May 29, 2014

Partly cloudy through the afternoon then mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Mostly clear tonight with lows in the mid 50s. See page 2.

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Jefferson to hold commencement for 72 SaturdayINFORMATION SUBMITTED

DELPHOS — Jefferson High School’s 139th commencement will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Jefferson Middle School Auditorium. There are 72 members in the class of 2014.

The commencement speaker for the Class of 2014 will be John Edinger. Damon Ulm will deliver the Invocation and the Benediction. The Student Prayer will be delivered by Ross Thompson. Commencement music will be provided by the Commencement Band, under the direction of Mr. David Stearns.

Libbi Brown, Justin Stewart and Kenidi Ulm will address the assem-bly on behalf of the class of 2014.

Brown is the daughter of Joel and Lori Brown. Her high school activi-ties include: National Honor Society;

Fellowship of Christian Athletes; Student Council; Class Officer; SADD; Haiti Interact; Student Ambassador; Skills USA; Junior Prom Committee; Varsity “D” Club; Junior Optimist; Senior Health Tech at Vantage, serving as vice president this year; National Technical Honor Society; and Relay for Life. She is also involved in her church youth group.

Brown will attend Kettering College of Medical Arts, majoring in sonog-

raphy.Stewart

is the son of Anita Stewart and Jesse Stewart. He is a mem-ber of the National Honor Society, serving as treasurer this year; Junior Optimist; Student Council; Varsity “D” Club; Fellowship of Christian Athletes, serving as leader the past two years; Northwest Conference Leadership Team; and Senior Class Executive Committee.

He has been involved with the Delphos Community Christmas Project, West Ohio Food Bank, the Delphos Postal Museum setup and the Athletic Boosters’ Pancake and Sausage Breakfast.

Stewart will attending the University of Cincinnati, majoring in mechanical engineering.

Brown Stewart Ulm

Spencerville Water Treatment Plant progressingIn a few short weeks, Spencerville’s new Water Treatment Plant construction has progressed rapidly. The concrete floor was poured last week, crews began constructing interior masonry walls Tuesday and erecting steel beams Wednesday. Village Administrator Sean Chapman said construction is on schedule and equipment — mem-branes, Membrane Clean in Place (CIP) System and sand filters — will be delivered between now and June 16. The start-up date has been moved up to August when water will be pumped through the treat-ment system and work will begin to tweak the system. (dhi MEDIA/Stephanie Groves)

Pool opens Saturday, partial hours observed next weekBY NANCY SPENCER

dhi MEDIA [email protected]

DELPHOS — The Delphos Municipal Swimming Pool will open for regular hours this week-

end. Cooler temperatures delayed the original opening on Memorial Day weekend.

Shortened hours from 4-8 p.m. will be observed Monday through Thursday and the pool will then be open from noon to 8 p.m daily from

June 6 through Aug. 25.Pre-Sale season tickets will be sold

at the Municipal Building, 608 North Canal St., through next Thursday.

Presale prices are:Single — $70Family — $190

Over 55 — $60Regular Prices effective June 16:Single — $90Family — $215Over 55 — $80Applications can be obtained at

the Municipal Building or on the

city’s website at www.cityofdelphos.com. Applications can be mailed but have to be received no later than June 5. The city is not responsible for any applications that are not received.

Man gets prison time for Rambler’s Roost robbery

BY ED GEBERTdhi MEDIA Editor

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VAN WERT — A Van Wert man, charged with robbing the Rambler’s Roost on Dec. 15, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday in Van Wert County Common

Pleas Court. Trent Webster, 49, was given a prison

term of 18 months for fourth-degree fel-ony grand theft and 24 months in prison for third-degree felony robbery. The terms are to be served concurrently.

Trent Webster stands in court Wednesday, listening as he is sentenced to 24 months in prison in connection with the December robbery at the Rambler’s Roost on Lincoln Highway. Webster was one of 13 persons to make court appearances in Van Wert County Court of Common Pleas Wednesday morning. (dhi MEDIA/Ed Gebert)

BY HILLEL ITALIEThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Maya Angelou’s story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segrega-tion, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history.

“I’m not modest,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out.”

Angelou, a renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86.

“She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being. She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace,” said her son, Guy B. Johnson.

Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, she was unfor-gettable whether encountered

in person, through sound or the printed word. She was an actress, singer and dancer in the 1950s and 1960s and made a brave and sensational debut as an author in 1969 with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” which became standard (and occasion-ally censored) reading and made Angelou one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream lit-erary success.

“Caged Bird” was the start of a multipart autobiography that continued through the decades and captured a life of hopeless obscurity and triumphant, kalei-doscopic fame.

Author Maya Angelou dies at 86 in North Carolina

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St. John’s holds year-end picnic

St. John’s K-3 students enjoyed celebrating their annual year-end Picnic Day at Waterworks Park on Wednesday afternoon. The last day for St. John’s students is Friday. Classes will be dismissed at 1:30 p.m. with no bus service until 3 p.m. Latchkey will be available. (dhi MEDIA/Stephanie Groves)

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Patricia Ann (Ambose) Wallen AdkinsMay 15, 1941-May 27, 2014

LIMA — Patricia Ann (Ambose) Wallen Adkins, 73, of Lima died at 9:26 a.m. Tuesday at her daughter’s residence.

She was born May 15, 1941, in Elida and adopted by Lawerence and Vista Ambos, who preceded her in death.

She married Leroy Adkins, who preceded her in death.

Survivors include two sons, Don (Amy Murphy) Wallen of Lima and Danny Wallen of Delphos; two daughters, Kathy Gilbert of Delphos and Jana Wallen of Lima; four half-sisters, Sally Marshal and Bonnie Meeks, both of Lima, and Debbie Stemen and Sarah Stemen, both of Michigan; a brother, Steven (Susan) Stemen of Michigan; two half-broth-ers, Gary Meeks and Lonnie Meeks, both of Lima; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a signifi-cant other, John Boroff of Delphos.

She was also preceded in death by two sons, Gary and Frank Wallen; a daughter, Julie Wallen; a half-brother, George Meeks; and two sis-ters, Margaret Williams and Delores Stemen.

She had worked as a home health aide and was also a homemaker.

She was a member of the Delphos Wesleyan Church and enjoyed playing cards, bingo and the piano. She also enjoyed writing poetry.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Harter and Schier Funeral Home in Delphos. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lima.

Visitation will be from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. today and an hour prior to the service on Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Association.

To leave condolences online for the family, visit www.harterandschier.com.ST. RITA’S

A boy was born May 27 to Danielle and Benjamin Siefker of Spencerville.

One Year AgoSt. John’s High School will bid farewell

to a 41-year veteran this year in retiring Principal Don Huysman. Adam Lee, a 1999 alumnus, hopes he is up to the task of filling those shoes. Lee was announced as St. John’s new high school principal Sunday during the school’s commence-ment ceremonies.

25 Years Ago – 1989Ladies Auxiliary to Walterick Hemme

Post 3035 met recently in the post club-rooms. President Denelda Brokamp was in charge. Mary Lou Harman and Brokamp reported on the recent district meeting in Lima. Buddy Poppy Chairman Mary Hagemen announced the Poppy Queen will be Stacy Marie Osting, daughter of Dennis E. and Lois May Osting.

The 13th annual Fort Jennings Jaycees Great Canoe Race and “Wacky Waft Wace” will be June 10 and 11 at the community park, Fort Jennings. The weekend kicks off with the “wacky waft wace” at noon Saturday. The Jaycee racing classes will be run at 5 p.m. Sunday as an all-day party with “Soundwave” and the running of 12 different canoe divisions beginning at noon. Awards ceremony is planned for 7 p.m.

The Delphos Lioness Club finished planting seven concrete planters in the business district, to have them ready for the Memorial Day weekend. Lionesses who

helped with the planting were Beth Cano, Elsie Gillespie, Nadine Young and Carolyn Epstein. Last week the Lions Club painted the seven planters white.

50 Years Ago – 1964Mrs. Paul Harter, Sr., was elected presi-

dent of the 1917 Club during a meet-ing held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Roy Feathers, West First Street. Elected to serve with Harter during the coming year were Feathers as vice presi-dent, Mrs. O. Truesdale, treasurer, and Mrs. Virgil Buchanan, secretary. Maggie Ash presented two readings. At the close of the afternoon a lunch was served. In serving, Feathers was assisted by Grace Hartshorn.

Kenneth Weber will supervise the sum-mer recreation program in Ottoville this year, it was announced Friday by Robert Bruns, superintendent of Ottoville Schools. Present plans are to field teams in Little League for boys 9 to 12, in pony league, for boys 13 and 14 and a high school team which will be coached by Robert Ziegler and Bruns. The girls program will be soft-ball for girls 13 and older.

’58 Alumni Club held its regular month-ly meeting recently in the home of Helen Mueller at which time plans were made for a parlor auction to be held at the next ses-sion. Marge Price was elected treasurer of the club at that time. The June 10 meeting will be held in the home of Cheryl Miller,

Harmon Street.

75 Years Ago – 1939Approximately 25 members of the local

post of the American Legion were in atten-dance at the annual memorial service held at Morris Chapel Church, east of Delphos, Sunday morning. James M. Cochran, 93, one of the few Civil War veterans alive today, was in attendance at the services. Frank Munday, commander of the local post, presented Cochran with a copy of Logan’s General Order No. Eleven.

Thirty-three new members were received into the Young Ladies’ Solidity at impressive services held at St. John’s Church Sunday evening. The statue of the Blessed Virgin was crowned by Betty Ann Wilcox. Her attendants were Lois Horstman, Dorothy Boerger, Patricia Eickholt, Bonnie Hammond, Eileen Ernst, Dorothy Grothouse, Wilma Best, Jeanine Imber, Margaret Ann Laudick and Janice Boerger.

George Herman of Springfield, past state president of the Eagles, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of Delphos Aerie of Eagles Monday night when veterans of the organization will be honored. The 29 members of Delphos Aerie who have been in the organization for 20 years or more will be given service buttons and a class will be initiated in their honor.

Associated Press

Today is Thursday, May 29, the 149th day of 2014. There are 216 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 29, 1914, the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec after collid-ing with the Norwegian cargo ship SS Storstad; of the 1,477 people on board the Empress of Ireland, 1,012 died. (The Storstad suffered only minor damage.)

On this date:In 1765, Patrick Henry

denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original col-ony to ratify the United States Constitution.

In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.

In 1917, the 35th presi-dent of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.

In 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t sched-uled to receive until 1945.

In 1942, the movie “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” starring James Cagney as George M. Cohan, premiered at a war-bonds ben-efit in New York. Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra recorded Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” in Los Angeles for Decca Records.

SIEFKER, Robert E. “Bob”, 73, of Delphos, funer-al services will be at 10 a.m. today at Harter and Schier Funeral Home, Deacon Fred Lisk officiating. Burial will be at St. John’s Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Rita’s Hospice. To leave online condolences for the family, visit www.harterandschier.com.

