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FRIDAY
January 8,
2016
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It’s officially over now
Ex session
for NA BOE
on Tuesday
The North Adams
Board of Education will
meet in executive session at 5 p.m. Tuesday in
the district administration
building, 625 Stadium
Drive. Listed on the
closed-door agenda are
items
involving
the
appointment of a public
official, including developing a list of prospective
appointees, consideration
of applications and to
make an initial exclusion
of prospective appointees
from further consideration.
The board will meet in
regular session at 6 p.m.
Items listed on the agenda include the election of
officers, appointment of
treasurer, deputy treasurer and assistant treasurer, appointment of recorder for board meetings and
establishing salaries for
board members.
Other items listed
include reports on fundraisers, personnel, the
second reading of the
food service charge policy, renewal of superintendent’s contract, appointment of a board member
to
Decatur
Redevelopment
Commission, board member appointment, the
superintendent’s report, a
report on transportation,
building and grounds and
other matters to come
before the board.
First State of
City for new
Decatur mayor
Ken Meyer, mayor of
the city of Decatur, will
present his inaugural
State of the City address
during
the
monthly
Decatur Chamber of
Commerce
luncheon
Monday at Woodcrest
retirement community.
Lunch will be served in
the dining area at 11:45
a.m. and Meyer will
speak at approximately
12:30 p.m.
SHV annual
meeting set
for Jan. 18
The Swiss Heritage
Village & Museum will
hold its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 at
the Swiss Village Social
Corner. Carl Yoder will
speak about the historical beginnings of the
Baumgartner Church.
The meeting is open to
the public. Light refreshments will be served.
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GOING BACK INTO STORAGE — Crews from the city of Decatur were busy
taking down Christmas lights and decorations throughout the town. Above,
Dwight Pierce works to remove lights at the top of one of two large spruce
trees on the courthouse square.
Photo by J Swygart
75¢
Trash disposal rates
for city go up, but no
new cost to residents
By BOB SHRALUKA
A contract, a service
agreement and appointments were the first order
of business for Decatur
City Council at its first
meeting of 2016 Tuesday
night, held at the new
City Hall, which opened
nearly one year ago.
First up was approval
of a 2016 contract with
the Adams County Solid
Waste
Management
District. City Attorney
Tim Baker said that
while the rate the city
pays to dispose of its
garbage and trash was
unchanged for some five
years, a two-deal deal
agreed prior to 2015
saw the fee go from $36
to $39 a ton for 2015,
and to $42 for 2016. In
addition, a cost-of-living
hike tied to the federal
consumer price index
boosts this year’s price
to $42.20.
It’s still a good deal,
Baker said, since “this is
about a fifth of what was
projected” a few years
ago.
Baker also explained
how the Adams County
waste district began
operations in 1991, following a state mandate.
East coast municipalities had been sending their waste to the
Midwest in the 1980s,
filling up landfills, so the
State of Indiana ordered
each county to establish
its own trash disposal
services.
The increased cost to
the city was included in
the 2016 budget, Baker
said, and residents will
see no increase in the
cost of refuse disposal.
A new one-year service agreement with
the
Adams
County
Economic Development
Commission was made
a matter of record. It
establishes that the city
will continue to provide $19,916 every six
months to the commission, which also receives
funding
from
other
municipalities in the
county.
The following appointments were announced:
• New Councilman
Craig Coshow will be
council’s representative
on the ACEDC, taking
over for Bill Crone, whom
he replaced on council.
• Council appointed
Craig Russert and Larry
Isch to the ACEDC
board.
• John Sommers will
replace Kara Martin on
the city park board; she
stepped down after eight
years.
• The mayor appointed
Ron Storey, Max Miller
and Rex Hinsky to new
terms on the city’s redevelopment commission.
• Council appointed
its other new member,
Wylie Sirk, to the redevelopment commission.
• Greg Kitson and
Steve Hakes will be
serving new terms on
the Board of Zoning
Appeals.
• Jack Macklin and
Barb Engle are starting
new terms on the plan
commission.
Wanted: Decatur’s Monroe council picks Giessler as
‘most talented’ president; welcomes new member
The Decatur Cultural Connection has
announced the audition schedule for “Decatur’s
Most Talented” talent show, to be held at 6 p.m.
Feb. 28 at the Erekson Theatre at Bellmont High
School. The show will feature a variety of talented acts, individuals
and groups throughout
Tryouts set Jan.
the area.
All auditions will be 16 and Jan. 24 at
held at Riverside Center,
Riverside Center
231 E. Monroe St.
Audition times are:
— 3 p.m. Jan. 16,
— 2 p.m. Jan. 24.
Judges are looking for a variety of acts to fill
the talent show. Singers, dancers, comedians,
soloists, bands, unicycles, drama presentations,
magic acts, juggling song and dance combos
are just a few ideas, and those auditioning are
encouraged to be creative with their talents.
Talent show auditions are open to those aged
12 and older. A panel of judges will decide what
acts will make up the talent show. Not all who
audition will be selected to perform in the show
on Feb. 28. First, second and third place will be
awarded with cash prizes.
For more information, contact the DCC at
[email protected].
“Decatur’s Most Talented” is the first initiative
for the Decatur Cultural Connection to feature
the talented artists in Decatur and the surrounding area. All proceeds from the show will benefit
upgrades to the Erekson Theatre.
The DCC connects community, arts and culture in Decatur to create a better quality of life
and place. The group is comprised of a volunteer
committee that works to provide art and art
opportunities to the city of Decatur and its residents.
PLUG INTO US AT...
By ASHLEY BAILEY
Thursday
night’s
Monroe Town Council
meeting marked the first
session of the year for
the legislative body ––
and the first meeting
for new council member
Jeffrey L. Johnson, who
now fills the District 2
seat formerly held by Al
Lehman.
Johnson was issued
the oath of office by
Adams County Circuit
Court
Judge
Chad
Kukelhan.
Kukelhan
also swore in council
members Deborah S.
Geissler in District 3
and Michael J. Geels
in District 1, as well as
Clerk-Treasurer Rachel
A. Burkhart.
Following those ceremonies,
Burkhart
called for nominations
for a new council president. Geels immediately
nominated Giessler, with
Johnson seconding the
motion. Geissler said,
“Thank you ... well, we
will get started. We are
turning over here and
making some changes.
We have some big things
coming up this year and
we are all planning to
work together.”
Giessler
asked
Johnson to tell the crowd
a little about himself so
the community could get
to know him.
“I
was
born
in
Huntington
County.
I moved to Decatur
when I was 15 years
old and moved out into
the Monroe area when
I married my first wife
and lived out here for 24
years,” he said. “I was
Blue Creek Township
trustee for nine years. I
then got divorced, moved
up to Fort Wayne. I met
my current wife, and
that is how I got back to
Monroe.”
He has now lived in
Monroe for seven years
and, he said more than
once, “I love it.” Johnson
said he will serve Monroe
to the best of his abilities
and “it is an honor.”
Giessler then named
the council appointments and the board
accepted the following:
Deputy Clerk Treasurer,
Arlene
Workinger;
Town Marshal, Kevin
McIntosh; Deputy Town
Marshal, A.J. Bertsch;
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Jeffrey Johnson was
issued the oath of office
Thursday evening as
the newest member of
Monroe Town Council.
and Town Maintenance
Superintendent, Marty
Shaffer
with
Justin
Shaffer as Assistant
Superintendent; School
Crossing Guard, Carol
Logenberger;
Water
Meter Reader, Marcia
Funk; Fire Department
Chief, Russell Cook; First
Assistant Fire Chief,
Kris Burkhart; Second
Assistant Fire Chief,
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Page 2A • Friday, January 8, 2016
Berne chamber announces award recipients
The
Berne
Chamber
of
Commerce has announced the
recipients of three awards that
will be presented at the organizations annual dinner on Tuesday.
Habegger ACE Hardware has been
chosen as the “Business of the
Year.” Since opening their doors
in 1956, the firm has survived
devastating circumstances and
have become one of the finest
ACE hardware stores in the area,
according to a chamber spokesperson.
Blaine and Phyllis Fulton have
been chosen as the recipients
of the “Lifetime Achievement
Award.” The Fultons have been
instrumental in the community,
according to the press release,
and both “have been involved
in various committees, organizations and affiliations that have
helped to develop Berne into the
city it is today.”
Peter Minnich has been chosen
as the “Citizen of the Year.” His
sister, Jane Minch, from Findlay,
Ohio, will receive the award on
his behalf.
Minnich had a passion for traveling, gardening and a love for
animals that went way beyond.
He demonstrated that passion
via his business, Edelweiss Floral
and Gift Shop.
The chamber’s annual dinner will be held at Swiss Village
retirement community beginning
at 6 p.m. Tuesday. For more
information, contact the chamber
at 589-8080.
‘Transgender’ rights
left out of alternative
proposal in Senate
ROUND ROBIN — This photo of a robin was submitted by Dave Reinking of Decatur, who said he first
spotted the frequent flyer Dec. 29. Reinking said his
visitor has come and gone, but returned Thursday
with half-a-dozen friends. Whether early spring
arrivals or winter procrastinators, they seem to be
enjoying the mild temperatures.
26th annual Fort Wayne Farm
Show opens Tuesday at coliseum
The 26th annual Fort
Wayne Farm Show will
be held Tuesday through
Thursday at the Allen
County War Memorial
Coliseum in Fort Wayne.
Show times are 9 a.m.-5
p.m. on Tuesday, 9 a.m.8 p.m. on Wednesday
and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on
Thursday. Admission is
free.
The Fort Wayne Farm
Show has established
itself as one of the most
respected farm shows in
the Upper Midwest, featuring the latest technology the industry has to
offer. More than 35,000
farmers attend the show
annually to view the
area’s largest variety
of farm machinery and
equipment in one location.
The
Northeastern
Indiana Soil and Water
Conservation
District
and Purdue Cooperative
Extension Service present educational seminars daily. Classes will
be offered each day
by
Parkview
Health
Systems.
This year’s grand prize
drawing will be for a
Massey Ferguson ZeroTurn lawn mower.
In support of Indiana’s
FFA
Scholarship
Foundation, a fundraising auction will be held
at 1 p.m. both Tuesday
and Wednesday featuring a variety of donated
items.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Transgender people
are excluded from a
proposal in the Indiana
Senate that would grant
civil rights protections to
gay, lesbian and bisexual people, but not those
who identify by a gender that is different from
their sex at birth.
The measure, sponsored by Sen. Travis
Holdman, was presented
Thursday as an ‘‘alternative’’ to another proposal from the Markle
Republican that would
extend discrimination
protections in housing,
employment and public
accommodation to all
LGBT people, while also
offering broad religious
exemptions.
‘‘There is not consensus on this issue currently, and I believe having an alternative idea to
consider will help move
the debate forward in
a constructive manner,’’
the socially conservative lawmaker said in a
statement.
Currently,
LGBT
people are not protected from discrimination
under state law, though
some local governments,
including Indianapolis,
have approved their own
ordinances. Senate leaders say both of Holdman’s
bills will be taken up in
committee, but already a
split has emerged among
GOP senators over how
to proceed.
‘‘This is an impor tant discussion for our
state to have, but there’s
no denying that it is a
difficult one,’’ Senate
President Pro Tem David
Long said in a statement.
Lawmakers are trying to undo perceived
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A
50-year-old woman from northwestern Indiana who admitted to helping
her son smuggle drugs into jail will
serve 30 days in a work release program.
The (Munster) Times reports
Lake County Superior Court Judge
Salvador Vasquez on Thursday gave
50-year -old Dawn Blaskovich of
Hammond a two-year sentence, but
ruled that after she serves time on
work release, the rest of her sentence
can be served on probation. She also
must do community service.
Blaskovich had pleaded guilty to
dealing in a controlled substance.
She admitted to mailing letters containing a drug to her son Markus
Blaskovich.
