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Landeck sets
open house
Landeck Elementary
School will hold an open
house from 7-8 p.m. today.
Franklin Elementary
School will hold its open
house from 6-7 p.m. today.
All students and par-
ents are invited to attend.
Final Rotary
concert Sunday
Due to a scheduling
conflict, the final Delphos
Rotary Club Music in the
Park concert featuring the
Kettering Banjo Society has
been changed to Sunday.
The concert will begin at
6 p.m. with food available at
5:30 p.m. at Stadium Park.
PTO Mum Sale
deadline Sept. 3
St. John’s PTO is planning
its second annual Mum Sale.
Eight-inch mums in a
choice of three colors are just
$7 with proceeds going to
benefit the St. John’s teach-
ers and their classrooms.
Order mums by Sept. 3
by calling 419-303-6583
or pick up a form in the
grade school office.
Mum pick-up day is
9-11 a.m. Sept. 11 in the
continues low-speed
vehicle use study
BY GREG SCHERGER
The Delphos Herald
DELPHOS — Delphos
City Council addressed a
light agenda in regular ses-
sion Tuesday evening.
Prior to the meeting, two
public hearings were held. The
first addressed the possible
zoning change of a property
at 402 E. Second St. from R-1
to B-1. It’s owned by Theresa
and Donald Hoffman. The
second focused on the possi-
ble change to the language of
ordinance 2008-35, address-
ing low-speed vehicles and
the potential approval for use
of the same on city streets.
The zoning change for the
Second Street property was
not supported by the Planning
Commission in a July 27 meet-
ing by Safety Service Director
Greg Berquist, as well as one
neighbor in attendance with
contiguous property. There
was no one present at the
hearing voicing approval for
the proposed change. It was
noted that the property in
question was slated for auc-
tion on Tuesday. The result
of the auction was unknown
at the time of the meeting as
Stacy Taff photo well as the intended use, for
the property if utilized in a
Megan Joseph won Grand Champion in the Born and Raised Market Goat Show B-1 (business) zoning.
to “golf carts.” Delphos resi-
dent Dale “Bunny” Carder
presented points in favor
of the use of such vehicles.
Other supportive comments
and product definition were
provided by Delphos busi-
nessman Eric Fritz for such
vehicles, which he sells.
Councilman Mark Clement
said as the city utilizes low-
speed or “Gator”-type vehi-
cles on city streets in sup-
port of city work functions,
perhaps this authority could
be provided to private citi-
zens using vehicles in similar
applications.
Area resident Jerry
Dickrede provided input for
the use of low-speed vehi-
cles in farm applications and
recent changes approving on-
road use of qualified vehicles
in agricultural pursuits.
Other councilmen weighed
in with a variety of opinions
on the matter, all in an effort
to define the scope and pos-
sible change to the existing
ordinance. It approves only
“golf carts” (if meeting street
legal requirements) as accept-
able “low-speed” (under 25
MPH max) vehicles.
City Solicitor Glen Lause
indicated the State of Ohio
has not addressed the param-
eters for licensing low-speed

Joseph: hard work

grade school parking lot.
Additional mums
will be available for
purchase that day.
Tuesday at the Allen County Fair. Council took no definitive “Gator”-type vehicles. He
action on the matter and will expressed concern that if
carry it over to the next meet- the city ”took the lead” by
ing. permitting such vehicles on
The public hearing city streets, owners would

pays off at fair

Sports addressed the use of low-
speed vehicles on Delphos city
streets — vehicles in addition
have difficulty securing

See COUNCIL, page 2

Van Wert wind farm

Ardner Open Sept. 5
The ninth annual John
Ardner Memorial Golf

plan moves ahead

Outing is set for Sept. 5
at The Oaks Golf Course,
24125 South Kemp Rd.
It is a noon shot-
gun start. The cost ($45)
includes 18 holes, cart and
chicken BBQ dinner.
The sign-up sheet is at
Johnny A’s grill and spirits
or contact Karen (419-303-
9615) or Ben (419-905-
8731) before Sunday.
Proceeds to benefit
The Stadium Club.
Vancrest holding golf
outing
Due to the inclement
weather June 2, Vancrest
Healthcare Center has
rescheduled its golf out-
ing to Sept. 15 at Hickory
BY STACY TAFF “There was a lot of team- financially support a project
The Delphos Herald work, so I have to give them like this when it’s so good for
staff@delphosherald.com credit. I’d say my goat won your child. We wouldn’t have
because of the amount of invested in it if we didn’t see
BY MIKE FORD the company from property
LIMA — On any given hard work we did with it — she was benefitting from it.”
The Delphos Herald taxes. The company would
day at the Allen County Fair, exercising it every day and Goats aren’t the only ani-
young people can be found really monitoring everything, mal Joseph shows at the fair. mford@delphosherald.com prefer to face a flat payment
in the show arenas parading she added. “This is my fifth year show- of $6,000 to $9,000 per mega-
VAN WERT — The watt per turbine each year.
animals for judges to critique. The St. John’s High School ing goats but I’ve been show-
The walking, turning and pos- freshman is the daughter of ing dogs for six years,” she Ohio Power Siting Board Iberdrola Business
ing may look easy but accord- Norm and Kim Elwer. Her said. “I don’t really want to has approved Iberdrola Developer Dan Litchfield
ing to Megan Joseph, getting parents feel 4-H provides cru- show anything else; I’m pretty Renewable’s proposal for said the wind farm will har-
animals show-ready takes a cial lessons that their children satisfied with what I do now.” a 159-turbine wind farm in ness a significant amount of
lot of time and hard work. can apply later in life. Joseph’s favorite part of northern Van Wert County. energy.
“Raising this goat was “4-H is a really good pro- showing is the fulfillment of The project will stretch “Our project is called the
into Paulding County and Blue Creek Wind Farm and
a fifty-fifty effort between gram that has benefitted our a job well done.
me and my parents,” Joseph kids a lot,” Kim said. “They “I really love the satis- access roads will be built will be located in the northern
said. develop skills with interview- faction I get from knowing soon. County commissioners part of Van Wert County and
She won Grand Champion ing, showmanship and learn I tried my best,” she said. are being asked to designate southern Paulding County.
with her goat in the Born and the value of taking responsi- “Knowing that all my hard it as an alternative energy
Raised Market Goat show, bility. It really isn’t hard to work paid off.” zone, which would exempt See WIND, page 2

At the fair ...

Sticks Golf Club, 12083
US 127 South, Van Wert.
A buffet lunch will be
served from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
with 4-person scramble golf
shotgun start at 11:30 a.m.
Hors d’oeuvres and
cocktails will be served
immediately after golf.

Jays ‘Car Smash’

Thursday
The St. John’s football
cheerleaders annual “Car
Smash” is set for 7:30
p.m. Thursday in the high
school student parking lot.

Forecast
Sunny
Thursday
with high
in mid-70s.
See page 2.

