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Volume 145 | Edition 192 | $1.00

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

BOYS DISTRICT FINALS

ONE DEAD IN 224 WRECK

Area boys basketball teams

were in action at district finals
Friday evening. Wayne Trace and
St. Johns won their games to
advance, while Spencerville was
eliminated.

OPINION

A man was confirmed dead

following a one-vehicle accident
on U.S. 224 northeast of Van
Wert Friday. Turn to page 3 for
details.

Readers speak their minds about

local topics on the Opinion page.
Turn to pages 6-7 to read letters
to the editor and columns from
our staff.

3-4

9-10

6-7

Giving the tools

to kick heroin

Super Site Certification Ready

BY ED GEBERT
DHI Media Editor
egebert@timesbulletin.com

This August 2013 file photo shows a visit by Congressman Bob Latta and local officials to the
construction of the rail spur connecting the Van Wert Super Site to existing rail. Van Wert Mayor Don
Farm announced Friday the Super Site is now ready for certification. (DHI Media File Photo)

Super Site ready for certificate

BY ED GEBERT
DHI Media Editor
egebert@timesbulletin.com
VAN WERT It is a reality. Van
Wert Mayor Don Farmer announced
Friday morning to a group of business
leaders he has confirmation the city
has completed all the tasks necessary
for the 1,600-acre megasite to be certified by the state.
Farmer announced the news Friday morning at the breakfast meeting
of the Van Wert Area Chamber of
Commerce. He told the Times Bulletin later the city was planning a celebration at the site sometime in the
near future.
Farmer stated, I have an email
from Johnathan Gemmen of Austin
Consulting he has sent a copy to the

state that we have completed all we

need to complete and we will then get
a copy directly from the state.
It has been a long journey for the
city to get the certification accomplished. The idea for obtaining an industrial megasite dates back to the attempted luring of Honda to Van Wert
County. After the automaker chose
Greensburg, Indiana, as the site of its
new manufacturing plant in June of
2006, economic development officials
saw the value of having a potential
plant location ready. The same land
was not all available, so land to form
another large site was acquired and
on August 22, 2007, the announcement was made by the Community
Improvement Corporation. Since that
time land options have been signed
that secures the 1,600-acre site into

2022.
Getting the site shovel-ready began
with a $5 million state grant received
in November of 2008. A rail spur to
serve the site was built. That was completed in 2013. Funding for site preparation went on throughout the project.
The site has been the focus of tours for
site selectors and consultants in 2013
and 2014.
Economic Development in Van
Wert has brought a lot of good news
as of late. The city was ranked tied for
23rd in the nation in a recent ranking
of cities between 10,000 and 50,000
population. City officials have been invited to a recognition dinner in Findlay on Thursday. The occasion will
recognize all the accomplishments
earned by communities in northwest
Ohio.

VAN WERT The heroin problem has dominated

cases in Van Wert County Court of Common Pleas for
the past few years. The influx of cheap heroin caused
many in the community to become addicted to the drug.
Whether for possession or trafficking or other crimes
committed in an effort to obtain more heroin, the vast
majority of cases since 2013 have been rooted in heroin
addiction.
Quitting the drug proved to be quite difficult. Several lives fell apart because of the desire for heroin. Many
more lives ended due to the drugs hold over its users.
It slowly moved into the middle and upper class families and started killing their kids, noted Judge Charles
D. Steele (Retired). Then the people in Columbus stood
up and started to take notice. They started putting out all
these grants for five or six drug courts. Mercer County
has one, Allen County has one, Cuyahoga County has
one, so they got money for this; were talking hundreds of
thousands of dollars went into drug courts.
Steele finally had enough, and at the urging of several probation officers and many others in the area, Steele
decided to follow a new trend in the state and begin a
rehabilitation program known simply as drug court.
I drug my feet until these guys convinced me, Steele
admitted. Then once we started, I really felt like were
doing the right thing.
Steele had already announced his retirement from the
bench to take effect around the end of 2014. Judge Martin
Burchfield was selected by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to take
over the bench in Common Pleas Court. Burchfield, a former
Van Wert County assistant prosecutor, is taking over drug
court and the efforts to help out those with heroin addictions.
DRuG CouRT/16

In this file photo, Judge Charles D. Steele is

presiding over Drug Court at Van Wert County
Court of Common Pleas. Drug Court is a new
program attempting to combat the drug
problem in Van Wert County. (DHI Media File
Photo)

St. Ritas Womens Wellness Center embracing new law

BY NANCY SPENCER
DHI Media Editor
nspencer@delphosherald.com
LIMA In December, Gov. John
Kasich signed the Breast Density
Reporting Bill into law, making
Ohio the 20th state to enact such
legislation. The law officially goes
into effect on Thursday.
Under the new law, mammography facilities in Ohio must include the following statement in the
written result letter sent to patients,
should it be determined they have
dense breast tissue:
Your mammogram demonstrates that you have dense breast
tissue, which could hide abnormalities. Dense breast tissue, in and of
itself, is a relatively common condition. Therefore, this information
is not provided to cause undue con-

cern; rather, it is to raise your awareness and promote discussion with

your health care provider regarding
the presence of dense breast tissue
in addition to other risk factors.
Provider reports have included
a patients breast density level for
many years but sometime within the
next week, patients with dense or
heterogeneously dense breast tissue
will also receive the above notifica-

tion in their result letter. This will

represent approximately 50 percent
of the population.
We are embracing this change,
Director of St. Ritas Womens
Wellness Center Mary Kay Verhoff said. This is another way we
can encourage women to engage in
meaningful dialogue with their doctors about risk factors associated
with breast cancer and the impor-

tance of self-breast examinations.

When patients are armed with more
information about their health and
the risk factors, they can make better decisions.
Verhoff said the breast cancer
rate for women who have a life expectancy of 80 or more years is still
1 in 8 and has remained steady for
the past several years but deaths
from the cancer are declining
among all groups except African
American women.
Women are encouraged to start
getting mammograms at the age
of 40 and yearly thereafter. If a
first-degree relative has been diagnosed with breast cancer, females in
the family are encouraged to begin
getting mammograms 10 years before the age when the relative was
diagnosed.
If you have someone in the fam-

Index

Bulletin Board

Wine tasting at Van Wert VFW

an Wert VFW Post 5803 will be hosting

a wine and beer tasting event on Saturday, March 14. The event will be held at
the Posts 111 N. Shannon Street location. Doors
open at 6:30 p.m. Single tickets are $15, and a
couples ticket is $25. Live entertainment will
be provided by Colt Douglas. Appetizers will be
served. This event is open to the public. Tickets
are available by calling (419) 238-9600.

ily that was diagnosed with breast

cancer at age 40, then you should
start getting mammograms at the
age of 30, Verhoff said. Early detection is the key.
Verhoff also said breast cancer
found in young women can be more
aggressive and breast tissue is usually more dense when younger.
Depending upon the patients
other breast cancer risk factors, she
may be appropriate for screening
breast MRI. Having dense breast
tissue does increase a womans risk
of breast cancer but it is important
for providers to place this risk in
perspective for each patient.
Everyone is different and just
because a woman has denser breast
tissue doesnt mean they will get
cancer but it can hide cancer in a
regular mammogram, Verhoff
said.

Classifieds .........11-12
Comics & Puzzles ....8
Real Estate ..............14

Local/State ...........3-4
Obituaries .................2
History ......................5

Bulletin Board

Carrier notice

elphos
Herald
subscribers north
of Fifth Street
(including Fifth Street) and
west of North Canal Street
(including Canal Street)
will begin to receive their
newspaper by carrier on
Monday.

Sports ................. 9-10

Todays World .........15
Weather ....................2

Vol. 145, no. 192

xperience is a
good teacher,
but she sends in
terrific bills.
-Minna Antrim

Times Bulletin/Delphos Herald

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

L & L Foods recalls bacon

bits due to misbranding
Warren Harding Lucas and undeclared allergen
OBITUARIES

LATTY, Ohio Warren Harding Lucas, 94, died

Wednesday evening, March
11, 2015, in his home.
He was born in 1920, in
Paulding, Ohio, the only child
of Pete and Florence (Block)
Lucas.
On Sept. 6, 1952, he married Olga Gonzales, who survives. He was a US Army veteran
with the rank of corporal, serving during WWII.
Other survivors include:
Daughters Juanita Martinez, Joanna (Carlos) Martinez,
Kathy (Wesley) Goings, Mary Goings, all of Paulding, and
Elena (Michael) Davis of Springfield, Missouri
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at
Den Herder Funeral Home, Paulding. Burial will follow in
Live Oak Cemetery, Paulding. Visitation will be 4 8 p.m.
Monday at the funeral home. There will also be visitation
on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until time of services.
Online condolences may be sent to www.denherderfh.com.

Keith A. Wien
LAKEVIEW Keith
A. Wien, 57, of Lakeview,
formally of Delphos, passed
away on Wednesday at his

residence.
Arrangements are incomplete with Harter and Schier
Funeral Home in Delphos.

Allen Lee Red Gribler

Aug. 21, 1944 - March 10, 2015

Information submitted
by Van Wert County
Health Department
L & L Foods, a Wilmington, Ohio, establishment
is recalling approximately
30,665 pounds of bacon bits
due to misbranding and an
undeclared allergen, the U.S.
Department of Agricultures
Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS) announced today. The product contains soy
lecithin, a known allergen,
which is not declared on the
product label. The following
products are subject to recall:
0.5 oz. packages of UNCURED BACON BITS
The product was produced
on various dates from January 15, 2015, through March
10, 2015, and bears the establishment number Est. 45361
inside the USDA mark of
inspection. The product was
shipped to other manufacturers in North Carolina and
Ohio for further processing
into salad kits. The problem
was discovered when an FSIS
inspector was reviewing labels and noticed that the soy
ingredient was not on the ingredients list. The FSIS inspector found that a releasing
agent used on contact surfaces during production included
soy lecithin, which was not
disclosed on the product la-

bel.
FSIS and the company
have received no reports of
adverse reactions due to consumption of these products.
Anyone concerned about a reaction should contact a healthcare provider. FSIS routinely
conducts recall effectiveness
checks to verify recalling
firms notify their customers
of the recall and that steps are
taken to make certain that the
product is no longer available
to consumers.
Consumers and media
with questions about the recall should contact Duncan
Lavery at dlavery@llfoodsinc.com or (714) 254-1430.
Consumers with food safety questions can Ask Karen, the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours
a day at AskKaren.gov or
via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. The toll-free USDA
Meat and Poultry Hotline
1-888-MPHotline
(1-888674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can
be reached from l0 a.m. to 4
p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are
available 24 hours a day. The
online Electronic Consumer
Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours
a day at: http://www.fsis.
usda.gov/reportproblem.

GOODYEAR, Ariz. Allen Lee Red Gribler, 70, of

Goodyear, Arizona, formerly of Ohio City, Ohio, passed away
at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at his sons home after
an 11-month battle with cancer.
He was born Aug. 21, 1944, in Decatur, Indiana, the son of
the late Raymond and Geraldine (Haggard) Gribler.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Bonnie (Kohn), also
three sons: Todd (Rochelle) and Troy of Goodyear and Travis
(Kendal) of Phoenix, Arizona.
He was a 50-year member of the Rockford Eagles, a 41-year
member of Van Wert Moose Lodge 1320 and a 12-year member of the Ohio City Fire Department. The family moved to
Arizona 38 years ago.
Also surviving are two sisters: Connie (Gary) Stevens of
Ohio City and Mary (Bill) Schnepp of Van Wert, also one
brother: Karl (Nancy) Gribler of Van Wert.
Allen was a maintenance mechanic.
There will be no visitation. Private family services will
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) A man shot the owners of a
be held.
house where he was living and their children, killing the homePreferred memorials may be made to Olive Branch Church owner and his 9-year-old daughter and leaving the wife and
of God, Rockford, Ohio, or the Ohio City Fire Department.
two other children in critical condition, police said.
The bloody survivors crossed a usually busy two-lane highway to ask for help, said neighbors who called 911 after waking
early Friday to find the mother and two children at their door.
It was like out of a horror movie, said Donna Davis, 39. I
still see that little girls face in my mind.
a.m. at St. John the EvangeMark Ainsworth
Police said Jermaine Sims, 31, and his younger daughter
Services will be held at 7 list Catholic Church. Family died later Friday morning. His 29-year-old wife, Victoria, and
p.m. Sunday, March 15, 2015, and friends may call from 2-8 their 6-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter survived but
at Cowan & Son Funeral p.m. on Sunday at Harter and were in critical condition, Capt. Clint Earls said. Police did not
Home, Van Wert. Calling will Schier Funeral Home in Del- release the childrens names.
phos, where there will be a
be Sunday, from 2 - 7 p.m.
Jimmy Lyons lived in the Sims home and is accused of
K of C rosary service at 7:15
Billy Burden
shooting the family, Earls said. He said Jermaine Sims and Lyp.m.
and
a
parish
wake
at
7:30
Funeral services will be
ons had argued, but he did not know what the argument was
held at Hartford Christian p.m. To view funeral service about.
online,
please
visit
harterChurch, Spencerville, at 11
Earls said there dont appear to have been any other witandschier.com at the time of
a.m. Saturday.
the service. (Password: web- nesses.
Maxine Custer
cast9)
The only thing we are waiting on is getting some of the
Funeral services will be
victims in well-enough health to where they can shed some
Warren
Lucas
on Saturday at noon at Harter
Funeral services will be light on what caused the incident to erupt, Earls said.
and Schier Memorial ChapPolice said a call about 12:20 a.m. brought police to the
el. Friends may call from 10 conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday
at
Den
Herder
Funeral
Home,
neighbors
home, where they found Victoria Sims and two
a.m. noon on Saturday at
the funeral home. To view Paulding. Visitation will be 4 children outside, wounded. Inside the Sims home they found
funeral service online, please 8 p.m. Monday at the funer- Lyons, who was not injured, and Jermaine Sims and the 9-yearvisit harterandschier.com at al home. There will also be old.
Earls said Lyons faces two counts of murder and three of
the time of the service. (Pass- visitation on Tuesday from 10
a.m. until time of services.
aggravated assault.
word: webcast9)
Merrill
Doc
He was in the Lincoln County jail.
Donald Johnson
Osborn
Linda Davis, 65, John Davis, 41, and Donna Davis said they
A memorial service will
Services will be held at did not understand what had happened or who did what at the
be held at Schellhaas Funeral
Home, 1600 Stone Mansion 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March Sims house because so many people were talking at once beDr., Sewickley, PA 15143, on 14, 2015, in the Zwick & Jahn fore an ambulance arrived.
The shootings took place in an area about a mile south of
Saturday, April 18, 2015, at Funeral Home in Decatur, Indiana. Visitation is one hour downtown Brookhaven: inside city limits but rural in nature,
12 p.m.
prior to the service on Satur- its large yards studded with pine trees.
James Johnson
day in the Zwick & Jahn FuFuneral
services
are neral Home in Decatur.
scheduled for 2 p.m. SaturLouis Ryan
day, March 14, 2015, at CowServices will be held at
an & Son Funeral Home, Van
10:30
a.m. Saturday, March
Wert. Calling is one hour pri14, 2015, at Countryside
or to services on Saturday.
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20th Annual Jefferson Athletic Boosters

PANCAKE &
SAUSAGE DAY
SAT., MARCH 21 , 2015 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

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at Jefferson Senior High School, Rt. 66 - Delphos

Adults $6.00

Children $3.00 (11 years old & under)

(Tickets can be purchased at high school office or at the door)

SEE YOU THERE! Support the Athletic Boosters

as they support Jefferson Athletics!

50/50 DRAWING!

For movie information, call

419.238.2100
or visit

vanwertcinemas.com
Van-Del drive-in
closed for the season

LOCAL WEATHER
Today

partly cloudy
then clearing
colder
winds 5 to 15
mph
High: 52
Low: 33

Tomorrow

mostly sunny
winds 5 to 10
mph
High: 53
Low: 38

Monday

mostly sunny
turning partly
cloudy with
chance of rain
in the evening
High: 63
Low: 35

POLICE REPORTS
Van Wert Police reports
3-05 10:57 a.m.
Van Wert Middle School reported a female juvenile student
being unruly.
3-05 2:54 p.m.
A Van Wert man reported an incident of identity theft in the
400 block of East Ervin Road.
3-05 4:59 p.m.
A Van Wert juvenile in the care of Marsh Foundation was
arrested after assaulting several Marsh Foundation staff members and law enforcement officers.
3-05 8:23 p.m.
Harley-Davidson Lane, 21, of Grover Hill, was arrested for
disorderly conduct and obstructing official business following
a fight at Hires Pub and Grill.
3-06 6:22 p.m.
A Van Wert woman reported an incident at Early Childhood
Development School.
3-06 7:55 p.m.
Police are investigating the theft of items from Walmart.
3-06 9:58 p.m.
A Van Wert woman reported a theft from her vehicle while
it was parked in the 200 block of East Main Street.
3-07 9:38 p.m.
Police were called to Walmart to speak with a woman wishing to harm herself.
3-08 4:15 a.m.
Officers were assigned to a reported incident of disorderly
conduct in a parking lot in the 300 block of Towne Center Boulevard. No charges were filed.
3-08 6:05 a.m.
Ashley Baker, 28, of Van Wert, was arrested on an outstanding warrant from the Mercer County Sheriffs Office.
3-08 6:11 p.m.
A Van Wert woman reported someone had punctured two
tires of the vehicle while it was parked at a residence in the 500
block of South Race Street.
3-09 12:30 p.m.
A business in the 1100 block of Professional Drive reported
an incident of fraud.
3-10 2:44 a.m.
A Van Wert woman reported receiving unwanted calls, texts
and emails from a male known to her.
3-11 12:43 p.m.
A Convoy woman reported the theft of property that occurred in the 200 block of West First Street, Van Wert.
3-11 2:03 p.m.
A Van Wert man reported a theft from his residence in the
1100 block of Olympic Drive.
3-11 6:01 p.m.
Adam Stripe, 37, of Van Wert, was arrested per a warrant
issued out of Van Wert Common Pleas Court Adult Probation.
3-12 10:08 a.m.
A Van Wert juvenile male was charged with unruliness after
an incident in the 1100 block of West Main Street.
3-12 7:22 p.m.
A Van Wert woman reported the theft of her debit card number.
3-12 9:44 p.m.
Chad Caldwell, 37, of Van Wert, was arrested for open container in a motor vehicle.

