Fall break is still 3 days

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The Commercial Review
Portland, Indiana 47371
75 cents
www.thecr.com
Plans unveiled
Fall
break
is still
3 days
By RAY COONEY
HWC Engineers graphic
The above graphic shows the design for the new Portland Water Park, which is scheduled to be built in
2015. Cory Whitesell of HWC Engineers, the firm charged with designing the facility, presented the design to park board
members and the public Tuesday night.
Bidding planned for January
By the
numbers
By SAMM QUINN
Portland
Park
Board
unveiled plans Tuesday for
Portland Water Park. They are
expected to be finalized in
December with bidding to follow in January.
S t a nd a r d d e p t h
42 inches
D ee p e n d
6 feet
Ba by /t od d le r
ar e a wa l l
18 inches
C o m p et i t i o n
l a ne l en g t h
25 meters
Plans for the new Portland
Water Park are moving forward.
Portland Park Board and
Cory Whitesell of HWC Engineers unveiled the design for
Portland Water Park at Tuesday night’s park board meeting.
Final design plans for the
pool are expected to be finished
by Christmas, and they will go
out for bidding in January, said
Whitesell, who represents the
firm charged with designing
the pool.
The design differs from preliminary plans by including an
area for babies and toddlers, a
concession and admission
building and a 25-meter competition pool compared to the previous 25-yards. The lazy river
features a vortex pool that has
jets that spins users in circles.
BERNE — South Adams
School Board listened to its
constituents.
The board approved
Tuesday a 2015-16 school
calendar that mirrors the
schedules used in recent
years.
It also discussed the possibilities of implementing
a three-hour delay and the
creation of a welding class.
Board members had discussed shifting to a weeklong fall break, which
Adams Central and North
schools
were
Adams
expected to pass Tuesday. In
recent years South Adams
has tried to have its calendar match those the other
Adams County schools as
well as Jay County to
accommodate students who
travel between the schools
for vocational programs.
But a survey showed the
majority of South Adams
parents (63 percent) and
teachers (76 percent) prefer
the current three-day fall
break over taking a full
week.
Board members Arlene
Amstutz, John Mann, Julie
Mansfield, John Buckingham, Landon Patterson,
Amy Orr and Ray Gill
unanimously approved a
calendar that sticks with
the three-day fall break.
See Still page 5
‘We must do our due
diligence in making
this a water park that
everyone can enjoy.’
2015-16
calendar
South Adams School
board on Tuesday approved
its calendar for the 2015-16
school year. Below are some
key dates.
—Shauna Runkle,
Portland Park Board
Board members Rod Ashman, Shauna Runkle, Donald
Gillespie, Kristi Betts and
Holly Tonak also learned the
fundraising committee has
brought in 90 percent of its $1
million goal.
The engineers and park
board worked together to
design a pool that can be used
F ir s t d ay
Aug. 11
Fall b re ak
Oct. 21 through 23
by all facets of the community,
Runkle said.
“A large portion of this pool
is being paid for by the tax dollars of both Portland and Jay
County,” she added. “We must
do our due diligence in making
this a water park that everyone
can enjoy.”
See Unveiled page 5
W i n t e r b r e ak
Dec. 21 through Jan. 1
S pr i ng b r e ak
March 21 through 25
L a s t day
May 19
Trails group seeks help
By KELLY LYNCH
GENEVA — Moving
into the project’s first
phase, South Adams
Trails is looking to Geneva for assistance.
Gary Habegger, South
Adams Trails Inc. president, presented plans to
Geneva Town Council on
Tuesday evening for the
project’s first stage —
construction from Rainbow Lake to Adams County Road 950 South — and
asked for options concerning use of town property for the trail.
Council members also
approved for Marshal Rob
Johnson begin the hiring
process to replace South
Adams’ school resource
officer and approved a
new system for phosphorous treatment in the
town’s wastewater.
Habegger
explained
that with an estimated
completion date of September
2016,
South
Adams Trails is talking
to property owners about
buying land for the project.
The path will eventually stretch from the trailhead at Rainbow Lake in
Geneva to a bridge over
the Wabash River in
Berne.
Geneva owns about
seven acres of the land
the trails group wants to
use, and Habegger suggested the town could
approve a 25-year easement for the property.
The easement would keep
the land in its ownership
but allow the trails group
and eventually Adams
County, which will own
the trail once completed,
to build on it and use it.
Such an agreement
would
have
to
be
approved by Indiana
Department of Trans-
portation, which is providing an 80 percent
grant for the $600,000
phase of construction,
said Habegger.
Council members Dick
Clutter, Doug Milligan
and Jim Timmons didn’t
give any opinion but said
they would take the matter under consideration.
Also Tuesday, Johnson
informed members that
the current South Adams
SRO, Connor Bonesteel,
failed
to
pass
the
entrance exam for the
Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. According to state statute, he
needed to be enrolled in
the academy by the end
of his first year.
Bonesteel was sworn in
as South Adams SRO in
December after former
officer
Scott
Dailey
resigned in November
2013.
See S eeks page 2
The Commercial Review/Kelly Lynch
Greeting guests
Portland American Legion member Fred Bailey leads a walk of
local veterans through rows of General Shanks Elementary students
Tuesday during the school’s Veterans Day program. More than 60 veterans
attended the event, where they were served breakfast and then introduced
as part of the ceremony that also included singing and a short play.
Deaths
Weather
In review
Vick y He imann, 55, Van
Wert, Ohio
Joyce Chaffins, 54, Bluffton
Details on page 2.
The high temperature Tuesday in Portland was 61
degrees. It continued to fall
throughout the night to a low
of 31 this morning.
Tonight’s low will be 23, and
skies will be partly sunny
Thursday with a high of 32.
For an extended forecast,
see page 2.
The Portland Foundation is
accepting applications for its
Friends of Jay County Agriculture 2014 grant cycle. The
deadline to apply is Friday. For
more information, contact Jessica Cook at [email protected].
Coming up
T hursday — Coverage of
tonight’s Jay County Council
meeting.
Saturday — JCHS girls basketball team opens regular
season. Story, photo.
Local
Page 2
Obituaries
Vicky Heimann
June 18, 1959-Nov. 10, 2014
Vicky Jo Heimann, 55, Van Wert, Ohio, a
former Portland resident, died Monday.
Born in Hartford City to Tommy and
Betty (Sills) Derringer, she was a 1977 graduate of Jay County High School and was
attending The University of Northwestern
Ohio.
She was a homemaker and had been an
executive secretary at Dana Corporation
in Marion.
Surviving are her parents Tommy and
Betty Derringer, Van Wert; two daughters,
Amy Cox (husband: Nick), Van Wert, and
Ashley Heimann, Warsaw; two sons,
Joshua Heimann, Columbus, and Frederick Heimann, Van Wert; and nine grandchildren.
Private services will be held. Cowan and
Son Funeral Home in Van Wert will be in
charge of the arrangements.
Joyce Chaffins
April 22, 1960-Nov. 9, 2014
Joyce M. Chaffins, 54, Bluffton, died Sunday at Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic.
Born in Decatur, she was a 1979 graduate
of South Adams High School and had previously worked at Bearcreek Farms in
rural Bryant.
Surviving is her husband Ken Chaffins
whom she married on June 27, 1981.
Also surviving are a son; a daughter;
four brothers, including Tom Hirschy,
Bryant, and Dave Hirschy and Derryl
Hirschy, both of Geneva; one grandchild;
and several nieces and nephews.
Services are 2 p.m. Friday at Hope Missionary Church, 429 E. Dustman Road in
Bluffton, with Pastor Gary Aupperle officiating. Burial will be in Six Mile Cemetery
in Bluffton.
Visitation is 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday at
Downing & Glancy Funeral Home in Geneva and one hour prior to services Friday at
the church.
Memorials may be sent to the family or
HCM.org. Condolences may be sent to
www.glancyfuneralhomes.com.
