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ALBION — Cleanup from what some are calling the “Winter Blast” Sunday is proceeding slowly due to the sheer volume of snow, a Noble County offi cial said Monday.

“The highway department is making some progress, but there’s still a lot of work,” said Noble County Emergency Management Agency executive director Michael Newton.

The National Weather Service had no fi nal storm snowfall total available for Noble County, but did show Kendallville as having received 14.0 inches at 9:35 p.m. Sunday and southwest Noble County with a total of 9.8 inches at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Newton said most of Noble County received about a foot of snow during the storm, with numbers varying a bit.

Noble County’s Red Level 1 Warning snow advisory, restricting travel on county roads to emergency vehicles only, continued overnight, Newton said.

The commissioners ordered all county offi ce buildings closed to the public Tuesday afternoon. They will meet briefl y Wednesday at 10 a.m. to address claims and payroll, and deal with all other items from their agenda from Monday’s canceled meeting Jan. 13.

The Noble County Highway Department’s work clearing the roads has been complicated by high winds, Newton said, adding, “There’s still a lot of drifting out there.”

Another problem crews have to deal with is cars that have become stuck in the bad conditions, Newton said. Crews were encoun-

tering “a lot” of them Monday afternoon.

Noble County E-911 dispatch records showed dozens of slide-offs and cars stuck in snow on the roads causing obstructions, starting Sunday afternoon and continuing until the report ended at 6:17 p.m. Monday.

Newton warned travelers that it’s still best to stay off the roads unless necessary, since tempera-tures were forecast to be below zero with high winds through Wednesday morning. “It’s still dangerous,” he said.

All Ligonier city offi ces will be closed today for the second consecutive day because of the winter storm, Mayor Patty Fisel said.

Fisel offered high praise for city employees who worked through the night, from Sunday to Monday, plowing virtually every

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Area snowfall totalsBelow are snowfall totals for communities in the four-county area of northeast Indiana with weather observers reporting to the National Weather Service. The data is snowfall for the 24-hour period ending Monday at 9 a.m. The Kendallville total is from WANE-TV.Town TotalAngola . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.0Fremont . . . . . . . . . . . 10.1Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . 11.0Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1Kendallville . . . . . . . . . 14.0LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . 13.1

Auburn goes darkin subzero weatherBY AARON ORGANaorgan@kpcmedia.com

AUBURN — The Auburn electric utility’s entire territory — and its 6,000 customers — went black Monday night, with a power outage occurring at the same time temperatures were plunging to 15 degrees below zero.

Mayor Norm Yoder said the city-owned utility’s territory lost power when its feed from regional electric utility I&M was broken somehow.

“The whole city’s out of power,” Yoder said.

I&M spokesman Tracy Warner said the feed was disrupted at the Auburn substation at 6:35 p.m.

Warner said I&M expected to restore its power feed to Auburn by 10 p.m. He cautioned that it might not restore power to Auburn customers if the problem that caused the outage was with Auburn electric’s equipment. At 9 p.m., the cause was uncertain, Warner said.

Yoder said typically with outages, I&M will take an hour to mobilize and another hour to troubleshoot the problem. He insisted those are rough estimates, however.

Power did not return by 10 p.m.

Shortly after the power went out, the DeKalb County Department of Homeland Security said warming shelters were opening at DeKalb Middle School and the DeKalb County Offi ce Building, 215 E. Ninth St., for people who lost power and heat.

People could use either the Ninth or Tenth street entrance of the offi ce building, also known as the courthouse annex. The Auburn Police Department was overseeing that shelter.

The middle school, on C.R. 427 north of Auburn, had power because it lies in NIPSCO’s electric utility territory.

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KENDALLVILLE — Travel restrictions in Kendallville remain in place in the wake of a winter storm that struck Sunday.

Mayor Suzanne Handshoe announced Monday at 3:45 p.m. that travel on city streets was restricted to authorized vehicles only until noon today. Police offi cers will stop unauthorized vehicles and advise drivers of the travel restriction, according to Police Chief Rob Wiley.

City offi cials advised residents it is illegal to place snow in streets when removing it from their premises. A statement said parking on snow routes in the city is forbidden. City offi ces will be closed until noon today.

The city’s Main Street business district was nearly deserted at 2 p.m. Monday, with 10-foot-high plowed snow piles lining the travel lanes, after a winter storm dumped approximately 14 inches of snow on Kendallville and the surrounding area Sunday.

Sunday’s all-day snowfall was followed by below-zero temperatures and dangerously low windchills. Monday’s low was 14 below, with a 44-below windchill and wind gusts of 30-35 mph causing blowing and drifting snow, according to the National Weather Service. Today’s high was expected to be 5 degrees below zero with windchills 18 to 20 below before a warmup Wednesday.

A windchill warning remains in effect until 8 p.m. today. A winter

storm warning was lifted at 4 p.m. Monday.

Noble County schools were closed Monday and today. Many businesses were closed Monday, and several area industries canceled fi rst and second shifts. Walmart and Scott’s Foods were open Monday.

City streets and Noble County roads will remain snow-cov-ered, slick and hazardous today. Kendallville police dispatchers reported several slide-offs, but no major accidents. Sunday at

about 10 a.m., a 2010 Chrysler Town and Country van, driven by Nicole A. Wetli, 22, of Albion was traveling eastbound on North Street. Wetli attempted to turn into the Community State Bank parking lot when the van slid on the snow-covered road, ran over a curb and struck a bank sign. Wetli was not injured.

Most people heeded warnings about the hazardous travel conditions and dangerously low temperatures and windchills and stayed inside.

Firefi ghters were busy responding to medical emergen-cies with Noble County EMS, but no fi res were reported.

No power outages were reported in Kendallville Monday.

Parkview Noble Hospital had not treated any cases of frostbite or hypothermia emergency as of Monday afternoon, according to emergency department director Dr. Terry Gaff.

The fi re department requested property owners to clear snow from fi re hydrants.

Buried in a deep freezeCity comes to stopafter 14-inch snow,then subzero temps

DENNIS NARTKER

Piles of plowed snow 10 feet high lined the Main Street business district traffi c lanes in Kendall-ville Monday after a storm dumped snow on the

city Sunday. A warning travel advisory was in effect until 5 p.m. Monday, restricting travel to authorized vehicles only.

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Cold, but still proudThese snow sculptors created a patriotic display Sunday in the 900 block of South Main Street,

Kendallville. From left are Devin Bolen, Adolfo Resendiz and Dion Urbina, all of Kendallville.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confi rmed Janet Yellen on Monday as the fi rst woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fi ghting unemployment and a backer of the central bank’s efforts to spur the economy with low interest rates and massive bond purchases.

Yellen, 67, will replace Ben Bernanke, who is stepping down after serving as chairman for eight years dominated by the Great Recession and the Fed’s efforts to combat it.

Senators confi rmed her by 56-26, with numerous absences caused by airline fl ight delays forced by arctic temperatures around much of the country. All 45 voting Democrats were joined by 11 Republicans in supporting Yellen, while 26 Republi-cans voted “no.”

Vice chair of the Fed since 2010, Yellen begins her four-year term as leader of the century-old bank on Feb. 1. With the economy rebounding from the depths of the recession but only modestly so far, many economists expect her to focus on how to nurture growth without putting it into overdrive, which could risk fueling infl ation.

“The big debate will be when the Fed should tighten and how much, rather than when to step on the gas pedal and how hard,” predicted Bill Cheney, chief economist for John Hancock Financial Services, who envisions a growing economy this year.

Under Bernanke, the Fed has driven short-term interest rates down to near zero and fl ushed money into the economy with huge bond purchases, which it has just

Senateconfi rmsYellen

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Power outagehits Ligonier area

LIGONIER—A substa-tion near Ligonier failed late Monday night for Noble County REMC. A total of 1,107 customers were without power in areas including Perry, York, Sparta and Elkhart townships. Noble County REMC spokesperson Kevin Dreibelbis said crews were on the scene late Monday evening working to restore power, but gave no timeline for restoration.

Huntington County parks its plows because of drifting

HUNTINGTON (AP) — Huntington County has taken its plows off the roads because blowing snow is making it impossible to keep roads clear.

Huntington County offi cials announced Monday evening it was parking plows at area fi re stations. It says the plow drivers will be in standby mode for medical and fi re department

emergencies.The county says it will

resume plowing when the winds subside. The county is under a travel warning, meaning only emergency workers should be on the roads.

Flights continue at Fort Wayne airport

FORT WAYNE — The Fort Wayne International Airport worked to keep runways open through the snow and cold temperatures Monday, our news partner, NewsChannel 15, reports.

On Monday, FWA had one plane land and two planes take off.

Airport offi cials advise people to check with their carriers to see if their fl ights have been delayed or canceled before heading to the airport.

People can also call FWA at (260) 747-4146. However, because there have been so many fl ights canceled, people may have to wait a bit to speak to employees on the phone.

Area factorystruck by fi re

COLUMBIA CITY — Twelve departments battled a fi re at a Whitley County factory Monday morning, according to news reports.

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reports all nine Whitley County fi re departments, along with three depart-ments in Allen County, responded to a fi re at Viking Products. Crews spent fi ve hours fi ghting the fi re.

40,000 reported without power

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s major electric utilities are reporting more than 40,000 power outages around the state while temperatures plunge below zero.

The largest number of outages was in Indianap-olis, where nearly 27,000 homes and businesses were reported without electricity Monday morning. A couple thousand outages each were reported in the Terre Haute area and central Indiana’s Tipton County.

Sunday’s heavy snowfall and strong winds gusting to 35 mph at times have caused many tree limbs to come down on power lines.

Utility offi cials say crews are working as quickly as possible to make repairs.

Indy police get mobile offi ce

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police are hitting the road for emergen-cies and special events in a new rolling offi ce that keeps all the tools they need at hand.

The $500,000 mobile incident command vehicle resembles a big bus but includes high-tech surveil-lance equipment, satellite and cellular capabilities that allow videoconferencing and wireless networking.

The Indianapolis Star reports the 38-foot vehicle was purchased with a U.S. Department of Justice grant.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana authorities had a simple message Monday for anyone considering braving the state’s icy, snow-covered roads, biting winds and subzero temperatures: Stay home.

Gov. Mike Pence said he would sign an executive order declaring emergencies for at least 29 of Indiana’s 92 counties following a storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas Sunday and Monday and delivered the coldest temperatures in two decades. Those counties included LaGrange, Noble and Steuben in northeast Indiana.

Pence warned residents that traveling posed “real peril” because of poor road conditions and dangerous wind chills that could linger for 36 hours.

“If you can stay in today, stay in all day today,” he said at a Statehouse news conference. “People need to understand that this is a very serious and very dangerous storm and despite the sunshine it continues to be just that.”

Many of Indiana’s schools, businesses and municipal offi ces were shuttered Monday, and some planned to remain closed Tuesday, after the storm dumped up to 15 inches of snow and 35 mph wind gusts drifted some roads shut. Nearly 32,000 homes and businesses remained without power Monday evening after tree limbs burdened with snow fell onto power lines.

Behind the storm, an Arctic

blast delivered temperatures of nearly 15 degrees below zero to the state’s northern half — the coldest since a record cold wave in January 1994. Wind gusts made it feel like 45 degrees below zero in some parts of the state, which is cold enough to freeze exposed skin in minutes, the National Weather Service said.

In Indianapolis, the midday temperature was 12 degrees below zero. Downtown streets were deserted, aside from a few

heavily dressed pedestrians and the occasional utility truck or snowplow.

Mayor Greg Ballard issued the city’s fi rst red level travel warning since a blizzard paralyzed the city in January 1978. He lifted that ban at noon Monday, but said he wanted schools and businesses in the city to remain closed through Tuesday until the worst of the severe cold had passed.

The temperature reached a record low 14 below zero for the

date in Fort Wayne, 2 degrees below the previous record set in 1970. It also reached 15 below in Valparaiso, 14 below in South Bend, and 13 below in Goshen and Muncie. It was even 2 below zero in Evansville in far southwestern Indiana.

Emergency offi cials in the northern two-thirds of the state warned people to stay off the roads, many of which were rendered impassable because of heavy snow and winds that drifted over some roadways. At least one person had died from a crash on snow-covered roads. Steuben County Sheriff Tim Troyer announced motorists would be ticketed after 3 p.m. Monday if they were on county roads, which were dangerous to travel.

The weather service said the heaviest snowfall was 15 inches reported in the north-central Indiana town of Tipton, while the southern Indiana city of Bloomington, where much of the precipitation fell as rain, reported less than one inch of new snow.

Most counties in the northern two-thirds of the state issued warnings asking everyone except emergency workers to avoid travel.

Highway offi cials on Monday afternoon reopened two major highways in northwestern Indiana — Interstate 65 between Lafayette and Merrillville and I-80/94 from the Illinois state line to Michigan City, but later closed I-65 again because of deteriorating conditions. Numerous state and local roads remained closed.

The emergency declarations issued by Pence are necessary to qualify for federal assistance. The counties included in the declara-tion are: Clinton, Delaware, Elkhart, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Madison, Marshall, Montgomery, Newton, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, Rush, St. Joseph,

Starke, Steuben, Sullivan, Tipton, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, White, and Whitley.

Indiana Department of Homeland spokesman John Erickson said National Guard crews were contributing highway and roadside assistance and helping emergency medical services reach patients. Erickson said even some emergency vehicles were having trouble in the snow.

About 75 Indianapolis residents whose homes and apartments had been plunged into icy darkness by outages sought shelter in the American Red Cross’ local headquarters north of downtown, where they milled about following a breakfast of hot oatmeal, coffee and cookies.

Among them was Ronald G. Smith Sr., a 53-year-old auto mechanic who said he was thankful that he had a warm place to stay until his home’s power was restored. He said he fell asleep while watching Sunday’s playoff game between the San Francisco 49rs and Green Bay Packers, and that he awoke at around 10 p.m. to no power.

“It was cold and dark. I got dressed and I was scared, thinking ‘What am I going to do?’ My cat knew something was wrong, he was jumping all over the place,” Smith said. “I remember the blizzard of ‘78 — the snow was deep, but it wasn’t this cold and the lights stayed on. This is brutal cold.”