He was being held on a charge
of murder and later pleaded guilty
to voluntary manslaughter and was
sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Fishers teen pleads
guilty to murder
of 73-year-old man
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis teenager charged
with killing a 73-year-old man has
pleaded guilty to a charge of murder.
Eighteen-year -old
Maxwell
Winkler of Fishers entered the plea
Thursday in Hamilton County north
of Indianapolis.
A plea agreement calls for Winkler
to be sentenced to 65 years in prison
with an additional 20 years for a fire-
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State lawmakers urged to
consider working Hoosiers
By Veronica Carter
Indiana News Service
INDIANAPOLIS - The
Indiana state legislative session has begun,
and one group is hoping lawmakers will keep
hard-working Hoosiers
in mind. The Indiana
Institute for Working
Families has released
its priority list for 2016,
and the group’s program
manager, Jessica Fraser,
said the focus needs to
be on removing all the
barriers that keep some
Indiana residents from
staying above the poverty line.
“What can we do to
raise wages? What can
we do to make sure that
families are making ends
meet, have a healthy
safety net for when
times do get hard again?
Because the recession,
it’ll come back around
again,” she said.
After the recession hit
a few years ago, Fraser
said Indiana tried hard
to position itself as “probusiness.” That’s been
accomplished, she said,
and now the focus needs
to swing back to helping
residents who are struggling.
On the Institute’s list
of changes that need to
be made is opening the
Earn Indiana program to
part-time students. As
it is now, Fraser said,
full-time students can
earn money through
internships in their field
of study. However, she
pointed out that there
are many older students
with families who aren’t
able to give up their jobs
to attend full-time. She
said wages are another
concern.
“We often talk about
how lucky Indiana is to
have such a low cost of
living, but a single adult
in any county in Indiana
cannot survive on the
minimum wage and be
self sufficient,” she said.
“So there’s some work
to be done on making
sure families can earn
enough through hard
work to meet their basic
needs.”
Fraser said other
changes on the wish
list include eliminating
asset limits for those in
the SNAP program and
reducing driver’s license
suspensions for violations unrelated to safety
so people can get to work
and school.
The Indiana Institute
for Working Families is
part of the Community
Action
Association,
which has a goal of
ending poverty in the
state.
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Mother sentenced
for smuggling drugs
into prison for son
damage to the state’s
reputation that came
last spring when Gov.
Mike Pence and the GOP
majority’s handling of
a religious objections
law was drawn into an
unwanted national spotlight. Critics said the
law as initially passed
allowed discrimination
against gay people on
religious grounds.
Lawmakers approved
an amendment to the
law but activists and the
state’s business establishment have pushed
them to go further, while
religious conservatives
have said such a law
would force them to
violate ‘‘sincerely held’’
beliefs.
That has driven a
wedge between two pillars of the Republican
Party base that lawmakers and Pence have
struggled to bridge.
Pence has refused to
say where he stands on
the matter, though he
recently hinted that he
may reveal his stance
during next week’s State
of the State address.
Recent public opinion
surveys suggest a majority of people in Indiana
support
LGBT
civil
rights. Meanwhile, some
of the state’s most prominent businesses and
organizations — including Cummins, Inc., Eli
Lilly and Company and
the NCAA — have joined
lobbying efforts pushing
for LGBT protections.
Decatur Daily Democrat
arms enhancement. If a judge accepts
the plea agreement, Winkler is due to
be sentenced Feb. 5.
Winkler is charged in the Nov.
1, 2014, slaying of Henry Kim.
Authorities say Kim was shot three
times and his throat was cut in
a subdivision near Geist Reservoir
where both he and Winkler lived.
Winkler was 17 at the time.
Winkler’s defense team sought an
insanity defense, but Winkler was
ruled competent to stand trial.
Indiana universities
ban hoverboards
over fire worries
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) —
Universities across Indiana are taking action to ban hoverboards over
worries that batteries can catch fire.
WTHR-TV reports that Butler
University and the University of
Evansville have banned hoverboards
from campus. Indiana University in
Bloomington and Purdue University
have banned them from residence
halls.
More than 30 universities nationally have banned or restricted hoverboards on their campuses in recent
weeks, saying the two-wheeled,
motorized scooters are unsafe.
Indiana University spokesman
Mark Land says the school is concerned ‘‘given the large number of
people we have living close to one
another’’ in dorms. IU still will allow
hoverboards elsewhere on campus.
Land says he knows some students
will be disappointed. But he says the
school is willing to make people ‘‘a
little upset in the name of keeping
them safe.’’
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Obituaries
Amariyana K. Mata
Amariyana K. Mata, Decatur, was stillborn at 34
weeks on Jan. 3, 2016, at Adams Memorial Hospital.
She was the infant daughter of Meria M. Rauch and
Nicholas K. Mata, Decatur; both survive.
Among survivors are her maternal grandmother,
Terri Rauch of Decatur; maternal grandfather, Pat
Rauch of Decatur; paternal grandmother, Martha
Shaffer of Decatur; paternal grandfather, Frank
Mata of Lansing, Mich.; paternal great-grandmother,
Benita Mata of Decatur; and three aunts, Brittani
Maggart, Mandi Haslett and Brandi Busch.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday
at Haggard-Sefton & Hirschy Funeral Home, with
Pastor Dan York officiating.
Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the
funeral home.
Preferred memorials are to the family.
Top spellers crowned at BMS
the
R ecord
Friday, January 8, 2016 • Page 3A
State GOP highway plan would
hike taxes on gasoline, cigarettes
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana
House Speaker Brian Bosma said
Thursday that it is ‘‘politically in
everyone’s best interest’’ for lawmakers to embrace his long-term
proposal to fix Indiana’s roads, a
move that would force Gov. Mike
Pence to go against his word by
raising taxes.
The condition of Indiana’s
crumbling roads has emerged as a
major issue not only for lawmakers, but also on the campaign trail.
However, a major division exists
among majority Republicans over
how to do so, with Pence and the
Senate leaders signaling they are
at odds with the House, which
would like to increase the cigarette tax by $1 a pack while allowing the gas tax to increase with
inflation.
The gas tax has not been
increased in more than a decade,
but Pence, who is facing a tough
re-election, has frequently touted
the fact that his own roads funding plan would not raise taxes —
a statement he has reiterated in
email blasts to campaign donors.
Instead, he proposed borrowing $240 million while drawing
$241million from the state’s budget reserves to boost short-term
roads spending in 2017.
That would not address the
long-term needs of the state,
which has seen gas tax collections plummet as people have
shifted to more fuel-efficient cars.
And Bosma said he was ‘‘serious’’
about acting now rather than
later.
‘‘Somebody’s liable to make a
campaign pledge during campaign
season that they will never raise
taxes,’’ Bosma said. ‘‘It’s happened
before, it will happen again.’’
House Roads and Transportation
committee Chairman Ed Soliday
says action needs to be taken
soon because increased fuel-efficiency standards going into effect
at the end of the decade will cause
gas tax collections to ‘‘fall off like a
rock.’’
The plan has yet to be formally proposed to lawmakers, but
Soliday and Bosma provided a
broad sketch of how it would
work. And they have previously
indicated that they are less-thanenthused about the prospect of
borrowing money, which Pence’s
plan calls for.
In addition to increasing cigarette and gas taxes, the House
plan would rededicate a portion of
the gas tax that currently funds
other priorities. Sales tax collected
on top of gas sales mostly goes
toward the state’s general fund,
but under the House plan it would
be rededicated to road funding,
Bosma said.
Cheers for sheriff who tells armed group to ‘go home’
T-O-P S-P-E-L-L-E-R — Bellmont Middle School
held its annual Spelling Bee recently. The champion speller for BMS was eighth grader Lydia Roop,
left, the daughter of Luke and Kathy Roop. This is
her third year as BMS Spelling Bee champion. She
spelled the word “Jai alai” to win. Sixth grader Abbie
Eichenaur, right, the daughter of Kyle and Shannon
Eichenauer, was runner-up. She misspelled the
word “joule,” after going 15 rounds, seven of which
she battled Roop head to head for an exciting finish.
Roop will represent BMS in the countywide Spelling
Bee at 6 p.m. Feb. 2 in the BMS cafetorium.
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MONROE
From Page 1
Matt
Brown;
Town
Attor ney,
Jeremy
Brown with the firm
of Miller, Burry, &
Brown,
PC;
Monroe
Park and Recreation
board, Giessler as council representative, Jim
Moeshberger, Jon Smith,
Linda Call, Rich Baker,
Holly Mishler and Steve
Krull; Monroe Economic
Development
board,
Geels as council representative, Lynn Ratcliff,
Dan
Lehman,
Brett
Miller, Mike Cooper, Tim
Tobias, Mark Zurcher,
Aaron McClure and Larry
Macklin;
Town representatives
are Linda Lehman to the
Adams County Council
on Aging; Mike Cooper
as community representative and Geels as
council representative
on the Adams County
Economic Development
Commission;
Kevin
McIntosh to the Adams
County
Emergency
Management Agency; Kris
Burkhart to the Adams
County
Emergency
Planning Board and Al
Lehman to the Berne
Chamber of Commerce
board, South Adams
Senior Center board and
the U.S. Census board.
Blotter
Decatur police on Thursday arrested D’Andre R.
Weiland, 19, Decatur, for violating the terms of his
bail. He was ordered held without bond.
Traffic
The Adams County
Sheriff’s
Department
investigated a pair of
accidents that occurred
Thursday.
At 11:55 a.m., Mary A.
Ulman, 85, Decatur, was
traveling south on U.S.
27 near W. Beech Drive
when she attempted to
change lanes, failing to
see another southbound
vehicle driven by Betty
J. Lough, 38, Decatur.
The Ulman car struck
the Lough vehicle in the
right side, causing damage estimated between
$2,500 and $5,000 by
sheriff’s deputies.
Both driver were wearing their seat belt and
shoulder harnesses at
the time of the accident
and avoided injury.
Thursday at 11:47
p.m., Donna M. Michael,
49, Berne, was eastbound on C.R. 700S near
C.R. 300W, when a deer
ran into the path of her
car and she could not
avoid striking the animal. Michael was not
injured in the accident,
which caused an estimated $1,000 to $2,500
damage to her car.
Fire cancels classes at Warsaw school
WARSAW, Ind. (AP)
— A northern Indiana
school district canceled
classes after a fire heavily damaged its transportation building.
Warsaw Community
Schools Superintendent
David Hoffert says the
fire broke out about
5:45 a.m. Thursday.
He says five buses were
destroyed in the fire:
two full-size buses, a
CORRECTION
transit bus and two
smaller buses used for
special needs students.
He says officials believe
a sixth bus inside was
not damaged. He says
the main loss is the
building and the service
equipment.
Hoffert
says
the
school district has 72
buses overall, including six new buses that
arrived Wednesday.
An article in Wednesday’s Decatur Daily Democrat
incorrectly reported that Adams County is able to
feed its inmate population for .96 cents per meal, or
$76,174.31 annually. The per meal price was accurate, but the total was for all inmates housed at the
Adams County Jail in 2015 and not just one inmate.
The error was made in reporting.
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Cheers
erupted at a packed community
meeting in rural Oregon when a
sheriff said it was time for a small,
armed group occupying a national
wildlife refuge to ‘‘pick up and go
home’’
The group objecting to federal
land policy seized buildings at the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
on Saturday. Authorities have not
yet moved to remove the group of
roughly two dozen people, some
from as far away as Arizona and
Michigan. The group also objects
to a lengthy prison sentence for
two local ranchers convicted of
arson.
‘‘I’m here today to ask those folks
to go home and let us get back to
our lives,’’ Harney County Sheriff
David Ward said Wednesday evening.
Schools were closed following
the seizure of the refuge because
of safety concerns in this small
town in eastern Oregon’s high
desert country and tensions have
risen. Ward told the hundreds
gathered at the meeting he hoped
the community would put up a
‘‘united front’’ to peacefully resolve
the conflict.