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Pet of the week
This five-month-old old male labrador/coonhound mix pup is
available for adoption from the Jay County Animal Control Shelter,
2209 E. 100 South, Portland. There is no adoption fee. Call (260)
726-4365 before visiting.
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Markets
Closing prices as of Tuesday
Feb. corn ..................3.76
Trupointe
Fort Recovery
Corn ........................3.52 Central States
Dec. crop ..................3.66 Montpelier
Beans ......................10.27
Dec. beans ..............10.41
Wheat ......................5.05
Dec. wheat ..............5.15
Cooper Farms
Fort Recovery
Corn ........................3.61
Jan. crop ..................3.76
POET Biorefining
Portland
Nov. corn..................3.57
Dec. corn..................3.68
Jan. corn..................3.75
Corn ........................3.42
Jan. corn..................3.62
Beans ......................10.43
Jan. crop ................10.56
Wheat ......................5.30
New crop..................5.25
The Andersons
Richland Township
Corn ........................3.46
Dec. corn..................3.68
Beans ......................10.29
Dec. beans ..............10.49
Wheat ......................5.20
July wheat ..............5.31
Hospitals
Jay County
Hospital
Portland
Admissions
Portland — Baby boy
Kelly.
There were six admissions to the hospital
Tuesday, including:
Portland — Mallary
Kelly.
There were two dismissals.
Births
There was one bith.
Dismissals
Emergencies
There were 25 people
treated in the emergency rooms of Jay
County Hospital.
Citizen’s calendar
Wednesday
7 p.m. — Jay County
Council, commissioners’
room, Jay County Courthouse.
back/buffer areas for
Redkey and Salamonia,
auditorium, Jay County
Courthouse.
Monday
Thursday
6 p.m. — Bryant Town
Council, town hall, 107 E.
Main St.
7 p.m. — Jay County
Plan Commission, public
hearing on confined feeding
operations
set-
8 a.m. — Ridgeville
Town
Council,
library/fire station, 106
S. Walnut St.
9 a.m. — Jay County
Commissioners, commissioners’ room, Jay
County Courthouse.
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Continued from page 1
Johnson said he would
like to start the hiring
process this week to fulfill Geneva’s contract
with
South
Adams
Schools, with an SRO in
place before Bonesteel
leaves at the end of the
year
“I hate to say it, but I’m
getting pretty good at it,”
said Johnson of hiring
new officers.
Johnson assured those
on the council that,
regardless of what may
happen, an officer will be
at the school to fulfill the
contract until a new one
is hired.
After past approval to
put in an anoxic retrofit
for Geneva’s wastewater
treatment plant’s aeration tank town council
decided to go in a different direction.
Clerk-treasurer
Bill
Warren told council members that he and department
superintendent
Scott Smith recently
determined to change to a
second option — chemical
treatment — to give the
town more flexibility if
Indiana Department of
Environmental Management standards for phosphorous change.
Needing to be under one
part per million, the
chemical treatment trials
have put the wastewater
at 0.446 ppm.
The annual cost will be
around $18,000 for chemicals compared to the anoxic treatment, which would
have cost an estimated
$29,000 for installation but
also would have resulted
in energy savings.
Members unanimously
approved the change in
system, which will come
from Hawkins Water
Treatment Group, Muncie,
with an installation cost
estimated at $3,500.
In other business, the
council:
•Approved
a
third
change order and paid the
third claim to Fleming
Excavating Inc. for the
town’s water project,
which has seen the installation of 6-inch mains in a
span from U.S. 27.
The change order is a
$269.36 return to the town
and brings the third payment to $71,879.79. With
the project nearly complete, the total cost is
$691,720.74.
Members also approved
a $6,000 payment to Commonwealth Engineering
for its work as an onsite
resident project representative throughout the construction process.
•Heard
from
Pam
Krause, Geneva Chamber
and Geneva Proud executive
director,
about
upcoming holiday events.
Thanksgiving Dinner will
be hosted Nov. 27 at town
hall. Geneva’s downtown
Christmas open house
will be from 5 to 7 p.m.
Nov. 29, with Santa Claus
to arrive at 5:30 p.m. and
caroling and a wreath
lighting to begin at 6:30
p.m.
•Appointed Milligan as
Geneva’s representative
on the South Adams
Trails board.
Capsule Reports
Correction
Information about the 50th
anniversary celebration for Duane
and Louise Harter that was printed
in Tuesday’s edition of The Commercial Review was incorrect.
The celebration will be Saturday
at the Moose Lodge Ballroom in
Portland. An open house will be
held from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by a
’50s sock hop from 7 to 9 p.m.
Deer struck
A Union City man and Dunkirk
man were involved in deer accidents Tuesday in Jay County.
Thomas Bailey, 21, 7054 E. 900
South, Union City, told Jay County
Sheriff ’s Office he was traveling
north on county road 300 East
between county roads 500 South
and 600 South when a deer ran into
the roadway.
He was unable to avoid hitting the
animal with his 2000 Ford Ranger.
Damage in the 6:30 a.m. accident
was estimated to be less than $1,000.
Dewey Gibson, 57, 325 N. Main St.,
Dunkirk, told Jay County Sheriff ’s
Office he was driving west on county road 400 South near Ind. 67 when
a deer ran into the roadway.
He was unable to avoid hitting the
animal with his 1999 Chevrolet Silverado.
Damage in the 6:48 p.m. accident
was estimated to be between $1,000
and $2,500.
Cars struck
A Portland woman was involved
in an accident Tuesday night in
Portland.
Brenda Stephen, 35, 218 Pittsburgh Ave., told police she was
driving east on Elder Street near
Meridian Street when she lost control of her 2005 Chevrolet Impala. It
struck a parked 2000 Chrysler Cirrus LXI and a parked 1998 Chevrolet Blazer.
The Cirrus is registered to Peggy
Renner, 217 E. Elder St., Portland.
The Blazer is registered to Sierra
Ferrara, 217 E. Elder St., Portland.
Stephen left the scene of the accident and returned in a different car
about a half hour later to report it
to Renner.
While police were investigating
the accident, Ferrara informed
police Stephen’s car also struck the
Blazer. Damage in the 8:51 p.m. accident was estimated to be between
$5,000 and $10,000.
Rear end collision
Two Portland women were
involved in an accident Monday
morning in the city.
Dede Bisel, 43, 1210 N. Franklin
St., told police she was at Ben
Hawkins Avenue and Lafayette
Street when her northbound 2002
Pontiac Grand Prix GT struck the
back of a 2002 Ford SE, which was
stopped at the stop sign on Ben
Hawkins Avenue at Lafayette Street.
Catherine Nolan, 36, 1205 N. Ben
Hawkins Avenue, was driving the
2002 Ford SE.
Bisel said she thought the Ford
was moving forward so she accelerated.
Damage in the 8:05 a.m. accident
was estimated to be less than $1,000.
White fights to
appeal conviction
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
The next step in former
Indiana Secretary of State
Charlie White’s fight to
overturn his voter fraud
conviction is set for next
month.
The Indiana Court of
Appeals announced Monday that a panel of judges
will hear oral arguments
in White’s case on Dec. 9.
The Republican was
automatically removed
from office in February
2012 after a Hamilton
County jury convicted
him of six felonies. That
included using his exwife’s home in Fishers as
his voting address in 2010
while living elsewhere as
he served on the Indianapolis suburb’s town
council and campaigned
for secretary of state.
White maintains his
previous defense lawyer
provided
incompetent
counsel.
**ATTENTION **
The Jay County Assessor’s office will be
working on cyclical reassessment over the next
few months. Cyclical reassessment is an ongoing
process where the information/pictures must be
updated once every four years. Our office has
hired these individuals to take pictures of all
the properties in the county. They will have
identification tags on them and their vehicle.
You may call the Assessor’s office Monday
through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, if you have
any questions.
Local manufacturing
company is seeking
applicants for a salary
accounting position.
Candidate should have at minimum a two year degree in accounting.
Experience is a plus. Candidate should be proficient with Microsoft
Office applications and have excellent communication and
organizational skills. Primary responsibilities will include month end
financial statement preparation, fixed assets, product cost analysis,
sales, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.