Ann Gregson, a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross’ Indianapolis region, said nearly 300 people had checked into the state’s 16 Red Cross shelters.

State police said 41-year-old Christopher Hutchings of Richmond died Sunday in a crash at U.S. 40 and Indiana 3 in eastern Indiana’s Henry County when his car slid on the snow-covered road into the path of a pickup truck.

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Garrett wastewater utility superintendent Bruce Schlosser takes an offi cial measure of 14.5 inches of new snowfall at the plant’s weather station Monday afternoon.

Order allows communities to seek federal aid for storm help

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency sent Congress a list of alternatives Monday for shielding the Great Lakes from an invasion by Asian carp that could devastate native fi sh, including construction projects in Chicago waterways that could cost more than $18 billion and take 25 years to complete.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declined to endorse a single plan after studying the matter since 2009, disappointing sponsors of legislation that ordered the agency to move faster. Instead, the Corps provided a 232-page analysis with eight possible approaches.

Two would place dams in the Chicago waterway

system to seal off Lake Michigan from the carp-in-fested Mississippi River watershed. Environmen-talists and fi ve states that unsuccessfully sued the Corps in federal court favor that approach, while Illinois, Indiana and local shipping interests oppose it.

Other proposals would use different mixtures of equipment and technology.

Corps offers carp plan

Eurythmics reunitingfor Beatles tribute

NEW YORK (AP) — The Eurythmics are reuniting — to pay tribute to the Beatles.

The Recording Academy announced Monday that Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart will perform as a duo for “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles.” The event will be taped at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Jan. 27, a day after the Grammy Awards.

Longtime Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich, who is also producing the Beatles special, thought the Eurythmics would be ideal to honor the iconic group.

“When it came around to booking this show, what I felt was important was to try and fi nd those artists who not only would be able to interpret Beatles songs, but would also have an … understanding of what they meant,” he said in an interview.

The Eurythmics, who sold millions of albums and whose hits include “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” released their debut in 1981. Ehrlich said Lennox and Stewart, who have launched successful solo careers, are thrilled to perform in tribute to the Beatles.

Huge waves slaminto British coast,US storm blamed

LONDON (AP) — Waves up to 27 feet (8.2 meters) high slammed into Britain’s southwestern coast on Monday, as lashing winds and heavy rain battered parts of the U.K. and coastal residents braced for another round of fl ooding.

The monster waves were recorded at Land’s End, the southwestern tip of the U.K.

In Aberystwyth in Wales, seafront homes, businesses and student residence halls were evacuated as high tides hit the Welsh coast.

The Met Offi ce, Britain’s weather forecasting body, warned of wind gusts up to 70 mph and exception-ally large waves along the coasts of Wales, southwest England and Northern Ireland.

It said the storm is loosely connected to the weather system that caused the U.S winter storm, which dumped large amounts of snow in the Northeast and delayed thousands of fl ights.

“A very strong jet stream helped to steer a lot of low pressure across the U.K.,” said forecaster Charles Powell.

Football playerconvicted in Ohiorape released

CINCINNATI (AP) — A former eastern Ohio high school football player has been released from a juvenile detention center less than a year after his conviction for raping a 16-year-old girl following an alcohol-fueled party.

WTOV-TV in Steuben-ville reported Sunday evening that Ma’Lik Richmond had been released. His attorney, Walter Madison, issued a statement saying the youth is “braced for the balance of his life” and that he and his family are requesting privacy.

“While away, Ma’Lik has refl ected, learned, matured, and grown in many ways,” he said in the statement. “He is a better, stronger person and looks forward to school, life, and spending time with family.”

Richmond was sentenced to one year in March 2013. A judge convicted him and fellow Steubenville High School student athlete Trent Mays of raping the West Virginia girl in August 2012. Mays also was convicted of using his phone to take a naked picture of the underage girl.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gay couples in Utah were thrust into legal limbo Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court put a halt to same-sex marriages in the state, turning jubilation to doubt just weeks after a judge’s ruling sent people rushing to get married.

The justices did not rule on the merits of the case or on same-sex marriage bans in general, leaving both sides confi dent they’ll ultimately win. The decision stays in effect while the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers the long-term question of whether gay couples have a right to wed in Utah.

For those couples who just got married — or were planning their nuptials — the latest twist in the legal battle clouds what was seen as a cause for celebra-tion.

“It feels like we are second-class citizens during the stay,” said Moudi Sbeity, who is waiting to get married until the legal process plays out. “There’s also the fear of the unknown of what might come next.”

Sbeity and partner Derek Kitchen are one of the three couples who brought the Utah lawsuit that led to the surprise Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby, who said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated gay and lesbian couples’ constitutional rights.

State offi cials praised

Monday’s decision to put a hold on things, saying it should have come earlier to avoid uncertainty. Two previous courts turned down their request for a stay.

“Clearly, the stay should have been granted with the original District Court decision in order to have avoided the uncertainty created by this unprece-dented change,” Gov. Gary Herbert said.

The Supreme Court’s unsigned order did not indicate anyone dissented from the decision to halt same-sex marriages in Utah. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency appeals from Utah and the fi ve other states in the 10th Circuit, turned the matter over to the entire court.

Many believe the Supreme Court will eventu-ally settle the issue for good. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said he believes the court’s decision indicates an interest in Utah’s case, and he hopes the justices someday issue a fi nal answer.

Others doubt the high court will step in any time soon. In June, the justices passed on weighing on the constitutionality of defi ning marriage as being between a man and woman, relying instead on a technical legal argument to resolve the California case and clear the way for same-sex marriage in the state, which resumed at the end of June.

Supreme Courtstops same-sexmarriage in Utah

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Refugees who fl ed the recent violence in South Sudan and crossed the border into Uganda carry their belongings as they await transportation from a transit center in the town of Koboko to a nearby settlement in Arua District in northern Uganda Monday. Offi cials close

to the talks between representatives of South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar in Ethiopia said Monday that direct talks between the warring factions of South Sudan have stalled after hitting a snag over differences on the agenda.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The president of Sudan said during a visit to former enemy territory on Monday that 20 years of war with South Sudan taught the people of his country that negotiations are the only way forward for the region.

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir said he feared that after allowing South Sudan to hold a vote to break away from Sudan in 2011, the outbreak of violence could mean “that our huge sacrifi ce did not bear fruit.”

“We have come to see what we can do to stop this war knowing all too well that armed confl ict would never resolve a problem and also knowing that any

problem no matter how complicated can be solved at the negotiation table,” Bashir said in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.

Talks in Ethiopia between representatives of South Sudan President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar have gotten off to a slow start. Offi cials said at a news conference late Monday that the two sides have agreed on rules for the talks and that they will resume Tuesday.

South Sudan has seen three weeks of violence that Kiir says began as a coup attempt Dec. 15, though Machar’s side denies the allegation. Violence began as a political dispute but has since taken on ethnic

dimensions, with tribes attacking each other.

The warfare has forced an estimated 200,000 people to fl ee their homes in search of safety. The U.N. has said more than 1,000 people have died, a number that is believed to be a low estimate. Forces loyal to Machar have been in control of two important state capitals.

Bashir fl ew to Juba, South Sudan’s country capital, on Monday to meet with Kiir, a meeting the southern government said “confi rms the strength of our relationship.”

After decades of war, South Sudan peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011.

Talks key for South Sudan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, on Monday abruptly abandoned her effort to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming.

Cheney cited “serious health issues” that “have recently arisen in our family” as the reason for her decision.

But her candidacy had raised hackles in the Republican Party and caused a public rift with her sister, Mary, a lesbian, over Liz Cheney’s opposition to gay marriage.

In her withdrawal statement, Cheney did not mention those controver-sies.

“Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign. My children and their futures were the motivation for our campaign and they will always be my overriding priority,” Cheney said. She did not specify those health issues.

She added: “As a mother and a patriot, I know that the work of defending freedom and protecting liberty must continue for each genera-tion. Though this campaign stops today, my commit-ment to keep fi ghting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop.”

Cheney moved her family from Virginia to Wyoming to run for the seat. Her effort to replace Enzi angered and upset many Republicans and drew virtually no support from Senate Republi-cans, who rushed to back the Senate veteran and three-term conservative. Enzi’s supporters called Cheney a carpetbagger and opportunist.

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., chairman of the National Republican Senato-rial Committee, swiftly expressed support for Enzi moments after Cheney announced last year.

In a statement, Enzi said he and his wife, Diana, “have always believed in putting family fi rst. We have tremendous respect for Liz’s decision. She and her entire family are in our thoughts and prayers.”

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Susan NorrisANGOLA — Susan

K. Norris, 60, of Angola, passed away on Saturday, January 4, 2014, at Cameron Memorial Hospital in Angola.

Susan was born on July 19, 1953, in Coldwater, Michigan, to Richard and Noreen (Colvin) McLatcher. She graduated from Bronson High School in 1971. She was a loving mother and homemaker to her family when her children were young. She later began her 22 year career at the Bronson Jr./Sr.High School, where she was the secretary to the Athletic and Guidance Offi ces. She also found great joy working for the White Star Motorsports Auctions.

Susan’s love for country line-dancing brought her husband Gary Norris into her life. The two met at The Stampede where they later married on September 6, 2003.

Susan was a very artistic woman. She was always working on one craft or another, most notably her Pen and Ink drawings. She enjoyed making scarves, headbands, cards, baskets, paintings and taking a lot of photographs. She had a tremendous love for cats and always had a great joke to tell.

Susan had a huge smile and one of her famous hugs for everyone. When you heard her infectious laugh you knew her loved surrounded you. Susan’s greatest achievement in life was being a wife, mom, Nana, daughter, sister and aunt to her family. She was full of life and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

Susan is survived by her husband Gary Norris of Angola, her children Aaron (Jana) Slisher of Eagle, MI and Faith Camburn of Ann Arbor, MI her mother Noreen McLatcher (Morris Taylor) of Coldwater, her brother Dick (Betty) McLatcher of Coldwater, her sisters Karen (Charles) Wheeler of Coldwater and Lori (Tom Lowande) Miller of Union City, her grandchildren Zoe, Zander & Zane Slisher, Kaytlyn, Collin, & Olivia Camburn, her son-in-law Chris Camburn of Concord, her- in-laws Don and Becky Norris, her brother-in-laws Brian(Nancy) Norris, Scott(Paula) Norris and Corey Norris, her former husband Michael Slisher and nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father in January of 1993.

A celebration of Susan’s life will be held on Friday, January 10, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. at the Bronson Jr./Sr. High School gymnasium with Pastor Doug Currier of Batavia Community Church offi ciating. Interment will follow at Batavia Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at Dutcher-Kolcz Funeral Home in Bronson from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the Bronson Athletic Boosters or to the family. www.dutcherfh.com

Jennie McCarthyGARRETT — Jennie L.

McCarthy, 77, of Garrett, died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2014.

A gathering of family of friends will be held on Saturday from 1-3 p.m. at Thomas Funeral Home, 1277 C.R. 56, Garrett.

The funeral service will follow at 3 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorials are to ASPCA.

Bonnie PhippsVESTABURG, Mich. —

A memorial celebration of the life of Bonnie Phipps, 94, formerly of Coldwater and Fremont, will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at the Church of Christ in Vestaburg, MI.

Mrs. Phipps, wife of Donald Phipps, minister of Coldwater First Church of Christ during the 1960s, died Dec. 9 at Schnepp Senior Care and Rehab Center in St. Louis, MI, where the couple lived. She had been ill for several months.

She is survived by her husband; sons John (Melanie) Phipps of Comstock Park, MI and David (Amy) Phipps of San Antonio, Texas; six grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, three nieces and several grand-nieces and nephews.

Born Bonnie Jean Johnson on Feb. 24, 1919, in Detroit, she graduated from Berkley High School and attended Cincinnati Bible Seminary. She married Donald Phipps in Berkley in 1942, and they served in Christian ministry for many years in the Midwest and New York state. Mrs. Phipps played piano for services in many of the couple’s ministries. In later years, she enjoyed pencil art work, crafts, church activities and time with friends.

In lieu of fl owers, memorial contributions may be made payable to the Richard D. Prestage Scholar-ship Fund for students of nursing, in care of the Gratiot County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 248, Ithaca, MI 48847 or to Vestaburg Church of Christ, 7289 Avenue B, Vestaburg, MI 48891.

Condolences may be expressed in Brigham Funeral Chapel’s online guestbook at http://www.brighamfuneralchapel.com/.

DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER, visitation and service times for Paul Stanley have been changed.

Paul StanleyKENDALLVILLE

— Paul L Stanley, 80, of Kendallville died Saturday, January 4, 2014, in Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne

He had lived in this area for more than 50 years, coming from Kentucky.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Mr. Stanley was a welder, working for Wirco in Avilla and Levin & Sons in Kendallville. For the last 20 years, he had worked for the Robert and Marie Strater family of Kendall-ville.

Paul loved to fi sh and hunt. He greatly loved his babies, Callie, Little Bit, and Duchess, which were his cats. He also enjoyed his grandchildren.

He was born November 4, 1933, in Garrett, Floyd County, Kentucky, to Jake and Ellen (Hicks) Stanley.

On June 11, 1953, in War, West Virginia, he married Polly Gibson.

Surviving are his wife of 60 years, Polly Stanley of Kendallville; four sons, Edwin (Donna) Stanley of Albion, Danny (Kari) Stanley of Kendallville, Beech Stanley of Kendall-ville, and Paul Stanley of Wolf Lake; four daughters, Ruth Ann (Roy) Christian of Woodruff, Kathy (Nick) Arnold of Kendallville, Mary Stanley of Kendall-ville, and Jamie Stanley of Kendallville; 14 grandchil-

dren; and 25 great-grand-children.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother; seven sisters; a grandson, Roy Allen Christian; and a great-grandson, Kile Allen Stanley.

Funeral services will be Thursday, January 9, 2014, at 2 p.m. in Young Family Funeral Home, Kendall-ville Chapel, 222 South State Street, Kendallville, with Pastor Mike Stanley of the Church of the Stone, Wolcottville, offi ciating. Burial will be in Orange Cemetery near Rome City.