Boy, 15, charged in

toddler kidnapping
caught on video
DAVENPORT,
Wash.
(AP) A 15-year-old boy
was charged Friday in juvenile court in the brief abduction of a young child in
a small eastern Washington
farm community an incident that drew wide attention
after it was caught on surveillance video.
The boy was arrested
Wednesday after authorities
say he snatched a 22-monthold toddler from a city park
last Sunday in Sprague.
He was arraigned in Lincoln County juvenile court
on a charge of second-degree
kidnapping and entered a plea
of not guilty. His next court
appearance is April 10, and
the judge ruled that he must
remain in custody. The maximum penalty for the kidnapping charge is confinement

until age 21.

The Associated Press is
not identifying the boy because he is a juvenile.
Well evaluate the evidence and mount a defense
and see where this goes, said
Chris Phelps of Spokane, the
boys attorney, after the brief
hearing.
One major issue for prosecutors will be proving the
person in the video is his client, Phelps said.
The boy, a student at
Sprague High School, was
dressed in street clothes and
spoke only to answer the
judges yes and no questions.
Lincoln County Prosecutor Jeff Barkdull said authorities dont know why the suspect grabbed the toddler out
of a stroller last Sunday at a
city park in Sprague.

A DHI Media publication

COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Community calendar items include the name of the event or
group and date, time and place of the event. Please include a
daytime phone number when submitting calendar items.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
8:30-11:30 a.m. St. Johns High School recycle, enter on
East First Street.
9 a.m. - noon Interfaith Thrift Store is open for shopping.
9 a.m. St. Vincent dePaul Society, located at the east edge
of the St. Johns High School parking lot, is open.
9 a.m. Cloverdale recycle at village park.
9:30 a.m. New Morning Bereavement Group meets at
1159 Westwood Drive. For more information call (419) 2389223.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Delphos Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. Testing of warning sirens by Delphos Fire and
Rescue.
1-3 p.m. Delphos Canal Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
7 p.m. Bingo at St. Johns Little Theatre.
8 p.m. AA open discussion at First Presbyterian Church.
SUNDAY, MARCH 15
8-11:30 a.m. Knights of Columbus benefit for St. Johns
School at the hall, Elida Ave.
1-3 p.m. The Delphos Canal Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
2 p.m. AA open discussion at 1158 Westwood Dr.
2-4:30 p.m. Van Wert County Historical Museum is open
to the public.
MONDAY, MARCH 16
11:30 a.m. Mealsite at Delphos Senior Citizen Center, 301
Suthoff St.
11:30 a.m. Green Thumb Garden Club meets at the Delphos Public Librarys First Edition Building.
3 p.m. Alzheimers Association will meet at the PSA 3
Area Agency on Aging, 892-A S. Cable Road, Lima.
5 p.m. Weight Watchers will hold its weigh in. Meeting
will follow at 5:30 p.m. Both are held in the Fellowship Hall
on the second floor at Trinity United Methodist Church, South
Walnut St., Van Wert.
6 p.m. Due to conflicts, the regular March Western Buckeye ESC Governing Board meeting will be held at the Paulding
ESC office, 202 N. Cherry St., Paulding.
6:30 p.m. Shelter from the Storm support group meets in
the Delphos Public Library basement.
7 p.m. Washington Township Trustees meet at the township house.
7 p.m. Delphos City Council meets at the Delphos Municipal Building, 608 N. Canal St.
7 p.m. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Affiliate of Paulding, Mercer and Van Wert counties will meet at
the Drop-In Center at 407 N. Franklin, Van Wert which is couple blocks south of Vantage Career Center. Meetings are open
to public. Call 1-800-541-6264 or (419) 238-2413.
7 p.m. American Legion Post 178 will have a meeting.
7:30 p.m. Jefferson Athletic Boosters meet at the Eagles
Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth St.
7:30 p.m. Spencerville village council meets at the mayors
office.
7:30 p.m. Delphos Eagles Auxiliary meets at the Eagles
Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth St.
8 p.m. AA Big Book meeting at First Presbyterian
Church.

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

Man dies when truck overturns on U.S. 224

DHI MEDIA STAFF
REpORT
VAN WERT A 48-yearold Tennessee man was confirmed dead when his utility
truck went off the right side
of U.S. 224 northeast of Van
Wert Friday afternoon.
The vehicle was westbound
on 224 when it ran off the right
side of the roadway causing
the truck to roll over on the
right side and slide into a telephone pole.
The driver, whose name has
not been released pending notification of family members,
was ejected from the vehicle
and pronounced dead at the
scene by Coroner Scott Jarvis.
Van Wert County Sheriffs Office received the call
at 1:36 p.m. and was assisted
at the scene by Scott Fire, Van
Wert Fire, Ohio Department of
Transportation and Brickners
Funeral Home. The accident is
still under investigation.

This 2014 Freightliner bucket truck owned by Global Rental Company and
leased to Thompson Electric was involved in a fatal one-car accident Friday
afternoon. The truck rolled over on U.S. 224 and the driver was ejected from
the vehicle. (DHI Media/Ed Gebert)

Van Wert, a Main Street Community once again

INFORMATION SUBMITTED
COLUMBUS Heritage Ohio is
proud to announce the 2014 certification
of Van Wert as a Nationally Accredited
Main Street Community.
Van Wert became a member of the
Main Street program in 2004, and since
continues to be a catalyst in the revitalization of downtown Van Wert.
Main Street Van Wert (MSVW) is
being recognized as proficient in the
10 criteria as set by the National Main
Street Center. This designation is a testament to the hard work and commitment
of the Main Street Van Wert Board of
Directors, staff, and volunteers.
In 2014 Main Street Van Wert saw
three new businesses open downtown
helping to create 24 new jobs. Building improvements in 2014 were valued

in excess of $1.4 million dollars with 15

downtown buildings improved. MSVW
board members and volunteers worked to
grow and create new events to draw more
people into downtown, including ArtRageous, retail shopping events, and the
popular Hidden Spaces upper floors tour.
Joyce Barrett, executive director of
Heritage Ohio, noted, Van Werts priority moving forward is real estate development, as businesses and entrepreneurs
continue to look for improved historic
spaces. The downtown living trend also
continues to grow which creates demand
for market rate upper floor housing, something Van Wert can continue to develop.
Don Farmer, Mayor of Van Wert, remarked how different downtown looks
and feels today compared to just over a
decade ago.
Over the last 11 years we have seen

great improvements and investment in our

downtown. Having an active Main Street
organization has played an important role
in spurring these improvements and preservation work, and remains important for
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Women of Distinction
Recognition event to
be held next month
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Esther
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five key areas: Healthy Living; Financial Empowerment; Science, Technology,
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Leadership; and Community
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selected by a committee of
their peers because of the difference they make in the community that impacts the future
of girls. Recipients exemplify
the Girl Scout mission by living with courage, confidence,
and character, and making the
world a better place.
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make significant contributions in these key areas, we are
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Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

State of the
Heart Hospice
to hold meeting
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VAN WERT State of
the Heart Hospice will present
a session called Considering
the Future: Whats Important? at 9 a.m. March 27 at
McDonalds at the Summit
Shopping Center on Shannon
Street in Van Wert. Kelley
Hall, training and development coordinator for State of
the Heart, will make the presentation which is open to the
public.
This program will provide
conversation starters for family members allowing them
to learn what matters most to
you and will provide guides to
help in decision making, Hall
explained.
State of the Heart, with offices in Coldwater, Greenville
and Portland, cares for patients and families in eastern
Indiana and western Ohio who
are confronting a life limiting
illness.
For more information about
this presentation or to respond
to the invitation, call State of
the Heart at 1-800-417-7535.
To learn more about the services provided by the nonprofit agency, visit the web site at
www.stateoftheheartcare.org.

local state

times Bulletin/Delphos Herald

Marijuana Legalization
Amendment certified

HAMILTON COUNTY
Due to this weekends forecast for inclement weather, the
full closure of southbound Interstate 75 has been rescheduled for Monday,.
Beginning at 8 p.m. Monday, various lane closures will
be in place on southbound
I-75 from Paddock Road to
State Route 562, followed by
30-minute full closures of
southbound I-75, beginning
at 11 p.m. Access to the ramp
to eastbound SR 562 will be
maintained to permit motorists to detour to east SR 562 to
southbound Interstate 71. All
lanes will reopen to traffic by
6 a.m. Tuesday. Traffic delays
for southbound I-75 traffic
may be significant.
Arrow boards and/or signs
will be in place to alert motorists of the upcoming lane and
full closures.
To help ensure the safety
of the construction workers
as well as the traveling public,
motorists should remain alert,
reduce their speed and watch
for stopped traffic while passing through the work zone.

the Humane society of allen county has many

pets waiting for adoption. each comes with a spay
or neuter, first shots and a heartworm test. call 419991-1775.

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mary is a fair and truthful statement of the

proposed law, Ohio Attorney Mike General
COLUMBUS The Ohio Attorney DeWine stated in a letter to the petitioners.
Once the summary lanGenerals Office certified the
guage and initial signatures are
petition for the proposed Marcertified, the Ohio Ballot Board
ijuana Legalization Amendmust determine if the amendment to the Ohio Constitution
ment contains a single issue or
on Friday.
multiple issues. The petitioners
On March 3, the Attormust then collect signatures for
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each issue from registered vota written petition to amend
ers in each of 44 of Ohios 88
the Ohio Constitution, enticounties, equal to 5 percent of
tled Marijuana Legalizathe total vote cast in the countion Amendment, from the
ty for the office of governor at
group Responsible Ohio. The
the last gubernatorial election.
submission was certified on
Total signatures collected stateFriday as containing both the
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necessary 1,000 valid signaof the total vote cast for the oftures from registered Ohio
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fice of governor at the last guvoters and a fair and truthbernatorial election.
ful summary of the proposed
The full text of Fridays
amendment.
Without passing upon the advisability of letter and of the amendment petitions subthe approval or rejection of the measure to mitted can be found at www.OhioAttorneybe referred,I hereby certify that the sum- General.gov/BallotInitiatives.

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southbound I-75
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Pet coRNeR

Mayors present at Chamber Coffee

Van Wert Chamber of Commerce members gathered for breakfast and
coffee Friday morning at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. Members
welcomed and listened to updates from Village of Convoy Mayor Timothy
Bolenbaugh, Village of Ohio City Mayor Carol Miller, and Van Wert City
Mayor Don Farmer. (DHI Media/Ed Gebert)

lusha is a very nice

dog. she loves to sit in
your lap and be petted.
she is a very loving companion who requires a lot
of grooming because of
her long hair. she is very
timid at first but once she
warms up to you, she is the
best dog. she loves to go on
walks and knows her commands. she loves kids and
gets along with other dogs
and cats.

Hello! Ziggy here. I

love playing, especially
climbing on things, like
your shoulders. I am very
friendly and I get along
with children, cats and
dogs. I arrived here at the
shelter because my brothers and sisters and I were
left in our previous owners
apartment and that was
scary for all of us! I would
love to find my furever
home.

the following pets are available for adoption through

the Van Wert animal Protective league:
cats
M, 8 years, neutered, white, black on tail, name
Patches
M, 8 years, gold eyes, neutered, name Black Jack
Kittens
M, F, 8 weeks, yellow, gray tiger
M, F, 6 weeks, black and white, beige and orange
M, F, 8 months, white, black, tiger
For more information on these pets or if you are in need
of finding a home for your pet, contact the animal Protective league from 9-5 weekdays at 419-749-2976. If you are
looking for a pet not listed, call to be put on a waiting list in
case something becomes available. Donations or correspondence can be sent to Po Box 321, Van Wert oH 45891.

Author to speak at
Civil War Roundtable
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CELINA The Western Ohio Civil War Roundtable
speaker for the 7:15 p.m. March 26 meeting will be Roger
Pickenpaugh, an author and lecturer who has done extensive
study of POW camps during the Civil War. He has four Civil
War books to his credit.
The University of Alabama Press published Captives in
Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. That book will
be the basis for Rogers talk at our Roundtable. He has also
completed a companion volume, Captives in Blue.
The meeting is held in Room 186 Andrews Hall on the
Lake Campus of Wright State University. The public is invited.

4-H Clever Clovers to meet Monday

By AlI GEMMER
Clever Clovers 4-H Club had its second
meeting at Grace Bible Church on March 2
from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The meeting started out
with a group activity and then was called to
order by Vice President Hannah Bartley substituting for President Erin Richardson. The
4-H pledge was led by Bobby Spath and Rachel
Spath began the meeting with a service project
update. Then, Lainey Werts gave a Health and
Safety Report over Food Born Illness.
After this, Clever Clovers began their first
group ohio agricultural activity that will happen

every meeting in the future. Advisor Marie Markward told the members to bring a jar of soil to the
meeting before and then split the members into
small groups. Members who brought in soil had to
fill the rest of their jar almost all the way to the top
with water, shake it, and record the results of settling soil over time. While they waited, they made
a poster of five or more important facts about soil
with the help of a library book and worked on different questions and activities on paper over the
soil information they learned. They concluded the
meeting with snacks and drinks.
The next meeting will be held at the same
time and location on Monday.

Students challenged to be a hero

Van Wert Elementary School students listen to a Rachels Challenge
presentation on Friday. The program encouraged the students to be a
hero. Several Rachels Challenge assemblies have been given to students
throughout the area during the past couple of months. Rachel Joy Scott
was the first student killed in the 1999 school shootings at Columbine High
School. (DHI Media/Ed Gebert)

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ELIDA Immanuel United Methodist Church in Elida
will host its annual Easter Egg
Hunt at 4 p.m. on March 29.
Entertainment will be provided by David Cain, Juggler
for Jesus. David juggles many
unusual things, and you wont
want to miss his performance.
Following his performance
will be the Egg Hunt and then
the churchs monthly community meal at 5 p.m. The menu
is Frito Pie and hot dogs.
This event is free and open
to the public. For more information, contact the church at
419-331-2366.

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Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

Kennedys Alliance for Progress blamed for failed Latin America policies
BY KIRK DOUGAL
DHI Media Group Publisher
kdougal@timesbulletin.com
President John F. Kennedy swept
into office in January of 1961 and
immediately set into motion his foreign policy plans to make the western hemisphere free of communism.
In March of 1961, Kennedy proposed a ten-year program
called the Alliance for Progress
that proposed to stabilize Latin American countries, some of
whom were teetering under political and economic pressures which
could allow communist forces to
take control. To drive home his
point about communist and dictatorial governments being unacceptable, the president did not
invite representatives of Cuba and
the Dominican Republic to attend
the announcement. A month later, the Bay of Pigs debacle took
place where the U.S. was caught
being involved with a failed coup
in Cuba.
The specifics of the plan called
for an annual growth of 2.5 percent
in per capita income, price stability
to neutralize wild consumer swings
of inflation and deflation, changes to democratic governments, the
elimination of adult illiteracy, the
formation of tax structures that encouraged more even income distribution, and more detailed planning
from the involved governments.
To achieve these goals, the U.S.
pledged $20 billion in investment
within ten years while the participating countries would give $80
billion combined over the next decade. To receive the funds, the Latin
American countries were required
to create detailed plans for economic, social, and educational develop-

Kennedy Plan For Latin

America To Be Unveiled

From the
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Cuban, Dominican Envoys Not Invited To Hear Announcement

ment which would be submitted to a
board of experts that would approve
or deny the applications. For further
incentive, the Kennedy administration broke off diplomatic relations
with countries in the region that
had dictatorships. However, most of
those non-talking periods were only
for a few weeks or months at a time.
When President Richard Nixon
took office after the 1968 presidential election, he assigned New York
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to look into
the program to assess whether or
not he wanted to continue it. Rockefeller found the following:
- Only 1/3 of the countries
reached 2.5 percent in GDP growth.
- Adult literacy was improved
but not eliminated.
- Only about seven percent of
land ownership went through reform because the ultra-rich landowners held all the money and power in the countries.
- The quality of health care improved but there was so little offered
that the effort made little difference
to the general populations.
- Some countries adopted minimum wage laws that were so high,
businessowners found it cheaper to
automate and use machinery which
caused rampant unemployment.
Others set minimum wages so low
the pay did not effectively encour-

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy today unveils plans for the alliance for progress
with Latin America. He has described his announcement in advance of a major statement.
Kennedy will make the statement midway through
a reception at the White House for Latin-American
diplomats and dignitaries starting at 5 p.m.
The President plans to follow up with a special
message to Congress Tuesday implementing the
program.
All but two of Washingtons Latin-American envoys are invited to the reception.
The two not invited: The Cuban and Dominican Republican ambassadors to the Organization of
American States. The United States has broken off
diplomatic relations with both those countries.
Kennedy is expected to refer to Cuba in the
speech, but officials said the emphasis will be on
a U.S. pledge for continuing help for nations which
help themselves. Kennedy spoke of the alliance for
progress in his inaugural address.
In a campaign speech last October he used this
description: An alliance of nations with a com-

age a rise in the standard of living.