Index
Obituaries 2
State/Local 3
Politics 4
Community 5
Sports 6-7
Business 7
Classifieds 8
Television 9
World briefs 10
Stacy Taff photos
Jim Alberti shows an enthusiastic crowd what his amazing fleas can do in the Alberti Kelley Seibert of Spencerville FFA puts her steer through the
Flea Circus Show Tuesday at the Allen County Fair Tuesday. motions during the 2010 Junior Market Steer Show Tuesday.
 2 – The Herald
50 dead in attacks targeting
Iraqi security forces
BAGHDAD (AP) —
Bombers and gunmen launched
an apparently coordinated string
of attacks against Iraqi gov-
ernment forces today, killing
at least 50 people a day after
the number of U.S. troops fell
below 50,000 for the first time
since the start of the war.
Insurgents have been step-
ping up their attacks on Iraq’s
security forces in recent months
as the U.S. has trimmed its mili-
tary presence in the country.
More than half of those killed
today — 27 — were Iraqi sol-
diers and policemen.
There were no claims of
responsibility for the spate of
attacks. But their scale and
reach, from one end of the coun-
try to the other, underscored
insurgent efforts to prove their
might against security forces
Prayer service set Thursdays
Staff reports
Pastor Linda Wannemacher
says everyone is “called” to
do something.
“Some people are good at
organizing, some are good at
leading and others are called
to pray,” Wannemacher said.
“For those who feel a burning
desire and urgency to pray
and need like-minded people
to do this with, there really
isn’t a place for just praying.
We all pray in church and at
home and wherever the need
takes us but there isn’t a place
for organized, concentrated
prayer.”
Wannemacher and other
members of the Delphos
Wind
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The interconnection posi-
tion allows for a maximum of
350 megawatts but 159 tur-
bines will have us at about
318 megawatts. That’s enough
power for about 80,000 house-
holds and from the ground
to the end of a blade sticking
straight up in the air, the tur-
bines will be about 480 feet
tall. Just from the ground to
where the generator is mount-
ed is 350 feet, so they’re very
tall but the higher up, the better
the wind and the more produc-
tion we can get. Each turbine
is 2 megawatts — equivalent
to 2,700 hoursepower from 20
mph wind by each machine.
It’s a significant amount of
power,” he said.
The project would gen-
erate an estimated 200-300
construction jobs as power
lines and other equipment is
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and political leaders who are
charged with the day-to-day
running and stability of Iraq.
The deadliest attack came in
Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers)
southeast of Baghdad, where a
suicide bomber blew up a car
inside a security barrier between
a police station and the provin-
cial government’s headquarters.
Police and hospital officials said
19 people were killed, 15 of
them policemen. An estimated
90 people were wounded.
“I rushed to the scene to help
evacuate the people, and saw
body parts and hands scattered
on the ground and dead bodies
of policemen,” said government
employee Yahya al-Shimari. “I
also saw a traffic policeman
lying dead on the ground. There
were about 15 cars that were
burnt.”
Ministerial Association have
come together to fill that
need.
A prayer service is now
held at 7 p.m. Thursday eve-
nings at First Presbyterian
Church at 310 W. Second St.,
in the basement.
“Our special prayer con-
cern now is the upcoming
Canal Days celebration and the
Revival Tent on Sunday after
the parade,” Wannemacher
said. “We will be praying for
all the ministries who will
participate in whatever way
during the festivities as well
as community leaders and all
those working to make this an
enjoyable, blessed and safe
time for all.”
installed. Ohio has two large
power line systems pass
through it. This is why the
Tri-County has snatched the
interest of three renewable
energy companies.
“The lines we’re going
to connect to are owned by
American Electric Power.
Because PJM (a power line
system) goes to the east coast,
the electricity could be sold
almost anywhere but most
likely, most of it will be
sold within Ohio. Ohio has
advanced energy standards by
requiring half of the renew-
able energy bought here to
come from within Ohio. That
ramps things up to 12.5 per-
cent renewable by 2025. So,
we’re actively working to sell
the output to Ohio utilities,”
Litchfield said.
Horizon Wind Energy
and National Wind are the
other companies with plans
for wind farms in Van Wert
County.
POLICE REPORTS
Teen caught
shoplifting
Delphos Police Officers
were called to Chief
Supermarket on Monday
in reference to a subject
involved in theft from the
store.
When officers arrived,
advised Brandon Kugler, 15,
items from the store without
paying for them.
After being interviewed
by officers, Kugler was
released to a parent and will
be cited into Lima Allen
419-692-8901
For The Record
Mary Lou Conces
April, 4, 1931 - Aug. 23, 2010
Mary Lou Conces, 79,
of Lima, died at 8:25 a.m.
Monday at her residence.
She was born April 4,
1931, in Lima to Clare
and Frances (Jauman)
Steinhour.
On April 18, 1953, she
married Frank Conces, who
died July 18, 1985.
Survivors include a son,
Daniel Conces of Lima; a
daughter, Susan Conces of
Columbus; a granddaugh-
ter, Sara Leiter of Lima;
great-grandchildren, Chloe
Rigdon of Lima and Eliza
Whitling of Kalida; and
companion of 21 years,
William Verheyen.
She was also preceded
in death by two daugh-
ters, Rebecca Conces and
Elizabeth Conces; and a
son, William Conces.
Mrs. Conces was a
1949 Delphos St. John’s
High School graduate. She
attended St. Rita’s School
of Nursing and gradu-
ated in 1952. She worked
at St. Rita’s Medical
Center in the nursery and
also the Adolescent Psych
Department. She retired in
1992.
Mass of Christian Burial
will begin at 10 a.m. Friday
at St. Charles Borromeo
Catholic Church in Lima.
Burial will be in Gethsemani
Cemetery.
Friends may call from
2-6 p.m. Thursday at
Chamberlain-Huckeriede
Funeral Home.
Preferred memorials are
to the Diabetes Association
or donor’s choice.
Council
(Continued from page 1)
plates from the state. No
county presently has an
acceptance law in place.
After further discus-
sion, the Thoroughfares
Committee agreed to request
Lause to further research the
matter to define their posi-
tion on the issue and report
his findings to the commit-
tee in public meeting at 6:30
p.m. on Sept. 28 prior to the
scheduled council meeting.
City council also heard
on first reading resolu-
tion 2010-13 to accept
the amounts and rates as
determined by the Budget
Commission; authorization
of tax levies, and certifica-
tion of the same to the coun-
ty auditor. This resolution
will carry to second reading
at the next meeting.
Items taken
from unlocked
vehicle
A resident from the 1000 million
block of North Main Street
came to the Delphos Police
Department at 8:12 a.m. Tuesday
to report an unknown subject(s)
had entered his unlocked vehi-
cle while it was parked beside
the residence sometime after
5:30 p.m. on Monday and 8
a.m. on Tuesday.
Items stolen from the
vehicle include a car stereo million
and an undisclosed amount of
money.
Business owner
reports break in
Delphos Police Officers
were called to a business in 32-33-34-37-43-55-59-60-66- both charged with one count
the 100 block of South Main 75-79-80
Street at 7:36 p.m. Tuesday
in reference to a breaking and
entering complaint.
Upon officers’ arrival, the 73-75-78
victim stated that someone
entered the business between
Sunday and Monday.
The case was forwarded to Corn:
the detective bureau for fur- Wheat:
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Herald
Vol. 141 No. 62
Nancy Spencer, editor
Ray Geary, business manager
Don Hemple,
advertising manager
Tiffany Brantley,
circulation manager
William Kohl, general manager/
Eagle Print
The Daily Herald (USPS 1525
8000) is published daily except
Sundays and Holidays.
By carrier in Delphos and
area towns, or by rural motor
Donna M. Kortokrax route where available $2.09 per
week. By mail in Allen, Van
March 12, 1933 - Aug. 22, 2010 Wert, or Putnam County, $105
Donna M. Kortokrax, 77, Kenneth J. Klaus per year. Outside these counties
Jan. 6, 1954- Aug. 23, 2010
of Kalida died at 12:52 a.m. $119 per year.
Sunday at Medical Center of Kenneth J. Klaus, 56, of Entered in the post office
the Rockies, Loveland, Colo.
Delphos, died at 4:40 p.m. in Delphos, Ohio 45833 as
She was born March 12,Monday at his residence sur- Periodicals, postage paid at
1933, in Norton, Kan., torounded by his loving family. Delphos, Ohio.
Clifford and Winifred (Taylor)
He was born Jan. 6, 1954, No mail subscriptions will be
Preston. in Lima, to Jerome Klaus accepted in towns or villages
On July 7, 1956 she mar-
and LaDonna (Osting-Klaus) where The Daily Herald paper
ried Richard “Dick” Kortokrax
Schmelzer. His father preced-
and he survives in Kalida.
ed him in death and his mother
carriers or motor routes provide
daily home delivery for $2.09
per week.
Also surviving are herand stepfather Leo Schmelzer,
405 North Main St.
children, Richard (Mary) survive in Delphos. TELEPHONE 695-0015
Kortokrax of Kalida, Randy On July 9, 1982, he mar-
Office Hours
(Mindy) Kortokrax of
ried Linda Binkley, who sur- 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Columbus, Deb (Phil) Clark
vives in Delphos.
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(Tom Bellmann) Kortokrax of Delphos; grandchil- 405 N. Main St.
of Estes Park, Colo., Beth
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(Keith Nartker) KortokraxCole Binkley; a sister, Pat
of Delphos and Susan (Ron(Bob) Kramer of Delphos;
Parisi) Kortokrax of Kalida;
a sister-in-law, Ag Klaus of
a daughter-in-law, Cindy Delphos; brothers Dave Klaus
(Paul Chavez) Kortokrax of
of Delphos and Steve (Deb)
WEATHER
Kalida; 27 grandchildren; and
Klaus of Lima; and mother-
Delphos weather
two brothers, Orvis (Monya)
in-law, Bernice Keselica of
Preston of Los Alamitos, Van Wert. High temperature Tuesday
Calif., and Lee (Joyce) Preston
He was also preceded in in Delphos was 77 degrees,
of Norton, Kan. death by brother Gary, sister low was 64. High a year ago
She was preceded in Kathy Lepley and nieces Kari today was 81, low was 54.
death by a son, Robert “Rob”
Ann Lauck and Lisa Kramer. Record high for today is 96,
Kortokrax. Mr. Klaus was a United set in 1948. Record low is 46,
Mrs. Kortokrax retired in
States Army veteran who set in 1944.
1997 from the Ottoville Local
served in Korea, who owned WEATHER FORECAST
Schools, where she had been a
and operated Klaus Painting, Tri-county
third-grade teacher for most of
serving the needs of many The Associated Press
her 37 years. She also taught
Delphos and Tri-county
at Fort Jennings, Delphoscustomers for more than 25 TONIGHT: Mostly
St. John’s and Spencerville
years. He was a member of St. clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
schools. John the Evangelist Catholic
Northwest winds 5 to 10
Mass of Christian Burial
Church and the Delphos mph.
will begin at 10:30 a.m. Veterans of Foreign Wars
THURSDAY: Sunny.
Friday at St. Michael’s post. He was a devoted hus-
Catholic Church, Kalida, the
band, loving and caring father Highs in the mid 70s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
Rev. Mark Hoying officiat-
and grandfather. The most
ing. Burial will follow in the
important thing to him was THURSDAY NIGHT:
church cemetery. attending his grandchildren’s Clear. Lows around 50.
Friends may call from events. He enjoyed traveling Northeast winds around 5
5:30-8 p.m. today and 2 to
to Kentucky and Tennessee, mph becoming light southeast
8 p.m. Thursday at Love- country music, visiting with winds after midnight.
Heitmeyer Funeral Home, friends at the “Liar’s Table” at FRIDAY: Sunny. Highs
Jackson Township (on the Jim’s Restaurant and he never in the upper 70s. Southeast
corner of State Routes 224
met a stranger. winds around 5 mph.
and 634), where a scripture Mass of Christian Burial EXTENDED FORECAST
service will begin at 5:30 p.m.
begins at 11 a.m. Friday at St. FRIDAY NIGHT,
today and a Parish Rosary at 2
John the Evangelist Catholic SATURDAY: Clear. Lows in
p.m. Thursday. Church, the Rev. Jacob the mid 50s. Highs in the mid
Condolences may be Gordon officiating. Burial 80s.
expressed at: www.lovefu-will follow in Walnut Grove SATURDAY NIGHT:
neralhome.com. Cemetery with military rites
Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
performed by the Delphos SUNDAY: Mostly sunny.
LOTTERY
Veterans Council.
Highs in the upper 80s.
Friends may call from
SUNDAY NIGHT: Clear.
2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Thursday
CLEVELAND (AP) — and 9:30-10:30 a.m. Friday Lows in the lower 60s.
These Ohio lotteries were at Harter and Schier Funeral
drawn Tuesday: Home, where the parish wake
MONDAY: Mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 80s.
Kicker MONDAY NIGHT: Clear.
4-6-3-5-9-3
starts at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Memorials are to the United Lows in the lower 60s.
Mega Millions States Department of Veteran TUESDAY: Mostly sunny.
04-23-24-28-32, Mega Affairs. Highs in the upper 80s.
Putnam drug sting nets 24
Ball: 31
Estimated jackpot: $115
Midday 3 Putnam County Sheriff Mangas, 28, of Ottawa on
8-2-1
Midday 4
James Beutler and the Multi- four counts of trafficking;
Area Narcotics Task Force Brandon Garberson, 21, of
8-3-7-5 served warrants and sum- Columbus Grove on one
Pick 3 mons Tuesday as the result count of trafficking with
1-5-7
of a special grand jury on specs and one count of per-
Pick 4 Friday. mitting drug abuse; Paul
6-4-8-3
The indictments were James Dunbar, 35, of Toledo
Powerball handed down as the result on one count of traffick-
Estimated jackpot: $20 of an ongoing drug inves-
ing; Kevin McArthur, 34,
tigation concerning heroin, of North Baltimore on three
Rolling Cash 5 Oxycontin, cocaine, exstacy counts of trafficking and two
02-07-16-17-30
and marijuana. There were counts of permitting drug
Estimated jackpot: 24 persons involved, includ- abuse; Joshua Perry, 31, of
$110,000
Ten OH
ing Fort Jennings residents
Douglas Calvelage, 23, and
Bluffton on three counts of
trafficking; Danielle Trehan,
02-08-17-18-22-26-29-30- Ashley Dunbar, 20, who were 22, of Leipsic on one count
of trafficking; Levi Jeffrey
each of drug trafficking. The Troyer, 21, of Continental
Ten OH Midday others are as follows: on one count of trafficking;
14-19-22-23-24-28-37-39- John Barnhart Jr., 19, of Isaiah Rayle, 27, of Findlay
42-45-53-55-57-58-60-68-71- Dupont on two counts of
on two counts of trafficking;
trafficking; Frank Winfrey, Richard Piotrawski, 21, of
73, of Findlay on four Sylvania on two counts of
LOCAL PRICES counts of trafficking with trafficking and two counts
specs and four counts of per- of permitting drug abuse;
$3.77 mitting drug abuse; Lesley Kelle Robach, 28, of Dupont
$5.90 Hernandez, 34, of Leipsic on two counts of trafficking;
Beans: $10.47 on four counts of trafficking Tasha Wright, 26, of Deshler
and one count of permitting on three counts of traffick-
drug abuse; Traylie Pardo, ing; Victor Austin Jr., 22,
29, of Belmore on four of Leipsic on two counts of
counts of trafficking; Dale
Ann Riley, 31 of McComb
trafficking; Heather Cortez,
29, of Deshler on five counts
on two counts of traffick- of trafficking; Andrew Coe,
Plants* - Trees
Shrubs - Perennials
ing; Mallory Young, 24, of
Toledo on three counts of
trafficking; Joseph Michel,
23, of Columbus Grove on
two counts of trafficking;
and Eric Currier, 35, of
27, of Leipsic for three
counts of trafficking; Joshua
Toledo on three counts of
trafficking.
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STATE/LOCAL
ODOT seeks new federal
funds for transportation
projects of the future
COLUMBUS — Electric
cars, a new runway for landing
futuristic aerospace equipment,
and access to new jobs along
the Ohio River - those are three
of the 12 projects the Ohio
Department of Transportation
(ODOT) is hoping will receive
funding through a new stream
of federal transportation dol-
lars.
ODOT is seeking a share
of $600 million in new federal
funds appropriated by the U.S.
Department of Transportation
for its TIGER II Discretionary
Photo submitted Grants program. This new
Brian Mercer and Karla Krendl of Lee’s Ace Hardware accept the Van Wert Chamber federal funding is similar to
of Commerce 2009 Small Business of the Year Award from event co-sponsor Pat Ryan the Transportation Investment
of Citizens National Bank. Nominations for the 2010 award are being accepted through Generating Economic
Aug. 31. Recovery - or “TIGER
grants” - authorized under the
cle infrastructure readiness
plan with local governments,
including deploying 106 plug-
in electric vehicles and 118
charging stations.
NASA Plum Brook Station
Intermodal Facility - a $60
million request to construct a
9,000 foot-long runway to sup-
port new aerospace testing at
the NASA facility and attract
sustainable, high-tech jobs to
Erie County.
Leipsic/Putnam County
Road Widening - an $11.3 mil-
lion request to widen County
Road 5 in Putnam County to
provide better access to the Iron
Highway Industrial Park, a 244-
acre industrial site in Leipsic
served by three rail providers.
Akron Main Street/
intermodal facility in down-
town Springfield to serve local
transit routes, bike trails, and
regional rail service, including
the city’s 3C “Quick Start”
Passenger Rail station.
Cincinnati Streetcar - a
$35 million request to assist
with funding the City of
Cincinnati’s historic streetcar
project that would connect the
city’s two largest employment
centers with electric street-
cars.
Future Phases of
the Columbus I-70/I-71
Modernization - a $15 million
request to assist with fund-
ing for the detailed design and
construction plans for later
phases of the reconstruction
of the I-70/I-71 interchange

Chamber seeks nods for 2010 Recovery Act.

