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Democrat
WEDNESDAY
February 17,
2016
IN BRIEF
CrimeStopper
takes court in
fundraiser
The
annual
CrimeFighters vs K105
Hoopsters
fundraiser
basketball game will be
held at 7 p.m. Monday at
the Bellmont High School
gym. Tickets are $5 for
adults, $2 for students
and children 5 years old
and younger are free.
Jenna Razo and her
Razz M’ Jazz dancers will
provide half-time dance
entertainment.
All monetary proceeds
and donations from the
event will go to the
CrimeStoppers Tip fund.
An independent newspaper serving Adams County, Indiana since 1857
NE Partnership funding coming into focus
By BOB SHRALUKA
Decatur officials were expecting today to gain greater details
into how the Northeast Indiana
Regional Partnership — of which
this city and Adams County are
a part — plans to move ahead
after being awarded $42 million
in funding for various projects
in the 11-county partnership
area.
Northeast Indiana was one
of three areas in the state to be
named in mid-December as the
recipient of a $42 million state
grant, and since that time part-
nership officials have been formulating plans on such items
as which projects will be chosen and how the funds will be
divided.
Community
Coordinator
Melissa Norby told city council
on Tuesday night that a meeting
was scheduled for 2 p.m. today,
during which numerous questions are likely to be answered.
“We hope to get a clearer path
(of where this city is going)”
during the meeting, she said.
Norby noted — and other city
officials said they’ve heard the
same — that the formula for
funding chosen projects from
the $42 million is rumored to
be 60 percent private monies,
20 percent public funds and 20
percent from the grant. “We’re
anxious to find out what ‘private’ means,” she added.
Council members Cam Collier
and Wylie Sirk both commented
on the fact that Decatur “is
well positioned” to gain some
of the partnership money since
the city’s Capital Campaign has
raised nearly $700,000 in donations from businesses, organi-
zations and individuals. Those
funds could be used by the city
to add to partnership funding if
the latter can be secured.
Decatur also is well positioned due to the fact that
projects it had in its unsuccessful application for Decatur
Communities monies are now
being used to bid for partnership funds: the Second Street
Lofts/Creative
Engagement
Center, a wetlands project, and
the downtown facade/revitalization project.
See FUNDING, Page 2
40-year
sentence
for dealing
in meth
Valentine royalty crowned at Woodcrest
DDD Bridal
Show set
for March 6
The Decatur Daily
Democrat will sponsor
the fourth annual Adams
County Bridal Show from
12-4 p.m. March 6 at the
Mirage Reception Hall,
1640 Winchester St,,
Decatur. Admission is
free.
Area businesses will
exhibit their goods and
services — from bride’s
and bridesmaid dresses,
tuxes, invitations and
photographers to floral
bouquets and arraignments, cakes and more.
Openings are still available for area businesses
that would like to exhibit
at the Bridal Show. For
more information, contact
the Democrat’s advertising department at 7242121 or email [email protected]
SWCD open
house slated
on Friday
The Adams County Soil
and Water Conservation
District, in conjunction with
the Natural Resources
Conservation Service,
will hold an open house
from 1-3 p.m. Friday at
the SWCD offices at 975
S. 11th St., Decatur.
At that time, attendees
will be offered the opportunity to sign-up for the
Regional Conservation
Partnership Program’s
Tri-State Western Lake
Erie Basin Phosphorus
Reduction Initiative – a
multi-state project to protect the western basin of
Lake Erie. The project
aims to decrease harmful
algal blooms by reducing
phosphorous and sediment loading.
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ROYALTY — Bill Shoaft and Ileen Bultemeier were crowned as king and queen during the Valentine
Party at Woodcrest retirement community on Feb. 12. The party featured entertainment from the “Music
Express.” Bill and Ileen were voted on by the residents and employees of Woodcrest and will represent
Woodcrest in the upcoming parades this summer. Photo provided
Public defenders office gets okay to add worker
By MIKE LAMM
The Adams County Public
Defender’s office is “in desperate
need for a little bit of extra help
with administrative functions,”
Chief Public Defender Brad
Weber told the Adams County
Commissioners Tuesday in asking them to lift the hiring freeze
and allow him to add a part-time
secretarial assistant to his staff.
His office of three attorneys
and one full-time secretary is
“completely understaffed and
overwhelmed” and struggling to
keep up with an expanding caseload that Weber predicted will
only grow with the completion of
the new jail. The office provides
legal council to all defendants
unable to pay for their own attorney in cases ranging from misdemeanors to every type of felony.
Due to their indigent status,
“ninety percent of the individuals at the jail are assigned to
the public defender’s office,” he
explained.
He said Level I office secretary Sildain Atienzo does an
outstanding job of handling the
responsibilities associated with
her position, but between her
secretarial duties and those of
answering the telephone, Atienzo
is “having difficulty keeping up. If
she ever actually took a vacation
or got sick, we’d be in a world of
hurt,” Weber commented.
On the rare occasion when
Atienzo has taken time off, the
responsibility of answering the
phone is one of the first duties to
fall by the wayside, Weber admitted. And when jailed defendants
are unable to reach someone at
the office during time slots they
are allotted by jail staff, those
individuals can incorrectly conclude that their publicly appointed legal council is ignoring them.
When that occurs, frivolous lawsuits against the public defender’s office can result.
Several years ago, the public
defender’s office had a part-time
secretarial assistant on staff, but
when that individual resigned,
the post remained unfilled in
See DEFENDER, Page 2
A Decatur man has
been sentenced to 40
years in prison by Adams
County Circuit Court by
Judge Chad Kukelhan on
a variety of charges, most
of which dealt with dealing
in methamphetamines.
Shawn C. Towell, 28,
was charged with and
found guilty of two counts
of dealing in methamphetamine, Class A felonies;
possession of paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor; maintaining a common nuisance, a Class
D felony; taking a minor
to a nuisance, a Class A
misdemeanor; possession
of chemical reagents or
precursors with intent to
manufacture a controlled
substance, a Class C felony; battery, a Class B
of marijuana, a Class A
of methamphetamine, a
Class B felony; and possession of a controlled
substance, a Class B felony.
Towell was sentenced
to 40 years of prison
for dealing in meth; one
year
for possession of
paraphernalia; two years
for maintaining a common nuisance; one year
for taking a minor to a
nuisance; six years for
possession of chemical
reagents; six months for
battery; one year for possession of marijuana; 10
years for possession of
methamphetamine; and
six years for possession of
a controlled substance.
All sentences will run
concurrently. Towell was
given credit for 217 days
of actual time served.
State BOE official played key, and dubious, role in ISTEP investigation
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— A report summarizing
what was billed as an
independent investigation into Indiana’s new,
unpopular standardized
student exam includes
edits
and
suggested changes by a state
administrator hired by
Gov. Mike Pence’s State
Board of Education
who altered language
that reflected poorly on
Republicans’ decision to
substitute the exam for
one based on national
Common Core academic
standards.
A Microsoft Word
file obtained by The
Associated Press through
a public records request
contains multiple edits
and drafts of the report,
including the final version, which was ultimately submitted by
consultants hired by the
state Board of Education
but not yet released to
the public.
The document shows
State Board of Education
executive director John
Snethen helped shape the
content through 92 deletions, revisions and comments, raising questions
about how independent
the investigation into the
ISTEP program was. For
example, Snethen objected to strong language
in an early version that
stated: ‘‘It is safe to say
that the 2015 ISTEP+
program is a work in
progress, put in place
quickly and without the
usual procedures used
with most new assessment programs.’’
‘‘Why is it safe to say
this?’’ Snethen asked
in notes typed into the
draft, adding: ‘‘This is an
example of a statement
that could raise concern.’’ The phrase was
not included in the final
version of the report.
Other draft language
that did not make it into
the final version included a passage that rated
the state exams a ‘‘B-’’
overall.
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The changes made
by Snethen also suggest
the Pence administration is cautious of possible backlash to the new
academic
standards,
which were put in place
after Indiana became
the first state to withdraw from the Common
Core standards in 2014.
Conservative critics say
the national math and
English
benchmarks
that describe what students should know after
See ISTEP, Page 2
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DEFENDER
From Page 1
an effort to help with budget constraints, Weber
said. However, the position remains as a line item
in his budget and therefore would not require any
additional appropriations
from county council, he
told commissioners.
“I would like to see
another full-time person,
but I’m not asking for that
right now,” Weber qualified. His immediate concern is finding additional
help to lighten Atienzo’s
workload and “allow
Sildain to do her job.” The
staff expansion is “long
overdue,” he admitted.
County Attorney Mark
Burry endorsed Weber’s
request. “The job can’t be
done efficiently” with the
staff Weber has, Burry
said, noting “the number
of filings are far outpacing what they were years
ago.”
Allowing Weber to hire
another secretarial assistant would also “minimize the county’s liability,” Burry continued. “We
need to help them.”
Commission Chairman
Doug Bauman strongly approved of Weber’s
request, asking him if 20
hours a week would “take
care of your needs for the
remainder of the year?” He
reminded Weber a county
employee can work up to
28 hours per week and
still remain classified as
part-time, and suggested
he get on council’s agenda
for March to get funding approval for the position at his earliest convenience.
“I’d like to see you
pursue this as soon
as possible,” Bauman
said. He also stated he
would support Weber’s
hope of increasing the
position to full-time as
part of the 2017 budget. In the absence of
vacationing commissioner Rex Moore, Bauman
and Commissioner Kim
Fruechte gave Weber
unanimous approval to
the request to add a
part-time employee to the
public defender’s office
staff.
FUNDING
From Page 1
“We’ve got the
plans,” Collier said.
“We can be proud
of what we’ve already
put in place,” Sirk
added.
A fourth Adams
County project for
which partnership
funds
are
being
sought is the South
Adams Trails Project.
The
Northeast
Indiana
region
includes, in addition to Adams, the
counties of Allen,
DeKalb, Huntington,
Kosciusko, LaGrange,
Noble,
Steuben,
Wabash, Wells and
Whitley.
The
overall
11-county plan contains more than 70
projects and $1.5 billion in investment to
be completed over the
next decade. Thirtyeight of these projects
— including the four
from Adams County
— were identified for
priority funding over
the next two years
based on viability and
impact.
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TALKING EDUCATION — Josh Wenning, Region 8 Education Service Center
director, and Dr. Lori Stiglitz, Superintendent of Adams Central Schools, made
a presentation recently to the Decatur Rotary Club about the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act — a comparison of the No Child Left Behind Act to
the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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IU to review sex misconduct cases
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
(AP) — Indiana University
plans to begin reviewing
18 sexual misconduct
cases this week, following allegations that the
school’s associate dean
of students sexually
assaulted a woman at a
December conference.
In an open letter
published Feb. 4, Jill
Creighton accused Jason
Casares (cuh-SAR-ess)
of sexually assaulting her in December
at a conference in Fort
Worth, Texas. Creighton
is the assistant director of global community
standards
at
New York University
and a board member of the Association
for Student Conduct
Administration.
Casares, who is also
the school’s deputy Title
IX coordinator, was
placed on administra-
tive leave immediately
after Creighton published the letter. He has
denied the allegations.
University
Provost
Lauren
Robel
has
requested a review of all
sexual misconduct cases
from the past academic
year that went to hearings with Casares on
the hearing panel. The
Herald-Times reports
the reviews are set to
begin this week.
The university and
Fort Worth police have
said they are conducting their own investigations of the allegations
against Casares. No
charges had been filed.
After Creighton filed
a complaint with the
Association for Student
Conduct Administration,
of which Casares is also
a member, it hired a
private investigator. The
firm determined her
Indiana’s first Catholic cathedral
will cease to be a parish church
VINCENNES,
Ind.
(AP) — Indiana’s first
Roman Catholic cathedral will cease to be a
parish church with regular weekend Masses
this summer.
St. Francis Xavier
Church in Vincennes
will remain open but it
will only be used for
weekday Masses, funerals and weddings starting in July due to the
city’s five parishes combining, said Rev. Dave
Fleck, the church’s pastor.
‘‘We have no intention
of abandoning it, and it
will continue to be used,’’
Fleck told the Vincennes
Sun-Commercial.
A council made up
of members from all
five Vincennes parishes
voted to have Saturday
and Sunday Masses celebrated at two of the
churches as they are
consolidated into a single parish in the southwestern Indiana city.