- Worst of all, more than a dozen
governments ruled by constitutions
before the program began were
overthrown by military coups which
then set up dictatorships.
Rockefellers report concluded
that despite the billions of dollars
poured into the region by the U.S.,
none of the major goals of the Al-

mon interest in freedom and economic advance in

a great common effort to develop the resources of
the entire hemisphere, strengthen the forces of democracy, and widen the vocational and educational
opportunities of every person in all the Americas.
A program like this is the ultimate answer to
Castro and the Communists for is Latin America is moving forward, he said, then the people
of Cuba too will demand freedom for themselves.
And Communist rule in Latin America will perish
where it began - in the streets of Havana.
The Kennedy administration is now planning to
embargo the remaining U.S. Exports from Cuba now running at a level of about $64 million a year,
as a blow at Fidel Castros regime.
The ban may be announced early this week. It
would apply to tobacco, molasses, fruits and vegetables. Sugar imports from Cuba were stopped last
year.
The message to Congress Tuesday, besides spelling out his program for Latin America, is expected
to disclose plans to administer a special $500 million Latin American Fund.

liance for Progress were accomplished. In fact, in many instances,

the plans had made the conditions
worse and the citizenry in general
blamed America for the failures,
worsening foreign relations in the
region. The unrest caused by the
dissatisfaction in the U.S. and their
own governments allowed protests
to be taken over by radicals who

On the Banks of Yesteryear ...

then advocated breaking ties with

America.
The U.S. disbanded the alliance
in 1973.
Here now is a reprint of the March
13, 1961, Van Wert Times-Bulletin
article detailing the presidents upcoming announcement he was beginning the Alliance for Progress in
Latin America.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

BY DHI MEDIA STAFF
info@timesbulletin.com

Stallkamp Drug Store was home to

one of at least two soda fountains in
Delphos before it closed in the 1960s.
Pictured at left are booths, signage,
and a cash register from Stallkamps on
display at the Delphos Canal Museum.
Pictured above are bottles, glasses,
and other items used at Stallkamp
Drug Stores soda fountain. Artifacts
from the soda fountain at Remlinger
Rexall Drug Store are also on display at
the Canal Museum. (Submitted photos)

Soda fountains in Delphos

BY THE DELpHOS CAnAL
COMMISSIOn
news@delphosherald.com
Soda fountains trace their history to pharmacies when most medicines were dispensed as liquids.
Carbonation and flavorings were
used to mask the bitter and awful
taste of these concoctions. Pharmacists manned the fountains in the
early years as skill was required to
get the proper mix of flavored syrups and carbonation, and also because many of the early mixes did
contain drugs to soothe the nerves,
relieve the pain, or to serve other
medicinal purposes.
In 1911, more than 100,000 soda
fountains sprang up in the United
States, and during prohibition, the
soda fountain replaced the bar as
a social gathering spot in towns
and neighborhoods. Soon the soda
fountain became the place to get a
tasty treat while catching up on the
latest news around town.
Delphos boasted at least two soda

fountains, one at Remlinger Rexall

Drug Store and one at King and
Stallkamp (later just Stallkamp)
Drug Store. Many soda fountains
added lunch counters with sandwiches and ice cream treats but not
so with the two original fountains
in Delphos. The Palace, which
served ice cream, was also located
on Main Street, as were many other
small restaurants.
By the 1950s, soda fountains
became gathering places for teens
on their way home from school. In
fact, rowdy teens caused the demise of the fountain at Stallkamp
Drug. Bill Remlinger recalls in
an article for the Delphos Herald
that he met his future wife Helen when she stopped by the soda
fountain on her lunch break. When
Stallkamp Drugs moved from the
corner to the middle of the block
around 1961, a local carpenter,
Hiram Runyan, custom built the
new soda fountain counter and
booths style seats for the new location. Although Stallkamps closed

their fountain services in the mid1960s, Remlingers was still offering cherry Cokes in the late 60s.
Part of the counter and booth from
Stallkamps are on display at the
Delphos Canal Museum along with
many artifacts from the Remlinger
Drug Store operation.
The soda fountain was phased
out when cars and drive-through
restaurants became popular. Sodas were then available in bottles
from carry-outs and at the grocery. Delphos still had the Dairy
Queen and the Dairy Whip, along
with the Chew Chew, The Equity,
and Renos Cozy Confectionary to
serve soft drinks to those who
still walked around town. Today,
the local men drive to local eateries
to solve the worlds problems over
coffee and breakfast.
The Delphos Canal Museum, located on Main Street, is open from
9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, from
1-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and
also by appointment.

25 Years Ago
This week in 1990, everyone was preparing for a late start
to the Major League Baseball season. The players union and
the owners had not reached an agreement by the self-imposed
deadline, so Commissioner Fay Vincent was meeting with the
league presidents to discuss starting the season later than normal. There was no indication how much longer the standoff
would last with the players already locked out for the entire
spring training period.
Van Wert was excited as the Cougars qualified for a regional
semi-final match up with Olmstead Falls at the University of
Toledo. Coach Keith Noftz noted the win over Lima Bath in
District finals had left the local squad in the Sweet 16 round
of the tournament. The Cougars record stood at 19-5.
Ohio Right to Read Week was celebrated at Fort Jennings
Elementary School. Australian storyteller, Seona McDowell,
sang stores of Australia, assisted by Sara Wieging, Matt Nichols,
Ann Erickson and Becky Knippen. Other student activities were
making a recipe booklet, designing book covers of their favorite
book, wearing T-shirts with slogans and a reading contest.
50 Years Ago
This week in 1965, the nations attention remained riveted
on Selma, Alabama, as civil rights issues were punctuated by
the death of a white clergyman by segregationists. Alabama
Gov. George C. Wallace also received telegrams from two
other Democrat governors who called the treatment of blacks
appalling. Students, civil rights leaders, clergymen, and some
government officials continued to protest peacefully for equal
treatment under the law.
In Van Wert, the Selma violence was also on the minds of
local churches. St. Peters United Church of Christ held a prayer
vigil. The First Church of God on South Harrison Street saw
its sanctuary filled to capacity for another gathering in support
of the protesters. Also, the Van Wert Ministerial Association
Executive Committee voted to send a telegram to President
Johnson deploring the racial crisis in Alabama. They also
approved sending a telegram to Rev. Martin Luther King, informing him of the prayer sessions and their support.
Delphos Steak House cagers pumped in 15 points during an
over-time period in the Lima City Tournament to defeat Ronnie
and Genes Marathon, 76-71. Ron Hageman topped all scoring
with 19 points for the Steak House. Dave Macwhinney and Bob
Poling each added 15 to the winning score. Ken Jackson, 10.
75 Years Ago
This week in 1940, the Russian-Finnish War came to a close
with Finland accepting harsh sacrifices, harsher than the original demands issued by Russian leaders at the beginning of
the war. Most of the concessions were for vast areas of land
including an island chain in the Gulf of Finland, the Rybachi
Peninsula, and a naval base on Hango Peninsula. Russia would
also be allowed to construct a railroad system through Finland
to link with Norway.
The Willshire Bearcats were set to open the Class B state
tournament against a team from Marysville with only a 13-11
record. But Willshire officials pointed out most of Marysvilles
regular season competition was against Class A schools so the
record was deceiving. The Thursday state games will be played
at the Ohio State University gymnasium before moving to the
fairground facilities on Friday.
Joan Sendelbach, a student in the freshman class at St.
Johns High School, was named one of the district winners in
the annual American Legion essay contest. The judging of all
of the essays submitted by Legion posts in the Second District
took place of Wapakoneta. A total of 19 essays written by students at Jefferson and St. Johns were entered in the district
judging from Delphos.

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

Times Bulletin/
Delphos Herald

Times Bulletin & Delphos Herald

WEEKEND EDITION

KIRK DOUGAL
Group Publisher
Nancy Spencer
Ed Gebert
Delphos Editor
Van Wert Editor
A DHI Media Publication serving Van Wert, Delphos & Area Communities

How Ohios public

records law turned
into a mess
By Dennis Hetzel
Ohio Newspaper Association Executive Director
In 1963, the Ohio General Assembly fashioned the states
first open records law. It took a broad approach to defining public records with a strong presumption that almost all records
kept by government would be open to citizens.
The law was exactly two paragraphs long. It contained only
a few exceptions.
How times change. Ohio attorney Breanne Parcels noted in
a 2012 article called Bring Back the Bite in the University
of Dayton Law Review that todays statute has ballooned to
ten standard 8 by 11 inch pages. Today, its even longer.
With the recent addition of new secrecy to the lethal injection
process, we now have 29 enumerated exceptions plus 100 or
more peppered throughout the Ohio statutes.
The definition of what is a government record also has
gotten narrower since 1963, and something cant be an open
record if it isnt a public record. The same problem applies to
our open meetings laws, as the definition of open to the public keeps getting tighter.
In other words, a vast amount of government activity in
Ohio is invisible to citizens, and the trend shows no sign of
changing beyond some refreshing exceptions.
How did this happen? I think thats a good question to ponder during Sunshine Week, an annual, national effort to promote open government.
The answer is pretty obvious: Despite the stirring words
about the presumption of openness that remain in our statutes, our officials frequently give greater weight to reasons to
keep matters secret.
For example, in recent years the Ohio Supreme Court has
made it nearly impossible to do the following:
- Collect attorney fees in a public records case, even if youre
right and the government broke the law.
- Challenge the governments claim that it wont give you
records because your request is overly broad.
- Go to a government meeting for information gathering
or fact finding unless the body decides its OK for you to be
there.
- See criminal case files of closed cases unless the defendant
is deceased which doesnt help someone much if they have
been wrongfully convicted.
- Get spending detail from quasi-public agencies or privatized services that handle vast amounts of public money.
To be fair, in some cases the courts have dealt with language
that could be improved. That is where legislative will comes
into play. The digital age also creates both problems and opportunities that couldnt be anticipated in 1963.
Just last week, Kent State University provided an example
of how officials exploit these trends to hide information that
common sense says should be public.
The Akron Beacon-Journal reported that KSU is paying
marketing consultants $101,750 for marketing and promotional
services. According to the newspaper, Kent essentially ceded
its responsibility for open records to a Philadelphia consulting
firm by agreeing in a contract that the school would notify the
company of any records request, and that the firm would be
able to redact any proprietary information under a trade secrets exemption.
Irony alert: One of the blacked-out items was the amount
of time the company wanted to redact items. Other so-called
trade secrets include travel costs.
Kent States appropriate answer should have been this
during the negotiation: We take seriously our responsibilities
under the law as a public university, so we will be seeking other
bidders who are more concerned about public transparency.
Well, lets close on a positive note.
For example, State Treasurer Josh Mandel has unveiled a
website, OhioCheckbook.com, which might be the best effort
in America to help citizens track state government spending at
a detailed level.
State Auditor Dave Yost has announced a program to help
citizens dealing with denials of records requests. In many cases, his office will issue a ruling without you having to hire a
lawyer and go to court. This is a major development that levels
the playing field for citizens and builds on a free mediation
program for local disputes offered by Attorney General Mike
DeWine. You can learn more at Yosts website, OhioAuditor.
gov.
Those examples are good news, but they should be more
than refreshing exceptions. As fate would have it, legislators
have a great opportunity right now by injecting real transparency into how Ohios charter schools are spending nearly $1
billion in public money. Please consider telling them that.

(Hetzel is the executive director of the Ohio Newspaper Association and president of the Ohio Coalition for Open Government in Columbus.)

The First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or
the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances.

Read the classifieds

Come on, spring, this girl

cant wait any longer
I know weve all waited
and waited for the weather to warm up and the snow
to melt. Some piles will be
around for a long time. I remember last year, we still had
a small pile at the back of The
Herald parking lot at the end
of April. It just wouldnt give
it up.
Now I look out my window and I see the yucky mud
and brown grass and Im still
not happy. At least with the
snow on top it looked prettier.
However, Im over the snow
and glad most of its gone.
Next winter when someone hears me whining about
where it is, smack me a good
one.
I do love snow on Christmas and even enjoy a little of
the white stuff on Thanksgiving. (How else are we to go
over the river and through the
woods?)
Im usually one of the first
to look around in November
and wonder when its going to
happen.
Well, I think Im either

getting older or my let it

snow button is broken or
has been abused. I just want a
little more sunshine and temperatures warm enough so I
cant see my breath.
I have scraped my car windows enough.
My coat pockets and purse
have been filled with snow
while I cleared off my car,
soaking their contents.
My shoes and socks have
gotten snowlogged from
trudging through drifts and
piles.
Im tired of tiptoeing on
sidewalks and across parking
lots, risking a painful fall and
guaranteed embarrassment.
I have seen enough snowpeople to last me through at
least October.
I have shivered and shook
on the front porch while
smoking. (I know, I know.
Just give it up.)
I have walked the dog
through blizzard-like winds
and blowing snow only to
have him look at me as if Im
the crazy one. (Does he know

On the
Other
hand

the effort it takes to bundle up

for such endeavors? The layers and layers I pile on? Then
his boots and sometimes a
coat? Sheesh! Its an endeavor!)
I have gazed out the back
window and marveled at how
beautiful the snow makes
everything look right after its fallen. The snow can
make the landscape quite
breathtaking. We even had
a muskrat take up residence
in our back yard this winter.
He made an intricate maze
and in the afternoons when
I would get home he would
be out there playing, running
here and there in his maze.
I havent seen a muskrat for
quite a while and he was cute.
Ive shoveled and chipped
and huffed and puffed until
frankly, I dont care for snow
quite as much as I did at the
beginning of the season.
I have felt accomplishment
when finishing with the hard
floors only to have the husband come home or the dog
need to go out and then, poof,

By Nancy
Spencer

the floors are dirty again

like it never happened.
Where is spring!
I cant wait to see the tender beginnings of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and narcissus shooting out of the fresh,
green ground.
I cant wait for the birds to
flock around the feeder, dropping tidbits for the ducks to
come along and find later.
The canal will be filled
with ducklings and the air
with song from winged
friends.
The smack of a bat hitting
a ball is right around the corner. I can almost hear it now.
Why is it were never happy with what we have right
now? Were always looking
to the next thing.
Well, throw me right in
the mess and bring on spring;
I cant wait much longer.

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Its my favorite!
St. Patricks Day is coming
up on Tuesday. Ive read that
in the past couple of years,
St. Patricks Day is Americas
second-most favorite drinking holiday, trailing only New
Years Eve. The third-favorite
is now Halloween (because
nothing says have some alcohol like children demanding candy door-to-door).
When my kids were
younger, they used to ask
me about my favorites. Like,
Dad, whats your favorite
color? or favorite TV show
or favorite song. I would always tell them I didnt have
any favorite. Usually that
was true. Ive never had a
lot of favorites. I also made
sure I told them that so they
wouldnt ask me who my favorite kid was.
At church last weekend, I
was reminded that occasionally I do have a favorite. We
sang the hymn Great Is Thy
Faithfulness during the service and I was reminded it
has been my favorite hymn
for years. So this week Ive
been trying to think if there
are other favorites I had forgotten were my favorites, so

today Ill comb my memory

for one.
Ive never really had a favorite color. Ive made one
up if I was ever asked, but Id
freely change it. Same with
favorite song or favorite food.
Hey, I know one! My favorite
flavor of Kool-Aid! No question its black cherry. Theres
no beating black cherry KoolAid. Of course that doesnt
help me at restaurants. The
waitress never offers to bring
me a large glass of black
cherry.
Lets see, favorite musical
group or singer? Favorite type
of music? Favorite song? Im
afraid these change with my
mood. Could be Bob Seger
singing, Feel Like a Number, or maybe Queens Fat
Bottomed Girls,: or even
Since I Fell For You by David Sanborn, Bob James, and
Al Jarreau. Look, I cant even
pick just one favorite song
by a particular band. Springsteen? Bobbie Jean or Cadillac Ranch or Hungry
Heart. Eagles? Life in the
Fast Lane or Lyin Eyes or
Seven Bridges Road. K.C
& the Sunshine Band songs?

Yes, I can name a bunch of

them.
What can I claim a favorite in? Favorite chain
restaurant? Probably my
favorite would be Outback
Steakhouse because steak!
Favorite car Ive owned? Id
have to go with my first. A
1970 Olds Toronado that was
mostly unbreakable except
every Tuesday when something went wrong with it. Favorite pie? Being a Hoosier at
heart, Id pick a sugar cream
pie. Favorite type of cheese?
Sharp cheddar, thank you
very much.
I could also name favorite
sports teams for many sports:
Chicago Bears, Baltimore
Orioles (back when I used to
watch Major League baseball), Indiana Pacers (Im
from Indianaits required).
Favorite sporting event? The
Indianapolis 500, hands
down. You NASCAR folks
should try it. You will have
to look a lot closer to find
the car number though. And
its rarer to see a good driver
brawl. My favorite Indy driver is Tom Sneva, who won the
500 back in prehistoric times

My
Two
CenTs
By
Ed Gebert
1983. Thats so long ago, I
used to have hair back then!
Favorite local restaurant?
Too many to choose from.
Favorite past time? Sleeping.
Awake, there are too many
choices.
I dont think having a favorite is the important thing.
Actually enjoying whatever
you see or whatever comes
your way is much more important. That way we can be
happy no matter the circumstances, even at a jewelry
home party. Or purses. Gee
honey, this is my favorite party where you buy stuff you
dont need! Its even better
than the Tupperware thing
last week!
Theres one more I know
absolutely. Favorite job ever?
Oh, here at the newspaper,
boss! No question! You can
go home now and leave my
office! Have a nice St. Patricks Day! Good bye! (Is he
gone yet?)