“This money will go to
the kinds of projects that will
Broadway Street Interchange
- a $55 million joint request
with the City of Akron to
through downtown Columbus.
South Point Intermodal
River Port - a $16.2 million

Small Business of the Year awards help spur lasting economic

The Van Wert Area
Chamber of Commerce is cur-
rently seeking nominations
for the 5th Annual Van Wert
County Small Business of the
Year Awards. Nominations
will be accepted for two cate-
gories: Small Business of the
Year and Microenterprise of
the Year. Nominations must
be submitted to the Van Wert
Area Chamber of Commerce
no later than Aug. 31.
The Small Business of the
Year Program spotlights the
many contributions small and
micro businesses make to the
community. The awards will
be presented on Nov. 12 at a
special luncheon which will
honor small business through-
out the Van Wert Area. The
program is co-sponsored by
Citizens National Bank and
The Times Bulletin and will
serve as the kick-off to Global
Entrepreneurship Week.
“The Small Business of the
Year Awards represent the
strength of the business com-
munity in Van Wert County.
earned by Swan Memorials.
Previous winners include
Baker Built Products, Glenn
Schroeder Drafting, KAM
Manufacturing, Rural Energy
Products and Straightline
Body and Paint.
“We’re really looking for-
ward to a banner year as we
observe the 5th anniversary
of this program,” said Robb
Krecklow, Times Bulletin
Media chief executive offi-
cer. “Small business made
huge contributions to both the
American and local econo-
mies when a lot of things
went haywire with country’s
largest ones. I look forward
to celebrating those contri-
butions as part of our Small
Business of the Year Awards
program.”
The process of selecting a
Small Business of the Year
takes place over several months
and begins with the nomina-
tion process. Gribble encour-
ages local citizens and mem-
bers of the business commu-
nity to nominate the business
Wert community.”
While the Microenterprise
of the Year Award will remain
a local honor, the Small
Business of the Year Award
follows the criteria estab-
lished by the US Chamber
of Commerce and will ulti-
mately be nominated by the
Van Wert Area Chamber
of Commerce to compete
on a national level. For the
Microenterprise award, eli-
gible Van Wert County busi-
nesses must employ 10 or
fewer full time equivalent
employees and have less than
$1,000,000 in gross revenue
for 2009. Businesses eligible
for the Small Business award
must employ fewer than 250
people and have less than
$10 million in gross revenue
for 2009.
The selection commit-
tee will include represen-
tatives from the Chamber
Member businesses and
Chamber Board of Directors.
Additionally, a representative
from Citizen’s National Bank
growth, reduce gridlock, pro-
vide safe, affordable and envi-
ronmentally sustainable trans-
portation choices and create
jobs,” said U.S. Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood when
he announced the program ear-
lier this year.
“We selected projects
based on their ability to cre-
ate jobs, leverage new private
sector investment, and further
transform Ohio into a premier
national and global logistics
location,” said ODOT Director
Jolene M. Molitoris. “We also
selected projects that will give
Ohio’s citizens and business
multi-modal transportation
choice to help Ohio retain the
next generation of young pro-
fessionals and job creators,”
added Director Molitoris.
While no one state can
receive more than 25 percent
of program funds, ODOT is
supporting several applications
totaling more than $259 mil-
lion in requests. Those appli-
cations are:
Electrifying Ohio’s
Transportation System - a
$12.3 million request to devel-
op an Ohio electrical vehi-
reconstruct this high-volume
interchange and increase access
to nearby businesses, improve
safety and reduce congestion
for local drivers.
Springfield State Route
794 Relocation - a $3.8 mil-
lion request to realign SR 794
to accommodate job growth at
the Ohio Air National Guard
Base, a major military unit and
vital component of the area’s
economy.
Ohio Energy and Transit
Opportunity Districts - a
$1.2 million joint request
with the Ohio Department of
Development to assist local
communities in planning
activities near the state’s eight
proposed 3C “Quick Start”
Passenger Rail Stations.
City of Columbus Rail
Station - a $20.2 million
joint request with the City of
Columbus to construct support-
ing infrastructure (pedestrian
and bicycle facilities, parking
facility, bus transit shelters,
and lighting) for the city’s 3C
“Quick Start” Passenger Rail
station.
Springfield Downtown
Intermodal Facility - a $16.4
million request to build an
request to make improvements
to the South Point intermodal
facility along the Ohio River in
Lawrence County, with dock
improvements, new overhead
bridge crane, supporting road
infrastructure, and new rail-
road line connections.
Washington County
Multi-Modal Freight Facility
- a $12.5 million request to re-
establish abandoned rail lines
and connect this Ohio River
port near Marietta to an active
CSX freight rail line, thus
eliminating the need to offload
freight from barges to a truck
for a one-mile trip to the rail
line.
Additional TIGER II Grant
requests have been submitted
to the USDOT by several local
municipalities and transporta-
tion partners. These 11 proj-
ects represent the state’s offi-
cial submissions by ODOT.
Competition is expected
to be intense for these lim-
ited federal funds, with all 50
states eligible for these grants.
The U.S. DOT is expected
to announce the projects that
have been selected to receive
these grants after mid-Septem-
ber.