The current St. Francis
Xavier Church was built
in 1826 — 10 years after
Indiana achieved statehood. It became a cathedral when the Diocese of
Indiana was created in
1834 and held that sta-
tus until 1898, when the
Diocese of Indianapolis
was established.
Four Catholic bishops are buried at what
is known as the Old
Cathedral in the city that
was Indiana’s territorial
capital. A $1 million restoration was completed
last year.
The
Diocese
of
Evansville,
which
includes Vincennes, had
recommended in 2013
that the city’s five parishes consolidate amid a
shortage of priests and
declining attendance.
The Vincennes parishes
now share two full-time
priests.
Fleck said none of
the five church buildings will be closed and
all will host at least one
weekday Mass.
The care of the buildings will continue to be
the ‘‘responsibility of the
local community,’’ he
said.
‘‘It’s hard at the
moment, the changes,’’
Fleck said. ‘‘Anytime we
have change, it’s hard
for people. And yet it’s
an opportunity to grow
beyond what we are
now, and that is very
important for us.’’
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claims couldn’t be substantiated.
Meanwhile, Provost
Lauren Robel requested
a review of all sexual
misconduct cases from
the past academic year,
which went to hearings
where Casares sat on
the hearing panel.
Julia Lamber, professor emerita of law at
IU’s Maurer School of
Law, will conduct the
reviews, using the existing case file and panel
hearing materials, university spokesman Mark
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review determines that
it’s necessary, he said.
There’s no timetable for
when reviews will be
completed.
From Page 1
completing each grade
amount to a federal
takeover of education,
and Oklahoma, South
Carolina and Louisiana
officials also have taken
steps to drop Common
Core.
Pence, who signed the
2014 measure freeing
Indiana from Common
Core, will face a challenge
to re-election this year
from Democrat and former House Speaker John
Gregg, and has made
education improvements
a major theme of his campaign.
Snethen
did
not
respond to a request for
comment.
‘‘Any suggested edits
to the executive summary
were added to make a
very difficult and technical report more easily
understood,’’ spokesman
Marc Lotter said. ‘‘Those
suggested edits were
reviewed by the independent experts and agreed
to before inclusion in their
final executive summary.
Also, none of the edits
altered the fundamental
conclusion or recommen-
dations of the independent experts.’’
One of the report’s
authors, University of
Colorado professor Derek
Briggs, said he did not
believe the edits changed
the report’s fundamental conclusions but confirmed that state officials
were concerned about
‘‘messaging.’’
‘‘From my vantage
point, it was absolutely
an independent evaluation,’’ Briggs said. ‘‘It is
a matter of how these
things get messaged and
so I appreciate that there
is concern about whether
the State Board played an
active role in messaging.’’
The ISTEP+ test, which
features Indiana-specific
academic standards, was
hastily rolled out in early
2015. Educators balked,
saying it would take a
staggering 12 hours to
complete;
the
GOPcontrolled
Legislature
passed a bill shortening
the exam before students
ever took the test. And
some students who later
took it online reported
computer glitches, which
were found to have an
impact on their performance.
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Clara K. Edgecomb
Clara K. “Peggy” Edgcomb, 91, Gettysburg, Pa.,
passed away peacefully Feb. 12, 2016, at home. She
was born in Eagle Rock, Calif., Oct. 20, 1924, to
the late Jack Lewis and Ruth (Brown) Manis. She graduated from Ball State University in
1946 with a degree in education. She married Robert
A. Edgcomb, who was a mechanical engineer for
Edgcomb Engineering of Burbank,
Calif. After moving to Rialto, Calif.,
Peggy began working for Fontana
School district as an art teacher and
later she took a position as a special
education teacher for the same district. Peggy took on other jobs while
maintaining the status of a teacher.
Other positions included a certified
Edgecomb
travel agent for Serendipity travel
agency of San Bernardino, Calif., and
teaching gourmet cooking at night at Fontana High
School.
Peggy’s children remember her as a driven worker
and she taught her children the value of hard work
to achieve their personal goals. Peggy finally retired
to Berne in 1991. While in retirement, Peggy volunteered for the United States Government and worked
for AmeriCorps VISTA at the Fort Wayne Food Bank
and the David Wills House, when she moved to
Gettysburg. Peggy moved into Arne and Tammie
Edgcomb’s household in June of 2000
Among survivors are a son, Arne Edgcomb and his
wife, Tammie, of Gettysburg; a grandson, Brandon
Edgcomb of Gettysburg; a daughter, Shirley Appel
and her husband, Ray, of North Lake Tahoe, Nev., and
daughter-in-law, Krisann Edgcomb, of Sandpoint,
Idaho.
She was preceded in death by a son, James Robert
Edgcomb; a sister, Jane Backstorm; and a former
spouse, Bob Edgcomb.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Peggy
Edgcomb will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Gettysburg
United Methodist Church, 30 W. High St., Gettysburg,
Pa., with Pastor Jay Zimmerman officiating. Burial
will be in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North
Hollywood, Calif., at a later date.
Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Friday, also at
the church.
Preferred memorials are to Gettysburg United
Methodist Church Outreach program located at 30
West High Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325.
The family would like to thank Spiritrust Lutheran
Hospice, her friends and her pastor for her care and
dedication to make her last days comfortable.
To share memories of Peggy Edgcomb and view a
video tribute, please visit www.petersfuneralhome.
com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Now appointed America’s top dog — CJ, the
German shorthaired pointer.
CJ won best in show at the
140th Westminster Kennel Club
on Tuesday night, beating a couple of top favorites at a nearly
packed Madison Square Garden.
There was a moment of drama,
too.
As judge Dr. Richard Meen from
Canada began to announce his
choice, German shepherd handler
Kent Boyles took a step toward
the prized silver bowl. He heard
‘‘German’’ and the ‘‘sh’’ to start
PETERSBURG, Ind. (AP) —
Prosecutors filed 12 charges
Tuesday against a man accused of
being high on methamphetamine
when he drove the wrong way on
Interstate 69 and caused a crash
that killed three people, including
a pregnant woman.
Brian L. Paquette, 48, of Newport
News, Va., faces three counts each
of reckless homicide, operating a
vehicle while intoxicated causing
death and resisting law enforcement causing death. He also faces
one count each of involuntary
manslaughter causing the death
of a fetus, methamphetamine possession and operating a vehicle
Traffic
Decatur police investigated two accidents
over the past 24 hours.
Barbara A. Powers,
44, Fort Wayne, was
stopped at the stop sign
on S. 11th Street facing
Adams Street at 4:20
p.m. Tuesday when she
pulled into the intersection and struck a vehicle driven by Amanda
A. Murray, 36, Decatur.
According to the report,
Murray told officers
she was eastbound on
Adams Street when she
noticed Powers going
across the road before
the two vehicles collided.
There were no injuries
reported and damages
were estimated between
$2,501-$5,000.
At
3:55
a.m.
Wednesday,
Marcus
L. Neal, 35, St. Marys,
was traveling on S. 2nd
Street when his vehicle
slid into a vehicle owned
by Ashley L. Myers. No
additional information
was available.
There were no injuries
reported and damages
were estimated between
$5,001-$10,000.
Donnelly: Senate should vote on court pick
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) —
U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, a
Democrat from Indiana,
says he hopes the Senate
will get the chance to vote
on whoever President
Barack Obama nominates to replace Supreme
Court Justice Antonin
Scalia.
But Donnelly told The
Elkhart Truth’s editorial board he’s not sure
the Senate will get the
chance.
Senate
Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell
has said the next president should nominate
someone and he’s been
supported largely by his
party’s White House candidates.
Donnelly was critical of some Republicans
calling to put off consideration of replacements
until after a new president takes office early
next year, saying that
would be ‘‘a dereliction
of duty.’’
while intoxicated causing serious
bodily injury.
Friday’s crash killed Autumn
Kapperman, 21, of Boonville, who
was 5 months pregnant; Stephanie
Molinet, 22 of Elberfeld; and Jason
Lowe, 44, of Fishers, state police
said.
Court documents filed by the
Pike County Prosecutor’s Office
say Paquette told an officer he
had smoked meth at a party and
thought he was being chased by
farmers in a field at the time of
the crash near Petersburg, about
40 miles north of Evansville.
Shortly before the crash, a passing motorist informed a troop-
Ohio township to drop case
against ‘Zombie’ Nativity
John R. Byer
of court. He was ordered
held without bond.
William E. Harvey, 39,
Decatur, was arrested on
charges of possession of
marijuana, possession of
paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. He was released
on his own recognizance.
James A. Grams Jr., 33,
Huntington, was arrested
on a charge of strangulation. Bond was set at $350
cash and $8,000 surety.
the second word, but that was as
far as he got.
The 3-year-old CJ bested 2,751
other entries in 199 breeds and
varieties to win the nation’s most
prestigious dog competition.
‘‘It’s exactly like what I imagined,’’ co-owner, breeder, and handler Valerie Nunes-Atkinson said.
CJ certainly came from championship stock. His grandmother,
Carlee, was one of two previous
German shorthaired pointers to
win Westminster, taking the title
in 2005.
‘‘He’s never done anything
wrong,’’ Nunes-Atkinson said.
A borzoi called Lucy finished
second.
CJ also topped a Skye terrier,
German shepherd, bulldog, shih
tzu and Samoyed. There is no
prize money for the win, but there
are valuable breeding rights in the
near future and a legacy in dogdom forever.
Charlie the Skye terrier finished
second at Westminster last year
to Miss P the beagle. Rumor the
German shepherd was ranked as
the No. 1 show dog in the country
last year and had won 101 times.
Meth a factor in fatal wrong-way crash, prosecutors say
D
Four individuals were
arrested by sheriff’s deputies Tuesday and were
booked into the Adams
County jail.
Lisa A. Bobzein, 55,
Decatur, was charged
with operating a motor
vehicle while intoxicated/
impairment. Bond was set
at $400 cash and $3,000
surety.
Terence L. Charlton, 38,
Fort Wayne, was arrested
on a charge of contempt
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Shorthaired pointer is top dog at Westminster
CINCINNATI (AP) —
A suburban township
in southwest Ohio is
dropping its court case
against a man charged
with zoning violations
for his holiday ‘‘Zombie
Nativity’’ scene, an official
said Tuesday.
Jasen Dixon’s display
had ghoulish figures in
place of the baby Jesus
and others who would be
in traditional Christmas
Nativities.
Sycamore Township
officials said he violated
rules about an improper
‘‘accessory use’’ struceath notice
ture housing the nativity
scene in his front yard.
Dixon’s
attorney
argued the township was
John R. Byer, 72, Decatur, died Tuesday. trying to suppress his
Arrangements are pending at Haggard Sefton & freedoms.
Township administraHirschy Funeral Home.
tor Greg Bickford told
The Cincinnati Enquirer
that since the display has
Blotter
R ecord
been taken down, there’s
no need to spend taxpayer dollars continuing
the litigation.
A judge had planned
to rule March 15 on a
motion to dismiss the
case. He heard arguments
earlier this month as a
handful of people dressed
and made up as zombies
demonstrated outside the
courthouse.
Dixon’s attorney called
the township’s decision
to drop the case a victory
for freedom of expression
and property rights.
‘‘A lot of people have
looked at this case as
a humorous story, but
there is a fundamental principle at stake,’’
Linneman said. ‘‘The real
importance of the First
Amendment is that it protects unconventional and
unpopular
viewpoints
from persecution.’’
Citations
A number of drivers
recently received speeding citations from the
Decatur police department.
Cited Saturday were
Brian A. Jordan, 36,
Decatur, 50 mph in
a 35 mph zone on N.
13th Street; Michael S.
Stimpson, 56, Decatur,
62 mph in a 45 mph zone
on U.S. 27; Andrew E.
Thompson, 29, Ossian,
50 mph in a 35 mph
zone on N. 13th Street;
and Calatha A. Smith,
44, Covington, Ga., 48
mph in a 30 mph zone on
N. Piqua Road.
Cited Sunday were
Thea J. Smekens, 23,
Delaware, Ohio, 47 mph
in a 30 mph zone on
N. Piqua Road; Lonnie
R. Saunders, 48, West
Milton, Ohio, 49 mph in a
30 mph zone on N. Piqua
Road; and Caitlin N.
Kashner, 27, Woodburn,
on Mercer Avenue.
Cited
Monday
were
Brandon
M.
Bauermeister,
35,
Decatur, 30 mph in
a 15 mph zone on W.
Washington St.; and
Alain J. Calixte, 36, Fort
Wayne, 58 mph in a 45
mph zone on U.S. 27.
