FCC to invest $15.5 million

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Commercial Review
Portland, Indiana 47371
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FCC to invest $15.5 million
By RAY COONEY
FCC is making another major
investment in Portland.
Company officials announced
plans at Monday’s Portland City
Council meeting for an 76,000square foot expansion to their
facility at the intersection of
Franklin Street and Industrial
Drive. They said they plan to add
57 jobs, and they are seeking a tax
abatement on nearly $15.5 million
in real and personal property.
Council members also acted on
Honda supplier will add
nearly 60 jobs in Portland
two other abatement requests,
agreed to advertise the former
fire station for sale and discussed
the removal of trees in the downtown area.
Bill Bradley, executive director of Jay County Development
Corporation, presented FCC’s
request for a tax abatement on
$6.3 million in real property and
$9.2 million in personal property. He said the abatement will be
for 10 years on the expansion
and either five or 10 on the
equipment.
The company, which is a
major supplier of clutch components for Honda, plans to
expand to the west of its current
facility. The addition will
include three 800-ton press lines
and sanding lines, and the new
jobs will bring total employees
to more than 800.
“This would be to ensure that
we can meet our future customer demands and continue
making the product,” said production manager Mike Shephard.
The expansion, which follows
a $16.4 million investment in
new equipment in 2013, will
include excavating and the creation of a retention pond and is
scheduled to begin this spring.
Shephard said the company will
still have room for further
expansion if needed.
See Invest page 2
Water
park
bid is
chosen
Tyson
donates
$100,000
By RAY COONEY
The Portland Water
Park project has the green
light.
Portland Park Board on
Monday selected the low
bid of $3.21 million from
RLTurner of Zionsville in
a meeting that lasting
barely more than a
minute. It chose to include
an alternate — the addition of a second slide —
for another $77,000.
The fundraising committee then got a boost
today, as Tyson Foods,
Inc., made a donation of
$100,000 for the water
park.
The
board
chose
RLTurner’s bid, which
came in just under a $3.22
million bid from MacDougall Pierce Construction of Fishers. Muhlenkamp Building Corporation ($3.296 million) of
Coldwater, Ohio, was the
only other bidder for the
project.
“It’s really with great
pleasure from all of us up
here and a lot of excitement too around our community that we are able to
vote today to award the
Portland Water Park construction project,” said
park board president Rod
Ashman. “We can get this
done and get it underway.”
Board members Kristi
Betts, Holly Tonak, Shauna Runkle and Ashman
voted to select the bid
with Donald Gillespie
absent. Construction is
scheduled to be complete
by the fall, with the water
park to open in 2016.
A
meeting
with
RLTurner representatives
is scheduled for Wednesday at city hall, and Ashman said he expects to
have a more definitive
timeline for the project at
that time. The company
will oversee demolition of
the 55-year-old Portland
Pool as well as the construction of the water
park in its place.
Tyson announced its
$100,000 donation to the
project at a ceremony this
morning in council chambers at the fire station.
That money pushes the
fundraising total over the
$1 million mark.
See Chosen page 2
The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney
Crop talk
Scott Haley (center), a resource soil scientist for United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources
Conservation Services and Joe Kelich (right) of Soil First discuss the benefits of cover crops with local farmers Thursday during
a cover crop field day. The event, sponsored by Jay County Soil and Water, was held at farm ground owned by Scott Rines at
2304 E. 50 North, rural Portland. A story about the field day will run in our April 17 Ag Outlook special section.
JEMS discount period extended
By DEVIN ZIMMERMAN
Jay County Commissioners
extended the amount of time residents have to pay their emergency
medical service bills and still
receive a 10-percent discount.
On Monday, commissioners
unanimously approved the amendment to ordinance 2014-6, which
previously only allowed residents
10 days to pay their bills and
receive the reduction. Now payees
have 30 days to pay their bills and
get a 10-percent discount.
Originally the repayment plan
was revisited because county officials believed not enough people
were able to take advantage of the
offer, and doing so would benefit
the county EMS by making quicker
payments more prevalent.
The decision wasn’t delivered
without debate.
Commissioners Faron Parr, Jim
Zimmerman and Doug Inman
reveiwed several ideas with Jay
Emergency Medical Service claims
coordinator Marla Grady. The idea
of implementing a tiered plan was
discussed, with larger discounts
being awarded to payee’s who
incurred greater EMS bills. However, Grady opposed the idea, and
said it would not be fair for everyone.
The EMS claims coordinator
also made it clear that about 50 percent of people take advantage of
the current plan now.
“Just about anybody that private pays anymore will take advantage of the discount, it’s been a
good thing,” said Grady
Commissioners also heard from
Pat Frazee, director of Jay Emergency Medical Service.
Frazee told commissioners an
ambulance might need to be
replaced soon. The 2004 vehicle,
which has 120,000 miles on it, has
incurred serious maintenance
during its use, such as its engine
being replaced. Now the vehicle is
leaking five quarts of oil a day.
Frazee was told to get specifications and quotes for a new ambulance.
In other business, the commissioners:
•Accepted bids for the supply of
asphalt emulsion for Jay County
Highway Department. Bids included Clink Group for $1.75 per gallon
for 3,000 tons or less, Asphalt Materials for $1.516 per gallon, Terry
Asphalt Materials for $1.8783 per
gallon and Marathon Petroleum
for $1.56 per gallon delivered to job
sites. These bids were tabled for
review.
•Accepted bids for the construction and installation of new
servers for the county courthouse.
Root Systems Technology, Cleaver
Cabling and Consulting and Progressive placed bids. These bids
were tabled for review as well.
•Heard from Sheriff Dwane
Ford, who reported he will be
attempting to lease a vehicle for
the drug task force instead of
using an inter-departmental trade
program.
•Saw a presentation of the county’s new website, which is under
construction by Craig Frazee of
Dynamic Business Solutions.
Council approves annexation again
By DEVIN ZIMMERMAN
FORT RECOVERY —
Approval has been granted
for the annexation of lots
in the village.
Fort Recovery Village
Council passed ordinance
2015-04
on
Monday
evening. The ordinance
was required before Mercer County Commissioners could finalize the
annexation of 6,196 acres
to be used for commercial
purposes. This will com-
prise eight lots, which are
located north of Commerce Street and east of
Ohio 49.
According to notes left
by village administrator
Randy Diller, who was
absent, plans will be moving forward with the construction of a Dollar General at one of the lots.
Additionally, Dan Jutte,
who owns the property,
inquired about what would
be necessary to construct a
car wash on another lot.
No formal requests have
been filed for the project.
The annexation also
includes several rights of
way, which are located at
1781, 1789, 1750, 1769 and
1737 Ohio 49. It is expected
these will be used to extend
utilities.
In addition, according to
Diller construction on the
parking lot at Community
Park will begin this
month. PAB Construction
is expected to complete the
work by June 1.
Council members Rod
Thobe, Dave Garman, Al
Post, Dave Kaup, Cliff
Wendel and Dave Bretz
also:
•Heard an update on
sanitary lagoon improvements, which are anticipated to have baffle pricing soon. The baffles will
assist with treatment in
the lagoon.
•Raised no objections
on the renewal of all
liquor permits in town.
•Heard an update on
the Ohio Department of
Transportation traffic
study, in which minimum
traffic levels were not
met to place a traffic light
at the intersection of Elm
and Butler streets (Ohio
49 and 119).
As a result, Broerman
said it is anticipated that
stop
signs
will
be
installed on Butler Street
to make the intersection
a four-way stop and the
radiuses of the intersection pulled back.
Deaths
Weather
In review
Correction
Monnie Tarter, 73, Portland
Ve lm a
Wh itte d,
84,
Ridgeville
Marvin Weimer, 91, Muncie
Carlton Sm elser, 73, Fairmount
Cletus Moore, 92, Portland
Details on page 2.
The high temperature Monday at Portland’s weather station was 60 degrees. There
overnight low was 49, and
there was 0.04 inches of rain
as of 7 a.m. today.
The forecast calls for a
chances of thunderstorms
tonight through Thursday.
For an extended forecast,
see page 2.
Arts Place, 131 E. Walnut St.,
Portland, will host an opening
reception for its Regional Student Art Exhibit from 4 to 6:30
p.m. Wednesday. The exhibit
runs from today through May 8.
For more information, visit
http://www.artsland.org, email
[email protected] or call
(260) 726-4809.
There was an error in Monday’s edition of The Commercial Review regarding charges
filed against Ashley McAbee,
3246 S. 200 West, Portland. She
was preliminarily charged
with dealing methamphetamine, a Level 4 felony, and failure to appear.
Local
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Obituaries
Monnie Tarter
April 9, 1941-April 5, 2015
Services for Monnie Lou
Tarter, 73, Portland, are 11 a.m.
Friday at Walker Funeral Home
in Winchester with Pastor Craig
Cotherman officiating. A former Winchester area resident,
she died Sunday at her home.
Born in Grayson, Kentucky, to
Lovie
and
Cleo
(Jessie)
McDavid, she was an antique
dealer.
Surviving are three sons,
Dave P. Tarter, Winchester, Mark
Tarter (wife: Sue), Sebring,
Florida, and Jonathan Tarter,
Portland; three brothers, Harry
McDavid, New Castle, Paul
McDavid, Portland, and Garrett
McDavid (wife: Linda), Lynn;
three sisters, Betty Jenkins
(husband: Jim), Carra Faye
Chalfant, and Lovie Ann Moystner, all of Winchester; seven
grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and
nephews.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and one hour prior to services on Friday at the funeral
home. Burial will be in Saratoga
Cemetery.