Group leader Ammon Bundy
has told reporters they will leave
when there’s a plan in place to
turn over federal lands to locals.
Several people spoke in support of Bundy and his followers at
Wednesday’s meeting.
‘‘They are waking people up,’’
said 80-year-old Merlin Rupp, a
long-time local resident. ‘‘They are
just making a statement for us, to
wake us up.’’
Earlier Wednesday the leader
of an American Indian tribe that
regards the preserve as sacred
issued a rebuke to Ammon’s
group, saying they are not welcome at the snowy bird sanctuary
and must leave.
‘‘The protesters have no right to
this land. It belongs to the native
people who live here,’’ Burns
Paiute Tribal leader Charlotte
Rodrique said.
Bundy is demanding that the
refuge be handed over to locals.
Rodrique said she ‘‘had to
laugh’’ at the demand, because
she knew Bundy was not talking
about giving the land to the tribe.
The standoff in rural Oregon is
a continuation of a long-running
dispute over federal policies covering the use of public lands,
including grazing. The federal government controls about half of all
land in the West. For example, it
owns 53 percent of Oregon, 85
percent of Nevada and 66 percent of Utah, according to the
Congressional Research Service.
The Bundy family is among
many people in the West who contend local officials could do a better job of managing public lands
than the federal government.
The argument is rejected by
those who say the U.S. government is better equipped to manage public lands for all those who
want to make use of them.
Seeking support for gun actions, Obama rips NRA
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — President
Barack Obama tore into the
National Rifle Association on
Thursday as he sought support
for his actions on gun control,
accusing the powerful lobby
group of peddling an ‘‘imaginary
fiction’’ that he said has distorted the national debate about gun
violence.
In a prime-time, televised town
hall meeting, Obama dismissed
what he called a ‘‘conspiracy’’
alleging that the federal government — and Obama in particular
— wants to seize all firearms as
a precursor to imposing martial
law. He blamed that notion on
the NRA and like-minded groups
that convince its members that
‘‘somebody’s going to come grab
your guns.’’
‘‘Yes, that is a conspiracy,’’
Obama said. ‘‘I’m only going to
be here for another year. When
would I have started on this
enterprise?’’
Obama defended his support
for the constitutional right to
gun ownership while arguing it
was consistent with his efforts to
curb mass shootings. He said the
NRA refused to acknowledge the
government’s responsibility to
make legal products safer, citing
seatbelts and child-proof medicine bottles as examples.
Taking the stage at George
Mason
University,
Obama
accused the NRA of refusing
to participate in the town hall
despite having its headquarters
nearby.
‘‘Since this is a main reason
they exist, you’d think that they’d
be prepared to have a debate with
the president,’’ Obama said.
NRA
spokesman
Andrew
Arulanandam said beforehand
that the group saw ‘‘no reason
to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by
the White House.’’ Several NRA
members were in the audience
for the event, which was organized and hosted by CNN. And
State Dept. faulted for ‘incomplete’
record searches under Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The State Department
produced
‘‘inaccurate and incomplete’’
responses
to
public
records requests while
Democratic presidential
hopeful Hillary Clinton
led the department,
including its inability to
find documents showing
she used a private email
account for official business, the agency’s watchdog reported Thursday.
The inspector general’s
findings come the same
day the State Department
is expected to release
thousands more pages
of Clinton’s correspondence. The report found
personnel responsible for
Freedom of Information
Act requests in the secretary’s office often missed
deadlines and didn’t
meet legal requirements
for conducting complete
searches.
Overall, the report
from Inspector General
Steve Linick found a
‘‘lack of oversight’’ by
agency leadership, as
well as a ‘‘failure to routinely search emails’’ as
part of FOIA requests.
The report faulted ongoing staff shortages amid
requests that have taken
more than 16 months to
process, stretching back
to requests during former President George W.
Bush’s administration.
Clinton, the front-runner for her party’s presidential nomination, has
faced criticism for relying
on a private, homemade
email server to conduct State Department
business. The AP first
reported in March 2014
the existence of a server
in her Chappaqua, New
York, home. She used
that server instead of an
official account on government email systems.
Linick found that
records
involving
Clinton’s private email
account,
requested
in 2012 by the nonprofit
Citizens
for
Responsibility and Ethics
in
Washington,
had
turned up no records.
the NRA pushed back on Twitter
in real time, noting at one point
‘‘none of the president’s orders
would have stopped any of the
recent mass shootings.’’
The White House has sought
to portray the NRA, the nation’s
largest gun group, as possessing
a disproportionate influence over
lawmakers that has prevented
new gun laws despite polls that
show broad U.S. support for measures like universal background
checks. Last year, following a
series of mass shootings, Obama
pledged to ‘‘politicize’’ the issue
in an attempt to level the playing
field for gun control supporters.
The
American
Firearms
Retailers Association, another
lobby group that represents gun
dealers, did participate Thursday.
Asked how business had been
since Obama took office, Jacob
replied: ‘‘It’s been busy.’’
‘‘There’s a very serious concern in this country about personal security,’’ he added.
Couple get engaged at Walmart,
then
get arrested on theft charge
BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan couple’s
engagement is off to a rocky start.
Police say a 25-year-old man proposed marriage to
a 20-year-old woman at a Bay City Walmart store in
front of employees and other shoppers who congratulated them on Dec. 30.
But that same night, William Cornelius Jr. later
was accused of shoplifting at a nearby store and
arrested. Court records show the items included an
edible thong and sex toy.
The Bay City Times, citing court records, reports
his fiancee admitted stolen jewelry was in her possession.
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THANK YOU
We would like to thank family, friends, neighbors and former
coworkers near and far for sending birthday cards, well wishes,
and attendance at our mother’s, Juanita Myers’, 100th birthday
celebration. What a good time of remembrance for her to read
the cards, some from people she hasn’t seen or heard from for
years and visit with those she hasn’t seen for a long time and
sometimes years. We thank you all for being a part of her life
and celebrating with her.
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No racial double standard in Oregon standoff
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Ron Storey, Publisher
J Swygart, Opinion Page Editor
Depot coming alive
“We were so excited; surprised and excited,” said
Sandy Collier. And why not? A Herculean effort by
five Decatur women has not only received the major
boost they were hoping for, but that light at the end
of what was once a long and narrow tunnel has
become bigger and much brighter.
Barring something unforeseen, not likely at this
point, the city’s Pennsy Depot off 7th Street could be
fully restored by next fall, maybe earlier, and ready
to be used by the public. What stirred the excitement
— and, no doubt, a feeling that all the work was now
surely going to pay off — was the announcement this
week that the “Pennsy Ladies,” as they’re known,
have been awarded a $40,000
grant by the Indiana Office of
Tourism Development and the
state Office of Community and
Rural Affairs.
The women — Sue Robinson,
Karen Baker, Cheri Scherry,
Suzie Fuelling and Collier —
took on the task of their own free
will a year or so ago and success
is now assured. In that time,
they’ve done numerous fundrom
raisers, from selling ice cream to
eft ield holding sock hops.
“We’ve raised at least $55,000,
By
some of which has been spent
Bob Shraluka
and some which is earmarked
(for certain uses),” Scherry
explained. “Our original budget
was $40,000.” The city recently kicked in $20,000
and so total expenditures likely will be a little over
$100,000.
“We needed another $30,000, so this (grant)
should complete it for us,” Collier said. “Everything
we wanted to do we now will be able to do, and maybe
a little extra, unless we would run into some unexpected trouble.”
She offered high praise for the help they’ve
received from the city’s community coordinator,
Melissa Norby. “Melissa has done such a good job for
us, getting it (the grant application) ready. We had to
get the paperwork in in a short time and she got it
done for us.”
Scherry and Collier figure all the work yet to be
done — electrical, some indoor and outdoor things,
and landscaping — will be complete by fall, or quite
possibly sooner. “A lot depends on when Limberlost
Construction (of Geneva) can start. They won’t until
we have the money and it probably will take at least
another month to get all the paperwork done (for the
funding),” Collier explained.
Although they will continue to operate the winter
market every third Saturday of the month (9 a.m.-1
p.m.) through March at Riverside Center, the women
at least can now retire from most of the fundraising
they’ve been doing, such as selling T-shirts and calendars, bake sales and photos with Santa. “Yeah, no
more lemon shake-ups,” Collier laughed.
“All the projects have been fun, really, meeting
people, etc., but we would have been doing them for
another year (to raise the money now provided by the
grant),” Scherry said. “The depot has been our life for
a year, year and a half, so there will be a period of
adjustment.”
Once all the restoration and renovation is complete, the depot will be available through rental to
organizations and groups, even individuals. The
five women won’t be involved in that aspect, which
will be handled by the parks and recreation department. “They have been amazing, Chris (Krull) and
Ryan (Green), Deb (Shannon) and Jeremy (Gilbert),”
Scherry noted. “They’ve been so good to work with.
We’ve had so much cooperation from everyone (in the
community).”
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By GENE LYONS
Out here on the edge of the
national forest, in the cattleranching, timber-cutting, deerhunting Arkansas county where
I live, this Ammon Bundy guy
looks like the Al Sharpton of
cows. His publicity seeking has
created a media pseudo-event of
a particularly modern kind.
Can anybody doubt that the
feds could more efficiently resolve
the standoff at the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge by confiscating TV cameras rather than
guns?
Actually, there’s no real “standoff,” since law enforcement is
nowhere in sight. Blocking the
roads, cutting the power and waiting them out looks like the wisest
policy, although there appear to
be almost as many tribal ideologues on the left hankering for
a shootout as anti-government
militia types.
The Washington Monthly’s
normally sensible David Atkins is
breathing smoke and fire: “I feel
that if Bundy’s little crew wants
to occupy a federal building and
assert that they’ll use deadly violence against any police who try
to extract them,” he wrote, “then
they should get what they’re asking for just as surely as Islamist
terrorists would if they did likewise ...”
“What’s good for one type of
terrorist must also be good for
another,” Atkins continued.
Sounds downright Trumplike to me. Elsewhere, racialized
insults and cries for vengeance
have become common. “Y’allqaeda,” “yee-hawdists,” “yokel
haram,” tweeted New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz. Less witty
ridicule is everywhere.
At Salon, Bundy’s cowboy patriots are denounced as a “strident
example of unapologetic white
privilege in action.”
Salon proclaims “They’d be
killed if they were black: The
racial double standard at the
heart of the new Bundy family
standoff.”
“Armed white men seize a federal building. The government
stands down carefully. But a
12-year-old with a toy gun?”
reads the sub-headline.
Even the Washington Post
columnist Eugene Robinson
couldn’t resist making the tempting, but specious comparison
between Bundy and Tamir Rice,
the Cleveland child killed by cops
in a city park. Think harder.
Everybody acknowledges the
boy’s death was a pointless tragedy. Nobody wanted him to die.
It’s also clearly false that armed
white crackpots are always given
a pass. Heard of Ruby Ridge?
Waco? But hold that thought.
Robinson does acknowledge
the single most salient fact: that
Bundy’s posse is holed up deep in
the Oregon wilderness, 30 miles
from a town of 2,800, a threat to
nobody but each other. The last
thing the U.S. government needs
to do is give them the martyrdom
a few of the crazier ones crave.
Then too, as a political matter,
Bundy appears to have made an
almost comical miscalculation.
Hardly anybody in remote Harney
County appears to support his
cause. Even the father-son team
of ranchers whose five-year prison terms Bundy’s group is allegedly protesting have renounced
his support.
Dwight and Steve Hammond
did plead guilty to arson, you
know.
In a press conference, county
Sheriff David Ward addressed the
anti-government vigilantes directly: “To the people at the wildlife
refuge: You said you were here
to help the citizens of Harney
County. That help ended when a
peaceful protest became an armed
occupation. The Hammonds have
turned themselves in. It’s time
for you to leave our community,
go home to your families and end
this peacefully.”