Send resume to:
FCC (Indiana)
555 Industrial Park Road
Portland, In 47371
Attention: Human Resources Department
Family
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Donors total 100 at
Jay CC blood drive
BY VIRGINIA CLINE
Moore, Edith Dickey, Eva
Wyrick, Jean Rines, Bev
Bennett, Sandy Berg,
Susie Knittle, Norma
Cash, Betsi Skiver and
Merlyn Strohl.
The American Red
Cross Indiana-Ohio Blood
Services Region held a
blood drive Tuesday at Jay
Community Center with
100 donors.
Receiving gallon awards
were Rosalie Clamme-12
gallons, Joann Roessner-2
gallons and Linus Mescher-7 gallons.
Other donors were Tom
Clutter, Don Morehous,
Carol Mettert, Sandy
Shaver, Jerry Hummel,
Bichsel,
Jane
Stacy
Switzer, Michael Schmidt,
Daniels,
Susan
Amy
Shrock, Jackie Spencer,
John Roessner, Catherine
Gelhaus, Lilia Eyink,
Lemuel McCaffery, John
Knipp, Janice Wendel and
Lori Miller.
Also Dan Smith, Patricia Kaiser, Miranda Denney, Diane Bosworth,
Susan Byers, Jill Hemmelgarn, Tammy Gilbert,
Kari Champ, Ernest Benedict, Leona Benedict, Ashton Stewart, Linda Shreve,
Jeremy Roessner, Larry
Loyd, Bob Sours, Raymond Brandt and Eric
Rogers.
Also Darwin Johnson,
Marlene Runyon, Michael
Bichsel, Barry Geist,
Lynda Geist, June Schmit,
Denise Glentzer, Philip
Reese, Monica Ridenour,
Sara
Hough,
Pamela
Rogers, Stephen Malinowski, Rheta Kaufman,
Timothy Danielson, Della
Taking
Note
Annual dinner
Rockwell, Shane Pryor
and Ronald Laux.
Also Melissa Campofiore, Franklin Hogle,
Diana Dolecki, Eldon
Campbell, Darrell Borders, Lori Bantz, Michael
Eads, Mary Laux, Karen
Gibson, Sean Knutson,
Stephanie Castillo, Sondra
Lewis, Robert Kaufman,
Constance Ronald, James
Fry II, Joyce Koenig and
Kimbra Thomas.
Also Susan Sommers,
Catherine Fugiett, Troy
Atkinson, Margaret Reier,
Adrianne Detro, Gary
McMillan, Charles Bentz,
Paula Barron, Andy Wendel, Robert Skiver, Nicolas
Setser, Janice Rittenhouse, Kevin Keller and
Shiann Pace.
Also Amanda Schwartz,
Robert Smith, Connie
Coleman, Steven Swingley,
James Humbles, Greg Rittenhouse, Marvin Starr,
Susan Myers, Monty
Sibery, Paula Sibery,
Richard Johnston, Ann
Roth, Neal Roth and Pat
Daniels.
Volunteering were Carol
Stephens, Barb Bruner,
Norma Bickel, Staci Bichsel, Shirley Herrin, Linda
The Jay County Historical Society annual dinner
will be held at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday at Asbury United
Methodist
Church in
Portland. Doors will open
at 6 p.m. Enter through the
north elevator entrance.
The cost of the meal is
$10, and reservations must
be made by 4 p.m. today at
the Jay County Historical
Museum, 903 E. Main St.
in Portland.
The program will be
“Happenings in Jay County 100 Years Ago” and will
highlight the 1914 construction of Portland’s
concrete bow string arch
bridge.
Anyone may attend the
program, which will begin
at 7:15 p.m., without a
reservation.
Enroll online
Jay County students
may now enroll for 4-H
online at https://in.4honline.com. Enrollment may
also be done from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. weekdays at
the Jay County Purdue
Extension office in Portland.
Registration deadline is
Jan. 15, 2015. For more
information, call (260) 7264707.
Photo provided
Scholarship
Chandler S. Mick was awarded a four-year Army Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps scholarship. He plans to attend The Citadel in
South Carolina where he will be a member of the ROTC Corps of
Cadets. A 2014 graduate of Winchester Community High School, he is
the son of Scott R. Mick, Parker City, and the grandson of Connie
Muhlenkamp, Portland, and Phyllis R. Mick, Otisco.
Booklet can help when writing thank-yous
DEAR ABBY: The issue of
thank-you notes comes up often
in your column. May I share
how I learned to write them?
When I was young, my mother
asked me one day why I was so
resistant. I said I hated addressing them and I never knew what
to say! It was overwhelming to
me.
Mother taught me some
phrases such as, “I appreciate
your thoughtfulness,” and ways
to close like, “I hope to see you
again soon.” She gently reminded me that the sooner I wrote,
the easier it would be to express
words of gratitude. She also
made a deal with me: If I quit
Dear
Abby
complaining and procrastinating, she’d address them for me
until I turned 18.
When I turned 18 she gave me
an address book filled with the
addresses of our family and
friends, beautiful new stationery and a book of stamps. In
case you’re curious, my 18th
birthday gifts were all acknowledged with thank-you notes
addressed by me! I’m 22 now,
and I have never missed a note.
— SARAH B., ANSONIA,
CONN.
DEAR SARAH B.: Thank you
for your charming letter. Your
m other was not only a good
negotiator, she also taught you a
skill that will be valuable as you
grow older.
I print letters about this subject so often because of the number of complaints I receive
about the failure to receive a
thank-you note. When a gift (or
check) isn’t acknowledged, the
message it sends is that the item
was n’t appreciated, which is
insulting and hurtful.
Chief among the reasons people don’t send thank-you notes is
that they don’t know what to say
and are afraid they’ ll say the
wrong thi ng. That’s why my
booklet, “How to Write Letters,”
was written. It contains samples
of thank-you letters for birthday
gifts, shower gifts and wedding
gifts, as well as those that arrive
around holi day tim e. It also
includes letters of congratulations and ones re garding dif ficult topics — including letters
of condolence for the loss of a
parent, spouse or a child. It can
be ordered by sending name,
mailing address, plus check or
money order for $7 (U.S. funds),
to Dear Abby Letters Booklet,
P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL
61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
Use it to tailor your own messages. With the holiday season
approaching and people sending
gifts and g reetings through the
end of the year, this is the perfect time to reply with a handwritten letter, note or well-written email.
My booklet can provide a
helpful tutorial, and is particularly valuable for parents as a
way to teach their children how
to write using proper etiquette.
Community Calendar
Notices will appear in
the Community Calendar
as space is available. To
submit an item, call family editor Virginia Cline at
(260) 726-8141.
Today
STATE OF THE HEART
HOSPICE ADULT GRIEF
SUPPORT GROUP — Will
begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Portland office,
1237 W. Votaw St. in Port-
land. For more information, call (260) 726-3220.
COMMUNITY RELATIONS TEAM — Will play
euchre at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the
telephone warehouse, 301
E. Sixth St. in Portland.
The public is invited.
PARENT
SUPPORT
GROUP — For special
needs children of any age,
the group will meet at 6
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p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at General Shanks Elementary.
For more information,
call Susan Williams at
(260) 726-2004 or Holly
Tonak at (260) 726-8868.
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, will meet at
6:30 p.m. each Wednesday
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Opinion
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Poet’s powerful words still endure
By JACK RONALD
A poet died last week, a guy
you’ve probably never heard of.
That’s not unusual. Most poets
go through life unknown by the
larger public. Most try to content
themselves with the notion — or
delusion — that their work will
live on after them, that they’ll be
read after their bones are crumbling in the grave.
Chances are, that won’t happen. But it provides a measure of
comfort.
In our time, only a handful of
poets have become household
names: Robert Frost, to be sure,
but after that the list gets pretty
short.
For better or worse, most have
never heard of — let alone read —
Billy Collins or Donald Hall or
Jane Kenyon or Howard
Nemerov or James Fenton or
Back
in the
Saddle
James Dickey or Theodore
Roethke, to name just a few of the
dozens on my shelves.