Online condolences may be
Services are 1 p.m. Thursday
sent to http://www.walkerswinchester.com.
at Garden View Funeral Home
in Muncie. Burial will be in Gardens of Memory Cemetery.
Velma Whitted
Visitation is 11 a.m. until time
Jan. 9, 1931-April 4, 2015
of services Thursday at the
Velma
L.
Whitted,
84,
funeral home.
Ridgeville, died Saturday at her
Condolences may be sent to
home.
http://www.gardenviewfuneralBorn in Fort Recovery to
home.com.
David and Lula Garringer, she
graduated from
Carlton Smelser
Fort
Recovery
High School in
Aug. 28, 1941-April 4, 2015
1949.
Carlton L. “Junior” Smelser,
She
retired
73, Fairmount, died Saturday at
Anchor
from
Wesleyan Healthcare.
Hocking in 1993
Born in Jay County to Carlton
after
working
C. Smelser and Barbara Pauline
nearly 38 years as
Carmichael, he graduated from
Whitted
an inspector.
Montpelier High School.
Surviving are
He married Sarah Kemmer on
two sons, Stephen Whitted (wife: March 9, 1965, and she survives.
Phyllis), Sweetser, and Dennis
A veteran of the United States
Whitted (wife: Sheryl), Winches- Army, he retired from General
ter; a daughter-in-law; two sis- Motors in 1998 after more that 35
ters, Esther Gierhart, Winches- years of service and worked at
ter, and Charlotte Parks, the Chronicle-Tribune until
Muncie; two brothers, Leonard 2003.
Garringer (wife: Priscilla),
Memberships include FairMuncie, and Richard Garringer mount Friends Meeting and
(wife: Mary), California; five Fairmount American Legion
grandchildren; eight great- Post No. 313.
grandchildren and several
Surviving in addition to his
nieces and nephews.
wife are two daughters, Paula
Nolder, Marion, and Beverly
Gosnell, Fairmount; two sisters,
Barbara Gordon (husband:
Robert), Redkey, and Janet Shipp
(husband: Dennis), Nashville,
Tennessee; two brothers, Dick
Smelser (wife: Betty), Fairmount, and Joe Smelser (wife:
Lisa), Pendleton; two grandchildren and a brother and sister-inlaw.
Services are 10 a.m. Wednesday at Fairmount Chapel with
Pastor Brock Meyer officiating.
A committal service, military
honors and burial will be in
Knox Chapel Cemetery, Point
Isabel.
Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today
at the chapel, with an American
Legion walk through at 6 p.m.
Condolences may be sent to
http://www.ArmesHuntFuneralHome.com.
Cletus Moore
Cletus L. Moore, 92, Portland,
died Monday at Persimmon
Ridge in Portland. Funeral
services are pending at
Williamson and Spencer Funeral Home in Portland. Online
condolences may be sent to
www.williamsonspencer.com.
Marvin Weimer
May 25, 1923-April 6, 2015
Marvin Dale Weimer, 91,
Muncie, died Monday at Willow
Bend Nursing Home in Muncie.
He had lived most of his life in
the Farmland and Winchester
area.
Born in Saratoga to Russell
Ray and Irene (Harris) Weimer,
he was preceded in death by his
wife Evelyn (Ronan) Weimer.
He retired in 1989 after 19 years
as a custodian for Monroe Central Schools and attended Union
Chapel Ministries in Muncie.
Surviving are a son, Ronald
Weimer (wife: Amy), Farmland; a
daughter, Ruth Walker (fiancé:
Ernie Pickering), Muncie; a
brother, Floyd Weimer (wife:
Joyce), Lynn; 10 grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren.
Visitation is 6 p.m. Wednesday
at Thornburg Memorial Chapel
in Parker City, followed by 7 p.m.
services with Pastor Kim Gilbert
officiating. Private graveside
services will be in Covington
Memorial Gardens in Fort
Wayne.
Online condolences may be
sent to http://www.wilsonshookfuneralhomes.com.
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Closing prices as of Monday
Trupointe
Fort Recovery
Corn..........................3.88
May corn ..................3.96
Beans ........................9.60
May crop ..................9.62
Wheat ......................4.99
May crop ..................4.99
Cooper Farms
Fort Recovery
Corn..........................3.88
May corn ..................3.92
June corn ................3.94
July corn ..................3.96
POET Biorefining
Portland
April corn ................3.88
May corn ..................3.96
June corn ................4.01
July corn ..................3.97
New crop ..................4.07
Central States
Montpelier
Corn..........................3.85
New crop ..................3.86
Beans ........................9.81
New crop ..................9.41
Wheat ......................5.28
New crop ..................5.23
The Andersons
Richland Township
Corn..........................3.82
May corn ..................3.82
Beans ........................9.72
May beans ................9.72
Wheat ......................5.15
July wheat................5.15
Hospitals
Jay County
Hospital
Portland
Emergencies
There were 33 people
treated in the emergency rooms of JCH,
including:
Portland — Tyler
Arnold, Sharon Hunt
and Nicholas Riddle.
Dunkirk
Beavers
—
Noah
Dismissals
There was one dismissal.
Admissions
There were three
admissions to the hospital on Monday.
Citizen’s calendar
Today
4 p.m. — Jay County
Development Corporation,
Community
Resource Center, 118 S.
Meridian St., Portland.
6:30 p.m. — Geneva
Town Council, town hall,
411 E. Line St.
7 p.m. — Pennville
Town Council, town hall,
105 N. Washington St.
7 p.m. — Salamonia
Town Board, schoolhouse community center.
Wednesday
7 p.m. — Jay County
Council, commissioners’
room, Jay County Courthouse, 120 N. Court St.,
Portland.
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Continued from page 1
Bradley also brought council a request
from Moser Engineering for a five-year
abatement on $30,000 in equipment. The
new lathe will cut the time make buttons
on the end of axels to one minute, 30 seconds, from the current five minutes.
Council members Bill Gibson, Judy
Aker, Kent McClung, Don Gillespie, Kip
Robinette and Mark Hedges, with Michael
Brewster absent, referred both of those
requests to the tax abatement advisory
committee.
They also approved a five-year abatement for ATI Forged Products (Portland
Forge) on the $1.285 million purchase of a
new induction furnace. They had heard
the request at their last meeting and it had
since been recommended for approval by
the advisory committee.
Council agreed to advertise the former
fire station, 110 N. Commerce Street, for
sale after a short discussion.
McClung asked if the station could be
used by a city department, with Mayor
Randy Geesaman responding that the
street department stores some equipment
there. But Gibson noted the deterioration
of the historic building in recent years and
recommended selling it to someone who
could keep up with maintenance.
Gillespie raised the issue of trees that
have been removed in the downtown area,
saying the city needs a plan as to how to
deal with the issue. He noted that either
new trees should be planted or a more aesthetically-pleasing alternative be installed
as opposed to just a concrete patch.
“We paid big money for an architect to
come in and give us that streetscape only
to find 15 years later it’s just gone,” added
McClung of the Meridian Street widening
project in the 1990s. “What’s the best
approach to figure out what that downtown is going to look like, because we’ve
been through this once before.”
Geesaman noted that trees have been
removed only at the request of business
owners and asked council members to get
feedback from residents about the issue.
He said he has a list of recommended trees
for downtown areas from the Indiana
Department of Natural Resources if council chooses to re-plant.
‘What’s the best
approach to
figure out what
that downtown is
going to look like,
because we’ve
been through
this once before.’
—Kent McClung,
Portland City Council
In other business, council members:
•Heard from Geesaman that a public
meeting about the Indiana 26 East (Water
Street) project has been rescheduled for 6
p.m. April 16 at East Jay Middle School.
The meeting was originally scheduled for
March 31, but was postponed because contractor Brooks Construction of Fort
Wayne could not be in attendance. A preconstruction meeting is scheduled for Friday.
•Paid claims totaling $1,588,681.51.
•Learned spring clean-up week will be
May 4 through 8.
•Approved a payment of $24,450 to the
state revolving loan fund for the north side
sewer separation project.
•Heard Geesaman say the city’s new
website should be active in the next few
weeks. City employees will also be getting
new email addresses.
•Tabled a request for a four-way stop at
the intersection of Walnut Street and
Hawkins Avenue to allow council members a chance to evaluate traffic in the
area.
•Approved closings of Alexander Street
between Main Street and an alley to the
north on the evenings of April 17, May 15,
June 26, July 24, Aug. 21, Sept. 18 and Oct.
16 for Evangelical Methodist Church’s Friday Fun Night events and High Street
between Meridian and Commerce streets
from noon to 10 p.m. May 16 for a Portland
Elks hog roast.
Senate approves repeal
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
An Indiana Senate panel
has advanced a Republicanled push to repeal the state
law that sets wages for public construction projects.
Senate Tax and Fiscal
Policy Committee members
voted 8-5 today to support
eliminating the boards that
establish
construction
wages for each state or local
project.
Committee
members
also approved proposed
changes that include
establishing punishments
for contractors who abuse
work rules and requiring
an employee training program.
Supporters argue that
the boards set artificially
high wages and hinder the
competitive market from
lowering bid prices and
saving taxpayer money.
Critics say eliminating the
law will decrease labor
productivity, construction
quality
and
worker
salaries.
Committee Chairman
Brandt
Hershman,
a
Lafayette Republican, says
the changes address opponents’ concerns and help
level the playing field for
all businesses to compete.
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“It’s really great,” said Ashman. “It’s
humbling that a company like that would
want to kick in to our local economy and to
our local pool project. I’m just grateful for
it.”
