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Friday, April 6, 2012
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By ANDREW WELSH-
HUGGINS and
JOHN SEEWER
Associated Press
COLUMBUS Three
U.S. soldiers killed in a
suicide attack this week in
Afghanistan were from Ohio,
as were several others seri-
ously wounded in the bomb-
ing, the Ohio National Guard
said Thursday.
The soldiers killed in
the attack Wednesday in
Maimanah, the capital of
Faryab province, were from
the Guards 37th Infantry
Brigade Combat Team,
according to the Ohio Adjutant
Generals Department.
The brigade is based in
Columbus but includes sol-
diers from across Ohio, the
Guard said.
The Department of Defense
identified the Ohio victims
as Sgt. 1st Class Shawn T.
Hannon, 44, of Grove City;
Capt. Nicholas J. Rozanski,
36, of Dublin; and Sgt. 1st
Class Jeffrey J. Rieck of
Columbus.
Hannon also worked as
chief legal counsel for the
Ohio Department of Veterans
Services.
Shawn felt it was a privi-
lege to serve his country and
did so honorably for almost
20 years. He was proud to be a
soldier and all who loved him
knew it, his family said in a
statement released to media.
Survivors include wife and
their 9-month-old son.
Hannon joined the state
veterans agency last year after
working for a Columbus law
firm.
He was one of the most
well respected guys I ever
met, said Steve Palmer, a
lawyer who worked with
Hannon. If somebody in the
world needed help, hed be
there. He believed in what he
was doing over there.
The attack, by a suicide
bomber on a motorcycle,
killed at least 13 people
Wednesday at a park in a rela-
tively peaceful area of north-
ern Afghanistan. It was part
of an increase in violence at
the start of the spring fighting
season.
The Taliban has claimed
responsibility. The bombers
target was unclear.
The attacks appear to be
part of an increase in violence.
The Taliban are targeting
Afghan and NATO security
forces as they fight to assert
their power and undermine
U.S. efforts to try to build up
the Afghan military.
This week, gunmen also
attacked an outpost of a gov-
ernment-sponsored militia
and killed 10 members of the
security force, and another
suicide bomber killed two
Nancy Spencer photo
Junior Optimists help fill eggs
Members of Jefferson and St. Johns Junior Optimist clubs help stuff 3,000-plus
eggs this morning with their adult counterparts. The annual Optimist Easter Egg
Hunt will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at Waterworks Park. Children ages 2-4; 5-7; and
8-9 will find eggs filled with candy and special slips of paper for prizes during the
event. The rain date is April 14.
3 soldiers killed
in Afghan attack
were from Ohio
Number of child abuse cases rising
BY MIKE FORD
mford@delphosherald
LIMA Because
there has been a 37 per-
cent increase in report-
ed child abuse cases in
Allen County since 2008,
the annual Pinwheels for
Prevention campaign is
experiencing renewed
vigor. The Partnership for
Violence Free Families
placed 765 pinwheels on
a lawn at Lima Memorial
Health System this morn-
ing. Executive Director
Donna Dickman said this
represents the number of
children we know were
abused but only represents
the reported cases.
She also said the statis-
tic could be a good thing
if more people are pay-
ing attention and the rise
is because the number of
unreported cases has dimin-
ished. However, it could
simply mean more kids are
being beaten.
The Department of
Children Services attri-
butes the rise in cases of
child abuse to the economic
situation. People are more
stressed and parents have
fewer resources to draw
upon, she said.
Dickman stresses that if
one suspects a child is being
abused, they shouldnt hes-
itate to make an anonymous
report to the county chil-
dren services office. She
said some may not feel it is
their place to get involved
but a childs safety is most
important.
Dickman said abuse is
often the result of correc-
tion that escalates.
