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Council considers
tax levy renewal
BY GREG SCHERGER
Staff writer
DELPHOS — A resolu-
tion declaring an intention
to place a 4.05-mill renewal
tax levy on the November
general ballot affecting prop-
erty owners within Delphos
received considerable atten-
tion and endorsement from
council and the administration
at Monday’s meeting.
City Council President
Bob Ulm emphasized that the
tax was “not new, has been
in place in excess of 20 years
and is extremely crucial for
the city budget and maintain-
ing current service levels of
several departments.”
If passed, the renewal
would be in effect from Jan.
1, 2012, through Dec. 31,
2016. The 4.05-mill levy cur-
rently provides the city with
approximately $208,000 to
the General Fund annually.
Berquist and Jettinghoff noted
some cuts will be needed if
the long-standing tax is not
renewed.
The tax equates to 40.5
cents for each $100 of prop-
erty valuation. Passage of the
resolution to establish the tax
levy on the November bal-
lot is anticipated at a future
meeting.
Council approved using city
streets for the second annual
5K Relay for Life Run and
Memorial Day parade. The
run will take place on June
18. With a start time of 9 a.m.,
runners will follow a designat-
ed route from Jefferson Senior
High School east on North
Street, south on Canal Street,
east on Seventh Street to Scott
Street north to Eighth Street
then west to Main Street north
to and around Stadium Park
before completing at the high
school.
Kendra Wieging spoke
on behalf of the relay, citing
120 participants in last year’s
event.
On behalf of the Delphos
Veterans Council, Rick Schuck
received approval for the
annual Memorial Day Parade.
The parade will step off from
the Second Street Safety
Service building at 10:45 a.m.
on May 30 and proceed to
Main Street, then north to the
Veterans Memorial Park at
Fifth and Main for a program
scheduled for 11 a.m.
Council took no definitive
action to four other pieces of
legislation presented on first
or second reading.
Council reviewed an ordi-
nance to enter into contract
with the successful bidder
for a sanitary sewer replace-
ment in the Menke Meadows
Addition. Funded in major-
ity by a $41,600 grant from
the Ohio Public Works
Commission, the total project
cost is estimated at $52,000.
City Safety Service Director
Greg Berquist commented
that the project would likely
begin after school is out for
the year.
Council also read an ordi-
nance to contract with the
successful bidder for an Erie
Street sewer project, utiliz-
ing $73,000 provided by
Community Development
Block Grant funds of the esti-
mated $80,000 project. Bid
requests for this project have
not yet been established or
issued.
Council also read an ordi-
nance for the city to assume
ownership and maintenance
of a sewer along Elida Road
in an area now under devel-
opment by Delphos Senior
Housing, LLC. Councilman
Kevin Osting inquired as to
the progress that the city has
made in checking the con-
dition of the line that was
installed outside the city limits
in the late 1980s. Berquist
advised that 400 feet of the
line has been camera inspect-
ed and the line is in good con-
dition and is of larger capacity Stacy Taff photo
than previously anticipated.
An ordinance authorizing
City Auditor Tom Jettinghoff
Curves food drive nets nearly 1 1/2 tons of food
to make various fund transfers The Curves community collected 2,825 pounds of food and $140 for St. Vincent
within city accounts to com- de Paul and the Interfaith Thrift Shop in April. From left, Debbie Bell, Peggy
ply with the Ohio Auditor’s Pohlman, Mercy Mauk and Julie Noonan prepare to transport the food.
Office was also heard on sec-
ond reading.

Sports Kiwanis Club sets reward

Jefferson game rescheduled for park equipment vandals
Jefferson road baseball
game at Crestview originally The Kiwanis Club and the for information leading to the
set for Monday (weather) was Delphos Police Department arrest and prosecution of indi-
are working together to com- viduals responsible for this
rescheduled to 5 p.m. Friday. bat playground equipment vandalism.
Parks/Rec. Dept. taking teams vandalism. “People should report all
The Delphos Parks and Over the past few years, suspicious activity,” Chief
Recreation Department is the Kiwanis Club has put Fittro said. “I can’t tell you
taking teams for its Tuesday forth much effort to update how many times I have heard
night and Friday night men’s playground equipment in city someone say ‘I thought it was
slow-pitch softball leagues, as parks. strange that this was occur-
well as hoping to restart the “It seems that with warm- ring but I never called the
Wednesday night women’s/ er weather comes the annual police.’ Many crimes have
co-ed league. If there is problem of individuals van- been solved when people
enough interest, games could dalizing this equipment,” called in ‘insignificant’ activ-
be played on Mondays. Delphos Police Chief Kyle ity.”
Ten team spots are avail- Fittro said. “Approximately The reward is ongoing and
able in all three leagues. one month ago, there was a applies to past, present or
Friday night is a “fun” great deal of graffiti spray- future vandalism; it is not
league, with no umpires painted on the equipment at for one particular incident
but mats used for balls and Waterworks Park.” only. The Kiwanis and police
strikes. The cost is $100 The Kiwanis Club has department are interested in
per team. All games begin agreed to pay up to $250 all incidents.

Phone call by Kuwaiti

Stacy Taff photo
at 6 p.m. starting May 27. Deb Birkemeier, left, Janet Hoersten and Judy Wieging look at historical photos for
The Tuesday men’s the bicentennial book.

