january 21, 2015

BY STEPHANIE GROVESDHI Media Staff Writer

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OTTOVILLE — After four appli-cants stepped forward and interviewed for the council seat vacated by Tony Langhals, Village Council President Randy Altenburger announced that Joe Moreno was unanimously chosen by council mem-bers to fill the seat for the remainder of the one year term during Monday night’s

meeting.Board of Public Affairs (BPA) member

Dan Honigford spoke with council about joining Putnam County’s water and sew-age regionalization program: Black Swamp Regional Water and Sewer District.

Mayor Ron Miller said there’s no money involved and they use the village’s name.

“We maintain control of our system?” Altenburger asked.

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SPENCERVILLE — A Spencerville man is being held on a $5 million bond after his appearance Tuesday in Lima Municipal Court.

Christopher Michael Clayton, 20, faces one count of murder in the death of 17-month-old Xavier John Wurth.

A 911 call was received at approximately 11:55 a.m. on Friday that a toddler was discovered not breathing and unresponsive inside a home at 229 Wurster,

Spencerville.Officers of the

Spencerville Police Department responded and found Xavier deceased.

Investigators from the Allen County Sheriffs Office were notified and also responded. The initial investigation led officers to believe that the toddler’s death may not have been from natural causes and the death would be investigated as a homicide. On Saturday, the Lucas County Coroners Office conducted an autopsy and it was determined that the child’s death was caused by blunt force trauma.

Multiple interviews were conducted of the persons who had been in contact with Xavier in the days before his death and infor-mation gained has lead to the arrest of Clayton, who had been living with the child in the home.

Cloudy with a chance of snow today and tonight. Highs in the mid 30s. Lows in the lower 20s. See page 2.

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Legos @ the library Saturday

Legos @ the Library is back by popular demand.

Children and their adults are invited to come, dream, build and create with the library’s Legos (please don’t bring your own) from 10-11:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. This is a come- and-go event: arrive any time after 10 a.m. and leave any time until 11:30 a.m.

Future dates are Feb. 21, March 21 and April 18. No registration is needed.

Call the library with questions at 419-695-4015.

The annual meeting of the Delphos Area Browns Backers will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Rustic.

Items on the agen-da include a review of 2014, election of officers and plans for 2015.

All members are urged to attend and reminded that 2015 dues are due.

Browns Backers to hold annual meeting Sunday

Are your preschoolers “Hooked on Books”? The Delphos Public Library is angling to fill up the Storytime and Toddlertime groups for its winter/spring session. Sign up is required and underway.

Call the library at 419-695-4015 to register.

Council tables furlough lift

BY NANCY SPENCERDHI Media Editor

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DELPHOS — City workers will wait at least one more coun-cil meeting before they learn if their work week is back to 40 hours or will remain 37.

Delphos City Council voted 5-2 to table the ordinance until the Feb. 2 meeting after an amendment proposed by council-man Joe Martz to begin the new hours and pay on July 1 was defeated.

Martz had asked for the extension on the effective date of the ordinance until council had a chance to see the department head budgets this week and the proposed plans for fixing issues at the wastewater treatment plant.

“We might be a little too early to see exactly what the income tax increase, the Lakeview Farms expansion and the money saved by going to central dispatching does for our bottom line, also,” Martz said.

Clayton

Man charged in child’s death

St. John’s will sell tickets for the 6 p.m. Saturday game at New Knoxville during school hours until 1 p.m. Friday.

Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students.

All tickets are $6 at the door.

Basketball tix on sale now

Storytime, toddlertime signup underway

See FURLOUGH, page 8

Elida OKs teacher contract

BY STEVEN COBURN-GRIFFIS

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ELIDA — For the first time since the end of the last school year, teachers in the Elida Local School District are working under contract. After over six months of negotiations, the district’s board last night overwhelm-ingly approved a new contract with the local teachers’ union, retroactive to July of last year and ending June 30, 2015.

“We’re finally glad and, like the board said, neither side got everything they want-ed,” said Darrell Bryan, pres-ident of the Elida Education Association. “We’re just glad that everything’s finally over and fully ratified.”

Approved by four of the five board members, the decision was not made with-out some objection. Board Member Jeff Christoff dissent-ed. In explaining his position, Christoff pointed specifically to the inclusion of additional delay days in the contract.

Community pitches in for food distributionDelphos Kiwanis K-Kids, UNOH athletes and local volunteers helped disribute food during the Community Unity Free Food On Us event Tuesday at the Delphos Eagles Lodge. The quarterly effort served 225 people in 98 households with 103 boxes of food. Above: K-kids Trent Lindeman and Brooke Brinkman put water and juice in a cart. (DHI Media/Nancy Spencer)

See CONTRACT, page 8

See SEAT, page 8

Moreno fills vacant council seat

Wieging begins 3rd term as president

BY STEPHANIE GROVESDHI Media Staff Writer

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FORT JENNINGS — Council members unanimously elected Randy Wieging as Fort Jennings Village Council pres-ident for a third term during their meeting Tuesday night.

In addition, council members bypassed the three reading rule and declared it an emergency to pass an ordinance to hire Village Solicitor Bill Wildenhaus and passed a resolution to hold council meetings at 7:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month.

Mayor Jim Smith gave the maintenance report in Maintenance Supervisor Ted Wrasman’s absence.

“Ted’s been in contact with Industrial Fluid Management (IFM) about the sewers,” Smith said. “All equipment includ-ing the snow plow is working fine.”

Smith said Wrasman had been working on the pump aera-tors prior to the beginning of his absence and he will work on them as soon as he is back to work.

Council members have been working diligently to move the village into an electricity aggregation plan since discussions began this past summer. Since passing the electricity aggre-gation on the Nov. 4 ballot, the village has held the required two public hearings and are now ready to move onto the next phase.

Smith said council needed to pass a resolution to approve the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) application for the electrical aggregation contract. All council members agreed on the resolution.

“I will send the contract resolution, aggregation resolution and the affidavit to PUCO,” Smith said. “The next step is to decide the length of the contract; one or three years.”

Smith said the village will determine this after they get the pricing and tentatively the aggregation pricing will take effect in late April or early May.

Ottoville Mayor Ron Miller, right, gives Joe Moreno the oath of office at Monday’s village council meeting. Moreno replaces Tony Langhals, who resigned in December. (DHI Media/Stephanie Groves)

See WIEGING, page 8

Relay for Life Kickoff Friday, Saturday at Chief

The 2015 Relay for Life of Delphos Kickoff will be held 4-8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Chief Supermarket.

Get information, regis-ter a team and see what’s new for this year.

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TONIGHT: Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow through mid-night. Then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in

the lower 20s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Northwest winds around 5 mph shift-ing to the southwest after midnight.

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Ernie L. SlateApril 3, 1948-Jan. 19, 2015

DELPHOS — Ernie L. Slate, 66, of Delphos, passed away at his residence at 8 a.m. on Monday.

He was born on April, 3, 1948, in West Virginia.

He is survived by one son, Ernie E. (Glory Fox) Slate of Delphos; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He is also survived by one brother and one sister.

Private services will be held at a later date.

To leave condolences, visit harterandschier.com.

ST. RITA’SA boy was born Jan. 19 to

Krystle and Nathan Greaves of Delphos.

Jan. 14, 1952Jan. 18, 2015

VAN WERT — Stephen Brent Dailey, 63, of Van Wert died at 9:17 a.m. Sunday at Van Wert Inpatient Hospice Center.

He was born Jan. 14, 1952, in Van Wert to Thomas and Betty (Miller) Dailey. His father survives in Van Wert.

He married Leilani L. Krieger, who survives.

Other survivors include his mother-in-law, Jane Krieger of Ohio City; a daughter, Paula Ann (Craig) Johnson of Van Wert; a brother, Kevin (Sandy) Dailey of Van Wert; a sister, Kathy Martin of Elida; a sister-in-law, Ana Dailey of Archbold; and two grandchil-dren, Connor and Elizabeth Johnson.

She was also preceded in death by a son, Shawn; and a brother, Michael Dailey.

Stephen was employed at Federal Mogul in Van Wert from 1972-2010. He was a lifetime member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and a 1970 graduate of Van Wert High School. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and member of American Legion Post 178 and VFW Post 1472. He was also a member of United Steel Workers of America Local 14742, where he served as president for 12 years and was also a union organizer.

He was also president of the Grand Lake Labor Council; a member of the board of the United Way and had served as campaign chair; a mem-ber of the Van Wert County Democratic Club, where he served as president for two years and treasurer for eight years; and also a member of the Leadership Board and the Work Action Board, both for Van Wert County.

A memorial service will be held at noon Friday at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, the Rev. William C. Haggis II officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery, Van Wert.

Friends may call from 9:30 a.m. until time of service on Friday.

Preferred memorials are to the Cleveland Clinic, The Tom and Betty Dailey bequest to Aid the Poor and Needy in Van Wert County, CHP Inpatient Hospice Center or Van Wert County Hospital.

Cowan and Son Funeral Home, Van Wert, is in charge of arrangements. Expressions of sympathy can be forwarded to cowanfuneralhome.com.

Rosella J. RalstonApril 24, 1933-Jan. 18, 2015

DELPHOS — Rosella J. Ralston, 81, of Delphos passed away on Sunday at Sarah Jane Living Center in Delphos.

She was born April 24, 1933, in Toledo to Ray and Dorothy (Bryant) Barnt. They preceded her in death.

She was united in marriage to Walter Eugene Ralston in 1949. He died on April 23, 1986.

She is survived by three sons, Tom ( Ginny) Ralston of Lima, Terry “Frog” (Annette) Ralston of Spencerville and Ted (Jan) Ralston of Spencerville; a daughter, Sharon “Sami” (Raymond) Kennedy of Delphos; four brothers, Merlin, Bill, Kenny and Jerry Barnt; 16 grand-children; and 12 great-grand-children.

She was also preceded in death by a son, Timothy Ralston; and brother, Ronald Barnt.

Rosella was a homemak-er and worked in retail. She was a member of Morris Chapel Church and the Eagles Auxiliary 471. She was an artist who enjoyed painting and drawing. She also liked baking and gardening.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, with viewing one hour prior to the service at Harter and Schier Funeral Home in Delphos. Burial will follow in Walnut Grove Cemetery.

Friends may also call from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Delphos Community Christmas Project, Delphos Area Visiting Nurses or Missions for Food.

To view the funeral service online, please visit harterand-schier.com at the time of the service. (Password: webcast9)

To leave condolences, visit harterandschier.com.

One Year AgoBeth Metzger of rural Delphos and her

daughter, Lanette Shultz, were honored on Sunday evening to have seven guests from China. Pizza, the universal food, was served for supper. The guests, six students and their English teacher, are part of a group of 24 students and two teachers attending school at Temple Christian on Brower Road in Lima.

25 Years Ago – 1990Jefferson pressure finally got to

Spencerville in the fourth quarter and when it did the Wildcats ran away with a 69-54 win before a full house Friday at Jefferson Middle School. Jefferson was 13 of 30 from two-point range and nine of 18 on three-pointers, 16 of 20 at the line, had 24 rebounds led by Chris Renner with nine and Bill Stemen with six and committed just seven turnovers.

Workers replaced the Trustcorp Bank sign with a Society Bank sign Friday afternoon. The name change resulted from the merger of Trustcorp Inc. of Toledo into Society Corp. of Cleveland. The merger, completed Jan. 5, created a Midwest financial services company with nearly $16 billion in total assets.

St. John’s Blue Jays ran over the Fort Recovery Indians 100-72 Friday night at Fort Recovery and moved to 8-4 overall and 4-1 in the Midwest Athletic conference. The Jays placed seven players in double figures. Steve Jettinghoff led all scorers with 23. Brent Grothaus hit for 15, Pat McGue added 14, Scott Elwer 12, Scott Suever and Jeff Sever each hit 11 and Dan Swick 10.

50 Years Ago – 1965Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in

Wednesday as president in his own right with an appeal to his fellow Americans to fulfill their heritage of “justice…liberty…union.” Earlier, Hubert Horatio Humphrey of Minnesota had taken his oath as vice president, filling an office that has been vacant since Johnson himself was catapulted into the presidency by an assassin’s bullets on Nov. 22, 1963.

There was a good turnout for the card social held Tuesday evening in the Knights of

Columbus club rooms. The party was spon-sored by the Catholic Ladies of Columbia. Luella Schosker received the prize in pinochle games played; Adeline Wurst was the winner in bid euchre and Bertha Schmelzer took hon-ors in five-hundred.

Evan Wreede, an elected director of the Model T Club International and his wife, were in Whiting, Ind., recently attending a banquet put on by the Model T Club. Wreede has been seeking information concerning Gramm manufactured trucks. He learned that a man in New South Wales, Australia, has discovered two, what he called USA trucks, which were Liberty trucks built for the U.S. Army, dated 1918. These were among the first ones pro-duced by Gramm-Berstene, which many local residents helped to produce.

75 Years Ago – 1940The Wildcats of Jefferson High School

gained one of the sweetest triumphs on their schedule Friday night when the varsity came through with a 21-20 victory in the final min-utes of a hectic, hair-raising hardwood game over the Wapakoneta Redskins. A shifted Jefferson lineup of Bryan and Miller played most of the game at forwards with Mericle playing the relief. Dunlap showed well at cen-ter and was assisted by Osmun in the pinches. Fuller and Van Meter gave the locals the nec-essary defensive punch.

