The Commercial Review Monday, June 29, 2015

Monday, June 29, 2015
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Dunkirk
resident
dies in
accident
Under water again
The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney
Twelve-year-old Cameron Miller pushes a bicycle through flood waters Saturday on Wayne Street near East Jay
Middle School in Portland. Areas of Jay County were under water for the second time in 10 days Saturday, with Meridian
Street (U.S. 27) in downtown Portland closed for about 18 hours beginning shortly after 5 a.m.
City floods for second time in 10 days
By KATHRYNE RUBRIGHT
The Commercial Review
For the second time in 10
days, Portland was under
water Saturday.
Meridian Street in downtown Portland was closed for
about 18 hours Saturday after
as much as 4 inches of rain
fell in some areas of the county. Other roads throughout the
county were also closed
because of flooding, and two
vehicles were stranded in high
water.
The forecast calls for up to
1.25 inches of rain tonight and
Tuesday.
Heavy rain fell overnight
Friday, and shortly after 5 a.m.
Saturday Meridian Street was
closed between Main and Race
streets. Around the same time,
city officials, business owners
and Jay County Jail inmates
began filling sandbags at the
street department for use
around buildings downtown.
Meridian remained underwater much of the day, reopening around 11 p.m. Saturday.
Side streets including High
and Walnut streets were also
underwater.
Division Road was closed for
about five hours Saturday
afternoon from Morton Street
in Portland to county road 300
East because of high water.
U.S. 27 was briefly closed Saturday night near county road
500 North while power lines
were cleared from the road.
Though law enforcement
officials asked drivers to turn
around rather than attempting to drive through high
water, two drivers needed to be
rescued from their cars when
they became stuck in flooded
areas over the weekend.
Harvey Shrack, 13821 E. 1100
North, rural Dunkirk, was
stuck in deep water on Indiana 1 just north of county
road 200 South. He did not
have a cell phone to call for
help, and stayed in the water
for about half an hour Saturday afternoon before residents
noticed him, said Jay County
Sheriff ’s Office chief deputy
Rob Bicknell.
See Water page 5
A rural Dunkirk man
died Saturday following an
accident Friday afternoon
on Indiana 1.
Paul Isch, 72, was southbound on Indiana 1 in a
1997 Buick when the vehicle left the west wide of the
road. The Buick struck
mailboxes at 8270 and 8266
N. Indiana 1 before going up
an embankment north of
the driveway at the second
address.
The car left the ground
and rotated 90 degrees, said
State Trooper Anthony
Repass, who witnessed the
accident while driving
north on Indiana 1. When
the Buick landed, it rolled
over twice.
Repass found Isch had a
head injury and was unresponsive. He was wearing a
seat belt at the time of the
accident.
Because of damage to the
vehicle, Repass could not
get inside. Pennville Fire
Department arrived a few
minutes later and removed
Isch frm the Buick.
Isch was taken by helicopter to Lutheran Hospital
in Fort Wayne. He died
there on Saturday.
Funeral arrangements
are pending at Baird-Freeman Funeral Home in Portland.
The incident marked the
fourth fatal accident in Jay
County or involving Jay
County residents this
month. Samuel Huber, 16,
Celina, Ohio, died June 11
in a crash on Indiana 18
west of Bryant. Julie
DeHoff, 40, Portland, was
killed in an accident June
13 in Wells County, and her
daughter, Lexie Gierhart,
20, Portland, died June 15 as
a result of injuries from the
same accident. Lindsay
Wenk, 27, Portland, died
June 16 after her vehicle
collided with a semi on U.S.
27 north of Winchester.
Second prison escapee caught in N.Y.
By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
MALONE, N.Y. — The
escaped murderer who was
shot by a state trooper near the
Canadian border is in “critical
but stable” condition at an
Albany hospital, New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today.
Cuomo told CNN that David
Sweat’s condition initially was
listed in stable condition but
was downgraded to critical
after being flown to Albany
Medical Center on Sunday
night.
Sweat is one of two prisoners who escaped from a maximum-security New York prison
three weeks ago.
The other escapee, Richard
Matt, was killed in a confrontation with law enforcement on
Friday.
Cuomo said Sweat had a bag
containing maps, tools, bug
Greeks swarm
closed branches
By ELENA BECATOROS
and COSTAS KANTOURIS
Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece —
Anxious Greek pensioners swarmed closed bank
branches today in the
hope of getting their pensions,
while
queues
formed at ATMs as they
gradually began dispensing cash again following
the imposition of strict
controls on capital.
As global markets
plunged following one of
the most dramatic weekends in Greece’s five-year
financial saga, the country woke up to a changed
financial landscape that
many in the markets fear
could be a prelude to a
Deaths
Jack Blowers, 84 Bryant
Details on page 2.
messy debt default and a
damaging Greek exit
from the euro.
The banks and the
country’s stock market
have been closed for the
week after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ surprise call for a referendum next Sunday on
budget and reform proposals
creditors
are
demanding
Greece
should take to gain
access to blocked bailout
funds.
Tsipras is advocating
Greeks reject the proposals in the popular vote,
which increasingly has
the look of a vote on euro
membership itself.
See S war m page 2
repellent and Pop Tarts when
he was shot twice by Sgt. Jay
Cook on Sunday afternoon in a
farm field less than two miles
from the border in Constable,
New York.
The daring escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in
Dannemora was “done with
facilitators, it was done with
cooperators,” Cuomo said.
“This was ‘Cool Hand Luke’
meets ‘Shawshank Redemp-
tion,” he said on MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe.”
Some of the same state
troopers who’d been hunting
down the convicts since their
escape
found
themselves
scrambling to get the lone survivor to a hospital, hoping to
make him well enough to share
the tale of how the pair managed to escape and stay on the
run for so long.
Sweat, 35, was shot and cap-
tured Sunday afternoon when
a single state police sergeant
spotted a suspicious man walking on a rural road in Constable, near the Canadian border.
His capture came two days
after Matt was killed in Malone, just south of Constable,
while holding a shotgun. Sweat
was unarmed when he was
shot twice by Sgt. Jay Cook as
the fugitive ran for a tree line.
See N.Y. page 5
Queen
crowned
Andrea Bruggeman
was crowned Miss Jay
County Fair Queen at
the pageant Sunday at
Jay
County
High
School.
Pictured,
pageant director Julie
Hunt and 2014 queen
Abby
Muhlenkamp
help Bruggeman with
her crown. Michelle
Wellman was first
runner-up,
Abigail
Johnson was second
runner-up and Miss
Congeniality
and
Laurann Schoenlein
was third runner-up.
The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney
Weather
In review
Portland had a high temperature of 76 degrees Sunday.
The overnight low was 62.
Tonight’s low will be 62, and
rain is expected to continue
through Tuesday. This high
Tuesday will be 77.
For an extended forecast,
see page 2.
The Jay County Democratic
Party has slated David L.
Cramer to run for the District
I seat on Portland City Council. Cramer will run against
incumbent Republican Bill
Gibson, who was unopposed in
the primary. The deadline to
file to run in the November
general election is noon Tuesday.
Coming up
Tu esday — Dunkirk has
turned in its final application
book for Indiana’s Stellar
Communities program.
Thursday — Children are
creating a parade float as part
of an Arts in the Parks program.
Local
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The Commercial Review
Monday, June 29, 2015
Capsule Reports
Special to The Commercial Review/Debi Gillespie
Building dedicated
A ceremony was held Sunday at Jay County Fairgrounds to dedicate the new Marion and
Irene Bubp Exhibition Hall. Pictured is the Jay County Fair Board of Directors in front of the new
facility.
Overcorrection
Turning accident
A Portland driver was
involved in an accident
after swerving to avoid an
object in the roadway Saturday.
William H. Zorn, 39,
4219 E. 600 South, was
driving south on county
road 700 East and swerved
to miss a cage in the road
as he approached county
road 100 North. After
swerving to the right, he
overcorrected and went
off the east side of the
road.
His 2006 Chevrolet Silverado flipped on its top
and came to rest in a ditch.
Damage in the 4:28 p.m.
accident was estimated
between
$5,001
and
$10,000.
Two Portland drivers
were involved in an accident at 2:34 p.m. Sunday
on Meridian Street in
Portland.
Jack W. Batt, 65, 3532 E.
Indiana 26, was northbound on Meridian Street
in his 2012 Chrysler Town
and
Country
before
attempting to turn left
into the parking lot of
Walgreens, 124 W. Votaw
St.
The Town and Country
struck the front of Beth
A. Grigsby’s 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer, which was
southbound on Meridian
Street.
Damage in the accident
was estimated between
$1,001 and $2,500.
No new target date for Iran nuclear talks
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Negotiators trying to rein in Iran’s
nuclear program have decided
not to set a new target date to
conclude talks, France’s foreign
minister said today, and he
warned that if an agreement
isn’t “very robust” other countries in the Middle East will
to
develop
nuclear
seek
weapons.
“We
have
made
some
progress, but still it is not the
end of the process,” Laurent
Fabius told a group of
reporters, stressing that all parties have adopted the principle
that “nothing is agreed until the
moment when everything is
agreed.”
Fabius said the negotiators
decided Sunday that the talks
will go past their Tuesday target
date to wait for answers to outstanding questions. He said he
expects foreign ministers from
the seven countries to return to
Vienna this week.
