Redkey hires new marshal

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Friday, February 20, 2015
The Commercial Review
Portland, Indiana 47371
75 cents
www.thecr.com
Redkey hires new marshal
By VIRGINIA CLINE
REDKEY — Town council
hired a new marshal Thursday
following an executive session.
Redkey Town Council voted 32 to hire Todd Miller as marshal
after a motion to hire Jessica
Maymi was denied by the same
margin.
Council members Charles
Coons, Ted Friddle and Kyle
Champ voted to hire Miller, a
native of Redkey, with Mike
Wright and Greg Curme dissenting.
with Chickasaw State Park in
Tennessee.
His duties in Redkey will begin
in early March. He is police academy certified in Indiana and Tennessee.
The vote to hire Miller came
after a motion to hire Maymi,
who has been interim marshal
since Jan. 15 and was previously
deputy marshal, was rejected.
She became interim marshal
Miller currently works at after Tracy Layman left the job to
Corrections Corporation of take a position with Dunkirk
America in Whiteville, Ten- Police Department.
nessee, and was a park ranger
“We asked Jessica to step in
Miller is
selected on
3-2 vote
and be acting marshal, a month
ago, which she did. She stepped
up to the plate, done a good job
and I nominate her to be our next
town marshal. I think she could
fill the job,” said Wright. “You’re
promoting within, which is what
everybody works for. You put in
your dues, you’re trying to work
your way up the corporate ladder.”
Wright, who oversees the police
department, made the motion to
hire Maymi, but only he and
Curme voted in favor.
“It’s not a knock on you work-
ing here by any means,” Champ
told Maymi after the decision for
Miller. “We feel you are a wonderful person and asset to the town.”
There was also discussion
about sewers on properties that
have been torn down. The sewers
on the properties need to be
capped off on the property line or
they will be charged a minimum
monthly sewer bill.
Redkey town attorney Wes
Schemenaur plans to write a
notice for the paper to notify
property owners.
See Redkey page 2
Greece,
lenders
remain
divided
By LORNE COOK
and RAF CASERT
Associated Press
The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz
Bright White
The sun shines on Jay County High School senior Cody White as he dives into the pool to begin the 200-yard
freestyle race Thursday during the boys swimming sectional preliminaries at JCHS. White finished with a time of 1 minute,
56.66 seconds and will be seeded fifth for the finals on Saturday. For story and photos, see page 10.
Cold stretch likely to continue
The Associated Press
The bitter cold that has
gripped the eastern U.S. is showing no sign of letting up before
the weekend as low temperatures broke records today.
The newest band of Arctic air
could plunge parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic into deep
freezes that haven’t been felt
since the mid-1990s, according to
the National Weather Service.
The cold snap followed snow
and ice storms earlier in the
week. The low temperatures
caused much freezing and
refreezing of snow, ice and
roads. Weather forecasters warn
that more sleet and freezing rain
will be possible in the coming
days.
Residents prepared to deal
with more school and event cancellations, power outages, and
road hazards.
On Thursday, Embarrass, Minnesota, reported a temperature
of 41 below zero — without the
wind-chill factor.
Forecasters say that’s the low-
est recorded temperature in
northern Minnesota this winter.
Elsewhere in Minnesota, it was
31 below zero in Ely and Fosston,
and 28 below at Bemidji.
The National Weather Service
issued a wind-chill advisory for
parts of the state.
Bitter cold temperatures have
shattered decades-old records in
many places — including Washington, Baltimore and New York.
The National Weather Service
said the low today got down to 6
degrees at Reagan National Air-
port, just across the Potomac River
from Washington. That beats the
record low of 8 degrees, set in 1896.
At Baltimore’s airport, the temperature dipped down to 2 degrees.
The record was 4 degrees, set in
1979.
In western Pennsylvania, temperatures dipped to minus 18 in
New Castle, minus 15 in Butler and
6 below zero in Pittsburgh — all
records. At Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey it
was 1 degree today, beating the
record of 5 set in 1936.
House rejects proposed bill changes
By LAURYN SCHROEDER
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — An
effort to dial back proposed
restrictions on grocery, convenience and drug stores in
a bill that would legalize
Sunday carryout alcohol
sales was narrowly defeated Thursday in the Indiana
House.
This session is the first
time legislation to lift the
state’s 80-year-old ban on
Sunday alcohol sales has
made it so far in the legislature, but critics said the
regulations on big box
retailers could hinder the
bill’s chances of advancing.
The bill would require all
beer and wine would need
to be kept in a designated
area, with liquor stored
behind the counter. All
clerks would have to be 21
or older and have mandated training, and consumers
would no longer be able to
buy hard liquor through a
self-service checkout.
Bill sponsor Rep. Tom
Dermody, R-LaPorte, said
he believes the proposal
would boost consumer convenience but also encourage “responsible retailing.”
House Majority Leader
Jud
McMillin,
RBrookville, proposed the
amendment
considered
Thursday that would allow
liquor to be kept with beer
Deaths
Weather
In review
Angela Browning, 53, Fort
Wayne
Helen Kidwell, 97, Winchester
Details on page 2.
Portland’s weather station
measured a low temperature
of minus 10 overnight. The
high Thursday was 9.
The forecast calls for a low
of 14 tonight with snow
expected after midnight. Accumulation of 1 to 3 inches is
possible tonight and Saturday.
For an extended forecast,
see page 2.
Jay County Solid Waste Management District will have recycling trailers from 9 a.m. to noon
Saturday:
•MainStreet Market, Portland. Boy Scouts.
•Bloomfield
Elementary
School, Bryant. Bloomfield PTO.
•Parking lot across from Pennville fire station. Pennville
Community Center.
and wine as long as security caps are placed on every
bottle. The area would also
need to be under 24-hour
surveillance.
“This will provide a
much more safe way for it
to be sold on every day of
the week. Not just Sundays,” McMillin said.
See Rejects page 2
BRUSSELS — Greece
and its European creditors
today sought to bridge
major differences over
Athens’ request for a sixmonth loan extension that
might keep it from falling
out of the euro.
Opposing Greece was a
group
of
eurozone
nations, led by Germany,
that says Athens must
stick to the painful
reforms, spending cuts
and tax increases long
demanded in exchange for
the loans.
As eurozone finance
ministers met in Brussels,
Chancellor
German
Angela Merkel called for a
“significant improvement
in the substance” of
Greece’s request for an
extension to its loan
arrangements.
Today’s
emergency
meeting was the third
among finance ministers
from the 19-nation eurozone in just over a week.
Time is pressing as
Greece’s European bailout
program is due to expire
on Feb. 28.
If no deal is reached by
then, the country faces the
risk of bankruptcy and an
eventual exit from the single currency union — a
move that neither side
wants as it would create
huge uncertainty for the
country and region.
The meeting was called
to respond to the left-wing
Greek
government’s
demand for more time to
finalize its current bailout
program and negotiate
new arrangements with its
partners that will be less
onerous on Greek citizens.
Arriving at the talks,
Greek Finance Minister
Yanis
Varoufakis
expressed hope for an
agreement and urged
eurozone members to do
their part.
“The Greek government
has gone the extra mile,
the extra ten miles, and
now we are expecting our
partners to meet us,” he
told reporters.
But a deal at the talks is
far from certain.
The Greek proposal did
not promise to continue all
of the budget cuts and
reforms that the eurozone
has been adamant it
should stick to. Germany,
the most influential creditor, has claimed the latest
proposal is a “Trojan
horse” to help the government dodge its commitments.
See Remain page 5
Coming up
Saturday — Andy Kohler
and Sawyer Miller compete in
the wrestling state finals.
Story, photos.
Tu esday — Coverage of
Monday’s Jay County Commissioners and Dunkirk City
Council meetings.
Local/Indiana
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Company providing Oscar water Cut
By HEIDI PRESCOTT
South Bend Tribune
ELKHART, Ind. — Yuri
Cataldo has dreamed of
walking the red carpet at
the Oscars.
But he says this is
almost as exciting.
Last week, the Elkhart
native prepared a special
batch of his signature bottled water and shipped just
under 100 cobalt blue bottles of IndigoH20 to Hollywood.
The alkaline mineral
water, which is drawn from
wells beneath his parents’
land in northern Elkhart
County that tap into a glacial aquifer, will be delivered to the Oscar nominees
and presenters Saturday
night in the official Oscar
swag bag.
“I was packing it up and
thought about how surreal
this feels,” the 35-year-old
South Bend Tribune/Becky Malewitz
Yuri Cataldo, president of Glacier Bottling
Co., in Elkhart, poses Wednesday with a display of his
bottled water at Whole Foods in Mishawaka. Cataldo
is having his water bottles placed in gift bags that will
be given to the Oscar presenters and nominees on
Saturday night in Hollywood.
president of Glacier Bottling Co. told the South
Bend Tribune as he reflected on how his bottled water
has received star treat-
ment at other awards
shows,
including
the
Emmys, Golden Globes
and MTV Video Music
Awards.
IndigoH20 will be delivered to movie stars at the
Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills the night before
the Academy Awards.
“It’s a complete honor to
be included at the Oscars.
For a company my size,
this is a big deal,” Cataldo
says. “I’m proud and humbled. It’s been a fantastic
journey in a very short
time.”
After graduating from
Concord High School in
1998, Cataldo went to Indiana University in Bloomington before moving east.