Cited Monday for disregarding a lighted traffic signal were Patrick J.
Diedrich, 24, Fort Wayne;
Scott R. Stovall, 54, Fort
Wayne; Jerry T. Andrews,
52, Decatur; Abigail R.
McDougall, 20, Decatur;
and Larry A. Stacy, 60,
Fort Wayne. All citations
were issued on N. 13th
Street at the intersection
of Nuttman Ave.
Rodney A. Lye, 32,
Decatur, was cited for
a seat belt violation by
occupants of a motor
vehicle he was driving
following a traffic stop
Friday
on
Nuttman
Avenue.
SHERIFF’S DEPT.
A number of drivers were recently cited
for speeding by the
Adams County Sheriff’s
Department.
Cited were Conner
D. Sealscott, 19, Berne,
70 mph in a 55 mph
zone Friday on U.S. 27;
Keeighja R. Kinnie, 29,
Fort Wayne, 60 mph in
a 45 mph zone Saturday
on N. Piqua Road;
Sean P. McDaniel, 40,
Monroeville; 65 mph in a
55 mph zone Sunday on
S.R. 101; and Joseph K.
Stewart, 17, Monroeville,
70 mph in a 55 zone
Sunday on S.R. 101.
Also cited for speeding
were Kelsey L. Prichard,
19, Bluffton, 70 mph in
a 55 mph zone Sunday
on C.R. 200E; Clarence
O. McDonagh, 34, North
Carlston, S.C., 65 mph
in a 55 zone Sunday
on U.S. 27; Crystal L.
Burch, 36, Monroeville,
Monday on U.S. 101;
Ashley D. Germann, 32,
Celina, Ohio, 40 mph in
a 30 mph zone Monday;
and Mirko M. Oldja, 32,
Parma, Ohio, 68 mph in
a 55 mph zone Monday
on U.S. 224.
Gabrielle A. Brandt,
17, Ossian, was cited for
speeding, 65 mph in a
55 mph zone, and driving with a suspended or
expired permit following a traffic stop Sunday
on Winchester Road.
Cited for driving too fast
for road conditions were
Todd A. Elzey, 16, Berne,
Friday on C.R. 500E; and
Guan Y. Jin, 42, Decatur,
Saturday on W. Water
Street.
er parked along the interstate
about a wrong-way driver headed
north in the southbound lanes,
police said. The trooper located
Paquette’s SUV and tried to get
his attention but Paquette crossed
the median and made a U-turn
to head south in the northbound
lanes, police said.
The SUV struck Molinet’s car
head-on, then went into the path
of an SUV driven by Lowe, police
said. Kapperman was riding in
Molinet’s car.
Samantha Lowe, 46, of Fishers,
was injured in the crash, police
said. Her relationship to Jason
Lowe wasn’t clear.
Scalia’s Supreme Court chair
draped in black in mourning
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Antonin Scalia’s
courtroom chair on Tuesday was draped in black
to mark his death as part of a Supreme Court
tradition that dates to the 19th century.
Scalia died Saturday at age 79. He joined the
court in 1986 and was its longest-serving justice.
He sat to the right of Chief Justice John
Roberts, the seat given to the senior justice.
The entrance to the marble courtroom and the
mahogany bench in front of Scalia’s chair also
have been draped with black wool crepe.
Funeral plans still had not been released as of
Tuesday.
Scalia’s body is now at the Fairfax Memorial
Funeral Home in Fairfax, Virginia. Assistant
manager Bob Gallagher said the body arrived on
Sunday night and that there will be no autopsy
before burial.
Scalia was found dead in his room at a remote
Texas ranch. Presidio County Judge Cinderela
Guevara declared that Scalia died of natural
causes, but she did so by telephone, based on
information from law enforcement personnel at
the scene. The procedure is allowed under Texas
law.
HAPPY
60TH
BIRTHDAY
MRS.
WHEELER
O pinion
Scalia and that pesky Constitution
The Decatur Daily Democrat
Ron Storey, Publisher
J Swygart, Opinion Page Editor
Senators, do your job
and vote on the next
Supreme Court nominee
This one shouldn’t be complicated. The fourth
year of President Obama’s four-year term has
just begun. Senators are elected to six-year
terms, and all of them have at least 11 months
still to serve. The death of Justice Antonin
Scalia has created a vacancy on the nine-member Supreme Court. The Constitution tells the
president to nominate justices and senators to
confirm or reject those nominees.
Yet within hours of Justice Scalia’s passing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) had declared that the Senate will not do
its job. Partisans on both sides began scouring
the historical record for precedents concerning
judicial nominations in the fourth year of presidential terms. That record, though scant, does
not bolster McConnell’s case, in our view, and it
is almost beside the point. The issue is whether the Senate will continue its downhill slide
toward politicization of judicial nominations or
seize an opportunity to regain some respect as a
deliberative, constitutional body.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. noted in
a public appearance in Boston recently that
Justices Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were
both confirmed by overwhelming bipartisan
majorities, while more recent nominees —
Samuel A. Alito Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Elena
Kagan — were approved on largely party-line
votes, though they were no less qualified and no
more ideological than their predecessors. “That
suggests to me that the process is being used
for something other than ensuring the qualifications of the nominees,” the chief justice said.
He said the politicization in turn has a negative
effect on how Americans view the court, The
Post’s Robert Barnes reported.
We have rebuked both parties for their part
in the deterioration, including Democrats for
the poisonous way they engineered changes in
confirmation rules for lower-court judges, and
both sides for blocking qualified nominees. Each
bit of bad behavior is taken as a justification to
do something worse when the other side gets
a chance. Now McConnell’s blanket refusal to
consider a nominee has the potential to start
a new downward cycle. We understand that,
if positions were reversed, Democrats who are
now piously invoking the Constitution would be
articulating a different view. But that doesn’t
make McConnell right. If a Republican is elected
president in November and Democrats recapture
the Senate, what is to prevent them from refusing to vote at all? Nothing in the Constitution
decrees when a lame duck becomes lame.
Meanwhile, the nation is harmed by having a
hobbled court.
McConnell’s ill-considered fiat has put a spotlight on a handful of Republican senators facing
tough reelection battles in purple states who, it
is conjectured, may be politically harmed if they
refuse to treat a court nominee with respect. We
would shine the spotlight instead on freshman
Republican senators, who bear no scars from
past judicial fights and who in some cases ran
for office on a platform of renewed fealty to the
text of the Constitution. Obama should nominate the best qualified person he can find, not
one chosen for maximum political advantage.
Then senators should insist that they be given
the opportunity to do what their states elected
them to do: evaluate the nominee fairly, and
vote aye or nay.
By BOB FRANKEN
This shouldn’t be necessary, but apparently
Republicans need a little
constitutional review.
So for Mitch McConnell
and the rest of the partisans, let’s turn to Article
2, Section 2, which is
about the responsibilities of the president. Can
all of us see it there, the
part that reads “he shall
nominate, and by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall
appoint ambassadors,
other public ministers
and consuls, judges of
the Supreme Court, and
all other officers of the
United States”?
Does everyone notice it
says “shall,” that it’s not
optional? I ask because
the GOP consensus is
that he should hold off
naming a replacement
for
Justice
Antonin
Scalia, because President
Barack Obama is in the
final year of his term.
Apparently they’ve overlooked the part where
Article 2 states “He shall
hold his office during
the term of four years”?
Perhaps they didn’t realize that “lame duck”
doesn’t appear in the
Constitution.
But then, so many
on the right have simply refused to accept the
legitimacy of Obama as
chief executive from the
get-go, even though he’s
been elected to two of
these four-year terms
— not three-year. After
all, they fantasize, he’s
not even eligible to serve,
since he was born somewhere else, no matter
what the overwhelming
evidence shows, that
demeaning need to come
up with proof shouldn’t
have been necessary,
except, you know, he’s,
uh, different. They don’t
need to say how he’s different; everyone knows
what they mean.
Maybe that’s why
they’ve taken the words
“advice and consent” and
twisted them into “divide
and dissent.” Because
they can.
Sen. McConnell is
correct that appointing a Supreme Court
justice is perhaps the
most significant legacy
a president can leave
behind. That’s because
the Supremes are there
for life. Scalia had been
on the SCOTUS bench
since 1986, and in the
“thoughts and prayers”
platitudes surrounding
his sudden death at 79,
he is being remembered
as a sharply intellectual,
ferocious conservative
voice. He was actually an
ultra-right winger, but it
is bad form to say so
right now — except on
the Internet, where nothing is bad form.
Obama could undo
Scalia’s hold on the law
and tilt the highest court
in the opposite direction
with his nomination.
Those on the right are
appalled at the very idea.
It could change every-
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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT
Crow laws.
Ted Cruz, of course,
misrepresented
facts
when he claimed that
“We have 80 years of
precedent of not confirming Supreme Court
justices in an election year.” Actually, it’s
been 28 years. Anthony
Kennedy was seated in
February 1988. One
could be charitable and
decide that Cruz had
made a mistake, but one
also could remember
that Cruz was a clerk
for Chief Justice William
Rehnquist. Marco Rubio
said approximately the
same thing, but at least
he didn’t repeat it over
and over.
President Obama says
that he’s going to, in fact,
fulfill his responsibility
and nominate a Scalia
replacement in “due
course.” The Republicans
insist they’ll block him or
her. Did we need more
proof that the high court
is really low politics in
robes?
Franken is a nationally-syndicated columnist.
Draft registry for women? How about for no one?
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
kicked off a furious national
debate on gender, equality and
war readiness earlier this month
by posing a simple question
to military leaders at a Senate
Armed Services Committee hearing: Should women register for
the military draft, now that combat jobs are open to them?
Too bad it was the wrong question. A better one is this: Why
should the country require anyone — male or female — to register for a draft that’s purely hypothetical? Or this: Does it make
sense to extend the Selective
Service rule as a symbolic gesture of gender equality without
first examining the rationality of
maintaining a registry at all in
the digital era?
Congress should start with
the last two questions first, setting aside the the role of women
in the military to look dispassionately at the practicality of
registration and its function as
a sort of security blanket for the
military. It may well be that this
Cold War relic lingers on because
it gives the illusion that a massive force of armed Americans
Washington Post could be mobilized immediately to
fight whatever threat might come
along. It can’t; registry aside, it
takes tremendous resources to
screen, train, house and feed
thousand of new recuits.
Meanwhile, registration comes
with a real cost to taxpayers
and a steep penalty to teenagers who do not comply. In some
states, young men can’t get a
drivers license if they haven’t
filed the necessary forms with
the Selective Service System. In
California, they cannot apply for
college financial aid unless they
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thing. Well, if not everything, it could reverse
decades of a starboard
course for affirmative
action, divorce, gun
control, labor rights,
campaign finance, etc.,
replacing Scalia’s barbed
regressiveness with a
progressive agenda.
So no wonder the
GOPs will pull out all
stops to prevent that from
happening on President
Obama’s watch, in the
hope that the election
will put a Republican
in the White House and
maintain their control of
the Senate. Both of those
are mighty iffy right now,
but in the words of their
leading political philosopher Donald Trump,
“Delay, delay, delay!”
That was the wisdom
the Trumpster trumpeted in the latest GOP
debate in South Carolina,
which is where the next
Republican primary is
scheduled and where a
significant part of the
electorate still begrudges the Supreme Court
decisions a generation
ago that overturned Jim
Today is the 48th day of 2016
and the 58th day of winter.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In
1801, the U.S. House of
Representatives resolved an
electoral tie by electing Thomas
Jefferson president and his
opponent, Aaron Burr, vice
are registered.
The reality is that the country
hasn’t had an actual draft since
1973, when public support for
conscription was sapped by year
after bloody year of the Vietnam
War. Short of an invasion by foreign troops or extraterrestrials,
a draft is unlikely in the near
future. Military commanders now
see the benefit of a highly trained
and professional all-volunteer
force, while the public continues
to be wary of conscription.
Yet the draft registry was reinstated in 1980, and the agency
charged with its keeping keeps
chugging along. Why? That’s
a question the Government
Accountability Office explored
in a 2012 study. In a report to
Congress, the GAO noted that
while defense department officials cling to Selective Service as
“low-cost insurance policy in case
a draft is ever necessary,” they
hadn’t reassessed its requirements for inductees since 1994
and therefore it wasn’t clear
whether the agency was even
necessary anymore.
The national security picture
has changed dramatically, as
has warfare, since the Cold War
ended and the war on terror
began. Furthermore, the report
noted that the collection of registration data is largely automatic.