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov will arrive in
Vienna on Tuesday and will
meet with U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif also is expected in
Vienna on Tuesday.
The United States and its
Western allies believe Iran is
seeking to build nuclear
weapons. Iran insists its nuclear
program is purely peaceful, to
produce nuclear energy.
Fabius said that for France,
which is widely viewed as taking a hardline position in the
talks, there are three conditions
that must be met:
•Limitations
on
Iranian
nuclear research and production where “some progress has
been made but it still has to be
completely agreed.”
•The International Atomic
Energy Agency, the U.N.’s
nuclear watchdog, must be able
to verify any agreement.
•If there is an agreement,
sanctions on Iran will be lifted,
CR almanac Obituaries
A veteran of the
The following obituary is being
republished to include a photo.
United States Navy,
was
a
selfhe
Jack Blowers
employed
carpenter
July 10, 1930-June 25, 2015
Jack L. Blowers, 84, 5443 W. 800 and electrician.
Surviving in addiNorth, Bryant, died June 25 at Persimmon Ridge Rehabilitation Cen- tion to his wife are a
son, William Blowers
ter in Portland.
Blowers
Born in Allen County to Everett (wife: Sandi), Bryant;
and Ruth (Buckey) Blowers, he was a daughter, Judy Balu
(husband: Brian), Houston, Texas; a
a graduate of Poling High School.
He married Shirley Weaver on brother, Max Blowers, Bryant; a sister, Grace Smith, Hope; three grandOct. 4, 1952, and she survives.
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Estimated
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Poker Lotto: QC-JDKD-10C-8H
Pick 4: 1-8-4-5
Pick 5: 6-0-7-3-3
Evening
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Rolling Cash 5: 7-8-2836-38
Estimated
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$120,000
Sunday
Midday
Pick 3: 1-2-1
Pick 4: 1-8-4-5
Pick 5: 5-6-5-9-3
Evening
Pick 3: 5-9-7
Pick 4: 4-7-5-2
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Estimated
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Mega Millions
Estimated
$74 million
jackpot:
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Saturday
Midday
Pick 3: 1-2-1
Powerball
Estimated
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jackpot:
Hospitals
Jay County
Hospital
Portland
Admissions
There
were
two
admissions to the hospital over the weekend,
including:
Dunkirk – Cathy
Gillette
Dismissals
There were three dismissals, including:
Portland – Samuel
Glessner
Emergencies
There were 58 people
treated in the emergency rooms of JCH,
including:
Portland – Alex Batt,
Brandy Foster, Tammy
Mills, James Gilbert,
Lucas Hendee
Bryant – Trixie Gambill, Jeromy Weaver
Geneva – Danielle
Ingram
Citizen’s calendar
Wednesday
Monday, July 6
7 a.m. — Jay County
Board of Health, health
department office, 504
W. Arch St., Portland.
9 a.m. — Jay County
Commissioners, commissioners’ room, Jay
County Courthouse, 120
N. Court St., Portland.
5:30 p.m. — Portland
City Council, council
chambers, fire station,
1616 N. Franklin St.,
Portland.
Thursday
10 a.m. — Portland
Board
of
Works,
mayor’s office, city hall,
321 N. Meridian St.
Weather courtesy of American Profile Hometown Content Service
but if it is not implemented
there will be “a snapback mechanism” that will automatically
bring back sanctions, “and we
are discussing that.”
Fabius said the Iranians have
specific questions about how the
lifting of sanctions will work
“and some other elements.” He
said the six major powers negotiating with Iran — the U.S.,
Russia, China, Britain, France
and Germany — are also “asking some precision,” but he did
not elaborate.
children and three great-grandchildren.
Services are 1 p.m. Thursday at
Baird-Freeman Funeral Home in
Portland with Pastor Mike Morgan
officiating. Burial will be in Gravel
Hill Cemetery, Bryant.
Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday
at the funeral home.
Memorials may be sent to the Jay
County Cancer Society. Online condolences may be expressed at
http://www.bairdfreeman.com.
Swarm...
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The sense of unease was
evident in the number of
pensioners lining up at
bank branches hoping
they might open. Many
elderly Greeks don’t have
bank cards and make
withdrawals in person at
the till, and so find themselves completely cut off
from their money. One of
the most onerous controls
is a daily limit of 60 euros
($67) on cash withdrawals
from ATMs.
“I came here at 4 a.m.
because I have to get my
pension,” said 74-year-old
Anastasios Gevelidis, one
of about 100 retirees waiting outside the main
branch of National Bank
of Greece in the country’s
second largest city of
Thessaloniki.
“I don’t have a card, I
don’t know what’s going
on, we don’t even have
enough money to buy
bread,” he said. “Nobody
knows anything. A bank
employee came out at 8
a.m. and told us ‘you’re
not going to get any
money,’ but we’re hearing
that 70 branches will
open.”
The finance ministry
said the manner in which
pensions would be paid
would be announced later
this afternoon.
Deputy Minister of
State Terence Quick said
special
arrangements
would be made for pensions, telling private
Antenna television that
pensions would be dispensed in full as many
pensioners don’t have
bank cards.
The daily withdrawal
limit wouldn’t be enough
to cover many basic necessities. “What can I do first
with 60 euros? I owe 150
just to the pharmacy,”
Gevelidis said.
The capital controls are
meant to staunch the flow
of money out of Greek
banks and spur the country’s creditors to offer concessions before Greece’s
international bailout program expires Tuesday.
Without a deal to extend
the bailout program,
Greece will lose access to
the remaining 7.2 billion
euros ($8.1 billion) of rescue loans, and is unlikely
to be able to meet a 1.6 billion-euro debt repayment
to the International Monetary Fund due the same
day.
The accelerating crisis
has thrown into question
Greece’s financial future
Felony arrests
Battery
A Portland man was
arrested Sunday for battery, a Level 6 felony.
Jeremy W. Kelly, 816 E.
Race St., was arrested for
battery as well as Class A
misdemeanor charges of
operating a vehicle while
intoxicated and resisting
an officer. He was also
arrested on a Class B misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana and
failure to stop after an
accident, a Class C misdemeanor.
He was arrested and
booked at 8:40 p.m. into
Jay County Jail, where he
remains under $22,500
bond.
and continued membership in the 19-nation
shared euro currency —
and even the 28-country
European Union.
Investors around the
world are worried that
should Greece leave the
euro and say it can’t pay
its debts, which stand at
more than 300 billion
euros, the global economic
recovery could be derailed
and questions would grow
over the long-term viability of the euro currency
itself.
“The images of queues
at ATMs in Greece are
stripping traders of what
little confidence they have
left in the nation, and the
financial earthquake that
happened in the eurozone
over the weekend can be
felt around the world,”
said David Madden, market analyst at IG.
Among the major markets in Europe, the CAC-40
stock index in France was
down 3.6 percent at 4,877
while Germany’s DAX fell
3.5 percent to 11,088.
Aside from developments at the banks in
Greece, massive queues
formed at gas stations,
with worried motorists
seeking to fill up their
tanks and pay with credit
cards while they were still
being accepted.
Although credit and
cash card transactions
have not been restricted,
many retailers were not
accepting card transactions this morning.
Electronic transfers and
bill payments are allowed,
but only within the country.
The government also
stressed the controls
would not affect foreign
tourists, who would have
no limits on cash withdrawals with foreign bank
cards.
For emergency needs,
such as importing medicines or sending remittances abroad, the Greek
Treasury was creating a
Banking
Transactions
Approval Committee to
examine requests on a
case-by-case basis.
Tsipras announced the
capital controls in a televised address Sunday
night,
blaming
the
eurogroup, the gathering
of the eurozone’s finance
ministers, and its decision
to reject an extension
request for the bailout program.
He has asked again for
the extension to allow for
the referendum.
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Monday, June 29, 2015
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She is thankful for day of sunshine
By DIANA DOLECKI
Special to The Commercial Review
Once again we have escaped
disaster. Twice this month the
river has swollen and overflowed. Twice this month the
backyard has been under water.
The house has remained blessedly dry both times.
I spent most of Saturday
walking back and forth to the
river and worrying. When our
intersection flooded I became
even more concerned. Instead
of my usual grocery run, I
walked over to the local meat
market. It was easier to walk, as
the street was flooded.
I took one last look at the river
shortly before bedtime. The
intersection was almost dry. The
water appeared to be an inch or
two lower than the last time I
had checked. The backyard was
still a pond.
By Sunday morning the pond
As I
See It
had become a puddle. The intersection was completely dry. The
river was back within its banks.
I heaved a sigh of relief.
I realize that everyone may
not have been so lucky. I also
realize that the next time it
might be our turn to clean up
the damage a flood can do. We
have done that once before and I
have no desire to do it again.
Today I am grateful that the
sun is shining and the threat of
flooding has diminished. I can
go back to trying to decide what,
if anything, I should do about
my mother. She has discovered
that someone has been pilfering
change from her change jar. She
doesn’t know when this happened. She doesn’t know how
much change she had saved. All
she knows is that there isn’t as
much as she had before.
There have been so many
caregivers, therapists and others who have been in and out of
her house that it is impossible to
say that any particular person is
the culprit. It is impossible to
know if she, herself, had decided to relocate the money and forgot that she did it or where she
put it. There is no way of knowing for sure what has happened.
