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Issue 85, Volume 133
Health bill failure
hurts prospects
for tax overhaul
By Stephen Ohlemacher
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
House Republicans’
failure to repeal Barack
Obama’s health care law
deals a serious blow to
another big part of Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s
agenda: tax reform.
Trump and House
Speaker Paul Ryan,
R-Wis., say they will soon
turn their attention to
the first major re-write of
the tax code in more than
30 years. But they will
have to do it without the
momentum of victory on
health care.
Just as important, the
loss on health care will
deprive Republicans of
$1 trillion in tax cuts.
The GOP health plan
would have repealed
nearly $1 trillion in taxes
enacted under Obama’s
Affordable Care Act. The
bill coupled the tax cuts
with spending cuts for
Medicaid, so it wouldn’t
add to the budget deficit.
Without the spend-
ing cuts, it will be much
harder for Republicans to
cut taxes without adding
to the federal govern-
ment’s red ink.
“Yes this does make tax
reform more difficult,”
said Ryan. “But it does
not in any way make it
impossible.”
“That just means the
Obamacare taxes stay
with Obamacare. We’re
going to go fix the rest of
the tax code,” he added.
House Republicans
couldn’t round up enough
THE JEFFERSON AWARDS: SHOWCASING OUSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE
Boquist takes love for
children a step beyond
By Merri Hanjora
mhanjora@civitasmedia.com
LIMA — We’ve all
heard the African prov-
erb, “It takes a village
to raise a child.” In that
case, Debbie Boquist Boquist
would be the head of
that village.
She has started Kids Hope
USA in the Lima/Allen County
area. This program sends
mentors into local schools for she was nominated for the
one hour once a week to help
children who are at risk. This
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votes Friday to repeal
and replace a law they
despise, raising questions
about their ability to
tackle other tough issues.
“Doing big things is
hard,” Ryan conceded as
he vowed to press on.
Rep. Jodey Arrington,
R-Texas, acknowledged
that Friday’s turn of
events made him doubt-
ful about the Republi-
cans’ ability to tackle
major legislation.
“This was my first big
vote and our first big
initiative in the line of
things to come like tax
reform,” said the fresh-
man. “I think this would
have given us tremen-
dous momentum and
I think this hurts that
momentum.”
Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa.,
said, “You always build
on your last accomplish-
ment.”
Nevertheless, Trea-
sury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin said Friday the
administration plans to
turn quickly to tax reform
with the goal of getting
an overhaul approved by
Congress by August.
“Health care is a very
complicated issue,”
Mnuchin said. “In a way,
tax reform is a lot sim-
pler.”
Don’t tell that to House
Republicans who have
been struggling with the
issue for years.
The general goal for
Republicans is to lower
income tax rates for indi-
viduals and corporations,
See OVERHAUL | 8A
would include children
who the school sees as
not succeeding because
of poverty, academics,
divorce, home life, etc.
Boquist is the wife of
Pastor Doug Boquist
at Lima Community
Church of the Naza-
rene. They have lived in Lima
for four years.
Boquist received a call from
Sandy Monfort telling her
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John Watkins, 64, wipes down countertops while working at Kewpee West on Allentown Road in Lima. The Board of Developmental
Disabilities helped him line up his job at Kewpee, which has hired several disabled employees. “It’s really helped me in a manner I
could not receive from anybody else,” Watkins said. “I appreciate the help I get from them.”
Developmental Disabilities staff
helps people find, keep jobs
By David Trinko long period of time,
dtrinko@civitasmedia.com help from DD in get-
ting different jobs,” said
LIMA — John Watkins Watkins, 64, who lives at
scraped the trash off the Vancrest Healthcare Cen-
tray, into a garbage can ter’s assisted-living facil-
at the Kewpee restaurant ity in Delphos. “It’s really
on Allentown Road. helped me in a manner
He wiped down the I could not receive from
tray before putting anybody else. I appreci- John Watkins cleans trays at Kewpee West. “Any time an employer
another tray liner on ate the help I get from gets a good employee like John, you can see the value in people,”
it. The tray liner cel- them.” said Slone Whetstone, the service and support associate who
ebrated Developmental Watkins wanted to helps Watkins. “It doesn’t matter if they have a disability or not.
Disabilities Awareness work, but he had trouble He has a disability, but he’s a very valuable employee to them.