Which is not to say those sentences are either just or equitable. Even among their neighbors, opinions differ. Five years
seems like an awfully long time
for torching 139 acres of sagebrush and juniper — particularly
given Dwight Hammond’s age,
73.
The sentencing judge thought
so too, refusing to enforce the
mandatory minimum as uncon-
History will not look
kindly on the failure of
Congress or President
Barack Obama to enact
reasonable gun safety
measures, despite an
unprecedented
spate
of massacres that have
horrified the nation.
Last
month,
the
Senate took impotence
and cowardice to a new
level. It voted down a
sensible measure that
would have banned gun
sales to people whose
names appear on federal
terror watch lists.
It’s too late for Obama
to create a legacy on gun
control. Still, he has time
to make a difference with
the executive order he
announced on Tuesday.
It includes limited actions
permitted by federal law
that will, among other
things, expand background checks on gun
sales.
While
federally
licensed gun dealers
must seek background
checks on buyers, some
who sell firearms at
gun shows or online are
not federally licensed.
Federal law needs to
cover such small-time
and informal dealers, at
least those who sell a
certain number of guns
each year. The fact that
some people would still
get illegal guns through
theft, the black market or straw purchases
should not stop the government from trying to
keep them out of the
wrong hands.
Foes of restrictions on
gun ownership are criticizing the president for
circumventing the democratic process and usurping local control. But it
What a waste!
So Indiana has spent millions of dollars for student testing to determine A-to-F accountability for
schools and school districts, plus teacher evaluations. However, due to new standards and all the
foulups surrounding the ISTEP+ testing last spring,
and the fact that this is an election year, politicians
from both parties have fallen all over themselves to
make sure the final results will have no accountability — none!
Now those long-delayed results have finally arrived,
one month before the next round of testing is to
begin. Thus, we have late results which have no
instruction impact this school year nor any accountability impact.
Talk about a mindless waste of taxpayer money!
VOL. CXIV, NO. 6, Fri., Jan. 8, 2016
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Congress left Obama no choice but to act on guns
FOOTNOTE: According to information gathered by
the Fabulous Five, the depot was built around 1892.
When the Penn Central Railroad took over the GR &
I lines, it became known as the Pennsy Depot. The
last time a passenger train passed through the depot
was Sept. 5, 1961.
DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT
stitutionally severe. After prosecutors objected, the Ninth Circuit
Court in San Francisco imposed
the statutory penalty. Indeed, the
Hammonds’ legal appeals are not
complete, making the timing of
Bundy’s insurrection inconvenient at best.
Detailed accounts in local
media make the entire affair
sound like a high desert version
of “Sometimes a Great Notion,”
Ken Kesey’s manic epic about
a western Oregon logging clan.
Some stress the Hammond family’s business success and generous support of local charities.
Trial records, however, also
make it appear that as wealthy
ranchers are prone to do, the
Hammonds had taken to acting dictatorially. No doubt the
Bureau of Land Management
bureaucracy can be maddening,
but renting grazing rights on government land doesn’t convey the
freedom of action a rancher has
on his own property.
For the past 20 years, the
Hammonds have taken to confronting hunters killing “their”
deer on federal land, and threatening U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service agents over water and
fencing disputes. According to
a 2010 grand jury indictment,
“Hammond family members have
been responsible for multiple
fires” for more than 20 years. The
indictment also alleged that one
fire was set to destroy evidence of
deer poaching — animals killed
not for meat but because they
competed with cattle for forage.
If true, the wonder is that they
got away with it so long.
is gun-rights extremists
who have thumbed their
noses at local control by
opposing efforts of cities
to establish their own
rules on guns.
The president’s modest step is also not an
assault on the Second
Amendment, contrary
to the hyperventilation
of some Republican
presidential
candidates, House Speaker
Paul Ryan, Rep. Keith
Rothfus, the National
Rifle Association and
others.
Public opinion is divided over gun control, yet
polls have shown overwhelming support for
expanding background
checks. Enacting such
measures would, ideally,
come through Congress,
but the disproportionate
influence of a well-organized and well-funded
gun lobby has corrupted
the democratic process
and precluded even modest reforms.
A feckless Congress
has forced the president to act unilaterally.
Although a law would be
more effective than executive action, at least Mr.
Obama is willing to protect Americans’ interests.
Pittsburgh PostGazette
January 8, 2016
Today is the eighth day of
2016 and the 18th day of winter.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1790,
President George Washington
gave the first State of the Union
address.
In 1877, Crazy Horse lost his
final battle against the U.S.
Cavalry at Wolf Mountain in
Montana Territory.
In 1918, President Woodrow
Wilson outlined his “Fourteen
Points” peace plan.
In 1982, AT&T agreed to give
up its 22 local “Baby Bells.”
In 2011, a gunman opened fire
at a public event for Democratic
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of
Arizona, killing six people and
injuring 13, including Giffords.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “We live out
our lives as we are meant to
live them — with some choice,
with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons
we are.” — Terry Brooks, “The
Druid of Shannara”
C ommunity
Decatur Daily Democrat
Junior Achievement awarded money from
Adams County Community Foundation
The Junior Achievement
Board serving Decatur
and Monroe was recently awarded a grant
from the Adams County
Community Foundation.
The funding the ACCF
awarded made it possible for local fifth grade
students to attend JA
Biztown, which, according
to the Junior Achievement
website, "engages students in the role of workers and consumers in a
series of classroom lessons that culminates in
a day-long visit to ... a
fully-interactive simulated
town. Through daily lessons, hands-on activities
and active participation
in the simulated community, students develop a Pictured from the left are JA board members Zac Gagle and Lisa Gable, ACCF
successful participation board member Susan Zurcher and JA board members Sharilyn Boots, Jenny
in a worldwide economy." Buchan and Corey Affolder.
Photo provided
Birth announcements
Borne
Micah and Amanda
Borne are the parents
of a 5-pound, 4-ounce,
18.50-inches long
son,
Braden
Richard;
and
a
5-pound,
7-ounce,
18.25-inches
long
son,
Ethan
Timothy, born
Nov. 14, 2015
,at Lutheran
Hospital in Fort
Wayne.
Grandparents
are
Richard and Laverne
Borne of Decatur; and
Gerald
and
Susan
Phillips of Commiskey.
Gr eat-grandmother
is Martha Phillips of
Commiskey.
Braden and Ethan join
siblings Katelyn Marie
and Johnthan Gerald.
Case
Aaron Dutt and Lara
Case of Decatur are the
parents of an 8-pound,
1-ounce, 19.5 inches long
daughter, Tinsley Yvonne
Matilda Case, born
at 3:38 a.m. Dec.
21, 2015.
G r a n d p a r e n t s
are James and
B r e n d a
Parrish of
Decatur;
and Larry
and
Lori
Winebrenner
of Uniondale.
Great-grandparents
are Kenneth and Ruth
Parrish
of
Decatur;
Sandra
Cramer
of
Willshire; and Larry and
Margaret Winebrenner of
Bluffton.
Culley
Stone
Costello
and Trent Culley of
Huntington
are
the
parents of a 9-pound,
2-ounce,
20.5-inches
long daughter, Aubreigh
Raine Culley, born Nov.
17, 2015, at Bluffton
Regional Medical Center.
Grandparents
are
Louisa
Costello
of
Decatur; Raymond Clark
of Redkey; and Erica
Burnworth.
Great-grandparents
are Ralph Costello; Maria
Trevino; and Bob
and Judy Clark.
Wickey
Chris
W.
and Lucy A.
(Schwartz)
Wickey of Berne
are the parents
of a 5-pound,
3-ounce,
18-inches long
son, Chris W. Jr.,
born Dec. 9, 2015.
Grandparents
are
Levi and Frances Wickey
of Geneva; and Dan
and Edith Schwartz of
Berne.
Great-grandparents
are Jake X. and Mary
Pavilion to offer swim lessons in February
The Arthur & Gloria Muselman
Wellness Pavilion will start accepting
registrations Jan. 15 for its February
swim lessons.
Levels offered during the February
session are Adult Beginner, Parent/
Tot and Preschool. Preschool and Adult
Beginner will be held at
10:20
a.m.
and Parent/
Tot and
Preschool will be held at 5 p.m. each
Tuesday and Thursday from Feb. 2-25.
Prices for the swim lessons are $20 for
Wellness Pavilion members and $40
for non-members. Payment is due at
registration which may be done at
the Pavilion.
For more information,
call the Wellness Pavilion
at 589-4496. The Arthur &
Gloria Muselman Wellness
Pavilion is a Service/
Outreach of Swiss Village,
Inc.
Sense & Sensitivity
By HARRIETTE COLE
Reader Wants to Skip Out on Exercise Retreat
DEAR HARRIETTE: In a premature
effort to lose weight with my friends,
we signed up for a fitness retreat about
a month ago. This retreat should not
have the word “treat” in it -- a bunch
of out-of-shape men working out and
eating salads all day is definitely not a
treat. I do want to change my body, but
I definitely jumped the gun in signing
up for this retreat. It’s later this month,
and I am already trying to find ways
to get out of it. My friends are all still
very excited and keep trying to rouse
excitement in an email chain. I just don’t
think I’ll be able to keep up and will
have a bad time. I’m trying to think of a
plausible excuse to avoid going on this
retreat. It has already been paid for, but
I don’t think I can exercise for that many
days. -- Not a Beach Body, Jackson,
Mississippi
DEAR NOT A BEACH BODY: Don’t
give up before you give it a try! Your
friends have the right idea -- go as a
group to a retreat site where professionals can teach and motivate you to take
care of your bodies. You will likely learn
what to eat and how to exercise in order
to maintain a healthier lifestyle. Will it be
hard? Probably. But that’s OK. It’s also
OK if you can’t do everything. What’s
most important is that you put forth the
effort and do your best. Changing eating habits and beginning to exercise
are smart for maintaining good health.
Don’t give up on yourself now. Go for it!
You deserve it.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I feel like I have
been given one of the most precious
Christmas presents, but also the most
destructive. I was given a puppy for
Christmas from my family. There was
no warning. I live alone a few hours
away in a city, and they assumed it was
a good idea to give me an 8-week-old
puppy. For the first few hours, I was all
right with it, but as I thought about it, I
realized I can’t take care of it. This dog
will grow to be 80 pounds, and I live in
an apartment. I can’t imagine giving this
puppy to a shelter, but I need to find
someone who will be able to take care
of it. I considered giving it back to my
family, but I am not sure if a live animal
still counts as returning a gift. I love
animals and want a dog, but roughly
70 pounds smaller than this one and
in a few years. What can I do with this
puppy? It’s precious, but I can’t take
care of it. -- Bark Back Home, Dallas
DEAR BARK BACK HOME: Start
with your family, specifically whoever purchased the puppy. Explain your
dilemma. Ask if that person or another
family member may be able to care for
the puppy. If that doesn’t work, go to
your local animal shelter. Often, they
find homes for pets. If your puppy is
in good health, he should be easy to
place.
To all gift-givers out there, please
know that it is never recommended to
give someone an animal as a gift without the person’s explicit permission.
Friday, January 8, 2016 • Page 5A
January 2016
Communty Calendar
FRIDAY, Jan. 8:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Decatur. A.A. Happy Hour Discussion Group (closed), 5-6
p.m., Decatur Church of God.
Reformers Unanimous Addiction Recovery Program,
7-9 p.m., Grace Fellowship Church.
SATURDAY, Jan. 9:
A.A., 7 p.m., (open speaker/discussion) Cross
Community Church, Berne.
MONDAY, Jan. 11:
Clothes Closet, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Damascus Road
Church.
A.A. Big Book discussion, 7 p.m., Decatur Church
of God.
Decatur Church of Christ Food Pantry, 8-10 a.m.,
for residents with last names beginning with M-Z.
VFW Post 6236 women's meeting, 6:15 p.m.