ADAM, Mary C., 94, of Delphos, funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Harter and Schier Funeral Home with Pastor Gary Fish officiating. Burial will be at Walnut Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be 2-8 p.m. today at Harter and Schier Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Delphos Christian Union Church. To leave con-dolences for the family, visit www.harterandschier.com.

KRIETEMEYER, Paul V., 78, of Fort Jennings, Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Fort Jennings, with Father Charles Obinwa officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. Friday at Strayer Funeral Home and again on Saturday for one hour prior to the ser-vice at the church. There will be a parish rosary service at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon at the funeral home. Memorial con-tributions may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. Online condolences may be shared at www.strayerfuneral-home.com.

WEATHER FORECASTTri-county

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TODAY: Partly cloudy through mid afternoon then becoming mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.

TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Highs around 80. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 15 mph.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.SATURDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear with a 30 percent

chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.

MONDAY: Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.

MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in the mid 80s.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.

Colin Bendele was mis-identified as Colin Burgei in a photo cutline in Wednesday’s sports section.

Taylor announces passage of insurance reforms benefiting consumers

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COLUMBUS — Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced pas-sage of significant reforms to Ohio’s insurance law. Specifically, Senate Bill 140 makes changes to Ohio’s insur-ance laws to maintain the strength and competitiveness of Ohio’s insurance marketplace while also providing new consumer protections.

“These changes are among the most sweeping and impactful insurance reforms to pass the Ohio Legislature in years,” Taylor said. “Ohio has one of the most competitive insurance markets in the country providing consumers with choice and accessibility. Senate Bill 140 will build on that strong founda-tion and further improve the environ-ment for the industry to succeed and grow while ensuring strong consumer protections are still the cornerstone of

our regulatory mission. I want to thank Senate President Faber, House Speaker Batchelder, Chairmen Hughes and Hacket, Leaders Schiavoni and Heard and the bill’s sponsors Senator Bacon and Representative Kunze for ensur-ing these changes were considered and developed in a thoughtful and bipartisan way.”

Among the changes included in SB 140 is the inclusion of a one-page sum-mary document a consumer can refer to when they wish to get an overview of what is included in their insurance policy. Policy summaries came about as a result of Superstorm Sandy when it was discovered that many homeowners did not completely understand what was included in their policy. This provision will make it easier for Ohioans to under-stand what is in their policy in a more efficient and effective way.

Also included is an electronic deliv-ery provision that will provide consum-

ers secure access to information about their policy through newer means of technology. This would include using a desktop computer, mobile device or tablet to access their policy or receive updates regarding any changes to their coverage.

The legislation includes provisions that ensure Ohio’s national accreditation by modernizing provisions related to an insurer’s own risk self-assessment, cred-it for reinsurance, model holding com-panies and regulation of the investments insurers are permitted to make. These changes will help the industry operate more efficiently by updating portions of Ohio law that were outdated in some cases, while ensuring the Department of Insurance has strong oversight and addi-tional regulatory tools needed to protect consumers.

Having passed the House and the Senate, Senate Bill 140 now awaits Governor John Kasich’s signature.

Judge orders temporary halt to executionsCOLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio executions have been put on

hold for 2 1/2 months after a federal judge said he wanted to hear arguments over the state’s new lethal injection proce-dures.

The temporary order delays executions scheduled for July and August while attorneys prepare filings about the state’s decision to boost the dosages of its lethal injection drugs.

The one-page order by Columbus federal judge Gregory Frost on Tuesday affects the state’s latest death penalty policy change, which was announced in late April. Ohio uses two drugs injected simultaneously in executions. The policy change considerably increases the amount of the sedative and raises the amount of the painkiller.

The procedure update followed the Jan. 16 execution of Dennis McGuire, who repeatedly gasped during the record 26 minutes it took him to die.

The state said in April it was making the changes “to allay any remaining concerns” after McGuire’s execution, though it stood by the way McGuire was put to death.

The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said its review of McGuire’s execution determined he was asleep and unconscious a few minutes after the drugs were administered and his execution was conducted in a constitutional manner.

“He did not experience pain, distress or air hunger after the drugs were administered or when the bodily movements and sounds occurred,” the state said.

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E - The Environmental MagazineDear EarthTalk: Do you agree with the

recent claim in the Wall Street Journal that organic agriculture isn’t actually sustain-able?

— Chuck Romaniello, Pittsburgh, PADr. Henry I. Miller’s May 15, 2014 opin-

ion piece in the Wall Street Journal has indeed made waves in the organic farming community. Miller, former director of the Office of Biotechnology at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, argues that convention-al farming — which uses synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers and often genetically modified (GM) seed stock to maximize yields — is actually better for the environment, producing more food and using less water compared to organic farming.

“Organic farming might work well for certain local environments on a small scale, but its farms produce far less food per unit of land and water than conventional ones,” says Miller. “The low yields of organic agriculture — typically 20 percent to 50 percent less than conventional agriculture — impose various stresses on farmland and especially on water consumption.” Miller adds that organic meth-ods can cause significant leaking of nitrates from composted manure — the fertilizer of choice for most organic farms — into ground-water, polluting drinking water. He also cites research showing that large-scale composting generates significant amounts of greenhouse gases and “may also deposit pathogenic bac-teria on or in food crops, which has led to more frequent occurrences of food poisoning in the U.S. and elsewhere.”

“If the scale of organic production were significantly increased, says Miller, the lower yields would increase the pressure for the conversion of more land to farming and more water for irrigation, both of which are serious environmental issues.” He adds that conven-tional farming’s embrace of GM crops — a no-no to organic farmers — is yet another way we can boost yields and feed more people with less land.

But, the Washington, D.C.-based Organic Center takes issue with Miller’s allegations about nitrates polluting groundwater: “Most studies that examine nutrient runoff show that organic production methods result in reduced nitrogen losses when compared to conven-tional crop production,” reports the group.

The Organic Center also disputes Miller’s claims about the organic farming’s carbon footprint, arguing that overall energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions are much less from organic farming than for conventional agriculture. The group also says that taking into account the greenhouse gas emissions that come from the production (not just the use) of synthetic fertilizer changes the equa-tion entirely. The group cites a recent study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization which found that organic agriculture can potentially reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent compared to conven-tional farming.

Also, Miller’s statements about GM crops overlook the ecological problems associated with their use. “For example,” the Organic Center reports, “transgene movement from GM crops to wild, weedy relatives could increase the invasiveness of weeds.” Also, genetic modification has led to higher pes-ticide use in agricultural systems and an increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. Some worry this is leading to a vicious cycle whereby farmers use more and more chemical herbicides to battle hardier and hardier weeds.

As the price of organic food continues to drop, more and more people will be able to afford it and the increased demand may well drive the conversion to organic agriculture more than policy or philosophy.

EarthTalk® is written and edited by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss and is a reg-istered trademark of E - The Environmental Magazine (www.emagazine.com). Send ques-tions to: [email protected]

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Aside from its other benefits to our health and environment, organic agricul-ture — which eschews synthetic pesticides and fertilizers — can potentially reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent compared to conven-tional farming. (CinCool, courtesy Flickr photo)

Van Wert County Foundation announces Summer Music Series


VAN WERT — For 12 years, The Van Wert County Foundation, in cooperation with the Van Wert City Parks & Recreation, has presented free concerts on Friday nights dur-ing the summer in Fountain Park. The fun returns to Van Wert’s Fountain Park for a 13th season when the 2014 Fountain Park Summer Music Series will be offered for the public to enjoy.

Paul Hoverman, coordina-tor of Performing Arts for The Van Wert County Foundation, has announced the line-up which starts on June 6 dur-ing Van Wert’s Peony and ArtRageous Festival. The ever-popular beach party band from California, Papa Doo Run Run, kicks off the summer at 7 p.m. After a week off, the music returns to Fountain Park with San Franciso’s electric fid-dling virtuoso, Tom Rigney and Flambeau. Specializing in Cajun, Zydeco, Blues, and New Orleans music, they perform on June 20.

The world’s best tribute band to the music of Chicago, Brass Transit returns to Van Wert on June 27. On July 4, cel-ebrate America’s Independence with the Lima Symphony Pops Orchestra in a Star Spangled American Celebration con-cert filled with surprises. The sounds of Motown fill the air on July 11 when NBC TV’s “The Winner Is” finalists, TOUCH, come to town.

After a week off when the Van Wert Area Community Concert Band performs in Fountain Park on July 18, the music of Simon & Garfunkel will delight everyone, featur-ing Scarborough Fair by The Guthrie Brothers on July 25. The summer season is wrapped

up on Aug. 1 with the music of one of Rock’s most endear-ing bands of all-time: Journey. Never Stop Believin’- a Journey Tribute Band from Florida - will feature the incredible vocals of Donny Ferrari and his band. Experience the amazing lineup of hits that dominated arenas worldwide in the late 70s, 80s and 90s.

All concerts are offered free of charge to the public. Fountain Park is located on the west edge of downtown Van Wert at the corner of West Main and Jefferson streets. Food is avail-able at all concerts. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs or blankets. All concerts are on Friday nights and begin at 7 p.m.

Brass Transit

Papa Doo Run Run

Tom Rigney and Flambeau

Latta hears veterans’ concerns firsthandINFORMATION SUBMITTED

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) held three listening sessions throughout Ohio’s Fifth Congressional District Tuesday in an effort to hear veterans’ experiences with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and assist with any issues or concerns they may have. At the events, which were held in Perrysburg, Findlay and Defiance, veterans detailed stories about the current lengthy wait times, inadequate care and the lack of communication between various sectors of the VA, among other issues.

“Today’s veterans’ listening sessions were an opportunity for me to hear directly from our veterans to see how I can help resolve the delays and problems accessing care that they face at

the VA,” said Latta. “Tragic events across the country reinforce what can happen if the current trend continues with veterans forced to wait not days, not months, but years to receive the care they have earned in service to our country. This is absolutely unacceptable, and I will do every-thing in my power to not only resolve the issues I heard, but also prevent these injustices from happening to our nation’s heroes in the future. By sharing this information with my colleagues in the House, I also look forward to working with them to take whatever steps may be neces-sary to fix our broken VA health care system.”

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How to detect frost damage versus chemical spray damage

JAMES HOORMANPutnam County Extension

Ag Educator

Putnam County has had several late spring early morning frosts this year. Sometimes frost damage is apparent almost immediately following freezing. However, this is not always the case and with some plants, the damage may take several months to appear, especially on woody plants.

The Royal Horticultural Society offers these tips on looking for frost damage on plants:

“Often frost damage is confused with chemical spray drift, and vice versa. For frost damage, look for the following signs;

• Tender young growth may be dam-aged by spring frosts, causing scorch-ing and pale brown patches to appear between the leaf veins. This tends to be on the exposed and top edges of the plant.

• The foliage of tender perennials may be blackened by a spring frost. Stems usually collapse.

