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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
50 daily Delphos, Ohio
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DELPHOS HERALD
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Plows out in force this morning
Delphos City snow plows were out in force this morning, battling fierce winds and blowing
snow to keep roadways clear. The area received 2 1/2 inches of snow since Thursday afternoon.
Most schools were closed today due to blowing and drifting snow on country roadways.
Forecasts indicate the winds will die down this afternoon with flurries the rest of the weekend.
See page 2 for a full forecast.
Mox tapped
to fill vacant
board seat
BY NANCY SPENCER
nspencer@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS A Delphos businessman will fill
the open seat on the Delphos City Schools Board of
Education. Following a short executive session, mem-
bers, including newly-elected Joe Rode and Michael
Wulfhorst, appointed George Mox to fill the vacant seat
which will expire at the end of 2013.
Mox said he started attending school board meetings
because he didnt understand the process and wanted to
become more involved.
The more I learned, the more I thought I could
add to the process in a positive manner, Mox said this
morning.
Mox said it boils down to three points: students,
teachers and facilities.
The three dont work unless they work together for
a common cause, he added.
Mox and the board will fill the superintendents posi-
tion this spring and he gave a list of what he feels the
new person should have:
Understanding of the school system;
Understanding of the values of the community
represented by the school district;
The knowledge that the two local school systems
need to work together to be successful; and
Understanding of the human resource side of
employees in both systems.
Mox added that he would like to see more commu-
nity involvement.
I wish the public would attend the meetings. They
are always invited to the regular and finance meetings,
he said. This would give them a better understanding
of the complexity of the system and why certain things
are done.
Mox is a consultant at Kohart Surplus and Salvage.
He and his wife, Linda, have 3 children and 8 grand-
children.
Interim Superintendent Frank Sukup reported the
district was forced to purchase a used school bus from
Cardinal due to the backup handicap school bus losing
an engine.
A representative from RODOC Leasing Sales an
Service came out and looked at the bus and the repairs
would have been cost-prohibitive for the age of the
bus. The new-to-us bus was $21,700 with the trade-in
and will be available for service by next week, Sukup
said.
Treasurer Brad Rostorfer reported he had been con-
tacted by the contractor who put the roof on the admin-
istrative building nearly 12 years ago. He was offering
to do preventative maintenance on the roof and give
a 10-year warranty. Rostorfer added he will put out
bid specs on changing the lighting at Jefferson Middle
School. Current light bulbs will be obsolete.
During the organizational meeting prior to the regular
meeting, members elected John Klausing as president
and Perry Wiltsie as vice president. They will also serve
as legislative liaison and student liaison, respectively.
Meetings will remain at 8 p.m. the second Monday of
each month and Finance Committee meetings will begin
at 8 p.m. On the prior Thursday.
In other business, the school board:
Approved James Looser to a 7-year term in the
Delphos Public Library Board of Trustees;
Approved the librarys temporary appropriations
for 2012;
Accepted the resignation/retirement of Elementary
Guidance Counselor Quincy Kiracofe; and
Approved the 2012-13 school calendar. The first
day of school will be Aug. 28 and the last May 31.
Delphos City Schools
Families ask EPA chief to send water
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA
Residents of a small north-
eastern Pennsylvania town
at the center of the political
fight over natural gas drill-
ing are taking their complaints
directly to the head of the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
A handful of residents-
turned-activists from Dimock
joined environmental activ-
ists from elsewhere to rally
today outside a conference at
Philadelphias Academy of
Natural Sciences on urban envi-
ronmental issues. They planned
to ask EPA Administrator Lisa
Jackson to investigate their
water issues and to deliver
water two moves that would
establish their problem as a
federal one.
Thats a necessary move,
they say, because state environ-
mental officials are not doing
what they should to help.
A state investigation
found that 18 wells in the
Susquehanna County village
were contaminated after natu-
ral gas drilling began there in
2008.
About a dozen residents
have sued Cabot Oil & Gas
Corp., claiming the energy
company caused the con-
tamination when it extracted
natural gas using a process
known as hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, a method that has
spurred a boom in natural gas
drilling in several states while
raising concerns about the toll
on the environment and public
health.
Cabot denies contaminating
the wells, saying most wells
in the region were laced with
methane long before the arrival
of drilling. Nevertheless, the
company trucked in fresh water
for the residents to use for bath-
ing and washing clothes and
dishes. The deliveries stopped
Nov. 30 after state regulators
determined that Cabot had
fulfilled its obligations to the
residents under a 2010 consent
agreement. The residents say
their aquifer is still contami-
nated.
The federal government has
wavered about its role, ini-
tially saying the water posed
no health risk, then that it
merited more study, then in
the space of 24 hours last week
promising to deliver water and
reneging.
Craig Stevens, a resident of
Silver Lake, near Dimock, said
he called the EPA on Thursday
and was told that Jackson would
visit the town and would con-
sider bringing water with her.
A spokeswoman for the agency
did not immediately return a
call seeking comment.
Meanwhile, about 50 pro-
testers held banners and chant-
ed, Lisa Jackson, take some
action!
In a move that was partly
symbolic and partly a practi-
cal goodwill gesture, several of
them brought with them bot-
tles of water for the handful of
Dimock residents to take home.
Its a ridiculous redefini-
tion of life to have to get
bottles of water and to have
to live by the graciousness of
water, said Victoria Switzer,
a Dimock resident who sold
gas drilling rights under the 5
acres she owns.
Pennsylvanias environ-
mental chief, who works for
a pro-drilling governor, has
criticized his federal counter-
parts, saying the EPA has only
a rudimentary understanding
of the contamination.
Its a ridiculous
redefinition of life to
have to get bottles
of water and to have
to live by the gra-
ciousness of water.
Victoria Switzer,
Dimock resident
Stacy Taff photo
Eagles hosts blood drive
The American Red Cross held a blood drive on Thursday at the Delphos Eagles
Aerie . Bob Mueller donates a pint of blood with the help of Merry Daugherty, a nurse
with the Red Cross. The next blood drive will be on March 8.
Myanmar frees
political prisoners
By AYE AYE WIN
YANGON, Myanmar
Myanmar freed some of its
most famous political inmates
today, sparking jubilation
outside prison gates while
signaling its readiness to meet
Western demands for lifting
economic sanctions.
Prominent political activ-
ists, leaders of brutally
repressed democratic upris-
ings, a former prime minis-
ter, ethnic minority leaders,
journalists and relatives of the
former dictator Ne Win were
among those released. State
media described the presiden-
tial pardon freeing 651 detain-
ees as allowing them to take
part in nation-building.
It was the latest in a flurry
of accelerating changes in
Myanmar sought by the West,
including starting a dialogue
with opposition leader Aung
San Suu Kyi, legalizing labor
unions and Thursdays sign-
ing of a cease-fire in a long-
running campaign against
Karen insurgents.
Myanmar likely now feels
the ball is the Wests court
to lift the onerous economic
measures.
But the United States and
allies may take a wait-and-
see approach, to see if gov-
ernment truces with various
ethnic rebel groups hold, dis-
cussions with Suu Kyi move
forward and scheduled April
elections appear free and fair.
There has been a parade
of top Western diplomats
through Myanmar lately
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton in December
and British Foreign Secretary
William Hague last week.
French Foreign Minister
Alain Juppe is scheduled to
arrive Saturday.
The message conveyed
by Western nations has
been clear: They are encour-
aged by the reform process
under President Thein Sein,
but economic and political
sanctions could not be lifted
unless the prisoners were
freed. The various sanctions
See FREE, page 2
Cloudy
Saturday
with 30 per-
cent chance
of snow
and high in
low 20s. See page 2.
Bendele
Co-founder of
Delphos airport
passes away
The co-founder of Delphos
Woodworking Company and
the Delphos airport has died.
Robert Bendele, 95,
passed away Wednesday
at the Van Wert Inpatient
Hospice Center.
He was also co-owner
of Delphos Builders
Supply and Spencerville
Lumber Company.
Bendele, born in Ottoville,
served in the United States
Army Air Forces from 1941-
46 as a flight instructor and
held special assignment with
the United States Navy.
Read full obitu-
ary on page 2.
Jefferson hosting annual
cage tourney
Jefferson boys basketball
coach Marc Smith and staff
have scheduled the 7th annual
Wildcat 5th- and 6th-Grade
Tournament to be held on
April 13-15 (Friday-Sunday)
at the Jefferson Middle and
High schools. There will be
separate divisions for 5th-
grade and 6th-grade teams,
with each team guaranteed a
minimum of 3 games. Entry
fee for this event is $100.
For more information,
contact Smith at (419) 615-
7233 or Ron Ebbeskotte
at (419) 692-7191.
CYO Spring Volleyball
registration
For any girls in grades
3-6 wishing to participate in
Spring Youth Volleyball, a
registration meeting is set for
5-5:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at the St.
Johns Annex. Please bring a
parent and registration fee of
$45 plus shirt fee of $10,
with checks payable to CYO.
TODAY
Boys Basketball (6
p.m.): Jefferson at LCC
(NWC); Fort Jennings at
Kalida (PCL); Crestview
at Lincolnview (NWC);
Bluffton at Spencerville
(NWC); Elida at Van
Wert (WBL); Columbus
Grove at Paulding (NWC);
St. Johns at St. Henry
(MAC), 6:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Elida at
Bluffton Quad, 6 p.m.
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Carryout - $7.00 starting at 4:30 p.m.
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Parties. For information call 419-286-2100 or 419-286-2192
2 The Herald Friday, January 13, 2012
For The Record
OBITUARIES
BIRTH
LOTTERY
LOCAL PRICES
WEATHER
POLICE REPORT
The Delphos
Herald
Vol. 142 No. 163
Nancy Spencer, editor
Ray Geary, general manager
Delphos Herald, Inc.
Don Hemple,
advertising manager
Tiffany Brantley,
circulation manager
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Delphos weather
Jeanette J. Roehm
Robert M. Bendele
Corn: $5.92
Wheat: $5.82
Beans: $11.49
Dec. 19, 1932-Jan. 11, 2012
Jeanette J. Roehm, 79, of
Delphos died peacefully at
8:40 a.m. Wednesday at the
Van Wert In-patient Hospice
Center, surrounded by her lov-
ing family.
She was born Dec. 19,
1932, in Delphos to Lloyd and
Marcille (Moreo) Culp, who
preceded her in death.
On Sept. 22, 1956, she mar-
ried Robert (Bob) Roehm, who
survives.
Other survivors include
sons Greg (Penny) Roehm
and Doug (Jean) Roehm
of Delphos; brothers Bill
(Donnie) Culp and Dick (Bell)
Culp of Delphos; stepgrand-
children Megan Charles, Ryan
Roehm, Josh Marchal and
Jeremy Marchal; stepgreat-
grandchildren Hayden, Corbin,
Lykan and McKinley; sister-
in-law, Joan Culp of Delphos;
and goddaughter Barb (Moreo)
Wrasman.
She was also preceded in
death by brother, Gene Culp;
and stepgreat-granddaughter
Mackenzie.
Mrs. Roehm was a home-
maker who enjoyed taking
care of her family, friends and
anyone in need. She was kind-
hearted and put others needs
ahead of her own, taking care
of any stray animal that had
the good fortune to cross her
path and she was a wonder-
ful and dedicated wife, mother
and grandmother.
Services begin at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Harter and Schier
Funeral Home, the Rev. Jacob
Gordon officiating. Burial
will follow in Walnut Grove
Cemetery.
Friends may call from 2-8
p.m. today and for an hour
before the service.
Memorials are to The
Humane Society or donors
choice.
ST. RITAS
A boy was born Jan, 9
to Nathan and Tisha Lee of
Delphos.
The high temperature
Sunday in Delphos was 41
and the low was 17. A year
ago today, the high was 24
and the low was 9. The record
high for today is 62, set in 195
and the record low of -14 was
set in 1997.
One sent to
hospital from two-
vehicle crash
A Delphos man was
cited for an improper start
from a parked position fol-
lowing a two-vehicle acci-
dent at approximately 5 p.m.
Wednesday at the entrance
of Arbys Restaurant on East
Fifth Street in Delphos.
Roger Wilson, 61, was
pulled off the roadway fac-
ing west in the entrance
to the restaurant. When he
attempted to re-enter the
roadway, he pulled into the
path of a westbound vehicle
driven by Heather Osting,
33, of Delphos. Osting
told officers she attempted
to avoid the accident but
a vehicle was in the cen-
ter turn lane and she had
nowhere to go. Her vehicle
struck the Osting vehicle,
causing major damage to
both vehicles.
Wilson was transported to
St. Ritas Medical Center by
Delphos EMS.
Both vehicles were towed
from the scene.
CLEVELAND (AP)
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WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
Associated Press
TONIGHT: Cloudy with
a 30 percent chance of snow
showers through midnight.
Lows around 15. West winds
10 to 20 mph. Wind chills 1
below to 9 above zero.
SATURDAY: Mostly
cloudy. A 30 percent chance
of snow in the afternoon
through early evening. Highs
in the lower 20s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Cloudy through midnight then
becoming mostly cloudy. A 20
percent chance of snow show-
ers. Lows 15 to 20. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
SUNDAY, SUNDAY
NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 20s. Lows 15 to
20.
MARTIN LUTHER
KING II DAY: Partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 30s.
MONDAY NIGHT:
Partly cloudy with a 30 per-
cent chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the lower 30s.
Dec. 18, 1916
Jan. 11, 2012
Robert M. Bendele, 95, of
Delphos, died at 3:20 p.m.
Wednesday at Van Wert
Inpatient Hospice Center.
He was born Dec. 18,
1916, in Ottoville, to Leo
and Frances (Schimmoller)
Bendele, who preceded him
in death.
On May 1, 1943, he mar-
ried Jeanne Landwehr in Altus
Okla. She died on July 23,
2009.
Survivors include sons
Richard Bendele of Cape
Coral, Fla., and Michael
(Diane) Bendele of Delphos;
daughter Bonnie Utrup
of Toledo; sister Dorothy
Schmitz of Florida.; grand-
children Craig (Dina) Bendele,
Lori (Bendele) Runnels, Isaac
Bendele, Karyn Bendele,
Angie Utrup and Emily Utrup;
and great-grandchildren
Ashtyn Bermudez, Makailey
Bermudez and Tim Runnels.
He was also preceded in
death by his brothers, Ralph,
Rudolph and Thomas Bendele;
and daughter-in-law, Lynda
Bendele.
Mr. Bendele served in the
United States Airforces from
1941-1946 as a flight instruc-
tor, including a special assign-
ment to the United States Navy.
He was co-founder of Delphos
Woodworking Company and
the Delphos Airport. He was
co-owner of Delphos Builders
Supply and Spencerville
Lumber Company. He held
memberships with St. John the
Evangelist Catholic Church
and the American Legion.
Mass of Christian Burial
begins at 11 a.m. Monday
at St. John the Evangelist
Catholic Church, the Rev.
Jacob Gordon officiat-
ing. Burial will follow in
Resurrection Cemetery with
military rites by the Delphos
Veterans Council.
Friends may call from 2-4
p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Sunday at
Harter and Schier Funeral
Home, where a parish wake
begins at 7:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, take
someone you love to dinner.
Stolen car suspect in custody
Beijing Apple store egged
after new iPhone delayed
At 3:40 p.m. on Thursday,
police received a phone call
from an employee of the
Circle K gas station on Fifth
Street. The employee stated
a male, who was wanted by
authorities, had just been
in the
store and
attempt-
ed a
theft of
ciga-
rettes.
The
employ-
ee rec-
ognized
the male
after
view-
ing a wanted flyer that
had been circulated to
various businesses. Police
responded to the area but
the male had already left.
A few moments later, a
city police officer observed
the male operating a vehicle
in the 500 block of North
Main Street. The officer
learned that the vehicle the
male was driving was regis-
tered as stolen out of Putnam
County.
City police then attempted
a traffic stop of the vehicle
in the 500 block of North
Main Street. The driver of
the stolen auto refused to stop
and led officers on a chase
into Putnam County. The
pursuit ended 13 minutes
later at the intersections of
U-20 and Rd-21 in Putnam
County, when the man pulled
over and surrendered to offi-
cers. The driver was identi-
fied as 49-year-old Kenneth J.
Thierjung. Thierjung was taken
into custody by Delphos offi-
cers at the scene. The Putnam
County Sheriffs Department
assisted in the apprehension
of the suspect. The vehicle
was later impounded by the
Sheriffs Department.
Thierjung (no formal
address), was later booked
into the Putnam County Jail
due to the original grand theft
of the vehicle. City police
expect additional felony
criminal charge(s) stemming
from the pursuit will be filed
in the future. In addition to
this, Thierjung is wanted out
of the Shawnee area for a
theft violation.
No injuries or property
damage resulted from the
incident. No court date is yet
available as of report time.
By JOE MCDONALD
BEIJING Angry cus-
tomers and gangs of scalpers
threw eggs at Apple Inc.s
Beijing store today after the
iPhone 4S launch there was
canceled due to concerns
over the crowds size.
Apple reacted to the out-
burst by postponing iPhone
4S sales in its mainland China
stores to protect customers
and employees. The phone
still will be sold online and
through its local carrier.
The incident highlighted
Apples huge popularity in
China and the role of middle-
men who buy up limited sup-
plies of iPhones and other
products or smuggle them
from abroad for resale to
Chinese gadget fans at a big
markup.
Hundreds of customers
including migrant workers
hired by scalpers in teams of
20 to 30 waited overnight in
freezing weather at the Apple
store in a shopping mall in
Beijings east side Sanlitun
district.
The crowd erupted after
the store failed to open on
schedule at 7 a.m. Some
threw eggs and shouted at
employees through the win-
dows.
A person with a mega-
phone announced the sale
was canceled. Police ordered
the crowd to leave and sealed
off the area with yellow tape.
Employees posted a sign say-
ing the iPhone 4S was out of
stock.
We were unable to open
our store at Sanlitun due to
the large crowd, and to ensure
the safety of our custom-
ers and employees, iPhone
will not be available in our
retail stores in Beijing and
Shanghai for the time being,
said Apple spokeswoman
Carolyn Wu.
The iPhone 4S quickly
sold out at other Apple stores
in China, Wu said. She said
the phone still will be sold in
China through Apples online
store, its local carrier China
Unicom Ltd. and authorized
resellers.
Wu declined to com-
ment on what Apple might
know about scalpers buying
iPhones for resale.
China is Apples fastest-
growing market and an
area of enormous opportu-
nity, CEO Tim Cook said
in October. He said quarterly
sales were up nearly four
times over a year earlier and
accounted for one-sixth of
Apples global sales.
Apples China stores are
routinely mobbed for the
release of new products.
The company has its
own stores only in Beijing
and Shanghai, with a hand-
ful of authorized retailers
in other cities, so middle-
men who buy iPhones and
resell them in other areas can
make big profits, said Wang
Ying, who follows the mobile
phone market for Analysys
International, a research firm
in Beijing.
Apple is making a lot of
money, so it is not too con-
cerned about the scalpers,
Wang said.
Wang and other industry
analysts said the size of the
underground trade and price
markups are unclear.
In Shanghai, stores limited
iPhone 4S sales to two per
customer. Several hundred
people were waiting when
the stores opened, bundled up
against the cold. Some passed
the time playing mahjong.
Buyers included 500 older
people from neighboring
Jiangsu province who were
hired by the boss of a mobile
phone market, the newspa-
per Oriental Morning Post
said. They arrived aboard an
11-bus convoy and were paid
150 yuan ($15) each.
Online bulletin boards
were filled with comments
about todays buying frenzy,
many complaining about or
ridiculing the scalpers.
By LYNNE TUOHY
BRENTWOOD, N.H. A
Texas woman was sentenced
today to 45 years in prison for
suffocating her 6-year-old son
in a New Hampshire motel
room and leaving his body
along a dirt road in Maine.
Julianne McCrery, 42, of
Irving, Texas, told prosecutors
she had planned to kill herself
and that she killed her son,
Camden Hughes, because no
one else was fit to raise him.
But prosecutors say they have
evidence McCrery felt the boy
was an inconvenience, and
that she planned to go about
her own life after killing him.
McCrery spoke tearfully at
her sentencing hearing, calling
her son beautiful and brilliant.
I am sorry to have caused
the intense pain and suffering
to my precious son Camden,
she said. He did nothing
whatsoever to deserve that by
my hand, and he was not an
inconvenience to me.
McCrery pleaded guilty in
November to kneeling atop
her son as he laid face-down
on their motel room floor. She
told investigators she covered
his mouth with her hand as he
struggled to survive.
On Friday, she said it has taken
a while for her grief to fully unfold,
but now it is excruciating.
The discovery of Camdens
body last May set off a nation-
wide effort to identify him.
Meanwhile, McCrery called
his elementary school in Texas
daily to report him absent with
appendicitis.
McCrery was arrested at a
Massachusetts truck stop four
days after Camdens body was
discovered. A motorist who
happened by the remote area
where Camdens body was
found was able to describe
a pickup truck she had seen
with its doors open and a Navy
insignia on its window.
When she was questioned
at the truck stop, McCrery
identified herself and told
police she had killed her son
at a Hampton motel and left
his body under a green blanket
by the side of the road.
McCrerys family members
including a son on leave
from the Navy attended the
sentencing.
Texas mom sentenced to 45 years for killing son, 6
Thierjung
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ban doing business with
Myanmar, block financial
transfers, especially by mili-
tary-backed leaders and their
cronies, and also deny visas to
the same VIPs.
I think we are close to the
removal of Western sanctions,
said Monique Skidmore,
a Myanmar expert at the
University of Canberra, adding
that the U.S. and others might
first wait to see Aung San Suu
Kyi take a seat in parliament.
Theres a sense that theres
still more to go before the sanc-
tions will be removed.
Thein Seins government,
Suu Kyi and the West with
Washington its key representa-
tive are involved in a com-
plicated three-way give and
take. Thein Sein seeks to nor-
malize relations with the West,
which generally defers to Suu
Kyi in judging the govern-
ments goodwill and progress
toward democracy.
Suu Kyis party, mar-
ginalized for more than two
decades of military rule, seeks
a more active role in politics
if the government will allow
a more level playing field.
The re-entry of her National
League for Democracy party
into mainstream politics is the
kind of endorsement the gov-
ernment needs to win Western
approbation. What needs to be
determined is the price each
side is willing to pay.
Until this week, even some
of Suu Kyis supporters feared
she had sold herself short. The
countrys most prominent polit-
ical prisoners had remained
behind bars with hardly a sour
note struck by Suu Kyi in pub-
lic. Cease-fire talks had been
held between the government
and various ethnic minority
guerrillas groups, which have
been fighting for autonomy
for decades, but actual com-
bat between the army and the
Kachin minority in the north
dominated relations.
Then on Thursday the gov-
ernment announced a cease-fire
deal with the main ethnic Karen
group the most durable rebel
movement and the prisoner
release followed directly on that.
Whether by chance or
design, the latest moves come
just ahead of visits by some
U.S. senators influential in for-
eign affairs, including Mitch
McConnell and John McCain,
whose political muscle can seal
a deal or wreck it.
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STATE/LOCAL
From the Vantage Point
Photo submitted
Emergency Medical Technician Bob Baker answers questions in the back of an ambu-
lance from 2009 Step Into Your Future participants.
Imagine a non-traditional career
Sometimes people choose
a career because it fits the tra-
ditional image of boys grow-
ing up to be fire fighters or
engineers, while girls become
teachers or nurses. But that
no longer is the case. There
are no limits when it comes
to choosing a career.
Careers which have tra-
ditionally been dominated
by females healthcare,
education and social work
are fast becoming occu-
pational choices for many
males. Health care is one of
the most in-demand career
areas in the nation. Males
are finding career opportuni-
ties in the health care field,
including nursing, practical
nursing, medical assisting,
medical billing and coding,
paramedic, emergency medi-
cal technician, phlebotomy
and so many more.
Step Into Your Health
Technology Future will be
offered at Vantage Career
Center from 9 a.m. to noon on
Jan. 28. This is an opportunity
for seventh- and eighth-grade
guys to learn about exciting
careers in health technology.
The event is free. A light
breakfast, lunch and a T-shirt
are provided.
To register, visit vantage-
careercneter.com and click
on the link for the Step Into
Your Health Technology
Future form; send an email
to klinger.a@vantagecareer-
center.com; or call 1-800-
686-3944 ext. 138. Space is
limited to the first 40 students
who register by Jan. 23.
Visitors can get a glimpse
of the renovation and expan-
sion project at Vantage dur-
ing the annual open house
from 5-7:30 p.m. Feb. 6. Get
an update on the construction
project, meet the teachers, see
the newly renovated labs and
take a tour of the completed
areas.
College representa-
tives from UNOH, Wright
State, Owens, Rhodes and
Northwest State will be avail-
able to answer questions and
Vantage Adult Education
staff will be available to talk
about upcoming classes and
online education.
A pulled-pork sandwich
dinner will be available to
purchase for $5 (proceeds to
Citizens for Vantage) from
4:30-7 p.m. Drive-thru and
carry-out available.
Brandt making bid for
commissioner spot
Information submitted
VAN WERT Kim Brandt, the Van Wert
County 9-1-1 Coordinator since 2000, has
filed a Republican nominating petition for the
2012 election to serve as a Van Wert County
Commissioner for the January 2, 2013, term.
Brandt would bring her leadership expe-
rience, strong work ethic, ability to work
well with others, and fiscally
conservative approach to the
Commissioners office. She
believes in Van Wert County
as a great place to live,
work, raise a family, start a
business, and retire. Brandt
believes that the front door to
Van Wert County is not only
the Lincoln Highway, but the
information superhighway
also known as the Internet.
Improvement in the informa-
tion and impression presented
to the world through a united
digital front would help to
bring jobs, innovation, and
new residents to Van Wert
County.
Brandt is a 31-year resident of Willshire
and is the daughter of Ron Medaugh (Bee
Gee Realty) and Carolyn Medaugh of Van
Wert and Janice Medaugh (retiree of General
Electric in Fort Wayne) of Decatur, Ind. She
is a 1979 graduate of Bellmont High School
and has an Associates Degree in Business
and Merchandising from Patricia Stevens
College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Brandt
resides at 1098 State Route 81 with her hus-
band, Cary (Moser Motors, Berne IN). Kim