Mrs. Thomas B. Snow, West Fifth Street, received the members of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church into her home Friday afternoon for their monthly meeting. She was assisted by Mrs. E. W. Amrhein. Mrs. C. W. Cordermann, the president, was in charge.

The large number of cage enthusiasts, who braved the frigid temperature to witness the basketball game at St. John’s auditorium Friday evening, saw a thrilling comeback by the fighting Lima St. John’s team. Delphos St. John’s, however, managed to hold a lead they had acquired in the first half to defeat the Lima Johnnies by a score of 35 to 31.”Jiggs” Huysman, center of the Blue and Gold, was leading man in the Delphos offensive.

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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2015. There are 344 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Jan. 21, 1915, the first Kiwanis Club, dedicated to community service, was founded in Detroit.

On this date:In 1793, during the French

Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.

In 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners whose states had seceded from the Union resigned from the U.S. Senate.

In 1908, New York City’s Board of Aldermen passed an

ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public estab-lishments (the measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., but not before one woman, Katie Mulcahey, was jailed overnight for refus-ing to pay a fine).

In 1910, the Great Paris Flood began as the rain-swollen Seine River burst its banks, sending water into the French capital.

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Burial will be in Walnut Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour before the funeral service. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Alzheimer’s Association. To leave condolence, please go to www.harter-andschier.com.

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In honor of Black History Month this February, and in the spirit of Dr. Charles Drew, an African-American surgeon who was the first medical director of the American Red Cross and a modern blood-banking pioneer, eligible donors as diverse as the patients who need their blood donations are encouraged to give blood to ensure a sufficient blood supply.

Blood from a donor with a similar ethnic background as that of the patient is less likely to cause complications, particularly for those patients whose chron-ic conditions require repeated transfusions. Sickle cell disease is one such chronic condition affecting as many as 100,000 people in the United States.

Prior to transfusion, blood type and Rh factor are matched between donated blood and the patient in need. In some cases, additional red cell markers in donated blood must be matched, as well. These markers are best found in blood from donors of a similar ethnicity.

With seasonal flu and inclement winter weather preventing many regular donors from giving, the Red Cross urges healthy, eligible donors to make an appointment to donate blood in the coming days and weeks. All blood types are currently need-ed to help maintain a diverse and sufficient blood supply, especially types O negative, A negative and B negative.

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Upcoming blood donation opportu-nities

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Feb. 4 from 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 1011 Elida Avenue in Delphos.

Feb. 5 from 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., First Mennonite, 101 South Jackson St. in Bluffton.

Feb. 10 from 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Lima Central Catholic High School, 720 S. Cable St. in Lima.

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Ohio’s average insurance premiums among lowest nationally


COLUMBUS — Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that Ohio’s aver-age insurance premiums are again among the lowest in the country. The state’s home-owner’s and auto insurance premiums are - when com-bined - nearly $500 below national averages.

Ohioans paid an average of $725 (9th lowest) for home-owner’s insurance and $635 (11th lowest) for auto insur-ance premiums compared to national averages of $1,023 and $815, respectively. This is according to 2012 data – the most recent available – from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

“Ohio continues to have a competitive insurance mar-ket allowing consumers to find the insurance coverage that best meets their needs at some of the lowest prices in the country,” Taylor said. “I urge Ohio consumers to use the services of an insur-ance agent and shop around for coverage that best insures their risks and also fits their budget.”

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- Seek discounts: Many companies offer discounts if you purchase more than one policy from the same com-pany.

- Raise deductible: Consider raising your deduct-ible to lower your premium.

- Review at least annually: Carefully review your policy at least annually to ensure that it is still current and up to date.

- Ohio licensed: Get a list of companies and agents licensed to sell insurance in Ohio. Visit the Ohio Department of Insurance website at www.insurance.ohio.gov or call 800-686-1526 for information.

Ohioans with insurance questions or concerns can call the Department’s con-sumer hotline at 800-686-1526. Insurance information including insights and tips about how to best choice appropriate and adequate insurance protection is avail-able at www.insurance.ohio.gov. You can follow the Ohio Department of Insurance on Facebook and Twitter.

Police urged to directly engage minority communities

CLEVELAND (AP) — Police must demonstrate a com-mitment to directly engage the people they serve if relations between officers and minorities are going to improve, a criminal justice expert said at an Ohio public forum Tuesday.

Mistrust of police only serves to make violent neigh-borhoods worse, said David Kennedy of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He spoke in Cleveland at the first of four forums statewide examining relations between police and minority communities.

Gov. John Kasich and oth-ers are hoping public discussion will help build trust after a series of deaths among black people at the hands of police in Ohio and elsewhere. Others forums are planned for Toledo, Cincinnati and Wilberforce near Dayton.

Last month, Kasich announced he was forming the Ohio Task Force on Community-Police Relations, whose work would include the public forums to give people a chance to express their frustrations with police and the justice system.

The task force also will collect information and iden-tify community concerns in developing recommendations on educating and training police in community outreach and “interaction with people in communities of color.”

“This has been an excru-ciatingly difficult time for members of the minority com-munity, especially the African-American community,” the Republican governor said at the December news conference.

He said that while white peo-ple may not understand why a task force is needed, they must realize “you’re not in their shoes. You’re not in their community.”

The deaths of unarmed black men by white offi-cers last year in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City and subsequent grand jury decisions not to indict any officers set off protests nation-wide. Two deadly police shootings of blacks in Ohio also have been cited in the public outcry.

Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot in November while holding a pellet gun outside a Cleveland recreation center. The shoot-ing remains under investi-gation. John Crawford III, 22, was shot and killed by a police officer while hold-ing an air rifle in a Wal-Mart store in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek. A special grand jury cleared the officer who shot Crawford of wrongdoing.

Police-community relations in Cleveland have come under scrutiny with a U.S. Justice Department report last month that concluded city police have engaged in a pattern and prac-tice of using excessive force.

Kasich announced the for-mation of the task force the day after meeting with then-Sen. Nina Turner, D-Cleveland; Rep. Sandra Williams, D-Cleveland; and Rep. Alicia Reece, D-Cincinnati, all of whom are black.

Turner, who was appointed to the group, said at the December news conference: “We must cre-ate conditions for action.”

Attorney General Mike DeWine also has created a task force. It is charged with coming up with recommenda-tions on possible changes to police use of deadly force.

Construction collapse kills 1, forces days-long I-75 closure

CINCINNATI (AP) — Tons of concrete and steel covered the southbound lanes of a major artery Tuesday after an overpass collapse during demolition work left one worker dead, a trac-tor-trailer driver injured and police considering what the potential toll might have been had the accident occurred amid heavy traffic.

The removal of debris from Interstate 75 began Tuesday afternoon and was expected to take 24 to 48 hours. Ohio transportation authorities will then assess the pavement where the section of overpass deck landed Monday night with what a resident described as an earth-shaking thud. The Ohio Department of Transportation said it’s difficult to predict how long pavement repairs might take without seeing the damage.

Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said casualties could have been much higher had the accident occurred at a busy time on the interstate that carries more than 178,000 vehicles a day through the area some 5 miles north of the Ohio River.

Authorities identified the worker who was killed as Brandon William Carl, 35, of Augusta, Kentucky. The Hamilton County coroner’s office will do an autopsy to determine cause of death; Cincinnati fire officials said the body was recov-ered from rubble with the help of air bags and spe-cial equipment early Tuesday morning, about four hours after the accident.

Carl’s father, Charles Carl, told WCPO-TV of Cincinnati that his son was a good, honest, hard-working man who took care of his children.

“He loved his kids,” Charles Carl said.The tractor-trailer driver, Eric J. Meyers, of

Howell, Michigan, was taken to a hospital with what were described as minor injuries. His truck slammed into the overpass as the debris landed.

“In a matter of seconds his fate would have probably been different,” Blackwell said.

Transportation officials said heavy equipment was being used to separate the concrete deck from structural steel when the span fell. Gary Middleton, acting deputy director of the Ohio transportation department’s southwest Ohio district, said it was a “routine operation” being carried out by a major contractor.

Westerville, Ohio-based Kokosing Construction was doing the demolition under a nearly $91 million contract for a three-year project meant to improve traffic capacity and safety in a busy stretch of I-75. The company had a good safety track record, federal regulators said.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.“I would say there any number of possibilities,”

Middleton said.The overpass once carried a ramp that had been

a left-hand exit from northbound I-75 and carried traffic over the southbound lanes to Hopple Street. It was replaced by a new ramp that exits to the right from northbound 75 near the University of Cincinnati.

Middleton said Kokosing is a “very safety-con-scious” contractor with high ratings.

The company didn’t immediately respond to messages left Tuesday.

The firm is responsible for debris cleanup and could be assessed damages for forcing lane clo-sures and other work, Middleton said. Kokosing also could face fines and other disciplinary action by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which was investigating the work-related death.

OSHA has inspected the company in Ohio at least 55 times since 2003 and found fewer than 10 violations, said Scott Allen, a spokesman for the federal agency.

“That’s a good track record for any company,” Allen said. He could not immediately provide details on the violations because he said the agen-cy was experiencing technical problems with the Intranet and Internet.

Allen said Kokosing also belongs to a federal program for companies that meet stringent safety and health standards.

Suburban commuters headed downtown were diverted to Interstate 71 south, where traffic slowed Tuesday morning. Motorists headed to Kentucky could take the Interstate 275 loop around the city. Southbound side streets also were congested.

The construction project had been scheduled for completion in June 2016. Planned northbound I-75 closures for work Tuesday night were postponed.

A nearby resident said the collapse rattled his house.

“Just heard a thud, and the house shook,” Casey Wright told WLWT-TV. “It felt like an earthquake. I’m sure the whole neighborhood felt it.”

Putnam County Job and Family Services prevention retention and contingency program fuel voucher program


PUTNAM COUNTY — Putnam County Job and Family Services will offer a Fuel Voucher program for employed individuals who meet the following PRC TANF eligibility and program guidelines:

1. Eligible applicants must be a parent with minor child(ren); specified relative with minor child(ren) or a noncustodial parent residing in Putnam County cooperating with Child Support Enforcement Agency.

2. Eligible applicants must be at or below 200 per-cent of Federal Poverty and must have at least three months continued work history with same employ-er and be employed 20 or more hours per week. Eligibility will be determined on applicants previous 30 day’s maximum monthly household income.

3. Fuel Voucher program will provide up to $500 of fuel per eligible applicant who meets all TANF and program eligibility guidelines. For more information on additional requirements and poten-tial eligibility please contact the Putnam County

Workforce Development Unit by calling Suzy Wischmeyer or Kelly Schroeder at (419) 523-4580 extensions 0124 or 0122.

Monthly Federal 200 percent Poverty Guidelines Examples:

Assistance 200 percent Federal PovertyGroup Size (cannot exceed amount below)1 $1,945.002 $2,622.003 $3,299.004 $3,975.005 $4,652.00Information on additional assistance group sizes

and income ceilings can be obtained by calling the number and extensions provided above.

The program runs Feb. 1 through Aug. 27 or until funds are depleted.

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DAYTON — The University of Dayton has honored the following local students for achieving a minimum 3.5 GPA for the 2014 fall semester.

Students who made the Dean’s List carried a mini-mum of 12 hours and students who carried between six and 11 hours made the Dean’s Recognition List.

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Tyler Bergfeld Logan BonifasMadison BurgeiChad HoerstenJoshua MillerStephanie PohlmanAlyssa SchimmoellerElidaAshley FollrodShayna NieseZachary SiefkerFort JenningsKara HoerstenRyan SchuermanNathan Turnwald

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LIMA — The dean’s list for Rhodes State College has been announced. Area stu-dents on the list include:

DelphosAmber CrossKirsten FriedrichTyler KoesterChristopher KortokraxGregory OdenwellerAlana TerryElidaKyle BassittAndrea Brown

Ryan BrownLuke BuettnerGwendolyn ChambersPaige LucasJames McDowellLauren SandersJon StocksFort JenningsPenney GerdemanGomerSarah ShellhouseMiddle PointKevin MarkwardSpencervilleKelly FleckMelissa Stanfield

BGSU names graduates, dean’s list


BOWLING GREEN —The Bowling Green State University has named recent graduates.

Area graduates include:DelphosChristopher Pohlman,

bachelor of science in engi-neering technology, magna cum laude

Jay Clark, bachelor of sci-ence in education

Tiffany Geise, bachelor of science in communication disorders, summa cum laude, president’s distinction

Fort JenningsMegan Erhart, bachelor of

science in educationSpencervilleJordyn Rider, bachelor of

science in human develop-ment and family studies

Kevin Lenhart, bachelor of science in nursing

Brittany Miller, bachelor of science in nursing

The university has also announced undergraduate stu-dents who have been named to the fall semester dean’s list for achieving grade point averages of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale.

To be chosen for the dean’s list, undergraduate students must carry no fewer than 12 letter-graded credit hours per semester.

Vantage provides skills for tomorrowINFORMATION SUBMITTED

VAN WERT — At Vantage Career Center, there are nine different Trade and Industrial programs offered to high school students in the Industrial and Engineering Systems cluster. Here is a brief look at those programs:

In the Ag and Industrial Power Technology program, students learn the techniques for the maintenance and operation of industrial, diesel and agri-cultural equipment and machinery. They troubleshoot, overhaul and assemble gas and diesel engines, and work on mechanical and electrical fuel injection systems.

