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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 50 daily Delphos, Ohio
Forecast
DELPHOS HERALD
The
Telling The Tri-Countys Story Since 1869
Jefferson wins pair of wrestling
matches, p6
Ohio DEMS eye guns, ballot
access, economy, p3
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morning then
becoming
partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 30s.
Lows 15 to 20. See page 2.
Board hopes to hire superintendent in March
BY NANCY SPENCER
nspencer@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS The Delphos City
Schools Board of Education is ready
to take applications for the super-
intendents position. According
to newly-elected Board President
Perry Wiltsie, a brochure will be
sent out to superintendents in all
610 public school districts in Ohio
followed up by an email next week
to all superintendents and principals
in those schools.
The district will take applica-
tions until Feb. 15 and start inter-
viewing on March 5, hoping to
name a new superintendent by the
end of the month.
Interim Superintendent Frank
Sukup will stay until the end of the
school year.
During the organizational meet-
ing, Wiltsie was also named leg-
islative liaison and Joe Rode was
elected as board vice president and
student liaison. For the first time
in more than 40 years, the school
board will meet at a different time.
The board will continue to meet on
the second Monday but at 7:30 p.m.
The Finance Committee meetings
will be at 7:30 p.m. the Thursday
before the regularly scheduled
board meeting. These meetings are
also open to the public.
The board passed a resolution
seeking the amounts of the Delphos
Public Librarys .6-mill 5-year-
renewal levy from the Allen County
Auditors Office. The levy was first
approved by voters in 1978 and for
the last five years, raised approxi-
mately $49,000 a year.
A special board meeting has
been set for 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23 to
approve the amounts after they are
received from the auditors office
so the measure can be placed on the
May Primary Ballot.
School Treasurer Brad Rostorfer
was approved to sit on the library
Delphos City Schools
Delphos City Schools Superintendent Frank Sukup, left, and School Board President Perry Wiltsie, right,
present building principals Mark Fuerst, second from left, Terry Moreo and John Edinger with framed
photos of those in attendance at the celebration when the school earned its Excellent with Distinction rat-
ing on the Ohio Department of Education Report Card. (Delphos Herald/Nancy Spencer)
Elida School Board
divided on May levy
BY STACY TAFF
staff@delphosherald.com
ELIDA Four Elida resi-
dents approached the Elida
Board of Education Tuesday
night, begging members to
resolve differences and get
behind the districts request
to put a new levy on the bal-
lot in May after two board
members voted against the
proposal at the last meeting.
Jo Ellen Miller, also an
employee of the district, said
working together is the key to
levy success.
With all of the detailed
information you and the pub-
lic have been given regarding
the cuts in state revenue and
reductions that have already
been made, how can you not
support the levies? she asked.
Taxpayers dont want to pay
taxes but they want good pub-
lic schools. None of this is
free and Elida is already one
of the most financially lean in
the state of Ohio. Demonstrate
your cooperation by working
together for the children, the
parents, the staff members and
community members of the
Elida Local School District.
Please, work harder together
than youve ever worked indi-
vidually and the levies will
pass.
Michelle Etzkorn, mother
of three Elida students, asked
board members and residents
to vote yes for a better tomor-
row.
In an ideal world, no one
would have to pay more for
anything. I think we all know
thats unrealistic with the
current state of educational
funding, she said. Lets
stop and think about who
our vote truly affects. Not
the board, the treasurer or
even the superintendent, not
nearly as much as it affects
our teachers and our students.
Do not look for a reason to
vote no. Instead, look for a
way to make a personal sacri-
fice to do what is right for our
children and to cast the vote
that will give them a better
tomorrow.
For three of the last five
years, Elida has achieved an
excellent rating despite dev-
astating cuts to curriculum
and staff over the last decade.
Resident Gene Wheeler says
this is a testament to the effi-
ciency of the board and the
district.
Obviously, something
has been going right with
the school board, he said. I
think people need to put their
differences aside and vote for
the kids.
Board members Brian
Anders and Brad Settlage,
who voted no again Tuesday,
said their stance is rooted in
community concern.
Ten weeks ago, 60
percent of voters said no.
They said it so strongly and
its like we havent heard
them, Anders said. Its
like when you say no to a
little child. No means no,
you dont keep shoving this
in their face.
Its a difference of opin-
ion, Settlage said. When we
vote, its like what I would
do at the voting booth. The
majority of people who con-
tacted me about the levy were
not for it at that time in their
lives. My position was totally
different from that. I voted to
put it on the ballot and they
voted it down and I dont
think there has been enough
time since it was voted down
Elida students of the month for January were named at Tuesdays meeting. Back, from
left: Superintendent Don Diglia, Sarah McCleary, Dakotah Rolfe, Carly Smith and Board
President Dennis Fricke; and front: Tyler Long. Other students of the month not pres-
ent were: Ben Moening, Conner Smith, Emily Campbell, Mason Chiles, Cameron Fetter,
Alex Treece and A.J. Siefker. (Delphos Herald/Stacy Taff)
Fort Jennings now
Purple Heart Village
BY NANCY SPENCER
nspencer@delphosherald.com
FORT JENNINGS Fort
Jennings is now a Purple Heart
Village. Council approved a
proclamation Tuesday noting
the village as such with Aug.
7 designated as Purple Heart
Day. Plans for celebrating are
still underway. Mayor Jim
Smith said the actual events
in observance of Purple Heart
Day will take place during the
villages annual celebration
later in August.
The new sanitary sewer
line project at Fort Jenning
Park, which will also be run
to the new restroom facil-
ity, will get underway soon.
Smith said a pre-construction
meeting between engineers
and the contractor was held
and work should begin as
soon as weather permits and
floodwaters recede in the
park.
The village received a
50/50 match grant for $24,428
from the Ohio Public Works
Commission State Capital
Improvement program. The
projects estimated cost is
$42,525.
A sanitary sewer line will
be installed from Second
Street north of Fort Jennings
State Bank to and under the
Auglaize River and to the
Fort Jennings Park Board rec-
reation building at the west
entrance of the park.
The village has also
received a 50/50 grant for
the reconstruction of Second
Street from Water Street to
the end of Second. The total
cost for the project is esti-
mated at $42,000. The old
pavement will be dug out, a
new base put down and then
the roadway will be repaved.
With half of the project fund-
ed, Smith asked council how
they would like to fund the
other half.
I have talked to the
bank but didnt get any firm
answers, Smith said. We
can talk about that and then
go back to them to see where
they stand.
The village is still awaiting
reimbursement from FEMA
for damages from the June
30 storm.
I think we are waiting
on approximately $5,800 and
there is a possibility we may
be able to get some additional
monies from the state, Smith
said.
In the police report, Chief
Ethyl Vaughn reported the
tennis courts at Fort Jennings
Park have been cordoned off
to prevent snowmobiles and
Jennings school board
receives standing ovation
BY STEPHANIE GROVES
sgroves@delphosherald.com
FORT JENNINGS A
standing ovation was given
the Fort Jennings Board of
Education during the meeting
on Monday night in honor
of School Board Appreciation
Month.
In a written quote, the
administration, staff, teachers
and students expressed their
appreciation for each board
members dedication and
commitment of time, guid-
ance and support. Elementary
Principal Kathleen Verhoff
stood and applauded the panel
for their outstanding achieve-
ments.
The board approved the
Alternative Tax Budget with
board member Deb Calvelage
explaining the budget.
The Alternative Tax
Budget is a 5-year forecast for
gas expenditures, Calvelage
said. It will change with gas
usage.
In financial business, High
School Principal Nicholas
Langhals reviewed bus
repair expenses paid for in
December. We are right on
track with previous years
budget, Langhals verified. In
other financial news, the board
accepted a variety of dona-
tions: $165 from poster boards
donated by Drew Fields; $500
to the Elementary Activities
Fund for COSI expenses; $250
to the Art Department and
$250 to the band, all from the
Fort Jennings Boosters; and
the donation of a Sousaphone,
valued at $1,100, from Dennis
and Virginia Calvelage.
Langhals reported Race
to the Top is continuing as
planned and they are look-
ing at teacher evaluations in-
depth.
In addition, the band is
planning upcoming fundrais-
ing events to help with the cost
of the band trip to Disney.
Citing a shorter Christmas
break, good weather and
strong student attendance,
Verhoff announced that the
school year is halfway com-
plete.
The school board also
held its yearly reorganiza-
tional meeting, electing Karl
Schimmoeller as president
and Cliff Wieging as vice
president. Schimmoeller pro-
ceeded to appoint the follow-
ing committees; Legislative
Its up to the
board, the admin-
istration and the
students to go
out and educate
our voting pub-
lic on the need,
because we actu-
ally have a need
for this money.
Nothing the school
has done caused
this situation.
Theyve pulled
the purse strings
in Columbus and
that is the situa-
tion were find-
ing ourselves
in. Its not the
schools fault. ...
Elida School Board
President Dennis Fricke
See ELIDA, page 2 See SCHOOL, page 2
See JENNINGS, page 2
See DELPHOS, page 2
Cage tickets on sale
Both St. Johns and
Jefferson are selling pre-
sale boys basketball tickets
for games this weekend.
The Blue Jays are at New
Knoxville with a 6:30 p.m.
(JV) tip Friday. Adult tick-
ets and all those at the gate
are $6; student cost is $4.
Tickets will be sold during
normal high school office
hours until 1 p.m. on Friday.
Jefferson is selling pre-
sale tix at all four City
School buildings and the
Administration Building
for its road games at
Lincolnview Friday and
home game with Pandora-
Gilboa Saturday for $5 for
adults and $5 for students;
all tix at the doors are $6.
THURSDAY
Girls Basketball (6 p.m.):
Lincolnview at Jefferson
(NWC); Fort Jennings
at Continental (PCL);
Spencerville at Columbus
Grove (NWC); Shawnee
at Elida (WBL); Van Wert
at Bath (WBL); Paulding
at Crestview (NWC); New
Knoxville at St. Johns
(MAC) - V only, 7 p.m.
Wrestling (6 p.m.):
Paulding at Spencerville
(NWC); Elida at Van
Wert tri-match (WBL).
FRIDAY
Boys Basketball (6 p.m.):
Jefferson at Lincolnview
(NWC); Continental at Fort
Jennings (PCL); Columbus
Grove at Spencerville
(NWC); Elida at Shawnee
(WBL); Bath at Van Wert
(WBL); Crestview at
Paulding (NWC); St. Johns
at New Knoxville (MAC),
6:30 p.m.; Ottoville at Miller
City (PCL), 6:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Jefferson,
Lincolnview and Columbus
Grove at Van Buren
Invitational, 5 p.m.
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Elida
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for us to put it back out there.
I know what Im going to
do. Im just trying to fulfill
my obligation to do what the
community wants.
Board President Dennis
Fricke encouraged all to avoid
placing blame for the levy on
the school and administrators.
Its up to the board,
the administration and
the students to go out and
educate our voting public
on the need, because we
actually have a need for this
money, he said. Nothing
the school has done caused
this situation. Theyve pulled
the purse strings in Columbus
and that is the situation were
finding ourselves in. Its not
the schools fault. Its our
representatives, senators and
governor in Columbus who
are doing this to us.
In May, voters will
be asked to approve a five-
year, 5.95 mill property-tax
levy that is projected to raise
$2.1 million, which will
barely allow the district to
maintain current operations
and retain all-day, everyday
kindergarten.
The board concluded the
meeting in executive session
to discuss a reduction plan.
Without any further changes
or cuts, a spending deficit
of $1,211,879 is projected
for 2014 if the levy fails in
May. If the district cuts all
day kindergarten and makes
$465,569 in reductions, the
projected spending deficit
would still be $447,335. Elida
would be forced to go back to
the ballot again in November
to avoid fiscal emergency.
The board gave a
unanimous yes to place a
1 mill renewal levy on the
ballot in May, which raises
$355,843 a year.
During the boards
organizational meeting on
Jan. 8, Dennis Fricke was re-
appointed board president,
Sally Ulrich was re-appointed
vice president, Brenda
Stocker was named the
boards Legislative Liason
and Brad Settlage was named
the Student Achievement
Liaison Delegate.
Diglia declared January to
be School Board Recognition
Month to show appreciation
for the Elida Board of
Educations dedication to the
district.
The board approved a
resolution of appreciation
of Elida school counselors
for the occasion of National
School Counselors Week,
Feb. 4-8.
Students of the month
for January are: Elida
Elementary- Tyler Long, Ben
Moening, Conner Smith;
Elida Middle School- Emily
Campbell, Mason Chiles,
Cameron Fetter, Alex Treece;
Elida High School- Sarah
McCleary, Dakotah Rolfe,
A.J. Siefker, Carly Smith.
School
Delphos
board for seven more years.
Temporary appropriations
for the 2013 calendar year were
also approved for the library.
Permanent appropriations will
be submitted at a later date.
Students at the public and
parochial schools will not have
class on Monday or Tuesday.
Monday is Martin Luther King
Jr. Day and on Tuesday, staff
members at the city schools
will take A.L.I.C.E. training
from local law enforcement
officers. A.L.I.C.E. stands
for alert, lockdown, inform,
counter and evacuate and is
geared toward actions to be
taken when a gunman enters a
school building.
Principals John Edinger
(high school), Terry Moreo
(middle school) and Mark
Fuerst (Franklin and Landeck)
were presented framed photos
of all who attended the
celebration for the schools
Excellent with Distinction
rating on the Ohio Department
of Education Report Card.
Retirement notices were
accepted for Laura Osburn
from her post as junior high
language arts teacher and
Elaine Jostpille from her bus
route at the end of the school
year. Osburn has taught with
the district for 30 years.
Jostpille has been a sub or
regular driver for 33 years.
The board also approved
Heather Brickner as girls
junior varsity softball coach
for the 2013 spring season.
In other business, the
board:
Accepted the resignation
of Josiah Stober as junior
varsity baseball coach. Stober
was approved as head softball
coach at the December
meeting;
Approved moving Doug
Sanders to the 140 hour
column of the salary schedule,
per the negotiated agreement;
and
Approved the 2013-14
school calendar with the first
day of classes on Aug. 27 and
the last day on May 30, 2014.
Commencement will be at 9
a.m. on May 31.
The next regularly
scheduled meeting will begin
at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 11.
ATVs from traveling across
the newly-resurfaced courts.
Maintenance Supervisor
Ted Wrasman added that a
representative from Leslie
Coatings did stop in the
village and was now aware of
issues with the tennis courts.
He said he would make it
right but of course, we have to
wait until the weather is a little
better, Wrasman said.
Vaughn also said 10 village
children were very happy to
have seen Santa Claus last
month and the police car
needs a new battery.
In other business, the
board:
Re-elected Randy Wieging
as council president;
Passed on emergency
measure an ordinance to hire
Bill Wildenhaus as village
solicitor; and
Appointed 2013 com-
mittee members include:
Sewer - Walt Pitney (chair),
Greg Brown and the Fiscal
Officer Pam Wagner
Public Utilities - Grace
Dickman (chair), Pitney and
Jeff Swick
Police, Health and Safety
- Brown (chair), Duane
Hoersten and Dickman
Village Finance - Wieging
(chair), Dickman and Wagner
Flood Plain Permits -
Hoerstmen (chair), Brown and
Swick
Environmental - Swick
(chair), Pitney and Wieging
Zoning - Wieging (chair)
and all council; and
Agreed to keep the
meeting at 7:30 p.m. on the
third Tuesday of each month
in the library.
Jennings
Newtown shooting survivors
record song for charity
NEW YORK (AP)
Children who survived last
months shooting rampage at
Connecticuts Sandy Hook
Elementary School have
recorded a version of Over the
Rainbow to raise money for
charity.
Twenty-one children from
Newtown, Conn., performed
the song Tuesday with singer-
songwriter Ingrid Michaelson
on ABCs Good Morning
America. Most of them are
current and former students of
the school, where 20 first-grad-
ers and six staff members were
killed.
They recorded Over the
Rainbow on Monday at the
Fairfield, Conn., home of Chris
Frantz and Tina Weymouth,
two former members of the
Talking Heads and Tom Tom
Club rock bands. Copies went
on sale Tuesday on Amazon
and iTunes, with proceeds
benefiting the United Way of
Western Connecticut and the
Newtown Youth Academy.
Kayla Verga, 10, said she
was singing for a friend, 6-year-
old Jessica Rekos, who was
killed in the massacre.
Singing the song makes me
feel like shes with me and shes
beside me, singing along with
me, Kayla told GMA.
Another girl, 10-year-old
Sandy Hook student Jane Shearin,
added, I really want to be kind
to the people who have lost their
loved ones and help them to recov-
er from their sorrow.
Gunman Adam Lanza went
on a shooting spree with a semi-
automatic rifle in the school
on Dec. 14 after having killed
his mother at their home in
Newtown. He fatally shot him-
self as police arrived at the
school. Its still unclear what
motivated the attack.
The Sandy Hook children have
returned to classes in a neighbor-
ing town at a building renamed for
their old school. Newtown offi-
cials and residents have begun dis-
cussing what to do with the school
where the shootings occurred.
Corn $7.46
Wheat $7.58
Soybeans $14.24
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In Memory of
Daniel W.
Brinkman
03/29/52-01/16/12
A year has come and gone
and the hurt has taken its
toll. You were taken too soon
but we will always remember
your smiling face.
Love Always,
Carol, Jeremy, Josh
Sarah & grandkids
Patricia Etter Delphos weather
Risk to all ages: 100 kids
die of flu each year
Patricia Etter, 76, died Jan.
3 at her home in Olive Branch,
Ms.
She is survived by her
loving husband, Larry Jim
Etter, formerly of Delphos.
Funeral services were held
on Jan. 6 at Queen Catholic
Church in Olive Branch.
Condolences may be
express at memorialparkon-
line.com
High temperature Tuesday
in Delphos was 32 degrees,
low was 21. High a year ago
today was 48, low was 24.
Record high for today is 63,
set in 1984. Record low is -19,
set in 2009.
WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
The Associated Press
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy
through midnight then becom-
ing mostly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 20s. West winds 10
to 15 mph.
THURSDAY: Mostly
cloudy in the morning then
becoming partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
THURSDAY NIGHT:
Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
EXTENDED FORECAST
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 30s.
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph
becoming 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly
clear. Lows around 30.
SATURDAY: Partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower
40s.
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Partly cloudy with a 20 per-
cent chance of snow showers.
Lows around 20.
By MIKE STOBBE
NEW YORK How bad
is this flu season, exactly?
Look to the children.