and Cary have been happily married for 31
years and have two children. Her son, William
Brandt, Ph.D., is a cancer research scientist
at Johns Hopkins University, and his wife,
Nicole Brandt, Ph.D., is a licensed psycholo-
gist and assistant professor at University of
Maryland. They reside in Baltimore, Md.
Brandts daughter, Jenelle Painter RDCS, is
a cardiac sonographer at Parkview Hospital
and her husband, Jordan Painter, is a union
carpenter out of the local 232. They reside in
Decatur and have two young sons, Dylan Lee
and Brandt Lewis Painter.
On a personal level, Brandt is dedicated
to service, warm-hearted, and accessible, all
of which have helped her to be successful
in working with various boards and com-
munity committees throughout her career.
She has served on the Parkway School Board
for ten years, including terms as the Vice
President and President. She is a member and
former President of the Ohio chapter of the
National Emergency Number Association,
member of the Association of Public-Safety
Communications Officials, Chairman of Van
Wert County Crime Stoppers Board, member
of the Vantage School Board, and is a former
member of the Main Street Van Wert Board
of Directors.
At the community level, Brandt attends
Praise Point Church in Willshire and is a mem-
ber of the Van Wert Rotary Club, Van Wert
Optimist Club, Fraternal Order
of Police, Van Wert County
Firefighters Association, and
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
5803. Brandts 9-1-1 coordi-
nation as well as community
involvement has allowed her
to establish working relation-
ships with city, county and vil-
lage officials, as well as state
and federal legislative repre-
sentatives. As a member of
the Parkway School Board,
Brandt was part of the $32 mil-
lion building project that came
in $1 million under budget.
Parkway is a fiscally sound
school district with an excellent
rating based on state test results.
Through her school board experience, she
gained insight into hiring effective principals,
treasurers, and superintendents, as well as
negotiating with unions.
As Van Wert County 9-1-1 Coordinator,
Brandt is responsible for daily operations,
such as creating and managing the budget,
purchasing and maintaining 9-1-1 equipment,
coordinating training, addressing any 9-1-1
issues, and coordinating operations with tele-
phone companies and emergency respond-
ers. Brandt was proactive in implementing
equipment and technology that allows 9-1-1
to locate people when calling from their cell
phone. When local funds were unavailable,
Brandt sought and secured grant funding for
the equipment updates from the state. In addi-
tion, she is very active in securing continued
funding for the 9-1-1 centers through state
legislation.
Bringing jobs to the mega site, as well as
maintaining the businesses that currently pro-
vide jobs to county residents, is a high priority
for Brandt. To accomplish this prosperity, she
would nationally and internationally market
Van Wert County by using the Internet and
social networking to improve the Countys
digital presence. Brandts experience, rela-
tionships, attitude, and motivation will help to
enhance Van Wert County. For these reasons,
Kim Brandt is your best choice for Van Wert
County commissioner. Find Brandt online at
www.KimBrandtForCommissioner.com and
on Facebook at Brandt Commissioner 2013.
Brandt
By ANDREW WELSH-
HUGGINS
AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS Relatives
of murder victims should be
allowed to tell juries weigh-
ing death sentences how the
crimes affected them and
split-jury decisions would no
longer automatically rule out
death sentences under pro-
posals submitted to a state
death penalty task force by a
veteran prosecutor.
Ohio juries and judges
also should be allowed to
consider a multitude of fac-
tors about a homicide carry-
ing the possibility of a death
sentence, not just specific
elements laid out in state law,
Hamilton County prosecutor
Joe Deters said.
The victims family many
times dont understand why
they cant explain the impact
this has had to their fam-
ily, Deters said Thursday,
discussing a letter he sent to
fellow members of the task
force earlier this week.
Ohio Supreme Court
Chief Justice Maureen
OConnor convened the task
force while making it clear
it wont debate whether the
state should have capital pun-
ishment.
Ohio law now requires
juries to weigh specific aggra-
vating factors whether the
victim was a child or a police
officer or was killed during a
robbery against factors in
the offenders favor, such as
a poor childhood or mental
illness.
Deters wants more fac-
tors to be considered, such as
statements from family mem-
bers, a defendants criminal
record and any evidence of
posing a future danger. He
also says a jury shouldnt
have to vote unanimously for
a death sentence to prevent
rogue jurors from thwart-
ing the majoritys wishes.
The U.S. Supreme Court
has ruled victim impact state-
ments constitutional, and
they are used in federal death
penalty cases.
Any changes to Ohios
law, such as family state-
ments, should be based on
fact and whether it will make
the law more fair, said public
defender Tim Young, also a
member of the task force.
Does it cross that line
into enflaming the passions
and prejudice? he said.
Are we trying the case for
the facts or ending up with
emotions driving our deci-
sions?
The task force includes
prosecutors who have long
supported the death penalty,
along with defense attorneys
who have fought its imposi-
tion.
OConnor, a Republican
and a former prosecutor, has
said the committees goal is
to produce a fair, impartial
and balanced analysis of the
states 30-year-old law.
Ohio prosecutor: Give victims death sentence voice
AKRON (AP) Both
sides have outlined their cases
to a jury in the racketeering
trial of a former Democratic
party leader and county offi-
cial in Cleveland.
Former Cuyahoga County
Commissioner Jimmy Dimora
was indicted on charges of
steering contracts and offering
jobs in exchange for bribes,
including a $1,000 massage in
Las Vegas.
Defense attorney Andrea
Whitaker told federal court
jurors in Akron Thursday that
Dimora did favors for people
but never took money or bribes.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
says prosecutor Antoinette
Bacon used a pie chart to
show the county power struc-
ture and said Dimora and a
political ally were willing to
sell that power.
Dimora has pleaded not
guilty to both corruption
indictments against him. He
faces a second trial on the lat-
est indictment.
Ex-county commissioner in northeast Ohio on trial
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The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
are acknowledged as inventors of the first
airplane. They were from Dayton, Ohio.
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your
power to change others. H. Jackson Brown Jr., American writer
IT WAS NEWS THEN
POLITICS
Moderately confused
One Year Ago
Sue Bendele took the helm of the Ottoville Local Schools
Board of Education as president Wednesday evening. She
was joined by Vice President Kevin Landin. Craig Byrne was
appointed education legislative liaison. Kim Wannemacher
will serve on the districts audit committee and Barb Hoersten
is the 2011 achievement liaison.
25 Years Ago 1987
Ray McKowen Council Knights of Columbus held its
first annual Police and Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner
Monday evening at the local K of C Hall. Certificates of
appreciation were presented to Delphos Police Chief Dennis
Kimmet and to Deputy A. G. Bailey of the Allen County
Sheriffs Department.
Delphos Cub Scout Pack 42 had its father-and-son cake
bake at St. Johns Annex. Winning best in taste was Dana
Steinbrenner, first; Jeff Jones, second and David Ricker, third.
In best in design, Andy Schimmoeller, first; Chad Calvelage,
second; and Adam Eickholt, third.
Five Delphos Gymnastics Academy gymnasts qualified for
the USGF Class IV state championship. Qualifiers were: 9-year
olds - Denise Weinandy, Shauna Turner, Erika Reinemeyer
and George Vernon; 11-year olds Heidi Klausing; competing
12 and over Amy Baker and Erin Warnecke.
50 Years Ago 1962
Two Delphos young ladies are among the 38 student
nurses who have received certificates to practice as registered
nurses as a result of the state board examination given in
October. Frances E. Beecher, a graduate of Good Samaritan
Hospital, Cincinnati; and Patricia W. Bridges, a graduate of
St. Vincents Hospital School of Nursing in Toledo, are full
fledged registered nurses as the result of passing the examina-
tion.
The students of Delphos Jefferson High School saw an
archery program at an assembly Friday afternoon when The
Gordons presented Bow Magic. After the entertainers gave
a brief history of archery and some simple information about
the technique of the sport, they presented a demonstration in
which, among other trick shots, they shot a balloon from an
assistants mouth.
Mrs. Robert Berry was chosen to head the Sorosis Study
Club during the coming year at a luncheon meeting held
Thursday afternoon. Other officers elected were: Alva Ditto,
first vice president; Mrs. Walter Clark, second vice president;
Mrs. Carroll Brenneman, recording secretary; Mrs. J. H.
Jenkins, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Nile Brenneman, trea-
surer; and Mrs. Robert Christy, Mrs. Arthur Moon and Mrs. C.
O. Violet, executive committee.
75 Years Ago 1937
Richard Hanley, West Fifth Street, turned in a creditable
performance Sunday afternoon when he played an accordion
selection in an amateur program broadcast over WBLY, Lima.
Tuesday noon, the accordion band of which Hanley is a mem-
ber, will entertain at a meeting of the Lima Kiwanis Club to be
held at the Argonne Hotel in Lima.
The Jefferson High School cagers divided honors Saturday
night with Cridersville. The games were played on the Jefferson
floor with a large number of rooters in attendance. The red and
white reserves won the preliminary contest by a 24-11 count.
The Jefferson varsity went down to defeat in a hard-fought
battle by a score of 22 to 15.
Mary Louise Jolley, ballet dancing teacher will hold a
registration Jan. 13 in K. of P. Hall for beginners and advanced
pupils from the age of nine years and older in all forms of
the ballet class and private. Miss Jolley was formerly with
the Pavley-Oukiainsky Ballet and instructor of dancing at
Birmingham, Ala., School of Music and Allied Arts for several
years.
WASHINGTON (AP)
Americas retailers enjoyed
a record 2011 and their first
$400 billion sales months ever.
But the final month of the year
was a dud.
Sales eked out a 0.1 per-
cent increase in December, to
a seasonally adjusted $400.6
billion.
It was the second straight
month that sales topped $400 bil-
lion. Revised government data
showed that sales in November
also surpassed that level.
Decembers increase,
though, was the weakest in
seven months. Excluding vol-
atile auto purchases, overall
sales actually fell 0.2 percent.
It was the first such drop since
May 2010.
But analysts said they still
expect consumers to help the
economy strengthen further,
especially because businesses
have stepped up hiring. More
jobs mean more people with
money to spend.
Although consumer
spending is not particularly
robust, households do contin-
ue to spend and provide mod-
erate support for the overall
economy, said Steven Wood,
chief economist at Insight
Economics.
For all of 2011, sales totaled
a record $4.7 trillion. That was
a gain of nearly 8 percent over
2010 the largest percentage
increase since 1999.
Steady sales gains have
fueled a 20 percent surge
from the low during the Great
Recession. Monthly sales are
even 6 percent above their
pre-recession high. The fig-
ures confirm evidence that the
economy was strengthening as
2011 ended.
Part of the reason for
Decembers weak showing
was lower gasoline prices.
Those prices reduced sales at
gasoline stations. Excluding
gas stations, overall retail sales
would have risen 0.3 percent
in December.
Another factor was heavy
discounting during the holiday
shopping season. Many retail-
ers said they had to offer cut
prices in December to attract
shoppers.
The sluggish retail-sales data
followed a report this week that
consumers raised their borrow-
ing in November by the most
in a decade. Many might have
charged more spending to their
credit cards because their pay
has all but stagnated. The sav-
ings rate has also declined.
Continued job growth may
be needed to sustain spending
increases.
In the meantime, Thursdays
news reminds us that the
economy is still struggling,
said Michelle Meyer, an econ-
omist at Bank of America
Merrill Lynch. This is the
recovery of fits and starts.
Separately, more people
applied for unemployment ben-
efits last week. Applications
rose 24,000 to a seasonally
adjusted 399,000. But the gain
was due largely to companies
shedding workers after the
holiday season.
Economists downplayed
the increase. It followed three
months of declines that had
reduced the number of unem-
ployment applications to their
lowest level in three years.
And businesses increased
their stockpiles in November to
meet rising consumer demand.
That gain likely boosted eco-
nomic growth in the final
months of 2011. Companies
are rebuilding stockpiles after
cutting them last summer amid
fears of another recession. It
means many anticipate higher
consumer spending.
By BEN FELLER
AP White House
Correspondent
WASHINGTON
President Barack Obama will
ask Congress today for great-
er power to shrink the fed-
eral government, and his first
idea is merging six sprawling
trade and commerce agencies
whose overlapping programs
can be baffling to businesses,
a senior administration official
told The Associated Press.
Obama will call on
Congress to give him a type
of reorganizational power
last held by a president when
Ronald Reagan was in office.
The Obama version would
be a so-called consolidation
authority allowing him to pro-
pose mergers that promise to
save money and help consum-
ers. The deal would entitle
him to an up-or-down vote
from Congress in 90 days.
It would be up to lawmak-
ers, therefore, to first grant
Obama this fast-track author-
ity and then decide whether
to approve any of his specific
ideas.
The White House said
Obama would address his pro-
posals for government reform
today. The official confirmed
the details to the AP on condi-
tion of anonymity ahead of the
presidents event.
In an election year and a
political atmosphere of tighter
spending, Obamas motiva-
tion is about improving a giant
bureaucracy but thats
hardly all of it.
To voters sick of dys-
function, Obama wants to
show some action on mak-
ing Washington work better.
Politically, his plan would
allow him to do so by putting
the onus on Congress and in
particular his Republican crit-
ics in the House and Senate,
to show why they would be
against the pursuit of a leaner
government.
Obama also has an impera-
tive to deliver. He made a
promise to come up with a
smart reorganization of the
government in his last State
of the Union speech. That was
nearly a year ago.
At the time, Obama grabbed
attention by pointing out the
absurdity of government inef-
ficiency. In what he called his
favorite example, Obama said:
The Interior Department is
in charge of salmon while
theyre in fresh water, but
the Commerce Department
handles them when theyre in
saltwater. And I hear it gets
even more complicated once
theyre smoked.
The White House said the
problem is serious for con-
sumers who turn to their gov-
ernment for help and often do
not know where to begin.
Not in decades has the
government undergone a sus-
tained reorganization of itself.
Presidents have tried from
time to time, but each part of
the bureaucracy has its own
defenders inside and outside
the government, which can
make merger ideas politically
impossible. Thats particular-
ly true because efficiency
is often another way of saying
people will lose their jobs.
Obama hopes to enhance his
chances by getting Congress
to give him the assurance of
a clean, relatively speedy vote
on any of his proposals.
There is no clear sign that
Obama would get that cooper-
ation. He spent much of 2011
in gridlock with Republicans
who control the House and
can halt votes in the Senate.
Should he prevail, Obamas
first project would be to com-
bine six major operations of
the government that focus on
business and trade.
They are: the Commerce
Departments core business
and trade functions; the Small
Business Administration;
the Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative; the
Export-Import Bank; the
Overseas Private Investment
Corporation; and the Trade
and Development Agency.
The goal would be one agency
designed to help businesses
thrive.
The official said 1,000 to
2,000 jobs would be cut, but
the administration would do
so through attrition; that is, as
people routinely leave their
jobs over time.
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON Torn
between reality and their
political dreams, leading con-
servatives are defending Mitt
Romney against attacks on
his work in the private sec-
tor even as they search for
a more palatable candidate
amid a growing sense that his
nomination may be certain.
Romney is march-
ing steadily through South
Carolina, a state still uncer-
tain about him, and picking
up a prominent conservatives
endorsement while sending a
message to his party: Its time
to stop the bickering.
Not just yet, some conser-
vative leaders say.
Honestly, it looks like
Governor Romneys nomina-
tion is inevitable, said the
Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Dallas. Evangelicals, come
November, might have to
hold their noses and vote for
the lesser of two evils. But
its not November yet.
Just over a week before
South Carolinas first-in-the-
South vote, there are signs
that conservatives are strug-
gling with their goal of find-
ing what some would call the
anti-Romney. They appear
no more organized in their
search for a credible chal-
lenger than they were before
former Sen. Rick Santorum
raised their hopes with his
second-place finish in Iowa.
More than 100 conserva-
tive leaders, many of them
evangelical in their faiths,
were set to converge this
weekend at the Texas ranch
of former state appeals court
Judge Paul Pressler to con-
sider their options, if any.
Surrogates for each campaign
were expected to make pre-
sentations and take ques-
tions.
In spite of their reluctance
to embrace Romney as the
GOP nominee, some conser-
vatives have been drawn into
defending him against charg-
es of vulture capitalism
from rivals Newt Gingrich
and Rick Perry. Both are
potential recipients of con-
servative backing in the effort
to oppose Romney.
Trying to tap into popu-
list sentiment, Gingrich and
Perry accused Romney of
being a fat-cat venture capi-
talist during his days running
the private equity firm Bain
Capital, saying he laid off
workers as he restructured
companies and filled his own
pockets.
That strategy boomer-
anged. A long list of con-
servative leaders who have
not endorsed Romney are
nonetheless sticking up for
his success former Bush
adviser Karl Rove, former
presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee, the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce, the Club for
Growth, an array of conserva-
tive talk show hosts and even
Santorum. Conservative lead-
ers say the attack amounts to
an assault on capitalism and
the free market system at the
heart of their movement.
Its a sad day in South
Carolina and across this
country if Republicans are
talking against the free mar-
ket, let me tell you that, said
South Carolina Gov. Nikki
Haley, a tea party star who
has endorsed Romney.
Its just been foolish,
said Thomas Donohue, presi-
dent of the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce, which does
not endorse presidential can-
didates. Theyre not doing
anything other than set-
ting up the ad base for their
(Democratic) opponents.
On that point, the anti-
Romney conservatives agree.
Ive not talked to many
conservatives that support
these attacks on Romney,
said Family Research Council
President Tony Perkins.
Evangelicals, he pointed out,
support a free market with
moral restraints and generally
wouldnt object to Romneys
success at Bain. I dont think
they see that as the real issue.
It sounds more like some-
thing the Democrats might
bring up.
Obama seeks power
to merge agencies
Conservatives torn over Romney
By MARTIN
CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON Ben
Bernanke presided over
his first meeting as Federal
Reserve chairman in March
2006 believing the nations
economy could pull off a soft
landing from falling home
prices. Three months later,
Bernanke had begun to grasp
that he and others underesti-
mated the risk housing posed
to the economy.
Newly released transcripts
of Fed meetings during
Bernankes first year as chair-
man show that, among Fed
officials, he often expressed
the most concern about hous-
ing. But no official, according
to the transcripts, recognized
the extent of the damage a
housing bubble would cause.
A year later, the housing mar-
kets collapse helped send the
nation into its worst recession
since the Great Depression.
In fact, Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner, then a Fed
official, expressed confidence
in September 2006 that col-
lateral damage from hous-
ing could be avoided. The
transcripts released Thursday
covered the eight meetings of
the central banks chief poli-
cy-making body, the Federal
Open Market Committee,
during 2006. That included
the last meeting of Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan in January of that
year and Bernankes first
meeting in March after he
had succeeded Greenspan as
chairman.
The Fed releases minutes
of the FOMC discussions three
weeks after the meetings but
full transcripts do not come out
until five years later.
The transcripts for 2006
show that at first Bernanke
did not express concern about
the cooling of the housing
market after a boom that had
pushed sales and home prices
to record levels.
I agree with most of the
commentary that the strong
fundamentals support a rela-
tively soft landing in hous-
ing, Bernanke told his fol-
low FOMC members at his
first meeting as chairman in
March.
Also in March, Bernanke
said, I think we are unlikely to
see growth being derailed by the
housing market, but I do want us
to be prepared for some quarter-
to-quarter fluctuations,
At his second meeting as
chairman in May, Bernanke
still seemed fairly confident.
So far we are seeing, at
worst, an orderly decline in
the housing market; but there
is still, I think, a lot to be seen
as to whether the housing
market will decline slowly or
more quickly.
However, by the June meet-
ing, Bernanke was expressing
more caution saying that the
slowdown in housing was an
asset price correction that
bore watching.
Like any other asset-price
correction, its very hard to
forecast, and consequently
its an important risk and one
that should lead us to be cau-
tious in our policy decisions,
Bernanke said.
By the September meeting,
Bernanke sounded even more
concerned about the impact
on the broader economy from
the slowdown in housing.
I dont have quite as much
confidence as some people
around the table that there
will be no spillover effect,
Bernanke said.
By contrast, Geithner,
who was then president of
the Feds New York regional
bank, expressed more confi-
dence that the economy could
weather the troubles in hous-
ing, saying the issue would be
the impact on consumer and
business spending.
Documents show how Fed missed housing bust
Retail sales
weaken in Dec.
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SENIOR LUNCHEON CAFE
CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
JAN. 14
April Grothouse
Tricia Wrasman
Roger Ulm
Eric Armstrong
Kenneth Stocklin
Ethan Benavidez
Marilyn Hernandez
Julian Grant
WEEK OF JAN. 16-20
MONDAY: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, peas and
onions, bread, margarine, peaches, coffee and 2% milk.
TUESDAY: Chicken patty on bun, pasta salad, baked
beans, crushed pineapple, coffee and 2% milk.
WEDNESDAY: Baked ham, sweet potatoes, cabbage,
bread, margarine, fruit, coffee and 2% milk.
THURSDAY: Chicken tenders, dipping sauce, potato
wedge, green beans, fruit cup, coffee and 2% milk.
FRIDAY: Baked fish with tartar sauce, redskin potatoes,
Cole slaw, bread, margarine, Mandarin oranges, coffee and
2% milk.
TODAY
1-4 p.m. Interfaith Thrift
Store is open for shopping.
SATURDAY
8:30-11:30 a.m. St.
Johns High School recycle,
600 block of East Second
Street.
9 a.m. - noon Interfaith
Thrift Store is open for shop-
ping.
St. Vincent DePaul Society,
located at the east edge of the
St. Johns High School park-
ing lot, is open.
Cloverdale recycle at vil-
lage park.
10 a.m to 2 p.m. Delphos
Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. Testing of
warning sirens by Delphos
Fire and Rescue
1-3 p.m. Delphos Canal
Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
7 p.m. Bingo at St.
Johns Little Theatre.
SUNDAY
8-11:30 a.m. Knights
of Columbus benefit for St.
Johns School at the hall,
Elida Ave.
1-3 p.m. The Delphos
Canal Commission Museum,
241 N. Main St., is open.
MONDAY
11:30 a.m. The Green
Thumb Garden Club will meet
at the Delphos Public Library
for luncheon and program.
Mealsite at Delphos Senior
Citizen Center, 301 Suthoff
Street.
7 p.m. Washington
Township Trustees meet at the
township house. Delphos City
Council meets at the Delphos
Municipal Building, 608 N.
Canal St.
7:30 p.m. Jefferson
Athletic Boosters meet at the
Eagles Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth
St.
Spencerville village council
meets at the mayors office.
Delphos Eagles Auxiliary
meets at the Eagles Lodge,
1600 E. Fifth St.
TUESDAY
11:30 a.m. Mealsite
at Delphos Senior Citizen
Center, 301 Suthoff Street.
1-3 p.m. Delphos Area
Visiting Nurses offer free
blood pressure checks at
Delphos Discount Drugs.
6 p.m. Weight Watchers
meets at Trinity United
Methodist Church, 211 E.
Third St.
7 p.m. Delphos Area
Art Guild (DAAG) meets in
the second floor gallery of the
Delphos Postal Museum of
History at 339 N. Main St.
Marion Township Trustees
meet at the township house.
7:30 p.m. Elida School
Board meets at the high school
office.
Alcoholics Anonymous,
First Presbyterian Church,
310 W. Second St.
Fort Jennings Village
Council meets at Fort Jennings
Library.
WEDNESDAY
9 a.m. - noon Putnam
County Museum is open, 202
E. Main St. Kalida.
11:30 a.m. Mealsite
11:45 a.m. Rotary Club
meets at the Eagles Lodge,
1600 E. Fifth St.
6 p.m. Shepherds of
Christ Associates meet in the
St. Johns Chapel.
6:30 p.m. Delphos
Kiwanis Club, Eagles Lodge,
1600 E. Fifth St.
7 p.m. Bingo at St.
Johns Little Theatre.
7:30 p.m. Hope Lodge
214 Free and Accepted
Masons, Masonic Temple,
North Main Street.
Sons of the American
Legion meet at the Delphos
Legion hall.
The Ottoville Board of
Education meets in the ele-
mentary building.
THURSDAY
9-11 a.m. The Delphos
Canal Commission Museum,
241 N. Main St., is open.
11:30 a.m. Mealsite
At the movies . . .
Van Wert Cinemas
10709 Lincoln Hwy. Van Wert
Joyful Noise (PG-13) Fri.: 5:00/7:30; Sat.:
2:00/4:30/7:00; Sun.: 2:00/4:30/7:00; Mon.-
Thurs.: 5:00/7:30
The Devil Inside (R) Fri.: 5:00/7:00/9:00;
Sat.: Sat.: 2:00/4:00/6:00/8:00; Sun.:
2:00/4:00/6:00/8:00; Mon.-Thurs.: 5:00/7:00
We Bought a Zoo (PG) Fri.: 5:00/7:30; Sat.-
Sun.: 2:00/4:30/7:00; Mon.-Thurs: 5:00/7:30
Alvin and Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
(G) Fri.: 5:00/7:00/9:00; Sat.-Sun.:
2:00/4:00/6:00/8:00; Mon.-Thurs.: 5:00/7:00
War Horse (PG-13) Fri.: 5:00/8:00; Sat.:
2:00/5:00/8:00; Sun.: 2:00/4:45/7:30; Mon.-
Thurs.: 5:00/7:45
American Mall Stadium 12
2830 W. Elm St., Lima
Saturday and Sunday
Beauty and the Beast 3D (G)
2:05/4:25/7:00/9:25
Contraband (R) 1:15/4:05/7:10/9:55
Joyful Noi se (PG-13)
1:50/4:30/7:30/10:10
The Devil Inside (R) 2:00/4:15/7:20/9:35
The Darkest Hour 3D (PG-13)
2:10/4:50/7:35/10:15
War Horse (PG-13) 1:25/4:40/7:50
We Bought a Zoo (PG)
1:35/4:20/7:05/10:00
The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG) 1:40
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R)
1:10/4:35/7:55
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (PG-
13) 1:00/3:50/6:50/9:50
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
(G) 1:55/4:10/6:45/9:20
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
(PG-13) 1:05/3:55/6:55/9:45
New Years Eve (PG-13) 4:45/7:25/10:05
Eastgate Dollar Movies
2100 Harding Hwy. Lima
Saturday and Sunday
Happy Feet Two (PG) 1:00/3:00/5:00/7:00/
9:10
Jack and Jill (PG) 1:15/3:15/5:15/7:15/
9:15
Puss in Boots (PG) 1:10/3:10/5:10/7:10/
9:10
Courageous (PG-13) 3:30/9:15
Moneyball (PG-13) 1:00/6:45