Auto Body students assess and esti-mate the damage to vehicles and learn the basics of collision repair and refin-ishing, as well as auto body and shop management skills. Performing repairs to plastic and fiberglass components are unique skills of this trade.

The Auto Technology program pro-vides hands-on experience in the areas of hydraulic brake systems, automo-

tive engines and suspension systems. Students use sophisticated diagnostic and repair equipment to troubleshoot automotive systems and learn the skills required to inspect, repair and adjust

today’s highly computerized vehicles. Just before Christmas break, they got a 1928 Chevy running!

Vantage Industrial Mechanics senior Nick Grote (Ottoville) works on a PLC project in lab. (Submitted photo)

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The Ohio Northern University has announced the deans’ list for the fall semes-ter 2014-15.

Lynn Elwer, daughter of Kevin and Lisa Lindeman, Ottoville, is on the list. She is a pharmacy - sixth year majoring in pharmacy.

Courtney Horstman, daughter of Nicholas and Jane Horstman, Delphos, is included. She is a senior majoring in accounting.

Gabrielle Metzner, daugh-ter of Joseph and Barbara Metzner, Delphos, is on the list. She is a senior majoring in environmental and field bio.

Shayla Siefker, daughter of Thomas and Cheryl Siefker, Ottoville, is included. She is a fourth-year pharmacy major.

Lauren Utrup, daughter of Mark and Angela Utrup, Delphos, is on the list. She is a sophomore majoring in managemennt.

Calvin Vonderwell, son of David and Susan Vonderwell, Delphos, is included. He is a junior majoring in music education.

Seth Wollenhaupt, son of David Wollenhaupt, Delphos, is on the list. He is a second year pharmacy major.

The deans’ list includes students who attain a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 grading system.

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The University of Northwestern Ohio is proud to acknowledge its Dean’s List for the November Session 2014 for students in the College of Applied Technologies. The following full time students received a grade point average of 3.5 or better:

Delphos Christian BartleyTravis Brown,Kellen ElwerJohn Hayes

Jeremy KelleyReece KunkleRyan NeffTyler NicholsPatrick RedmonLukas SeltzerTodd SeverGrant WhiteLauren ButcherElidaPatrick DowtyJames DurbinKyle PetersonFort JenningsJason HemkerJesse James StennettSpencerville Richard Hahn III

St. John’s cheerleaders host mini cheer campSt. John’s Cheerleading Advisors Tricia Patton and Missy Fischer hosted over 50 girls in grades Pre-K-5 in a two-hour mini cheerleading camp on Saturday after-noon. Freshman, junior varsity, and varsity basketball cheerleaders taught the fun-damentals of cheerleading, along with a cheer, a chant and a dance during the camp. Blue Jay cheerleaders lead a routine during halftime of the St. Johns game against Shawnee. (DHI Media/Larry Heiing)

St. John’s VEX Robotics team places 9thSt. John’s First Semester VEX Robotics high school team competed in the Mari-on Harding VEX Qualifier on Jan. 15 in Marion. In the competitions, students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. This year’s challenge, Skyrise, consisted of a 15-second autonomous period followed by a one minute and 45 second driver-controlled play. At the end of the first qualification round, the team placed ninth out of 32 teams. This was their first organized competition. Team members include, from left, Evyn Pohlman, Adam Schneer and Josh Fish. (Submitted photo)

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Pohlman makes President’s List


AKRON — The pursuit of academic excellence fall 2014 by nearly 800 of UA’s fin-est was truly inspiring. Kyle Pohlman of Delphos is one of those outstanding individuals.

Pohlman, a full-time under-graduate student majoring in chemical engineering, earned a perfect 4.0 semester grade point average for fall 2014.

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Postal Museum

TODAY9 a.m. - noon — Putnam

County Museum is open, 202 E. Main St. Kalida.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. — The Delphos Museum of Postal History, 339 N. Main St., is open.

11:30 a.m. — Mealsite at Delphos Senior Citizen Center, 301 Suthoff St.

Noon — Rotary Club meets at The Grind.

6 p.m. — Shepherds of Christ Associates meet in the St. John’s Chapel.

6:30 p.m. — Delphos Kiwanis Club, Eagles Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth St.

7 p.m. — Bingo at St. John’s Little Theatre.

7:30 p.m. — Hope Lodge 214 Free and Accepted Masons, Masonic Temple, North Main Street.

Sons of the American Legion meet at the Delphos Legion hall.

The Ottoville Board of Education meets in the ele-mentary building.

The Fort Jennings Board of Education meets in the library.

THURSDAY9-11 a.m. — The Delphos

Canal Commission Museum, 241 N. Main St., is open.



3-7 p.m. — The Interfaith Thrift Store is open for shop-ping.

7:30 p.m. — American Legion Post 268, 415 N. State St.

FRIDAY7:30 a.m. — Delphos

Optimist Club, A&W Drive-In, 924 E. Fifth St.


11 a.m.-4 p.m. — Interfaith Thrift Store is open for shop-ping.


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Thrift Store is open for shop-ping.

St. Vincent dePaul Society, located at the east edge of the St. John’s High School park-ing lot, is open.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Delphos Postal Museum is open.

Whole family gets in on butchering this week

BY LOVINA EICHER

It’s another cold January day. The tempera-ture is finally one degree above the zero mark. The sun is shining though, which gives every-thing a brighter look!

We are glad for all the sun we get in the win-ter months. The solar freezer we have depends on the sun to keep running. We are still glad we invested in it. We have not had to spend a penny on it since we bought it a few years ago.

Our freezers and canning jars are filling up fast with meat. We butchered a beef last week. I gave my husband Joe a meat grinder for his birthday in December. It has sure come in handy. The children gave Joe a hamburger patty and jerky maker for Christmas that attaches to the grinder. Joe made the jerky with it and now has made hundreds of hamburger patties with it. He is very happy for all of it. We put the patties in the freezer with freezer sheets between them. It is so handy to just pull them apart and put them right in the frying pan or on the grill.

We also canned a lot of beef chunks. I cooked the meat off the bones and want to make vegeta-ble soup to can with the meat and broth.

Joe and some of the children like to eat the cow brains. I have never tasted them! I fried the brains for them Sunday morning. Joe likes it with eggs and fried potatoes.

Our highlight of butchering is that we can make “rare beef.” We take very thin sliced piec-es of the most tender steaks. Then we put salt and lots of black pepper on both sides of each piece and fry in very hot lard or oil. You only put it in for a few turns, then flip it over for a few more turns and it’s done. This is a favorite meat for us around beef butchering time. Everyone usually starts eating as I fry it, as it is best right out of the pan. I remember my mother standing by the Kerosene stove frying it one piece at a time. Now I know what she must have thought: it is a relief to be done when everyone has had their fill. It’s a greasy job and my propane stove keeps the oil lots hotter than when I had a Kerosene stove to make it on.

How blessed we feel to once again be able to put meat in the freezer and jars. Since we have two freezers, I can a lot less. It is so much easier to package it than to pressure can everything.

Saturday we have plans to butcher the four pigs we raised. They are really big already so they should give us a lot of pork.

Jacob, Emma and family and sisters Verena and Susan and all the special friends plan to come help us. Many hands do make lighter work. We appreciate all the help. I’ll write more about it in next week’s column.

Our school closed its doors two days last week due to extremely cold temperatures. Everyone is back to school and work this week, leaving all the work to daughter Verne and me

again.God’s blessings to all!This week I’ll share with you one of our

favorite breakfast casseroles.Sausage Gravy Breakfast Casserole

8 oz. bacon, fried and crumbled1/2 package Smoky links, chopped1/3 cup ham, cubed2 cups shredded potatoes6-12 eggs (scrambled), quantity depending

on how many you are serving1/4 cup green peppers, diced1/4 cup onions, diced1 cups Colby cheese, shredded2 quarts sausage gravyMix everything together except gravy (see

below). Spread in a greased 9 x 11 inch pan or larger. Spread gravy over everything. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until thor-oughly heated.

Sausage Gravy1 pound bulk sausage1/4 cup flour4 cups milkSalt and black pepperIn a cast-iron skillet, brown sausage over

medium heat. Drain off grease. Sprinkle in flour and brown lightly. Gradually add milk and mix until very smooth. Bring gravy to a boil, stir-ring frequently. Reduce heat and cook until the desired thickness is reached. If gravy becomes too thick, additional milk may be added. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Lovina Eicher is an Old Order Amish writer, cook, wife and mother of eight. Formerly writing as The Amish Cook, Eicher inherited that column from her mother, Elizabeth Coblentz, who wrote from 1991 to 2002. Readers can contact Eicher at PO Box 1689, South Holland, IL 60473 (please include a self-addressed stamped enve-lope for a reply) or at [email protected].

Fried, thin slices of the most tender parts of the sirloin are a once-a-year Eicher fam-ily delicacy. (Submitted photo)

JAN. 22Mary WatkinsVirgil Turango

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Optimists welcome Suever as speaker

US Bank Payment Solutions Consultant Barb Suever was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the Delphos Optimist Club. Suever gave a very informative presenta-tion on the new credit card requirements that are to be in place by October 2015. Delphos Optimist club president Kevin Wieging thanks her for coming. (Submitted photo)

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OTTAWA —Friends of the Putnam County District Library welcomed 2015 with their first meeting on Jan. 5.

Purchases of encyclope-dias, guides and almanacs for the library were approved. Also authorized were fees for future programs at the library in the spring.

The October 2014 Craft Show generated the most income of all sponsored craft shows. A planning meeting will be held in February for the 2015 craft show.

Christmas Tree Chairperson Beth Myers reported that 35 trees were displayed this year and those were taken down Jan. 9. Putnam County Habitat for Humanity was the winner of the group sponsored tree, and

Karen Okuley was the winner for the individual tree. The Friends also supplied break-fast for the library staff in December.

Associate dues of $10 will be added to the 2016 mem-bership. Additional chang-es will be discussed at the March meeting.

Under new business, the financial statements will be reviewed in February. Library memorials from the Friends have been donated in the names of Leroy Ellerbrock and JoAnne Prowant. The annual Book Sale is sched-uled for June 2 and 3 at the Fourth Street Gym in Ottawa.

The next meeting of the Friends of the Putnam County District Library will be at 4:30 p.m. March 2 in the Assembly Room at the Ottawa location.

Friends find craft show profitable

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Bearcats shoot past Parkway, 50-49

BY JOHN PARENTDHI Media Sports [email protected]

ROCKFORD — After a fast start to the season, Parkway’s Lady Panthers have fallen on hard times of late. The Parkway shooting has cooled dramatically and the Lady Panthers have also been beaten on the boards in two straight games - the first two such contests of the year.

On Tuesday, Parkway got back to business on the glass, holding a sizeable advantage over visiting Spencerville, but it was the Lady Bearcats that made a late rally to grab a 50-49 final in Rockford.

Parkway shot just 30 percent (20-for-66) in the loss, which drops the Panthers to 4-7 on the year. Spencerville, which was only slightly better from the field at 17-for-54 (31 percent) moves to 5-6.

The difference in the game came from beyond the arc. Spencerville’s girls connected on nine 3-point field goals for the game, including five in the opening period. Parkway, meanwhile, was just 3-for-13 from downtown.

Spencerville senior Emilee Meyer hit three of the Bearcats treys in the first quarter. She would fin-ish with four 3-pointers in a 15-point night. Classmate Caitlyn Probst also connected frequently from beyond the arc, hitting 3-of-7, for her 15 points.

The Bearcats led 19-11 after one, but Parkway would respond in the second quarter.

Perhaps spurred on by their success in the first peri-od, Spencerville continued to fire away from deep early in the second quarter. The results, however, weren’t the

same. As the Bearcats mis-fired on each of their first seven attempts, including five from 3-point range, Parkway began to chip away. A bas-ket by Sarah Gehron, fol-lowed by two from Lydia Heindel, pulled Parkway to within 19-17. When Kayle Heckler connected on a trey, the Panthers held their first lead of the game at 20-19.

Spencerville’s Schylar Miller quickly ended the Panther run, but Kayla Walls then drilled a 3-pointer to make it 23-21, Parkway. After a

Bearcat free throw made it a 1-point margin, Probst gave Spencerville the halftime edge with an elbow jumper as time dwindled away in the quarter.

Meyer’s fourth triple of the contest opened the scor-ing in the second half, and Spencerville moved ahead by four when Probst scored in the paint. A Terra Walls 3-point play brought the Panthers back, and Parkway regained the lead when Gehron knocked down a lean-er for a 30-29 advantage.

The Panthers again took a lead early in the fourth period when Haley hawk dropped in a short jumper, then extended to a 3-point lead with anoth-er Hawk hoop for a 39-36 margin. The Panthers moved ahead at 41-37 when Heindel scored inside, but Miller’s trey made it 41-40.

The Panthers led as late as 47-43 on a Samantha Wehe basket, but Probst pulled Spencerville back to within one on her 3-pointer. After Heindel scored again to make it a 3-point lead, another Bearcat triple tied the game.

Lady Lancers dominate glass in rout of AntwerpBy KEVIN WANNEMACHERDHI Media Business Manager

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MIDDLE POINT — Lincolnview jumped in front of vis-iting Antwerp quickly and took advantage of 21 offensive rebounds on the night as the Lancers posted a 40-29 victory over the Archers on Tuesday night in non-league girls basket-ball action.

The Lancers forced three early turnovers by the Archers and turned them into six points as Lincolnview jumped in front 8-0. Lincolnview never led by less than five the rest of the way as it moved to 9-5 on the season.