YOUR OPINIONS
Reader speaks out
on fairgrounds issue
To the editor,
This is a follow-up about the Van
Wert County Fairground Agricultural
Society secretary telling me, You are
done feeding the cats, Tom on Sept. 4,
2014.
Then I was told by our sheriff, police
chief, and county prosecutor that I could
be arrested for trespassing if I fed the
cats because this is a privately-owned
fairground.

Some things have happened recently. I now have a copy of Ohio Revised
Code Chapter 1717: Humane Societies,
Chapter 959.131 Prohibitions Concerning Companion Animals and RC s 3.07
misconduct in office forfeitures.
If you read these codes, it appears
several violations may have happened
at our fairgrounds. I have given copies
of the above codes to our humane society, sheriff, and a city council member,
asking him to give a copy to our safety
service director and the police chief.
If one reads the codes above and follows the ORC and enforces them, this

problem can be solved.

A local woman called a veterinarian
at Ohio State University, and I asked our
vet here if cats caused diseases in horses.
Both said no!
Lastly, if the fairgrounds are privately-owned property with no code enforcement, then every privately-owned
property owner should be exempt from
the Ohio Revised Code. If this privately-owned fairgrounds is a tax-exempt
property, then, every privately-owned
property in Ohio should be exempt.
Tom Wise
Van Wert

OpInIOns

A DHI Media publication

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

We the PeopleThe Citizen and the Constitution

Why the science of
creation should be
taught in schools
In the landmark case, Epperson v. Arkansas (1968),
the Supreme Court invalidated a statute banning
the teaching of evolution in
schools. In response, many
states went on to pass laws
requiring teachers to expose
their students to both the theory of evolution and the biblical theory of creation.
The Supreme Court voided these laws in several
court cases, most famously

McLean v. Arkansas (1982).

In this case, Judge William
Overton went as far as to call
creationism not science.
Several of the Justices reasons follow:
Separate ancestry of man
and apes is a bold assertion
which explains nothing
The theory has not been
published in a recognized
scientific journal
A theory cannot properly be called scientific if one
starts with a conclusion and
refuses to alter it regardless
of the evidence discovered.
To begin, the separate
ancestry of man and apes is

pretty self-explanatory. Man

and apes have separate ancestors.
Second, was Archimedes
theory of buoyancy any less
valid because it wasnt published in a scientific journal?
Was Isaac Newtons theory
of gravity invalid until it was
published somewhere? Buoyancy and gravity have been
around since the beginning,
and to say Newton theories
were false until they were
published is a fallacy.
Third, the theory of creation is tentative and subject
to revision. For instance,
when Charles Darwin pub-

Patients death
bewilders surgeon
Dont you love it when three
great friends forward you inspiring, heart-warming, feelgood stories that are flavored
with parody and satire? They
are both entertaining and educational.
The first story, from Larry
Tobin, may give you a surprise
ending. The second, from Arnold DeLuca, may include
some sarcasm (would be funny
if not true) and the third story,
from Ed Johnston, points out
the faults of socialism.
Once there was a poor
young boy about 10 years old.
Well call him Rocky.
At school, none of his classmates liked him because of
his awkwardness, and flat-out
stupidity. Even his teacher was
frustrated. She was always
yelling at him, Youre driving
me mad, Rocky.
One day Rockys mom came
to school to check on how he
was doing. The teacher told his
mom honestly, that her son was
simply a disaster, getting very
low marks, and never had she
seen such a backward boy in
her entire teaching career.
The mom was shocked at
the feedback and withdrew
Rocky from school and moved
out of Detroit, relocating to
Cleveland. She thought a fresh
start would be good for both
her son and herself.
Twenty-five years later, the
teacher was diagnosed with an
incurable cardio disease. All
the doctors strongly advised
her to undergo an experimental
heart surgery, which only one
surgeon who practiced at the
acclaimed Cleveland Clinic
could perform.
Left with no other options,
the teacher decided to have the
operation, which appeared to
be successful. It was a miracle.
When she opened her eyes after the surgery, she saw a handsome doctor smiling down at
her.
She wanted to thank him,
but could not talk. Her face
started to turn blue, she raised
her hand, trying to tell him
something, but she eventually
died.
The doctor was shocked

lished his theory on evolution, (which was not published in a scientific journal
until much later) most creationists considered him to
be completely wrong. But,
as the evidence mounted,
most now believe Darwin
was correct, the shape of a
finchs beak could change
over time, which has been
dubbed
micro-evolution,
but believe Darwin wrongly
took this to mean a dinosaur
could eventually evolve into
todays birds, which has been
dubbed
macro-evolution.
Thus, the theory of creation
has changed in response to

scientific evidence.
I do not propose banning
the teaching of evolution.
Every viable theory should
be taught, so it may be taken
into consideration. Nor do I
propose teaching the biblical
account of creation as the absolute truth. I only ask for the
creationism to be taught for
what it is: a viable theory for
the creation of the universe.

The AP Government
students of Van Wert High
School will be submitting a
weekly editorial to inform the
public on a variety of issues.
They have been encouraged

We
The
PeoPle
By Daniel
Perry
to research, take a position,
and defend their reasoning
for having such thoughts.
The purpose of these editorials is to provide awareness and knowledge for the
community and to be thought
provoking. The views expressed in these editorials do
not represent Van Wert High
School, and are written solely by the student author.

PeoPle
Make the
difference

and was trying to determine

what had horribly gone wrong.
When he turned around he saw
our friend Rocky, working as
a janitor at the clinic, who had
unplugged the oxygen equipment in order to connect his
vacuum cleaner!
I bet you thought Rocky
had become the heart-surgeon,
right?
********
An independent consulting
firm has proposed a solution
to a nagging health care problem that many senior citizens
encounter. It has been dubbed
MedicarePart GNursing
Home Plan. The consultants
have been acclaimed for their
foresight in senior financial
planning matters.
If youre an older senior citizen, and can no longer take
care of yourself, the government says theres no nursing
home care available for you.
So, what do you do? You opt
for Part G. The consultants offer this creative solution.
Their plan gives anyone 65
years or older a gun (Part G)
and four bullets. You are encouraged to shoot four heartless politicians. This means, of
course, that youll be tried and
sent to prison where youll receive three meals a day, a roof
over your head, central heating
and air conditioning, cable TV,
library privileges and all the
health care you need.
If you need dental work. No
problem. Need glasses? Thats
included. Need a hearing aid,
new hip, knee, lungs or heart
surgery: you got it. They are
all covered.
As an added bonus, your
kids and grandkids can come
and visit you at least as often as
they do now!
And, who will be paying
for all of this? The same government that just told you they
cant afford for you to go into
a nursing home. And, you can
get rid of four coldblooded politicians while youre at it. You
dont even have to be a U.S.
citizen!
This consulting firm has
also devised a plan to help the
working poor who dont quali-

By
Byron
McNutt
fy for most of the government
entitlement programs. They
are urged to denounce their
citizenship, leave the country,
then come back across the border illegally. A whole bureau
of government workers are on
hand to assist you and will help
you apply for many of the same
benefits that you were denied
before leaving.
Is this a great country or
what?
*******
An economics professor at
a local college had previously
never failed a single student,
but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and
that no one would be poor and
no one would be rich, a great
equalizer.
The teacher then said, Ok,
we will have an experiment in
this class. All grades will be
averaged and everyone will
receive the same grade. No
one will fail and no one will
receive an A. We could substitute grades for dollars in this
story.
After the first test, the
grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students
who studied hard were upset,
and the students who studied
the least were happy. As the
second test rolled around, the
students who had studied little studied even less, and those
who had studied hard decided
to study little.
The second test average was
D! No one was happy.
The third test average was
an F. As the tests proceeded,
the scores never increased
as bickering, blame and
name-calling resulted in hard
feelings. No one would study
for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, all
failed, and the teacher told
them that socialism would also
ultimately fail because when
the reward is great, the effort to
succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward
away, no one will try or want
to succeed.

In this April 14, 2003 file photo, the downtown Denver skyline is pictured,
with the foothills, and the Rocky Mountains in the background. (AP Photo/
Rocky Mountain News, Marc Piscotty, file)

A theory about why Denver

is a mile above sea level
DENVER (AP) Geologists may finally be able to explain why Denver, the
Mile High City, is a mile high: water.
A new theory suggests that chemical
reactions, triggered by water far below the
Earths surface, could have made part of
the North American plate less dense many
millions of years ago, when the continents
we know today were still forming.
Because plates float on the Earths mantle, parts of the Western United States
might have risen, like an empty boat next
to one with a heavy cargo, pushing the vast
High Plains far above sea level, according to the theory formulated by geologists
Craig Jones and Kevin Mahan at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Their work appeared last week on the
website of the journal Geology, and is a
big deal for Denver, where the 5,280-foot
elevation is a point of pride and a big part
of the citys identity. At Coors Field, where
the Colorado Rockies play baseball, a single row of purple seats interrupts about
50,000 green ones, marking the mile-high
line in the grandstand.
Geologists have long been puzzled by
how the High Plains could be so big, so high
and so smooth. The plains descend gently
from roughly 6,000 feet to 2,000 feet above
sea level as they stretch for thousands of
square miles, from the Texas Panhandle to
southern Montana, and from western Kansas to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
in Colorado.
Its well established that much of the
West was still at sea level 70 million years
ago, and that tectonic shifts dont fully explain the High Plains altitude. The lifting
began long after the ancient Farallon oceanic plate was shoved deep under a vast
part of western North America and then
settled deep into the planets mantle over
millions of years.
Why? Crustal hydration, Jones and

Mahan theorize.
They suggest that water that had been
locked in minerals in the Farallon plate
was released because of pressure from the
overlying rock and heat emanating from the
Earths core. The water then rose into the
continental plate, setting off chemical reactions that turned garnet and other dense
minerals into mica and other less heavy
minerals, making vast areas of the crust
lighter.
Jones said the Earths crust under the
High Plains floats higher over the mantle,
much like a plank of buoyant balsa wood
rises higher in the water than a plank of
dense pine.
The reason crustal hydration happened
where and when it did has to do with how
steeply the oceanic plate descended, Jones
said. At some point, the angle at which the
plate was descending became shallower,
enabling the released water to rise for reasons that remain unclear, he said.
Few geological formations appear so
uniform on such a vast scale as the High
Plains the only other known location in
the world thats similar is in southern Africa, Jones said. The prevailing theory there
is different, involving some other source of
buoyance, Mahan said.
The composition of rocks found in the
High Plains is strong evidence in favor
of the hypothesis, Jones said, but it needs
more testing, and that was one reason for
publishing it.
Do we think this is the answer? No.
Could it be an answer? I suppose its possible, said Jones, who is also a fellow at the
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a partnership of CU
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
The theory has merit, according to Ken
Dueker, a professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Wyoming.

AP Analysis: Five reasons why health overhaul drama plays on

By RICARDO ALONSOZALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP)
President Barack Obamas
health overhaul remains an
all-consuming drama for
many, even though millions
of people are gaining insurance coverage through a law
thats now 5 years old.
During oral arguments
last week in the latest Supreme Court case brought by
the laws opponents, Justice
Elena Kagan called it a never-ending saga.
Five reasons why the
Obamacare epic plays on:
POLITICAL
OPPOSITION
Unyielding
opposition
from conservative voters
has made it practically impossible for Republican lawmakers to take a pragmatic
approach to a program with
obvious flaws, but also popular aspects.
Few in the United States
want to go back to the days
when insurance companies
could deny coverage to people with pre-existing health
conditions. But Republicans
have followed a political
game plan that requires them
to first repeal Obamas law
before trying to replace it
with legislation of their own,
presumably to accomplish
similar goals.
A Supreme Court ruling

Former Health and Human Services Secretary

Kathleen Sebelius speaks with reporters outside
the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday,
March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court heard arguments
in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack
Obamas health overhaul which, if successful, could
halt health care premium subsidies in all the states
where the federal government runs the insurance
marketplaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
invalidating the laws subsidies in most states would
give Republicans their best
opening yet. But any replacement legislation also
would spend taxpayer dollars
and spawn new federal regulations.
When former GOP President George W. Bush pushed
through new Medicare prescription drug coverage, most
Democrats opposed him, and
some even called for repeal.
Yet they also helped constituents navigate the new program.
Some Republican gover-

nors have risked a backlash

from the partys political
base by accepting the laws
Medicaid expansion for
low-income people. Still, Republicans in Congress remain
a wall of opposition.

A D M I N I S T R AT I O N
STUMBLES
The president who once
said you could keep your
health plan if you liked it
was caught flat-footed by a
wave of insurance cancellations blamed on health law
requirements taking effect in
2014.

The HealthCare.gov website, talked up as the equivalent of Amazon and Travelocity, broke down the day it was
launched in 2013, and took
months to patch up.
That same year, the administration announced the
delay of a major requirement
affecting employers on an
obscure government blog
just days before the Fourth of
July.
This year, HealthCare.gov
sent the wrong tax information to about 800,000 people,
and an online insurance market geared to small businesses has disappointed.
The administration keeps
resupplying the laws critics
with ammunition.

U NCON V E N T IONA L
PATH TO PASSAGE
The Affordable Care Act
did not get the legislative
equivalent of close editing by
a House-Senate conference
committee.
Congressional committees
worked on different pieces
of the bill and the complete
package was assembled in
negotiations shepherded by
leadership.
That could have made
it more likely that glitches
would get baked into the 900plus pages of the law.
Problems emerged soon
after the law was signed.
Vague wording of a provision guaranteeing coverage

to children with pre-existing

health conditions was cleaned
up through regulations after
the insurance industry acquiesced.
The path to passage may
be at the root cause of the
current dispute before the Supreme Court, which centers
on whether the wording of
the law allows federal subsidies in states that dont set up
their own insurance markets.
It was pushed through
on expedited procedures and
didnt have the kind of consideration by a conference
committee that statutes
usually do, noted Justice
Antonin Scalia.

COSTS OF CARE
Although premiums are
heavily subsidized, people
who buy private coverage
through the laws new insurance markets may still struggle with costs.
Out-of-pocket expenses,
including the annual deductible and required copayments, can be as high as
$6,600 for an individual and
$13,200 for a family.
Faced with a serious
illness, a family making
$60,000 a year might have to
shell out more than 20 percent of its income. Thats on
top of living expenses.
Average monthly premiums rose by 8 percent this
year in the states served by
HealthCare.gov., according

to preliminary administration data. After subsidies, the

average monthly premium
that consumers pay directly
rose by $23 a month.

ITS DARN COMPLICATED

Obamas law joined two of
the most complicated areas
for consumers: health insurance and taxes.
Even now, in the second
year of coverage, enrollment
counselors say many consumers get overwhelmed trying to understand what plan is
best for them. It can be hard
to figure out which doctors
are in what plans, and what is
the patients share of the cost
for a particular medication.
This tax filing season will
reveal the connections between the law and the tax system, which is used to deliver
carrots and sticks.
Premiums subsidies are
packaged as tax credits and
consumers will have to account to the IRS that they got
the right amount. People who
remained uninsured will see
fines deducted from their tax
refunds, if theyre deemed
able to afford coverage.
If the last five years are a
guide, look for more surprises as the saga continues.

EDITORS NOTE Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar covers health care policy for The
Associated Press.

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

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Comics & Puzzles

Zits

Blondie

For Better or Worse

Beetle Bailey

Pickles

Garfield

Born Loser

Hagar the Horrible

Barney Google & Snuffy Smith

Todays
Horoscope
By Eugenia Last

Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS
1 Chocolate
morsel
5 Garish
10 Pointed
beard
12 Daddys
sister
13 Goddess
of wisdom
14 Swear to
15 Coal
deposit
16 Stadium
noise
18 Take to the
slopes
19 They may
be blocked
23 Roswell
crasher
26 Government rule, for
short
27 TV warrior
princess
30 Baghdads
river
32 Arcane
34 Collar, so
to speak
35 Meat dish
36 Allot
37 That guys
38 Movie
filming area
39 Villas
42 Fast-food
acronym
45 Ego ending
46 Purina
rival
50 Pass by
53 Cream puff
55 Pry bars
56 Carbon 14
job
57 Tasty
carbohydrate
58 PCs
mouthful?

ponents
4 Endorsers
need
5 Clean a fish
6 Hill builder
7 Sporty
trucks
8 Frisbee, for
one
9 Hairy humanoid
10 Neon or
nitrogen
11 Heartfelt
12 Pleased
sighs
17 31-day mo.
20 Tall flowers
21 Overlook
22 Faction
within a faith
23 Ms. Hagen
of films
24 Steadfast
25 Hideous
monster
28 Protein
sources
29 Lotion
additive
31 Solar plex-

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A DHI Media Publication serving Van Wert, Delphos & Area Communities

Raiders regional-bound again

BY KEVIN WANNEMACHER

DHI Media Business Mgr

kwannemacher@timesbulletin.com

VAN WERT A fast start and

good free throw shooting down the
stretch propelled Wayne Trace into
the regional tournament for the 11th
time in school history with a 60-53
victory over Edgerton on Friday
night.
The Raiders, now 23-1 on the
season, captured the Division IV
regional championship at Van Wert
High School for the second consecutive year and will now take
on Plymouth (25-1) on Tuesday at
Bowling Green State University.
Game time is set for 6:15 p.m.
While brothers Corbin Linder
and Ethan Linder led the Raiders in
scoring, it was the efforts of the rest
of the Raider lineup that were just as
critical to the victory.
Wayne Trace got off to the start
it wanted, outscoring the Bulldogs
19-6 in the first quarter getting five
points each from Corbin Linder and
Justin Speice along with four from
Cole Shepherd.
Justin came in and got some big
offensive rebounds for us early in
the game, noted Raider head coach
Jim Linder. He has really gotten
better here down the stretch as he
has gotten more playing time and
taken advantage of that.
On the other end, it was senior
Jake Arend who picked up three key
boards that limited Edgerton to one
shot. The Raider defense limited the
Bulldogs to 2 of 12 shooting in the
opening quarter.
In the first quarter, we did a
pretty good job of keeping them off
the boards and we were aggressive,
continued Linder. The second half
we stood around more and that is
something we have to correct.