That is a chance I knew we
were taking when I talked her
into letting people help her. She
can no longer do many household tasks on her own. I feel
more comfortable when I know
someone is checking on her on a
regular basis, and if that some-
one also does a bit of housework, all the better.
I am trying my best to keep
her in her own home as long as
possible. But when she calls me
and tells me something has gone
wrong, I question my choices. It
seems that every time she calls,
she tells me how terrible the
world is.
I try to dispel that belief by
telling her that my lilies are
blooming or that the raspberries are ripe. I don’t tell her
about the kind man who gave
me an entire quart of raspberries because I don’t want to listen to her warnings that the
man is dangerous or the berries
are poisoned. The fact that the
gentleman was a perfectly nice
guy and the berries delicious, is
beside the point.
She is convinced that the
world is a terrible place. I try to
dissuade her, but she will not
believe me. I push the worry to
the back of my mind. I look out
the window at the sun and shadows on the wonderfully dry
grass and am grateful that the
rain has stopped. I am thankful
that I live in a place where I only
have to worry about a bit of
water damage and some missing
coins.
It could be so much worse. We
could live in California and be
in the middle of a drought. We
could live in a war torn country.
We could be in the middle of a
famine. We could be dying, with
no hope of recovery. So many
things could be wrong. Our worries are so small in comparison
to what others experience.
For now, I intend to enjoy this
sunny day and perhaps take a
peek at a river that isn’t nearly
as deep as it was yesterday. I’ll
worry about my mother some
other day.
Family meeting is
place to talk chores
DEAR ABBY: My son is
being deployed for 10
months. His wife and baby
are coming to live with me,
and I am thrilled.
My concern is that his
wife is a picky eater and
she doesn’t do much
around the house. Would it
be too much to ask her to
help with the chores while
my husband and I are at
work? How do I handle the
mealtime dilemma? (She
doesn’t cook.)
I don’t want her to feel
like she’s our live-in maid
or that we’re mean about
the meals we prepare. We
want to be the best in-laws
we can be. Help? — MEANING WELL IN THE EAST
D EAR
MEANING
WELL: After your daughter-in-law arrives, schedule
a f amily meeting during
which everyone’s household responsibilities will
be discussed. If necessary,
create a chart to keep track
of them. If there are things
she is able to do, assign
them to her. If she’s clueless, then teach her. Do not
overload her, and make
sure she understands that
you and your husband also
have chores you will be
doing.
Because she’s a picky
eater, ask her to list what
items she wants in the
Dear
Abby
house so they are available.
If she’s interested, offer to
show her how to prepare
some of the dishes your
son has always enjoyed
because it would be a nice
surprise for him once he
returns. And arrange regular monthly meetings, so
that if adjustments need to
be made, they can be done
without hurt feelings or
misunderstandings.
You are all adults. If you
want this to work and are
all willing to communicate
and listen, you should be
able to accomplish your
goal without your daughter-in-law feeling like the
maid.
DEAR ABBY: My daughter and her husband are
taking their three boys to
Europe for five weeks. The
13-year-old has been acting
out. He has been rude to his
school bus driver, disrespectful to his mother, was
the “class clown,” and
shows all the signs of an
uncomfortable pubescent
boy without a safety net to
catch him.
We are two states apart,
so it would be difficult to
lend a hand. My grandsons
are very close to me, and
there are lots of tears when
they leave Grandma.
I taught inner-city school
for 20 years and have often
told my daughter how
important consistency is.
This precious boy is pleading for attention the wrong
way. The other two boys,
ages 9 and 12, are not problematic kids.
My fear is that the 13year-old is not ready or
mature enough to handle
five weeks in Europe, and
not disciplined enough to
keep his cool. He is capable
of a caper that may lead to
his disappearance.
Am I crazy to be this concerned? I have told my
daughter my thoughts, but
she is the mother, so I am
treading lightly. — WORRYING IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR WORRYING: Are
you “crazy”? No. You are a
loving, caring grandmother who is worried about
her grandson. But regardless of how well-meaning
you are, this isn’t your decision to make. If you have
shared your thoughts with
your daughter, you have
done as much as you can.
Photo provided
Triple donation
The Breakfast Optimist Club of Portland recently donated
$1,000 to the building fund for the addition to the Jay County Historical
Society Museum. They also gave $500 for the Heritage Festival and
the museum. Pictured from left are Larry Hiatt, Kay Locker and David
Nixon.
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every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
PREGNANCY
CARE
CENTER of Jay County —
Free pregnancy testing
with ongoing support during and after pregnancy.
The center is located at 216
S. Meridian St., Portland.
Hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For
more information or an
appointment, call (260) 7268636. Appointments or
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BREAD OF LIFE COMMUNITY FAMILY MEAL
— Will be served from 5:30
to 6:30 p.m. at Asbury United Methodist Church, 204
E. Arch St. in Portland.
Everyone is welcome.
TAKE OFF POUNDS
SENSIBLY (TOPS) — Will
meet for weigh-in at 5:30
p.m., with the meeting at 6
p.m., in the fellowship hall
at Evangelical Methodist
Church, 930 W. Main St.,
Portland. New members
welcome. For more information, call (260) 726-5312.
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BRYANT COMMUNITY
CENTER EUCHRE — Will
be played at 1 p.m. each
Tuesday. The public is welcome.
Wednesday
WEDNESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CLUB
— Will meet at 8 a.m. in the
east room of Richards
Restaurant. All women are
invited to attend. Includes
activities and devotional
time.
PORTLAND ROTARY
CLUB — Will meet at noon
each Wednesday at Harmony Cafe, 121 N. Meridian
St.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS — Will meet from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. each
Wednesday upstairs at
True Value Hardware,
North Meridian Street,
Portland. For more information, call (260) 729-2532.
AL-ANON
FAMILY
GROUP — New Beginnings, a support group for
friends and families of
alcoholics, the group will
meet at 6:30 p.m. each
Wednesday in the Zion
Lutheran Church, 218 E.
High St., Portland. For
more information, call
(260) 726-8229.
PENNVILLE
FAIR
BOARD — Will meet at 7
p.m. the first Wednesday
of each month at the Pennville Community Center.
Thursday
STITCH ‘N CHATTER
QUILT CLUB — Will meet
at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at
Church of the Brethren,
Portland, for a lesson on
making a flower using the
raw applique method. For
needed supplies, call (260)
726-2705 or (765) 768-7499.
Work will continue on the
service quilt. Regular
meeting is at 1 p.m. New
members are welcome.
CELEBRATE RECOVERY — A 12-step Christian
recovery program, the
group will meet at 10 a.m.
and 6:30 p.m. each Thursday at A Second Chance At
Life Ministries, 109 S.
Commerce St. in Portland.
For more information, call
Judy Smith at (260) 7269187 or Dave Keen at (260)
335-2152.
SENIOR
CITIZENS
CARD CLUB — Will meet
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at 12:30 p.m. the first and
third Thursday of the
month at Jay Community
Center. All seniors are welcome.
RANDOLPH COUNTY
TEA PARTY — Will meet
at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at
the Moose Lodge, 181 N.
Middle School Road in
Winchester.
PORTLAND
LIONS
CLUB — Will meet the first
Thursday of the month at
Portland Lions Civic Center, 307 W. 100 North. The
meal will be served at 6:30
p.m. and the meeting will
begin at 7 p.m.
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Little things can improve the world
To the editor:
Since my dad passed away
almost 10 years ago, every
Father’s Day I give thought
back to my childhood and how
different our society as a whole
was when I was growing up.
It made me sad and melancholy as even my daughters
who are adults now did not get
to experience the wonderful
world of growing up the way I
did. I was definitely not the
perfect child (got that in there
for you mom) nor did I have
what most would call the perfect childhood, but it was perfect to me. Probably one of the
best things my parents taught
me was to be kind to everyone
— never make an enemy, as a
friend may be needed one day. I
am not so naïve to believe that
I don’t have a few out there.
I have memories both bad
and good that I can treasure for
Letters to
the Editor
a lifetime. Flashlight tag and
out until almost midnight on
the
weekends
with
“friend/family”
from
the
neighborhood, carpooling to
school (even without seatbelts), riding the bike to the
park for games whether or not
you were playing in them,
eight to 10 close friends riding
in a pickup truck shell so we
could all go to the movies and
laugh, sledding at the overpass, a friendly snowball
fight/flag football in the field
behind moms house or just taking a quarter to the dime store
to spend because it was burning a hole in my pocket. We
may not have been in our parents’ sight, but our parents
knew where we were at all
times because somebody was
watching us within our community family. We had a blast
and never once worried about
violence or hatred.
Speaking of community family, in church this week we
were reminded that as a community we should be family.
Our community has lost several people within the last yearplus who had so much to give
and yet no time to give it. My
nephew Dustin Quakenbush
and his cousin Stephen Sain
were two of those people.
Recently the inaugural Quake
Show happened to raise scholarship money for Dustin’s
graduating class. He would
have been the first one there to
help. He was not perfect, but to
us he was.
In the news, world as well as
local, question what is happening in our society. If you
haven’t heard you are living in
a dream world. What happened
to people being able to get
along and relate to one another
as human beings? People, we
are what is happening to society. You as an individual control
what comes out of your mouth.