Shannon Theater
119 S. Main St., Bluffton
We Bought a
Zoo (PG) Shows
every evening at
7 p.m. and 9:30
p.m. with daily
matinees at 1:30
p.m. and 4 p.m.
CAMPUS NOTES
OSU names grads, deans list
The Ohio State University
has issued the list of seniors
and graduate students who
received degrees at the autumn
quarter commencement exer-
cises on Dec. 11 in the Jerome
Schottenstein Center.
Elida
Samantha Krieg, bach-
elor of science in education,
summa cum laude
Matthew Stump, bachelor
of science in agriculture
Cloverdale
Christopher Kahle, bach-
elor of science in mechani-
cal engineering, magna cum
laude
Fort Jennings
Lori Schleeter, master of arts
Marla Wannemacher, mas-
ter of occupational therapy
Kalida
Karri Miller, bachelor of arts
OSU has also issued its
honor roll for the autumn
quarter, listing the names of
graduating and undergraduate
students who achieved high
academic averages for their
quarters work. Those honored
received a grade point average
of at least 3.5 (A = 4.0, B = 3.0,
etc.) and were enrolled for at
least 12 credit hours.
Cloverdale
Janelle Marie Becker
Shane W. Hill
Christopher David Kahle
Kelli Michelle Prowant
Julie Elizabeth Schmersal
Miranda Justine Schulte
Andrew Edward Warnecke
Delphos
Mitchell Scott Antalis
Matthew S. Antalis
Nicole Marie Baldauf
Kayla Marie Giller
Andrew Joseph Hoehn
Rachel Nadine Miller
Jessica Lyn Spencer
Bailey Maneta Calvelage
Nathan John Hoffman
Trina Jeanette Pohlman
Elida
Katie L. Ream
Colt Anthony Schumaker
Kelsey Nicole Bagley
Katherine Lyn Siefker
Bethany Claire Billings
Chelsea Nicole Slusher
Katelynn Michelle Bimer
Chase Michael Steiner
Andrew M. Bok
Kelsey Christlieb
Jordane LeeAnn Duffy
Lorraine Frances English
Desiray J. Goedde
Adam Quenton Goes
Kyle Joseph Harmon
William Hoover
Samantha Jo Krieg
Jacob Karl Luhn
Morgan Kay Montgomery
Heather Elizabeth Piper
Renita Alisa Ramdeo
Kristin Renee Werff
Fort Jennings
Andrew Clair Huntsman
Kayla Ann Laudick
Edward Albert Luersman
Gina Rae Verhoff
Kylee Marie Warnecke
Abby Lynn Rampe
Jessica Marie Ladd
Zachary R. Weber
Ryan Anthony Kraner
Kalida
Trisha Marie Horstman
Stephanie Ann Kortokrax
Brandon Lee Kortokrax
Craig Charles Miller
Karri Ann Miller
Kristopher C. Osterhage
Margaret Von der Embse
Ottoville
Alex Robert Altenburger
Brooke M. Kaufman
Krystal Rene Markward
Derek William Miller
Amanda Marie Schroeder
Spencerville
John David Bickel
Kaley Alexandra Core
Vaughnsville
Brock Denver Graham
Stephanie A. Turner
Venedocia
Kristyn Deellyn Jones
Alexandria A. Rostorfer
Tyler Ashly Reed
Eric Alan Renner
Wagner on ONU
deans list
Duane C. Wagner, son of
Paul and Susan Wagner of
Delphos, has been named to
the Ohio Northern University
deans list for the fall semester
2011-12.
He is a pharmacy - sixth-
year majoring in pharmacy.
Warnecke to celebrate 90th birthday
Dorothy Warnecke will
celebrate her 90th birthday
on Wednesday.
She married Paul Warnecke
on March 2, 1946 and she
has two sons, Ted (Mary Jo)
Warnecke and Steve (Amy)
Warnecke of Delphos; and
a daughter, Alice (Dave)
Wieging of Fort Jennings.
She also has eight grandchil-
dren and eight great-grand-
children.
Bingo, playing cards and
visiting with family and
friends makes her day.
Send cards to:
Dorothy Warnecke
10355 Lincoln Highway
Delphos OH 45833
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SPORTS
Answer to Puzzle
In a low-scoring girls hardwood affair Thursday at Jefferson High School, senior
Kennedy Boggs gets a step on an LCC defender on her way to a game-high 16 markers.
The Lady Wildcats seized a 5-point NWC victory.
Tom Morris photo
By MALLORY KEMPER
The Delphos Herald
mkemper2011@hotmail.com
DELPHOS Both
Jefferson and Lima Central
Catholic were playing very
good defense as the two
Northwest Conference girls
basketball rivals duked it
out on the basketball court
at Jefferson High School
Thursday night.
LCC committed 23 turn-
overs and Jefferson had 22
turnovers as part of that good
defense.
The Wildcats rode 16
markers from senior Kennedy
Boggs and a 12-0 edge beyond
the arc to a 37-32 victory.
The Wildcats improved to
3-1 in the NWC and 7-5 over-
all. Lima Central Catholic fell
to 2-2 in the league and 7-5
on the season.
Defensively, we played
pretty hard and caused some
turnovers and got some tran-
sition baskets but we need to
do a lot better on not forcing
so many of our own turn-
overs, Jefferson coach David
Hoffman said.
The Jeffcats took a quick
4-0 lead with two buckets
from senior Megan Gilden.
Boggs and her 3-point shoot-
ing ability (3 for the game)
gave Jefferson a 9-5 lead at
the 1:35 mark of the opening
quarter. The Jeffcats forced
LCC to 11 first-quarter turn-
overs and committed nine
themselves but took a slim
10-7 edge after eight minutes
of action.
Boggs hit another 3-point-
er to give Jefferson their larg-
est lead of the night, 19-10,
halfway through the sec-
ond quarter. A 3-point play
from Meredith Shepherd
and two free throws from
Shayna Niese brought the
Thunderbirds within five at
the break, 21-16.
The first-half statistics
were not sharp for either team.
Jefferson committed 12 turn-
overs while LCC had 17 and
shot just 10-of-18 at the char-
ity stripe. The Thunderbirds
did take advantage of the
boards 21-12.
Jefferson traps you and
we have got to be able to
make that extra pass for a
wide-open shot but we are not
capable of that right now,
LCC coach Bill Taflinger
said. We just had too many
turnovers and couldnt make
that one extra pass to get
someone open.
LCC came out strong the
third quarter, going on a 7-0
run with buckets from Lexi
Kingsbery and Stacia Allen.
They took their first lead
of the night, 23-21, with
a steal and layup from
Allen at the 5:35 mark. Back-
to-back triples from senior
Courtney Lewis and Boggs
gave the Wildcats a 32-29
lead going into the final peri-
od of play.
Jefferson was held to
just five points in the fourth
quarter but limited LCC to
three points. With a Lewis
bucket, the Wildcats were
up 34-30. Allen brought the
Thunderbirds within two with
1:35 on the clock but a couple
of free throws from Lewis
and LCC not being able to
capitalize gave the Jeffcats
the conference victory.
We finally did what we
needed to do. We have been
ahead too many games and let
them get away but tonight we
finished, Hoffman added.
We had a little bit more con-
tribution from more players in
the last few games and it has
helped us.
Boggs not only led all
scorers with those 16 points
but added five steals and five
rebounds. Lewis had nine
points and four steals. Gilden
added six points and seven
rebounds.
I thought we played much
better the second half but
unfortunately, we were too
shook up the first half and we
just didnt play a very good
game, Taflinger added.
Kingsbery had a team-high
14 points, 13 rebounds and
four steals for LCC. Shepherd
had seven points. Allen fin-
ished with six points and
three steals.
LCC won the junior var-
sity contest 34-29.
Jefferson vi si t s
Lincolnview Thursday.
LCC (32)
Madison George 1-0-0-2, Lexi
Kingsberry 4-0-6-14, Shayna Niese
0-0-2-2, Tylyn Taylor 0-0-1-1, Stacia
Allen 3-0-0-6, Meredith Shepherd 2-0-
3-7. Totals 10-0-12/22-32.
JEFFERSON (37)
Courtney Lewis 1-1-4-9, Katie
Goergens 0-0-1-1, Kennedy Boggs
2-3-3-16, Rileigh Stockwell 0-0-3-
3, Megan Gilden 3-0-0-6, Elizabeth
Schosker 1-0-0-2. Totals 7-4-11/18-
37.
Score by Quarters:
Lima CC 7 9 13 3 - 32
Jefferson 10 11 11 5 - 37
Three-point goals: Lima Central
Catholic, none; Jefferson, Boggs 3,
Lewis.
JV score: 34-29 (Lima Central
Catholic).
Jefferson picks up NWC win over LCC
By BOB WEBER
The Delphos Herald
btzweber@bright.net