CAPS support group, 6:30 p.m., C & C Bible
Fellowship, Berne.
TUESDAY, Jan. 12:
Optimist Club, noon, Richard's Restaurant.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
A.A., 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church.
Bread of Life food pantry, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Monroe
United Methodist Church.
VFW Auxiliary, 7 p.m., VFW Post.
Schwartz of Berne.
Chris joins a sister,
Lizzie.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Schwartz
Decatur. Jonas Z. and Suzanne Operation Help food pantry for Decatur and Monroe
(Troyer) Schwartz of residents, 1-4 p.m., Adams County Service Complex.
Monroe are the parents Bring your own box or cloth bags.
of an 8-pound, 6-ounce, Free meal, 5-6 p.m., First United Methodist Church,
20.25-inches
long 6th Street entrance.
daughter, Lena, born at Adult Children of Alcoholics, a 12-step support pro7:33 a.m. Dec. gram for those raised in alcoholic families, 7 p.m., The
20, 2015.
Bridge Community Church, 403 Winchester Road.
Grandparents
are
Carl
N.
Schwartz
of
Monroe; and Joe
E. and Rebecca
T royer
of
Owingsville, Ky.
Indiana State University recently announced its
Lena joins sib- Dean’s List for the fall semester of 2015. To be eligilings Lauren, Phenis, ble for the list, students must maintain a cumulative
Walter,
Merlin, grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
Rosetta,
Mark
and Area students making the dean’s list are Kaitlyn
Timothy.
Dunham and Brett Hormann, both of Decatur.
Local students make Dean’s
List at Indiana State University
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New dietary guidelines: lean meat OK, but cut the sugars
News Briefs
Feds say Alabama judges
must obey court decision
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal prosecutors
in Alabama say the state’s probate judges must
obey the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage regardless of an administrative order issued by
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Moore said Wednesday that the Alabama Supreme
Court never lifted a March directive to probate judges
to refuse licenses to gay couples. He said the order to
refuse the licenses remains in ‘‘full force.’’
U.S. Attorneys Joyce White Vance of the Northern
District of Alabama and Kenyen Brown of the
Southern District of Alabama issued a statement
saying they had ‘‘grave concerns’’ about Moore’s
administrative order. They said the issue was decided
by the U.S. Supreme Court last year and while government officials are free to disagree with the law,
they can’t disobey it.
Two new dog breeds join
American Kennel Club’s roster
NEW YORK (AP) — A hairless terrier and an
ancient North African hound are ready to run with
the pack of dog breeds recognized by the American
Kennel Club.
The organization announced Tuesday that the
American hairless terrier and the sloughi have joined
187 other recognized breeds. The newcomers can
now compete in most AKC shows and competitions,
though not at the prominent Westminster Kennel
Club show until next year.
Many American hairless terriers are, as advertised, bare-skinned, though others have short coats
but carry the hairless gene. Their rise began when a
hairless puppy emerged in a litter of rat terriers in
the 1970s, wowing a Louisiana couple and leading to
deliberate breeding of the hairless dogs, according to
the American Hairless Terrier Club of America.
The sloughi (pronounced SLOO-ghee), also called
the Arabian greyhound, was developed to hunt game
as big as gazelles. The lean, leggy dogs have some
similarities to salukis, another hound breed from
North Africa. Sloughis are known for speed, endurance, grace and rather reserved demeanors.
Berlin elephants enjoy late
festive snack: Christmas trees
BERLIN (AP) — Zoo elephants in Berlin have
enjoyed a light festive snack: a late delivery of
Christmas trees.
The New Year feeding of unsold pine trees
has become an annual event. Zookeeper Mario
Hammerschmidt says the trees are certified as pesticide-free.
Hammerschmidt said Thursday that the trees are
‘‘a good supplement to the food the elephants get
during winter time.’’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some
Americans may not have to cut
back on eggs and salt as much as
they once thought and eating lean
meat is still OK. But watch the
added sugars, especially the sugary drinks.
The Obama administration’s
new dietary guidelines, released
Thursday, back off the strictest
sodium rules included in the last
version, while still asserting that
Americans consume too much
salt. The guidelines reverse previous guidance on the dangers of
dietary cholesterol and add strict
new advice on sugars.
After a backlash from the meat
industry and Congress, the administration ignored several suggestions from a February report by an
advisory committee of doctors and
nutrition experts. That panel suggested calling for an environmentally friendly diet lower in red and processed meats and de-emphasized
lean meats in its list of proteins that
are part of a healthy diet.
But as in the previous years, the
government still says lean meats
are part of a healthy eating pattern.
Released every five years, the
guidelines are intended to help
Americans prevent disease and
obesity. They inform everything
from food package labels to subsidized school lunches to your doctor’s advice. And the main message
hasn’t changed much over the
years: Eat your fruits and vegetables. Whole grains and seafood,
too. And keep sugar, fats and salt
in moderation.
This year, one message the government wants to send is that
people should figure out what
type of healthy eating style works
for them, while still hewing to
the main recommendations. The
Agriculture Department, which
released the guidelines along with
the Department of Health and
Human Services, is also releasing
a tweaked version of its healthy
‘‘My Plate’’ icon to include a new
slogan: ‘‘My Wins.’’
‘‘Small changes can add up to
big differences,’’ said Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack.
One new recommendation is
that added sugar should be 10
percent of daily calories. That’s
about 200 calories a day, or about
the amount in one 16-ounce sugary drink. The recommendation is
part of a larger push to help consumers isolate added sugars from
naturally occurring ones like those
in fruit and milk. Added sugars
generally add empty calories to the
diet.
Sugar-sweetened
beverages
make up a large portion of those
empty calories. According to the
guidelines, sugary drinks comprise
47 percent of the added sugars
that Americans eat every day.
All 17 miners trapped in New York salt mine are rescued
LANSING, N.Y. (AP) —
Seventeen miners trapped
in one of the world’s deepest salt mines were rescued Thursday morning,
ending a 10-hour ordeal
that began when their
elevator broke down 900
feet underground.
The workers were
descending to the floor
of the 2,300-foot-deep
Cayuga Salt Mine — nearly deep enough to fit two
Empire State Buildings
stacked on top of each
other — to start their
shift when the elevator
malfunctioned at around
10 p.m. Wednesday, said
Mark Klein, a spokesman
for mine owner Cargill
Inc.
With temperatures in
the elevator shaft in the
teens — the same as the
surface — the miners
were cold but otherwise
unharmed, said Shawn
Wilczynski, the mine
manager.
‘‘Their spirits are tremendous. I’m inspired by
them, to be quite honest with you,’’ Wilczynski
said. ‘‘The first four that
came out of the mine
waited until the last two
came out.’’
Emergency workers
communicated via radio
with the miners, who had
blankets, heat packs and
other supplies lowered to
them.
The rescued workers
ranged in age from 20
to 40, and their mining
experience ranged from
a few months to four
decades, Wilczynski said.
A crane hoisted the
first four to the surface in
a basket around 7 a.m.
at the mine in Lansing,
about 40 miles outside
Syracuse. Another four
were rescued about 30
minutes later, and seven
more were brought to
the surface by 8:30 a.m.,
Klein said. The last two
were rescued a few minutes afterward.
The
mine,
which
Klein said is the deepest salt mine in the
Western
Hemisphere,
produces road salt that
is shipped throughout
the Northeastern United
States. The mine is
located on the shore of
Cayuga Lake and extends
beneath its waters.
Minneapolis-based
Cargill bought the mine
in 1970 and employs
200 workers there, Klein
said. The mine processes
about 2 million tons of
road salt annually, making it one of the biggest
producers in the U.S.,
Cargill said.
Mining operations will
be shut down for the rest
of the week as company
officials and federal mine
safety inspectors investigate what caused the
elevator, one of several at
the site, to malfunction,
Klein said.
‘‘We want to take a
step back, check things
out,’’ he said.
The crane used to rescue the workers had to
be brought in by a rigging
company in Auburn, 30
miles away.
According
to
the
state
Department
of
Environmental
260
ll
S
Conservation, a wide
swath of upstate New
York stretching from the
Syracuse area to the western Finger Lakes region
is underlain by what’s
known as the Salina formation, which contains
about 3.9 trillion metric
tons of rock salt ranging
in depth from 500 feet
to 4,000 feet. The Cargill
mine is the larger of two
salt mines operating in
the region. The other is
American Rock Salt’s
mine, located 35 miles
south of Rochester.
New York is the nation’s
third-largest producer of
rock salt after Louisiana
and Texas.
The last serious accident at the mine occurred
on the surface in March
2010, when a 150-ton
salt bin collapsed, killing a contract truck driver and injuring another
man, Klein said. The U.S.
Mine Safety and Health
Administration
later
determined a piece of the
bin corroded and caused
it to give way.
Decatur Daily Democrat
SUDOKU ® by American Profile
SUDOKU ®
Answers for previous day
Thursday, January 8, 2016 • Page 9A
Astro-Graph
It’s time to take
charge. If you want
things done to your
specifications
this
year, you will need to
do them yourself.
Taking care of legal, financial and
health issues will put your mind at
ease and position you for greater
benefits and advancement.
CAPRICORN
(Dec.
22-Jan. 19) -- You can offer verbal help, but don’t promise to take
care of someone else’s problems.
You are better off expanding your
interests and improving your position.
AQUARIUS
(Jan.
20-Feb. 19) -- Love is highlighted,
and romance will help you achieve
your dream life. Closely guard a
secret until you have everything
in its place and are fully prepared
to share.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) -- Don’t take chances with
your health. Illness and injury will
set you back if you are reckless.
Ask for help and be prepared to
do what’s necessary to reach
your goal.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- Re-evaluate your current
position. Take a pass on a job that
has limited growth and benefits. If
you believe in your ability, so will
someone who can offer you what
you are worth.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- Discuss possibilities and
share your ideas with someone
who can contribute and help you
make your dream come true. A
business trip or interview will bring
good results.
GEMINI (May 21-June
THE LOCKHORNS ®
20) -- Don’t give up on your
beliefs or adhere to someone
else’s lifestyle and traditions if
they don’t suit you. Living a lie will
not bring you closer to the happiness you deserve.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) -- You’ll have remarkable
ideas and insight into how you
can make your dream a reality. An
emotional relationship has the
potential to enhance your creative
imagination.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Personal gains can be made.
Bring about the changes you’ve
been contemplating in order to be
successful. Romance is on the
rise, and sharing with someone
special will improve your life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) -- It’s up to you to make things
happen. If you participate in
events, you will reap the rewards.
Don’t let a personal situation or
responsibility stand in your way.
Strive to get ahead.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
-- Keep your thoughts to yourself
and your emotions tucked away.
Avoid getting into a dispute with
someone you live or frequently
hang out with.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) -- Follow through with your
plans, regardless of the temptations you face. Problems will
develop if you trust anyone but
yourself. Discipline will be required
if you want to avoid a loss.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
23-Dec. 21) -- Be wary of anything or anyone that appears too
good to be true. Stick to simple
foolproof means and methods in
order to avoid being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous operator.
THE FAMILY CIRCUS ®
by Bil Keane
by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner
GE T
N OT I CE D
DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT
THE GRIZZWELLS ® by Bill Schorr
Beetle Bailey ® Mort Walker
BIG NATE ® by Lincoln Peirce
BABY BLUES ® by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
FRANK & ERNEST ® by Bob Thaves
CRANKSHAFT ® by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers
ARLO & JANIS ® by Jimmy Johnson
THE BORN LOSER ® by Art and Chip Sansom
Blondie ® Dean Young & John Marshall
ZITS ® by Jerry Scott and Jim Burgman
Decatur Daily Democrat
Page 10A •Friday, January 8, 2015
Area Church Directory
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Decatur
Lighthouse
8727 N. U.S. Hwy. 27
(260) 728-4091
Pastor Eugene Martin
Sunday:
Worship
10 a.m.
Evening service
6 p.m.
