 8 p.m.Florida St. (6-1) at Miami (4-3), 8 p.m.E. Kentucky (5-2) at Tennessee Tech (2-4), 8 p.m.
MIDWESTN. Illinois (6-1) at Akron (1-6), Noon
Purdue (3-3) at Ohio St. (7-0), NoonMinnesota (4-2) at Wisconsin (5-2), NoonValparaiso (0-6) at Dayton (3-4), 1 p.m.Army (1-5) at E. Michigan (0-6), 1 p.m.Marist (2-4) at Drake (5-2), 2 p.m.Missouri St. (1-6) at Illinois St. (6-1), 2 p.m.UT-Martin (5-2) at SE Missouri (2-4), 2 p.m.Ball St. (4-3) at Cent. Michigan (2-4), 3:30
p.m.W. Michigan (3-4) at Kent St. (5-1), 3:30 p.m.Michigan St. (4-3) at Michigan (4-2), 3:30 p.m.Nebraska (4-2) at Northwestern (6-1), 3:30 p.m.BYU (4-3) at Notre Dame (6-0), 3:30 p.m.Montana (3-4) at North Dakota (3-4), 3:40 p.m.S. Illinois (4-3) at Youngstown St. (4-2), 4 p.m.S. Dakota St. (5-1) at N. Iowa (1-5), 5 p.m.Morehead St. (1-5) at Butler (5-2), 6 p.m.N. Dakota St. (5-1) at South Dakota (1-5), 7 p.m.Cincinnati (5-0) at Toledo (6-1), 7 p.m.Indiana St. (5-2) at W. Illinois (3-3), 7 p.m.Penn St. (4-2) at Iowa (4-2), 8 p.m.
SOUTHWESTIowa St. (4-2) at Oklahoma St. (3-2), NoonLSU (6-1) at Texas A&M (5-1), NoonSan Jose St. (4-2) at UTSA (5-1), 2 p.m.Alcorn St. (3-4) at Prairie View (1-5), 3 p.m.Nicholls St. (1-4) at Stephen F. Austin (2-4),
3 p.m.Texas Tech (5-1) at TCU (5-1), 3:30 p.m.Rice (2-5) at Tulsa (6-1), 3:30 p.m.Lamar (3-4) at Cent. Arkansas (5-2), 7 p.m.Kansas (1-5) at Oklahoma (4-1), 7 p.m.McNeese St. (4-2) at Sam Houston St. (4-2),
8 p.m.Baylor (3-2) at Texas (4-2), 8 p.m.Tulane (1-5) at UTEP (1-6), 8 p.m.
FAR WESTStanford (4-2) at California (3-4), 3 p.m.Weber St. (0-7) at S. Utah (3-4), 3 p.m.New Mexico St. (1-5) at Utah St. (5-2), 3 p.m.UNLV (1-6) at Boise St. (5-1), 3:30 p.m.Idaho St. (1-5) at N. Colorado (1-5), 3:35 p.m.Colorado (1-5) at Southern Cal (5-1), 6 p.m.New Mexico (4-3) at Air Force (3-3), 7 p.m.Sacramento St. (5-2) at E. Washington (5-1),
7:05 p.m.UC Davis (3-4) at N. Arizona (5-1), 7:05 p.m.Portland St. (2-4) at Cal Poly (6-0), 9:05 p.m.Washington (3-3) at Arizona (3-3), 10 p.m.Wyoming (1-5) at Fresno St. (4-3), 10:30 p.m.Utah (2-4) at Oregon St. (5-0), 10:30 p.m.San Diego St. (4-3) at Nevada (6-1), 10:35 p.m.
C6 Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Lima News
PREP
Today’s ScheduleBoys Soccer
Sectional TournamentDivision II
At WapakonetaWapakoneta vs. St. Marys, 5:30 p.m.Celina vs. Shawnee, 7:30 p.m.
Division IIIAt Kalida
Lincolnview/Miller City vs. Archbold, 5 p.m.Ottoville vs. Kalida, 7 p.m.
At ContinentalBluffton vs. Ada, 5 p.m.
Girls SoccerSectional Tournament
Division IIat Bath
Kenton/Ottawa-Glandorf vs. Shawnee, 5 p.m.Bath vs. Elida, 7 p.m.
At CelinaVan Wert vs. St. Marys, 5 p.m.Wapakoneta vs. Celina, 7 p.m.
Division IIIAt Elida
Allen East vs. LCC, 5 p.m.Delphos St. John’s vs. Coldwater, 7 p.m.
Boys Soccer
Sectional Tournament
Division III
Continental 4 Liberty Center 1
at CONTINENTALGoals: Sam Brown (LC), Dallas
Geckle (C) 2, Joey Swagger (C), Derek Troyer (C).
Shots on goal: Continental 16, Liberty Center 3.
Saves: Austin Mansfield (C) 1.
Girls Soccer
Sectional Tournament
Division I
Ashland 11 Lima Senior 0
At Mansfield SeniorSaves: Jayla Washington (LS)
27.
Volleyball
Sectional Tournament
Division II
Celina 3, Bath 0at LIMA SENIOR
Scores: 25-21, 25-15, 25-23. Top Celina hitters: Mackenzie
Dzendzel 4 aces, Michaela Wenning 16 kills, Brooke Staugler 5 digs, Emily Dorsta 11 assists.
Top Bath hitters: Camille Martin 2 aces, 13 assists; Alyssa Chadwell 2 aces, 10 digs; Jasmine Tribble 2 aces; Kirsten Davis 9 digs.
Shawnee 3, Elida 1at LIMA SENIOR
Scores: 25-15, 22-25, 25-19, 25-21.
Top Elida hitters: Torie McAdams 13 kills, Katie Hawk 28 assists, Erika Kiel 22 digs, Ally Bader 3 aces.
Top Shawnee hitters: Bethany Pohjala 14 kills, Ashley Strawn 23 assists, Brooke Heatwole 3 digs, Lauren May 4 aces.
Records: Elida 9-14 (3-6); Shawnee 7-16.
Division III
Ottawa-Glandorf 3 Van Buren 0
at FINDLAYScores: 25-8, 25-14, 25-10. Top O-G hitters: Kelley
Selhorst 23 assists, 15 digs; Niki Ellerbrock 3 aces; Stacy Walker 10 kills.
Records: Ottawa-Glandorf 18-5 (9-0).
Patrick Henry 3 Allen East 0
at FINDLAYScores: 25-14, 25-14, 25-14. No stats available.
Records: Allen East 12-9.
Division IV
Columbus Grove 3, Continental 0
at OTTOVILLEScores: 25-5, 25-8, 25-18.
Top Columbus Grove hitters: Rachel Schumacher 5 aces, 33 assists; Emily Tabler 5 aces; Julia Wynn 9 kills; Sydney McCluer 19 digs.
Records: Columbus Grove 16-6; Continental 0-22.
Cory-Rawson 3 Del. St. John’s 2
at OTTOVILLEScores: 25-9, 25-23, 19-25,
19-25, 25-19. Records: Delphos St. John’s
6-17; Cory-Rawson 14-9.
Leipsic 3, Miller City 0at LIBERTY BENTON
Scores: 25-2, 25-11, 25-14. Top Leipsic hitters: Maddie
Steffan 8 aces, Amber Gerdeman 9 kills, Nikki Kreinbrink 10 digs, Emily Ellerbrock 21 assists.
Top Miller City hitters: Haley Lammers 4 kills, 1 ace; Catie Hermiller 1 ace, 10 digs; Janke VanWezel 1 ace; Kylee Ricker 4 assists.
Records: Leipsic 19-3; Miller City 1-21 (1-5).
St. Henry 3, Spencerville 0
at COLDWATERScores: 25-9, 25-7, 25-9.No stats available.Records: Spencerville 5-18, St.
Henry 19-3.
New Knoxville 3, Parkway 1at COLDWATER
Scores: 25-17, 25-19, 17-25, 25-21.
Top New Knoxville hitters: Rachel Leffel 7 aces, 8 kills; Haley Horstman 16 digs, 23 assists.
Records: Parkway 8-15, New Knoxville 17-6.
Temple Christian 3 Waynesfield-Goshen 2
at ELIDAScores: 26-24, 25-15, 25-27,
26-28, 15-8. Top Temple Christian
hitters: Lynnea Clay 15 kills, 7 aces; Alayna DeLeon 29 assists; Kayla Good 7 aces; Lydia Shenk 24 assists.
Top Temple hitters: Lydia Shenk 24 digs, Amanda Sutton 14 digs, 14 kills, Lynnea Clay 15 kills, 3 1/2 blocks, Alayna DeLeon 29 assists.
Recs: Temple Christian 14-7-0.
Ottoville 3, Perry 0at ELIDA
Scores: 25-13, 25-18, 25-21.Top Ottoville hitters: Taylor
Mangas 5 digs, Abby Siefker 8 kills, 4 blocks, Annie Lindeman 7 kills, Tonya Kaufman 13 assists.
Top Perry hitters: Haley King 25 digs, Abbie Patton 9 kills, Autumn Fetter 8 assists.
All-Midwest Athletic Conference Teams
ALL-LeagueFirst Team: Jamie Bills (Coldwater,
senior); Macy Reigelsperger (Coldwater, junior); Claire Heitkamp (Marion Local, senior); Hannah Arling (Marion Local, senior); Megan Wendel (Marion Local, junior); Claire McGowan (Minster, senior); Karli Jones (New Bremen, junior); Haley Horstman (New Knoxville, junior); Taylor Clune (St. Henry, senior); Kylie Koesters (St. Henry, senior); Amanda Winner (Versailles, junior); Lauren Bruns (Versailles, sophomore).
Player of the Year- Claire Heitkamp (Marion Local).
Coach of the Year- Amy Steininger (Marion Local).
League Champs- Marion Local.Second Team: Kelsey Rammel
(Coldwater, junior); Katrina Etzkorn (Delphos St. John’s, senior); Kelsey Fiely (Fort Recovery, senior); Gina Kramer (Marion Local, junior); Regan Hahn (Minster, sophomore); Julie Brown (New Bremen, junior); Meg Reineke (New Knoxville, sophomore); Morgan Steinbrunner (Parkway, senior); Allie Mikesell (St. Henry, junior); Danielle Uhlenhake (St. Henry, senior); Rachel Kremer (Versailles, junior); Olivia Schlater (Versailles, junior); Christa Puthoff (Versailles, sophomore).
Honorable Mention: Whitney Schaefer (Coldwater), Heather Vogt (Delphos St. John’s), Cassidy Rammel (Fort Recovery), Brianna Hess (Marion Local), Sara Hosey (Minster), Haley Moeller (New Bremen), Kalyn Schroer (new Knoxville), Raegen Bransteter (Parkway), Nicole Wehrkamp (St. Henry), Katie Grieshop (Versailles).
From news and staff reports
Indiana is ranked No. 1 in the USA Today coaches’ preseason poll, which was released Wednesday.
The Hoosiers received 21 out of a possible 31 first-place votes and 761 overall points from a panel of coaches.
Big Ten rivals Ohio State and Michigan are fourth and fifth, respectively. North Carolina State is sixth, followed by Kan-sas and Duke. Syracuse and Florida rounded out the top 10.
Indiana, which went 27-9 and reached the Sweet 16 last season, returns four starters, including star center Cody Zeller. Louisville is second and Kentucky is third in the poll.
Wapak’s Crawford commits to BGSU
WAPAKONETA — Wapa-koneta pitching standout and senior Johnny Crawford announced on Wednesday that he has verbally committed to play at Bowling Green.
Crawford led the Redskins to the Division II state finals a year ago.
Lima Senior football luncheon on FridayLIMA — The Lima Senior
weekly football luncheon will be Friday. All Lima Senior foot-ball fans are invited to the Casa Lu Al Restaurant at 11:30 a.m. Lima Senior Head Football Coach Brett Lee will discuss this week’s opponent, Toledo Whitmer.
Also, Kewpee Coupons are still on sale to support Lima Senior and Middle School Ath-letic teams. The cost is $5 for five coupons. Each coupon allows you to receive a ham-burger and large Pepsi or hot beverage with the purchase of a hamburger. Coupons can be purchased from the Lima Senior Athletic Office and are valid until Oct. 27.
LCC to have winter sports meeting
LIMA — Lima Central Catho-lic will have its winter sports OHSAA meeting at 7 p.m. Mon-day in the Great Hall at LCC. The meeting is for all winter athletes and their parents.
Heitkamp named MAC Player of the Year
Claire Heitkamp is the Mid-west Athletic Conference vol-leyball Player of the Year while her coach, Amy Steiniger, was the Coach of the Year.
First Team All-MAC included Coldwater’s Jamie Bills and Macy Reigelsperger, Marion Local’s Heitkamp, Hannah Arling and Megan Wendel, Misnter’s Claire McGowan, New Bremen’s Karli Jones, New Knoxville’s Haley Horst-man, St. Henry’s Taylor Clune and Kylie Koesters and Ver-sailles’ Amanda Winner and Lauren Bruns.