Abuse doesnt always
start as the blatant beating
of a child; it often starts as
discipline gone wrong. The
front part of the brain, the
impulse control part, doesnt
really start to develop until
age 3. Yet the children who
are really hurt are the ones
younger than 3. Theyre
being hit or spanked when
they dont have the control
mechanism and dont know
any better. So, the parents
hitting them isnt doing
anything good its just
hurting the child, she said.
There is so much research
out there that says corpo-
ral punish-
ment as
di s ci pl i ne
doesnt do
any good.
It teaches
c h i l d r e n
that its
okay to
hit them
to control
them and it
often makes
t h i n g s
worse
especi al l y
when it escalates.
Dickman said the PVFF
offers an eight-week par-
enting course that meets
for two hours one night per
week to teach parents the
stages of childhood devel-
opment. With that knowl-
edge, parents can avoid
getting angry when a child
doesnt comply with unre-
alistic behavioral expecta-
tions.
As par-
ents, educa-
tion is key
b e c a u s e
we dont
always have
e x p e c t a -
tions that
match where
the child is
in his or her
d e v e l o p -
ment. For
e x a mp l e ,
the parent
might expect a child to sit
still when theyre doing
something, then the parent
gets out of sorts when that
doesnt happen because
they expected the child
to comply. Parents might
leave small objects laying
around and expect a small
child to leave them alone
simply because they told
them to, she said. Kids
arent always capable of
those sorts of things, so
its important for parents to
understand those develop-
mental stages.
The ACT Parents
Raising Safe Kids Parenting
Program Dickmans organi-
zation offers was created by
the American Psychological
Association. For informa-
tion, call the Partnership
For Violence Free Families
at 419-549-8530 or visit
pvff.org.
A representative of
the Ohio Job and Family
Services office in Putnam
County said no pinwheel
campaign is being conduct-
ed there this year and calls
to the OJFS office in Van
Wert were not returned by
press time.
Bosnia marks 20 years of the beginning of its war; 11,541 killed
By AIDA CERKEZ
Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-
Herzegovina Exactly 11,541
red chairs have been lined up
in rows along Sarajevos main
street one for every man,
woman and child killed in the
siege that ended up being the
longest in modern history.
Sarajevo today marks the
20th anniversary of the start of
the Bosnian war. Exhibitions,
concerts and performances are
being held, but nothing can
match the impact of hundreds
of rows of red in the same
square where it all started on
April 6, 1992.
Hundreds of the chairs are
small, representing the slain
children.
This city needs to stop
for a moment and pay trib-
ute to its killed citizens, said
Haris Pasovic, organizer of the
Sarajevo Red Line.
The Serb siege of Sarajevo
went on for 44 months
11,825 days longer than
the World War II siege of
Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.
Its 380,000 people were left
without electricity, water or
heat, hiding from the 330
shells a day that smashed into
the city.
On that fateful day in 1992,
some 40,000 people from all
over the country Muslim
Bosniaks, Christian Orthodox
Serbs and Catholic Croats
poured into the square to
demand peace from their quar-
reling nationalist politicians.
The European Community
had recognized the former
Yugoslav republic of Bosnia as
an independent state after most
of its people voted for inde-
pendence. But the vote went
down along ethnic lines, with
Bosniaks and Croats voting
for independence, and Bosnian
Serbs preferring to stay with
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
The ethnic unity being dis-
played on the Sarajevo square
irritated Serb nationalists, who
then shot into the crowd from
a nearby hotel, killing five
people and igniting the 1992-
1995 war.
The Serb nationalists,
helped by neighboring Serbia,
laid siege to Sarajevo and
within a few months occupied
70 percent of Bosnia, expel-
ling all non-Serbs from terri-
tory they controlled.
Meanwhile Bosniaks and
Croats who started off as
allies turned against each
other, so all three groups ended
up fighting a war that took
over 100,000 lives, made half
of the population homeless and
left the once-ethnically mixed
country devastated and divided
into mono-ethnic enclaves.