Ohio to receive $1.5M more to expand

The chamber is excited to
team up with community
residents and area businesses
to honor the best and bright-
est examples of local small
business,” said Kate Gribble,
President/CEO of the Van
Wert Chamber of Commerce.
“This award is unique in that
the nominations come from
customers, clients, business
partners and community
members that truly value the
goods and services our local
businesses provide.”
Last year, Lee’s Ace
Hardware won top honors
and received the 2009 Small
Business of the Year Award.
The 2009 Microenterprise
of the Year Award was
Tree falls, kills
landscaper at
golf course
AVON (AP) — A tree
being removed from an Ohio
golf course has fallen on the
owner of a landscaping ser-
vice, killing the man.
The Lorain County coro-
ner says 42-year-old Guy
Goodman, of LaGrange, was
killed instantly in Tuesday’s
accident at the Hilliard Lakes
Golf Course west of Cleveland.
Coroner Dr. Paul Matus says
Goodman’s head, neck and
body were crushed.
Lt. Eric Dudziak with the
Avon Fire Department says at
its base the tree was 4 to 5 feet
wide. Dudziak says it slipped
out of a front-end loader and
fell on Goodman after he and
two crew members from his
Goodman Yard Works busi-
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of their choice. In September,
nominees will be invited to
officially submit a brief appli-
cation for the award.
“We’re excited to once
again sponsor the Small
Business Awards. We look
forward to celebrating the
successes of small businesses
that have been able to over-
come the tough economic
environment we’ve seen over
the past year and prosper,”
said Pat Ryan, senior vice
president and Van Wert City
president of Citizens National
Bank. “Businesses such as
these spur the economic
growth and employment
opportunities that are vital
to the prosperity of the Van
STATE BriEfS
Flap targets elephant, donkey figurines
NEWARK (AP) — A
complaint that drew the atten-
tion of top Ohio elections
officials means elephant and
donkey knickknacks are tak-
ing a lower profile at one
local voting board.
A Libertarian candidate
saw the figurines of the
Republican and Democratic
symbols on the counter at
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and The Times Bulletin will
serve on the committee.
To nominate a business
for the Small Business of
the Year Award, fill out the
brief nomination form which
is available at www.van-
wertchamber.com or at the
Chamber office. Nominations
should be returned to 1199
Professional Drive in Van
Wert or fax to 419.238.4589.
Nominations can also be
e-mailed to kgribble@van-
wertchamber.com. All nom-
inations should be submit-
ted no later than August 31.
Gribble urges everyone to
nominate a business whom
they think is deserving of this
recognition.
bias toward candidates for the
two major parties.
Board director Sue Penick
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from the Ohio Secretary of
State’s office, recommending
that the red, white and blue
ceramic statuettes be kept out
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4 — The Herald Wednesday, August 25, 2010
POLITICS “In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.”
— Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (1893-1964)
Sherrod rejects
IT WAS NEWS THEN return to USDA
One Year Ago WASHINGTON (AP) —
• The Delphos Stadium Club held a football open house Shirley Sherrod, ousted from
at Stadium Park so residents could view the completed work the Agriculture Department
on the football field and visitor’s bleachers and locker room. during a racial firestorm
Dozens of volunteers gave more than 2,000 hours of their time that embarrassed the Obama
since May to work on the projects at Stadium Park including administration, rejected an
redoing the football field; disassembling, hauling and reas- offer to return to the USDA
sembling bleachers; pouring a concrete pad for the bleachers; on Tuesday. But at a cordial
and gutting and redoing the inside of the former wastewater news conference with the man
treatment plant as visitors’ lockers. who asked her to leave —
Agriculture Secretary Tom
25 Years Ago — 1985 Vilsack — she said she may
• A donation of $662.43 raised by the second annual do consulting work for him on
Delphos Stadium Club Open Golf Tournament was presented racial issues.
to the Stadium Club. Accepting the check was Stadium Club
She was asked to leave
President Monte Druckemiller. The check was presented by her job as Georgia’s director
tournament co-sponsors John Schimmoeller of the Rustic Café of rural development in July
and Dan Dempsey of Kentucky Fried Chicken. after comments she made in
• Asta Tiittanen of Kannus, Finland, recently returned to March were misconstrued as
her homeland after having spent six weeks in the home of racist. She has since received
the Kenneth Wittler family of Ottoville. Tiittanen came to numerous apologies from the
America through the Lions Club International Youth Exchange administration, including from
Program. Asta enjoyed America and would like to come back President Barack Obama him-
some day. self, and Vilsack asked her
• Margaret Merschman of Delphos has spent the past four to return. But she said at the
weeks with her niece and nephew, Iris Berk, 17, and Erik Berk, news conference with a clear-
12, who are visiting from Bremerhaven, West Germany. They ly disappointed Vilsack that
are the children of Merschman’s brother, Ludwig, who is the she did not think she could say
commanding officer of the German navy. yes to a job “at this point, with
all that has happened.”
50 Years Ago — 1960 Vilsack said she may work
• A large crowd at the recreation field saw the Midget All- with the department in a con-
Stars coached by Ken Fair defeat the Midget All-Stars coached sulting capacity in the future
by Ed Graham, 1-0, the Little League All-Stars edged the Little to help improve outreach to
League Cardinals, 1-0, and the Delphos Pony League All-Stars minorities.
bowed to the Venedocia-Spencerville Pony League team, 13-8. “I look forward to some
The occasion was the Baseball Night jointly sponsored by type of relationship with the
the Delphos Lions Club, the City Recreation Board and the department in the future,” said
Delphos Youth Baseball Program. Arrangements for the game Sherrod, who is black. “We do
were made by Bob Arnzen, city recreation. In the Midget con- need to work on the issues of
test, Mike Lang and Jerry Looser combined to no-hit Graham’s discrimination and race in this
All-Stars. In the Little League game, Hoehn went all the way country.”
for the Cards and pitched a one-hitter. The Pony League game Vilsack had asked her to
was a wild affair with the Venedocia-Spencerville crew col- become the deputy director
lecting 13 hits and the Delphos All-Stars getting eight. Cramer of the Office of Advocacy
worked the first two innings for the All Starts. He was relieved and Outreach, a new posi-
by Gordon Vogt who gave up ten runs. Jack Koch finished the tion designed to bolster the
game and allowed no runs on one hit. department’s shaky record on
civil rights. He had also given
75 Years Ago — 1935 her a chance to return to her
• Delphos is to be represented in two departments of the former job. Both of them said
Ohio State Fair at Columbus next week. R. J. Porter, East Tuesday Sherrod may return
Fifth Street, is to be employed in assisting with displays in the to the department as a consul-
Department of Plant Industry in the Horticultural Building. tant once an ongoing review
Robert Porter, Jr., will make a display of bees and honey at of the department’s efforts on
the fair. race issues is completed.
• The Jefferson High School Band was to play at the Van “I think I can be helpful to
Wert County Fair. It will be one of 11 bands which will pro- him and the department if I
vide music at the fair. The bands which will play are Middle just take a little break and look
Point Band, Spencerville High School, Tully-Convoy School, at how I can be more helpful
Jefferson School, Celina High School, Willshire School, in the future,” Sherrod said.
What’s missing from this story?
Ohio City-Liberty School, Van Wert High School, Wren
Community Band, Marsh Foundation School and Converse
Community Band.
• Delphos veterans of the 37th division, Ohio’s own divi- NEW YORK — As I was
sion in the World War, are planning on attending the 17th perusing headlines that seem
National reunion in Youngstown this year, beginning Aug. seldom to change — mosque,
31 and closing on Labor Day. Elaborate plans for the recep- immigration, sacred ground,
tion and entertainment of the veterans are being made by
the Youngstown committee in anticipation of the attendance
9/11, more mosque — an
unlikely trio intruded upon
exceeding 10,000. my malaise: Paul Newman,
Rodney King and John
Lennon.
I’m not proud of it. I
Moderately confused wish it had been Nietzsche,
Bonhoeffer and Freud, but
there you have it. At least
it wasn’t Glenn Beck, Al
Sharpton and Sarah Palin,
though they do make a later
appearance, about which more
anon. First to the quotes, a
little pastiche, if you will, of
Americana in a nation that has
lost is ‘cana.’
“What we’ve got here is
a failure to communicate”
from Newman in “Cool Hand
Luke” was first to come to
mind. Next was King’s “Can
we all get along?” after the
acquittal of the police offi-
cers who mercilessly beat him
sparked the 1992 Los Angeles
riots.
Finally, “Give peace a
chance.” John Lennon, ‘69.
I’m not typically attracted
to pop-culture wisdom. But
why not? Little else seems
to be working lately as we
sliver ourselves into a thou-
sand shards of blithering self-
interest.
Enter current characters in
the American tragedy titled,
“Screw You, No Screw You.”
A Muslim imam insults
(some) Americans by wanting
McCain wins in Ariz.,
novice shines in Fla.
By LIZ SIDOTI
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — establishment as the party’s
Veteran Sen. John McCain
sailed to nomination for a
fifth term Tuesday over an
Arizona challenger with tea
party support, but big-spend-
ing political novice Rick Scott
beat an insider in Florida’s
Republican gubernatorial pri-
mary as voters split on the
merits of establishment candi-
dates vs. outsiders.
In other big-name races,
Rep. Kendrick Meek pre-
vailed for Florida’s Senate
Democratic nomination over
upstart Jeff Greene, and Sen.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
hoped voters would reward
political experience as she
faced a spirited Republican
primary challenge 10 weeks
before the general election.
She was in a surprisingly close
race with about a third of the
vote counted.
Nominating contests in five
states — Vermont also was
voting, and Oklahoma held
GOP runoffs — highlight-
ed dominant themes of this
unpredictable election year,
including anti-establishment
anger and tea party challenges
from the right. But the early
results indicated that if there
was a single pattern to the
night, it may have been the
Obama appeals stem cell
ruling; some work to stop
By LAURAN
NEERGAARD
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Medical researchers value
Promising medical research
is in disarray as scientists
await an appeal by the Obama
administration of a judge’s
ruling that undercuts taxpayer-
funded research using human
embryonic stem cells.
The Justice Department
said Tuesday it will appeal
later this week a federal
judge’s order temporarily
halting such research money,
a block that scientists and
patient advocates said could
irreparably set back the hunt
for needed new treatments.
“The present ruling, if it
stands, will be a major blow
to the hopes of many patients
and their families,” said Dr.
Peter Donovan, a stem cell
researcher at the University of
California, Irvine.
Opponents of the research
hailed the ruling, saying such
federally supported studies
are prohibited by law because
human embryos are destroyed
in order to extract stem cells.
In the meantime, labo-
ratories around the country
struggled to determine which
experiments aimed at fight-
KATHLEEN PARKER
Point
of View
to build an Islamic center too
close to Ground Zero; Muslim
Americans feel hurt and mar-
ginalized by a growing chorus
of mean-spirited rhetoric.
In Washington, Beck plans
a “Restoring Honor” tea party
convention on the very date
and grounds that the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave
his “I Have a Dream” speech.
In town on the same day, Aug.
28, Sharpton will hold his own
“Reclaim the Dream” rally.
Beck says he didn’t pick
the date on purpose -- it was
coincidental but providential.
King belongs to all Americans,
he says, while Sharpton and
others feel Beck is poking a
finger in the eye of the civil
rights movement.
Over and down yonder,
Americans in border states are
feeling under siege by illegal
immigrants, while Hispanics
feel hurt and marginalized by
a growing chorus of mean-
spirited rhetoric.
Notice a trend here?
No longer e pluribus unum,
we are e pluribus pluribus —
mean-spirited and marginal-
izing. A psychological profile,
never more needed than now,
lack of one.
Just two years after reach-
ing the pinnacle of the GOP
presidential nominee, McCain
found himself facing a stiff
Senate primary challenge by
ex-radio host and former Rep.
J.D. Hayworth, who tried to
tap into anti-Washington sen-
timent coursing through the
electorate. So, McCain spent
more than $20 million and
aggressively cast Hayworth in
a negative light.
It worked, and McCain,
who has never lost a state-
wide race, comfortably won
the Republican nod in his
home state. He now enters the
general election as the heavy
favorite to win a fifth term.
“This was a tough, hard-
fought primary,” McCain
said at a victory party — and
he quickly looked to the fall
campaign. “I promise you, I
take nothing for granted and
will fight with every ounce
of strength and conviction I
possess to make the case for
my continued service in the
Senate.”
In the extraordinarily bitter
GOP race for Florida gover-
nor, Scott’s financial might
and criticism of his opponent
as a typical tax-raising poli-
tician proved too much for
Bill McCollum, the state’s
attorney general and a former
ing spinal cord injuries,
Parkinson’s disease and other
ailments will have to stop
until the court fight is over.
stem cells because they are
master cells that can turn into
any tissue of the body.
The National Institutes of
Health told researchers that if
they’ve already received money
this year — $131 million in
total — they may keep doing
their stem cell work but no new
money can be given out.
That means 22 projects
due to get yearly checks in
September, another $54 mil-
lion worth, “will be stopped
in their tracks,” NIH Director
Francis Collins said. Dozens
more proposals for new
research won’t get a hearing.
“This decision has just
poured sand into the engine
of discovery,” Collins said.
However, the ruling drew
praise from the Alliance
Defense Fund, a group of
Christian attorneys who
helped with the lawsuit filed
by two researchers against the
administration rules.
“The American people
should not be forced to pay
for experiments — prohibited
by federal law — that destroy
human life,” said Steven H.
likely would reveal an under-
lying fear that not everyone
within our borders is on the
same team.
Our fears may not be irra-
tional, but our responses are.
Nowhere is it written that
we must self-destruct. Here’s
a concept: Let’s skip the part
where cultures clash, tempers
flare, we have a riot, compose
the crisis-soundtrack, seek
closure and celebrate healing.
Somebody won’t get rich but,
oh well.
The trick is getting back
to that story line we seem
to have misplaced. The one
where everyone plays by the
rules and embraces the same
national narrative. Where we
stop acting like morons —
mirrors up! — and hit the
pause button on outrage.
We talk about political
narratives all the time, but
we no longer have a consen-
sual American story. Barack
Obama’s hope and change
message has gone stale.
Ronald Reagan’s morning in
America has a hangover. And
Sarah Palin’s platform is a
wedge.
Instead of unity, we have
dueling marches; competi-
tions over “sacred” grounds;
debates over religion and lan-
guage that never should have
been invited to the party.
Who can articulate this
misplaced American vision?
Obama did so beautifully at
the 2004 Democratic conven-
tion, but his words have lost
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congressman with the support
of national party leaders in
Washington.
Scott, who made a fortune
in the health care industry
and spent $39 million of it
blanketing the state with TV
ads, will face Alex Sink, the
state’s chief financial officer
who sailed to the Democratic
nomination. The race is cer-
tain to be one of the most
hotly contested gubernatorial
contests this fall.
Equally nasty was the
Democratic Senate nomina-
tion fight in Florida. Meek
toppled Greene, a big-spend-
ing real estate tycoon whose
links to boxer Mike Tyson and
former Hollywood madam
Heidi Fleiss drew headlines.
The four-term congress-
man will compete against
Republican Marco Rubio,
who easily secured the GOP
nod, and Gov. Charlie Crist,
a former Republican who is
running as an independent, in
November.
The general election cam-
paign got under way imme-
diately.
“Floridians want leaders
who will fight for them all the
time, not just when it helps
their own political career or
advances an extreme philoso-
phy,” Meek said after his vic-
tory, poking at both Crist and
Rubio without naming them.
Aden, the group’s senior legal
counsel. “The court is sim-
ply enforcing an existing law
passed by Congress that pre-
vents Americans from paying
another penny for needless
research on human embryos.”
Monday’s court ruling
is broader than first thought
because it would prohib-
it even the more restricted
stem cell research allowed the
past decade under President
George W. Bush, according to
White House and scientists.
And how quickly any
appeal could go through may
determine how much is lost
permanently.
“These cells are notorious-
ly finicky and you have to take
care of them every day,” said
Dr. Jonathan Moreno, a medi-
cal ethicist at the University
of Pennsylvania. “You can’t
just lock up a lab and walk
away for two weeks and come
back and everything’s fine.”
If it takes “months to settle
the legal wrangling, then we
will just end our work,” said
Dr. Sean Morrison, director
of the University of Michigan
Center for Stem Cell Biology,
whose lab is studying embry-
onic stem cells in hopes of
reversing a serious intestinal
birth defect.
power through their impotent
application.
Given the leadership vacu-
um, responsibility falls where
it must — to the transforma-
tive power of the individual.
Enough of us retain a mem-
ory of what it means to be
American, and it has noth-
ing to do with race, ethnicity,
religious belief or the date of
one’s citizenship. It has to do
with a batch of exceptional
ideas and a few simple rules
of conduct.
A primer on the latter: Be
considerate; tend your garden;
mind your own business; lend
a hand; keep your clothes on
and your hands to yourself;
honor your family and your
country; don’t air your dirty
laundry or vocabulary in pub-
lic. And for God’s sake, don’t
talk about religion. Oh, and
resist spectacle.
Taken to heart, these prin-
ciples would preclude sneak-
ing into the country without
permission. They would
encourage private worship
and public concern. They also
might be understood to mean
consulting neighbors before
planning a symbolically
charged structure near a site
of national mourning.
Our failure to communi-
cate this part of the American
dream has meant we can’t get
along. Until we do, peace,
alas, hasn’t got a chance.
Kathleen Parker’s e-mail address
is kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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COMMUNITY
LANDMARK Canning season in full swing, VFW Auxiliary to hold steak supper The ladies auxiliary to It was approved by the

youngest starts preschool

Delphos VFW Post 3035 met membership to hold a drawing
Thursday and made plans for for $25 for auxiliary members
their annual fall steak sup- who pay their annual dues by
per to be held at the post on Oct. 1.
BY LOVINA EICHER fill those jars again with ment this afternoon. I Sept. 19 after the Canal Days Cathy Hughes, Marianne
fresh, colorful tomatoes. I have been battling with Parade. Mahlie, Mary Lou Harman
Another week has need to put more tomatoes what the doctor told me Dine-in and carry-out din- and Laurita Cross will
passed by and it is time into juice this week. I was is poison ivy. After a shot ners will be available for $7. be attending the VFW
to do this column once hoping to get to it today and two weeks of antibiot- In other business, the National Convention in
again. It is really busy but I also have a bushel ics, it keeps coming back. members returned the ben- Indianapolis.
Delphos Herald around here with of peaches wait- After being miserable with efits of the Special Olympics The next auxiliary meet-
home-canning ing to be put it for over a week again, I Spaghetti Dinner back to ing will begin at 7:30 p.m.
CALENDAR OF season being in into jars. The decided to go back to the Special Olympics. Sept. 16.
full swing. The peaches are rip- doctor. Today is a cooler
Bluffton U. senior in piano recital
EVENTS work is worth
the reward,
ening too fast
so I’ll do those
day which helps but on
those hot days it gets real- Rebekah Ricker, a pia- Beethoven, Brahms, William
though, when instead. On the ly miserable. nist from Spencerville, Bolcom and Domenico
TODAY we can open jars list for tomor- With all the sweet
6 p.m. — Shepherds of will perform her Bluffton Scarlatti. Assisting her on
of fresh fruits row is a bushel onions in season try this University senior recital at Brahms’ “Hungarian Dances
Christ Associates meet in the and vegetables of pears. I don’t casserole:
St. John’s Chapel. 7 p.m. Thursday in Yoder for Piano Four-Hands” will
during the cold usually do pears Recital Hall on the Bluffton be Krysten Schey, a Bluffton
7 p.m. — Bingo at St. winter months. but a friend gave SWEET ONION
John’s Little Theatre. campus. graduate in music and owner
My daughters me a bushel. My CASSEROLE The recital is free and open of Krysti’s Music Studio in
THURSDAY
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Center, 301 Suthoff Street. busy cleaning houses for Everything seems to be 1 pack of crackers (Ritz Unrau, professor and chair ments for graduation with a
5-7 p.m. — The Interfaith others lately. It’s good ripening at once. is preferred for taste) of music at Bluffton, Ricker major in music education at
Thrift Shop is open for shop- part-time work for her. My cucumbers need 2 eggs will present four pieces, by Bluffton.
ping. Elizabeth is home today, to be picked again and I 1/2 cup milk
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St. big batch of laundry to do. do some sweet and sour 1 teaspoon paprika
I was helping Elizabeth garlic dill pickles. I slice Preheat oven to 350
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I could get this column
the cucumbers lengthwise
for these and put them
in wide-mouth jars. When
degrees. In a pan sau-
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butter. Do not brown.
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Museum is open, 202 E. Main varieties in our garden are Brian and family along.
St. Kalida.
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Lady ’Riders wear down Jays