Edgerton, though, opened the

second quarter with two Michael
Cercone free throws followed by a
Max Nihart basket to get within 1910.
Two Cole Shepherd free throws,
a Corbin Linder basket and a pair of
foul shots by Corbin Linder quickly
widened the lead to 23-10 but the
Raiders werent done. Buckets by
Shepherd and Speice along with two
foul shots by Corbin Linder expanded the Raider advantage to 29-15
before another Shepherd basket put
Wayne Trace on top 31-17 at the intermission.
Cole was a key for us tonight,
Linder continued. He is about always at a disadvantage size wise but
he works hard and just finds ways to
get rebounds for us.
The third quarter, though, had a
much different script.
Edgerton held Wayne Trace without a field goal in the quarter as the
Raiders missed all nine shots from
the field and the Bulldogs trimmed
the deficit to 38-30 entering the final period. The Bulldogs took advantage of five offensive rebounds
in the quarter and outrebounded
Wayne Trace 11-6 in the period.
Edgerton got within 32-27
midway through the quarter on a
three-pointer by Nihart before the
Raiders answered late.
With the lead at 35-30, Wayne
Trace caught a big break just before the third quarter buzzer as
Ethan Linder was fouled shooting
a 3-point attempt. The sophomore
guard proceeded to hit all three free
throw attempts to push the margin
to 38-30.
Those were crucial free
throws, Linder noted. They had
the momentum and Ethan stepped
up and hit those foul shots and that
was big.

In the fourth, Wayne Trace had

an answer for any Bulldog run.
A foul shot by Nihart got Edgerton within 40-33 before Luke Miller
answered with a 3-pointer for the
Raiders to make it 43-33 at the 6:04
mark.
Lukes shot was a big one because they had some momentum
there, Linder noted. We had guys
who stepped up and made big-time
plays for us and that is what it takes
this time of year.
Cercone would continue to keep
the Bulldogs close, getting Edgerton
within 50-43 at the 2:49 mark with
what turn out to be the final 3-pointer of the night for the Bulldogs.
Wayne Trace would close it out
from there, getting an Ethan Linder
basket off of a long pass from Corbin
Linder along with single free throws
by David Sinn and Luke Miller to
seal the 60-53 win.
Ethan Linder finished with 13
points on the night, including hitting
9 of 11 second-half free throws to
help seal the victory. Senior Corbin
Linder chipped in a dozen points for
Wayne Trace while adding seven rebounds and five assists.
Shepherd chipped in 11 points
and four rebounds and Speice recorded nine points and two boards.
Miller also pitched in seven points,
two rebounds and two assists. David
Sinn, seeing his first action in over
a month, aided the Wayne Trace
cause with six points and a steal.
I think that was a little bit of a
lift for us, Linder noted of Sinn returning to the lineup. It gave us a
little bit of a boost and I think our
crowd got behind us more at that
point too.
Edgerton, which sees its season
end at 19-6, was led by 19 points
from Max Nihart.
RAIdERs /10

SaturDay, MarcH 14 & SunDay, MarcH 15, 2015

Wayne Trace senior David Sinn (40) shoots over Edgertons Duane Miller
(22) and Carter Knecht (15) during Friday nights Division IV district final
at Van Wert. Sinn, playing in his first game since recovering from a broken
ankle, came off the bench to help the Raiders hold off a second-half Bulldog
rally for a 60-53 win. Wayne Trace will play in the regional semifinals on
Tuesday in Bowling Green. (DHI Media/Tina Eley)

Blue Jays grab regional berth with

win over Grove
BY JIM METCALFE

DHI Media Sports Editor

jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com

ELIDA For the third period of Friday nights St.

Johns-Columbus Grove Division IV district final, it looked
like it would come down to which team could make a stop.
That all changed in the fourth period with the lead and
a regional berth up for grabs and the Blue Jays had the
better defense in securing a 49-42 boys basketball triumph on
the Union Bank Court of the Elida Fieldhouse.
The Blue Jays (19-6) advanced to take on Oregon Cardinal
Stritch, a 54-39 winner over Toledo Ottawa Hills, at 8 p.m.
on Tuesday in the regional semifinals at Bowling Green State
Universitys Stroh Center.
This is the third time in three years we have made it to regionals. I have had a lot of good players but these five seniors
Im not sure Ive had a group as close or that worked this
well together, St. Johns coach Aaron Elwer observed. This
has been a 5-week journey; we challenged our seniors and
the underclassmen about then about making a tournament run
and they have worked so hard in game prep scouting reports and executing our game plans on the floor.
After a third period in which the Jays outscored the Bulldogs 16-15 to take a slim 40-38 advantage, Grove senior Jace
Darbyshire hit a free throw for the final point of his 18-point,
4-assist, 2-steal effort early in the final period. That was followed by a 3-pointer by junior Bailey Clement at 6:54 to give
the Bulldogs their final lead and points of the night and the
season at 42-40.
A mere 16 seconds later, senior Alex Odenweller drained
a trey from left of the key to give the Blue Jays the lead for
good. Shortly after that, St. Johns 6-6 senior Tyler Conley
drove to the hoop for a 3-point edge, forcing Grove head
coach Ryan Stechschulte to call timeout.
Whether it was due to his teams tired legs (according to
Stechschulte) or the Blue Jays team defense, Grove (17-8) did
not score again, missing its final six field goal tries as the Jays
began to make their opponent foul. The Jays didnt hit a lot
of free throws in the final 1:28, making just 4 of 8, but it was
enough as Grove didnt have an answer this night, with seven
Bulldog seniors playing their final games for the scarlet-andgray.
I felt we were taking the same shots in the fourth period
that we did all game long, we just werent making them like
we had. Credit their length and having to take long shots all
game long that took away our legs late, Coach Stechschulte
said. We still were right there til the very end and thought
we were executing what we wanted but at the same time, they
simply doubled Jace and dared someone else to beat them.
Thats what it came down to: finally getting some stops.
Our whole game plan was to defend Darbyshire with all five
guys figuring in there somewhere, Elwer explained. Evan
(Hays) did a lot of the chasing but this was not a 1-man show.
We finally slowed (Darbyshire) down. I figure our schedule,
inside the MAC and out, is great preparation for times like
this. In the end, our size advantage finally came into play.
Both teams went with their bread-and-butter defenses
tough man-to-man with Hays shadowing the explosive Darbyshire and Grove senior David Bogart and junior
Gabe Stechschulte defending St. Johns seniors Odenweller
and Andy Grothouse. Grove came out better outscoring
the Jays 7-1 (5 by Darbyshire) in the first four minutes. Back
came the Jays behind Grothouse and Conley, who scored four
points each, and when Conley hit a 17-footer from the left
wing at 28 seconds, the Jays led 11-9.
After a pair of trades of the lead, the Jays seemed to have
hit their offensive stride, steadily moving out to a 22-14 lead,
thanks to six points from Hays, on a Grothouse 3-pointer
halfway through the quarter. Later, Grove found its shoot-

Wes Buettner became the first Delphos St. Johns wrestler in

eight years to make it to the state wrestling championships
awards podium, pinning Waynedale Apple Creeks Tristan
Anderson, during quarterfinals Friday at The Schott. (DHI
Media/Larry Heiing)

Buettner, Clemens
earn spots on podium
Blue Jay senior will wrestle for
state title on Saturday
BY LARRY HEIING

DHI Media Correspondent

news@delphosherald.com

St. Johns senior Tyler Conley (20) puts up a shot in the low
post during the Blue Jays district final win over Columbus
Grove at the Elida Fieldhouse on Friday night. Conley scored
10 points and grabbed six boards in the win. St. Johns will
play the 8 p.m. game on Tuesday night at the Stroh Center on
the campus of BGSU. (DHI Media/Ken Poling)
ing eye, hitting a midlane jumper by Stechschulte at 1:59 and
back-to-back triples by Clement and Tanner From to tie it at
22. When Grothouse swished a 35-footer from the deep left
wing to beat the horn, the Jays led 25-22 at the half.
Both teams found their offensive groove in the third period: the Jays canned 7-of-10 shots, with Grothouse scoring
eight points in the quarter, and Grove made 6-of-10 as Darbyshire poured in nine. Grove kept chasing, and when Darbyshire drained a trifecta from the right wing with 2.8 seconds on the board, they were within 40-38.
Its fun to have a large senior class like these seven (including Joey Warnecke, Colton Grothaus, Tanner From,
Bryce Sharrits and Corey Schroeder), Coach Stechschulte
added. Their high expectations and team goals they wanted to get to state from the start showed me their potential
and desire. To me, they showed me what high school sports
are all about.
St. Johns finished 15-of-26 from inside the arc (57.7%) and
4-of-7 outside (57.1%), with 21 off the glass (5 offensive) as
6-6 sophomore Tim Kreeger added four, and with eight fouls
and 11 turnovers.
Columbus Grove totaled 9-of-17 2-pointers (52.9%), 7-of18 3-popinters (37.8%) and 3-of-5 15-footers (60%), 17 caroms (5 offensive), 13 turnovers and 17 fouls.
St. JohnS /10

COLUMBUS The second-day morning session of

the OHSAA state tournament
was highly successful for two
area wrestlers as they secured
their spots on the awards podium.
Delphos St. Johns senior
Wes Buettner faced Tristan
Anderson in the championship quarterfinals held Friday
at the Schottenstein Center.
Anderson from Apple Creek
Waynedale placed fourth
at last years state meet and
came into the match with a
53-4 record. Buettner (44-4)
was the aggressor in the first
period with a takedown for
a 2-0 lead. Anderson scored
with an escape and reversal
but Buettner landed another
deep to maintain a 4-3 lead
heading into the final 2 minutes.
The Blue Jay wrestler
turned a reversal into a pin
with 59 seconds left to engrave his spot in St. Johns
history.
In the opening round,
Buettner became the first
Blue Jay to win a match at
state since Ryan Musser in
2011 and the last St. Johns
grappler on the podium was
Brian Merschman in 2007.
I was nervous going in
but felt great wrestling my

match, commented Buettner.

Its exciting making it to the
awards stand but I just need to
refocus and be ready for another tough round.
Wayne
Trace
junior
George Clemens is making
his third trip to the state meet
and his opponent in the quarterfinals was Louis DeMarco
(41-2) of Gates Mills. Clemens led 4-2 heading into the
final period and gave up a reversal to even the score. The
Raider wrestler took the lead
with an escape and takedown
to roll to a 9-5 victory.
I had to overcome a lot of
mistakes I made in the first
round because of nerves,
said Clemens. I feel I wrestled better from that point and
controlled the match.
Coach George Clemens III
was proud not only as a mentor but a father.
Im overwhelmed with
emotions right now, said
the elder Clemens. This is
the 9th trip down here for a
member of our family and he
is the first Clemens to make
the podium. Im content with
his finish and everything else
from this point on is just icing
on the cake.
Elidas Blaine Hunter
wasnt as fortunate on Friday
morning, suffering a 10-6 loss
to Tony Decesare from Parma
Padua.
sTATE WREsTLING /10

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SportS

Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15, 2015

Flyers storm back to oust Bearcats

BY JIM COX

DHI Media Correspondent

sports@timesbulletin.com

WAPAKONETA Its often said

that the game was a lot closer than the final score indicated; that was never more
true than in Friday nights Division IV
district final, won by Marion Local 6552 over Spencerville. Marion Local outscored Spencerville 22-4 in the fourth
quarter but didnt wrap it up until the
final minute.
That surge undid a splendid effort by
the younger, smaller Bearcats (16-6) and
sent the Flyers (20-4) into next Tuesdays regional semifinal against Jackson Center at Kettering Fairmont High
School.
It was a great game, said Spencerville coach Kevin Sensabaugh. Our
kids played extremely hard. Their kids
played extremely hard. I thought we executed our game plan pretty well. We
wanted to spread em out and make the
big guys work on ball screens. They did
a good job adjusting to it in the second
half, and we just didnt make many
shots.
Marion Local started four seniors
and a junior; those seniors included
6-foot-10 future Toledo Rocket Luke
Knapke and 6-7 Ryan Bruns. Spencerville started three sophomores and two
juniors, none taller than 6-4.
Spencerville led 48-43 at the end of
the third quarter, but the fourth started
with a corner 3-pointer by the Flyers
Dustin Seitz and a tip-in by Bruns to tie
it at 48-all. Spencervilles Bailey Croft
escaped for a layup to lead by two, but
Marion Local answered with a 7-0 run

to make it 55-50, Flyers, at 3:57.

Spencervilles Dakota Prichard
canned an elbow jumper to cut it to
three, but the Bearcats wouldnt score
again. With a minute left, Bruns muscled in a layup and swished the and-one
free throw to make it 58-52. The Flyers
then made 5 of 8 free throws to sew it
up.
Give them a lot of credit, because
Seitz and (Dustin) Rethman just lit it
up, explained Sensabaugh of the Flyers last quarter run. Its tough to guard
the big guys when the guards can fill it
up. When they started lighting it up, we
kinda got stuck in between guarding the
bigs and guarding the guards and trying to help side and then run out on the
shooters.
The first three quarters featured
great basketball by both teams, rewarding a near capacity crowd of rabid
rooters. There were three ties and three
lead changes in the first quarter. Only a
last-second triple by Rethman got Marion Local within three at 15-12.
The Flyers scored the first nine points
of the second period 2-pointers by
Dustin Seitz, Knapke, and Bruns, then
a corner trey by Seitz 21-15, Marion Local, at the 5:27 mark. Back came
the Cats on a 9-2 run capped by Mason
Nourses NBA-range three to regain the
lead, 24-23, with 2:30 left. Rethman and
the Bearcats Zach Goecke exchanged
triples in the last six seconds, and it was
31-30, Flyers, at the break.
Goecke sliced through the Marion
trees for a layup to start the third quarter
to get the lead back. Prichard followed
with a 3-pointer from the right corner to
lead by four, and Spencerville held onto

the lead until the start of the Flyer surge

early in the final quarter.
Im proud of our kids, added Sensabaugh. They played as hard as they
can play; they did that for most of the
season, and thats all you can ask. Were
still a young group. Weve got everybody back next year, so hopefully this
will be a good learning experience.
Marion Local out-shot Spencerville
from the field 58 percent (23 of 40) to
40 percent (21 of 52), though many of
the Bearcat misses were blocked or deflected by Knapke or Bruns. Free throws
werent a factor until the last minute,
with the Flyers ending up at 76 percent
(13 of 17), the Bearcats at 40 percent
(2 of 5). Marion won the boards 23-16.
Spencerville had fewer turnovers, 9-13.
Rethman, Bruns, and Knapke led
the Flyer scoring with 17, 17, and 14.
Goecke and Prichard had 16 and 13 for
the Bearcats.
Score by quarters:
Marion Local 12 19 12 22 - 65
Spencerville 15 15 18 4 - 52
Marion Local (fg ft-fta tp)
Rethman 5 4-6 17, Bruns 6 5-5 17,
Setiz 5 2-2 15, Griesdorn 1 0-0 2, Knapke 6 2-4 14, Homan 0 0-0 0, Collin
Mescher 0 0-0 0, Tyler Mescher 0 0-0 0.
Totals 23 13-17 65.
Spencerville (fg ft-fta tp)
Meyer 2 0-0 4, Goecke 7 0-0 16,
Prichard 5 0-0 13, Bailey Croft 2 0-0 4,
Corso 3 0-0 7,
Nourse 2 2-5 8, Griffin Croft 0 0-0 0.
Totals 21 2-5 52.
3-point field goals: Marion Local
6 (Rethman 3, Seitz 3); Spencerville 8
(Prichard 3, Goecke 2, Nourse 2, Corso).