Calling is Thursday, January 9, 2014, from noon to 2 p.m. in the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent to the family at http://www.youngfamilyfuneralhome.com/

Virgil CollinsKENDALLVILLE

— Virgil Collins, 72, of Kendallville, died Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne.

Services will be Friday at 11 a.m. at First Freedom Baptist Church on S.R. 327 south of Corunna.

Burial will be in Orange Cemetery near Rome City.

Calling will be Thursday after 3 p.m. at First Freedom Baptist Church, followed by an evening service at 6 p.m.

Arrangements are by Hite Funeral Home of Kendall-ville.

Fredric NelsonBARTOW, Fla. —

Fredric “Fred” J. Nelson, 71, formerly of Angola, died Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in Bartow, Fa.

Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Hoven Funeral Home, Buchanan, Mich.

Visitation will be today from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorials are to Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E. 200N, Angola.

Anna SkinnerCHURUBUSCO —

Anna Jane Skinner, 95, of Churubusco, died at 12:02 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, at North Ridge Village Nursing and Rehab in Albion.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at Sugar Grove Church of God with Pastor Timothy Grable offi ciating.

The family will receive friends at the Sheets & Childs Funeral Home from 2-7 p.m Wednesday, or one hour prior to the service at the church.

Burial will be in the Christian Chapel Cemetery, Merriam.

Margaret PomavilleANGOLA — Margaret

Pomaville, 95, died Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, at Lakeland Skilled Nursing Center, Angola.

Services will be Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in St. Timothy Catholic Church, 2901 Manning, Trenton, Mich.

Calling will be Wednesday from 1:30-8 p.m. at The Trenton Chapel-Martenson Family of Funeral Homes, 3200 West Road, Trenton, Mich., and Thursday from 10-10:30 a.m. at the church.

Burial will be Thursday in Michigan Memorial Park Cemetery, 31263 Huron River Drive, Flat Rock, Mich.

Joseph HeintzelmanLIGONIER — Joseph

J. Heintzelman, 77, of Ligonier, died Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 in Kendallville.

Arrangements are pending at Yeager Funeral Home in Ligonier.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for the family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after a surgery said Monday that she has arrived safely at a new location, but that she was in “bad shape.”

Christopher Dolan said Monday that a critical care team delivered Jahi McMath to the location, but wouldn’t say where. He said she was in “bad shape” because of poor nutrition during her hospital stay.

“We are very relieved she got safely to where she needed to be,” he said.

Jahi, who had surgery for sleep apnea at Children’s Hospital Oakland, left the facility in a private

ambulance shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday. She was moved by a critical care team while attached to a ventilator but without a feeding tube, Dolan said.

“She’s in very bad shape,” he said. “You would be too, if you hadn’t had nutrition in 26 days and were a sick little girl to begin with.”

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rics, said the girl was released to the coroner. The coroner then released her into the custody of her mother, Nailah Winkfi eld, as per court order, Durand said in an email.

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The Alameda County coroner’s offi ce issued a death certifi cate for the girl Friday but said the document is incomplete

because no cause of death has been determined pending an autopsy.

“They may have issued one but we don’t have it. We don’t think she’s dead,” Dolan said. “We got all the necessary legal paperwork in order to get Jahi out of there.” He said the deal to move the girl came together Sunday.

A court injunction prohibiting Children’s Hospital from removing the ventilator that has kept Jahi’s heart pumping since

her Dec. 9 surgery expires at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Dolan asked for privacy for the caregivers because the issue has raised such strong emotions.

The girl’s uncle, Omari Seeley, told reporters that “we’re very grateful. We’re very proud. We want to thank everyone who supported us, everyone who stood in our corner, everyone who prayed for us, everyone who donated to make this possible. Without you guys, none of this would be possible.”

After spending weeks in a very public and tense fi ght with the hospital, Jahi’s family does not plan to disclose any more

about their plans for her continued care until she is resettled, her uncle, Omari Sealey, told reporters on Friday.

The hospital has argued since before Christmas that Jahi’s brain death means she is legally dead and she should be discon-nected from the ventilator. It also has refused to fi t her with a feeding tube or a breathing tube that would help stabilize her during a move, saying it was unethical to perform medical procedures on a dead person.

Hospital spokesman Sam Singer said offi cials were not informed where the girl was being taken.

Girl declared brain dead moved to new location

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My fi rst year of married life included the Blizzard of 1978.

Shimmering white everywhere, mountains of drifting snow, cars buried from view, frigid cold and everything closed … for days.

To assure you that the above is not hyperbole here is some information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration website, noaa.gov.Blizzard of 1978Beginning Wednesday January 25,

1978, Indiana was paralyzed by a snow storm that came to be known as the Blizzard of ‘78, the worst blizzard on record for the Hoosier state…

Even experienced weather profes-sionals, who knew what was coming, had little idea of exactly what they would face over the next few days. The storm set records still in place to this day, including the most snow in one month at Indianapolis, 30.6 inches, and the most snow on the ground at Indianapolis, 20 inches.

Many recall homes buried in snow, close calls with danger on the roadways, or even sledding from second fl oor windows …

Doctors and emergency personnel were forced to reach people on skis and snowmobiles. The governor sent National Guard tanks onto I-65 to remove stranded semis. A snowbank stalled a seven car Amtrak train in Putnam County. Indiana Bell was forced to halt all phone traffi c but emergency calls. In Franklin, the Daily Journal published on pink paper, explaining that the color would help readers fi nd their papers in the snow. The governor declared a snow emergency for the entire state the morning of the 26th. During the afternoon of the 26th, the Indiana State Police considered all Indiana roads closed. Seventy people perished during the storm.

The fi rst ever Blizzard Warning for the entire state of Indiana was issued at 3:45 PM EST on January 25th. A heavy snow warning had been issued 12 hours earlier. Winds would approach 50 mph or more by midnight and continue through the 27th. Temperatures would plummet to a low of zero during the storm, with wind chills approaching -50 on the old wind chill scale. Snowfall rates of nearly one half to as much as one inch per hour were not in and of themselves remarkable, but the duration of the heavy snow was. Signif-icant snowfall lasted about 31 hours at Indianapolis and would be followed by continued cold and high winds. This hampered recovery and relief efforts, leaving much of Indiana crippled for days … In some areas, up to 3 feet of snow fell. The howling winds would push drifts up to as much as 20-25 feet. Visibilities would remain at or below one quarter mile for 25 hours.

The storm was characterized by a relatively rare merger of two distinct weather systems. The result was a very strong area of low pressure that reached its lowest pressure over Cleveland Ohio.

For Terry and me the Blizzard of ’78 began around 4:30 a.m. Jan. 25 when we received a phone call from John Peirce, editor of The News Sun, who said he would not be able to make it to work. We looked outside from our bedroom window (we live in the same house today) and all we could see was a street light, shining dimly through swirling white.

In the pitch black, we walked up to The News Sun. On the south side of Mott Street, near the intersection with Riley, an elderly women was sweeping the sidewalk in front of her home vigorously and steadily. I will never forget that image.

On the last block of East Mitchell Street, about a block from The News Sun, the wind was so strong and the snow was so deep that I felt maybe I wouldn’t make it. Briefl y, I was very scared. But then adrenaline kicked in, again, and I was fi ne.

Some of our pressmen came in on snowmobiles. As we walked home that afternoon, or evening, I can’t remember, with a few newspapers “hot off the press,” Terry threw a newspaper onto the front porch of John and Julie Atz on Mitchell Street.

To this day, The News Sun has never missed a day of scheduled publication, although sometimes, like during the Blizzard of ’78, some people have not received their paper on the day it was printed.

The big difference is that today we can deliver the news online, 24/7 … keeping people connected, one way or another.

During this storm, we have opened up kpcnews.com so that access to everything is free for everyone.

Take advantage of reading our newspapers in the “e-edition” area where you can view each page of each publication in pdf form, reading the newspaper exactly as it looks in print.

GRACE HOUSHOLDER is a columnist and editorial writer for this newspaper. Contact her at ghousholder@kpcmedia.com.

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Jesus advised us to ‘seek the truth’

To the editor:An important concept I learned in

a college history class was historical perspective — knowing what people believed in the society being studied and HOW their beliefs affected the way they reported their experiences.

For us to picture what life in the Near East was like in early pre-Chris-tian and Christian times we can visit secluded villages where people have little contact with the outside world, where education is limited to the basics of math and language (often for males only (as “women don’t need educations”) and where religion is black and white, right and wrong, good and evil with no room for questions. And where anxieties are soothed by wine or “chews.”

Without a way to understand God’s creation, ancients called mysterious events acts of God.’They were seen as supernatural because their causes were not understood. Still today those who know little about science, history, human social development, psychology and other fi elds of enlightenment tend to believe ancient writings to be the inerrant word of God.

Another shocker I experienced in

college was in a New Testament class. During the last week of the semester we still had the last four books to cover, including Revelations. When in high school my local pastor spent six months explaining Revelations in Sunday evening Bible Study. So I asked Rev. Dr. Matthews how we were going to have time for Revela-tions? He looked at his watch and said, “We still have fi ve minutes before the end of class, so let’s cover that now.”

He started by pointing out that John was exiled on the island of Patmos when he wrote Revelations. At that time Romans hated Christians and Christian teachings. John knew this, and knew the only way he could tell his friends back home about his well-being was by writing his letters in little-understood (by his Roman censors) Greek numerical code. While John’s letters informed his friends how he was being treated, when he expected to be released, etc., they were written in a way his guards might think he was a lunatic. Thus John was able to smuggle some Christian messages hidden in his letters, such as the passage that begins, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock, and if any man hears my voice and opens the door unto me …” and several others. But they were so well hidden in the

“rants of a mad man” that the censors didn’t catch them. (You can imagine what a “revelation” Dr. Matthews’ insight was to us who were contem-plating entering the ministry!)

Many ministers I’ve talked to have never studied other courses in depth — only the Bible courses taught at seminary. Yet it is many of these other courses that reveal the big picture that helps us understand the nature of our creation and our human social development. They lead to the understanding many of our Founding Fathers embraced when they laid the foundation for our democratic republic. For example, outstanding founder, Thomas Jefferson, owned and read over 6,000 books. Many were books by philosophers, historians, scientists — including the famous early Greek and Roman thinkers: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Homer and many others. Our Constitution includes many of the principles uncovered by those ancient philoso-phers.

Jesus advised us to “seek the truth” — knowing that the truth can help us understand how — and why — we should treat all of God’s children in a kind and loving manner.

E. Gene GorrellFremont

WASHINGTON — If you happen to be one of those who enjoy politics as a blood sport, 2014’s midterm election promises to be a carnival of gore.

And that’s just in the Republican Party.

Democrats must be giddy.After ending 2013 with tails

tucked, thanks to a series of errors, blunders, glitches and misstatements of true-ish-ness, Democrats were poised to lose control of the Senate. Instead, tea party Republicans seem bent on helping Democrats win.

The formula is familiar by now: Republicans who aren’t conservative enough, meaning they might deign to work with Democrats, are targets for primary challenges by folks who often couldn’t win a staring contest much less a statewide election.

One need think back only to Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell, who is not a witch (because she said so) and who in 2010 defeated the primary favorite, then-Rep. Mike Castle, and handed the Senate seat to Democrat Chris Coons, a relatively unknown county executive.

This isn’t to say tea party candidates can’t succeed because, obviously, they do. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah come to mind. And then there are the 20 or so House members who, applying the brakes to any tactic considered winnable, cover their ears whenever Speaker John Boehner speaks and sing “La-la-la-la-la-la … we can’t hear you!”

This year presents a rare, and some would say undeserved, opportunity for Republicans. It is a make-or-break moment in the crucial debate about where this country is heading and who is going to lead it. Let’s just say, the fat lady is tuning up.

Thus far, 21 Democratic and 14 Republican seats are on the ballots. Of those GOP seats, 12 are being defended by incumbents and two are wide open.

Republicans have a better-than-good chance of grabbing seven new seats,

more than enough to end the Democratic majority, including three that have been held by soon-to-retire Democrats — Montana’s Max Baucus, West Virginia’s Jay Rockefeller and South Dakota’s Tim Johnson.

Republican efforts to secure those seats have been well underway as GOP leadership has reached out to recruit and train candidates with debate, technology and media prepara-tion. What smart Republicans are aiming for are candidates who can win both a primary

and a general election, actual human beings who can appeal to a wide swath of the electorate, not just the purity-proof hard-liners on the right.

Three who fi t that category are West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito, who has served in the House since 2001; North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, currently his state’s speaker of the House; and Montana’s Steve Daines, a congressman who bridges the gap between far right and right.

Adding to Republican momentum is the fact that incumbent Democrats who won in 2008 — a pretty good year for Democrats — may have shorter coattails to clutch this go-round, depending on how the Affordable Care Act fares this year.

But recruiting and training good candidates may not be enough for a Republican Party still dogged by the purity plank. Tea party organizers have vowed to take on more-mainstream candidates, including seven of the 12 Republican incumbents. If a Republican failed to support Cruz’s procedural motion to defund Obamacare (beware John Cornyn), it’s outsville.

Capito could be Exhibit A when it comes to a winning candidate undermined by her own party. First, she’s from a state where President Obama isn’t very popular and she has

won re-election handily to serve a total of seven terms. She is a strong advocate for the coal industry and should have no trouble securing her party’s nomination. She is also favored to win the general election against Secretary of State Natalie Tennant.

Except. Guess who doesn’t like Capito?

The conservative Club for Growth and the Republican Liberty Caucus, which calls itself the “conscience of the Republican Party.” Last August, a “Too Liberal for West Virginia” campaign was launched against Capito because, among other things, she is pro-choice and voted to raise the debt ceiling. In her stead, the RLC is supporting Republican Pat McGeehan, who served in state House of Delegates from 2008 to 2010 but has lost two state Senate election bids.

Despite having tailwinds at their back, Republicans stand to lose to proud purists while Democrats, feet up, admire the shine on their shoes. To put it kindly, pride in LOSING does little to contradict Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s observa-tion that the GOP needs to “stop being the stupid party.”

Wonder what the fat lady will sing?

KATHLEEN PARKER is a syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services. She can be reached at kathleenparker@washpost.com.