• As a result of late spring frosts, summer bedding plants and tender veg-etables, such as potatoes and tomatoes may suffer from leaf scorch, browning and even total plant death.

• Prolonged periods of frost may cause spotting on the leaves of some shrubs.

• The foliage of certain plants exhib-iting early symptoms of frost damage appears water-soaked and dark-green, turning black in time.

“Ground frost occurs when the tem-perature of the ground falls below freez-ing point and air frost occurs when the temperature of the air falls below freez-ing point. Plant cells can be damaged or

even destroyed by frost.“Once the temperature has fallen

below freezing, a strong wind can make a frost more damaging. Cold winds remove moisture from evergreen foliage more quickly than it can be replenished by the roots; this can cause leaf brown-ing particularly at the tips and margins. Newly planted, young plants can be more susceptible to frost damage than fully established specimens. Cold air naturally flows downwards on sloping ground, collecting at the lowest point or against a barrier — this is known as a ‘frost pocket’.

“As most gardeners will testify, it is easy to be caught out by frost. And sometimes frost damage is simply unavoidable. If no more frost is expect-ed, prune out damaged growth, cut-ting to an undamaged sideshoot or bud. After pruning, apply a top dressing of a general-purpose fertilizer to encourage regrowth.” (Royal Horticultural Society, 2014, website: www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profile?pid=704)

Spring frosts can damage blossom and young fruits. This may cause a corky layer to form at the flower end of the fruit i.e. apple and damage to blossom may lead to few or no fruits forming. The level of damage is directly related to cold intensity and duration as well as the bud developmental stage.(Larsen 2010 Colorado State University).

How can I tell the difference between frost damage and plant chemical spray damage?

Rural homes, fruits, vegetables and nursery crops (specialty crops) are an integral part of diverse and healthy rural farm communities and often are grown in close proximity to grain fields.

First, spray applicators should not be applying spray when the wind veloc-

ity is greater than 15 mph. Often when chemical spray damage occurs, the dam-age will only be on one side of a bushy plant. (Downer and Doohan, 2014)

Drift is the physical movement of spray particles by wind after the parti-cles leave the sprayer. Drift occurs when spray applications occur in unfavorable weather conditions, but most common-ly happens when windy conditions are combined with poor application tech-niques. One of these poor application techniques is using spray nozzles that produce small droplets (less than 200 microns). These small droplets are light and easily carried by wind. A recent paper presented at the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) meeting showed that driftable spray droplets can be reduced from 30 percent down to 2 percent by simply upgrading the noz-zle technology in current spray setups. Spray operators can control drift, and manufacturers have made substantial improvements to spray nozzle technol-ogy in recent years. (Purdue ID-453-W).

Early symptom detection within a few days of drift is important if you hope to detect residues of the spray. In court cases, usually photographs before chem-ical spray and after a chemical spray are needed to verify that spray damage occurred. Farmers applying either 2-4D or dicamba (Banvel) herbicides prod-ucts need to be careful of chemical drift and volatility due to humid conditions. Leaves tend to be curled or twisted with 2-4D and glyphosate (Roundup) causes plants leaves to turn tan to light brown in a blotchy pattern before the plant dies, especially on tomatoes.

For more information on chemical drift, contact the Ohio Department of Agriculture at 1-800-282-1955.

ODOT assesses vegetation along state highwaysReseeding of areas to occur this year


LIMA — The grass along area highways which remains brown from herbicidal spraying last sum-mer will be reseeded by the contractor this year.

The Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 (ODOT) recently completed an assessment of vegetation along the highways in the district’s eight-county region where a 2, 4-D-based chemi-cal was sprayed last summer to kill broad-leaf weeds. The chemi-cal contained a growth retardant which was believed at the time to have caused the grass to brown immediately and remain brown through-out the summer and fall.

“In our conversations with the contractor last year when the issue was first identified, we were assured the grass would recover, but any areas that did not would be reseeded at their expense,” said Kirk Slusher, Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 deputy director. “Based on our recent assessment, we now believe we have several areas that will require reseeding.”

The contractor, Mercier’s Inc. of South Point, will be responsible for reseeding dead areas, spray-ing weeds which have overtaken some of those areas and repairing any washout areas created because of the lack of healthy vegetation. ODOT will request the contractor to perform this work at their expense as soon as possible.

ODOT regularly performs herbicidal spraying by contract. Vegetative retardants, which slow the growth of grass, are typically included in the mix to reduce the number of mowings each year.

ODOT District 1 encompasses Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert and Wyandot counties.

USDA seeks partnerships to protect soil, water

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is teaming with business-es, nonprofits and others on a five-year, $2.4 billion program that will fund locally designed soil and water conservation proj-ects nationwide, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday.

Authorized by the new farm law enacted earlier this year, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program is intended to involve the private sector more directly in planning and funding environmen-tal protection initiatives tied to agriculture.

“It’s a new approach to conservation that is really going to encourage people to think in very innova-tive and creative ways,” Vilsack said.

He described the proj-ects to be funded as “clean water startup operations” that will benefit commu-nities and watersheds, a departure from the depart-ment’s more tradition-al approach of focusing on individual operators adopting practices such as no-till cultivation or plant-ing buffer strips to prevent runoff into streams.

Universities, local and tribal governments, com-panies and sporting groups are among those eligi-ble to devise plans and seek grants.

“By estab-lishing new p u b l i c - p r i -vate partner-ships, we can have an impact that’s well beyond what the federal government could accom-plish on its own,” Vilsack said. “These efforts keep our land resilient and water clean, and promote tremendous economic growth in agriculture, construction, tourism and outdoor recreation and other industries.”

In addition to protect-ing the environment, the projects will bolster the rural economy by sup-porting tourism and out-door recreation jobs while avoiding pollution that would cost more to clean up, he said.

USDA will spend $1.2 billion — includ-ing $400 million the first year — and raise an equal amount from participants. Successful applications

will include offers of cash, labor or other contribu-tions, as well as plans for

a c h i e v i n g m e a s u r a b l e solutions and using new approaches , said Jason Weller, chief of the Natural R e s o u r c e s Conservation

Service.Vilsack announced the

program in Michigan, home state of Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, primary writer of the farm bill with Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma. They held a news con-ference in Bay City near Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay, where nutrient run-off from croplands causes algae blooms that degrade water quality.

Stabenow said she expected the area to gen-erate several funding pro-posals.

Kellogg Co. is work-ing with The Nature Conservancy on a project designed to reduce run-off in the Saginaw Bay watershed, said Diane Holdorf, the cereal com-

pany’s chief sustainability officer. Kellogg, based in Battle Creek, buys wheat for its cereals from farms in the area.

The program establish-es three pots of money for grants. Thirty-five percent of total funding will be divided among “critical” areas including the Great Lakes, the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Columbia, Colorado and Mississippi river basins, the Longleaf Pine Range, prairie grasslands and the California Bay Delta.

Additionally, 40 per-cent will go to regional or multi-state projects select-ed on a competitive basis and 25 percent to state-level projects.

The California Rice Commission plans to seek funding of initiatives to expand water bird habitat in flooded Central Valley rice fields, said Paul Buttner, manager of envi-ronmental affairs. Rice farms are an indispensable waterfowl refuge because most of the original wet-lands have been devel-oped, he said.

Working with the USDA and other partners, the rice commission has developed practices that can make fields more hos-pitable for birds such as draining them more gradu-ally ahead of planting sea-son and building nesting islands, Buttner said. The new program could attract more participants, he said.

The New Mexico A s s o c i a t i o n o f Conservation Districts will develop proposals for combating invasive plants that suck too much water from the ground and ranching practices that could slow the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer, Executive Director Debbie Hughes said.

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

1-3 p.m. — The Delphos Museum of Postal History, 339 N. Main St., is open

5-7 p.m. — The Interfaith Thrift Store is open for shopping.

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

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

1-4 p.m. — Interfaith Thrift Store is open for shopping.

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

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

12:15 p.m. — Testing of warning sirens by Delphos Fire and Rescue.

1-3 p.m. — The Delphos Canal Commiss ion Museum, 241 N. Main St., is open.

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

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Canal Commiss ion Museum, 241 N. Main St., is open.

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at Delphos Senior Citizen Center, 301 Suthoff St.

6:30 p.m. — Shelter from the Storm support group meets in the Delphos Public Library basement.

7 p.m. — Delphos City Council meets at the Delphos Municipal Building, 608 N. Canal St.

Delphos Parks and Recreation board meets at the recreation building at Stadium Park.

Washington Township trustees meet at the town-ship house.

7:30 p.m. — Spencerville village council meets at the mayor’s office.

Delphos Eagles Auxiliary meets at the Eagles Lodge, 1600 Fifth St.

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Overnight Meatball and Pasta Casserole1 jar (14 or 15 ounces)

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1 cup frozen bell pepper and onion stir-fry

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1 1/2 cups shred-ded mozzarella cheese (6 ounces)

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

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Summer Story timesPutnam County District Library locations will have

“Ready to Read” story times starting June 9 - 26 and July 7-24.

The schedule for all locations is as follows: Ottawa - Monday at 10 a.m.; Continental - Monday at 6:30 p.m.; Ft. Jennings - Tuesday at 10 a.m.; Kalida - Tuesday at 10 a.m.; Ottoville - Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.; Pandora - Wednesday at 10 a.m.; Columbus Grove - Thursday at 10 a.m.; Leipsic - Thursday at 10 a.m. All are welcome to attend these free programs.

Magician at the LibraryThe Putnam County District Library will have “Draper”

the Magician at all eight locations in June. All are welcome to attend this free program sponsored by the Friends of the Putnam County District Library and area local businesses. Register to win Full Blast Waterpark Ticket. The winner will be drawn after the last presentation on June 12. The schedule is as follows: Monday, June 9 - Ottawa location at 11 a.m. and Kalida location at 1 p.m.; Tuesday, June 10 - Fort Jennings location at 11 a.m. and Pandora-Riley location at 1 p.m.; Wednesday, June 11 - Leipsic Edward-Gamper Memorial location at 11 a.m. and Ottoville-Monterey Twp. location at 1 p.m.; Thursday, June 12 - Columbus Grove location at 11 a.m. and Continental location at 1 p.m.

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By JIM METCALFESports Editor

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With the summer starting to heat up, can football be far behind?

Just joking.Sort of.Doesn’t it seem as if, more and more, the

seasons come together.Think about it: years ago, when I was a

younger pup, this time of year was all about baseball.

Locally, it was players getting ready for the season at Stadium Park, whether it be T-ball, Minor, City or even Pony.

Nationally, whether it was watching or listening to my favorite teams: the Cincinnati Reds — who cannot remem-ber listening to Joe Nuxhall and Marty Brenneman on WLW or WIMA on their Snoopy radios (or whatever radio in your possession) at night? — or the Baltimore Orioles — they were the second team I can most remember as a kid, with Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar, Scott McGregor, Dave

McNally and Mike Flanagan amongst one of the best pitching staffs ever assembled; baseball was the sport we thought about, whether in the back yard or at the park.