Much of the Selective Service
staff’s day-to-day work is letting
people know they have to register
and training volunteers how to
screen conscriptees in the event a
draft is ever activated.
Though it is difficult to imagine a modern-day military scenario that would benefit from
having hundreds of thousands of
untrained, and possibly unwill-
ing, young people forced into service, it is a possibility for which
the country needs to prepare.
But we don’t necessarily need
an active registry, or the makework assignments required to
sustain it, to effect a draft should
it be required. Conscriptions are
meant to backfill armies depleted
by months and years of war. The
registry could be recreated well
before the military had pulled
together the resources to train,
house and deploy hundreds of
thousands of draftees.
Consider what happened
when President Jimmy Carter
ordered the reinstatement of
the draft registry in February
1980 in response Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan. Registration
forms were ready by July, and by
September the Selective Service
had received registration cards
from 93% percent of eligible
men, as the head of the Selective
Service at the time, Bernard
Rostker, reported in his book, “I
Want You! The Evolution of The
All-Volunteer Force.” And remember, this was before the Internet
made things such as instant
online registration a reality.
If Congress decides, practicality be damned, not to explore the
relevance of draft registration, by
all means it should change the
law so that women must participate. Equality comes with benefits as well as responsibilities.
If men must continue to comply
for the sake of the nation’s peace
of mind, then women should do
so too. But that’s the legislative
equivalent of putting the cart
before the horse in an era when
everyone’s driving a car.
president.
In 1933, the Blaine Act initiated
the repeal of Prohibition in the
United States.
In 1974, a disgruntled U.S.
Army private stole an Army
helicopter at Fort Meade in
Maryland and landed it on the
White House lawn.
In 1996, world chess champion
Garry Kasparov defeated the
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
in the last game of a six-game
match, winning the series by a
final score of 4-2.
Los Angeles Times
TODAY’S QUOTE: “All nations
are tempted — and few have
been able to resist the power
for long — to clothe their own
aspirations and action in the
moral purposes of the universe.” — Hans Morgenthau,
“Politics Among Nations”
C ommunity
ACCF awards grants to Adams County organizations
The Adams County Community
Foundation recently awarded
grants to various organizations
serving Adams County residents. The recent grants awarded
totaled $9,650. Adams Central Elementary
School was awarded $800 for
its Reading Eggspress program;
Adams Public Library System was
awarded $550 for its Maker Space
program; City of Decatur/Cultural
Connection-Mktg/Promo
was
awarded $550 for “Decatur’s Most
Talented;” City of Decatur/Greater
Decatur was awarded $200 for its
Super Group Kickoff Celebration;
City of Decatur/LFR Sculpture
Committee was awarded $700
for the “Let Freedom Ring” sculpture purchase; City of Decatur/
Parks and Recreation was awarded
$400
for the Riverside Center
flag display; Connect to Careers
was awarded $650 for community
outreach materials; and Decatur
Church of Christ was awarded
$200 for its food pantry.
The ACCF also awarded Junior
Achievement $400 for its Titan
Classes at The Crossing (SA);
fourth grade Junior Achievement
at Northwest was awarded $450;
Love INC was awarded $750
for its financial aid fund for client services; North Adams Arts
Council was awarded $550 for a
new computer, $600 for its musical and theatre performance and
$450 for its Sculpture Tour reception; North Adams Schools-WDBFlpFM was awarded $750 for its
Honors
Sixth Grade:
Ashlynn Abell, Ethan
Brown, Autumn Chilenski,
Aiden
Cummings,
Madison Herring, Blake
Heyerly, Jaren Hildebrand,
Lovina
Hilty,
Justin
Lee, Caidon Masterson,
Trace Melching, Adyline
Newland, Shelby Oliver,
Kylee Roe, Amelia Schultz,
Braysen Yergler, Chloe
Zimmerman and Isabelle
Zuercher.
Seventh Grade:
Brody
Anderson,
Trevor Aschliman, Natalie
Bluhm, Kaliyah Brite,
Beau Butler, Joseph
Collier, Mason DeRoo,
Christine Eicher, Hallie
Frauhiger, Lorelai Genth,
Miranda
Hedington,
Jakob Jackson, Hunter
Johnson, Grace Kiel,
Brooke
McCroskey,
Abby
Miller,
Elijah
Moore, Aubrey Mosser,
Jacqueline Mudd, James
Myers, Hallie Pettibone,
Adeline Poling, Christina
February
Community Calendar
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Decatur. Operation Help food pantry for Decatur and Monroe
residents, 1-4 p.m., Adams County Service Complex.
Bring your own box or cloth bags.
Free meal, 5-6 p.m., First United Methodist Church,
6th Street entrance.
Adult Children of Alcoholics, a 12-step support program for those raised in alcoholic families, 7 p.m., The
Bridge Community Church, 403 Winchester Road.
ACCF committee members from left, seated, are Cathy Stucky, Becky
Durbin and new member Judith Zeser; standing, from left, are Dan
Claghorn, Craig Coshow, Ray D. Gill and Kenny Ketzler.
Photo provided
high school and community radio the next due date for this applistation; Supporting All Families cation process is at 4 p.m. June
Everyday was awarded $500 for its 2. These applications and details
body safety program; South Adams may be downloaded from www.
Schools was awarded $650 for its AdamsCountyFoundation.org.
baseball dugout and press box For more information on ACCF
project; St. Joseph Catholic School grants for nonprofit organizations
was awarded $300 for swimming serving Adams County residents,
classes; and St. Mark’s United ACCF scholarships available to
Methodist Church was awarded local students, or on how to cre$200 for its food pantry.
ate or contribute to an existing
For nonprofit organizations serv- fund, contact the ACCF 724-3939
ing Adams County residents, the or accf@AdamsCountyFoundation.
next grant cycle due date is April org. 14. For current college students,
— Adams Central middle and high schools Honor Roll —
The Adams Central
Honor Roll is figured on
a 12 point scale. Honors
denotes students who
achieved no grade lower
than B-.
Porter, Hannah Ripley,
Luke Roby, Taylor Ross,
Taylor Strete and Alissa
Stukenborg.
Eighth Grade:
Emily Adams, Lauren
Averill, Aimee Bard,
Audrey
Beer,
Dane
Bowman, Megan Carrico,
Kane Clark, Nicholas
Dague,
Luke
Egly,
Paul Faurote, Jackson
Foudray, Lucas Harvey,
Kaitlyn Hawkins, Jonas
Hilty, Evie Hoffman, Carly
Holley, Maria Liechty,
Devin Lotter, Annika
Miller, Mahima Millington,
Macey Moser, Haleigh
Mosser, Lexi Murray,
Alana Nussbaum, Bennett
Plasterer,
Madison
Schoeneman,
Brielle
Schultz, Dallas Schwaller,
Conner Schwartz, Melissa
Suman, Val Tijerina, Seth
Wampler, Jared Witte and
Jocelyn Zuercher.
Ninth Grade:
Melanie
Bard,
Parker Bates, Gunnar
Baumgartner,
Allyson
Black, Sydney Christner,
Jarred Clark, Melissa
Cline, Grace Covington,
Madison
DeRoo,
Molly
Ellenberger,
Jalen
Hammond,
Desiree
Hedington,
Logan Macklin, Holly
Mailloux, Dylan Miller,
Emmilese
Nussbaum,
Chase Peterson, Abigail
Reynolds,
Jaxson
Rinkenberger,
Kyndal
Roe, Mallorie Roe, Keri
Sheets, McKenna Stahl,
Jacob Stevenson, Ravyn
Sweat and Colton Yergler.
10th Grade:
Tyler
Affolder,
,
Kayla
Black,
Austin
Butler, Madison Call,
John Carroll, Michael
Falls, Katelyn Garrett,
Emma Heyerly, Thomas
Jackson, Lily Kintz, Tyler
LaFontaine, Samantha
Leyse, Sarah Liter, Kevin
Lloyd, Kyle Murdock,
Celeste
Shaneyfelt,
Maddison Steiner, Morgan
Tracey and McKenzie
Weldy.
11th Grade:
Jonathan
Adams,
MaKenzie
Barger,
Randi Bebout, Jantz
Blackburn,
Juliana
Bluhm, Kyle Brown,
Justin
Chamberlain,
Skyla Chrisman, Zachary
Fuelling, Brett Funk,
Zachary Green, Emily
Hurst,
Jessah Klug,
Jenna Lehman, Destiny
McCroskey,
L ynae
McDonald,
Cedrick
Sense & Sensitivity
By HARRIETTE COLE
Olmsted,
Andrew
Parrish, Seth Ringger,
Jared Ripley, Samantha
Shappell, Haley Stinson,
Sarah Wampler and Ian
Wellman.
Twelfth Grade:
Noah Brite, Alysia
Brodbeck,
Zachary
Bucher, Lance Busse,
Caden Culp, Audrey
Dailey, Jacob Fuelling,
Lauren Fugate, Laura
Gasio, Jocelyn Harris,
Brook Huntley, Abbigail
Hurst, Andrew Jackson,
Morgan Kaehr, Chase
Lose, Orlando Martinez,
Jacob McAfee, Megan
Mosser, Elodie Renaudin,
Patrick Smith, Chase
Stahl, Dharma Steffen,
Samuel Steiner, Kayla
Stucky, Brice Vanhorn,
Justin VanOver and
Jenna Wittwer.
THURSDAY, Feb. 18:
Rotary Club, noon, Back 40 restaurant.
Monroe United Methodist Church Farmer's Wagon,
1 p.m., line is to form no earlier than noon.
Senior citizens play cards, 1 p.m., Riverside Center.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
TOPS Club weigh-in, 5:30 p.m.; meeting 6:15 p.m.,
Woodcrest Activity Building.
Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., weigh-in; 6:30 p.m. meeting, Adams Memorial Hospital Decatur Room.
Sober Beginnings, 6:30-8 p.m., Adams Memorial
Hospital Berne Room. Divorce Care4Kids, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Decatur Church
of God.
A.A. (open) Big Book meeting, 7 p.m., First Church
of the Nazarene, Berne.
Yoga for Stretching and Strength, Hope United
Methodist Church, 6608 Hoagland Rd., Hoagland, 7
p.m.
Adams County caregivers support group, 4 p.m.,
Adams Memorial Hospital Decatur II Room.
FRIDAY, Feb. 19:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Decatur. Retail Food Certication class
early registration ending soon
The Purdue Cooperative Extension Service of
Adams County will offer a Retail Food Certification
class from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. March 1 and 8 at Adams
Memorial Hospital Decatur Room. The exam will
take place from 2:30-4:30 p.m March 8. This
is for food handlers who need to obtain a Retail
Food Certificate.
A photo ID with signature is required to take
the exam. The cost of the class with exam is
$155. The cost to take the exam only is $50. Preregistration is required by Feb. 27 in order to
receive a textbook and avoid a $20 late fee.
Walk-ins will not receive a textbook. English
and Spanish exams are available per registration. To register call 1-800-678-1957 or go
to www.indianarestaurants.org and click on
ServSafe Food Handler Training on the right side
of the page.
For more information call Nancy E. Manuel,
Adams County Extension Educator at 7245322.
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Friend Won’t Get the Hint About Son
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am planning
a trip sailing around the Caribbean with
five other couples. My children could not
go on this trip, so most of the couples
understood and are excited that we’re
having an adults-only trip. The wife of
one of my friends has been emailing
me to see if her college-aged son can
come on the trip. She argues that he’s
not a child and needs something to do
because he’ll have a break from school.
Honestly, I don’t like the kid in the
first place, but I especially don’t want
this delinquent ruining the adults-only
theme. I have been repeating that this
is an adults-only trip while the mother
reiterates that her son is an adult. She’s
not getting the hint. How do I tell her that
her son is not welcome on this trip? -Grown-Ups Only, Newark, New Jersey
DEAR GROWN-UPS ONLY: Start
with compassion. If your children were
available to go, you would be speaking
very differently about this cruise. The
fact that you don’t want this woman’s
son to participate should not negate the
sensitivity that the moment calls for. Her
son is available to attend; otherwise, he
will be alone.
Knowing this, you can still tell her that
her son is not welcome, that the invited
group represents the adult peers and
no children, regardless of their age. You
can acknowledge, too, that you understand that she may not be able to attend
if she feels her son will want or need to
be with her.