He attended The Juilliard
School in New York and
Yale University, where he
received a master of fine
arts degree. He designed
costumes for an Al Pacino
film and worked as an
assistant curator at the
New York Public Library,
among various other the-
CR almanac Obituaries
Angela
Browning
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Markets
Closing prices as of Thursday
Trupointe
Fort Recovery
Corn..........................3.76
March corn ..............3.76
Beans ........................9.91
March crop ..............9.91
Wheat ......................5.01
March crop ..............5.01
Cooper Farms
Fort Recovery
Corn..........................3.96
March corn ..............3.97
April corn ................3.99
May corn ..................4.00
POET Biorefining
Portland
Feb. corn ..................3.93
March corn ..............3.98
April corn ................4.04
May corn ..................4.07
New crop ................3.95
Central States
Montpelier
Corn..........................3.90
New crop ..................3.93
Beans ......................10.09
New crop ..................9.56
Wheat ......................5.28
New crop ..................5.17
The Andersons
Richland Township
Corn..........................3.91
March corn ..............3.91
Beans ......................10.09
March beans ..........10.09
July wheat................5.13
Hospitals
Jay County
Hospital
Portland
Admissions
There were no admissions to the hospital
Thursday.
Dismissals
There were three dismissals, including:
Redkey
Halsey
—
Kayla
Emergencies
There were 22 people
treated in the emergency rooms of JCH,
including:
Portland — Kinsley
Stephen.
Dunkirk — Breanna
Marshall.
Citizen’s calendar
Monday
8 a.m. — Ridgeville
Town
Council,
library/fire
department, 106 S. Walnut St.
9 a.m. — Jay County
Commissioners, commissioners’ room, Jay
County Courthouse, 120
N. Court St., Portland.
7 p.m. — Dunkirk City
Council, city building,
131 S. Main St
Wednesday
TBA — Jay County
Hospital Board, conference rooms A and B,
JCH, 500 W. Votaw St.,
Portland.
6:30 p.m. — Dunkirk
Park Board, city building, 131 S. Main St.
Thursday
2 p.m. — Common
Construction
Wage
Hearing for the Portland Water Park project,
council chambers, fire
station,
1616
N.
Franklin Street.
Weather courtesy of American Profile Hometown Content Service
April 11, 1961-Feb. 17, 2015
Angela Jane Browning,
53, Fort Wayne, died Tuesday. She was the mother of
a Dunkirk woman.
The daughter of Ralph
and
Sharon
Joseph
(Liddy) Meeks, she had
worked as assistant manager at Walmart in Portland.
Surviving are her father
Ralph Meeks; a son; two
daughters,
including
Rianna Rose Rankin,
Dunkirk; two sisters;
three brothers; and eight
grandchildren.
A burial service is 10:30
a.m. Tuesday at Catholic
Cemetery, 3500 Lake Ave.,
Fort Wayne.
Visitation is 11 a.m. 8
p.m. Sunday at Franke
Park Pavilion, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne.
Memorials may be sent
to the American Cancer
Society.
Arrangements are handled by Midwest Funeral
Home & Cremation Society.
Helen Kidwell
June 14, 1917-Feb. 17, 2015
Services for Helen Maxine Kidwell, 97, Winchester, were held today at
Oswalt Family Funeral
Home. The grandmother
of a Ridgeville man, she
ater and arts work, when
the economy collapsed.
Jobs dried up, and after
going through a divorce,
returned
to
Cataldo
Elkhart in 2010.
“I decided to become an
entrepreneur, to jump in
and start this bottled water
company because I saw a
hole in the market,” said
Cataldo, who was named to
the Michiana Forty Under
40 program in 2013. He also
is a visiting lecturer at the
IU South Bend Raclin
School of the Arts.
Cataldo says his fascination with alkaline water
grew after he was diagnosed with anemia and doctors told him to make
changes in his diet and
exercise.
Alkaline water contains
more minerals than traditional purified water, Cataldo said.
died Tuesday at Summers
Pointe Assisted Living.
The daughter of Ernest
L. and Esta O. Cook, she
was preceded in death by
her husband Charles A.
Kidwell.
She
retired
from
Overmyer Mold Co. after
35 years of service.
Surviving are two grandchildren, Charles Swingley
(wife: Carrie), Ridgeville,
and William Swingley
(wife: Sheila), Saratoga;
several great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
Burial was in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to The
Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society.
Capsule Reports
Backing accident
Between $1,000 and
$2,500 in damage was
reported when a car driven by a Portland man
backed into a parked vehicle in the Portland Pizza
Hut parking lot about 1:45
p.m. Thursday.
Dylan M. McKibben, 20,
1237 N. U.S. 27, was driving
a 2002 Chevrolet Impala
registered to Jolene Stet-
zel, same address, Portland, when it struck a 2010
Jeep Compass registered
to Ted E. Miller and
Kelsey J. Starr, 3903 W. 200
South, Portland.
A 1996 Ford Explorer
registered to Terry Evans,
814 S. Bridge St., Portland,
had caught fire. The fire
was extinguished by 4:50
a.m.
Vehicle fire
False alarm
Portland
firefighters
were called to a vehicle
fire about 4:20 a.m. Thursday on county road 400
South near road 400 West.
A false alarm sent Portland firemen to Jay County High School at 6:58 p.m.
Thursday. There was no
fire.
added
to bill
Proposal
would ease
taxes on
casinos
By TOM DAVIES
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS —
Indiana’s
casinos
could see their tax bills
cut by tens of millions
of dollars under a proposed overhaul plan
that a legislative committee
approved
Thursday, with local
governments in casino
communities possibly
taking the biggest hit.
The House Ways and
Committee
Means
voted to add the tax
changes to a bill that
would allow Indiana’s
riverboat casinos to
move onto land and
permit live dealers for
table games at horse
track casinos.
Bill supporters say
the state needs to help
Indiana’s casinos as
they face growing competition from neighboring states that has
contributed to big
declines in business
and the loss of hundreds of jobs.
The proposed tax
changes to start in 2017
would cut annual tax
payments from the
state’s 13 casinos by
$120 million, or 18 percent. That would come
from eliminating the
admission taxes now
paid by the casinos and
adjusting
wagering
taxes so that the smaller casinos would see
significant savings.
Anticipated losses in
state tax revenue
under the changes
would be offset by eliminating a $48 million
state subsidy for local
government
agreements with the casinos
for tax payments.
Redkey ...
Continued from page 1
In other business, council:
•Learned that the Indiana
Department of Emergency Management Mechanical needs to do
annual inspections of backflow
preventers for all businesses.
•Gave permission to Roger Clay
to replace a motor home on South
Elm Street if it meets all requirements.
•Agreed to allow the water
department to purchase a hytrel
sleeve and two flanges from
Motion Industries for $894.62, a
duplicate order for inventory and a
bearing from Kaman not to exceed
$1,700.
•Agreed to purchase a generator
for $1,810 and a trash pump for
$1,297 for the water department.
•Heard an estimate of $5,621.01
from Advanced Signs & Graphics
for new street signs. Street department employee Jon Pierce was
asked to get two more estimates
that include poles for the signs and
the cost to add East, West, North or
South to the signs.
•Agreed to allow Watson Excavating to fix a leak at Main and
Oak streets for $5,600.
•Agreed to purchase a welder for
$500 for the street department.
•Approved several water bill
adjustments totaling $873. 66.
•Agreed to advertise a generator
on Craig’s List for $8,000 that was
originally purchased for the wastewater treatment plant.
•Learned that Schemenaur is
revising the nuisance ordinance to
be passed at the next meeting.
•Approved paying claims totaling $105,665.88.
•Heard that little league sign-up
is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at
the Redkey Park Cabin.
Rejects ...
The small change also would provide “the best middle ground”
between the two groups deeply invested in the argument, he said.
Grocery chains, convenience stores
and pharmacies have long supported
allowing retail alcohol sales on Sunday. But they say segregating liquor
from other alcoholic products would
create longer checkout lines and
inconvenience consumers. Liquor
store owners, who originally opposed
Sunday sales for fear of increased
overhead costs without additional revenue, are now standing behind the
proposal.
The amendment came down to two
votes and was defeated 47-45. House
members also defeated by a wide margin another amendment that would
have continued the ban on Sunday
sales.
The full House could vote on approving the original measure as soon as
Monday, which would send the issue to
the Senate for consideration.
Felony arrests
Resisting arrest
Portland police arrested
Eric B. Jackson, 916 W.
High St., Portland, on a
Level 6 felony charge of
resisting law enforcement
following a traffic stop
about 8:15 p.m. Thursday.
Jackson is being held in
Jay County Jail on $4,500
bond and also faces
charges of operating a
vehicle while intoxicated
and operating without a
license, both Class A misdemeanors.
We Have A
Theft arrest
Korie Shantel Wimmer,
311 E. Votaw St., Portland,
was arrested Feb. 13 on a
bench warrant for theft, a
Level 6 felony. She was
released from Jay County
Jail on $6,000 bond.
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Carry-outs available
127 Detroit Ave.
Portland, IN
Family
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Army Field Band to have free concert
a stage adaptation of Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, in
March. Characters range in age
from children to grandparents.
Auditions will be held at 6:30
p.m. March 9, 11 and 12 at Arts
Place, 131 E. Walnut St. in Portland. Be prepared to sing and
read lines.
For more information, call
director Kiera Flowers at (786)
314-6761.
By VIRGINIA CLINE
The Concert Band & Soldiers’
Chorus of the United States
Army Field Band of Washington, DC, will present a free concert in March.
The 65-member band and 29member chorus will perform at
3 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, in the
Jay County High School Auditorium. They perform orchestral
masterworks, operatic arias,
Sousa marches, jazz classics and
Broadway musicals.
The performance is sponsored
by Arts Place in Portland. For
more information, call Arts
Place at (260) 726-4809.