Split-squad Indians rough up

Diamondbacks Hellickson
BY GARY SCHATZ
Associated Press

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) Jason Kipnis doubled twice,

and Jose Ramirez and Michael Bourn showed some power to
rough up Jeremy Hellickson and the split-squad Cleveland Indians beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-2 on Friday.
Hellickson, slated for the Diamondbacks rotation, failed to
complete the second inning. He came to Arizona in a trade
with Tampa Bay in November.
It was so nice to see all our big guys swing the bats like
that, Indians bench coach Brad Mills said. It wasnt just the
doubles and home runs. Some of the outs were hit hard. It was
the reason they got three good at bats.
Hellickson couldnt get the ball down and it cost him. Bourn
(3) and Ramirez (2) combined for five home runs last season.
In spring it is more important for pitchers to get their work
in, Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale said. When its hot,
hitters feel really good about themselves. We know Jeremy is
a Major Leaguer.
Brett Hayes piled on with a three-run home run off Daniel Hudson to back Zach McAllister, who pitched four quick
scoreless innings. He allowed three hits and a walk and had
three strikeouts.
Hudson, coming off two Tommy John surgeries, got into
trouble by walking Carlos Moncrief and allowing a single to
Ramirez in front of Hayes at-bat. Hudson settled down and
completed two innings with no further scoring. It is undetermined whether Hudson will start or work out of the bullpen.
He has the stuff to get guys out as a starter or reliever,
Hale said. We will sit down with him in a couple weeks to let
him know but will continue the way we are for now.
Kipnis was held out of action early in spring after offseason
surgery to repair a tendon in his left ring finger.
I did what I wanted to do. I pulled the change up and hit
the fastball to left. It tells me it is where I want to be, Kipnis
said. It is not only the physical thing but the mental thing with

injuries. The hand will have

the strength back it is telling yourself youre ok. You
dont have to favor it.
Paul Goldschmidt had
two hits for Arizona.
TRAINERS ROOM
Diamondbacks: C Oscar
Hernandez, a Rule-5 pick
from Tampa Bay, had surgery to remove the hamate bone in his left wrist on Thursday.
Yasmany Tomas was originally in the lineup at third base but
was a late scratch because of a headache and dehydration. He
was replaced by Jamie Romak, who was the DH. Jake Lamb
started at third.
Indians: Zach Walters left Thursdays game with an abdominal strain. He will be held out at least two daysRyan Raburn
had his left knee drained. It was planned before he left the
game Thursday with discomfort in the knee. He will be ready
to play on Saturday. Brandon Moss will miss both games
on Friday because of a stomach virus. Hes expected to play
Saturday.
STARTING TIME
Diamondbacks: Jeremy Hellickson, the 2011 American
League Rookie of the Year, was acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay for INF Andrew Velasquez and OF Justin Williams.
Hellickson is not overly concerned with aa bad outing at
this stage.
It is not the most important thing in spring training but
you dont like to get hit, said Hellickson, who doesnt have
to compete for a rotation spot. Its still spring training. I will
work to be better the next time.
Indians: Zach McAllister made his third spring start. He
started the 2014 season in the Indians rotation but back problems hampered him much of the season.
The door to regaining a spot in the 2015 rotation was opened
when Gavin Floyd re-injured his elbow.

STATE WRESTLING

Browns extend
D-lineman Hughes

Wayne Trace senior George Clemens (top) secured a spot on the podium with his
Friday morning win over Louis DeMarco. (DHI Media/Larry Heiing)
(From page 9)
posted a 21-4 during his senior season
Decesare (44-5) went on the offensive in the opening minutes jumping to
a 6-0 lead with a takedown and near pin
to coast to the win.
Hunter Lucas and Jack Huffman
from Lima Central Catholic also moved
onto the championship semifinals with
victories.
The second round of the consolation
bracket wasnt lucky on Friday the 13th
for three local wrestlers.
Tyler Showalter of Wayne Trace was
dominating his match against Genoas
Brandon Bates leading 5-1 midway
through the second period. Bates turned
Showalter onto his back and stuck the
pin for the victory. Showalter ends his
Raiders wrestler season with a 35-6 record.
Adas Austin Windle battled Ryan
Patchin to lead 2-0 after 2 periods. Windle scored a takedown and led 4-2 with
only 45 seconds remaining in the match.
A pair of locking hands calls on Windle
were costly as the match headed to overtime. Patchin got the first takedown in
the extra period for the 6-4 victory.
Windle missed over two months of
the season to recover from surgery and

with a return trip back to the Schott.

Adam Deatrick of Paulding was in an
offensive battle with Deltas Mark Francis during his consolation match. After
trailing early, Detick knotted the score
at 5 with a reversal and near fall. Francis
scored with a trio of take downs to roll
to a 17-14 victory. The Paulding senior
ends his outstanding season with a 46-9
including the schools first win at state in
many years.
In semi-final action Friday night, Clemens lost to Archbolds Damian Short
(53-5) 9-6 in the 120-pound championship bracket. Clemens will wrestle in the
consolation round on Saturday morning.
In the 195-pound championship
semifinal, Buettner defeated Will Bolanz (44-5) in a nail bitter 1-0. The only
score of the match came on an escape by
Buettner in the second period. Buettner
will try to become the first wrestler from
St. Johns to win a state title on Saturday
night against Nick Svarda (40-3) of Middletown.
Consolation wrestling will begin Saturday at 10 a.m. and the parade of champions will take place Saturday night at
5:30 p.m.

CLEVELAND (AP) John Hughes

didnt play as much as he wanted last
season because of injuries. The Browns
missed him.
On Friday, they decided to invest in
him for the future.
Hughes signed a four-year, $14 million
contract extension with Cleveland, which
has been criticized by some of its fans for
not being aggressive during free agency.
However, the Browns made sure they
locked up Hughes, a 2012 draft pick who
has exceeded expectations.
Before he signed the extension,
Hughes contract was scheduled to expire
following the 2015 season. Now hell be
under contract for the next five years.
Its an amazing feeling, Hughes
said. For the Cleveland Browns to have
the faith in me and believe in me to sign
me a year early, its just a great feeling.
The versatile 25-year-old Hughes
made three starts and played in just five
games last season before he was placed
on injured reserve with a knee injury.
Hughes returned for the season finale at
Baltimore and made a career-high seven
tackles.
The 6-foot-2, 320-pounder is considered one of the teams best run stuffers,
and his absence and the loss of massive tackle Phil Taylor to injury led to
the Browns finishing last in rushing defense.
Injuries forced the Browns to play 10
starting lineup combinations last season.
If they can stay healthy, the Browns have
the pieces to be one of the AFCs better
defenses.
I feel like not just me, but the team
has a lot to prove, Hughes said. I feel
like we have a lot to do.
Hughes, an Ohio native who played
at Cincinnati, has made seven starts and
played in 36 career games. Hes also been
one of the teams most active members in
the community.

times Bulletin/Delphos Herald

RAIdERS
(From page 9)

TICKET INFORMATION: Presale tickets are $7 for both

adults and students. All tickets at the door are $8.
Sunday, March 15 (sales in athletic office):
6 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Varsity players, varsity cheerleaders
and high school boys basketball coaches may purchase tickets
for their immediate family and grandparents.
6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Those with Coach Passes as well
as junior varsity players and cheerleaders may purchase tickets
for their immediate family.
Monday, March 16 (in high school office, west door):
7:30 a.m. until 8 a.m. Those residing in the Wayne Trace
school district who have GMC passes may purchase two tickets
per pass. Students may purchase one student ticket per student.
8 a.m. until 9 a.m. Those who have Wayne Trace all-sports
passes or season ticket holders may purchase one ticket per person covered on the pass. Those with Wayne Trace staff passes
may purchase for their immediate family. Students may purchase one ticket per student.
9 a.m. until 2 p.m. General public may purchase tickets
(maximum of ten). Students may purchase one ticket per student.
Monday, March 16 (in athletic office, north door):
6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. General public may purchase
tickets (maximum of ten). Students may purchase one ticket per
student.
Tuesday, March 17 (in high school office, west door):
7:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. General public may purchase
tickets (maximum of ten). Students may purchase one ticket per
student.

Score by quarters
Wayne Trace 19 12 7 22- 60
Edgerton 6 11 13 23- 53
Wayne Trace (23-1)
Jake Arend 1-5 0-0 2, Luke Miller 1-3 4-6 7, Ethan Linder 2-7 9-11 13,
Cole Shepherd 4-5 3-4 11, Corbin Linder 4-10 3-4 12, Alec Vest 0-0 0-0 0,
Justin Speice 4-6 1-1 9, David Sinn 1-1 4-8 6; Totals 17-37 24-34 60
Edgerton (19-6)
Max Nihart 5-18 6-7 19, Dustin Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Duane Miller 2-8 6-7 10,
Alex Michael 2-9 3-7 7, Chase McClellan 0-1 0-0 0, Mitchell Cercone 2-3
4-4 9, Carter Knecht 3-7 2-3 8, Gabe Brady 0-0 0-0 0, Kobe Brady 0-0 0-0
0; Totals 14-46 21-28 53
Three-point field goals: Wayne Trace 2-7 (Miller, CLinder), Edgerton 4-19
(Nihart 3, Cercone); Rebounds: Wayne Trace 26 (CLinder 7), Edgerton 37
(DuaMiller 10); Assists: Wayne Trace 10 (Clinder 5), Edgerton 5 (Nihart 2,
DuaMiller 2); Turnovers: Wayne Trace 13, Edgerton 21

Jeffersons Smith, WTs

Linder earn 1st team
all-district honors
BY JOHN PARENT

DHI Media Sports Editor

sports@timesbulletin.com

COLUMBUS Delphos
Jefferson junior Trey Smith
was named a first-team Division III all-NW District selection by the Associated Press
on Friday evening, when the
selections were announced.
Smith, Jeffersons all-time
leading scorer, averaged 27
points per game while grabbing eight rebounds per night
for the Wildcats.
Meanwhile, Wayne Trace
senior Corbin Linder was
named a first-team selection
in Division IV. He also has
etched his name into the record books at his school this
season, becoming the Raiders all-time leader in 3-point
field goals and steals.
Corbins younger brother, sophomore Ethan Linder
earned a second-team selection in Division IV, as did
Crestview junior Connor Lautzenheiser. Ottovilles Brandt
Landin was a third-team selection.
The most highly-decorated
of the girls players came from
Van Wert County, as Crestview senior Lindsey Motycka was named a second-team
selection in Division IV. Lady
Cougar Erin Morrow was
named a third-team pick in

Division II and Emily Bauer

or Crestview earned the same
recognition in Division IV.
Ottovilles Annie Lindeman
was also a third-team pick.
Several
area
players
earned honorable mentions
in their respective divisions.
St. Johns senior Andy Grothouse was the only Blue Jay
recognized in D-IV despite
the fine season his team has
enjoyed. Spencervilles Zach
Goecke was also an honorable mention, as was Lincolnview senior Justis Dowdy.
Austin Kehres of Ft. Jennings,
Groves Gabe Stechshulte,
David Sinn of Wayne Trace
and Ottovilles Tyler Roby
also gained D-IV honorable
mentions.
Among the girls, Division
IV honorable mentions were
given to Wayne Traces Shayna Temple and Erin Mohr,
Lincolnviews Julia Thatcher and Crestviews Mackenzie Riggenbach. Columbus
Groves Jade Clement, Kalidas Kylie Osterhage, Ottovilles Bridget Landin, and
Kalidas Jacquelyn Gardner
also gained honorable mentions.
A full list of honorees from
all divisions can be found at
timesbulletin.com and at delphosherald.com.

St. JOhnS
(From page 9)

TICKET INFORMATION: St. Johns will be selling tickets

for its regional game in the high school office at the following
times: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7-7:30 p.m. Monday, and 7:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. All pre-sale tickets are $7; all tickets
at the gates are $8. All children, regardless of age, must have a
ticket for tournament games.
COLUMBUS GROVE (42)
Jace Darbyshire 6-3-18, Gabe Stechschulte 2-0-5, Tanner
From 0-0-0, David Bogart 0-0-0, Joey Warnecke 1-0-2, Logan
Diller 1-0-3, Baily Clement 4-0-10, Rece Roney 2-0-4, Ryan
Tabler 0-0-0. Totals 9-7-3-42.
ST. JOHNS (49)
Andy Grothouse 7-2-18, Evan Hays 4-0-8, Aaron Reindel
0-0-0, Ryan Hellman 0-0-0, Austin Heiing 0-1-1, Tyler Conley 5-0-10, Alex Odenweller 2-2-8, Jaret Jackson 0-0-0, Robbie
Saine 0-0-0, Tim Kreeger 1-2-4, Jesse Ditto 0-0-0. Totals 154-7-49.
Score by Quarters:
Col. Grove 9 13 16 4 - 42
St. Johns 11 14 15 9 - 49
Three-point goals: Columbus Grove, Darbyshire 3, Clement
2, Stechschulte, Diller; St. Johns, Grothouse 2, Odenweller 2.

Blue Jay head coach Aaron Elwer (center) talks to his team
during a timeout duirng Fridays D-IV district final at Elida.
The Jays knocked out Columbus Grove to advance to regionals.
(DHI Media/Ken Poling)

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406 N. Adams St., Middle

Point, Ohio
Items: 2 twenty acre
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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 10:30 AM - WILLSHIRE, OH

LOCATION: At northwest edge of Willshire, Ohio, on St. Rd. 33 or southeast
approximately 8 miles from Decatur, IN or St. Rd. 33, at Farmers Grain & Ag LLC,
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:00 p.m.

Middle Point Community Building 406 N. Adams St., Middle Point, Ohio
40 Acres Located Northwest of Delphos, Ohio
Description: This 40 acre farm features highly productive Hoytville Silty Clay soil
type. It is located 2 miles north of Middle Point, Ohio on Carpenter Rd. and 5 miles
northwest of Delphos, Ohio. Mark your calendar now and attend the auction on
Wednesday, March 25, 2015.
40 ACRES HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE VAN WERT COUNTY

This auction will be conducted at the Middle Point Community Building. Interest rates
will eventually go higher so consider buying now while they are still at historically LOW
LEVELS.
WASHINGTON TWP. 2 MILES NORTH OF MIDDLE POINT

Prime land is difficult to find so dont miss this auction! The two 20 acre tracts will be
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Terms: 10% down day of auction. Buyer will have 2015 farming rights. Closing by
April 28, 2015. Selling subject to confirmation of owner.
Visit our Web site at www.BeeGeeRealty.com
to view the Auction Calendar and see more information/photos of this auction and all upcoming auctions.
Seller: James E. & Janet L. Hitchcock Trust

122 N Washington St., Van Wert, OH 45891

Auctioneers: Bob Gamble, CAI, CES, Broker, Dale Butler, Ron Medaugh, Andy Schwieterman & DD Strickler
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Date: Wed. 03/18

Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Middle Point Community
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Items: 3 Tracts - 97 Acres Total in
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Robert Young -Probate Court Case
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Boyfriends sister complicates womans plans for future

DEAR ABBY: I am 19 and
recently decided to move to
Denver to live with my high
school sweetheart, Logan.
His sister Emily had been
living with him for about a
month before I moved in, and
I expressed concerns about
that. Logan assured me shed
be moving out soon and he
didnt want to lose any time
with me.
Since day one Emily and
I have butted heads. Shes a
bartender who works three
nights a week. She sleeps
all day and doesnt help with
bills or with cleanup. She also
wastes money on her habits. She has been mean to
me, said spiteful things and
caused problems between
Logan and me.
I love Logan, and I want
to spend the rest of my life
with him, but Im at a loss as

Dear
abby
with
Jeanne
Phillips
to what to do about his sister.
We have talked about it many
times, but things are only
getting worse. Please help.
CROWDED IN COLORADO
DEAR CROWDED: As
you have probably noticed,
you have nothing to gain and
much to lose by further alienating his sister. A departure
date for Emily should have
been agreed upon before you
moved in. Because that didnt
happen, you are now in the

position of an interloper,
and because you are judgmental about her lifestyle,
that she would resent you and
act out is understandable.
Be smart. Recognize that
the current living arrangement isnt healthy for your
relationship with Logan and
move out. Do not ask him to
choose between you and his
sister. If Logan is as serious
about you as you are about
him, he may decide to choose
on his own and encourage
Emily to find a place to live
as was originally planned.
** ** **
DEAR ABBY: My sister,
Margaret, cheated on her
husband for 30 years out of
their 30-year marriage. Her
husband had a visual impairment that led to blindness,
and for the last 10 years he
was completely dependent on

her. Im the only one in the

family she confided in about
her affairs all these years.
Were both now in our 60s.
Margarets husband died
last year of cancer, and then
her boyfriend left her because
he wanted a real relationship
and she did not. She was devastated about both events, but
cannot let go of being rejected by her boyfriend.
I am sick and tired of hearing about this boyfriend and
his and her choices. I never
approved of how my sister
lived her life. Margarets husband was a good man who
would do anything for her.
I recently suggested she
speak to her grief counselor about this so she can find
some peace in her life. Now
she tells me she has cut me
completely out of her life,
but she continues to send

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me nasty emails. Shes also

bad-mouthing me to my
brother and my children (who
know nothing). How do I
deal with this? TIRED OF
HER DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
DEAR TIRED: You gave
your troubled sister some
good advice; its a shame she
didnt heed it. Now heres the
way I recommend you deal
with what shes doing: Tell
your brother and your children everything you have
written to me. After that, direct any emails you receive
from your sister into trash
without reading any more of
them, ever. Do that, and you
will find that like magic there
will be less drama, turmoil
and stress in your life.
** ** **
Dear Abby is written by
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By Jan
family foundation are removed
Edwards
from the donors estate, thereby
avoiding estate and/or gift taxLPL
es.
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Balance Giving Goals and
Financial Planning
While the tax deductions
and/or transfer tax benefits associated with
most charitable giving vehicles help reduce the
cost of making charitable gifts, an individuals
own income or wealth transfer needs often determine his or her ability to give. To address
both goals, individuals may want to consider
other charitable vehicles such as a charitable
remainder trust, a charitable lead trust or a gift
annuity.
A charitable remainder trust (CRT) can
guarantee an income stream for you and your
spouse, while minimizing current income
taxes since you generally may deduct the fair
market value of the charitys remainder interest in the CRT in the calendar year the CRT
is funded. A CRT can also be an integral part
of a family business succession plan. Lifetime
stock transfers can be made to a CRT and
subsequently redeemed by the closely held
corporation. The redemption funds the CRT
with tax-free monies that subsequently can be
invested to provide an income stream to the
business owner and spouse.
CRTs a set up to provide income to a beneficiary for a specified period of time. Once
the period expires, the remainder of the trust is
transferred to the designated charities.
A charitable lead trust allows you to place
in trust assets that will be left to your heirs;
however, you specify a set number of years
during which a fixed percentage of the value of
the assets in the trust will be paid to a charity.
You pay discounted gift taxes on assets transferred to the trust and do not receive a charitable deduction. However, your heirs ultimately
can receive trust assets free of estate taxes.
A charitable gift annuity (CGA) is in some
respects even more cost and tax effective than
CRTs/CLTs. CGAs have no administrative or
setup fees. Virtually any asset can be used to
fund a CGA, and the charitable organization
itself guarantees either immediate or deferred
lifetime payments to the donor. The typical tax
deduction available in the year assets are transferred to a CGA ranges from 30 percent to 45
percent of the fair market value of the asset.
Including charitable giving strategies in
your estate plan can be an effective way for
you and your family to enjoy an income stream
during your lives, earn tax savings and maintain a significant degree of control over assets
all while fulfilling your charitable goals.
Please note, taxes will be due on the income
stream provided.
If you are creating a charitable giving plan,
consider seeking the guidance of an attorney,
accountant or other trusted professional who
is familiar with tax laws and legal intricacies.
Obtaining assistance early on - and retaining
such counsel on a continuing basis - is key to
making responsible decisions.