Twenty flu-related deaths
have been reported in kids
so far this winter, one of the
worst tolls this early in the
year since the government
started keeping track in 2004.
But while such a tally is
tragic, that does not mean
this year will turn out to be
unusually bad. Roughly 100
children die in an average
flu season, and its not yet
clear the nation will reach
that total.
The deaths this year have
included a 6-year-old girl in
Maine, a 15-year Michigan
student who loved robot-
ics, and 6-foot-4 Texas high
school senior Max Schwolert,
who grew sick in Wisconsin
while visiting his grandpar-
ents for the holidays.
He was kind of a gentle
giant whose death has had
a huge impact on his home-
town of Flower Mound, said
Phil Schwolert, the Texas
boys uncle.
Health officials only
started tracking pediatric flu
deaths nine years ago, after
media reports called attention
to childrens deaths. That was
in 2003-04 when the primary
flu germ was the same dan-
gerous flu bug as the one
dominating this year. It also
was an earlier than normal
flu season.
The government ultimate-
ly received reports of 153
flu-related deaths in children,
from 40 states, and most of
them had occurred by the
beginning of January. But the
reporting was scattershot. So
in October 2004, the gov-
ernment started requiring all
states to report flu-related
deaths in kids.
Other things changed,
most notably a broad expan-
sion of who should get flu
shots. During the terrible
2003-04 season, flu shots
were only advised for chil-
dren ages 6 months to 2 years.
That didnt help 4-year-
old Amanda Kanowitz, who
one day in late February 2004
came home from preschool
with a cough and died less
than three days later. Amanda
was found dead in her bed
that terrible Monday morn-
ing, by her mother.
The worst day of our
lives, said her father, Richard
Kanowitz, a Manhattan attor-
ney who went on to found
a vaccine-promoting group
called Families Fighting Flu.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention grad-
ually expanded its flu shot
guidance, and by 2008 all
kids 6 months and older were
urged to get the vaccine. As
a result, the vaccination rate
for kids grew from under 10
percent back then to around
40 percent today.
Flu vaccine is also much
more plentiful. Roughly 130
million doses have been dis-
tributed this season, com-
pared to 83 million back
then. Public education seems
to be better, too, Kanowitz
observed.
The last unusually bad
flu season for children, was
2009-10 the year of the
new swine flu, which hit
young people especially hard.
As of early January 2010, 236
flu-related deaths of kids had
been reported since the previ-
ous August. Its been difficult
to compare the current flu
season to those of other win-
ters because this one started
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farmers to reduce
nutrient runoff
Study: Medicaid expansion
a boon to Ohio at first
Ohio Senate Dems eye guns,
ballot access, economy
NEWARK (AP) Groups
hoping to avert stricter regula-
tions are encouraging Ohio
farmers to voluntarily reduce
nutrient runoff thats been
partly blamed for algae hurt-
ing water quality in several
lakes.
The Advocate in Newark
reports the Ohio Farm Bureau
is among 20 groups that sent
letters urging thousands of
farmers to take proactive steps
and warning that the govern-
ment might create new regula-
tions if they dont.
Farm bureau spokesman
Joe Cornely says officials
arent sure of the best solu-
tion but suggest farmers take
steps now that are known to
address the problem and can
be documented. Those include
not using more fertilizer than
needed.
Phosphorus from farm fer-
tilizers and livestock manure
is suspected of feeding the
algae blooms that have been
a problem in Lake Erie and
inland lakes.
By JOHN SEEWER
TOLEDO Ohio stands
to make $1.4 billion over
the next decade by expand-
ing Medicaid under the
Affordable Care Act, but
the savings would eventu-
ally drop and just about break
even as the states costs
increase, according to a study
released Tuesday. The find-
ings released by the Health
Policy Institute of Ohio, a
nonpartisan policy organiza-
tion, comes just weeks before
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is
to announce whether Ohio
will expand Medicaid and
its health care services for
poor and disabled people.
Under the federal health care
law, states have the option to
expand Medicaid. Ohio offi-
cials are weighing the long-
term impact and potential
costs of expanding Medicaid
against the possible savings.
The institutes report
found nearly a half-million
uninsured Ohioans would get
coverage by 2022, at which
point the payments by the
federal government would
have tapered down. The anal-
ysis says Ohio would save
money in 2014 because the
federal government would
pay a much higher share of
Medicaid costs for newly eli-
gible adults. The state also
would see an increase in sales
and health insurance tax rev-
enues, the report said. It esti-
mates that Ohio would net
$104 million in the first year,
rising to $328 million in 2016.
After that, the state would
begin paying for the expan-
sion and see the amounts it
makes fall as well.
Medicaid expansion would
essentially be paying for itself
by 2022, but it would no lon-
ger be bringing in huge sums
for the state either, the report
said.
For states deciding to
make Medicaid available to
more people, the federal gov-
ernment will cover 100 per-
cent of the cost of the first
three years of the expansion,
gradually phasing down to
a 90 percent share still
more than states have tradi-
tionally received. The study
estimated that 456,000 unin-
sured Ohioans just above and
below the poverty line would
gain health care under the
expansion.
The group releasing the
report said it would not say
whether it thought Ohio
should expand Medicaid.
Our intention was to look
at this from as many angles
as we could, said Amy
Rohling McGee, president
of the Health Policy Institute
of Ohio, who cautioned that
numbers in the report are
projections and could change
slightly.
This analysis is not
inconsistent with what we
have heard from the wave
of hospitals and other stake-
holders that have been
urging the state to expand
Medicaid, said Eric Poklar,
of the governors Office of
Health Transformation. We
will continue to review all
of the data at our disposal
and feedback from stakehold-
ers, both for and against, and
recommend in the budget a
course of action that is best
for Ohio.
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
COLUMBUS Bills to
curb gun violence, improve
ballot access, support stable
families and address how
public schools are funded
are among priorities of state
Senate Democrats headed
into the new session.
Senate Democratic Leader
Eric Kearney, of Cincinnati,
said at a Tuesday unveiling
that the fact his 10 members
are the first legislative caucus
to announce their policy pri-
orities shows theyre ready
to work and put aside parti-
san differences.
Its always best to work
with people when you can
and only fight with people
when you have to, said
Kearneys No. 2, Sen. Joe
Schiavoni.
Republican Senate
President Keith Faber said
senators of both parties want
to improve Ohios economy
and will work together on
that.
Im sure well find
areas of disagreement along
the way, but Im commit-
ted to making sure that all
points of view are consid-
ered in the development of
our policy initiatives, Faber
said in a statement. Kearney
said Democrats are working
to craft a proposal to reduce
gun-related tragedies, a par-
ticular focus following last
months Newtown, Conn.,
elementary school shooting,
in which a gunman killed 20
first-graders and six school
administrators before com-
mitting suicide.
He said whether the bill
recommends an assault
weapons ban will depend on
input Sen. Shirley Smith, of
Cleveland, is gathering from
a host of interest groups on all
sides of the issue, including
gun rights groups. Kearney
said debate should not be cast
as a battle over the right to
bear arms.
I support the Second
Amendment of the
Constitution, as I do all the
other amendments to the
Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, he said. So thats
not really the issue, in my
view.
The caucus also will pro-
pose a bill addressing Ohio
election practices that its
members saw as suppressing
the vote in 2012, including
rules for counting provisional
ballots and a uniform state-
wide voting schedule that
represented reduced hours in
some large counties.
State Sen. Nina Turner,
of Cleveland, said the vote
is the great equalizer and
said it was trampled upon
last year through intimida-
tion and limits to access. She
said people shouldnt have
to jump hurdles to be able to
vote. Secretary of State Jon
Husted, a Republican who set
the uniform hours, defended
the 2012 election process
and questioned Democrats
allegations of suppression.
He said Ohio residents had
more opportunities than ever
to vote, including more than
five weeks of early voting
by mail.
Another Democratic bill
will propose phasing down
school districts reliance on
local property taxes as a way
to address Ohios unconstitu-
tional funding system, even-
tually requiring districts to
kick in no more than 20 mills,
or $2,000 for every $100,000
of property value, toward the
cost of their schools unless
they choose to. Sponsoring
Sen. Tom Sawyer said its a
distribution proposal, not a
funding proposal, and could
dovetail with a wide range
of funding proposals that
might arise in Republican
Gov. John Kasichs upcom-
ing school funding bill.
State Sen. Charleta
Tavares, of Columbus, said
shes proposing creation
of a state Family Stability
Commission aimed at tack-
ling poverty by keeping more
families together. She said
two-thirds of black children
grow up in single-parent
homes, which increases their
chances of being poor.
A similar central Ohio
commission gathered a host
of creative ideas, including
charging less for a marriage
license for those who receive
pre-marital counseling and
30-day timeouts before a
divorce.
The marriage contract,
Tavares said, should be at
least as difficult to break as
a contract for lawn services.
Sen. Edna Brown, of
Dayton, said shes got a
bill giving school buildings
with 50 percent of children
or more receiving free and
reduced-price lunches the
option of opening year-round
as summer feeding sites.
Requiring all Ohio public
colleges and universities to
offer opportunities for course
credit to military veterans for
service experiences, such as
being a medic or pilot, is
another proposal Democrats
will bring forward.
CINCINNATI (AP) A
community-based gun buy-
back effort has brought in
135 weapons in southwest
Ohio.
The first of three planned
events by a church outreach
program Tuesday ran out of
$100 gift cards, then gave
people IOUs for guns after
nearly 100 cards were given
out. Cincinnati police detec-
tives will check the weap-
ons to see if any have links
to cases they are working.
Otherwise, they will be melt-
ed into scrap.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
reports that a federally
licensed gun dealer showed
up to provide some compe-
tition. He bought a dozen
weapons for $40 to $100 by
standing outside the church
with a sign that read Cash
4 Guns.
Ohio board OKs
student restraint,
seclusion policy
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Moderately confused
One Year Ago
For the first time since 1965, the Van Wert County Fair
has a new manager. Ohio City native Denis Ellinger has been
installed in that post and is in the process of learning the
ropes around the fairgrounds. Ellinger steps into the shoes
of Paul Oeschle who became fair director on Dec. 27, 1965
and remained in that position until December 2007. From that
point, he stayed on as fair manager.
25 Years Ago 1988
The Jefferson Wildcats didnt do it with mirrors or slight
of hand. Instead, they used a smothering press and quick
hands to get the Lincolnview Lancers down early. The Lancers
couldnt recover from a 13-3 first quarter and went down to
defeat 75-39.
Catholic Daughters of Americas held its regular meeting
at the Knights of Columbus hall with a jitney auction. Mary
J. Menke, regent, reminded members of the upcoming CDA
state convention to be held in April in Toledo. Delegates and
alternates were elected as follows: Mary J. Menke, regent;
Veronica Luersman, first vice regent; and Mary Young, renew-
al chairman; and alternates Kathy Shaw, Kay Dannhausen and
Darlene Pohlman.
Elida Future Farmers of America members Tony Rode,
Matt Nusbaum and Bret Blymyer took part in district four
co-op test at Liberty Benton High School. The contest consists
of a written test covering the knowledge and operation of
agricultural co-ops. The team placed second out of nine teams
and will advance to state competition March 12 at Ohio State
University.
50 Years Ago 1963
Members of the Modern Mothers Chapter of the Child
Conservation League met Tuesday night in the home of the
president, Mrs. James Belt. It was decided to hold the annual
husbands party on Feb. 10 at the home of Mrs. Robert Bendele.
The members of the club spent the remainder of the meeting
making booties for the pediatric ward at St. Ritas Hospital.
A Delphos team took over the leadership of the 25
th
annual
Lima District Womens Bowling Tournament in its second
weekend at Westgate Lanes. The local team of Agnes Swick,
Jenny Gasser, Dorothy Smith, Eda Kohls and Alma Good,
pushed two pins past the Milano Club, which had taken over
first in the first shift Saturday.
More than 50 women members of the Delphos Country
Club and their guests, attended the special ladies day luncheon
and card party held Tuesday afternoon at the clubhouse. The
door prize, a lovely floral arrangement, was awarded to Mrs.
Hubert Calvelage and prizes in cards went to Mrs. Frank
Spieles, Mrs. Henry Fettig, Mrs. Robert Liggett, Mrs. Robert
Rozelle and Mrs. Tom Jones.
75 Years Ago 1938
The St. Johns forces are hard hit by injuries at present
but Coach Jake Schulte expects his players back in uniform by
Feb. 8. Carl Vonderembse, reserve basketball player, sustained
a dislocation of the left ankle Friday night in the game against
Celina Public. Jim Lange, junior high player, sustained a frac-
ture of one of the bones in his foot in practice this week. Robert
Wiechart, varsity substitute, and Howard Ditto, varsity regular
are both out of the lineup because of injuries.
Emma Kohl, East Jackson Street, was hostess to the
members of the Fortnite Pals Club at her home Friday evening.
Mrs. George Laudick was high in five-hundred, Mrs. P. R.
Thines, second, and Mrs. George Bertling, third. In two weeks,
the club will meet with Mrs. William Brandehoff, South Pierce
Street.
According to all indications, the 1937-38 Varsity repre-
sentation of the Ottoville High School should more than live up
to past records chalked up by Ottoville quintets. Their record
at the present time stands at eight wins and two losses. Friday
night, the Varsity cagers veritably swamped Miller City by a
47-10 count.
By TOM RAUM
and JENNIFER AGIESTA
WASHINGTON
Nearly six in 10 Americans
want stricter gun laws in the
aftermath of last months
deadly school shooting in
Connecticut, with majori-
ties favoring a nationwide
ban on military-style, rapid-
fire weapons and limits on
gun violence depicted in
video games, movies and TV
shows, according to a new
Associated Press-GfK poll.
A lopsided 84 percent
of adults would like to see
the establishment of a fed-
eral standard for background
checks for people buying
guns at gun shows, the poll
showed.
Three-quarters of
Americans said they reacted
to the Connecticut massacre
with deep anger, while 54
percent said they felt deeply
ashamed it could happen in
the United States.
President Barack Obama
was set today to unveil a
wide-ranging package of
steps for reducing gun vio-
lence, expected to include
a proposed ban on assault
weapons, limits on the capac-
ity of ammunition magazines
and universal background
checks for gun sales. Many
of the more restrictive pro-
posals under consideration,
such as the assault-weapons
ban, would face stiff congres-
sional opposition, particularly
among Republicans.
By contrast, the general
public appears receptive to
stronger federal action follow-
ing the Dec. 14 shooting spree
at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Conn.,
which claimed the lives of 20
children and six adults.
Some 58 percent favor
strengthening gun laws in the
United States. Just 5 percent
felt such laws should be loos-
ened, while 35 percent said they
should be left unchanged. In
comparison, after the Virginia
Tech shootings in 2007, an
Associated Press-Ipsos poll
found that 47 percent wanted
stricter gun laws, 38 percent
thought they should remain as
is and 11 percent wanted to see
them loosened.
Caroline Konczey, 63,
a retired Navy officer from
Indio, Calif., is among those
supporting a ban on military-
style assault weapons. I
cant imagine why anyone
would want one, she said.
What do you do with that,
unless youre a collector?
She suggested an underlying
source of gun violence was
the breakdown of the nuclear
family and a lack of access to
mental health care. Until you
strengthen the structure of the
family that teaches respect for
people, then this stuff goes
down, she said.
Specifically, majorities in
the new poll favored a nation-
wide ban on military-style,
rapid-fire guns (55 percent)
and limits on the amount and
type of gun violence that can
be portrayed in video games,
movies or on television (54
percent). About half (51 per-
cent) of those surveyed back
a ban on the sale of magazines
holding 10 or more bullets. At
the same time 51 percent said
that they believed laws limit-
ing gun ownership infringe
on the publics Second
Amendment right to possess
and carry firearms. Among
Republicans, 75 percent cited
such infringement.
Most Democrats (76 per-
cent) and independents (60
percent) back stricter gun
laws, while a majority of
Republicans (53 percent)
want gun laws left alone.
There is also a gender gap.
Gun control is a more impor-
tant issue for women, with 68
percent saying it was very or
extremely important to them,
than for men (57 percent).
And women are more likely
to back stricter gun laws: 67
percent favor them, compared
with 49 percent of men.
Military-style weap-
ons should be military guns,
not John Q. Public guns,
said Ellen Huffman, 55, of
Huntersville, N.C., who sup-
ports a ban on assault-style
weapons and high-capacity
magazines. Huffman said
early detection of mental
health problems would go a
long way to curbing gun vio-
lence. If such problems are
caught early enough you
wont have people killing
people, she said. Among
gun owners, just 40 percent
back a ban on the sale of
military-type, rapid-fire guns,
and 37 percent favor a ban
on high-capacity magazines,
while 66 percent of non-gun
owners would ban military-
style weapons and 60 per-
cent would ban high-capacity
magazines.
WASHINGTON (AP)
Chuck Hagel secured
the backing of two of the
staunchest pro-Israel Senate
Democrats in a clear boost
to the Republicans prospects
of becoming President Barack
Obamas next defense secre-
tary.
Sens. Chuck Schumer of
New York and Barbara Boxer
of California said Tuesday
that they had spoken exten-
sively with Hagel and he had
addressed their earlier reser-
vations about whether he was
anti-Israel, too soft on Iran
and opposed to gay rights.
Based on several key assur-
ances provided by Senator
Hagel, I am currently prepared
to vote for his confirmation,
Schumer said the day after
a 90-minute meeting with
Hagel at the White House.
I encourage my Senate col-
leagues who have shared my
previous concerns to also sup-
port him. Boxer expressed
her support and urged fellow
senators to do the same after
receiving a letter from Hagel
in which he insisted that he
supports Obamas foreign
policy positions. In the let-
ter, the former Nebraska sena-
tor also expressed regret for
using the term Jewish lobby
to describe pro-Israel groups,
calling it a very poor choice
of words.
Republicans said it was
highly unlikely that Schumer
and Boxer would have
opposed a Democratic presi-
dents nominee at the start of
Obamas second term. Still,
the support of two of the most
prominent Jewish members of
the Senate is certain to ease
concerns among pro-Israel
lawmakers and rally noncom-
mittal Democrats to Hagels
side. The Republican nomi-
nee must contend with oppo-
sition from the GOP ranks
as Obama faces challenges
to his choices in a fierce-
ly partisan atmosphere. A
handful of Republicans have
announced their opposition to
Hagel, including John Cornyn
of Texas, the second-ranking
GOP senator.
Hagel met Tuesday with
Republican Sen. Susan
Collins, who spoke in gener-
ally positive terms about the
nominee but said she would
reserve judgment until after
confirmation hearings.