To obtain free tickets by mail,
send a self-addressed stamped
envelope with a request for free
tickets to ATTN: U.S. Army
Field Band Tickets, Arts Place,
Inc., P.O. Box 804, Portland, IN
Taking
Note
47371.
Festival princess
Madeline May, a freshman at
Ball State University, has been
chosen as a 500 Festival
princess.
She is the daughter of Robert
May and Donna Stults and the
granddaughter of Janet Privett,
Portland.
Honor roll
Fort Recovery High School
students were named to the A-B
honor roll for the second semester.
Seniors were Olivia Acheson,
Derek Backs, Jurnee Bechtol,
Zach
Bergman,
Danielle
Brunswick,
Michaela
FulAuditions
lenkamp, Jason Hein, Janel
Jay County Civic Theatre will Heitkamp, Sam Huelskamp,
have auditions for Willy Wonka, Cole Hull, Grant Hull, Hannah
Jutte, Kara Jutte, Tony Keller,
Erin Koester, Tori Lennartz,
Debra Link, Neil Link, Nathan
Lochtefeld, Ocean Loya, Diane
Post, Rachel Pugh, Caley
Schoenherr, Taylor Siegrist,
Mitch Stammen, Andrew Sudhoff, Zach Tobe, Cole Wendel and
Ashley Young.
Juniors were Clara Conrad,
Abby Fullenkamp, Jackie Heiser, Jackson Hobbs, Ross Homan,
AJ Jutte, Kirsten Jutte, Mitch
Kaiser, Leah Kunk, Brian
Lennartz, Evan Link, Mikayla
Post, Adam Schmitz, Jacob
Siefring,
Jessica
Siefring,
Kendra Siefring, Katie Stammen, Dakota Stephen, Payton
Thobe, Kasey Vogel, Julie Wendel, Wes Wenning and Julie
Westgerdes.
Sophomores
were
Caleb
Backs, Hunter Boughman, Isaac
Burkhardt, Athena Evers, Grace
Gehle, Lauren Gehle, Brooke
Gower, Emily Hart, Chassity
Hemmelgarn, Paige Hemmert,
Rodney Hemmert, Faith Hull,
Austin Jutte, Jocelyn Kaiser,
Kylee Kaiser, Emily May, Nathan
Ontrop, Tony Osterholt, Madelyn Roessner and Hunter Vogel.
Freshman were Ryan Braun,
Britney Buffenbarger, Sydney
Dues, Brittany Evers, Gabe
Grieshop, Madison Grover, Curtis Grube, AJ Heitkamp, Amanda Hipple, Aaron Homan, Will
Homan, Madison Kaiser, Kristen
Keller, Cashaus Metzger, Chloe
Metzger, Rachel Moorman,
Alyssa Post, Briget Pottkotter,
Natalie
Pottkotter,
Kolin
Sanders, Sabrina Schmitt,
Ethan Schoen, Carley Stone,
Kyle Timmerman, Sophie Timmerman, Trevor Vaughn, Cade
Wendel, Jessica Wendel and
Kiah Wendel.
Wife found
evidence in
illegal way
Photo provided
Oratorical winners
The Optimist Elementary School Oratorical Contest was held recently at General
Shanks. Winners pictured from left are Seth Wilson, first place boy from General Shanks, and
Josh Dowlan, second place boy from Bloomfield, Lilly Hedges, first place girl from East
Elementary, and Ella Doll, second place girl from Judge Haynes. These winners will advance to
the County Oratorical contest on March 19 at Jay County Christian Academy.
Births
She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces.
Maternal grandparents are RayRylee Sue, a daughter, was born
Feb. 6 at Adams Memorial Hospital mond and Susan Nichols, Portland.
Paternal grandparents are David
in Decatur to Amy and Ryan Rice,
and Suzy Rice, Decatur.
Decatur.
Rice
Great-grandparents are Norma
Nichols, Bryant, Estella Rice and
Pat Ginter, Decatur. Great-greatgrandmother is Mary Bergman,
Bryant.
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.
Saturday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS — Will meet at 10
a.m. upstairs at True
Value Hardware, North
Meridian Street, Portland.
For more information, call
(260) 729-2532.
Monday
PORTLAND BREAKFAST OPTIMISTS — Will
meet at 6:45 a.m. for breakfast at Richards Restaurant.
BRYANT AREA COMMUNITY CENTER —
Walking from 9 to 10 a.m.
every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
WEST JAY COMMUNI-
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DEAR ABBY: I recently
started working at the hospital where my husband
receives his primary care.
One afternoon, out of
curiosity, I accessed his
medical records. In his file
it was noted that he is high
risk for STDs. In fact, he
was treated for two different ones some years back.
I have been tested for
STDs during all my annual physicals, and the
results were always negative. I think it’s because
we often go for weeks
without any sexual contact.
What should I do with
this information? How do
I talk to him about it without letting him know that
I’m aware of his medical
history? — CONCERNED
IN MASSACHUSETTS
D EAR C O N CE R N ED :
Unless you claim to be
clairvoyant, I don’ t see
how you can discuss this
without admitting you
a cc e s s e d h i s m e d i c a l
records, which is against
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him to be irate, because
the best defense is a strong
of fens e. You are lucky
your husband hasn’t given
you an STD.
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him about this, if only to
find out whether you have
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so
infrequently
because he’s having relations with other people.
Now that you know what
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After we broke up, my
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Notices keep the citizens informed
The folks we send to the Indiana General Assembly like to tell
us how much they value citizen
input. You know, “we the people”
and all that.
So how come every time the
same folks gather in Indianapolis they are so eager to keep citizens in the dark?
It happens every session.
Given the opportunity to figure out a way to reduce public
notice advertising, far too many
of our lawmakers eagerly sign
on.
They’ll offer one reason as
their justification: It’ll save a few
dollars for local government.
But the real reason is simpler:
They know that the workings of
government run more smoothly
when they are opaque.
Transparency translates into
citizen involvement and pesky
questions, and those are things
that far too many of our elected
officials and unelected bureaucrats detest.
Editorial
A long time ago, back when we
had elected officials who actually
believed in citizen participation
in government, one way to
increase transparency was public notice advertising.
The idea was that if the state
required units of government to
spell out the particulars about
how they were spending tax dollars then citizens would be more
inclined to rein them in.
And it worked pretty well,
though not without its glitches.
Back in the day when newspapers had party affiliations, the
rules had to state that public
notice advertising had to run in
both Democratic and Republican
newspapers. These days, those
affiliations have virtually disappeared.
Then, somewhere along the
line, political types uncomfortable with transparency had an
idea.
It worked like this: They would
portray a reduction in public
notice advertising as a cost savings for taxpayers, and they
would suggest newspapers were
feeding at the public trough.
It made no difference that the
lawmakers themselves set the
rate for public advertising, just
as it made no difference that
without such advertising the
public was often in the dark.
The sales pitch was effective.
After all, who could be against
cutting local government spending? And weren’t newspapers
that objected simply looking out
for their own balance sheets?
Unfortunately,
the
pitch
worked.
A few decades ago, taxpayers
could read a public notice advertisement that spelled out every
nickel spent on salaries for
teachers and administrators.
The Indiana State Teachers
Association and the Indiana
School Boards Association
teamed up to kill that one. The
teachers kept their pay behind
the veil, and the school boards
cut their budgets.
Not too long ago, every claim
paid by county government was
detailed in a public notice advertisement. The Indiana Association of Counties killed that, looking out for the interests of metropolitan counties like Marion
and Vanderburgh and Allen.
Through this whole process, it
didn’t matter that local entities
— the Jay County Commissioners, the Jay School Board, the
Jay Classroom Teachers Association — weren’t pushing for
opacity. Their larger organizations were.
Unless the Indiana General
Assembly takes action this session, local units of government
will no longer be required to publish their budgets.
Okay, so now we get to what
editors like to refer to as the “nut
graph,” the point where we
acknowledge that newspapers
benefit financially from public
notice advertising.
We do. That’s true today, and
it’s been true through the entire
history of this nation.
But in the larger scheme of
things, it’s not an exorbitant
amount of money. Without it,
this newspaper would continue
to function. It would hurt, but we
wouldn’t close our doors.
What would be lost, instead, is
public awareness of what government is up to.
And who should pay for that
awareness?
It seems to us that the burden
for that should be the folks who
like to think they are governing
us. —J.R.
Facts should
trump emotion
By ABDUL
HAKIM-SHABAZZ
IndyPoltics.Org
As I attended the
#Rally4Rtiz at the statehouse this week and listened to supporters of
Superintendent of Public
Instruction Glenda Ritz
chant about how the State
Board of Education (SBE)
and lawmakers would not
let her do her job, all I
could say to myself was
this was the equivalent of
Dr. Hannibal Lecter complaining about the dinner
menu.
In other words, somebody needed a serious
reality check.
Now this is the point
where the Ritz supporters
(or Ritzbots, as I call
them) say that Ritz got 1.3
million votes and Gov.
Mike Pence only got 1.26
million so she should
drive education policy. By
using that logic, Hoosiers
should listen to Mitt Romney since he got 1.4 million votes or for that matter Attorney General
Greg Zoeller who also got
more than 1.4 million
votes. But I digress.
Ritz won and in politics
you have to accept that.
However, one thing the
Ritzbots won’t accept is
the fact that despite their
calls for the board to let
her do her job, the biggest
obstacle has been Ritz herself.
Ritz’s job description is
pretty simple. Chair the
SBE meetings and carry
out education policy as
established by the Indiana
General Assembly and the
State Board of Education.