By JIM METCALFE
The Delphos Herald
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS — St. John’s
stood toe-to-toe with state
girls soccer power St. Marys
Memorial for the first 45
minutes Tuesday night at St.
John’s High School.
As the match wore on,
though, the Lady Roughriders
proved too relentless for the
Lady Blue Jays, finishing off
the home team 4-0 in season-
opening action.
The Roughriders — a
Final Four team in Division II
last fall — had an early open-
ing as junior Ashleigh Falk
tried a header at 38:01 but St.
John’s senior Samantha Stant
(15 saves against 21 shots)
was up to the task.
Falk was again denied by
Stant at 32:50.
The Jays began to assert
themselves and nearly went
up a goal as senior Bailey
Calvelage shook loose on a
counterattack but was denied
by Roughrider sophomore net-
minder Paige Dicus (8 saves
against 8 shots) at 27:02.
Calvelage again tried to
get her team on the board at
23:34 but again, Dicus was up
to the task.
As the half wore on, St.
Marys once more took control
and continued its assault, pres-
suring the Blue Jay defense.
Calvelage had one more
try at 12:32 but her attempt
was stopped by a great save
from Dicus.
The Lady ’Riders finally
broke loose at 11:10 on a
set piece: a corner kick from
the right side. Senior Carrie
Schlater lofted a perfect kick
to senior Angie Wilker, who
headed it in from 8 yards and
a 1-0 edge.
Dicus stymied a pair of
tries from Calvelage at 7:50
and 2:20.
St. John’s senior keeper Samantha Stant make a leaping stab to stop a St. Marys
Memorial scoring try, with defenders Sarah Shrider and Julie Bonifas surrounding
Memorial’s Ashleigh Falk. The visiting Roughriders shut out the Blue Jays 4-0 Tuesday
at St. John’s High School.
“We stayed with them and
played a great first half. St.
Marys is as tough as tough
can be; they have a great pro-
gram,” St. John’s coach Jon
Munoz said. “They are so
technically sound and they are
well-educated when it comes
to soccer. They have set a high
standard for their program and
they have the experience of
having success, like last year.
This is a great challenge for us
to start the year.”
St. Marys went up 2-0
in the second half as sopho-
more Kelly Heitkamp crossed
a pass from the right side
to Falk on the left side; her
8-yard header got inside the
post at 34:10.
Stant knocked away a
1-on-1 try from sophomore
Kayla Boysell (32:22), class-
mate Molly Albert (27:34)
and Schlater (12:51) to pre-
serve a 2-goal deficit.
The Jays had three prime
tries denied by Dicus: junior
Courtney Grothouse at 24:14;
senior Kaitlyn Schwieterman
(17:44); and junior Myriah
Jackson (14:03).
Memorial nearly made it
a 3-goal edge as Stant got
caught out of the goal mouth
but junior Kristie Grothouse
headed away a scoring attempt
by junior Kristen Vehorn at
9:29.
Finally, the Jays couldn’t
hold off their foe any longer
as another set piece worked
at 1:55. On a corner kick
from the left side, Schlater
launched a perfect ball to
Heitkamp, whose 8-yard
header was good.
The Roughriders tacked on
the final goal with 15 ticks left
as Wilker launched a throw-in
from the left side and the
Tom Morris photos
bouncing ball got through to
a wide-open Heitkamp in the
middle; her 12-yarder found
the back of the net.
“They have an expe-
rienced team but we were
a lot better this year. They
dominated us in shots-on-goal
last year; this year was much
closer,” Munoz added. “We
made our attempts to score
but just couldn’t connect.
Defensively, I felt we held
them down but you could tell
fitness came into play the last
15 minutes or so. We’ve got
to work on our conditioning
and work new players into the
lineup but this is a great step
in the right direction.”
St. Marys held a 9-3 edge
in corner kicks.
St. Marys plays host to
Van Wert at 7 p.m. Thursday,
while the Jays will host Fort
Jennings 11 a.m. Saturday.
LOCAL ROUNDUP
Tigers claw Lady Jays
DELPHOS — St. John’s
Jessica Recker led all golf-
ers with a 46 Tuesday night
but it was not enough as the
Lady Blue Jays fell 210-224
to Versailles in Midwest
Athletic Conference girls
action Tuesday at the Delphos
Country Club.
Dani Hale added a 49,
Megan Joseph a 58 and Alicia
Joseph 71 for the Jays (1-6,
1-2 in the MAC) who host
Parkway today (4:30 p.m.)
and visit Minster 4 p.m.
Thursday.
Versailles was topped by
the 47 of Danielle Cochran
and the 48 by Amber
Wehrkamp. Also scoring
were Rachel Hedrick (56),
Brooke Wehrkamp (59) and
Victoria Bulcher and Chrissy
Runner (62).
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Pirates win NWC quad
BLUFFTON — Bluffton
Alicia Joseph chips onto
put all four top scorers in the 5th green at the DCC
the 40s to down Jefferson, Tuesday versus Versailles.
Ada and Lincolnview 179- but that was not enough as the
185-203-216 in a Northwest Panthers (7-2, 2-1 Northwest
Conference boys golf quad Conference) fell 176-181 to
Tuesday at the Bluffton Golf Columbus Grove but beat
Club. Crestview’s 210 in an NWC
Matt Gray was medalist t r i - m a t c h
overall with Tuesday
a 39 for at Country
Ada (1-8, Acres.
1-4) NWC C l a y
and Matt Bryan and
Buroker led T a y l o r
the Pirates Giesige shot a 43 for the
(7-2, 4-0) with a 41.
Bulldogs (4-1, 2-0), while
Matt Waldick was low Tyler Myers carded a 45 for
scorer for the Wildcats (4-2, the Knights (4-6, 1-3).
3-1) with 43 and Taylor
Grove is in an NWC tri-
Hoehn led the Lancers (0-9,
match at Tamarac 4 p.m.
0-4) with a 45.
Thursday.
Lincolnview hosts Ottoville Team Scores:
today (4 p.m.) and is in the Columbus Grove 176: Clay
Wayne Trace Bryan 43, Taylor Giesige 43, Matt
Invitational Silver 44, Bret Schroeder 46, Matt
at Pleasant
Jennell 47, Jacob Roebke 57.
Paulding 181: Sam Heilshorn
V a l l e y 40, Ricky Bergalowski 45, Dillon
Ankney 46, Andy Smiley 50,
4:30 p.m.

Browns finally getting Ring of Honor

Why doesn’t anyone tell me these
things?
I did not know the Cleveland Browns
did NOT have a Ring of Honor for its
professional football team.
After all, they ONLY have 16 for-
mer players in the — in my best John
Facenda impersonation — Pro Football
Hall of Fame.
They will now under new team pres-
ident Mike Holmgren, who did the
same in previous stops in Green Bay
and Seattle.
Smart man. It seems like so long
ago but the Browns do have a glorious
football past that they should have cel-
ebrated long before this.
Seven of their Hall-of-Famers are
still alive and they — as well as the
families of those now deceased — were
invited to the unveiling set for their
home-opener, Sept. 19 against Kansas
City.
Holmgren is one smart cookie; he
is planning to bring back the team’s
Legends program after a year hiatus.
Nothing like honoring the past to
hopefully have a brighter future.
Tiger Woods is now officially
divorced from Elin Nordegren.
How sad.
For his family, especially the chil-
dren. One hopes their “share parenting”
will be in the best interests of the little
ones.
How quickly someone can fall from
their lofty perch as did Tiger.
It was a foregone conclusion that he
was going to pass The Golden Bear,
Jack Nicklaus, soon rather than later.
Now, with all this stuff he has
allowed to interfere with his family and
golf game, it may not happen at all — or
much later than expected.
Devan Bermajo 51, Josh Boes
Thursday. 58.
Jefferson takes on Crestview 210: Tyler Myers
Columbus Grove and 45, Jared Hallfeldt 51, Jacob
Wortman 55, Derek Bissonette
Spencerville at Tamarac at 4 59, Jacob Mengerink 72, Zach
he’s going to say is that he is innocent. I p.m. Thursday. Schaadt 76.
JIM METCALFE have also written before what I thought -----
Team Scores:
about Congress sticking their noses into Wildcats edge Redskins
Metcalfe’s
Bluffton 179: Ben Buroker 41,
this but that is for another column. Zack Krick 44, Clay Wannemacher KALIDA — One score was
A lot of people may not remem- 46, Anthony Schmidt 48. all that was required Tuesday
Jefferson 185: Matt Waldick night as
Musings ber that Clemens had shoulder troubles
when he was younger.
43, Nick Gallmeier 46, Tyler
Wrasman 47, Jacob Violet 49, the Kalida
boys soccer
I didn’t hear or read about this Tyler Miller 49.
before. Ada 203: Matt Gray 39, Ben
Bailey 49, Ronny Roberts 57,
team edged
The McMinnville High School Chris Hartford 58. Wapakoneta
You get the feeling, though, that Grizzlies (Oregon) had 24 football play- Lincolnview 216: Taylor 1-0 in sea-
he will use that iron will to get his act ers develop a condition called compart- Hoehn 45, Brooks Ludwig 51, son-opening action at Kalida
Evan Doner 59, Nick Sowers 61.
together on the golf course and he’ll be ment syndrome — causing intense pain Soccer Stadium.
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back winning. and dangerous swelling in their arms Cody Schnipke was the
Big Green edge
Mea culpa. — that put 11 of them in the emer- lone goal-scorer for the
Wildcats in PCL golf
I was informed — by my friend, gency room, 13 of them in the hospital, Wildcats as they dominated
KALIDA — Craig
Mike Wrasman, that so-and-so and forced three surgeries to relieve pres- Odenweller fired a 42 and the offense 15 shots on-goal
such-and-such! — that my understand- sure caused by the swelling and leaving Z a c h to five for the Redskins.
ing of the “Bums” moniker for the New two of them still in the hospital. Weber a Kalida hosts Riverdale 1
York/Los Angeles Dodgers was errant. Because two of the reasons for it are 43 to pace p.m. Saturday.
It seems — according to him — it strenuous exercise and dehydration by Ottoville to ---
was an unofficial “title” all the way themselves or in combination with other a 173-178 LadyCats rip Spartans
back to the 1920s in New York. It was factors, definitely keep an eye on this. Putnam LIMA — Kalida’s girls
because they were laughable losers. Another reason is the use of certain County soccer team dominated start
I’ll take his word for it, the fiend! drugs — which ones I don’t know; it League to finish Tuesday night,
It’s no surprise that Roger Clemens didn’t say — and I surely don’t want to boys golf destroying Lima Senior 10-0
was indicted for lying to Congress think about that. v i c t o - at Lima Stadium.
Thursday. They opened practice this week. ry over Kalida Tuesday at They outshot the Spartans
Just like with Mark McGwire and It is so hard to believe that the high Country Acres. 22-1 as Summer Holtkamp had
Rafael Palmeiro, you just knew they school football season gets underway Neil Recker was medalist a hat trick of goals, Amanda
were feeding them a bunch of baloney this Friday. for Kalida (1-1, 0-1 PCL) Schulte had two and Sam
worthy of Oscar Meyer. Where did the summer go? with a 41 and Neil Recker Edwards, Nikki Kaufman,
This in no way means he took ste- Ah well, enough of the lament. added a 45. Sarah Verhoff, Katelyn
roids, though you know my opinion on Our annual Fall Sports Tabloid Ottoville (4-1, 1-0 PCL) Kortokrax and Marissa Smith
the matter regarding all these guys. comes out Thursday. is at Lincolnview (Hickory individual tallies.
I would have a lot more respect Get extra copies (please! Sticks) 4 p.m. today, while Schulte and Justine
for them — I am sure they lie awake PLEASE!). Kalida entertains Fremont St. Verhoff had assists.
at night unable to sleep because they An aside here: to put a tab together Joe 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Aubrie Nuckles garnered
are worried about that!!! — if they of this size requires cooperation from ----- 11 saves for the Lady Spartans
came out and admitted that, yes, they many coaches. I appreciate the help of Grove wins NWC tri-match and Sarah Verhoff one for the
were juicing. After all, it wasn’t against the local coaches in this matter. KALIDA — Sam LadyCats.
Baseball policy and there was no testing There are many stories I have done Heilshorn registered a med- Kalida hosts Ada 5 p.m.
to begin with. in the past that aren’t there due to vari- alist-winning 40 for Paulding Thursday.
Now that he’s under indictment, all ous reasons.