Baseball cards were fantasy baseball.The NFL and even the NBA were not

really on the radar yet at the end of May. There was little or no fantasy football, for example.

In those days, 20 wins were far more common, as were pitchers that threw 250-plus innings and far more complete games.

That was before the game got so “com-plicated” and statistics beyond home runs, batting average, runs batted in or earned run average were all that was it.

Now, you have stats such as Runners in Scoring Position (I thought ANY runner on base was in scoring position), on-base-plus-slugging percentage, batting average with a 2-2 count, etc.

MoneyBall has taken the place of a man-ager’s gut instinct.

I get that things change and with the increased use of technology, Sabermetrics and other measurements, the game would have to become more “sophisticated” and eggheads would become in vogue in MLB front offices.

Still, to me, it comes down to the 1-on-1 battle between a pitcher and a batter, the stats be hanged.

Associated PressPGA TOURMEMORIAL TOURNAMENTSite: Dublin, Ohio.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: Muirfield Village Golf

Club (7,352 yards, par 72).Purse: $6.2 million. Winner’s

share: $1,116,000.Television: Golf Channel (Today,

2:30-6:30 p.m., 7-11 p.m., 11:30 p.m.-3:30 a.m.; Friday, 2:30-6:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Saturday, 12:30-2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sunday, noon-2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30-6 p.m.).

Last year: Matt Kuchar won the second of his two 2013 titles, closing with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over Kevin Chappell.

Last week: Adam Scott won the Colonial in his first event as the No. 1 player in the world. He beat Jason Dufner with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff.

Notes: Scott tops the field along with Kuchar, Masters cham-

pion Bubba Watson, Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson and 2010 winner Justin Rose. … Kuchar won the RBC Heritage in April for his sev-enth PGA Tour title. … McIlroy won the European Tour’s BMW PGA at Wentworth on Sunday for his first victory of the year. … Jack Nicklaus founded the tourna-ment in 1976 and won in 1977 and

1984. … The United States won the Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village in October. … Annika Sorenstam is the tournament honoree. … Jason Day is returning from a thumb injury that limited him to only the Masters since his Match Play victory. … Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz is

making his PGA Tour debut. He leads the Web.com Tour with two victories and earnings of $365,469. … The St. Jude Classic is next week in Memphis, Tennessee, followed by the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in North Carolina.

Online: http://www.pgatour.com___LPGA TOURSHOPRITE LPGA CLASSIC

Site: Galloway Township, New Jersey.

Schedule: Friday-Sunday.Course: Stockton Seaview Hotel

and Golf Club, Bay Course (6,155 yards, par 71).

Purse: $1.5 million. Winner’s share: $225,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Friday, noon-2 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30-5 p.m.; Sunday, 2-5 p.m.).

Last year: Karrie Webb won her first LPGA Tour title in two years, rallying for a two-stroke victory over Shanshan Feng.

Last week: Jessica Korda won the Airbus LPGA in Alabama for her second victory of the year, birdieing four of the last five holes to beat Anna Nordqvist by a stroke.

Notes: Webb won the Women’s Australian Open and Founders Cup this year to push her LPGA Tour victory total to 41. … Second-ranked Stacy Lewis won the 2012 tour-nament. … Top-ranked Inbee Park failed to advance to weekend play last week, ending her cuts streak at 22.

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See GOLF, page 7

WEDNESDAY’S REGIONAL TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS

DIVISION IIIAt Troy High School’s

Memorial StadiumFINALS — Points 10-8-6-5-4-

3-2-1 - top 4 advance to State meetGirls Team Rankings (3 Events

Scored): Marion Local 19, Minster 18, Anna 10, Ottoville/Botkins 8, Sum. Co. Day 7.5, Bradford 6.5, Ansonia/National Trail 6, Lincolnview/West Liberty-Salem 5, Arcanum/St. Henry 4, Twin Valley So. 3, Russia/Miami East 2, Delphos Jefferson/Spencerville/Tri-County North 1.

4x800 Meter Relay: 1. Minster 9:43.33; 2. Botkins 9:47.22; 3. Marion Local 9:48.97; 4. Sum. Co. Day 9:50.49; 5. St. Henry 9:53.73; 6. Twin Valley So. 9:54.43; 7. Miami East 9:56.75; 8. Del. Jefferson (Kenidi Ulm 12 2) Rileigh Stockwell, Heather Pohlman, Brooke Teman) 9:57.34.

High Jump: 1. Kramer (ML) 5-5; 2. Brooke Mangas (OV) 5-4; 3. Sink (ANS) 5-2; 4. Hannah McCleery (LV) 5-0; 5. LaFollette (BR) 5-0; 6. (tie) Fair (BR) and Gault (SCD) 5-0; 8. McClain (T-CN) 5-0.

Shot Put: 1. Fogt (ANN) 37-10.5; 2. Luthman (MIN) 37-5; 3. Deaton (NT) 35-11.5; 4. Gantz (W-LS) 35-3.5; 5. Zimmer (ARC) 35-0.5; 6. Mescher (ML) 33-9; 7. Gaerke (RU) 32-9.5; 8. Katie Merriman (SV) 32-8.5.

Boys Team Rankings (4 Events Scored): Minster 27, Lima C.C./Anna 20, Lehman Cath./Russia

13, St. Henry 9, Mechanicsburg 8, Spencerville/Miami East/Cedarville 6, Sum. Co. Day/Twin Valley So./Bethel 5, Lincolnview/Dixie 4, Triad 3, Ottoville/Marion Local 1.

4x800 Meter Relay: 1. Minster 8:04.17; 2. Anna 8:12.71; 3. Cedarville 8:13.68; 4. Sum. Co. Day 8:14.02; 5. Lincolnview (Ben Bilimek, Trevor Neate, Alex Rodriguez, Bayley Tow) 8:20.27; 6. Russia 8:22.34; 7. Lima C.C. 8:29.79; 8. St. Henry 8:31.59.

Discus: 1. Hegemann (MIN) 158-8; 2. Brad Montgomery (LC) 155-0; 3. Colby (RU) 154-4; 4. Ben Montgomery (LC) 148-0; 5. Poling (RU) 145-9; 6. Sizemore (TVS) 135-1; 7. Deaton (TVS) 134-8; 8. Colin Bendele (OV) 133-2; … 9. Evan Pugh (SV) 130-3; 11. Logan Vandemark (SV) 124-10.

Long Jump: 1. Rogers (LC) 22-1; 2. Coleman (LC) 22-1; 3. Trevor McMichael (SV) 20-05.75; 4. Hazely (BET) 19-11; 5. Warring (MEC) 19-10.5; 6. Donohoe (TRI) 19-06.5; 7. Bruce (ANN) 19-06.25; 8. Pritchard (DIX) 19-5.25.

Pole Vault: 1. Konst (ANN) 14-8; 2. Mestemaker (STH) 14-0; 3. Rose (MIA) 13-4; 4. Huelsman (MIN) 13-4; 5. Cook (MEC) 13-4; 6. Adams (DIX) 13-0; 7. Monnin (MIN) 12-8; 8. Homan (ML) 12-4.

LOCAL ATHLETESPRELIMINARIES (top 8 quali-

fiers advance to Friday’s finals)

Regional Track and Field Results

Mangas, McMichael, McCleery headed to Columbus

By JIM METCALFEdhi MEDIA Sports Editor

[email protected]

TROY — Sometimes a competitor gets the better of his or her opponents.

Other times, the opponent just proves to be that much better.

Three Tri-County track and field proved strong enough at the Division III Troy Regionals Wednesday to earn their way to the State Track and Field Championships next weekend at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.

The weather started out hot and humid but when a threatened storm blew through the Memorial Stadium area, no rain fell but the temperatures fell comfortably.

The three locals are of the “3-M” vari-ety: Brooke Mangas, Trevor McMichael and Hannah McCleery.

Mangas, an Ottoville freshman, clinched second in the girls high jump.

“I’m so excited to be going to State. I jumped 5-4, which is not my personal

best (5-5), but I think I will have to jump 5-6 to do well there,” Mangas began. “I credit this to my coaches and family. I have a lot of support from my family and my coaches do a great job of getting us prepared. It also helped when it got cooler during the competition; I think it calmed me down some and that was big.”

Mangas figures to hit that mark of 5-6, which would be a PR, next week, she has to stay in a routine.

“I just have to stay in a good rhythm all week. I will listen even more to my coaches this week as we prepare, of what I need to do to reach my goal of a podium finish,” she added.

McMichael, a Spencerville junior, set a personal record of 20-5 3/4 to grab third in the boys high jump.

“I keep getting better and that means setting new PRs. It’s a great time to be doing that every week; it means I can keep improving,” McMichael said. “My coaches really know what they are doing as to what I need to keep that going. It’s

about good footwork technique-wise.”It’s also about staying calm before the

competition, according to the Bearcat jumper.

“I really stayed relaxed, listening to my music before we started warming up and all during warmups,” he added. “It also helps to have such great com-petition to bring out the best in you. For example, the two LCC kids (Jamir Coleman and Mykale Rogers) could easily go 1-2 in this event at State and I’ve been going against them all season. They push you to reach your best but it does so much to your confidence to know you’ve competed against the best all year.”

McCleery, a Lincolnview junior, ended up fourth with a high jump of 5-0.

“It’s great to be going. I feel pretty good today,” she said. “I jumped 5-0 last year at Regionals but that was at a dif-ferent site (Piqua). The site was different but the atmosphere is the same.

“Last year, I think I was going against a lot of older, more experienced girls. This year, I think I stayed calmer. I think that helps and I hope I can carry that on at State.”

On the other side of the coin, two local individuals and two relays made it to the podium but couldn’t quite move on.

The best of that lot was the Lincolnview boys 4x800-meter relay — senior Ben Bilimek, sophomore Trevor Neate and juniors Alex Rodriguez and Bailey Tow.

They ran a team PR of 8:20.27 - beat-ing their District time of 8:25.34 - But finished sixth.

When Versailles was disqualified, they moved up to fifth but, alas, no farther.

“We were hoping that some other team had done something wrong,” Tow joked.

All four members gave all the credit to the teams that finished ahead of them.

“The competition was just tough. Everybody was going so fast,” Tow con-tinued. “I think when the temperatures dropped, that just made all the com-petitors that much more comfortable and they could run that much faster. We dropped our mark by five seconds but so did every other team ahead of us.”

Bilimek felt he had let the team down as the leadoff leg.