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This “selfi e” by KPC publisher Terry Housholder shows his arrival at KPC Media Group headquarters in Kendallville Monday morning. He walked from his home on Mott Street in Kendallville, reminiscent of his trek with wife, Grace Housholder, on Jan. 25, 1978. In contrast to 1978, KPC is publishing 24/7 at kpcnews.com in addition to producing newspapers in print. Also, in contrast to 1978, his wife, Grace Housholder, stayed home where she could work online, instead of trekking up with him.

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This year presents a rare, and some would say undeserved,

opportunity for Republicans. It is a make-or-break moment in the crucial debate about where this country is heading and who is going to lead it. Let’s just say,

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Red Cross Blood Drive: Call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcross-blog.org to make an appointment. Auburn First United Methodist Church, 1203 E. Seventh St., Auburn. Noon.

Euchre Community Game: Steuben County Council on Aging, 317 S Wayne St, Angola. 12:30 p.m. 665-9856

Euchre Community Game: Francis Vinyard VFW Post 2749, 112 Veterans Way, Kendall-ville. 1 p.m.

GED Classes: Steuben County Literacy Coalition, 1208 S Wayne St, Angola. 4 p.m. 665-3357

Grief Support Group: Standing meeting every Tuesday. Cameron Woods, 701 W. Harcourt Rd., Angola. 4:30 p.m.

Community Soup and Supper: Free meal. Faith Harvest Church, 200 Park Ave., Angola. 5 p.m.

ESL Instruction: English as a second language. Standing class every Tuesday and Thursday. Vistula Headstart, 603 Townline Road, LaGrange. 5 p.m.

ESL Instruction: English as a second language class. Standing meeting every Tuesday. LEAP of Noble County, 610 Grand St., Ligonier. 5:30 p.m.

Knitters Group: Bi-monthly knitting group, newcomers welcome. Fremont Public Library, 1004 W. Toledo St., Fremont. 5:30 p.m.

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What is a fair price for 1 foot of shoreline in Steuben County’s Land of 101 Lakes?

What would it cost to own 363 miles of shoreline?

How expensive is the Pacifi c Coast — you know the ocean that touches

Malibu, home of celebrities?

The entire coastline of Oregon, from the California border in the south to the Washington State border

to the north, costs nothing. It costs nothing because it can’t be sold. It can’t be sold because it already has an owner.

You own it.In 1912 Oregon

Governor Oswald West rode a horse on a mail trail from Arch Cape to Neahkahnie Mountain on the North Coast. He looked around and hatched a plan. He drafted a concise decree. In just 66 words, he scribed that the entire Oregon Coast was “a public highway and shall ever remain open as such to the public.” In 1913 it became the law.

In 1966 a motel owner tried to shoo away some picnickers, claiming that they were trespassing on his property.

This sparked the combination of both public support and elected offi cial approval for the bipartisan “Beach Bill.” It had a champion in Oregon Governor Tom McCall. The Beach Bill stated that all of the land from the dry sand to the native vegeta-tion would be placed into a public trust and zoned recreational.

The statute would “Forever preserve … ocean beaches of the state … so that the public may have the free and uninterrupted use thereof.” This must be what the founding fathers meant when they wrote about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of

happiness.” The Beach Bill passed in 1967 and that changed the Oregon Coast the People’s Coast.

I am happy when I fi nd a $20 bill in my blue jeans pocket on laundry day, so I fi gured that if I owned some prime waterfront property, I was going to check out what was mine.

Like Oswald West, I chose a section in the north. I scouted from Seaside to Pacifi c City.

Seaside is the quintessen-tial beach resort town with a boardwalk, salt water taffy, and art deco style arcades with 1920s games like Skee Ball and Fascination. Cannon Beach is packed with art galleries and is ranked as one of the 100 best art towns in America. After a walk along Hug Point, it was lunch at an outdoor cafe in Manzanita, and then I headed south to Manhattan

Beach where beachcombers had built crude log walls out of drift wood to block the stiff gale blowing. A drive along the Three Cape Scenic Loop ended at dinner on the deck at Pacifi c City watching surfers as the sun dunked into the water.

It was sea meeting land that made it.

When wave meets rock, something has to give. Cliffs and headlands were cut into caves, arches, and stacks towering 325 feet above the surf. There were waterfalls and rounded cobbles. Psychedelic colored starfi sh and sea anemones fi lled the tidal pools and bivalves locked onto boulders sticking around until the tide returned. The beaches

were broad expanses, long and wide. People were on the beach, mere dots in the distance, checking out their turf and the ever changing weather from fog to brilliant sunshine and blue skies.

In junior high school music class, we sang the Woody Guthrie song, “This Land is Your Land.” I didn’t get it then, but I do now. The Beach Bill is the law. It is the law of the land. It is the law of your land. You own it.

Paul Beckwith is an Angola Middle School teacher who scouts the unusual intricacies of our national heritage during his summer travels.

A warm thought — this beach is your beach

PHOTOS BY PAUL BECKWITH

In Oregon, 100 percent of the coast has public access.

The Oregon Coast became a public highway in 1913.

“...I fi gured that if I owned some prime

waterfront property, I was going to check out

what was mine.”

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In the past few months more than 1,000 new members have joined the Sweet Adelines Interna-tional ranks; many of them vowing to sing as their 2014 New Year’s resolution.

“Belonging to a group of energized, uplifting women who offer an overwhelming amount of motivational support makes it nearly effortless to stick with this resolution,” said a news release from Sweet Adelines International.

In January, thousands of women from different backgrounds and nation-alities are joining together

in the common goal to teach the world to sing a cappella in the barbershop style. There are more than 23,000 members in the United States, Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, The Netherlands and Wales. Women of all ages who enjoy singing are invited to one of the many Sweet Adelines International chorus open house events.

Whether it’s the joy of singing, the music education, the time to do something for themselves, the unwavering motivation of others, or the life-long friendships formed that make it easy for members to stick with their resolution to sing, Sweet Adelines provides an outlet for women to connect.

“It is much more than a group of singing women. It is a few hours a week of freedom, a slice of life that

is theirs alone, a place to let loose with the ladies, build true friendships, sing their hearts out, and for most it’s where they can go to fi nd the motivation, inspiration, encouragement and happiness to fi ll them up until the next rehearsal,” said the news release. “It makes them better, healthier people.”

Being part of Sweet Adelines International also offers opportunities for women to entertain within their community and compete with the most talented barbershop singers in the world.

The Little River Chapter of the Sweet Adelines meets regularly in Steuben County. Betsy Fowler is the director.

Sweet Adelines Interna-tional can be contacted at 800-992-7464 or 918-622-1444, email ann-marie@sweetadelineintl.org, or visit sweetadelineintl.org.

Sweet Adelines invites more women to sing in the new year

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DEAR DOCTOR K: I have cirrhosis of the liver. I also get tension headaches. What pain reliever can I take for my tension headaches?

DEAR READER: One of the liver’s many jobs is detoxifi cation — ridding the blood of toxins. Cirrhosis, a liver disease, interferes with the liver’s ability to detoxify substances in the blood.

Your liver sees medications as toxins. When your liver is compromised, medications that are normally considered “safe” may no longer be safe for you.

The safest pain medicine for someone with cirrhosis is acetaminophen (Tylenol). However, even this is more risky in people with cirrhosis. That’s because this medicine can be toxic to the liver. There is some evidence that it may be more likely to injure a liver already damaged, such as from cirrhosis.

I advise patients with cirrhosis not to take more than 2,000 milligrams (mg) in one

day, or more than 650 mg per dose. That’s the equivalent of two regular-strength acetamin-ophen tablets. Take acetamin-ophen for the shortest time as possible. Some doctors believe

it’s OK for people with cirrhosis to take as much as 3,000 milligrams (mg) in one day, but I’m more conser-vative.

Another frequently used nonpre-scription class of painkillers is the nonsteroidal anti-infl am-matory drugs (NSAIDs),

such as ibuprofen and naproxen. Unfortunately, cirrhosis raises the risk of internal bleeding from NSAIDs. Also, cirrhosis

makes the kidneys more vulnerable to injury from drugs, particularly NSAIDs. So I think it’s best for people with cirrhosis to avoid NSAIDs.

When possible, use nondrug strategies to relieve pain. Here are some strategies you can try when you experi-ence a tension headache:

• Ice or heat, and rest. Numb the pain with an ice pack, wrapped in a towel and applied to your forehead and temples for 15 minutes at a time. If muscle tension accompanies your head pain, apply heat packs to your neck and the back of your head. Retreating to a dark, quiet room to rest can also help.

• Tai chi and yoga appear to reduce headache frequency and severity. But they don’t help relieve a headache once it has begun.

• Acupuncture involves inserting fi ne needles into the skin. This may release endorphins, the body’s natural painkilling chemicals.

Acupuncture can be used for relieving head pain as it occurs and for reducing headache frequency.

• Biofeedback. Head pain is often triggered by muscle tension. During biofeed-back sessions you’ll learn to recognize when you’re tensing up the muscles in the back, neck, shoulders or head — and to relax them before they cause pain. Biofeedback treats and prevents tension headaches.

• Massage. I’ve had several patients who have found that massage of the muscles in the back of the neck gave them relief, though I know of no studies proving its value.

Finally, avoid situations that seem to bring on your tension headaches, such as working at a computer uninterrupted for several hours, or arguments with your children.

DR. KOMAROFF is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. His website is: AskDoctorK.com.

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are happily married and will celebrate 15 years of marriage next year. We have a 5-year-old daughter. Our dilemma is whether or not we should have another child. I’m 38 and my husband is 40. We have become comfortable with the fact that our daughter is getting more independent. We plan on doing a lot of traveling, and I will change jobs after I complete school. We are not sure about starting over with a baby. We are doing OK fi nancially, and if we have a second child, it would have to be within the next year, while I fi nish my classes and can be home to be with the baby. Our daughter is well-adjusted, and we plan on putting her in activities such as dance and gymnas-tics. We would like your

opinion, and also to hear from parents who had only one child, as well as people who were raised without a

sibling. — MAYBE ONLY ONE IN GEORGIA DEAR MAYBE ONLY ONE: If you are considering enlarging your family only so your daughter will have a sibling, I don’t

recommend it. What the six-year age difference means is that your children will not grow up “together.” By the time the younger one is starting high school, the older one will be in college and gone. Even when they

are closer in age, it’s no guarantee that siblings will be close. I cannot — and should not — decide this for you. I am throwing your question open to my readers and will share their opinions with you. However, I’m sure they will be varied.

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Today's ForecastTuesday, Jan. 7

City/RegionHigh | Low tempsForecast for

Chicago9° | -10° South Bend

5° | -13°Fort Wayne

2° | -15°

Lafayette9° | -12°

Indianapolis11° | -11°

Terre Haute14° | -11°

Evansville22° | 0° Louisville

20° | -1°

Sunrise Wednesday 8:07 a.m.

Sunset Wednesday 5:28 p.m.

Continued cold today with a high of 5 below zero. The low tonight won’t be that much different at 6 below zero. A warmup is coming on Wednesday when temperatures will climb to 19 degrees under partly cloudy skies. There’s a chance of snow, too. The deep freeze will break later in the week.

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Monday’s Statistics

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A solitary man walks to the grocery store in LaGrange Monday morning while a single van heads out of town southbound on S.R. 9. Blowing and

drifting snow combined with frigid temperatures to bring LaGrange to a standstill.

BY PATRICK REDMONDpredmond@kpcmedia.com

LAGRANGE — Monday morning, LaGrange County was suffering though brutal winter weather as well as could be expected.

Stewart Bender, LaGrange County emergency manager, said two traffi c accidents had occurred on the Indiana Toll Road in LaGrange since the storm hit Sunday morning.

However, Bender said, countless cars were stranded, and the county received numerous calls asking for people to be picked up.

Sheriff Terry Martin said Monday afternoon that county highway crews had encountered many dangerous situations with drivers who should not have been on the roads. Starting at 4 p.m. Monday, he warned, sheriff’s deputies would begin stopping vehicles on the county roads and citing operators for violating the ban on nonemergency traffi c.

The county was attempting to get its highway employees to work so they could plow east-west roads.

LaGrange County HighwayDepartment workers and a LaGrange County sheriff’s deputy assisted in getting doctors to work at Parkview LaGrange Hospital Monday morning.

No power outages were reported by NIPSCO or LaGrange REMC. Bender said his department would use local fi re departments as warming stations for stranded motorists if the need arose.

“It seems like the biggest issue we are having at this point is people on the roadway that have no business being there,” Bender said. “This not only puts county and town employees in unnecessary risk trying to get to them, but slows progress on opening roads.”

Multiple vehicles have been found in the roadways and they were causing great risks for responders and snow plows, he said.

People who have abandoned their vehicles on roadways are asked to contact the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Depart-ment at 463-7491.

County offi cials asked

people removing snow from driveways not to place the shoveled, plowed or blown snow in roadways, which creates problems for highway plow drivers.

Police asked residents not to call LaGrange County Communications or 911 to ask if they may drive to work, or to inquire as to when the restrictions will end. Offi cials said dispatch centers are being fl ooded with unnecessary calls that are taking their attention away from emergency matters.

Emergency travel is exempt from the county ordinance. Other exempt vehicles include: those providing medical assistance, law enforce-ment, fi re department, emergency manage-ment, public utility, all fuel-hauling vehicles and any employees of those services while engaging in their offi cial duties.

All LaGrange County offi ces were closed Monday and will continue to be closed today, according to an order issued late Monday by the county commis-sioners.

LaGrange County driverscausing problems on roads

FROM STAFF REPORTSKENDALLVILLE

— Offi cials at Parkview Noble Hospital reported Monday that the hospital is continuing operations as close to normal as possible during the weather emergency.

The hospital has patients in all units — medical-sur-gical, family birthing center and critical care unit, said Julie Buttgen of the hospital’s community relations offi ce.

“When the storm was hitting hard Sunday night into Monday, several staff members stayed the night at the hospital to make sure all shifts were covered in the event some co-workers were unable to make it to the facility for work,” she said.

Parkview Noble president Dave Hunter praised Parkview Noble Safety Coordinator Troy Jester,

who created a plan for staff who own 4x4 vehicles to help pick up co-workers who were unable to drive themselves into work.