As chair of the SBE,
Ritz can call special meetings, set agenda items and
conduct meetings as she
sees fit, provided she gives
board members ample
opportunity to participate.
Now with that said,
here’s what Ritz has done,
or for that matter, failed to
do:
•Issued guidelines for
RISE 2.5, the teacher evaluation system, without
board approval and then
had to rescind them.
•Stormed out of an SBE
meeting in November 2013
after refusing to let the
board vote to evaluate
Common Core standards.
•Along with her staff,
put Indiana’s No Child
Left Behind Waiver in
jeopardy when it was
Abdul
HakimShabazz
revealed Indiana wasn’t
compliant in half the categories, including monitoring teacher evaluation
and turning around failing schools.
•Issued
“eLearning”
snow days without board
approval or legislative
input, to allow schools to
make up snow days to
meet the required 180 days
of instruction.
•In September 2014, told
the SBE she didn’t have a
legislative agenda for the
2015 session and then the
next day announced she
wanted a 3 percent
increase in school funding
and free textbooks.
•Been criticized by a
number of local school
districts over handling of
A-F grading, putting the
board in the position of
having to listen to appeals
since her department
couldn’t
get
matters
addressed in a timely
fashion.
•Dropped the ball on
this year’s ISTEP test by
not fully disclosing to the
SBE or governor’s office
that the test time would
more than double in some
cases and was less than
honest with the governor
when she said the test
would be shorter than the
2008-09 exam. There were
two exams that year, one
in the spring and one in
the fall because it was a
transition year for ISTEP.
It’s one thing to say the
SBE won’t let Ritz do her
job. It’s another thing
when Ritz either won’t do
her job or won’t do it
right. But we should never
lets facts get in the way of
emotional outbursts and
histrionics.
Now if you don’t mind I
have to run to the grocery
store, I have a taste for
liver, fava beans and a
nice chianti.
••••••••••
Hakim-Shabazz is an
attorney and the editor
and publisher of IndyPoltics.Org. He is also a
frequent contributor to
numerous Indiana media
outlets. He can be reached
at [email protected].
Congress needs regular order
By LEE H. HAMILTON
You probably didn’t notice, but
the Senate passed a milestone a couple of weeks back. Before 2015 was a
month old, senators had already had
a chance to vote up-or-down on more
amendments than they did in all of
2014.
This is a promising sign that new
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
might have meant it when he
declared last year that he wants the
Senate to return to the “regular
order” of debate and amendments.
For the last few weeks, a favorite
inside-the-Beltway guessing game
has been whether he’d be willing to
stick with it in the face of demands,
sure to come, to reduce debate and
amendments and expedite approval
of bills.
I know you’re thinking this is just
inside baseball. Let me explain why
it matters. In Washington, the line
between process and policy is
blurred. The policies Congress produces are forged by the process it
uses, and the leaders of the two
houses have great power over that
process — and hence over the
results. Talking about how Congress makes laws is the same as
talking about what it does in those
laws.
So a return to the “regular order,”
on either or both sides of the Capitol, has enormous implications.
There is no single solution to Congress’s problems, but it’s hard to
imagine Congress can get past its
dysfunction without adopting the
regular order.
If you’re uncertain what I mean,
you’re not alone. There are a lot of
lawmakers who have very little idea
what it entails, either; because they
were elected after Congress abandoned it in the 1990s.
At its simplest, the regular order
Lee H.
Hamilton
is what you learned in school. A
member introduces a bill, which is
referred to committee. The committee hears from experts, looks at its
options, considers amendments,
and then reports the bill to the floor,
where there’s more debate and
deliberation. The other body goes
through the same process, and the
separate bills they produce get reconciled in a conference committee,
where the members also talk to the
President’s representatives about
what he’ll want to see in order to
approve the measure. Finally, the
President approves or rejects the
bill. The process, though never perfect, is relatively open, fair to all
members, and promotes accountability.
Over the last few decades, however, Congress has adopted an alternative approach: the mega-bill. These
bills usually run to hundreds if not
thousands of pages. They bypass
the committees and get drafted in
the offices of the leadership. They
limit amendments to a few, if any.
They limit debate. They constrict —
if not eliminate — thoughtful consideration and largely dispense
with votes except for an up or down
vote on the entire mega-bill. They
invite all kinds of last-minute and
under-the-table deals. They shut
ordinary members out of the
process, undermine participation,
shield Congress from public scrutiny, and are, in short, an outrage to
democracy. Yet they’ve become a
habit on Capitol Hill.
Why? They’re convenient and concentrate power in the hands of the
leadership.
At a very basic level I’ve never
understood why they’ve had such
staying power. The regular order
holds clear advantages for the
majority of legislators. It’s more
open, produces more accountability,
and gives ordinary members a sense
they’ve had a fair shot at influencing
the course of national policy. This is
no minor consideration. When the
process works well, it produces better-quality legislation and pride in
the institution, because members
know they’re taking part in fair procedures. When members take pride
in the work being done around them,
they communicate that sense to
their constituents.
But reliance on mega-bills has
imposed a great cost on Washington.
Federal agencies cannot plan ahead.
Government operations get disrupted. Uncertainty abounds. Backroom
deals flourish. Secrecy pervades the
process from beginning to end. Public confidence in government
erodes. Members themselves feel
shunted to the sidelines.
It is hard to get voters focused on
congressional process when they’re
so focused on particular issues —
how a candidate feels about climate
change or abortion. But the plain
truth is that the regular order
enhances the chance that legislation
that truly represents what’s best for
Americans will emerge from Capitol
Hill. Maybe one day Congress will
come to believe this, too.
••••••••••
Hamilton is Director of the Center
on Congress at Indiana University.
He was a member of the U.S. House
of Representatives for 34 years.
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Student still battling ‘superbug’
By ALICIA CHANG
and JOHN ROGERS
AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES — An 18-yearold student is struggling to survive after he was infected by a
“superbug” outbreak tied to contaminated medical instruments
at a Los Angeles hospital, his
attorney said.
The young man has spent nearly three months in the hospital
and is in grave condition after
contracting a potentially lethal,
antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria at Ronald Reagan UCLA
In review
Arrested
LAS VEGAS —
Police took an important step toward solving the mystery surrounding the roadrage killing of a Las
Vegas mother outside
her home, arresting a
teenage neighbor who
had a history with the
family that reached a
boiling point the night
of the shooting.
Erich Nowsch, 19,
was arrested on suspicion of murder Thursday after SWAT teams
surrounded his home
a block away from the
residence of victim
Tammy
Meyers.
believe
Detectives
Nowsch was the gunman, but he has not
been
formally
charged, Las Vegas
police Capt. Chris
Tomaino said.
To start
WASHINGTON —
The operation to
retake Iraq’s second
largest city from
Islamic State militants will likely begin
in April or May and
will involve about 12
Iraqi brigades, or
between 20,000 and
25,000 troops, a senior
U.S. military official
said Thursday.
Laying out details
of the expected Mosul
operation for the first
time, the official from
U.S. Central Command said five Iraqi
Army brigades will
soon go through coalition training in Iraq to
prepare for the mission. Those five would
make up the core
fighting force that
would launch the
attack, but they would
be supplemented by
three smaller brigades
serving as reserve
forces, along with
three
Peshmerga
brigades who would
contain the Islamic
State fighters from the
north and west.
Fired
COCONUT CREEK,
Fla. — A Florida
police dog is being
kicked off the force
after biting a doughnut shop worker and
an officer in separate
incidents.
Officials say 4-yearold Renzo had been
with the Coconut
Creek Police Department for more than a
year. The Belgian
Malinois bit an officer
in November while
tracking a suspect.
Last week, he burst
out of a patrol car and
bit a Dunkin’ Donuts
worker in the calf.
Calling
CARACAS,
Venezuela — Opposition
leaders
in
Venezuela are calling
for a rally to protest
the surprise arrest of
Caracas’ mayor.
The arrest of Antonio Ledezma late
Thursday has enraged
opponents of President Nicolas Maduro
and is likely to add to
the international condemnation of his government’s
human
rights record. Ledezma is expected to be
brought before a judge
Friday.
—Associated Press
Medical Center, attorney Kevin
Boyle said Thursday.
He had entered the hospital for
a procedure that involved using
an endoscope to examine his pancreas.
“They were scoping it out, trying to see what was the matter,”
Boyle said. “He had no life-threatening condition before like he
does now.”
At least seven people — two of
whom died — have been infected
with the bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, after undergoing
similar endoscopic procedures
between October and January.
More than 170 other patients also
may have been exposed, hospital
officials said.
Boyle declined to release the
teenager’s name or where he
attends school. The student spent
83 days in the hospital at one
point and was released but
recently relapsed and has been
hospitalized again, the lawyer
said.
“After he had the procedure, he
was released. Then he came down
with his illness, and when they
studied him and noticed he had
the CRE bacteria in him, they
quickly put two and two together,” Boyle said.
He said the family doesn’t
blame UCLA but is considering
suing the endoscope’s manufacturer.
That hard-to-clean medical
instrument used on more than
half a million people in the U.S.
every year has become the focus
of the investigation into the outbreak.
The infections may have been
transmitted through two contam-
inated endoscopes that were used
to diagnose and treat pancreatic
and bile-duct problems. The
instruments were found to have
“embedded” infections even
though they had been cleaned
according to manufacturer’s
instructions, said Dr. Robert
Cherry, the hospital’s chief medical and quality officer. Five other
scopes were cleared.
Hospital officials said they
immediately removed contaminated medical devices and adopted more stringent sterilization
techniques.