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or recommendations for any individual. Individuals should discuss their specific situation
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Real estate

times Bulletin/Delphos Herald

Tips on scoring best

rate on a home loan
By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

allen County
City of Delphos
Mary Ann and Arnold F. Rode and Arnold F. Rode Family Living Trust to Marsh-Delphos Properties, LLC., 1004
Marsh Ave., Delphos, $22,000.
Village of elida
Ronald L.D.V.M. and Kay E. McNutt to Johnny Thi and
Yvonne Nguyen, 2909 Elida Road, Lima, $500,000.
Stacy L. Shaw to Aaron Cunningham, 5732 Clover Ridge
Dr., Lima, $177,000.
Marion township
Jerry M. Johnson and Eldin Edison Brown to Lehman
Enterprises, LLC., 4646 Good Road and Good Road, Delphos, $30,100.
Putnam County
Paul M. Maag and Michelle L. Maag fka Michelle L. Cavanaugh, 2.0 acres, Union Township, to Chad E. Kuhlman
and Christine L. Kuhlman.
Joan M. Kuhlman nka Joan M. Siefker and Aaron D.
Siefker, Lot 4, Ottawa Township, to Joan M. Siefker TR.
Aaron D. Siefker and Joan M. Siefker, 2.36 acres and 9.45
acres, Greensburg Township and 38.58 acres, Ottawa Township, to Siefker Farms LLC.
George W. Combs and I. Georgine Combs, 5.00 acres,
Greensburg Township, to I Georgine Combs.
George W. Combs and I. Georgine Combs, parcel, Greensburg Township, to I. Georgine Combs.
Tim R. Goedde and Alice J. Goedde, 2.0 acres, Greensburg Township, to Sarah Goedde.
Carolyn S. Grismore aka Carol Grismore, 5.001 acres, Riley Township, to Michael S. Welch and Dawn L. Welch.
Sharon S. Reel, Lot 364, Pandora, to Zachary L. Meyer
and Erica S. Snavely.
Timothy R. Sheidler and Virginia L. Sheidler, Lot 364,
Pandora, to Zachary L. Meyer and Erica S. Snavely.
David W. Brewster and Mary A. Brewster, Lot 364, Pandora, to Zachary L. Meyer and Erica S. Snavely.
Karen L. Powell and Ned T. Powell, Lot 364, Pandora, to
Zachary L. Meyer and Erica S. Snavely.
Marilyn Sheidler and Thomas E. Sheidler, Lot 364, Pandora, to Zachary L. Meyer and Erica S. Snavely.
Lou Ann Dierking fka Lou Ann Keeler, Lot 364, Pandora,
to Zachary L. Meyer and Erica S. Snavely.
Genaro O. Camareno, dec., Lot 11, Ottawa, to Melba Navarro, Juan Camareno and Cindy Camareno.
Tobin Neal Pier and Danielle Michelle Pier, 2.0 acres,
Monroe Township, to Jacob Recker and Rachel Hemker.
Juan Hinojosa, dec., Lots 256 and 257, Leipsic, to Cristela
Hinojosa.
Eugene E. Utendorf, 39.90 acres, Blanchard Township, to
Lawrence W. Utendorf.
Lila E. Copeland, Lot 30, Ottawa, to David J. Schroeder
and Breanne N. Schroeder.
Van Wert County
Maxine L. Amerman to Scott E. Williams, Jan M. Williams, inlot 3421, Van Wert.

Marjorie A. Fleming to Noggle Family Revocable Living

Trust, inlot 3508, Van Wert.
Malisa Evans, Lisa Evans to James R. Evans, portion of
section 5, Washington Township.
JPMorgan Chase Bank to FFF Properties LLC, portion of
outlot 22, Ohio City.
Joseph W. Ulm, Joseph W. Ulm Jr., Karen S. Ulm to Damon A. Ulm, lot 33-2, portion of lot 34, lot 34-2, portion of
lot 33, lots 33-3, 33-1, Delphos subdivision.
Maureen K. King to V. Storm Mercer, Heidi M. Measley,
Ebony E. Wilkes, portion of section 3, Tully Township.
V. Storm Mercer, Matthew Mercer, Heidi M. Measley,
Jeffrey Measley, Ebony E. Wilkes, Matthew B. Mercer, Ebony E. Carcione to Maureen K. King, portion of section 3,
Tully Township.
Estate of Janet L. Lininger to Robert D. Lininger, Richard S. Lininger, Gary L. Lininger, portion of inlots 377, 378,
4477, Van Wert.
Carol R. Miller, Carol R. Kimmel, Dean P. Miller to
Dean P. Miller, Carol R. Miller, inlots 276, 275, Ohio City,
portion of inlot 274, Ohio City.
Estate of Patricia A. Dunifon, estate of Patricia Dunifon
to Keith Dunifon, Lindsey Johnson, Nicole Dunifon, portion of section 4, Hoaglin Township, portion of section 25,
Pleasant Township.
Estate of Eric G. Hammond to Allison R. Hammond, inlot 3668, Van Wert, outlot 110-2, Van Wert.
David P. Stuckey, Peggy L. Stuckey to David P. Stuckey Living Trust, Peggy L. Stuckey Living Trust, portion of
inlot 1415, 1416, Van Wert, portion of section 33, Pleasant
Township.
Estate of Amos Dean Stauffer Sr. to Margaret A. Stauffer,
inlots 134, 72, and portion of inlot 73, Willshire.
Robert D. Lininger to Richard S. Lininger, Gary L.
Lininger, inlots 377, 378, 4477, Van Wert.
John Crawford, Lula E. Crawford to Beverly A. Smith,
inlot 4516, Van Wert.
Estate of Alma E. Bolenbaugh to T. Jean Metzger, Jack
A. Bolenbaugh, Carole L. Doner, Marjorie E. Waldron, inlot
2973, Van Wert.
Jeffrey L. Hanson to Todd J. Grothaus, Christine Grothaus, inlot 3818, Van Wert.
Bank of America to Shelly B. Sexton, portion of inlots
274, 275, Delphos.
Federal National Mortgage Association to Superior Federal Credit Union, inlot 330, Middle Point.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Wells
Fargo Bank, inlot 135, Delphos.
Marvin J. Mumper to Ralph V. Watts Jr., portion of inlot
2, Convoy.
Sandra K. Eversole, Sandy K. Eversole, Sandra K. Pruett, Sandy K. Pruett to Ralph W. Eversole, portion of inlots
1395, 1396, 1397, Van Wert.
Robert Gamble Comm, Martha J. Stittsworth, Marcia J.
Wise, John J. Stripe, Martin K. Stripe to Van Wert Properties Ltd., portion of section 8, Pleasant Township (Poling
subdivision lot 6).

Mortgage interest rates have hovered near historic lows in

recent years, but change may be on the horizon.
The Federal Reserve is considering increasing the shortterm interest rate it controls as early as June. That could send
mortgage rates moving higher again.
For now, rates remain homebuyer-friendly. The national average rate for a 30-year, fixed mortgage fell to 3.75 percent last
week. It was 4.28 percent a year ago.
Thats good news for homebuyers, who despite signs that
the economy is recovering, are always looking for ways to save.
Still, landing the most affordable mortgage depends on
more than getting the lowest rate. The rate borrowers qualify
for hinges on several factors, including their finances, credit
score and the size of the down payment theyre prepared to
make. And the type of loan and the fees that come with it also
determine the overall cost of a mortgage.
As rates go up it will affect affordability, said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com. But rate is not
going to be your only loan consideration. You dont buy a house
because of low interest rates any more than you get married
because of a sale at the bridal shop.
Here are some tips on how to get the best deal on a mortgage:
1. SIZE UP YOUR CREDIT
Mortgage lenders consider three key factors to determine
what rate they can offer a borrower: Good credit, proof of income and size of the down payment. Strength in one category
can offset a deficiency in another, but having a FICO score of
740 or better out of 850 will generally qualify borrowers for the
lowest mortgage rate.
You can qualify for a home loan with a lower credit score,
but youll pay a higher interest rate.
If your FICO is below 740, review copies of your credit files
for errors that may be weighing down your score. Consumers
are entitled to a free credit report every 12 months from the
three major credit-reporting firms Equifax (NYSE:EFX) ,
TransUnion and Experian. Go to Annualcreditreport.com.
The credit firms are required to respond to error disputes
within 30 days, so it pays to do this well in advance of when
you intend to buy a home. Think at least six to eight weeks.
The ratio between available credit and how much debt youre
carrying is another key element of the FICO score. A good
rule of thumb is to keep debt at less than half of your available
credit. Reducing that ratio alone can often bump up your score.
2. SHOP AROUND
Before you begin your home search, ask a lender to assess
how much you can borrow. The lender will conduct a thorough
credit and income review and issue you a pre-approval letter,
which will give a seller solid indication of what you can spend.
But dont necessarily go with the loan terms the lender is
offering. This is a good time to do some comparison shopping
for more favorable mortgage deals.
Websites like Bankrate.com, LendingTree.com (OTCBB:IACPP) (NASDAQ:IACI) and Zillow.com offer a quick way to
get a flavor for the kind of offers that may be available. Also
check whether your current bank or credit union offers a better
deal because you have an account there.
Make sure youre comparing the same loan types, too. How
much you pay in interest and over how long a period will differ
significantly between a typical 30-year, fixed-rate loan, a 15year mortgage or an adjustable-rate mortgage.
When you go fishing for rate quotes do it on the same day.
Thats essential for a proper side-by-side comparison, as rates
can change day to day, altering whats available.
Lenders see the market differently at different times, said
Doug Lebda, founder and CEO of LendingTree. The timing
matters.
3. KEEP AN EYE ON FEES
When you comparison shop for a mortgage focus on the annualized percentage rate, or APR. That includes the interest
rate, which is the cost of borrowing the money, as well as closing costs and additional fees charged by the lender.
Mortgage lenders charge fees for the mortgage brokers
services, credit reports, a home appraisal and title insurance,
among other costs. These are included in the good faith estimate, a form that lenders are required to provide.
Keep in mind that these fees can change until your interest
rate is locked in. Thats when the lender agrees to set the rate
and fees for your loan at the levels they will be when you complete the transaction.
4. NEGOTIATE
The various fees that lenders charge on top of the interest
rate may offer you some room to negotiate a better deal, especially if you have comparable rate quotes from other lenders.
Once you negotiate a reduction in those fees, they are locked
in along with the interest rate, which means youll know exactly how much your loan will cost you.
You wont be able to negotiate a better deal on some of the
other costs, including third-party fees like the appraisal, title
search and taxes, however.
Some lenders itemize various fees. Others may aggregate
everything under one or two fees and call it an origination fee.
Thats one reason its important to have more than one goodfaith estimate when comparing offers.
You want to apply with more than one lender, so that once
you get the good-faith estimate, then you can take a deeper
dive on what the complete terms are, more than just the interest
rate, McBride said.

30-year mortgage rate rises

WASHINGTON (AP)
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week yet
remained near historic lows
reached in May 2013.
Long-term rates resumed
their upward trend of recent
weeks after declining last
week. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday the
national average for a 30-year
fixed-rate mortgage increased
to 3.86 percent from 3.75 percent last week.
The average rate for a 15year mortgage, popular with
homeowners who refinance,
rose to 3.10 percent from 3.03
percent last week.
A year ago, the average 30year mortgage stood at 4.37
percent and the 15-year mortgage at 3.38 percent. Mortgage rates have remained
low even though the Federal
Reserve in October ended
its monthly bond purchases,
which were meant to hold
down long-term rates.
The Fed continues to keep
short-term rates near zero,
while it considers a rate increase as early as June. Ro-

bust U.S. job gains in February, as shown by government

data issued last Friday, appear
to have convinced many investors that the Fed will soon
raise the short-term interest
rate it controls.
The Labor Department reported that employers added a
solid 295,000 jobs last month,
and the unemployment rate
dropped from 5.7 percent to a
seven-year low of 5.5 percent.
To calculate average mortgage rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country at the beginning of each
week. The average doesnt
include extra fees, known as
points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest
rates. One point equals 1 percent of the loan amount.
The average fee for a 30year mortgage was 0.6 point,
unchanged from last week.
The fee for a 15-year mortgage also remained at 0.6
point.
The average rate on a fiveyear adjustable-rate mortgage
rose to 3.01 percent from 2.96
percent.

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A DHI Media publication

AskHamas
STORY OF THE DAY
Twitter
campaign Oil prices on the
backfires
JERUSALEM (AP) A
Twitter hashtag campaign
launched by Hamas on Friday
to build support in the West
seems to be backfiring with
users mocking the Islamic
militant group that rules Gaza.
Hamas launched (hashtag)
AskHamas on Friday. The
campaign promised responses
from the groups leaders, or as
they called it, Truth from the
mouth of the horse.
Some Twitter users swiftly
responded with mockery.
One asked if a masked
Hamas gunman was single
and ready to mingle.
Some criticized Hamas for
hiding weapons and fighters
in civilian areas in its war
last summer with Israel. One
asked Hamas how it chooses
human shields.
The Gaza war left more
than 2,100 Palestinians dead,
the majority of them civilians,
according to Palestinian and
U.N. officials. Israel says the
number of Palestinian fighters
killed was much higher and
accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields and
storing weapons in schools
and hiding gunmen in hospitals. On the Israeli side, 66
soldiers and six civilians were
killed.
A Twitter user whose profile identified her as an Israeli diplomat asked: Given a
choice, is it better to hide a
weapons cache in a hospitals
radiology or pediatrics unit?
Another Tweeter asked:
Now serious question - looking back to summer 2014
was it worth it?
Hamas said the hashtag
campaign was launched so the
militant group could express
its views directly to the world.
Bassem Naim, a Hamas official, said the campaign is a
step by Hamas to introduce it
to the world in new languages,
English, French and German,
on the basis that the source is
a direct Hamas official, not
through mediators or translators.
According to the social
media analytics website Topsy, the AskHamas hashtag
generated 36,000 tweets in a
single day.
Some
tweeters
asked
Hamas about their use of suicide bombers in buses, cafes
and other civilian areas during
the Palestinian Intifada.

way down again

By JONATHAN FAHEy
AP Energy Writer

NEW YORK (AP) The price of oil is tumbling again,

rattling an already-shaken oil industry and heralding lower
prices for consumers.
The price of oil fell 10 percent this week, approaching its
lowest price in six years. Many expect it to fall further in the
coming weeks because supplies are rising and the summer
driving season is still months away.
The lower crude prices will mean gasoline prices will
slide lower in the coming weeks, and many drivers will likely pay under $2 a gallon in the summertime for the first time
since 2004.
Oil prices had appeared to stabilize in a range nearly 15
percent higher than the depths they had reached in late January. But on Friday the International Energy Agency called
a recent rise in oil prices a head fake and a facade of
stability.
The rebalancing (of supply and demand) triggered by
the price collapse has yet to run its course, the agency wrote
in its monthly oil market report.
On Friday, oil fell $2.21, or 5 percent, to $44.84 a barrel, within 40 cents of its low for the year of $44.45. Heres
whats behind the recent drop, and what else to look out for
in the coming months.
FLOOD OF OIL
Oil has collapsed from over $100 because rising global supplies especially in the U.S. outpaced weak demand. The increase in U.S. production last year was the
third-biggest one-year increase in the history of the global
oil industry, according to BP.
That has pushed oil levels in storage to their highest ever
in the U.S. and far higher than normal around the world.
Analysts expect supplies to continue to build, forcing prices
gradually lower, until refiners ramp up to make gasoline for
the summer driving season.
But analysts say price of oil could fall sharply to under

In this Jan. 23, 2015, file photo, vehicles form a

line behind a motorist re-fueling at a gas station,
in Newark, N.J. Oil has fallen close to its lowest
level in 6 years, and many expect it to fall much
further in the coming weeks because supplies are
still heading up and the summer driving season
is still months away. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
$40 a barrel and perhaps even briefly to $20 if supplies
grow so much that storage tanks fill up.
WHAT ABOUT MY GAS PRICE?
Gasoline prices rise nearly every year around this time.
This year has been no different. After reaching a low of
$2.03 a gallon in late January, the national average retail
price rose every day for more than a month, reaching $2.46
on March 7, according to AAA.
But the spring surge is likely over, according to Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
The national average has slipped lower every day for the past
week, falling to $2.44 on Friday, and Kloza expects it to fall
the rest of March and April.
The national average wont fall all the way to its January
low, Kloza said, in part because refiners must still switch to
more expensive summer blends of gasoline to meet clean air
standards.
But he expects drivers in much of the nation, especially
in the South, to be paying less than $2 a gallon at times this
spring and summer.
OIL/16

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan (AP) Call it a preview

of the cross-country road trip
of the future.
An autonomous car developed by Michigan-based auto
supplier Delphi Automotive
will soon be making a 3,500mile journey across the U.S.
A person will sit behind the
wheel at all times but wont
touch it unless theres a situation the car cant handle. The
car will mainly stick to highways.
Companies both inside and
outside the auto industry are
experimenting with technologies that take more and more
responsibilities away from the
driver right up to the act of
actually driving the car. Most
experts say a true driverless
vehicle is at least a decade
away.
Delphi plans to show off
one of several versions of the
car an Audi Q5 crossover
outfitted with laser sensors,
radar and multiple cameras
on Saturday at the South by
Southwest festival in Austin,
Texas. The official car will
start its journey March 22 in
San Francisco and arrive in
New York a little more than a
week later.
The autonomous Audi
warmed up for its long journey by racking up lots of miles
tooling around Delphis Silicon Valley office and taking
a drive from San Francisco to
Los Angeles.