“Things like this have a way of bringing out the best in people,” said Hunter, who was among those picking up staff. “Everyone is helping out. Everyone is upbeat and cooperating.”

Parkview EMS director Tom Shoemaker echoed Hunter’s comments and had praise for the fi rst responders and fi re departments who stepped up during the winter emergency to help. EMS added a couple ambulances, Shoemaker said, and he had staff who stayed late and came in early to help cover shifts for anyone unable to make it to work.

Shoemaker also said the county has assigned a plow with each ambulance

to help get through the snow, but he added, “It is still slow going, and we want our crews safe too.” He estimated that calls have been down a little the past couple days, but added EMS is not taking nonemergency transports at this time.

The physician specialty practices and clinics at Parkview Noble Hospital were closed Monday and will be closed today, as will all Noble County Parkview Physicians Group (PPG) offi ces.

Parkview Noble After Hours Clinic, which was closed Monday evening, is scheduled to open at 6 p.m. today. A fi nal decision on today’s opening will be made this afternoon. Persons interested in going to after-hours clinic are suggested to call fi rst, 347-8810.

Parkview Noble makes do

street in the city.“All of our streets are

cleared,” she said Monday morning. “Our crews did an unbelievable job, working through the night.”

The city’s recreation center also was closed because of the mayor’s order issued Sunday night.

Owen’s Supermarket in

Ligonier closed at 9 p.m. Sunday and reopened at noon Monday.

Store manager Chris Fought, a member of the Ligonier City Council, said his store was waiting for deliveries of milk and bread, but they were expected to arrive by late Monday.

“We still have all the staples — plenty of eggs,

bananas, potatoes,” Fought said Monday afternoon.

Many other retail businesses and restau-rants were closed Monday because of the cold weather and snow.

West Noble canceled Tuesday’s school day which was to be the fi rst day back for students following the Christmas break.

CLEANING UP: Ligonier mayor praises road crewsFROM PAGE A1

started to ease. Yellen, a strong Bernanke ally, has supported those policies and is expected to continue them until concrete signs emerge of sustained improvement of the economy and job market.

In a written statement, President Barack Obama said Yellen’s approval means “the American people will have a fi erce champion” who will protect them.

“I am confi dent that Janet will stand up for American workers, protect consumers, foster the stability of our fi nancial system and help keep our economy growing for years to come,” Obama said.

Lobbyists for the banking

and fi nancial services sectors issued statements pledging to work with Yellen. Both industries have led a fi ght to water down restrictions imposed by Obama’s 2010 law overhauling how the nation’s fi nancial system is regulated.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Yellen previously headed the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, chaired President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and has been an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Yellen, who as an academic has focused on unemployment and its causes, is considered a

“dove” who wants the Fed more focused on creating jobs because unemploy-ment is high and inflation is low. “Hawks” on these issues prefer a stronger emphasis on preventing inflation.

In brief debate on her nomination, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, lauded Yellen, who was one of the fi rst to warn in 2007 of a housing bubble that could burst and damage the entire economy.

“She understands how risky fi nancial practices deep inside the largest Wall Street banks can have a terrible and terrifying impact on American families,” Brown said.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tennessee vs. LSU, ESPN, 7 p.m. Baylor vs. Iowa State, ESPN2, 7 p.m. Ohio State vs. Mich-igan State, ESPN, WB-NO-FM 100.9, 9 p.m. Creighton vs. De-Paul, Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.NHL HOCKEY Philadelphia vs. New Jersey, NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.NBA BASKETBALL Phoenix vs. Chica-go, WGN, 8 p.m.

TODAYGIRLS BASKETBALL Lakewood Park at Adams Central, 6 p.m. Prairie Heights at Bronson (Mich.) , 6 p.m. West Noble at Tippecanoe Valley, 6 p.m.WRESTLING Eastside at Ant-werp (Ohio), 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAYGIRLS BASKETBALL Lakeland at Sturgis (Mich.) , 6 p.m. Angola at East No-ble, 6:15 p.m.BOYS BASKETBALL East Noble at Westview, 6 p.m. Lakeland at Sturgis (Mich.) , 7:30 p.m.WRESTLING East Noble at Co-lumbia City, 6:30 p.m.

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Lovie Smith looks to make Bucs winners

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are counting on Lovie Smith to transform them into a championship contender.

The Bucs haven’t made the playoffs in six years and haven’t won a postseason game since a Super Bowl run in 2002 produced the franchise’s only NFL title.

The Glazer family that owns the team expects the drought to end with the hiring of Smith, a one-time Bucs assistant who was formally introduced Monday as the 10th head coach in club history.

Smith coached the Chicago Bears for nine seasons from 2004 to 2012, winning 81 games, three division championships, two NFC title game appearances and one Super Bowl berth.

And, he’s confi dent he can lead the Bucs back among the league’s elite.

“It’s time for us to become a relevant team again,” Smith said.

Smith replaces Greg Schiano, fi red last week after compiling an 11-21 record over the past two years.

MEN’S BASKETBALLTEAM CONF. ALLOHIO ST. 2-0 15-0WISCONSIN 2-0 15-0MICHIGAN ST. 2-0 13-1ILLINOIS 2-0 13-2MICHIGAN 2-0 10-4IOWA 1-1 12-3MINNESOTA 1-1 12-3INDIANA 0-2 10-5PURDUE 0-2 10-5PENN ST. 0-2 9-6NEBRASKA 0-2 8-6N’WESTERN 0-2 7-8

SUNDAY’S GAMESMICH. 74, N’WESTERN 51MINN. 82, PURDUE 79WISCONSIN 75, IOWA 71

TUESDAY’S GAMEOHIO STATE AT MICH. ST., 9

WEDNESDAY’S GAMESMINNESOTA AT PENN ST., 7ILLINOIS AT WISCONSIN, 9

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Coaches meet before BCS title clashFlorida State head coach Jimbo Fisher shakes hands with Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn before the NCAA BCS National Champion-ship college football game Monday in Pasadena, Calif. For a wrapup story on this big game, go online to kpcnews.com.

A few basketball games from high school to college have been postponed from Monday to Wednesday because of the recent snowstorm and the bitter cold temperatures and wind chills.

Monday’s Manchester at Central Noble junior varsity and varsity girls basketball games were postponed. No makeup date has been announced.

All three Lakeland home basketball games with Sturgis (Mich.) were called off on Monday and will more than likely not be made up, according to Lakeland athletic director Tim Gonderman. Those games were junior varsity contests for both the boys and girls along with a boys freshman game.

The East Noble at Westview boys basketball games and Lakeland’s varsity basket-ball doubleheader at Sturgis, (Mich.) all scheduled for today, were postponed and moved to Wednesday. WAWK radio (95.5 FM, Kendallville) will broadcast the EN-Westview varsity contest.

DeKalb’s home varsity and J.V. girls basketball games with Eastside and the Barons’ home gymnastics meet with Huntington North scheduled for today have been postponed. The Blazers-Barons varsity game will be

played on Thursday. No makeup date has been announced for the gymnastics meet.

All practices at DeKalb were called off today with school being canceled for the day.

All athletic practices and games involving teams at Fremont High School and Fremont Middle School have been canceled for today.

Hamilton High’s C-team boys basketball game with Central Noble scheduled for today has also been postponed due to school being closed for the day. Hamilton athletic director Jesse Webb tweeted that this game may be rescheduled.

Eastside Junior High’s boys basketball game with Central Noble scheduled for today was postponed. A makeup date has not been announced.

The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association announced on Monday afternoon that it postponed all of its basketball games scheduled for Wednesday because of current and predicted weather conditions.

Those games will be made up on Thursday, and they include Trine University’s women’s team hosting Adrian and Trine’s men traveling to Hope to open their conference season. Both Thunder games will tip off at 7:30 p.m.

Weather halts local sports events

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A defense that allowed 44 points in a playoff game might boost the confi dence of its next opponent.

Such generosity rarely leads to wins.

But the New England Patriots aren’t counting on the Indianapolis Colts being that vulnerable again.

“I hope we can fi nd something that we can move the ball with,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday, “but you have to go out there and execute it and do it at a high level.”

Much of the focus in the Colts’ 45-44 AFC wild-card playoff win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday went to quarterback Andrew Luck for directing a comeback from a 38-10 third-quarter defi cit. The defense that put Indianapolis in that hole got far less attention.

In the fi rst half, the Chiefs marched 82, 79 and 81 yards to touchdowns and 73 yards to a fi eld goal after kickoffs or punts.

Did Belichick spot anything he could exploit when the Patriots host the Colts in a divisional-round game Saturday night?

“We might get an idea or two from that game and the other games they played before that,” he said, “but we’re not going to change our wholesale offense just because we saw somebody else do something. That’s what (the Chiefs) do. We’ll try to fi nd things that we can do that we feel like we can attack the Colts with.”

Things, perhaps, like those the Patriots did last season in a 59-24 win over Indianapolis. That tied a

team record for most points scored in a game. But the Colts’ defense wasn’t entirely to blame. New England returned two interceptions and a punt for touchdowns.

Turnovers also plagued the Colts against the Chiefs, leading to 17 points. That was unchar-acteristic of Indianapolis, which committed an NFL-low 14 turnovers in the regular season. And the Colts allowed only 186 yards in the second half after giving up 327 in the fi rst.

“Kansas City took advantage

of a few opportunities and really made some big plays in critical situations,” Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said. “I think the turnovers, a few big plays here or there, can certainly change the complexion of any game and seemed to do that the other day. That being said, this is a tremendously disruptive group.”

It’s led by Robert Mathis, who will try to speed up Tom Brady’s throws or tackle him before he can make them.

Pats respect Colts’ D

AP

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Junior Hemingway (88) is tackled by Indianapolis Colts strong safety Antoine Bethea (41) during the second half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game Saturday in Indianapolis.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Charlie Strong talked about being tough and winning championships. That is exactly what Texas fans wanted to hear from their new football coach.

There’s little doubt he can deliver the fi rst. The second part will determine whether he can revive a dormant program back and push it back among the national elite where the Longhorns are desperately longing to be.

“It’s time to put the program back on the national stage,” Strong said Monday at his introductory news conference. “The mentality is always going to be mental and physical toughness … We will be a hardnosed football team.”

That’s the reputation Strong brings to Texas, which has fl oundered since

playing for the 2009 national championship. Four seasons of at least four losses and no Big 12 titles ended with Mack Brown exiting after 16 years, and Texas turning to the coach who led Louisville to a 23-3 mark and two bowl wins the last two seasons.

Strong also had a reputa-tion of being uncomfortable with the media, but with his wife and two daughters sitting in the front row watching him, he breezed through his 45-minute news conference with smiles and jokes before ending with the trademark “Hook’em Horns” hand signal for the cameras.

“Let’s go win football games,” Strong said. “Let’s go win championships.”

The 53-year-old Strong clearly has some of the same pages from Brown’s playbook. He embraced the legacy of Texas’s football

tradition when he entered the room and hugged Edith Royal, the widow of former Longhorns coach Darrell Royal who won national titles in 1963 and 1969 and a share of a third in 1970.

And just like Brown did when he arrived in 1997, Strong made a point of embracing Texas high school coaches and his commitment to recruiting the state’s best players.

“We will recruit with fi re, recruit with passion,” Strong said, adding he wants to “close the border” to out-of-state programs.

Brown, whose last game was Texas’ loss to Oregon in the Holiday Bowl, did not attend the news conference. Strong said he spoke to Brown over the weekend and assured him he would be welcome around the program.

New coach Strong claims Texas will be tough

AP

Charlie Strong holds up the “Hook’em Horns” hand signal during an NCAA college football news confer-ence where he was introduced as the new Texas football coach on Monday in Austin, Texas. Strong acknowledged the historical signifi cance of being the school’s fi rst African-American head coach of a men’s sport. He takes over for Mack Brown, who stepped down last month after 16 seasons.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Colts are getting some help from a former Patriot.

Six days before the two rivals meet in a divisional-round game, the Colts signed Deion Branch, the former New England receiver and Super Bowl MVP.

Indianapolis coach Chuck Pagano pointed out Branch lives in nearby Carmel, works out at one of the city’s top training facilities and fi lls a need after Darrius Heyward-Bey injured a hamstring Saturday in the Colts’ 45-44 comeback victory over Kansas City. But Branch also brings something else to the locker room — deep knowledge of Bill Belichick’s playbook.

“You know it really didn’t sit there and factor in,” Pagano said Monday, downplaying the perceived intelligence coup. “Having had some time spent there, we fi gured that the questions were going to come up ‘If you’re signing this guy who spent time in New England, is it just a coincidence or do you need the guy to help you win a football game?’ We think we got a heck of a football player.”

Tom Brady might agree.Earlier this season, he report-

edly lobbied the team to re-sign Branch as the offense struggled with the losses of Wes Welker in free agency, Aaron Hernandez to legal trouble and Danny Amendola to Rob Gronkowski to injuries.

Instead, it was the injury-plagued Colts who signed Branch off the street.

What Indy gets is a 34-year-old veteran with two Super Bowl rings.

Colts sign WR Branch

SEE PATS-COLTS, PAGE A10

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Trine’s Good honored by MIAA

ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Trine Univer-sity junior forward Tyler Good was named Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Associ-ation Player of the Week in men’s basket-ball for last week’s efforts.

Good averaged 18.5 points, seven assists and 3.5 assists per game last week in leading the Thunder to two non-conference road victories. The Swanton, Ohio, native shot 48 percent from the fi eld (13-27) and made 90 percent of his free throws (9-10).

Good was named MIAA Player of the Week for the fi rst time in his college career.

Trine wrestlers 1-2 at dualsCHICAGO — Trine University went

1-2 at the University of Chicago Duals Saturday. The Thunder defeated McDaniel (Md.) 22-21 by winning the tiebreaker on total match points criteria. But they lost to Chicago 40-6 and Dubuque (Iowa) 36-6.

Heavyweight Mackenzie Green went 3-0 on the day to lead Trine and only allowed one point in 21 minutes on the mat. He beat Chicago’s Jeff Tyburski 6-0, Dubuque’s Drew Lattner 7-0, and McDaniel’s Taylor Avino 5-1 in double overtime.

Michael Conner was 2-1 at 184 and 197 for Trine.