Sides blame each other
Tension
continues
in Ukraine
By JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian
government and the separatist
rebels blamed each other today for
violating a fragile cease-fire
dozens of times, sparking fears of
wider hostilities in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
A
Ukrainian
military
spokesman said the Russia-backed
rebels fired on Ukrainian positions nearly 50 times in the past 24
hours and that Russia sent more
tanks into Ukraine despite a ceasefire that was supposed to begin
Sunday.
The rebels, meanwhile, claimed
that Ukrainian forces had violated
the cease-fire more than 20 times
today.
The government claims, which
followed the rebel seizure of the
key rail hub of Debaltseve, raised
the question of whether weeks of
high-level diplomacy aimed at producing a cease-fire and a peace
plan had simply allowed the rebels
to redouble efforts to grab more
territory.
The village of Kurakhovo, west
Associated Press/Sergei Chuzavkov
Visitors pay their respects today in honor of the
"Heavenly Hundred", what Ukrainians in Kiev call those who died
during months of anti-government protests in 2013-14, on
Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.
of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk,
was hit by Grad rockets and the
village of Berdyansk, near the key
port city of Mariupol, was hit
overnight by artillery and mortar
fire, Lt. Col. Anatoliy Stelmakh, a
Ukrainian military spokesman,
told reporters.
Russia is still moving military
equipment into Ukraine, including
10 tanks brought into Novoazovsk,
near Mariupol, he added.
French President Francois Hollande, who brokered the peace deal
last week together with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, said
today he did not have confirmation
about Russian tanks entering
Ukraine.
“That doesn’t mean this doesn’t
exist,” he said, underscoring the
need for the cease-fire to take hold
and halt the risk of escalation.
Vladislav
Seleznyev,
a
spokesman for Ukraine’s military
general staff, said two soldiers had
been killed in the past day and 110
were being held prisoner by the
rebels.
Both sides were supposed to
begin drawing back heavy
weapons from the front lines Tuesday, but international monitors
say they have seen no signs of
that.
Concerns are rising that the
rebels are still gunning to take
Mariupol, a government-held city
on the Sea of Azov that could allow
them to create a land bridge
between Russia and Crimea,
which Russia annexed last March.
Crimea has no physical link to
Russian territory now.
On Thursday, the rebels celebrated their victory over Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve, a key
transport hub linking the two
largest rebel strongholds in eastern Ukraine. Rebel fighters
roamed the town’s debris-littered
streets, laughing, hugging and posing for photos, although the death
of one fighter when his vehicle hit
a land mine was a sharp reminder
of the dangers that still lurked.
Ukrainian soldiers who made it
out of Debaltseve alive on Thursday described weeks of harrowing
rebel shelling, followed by a chaotic, hasty retreat. Ukrainian officials said 13 soldiers had been
killed and 157 wounded in the
fighting, but the shell-shocked soldiers themselves spoke of many
more casualties.
“Starting at night, they would
fire at us just to stop us from sleeping. They did this all night,” a
Ukrainian soldier named Andrei
said after fleeing Debaltseve.
“Then in the morning, they would
attack, wave after wave.”
Couple defies
marriage ban
By EVA RUTH MORAVEC
and PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Defying Texas’ longstanding
ban on gay marriage, a lesbian couple wed in Austin
after being granted a marriage license on Thursday
under a special court order
because one of the women
has cancer.
Texas’ attorney general
immediately appealed to
the state Supreme Court,
which later agreed to block
other gay couples from
obtaining marriage licenses but didn’t address the
Austin
marriage
of
Suzanne Bryant and Sarah
Goodfriend.
Attorney General Ken
Paxton said he considers
their marriage void, but a
court hasn’t ruled on that
issue. Travis County Clerk
Dana DeBeauvoir, whose
office issued the license,
said she still considers the
marriage valid.
Cynthia Meyer, a spokeswoman for Paxton’s office,
said Thursday night that
the state would file additional paperwork today
“that explains why the
order and resulting marriage license are void.” But
it was unclear if the attorney general or his staff
had the standing to make
such a declaration unilaterally.
The women were granted a one-time license in the
liberal-leaning
county
after basing their request
on a ruling issued earlier
this week by a local probate judge who deemed the
ban unconstitutional in an
unrelated estate case.
Bryant said Thursday
that being legally married
to Goodfriend, who has
ovarian cancer, would
ensure inheritance and
allow the couple to make
medical decisions for each
other should one of them
become critically ill.
Remain ...
Greek Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras swept to
power last month on a
pledge to ease the budget
belt-tightening and reorganize the 240 billion euro
($272 billion) bailout debt.
So far, the government
has sometimes sent out
mixed messages which did
not go down well with the
other eurozone nations
and European Union institutions.
“The Greeks have acted
like elephants in a China
shop,” German EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Deutschlandfunk today. “Now they
slowly realize what the
real numbers are. But they
have already done quite a
bit to sap the confidence
of their European partners.”
The EU Commission
distanced itself from Oettinger’s remarks, saying
that he spoke in a personal
capacity.
The Greek government
has faced the unpalatable
prospect of reneging on its
election promises to ease
the austerity measures
weighing so heavily on
Greek citizens, or possibly
leaving the group of countries using the euro single
currency.
In the short term, if no
solution is found, Greece
could be left to handle its
debts alone from next
month.
Germany argues that
Greece has failed to provide
detailed alternatives to
cost-cutting
reforms
imposed by the previous
government that helped the
country balance its budget
after decades of excessive
borrowing.
German
Finance Minister Wolfgang
Schaeuble said that much
more than the Greek economy is at stake.
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SPEED BUMP
Dave Coverly
Land remains a
strong investment
By JOSH SIGLER
Kokomo Tribune
Peanuts
Rose is Rose
Agnes
Hi and Lois
Funky Winkerbean
Blondie
Snuffy Smith
Even though agricultural
property taxes in Indiana
have risen by 33 percent
since 2007, farmland continues to be one of the best
investments a producer can
make.
Agricultural property
taxes fluctuate in Indiana
since they are based on a
number of factors that contribute to the estimated
income from farming that
land.
Crop prices soared in
recent years, then 2014 set a
state record for corn and
soybean yields, sending
prices tumbling downward.
Meanwhile, land rent
prices have continued to
rise, and those figures, combined with crop prices, are
used to estimate the income
earned from farming an
average acre, Purdue University Agricultural Economics professor Larry
Deboer said.
Further, the nation hit
the beginning of a deep
recession in 2007, causing
the Federal Reserve to slash
interest rates to unprecedented lows.
When farmers’ incomes
are up and interest rates
dip, the base rate for those
property taxes rises. The
base rate for 2015 has been
slotted at $2,050, a 16 percent increase from the 2014
base rate of $1,760.
“Real estate taxes are
going up because land values are going up,” said Pat
Karst, vice president of
Halderman Farm Management and Real Estate Services, which manages the
needs of farms in 19 states.
“The new formula takes
into account recent land
sales, and it’s trying to get
more towards a market
value rather than an
assigned value. As land values have risen, the assessed
value goes up, and therefore your taxes that you
actually pay have gone up.”
Despite the skyrocketing
prices, farmers’ pockets
haven’t seemed to be put
under catastrophic strain
because interest rates
remain so low that it’s created an insulation of sorts.
In fact, Halderman president F. Howard Halderman
told those in attendance at a
presentation on the subject
last week at Ivy Tech in
Peru, farmland remains
the best investment in a
farmer’s portfolio.
Halderman said there
are three main drivers of
farmland values. The most
significant is farm income,
which is crop yield multiplied by price.
Next, interest rates
Kokomo Tribune/Tim Bath
Grain is harvested on Mill Creek Farm on
Oct. 18, 2013. Experts say farmland is a good
investment, but only if you can find some for sale.
affect value from the cost
in dollars to buy farmland,
as well as the return to
other investments, such as
CDs and bonds.
“Right now when CDs
are at 0.5 percent and farmland makes you 3 percent,
farmland is on the plus
side of that,” Halderman
said. “But, if interest rates
go up to where CDs are all
of the sudden 5 percent,
and farmland is making 3,
you will have some people
who choose to keep their
money in CDs as opposed
to farmland.”
Higher farm incomes
combined with low interest rates have benefited
Indiana in recent years,
causing farmland prices to
increase.
Then there’s supply and
demand. Little farmland
has been for sale lately.
This climate led to farm
income records in 2007, ’08,
’11 and ’12.
As a result, farmland
values reached an all-time
high in March of 2014.
Going into 2015, longterm
world
demand
remains optimistic for
agriculture.
“We still have a growing
demand,” Halderman said.
“I was at a presentation
last week, and Dr. Jay Lehr
said that 230 million people
in China are [set] to move
to the middle class. He
probably provided the best
definition I’d ever heard
for middle class. Middle
class means they have the
ability to feed, clothe and
house themselves with a
little discretionary income
left over above that.”
In theory, members of
the middle class tend to
buy better food, which
includes more protein.
“If 230 million people in
China are going to move to
the middle class in the
next 10 years, that’s the
population of the United
States moving to the mid-
dle class. That’s a lot of
people. … All of that still
remains bullish for agriculture long-term,” Halderman added.
Simply put, basic economics is what’s keeping
farmers from panicking
over the skyrocketing
increases in tax rates and
farmland prices.
In 1928, the world’s population was 1.2 billion people. The United States
made up 10 percent of that
population, and at the
same time, provided 10 percent of the world’s agricultural output.
By 1968, the world’s population had ballooned to
3.5 billion. The U.S. made
up 6 percent of the world’s
population, but increased
its agricultural output,
providing 20 percent of the
world’s crops, doubling the
output in 40 years.