Group hopes historical Fort Jennings courier led to bin Laden

league costs $250 per, with
games starting May 24.
The women’s/co-ed

book complete by Christmas

league costs $200 per, with
play beginning June 1.
Deadline is May 14.
Contact the Rec Dept.
(419 695-5712 or e-mail
at delphosparks@yahoo.
com) or Chris Kemper
((419 234-6614).
Fishing tourney postponed
The Memorial River
Tournament has been post-
poned until May 15.
For questions, con-
tact Kevin Schleeter of
the Delphos Bass Club
at 419-796-0138.
Forecast
Partly cloudy
Wednesday.
High near 60.
See page 2.
Index
Obituaries
State/Local
Politics
Community
Sports 6-7 but the history itself has to be to the park. Hardback will be
Classifieds
Television
World briefs 10 photographs from the com- you never know,” Wieging
By ADAM GOLDMAN network told interrogators
and MATT APUZZO about an important courier
The Associated Press with the nom de guerre Abu
Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was
BY STACY TAFF have to have printed.”
staff@delphosherald.com The committee hopes to WASHINGTON — When close to bin Laden. After
“The younger have the book finished by one of Osama bin Laden’s the CIA captured al-Qaida’s
FORT JENNINGS — This generation doesn’t Christmas at the earliest. most trusted aides picked No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh
community’s 2012 bicenten- “We’re hoping for up the phone last year, he Mohammed, he confirmed
nial will mark 200 years since have copies of Christmas, or maybe the begin- unknowingly led U.S. pursu- knowing al-Kuwaiti but
the fort named for Colonel
Jennings was founded during
the that one was ning of next year,” Birkemeier
said. “Janet Hoersten has been
ers to the doorstep of his boss, denied he had anything to do
the world’s most wanted ter- with al-Qaida.
the War of 1812. In honor printed in ’76. It’s
working on getting us some rorist. Then in 2004, top al-Qaida
of the event, a committee
was formed to put together a
important for sponsors and that’s helped and
we still have some pictures
That monitored phone call, operative Hassan Ghul was
recounted Monday by a U.S. captured in Iraq. Ghul told
bicentennial book filled with them to learn we’d like to find.” official, ended a years-long the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was
the history of Fort Jennings.
“I put together a book
about the history.” Wieging believes the pic-
tures are out there; it’s just
search for bin Laden’s per- a courier, someone crucial to
sonal courier, the key break the terrorist organization. In
before about histories and finding the right person.
families of Fort Jennings and
— Judy Wieging
“We’re looking for pic-
in a worldwide manhunt. The
courier, in turn, led U.S. intel-
particular, Ghul said, the cou-
rier was close to Faraj al-Libi,
now that 2012 is coming up, tures of the old dump that ligence to a walled compound who replaced Mohammed as
Helen Kaverman approached won’t be room, so probably used to be where the park in northeast Pakistan, where a al-Qaida’s operational com-
me and said ‘why don’t you only about 200 will be used is now,” Wieging said. “It team of Navy SEALs shot bin mander. It was a key break
put together another history but we did get duplicates of would be nice to show what Laden to death. in the hunt for bin Laden’s
book about the bicentenni- things. This book has gen- that area once was and how The violent final minutes personal courier.
al?’ and I said ‘well, I don’t erated a lot of community beautiful it’s become. We’d
were the culmination of years “Hassan Ghul was the
write’,” Deb Birkemeier said. interest because we’ve been also like some of the tile mill
“So we found some people bugging them for pictures.” and the elevator fire. There’s of intelligence work. Inside
the CIA team hunting bin
linchpin,” a U.S. official
said.
2 to help out and now we have The book will be published so much history and to see all
Laden, it always was clear Finally, in May 2005, al-
3 seven writers that are work- by MT Publishing and will be of the businesses that have
ing on putting together the around 300 pages long. The been in Fort Jennings over that bin Laden’s vulnerability Libi was captured. Under CIA
4 history. We’ve been able to committee plans to do pre- the years is unreal.” was his couriers. He was too interrogation, al-Libi admit-
5 gather the statistics and things sale and give any profit made The last piece of Fort smart to let al-Qaida foot sol- ted that when he was promot-
Jennings history printed was diers, or even his senior com- ed to succeed Mohammed,
8 written down. We also have $45, paperback $35. in 1976, so the committee manders, know his hideout. he received the word through
But if he wanted to get his a courier. But he made up
9 13 people on the committee “We’re thinking we’ll feels it’s time to update.
messages out, somebody had a name for the courier and
who are gathering maps and print about 500 copies but “The younger generation
doesn’t have copies of the to carry them, someone bin denied knowing al-Kuwaiti,
munity for the book.” said. “We hope there will one that was printed in ’76,” Laden trusted with his life. a denial that was so adamant
“We have about 800 pic- be that much interest. Since Wieging said. “It’s important Shortly after the Sept. 11, and unbelievable that the CIA
tures now,” Judy Wieging we’re doing presale, it will be for them to learn about the 2001, terrorist attacks, detain-
added. “There probably easy to know how many we’ll history.” ees in the CIA’s secret prison See BIN LADEN, page 2
 2 – The Herald
Mourners demand revenge
in Libya after nAto strike
By KArin LAUB
and Ben HUBBArD
the Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya —
Libyans shouting for revenge
buried Moammar Gadhafi’s
second youngest son to the
thundering sound of anti-air-
craft fire Monday, as South
Africa warned that the NATO
bombing that killed him would
only bring more violence.
Libya’s leader did not
attend the tumultuous funeral
of 29-year-old Seif al-Arab,
but older brothers Seif al-Islam
and Mohammed paid their
respects, thronged by a crowd
of several thousand. Jostling
to get closer to the coffin,
draped with a green Libyan
flag, mourners flashed victory
signs and chanted “Revenge,
revenge for you, Libya.”
Three of Gadhafi’s grand-
children, an infant and two tod-
dlers, also died in Saturday’s
attack, which NATO says
targeted one of the regime’s
command and control centers.
Gadhafi and his wife were in
the compound at the time, but
bin Laden
(Continued from page 1)
took it as confirmation that
he and Mohammed were pro-
tecting the courier. It only
reinforced the idea that al-
Kuwaiti was very important
to al-Qaida.
If they could find the man
known as al-Kuwaiti, they’d
find bin Laden.
The revelation that intel-
ligence gleaned from the
CIA’s so-called black sites
helped kill bin Laden was
seen as vindication for many
intelligence officials who
have been repeatedly inves-
tigated and criticized for their
VAN WERT COUNTY COURT NEWS
The following individu-
als appeared Thursday before
Judge Charles Steele in Van
Wert County Common Pleas
Court:
nicholas e. Bendele, 28,
Van Wert, was sent to prison
on charges that he violated the
terms of his community control
by being arrested for posses-
sion of heroin in Montgomery
County.
Judge Steele imposed the
sentences of a criminal case
from 2009 giving Bendele a
12-month prison sentence on
misuse of credit cards and a
two-year prison sentence of a
charge of possession of hero-
in. Bendele also had sentences
from another 2009 case where
he had three counts of posses-
sion of heroin with him receiv-
ing twelve month prison terms
on each count.
Judge Steele ordered that all
sentences are to run concur-
rent to one another and gave
Bendele credit for 417 days
that he had served in jail on the
sentences so far.
The other charges in
Montgomery County are pend-
ing at this time.
Kody n. Detwiler, 21, Van
Wert, was sentenced to a basic
prison term of nine months after
he was found in violation of his
community control sanctions.
Detwiler had been arrested
for OVI and receiving stolen
property by the Van Wert City
Police Department.
Judge Steele sentenced
Detwiler to the nine months
and gave him credit for 167
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escaped unharmed, Libyan
officials said, accusing the
alliance of trying to assassi-
nate the Libyan leader.
NATO officials have denied
they are hunting Gadhafi to
break the battlefield stalemate
between Gadhafi’s troops and
rebels trying for the past 10
weeks to depose him. Rebels
largely control eastern Libya,
while Gadhafi has clung to
much of the west, including
the capital, Tripoli.
Fierce battles have raged in
Misrata, a besieged rebel-held
city in western Libya, which
has been shelled by Libyan
forces every day in recent
weeks. Records at one hospi-
tal showed that at least eight
people were killed and 54
injured in shelling on Monday
that lasted all morning and
for a brief period during the
afternoon.
Rebels have repeatedly
called on NATO to use more
firepower against Libyan
troops. “We call on the world
to deal with Gadhafi just as
they dealt with bin Laden,”
said a Misrata doctor, referring
involvement in a program
that involved the harshest
interrogation methods in U.S.
history.
“We got beat up for it, but
those efforts led to this great
day,” said Marty Martin, a
retired CIA officer who for
years led the hunt for bin
Laden.
Mohammed did not dis-
cuss al-Kuwaiti while being
subjected to the simulated
drowning technique known as
waterboarding, former offi-
cials said. He acknowledged
knowing him many months
later under standard interro-
gation, they said, leaving it
days that he had already served
on the case.
Curtis Boroff, 29, Dayton,
was ordered to spend 180 days
in the Van Wert County Jail
on a charge of nonsupport of
dependents and was placed on
three years of community con-
trol.
Judge Steele also ordered
that Boroff spend an additional
30 days in jail at a time to
be determined by his proba-
tion officer, pay $250 as par-
tial reimbursement for his court
appointed attorney, $25 affida-
vit of indigency fee, and court
costs.
While in jail Boroff will
be required to complete any
programs recommended by his
supervision officer.
A basic prison term of twelve
months was deferred pending
the successful completion of the
community control program.
robert Pollock, 35, Van
Wert, was found to be in viola-
tion of his community control in
that he had used heroin and had
failed to appear.
Judge Steele resentenced
Pollock to three years of com-
munity control and ordered that
he spend 53 days in the Van Wert
County Jail and must complete a
substance abuse program.
Kori A. Glossett, 19, Van
Wert, entered a plea of guilty to
forgery, a fifth degree felony.
Judge Steele ordered a pre-
sentence investigation and
scheduled sentencing 9 a.m. for
June 8.
James t. Vinson, 41, Van
Wert, was placed on three years
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to the killing of terror mas-
termind Osama bin Laden in
Pakistan by U.S. forces early
Monday. The doctor only
gave his first name, Aiman,
for fear of reprisals.
Under a U.N. mandate,
NATO’S role is to protect
Libyan civilians, but the
international community has
increasingly disagreed about
what that entails. Western
political leaders have called
for Gadhafi’s ouster, prompt-
ing warnings from Russia,
China and others that regime
change must not be the objec-
tive of NATO’S bombing
campaign, now in its second
month.
Responding to the attack
on Gadhafi compound,
South Africa said Monday
that “attacks on leaders and
officials can only result in
the escalation of tensions
and conflicts on all sides and
make future reconciliation
difficult.” On Sunday, Russia
accused NATO of a “dis-
proportionate use of force”
and called for an immediate
cease-fire.
once again up for debate as to
whether the harsh technique
was a valuable tool or an
unnecessarily violent tactic.
It took years of work
before the CIA identified the
courier’s real name: Sheikh
Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani
man born in Kuwait. When
they did identify him, he was
nowhere to be found. The
CIA’s sources didn’t know
where he was hiding. Bin These Ohio lotteries were
Laden was famously insistent drawn Monday:
that no phones or comput-
ers be used near him, so the
eavesdroppers at the National
Security Agency kept coming
up cold.
of community control on two
counts of breaking and entering
and one count of theft.
Vinson along with Zachary
Miller and Ford Wilson alleg-
edly broke into a building at million
the Van Wert County Fair
Grounds, a building at a local
park belonging to the Van Wert
County Foundation.
Vinson was ordered to
pay restitution to the vic-
tims, all participants in the 35-36-37-40-47-50-54-58-67-
crimes will be ordered to pay
Amber Schuerman $3,825,
Craig Lehman $100, Van Wert
County Fair Board $250 and the
Van Wert County Foundation
$1,195.
Vinson was sentenced to
spend 180 days on electronic
monitored house arrest, pay
court costs, partial reimburse-
ment of $250 for his court
appointed attorney and $25 affi-
davit of indigency fee.
Judge Steele sentenced
Vinson to a 12-month prison
sentence on each of the three
counts and ordered that the sen-
tences run concurrently with
each other but deferred the
imposition of the prison sen-
tence pending the successful
completion of the community
control program.
Johnny ray Foust, 49,
Delphos, had his bond revoked
and was ordered held on a
$10,000 cash bond.
Foust was arrested by
Delphos Police Department
after he was found intoxicated.
Foust was ordered held and
has a pending pretrial scheduled
for next week.
FUNERALS
DinGeLDine, Lawrence
E. “Larry,” Jr., 76, of
Spencerville, memorial ser-
vices will begin at 6 p.m.
Thursday at American Legion
Post 191 in Spencerville.
Legion Chaplain Jerrold
Welker will officiate with
military rites by the American
Legion and VFW posts.
Friends may call from 5 to 6
p.m. Thursday at the American
Legion hall. Arrangements are
by Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral
Home. Memorial contribu-
tions may be made to the
American Legion or the new
Veterans Memorial Park in
Spencerville.
CLoVer, Kathleen L.,
85, of Las Cruces and former-
ly of Alexandria, Va., memo-
rial services will begin at 11
a.m. Wednesday at Harter and
Schier Funeral Home, Pastor
David Bliss officiating. Burial
will be in Mount Calvary
Cemetery. Friends may call
from 10:30 a.m. until time
of service Wednesday at the
funeral home.
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Patrol seizes 10 pounds of
marijuana, marijuana food
A Colorado man is fac-
ing felony drug charges after
Ohio State Highway Patrol
troopers seized 10 pounds of
marijuana and marijuana food
items, valued at more than
$25,000 during a traffic stop
Friday on the Ohio Turnpike.
Troopers stopped a 2002
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ing too closely violation east-
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Patrol seizes $110,000 in
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An Illinois woman is fac-
ing felony drug charges after
Ohio State Highway Patrol
troopers seized 47 pounds of
marijuana, valued at nearly
$110,000 during a traffic stop
Friday in Preble County.
Troopers stopped a 2011
Chrysler Sebring for a marked
lanes violation on Interstate
70 eastbound, near milepost
7, at approximately 10:12
a.m. The driver was found
to not have a valid driver
license and the renter of the
TRASH TALK
Allen County Refuse pro-
vides garbage and recycle col-
lection in Delphos.
The Allen County portion of
Delphos is collected on Thurs-
days, with residents placing
garbage containers on the curb
Wednesday evening and recycle
every other Wednesday.
The Van Wert County por-
tion of Delphos is collected on
Friday, with residents placing
garbage containers at the curb
on Thursday evening and recy-
cle every other Thursday.
If a holiday falls during the
week, collection is pushed back
a day. For example, the week of
Memorial Day, collection in Al-
len County will be Friday and
in Van Wert County it will be
Saturday.
See the full schedule at
cityofdelphos.com.
www.delphosherald.com
OBITUARY The Delphos
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Lafayette M. ‘Bill’
sidey Vol. 141 No. 267
June 8, 1935-May 1, 2011 Nancy Spencer, editor
Lafayette M. “Bill” Sidey, Ray Geary, general manager
75, of rural Spencerville died Delphos Herald Inc.
at 9:12 a.m. Sunday at St. Don Hemple, advertising manager
Rita’s Medical Center. Tiffany Brantley,
He was born June 8, 1935, circulation manager
in Buckland to Charles and The Daily Herald (USPS 1525
Flossie (Schaub) Sidey, who 8000) is published daily except
preceded him in death. Sundays and Holidays.
On Oct. 28, 1961, he mar- By carrier in Delphos and
ried Nancy L. Monfort, who area towns, or by rural motor
survives. route where available $2.09 per
Survivors also include week. By mail in Allen, Van
children Patricia (Spencer) Wert, or Putnam County, $105
Clum and William L. (Bobbi) per year. Outside these counties
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children Jacob (Jonelle) in Delphos, Ohio 45833 as
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Mr. Sidey attended Scholars of the Day
Buckland School. He was
a lifelong farmer and had
retired as a line foreman
from Ametek Westchester
Co., Wapakoneta, after 40
years. He was a member
of the Allen County Farm
Bureau.
Services will begin at
10:30 a.m. Thursday at
Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral
Home, Spencerville, the Rev. St. John’s Scholar of the
Donald Goodwin officiating. Day is Ryan
Burial will be in Hartford Smith.
Cemetery in Spencerville. Congratulations
Friends may call from
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6-8 p.m. today and 2-4 and
6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Jefferson’s Scholar of the
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Memorial contributions
may be made to the charity
Schleeter.
Congratulations
of the donor’s choice. Jeffrey!
Students can pick up their
CorreCtions
awards in their school offices.
The Delphos Herald wants
to correct published errors in
WEATHER
its news, sports and feature Delphos weather
articles. To inform the news-
High temperature Monday
room of a mistake in published in Delphos was 57 degrees,
information, call the editorial
low was 44. Rainfall was
department at 419-695-0015. recorded at .67 inch. High a
Corrections will be published
year ago today was 73, low
on this page. was 54. Record high for today
is 87, set in 2001. Record low
is 27, set in 2005.
WeAtHer ForeCAst
tri-county
Associated Press
probable cause search revealed
10 pounds of marijuana and
marijuana food items. toniGHt: Cloudy with
The driver, Douglas a 20 percent chance of rain
Ronald Pemberton III, 32, of showers in the evening. Mostly
Silverton, Colo., was charged cloudy after midnight. Lows in
with possession of marijuana, the mid 30s. Northwest winds
a third-degree felony; and around 10 mph.
possession of criminal tools, WeDnesDAY: Partly
a fifth-degree felony. cloudy. Not as cool. Highs
The suspect was incarcer- around 60. Northwest winds 5
ated in the Erie County Jail. If to 10 mph.
convicted, Pemberton could WeDnesDAY niGHt:
Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
face up to six years in prison
30s. West winds 10 mph.
and up to a $12,500 fine.
eXtenDeD ForeCAst
tHUrsDAY: Increasing
clouds. Highs in the mid 60s.
Southwest winds 10 mph
becoming south in the after-
noon.
vehicle was not present. The
tHUrsDAY niGHt:
rental company requested the
Mostly cloudy with a chance
vehicle be towed to a safe
of showers and thunderstorms.
location. An administrative
Lows in the mid 40s. Chance
inventory revealed 47 pounds
of rain 50 percent.
of marijuana.
FriDAY: Partly cloudy in
The driver, who claimed
the morning then becoming
responsibility for the mari-
mostly cloudy. A 40 percent
juana, Jahmilla G. Mullins,
chance of showers. Highs in
29, of Broadview, Ill., was
the lower 60s.
charged with possession of
marijuana, a third-degree
felony.
The suspect was incarcer-
BIRTH
ated in the Preble County Jail. st. ritA’s
If convicted, Mullins could A boy was born May 2 to
face up to five years in prison Ryan and Amy Schnipke of
and up to a $10,000 fine. Cloverdale.
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STATE/LOCAL
Kasich proclaims May
‘Older Americans Month’
COLUMBUS — Governor
John R. Kasich has proclaimed
May 2011 as Older Americans
Month. This year’s theme is
“Older Ohioans - Connecting
Communities.” Area Agency
on Aging 3 joins the Kasich
administration in supporting
and promoting local celebra-
tions in our 7-county service
area as well as around the
state.
“Our communities need
their elders and our elders
need their communities,”
Governor Kasich said. “We
are nothing without the
shared histories, diverse
experiences and wealth of
and standard of living, and
are more active in commu-
nity life than ever before.
But, also, they are choosing
to remain in their commu-
nities longer, creating eco-
nomic opportunities as home-
and community-based care
options expand.”
Director Kantor-Burman
recently traveled to Lima to
meet with staff members of
Area Agency on Aging 3 and
witnessed first-hand the tre-
mendous work being done on
behalf of seniors in our area.
She also visited the home of
a local man who is enrolled
in PASSPORT, a Medicaid-
ity of life for older adults
in the Lima area,” Executive
Director of Area Agency on
Aging 3 Jacqi Bradley said.
May 17 has been declared
Senior Citizens Day by the
Ohio Department of Aging.
On May 25, Area Agency
on Aging 3, joined by Allen
County Council on Aging and
RTA, will host a celebration
for older adults in the 200
block of High Street in Lima.
From 11-1 p.m., information
on programs and services,
entertainment, games, prizes
and food will be provided for
those who attend.
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“We are all inter-depen-
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enjoying increased vitality
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and disability resource cen-
ter, our agency is dedicated to
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older Ohioans are connecting
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Rib and chicken dinners
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16 at CHP’s 1159 Westwood
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POLITICS
4 — The Herald Tuesday, May 3, 2011

“Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian political philosopher (born this date in 1469, died 1527)

GOP, Obama plans

continue borrowing
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It’s all
but impossible to glean from
the political rhetoric, but gov-
ernment borrowing will grow
by trillions of dollars over
the next decade if the budget
backed by House Republicans
translates into law.
And by a few trillion more
if President Barack Obama
gets his way.
Call it the unpleasant truth
behind a political struggle
over raising the debt limit
that is expected to intensify
as lawmakers return Monday
from a two-week break.
While polls show voters
angry over the debt, and poli-
Men killed in ticians support a goal of pay-
IT WAS NEWS THEN Korean War get
ing it down, the two principal
deficit-reduction plans would
ring to GOP calls for deep
program cuts, and Obama’s
support for higher taxes.
“Right now the two parties
haven’t been able to agree on
those kinds of changes.”
The increase in debt woven
into their budgets is not a fact
that Obama, Rep. Paul Ryan,
R-Wis., chairman of the House
Budget Committee, or any other
official chooses to trumpet. The
president and most lawmakers
generally avoid saying direct-
ly that government debt will
rise if their budget prevails —
although they are careful not to
claim it won’t, either. Instead,
they use similar, vaguely reas-
suring terms.
“We have to live within
our means, reduce our deficit
and get back on a path that
will allow us to pay down our
debt,” Obama said last month
$27.6 trillion at the end of
the decade, according to the
Congressional Budget Office.
The administration itself put
the figure at $26.3 trillion.
“The House Republicans’
budget reduces government
spending by $6.2 trillion over
the next decade and puts the
budget on a path to balance
in the years ahead,” Ryan
wrote on the panel’s website,
a theme that is similar to the
one Obama struck.
Congressional Budget
Office figures, however,
show that if Ryan’s plan
were put into law, there still
would be new borrowing each
year and government’s debt
would total $23.1 trillion at
the end of 2021. The House
Republicans’ plan relies on
repealing the year-old health
care law, as well as deep cuts

Medal of Honor
merely restrain its growth as he called for $4 trillion in Medicaid and domestic
One Year Ago for the next decade — the in deficit reductions over the programs. Its most contro-
• Members of Trinity United Methodist Church held a con- Republicans’ significantly next dozen years. Unlike the versial provision, phasing out
ference on Sunday and voted overwhelmingly to proceed with more so than the president’s. Republicans, he favors about Medicare as it now exists,
the construction of a new church/community center. “Moving “Today we To do otherwise, Congress $1 trillion in tax increases, would not begin for 10 years
“would have to enact poli- in addition to allowing Bush- and has no impact on debt in
to the new 14.65-acre location will provide ample room for
future growth,” the Rev. David Howell said. remember cies that would produce a era tax cuts on upper-income the current decade.
them with the surplus,” with money left
over to begin retiring debt,
households to expire.
Administration officials
The GOP plan would gen-
erate about $4 trillion less
25 Years Ago — 1986
• The team of Ryan Thompson, Kenny Feathers and David highest mili- said Robert Bixby, executive say they have no estimates debt than Obama’s budget
Collier took first place in the zoomania science project contest
in Sandy Talboom’s fourth grade class at Franklin Elementary tary decoration director of the anti-deficit
Concord Coalition.
of the impact the president’s
new proposals would have
envisions over the decade.
Republicans point out that
School. As part of the project the students made cages holding that our nation plusThewaslastingovernment
2001. For one
sur- on the future size of the gov-
ernment’s debt, which now
unlike Obama’s plan, theirs
would quickly begin shrink-
animals and wrote reports and imaginary stories and compiled
booklets about the animals. can bestow.” to occur in the future would stands at nearly $14.3 tril- ing the debt as a percentage
• Lisa Plumpe and Janet Bruns have been selected to rep- require “Republican spending lion. The president’s original of the overall economy. Even
resent American Legion Auxiliary Colonel Jennings Post 715, — President Barack Obama policies and Democratic tax budget for 2012, unveiled last so, debt would rise by nearly
Fort Jennings at the 40th annual session of Buckeye Girls State policies,” Bixby said, refer- winter, would leave debt at $9 trillion in 10 years.