Wednesday:
6:30 p.m. Bible study,
all ages.
Living Word Temple
230 W. Madison St.
Decatur, IN 46733
(north across from
the courthouse)
(260) 724-8454
[email protected]
Pastor: Brother Dan
Sunday:
Worship, 10 a.m.
Sunday School
(all ages), 10:35 a.m.
Prayer, 6 p.m.
Wednesday:
Bible Study, 7 p.m.
CHURCH OF GOD
Decatur
Church of God
1129 Mercer Ave.,
Decatur, IN 46733
(260) 724-2580
www.decaturchurchofgod.
com
Dr. Robert J. Brink,
Senior Pastor
Jamie Conkling, Pastor of
Worship Arts
Jerry Mitchel, Visitation
Pastor
K.C. Graves, Pastor of
Student Ministries
Sunday:
Worship service, 9 a.m.
G.I.G.ville, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.
H.O.M.E. Groups, 6 p.m.
Wednesday:
Family Activities, 7 p.m.
LUTHERAN
McKEAN’S
St. Peter Evangelical
Lutheran Church
1033 E 1100 N
Decatur, IN 46733
Phone: (260) 724-7533
[email protected]
Rev. Martin K. Moehring
Fieldworker:
Nathan Bienz
Bill Maggard Jr.
Sunday:
Divine Service, 9 a.m.
Sunday School &
Bible Class, 10:15 a.m.
Hoagland, IN 46745
(260) 705-7455
Pastor Todd Buckmaster
Sunday:
Sunday School, 9 a.m.
Worship Service, 10 a.m.
NONDENOMINATIONAL
(260) 341-9397
Pastor: Jim Splawn
Anointed preaching and worship; prayer for the ill
6:30 p.m. Wednesdays
(Independent)
Grace Fellowship
316 N. 7th St. (At the Corner
of 7th. & Nuttman)
Decatur
(260) 728-2009
Church of Christ
www.decaturgracefellowship.
700 E Monroe St.
org
(260) 724-2034
gracefelloship@embarqmail.
Email:
com
decaturchurchofchrist@
Senior Pastor Dan York
Zion Lutheran Church
mediacombb.net
Cell: (260) 704-2610
1010 West Monroe St.,
Website:
decaturcc.org
'COME
HOME TO GRACE'
Decatur,
Sunday:
Minister: Steven Beckett
(260) 724-7177
Bible
Classes
9:00 a.m.
Sunday:
[email protected]
Worship 10:00 a.m.
9
a.m.
Bible
Class
James Voorman
THE MESSENGERS Childrens
10 a.m. Worship Service
Senior Pastor
Service 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday:
Timothy Carr,
Sunday Evening 6:00 p.m.
TT (Teen Time), 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Assisting Pastor
Wednesday:
Adult Bible Study, 6:30 p.m.
Robert Becker
Evening Bible Study
Pastor Emeritus
DCC's Food Pantry is open
Timothy Wilcoxen
every Monday from 10 a.m. New Beginnings
Vicar
noon (summer hours –
Family Center
Christian School — Preschool
fall hours TBA)
Corner of 10th St.
through Grade 8
and Dayton Avenue
Sunday:
Damascus Road
(Next to Northwest School)
Worship Service, 8 a.m.
(260) 728-9000
Church
Bible Study and Sunday
www.nbfcfamily.com
1040 S. 11th St.
School, 9:15 a.m.
Senior Pastor Jason Cooksey
P.O. Box 783
Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.
Cell: (662) 313-3990
Decatur, IN 46733
(Broadcast live on WZBD;
Sunday:
Pastoral Contacts:
Celebration Service 10 a.m.
Also listen to sermon and Bible
Kevin (260) 701-0438
Wednesday:
class on
Sunday:
"Souled Out" Youth, 6:30 p.m.
www.ziondecatur.com)
Bible Study, 9 a.m.
Thursday
Sunday
Worship,
10
a.m.
Evening
services, 6:30 p.m.
MISSIONARY
Wednesday
Adult & Youth Bible Study,
New Hope Church
Cornerstone
7 p.m.
1098W 500N, Decatur
Community Church
(260)724-4900
Child care offered
909 E. Monroe Street Ext.
Website:newhopein.org
at
all
services
and Piqua Road
Lead Pastor, Alfred
The Clothes Closet:
(260) 724-7556
Templeton
1040
S.
11th
St.,
Decatur
www.decaturccc.com
Youth Pastor, Jerry Wetter
Alice (260) 223-5727
Pastor Ken Hogg
Adult Sunday School, 8:30 a.m.
Sunday:
Dee (260) 301-6023
Connection's Cafe, 9:15 a.m.
Worship,
Norma(260) 701-8421
Worship Service, 10 a.m.
9:45 a.m.
Open Monday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Children's Ministry, 10:15 a.m.
Sunday School
Worship, prayer, small groups
11 a.m. for all ages
(except 5th Sundays) 5:45 p.m.
The Mission House
Student (Jr. / Sr. high)
Hoagland Community
1704 Nuttman Ave. at Villa
ministries 6:55 p.m.
Salem Community Church
Church
Lanes conference room
2140 S. Salem Road
P.O. Box 126,
www.missionhouseministries.
(2 miles south of St. Rd. 124)
11104 Hoagland Road
info
Pastor Jim Compton.
"A little country church
with a big heart"
Sunday:
Morning Service, 9 a.m.
Sunday School, 10:15 a.m.
Sunday School 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday:
Prayer meeting: 6 p.m.
Kids Club, 6 p.m.
UNITED
METHODIST
ROMAN CATHOLIC
St. Mary of the
Assumption
Catholic Church
414 W. Madison St.
Decatur, IN 46733-1615
(260) 724-9159
open every day for prayer
from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.
www.stmarysdecatur.org
Pastor:
Fr. David W. Voors
Associate Pastor: Fr. Jose
Panamattathil
Religious Education:
Steph Brite
Pastoral Assoc.
Deacon Jerry Kohrman
(260) 223-7136
Weekend Masses:
Sat., 4 p.m.
Sun., 7, 8:30, 11 a.m.
Confessions (Reconciliation):
Mon., 5:30 p.m.
Sat., 5:15 p.m.
(anytime by appoinment)
Daily Mass:
M, Tu, Wed,
8:15 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Th, 7 & 8:15 a.m.
Fri., 1:30 p.m. at Woodcrest
Sat 8:15 a.m.
Eucharistic Adoration:
M-Tu-W, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Thurs., 9-10 a.m.
& 4:30-8 p.m.
Parish Religious Education
Steph Brite
724-9159 ext. 102
St. Joseph Catholic School
Jeff Kieffer
724-2765
Union Chapel
United Methodist Church
2999 E 700 N
Decatur, Ind. 46733
(260) 724-2084
unionchapel260@
embarqmail.com
Pastor: Ed Karges
Sunday:
Sunday School, 9 a.m.
Worship, 10 a.m.
Youth, 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday:
Choir, 6 p.m.
UNITED
PENTECOSTAL
Faith Chapel United
Pentecostal Church
3928 N. Salem Road
Decatur, Indiana 46733
(260) 728-2911
Pastor: Rev. Bruce Bush
www.pentecostdecatur.com
www.facebook.com/faithchapelupc
Pastor's Email:
brucebushdecatur@yahoo.
com
Sunday:
Sunday School: 10 a.m.
Celebration Service: 11 a.m.
Wednesday:
Bible Study: 7 p.m.
Sonshine Daycare Ministry:
Daycare Manager:
Casey Miller
Monday-Friday from
5:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Daycare Phone: 728-4567
UNITED BRETHREN
Mt. Zion United Brethren
Church
4515 North State Road 101
Decatur, IN 46733
Pastor: Wes Kuntzman
Phone: 260-701-0538
Sunday:
Worship, 9 a.m.
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I bought a pair of
new tennis shoes last week.
I was with my family at one
of those outlet stores and I
came across a real bargain.
$17 for a pair of Nike’s is a
pretty good deal, and I look
for the deals.
Back in the early
80’s I was with some people
from my church in Texas,
attending a conference in
Dallas. We were early and
had some time to waste so
we stopped at a Mall for a
chance at securing an inexpensive deal. In one store,
I spotted the “Holy Grail”
of bargains. There on the
discount rack was a pair
of “Pony” high-top tennis
shoes for $5. That was unbelievable, and to top it off
the only pair that they had
was in my size. Talk about
a gift from God!
At that stage of my
life, playing basketball was
still very important. I loved
to play ball and the new
tennis shoes were perfect.
Never had I worn a pair of
tennis shoes that fit so well
and were so comfortable.
Unfortunately, tennis shoes wear out. They
needed to be replaced. So,
the search for more bargains continued.
Is that the way it
works for God and for our
families? Does the great
gift of salvation wear out
and need to be replaced?
Are our marriages put in
jeopardy because of an expired faith?
No, new birth in
Christ remains a bargain
for all of eternity. It doesn’t
grow old, go out of style,
wear out, or lose its appeal.
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God
and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ! In his great
mercy he has given us new
birth into a living hope
through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead.
It’s not tennis shoes.
New birth in Jesus Christ is
so much better. Try it!
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Friday, January 8, 2016 • Page 11A
Stars, Jets earn pool victories
BERNE—
South
Adams
earned
two
key swim wins against
ACAC rival Bluffton on
Thursday night as the
girls won 111-74 and the
boys secured a 99-86
victory over the Tigers.
The Lady Stars secured
gold finishes in 10 of the
12 events including two
of the three relay races.
Ashton and Brette Klopp
teamed up with Ashley
LeFever and Caroline
Kloepper in the 200
Medley for a first-place
time of 1:59.16, while
Ashton Klopp, Kloepper,
LeFever
and
Olivia
VonGunten raced in the
200 Relay for a gold time
of 1:48.52.
Individually, Brette
Klopp won the 200
Free (2:10.25) and the
Backstroke
(1:04.34),
while her sister Ashton
was first in the 500 Free
(5:34.89) and the 200 IM
(2:18.02). Also winning
for SA was LeFever in the
Butterfly (1:03.46) and 50
Free (26.20), VonGunten
in the 100 Free (1:00.88),
and Audrey Burson in the
Breaststroke (1:17.23).
For the boys races,
South Adams was winners of seven out of 12
doing enough with their
depth to hold off the
Tigers who won the other
five events.
The Stars won the 200
Free Relay behind Daniel
Burson, Drew LeFever,
Zach
Colpaert,
and
David Steffen at 1:35.83.
They also took first
in the 400 Free Relay
behind Burson, Colpaert,
Steffen and Zach Teeple
at 3:32.14.
Individually, Steffen
won the Breaststroke at
1:07.17 and the 100 Free
at 50.51, while Burson
won the 500 Free at
5:50.90 and the 200 Free
at 1:54.37, and Teeple
was first in the 200 IM at
2:18.65.
CENTRAL OUTSWIMS
WABASH
WABASH— The Jets
took a pair of swimming
wins Thursday night from
Wabash High School as
the boys earned a 90-58
win and the girls earned
a 96-68 victory.
Central's Lady Jets
were victorious in eight
of the 12 events behind
Relay wins in the 400
and 200 Free. In the 400,
Alexis Coyne, Jayme
Miller, Juliana Bluhm
and Holly Mailloux combined to record a gold
time of 4:57.69, while
Alexis Bloom, Miller,
Elizaabeth Bluhm and
Sydney Christner won
the 200 Free Relay at
2:04.33.
Mailloux also won the
200 Free at 2:32.26 and
the 500 Free at 6:53.79,
Elizabeth Bluhm won
the 200 IM at 3:06.94,
Marissa
Tupai
was
the winner in the diving event at 169.25
points, Christner won
the 100 Free at 1:08.66,
and Coyne won the
Backstroke at 1:19.16.
For the boys, nine
of the 11 events were
golden as neither team
produced a diver for the
12th event.