But they’re out there, scribbling, trying to create something
of lasting beauty or lasting
impact with their words on the
page.
They tend to make themselves
felt not through mass audiences
but via one-on-one connections
with individual readers. That’s
when the magic happens, when a
solitary reader — separated per-
haps by a generation or a continent from the poet — gets it, feels
the spark the poet was hoping to
kindle.
A poet died last week, a guy
whose work sent that spark
through me, lighting a fire, humbling me and inspiring at the
same time.
His name was Galway Kinnell.
I first read his work as part of
an assignment in college and
liked his voice. While we were on
our honeymoon I bought his fifth
book of poems, and I’ve acquired
more over the years.
But when I read of his death
over the AP wire, two particular
poems jumped into my memory
vividly.
One was a piece called “The
Bear,” which is stark and grisly in
its imagery and vision. The other
was a poem the title of which I
couldn’t remember, but I remembered how it affected me.
It begins with a father at the
crib of his crying infant in the
nighttime, and its focus is on the
fragile nature of our existence.
When I came home for lunch
that day and put some soup on the
stove, I started prowling through
the bookcases in my study until I
found it.
Then I read it again. And even
though I hadn’t picked up that
particular volume in decades, the
lines were all familiar, like an old
coat taken out of the closet that
still fits.
“You scream, waking from a
nightmare,” the poem begins.
“When I sleepwalk/into your
room, and pick you up,/and hold
you up in the moonlight, you
cling to me/hard,/as if clinging
could save us. I think/you think/I
will never die, I think I exude/to
you the permanence of smoke or
stars,/even as/my broken arms
heal themselves around you.”
With words that still echo in my
head, the poet talks of love and
fear and mortality, “being forever/in the pre-trembling of a
house that falls.”
The poet’s mortality, the
infant’s mortality and the reader’s mortality are all just as fleeting and fragile and precious and
worth savoring.
As the poem ends, the father
puts the infant back in the crib
and says, “when I come back/we
will go out together,/we will walk
out together among/the ten thousand things,/each scratched too
late with such knowledge, the
wages/of dying is love.”
Galway Kinnell died last week.
The poems survive.
Police reforms
are a necessity
Bloomberg News
President
Mexican
Enrique Pena Nieto clearly
sees his epochal economic
reforms as his legacy. Yet
for the growing number of
Mexican citizens taking to
the streets, what stands out
is his government’s failure
to protect them.
That failure is reflected
in the widespread anguish
and outrage over the disappearance of 43 students on
Sept. 26. The victims were
kidnapped in Iguala, the
third-biggest city in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s poorest and most violent states.
The accused are a vicious,
all-too-familiar cabal of
criminal gangs, police and
local officials.
Iguala’s mayor, who
reportedly instigated the
assault, and his wife,
whose family belonged to a
narco gang that supplies
heroin to the United States,
have been arrested. So
were 36 police officers suspected of being on the
gang’s payroll. The state’s
governor has gone on
indefinite leave. Still missing, however, are the students — although gang
members have confessed to
killing them and burning
their bodies, no conclusive
forensic identification has
been made, even as authorities have also unearthed
38 sets of remains from
nearly a dozen unmarked
sites dotting Iguala’s scrub
hillsides. Meanwhile, the
administration’s belated
and insensitive handling
of the case has sparked
nationwide protest and
political crisis.
Pena Nieto had resolutely tried to divert attention
from Mexico’s epic mayhem to its economic potential, pointing to a declining
homicide rate as proof that
things are getting better.
But the numbers are
sketchy,
reflecting
a
decline in big gang feuds
more than effective policing. And there has been a
rise in kidnapping, extortion and other crimes.
Then there are incidents
such as the nightmare in
Iguala, as well as the
killing by Mexican soldiers
in June of at least 12 and as
many as 15 people in
Tlataya. Although that
incident was initially
described as a shootout
with gang members, Mexico’s national human-rights
commission reported that
soldiers tampered with evidence, as well as tortured
and threatened survivors
to support their story.
Pena Nieto took office
two years ago pledging to
focus on reducing crime
Guest
Editorial
and violence more than
dismantling drug- trafficking organizations. Unfortunately, as a forthcoming
Institution
Brookings
report details, his efforts to
differentiate his approach
from that of his predecessor have amounted to little
more than a redrawing of
the org chart.
If Pena Nieto wants his
constituents to feel and be
safer, he should pursue
reform of Mexico’s existing police forces with the
vigor, commitment and
ingenuity he has brought
to opening its energy and
telecommunications markets. Police, after all, are a
state’s most visible face. In
Mexico, however, they are
mostly a source of fear and
contempt: In 2010, for
instance, 90 percent of
Mexicans said they had little or no confidence in
their local police, and 75
percent said the same
about federal police.
The Iguala case illuminates many aspects of the
problem, beginning with
pay. According to one
investigator, the police
were being paid $460 a
month by the city — and
$770 a month by their gang
bosses, despite a decree
that all Mexican police be
vetted for corruption and
links to organized crime by
October 2013. Even when
there is scrutiny, the
process lacks credibility:
In
crime-ridden
Chihuahua, for instance, an
incredible 98 percent of a
12,000-person force was
found to pass muster.
At any rate, vetting individuals isn’t enough.
Accrediting departments
and agencies can help to
instill and enforce higher
standards. And an independent police auditor
would be more effective at
detecting and punishing
police abuses than the current reliance on an internal inspector general. The
list of such police force
reforms is long, and carrying them out will take
decades, not years.
Still, without them, Pena
Nieto’s hopes for Mexico’s
economic future will go
unrealized, as public fears
about crime may be hampering economic growth.
Before a nation can dream,
it must be able to sleep
safely.
Ag opportunities are bountiful
By BILL STANCZYKIEWICZ
Growing more food to feed the
world will require growing more
kids to work in agriculture.
According to Future Farmers of
America (FFA), we need to produce
as much food in the next 40 years as
we produced in the previous 8,000
years because of the projected
growth in the world’s population.
Indiana remains central to meeting this need. Indiana is the ninth
most productive ag state in the
nation, with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture ranking the Hoosier
State among the nation’s top five
states in producing tomatoes, corn,
soybeans, cantaloupe, ducks, chickens, hogs and eggs. At snack time,
Indiana ranks second in growing
popcorn and making ice cream.
The Indiana Business Research
Center (IBRC) reports that agriculture contributes at least $25 billion
to the state’s economy, and the data
add up to career opportunities for
young people.
“There are more than 300 careers
in agriculture,” said Josh Bledsoe,
FFA’s chief operations officer. “It
starts with the farm and ranch in
production agriculture, but then all
the way to the plate there are tons of
career opportunities once the product has left the farm.”
Bledsoe said the academic pathways leading to these careers range
from a high school diploma to a doctoral degree. “We need folks who
will be plant geneticists, folks who
will go into agricultural research.
We need folks who will understand
processing and food science. We also
need people in marketing and communications as well as folks in ag
law.
“When you think about any
career that a student may be inter-
Bill
Stanczykiewicz
ested in, think about applying that
in the agricultural setting.”
Including skills in computer technology. Beck’s Hybrids, headquartered in Indiana, is the nation’s
largest family-owned seed company.
Director of Public Relations Bruce
Kettler explained that technology —
from robotics to satellites to computer imaging — is essential to the
company’s expanding operations.
“The technology in agriculture is
incredible, and the amount of
change is phenomenal,” Kettler
declared. “A lot of people might
think you jump on the tractor and
turn the key. But the technology
requires people who have the ability
to use electronics and computers.”
For example, computer technology on tractors and combines allows
farmers to follow the exact same
pathway across the farm field
throughout the season, from planting to harvesting and all steps in
between. This allows farmers to precisely measure an acre’s yield by the
square foot, pinpointing exact locations that need more fertilizer or
less, more water or less, or even
where a big rock is blocking plant
growth. Similarly, computer technology is used to properly dry harvested seeds and then stack and load
packaged seeds for delivery.