DEAR HARRIETTE: My mother likes
my sister and me to write thank-you
notes for practically everything. I understand that these notes are seen as
polite, but I think she’s just trying to
impress her new boyfriend by having us
be proper. I’ve had to write a thank-you
note thanking her boyfriend and his family for coming to dinner at our house! I
feel that is excessive, but I admit I don’t
know how far the rules regarding thankyou notes extend. Do you write a thankyou note only after a gift has been given
to you? This is what I originally thought,
but after writing thank-you notes for
practically everything, I realize I may be
wrong. -- So Very Thankful, Providence,
Rhode Island
DEAR SO VERY THANKFUL: Your
mother certainly does tend toward the
extreme when it comes to the thankyou note. Historically, when someone
came to your home for dinner, it was
considered good manners for the guest
to write what was called a “bread-andbutter note” the next day to say thank
you for the hospitality. It is not expected
for the host to send a note, although it is
friendly to do so.
In your mother’s defense, expressing
gratitude is always a good idea. Given
what you think is a hidden agenda, you
may want to ask her to lighten up. Tell
her that you would like to get to know
her boyfriend in an organic way, rather
than what feels like trying to impress
him.
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Combat jobs for women stir IS facing budget cuts, slashing salaries
questions about the draft
WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision by the Pentagon to allow women
to serve in all combat jobs has put
new focus on an often-forgotten U.S.
institution: the Selective Service.
While America has not had a military draft since 1973, all men must
register with the Selective Service
within 30 days of turning 18.
U.S. leaders repeatedly insist that
the all-volunteer force is working and
the nation is not returning to the
draft. But there are increasing rumblings about whether women should
now be required to register if they
can indeed serve in all areas of the
military.
Some questions and answers
about the Selective Service and any
moves toward requiring women to
register:
Q: Is the Selective Service part of
the Defense Department?
A: No. It is an independent agency
that exists to ensure that the nation
would be able to force men into military service in a fair and equitable
way if directed by the president and
Congress in a national crisis.
Q: Are women subject to the
draft?
A: No. Under the current law,
women can volunteer to serve in
the U.S. military, but they are not
required to register and they would
not be subject to any draft.
Q: Has the law been challenged?
A: Yes. In 1981, the Supreme
Court heard a case brought by several men challenging the law for
gender discrimination. The court
upheld the constitutionality of the
male-only draft registration law. The
court accepted Congress’ decision
to exclude women from registration
because they were excluded from
direct combat by statute and by military policy.
Q: Who would decide if women
need to register?
A: It would take an act of Congress.
Recently four U.S. House members
introduced legislation to abolish the
Selective Service, saying that the allvolunteer force is working. And two
members of Congress introduced legislation requiring women to register
but said they actually opposed their
own bill. They said they were only
doing so to trigger a debate on allowing women to serve in front-line combat jobs — which they also oppose.
Q: What does the Pentagon say?
A: When Defense Secretary Ash
Carter decided to open all combat jobs to women, the Defense
Department did a legal analysis of
his decision. The analysis found the
landscape has changed since the
court case, and that opening combat
jobs to women ‘‘further alters the
factual backdrop to the Court’s decision.’’ The Pentagon had made no
recommendation on the matter, but
the department said it will consult
with the Justice Department when
needed.
Q: Do military officials and politicians believe women should register?
A: During recent hearings, the
Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Mark
Milley, and the commandant of the
Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller,
said they thought women should
have to register. Some key lawmakers, including Republican Sen. John
McCain, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, agree.
Republican presidential candidates Sen. Marco Rubio and former
Gov. Jeb Bush said they supported
the idea of having women register. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said
later that including women would be
‘‘nuts’’ and a dangerous example of
political correctness.
Q: What penalties are there if an
18-year-old doesn’t register?
A: If an 18-year-old man does not
register with the Selective Service he
could lose his eligibility for student
financial aid, job training and government jobs. Immigrant men could
lose their eligibility for U.S. citizenship. According to the latest annual
report, 73 percent of 18-year-olds
registered on time in the 2015 fiscal year ending last Sept. 30. And,
the registration rate for all men aged
20-25 was 94 percent.
US okays first factory in Cuba since revolution
HAVANA (AP) — The Obama administration has approved the first U.S.
factory in Cuba in more than half a
century, allowing a two-man company
from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors
a year for sale to private farmers in
Cuba.
The Treasury Department last week
notified partners Horace Clemmons
and Saul Berenthal that they can
legally build tractors and other heavy
equipment in a special economic zone
started by the Cuban government to
attract foreign investment.
Cuban officials already have publicly and enthusiastically endorsed the
project. The partners said they expect
to be building tractors in Cuba by the
first quarter of 2017.
‘‘Everybody wants to go to Cuba to
sell something and that’s not what
we’re trying to do. We’re looking at
the problem and how do we help Cuba
solve the problems that they consider
are the most important problems for
them to solve,’’ Clemmons said. ‘‘It’s
our belief that in the long run we both
win if we do things that are beneficial
to both countries.’’
The $5 million to $10 million plant
would be the first significant U.S. business investment on Cuban soil since
Fidel Castro took power in 1959 and
nationalized billions of dollars of U.S.
corporate and private property. That
confiscation provoked a U.S. embargo
on Cuba that prohibited virtually all
forms of commerce and fined non-U.S.
companies millions of dollars for doing
business with the island.
Letting an American tractor company operate inside a Cuban government
facility would have been unimaginable
before Presidents Barack Obama and
Raul Castro declared on Dec. 17, 2014,
that they would restore diplomatic
relations and move to normalize trade,
travel and other aspects of the longbroken bilateral relationship.
Since then, Obama has been carving
exceptions into the embargo through
a series of executive actions, and his
administration now says they allow
U.S. manufacturing at the Mariel port
and special economic zone about 30
miles west of Havana. One exception
allows U.S. companies to export products that benefit private and cooperative farmers in Cuba. Berenthal and
Clemmons say they will sell only to the
private sector.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Faced with a cash
shortage in its so-called caliphate, the
Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa
residents to pay utility bills in black
market American dollars, and is now
releasing detainees for a price of $500
a person.
The extremists who once bragged
about minting their own currency are
having a hard time meeting expenses,
thanks to coalition airstrikes and other
measures that have eroded millions
from their finances since last fall.
Having built up loyalty among militants
with good salaries and honeymoon and
baby bonuses, the group has stopped
providing even the smaller perks: free
energy drinks and Snickers bars.
Necessities are dwindling in its urban
centers, leading to shortages and widespread inflation, according to exiles
and those still suffering under its rule.
Interviews gathered over several weeks
included three exiles with networks of
family and acquaintances still in the
group’s stronghold in Raqqa, residents
in Mosul, and analysts who say IS is
turning to alternative funding streams,
including in Libya.
In Raqqa, the group’s stronghold in
Syria, salaries have been halved since
December, electricity is rationed, and
prices for basics are spiraling out of
reach, according people exiled from the
city.
‘‘Not just the militants. Any civil servant, from the courts to the schools,
they cut their salary by 50 percent,’’
said a Raqqa activist now living in the
Turkish city of Gaziantep, who remains
in close contact with his native city. But
that apparently wasn’t enough close
the gap for a group that needs money
to replace weapons lost in airstrikes
and battles, and pays its fighters first
and foremost. Those two expenses
account for two-thirds of its budget,
according to an estimate by Aymenn
Jawad al-Tamimi, a researcher with
the Middle East Forum who sources
Islamic State documents,
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, first U.N. chief from Africa, dies
dent of the U.N. Security
Council,
Venezuelan
Ambassador
Rafael
Ramirez,
announced
Boutros-Ghali’s death
at the start of a session Tuesday on Yemen’s
humanitarian crisis. The
15 council members
stood in a silent tribute.
Boutros-Ghhali died
Tuesday at a Cairo hospital, Egypt’s state news
agency said.
He had been admitted
to the hospital after suffering a broken pelvis,
the Al-Ahram newspaper
reported on Thursday.
matic world changes,
with the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the end of
the Cold War and the
beginning of a unipolar
era dominated by the
United States.
But after four years
of frictions with the
Clinton
administration, the United States
blocked his renewal in
the post in 1996, making
him the only U.N. secretary-general to serve
a single term. He was
replaced by Ghanaian
Kofi Annan.
The current presi-
CAIRO (AP) — Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat
who helped negotiate
his country’s landmark
peace deal with Israel
but then clashed with
the United States when
he served a single term
as U.N. secretary-general, has died. He was 93.
Boutros-Ghali,
the
scion of a prominent
Egyptian
Christian
political family, was the
first U.N. chief from the
African continent. He
stepped into the post in
1992 at a time of dra-
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Astro-Graph
You will learn from the
changes going on
around you. Take the
time to observe what
everyone else is doing,
and base your choices
and priorities on whatever will
bring you the most in return. Use
your charm and inventive mind to
reach your desired destination.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) -- Do something that makes
you feel happy. Take a break or
make a move to improve your life,
looks or expertise. Give yourself a
boost.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) -- Your reactions will be hard
to temper. Do something constructive that will help you avoid a
dispute or an emotional scene.
Every choice you make will have
an impact on how you move forward.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- Check out which of your
many options has the most depth
and longevity. Whether dealing
with a personal, financial or professional matter, you have to be
realistic. Your charm and insight
will pave the way.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- Listen to what’s being said
or offered to you. You may give or
get the wrong impression. Ask
questions and be as precise as
possible. Ridicule and criticism
will lead to setbacks.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) -- Employ your intellect and
persuasive ways to get what you
want. Choose to use your creative
imagination. If you express your
thoughts, the response you
receive will be educational.
THE LOCKHORNS ®
CANCER (June 21-July
22) -- Follow your gut and act
swiftly to avoid interference. Don’t
worry about what others do. As
long as you set your goals and
head down the designated path,
success will be yours.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Don’t limit what you can do.
Explore the possibilities and stay
on course until you are satisfied
that you have exhausted every
option. A chance to come into
some money is apparent.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) -- Practical applications will
bring substantial results. Don’t
hesitate to use all your resources
to reach your goal. Bypass anyone trying to disrupt your plans.
Take control and trust in your
abilities.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
-- Keep moving forward regardless of what others are doing or
the changes going on around you.
It’s important not to lose sight of
what’s most important to you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) -- You’ll have too many choices. Find the best way to utilize
your skills to ensure that you make
the biggest gain. Don’t let a personal relationship stand in your
way.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
23-Dec. 21) -- Keep everyone
guessing in order to avoid being
cornered by someone looking for
answers to questions that make
you uncomfortable. A pleasure trip
should be planned.
CAPRICORN
(Dec.
22-Jan. 19) -- Everything will be
subject to your ability to finish
what you start today. Enlist the
help of others if you trust them to
be assets.
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Rehab of former Michigan City
building aims to attract artists
Prescriptions to eliminate
Indiana’s meth lab scourge?
By VERONICA CARTER
Indiana News Service
INDIANAPOLIS
—
There’s an effort in
Indiana to keep the
state from gaining the
distinction of having the
most methamphetamine
labs in the country for a
fourth straight year.
Legislation
was
recently shot down that
would have required a
prescription for cold tablets that contain pseudoephedrine, which is
the key ingredient in
meth. The latest version
of the bill would give
pharmacists power to
choose to whom to sell.
David Powell, director of the Indiana
Prosecuting Attorneys
Council, says it won’t
stop people from using,
but it will reduce the
harm it’s doing to children who are in homes
where small meth labs
are operating. “There’s
this consumer scare that
the drug companies and
the large retailers are
politically trying to create, and it’s really all
about greed,” he states.
“They don’t want to stop
the sales of these products yet they’re not willing to pay for the collateral consequences they
create.”
Meth can be made in
just a few hours in small
labs and the chemicals
used are toxic, especially to children inhaling
the fumes.
Those
opposing
changing the law say
it would unfairly punish law abiding citizens
and argue that a cold
or allergies would cost
people more because
they’d have to take time
off work so they could
see a doctor to get the
prescription.
Two
states
have
banned over-the-counter
sales of pseudoephedrine — Mississippi and
Oregon.
Researchers
at Ball State University
found there was no drop
in the use of the drug in
those states.
Powell acknowledges
that, but he says socalled smurfs, people who are sent out
to buy cold tablets for
drug makers, are being
stopped and that’s what
will eliminate the home
labs. “They haven’t eliminated meth, but they
have eliminated the
meth labs and that’s the
message we’re trying to
create,” he states. “We’re
not going to solve the
meth problem, but we
are going to solve the
meth lab problem and
eliminate all those collateral consequences to
property, to people, to
children.”