Monday’s meeting marked the culmination of more than two years of study and
planning for the new facility. Portland City
Council approved $2.25 million in funding
for the project in May, and the design for
the water park was finalized in December.
It will include a lap pool, dump bucket,
lily pad walk, lazy river, 25-meter lap pool,
zero entry and two slides. The majority of
the facility will be 42 inches deep, with 6
foot depth at each end of the lap pool to
allow for diving entries.
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Bill
dies in
House
By LAURYN SCHROEDER
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — A
proposal that would have
expanded
Indiana
adoptees’ access to more
than 50 years of sealed
records appears to be dead
this session, to the disappointment of some advocates.
The records of children
in Indiana who were adopted between 1941 and 1994
are currently sealed, preventing hundreds of thousands of adoptees from
finding their biological parents.
“It’s like starting a book
on chapter two,” said Pam
Kroskie, president of
Hoosiers for Equal Access
to Records, one of the
organizations behind the
effort. “You’re missing that
piece of the puzzle.”
The measure would have
made accessing birth
records easier for those
born during that time period. In 1994, state law
changed to require biological parents to sign an official
form,
indicating
whether or not the state can
disclose their information.
Lawmakers agreed at the
time to seal records for the
preceding decades to protect those who did not
expect their information to
be readily available.
Senate
members
approved the new proposal
46-3 in January, and it
received a hearing in the
House Judiciary Committee last month. But bill coauthor Sen. Brent Steele, RBedford, said the committee has too many bills that
still need to be considered
before the session ends and
the measure has been
bumped because of time
constraints.
Felony
arrests
Probation violation
A Dunkirk woman was
arrested Monday morning
on a bench warrant for a
probation violation.
Kaitlyn Barger, 1252 S.
Main St., was arrested and
booked into Jay County at
10:18 a.m., and is preliminarily charged with probation violation, a Level 6
felony.
She is being held on a
$6,000 bond.
Family
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Woman should have chance at motherhood
DEAR ABBY: When I
turned 25, after considering it for years, I went to
my doctor and told him I
wanted to become sterile. I
got a vasectomy two
months later. I haven’t had
any regrets, and now at 27,
I’m still firmly convinced
that I don’t want children
— ever.
I started dating a
woman a year ago,
“Anita,” who told me that
if she never had kids, she
could live with it. I felt
lucky to have found someone who would be OK with
no kids.
I have had a few issues
with Anita. When she gets
Dear
Abby
upset from time to time,
she says that if she stays
with me, she will never
have kids. I know she
cares for me deeply, but I
also believe she feels conflicted about giving up the
chance to be a mother.
Do you think it’s fair for
me to pursue this relationship and hope that eventually she’ll come to terms
with not having children
with me? Or should I end
the relationship so she can
find someone who shares
her desire to become a parent? I worry that if I end
it, it may take years before
I find someone who shares
my wish to never be a parent. — NO KIDS IN COLORADO
DE AR NO KIDS : You
have been upf ront wi th
A nita. She unders tands
that you do not want children, and that you have
taken steps to ensure it
won’t happen. She’s correct that if she stays with
you, she will never have
any.
For both your sakes, the
two of you need to talk
this through once and for
a l l , b e c a u s e i f A ni t a i s
ambivalent about forgoing
m o th e r h o o d , s h e d o e s
need to find another life
partner. And you need to
let her do that.
DEAR ABBY: It happened to me again yesterday. After I had been waiting patiently at the counter of a large department
store, another woman
came up and stood beside
me. The clerk walked over
and immediately began to
ring up the other woman’s
purchase. I said, “I was
here first!” Both the clerk
and the woman apologized, but because the sale
had already begun, the
salesclerk completed it
and I was left waiting.
I am angry about it. I
feel stores should have a
queue where you get in
line in order, or clerks
should be instructed to
ask, “Who was here first?”
I don’t want to believe I
was passed over because
the other woman looked
more prosperous than I
do, but she was buying a
very expensive handbag,
while I was purchasing
socks that were on clearance. How should that be
handled in the future? —
SHOPPER IN KENTUCKY
DEAR SHOPPER: If you
have a complaint about
service, it should be
addressed to the store manager. A well-trained retail
salespers on would have
asked which of you was
there first. The amount
you were spending should
have made no dif ference.
DEAR ABBY: My wife
and I travel with another
couple. I furnish the vehicle and do all the driving.
How should we share the
expenses? — EASY RIDER
IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
DEAR EAS Y RIDER:
The other couple should
pay for half the gas and
their own meals and lodging.
———
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also
known as Jeanne Phillips,
and was founded by her
mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA
90069.
In Loving Memory Of
Velma L.
Whitted
January 9, 1931
April 4, 2015
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January students
East Elementary named its Students of the Month for January. Pictured in front from left are Evan Siegrist,
Brayden Fox, Grayson Swoveland, Aiden Phillips, Wyatt Wendel and Lina Lingo. In back from left are Sean Carpenter, Tony
Wood, Dusty Pearson, Jordan Chapman, Dustin Harris and Gavi Lopez.
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Wednesday
WEDNESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CLUB
— Will meet at 8 a.m. in
the east room of Richards
Restaurant. All women
are invited to attend.
Includes activities and
devotional time.
BRYANT/NEW CORYDON SENIOR CITIZENS
— Will meet at 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday at the Bryant
Community Center for a
carry-in dinner. Meat is
provided.
PORTLAND ROTARY
CLUB — Will meet at noon
each Wednesday at Harmony Cafe, 121 N. Meridian St.
PARENT
SUPPORT
GROUP — For special
needs children of any age,
the group will meet at 6
p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at General Shanks Elementary.
For more information, call
Susan Williams at (260)
726-2004 or Holly Tonak at
(260) 726-8868.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS — Will meet from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. each
Wednesday upstairs at
True Value Hardware,
North Meridian Street,
Portland. For more information, call (260) 729-2532.
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GROUP — New Beginnings, a support group for
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friends and families of
alcoholics, will meet at
6:30 p.m. each Wednesday
in the Zion Lutheran
Church, 218 E. High St.,
Portland. For more information, call (260) 726-8229.
Thursday
CELEBRATE RECOVERY — A 12-step Christian
recovery program, the
group will meet at 10 a.m.
and 6:30 p.m. each Thursday at A Second Chance At
Life Ministries, 109 S.
Commerce St. in Portland.
For more information, call
Judy Smith at (260) 7269187 or Dave Keen at (260)
335-2152.
AMERICAN LEGION
AUXILIARY NO. 211 —
Will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the legion for a regular meeting.
COMMUNITY RELATIONS TEAM — Will play
euchre at 6 p.m. the second
and fourth Wednesday of
each month at the tele-
phone warehouse, 301 E.
Sixth St. in Portland. The
public is invited.
MISSISSINEWA CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — Will meet at
6:30 p.m. Thursday at the
Jay County Historical
Society Museum. Carolyn
Thurow, volunteer coordinator for FamilyLife Care
in Berne, will be the guest
speaker. There will be
refreshments and visitors
are welcome. For more
information, call Paula
Confer at (765) 369-2656 or
Judy Crull at (260) 7269887.
JAY COUNTY TRAILS
CLUB — Will meet at 7
p.m. the second Thursday
of each month at the
offices of The Portland
Foundation.
Friday
CINCINNATUS LEAGUE
— Will meet at noon Friday at Harmony Café in
Portland.
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Velma L. Whitted, 84,
passed away Saturday, April
4, 2015 at her home in
Ridgeville, Indiana.
Velma was born January
9, 1931 in Ft. Recovery,
Ohio to the late David and
Lula Garringer. Velma
graduated from Ft. Recovery High School in 1949.
She worked nearly 38 years
as an inspector for Anchor
Hocking before her retirement in 1993. Velma enjoyed reading, crocheting,
and spending time with her
family.
Velma is survived by two
sons, Stephen Whitted
(wife Phyllis) of Sweetser
and Dennis Whitted (wife
Sheryl) of Winchester; a
daughter-in-law, Becky
Whitted of Portland; five
grandchildren, Jason Whitted (wife Amber), Sharon
O’Haver
(husband
Charles), Karen Whitted
(partner Emily), Jeremy
Whitted, and Melinda
Lytle; eight great-grandchildren, Trinity, Alyssa,
Emily, Conner, Caleb,
Kenley, Jasmine, and Carson; four siblings, Esther
Gierhart of Winchester,
Leonard Garringer (wife
Priscilla) of Muncie, Charlotte Parks of Muncie, and
Richard Garringer (wife
Mary) of California; and
several nieces and nephews,
including Roxanne Flesher
(husband
Larry)
of
Ridgeville.
Velma was preceded in
death by a son, Byron
Whitted; and three siblings, William David Garringer, Marvin Garringer,
and Norma Neargarder.
A funeral service to celebrate Velma’s life will be
held at 1:00 P.M. Thursday,
April 9, 2015 at Garden
View Funeral Home,
10501 N. State Road 3,
Muncie, IN. Burial will follow in Gardens of Memory
Cemetery.
Friends and family may
gather to share and remember from 11:00 A.M. until
1:00 P.M. Thursday, at
Garden View Funeral
Home.
Condolences may be expressed to Velma’s family at
www.gardenviewfuneralhome.com
Opinion
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JCH is going
the extra mile
This qualifies as going
the extra mile.
Jay County Hospital is
hooking up with a company called ClaimAid.
Its purpose: To help
people enroll in a health
insurance plan.
Everyone knows that
the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, also known
as Obamacare, has been
less than perfect. It has
improved dramatically
after its first few stumbling months. But it’s still
a challenge.
That’s when a local
helping hand from Jay
County Hospital could
make a difference.