“A lot of people probably don’t
think about computer programmers
and our industry, but we need peo-
ple with that background,” Kettler
said.
And more people from many backgrounds. Kettler described how hiring at Beck’s has increased by 400
percent over the last five years. “As
the industry grows and expands, the
need for people with varying talents
is incredible due to the amount of
growth we’re experiencing,” said
Kettler, who stated that his own job
did not exist three years ago.
The most direct pathway into
agribusiness is available to students
who have agricultural classes and
agricultural topics integrated into
other classes in high school. For students in schools without that curriculum, Bledsoe recommends gaining a solid education in science,
math and technology.
“Make sure you’re getting that
well-rounded education that will
allow you to further your education
in agriculture,” Bledsoe said.
“Whether you’re interested in going
into the workforce right out of high
school or going to school for two or
four or even more years, there are
opportunities for you.”
Indiana is enjoying a record harvest season, and even larger harvests will be needed in the future to
satisfy the world’s increasing need
for food. The amount of land utilized for farming has decreased by
at least 25 percent since 1950. Therefore, growing more food will require
more technology and more people.
As Bledsoe emphasized, “You are
going into the global workforce
when you go into agriculture, and
the opportunities are endless.”
••••••••••
Stanczykiewicz is President &
CEO of the Indiana Youth Institute.
He can be reached at [email protected]
and followed @_billstan.
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Marriage ban
is struck down
CHARLESTON,
S.C.
(AP) — A federal judge
struck down South Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage today, though marriage licenses can’t immediately be handed out.
U.S. District Judge
Richard Gergel gave state
Attorney General Alan
Wilson a delay until Nov.
20.
A spokesman for Wilson
said he’s reviewing the
ruling.
Last month, Colleen
Condon
and
Nichols
Bleckley applied for a
same-sex
marriage
license in Charleston
County.
The U.S. Supreme Court
last month refused to hear
an appeal of a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
decision allowing samesex marriage in Virginia.
That development opened
the way for same-sex marriages in other states in
the 4th Circuit. South Carolina was the only state in
the circuit refusing to
allow such marriages.
Meanwhile, the nation’s
highest court was considering Wednesday whether
to block Kansas from
enforcing its ban on gay
marriage while federal
courts review a legal challenge. The American Civil
Liberties Union filed a
lawsuit last month on
behalf of two lesbian couples who were denied marriage licenses.
A federal judge ordered
the state to stop enforcing
its ban as of 5 p.m. Tuesday — when county courthouses were closed for
Veterans Day. Kansas
Attorney General Derek
Schmidt appealed to U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Sotomayor.
Associated Press/Heng Sinith
Fish prep
Cambodian vendors prepare fish and food today for selling to workers in front of a
factory, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Still ...
The calendar calls for the first
day of school to be on a Tuesday
(Aug. 11) and the last day on a
Thursday (May 19). Fall break
will be Oct. 21 through 23, with a
two-week winter break and oneweek spring break.
“I just appreciate the fact that
we took into account the information that people gave us when we
did the survey,” said Mansfield.
The calendar most closely mirrors that of Jay Schools, which
takes a two-day fall break.
While the board approved the
calendar, Litwiller decided to take
one more month before finalizing
plans to implement a three-hour
delay policy.
The board has been discussing
the possibility of having the
option of a three-hour delay for
several months, with hopes that it
could save a day or two per year
during inclement weather.
While some parents expressed
concerns about a three-hour
delay, which would require
extending the school day by an
hour, 70 percent of those sur-
‘I just appreciate the fact
that we took into account the
information that people gave
us when we did the survey.’
—Julie Mansfield,
South Adams School Board
veyed were in favor of the option.
Fifty-five percent of teachers
were also in support.
“We’re heading in that direction,” said Litwiller, noting that
he has a few details he still wants
to iron out before bringing the
policy to the board. “We don’t
want to abandon two-hour delays.
We want to try to use three-hour
delays in conjunction with twohour delays.”
Litwiller also reported that
progress is being made toward
creating a welding class for the
2015-16 school year. Students who
have been surveyed have shown
interest in such a class, he said,
and he will continue to work with
area businesses to establish an
advisory board and find an
instructor.
Additionally, he informed the
board that South Adams’ state
funding for career and technical
education (CTE) of $126,625 is
down more than $65,000 from last
year. That decrease is because
South Adams has more than 100
fewer students enrolled in CTE
courses this year — it expected
some of the downturn because it
is no longer offering a consumer
science class — and the state has
cut funding for certain programs.
For example, per-student funding was cut to $250 from $375 for
both introduction to engineering
and introduction to agriculture.
Overall, South Adams has seen
its funding drop from about $610
per CTE student in 2003-04 to
about $390 per student this year.
After the meeting, Mann
expressed concern that the state
is cutting such funding while at
the same time emphasizing the
importance of technical and
vocational education.
“There needs to be a rational
for why they’re cutting,” said
Mann. “Give me some justification of this. There isn’t, I don’t
believe.”
In other business, the board:
•Honored examples of excellence, including SAHS students
Ellerie Baer, Sydne Zuber, Sidney
Sprunger, Aidan Bahre, Laramie
Schwartz
and
Brayden
Collingsworth, who were selected
to be part of the 260-member All
State Honors Choir. Also honored
SAHS science teacher Michael
Baer, who won the 2014 Excellence in Education Award for
Indiana from AdvanceEd.
•Approved a Family Medical
Leave Act leave of absence for
Lisa Brotherton.
•Hired Margie Dobler (Project
Lead the Way Club sponsor),
Gary Daniels (19-hour custodian)
and Kyle Glidewell (volunteer
middle school basketball coach).
•Approved rates for health
insurance for teachers and qualifying support staff. The school
will pay 80 percent of the cost of
two of the plans it offers and flat
rates for two additional plans that
have higher deductibles.
•OK’d an overnight field trip
request for the SAHS wrestling
team Dec. 26 and 27 to Indianapolis for the Ben Davis Invitational.
•Approved on second and final
reading a school board policy that
states “the board prohibits
fundraising that involves games
of chance that require the
issuance of a license.”
Unveiled ...
Whitesell said the design
process continues as engineers
work with street and park superintendent Ryan Myers and other officials to figure out specifics regarding construction and pool systems.
The engineers considered community input when designing the
water park and made changes
accordingly,” said Whitesell.
“As we worked through the
design process, there’s always evolution from conception to what
you finally do to improve the
design,” he added.
Poor soil samples on the south
side of the current pool site forced
HWC Engineers to rework some of
the layout of the park, pushing the
facility about 40 feet to the north.
To meet requests from the Jay
County Summer Swim Team, the
competition pool was changed
from 25 yards in length to 25
meters. It will be 42 inches deep on
the south side and 6 feet deep on
the north side where the diving
blocks will be located.
Community members were also
interested in a concession stand,
so the design includes plan for a
basic concession stand, Whitesell
said.
“We think this is a good addition
that didn’t add a lot of costs to the
facility,” he said.
The slide was moved from the center of the water park to the west side
to give the swim team access to both
sides of the competition pool. The
change also creates space to add
another slide in the future if the
city wishes to.
An added feature is the toddler
and baby area, which includes a
wall that sits about 18-inches high to
separate it from the rest of the pool.
There is also a sunbathing area on
the northwest side of the facility
that creates additional space for
audiences during swim events.
“We’ve done everything we can to
give what we can but also stay with
the budget we started in at the
beginning,”
Mayor
Randy
Geesaman said. “I think we’ve done
a really good job of providing as
much as we possibly can.”
Whitesell said the engineers and
the city wanted to make sure they
had a majority of the design complete before demolition begins.
“We’ve just been very prudent,
making sure we didn’t get ahead of
ourselves with demolition. We
wanted to make sure schedule was
going to work out, we wanted to
make sure we understood what the
design was really going to look
like,” he said. “It just made us cautious because we had a little bit of
time to work on that.”
Although park board members
didn’t give a specific date for when
demolition would begin, Myers and
Runkle said it would begin soon.