EXTRA INNINGS
IU hoops ranked No. 1;
OSU No. 4
S C O R E B O A R D
STANDINGS AND STATISTICS
Football
Area StandingsWESTERN BUCKEYE LEAGUE
Conference Overall Ottawa-Glandorf ......................7 0 8 0Celina ......................................5 2 6 2Elida ........................................5 2 6 2Kenton ....................................5 2 5 3Bath ........................................4 3 5 3Wapakoneta ............................4 3 5 3Defiance ..................................4 3 4 4Shawnee .................................1 6 1 7St. Marys ................................0 7 0 8Van Wert .................................0 7 0 8
MIDWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Conference Overall Coldwater ................................6 0 8 0Marion Local ...........................4 2 6 2Minster ....................................4 2 6 2Versailles.................................4 2 5 3Delphos St. John’s ..................4 2 5 3St. Henry .................................3 3 5 3Anna ........................................2 4 4 4New Bremen ...........................2 4 2 6Fort Recovery..........................1 5 3 5Parkway ..................................0 6 0 8
NORTHWEST CONFERENCE Conference Overall Ada ..........................................6 0 8 0LCC .........................................6 0 8 0Spencerville ............................5 2 6 2Delphos Jefferson ...................4 2 6 2Columbus Grove .....................3 3 5 3Bluffton ...................................2 4 3 5Crestview ................................1 5 3 5Allen East ................................1 6 1 7Paulding ..................................0 6 0 8
THREE RIVERS ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Conference Overall Toledo Whitmer.......................5 0 8 0Toledo Central Catholic ...........5 0 8 0Findlay ....................................3 2 6 2Toledo St. John’s Jesuit ..........3 2 3 5Toledo St. Francis de Sales .....2 3 3 5Fremont Ross .........................1 4 3 5Oregon Clay ............................1 4 3 5Lima Senior ............................0 5 0 8
BLANCHARD VALLEY CONFERENCE Conference Overall Leipsic ....................................7 0 8 0McComb .................................7 0 8 0Liberty-Benton ........................6 1 7 1Arlington .................................4 3 5 3Pandora-Gilboa .......................4 3 4 4Van Buren ...............................3 4 4 4Arcadia ....................................2 5 3 5Cory-Rawson ..........................2 5 2 6Hardin Northern ......................0 7 0 8Vanlue .....................................0 7 0 8
NORTHWEST CENTRAL CONFERENCE Conference Overall Fort Loramie ...........................3 1 6 2Fairbanks ................................3 1 3 5Perry .......................................2 1 3 5Waynesfield-Goshen ...............3 2 4 4Sidney Lehman .......................3 2 4 4Ridgemont ..............................2 2 5 3Upper Scioto Valley.................0 3 0 8Riverside .................................0 4 0 7
OTHERS Conference Overall Indian Lake .............................0 0 4 4
Statistics
RushingName School Att. Yds. Avg. TDsKellen Decker Ada 137 1,357 9.9 19Tristian Parker Ottawa-Glandorf 167 1,298 7.8 19Tyler Jettinghoff Del. St. Johns 143 1,184 8.3 13John Smith Spencerville 138 1,157 8.4 14Quis Woods Perry 125 1,120 9.3 12Zavier Buzard Del. Jefferson 142 1,052 7.4 16Doug Sanders Bath 153 1,003 6.6 16Ross Stewart Allen East 196 1,001 5.1 12Gabe Hennon Waynesfield-Gosh. 177 973 5.5 7Zach Hembree Celina 158 804 5.1 10Jayce Goettemoeller Marion Local 139 786 5.7 12Colton Miller Spencerville 121 738 6.1 6Jon Washington LCC 99 690 7.0 6Caleb Siefker Ottawa-Glandorf 98 662 6.8 8Adam Bertke Marion Local 106 641 6.0 11Quinten Wessell Del. Jefferson 86 604 7.0 12Tyler Frieson Shawnee 91 588 6.5 10Dakota Vogt Grove 84 583 6.9 9Jensen Merricle Wapakoneta 98 562 5.7 1Jaylin Thomas Shawnee 87 545 6.3 5 Joey Warnecke Grove 83 533 6.4 2Collin Grothaus Grove 113 521 4.6 8Juniel Liles Lima Senior 77 519 5.9 5Julian Salinas Paulding 108 497 4.6 4Anthony Schuh Spencerville 80 495 6.2 8Adam Reichert St. Henry 114 490 4.3 4Zach Wilson Bluffton 92 478 5.2 4Keanu James Bath 71 446 6.3 6Kyle Stahl St. Henry 92 417 4.5 7Dom Romero Defiance 102 398 3.9 7Robbie Stratton Bluffton 76 375 4.9 5Cody Rollins Shawnee 29 369 12.7 4Brandon Neal Perry 47 336 7.1 6Austin Bruns Coldwater 73 326 4.5 4
PassingName School Comp. Att. Yds. TDsGrant Sherman Kenton 248 375 3,283 41Braden Billger Celina 178 272 2,266 29Mason Acheson Ada 115 175 2,213 25Joe Keween Defiance 138 265 1,901 17Doug Sanders Bath 120 221 1,685 17Austin Bruns Coldwater 115 154 1,656 21
Kyle Stahl St. Henry 122 200 1,589 15Julian Salinas Paulding 91 190 1,232 11Adam Bertke Marion Local 105 166 1,224 6Casey Crow Allen East 68 138 1,053 7Colin Stolly LCC 51 90 1,045 10Collin Grothaus Columbus Grove 60 114 941 10Austin Jettinghoff Del. Jefferson 47 100 927 8Kyle Gibson Wapakoneta 54 89 911 4Garret Miller W-G 61 131 898 12Clark Etzler Elida 67 118 873 8Seth Schmenk Pandora-Gilboa 64 118 797 6Cole Crawford USV 68 128 661 4Austin Howard USV 56 126 652 3Zach Bailey Shawnee 48 104 636 6Tyler Williams Van Wert 43 126 616 2Caleb Siefker Ottawa-Glandorf 53 104 561 12Logan Alexander Elida 34 73 504 7Mark Boggs Del. St. Johns 37 91 478 3Robbie Stratton Bluffton 30 82 379 4Dustin Fisher St. Marys 31 63 371 1 Ilias Wright Lima Senior 23 84 347 0
ReceivingName School No. Yds. Avg. TDsJustin Sawmiller Kenton 107 1622 15.2 14Zach Wolowicz Kenton 57 608 10.7 9Trey Guilliam Defiance 54 797 14.8 6Brandon Stinson Elida 43 605 14.1 7Braelen Bader Celina 41 591 14.4 9Colyn Blackford Kenton 38 451 11.9 6Eli O’Leary W-G 38 446 11.7 5Nick Pauff Elida 35 476 13.6 6Micah Roberson Ada 35 617 17.6 8Shane Rofe USV 33 441 13.4 0Ryan Voll Defiance 33 477 14.5 8Matt Wilcox Ada 31 546 17.6 6Abe Basinger Pandora-Gilboa 30 336 11.2 3Dylan Hunsicker USV 30 350 11.7 Collin Byer Celina 29 407 14.0 3Josh Huber Coldwater 29 454 15.7 2Cody Vogel Celina 28 469 16.8 7Zach Hembree Celina 28 292 10.4 3Hayden Atkins Bath 27 442 16.4 4Jake Ansley Ada 27 464 17.2 5Jordan Bender St. Henry 26 368 14.2 6Tyler Schwieterman St. Henry 26 406 15.6 4Lance Foor Paulding 24 451 18.8 5Troy Homan Marion Local 24 257 10.7 0Matt Osterholt St. Henry 23 297 12.9 2Ross Thompson Del. Jefferson 23 482 21.0 4Caleb Siefring Coldwater 23 441 19.2 10Adam Reichert St. Henry 22 288 13.1 1Cody Schuerman Bath 20 234 11.7 N/ATeran Sullivan Bath 20 242 12.1 N/AJavier Gonzales Paulding 20 250 12.5 3Austin Howard USV 20 235 11.8 N/AJared Sheldon USV 20 188 9.4 N/ALee Turner W-G 19 377 19.8 N/AEvan Thomas Allen East 18 313 17.4 1Jacy Goettemoeller Marion Local 18 193 10.7 2Mark Thobe Marion Local 17 232 13.6 1
Hunter Wilker Marion Local 17 174 10.2 1Kyle Post Coldwater 14 151 10.8 1
PuntingName School No. Yds. Avg.Drew Kortokrax Delphos Jefferson 21 917 43.7Kyle Bergman Coldwater 21 888 42.3Doug Sanders Bath 13 530 40.8Zerrick Brannan Wapakoneta 3 121 40.3Dustin Rethman Marion Local 21 804 38.3Nickoli Sackinger Elida 19 720 37.9Gabe Rodriguez Defiance 30 1117 37.2Corey O’Dowd LCC 9 335 37.2Brandon Doyle Pandora-Gilboa 34 1231 36.2Justin Sawmiller Kenton 18 648 36.0Cody Vogel Celina 18 647 35.9Tyler Zender Ottawa-Glandorf 16 574 35.9Mykale Rogers LCC 3 107 35.7Cameon Laux Wapakoneta 11 389 35.4Cammeron Laux Wapakoneta 14 493 35.2Caleb Siefker Ottawa-Glandorf 3 105 35.0Julian Salinas Paulding 23 797 34.7Alex Post St. Henry 24 829 34.5Jake Ansley Ada 6 207 34.5Troy Warnecke St. Johns 24 815 34.0Lake Turner Waynesfield-Goshen 16 539 33.7Kaleb Hernandez Paulding 9 302 33.6Colton Miller Spencerville 4 134 33.5Caleb Norton Bath 7 232 33.1Shane Rofe Upper Scioto Valley 36 1193 33.1Quinn Zaerr St. Marys 38 1235 32.5
InterceptionsName School No. Yds. TDsMatt Wilcox Ada 5 213 1Chris Truesdale Delphos Jefferson 5 77 0Johnny Crawford Wapakoneta 5 23 0Hunter Patton Spencerville 4 200 1Trey Guilliam Defiance 4 55 1R.J. King Perry 4 0 0Jarod Triplehorn Pandora-Gilboa 4 30 1Micah Roberson Ada 4 75 1Ryan Pitts LCC 4 37 1Jared Knous St. Marys 4 65 0Chris Miller Van Wert 4 74 0Brody Hoying Coldwater 4 101 1Derek Goecke Spencerville 4 27 0Nick Krugh Van Wert 3 64 0 Mari Dillingham Lima Senior 3 72 1Caleb Halsey Kenton 3 40 0Collin Grothaus Columbus Grove 3 18 0Eric Heffner Bath 3 25 0Dustin Rethman Marion Local 3 N/A N/AJacy Goettemoeller Marion Local 3 N/A N/ARobbie Stratton Bluffton 3 36 1Caleb Siefker Ottawa-Glandorf 3 33 N/ALogan Cook Kenton 3 38 N/ATrevor Downing Kenton 3 90 1Note: Stats appearing were reported by team coaches or statis-ticans. Teams not appearing did not report stats.
National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Jets 3 3 0 .500 133 141 New England 3 3 0 .500 188 137 Miami 3 3 0 .500 120 117 Buffalo 3 3 0 .500 137 192
South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 5 1 0 .833 173 115 Indianapolis 2 3 0 .400 100 145 Tennessee 2 4 0 .333 114 204 Jacksonville 1 4 0 .200 65 138
North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 5 1 0 .833 161 118 Cincinnati 3 3 0 .500 149 163 Pittsburgh 2 3 0 .400 116 115 Cleveland 1 5 0 .167 134 163
West W L T Pct PF PADenver 3 3 0 .500 170 138 San Diego 3 3 0 .500 148 137 Oakland 1 4 0 .200 87 148 Kansas City 1 5 0 .167 104 183
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 4 2 0 .667 178 114 Philadelphia 3 3 0 .500 103 125 Washington 3 3 0 .500 178 173 Dallas 2 3 0 .400 94 119
South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 6 0 0 1.000 171 113 Tampa Bay 2 3 0 .400 120 101 Carolina 1 4 0 .200 92 125 New Orleans 1 4 0 .200 141 154
North W L T Pct PF PAChicago 4 1 0 .800 149 71 Minnesota 4 2 0 .667 146 117 Green Bay 3 3 0 .500 154 135 Detroit 2 3 0 .400 126 137
WestArizona 4 2 0 .667 110 97 San Francisco 4 2 0 .667 152 94 Seattle 4 2 0 .667 110 93 St. Louis 3 3 0 .500 110 111
Thursday, Oct. 18Seattle at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21Arizona at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Green Bay at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Baltimore at Houston, 1 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.Dallas at Carolina, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.N.Y. Jets at New England, 4:25 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:20 p.m.Open: Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego
Monday, Oct. 22Detroit at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
PRO FOOTBALL
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Women’s Soccer
Ohio Northern 2, Heidelberg 0
at BLUFFTONGoals: Kristina Klusek 2 (ONU)Shots on goal: Ohio Northern
6, Heidelberg 2.Saves: Erin Waehner 2 (ONU),
Julie Cross 6 (H)Records: Ohio Northern 8-4-3,
3-3 OAC; Heidelberg 2-11-1, 1-5.
Men’s Soccer
Manchester 6 Bluffton 3
at BLUFFTONGoals: Cody Freels (M) 3, Dian
Radev (M) 2, Bertin Gisagara (M) 1, Tyson Spence (B) 1, T.J. Kline (B) 1, Wes Corbin (B) 1.
Shots on goal: Bluffton 10, Manchester 8.
Saves: Grant Noakes (M) 7.Records: Manchester 5-11 (3-
3); Bluffton 2-11 (0-5).
USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll
The top 25 teams in the preseason USA Today-ESPN men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-theses, final 2011-12 records, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
Record Pts Pvs1. Indiana (21) 27-9 761 132. Louisville (5) 30-10 738 43. Kentucky (5) 38-2 718 14. Ohio State 31-8 617 35. Michigan 24-10 605 226. N.C. State 24-13 581 207. Kansas 32-7 563 28. Duke 27-7 516 149. Syracuse 34-3 502 510. Florida 26-11 422 911. Arizona 23-12 411 --12. North Carolina 32-6 401 613. UCLA 19-14 396 --14. Michigan State 29-8 391 715. Creighton 29-6 325 2116. Memphis 26-9 307 --17. Missouri 30-5 289 1118. Baylor 30-8 266 819. UNLV 26-9 203 --20. San Diego State 26-8 196 --21. Wisconsin 26-10 191 1222. Gonzaga 26-7 166 --23. Notre Dame 22-12 122 --24. Florida State 25-10 61 1524. Texas 20-14 61 --
Others receiving votes: Saint Louis 58, VCU 40, Cincinnati 33, Murray State 30, Kansas State 13, Saint Mary’s 11, New Mexico 10, Tennessee 10, Minnesota 9, Pittsburgh 9, Marquette 8, Stanford 7, Butler 6, Oklahoma State 6, Colorado State 4, Middle Tennessee 3, Drexel 2, Georgia 2, Miami 2, Saint Joseph’s 2, Marshall 1.
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Leslie (Amy Poehler) starts a sex education class to combat an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases among the local seniors. Tom (Aziz Ansari) tries to adjust to life without his electronic gadgets with help from Ron (Nick Offerman). Adam Scott and Aubrey Plaza also star in the new episode.
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By DONNA GEHRKE-WHITESun Sentinel
Younger baby boomers can’t get a break — and now some are going broke just as they are nearing retire-ment.
“During their critical pre-retire-ment years, they’ve been hit hard by the technology bust, the real estate meltdown, the financial crisis, and the deepest recession since the 1930s,” said Boca Raton, Fla., finan-
cial planner Mari Adam, herself a boomer.In her latest newsletter, she details five sur-
prises costing a fortune to the younger boomers, who are 45 to 54.