As hospital chief executive officer David Hyatt
pointed out last week
there are options available now for folks to get
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insurance, “but sometimes taking the next step
is a problem.”
Hyatt and the hospital’s
board of trustees believe
ClaimAid is a creative,
local, cost-effective way to
help area residents and
their families take that
step.
Will it be a panacea? Of
course not.
But it is a meaningful
step in the right direction.
And it qualifies as going
the extra mile. — J.R.
Delaying debate is risky
By LESLEY WEIDENBENER
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS — The relief
seemed almost palpable Thursday
as the attacks on Indiana eased —
but the break may be only temporary.
Republicans and some business
leaders had struck a deal on a socalled fix for the divisive Religious
Freedom Restoration Act.
The goal was simple: Stop the
bleeding.
And maybe the fix did that. But
at best, it’s only a bandage. Certainly, it fails to address the very
thing that most of RFRA’s critics
were actually complaining about:
Indiana law does nothing to protect people who are lesbian, gay,
bisexual or transgender from discrimination.
That was the case before the legislature started down a road that
led to economic upheaval, and it’s
the case now — save for the few
communities in Indiana with
local ordinances that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Until that changes, the state
remains at risk of reprisal.
Instead, the fix — a sort of compromise between GOP legislative
leaders and some in the business
community — ensures only that
RFRA can’t be used as the reason
a business or individual discriminates. And the change says that
RFRA can’t be used as a defense in
a lawsuit or prosecution about
discrimination.
It’s a move that made religious
conservatives angry because they
believe it watered down the law,
which likely speaks volumes
about their original goals. Democrats and LGBT groups, meanwhile, say it doesn’t go far enough.
Lesley
Weidenbener
It’s also language that Democrats had been trying to get Republicans to include in the bill
throughout the debate on the
issue — but the GOP had repeatedly asserted that RFRA couldn’t
be used to discriminate. And in
truth, they’re probably right.
But what RFRA did, accurately
or not, was create the perception
that discrimination against gays
and lesbians is acceptable — as
long as it’s done in the name of
religion. And that perception
should have been a surprise to no
one. The push for RFRA came less
than a year after gay rights opponents had lost a battle to put a ban
on same-sex marriage into the
Indiana Constitution and the federal Court of Appeals made those
unions legal in the state. The very
people who had opposed gay marriage were the ones pushing
RFRA.
Still no one, on any side of the
issue, could have predicted the
maelstrom that resulted from
RFRA’s passage. Social media
exploded with complaints and
insults and accusations hurled at
Pence, lawmakers and the state.
Prominent companies, including Apple, banned employee travel
to the state. Some state and local
governments prohibited taxpayerfunded trips to Indiana. And one
of the state’s most visible employers — Angie’s List — canceled
expansion plans in Indianapolis.
All said they were reacting to the
RFRA law.
Enter the fix.
Certainly, the new language
essentially wipes out the possibility that discrimination could
result from RFRA. But that just
means the state is back where it
was before the session began. The
fix did nothing to actually ensure
that gays and lesbians are protected from discrimination.
And regardless of where you
stand on that issue, it was at the
center of the virulence directed
during the past two weeks at Indiana, its people and its economy. If
state leaders want to avoid a
repeat of that outrage — and the
business boycotts that came with
it — the anti-discrimination
debate seems a must.
House Speaker Brian Bosma, RIndianapolis, said there’s no time
for it this session, which ends
April 29. That’s curious given how
quickly lawmakers came up with
their RFRA fix.
Senate President Pro Tem
David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said
the discussion about anti-discrimination legislation is likely next
year. However, 2016 is an election
year, which could make such a
controversial debate too scary for
lawmakers.
But if the past two weeks are
any indication, it could be just as
risky to ignore the issue — for the
state’s economy and maybe even
for lawmakers at the ballot box.
••••••••••
Weidenbener is executive editor
of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news
website powered by Franklin College journalism students. Contact
her at [email protected].
Frat president
misses the point
The Washington Post
When members of its
University of Oklahoma
chapter were caught on
video singing a racist
chant, the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity acted
quickly to demonstrate
its disapproval. Amid a
national uproar, the Oklahoma chapter was immediately shut down and
new diversity and sensitivity initiatives were
announced. Those steps,
though, are now overshadowed by a revealing
rant from the group’s
national president that
calls into question how
seriously the organization takes the issue of
racial bigotry.
At issue are comments
posted last week on Facebook by SAE President
Brad Cohen, criticizing
David Boren, the president of the University of
Oklahoma. Boren said
Friday that the racist
chant sung during a fraternity bus outing on
March 7 could be traced
to an annual SAE national leadership event four
years ago.
“That
chant
was
learned and brought back
to the local chapter,”
said
as
he
Boren
announced the results of
a university investigation
and called on the national
organization to address a
culture that could lead to
such behavior.
Cohen instead chose to
nitpick Boren’s semantics (“I’m amazed that a
Guest
Editorial
President
University
such as Boren of OU does
not know the difference
between ‘learned’ and
‘heard’ “), and he refused
to accept any responsibility (“At the end of the day,
it was his students that
chose to hear a vile chant,
take it back to their university and make it part
of their culture in their
chapter”).
It’s worth contrasting
those
mealy-mouthed
sentiments
with
the
mature and forthright
apology of one of the students who sang the song.
“There are no excuses
for my behavior. … The
truth is that what was
said in that chant is disgusting,” said former student Levi Pettit.
Cohen’s comments have
since been deleted from
Facebook,
suggesting
that either he had second
thoughts or cooler heads
prevailed. According to a
university spokeswoman,
Boren received a letter of
apology from Cohen on
Thursday. We hope that
means there is finally
some recognition by fraternity officials that they
have a problem and they
are prepared to address
it.
Countering Muslim prejudice is important
By CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE
Bloomberg News
By 2050, the number of Muslims worldwide will grow by 70
percent, outpacing every other
religion and matching Christianity as the world’s most
numerous faith.
That rate of growth means
that by midcentury, one in 10
people in France, Germany,
Italy and Britain will be Muslims.
That’s according to a Pew
Research Center study out
Thursday, which looked at the
age distribution, fertility and
mortality rates, and patterns
of migration and conversion
of the world’s religious groups.
The study projects that by 2050,
30 percent of the global population will be Muslim—all but
equal to the 31 percent that
Pew projects will be Christian.
Christoper
Flavelle
An additional 15 percent will
be Hindu, 5 percent Buddhist
and 0.2 percent Jewish.
That shift will be especially
pronounced in Western countries, many of which will see
the share of their population
that is Muslim double, and in
some cases triple, over the
course of just two generations.
In a perfect world, that trend
would be welcomed as an addition to the rich diversity of
cultures and beliefs that make
up any pluralistic liberal socie-
ty. In practice, it will probably
increase the strain on countries whose self-image of tolerance has clashed with the reality of lingering prejudice and
unease toward people who are
different.
Take Italy, where two of
three respondents told Pew last
year that they have unfavorable views of Muslims, and the
government of the Lombardy
region passed regulations in
January that restrict the building of mosques. Managing
those tensions will only get
more important: The share of
Italy’s population that is Muslim is projected to roughly
triple, to 9.5 percent, by 2050.
Or Germany, where a court
last month lifted a ban on
teachers wearing headscarves,
yet marches by the anti-Muslim group Patriotic Europeans
Against the Islamization of the
West draw thousands of supporters. The share of Germany’s population that is Muslim is projected to double, to 10
percent, by 2050.
Or France, where a Muslim
woman told a BBC reporter
after the Charlie Hebdo shootings that being rejected by her
country because of her faith is
“like being rejected by your
mother,” and others said the
French “would rather we have
blond hair and blue eyes.” The
share of France’s population
that is Muslim is projected to
increase 45 percent by 2050.
Or Canada, where Prime
Minister Stephen Harper told
Parliament last month that the
niqab is “rooted in a culture
that is anti-woman.” His government is fighting to prevent
immigrants from wearing the
niqab while taking their oaths
of citizenship. The share of
Canada’s population that is
Muslim is projected to almost
triple by 2050.
Those divisions and prejudices may have been inflamed
by the rise of Islamic State, the
attacks in Paris, the flood of
refugees from Syria, a weak
economy and any number of
other challenges. But prejudice
— whether its targets are Muslims, Jews or any other religious group — doesn’t need
much of an excuse.
If Pew’s projections are
right, countering that prejudice is going to get more important.
••••••••••
Flavelle writes editorials on
health care, economics and
taxation for Bloomberg View.
Follow him on Twitter @cflav.
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Nation
In review
Eight killed
PRINCESS ANNE,
Md. — A single dad
and his seven children
were found dead in
their one-story home,
relatives said, and
though officials gave
no details on the cause
of the deaths, the
man's stepfather said
he had been trying to
keep the family warm
with a generator after
the power was cut
because of an outstanding bill.
Lloyd Edwards told
The Associated Press
those who died were
his stepson, 36-year-old
Rodney Todd, and
Todd’s two sons and
five daughters.
Closed
NEW ORLEANS —
A three-mile stretch of
the Mississippi River
between New Orleans
and Baton Rouge is
limited to one-way
traffic upriver, a day
after a ship broke free
of its mooring and hit
two other vessels, the
U.S. Coast Guard said.
Petty Officer Carlos
Vega said the one-way
traffic would continue
until the three vessels
involved in Monday's
collision are inspected.
Crashes
BLOOMINGTON,
Ill. — A small plane
with five people on
board has crashed
near the city of Bloomington in central Illinois.
The Chicago Tribune quotes the fatherin-law of one of those
on board as saying all
five were killed while
returning from the
NCAA
basketball
championship in Indianapolis.