“I thought the girls did a good job on both ends of the floor tonight,” commented Lancer head coach Dan Williamson. “Offensively, we were patient and waited until we were able to get good shots for the most part. Defensively, we were able to put pressure on them and I thought that was very effective for us.”

Antwerp got a free throw from Kianna Recker and a basket by Avery Braaten to close within 8-3. However, the Archers would never get that close again.

Lincolnview posted a 10-4 lead after one quarter and pushed the margin to 14-4 early in the second period after a pair of Julia Thatcher baskets.

The Lancers extended the advantage to as much as 19-6 late in the half after an Ashton Bowersock basket before a late buck-et by Recker got the Archers within 19-8 at the intermission.

“The girls battled all night long,” commented Antwerp head coach Kevin Taylor. “I thought defensively was very good for the most part tonight. One thing that hurt was that we didn’t take care of the basketball and Lincolnview was able to take advantage.”

Lincolnview continued to widen the margin, stretching it to 29-12 on a Bowersock bucket late in the third quarter.

Antwerp, though, would answer. The Archers scored five of the last seven points of the quarter, culminating with two Becca Johanns free throws to close within 31-17 entering the final period.

A basket by Rachael Williamson, two Audrie Longardner

free throws and a 3-pointer from Williamson got the Archers within 31-24 but the visitors weren’t done. Following two Hannah McCleery foul shots, Williamson connected on anoth-er 3-pointer to close the Antwerp deficit to 33-27.

“You have to give a lot of credit to Antwerp,” noted Dan Williamson. “They competed and they never gave up.”

A basket by McCleery was quickly answered by a bucket from Antwerp’s Peyton Short, keeping the Archers within 35-29 at the 1:58 mark of the final quarter.

It would be the final points of the night for Antwerp, though, as Lincolnview closed out the contest by scoring the last five points to seal the 40-29 win.

“I thought the girls did a good job of going to the boards tonight and getting second and third shots,” continued Dan Williamson. “Our defensive effort was a big key for us tonight too.”

Lincolnview finished the night outrebounding the Archers 37-20 and the Lancers had fewer turnovers, 11-19.

One area that the Lancers must improve is shooting the basketball, however. Lincolnview was only 15 of 52 from the field (29 percent) but also limited Antwerp to 10 of 34 shoot-ing (29 percent).

McCleery led the way for the Lancers with 14 points and eight rebounds while Thatcher added 13 points and eight boards. Bowersock also picked up eight rebounds for Lincolnview.

Rachael Williamson paced Antwerp with 10 points while picking up eight rebounds. Avery Braaten chipped points for the Archers, who fall to 3-10.

The Lancer junior varsity also was victorious on the night, defeating the Archers 32-21.

Lincolnview hosts county rival Crestview in a Northwest Conference battle on Thursday. Antwerp will host Tinora in Green Meadows Conference play on Friday.

Score by quartersAntwerp 4 4 9 12- 29Lincolnview 10 9 12 9- 40Antwerp (29)Williamson 10, Braaten 6, Miesle 0, Recker 3, Longardner 3, Johanns 5, Smith

0, Short 2Lincolnview (40)Longwell 0, Bowersock 4, Clay 0, Wendel 2, Thatcher 13, Williams 7, McCleery 14

Haynes paces Spartans past Lady ‘Dawgs

By JIM METCALFEDHI Media Sports Editor

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ELIDA — Lima Senior’s girls basketballers had already beaten Elida 73-65 at the Vicki Mauk Classic in late December when they met up for the second time this season Tuesday night on the Union Bank Court of the Elida Fieldhouse.

Different date, different score, same outcome.This time, a dominant and near triple-double performance

by Lady Spartan Imara Haynes — 17 points, 17 boards, nine blocked shots — led the way to a 64-55 non-league triumph.

Haynes led a 56-41 edge off the glass for the visits (8-5) — 25-18 offensive — as Caterrion Thompson (17 markers) and Shaquayla Johnson added eight each.

She also helped anchor a defense that held Elida to a cold 16-of-61 from the field (2-of-13 long range) for 26.2 percent.

It was a ragged game as Elida was called for 24 fouls and the Spartans were whistled for 25. Both teams had to deal with foul trouble as Elida eventually lost Abby Waddle (14 markers, 11-of-13 free throws), Hope Carter (8 points, 4 steals) and Shyah Wheeler (8 boards), to fouls.

With Elida (4-7) using a triangle-and-2 defense to great effect against Thompson and Essence Cowan (9 counters), Haynes made up for it. She had eight markers and seven rebounds (5 offensive) in the first period alone. There were seven lead changes and two ties, the latter with 8.5 ticks on the clock as Haynes put back another miss for a 15-all tie.

“We had that gimmick defense and we felt we did a pretty good job of containing their two key players. Unfortunately, 30 (Haynes) showed up,” Elida co-coach Elise Jenkins explained. “She was hurting us on the weakside and that’s one of the weak-nesses of the triangle defense; one of the backline girls gets isolated. She is just too big and strong for us; we can off-set a lot of things with speed but not that kind of physical presence.”

Lima Senior coach Vince Halliday agreed.“She carried us. The biggest girl out there played big; Imara

was tremendous with that kind of stat line,” he added. “They were frustrating Caterrion and Essence most of the way, espe-cially Essence. Later in the game, Caterrion settled down and got to the free throw line. Really, though, it was not a pretty game; there was no rhythm at all.”

With the Spartans utilizing either a diamond-and-1 or 2-2-1 full-court press most of the game — or even full man-to-man — Elida did a nice job of controlling the turnovers (14 for the game; 20 for the visitors). However, after Elida took its last lead of 17-15 on a Carter basket at the 7-minute mark, the guests took the lead for good at 6:30 on a putback-and-harm by Haynes. When Thompson hit a 10-footer from the right side at 4.1 ticks, Senior led 30-25.

Elida did a better job of containing Haynes in the third period but Thompson began to get untracked with six points. Elida’s Bailee Kuhn (15 counters, 17 caroms, 3 blocks) — who had to deal with Haynes on both ends much of the night — also got going with six points. When Lima Senior built up a 42-31 lead on a Thompson basket with 2:20 showing, Elida answered with a 7-0 spurt, capped by a Wheeler free throw with no time left, to get within 42-38.

That trend continue in the fourth period: when the Spartans would expand their lead, Elida roped them back. They were within 46-43 early on — two Kuhn singles at 6:23 — but could get no closer. They were within 55-49 on a Kuhn putback at 3:50 but Lima Senior was 7-of-11 at the line in the final 3:48 (20-of-27 total for 74.1%) to salt it away.

Lima Senior finished 22-of-64 shooting (missing 8 3-point-ers) for 34.4 percent.

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Improving Musketeers fall to IndiansBy LARRY HEIING

DHI Media [email protected]

FORT JENNINGS — The Fort Jennings girls basket-ball team continued to show improvement in its perfor-mance on the floor but fell short 51-41 to the Shawnee Indians at The Fort Tuesday night.

The Lady Musketeers scored the first point of the contest for their only lead as Kylie Jettinghoff hit a free throw. Shawnee’s Maryssa Herschler displayed her dom-inance on the court from the start, converting a pair of free throws and grabbing on offen-sive rebound with putback as the Indians led 4-1. Fort Jennings broke the Indians’ full-court press as Jenna Calvelage hit Erin Osting for the bank shot. After a Shawnee bucket, the Musketeers kept pace as Gabby Clippinger hit from the corner, making the score 6-5. Herschler swiped another offensive rebound for two and Keri Eickholt pulled Fort Jennings within a pair with a 10-foot jumper and a triple. The Musketeers couldn’t find an answer for Herschler in the early going as she grabbed her third of the Indians’ seven offensive rebounds for her sixth point of the first quarter. Eickholt out-scored Herschler with a buck-et in transition for her seventh point with the Indians holding a 17-12 advantage.

The Musketeers com-mitted eight turnovers in the opening period but also had success getting past the Shawnee press and it con-tinued with Alyssa Louth passing from half court to Eickholt under the bucket. Fort Jennings cut the Indians’ lead to three with an assist from Jettinghoff to Hannah Clay followed by a bucket by Clippinger. The Indians extended their lead to 25-18 but Ft. Jennings rallied with a 5-0 run before the half with baskets by Clippinger and Jettinghoff.

With a 25-23 lead follow-

ing the break, the Indians scored the first four points of the second half as Herschler continued to spark the Indians’ attack. The Lady Musketeers, after turning the ball over 15 times in the first half, showed great patience against the Shawnee press with Jettinghoff finding Haley Wittler on the break. With Fort Jennings trailed by only four points, Shawnee’s Rachel Evans delivered a game-changing triple from downtown to put the lead back to seven. The Tribe’s defense also intensified with back-to-back steals for points off of turnovers for a 10-point advantage, 37-27. Coach Rhonda Liebrecht kept her troops focused as Louth made a nice move to the hole for two, Jettinghoff nailed a 12-footer and Clippinger hit both ends of a 1-and-1 to trim the lead to 38-33 after three.

Shawnee opened the final

quarter with a 5-0 run to put the lead back to 10 as the Indians’ offense began to work the clock. Jettinghoff hit baseline jumpers from both sides of the rim to pull Fort Jennings within 43-37 as Shawnee coach Jeff Heistan called time with 3:04 remain-ing. Evans came up big again, draining another triple for the Indians. Wittler continued to play well off the bench with a jumper in the paint for the Musketeers. The final points of the night for the hosts were generated by Wittler passing the ball out from under the hoop to Osting in the paint to keep Ft. Jennings within strik-ing distance 48-41. Shawnee scored the final three points of the contest to make the final score appear larger than the game really was.

The key to victory for Shawnee (5-8) was offensive rebounding as the Indians grabbed 17 (35 total) com-

pared to 25 total rebounds for the Musketeers.

Turnovers were also key as Ft. Jennings reduced their miscues in the first half to only eight in the second (23 total) and Shawnee only committed 14.

Fort Jennings held a high-er percentage from the floor by hitting 44 percent of its shots and Shawnee was at 40 percent. From3-point range, the Musketeers landed only one out of 10 attempts and Shawnee was 2-of-7.

The free-throw line was also a factor in the final score as both teams failed to take advantage from the charity stripe as Ft. Jennings was 4-of-10 and Shawnee was unlucky, hitting only 13-of-31.

Clippinger led Fort Jennings with 11 points and Eickholt added nine.

Shawnee’s offense had two players in double figures with Herschler’s 17 points and Evans 13.

The junior varsity Lady Musketeers fared better than the upperclassmen with a 31-17 victory.

Erin Eickholt led Ft. Jennings with 12 points while Vanessa Wollenhorst chipped in nine.

VarsityShawnee (51)Ashley Medsker 4-1-9, Dionna Lewis

1-0-2, DeAsia Smith 2-4-8, Alissa Stahler 1-0-2, Rachel Evans 5-1-13, Maryssa Herschler 5-7-17. Totals: 16-2-13/31-51.

Fort Jennings (41)Jenna Calvelage 0-0-0, Keri Eickholt

4-0-9, Hannah Clay 1-0-2, Gabby Clippinger 4-3-11, Erin Osting 2-0-4, Alyssa Louth 1-0-2, Kylie Jettinghoff 4-1-9, Haley Wittler 2-0-4. Totals: 17-1-4/10-41.

Score By QuartersShawnee 17- 8-13-13-51Ft. Jennings 12-11-10- 8-41Three-point goals: Shawnee, Evans

2; Ft. Jennings, Eickholt.——————Junior VarsityShawnee (17)Alissa Sharp 1-0-2, Ijah Austin 3-0-

6, Kinsey Heisten 2-0-4, Alexis Laidlaw 0-3-3, Morgan Golden 1-0-2. Totals: 7-0-3/8-17.

Fort Jennings (32)Erin Eickholt 6-0-12, Vanessa

Wallenhorst 3-1-9, Makenna Ricker 1-2-4, Marissa Krietemeyer 1-5-7, Totals: 9-2-8/14-32.

Score By QuartersShawnee 6- 4- 5- 2- 17Ft. Jennings 10-2-13- 7-32Three-point goals: Shawnee, none;

Ft. Jennings, Wallenhorst 2.

Keri Eickholt soars to the hopp for Fort Jennings in its girls basketball encounter with Shawnee Tuesday night inside The Fort. (DHI Media/Kenny Poling)

Lady Green soar over Rockets in PCLBY DAVE BONINSEGNADHI Media [email protected]

PANDORA — Sometimes it takes a while to get your gears churning in a game.

On Tuesday night at Pandora-Gilboa High School, however, when the Ottoville Lady Green got out of first gear it was full throttle.

The Lady Green trailed 8-7 after the first quarter but with 4:01 to go in the second period Alicia Honigford started the guests on a 16-2 run and the Green coasted to a 59-22 victory.

Honigford led all scorers with 16 points, Annie Lindeman added 11 for Ottoville. The Lady Rockets turned the ball over 29 times and made just one basket from the field in the second half

as the visitors outscored them 31-4 in the second 16 minutes of play.

Lindsay Macke tallied 12 points for the home team all coming in the second canto. Mackenzie Swary gave the hosts a brief 8-7 advantage with a shot from the low post but with the game knot-ted at 11-11 with 6:13 left n the half; Ottoville began to shift gears.