The Jet relay teams
were three for three as
Sam Frauhiger, Tristan
Anderson, Ian Wellman
and Jon Bergdall were
first in the 200 Medley
at 2:01.06, Frauhiger,
Anderson, Wellman and
Morgan Kaehr won the
200 Free at 1:44.90, and
in the 400 Free, Bergdall,
Kaehr, Silas Hildebrand,
and Dylan Hurst scored
a time of 4:04.82.
Frauhiger
finished
first in the Backstroke
at 1:09.19, while Hurst
was gold in the 500 Free
at 5:58.93, Anderson
won the 200 Free at
2:06.60, Bergdall won
the Butterfly at 1:09.88,
and Wellman was first in
the 50 Free at 24.56 and
the 100 Free at 56.80.
Davis helps #20 Boilers over Michigan
By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.
(AP) — Purdue’s Rapheal
Davis spent all week contemplating the mistakes
he made last weekend.
On Thursday night, he
made the corrections.
The
Boilermakers’
defensive stopper scored
16 points, had six assists
and five rebounds and A.J.
Hammons added 17 points
and four blocks to help
No. 20 Purdue pull away
from Michigan 87-70.
‘‘I let my teammates
down big time against
Iowa. You have to place
the blame somewhere and
I felt it should have been
placed on me,’’ Davis said.
‘‘My message is that you
keep playing as hard as
you can and things will
work out.’’
They certainly did
Thursday.
Davis helped shut down
Michigan’s usually potent
shooters. Hammons, the
7-foot senior center, dominated the middle and eventually, the Boilermakers
(14-2, 2-1 Big Ten) wore
down the short-handed
Wolverines at the end of
each half.
The Boilermakers (14-2,
2-1 Big Ten) seized control
with a 16-4 flurry to close
the first half then maintained a relatively safe distance throughout the second half until finally putting the Wolverines away
with a late 12-0 run.
Purdue has won eight
of its last 10 and is 10-1 at
home this season. Johnny
Hill, the only other senior
who gets regular playing time, finished with 10
points.
Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman led Michigan
(12-4, 2-1) with a careerhigh 25 points. Derrick
Walton Jr. added 12
points as the Wolverines’
six-game winning streak
ended.
Michigan was not itself
with leading scorer Caris
LeVert missing his second
straight game because of
a lower left leg injury, and
Davis didn’t make things
any easier.
While the Wolverines
made 11 3-pointers, they
went 10 of 31 from the
field in the first half and
weren’t much better in the
second half.
The Boilermakers started the game shooting 3
of 15 from the field and
looked almost as bad as
they did in the second half
of Saturday’s loss to Iowa,
but they regrouped and
made that last run in the
first half to take a 35-28
lead.
Purdue made it 45-35
early in the second half.
When Michigan closed
to within five, Purdue
answered with an 8-2
spurt to make it 58-47.
NOTRE DAME 82,
BOSTON COLLEGE 54
BOSTON (AP) — Notre
Dame’s players showed
their
usual
efficient
offense. Coach Mike Brey
was most impressed by
their defense.
Demetrius
Jackson
scored eight of his 17
points during a 21-4 key
run in the first half that
carried Notre Dame to an
82-54 win over Boston
College on Thursday
night.
Entering the game with
all five starters averaging
in double figures, Brey had
a new goal for the group.
‘‘Our challenge the last
couple of days was improving defensively,’’ he said.
‘‘My challenge was: ‘you
play so good offensively.
Why can’t you have each
other’s back more on the
defensive end?’’’
They responded, holding BC to 33.3 percent
from the floor.
Bonzie Colson added
16 points, Zach Auguste
had 15 and Steve Vasturia
added 13 for the Fighting
Irish (10-4, 1-1 Atlantic
Coast Conference). Notre
Dame shot 62.3 percent in
the game, hitting 11 of 17
on 3-point attempts.
Eli Carter and Dennis
Clifford led the Eagles
(7-8, 0-2) with 13 points
apiece.
It’s BC’s third-most
lopsided loss ever at
home since joining the
ACC in 2005-06. The
most was a 106-74 loss
to North Carolina on Feb.
1, 2011.
Coming off an 11-point
loss at then-No. 5 Virginia
in its ACC opener on
Saturday, Notre Dame took
charge early and turned it
into an easy night by halftime.
By JIM HOPKINS
"We'll have two teams
Saturday tougher than
anyone we faced in the
2A state meet," stated
Bellmont coach Paul
Gunsett, whose No.
7 Braves polished off
Huntington North and
the dual-meet portion of
the NE8 conference with
a 66-15 win Thursday
night at BHS.
Gunsett
is
refer ring to perennial power
Perry Meridian, ranked
third overall, and No.
16 Bloomington South,
two of the seven teams
involved in Saturday's
Main Event at Bellmont.
Plymouth, South Bend
Riley, Mishawaka, Delta
and Bellmont close out
the field for the annual
tourney, which will start
at 9 a.m.
Admission will be $5
for adults and kids in
grades K-12, which will
be good for all sessions
of the day.
Bellmont will take
part in all five rounds
during the day starting
with their 9 a.m. meeting with Bloomington
South. The Braves will
then take on South Bend
Adams in round two,
Mishawaka round three,
Perry Meridian round
four, and Delta to finish
the day.
At the same time,
Adams
Central
will
host the annual Adams
Central Super Dual. The
Jets will meet Norwell in
round 1, then Southwood,
Bishop Dwenger, and
two cross over matches,
one will likely be Kokomo
Western.
Other teams in Pool B
are: Fort Wayne Carroll
B team, Bluffton, and
Busco.
"Western
intrigues
me,"
stated
Central
coach Tony Currie on a
team the Jets, 16-8 after
a dominating win over
Homestead Thursday,
may meet in the title
match in the afternoon.
"They have four or five
real good kids, and it
looks like Hunter Bates,
Anthony Mosser and Nick
Liter will wrestle some of
their better kids. It could
be a good dual for us, a
good test.
The huge meet will be
the third straight tough
one for the Braves. "It's
a change for us," said
Gunsett.
"January in the past
has been a down month
for us, we don't usually wrestle well. It's a
recovery month when we
get ready for sectional.
With that state meet our
mindset changes.
"We always peaked
before at Mishawaka.
Nnow we plan to peak a
week after that."
The Braves peaked
Saturday to win 2A
state, and continued
their domination against
Huntington North.
The Main Event will
test the Braves again.
DDD Sports Scoreboard
IHSWCA TOP 20
STATE WRESTLING POLL
Jan. 7, 2016
(First place votes in parenthesis)
1, Brownsburg (6) 120
2, Warren Central 114
3, Perry Meridian 106
4, Evansville Mater Dei 104
5, Penn 96
6, Portage 88
7, BELLMONT 81
8, Crown Point 73
9, Carmel 70
10, (tie) Avon 56 10, (tie) Prairie Heights 56
12, Lawrence North 50
13, Columbus East 38
14, Indianapolis Cathedral 35
15, Jimtown 24
16, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 23
17, (tie) Hamilton Southeastern 21
17, (tie) Yorktown 21
19, Center Grove 20
20, Castle 17
Also receiving votes: Bloomington
South 15, New Palestine 9, Hobart 8,
Merrillville 6, Jennings County 4,
Franklin Community 3, Delta 1,
Lafayette Jeff 1.
Main Event Teams
DELTA EAGLES 11-3
106-Nick Dull Jr., C. Shimer Fr.
113-Skyler Hammel So.
120-Brock House Sr.
126-Luke Schliessman Jr.
132-Noah Richardson *6
Jr.
138-Sage Coy 82
Sr.
138-Jaiden Turner So.
145-Blake Green *7 Jr.
152-Andrew Abbott Fr.
160-Seth Fox Sr., Michael Folkner
Jr., Brad Kowalski Sr., Hunter Johnston Sr.
170-Jacob Gray *
3Jr.
182-Brady Pease Fr.
182-Bailey Maxwell Jr., Sebastian
126-Jack Servies So. *15
132-DJ Brodback *11
138-Logan Hurley **8
145-Kain Rust *15
152-Brett Johnson *6
160-Noah Warren *6
170-Christian Watt Jr *10
182-Jaylen Marion
195--220-Blake Scholl
285-Chris Ridle
Brown So., Blake Reynolds Fr.
195-Scottie Evans **1 Sr.
220-Jacob Bell Jr., F. Johnson Fr.
285-Ryan George Sr.
BELLMONT 15-1
106-DeAundre James Fr. 10-10
113-Gregg Shoaf Jr 3-3
120-Mason Mendez Sr. *12
18-3
126-Jon Becker Jr. *1318-5
132-Daniel Gunsett Sr. *8
20-2
138-Colin Mills Fr.
8-7
145-Gavin Siefring Sr. 2-0
152-Matt Laughlin So. 10-9
160-Tony Busse Jr. *12
19-2
170-Bryce Baumgartner Jr. *5
19-1
182-Caleb Hankenson Jr. *9
20-3
195-Dallas Hammett Sr.
5-6
220-Drew Butler Sr. 9-10
285-Braiden Shaw So.11-3
* State Rank
** Semi-state Rank
S. BEND ADAMS 7-5
106-Vincent Calhoun 17-5
113-Joey Zahl
20-3
120-Jacob Dale
13-8
126-Trey Shaw
2-2
132-Aaron Chann
4-7
138-Andrew Chann 14-8
145-Andrew Poeun 8-11
152-Travis Evans *12 20-4
160-Tavonte Malone Jr. *7
22-1
170-Vinnie Kaomixay 0-6
182-FF
195-FF
220-FF
285-Connor Krug
2-12
MISHAWAKA 6-6
106-FF
113-Taylor Taft 1-3
120-Gabe Weeks
5-5
126-Ryan Hardesty *10
16-4
132-Preston Risner 17-5
138-Deven Beaver
10-4
145-Ben Kinsinger
2-7
152-Blake White
0-3
160-Luke Sincovics 9-8
170-Blake Becker
7-10
182-Austin Faulkner *15
14-4
195- ff 2-13
220-Jake Hess
11-7
285-Alex Faulkner
8-9
BLOOM. SOUTH 10-3
(Top Wrestlers)
106-Paul Pinkham **6
113-Blake Webb
120-Noah Hunt *15
126-Derek Blubaugh
160-Connor Hay
170-Chase Webb
195-Tyloer Algood
285-Chase Dixon *15
PLYMOUTH 7-4
(Top Wrestlers)
113-Zane Devault
132-Cody Allmon
182-Jeremy Splitx *11
195-Jacob Lafree
PERRY MERIDIAN 8-1
106-Sam Fair Fr. *2
113-Sunny Nier Jr. *7
120-David Clayton
Favre, Terrell among NFL Hall finalists
CANTON, Ohio (AP) —
Brett Favre is one step
away from entering the
Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The quarterback who
left the NFL after the 2010
season as the leader in
most career passing categories, is among three
first-time eligibles to make
the list of 15 finalists.
Receiver Terrell Owens
and guard Alan Faneca,
also in their initial year of
eligibility, made the cut.
The class of 2016 will
be decided on Feb. 6, the
day before the Super Bowl,
with inductions scheduled
for August.
Also making the cut to
15 are Morten Andersen,
Steve Atwater, Don Coryell,
Terrell Davis, Tony Dungy,
Kevin Greene, Marvin
Harrison, Joe Jacoby,
Edgerrin James, John
Lynch, Orlando Pace and
Kurt Warner.
Two senior finalists
— players whose careers
ended more than 25 years
ago — were announced
last August: Ken Stabler
and Dick Stanfel.
A contributor finalist
announced in September
was Edward DeBartolo Jr.,
owner of the San Francisco
49ers from 1977-2000.
To be elected, a finalist must receive a minimum of 80 percent of the
votes cast by the selection
panel. A maximum of eight
inductees are allowed per
year.