1 Real income for the boomers has barely increased in the last 20 years, Adam said.
Some boomers have lost jobs or been forced to take wage cuts or shorter hours.
2 Education costs have increased over the last 20 years a “whopping” 80 percent for
the boomers “as they continue to pay off pricey college educations for themselves and their chil-dren,” Adam said.
3 Adult kids are needing financial help after five years of economic hard times: Many
are having a hard time finding jobs to support themselves. “As a result, more than half of par-ents are giving financial support to their adult children, pitching in to cover student loans,
transportation and medical costs, and living expenses,” Adam wrote in her newsletter.
4 Housing expenses — including mortgages, taxes, insurance, and maintenance — have
jumped 25 percent, even though mortgage rates have fallen over that same period, Adam said. Meanwhile, some of South Florida’s younger boomers have lost their homes to foreclosure or a short sale.
5 Healthcare costs have climbed 30 percent, especially insurance premiums, The increase
has “essentially wiped out the gains in median family income over the past decade,” Adam quotes research by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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Boomers’ budget busters: 5 surprises cost them a fortune
By JOHN-JOHN WILLIAMS IVThe Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — After years of watching Lynn Weisberg purchase garment after garment, boutique manager Karen Ciurca-Weiner finally told her loyal customer a hard truth — she needed to stop buying and start looking at what she had.
Ciurca-Weiner suggested that what Weis-berg really needed was to organize her closet.
“She kept buying all these clothes,” Ciurca-Weiner said as she stood inside her client’s closet, a 9-by-12-foot converted office space that now has shelving and drawers to accommodate Weisberg’s clothes. “I told her to stop buying items and make outfits out of clothes” she already had.
Since their initial session five years ago, the two have come together twice a year to organize Weisberg’s clothes — once at the beginning of spring and once at the beginning of fall. The nearly four-hour sessions allow Weisberg to maximize her closet space while planning her outfits for the upcoming season.
“She cleans out and refreshes my closet every season,” the Pikesville, Md., resident
said about Ciurca-Weiner. “It’s a time-saver and a huge money-saver.”
More and more people are seeking the help of closet organizers to create order and save money, according to experts. In addition to purging closets of space-eating out-of-date garments, the experts are using their knowledge to identify hidden gems to
create fresh looks for their clients.Although more attention is being paid
to the closet, it still remains one of the least-used rooms in the home, according to Ciurca-Weiner, who works at the Baltimore women’s clothing boutique Jones & Jones.
Clear the clutter• Baltimore Sun photos
For the past six years, Karen Ciurca-Weiner (left) has been helping her clients organize. Here she assists Lynne Weisberg with her closet in Pikesville, Md.
Organizing your closet can help fatten your wallet
Organizing your closet begins during shopping, according to experts. “Don’t buy over-the-top trendy,” Karen Ciurca-Weiner said. “Buy trendy pieces that will be pre-served over a period of time. People go discount shopping and they buy things that don’t coordinate. It’s better to buy a couple great pieces that you can style around as opposed to pieces that you don’t know what to do with.”
Must have items:Every women’s closet should contain
these items, according to Karen Ciurca-Weiner.
White shirt: A fitted clean white shirt is a must.Boyfriend blazer: Everyone should own a
black or white “go-to” jacket.Belt: A belt that is the right length —
preferably black patent leather — com-pletes any wardrobe.
Nude-colored shoes (taupe or beige): They go with everything.
Little black dress: It’s a no-brainer.Ruffled blouse: It’s timeless.
Things to throw out:Our experts have no problem getting rid
of items — especially when the threads have seen better days.
Things that don’t fit and stained clothes: “No matter what you paid, it had its day. It’s over,” Judy Pressman said.
Outdated clothes: “I don’t care what you paid for it,” Pressman said. “You really think it will come back, but it’s like an old boyfriend: Even when it comes back, it’s never the same.”
SHOPPING FOR AN ORGANIZED CLOSET
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“The biggest problem is that people don’t know how to utilize their space,” she said. “They don’t have enough cube space. And they don’t stack things such as sweaters.”
You don’t have to have a lavish “Sex And The City”-type closet to use the ser-vices and suggestions of a closet organizer, according to experts. With the addition of several hooks for clothes and jewelry, a few shelves for shoes and even a curtain rod to hang scarves, anyone can maximize their closet space, said Ciurca-Weiner.
“It’s very important to cre-ate closet and drawer space,” she said. “You must utilize every space. You have to have a need for each space.”
Ciurca-Weiner organizes closets by garments and col-ors — arranging items from light to dark. “I organize a closet like it’s like a store. I
make it easier to shop your closet,” she said.
Weisberg’s closet reveals Ciurca-Weiner’s handiwork. Behind the sliding door is a space filled with outfits pieced together by Ciurca-Weiner. One wall is lined with cus-tomized shelving and stacked with 100 heels and wedges by designers such as Jimmy Choo and Stuart Weitzman. On the same wall, drawers are neatly organized by items including jewelry and exercise clothes. A hanging rack on the back of the door is filled with assorted ballet flats and sandals. A vanity and comfy, plush chair allow Weisberg to coordinate her makeup with her ensemble for the day.
“I use every little bit of space there is,” Weisberg said. “This is not storage.”
Image consultant Judy Press-man would agree that closets shouldn’t be used just for hang-ing clothes that get little wear.
As founder of the Baltimore-based J.P. Images, Pressman has fine-tuned her closet orga-nizing over the past 30 years.
“After you work with me, you’ll feel great. The confu-sion is gone. It will take you two seconds to get dressed in the morning,” said Press-man, whose roster of clients includes professional women in Baltimore, Washington and Virginia, and can swell to up to 100 at the start of the spring and fall seasons.
Pressman’s sessions, which run $150 per hour for an aver-age of three hours, include a consultation, an overall cleaning and organization of the closet, a mission state-ment where she assigns cli-ents labels such as “elegant chic” and “glamour spice,” and creation of a “look book” charting every item of cloth-ing in the closet.
Q How do I accept a child my husband had with another
woman while we were sepa-rated? I love kids and I feel bad for the feelings I have toward this child, but there’s been so much drama and pain caused because of this child (rather than the actions of the parents). How can I not feel resentment toward her? And just looking at the baby reminds me of the time we separated. Can you shed some light on this dark situa-tion?
A I get hundreds of questions each week — and the sub-
jects often come in waves. For
the last month or two I have received count-less emails like yours from people who were together, broke up, someone either got preg-nant or got someone pregnant, they reconciled, and now there’s a baby that neither expected. Understanding this is a gut-wrenching situation to face, I first have to say this: Condoms, people! Morals aside, everyone has an opinion about when it is appropriate to have sex, but most agree in this day and age,
safe sex is the way to go. The most unpredictable time in one’s life is right after you break up with someone. Rarely do people make a clean break of it. There are lots
of reconsiderations before the final decision is made, and in that time, if you’re sleeping with other people, be responsible! Babies are forever. So are some STDs. Both can be avoided by using condoms.
Now to address the issue: How do you accept this child? I can’t tell you how to accept her, but I
can tell you why you should. In your initial communication you said, “There is a lot of drama as a result of the child, not the actions of the parents.” On the contrary, it IS the action of the parents who have caused this, not the child. You love the guy so you are attaching blame to the child. Doesn’t make it true. If you have decided to stay with this man, then you accept everything about him. This is his child. How she got here is irrelevant — if you have decided to stay with him. And, simply because she is here, she deserves the same amount of love and acceptance in your home as any child either of you
have brought into the world.Finally, to help you deal,
remember, looking at something a little differently often helps us cope. Breaking up and starting over is messy business. Rather than look at the baby and let it remind you that you once sepa-rated, why not look at her and realize that you are together against all odds? You always have the option to walk away.
Dr. Jann Blackstone is the author of “Ex-etiquette for Parents: Good Behavior After Divorce or Separa-tion,” and the founder of Bonus Families, www.bonusfamilies.com. Reach her at drjannblackstoneg-mail.com.
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L I F E S T Y L E
BY ELIZABETH WHITEHEAD
CHAPTER TWELVE
On the Eve of Independence
When the darkness lifted, Sam and Isabel found themselves in a large room, surrounded by 50 or 60 men sitting in chairs or talking in small groups. One man sat at a desk at the front of the room. A long document lay before him. Sam peered over his shoulder and read the first line: “‘The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America …’ What is this, Professor?”
“Why, the Declaration of Indepen-dence. Many Americans believe the colonies should break away from Great Britain and form their own nation. They hope other countries will help them if they explain all the ways Britain has treated them wrongly. Young Thomas Jefferson of Virginia was asked to write the Dec-laration.”
“What about Ben?” Isabel asked.“Oh, he helped, which was a good
thing because there were few people whose opinion Thomas Jefferson respected more than Ben Franklin’s. In fact,” the professor said pointing, “There they are.”
Isabel looked up and sure enough 70-year-old Ben was stretched out in a chair. His eyes were closed. He seemed asleep, as men talked and argued around him. Beside him was Thomas Jefferson, a tall, thin young man with sandy reddish hair. At the
moment he looked very unhappy.“Why is Jefferson upset, Profes-
sor?”“He worked very hard on the Dec-
laration, Isabel. But now that he’s fin-ished, the other representatives keep changing more and more of it.”
As the debate continued, Isabel watched Ben. He still seemed to be asleep. When she pointed this out to the professor, he just laughed.
“Don’t you worry about Ben. He never believes in talking simply to hear his own voice. But when he does choose to speak, people listen carefully.”
Sam was getting bored, so he plopped down into one of the free chairs near Ben.
“Ouch!” he yelped, falling to the floor. “Gosh, I keep forgetting these are phantom chairs. They seem so real.”
Isabel barely heard him. She was watching intently as another speaker stood up to demand still more changes in the Declaration. She looked over at Thomas Jefferson. He had dropped his face in his hands.
Turning, she saw Ben Franklin’s eyes were now wide open. He watched Jef-ferson for a moment. Then he tapped him on the shoulder. Leaning over, Franklin began telling him a story. Soon the frown began to lift from Jefferson’s face. By the time Franklin had finished, the young man was smiling.
The professor laughed. “Good old Ben.”
“What did he say? What did he say?”
“Well, Isabel, he told Jefferson a story about a young man who once made a sign for his business. It had a
picture of a hat and the words: ‘John Thompson, Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money.’ Thompson asked his friends what they thought of his sign.
“Each person told the young man that it was too long. He kept cutting more and more words until finally all that was left was his name and a pic-ture of the hat. His friends said that was all that was needed for people to know it was a hat shop.”
“What does that have to do with the Declaration of Independence, Professor?”
“Ben wanted Jefferson to under-stand that no matter how many changes were made in the Declara-tion, it would still carry a powerful message. And he was right. The del-egates will approve it two days later on…”
“The Fourth of July!”“Independence Day!”“Exactly. Soon church bells will
ring as the Declaration of Indepen-dence is read to cheering crowds throughout the colonies.”
“So, is that when the colonies became the United States of America?”
“Not quite yet, Isabel. They still must fight — and win — the war against the British. Only then can they be free. Since Great Britain is so strong, the Americans need other countries to support them. Once again, Ben Franklin will step forward on America’s behalf. But will he suc-ceed yet again?”
Prof. McDougal took out the Time Stone. “Now, my friends, we are about to journey across the Atlantic Ocean, all the way to France, March 1778.”
Domestic Violence Aware-ness Candlelight Vigil
7 p.m. Trinity United Meth-odist Church 301 W. Market St. Lima.
LCC Bingo7 p.m. Doors at 4 p.m. Fra-
ternal Order of Police Lodge, 750 W. Robb Ave., Lima.
Flu Shots10 a.m. Community Health
Professionals, 1159 West-wood Dr, Van Wert.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Neighborhood Association
5 p.m. Health Partners, 441 E. 8th St., Lima.
All-You-Can-Eat Fish Dinner11 a.m. $7. AMVETS Post
1994, 417 W. Espy St., Ken-ton.
LACNIP Board6 p.m. Cambridge Center,
418 N. Central Ave., Lima.
Amputees in Motion6 p.m. Bethel Baptist
Church, 630 Powers Ave., Lima.
Allen Water District Board7 p.m. Allen Water District
Office, 3230 N. Cole St., Lima.
“Reefer Madness”7:30 p.m. $15. Stambaugh
Studio Theatre, Ohio Northern University, Ada.
Midway East Neighborhood Association
7 p.m. Midway East Com-munity Center, 727 E. Kibby St., Lima.
Anger Management5 p.m. Safe Harbor, 429 S.
Jameson, Lima.
The Ohio State University at Lima Board
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Bath Township Drop-Off Recycling
2:30 p.m. Bath Township Hall, state Route 81, Lima.
Flu Shots12:30 p.m. Community
Health Professionals, 3719 Shawnee Rd, Lima.
Healing Hearts6:30 p.m. Community
Health Professionals, 803 Brewfield Drive, Wapako-neta.
UAW Local 1765 Retirees12:20 p.m. Golden Corral,
Elida Road, Lima.
Logan County Bingo6:30 p.m. Humane Soci-
ety, 615 N. Center St., Belle Center.
Marine Corp League6:30 p.m. VFW 1275, 124
E. Elm St., Lima.
Allen County Educational Services
6 p.m. Note: date change. Allen County ESC, Lima.
Bluegrass Cafe7 p.m. With Vernon and
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Time Stone Series of American Heroes: Benjamin Franklin
THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Look for a little excitement. Traveling in search of knowledge or meeting new people from different backgrounds will lead to an adventure. However, as much as you desire change, you must not make an impulsive decision or move.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do what-ever it takes to improve your personal life. Travel plans or socializing with friends will lead to higher self-esteem and greater confidence. Use past experi-ence to recognize an opportunity and leap into action. Love is in the stars.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A straight-forward approach to what you’ve been asked to do will be necessary if you don’t want to be criticized for your tardi-ness. Too much detail will be just as unacceptable as too little. You must strive to balance whatever you do.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Follow through with your promises and enjoy the praise you deserve. Love is on the rise. Making a subtle change at home that will enhance your surroundings or setting the stage for romance will pay off, as well as boost your confidence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may have the energy and the passion to take on a challenge, but expect to face a very worthy opponent. Precision and knowledge coupled with quick wit and action will determine who wins. Join forces with someone who compliments your skills.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will learn a great deal from the people you interact with. Don’t let an emotional connection you have with someone upset your plans. Consider what you can do to improve your outlook and your physical appearance. Professionalism will be required.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Talks will lead to information that will encourage you to expand some of your interests. What you have to offer will turn out to be a viable source of income in the future if you dedicate time and effort to honing your skills.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have fun. Show how creative, imaginative and spontaneous you can be. Romance is apparent, and plans to meet someone new or enhance your current relation-ship should be in the works. A personal change will lift your spirits.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Too much of anything will be your downfall. Don’t make promises you cannot keep or share information that is not verified. The changes you make at home will help encourage you to alter your lifestyle and enhance your well-being.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Deter-mination and hard work will pay off. Take on responsibilities that allow you to show your attributes. You can secure your posi-tion by handling whatever arises without making a fuss or showing frustration. Expertise will count. Love, romance and commitment are highlighted.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take your time. Don’t feel pressured to make a hasty decision. Work at home and on self-improvement and enhancing your per-sonal relationships. A change in status or vocational direction will lead to bigger and better opportunities. Avoid excess.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep your emotions in check. Arguments will not solve problems, but finding solutions that suit everyone’s needs in a manner that is civil will make an impression on someone that may have overlooked your talents in the past.