CONTINENTAL With
the first high school girls bas-
ketball poll being released this
Tuesday showing the Ottoville
Lady Green at the
top of the Division
IV poll, the bulls-
eye on the backs of
the Lady Green was
going to get bigger
for opposing teams.
On Thursday
night in Continental,
the Lady Pirates took
on the Lady Green in
their annual Putnam
County League con-
test.
The Ottoville Lady Green
overcame a lackluster start to
come away with a convincing
63-28 victory.
The fact that Ottoville was
No. 1 didnt seem to faze the
hosts. Continental took the
first basket of the game but
the quarter was a reflection
of the upcoming bad weather
that was heading into the area
overnight as both teams were
very cold from the field. The
Lady Green struggled from
the start of the game with open
shots being created from their
offense (3-11 from 2-point
range and 0-5 from beyond
the arc). Similar to the Lady
Green, the Lady Pirates were
also very cold from the field
(3-12 from inside the arc and
1-2 from beyond). The quarter
ended with Ottoville outscor-
ing Continental 11-9.
The Pirates held their own
in the second period as well,
holding their guests scoreless
for the first four minutes of
the period. The poor shooting
continued for the Lady Green
in the quarter and the Lady
Pirates continued to keep the
score close throughout the
stanza, especially behind the
play of 5-4 junior guard Taylor
Williamson (game-high 18
points). Rachel Beining (10
points) scored the first basket
of the quarter for the Green
but Williamson at one point
scored 12 consecutive points
for the hosts. Nonetheless, the
Laurens (Koch and Kramer)
provided the offense for the
Lady Green to end the half,
hitting back-to-back 3-point-
ers, sending Ottoville to the
break with a 21-16 advan-
tage.
The Lady Green finished
the half 6-27 (22%) from the
field and the Lady Pirates
7-23 (30%).
Ottoville coach Dave
Kleman and his Lady Green
came out for the second half
with a very determined mind-
set to increase their defensive
intensity to hopefully jump-
start things on the offensive
end. His team did not disap-
point; before one minute came
off the clock in the quarter, the
Lady Green hit three 3-point-
ers (Koch, Rachel Turnwald,
Kramer) to extend the lead to
12, 30-18. With the outside
shooting lighting the
scoreboard up, it also
opened the inside for
scoring opportunities
from Beining, Abby
Siefker and Megan
Bendele. The Lady
Green continued to
increase its pressure
on the Lady Pirates
throughout the half,
causing numerous
turnovers (15 for
the game) that led to quick
baskets for the Lady Green.
The Lady Pirates continued
to struggle from the field and
were outscored in the third
quarter 20-6 and then 22-6
in the final stanza using
a 17-1 spurt in the middle to
really put the game away
for a 63-28 Lady Green win.
The Lady Green (12-0,
5-0 PCL), as has been the
case all year, was led by very
balance scoring. Junior guard
Turnwald and junior center
Siefker led the team with
10 points apiece, followed
by senior forward Kramers
nine (3 3-pointers) and fellow
seniors Bendele and Koch
with eight points apiece. The
Lady Green finished 13-39
(33%) from the field, 8-20
(40%) from 3-point range and
13-18 (72%) from the foul
line.
The Lady Pirates are now
4-7 (1-2 PCL) for the year.
They finished the contest 9-43
(21%) from the field, 3-10
(30%) from beyond the arc
and 1-5 (20%) from the foul
stripe.
The JV contest went to
the Lady Green 60-29 behind
Lexie Wannemachers 13
points and Taylor Mangas
chipping in 11 points.
The Lady Green will
entertain Pandora-Gilboa next
Tuesday at Ottoville. The
Lady Pirates will be on the
road facing Fort Jennings next
Thursday.
OTTOVILLE (63)
Rachel Turnwald 2-1-3-10, Megan
Bendele 2-0-4-8, Lauren Koch 1-2-
0-8, Nicole Vorst 1-1-0-5, Taylor
Mangas 0-0-0-0, Tonya Kaufman 0-1-
0-3, Lauren Kramer 0-3-0-9, Rachel
Beining 2-0-2-6, Krista Schimmoeller
0-0-0-0, Abby Siefker 3-0-4-10, Monica
Sarka 0-0-0-0, Kendra Eickholt 2-0-0-
4. Totals 13-8-13/18-63.
CONTINENTAL (28)
Taylor Williamson 6-2-0-18,
Vanessa Koppenhofer 0-1-0-3, Sloane
Zachrich 0-0-0-0, Paige Ordway 2-0-
0-4, Sara Deken 1-0-0-2, Leva Weller
0-0-1-1. Totals 9-3-1/5-28.
Score by Quarters:
Ottoville 11 10 20 22 - 63
Continental 9 7 6 6 - 28
Three-point goals: Ottoville 8
(Kramer 3, Koch 2, Turnwald, Vorst,
Kaufman), Continental 3 (Williamson
2, Koppenhofer).
Lady Green struggles
early but garners 12th win
Kramer
By Brian Bassett
Times Bulletin Sports Editor
sports@timesbulletin.com
CONVOY - The
Lincolnview Lady Lancers
made the trip west to Convoy
Thursday night to
take on the Crestview
Lady Knights in their
annual cross-county
Northwest Conference
rivalry.
Crestview led by
two after a sloppy
first half and used 18
second-half points
by freshman forward
Lindsey Motycka to
roll to a 45-30 win.
Junior guard Claire Dye
opened the game with a bas-
ket for the Lady Lancers
and after a trey by freshman
guard Mackenzie Riggenbach
for Crestview, a layup by
senior center Carley Springer
gave Lincolnview a 4-3
lead. Freshman guard Julia
Thatcher extended the Lady
Lancer lead to 6-4 but senior
forward Catelyn Mefferd tied
the game on a 3-pointer.
A Mefferd jump shot then
gave Crestview an 8-6 lead
and five points by junior
guard Mariah Henry gave
the Knights a 13-6 advantage
after a quarter of play.
Senior forward Danica
Hicks scored to open the
second quarter for the Lady
Knights before junior guard
Katie Dye finally answered
for the Lady Lancers. A pair
of Springer baskets brought
Lincolnview within four,
15-11, with 4:28 to play in
the half. Baskets by Claire
and Katie Dye tied
the game at 15 late
in the frame.
Henry hit a float-
er in the final sec-
onds of the half as
Crestview led 17-15
at the half.
Motycka opened
the second half with
a pair of baskets for
the Lady Knights
- her first points
of the game. Julia Thatcher
then converted a layup for
Lincolnview but Crestview
countered with a 3-pointer by
Riggenbach.
Katie Dye traded baskets
with MacKenzie Richard
before another Katie Dye bas-
ket made the score 26-21, Lady
Knights. After a Riggenbach
free throw, Dye cut the
Lincolnview deficit to four,
27-23, late in the third quarter.
Motycka added two more bas-
kets before the quarter ended
with Crestview up 31-24.
Katie Dye and Motycka
traded baskets to open the
final frame and a Springer
layup brought the Lady
Lancers within five, 33-28.
A Riggenbach jump shot, fol-
lowed by eight consecutive
points from Motycka, how-
ever, put the Lady Knights
up 45-28 late in the game.
Springer got a basket for
Lincolnview to make the final
45-30, Crestview.
Crestview coach Greg
Rickard said cutting down on
turnovers in the second half
helped the Lady Knights put
the run together: That was
the big key for us, not giving
them extra possessions. In the
first half, they scored a couple
of extra baskets off of turn-
overs - easy baskets, layups
and stuff.
I was kind of disappointed
with our half-court defense.
Our full-court defense was
very effective in forcing turn-
overs - the best its looked all
season, Lincolnview coach
Dan Williamson said. We
were able to get the rotations
we wanted but we just let
down once they broke our
traps. They did a very good
job of taking care of the ball
in the half-court - very few
turnovers. Motycka had a
very nice game; we knew she
was a very good player. She
did an excellent job of not
just scoring but rebounding
[as well].
Motycka led the Lady
Knights with 18 points
and added 11 rebounds.
Riggenbach added nine
and Henry had seven for
Crestview. The win moves
their record to 8-2 on the sea-
son, 2-1 in the NWC.
I thought defensively we
played pretty well for the
most part for four quar-
ters. Especially giving up 12
turnovers in the first half but
they still only had 15 points,
Rickard added. I thought
defensively we did what we
needed to do: keep them away
from the basket, keep away
the penetration, make them
shoot from the perimeter and
limit them to one shot.
Katie Dye led Lincolnview
with 12 points and Springer
added nine. With the loss, the
Lady Lancers fall to 4-8 on
the season, 1-3 in NWC play.
The Crestview junior var-
sity also won 29-17.
Lincolnview is at Antwerp
Tuesday, while Crestview
visits Paulding Thursday.
Lincolnview (30)
K. Thatcher 1-6 0-0 2, C. Dye 2-5
0-0 4, K. Dye 6-8 0-0 12, Stemen 0-4
0-0 0, Springer 3-5 3-6 9, J. Thatcher
1-5 0-0 2, Peel 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 13-33
4-8 30.
Crestview (45)
Riggenbach 3-8 1-2 9, Richard 1-4
0-0 2, K. Hicks 0-1 0-0 0, D. Hicks 2-8
0-0 4, Mefferd 2-4 0-0 5, Motycka 8-13
2-2 18, Henry 3-8 0-0 7, Mercer 0-1
0-0 0, Clifton 0-1 0-0 0, Williamson 0-0
0-0 0. Totals 19-40 3-4-45.
Score by Quarters:
Lincolnview 6 9 8 7 - 30
Crestview 13 4 10 18 - 45
Three-point goals: Lincolnview
0-2 (Stemen 0-1, J. Thatcher 0-1),
Crestview 4-10 (Riggenbach 2-5,
Mefferd 1-1, Henry 1-1, D. Hicks 0-3).
JV score: 29-17 (Crestview).
Motycka explodes to pace Lady Knights
K. Dye
By AUSTIN CLARKSON
The Delphos Herald
austinclarkson_24@
hotmail.com
ELIDA The Van Wert
Cougars traveled to Elida
to take part in a Western
Buckeye League girls basket-
ball showdown on the Union
Bank Court of the Elida
Fieldhouse Thursday
night.
Van Wert came
out hot, hitting five
3-pointers in the first
half alone. Elida
stayed as close as they could
in the first half; however, they
trailed by 16 points going into
the locker room and it was
too much of a deficit for the
home team to overcome as
the Lady Cougars ran off with
a 62-36 rout.
The Bulldogs only tal-
lied two turnovers
in the first half of
action (12 for the
night), taking care
of the basketball a
lot better than they
did on Tuesday night against
Fort Jennings. However, their
offense looked just a little
timid in the first half as they
stood around the perimeter
with the ball and were unable
to work the ball inside to
develop some post presence
against the Cougar defense.
On the other end, Van
Wert was firing on all cyl-
inders as Erin Morrow hit
three 3-pointers in the first
half to lead the team with 11
points at intermission as the
Lady Cougars led 15-10 after
one period and 31-15 after 16
minutes.
Elida head coach Deb
Stetler was a little disappoint-
ed after the game about how
her offense played despite
taking care of the basketball
as well as they did: I cant
really explain why we were
timid in the early going of
the contest and I thought we
took a lot better care of the
basketball tonight; however,
we just didnt shoot the ball
as well as we would
have liked to.
The Bulldogs
came out in the sec-
ond half playing very
aggressive defense
and caused Van Wert to turn
the ball over five times in
the third quarter alone (11
overall). That led to some
easy transition buckets at the
other end to stick with the
Bulldogs outside presence.
However, the visitors didnt
miss a beat coming out of the
locker room as they
continued their out-
side dominance, hit-
ting perimeter shots
in the second half to
keep a comfortable
lead throughout the game.
Leading the way for the
Cougars on the night was
Morrow who had 16 points,
including four 3-point-
ers, followed by teammate
Molly Gamble as she tallied
12 points to help pace their
team to the league victory.
They shot 46.9 percent from
the floor overall (58.3 percent
from 3-point range) and 69.2
percent at the line.
For the Bulldogs offen-
sively, no players got into
double digits for the night,
with their leading scorers
Van Werts perimeter shooting
outlasts Elida for victory
See VAN WERT, page 7
See ROUNDUP, page 7
Pirates net win
over Lady Bearcats
BLUFFTON Lydia
Guagenti led a trio of Bluffton
girls players in double dig-
its to pace the Lady Pirates
past Spencerville 51-34 in
Northwest Conference cage
action at Bluffton.
Guagenti netted 16, while
Sierra Amstutz added 15
and Paige Buroker 11 for the
Pirates (6-6, 3-1 NWC).
Jennifer Post dropped in
18 for the Lady Bearcats and
Cortney Miller added nine.
Post (5 steals) and Abby
Freewalt added six boards
each (20 for the team),
Mackenzie Miller added four
assists and Alyssa Mulholland
five steals. They totaled 20
turnovers and 13 fouls.
The Lady Bearcats host
Parkway Tuesday.
SPENCERVILLE (34)
Jennifer Post 6-0-6-18, Cortney Miller
3-1-0-9, Abby Freewalt 1-0-2-4, Alyssa
Mulholland 1-0-0-2, Mackenzie Miller
0-0-1-1, Kacie Mulholland 0-0-0-0,
Schylar Miller 0-0-0-0, Karri Purdy
0-0-0-0, Emilee Meyer 0-0-0-0, Katie
Merriman 0-0-0-0, Tori Hardesty 0-0-
0-0, Amanda Crider 0-0-0-0. Totals
11/33-1/8-9/16-34.
BLUFFTON (51)
Lydia Guagenti 16, Paige Buroke
11, Sierra Amstutz 15, Katie Palte 3,
Bailey Prichard 6. Totals 17-3-8-51.
Score by Quarters:
Spencerville 5 5 14 10 - 34
Bluffton 10 11 17 13 - 51
Three-point goals: Spencerville, C.
Miller; Bluffton, Guagenti 3.
-----
Bulldogs claim NWC win
COLUMBUS GROVE
Columbus Grove held
off a fourth-quarter rally by
Paulding Thursday night to
claim a 46-40 Northwest
Conference win at home.
The Bulldogs took a 33-21
lead to the fourth quarter but
saw the Panthers make a run
for the win with a 19-13 scor-
ing advantage.
Paulding had an uphill fight
in front of them Thursday
night as they were outscored
13-0 in the first quarter. The
Panthers cut three points off
their deficit in the second
quarter with an 11-8 second-
quarter scoring advantage
before the Bulldogs outscored
them 12-10 in the third quar-
ter.
Anna Ricker had a big
night for the Bulldogs (2-2,
5-5) with a game-high 27
points six rebounds and four
assists. Nikki Stechschulte
added 10 points and grabbed
seven rebounds.
Abby Pease had 13 points
for Paulding (1-3, 3-7). Kayla
Owens had nine points and
LOCAL ROUNDUP
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Answers on Page 6
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26 Campground initials
27 Diamond org.
28 Columbus port
30 Destiny
31 Donnes done
32 Killer whales
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35 Ms. Thurman
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56 Scoundrels
57 J.R.s town
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Plays like this from Thursday nights St. Johns/St. Henry girls basketball matchup
at Arnzen Gymnasium junior Jessica Recker having to drive through a pair of Lady
Redskins in Stacy Lange and Ashley Heitkamp were indicative of the tough sledding
both offenses had this night. Recker made 1-of-2 free throws on this trip and the Jays
grabbed a hard-fought 4-point MAC triumph.
Tom Morris photo
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS Every cut,
every pass, every shot was
contested.
There were few and far
between open looks at the
basket and the shooting per-
centages showed it.
Thursday nights St. Henry
at St. Johns girls basketball
encounter was a knock-down,
drag-out affair in typical
Midwest Athletic Conference
fashion.
The host Lady Blue Jays
never trailed but it was a
tightly- and hotly-contested
affair all night long, with the
Blue and Gold emerging with
a 32-28 victory.
The shooting statistics
told the story as both teams
defenses were tough as nails:
the Jays (8-3, 2-2 MAC)
shooting 10-of-33 for the
night, 0-of-8 beyond the arc,
for 30.3 percent and the Lady
Redskins (5-5, 0-4) hitting
9-of-32 fielders, 0-of-9 treys,
for 28.1 percent.
Neither team could find a
flow offensively. The defens-
es had a lot to do with that
on both ends; it was such a
hard-fought game, St. Johns
mentor Dan Grothouse noted.
St. Henry applied a ton of
pressure; they want to force
you to put the ball in spots
where they can trap and make
you hurry. We had a few too
many turnovers against that
pressure but we held our com-
posure enough.
St. Henry coach Jeff
Roessner shared that assess-
ment.
The only way we had a
chance to score which has
been a struggle for us is to
try and get them from transi-
tion. Both teams went at it; it
was a physical game on both
ends, Roessner continued.
We forced a lot of turnovers
but we couldnt convert on
the other end. Either it didnt
get us in transition to score or
wed turn it back over right
away on a bad pass.
Perhaps the biggest stat
in the long run was
the Jays supremacy on the
glass: 33-19 (11-2 offensive)
as seniors Shelby Reindel (7
points) had nine before foul-
ing out very late and class-
mate Julie Bonifas seven.
The reign of the defenses
was evident from the start,
with the Jays using their 1-2-2
zone early but relying on their
man-to-man most of the rest
of the way and the Redskins
using full-court zone pressure
at various depths on the floor
and falling back into a man
half-court.
The teams combined for 16
shots in the first period 11
by the Jays (hitting 3 of them)
and the Redskins hitting 1-of-
5. The Jays also forced six St.
Henry turnovers (18 overall)
and only had four (24 for the
night). The Jays scored first
on a Reindel inside basket at
6:25 but the Redskins tied it
up for the only time at
3:45 on two singles by Sarah
Moeder. Junior Katie Vorst (7
points before fouling out mid-
way through the 4th period)
hit a free throw shortly after
and the Jays remained in front
the rest of the way. Their lead