Our meeting today was
helpful in addressing some of
my concerns about his past
statements, positions and
votes, the Maine moderate
said in a statement after the
90-minute session. The two
discussed Afghanistan, the
defense budget, the Iranian
threat and Israel. Collins was
a strong proponent in 2010
of a law that allowed gays to
serve openly in the military.
Collins said they had an
open and frank discussion
about sanctions on Iran, and
Hagel promised to provide
her with additional informa-
tion. Cornyn was dismissive
of Hagels statements, calling
them retractions, as well as
the response from Schumer
and Boxer.
No closed-door White
House meeting with a single
senator or a letter can erase
a problematic 12-year Senate
record and many troubling
public statements from Sen.
Hagel, the Republican said
of his former GOP colleague.
Boxer, in a conference call
with reporters, said, From
what Ive seen there seems
to be a Republican push here
to really go after Sen. Hagel,
which is really quite disturb-
ing.
By ANDREW MIGA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON The
political tempest stirred up by
Superstorm Sandy appears to
have moved on after wreak-
ing havoc among congressio-
nal Republicans divided over
how much aid to allocate to
the victims.
In a 241-180 vote Tuesday
night, the House approved
$50.5 billion in disaster relief
for Sandy victims. The Senate
is expected to accept the mea-
sure early next week and send
it to President Barack Obama
in spite of some Democratic
concerns that it doesnt do
enough.
While the House bill
is not quite as good as the
Senate bill, it is certainly
close enough, said Sen.
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
House Democrats support-
ed the aid package in large
numbers Tuesday night, but
substantial Republican back-
ing was needed for its passage
in the GOP-controlled House.
There were 192 Democrats
and 49 Republicans voting to
pass the measure.
The victory was tinged
with some bitterness for
Northeast lawmakers who
have complained that
Congress approved tens of
billions of dollars in aid with-
in days of Hurricane Katrina
but dragged their feet for
more than two months on
Sandy aid.
Sandy pounded several
states in late October and
has been blamed for 140
deaths and billions of dollars
in residential and business
property damage. New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut
were hardest hit. Power out-
ages and interruptions to pub-
lic transportation made life
miserable for millions, and
the clamor for federal relief
began almost immediately.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.,
called it an outstanding vic-
tory for the people of New
York, New Jersey and Long
Island, but he added that it
is unfortunate that we had to
fight so hard to be treated the
same as every other state has
been treated.
House Democrats were
politically pointed as they
brushed back most attempts
by Southern conservatives to
reduce the measure or offset
part of its cost through spend-
ing cuts elsewhere in the bud-
get. Critics said the proposed
cuts would crimp Pentagon
spending as well as domestic
accounts.
Conservatives did suc-
ceed in stripping $150 mil-
lion for Regional Ocean
Partnership Grants and $9.8
million for rebuilding sea-
walls and buildings on unin-
habited islands in the Steward
McKinney National Wildlife
Refuge in Connecticut.
The House measure
includes about $16 billion to
repair transit systems in New
York and New Jersey and
a similar amount for hous-
ing and other needs in the
affected area. An addition-
al $5.4 billion would go to
the Federal Emergency and
Management Agency for
disaster relief, and $2 bil-
lion is ticketed for restora-
tion of highways damaged or
destroyed in the storm.
The Senate approved a
$60.4 billion measure in the
final days of the Congress
that expired Jan. 3, and a
House vote had been expected
quickly. But House Speaker
John Boehner unexpectedly
postponed the vote in the final
hours of the expiring Congress
as he struggled to calm con-
servatives unhappy that the
House had just approved a
separate measure raising tax
rates on the wealthy.
Boehners delay sparked a
public uproar, much of it from
other Republicans like New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie,
who lobbied Congress hard
for aid.
Poll: 6 in 10 favor
stricter gun laws
Stormy issue of Sandy
aid settles down in House
By MATTHEW LEE
and JOSH LEDERMAN
WASHINGTON The
Obama administration on
Tuesday gave a blister-
ing review of remarks
that Egyptian President
Mohammed Morsi made
almost three years ago about
Jews and called for him to
repudiate what it called unac-
ceptable rhetoric.
In blunt comments, the
White House and State
Department said Morsis
statements were deeply
offensive and ran counter to
the goal of peace in the region.
The State Department, noting
that a senior congressional
delegation is now visiting
Egypt, said the remarks com-
plicated efforts to provide
economic and military aid
to Egypt. We believe that
President Morsi should make
clear that he respects people
of all faiths and that this type
of rhetoric is unacceptable in
a democratic Egypt, White
House spokesman Jay Carney
told reporters.
Morsi was a leader in
the Muslim Brotherhood
in 2010 when, according to
video broadcast last week on
Egyptian television he asked
Egyptians to nurse our chil-
dren and our grandchildren
on hatred. Months later,
in a television interview,
Morsi referred to Zionists
as bloodsuckers who attack
Palestinians, describing
Zionists as the descendants
of apes and pigs.
We completely reject
these statements as we do
any language that espous-
es religious hatred, State
Department spokeswoman
Victoria Nuland told report-
ers. This kind of rhetoric
has been used in this region
for far too long. Its counter
to the goals of peace.
A group of sena-
tors, including Sens. John
McCain, R-Ariz., Lindsey
Graham, R-S.C., Kelly
Ayotte, R-N.H., Kirsten
Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Richard
Blumenthal, D-Conn.,
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.,
and Christopher Coons,
D-Del., is currently in Cairo.
Nuland said she expected
they would make their views
known to Egypts leadership.
Morsis remarks and the
Obama administrations
rebuke marked a new point of
tension in the complex rela-
tionship between the U.S. and
Egypts fledgling democracy.
Since being elected in June
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US condemns comments from Egypts Morsi
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COMMUNITY
LANDMARK
Happy
Birthday
1
CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
Ottoville Immaculate
Conception Church
BY LOVINA EICHER
3:10 a.m. The alarm
goes off to start another day
here in the Eicher
household. It has
taken some getting
used to, having a
scheduled time to
get up this week
now that everyone
is back to school
and work. I packed
husband Joes lunch,
which was left-
over macaroni and
cheese from last
nights supper, an
orange, cookies, applesauce,
and homemade party mix. Joe
waits to eat something until
breakfast break time so I make
sure I send plenty along to eat.
I also fill his jug with ice cubes
and water.
3:45 a.m. Joe leaves for
work. They are leaving earlier
since the winter weather has
started. I set my alarm for 4:50
a.m. and go back to bed.
4:50 a.m. I get up again.
Daughter Elizabeth is awake
already packing her lunch and
fixing herself a little breakfast.
Elizabeth always tells me that
I can stay in bed but I enjoy
this time together with her. We
always get to have some alone
time to visit with one another
while we wait for her ride to
work.
5:15 a.m. Elizabeth
leaves for work. I relax and
read in my recliner until 6 a.m.
but sometimes dozing off to
sleep.
6 a.m. I wake up the
seven other children. Kevin
seems to be having the most
difficult time getting used to
the early wake up calls again
after the Christmas and New
Years break from school.
7 a.m. The six youngest
children leave for school with
the bus.
8:20 a.m. Susan goes
out to do the morning chores
but comes in soon after as her
ride is here for her babysitting
job. Susan misunderstood the
time so she hurries up to get
ready to leave. Susan leaves
and I need to do the outside
chores that Susan didnt get
finished. Before I get that far I
receive the shocking news that
there was a van accident and
two of my cousins
were killed. There
were some anxious
moments as I knew
this was the same
carpenter crew that
my brother Amos
worked with. I
found out Amos
was taken to a near-
by hospital.
10:15 a.m.
Sisters Susan,
Verena, Emma, and
I went to the hospital to be with
Amos. His family had an over
two-hour drive to come to the
hospital because they were en
route to a job site far from his
home (but close to mine). Once
Amoss test results came back
they thought he should stay
overnight since both his lungs
were bruised. Amos, however,
didnt want to stay since he
was anxious to get back home
to his family. I offered that he
could come to our house until
his family arrived.
1 p.m. We are back
home. Brother Albert and wife
Sarah Irene, sister Emma, her
daughter Elizabeth and son
Steven, sisters Verena and
Susan all gathered at our house
to keep Amos company. I made
lunch for everyone with the
help of the others. Amos was
really sore and stiff from the
cuts and bruises. He also had
a badly bruised hip, but x-rays
showed no broken bones. He
remained strong through it all.
Our thoughts go to the fami-
lies of the deceased. Cousin
Chris was 50 and leaves to
mourn his wife, children and
grandchildren. Cousin Danny
also leaves to mourn his wife,
children and grandchildren. I
imagine Amos will have some
hard times yet. He was pinned
in the van on top of Chris
and heard Chris take his last
breaths. They were all helpless
to get out after being pinned
in the van. The jaws of life
were called to cut the van and
a 23-year-old boy was life-
flighted to the hospital. Our
thoughts are with him and his
family as he is now paralyzed
from the waist down. How
soon a life can change. It will
take a lot of acceptance and
may God help him.
2:30 p.m. Amoss wife
Nancy and daughters Susan
and husband Joe and son
Steven , Elizabeth and husband
Paul, Mary Jane and husband
Amos and baby Mary Jane and
their son Ben and his special
friend, Lovina, came to pick
up Amos. What a blessing to
be able to take him home with
them. The other families were
not so fortunate.
5:30 p.m. Everyone has
left for home and we are hav-
ing grilled cheese and eggs
for an evening supper. The
day went quite different than
what was planned. A warn-
ing to all that we never know
when we will hear Gods call.
Let us be prepared so we can
meet in that Heavenly home
above. The funeral for Chris
is Saturday and Danny is on
Sunday. We plan to head for
Berne, Indiana, early Saturday
and stay until Sunday some-
time.
Meanwhile, try this easy
all-in-one recipe!
ONE SKILLET
SPAGHETTI
1 pound hamburger
2 medium onions, chopped
2 cups broken spaghetti
1 28-ounce can diced toma-
toes, undrained
3/4 cup chopped green pep-
pers
1/2 cup water
1 8-ounce can sliced and
drained mushrooms
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup shredded Cheddar
cheese
In large skillet brown ham-
burger, onions, and drain. Stir
in all other ingredients except
for the cheese and bring to a
boil. Reduce heat, cover and
simmer for 30 minutes or until
spaghetti is tender. Sprinkle
with cheese, cover and heat
until melted.
Day doesnt go as planned
JAN 17
Rachel Minnig
Carol Turnwald
Brooke Cress
Logan Kill
Brandon Kugler
TODAY
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.
The Fort Jennings Board
of Education meets in the
library.
THURSDAY
9-11 a.m. The Delphos
Canal Commission Museum,
241 N. Main St., is open.
11:30 a.m. Mealsite
at Delphos Senior Citizen
Center, 301 Suthoff Street.
5:30 p.m. The Delphos
Canal Commission meets at
the museum, 241 N. Main St.
5-7 p.m. The Interfaith
Thrift Shop is open for shop-
ping.
7 p.m. Spencerville
Local Schools Board of
Education meets.
St. Johns Athletic
Boosters meet in the Little
Theatre.
7:30 p.m. Delphos
Chapter 26 Order of the
Eastern Star meets at the
Masonic Temple on North
Main Street. Delphos VFW
Auxiliary meets at the VFW
Hall, 213 W. Fourth St.
Van Wert hospital is helping
smokers make a FreshStart
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SPORTS
LOCAL ROUNDUP
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@del-
phosherald.com
DELPHOS With the
new dual state wrestling for-
mat tournament coming in a
couple of weeks, Jefferson
head coach Mike Wilson was
looking to get some matches
for his crew Tuesday night
versus Lincolnview and Allen
East.
He didnt get all his wres-
tlers matches due to voided
weight classes by both the
Lancers and Mustangs but
he liked the ones he saw as
his Wildcats beat the Lancers
51-18 and the Mustangs 42-25
at Jefferson High School.
We had some good
matches and some big wins.
Gaige (Rassman) lost his
match to Tyler Baker of Allen
East but it was a good one for
him; those are the matches
and matchups we need as
we get ready for the dual
tournament later this month,
Wilson noted. Those are
the type of wrestlers we will
be facing in those duals and
any chance to get mat expe-
rience is welcome. Colin
(McConnahea) had another
good match against a good,
solid, big, physical wrestler
from Lincolnview (Dalton
West) and he got frustrated
but he came through with a
pin. This started last week at
Lima Senior and will continue
the next couple of weeks. We
are looking to build into the
team tournament, the NWC
and then sectionals. We are
looking for bigger and better
things as we look ahead and
that is what a night like this
is preparing us for. That is
why we are in the Van Buren
Invitational this weekend
for the first time ever. The
Lancers got a 33-18 win over
the Mustangs.
Allen East is very much
like us: we have good qual-
ity but not a lot of quan-
tity. Neither of us are in the
state duals because we dont
have enough wrestlers,
Lancer coach Curtis Miller
explained. I have nine wres-
tlers but because of injuries
and such, I have yet to have
seven wrestlers in any given
meet. We are preparing then
for the league and the sec-
tionals.
It started last week and
will continue the next two
weeks at Van Buren and LCC.
We are seeking to toughen
our guys up physically for
what is to come.
Jefferson and Lincolnview
are in the Van Buren
Invitational starting 5 p.m.
Friday and continuing
Saturday starting at 9:30 a.m.
JEFFERSON 51, LINCOLNVIEW 18
106: Alex Roderiguez (L), void.
113: Autumn Proctor (L), void.
120: Blake Kimmet (D) pin
Donovan Brudge, 1:41. 126: Gaige
Rassman (D), void.
132: Dylan Hicks (D) dec. 7-0
Jacob Gibson.
138: Tanner Vermule (D), void.
145: Double void.
152: Noah Illig (D), void.
160: Double void. 170: Dalton
Hicks (L) pin Lane Bennett, 4:55.
182: Tyler Foust (D), void.
195: Colin McConnahea (D) pin
Dalton West, 4:58.
220: Dustin McConnahea (D),
void.
285: Geoff Ketcham (D) pin
Braxton Matthews, 2:49.
JEFFERSON 42, ALLEN EAST 25
106: Lee Dues (A), void.
113: Double void.
120: Blake Kimmet (D), void.
126: Tyler Baker (A) major dec.
Gaige Rassman (D) 12-3. 132: Dylan
Hicks (D), void.
138: Tanner Vermule (D), void.
145: Double void.
152: Noah Illig (D), void.
160: Max McAdoo (A), void.
170: Grant Criblez (A) pin Lane
Bennett, 4:14.
182: Tyler Foust (D) pin Tyler
May, 1:56.
195: Colin McConnahea (D), void.
220: Jonathon Cox (A) dec. Dustin
McConnahea 4-2 (3 OT). 285: Geoff
Ketcham (D), void.
LINCOLNVIEW 33, ALLEN EAST 18
106: Alex Rodriguez (L) pin Lee
Dues, 2:46.
113: Autumn Proctor (L), void.
120: Tyler Baker (A) pin Donovan
Burdge, 2:59.
126: Double void.
132: Double void.
138: Double void.
145: Double void.
152: Double void.
160: Max McAdoo (A), void.
170: Doug Hicks dec. Grant Criblez
3-2 (OT). 182: Tyler May (A), void.
195: Dalton West (L) pin Jonathon
Cox, 1:14. 220: Double void.
285: Braxton Matthews (L), void.
Wildcats win 2, Lancers split
By JIM COX
DHI Correspondent
sports@timesbulletin.com
MIDDLE POINT - The
conditions Tuesday night
dim lights, no scoreboard,
no public address system
were those of yester-
year. The basketball, how-
ever, was pure 21st century
as Lincolnviews pressure
defense forced 27 Antwerp
turnovers in a 51-32
win.
The Lady Lancers
are now 10-4, the Lady
Archers 3-10.
With 4:51 remaining
in the first quarter, a
frighteningly loud boom put
the gymnasium into sudden
and total darkness. Fifteen
minutes later, play resumed
via generator power, albeit
with no scoreboard, no PA
system and very dim lighting.
The score was displayed to
the crowd via volleyball flip
scorecards.
The Lancers led 10-2 at
the time of the power out-
age and they increased that
lead to 16-5 after one quar-
ter, mainly by forcing eight
Antwerp turnovers in the
first eight minutes. Seven of
Lincolnviews eight fielders
were layups.
The Archers, however,
bounced back in the second
quarter, winning those eight
minutes 14-8 to trail by only
five at the half, 24-19.
The Lancers, however,
removed almost any doubt
by taking total control
in the third period using a
12-2 run which included a
Julia Thatcher layup, a
Kaitlyn Brant layup, a
Claire Dye steal/layup,
a Hannah McCleery
steal/layup, a Claire
Dye layup and a layup
by Katie Dye, who
added three assists in the run.
That made it 36-21. It was
38-24 after three.
That long layoff kinda
took the wind out of our sails
because we were playing
pretty well until all that hap-
pened, Lancer coach Dan
Williamson said. But we
found a way to get our energy
back and extended our lead
there (in the third quarter).
If there was any doubt
at all at that point, the
Lancers quickly removed it
in the fourth period with a
13-4 skein beginning with a
Katie Dye breakaway layup
and also featuring two Julia
Thatcher free throws, a Dye
layup, a Christine Stemen
trey from the left wing, a
Thatcher breakaway layup
and a Dye layup.
Lincolnview dominated in
field goal shooting, hitting
49 percent (24-of-49) to 37
percent (11-of-30), and turn-
overs, committing only 12 to
Antwerps 27. Rebounding
was a standoff 20-20. Free
throws were not a factor and
not impressive for either team
Antwerp hitting 53 per-
cent (8-of-15), Lincolnview
50 percent (2-of-4).
The Lancers had a nicely-
balanced scoring attack led
by Dye and Thatcher with
14 and 12, respectively. The
other three starters Kaylee
Thatcher, Claire Dye and
Brant had six each.
Antwerp was led by its
talented senior, Alexis Jones,
with 16. Kaiya Jemison
added 10. Only two other
Archers scored, however, and
those two totaled six points
between them.
Although the hosts shot
a high percentage and had
a slew of nice assists, it
was their defense that stood
out.
Weve been hanging
our hat on our defense,
Williamson added. Our
offense had been kind of hit
and miss. The games that
weve struggled to play well,
we havent played as well
defensively. The games weve
played well, weve done a
good job of getting steals and
turnovers. Our defense has
definitely come along as the
seasons progressed.
Lincolnview (7-5) won the
junior varsity game 32-20.