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By SUSAN CARPENTERLos Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Call it the H&M effect, or fast fash-ion. Americans are buying, and discarding, clothes more quickly than ever. On aver-age, each of us throws 54 pounds of clothes and shoes into the trash each year. That adds up to about 9 million tons of shoes, jackets and other wearables that are sent into the waste stream annu-ally, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Traditionally, the options for dealing with that waste have started with an R: Reduce, reuse or recycle. But a clutch of designers are pursuing a different tack. They’re producing cloth-ing and accessories that are biodegradable — or at the very least, have parts that are capable of decompos-ing into natural substances. The movement is still in its infancy, but it’s an important development in an industry that’s increasingly scruti-nized for its wastefulness.
Gucci began selling sun-glasses and footwear made with biodegradable plastics over the summer. This fall, Stella McCartney debuted several styles of heels with mock croc and faux leather uppers anchored with chunky, biodegradable rub-ber soles. And, in the near future, Puma says it will pro-duce a new line of T-shirts and sneakers that can be ripped up and buried in the ground as fertilizer.
“Everyone is beginning to appreciate the need to reduce fashion’s impact on the envi-ronment,” said Alex McIn-
tosh, business and research manager for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion. “Compostability is part of a wider waste management agenda” that is likely to grow in coming years, even if its use is only beginning in the $774 billion global apparel manufacturing business.
Of course, it’s unlikely that anyone who invests $500 in a pair of designer shoes or glasses would throw them in the trash and even less likely that such a rarefied buyer would toss a luxury item onto a compost pile. But “it’s great that high-end designers are exploring these ideas as their influence has
an impact on the collective psyche of the design com-munity,” McIntosh said.
That’s certainly the case with Stella McCartney, the well-known vegetarian designer whose shunning of leather and fur created more acceptance of synthetic alternatives in high fashion. McCartney is often credited with turning faux furs and leather handbags into a fash-ion “do” when such materi-als had long been consid-ered too down-market. Now designers including Calvin Klein and Michael Kors regu-larly work imitation furs into their designs. And the idea has trickled down to mass retailers such as H&M and
Forever 21, where most of the “leather” goods are, in fact, pleather.
McCartney’s partially bio-degradable pumps, which feature 4-inch heels and thick white soles reminiscent of gym sneakers, went on sale in September. Only the soles, made from plant-derived plastic, are biodegradable. But their inclusion reflects McCartney’s philosophy that “doing a little something is really a lot better than doing a lot of nothing.”
Her new Stella lingerie line incorporates recycled metal hardware and organic cotton gussets. All of her sunglasses are now eco-friendly, made with more than 50 percent
organic materials derived from castor oil seeds and sugar.
Gucci began incorporating more castor oil seed plastic into its sunglasses in 2011. This year, the company intro-duced sunglasses made with biodegradable frames and plant-derived, bio-plastic bal-lerina flats and sneakers.
Like Stella McCartney’s pumps, though, Gucci’s Liq-uid Wood sunglasses and California Green sneakers aren’t entirely biodegrad-able. They’re made from a mix of materials. Only the soles of the low- and high-top men’s sneakers are made from plant-based plastics that decompose over time without leaving chemicals or other harmful substances behind. As for the sunglasses, the frames are made from wood fiber and natural wax. The metal joints are con-structed with recycled metal, which points to the difficul-ties of making items that will entirely decompose: Only 100 percent natural fash-ions, such as cotton T-shirts stitched with cotton thread, can easily, and completely, break down in combination with heat, moisture and time. Not everything can be made so simply; indeed, consum-ers have come to expect cer-tain performance levels from sophisticated fabrics, such as cotton-spandex blends.
“With textiles, you get mon-strous hybrids,” said Susanna Schick, owner of Sustainable Fashion L.A., an environmen-tal consulting firm. “Having spandex in something makes it much easier to wear, but if you put spandex in cotton, it’s a petroleum-based fiber with an organic fiber, so the cotton will decompose but
the spandex won’t. It’s a dif-ficult situation.”
Fashions that readily bio-degrade may be better suited for the most disposable, least recyclable items in a wardrobe, such as under-garments, swimsuits or so-called fast fashion, which is, by its very nature, cheap and disposable.
Almost 13 million tons of textile waste are generated annually, according to the EPA. Of that, just 14 percent of the textiles used in cloth-ing and footwear is recov-ered for reuse or recycling. Statistics do not exist for how much textile waste is composted, but it’s probably minuscule. Still, more design-ers are seeing its potential — and not only at the high end. Many small start-ups are also experimenting.
The Dutch footwear com-pany Oat has been mak-ing entirely biodegradable sneakers since 2011. Dizm Eyewear, in Hermosa Beach, began selling sunglasses with biodegradable frames this spring. Last year, fashion and engineering students at Sheffield Hallam University in England jointly developed a wedding dress knitted from biodegradable polyvinyl alco-hol thread that’s designed to dissolve into water without releasing harmful chemi-cals into the environment. Another British designer, Suzanne Lee, has experi-mented with “growing” fabric. She uses a bacterial cellulose made from kom-bucha, a fermented tea that Lee grows into sheets that can be molded into a seam-less garment and buried in the garden at the end of its useful life.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Linda Warner disconnected the land-line phone in her Min-neapolis home. In South St. Paul, Minn., Shirley Munz is avoiding local or network TV until after the election.
With less than four weeks before Election Day, only this much is certain: More ads, more phone polls, more fli-ers and more door-knockers will result in more interrup-tions, more shouting, more litter and more intrusions when all you want to do is sip a glass of wine and actu-ally finish the last chapter before book club this month.
Is this how democracy is supposed to feel?
How a campaign enters our field of vision has moved far beyond bumper stickers and lawn signs. On Pinterest, doz-ens of boards are devoted to both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney — this on a website more often about cool shoes and hot hors d’oeuvres.
If you play online video games, you might see Obama’s face on a billboard. In 2008, he became the first presidential candidate to embed a political ad in an online video game, in states allowing early voting. This year, the president may be glimpsed on 18 online games purchased by players in swing states in an effort to target males between ages 18 and 34.
Granted, some folks are avid fans of the horse race. They yearn to be polled, and carefully parse each leaflet’s claims. Their Facebook posts always mean to illuminate, even when they pontificate, denigrate or agitate.
For others, though, the horses can’t cross the finish line soon enough.
One factor in the campaign fatigue simply may be how long the candidates have been on the stump. It can seem like they started run-ning for re-election as soon as they were sworn into office.
Hillary Robertson of St. Paul wishes “we had a six-week election season instead of a two-year one.”
“I mean, (an election) is important, but it doesn’t need to be important for two years,” she said, add-ing that she rather likes the
British system that enables elections to be “called” when warranted by Parliament. “I just love that they say, ‘Elec-tion in six weeks. Go!’
“I wish we could have a fed-eral mandate that says no cam-paigning until a certain point,” she said. “It would never fly, but it’s a lovely pipe dream.”
How did elections come to feel so onerous to some? One reason is how easily campaigns can reach us, albeit with our invitation. We answer the phone, turn on the TV, log on to a computer, follow our Twitter peeps.
Therein lies the issue: It can feel as if our daily rou-tines have been hijacked by “Vote for me.” Or, as likely, “My opponent is an idiot.” There’s a great temptation to lash out — or simply check out, which hardly feels like engaged citizenship.
The challenge is how to “culturally cope,” said Mark Daniels, a counselor at Genesys Counseling Minne-apolis who often sees clients stressed out by the modern world. The first step may be in recognizing how cam-paigns work.
“Everyone gets wrapped up in whether this is Republican or Democrat, and they don’t realize that both parties really are about the same in what they’re doing to us,” Daniels said. “There’s class warfare going on all over the place,” with political parties having a vested interest in keeping vot-ers at odds with one another.
“It’s causing an enormous amount of stress among nor-mal, everyday people who are just trying to live their lives in the midst of this con-stant anger over everything,” he said.
A Facebook query ask-ing how people cope with campaign overload provided some insight.
Avoiding network TV was a common response, but cable is hardly an oasis. There may not be candidate ads, but some story lines wear their politics quite plainly on their rolled-up sleeves. Some praised caller ID, enabling them to answer only familiar numbers and avoid pollsters.
Robertson, an event plan-ner, clicked the “Hide” option on some Facebook friends whose incessant political posts became tiresome; she’ll disinter them after the election.
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A Certificate of Need application has been filed by Trilogy Healthcare of Putnam III, LLC for the relocation of 14 beds from The Meadows of Ottawa-Glandorf Health Campus, 575 Ottawa-Glandorf Rd., Ottawa, Ohio 45875 to The Meadows of Leipsic, 901 E. Main St., Leipsic, Ohio 45856, at an estimated cost of $276,008.00. The application was declared complete on October 12, 2012, which is the day the review period began. A decision is expected to be rendered by the Director of Health on or before December 11, 2012. An affected person may submit written comments regarding an application and the director shall consider all written comments received by the thirtieth (30th) day after the day the application was declared complete. Written comments are to be sent to:
Ohio Department of HealthDivision of Quality Assurance, Certificate of Need Program246 North High StreetColumbus, Ohio 43215
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LOST German Shepherd in the vicinity of St Rita’s. Probably scared and confused. Please call 419-905-2062
Free to a good home, British short hair cats, would like them to go together, 2 year old Blue/White male neutered and 3 year old Blue female spayed. Call (419)230-5169
Free kittens. Call (419)234-4404
Found: Large breed puppy in Elida. Call (419)339-9408 to identify
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1435 TIMBERLANE DR. Thursday-Friday 8-6
& Saturday 8-12Gun case, TV, Fountain, clothing, and misc.
1522 RICE AVEThursday - Saturday 9 - 4
Bookcases, computer desks & chairs, small appliances, size 18 - 2X womens clothing. Lamps, rocking chair. New Fu- ton pad. Misc. items.
2485 CABLE COURTWicked Kustomz
(across from LCC)Friday & Saturday 9 - 5:30
Nice variety of items.
CHRISTMASIN
OCTOBERHalloween, Fall and Christmas items. Trees, wreaths, arrange- ments, ornaments, clothes, coats, dresser. Shop early.
2219 SENECAShawnee Rd to
Zurmehly to SenecaFriday and Saturday 9 - 5
HUGE 4 FAMILYGARAGE SALE
Baby clothes and lots of misc.Thursday - Saturday 9 - 6
4210 N KEMP RD
ESTATE SALEAntique Furniture
& GlasswareOctober 19th 10 to 6October 20th 9 to 1NO EARLY SALES!1291 North Perry St,
OttawaAlso a Garage Sale in
shed behind house
HUGE BARN SALE6440 Harding HWY
Oct. 16th - 27th 9 - 5
HUGE SALESaturday 9 - 4
227 S MAIN ST, LIMALots of building & office sup- plies. Tools, household items & lots of misc.
MOVING SALE!3349 County Road 60
(Reservoir Rd) AdaThursday 9-3 Saturday 9-3 Entertainment center, bunk bed. Twin bedroom suite, lots of house hold items,
SUPER GARAGE SALE!Furniture, glassware,
China, pictures, lamps, and Christmas decor.
Friday & Saturday 9-53311 Muirfield Pl. Lima
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211 E. Auglaize St. Wapakoneta
419-738-2164 800-332-5947
MIKE MIKE SWANEY SWANEY
Ron Gossard
www.mikeswaney.com
2004 Pontiac Grand Prix
Silver $7,995
2009 Pontiac G5 37,000 miles
$11,995
2007 Chevy 1/2 Ton
4x4, extended cab, 57,000 miles $18,495
2000 Harley Davidson Dyna
Wide GlideBlack
$7,9952007 Honda Odyssey EX
$13,9952010 Cadillac CTS
White diamond
$25,995
Ron Gossard
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2004 CADILLAC DEVILLE$8,952
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
2001 Chevy Venture WB, 156,000 miles, runs well, drives right, solid transportation, dual heat, Air. $2,300. Call 419-224-0407
1999 DODGE CONVERSION VAN
primetime conversion pkg., power locks, windows,cruise
$2,500
419-227-74001350 N Cable Rd
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2011 FORD RANGER XCAB2 WD, keyless entry,
9,000 miles$19,917
419-223-36731360 Greely Chapel Rd
2005 DODGE DAKOTA CREW
$10,990
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd.
2000 Silverado, 2 wheel drive. 193,000 miles, tires and brakes good condition, Tonneau cover, towing package. $3,400. Call 419-568-3677
2000 Ford F150, regular cab, V8, automatic, XLT, air, tilt, cruise, runs good. $2,650. Call 567-674-0065
1999 GMC SIERRA, 350 auto- matic, power windows, locks, etc, tow package, leather, pew- ter, $4.550. Call (419)645-5813
1994 F150 127,000 miles. Pre- mium wheels, premium sound. Custom accessories. Very Sharp! $2,400/best offer. Call 419-221-0532
1978 Dodge pick up. Good work truck. 318 engine, cap, custom stainless steel rear bumper with tow hitch, custom wheels, good tires. $1,950. Call 419-230-3458
1965 Chevy C-10 short bed step side with 1964 283 Cor- vette engine. Stunning! $10,500. Call 419-230-3458
2012 GMC TERRAIN$23,400
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
2007 DODGE CALIBER SXT,local trade
$8,236
419-223-36731360 Greely Chapel Rd.