MLB CAPSULES SPORTS BRIEFS

The Associated Press
National League
PHILADELPHIA — The
Houston Astros’ wild 4-2 win
over Philadelphia lasted 16
innings, over 5 hours, and saw
Phillies pitcher Roy Oswalt
play left field and ground into
the final out Tuesday night.
Oswalt became the first
Phillies pitcher to play a posi-
tion in the field in 39 years
after Ryan Howard was eject-
ed in the 14th inning.
Oswalt caught a routine fly
ball. He was forced to go into
the outfield with Philadelphia
out of position players. Raul
Ibanez took over at first for
Howard.
The Astros loaded the
bases in the 16th with one out
off David Herndon (1-3) on a
single, hit batsman and walk.
Chris Johnson reached on an
infield single for one run and
Tommy Manzella added a
run-scoring fielder’s choice.
The Phillies got the tying
run to the plate in the bottom
of the inning after Placido
Polanco walked with two
outs. Houston intentionally
walked Chase Utley to bring
up Oswalt, who grounded to
third to end the game.
Philadelphia was trailing 2-1
with two outs in the bottom of
the ninth when Jimmy Rollins
tied the game with a solo homer
off Wilton Lopez, who was try-
ing for a 4-out save.
Cubs 5, Nationals 4
WASHINGTON — Alfonso
Soriano and Tyler Colvin homered
and Carlos Zambrano continued
his resurgence since rejoining the
Chicago rotation.
The Cubs improved to 2-0 under
interim manager Mike Quade. He is
the first Cubs manager to win his first
two games since Jim Riggleman,
now the Nationals’ skipper, started
4-0 in 1995.
Zambrano (5-6) yielded a run
on five hits over 7 1/3 innings,
his longest outing of the year. He
walked one and struck out eight. In
four starts since returning from the
bullpen, the right-hander is 2-0 with
a 2.25 ERA.
Giants 16, Reds 5
SAN FRANCISCO — Pablo
Sandoval homered and drove in
four runs, Buster Posey hit a 3-run
homer and the Giants routed the
Reds for the second straight game.
The victory gives the Giants
their first series win over a contend-
ing team in their last four.
Andres Torres hit a pair of 2-run
doubles for a career-high four RBIs
as San Francisco moved into a first-
place tie with the Phillies for the NL
wild card. The NL Central-leading
Reds remained 2 1/2 games up on
the Cardinals after St. Louis lost at
Pittsburgh.
Juan Uribe added a 2-run homer,
Freddy Sanchez had a solo shot
while getting four hits for the second
straight night and newly-acquired
Cody Ross had an RBI single in his
first start with the Giants.
Padres 5, Diamondbacks 0
SAN DIEGO — Will Venable
and Chris Denorfia each hit 2-run
home runs while left-hander Clayton
Richard combined with four reliev-
ers on a 5-hitter to lead the NL
West-leading Padres to a win over
the last-place Diamondbacks.
With an NL-best 75-49 record,
the Padres matched their win total
from last year. The Padres entered
the night with a 5 1/2-game lead
over the San Francisco Giants. The
Padres began a stretch in which
they’ll play 16 games in 20 days
at home, where they’ve won five
straight and 13-of-16. The Padres
will play the Diamondbacks (49-77)
again next week in Phoenix.
Pirates 4, Cardinals 3
PITTSBURGH — Pirates rookie
Neil Walker drove in three runs
and last-place Pittsburgh prevented
Adam Wainwright from becoming
the majors’ first 18-game winner,
holding off a ninth-inning rally to
beat St. Louis.
The Cardinals, down 4-2 in the
ninth, loaded the bases with one out
and a run in on Jon Jay’s single but
Evan Meek got Matt Holliday and
Felipe Lopez to pop up.
See MLB, page 7
The Associated Press
MEN’S BASKETBALL
ATHENS, Greece — The U.S.
national basketball team finalized its
roster for the world championships and
there’s no Rajon Rondo.
The Celtics star asked to withdraw
from consideration, a release from the
team said.
Rondo had started the Americans
first two exhibition games, then surpris-
ingly didn’t play at all Sunday when the
U.S. edged Spain.
The final 12-man roster includes:
Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Rudy Gay,
Lamar Odom, Chauncey Billups, Danny
Granger, Russell Westbrook, Eric
Gordon, Stephen Curry, Kevin Love,
Tyson Chandler and Andre Iguodala.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s squad
has one more tuneup, against Greece
today, before the world championships
start Saturday in Turkey.
HOUSTON — Houston Rockets
All-Star center Yao Ming is confident
that he’ll be ready for the start of the
regular season after a team doctor
declared his surgically-repaired foot
fully healed.
Yao missed last season after
undergoing complex surgery on his left
foot in July 2009. Team doctor Tom
Clanton has cleared Yao to resume
basketball activities.
BASEBALL
DETROIT— Johnny Damon is
staying in Detroit.
The 36-year-old outfielder decided
to pass up a chance to return to the
Boston Red Sox, rejecting their waiver
claim and choosing to remain with the
Tigers.
PRO FOOTBALL
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Nick
Mangold got the big deal he was look-
ing for and a new label that might make
Darrelle Revis envious.
The New York Jets’ 2-time Pro
Bowl center became the highest-paid
player at his position, signing a 7-year
deal with the New York Jets that could
be worth up to $55 million.
TENNIS
NEW YORK — Caroline Wozniacki
of Denmark was seeded No. 1 at a
Grand Slam tournament for the first
time, getting the top spot at the U.S.
Open because Serena Williams pulled
out with a foot injury.
Wozniacki, ranked No. 2 behind
Williams by the WTA, was runner-up at
Flushing Meadows last year and is the
first woman since 2003 to be seeded
No. 1 at the U.S. Open without already
having won a major championship.
Defending champion Kim Clijsters
was seeded No. 2 by the U.S. Tennis
Association, which stuck to the rank-
ings in determining the seedings.
Venus Williams, the 2000-01 U.S.
Open champion, is No. 3, followed by
2008 runner-up Jelena Jankovic and
French Open runner-up Sam Stosur.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Samantha
Stosur needed three sets and a tie-
breaker to beat Sara Errani of Italy
6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (4) at the Pilot Pen tennis
tournament.
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Storm favorites to win WNBA title

By VIN A. CHERWOO
The Associated Press
The Seattle Storm got off
to such a dominant start, they
clinched the top spot in the
Western Conference before
the end of July.
With a chance to rest key
players down the stretch, the
Storm are poised to make a
run for their second WNBA
championship when they open
the playoffs against the Los
Angeles Sparks tonight.
The Storm opened 22-2
to tie 1998 Houston Comets
for the best 24-game start in
league history. They clinched
home-court advantage in the
West on July 27 — with 11
MLB
(Continued fro page 7)
Wainwright (17-8) took a 2-0
lead into the sixth but couldn’t hold
it while failing for the second straight
start to win his 18th. Pittsburgh won
for only the third time in 16 games.
Mets 6, Marlins 5
NEW YORK — Luis Castillo hit
a game-ending single with two outs
in the ninth inning, lifting the Mets to
a victory over the Marlins.
Castillo, a late-inning replace-
ment, looped a hit to the opposite
field off Will Ohman (0-2) to score
Ike Davis and help the Mets move
into third place in the NL East.
Davis led off the ninth with
an infield single that sent second
baseman Dan Uggla flipping to the
turf trying to make a play. After
Jeff Francouer flied out to center,
Josh Thole hit a broken-bat single.
Pinch-hitter Mike Hessman struck
out before Castillo completed the
Mets’ rally after they blew a 2-run
lead in the seventh.
Hisanori Takahashi (8-6) pitched
a scoreless ninth for the win.
Dodgers 5, Brewers 3
MILWAUKEE — Rod Barajas
made a smashing debut for the
Dodgers with a 3-run homer and
Ted Lilly won his fifth straight in the
Dodgers’ victory over the Brewers.
Matt Kemp added a 447-foot
homer in the second but Barajas
dealt the biggest blow in the sixth
after starting his career in Los
Angeles with consecutive doubles.
Barajas was claimed from the Mets
on Sunday.
games remaining — and then
lost four of their last 10. Seattle
(28-6) tied the league record
for wins set by Los Angeles
in 2000 and 2001 when teams
played a 32-game schedule.
The Storm will start against
a short-handed Sparks team
that has played most of the
season without Candace
Parker, who has a shoulder
injury. Seattle took advantage
of Los Angeles (13-21) in the
regular season, sweeping the
five meetings.
The Storm are the only team
in the West to finish with a
winning record — second-place
Phoenix was 13 games back.
It was much tighter in
the East where three teams
pitched seven effective innings and
Carlos Gonzalez hit his 26th home
run to lead the Rockies to a victory
over the Braves.
Seth Smith also homered and
Eric Young had a career-high three
hits for the Rockies. De La Rosa
(5-4) had his best outing since miss-
ing nearly three months with a torn
pulley tendon on his left middle fin-
ger, allowing two runs and six hits,
striking out seven and walking one.
Huston Street worked the ninth for
his 12th save.
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American League
ARLINGTON, Texas — Josh
Hamilton hit his 29th home run,
Michael Young made up for two
errors with the tie-breaking RBI sin-
gle and Texas beat Minnesota 4-3
on Tuesday night in a matchup of
division leaders.
Young’s 2-out single in the sev-
enth inning off Carl Pavano (15-9)
snapped a 3-all tie and put the AL
West leaders ahead to stay and
ruined the right-hander’s sixth com-
plete game of the season.
Colby Lewis allowed three runs
over 6 1/3 innings, missing on his
seventh attempt at getting his 10th
victory. Lewis left with the score tied
and is 0-5 with a 3.35 ERA in his
last seven starts — a span when
the Rangers have scored a total of
seven runs while he was still in the
game. Darren Oliver (1-1) pitched 1
1/3 scoreless innings in relief and
hard-throwing rookie Neftali Feliz
worked the ninth for his 32nd save.
entered the final day of the Cappie Pondexter, Nicole The Associated Press
MLB
Diego (Correia 10-8), 6:35 p.m.
season tied for first place. The Powell and Taj McWilliams- National League St. Louis (C.Carpenter 14-4) at
New York Liberty were the Franklin, and then traded East Division Washington (Zimmermann 0-0),
W L Pct GB 7:05 p.m.
league’s top team in the sec- for reserve forward Plenette Atlanta 73 53 .579 — Florida (Ani.Sanchez 10-8) at N.Y.
ond half of the season with a Pierson early in the season. Philadelphia 70 55 .560 2 1/2 Mets (Niese 8-5), 7:10 p.m.
15-3 record after the All-Star Pondexter won two titles New York 63 62 .504 9 1/2 -----
break. They tied Washington in the last three years with Florida 62 62 .500 10 American League
atop the conference but one of Phoenix. Washington 53 73 .421 20 East Division
Central Division W L Pct GB
those second-half losses came The Liberty’s first round W L Pct GB New York 78 48 .619 —
at Washington last Friday will begin Thursday night when Cincinnati 72 54 .571 — Tampa Bay 78 48 .619 —
and gave the Mystics the tie- they host defending Eastern St. Louis 68 55 .553 2 1/2 Boston 72 54 .571 6
breaker for the conference’s Conference champion Indiana Milwaukee 59 66 .472 12 1/2 Toronto 65 60 .520 12 1/2
top seed. (21-13). The teams split their Houston 56 69 .448 15 1/2 Baltimore 44 82 .349 34
New York finished 22-12 to 4-game season series, with New Chicago 53 74 .417 19 1/2 Central Division
Pittsburgh 42 84 .333 30 W L Pct GB
set a franchise record for wins York winning the last two. West Division Minnesota 72 54 .571 —
one year after compiling 21 The Fever entered the final W L Pct GB Chicago 68 57 .544 3 1/2
losses in the second-worst sea- week of the season in first San Diego 75 49 .605 — Detroit 63 63 .500 9
son in franchise history. The place after a 5-game winning San Francisco 71 56 .559 5 1/2 Kansas City 53 73 .421 19
remarkable turnaround came streak but lost their last three Colorado 65 60 .520 10 1/2 Cleveland 50 75 .400 21 1/2
Los Angeles 64 62 .508 12 West Division
after an offseason roster over- games to fall one game behind Arizona 49 77 .389 27 W L Pct GB
haul in which the team added Washington and New York. ——— Texas 71 54 .568 —
Tuesday’s Results
Chicago Cubs 5, Washington 4
Oakland 62 62 .500 8 1/2
Los Angeles 62 65 .488 10
Houston 4, Philadelphia 2, 16 Seattle 49 76 .392 22
over the Angels and New York’s Gonzalez (11-8) gave up five innings ———
11-5 win at Toronto kept the teams hits over seven innings, becom- Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3 Tuesday’s Results
tied with identical 78-48 records, ing the 22nd consecutive Oakland N.Y. Mets 6, Florida 5 Detroit 9, Kansas City 1
best in the majors. starter to work at least six innings. L.A. Dodgers 5, Milwaukee 3 Oakland 5, Cleveland 0
Rookie Wade Davis (10-9) The Athletics staff has allowed five
became the fifth Rays starter with runs or fewer in all those games, the Colorado 5, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, Toronto 5
10 or more victories, making them longest streak by an AL team since San Diego 5, Arizona 0 Seattle at Boston, ppd., rain
the only major-league team to boast the 1989 California Angels. Oakland San Francisco 16, Cincinnati 5 Texas 4, Minnesota 3
such a staff. Davis, who came off starters have a 2.01 ERA and limited Today’s Games Chicago White Sox 7, Baltimore 5
the 15-day DL earlier, allowed two opponents to a .198 batting average Atlanta (Jurrjens 5-4) at Colorado Tampa Bay 10, L.A. Angels 3
runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings, since July 31 but the Athletics are (Rogers 2-2), 3:10 p.m. Today’s Games
struck out five and walked three. only 11-11 over that stretch. Cincinnati (H.Bailey 3-2) at San Kansas City (O’Sullivan 2-4) at
Longoria hit his 19th homer in Tigers 9, Royals 1 Francisco (Bumgarner 5-4), 3:45 Detroit (Galarraga 4-5), 1:05 p.m.
the third, extending the Rays’ lead DETROIT — Rick Porcello p.m. Seattle (Pauley 2-4) at Boston
to 5-1. His RBI double with two outs allowed two hits over seven shutout Chicago Cubs (Dempster 11-8) at (Beckett 3-3), 1:35 p.m., 1st game
in the seventh made it 7-2. They innings and Ryan Raburn homered Washington (Marquis 0-6), 7:05 Tampa Bay (Niemann 10-3) at L.A.
added three in the ninth off Angels to lead Detroit to its fifth straight
closer Brian Fuentes. win. p.m. Angels (Haren 1-4), 3:35 p.m.
Yankees 11, Blue Jays 5 Porcello (6-11) retired the first 12 Houston (Happ 3-2) at Philadelphia Oakland (Cahill 13-5) at Cleveland
TORONTO — Curtis Granderson batters in order before Billy Butler (Halladay 16-8), 7:05 p.m. (Talbot 8-10), 7:05 p.m.
hit a 3-run homer, Marcus Thames singled leading off the fifth. Porcello St. Louis (Westbrook 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 15-5) at
added a two-run drive and three walked one and struck out four. Pittsburgh (D.McCutchen 1-5), 7:05 Toronto (Cecil 10-6), 7:07 p.m.
other Yankees hit solo blasts. Kila Ka’aihue homered for p.m. Seattle (F.Hernandez 9-10) at Boston
Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Kansas City, which was held to three Florida (Sanabia 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (Lester 13-8), 7:10 p.m., 2nd game
Mark Teixeira also connected as the hits. Royals starter Kyle Davies (6-8) (Misch 0-2), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Duensing 7-1) at Texas
Yankees won for the sixth time in gave up seven runs and 12 hits in 4 L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 8-11) at (C.Wilson 12-5), 8:05 p.m.
eight games. 2/3 innings, walking three and strik- Milwaukee (Ra.Wolf 10-9), 8:10 Baltimore (Matusz 5-12) at Chicago
Teixeira and Posada both went ing out five. p.m. White Sox (Buehrle 12-9), 8:10 p.m.
4-for-5 with two RBIs, while Thames Detroit broke it open with four
and Granderson both had three hits. runs in the fifth. Raburn led off with Arizona (J.Saunders 1-3) at San Thursday’s Games
New York’s 17 hits were one shy of his eighth home run, Jackson had a Diego (LeBlanc 7-11), 10:05 p.m. Oakland (Mazzaro 6-5) at Cleveland
its season high. 2-out RBI double and Will Rhymes Thursday’s Games (Masterson 4-12), 7:05 p.m.
Right-hander Dustin Moseley followed with a 2-out, 2-run double Houston (W.Rodriguez 9-12) at Detroit (Scherzer 9-9) at Toronto
(4-2) allowed two runs and five hits to chase Davies. Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 8-6), 1:05 (R.Romero 10-7), 7:07 p.m.
in six innings. White Sox 7, Orioles 5 p.m. Minnesota (Liriano 11-7) at Texas
The Yankees chased Blue Jays CHICAGO — Gordon Beckham L.A. Dodgers (Monasterios 3-4) at (Cl.Lee 10-7), 8:05 p.m.
starter Marc Rzepczynski (1-2) with a hit a 3-run home run in the sev- Milwaukee (Gallardo 11-5), 2:10 Baltimore (Arrieta 4-5) at Chicago
4-run, 3-homer third. Teixeira hit his enth and Gavin Floyd pitched seven p.m. White Sox (E.Jackson 1-0), 8:10
28th, Thames his fifth and Posada strong innings for Chicago, which Arizona (I.Kennedy 7-9) at San p.m.
his 16th. Rzepczynski allowed six won for the fifth time in 15 games.
runs and eight hits in three innings, Luke Scott homered and Felix