Currently in Indiana,
the medication is behind
the counter and records
are kept of who buys it.
Powell calls smurfs
low hanging fruit, who
are easy to arrest,
because they have to
sign for the medication.
“Time is on our side
with our meth lab numbers,” he states. “I mean
it is what it is, and
so you make a legislative tweak, if it has no
impact, you come back
and say we told you so
that it wouldn’t work
and there’s another
tweak.”
By ROB EARNSHAW
The Times
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.
(AP) — A historic downtown building that’s been
dormant for more than
20 years is coming back
to life — and bringing
economic development
with it.
The Warren Building is
back. What once housed
Montgomery Ward, City
Hall, medical offices and
a pub will now be home
to a vibrant community
of artists.
Artspace
Uptown
Artists Lofts is a sustainable, mixed-use community arts project — an
affordable live/work facility containing 44 units of
housing for low-income
artists and their families.
The six-story building at 717 Franklin St.
features resident gallery
exhibition space and
about 5,400 square feet
of commercial space for
creative businesses and
arts organizations.
Residential units range
from studios to two-bedrooms, with rents ranging from $327 to $843.
And it’s all located in the
nationally
designated
Franklin Street Historic
District.
‘‘We’re really excited
about the project,’’ said
Sarah White, director of
property development for
Artspace, the owner of
the building. Artspace
is a Minneapolis-based
nonprofit organization
that has developed similar arts facilities nationwide.
‘‘City leadership and
the local business community has really been
focused on economic
development, and their
belief is that the arts is a
key economic driver that
will help revitalize downtown.
‘‘We consider ourselves
a real estate developer for
the arts,’’ she said.
‘‘Our mission is to provide affordable spaces for
artists and arts organizations and aligns with
some of the goals of what
the city was looking to do
in terms of arts-driven
economic development
downtown.’’
During
an
open
house on Thursday,
City Controller Rich
Murphy called the project ‘‘an amazing journey.’’
Murphy was a councilman who helped spearhead the project eight
years ago. It began with
purchasing the building
from a developer ‘‘who
was doing nothing with
it,’’ followed by acquiring
tax credits, help from the
redevelopment commission and corporate sponsors.
What once housed
Montgomery Ward,
City Hall, medical
offices and a pub
will now be home to
a vibrant community of artists.
‘‘We
knew
about
Artspace because where
they go, economic development happens,’’ he
said.
White said signs of a
comeback were already
being seen in the district,
but getting the Warren
Building back online
paves the way for ‘‘catalytic’’ investments in the
area.
‘‘Since the project has
been funded, there’s
probably been 10 new
restaurants open up in
the downtown area,’’ he
said.
Catherine MacDonald,
the new property manager of the building, grew
up in Michigan City and
called the artists lofts
project one of the most
exciting things to happen
there.
‘‘I’m really excited
about all the applicants,’’
she said. ‘‘Everybody has
been full of energy, and
they’re really talented
people.’’
Indiana housing authorities share in $22.5M in grants
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Forty-one public
housing authorities in
Indiana are sharing in
roughly $22.5 million
in federal funding to
make improvements to
properties.
The grants are from
the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban
Development.
The
Evansville Courier &
Press reported that the
housing authority for
the city of Gary is getting
the largest of Indiana’s
grants at more than $3.5
million, followed by the
Indianapolis Housing
Agency at roughly $2.6
million.
Other
housing
authorities
getting
grants topping $1 million are in Fort Wayne,
South
Bend,
East
Chicago,
Evansville,
New Albany and Terre
Haute.
The smallest grant
of roughly $39,000 is
going to the housing
authority in the northeastern Indiana community of Fremont.
are you a smart foodie?
By Michael Roizen, M.D.,
And Mehmet Oz, M.D.
The 2014 documentary
“Foodie: The Culinary Jet
Set” followed a collection
of food fanatics as they
indulged their quest for the
perfect morsel by dining in
the world’s top posh-nosh
restaurants.
In North America,
over 47 million of you claim
to be foodies, demanding
healthier ingredients and
novel flavors. Or so you say.
But in the past two years,
consumption of candies and
individual snacks has gone
up over 27 percent, chips
by 24 percent. Folks gobble
carob- and yogurt-coated
snacks, granola bars and
refrigerated smoothies, all
laced with added sugars,
excess fat and extra
calories. And while many
of you are cooking dinner
more often (almost six times
weekly), you often aren’t
cooking from scratch -- the
healthiest way. Plus, around
55 percent of you regularly
have ice cream and cookies,
often high in sugars, added
syrups, sat fat and calories.
Wanna be a smart
foodie? Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients: Buy fresh
produce. (To avoid the
Environmental
Working
Group’s
pesticide-laced
“Dirty Dozen” -- apples,
celery, cherry tomatoes,
cucumbers,
grapes,
nectarines,
peaches,
potatoes,
snap
peas,
spinach, strawberries, sweet
bell peppers -- go organic).
Avoid packaged, processed
foods. Opt for lean proteins,
like skinless chicken and
salmon, and only 3 ounces
of red meat a week.
Prep: Grill, bake or
poach
those
proteins,
and have 5-9 servings
of produce daily, fresh,
steamed or roasted. Use
fresh herbs and spices
(cumin, curry, turmeric, hot
peppers, olives, garlic) to
create flavor surprises.
Serve: Dish it up for the
whole family. Eating meals
together at home promotes
weight
loss,
improved
nutrition and closer family
ties.
NEW EVIDENCE THAT
LEARNING PROTECTS
THE AGING BRAIN
The 94-year-old
dynamo Betty White once
told veterinarian Steve Dale:
“I’ll tell you how hooked in I
am to crossword puzzles,
I’m so hooked that when
I puppy train a dog, and
put papers down, when I
see a crossword puzzle, I
grab it so the dog doesn’t
tinkle on it.” Betty White
certainly believes in the
brain-protective power of
puzzles and games, even
though lately researchers
have been saying, “Not so
much.”
U.K. scientists tested
brain-training on around
11,000 folks and found that
while they did better at the
tasks they were training on,
they didn’t get sharper at
unrelated cognitive tasks.
A Harvard study found
no relationship between
frequent mental activity
and avoiding development
of brain markers for
Alzheimer’s disease.
But now, an in-depth
brain study from the School
of Behavioral and Brain
Sciences at UT-Dallas has
determined that new learning
and cognitive challenges
are brain-protective as you
age. In a group of older
folks who spent 15 hours
a week over 14 weeks
learning
progressively
more complicated skills
in
digital
photography
or quilting, researchers
found that brain regions
associated with attention
and semantic processing
began to modulate brain
activity more efficiently.
“This,” said the lead
researcher, “is some of the
first experimental evidence
that mentally-challenging
leisure activities can actually
change brain function and
that it is possible that such
interventions can restore
levels of brain activity to a
more youth-like state.”
So be like Betty and
protect your aging brain
by spending time with
friends, taking a class,
walking 10,000 steps a
day, meditating and doing a
crossword daily.
HEY, IT’S OK TO PLAY
WITH YOUR FOOD
Wimpy was a
character in the “Popeye”
cartoon. He “would gladly
pay you Tuesday for a
hamburger today.” (Not
long ago, Wimpy made a
cameo appearance in the
“Family Guy” episode titled
“McStroke.”) The chances
of getting paid on Tuesday,
however, were worse than
hitting the lottery.
But eating hamburgers
and hoping to hit the lottery
have more in common than
Wimpy and strokes: Science
(really). After McMarketers
found that offering children
a toy with their meals made
them McCrazy for kiddie
fast-food, some clever
university
researchers
turned the tables. They went
McOpposite and found that
when kids -- and adults -- are
offered the choice between
a big ol’ juicy hamburger
and a smaller hamburger
accompanied by a toy, prize
or just the (lotto-unlikely)
chance to win $10, folks opt
for the smaller burger and
toy almost every time.
Why? Using functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging, the university
researchers found that
offering someone a small
prize or even an uncertain,
lottery-type
incentive
activates the same reward
center in the brain that food
does!
So, if you’re trying to
upgrade your kids’ nutrition,
see if a small incentive (an
origami bird or a sticker)
plus a serving of green
beans doesn’t beat out fried
potatoes. And we hope fastfood restaurants will help
their customers choose
healthier menu items by
offering those who order an
entree salad, say, a toy train
symbolizing how that tasty
meal arrived in front of you!
We’re waiting for that train
to show up. Tuesday, right?
A WOMAN’S HEART AND
HEART ATTACK
“A Woman’s Heart”
is a 1992 album featuring
six legendary female Irish
artists; it sold more than any
other album in the history of
the Irish music charts. We
hope that A Woman’s Heart
Attack, the American Heart
Association’s first scientific
statement on myocardial
infarction in women, gets
at least that much attention.
The paper, published in the
journal Circulation, points
out:
--High blood pressure
is more strongly associated
with heart attacks in women
than in men.
--Young women with
diabetes are at four to five
times the risk for heart
disease as young men.
--Compared to white
women, black women
have a higher incidence of
heart attacks and young
black women have higher
in-hospital death rates.
Hispanic and black women
also are more likely to have
multiple risk factors, such
as diabetes and high blood
pressure.
--Women are more
likely to have atypical
symptoms (along with chest
pain), like shortness of
breath, nausea or vomiting,
and back or jaw pain.
--Post-heart-attack,
women are consistently
NOT given recommended
medications, leading to
worse outcomes. Cardiac
rehabilitation is prescribed
less frequently.
--Because women
live longer, they have more
complications following a
heart attack than men.
If you’re female and
are
overweight,
have
elevated LDL cholesterol,
diabetes,
high
blood
pressure or smoke, see
your doc to develop a hearthealthy plan that includes
stopping smoking, weight
management,
nutritional
counseling and physical
training. If you’re a heartattack patient, insist on
medications outlined in
treatment guidelines, if
appropriate, and get the
support you need to join and
stick with cardiac rehab.
FAT AND CANCER
CELLS: LOSE IT OR
THEY USE IT
Bobby Orr, Gordie
Howe, Wayne Gretsky:
Imagine
they
were
descending on your goal
-- and you’d never played
hockey before. Well, if you’re
obese and get cancer, your
chances of fighting off the
attack are about as good
as your ability to defend that
goal. Why? It seems mature
adipocytes (fat cells) secrete
chemicals that cancer cells
love to skate on.
A recent study published
in Nature reveals that in
prostate cancer, cancer
cells can move on the fatty
tissue that surrounds the
prostate (called periprostatic
adipose tissue) and spread
quickly to other organs.
Since obese folks have
more of this adipose tissue
and each cell is larger than
normal, they’re at a much
higher risk of having their
cancer metastasize. One
more thing: The researchers
also found that when you
block the channel that
periprostatic adipose tissue
provides to cancer cells, you
prevent cancer migration.
While the five-year
survival rate for early-stage
prostate cancer is near 100
percent, for those in whom
it has spread to distant
body parts, it falls to 28
percent. So if you become
(or are) one of the more
than 220,800 men in North
America diagnosed with
prostate cancer annually,
make sure you’re not
packing extra fat around
your belly or your prostate.
Start walking 10,000 steps
a day (get a pedometer
and a walking buddy) and
eliminate all added sugars
and syrups (sugar fuels
some cancers), red meat
(ditto), processed foods and
trans fats from your diet.
You’ll have a much better
chance of blocking prostate
cancer’s slapshot!
Jets slow start spells
DDD Sports Scoreboard
fifth straight loss
By DEAN JACKSON
MONROE—
Three
Southwood
players
scored in double figures
Tuesday to hand Adams
Central its fifth-straight
loss 62-48.
The Jets are now 9-10
on the season after a
9-5 start thanks to the
slump and while the staff
is looking for answers,
they are also seeing a
silver line.
“They are a really
good team,” AC coach
Aaron McClure said of
Southwood. “You are
never satisfied with a
loss, but our goal is to
get better for the sectional and get better every
game. I thought we competed.”
The Jets pulled to
within
four
points,
30-26, with 5:38 to play
in the third quarter but
the rally was short-live
as Southwood went on
a 15-8 run the rest of
the way to end any AC
threat.
“I thought we did a
good job of making it a
ball game," McClure reasoned.
Jonah Tijerina led
Adams Central with 15
points, including 3-4
free-throw
shooting.
Luke Voirol and Johnny
Carroll added 13 and 10
points each.