A 1995 peace agreement
brokered by the United States
ended the shooting but its
compromises left the nation
ethnically divided into two
ministates one for Serbs,
the other shared by Bosniaks
and Croats linked by a cen-
tral government.
The result is a bureaucratic
monstrosity: Bosnia has three
rotating presidents at the state
level and each ministate has
its own president thats
five presidents in all. There
are overall 13 prime minis-
ters, over 130 ministers, more
than 760 lawmakers and 148
municipalities.
Not only does this cost the
impoverished nation of 3.5
million over 50 percent of its
annual GDP but it leads to end-
less bickering between institu-
tions.
Its a dysfunctional system
that must be simplified if Bosnia
wants to achieve its goal of
joining the 27-nation European
Union. Brussels insists Bosnia
must be more centralized but
that goes against Serbs desire
to maintain their autonomy.
Croats insist on their own little
ministate instead of sharing
one with the Bosniaks and the
Bosniaks want a unified coun-
try.
In fact, everybody wants
what they wanted back in
1992. So Bosnia today is not at
war but certainly not at peace.
Bogdan Vukadin was one of
those Serb soldiers firing from
the mountains on Sarajevo
during the war.
We did not fight this war
for nothing, he says. We
have our Serb Republic, we
have our government, we
have our president, we have
our own institutions.
Ethnic mistrust or eco-
nomic differences between
We did not fight
this war for noth-
ing, he says. We
have our Serb
Republic, we have
our government,
we have our presi-
dent, we have our
own institutions.
Bogdan Vukadin
Serb soldiers firing
from the mountains on
Sarajevo during the war
See BOSNIA page 2
See SOLDIERS page 2
Veterans group
meets Tuesday
The Delphos Veterans
Council will hold its spring
meeting at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday at the VFW hall on
Fourth and Canal streets.
Items on the agen-
da include discussing
Memorial Day activities.
All veterans are wel-
come to attend.
TODAY
Softball
Continental at
Lincolnview, 5 p.m.
SATURDAY
Baseball
Spencerville at
Waynesfield (DH), 11 a.m.
Elida and Napoleon at
Van Wert, 11:30 a.m.
Jefferson at Bath, noon ?
Fort Jennings at
Perry (DH), noon
Wayne Trace at
Lincolnview (DH), noon
Kalida at Crestview
(DH), noon
Softball
Columbus Grove
at Ottawa-Glandorf
(DH), 11 a.m.
Fort Recovery at Van
Wert (DH), 11 a.m.
Waynesfield at
Lincolnview (DH), noon
Crestview, Parkway and
Evergreen at Archbold, noon
Ottoville at Leipsic
(PCL), 2 p.m.
Track and Field
Fort Jennings at Anna
Invitational, 9 a.m.
Van Wert at Bath
Relays, 9:30 a.m.
Elida at Bath
Invitational, 10 a.m.
Crestview at Lima
Central Catholic tri-meet
Tennis
Marion Harding
at Elida, noon
Abuse doesnt
always start as the
blatant beating of
a child; it often
starts as discipline
gone wrong.
Donna Dickman,
executive director,
Partnership for Violence
Free Families
2
4152 Rd. 17 Payne, Ohio 45880
Phone: 419-263-2037 or 800-803-3405
Fax: 419-263-2037
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Soldiers
Bosnia
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people and wounded 16 others
Thursday.
The Ohio infantry brigade
has six battalions, with four
based in Ohio and two in
Michigan. It sent 3,600 sol-
diers to Afghanistan last sum-
mer for what was scheduled to
be a yearlong deployment.
It was the largest mobili-
zation for the 37th since the
Korean War, according to the
Ohio National Guard. The sol-
diers were sent to help with
counter-insurgency operations
and work with Afghan secu-
rity forces.
In 2005, Lima Company,
a Columbus-based Marine
reserve unit, lost 22 Marines
and a Navy Corpsman in Iraq,
including nine in one bomb-
ing. Fifteen of the 23 were
from Ohio.