Those numbers continued along the same path,
and by 2012, the world’s
population rose to over 7
billion. The U.S. now
makes up 3 percent of the
world’s population, but in
modern times, produces 30
percent of the world’s agricultural output.
There’s money to be
made for farmers, especially in as north central Indiana, where soil quality is
considered superior to
other parts of the state,
country and world.
“Literally, farmers in the
United States feed the
world,” Halderman said.
“We’ve been doing it for a
long time. That’s not a surprise. But the U.S. producers combined with U.S.
technology, we have the
ability to do it. I think a lot
of the global money looks
at the U.S. for that reason.
There are a lot of reasons
to not invest in the U.S., tax
treaties and other things,
but they still come back
here and stay, ‘Yep, it’s the
safest place to go.’”
Demand keeps growing
By LYDIA MULVANY
Bloomberg News
Beetle Bailey
CHICAGO — About once a week the
phone rings at the Dill Pickle Food Co-op
in the artsy Logan Square neighborhood
with the same question: Got milk? Organic, to be exact.
“I’ll have people call up and say, hey, I
know the truck’s coming on Tuesday, can
you put aside three half-gallons?” said
Dana Bates-Norden, 33, buyer of perishable goods for the store, which in 2014
started selling out of the glass-bottled milk
it gets from Midwest organic dairies within two days. “When I first started two years
ago, I felt like I ended up having to write
off a lot of organic milk, and now I really
can’t keep it in stock.”
Americans spent an estimated $35 billion on organic groceries in 2014. About
$5.1 billion of that went to dairy, more than
doubling from a decade earlier, data from
the Nutrition Business Journal published
on the Department of Agriculture website
show. With retailers like Wal-Mart Stores
trying to attract more organic-food shoppers while McDonald’s uses the milk—
which can cost almost twice as much as
regular—in some McCafe coffees, producers are struggling to keep up with demand.
Even in Wisconsin, the state with the
most organic dairies, stores are posting
signs warning of shortages, the USDA has
said. At Fresh Madison Market in the
state’s capital city of Madison, sales of the
milk have doubled over the past year and
rising demand spurred a 10-day shortage
in early January, owner Jeff Maurer said
by telephone Feb. 9.
“You’ve got customers that are more
educated on the benefits of organic,” Jim
Hyland, a spokesman for Milwaukeebased Roundy’s Supermarkets, said in a
Feb. 3 telephone interview. Some of the
company’s 149 stores in Wisconsin and Illinois had shortages of the milk in 2014,
even though store space allotted to organic
dairy products has doubled over the last
Grocers are
struggling to
keep organic
milk stocked
five years. This “is not something that’s
going to shrink,” he said. “It’s only going
to increase in demand.”
It’s not just hipsters going organic.
About 45 percent of Americans seek out
organic foods, according to a Gallup poll
released in August. Bates-Norden said Dill
Pickle customers range from younger singles to families with children to older buyers.
Sales of organic milk jumped 9.5 percent
in the first 11 months of 2014 to 2.26 billion
pounds, the latest USDA data show. By contrast, consumption for the regular variety
is slowing, with demand down 3.8 percent.
Purchases of conventional milk are still
much larger than organic, though, with
43.49 billion pounds sold over the same
period.
Retail prices for organic milk climbed
8.4 percent in the 12 months ended Feb. 6 to
$3.89 for a half gallon, according to the
USDA. Conventional prices rose 14 percent
to $1.92.
Here’s what consumers get for that $1.97
premium: Milk marketed as organic must
come from cows that aren’t treated with
hormones or antibiotics, and the animals
must be able to graze on organic pasture
and eat only organic feed—grains such as
corn that aren’t genetically modified and
haven’t been treated with certain chemical
pesticides. All that is regulated by the government.
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Jay County Sheriff’s Office
To The Owners of The Within
Described Real Estate And
All Interested Parties
By virtue of a certified copy
of a decree to me directed
from the Clerk of Superior
Court of Jay County, Indiana,
in Cause No.: 38D01-1407-MF000033 wherein The Bank of
New York Mellon FKA The
Bank of New York As Trustee
For The Certificate Holders
Of CWABS, Inc., Asset Backed
Certificates, Series 2004-AB1
was Plaintiff and Estate Of
Mary A. Chase was Defendant
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, at the hour of
10:00 am on March 19, 2015, or
as soon thereafter as possible,
at the Jay County Sheriffs Department. 120 N. Court Street,
3rd Floor, Portland, IN 47371,
the fee simple of the whole
body of Real Estate in Jay
County, Indiana:
Lot Six (6) in Denney’s Subdivision of Out Lots 1 and 2
in the West Addition to the
town, now City of Portland
Commonly known as: 503 W
High Street, Portland, IN
47371 Parcel ID:
38-07-20-103-062.000-034
Together with rents, issues
and profits thereof, said sale
will be made without relief
from valuation or appraisement laws.
Dwane Ford
Sheriff of Jay County
Jason Eugene Duhn
Attorney for Plaintiff
Morris/Schneider/
Wittstadt. LLC
Attorney’s Law Firm
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To the owners of the within
described real estate and all
interested parties
Notice of Sheriff's Sale
By virtue of a certified copy
of a decree to me directed
from the Clerk of Jay Supelior
Court of Jay County, Indiana,
in Cause No.: 38D01-1407-MF000035, wherein Bank of
America, N.A., was Plaintiff,
and Kyle R. Sell AKA Kyle
Sell, was/were Defendant(s),
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 19th
day of March, 2015 at the hour
of 10:00 AM, or as soon thereafter as is possible, at 120 N.
Court Street, Suite 305, 3rd
Floor Courthouse, Portland,
IN 47371, the fee simple of the
whole body of Real Estate in
Jay County, Indiana.
Part of the East half of the
Southwest quarter of Section 29, Township 24 North,
Range 12 East, Penn Township, Jay County, Indiana;
commencing at the Northeast corner per county
recorded witness of the
East half of the Southwest
quarter of Section 29,
Township 24 North, Range
12 East, Jay County, Indiana; thence West on and
upon the North line of said
East half, 680.98 Feet to a
mag nail, the point of beginning; thence continuing
West on and upon said
North line 86.41 Feet to a
railroad spike; thence
Southerly, deflecting 91 Degrees 07 Minutes 50 Seconds left, 778.71 Feet to a
3/4 inch iron rebar; thence
East parallel to the North
line of said East half, 166.51
Feet to a 3/4 inch iron
rebar; thence Northerly deflecting 95 Degrees 39 Minutes 00 Seconds Left 288.34
Feet to a 3/4 inch iron
rebar; thence West parallel
to the North line of said
East half, 57.55 Feet to a 3/4
inch iron rebar; thence
Northerly deflecting 88 Degrees 52 Minutes 10 Seconds Right, 491.71 Feet to
the point of beginning.
More Commonly Known As:
11143 West 450 North,
Pennville, IN 47369
38-01-29-300-007.000-010
Together with rents, issues,
income, and profits thereof,
said sale will be made without
relief from valuation or appraisement laws.
Dwane Ford
Sheriff of Jay County
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250 PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice
Wayne Township, Jay County, Indiana
Cash & Investments Combined Statement - 2014
Beg. Cash
and Inv. Bal.
Jan. 1, 2014
Receipts
Disbursements
Local
Fund
Local Fund
Number
Name
Governmental Activities
1
Fire Fighting
Rainy Day
4
5
Township
Township Assistance
6
Total All Funds
$81,219.08
$34,774.90
$46,303.00
$4,721.54
$0.00
$419.31
$131,305.78
$53,681.05
$60,343.02
$91,222.20
$49,433.02
$78,148.00
$308,468.60
$137,888.97
$185,213.33
Detailed Receipts 2014
End Cash
and Inv. Bal.
Dec. 31, 2014
$69,690.98
$4,302.23
$124,643.81
$62,507.22
$261,144.24
Governmental Activities
General Property Taxes
$26,158.82
Fire Fighting
Local Option Income Tax (LOIT) for Levy Freeze
$5,058.00
$532.56
Financial Institution Tax distribution
Vehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution
$2,855.20
Commercial Vehicle Excise Tax Distribution (CVET)
$137.00
Earnings on Investments and Deposits
$33.32
Total Fire Fighting
$34,774.90
$19,515.08
Township
County Adjusted Gross Income Tax (CAGIT) Certified Shares
$18,663.59
County Adjusted Gross Income Tax (CAGIT) Property Tax
Replacement Credit
$4,139.98
Local Option Income Tax (LOIT) for Levy Freeze
$8,984.03
$133.14
$1,660.02
$328.30
Sale of Investments
$50,000.00
$187.65
Earnings on Investments and Deposits
Refunds and Reimbursements
$69.26
Total Township
$103,681.05
Township
$45,045.54
Assistance
$1,174.66
$2,617.73
$517.70
Refunds and Reimbursements
$77.39
Total Township Assistance
$49,433.02
Disbursements by Vendor 2014
Fund Name
Category
Paid To
Amount
Fire Fighting
Services and Charges
$46,303.00
City of Portland
Fire Fighting
$46,303.00
Rainy Day
Other Disbursements
Menards
$419.31
$419.31
Rainy Day
Township
Personal Services
James E. Brewster
$15,000.00
Ruth Arnold
$800.00
M. Steven Rines
$800.00
Debra Gaskill
$800.00
$10,247.48
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
U.S. Treasury
$1,331.05
Township
Supplies
$476.12
Boyce Forms
$1,098.39
Progressive Office Products
$350.66
Wal Mart
Township
Tom Zimmerman
$4,800.00
$650.00
Coldren & Frantz
Graphic Printing Co.