Fallen Marine awarded Silver Star days before deadly crash

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP)
Just four days before he was killed in
a helicopter crash, Staff Sgt. Andrew
Seif was awarded one of the militarys
highest honors for heroism, a commendation he earned for his efforts
to save a mortally wounded friend in
heavy gunfire in Afghanistan.
Seif, 26, was given the Silver Star
in a room full of his fellow Marines,
walking arm in arm with his wife after the ceremony. The boy who grew
up playing soldier in his Michigan
backyard was hailed by one of his
superiors, Maj. Gen. Joseph L. Osterman, as a selfless person who put
himself in the line of fire so that Sgt.
Justin Hansen wouldnt be left behind.
He and Hansen came under heavy
fire as they closed in on a bomb expert in Afghanistan. His comrade was
wounded; Seif moved him to safety,
treated his wounds and fired back. At
the ceremony, he deflected praise.

There are definitely some individuals out there who deserve (the
medal) just as well, Seif said. But
its an honor to accept it on the behalf
of the unit and on behalf of the rest of
the men.
The young Marines story emerged
Friday when the Marines killed in
the crash were publicly identified,
some three days after the crash. The
deceased had been students and husbands, officers and sons.
Four were National Guard soldiers
from Louisiana also were killed,
though they have not been identified.
The Air Force said in a news release that a salvage barge was expected to arrive at the crash site by early
Friday afternoon. The work to haul
the shattered helicopter core from
about 25 feet of water could take up
to eight hours.
During a Friday news conference
at Camp LeJeune, Osterman who
is commander of Marine Corps spe-

cial operations forces said the Marines were flying offshore to practice
rappelling down ropes into the water
and then making for land.
He didnt know whether the Marines were planning to reach shore by
swimming or in small rubber boats,
but the same drill had been practiced
hours earlier during daylight, Osterman said.
They literally had done it hours
before in daylight as part of the rehearsal for being able to do the nighttime operations, which inherently are
more difficult, Osterman said.
The teams of Marines and Army-piloted choppers made a judgment call on whether conditions were
sufficient for the training mission to
go ahead.
Then when they were heading out
to start the mission, they tried to abort
after deciding it was too risky, Osterman said.
Training is part of being ready for

Iraq militia leader hails Irans unconditional support

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) The
U.S. has failed to live up to its
promises to help Iraq fight Islamic State extremists, unlike
the unconditional assistance being given by Iran, the
commander of Iraqs powerful Shiite militias alleged
Friday.
In a battlefield interview
near Tikrit, where Iraqi forces are fighting to retake Saddam Husseins hometown from
the militants of the so-called
Islamic State, commander Hadi al-Amiri criticized
those who kiss the hands of
the Americans and get nothing in return.
Iraqi forces entered Tikrit
for the first time Wednesday
from the north and south.
On Friday, they waged fierce
battles to secure the northern
neighborhood of Qadisiyya
and lobbed mortar shells and
rockets into the city center,
still in the hands of IS militants. Iraqi military officials
have said they expect to reach
central Tikrit in two to three
days.
The Iranian-backed Shiite
militias have played a crucial
role in regaining territory
from the Sunni extremists of
the Islamic State group, supporting Iraqs embattled military and police forces.
An Iraqi government
official told The Associated Press that Iran has sold
Baghdad nearly $10 billion
in arms and hardware, mostly weapons for urban warfare like assault rifles, heavy
machine-guns and rocket
launchers. The official spoke
on condition of anonymity
because he was not autho-

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Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group called Soldiers of Imam Ali Brigades
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Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
rized to brief the media.
In November, President
Barack Obama authorized
the deployment of up to 1,500
more U.S. troops to bolster
Iraqi forces, which could
more than double the total
of American forces in Iraq
to 3,100. The Pentagon has
made a spending request to
Congress of $1.6 billion, focusing on training and arming Kurdish and Iraqi forces.
According to a Pentagon document prepared in November,
the U.S. is looking to provide
an estimated $89.3 million
in weapons and equipment
to each of the nine Iraqi bri-

gades.
The U.S.-led coalition of
eight countries has launched
more than 2,000 airstrikes in
Iraq alone since August 2014,
and the U.S. is also hitting the
militant group from the air in
Syria. Iraqi and U.S. officials
have acknowledged the role
airstrikes have played in rolling back the militants, saying the air campaign was an
essential component in victories at the Mosul Dam, in
Amirli, and more recently, in
the crucial oil refining town
of Beiji.
But the U.S. is not taking
part in the operation in Tikrit,

with U.S. officials saying

they were not asked by Iraq
to participate.
Al-Amiri, the Shiite militia commander who also is
head of the Badr Organization political party, said that
help from Iran is unconditional.
He warned that Iraq
should not sacrifice its sovereignty for the sake of receiving weapons and assistance
from the U.S., suggesting the
Iraqi government is taking instructions from Washington.
Our sovereignty is more
important than U.S. weapons, he said.

high risk operations. The seven Marines were members of the same team
who constantly trained and faced
danger together, he said.
Marine Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, has seen its
members honored for valor and suffering with 19 Silver Star medals, 7
Navy Crosses, 189 Purple Hearts and
207 Bronze Stars, Osterman said.
They really epitomized the silent
warrior and the quiet professional
that is really a hallmark of all the Marines here at MARSOC, Osterman
said of the 2,500 MARSOC troops.
He declined to cite specific instances of heroism or the missions accomplished by other Marines who were
on the doomed chopper.
Like other clandestine services, a
private ceremony remembering the
special operations Marines will be
held in the coming weeks to help surviving family members close the page
on their deaths.

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Protest organizers say more work lies ahead in Ferguson

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) The
protesters who spent eight months
pressing for changes in Fergusons
police practices after the fatal
shooting of Michael Brown take
credit for this weeks resignations
of the city manager and the police
chief.
And they insist they still have
unfinished business, with many
planning to stay in the streets until
the mayor of the St. Louis suburb
is forced out and the entire police
force dissolved.
We will protest until we see
everything in our favor. This movement has legs, Derrick Robinson,
a protest organizer, declared Friday.
Were out here fighting for justice
and equality, and thats what well
continue to fight for.
Part of the movement has also
been channeled into legislative
change. On Wednesday, about two
dozen people from the Dont Shoot
Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union traveled to the
Missouri Capitol in support of the
Fair and Impartial Policing Act, a
measure that would strengthen state

People demonstrate across the street from the Ferguson

Police Department, Thursday, March 12, 2015, in Ferguson,
Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
laws about racial profiling by police
and require law officers to undergo
anti-bias training.
The Justice Department fueled
the sense of achievement among
activists, announcing in a scathing

report last week that it had found

widespread racial bias in the citys
policing and in a municipal court
system driven by profit extracted
from mostly black and low-income
residents.

That same report also cleared

former Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 death of
Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old
who for protesters became a symbol of unjustified use of force and
unfair treatment of minorities by
police.
The Justice Departments conclusions drew a muted response
among activists. Only a few dozen
protesters gathered that night outside Fergusons police station
the nexus of many demonstrations.
That was in sharp contrast to the
throngs that turned out there and
across the nation in the days after
Browns death and in November,
when a Missouri grand jury declined to indict Wilson.
The comparatively sparse turnout raised questions about whether
the movement had lost momentum.
Organizers said the federal governments conclusions had been
expected after some of the findings
were leaked in the weeks before the
formal announcements.
Rasheen Aldridge, a 20-yearold regular at the protests, consid-

oIL

Drug Court

(From page 15)

This
is
something
unique, Kloza says. The
market (decline) is going to
make it so you dont even notice when your local station
switches from winter to summer gas.
WHAT WILL PRODUCERS DO?
Low prices have forced
oil companies to slash spending on new exploration and
production, and forced oil
service companies facing a
slowdown in drilling to lay
off thousands of workers.
When drillers stop sinking
new wells into the ground,
production begins to fall and
prices rise. The number of
rigs operating in the U.S. fell
for the 14th straight week to
their lowest since March of
2011, the oil services company Baker Hughes reported
Friday.
But it is still unclear
whether producers in the
U.S. have cut back enough

(From page 1)
This problem is bad, Burchfield agreed.
This is one of those deals where weve had
people on probation who have died. When I
was in the prosecutors office, three or four
times a year well get a report from the police
saying that the person had been brought back
from death by the squad while their friends
abandon them. Heres what happens: Billy
Bob codes out. Maybe, if hes lucky, one of his
friends has enough conscience to dial 911 and
say Overdose at 15 Elm St. and then everyone runs out the door. When the ambulance
arrives, there is a person on the floor, sometimes with the needle still in his arm, blue.
So drug court was begun around Thanksgiving 2014 with Judge Steele introducing the
effort.
The whole idea of the drug court is you
get people who definitely have drug problems
that contribute to other criminal offenses they
have. They get screened and selected for an intensive treatment program. They are selected
after going through a pretty rigorous selection
process, and it has to be selective because this
will take up an awful lot of their time. During
the first phase, they dont have time to do anything other than drug court, Steele explained.
When they go through the program, the first
16 weeks, they get drug tested every day, they
have to do counseling every day, and also
during that time they go to so many hours of
other community support each week, whether AA, NA, attending church, and doing volunteer work, he continued. The whole idea
there is to start associating with people who
are not the ones they used to associate with
seeing how other people live their lives. The
biggest problem of all is getting them away
from the people theyve been with. In some
cases its family.
Sometimes it requires a new living arrangement, Burchfield added.
The program in Van Wert County is small,
beginning with two people joining in consecutive weeks. Some have given up, while others
have simply slipped up and more have joined.
The program is designed to give a participant
every possible tool so he or she can be successful in kicking the heroin habit. Like any
habit, though, it is a very difficult thing to
break.
Theyre going to relapse, Steele pointed
out. Its heroin. I tell people its like a diet or
quitting smoking, how hard that is, then amplify it 100 times. It gets to the point where
youll do it, even though it might kill you. After all, its might have already killed some of
your friends.
Eventually, after passing phase one, a participant moves on to phase two, which is designed for another 12 weeks. Then its phase
three, 12 more weeks.
Where phase one will keep a participant
busy constantly all day with daily drug tests,
and daily counseling - individual or in groups.
By phase three the judges say the direction
from them will be toward getting their education or a fulltime job or something like that.
The number of drug tests per week is reduced
also.
Steele commented, We always tell them
right at the beginning, Were all on your side.
Well put you in jail if you dont do what you
are supposed to do, but were on your side.
Were all wanting to get you to the same
place.
Aside from a change in the friendships of
addicts, one of the biggest tools is a new drug
called Vivitrol.
Steele explained, Vivitrol is an opiate
blocker that blocks the receptors in your brain
so that heroin and other opiates have no effect
to the point where these people have to wear a
bracelet so if they get injured and have to go to
the emergency room for painkillers, they have
to be given something else, something that
isnt an opiate. They cant give them what they
normally would give them.
This monthly shot is actually quite expensive. The saving grace is that it is paid for
through Medicaid. The only other price relief has been through Westwood Behavioral
and Tri-County Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Board.
The Vivitrol is working. It works. Theyll
tell you it works, shared Steele.
Burchfield remarked, Nobody has the
money for inpatient treatment for a heroin
addict. It would have to be $50-$60,000 for
somebody, Im sure. So this alternative (drug
court) has been developed, and the state is behind it.
The idea is backed by the state, but Steele
and Burchfield found that there were no instructions.

his is something unique. The market

(decline) is going to make it so you
dont even notice when your local station
switches from winter to summer gas.
Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information
Service

to help rebalance supply and

demand. And while some
OPEC members have called
for the cartel to reduce output in an effort to force prices
up, the groups most powerful
member, Saudi Arabia, and
other Gulf states have shown
little interest in cutting back.
Despite the slowdown
in drilling, U.S. production
is still rising because projects started last year are
still ramping up. Many oil
companies say they can still
make money at low prices if
they drill only in their most
cost-effective oil fields. But
those fields are cost-effective
because they produce a lot

of oil, and that means output

might not fall as much as expected.
U.S. production is not expected to start to slip until
June, according to the Energy
Department, and even then
the declines are expected to
be slight. And though U.S.
production is expected to decline every month in the second half of the year, production in December of this year
will still be higher than production during every month
last year.

Jonathan Fahey can be

reached at http://twitter.com/
JonathanFahey .

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ers Ferguson his generations civil-rights movement. That idea, he

said, seemed to gain resonance in
the last week after the killing of an
unarmed biracial man by a white
officer in Madison, Wisconsin, and
the suspension of a University of
Oklahoma fraternity chapter that
was caught on video singing a racist
chant.
Aldridge, head of Young Activists United St. Louis, said he did
not expect the protest movement
to grow into the energy that it has,
empowering young people not to be
silent anymore and to take action
and fix it.
This is the new time to make
changes, added Aldridge, also a
member of the Ferguson Commission, a group tasked by Missouris
governor to address underlying social and economic problems. This
is our time.
In the months after Browns
death, some demonstrations were
marred by looting and arson fires
that targeted businesses. Organizers blamed those incidents on outside agitators.

There is no central training for how to

conduct a drug court, Steele shared. Thats a
failure in the system at this point.
When setting out to find a way to accomplish it, Steele said he and Probation Officer
Bruce Showalter visited the drug courts in
the area to see it done in person. They went
to Mercer County, Hardin County, and Allen
County
Theyre all sort of similar, but theyre all
sort of different, just like any other court I
guess, Steele commented. It just depends on
the personality of the judge.
No drug court has been around for long.
Maybe a year or two, but those usually has
something Van Wert County doesnt have
state funding. The drug court in Van Wert
County is purely a local effort with financial
backing mostly by Westwood and Tri-County.
The first step for drug court is a meeting
of the entire team. Thats the people from
Westwood. We have a drug court coordinator,
Ashley Schott, who was hired by Westwood,
and she coordinates between Westwood counselors, and the probation department, and the
drug testing, Dr. Tom Lautzenheiser who gives
all the shots and provides physicals before they
are given a shot, the judge, the Sheriff. Originally we had folks from the Department of
Job and Family Service in there because they
were the ones who came up with the funding
through Medicaid and made sure people got
funding through that. They take each case and
discuss them one at a time, described Steele.
So far there are a few short-term successes
and some surprising results.
Steele said, One of the first few people
we had in the program was a person we never, ever thought would make it. But we took a
chance and this person has done everything
that shes supposed to do. She has one slip up,
but other than that shes done great. Shell be
the first locally to go to phase two. Shes got a
job now and heading to phase two. Shes going
to be a poster child for drug court if she keeps
it up! And shes the last person in the world
we thought was going to make it, so you never
know!
The judges also have one man in drug court
with about 115 days of sobriety after more
than 35 years of substance abuse. And hes
really proud of it! Showalter exclaimed. He
wants to be off of it.
Another one went more than 100 days
without drugs, fell off the wagon, then got
back on and is doing great again. While not
every story is a shining success, the program
is just a few months old, and kicking heroin is
hard work.
The public needs to understand that
were going to put people in drug court that
if all we cared about was 100 percent success
rate, we wouldnt put them in there, Burchfield said. We wouldnt draft any projects,
we would only draft all-stars. Theres going
to be some people wash out. But if there were
three people that we wouldnt take because
we thought theyd all fail, but one of those
three makes it, then it was worth the two that
failed.
The fight against heroin is an endurance
race, not a short sprint.
This is a long-term game, reminded
Burchfield. There are 80 years of family life
affected by what were doing in there. Thats
why I think its worth it. I dont think anybody
has rose-colored glasses. I dont think anybody believes that everything is going to be
successful. We have to be reasonable.
Steele admitted the progress and failure cycle can be frustrating.
Theyll do everything right for a month or
two, then theyll fall off the wagon. Im as disappointed as they are.
He noted the participants here and in other
counties really want to impress the judge.
If they screw up, they feel bad about it. I
think they feel theyre disappointing us. They
want to impress the judge the most, but theyll
also lie to you sometimes, Steele cautioned.
But we want to keep encouraging these people. We dont want to make it miserable for
them, because theyll quit. We do everything
we can to keep them wanting to move forward.
But you do have to maintain your rules,
Burchfield pointed out. But most of them understand that. Its interesting, they know.
No one has graduated from the program
yet, but along the way Showalter noted what
he sees changing in the successful participants.
Attitudes, he declared. When they are
sober for a while, their attitude changes. They
start feeling more positive. They start being
more responsible about things.