2007 CHEVY ENVOY DENALI$16,550
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
2004 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX$6,450
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
2003 Ford Expedition, Eddie Bauer model, new tires, excel- lent condition, $7,900. Call (419)641-7025
BUYING NON WANTED Snow mobiles, any condition. Kiene Recreation. Call (419)384-3800
BUYING BIKESBuying motorcycles, ATV’s
and scooters. Call 419-331-2333, ask for Tim.
2004 Yamaha Roadstar, black, leather saddle bags, faring, 7,700 miles runs and looks
great. $4,600. Call (419)236-8275
USED ENGINESOver 250 in stock and ready for loading or we can install them!
AUTO BARN 1635 East State Road
419-641-4853 or 800-541-5462www.autobarnohio.com
100 Junk Cars WantedArmy’s paying top dollar for junk cars & trucks. Saturday pick-up available 419-225-1896
1$ BUYING JUNK CAR$Truck$ & Van$ - Paying TOP Ca$h - Will Haul !
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Z56A 1997CHEVROLETASTROLOCALTRADE $3,995.00Z13B 2007CHEVROLETCOBALTLOCALTRADE $7,960.00Z169 2006FORDFUSIONSEL(V6)LOCALTRADE $12,993.00Z147B 2008CHEVROLETSILVERADOW/TLOCALTRADE $12,995.00Z164 2010FORDFUSIONSPORT $18,714.00Z113 2009DODGENITROSLT4WD $17,186.00Z131 2007CHEVROLETAVALANCHELT $23,995.00M224A 2008DODGERAM3500LOCALTRADE $26,595.00
SHARP - 1996 FIREBIRD
CONVERTIBLE, low mileage, $7,000.
Call 567-712-2955
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2012 CHEVY IMPALA $13,846
419-993-6000
2200 N Cable Rd
2012 CHEVY CRUZE LT$14,888
419-993-60832200 N Cable Rd
2012 CHEVY CAPTIVIA$18,888
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
2010 Dodge Avenger, excellent shape, 24,500 miles, touch screen stereo, 2.4 Liter V-4, auto transmission, $13,000. OBO, Call (419)303-2034 after 3pm.
2006 PT CRUISER, Automatic, 4 cylinder, 72,190 miles. $5,800. Call 419-231-0999
2006 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX$8,488
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
2006 LEXUS GS 300$18,788
419-993-60002200 N Cable Rd
1981 CHEVY EL CAMINO 305 V8 with chrome parts, Elderb- rock 4 barrel, new brakes, 700R transmission, and much more. $1,500. or trade 419-516-1453
2004 FORD TAURUS SES,full power, keyless entry, rear spoiler, moonroof
$6,520
419-227-74001350 N Cable Rd
2003 Toyota Corolla S 180,000 miles, black, good condition, one owner. Must see. $5,500. Call 419-302-9776
2001 BUICK Century, Green, excellent condition, air, power seats, new brakes. 90,000 miles. $5,995. 419-773-1314
1$..Highest Prices Paid..1$Cars, Vans & Trucks.
Wrecked or not. Cash Paid. 419-645-6611 or 419-230-5929
11$$ Phoenix Auto Wrecking Buying Junk Cars Trucks & Vans Paying cash $35-$500. Ask how! Must have title.
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1$$ Do not trade Sell me your car! We pay more CASH than they offer! Not Buying Junk. Febus Motors 419-234-2342
Apples, Pumpkins, Gourds, Squash, Tomatoes, Straw, Am- ish goods & products.
Call Today 419-642-4173Swiss Country Market
Rat Terrier puppies, short hair, small dog, very lovable. Call (419)641-3125
For sale: 8 week old AKC reg- istered boxer puppies. $450. for males $500. for females. Please call (419)596-5160
WURLITZER ORGANHas all the bells & whistles.
Like new. $100.Call 419-221-1969
3 PIECE practice drum set, bass, high hat, snare, and stool, high end 2011 equip- ment. $700. OBO Call (419)227-2620 afternoon
Wooden shed, good condition. $375. Call (567)204-8690
SEARS CRAFTSMAN Two-Bin leaf bagger. Fits Sears 42” cut Riding mower. Used one sea- son. $100. Call 419-991-8198
Oval glass for table top only, 65 inch long 42 inch across 1/2 inch thick. $25. Call (419)296-1825
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901 N. Main St. Findlay, Ohio 419-424-0944
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PUBLIC AUCTION7824 Co. Rd. 304 Forest, OH 45843 being just east of New Stark on old Rt. 30 being west of US Rt. 68 and east of St. Rt. 235.
Saturday October 27, 2012 at 10 AM
Household: Frigidaire white 18 ft. refrigerator; black 30” Frigidaire elec. range; Toastmaster convection oven; small appliances; Amana washer; elec. dryer; Toshiba 32” TV; DVD player; 6 chair maple dinette set; maple hutch; harvest table w/ 2 benches & 2 arm chairs; large hutch; large wood arm rocker; 2 end tables; heavy coffee table; brown sofa bed; 2 planters; many, many books hard and paper backs novels & mysteries; reading lamp; 3 chests of drawers; knee hole desk; book shelves; basket weave shelves; stereo; console record player; full bed; night stand; 2 wood flower stands; latch hook frame; patio table; ladies leather jackets; entertainment center; turkey fryer; 2 tubs; 3 plastic goose decoys; 12 & 16 ft. alumn. exten. ladders; lots more.
Collectibles: New England grandfather clock; Case collectable knives inc. Bowe w/ plaque, Astronaut w/ display, Buffalo folding hunter & Kentucky Bi-Cenn. and others; glassware & china inc. Fenton, Byrds crystal, Belleek pcs., lead crystal, carnival bowl, cups & saucers, 7 pc. wine set, painted plates; several Lladro figurines; angel figures; silver pcs; 3 paintings on canvas; Kincade pictures & shelf; arm chair w/ vinyl seat; several oil lamps; what nots; anniversary clock; Violins and cases in all conditions; Water fall dresser & chest; cedar chest; curio cabinet; 2 race track toys; arm rocker; RCA console radio; stacks of records; breakfast booth inc. benches & table; metal & wood beds; wood arm chair; rug loom may not be complete; large heavy Imperial buffet; bird cage; wooden tub washer; crocks & jugs; trophies; cross cut saw; boxes that will be unpacked sale day. Guns: Browning Belgium A5 12 gauge auto.; 511 Remington & 87A Springfield rifles; bayonet; misc.
Terms: Cash or check with acceptable ID on sale day. Visa & MC + 3%; Not responsible for accidents or for items after sold. Lunch on grounds. We may need to run 2 rings.
Owner: Cecilia Hicks
Walter Bros. Inc. AuctioneersBen, Tom, Matt Walter
and Kris Gosche901 N. Main St. Findlay,
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POOL TABLE7 ft. 3 Piece Slate Pool Table. Solid wood, cherry finish, tan felt, balls, rack, cue’s. $975. Call 419-224-8663 or 419-236-9606
POND need oase winter recir- culating pond pump and bas- ket. $27. Call 419-692-3851
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MICROWAVELarge, excellent condition. $40.
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LADIES wool coat, navy, 100% wool, size 11/12, freshly dry cleaned, worn twice. $50. OBO. Call (419)647-0164
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Commercial Listings1706 Breese Rd. 9.5 ac. ½ mi. from I-75. Buildings in excellent condition. Tim Carder 419-234-20753578 S. Dixie 5 Bld. plus house. Was a sales and service. Louis Guagenti 419-236-61811900 Elida Rd. 1.14 ac. Investment Property includes building and land! Tim Carder 419-234-20753940 Elida Rd. 3.45 ac. Located on a busy hwy. More land available. Jason Kaser 419-230-67101550 N. Main Betty Brite Laundry for sale! Great Investment. Louis Guagenti 419-236-6181850 Woodlawn Contract for bld. and land. It was Adrian Gabbiano Salon. Carol Bice 419-234-30722160 Eastown Rd. 2.33 ac. Can be used for commercial or retail. Maria Sanko 419-303-84952411 Shawnee Rd. Commercial Shopping Center in Shawnee Twp. Louis Guagenti 419-236-6181998 Bellefontaine Drive through carry out 1,950 sq. ft. includes bus. & equipment Paul Shenk 419-235-0823000 Cole Commercial land 15 acres 3 parcels. Prime development potential. Maria Sanko 419-303-8495627 N. Jameson Zoned business prop. 1800 sq. ft. offices w/2 conference rooms. Dixie Staley 419-235-3773115 W. Kiracofe Ave. Prime corner in Elida. 1.6 ac. Corner of 309 and Dutch Hollow Rd. Tim Carder 419-234-20751101 W. North This property includes 28 parcels at the corner of W. North & Jameson Tim Carder 419-234-2075219 Northern 10,920 sq. ft. of usable office space. Can be used got offices, bank medical. Maria Sanko 419-303-84952362 Shawnee Rd. Property for Lease. Nice open office in Shawnee area. Active Complex. Tim Carder 419-234-2075734 W. North Commercial lot across from St. Rita’s Medical Center. Ready to build on. Judy Kelly 419-303-0716535 N. Woodlawn Corner lot could make an excellent professional office. New Low Price! Louie Guagenti 419-236-6181734 W. North Vacant lot across from St. Rita’s. This lot is vacant and ready to build on. Judy Kelly 419-303-0716
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Blanchard Ave, Glandorf $229,900-Ottawa SD
A Must See! Custom built brick split home, 2 bedrooms/2 baths with great room. Oak trim and flooring. Sound proof dividing wall. Double sink and shower, central vac system. 2 car attached garage. (144) Ron Leopold 419-235-2278
306 Charloe Circle, Ottawa $181,000-Ottawa Glandorf SD
Price Reduced! Attractive brick ranch offering 3 bedrooms/2 full baths. Custom-built natural stone fireplace in family room. Includes large sunroom with attached deck. Landscaped w/large area for vegetable garden or child’s play area. 2 car attached garage. (92) Marti Leopold 419-235-0511
Lane 3 piece Living room set, leather, tan in color, all have recliners, $1,300. Or Best Offer. Call 419-645-6450 or 419-234-2515
JAZZY Power chair. Many op- tions. New cost $7,000. Has new batteries. $800. Call 419-371-0362
HO TRAIN SETVintage 1981 - for around Christmas tree. $50. Call 419-228-4254
File cabinet, beige in color, 2 drawer. $20. Call (419)222-8128
Craftsman 42 inch high perfor- mance lawn sweeper. $75. Call(419)228-9806
Cement Goose Outfit. $5. Call 419-224-0456
BERLIN TONNEAU COVER Fits S-10 Ranger short bed. $50. Call 419-227-6671
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890 Trucks
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880 SUV’s
870 Snowmobiles
850 Motorcycles/Mopeds
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585 Produce
583 Pets and Supplies
580 Musical Instruments
577 Miscellaneous
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PUBLIC AUCTIONSaturday, October 20th at 10:00 a.m.Allen County Fairgrounds Youth Activities Building
Tractors: 9N Ford, Sears lawn tractor, JD 317, Electric golf cart.Lawn and Garden Tools: Lincoln 225 amp welder, Mr. Heater 50,000 BTU, truck toolbox, radial arm saw, Craftsman table saw, torch with cart, sawhorses, ladders, Campbell-Hausfield air compressor, Craftsman 10” table saw, Craftsman planer-jointer, work bench, Craftsman wood chipper, yard wagon, 5 ft bush hog, 5F blade, 22” yard vac, Huskey GT 46” cat, lawn roller, band saw, Craftsman wood lathe, chain fall hoist, bar clamps, battery charger, land and power tools, power washer, belt-disc sander, lawn seeder, aerator, copper, chain saws, push planter, and much, much more.Antiques and Collectibles: Several Longaberger baskets, pottery and wrought iron. Oil lamps, coffee grinder, butter churns, Heritage Hall Johnson Bros. 8 pc China set, bell collection, Dunnum day collection, spinning wheel, collector plates, Apollo glasses, books, union workman tobacco thermometer, crocks, enamel, lighters, blow torches, pocket and wrist watches, waterfall bedroom suit, National Wine Co. Lima’s leading liquor store (glasses and plate), quilts, oak wash stand, hunting clothes, old toys, saxophone John Deere toys, pedal tractor (rough), cast iron banks and much more.Household: Corner curio, wall curio, full size bed, cedar chest, rockers, TV dresser, quilt rack, dress dummy, pitcher and bowl stand, end table, bar stools, tea cart, dry sink, Howard Miller grand father clock, 2 china cabinets, pictures, 3 sofas, stereo, coffee table, Gibson refrigerator, home décor, chest freezer, electric stove, file cabinet, lamps, luggage, blankets, washer and dryer, plant stand, Micronta metal detector, pots, pans, dishes, desk, bikes, recliner chair, low seat, Heywood Wakefield dining table and chair (2), cameras and much more.Owners: James I. Schultz Estate, Lima, Helen Sellati, Lima, and James C Schafer, Lafayette.
Auction conducted by:
Reindel Auction ServiceAuctioneers: Mike Reindel 419-235-3607, Mark Knoch
All auctioneers licensed and bonded in the favor of the State of OhioTerms: Cash or check with proper ID
Condition: All items sell “as is” where is with no warranties applyFood Available
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Chimneys Repaired & Rebuilt, Block Work, Basement Repair & Siding. Call 419-230-8164
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Windmills, Electric Aerators, Fountains, Chemicals,
Blueing. Call 419-738-3450www.aerationwindmills.com
00 AMISH CREW, remodeling, room additions, bath remodels, garages, pole barns, roofing, siding. Now accepting all ma- jor credit cards. 419-979-9161
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501 METALS#1 29 Ga. MetalSiding & Roofing
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Contractor & Lumber Yarddiscounts available.
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Amos Wengerd Construction Amish Crew We do pole barns, new homes, roofs, garages, re- modeling, etc. 260-410-6454
Bowman Brothers Garage Builders Garages - Pole
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Board for Board Building for Building...We won’t be undersold!
419-222-9191 or 800-269-6269
Grand Garages& Pole Buildings
Won’t be Beat!419-229-3971
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& cleanup. Attics, basements, garages, appliances, concrete, roofing, etc. Lawn, shrubbery & tree work. Free estimates 419-221-1457 419-230-2273
A&A Hauling Cheapest rates in town guaranteed. Any type of hauling. Will haul your junk ap- pliances FREE! 419-648-2250419-371-1805 for an estimate.