$442.34
Grace Garner
$1,600.00
Net Results
$438.00
Century Link
$1,708.52
Indiana Farmers Mutual Inssurance Co.
$309.00
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
$1,285.00
$28.09
Extinguisher Co. #1
$120.00
CNA Surety
Postmaster
$210.87
City of Portland
$12,000.00
Robert Nichols
$1,620.00
Great Lakes Lawn Service
$3,300.00
$215.00
Frontline Construction, LLC
Township
Other Disbursements
$250.00
Indiana Township Assn.
Jay County Treasurer
$62.50
American Legion 211
$400.00
Township
$60,343.02
Township Assistance
Personal Services
Denise Brewster
$22,100.00
Andrea Milthaler
$11,838.75
U.S. Treasury
$2,596.32
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
$11,443.99
Township Assistance
Supplies
Boyce Forms
$236.76
Township Assistance
Net Results
$1,200.00
Grace Garner
$1,600.00
Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.
$1,000.00
Township Assistance
Township Assistance
Wal Mart Pharmacy
$268.52
CVS # 6624
$237.99
Williamson Spencer-Penrod Funeral Home $6,200.00
City of Portland-water
$614.37
Jay Co. REMC
$380.99
Ohio Valley Gas Corp.
$385.25
Indiana Michigan Power
$5,442.84
Bart Darby
$740.00
Oakwood Park
$880.00
Dilcia Ruiz
$709.00
Spencer Apartments
$1,240.00
Jerry Vore
$600.00
Rickie Caldwell
$400.00
Michael Whetstone
$450.00
William Gibson
$475.00
Piedmont Apts.
$320.00
Golden Age Village
$195.00
Jayland Properties LLC
$1,950.00
Budget Inn
$175.00
Mona Steed
$606.00
Clemmons Properties LLC
$300.00
Mary Gunter
$451.00
Travis Weaver
$350.00
Wip-2 LLC
$436.22
Diane Schmidt
$300.00
Brenda Lea
$375.00
Katelyn Place
$900.00
Broulio Ruiz
$400.00
Ralph St. Myers
$350.00
Township Assistance
$78,148.00
Certification:
State of Indiana
SS:
Jay County
I, James E. Brewster , Trustee of Wayne Township, Jay County, Indiana, do solemnly affirm under the
penalty of perjury that the preceding report is complete, true and correct; that the sum with which I
am charged in this report are all of the sums received by me; and that the various items of expenditures
credited have been. fully paid in the sums stated; that such payments were made without express or
implied agreement that any portion thereof shall be retained by or repaid to me or to any other person.
I further affirm that a complete and detailed annual report, together with all accompanying vouchers
showing the names of persons having been paid money by the township, have been filed as required
by law in the office of the County Auditor, and that copies of such annual report are in custody of the
Township Board and the State Board of Accounts. Said report is subject to inspection by any taxpayer
of the township.
James E. Brewster
Wayne Township Trustee
Telephone 260-726-4607
Date this report was to be published: 2/20/2015
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmned) to before me, the Chairman of the Township Board of Wayne
Township at its annual meeting, this 10th day of February, 2015.
Ruth A Arnold, Wayne Township Board Chairman
Option 1
This report was received, accepted, and approved by the Township Board at its annual meeting, this
10th day of February, 2015
Wayne Township Board:
Ruth A Arnold
M. Steven Rines
Debra Gaskill
CR 2-20-2015 HSPAXLP
Sports
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Claims ...
The JCHS junior freestyler will
compete in the finals of the 200
medley and 200 freestyle relays,
which are seeded fourth and sixth
respectively. He’ll join Ian Bentz,
Keen and Vormohr in the medley
relay, and Travis Barton, White
and Bentz in the 200 freestyle.
David Steffen and Daniel Burson led South Adams to its highest seed heading into Saturday’s
finals. Along with Jesse Sutton
and Xavier Rupp, the quartet is
seeded second in the 200 freestyle
relay with its time of 1:36.16. Burson, Steffen and Sutton then
teamed with Zach Colpaert to
earn a fifth seed in the 400
freestyle (3:38.97).
Individually, Steffen is behind
Vormohr in both the 100 freestyle
and 200 IM. He will be second in
the former with his time of 50.24
seconds, and is fifth in the latter
with a time of 2:11.4.
Daniel Burson is fourth and
sixth respectively in the 500 and
200 freestyle races, and that
comes after the second heat of the
500 freestyle — the heat Burson
eventually won with a time of
5:22.94 — was interrupted by a
fire alarm.
Drew LeFever recovered from
falling off the block at the start of
the 50 freestyle — his time of
25.51 is the 16th seed — to earn a
third seed in the 100 butterfly
(55.59).
With his Starfire squad competing in the finals of seven events,
In review
Coming back
MINNEAPOLIS —
For 12 years in Minnesota, Kevin Garnett
gave the Timberwolves
something they didn't
have before he arrived
and haven't had since
he left — an identity.
Now the Old Wolf
who put the franchise
on the map is coming
back to the place it all
began. And it won't be
for just one final victory lap.
The Timberwolves
sent forward Thaddeus
Young to the Brooklyn
Nets for Garnett.
Planning
Drew LeFever, a South Adams High School junior, swims the final 25 yards of the 100yard butterfly during the boys swimming sectional preliminaries Thursday at Jay County. LeFever
finished with a time of 55.59 seconds and will be seeded third in the finals on Saturday.
SAHS coach Andy Lehman was
able to leave the pool pleased.
“When we looked at our seedings of where we are and where
we hoped to be, that’s right about
where we wanted to be going into
Saturday,” he said. “We are walking away very happy tonight.”
Swimming in the consolation
finals for Jay County are Christopher McDowell (ninth – 500
freestyle, 13th – 200 freestyle), Ian
Reynolds (14th – 100 backstroke),
Travis Barton (13th – 100 butterfly, 14th – 200 IM), Ian Bentz (11th
– 100 breaststroke, 14th – 50
freestyle) and Thomas Boozier
(13th – 100 breaststroke).
Competing for South Adams in
the consolation heat are Zach
Teeple (ninth – 100 backstroke,
13th – 200 IM), Sutton (ninth – 200
freestyle), Brayden Collingsworth
(12th – 500 freestyle), and the 200
medley relay team (Teeple,
Collingsworth, Rupp and Colpaert – ninth).
Purdue gets first road win
against IU in four years
By JEFF WASHBURN
Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Each morning
of a Purdue basketball game, the Boilermakers stage a free-throw shooting contest. Until Thursday morning in Indiana’s
Assembly Hall, 7-foot center A.J. Hammons had not won this season.
Hammons thought it might mean something special for Thursday night and,
with 4.3 seconds left, he sank two free
throws to give Purdue a 67-63 victory
against Indiana.
“Winning that contest today helped me
stay focused and gave me confidence,”
Hammons said. “I took my time and didn’t even think about the crowd. This was
the perfect day for me to win that contest.”
Hammons finished with 20 points, four
rebounds and four blocks, and Isaac Haas
added 12 points and nine rebounds.
“I was proud of Isaac, because until
tonight, he had never played here,” Hammons said of the 7-2 freshman. “I thought
tonight was going to be hard for him. To
date, that probably is the best we have
played together.”
Rapheal Davis gave Purdue (18-9, 10-4)
the lead for keeps at 64-61 with back-toback driving layups at the 1:21 mark and
again with 36 seconds to play.
“Like I tell our guys all year, this game
is bigger than our team,” Davis said. “It is
a huge game, so we were playing for our
fans and for our coaches.”
Davis added with 11 points and 10
rebounds and Purdue won in Blooming-
ton for the first time since a 72-61 triumph
on Feb. 23, 2011.
Indiana’s Yogi Ferrell missed a potential
game-winning 3-pointer with five seconds
to go.
Hammons’ layup with 12:11 left in the
game gave Purdue a 48-41 lead and capped
a 21-12 burst to begin the second half.
“Hammons was huge for us, and Haas
gets 12 points and nine rebounds in 12 minutes,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said.
“Without question, that is the best game
they have played together this season.”
Purdue led 55-47 with 7:25 to play, but
Indiana rallied to take the lead at 61-60 on
Ferrell’s 3-pointer with 1:44 left.
Ferrell led Indiana (18-9, 8-6) with 21
points. Troy Williams and James Blackmon, Jr. each added 14 for Indiana, which
made only five 3-pointers after sinking 18
on Sunday against Minnesota.
“Unfortunately for us, the shots we
made the other night and the shots we
have been making didn’t go in,” said Indiana coach Tom Crean. “We also gave up too
many points in the paint, and it wasn’t just
post ups. We were not as aggressive on the
glass as we needed to be.”
Purdue, which has beaten the Hoosiers
three consecutive times, outrebounded
Indiana 38-21.
While Indiana held Purdue to 2-of-18 3point shooting, the interior game beat the
Hoosiers.
“Shots would go up, and we were not
blocking out,” Blackmon said. “They got
some offensive rebounds, and that got
them going from the beginning.”
LOS ANGELES —
The Oakland Raiders
and San Diego Chargers are planning a
shared stadium in the
Los Angeles area if
both teams fail to get
new stadium deals in
their current hometowns, the teams said
in a joint statement,
adding another layer
of complexity to a possible NFL return to the
region.
The proposed $1.7billion stadium would
be in Carson, 15 miles
south of downtown Los
Angeles and home to
the Los Angeles Galaxy
soccer team.
The statement says
the teams have tried
and failed for years to
find stadium solutions
in Oakland and San
Diego, and without
new agreements in
those cities their hands
will be forced.