Court to hear US passport dispute over Jerusalem

June 14-21 at Ashland College. Lisa is the daughter of Mr. and WASHINGTON (AP)
Mrs. August Plumpe Jr. of Fort Jennings. Janet is the daughter
— When President Barack
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bruns of Ottoville.
• Terry Pohlman, a senior at St. John’s High School and a Obama expressed his pride
Delphos Future Farmers of America member, received his State in America’s men and women
Farmer Degree at the recent FFA state convention in Columbus. in uniform, he was speak-
Also attending the convention were chapter advisor Mike ing about those who hours
Miller and delegates Rusty Thompson, chapter president, and earlier had killed al-Qaida
Dave Moenter, vice president. leader Osama bin Laden and
those who six decades earlier
50 Years Ago — 1961 had given their lives in the
• Norman Davis was elected president of Delphos Aerie No. Korean War.
471 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at an election held by the During a somber cere-
local lodge Monday. Other new officers are Clifford Coffee, mony Monday in the White
vice president; Eugene Minnig, chaplain; James Stegeman, House East Room, Obama
treasurer; Samuel Davis, conductor; Wilford Osting, inside bestowed the Medal of Honor
guard; Jerome Klaus, outside guard, and Homer R. Roberts, posthumously on two Army
three-year trustee. privates — Anthony T.
• Cub Scout Pack 48 held its annual “Pinewood Derby” on Kaho’ohanohano of Pukalani,
April 30 in the Little Theatre of St. Johns School. The winner Hawaii, and Henry Svehla of
of the first place blue ribbon was Tom Becker, representing Belleville, N.J.
Den 2. Finishing second was Robert Bryan of Den 5. Other “Today we remember
winners were David Warnecke, Den 1; Alan Haunhorst, Den them with the highest mili-
3; Pat Weeden, Den 4; John Bohnlein, Den 6; and John Becker tary decoration that our
of the Webelos. nation can bestow,” Obama
• The winners in the Teen-Age Road-E-O here were said, describing the pair as
announced Tuesday by Jim Dray, project chairman for the “hometown kids who stood
sponsoring Delphos Junior Chamber of Commerce. Edward
tall in America’s uniform.”
N. Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Porter, and Linda C.
Knerr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knerr, were the winners The commander in chief
in the boy’s and girl’s respective divisions. Both were presented also reflected on the news
plaques in recognition of their skill as drivers and both will of bin Laden’s death at the
compete in the state contest. hands of U.S. forces during
a raid in Pakistan, saying “I
75 Years Ago — 1936 think we can all agree this is a
• Official word was received here concerning the good day for America.”
Northwestern Ohio district baseball tournament which is to be Kaho’ohanohano was
held in Defiance May 15-16. It is likely that two Delphos teams in charge of a machine-gun
will compete in the meet. Father Lammers is expecting to take squad with Company H,
St. John’s High to the tourney. Principal Floyd of Jefferson 17th Infrantry Regiment,
High, stated that the Jefferson school officials are considering 7th Infantry Division on Sept.
the question of entering their team. 1, 1951, when they were
• The members of the 1917 Sewing Club were entertained overrun by enemy forces.
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ray Howe, East Sixth He ordered the squad to fall
Street. A reading, “Apple Blossoms and Johnny Appleseed,” back and seek cover, then
was given by Mrs. Bart Metcalfe. In two weeks, Mrs. Brad
Alexander, North Scott Street, will entertain.
gathered up some grenades
and fought the enemy alone.
• The presentation of “New Fires” will be repeated Sunday eve- When his ammunition ran
ning by the Senior Class of St. John’s High School at the school out, he fought them hand-to-
auditorium. The cast includes the following: Bede Brandehoff, hand until he was killed.
Helen Kaverman, Rita Stallkamp, Patricia Heyser, John Plescher, Svehla, a rifleman with
Louis Odenweller, Eva Yochum, Aimee Young, John Imholt, Company F, 32nd Infantry
Mary Sendelbach, Romus Brandehoff, Robert Greiner, Mary Regiment, 7th Infantry
Catherine Stallkamp, Mary Hickey and Martha Lucius.
Division, charged enemy
positions when his platoon
Moderately confused
began to falter under heavy
fire on June 12, 1952. He
destroyed enemy positions
and inflicted heavy casualties,
but when an enemy grenade
landed among a group of his
comrades, he threw himself
on the grenade and was
fatally wounded.
Relatives accepted the
medals on behalf of their
deceased loved ones.
Anthony Svehla, a neph-
ew, said he never knew his
uncle but was so inspired by
the stories relatives told him
that about 10 years ago he
began researching Medal of
Honor winners on the Internet
and contacted his congress-
man. His uncle had received a
Distinguished Service Cross
— as did Kaho’ohanohano
— but Anthony Svehla said
he thought his uncle deserved
a higher level of recognition
and pressed for it.
“We feel very honored and
proud today that my uncle
received this medal,” he said
afterward.
By MARK SHERMAN The Obama administration
Associated Press agrees with its predecessor.
When the high court
WASHINGTON — hears arguments in the fall,
The Supreme Court agreed the issues will be whether
Monday to hear an appeal the congressional directive
from an American born in impermissibly interferes with
Jerusalem over whether he the president’s power, and
can have Israel listed as his whether the courts should
birthplace on his passport play any role in the dispute
even though U.S. policy between Congress and the
does not recognize the once- president.
divided city as belonging to The State Department’s
Israel. longstanding policy has been
The court is stepping into to refrain from expressing a
a case that mixes the thorny view about Jerusalem’s sta-
politics of the Middle East tus, despite the congressional
and a fight between Congress action as well as Israel’s asser-
and the president over pri- tion of sovereignty over all of
macy in foreign policy. Jerusalem and declaration of
The justices will review an the city as its capital. Israel’s
appeals court ruling against victory in the 1967 Six-Day
Jerusalem-born Menachem War brought the entire city
Zivotofsky and his parents, under Israeli control.
U.S.-born Jews who moved The U.S., which keeps its
to Israel in 2000. They filed a embassy in Tel Aviv, and
lawsuit after State Department most nations do not recog-
officials refused to list Israel nize Jerusalem as the capi-
as Menachem’s birthplace. tal and say the city’s status
The boy was born in a should be resolved in nego-
Jerusalem hospital in October tiations between Israel and
2002, shortly after Congress the Palestinians.
directed, in a federal law, that Ari Zivotofsky, the boy’s
Americans born in Jerusalem father, said in an interview
may have Israel listed as their in Israel that he considers
place of birth. But the Bush Jerusalem part of Israel. “As
administration said Congress a U.S. citizen and a resident
may not tell the president of Israel, I find it a little bit
what to do regarding this strange that the U.S. doesn’t
aspect of foreign relations. recognize Israeli sovereignty
Weak dollar gives US factories strong lift in ’11
By CHRISTOPHER Tabak.
S. RUGABER The index has topped 60
Associated Press in every month this year, the
best four-month stretch in
WASHINGTON — The 27 years, said David Resler,
nation’s manufacturing sector an economist at Nomura
has expanded this year at the Securities.
fastest pace in a quarter-cen- Companies are buying
tury, boosted by a weak dol- more industrial machinery,
lar that has made U.S. goods heavy equipment, and com-
cheap overseas. puters, spurring much of the
Strong factory produc- growth in factory output. And
tion could help the economy consumers are buying more
rebound after experienc- cars, helping the beleaguered
ing weak growth in the first U.S. auto industry recover
three months of this year. But after General Motors and
the construction industry is Chrysler declared bankruptcy
struggling and manufactur- two years ago.
ing won’t drive enough job Another reason for the
growth by itself. Rising pric- growth is the falling dollar.
es are also threatening many It has declined 8 percent in
companies’ profit margins. value this year against a bas-
The Institute for Supply ket of six other currencies.
Management said Monday That helped fuel a 7.8 per-
that manufacturing activ- cent rise in exports in the
ity expanded in April for the first three months of this year.
21st straight month. While A weaker dollar makes U.S.
the trade group’s index goods cheaper overseas, and
dipped to 60.4, it’s down only imports more expensive in
slightly from the previous the U.S.
two months. And February’s The manufacturing sector
reading of 61.4 was the fast- has expanded in every month
est expansion in nearly seven but one since the recession
years. Any reading above 50 ended in June 2009. Still, it
signals growth. represents only about 11 per-
“In April, there was no cent of U.S. economic activ-
meaningful slowdown in ity and can only do so much
what has become the most to lift the broader economy.
important sector in the econ- Paul Ashworth, an econo-
omy,“ said Dan Greenhaus, mist at Capital Economics,
economic strategist at Miller said the manufacturing index
over Jerusalem, and certainly
the western half, where the
hospital is located,” he said.
“Jerusalem is subject to
dispute as to its future status.
Its current status seems to me
pretty clear. When the U.S.
government mails its consul-
ar officials mail, they mail it
to Jerusalem, Israel,” he said.
Had Menachem been
born in Tel Aviv, the State
Department would have
issued a passport listing his
place of birth as Israel. The
regular practice for record-
ing the birth of a U.S. citizen
abroad is to list the country
where it occurred.
But the department’s guide
tells consular officials, “For
a person born in Jerusalem,
write Jerusalem as the place
of birth in the passport.”
Israel’s supporters in
Congress have long objected
to the official position on
Jerusalem. In 1995, Congress
essentially adopted the Israeli
position, saying the U.S.
should recognize a united
Jerusalem as Israel’s capi-
tal. Then in 2002, lawmak-
ers passed new provisions
urging the president to take
steps to move the embassy
to Jerusalem and allowing
Americans born in Jerusalem
to have their place of birth
listed as Israel.
is at levels that are historical-
ly consistent with economic
growth at about 5 percent. But
growth is likely to be much
weaker than that because of
subpar activity in other areas.
The home-building indus-
try is on pace to suffer the
worst two years for new-
home sales since the govern-
ment began keeping records
in 1963. The service sector
is recovering at a sluggish
pace. Consumers are spend-
ing more after getting a cut in
Social Security payroll taxes,
but most of the extra money
is going toward higher priced
gas and food.
“That just shows you the
gap between manufacturing
and the rest of the economy,”
Ashworth said.
Builders did break ground
on more hotels, office build-
ings and factories in March,
lifting U.S. construction
spending for the first time
in four months. The increase
is partly a bounce-back from
weather-related declines in
January and February.
Still, even with the gain,
construction spending stood
at a seasonally adjusted annu-
al rate $786.9 billion — just
half the $1.5 trillion pace that
economists view as healthy.
Many economists say it could
take four years for construc-
tion to fully recover.
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EVENTS
TODAY
6 p.m. — Weight Watchers
meets at Trinity United
Methodist Church, 211 E.
Third St.
7 p.m. — Delphos Coon
and Sportsman’s Club meets.
7:30 p.m. — Alcoholics
Anonymous, First Presbyterian
Church, 310 W. Second St.
WEDNESDAY
9 a.m. - noon — Putnam
County Museum is open, 202
E. Main St., Kalida.
11:30 a.m. — Mealsite
at Delphos Senior Citizen
Center, 301 Suthoff Street.
11:45 a.m. — Rotary Club
meets at the Delphos Eagles
Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth St.
6 p.m. — Shepherds of
Christ Associates meet in the
St. John’s Chapel.
6:30 p.m. — Delphos
Kiwanis Club meets at the
Eagles Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth
St.
7 p.m. — Bingo at St.
John’s Little Theatre.
Delphos Civil Service
Commission meets at
Municipal Building.
7:30 p.m. — Hope Lodge
214 Free and Accepted
Masons, Masonic Temple,
North Main Street.
9 p.m. — Fort Jennings
Lions Club meets at the
Outpost Restaurant.
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9-11 a.m. — The Delphos
It is almost Mother’s Day
again. For some it will be
their first as a new mom —
welcome to the club. I thought
it would be a good time to
reflect on what it means to be
a mom.
Being a mother means get-
ting used to sticky fingerprints
on your windows and nose
prints on mirrors (that might
just be me, when Joe was little
he was always trying to figure
out what was going on inside
the mirror, on the edges where
we couldn’t see). Someday
they won’t be there anymore
and it will always seem like
something is missing.
It means that when you see
a snotty nose you no longer
cringe and walk away. You
now will feel it is your mis-
sion to wipe that nose clean.
It means that whenever
you hear the word “Mom”
screamed you will turn around,
no matter where you are, even
if your kids aren’t with you.
It means no matter how
eclectic and trendy your music
tastes used to be, you will find
yourself singing “I’ve got a
pig on my head” along to a
Laurie Berkner CD because
it has a really catchy tune —
even when your kids aren’t in
the car.
It means that you will sit
in the hot sun for an hour
cheering on your son’s T-ball
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Jack A. Wiechart, 7 gallons;
and Jerry Suever, 11 gallons.
team even though he is more of the cereal aisle screaming
interested in filling his glove louder than a tornado siren
with dirt and pouring it on his because you won’t buy him
shoes and you will still walk a box of cocoa puffs, gasping
away thinking he is destined between sobs “you… never… In today’s world, fifty cents
for the major leagues. buy… me… ANYTHING!” doesn’t buy a heck of a lot —
It means that getting veg- It means that your artis- except of course, when it comes
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will now take the strategic critically assess works of art
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Knights take out Wildcats, 11-1 Minster takes measure of Jennings