stood at 7-4 as sophomore
Becca Saine hit a second-
chance basket at 2:25 and the
period ended with no more
points scored.
Reindel and Vorst picked
up their second fouls in the
stanza.
Neither team could gain
any level of consistency
offensively in any period and
the second was typical. The
Jays outscored their guests
7-5. It helped that the Jays all-
but-sealed the Lady Skins off
their offensive glass and got a
few of their own. Their lead
was 14-8 on two singles by
junior Jessica Recker (game-
high scorer with 8) at 1:39
but a free toss from Kelly
Siefring with just .2 of a sec-
ond left made the halftime
scoreboard 14-9.
The Jays built the largest
margin of the night 18-10
on a basket by Vorst at
the 5:50 mark of the third
canto. Later, they led 20-12
on two Reindel charity throws
at 4:58 but with Reindel and
Vorst both picking up their
third fouls in the canto, they
couldnt put their foe away.
The Redskins steadily inched
closer and were within 23-18
on a 4-foot fallaway from
Taylor Clune with 3.1 ticks
showing.
The Jays committed nine
of their miscues in the third.
The Jays pushed their
bulge to 27-20 on an inside
basket by Vorst at the 5-min-
ute mark but shortly after, she
picked up her fourth and fifth
fouls (4:08). The Redskins
would not go away and crept
within 28-27 on the first-
of-2 free throws by Clune
with 1:15 left. However,
she missed the second and
the visitors were forced to
foul. Recker hit two singles
at 1:02 and after a Redskin
error, she was again fouled
at 37.6 ticks. She missed the
front end of the bonus but
got her own board and the
Jays ran some clock. Senior
Courtney Grothouse (6 coun-
ters, 5 assists, 4 boards) was
fouled with 16.2 ticks on the
clock fouling out Moeder
and calmly drained both
for a 32-27 edge. A single by
Stacy Lange (7 counters) with
.7 seconds left fouling out
Reindel finished scoring.
That was big, winning the
boards like that. We did a
great job of limiting them to
one shot every time down and
that really helped, Grothouse
added. We hit some big free
throws down the stretch. It
got to be tougher and more
difficult as the night wore
on: any time the ball doesnt
go through the basket on a
regular basis, it doesnt look
pretty and it can get frustrat-
ing. Again, we held our com-
posure enough.
St. Henry finished 10-of-
14 at the line (71.4% as Kylie
Koesters was top scorer
with eight. They added 19
fouls and will visit Shawnee
Saturday afternoon.
Neither team had much
left at the end of this game;
both teams left it all on the
floor, Roessner added. It
came down to us not convert-
ing the chances we had and
St. Johns making a few more
plays than we did. I cannot
fault the effort of my team
at all.
St. Johns canned 12-of-19
freebies (63.2%) and added
16 fouls. They host Ottawa-
Glandorf Saturday with a high
noon junior varsity tip.
In JV action, St. Johns
(7-4, 3-1 MAC) overcame a
slow start and rode 21 mark-
ers from sophomore Madison
Kreeger and 16-of-25 shoot-
ing at the line for a 44-29
triumph.
Taylor Koesters was high
point-getter for the Redskins
(5-5, 1-3) with 11.
VARSITY
ST. HENRY (28)
Ashley Heitkamp 2-1-5, Kami
Siefring 0-0-0, Rachel Lefeld 0-0-0,
Stacy Lange 3-1-7, Kylie Koesters 2-4-
8, Sarah Moeder 0-2-2, Kelly Siefring
0-1-1, Taylor Clune 2-1-5, Cathy
Delzeith 0-0-0, Ally Mikesell 0-0-0.
Totals 9-0-10/14-28.
ST. JOHNS (32)
Courtney Grothouse 2-2-6, Madison
Zuber 0-0-0, Emilie Fischbach 0-0-0,
Christie Carder 0-0-0, Shelby Reindel
2-3-7, Katie Vorst 3-1-7, Erica Saine
2-0-4, Jessica Recker 1-6-8, Julie
Bonifas 0-0-0. Totals 10-0-12/19-32.
Score by Quarters:
St. Henry 4 5 9 10 - 28
St. Johns 7 7 9 9 - 32
Three-point goals: St. Henry, none;
St. Johns, none.
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JUNIOR VARSITY
ST. HENRY (29)
Kenisa 2-0-4, Olivia Stahl 2-1-5,
Taylor Koesters 4-3-11, Carli Rindler
0-2-2, Christina Imel 0-0-0, Taylor
Siegrest 3-0-6, Megan Post 0-1-1,
Alyssa Mescher 0-0-0. Totals 11-0-
7/14-29.
ST. JOHNS (44)
Tara Vorst 2-0-4, Rebekah Fischer
2-2-7, Brooke Zuber 1-1-3, Emile
Grothouse 0-0-0, Liz Winhover 0-0-
0, Madison Kreeger 6-8-21, Halie
Benavidez 0-1-1, Casey Schnipke 1-0-
2, Sam Kramer 0-0-0, Samantha Wehri
0-0-0, Amanda Boberg 0-2-2, Colleen
Schulte 1-2-4. Totals 11-2-16/25-44.
Score by Quarters:
St. Henry 9 5 8 7 - 29
St. Johns 4 19 9 12 - 44
Three-point goals: St. Henry, none;
St. Johns, Fischer, Kreeger.
Lady Jays survive St. Henry
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 7 3 .700
New York 6 5 .545 1 1/2
Boston 4 5 .444 2 1/2
Toronto 4 7 .364 3 1/2
New Jersey 2 9 .182 5 1/2
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Orlando 8 3 .727
Miami 8 3 .727
Atlanta 8 4 .667 1/2
Charlotte 2 9 .182 6
Washington 1 9 .100 6 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Chicago 10 2 .833
Indiana 7 3 .700 2
Cleveland 5 5 .500 4
Milwaukee 4 6 .400 5
Detroit 2 9 .182 7 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
San Antonio 7 4 .636
Dallas 6 5 .545 1
Memphis 4 6 .400 2 1/2
Houston 3 7 .300 3 1/2
New Orleans 3 7 .300 3 1/2
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Oklahoma City 10 2 .833
Portland 7 3 .700 2
Denver 7 4 .636 2 1/2
Utah 6 4 .600 3
Minnesota 3 7 .300 6
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
L.A. Lakers 8 4 .667
L.A. Clippers 5 3 .625 1
Phoenix 4 6 .400 3
Sacramento 4 7 .364 3 1/2
Golden State 3 7 .300 4
Thursdays Results
Atlanta 111, Charlotte 81
Memphis 94, New York 83
Milwaukee 102, Detroit 93
Cleveland 101, Phoenix 90
Orlando 117, Golden State 109
Todays Games
Detroit at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Indiana at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Houston, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Boston, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
New Jersey at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Miami at Denver, 10:30 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Minnesota at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Golden State at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Portland at Houston, 8 p.m.
New York at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.
New Jersey at Utah, 9 p.m.
Sacramento at Dallas, 9 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
NBA GLANCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
N.Y. Rangers 41 27 10 4 58 118 86
Philadelphia 42 26 12 4 56 142 124
New Jersey 43 24 17 2 50 119 124
Pittsburgh 42 21 17 4 46 124 112
N.Y. Islanders 41 15 20 6 36 98 129
Northeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Boston 40 28 11 1 57 148 77
Ottawa 45 24 15 6 54 143 144
Toronto 42 22 15 5 49 135 131
Buffalo 42 18 19 5 41 107 123
Montreal 43 16 20 7 39 110 119
Southeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 42 21 13 8 50 109 116
Washington 41 22 17 2 46 119 120
Winnipeg 43 20 18 5 45 112 126
Tampa Bay 42 17 21 4 38 115 146
Carolina 45 15 23 7 37 118 150
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 44 26 13 5 57 144 127
St. Louis 43 25 12 6 56 112 92
Detroit 43 27 15 1 55 138 101
Nashville 43 24 15 4 52 118 117
Columbus 42 11 26 5 27 101 142
Northwest Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Vancouver 45 28 14 3 59 147 110
Minnesota 44 22 16 6 50 103 110
Colorado 45 23 20 2 48 117 127
Calgary 45 21 19 5 47 110 127
Edmonton 42 16 22 4 36 112 121
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
San Jose 40 24 11 5 53 118 94
Los Angeles 44 21 15 8 50 97 100
Dallas 42 24 17 1 49 119 123
Phoenix 44 20 17 7 47 111 114
Anaheim 42 13 22 7 33 104 136
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Thursdays Results
Detroit 3, Phoenix 2, SO
Dallas 5, Los Angeles 4, SO
Boston 2, Montreal 1
Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2
Ottawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 0
Carolina 5, Tampa Bay 2
Vancouver 3, St. Louis 2, OT
Nashville 3, Colorado 2, OT
San Jose 2, Winnipeg 0
Chicago 5, Minnesota 2
Calgary 1, Anaheim 0, OT
Todays Games
Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m.
Phoenix at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Chicago at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.
Colorado at Dallas, 3 p.m.
New Jersey at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Boston at Carolina, 7 p.m.
San Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Calgary, 10 p.m.
NHL GLANCE
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being Osha Owens and Torie
McAdams with seven and
Ashley Lowry six. They con-
nected on 28.3 percent from
the field for the night (17.6%
on triples) and 75 percent on
free throws.
Elida (3-8) is at Shawnee
Thursday. The Cougars (7-5)
host Paulding Tuesday.
VARSITY
VAN WERT (62)
Erin Morrow 2-4-0-16, Molly
Gamble 5-0-2-12, Alex Morrow 2-2-1-
11, Brooke Keber 0-1-0-3, Livia Butler
1-0-0-2, Kaitlynn Hall 0-0-2-2, Taylor
Doidge 4-0-0-8, Amanda Clay 0-0-0-0,
Cheyenne Handy 1-0-3-5, Claire Butler
1-0-4-6, Emilie Moonshower 0-0-0-0,
Jenna Weigle 0-0-0-0, Alexis Dowdy
1-0-0-2. Totals 23/49-7/12-9/13-62.
ELIDA (36)
Kylie Downton 2-0-0-4, Bo Kim
0-0-0-0, Cassidy Slusher 1-1-0-5,
Ashley Lowry 3-0-0-6, Osha Owens
1-1-2-7, Torie McAdams 3-0-1-7, Carly
Stetler 2-1-0-7, Ericka Smith, 0-0-0-0,
Sabrina Kline 1-0-0-2, Brett Pauff 0-0-
0-0. Totals 15/53-3/17-3/4-36.
Score by Quarters:
Van Wert 15 16 19 12 - 62
Elida 10 5 16 5 - 36
Three-point goals: Van Wert 7-12
(Erin Morrow 4-4, Alex Morrow 2-3,
Brooke Keber 1-3, Moonshower 0-1,
Weigle 0-1), Elida 3-17 (Stetler 1-3,
Owens 1-4, Slusher 1-6, Lowry 0-2,
Kline 0-2).
Rebounds: Van Wert 37/12 off. (A.
Morrow 12), Elida 27/13 off. (Owens
7). Assists: Van Wert 12 (Keber 4),
Elida 9 (Owens 4). Steals: Van Wert
6 (E. Morrow/Gamble/Doidge/Keber/
Hall/Weigle 1), Elida 7 (Owens/Lowry
3). Blocks: Van Wert 5 (A. Morrow 4),
Elida 2 (McAdams 2). Turnovers: Van
Wert 11, Elida 12. Fouls: Van Wert 7,
Elida 10. Points in the paint: Van Wert
26, Elida 16. Bench points: Van Wert
28, Elida 7.
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JUNIOR VARSITY
VAN WERT (40)
Amanda Clay 1-2-4, Claire Butler
2-0-4, Claire White 2-0-4, Emilie
Moonshower 3-0-7, Jenna Weigle 3-1-
8, Alexa Dunlap 1-0-2, Riley Jones 4-0-
8, Schealissa Williams 1-1-3. Totals
15-2-4-40.
ELIDA (25)
Brooke Smiley 1-0-2, Morgan
Morton 1-0-2, Lindsey Hall 1-0-2,
Brett Pauff 2-0-4, Lauren Nolan 4-0-8,
Sabrina Kline 2-2-7, Kaylee Klinger
0-0-0. Totals 10-1-2-25.
Score by Quarters:
Van Wert 6 5 13 16 - 40
Elida 10 4 5 6 25
Three-point goals: Van Wert,
Moonshower, Weigle; Elida, Kline
Van Wert
OAKLAND, Calif.
Dwight Howard broke Wilt
Chamberlains nearly 50-year-
old NBA record for most free
throw attempts in a game, mak-
ing 21 of 39 in the Orlando
Magics 117-109 victory over
the Golden State Warriors on
Thursday night.
The Warriors hacked
Howard intentionally
throughout, sending
the notoriously poor
shooter to the line in
record-setting fash-
ion. Chamberlain shot
34 for the Philadelphia
Warriors against St.
Louis on Feb. 22, 1962.
Howard finished
with 45 points and 23
rebounds, and Hedo
Turkoglu scored 20
points to propel the Magic
to their third straight victo-
ry. Monta Ellis had 30 points
and 11 assists, and David
Lee added 26 points and 12
rebounds for the short-hand-
ed Warriors, playing without
starters Stephen Curry and
Dorell Wright.
The Hack-a-Howard routine
reached a whole new level.
Howard had never shot
more than 24 free throws in
a game which he had four
times previously and fouled
so early. Certainly, nothing
compared to the Warriors
ways.
CAVALIERS 101, SUNS 90
PHOENIX Rookie star
Kyrie Irving scored a season-
high 26 points and Antawn
Jamison matched his sea-
son high with 23, helping
Cleveland beat Phoenix.
Irving, who played only 11
games at Duke before being
drafted first overall, topped his
previous high of 21. Anderson
Varejeo contributed 15
rebounds for the Cavaliers.
Steve Nash led six Suns
players in double figures with
16 points, becoming the 15th
active player to reach 16,000
points. He also had 15 assists.
Marcin Gortat had 14 points and 12
rebounds for Phoenix.
Michael Redd, playing his first
game for Phoenix, had 12 points in
19 minutes.
Irving put on a remarkable per-
formance in the first half. With the
Cavaliers trailing 40-34, he scored
12 consecutive points in 2:51,
including two 3s, capping a 14-0
run and lifting Cleveland to a 46-40
advantage. Irving did his damage
against Nash, the leagues two-time
Most Valuable Player.
GRIZZLIES 94, KNICKS 83
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Rudy Gay
scored a season-high 26 points and
Memphis beat New York to end
the Knicks winning streak at four
games.
The Knicks played most of the
second half without scoring leader
Carmelo Anthony after he sprained
his right ankle early in the third
period. He didnt return and X-rays
were negative.
Gay made 11-of-16 shots to
help the Grizzlies snap a 3-game
losing streak and improve to 4-6.
O.J. Mayo scored 18 points, also
a season high, on 7-of-12 shooting
and had eight rebounds. Tony Allen
added 12 points and Marc Gasol
had 10 points and 12 rebounds.
Anthony and Bill Walker each
scored 14 points to lead the Knicks
(6-5). Rookie guard Iman Shumpert
had 12 points but was 5-of-20 from
the field. Amare Stoudemire, sad-
dled with foul problems early, scored
a season-low six points, converting
only one of his seven shots.
BUCKS 102, PISTONS 93
MILWAUKEE Brandon
Jennings scored 27 points and
Stephen Jackson added 25 for
Milwaukee in the only the second
game in the shot-clock era without
a missed free throw.
The Bucks were 17-of-17 from
line and the Pistons 24-of-24. The
other game was Dec. 22, 2000,
when Atlanta and Toronto hit all 16
free throws shot in the game.
The Bucks improved to 4-0 at
home and 4-6 overall, while the
Pistons dropped to 2-9 with their
sixth straight loss and fifth in a
row on the road. Detroit last lost
six straight from March 13-April 3,
2010.
Bucks coach Scott Skiles
became the 39th coach in NBA
history to reach 400 victories. He
is 400-388.
A game after scoring a season-
high 34 points, Jackson was 9-of-17
from the field and had six rebounds
and six assists. Rookie Jon Leuer,
making his first start for the Bucks,
added 15 points and six rebounds.
Greg Monroe led the Pistons
with a career-high 32 points and
had 16 rebounds.
HAWKS 111, BOBCATS 81
ATLANTA Josh Smith scored
30 points, Joe Johnson added 23
and the Atlanta Hawks won their
first game without All-Star center
Al Horford, routing Charlotte to
improve to 8-4.
The Hawks learned earlier in
the day that Horford, a leader on
and off the court, will miss at least
three months after tearing the pec-
toral muscle in his left shoulder
Wednesday night at Indiana.
With Horford sidelined, Smith
and Johnson came through big time
against the hapless Bobcats, who
lost their fifth in a row and dropped
to 2-9. The Hawks dominated on
the boards, outrebounding Charlotte
55-30.
NBA CAPSULES
Jessica Farr grabbed six
rebounds.
Grove hosts Leipsic 1 p.m.
Saturday.
Paulding 18-34 4-8 40: Farr 3-0-6;
Owens 3-3-9; Shuherk 1-0-2; Edwards
2-0-4; Hanenkratt 0-0-0; Nardone 1-0-
2; McCullough 2-0-4; Pease 6-1-13.
Columbus Grove 15-36 14-22
46: Ricker 8-9-27; Brubaker 0-0-0;
Utendorf 0-0-0; Stechschulte 4-2-10;
Karhoff 1-0-2; Halker 0-0-0; McCluer
3-0-6; Scott 0-1-1.
Score by Quarters:
Paulding 0 11 10 19 - 40
Columbus Grove 13 8 12 13 - 46
Three-point goals: Paulding 0-6;
Columbus Grove 2-7 (Ricker 2).
Rebounds: Columbus Grove 23
(Stechschulte 7, Ricker 6); Paulding
24 (Farr 6).
Turnovers: Columbus Grove 11,
Paulding 16.
Junior Varsity: Columbus Grove
40-14.
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Lady Titans
double-up Defiance
OTTAWA The youth-
ful Ottawa-Glandorf Lady
Titan basketball unit doubled
up Defiance 54-27 in Western
Buckeye League action
Thursday at The Supreme
Court.
Chelsea Maag paced the
Titans with 14 (4 bombs)
and Niki Ellerbrock added
13 (2 treys). O-G outscored
Defiance 24-3 beyond the
arc.
Ashley Fogle led the
Bulldogs with 11.
DEFIANCE (27)
Gabi Lamb 0-0-0-0, Miranda
Spencer 1-0-1-3, Ashley Fogle 4-1-
0-11, Emily Spencer 1-0-0-2, Jade
Frederick 2-0-0-4, Megan Sewell 1-0-
0-2, Lakesha Young 2-0-1-5, Elisa
Garza 0-0-0-0, Laura Schrag 0-0-0-0,
Nakea Jackson 0-0-0-0. Totals 11-1-
2/6-27.
OTTAWA-GLANDORF (54)
Niki Ellerbrock 3-2-1-13, Michelle
Maag 1-0-1-3, Carly Johnson 0-0-0-
0, Elissa Ellerbrock 1-0-0-2, Kristen
Miller 2-1-0-7, Chelsea Maag 1-4-
0-14, Libbey Recker 1-0-0-2, Steph
Hempfling 0-0-0-0, Molly Closson 2-1-
0-7, Kenzie Everett 0-0-0-0, Danielle
Schroeder 0-0-2-2, Alyssa Ebbeskotte
1-0-2-4, Jessica Wehri 0-0-0-0, Kailee
Koch 0-0-0-0. Totals 12-8-6/7-54.
Score by Quarters:
Defiance 8 7 2 12 - 27
Ott.-Gland. 19 14 19 2 - 54
Three-point goals: Defiance,
Fogle; Ottawa-Glandorf,C. Maag 4, N.
Ellerbrock 2, Miller, Closson.
JV score: 43-6 (O-G).
Roundup
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$400/month, plus deposit,
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2 BR, 1 BA, utility room
with w/d hook-up, stove &
refrigerator included. All
electric. (419)231-3478.
800