Lilly, who came over in a July
trade from the Cubs, had his score-
less innings streak snapped at 17
after allowing a run in the second
and trailed 3-2 after Rickie Weeks’
homer and Ryan Braun’s RBI dou-
ble in the fifth.
But Barajas answered in a day
that started with the unveiling of a
statue honoring baseball commis-
sioner Bud Selig outside Miller Park.
Rockies 5, Braves 2
DENVER — Jorge De La Rosa
Andres Blanco had two doubles
for Texas, driving in a run with the
first and scoring the go-ahead run
after the second.
Pavano struck out five and
walked two.
Rays 10, Angels 3
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Evan
Longoria homered and drove in
another run and Matt Joyce hom-
ered as Tampa Bay remained tied
with the Yankees atop the AL East.
The Rays’ second straight win
WNBA PLAYOFFS
his shortest career start. Pie had three hits for the Orioles,
Athletics 5, Indians 0 who have lost 8-of-12.
CLEVELAND — Gio Gonzalez A.J. Pierzynski opened the bot-
extended Oakland’s strong streak of tom of seventh with a single off
pitching with seven solid innings. Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie. One
Jeff Larish had a 2-run homer out later, Mark Teahen hit a double The Associated Press Indiana at New York, 7 p.m.
and Coco Crisp a solo shot off down the right-field line, moving CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS ----
Fausto Carmona (11-12) as Oakland Pierzynski to third. Beckham fol- (Best-of-3) WESTERN CONFERENCE
snapped its streak without multiple lowed with his eighth homer to break EASTERN CONFERENCE Today’s Game
homers at 26 games, longest since a 2-all tie. Today’s Game Los Angeles at Seattle, 11 p.m.
a team-record 31 games in 1978. Floyd (9-10) allowed two runs Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Game
Jack Cust hit a 2-run homer in the and scattered seven hits. Bobby
seventh to make it 5-0. Jenks got his 24th save. Thursday’s Game San Antonio at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

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Sisters at odds Tomorrow’s HI AND LOIS

over homestead
Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol
Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010

Dear Annie: My 81-year- grant that Dad sounds like a A much greater earning cycle is
likely to develop for you in the year
old mother passed away sev- spoiled brat, but forcing him ahead, allowing you to acquire a sig-
eral months ago. One of her to behave like an adult will nificant amount of things that you’ve
final wishes was that my only create ill-will on the always wanted but never could afford
older sister and I get along. big day. He may have some previously. Make as much hay as you
can while the sun is shinning.
Sis inherited Mom’s unresolved issues that make VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - A
house, but she lives five him reluctant to participate particular change you’ve been try-
hours away and didn’t want in his daughter’s wedding, so ing to fight off might happen with-
it, so I purchased the house you may as well leave him
out your approval. However, once
it’s operational, you’ll appreciate its
BLONDIE
from the estate. I have a alone. We hope your sister value and what it’s doing for you.
sentimental attachment to will ask a male relative or LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -
You’re likely to be far luckier in
it, since my father built the her new father-in-law to step partnership situations than anything
place and that’s where we in for a father-daughter dance you do strictly for yourself. Embrace
grew up. I go there on my and any other such charm- every associate who wants in, as long
as they can make a contribution.
days off to do maintenance ing obligations that her father SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -
and upkeep. cannot be bothered with. The assistance you require to accom-
My sister is welcome to Dear Annie: “Cautious plish something special will be there
for you, but you may have to ask for
stay there any time. Canadian” was wor- it. Others who want to repay you for
She was there for ried that “Nick,” past deeds want to help.
Memorial Day a sex offender, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
and July 4th, and had keys to all the 21) - Keep yourself open to adjust-
ments or changes that might pop up
e-mailed that she apartments in her or need to be made, and you’ll have
plans to visit for building. Society a successful operation going for you.
BEETLE BAILEY
Labor Day. I told doesn’t deal well Unexpected benefits could ensue.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
her she is welcome, with sex offend- - Dame Fortune is likely to be look-
but the house costs ers. It’s difficult ing out for you, especially in materi-
me nearly $400 a to find a balance ally related situations. It looks like it
will be OK to be optimistic, as well as
month in utilities, between protecting a bit bold in certain circumstances.
taxes, etc., and others and allowing AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
she should chip ex-offenders to live - It might start out to be a ho-hum
day, but things will quickly change
in something. She Annie’s Mailbox normal lives after when something really good happens
replied that Mom they have served to you. It’ll put you in a happy frame
would not want her to pay to their time. Because so many of mind that will make you joyful for
the rest of the day.
stay at the family home. She re-offend, it’s hard to feel PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -
refuses to give me anything generous toward anyone You’re likely to discover that some-
for expenses. who is in that category. thing in which you’ve been involved
It isn’t the money. It’s I don’t think Nick should for a while has a much larger profit
margin than you realized. Happily,
the principle. I think $15 a lose his job as the infor- your yields will turn out to be quite SNUFFY SMITH
day is fair. If I happen to mal super, but he should large.
be at the house at the same not have keys to the apart- ARIES (March 21-April 19) -
Things will go better if you’re the one
time, I’m willing to split ments. Having such access who is in charge of an important en-
the cost in half. So, Annie, will tempt him to re-offend. deavor that includes several people.
what do you say? -- Sam in Also, if word gets out that Don’t let anyone who truly isn’t up to
the task call the shots.
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Dear Sam: This is the might be blamed for real It’s a sound strategy to confine con-
equivalent of your vacation or imagined thefts or dam- fidential information only to those
who are involved with the matter. If
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invites a relative to stay, one responsible. I am, however, personally wants you to fail, you may
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is using the family home as tive. He’s either naive or is you in terms of group affairs, mostly
a vacation destination, mean- disregarding her fears, pos- because some of your old pals will be
ing she invites herself and sibly leaving her in danger. included. They won’t hesitate to look HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
out for you, and you’ll do the same
goes when you are not there, -- Cambridge, Mass. for them.
it is similar to a hotel and she Annie’s Mailbox is writ- CANCER (June 21-July 22)
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on insignificant objectives. It’s a pe-
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water and electric bills, so it tors of the Ann Landers your sights and aiming for a large,
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reach.
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Tone of mosque debate worries Archbishop

By CRISTIAN SALAZAR
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The tense climate around
a proposal for an Islamic community center
and mosque near ground zero could put New
Yorkers in danger of losing their sense of
tolerance and unity, values they embraced in
the days after Sept. 11, the leader of the area’s
Roman Catholics said Tuesday.
“We’re just a little bit apprehensive that
those noble values may be a bit at risk in the
way this conversation and debate about the site
of the mosque is taking place,” Archbishop
Timothy Dolan said after a meeting with Gov.
David Paterson about the issue.
A national survey underscored the com-
plex views of Americans toward the mosque
project, with 51 percent agreeing with oppo-
nents of the Muslim center, while 34 percent
said they supported it. The poll of 1,003
randomly chosen adults was conducted by the
nonpartisan Pew Research Center and showed
that a majority, 62 percent, also said Muslims
have equal rights to build houses of worship.
Dolan said both sides of the debate have
legitimate stances.
“I sure don’t have strong feelings on where
the mosque should ultimately be,” he said
during a brief news conference after meeting
with the governor.
They spoke about how religion can be
brought to bear on the debate over the pro-
posal in an effort to encourage reconciliation
and community, rather than divisiveness,
Dolan said, and expressed willingness to be
part of the dialogue if asked.
In an impassioned speech at a dinner
Tuesday in observance of Iftar, the daily meal
in which Muslims break their fast during the
holy month of Ramadan, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said not allowing the mosque to
be built two blocks from ground zero would
be “compromising our commitment to fight-
ing terror with freedom.”
“We would undercut the values and prin-
ciples that so many heroes died protecting,”
Bloomberg said at the event, which was
attended by about 100 people, including
members of the Muslim community and
city officials such as police Commissioner
Raymond Kelly.
The mayor said he understood the “impulse
to find another location for the mosque” but a
compromise won’t end the debate.
“The question will then become how big
should the no-mosque zone around the World
Trade Center be,” Bloomberg said. “There is
already a mosque four blocks away. Should it,
too, be moved?”
While supporters of the mosque say reli-
gious freedom should be protected, opponents
say the mosque should be moved farther away
from where Islamic extremists destroyed the
World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800
people on Sept. 11, 2001.
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver, who represents the lower Manhattan
district where ground zero is, suggested
Tuesday that Islamic leaders should move
the proposed mosque. Paterson has made the
same point.
Organizers have the right to build the cen-
ter at a building two blocks north of ground
zero but should be open to compromise,
Silver said.
“In the spirit of living with others, they
should be cognizant of the feelings of others
and try to find a location that doesn’t engen-
der the deep feelings the currently exist about
this site,” Silver said.
Paterson has yet to meet with anyone
from The Cordoba Initiative, the project’s
organizer.
Its co-founder, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf,
is on a Mideast trip funded by the U.S.
Department of state. He alluded to the con-
troversy at a dinner Sunday night for student
leaders at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in
Manama, Bahrain.
“The fact we are getting this kind of
attention is a sign of success,” he said. “It is
my hope that people will understand more.
... This is something we are doing for your
generation.”
Rauf, who has rarely spoken publicly
about the project, said that he was leery of the
media and that they are portraying a negative
image of Muslims to the West. He also said
he doesn’t like Muslims portraying a bad
image of the West to the Muslim world.
He said in an interview published Tuesday
by the daily Bahraini newspaper Akhbar
Al-Khaleej that the media had “succeeded in
portraying stereotypical images, focusing on
the negative and criticizing the other. ... We
should be self-critical instead of focusing on
criticizing the other.”
Rauf has thanked President Barack Obama,
who has said Muslims have the right to prac-
tice their religion and build the Islamic center
in lower Manhattan. The president later said
he wasn’t endorsing the specifics of the plan.
The White House on Tuesday said that
Obama would have no further comment on
the issue and that the administration will not
get involved in talks about relocating the
facility. Republicans have vowed to make
Obama’s supportive comments a campaign
issue in this fall’s midterm elections.