Stemen led the Lancer
scoring with 10.
Avery Braaten had seven
for Antwerp.
Antwerp (32)
Jones 6 3-5 16, Sawyer 1 1-3 4,
Longardner 1 0-0 2, Jemison 3 4-7
10, Miesle 0 0-0 0, Miller-Sweet 0 0-0
0, Braaten 0 0-0 0, Recker 0 0-0 0.
Totals 11 8-15 32.
Lincolnview (51)
Kaylee Thatcher 3 0-0 6, Claire
Dye 3 0-1 6, Katie Dye 7 0-1 14,
Julia Thatcher 5 2-2 12, Brant 3 0-0
6, McCleery 2 0-0 4, Stemen 1 0-0 3,
Springer 0 0-0 0, Teman 0 0-0 0, Clay
0 0-0 0. Totals 24 2-4 51.
Score by quarters:
Antwerp 5 14 5 8 - 32
Lincolnview 16 8 14 13 - 51
Three-point field goals: Antwerp
2 (Jones, Sawyer), Lincolnview 1
(Stemen).
Lancer girls shoot down Archers by nineteen
Jeffersons Dylan Hicks maneuvers Lincolnviews Jacob
Gibson to try and pin him Tuesday at Jefferson High
School. Hicks won this match 7-0 and the Wildcats won a
pair of dual matches. (Delphos Herald/Tom Morris)
By BOB WEBER
The Delphos Herald
btzweber@bright.net
PANDORA The Lady
Green of Ottoville put their
undefeated record, #1 ranking
in Division IV and Putnam
C o u n t y
League lead
on the line
when they
traveled to
P a n d o r a -
G i l b o a
T u e s d a y
night for a
s h o wd o wn
with the Lady
Rockets.
After a
slow start, the Lady Green
used its height and experience
to come away with a 48-32
win.
The home Rockets came
out strong in the first quarter
and battled the Lady Green to a
7-7 tie after the first eight min-
utes of play. The Lady Green,
struggling to find its offensive
flow, got five of the seven
first-quarter points from 6-2
senior Abby Siefker. On the
other hand, the Lady Rockets
notched their seven points
through a deep 3-ball by 5-6
senior Ashley Williams and
two points off the bench from
both juniors Olivia Maag and
Ashley Alt.
Lady Green head coach
Dave Kleman knows he needs
to prepare for everybody to
throw their best shot at his
team: We kind of expect
everybodys best shot, espe-
cially early. You could tell
when they were warming up
that they were ready to play.
We absorbed the blow in the
first quarter and gave a lot
back to them compared to
what they threw at us the first
eight minutes.
The second quarter saw the
Lady Green start g on track
with their inside-outside game
as Siefker connected on five
more points, followed by 6-0
senior Rachel Beining with
four points. Senior Rachel
Turnwald and junior Taylor
Mangas buried threes of their
own, helping the Lady Green
pull away to a 22-13 lead at
halftime.
The Lady Rockets strug-
gled from the field in the quar-
ter going 3-12 and only having
two girls: Megan Maag with
four points and Keri Conine
with two; dent the scoring col-
umn.
Lady Green junior Tonya
Kaufman left the game at the
4:00 mark in the second quar-
ter with an apparent knee inju-
ry. She returned to the bench in
the second half with her knee
wrapped in ice and did not play
the entire second half.
The third quarter saw the
Lady Greens Beining getting
the ball down low, hitting the
boards aggressively and torch-
ing the nets for eight of her 16
points as they extended their
lead to 37-20 after three.
The third quarter, much like
the second quarter for the Lady
Rockets, was a cold shoot-
ing performance; they could
only garner seven points in the
quarter behind 1-6 shooting
from inside the arc and 1-8
from 3-point land.
The last eight minutes of
play saw both teams empty-
ing their respective benches
as the game was out of reach
for the Lady
Rockets as
the Lady
Green moved
on to push
their over-
all record to
14-0 and 5-0
in the PCL.
C o a c h
Kleman was
pleased with
his team and
especially the play of Beining:
I thought Rachel Beining had
a great game for us tonight, as
did the whole team. We expect
a lot out of our girls every
night and thats what makes us
tough because we have several
girls, as Rachel did tonight for
us, that can step up and lead
the team on any given night.
The Lady Rockets (8-5,
3-1 PCL) were led in scor-
ing by Williams and Maag
with 11 and 9 points, respec-
tively. They were 12-49 (24%)
from the field, 5-8 (63%) from
the stripe, hauled down 19
rebounds and committed 12
turnovers.
Siefker, the second part
of the twin towers, added 16
points for the Lady Green.
They shot 43 percent for the
game on 18-43 shooting. From
the stripe, they added 53 per-
cent on 9-of-17 attempts.
Both teams will be back in
action this week as Pandora-
Gilboa will host Van Buren
Thursday night and Ottoville
will host the Minster Wildcats
Saturday.
The JV game went to the
Lady Green 24-18.
Courtney VonSossan led
the Lady Green with seven
points.
VARSITY
Ottoville (48)
Rachel Turnwald 0-1-2-5, Nicole
Vorst 1-0-0-2, Tonya Kaufman 0-0-
0-0, Rachel Beining 7-0-2-16, Abby
Siefker 6-0-4-16, Taylor Mangas 0-2-
1-7, Kendra Eickholt 1-0-0-2. Totals
15-3-9-48.
Pandora-Gilboa (32)
Ashley Williams 1-3-0-11, Vanessa
McCullough 1-0-0-2, Hunter Hermiller
0-0-0-0, Megan Maag 3-0-3-9, Keri
Conine 2-0-2-6, Ashley Alt 1-0-0-2,
Olivia Maag 1-0-0-2. Totals 9-3-5-32.
Score by Quarters:
Ottoville 7- 15- 15- 11 48
Pand.-Gilboa 7- 6- 7- 12 32
JUNIOR VARSITY
Ottoville (24)
Monica Sarka 0-0-1-1, Courtney
Von Sossan 2-1-0-7, Haley Landwehr
0-0-0-0, Annie Lindeman 2-0-1-5,
Lexie Wannemacher 2-0-1-5, Lindsey
Wannemacher 1-0-0-2, Nicole Kramer
0-1-0-3, Chelsey Boecker 0-0-1-1.
Totals 7-2-4-24.
Pandora-Gilboa (18)
Breanna Hovest 1-0-0-2,
Mackenzie Swary 3-0-1-7, Shea
Watkins 3-0-0-6, Karrisa Dorn 0-0-1-1,
Serena Maag 1-0-0-2. Totals 8-0-2-18.
Score by Quarters:
Ottoville 3- 9- 5- 7 24
Pand.-Gilboa 8- 1- 9- 0 18
Siefker
Beining
By BRIAN BASSETT
DHI Correspondent
sports@timesbulletin.com
ROCKFORD The
Spencerville Lady Bearcat and
Parkway Lady Panther bas-
ketball teams met at Parkway
High School Tuesday night in
a non-conference clash.
The game was fast-paced
and sloppy at times but in the
end, the Lady Bearcats held off
a late Parkway surge to hold
on for a 65-60 win.
(This is) huge for us as far
as progression, Spencerville
coach Warren Pughsley said.
Weve steadily improved and
it took that to create belief.
The work weve been putting
in and that belief shows us it
works, so well keep work-
ing.
For Parkway coach Lynn
Hughes, it came down to
rebounding. The Lady Panthers
outrebounded Spencerville
37-28 but the Lady Bearcats
got better use of theirs, getting
a majority of their points off of
putbacks.
Weve got to rebound. We
outrebounded them but we
gave up so many offensive
rebounds, explained Hughes.
Parkway also outshot the
visitors 34 percent to 31 per-
cent but Spencerville managed
more makes (24 to 22) and
took more shots (78 to 64).
The Lady Bearcats hit
4-of-7 from beyond the arc to
Parkways 1-of-4, committing
only 16 turnovers to the Lady
Panthers 24.
We missed a lot of bunny
shots, continued Hughes.
Youve got to make them
count. Weve also got to take
care of the basketball. I think
we had 24 turnovers for the
game. At key points in the
game, we turned the ball over.
Pughsely felt that disrupt-
ing Parkways passing lanes
was something that his team
stressed: In the beginning, for
some reason, we were allow-
ing passes up the court and we
were concentrating on the trap.
Once we got in their passing
lanes and realized we could
get steals and deflections and
different things - that seemed
to turn the game around.
Parkway jumped out to a
14-11 lead after a quarter of
play.
The Lady Panthers ran
their lead to 18-13 before
Spencerville came storm-
ing back to take the lead on
a steal and basket by junior
guard Karri Purdy. The Lady
Bearcats got a jump shot and
a 3-pointer from sophomore
guard Megan Miller to help
them run their lead to 28-23 at
the break.
Spencerville held the lead
for half of the third quarter
before the Panthers put a run
together which culminated in a
basket by senior forward Kylie
Snyder to give the hosts a
38-37 lead.
The remainder of the
third was back-and-forth and
a layup from senior forward
Abby Freewalt in the closing
seconds of the quarter returned
the lead to the Lady Bearcats,
46-45.
The Freewalt basket
sparked a run into the early
Balanced Lady Indians
punish cold-shoot-
ing Musketeers
FORT JENNINGS
Shawnees girls basketball
team placed
five players
in twin digits
as the Lady
Indians pun-
ished cold-
shooting Fort
Jennings 61-35
Tuesday night in non-confer-
ence action inside The Fort of
Fort Jennoigns High School.
Maryssa Hescher led the
Tribe (8-6) with 12, while
Isabelle Baird added 11 (3
treys) and Claire Dahlke,
Rhea McGee and Abby
Waddle 10 each.
The Lady Musketeers
(6-9) were paced by Cassie
Lindemans eight points.
They finished 14-of-59 from
the floor, including 0-for-16
downtown, for 23.7 percent
and 7-of-17 at the line (50%).
They added 14 miscues. They
visit Continental Thursday.
SHAWNEE (61)
Britt Lauck 2-0-1-5, Claire Dahlke
2-1-3-10, Rhea McGee 4-0-2-10,
Abby Waddle 3-0-4-10, Isabelle Laird
0-3-2-11, Jaden Marlowe 1-0-1-3,
Maryssa Hescher 4-0-4-12. Totals
16-4-17/22-61.
FORT JENNINGS (35)
Macy Schroeder 1-0-2-4, Ashley
Gable 1-0-2-4, Cassie Lindeman
4-0-0-8, Gabbi German 2-0-2-6, Erin
Osting 2-0-0-4, Gabby Clippinger
1-0-0-2, Emily Kehres 2-0-0-4, Gina
Stechschulte 1-0-1-3. Totals 14-0-
7/14-35.
Score by Quarters:
Shawnee 14 15 16 16 - 61
Ft. Jennings 12 11 6 6 - 35
JV score: 54-36 (Shawnee).
Lady Rams use 4th

quarter to repel LadyCats
TINORA Tinoras
girls basketball team used a
21-13 spread in the fourth
period to grab
a 48-41 non-
league hard-
wood victory
over invad-
ing Kalida
Tuesday night.
The LadyCats were led
by freshman Kylie Osterhage
with 12 points. They finished
14-of-43 from the field (3-of-
12 long range), 10-of-16
at the stripe and added 26
rebounds (9 offensive) and
19 turnovers. They will visit
Liberty-Benton Tuesday.
The host Lady Rams
(8-5) were topped by the 13
of Ashley Mack and 12 by
Mattie Gentit, all on treys.
They finished 13-of-32 from
the floor (7-of-13 down-
town), 15-of-27 free throws
and amassing 20 boards (3
offensive) and 17 errors.
KALIDA (41)
Jackie Gardner 2-1-0-7, Nicole
Recker 3-0-1-7, Summer Holtkamp
0-1-2-5, Kiersten Recker 0-0-0-0, Amy
Smith 0-0-4-4, Elizabeth Turnwald
2-0-0-4, Kristi Honigford 0-0-0-0, Kylie
Osterhage 4-1-1-12, Brittany Kahle
0-0-2-2. Totals 11-3-10/16-41.
TINORA (48)
Ashley Mack 5-0-3-13, Mattie
Gentit 0-4-0-12, Erica Smay 0-2-2-8,
Bre Hughes 0-1-3-6, Taylor Pedroza
1-0-4-6, Chelsey Seifert 0-0-2-2,
Rachel Wachtman 0-0-1-1, Brittany
Steingass 0-0-0-0, Allison Weber 0-0-
0-0. Becky Olashuk 0-0-0-0. Totals
6-7-15/27-48.
Score by Quarters:
Kalida 5 13 10 13 - 41
Tinora 12 2 13 21 - 48
JV score: 36-21 (Kalida).
Siefker, Beining lead
Lady Green past Rockets
By GREG BEACHAM
LOS ANGELES Kobe
Bryant played relentless
defense, spurring his fellow
Los Angeles Lakers to do the
same. Dwight Howard domi-
nated the paint, scoring easy
baskets and blocking shots
against the bewildered Bucks.
Over the last two games,
the Lakers have resembled
the powerhouse everybody
envisioned before their tumul-
tuous season began.
Theyre about to find out
whether they got it together
in time to compete with the
Miami Heat.
Howard had 31 points
and 16 rebounds, Bryant
also scored 31 points and the
Lakers beat Milwaukee 104-
88 Tuesday night for their
second straight win after a
6-game skid.
Metta World Peace added
12 points as the Lakers
prepared for Thursdays
visit from the NBA cham-
pion Heat with an impres-
sive effort featuring 30-point
games for both Bryant and
Howard for the second time
in their brief tenure together.
After a similar effort against
Cleveland two days earlier,
the Lakers are cautiously
optimistic theyve solved a
few problems.
Its been great, Howard
said. When we play the
way we played these last two
games, I dont see anybody
beating us. The problem is
we have to do it on a con-
sistent basis and not have
any lapses during the game.
Were learning but stuff like
that takes time. The biggest
thing, weve just got to stick
together. We cant let nothing
on the outside tear us apart.
Howard again played
with an obvious spark in his
second game back from a
3-game absence with a torn
labrum in his shoulder, block-
ing four shots and goaltend-
ing a couple more when he
wasnt busy overpowering
the Bucks on offense. Bryant
and Steve Nash, who had 11
assists, focused on getting
the ball to Howard close to
the rim and the 6-time All-
Star center capitalized against
Milwaukees skinny post
players.
Thats what we try to
do, Bryant said. A lot of
it is predicated defensively
on what the opposition does
and what theyre willing to
give up. Weve been knock-
ing down some shots and put-
ting me on the same side
with (Howard) when Steve
runs that screen-and-roll. Ive
knocked down some shots
and it frees him up and makes
it a lot easier to get some
baskets.
Monta Ellis scored 17
points for the Bucks, who
lost for the second time in
five games under interim
coach Jim Boylan. Brandon
Jennings was held to 12 points
on 4-of-14 shooting by Bryant
and Milwaukees young star
emerged from Staples Center
with newfound respect for the
fifth-leading scorer in NBA
history.
I dont think Ive ever
seen anybody put that much
pressure on a point guard
full-court for a whole game,
Jennings said. It was prob-
ably the best defense some-
bodys ever played on me
Kobe, Dwight get 31 each in Lakers win over Bucks
See KOBE, page 8
Spencerville holds off
Panthers in girls action
See SPENCERVILLE, page 8
2
1
Tuesday Merchant
Jan. 8, 2013
Ace Hardware 20-4
R C Connections 16-8
Delphos Sporting Goods 16-8
Caballeros Tavern 14-10
Lears Martial Arts 12-12
Topp Chalet 12-12
Adams Automotive 12-12
Unverferth Mfg. 10-14
Kerns Ford 8-16
Men over 200
Ryan Kies 231-216-236, Jerry
Mericle 204-201, Brock Parsons
207-267-210, Mike Hughes 215-
224, Denny Dyke 205-209, John
Adams 201, Larry Etzkorn 205,
Shane Lear 222-202-211, Bruce
VanMetre 236-255-232, John Jones
236-255-257, John Allen 266-236-
225, Joe Geise 211-231, Bruce
Haggard 221, David Mahlie 214,
Dan Wilhelm 247, Jason Mahlie
227-264, Rob Logan 212-206, Scott
Scalf 259-214-236, Todd Merricle
215-203-218, Ron Wilhelm 215,
Bill Stemen 223, Dan Stemen 204-
201, Zach Sargent 277-201, Russ
Wilhelm 215-223, Shawn Allemeier
237-225-215, Kyle Early 226-210,
Jay Brown 234, Mark Drerup 254,
Sean Hulihan 206-222, Dan Grice
212-225.
Men over 550
Ryan Kies ,683, Jerry Mericle
584, Brock Parsons 684, Mike
Hughes 627, Denny Dyke 562,
Larry Etzkorn 573, Shane Lear
635, Bruce VanMetre 723, John
Jones 748, John Allen 727, Jason
Wagoner 592, Joe Geise 614,
Bruce Haggard 592, David Mahlie
582, Dan Wilhelm 583, Jason
Mahlie 691, Rob Logan 609, Scott
Scalf 709, Todd Merricle 636, Dan
Stemen 595, Zach Sargent 661,
Russ Wilhelm 628, Shawn Allemeier
677, Kyle Early 625, Jay Brown 567,
Mark Drerup 618, Sean Hulihan
606, Dan Grice 611.
Wednesday Industrial
Jan. 9, 2013
DRC 13th Frame Lounge 20-4
John Deere 17-7
Topp Chalet 14-10
K & M Tire 12-12
D & D Grain 12-12
Strayers 12-12
Delphos Rest. Supply 11-13
Rustic Cafe 8-16
Moes Dougout 8-16
Cabos 6-18
Men over 200
Lenny Hubert 234-222, Terry
Trentman 204-222, Scott Scalf 259-
210-202, Dave Jessee 210, Tony
Hire 243-212, Shawn Stabler 201,
Jeff Kreischer 225, Butch Prine Jr.
213, Frank Miller 248-204-267, Joe
Geise 204-222, Charlie Lozano 203,
John Allen 246-244, John Jones
202-224, Chad Rode 232, Travis
Sherrick 202, Dan Kleman 209,
Don Rice 214-217, Dale Metzger
223, Shawn Allemeier 255-242-
220, Bruce VanMetre 234-268-223,
Armando Alverez 202-210, Jason
Hefner 203, Kyle Profit 258-257,
Brian Stepleton 217, Duane Kohorst
246, Harold Beckner 209, Phil Fetzer
238, Taylor Garrett 209, Rick Schuck
236-203, Matt Hamilton 226, Matt
Hoffman 253, Lee Schimmoller 207.