House For Sale
3 BR ranch home. 285
Railroad St., Ft. Jennings.
Posted on Craigslist. Call
(419)286-2069.
810

Auto Repairs/
Parts/Acc.
Midwest Ohio
Auto Parts
Specialist
Windshields Installed, New
Lights, Grills, Fenders,Mirrors,
Hoods, Radiators
4893 Dixie Hwy, Lima
1-800-589-6830
840

Mobile Homes
2 BEDROOM, 1 bath mo-
bile home for sale. Re -
modeled in 2005. New
pl umbi ng, hot water
heater. Deck & patio.
419-231-2121.
RENT OR Rent to Own. 2
bedroom, 1 bath mobile
home. 419-692-3951.
890

Autos for Sale
$
40
95
!Genuine Motorcraft
bulk
oil and filter change.
!Rotate and inspect four tires
!Inspect brake system
!Test battery
!Check air and cabin
air filters
!Check belts and hoses
!Top off all fluids
Let Our Factory-Trained Technicians
Perform a Thorough Inspection of
Your Vehicle, and more.
Up to five quarts of genuine Motorcraft

oil.
Taxes, disposal fee and diesel vehicles extra.
See Service Advisor for details.
Over 85
years
serving
you!
www.raabeford.com
RAABE
FORD-LINCOLN
11260 Elida Rd., Delphos
M 7:30-8 ; T.-F. 7:30-6:00; Sat. 9-2
419-692-0055
920

Free & Low Price
Merchandise
3 PROM Dresses. Sea
green dress, $20. Light
yellow dress, $15. Orchid
dr es s $15. Ph.
419-532-3019.
LIFT CHAIR free for the
h a u l i n g . P h .
419-234-8640.
010

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Classifieds
Sell!
To advertise call
419-695-0015
IS YOUR
AD HERE?
Call today
419-695-0015
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Van Wert County
Robert Strombach,
Susan Strombach to Elam
A. Wickey Jr., Esther J.
Wickey, portion of section
16, Willshire Township.
Leon H. Stegaman
Revocable Trust, Joan
L. Stegaman Revocable
Trust to Donna J.
Brezovacki, lots 386, 387,
Van Wert subdivision.
Connie A. Simindinger,
Carl W. Simindinger to
Robert L. Simindinger,
Kimberlie A. Simindinger,
portion of section 6,
Jennings Township.
Jay D.Herrick, Tammy
Herrick to Summer L.
Long, Chad M. Long,
inlots 280, 281, Middle
Point.
Thelma E. Miller
Revocable Trust to
Thelma E. Miller
Irrevocable Trust, portion
of inlots 794, 795, Van
Wert.
Estate of Connie S.
Callow to Emmett E.
Gehres and Cheryl P.
Keysor-Gehres, inlot
3273, Van Wert.
Michael James Perkins
and Jennifer Perkins to
K & M Tire Inc., portion
of inlot 2437, inlot 2451,
Van Wert.
Chad A. Schrader,
Krista L. Schrader and
K L Schrader to Douglas
A. Milligan Jr. and Traci
L. Milligan, portion of
lots 117, 118, Delphos
subdivision.
Katherine Rowena
Huffman to Harold R.
Boyd Jr. and Patricia A.
Boyd, portion of inlots
3046, 3047, Van wert.
Mary Evelyn Beerman
to Joyce Profit, Linda
Bragg and Shirley
Summersett, inlot 46,
Venedocia.
Estate of Helen L.
Wherry to Barbara K.
Burk, David K. Wherry
and Susan R. Isenbarger,
Harrison Township.
Cara Colleen Ray and
Larry Ray to Wayne H.
Kemler, portion of section
14, Hoaglin Township.
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THE
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Saturdays paper is 11:00 a.m. Friday
Mondays paper is 1:00 p.m. Friday
Herald Extra is 11 a.m. Thursday
Minimum Charge: 15 words,
2 times - $9.00
Each word is $.30 2-5 days
$.25 6-9 days
$.20 10+ days
Each word is $.10 for 3 months
or more prepaid
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To place an ad phone 419-695-0015 ext. 122
We accept
950 Miscellaneous
COMMUNITY
SELF-STORAGE
GREAT RATES
NEWER FACILITY
419-692-0032
Across from Arbys
950 Car Care
Geise
Transmission, Inc.
419-453-3620
2 miles north of Ottoville
automatic transmission
standard transmission
differentials
transfer case
brakes & tune up
950