If you spew hatred, that is
what will return; if you spew
gossip/contempt, that is what
will return. We are the one’s
responsible for creating and
nurturing those who will outlive us and carry on. What
kind of memories are you helping create for them? Violence,
drugs, hate, fear?
I guess what it comes down
to is kindness. A simple smile,
a wave, holding the door for
someone or even the acknowledgment that someone is there
may make all the difference to
that one person who may be
not having the best day. I mean
doing this even if your day is
not going as you expected. I
know it won’t cure all the woes
of the world but it may make
that one difference for that one
person.
I for one am going to do my
very best to make sure to live
everyday like it is my last
because you never know when
that is and I hope that someday
my children, grandchildren
and so on will only have fond
memories of me. Never judge a
book by its cover because you
don’t know the story it holds
inside.
“Be the change you wish to
see in the world” — Gandhi
Misty Clark
Portland
It’s tough to find a
good job in Indiana
By MORTON J. MARCUS
Everyone has advice to
give on how to get a job
and what kind of job to
get.
Some advice is geographic: “Go West, young
man.”
Some is industry specific: “One word – plastics.”
Some is biological:
“Follow your nose.”
Other advice is spiritual: “Follow your dream,
your karma, your destiny.”
I thought I’d try my
hand at this too. Instead
of enjoying the delightful
weather, I constructed a
complex index based on
three common sense factors and questionable
data.
First, the factors:
•How much does the job
pay?
•How fast are the average earnings growing?
•How fast is the number of jobs increasing?
Second, the data —
these are embarrassing,
but weak data do not
seem to bother other
advice givers:
•For rates of change, I
used the simple percent
change in values, unadjusted
for
inflation,
between 2000 and 2013.
•All data are from the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the states and
the nation.
•Average earnings per
job for 2013 are not the
likely earnings of a person seeking employment
with no experience.
•The past is no guarantee of future performance — think about oil
prices and the boom/bust
of that industry.
•All indices are questionable; rankings don’t
tell you how close the
competitors are.
Nonetheless, here is
my advice in brief: If you
are looking for a job, Indiana is the fourth-worst
state in which to do it.
Only Missouri, Michigan, and Mississippi are
worse. The oil states
(North Dakota, Alaska
and Wyoming) were best,
but times have changed.
More likely places to look
are Maryland, Virginia
and Texas.
If we throw out mining, because of the oil
field turmoil and the likely problems for coal production, we find management of companies and
enterprises as the best
prospect nationally. But
Eye
on the
Pie
... the best
bets are
health care,
professional
and technical
services,
plus utilities.
how are you going to
walk in and become a
manager if you don’t
have experience? My data
won’t help you.
On the national scene,
the worst prospects are
in retail trade, real estate
and accommodations and
food services. Low wages,
slow growth in wages and
the number of jobs make
those three unattractive
options.
If you insist on staying
in Indiana, the best bets
are health care, professional and technical services, plus utilities. The
last of these has the highest earnings per job in
the state and a very fine
rate of earnings growth,
but a low rate of job
growth. It might be tough
to get a job in this sector
unless you are very
patient climbing the ladder.
As in the national case,
Indiana’s worst jobs are
in retail trade and real
estate, but that does not
mean every job in those
fields is bad. Again, experience and patience pay
off. Add to that list arts,
entertainment and recreation, which offer low
pay, weak job growth and
very
slow
earnings
growth.
Although this advice is
based on statistical evidence rather than thumbsucking speculation, its
value may not be worth
the proverbial grain of
salt.
••••••••••
Marcus is an economist,
writer, and speaker who
may be reached at [email protected].
Price of clarity is steep
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
Tribune Content Agency
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after
they’ve tried everything else.”
That’s an observation widely
credited to Winston Churchill,
though it’s one he may or may not
have ever made.
Whoever said it, the truth of the
axiom has seldom been more obvious than now, as we watch the fall
of the Confederate battle flag. It is
too early to say whether this will
prove lasting. But the signs certainly point toward a seismic shift.
In South Carolina, where the
Confederacy was born, a motion to
allow debate on removing the flag
from the grounds of the state Capitol passed by a vote of 103-10. Alabama has already removed its flag.
Meantime, a number of major
retailers, including Amazon, eBay
and Arkansas-based Walmart,
have announced they will no
longer carry the flag. Perhaps
most amazing, Valley Forge Flag, a
133-year-old flag maker in Pennsylvania, has said it will no longer
manufacture it.
We appear to be on the verge of a
long overdue national consensus
that this American swastika is
unfit for human consumption. And
to think: All it took was the blood
of nine innocent people.
Ever since 21-year-old white
supremacist Dylann Roof shot up
Emanuel
AME
Church
in
Charleston, the ground has been
shifting beneath that flag, so
beloved of the white, conservative
South — especially after images
emerged of Roof posing with one.
“God help South Carolina if we
Leonard
Pitts Jr.
fail to achieve the goal of removing the flag,” said South Carolina
senator and presidential aspirant
Lindsey Graham last week. He
said this just days after telling
CNN the flag was “part of who we
are.”
The suddenness of the change in
attitude toward that flag is bracing, reminiscent, in an odd way, of
when the Berlin Wall fell: Nobody
saw it coming — it happened. That
said, it is hard to be wholly invested in cheering what is happening
here.
Consider: The Confederate battle flag was not somehow made
more racist by Roof ’s alleged rampage.
Notwithstanding claims by Graham and others that it has somehow been misused as a racist symbol by the likes of Roof, the fact is,
the thing was used as such from
the moment the first thread of the
first flag was sewn in support of a
treasonous regime that was, to
borrow Mississippi’s words, “thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery.”
The flag was certainly understood as racist — that was the
whole point — by those who resurrected it to signal massive resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.
It is still understood that way; why
else is it ubiquitous at white
supremacist rallies?
So what happened at Emanuel did
not change the flag’s meaning; it
only made that meaning harder to
ignore. And while its fall is significant, you have to wonder if it really
marks a fundamental change in the
mind of the white, conservative
South. Particularly since you can’t
turn around in Dixie without running into some road, bridge, statue
or park honoring some individual
who took up arms against the U.S.
government in the name of perpetuating slavery — or without meeting
someone eager to rationalize that,
hiding behind abstracts like
“honor” and “duty” to avoid admitting what the Confederacy really
was.
The tragedy at Emanuel has
forced a moment of clarity into this
fog of cognitive dissonance. In days
to come, we’ll see just how much
that’s worth in terms of real change.
Because at some point, the people of
the white, conservative South must
themselves take responsibility for
their own racial education, for facing — and growing from — the truth
about their beloved Confederacy.
Consider that it took an act of
mass murder before they were willing to reckon honestly with their
flag and its meaning. Yes, one is
pleased to see that finally come to
pass.
But the price of enlightenment
seems awfully high.
••••••••••
Pitts is a columnist for The Miami
Herald. He won a Pulitzer Prize for
Commentary in 2004. Readers may
contact him via e-mail at
[email protected].
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The men had been on
the loose since June 6,
when they cut their way
out of the prison in Dannemora, about 30 miles
from Malone, using power
tools. Two prison workers
have been charged with
helping them.
Clinton correction officer Gene Palmer, charged
with promoting prison
tampering
contraband,
with physical evidence
and official misconduct, is
due in court today. His
attorney has said he will
plead not guilty.
Officials said Palmer
gave the two prisoners
frozen hamburger meat
that a prison tailoring
shop instructor had used
to hide the tools she smuggled to Sweat and Matt.
Palmer’s attorney said he
had no knowledge that the
meat contained hacksaw
blades, a bit and a screwdriver.
Prosecutors said the tailor shop worker, Joyce
Mitchell, got close to the
men while working with
them and had agreed to be
their getaway driver but
backed out because she felt
guilty for participating in
the escape. Authorities
also said Mitchell had discussed killing her husband as part of the plot.
Mitchell pleaded not
guilty June 15 to charges
including felony promoting prison contraband.
Sweat’s capture ended
an ordeal that sent 1,300
law enforcement officers
into the thickly forested
northern reaches of New
York and forced residents
to tolerate nerve-wracking
armed checkpoints and
property searches.
“The nightmare is finally over,” Cuomo declared
at a news conference.
Cook, a 21-year veteran,
was alone and on routine
patrol when he stumbled
upon Sweat in Constable,
about 30 miles northwest
of the prison. He gave
chase when Sweat fled and
decided to fire fearing he
would lose Sweat in the
trees, state police said.
“I can only assume he
was going for the border,”
Superintendent Joseph
D’Amico said.
D’Amico said the men
may have used black pepper to throw off their scent
from the dogs that were
tracking them.
The Commercial Review/Kathryne Rubright
Jumping Joshua
Joshua Johnson jumps rope at the Jay County Cancer Society Walk Against Cancer on Saturday night. Johnson has
childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The event was moved to the Jay County High School auxiliary gym because of rain,
which left water standing on the school’s track. This was the second time the walk was moved inside in its fourteen-year
history. Jay County Cancer Society received about $17,000.
Concerns turn to religious liberty
By RACHEL ZOLL
and STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Now that samesex marriage is legal nationwide,
religious conservatives are focusing on preserving their right to
object. Their concerns are for the
thousands of faith-based charities, colleges and hospitals that
want to hire, fire, serve and set
policy according to their religious
beliefs, notably that gay relationships are morally wrong.