By Kirk Dougal
Times Bulletin Editor
kdougal@timesbulletin.com
CONVOY - The Jefferson
Wildcats ran into a a tough
Crestview squad on Monday
night and found out just why
the Lady Knights are lead-
ing the Northwest Conference
softball race with a perfect
league record.
Delphos struggled with
mental and physical errors on
their way to an 11-1, run-
shortened loss. With the win,
the Knights go to 12-4 overall
and 7-0 in the league. The
Wildcats fall to 4-9, 2-4.
Madison Preston was in the
circle for Crestview and she
started out the game by strik-
ing out four of the first five
Jefferson batters she faced.
Only Chelsey Fischer broke
up the string when she drove
a ground ball through the hall
into left field with two outs in
the first inning.
The Knights’ bats, on the
other hand, were not silent
as they took advantage of
control problems and mental
errors to crack the scoreboard
right away. In the bottom of
the opening frame, Taylor
Hamrick walked and was
followed by a Danica Hicks
infield single and a Jessica
Burger walk to load the bases
with no one out. Following a
strikeout, Kirstin Hicks sin-
gled to right to score two runs
and Preston closed out the
scoring by driving in Burger
with her own single. After
one, Crestview led 3-0.
In the second, Taylor
Springer led off the bottom
of the inning with a double
off the rightfield wall. After
Hamrick flew out to left,
Danica Hicks drove a fly deep
to center where Fallon Van
Dyke caught the ball on the
warning track for the second
out. Springer tagged at second
and came all the way around
to score on the play, how-
ever. Burger then came to the
plate and promptly launched a
no-doubt home run to left to
make the score 5-0.
In the third, Madison Etzler
hit a one out line drive to cen-
ter. Van Dyke bobbled the ball
a nice pick off move down to
first and I liked the way the
rightfielder was hustling in
to back up, just like we are
supposed to. Hopefully we
can just keep going. We just
need the weather to straighten
out.” “We struggled with the
hitting,” said Jefferson coach
Dave Wollenhaupt. “We’ve
been up and down lately.
We’ve had games where
we’ve hit the ball well late-
ly but we didn’t adjust real
well to Crestview’s pitching
tonight. I think it was a little
bit of nerves. You get off the
bus and you walk in knowing
what the Crestview tradition
is. We gave a up a couple of
things early, not necessarily
errors but mental blunders,
where Crestview runs the
bases well enough that they
are going to take a base on
you when they can. Then we
made a couple of base run-
Kirk Dougal photo
ning mistakes in the inning
Jefferson sophomore Fallon Van Dyke comes up with when we did score and we’ve
a snow-cone catch of a fly ball hit by a Crestview batter got to be able to correct those
Monday afternoon at the Crestview Athletic Complex in mistakes. I think my kids are
Convoy. The host Lady Knights hammered the Wildcats getting stronger and getting
11-1 in NWC softball. smarter with some things that
they are doing. They’re com-
and Etzler never stopped until on only one hit in the fourth
she reached second. The throw and fifth innings. The sixth ing along; Taylor’s pitching is
coming along. If we can get a
got away from the second frame would see the end of
baseman for a second error on the game, however, as Danica little more consistent on the
hitting from night to night,
the play and Etzler ended up at Hicks led off with a walk and
third. Holly Genth then bunted Burger followed with a single. we’ll see where we can go
from there.”
for a single, scoring Etzler and Following a strikeout, Kirstin
ending up at second when the Hicks reached on a error by Crestview was led by
Springer’s three hits, includ-
throw to first got away for the Jefferson shortstop, load-
the fourth Jefferson error in ing the bases. Angie Pierce ing two doubles, and three
RBIs. Etzler and Burger also
the inning. Springer followed walked to drive in one run
with another double, off the and Etzler hit a sacrifice fly had two hits with the latter hit
the big solo shot.
centerfield fence this time, and to center to drive in a second.
Genth crossed the plate for a Genth was struck by a pitch Preston picked up the win
for the Knights, going four
7-0 lead. to load the bases again and
innings and allowing no runs
Preston continued to roll one more time it was Springer
through the Wildcat lineup coming through. She laced a on one hit, seven strikeouts
and only one walk. Kirstin
before she was lifted after single to the outfield, scoring
the fourth inning. Jefferson’s both Hicks and Pierce to end Hicks pitched the final two
innings, giving up one earned
best offensive effort of the the game.
day came in the fifth inning Crestview coach Owen run on three hits while striking
out two batters.
as Kirstin Hicks took to the Pugh happy with the way
circle. Paige Ricker, Rostorfer Preston pitched and with the Branham took the loss,
going 5 2/3 innings, giving
and Van Dyke all singled to way his team took advantage
start the inning with Ricker of game situations. up 11 runs, seven earned, on
“I wanted to throw her 11 hits six walks and two
scoring on the last hit. But
after a pop-up to short, Van three or four innings and that strikeouts.
Jefferson hosts Ada 5 p.m.
Dyke was picked off of first way she will be ready for
Thursday.
by a throw and then a strikeout tomorrow night, too. She had
a real nice game tonight,”
ended the rally.
Taylor Branham settled Pugh noted. “You’ve got to Jefferson 000 010 - 1 4 5
Crestview 322 004 - 11 11 1
down in the circle for Delphos take what the other team gives
2B - (C) Springer 2
and sat down the Knights you and we did that. We had
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
FORT JENNINGS —
Fort Jennings left the bases
loaded in the bottom of the
first inning after scoring only
one run Monday night at Fort
Jennings Village Park.
Minster made them pay
dearly, erupting for eight runs
in the second en route to a
12-1 5-inning baseball rout on
a gray afternoon.
The Musketeers (5-5) were
scheduled to play Ayersville
but the Pilots rescheduled a
league game, with Minster
willing to pinch-hit.
The Wildcats (12-7) left
the bases
juiced in the
first inning
on a 2-out
hit (Adam
Niemeyer)
and con-
secutive
walks (Craig
Purpus and Mitch
Poeppelman) but southpaw
Cody Warnecke got out of
the inning with no runs.
The Musketeers got their
sole run in the home half
against Wildcat starter Austin
Knapke (4 innings, 3 hits, 1
earned run, 1 free pass, 3 Ks).
Brad Trentman was hit by
a pitch and Kurt Warnecke
singled to center. An error
on a Nolan Neidert bouncer
allowed Trentman to score.
Jared Calvelage blooped a
single to right to load them up
but Knapke retired the next
three batters, two via strike-
out, to end the threat with no
more damage.
“That was big right there.
That was the key to the game,”
Musketeer coach Jeff Swick
explained. “If we get a couple
more runs there, you figure
that things were going to be
different. You don’t know for
sure but that was an opportu-
nity wasted. Overall, we didn’t
hit the ball poorly but some of
the hardest-hit balls were right
at people and Minster made
some nice plays.”
Minster sent 12 to the
plate in the second, chasing
Warnecke (5 hits, 4 bases-on-
balls, 7 runs, 6 earned) after
the first seven batters reached
by Brett Meiring, as well as
two walks and an error, did
the damage.
The Musketeers hit the
ball well in the third but got
nothing to show for it. Kurt
Warnecke lined out hard to
shortstop for the first out.
Neidert singled to left center
and after Calvelage also lined
out hard to short, Tyler Good
was plunked. However, Cody
Warnecke bounced out to end
that threat.
The visitors also left the
bases loaded in the fourth
against Austin Norbeck: lead-
off double (Ryan Hoying) and
a balk and walks to Paxson (1
out) and Purpus (2 outs),
Norbeck got aboard with
a 2-out free pass in the home
half.
Nick Verhoff only gave up
a leadoff walk to pinch-hitter
Knapke in the fifth.
“The one thing we talked
about before the game was not
giving them any free at-bats;
with the way Minster hits the
ball, you want to make them
earn everything and we didn’t
do that tonight,” Swick added.
“We have a day off before we
play PCL games Wednesday
and Friday and we just have
to get better. We’ll work on
some things with our pitch-
ers; we threw Cody today as
a set-up for our tournament
game Saturday. We got what
we wanted out of Austin and
Nick as well.”
The hosts tried to keep
it going in the fifth against
reliever Purpus, loading the
bases with two outs on a walk
to Calvelage, a single to right
by Good (with an error on the
play allowing the runners to
move up a base) and a base-
on-balls to Cody Warnecke,
but Verhoff was retired to end
the contest.
“Austin has given us sev-
eral good starts in a row. He
didn’t have as good of com-
mand of his curveball today
as he should have but he still
did a nice job; he had good
defense behind him, too,”
Wyss added.
Minster visits Versailles
today, while Jennings is at
Columbus Grove 5 p.m.
Wednesday.

Fast start lifts T-Birds by Grove boys

By Dave Boninsegna
The Delphos Herald
zsportslive@yahoo.com
gle), and later scored on an
O’Dowd sacrifice to make it
2-0 after a half of an inning.
in the inning, making it a 9-1
contest.
The home team (8-8) would
HR - (C) Burger.
four strikeouts and four walks.
O’Dowd worked the final two
innings as he didn’t allow a run
base (for Trentman). They
compiled six hits, including
a 2-run shot round-tripper to
right field by Poeppelman in
greeting Trentman, a 2-run
double by Chase Paxson
and a 2-run knock by Devon
MINSTER (12)
ab-r-h-rbi
Devon Poeppelman ss 3-2-1-
2, Chase Paxson lf 3-2-2-2, Adam
Niemeyer 1b 3-1-2-1, Doug Huber 1b
1-0-0-0, Craig Purpus 2b/p 2-2-1-1,
Mitch Poeppelman cf 2-2-2-4, Drew
Elson rf 1-0-0-0, Ryan Bernhold dh 3-0-
0-0, Austin Knapke p/ph/2b 0-0-0-0,
Ben Heitbrink c 1-1-1-0, Rob Wente c

COLUMBUS GROVE —
A fast start by the Lima Central
Catholic Thunderbirds led to
a Northwest Conference vic-
tory over the Columbus
Grove Bulldogs Monday
LCC began the second by
getting the first three batters
aboard (Taflinger single, Dylan
Fischer run-scoring double,
Joey Levers single) before the
first out was recorded.
Stolly doubled home
make things close in the fifth
as they crossed the plate four
times. Gavin Windau reached
on a 1-out walk and Brady
Shafer on an error. After Blake
Hoffman walked to load the
bases, Benroth doubled home
on no hits.
Trent Reed (2-2) took the
loss for Grove. He allowed nine
runs, six earned, with two strike-
outs and three walks. Roney
(5 runs, 2 earned, four hits,
four walks) and Brady Shafer
Poeppelman, as well as two
walks and two Musketeer
errors. When it was all over,
the Wildcats led 8-1.
“We didn’t get off well,
leaving the bases loaded in the
first. The second, we contin-
1-0-0-0, Brett Meiring 3b 4-1-2-1, Ryan
Hoying rf/cf 3-1-1-0. Totals 27-12-12-
11.
FORT JENNINGS (1)
ab-r-h-rbi
Brad Trentman cf/p 2-1-0-0, Kurt
Warnecke 3b/ss 3-0-1-0, Nolan Niedert
lf/cf/1b 3-0-1-0, Jared Calvelage c
2-0-1-0, Tyler Good rf 2-0-1-0, Cody
Warnecke p/lf 2-0-0-0, Nick Verhoff

night in baseball action.
The Tbirds tallied two
runs in the first inning
and three in the second
on their way to a 14-5 win.
Brandon Benroth went
2-for-4 with a double and
a run and Kottenbrock
brought one in a batter
later; after the dust had
cleared and the final
out was made, the guests had a
5-0 advantage.
The Bulldogs got a run
two and later scored on a Matt
Jay sacrifice. Birkmeier added
an RBI later and all of a sud-
den, it was a 9-5 contest.
However, that proved to
be short-lived as the visitors
tacked on five more in the
(0 runs, 0 hits, one strikeout)
worked 2/3 of an inning.
LCC
ab-r-h-rbi
Stolly ss 4-1-2-2, Kottenbrock cf
4-1-2-1, Snider c 4-2-1-1, O’Dowd
1b/p 4-2-1-3, Duffy ph 1-0-0-0,
McCullough 3b 4-1-2-2, Taflinger dh
ued the improvement we have
shown this year at the plate,”
Minster mentor Mike Wyss
noted. “We were hitting the
ball hard; even our outs were
‘loud’. Earlier in the year, we
weren’t doing that; we have
dh/3b/p 3-0-0-0, Ryan Schuerman 2b
2-0-0-0, Austin Norbeck ss/p 1-0-0-0.
Totals 20-1-4-0.
Score by Innings:
Minster 0 8 4 0 0 - 12
Ft. Jennings 1 0 0 0 0 - 1
E: C. Warnecke 2, Niemeyer, Elson,
Good; LOB: Minster 9, Fort Jennings 9;
2B: Paxson, Niemeyer, Hoying; HR: M.
Poeppelman.

two runs batted in for the across in their half of the sec- sixth as they hit around the 3-1-2-0, Clark p/1b 1-0-0-0, Fischer gotten much better at putting MINSTER
IP H R ER BB SO

Bulldogs. ond after Ryan Birkemeier led batting order. Six consecutive
2b 3-2-1-0, Levers lf 4-2-2-0, Huffman
rf 4-2-1-2. Totals 36-14-14-11. the ball in play and forcing Knapke (W, 2-0) 5.0 3 1 1 1 3
Austin Stolly had a 2-for-4 off the inning with a base-on- Thunderbird batters reached, Columbus Grove defenses to make plays to get Purpus
FORT JENNINGS
1.0 1 0 0 2 0

evening with a pair of RBIs
and Trevor Kottenbrock was
2-for-4 with a pair of singles
and an RBI for the T-Birds.
balls, took second on a Zack
Barrientes bunt and scored on
a Trey Roney rocket shot to
right with one out.
highlighted by a 2-run single
by Huffman and Stolly’s sec-
ond run batted in of the game.
Lima Central Catholic took a
ab-r-h-rbi
Hoffman cf 2-1-0-0, Graham ph
us out.” C. Warnecke (L, 2-2) 1.0 5 7 6 4 1
1-0-0-0, Benroth 2b 4-1-2-2, Jay c 3-0- The visitors made it 12-1 Trentman
Norbeck
2.0 6 5 5 2 0
1.0 1 0 0 2 3
0-1, Birkemeier 3b 1-1-1-1, Barrientes in the third, sending eight Verhoff 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
ss 3-0-0-0, Jennell 1b 2-0-0-0, Wolf 1b
1-0-0-0, Roney dh/p 3-0-1-1, Windau to the dish. Four more hits, C. Warnecke pitched to 7 batters

Kyle O’Dowd (3 RBIs), Cody
McCullough (2 RBIs) and
Although the Thunderbirds
wouldn’t score in the third,
14-5 lead into the bottom of rf 1-0-0-0, Vorst ph 1-1-0-0, Shafer lf
the sixth.
3-1-0-0. Totals 25-5-5-5.
Score by Innings:
including a 2-run rip by M. in the second
HBP: Trentman (by Knapke), Good
Poeppelman and a RBI single (by Knapke); Balk: Norbeck.