Service Directory
FLANAGANS
CAR CARE
816 E. FIFTH ST. DELPHOS
Ph. 419-692-5801
Mon.-Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-2
OIL - LUBE FILTER
Only
$
22.95*
*up to 5 quarts oil
950 Tree Service
TEMANS
OUR TREE SERVICE
Bill Teman 419-302-2981
Ernie Teman 419-230-4890
Since 1973
419-692-7261
SNOW REMOVAL
FIREWOOD
FOR SALE
AT YOUR
S
ervice
CNC MACHINING POSITIONS
employment. We now have unique opportunities for individuals in the following
positions:
MACHINING ENGINEER
Specifies and develops CNC machining processes, equipment and tooling,
work flow/layout, operating procedures, and work methods
Analyzes results and develops strategies to achieve continuous improvement
of quality, utilization, cycle time, and productivity
Conducts trials, testing, and time studies, and utilizes FMEA and problem-
solving tools to support effective launch of new products
Qualifications: Bachelor degree, or equivalent, and five plus years of related
process/manufacturing engineering experience with CNC lathes, mills, ro-
botic equipment is required.
MACHINING TECHNICIAN
Develops, implements, and adjusts CNC programs for high-volume produc-
tion as well as production trials
Monitors equipment/tooling, processes, and procedures and assists in imple-
menting actions to support safety, quality and productivity
May train others in set-up, operation, and maintenance of equipment
Qualifications: One year of related CNC machining experience-- including
programming, SPC, and blueprint reading-- is required; Formal CNC training
strongly preferred.
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
PROJECT ENGINEER
our reputation for high quality products and customer satisfaction has helped us
continue to grow and provide our associates with over 23 years of steady em-
ployment. We now have a unique opportunity for a Project Engineer to perform
the following duties:
Creates detailed specifications and cost justifications for machinery and
equipment purchases and capital improvement projects
Prepares project budgets, schedules, and documentation and assists in sourc-
ing and negotiating contracts with suppliers
Ensures project compliance with relevant building codes, safety rules/regula-
tions, and Company policies/procedures
Monitors project from inception through production release; oversees testing,
run-off, installation, and advance planning for equipment operation, mainte-
nance, and repair
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
The Allen County Veterans Service
Commission is now accepting re-
sumes for the position of a Veteran
Service Officer. Per Ohio Revised
Code 5901.07, basic requirements
include: a minimum of a high school
diploma or equivalence, proof of ac-
tive military service for other than
training with an honorable discharge
for all periods of service, satisfac-
tory background investigation, and
drug screening. In addition, appli-
cant must have one to two years ad-
ministrative/supervisory experience
and a valid Ohio drivers license.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Ideal candidate will have a genuine
concern for veterans and their families
Processing of VA computerized forms
Proficient computer and public speak-
ing skills
Develop working knowledge of Ohio
Revised Code and the Department of
Veterans rules and regulations
Obtain and maintain state and nation-
al service accreditation for veterans
affairs
Post-employment training and testing,
and some over-night travel
This position will report to the Veter-
ans Service Commissioners
Deadline for submitting resumes is
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012. Resumes
will be accepted by: Mail to Allen Coun-
ty Veterans Service Commission, PO
Box 1243, 301 N. Main, Lima 45802 or
hand delivered to Physical address at
301 N. Main Street, Lima, Ohio
BUYER
AAP St. Marys Corp. . is a leader in the design and manufacture of cast alumi-
employment. We now have an opportunity for an individual to perform the fol-
lowing duties:
Selects vendors and negotiates specifications, price, and delivery for wide
variety of purchased commodities
Maintains supplier performance rating system, working with vendors to
achieve quality, price and delivery objectives
Compiles various reports, files, and records for expenditures, stock item in-
ventories, and for regulatory compliance
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
INTERESTED
IN SPORTS?
WOULD YOU LIKE
TO EARN
SOME EXTRA CASH?
The Delphos Herald is
looking for interested
applicants who enjoy
attending local sporting events
and would like to to cover them
for the Delphos Herald.
We welcome all applicants.
We can work with your schedule!
Contact: Jim Metcalfe
419-695-0015,
Extension 133
or by email at
Now leasing:
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Senior Villas.
See site for restrictions.
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! 2 Bedroom / 2 Full Baths
! Attached Garages
! Washer / Dryer Connections
! Vaulted Ceilings
! Walk-In Closets
! Pet-Friendly
419-238-6558
Independent senior living 55+.
Spacious 2 Bdrm./2 full
bath, att. garages, washer/
dryer connection, walk-in
closets. Pet friendly.
OPEN HOUSE
Very Motivated Seller
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 2:00-4:00
466 Dewey St.
Delphos
Gary Holdgreve, Agent
419-863-0011
TONY LANGHALS REAL ESTATE LLC
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Services
LAMP REPAIR
Table or floor.
Come to our store.
Hohenbrink TV.
419-695-1229
080

Help Wanted
DANCER LOGISTICS
Services LLC,
900 Gressel Drive,
Delphos, Ohio 45833
We have an opening for a
Local, Home Everyday
driver Modern Equip -
ment Regional, Long
Haul and Team drivers
may also apply We also
welcome Owner Opera-
tors to apply Health,
Dental and Vision benefits
offered Qualifications
are a good MVR, Class A
CDL and two years OTR
experience Call Shawn
at 888-465-6001 ext. 806
for details or apply in per-
son 10am thru 3pm.
080

Help Wanted
MIDWEST
LOGISTICS
SYSTEMS
IMMEDIATE
POSITIONS
FOR DRIVERS
DEDICATED ROUTES/
HOME DAILY
FULL BENEFITS
INCLUDING:
401K, MEDICAL,
DENTAL & VISION
PAID VACATIONS &
HOLIDAYS
CDL CLASS A
REQUIRED
2 YRS. EXPERIENCE
GOOD MVR
call
419-305-9897
HIRING FULL Time Inside
Parts Sales/Warehouse
Associate. Send Resume
or Apply in person. Double
A Trailer Sales, 1750 East
Fifth Street, Box 129,
Delphos, Ohio 45833.
080

Help Wanted
Looking for
optimistic,
enthusiastic
self-starter. Member
Specialists who are
passionate about
making a difference
in peoples lives. Earn
great commissions.
Reply to Box P17
c/o The Delphos Herald
405 N. Main St.
Delphos, OH 45833
OTR SEMI DRIVER
NEEDED
Benefits: Vacation,
Holiday pay, 401k. Home
weekends & most nights.
Call Ulm!s Inc.
419-692-3951
PART-TIME
Bookkeeper/Receptionist
position available at small
local company. Approxi-
mately 20-24 hrs./wk. Ap-
plicant should have an un-
derstanding of basic ac-
counting principles and be
proficient in Microsoft
Word & Excel. The candi-
date will run the front
desk, answer the phone
and greet customers. This
person should be able to
communicate effectively
and be willing to do a vari-
ety of tasks in a small of-
fice environment. Send re-
plies to Box 163 c/o Del-
phos Herald, 405 N. Main
St., Delphos, OH 45833.
PART-TIME office help
needed. Office duties in-
clude filing, multi-line
phones, mail, and other
misc. tasks. Microsoft
Word/Excel experience
preferred. Send replies to
Box 160 c/o Delphos Her-
ald, 405 N. Main St., Del-
phos, OH 45833
PART-TIME
SALES/TECHNICAL
SUPPORT PERSON
located in Delphos, Ohio
is a progressive machine
manufacturer seeking a
P a r t - t i me S a l e s
Associate/Technical Sup-
port person. Qualified indi-
vidual must possess nego-
tiating & basic accounting
skills, extensive electrical
and mechanical knowl -
edge and have previous
customer service experi-
ence. Must be computer
literate and be proficient in
MS Office with an Associ-
ates degree in a technical
field or equivalent.
Qualified candidate send
resume AND wage re -
quirements to:
Attention: HR/Sales/Tech
Support 1211
1201 Spencerville Ave.
Delphos, Oh 45833
080

Help Wanted
PEST
CONTROL
TECHNICIAN
BUCKEYE
EXTERMINATING
is adding full-time &
seasonal Service
Technicians for
pesticide application
work. Vehicle, tools,
training & uniforms
provided. DFWP
enforced. Insurance, profit
sharing, retirement plan,
vacation, attendance
bonuses etc. Applications
are being accepted.
24018 US 224, Box 246
Ottoville, OH 45876
419-453-3931 or
1-800-523-1521
THE CITY of Delphos is
accepting resumes for a
part-time meter reader.
The function requires the
reader to be outside dur-
ing all weather conditions.
A detailed job description
and compensation is avail-
able at the city building,
608 N. Canal Street. Re-
sumes will be accepted
until January 25, 2012.
WINDOW CREATIONS is
seeking full time general
laborers for onsite con -
struction and studio work.
Various skill levels are
welcome. On the job
training is also available.
For appointments call
(419) 453-2004. Ask for
Jason.
120

Financial
IS IT A SCAM? The Del-
phos Herald urges our
readers to contact The
Better Business Bureau,
( 419) 223- 7010 or
1-800-462-0468, before
entering into any agree-
ment involving financing,
business opportunities, or
work at home opportuni-
ties. The BBB will assist
in the investigation of
these businesses. (This
notice provided as a cus-
tomer service by The Del-
phos Herald.)
290

Wanted to Buy
Raines
Jewelry
Cash for Gold
Scrap Gold, Gold Jewelry,
Silver coins, Silverware,
Pocket Watches, Diamonds.
2330 Shawnee Rd.
Lima
(419) 229-2899
360

Building Materials
STEEL BUI LDI NGS-
Save THOUSANDS on
2011 Closeouts! Limited
availability, 20x30, 30x40,
others. Save $$$, buy now
for spring. Discounted
shipping. Display savings
also! Call 866-352-0469.
590

House For Rent
415 N. Clay
2 story, 3 BR, 1 1/2 BA,
basement, gas heat.
$600/mo. + Deposit &
Utilities. No pets. Available
2/1/2012. (419)692-9663
600

Apts. for Rent
1BR APT for rent, appli-
ances, electric heat, laun-
dry room, No pets.
$400/month, plus deposit,
water included. 320 N.
Jefferson. 419-852-0833.
ONE BDRM Apt., 537 W.
Thi rd St . , Del phos.
$ 3 2 5 / m o . C a l l
4 1 9 - 6 9 2 - 2 1 8 4 o r
419-204-5924
620

Duplex For Rent
104 E. 7th. 2 BR, stove &
refrigerator included, w/d
hook-up. No pets. Call
419-236-2722.
3 BDRM, 1-1/2 bath,
washer/dryer hook-up, ga-
rage. $450/mo. + $450 se-
curity deposit. Available
Jan. 1. Ph.419-233-0083.
3 BR, 1 BA,
514 N. Canal
1st mo. rent + deposit
No Pets.
Call (317)336-6718
821 1/2 ELM St., Delphos.
2 BR, 1 BA, utility room
with w/d hook-up, stove &
refrigerator included. All
electric. (419)231-3478.
800

House For Sale
3 BR ranch home. 285
Railroad St., Ft. Jennings.
Posted on Craigslist. Call
(419)286-2069.
810

Auto Repairs/
Parts/Acc.
Midwest Ohio
Auto Parts
Specialist
Windshields Installed, New
Lights, Grills, Fenders,Mirrors,
Hoods, Radiators
4893 Dixie Hwy, Lima
1-800-589-6830
840

Mobile Homes
2 BEDROOM, 1 bath mo-
bile home for sale. Re -
modeled in 2005. New
pl umbi ng, hot water
heater. Deck & patio.
419-231-2121.
RENT OR Rent to Own. 2
bedroom, 1 bath mobile
home. 419-692-3951.
890

Autos for Sale
$
40
95
!Genuine Motorcraft
bulk
oil and filter change.
!Rotate and inspect four tires
!Inspect brake system
!Test battery
!Check air and cabin
air filters
!Check belts and hoses
!Top off all fluids
Let Our Factory-Trained Technicians
Perform a Thorough Inspection of
Your Vehicle, and more.
Up to five quarts of genuine Motorcraft

oil.
Taxes, disposal fee and diesel vehicles extra.
See Service Advisor for details.
Over 85
years
serving
you!
www.raabeford.com
RAABE
FORD-LINCOLN
11260 Elida Rd., Delphos
M 7:30-8 ; T.-F. 7:30-6:00; Sat. 9-2
419-692-0055
920

Free & Low Price
Merchandise
3 PROM Dresses. Sea
green dress, $20. Light
yellow dress, $15. Orchid
dr es s $15. Ph.
419-532-3019.
LIFT CHAIR free for the
h a u l i n g . P h .
419-234-8640.
010