The ultimate gunslinging
quarterback,
Favre led the Packers to
the 1996 NFL championship and was a three-time
league MVP. He retired as
the NFL’s leading passer
with 6,300 completions,
10,169 attempts, 71,838
yards and 508 touchdowns.
Owens played for five
teams in his 16 pro seasons, making the Super
Bowl with the 2004 Eagles.
He ranks second in yards
receiving (15,934), third
in touchdown receptions
(153) and set a then-record
for catches in a single
game with 20 against the
Bears in 2000.
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Braves dominate Hunt. North for easy NE8 grappling title
By JIM HOPKINS
Two-A state champ
Bellmont didn't miss a
beat Thursday night, capping off a perfect inaugural NE8 dual-meet mat
season with a 66-15 blowout of Huntington North,
continuing their pinning
attitude with eight falls to
go with three forfeits.
The Braves, now 16-1
on the season at 7-0 in
the NE8, melted the 2A
field with 24 falls in taking Saturday's IHSWCA
2A title Saturday at the
Coliseum.
"Right now we're on a
roll and wrestling well. We
talked about getting pins
and those extra points,
and it's carried over from
Saturday," stated Bellmont
coach Paul Gunsett.
"The kids came in here
fired up... again!"
The Braves took forfeits
at 106 with DeAundre
James and at 120 with
Mason Mendez and led
18-6 after three matches. Zach Johnson (23-1)
scored a fall for the Vikes
over Gregg Shoaf at 113.
The Braves then strung
together eight straight pins
to make it a short night for
the Vikes.
Jon Becker spun Rick
Haught to his back with a
nifty twirl, and later scored
a 3:23 fall to start the BHS
run. At 132, senior Daniel
Gunsett hit is usual monkey roll and notched a
headlock at the end, then
switched to a cradle for his
1:44 ending.
Senior Gavin Siefring
improved to 3-0 by tossing Adrian George down
in 1:28 as the score went
to 30-6. Colin Mills shifted
up a weight and cradled
Sam White in 2:48. Matt
Laughlin hit a hard corkscrew and finished Evan
Hill in 2:50.
Tony Busse tossed Jaun
Arnz in 1:20 at 160, and
Bryce Baumgartner hit a
pair of duck-unders and
some double-legs before
cranking Eli Parrett over
three minutes at 170.
Caleb
Hankenson
turned a hard single-leg
into a sudden fall in what
was a 3-1 struggle. His
six-pointer came in 4:37
to make it 60-6..
The Vikes had to come
from behind at 195 as
Dallas Hammett topped a
battling Jarron Gerwig of
BHS 4-2. Butler took a forfeit and the Vikes scored
six at heavyweight when
senior Jeremiah Gardner
felled sub Derek Simon in
1:02. Regular BHS heavyweight Braiden Shaw was
ill, but could be back for
Saturday's Main Event at
BHS.
"We got the dual-meet
half of the (NE8) conference. Now we just have to
add the tourney title to it
for a sweep," said Coach
Gunsett.
"If we can start strong
Saturday, I think we can
keep this up," stated
senior 132-pounder Daniel
Gunsett on the pinning
ways of the Braves.
"We thought we would
win that (state) Saturday,
then went out and dominated, and better that we
felt we would. We can keep
this up."
Coach Gunsett was
more feels that the Braves
will have a couple of tough
challenges in the Main
Event, which starts at 9
a.m.
"Two teams, Perry
Merdian and Bloomington
South are stronger than
anyone we faced Saturday,
and there are some tough
individual matches in the
other meets," said the
coach.
Gunsett notes that
145-pound senior Bucky
Gutierrez has a sprained
ankle and is questionable
for Saturday, as is Shaw.
"We'd like to win several
of those meets, so we may
put Bucky out there. On
the other hand, we need
him healthy for conference
and sectional," said Coach
Gunsett.
Bellmont 66, Huntington
North 15
106-D. James (B) WBF
113-Johnson (H) p. Shoaf 2:16
120-Mendez (B) WBF
126-Becker (B) p. Haught 3:23
132-Gunsett (B) p. Rosen 1:44
138-Siefring (B) p.George 1:28
145-Mills (B) p. Nevil 2:48
152-Laughlin (B) p. White 2:50
160-Busse (B) p. Arnz 1:10
170-Baumgartner (B) p. Parrett 3:00
182-Hankenson (B) p. Updike 4:37
195-Graft (H) d. Gerwig 4-2
220-Butler (B) WBF
285-Gardner (H) p. Simon 1:02
JV: Bellmont 18, Huntington 0
138-Ortiz (B) p. Russell 3:23
152-Jeungel (B) p. Hill 3:37
132-Razo (B) p. Eltzroth 1:55
HOW’M I DOIN’ COACH?— Bellmont senior Daniel Gunsett looks at the Braves’
coaching staff as he handles his Huntington North opponent for one of eight
BHS pins on the night. The win lifted the Braves to the first ever NE8 wrestling
title. (Photo by Jim Hopkins)
Patriots dominate second half, pound Jets in ACAC clash
By DYLAN MALONE
MONROE— The Flying
Jets gave an effort against
the likely favorite to win
the ACAC Thursday
night but Central ran out
of offense in the second
half and fell at home to
the Jay County Patriots,
53-35.
The Pats' lineup was
a formidable one featuring three players over
6'4" led by senior center
Adam Dirksen who led
all scores with 15 on the
night.
"That's probably the
only team we'll play all
year that can, man for
man, match up with
Luke Voirol," said AC
coach Aaron McClure.
"They have several tall,
long, athletic guys that
really gave us a lot of
JONAH FOR TWO— Central senior Jonah Tijerina
found himself wide open underneath the basket
Thursday night, a rarity against the Patriots, as Jay
County emerged victorious 53-35. (Photo by Paul
Yoder)
trouble tonight. We'll
have to attack the rim
a little bit harder if we
have the chance to play
them again."
Central's 2-3 zone
did keep the big man in
check for much of the
first half limiting him to
just two free throws. At
the end of the first half,
Johnny Carroll's drive
and kick to David Fox
for three with 10 seconds left kept the Jets
within a point, down just
21-20.
After just 21 points
in the first half for Jay
County, the Patriots
scored 16 points in both
the third and the fourth
finding their offensive
flow and putting distance between them and
the Jets.
"In the first half it was
back and forth. We had
that big play at the end of
the half and we felt good
about where we were at,"
recalled McClure. "We
got caught a couple of
times seeing the ball and
not our man but Jay
County does a great job
of cutting to the basket."
The Jets would get a
three-pointer from Drew
Schultz on the wing to
tie the game at 23-23
but the Pats would then
run off seven straight on
a three from Dirksen,
then buckets from Jason
Schlosser and Jay Houck
for a 30-23 lead.
David Fox's acrobatic
finish on the fast break
made it 30-25 but it
was answered immediately on the other end by
another three, this one
from Houck. The Jets
would not score again
in the third after Jonah
Tijerina's lay-up but the
Pats' Bowen Runyon
gave them a boost with
two buckets underneath
for a 37-27 lead.
McClure recognized the
turning point of the game
in the middle of the third.
"We went on a drought
there in the third and
they made some shots
on the other end to build
the lead but we weren't
turning the ball over the
shots just weren't falling
for us. We just let them
play without a timeout
because I didn't really
have any words of wisdom about it. We simply
weren't making shots."
Having only three
turnovers at that point,
the Jets faced the daunting task of playing from
behind in the fourth.
"You
know
when
they're up 10 points
at the end of the third
that they aren't going to
give you the game right
back," stated McClure.
"They are very fundamental and don't turn
the ball over or take bad
shots and it was a tough
thing to overcome."
The lead would extend
on a Dirksen bucket and
free throws from Runyon
before Tanner Roth's triple made it 41-30 with
6:30 left. After six more
points for Jay County
when the Jets moved
to their 1-3-1 pressing
zone, Voirol would finally
get a second-half bucket
leaving the lead at 15 for
the Pats.
"I thought they got a
lot of dribble penetration against our zone
that hurt us in the second half. They broke
us down and split us a
few times and it seemed
like they would get every
50-50 ball tonight. If we
get a few of those loose
balls maybe we're down
just five or so and the
game is a lot different
in the fourth," analyzed
McClure.
With three minutes to
play, the Jets conceded
the victory by playing
the reserves the rest of
the way. Carroll's second
three of the game was
the final field goal for
either team.
Three-pointers from
Roth and Fox in the first
quarter gave AC a temporary 8-7 lead before
four points from Jay
County gave them a
12-8 lead through one.
Dirksen had four blocks
in the first quarter, three
of them on Voirol as the
two battled in the post
on both ends.
In the second quarter,
Voirol would get a bucket, then Carroll would
stroke a three from the
top of the key for a 13-12
advantage. The Jets
would not lead again in
the game.
Jay County ended
with 11 blocks as a
team, seven of them from
Dirksen who had five of
those in the first half.
From the field, AC
shot just 13-38 (34%),
seven of those field goals
three-pointers, but only
managed two free throws
in the game, both from
Voirol in the first half.
As for Jay County, the
Pats shot 20-42 in the
game, or 48%, sinking an
efficient 4-7 from deep
along with a 9-10 performance from the line. The
teams combined for only
15 fouls in the game,
nine on the Jets.
Dirksen's 15 was tops
for the Pats with seven
boards, while Houck was
the only other player in
double-digits with 10.
All eight players who
saw significant minutes
scored for the Pats in a
balanced effort. For AC,
Fox led with eight points,
while Carroll, Roth and
Voirol all ended with six.
The JV lost to the
Pats by a 35-24 tally
after
falling
behind
23-7 at the half. For Ac,
Dylan Miller's 12 points
was tops, while Tyler
Lafontaine had six.
In the C-team contest,
the Patriots pulled down
a 31-11 victory.
Central is off until
next Tuesday when they
travel to Southern Wells
for the opening round of
the ACAC tournament.
Jay County 53, Central 35
PATRIOTS (5-3, 3-0 ACAC)
FG3PT FT
Stigleman
1-3 0-0 2-2
Carver
3-7 1-3 0-0
Schlosser
3-7 0-0 0-0
Houck
3-5 1-1 3-4
Dirksen
6-13 1-1 2-2
Runyon
2-3 0-0 2-2
Springer
1-2 1-2 0-0
Crouch
1-2 0-0 0-0
Totals
20-42 4-7 9-10
JETS (5-3, 2-1 ACAC)
FG3PT
Carroll
2-4 2-3
Roth
2-5 2-5
Bauman
0-5 0-3
Fox
3-4 2-3
Brown
0-0 0-0
Tijerina
2-7 0-3
Schultz
2-4 1-2
Voirol
2-9 0-0
Busse
0-0 0-0
Mailloux
0-0 0-0
Grubaugh
0-0 0-0
Totals
13-387-19
TP
4
7
6
10
15
6
3
2
53
FT TP
0-0 6
0-0 6
0-0 0
0-0 8
0-0 0
0-0 4
0-0 5
2-2 6
0-0 0
0-0 0
0-0 0
2-2 35
Score By Quarters
Jay County 12 9 16 16 53
Central
8 12 7 8 35
JV Scoring: (JC) Hill 1-0-0-2, Moser
1-0-0-2, Rodgers 2-1-0-7, R.
Schlechty 5-0-0-10, M. Schlechty
3-0-0-6, Trewyn 2-0-0-4, Davis 1-0-24, Totals 15-1-2-35. (AC) Arnold 1-00-2, Peterson 1-0-2-4, Lafontaine
0-2-0-6, Miller 6-0-0-12, Totals 8-2-224.
C-team Scoring: (JC) Aulker 3-0-1-7,
Randall 3-0-0-6, Faulkner 3-0-0-6,
Grimes 0-1-1-4, Geesman 2-0-0-4,
Franks 2-0-0-4, Totals 13-1-2-31.
(AC) Busse 2-0-0-4, Miller 1-0-1-3,
Yergler 1-0-0-2, Bultemeier 1-0-0-2,
Totals 5-0-1-11.
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