Men over 550
Lenny Hubert 630, Terry
Trentman 624, Scott Scalf 671,
Tony Hire 653, Shawn Stabler 568,
Jeff Kreischer 597, Butch Prine Jr.
559, Frank Miller 719, Joe Geise
615, Charlie Lozano 579, John
Allen 672, John Jones 617, Chad
Rode 587, Dan Kleman 565, Don
Rice 615, Shawn Allemeier 717,
Phil Austin 567, Bruce VanMetre
725, Armando Alverez 579, Kyle
Profit 688, Duane Kohorst 633, Rick
Schuck 627, Matt Hoffman 624, Lee
Schimmoller 599.
Thursday National
Jan. 10, 2013
C B 97 18-6
Bowersock Hauling 18-6
D R C Big Dogs 16-8
Westrich 12-4
Erins Dream Team 16-8
K-M Tire 14-10
Westrich 12-12
First Federal 12-12
Wannemachers 8-16
V F W 4-20
Men over 200
Lenny Klaus 201, Mark
Biedenharn 212, Dave Moenter
226-211-233, Jason Mahlie 203-
230-258, Tom Schulte 206, Chuck
Verhoff 233-214-244, Jeff Milligan
242-233-227, Todd Menke 225-
224, Dave Miller 226-203-217, Ray
Geary 210, Don Honigford 211, Tom
Pratter 213, Jeff Lawrence 220,
Nate Lawrence 201, Brian Schaadt
224, Don Eversole 201-201, Josh
Moorman 217, John Jones 209-
222-275, Jerry Mericle 215, Rob
Schaeffer 234, Jason Wagoner 243,
Doug Milligan Jr. 233, Lenny Hubert
233-279-300, Rob Ruda 267-212-
247, Kevin Decker 210-214, Fred
Wagner 215-224-215, Frank Miller
246-245, Tim Koester 204-207-
248, Ted Wells 210-238-208, Doug
Milligan Sr. 278, Brad Thornburgh
212-239.
Men over 550
Lenny Klaus 656, Derek Gaskill
576, Dave Moenter 670, Jason
Mahlie 691, Chuck Verhoff 691,
Jeff Milligan 702, Todd Menke 631,
Dave Miller 646, Mike Rice 563, Jeff
Lawrence 566, Brian Schaadt 600,
Don Eversole 584, Josh Moorman
603, John Jones 706, Rob Shaeffer
599, Jason Wagoner 597, Doug
Milligan Jr. 603, Lenny Hubert 812,
Rob Ruda 726, Kevin Decker 614,
Fred Wagner 654, Frank Miller
655, Tim Koester 659, Ted Wells
656, Doug Milligan Sr. 637, Brad
Thornburgh 636.
BOWLING
By DAVID GINSBURG
OWINGS MILLS, Md.
The Baltimore Ravens over-
came an assortment of inju-
ries and obstacles to return to
the AFC championship game,
one victory from
reaching the Super
Bowl.
Their usually
stout defense was
besieged by a sea-
son-long string of
setbacks. Thirteen
players with starting experi-
ence were sidelined during
the regular season, including
linebackers Ray Lewis and
Terrell Suggs, cornerback
Lardarius Webb and tackle
Haloti Ngata. Two dozen
different defensive players
received at least one start
but only two safety Ed
Reed and cornerback Cary
Williams started all 16
games.
The offense had its issues,
too.
Frustrated with the units
struggle during a December
swoon, coach John Harbaugh
fired offensive coordinator
Cam Cameron and handed
the reins to quarterbacks
coach Jim Caldwell.
Baltimore secured its
second straight AFC North
crown despite losing four of
its last five regular-season
games. Unlike last year, how-
ever, there was no first-round
bye. Yet the Ravens defeated
the Indianapolis Colts in the
playoff opener before elimi-
nating the top-seeded Denver
Broncos last weekend to earn
another shot at New England
in the AFC title game Sunday
night.
I dont think a lot of peo-
ple expected us to be here,
Ngata said. For us to over-
come a lot of things, every-
thing that has happened with
our team, I think we all just
understand that were a fam-
ily here and we can lean on
each other and depend on
each other.
Not long after their
season-ending 23-20
loss to New England
last January, the
Ravens began to real-
ize this team would
be radically different.
Defensive coordinator Chuck
Pagano accepted the job as
head coach at Indianapolis
and three key starters left as
free agents: linebacker Jarret
Johnson, guard Ben Grubbs
and defensive end Cory
Redding.
Soon after that, the trou-
bling offseason continued
with another devastating
blow: Suggs, the 2012 AP
Defensive Player of the Year,
tore his right Achilles tendon
in early May.
In spite of it all, the
Ravens won five of their first
six games. But in a 31-29 vic-
tory over Dallas on Oct. 14,
Lewis tore his right triceps
and Webb ripped the ACL in
his left knee and was placed
on injured reserve.
Suggs made his season
debut the following week
but the 5-time Pro Bowl
star missed two games in
December with a torn right
biceps and is still seeking to
regain the form he displayed
last year. Guard Marshal
Yanda also sat out two games
with a sprained ankle and
safety Bernard Pollard was
sidelined for three straight
weeks with a chest injury.
And still, the Ravens
pressed on.
I think that we are bat-
tled-tested, Yanda said. We
went through a lot of inju-
ries. We went through line
shuffles. We went through
losses. We went through los-
ing streaks and every team
goes through that
during the year.
Its all about just
battling through
it and trying to
get hot and trying
to play your best
football at the end
of the year. I think were
doing that. We are just going
to have to do a lot of things
to continue to do that come
Sunday.
Judging by their perfor-
mance in last Saturdays
38-35 double-overtime win
over the Broncos, the Ravens
appear to be hitting peak
form. Lewis returned from
a 10-game absence to lead
the team in tackles against
both the Colts and Broncos
and his teammates appear to
have drawn strength from
the ups and downs theyve
encountered over the past
five months.
A lot of teams go through
a lot of things, Harbaugh
said. There are challenges
that get you to the point that
you are at as a football team
and make you who you are
even as a person. And,
our guys have handled all
those things extremely well.
Individually and collectively,
a lot of our guys have come
out of it stronger and better
men and were a stronger
and better team. Tight end
Dennis Pitta broke his right
hand in practice in late July
and received a concussion in
November but hasnt missed
a game yet. Now he and the
Ravens are eager to keep the
season going with a win in
New England.
Its not easy being back
in this position, Pitta added.
Weve had a lot of highs
and lows this season. We had
a 3-game losing streak
when nobody thought
we would win another
game. Weve battled and
weve been through a
lot and I think its better
prepared us for this point
now. Were excited to
be in this game and to be able
to get a rematch with these
guys.
By PAUL NEWBERRY
FLOWERY BRANCH,
Ga. Mike Nolan knows a
thing or two about the San
Francisco 49ers.
His father coached the
team. He did, too. Now, hell
try to keep the 49ers out of the
Super Bowl.
These days,
Nolan runs the
defense for the
Atlanta Falcons,
who will host San
Francisco in the
NFC championship
game Sunday. He
still has fond memo-
ries of his first head coaching
job, even though he wound
up getting fired by the 49ers
in the middle of his fourth
season.
A lot of good things hap-
pened there, Nolan said,
pausing briefly before add-
ing, Obviously, getting fired
is not a good thing.
Despite the ugly ending,
he insists that beating a team
he knows so well wont pro-
vide any extra satisfaction.
Nolan, like everyone in the
Falcons organization, has his
eyes on the Super Bowl. The
49ers just happen to be the
ones standing in the way.
It doesnt change the
competitive nature of the
game and what were doing,
Nolan said Tuesday. I dont
want to sit here and tell you
it makes it any sweeter or not
whether we win or lose. It
really doesnt.
His father, Dick Nolan,
coached the 49ers for eight
seasons, making back-to-back
trips to the NFC champion-
ship game in the early 1970s.
Both times, they were turned
back by the Dallas Cowboys.
Of course, San Francisco
went on to capture five Super
Bowl titles but that glorious
era had long since passed
when a second Nolan took
over the team in 2005. The
49ers were coming off a 2-14
season, matching the worst in
franchise history, and faced a
massive rebuilding job.
Nolan made plenty of mis-
steps, most notably in his
very first draft when he chose
quarterback Alex Smith with
the top pick over a local kid
who turned out to be pretty
good, Aaron Rodgers. The
49ers went through a parade
of offensive coordinators,
none of whom transformed
Smith into a competent start-
er. San Francisco improved to
4-12 and 7-9 in Nolans first
two seasons but slipped back
to 5-11 in 2007.
When they started the next
season 2-5, he was let go.
But Nolans influence is still
felt on a team that is one win
from the Super Bowl for the
second year in a row. Where
would the defense be with-
out linebacker Patrick Willis,
safety Dashon Goldson and
tackle Justin Smith, all picked
up during the Nolan
era? Likewise, imag-
ine the offense with-
out three more of his
players: running back
Frank Gore, tight end
Vernon Davis and left
tackle Joe Staley.
He helped me
out, Goldson said of his for-
mer coach. He helped form
me into a good football play-
er.
Nolan stays in contact with
some of the players
he coached in San
Francisco and takes
pride in the success
of the team since
Jim Harbaugh took
over in 2011.
I just wish it
had worked out a little bet-
ter for me at the end, Nolan
said. There was a lot of work
to be done, but theyre reap-
ing the benefits of it now,
which is great. I enjoy watch-
ing those guys.
Nolan will be on the hot
seat Sunday, facing a quar-
terback coming off one of
the greatest performances
in playoff history. Colin
Kaepernick, who took over
the job from Smith late in
the season in a much-debated
move, erased all doubts that
hes the right man for the
job in a 45-31 demolition of
the Green Bay Packers in the
divisional round. He passed
for 263 yards and two touch-
downs. More dazzling, he set
a quarterback playoff record
by rushing for 181 yards and
a pair of scores. The Falcons
defense has struggled against
similarly-skilled quarter-
backs, which will likely mean
a lot of late nights for Nolan
this week as he tries to come
up with a scheme that will at
least slow Kaepernick.
Lately, weve faced a
lot of these young guys who
have great legs, Nolan said.
Everybody faces the same
problems when facing those
guys. You have to be very
disciplined in what you do
because it adds a player to the
scheme that youre trying to
stop. Usually, the quarterback
takes the ball and gives it to
somebody. Thats a guy you
dont have to account for.
But, if all of a sudden hes got
the option to keep the ball
now youre in trouble.
Kaepernick has been
compared to Carolinas Cam
Newton, who had two of
his better games against the
Falcons. In the first meet-
ing between the division
rivals, Newton passed for 215
yards and two touchdowns,
while rushing for 86 yards
and another score. When the
teams met again last month,
Newton was even better. He
put up Kaepernick-like num-
bers 287 yards and two
touchdowns passing; 116
yards rushing, including a
72-yard TD in a 30-20
upset of the Falcons, one
of only three losses for the
NFCs top-seeded team.
Last week, in Atlantas
opening playoff game, anoth-
er dual-threat quarter-
back, Seattles Russell
Wilson, gave the
Falcons fits. He passed
for 385 yards and led
the Seahawks in rush-
ing with 60 yards,
accounting for three
TDs and leading his team
back from a 20-point defi-
cit in the fourth quarter. The
Falcons needed an improb-
able rally of their own to pull
out a 30-28 victory.
Nolan has worked won-
ders masking Atlantas weak-
nesses on defense, confus-
ing opponents with a variety
of formations, blitzes and
stunts. For instance, he might
blitz his safeties and drop
the linemen into pass cov-
erage anything to cause
the offense some uncertainty.
From a personnel standpoint,
he lost perhaps his best cor-
nerback, Brent Grimes, to a
season-ending injury in the
very first game and had to
come up with new ways to get
pressure on the quarterback
after underperforming defen-
sive end Ray Edwards was
released. Now, in the biggest
game yet, he might have to
get by without his top defen-
sive end, John Abraham, who
is hobbled by an ankle injury.
Nolan looks forward to the
challenge. Sure, he would like
another shot at being a head
coach and already met
with the Eagles about their
opening but he insists that
being a coordinator is the best
job in football.
Being a head coach might
be great but theres a tre-
mendous amount of head-
aches and stuff that doesnt
even involve football, Nolan
added. As a coordinator, you
get to call a game and you get
to coach guys. Thats it.
Nolan holds no bitterness
toward his former team
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
New York 24 13 .649
Brooklyn 23 15 .605 1 1/2
Boston 20 17 .541 4
Philadelphia 16 23 .410 9
Toronto 14 24 .368 10 1/2
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami 24 12 .667
Atlanta 21 16 .568 3 1/2
Orlando 13 24 .351 11 1/2
Charlotte 9 29 .237 16
Washington 7 28 .200 16 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Indiana 24 15 .615
Chicago 21 15 .583 1 1/2
Milwaukee 19 18 .514 4
Detroit 14 24 .368 9 1/2
Cleveland 9 31 .22 5 15 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
San Antonio 29 11 .725
Memphis 24 12 .667 3
Houston 21 18 .538 7 1/2
Dallas 16 23 .410 12 1/2
New Orleans 12 26 .316 16
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Oklahoma City 30 8 .789
Denver 24 16 .600 7
Portland 20 18 .526 10
Utah 21 19 .525 10
Minnesota 16 19 .457 12 1/2
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
L.A. Clippers 30 9 .769
Golden State 23 13 .639 5 1/2
L.A. Lakers 17 21 .447 12 1/2
Sacramento 14 24 .368 15 1/2
Phoenix 13 27 .325 17 1/2
Tuesdays Results
Indiana 103, Charlotte 76
New Orleans 111, Philadelphia 99
Brooklyn 113, Toronto 106
L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 109
Denver 115, Portland 111, OT
L.A. Lakers 104, Milwaukee 88
Todays Games
Chicago at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Indiana at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
Houston at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Denver at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Boston, 8 p.m.
Memphis at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Portland, 10 p.m.
Washington at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Miami at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Thursdays Games
New York vs. Detroit at London,
England, 3 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Miami at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
NBA GLANCE
Associated Press girls state
basketball poll
How a state panel of sports
writers and broadcasters rates
Ohio high school girls basket-
ball teams in the second of seven
weekly Associated Press polls,
by OHSAA divisions, with
won-lost record and total points
(first-place votes in parenthe-
ses): DIVISION I
1, Twinsburg (18) 14-0 197
2, Kettering Fairmont (1)
12-0 167
3, Mason 13-0 138
4, Reynoldsburg (1) 12-1
110
5, Perrysburg 12-0 103
6, Cle. St. Joseph 14-0 95
7, Centerville 11-1 60
8, N. Can. Hoover 10-2 56
9, Wadsworth 12-1 53
10, Dublin Coffman 12-1 18
Others receiving 12 or more
points: 11, Hudson 17. 12, Solon
13. 13, Aurora 12.
DIVISION II
1, Millersburg W. Holmes
(13) 14-0 181
2, Clyde (2) 15-0 166
3, Shaker Hts. Hathaway
Brown (5) 11-3 142
4, Tol. Rogers 9-2 114
5, Oxford Talawanda 15-0
89
6, Jackson 15-0 75
7, Geneva 12-1 65
8, Kettering Alter 11-2 55
9, Bellbrook 11-2 51
10, Akr. Hoban 9-3 27
points: 11, Akr. SVSM 21.
12, Beloit W. Branch 16. 13,
Bellevue 13.
DIVISION III
1, Smithville (13) 15-0 188
2, Cols. Africentric (2) 11-3
151
3, Gates Mills Gilmour (2)
13-1 144
4, Archbold (1) 13-1 123
5, Orrville 10-1 98
6, Versailles 12-1 87
7, Richwood N. Union (1)
14-1 71
8, Anna 8-2 70
9, Beachwood 11-1 47
10, Proctorville Fairland
10-0 26
points: 11, Beverly Ft. Frye 20.
12, Cle. Cuyahoga Hts. 17. 13,
Frankfort Adena (1) 13. 14, Can.
Cent. Cath. 12.
DIVISION IV
1, Ottoville (14) 13-0 191
2, Newark Cath. (2) 11-0 151
3, Berlin Hiland (2) 11-2 115
4, Hamler Patrick Henry (1)
12-0 112
5, New Madison Tri-Village
12-1 107
6, Ft. Loramie 11-2 81
7, Mansfield St. Peters 12-1
77
8, Bridgeport (1) 10-0 63
9, Ft. Recovery 10-2 56
10, Reedsville Eastern 11-1
44
Others receiving 12 or
more points: 11, N. Ridgeville
Lake Ridge 29. 12, Zanesville
Rosecrans 17. 13, New Riegel
15.
High School girls poll
Ravens have overcome
obstacles to AFC title game
By JOCELYN GECKER
MELBOURNE, Australia
Samantha Stosur felt great
before things started to spin
out of control.
She was playing before her
home crowd at the Australian
Open and she was winning
by a lot. The anxiety that had
risen so often on center court
seemed at bay.
Up 5-2 in the third set,
Stosur was two points just
two points from reaching
the third round.
It was close to being a
great day, Stosur said, trying
to analyze what went wrong.
And now, its not such a
great day.
Her tenacious opponent,
the 40th-ranked Zheng Jie
of China, won the next five
games and won 6-4, 1-6, 7-5.
The match ended with one
last double-fault from Stosur
she had nine in total and
56 unforced errors.
Asked how much of her
problem was mental, she
replied, A hundred percent.
Stosur reached the French
Open final in 2010. She beat
Serena Williams to win the
U.S. Open in 2011, becoming
the first Australian woman to
earn a singles major title in
more than 30 years.
But coming home brings
on the jitters. In 13 appear-
ances at the Australian Open
she has never made it past
the fourth round. In 2011 and
2012, she exited abruptly in
the first round.
Just before heading to
Melbourne this month, the
ninth-ranked Stosur lost in
her first matches of warm-up
tournaments in Brisbane and
Sydney.
There have been surpris-
ing letdowns elsewhere. At
last years French Open, the
sixth-seeded Stosur reached
the semifinals and was headed
toward victory against Sara
Errani of Italy, then seeded
21, but lost in three sets.
Stosur started working
with a sports psychologist in
2010 to help her deal with
the pressure of playing in
Australia and overcoming
what she has called those
battles in your own head dur-
ing matches.
After Stosur packed her
rackets into her bag and
walked off the court, an elat-
ed Zheng Jie returned to cen-
ter court for her victory inter-
view which turned into an
apology.
Sorry to everyone in the
stands, Zheng said to the
packed Rod Laver Arena.