Ottoville freshman Brooke Mangas clears the bar in the girls high jump Wednesday in the Division III Troy Regionals. She qualified 2nd in the event to advance to next weekend’s State Track and Field Champion-ships at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus. (dhi MEDIA/Jim Metcalfe)

See COLUMBUS, page 7 See RESULTS, page 7

Lincolnview junior Hannah McCleery takes off in the girls high jump and finished fourth to advance to Co-lumbus. (dhi MEDIA/Jim Metcalfe)

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“I knew the competition would be tough but it surprised me at how tough it was right from the start. We all off so fast and that sur-prised me,” he explained. “There was no one in the inside lane (both teams had withdrawn) and it seemed I got boxed in as everyone started moving toward the inside. I didn’t put us in a good position when I handed it to Alex and we were seventh or eighth.”

The Jefferson girls 4x8 of seniors Kenidi Ulm and Brooke Teman, junior Heather Pohlan and 12th-grader Rileigh Stockwell also shat-tered their school record — registering a 9:57.34 — so they were complementary of their foes.

“It wasn’t anything we did; we broke our PR and the school record by over seven sec-onds, so we couldn’t have done any more. We couldn’t have gone any faster today,” Teman acknowledged.

“We have improved so much over the year. We’re disappointed that we didn’t get to move on to State but we’re pleased that we have gotten so much faster over the year; it’s con-flicting emotions,” Ulm continued.

“For me, the worst thing about is that we’ll go down to State and watch other teams run in the finals down there who qualified out of their regionals with times like 10:30. That shows the type of competition we had to go up against here,” Stockwell added.

All eight teams that were on the podium broke 10 minutes when only three had done so before coming into the Regionals.

It was bittersweet as well because three seniors ran their final 4x8 together.

“I’m going to miss these guys so much. It’s been so much fun,” Teman added.

Fortunately for three seniors, they have another chance to advance to OSU as they

later clinched a spot in Friday’s finals in the girls 4x4 (with sophomore Brooke Gallmeier).

Ottoville junior Colin Bendele also grabbed eighth in the boys discus with a toss of 133-2.

He knew it would be a tough road to hoe to get into the top four and move on.

“When I looked at where I stood coming in, I figured it would take a throw of 150 feet to get there. When my PR is 135, I knew that it was unlikely but you never know,” he acknowledged. “You never know if some-one will not do as well as they could or you might stay loose and pop a a big one that is unexpected. You have nothing to lose, so you never know. Still, there were some great throwers here today.”

It was learning experience for the Big Green junior.

“One thing I learned today was not to let the environment and atmosphere get the best of you,” he added. “You need to stay focused and relaxed and not try to do too much. I think this experience will help me next year.”

That is also the sentiment of Spencerville Lady bearcat junior Katie Merriman, who nabbed eighth in the girls shot put with a toss of 32-8.5.

She viewed Wednesday as another step in the process.

“I only started throwing the shot last year and came in 11th at Regionals. I ended up eight this year, so I got better,” she reflected. “Last year, I was a slide thrower; this year, I started to be a spin thrower and the footwork is vastly different. I know I can get better as I get more comfortable.”

She has plans on doing just that.“My throwing coach is also a football

coach, so he’s told me to come in when he lifts with the players this summer and we’ll work on throws then. I’ll get stronger and

better technique-wise,” she added.Friday’s field event finals will commence

at 5 p.m. And the running finals at 6 p.m.

(Full Wednesday finals and prelims — for local athletes — elsewhere in today’s sports section).

Spencerville junior Trevor McMichael takes to the air to qualify third for the Division III State meet in the boys long jump. (dhi MEDIA/Jim Metcalfe)

Columbus


GIRLS100 Meter Hurdles 33”: 6. Clista

Hellwarth (Parkway) 16.64; 7. Alicia Honigford (OV) 16.65; … 9. Emily Grone (Ft. Jennings) 16.78.

100 Meter Dash: … 11. Maddie Burgei (Del. St. John’s) 13.36; 12. Grace Callow (Crestview) 13.42.

4x200 Meter Relay: 8. Del. Jefferson (Taylor Stroh, Brooke Gallmeier, Rileigh Stockwell, Brooke Teman) 1:51.36.

4x100 Meter Relay: 6. Ottoville (Alicia Honigford, Brooke Mangas, Karin Wendeberg,Taylor Mangas) 52.33; 8. Spencerville (Schylar Miller, Jenna Kahle, Emilee Meyer, Karri Purdy) 52.62; … 11. Del. St. John’s (Maddie Burgei, Madelyn Buettner, Erin Williams, Samantha Bonifas) 52.95.

400 Meter Dash: … 9. Grace Callow (Crestview) 61.94.

300 Meter Hurdles 30”: 5. Taylor Mangas (OV) 47.06; … 10. Samantha Bonifas (Del. St. John’s) 49.19.

200 Meter Dash: … 14. Grace

Callow (Crestview) 27.78.4x400 Meter Relay: 4. Ottoville

(Taylor Mangas, Karin Wendeberg, Madison Knodell, Brooke Mangas) 4:10.97; 5. (tie) Del. Jefferson (Rileigh Stockwell, Brooke Gallmeier, Kenidi Ulm, Brooke Teman) 4:17.21.

BOYS110 Meter Hurdles 39”: 4.

Anthony Schuh (SV) 15.36; 5. Hunter Blankemeyer (LV) 15.38.

100 Meter Dash: … 11. Michael Garay (LV) 11.62.

4x200 Meter Relay: … —Crestview (Michael Hansard, Isaiah Kline, Malcolm Oliver, Zack Jellison) DNF.

4x100 Meter Relay: 1. Crestview (Sage Schaffner, Malcolm Oliver, Zack Jellison, Isaiah Kline) 44.60; 3. Lincolnview (Logan Jewel, Damon Norton, Michael Garay, Hunter Blankemeyer) 44.87 … 12. Del. St. John’s (Nick Martz, Brian Pohlman, Quinn Wise, Evan Mohler) 47.14.

400 Meter Dash: … 12. Kris Gangwer (Parkway) 53.37; 13. Isaiah Kline (Crestview) 53.51.

300 Meter Hurdles 36”: 5.

Anthony Schuh (SV) 41.29; 7. Hunter Blankemeyer (LV) 41.52.

200 Meter Dash: 7. Zack Jellison (Crestview) 23.05.

4x400 Meter Relay: 5. Con. Crestview (Michael Hansard, Alex Cunningham, Zack Jellison, Isaiah Kline) 3:32.45; 7. Del. St. John’s (Brian Pohlman, Tyler Conley, Tyler Ledyard, Curtis Pohlman) 3:37.12.

———-DIVISION IIITiffin Frost-Kalnow StadiumFINALS — Points 10-8-6-5-4-

3-2-1 - top 4 advance to State meetGirls Team Rankings (3 Events

Scored): Ayersville 16, McComb/Liberty Center/Margaretta 10, Columbus Grove 9, Archbold 8, Calvert/Patrick Henry 6, Old Fort/Holgate/Tinora 5, Edon/St. Wendelin/Fayette 4, Wayne Trace/Pandora-Gilboa 3, Montpelier/Van Buren 2, Ada/Danbury/Antwerp/Upper Scioto Valley/Arlington 1.

4x800 Meter Relay: 1. Liberty Center 9:41.77; 2. Archbold 9:46.44; 3. Calvert 9:52.45; 4. Holgate 9:52.65; 5. St. Wendelin 9:53.71; 6. Pandora-Gilboa 10:02.06; 7.

Van Buren 10:14.27; 8. Antwerp 10:15.99.

High Jump: 1. Bailey (MAR) 5-2; 2. Hammersmith (AYE) 5-0; 3. Herder (PH) 5-0; 4. Cleveland (OF) 5-0; 5. Kelsey Fruchey (FAY) 4-10; 6. Temple (WT) 4-10; 7. (tie) Carlee Marshall (AD), Willow (ARL) and Holbrook (USV) 4-10; … 11. Alexis Ricker (CG) 4-8.

Shot Put: 1. Leppelmeir (MCC) 40-1.5; 2. Bailey (AYE) 38-1.75; 3. Lyne’a Diller (CG) 38-0; 4. Schlegel (TIN) 37-4; 5. Brehm-Gutting (EDO) 36-5.25; 6. Aubrey Fruchey (CG) 35-11.25; 7. Hageman (MON) 35-6; 8. Wright (DAN) 34-9.

Boys Team Rankings (4 Events Scored): Liberty-Benton 25, Patrick Henry 11, New London/Seneca East/Pettisville 10, Bluffton 9, Columbus Grove/Riverdale 8, Waynesfield-Goshen/Tinora/Archbold 6, Hicksville 5.5, Old Fort/South Central 5, Coll. Western Reserve/Montpelier/Carey/Liberty Center 4, Colonel Crawford/Woodmore/Pandora-Gilboa/Arlington 3, Ash. Crestview 2, Van Buren 1, Hilltop 0.5.

4x800 Meter Relay: 1. Pettisville 8:10.38; 2. Columbus Grove (Alex Giesege, Colton Grothaus, Lee Altenburger, Bryce Sharrits) 8:14.92; 3. Archbold 8:17.66; 4. Riverdale 8:19.07; 5. Liberty Center 8:24.73; 6. Woodmore 8:25.26; 7. New London 8:25.8; 8. Van Buren 8:31.07.

Discus: 1. Myers (PH) 170-0; 2. Logan (NEW) 159-9; 3. Huber (W-G) 159-2; 4. Kinney (SOU) 154-1; 5. Swartz (CAR) 153-9; 6. Boes (P-G) 152-3; 7. Smith (BLU) 146-10; 8. Ferguson (COL) 145-11.

Boys Long Jump: 1. Lawson (L-B) 21-8; 2. Cook (L-B) 21-4; 3. Vogel (TIN) 21-2.5; 4. Walters (HIC) 21-2.5; 5. Snyder (MON) 21-1; 6. Starr (ARL) 20-9; 7. Adams (COL) 20-6.5; 8. Nye (PH) 20-5.5.

Pole Vault: 1. Gregg (SEN) 14-8; 2. (tie) Wilson (BLU) and Cornwell (L-B) 14-4; 4. Alexander (OF) 14-4; 5. Sommers (CWR) 13-6; 6. Knoll (RIV) 13-6; 7. Kochenderfer (ACV) 13-0; 8. (tie) McKinney (HIL) and Hablawetz (HIC) 12-6.

COLUMBUS GROVE ATHLETES

PRELIMINARIES (top 8 advance to Friday’s finals)

GIRLS100 Meter Hurdles 33”: 3.

Sydney McCluer 16.07.4x200 Meter Relay: 7. Columbus

Grove (Raiya Flores, Kristin Wynn, Linnea Stephens, Julia Wynn) 1:49.58.

4x100 Meter Relay: 2. Columbus Grove (Raiya Flores, Julia Wynn, Linnea Stephens, Sydney McCluer) 50.6.

300 Meter Hurdles 30”: 6. Sydney McCluer 47.48.

200 Meter Dash: … — Julia Wynn DNF.

4x400 Meter Relay: 5. Columbus Grove (Kristin Wynn, Sydney McCluer, Linnea Stephens, Julia Wynn) 4:13.15

BOYS4x200 Meter Relay: 8. Columbus

Grove (Joey Warnecke, David Bogart, Austin Price, Baily Clement) 1:34.06.