We Haul it all any type of haul-ing, we clean basements & gar- ages, 24hr hauling service, Free estimates. 419-296-9455
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0 Elida Building Contracting Basement repair/waterproofing. Credit cards OK. Free estimate Joel Wheeler 419-331-2194
00 L & W CONSTRUCTION All types of remodel & carpen- ter work. 30+ years experience. Accept all credit cards. Call Fred Wheeler 419-222-7488
00 * LIMA CARPENTERSBathrooms, & Kitchens, Win- dows & Doors. Free Estimates.Dave Perrine 419-302-1916.
000 K&D Basements: Base- ment waterproofing, repairs, lifetime warranty, mold. Free Inspection. Lima 419-905-7593
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Basement and Foundation re- pairs. Free estimates. 25 years experience. Certified Mold in- spector. Accepting all major credit cards. 419-222-7488
1***PHIL’S HOME IMPROVEMENT** Windows & Doors
Siding & Decks Reasonably Priced.
31 years exp. 419-222-8963
Poling Family RenovationsAll Home Repairs.
Senior/Military discountCall (419)234-5266 Free esti- mates within 24 hours of call
Amish CrewWind Damage Repairs Available Now!! Building, Remodeling, roofing, siding, 20+ years experience.
Call 419-305-0857
Augie InstallingCeramic Tile & LaminateFlooring & Wall Tile. FreeEstimates 419-331-2739
DR CONSTRUCTION We do remodeling - houses, roofs barns, new construction, addi- tions, fencing. 260-251-0141
CMT CHORE SERVICESAffordable mowing, clean up, light home maintenance, house cleaning, painting. Bonded and Insured. Senior discount. Call for free estimate 419-905-7463
Crystal Clean Cleaning
1 time or all the time, af- fordable and thorough. 419-645-6564 or 419-235-0755
Experienced Handyman for all your needs. From yard work to home improvements Affordable Free estimates. 567-204-9486
00 ALPINE 00 TREE SERVICE Over 23 years Quality Service
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Free Estimates419-224-1789Fully Insured$$$$$$ SAVE $$$$$
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REMOVAL Free Ash tree diagnosis, buck- et trucks, chippers, loaders, dump trucks, 8 stump grinders, tree trimming and removal. 40 years experience, fully in- sured. Free estimates. Call 567-825-7826 or 567-712-1241
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Trimming-Topping-Tree and Stump removal. Top quality Professional Tree Service at the lowest price around. Bucket Truck and Chipper. Insured, free estimates. 419-221-1457 419-230-2273
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Serving Lima and surround- ing area for 38 years. Free Estimates! 419-227-4948/
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Fully insuredSmith Nursery Mowing, Main-tenance & New Installs, Trees, Firewood. Organic Produce.419-234-0871 419-648-2544
Fitzgerald Power Washing
& Painting.
Interior, Exterior Residential, Commercial. Decks, fences, houses. Cleaning, sealing,
staining. Barn painting. Free estimates, insured, references.
419-303-3020Shrider Painting, LLC
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L IMA — Failed levies and cuts to staff and programming didn’t stop Delphos schools from not only maintaining its rating on this year’s state report card but jumping up to the top spot.
The district earned the highest designa-tion, Excellent with Distinction, according to preliminary report card data released Wednesday. It is a first for the district, which has had a tough few years. Super-intendent Frank Sukup calls it a tribute to the district’s teaching staff.
“I have to give a lot of credit to these people,” he said. “They did not get down. It could have been easy to say, ‘Heck with it,’ and, ‘I don’t care,’ but it just shows the quality of people that we have in this sys-tem.”
The state released additional state report card data, including school and district rat-ings, Wednesday. The information comes nearly two months later than usual.
Some information came out last month, but ratings, Performance Index and atten-dance rates were held as the state auditor investigated allegations of data manipula-tion by some districts. The investigation continues, and the official report cards won’t be released until later. The investiga-
tion does not involve any local schools.Twelve districts in the nine-county area
moved up a designation, while 12 dropped. The rest maintained their designation.
The lowest rating went to Quest Academy in Academic Emergency. Lima schools dropped from Continuous Improvement to Academic Watch, and Upper Scioto Valley schools dropped from Effective to Academic Watch.
The rating didn’t surprise Lima schools officials, who have been evaluating pre-liminary data since the beginning of the school year. Superintendent Jill Ackerman said principals and staff are already break-ing down data.
“Everyone is under a tremendous amount of pressure, but they need to be and they recognize that they need to be,” she said.
Lima fell because it did not meet Ade-quate Yearly Progress, which measures success of pupil subgroups such as racial minorities, special education and economi-cally disadvantaged.
KEY CONCERNSMany panelists talked about the uncer-
tainty of the reform itself, with the presiden-tial election still undetermined, particularly if Gov. Romney were to take office and appeal the legislation. Bob Armstrong,CEO of Lima Memo-rial Health System, along with Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, both expressed concerns regarding the individual mandate to be implemented in 2014. The idea is for everyone to have health coverage by requiring it. However, that may not necessarily be the case if people instead opt to pay the penalty (which is smaller in the beginning) of not taking insurance. While the reform will introduce new solutions to health care, it may also perpetuate problems, such as continually rising premium costs.
LIMA — A Lima man has died from the West Nile virus, the Allen County Health Department reported.
David “Kim” Sunderhaus, 58, died Saturday at Kindred Hospital in Lima, surrounded by his family, according to his obituary.
His death was reported Wednesday to the Allen County Health Department, which did not release his name, and marks Ohio’s sixth death attributed to the virus.
“We would like to extend our condolences to the family and friends of this individual,” said
Kathy Luhn, Allen County health commissioner.
Also on Wednesday, the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Pre-vention reported the number of West Nile virus cases nationally has reached 4,531, making 2012 the nation’s second-worst year on record for the disease.
There were three individuals in the county who were infected with the virus in August, accord-ing to officials at September’s Allen County Health Board meet-ing.
Becky Dershem, Allen County Health Department director of nursing, said people were con-tinuing to be hospitalized and in critical condition at the Sept. 14 meeting.
The three cases she described were a 40-year-old man who thought he contracted the virus in Allen County, a 56-year-old woman who believed she was exposed to the virus in Texas, and an 84-year-old woman who thought she was exposed in Allen County. All three were hospitalized.
“We do have reports of people continuing to be hospitalized,” Dershem said, “And some of them are now in critical condition. So just be aware.”
The milder form of the mos-quito-borne disease causes flu-like symptoms and is rarely lethal, but the neuroinvasive form is much more severe.
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David “Kim” Sunderhaus, Lima’s West Nile virus victim, worked as a salesman at Sears and was a husband, father and grandfather.
Better great than never
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[email protected] THE DOZEN12 schools that improved scores
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• Arlington• Bluffton• Columbus Grove• Fairlawn• Findlay• Fort Recovery• Heir Force Academy• Lima City Schools• Minster• Parkway• Upper Scioto Valley• Van Wert — From 66 schools in
nine-county region. See graphic, Page A5
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LIMA — More than 100 small-business own-ers and professionals gathered at the City Club in downtown Lima on Wednesday afternoon to discuss how the health care reforms of the Affordable Health Care Act would affect them. Health care professionals also addressed their concerns, good and bad, about the health care reforms.
The primary purpose of the luncheon was for local employers to understand what they need to be doing right now with their employees, particularly with W-2 forms, information about small businesses that could be eligible for a health care tax credit, and what else needs to be filed to keep proper records. The event was organized by the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce.
The panel included Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bob Armstrong, the CEO of Lima Memorial Health System, John Renner, vice president and chief financial offi-cer at St. Rita’s Health Partners, Connie Miller and Becky Waggamon with Webb Insurance Agency, and Randee Henson with Stolly Insur-ance Group.
Electronic medical records are being expanded during the next few years, providing a central database for physicians all across the country. But attendees were concerned about the safety and confidentiality of medical files.
“The challenge we all face is that so many people have access to it,” Armstrong said. “There are people that know how to hack into those things.”
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CINCINNATI — College campuses have become more than a backdrop for the presi-dential campaign in Ohio as both sides are vying to sway young voters to their side.
President Barack Obama continued his cam-pus tour of Ohio on Wednesday with an evening rally at Ohio University in southeastern Ohio. It was the fifth Ohio college the Democratic presi-dent has visited in less than a month.
Not to be outdone, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has made the rounds to the state’s universities.
Ryan, a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, spoke Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace University near Cleveland, where he talked about the growing debt and lack of jobs for young people getting out of college. He blamed Obama for both.
“He gives us a growing debt and no solu-tions,” Ryan said.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Rom-ney and Ryan recently visited several Ohio campuses. Last weekend, Romney had a rally at Shawnee State University, while Ryan tail-gated with Bowling Green State University football fans and then spoke at Youngstown State. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, made
his alma mater one of his first stops after being named as Romney’s running mate, and he also visited with fans at the Miami-Ohio State foot-ball game in Columbus soon afterward.
At Ohio University, Obama told the crowd he has two daughters and doesn’t want them to be paid less for the same job as a man.
Student Paris Aaron said he is voting for Obama because he wants to help give the pres-ident a chance to finish what he has started.
“I don’t think starting all over again will help out the country at all,” said Aaron, 19, of Columbus.
LIMA — He’s spent his share of time in the last two and a half years driving the short distance to “ham-burger row,” but now University of Northwestern Ohio student Tyler Wright has a better option.
“For a small college, something like this is very nice,” Wright said Wednesday from the school’s new food court, located inside the new Student Commons. “Students sometimes complain that there are not enough things to do. Having something like this is sort of an
icon for this small campus.”UNOH and community officials
dedicated the new 55,000-square-foot Student Commons on Wednes-day. The building has been open to students for just more than a month. It came out of neces-sity, President Jeffrey Jarvis said, because of the school’s growth.
“This was necessary to enhance our students’ academic and more important social growth in the cen-ter of the campus,” he said.
The 400-seat food court is open to the public and features items from six different food stations, includ-ing a grill, sandwich bar, salad bar and complete hot meal bar. The
Student Commons is located off Hartzler Road on campus.
A highlight of the building is the Dr. Cheryl A. Mueller Library. Muel-ler is vice president of academic affairs/provost. The new library
LIMA — After pleading guilty halfway through his trial, a man who tried to shoot another man to death spoke Wednesday of issues he said are plaguing the black community.
“View the big picture. This is all in refer-ence to drugs and alcohol. Drugs, alcohol and guns. My life is filled with drugs, guns and alcohol,” said Terry Felton after entering his guilty plea in the Sept. 25, 2011, shooting that wounded a Lima man.
Felton, 38, pleaded guilty to felonious
assault with a gun and aggravated robbery with a gun after shooting Markese Davis. Felton was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Davis was shot four times in the body and once in the head during a robbery prosecu-tors said was over drugs. The shooting took place inside a house at 607 Fairview Ave.
Felton said he is not the only person on the south side of Lima with this experience.
“We need to get it together as black people, period, and that’s all I have to say,” he said.
Judge Jeffrey Reed seemed taken back by Felton’s remarks.
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LIMA — Eat healthy. Be active. It’s the mantra for the Activate Allen County initia-tive that is working to improve the health and wellness of Allen County residents.
It’s also going the slogan that’s going to be emblazoned on the side of a donated Allen County Regional Tran-sit Authority bus that’s being transformed into a mobile produce market as part of the Activate Allen County effort. The partners involved unveiled the project Wednes-day during Lima Mayor David Berger’s weekly news briefing.
“It’s important to mention what an innovative program this is for a community this size. As far as we’re aware, I don’t believe there’s another community our size that has taken on a project like this,” Gary Bright, chief executive officer of the West Ohio Food Bank, said. “The places we’re looking at our places like Chi-cago, Kansas City. I under-stand there may be buses in Columbus and in Cleveland. For a community our size, I think this is pretty new.”
The concept is to take fresh produce out to so-called food deserts, places that are underserved or not served by a market that has fresh produce or where the population can’t afford fresh produce, Bright said. The United Way of Greater Lima
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LIMA
Woman falls off cycle, driver flees scene
After a passenger fell off the back of a motorcycle on Interstate 75 Tues-day evening, the driver of the motor-cycle took off, the Lima post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.
Terry King, 63, of Lima, was northbound on I-75 near milepost 127, the state Route 81 exit, riding a 1984 Honda motorcycle, when Erin M. Mulcahy, 31, of Lima, fell off the back of his motorcycle around 8 p.m., patrol officials said.
She landed in the right lane of northbound traffic on the interstate. The vehicle behind King’s motor-cycle swerved to miss Mulcahy and struck the concrete median wall, according to patrol officials.
Officials said King left the scene of the crash. He was later arrested at his home on Metcalf Street in Lima. He is being charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and aggravated vehicular assault.
Mulcahy was taken to Lima Memorial Health System by Bath EMS, with serious injuries, patrol officials said.
WAPAKONETA
Woman dies after Monday I-75 crash
A Texas woman died after a crash on Interstate 75 Monday just south of Wapakoneta, the Wapako-neta post of the Ohio State High-way Patrol reported.
Lorraine Harrison, 62, of San Antonio, was taken to Lima Memo-rial Health System, where she died.
The crash happened near the U.S. Route 33 exit at 11:15 a.m. Monday. Susanne Borders, 47, of Wawaka, Ind., was eastbound on Route 33 in a tractor-trailer when she attempted to exit onto I-75.
Borders lost control on the exit ramp and crossed both southbound lanes of traffic, crossed the median and crashed through the median cable to enter the northbound lanes of traffic, where she struck a Lincoln MKS head-on, according to patrol officials.
The Lincoln MKS was operated by Randy Harrison, 64, of San Antonio. He was also taken to Lima Memorial Health System, where he underwent emergency surgery Monday.
Borders was taken to St. Rita’s Medical Center. Lt. Scott Carrico of the Wapakoneta post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said she was talking to officers and alert at the scene of the crash.
DELPHOS
Four in Delphos face drug charges
Four people from Delphos were indictment on drug-related charges after search warrants were exe-cuted, the Delphos Police Depart-ment reported.
David W. Nelson, 50, was charged with two counts of a fifth-degree felony trafficking in marijuana and one count of fourth-degree felony trafficking in marijuana. He was found at his home in the 400 block of East Suthoff Street and arrested without incident.
Cynthia A. Kline, 53, was charged with three counts of trafficking in marijuana, a fifth-degree felony, and one count of possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, another fifth-degree felony. She was aware she had a warrant for her arrest and turned herself in at the Allen County Sherriff’s Office.