Month and 50 years finding lasting, mean- Most companies recognize that nowadays.”
of Developmental Dis- ingful work. He started being an accountant or Allen County Board of
abilities boards in Ohio. having seizures and suf- running a business. Developmental Disabili-
He couldn’t help but be fering memory loss after After a series of fac- ties back in 2004. They
grateful for the assis- being hit by a drunken tory jobs kept ending helped hook him up with
tance. driver in 1971, putting with his layoff, he started
“I’ve received, for a an end to his dreams of to get help from the See JOBS | 7A
JEFFERSON AWARDS
The Jefferson Awards is Woman honored for
sponsored by The Lima News,
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United Way of Greater Lima and work to save animals
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Tuesday night to attend the national and that was part of my
Jefferson Awards banquet, held in LIMA — When Deb life and it continued as
Washington, D.C. Helser was a child
The awards showcase people for I became an adult,” she
outstanding community service.
she was adopted as a said.
Each day, The Lima News profiles 10-year-old girl by a Today, Helser runs
two of the winners: family and allowed to Helser a volunteer pet rescue
Saturday: Tom Ahl, Esther take in a dog she found. called Deb’s Dogs. She
Baldridge Within two weeks, that dog is not paid for her work, at
Sunday: Debbie Boquist, Debbie had seven puppies. Rather least in terms of money, and
Helser than abandon her responsibil- her foster families that take
Monday: Mary Chambers Monford, ity, Helser embraced it and in dogs and cats, also are not
Mitchell Monfort opened her heart to eight paid. But she and the families
Tuesday: Bobbie Nevarez, Jessie
dogs with the support of her
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Colorado weighs strategy for guarding against pot crackdown
By Kristen Wyatt
Associated Press
DENVER — Colorado
is considering an unusual
strategy to protect its
nascent marijuana indus-
try from a potential fed-
eral crackdown, even at
the expense of hundreds
of millions of dollars in
tax collections.
A bill pending in the
Legislature would allow
pot growers and retailers
to reclassify their recre-
ational pot as medical pot
if a change in federal law
or enforcement occurs.
It’s the boldest attempt
yet by a U.S. marijuana
state to avoid federal
intervention in its weed
market.
The bill would allow
Colorado’s 500 or so
licensed recreational
pot growers to instantly
reclassify their weed. A
switch would cost the
state more than $100
million a year because
Colorado taxes medical
Jobs
From page 1A
this job at the Kewpee
last summer.
Perhaps disabled
employees, including
Watkins, helped Kewpee
more, said Scott Shutt,
vice president at Kewpee
Hamburgers and the gen-
eral manager of the three
Lima locations.
“They are very moti-
vated,” Shutt said. “They
have very good attitudes.
It’s just a real pleasure to
have them as part of our
team.”
Building the relationship
Allen County DD has
21 service and support
associates, supporting
600 adult clients and 900
people total with disabili-
ties such as blindness,
hearing impairments or
mental impairments, said
Jana McVetta, director
of quality and support
services at Allen County
Developmental Disabili-
ties. The SSAs do every-
thing from paperwork to
keep their benefits work-
ing to lining up transpor-
tation to helping them
find jobs.
An estimated 400 to
500 of the clients are part
of the workforce. DD
works through providers,
including Capabilities,
Marimor Industries,
Goodwill Industries and
the state-run Opportuni-
ties for Ohioans With Dis- Willing to work
abilities, to make referrals Clearing off trays and
to help the individual find taking out the trash
work. might not be the dream
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House spokesman Sean start seizing recreational fund from excise taxes
Spicer has said there’s a pot, Colorado’s recre- on recreational pot. It’s a
“big difference” between ational marijuana entre- tax that doesn’t exist for
medical and recreational preneurs “need to be able medical pot.
pot. to convert that product Other items funded
Sponsors of the bill call into the medical side so by recreational pot in
it a possible exit strategy they can sell it,” Neville Colorado include training
for the new pot industry. said. for police in identifying
It’s hard to say how many His bill passed a com- stoned drivers, a public-
businesses would be mittee in the Republican education campaign
affected, or if medical pot Senate 4-1 last week. aimed at reducing teen
would flood the market, But it’s unclear whether marijuana use, and an
because some businesses the measure could pass array of medical studies
hold licenses to both the full Colorado Senate on marijuana’s effective-
David Zalubowski | AP File
Matt Hart holds up a bud of Lemon Skunk, the most potent grow and sell marijuana or the Democratic House. ness treating ailments
strain of marijuana available at the 3D Dispensary in Denver. A in Colorado. Skeptics of the proposal such as seizures or post-
bill making its way through the Colorado legislature may allow The state had about doubt the classification traumatic stress disorder.