Brooke Mangas scored five points in the frame two of them to give the Green the lead for good. Honigford would fol-low by scoring the next eight points with two shots coming from long range. The sophomore grabbed a steal at mid-court and took it to the hoop to give the guests a 24-18 lead and followed with her second 3-pointer of the game with 41 ticks left on the clock to extend the lead to 27-18. Bridget Landin finished off the first half

with a basket from the paint with :10 left.Ottoville would pick up where they

left off in the third period, outscoring the Rockets 15-2 and sealed off the runaway win by allowing just two free throws in the final quarter while piling up 16 points of the their own with seven different Lady Green players getting in the scorebook.

Scoring by QuartersOttoville 7 22 15 16 - 59P-G 8 10 2 2 - 22Ottoville (59)Knodell 1-0-2, Landin 2-2-6, Kramer

2-0-5, Mangas 2-2-6, Honigford 5-4-16, Lindeman 4-2-11, Lydsey Wannemacher 1-0-2, Kemper 1-0-2. Totals 18-10-59

P-G (22)Maag 0-1-1, Mullins 0-1-1, Dorn

1-0-2, Macke 4-4-12. Totals 5-6-22

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 The Herald — 7www.delphosherald.com

Vinovich is Super Bowl referee, among four 1st-timers on crew

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Bill Vinovich will be the referee for the Super Bowl, heading a 7-man crew that includes four officials working the title game for the first time.

The NFL made the announcement Tuesday. The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks play Feb. 1 in Glendale, Arizona.

Vinovich, umpire Bill Schuster, head linesman Dana McKenzie and back judge Terrence Miles will be work-ing their first Super Bowl. The crew also includes line judge Mark Perlman, field judge Bob Waggoner and side judge Tom Hill.

Mike Wimmer is the replay official and the assistant is Terry Poulos.

Vinovich is in his ninth season as an NFL official. He was the refer-ee for the Patriots-Baltimore playoff game this month when New England confused the Ravens with a formation using a running back as an ineligible receiver. The NFL said the Patriots’ scheme was legal.

Pro Bowl to have nar-rower goal posts, longer kicks on PATs

PHOENIX — The NFL is taking its extra-point experi-ment to the Pro Bowl.

The league has looked into making point-after kicks more difficult as kickers have become almost automatic from the short distance. The NFL moved kickers back for extra-point tries during the preseason and will try it again during Sunday’s Pro Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium, this time with the added difficulty of trying to kick through nar-rower uprights.

The uprights will be at the standard 18.6 feet for field goal attempts but will be squeezed down to 14 feet on extra points. The kick also will be moved back from the 2-yard line to the 15, essen-tially making it a 33 1/2-yard field goal.

“We’re talking about the best of the best kickers, so

we’re bringing that (the kick) back after a touchdown,” NFL executive vice presi-dent of football operations Troy Vincent said during a Pro Bowl news conference Tuesday. “These guys are almost perfect during the reg-ular season but this will allow us to see just how skilled the kicker position has become.”

Extra points have become nearly a forgone conclusion for kickers over the years, prompting the NFL to at least look at adding degrees of dif-ficulty.

During the 2014 season, NFL kickers missed only eight of 1,235 PAT attempts

(99.3 percent). Kickers made 99.6 percent of their kicks last season.

Vincent said the NFL also will add video elements from the sidelines during the Pro Bowl, though he did not elaborate.

The Pro Bowl is being played in the same city as the Super Bowl for the second time.

The game was played in Miami in 2010 before return-ing to Hawaii the past three years.

The first 26 players have been drafted by the two Pro Bowl teams, with the remain-der from more glamorous positions to be chosen in a televised event Wednesday night.

The players were picked Tuesday after Dallas running back DeMarco Murray and Cleveland cornerback Joe Haden were selected co-cap-tains for Michael Irvin’s team. Houston defensive end J.J. Watt and Pittsburgh wide receiver Antonio Brown were chosen by Chris Carter as co-captains of his team.

After Tuesday’s introduc-tory news conference, Irvin and Carter drafted players from lower-profile positions — guards, centers, fullbacks, interior defensive linemen, placekickers, punters, spe-cial teams players, and return specialists. The rest will be drafted in an event to be tele-vised by the NFL Network on Wednesday night.

Most of the NFL head coach openings went to defensive minds

By ARNIE STAPLETONAssociated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway broke the mold.The Denver Broncos’ general manager bucked this year’s

trend when he hired his former backup QB and offensive coor-dinator Gary Kubiak as his head coach.

Every other head coach vacancy that’s been filled has gone to men with defensive roots: John Fox in Chicago, Jack Del Rio in Oakland, Jim Tomsula in San Francisco, Rex Ryan in Buffalo and Todd Bowles with the Jets.

Oddly, every one of those teams also had trouble on offense in 2014.

So did the Falcons, the only head coaching vacancy that hasn’t been filled.

It appears that offensive coordinators Josh McDaniels of New England and Adam Gase, Peyton Manning’s co-architect in Denver, will have to keep waiting as defensive coordinators Dan Quinn of Seattle and Detroit’s Teryl Austin are the only candidates to get follow-up interviews with the Falcons.

If Quinn is the choice, the Falcons will have to wait to offer him the job until after Seattle plays New England in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1.

Quinn’s star rose with the Seahawks’ 43-8 walloping of Elway’s Broncos in last year’s Super Bowl, something NFL Network analyst Terrell Davis believes has driven this defen-sive shift, along with the aerial fireworks show the league has become.

“One, you look at who won the Super Bowl last year. They’ve got a formula people want,” Davis said. “They’ve got a good quarterback and their offense was good; it just wasn’t as good as their defense. If you have a good defense, you can mask a lot of deficiencies on offense. And two, it really is about offenses in this league and if you can stop them.”

Then again, Davis said, it could just be coincidence.“Maybe it just happens to be the best candidates are defen-

sive coaches,” Davis added.There’s no ambiguity about it, insisted former NFL execu-

tive and current ESPN analyst Bill Polian.“Each hire, each situation is different. That’s one part of the

puzzle,” Polian said. “The second part is the pool of candidates is what it is. In any given year, you might have more people who come from the offensive side of the ball as opposed to

the defensive. And third, anybody that’s asked for my advice, I have said, ‘Hire the best person regardless of orientation.’

“Because what you’re hiring is a head coach. He’s going to hire a defensive coordinator. He’s going to hire an offensive coordinator. They’re the ones that are going to determine largely the scheme. So, hire the best person whose philosophy of football fits how you want to operate.”

The only other factor that should come into the equation is previous head coaching experience, according to Polian.

That certainly burnished the resumes of Fox, Del Rio and Ryan. Fox was 49-22 in four seasons in Denver even though the Broncos came up short in the playoffs each year.

“Guys who have been a successful head coach before, there’s probably something to be said for that,” Polian added.

New Bills’ owner Terry Pegula said experience was the tilting factor in Ryan’s hiring. In San Francisco, it came down to Tomsula or Gase, but the deciding factor wasn’t their back-grounds, CEO Jed York said.

“You’re not the head coach of the defense. You’re not the head coach of the offense,” York said. “You’re the head coach of the entire team.”

Interestingly, teams led by head coaches with offensive roots had an average rank of 16.1 in points per game this sea-son to 16.0 for defensive coaches (excluding the Raiders, who switched mid-season from defensive to offensive). The season started with 16 offensive and 16 defensive coaches.

So, there was essentially no difference in performance on average based on the expertise of the head coach.

Raiders’ owner Mark Davis was initially looking for an offensive-minded coach to help quarterback Derek Carr devel-op, something he told Del Rio in their first conversation.

“And Jack said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop! I know about offense as well’,” Davis recalled.

Labels don’t matter when you’re a head coach, Del Rio said, because if you’re a “defensive guy,” quickly “you become an offensive guy as well.”

He pointed to the two coaches who are in the Super Bowl.“Bill Belichick was a defensive guy and he’s doing a pretty

good job with his offense,” Del Rio added. “Pete Carroll is a defensive guy in his background but he’s doing a pretty good job up there in Seattle with their offense and with their team. So, I think when you hire a head coach, you get that — you get a head coach.”

Seahawks’ Jermaine Kearse was there when it counted

By TIM BOOTHAssociated Press

RENTON, Wash. — Jermaine Kearse was having an NFC championship game to forget.

The first two times Kearse even got his fingers on a pass from Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson, the ball ended up in the hands of a Green Bay defensive back. Those two deflected interceptions were sandwiched around two other attempted passes from Wilson to Kearse that were also picked off.

Four targets. Four interceptions. Four miserable moments for Kearse and the Seahawks.

“I just told myself not to feel sorry for myself, to keep pushing through,” Kearse said. “Things aren’t always going to be perfect, things aren’t always going to go your way, but it tells a lot about a person’s character on how they respond when things aren’t going well. Things are easy when things are going well, but how do you respond when they’re not?”

Kearse’s response was a moment that will be remem-bered in Seattle Seahawks’ history in the same regard as Richard Sherman’s deflection in the NFC championship game against San Francisco a year earlier. In the same end zone as Sherman’s play, Kearse caught Wilson’s 35-yard TD toss 3:19 into overtime to send Seattle to its second straight Super Bowl.

Wilson noticed Green Bay with all of its defenders near the line of scrimmage and no safety covering the middle of the field. He made a check with Kearse, who also noticed the coverage. Kearse’s job was simply to beat cornerback Tramon Williams to the inside, keep position to the post and wait for Wilson’s pass to arrive.

“I’ve seen him make so many plays before. When you see a guy that makes so many plays in practice, so many plays through-out big-time games, NFC championship game last year … Doug Baldwin, too, you just continue to trust those guys,” Wilson explained. “They show me every day in practice and so when somebody messes up or I mess up or don’t throw the ball right, whatever happens, I’m just going to keep coming back to them.

“That was the first thing I told Kearse after that last inter-ception. I said, ‘Hey, we’re going to win this game. I’m going to keep coming back to you and we’re going to find a way to win the game.’ That’s what we were able to do.”

Two of the four interceptions that were intended for Kearse were Wilson’s fault. He underthrew Kearse on a deep pass into double coverage early in the second quarter and later was short with a throw to the front corner of the end zone. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said he believed Wilson misjudged the wind on both of the underthrown passes.

But the other two interceptions hit Kearse in the hands. The most costly — it appeared — was the pass that was deflected to Green Bay safety Morgan Burnett with 5:04 left and Green Bay holding a 19-7 lead. Kearse couldn’t even get to all the negative reactions on Twitter from the first four quarters. There was too much praise for his one catch of the day.

“I couldn’t even get to the bad stuff,” Kearse said. “I don’t worry about all that stuff — it just comes down to us as a team.”

Kearse is riding an impressive postseason streak. He caught what eventually became the winning points in last year’s NFC title game against San Francisco, on a 35-yard TD in traffic on fourth down.

Patriots path to Super Bowl capped by another blowout

By HOWARD ULMANAssociated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Once Tom Brady gets their offense rolling, the New England Patriots are tough to stop.

Some of the NFL’s top teams — Denver, Detroit, Cincinnati and Indianapolis — all lost to the AFC champions by at least 22 points.

Now the Patriots are in the Super Bowl against the defending champi-on Seattle Seahawks, whose four loss-es were by a total of 22 points.

“This is an incredible defensive unit,” Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said. “They can take the ball away from you. They can get to the quarterback. They can stop the run. It will be an incredible challenge.”

The Seahawks, with the NFL’s best defense, could stage their second straight Super Bowl blowout, having beaten the Broncos 43-8 last year.

Pretty close to the Patriots’ 45-7 past-ing of the Colts in last Sunday’s AFC title game.

“It feels great to impose your will on a team,” wide receiver Brandon LaFell said in a clubhouse filled with smiles, “and that’s what we did all night.”

The route to the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 takes the Patriots to Glendale, Arizona, where they’ll try for their fourth NFL title and first in 10 years.

“The coaches prepare us for whatever we need to get the win,” said fullback James Develin.

Even if it involves him catching a 1-yard touchdown pass, his 11th recep-tion in 37 NFL games, as he did Sunday.

Or offensive tackle Nate Solder being eligible in that game to catch a 16-yard scoring pass, the first reception in his four seasons.

Or having backup offensive lineman Cameron Fleming line up as an eligi-ble receiver nearly 30 times against Indianapolis.

“I certainly think it’s been a staple of

our team that when we need a play, dif-ferent guys have stepped up all year long and we’ve been able to produce points to win games,” said special teams captain Matthew Slater. “It’s not how you get those points. It’s just having them.”

And they’ve had plenty.In consecutive games, the Patriots

beat Cincinnati 43-17 and Buffalo 37-22.After a 27-25 squeaker over the New

York Jets, the runaways resumed — 51-23 over Chicago, 43-21 over Denver, 42-20 over Indianapolis and 34-9 over

Detroit.In those 20-plus

point wins, the Patriots scored on their first six possessions against Chicago, three of their

first four of the second half against Denver, all four of the second half against Indianapolis before running out the clock and four in a row to end the first half against Detroit.

“It’s not realistic for us to expect to continue to blow teams out like that, or, I don’t want to say blow out, but win by a large margin,” Slater said after beating the Lions. “I can’t really put my finger on what it is. I think it’s a culmination of things and preparation, I think, is at the forefront of that.”

In the next six games, there was just one trouncing, 41-13 over Miami.

That was nearly the last one — until they overcame two 14-point deficits to beat the Baltimore Ravens 35-31 in the AFC championship game.

That narrow victory gave them a chance for a bigger one.

The Colts were about to be crushed again.