Boys 4x400 Meter Relay: 7. Columbus Grove (Baily Clement, David Bogart, Bryce Sharrits, Alex Giesege) 3:31.9.

Results


Of course, I am a goofball.Getting back to my original tangent, May is no longer sim-

ply baseball.You have the NBA Finals right around the corner — as

I wrote before, I can remember the Finals being showed on taped-delay on CBS — and the NHL post-season is still in swing.

The NFL Draft is almost the start of pre-season camp for most franchises, with OTAs and such.

On the local level, coaches are putting together their sum-mer camps, leagues, conditioning plans and such for their charges to start preparing for the 2014-15 season.

I know many are concerned about young student-athletes having childhoods and chances to be kids during the summer but the days when there actually was an off-season are like a dinosaur; gone by the wayside.

I don’t think I will get into trouble for writing that, nor this: as long as coaches — and players — feel heavy pressure to have success every year, I cannot blame them for want-ing “their” players to focus on “their” sport or wanting to do “everything.”

These men and women/boys and girls are in a bind; acknowledging they need time off but not wanting to fall behind their competitors.

Plus, we all want “our” teams to do well and do it the right way: hard work, dedication, good sportsmanship and team play.

What a vicious circle it can all be, eh?What was my original point?

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National LeagueEast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 28 24 .538 —Miami 28 25 .528 ½Washington 25 27 .481 3New York 24 28 .462 4Philadelphia 23 27 .460 4Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 31 22 .585 —St. Louis 29 23 .558 1½Pittsburgh 23 29 .442 7½Cincinnati 22 28 .440 7½Chicago 19 32 .373 11West Division W L Pct GBSan Fran 34 19 .642 —L Angeles 29 24 .547 5Colorado 28 25 .528 6San Diego 24 29 .453 10Arizona 21 33 .389 13½___Wednesday’s ResultsN.Y. Mets 5, Pittsburgh 0San Francisco 5, Chicago Cubs 0Philadelphia 6, Colorado 3Miami 8, Washington 5, 10 inningsBoston 4, Atlanta 0Baltimore at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.San Diego at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.Today’s GamesN.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 1-5) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 1-0), 7:05 p.m.Atlanta (Minor 2-3) at Boston (Peavy 1-2), 7:10 p.m.San Francisco (Vogelsong 3-2) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 1-0), 8:15 p.m.Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-4) at Arizona (Collmenter 3-2), 9:40 p.m.Pittsburgh (Cole 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 5-3), 10:10 p.m.

——-American LeagueEast Division W L Pct GBToronto 32 22 .593 —New York 27 24 .529 3½Baltimore 26 24 .520 4Boston 23 29 .442 8Tampa Bay 23 31 .426 9Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 29 19 .604 —Chicago 27 27 .500 5Minnesota 24 25 .490 5½Kansas City 24 28 .462 7Cleveland 24 29 .453 7½West Division W L Pct GBOakland 31 21 .596 —L Angeles 29 22 .569 1½Texas 26 26 .500 5Seattle 25 26 .490 5½Houston 22 32 .407 10___Wednesday’s ResultsHouston 9, Kansas City 3Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 2Boston 4, Atlanta 0Baltimore at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.Texas at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.Detroit at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.Today’s GamesTexas (N.Martinez 1-1) at Minnesota (Deduno 1-3), 1:10 p.m.Detroit (Porcello 7-2) at Oakland (J.Chavez 4-2), 3:35 p.m.Kansas City (Shields 6-3) at Toronto (Dickey 5-4), 7:07 p.m.Atlanta (Minor 2-3) at Boston (Peavy 1-2), 7:10 p.m.Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-6) at Houston (Peacock 1-4), 8:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-1) at Seattle (Maurer 1-3), 10:10 p.m.


The event returned to the tour in 2010. First played in 1986, it folded in 2006 after the previous organizers accused then-LPGA Tour Commissioner Carolyn Bivens of providing unsuitable dates for the 2007 event. Bivens resigned in July 2009 after a group of players wrote a letter to the tour’s board of directors calling for her to quit. She was replaced by Michael Whan. … The Manulife Financial LPGA Classic is next week in Waterloo, Ontario.

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CHAMPIONS TOURPRINCIPAL CHARITY CLASSICSite: Des Moines, Iowa.Schedule: Friday-Sunday.Course: Wakonda Club (6,910 yards, par 72).Purse: $1.75 million. Winner’s share: $262,500.Television: Golf Channel (Friday, 7-9:30 p.m.;

Saturday, 2-4 a.m., 5-7 p.m.; Sunday, midnight-2 a.m., 5-7 p.m.; Monday, midnight-2 a.m.).

Last year: Russ Cochran won the first of his two 2013 titles, finishing with a 5-under 67 for a 1-stroke victory over Jay Don Blake.

Last week: Colin Montgomerie won the Senior PGA at Harbor Shores in Michigan for his first Champions Tour title. He closed with a 6-under 65 for a 4-stroke victory over Tom Watson.

Notes: Jay Haas won the event at Glen Oaks in 2007, 2008 and 2012. He tied for third in the Senior PGA. … Bob Gilder won in 2011 to become the oldest winner in tournament history at 60 years, 6 months, 5 days. He also won in 2002. … The Legends of Golf is next week in Ridgedale, Missouri.

Online: http://www.pgatour.com___

Golf

Man U and NFL team owner Glazer dies at 85By FRED GOODALL

Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — Malcolm Glazer, a self-made billionaire who shunned the spotlight while leading the takeover of English soccer’s Manchester United and transforming the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers into Super Bowl champions, died Wednesday. He was 85.

The reclusive Palm Beach business-man had been in failing health since April 2006 when a pair of strokes left him with impaired speech and limited mobility in his right arm and leg.

He was not involved in day to day operations of either of his sports franchises and was rarely spotted at games in recent years, instead remaining at his mansion in South Florida while entrusting leadership of the Bucs to three of his six children, sons Bryan, Joel and Ed.

While some disgruntled fans blame ownership for a stretch of futility that has seen the Bucs miss the playoffs the past six seasons, the elder Glazer generally will be remembered for making the commitment necessary to keep the team from moving to another city in the 1990s.

Glazer raised his profile in 2005 with a $1.47 billion purchase of Manchester

United that was bitterly opposed by fans of one of the world’s richest soccer clubs. Before that, his unobtrusive management style helped transform the Bucs from a laughingstock into a model fran-chise that won the franchise’s only NFL title 12 years ago.

“The thoughts of everyone at Manchester United are with the family tonight,” Manchester United said in a statement.

Born Aug. 25, 1928, in Rochester, New York, the son of a watch-parts salesman, Glazer began working for the family business when he was 8 and took over the operation as a teenager when his father died in 1943.

As president and CEO of First Allied Corp., the holding company for the family business interests, he invested in mobile-home parks, restaurants, food service equipment, marine protein, television sta-tions, real estate, natural gas and oil produc-tion and other ventures. Forbes ranked him this year, along with his family, as tied for No. 354 on the world’s richest people list with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion.

He purchased the Bucs for a then-NFL record $192 million in 1995, taking over one of the worst-run and least successful franchises

in professional sports. And while Glazer once said he probably overpaid by $50 million, the value of the team has more than quadrupled.

“Malcolm Glazer was the guiding force behind the building of a Super Bowl-champion organization. His dedication to the community was evident in all he did, includ-ing his leadership in bringing Super Bowls to Tampa Bay,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “Malcolm’s com-mitment to the Bucs, the NFL and the people of the Tampa Bay region are the hallmarks of his legacy. Our thoughts and

prayers are with his wife, Linda, their six children and the entire Glazer family.”

In an era when many owners of profes-sional teams attract nearly as much attention as the athletes, Glazer was content to allow three of his sons handle daily operation of the Bucs and rarely granted interviews or visited the team’s offices and training facility.

But he was a fixture at games before his health became an issue, and he spent gener-ously to acquire players and provide coaches and front office personnel with the resources to do their jobs. To fans accustomed to the frugal ways of original Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse, Glazer was a savior.

Busch emotional in collecting top rookie award

By JENNA FRYERAssociated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After his whirlwind month, Kurt Busch earned a one-day trip to Virginia International Raceway for a day of road course testing with Stewart-Haas Racing.

His first day off finally came Wednesday, when Busch finally got to reflect on becoming the fourth driver to run both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. Although he came up short in his bid to complete all 1,100 miles, he earned widespread praise for his strong showing in his first career IndyCar race.

An engine failure cut short his run in the NASCAR race,but Busch was sixth in the Indy 500 and earned the rookie of the year honors at the post-race awards banquet. Busch fought back tears as he accepted his award and thanked team owner Michael Andretti for the opportunity.

“This whole dream of mine started two years ago when my career was at a crossroads,” said Busch, who lost his ride with Roger Penske after the 2011 season. “Michael Andretti, I met up with him, and I’ll tell you, it was a unique chance to talk to him about running a NASCAR team and it was like, ‘Hey, if you’ve got an open-wheel ride, I’d like to try out that Indy 500.’ And he said, ‘Kid, you can come race for me anytime.’”

Woods withdraws from US OpenBy DOUG FERGUSONAssociated PressDUBLIN — Tiger Woods

withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday as he recovers from back surgery that has kept him out of golf for nearly three months.

It will be the second U.S. Open, and sixth major, he has missed because of injury over the last six years.

The U.S. Open is June 12-15 at Pinehurst No. 2, where Woods tied for third in 1999 and was runner-up in 2005. The announcement on his website was not surprising. A week ago at a promotional event for the Quicken Loans National at Congressional, Woods said he still had not taken a full swing with a golf club and did not know when he could.

He had microdiscetomy sur-gery to relieve a pinched nerve on March 31.

“Unfortunately, I won’t be there because I’m not yet physi-cally able to play competitive golf,” Woods said. “I’d like to convey my regrets to the USGA leadership, the volunteers and the fans that I won’t be at Pinehurst. The U.S. Open is very important to me, and I know it’s going to be a great week.”

Woods last played on March 9 at Doral, where he closed with a 78 while suffering what he called back spasms. He with-drew in the middle of the final round at the Honda Classic with back pain a week earlier.

Woods is a three-time U.S. Open champion, one short of the record shared by Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Willie Anderson. His most recent U.S. Open victory was in 2008 at Torrey Pines, where he won in a playoff over Rocco Mediate a week before he had season-ending knee surgery.

Glazer

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Dear Abby

Couple feeling financial strainreceives many helpful ideas

by Abigail Van Buren

DEAR ABBY: “Holding on in Arkansas” (Feb. 27) asked where to go for free counseling. You suggested she call her local mental health department for counseling options for her marriage and money issues. Another resource would be her local church.