Provided
Associated Press/AJ Mast
Purdue center A.J. Hammons shoots next
to Indiana forward Collin Hartman during the first
half in Bloomington, Ind., Thursday. Hammons hit a
pair of free throws with 4.3 seconds remaining as
Purdue beat Indiana 67-63
DAYTONA BEACH,
Fla. — Danica and
Denny provided the
Hendrick
dust-up.
Motorsports delivered
another sweep.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
and Jimmie Johnson
swept the Budweiser
Duel races Thursday
night to give Hendrick
Motorsports a 1-2-3
start for the Daytona
500. Jeff Gordon had
already won the pole
for the season-opening
race, and the rest of the
field was locked in
through the pair of 150mile qualifying races.
Danica Patrick was
in the second race and
needed to finish 15th or
better to guarantee a
spot Sunday. She was
sitting pretty, too, until
her second incident
with Denny Hamlin in
two days put her in
danger of missing the
field.
—Associated Press
Sports on tap
Local schedule
Today
Jay County — Boys basketball vs. Norwell – 6 p.m.; Wrestling state finals at
Bankers Life Fieldhouse – 6 p.m.
Fort Recovery — Boys basketball at
St. Henry – 6:30 p.m.
South Adams — Boys basketball at
Adams Central – 6 p.m.; Wrestling state
finals at Bankers Life Fieldhouse – 6 p.m.
Saturday
Jay County — Boys swimming sectional finals – 9 a.m.; Wrestling state
finals at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse – 9:30
a.m.
Fort Recovery — Boys basketball vs.
Ansonia – 6 p.m.
South Adams — Boys swimming sectional finals at Jay County – 9 a.m.;
Wrestling state finals at Banker’s Life
Fieldhouse – 9:30 a.m.
Monday
South Adams — SAMS wrestling vs.
Heritage – 5 p.m.
TV schedule
Today
6:30 p.m. — Men’s College Hockey:
Minnesota at Penn State (BTN)
7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Indiana
Pacers at Philadelphia 76ers (FS-IN)
7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:
Cleveland State at Green Bay (ESPN2)
8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Cleveland
Cavaliers at Washington Wizards (ESN)
9 p.m. — Men’s College Hockey:
Michigan State at Wisconsin (BTN)
9 p.m. — Boxing: Friday Night Fights
(ESPN2)
10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: San
Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors
(ESPN)
Extreme competitors
Pictured is the JC Extreme cheerleading team, which will participate in the Cheer Max
competition Saturday at Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio. The competition is a qualifier for the
Cheer Max Championships April 12 in Fairborn, Ohio. Front row from left are Payton McCoy,
Delaney Dunnuck, Megan Patch and Leah Hummel. Middle row are Cheyenne Liette, Shira Winn
and Taylor Walker. Back row are Emily Dues, Rosemary Hemmelgarn, Mikale Knight and Jaden
Schlosser. Missing from photo is Shelby Clark. The girls are coached by Sarah Ullom and Kelly
Henry.
Saturday
Noon — Men’s College Basketball:
Seton Hall at St. John’s (FOX-45,55,59)
12:30 p.m. — English Premier League
Soccer: Manchester City FC vs. Newcastle United FC (NBC-2,13,33)
Florida at LSU (CBS-4,7,15)
2:30 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Villanova at Marquette (FOX45,55,59)
Penn State at Northwestern (ESPN-U)
3 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf: Northern
Trust Open – Third round (CBS-4,7,15)
4 p.m. — College Wrestling: Cliff Keen
National Duals – semifinals (BTN)
Auburn at Kentucky (ESPN); Virginia Tech
at North Carolina State (ESPN2)
Georgia at Alabama (ESPN2)
UCLA at Arizona (ESPN)
Gonzaga at St. Mary’s (ESPN2)
Sunday
Noon — Women’s College Basketball:
Duke at North Carolina (ESPN2)
12:30 p.m. — NHL Hockey: Washington Capitals at Philadelphia Flyers
(NBC_2,13,33)
12:30 p.m. — College Wrestling: Cliff
Keen National Duals – finals (BTN)
Ohio State at Michigan (CBS-4,7,15)
2 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Rutgers at Michigan State (ESPN2)
3 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf: Northern
Trust Open – Final round (CBS-4,7,15)
Iowa at Nebraska (BTN)
3:30 p.m. — NHL Hockey: Boston
Bruins at Chicago Blackhawks (NBC2,13,33)
4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: California at Stanford (ESPN2)
5:15 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Indiana at Rutgers (BTN)
6 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Golden
State Warriors at Indiana Pacers (FS-IN)
7:30 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Michigan State at Illinois (BTN)
Local notes
Register for Redkey Junior League
The Redkey Junior League will hold a
registration session for its baseball and
softball leagues.
Registration will be from 8 a.m. to 1
p.m. Saturday at the Redkey Park Cabin.
Cost is $35 per child, $30 for a second child and $20 for any additional child.
J C C t o h o l d t o u r n a me n t s
The Jay Community Center Cabin Fever
Triple Crown tournaments will continue
with a dodgeball tournament March 31.
Both tournaments will begin at 1 p.m.
and cost is $60 per team.
For more information, contact the Jay
Community Center at (260) 726-6477.
Community swim open
The community swim schedule for the
2014-15 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].
FRHS boys hoops team
hosts Ansonia on Saturday,
see Sports on tap
Page 10
FRHS
routs
’Skins
in finale
FORT RECOVERY —
The Tribe’s offense got off
to a slow start in its season
finale on Thursday.
But once it got rolling,
the Redskins couldn’t keep
up.
Fort Recovery High
School’s girls basketball
team used a 20-point second
quarter to pull away from
its Midwest Athletic Conference rival in a 58-35 victory over visiting St. Henry.
The Indians (16-6, 5-4
MAC) had a narrow 10-8
lead after the first quarter.
Seven players contributed
to the 20-point second quarter, during which the Indians limited the Redskins to
just seven points for a 30-15
halftime lead.
Fort Recovery, which
won its final two games of
the season, scored 16 points
in the third to take a 46-25
advantage into the final
period.
Kendra Siefring and
Grace Thien each scored 11
points to lead the Indians.
Tori Lennartz followed
with eight points, and posted game-highs in rebounds
(seven) and assists (five) in
her last regular season contest. Carley Stone and Jocelyn Kaiser each added
seven points.
St. Henry’s Ellie Stammen led all players with 13
points.
Kiah Wendel poured in 15
points for the FRHS junior
varsity team in its 34-30 loss
to the Redskins. Grace
Gehle chipped in with six
points, Devin Post added
five and Sydney Dues had a
game-high 13 rebounds.
Sports
www.thecr.com
Purdue stuns Indiana
in Bloomington,
see story page 9
Jay claims two top seeds
Keen to defend
sectional title
in backstroke
By CHRIS SCHANZ
In two events on Saturday,
the field will be chasing a
swimmer from Jay County.
Sok Vormohr and James
Keen each swam to the top
seed in the sectional preliminaries on Thursday.
The sectional meet resumes
at 9 a.m. Saturday with diving
preliminaries, and the finals
will begin at 1 p.m.
Vormohr turned in a careerbest time of 49.8 seconds in
the 100-yard freestyle to earn
the top seed for Saturday.
“That’s what he said he
wanted to do,” said JCHS
coach Barry Weaver, whose
team will be represented in
the championship heat in nine
of the 11 swimming events.
South Adams will participate
in the finals of seven events.
“That’s been one of his goals
when he kind of got serious
about the freestyle. I’m
impressed. That’s really super
for him.
“He said he wanted to get
under 50 (seconds), and by
golly he did it.”
Vormohr, who is also seeded
fourth in the 200 individual
medley with his time of 2 minutes, 10.74 seconds, said he is
confident he can beat the 50second mark in the finals on
Saturday.
After a disappointing fourth
seed in the 50 freestyle, Keen
Sok Vormohr, a Jay County High School junior, smiles and pumps his fist as he
sees his career-best time of 49.8 seconds flash on the scoreboard following the 100-yard
freestyle during the sectional preliminaries Thursday at JCHS. Vormohr was one of two Patriot
swimmers to claim the top seed for the finals, which resume Saturday.
swam to a time of 55.06 seconds and will be the one to
beat in the 100 backstroke.
Keen, a senior, is the defending sectional champion in the
event, and is seeded 0.63 seconds ahead of Logan Ackley
of Norwell.
“That swim tonight was the
perfect swim that he needed to
have — just enough to get
seeded first yet he didn’t really spend much,” said Weaver.
“He was just getting through
it and that’s what he needed to
do. His ultimate goal is to be
scoring at the state meet in the
backstroke. That’s always
been his favorite event.”
Keen and Vormohr joined
Connor Daniels and Cody
White in the 400 freestyle
relay, finishing with a time of
3:26.28 to earn the No. 2 seed.
White, Keen and Vormohr
teamed with 2014 JCHS graduate Josh Lykins to win the sectional crown a year ago, and
Weaver is hopeful they can do
it again this year with the
addition of Daniels.
“That was a good swim for
them,” he said. “Hopefully
that will be a good race for us
on Saturday.”
White will swim in the
championship heats of the 200
and 500 freestyle, for which he
is seeded fifth (1.56.66) and
seventh (5:29.41) respectively.
Daniels just missed the
finals of the 50 freestyle with
his time of 23.94 seconds. He’ll
be the ninth seed on Saturday,
a mere 0.11 seconds behind the
eighth-seeded Chase Clasby of
Muncie Central.
See Claims page 9

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