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Paul running for president
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
and ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sen. Rand
Paul of Kentucky entered the
campaign for the 2016 Republican
presidential nomination today
with a declaration that he’s running for the White House to
“return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.”
That message posted on his website prefaced a kickoff speech
later in the day in Louisville.
“I am running for president,”
his web message said. In remarks
to supporters, Paul could be counted on to be a fierce critic of Washington, where he is in his first
term as a senator but seldom in
line with his party’s leadership.
Paul’s challenge now is to convince Republican primary voters
and caucus-goers that his is a
vision worthy of the GOP presidential nomination, a prize twice
denied his father, former Rep. Ron
Paul of Texas.
Paul begins the 2016 race as just
the second fully declared candidate, behind Sen. Ted Cruz of
Texas, but he could face as many
as 20 rivals for the nomination
before the lead-off Iowa caucuses
in February.
Along the way, Paul is likely to
challenge his fellow Republicans’
views on both foreign and domestic policy, as well as the nuts and
bolts of how campaigns are run.
Tech savvy and youth-focused,
Paul is expected to be an Internet
juggernaut that his competitors
will be forced to chase.
After his speech in Louisville,
Paul was set to answer questions
from voters on his Facebook page.
Associated Press/Jim Cole
In this March 20 file photo, Sen., Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks in Manchester, N.H. Ready to
enter the Republican chase for the party’s presidential nomination this week, the first-term
Kentucky senator has designs on changing how Republicans go about getting elected to the White
House and how they govern once there.
Before his announcement speech,
he was already selling on his website iPhone cases branded with his
logo, signed copies of the Constitution and Rand Paul beer steins.
The online store was a quick
way for Paul to collect contact
information for voters who want
the swag but had not yet considered a direct donation to the candidate.
It’s unclear, though, how much
support Paul can muster in the
Republican mainstream.
Paul is a frequent contrarian
against his party’s orthodoxy,
questioning the size of the U.S.
military and proposing relaxation
of some drug laws that imprison
offenders at a high cost to taxpayers. He also challenges the GOP’s
support for surveillance programs, drone policies and sanctions on Iran and Cuba.
Jurors deliberating in marathon case
By DENISE LAVOIE
AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON — Jurors in the
federal death penalty trial
of
Boston
Marathon
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began deliberations
today, a day after both prosecutors and his lawyers
told them Tsarnaev must
be held accountable for participating in the terror
attack.
Deliberations in the guilt
phase began almost two
years after twin bombs
exploded
near
the
marathon’s finish line,
killing three people and
wounding more than 260.
During closing arguments Monday, Tsarnaev’s
lawyers agreed with prosecutors that Tsarnaev conspired with his brother to
bomb the marathon and
planted one of two pressure-cooker bombs that
exploded that day.
But the defense said it
was his now-dead older
brother, Tamerlan, who
was the mastermind of the
attack. It was Tamerlan
who bought the bomb parts,
built the bombs and
planned the attack, said
defense attorney Judy
Clarke.
“If not for Tamerlan, it
would not have happened,”
Clarke said.
A prosecutor told the
jury that Tsarnaev made a
coldblooded
decision
aimed at punishing America for its wars in Muslim
countries.
“This was a cold, calculated terrorist act. This
was intentional. It was
bloodthirsty. It was to
make a point,” Aloke
Chakravarty said. “It was
to tell America that ‘We
will not be terrorized by
you anymore. We will terrorize you.’”
Clarke argued that Tsarnaev fell under the influence of Tamerlan. Clarke
repeatedly referred to
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev —
then 19 — as a “kid” and a
“teenager.”
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Iraqi teams begin exhuming graves
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forensic
teams in the newly recaptured
city of Tikrit have started
exhuming bodies from mass
graves believed to contain some
of the hundreds of soldiers
killed by Islamic State militants
last
year,
a
government
spokesman said today.
Kamil Amin from Iraq’s
Human Rights Ministry said the
work started on Monday on
eight locations inside Tikrit’s
complex of presidential palaces,
where much of the killing is
believed to have taken place.
Islamic State militants overran Saddam Hussein’s hometown last June, capturing
around 1,700 soldiers as they
were trying to flee Camp Speicher, an air base previously used
by U.S. troops on the outskirt of
Tikrit. The fall of Tikrit was
part of the Islamic State
onslaught that stunned Iraqi
security forces and the military,
which melted away as the militants advanced.
Later, the Islamic State group
posted graphic images online
that appeared to show its gunmen massacring scores of the
soldiers after loading the captives onto flatbed trucks and
then forcing them to lay facedown in a shallow ditch, their
arms tied behind their backs.
Other videos showed masked
gunmen bringing the soldiers to
a bloodstained concrete river
waterfront inside the presidential palaces complex in Tikrit,
shooting them in the head and
throwing them into the Tigris
River.
After weeks of bitter clashes,
Iraqi forces and allied Shiite
militias, succeeded in retaking
Tikrit from the Islamic State.
Their victory was helped by U.S.led coalition airstrikes, which
were not initially part of the
operation.
Amin told The Associated
Press that at least 12 bodies were
exhumed on Monday. Lab tests
will be carried out to match
them with DNA samples that
have already been taken from
families of around 85 percent of
the victims.
Iraqi state TV showed forensic
teams digging in an open area,
helped by bulldozers as family
members stood nearby. The bodies were tagged with yellow tags
while weeping soldiers and relatives lit candles and laid flowers
alongside the covered remains.
One clip showed unearthed
skeletal remains still wearing
combat boots.
“The work is continuing and
we expect to discover more mass
graves in different areas,” Amin
said. “We expect huge number
of bodies to be unearthed.”
Saudis bomb in Yemen
By AHMED AL-HAJ
Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led
coalition jets bombed a military
installation in southern Yemen
today as local tribes battled Shiite
rebels and their allies in the area,
seizing a makeshift camp and
weapons, Yemeni military officials
said.
The fighting in southern Ibb
province came as the U.N. children’s welfare agency warned that
more than 100,000 people have fled
their homes in different provinces
in Yemen seeking safety from the
violence. According to UNICEF, at
least 74 children have also been
killed since the fighting between
Yemeni rivals intensified and the
coalition airstrike campaign began
two weeks ago.
A medical volunteer in the Maytam district in Ibb said the
airstrike on a Republican Guards’
camp wounded at least 25 troops.
The Guards’ unit is loyal to ousted
President Ali Abdullah Saleh who
is allied with the Shiite rebels in
their power grab in Yemen.
Residents say the camp was close
to a school. The rebel television station, al-Masirah, said three children were killed in the airstrike.
The medical volunteer, who spoke
on condition of anonymity for fear
of reprisals, could not confirm the
children’s deaths.
About 30 miles south of the
camp, local tribes battled with
Houthis who had set up a
makeshift camp in the area, driving the rebels away and seizing
their weapons, a local resident
Associated Press/Shakil Adil
Indian nationals, evacuated from Yemen, by Pakistan Navy ship, chant thankful slogans
today upon their arrival at Karachi port in Pakistan. A Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in
Yemen has asked Pakistan to contribute soldiers, Pakistan's defense minister said.
said, also speaking on condition of
anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Civilians have paid a heavy toll
for the violence that mushroomed
from an internal power struggle
into a regional war, drawing in
neighboring Saudi Arabia and its
allies.
Children have been especially
vulnerable, said UNICEF’s Yemen
representative, Julien Harneis.
“They are being killed, maimed
and forced to flee their homes,
their health threatened and their
education interrupted,” Harneis
said in a statement, released Mon-
day. Warring factions have also
increased their recruitment of
children under the age of 18.
The agency said at least 74 children have been killed and 44
wounded since March 26, when
the Saudi-led air campaign
began.
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WEISSENSTEIN and
BRADLEY KLAPPER
Associated Press
HAVANA — American
hopes of opening an
embassy in Havana before
presidents Barack Obama
and Raul Castro meet at a
regional summit this
week have been snarled in
disputes about Cuba’s
presence on the U.S. list of
state sponsors of terror
and U.S. diplomats’ freedom to travel and talk to
ordinary Cubans without
restriction, officials say.
The Summit of the
Americas will be the scene
of the presidents’ first
face-to-face meeting since
they announced Dec. 17
that they will re-establish
diplomatic relations after
a half-century of hostility.
The Obama administration wanted the embassies
reopened before the summit starts in Panama on
Friday, boosting a new
American policy motivated partly by a sense that
isolating Cuba was causing friction with other
countries in the region.
Arriving at the summit
with a deal to reopen
embassies in Washington
and Havana would create
goodwill for the U.S., particularly after it issued
new sanctions on selected
Venezuelan officials last
month that prompted
protests from left-leaning
countries around the
hemisphere.
Negotiators on both
sides said they are confident they will be able to
strike a deal to reopen
embassies in the coming
weeks but not necessarily
before the summit.
“It’s not a lot of time,
let’s put it that way,” U.S.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a
briefing on Friday when
asked whether an agreement on embassies was
likely before the gathering
in Panama City.
Asked Monday about
the
latest
on
the
embassies, White House
spokesman Josh Earnest
told reporters that “when
you have a country that
has essentially been
ostracized by the United
States for five decades ...
it’s going to take a little
bit of time to re-establish
some trust.”
“When you consider the
50-year history between
our two countries, three
months doesn’t seem very
long,” Earnest said, referring to the December
announcement.
The U.S. and Cuba have
held three rounds of talks
about restoring diplomatic relations. Cuba’s main
demand is to be removed
from the terror list, a
Cold War-era designation
that isolates it from much
of the world financial
system because banks
fear repercussions from
doing business with designated countries. Even
Cuba’s Interests Section
in Washington has lost its
bank in the U.S., forcing it
to deal in cash.