Billy Taflinger each added two
hits for the T-Birds (13-4).
Sam Huffman had two RBIs.
The T-Birds got the scoring
started in the first inning when
Mike Snider tripled home a
run, scoring Kottenbrock (sin-
MLB CAPSULES
they sent nine batters to the O’Dowd, in relief, retired Lima Cent.Cath. 2 3 0 4 0 5 0 - 14 14 1
Columbus Gr. 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 – 5 5 6
plate in the fourth, scoring four the last six Bulldog batters IP R ER BB K
times. O’Dowd had a 2-run they faced to seal up the vic- LCC
single and McCullough an RBI tory. Clark (W)
O’Dowd
5 5 5 4 4
2 0 0 0 0 The Associated Press Alfonso Soriano’s major league-
single. A wild pitch allowed Travis Clark picked up Columbus Grove
NL leading 11th homer leading off
a 7-1 game for the T-Birds. the win for LCC. He allowed Trent Reed (L, 2-2)
Roney
5.2 9 8 2 2
0.2 5 5 3 0 WASHINGTON — Tom the seventh. The 23-year-old
Grove committed three errors five runs on four hits with Shafer 0.2 0 0 1 1 Gorzelanny allowed only three left-hander struck out four and

Titans punish Lady Green
OTTOVILLE — Ottawa-
Glandorf’s softball team
scored in all five innings to
bounce host Ottoville 11-1 in
non-league action Monday.
Kylee Pothast got the win
for the Lady Titans, throwing
a 1-hitter, fanning five and
walking one.
Mackenzie Martin took the
loss for the Lady Green; she
gave up seven hits but four
errors didn’t help matters.
Ottoville visits Antwerp 5
p.m. Wednesday.
Ott.-Glan. 3 2 3 2 1 - 11 7 0
Ottoville 0 0 0 10- 114
WP: Kylee Pothast; LP: Mackenzie
Martin. 2B: Kreinbrink (OG),
Heatherman (OG).
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Coil scattered
4 hits vs. Elida
ELIDA — The Elida base-
ball team, which was sched-
uled to host Fairview Monday
night, instead got Wapakoneta
in a Western Buckeye League
make-up game at Ed Sandy
Memorial Field.
Outside of the first inning,
the Bulldogs (7-11, 2-5 WBL)
didn’t get much against
LOCAL ROUNDUP
Redskin starter Caleb Coil in
a 4-1 loss.
Coil scattered four hits,
fanning nine and walking
three.
Adam Von Sossan gave up
seven hits, fanning two and
walking two, as the visitors
improved to 11-5 (4-1 WBL).
Elida hosts Celina tonight.
Wapak 010 030 0-471
Elida 100 000 0-141
WP: Caleb Coil; LP: Adam Von
Sossan. HR: Dusty Gerlach (W). RBIS:
Wapak - Gerlach(1), Stoll(1); Elida -
Mackenzie Hampshire(1).
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Raiders bounce
Lady ’Dawgs
HAVILAND — Wayne
Trace rode the pitching of
Kaleigh Young to down Elida
7-3 in non-league softball
action Monday in Haviland.
Young limited the Lady
Bulldogs (3-11) to seven hits,
walking three and fanning
seven.
Aryanne Brown (0-6) took
the loss for the Bulldogs (8
hits, 6 earned runs, 3 Ks,
1 walk) as Wayne Trace
improves to 8-4.
Elida visits Celina tonight.
Elida 002 010 0-373
Wayne Tr. 1 0 5 0 0 1 x - 7 8 1
WP: Kaleigh Young; LP: Aryanne
Brown (0-6). 2B: Aryanne Brown (E),
Emilie Linder (W), Kelsey Heck (W).
HR: JoEllen Fickel (W). Multiple Hits:
Elida - Lindsay Peters 2, Jessica
Guerrero 2; Wayne Trace - Emilie
Linder 2, Kelsey Heck 2. RBIs: Elida
- Lindsey Peters 2; Wayne Trace -
JoEllen Fickel 3, Kelsey Heck 2.
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Wildcats batter Archers
ANTWERP – Kalida came
out swinging Monday as they
downed Antwerp 11-1 in non-
league baseball road action.
The Wildcats (8-3) scored
three runs in the first and sec-
ond innings and finished the
game with a 5-run fourth.
Nick Guisinger (2-0)
allowed a first inning run to
the Archers. He scattered four
hits.
Guisinger had two dou-
bles for Kalida with two RBI
and Logan Recker had two
singles and two RBIs. Paul
Utendorf had two singles for
the Wildcats.
Kalida is at Allen East
today.
Kalida 330 50 – 11 10 2
Antwerp 100 00 – 1 4 3
WP-Guisinger (2-0). LP-Coleman.
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Pirates sweep Lancers
BLUFFTON — Both
Lincolnview’s baseball and
softball units trekked to
Bluffton for NWC clashes
Monday night.
Both came home on the
wrong end of the score.
In baseball, the Pirates (10-
3, 4-1 NWC) rode the 3-hitter
of Nathan Cheney to a 4-1
victory.
Clayton Longstreth only
surrendered five hits for the
visitors.
On the softball diamond,
the Lady Pirates (9-5, 4-1
NWC) held off a late Lancer
surge for a 6-5 victory.
Three Lady Lancer mis-
cues hurt that effort as they
outhit the hosts 8-6.
The Lancer baseballers
(4-7, 1-4 NWC) host
Continental tonight, while the
Lady Lancers host Columbus
Grove 5 p.m. Thursday.
Lincolnview 0 0 0 000 1-130
Bluffton 101 011 x-450
WP: Nathan Cheney; LP: Clayton
Longstreth. 2B: Clayton Longstreth (L),
Tyler Belcher (B).
SOFTBALL
Lincolnview 2 1 0 000 2-583
Bluffton 140 100 x-660
hits in eight sharp innings
against a struggling San
Francisco lineup and Michael
Morse and Jerry Hairston Jr.
drove in runs for Washington,
helping the Nationals beat the
Giants 2-0 Monday on Military
Appreciation Night.
Gorzelanny (1-2) hadn’t last-
ed eight innings in a game since
Aug. 12, 2007. Drew Storen
pitched the ninth for his sixth
save in six chances, closing out
a game that took just 2 hours, 2
minutes — the fastest 9-inning
game in the majors this season,
according to STATS LLC.
Madison Bumgarner (0-5)
retired Washington’s first 12 bat-
ters and didn’t allow an earned
run but wound up with the loss
because of two unearned runs
in the seventh, his last inning.
He allowed four hits.
The World Series champions
were shut out for the third time
in their last six games, including
twice during this series, when
Washington took 3-of-4. San
Francisco has lost eight of its
last 11, scoring 23 runs in that
span.
Dodgers 5, Cubs 2
LOS ANGELES — Andre
Ethier extended his hitting streak
to 28 games with an infield
single that capped a 3-run fifth
inning for Los Angeles.
Clayton Kershaw (3-3)
pitched seven innings, allowing
two runs and eight hits, including
did not walk a batter for the first
time in seven starts this season.
Vicente Padilla pitched a perfect
eighth and Jonathan Broxton
did likewise in the ninth for his
sixth save in seven attempts.
Ethier, halfway to the record
56-game streak Joe DiMaggio
had in 1941, is three games
shy of the Dodgers’ franchise
record, set by Willie Davis in
1969.
James Russell (1-4) gave up
five runs — four earned — and
six hits over 4 2/3 innings for
the Cubs.
Marlins 6, Cardinals 5
ST. LOUIS — Mike Stanton
hit a tying home run in the fifth
inning and tripled and scored
the go-ahead run in the eighth
to lift Florida.
Gaby Sanchez ended
Kyle Lohse’s 22-inning score-
less inning streak with his first
grand slam, also Florida’s major
league-leading third of the year.
Edward Mujica (3-1) allowed a
walk in two scoreless innings
and Leo Nunez finished for his
10th save in 10 tries after the
Cardinals put two men on in
the ninth.
The Marlins improved to 18-9
— the franchise’s best start —
and are tied with the Phillies for
the NL East lead.
Mitchell Boggs (0-2) allowed
Stanton’s triple in the eighth to
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NBA
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
(Best-of-7)
Monday’s Results
Atlanta 103, Chicago 95,
Atlanta leads series 1-0
Dallas 96, L.A. Lakers 94,
Dallas leads series 1-0
Today’s Games
NHL
The Associated Press
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
(Best-of-7)
Monday’s Result
Boston 3, Philadelphia 2, OT,
Boston leads series 2-0
Today’s Games
Washington at Tampa Bay,
6:30 p.m., Tampa Bay leads
MLB
The Associated Press
National League
East Division
W L Pct
Florida 18 9 .667
Philadelphia
Atlanta
18 9 .667
15 15 .500 4 1/2
Washington 14 14 .500 4 1/2
New York 12 16 .429 6 1/2
Central Division
St. Louis
W L Pct
16 13 .552
Cincinnati 14 14 .500 1 1/2
Pittsburgh 14 15 .483
Milwaukee 13 15 .464 2 1/2
Chicago
Houston
12 16 .429 3 1/2
11 17 .393 4 1/2
West Division
W L Pct
Colorado 17 9 .654
Los Angeles
San Francisco
15 15 .500
13 15 .464
Arizona 12 15 .444 5 1/2
San Diego 11 18 .379 7 1/2
———
Monday’s Results
Washington 2, San Francisco 0
Atlanta 6, Milwaukee 2
Houston at Cincinnati, ppd., rain
Florida 6, St. Louis 5
Pittsburgh 4, San Diego 3
L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 2
Today’s Games
Washington (L.Hernandez 3-2) at
Philadelphia (Hamels 3-1), 7:05 p.m.
Houston (Happ 1-4) at Cincinnati (Leake
3-0), 7:10 p.m.
Milwaukee (Estrada 1-0) at Atlanta (Hanson
3-3), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-0) at N.Y. Mets
(Dickey 1-3), 7:10 p.m.
Florida (Ani.Sanchez 1-1) at St. Louis
(McClellan 4-0), 8:15 p.m.
Colorado (De La Rosa 4-0) at Arizona
(J.Saunders 0-3), 9:40 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-1) at San Diego
(Latos 0-4), 10:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Dempster 1-3) at L.A.
Dodgers (Billingsley 2-1), 10:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Houston (An.Rodriguez 0-0) at Cincinnati
(T.Wood 1-3), 12:35 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 3-1) at L.A.
Dodgers (Lilly 2-2), 3:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Correia 4-2) at San Diego
(Richard 1-2), 6:35 p.m.
Washington (Marquis 3-0) at Philadelphia
(Worley 1-0), 7:05 p.m.
Milwaukee (Greinke 0-0) at Atlanta
(T.Hudson 3-2), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Lincecum 2-3) at N.Y. Mets
(Capuano 2-2), 7:10 p.m.
SPORTS BRIEFS
The Associated Press
PRO FOOTBALL
MINNEAPOLIS — With its play-
ers again barred from work, the
NFL told a federal appeals court
the fight over whether the lockout
is legal won’t get in the way of the
2011 season. The rest of the labor
fight? That’s anyone’s guess.
The league filed an 18-page
brief with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in St. Louis, arguing
that the lockout should remain in
effect permanently while appeals
play out.
The appeals court put U.S.
District Judge Susan Richard
Nelson’s order lifting the 45-day
lockout on hold temporarily last
week. The owners reinstated the
lockout a few hours later and want
a more permanent stay of Nelson’s
order so they can argue that it
should be overturned altogether.
BOSTON — Dave Duerson, a
former NFL player who committed
suicide in February, had “moderate-
ly-advanced” brain damage related
to blows to the head, according
to the researcher who made the
diagnosis.
The findings were announced
as part of an effort conducted by the
Center for the Study of Traumatic
Encephalopathy at Boston
University’s School of Medicine.
The CSTE Brain Bank has the
brains of more than 70 athletes
and military veterans, with football
players comprising more than half
of the athletes.
The body of Duerson, who
was 50, was found in Sunny Isles
Beach, Fla., on Feb. 17. He left
a note asking that his brain be
given to the NFL’s Brain Bank. He
shot himself in the chest, “presum-
ably” to preserve his brain for study,
reported Chris Nowinski, co-director
of the CSTE.
PRO BASKETBALL
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
The Kings and the NBA gave
Sacramento one last chance to
TRANSACTIONS
The Associated Press
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
MLB—Suspended minor-
league RHP Andrew Doyle (Myrtle
Beach-Carolina) 50 games for a
second drug violation.
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES—
Activated RHP Chris Jakubauskas
from the 15-day DL and optioned
him to Norfolk (IL).
National League
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—
Placed 3B David Freese on the
15-day DL. Activated INF-OF
Allen Craig from the 15-day DL.
FOOTBALL
Arena Football League
SAN JOSE SABERCATS—
Named Alan Harper defensive
line coach.
HOCKEY
Central hockey League
RAPID CITY RUSH—
Suspended D Scott Kalinchuk.
COLLEGE
ARIZONA STATE—
Announced women’s basketball
coach Charli Turner Thorne is
taking a leaving of absence for
Boston at Miami, 7 p.m., Miami
leads series 1-0
Memphis at Oklahoma City,
9:30 p.m., Memphis leads series
1-0
Wednesday’s Games
Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30
p.m.
series 2-0
Vancouver at Nashville, 9
p.m., series tied 1-1
Wednesday’s Games
Washington at Tampa Bay,
7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m.
San Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.,
San Jose leads series 2-0
Florida (Vazquez 2-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter
0-2), 8:15 p.m.
Colorado (Chacin 3-2) at Arizona (Enright
GB 1-2), 9:40 p.m.
— -----
— American League
East Division
W L Pct
New York 17 9 .654
Tampa Bay 15 13 .536
GB
—
Baltimore
Boston
13 14 .481 4 1/2
13 15 .464
Toronto 13 15 .464
2 Central Division
W L Pct
Cleveland
Kansas City
19 8 .704
15 13 .536 4 1/2
Detroit 12 17 .414
GB Chicago 11 19 .367 9 1/2
— Minnesota 9 18 .333
4
5
West Division
W L Pct
Los Angeles 16 13 .552
Texas 16 13 .552
Oakland 15 14 .517
Seattle
———
13 16 .448
Monday’s Results
Oakland 5, Texas 4, 10 innings
N.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 3
Boston 9, L.A. Angels 5
Chicago White Sox 6, Baltimore 2
Today’s Games
Toronto (Jo-.Reyes 0-2) at Tampa Bay
(W.Davis 3-2), 6:40 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 2-1) at Detroit
(Penny 1-3), 7:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Haren 4-1) at Boston (Lester
3-1), 7:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Bergesen 0-3) at Kansas City
(Francis 0-3), 8:10 p.m.
Minnesota (Liriano 1-4) at Chicago White
Sox (E.Jackson 2-3), 8:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Carmona 2-3) at Oakland
(T.Ross 1-2), 10:05 p.m.
Texas (Ogando 3-0) at Seattle (Bedard 1-4),
10:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Minnesota (Blackburn 1-4) at Chicago White
Sox (Danks 0-4), 2:10 p.m.
Toronto (Morrow 0-1) at Tampa Bay
(Niemann 1-3), 6:40 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 1-1) at Detroit
(Scherzer 4-0), 7:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (E.Santana 1-3) at Boston
(Beckett 2-1), 7:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Arrieta 3-1) at Kansas City
(Davies 1-3), 8:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Tomlin 4-0) at Oakland (Cahill
4-0), 10:05 p.m.
Texas (C.Wilson 3-1) at Seattle (Pineda
4-1), 10:10 p.m.
prove it deserves to be an NBA
city. Now it’s up to Mayor Kevin
Johnson and the business commu-
nity to come up with a viable plan
for a new arena after so many failed
attempts in the past.
The decision by the Maloof fam-
ily to keep their team in Sacramento
rather than apply for relocation to
Anaheim, Calif., is only temporary.
Co-owner Joe Maloof and NBA
Commissioner David Stern made
clear that the team will leave after
next season if an arena plan is not
in place.
GOLF
GLADSTONE, N.J. — The top
44 players on the LPGA’s official
money list are part of the prelimi-
nary field list for the LPGA Sybase
Match Play Championship in two
weeks at the Hamilton Farm Club.
Michelle Wie and Paula
Creamer confirmed they will play
in the event scheduled for May
19-22.
Also entered are Yani Tseng,
the leading money winner on the
women’s tour this year, and defend-
ing champion Sun Young Yoo, who
posted her first LPGA win last year
by beating Angela Stanford in the
final. Stanford is back along with
notables Juli Inkster, Karrie Webb,
Morgan Pressel, Jiyai Shin and
Cristie Kerr.
AUTO RACING
SAO PAULO — Will Power
of Australia won IndyCar’s Sao
Paulo 300 a day after the race was
postponed because of heavy rain
on the streets of South America’s
biggest city.
Graham Rahal was second and
Ryan Briscoe third on a wet track
at the 2.5-mile, 11-turn Anhembi
temporary street circuit.
Power, who started from the
pole position, drove to victory for
Penske after Japan’s Takuma Sato
had to pit for fuel with about 10
minutes left. Sato led for 23 laps
but finished eighth after his gamble
failed.
the 2011-12 season and plans
to return in the spring of 2012.
Named associate head coach
Joseph Anders interim coach.
CASTLETON STATE—
Announced softball and men’s
soccer coach John Werner has
resigned as softball coach.
EARLHAM—Named Melissa
Johnson women’s basketball
coach.
ILLINOIS-CHICAGO—Named
Stew Robinson men’s assistant
basketball coach.
KING (TENN.)—Named David
Hicks athletic director.
MARQUETTE—Named John
Orsen men’s assistant lacrosse
coach.
OHIO STATE—Suspended
sophomore LB Dorian Bell for
the 2011 season for a violation of
team rules.
OREGON—Suspended junior
LB Kiko Alonso indefinitely, fol-
lowing his arrest on burglary and
trespassing charges.