Leading 17-7 at halftime, the Patriots scored touchdowns on their first four possessions of the second half and had their eighth win of the season by at least 22 points.

Wide receiver Julian Edelman credit-ed the coaches for the team’s offensive rhythm.

“They scheme up the plays,” he said. “They go with what the feel is.”

The high-scoring roll began with a

43-17 win over Cincinnati the week after a 41-14 drubbing by Kansas City left the Patriots at 2-2. Beating the Bengals launched them on a 7-1 run with five of those games against playoff teams.

“It seemed like every team was at the top of their division and playing really well. In the end, it probably served us well,” coach Bill Belichick said. “It was a very competitive schedule. Our guys had to prepare and work really hard every week to be ready for those chal-lenges. They did that.”

Now there’s just one left.“There are 32 teams that started.

There are two remaining,” Brady added. “We’re trying to be the one that finishes off the season the way you want to.”

Pats brush off talk of deflated foot-balls as NFL reviews: The Patriots are brushing off and even finding humor in questions about whether they used under-inflated footballs in the game that put them in the Super Bowl.

The NFL hasn’t indicated how long its investigation will last into whether the team improperly let air out to make balls easier to throw and catch. That raises the possibility that it could extend into next week when the Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will be in Arizona preparing for the Super Bowl on Feb. 1.

A Seahawks’ spokesman said the team would defer to the league on the matter.

The NFL has said it is reviewing whether the Patriots manipulated foot-balls during their 45-7 home win over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC cham-pionship game Sunday night. Deflating a football can change the way it’s gripped by player or the way it travels through the air. Under NFL rules, each team provides balls each game for use when its offense is on the field. The balls are inspected before the game, then handled during the game by personnel provided by the home team.

Brady says the investigation is the least of his worries. And tight end Rob Gronkowski tweeted a photo of him-self spiking the ball with the words:

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A late steal by Probst led to a Parkway foul and Meyer connected on 1 of 2 at the line to establish the 50-49 margin.

Parkway had a pair of tries late, but neither would fall.

Gehron, who fouled out late, played perhaps her best game of the season, scoring 10 points on 5-for-8 shooting

and adding nine rebounds. Heindel ended up with a dou-ble double (10 points and 10 rebounds), while Heckler led the team with 15 points on the night.Score by quarters

Spencerville 19 5 12 14- 50Parkway 11 12 12 14- 49Spencerville (50)Meyer 15, Probst 15, Grigsby 8, Miller 7, Merriman 3, Henline 1, Bowsher 1Parkway (49)Heckler 15, Gehron 10, Heindel 10, Hawk 6, TWalls 3, KWalls 3, Wehe 2, Crouch 0, Pond 0

Bearcats


Elida canned 21-of-32 at the line (65.6%).

“Bailee finally got going the second half. She had a hard time going straight at Haynes,” Elida co-coach Chrissy Billiter added. “We finally convinced her to get to the free throw line and drive to the hole. The key for us was foul trouble; our bench did a good job but we need our stars, like Shyah, Abby

and Hope, to stay in the game.”In junior varsity action, Ricquel

Williams netted 13 and Latione Cowan 11 to pace LS to a 46-32 win.

Lauren Kesler paced the Lady ‘Dawgs with 14.

Both teams treturn to action Thursday: Elida at Van Wert and Lima Senior versus Fremont.

VARSITYLIMA SENIOR (64)Aniya Frazier 3-2-8, Shaquayla Johnson 0-2-2,

Asia Wilson 0-2-2, Xavier Houston 0-0-0, Miea Ward

1-0-2, Caterrion Thompson 5-7-17, Essence Cowan 3-3-9, Imara Haynes 7-3-17, Kierre James 3-1-7, Amesha Reed 0-0-0. Totals 22-0-20-64.

ELIDA (55)Hope Carter 3-2-8, Brett Pauff 4-1-10, Abby Waddle

1-11-14, Shyah Wheeler 1-2-4, Courtney Siefker 0-0-0, Hayley Wagner 0-0-0, Kyleigh Gay 0-0-0, Bailee Kuhn 5-5-15, Missy Jackson 0-0-0, Mariah Wise 2-0-4. Totals 14-2-21-55.

Score by Quarters:Lima Sr. 15 15 12 22 - 64Elida 15 10 13 17 - 55Three-point goals: Lima Senior, none; Elida, Pauff,

Waddle.———————-

Elida


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BowlingJimmy Walker hopes Ryder Cup springs him to bigger feats

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HONOLULU — Some of the best golf at the Ryder Cup occurred in a match hardly anyone noticed.

That should be expected. Jimmy Walker was involved.

He is becoming more difficult to ignore with each victory. Walker’s 9-shot win at the Sony Open — the largest mar-gin on the PGA Tour in nearly six years — was his fourth victory in the last 15 months, the most of any American in that stretch. His world ranking is No. 13, moving him closer to his goal of playing in the Olympics.

More work remains, starting with the majors, and Walker knows this.

Last year was his first time playing all four majors, and while he didn’t seriously contend in any, he still had top 10s in the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA Championship. That’s not a bad start, and Walker has shown to be a quick study and a hard worker.

Of all the new experiences from 2014, though, what stood out was Sunday at Gleneagles.

The Ryder Cup long had been decid-ed when Walker won his singles match against Lee Westwood by making eight birdies in 16 holes. With key wins early from Europe’s two major champions, Rory McIlroy and Martin Kaymer, there was no reason for television to pay much attention to a match that affected only the final score.

But it was a big deal for Walker.He believes his performance on such

a big stage, and what he learned from that match, will take him to a higher level. The Sony Open is miles away from the Ryder Cup in so many aspects, though it caused him to reminisce the way he never let up until it was over.

“That was huge, that Sunday match against Lee,” Walker said. “That was another day where I didn’t want to let him have anything. After the Ryder Cup I said, ‘I need to figure how to get

in that mode, where every shot means so much.’ That’s how it felt. I was so engaged in every shot I hit. I’ve got to try to figure out how to do that week in and week out. And that’s how I felt today.”

His second straight vic-tory in the Sony Open was important for a couple of reasons. It was his third straight year with a PGA Tour victory, and it was right after he lost a tournament he felt he should have won.

Walker doesn’t feel as if he let up at Kapalua, though he was surprised by the quick turnaround. He missed one shot that led to bogey and missed two bird-ie putts inside 10 feet as Patrick Reed played the last four holes in 4-under par, including an 80-yard shot he holed for eagle. Reed won with a birdie in the playoff.

Given another chance six days later, Walker was ruthless.

He showed the capacity to turn a 2-shot lead into four, and a four-shot lead into eight. That’s the kind of golf he saw from Jordan Spieth last month at the Hero World Challenge when Spieth won by 10 shots; from Martin Kaymer at the U.S. Open last summer when he won by eight at Pinehurst; from Rory McIlroy in the first two majors he won (each by eight shots); and from Tiger Woods more times than he can remember.

There was one moment when Walker even looked like Woods.

One of the more fascinating moments of Woods’ 15-shot win at the 2000 U.S. Open came late in the final round at Pebble Beach when he hit a flyer over the 16th green and chipped to 15 feet. The tournament was over, and had been for hours, but Woods was stalking and crouching and concentrating over that putt as if he were tied for the lead. Woods buried the putt and showed as

much emotion as he had all day.Later, he revealed that his sole pur-

pose was to not make bogey in the final round. He played the last 26 holes of a U.S. Open without one.

From behind the 14th green at Waialae on Sunday and ahead by six shots, Walker’s chip ran about 6 feet by the hole. With only his coin on the green, he stood over the putt and took a few one-handed swings. Finally, he replaced the ball — but still not the coin — and stood over it again, his eyes going from the ball to the hole. He did that one more time before removing the coin, and then he backed off again before making the putt.Walker went on to make

15-foot birdie putts on the next two holes, a 10-foot par putt on the 17th and closed with a 5-foot birdie and a 7-under 63.

“I remember when Jordan did that and I thought, ‘That guy is playing some golf. He’s making more putts than anyone.’ You see that and think, ‘Wow, I want to do that’,” Walker added. “I’ve watched Tiger do that — he did it a bunch. I’m watching Rory do it now. It’s cool.”

And it’s a step in the right direction.LEFTY OUT WEST: It was easy for

Phil Mickelson to skip the Match Play Championship in Arizona when his kids had spring break because he never cared for the golf courses at Dove Mountain or the fickle, one-and-done format of the tournament.

This year he is sacrificing two tour-naments that he loves, where he has won a combined six times.

Mickelson, who makes his debut this week in the Humana Challenge, wrote on his website he will skip the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the Northern Trust Open at Riviera because of spring break.

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Councilman Andy Knueve agreed.“I would like to hear what they have to

say about the wastewater treatment plant before we vote on this,” he said.

Safety Service Director Shane Coleman told council there would be a presentation on options for the wastewa-ter treatment plant at the Feb. 2 meeting.

An amendment to policy on overtime worked by salaried employees proposed by Josh Gillespie met a similar fate. Gillespie had two proposals, the first to eliminate compensation time all together for salaried employees and another to grant compensation time after 48 hours are worked at the discretion of the admin-istration and time must be used within 30 days.

Councilman Del Kemper asked the mayor how managers would use their compensation time under those con-straints.

“That’s a good question,” Mayor Michael Gallmeier said. “I’m OK with 45 hours expected. All department heads are short-staffed and I’m afraid they would assign some duties to hourly employees that would eat up the savings.”

Kemper agreed that 45 hours wasn’t unreasonable to expect from a salaried employee.

Gillespie said he preferred to eliminate compensation time for salaried employ-ees.

Knueve said he would like to look at some numbers before deciding either way.

“I’m not comfortable voting on this right now,” he said.

Knueve called a Legislative Committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2 prior to the regular council meeting.

“We will also have more information on the wastewater treatment plant at that time and the other numbers to look at,” Knueve added.

Council heard on second reading an ordinance authorizing the mayor and/or safety service director to enter into contracts for the purchase of materials and commodities necessary for the oper-ation of the city’s various departments including stone aggregate, water meters, bituminous materials and chemicals.

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“This is the issue I have with the teachers’ contract,” Christoff said. “It adds numerous two-hour delays to the calendar for this year and next year and it is not a temporary reso-lution; it’s a permanent resolution. So we’re reverting back to where we were many, many years ago, with two-hour early releases every other week, only switching it to earlier in the day.”

For Christoff, it boils down to the math. With the inclusion of these new delay days, in addition to existing calamity and teacher plan-ning days, the potential exists, he explained, for significant down time.

“That’s 43 days out of 175,” Christoff said.

“That’s like once every five days we’re going to have a disrupted schedule, possibly, based on weather.”

This disruption, he asserted, is detrimental to the teaching process, to the education of the students and could prove counterproductive for the parents of students enrolled in the district.

“Other options were never discussed,” he said. “Other districts use other options. I think this is an atrocity for our kids. I think this is a travesty.”

Superintendent Tony Cox rebutted Christoff’s comments and offered an explana-tion for the inclusion of the additional days.

“The negotiations process is a give-and-take process and part of that is listening to the teachers’ side of things,” Cox said.

“Listening to the teachers’ side of things, we are getting pushed down a lot with man-dates and other tasks that we are required to do that we believe can improve teaching, can improve instruction, therefore, ultimate-ly help students grow. So we were thinking about students but also thinking about our employees who are a vital part of our orga-nization. This is going to be an opportunity for us to consistently analyze student needs, student strengths and weaknesses, to be able to go back and re-teach and review, to be able to strengthen what we do. I believe we’ll probably see in the future more districts add-ing some time for teachers to do this. It just makes sense to give our teachers time to meet together to improve instruction.”

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Miller and Honigford con-firmed.

In September, the BPA recom-mended that council pass a 50-cent increase in the Readiness to Serve rates from $2.50 per month to $3.00 per month. In addition, the Board asked council to increase the usage costs to 25 cents per 1,000 gallons and transfer $4,000 into the Sewer Fund twice per year.

“This is all part of the INI (inflow and infiltration) problems with the sewer system and compli-ance with the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency,” Honigford explained.

Council unanimously passed the motion to increase the Readiness to Serve rates by 50 cents, increase the usage cost to 25 cents per 1,000 gallon and transfer $4,000 into the sewer fund twice per year.

“Residents will see the increase on next quarter’s billing,” Wannemacher said.

Miller spoke on the sewer by-pass study and reiterated there were still 70-80 people tapped into storm sewer. Council members agreed all residents need to be tapped into storm sewer - provided they have a viable storm line to tap into - within a certain amount of time. Council will make their

recommendations and draft a letter explaining all the details to resi-dents affected.

Street Supervisor Barry Koester said a lot of storm pipes are sized to drain streets.

“We may have to start using larger sewer pipe to accommodate the extra water,” Honigford said.

“There are 10-15 residents who have no place to tap into the storm sewer,” Koester said.

“Barry (Koester) has brought it to my attention that there is a washout damaging tile near the Waste Water Treatment Plant,” Miller said. “Barry received two estimates to dig out the old tile, remove trees and use rock for ero-sion control on the banks.”

Council members chose J&M Excavating to perform the work for $5,100.

“There will be no cost for the rock; we have that on hand,” Miller said. “We also want to use a camera to evaluate the integrity of the pipes and make sure there are no cracks of blockages.”

Miller said he and Barry have been talking about remodeling the front doorway of the municipal building and making it a double entrance.

“The front doors and back doors do not seal the weather out,” Miller said. “We would have two

sets of doors with heat radiating between them.”