Announcements
Classifieds
Sell!
To advertise call
419-695-0015
IS YOUR
AD HERE?
Call today
419-695-0015
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Van Wert County
Robert Strombach,
Susan Strombach to Elam
A. Wickey Jr., Esther J.
Wickey, portion of section
16, Willshire Township.
Leon H. Stegaman
Revocable Trust, Joan
L. Stegaman Revocable
Trust to Donna J.
Brezovacki, lots 386, 387,
Van Wert subdivision.
Connie A. Simindinger,
Carl W. Simindinger to
Robert L. Simindinger,
Kimberlie A. Simindinger,
Jennings Township.
Jay D.Herrick, Tammy
Herrick to Summer L.
Long, Chad M. Long,
inlots 280, 281, Middle
Point.
Thelma E. Miller
Revocable Trust to
Thelma E. Miller
Irrevocable Trust, portion
of inlots 794, 795, Van
Wert.
Estate of Connie S.
Callow to Emmett E.
Gehres and Cheryl P.
Keysor-Gehres, inlot
3273, Van Wert.
Michael James Perkins
and Jennifer Perkins to
K & M Tire Inc., portion
of inlot 2437, inlot 2451,
Van Wert.
Chad A. Schrader,
Krista L. Schrader and
K L Schrader to Douglas
A. Milligan Jr. and Traci
L. Milligan, portion of
lots 117, 118, Delphos
subdivision.
Katherine Rowena
Huffman to Harold R.
Boyd Jr. and Patricia A.
Boyd, portion of inlots
3046, 3047, Van wert.
Mary Evelyn Beerman
to Joyce Profit, Linda
Bragg and Shirley
Summersett, inlot 46,
Venedocia.
Estate of Helen L.
Wherry to Barbara K.
Burk, David K. Wherry
and Susan R. Isenbarger,
Harrison Township.
Cara Colleen Ray and
Larry Ray to Wayne H.
Kemler, portion of section
14, Hoaglin Township.
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Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol
Annie says women
responsible for own
character judgements
Dear Annie: I recently
moved into an apartment
with three other guys. We
get along well and have fun
together.
One of my roommates
is a serious player and has
no qualms about dating six
women at the same time. With
each one, he implies that the
relationship is exclusive. He
told me he does this because
he got burned once. I told
him thats a risk
in any relationship
and that he should
stop being part of
the problem.
Now he brings
his various girl-
friends to the
apartment. They
think hes a great
guy who seems so
genuine. I have to
interact with them
and feel horrible
lying, smiling
and pretending I dont know
whats really going on.
What should I do? If I
expose him, it will sour our
relationship. At the same
time, I cant keep pretending
that his womanizing is OK.
Do I really have to move
again? -- New Yorker
Dear New Yorker: You
cannot become involved in
every roommates issues, nor
can you be every womans
protector, although bless you
for trying. These women are
responsible for their own
character judgments, good
or bad. You have told The
Snake how you feel about
his behavior, and we think
you should do so again, more
forcefully, pointing out that
he has become the type of
person he detests. And when
he brings a girlfriend over,
we recommend you vacate
the premises or retreat to your
bedroom. You should not be
forced to put on a phony face
for his benefit.
Dear Annie: My son
recently married his long-
time girlfriend. My wife and
I paid for the rehearsal din-
ner and the honeymoon, and
the bridal couple paid for
the rest. The reception was
small, and the ceremony even
smaller. They also wanted no
children younger than high-
school age. We would have
liked to expand the guest list,
but it wasnt our money, and
we didnt push.
My sisters felt that their
young children should have
been invited, and one boycot-
ted the wedding in protest.
Then, two months later, our
cousin married, opting for a
destination wedding. Neither
my sisters nor I could make
it. Afterward, the couple held
a local reception and spe-
cifically said no children.
The same sister who boycot-
ted my sons wedding was
perfectly OK attending this
childfree reception.
My son is moving out of
state next year, and my wife
and I are retiring to Florida. I
would just as soon write off
that branch of the family, but
my wife wants to make a big
deal out of this snub. Your
suggestions? -- Put Out in
Peoria
Dear Put Out: The two
weddings are not exactly
comparable in that your son
is a closer relation to your
sisters young children than
your cousins child is, and
she was not as offended by
their exclusion.
However, boycot-
ting your sons wed-
ding was petty and
selfish. You need
not make a big deal
out of this or write
them off. Moving
away will take care
of any regular con-
tact while leaving
open the possibil-
ity of reconciliation
down the road.
Dear Annie:
Worried Driver in Lafayette,
Ind. asked for a universal
sign to get people to stop
talking on their cellphones
while driving. Despite all the
hysteria, the fact is that in the
15 years that cellphones have
become widespread, traffic
accidents and fatalities have
decreased 25 percent, accord-
ing to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration.
-- Hawaii
Dear Hawaii: The prob-
lem with quoting statistics
is that you have to put them
in context. Overall traffic
fatalities did dip, but dis-
tracted driving accidents
(e.g., eating, drinking,
adjusting the radio and cell-
phone use) increased by up
to 16 percent. Also, even
though hand-held phone use
decreased by 5 percent and
is against the law in more
states, 18 percent of distract-
ed-driving fatalities involved
cellphone use.
Annies Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of the
Ann Landers column.
Annies Mailbox
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012
The objectives that you thought
well beyond your scope last year could
now be within your reach. You have
an abundance of potential waiting to
be expressed and put to work that will
propel you onward and upward.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19) -- If you keep in mind that its
the bottom line that counts and not
all those little spurs that can puncture
you at times, itll get you focusing on
forces that can bring you success.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
-- One of your peers might try to have
you believe otherwise, but those in
authority do in fact hold you in high
regard. Dont listen to anyone who
doesnt want to know the truth.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- If
you are not demanding or critical of
others, you will outpoll everybody else
in the proverbial popularity contest.
Assume a friendly, enthusiastic
attitude with all, and watch the votes
roll in.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) --
Action you precipitate could promote
something beneficial for you and all
those with whom youre involved. By
putting the needs of others first, youll
come out ahead as well.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) --
Its up to you to think positively and
to establish desirable objectives for
yourself. You have plenty of reasons
to view life optimistically at this time.
If you instead take a dim view of
things, itll be your own fault.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) --If
you devote your attention and efforts
on ways to make money, you could do
very well for yourself. Get an early
start, lay out a solid game plan and
stick to it.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
-- There is only one thing that you
should keep uppermost in your mind,
and that is to know that you can
successfully manage anything you put
your mind to.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- This
is one of those days where it might
appear to be darker than usual before
the metaphorical dawn breaks.
Whatever you do, dont lose faith in
yourself or what you do, and things
will work out well.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) --
Something quite personal that isnt
of a material nature has an excellent
chance of working out to your
satisfaction. It might be fulfilled a lot
quicker than you think.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
People with whom youll be involved
are likely to provide a mix of both
good and bad episodes, which overall
will work out quite favorably for you
in both personal and career-related
areas.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) --
Lady Luck is likely to start cozying up
to you at this point in time, and thats
why you may now begin to find far
fewer obstacles blocking your path.
Enjoy the clear headway.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-
Dec. 21) -- Its best not to discuss a
disturbing matter that another person
is grappling with. By talking about it,
you could cause additional problems
for the party in question.
COPYRIGHT 2012 United Feature Syndicate,
Inc.
Answers to Thursdays questions:
The first president to actively promote the nations
developing textile industry by wearing a suit made with
U.S.-manufactured fabric to his inauguration was George
Washington, at his first inauguration in 1789. The plain
dark brown fabric of his suit was made in Hartford,
Conn.
The now-extinct megalodon, believed to be the larg-
est predator ever to exist on earth, was a giant prehis-
toric shark reaching 50 feet or more in length that fed on
whales.
Todays questions:
What Nobel Prize-winning author wrote a poem
entitled, Ash Wednesday?
Which three National Football league teams share the
title for the most Super Bowl losses, with four each?
Answers in Saturdays Herald
Todays words:
Genethliac: pertaining to birthdays
Noli-me-tangeretarian: rigid, unbending
The Outstanding National Debt as of 7 a.m. today
was $15,243,918,918,650.
The estimated population of the United States is
312,026,390, so each citizens share of this debt is
$48,855.
The National Debt has continued to increase an aver-
age of $3.98 billion per day since Sept. 28, 2007.
Despite video outrage, no halt to peace talk moves
By ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON Pentagon officials
worry that outrage over a video purporting to
depict Marines urinating on Taliban corpses
will tarnish the reputation of the entire mili-
tary. Some also fear it could undermine pros-
pects for exploratory Afghan peace talks.
After roundly condemning the Marines
alleged behavior, Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta and top military leaders on Thursday
promised a full investigation and sought to
contain the damage at home and abroad.
Panetta also said the incident could endan-
ger the outlook for peace talks, although the
Obama administration and the Taliban each
voiced readiness Thursday to try peace talks
while pledging to carry on the military con-
flict until their rival objectives are met. The
separate statements by senior American and
Taliban officials illustrated the improved envi-
ronment for Afghan reconciliation efforts as
well as the daunting task ahead.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service,
the law enforcement arm of the Navy, is
heading the main inquiry, which is expected
to weigh evidence of violations of the U.S.
military legal code as well as the international
laws of warfare. Separately, the Marine Corps
is doing its own internal investigation.
By Thursday evening, the NCIS had inter-
viewed two of the four Marines appearing
in the video. At the time they were filmed
urinating on the bodies, the four were mem-
bers of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which
fought in the southern Afghan province of
Helmand for seven months before returning to
their home base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., last
September.
Two of the four, plus the commander of the
battalion, had moved on to other assignments
before the video appeared on the Internet,
according to Marine Corps officials who spoke
on condition of anonymity in order to discuss
an active investigation.
Even Thursdays emergence of the Internet
video depicting Marines urinating on what
appear to be Afghan corpses didnt seem to
immediately set back movement toward explor-
atory negotiations with the Taliban. Asked
about possible implications for peace talks,
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said
the U.S. remained strongly committed to sup-
porting Afghan efforts.
Panetta, however, said the incident could
endanger the talks.
The danger is that this kind of video can
be misused in many ways to undermine what
we are trying to do in Afghanistan and the pos-
sibility of reconciliation, Panetta said at Fort
Bliss, Texas, adding its important for the U.S.
to move quickly to send a clear signal to the
world that the U.S. will not tolerate this kind
of behavior and that is not what the U.S. is all
about.
Before he left Washington for his troop visit
to Fort Bliss, Panetta called President Hamid
Karzai to promise a full investigation of the
video affair and condemned the Marines
behavior as entirely inappropriate.
As the video spread across the Internet in
postings and re-postings, U.S. officials joined
with Afghans in calling it shocking, deplorable,
inhumane and a breach of military standards of
conduct. It shows men in Marine combat gear
standing in a semicircle urinating on the bodies
of three men in standard Afghan clothing, one
whose chest was covered in blood.
Its not certain whether the dead were
Taliban fighters, civilians or someone else.
The incident will likely further hurt ties with
Karzais government and complicate negotia-
tions over a strategic partnership arrangement
meant to govern the presence of U.S. troops
and advisers in Afghanistan after most inter-
national combat troops withdraw by the end
of 2014.
Anti-American sentiment is already on the
rise in Afghanistan, especially among Afghans
who have not seen improvements to their daily
lives despite billions of dollars in international
aid. They also have deplored the accidental
killing of civilians during NATO airstrikes
and argue that foreign troops have culturally
offended the Afghan people, mostly when it
comes to activities involving women and the
Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Pentagon officials said the criminal inves-
tigation would likely look into whether the
Marines violated laws of war, which include
prohibitions against photographing or mishan-
dling bodies and detainees. It also appeared
to violate the U.S. Uniform Code of Military
Justice, which governs conduct. Thus, some
or all of the four Marines could face a military
court-martial or other disciplinary action.
Karzai called the video completely inhu-
mane. The Afghan Defense Ministry called it
shocking. And the Taliban issued a statement
accusing U.S. forces of committing numerous
indignities against the Afghan people.
Panetta said the actions depicted in the brief
video were inexcusable.
I have seen the footage, and I find the
behavior depicted in it utterly deplorable. I
condemn it in the strongest possible terms,
Panettas statement said. Those found to have
engaged in such conduct will be held account-
able to the fullest extent.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, said he was
deeply disturbed by the video and worried that
it would erode the reputation of the entire mili-
tary, not just the Marine Corps.
On the streets of Afghanistan, the reaction
was cool.
If these actions continue, people will not
like them (the Americans) anymore and there
will be uprising against them, Mohammad
Qayum, said while watching a television news
story about the video that was airing in a local
restaurant in Kabul.
Ahmad Naweed, a shopkeeper in Kandahar,
the birthplace of the Taliban insurgency, said,
On the one hand, the Americans present them-
selves as friends of Afghanistan and ... they
also try to have peace talks with the Taliban.
So we dont know what kind of political game
they are playing in Afghanistan.
Penn State president: This is the Sandusky scandal
By MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. Penn State Universitys president
told alumni that the schools crisis can be blamed on one person:
former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. But many alumni
are still grieving over the firing of longtime football coach Joe
Paterno.
In a sometimes heated 90-minute exchange Thursday night at
a hotel near Philadelphia, university president Rodney Erickson
laid the blame for the schools crisis on Sandusky.
It grieves me very much when I hear people say the Penn
State scandal. This is not Penn State. This is the Sandusky
scandal, he said. Were not going to let what one individual
did destroy the reputation of this university.
Erickson will be in New York today for the final alumni town
hall event aimed at repairing the schools image following the child
molestation charges filed against Sandusky, a retired defensive
coordinator. He may not have an easy time of it if his previous
stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia are any indication.
Most of the questions from alumni Thursday concerned
Paterno, and the deep pain his firing has caused them. Several
asked if Erickson plans to apologize to Paterno.
Erickson said it was not his place, since the board had fired
Paterno. He frequently reminded the audience that he reports to
the board, and cant tell them what to do.
The response elicited groans and heckling at times. But sev-
eral alumni thanked Erickson for holding the sessions, when
board members have not.
They seem to be hiding under a rock someplace, said John
Lagana, 74, of Chester Springs, Class of 62. Im a big Joe Pa
fan, and I think he was treated unjustly.
Many alumni called for the board to resign, or worried about
their diplomas being tarnished. Several said they were astonished
that more wasnt done to manage the looming crisis during the
grand jury investigation.
The 67-year-old Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing
10 boys over a 15-year period. He maintains his innocence and
remains out on $250,000 bail while awaiting trial.
Two Penn State administrators are facing charges they lied to
a grand jury investigating Sandusky and failed to properly report
suspected child abuse. Gary Schultz, a former vice president, and
Tim Curley, the athletic director, have denied the allegations and
await trial.
Retired journalist Francine Cheeks, of Philadelphia, said she
was surprised at the unrelenting focus on Paterno.
Sue and Joe Paterno are not the primary victims in this whole
scheme, said Cheeks, Class of 1965. Its children whose lives
have been affected, and maybe destroyed, allegedly.
Her college roommate, Marcia Hannah, of Wayne, fears the
worst isnt over for Penn State. She said the school wasnt pre-
pared for the media crush that followed the arrest of Sandusky
and the school officials, and doubts theyre preparing now for
their trials.
Weather-weary get more snow
By MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL DORO
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The worst winter anyone can
remember in Alaska has piled snow so high people cant see out the
windows, kept a tanker in ice-choked waters from delivering fuel on
time and turned snow-packed roofs into sled runs.
While most of the nation has gone without much seasonal snow,
the state already known for winter is buried in weather that has
dumped more than twice as much snow as usual on its largest city,
brought out the National Guard and put a run on snow shovels.
As a Russian tanker crawled toward the iced-in coastal commu-
nity of Nome to bring in much-needed fuel, weather-weary Alaskans
awoke Thursday to more snow and said enough was enough.
The scary part is, we still have three more months to go, said
Kathryn Hawkins, a veterinarian who lives in the coastal commu-
nity of Valdez, about 100 miles southeast of Anchorage. I look out
and go, Oh my gosh, where can it all go?
More than 26 feet of snow has fallen in Valdez since November.
The 8-foot snow piles outside Hawkins home are so high she cant
see out the front or back of her house. Her 12-year-old son has been
sliding off the roof into the yard.
In the nearby fishing community of Cordova, more than 172
inches of snow has fallen since November; snow began falling
again after midnight Wednesday. The Alaska National Guard was
called in to help move the snow, and the city is running out of places
to put it. Front-end loaders are hauling snow from dump piles to a
snow-melting machine.
Thats our big issue, getting our snow dumps cleared for the
next barrage of snow, Cordova spokesman Allen Marquette said.
South of the mainland, a fishing vessel, a house boat and a plea-
sure craft moored in Kodiak Islands St. Paul Harbor sank when
they became overloaded with snow, the Coast Guard said.
Anchorage had 88 inches fall as of Thursday more than twice
the average snowfall of 30.1 inches for the same time period. The
weather service counts July 1 through the end of June as a snow
season. More than 7 inches had fallen Thursday and more than a
foot was expected.
This years total already broke the record 77.3 inches that fell
during the same period in 1993-94. If it keeps up, Anchorage is
on pace to have the snowiest winter ever, surpassing the previous
record of 132.8 inches in 1954-55.
Natalee Holloway declared dead
Christie, Oprah talk about weight, love, politics
2 Army brigades
to leave Europe
By JUAN CARLOS
LLORCA
Associated Press
FORT BLISS, Texas
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
said Thursday the Army will
withdraw two combat brigades
from Europe as part of a broad
reorienting of U.S. forces and
instead rotate units in and out
of the region, presumably from
U.S. bases.
Panetta made the comment
to a Defense Department news
service whose representative
was traveling with him to Fort
Bliss.
Panetta told the Armed
Forces Press Service on board
his plane that the Army will
do more rotational movement
of combat forces not only in
Europe but also in Africa and
Latin America. . It will keep
the ground forces very mean-
ingful in the future, he was
quoted as saying.
Last week, the Pentagon
announced a new defense strat-
egy to accommodate hundreds
of billions of dollars in budget
cuts over the coming decade.
At the time, Panetta said that
the military will get smaller
and that its presence in Europe
would evolve. But he declined
then to discuss what that would
mean for the long-standing U.S.
presence in Europe.
A combat brigade typically
consists of 3,000 to 4,000 sol-
diers.
Later, Panetta addressed
about 500 soldiers and their
family members at the sprawl-
ing Fort Bliss Army post,
ensuring them that their ben-
efits will not be affected by the
announced budget cuts to the
military.
Pledging that the Defense
Department would not break
faith with those who have
served, Panetta said: You are
the heart and soul of the future
of the military.
On the threat posed by
Iran, the defense secretary said
the country undermines gov-
ernments in the region and is
developing nuclear capabilities.
But in answer to a sol-
diers question about the pos-
sibility of a military strike on
Iran, he said sanctions on Iran
are having an impact on the
economy and governance of
the country.
By PHILLIP RAWLS
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
The parents of Natalee
Holloway looked on somberly
as a judge on Thursday declared
their child dead, more than six
years after the American teen-
ager vanished during a high
school graduation trip to the
Caribbean island of Aruba.
Weve been dealing with
her death for the last six and
a half years, Dave Holloway
said after a brief hearing. He
said the judges order closes
one chapter in a long ordeal,
but added: Weve still got a
long way to go to get justice.
Natalee Holloway disap-
peared in Aruba on May 30,
2005. The 18-year-old was
last seen leaving a bar early
that morning with a young
Dutchman, Joran van der Sloot.
Her body was never found and
the ensuing searches for the
young woman would reap
intense media scrutiny and
worldwide attention.
Thursdays hearing was
scheduled long before van der
Sloot a suspect questioned
in Holloways disappearance
pleaded guilty Wednesday
in Peru to the 2010 murder of
a woman he met at a casino in
Lima. Stephany Flores, 21,
was killed five years to the day
after Holloway, an 18-year-old
from the wealthy Birmingham
suburb of Mountain Brook,
disappeared.
Shortly after Flores death
on May 30, 2010, van der
Sloot told police he killed the
woman in Peru in a fit of rage
after she discovered on his lap-
top his connection to the disap-
pearance of Holloway. Police
forensic experts disputed the
claim.
Dave Holloway told the
judge in September he believed
his daughter had died and he
wanted to stop payments on
her medical insurance and use
her $2,000 college fund to help
her younger brother.
The teens mother origi-
nally objected, but her lawyer,
Charlie DeBardeleben, said
she subsequently changed her
mind once she understood her
husbands intentions.
Natalee Holloways parents
were divorced in 1993 and
Beth Holloway sat in the back
row of the courtroom, mostly
staring at her hands in her lap
through the hearing Thursday
afternoon in a probate court in
Birmingham.
Although Beth Holloway
declined to speak to journalists,
her attorney signaled it was a
difficult moment for her to wit-
ness a judge signing the order
declaring her daughter dead.
Shes ready to move on
from this, DeBardeleben
added.
Mark White, an attorney
for Dave Holloway, told the
judge just before he announced
his decision, that there was no
evidence that Holloway was
alive.
Despite all that no evi-
dence has been found Natalee
Holloway is alive, he told the
judge, noting that exhaustive
searches, blanket international
media coverage and even the
offer of rewards had turned up
nothing new.
King had ruled in September
that Dave Holloway had met
the legal presumption of death
for his daughter and it was up
to someone to prove she didnt
die on a high school gradua-
tion trip. He had set the hear-
ing after a period of several
months in the event anyone
might come forward with new
information.
By BETH DeFALCO
Associated Press
Time to steal the doughnuts!
Apparently, thats also the way to steal New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christies heart.
In an interview with talk-show queen Oprah
Winfrey, set to air this weekend, the hefty GOP
governor said he knew that he had found a part-
ner for life in wife Mary Pat when she suggested
making an illicit late-night doughnut run.
The governor and Winfrey also dished about
their struggle with weight and presidential politics.
A full transcript of the interview was obtained in
advance by The Associated Press. The hour-long
interview, filmed at Christies home in Mendham,
is scheduled to air Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on the
Oprah Winfrey Network.
Asked by Winfrey what drew him to Mary
Pat, whom he met at the University of Delaware
in the 1980s when they were both involved in
student government, he said it was her indepen-
dence, her faith, and because she was fun.
She was fun in a different way than Id ever
experienced with anybody Id ever dated. She
was very spontaneous, Christie told Winfrey.
Spontaneous like? Winfrey asked.
Lets go break into the kitchen in the dining
hall at college because we smell that they are bak-
ing doughnuts for the next morning, he recalled
Mary Pat saying. So lets sneak in and steal
some of the doughnuts now.
Christie and Winfrey spoke at length about
controlling their weight and managing the criti-
cism surrounding it; specifically what it feels
like to be on the short end of a Dave Letterman
fat joke.
It didnt bother you? Winfrey asked.
Because let me tell you, when David Letterman
was making jokes about me, it bothered me.
I think I was girded for it, Oprah, I really do,
Christie responded, saying he had developed a
shell about it.
The conversation also hit more serious over-
tones as Winfrey asked him, Mary Pat and their
four children Andrew, 18, Sarah, 15, Patrick,
11, and Bridget, 8 about the pressure of being
asked to run for president.
Sarah lamented to Winfrey about being banned
from having a Facebook page.
By the way, who backed us up on you not hav-
ing a Facebook account? Christie pointed out.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-creator of the social
networking site, Sarah answered, reluctantly.
Christie, Zuckerberg and Newark Mayor Cory
Booker, a Democrat, appeared on Winfreys
talk show in September 2010 to announce that
Facebook was pledging a $100 million donation
to the Newark public schools.
Christie said he wanted his daughter to wait
until she was a little older, given his position, so
that she can better handle the opportunity for
mischief that Facebook provides a position
he said Zuckerberg supported.
Battle lines stark in gov. recall
By TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE Sonja OBrien heard from the hecklers
as she collected signatures in a final push to recall Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker.
One man yelled at her for forcing the state to spend millions
on a recall election. A woman told her she was annoying. And
Jack Bublitz, a 75-year-old retired banker, said Democrats
would never collect enough names.
Youre not going to do it! Youre not going to do it!
Bublitz yelled at her.
But OBrien figured these naysayers were relatively civil com-
pared to most days over the past two months in what has become a
knock-down, drag-out brawl to oust Walker from office. Now the
fight is about to move from the streets to the courtroom.
Democrats want to wind up the signature drive this week-
end and get the names to state election officials by Tuesdays
deadline. GOP legal challenges are almost certain to follow.
With supporters and detractors almost equally vocal, the
recent petition campaign has been a microcosm of a political
landscape that remains toxic and highly divided a year after
the Republican governor introduced his plan to strip almost all
public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

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