The Republican Party’s 2016
presidential
candidates
are
already campaigning on the issue.
And Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
is urging President Barack Obama
and the nation’s governors “to join
me in reassuring millions of
Americans that the government
will not force them to participate
in activities that violate their
deeply held religious beliefs.”
The religious liberty fight isn’t
about what happens inside the
Potential conflicts could ...
over religious organizations
with some business
in the public arena.
sanctuary. First Amendment protections for worship and clergy
are clear. Potential conflicts could
arise, however, over religious
organizations with some business
in the public arena. That category
ranges from small religious associations that rent reception halls
to the public, to the nation’s massive network of faith-based social
service agencies that receive millions of dollars in government
grants. Some groups, such as the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish-
ops, also want protections for
individual business owners who
consider it immoral to provide
benefits for the same-sex spouse
of an employee or cater gay weddings.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anthony Kennedy raised the
issue in the majority opinion Friday granting gays the right to
marry. He said First Amendment
protections are in place for religious objectors, who “may continue to advocate with utmost, sin-
cere conviction that, by divine
precepts, same-sex marriage
should not be condoned.”
But in his dissent, Chief Justice
John Roberts predicted a clash
ahead between religious freedom
and same-sex marriage. He specifically noted the dilemma for religious colleges that provide married student housing, and adoption agencies that won’t place
children with gay couples.
“There is little doubt that these
and similar questions will soon be
before this court,” Roberts wrote.
Conservative religious groups
have for years been on watch for
potential clashes over religious
liberty and gay rights, and have
been lobbying for religious
exemptions in statehouses and
Congress. But conservative anxieties intensified over an exchange
during April’s oral arguments in
the gay marriage case between
Justice Samuel Alito and Solicitor
General Donald Verrilli.
Crews working
to restore power
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP)
— A power company
warned some of its northeastern Indiana customers
Sunday that they might not
have electricity for two
more days.
More than 13,000 customers still had no service
as of Sunday afternoon,
Indiana Michigan Power
Co. reported Sunday afternoon. After bringing in
extra crews from Kentucky
The Commercial Review/Mason Shreve
This rooftop view shows the flooding on Meridian Street between Walnut and Race streets
Saturday in downtown Portland. More rain is expected this evening and Tuesday, with a total of about
1.25 inches possible.
Water ...
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One resident, Stan Pitman, volunteered his “big Army truck” to assist
in the rescue, Bicknell said. Redkey
Fire Department helped with the
rescue as well.
Katherine Sosin of Kentucky got
stuck around 8:45 a.m. Sunday in
water on State Line Road north of
Indiana 67. Geneva Fire Department
and a Jay County Sheriff ’s Office
deputy assisted Sosin.
By this morning, Jay County
roads were all in “fairly decent condition,” said Ken Wellman, county
highway department superintendent.
Crews were still working to open
county road 800 West south of county road 300 South and county road
550 South about a half mile west of
U.S. 27. Those roads washed out over
the weekend, but were expected to be
open by noon today, Wellman said.
Other roads may have still had
high water, but were not closed,
Wellman said.
and Ohio, the utility said it
expected to have power
restored to about 95 percent
of its customers by Monday
night.
At one point, more than
30,000 Fort Wayne-area residents were left without
electricity, the utility said.
The National Weather
Service
reported
the
storms Friday and early
Saturday dumped 2 to 4
inches of rain.
Come grow with us! Fort Recovery Industries, Inc., a strong area
employer for 70 years, is in need of highly motivated individuals with a
desire for professional growth opportunities.
Production Full-Time
Full-Time production positions are open on 2nd and 3rd shifts at our
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will be responsible for but not limited to: Operating a press after placing
castings into the cavity and removing scrap, visually check the parts for
quality finish, maintain good housekeeping practices, and perform other
duties as assigned.
Production Part-Time
Part-Time production positions are open on 1st and 2nd shifts at our
Assembly Packaging Plant. The successful applicants will be responsible
for but not limited to: Using working knowledge of quality standards to
check parts for compliance, ensures finished assemblies are packaged
accurately per schedule and count, and perform other duties as assigned.
Maintenance Technician
This multi-craft position includes the troubleshooting and repair of PLC
Controlled Equipment, Hydraulic, Pneumatic, CNC, Robotic, Welding
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preferred, but not required.
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AB’s Tire Service, LLC
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Classifieds
The Commercial Review
Monday, June 29, 2015
60 SERVICES
J. L. CONSTRUCTION
Amish crew. Custom
homes,
new
built
garages, pole barns,
interior/ exterior remodeling, drywall, windows,
doors, siding, roofing,
foundations. 260-7265062, leave message.
KEEN’S ROOFING and
Construction. Standing
seam metal, painted
steel and shingle roofing, vinyl siding and
replacement windows.
New construction and
remodeling.
Charles
Keen, 260-335-2236.
LARRY VANSKYOCK
AND SONS Siding, roofing, windows, drywall
and finish, kitchens and
bathrooms, laminated
floors, additions. Call
260-726-9597 or 260729-7755.
HANDYMAN
MIKE
ARNOLD Remodeling;
garages; doors; windows; painting; roofing;
siding; much more. 28
years experience. Free
estimates.
260-7262030; 260-251-2702.
GOODHEW’S ROOFING SERVICE Standing
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warranty. We are the
original
Goodhew’s
Roofing Service 800310-4128.
STEPHEN’S FLOOR
INSTALLATION carpet,
vinyl, hardwood, and
laminate installed; 15
years experience; work
guaranteed. Free estimates call Stephen Ping
260-726-5017
WENDEL SEAMLESS
GUTTERING For all
your guttering and leaf
cover needs. Call us for
a free quote. Call Jim at
260-997-6774 or Steve
at 260-997-1414.
GOODHEW’S
ALL
SEASON Construction.
Do you need a new roof
or roof repair? Specializing in standing seam
metal roofing. We offer
various colors with a 30
year paint finish warranty at competitive prices.
Metal distributor for all of
your metal needs. Call
Rodney at 765-5090191.
70 INSTRUCTIO N,
110 HELP WANTED
HILTY-EICHER CONSTRUCTION. Foundations, concrete, roofing,
siding,
residential
remodeling and new
construction, pole barns,
garages, homes. Free
estimates. Call Keith,
new number 260-3123249
J G BUILDERS New
construction, remodeling, pole barns, garages,
new homes, concrete,
siding doors, windows,
crawl space work. Call
260-849-2786.
PORTLAND
CLOCK
DOC. REPAIRS 525
North Meridian, Portland, IN 47371. 260-2515024, Clip for reference
POWERWASHING
FERGUSON & SONS
Houses, walks, decks,
fences, etc. Spring pricing - ranch style onestory house. $165.00.
260-703-0364 cell. 260726-8503
SCHWARTZ
CONSTRUCTION. Seamless
guttering 5 & 6 inch; all
colors available, various
leaf guards. Free estimates. 260-731-9444
70 INSTRUCTION,
SCHOOLS
AVIATION GRADS work
with JetBlue, Boeing,
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here with hands on training for FAA certification.
Financial aid if qualified.
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70 INSTRUCTION,
90 SALE CALENDAR
PUBLIC AUCTION
Thursday,
August 6, 2015, 6:30
PM
Delaware County Fairgrounds
1210 N Wheeling
Avenue, Muncie
Location of land:
2 miles NW of Albany,
along Eaton Albany
Pike,
0.5 miles E of CR 550
E,
Niles Township 68+/acres.
Cropland, timber and
recreation.
Owner: Marie L. Ball
Revocable Trust
Contact: Chris Peacock,
765-546-0592.
Online Bidding Available.
Halderman Real Estate
800-424-2324
www.halderman.com
HLS# CCP-11619
Auctioneer
Russell D. Harmeyer
#AU1000027
110 HELP WANTED
MANPOWER
PORTLAND Hiring for production workers. 609 N.
Meridian St. 260-7262888
NOW
TAKING
RESUMES for full or
part-time help nights
and weekends. Must be
21 years of age or older;
must be able to work
weekends; must have
references. Northside
Carry Out, Attn: Ruth,
1226 N. Meridian, Portland, IN 47371.
LAWRENCE EXCAVATING Seeking Class-A
CDL
driver/heavy
machine operator. Must
have
clean
driving
record. Call Jason 260726-0827
TLS BY DESIGN Experienced
Upholstery
Technician wanted. We
do not pay by piece or
group rate. We reward
excellence and care
about quality. Full time
position includes benefits and an enjoyable
work environment. Call
765-683-1971 to join a
great team.
JINNY’S
CAFE
BRYANT, IN 3rd shift
Cook/Waitress
Apply
between 6 am & 2 pm.
260-997-8300.
JRDS HAS FULL-TIME,
PART-TIME, and substitute direct care positions
available in Portland
Waiver/Group Homes,
providing assistance to
adults with special
needs. Positions available immediately, which
could include some
weekend hours. Wage
increase after 90 days
plus excellent benefits.
Apply or send resume
along with 3 work references to Jay-Randolph
Developmental Services, 901 E Water Street,
Portland, IN. Call 877726-7931, ext 1228 our
visit
our
website
www.jrds.org. EOE
150 BOATS, SPORTING
110 HELP WANTED
150 BOATS, SPORTING
WALKING ROUTE FOR
BRYANT and Pennville.