Washington has long
since stopped accusing
Havana of supporting terrorism and Obama made
clear in December that he
intends to remove Cuba
from the list. But U.S. officials said the president
must first send Congress
a report that says Cuba
has not provided any support for international terrorism during the previous six months and has
assured the United States
that it will not support
terrorism in the future.
The terror list is a particularly charged issue
for Cuba because of the
U.S. history of supporting exile groups responsible for attacks on the
island, including the 1976
bombing of a Cuban passenger flight from Barbados that killed 73 people
aboard.
In review
Protested
NAIROBI, Kenya —
Hundreds of Kenyan
students
marched
through
downtown
Nairobi today to honor
those who died in an
attack on a college by
Islamic militants and
to press the government for better security in the wake of the
slaughter.
The raucous crowd
of about 250 jogged
down main thoroughfares in Kenya’s capital, sometimes sitting
in traffic circles and
intersections, backing
up traffic for blocks
attracting
and
bystanders.
The singing, chantidemonstrators,
ng
some of whom were
dressed in black to
mourn those killed,
denounced Somalia’s
al-Shabab extremist
group that carried out
the attack last week on
Garissa
University
College that killed 148
in northeastern Kenya.
Approved
KUALA LUMPUR,
Malaysia — Malaysia
revived detention without trial when lawmakers approved an antiterror law today that
the government said
was needed to fight
Islamic militants, but
critics assailed as a
giant step backward
for human rights in the
country.
The Prevention of
Terrorism Act bill was
passed by Parliament’s
lower house in the wee
hours of the morning
after hours of debate,
with 79 votes in favor
and 60 against.
Detained
ANKARA, Turkey —
A Turkish official says
police have detained
two people suspected
of involvement in an
attack on a bus that
was carrying Fenerbahce players.
The bus was shot at
Saturday near the
northern city of Trabzon on the team’s
return to the airport
from a 5-1 win against
Black Sea side Caykur
Rizespor. The driver
was hit in the face and
hospitalized.
Trabzon Governor
Abdil Celil Oz said the
two suspects were
detained early today.
He said one of them is
believed to have followed the convoy while
the other fired shots at
the bus.
—Associated Press
Warning
LONDON — Prime
Minister
David
Cameron marked the
beginning of the financial year Monday by
warning that the opposition Labour Party
would raise taxes, as
he sought to break the
deadlock in polls ahead
of May 7 elections.
Emphasizing cuts in
taxation since he took
office in 2010 — and
taking sole credit for a
policy first suggested
by his coalition partner Liberal Democrats
— Cameron said workers would be “punished”
if
Labour
leader Ed Miliband
succeeded him as
prime minister.
—Bloomberg News
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190 FARMERS
110 HELP WANTED
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April 11, 2015
10:00 AM
Located: 3430 West
State Road 67 Portland
or 3 1/2 miles west of
Portland at the corner of
Highway 67 and County
Road 200 South.
Farm Tractors, farm
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AU01012022
260-726-9621
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AU19700040
260-726-5587
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AU10500168
260-729-2229
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AUCTION
Monday
April 20, 2015
6:30 PM
Located: Husted Hall,
Randolph County Fairgrounds
1885 S US 27
Winchester, IN
Productive Farmland in
an Excellent Basis Area
2 miles North West of
Union City, south of the
CR 600 E and Highway
28 intersection. 3 tracts,
103 +/- acres.
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Chris Peacock
765-546-0592
Barbara King, Owner
Halderman Real Estate
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Russell D Harmeyer
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Thursday
April 16, 2015
6:30 PM
Located: Delaware
County Fairgrounds,
Heartland Building.
1210 North Wheeling
Avenue, Muncie.
Well Maintained and
Productive Cropland in
a Competitive Basis
Area, 71 +/- acres, 2
tracts. Located in the
North West quadrant of
CR 700 N and 300 E.
Online bidding available.
Chris Peacock
765-546-0592
Fished Shideler Farm,
Owner
Halderman Real Estate
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www.halderman.com
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PORTLAND, 423 East
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family home, 1,792
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750.00 down, $ 415.00
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LEASE SPACE available, Coldwater, OH.
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260-726-4275,
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150 BOATS, SPORTING
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Geneva. Washer/ dryer,
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TWO-BEDROOM
APARTMENT: 712 N
Main, Dunkirk. Stove/
refrigerator furnished.
Total electric. $325 plus
deposit. Section 8 OK.
765-748-2379.
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Duke Insight ...
rallies
to win
title
Senior pitcher Larissa Boles
tends to limit the number of outs
her defense has to make behind
her, but there’s no doubt the
development of the freshman left
side will be key for the Patriots as
they seek to reach the 20-win
mark for the second straight season.
INDIANAPOLIS
(AP) — Over a matter
of mere minutes, the
youngsters at Duke
grew into salty old
pros.
Call them freshmen.
But please, do not call
them kids.
Led by Tyus Jones
and Jahlil Okafor,
Duke’s talented group
of potential one-anddoners played like veterans
down
the
stretch,
outscoring
Wisconsin by 14 points
over the final 13 minutes Monday night to
grit out a 68-63 victory
for the program’s fifth
national title.
“It shows a lot about
their confidence,” said
Quinn Cook, Duke’s
only senior starter.
Okafor, the likely
first pick in the NBA
draft if he decides to
leave, got outplayed by
Badgers senior center
Frank Kaminsky most
of the night but came
through big when the
pressure was highest.
The 6-foot-11 freshman
made
two
straight buckets over
Kaminsky,
sandwiched between a pair
of 3-pointers from
Jones, to help the Blue
Devils (35-4) turn a
one-time nine-point
deficit into an eightpoint lead with 1:22
left.
A furious Wisconsin
rally ensued, but it
came up short. Then,
it was Okafor on the
bottom of a rowdy dog
pile — a scene reminiscent of the last
time the Final Four
was in Indianapolis,
back in 2010 when
Duke edged out Butler
in another scintillating final. The Blue
Devils also took one
here in 1991 — the
Grant Hill, Christian
Laettner squad.
“It was heaven,”
coach Mike Krzyzewski said of the stadium
where he’s now 4-0 in
Final Fours. “It was
really divine.”
Tribe thrillers
While Indiana schools are just
getting their seasons started, the
teams in Fort Recovery already
have a week under their belts.
And the start wasn’t a calming
one for Tribe baseball coach
Jerry Kaup.
The Indians fell behind in each
of their first two games before
coming back for wins. And then
on Saturday they picked up a pair
of victories over the Crestview
Knights in walk-off fashion.
Surely the Tribe would rather
have games well in hand instead
of needing to rally or come up
with late-game heroics. Then
again, any 4-0 first week with
wins over a Division II school
(Celina) and a team that went to
the 2014 state final four
(Crestview) is a good thing.
Fort Recovery struggled to a
series of two-win seasons in 2010
and ’11, but the program has been
on a steady climb since then. It
won nine games in 2012, 14 in 2013
and a school-record 20 in 2014.
The Indians lost some key
parts, but at 5-0 after Monday’s 172 thumping of Franklin-Monroe,
that record could be in jeopardy.
better than the girls track team.
After coming frustratingly
close for a couple of seasons, the
Patriots broke through for the
sectional title in 2010 and have
won every crown since. The first
three of those titles were in dominant fashion, but the Yorktown
Tigers closed that gap a year ago.
And with the graduation of
Ciera Barcus, Tasya Smith, Abbi
Dunlavy, Abigail Johnson and
Amber Huelskamp and transfers
of Emi Minnich and Sydney
Mathias, coach Brian McEvoy
and his team have a big challenge
in front of them in their effort to
retain the title.
They’ll lean heavily on senior
hurdler and jumper Malarie
Houck and junior sprinter Emma
Laux. And they’ll hope to fill
Streak continues?
For consistent success, no Jay some of the gaps left by the aforeCounty spring squad has been mentioned departures with the
Box score
Anderson Prep Jets
at Jay County Patriots
Baseball summary
Anderson Prep (0-1)
ab
2
Myers 2b
2
Norris p
Long ss
2
Hinchman c
2
2
Burns 1b
Skipper-Blair cf 1
Cox cf
1
King rf
1
Ploughe rf
1
2
Boyd 3b
1
McQueary
Totals
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The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz
Jay County High School freshman Cole Stigleman slides into second base ahead of the tag from
Anderson Prep shortstop Noah Long for a stolen base in the third inning Monday. Stigleman was 1-for-2
with a single, two walks and scored two runs in the Patriots’ season-opening 15-0 rout of the visiting Jets.
Tanner Reynolds, a senior, capped off the scoring
with the first of his pair of
two-run singles, the second
of which came an inning
later.
“It was all about enthusiasm,” said Reynolds, who
was 2-for-2 with a pair of
walks and a team-high four
RBIs. “When I got up there
I just felt comfortable. I
caught on to the pitcher
after my first walk. I felt
real good.”
After freshman Cole
Stigleman drew a leadoff
walk in the third inning,
he stole second and scored
on a double to right field by
Kohler. Two batters later
Kunkler, who was also 2for-2 with a pair of RBIs, a
walk and three runs, hit a
single, and Stant followed
with another RBI single.
Like Reynolds, Stant was
2-for-2 with a pair of walks,
and he drove in three runs.
Kunkler and Stant both
came around to score on
Reynolds’ two-out single,
pushing the Patriot advantage to 10-0 after three
innings.