Southwood was led
by Carson Blair with 17
points and Alex Harmon
who scored 15. Brandin
Frazier had 12 for the
visitors.
It's a similar theme
that McClure has seen
this season. They've
been able to go on runs,
but like Tuesday, have
been unable to keep that
momentum. Any attempts
to keep pace were stymied by a three-minute
span in the third quarter
where the Knights kept
AC off the scoreboard.
A drought of 3:43 to
start the fourth-quarter
ended any thought of an
Adams Central comeback.
“That's the mark of a
good team. (Southwood
was) to break another
teams run and you are
able to go your own.”
The Jets return to
Allen County Athletic
Conference action Friday
at South Adams.
SA blasts Randolph Southern
BERNE—
Winning
their third game in a row
seems to have a direct
correlation to seasonhigh scoring for South
Adams.
In their latest explosion, the Starfires put up
28 points in the fourth
quarter ballooning an
already large lead for an
85-59 victory over visiting Randolph Southern.
Four South Adams
starters scored double
figures in the game led
by Jared Grabau who
had 23 points on 10-14
shooting.
South Adams jumped
out to a 17-11 advantage
after one quarter and
never looked back. The
Stars kept their foot to
the pedal in quarter two
outscoring the Rebels
23-9 that set up a 40-20
halftime lead.
Randolph Southern
earned their only quarter win in the third by
an 18-17 margin but the
28-21 fourth was highaction, fast-paced and in
the Stars' favor extending the lead further.
The Rebels made just
7-24 from deep (29%) but
were an efficient 17-34
(50%) from inside the
three-line.
SA took full advantage
of 19 Southern turnovers
in the game, however,
sparked by four steals
each from Marcus Teeter
and
back-up
guard
McGerran Clouser. In
all, seven different Stars
accounted for 14 thefts
in the game.
The Stars were 6-15
from deep getting three
from Teeter and a pair
from Clouser who nearly
became the fifth Star in
double figures ending
with eight points. From
inside the Stars were an
unstoppable 30-43 (70%)
leading to the win.
Cole Myers had 18
points to compliment
Grabau's team-leading
23. Myers shot 8-15,
while Teeter had 11
points, nine assists, four
steals and six rebounds
in his most complete
game to date.
Also in double figures
was Justin Nussbaum
with 12 points and five
boards. Grabau had
eight rebounds to lead
the team.
For
Randolph
Southern, Kory Slick had
18 points.
The Stars are now off
until a much-anticipated meeting with Adams
Central at home Friday
night.
In the JV match-up,
the Stars won big 62-25
led by Nick Wurster's 20
points. Terry Dawn had
13 points as well and the
Starfires had 10 different
scorers in the win.
By BARRY WILNER
AP Pro Football Writer
NEW YORK (AP) —
NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell earned just over
$34 million for 2014,
according to the league’s
tax filing released Tuesday.
That total is actually down a bit from 2013
($35 million) and 2012,
when Goodell collected
$44.2 million, including
$9 million in bonuses and
deferred pension.
The payments for 2014
— a difficult season for the
league and the commissioner that involved highprofile player misconduct
cases and a revamping of
the NFL conduct policy —
included a $26.5 million
bonus negotiated the previous year.
Goodell came under
heavy criticism in 2014
for his decisions in the
Ray Rice case, and other
incidents involving Adrian
Peterson and Kevin Hardy
drew headlines. While the
public and the players’
union questioned his ability to handle his duties,
the 32 team owners have
shown nothing but solid
support for Goodell, who
just finished his 10th sea-
son as commissioner.
Indeed, the league’s
revenues and popularity
continue to rise, and the
owners obviously compensate Goodell handsomely.
He became commissioner
in 2006.
By comparison, PGA
Commissioner
Tim
Finchem made $11.2 million in 2014, with a onetime payoff on an incentive
plan worth $3.7 million.
NHL Commissioner Gary
Bettman’s most recent
public earnings were $9.6
million. NBA Commissioner
Adam Silver makes about
$10 million.
The NFL’s next-highest
paid executive was general
counsel Jeff Pash at $7.5
million. Eric Grubman, the
league’s executive VP of business who has been heavily involved in the relocation process for Los Angeles,
earned $3.89 million.
NFL revenues increased
by about $1 billion in 2014
with the beginning of the
Thursday night package
on CBS, a new deal with
DirecTV, and reworking of
some sponsorship deals.
Total revenues for that fiscal year were more than
$13 billion.
Goodell rakes in $34 million
Blackhawk 67, Bellmont 59
BLACKHAWK 10-12
FG-A3G-AFT-ATP
Sassmanh’sen3-9 2-7 0-0 8
Hall
7-15 0-3 1-2 15
Walters
2-9 2-9 4-5 10
Kroft
0-2 0-0 7-9 7
Thompson
5-8 0-0 0-0 10
Davidson
4-8 2-3 7-10 17
Fiedler
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Gulley
0-2 0-0 0-0 0
Totals
21-447-2119-2667
BRAVES 3-16
FG-A3G-AFT-ATP
Ainsworth
7-13 1-4 0-0 15
O’Campo
3-8 0-0 4-5 10
Bauer
5-11 4-9 3-3 17
Okoniewski 2-4 0-1 1-1 5
Weaver
2-6 0-1 1-2 5
Fullenkamp 3-5 0-0 0-0 6
Merkle
0-1 0-0 1-2 1
Manis
0-1 0-1 0-0 0
Bressler
0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Totals
22-495-1610-1359
Score by Quarters
Blackhawk 10 20 18 19 67
Bellmont
3 14 22 20 59
REB: BK 40 (Thompson 7, Davidson
7, Kroft 6); Braves 28 (O’Campo 6,
Ainsworth 4, Bauer 4).
TO: Blackhawk 11, Bellmont 12.
STEALS: Blackhawk 7 (Hall 2,
Thompson 2); Braves 6 (Fullenkamp
3, Okoniewski 2).
JV: Blackhawk 54, Bellmont 42
BLK: Donaldson 1-2-2 10; Davidson 4-2 1-2 15; Wild 1-0-2; Pulver
1-0-2; Reomschisel 1 4-7 7; Garton
0-0-0; Bleed 1 1-3 3; Zurbuch 6-1-15;
Totals 14 6 8-11 54.
BRAVES: Luke Strickler 1-0-2; Kaczmarek 1-3-11; Manis 3-1-9; Lucas
Strickler 3 1 1-2 10; Fuelling 2 3-3 7;
Selking 0, Bressler 0, Wisehart 0,
Boyd 0 1 3; Totals 10 6 4-5 42.
JV by Quarters
Blackhawk 9 9 13 23 54
Braves
7 12 11 12 42
National Hockey League
By The Associated Press
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
Florida 573318 6 72160134
Boston 573120 6 68174158
Detroit 572919 9 67146147
Tampa Bay 563022 4 64149139
Montreal 572726 4 58157158
Ottawa 582626 6 58165182
Buffalo 582328 7 53137162
Toronto 552026 9 49134163
Metropolitan Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
Washington 554110 4 86184126
N.Y. Rangers563218 6 70163143
N.Y. Islanders553019 6 66161141
New Jersey 582922 7 65130136
Pittsburgh 552819 8 64142141
Carolina 57262110 62139150
Philadelphia 56252110 60137151
Columbus 582328 7 53149180
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
Dallas 583715 6 80188156
Chicago 603718 5 79170139
St. Louis
593317 9 75145139
Nashville 57262110 62151152
Colorado 592926 4 62158164
Minnesota 56242210 58140142
Winnipeg 562528 3 53143162
Pacific Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
Los Angeles 563320 3 69154134
Anaheim 562919 8 66136137
San Jose
553020 5 65164148
Arizona 562624 6 58151171
Vancouver 56222212 56133157
Calgary 552527 3 53150168
Edmonton 582230 6 50146176
OTE: Two points for a win, one
N
point for overtime loss.
Monday’s Games
Florida 2, Pittsburgh 1, SO
N.Y. Islanders 4, Detroit 1
Anaheim 6, Calgary 4
Dallas 3, Nashville 2, OT
Chicago 7, Toronto 2
Arizona 6, Montreal 2
Minnesota 5, Vancouver 2
Tuesday’s Games
Ottawa 2, Buffalo 1, SO
Philadelphia 6, New Jersey 3
Washington 3, Los Angeles 1
Carolina 2, Winnipeg 1
Boston 2, Columbus 1, OT
San Jose 4, Tampa Bay 2
St. Louis 2, Dallas 1, OT
Anaheim 5, Edmonton 3
Wednesday’s Games
Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m.
Montreal at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Carolina at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
San Jose at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Boston at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Dallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Anaheim at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Tuesday’s Transactions
By The Associated Press
BASEBALL
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE —
Suspended Oakland LHP Brandon
Mann (Nashville-PCL) 80 games and
Atlanta RHP Richie Tate (CarolinaCarolina) 100 games following violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to
terms with RHP Carlos Marmol on a
minor league contract.
HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to
terms with DH Evan Gattis on a oneyear contract. National League
CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to
terms with RHP Jake Arrieta on a
one-year contract and OF Matt Murton on a minor league contract.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS —
Agreed to terms with OF Tony Campana on a minor league contract.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
CHARLOTTE HORNETS —
Acquired G-F Courtney Lee from
Memphis for F P.J. Hairston.
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Acquired
F Chris Andersen and two secondround draft picks from Miami.
MIAMI HEAT — Acquired G Brian
Roberts from Charlotte.
DETROIT PISTONS — Traded G
Brandon Jennings and F Ersan Ilyasova to Orlando for F Tobias Harris.
NBA Development League
RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS —
Activated F Jordan Hamilton. Women’s National Basketball Association
SEATTLE STORM — Signed G
Sue Bird to a multiyear contract.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Resigned S Chris Clemons to a oneyear contract. Signed CB Joel Wilkinson.
CHICAGO BEARS — Released OT
Jermon Bushrod.
DENVER BRONCOS — Named
Klint Kubiak offensive assistant
coach/quarterbacks.
DETROIT LIONS — CB Rashean
Mathis announced his retirement.
Released RB Joique Bell.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS —
Named John Spytek director of player personnel.
A double-barrelled rush this weekend
What a weekend!
On Saturday morning,
Bellmont wins 14 of their
first 18 wrestling matches
at semi-state, qualifying
six wrestlers for the 78th
IHSAA State Wrestling
Finals to go along with
Hunter Bates of Adams
Central, then, on Sunday
I stroll into the St. Joseph
school gym to see a huge
line, waiting for autographs and pictures with
... Jaylon Smith!
Sweet! I had no idea,
and that was no accident.
Smith, who helped
Bishop Luers to four state
football crowns and then
quickly became one of the
elite collegiate defensive
players in the nation at
Notre Dame — and I guy
who will shortly be playing
on Sunday for big bucks
— was in Decatur, chumming it up young fans,
big kids, and anyone who
wanted some of his time!
After a brief interview
with the All-American and
Butkus (top linebacker), I
ask him WHY he was in
Decatur, giving hundreds
of Irish fans a real rush,
and making the annual St.
Joe-Notre Dame Smoker
one of the best ever.
"Because Allie Brite is
the best! Better make that
Allie Brite-Hamel," added
the Notre Dame junior.
Smith and Decatur's
Allie Brite-Hamel became
friends at Bishop Luers,
and because of that Smith
is no stranger to Decatur.
He attended her graduation party and her wedding to David Hamel, who
also attended Luers.
The Irish player assigned
to the Smoker had to pull
out mid-week, leaving a
spot open. Though Allie
and her dad, Jeff, and
Smoker chairman Dan
Kintz, Smith was contacted, and despite being
on crutches from his knee
surgery, he accepted the
request.
Smith was gracious
to everyone, signed every
autograph and took photos with fans, and even
took phone calls made to
those attending to their
friends, and he did it until
everyone had what they
wanted.
"It was pretty amazing
to have a guy of his caliber
come to our smoker. He's
huge," noted Kintz.
Smith addressed the
group at the smoker, then
answered questions. He let
down his guard and gave
those attending some real
insights, such as his preference for the Cowboys or
Bears in the upcoming NFL
draft, and the fact that he
did not blame Ohio State
for targeting him early in
that bowl game. He was
pushed from behind and
that led to the serious
knee injury.
"Everyone is after you,"
Smith told the group.
"That's just the way it is."
Kintz pointed out that
Smith had 200 tackles the
last two years, and 67 his
freshman year. Numbers
don't lie, and those are
incredible numbers.