Later, the 29-year-old
Zheng entered her post-match
news conference shaking her
head and taking a few deep
breaths.
Zheng became the first
Chinese player to reach
a Grand Slam semifinal at
Wimbledon in 2008. She
matched that result two years
later when she and compatriot
Li Na both reached the 2010
Australian Open semifinals.
The No. 6-seeded Li also
advanced to the third round
Wednesday, beating Olga
Govortsova of Belarus, 6-2,
7-5. Li faces Romanias
Sorana Cirstea in the next
round. Zheng plays 18th-
seeded Julia Goerges of
Germany.
Novak Djokovic was all
but perfect in his second-
round match Wednesday
against Ryan Harrison, beat-
ing the 20-year-old American
6-1, 6-2, 6-3 to stay on track
for his third consecutive
Australian Open title and the
fourth of his career.
Maria Sharapova was
even more convincing a few
hours earlier, winning 6-0,
6-0 for the second time in
two matches to set up a third-
round encounter with Venus
Williams. The second-seeded
Russian beat Japans Misaki
Doi in just 47 minutes.
Williams beat Alize
Cornet 6-3, 6-3 in the match
preceding the Djokovic-
Harrison encounter at Rod
Laver Arena, which will
be the likely venue for her
big matchup Friday against
Sharapova.
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France podium.
Lance knows everything
that happened, Frankie
Andreu told The Associated
Press on Tuesday. Hes the
one who knows who did what
because he was the ringleader.
Its up to him how much he
wants to expose.
Armstrong has been in
conversations with U.S. Anti-
Doping Agency officials,
touching off speculation that
he may be willing to cooper-
ate with authorities there and
name names.
Interviewer Oprah Winfrey
didnt say if the subject was
broached during the tap-
ing Monday at a downtown
Austin hotel. In an appearance
on CBS This Morning, she
declined to give details of what
Armstrong told her, but said
she was mesmerized and riv-
eted by some of his answers.
Asked whether the disgraced
cyclist appeared genuinely
contrite after a decade of fierce
denials, Winfrey replied, I
felt that he was thoughtful, I
thought that he was serious, I
thought that he certainly had
prepared for this moment. I
would say that he met the
moment.
She was promoting what
has become a two-part spe-
cial, Thursday and Friday, on
her OWN network. Around
the same time, World Anti-
Doping Agency officials
issued a statement saying
nothing short of a full con-
fession under oath would
cause them to reconsider
Armstrongs lifetime ban
from sanctioned events. The
International Cycling Union
By JIM LITKE
and JIM VERTUNO
A televised confession
by Lance Armstrong isnt
enough.
Anti-doping officials want
2
Anti-doping officials want
Armstrong under oath
the disgraced cyclist to admit
his guilt under oath before
considering whether to lift
a lifetime ban clouding his
future as a competitive athlete.
That was seconded by at least
one former teammate whom
Armstrong pushed aside on his
Lance Armstrong
also urged Armstrong to
tell his story to an indepen-
dent commission it has set
up to examine claims that
the sports governing body
hid suspicious samples from
the cyclist, accepted finan-
cial donations from him and
helped him avoid detection
in doping tests. The ban was
only one of several penal-
ties handed to Armstrong
after a scathing, 1,000-page
report by USADA last year.
The cyclist was also stripped
of his seven Tour de France
titles, lost nearly all of his
endorsements and was forced
to cut ties with the Livestrong
cancer charity he founded in
1997. The report portrayed
Armstrong as the mastermind
of a long-running scheme
that employed steroids, blood
boosters such as EPO, and a
range of other performance-
enhancers to dominate the
tour. It included revealing tes-
timony from 11 former team-
mates, including Andreu and
his wife, Betsy.
A lot of it was news and
shocking to me, Andreu said.
I am sure its shocking to
the world. Theres been signs
leading up to this moment for
a long time. For my wife and
I, weve been attacked and
ripped apart by Lance and all
of his people, and all his sup-
porters repeatedly for a long
time. I just wish they wouldnt
have been so blind and opened
up their eyes earlier to all the
signs that indicated there was
deception there, so that we
wouldnt have had to suffer as
much. And its not only us,
he added, hes ruined a lot
of people lives. Armstrong
was believed to have left for
Hawaii. The street outside his
Spanish-style villa on Austins
west side was quiet the day
after international TV crews
gathered there hoping to catch
a glimpse of him. Nearby,
members of his legal team
mapped out a strategy on how
to handle at least two pending
lawsuits against Armstrong,
and possibly a third.
The AP reported ear-
lier Tuesday that Justice
Department officials were
likely to join a whistleblower
lawsuit against Armstrong
by former teammate Floyd
Landis, citing a source who
works outside the govern-
ment and requested ano-
nymity because he was not
authorized to speak on the
record about the matter. The
lawsuit by Landis, who was
stripped of the 2006 Tour de
France title after testing posi-
tive, alleges that Armstrong
defrauded the U.S. government
by repeatedly denying he used
performance-enhancing drugs.
The deadline to join the False
Claims Act lawsuit, which
could require Armstrong to
return substantial sponsorship
fees and pay a hefty penalty, is
Thursday.
Landis is hardly the only
one seeking money back from
Armstrong. During his long
reign as cycling champion,
Armstrong scolded some crit-
ics in public, didnt hesitate to
punish outspoken riders dur-
ing the race, and waged legal
battles against still others in
court.
(Continued from Page 6)
since Ive been in the league
just constantly putting pres-
sure on me, touching me, hit-
ting me at all times in the
game. He wouldnt let me just
catch the ball easy and I wasnt
able to get the ball a lot, so it
was pretty difficult.
Los Angeles snapped its
longest losing streak in near-
ly six years with a win over
the Cavaliers on Sunday. Pau
Gasol missed his fifth straight
game Tuesday for the Lakers
with a concussion but the
7-foot Spaniard worked out
before the game and will be
re-examined before Miamis
visit.
The Lakers took a slim
lead into the fourth quarter but
steadily increased it through
the final minutes with a 23-7
run. Bryant dipped into his
usual array of acrobatic shots
while also setting up Howard
for points in the paint and the
5-time NBA champion left to a
standing ovation with 3:07 left
in his 22nd consecutive game
with at least 20 points.
Kobe changed the com-
plexion of the game with his
pressure in the backcourt,
Boylan said. They knocked
us off balance early and we
fought back. We missed a
lot of shots but mainly because
of their pressure. They played
a really good defensive game.
Jennings was the Eastern
Conferences player of the
week for averaging 24.5
points in the last four games
under Boylans leadership but
Bryant held him to two points
in the first half. Jennings got
going with a 4-point play early
in the third quarter but never
managed consistent produc-
tion against Bryant and his
teammates.
The Lakers starters clicked
on offense early, building a
12-point lead in the first quar-
ter with dominant play down
low from Howard. Ellis kept
the Bucks close with a first-
half scoring spree against the
Lakers reserves.
CLIPPERS 117, ROCKETS 109
HOUSTON Jamal Crawford
scored a season-high 30 points,
including 12 straight to start the
fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles
Clippers looked just fine without
Chris Paul in a 117-109 win over
the struggling Houston Rockets on
Tuesday night.
The Clippers won their second
game in a row despite missing their
star point guard, who is day-to-day
with a bruised right kneecap.
Los Angeles used a big third
quarter to take the lead and
Crawford extended the advantage
to 20 by outscoring Houston 12-7
in the opening minutes of the fourth
quarter.
James Harden had 23 points for
the Rockets, whose 4-game losing
streak is a season worst.
The Clippers improved to 11-1
this season when Crawford leads
the team in scoring.
Los Angeles opened the second
half with a 10-0 run to take a 68-59
lead with about nine minutes left in
the third quarter.
NUGGETS 115, TRAIL
BLAZERS 111, OT
DENVER Wilson Chandler
hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 14.9
seconds remaining in overtime and
Denver beat Portland for its season-
best sixth consecutive victory.
Danilo Gallinari had 25 points,
including a key 3-pointer in the extra
period. Ty Lawson added 24 points
and 12 assists for the Nuggets, who
are 2-0 in overtime this season.
Portland, which lost for the first
time in six OT games this season,
was led by LaMarcus Aldridges 28
points. Nicolas Batum had 22 points
and J.J. Hickson 19.
PACERS 103, BOBCATS 76
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Roy
Hibbert had 18 points and seven
rebounds, and Indiana handed
Charlotte its 13th straight home
loss.
The Pacers bounced back
from Sundays 11-point defeat to
Brooklyn and won for the fifth time
in six games.
With team owner Michael
Jordan looking on from the bench,
the Bobcats lost their fifth in a row.
Theyve dropped 24-of-26 since
Thanksgiving.
Indiana won this one going
away behind some dominant inside
play, outrebounding the Bobcats
60-31 and outscoring them 52-22
in the paint.
Paul George had 16 points
and 10 rebounds, while David
West added 15 points and eight
rebounds for the Pacers. George
Hill chipped in with 16 points and
seven rebounds.
The Central Division leaders
(24-15) have not lost consecutive
games since Dec. 9.
Gerald Henderson led the
Bobcats with 15 points.
NETS 113, RAPTORS 106
NEW YORK Brook Lopez had
22 points and nine rebounds, Joe
Johnson and Deron Williams each
scored 21 points, and Brooklyn beat
Toronto to extend its season-high
winning streak to seven games.
Andray Blatche added 14 points
for the Nets, in the midst of their lon-
gest winning streak since running
off 14 in a row late in the 2005-06
season. A .500 team when they
fired Avery Johnson late last month,
Brooklyn is 9-1 under interim coach
P.J. Carlesimo and has pulled with-
in 1 1/2 games of the New York
Knicks for the Atlantic Division lead.
The Nets dominated the fourth
quarter again, pulling away for their
sixth straight home victory. Kyle
Lowry scored 21 points for the
Raptors, who have dropped two in
a row but still have 10 wins in their
last 15 games.
HORNETS 111, 76ERS 99
PHILADELPHIA Greivis
Vasquez scored 23 points and Eric
Gordon added 19 to help New
Orleans beat Philadelphia.
Ryan Anderson had 14 points,
Xavier Henry scored 11 and
Anthony Davis 10 for the Hornets,
who are last in the Western
Conference at 12-26 with match-
ing 6-13 records at home and on
the road.
Jrue Holiday led the Sixers
with 29 points and 11 assists. Nick
Young and Evan Turner added 14
points each while Thaddeus Young
scored 12.
Philadelphia hasnt won con-
secutive games since a 3-game
streak from Nov. 25-30.
Kobe
Spencerville
(Continued from Page 6)
fourth quarter and Spencerville
saw its lead grow to 58-51 on a
steal and score by freshman guard
Jacey Grigsby.
Later, down 62-52 with just
under three minutes to play in the
game, the Lady Panthers clawed
back into it. Snyder scored three
unanswered layups and junior
center Sierra Fent added one of
her own to cut the Spencerville
lead to 62-60 with a minute left
to play.
Sophomore point guard
Schylar Miller hit a layup to return
the Lady Bearcat lead to four
points with 41 seconds left and the
Lady Panthers couldnt answer.
Miller then hit a single free throw
to make the final score 65-60.
Pughsley was pleased with the
win, especially with the slew of
injuries the Lady Bearcats have
been battling of late: Injuries
have been dominating our team
this year. Thats really what weve
been playing against, not only our
opponent, but injuries. For us to
win with our second-leading scor-
er and senior leader injured, to
look over and see multiple players
on crutches or just getting out of a
boot, its really big.
Freewalt led all scorers with
19 points and chipped in nine
rebounds for the Lady Bearcats.
Purdy, with 13, and Grigsby, with
11, also tallied double figures.
Snyder paced the Lady
Panthers with 17 points. Fent
added 12 points and eight
boards and junior forward Cami
Hellwarth had 10 points.
The loss drops Parkway to
2-11 on the season. Spencerville
improves to 2-9.
Spencerville hosts Columbus
Grove Thursday.
SPENCERVILLE (FGM-A, 3PM-A,
FTM-A, Pts.)
Freewalt 6-17 0-0 7-8 19, Purdy
6-20 1-3 0-1 13, Grigsby 4-14 0-0 3-6
11, Meyer 2-5 2-3 0-0 6, M. Miller 2-5
1-1 0-2 5, S. Miller 1-5 0-0 3-4 5, Sharp
1-4 0-0 0-0 2, Propst 1-4 0-0 0-0 2,
Merriman 1-4 0-0 0-0 2.
PARKWAY
Snyder 6-15 0-0 5-6 17, Fent 6-12
0-0 0-2 12, Hellwarth 3-8 0-0 4-4 10,
Samaniego 4-10 1-3 0-0 9, Bransteter
2-1 0-0 4-10 8, Heindel 1-6 0-0 0-0 2,
T. Walls 0-1 0-0 2-2 2, K. Walls 0-1
0-1 0-0 0.
Score by Quarters:
Spencerville 11 17 18 19 - 65
Parkway 14 9 22 15 - 60
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Wendys net income
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cents per share, for the three
months ended Dec. 30. Thats
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The current quarters re-
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Removing impairment
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Wendys, known for its
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Right Size value menu that
includes items ranging from
99 cents to $1.99. The menu
replaced its 99-cent value
menu. At a time when costs
for meat, cheese and other
ingredients are rising, the
revamped menu is intended
to give budget-minded din-
ers more options, while giv-
ing Wendys more fexibility
on pricing. For the full year,
Wendys reported earnings
from continuing operations
of 1 cent per share. Adjusted
earnings were 16 cents per
share. Revenue rose 3 per-
cent to $2.51 billion.
Revenue at both compa-
ny-run and franchised North
American restaurants open at
least 15 months and remod-
eled restaurants reopened at
least three straight months
increased 1.6 percent.
Wendys Co. still expects
fscal 2013 adjusted earnings
of 18 cents to 20 cents per
share. Wall Street forecasts
adjusted earnings of 17 cents
per share.
Wendys 4Q adj. proft
tops Wall Streets view
The Van Wert Area
Chamber of Commerce is
now accepting nominations
for 2013 Recognition and
Awards for presentation at
the 91st annual Dinner and
Awards Ceremony at 5:30
p.m. on Feb. 21 at Willow
Bend Country Club.
The following will be
presented:
Recognition categories
Golden Shovel: Recipi-
ent must be a current Cham-
ber Member whose business
has undergone an addition,
expansion or new construc-
tion to provide continuous
improvements to their facility
and the services they provide.
Milestone Recognition:
Recipient business must be
a current Chamber Member
who, during the year 2012,
celebrated a monumental
business anniversary of a fve
year increment.
Award categories
Crystal Image Award:
Recipient business must be
a current Chamber Member
who has demonstrated lead-
ership within the Van Wert
community by its many fac-
eted business contributions
and service to the commu-
nity.
Ray Miller Award: Re-
cipient must be a Van Wert
County resident that is af-
fliated with the Chamber or
a chamber member business
who has shown a strong com-
mitment to the community
and outstanding service to
our community.
VW Chamber taking
nominations for annual awards
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
and MICHAEL LIEDTKE
MENLO PARK, Calif. Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new
search feature thats designed to entice
people to spend more time on his com-
panys website and will put the worlds
largest online social network more
squarely in competition with Google and
other rivals such as Yelp and LinkedIn.
Called graph search, the new ser-
vice unveiled Tuesday lets users quickly
sift through their social connections for
information about people, interests, pho-
tos and places. Itll help users who, for
instance, want to scroll through all the
photos their friends have taken in Paris
or search for the favorite TV shows of
all their friends who happen to be doc-
tors. Although Zuckerberg stressed that
graph search is different from an all-
purpose search engine, the expanded
feature escalates an already ferce duel
between Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.
as they grapple for the attention of Web
surfers and revenue from online adver-
tisers.
This could be another reason not to
use Google and another reason to stay
on Facebook for longer periods, said
Gartner analyst Brian Blau. I dont
think Google is going to lose its search
business, but it could have an impact on
Google by changing the nature of search
in the future.
Facebooks foray into search marks
one of its boldest steps since its initial
public offering of stock fopped eight
months ago amid concerns about the
companys ability to produce the same
kind of robust earnings growth that
Google delivered after it went public in
2004.
Although Facebooks stock has ral-
lied in recent weeks, the shares remain
below their IPO price of $38. Investors
seemed let down by Tuesdays news,
causing Facebooks stock to slip 85
cents, or 2.7 percent, to close at $30.10.
Googles stock gained $1.68 to close at
$724.93.
If the new search tool works the way
Facebook envisions, users should be
able to fnd information they want to see
on their own instead of relying on the
social networks formulas to pick which
posts and pictures to display in their
fees, analysts said.
Until now, Facebook users were un-
able to search for friends who live in a
certain town or like a particular movie.
With the new feature, people can search
for friends who, say, live in Boston who
also like Zero Dark Thirty. And Face-
books users will be able to enter search
terms the same way that they talk, re-
lying on natural language instead of a
few stilted keywords to telegraph their
meaning. Only a fraction of Facebooks
more than 1 billion users will have ac-
cess to the new search tool beginning
Tuesday because the company plans to
gradually roll it out during the next year
to allow time for more fne tuning.
Not all the interests that people
share on Facebook will be immediately
indexed in the search engine either, al-
though the plan is to eventually unlock
all the information in the network while
honoring each users privacy settings.
That means users can only see con-
tent thats available to them through
others privacy settings, Zuckerberg
pledged. Every piece of content has its
own audience, Zuckerberg said.
Though the company has focused
on refning its mobile product for much
of last year, the search feature will only
be available on Facebooks website for
now, and only in English. Facebooks
decision to make its foray into search
slowly refects the formidable challenge
that its trying to tackle. The social
graph, as Facebook calls the trove of
connections between people and things,
is big and changing, Zuckerberg said.
There are 240 billion photos on Face-
book and 1 trillion connections.
Indexing all this, he added, is a diff-
cult technical problem the company has
been working on.
Facebook unveils social search feature
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HERALD DELPHOS
THE
Telling The Tri-Countys Story Since 1869
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Each word is $.30 2-5 days
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Each word is $.10 for 3 months
or more prepaid
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price of $3.00.
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the person whose name will appear in the ad.
Must show ID & pay when placing ad. Regu-
lar rates apply
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charge + $.10 for each word.
To place an ad phone 419-695-0015 ext. 122
We accept
Tree Service
419-203-8202
bjpmueller@gmail.com
Fully insured
Mueller Tree
Service
Tree Trimming,
Topping
& Removal
L.L.C.