Dustin W. Lehmkuhle, 23, faces charges of one count of possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony. He was found at his place of employ-ment on Gressel Drive in Delphos and arrested without incident.
Jennifer R. Wallace, 29, was charged with one count of tamper-ing with evidence, a third-degree fel-ony. She was located at her home in the 500 block of North Main Street and was arrested without incident.
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Admits ‘My life is filled with drugs, guns and alcohol’
Terry Felton looks to the back of the courtroom after his attorney Greg Novak made a change of plea during his trial on Tuesday.
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• The Lima News
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Dr. Jeff Jarvis addresses those in attendance at the ribbon cutting for the new UNOH Student Commons.
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Presidential candidates focus on Ohio college voteBy DAN SEWELL
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MARYSVILLE — It took several hours — preceded by a scrapped plan to hold the court hearing in a garage — but a man accused of burning down a Union County church in January pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Stephen Beightler, 31, was in Union County Common Pleas court Wednesday for a routine hearing to set a date for his expected trial on charges related to his burn-ing of the New Horizons Baptist Church. Instead, he pleaded guilty to charges of arson, vandalism and break-ing and entering.
He waived a pre-sentence investigation and Judge Don Fraser sentenced him today to three years in prison on the vandalism charge and 17 months on an arson charge to be served consecutively, for a total of 53 months. The breaking and entering charge was not considered because sentencing rules wouldn’t allow it.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped charges of receiving stolen property and possession of criminal tools.
Beightler, who grew up in Union County, stole a BMW from his roommate in Philadelphia and drove the car through the night to Marysville, where he drove through the doors of the
church on Paver Barnes Road. Then he set the building ablaze on Jan. 10.
He was arrested at the scene, swinging on a swing set and watching the fire after he called 911 from a cellphone. He had a dispos-able lighter in his pocket and gasoline on his clothes.
The church was destroyed, at a loss topping $968,000, but no one was injured.
Court officials were set up Wednesday to hold Beightler’s hearing in the garage connected to the Union County Courthouse, a first as far as anyone could recall.
The extraordinary set-ting was because when Beightler was in court in Champaign County in May to answer to charges that
he assaulted a jail guard and a police officer while in custody on this case, he urinated on the floor of the holding cell.
The planned garage hear-ing was only the latest tac-tic used by court officials to keep Beightler under con-trol. At a hearing in Union County in April, Beightler was heavily shackled and wore a mask to prevent him from biting or spitting on others. Several extra dep-uty sheriffs were on hand, and they wore protective gloves, also an uncommon courtroom practice.
He also had repeatedly made in appropriate ges-tures while in court and has made inflammatory state-ments toward prosecutors and judges.
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The Lima/Allen County RTA will be holding its Cus-tomer Appreciation Day on Oct. 26.
Bus rides will be free all day. There will be hot dogs and soda at the transfer sta-tion from 10 a.m. until sup-plies run out. Join the fun and ride the bus for free.
VAN WERT
Candidate to stump today
Angela Zimmann, the Democratic candidate for the 5th Congressional Dis-trict, will speak at a school board meeting, have a meet-and-greet, and visit a small business today in Van Wert.
Zimmann will speak at the Northwest Ohio Regional School Board meeting at Vantage Career Center, 818 N. Franklin St., from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. From 7:45 to 9 p.m. there will be a meet-and-greet with the Van Wert County Democratic Party at 147 E. Main St., Suite A. At 9:05 p.m. she’ll visit Simply Irresist-ible Bakery & Sweets, 229 S. Washington St., to speak with owner Travis Tribolet about his small business.
COLUMBUS
Fungal meningitis update
The Ohio State Depart-ment of Health has released a list of 64 health care pro-viders who purchased medi-cations from New England Compounding Center, linked to spreading fungal meningi-tis to hundreds of people in the United States.
This list included two facil-ities in the region: The Eye Surgery Center of Western Ohio, Lima, and the Findlay Surgery Center, Findlay.
The Ohio Department of Health is encouraging all health care providers to fol-low up with patients who received any injectable prod-ucts from the Massachusetts facility.
Unlike bacterial or viral meningitis, fungal meningitis cannot be spread person to person. Ohio has seven cases of fungal meningitis (no deaths), all linked to back injections with ste-roids distributed by NECC. The case numbers for Ohio could change as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adjusts its case definition and Ohio further evaluates each patient.
The list of all Ohio facili-ties that carried products from the NECC can be found at http://j.mp/QtSyWH.
CINCINNATI
Man charged with stabbing at bus stopPolice say a Cincinnati
man is in jail after alleg-edly stabbing one woman numerous times and slap-ping another at a bus stop in what authorities say were apparently random attacks in southwest Ohio.
Cincinnati police said in court documents that Jerome Raven told them he intended to kill 24-year-old Tiara Metcalf and she wouldn’t hold still.
Police say Metcalf is expected to recover.
Police say the 31-year-old Raven allegedly stabbed the woman at a downtown bus stop Tuesday and was arrested on charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and assault.
WARREN
Woman, 500 pounds, hospitalized
A 500-pound Warren woman is in hospital inten-sive care while investigators try to determine how she ended up bedridden in filthy, bug-infested conditions.
Police also expect today to question the 41-year-old woman’s four children, who are now staying with an aunt, according to Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green.
Officials said she has been bedridden for about two years and that she had a bro-ken hip.• From staff and news reports •
ABOVE: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accompanied by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaks at a campaign rally Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea.RIGHT: President Barack Obama greets a girl in the audience Wednesday at a campaign event at Ohio University in Athens.
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COLLEGE VOTE • from B1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Breanna Williams, from Jackson, said she also is supporting Obama. Williams, 20, says she believes he is “really geared” toward col-lege students and that funding and affordability of higher education are among the top issues for her.
Exit polling in 2008 indicated Obama won two-thirds of the vote among college-age adults as he car-ried Ohio, a state expected to be close this year and possibly crucial to winning the White House. Under-scoring the importance of Ohio and its college vote, Obama officially kicked off his re-election campaign in May at Ohio State University.
In a return visit to OSU last week, Obama urged students to take buses provided for them at the rally to go to early voting locations, saying: “Everything we fought for in 2008 is
on the line in 2012.”But the Romney campaign thinks
it will make inroads with young voters this year, and a campaign official said it is well-organized on campuses across the state.
“We are making a huge push on the campuses,” said Scott Jennings, Romney’s state campaign director. “This is a different environment for Obama than it was in 2008. The economy is sputtering along, and these college kids know they are about to graduate into a world that may not have a job for them.”
Obama campaign officials say they are well-positioned on cam-puses. They say the president has been getting enthusiastic crowds, with students waiting for hours to see and hear him.
University of Cincinnati student
body president Lane Hart recalled that the campus excitement in 2008, when Obama spoke at a huge UC rally, “was really palpable.” But Hart, who said he is impartial on the presidential campaign, disputed that students aren’t as interested in this year’s race.
Hart, a 22-year-old Lewisburg native who majors in information systems and finance, pointed to an enthusiastic, larger-than-expected turnout Tuesday night at a campus center to watch the second presi-dential debate. Organizers were kept busy adding hundreds of chairs for arriving students, with more than 500 on hand by the time it started.
“I would say more young people are engaged,” he said. “I think every-one here understands the impor-tance of Ohio; and Cincinnati, Ham-
ilton County and the young vote. I sense a feeling of duty and respon-sibility.”
First-year Ohio State student Emily Rees of Chagrin Falls said she has been pushing her fellow stu-dents to vote, even if they disagree with her support of Obama.
“I’m like: ‘Listen, you need to vote. It’s your duty to your country.’ Obvi-ously, I want the president to win. ‘Like, I don’t care who you vote for, but it’s your voice. You just need to vote,’” she said.
Despite the ability to vote early, she’s going to wait until Nov. 6 to cast her ballot for president for the first time.
“I just want to be caught up in the election craziness,” said Rees, 18, dual-majoring in music education and Russian.
Man pleads guilty in Marysville church arson
Lancaster girl injured in fallLANCASTER (MCT) — An 11-year-old Lancaster girl is
hospitalized at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Colum-bus after she fell 40 feet from Mount Pleasant Tuesday and landed in a tree.
Lancaster police said they were told Wednesday that Eliza-beth Fuller is in critical condition.
The girl suffered a broken leg and arm, and head trauma, according to the police incident report.
The girl slipped and fell from the Devil’s Kitchen area of Mount Pleasant at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. A friend with her called 911.
Medics could not find Elizabeth immediately. Two police officers then scaled down 40 feet from the summit and found the girl tangled in a tree. The officers placed a neck brace on her, and lowered her about 10 feet down from the tree to the waiting medics.
L IMA — Failed levies and cuts to staff and programming didn’t stop Delphos schools from not only maintaining its rating on this year’s state report card but jumping up to the top spot.
The district earned the highest designa-tion, Excellent with Distinction, according to preliminary report card data released Wednesday. It is a first for the district, which has had a tough few years. Super-intendent Frank Sukup calls it a tribute to the district’s teaching staff.
“I have to give a lot of credit to these people,” he said. “They did not get down. It could have been easy to say, ‘Heck with it,’ and, ‘I don’t care,’ but it just shows the quality of people that we have in this sys-tem.”
The state released additional state report card data, including school and district rat-ings, Wednesday. The information comes nearly two months later than usual.
Some information came out last month, but ratings, Performance Index and atten-dance rates were held as the state auditor investigated allegations of data manipula-tion by some districts. The investigation continues, and the official report cards won’t be released until later. The investiga-
tion does not involve any local schools.Twelve districts in the nine-county area
moved up a designation, while 12 dropped. The rest maintained their designation.
The lowest rating went to Quest Academy in Academic Emergency. Lima schools dropped from Continuous Improvement to Academic Watch, and Upper Scioto Valley schools dropped from Effective to Academic Watch.
The rating didn’t surprise Lima schools officials, who have been evaluating pre-liminary data since the beginning of the school year. Superintendent Jill Ackerman said principals and staff are already break-ing down data.
“Everyone is under a tremendous amount of pressure, but they need to be and they recognize that they need to be,” she said.
Lima fell because it did not meet Ade-quate Yearly Progress, which measures success of pupil subgroups such as racial minorities, special education and economi-cally disadvantaged.
KEY CONCERNSMany panelists talked about the uncer-
tainty of the reform itself, with the presiden-tial election still undetermined, particularly if Gov. Romney were to take office and appeal the legislation. Bob Armstrong,CEO of Lima Memo-rial Health System, along with Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, both expressed concerns regarding the individual mandate to be implemented in 2014. The idea is for everyone to have health coverage by requiring it. However, that may not necessarily be the case if people instead opt to pay the penalty (which is smaller in the beginning) of not taking insurance. While the reform will introduce new solutions to health care, it may also perpetuate problems, such as continually rising premium costs.
LIMA — A Lima man has died from the West Nile virus, the Allen County Health Department reported.
David “Kim” Sunderhaus, 58, died Saturday at Kindred Hospital in Lima, surrounded by his family, according to his obituary.
His death was reported Wednesday to the Allen County Health Department, which did not release his name, and marks Ohio’s sixth death attributed to the virus.
“We would like to extend our condolences to the family and friends of this individual,” said
Kathy Luhn, Allen County health commissioner.
Also on Wednesday, the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Pre-vention reported the number of West Nile virus cases nationally has reached 4,531, making 2012 the nation’s second-worst year on record for the disease.
There were three individuals in the county who were infected with the virus in August, accord-ing to officials at September’s Allen County Health Board meet-ing.
Becky Dershem, Allen County Health Department director of nursing, said people were con-tinuing to be hospitalized and in critical condition at the Sept. 14 meeting.
The three cases she described were a 40-year-old man who thought he contracted the virus in Allen County, a 56-year-old woman who believed she was exposed to the virus in Texas, and an 84-year-old woman who thought she was exposed in Allen County. All three were hospitalized.
“We do have reports of people continuing to be hospitalized,” Dershem said, “And some of them are now in critical condition. So just be aware.”
The milder form of the mos-quito-borne disease causes flu-like symptoms and is rarely lethal, but the neuroinvasive form is much more severe.
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Madi Brantley, 9, a fourth-grader at Franklin Elementary School in Delphos, takes a math test Wednesday.
West Nile virus kills Lima manBy SARAH STEMEN
David “Kim” Sunderhaus, Lima’s West Nile virus victim, worked as a salesman at Sears and was a husband, father and grandfather.
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Lima health care pros outline
ObamacareBy KATE MALONGOWSKI
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LIMA — More than 100 small-business own-ers and professionals gathered at the City Club in downtown Lima on Wednesday afternoon to discuss how the health care reforms of the Affordable Health Care Act would affect them. Health care professionals also addressed their concerns, good and bad, about the health care reforms.
The primary purpose of the luncheon was for local employers to understand what they need to be doing right now with their employees, particularly with W-2 forms, information about small businesses that could be eligible for a health care tax credit, and what else needs to be filed to keep proper records. The event was organized by the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce.
The panel included Kevin Hinkle, of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bob Armstrong, the CEO of Lima Memorial Health System, John Renner, vice president and chief financial offi-cer at St. Rita’s Health Partners, Connie Miller and Becky Waggamon with Webb Insurance Agency, and Randee Henson with Stolly Insur-ance Group.
Electronic medical records are being expanded during the next few years, providing a central database for physicians all across the country. But attendees were concerned about the safety and confidentiality of medical files.
“The challenge we all face is that so many people have access to it,” Armstrong said. “There are people that know how to hack into those things.”
“We have the exact same standards that the
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CINCINNATI — College campuses have become more than a backdrop for the presi-dential campaign in Ohio as both sides are vying to sway young voters to their side.
President Barack Obama continued his cam-pus tour of Ohio on Wednesday with an evening rally at Ohio University in southeastern Ohio. It was the fifth Ohio college the Democratic presi-dent has visited in less than a month.
Not to be outdone, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has made the rounds to the state’s universities.
Ryan, a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, spoke Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace University near Cleveland, where he talked about the growing debt and lack of jobs for young people getting out of college. He blamed Obama for both.
“He gives us a growing debt and no solu-tions,” Ryan said.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Rom-ney and Ryan recently visited several Ohio campuses. Last weekend, Romney had a rally at Shawnee State University, while Ryan tail-gated with Bowling Green State University football fans and then spoke at Youngstown State. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, made
his alma mater one of his first stops after being named as Romney’s running mate, and he also visited with fans at the Miami-Ohio State foot-ball game in Columbus soon afterward.