The new water park is expected to
be open for a portion of summer
2015.
“If we get a good spring, fingers
crossed, the pool opens sooner. If we
get bad weather, it’s going to be very
late in the season before the pool
can open,” Whitesell said.
John Young, co-chair of the water
park’s fundraising committee, said
fundraising efforts are going well.
“The fundraising program has
gone forward with incredible enthusiasm from over 60 people who have
pitched in,” he said. “The community has done very well.
“That last $100,000 is going to be
daunting, but we’re going to make
it.”
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Fort plans to be revealed Sunday
By RAY COONEY
Each time a patron entered
the doors to Fort Recovery State
Museum, Nancy Knapke would
explain that drawings of Fort
Recovery were based on speculation. No plans for the fort existed.
Soon, she’ll have a different
story to tell.
Within the last year, plans for
Fort Recovery surfaced after a
descendent of one of General
Anthony Wayne’s officers put a
group of about 2,300 documents
up for sale.
Those plans will be revealed
locally Sunday, when several historians present “Recently Discovered Fort Plans in Burbeck
Collection” at 3 p.m. Sunday at
Fort Recovery Nazarene Church.
“Saying that I was excited
would probably be putting it
mildly,” said Knapke, Fort
‘Saying that
I was excited
would probably
be putting
it mildly.’
—Nancy Knapke,
Fort Recovery State
Museum director
Recovery State Museum director, of learning about the documents’ existance. “I would have
said some disbelief, except that I
knew the sources were extremely credible.”
Plans for Fort Recovery were
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2 to 8 p.m.
Delaware County
Fairgrounds
1210 N. Wheeling Ave.
Muncie
Black Violin
Concert
7:30 p.m.
Pruis Hall
Ball State University
Muncie
Thursday
Blue Man Group
Concert
7:30 p.m.
Embassy Theatre
125 W. Jefferson Blvd.
Fort Wayne
Fusing Holiday
Ornaments
Glass workshop
6 to 9 p.m.
Minnetrista Center
1200 W. Minnetrista
Muncie
Shrek the Musical
8 p.m.
Arts United Center
303 E. Main St.
Fort Wayne
Blue Man Group
Concert
7:30 p.m.
Embassy Theatre
Fort Wayne
Music Therapy Student
and Alumni Recital
Concert
7:30 p.m.
Rhinehart Recital Hall
IPFW
Fort Wayne
Singinʼ in the Rain
Musical
7:30 p.m.
Huntington University
2303 College Avenue
Huntington
Justin Moore
Concert
7:30 p.m.
Allen County War
Memorial Coliseum
4000 Parnell Ave.
Fort Wayne
Holiday Bazaar
and Book Fair
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Swiss Village
1350 W. Main St.
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Williams Theatre
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How I Learned to Drive
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Muncie Civic Theatre
216 E. Main St.
Muncie
Piano Studio Showcase
Concert
7:30 p.m.
IPFW
Fort Wayne
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thought to have been destroyed
when the British burned Washington, D.C., during the War of
1812. But the recently-discovered
documents, which were purchased and then donated to the
University
of
Michigan’s
William L. Clements Library,
prove otherwise.
The collection donated to the
library included plans for four
forts — Fort Mackinac and Fort
Detroit in Michigan, and Fort
Recovery and Fort Defiance in
Ohio.
Henry Burbeck was responsible for building the fort, said historian David Heckaman, who
will be part of Sunday’s presentation.
He noted that in December
1793 Wayne sent Burbeck, his
artillery officer, and others to
“recover” the area that had been
lost to the Native Americans
during St. Clair’s Defeat two
Musical
7:30 p.m.
2303 College Avenue
Huntington
Holiday Gift
& Craft Bazaar
7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Selma Elementary School
200 S. East St.
Selma
Saturday
Holiday Handcraftersʼ
Showcase
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Delaware County
Fairgrounds
1210 N. Wheeling Ave.
Muncie
How I Learned to Drive
Play
8 p.m.
216 E. Main St.
Muncie
Turkey Time
Science event
11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Foellinger-Freimann
Botanical Conservatory
1100 S Calhoun St.
Fort Wayne
Play
8 p.m.
Williams Theatre
IPFW
Fort Wayne
Tree Lighting
and Santaʼs Arrival
Holiday event
7 p.m.
Jefferson Pointe
Shopping Center
Fort Wayne
Hamfest and
Computer Expo
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Allen County War
Memorial Coliseum
4000 Parnell Ave.
Fort Wayne
Musical
2 and 7:30 p.m.
2303 College Avenue
Huntington
Good Morning Starshine
Children’s event
10 a.m.
Sunday
Shrek the Musical
216 E. Main St.
2 p.m.
Muncie
Arts United Center
303 E. Main St.
Dan St. Paul
Fort Wayne
Concert
8 p.m.
St. Clair Memorial Hall
Play
215 W. 4th St.
8
p.m.
Greenville, Ohio
Williams Theatre
IPFW
Dancing with
Fort Wayne
the BIG Stars
Fundraising event
Hamfest and
1 p.m.
Computer Expo
The Overdrive
9 a.m. to noon
3769 U.S. 127
Allen County War
Celina, Ohio
Memorial Coliseum
4000 Parnell Ave.
Wassenberg Artistsʼ
Fort Wayne
Exhibit and Sale
6 to 8 p.m.
Wassenberg Art Center
Mother 4 5 and 7even
Play
214 S. Washington St.
Van Wert, Ohio
7 p.m.
Embassy Theatre
Shrek the Musical
8 p.m.
Fort Wayne
Arts United Center
303 E. Main St.
Monday
Fort Wayne
Fusing Holiday
Ornaments
Glass workshop
6 to 9 p.m.
Minnetrista Center
1200 W. Minnetrista
Muncie
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years earlier. Wayne gave
instructions for how to build the
fort, but left some of the details,
such as location, up to Burbeck.
One of the major discoveries,
Heckaman said, is that the
Burbeck papers include the
fort’s dimensions, which show it
to be a 32-by-32-foot square. Historians had long speculated that
its walls were 100 feet long.
“So it’s really a small fort,”
said Heckaman. “And at one
point during the battle I think
they might have put about 300
guys in there, which is really
tight. It really gives us a sense of
how it actually was.”
Native Americans attacked
Fort Recovery about six months
after Burbeck and his team set
out to build it, Heckaman
explained, but they were unable
to take it.
Sunday’s presentation will
also include David Cox, a histo-
Park Explorations
Nature event
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Shawnee Prairie
Preserve Nature Center
4267 W. Ohio 502
Greenville, Ohio
Flute Studio and
Ensemble Recital
Concert
7:30 p.m.
IPFW
Fort Wayne
Joe Bonamassa
Concert
8 p.m.
Embassy Theatre
Fort Wayne
Trombone
Ensemble Recital
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday
rian from Greenville, David Simmons of the Ohio History Connection and Ball State University archaeologist Christine
Thompson, who has been working with students to excavate the
area of the fort.
The free event is scheduled to
last about an hour, with a question-and-answer session to follow. Doors will open at 2 p.m. to
allow visitors to view some of
the artifacts Thompson and her
team have uncovered.
“Anyone who’s interested in
the history of Fort Recovery and
this military history and the
important events that happened
there, I think they’ll be really
curious to hear what they have
to say and to ask questions,” said
Knapke, who said about 50 museum patrons have already told
her they plan to attend. “There
will be more definitive answers
now.”
IPFW
Fort Wayne
MSO Outreach
String Quartet
Concert
2 p.m.
Westminster Village
5801 W. Bethel Ave.
Muncie
Wednesday, Nov. 19
Thursday, Nov. 20
Christmas at
the Courthouse
6:30 p.m.
120 N. Court St.
Jay County Courthouse
Portland
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Sports
Horned
Frogs
climb
ranks
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
TCU still has Baylor
beat in the College
Football Playoff rankings — even though the
Bears got the better of
the Horned Frogs on
the field.