“We’ve really concentrated on hitting strikes
and letting some strikes go
that we can’t hit — in other
words, narrowing our zone
until we get two strikes,”
Sports on tap
Local schedule
Today
Jay County — Baseball vs. Wayne – 5
p.m.; Tennis at Blackford – 5 p.m.; Boys
and girls track at Southern Wells/Bluffton
– 5:30 p.m.; JV softball at South Adams –
6 p.m.
Fort Recovery — Middle school track
vs. Jackson Center – 4:30 p.m.
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
South Adams — Baseball at Winchester – 5 p.m.; JV softball vs. Jay County –
5 p.m.
Wednes day
South Adams — Tennis at Winchester
– 4:45 p.m.; Softball vs. Blackford – 5
p.m.; JV softball vs. Blackford – 6:30
p.m.; JV baseball vs. Concordia – 5 p.m.
Thurs day
Jay County — Softball vs. Delta – 5
p.m.; Tennis at Bellmont – 5 p.m.; Boys
and girls track at Bellmont/Adams Central – 5 p.m.; JV baseball at Shenandoah
– 5 p.m.; JV softball vs. Delta – 5 p.m. at
Portland Junior League fields; East Jay
track at Heritage – 5 p.m.; West Jay track
vs. South Adams – 4:30 p.m.
Fort Recovery — Softball vs. St.
Mary’s – 5 p.m.;
South Adams — Softball vs. Winchester – 5 p.m.; Boys and girls track vs. Winchester – 5 p.m.; JV softball vs. Winchester – 6:30 p.m.; Middle school track at
West Jay – 4:30 p.m.
Friday
Jay County — Baseball vs. Elwood –
5:30 p.m.; Softball vs. Elwood – 5 p.m.;
JV softball at Union – 5 p.m.
ab r
h bi
Stant ss
2 3 2 3
3 0 2 1
Geesaman c
0 1 0 0
EMyers cr
0 1 0 1
Woodward c
Long cf
2 1 0 1
Reynolds 3b
2 0 2 4
3 0 0 0
Jacks lf
Ferguson lf
1 0 0 0
2 2 1 0
Stigleman 2b
Kohler rf
1 3 1 1
Vaughn dh
2 0 0 0
JMyers p
0 0 0 0
Brackman dh 1 1 0 0
0 0 0 0
Carpenter p
Kunkler 1b
2 3 2 2
21 15 10 13
Totals
said Selvey, whose team
had four of its 11 hits in
two-strike counts. “They
put it in that zone, have at
it. If not, lay off of it. Don’t
help them out.”
The Patriots’ patience
started to kick in during
the fourth inning, as they
drew six walks — four of
those came from the first
five batters — on their way
to six more runs. Nate
Brackman,
Stigleman,
Kunkler, Stant, Reynolds
and Kohler all took free
passes as the Patriots sent
12 batters to the plate. It
was the third straight
inning in which Jay County batted through the
order. Stigleman also
notched his first career hit
later in the frame.
In the meantime, Myers
tossed four strong innings,
facing two more than the
minimum 12 batters. He
struck out four, including
the first batter he faced,
walked one and gave up
one hit in his varsity
debut.
“Jake is going to be good
for us,” Selvey said. “Sometimes it’s tough to keep
your focus when you start
getting some runs. Sometimes you have to treat that
11-nothing (score) like it’s
one to nothing.
“He was up and down
LOB — Anderson Prep 2. Jay County 7. 2B — Jay County 4 (Stant,
Geesaman, Kohler, Kunkler). SB —
Jay County 1 (Stigleman).
IP H
Anderson Prep
Norris, L 3 9
0.0 0
Boyd
0.1 0
Myers
0.2 1
Burns
Jay County
Myers, W 4
Carpenter 1
1
0
R ER BB SO
9
2
4
0
9
2
4
0
4
1
4
1
3
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
4
3
(with) long innings. Early
in the year I didn’t want to
go much longer than what
I did with him.”
Carpenter came in for
the fourth and mowed
down the Jets, striking out
all three batters he faced
on just 10 pitches.
Rally ...
Fort Recovery boys and girls track
teams both picked up wins Monday
against the Jackson Center Tigers.
The Tribe boys won 80-38, and
the girls defeated the Tigers 73-44.
Travis Sutter and Cole Hull both
won individual events for the
FRHS boys. Sutter took first in the
1,600- and 3,200-meter races, while
Hull won the 100 dash and long
jump.
Adam Byram (110 hurdles), Isaac
Siegrist (400 dash), Sam Huelskamp (300 hurdles), Dylan Weagant (200 dash), Matthew Kuess
(discus) and Tyler Acheson (shot
put) also won events for the Indians.
Andrew Stocker, Hull, Weagant
and Acheson teamed to win the
4x100 relay as well.
Alexis Hobbs had her hand in
three wins for the Tribe girls. She
won both the 100 and 300 hurdles,
and ran the first leg of the winning
4x400 relay. She joined Angela
Fort track wins
FORT RECOVERY, Ohio — The Heitkamp, Caitlyn Huelskamp and
Major League Bas eball
Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 2
Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 1
Detroit 4, Minnesota 0
Colorado 10, Milwaukee 0
Boston 8, Philadelphia 0
Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 2
N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 1
Kansas City 10, Chicago White Sox 1
Seattle 4, L.A. Angels 1
L.A. Dodgers 6, San Diego 3
Atlanta 2, Miami 1
Houston 2, Cleveland 0
San Francisco 5, Arizona 4
Oakland 8, Texas 0
h
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
Anderson Prep 000 00 — 0
Jay County
054 6x — 15
Rout ...
The Indians scored three runs in
the first inning before breaking the
game open with eight and six runs
in the second and third innings
respectively. The Jets finally ended
the shutout with both of their runs
in the fourth frame.
Mitchel Stammen led the Indians at the plate, going 3-for-3 with a
triple and a pair of walks. The senior drove in two runs and scored
three times while adding a stolen
base.
Jackson Hobbs was 2-for-4 with a
double, and he smacked a basesloaded triple for three of his four
RBIs. Cole Wendel, who got the win
on the bump, also had four RBIs.
He struck out seven, walked five
and gave up two hits with two
earned runs.
Daniel Wiseman had both hits
for the Jets.
Men’s college bas ketball
NCA A National Champions hip
Duke 68, Wisconsin 63
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Jay County (1-0)
Beats ...
Scoreboard
addition of junior Ava Kunkler as
well as several freshmen.
Fighting off the Tigers again
won’t be easy, but if the Patriots
can do it, they’ll have more sectional championships in the last
six seasons than in the first 35
years of JCHS history.
••••••••••
Unfortunately, we may not get
to see those story lines begin to
play out this week because the
forecast calls for rain every day.
But with a little luck we’ll be
able to sneak in a track meet or a
tennis match even if the fields
and courses are too sloppy for
baseball, softball and golf.
Either way, we should be done
with arctic temperatures for a
while. And an evening in the sun
watching the local teams play is
better than one cooped up inside
any day.
Paige Hemmert to win the relay.
Rachel Kaup (800 run), Grace
Gehle (3,200 run), Kristen Keller
(shot put), Huelskamp (1,600) and
Heitkamp (400) also earned victories.
who also got hits from Justin NussContinued from page 10
baum and Chandler Ingle.
Until the eighth inning,
Ingle took the loss on the mound
Johnny
Cueto was the guy.
for South Adams, allowing 11 runs
Cueto,
the Reds’ 20-game
— six earned — while giving up
winner
in
the final year of
four hits and walking five.
his contract, opened his
uncertain season with
SA loses big
FR softball falls
BERNE — Walks and errors
ARCANUM, Ohio — Fort Recov- another dominating perproved costly for the South Adams ery’s softball team fell to 0-2 on the formance against the
baseball team as it dropped its season with a 16-7 loss Monday to Pirates. He fanned 10 batters in seven innings before
home opener Monday 27-4 in five Franklin Monroe.
innings to the Norwell Knights.
Haley Knapke led the Tribe as turning a 2-0 lead over to a
South Adams (0-1) trailed 2-1 she went 1-for-4 at the plate with a bullpen that was a big probafter the first inning, but the 2014 single and three RBIs. Kasey Vogel lem last season.
“Everything was low,”
sectional champion Knights struck also had a hit for Fort Recovery.
for a baker’s dozen in the second
Audra Metzger, Whitney Will Cueto said, with a trainer
inning to break the game open.
and Tori Vaughn all had two walks. translating. “Everything
Norwell added one run in the Metzger tallied two RBIs, with went the way I wanted it
third before scoring 10 more in the MiKayla Post and Will each adding to.”
fourth for a 26-1 advantage.
one.
Andrew McCutchen tied
South Adams committed 10
Chelsea Timmerman took the it with a two-run shot off
errors and Norwell drew 11 walks loss in the circle, allowing 10 runs newcomer Kevin Gregg.
as only nine of its 27 runs were on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. She McCutchen has hit safely
earned.
also struck out a pair. Devin Post in his last 11 games at
Jaden Dull and Skylar Schoch struck out two and gave up six runs Great American Ball Park
both had doubles for the Starfires, in 3 1/3 innings of relief.
with five homers.
“He has a comfort zone
here,” Pirates manager
Clint Hurdle said. “He’s hit
some big homers late.”
Jumbo Diaz (1-0) got the
Fort Recovery — Baseball vs. Hous10 p.m. — Major League Baseball: www.adamscounty5kchallenge.com
final
out in the eighth for
ton – 5 p.m.; Softball at Arcanum – 5 San Diego Padres at Los Angeles
his first win. Aroldis ChapChamber to hold golf outing
p.m.