Trine 22, McDaniel (Md.) 21125 — Levi Graber (T) won by forfeit. 133 — Wesley Cummings

(T) won by forfeit. 141 — Mike O’Boyle (M) dec. Brandon Preston 8-7. 149 — Mason Goretsas (M) pinned Adam Boles 4:18. 157 — Erik Meyer (M) won by forfeit. 165 — Luke Yox (M) dec. Isaiah Hill 4-0. 174 — Shane Hendrickson (T) dec. Ricky Tisinger 8-2. 184 — Nick Cross (M) dec. Joseph Stasiak 4-1. 197 — Michael Conner (T) dec. Dakota Wilhelm 5-2. 285 — Mackenzie Green (T) dec. Taylor Avino 5-1 (2OT).

Chicago 40, Trine 6125 — Justin Klein (UC) maj. dec. Levi Graber 11-0. 133

— Brandon Preston (T) dec. Adam Wyeth 7-4. 141 — Charlie Banaszak (UC) tech. fall Wesley Cummings 16-0. 149 — Jacob Smith (UC) tech. fall Adam Boles 17-1. 157 — Mike McNulty (UC) won by forfeit. 165 — Paul Papoutsis (UC) tech. fall Isaiah Hill 18-2. 174 — Steven Franke (UC) dec. Shane Hendrickson 9-2. 184 — Sam Pennisi (UC) pinned Joseph Stasiak, 3:26. 197 — Mario Palmisano (UC) pinned Michael Conner, 2:15. 285 — Mackenzie Green (T) dec. Jeff Tyburski 6-0.

Dubuque 36, Trine 6125 — Nicholas Rivera (D) maj. dec. Levi Graber 11-0. 133 —

Stephen Rosenburg (D) maj. dec. Wesley Cummings 12-3. 141 — Brian Travis (D) maj. dec. Brandon Preston 11-0. 149 — Nick Drendel (D) pinned Adam Boles, 1:30. 157 — Josh Lewis (D) won by forfeit. 165 — Manuel Mendoza (D) dec. Isaiah Hill 8-1. 174 — Elton Turnage (D) dec. Shane Hendrickson 5-1. 184 — Derek Minch (UD) pinned Nicholas Fruits, 1:31. 197 — Michael Conner (T) dec. Logan Chappell 6-4. 285 — Mackenzie Green (T) dec. Drew Lattner 7-0.

Bengals’ coordinators set up interviews for head coach jobs

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Bengals’ coordinators spent Monday taking phone calls from other teams arranging interviews for head coaching jobs.

Coach Marvin Lewis isn’t going anywhere, not even with that 0-5 playoff record. And Andy Dalton apparently is entrenched, too. He was reassured on Monday that he’s still the franchise quarterback.

The Bengals tried to move on Monday from one of the most painful moments in franchise history, a 27-10 loss at home to San Diego that stamped them as one of the NFL’s worst playoff teams of all time.

“We’ll be fi ne,” Lewis said. “Today sucks. We’ll be better. We’ll be all right.”

When it comes to the playoffs, it can’t get much worse.

The Bengals haven’t won a playoff game since the 1990 season, a 23-year streak of futility that’s tied for sixth-lon-gest in NFL history. They’ve lost their opening playoff game three straight seasons, tying the NFL record.

And Lewis is fast rising up the charts for postseason coaching defeats. He’s 0-5 in 11 years as the Bengals head coach. Only Jim Mora started his career with more consecutive playoff losses (6).

The fi ve straight playoff losses are tied for second-most overall — Marty Schotten-heimer, Jim Mora and Steve Owen lost six each. And the fi ve straight playoff losses are the second-most with one team, trailing only the Giants’ Owen, who lost six playoff games in an 11-year span from 1939-1950.

Lewis has a year left on his contract and is safe in Cincinnati, where owner Mike Brown is reluctant to change. Lewis bristled on Monday when asked if he’s in a unique situation that way.

There’s a chance both coordinators could move on.

Offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said the Vikings, Titans and Redskins have contacted him about interviews later in the week. Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer expects to have three interviews later in the week, though he wouldn’t identify the teams. Both have interviewed for head coaching jobs in the past.

The defense fi nished the season ranked No. 3 and the offense was No. 10.

Dolphins fi re OC ShermanMIAMI (AP) — A punchless offense

in the fi nal two games kept the Miami Dolphins out of the postseason, and they’ll have a new play-caller in 2014.

Offensive coordinator Mike Sherman was fi red Monday, the fi rst change by the team since the holiday collapse. Coach Joe Philbin defended Sherman the day after the season, but owner Stephen Ross was expected to demand some sort of shake-up following the dismal fi nish.

Sherman joined the Dolphins when Philbin was hired two years ago, and the two have been close for more than 30 years. But this season Sherman’s unit ranked 27th in the NFL in yards, allowed a franchise-record 58 sacks and scored once in its fi nal 24 possessions.

The Dolphins (8-8) would have made the playoffs if they had won one of their fi nal two games against the Bills and Jets. Instead, they were beaten by a combined score of 39-7.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014

Boys Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 1 0 8 3New Haven 1 0 5 2Norwell 1 0 5 3Columbia City 1 0 5 5Carroll 0 1 7 3Bellmont 0 1 4 4DeKalb 0 1 3 8East Noble 0 1 0 8Saturday, Jan. 4Norwell 68, Floyd Central 46Jennings County 76, Norwell 65Carroll 59, Van Wert (Ohio) 54Columbia City 57, Wawasee 28Bellmont 56, South Adams 55Tuesday, Jan. 7New Haven at Fort Wayne Snider, 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8East Noble at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Bishop Dwenger at Carroll, 7:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Bellmont at Columbia City, 7:45 p.m.Carroll at Norwell, 7:45 p.m.East Noble at Homestead, 7:45 p.m.New Haven at DeKalb, 7:45 p.m.

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LWest Noble 3 0 7 0Westview 3 0 4 2Prairie Heights 3 1 6 2Fairfi eld 2 1 4 3Angola 1 1 3 4Fremont 1 1 1 6Eastside 1 2 4 4Hamilton 1 2 4 4Lakeland 1 3 2 4Churubusco 0 2 0 8Central Noble 0 3 1 8Saturday, Jan. 4West Noble 59, Prairie Heights 53Caston ShootoutRensselaer Central 51, Churubusco 47Oregon-Davis 51, Churubusco 50Central Noble 48, Oregon-Davis 44Rensselaer Ctrl. 56, Central Noble 47Winning Edge Holiday TournamentNorthWood 54, Fairfi eld 37Wednesday, Jan. 8Churubusco at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m.East Noble at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Lakeland at Sturgis, 7:45 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 9Central Noble at Garrett, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Angola at Prairie Heights, 7:30 p.m.Churubusco at Fremont, 7:30 p.m.Hamilton at Westview, 7:30 p.m.West Noble at Lakeland, 7:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Eastside at Fairfi eld, 7:30 p.m.Fremont at Reading (Mich.), 7:30 p.m.

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 2 0 6 1Bluffton 2 0 4 4Leo 1 1 5 3Adams Central 1 1 3 4Woodlan 1 1 3 4Heritage 1 1 2 4South Adams 0 2 2 7Southern Wells 0 2 1 5Saturday, Jan. 4Leo 70, Concordia 67Bellmont 56, South Adams 55Tuesday, Jan. 7 Cowan at Southern Wells, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8 Churubusco at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m. Eastbrook at Heritage, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9Central Noble at Garrett, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Garrett at Adams Central, 7:30 p.mSouth Adams at Leo, 7:30 p.m.Southern Wells at Heritage, 7:30 p.m.Woodlan at Bluffton, 7:30 p.m.

Boys State Basketball PollsThe Associated Press Top 10 Indiana high school boys basketball teams, with fi rst-place votes in parentheses, records through games of January 6th, rating points and previous rankings:Class 4A W-L Pts Prv1. Carmel (16) 7-0 356 12. Indpls Tech (2) 11-1 326 23. Brownsburg 7-1 274 34. Penn 7-0 241 55. Indpls Pike 6-2 163 46. Columbus North 9-2 154 107. Ham. Southeastern 8-2 101 88. Lake Central 7-2 96 69. Ft. Wayne North 11-1 94 910. Mooresville 8-1 86 NROthers receiving votes: Richmond 63. Indpls Perry Meridian 44. Northridge 33. Carroll (Allen) 33. Zionsville 22. Indpls Cathedral 18. Ev. Reitz 12. Indpls N. Central 10. Marion 8. Logansport 7. Jeffersonville 7. Columbus East 6. McCutcheon 6.Class 3A W-L Pts Prv1. Greensburg (18) 10-0 360 12. Bowman Academy 9-2 297 23. Indpls Brebeuf 7-1 259 44. Corydon 7-0 231 55. Guerin Catholic 10-2 195 66. Batesville 5-2 162 37. New Haven 5-2 150 78. Brownstown 6-1 139 89. NorthWood 7-0 122 1010. Muncie Central 5-1 105 9Others receiving votes: Vincennes 58. W. Noble 29. Ft. Wayne Dwenger 19. Heritage Hills 14. Ev. Bosse 13. Madison 7.Class 2A W-L Pts Prv1. Indy Park Tudor (13) 5-1 344 12. Frankton (4) 8-0 326 23. Hammond Noll 6-1 253 34. Clarksville 7-1 235 45. Sullivan 8-1 198 56. Wapahani (1) 6-1 186 67. Paoli 7-0 163 78. Providence 6-1 144 89. Indpls Scecina 8-2 114 910. Perry Central 7-1 68 10Others receiving votes: Crawford Co. 38. Linton-Stockton 22. Union Co. 17. Tipton 15. Cloverdale 15. Westview 9. S. Spencer 7. S. Knox 6.Class A W-L Pts Prv1. Barr-Reeve (16) 9-0 338 12. Kouts (1) 7-0 294 23. Borden 7-1 236 44. Mich. City Marquette 6-3 211 35. Covington 7-0 180 86. Lafayette Catholic 5-3 165 67. Culver 6-0 145 108. Tri-County 6-0 134 99. Triton 4-3 84 710. Tindley 6-3 66 5Others receiving votes: Elkhart Christian 48. Liberty Christian 43. Morristown 34. Christian Academy 21. Ft. Wayne Blackhawk 19. Orleans 15. Tri-Central 7.

Girls Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 3 0 10 1East Noble 3 0 10 3DeKalb 3 0 9 3Norwell 1 2 8 3Columbia City 1 2 9 5New Haven 1 2 6 7Carroll 0 3 3 10Bellmont 0 3 0 13Saturday, Jan. 4Plymouth ShootoutNorwell 48, Plymouth 39Norwell 71, Wawasee 30Wednesday, Jan. 8

Angola at East Noble, 6:15 p.m.Leo at Norwell, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 9Eastside at DeKalb, 7:45 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Columbia City at Bellmont, 7:45 p.m.DeKalb at New Haven, 7:45 p.m.Homestead at East Noble, 7:45 p.m.Norwell at Carroll, 7:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Carmel at Homestead, 2:30 p.m.

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LWestview 6 0 10 2Fairfi eld 5 0 7 2West Noble 5 2 7 5Angola 4 2 4 7Fremont 2 2 6 5Prairie Heights 3 4 6 6Lakeland 3 4 5 8Churubusco 2 3 5 7Central Noble 1 5 3 7Hamilton 0 4 2 5Eastside 0 5 2 9Saturday, Jan. 4Leo 47, Angola 33NorthWood 44, Fairfi eld 32Monday, Jan. 6Manchester at Central Noble, ppd.Tuesday, Jan. 7Fairfi eld at Jimtown, ppd.Prairie Heights at Bronson (Mich.), 7:30 p.m.West Noble at Tippecanoe Valley, 7:45 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8Lakeland at Sturgis (Mich.), 6 p.m.Angola at East Noble, 6:15 p.m.Eastside at DeKalb, 7:45 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 9Hamilton at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Angola at Prairie Heights, 6 p.m.Churubusco at Fremont, 6 p.m.Fairfi eld at Eastside, 7:30 p.m.West Noble at Lakeland, 6 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Hamilton at Churubusco, 7:30 p.m.

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 4 0 12 0Leo 3 1 10 1Heritage 3 1 9 3Woodlan 2 2 7 3Southern Wells 2 2 6 5South Adams 1 3 10 3Bluffton 1 3 3 8Adams Central 0 4 3 8Saturday, Jan. 4Leo 47, Angola 33Southern Wells 62, Randolph Southern 22Tuesday, Jan. 7 Antwerp (Ohio) at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m. Bluffton at Northfi eld, 7:30 p.m. Heritage at Bishop Dwenger, 7:30 p.m.Lakewood Park at Adams Central, 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8Leo at Norwell, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Bluffton at Garrett, 7:30 p.m.Heritage at Adams Central, 7:30 p.m.Leo at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m.South Adams at Southern Wells, 7:30 p.m.

Girls State Basketball PollsThe Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association Top 10 basketball teams, with fi rst-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan 5th and previous rankings:Class 4A W-L Pts Prv1. Bed.N.Lawrence (7) 13-0 115 12. Lawrence North (4) 13-0 112 23. Columbus North 11-1 79 54. Westfi eld 11-0 70 75. Homestead 10-1 69 36. LaPorte (1) 12-0 66 87. Penn 11-1 53 48. Logansport 12-1 40 69. Lake Central 13-1 18 NR10. Indpls Roncalli 11-3 12 9Others receiving votes: Center Grove 8, Mooresville 8, Bloomington South 4, Fishers 3, Franklin Central 3.Class 3A W-L Pts Prv1. Princeton (9) 12-0 129 22. Ev. Mater Dei (4) 9-1 116 13. Garrett 12-0 96 44. Benton Central 12-1 74 75. Rushville 9-3 59 36. Western Boone 12-2 42 5(tie)Indpls Chatard 11-1 42 NR8. Madison 7-1 40 89. Western 10-2 39 610. Washington 10-1 28 NROthers receiving votes: South Bend St. Joseph’s 15, Northwood 13, Norwell 12, Ft. Wayne Concordia 6, Ft. Wayne Bishop Luers 4, Leo 2, John Glenn 2, Columbia City 1.Class 2A W-L Pts Prv1. Herit. Christian (13) 14-1 139 12. F.W. Canterbury (1) 9-1 125 23. Lapel 10-1 84 T64. Triton Central 8-2 82 45. Indpls Ritter 11-2 77 T66. Tipton 7-2 67 37. Eastern Hancock 9-2 50 58. Knightstown 9-1 48 89. Oak Hill 10-1 33 NR10. Hammond Noll 10-2 13 NROthers receiving votes: North Knox 11, Westview 6, Wabash 6, Providence 3, Forest Park 3, Northfi eld 2.Class A W-L Pts Prv1. Oregon-Davis (12) 10-1 146 12. S’western-Shelby(3) 9-1 132 23. Barr-Reeve 10-1 103 34. Vincennes Rivet 10-4 92 45. W. Central 9-1 83 56. Attica 11-0 58 97. Lafayette Catholic 6-3 51 78. N. Daviess 8-2 48 69. Jac-Cen-Del 9-1 40 810. Culver 9-2 27 10Others receiving votes: Borden 19, Triton 13, Tri 8, Morgan Township 2, Randolph Southern 1, Wood Memorial 1, Clinton Prairie 1.