Low prices, rates can’t Salmonella vaccine may help prevent egg recalls
slow falling home sales
By ALAN ZIBEL and J.W. ELPHINSTONE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Home prices in many parts of the coun-
try scream bargain, and mortgage rates haven’t been this low for
decades. So why are houses across the nation sitting on the market
for so long?
Sales of previously occupied homes in the United States fell
27 percent in July, the weakest showing in 15 years, the National
Association of Realtors said Tuesday. It was the largest monthly drop
in the four decades that records have been kept.
Potential buyers are hesitating because they think home prices
still have further to fall. Potential sellers — those with the stomach
to put their homes on the market at all, anyway — are reluctant to
lower their prices.
“It really is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Aaron Zapata, a real
estate agent in Brea, Calif. “If all buyers perceive that home prices are
coming down, then they will stop making offers — and home prices
will come down.”
While the standoff plays out, home sales are plummeting.
Sharp declines were recorded in each of the four regions the group
tracks. Yet the pain is being felt unevenly from state to state and city
to city. Some markets are rebounding even as others languish.
Sellers in sluggish markets like Las Vegas and Chicago can
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Low-cost vaccines that may help
prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of
more than a half-billion eggs haven’t been given to nearly half the
nation’s egg-laying hens.
The vaccines aren’t required in the U.S., although in Great
Britain, officials say vaccinations have given them the safest egg
supply in Europe. A survey conducted by the European food
safety agency in 2009 found about 1 percent of British flocks had
salmonella compared to about 60 to 70 percent of flocks elsewhere
in Europe, said Amanda Cryer, spokeswoman for the British Egg
Information Service.
Since Britain’s vaccinations began, the only salmonella out-
breaks in eggs have been linked to those imported from elsewhere
in the European Union, Cryer said. Overall salmonella cases in the
country dropped by half within three years.
There’s been no push to require vaccination in the U.S., in part
because it would cost farmers and in part because advocates have
been more focused on more comprehensive food safety reforms,
those watching the poultry industry said. And the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration has not yet determined how the hens in Iowa
became infected.
But Darrell Trampel, a poultry veterinarian at Iowa State
University, predicted vaccination will become more common after
the recent outbreak.
“I think (vaccination) will move from hit and miss to being a
standard,” Trampel said.
About 125 million of the 218 million egg-laying hens in the
U.S. have been vaccinated, said Gary Baxter, a spokesman for
French pharmaceutical company CEVA, which makes some of
the vaccines available in the U.S. The salmonella vaccine prevents
chickens from becoming infected and then passing the bacteria on
to their eggs. It has been available in the U.S. since 1992.
There are two forms. One is a spray that uses a live bacteria, and
chickens inhale it. The other contains dead bacteria that’s injected.
Jewanna Porter, a spokeswoman for the Egg Safety Center, an
industry group, said both forms provide good protection. The
injected vaccine lasts longer, but veterinarians recommend both
be updated.
In most cases, laying hens are vaccinated at between 10 and 16
weeks old, which is before they are put into production.
The FDA said last month it doesn’t believe mandatory vaccina-
tion is necessary, but it supports farmers doing it voluntarily.
Data on the vaccine’s effectiveness in field trials conducted
in real world conditions “was insufficient to support a mandatory
vaccination requirement,” the agency said in the text of new rules
requiring increased inspections and testing of eggs.
“If individual producers have identified vaccines that are effec-
tive for particular farms, FDA encourages the use of vaccine as an
additional preventative measure,” the agency said.

Drug war sends bullets

expect to wait an average of more than five months to sell their
homes, according to real estate brokerage ZipRealty Inc. It’s even Fire destroys 11 homes; damages 2
worse in Palm Beach, Fla., where it takes nearly six months, longest

whizzing across border

in the nation.
In healthier markets such as San Francisco and Denver, the aver-
age wait is only about two months. Sellers in Washington appear to
have the nation’s best major market; they are waiting only about a
month and a half.
Beyond geography, the sales numbers vary depending on the
price of the home.
Credit card debt drops to 8-yr. low
By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The amount consumers owed on their credit
cards in this year’s second quarter dropped to the lowest level in
more than eight years as cardholders continued to pay off balances
in the uncertain economy.
The average combined debt for bank-issued credit cards —
like those with a MasterCard or Visa logo — fell to $4,951 in the
three months ended June 30, down more than 13 percent from
$5,719 in the same period a year ago, according to TransUnion.
The credit reporting agency said it was the first three-month
period during which card debt fell below $5,000 since the first
quarter of 2002.
Credit card debt remained the highest in Alaska, but slid 7
percent there to $7,148. A total of 22 states recorded debt higher
than the national average.
Residents of Alabama paid off the most debt, dropping their
average balance by 27 percent to $4,753.
More borrowers also made payments on time. The rate of
cardholders past due by 90 days or more fell to 0.92 percent in the
second quarter, from 1.17 percent last year.
That’s the first time the delinquency rate has been below 1 per-
cent since the second quarter of 2007, before the recession, said
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
The Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas — The first bullets struck El Paso’s city hall
at the end of a work day. The next ones hit a university building
and closed a major highway.
Shootouts in the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border are
sending bullets whizzing across the Rio Grande into one of the
nation’s safest cities, where authorities worry it’s only a matter of
time before someone gets hurt or killed.
At least eight bullets have been fired into El Paso in the last
few weeks from the rising violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,
one of the world’s most dangerous places. And all American
police can do is shrug because they cannot legally intervene in
a war in another country. The best they can do is warn people to
stay inside.
“There’s really not a lot you can do right now,” El Paso County
Sheriff Richard Wiles said. “Those gun battles are breaking out
everywhere, and some are breaking out right along the border.”
Police say the rounds were not intentionally fired into the
U.S. But wildly aimed gunfire has become common in Juarez, a
sprawling city of shanty neighborhoods that once boomed with
manufacturing plants. It’s ground zero in Mexico’s relentless
drug war.
More than 6,000 people have been killed there since 2008,
when the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels started battling each other
and Mexican authorities for control of the city and smuggling
routes into the U.S. Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have
been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive
against the cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.
By JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press
ASHLAND, Ore. — A wind-whipped wildfire ripped through the
outskirts of this southern Oregon college and tourist town Tuesday, ignit-
ing a string of homes one after the other, setting off explosions and send-
ing up “tornadoes” of black smoke, fire officials and a resident said.
When the flames were finally controlled around dusk, 11 homes were
destroyed and two others damaged in the Oak Knoll neighborhood east
of Interstate 5.
Residents along four streets in the neighborhood of 1970s-era
homes were evacuated. No injuries were reported, city Fire Marshal
and Division Chief Margueritte Hickman said. A shelter was set up for
displaced residents.
Cindy and Matt Walker were home getting ready to go on vacation
when they saw homes across the street catching fire one after the other.
Cindy Walker got a phone call from a friend who saw smoke. “I
looked out, and the sky was just burning,” she said. “Right across the
street it was on fire.”
She called 911.
“Immediately a second house ignited, and then a third while I was on
a line to dispatch,” Cindy Walker said. “Then I hung up and started to
water my yard and neighbors’ houses, ’til the Fire Department showed
up.
“It was just inferno — black smoke, RV, things blowing up, gas
tanks, tires,” she said. “Propane tanks, I don’t know. It sounded like
bombs going off. Like tornados of black smoke coming out of garages
and backyards.”
Answers to Tuesday’s questions:

Nine states, DC get $3.4B

Ezra Becker, director of consulting and strategy in TransUnion’s
financial services unit. The rate fluctuates during the year, he said,
but the improvement is more evidence that consumers are work-
ing to make sure their credit cards remain in good standing.
That concern reflects several economic factors, from the fear
of unemployment to the fact that the collapsed housing market
means it’s harder to cash in on home equity when money gets
tight. “You can’t buy groceries with your house anymore,”
Becker said.
Woods’ ex-wife went ‘through hell’
WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods’ ex-wife Elin
Nordegren said she has “been through hell” since her hus-
band’s infidelity surfaced but she never hit him, according to
an interview released today.
Nordegren told People magazine she and Woods tried for
months to reconcile the relationship. In the end, a marriage
“without trust and love” wasn’t good for anyone, she said.
On Thanksgiving night outside their Florida home, Woods
drove his SUV over a fire hydrant and into a tree, setting off
shocking revelations that sports’ biggest star had been cheat-
ing on his wife through multiple affairs. The couple officially
divorced Monday.
Nordegren told People that she never hit Woods on the
night of the car crash.
“There was never any violence inside or outside our home,”
she said. “The speculation that I would have used a golf club to
hit him is just truly ridiculous.”
Nordegren said Woods left the house that night and when he
didn’t return after a while, she got worried and went to look for
him. She said that’s when she found him in the car.
“I did everything I could to get him out of the locked car,”
she said. “To think anything else is absolutely wrong.”
The magazine said the interview was conducted over four
visits lasting a total of 19 hours at the rented Windermere, Fla.,
home where she now lives with their two children.
“I’ve been through hell,” the Swedish-born Nordegren said.
“It’s hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden
— was it a lie? You’re struggling because it wasn’t real. But I
survived. It was hard, but it didn’t kill me.”
In an interview on NBC’s “Today” show on today morn-
ing, People magazine reporter Sandra Sobieraj Westfall said
Nordegren and her team approached the publication.
in ‘Race to the Top’ grants
By DORIE TURNER
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — More than 13 million students and 1 mil-
lion educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round
of the federal “Race to the Top” grant competition, the U.S.
Education Department said Tuesday.
The department chose nine states — Florida, Georgia,
Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio and Rhode Island — and the District of Columbia for the
grants. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said 25,000 schools
will get money to raise student learning and close the achieve-
ment gap.
The “Race to the Top” program, part of President Barack
Obama’s economic stimulus plan, rewards states for taking up
ambitious changes to improve struggling schools. The compe-
tition instigated a wave of reforms across the country, as states
passed new teacher accountability policies and lifted caps on
charter schools to boost their chances of winning.
“These states show what is possible when adults come
together to do the right thing for children,” Duncan said in
a conference call with reporters. “Every state that applied
showed a tremendous amount of leadership and a bold com-
mitment to education reform. The creativity and innovation in
each of these applications is breathtaking.”
In the first round of the contest in the spring, just two states
were winners — Tennessee and Delaware — and they scored
more than 440 out of a possible 500 points. In this round,
Duncan said all 10 winners scored more than 440 points, show-
ing improvement in the applications.
The department wanted to choose more winners but “simply
ran out of money,” Duncan said. He said he hopes to reward
more applicants next year with another $1.3 billion for a third
round.
For the winners, the grants mean a cash infusion at a time
when education funding is dwindling, forcing teacher layoffs
and program reductions. The awards range from $75 million
for Rhode Island and D.C. to $700 million for New York.
The first 7-footer to play professional basketball was
Ralph “Sky” Siewert, who played with the St. Louis
Bombers and Toronto Huskies. In his 21 games, he scored
a total of 20 points.
The most valuable baseball card is the 1910 Piedmont
cigarette card of Honus Wagner. The great Pittsburgh Pirate
shortstop was a strict Southern Baptist who disapproved of
smoking and asked his card be discontinued. Only 20 are
known to exist.
Today’s questions:
What was the daily ration of hard liquor for soldiers in
the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
What was the name of Japanese propagandist Tokyo
Rose’s World War II radio show for U.S. servicemen in
the Pacific?
Answers in Thursday’s Herald.
Today’s words:
Flagitious: shamefully wicked or criminal
Quadrennial: lasting four years
Today’s joke:
A man enters his local bar holding a frog and an
iguana. He sets them down on the bar and says to the
bartender, “I bet you $1000 that my frog here can sing
any song you can think of.”
“OK,” says the bartender. “How ‘bout ‘Blue Moon’?”
The man whispers something to the frog, and the frog
starts singing blue moon.
“That’s amazing,” says the bartender as he slaps down
$1,000. “I’ll bet ya another $1,000 that my iguana here
can do that to.”
“OK, I can believe a frog, but not an iguana. You’re
on. Have him sing the Star Spangled Banner.”
The man whispers something to the iguana and it sings
the Star Spangled Banner.
As the bartender hands over another $1,000, a busi-
nessman comes up and says, “I just saw that and I was
amazed. I want to buy your iguana for $100,000.” The
man said OK and he exchanged the iguana for the money
and the businessman left.
The bartender said “What are you nuts?! You could
have made millions with that iguana!”
The man said “Oh, the iguana can’t sing. The frog’s
a ventriloquist.”