Contact Kim at 260-7268141 between 1pm and
6pm or stop in and fill
out
an
application
between 8 am to 4 pm.
Review,
Commercial
309 West Main, Portland.
SALES REPRESENTATIVES, experience preferred, will train qualified
applicants, send resume
to Fuqua at 127 East
Commerce
Street
Dunkirk, attention General Manager
DRIVER/OWNER
OPERATOR Same Day,
Bluffton, IN. Home
weekends and Holidays.
Through terminal daily.
Midwest/250 mile radius.
Dry Van. Commission
based pay. Class-A CDL
with 2 years experience.
For more information
call 800-584-6068 or
apply at 3140 E State
Road 124 Bluffton, IN
25 DRIVER TRAINEES
NEEDED NOW! Learn
to drive for TMC Transportation. Earn $800 per
week! Local 15 day CDL
training. TMC can cover
costs. 1-877-649-9611
130 MISC. FOR SALE
NEED EXTRA CASH?
Sell unwanted items in
The CR Classifieds. Call
Linda at 260-726-8141
or go online to
www.thecr.com Simply
click on “Classifieds” to
place your ad!
COUNTY
JAY
ANTIQUE MALL 500 S.
Meridian, Portland. 10%20% off selected booths.
Check us out. Great
buys on everything.
2 CEMETERY PLOTS
at Green Park cemetery.
$400 each. Call 260726-5112
FRESH SOUTH CAROLINA PEACHES Freestone; good for canning
and freezing; Willow
Creek Store; 5160 W
400 S, Berne, Indiana
260-334-5080
GOLF CART EZ go 36B
Golf cart with back seat,
windshield.
260-7312283
170 PETS
ENGLISH BULLDOG
BABIES For Sale, They
are 1st Shots, Akc Registered, Vet Check and
dewormed, 11 weeks
old with 1 years health
guarantee, POP $800
see pics and Email :
[email protected]
260-726-2401
200 FOR RENT
INMAN U-LOC Storage.
Mini storage, five sizes.
Security fence or 24
hour access units. Gate
hours: 8:00-8:00 daily.
Pearl Street, Portland.
260-726-2833
110 HELP WANTED
FULL TIME
CDL TRUCK DRIVER
Pioneer Packaging looking to add another
professional, full time CDL truck driver.
Work hours would be
8AM-6PM Monday - Friday.
You would be home every evening and
weekend! All deliveries are local
within 100 miles of Portland.
Must have Class A CDL, experience
with 53' trailers, professional
appearance, good driving record, and
pleasant personality.
Apply in person or send resume to:
Pioneer Packaging,
218 E. Lincoln Ave, Portland.
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190 FARMERS
200 FOR RENT
150 BOATS, SPORTING
200 FOR RENT
70 INSTRUCTION,
220 REAL ESTATE
LEASE SPACE available, Coldwater, OH.
wareManufacturing,
housing, assembly, distribution, offices, inside and
outdoor storage. Easy
access to major highways and railroad access
with loading docks and
overhead cranes available. Contact Sycamore
Group, 419-678-5318,
www.sycamorespace.co
m
ONE AND TWO BEDROOM Apartments. Lake
of The Woods, Geneva,
water included with rent,
no pets, 260-368-9187
3 FIX-UPPER HOMES,
contract or cash. Redkey, Dunkirk, Hartford
City. $14,900, $24,900,
$27,500 cash prices.
Contract prices higher.
317-928-3230
WHY RENT when you
may be able to buy for
zero money down. Call
for more information.
Heather Clemmons. 765748-5066.
MAPLE
HEIGHTS
APARTMENTS at 701 S
Western Avenue, Portland, Indiana, is now taking applications for one
and two bedroom apartments. Rent based on
30% of adjusted gross
income. Barrier free units.
260-726-4275, TDD 800743-3333. This institution
is an Equal Opportunity
Provider and Employer.
NEED MORE STORAGE? PJ’s U-Lock and
Storage, most sizes available. Call 260-726-4631.
TIRED OF NON-PAYING
RENTERS? For just 10%
of monthly rent/ life could
be 100% better. Property
managing.
Heather
765-748Clemmons
5066
NEWLY REMODELED, 2
BEDROOM ground level
apartment. Stove/refrigerator furnished. Offstreet parking. No pets.
$400/mo plus deposit,
729-1803 or 251-2305
SANDY
HOLLOW
East
APARTMENTS;
Main Street, Portland;
two bedroom, two bath
upstairs; living room, family room, kitchen and half
bath downstairs; central
air;
washer/
dryer
hookup;
detached
garage. $650 monthly
plus damage deposit and
utilities; 260-525-0277 or
260-726-7257.
HOUSE FOR RENT in
Dunkirk. Looking for
responsible tenant for
completely remodeled
home in town. Very spacious, lawn care provided. $590 per month plus
deposit. References are
required. Call 765-7686224, ask for Rock.
Public Notice
250 PUBLIC NOTICE
To the owners of the within
described real estate and all
interested parties
Sheriff's Sale Notice
By virtue of a certified copy of a
decree to me directed from the
Clerk of Jay Circuit Court of Jay
County, Indiana, in Cause No.
38C01-1501-MF-000004 wherein
U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as
Trustee for LSF8 Master
Participation
Trust
was
Plaintiff, and Andrea Weekley,
Jay County Regional Sewer
District, IMC Credit Services,
LLC, Unknown Occupants and
State
of
Indiana
were
Defendants requiring me to
make the sum as provided for in
said Decree with interest and
cost, I will expose at public sale
to the highest bidder on the
23rd day of July, 2015 at the
hour of 10:00 am, or as soon as
thereafter as is possible, at
Court House 3rd Floor at 120 N.
Court Street Portland, IN 47371
the fee simple of the whole
body of Real Estate in Jay
County, Indiana.
A part of the Southeast
Quarter (SE 1/4) of Section
Eight (8), Township Twentytwo (22) North, Range Twelve
(12) East, bounded and
described as follows:
Commencing at a point One
Thousand Six Hundred
Forty (1640) feet West and
One Hundred Ninety-six
(196) feet North of the
Southeast comer of said
Section Eight (8) and running
thence East Three Hundred
Twenty (320) feet to a point in
the center line Of Arlington
Avenue (now a Jay County
Highway Road); thence
North on and along the
Center line of said Arlington
Avenue (now a Jay County
Highway road) One Hundred
Fifty-eight (158) feet to a
point; thence West Three
Hundred Twenty- one (321)
feet to a Point One Hundred
Fifty-seven (157) feet North
of the place of beginning;
thence South One Hundred
Fifty-seven (157) feet to the
place of beginning.
Commonly known address:
4946
South
Arlington
Avenue, Dunkirk, IN 47336
Together with rents, issues,
income and profits thereof, said
sale will be made without relief
from
valuation
or
appraisement laws.
Dwane Ford
Jay County Sheriff
Amanda L. Krenson (28999-61)
Manley Deas Kochalski LLC
P.O. Box 441039
Indianapolis, IN 46244
Attorneys for Plaintiff
CR 6-15,22,29-2015- HSPAXLP
1 BEDROOM UPSTAIRS
APARTMENT Heat and
water furnished. $375
plus electric. West Main
Street, Portland. Call
Spencer Apts 260-7267368
1 BEDROOM DOWNSTAIRS
APT.
Washer/dryer hook-up.
$340 plus utilities, located
in Portland. Call Spencer
Apts 260-726-7368
2
BEDROOM
UPSTAIRS
APARTMENT East Main Street,
Portland. $400 plus electric. Call Spencer Apts
260-726-7368
FOR RENT 2 bedroom
house 127 e baker st. gas
heat no pets 450.00 a
plus
450.00
month
deposit 765-329-0699
765-499-8347
210 WANTED TO RENT
WANTED:
FARMGROUND TO RENT:
Experienced Farm Family. Top dollar rates, paid
upfront. Soil sampling
and management program. Call Mitch 937564-6058
220 REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE Before
you list your Real Estate
or book your Auction Call
Mel Smitley’s Real Estate
& Auctioneering 260726-0541 cell, 260-7266215 office. Laci Smitley
260-729-2281, or Ryan
Smitley 260-729-2293
FOR RENT/RENT TO
OWN Jay, Blackford,
Randolph,
Delaware,
Madison, Henry Counties. Over 200 Houses
and apartments. Heather
765-748Clemmons
5066
Public Notice
250 PUBLIC NOTICE
State of Indiana
County of Jay, SS:
In The Jay Circuit Court
Cause No. 38C01-1506-MF-30
U.S. Bank National
Association as Successor by
merger of U.S. Bank National
Association ND
Plaintiff,
Vs.
Joseph J. Eisa,
The Unknown Heirs, Legatees,
Devisees, Personal
Representatives and Creditors
of Joseph J. Eisa,
State of Indiana,
John Doe,
Jane Doe,
Defendants.
Notice of Suit
The State of Indiana to the
above-named defendants, and
any other person who may be
concerned. You are notified
that you have been sued in the
above-named Court.
The nature of the suit
against you is: Complaint on
Note
and
to
Foreclose
Mortgage on the following
described real estate in Jay
County:
Lot Number Fifteen (15) in
Spahr's Second Addition to
the Town of Redkey, Indiana.
Also, Lot Number Sixteen
(16) in Spahr's Second
Addition to the Town of
Redkey, Indiana.