recreational pot growers to instantly re-classify their product as 827,000 marijuana plants change would do much The proposal comes
medicinal grow if there is a change in federal law or enforcement. growing in the retail more than cost Colorado amid mixed signals from
pot much more lightly but it wouldn’t entirely system in June, the latest tax money. the federal government
than recreational weed — safeguard it either. available data. More than “It’s a big deal for our on how the Trump admin-
2.9 percent versus 17.9 What it could do is help half were for the recre- taxation system because istration plans to treat
percent. growers protect their ational market. this money has been com- states that aren’t enforc-
The measure says inventory in case federal “If there is a change in ing in and has been set ing federal drug law.
licensed growers could authorities start seizing federal law, then I think aside for this, that and Spicer said the presi-
immediately become recreational pot. all of our businesses want the other,” said Sen. Lois dent understands the
medical licensees “based The provision is getting to stay in business some- Court, a Denver Democrat pain and suffering many
on a business need due a lot of attention in the how. They’ve made major who voted against the bill. people, especially those
to a change in local, state marijuana industry fol- investments,” said Sen. Schools would be the with terminal diseases,
or federal law or enforce- lowing recent comments Tim Neville, a suburban first casualty of a tax endure “and the comfort
ment policy.” The change from members of Presi- Denver Republican who change. Colorado sends that some of these drugs,
wouldn’t take recreational dent Donald Trump’s sponsored the bill. $40 million a year to including medical mari-
marijuana off the books, administration. White If federal authorities a school-construction juana, can bring to them.”
Helping the business
Slone Whetstone
became Watkins’ advo-
cate, especially after his
job for some people. For
Watkins, it’s a welcome
opportunity to help pay
ing through layoff after
layoff.
“I appeared to be a
Those are things an
employer notices, Shutt
like John, you can see
the value in people,” she
said. “It doesn’t matter if
mother and father died his bills. failure right there with said. In addition to Wat- they have a disability or
within six months of each He said he had an my layoffs that I received kins, the restaurants have not. He has a disability,
idyllic upbringing on a from these companies,” another disabled employ- but he’s a very valuable
other nearly 15 years ago.
farm between Gomer and he said. “I didn’t have ee at Kewpee West. Sev- employee to them. Most
“I make referrals for
Delphos. He graduated the work span to stay eral disabled workers also companies recognize that
John to companies and
from high school in 1971. employed.” come into the location on nowadays.”
help discuss his career
The following year, he It wasn’t until 2004, Bellefontaine Avenue a Shutt said he “strongly
goals and find jobs,”
walked with a friend near after his parents’ deaths, few times a week with a encouraged” businesses
Whetstone said. “I’ve
a road in Toledo when that DD stepped in to supervisor from Marimor to bring disabled workers
helped transportation
an uninsured, jobless help him. They helped a few times a week to into the workforce.
over the years, especially
to work. The other main drunken driver went off him find a job he liked at learn. “If you’ve got tasks
the side of the road and “We love to give them that are suited for the
thing I’ve done is help Chief Supermarkets until
struck him. a chance and help them,” individual — and they all
keep up his benefits he the company became
“After my accident, Shutt said. have different skill levels
gets, making sure he gets worried about his sei-
I was able to return to Employers find depend- — then they’re very good
what he needs.” zures. Then he worked
work,” Watkins said. “I able, reliable employees at placing a person. It’s
Watkins said he paid at Flying J in Beaverdam
didn’t have any problems when they hire disabled a good way to help some
close attention to his before earning his job at
with my seizures for workers, Whetstone said. individuals, and it helps
mail, but he still appreci- Kewpee.
ated Whetstone looking approximately two years. Now, his seizures are They don’t see as many our workforce. This has
That’s what the surgeon call-offs, and the work- been a great situation for
out for him. under control for several
told me, after the surgery, place becomes infused us.”
“It couldn’t be any years. He started driving
with happy employees.
better. When I receive he told me just because again in November after
“Any time an employer
a letter that concerns you’re not having sei- 13 years without a car, as Reach David Trinko at 567-242-
gets a good employee
me, I’m able to contact zures doesn’t mean you he hasn’t had a seizure in 0467 or on Twitter @Lima_Trinko.
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the help right there to couldn’t be more correct.” “Here’s the thing. You
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