Another Ohio soldier was
killed this week by a roadside
bomb in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt. Christopher
Brown, 26, of Columbus,
died Tuesday, the Department
of Defense said Thursday.
Brown was serving his second
tour of duty in Afghanistan,
after spending nearly a year
in Iraq.
(Continued from page 1)
the ministates are keeping
the groups in Bosnia sepa-
rated. Children in school
are learning three differ-
ent version of history, call-
ing their common language
by three different names
Serbian, Bosnian and
Croatian and are grow-
ing isolated from each other
in monoethnic enclaves.
Foreign investors the
only hope for the coun-
trys economy are avoid-
ing Bosnia for its political
instability and its enormous
bureaucracy.
The pressure to join the
EU has united some of
the countrys institutions.
Bosnia now has a common
currency, a central bank, its
two ministate police forces
are run by a joint minis-
try. There is a state court,
border police on state level
and even a joint army
melded from the three that
once fought each other.
Now those same soldiers
from all three armies are
united, protesting together
over a lack of retirement
pay and jobs in the same
central Sarajevo square.
Dressed in old uniforms,
exhausted and unshaved,
Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats
sleep and eat at this doomed
square, occasionally shout-
ing up to nearby govern-
ment offices Thieves,
thieves!
The former soldiers say
they are here to defend
Bosnia from lying politi-
cians. Many of them were
only 17 in 1992 when the
ethnically mixed crowd
gathered to demand peace
but was cheated.
We will be here together
till the end, demanding our
rights, said Milomir Saric,
a Bosnian Serb veteran.
VW man who threatened
judge released from prison
At 10:05 a.m. on Thursday,
Delphos Police were contact-
ed by a resident of the 20000
block of Old Lincoln Highway
in reference to a theft com-
plaint.
Upon speaking with the
subject, it was found someone
had gained entry into the vic-
tims motor vehicle and had
taken items from inside the
vehicle.
At 11:54 a.m. Thursday,
Delphos Police were contact-
ed by another resident of the
20000 block of Old Lincoln
Highway in reference to a
theft complaint.
A CD player from inside
the vehicle was missing.
Neighbors
report thefts
from vehicles
WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
Associated Press
TONIGHT: Clear. Areas
of frost overnight. Lows in the
lower 30s. East winds around
5 mph shifting to the southeast
overnight.
SATURDAY: Mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
Southwest winds around 10
mph.
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Mostly clear in the evening.
Then partly cloudy with a 30
percent chance of showers
overnight. Not as cool. Lows
in lower 40s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny.
A 20 percent chance of show-
ers in the morning. Highs
in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s.
MONDAY: Partly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid
50s.
MONDAY NIGHT: Partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
TUESDAY: Mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper
40s.
TUESDAY NIGHT,
WEDNESDAY: Partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower
30s. Highs in the upper 40s.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT,
THURSDAY: Mostly clear.
Lows in the lower 30s. Highs
in the mid 50s.
By ED GEBERT
Times Bulletin Editor
VAN WERT A Van
Wert man who threatened to
kill a judge, two attorneys
and two probation officers
and to blow up the Van Wert
County Courthouse was
placed on community control
Thursday by Visiting Judge
David Faulkner.
Robert J. Hartman, 22, was
sentenced to five consecutive
four-year prison sentences on
five counts of retaliation on
Aug. 23, 2010. The under-
standing was that Hartman
serve at least two years, but
still have the remaining time
from a 20-year sentence
hanging over his head if he
slipped up. Since Hartman
has now served more than
two years, Special Prosecutor
Peter R. Seibel stated that
he would not object to send-
ing Hartman to the WORTH
Center in Lima as part of
community control. However,
he warned Hartman that if he
failed his rehabilitation or did
not stay out of trouble for
the five years of community
control, I will be your worst
nightmare.