Prep WrestlingIHSWCA Team State DualsSaturdayat Westfi eld High SchoolClass AAA7th-place dualBloomington South 40, E. Noble 34106 — N. Weimer (EN) pinned Stull, :58. 113 — Pepple (EN) pinned B. Webb, 1:37. 120 — Knapp (EN) dec. Schermer 6-3. 126 — Lutter (EN) maj. dec. Stillions 11-3. 132 — Broukal (BlmS) pinned Housholder, 3:57. 138 — Abram (BlmS) maj. dec. Diffenderfer 9-1. 145 —J. Weimer (EN) pinned Vassalotti, :20. 152 — DJ Dixon (BlmS) pinned Rainey, 1:10. 160 — Maley (EN) dec. C. Webb 3-0. 170 — Hay (BlmS) pinned Haas, :55. 182 — Dobos (BlmS) pinned Vincent, :51. 195 — Thacker (BlmS) pinned Weber, :15. 220 — Joest (EN) pinned C. Dixon, :28. 285 — Dajani (BlmS) pin Garcia, 1:35.Consolation semifi nalIndianapolis Cathedral 45,East Noble 26106 — Bailey (IC) dec. N. Weimer 8-5. 113 — Pepple (EN) dec. Turner 7-3. 120 — Knapp (EN) tech. fall Lewis 17-1. 126 — Lutter (EN) pinned Joe Devine, 3:30. 132 — John Devine (IC) dec. Housholder 5-3. 138 — Diffen-derfer (EN) pinned Speckmen, 5:03. 145 — Harvey (IC) maj. dec. J. Weimer 12-4. 152 — Larson (IC) pinned Rainey, :30. 160 — Corsaro (IC) tech. fall Maley 23-6. 170 — Stewart (IC) pinned Haas, 5:44. 182 — Rypel (IC) pinned Vincent,

2:25. 195 — Guhl (IC) pinned Weber, 1:13. 220 — Joest (EN) won by forfeit. 285 — Bernard (IC) pin Garcia, 1:10.Quarterfi nalEvansville Mater Dei 51, E. Noble 9106 — Egli (MD) tech. fall N. Weimer 19-1. 113 — Pepple (EN) dec. Luigs 7-2. 120 — Knapp (EN) dec. A. Johnson 5-4. 126 — Lee (MD) tech. fall Lutter 20-5. 132 — Jourdan (MD) maj. dec. Housholder 18-6. 138 — Seng (MD) dec. Diffenderfer 4-1. 145 — Pierre (MD) dec. J. Weimer 5-3. 152 — Weinzapfel (MD) pinned R. Jones, 2:32. 160 — Forzley (MD) maj. dec. Maley 13-5. 170 — Kempf (MD) dec. Haas 5-0. 182 — Bassemier (MD) pinned Vincent, 1:51. 195 — Ralph (MD) pinned Weber, :26. 220 — Joest (EN) dec. Butler 9-2. 285 — Massey (MD) pinned Garcia, 1:23.Class A5th-place dualSouth Adams 38, Fremont 37106 — K. Gerber (SA) pinned Simpson, 1:29. 113 — Lowe (F) pinned Goodwin, :54. 120 — S. Miller (SA) tech. fall Price 16-0. 126 — Bra. Baker (F) pinned Boxell, 3:13. 132 — Lahr (SA) won by forfeit. 138 — Schmucker (F) maj. dec. Nussbaum 10-0. 145 — Kline (F) pinned Pollard, 3:48. 152 — Marbach (SA) pinned Barrow, 4:29. 160 — Willms (F) dec. Connor 3-0. 170 — Owen (F) won by forfeit. 182 — Hinshaw (SA) dec. Maggart 6-1. 195 — Pugsley (SA) pinned Claxton, 1:30. 220 — Dossett (F) pinned Kilsby, 5:37. 285 — Beachey (SA) won by forfeit.Consolation semifi nalFremont 51, Bremen 19106 — Simpson (F) pinned J. Thornton, :45. 113 — Lowe (F) dec. Starke 11-8. 120 — Price (F) pinned Spaid, 3:26. 126 — Bra. Baker (F) pinned D. Young, :21. 132 — Felten (B) dec. Leskowyak 7-5 (OT). 138 — Schmucker (F) pinned Shumaker, 1:48. 145 — Barrow (F) tech. fall B. Thornton 16-1. 152 — Willms (F) maj. dec. Fuchs 15-3. 160 — Bollenbacher (B) maj. dec. Bro. Baker 12-4. 170 — Owen (F) pinned Holderman, 1:02. 182 — Maggart (F) pinned Stoller, 1:35. 195 — D. Coffel (B) pinned Claxton, :09. 220 — Dossett (F) pinned Duran, 5:14. 285 — C. Coffel (B) won by forfeit.Quarterfi nalSouth Putnam 41, Fremont 39106 — Vittetow (SP) pinned Simpson, 1:55. 113 — Lowe (F) won by forfeit. 120 — Price (F) dec. N. Owen 7-5. 126 — Lorimer (SP) pinned Bra. Baker, 3:28. 132 — Leskowyak (F) won by forfeit. 138 — Schmucker (F) pinned Whitaker, 2:34. 145 — Barrow (F) pinned Ballard, :34. 152 — Willms (F) pinned Bunten, 3:34. 160 — Waters (SP) pinned Bro. Baker, 1:50. 170 — B. Owen (F) pinned Wyatt, 1:35. 182 — Shaffer (SP) pinned Maggart, :51. 195 — R. Harris (SP) pinned Claxton, :27. 220 — J. Williams (SP) pinned Dossett, :46. 285 — Hacker (SP) won by forfeit.

Winning HandTri-State Duplicate Bridge ClubLast Tuesday’s resultsWinners were: 1. Sally and Brian Lanier, 2. Shorty Hauska and JoAnne Dean, and 3. Ken Bisson and John Mowry.

AP Men’s Basketball PollThe top 25 teams in The Associ-ated Press’ college basketball poll, with fi rst-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 5, total points based on 25 points for a fi rst-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Rcd Pts Prv1. Arizona (60) 15-0 1,620 12. Syracuse (5) 14-0 1,550 23. Ohio St. 15-0 1,470 34. Wisconsin 15-0 1,427 45. Michigan St. 13-1 1,378 56. Wichita St. 15-0 1,203 87. Baylor 12-1 1,169 98. Villanova 13-1 1,141 119. Iowa St. 13-0 1,076 1310. Florida 11-2 1,052 1211. Oklahoma St. 12-2 934 612. Louisville 13-2 825 1413. San Diego St. 12-1 823 2114. Kentucky 10-3 808 1515. Colorado 13-2 752 2016. Duke 11-3 745 717. Oregon 13-1 715 1018. Kansas 9-4 367 1619. UMass 12-1 364 2320. Iowa 12-3 261 2221. Missouri 12-1 247 2522. Gonzaga 14-2 241 2423. Illinois 13-2 178 —24. Memphis 10-3 126 1825. Kansas St. 11-3 112 —Others receiving votes: Cincinnati 103, Creighton 82, North Carolina 79, UCLA 79, Pittsburgh 44, Harvard 41, UConn 41, Saint Louis 19, Oklahoma 15, Michigan 11, George Washington 9, SMU 9, Notre Dame 3, Xavier 3, Toledo 2, Arkansas 1.

AP Women’s Basketball PollThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with fi rst-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 5, total points based on 25 points for a fi rst-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Rcd Pts Prv1. UConn (36) 15-0 900 12. Notre Dame 13-0 842 23. Duke 14-1 826 34. Stanford 13-1 810 45. Louisville 15-1 737 76. Maryland 13-1 722 87. Baylor 12-1 671 98. Tennessee 12-2 641 59. Kentucky 13-2 602 610. South Carolina 14-1 538 1311. Iowa St. 13-0 525 1412. LSU 12-2 505 1613. North Carolina 12-3 464 1014. Penn St. 10-3 411 1515. Oklahoma St. 12-1 385 1116. Nebraska 11-2 328 1817. Colorado 11-2 307 1218. Florida St. 13-1 281 2119. California 10-3 186 2320. NC State 14-1 164 —21. Purdue 10-3 145 1722. Indiana 14-0 140 —23. Arizona St. 12-2 103 2424. San Diego 15-0 91 —25. Georgia 12-3 88 19Others receiving votes: West Virginia 74, Oklahoma 51, Syracuse 39, Rutgers 32, Arkansas 29, Iowa 17, Georgia Tech 11, Gonzaga 10, Middle Tennessee 7, Vanderbilt 7, Florida 4, UTEP 4, Texas 2, Ohio St. 1.

College Bowl ScheduleSaturday, Dec. 28Pinstripe Bowl, at New YorkNotre Dame 29, Rutgers 16Belk Bowl, at Charlotte, N.C.North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17Russell Athletic BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Louisville 36, Miami 9Buffalo Wild Wings BowlAt Tempe, Ariz.Kansas State 31, Michigan 14Monday, Dec. 30Armed Forces BowlAt Fort Worth, TexasNavy 24, Middle Tennessee 6Music City Bowl, at Nashville, Tenn.Mississippi 25, Georgia Tech 17Alamo Bowl, at San AntonioOregon 30, Texas 7Holiday Bowl, at San DiegoTexas Tech 37, Arizona State 23

Tuesday, Dec. 31AdvoCare V100 BowlAt Shreveport, La.Arizona 42, Boston College 19Sun Bowl, at El Paso, TexasUCLA 42, Virginia Tech 12Liberty Bowl, at Memphis, Tenn.Mississippi State 44, Rice 7Chick-fi l-A Bowl, at AtlantaTexas A&M 52, Duke 48Wednesday, Jan. 1Heart of Dallas BowlNorth Texas 36, UNLV 14Gator Bowl, at Jacksonville, Fla.Nebraska 24, Georgia 19Capital One BowlAt Orlando, Fla.South Carolina 34, Wisconsin 24Outback Bowl, at Tampa, Fla.LSU 21, Iowa 14Rose Bowl, at Pasadena, Calif.Michigan State 24, Stanford 20Fiesta Bowl, at Glendale, Ariz.UCF 52, Baylor 42Thursday, Jan. 2Sugar Bowl, at New OrleansOklahoma 45, Alabama 31Friday, Jan. 3Cotton Bowl, at Arlington, TexasMissouri 41, Oklahoma State 31Orange Bowl, at MiamiClemson 40, Ohio State 35Saturday, Jan. 4BBVA Compass BowlAt Birmingham, Ala.Vanderbilt 41, Houston 24Sunday, Jan. 5GoDaddy.com BowlAt Mobile, Ala.Arkansas State 23, Ball State 20Monday, Jan. 6BCS National ChampionshipAt Pasadena, Calif.Florida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), lateSaturday, Jan. 18East-West Shrine ClassicAt St. Petersburg, Fla.East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)NFLPA Collegiate BowlAt Los AngelesAmerican vs. National, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)Saturday, Jan. 25Senior BowlAt Mobile, Ala.South vs. North, 4 p.m. (NFLN)

NBA StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 16 16 .500 —Boston 13 21 .382 4Brooklyn 12 21 .364 4½Philadelphia 12 21 .364 4½New York 11 22 .333 5½Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 26 8 .765 —Atlanta 18 16 .529 8Washington 14 17 .452 10½Charlotte 15 20 .429 11½Orlando 10 23 .303 15½Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 27 6 .818 —Chicago 14 18 .438 12½Detroit 14 20 .412 13½Cleveland 11 23 .324 16½Milwaukee 7 26 .212 20WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBSan Antonio 26 8 .765 —Houston 22 13 .629 4½Dallas 19 15 .559 7New Orleans 15 17 .469 10Memphis 15 18 .455 10½Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 27 7 .794 —Portland 26 8 .765 1Denver 16 17 .485 10½Minnesota 16 17 .485 10½Utah 11 25 .306 17Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBGolden State 23 13 .639 —L.A. Clippers 23 13 .639 —Phoenix 20 12 .625 1L.A. Lakers 14 20 .412 8Sacramento 10 22 .313 11Sunday’s GamesMemphis 112, Detroit 84Golden State 112, Washington 96Indiana 82, Cleveland 78Miami 102, Toronto 97Oklahoma City 119, Boston 96New York 92, Dallas 80Denver 137, L.A. Lakers 115Monday’s GamesMinnesota at Philadelphia, lateAtlanta at Brooklyn, lateOrlando at L.A. Clippers, lateTuesday’s GamesToronto at Indiana, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m.New Orleans at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Detroit at New York, 7:30 p.m.Phoenix at Chicago, 8 p.m.Golden State at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.San Antonio at Memphis, 8 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Boston at Denver, 9 p.m.Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m.Portland at Sacramento, 10 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesDallas at San Antonio, 7 p.m.Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m.Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.Indiana at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Houston, 8 p.m.Washington at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.Orlando at Portland, 10 p.m.Boston at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

NHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L OT Pts GF GABoston 28 12 2 58 124 89Tampa Bay 25 13 4 54 119 100Montreal 24 14 5 53 112 102Detroit 19 14 10 48 114 121Toronto 21 17 5 47 119 127Ottawa 19 18 7 45 126 141Florida 16 20 6 38 101 134Buffalo 12 26 4 28 74 118Metropolitan Division W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 31 12 1 63 142 103Philadelphia 21 17 4 46 111 116Washington 20 16 6 46 128 128Carolina 18 16 9 45 105 124N.Y. Rangers 21 20 2 44 105 115New Jersey 17 18 8 42 101 110Columbus 18 20 4 40 113 123N.Y. Islanders 14 22 7 35 112 143WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 29 7 9 67 167 124St. Louis 29 7 5 63 150 95Colorado 26 11 4 56 120 104Minnesota 22 17 5 49 106 113Dallas 20 14 7 47 120 124Winnipeg 19 21 5 43 123 135Nashville 18 19 6 42 102 129Pacifi c Division W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 31 8 5 67 146 111San Jose 27 10 6 60 142 111Los Angeles 26 13 4 56 113 89Vancouver 23 13 8 54 117 108Phoenix 20 12 9 49 123 127Calgary 14 21 6 34 96 128Edmonton 14 26 5 33 117 156NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Sunday’s GamesSan Jose 3, Chicago 2, SOPittsburgh 6, Winnipeg 5Carolina 2, Nashville 1Edmonton 5, Tampa Bay 3Anaheim 4, Vancouver 3, OTMonday’s GamesDallas at N.Y. Islanders, late

Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, lateFlorida at Montreal, lateCalgary at Colorado, lateTuesday’s GamesCarolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m.Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.Calgary at Phoenix, 9 p.m.St. Louis at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Boston at Anaheim, 10 p.m.Minnesota at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesMontreal at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 8 p.m.Ottawa at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

ECHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L OL SL Pts GF GAWheeling 15 10 1 5 36 84 88Reading 15 12 1 0 31 79 77Elmira 10 16 2 2 24 73 99North Division W L OL SL Pts GF GACincinnati 20 9 1 1 42 108 83Evansville 17 7 3 3 40 104 96Kalamazoo 16 11 1 2 35 85 77Fort Wayne 13 11 2 4 32 89 98Toledo 10 17 3 0 23 88 116South Division W L OL SL Pts GF GASCarolina 24 6 1 2 51 102 64Florida 20 10 1 1 42 111 93Orlando 18 12 1 1 38 90 89Greenville 14 15 2 1 31 78 83Gwinnett 12 19 0 2 26 80 97WESTERN CONFERENCEMountain Division W L OL SL Pts GF GAColorado 18 9 3 2 41 103 87Alaska 19 9 1 1 40 96 61Idaho 17 11 2 2 38 103 94Utah 11 15 2 2 26 69 83Pacifi c Division W L OL SL Pts GF GAOntario 24 5 1 3 52 101 78Stockton 17 11 0 4 38 110 98San Fran. 12 17 4 1 29 81 120Bakersfi eld 13 16 0 1 27 75 90Las Vegas 8 20 3 0 19 73 111NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.Sunday’s GamesOrlando 4, Utah 3, OTKalamazoo at Fort Wayne, ppd., weatherOntario 3, San Francisco 2, OTMonday’s GamesNo games scheduledTuesday’s GamesGwinnett at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.Toledo at Evansville, ppd., Inclement weatherLas Vegas at Utah, 9:05 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesKalamazoo at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.Wheeling at Reading, 7:05 p.m.Las Vegas at Utah, 9:05 p.m.Thursday’s GamesEvansville at Greenville, ppd., Inclement weatherCincinnati at Wheeling, 7 p.m.Alaska at San Francisco, 10:30 p.m.

TransactionsBASEBALLAmerican LeagueCLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP Scott Atchison on a minor league contract.HOUSTON ASTROS — Promoted Kevin Goldstein to director of profes-sional scouting, Stephanie Wilka to specialist of international operations and associate counsel and Paul Putila coordinator of baseball operations.SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with C Humberto Quintero on a minor league contract.TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with OF James Darnell and SS Ray Olmedo on minor league contracts.National LeagueNEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with C Taylor Teagarden on a minor league contract.PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with OF Chris Dickerson on a minor league contract.ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Claimed OF Rafael Ortega off waivers from Texas.BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationDALLAS MAVERICKS — Recalled G-F Ricky Ledo from Texas (NBADL).PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Recalled Gs Lorenzo Brown and Elliot Williams from Delaware (NBADL).FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueCINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed WR Cobi Hamilton, C T.J. Johnson, DE David King, CB Onterio McCalebb, LB Bruce Taylor and C Scott Wedige to reserve/future contracts.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed DE Fili Moala and CB Greg Toler on injured reserve. Agreed to terms with WR Deion Branch. Signed WR Josh Lenz from the practice squad. Released DT Christian Tupou from the practice squad.MIAMI DOLPHINS — Fired offensive coordinator Mike Sherman.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed LB Brandon Spikes on injured reserve.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed CBs Marc Anthony and Bobby Felder, OTs Emett Cleary and Jace Daniels, DTs Everett Dawkins and David Hunter, G Jason Foster, K Patrick Murray, QB Jordan Rodgers, LS Patrick Scales, P Jacob Schum and WR Tommy Streeter.Canadian Football LeagueTORONTO ARGONAUTS — Signed SB Andre Durie to a contract extension through 2016.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueNHL — Suspended Buffalo D Tyler Myers three games for an illegal check to the head of New Jersey F Dainius Zubrus during Saturday’s game.DALLAS STARS — Activated D Trevor Daley and Sergei Gonchar from injured reserve.MINNESOTA WILD — Placed G Josh Harding and C Mikko Koivu on injured reserve. Recalled D Jonathon Blum and F Erik Haula from Iowa (AHL).NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Patrik Elias on injured reserve, retroac-tive to Dec. 31. Recalled D Eric Gelinas from Albany (AHL).TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled G Cedrick Desjardins from Syracuse (AHL).SOCCERMajor League SoccerD.C. UNITED — Signed D Jalen Robinson.LOS ANGELES GALAXY — Named Kenny Arena assistant coach.SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Signed M Lamar Neagle to a contract extension.COLLEGECLEMSON — Announced WR Sammy Watkins will enter the NFL draft.FLORIDA — Announced LB Ronald Powell will enter the NFL draft.MIAMI (OHIO) — Named Bill Brechin and Joe Palcic assistant football coaches, Corey Brown defensive line coach, Autry Denson running backs coach, John Hauser defensive backs coach, and Matt Palowski defensive coordinator.NOTRE DAME — Announced DE Stephon Tuitt will enter the NFL draft.UCF — Announced QB Blake Bortles and RB Storm Johnson will enter the NFL draft.

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The linebacker topped the NFL with a career-high 19 1/2 sacks and forced nine fumbles.

“He seems to be getting increasingly better as the years go on, which, as an offensive coach, you tend to hope it goes the other direction,” McDaniels said. “He’s as disruptive a player on the edge as we have played or will play.”

Speed, acceleration, effort.

Mathis has it all, McDaniels said.“You can’t ever assume that,

‘Well I did enough,’ because if you assume that then usually he ends up fi nishing the play better than you did,” he added, “and a lot of times that ends up in a bad situation for the offense.”

Mathis has fi ve sacks against Brady in 12 games, the most he has against any quarterback not in the Colts’ AFC South.

But he lines up in different spots on different plays, so Brady’s blockers must be sharp.

“No one’s more explosive than him,” Brady said Monday on his contractually obligated appearance on WEEI radio. “Once he gets to the quarterback, it’s not as much sacking him, but it’s the strip sacks. The fumbles and the fumble recoveries is where he’s really dangerous.”

Six minutes into the third quarter last Saturday, Mathis did just that against Kansas City’s Alex Smith. Kelvin Sheppard recovered for the Colts and they capitalized with Luck’s 3-yard scoring pass to Donald Brown. The 38-10 defi cit early in the quarter was down to 38-24.

But if the Patriots keep double-teaming Mathis, they’ll have one less player to block a blitzer.

PATS-COLTS: Mathis is the complete defender to New England’s McDanielsFROM PAGE A9

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CHASE BRASS and COPPER COMPANY, LLC

FULL TIME PRODUCTION POSITIONS

We are looking for highly motivated people to work in our manufacturing facility. High School diploma or GED required. Previous manufacturing experience preferred. Starting pay is $10.82 per hour; average pay after 5 years is $20.38 per hour.

Chase Brass is the leading producer of brass rod and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Brass & Copper. This is an opportunity for a proven contributor to join an excellent organi-zation.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefi ts package. Openings will be on second shift, 3:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Complete applications at:

https://careers-chasebrass.icims.com

Tobacco users are ineligible.

No phone inquiries or applications

accepted at the Plant.

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EMPLOYMENT

Accounting

ACCOUNTS PAY-ABLE

Local RV Manufacturinghas an opening in our

Accounting Departmentfor an AccountsPayable person.

Essential JobFunctions and Skills

Required:• 2+ years of Payables

Experience• Proficient in Excel

• Experienced with ERPsystems

• Must possess excel-lent verbal and writtencommunication skills

• Excellent attendancerequired

• Must be able to workin a fast paced

environmentDuties and Tasks:

• Vendor maintenanceand resolution

• Payable reconcilia-tions

• Processing payables• Three way match

process• Assisting with check

runs

Please send resume to:Human Resources,

Open Range RVP. O. Box 291

Shipshewana, IN46565

or email to:bdumont@

openrangerv.com

Drivers

Class A CDLMinimum Two years

Experience.Good pay and

benefits.Home every night.

No touch freightfor our Butler,

Indiana locationor apply online at:Fabexpress.com

Call Jim800-621-1478

Ext. 131

General

BRIDGEWATERDAIRY, LLC

Multiple Full TimeJob Opportunities:• Farm Manager,• Crop Production

Specialist,• General Maintenance

Visit www.bridgewaterdairy.com/jobs.htmlfor more information

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EMPLOYMENT

General

HELP WANTEDPersons to do light

temp. delivery work, forthe Cash Bonanza Pro-gram. Good pay. Musthave your own trans-

portation, valid driver slicense and know the

Steuben Co. area well.Must be neat and

dependable.Apply in person at:603 N. Wayne St.

Suite CAngola, IN

General

Looking forPart Time Work?

.The National

Association of StateDepts. of Agricultureis hiring year round,part time agricultural

interviewers. A farm background

is desirable.

Applicants must be atleast 18 yrs. of age,have a high school

diploma, a valid driverslicense, and

dependable transporta-tion. Basic computer

knowledge is required.Starting Salary is

$10.43 /hr. includingtraining time plus travel

reimbursement

Please send aresume to:

Carolyn Journay 5144 E. 600 N

Bryant, IN 47326or call:

260-997-6434

Fair EmploymentOpportunity

Employer

General

WANTEDPersons to do temp.

telephone work for theCash Bonanza Pro-

gram. No exp. nec., noage limit. Must be ableto read well and speak

clearly. Two shifts avail-able; 9 am to 3 pm or4 pm to 9 pm. Hourly

compensation orcommission.

Apply in person to theOffice Manager at 603 N. Wayne St.

Suite CAngola, IN

Healthcare

HAPPY NEW YEAR!2014 New beginnings

Angel Corps is seekingCare Partners to assist

our clients in theirhomes.

One to one care.CNA/Home Health

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LaGrange CountySteuben County

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(260) 463-2101Ask for

Kim, CoordinatorLaGrange, IN

PETS/ANIMALS

AKC Toy Poodle Pups,2 white males, 1 parti

black & white, 1 apricotfemale $200. & up.

Home raised.260-997-6906

FREE: Lab mixPuppies, black males &females. 260 351-2921

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$ WANTED $Junk Cars! Highest

prices pd.Freepickup. 260-705-7610

705-7630

SETSER TRANSPORTAND TOWINGUSED TIRES

Cash for Junk Cars!701 Krueger St.,

K ville. 260-318-5555

ATTENTION:Paying up to $1000 forscrap cars. Used tires4 sale also. 318-2571

IVAN S TOWINGJunk Auto Buyerup to $1000.00(260) 238-4787

CARS

1 & Only Place To Callto get rid of that junk

car, truck or van!! Cashon the spot! Free tow-

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WE BUILD POLEBARNS AND-- Ga-

rages. We also re-roofand re-side old barns,garages and houses.Call 260-632-5983 or

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KPC assumes no liabil-ity or financial responsi-bility for typographicalerrors or for omission ofcopy, failure to publishor failure to deliver ad -vertising. Our liability forcopy errors is limited toyour actual charge forthe first day & one incor-rect day after the adruns. You must promptlynotify KPC of any erroron first publication.Claims for adjustmentmust be made within 30days of publication and,in the case of multipleruns, claims are allowedfor first publication only.KPC is not responsible

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HOMES FOR SALE

USDA 100% HOMELOANS-- Not just 1st

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LaGrange9120 E 400 S

Jan. 9 - 11 • 8 - 5MOVING SALE

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Brand NEW in plastic!QUEEN

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GUN SHOW!!Alexandria, IN - Janu-ary 11th & 12th, Madi-

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WANTED TO BUY

TIMBER WANTEDAll species of hardwood. Pay before

starting. Walnut needed.

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Auburn $99 First Month -2BR-VERY NICE!

SENIORS 50+ $450No Smokers/ No Pets

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Dekalb & Noble Co. For Sale or Rent$400-$600/ mo.(260)925-1716

Hamilton Lake

2 BR,Newly remodeled,Nice! One block to

lake, others available.$550/mo.

(260) 488-3163

Wolcottville2 & 3 BR from $100/wkalso LaOtto location.

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While we accept appli-cations for all depart-ments 365 days/year,

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2010 DODGE RAM 1500 ST CREW CAB 4X4

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$9,995

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2004 Oldsmobile Alero GL

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2012 LincolnMKZ

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2010 FORD F-150 XLT EXT. CAB 4X4

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2013 Mazda 6sGrand Touring

$21,995

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2010 Chevrolet MalibuLS

$12,995

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$12,995

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$9,995

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2007 Chevrolet HHRLT

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2007 Chrysler Town & Country Touring

$10,995

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2011 Ford Escape Hybrid 4x4

$16,995

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$29,995

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2006 NISSAN TITAN XE EXT. CAB

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$8,995

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2003 DODGE RAM 1500 SLT CREW CAB 4X4

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2007 Chevrolet MalibuLS

$10,995

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$15,995

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