Dodgers (ESPN2)
The Jay County Chamber of Commerce man fanned two of the
South Adams — JV baseball at Chuwill hold the Chamber Classic Golf Outing
Thursday
rubusco – 5 p.m.
three batters he faced for
1 p.m. — WTA Tennis: Family Circle May 1 at Portland Golf Club.
Cost for the four-person tournament is the save.
Cup – Round of 16 (ESPN2)
TV schedule
3 p.m. — Golf: 2015 Masters Tourna- $250 per team, which also includes
Jay Bruce hit a solo
Today
lunch. Sponsorship opportunities are also
ment – First round (ESPN)
8 p.m. — Major League Baseball: St.
homer, and Francisco Liri5 p.m. — Men’s College Hockey: NCAA available.
Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs (WNDY- Tournament – Nebraska-Omaha vs. ProviRegistration for the tournament will ano balked home a run.
23)
begin at 10:30 a.m., with a shotgun start
dence (ESPN2)
8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: San AntoLiriano allowed two hits in
8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Chicago at 11:30 a.m.
nio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder (TNT) Bulls at Miami Heat (TNT)
For more information, contact the seven innings.
8:30 p.m. — Women’s College Bas8:30 p.m. — Men’s College Hockey: chamber office at (260) 726-4481.
The Ohio River rivals
ketball: NCAA Tournament Championship NCAA Tournament – Boston University vs.
– Notre Dame vs. UConn (ESPN)
have ended the last two seaStarfires seeking c oac h
North Dakota (ESPN2)
10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Los
South Adams High School is seeking a sons in Cincinnati with a
Angeles Lakers at Los Angeles Clippers
wrestling coach for the 2015-16 season.
Local
notes
(TNT)
Candidates should have varsity coach- lot at stake. The Pirates finRun/Walk challenge begins A pril 11
ing experience, a strong knowledge of ished the 2013 regular seaWednesday
The Adams County Run/Walk Chal- wrestling techniques and fundamentals.
3 p.m. — Golf: Masters Par 3 Contest lenge will begin April 11 in Berne.
Candidates must also demonstrate the son by sweeping a series
The series features 12 races within ability to work with the administration and and clinching home-field
(ESPN)
7 p.m. — Major League Baseball: Adams County.
successfully lead student athletes, the advantage for the wild-card
The first race is the Swiss Village 5K coaching staff and the middle school and
Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia Phillies
game. Last year, Cueto beat
Lauf/Spaziergang. The race is at 9 a.m. youth programs.
(ESPN2)
7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Toronto April 11 at the Wellness Pavilion, 1021
Individuals interested should contact the Pirates 4-1 for his 20th
Emmental Drive, Berne.
Raptors at Charlotte Hornets (ESPN)
South Adams athletics director Jason
For more information, contact Sarah Arnold at (260) 587-8231, or win, relegating Pittsburgh
9:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Phoenix
to another wild-card game.
Conrad (260) 589-4496, or visit [email protected].
Suns at Dallas Mavericks (ESPN)
Starfire softball team
hosts Bruins Wednesday,
see Sports on tap
Sports
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Rays
of
Insight
Spring
sports
have
begun
By RAY COONEY
It has begun.
The spring sports season
for Jay County High School
got underway Saturday
with the softball team’s
visit to Wapahani. And the
rest of the squads will get
their campaigns started
this week, weather permitting.
Though I could only stay
for about 15 minutes at
Monday night’s softball
game, the trip to the diamond was a welcome
change of pace.
It was a rough winter.
I have no problem with
snow. It’s the single-digit
and sub-zero temperature
nonsense that makes me
cringe, and the last two
years have been especially
cold.
So I’m more than ready
for spring — rain and all —
and to look at a few of the
interesting story lines for
JCHS athletics this year.
••••••••••
Freshman duo
Unless I’m planning on
taking a photo of the pitcher or catcher, or there’s a
runner on base, I start each
softball play with the camera focused on the third
baseman.
Why?
Because, as long as the
batter is right handed, the
ball gets there faster than
any position on the field.
There’s virtually no time to
react at the hot corner.
So it was intriguing
when the Jay County softball team’s opening-day
lineup had freshman Chloe
Trissel at third base and
her classmate Kady Finnerty next to her at short.
Those positions anchor the
infield, and coach Doug
Arbuckle showed a lot of
confidence in the young
duo by putting them at
those positions to start the
year. (It’s far from unprecedented, as Trissel replaces
four-year starter Chelsea
Tighe at third base.)
See Insight page 9
Duke tops Wisconsin
to win national title,
see story page 9
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Patriots rout Jets in opener
Jay Co. scores
15 in shutout
win against
Anderson Prep
By CHRIS SCHANZ
Jay County was patient at the
plate.
The Patriots’ pitching shut
down the Jets.
Jay County High School’s baseball team struck for 11 hits and
walked 10 times, while Jake Myers
and Jake Carpenter combined to
pitch a one-hit shutout in a 15-0
thumping of the Anderson Prep
Jets in five innings on Monday.
“It was a good start,” said JCHS
coach Lea Selvey, whose team
hosts the Wayne Generals at 5 p.m.
tonight. “(Jacob Geesaman) got us
started with a nice little hit.”
Geesaman had a single through
the left side of the infield in the
first inning.
“Maybe the biggest hit of the
day was (Mitchell) Kunkler’s,”
Selvey said. “He drove in the first
run. I think once we got that lead
The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz
Jay County High School sophomore Jake Myers delivers a pitch to Anderson Prep’s Clayton
Myers during the first inning Monday at JCHS. Jake Myers threw four strong innings, surrendering one
hit, walking one and striking out four in the Patriots’ 15-0 victory over the Jets in five innings.
it allowed us to relax a little bit.
“Then we just went on and took
care of business.”
Kunkler hit a two-out double to
deep right-center field in the bot-
tom of the second inning, driving
in Andy Kohler, who reached on a
walk and advanced on a balk. Kunkler sparked a string of three consecutive RBI doubles — Levi Stant
and Geesaman followed suit — as
the Patriots lit up the scoreboard
for five runs in the second inning,
all with two outs.
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Jay grad held back to rehab injury
MESA, Ariz. — Josh
Ludy’s return to a Minor
League roster has hit a
bump in the road.
As Minor League Baseball teams across the country broke Spring Training
to begin their regular seasons this week, Ludy
remains in the Oakland
Athletics’ camp nursing an
injury.
The 2008 Jay County
High School graduate
tweaked a quad muscle,
and is rehabbing the
injury at the team’s facility
in Mesa, Arizona. The Baylor University product felt
discomfort in his leg a few
steps after he broke toward
second base on a delayed
steal attempt.
Despite the setback, he’s
confident he’ll make a full
return.
“(I’ve been) working on
stuff in the weight room,”
said Ludy, who begins his
first full season in the Oakland organization after
being signed from the
River City Rascals of the
Independent League in
July. “They’re trying to get
me right before I get sent
out. It’s been good.”
Ludy is expected to
catch bullpen sessions
Reds rally to
top Pittsburgh
CINCINNATI (AP) —
Todd Frazier embraced the
move up to the No. 3 spot in
the Reds’ batting order, a
sign they think he can drive
in a lot of runs.
With one swing, he drove
in three big ones in the season opener.
Frazier hit a three-run
homer in the eighth inning,
overcoming another stumble by the bullpen and rallying the Reds to a 5-2 victory
over the Pittsburgh Pirates
on Monday.
Billy Hamilton and Joey
later this week and begin
full game situations soon
after.
“I’m just trying to get out
on the field and figure out
more,” he said.
The 2012 Big 12 Player of
the Year had a .250 average
with three home runs and
seven RBIs in 17 games
with the Beloit (Wisconsin)
Snappers, Oakland’s low-A
affiliate. The Snappers are
in the Midwest League, the
same league as the Fort
Wayne TinCaps.
When Ludy is cleared to
play, he said he expects to
return to the Snappers or
be assigned to the high-A
Stockton (California) Ports
of the California League.
“Not really sure,” he
said of where he’ll end up.
“Depends on what (the
Oakland Athletics) need.”
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Votto singled before Frazier
connected on a down-themiddle fastball from Tony
Watson (0-1), snapping a 2-2
tie.
“I was just looking for a
sacrifice fly, but he threw
the ball up,” Frazier said.
“He got one out there a little
bit. That was one of those
no-doubters.
“That was huge. We talk
about finishing games. I
was the guy today. It will
probably be somebody else
next time.”
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Gabby Hart, a Jay County High School junior, collides with Addisyn
Schick of the Blackford Bruins while trying to dive back to first base on a pickoff attempt during the sixth inning Monday. The Patriots held Blackford
scoreless for the first six innings on the way to a 4-1 victory.
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JC beats Blackford, 4-1
After suffering a pair of
lopsided losses to Wapahani on Saturday, the Jay
County High School softball team got back to its
winning ways Monday.
The Patriots won their
home opener against the
Blackford Bruins, 4-1.
Jay County (1-2) scored
the first run of the game in
the second inning and
tacked on two more in the
third. The Patriots pushed
their lead to 4-0 with another run in the sixth, until
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the Bruins broke the
shutout in the seventh.
Larissa Boles gave up
three hits and struck out
nine for her first win of the
season. She also helped her
cause at the plate with a
double and an RBI.
Catherine Dunn and
Kady Finnerty recorded
the other two hits for Jay
County. Kristen Simons,
Chloe Steigerwalt, Gabby
Hart and Dunn all plated
runs for the home team.
Tribe routs FM
FORT RECOVERY, Ohio
— Fort Recovery’s baseball
team moved to 5-0 with a
17-2 rout of the visiting
Franklin Monroe Jets.
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