At Ohio University, Obama told the crowd he has two daughters and doesn’t want them to be paid less for the same job as a man.
Student Paris Aaron said he is voting for Obama because he wants to help give the pres-ident a chance to finish what he has started.
“I don’t think starting all over again will help out the country at all,” said Aaron, 19, of Columbus.
LIMA — He’s spent his share of time in the last two and a half years driving the short distance to “ham-burger row,” but now University of Northwestern Ohio student Tyler Wright has a better option.
“For a small college, something like this is very nice,” Wright said Wednesday from the school’s new food court, located inside the new Student Commons. “Students sometimes complain that there are not enough things to do. Having something like this is sort of an
icon for this small campus.”UNOH and community officials
dedicated the new 55,000-square-foot Student Commons on Wednes-day. The building has been open to students for just more than a month. It came out of neces-sity, President Jeffrey Jarvis said, because of the school’s growth.
“This was necessary to enhance our students’ academic and more important social growth in the cen-ter of the campus,” he said.
The 400-seat food court is open to the public and features items from six different food stations, includ-ing a grill, sandwich bar, salad bar and complete hot meal bar. The
Student Commons is located off Hartzler Road on campus.
A highlight of the building is the Dr. Cheryl A. Mueller Library. Muel-ler is vice president of academic affairs/provost. The new library
LIMA — After pleading guilty halfway through his trial, a man who tried to shoot another man to death spoke Wednesday of issues he said are plaguing the black community.
“View the big picture. This is all in refer-ence to drugs and alcohol. Drugs, alcohol and guns. My life is filled with drugs, guns and alcohol,” said Terry Felton after entering his guilty plea in the Sept. 25, 2011, shooting that wounded a Lima man.
Felton, 38, pleaded guilty to felonious
assault with a gun and aggravated robbery with a gun after shooting Markese Davis. Felton was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Davis was shot four times in the body and once in the head during a robbery prosecu-tors said was over drugs. The shooting took place inside a house at 607 Fairview Ave.
Felton said he is not the only person on the south side of Lima with this experience.
“We need to get it together as black people, period, and that’s all I have to say,” he said.
Judge Jeffrey Reed seemed taken back by Felton’s remarks.
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LIMA — Eat healthy. Be active. It’s the mantra for the Activate Allen County initia-tive that is working to improve the health and wellness of Allen County residents.
It’s also going the slogan that’s going to be emblazoned on the side of a donated Allen County Regional Tran-sit Authority bus that’s being transformed into a mobile produce market as part of the Activate Allen County effort. The partners involved unveiled the project Wednes-day during Lima Mayor David Berger’s weekly news briefing.
“It’s important to mention what an innovative program this is for a community this size. As far as we’re aware, I don’t believe there’s another community our size that has taken on a project like this,” Gary Bright, chief executive officer of the West Ohio Food Bank, said. “The places we’re looking at our places like Chi-cago, Kansas City. I under-stand there may be buses in Columbus and in Cleveland. For a community our size, I think this is pretty new.”
The concept is to take fresh produce out to so-called food deserts, places that are underserved or not served by a market that has fresh produce or where the population can’t afford fresh produce, Bright said. The United Way of Greater Lima
UNOH students welcome commonsNew building brings better library,
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LIMA
Woman falls off cycle, driver flees scene
After a passenger fell off the back of a motorcycle on Interstate 75 Tues-day evening, the driver of the motor-cycle took off, the Lima post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.
Terry King, 63, of Lima, was northbound on I-75 near milepost 127, the state Route 81 exit, riding a 1984 Honda motorcycle, when Erin M. Mulcahy, 31, of Lima, fell off the back of his motorcycle around 8 p.m., patrol officials said.
She landed in the right lane of northbound traffic on the interstate. The vehicle behind King’s motor-cycle swerved to miss Mulcahy and struck the concrete median wall, according to patrol officials.
Officials said King left the scene of the crash. He was later arrested at his home on Metcalf Street in Lima. He is being charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and aggravated vehicular assault.
Mulcahy was taken to Lima Memorial Health System by Bath EMS, with serious injuries, patrol officials said.
WAPAKONETA
Woman dies after Monday I-75 crash
A Texas woman died after a crash on Interstate 75 Monday just south of Wapakoneta, the Wapako-neta post of the Ohio State High-way Patrol reported.
Lorraine Harrison, 62, of San Antonio, was taken to Lima Memo-rial Health System, where she died.
The crash happened near the U.S. Route 33 exit at 11:15 a.m. Monday. Susanne Borders, 47, of Wawaka, Ind., was eastbound on Route 33 in a tractor-trailer when she attempted to exit onto I-75.
Borders lost control on the exit ramp and crossed both southbound lanes of traffic, crossed the median and crashed through the median cable to enter the northbound lanes of traffic, where she struck a Lincoln MKS head-on, according to patrol officials.
The Lincoln MKS was operated by Randy Harrison, 64, of San Antonio. He was also taken to Lima Memorial Health System, where he underwent emergency surgery Monday.
Borders was taken to St. Rita’s Medical Center. Lt. Scott Carrico of the Wapakoneta post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said she was talking to officers and alert at the scene of the crash.
DELPHOS
Four in Delphos face drug charges
Four people from Delphos were indictment on drug-related charges after search warrants were exe-cuted, the Delphos Police Depart-ment reported.
David W. Nelson, 50, was charged with two counts of a fifth-degree felony trafficking in marijuana and one count of fourth-degree felony trafficking in marijuana. He was found at his home in the 400 block of East Suthoff Street and arrested without incident.
Cynthia A. Kline, 53, was charged with three counts of trafficking in marijuana, a fifth-degree felony, and one count of possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance, another fifth-degree felony. She was aware she had a warrant for her arrest and turned herself in at the Allen County Sherriff’s Office.
Dustin W. Lehmkuhle, 23, faces charges of one count of possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony. He was found at his place of employ-ment on Gressel Drive in Delphos and arrested without incident.
Jennifer R. Wallace, 29, was charged with one count of tamper-ing with evidence, a third-degree fel-ony. She was located at her home in the 500 block of North Main Street and was arrested without incident.
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Admits ‘My life is filled with drugs, guns and alcohol’
Terry Felton looks to the back of the courtroom after his attorney Greg Novak made a change of plea during his trial on Tuesday.
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• The Lima News
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Dr. Jeff Jarvis addresses those in attendance at the ribbon cutting for the new UNOH Student Commons.
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Presidential candidates focus on Ohio college voteBy DAN SEWELL
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MARYSVILLE — It took several hours — preceded by a scrapped plan to hold the court hearing in a garage — but a man accused of burning down a Union County church in January pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Stephen Beightler, 31, was in Union County Common Pleas court Wednesday for a routine hearing to set a date for his expected trial on charges related to his burn-ing of the New Horizons Baptist Church. Instead, he pleaded guilty to charges of arson, vandalism and break-ing and entering.
He waived a pre-sentence investigation and Judge Don Fraser sentenced him today to three years in prison on the vandalism charge and 17 months on an arson charge to be served consecutively, for a total of 53 months. The breaking and entering charge was not considered because sentencing rules wouldn’t allow it.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped charges of receiving stolen property and possession of criminal tools.
Beightler, who grew up in Union County, stole a BMW from his roommate in Philadelphia and drove the car through the night to Marysville, where he drove through the doors of the
church on Paver Barnes Road. Then he set the building ablaze on Jan. 10.
He was arrested at the scene, swinging on a swing set and watching the fire after he called 911 from a cellphone. He had a dispos-able lighter in his pocket and gasoline on his clothes.
The church was destroyed, at a loss topping $968,000, but no one was injured.
Court officials were set up Wednesday to hold Beightler’s hearing in the garage connected to the Union County Courthouse, a first as far as anyone could recall.
The extraordinary set-ting was because when Beightler was in court in Champaign County in May to answer to charges that
he assaulted a jail guard and a police officer while in custody on this case, he urinated on the floor of the holding cell.
The planned garage hear-ing was only the latest tac-tic used by court officials to keep Beightler under con-trol. At a hearing in Union County in April, Beightler was heavily shackled and wore a mask to prevent him from biting or spitting on others. Several extra dep-uty sheriffs were on hand, and they wore protective gloves, also an uncommon courtroom practice.
He also had repeatedly made in appropriate ges-tures while in court and has made inflammatory state-ments toward prosecutors and judges.
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RTA offering free bus rides
The Lima/Allen County RTA will be holding its Cus-tomer Appreciation Day on Oct. 26.
Bus rides will be free all day. There will be hot dogs and soda at the transfer sta-tion from 10 a.m. until sup-plies run out. Join the fun and ride the bus for free.
VAN WERT
Candidate to stump today
Angela Zimmann, the Democratic candidate for the 5th Congressional Dis-trict, will speak at a school board meeting, have a meet-and-greet, and visit a small business today in Van Wert.
Zimmann will speak at the Northwest Ohio Regional School Board meeting at Vantage Career Center, 818 N. Franklin St., from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. From 7:45 to 9 p.m. there will be a meet-and-greet with the Van Wert County Democratic Party at 147 E. Main St., Suite A. At 9:05 p.m. she’ll visit Simply Irresist-ible Bakery & Sweets, 229 S. Washington St., to speak with owner Travis Tribolet about his small business.
COLUMBUS
Fungal meningitis update
The Ohio State Depart-ment of Health has released a list of 64 health care pro-viders who purchased medi-cations from New England Compounding Center, linked to spreading fungal meningi-tis to hundreds of people in the United States.
This list included two facil-ities in the region: The Eye Surgery Center of Western Ohio, Lima, and the Findlay Surgery Center, Findlay.
The Ohio Department of Health is encouraging all health care providers to fol-low up with patients who received any injectable prod-ucts from the Massachusetts facility.
Unlike bacterial or viral meningitis, fungal meningitis cannot be spread person to person. Ohio has seven cases of fungal meningitis (no deaths), all linked to back injections with ste-roids distributed by NECC. The case numbers for Ohio could change as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adjusts its case definition and Ohio further evaluates each patient.
The list of all Ohio facili-ties that carried products from the NECC can be found at http://j.mp/QtSyWH.
CINCINNATI
Man charged with stabbing at bus stopPolice say a Cincinnati
man is in jail after alleg-edly stabbing one woman numerous times and slap-ping another at a bus stop in what authorities say were apparently random attacks in southwest Ohio.
Cincinnati police said in court documents that Jerome Raven told them he intended to kill 24-year-old Tiara Metcalf and she wouldn’t hold still.
Police say Metcalf is expected to recover.
Police say the 31-year-old Raven allegedly stabbed the woman at a downtown bus stop Tuesday and was arrested on charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and assault.
WARREN
Woman, 500 pounds, hospitalized
A 500-pound Warren woman is in hospital inten-sive care while investigators try to determine how she ended up bedridden in filthy, bug-infested conditions.
Police also expect today to question the 41-year-old woman’s four children, who are now staying with an aunt, according to Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green.
Officials said she has been bedridden for about two years and that she had a bro-ken hip.• From staff and news reports •
ABOVE: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accompanied by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaks at a campaign rally Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea.RIGHT: President Barack Obama greets a girl in the audience Wednesday at a campaign event at Ohio University in Athens.
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COLLEGE VOTE • from B1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Breanna Williams, from Jackson,
said she also is supporting Obama. Williams, 20, says she believes he is “really geared” toward col-lege students and that funding and affordability of higher education are among the top issues for her.
Exit polling in 2008 indicated Obama won two-thirds of the vote among college-age adults as he car-ried Ohio, a state expected to be close this year and possibly crucial to winning the White House. Under-scoring the importance of Ohio and its college vote, Obama officially kicked off his re-election campaign in May at Ohio State University.
In a return visit to OSU last week, Obama urged students to take buses provided for them at the rally to go to early voting locations, saying: “Everything we fought for in 2008 is
on the line in 2012.”But the Romney campaign thinks
it will make inroads with young voters this year, and a campaign official said it is well-organized on campuses across the state.
“We are making a huge push on the campuses,” said Scott Jennings, Romney’s state campaign director. “This is a different environment for Obama than it was in 2008. The economy is sputtering along, and these college kids know they are about to graduate into a world that may not have a job for them.”
Obama campaign officials say they are well-positioned on cam-puses. They say the president has been getting enthusiastic crowds, with students waiting for hours to see and hear him.
University of Cincinnati student
body president Lane Hart recalled that the campus excitement in 2008, when Obama spoke at a huge UC rally, “was really palpable.” But Hart, who said he is impartial on the presidential campaign, disputed that students aren’t as interested in this year’s race.
Hart, a 22-year-old Lewisburg native who majors in information systems and finance, pointed to an enthusiastic, larger-than-expected turnout Tuesday night at a campus center to watch the second presi-dential debate. Organizers were kept busy adding hundreds of chairs for arriving students, with more than 500 on hand by the time it started.
“I would say more young people are engaged,” he said. “I think every-one here understands the impor-tance of Ohio; and Cincinnati, Ham-
ilton County and the young vote. I sense a feeling of duty and respon-sibility.”
First-year Ohio State student Emily Rees of Chagrin Falls said she has been pushing her fellow stu-dents to vote, even if they disagree with her support of Obama.
“I’m like: ‘Listen, you need to vote. It’s your duty to your country.’ Obvi-ously, I want the president to win. ‘Like, I don’t care who you vote for, but it’s your voice. You just need to vote,’” she said.
Despite the ability to vote early, she’s going to wait until Nov. 6 to cast her ballot for president for the first time.
“I just want to be caught up in the election craziness,” said Rees, 18, dual-majoring in music education and Russian.
Man pleads guilty in Marysville church arson
Lancaster girl injured in fallLANCASTER (MCT) — An 11-year-old Lancaster girl is
hospitalized at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Colum-bus after she fell 40 feet from Mount Pleasant Tuesday and landed in a tree.
Lancaster police said they were told Wednesday that Eliza-beth Fuller is in critical condition.
The girl suffered a broken leg and arm, and head trauma, according to the police incident report.
The girl slipped and fell from the Devil’s Kitchen area of Mount Pleasant at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. A friend with her called 911.
Medics could not find Elizabeth immediately. Two police officers then scaled down 40 feet from the summit and found the girl tangled in a tree. The officers placed a neck brace on her, and lowered her about 10 feet down from the tree to the waiting medics.