PRESBYTERIAN—
Announced resignation of wom-
en’s lacrosse coach Kristina
Llanes.
Mavs rally to stun Lakers in Game 1
By GREG BEACHAM
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — When
Kobe Bryant drained a 3-point-
er to put the Los Angeles
Lakers up by 16 points in the
second half, nobody would
have been surprised if
the Dallas Mavericks
packed it in. After all,
these perennial under-
achievers aren’t exactly
known for their playoff
tenacity.
Their stirring come-
back against the 2-time
defending champi-
ons showed that Dirk
Nowitzki and his Mavs
just might be capable
of creating whole new
reputations this spring.
Nowitzki scored 28 points
and hit two go-ahead free
throws with 19.5 seconds left,
Jason Kidd forced a crucial
GB turnover moments later and
— the Mavericks escaped with
3 a 96-94 victory in Game 1 on
5
Monday night when Bryant
5 missed two late chances to
steal it back for the Lakers.
GB Jason Terry scored 15
— points and Nowitzki had 14
8 rebounds for the Mavericks,
who erased that huge third-
10 quarter deficit before the dra-
GB
matic finish to the perennial
— playoff teams’ first postsea-
— son meeting in 23 years. The
1 Mavericks trailed 92-87 with
3 3:32 to play but finished on
a 9-2 run.
“I thought we did a great job
hanging in there,” Nowitzki
said. “It wasn’t looking good
but we talked about in the
huddle. Just stick with it, try
to get some stops, don’t turn
the ball over and get a shot
up every time. Just at least
give ourselves a chance to
make it.”
They made it, all right —
but only when Bryant, who
scored 21 of his 36 points
in the second half, couldn’t
provide his usual late-game
heroics.
After Nowitzki’s free
Krejci’s OT goal gives Bruins 2-0 lead over Flyers
By DAN GELSTON
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — review the call. But the goal
By the time the scoreboard
flipped to OT, Tim Thomas
felt unbeatable.
He stopped the Flyers 46
straight times in a sizzling
run that let the Bruins tie
Game 2 and force the extra
period. David Krejci reward-
ed his goalie with an in-and-
out goal that gave Boston a
seemingly commanding lead
on the Flyers for the second
straight year.
Krejci scored 14:00 into
overtime to back a phenome-
nal game by Thomas, helping
the Bruins beat Philadelphia
3-2 on Monday night to take
a 2-0 lead in the Eastern
Conference semifinal series.
Boston led 3-0 in the East
semis a year ago before the
Flyers won four straight to
advance — including a rally
from a 3-0 hole in Game 7.
Thomas, a Vezina Trophy
finalist, was on the bench for
that collapse.
He is determined not to
let that happen on his watch.
Thomas, who finished with 52
saves on Monday, was tested
under pressure all game and
shook off two early goals to
stop everything fired his way.
The series now shifts to
Boston for the next two games
on Wednesday and Friday.
Krejci fired a one-timer
from one knee that ricocheted
MLB
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take the loss.
Braves 6, Brewers 2
ATLANTA — Alex Gonzalez
hit a 3-run double to give Atlanta
the lead and the Braves finally
solved Yovani Gallardo in beat-
ing Milwaukee.
Gallardo began the day 3-0
with a 0.96 ERA in five career
starts against Atlanta, including
a 2-hit shutout in a 1-0 win April
5 at Milwaukee. The four runs
he allowed in the sixth matched
his total over 37 1/3 innings in
his first five starts against the
Braves.
Jair Jurrjens (3-0) gave up
two runs and seven hits with no
walks in 7 2/3 innings.
Pirates 4, Padres 3
SAN DIEGO — Garrett
Jones and Chris Snyder each hit
a 2-run homer in the first inning
to back James McDonald and
help Pittsburgh snap a 9-game
skid against San Diego.
The Pirates, who hadn’t
beaten the Padres since 2009,
have won 4-of-6overall —
including consecutive games for
the first time since April 17-18.
McDonald (2-2) allowed two
runs and five hits in six innings,
struck out five and walked one.
Joel Hanrahan pitched the ninth
for his ninth save in as many
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
throws gave Dallas its first
lead of the second half, Bryant
fell down while trying to get
past Kidd to collect the ball
from Pau Gasol with 5 sec-
onds to play. After one free
throw by Kidd, Bryant missed
a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer
off the back rim just
before the buzzer.
“I think they always
had hope,” Bryant said
of the Mavs. “They’re
in the second round.
They’re here to play. I
don’t really see it as a
big deal. We’ve got to
improve.”
Game 2 is Wednesday
night at Staples Center.
Gasol had 15 points, 11
rebounds and seven assists
for the second-seeded Lakers,
who lost their second straight
Game 1 after winning six
straight openers over the previ-
ous two seasons. Their loss to
New Orleans two weeks ago
was much more surprising than
this loss to the playoff-tested
Mavs but the Lakers’ lack of
poise down the stretch should
be scary to anybody anticipat-
ing a threepeat.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson
blamed the loss on one stretch
of awful basketball: Right
after Los Angeles completed a
21-2 run spanning halftime to
take a 60-44 lead on Bryant’s
3, Dallas made a 20-6 run.
Terry scored 13 points in
the first half to lead the Mavs’
reserves, who outscored Los
Angeles’ bench 40-25. But
the Lakers took a 53-44 half-
time lead with a 14-2 run that
included four points in the
final 0.7 seconds.
Terry got too close to
Lamar Odom’s last-ditch
heave from halfcourt right
before the buzzer, and Odom
— who finished with 15
points — made three free
throws. Nowitzki then got a
technical foul for throwing an
aggressive elbow under the
hoop while scrapping with
Ron Artest, and Bryant hit a
final free throw.
off the back off the net and
back onto the ice. Play con-
tinued until officials could
was clearly good.
James van Riemsdyk had a
breakout game with two goals
for the Flyers. He was all over
the ice trying to help the them
win at least one at home.
Instead, they have to rally
from another deficit.
Chris Kelly and Brad
Marchand also scored for the
Bruins.
Thomas stood strong when
the Flyers outshot the Bruins
13-3 to open the third and
took 22 overall in the period.
It was the one they didn’t
shoot that haunted them.
Danny Briere, who has seven
goals this postseason, fanned
on an easy look off a faceoff.
Thomas was out of position
after a blocked shot sent the
puck to Briere and the All-
Star seemingly just had to
connect. His second attempt
was stopped by Thomas as
the final seconds of regulation
ticked off.
Brian Boucher couldn’t
hold off the OT charge.
Boucher won games this
postseason as a starter and
reliever. He mixed both in
Game 2. Boucher stopped 21
shots before he left the game
in the middle of the second
period after he appeared to
hurt his wrist.
It was the fifth time in
nine playoff games the Flyers
chances.
Aaron Harang (4-2) went five
innings, allowing four runs and
five hits, with four strikeouts and
two walks. The Padres, coming
off two straight wins at Dodger
Stadium, still haven’t won three
straight games this season.
San Diego had the tying run on
third base with two outs in the
ninth before Will Venable hit
into a force.
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BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia
fouled off nine pitches in a
13-pitch at-bat against Jered
Weaver before lining a go-
ahead, 2-run single that helped
the Boston Red Sox beat the
Los Angeles Angels 9-5 on
Monday night.
The loss was Weaver’s first of
the season. Weaver (6-1), who
was scratched Sunday due to
a stomach virus, gave up three
runs, six hits, struck out six and
walked one over six innings. He
failed to become the first pitcher
since 1891 to go 7-0 by May 2
or sooner. Sadie McMahon of
the Baltimore Orioles from the
American Association was the
last to open 7-0 by the second
day of May.
Adrian Gonzalez had a three-
run double and Clay Buchholz
(2-3) pitched 6 2/3 solid innings
Both teams put aside the
ugliness of their ejection-
filled meeting on March 31
while preparing for the fran-
chises’ first postseason meet-
ing since the 1988 Western
Conference finals.
Jackson and Mavericks’
owner Mark Cuban declined
to rekindle their history of
mutual sniping in the media,
instead praising each other in
recent days.
Both clubs finished off
their first-round series in six
games after splitting the first
four. The Lakers took con-
trol against the Hornets after
the opening stunner, while
the Mavericks bounced back
admirably after blowing a
23-point lead in a Game 4
loss to Portland.
NOTES: Bryant had the
81st 30-point game of his play-
off career, trailing only Michael
Jordan (109) in NBA history.
Bryant has scored in double fig-
ures in 156 straight postseason
games.
Hawks 103, Bulls 95
CHICAGO — The Chicago
Bulls were out of sorts long before
Derrick Rose hobbled off the court
at the end of the game.
The MVP’s ankle injury was
just added to their pain.
Joe Johnson scored 34 points
and Atlanta beat top-seeded
Chicago 103-95 on Monday
night in Game 1 of the Eastern
Conference semifinals.
The Bulls, meanwhile, came
out flat to start the game and
couldn’t pull it out in the end. As
if that wasn’t bad enough, they
got a big scare at the end of the
game when Rose turned his left
ankle and came up limping. He
stepped on Jamal Crawford’s
foot as he dribbled out the final
seconds and was helped off by
teammates and a trainer, casting
a cloud on a night when news
came that he is the league’s
MVP.
A person familiar with the sit-
uation confirmed reports Monday
night that the award is his, mak-
ing him the league’s youngest
winner and the Bulls’ second
alongside Michael Jordan.
That announcement
expected today, with the presen-
is
tation at Game 2 on Wednesday.
If the Bulls keep playing like this,
that could be their final appear-
made a goalie switch — the
first because of injury rath-
er than ineffectiveness. The
score was 2-2 when Boucher
left and when he returned.
The crowd was rocking
from the start after they heard
the usual stirring rendition of
“God Bless America,” live
by Lauren Hart and on video
by the late Kate Smith. Fans
chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!”
after lineups were introduced
and again after the song was
finished, a day after Osama
bin Laden was killed.
Van Riemsdyk kept 20,000
orange-clad fans roaring
when he scored only 29 sec-
onds into the game. He beat
Thomas again midway into
the period, mixing the power
play with a dose of pride and
patriotism, for the fast lead.
In these playoffs, a 2-0
lead almost seems like a 2-0
hole. The Flyers are forced
to keep attacking because
the goaltending has been so
porous.
Sure enough, Boucher and
the Flyers blew it in a hurry.
Kelly scored off a rebound
and Marchand’s wrister
through Boucher’s legs gave
Boston goals only 1:25 apart
and a tie.
After a 4-goal first, the
teams settled down until
Krejci’s winner.
The Bruins pounded
Sergei Bobrovsky in his lim-
ited relief role, but the rookie
stopped all six shots.
for the win.
Yankees 5, Tigers 3
DETROIT — Nick Swisher
hit a tie-breaking single in the
ninth off closer Jose Valverde
and New York handed Detroit
its seventh straight defeat.
The Tigers rallied from a 3-0
deficit, tying it in the seventh
on Alex Avila’s second solo
home run of the night, but the
Yankees broke through in their
last at-bat against Valverde
(2-1). With runners on first and
second and one out, Swisher
singled up the middle and Mark
Teixeira scored from second
with a slide. Alex Rodriguez
added another run when he
scored from third on a passed
ball by Avila.
Joba Chamberlain (2-0) got
the win by pitching a score-
less eighth and Mariano Rivera
worked a perfect ninth for his
11th save.
White Sox 6, Orioles 2
CHICAGO — Paul Konerko
homered twice and Mark
Buehrle pitched 6 2/3 scoreless
innings to help Chicago snap a
5-game slide.
Konerko hit a 2-run home
run and a solo shot for the
White Sox, who won only their
fourth in 19 games to avoid a
4-game sweep. Juan Pierre had
an RBI single and Alex Rios
The Herald — 7
ance at the United Center, par-
ticularly if Rose is limited.
“It’s fine,” said Rose, who
expects to be ready for Game 2.
“I just twisted it a little at the end.
I’ll just get some treatment.”
The Hawks went on a 15-2
run that bridged the third and
fourth quarters to turn a 69-65
deficit into an 80-71 lead with
10:27 remaining.
Johnson scored eight points
during that stretch, and the
Hawks hung on.
Johnson was brilliant, hitting
12-of-18 shots and all five 3-point
attempts. Crawford scored 22
points and Jeff Teague added
10 while starting at the point
for the injured Kirk Hinrich and
wound up getting the game ball
from coach Larry Drew.
Atlanta shot 51.3 percent
against one of the league’s stin-
giest defenses.
As alarming as all that was
for the Bulls, though, the sight
of Rose limping off sent a real
shiver through Chicago.
Rose sprained the same
ankle in the opening round
against Indiana but even before
he limped off the court, this cer-
tainly wasn’t his best night.
He scored 24 points but
he was just 11-of-27 from the
field and did not attempt a free
throw.
Luol Deng scored 21 points
for Chicago while Carlos Boozer
added 14 points and eight
rebounds despite a turf toe injury
on his right foot. But it was a
rough night overall for the Bulls
— particularly on defense.
Rose said the communica-
tion has to improve.
Pushed by Indiana in a
tough 5-game opening series,
they fought through a brutal first
quarter to pull within one point at
halftime and led by as many as
six in the third quarter before this
one slipped away.
Johnson started the go-
ahead run with two free throws
with just under a minute left in
the third and Zaza Pachulia hit
two more with less than a sec-
ond left in the quarter to put the
Hawks ahead for good, 72-71.
Johnson then hit a 3 off a
turnover by Deng to start the
fourth. Teague added a floater
and Crawford nailed a 3 to make
it 80-71.
NOTES: Besides hav-
ing Teague start for Hinrich,
the Hawks went with Marvin
Williams at small forward after
he came off the bench in the
opening round.
Boucher and Thomas both
made game-saving stops at
various points. Boucher
stuffed Daniel Paille on the
breakaway in the first; Thomas
made a sliding, sweeping leg
save to deny Nikolay Zherdev
in the second.
Flyers captain Mike
Richards missed on all 10
shots.
The Bruins hold the 2-0
lead after rallying from the
same hole to beat Montreal in
the first round.
The Bruins lost defense-
man Adam McQuaid in the
first period after he slammed
headfirst into the boards.
McQuaid tried to throw an
elbow at Mike Richards but
the Flyers captain sidestepped
him, and McQuaid went down
in a heap. He was motionless
on the ice for several minutes
and needed a trainer and help
back to the locker room.
He went to the hospital
but was set to return with the
team to Boston.
That evened the score on
injured defensemen.
Philadelphia’s Chris
Pronger sat out with an undis-
closed injury. Pronger missed
games in the Flyers’ first-
round series against Buffalo
while he recovered from a
broken right hand. The Flyers
sent out an injury report after
Monday morning’s pregame
skate that stated Pronger was
“OK.”
Guess not.
added a solo homer to help the
White Sox end a 7-game home
skid with their first win at U.S.
Cellular Field since April 12.
Buehrle (2-3) scattered eight
hits, walked four and struck out
four.
Orioles starter Jeremy
Guthrie (1-4) allowed four runs
on five hits in seven innings.
He struck out four and walked
two, remaining winless since
Opening Day.
Athletics 5, Rangers 4, 10
innings
OAKLAND, Calif. — Hideki
Matsui hit the first pitch of the
10th inning from Darren Oliver
into the right-field seats to lift
the Athletics.
Grant Balfour (2-1) walked
three batters in the top of the
10th to load the bases for pinch-
hitter Yorvit Torrealba, who
struck out swinging on the right-
hander’s 30th pitch.
Josh Willingham hit a tying
home run leading off the eighth
against Texas reliever Arthur
Rhodes and the A’s took 3-of-4
from the reigning AL champi-
ons. Texas has lost 6-of-8 and
12-of-19 following a 9-1 start.
Matsui’s shot against Oliver
(1-3) was just the third of the
season for the designated hit-
ter and Oakland’s first walkoff
homer of 2011.
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with crackhead By Bernice Bede Osol