Summons
by
This
publication is specifically
directed to the following
named defendants whose
addresses are:
State of Indiana, c/o Attorney
General Gregory F. Zoeller
Office of the Attorney General
Indiana Government Center
South, 5th Floor,
Indianapolis, IN 46204
John Doe, 109 North Ash
Street, Redkey, IN 47373
Jane Doe, 109 North Ash
Street, Redkey, IN 47373
and to the following named
defendants whose
whereabouts are unknown:
Joseph J. Eisa
The Unknown Heirs, Legatees,
Devisees, Personal
Representatives and Creditors
of Joseph J. Eisa
In addition to the abovenamed
defendants
being
served by this summons there
are may be other defendants
who have an interest in this law
suit.
If you have a claim for relief
against the plaintiff arising
from the same transaction or
occurrence, you must assert it
in your written answer.
You must answer the
Complaint in writing, by you or
your attorney, on or before
August 2, 2015 (the same being
within thirty (30) days after the
Third Notice of Suit), and if you
fail to do so a judgment will be
entered against you for what
the plaintiff has demanded.
U.S. Bank National Association
as successor by merger of U.S.
Bank National Association ND
Foutty & Foutty, LLP
Attest:
Ellen Coats
Clerk of the Jay Circuit Court
Wendy A. Kitchel, #17403-49
Attorney for Plaintiff
Foutty & Foutty, LLP
155 E. Market Street, Suite 605
Indianapolis, IN 46204-3219
CR 6-29, 7-6,13- HSPAXLP
52 ACRES Wooded with
17 acres tillable. SE
Madison township. 260729-5152.
230 AUTOS, TRUCKS
THE CLASSIFIEDS
Find it - Buy It - Sell It!
260-726-8141
FUQUA
CHRYSLER
DODGE JEEP RAM:
New and Pre-owned
cars, trucks, minivans,
SUV’s. Full service and
parts department 127
East Commerce Street,
Dunkirk, 765-768-6224.
Monday- Friday 8-6; Saturday
8-2
www.
FuquaChrysler.com
CA$H PAID FOR JUNK
CARS Any year, any
condition. Running or
not. We tow away. 765578-0111 or 260-7265143 Massey’s Towing
WE PAY CASH for junk
autos. We pick up at
your location. 1-765546-2642 or 1-765-8571071. Slocum’s Salvage
UNIQUE AUTOS has
several nice Used Cars,
trucks, Suv’s, Many
priced under $7,000.00
Come and see us, Just
One Mile south of the
Jay Co line On Hwy 27
765-857-2434
Public Notice
250 PUBLIC NOTICE
Summons - Service By
Publication
State of Indiana
County of Jay, SS:
In The Jay Circuit\Superior
Court
Cause No. 38C0l-1506-MF-31
PHH Mortgage Corporation,
Plaintiff,
vs.
The Unknown Heirs and
Devisees of Chris A. Gibbs,
Deceased,
Defendant.
Notice of Suit
The State of Indiana to the
Defendant(s) above named, and
any other person who may be
concerned.
You are hereby notified that
you have been sued in the Court
above named.
The nature of the suit
against you is:
Complaint on Note and to
Foreclose Mortgage on Real
Estate
the
property
Against
commonly known as 10144 W
200 S, Dunkirk, IN 47336-8991
and described as follows:
A part of the East Half (E 1/2)
of the Southeast quarter (1/4)
of Section Twenty-seven (27),
Township Twenty-three (23)
North, Range Twelve (12)
east, more particularly
described as follows to-wit:
Beginning at a point in the
South line Four hundred
Twenty-four and six tenths
(424.60') feet West of the
Southeast corner of said
East Half of the Southeast
quarter and running thence
North Ninety degrees West
(N 90 W), on said South line
Three hundred eighty-nine
and thirty-eight hundredths
(389.38') feet; thence running
North Zero degrees two
thirty-seven
minutes
seconds East (N00 02' 37" E),
Three hundred sixty-seven
and eighty-five hundredths
(367.85') feet thence running
South Ninety degrees East (S
90 E) and parallel with the
South line of said East Half
of the Southeast quarter
Three hundred ninety and
hundredths
twenty-four
(390.24') feet to a point Four
hundred twenty-four and six
tenths (424.60') feet West of
the East line of said East
Half of the Southeast
quarter; thence running
South Zero degrees ten
minutes thirty-nine seconds
West (S 00 10' 39" W), and
parallel with said East line
Three hundred sixty-seven
and eighty-five hundredths
(367.85’) feet to the place of
beginning, containing 3.292
acres, more or less.
This
summons
by
publication is specifically
directed to the following
named defendant(s) whose
whereabouts are unknown:
The Unknown Heirs and
Devisees of Chris A. Gibbs,
Deceased
If you have a claim for relief
against the plaintiff arising
from the same transaction or
occurrence, you must assert it
in your written answer or
response.
You must answer the
Complaint in writing, by you or
your attorney, within thirty (30)
days after the Third Notice of
Suit, and if you fail to do so a
judgment by default may be
entered against you for the
relief demanded, by the
Plaintiff.
Feiwell & Hannoy, P.C.
Susan M. Woolley
Feiwell & Hannoy, P.C.
251 N. Illinois Street,
Suite 1700
Indianapolis, IN 46204-1944
[email protected]
CR 6-22,29,7-6-2015- HSPAXLP
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The Commercial Review
New York sweeps Cincinnati
By HOWIE RUMBERG
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK — Not only did
the Cincinnati Reds have to face
three of the Mets’ top young
starters this weekend, they got
beat at the plate by one of them,
too.
Steven Matz was the latest
prized arm to excel against the
Reds in a three-game sweep, and
he had three hits and a record
four RBIs in his major league
debut to lead New York over
Cincinnati 7-2 Sunday.
“I think they have a great rotation,” Cincinnati second baseman Brandon Phillips said.
“They have a lot of great guys
over there and they pitched very
well against us and you tip your
hat when it’s due.”
The Reds scored just four runs
in the series while facing Noah
Syndergaard, Matt Harvey and
Matz.
Cincinnati dropped a disappointing 2-1 decision to the Mets
earlier Sunday in the completion
of Saturday’s game suspended
by rain. The deciding run scored
when shortstop Eugenio Suarez
made an error in the 13th inning
— his fifth in five games — and
first baseman Joey Votto
couldn’t handle Lucas Duda’s
high chopper.
Phillips led off the regularly
scheduled game with a homer
off Matz, and Todd Frazier connected in the fourth for his 25th
long ball to tie it 2-all. Phillips
has hit safely in all 32 road
games he’s played against the
Mets.
Phillips’ hit was initially ruled
a single off the wall. The call was
overturned after a replay review
of 59 seconds, giving Phillips a
home run on his 34th birthday.
But the Reds had little success
otherwise against the rookie
pitcher.
In 7 2-3 innings, Matz allowed
five hits and two runs, walking
three and striking out six. Some
fans booed when manager Terry
Collins came out to get the Long
Island lefty after 110 pitches.
“It’s not a lot of fun on this end
In review
Busch wins
SONOMA, Calif. —
Kyle Busch’s comeback now includes a
victory — a mere five
races
after
he
returned from serious
injuries suffered the
season-opening weekend.
Busch won Sunday
on the road course at
Sonoma
Raceway
after passing six cars
in one lap on fresh
tires. He passed Jimmie Johnson for the
lead with six laps
remaining.
Busch broke his
right leg and left foot
in a crash the day
before the seasonopening Daytona 500.
He missed the first 11
races of the season,
then returned in late
May determined to
earn a berth in
NASCAR’s championship playoffs.
Breezed
EUGENE, Ore. —
Moments after crossing the finish line,
Justin Gatlin turned
to his left and pointed
at the clock to make
sure everyone noticed
what he just did.
Hard to miss that
time. Somewhere, a
certain
Jamaican
sprinter is no doubt
hearing about it, too.
Gatlin breezed to
the 200-meter title at
the
U.S.
championships in a meetrecord 19.57 seconds
Sunday. He dominated
a race in which he had
the lead coming off
the turn. It was all
over after that, given
how he has been running lately and that
his legs were feeling
particularly fresh.
—Associated Press
LeBron
declines
player
option
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
AP Basketball Writer
Associated Press/Seth Wenig
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton cannot catch a double hit by New York
Mets' Steven Matz during the second inning Sunday at Citi Field in New York. The Mets won
7-2 to complete a three-game sweep of the Reds.
to be talking about the great
game that another player had on
a different team, but he did have
a great day,” Reds manager
Bryan Price said. “We know a lot
about him but we didn’t anticipate him coming up and having
the type of day he had offensively against our pitching staff.”
Matz (1-0) became the first
player in franchise history — at
any position — to have four RBIs
in his first big league game. He is
the only major league pitcher to
knock in four runs in his debut,
according to STATS.
He did it with a two-run double
off Josh Smith (0-1) over the center fielder’s head in the second
and a two-run single with the
bases loaded in the sixth. In
between those at-bats Matz keyed
a tiebreaking rally with another
single, making him the first Mets
pitcher to have hits in his first
three at-bats.
By his turn in the fifth, fans
had replaced the “Let’s go Mets!”
chant with “Let’s go Matz!”
And with each successive hit,
his family in attendance broke
into delirious excitement —
making his thrilled and animated grandfather an instant Internet sensation.