Pastors often offer counseling to couples. Many churches also have support groups for parents to connect with each other. I have seen churches save marriages and get couples back on the right track emotionally and financially. -- PASSING IT ON IN TENNESSEE

DEAR PASSING IT ON: Your suggestion was mentioned by a number of other readers. They, too, felt that solving her financial problems would lessen or eliminate the marital discord “Holding” and her husband are experiencing. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: One of the largest contributors to our national charitable network -- United Way -- offers many helpful services. The Consumer Credit Counseling Service may also be a resource, if credit cards are part of the problem.

If there is a choice between paying a bill or buying groceries, the bill should come first. There are many food pantries. The family can also apply for food stamps.

Asking for help can be difficult or embarrassing, but knowing your kids won’t be hungry makes it worth it. -- BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, TOO

DEAR ABBY: “Holding” should contact her bank about refinancing her mortgage. If she can’t pay her electric bill, she should see if she qualifies for a reduced rate for her income level. As for the kids, if they’re in school, they probably meet the criteria for the reduced-cost lunch program. -- FULL OF IDEAS IN WASHINGTON

DEAR ABBY: “Holding” should seek help from the school counselor. He/she can recommend mental health support within the family’s financial means, and connect them with additional community resources to lessen some of the stresses of daily life. With many families struggling in many ways, encouraging this

woman to seek out available help is crucial. -- SCHOOL COUNSELOR-IN-TRAINING

DEAR ABBY: Does her employer or her husband’s have an Employee Assistance Program? These services offer a wide range of help, including dealing with mental health and financial issues, and may be paid for as part of the employer’s contract with the EAP organization. -- JUST MY TWO CENTS

DEAR ABBY: If the woman’s county doesn’t have a mental health department, her region should have a department of public health. Or she could be guided by the school nurse at her children’s school. School nurses are often the first responders to families in crisis or in need of counseling. -- NEW ENGLAND NURSE

DEAR ABBY: It is human nature to want the best for one’s family, but a lot of the couples suffering this kind of stress have brought it on themselves.

There won’t be enough money for food and monthly bills if they are paying for new cars, a house they can’t afford, ordering takeout instead of cooking, subscribing to the deluxe cable TV package, going on expensive vacations and paying for activities the kids “have to do” just because their friends are. Couples’ financial problems could be greatly improved if they would only make better choices. -- LIVING WITHIN MY MEANS DOWN SOUTH

** Dear Abby is written by Abigail

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Follow the vision you’ve been harboring. Channel your intensity and make full use of your concentration and energy in order to progress this year. You will be perceptive when it comes to finding valuable opportunities. Success will be yours if you persevere.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Use a little restraint in social situations. You should work hard to be more tactful and diplomatic. You will appear foolish or insensitive if you try to be the life of every party.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- It’s a good time to refresh your surroundings. Let those affected by your decisions have a say. Don’t make any oral agreements without doing thorough research. Protect your savings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- An unexpected partnership will provide you with a way to increase your income. Keep an open mind if someone offers to help you with your work. Expand a new concept of yours.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Don’t take any risks with your finances or career. You will encounter problems if your scheme backfires. Do your homework before making a move that could cost you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- You will feel the need to experiment with new ideas and projects. Others may not be in agreement with your plans, but you will make gains if you let your imagination run free.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Examine an investment idea, but avoid getting involved in a joint venture. Your reputation will escalate if you are loyal and giving.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Someone close to you is unclear about your feelings. Speak your mind and say what is in your heart. It’s not fair to leave him or her guessing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Your future will improve once you share your ideas with an influential person. Don’t be shy. You will be obliged to back up your plans with facts, so be prepared.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Your self-confidence needs a boost. Spend time with children or close friends and engage in physical challenges that will get your motor running. Give yourself a chance to have some fun.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You will lose respect if you allow others to take advantage of you. Don’t fall short because you put your needs last. Stand up for your beliefs.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- An old partner is likely to want to reconnect. Your charm and attractiveness will stir up some interest with new and old acquaintances. Plan to socialize.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Your career path is questionable. If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, consider what you do well and find a way to make it more engaging. Explore new possibilities.

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TriviaAnswers to Wednesday’s questions:The Amish sect was founded by Jakob Amman. The

sect is named for Amman, who led his followers in their split from the less conservative Swiss Mennonites in the late 17th century. Sect members fled to the United States in the early 18th century to escape persecution, with many of them settling in Pennsylvania to take advantage of William Penn’s promise of religious tolerance.

The board game Clue, which is known as Cluedo in England, where the game originated, was developed dur-ing World War II as a diversion for people waiting out air raids and air drills in bomb shelters.

Today’s questions:What river serves at the border between the states of

Indiana and Kentucky?How much sale — teaspoonwise — is in a dash? How

about a pinch or a smidgeon?Answers in Friday’s Herald.

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How tightening your home can save you moneyNEW YORK (AP) — That precious, cooled

air that leaks out of your home every summer is money leaking out of your checkbook.

Electricity prices are expected to rise faster this year than they have since 2009, to a record average of 12.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, accord-ing to the Energy Department. And prices are highest in the summer, just when you need more power to run the air conditioner.

But many residents are paying far more than they should to cool their homes because cold air is leaking out and hot, humid air is getting in. The air seeps through obvious places, like under doors, and not so obvious places, like cracks around plumbing that you can’t see.

“We accept a much higher level of bad per-formance in our homes than we would in our cars. You shouldn’t be uncomfortable.” says Jennifer Amann, director of the buildings pro-gram at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. “Homes don’t have to per-form badly.”

To see if your home is a bad performer, try a thorough home energy audit. They are offered through utilities and local contractors and are often subsidized by state energy efficiency pro-grams.

The audits can cost $100 to $400, but they can lower both summer cooling bills and winter heating bills by finding leaks and other sources of

wasted energy. How much you save depends on how much repairs cost, the size of the leaks found, how big your home is, and your electricity price.

Knowing whether or not you need a home energy audit — and whether it will pay off — is tricky. Amann says you should get one if you feel like you are paying too much for electric-ity (who doesn’t!), and she suggests talking to friends and neighbors. Some utilities are making it easier to see how your usage compares with others nearby, either as part of your bill or with online tools.

If you opt for an audit, Amann suggests using a contractor who participates in the Department of Energy’s Energy Star home performance program.

A thorough audit — more than just a walk-through of your home — will include some-thing called a “blower door test.” A device is attached to your front door that sucks air out of your home, allowing leaks to be detected. It also establishes a baseline to test the home again after leaks are fixed to determine how effective the repairs were.

Some repairs will be clearly cost-effective, like adding insulation or closing up cracks with caulk or weather-stripping. Others might not be. Windows and central cooling and heating systems are so expensive that the savings might not justify replacing them if they are still working well.

Administration announces US manufacturing regions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday named 12 regions of the country that will receive spe-cial attention under a new federal program designed to help make them more attractive to manufac-turing companies looking for a place to set up operations, provide a boost to the U.S. manufacturing industry and create jobs.

The Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership was started last September to encourage commu-nities to develop long-term plans to compete for these companies and the jobs and economic infu-sion they would bring. The part-nership taps the resources of 11 federal departments and agencies that have $1.3 billion in econom-ic development funds, from the departments of Commerce, Labor, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business

Administration.The partnership marks another

attempt by the administration to give a lift to the U.S. manufac-turing industry, which has suf-fered as the U.S. economy has shifted away from manufacturing and companies have moved many of these jobs to countries with cheaper labor costs.

President Barack Obama has made an effort to boost U.S. man-ufacturing. Nearly 650,000 such jobs have been created in the past five years, the White House said.

The regions were chosen from more than 70 that applied, and are:

— Southwest Alabama, led by the University of South Alabama.

— Southern California, led by the University of Southern California Center for Economic Development.

— Northwest Georgia, led by the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission.

— The Chicago metro

region, led by the Cook County Bureau of Economic Development.

— South Kansas, led by Wichita State University.

— Greater Portland region in Maine, led by the Greater Portland Council of Governments.

— Southeastern Michigan, led by the Wayne County Economic Development Growth Engine.

— The New York Finger Lakes region, led by the City of Rochester.

— Southwestern Ohio Aerospace Region, led by the City of Cincinnati.

— The Tennessee Valley, led by the University of Tennessee.

— The Washington Puget Sound region, led by the Puget Sound Regional Council.

— The Milwaukee 7 Region, led by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee.

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Lila Macwhinney


Ulm is the daughter of Damon and Kristen Ulm. Her high school activities include: National Honor Society, serving as president this year; Junior Optimist, serving as president this year; Student Council, serving as secre-tary this year; Varsity “D” Club; Fellowship of Christian Athletes; Senior Class Executive Committee; Northwest Conference Leadership Team; Volleyball; Track; and Bible Study.

She is involved with the Trinity United Methodist Church Youth Group and the Lima Community Church of the Nazarene Youth Group.

Ulm will attend the University of Findlay, majoring in physical therapy.

The Award of Distinction will be present-ed to the following students: Libbi Brown, Austin Jettinghoff, Zachary Johnson, Gabrielle Pimpas, Justin Stewart and Kenidi Ulm.

Seniors graduating with the Award of Honor are: Jared Elwer, Logan Gross, Brooke Hesseling, Rachel Mahlie, Kamie Pulford, Rileigh Stockwell, Brooke Teman and Ross Thompson.

Seniors graduating with an Honors Diploma determined by the Ohio Department of Education are: Libbi Brown, Brooke Hesseling, Zachary Johnson, Gabrielle Pimpas, Tyler Rice, Justin Stewart, Brooke Teman and Kenidi Ulm.

The class colors are red and white. The class flower is the Gerber Daisy and the class motto is “Our lives are before us, our pasts are behind us, but our memories are forever with us.”

Members of the class of 2014 are: Dominic Michael Ardner, Anthony Raheem Arriaga, Zachary David Baldauf, Kyle Anthony

Berelsman, Makayla Marie Binkley, Kiara Symone Brinkman, Hayden Micah Brown, Libbi Ann Brown, Bryan Alexander Buck, Mackenzie Jo Buettner, Zavier Ray Buzard, Devin Michael Coronado, Adam William Crabtree, Brooke Nichole Cress, Aaron Lee Culp, Lindsay Marie Deuel, Brayden Tyler Ditto, Jared Ross Elwer, Dena Marie Frye, Marissa Marie Garza, Rebekah Grace Geise, Melody Marie Gibson, Jarrod Benjamin Girardot, Katelyn Nicole Goergens, William Joseph Gorman III, Logan James Gross, Brittany Nicole Harruff, Kyle David Harshman, Jordan Andrew Robert Herron, Brooke Lee Hesseling, Caitlin Jean Hobbs, Kurt Allen Hoersten, Jacob Colter Honigford, Cheyenne Elizabeth Houseworth, Isaac James Illig, Austin Scott Jettinghoff, Zachary Lee Johnson, Ryan David Kerby, Kimberly Rene Mericle-Kill, Brady Micah Kleman, Ian William LeValley, Rachel Joanne Mahlie, Chase Ryan Martin, Christopher Michael Martin, Alethea Simone’ Matthews, Dustin Neal Price-McConnahea, Jasmine Rashel McDougall, Britney Jade McElroy, Tyler Joseph Mox, Macy Alexandra Pier, Gabrielle Lynn Pimpas, Scott Joseph Pohlman, Kamie Rose Pulford, Ashley Renee Quinn, Tyler Jestin Rice, Hallie June Runyan, Jessica Marie Rutledge, Hannah Elizabeth Sensibaugh, Austin Ryan Stapleton, Patrick Scott Sterchak, Justin Michael Stewart, Rileigh Rene’ Stockwell, Aleksandr Matthew Stone, Victoria Linn Suever, Brooke Alexandria Teman, Ross Patrick Thompson, Amanda Sue Truesdale, Ashley Nichole Truesdale, Kenidi Lynne Ulm, Hannah Kay-Jean Vannett, Tanner Ray Vermule and Collin Carl Williams.