In December, Wapakoneta Attorney Mike Burton spoke with council about John and Jackie Schimmoeller’s property on State Route 224 across from Ottoville High School. The property was previously approved by council for a tap-in to the forced line during the summer.

“We have a proposal agree-ment drafted in generalities and would like to have the village’s consent for annexation,” Burton said. “John would like to approach the Monterey Township trustees during their meeting on Feb. 2 and have the trustees here, at the next village council meeting to proceed with the agreement.”

Burton read through the sec-tions of the agreement pertinent to council members.

Council members talked about the taxes and zoning for the prop-erty.

“We have full control of the zoning,” Miller said. “The zon-ing board makes the recommen-dation.”

“We need to have it indicated what size businesses will be con-structed there if it is zoned com-mercially,” Altenburger said.

“One tap into the forced main,” Miller said. “Any additional busi-

nesses will have to have additional taps. It will keep the door open for communication and will be spelled out in the agreement.”

Marc Hollinger from Aspen Energy Corporation spoke with council members about electricity aggregation, which is where the village — residential and commer-cial properties — would be pooled together to provide buying power. “Residents can see a savings of close to $200 per year,” Hollinger said. “Right now electricity is run-ning 7.09 cents per kilowatt.”He said the market price is continuing to drop due to the lower fuel costs associated with the warmer winter weather.

“If council would choose to place aggregation on the ballot either for this spring or late fall we would have two public hear-ings to educate residents before it goes to a vote,” Hollinger said. “If residents would approve aggre-gation, council would adopt plan documents and then obtain the aggregation certification.”

Hollinger said the typical agree-ment is for three years. Residents would have three weeks to opt out of the aggregation and there are no early termination fees.

The next village council meet-ing will be held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23.

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At November’s meeting, Smith reported on a plat of land — which is partially in the corporation limit — that a property owner is ready to build on but can’t continue with construction until the property is annexed and water and sewer services are planned and/or run to the property.

Village Solicitor Wildenhaus is the prop-erty owner’s attorney and he has handed the documentation over to another lawyer to review for the village.

Smith said there are other property owners who are not within the village’s corporation limit but near the proposed annexation site

that may want to take advantage of tapping into an extension of that sewer line in the future. Councilman Walt Pitney asked if that action would extend the corporation line.

“Yes,” said Smith.“The first thing they will ask is how much

it will cost to tap in,” Smith said. “We will get it all priced before approaching them on the sewer taps.”

Discussion turned to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and whether property owners wanting to tap into sewer would qualify for financial assistance.

“They would have the opportunity and if they did not want to be annexed into the village, they would pay a premium services

fee,” Smith said. “It would be more beneficial for both parties for them to become part of the village.”

Smith made his 2015 committee appoint-ments, which are as follows:

• Sewer Administration: Chairperson Walt Pitney, Randy Wieging, Jeff Swick and Pam Wagner;

• Public Utilities and Infrastructure: Chairperson Duane Hoersten, Walt Pitney and Greg Brown;

• Police, Health and Safety: Chairperson Grace Dickman, Jeff Swick and Randy Wieging;

• Village Finance Committee: Chairperson Randy Wieging, Duane Hoersten, Walt Pitney

and Pam Wagner;• Flood Plain Permits and Appeals;

Chairperson Randy Wieging and all council members;

• Subdivision Regulations and Appeals: Chairperson Greg Brown, Duane Hoersten and Grace Dickman;

• Environmental Committee: Chairperson Jeff Swick, Greg Brown and Grace Dickman; and

• Zoning Issues Committee; Chairperson Randy Wieging and all council members.

The next village council meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 in the village library.

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DEAR BRUCE: My 97-year-old aunt is staying at an as-sisted living place for $2,200 a month. She is out of money and has no estate left ex-cept a life insurance policy to cover her funeral. I’m cashing in another of her poli-cies for $7,000 and moving her to a cheaper room to extend her stay there another seven months.

She has a monthly income of $1,200 in Social Security and $300 from her pension. My sisters and I have been paying the extra $1,000 a month to keep her where she is instead of mov-ing her to the indigent wing.

When she dies, will I need to hire an attorney to settle her estate, or lack of estate? -- K.E.

DEAR K.E.: I sympathize with your situation. Have you consulted with Medicaid to see if there is some assistance there? In most cases, there should be, if she exhausted all of her assets and is willing to contribute the biggest part of her Social Security and monthly pension.

As to needing an attorney to settle the “lack of her estate,” I don’t see any reason for that. At the very most, it may take a couple of hours of an attorney’s time to be sure everything is in order.

DEAR BRUCE: My wife and I have $548,000 in mutual funds; 21 percent of them are large value investments, 19 per-cent in large blend and 27 percent in large growth. The remain-ing 33 percent is in medium REIT funds, and 11 percent of the large funds are in IRAs. All dividends and capital gains are being reinvested.

Our monthly income, including my pension, Social Security and IRA withdrawals of $551 is $5,906. At the current rate of withdrawal, our IRAs should last another 10 years. We have no mortgage and no debt. We own the house where we live and have just sold another house with the result that we have over $100,000 to invest.

I have been considering putting the money into such mutual funds as Fidelity Four-in-One Index, Vanguard High Dividend Yield, Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Bond and Vanguard European Stock Index, but with various financial columnists warning of an impending downturn in the stock market, I won-der if there might be a safer alternative. -- B.C.

DEAR B.C.: You have provided a rather lengthy explana-tion of your investments, and I think you have done well. You also mentioned you have an additional $100,000 that has re-sulted from the sale of a house.

Cutting through all the baloney, as you point out, many fi-nancial columnists are warning of an impending downturn. If you believe that’s the case, the answer is clear: Get out now!

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In my opinion, if the market does sink rather considerably (10 to 15 percent is not unheard of), I believe it will recapture if you sit tight. This is coming from personal experience, but I am not suggesting that this is right for you. You have to make the decision, and it’s a tough one.

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Vanamatic Company celebrates 60 years and launches new website


DELPHOS — Vanamatic Company located in Delphos celebrated 60 years of busi-ness in 2014 and has also launched their new website.

Vanamatic serves the aerospace, automotive, fluid power, refrigeration and gen-eral fittings industries along with their own line of low pressure push on barb fit-tings.

Vanamatic Company start-ed in the fluid power industry and 60 years later, it is still their largest market. They have also served the aero-space and automotive mar-kets for over 35 years.

Some of the same custom-ers they started with are still with them 60 years later.

Manufacturing equipment includes precision multi-spin-dle screw machines and mod-ern single and multi-spindle CNC machines for both low and high volume work.

The state of the art man-ufacturing facility features automated in-ground chip processing, central oil sys-tem, lean self-directed manu-facturing cells, in-house tool room and the latest quality control equipment. Precision products are machined from

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As most manufacturers know, it is difficult to sustain decades of continued success in this highly competitive industry. Like many in the Precision Machined Products

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The business is co-owned and led by second-generation brothers, James Wiltsie Jr., Jeff Wiltsie, Perry Wiltsie and their sister Patricia Morris.

Congratulations to Vanamatic Company for 60 years of American manufac-turing at its finest. To learn more about Vanamatic visit their new website at vana-matic.com.

Schrader Realty joins Delphos ChamberSchrader Realty, LLC, recently joined the Delphos Area Chamber of Commerce. Participating in the ribbon cutting are, from left, realtors Jen Nichols, Amie Nungester, Krista Schrader (Owner/Broker), Jodi Moenter, Ruth Baldauf-Liebrecht and Lynn Miller; DACC Executive Director Tara Krendl; and realtor Jessica Mer-schman. Schrader Realty was established in 2009 and has recently moved to a new location downtown Delphos at 228 N. Main St. Their professional staff is ready to serve you with all your real estate needs. (Submitted photo)

Lima chamber seeking ‘Emerging Business of the Year’


The Lima/Allen County Chamber is accepting nomi-nations for outstanding busi-nesses within the community. To submit a business to be recognized in one of the fol-lowing categories, visit lima-chamber.com and download a nomination form.

Nomination forms must be completed and returned to the chamber by Feb. 6.

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The nominee for the Emerging Business of the Year will be judged according to the following criteria:

— The business must be independently owned and operated with an operational history of between 18 months

and four years;— The business should exem-

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— The business principal must demonstrate community involvement and/or civic con-tributions; and

— The number of employ-ees must range from one to 150.

For more information, con-tact Adah at 419-222-6045 or [email protected].

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DEAR ABBY: A short time ago, I discovered my parents are “swingers.” I had picked up my mother’s phone to take a picture and an incoming text caught my attention. When I read it and in-vestigated further, I learned the truth.

I don’t mind what they do with their marriage, and I respect their choices. However, my siblings and I were raised in a strict Chris-tian home. My parents taught us the opposite of what they are doing. Now I feel they are hypo-crites.

How can they tell me to act a certain way when they don’t prac-tice what they preach? I’m not sure if I should talk to them about it or drop this entirely. Help! -- DISILLUSIONED DAUGHTER

DEAR DAUGHTER: What exactly do you mean when you “investigated further”? If it means you searched the history in your mother’s phone, you crossed the same line children do when they search through the drawers and closets of a parent’s bedroom looking for things that are none of their business.

Before labeling your parents as hypocrites, please remember that they raised you with basic values that are shared by the majority of people. If they have “strayed from the path,” it’s their choice -- and it may have happened AFTER they taught you your good Christian values.

I think you should talk to your mother about what you did and what you found. If you do, she may have a few more lessons to impart.

DEAR ABBY: My husband

and I are avid sports fans and have season tickets to several sporting events. Our seats are in the mid-dle of a row. Before we go to our seats, we check to see which way has fewer people seated so we dis-turb the fewest possible. We also try to leave our seats only during halftime or between innings and always apologize for disturbing anyone.

However, I am bothered that we are forced to climb over cer-tain individuals who don’t stand up to let us by. Sometimes I feel I’m almost bumping into the folks in the row ahead of us.

Is there a rule of etiquette that states that people should stand to allow others to get by? I don’t want to step on toes or spill drinks on anyone. What should I do in these situations? -- SQUEEZED OUT IN HOUSTON

DEAR SQUEEZED OUT: Emily Post does have a rule re-garding crossing in front of people in theaters and at sporting events. According to her, you should say, “Excuse me” or “Pardon me” on your way to your seat and “pass with your back to those already seated.” (Personally, I would rath-er that someone face my navel than my posterior at eye level, but I didn’t write the rule.)

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Marissa asked me if I had seen the new picture she had post-ed on Facebook this morning. When I said I hadn’t checked my Facebook page since yesterday, she gave me a look as if I lived in a cave and cooked mastodons over a wood fire for dinner. How out of touch could one person be?“You haven’t checked your Facebook page in two days? How will you know what I’ve been doing?”I do like Marissa, and I do want to know what she’s been do-ing, but not 50 times a day. Once a day. Twice a day, tops. But more than her over-sharing, what really bothered me was that she seemed to think that posting some-thing on Facebook is the same thing as putting it on the front page of a newspaper. How could anyone possibly miss what she had posted on Facebook? I hate to tell her, but for all the chatter about the death of print, a thou-sand times more peo-ple will see the front page of this newspa-per than will ever see her status update.But telling heavy Facebook users that you only check it once a day, or that you don’t use it at all, is like say-ing you don’t have in-door plumbing. How can you possibly live that way? Pretty easi-ly, it turns out.There are things about Facebook that I enjoy and there are things that annoy me to no end. In that way, it’s exactly like real life.I like the quick little glimpses into the lives

of my friends and rel-atives. My niece lives many states away and I rarely see her or her children, so I enjoy hearing about her family and see-ing their pictures. But she knows what’s postworthy and what isn’t. In one post, she reported that she was walking home from the park with her 5-year-old when the kid spotted a police cruiser coming down the street. She looked at her mother and said in a stage whisper, “Mom, it’s the police. Act normal!” Even if you don’t know the kid, that’s funny.But for every Face-book friend I have that is careful only to post things of interest, there are two Maris-sas who will post their shopping lists, every picture they take with their phone -- even if it’s a photo of his thumb -- and the news that they’ve just got-ten to a new level on Candy Crush. All of this while they’re sup-posedly at work.The worst offenders are the friends who post political screeds and cartoons. Unless they post screeds and cartoons that I agree with, which is auto-matically OK. I have no doubt that if Face-book had been around in Will Rogers’ day, his most famous quote would have been, “I never met a man I didn’t want to block.”There was a cartoon in the New York-er a while back that showed two people in front of a casket in a near-empty funer-al home. One says to the other, “I thought there’d be more peo-

ple here. He had so many friends on Facebook.” Which points out the real problem with Face-book: Nobody has 500 close friends. Or a thousand. Or how-ever many Facebook friends you have.There’s nothing wrong with having a lot of Facebook friends. But some people think the more they have, the happier they’ll be. As if it’s a contest.You probably have a lot of family members on Facebook, a lot of school chums, a lot of neighbors, a lot of co-workers. But how many of them would you loan money to? How many of them would you tell about your drug or alcohol problems? How many of them want to hear about your eating dis-order?How many of those friends will call you up just to say “hi,” who don’t mind if you accidently wake them up, who miss you when you’re not around? Five hun-dred? Or five? (Contact Jim Mullen at JimMullenBooks.com.)

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Q: In the Bible’s book of 1 Kings, the Queen of Sheba meets with Israel’s King Solomon to test his legendary wis-dom. Where is She-ba? -- Q.D., Hunters-ville, N.C.