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Certain career prospects could

Dear Annie: I have don’t know. I haven’t spo- brighten considerably for you in
been with my husband for ken to her recently.” It’s the near future, even if slowly in
more than 25 years. During honest, without giving too some cases. However, once positive
changes are on the radar screen, they
that period, he has cheated much personal information, will make their presence felt.
countless times, left me for which, we assume, is your TAURUS (April 20-May 20) --
other women and developed husband’s main objection. It’s nice to be recognized by certain
a crack habit. I have tried to Dear Annie: I generally people whom others admire, but don’t
be flattered by excessive attention.
stick it out because I believe agree with your advice, but Subdue temptations to take any BLONDIE
marriage is for better or I think you blew it with flirtation seriously.
worse. “Tatted,” the girl who got GEMINI (May 21-June 20) --
You should avoid mistakenly thinking
Right now is definitely a tattoo and was afraid to of one friend as being more important
“worse.” He will not admit tell her dad. I agree that she than your other pals. It could cause
that he has a problem. He should tell him right away, you to seriously slight the feelings of
hangs out with some shady but to say it was OK because someone who really matters.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
individuals who knock on she is an adult is ludicrous. -- Be extremely careful how you
our door day and Just because you treat someone whose material
night. He can- are 18 doesn’t make circumstances are far less fortunate
not pay the bills you an adult. If she than yours or most of your friends. It
could make this very nice person feel
because he spends is living with her inferior.
the money on father, she has to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Even
drugs. If I venture abide by his rules. though certain promises made to you
sound sincere, you might not be able
an opinion, he When you can sup-
blows his top or port yourself, pay
to depend upon a commitment if the
person involved is a bit scatterbrained
BEETLE BAILEY
leaves the house your own bills and or unreliable.
and stays out until live separately, you VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
-- Even though you’re likely to be a
the next morn- can get your tattoo. capable manager of your resources,
ing. He constantly If you talk in the not everyone is. Someone with whom
accuses me of theater, the ushers you’re affiliated might disappoint you
cheating. It does Annie’s Mailbox will throw you out. with his or her lack of responsibility.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
not seem like a If you smoke in a This can be a productive day for you,
marriage anymore. restaurant, you will be asked provided you team up with someone
We share the same bed to leave. So why should an who is equally responsible. Your
industriousness will be dulled if your
and try to be cordial to each 18-year-old do what she motivations differ considerably from
other. But we are like room- wants without regard to the a partner’s.
mates. I know it is over. I rules set down by the per- SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
-- Do not make light of things that
have no money, no car and son supporting her? It’s his you were supposed to take care of,
no job, so I do not see a way house. -- Bill
out of this. I have been try- Dear Bill: Your analogy
but didn’t. If you don’t make up for
your slacking, when the final score is SNUFFY SMITH
ing to find affordable hous- only goes so far. Dad can tallied, you’ll be the loser, not others.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
ing for my daughters and certainly ask his daughter 21) -- Amid the small talk with friends
me, but it’s impossible with- to move out over this. But there are likely to be some very
out an income. would you feel the same if he valuable morsels of information being
He is not willing to leave, dictated what kind of makeup dispersed. Be on your toes in order to
discern between fact and gossip.
and I have no place to go. she can buy with her own CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
How can I get over him money? Even if you believe 19) -- If it is to be a success, a new
while we are living in the she is immature, she is in endeavor in which you’re involved
must get off to a very strong start.
same house? -- Lost fact a legal adult and entitled Should the launch fail, you’ll have to
Dear Lost: Many states to pay for her own tattoo. start all over again.
have job-training programs If Daddy never allows her AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) --
for women in your position. to make her own choices -- Do not be condescending with those
whom are not as financially blessed or
Call the governor’s office or good or bad -- she will never lack your formal education. Neither
your state Dept. of Labor and learn to be responsible. makes you superior; it’s character that HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
ask. Most states also now Annie’s Mailbox is writ- counts.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
offer 2-1-1 phone lines that ten by Kathy Mitchell and -- There is nothing wrong with your
can direct you to resourc- Marcy Sugar, longtime edi- capacity for earning, but how you
es, including low-cost legal tors of the Ann Landers spend your dollars might be a different
assistance. And please reach column. Please e-mail your story. Beware needlessly throwing
money away.
out to your family, church questions to anniesmail- ARIES (March 21-April 19)
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for help. to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o people, but under certain conditions
you can harbor some introverted
Dear Annie: Please set- Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. thoughts that could cage your
tle a disagreement. After 40 Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los charisma.
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ly ended the toxic relation-
ship with my mother in order
to keep my hard-won sobri-
ety. Except when absolutely BORN LOSER
necessary, we have not spo-
ken in more than 10 years.
The problem is what to say
when someone asks, “How
is your mother?” I reply hon-
estly, “I don’t know. We
don’t speak.” My husband
says I should simply say,
“She’s fine,” and leave it at
that. But the one time I did,
the woman exclaimed, “How
can that be? She was in a car
wreck yesterday!” leaving
us both embarrassed. What FRANK & ERNEST
is the best way to handle
such inquiries? -- Better Off
Without Mom
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say so, as long as it doesn’t
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Doctors experimenting with group checkups

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Wait a minute, Doc. You
want me to share my appointment with 10 other
patients?
Group appointments aren’t just for psycho-
therapy anymore. Put diabetes, high blood pres-
sure and maybe even Parkinson’s disease on the
list.
Shared checkups aim to help patients who are
battling certain chronic diseases, and they’re far
from the typical 15-minute office visit. They’re
stretched over 90 minutes or even two hours,
offering more time to quiz the doctor about con-
cerns, learn about managing the disease — and
get tips from fellow patients.
What’s in it for the doctor? A neurologist
found he learned more about how his Parkinson’s
patients were faring by watching them interact
with others than when he had them one-on-one.
“I can see if you’re getting worse over
the course of the visit, your ability to eat, to
walk, to converse and to think,” says Dr. Ray
Dorsey, who led a pilot study of group check-
ups for Parkinson’s patients at the University of
Rochester Medical Center.
“This is a new way of delivering health care,”
adds Dorsey, now at Johns Hopkins University.
“People are thirsting for better ways.”
It’s a small but slowly growing trend that
promises to get more attention with the tight sup-
ply of primary care physicians, who find it hard to
squeeze in time to teach their patients how to deal
with complex chronic illnesses like diabetes. An
American Academy of Family Physicians survey
found more doctors trying the group approach —
about 10 percent of its active members in 2009,
up from fewer than 6 percent in 2005.
Peer pressure among patients helps, says fam-
ily physician Dr. George Whiddon of Quincy,
Fla. He has about 40 diabetic patients divided
into groups for shared checkups at Tallahassee
Memorial Family Medicine Quincy, and he
wants to add more.
One woman with uncontrolled diabetes for
years confessed to fellow patients that she’d
ignored Whiddon’s “eat better, take your meds”
advice for too long.
“Now I only have one toe left. I should have
listened,” Whiddon recalls her saying. “That had
more impact than anything I said all day.”
Group appointments don’t replace the patient’s
annual in-depth physical. But many people with
chronic illnesses, especially if they’re not well-
controlled, are supposed to have additional
follow-up visits about every three months —
an opportunity for shared checkups that stress
patient education.
But how well do these group visits work?
Evidence is mixed. An Italian study published
last year found that diabetics who took part in
them lowered their blood sugar, blood pressure
and cholesterol more than similar patients who
got regular individual office visits.
A separate study at two Veterans Affairs
Medical Centers, in North Carolina and
Virginia, tracked people with poorly con-
trolled diabetes and blood pressure and also
concluded shared appointments can improve
care for some people. Those in group visits
significantly improved their blood pressure
and needed less emergency care, but there
was no difference in diabetes improvement
between patients who had shared checkups or
regular ones.
Parkinson’s marks the newest attempt.
Dorsey recruited 30 Parkinson’s patients and
assigned half of them to 90-minute group
checkups, and the rest to regular private visits
that lasted a generous half-hour. During group
visits, everyone got a few minutes for private
discussion with the doctor. Then Dorsey gave
an educational talk about a Parkinson’s topic
the patients had previously requested — from
the newest research, to why symptoms vary
so widely, to how patients cope at work —
and took group questions.
Medically, both sets of patients fared equally
well during the year-long study, showing that
group visits are a feasible to offer, Dorsey report-
ed last week in the journal Neurology.
What the study couldn’t measure, Dorsey
says, was how he watched patients’ interactions
for subtle signs that they needed prescriptions
adjusted, things like cognitive problems or if
medications wore off too quickly. One meeting
even devoted 45 minutes to the pros and cons of
implanted brain stimulators to curb tremors.
“Many heads are better than one. They think
of questions you wouldn’t normally think of by
yourself,” says Jim Euken, a retired judge and
Parkinson’s patient from Belmont, NY. He began
exercising on a bicycle after one of Dorsey’s
group visits discussed research showing some
patients still can bike when they can barely walk,
for unknown reasons.
Euken joined some fellow study participants
who petitioned the hospital, unsuccessfully, to
continue group visits when the study ended: “It’s
not that I don’t get good care. I do. But I still think
I learned more and I think the process was better
doing it in a group format.”
More research is needed to determine which
patients fare better with group visits, plus they
take a lot of doctor preparation, cautions study
co-author Dr. Kevin Biglan of the University of
Rochester.
Medicare will reimburse the doctor for each
patient in a shared checkup with proper documen-
tation that the visit includes certain elements, says
Florida’s Whiddon. For his office, that means
breaking even, as long as at least six people show
up for his two-hour diabetes groups.