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After June 5, tickets will be available for pur-chase at the pool.

To purchase a family pass, bring or attach a copy of a 2013 federal income tax form to show proof of dependents. Checks are to

be made payable to “City of Delphos.”

General Admission — $5Reissued passes — $5Evening Swim (6 p.m.

to close) — $2There are no refunds/

rain passes.Children age 2 and

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and Little Swimmers are required for children who are not toilet trained.

The pool being open will be dependent on air tem-perature, water temperature and weather conditions. The pool hours may be changed at any time by authority of the Board of Control.

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Webster and James R. Reynolds, 34, Fort Jennings were captured by authorities the day after Webster was observed on surveillance video demanding money from a Rambler’s Roost employee, threat-ening that an accomplice was with him who would come in and make trouble if the money was not handed over. Webster later claimed that Reynolds had forced Webster to commit the robbery by threatening to go in and “shoot up the place” if he did not cooperate.

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Charles D. Steele read a list of Webster’s prior convictions dat-ing back into the 1990s. On that list were several counts of passing bad checks, as well as theft, misuse of a credit card and obstructing official business. He was granted 163 days credit for time already served in this case and was ordered to pay $550 restitution to Rambler’s Roost and court costs.

Also on Wednesday in Van Wert

County Court of Common Pleas, Todd Hundley, 41, Van Wert, plead-ed guilty to a fourth-degree felony charge of failure to register as a sex offender. Steele sentenced Hundley to six months in prison. Credit was given for 107 days already served in custody on this charge. Hundley was also ordered to pay court costs.

Erin Bradford, 21, Celina, plead-ed guilty to a second-degree misde-meanor charge of obstructing offi-cial business. She took advantage of a plea agreement offer, lowering her original charge from fifth-degree felony obstructing justice. Bradford was sentenced to one year of com-munity control, fined $500 with $250 of that fine suspended and pay fees and court costs. A 90-day jail sentence was deferred pending the successful completion of com-munity control.

Ford Wilson, 30, Van Wert, admitted violating his probation by failing to tell his probation officer his current address, by not bring truthful about his address, by fail-ing to report to probation since July

2013 and by failing to show proof of employment. Wilson was sen-tenced to spend up to six months at the WORTH Center in Lima as part of three years of community con-trol. Twelve months of prison time was deferred pending the successful completion of community control.

Adam Partin, 21, Delphos, admit-ted violating his probation by being unsuccessfully terminated from the WORTH Center. Partin was sen-tenced to nine months in prison with credit given for 88 days already served in custody in this case.

Robert Spooner, 38, Fort Wayne, entered a plea of guilty to three fifth-degree felony counts of breaking and entering and one fifth-degree felony count of safecracking. Spooner was sentenced to 12 months of prison for each count. Each sentence is to be served concurrently and concurrent with the prison sentence that he is currently serving in Indiana.

Robert Seibert, 27, Van Wert, admitted violating the terms of his probation by failing to report to probation since April. Seibert was

resentenced to three years of com-munity control under the same con-ditions. Twelve months of prison time was deferred pending the suc-cessful completion of community control.

Nathan Wapplehorst, 32, Van Wert, admitted violating his proba-tion by failing to report to probation since March and by failing to pay child support. He was sentenced to 159 days in jail with work release as part of three years of community control. A 12-month prison term was deferred pending the success completion of community control.

Jesse Blackburn, 22, Delphos, admitted to violating his treatment in lieu of conviction treatment plan by failing to report to probation since March and by not attend-ing ordered treatment at Westwood. Blackburn faces sentencing on a heroin trafficking charge on July 9. He faces a maximum of 12 months in prison.

Zachariah Young, 27, Van Wert, appeared in court accused of vio-lating his treatment in lieu agree-

ment by consuming alcohol and for becoming involved in a domestic dispute while under the influence of alcohol. Young’s case was continued until August 1, 2014, to give him a chance to continue the treatment program and to pay court costs.

Chad Neal, 27, Bluffton, entered a guilty plea of guilty to a fourth-degree felony aggravate assault charge. Neal was originally charged with felonious assault in connection with this same incident. Sentencing was scheduled for June 11. No bond was set since Neal is wanted in Kentucky for charges in that state.

Matthew Southerland, 31, Van Wert, pleaded guilty to fifth-degree felony drug trafficking. Southerland faces up to 12 months in prison when he is sentenced on July 9.

Also on Wednesday, Seth Bireley, 25, Rockford, was arraigned on a charge of failure to appear, a felony of the fourth degree. He was ordered held on a $5,000 bond. A pretrial hearing in the case was scheduled for June 11.

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The world was watching in 1993 when she read her cautiously hopeful “On the Pulse of the Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s first inaugura-tion. Her confident performance openly delighted Clinton and made publishing history by making a poem a best-seller. For President George W. Bush, she read another poem, “Amazing Peace,” at the 2005 Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the White House. Presidents honored her in return with a National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. In 2013, she received an honorary National Book Award.

She called herself a poet, in love with the “sound of language,” ”the music in language,” as she explained to the AP in 2013. But she lived so many lives. She was a wonder to Toni Morrison, who marveled at Angelou’s freedom from inhibition, her willingness to celebrate her own achievements. She was a mentor to Oprah Winfrey, whom she befriended when Winfrey was still a local television reporter, and often appeared on her friend’s talk show program. She mastered several languages and published not just poetry but advice books, cook-books and children’s stories. She wrote music, plays and screenplays, received an Emmy nomination for her acting in “Roots,” and never lost her passion for dance, the art she considered closest to poetry.

“The line of the dancer: If you watch (Mikhail) Baryshnikov and you see that line, that’s what the poet tries for. The poet tries for the line, the balance,” she told The Associated Press in 2008, shortly before her 80th birthday.

Her very name was a reinvention. Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and San Francisco, moving back and forth between her parents and her grandmother. She was smart and fresh to the point of danger, packed off by her family to California after sassing

a white store clerk in Arkansas. Other times, she didn’t speak at all: At age 7, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and didn’t talk for years. She learned by reading, and listening.

“I loved the poetry that was sung in the black church: ‘Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,’” she told the AP. “It just seemed to me the most wonderful way of talking. And ‘Deep River.’ Ooh! Even now it can catch me. And then I started reading, really reading, at about 7 1/2, because a woman in my town took me to the library, a black school library. … And I read every book, even if I didn’t understand it.”

At age 9, she was writing poetry. By 17, she was a single mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, got married and then divorced. But by her mid-20s, she was performing at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, where she shared billing with another future star, Phyllis Diller. She also spent a few days with Billie Holiday, who was kind enough to sing a lullaby to Angelou’s son, surly enough to heckle her off the stage and astute enough to tell her: “You’re going to be famous. But it won’t be for singing.”

After renaming herself Maya Angelou for the stage (“Maya” was a childhood nickname, “Angelou” a variation of her husband’s name), she toured in “Porgy and Bess” and Jean Genet’s “The Blacks” and danced with Alvin Ailey. She worked as a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and lived for years in Egypt and Ghana, where she met Nelson Mandela, a longtime friend; and Malcolm X, to whom she remained close until his assassination, in 1965. Three years later, she was helping King organize the Poor People’s March in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader was slain on Angelou’s 40th birthday.

“Every year, on that day, Coretta and I would send each other flowers,” Angelou said of King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006.

Angelou was little known outside the theatrical community until “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” which might not have happened if writer James Baldwin hadn’t persuaded Angelou, still grieving over King’s death, to attend a party at the home of Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist and writer. Feiffer was so taken by Angelou that he mentioned her to Random House editor Bob Loomis, who persuaded her to write a book by daring her into it, saying that it was “nearly impossible to write autobiography as literature.”

“Well, maybe I will try it,” Angelou responded. “I don’t know how it will turn out. But I can try.”

Angelou’s musical style was clear in a passage about boxing great Joe Louis’ defeat in 1936 against German fighter Max Schmeling:

“My race groaned,” she wrote. “It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. … If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help.”

Angelou’s memoir was occasionally attacked, for seemingly opposite reasons. In a 1999 essay in Harper’s, author Francine Prose criticized “Caged Bird” as “manipulative” melodrama. Meanwhile, Angelou’s passages about her rape and teen preg-nancy have made the book a perennial on the American Library Association’s list of works that draw complaints from parents and educators.

“I thought that it was a mild book. There’s no profanity,” Angelou told the AP. “It speaks about surviving, and it really doesn’t make ogres of many people. I was shocked to find there were people who really wanted it banned, and I still believe people who are against the book have never read the book.”

Angelou appeared on several TV programs, notably the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries “Roots.” She was nominated for a Tony Award in

1973 for her appearance in the play “Look Away.” She directed the film “Down in the Delta,” about a drug-wrecked woman who returns to the home of her ancestors in the Mississippi Delta. She won three Grammys for her spoken-word albums and in 2013 received an honorary National Book Award for her contributions to the literary community.

Back in the 1960s, Malcolm X had written to Angelou and praised her for her ability to com-municate so directly, with her “feet firmly rooted on the ground.” In 2002, Angelou communicated in an unexpected way when she launched a line of greet-ing cards with industry giant Hallmark. Angelou admitted she was cool to the idea at first. Then she went to Loomis, her editor at Random House, who was concerned the project would “trivialize” Angelou, whom called “the people’s poet.”

“And then I thought about it. And I thought, if I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in the people’s hands — and I hope in their hearts. So I thought, ‘Hmm, I’ll do it.’”

She had been a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University since 1982. She was also a member of the board of trustees for Bennett College, a private school for black women in Greensboro. Angelou hosted a weekly satellite radio show for XM’s “Oprah & Friends” channel.

She remained so close to the Clintons that in 2008 she supported Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy over the ultimately successful run of the country’s first black president, Barack Obama. But a few days before Obama’s inauguration, she was clearly overjoyed. She told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette she would be watching it on television “somewhere between crying and praying and being grateful and laughing when I see faces I know.”

Active on the lecture circuit, she gave com-mencement speeches and addressed academic and corporate events across the country. Angelou received dozens of honorary degrees, and several elementary schools were named for her.

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