Trimming & Removal
Stump Grinding
24 Hour Service Fully Insured
KEVIN M. MOORE
(419) 235-8051
TEMANS
OUR TREE
SERVICE
Bill Teman 419-302-2981
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Since 1973
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Trimming Topping Thinning
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Stump, Shrub & Tree Removal
Miscellaneous
COMMUNITY
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NEWER FACILITY
419-692-0032
Across from Arbys
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SOUND
Security Fence
DELPHOS
SELF-STORAGE
Pass Code Lighted Lot
Affordable 2 Locations
Why settle for less?
419-692-6336
AMISH
CARPENTERS
All types of construction
Build or Remodel
For all your metal siding and
roofing needs contact us.
FOR FREE ESTIMATE
260-585-4368
Joe Miller
Construction
Experienced Amish Carpentry
Roofing, remodeling,
concrete, pole barns, garages
or any construction needs.
Cell 567-644-6030
Home Improvement
Harrison
Floor Installation
Carpet, Vinyl, Wood,
Ceramic Tile
Reasonable rates
Free estimates
harrisonfoorinstallation.com
Phil 419-235-2262
Wes 567-644-9871
You buy, we apply
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419-695-8516
NEW AT
FREE ESTIMATES
Tree Trimming
Stump Grinding
Tree Removal
Car Care
Geise
Transmission, Inc.
419-453-3620
2 miles north of Ottoville
automatic transmission
standard transmission
differentials
transfer case
brakes & tune up
Construction
Amish Crew
Needing work
Roofing Remodeling
Bathrooms Kitchens
Hog Barns Drywall
Additions Sidewalks
Concrete etc.
FREE ESTIMATES
419-733-9601
AT YOUR
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ervice
Advertise
Your
Business
DAILY
For a low, low
price!
Miller Contracting Group, Inc. is in search of the following positions:
Heavy Site/Underground
Utility Construction Laborer/Operator
Rough and Finish Carpentry Laborer
Concrete Construction Laborer
Equal Opportunity Employer. Send Resume to:
P.O. Box 162 Ottoville, OH 45876
or info@millercontractinggroup.com
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QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER
AAP St. Marys Corp. is a leader in the design and manufacture of cast
aluminum wheels for OEM automakers. As a subsidiary of Hitachi Metals
America, our reputation for high quality products and customer satisfaction
has helped us continue to grow and provide our associates with over 24 years
of steady employment. We now have an opportunity for a Quality Assurance
Engineer to assume the following responsibilities:
Performs analyses, inspection, design, and testing functions to
ensure quality of raw materials and finished products
Conducts quality engineering reviews of design documentation to
ensure that results meet/exceed customer requirements
Identifies potential quality issues and recommends changes
in process, procedure, work methods, and other corrective/
preventive actions to support continuous quality improvement
Prepares various reports for management and customer
representatives
Candidates must have at least three (3) years of related quality assur-
ance engineering experience, including ISO/TS 16949 quality man-
agement systems, root cause analysis tools, SPC, FMEA, and APQP/
PPAP processes. Experience should also include gauging, inspection
processes, blueprint reading, geometric dimensioning/tolerancing, and
excellent computer skills. A related Associate degree is required. A
related Bachelor degree and ASQ certification is preferred.
In return for your expertise, we offer a competitive starting salary, prof-
it-sharing, and excellent fringe benefits, including medical, dental, life,
vision, and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with
Company matching, paid vacation, paid holidays, and more. If youre
looking for a career opportunity with a growing company, please for-
ward your qualifications and salary history to:
AAP St. Marys Corporation
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, Ohio 45885
Attention: Human Resource-DH
303 Duplex For Rent
2BR, 1BA Duplex. Laun-
dry hook-up, off street
parking & clean. $450/mo.
Call 419-225-8725
105 Announcements
ADVERTISERS: YOU can
place a 25 word classified
ad in more than 100 news-
papers with over one and
a half million total circula-
tion across Ohio for $295.
Its easy...you place one
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Network. The Delphos
Herald advertising dept.
can set this up for you. No
other classified ad buy is
simpler or more cost effec-
tive. Call 419-695-0015
ext. 138
110 Card Of Thanks
I WOULD like to say thank
you to all of you who sent
birthday wishes my way
on my 90th birthday.
Thank you to my family for
the great party, to those
who sent flowers, called
(some even sang) and
sent cards.
You all made my day even
more special.
Thank you,
Lillian Looser
305
Apartment For
Rent
1-BR APT. 1010- 1/2 N.
Main St. $325/mo. No
Pets. 419-488-3685 or
419-615-5798
2BR APT. 128 N. Jeffer-
son. $375/mo plus deposit
No p e t s . Ca l l
419-642-6535
427 HARMON St., Single
family home. 2BR, 1BA.
$500/mo + deposit. Call
419-235-8022
ONE BEDROOM APT.,
537 W. Third, Delphos.
$325 plus deposit. No
Pets. Call 419-204-5924,
419-692-2184
320 House For Rent
DELPHOS 2-3 Bedroom
house for rent with ga -
rage. $450/month. Ph.
4 1 9 - 6 9 2 - 6 7 4 1 o r
419-692-1890.
325
Mobile Homes
For Rent
1 BEDROOM mobile
home for rent. Ph.
419-692-3951
2 BR, 2 BA in the country,
2 wi th car garage.
$620/mo. first, last + de-
posit. 4505 Redd Rd.
419-230-0906
325
Mobile Homes
For Rent
RENT OR Rent to Own. 2
bedroom, 1 bath mobile
home. 419-692-3951
430
Mfg./Mobile
Homes For Sale
DOUBLEWIDE 44x24.
Excellent condition, 3BR,
2BA, many upgrades. In-
cludes new roof, porch,
windows/treatments, shed
and all appliances. Must
see at Ulms II, 227 W.
Clime St., Lot 37. Immedi-
ate Possession. $22,000
419-234-5495
419-605-8906
545 Firewood/Fuel
FREE WOOD for camp-
fires and kindling. Behind
Westrich Furniture.
HARDWOOD FIRE-
WOOD for sale. Well sea-
soned. Call 419-230-4890
577 Miscellaneous
FREE PHONE, No Activa-
ti on fee, No Credi t
Checks, No Hassles, No
Contract Phone, $45 Best
Value Unlimited Talk, Text
and Mobile Web.
Van Wert Wireless the
Alltel Store, 1198 West-
wood Drive, Suite B, Van
Wert, Ohio 419-238-3101
583
Pets and
Supplies
FREE KITTEN, long black
haired. 419-605-8023
FREE: POTBELLIED Pig
Call 419-741-2178
592 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
640 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 customer
service by The Delphos
Herald.)
670 Miscellaneous
LAMP REPAIR
Table or Floor.
Come to our store.
Hohenbrink TV.
419-695-1229
810
Auto Parts and
Accessories
Midwest Ohio
Auto Parts
Specialist
Windshields Installed, New
Lights, Grills, Fenders,Mirrors,
Hoods, Radiators
4893 Dixie Hwy, Lima
1-800-589-6830
930 Legals
SUGAR CREEK
TOWNSHIP, ALLEN
COUNTY FY 2012
FINANCIAL REPORT
Notice is hereby given that
the FY 2012 Annual Fi -
nancial report of the board
of the Trustees of Sugar
Creek Township, Allen
County, Ohio is available
for inspection at the Town-
ship Office located at 4130
W. Lincoln Hwy, Gomer,
OH.
Edward J. Barnhart,
Fiscal Officer
1/16/13
THE CASH Basis Annual
Financial Report of Marion
Township for the year
ended December 31, 2012
has been completed and
is available for public in-
spection by appointment
in the office of Marion
Township 5405 Kiggins
Road, Del phos, Ohi o
45833.
A copy of the report can
be provided upon request.
Robert C. Kimmet
Marion Township
Fiscal Officer
1/16/13
080 Help Wanted
DANCER LOGISTICS, Inc
in Delphos is in need of a
full-time Diesel Mechanic.
We offer health, dental &
vi si on benefi ts. Cal l
Shawn at 888-465-6001
for details or apply in per-
son 10am-3pm Monday
through Friday at 900
Gressel Drive.
EXCAVATI NG COM-
PANY hiring equipment
operator and general la-
bor. Benefits available.
Send replies to Box 106
c/o Delphos Herald, 405
N. Main St., Delphos, OH
45833
FULL TIME CORPORATE
OFFICE POSITIONS
available Mon-Fri
8am-4:30pm
I/T PROGRAMMER is
needed to write, analyze,
review, and rewrite pro-
grams for websites and
other various programs.
Requirements include: 1-3
years Programming expe-
rience in writing HTML,
SQL , CSS a n d
JavaScript/JQuery code
and comprehension of
website design and flow.
Candidates must have a
high level of confidential-
ity, accuracy and be de-
tail-oriented. Programming
knowledge of RPGLE,
PHP or Server-Si de
Scri pt i ng Languages
would be beneficial, but
not necessary.
ADMINISTRATIVE AS-
SISTANT is needed for
Corporate Office support
in the Accounts Payable
department. Major respon-
sibilities include: answer
phones, greet visitors,
daily mail and bank run,
order office supplies and
other various tasks. Can-
didates must have inter-
mediate Excel skills; 12
years general education or
equivalent; the ability to
prioritize and organize ef-
fectively.
Please send work experi-
ence to: K&M Tire
965 Spencerville Road
PO Box 279
Delphos, OH 45833.
HR@kmtire.com
419-695-1061 ext. 1156
Fax 419-695-7991
HIRING DRIVERS
with 5+years OTR experi-
ence! Our drivers average
42cents per mile & higher!
Home every weekend!
$55,000-$60,000 annually.
Benefits available. 99% no
touch freight! We will treat
you with respect! PLEASE
CALL 419-222-1630
Home Health
Aide
STNA preferred, not
required. Training
provided.
Must be fexible,
willing to work
weekends, pick up
extra shifts.
Prompt, reliable,
dependable, good
work ethic.
Driver license,
insurance & depend-
able car required.
Application online or
pick-up at:
Community Health
Professionals
602 E. Fifth St.,
Delphos OH 45833
ComHealthPro.org
OTR SEMI DRIVER
NEEDED
Benefits: Vacation,
Holiday pay, 401k. Home
weekends, & most nights.
Call Ulms Inc.
419-692-3951
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Position : Full-Time with
benefits. Mon-Fri Daytime.
Animal feed ingredient op-
eration, inspection, sam-
pling, maintaining records.
Requires basic computer
skills. Competitive wage-
D.O.E. If interested please
emai l r esume t o:
info@d-dfeed.com
Rosel awn Manor i n
Spencerville is seeking
Full-Time, Part-Time and
PRN Nursing Assistants
on 2nd and 3rd shifts. Ap-
plicants must have a cur-
rent state certification,
positive attitude, proven
history of good attendance
and responsibility. If you
are interested in working
in a family-like environ -
ment; apply in person, or
contact Julie Hook, DON,
with any questions.
Roselawn Manor
420 E. Fourth Street
Spencerville, OH 45887
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DEAR DOCTOR K: The
term OCD is used so casually
these days. How can you identify
someone who truly has obsessive-
compulsive disorder?
DEAR READER: Theres
a little bit of what is called
psychiatric illness in most of
us. For example, at one time
or another we may all feel
compelled to line up our pencils
or double-check that weve locked
the door. In fact, I double-checked
the front door before going to bed
the other night. There was no
reason why it wouldnt be locked,
and I dont usually do it. But I just
felt like I wanted to check. (It was
locked.)
In contrast, a person with
OCD who has the obsession that
his front door is unlocked may
feel the compulsion to check the
lock 10 or 20 times each night.
He remembers that hes already
checked it many times, and it
definitely was locked. But he
still worries that somehow it got
unlocked since the last time he
checked. Its not rational; its just
a mental pressure that a person
with OCD must respond to.
The two defining symptoms of
OCD are obsessive thoughts and
compulsive rituals.
Obsessions are persistent,
repeated, anxiety-provoking or
distressing thoughts. They intrude
into a persons consciousness.
Here are some common ones:
-- Fear of contamination:
constant worry about having
dirty hands or about catching or
spreading germs.
-- Fears related to accidents or
acts of violence: fear of becoming
a victim of violence (an unlocked
door that admits an intruder); fear
of suffering accidental bodily
harm (an oven is left on).
-- Fears concerning disorder
or asymmetry: an irresistible
need for order; anxiety about the
smallest detail out of place.
Compulsive rituals are
persistent, excessive, repetitive
behaviors. The goal of the ritual
is to reduce the anxiety caused
by obsessive thoughts. Examples
include:
-- Repeated washing or
bathing;
-- Refusal to shake hands or
touch doorknobs;
-- Repeated checking of locks
or stoves;
-- Compulsive counting of
objects;
-- Over-organizing work or
household items;
-- Repeating specific words or
prayers;
In OCD, the obsessions and
compulsions are excessive and
distressing. They are time-
consuming. They may interfere
with personal relationships, and
performance at work or school.
The most effective treatment
for OCD is a combination of
psychotherapy and medication.
Ongoing treatment may be
necessary.
-- Selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly
used to treat OCD. They include
sertraline (Zoloft) and citalopram
(Celexa). Tricyclic antidepressants
also may be effective, particularly
clomipramine (Anafranil).
-- A number of psychotherapy
techniques may be helpful.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT) can help a person with OCD
recognize the unreasonableness
of fearful, obsessive thinking.
The therapist sometimes teaches
specialized techniques that can
help extinguish the compulsions.
So OCD is a matter of degree.
If your obsessive thoughts or
compulsive behaviors occur
repeatedly throughout the day,
and interfere with life at home or
at work, youve got a problem --
and several possible solutions.
(Dr. Komaroff is a physician and
professor at Harvard Medical School.
To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.
com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10
Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston,
MA 02115.)
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
is often a matter of degree
Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.
Ask
Doctor K
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Van Wert County
Travis D. Roth, Sheriff
Stan D. Owens to PNC Bank,
portion of section 31, Willshire
Township.
Duane J. Wagner, Duane
Wagner, Sheriff Stan D. Owens
to Bank of America, portion of
inlot 112, Delphos.
Richard J. Klaus to Kelly-
Klaus Trust, portion of section 8,
Jackson Township.
Estate of Wilma J. Carrier to
LMSD Farms LLC, portion of
section 6, Tully Township.
Troy F. Gorman, Kristina
L. Gorman, Kristina Gorman
to Michael A. Niese, Lorrie A.
Niese, portion of section 12,
Ridge Township.
Estate of Gerald E. Ashbaugh
to Christine Thomas, Gary
Ianucilli, inlot 1743, Van Wert.
Lorenz H. Germann Living
Trust, Helen M. Germann Living
Trust to Theresa E. Parkanzky,
portion of inlot 4071 (Unit
1192), Van Wert.
Harold D. Eddy Family
Living Trust, Pauline A. Eddy
Family Living Trust, Harold D.
Eddy, Pauline A. Eddy to Harold
D. Eddy Family Living Trust,
Pauline A. Eddy Family Living
Trust, portion of section 21,
Tully Township.
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Tomorrows
Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol
Wife should worry
about husbands
secrecy with phone
Dear Annie: I have been
married for six months and
am crazy for my hubby. He
has back problems and some
sexual issues that keep us
from being intimate. At
least, those are the excuses
he uses for the fact that we
dont touch like we used to.
I recently came across
some love notes to an ex-
girlfriend, saying how they
are going to be
happy growing
old together and
how much he
loves her. I pay
his child support
and love his kids
like my own. He
says he loves me,
but I have doubts
that he is being
honest. He is con-
stantly texting
and emailing and
never puts his
phone down. He acts as if
he is afraid I will look at it.
Ive been hurt before by
lies and dont want to go
through it again. What do I
do? Scared and Lonely in
Kentucky
Dear Scared: Were these
recent love notes or old ones
that you happened to fnd?
If they are old, try to ignore
them. He married you, not
his ex-girlfriend. If they are
recent, however, it could
be serious, especially when
combined with constant and
secretive texting, calling
and emailing. Married part-
ners owe it to each other to
be open and honest. Talk to
your husband. If his answers
dont reassure you, the next
step is counseling.
Dear Annie: I am a small
woman with large breasts.
I did not buy these. For
years, Ive tolerated leering
men and boys, suggestive
comments, questions about
breast enhancement and as-
sumptions that I am of easy
virtue. Some people are un-
able to make eye contact
because they are staring at
my bosom not to mention
the idiots who cannot possi-
bly take me seriously in the
business world because of
my cup size. I was once re-
fused a job because the su-
pervisor was worried what
his wife would think.
I have learned to deal
with all that. But I have is-
sues with the way other
women treat me. Most take
an immediate dislike to
me. Men stare no matter
how modestly I dress, and
their wives and girlfriends
glare at me, call me names
they think I dont hear and
generally treat me like dirt.
Even walking in public past
a group of women seems to
bring on the negativity.
We talk about bullying
because of body type, but
doesnt this qualify? Wom-
en dont seem to see the
hurt they cause, the chance
at friendship they miss or
the chiropractic bills I have
from hauling these things
around. Breast reduction
surgery is not an option for
me right now. Please bring
this to the attention of your
readers. Some might rec-
ognize their behavior and
make an effort to change.
Too Well Endowed in
Kansas
Dear Kansas:
Women can some-
times ascribe nega-
tive traits to an ob-
ject of jealousy. If
your chest attracts
their husbands and
boyfriends, they
need to fnd a rea-
son to dislike you.
We hope your let-
ter serves as a plea
for greater toler-
ance, but we also
recommend you check to
see whether your insurance
covers breast reduction sur-
gery since you have chronic
back pain. You shouldnt
suffer needlessly.
Dear Annie: Connecti-
cut complained that her
ex-husband pressured their
kids not to invite her current
boyfriend to their family
events. You said that unless
the kids stood up to Dad,
nothing would change. We
have dealt with a controlling
ex-spouse for 30 years. She
has never changed. And the
kids dont want to hurt her
feelings, because she is still
their mother.
A long time ago, we
made the decision to cele-
brate birthdays and holidays
before or after the actual
day. It lets us have a great
time with the kids without
the stress of dealing with the
controlling parent. And we
dont miss out on any cel-
ebration. Lucky Grand-
parents
Annies Mailbox
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013
Something that seemed like a
long time in coming
might finally happen
in the year ahead.
Fortunately, it will be
a development that is
likely to change your
life in a good way,
both materially and socially.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19) -- Finding access to persons who
could be key to your present plans will
come more easily than you thought.