A: Biblical his-torians are not in agreement on exact-ly where Sheba was. Some believe it was in Southern Saudi Arabia and Yemen, while others claim it is in the vicinity of Ethiopia. Ethiopian Christians claim to be descended from M e n e l i k , the son of S o l o m o n and Sheba.

Q: In S t e v e n S p i e l -berg’s film “ J a w s , ” what was the name of Cap-tain Quint’s (Rob-ert Shaw) boat? -- G.L.M., Fort Smith, Ark.

A: The boat was named Orca. In the real ocean, the orca whale, also known as the “killer whale” or the “wolf of the sea,” is a natural enemy of the shark.

Q: In 1888, a pat-ent was issued for a “storm door struc-ture.” I have gone to many historic homes and have never have seen one with a storm door. Can you help? -- W.C., New Mil-ford, Conn.

A: Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadel-phia received the pat-ent for a specialized door, but it was for a revolving door, not a storm door.

Q: How did Ca-juns get their name? -- A.Z., Poughkeep-sie, N.Y.

A: “Cajun” is a corruption of “Aca-dia.” Nova Scotia was once known as Acadia when the French controlled the area; inhabitants were known as Acadians. After Great Britian purchased Nova Scotia, it forced the independent-minded Acadians from their homes. By the mid-1700s, Acadians be-gan to migrate, some finding their way to Louisiana, where they were welcomed.

Q: The name Evangeline St. Clare has been on my mind. I don’t think this is a person I know; I sus-pect it’s from a liter-ary work. Can you please help solve this annoyance? -- E.S., New Roads, La.

A: You apparently read Harriet Beech-er Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” at some time in your life. Evangeline St. Clare is Little Eva.

Q: I am wonder-ing about one of the s t rangest - looking cars that I have ever seen on the road. Several people had them on my col-lege campus in the late 1950s. I’m not sure of the name. It

sounded like “I-Said-Ah.” How much did they cost? -- C.B., Shillington, Pa.

A: You are remem-bering the Isetta. After World War II, BMW’s manufactur-ing plants were most-ly in ruin. To keep the company afloat, BMW purchased the manufacturing rights for the small car, nicknamed the “roll-ing egg” from Iso, an Italian motor scooter company. BMW be-gan production of the Isetta in 1955. The tiny bubble-shaped

car had only one door, which was the entire front of the car. Its 9 . 2 - h o r s e -power motor-cycle engine reached 30 mph in about 30 seconds. Its top speed

was around 50 mph. But, at a time when money and gasoline were scarce, getting 60 miles to a gallon made the peculiar lit-tle car very attractive. The last Isetta rolled off the manufacturing line in 1964; around 200,000 vehicles were been produced. As for the price tag, I saw an ad from 1958 listing the car at a bit above $1,000.

Q: On the side of the Pittsburgh Steel-ers football helmet are three four-point-ed stars. The stars are a unique shape in that the sides are slightly concave. Is there a name for this design? -- J.L., Lake Placid, N.Y.

A: The Steelers Helmets are solid black on the left side, with the team logo appearing on the right side. The stars in the logo are called “hypocycloids.”

Q: When and where was one of my favorite actors, Kev-in Bacon, born? -- W.M., Salt Lake City

A: Kevin Norwood Bacon was born in Philadelphia on July 8, 1958.

Q: What is the full name of the Prado, the national muse-um in Madrid? What does Prado mean? -- M.J., Corpus Christi, Texas

A: The Museo Nacional del Prado was opened in 1819, making it one of the world’s first public art galleries. “Prado” is Spanish for “mead-ow.” The museum is located on the Paseo del Prado, in one of Madrid’s most ele-gant areas. The mu-seum is now touted as the largest art gal-lery in the world.

Q: Was Gladys Knight related to any of the Pips? -- S.D., Greenville, Pa.

A: The Pips con-sisted of Knight’s brother, Merald “Bubba” Knight, and two of her cousins, Edward Patten and Wiliam Guest.

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There is nothing wrong with putting your needs first this year. You can make impressive strides if you dedicate your time and effort to moving forward personally and professionally. Don’t allow unproductive individuals to interfere with your progress. A competitive approach will bring good results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Get the lowdown on any investment, partnership or deal you want to pursue before you make a commitment. It’s better to be safe and protect what you already have.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Money woes are evident if you don’t reduce your spending and stick to a strict budget. Consider reviving an idea that you previously passed over. The timing is now better to pursue a dream.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Don’t let things get you down. Set a goal that will help you feel free and able to experience something new. Until you challenge your capabilities, you won’t know your limits.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Make a blueprint for your professional future. Direct your energies with precision and stick to your agenda. Don’t trust anyone who tries to take credit for your ideas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Your hard work is paying off, and your life goals are within reach. You will advance to the next level and make new goals to strive for. You are on your way up.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Positive changes lie ahead, but legal or investment contracts need to be dealt with first. Consider the consequences involved if you sign an agreement without careful inspection.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You will feel a great sense of relief once you have dealt with pending issues. Take care of your responsibilities quickly in order to more truly enjoy simpler pleasures.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Procrastination will be your downfall. Problems at work and with relationships can be cleared up once you figure out what’s really bothering you. Don’t be afraid to take action.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- This is your time to shine. Take control and plan a gathering or fun event. Love and romance are looking hot, and putting greater emphasis on personal achievements will lift your spirits.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Opposition will come from an unlikely source. Don’t trust someone claiming to have your best interests in mind. You will come out on top as long as you don’t share personal secrets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- An entertaining approach will help you sell whatever you are trying to offer. Showing off a little will help you beat out any competition you face.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- An interesting adventure is imminent. Someone you thought gone will resurface. Fresh and innovative moneymaking schemes will bring positive results and lead to an enterprise-filled future.

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Crossword Puzzle-- Hagen 6 Samsung rival 7 A law -- itself 8 Jockey’s need 9 Fabric meas. 10 Highchair wear 11 At this place 12 Fossil resin 17 Eur. country 20 Pastoral scenes 21 Samba and twist 22 Immense 23 By word of mouth 24 -- Scotia 26 Oilskin slicker 27 Sidle past 28 Highly prized 31 City rtes. 35 Historical period 36 -- Jones Average 39 Humerus neighbor

ACROSS 1 Ticklish Muppet 5 Loan-sharking 10 Decorative pin 12 Righted a wrong 13 Put a match to 14 Insect-eating insect 15 Tracts of low, wet ground 16 Make fun of 18 Partner for hither 19 Like a wedding cake 22 Prepared fish 25 Got the lead out? 29 Wry humor 30 Twig junctures 32 Chair’s mallet 33 Bandleader Xavier 34 Dished out 37 Jugs 38 Hagar, to Helga 40 Motor coach 43 Nocturnal predator 44 Shredded cabbage 48 Cold place 50 Mountains and trees 52 Rubber boot 53 Warnings 54 Roll with the punches 55 Playing card

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In the Precision Machining Technology pro-gram, students invent, design, and manufacture components as they learn to operate lathes, grind-ers, mills and computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine. Manufacturing processes are emphasized throughout the program.

The Vantage Welding program is a national-ly recognized AWS (American Welding Society) training and testing facility. Students have the opportunity to earn industry certifications in plate and pipe welding. The seniors are currently on a record breaking pace in regard to their American Welding Society (AWS) certifications. If all goes well the rest of the year, this year’s seniors will graduate with the most certifications of any that have attended Vantage Career Center. This program has earned the National Exemplary designation in career technical education.

Industrial Mechanics students learn how to perform preventive and corrective maintenance and the set up and adjustment of plant machinery. Students diagnose and repair heating, ventilation and cooling systems while learning the basics of welding, electricity, machining, metal fabrication,

and hydraulics. They have completed the fire ring projects that are being donated to the home schools as well as an extensive project for Kennedy Manufacturing. The juniors are continuing to work on their OSHA 10 Hour safety course as well.

The Electricity program provides entry-level training ranging from residential wiring to indus-trial electrical applications. Students learn how to install, maintain and troubleshoot a variety of electrical systems, including the installation of coaxial or fiber optic cable for computers and other telecommunications equipment. Seniors use their residential wiring skills to wire the Vantage Carpentry House project each year.

In the Building and Grounds Maintenance pro-gram, students are introduced to a wide variety of skills necessary to keep buildings and their sur-rounding areas in good condition. Students learn building maintenance skills, landscaping, painting and light carpentry skills.

Build a house while still in high school? That’s just what Vantage Carpentry students do. Carpentry students learn the skills required for residential construction, including blueprint-reading, com-puterized house design, framing, roofing, drywall, cabinetry, stairs and outside finish work. These

students also follow precise specifications and use software and a Techno CNC router to build custom cabinets for the house project.

If youíre interested in finding out about career opportunities in any of these fields or have ques-tions about the trade and industrial programs at Vantage, please call Mike Knott, Student Services Supervisor at 419-238-5411 ext. 2032 or email him at [email protected].

It’s almost time for the annual Open House from 5-7:30 p.m. Feb. 9. This year, several local eating establishments will be set up in the Commons and have sample size portions of food for you to try at a minimum price. It’s called “A Taste of Vantage.”

Tour the building, see the labs, check out the new equipment, talk to the staff and students. There will be a Parent Information Session in the Community Room at 6 p.m. to help answer questions you may have. Interested in going back to school yourself? Adult Education/Ohio Technical Center represen-tatives will also be there to answer questions about Vantage Adult Ed classes. Help support school-wide student activities by eating dinner at Vantage. Tickets for the “Taste of Vantage” will be available at the door for just $5 for 6 tickets.

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Answers to Monday’s questions:

The one-name stage names of the enter-tainment-world sisters whose family name is Knowles are Beyonce and Solange.

The mimic octopus can assume the shape and behavior of more than a dozen underwa-ter species to make itself appear less palatable to predators.

Today’s questions:What film beat out

Taxi Driver, Network and All the President’s Men to win the Best Movie Oscar in 1977?

What is China’s Great Green Wall?

Answers in Thursday’s Herald.

Today’s joke:A man and his wife

were sitting in the liv-ing room discussing a Living Will.

“Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, depen-dent on some machine and fluids from a bot-tle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.”

His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all the beer.

Obama in State of the Union: Tax wealthy, help middle classBY JULIE PACEAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Refusing to bend to the new Republican Congress, President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday night an ambi-tious State of the Union agenda steeped in Democratic priorities, including tax increases on the wealthy, education and child care help for the middle class and a torrent of veto threats for the GOP’s own plans.

In a shift from tradition, Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress was less a laun-dry list of new proposals and more an attempt to sell a story of a national economy emerging from the “shadow of crisis.” He appealed for “better politics” in Washington and pledged to work with Republicans, but he showed few signs of curtailing or tweaking his own plans to meet the GOP’s platform.

Instead, the president vowed to use his veto pen to strike down the Republican lead-ership’s efforts to dismantle his signature accomplishments, including his health care and financial reform laws.

“We can’t put the security of families at risk by taking away their health insurance or unrav-

eling the new rules on Wall Street or refighting past battles on immigration when we’ve got a system to fix,” Obama said in his hour-long address. “And if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, I will veto it.”

The president sought out more common ground on foreign policy, pledging to work with Congress on a new authorization for mil-itary action against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, as well as legislation to guard against cyberattacks. In a rare move away from his own party, Obama also renewed his call for fast-tracking free trade agree-ments with Asia and Europe, generating more applause from pro-trade Republicans than skeptical Democrats.

Obama’s address marked the first time in his presidency that he stood before a Republican-controlled Congress. Yet the shift in the political landscape has also been accompanied by a burst of economic growth and hiring, as well as a slight increase in Obama’s once-sagging approval ratings — leaving the White House to see little incentive in acquiescing to Republicans.

After ticking through signs of the ris-ing economy, the president turned toward

Republicans sitting in the chamber and said with a wink, “This is good news, people.”

The centerpiece of Obama’s economic pro-posals marked a shift away from the focus on austerity and deficit reduction that has domi-nated his fiscal fights with Republicans. In a direct challenge to GOP economic ideology, Obama called for increasing the capital gains rate on couples making more than $500,000 annually, to 28 percent.

The president’s tax plan would also require estates to pay capital gains taxes on securities at the time they’re inherited and slap a fee on the roughly 100 U.S. financial firms with assets of more than $50 billion.

Much of the $320 billion in new taxes and fees would be used for measures aimed at helping the middle class, including a $500 tax credit for some families with two spouses working, expansion of the child care tax cred-it and a $60 billion program to make com-munity college free. He also has called for expanding paid leave for workers and moved on his own to lower a mortgage insurance pre-mium rate that could attract new homebuyers.

“Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well?” Obama

asked. “Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?”

The president’s proposals seemed more about giving his party a platform in the 2016 election than outlining a realistic legislative agenda. Even before the president’s address, Republicans were balking at his proposals and painting a far less rosy picture of the economy.

“We see our neighbors agonize over stagnant wages and lost jobs. We see the hurt caused by canceled health care plans and higher monthly insurance bills,” said Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who delivered the Republican response.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Obama’s economic initiatives weren’t just “the wrong policies, they’re the wrong priorities: growing Washington’s bureaucracy instead of America’s economy.”

With an eye on a swirl of foreign policy challenges, Obama defended his decision to return to military action in Iraq and also authorize airstrikes in Syria. He said Congress could “show the world that we are united in this mission” by passing a new resolution for-mally authorizing the use of force against the Islamic State group.

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