Canada’s Conservatives win big

By ROB GILLIES
Associated Press
TORONTO — Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper
won his coveted majority government in elections Monday that
also marked a shattering defeat for the opposition Liberals, pre-
liminary results showed.
Harper, who took office in 2006, has won two elections but
until now had never held a majority of Parliament’s 308 seats,
forcing him to rely on the opposition to pass legislation.
While Harper’s hold on the 308-member Parliament has been
tenuous during his five-year tenure, he has managed to nudge an
instinctively center-left country to the right. He has gradually
lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change leg-
islation, promoted Arctic sovereignty, upped military spending
and extended Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan.
Elections Canada reported preliminary results on its website,
giving the Conservatives 164 seats, which will give Harper four
years of uninterrupted government.
“It’s stunning. We’re elated,” Conservative lawmaker Jason
Kenney said in an interview with CBC. “We’ll be a government
for all Canadians.”
The leftist New Democratic Party was projected to become
the main opposition party for the first time in Canadian history
with 106 seats, in a stunning setback for the Liberals who have
always been either in power or leading the opposition.
Former colleagues of Harper say his long-term goals are to
shatter the image of the Liberals — the party of former Prime
Ministers Jean Chretien, Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau —
as the natural party of government in Canada, and to redefine
what it means to be Canadian.
Harper, who comes from the conservative western province
of Alberta, took a major step toward that goal on Monday night
as the Liberals dropped to 35 seats from 77, according to the
preliminary results.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff congratulated Harper and
New Democrat leader Jack Layton and accepted responsibility
for the “historic defeat.”
“I will play any part that the party wishes me to play as we
go forward to rebuild,” said Ignatieff, who even lost his own seat
in a Toronto suburb.
Stephen Clarkson, a professor of political science at the
University of Toronto, said Harper will now be considered a
transformative figure in Canadian history.
“It’s a sea change,” Clarkson said.
The New Democrats’ gains are being attributed to Layton’s
strong performance in the debates, a folksy, upbeat message, and a
desire by the French-speakers in Quebec, the second most populous
province, for a new face and a federalist option. Voters indicated
they had grown weary with the separatist Bloc Quebecois, which
had a shocking drop to three seats from 47 in the last Parliament.
Charlie Sheen tours Alabama
By ALAN BLINDER
Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Actor Charlie Sheen toured an
Alabama neighborhood leveled by tornadoes and said Monday
he wants to organize a relief event for victims in the state.
After going through the decimated Alberta City neighbor-
hood in Tuscaloosa, Sheen told The Associated Press he was
working with local officials to organize a benefit. He said a
date has not been set.
“I want to bring some money, hope, faith and healing to
the area,” said Sheen, the former star of the sitcom “Two and
a Half Men.”
Sheen was fired from the show in March and has been
in a bitter dispute with executive producer Chuck Lorre and
Warner Bros. Television. Since then, he’s launched a stage
tour that has captured attention.
The actor, wearing a University of Alabama baseball cap,
said he decided to visit after receiving an invitation via Twitter
from a University of Alabama student. David Harris of Mobile
had asked in a tweet April 30 if he would be willing to perform
a relief show in Alabama, Sheen said.
Sheen spent the day in Tuscaloosa meeting with storm
victims and first responders. He posed for photographs with
police officers and National Guard soldiers, accompanied by
one of his so-called goddesses — marijuana magazine model
Natalie Kenly — and former major league baseball player
Todd Zeile.
At each stop, he was swarmed by dozens of people asking
for autographs and photographs. Sheen also stopped by an
area Kmart to buy flashlights for some of the thousands still
without electricity. He paid the $324.07 tab with his own Visa
card, and then brought them to a relief center amid loud cheers
and applause.
“I’m astounded,” said one of the people at the center, Adrian
Norfleet. “I just can’t believe someone would care so much.”
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said he welcomed Sheen’s
visit, which likely would focus even more national attention on
the city of about 83,000.
“I hope he’s sincere when he says he’ll come back,”
Maddox said. Sheen said he is planning to return for the benefit
show and hopes to hold it at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater.
One of Sheen’s stops was at a destroyed Kentucky Fried
Chicken restaurant. He walked through the rubble amid the
pungent odor of rotting food, and left through an opening in
what had been a walk-in freezer. Later, while going through
the ruins of an apartment complex, he said he hoped people
could find sentimental possessions.
“Little personal items mean so much in this kind of devasta-
tion,” Sheen said.
Sheen posted a photo Monday on Twitter showing the
wreckage of a home with a message: “I’m in Tuscaloosa. It’s
beyond words. Info coming soon on how you can all help.”
FEMA seeks to redeem reputation
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The messages came in a fast and
furious onslaught: a series of massively powerful tornadoes were
ripping across Alabama and other parts of the South.
On the receiving end of frantic descriptions of entire neighbor-
hoods wiped out by last week’s pulverizing storms that killed 342,
Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig
Fugate urged President Barack Obama to immediately sign an
emergency disaster declaration for Alabama.
The near immediate response was starkly different from past
catastrophes.
Likely the most memorable, in 2005, as the damage from
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans’ broken levees was coming
into full view, the country and the flooded city wondered out loud:
Where is the federal government?
When FEMA finally arrived, its response seemed inept, made
more painful by President George W. Bush’s backslapping praise
of then-FEMA chief Michael Brown on national television. Last
year’s oil spill brought more criticism when Obama didn’t tour
the region for days and the economy and environment of the Gulf
Coast was threatened.
Katrina’s aftermath prompted federal law changes that allow
FEMA to jump in faster with people and supplies.
It looks like Fugate’s decision to risk being criticized for send-
ing too much too soon to flattened towns than be left explaining
why help took so long to arrive worked to at least make victims feel
as if the government cared.
“If you can’t tell me it’s not bad, I’m going to assume it’s bad
... and go,” Fugate told The Associated Press as he flew from
Alabama — where 250 died — to tour the devastated town of
Smithville, Miss.
Fugate was on the ground a day after the storms subsided.
Obama joined him Friday.
Salmonella prompts tomato recall Broadway anticipates nominations
TRACY, Calif. (AP) — A Florida tomato grower is voluntarily
recalling its grape tomatoes after a sample tested positive for sal-
monella.
Six L’s Packing Company Inc. said in a statement that no ill-
nesses had been reported in connection to the recall as of April 29.
The Immokalee, Fla.-based company says the recalled product
was packed on April 11 under the Cherry Berry lot code DW-H in
clam shells or 20-pound cardboard containers. The tomatoes were
distributed to California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama,
Florida, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and
Georgia, as well as Canada.
The contamination was found by a U.S. Department of
Agriculture inspector at a New York distributor, according to Six
L’s. The tomatoes originated from a farm in Estero, Fla.
The tomatoes also were used in deli salads made by Tracy-based
Taylor Farms Pacific Inc., which also recalled products Monday.
The salads were sold in plastic trays and at deli counters in
Albertsons, Raley’s, Safeway, Savemart, Sam’s Club and Walmart
stores across the West and some Midwestern states.
The affected states are Arizona, Oregon, California, Nevada,
Washington, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, South
Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
Customers are being asked to return the recalled products to the
place of purchase for a refund.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in
young children, elderly people and those with weakened immune
systems. Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and
abdominal pain.
Mississippi River waters rising
By JIM SUHR and JIM SALTER
Associated Press
WYATT, Mo. — A few momentary blasts, flashes of orange
light, and the Mississippi River began pouring through a wide
hole in a Missouri levee, intentionally blown open by the Army
Corps of Engineers in the hope of saving a small Illinois town.
Even as the corps’ carried out its bid to protect Cairo, Ill.,
floodwaters are rising downriver, including in Memphis, Tenn.
And the breach in the Birds Point levee wasn’t expected to ease
those flooding concerns.
The Army Corps exploded the Birds Point levee after nightfall
Monday, sacrificing 130,000 acres of rich farmland and about 100
homes in Missouri to spare the Illinois town of 2,800 residents
that is at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
The breach should reduce water levels in Cairo and on another
threatened levee in northern Kentucky, by up to 4 feet by late
today or early Wednesday, corps officials say.
Flooding concerns also were widespread in western Tennessee,
where tributaries were backed up due to heavy rains and the
bulging Mississippi River. Streets in suburban Memphis were
blocked, and some 175 people filled a church gymnasium to brace
for potential record flooding.
Walsh has said he might also make use of other downstream
“floodways” — basins surrounded by levees that can be blown
open to divert floodwaters.
Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old
Morganza floodway near Morgan City, La., and the Bonnet Carre
floodway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The Morganza
has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet
Carre, which was christened in 1932, has been opened up nine
times since 1937, the most recent in 2008.
Officials in Louisiana and Mississippi are warning that the
river could bring a surge of water unseen since 1927.
The corps has said about 241 miles of levees along the
Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the Gulf
of Mexico need to be made taller or strengthened. George Sills,
a former Army Corps engineer and levee expert in Vicksburg,
Miss., said the volume of water moving down the river would test
the levee system south of Memphis into Louisiana.
And though he has been quick to remind anyone who will listen
that the states are in charge of responding to the storms, Fugate’s
office has also been making sure everyone knows what his agency
is up to with a flurry of press releases outlining each step.
Fugate said there was plenty more work to do and the cleanup
and recovery would be another long-term project.
Questions about the public relations of disaster response are of
little concern to Fugate, who was Florida’s emergency manage-
ment director during a quadruplet of hurricanes that pummeled the
state in 2004 and then jumped to the aid of neighboring Gulf Coast
states in Katrina’s aftermath.
“I don’t care,” Fugate says flatly of his public image. “I’m not
worried about my reputation; I’m not worried about my press clip-
pings. I’m worried about the survivors.”
Nevertheless, the reaction on the ground has been overwhelm-
ingly positive, even if some folks aren’t entirely sure who is in
charge yet.
FEMA hadn’t yet opened a disaster relief office in
Tuscaloosa, Ala., by Sunday afternoon and Marty Fields
hadn’t seen anyone from the government stopping by with
offers of assistance, despite the massive tree that fell into his
wood-frame home and opened a gash in the roof. Still, he
wasn’t complaining.
“I don’t have any complaints,” Fields said. “If they were just
dealing with this one area I may not be too happy. But it’s such a
wide area.”
By Monday afternoon, FEMA officials reported they opened
11 disaster recovery centers in Alabama and nearly 18,000 house-
holds in the state had already registered for FEMA assistance. The
agency also said more than $2 million had been approved so far for
temporary housing and home repairs late Monday and more than
$1.1 million via a joint state-federal program for disaster-related
needs. It said some 1,500 households in Georgia, Mississippi and
Tennessee had registered for FEMA assistance and officials were
rushing to dole it out.
By MARK KENNEDY
Associated Press
NEW YORK — When the Broadway season began last
year, a big brash musical about Spider-Man was supposed to
muscle its way to multiple Tony Award nominations. Instead,
a pair of goofy Mormons may be the ones to beat.
“The Book of Mormon” has been a critical and box-office
darling even without big-name stars and today’s Tony Award
nominations could give it an extra boost: official endorsement
from the theatrical community. Not bad for a show in which a
man loudly complains about having maggots in his scrotum.
The musical, about two Mormon missionaries who find
more than they bargained for in Africa, was written by Trey
Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park,” and
Robert Lopez, co-creator of the Tony Award-winning musical
“Avenue Q.” The trio teamed up with Casey Nicholaw, who
co-directed with Parker and choreographed.
It has received 12 Drama Desk Award nominations, six
Outer Critics Circle Award nominations and a Fred & Adele
Astaire Award nomination, which recognizes excellence in
dance. The musical is also grossing more than $1 million a
week and is selling out — the place “Spider-Man: Turn Off the
Dark” was supposed to be before its implosion.
On the play front, two front-runners for Tony nominations
are the heartwarming human-puppet hybrid “War Horse” and
David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People,” a darkly comical
exploration of class differences in Boston. While “War Horse”
is a visually stunning and gorgeously realized story about a boy
and his horse during World War I, it is based on a children’s
book; Lindsay-Abaire’s play, on the other hand, leaves all the
fireworks in its smart, adult script.
“The Book of Mormon” and “War Horse” are just two bona
fide hits in a complex season that has seen everything from
a well-regarded revival of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of
Venice” to a raw new play whose title — “The Motherf----
With the Hat” — made some squeamish. It’s also a season
in which football fans came to see Vince Lombardi prowling
a Broadway stage and cheered James Earl Jones behind the
wheel in a revival of “Driving Miss Daisy.”
Of the 42 new productions this season, there were 14 musi-
cals — 12 new ones and two revivals — and 25 plays, a whop-
ping 16 of them brand new. The last time there were 16 new
plays produced in a single season was 1986-87.
Answers to Monday’s questions:
Following U.S. A-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the
Marshall Islands in 1955, the ocean’s surface reached
99,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
French-born wrestler André the Giant, whose real
name was André Rene Roussinoff, fought under the name
Monster Eiffel Tower early in his career.
Today’s questions:
What popular 1969 buddy movie ends with the under-
statement, “For a moment, I thought we were in trou-
ble?”
Which two 20th-century presidents belonged to the
Baker Street Irregulars, the international organization of
Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts?
Answers in Wednesday’s Herald.
Today’s words:
Orthobiosis: hygenic, moral and allegedly “normal”
living
Wlatsome: loathsome