This includes even some individuals
who have been deliberately dodging
you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) -- You are in a much stronger
position career-wise than you may
realize. Dont let self-doubt or
discouragement by others cause you
to believe otherwise.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --
Discussions with wise friends might
be the key to helping you unravel
a bind. If you talk to some of your
smarter pals, youll find the answers
you need.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
-- Be tough enough to dedicate your
time and efforts to a difficult objective
that youre anxious to attain, and
youll achieve your purposes. Dont
let yourself get bogged down.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
-- Dont be reluctant to revise some
long-standing methods if they are
no longer proving to be productive.
Things dont always get better with
age.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
-- Youre likely to fare far better if
you respond to events instead of
precipitating them. At this juncture,
its better to react than to lead.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
-- Unusually bold measures will
be required to advance one of your
interests. Dont be afraid to take a
calculated risk if thats what it takes.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- If
youve left something dangling, even
for a good reason, now is the time to
put it to rest. It could produce potential
benefits for everybody involved.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) --
Chances are youll finally tackle a
duty youve put off for quite some
time, all because you thought it would
be a dull experience. To your surprise,
it will prove to be invigorating.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
When you finally decide to work
on your households budget, youll
surprisingly find ways to get better
mileage from the monies at hand.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
-- Try not to treat serious matters
indifferently, but by the same token,
dont approach life in such a somber
manner that you depress others, as
well as yourself. Find a compromise.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
21) -- An old debt that you thought
about writing off is likely to be repaid
during this cycle. Its a good thing you
werent too quick to forget about it.
COPYRIGHT 2013 United Feature
Syndicate, Inc. 2
12 The Herald Wednesday, January 16 2013 www.delphosherald.com
Answers to Mondays questions:
Under federal guidelines, a product labeled low
sodium can only contain 140 milligrams or less of
sodium. Sodium free products can only have less than
5 milligrams.
The only Clint Eastwood film in which the movie
stars tough guy character was shot dead was Gran
Torino (2008).
Todays questions:
Which is the least populous state capital in the U.S.?
Which is the most populous?
What catchy new name did the American Family Life
Insurance Company adopt in 1992?
Answers in Thursdays Herald.
Returning to West Point late one night, Colonel
Schultz and his wife were challenged by the sentry at
the gate.
Halt and identify yourself!
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! declared the startled
woman.
The sentry stepped aside. Advance, Holy Family, to
be recognized.
NYC bus drivers, matrons go on strike
BY KAREN
MATTHEWS
NEW YORK More than
8,000 New York City school
bus drivers and matrons went
on strike over job protection
this morning, leaving some
152,000 students, many dis-
abled, trying to find other
ways to get to school.
Schools Chancellor Dennis
Walcott said the strike started
at 6 a.m. today. About 200 bus
drivers and bus matrons were
assembled on picket lines in
the Queens section of the city.
The first days will be
extremely chaotic, Walcott
told 1010 WINS radio. It
hasnt happened in New York
City in over 33 years.
The union did not imme-
diately return calls and emails
seeking comment.
Most of the citys roughly
1.1 million public school stu-
dents take public transporta-
tion or walk to school. Those
who rely on the buses include
54,000 special education stu-
dents and others who live far
from schools or transporta-
tion. Parents have made plans
to use subways, carpools and
other alternatives. The city
has put its contracts with pri-
vate bus companies up for bid,
aiming to cut costs. The Local
1181 of the Amalgamated
Transit Union says drivers
could suddenly lose their jobs
when contracts expire in June.
The city plans to distribute
transit cards to students who
could take buses and subways
and to reimburse parents who
would have to drive or take
taxis. We will get our chil-
dren to school, Walcott said.
To do that, some parents had
pieced together a patchwork
of plans, such as a driving
one child to one school and
arranging a carpool to take a
sibling to another school. The
union announced Monday it
would strike amid a compli-
cated dispute. The city doesnt
directly hire the bus drivers
and matrons, who work for
private companies that have
city contracts. The workers
make an average of about
$35,000 a year, with a driver
starting at $14 an hour and
potentially making as much
as $29 an hour over time,
according to union President
Michael Cordiello. Mayor
Michael Bloomberg has said
the city must seek competi-
tive bids to save money. The
union sought job protections
for current drivers in the new
contracts. The city said that
the states highest court, the
Court of Appeals, has barred
it from including such provi-
sions because of competitive
bidding laws; the union said
thats not so.
Asked if the city is pre-
pared to go as long as the
last school bus strike in
1979 which lasted 13 weeks,
Walcott said on WINS Radio,
This will go however long
it goes. We have systems in
place to support our parents
and students. Walcott, who
was making the rounds of
radio and television news
shows this morning, told
WNBC-TV there were no
talks scheduled.
Were not negotiating.
They want us to do something
illegal. We cant do that at all.
Were always open for com-
munication Its not our
responsibility and job to nego-
tiate. They work for private
companies.
How is it illegal to pro-
vide the most experienced
drivers and matrons in the
school buses? Cordiello
asked Tuesday.
The contracts expire June
30.
2 dead, 13 hurt after helicopter crashes
EPA changed course after
oil company protested
1 killed in suicide attack on Afghan spy agency
Emergency landing grounds Boeing 787 jets
World warm last year, but
not like record US heat
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and YURI KAGEYAMA
BY CASSANDRA VINOGRAD
LONDON (AP) A helicopter crashed into a crane and
fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour on
Wednesday, sending flames and black plumes of smoke into
the air. The pilot and one person on the ground were killed and
13 others injured, officials said.
The helicopter crashed in misty weather just south of the
River Thames near the Underground and mainline train station
at Vauxhall, and close to the headquarters of spy agency MI6.
Police said one person had critical injuries. Six were taken
to a nearby hospital with minor injuries and seven treated at
the scene, London Ambulance Service said.
It was something of a miracle that this was not many, many
times worse, said police Cmdr. Neil Basu.
The pilot, who was killed, had requested to divert and land
at the nearby London Heliport due to bad weather, the heliport
said in a statement.
The London Heliport never gained contact with the heli-
copter, the statement said.
The Ministry of Defense said it was not a military helicop-
ter, and a British security official who spoke on condition of
anonymity because he wasnt authorized to speak to the press
said the incident was not terror-related.
The horrific scene unfolded at the height of the morning
commute when thousands of pedestrians in the area were try-
ing to get to work. The weather at the time was overcast and
misty with fog and poor visibility, according to weather fore-
casting service the Met Office.
Video on Sky News showed wreckage burning in a street,
and black smoke in the area. The video from the crash scene
showed a line of flaming fuel and debris. Witnesses said the
helicopter hit a crane atop a 50-story residential building, the
St. George Wharf Tower.
I was 100 percent sure it was a terrorist attack, said Allen
Crosbie, site manager for the landscape firm Maylim Ltd., who
was working at the scene.
There was debris everywhere, a ton of black smoke. Parts
of the crane, parts of the helicopter. I heard bang, bang I
presume it was the helicopter hitting the crane and then the
ground. People were just panicking.
WEATHERFORD, Texas When a man in a Fort Worth
suburb reported his familys drinking water had begun bubbling
like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil
company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas.
At first, the Environmental Protection Agency believed the situ-
ation was so serious that it issued a rare emergency order in late
2010 that said at least two homeowners were in immediate danger
from a well saturated with flammable methane. More than a year
later, the agency rescinded its mandate and refused to explain why.
Now a confidential report obtained by The Associated Press
and interviews with company representatives show that the EPA
had scientific evidence against the driller, Range Resources, but
changed course after the company threatened not to cooperate with
a national study into a common form of drilling called hydraulic
fracturing. Regulators set aside an analysis that concluded the drill-
ing could have been to blame for the contamination.
For Steve Lipsky, the EPA decision seemed to ignore the dan-
gers in his well, which he says contains so much methane that the
gas in water pouring out of a garden hose can be ignited.
I just cant believe that an agency that knows the truth about
something like that, or has evidence like this, wouldnt use it, said
Lipsky, who fears he will have to abandon his dream home in an
upscale neighborhood of Weatherford.
The case isnt the first in which the EPA initially linked a
hydraulic fracturing operation to water contamination and then
softened its position after the industry protested.
A similar dispute unfolded in west-central Wyoming in late
2011, when the EPA released an initial report that showed hydraulic
fracturing could have contaminated groundwater. After industry
and GOP leaders went on the attack, the agency said it had decided
to do more testing. It has yet to announce a final conclusion.
Hydraulic fracturing often called fracking allows drill-
ers to tap into oil and gas reserves that were once considered out of
reach because they were locked in deep layers of rock.
The method has contributed to a surge in natural gas drilling
nationwide, but environmental activists and some scientists believe
it can contaminate groundwater. The industry insists the practice
is safe.
Range Resources, a leading independent player in the natural gas
boom, has hundreds of gas wells throughout Texas, Pennsylvania
and other mineral-rich areas of the United States. Among them is
a production site now owned by Legend Natural Gas in a
wooded area about a mile from Lipskys home in Weatherford,
about a half-hour drive west of Fort Worth.
State agencies usually regulate water and air pollution, so the
EPAs involvement in the Texas matter was unusual from the start.
The EPA began investigating complaints about the methane in
December 2010, because it said the Texas Railroad Commission,
which oversees oil and gas drilling, had not responded quickly
enough to the reports of bubbling water.
Government scientists believed two families, including the
Lipskys, were in danger from methane and cancer-causing benzene
and ordered Range Resources to take steps to clean their water wells
and provide affected homeowners with safe water. The company
stopped doing that after state regulators declared in March 2011
that Range Resources was not responsible. The dispute between the
EPA and the company then moved into federal court.
BY AMIR SHAH and HEIDI VOGT
KABUL, Afghanistan Six militants in suicide vests
attacked the Afghan intelligence headquarters in Kabul today,
detonating a car bomb at the gates of the compound in a coor-
dinated assault that killed one guard and wounded dozens of
civilians, officials said.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibil-
ity for the assault in a text message sent to The Associated
Press.
The multi-pronged attack was the second to target the intel-
ligence agency, known as the National Directorate of Security,
in as many months. On Dec. 6, a Taliban suicide bomber pos-
ing as a peace messenger blew himself up while meeting with
NDS chief Asadullah Khalid inside a Kabul residence. Khalid
has been hospitalized in the United States with serious wounds
since then.
The Taliban insurgency regularly targets Afghan army and
police, but attacks against the NDS in particular show the
groups ability to strike even those who are supposedly closely
monitoring their activities.
One NDS guard was killed in the blast, said agency spokes-
man Shafiqullah Tahiri. He did not provide any information on
wounded NDS agents.
Kabul police said the first attacker detonated an explosives-
packed minivan at the front gate of the NDS compound and the
other five, all wearing explosives strapped to their chests, piled
out of a second mini-van and tried to storm the gate. Security
forces killed the five gunmen, and defused explosives that
were discovered in the assailants van, a police statement said.
Tahiri, the NDS spokesman, said the bomb in the van had
been set to a timer.
TOKYO Japans two biggest airlines grounded all their
Boeing 787 aircraft for safety checks today after one was
forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the
new jet. All Nippon Airways said a cockpit message showed
battery problems and a burning smell was detected in the
cockpit and the cabin, forcing the 787 on a domestic flight to
land at Takamatsu airport in western Japan. The 787, known as
the Dreamliner, is Boeings newest and most technologically
advanced jet, and the company is counting heavily on its suc-
cess. Since its launch, which came after delays of more than
three years, the plane has been plagued by a series of problems
including a battery fire and fuel leaks. Japans ANA and Japan
Airlines are major customers for the jet and among the first to
fly it. Japans transport ministry said it received notices from
ANA, which operates 17 of the jets, and Japan Airlines, which
has seven, that all their 787s would not be flying. The ground-
ing was done voluntarily by the airlines.
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
WASHINGTON While the U.S. was smashing heat marks
last year, the world as a whole barely slipped into the top 10 hot-
test years on record, two American science agencies said Tuesday.
The global average temperature for last year would have been
a record 15 years ago, an indication that what used to be unusual
heat is more commonplace.
Now it merely ranks 10th, something climate scientists shows
man-made climate change in action.
Last years average was 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.5 degrees
Celsius), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Thats a full degree above the 20th century average of 57 F (13.9 C).
The hottest was 2010 when the average temperature was 58.2
degrees (14.6 degrees Celsius). NOAA records go back to 1880.
Were playing in a new neighborhood as far as global temper-
atures go, compared to even the late 20th century and especially
the mid-20th century, said Deke Arndt, head of monitoring for
NOAAs National Climatic Data Center.
A weather pattern called La Nina the flip side of El Nino
and mildness in Alaska, Canada, the United Kingdom and parts of
Asia moderated the globes average temperature. The Lower 48
states in the U.S. recorded its hottest year last year with an average
of 55.3 F. (12.9 C)
In global warming, you expect warming to manifest itself
in different locations in any given year, said Andrew Weaver,
a climate scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada. This
year it was Americas turn to feel the brunt of global warmings
growing fury.
NASA, which measures temperatures differently, ranks 2012
as ninth warmest. It put the temperature at 58.3 F (14.6 C). Both
agencies announced the data Tuesday.
Some global warming skeptics have claimed the world hasnt
warmed in the last 16 years, but each decade is warmer than the
last. Even the first three years of this decade were warmer than
the last, the two agencies said. Since 1963, NOAA said the global
temperature has increased at a rate of 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit a
decade (0.15 degrees Celsius).
ER visits tied to energy drinks double since 2007
BY GARANCE BURKE
SAN FRANCISCO A new government
survey suggests the number of people seeking
emergency treatment after consuming energy
drinks has doubled nationwide during the past
four years, the same period in which the super-
charged drink industry has surged in popular-
ity in convenience stores, bars and on college
campuses.
From 2007 to 2011, the government esti-
mates the number of emergency room visits
involving the neon-labeled beverages shot up
from about 10,000 to more than 20,000. Most
of those cases involved teens or young adults,
according to a survey of the nations hospitals
released late last week by the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration.
The report doesnt specify which symptoms
brought people to the emergency room but
calls energy drink consumption a rising public
health problem that can cause insomnia, ner-
vousness, headache, fast heartbeat and seizures
that are severe enough to require emergency
care.
Several emergency physicians said they had
seen a clear uptick in the number of patients
suffering from irregular heartbeats, anxiety and
heart attacks who said they had recently downed
an energy drink.
More than half of the patients considered
in the survey who wound up in the emer-
gency room told doctors they had downed only
energy drinks. In 2011, about 42 percent of the
cases involved energy drinks in combination
with alcohol or drugs, such as the stimulants
Adderall or Ritalin.
A lot of people dont realize the strength of
these things. I had someone come in recently
who had drunk three energy drinks in an hour,
which is the equivalent of 15 cups of coffee,
said Howard Mell, an emergency physician
in the suburbs of Cleveland, who serves as
a spokesman for the American College of
Emergency Physicians. Essentially he gave
himself a stress test and thankfully he passed.
But if he had a weak heart or suffered from
coronary disease and didnt know it, this could
have precipitated very bad things.
The findings came as concerns over energy
drinks have intensified following reports last
fall of 18 deaths possibly tied to the drinks
including a 14-year-old Maryland girl who died
after drinking two large cans of Monster Energy
drinks. Monster does not believe its products
were responsible for the death.
Two senators are calling for the Food and
Drug Administration to investigate safety con-
cerns about energy drinks and their ingredients.
The energy drink industry says its drinks are
safe and there is no proof linking its products to
the adverse reactions.
Late last year, the FDA asked the U.S.
Health and Human Services to update the fig-
ures its substance abuse research arm compiles
about emergency room visits tied to energy
drinks.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administrations survey was based on
responses it receives from about 230 hospitals
each year, a representative sample of about 5
percent of emergency departments nationwide.
The agency then uses those responses to esti-
mate the number of energy drink-related emer-
gency department visits nationwide.
The more than 20,000 cases estimated for
2011 represent a small portion of the annual
136 million emergency room visits tracked by
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The FDA said it was considering the findings
and pressing for more details as it undertakes a
broad review of the safety of energy drinks and
related ingredients this spring.
We will examine this additional informa-
tion as a part of our ongoing investigation
into potential safety issues surrounding the use
of energy-drink products, FDA spokeswoman
Shelly Burgess said in a statement.
Beverage manufacturers fired back at the
survey, saying the statistics were misleading
and taken out of context.
This report does not share information
about the overall health of those who may have
consumed energy drinks, or what symptoms
brought them to the ER in the first place, the
American Beverage Association said in a state-
ment. There is no basis by which to understand
the overall caffeine intake of any of these indi-
viduals from all sources.
Energy drinks remain a small part of the
carbonated soft drinks market, representing only
3.3 percent of sales volume, according to the
industry tracker Beverage Digest. Even as soda
consumption has flagged in recent years, energy
drinks sales are growing rapidly.
In 2011, sales volume for energy drinks rose
by almost 17 percent, with the top three compa-
nies Monster, Red Bull and Rockstar each
logging double-digit gains, Beverage Digest
found. The drinks are often marketed at sporting
events that are popular among younger people
such as surfing and skateboarding.
From 2007 to 2011, the most recent year for
which data was available, people from 18 to
25 were the most common age group seeking
emergency treatment for energy drink-related
reactions, the report found.
We were really concerned to find that in
four years the number of emergency depart-
ment visits almost doubled, and these drinks are
largely marketed to younger people, said Al
Woodward, a senior statistical analyst with the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration who worked on the report.
Emergency physician Steve Sun said he had
seen an increase in such cases at the Catholic
hospital where he works on the edge of San
Franciscos Golden Gate Park.
I saw one young man who had mixed ener-
gy drinks with alcohol and we had to admit him
to the hospital because he was so dehydrated he
had renal failure, Sun said. Because he was
young he did well in the hospital, but if another
patient had had underlying coronary artery dis-
ease, it could have led to a heart attack.
France in direct combat in Mali within hours
BY RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and LORI HINNANT
BAMAKO, Mali French troops pressed northward in Mali
toward territory occupied by radical Islamists today, military
officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put
soldiers in direct combat within hours. French ground opera-
tions began overnight in Mali, Adm. Edouard Guillaud, the French
military chief of staff, said on Europe 1 television. Frances Defense
Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on RTL radio that soldiers were
headed away from the relative safety of the capital toward the rebel
strongholds in the north. Residents of Niono, a city in the center of
Mali which is just south of a town that was overrun by the jihad-
ists earlier this week, said they saw trucks of French soldiers arrive
overnight. The natural target for the French infantry is Diabaly,
located 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of the capital and
roughly 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Niono. French war-
planes have carried out airstrikes on Diabaly since the weekend.

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