The Horned Frogs
moved up to fourth in
the rankings released
Tuesday night, while
the Bears were up to
seventh, closing the
gap between themselves and their Big 12
rivals.
“For the third consecutive week, the committee looked at the
overall body of work,
their strength of schedule, and looked at the
number of top 25
wins,”
committee
chairman Jeff Long
said. “TCU has two top
25 wins and Baylor has
one. And TCU’s loss is a
top-10 loss. When you
put all those factors
together, we still think
at this time TCU has a
better résumé and was
voted that way ahead
of Baylor. “
Oregon (9-1) jumped
undefeated
Florida
State and moved into
second. The Seminoles
(9-0) slipped to No. 3.
Mississippi
State
remained No. 1.
The Ducks now have
three wins against
teams currently in the
top 25 (Michigan State,
UCLA, Utah). Florida
State has beaten two
teams in the top 25
(Notre Dame and Clemson).
Long said the committee had a long discussion about the merits of the Ducks and
Seminoles, and decided
to look beyond the
record.
“It was a very close
call, but the committee
placed
significant
value on Oregon’s quality of wins against
three top 25 teams, two
of which were on the
road,” Long said.
Page 9
Limiting turnovers key for JC
By CHRIS SCHANZ
If there’s one thing that
hurt the Patriots last season, it was turnovers.
Chris Krieg is hopeful
the Jay County High
School girls basketball
team can keep that number
to a minimum this year.
“Right now we’re going
to live and die by our
turnovers,” said Krieg,
whose team opens its season at 7 p.m. Friday at
home against Monroe Central. “We have to keep those
in check. Turnovers (are)
all fundamentals, and we
just have to make sure we
take care of the basketball.”
The Patriots, who finished 7-13 last season, averaged more than 20
turnovers a game. It’s an
issue Krieg said has been
around since he took over
the job in 2010.
“It’s just one of those
things that’s hard to swallow as a coach,” he said,
adding he would rather see
turnovers from being too
aggressive on the attacking
end rather than because of
lazy passes.
Jay County returns five
of its top six scorers, losing
only Katie Aker to graduation. Bre McIntire led the
scoring effort with 9.3
points per game, followed
by Catherine Dunn (7.5
PPG) and Aker (6.5 PPG).
McIntire and Dunn are
the only seniors on the
squad, and will also be
returning as starters.
Sophomore Taylor Homan
and juniors Abby Wendel
and Ava Kunkler will join
them in the starting lineup.
Wendel was fourth on the
team in scoring last season,
averaging 4.6 points per
game, with Kunkler (4.5
PPG) and Homan (4.4 PPG)
close behind.
“Right now I have five
girls that can score,” Krieg
said. “I can have my top
five girls average eight, 10
points a game.”
In addition to Aker, the
Patriots will be without
Amber Huelskamp and
Abbi Dunlavy. The trio
played in all 20 games as
seniors, and Krieg said he
will use the depth of his
bench to make up for their
loss.
Junior
Lyla
Muhlenkamp, sophomore Britlyn Dues and freshmen
The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz
Pictured is the 2014-15 Jay County High School girls basketball team. Front row are Lyla
Muhlenkamp, Catherine Dunn and Britlyn Dues. Middle row are Taylor Homan, Emily Muhlenkamp, Bre
McIntire and Kyndal Miller. Back row are Abby Wendel, Ava Kunkler, Hanna Ault, Audrey Shreve and Betzy
Muhlenkamp.
Hanna Ault and Betzy
Muhlenkamp
will
be
among the first off the
bench for the Patriots.
Additionally, three sophomores — Audrey Shreve,
Emily Muhlenkamp and
Kyndal Miller — will also
play in reserve roles.
After hosting the Golden
Bears on Friday, Jay County will be at home against
Bellmont Nov. 21 and Winchester Nov. 22, with its
first road game to follow
Nov. 25 at Fort Wayne
South Side. It is the same
four opponents the Patriots
began with last season,
with their only loss in that
stretch a thumping by
South Side in the season
opener.
The change in schedule
— Jay County also has six
new opponents as it joins
the Allen County Athletic
Conference — has forced
Krieg to change his preparation in the preseason.
“It’s giving us a different
perspective as far as what
to prepare for,” he said.
“Last year at this time we
were preparing to play the
quickest team we’ll see all
year long (in South Side).
“This year, we spent
more time focusing on our
offense and defense, getting
as much in as we can and
doing things right.”
Jay County begins its
inaugural season in the
ACAC at home Nov. 28
against Woodlan, and will
entertain Leo and Adams
Central Dec. 6 and 12
respectively in Portland.
The Patriots have road
games against New Castle
(Dec. 4) and Muncie Central
(Dec. 9) in the middle of its
home conference schedule.
Beginning Dec. 16, the
Patriots will go more than a
month between regularseason home games, as
they play six contests away
from Portland.
The conference tournament begins Jan. 13, with
opening-round games at
host sites with the semifinals and championship
games at South Adams. Jay
County then closes out its
road schedule Jan. 20 at
Pendleton Heights before
ending the regular season
with five straight home
games.
“Road games are tough,”
Krieg said. “We just never
know the environment
we’re going to play in. We
have to do our best, go out
there and be ready to play
mentally and physically
every night.”
JCHS girls basketball
Date
Opponent
Friday, Nov. 14
Monroe Central
Friday, Nov. 21
Bellmont
Saturday, Nov. 22
Winchester
Tuesday, Nov. 25
FW South Side
Friday, Nov. 28
Woodlan
Thursday, Dec. 4
New Castle
Saturday, Dec. 6
Leo
Tuesday, Dec. 9
Muncie Central
Friday, Dec. 12
Adams Central
Tuesday, Dec. 16
Blackford
South Adams
Saturday, Dec. 20
Saturday, Jan 3
Fort Recovery
Tuesday, Jan. 6
Concordia
Friday, Jan. 9
Bluffton
Tuesday, Jan. 13
ACAC Tourney
ACAC Tourney
Thursday, Jan. 15
Saturday, Jan. 17
ACAC Tourney
Tuesday, Jan. 20
Pendleton Heights
Thursday, Jan. 22
Muncie Burris
Saturday, Jan. 24
Southern Wells
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Richmond
Saturday, Jan. 31
Heritage
Thursday, Feb. 5
Delta
Home games in bold
New to the program this
season is Pazia (Speed)
Williams. The 2010 JCHS
graduate, who went on to
play at Huntington University and finished 10th on
the Foresters’ all-time scoring list, is joining the coaching staff as an assistant.
Time
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
Noon
Noon
6:15 p.m.
6 p.m.
TBA
TBA
TBA
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
6 p.m.
“She brings the knowledge of what it takes to play
at the next level,” Krieg
said of Williams. “The kids
have a lot of respect for her.
Her hard work and dedication has taken off and we
are so excited to have her
on staff this year.”
Cope, Moore qualify for national meet
Dylan Cope and Hannah Moore
had their share of high school
success, but neither was able to
break through and reach the state
finals. Now, they’re both headed
to the national stage.
Cope, a 2013 Jay County High
School graduate, and Moore, a
2012 South Adams graduate, each
earned berths in the National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NAIA) National Championships with their efforts in
Saturday’s cross country conference championships.
Moore earned a sixth-place finish to lead Huntington University
to a third-place effort in the
Crossroads League Championships at Taylor. She was one of
just seven runners to break the
19-minute mark, finishing in 18
minutes, 55.9 seconds, in the 5K
race.
The effort earned her all-league
honors for the second time in
three years.
Cope had the second-fastest finish for the Indiana University
East men’s team at the Kentucky
Intercollegiate Conference Championships. His time of 27:45 in the
8K race was good for ninth overall and earned him the meet’s
final national-qualifying spot.
The sophomore also earned allconference honors.
Moore and Cope will compete
at the NAIA National Meet at Rim
Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kan.
The Blue Raider quartet won
the event in 1:42.83 to earn an
“A” cut for the national meet in
March. It is the third event in
which Lykins, a LWC freshman,
earned a national cut.