“Did it all today,” said Matz,
who grew up a Mets fan about 50
miles from Citi Field and had
more than 130 friends and family
members in the stands.
The Mets had scored just 15
runs in 10 games coming in,
their worst string since September 1979, according to STATS.
They have won four straight following a seven-game slide.
Smith struggled with his control in his second big league start
and was done after five innings.
He yielded four hits and three
runs — only one earned because
of another error by Suarez that
led to the Mets’ first two runs.
“Too many balls in the first
two pitches instead of challenging guys,” Smith said. “Trying to
be too fine early in the count. It’s
something I have to work on and
it will get better.”
Phillips has been struggling
with thumb injuries and also
jammed his pinkie Sunday.
“Sometimes on certain swings
I feel it,” he said. “But I try to
man-up a little bit, so I’m used to
playing with an injury.”
IndyCar still pushing safety limits
By JOHN MARSHALL
AP Sports Writer
FONTANA, Calif. — Organizers in
every motorsport try to walk a fine
line between creating fast, entertaining racing and keeping drivers and
riders safe. Finding that middle
ground is particularly vital in IndyCar, where cars occasionally go airborne in accidents.
Many drivers at Saturday’s 500mile race at Auto Club Speedway
believe IndyCar officials crossed the
line by putting too much downforce
on the cars, adding speed and risk at
the 2-mile oval.
Now the series needs to figure out
what to do next.
“I don’t have an answer,” said Tony
Kanaan, who finished second to Graham Rahal at Fontana. “How can we
make it so we keep drivers happy and
fans happy? I wish over the course of
this year we can come up with a compromise for both of us, but right now
I really don’t know what to tell you.”
IndyCar drivers have lamented the
pack-style racing on the circuit’s big
ovals since two-time Indianapolis 500
winner Dan Wheldon was killed at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the
series’ 2011 season finale.
Drivers were concerned about the
speeds at the high-banked, 1 1/2-mile
oval heading into that race and Wheldon was killed when his head hit a
fence post after his car went airborne
during a massive wreck.
IndyCar officials have continued to
fight the battle between speed and
safety.
Drivers feeling series officials are
crossing line between speed, safety
Conditions became dangerous at
last month’s Indy 500, where three
cars went airborne during preparation for the race. James Hinchcliffe’s
car did not go airborne in a fourth
accident, but he nearly died after a
piece of his car’s suspension pierced
his thigh, causing massive blood
loss.
IndyCar made a series of rule
changes to keep the cars on the track
at Indy, including wheel covers to prevent the cars from lifting off the
ground when they get turned around
during accidents.
The changes worked at the Indy 500
and at Texas’ 1 1/2-mile oval on June
6, but fans complained that the caution-free race in the Lone Star State
lacked excitement.
More changes were made at
Fontana.
The race had been held at night
while serving as the series’ season
finale the past three years, but it was
moved to June this year. With higher
temperatures expected to make
seam-filled Auto Club Speedway
slick, IndyCar mandated a new aero
kit package to add downforce and,
hopefully, keep the cars on the track.
Following the practice sessions,
several drivers, including points
leader Juan Pablo Montoya, complained the setups would lead to the
pack-style racing fans love but drivers fear.
Those predictions came true on
Saturday, when cars bumped and
banged at close to 220 mph pretty
much from the drop of the green flag.
The racing was intense and entertaining as drivers swapped places all
over the track, with an IndyCarrecord 80 lead changes and cars going
up to five wide.
While fun to watch, it left some
drivers jittery and shaking their
heads when it was over, particularly
after Ryan Briscoe’s car went airborne in a spectacular crash that
caused the race to finish under caution. Briscoe and Ryan Hunter-Reay
weren’t injured after the collision,
but several drivers compared it to the
Wheldon crash even though Briscoe
flew into the grass, not the fence.
“It’s insane because you cannot get
away and you have to take massive
risks to gain track position,” said
Will Power, who was involved in a
late-race crash.
For the third time in six
seasons, LeBron James is
an unrestricted free agent.
The difference this time
is he has no plans to move
again.
The Cleveland star will
not exercise a $21.6 million
option on his contract for
next season, a person with
knowledge of the decision
told The Associated Press
on Sunday. The person
spoke on the condition of
anonymity because neither
the Cavaliers nor James
were publicly discussing
the process.
James’ decision has been
widely
expected
for
months. The approach
allows him to sign a new
maximum contract — likely another two-year deal
with a player option for
2017-18 —that will pay him
more than he would have
made under his previous
contract. His max number
for next season, which is
tied to how high the salary
cap rises, is expected to be
more than $22 million.
The last time James
became a free agent from
Cleveland in 2010, he
famously left his home
state team to play for the
Miami Heat. James won
two championships and
played in four NBA Finals
in his four years in Miami
before making the celebrated decision to return home
last summer.
This time around, James
plans to stay put while Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert
and GM David Griffin set
about improving the roster
in hopes of surrounding
James with the talent he
will need to end Cleveland’s
51-year
championship
drought.
The Cavaliers have plenty of decisions to make and
negotiations to conduct for
free agents Kevin Love,
Tristan Thompson and
Iman Shumpert. But the
process with James will be
fairly straight forward.
He’s made it clear through
actions and words to Cavaliers management that he
isn’t going anywhere.
“We’ve heard from him
every day pretty much relative to our roster,” Griffin
said last week. “It’s been
great. He’s been very much
engaged with us on a lot of
different levels, so it’s been
positive.”
James led the shorthanded Cavaliers back to
the finals in June and put
on a breath-taking performance to make the Golden
State sweat it out for six
games before Steph Curry
and Co. captured the Warriors’ first title since 1975.
With Love and Kyrie Irving
out with injuries, James
averaged 35.8 points, 13.3
rebounds, 8.8 assists and
almost 46 minutes in the
series.
If James signs another
two-year contract with a
player option on the second
year, it would allow him to
reap the financial windfall
that is expected when the
NBA’s new television contract kicks in next summer
and sends the salary cap
sky-rocketing.
Sports on tap
Scoreboard
Major League Baseball
N.Y. Mets 2, Cincinnati 1 F/13
N.Y. Mets 7, Cincinnati 2
St. Louis 4, Chicago 1
Detroit 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Baltimore 4, Cleveland 0
Baltimore 8, Cleveland 0
Washington 3, Philadelphia 2
Toronto 3, Texas 2
L.A. Dodgers 2, Miami 0
Boston 5, Tampa Bay 3
Atlanta 2, Pittsburgh 1
Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 3
Houston 3, N.Y. Yankees 1
L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 2 F/10
Kansas City 5, Oakland 3
San Francisco 6, Colorado 3
Arizona 6, San Diego 4
Philadelphia 8, Washington 5
Local schedule
Tuesday
Jay County Summer Swim Team at Randolph County – 6 p.m.
Portland Rockets at Fort Wayne Marlins
– 7 p.m.
Friday
Portland Rockets vs. TBA in Firecracker
Classic – TBA
Saturday
Portland Rockets vs. TBA in Firecracker
Classic – TBA
Sunday
Portland Rockets vs. TBA in Firecracker
Classic – TBA
TV schedule
7 p.m. — Soccer: FIFA Women’s World
Cup – Semifinal, TBA (FOX-45,55,59)
7 p.m. — Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (ESPN)
8 p.m. — WNBA Basketball: New York
Liberty at Chicago Sky (ESPN2)
Wednesday
7 a.m. — Tennis: 2015 Wimbledon
Championships – Early round day 3 (ESPN)
7 p.m. — Soccer: FIFA Women’s World
Cup – Semifinal, TBA (FS1)
7 p.m. — Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (WNDY-23); New
York Yankees at Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (ESPN)
9:30 p.m. — Soccer: International
Friendly – Mexico vs. Honduras (ESPN2)
Today
7 p.m. — Major League Baseball:
Texas Rangers at Baltimore Orioles
(ESPN)
Local notes
Tuesday
7 a.m. — Tennis: 2015 Wimbledon
Championships – Early round day 2
(ESPN)
JCHS to host adult swim
There will be adult lap swim sessions
on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning June
2.
Cost is $2 per session or $25 for a sea-
son pass, and is open to adults 18-andolder.
The swim will be from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m.
at the Jay County High School pool.
The sessions will go through the month
of July, and will be for lap swim only, not
recreational use.
Run Jay County continues Saturday
The Run Jay County 5K Circuit continues
Saturday with the Firecracker 5K on Saturday
at Jay County Fairgrounds.
Registration begins at 7 a.m., with the
race set to begin at 8 a.m.
Cost is $15 and a shirt will be given to
the first 60 registrants.
For more information, contact (260) 7265624.
JCHS to host football camp
The Jay County High School football team
will be hosting a camp July 20 through 23.
The camp will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m.,
and is open for children in kindergarten
through eighth grade.
Cost is $20 and includes a camp tshirt.
Registration forms are available at the high
school.
For more information, contact JCHS football coach Tim Millspaugh at (260) 2510670.
Swiss Days 5K is July 25
The Adams County Run/Walk Challenge
continues July 25.
The next race is the 42nd annual Swiss
Days Race. The race will begin at 8:15 a.m.
July 25 on Jefferson Street in Berne.
For more information, contact CeAnn
Weaver at (260) 589-2151, or visit
www.adamscounty5kchallenge.com.
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