Smith was projected to
be a top-five pick before his
ACL injury, which might
put him on the Cowboys.
The latest expert opinion
has him about 10th, where
the New York Giants sit.
Smith told Kintz that
he didn't want to face a lot
of TV crews, etc., so there
was little publicity ahead
of time. That left me as the
only news person at the
events!
Why not!!
There was good attendance at the K of C and
at St. Joe, but not the
crowd that would have
been there with publicity.
Kintz wanted to reward
his regular Smoker attendees, who have contributed
over $200,000 in the 46
years of the Smoker with
the special treat, without having to share the
moment with a mob of
once-comers.
That he did.
Smith proved he is a
very special young man. If
you don't believe that, just
ask his hundreds of new
friends from Decatur.
Bellmont
Charge
Continues
Bellmont
continued
its year of resurgence
Saturday with the great
start. That slowed, and the
Braves did lose a couple
of heartbreakers in the
last two rounds, but most
everyone of those losses
were to wrestlers rated
ahead of the locals.
Still, it was the best
showing in four years,
and, along with the 2A
state title, is more proof
that Bellmont is back as
the bad boy in northeastern Indiana.
It was great to see Bryce
Baumgartner rewarded for
his constant motion as he
goes after every opponent
he faces. He was awarded
a stalling point to put his
finals match into overtime,
and then slugged out the
overtime victory, giving
him as good a draw as he
can get at state, opposite
returning champ Drew
Hughes.
Caleb Hankenson lost
a tough one in the consolations to rival Andrew
Kohler of Jay,5-4, but
ended up with his best
possible draw.
Junior Jon Becker
earned his second trip to
state and looks like he
can get on yet another roll,
starting Friday. Daniel
Gunsett, Mason Mendez
and Tony Busse have
tough draws and are going
to have to be at their very
best to compete.
AC's Bates, one the top
athletes in the county,
had to beat former state
streeter Jed Levitz kid for
the second time this year
to get to his state pass.
He did that and one more,
getting second.
"I knew I had a good
chance to make the final
if I got that quarter-final
win," said Bates. "I'd seen
that Levitz kid before, and
I felt like I could go out
and get that win."
"Now I want a medal,"
said Bates.
He's not alone.
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016
10:00 A.M.
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blackhawk
christian
67
BRAVES
59
southwood
JETS
62
48
randolph
southern
59
STARFIRES
85
Inside
AC falls to
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Braves second half not enough to overcome Blackhawk
By JIM HOPKINS
Bellmont's
guards
rocked out of a first-half
haze and turned on the
heat in the second half
Tuesday night at the
Teepee, cutting an early
third period, 15-point
deficit to two points
against a tall and strong
Blackhawk
Christian
squad, but the visitors
literally won the game
at the free throw line
in the waning moments,
67-59.
Bellmont senior guard
Sam Ainsworth scored
all 15 of his points in
the second half, including hitting five of seven
shots in the fourth
period, to light the fuse
which exploded into 42
second half points for
the Braves, now 3-16.
Blackhawk hit 13 of
16 charity tosses in that
final period, but it was
two misses that cost the
Braves as the visiting
Braves grabbed a pair
of offensive rebounds to
thwart the BHS rally.
Trace Bauer, who
paced Bellmont with
17 points, hit three
straight three-pointers
in period three, while
Ryan Okoniewski scored
all five of his points in
the second half. Austin
O'Campo
tallied
10
for the game. Guards
Andy Weaver and Ben
Fullenkamp also made
big defensive plays to key
the Bellmont transition
game in the comeback.
Will Davidson, who
hit five of six late freebies, led Blackhawk
with 17 points while 6'7"
Ric Hall scored 15, and
6'7" (255 pounds) Drake
Thompson scored 10, as
did Ben Walters.
"When we can get Sam
and Trace going at the
same time, we can be dangerous," said Bellmont
coach John Baker.
"I felt like our effort
guys, Weaver, O'Campo,
and Fullenkamp, were
able to play good defensively and get out in
transition. I was pleased
with the high effort of
those guys."
The Braves had a slow
start with three first period points as Ainsworth
picked up two fouls. He
added another in period two and went to the
bench without scoring
as the Braves trailed
30-17 at half. Blackhawk
sophomore guard Luke
Sassmannshausen
drained a three from
the left side, beating the
buzzer.
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP)
— The Chicago Bears have
released offensive tackle
Jermon Bushrod after he
made just four starts in
12 games last season.
Bushrod, 31, signed a
five-year deal with Chicago
in 2013 that included
$17.7 million in guaranteed money. He was
selected by New Orleans
in the fourth round of the
2007 draft and made two
Pro Bowls with the Saints
before joining the Bears in
free agency.
Chicago announced the
move on Tuesday.
The release of Bushrod
is part of a continuing
overhaul for the Bears
under coach John Fox
and general manager
Ryan Pace. Running back
Matt Forte announced
Friday that the team told
him it would not offer him
another contract after it
went 6-10 last season and
finished last in the NFC
North.
LIONS RELEASE RB
BELL
ALLEN PARK, Mich.
(AP) — The Detroit Lions
released running back
Joique Bell on Tuesday,
less than a year after he
signed a two-year deal
with former general manager Martin Mayhew after
his best season.
New general manager
Bob Quinn decided to cut
Bell, knowing he likely will
have Ameer Abdullah and
Theo Riddick rotating at
running back this year.
Bell had nearly 2,000
yards from scrimmage in
2013 and 2014. His role
diminished in Detroit last
year due to injuries and
the emergence of Abdullah
as a rookie and Riddick
as a pass-catching option
out of the backfield.
Bell ran for 2,235
yards and 22 touchdowns
and had 161 receptions
for 1,640 yards and a
score over four seasons in
Detroit.
PATS’ LB MAYO SET
TO RETIRE
FOXBOROUGH, Mass.
(AP) — New England
Patriots linebacker Jerod
Mayo says he is going to
retire.
Mayo posted a 90-word
statement on Instagram
on Tuesday with the caption ‘‘Retiring a Patriot.’’
The 29-year-old former
first-round draft pick said
being a member of the
Patriots for eight years
was a ‘‘life-changing
event.’’
‘‘As my family and I
prepare for the future, be
sure that the Pats memories will always hold a special place in our hearts,’’
he wrote.
Mayo also thanked the
Kraft family, coach Bill
Belichick and someone
named ‘‘Thundercat.’’
Mayo, 29, was the 10th
overall pick in the 2008
draft.
He did not play in the
AFC championship game
against Denver because
of a shoulder injury. He
played in just six games
in each of the previous
two seasons because of
injuries.
The Blackhawk zone,
which held the host
Braves to 1-10 shooting
in the opening eight minutes, just could not stop
the Braves from roaring inside in the second
half. Ainsworth popped
in a three from the right
corner early in period
three, then punched in a
baseline shot to make it
34-25.
Weaver then stole the
ball and went coast-tocoast for the deuce and
it was 34-27.
Game on!
"When they have size
in there, obviously it
helps them on the offensive end, and rebounding. We talked about
flipping the matchups
on them, and bigs on
the guards doesn't work
well. Credit our guys for
going in strong and not
turning it over, and scoring well in that second
half," said Baker.
The Braves poured in 22
points in one of their biggest
third periods of the season. Bauer lofted in nine,
Ainsworth five and both
Weaver and Fullenkamp
had steals which resulted
in buckets.
Ainsworth then took
charge of the comeback
in period four, hitting five
twos while missing only
a three-pointer as the
lead shrunk to a pair.
After a steal and layup
by Weaver, Ainsworth
drove through the defense
for a score, making it
53-45. An Ainsworth
drive, then a putback by
the senior scorer cut the
lead to 55-49.
O'Campo got loose,
and was fouled, hitting a pair, then Weaver
dropped one off the glass
for the 55-53 score with
2:49 to go.
Davidson hit two free
throws, then Ainsworth
split the defense with
another charge to again
make it a two-point game.
Walters hit a key three,
O'Campo answered with
two free throws, then
Walters was fouled. He
hit the first one, but
missed, and Blackhawk
got the rebound. Lucas
Kroft was fouled and hit
a pair.
The Braves missed on
a three-point attempt,
and Blackhawk went
back to the line to secure
the win.
Blackhawk,
which
outrebounded the Braves
40-28, improved to 10-12
with the win.
"We haven't been in
too many games late
like we were tonight.
This should give us a
boost, some confidence
for future games," said
Baker.
"We put ourselves in a
bind with five turnovers
and only three points in
that first quarter, but
our defense was good
enough to keep us in the
ball game. I felt the kids
stepped up and rose to
the occasion tonight."
Baker hopes to get
injured seniors Conner
Hess and Jake Hall back
on the court before the
end of the season.
Blackhawk
JV
Rallies
Blackhawk outscored
the hosts 23-12 in the
fourth period to score
a 54-42 reserve win
Tuesday.
Frosh Frank Davidson
and Kyle Zurbuch both
scored 15 points and
Devin Donaldson score
10 for the winners.
Nathan Kaczmarek led
Bellmont with 11 points
while Lucas Strickler
added 10, and Brady
Manis nine points.
Bears, Lions begin moving
players; LB Mayo to retire
INTO THE TEETH— AC forward Jonah Tijerina drives through three Southwood defenders in the middle of
the lane during Tuesday’s loss against Southwood. The senior had 15 points to lead AC in the losing effort.
Central has dropped five straight. (Photo by Dean Jackson; story on 11A)
Griffin apologizes for punch; Lee heads to Charlotte
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Blake Griffin apologized
Tuesday for punching
a Los Angeles Clippers
staff member last month,
saying he wishes he
could take back the incident that left him with a
broken right hand and
the employee with facial
injuries.
Griffin was suspended
four games and docked
five games’ pay totaling
$859,442 for the altercation with Matias Testi at
a Toronto restaurant on
Jan. 23.
Griffin is expected to
be sidelined until sometime next month by his
injury and ensuing suspension. He wore a black
wrap on his hand at
practice.
‘‘It’s something I think
about every day and wish
I could take it back, and
I’ve told Matias that,’’
Griffin said in his first
meeting with reporters
since the incident. ‘‘I have
talked to Matias tons of
times since the incident.
He actually said it best:
‘This stuff happens and
we’re like brothers and we
just have to move on.’’
Coach Doc Rivers
said the team wasn’t
trading Griffin despite
rumors to the contrary.
It’s likely both Griffin
and Testi will rejoin the
team Thursday when it
hosts San Antonio in the
Clippers’ first game since
the All-Star break.
Griffin initially took to
Twitter to apologize. He
said he had already done
so with his teammates
and management.
‘‘It’s something that I
feel awful about, something that I haven’t had
to deal with ever before in
life and it’s been tough,’’
he said. ‘‘But now that
the NBA has done their
due diligence and the
Clippers and I have my
punishment, I’m looking forward to just moving on and moving past
this and getting back on
the court with our teammates.’’
Griffin said he did not
believe he needed anger
DECATUR DAILY
D E M O C R A T
management counseling.
GRIZZLIES
PART
WITH LEE
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)
— The Charlotte Hornets
acquired veteran swingman Courtney Lee from
the Grizzlies in a threeteam trade that will help
bolster the team’s perimeter shooting and defense
after losing Michael KiddGilchrist for the season
to a shoulder injury.
The Grizzlies got forward P.J. Hairston from
Charlotte and big man
Chris Andersen and two
second-round draft picks
from the Heat, who will
get guard Brian Roberts
from Charlotte.
The three teams confirmed the trade Tuesday
night.
‘‘He brings a lot of
experience,’’
Hornets
general manager Rich
Cho said in a conference
call. ‘‘He is a vet that is
a true pro. He’s a great
shooter and plays great
defense.’’
Hornets coach Steve
Clifford coached Lee
before in Orlando.
The Hornets went into
the All-Star break in the
eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern
Conference, just ahead
of the Detroit Pistons,
who bolstered their roster on Tuesday by adding
Tobias Harris from the
Magic. Just seven games
after
Kidd-Gilchrist
made a surprisingly
early return from a serious shoulder injury, he
suffered another shoulder injury, dealing a difficult blow to Charlotte’s
defense.
Lee is in his eighth
NBA season and has
established a reputation
as a coveted ‘‘3 and D
guy,’’ a player who can
knock down open 3-point
shots while also serving
as a capable defender on
the wing.
‘‘There are not a lot
of those 3 and D guys
around,’’ Cho said.
Cho said it’s unclear if
Lee will start right away,
but he expects him to
play a lot of minutes.
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