Collegiate
Check-up
Neal Fennig
Jay County – 2011
streak of double-digit scoring to
five games, including a 26-point
effort in the host Cougars men’s
basketball team’s battle with
NAIA No. 5 Davenport in the
championship game of the University of St. Francis Tournament.
Comer buried five 3-pointers
Saturday and shot 8-of-12 from
the field on the way to his teamhigh scoring effort. He added
three assists in a rebound as the
No. 15 Cougars fell 74-72.
He also had 12 points, two
rebounds and one assist in
USF’s 96-69 victory over Webber
International in the opening
round of the tournament.
Josh Lykins
Jay County – 2014
Turned in a third-place finish
Friday to help the Ball State University men’s swim team to a 151111 victory over host Eastern Illinois.
Fennig’s best individual effort
came in the 200-yard freestyle as
he placed third in 1 minute, 47.03
seconds. He also posted a time of
4:59.74 for fourth place in the 500
freestyle.
The senior teamed with Andy
Lamb, Andrew Carlson and Banistre Lienhart for third in the 200
freestyle relay in 1:28.92.
Erin Hunt
Jay County – 2011
Led the Bethel College women’s
basketball team in assists and
was one of six players to reach
double figures in a 117-96 victory
Thursday over Concordia.
Hunt recorded six assists in the
victory while hitting all of her
four field-goal attempts. She finished with 12 points, two
rebounds and one steal. The senior also had three rebounds and
an assist Tuesday as the Pilots (32) lost 93-78 to Holy Cross.
Improved his NAIA national
“B” cut time in the 100-yard butterfly Saturday swimming for
Lindsey Wilson College in a double-dual meet.
Lykins finished with a time of
54.54 seconds, knocking 16 hundredths of a second off the
career best he set Oct. 25.
He also swam the freestyle leg
of the 200 medley relay with Kelsey Fiely
Kegan Comer
Hayden Pendergraft, Jonas Fort Recovery – 2013
Jay County – 2013
Extended his season-long Muller and Travis Durocher.
Played a key role defensively
Saturday as the University of
Northwestern Ohio volleyball
team went 2-0 at the Wolverine
Hoosier Athletic Conference
Crossover at Cornerstone University.
Fiely shared the team high of
12 digs in the Racers’ opening
25-8, 25-16, 25-8 victory over Concordia. She also had one assist.
The sophomore added 10 digs
and two assists as UNOH (26-10)
won its second match of the day
25-23, 25-18, 25-21 over Indiana
Tech.
Elijah Kahlig
Fort Recovery – 2014
Made his collegiate debut for
the University of Findlay in the
Oilers’ 68-59 exhibition loss Nov. 5
to Wright State.
The freshman made both of his
free throw attempts and was 1-of4 from long range to total five
points in 22 minutes. He also
grabbed an offensive rebound,
blocked one shot and had one
steal.
He added another five points
Saturday in a 101-72 exhibition
loss to Toledo. He was 1-of-5 from
beyond the arc, grabbed a pair of
rebounds and had two assists.
Julie Valentine
Jay County – 2013
Competed Thursday for the
Stephens College women’s cross
country team, which finished
last in an 11-team field at the
American Midwest Conference
Championships at HannibalLaGrange.
Valentine was the No. 6 runner for the Stars with a time of
26 minutes, 1 second. She placed
67th in the 5K race.
Jason Pottkotter
Fort Recovery – 2012
Played for the University of
Northwestern Ohio men’s basketball team Saturday in its 81-53
blowout of visiting Shawnee
State.
Pottkotter
grabbed
one
rebound in two minutes of
action. The win evened the Racers’ record at 2-2.
Tim Lehman
South Adams – 2012
Ran for the Goshen College
men’s cross country team Saturday at the Crossroads League
Championships at Taylor.
Lehman was the ninth Maple
Leaf runner to cross the finish
line. He posted a time of 28 minutes, 10.8 seconds, in the 8K race
as Goshen finished third en route
to earning its first berth in the
NAIA National Championships.
Abigail Johnson
Jay County – 2014
Ran for the Indiana Wesleyan
women’s cross country team
Saturday in the Crossroads Conference Championships at Taylor University.
The freshman placed 60th in
20 minutes, 56.3 seconds, as the
No. 19 runner for the Wildcats.
IWU placed second as a team
with 36 points, seven points
behind the host Trojans.
Sports on tap
Scoreboard
N a t i o n a l B a sk e t b a l l A s s o c i a t i o n
Toronto 104, Orlando 100
Memphis 107, L.A. Lakers 102
Milwaukee 85, Oklahoma City 78
Local schedule
Frid ay
Jay County — Girls basketball vs.
Monroe Central – 6 p.m.
South Adams — Football regional
championship vs. Tri-Central – 7 p.m.;
Girls basketball vs. Daleville – 6 p.m.
S a tu rd a y
Fort Recovery — Football regional
semifinal vs. Marion Local at Wapakoneta – 7 p.m.
South Adams — Girls swimming at
Norwell Invitational – 9 a.m.; Girls basketball at Blackford – 6 p.m.
7:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat (ESPN)
8 p.m. — College Football: Kent
State at Bowling Green (ESPN2)
10 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Houston
Rockets at Minnesota Timberwolves
(ESPN)
TV schedule
T hur s day
3 p.m. — ATP Tennis: Barclays World
Tour Finals (ESPN2)
7 p.m. — College Football: East Carolina at Cincinnati (ESPN2)
8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Chicago
Today
2:25 p.m. — Soccer: International
Friendly – Netherlands vs. Mexico
(ESPN2)
Bulls at Toronto Raptors (TNT)
9 p.m. — College Football: California
at USC (ESPN)
10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball:
Brooklyn Nets at Golden State Warriors
(TNT)
Local notes
Challenge ends Nov. 2 9
The 2014 Adams County 5K Run/Walk
Challenge concludes Nov. 29.
The final race in the series is the Rainbow Lake 5K.
The race will be at 10 a.m. Nov. 29 at
the Limberlost Cabin in Geneva.
For more information, contact Clint
Anderson at (260) 589-2101.
Com munity swim open
The community swim schedule for the
2013-14 school season is underway.
Each swim will be Sundays from 2 to 4
p.m. at Jay County High School and is
open to the public.
Cost is $2 per swimmer, and children
under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information, contact Barry
Weaver at [email protected].
G e t y o u r q u e st i o n s a n s w e r e d
Do you have a question about local
college or pro sports?
Email
your
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to
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the subject line for a chance to have it
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Fort Recovery
Christmas Open House!!
Page 10
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Horse And Carriage Rides
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
1,000 Drawing Merchant
In The Town’s Original Taxi
Sponsored by: First Financial Bank, Second National Bank,
Mercer Savings Bank
$
Association Give Away!!!
Bell Choir will be performing in the Enhanced Health Building
(old Kaup Pharmacy building) from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Crafts and Story Hour
Sponsored by: Fort Recovery Industries
High School Show Choir
Caroling in the streets!!
Sponsored by: Cooper Farms
at the Library for The Kids!!!
Hours: 1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Thien Snipps Carolers
Strolling The Streets
Live Pioneer Demonstrations
Sponsored by: Cooper Farms
in the Log Cabin
Savings Galore In
All The Stores!
Christmas Open House Participating Merchants
Cooper Farms
Fort Recovery Insurance
Kaup Pharmacy
Wayne IGA
Brockman Furniture
Forget-Me-Not Florlst/The Purple Post
Hasting's Auto Sales & Service
Pak-A-Sak
TIn Cupboard
First Financial Bank
Fort Fitness-N-More
Kelli's Shoes
Mercer Savings Bank
Second National Bank
Wangler Hardware
Nature's Corner
Fort Recovery Monuments
Fort Recovery Industries
Sunshine Boutique
Crafty Corner
Grand Lake Family Eye Care
Trusty Woods
Massages by Nicky
Jenerations
Santa will be in his new house at the
Historical Society building. He will be at
this new location for the entire season!!!
Sponsored by: Hastings Auto Sales & Service

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