Faulkner also advised
Hartman during the sentenc-
ing, It is in your best interest
to toe the line exactly. If
Hartman would fail to live up
to his end of the deal, he will
likely be sentenced to finish
out the rest of his prison time
approximately 18 more
years.
The reason Hartman found
himself back in Van Wert
County Court of Common
Pleas on Thursday was that
he won an appeal of his sen-
tence in a decision from the
Ohio Third District Court of
Appeals. That court found
that the way the original sen-
tence was worded, Hartman
had technically been sen-
tenced both to community
control and to prison for the
same count something that
is now a violation of sentenc-
ing rules. He was returned to
Van Wert County Jail await-
ing Thursdays sentencing
hearing.
In late November and early
December of 2009, Hartman,
who was upset after being
denied judicial release in
another case, made the death
threats to a fellow prisoner.
He vowed to kill Common
Pleas Court Judge Charles
D. Steele, Prosecutor Charles
Kennedy, probation offi-
cers Frank Bowen and Stacy
Widmer, and Hartmans own
attorney, Kelly Rauch. He
also threatened to use explo-
sives to blow up the entire
courthouse.
He said things that are
criminal, also probably more
stupid than criminal, Seibert
had said at the first sentenc-
ing hearing in 2010.
Hartman was ordered held
in the Van Wert County Jail
until he could be taken to
the WORTH Center in Lima
for treatment. If he success-
fully completes that program,
Hartman will be placed on
intensive supervision for the
first two years of his control.
Since he had already
served two years of the sen-
tence, Hartman had filed a
request for judicial release as
had been agreed to in the plea
bargain. Faulkner rejected that
request as moot since there
was no official sentence to be
released from following the
actions of the appellate court.
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Robert Hartman, center, awaits his sentence Thursday
afternoon in Van Wert County Court of Common Pleas.
Hartman was resentenced after winning an appeal which
dismissed his previous sentence on five counts of retalia-
tion. (Times Bulletin/Ed Gebert photo)
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BACKUS, Dennis Dino,
62, of Bellefontaine and for-
merly of Delphos, memorial
services will begin at 5:30
p.m. today at Jennings Farley
Funeral Home, 5591 US 68
South, West Liberty. Friends
may call from 3 p.m. until
time of services. In lieu of
flowers, contributions may be
made to the family.
DRERUP, Leo N., 82, of
Delphos, Mass of Christian
Burial begins at 11 a.m.
Monday at St. John the
Evangelist Catholic Church,
the Rev. Melvin Verhoff offi-
ciating. Burial will follow
in St. Johns Cemetery with
military rites conducted by the
Delphos Veterans Council.
Friends may call from 2-8
p.m. Sunday at Harter and
Schier Funeral Home where
the parish wake will be held.
Memorials are to St. Ritas
Hospice.
THATCHER, Joel Ross,
21, of Ohio City, funer-
al services will begin at 2
p.m. Saturday at Calvary
Evangelical Church, Van Wert,
with Pastor Steven Waterman
officiating. Burial will be in
Woodlawn Cemetery, Ohio
City. Friends may call from
1-8 p.m. today and from noon
to 2 p.m. Saturday at the
church. Preferred memorials
are to Van Wert High School
tack and field. Sympathy may
be expressed at cowanfuneral-
home.com
At 95, oldest clown keeps the smiles coming
By MATTHEW BROWN
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont.
Floyd Creeky Creekmore
is one of the quieter acts
in the circus, his larger-
than-life clown shoes shuf-
fling methodically as he
works the crowd, igniting
surprised giggles and slack-
jawed wonder from chil-
dren that look up to encoun-
ter Creekmores wrinkled
eyes smiling through thick
makeup.
At 95 years old, the
former Montana rancher
recently dubbed the old-
est performing clown in
the world has fewer magic
tricks up his oversized
sleeves than he once did.
He gave up juggling several
years ago after a stroke, and
has long since parked the
home-made bicycle he once
incorporated into his acts.
But when the Shrine
Circus comes through
Billings, where Creekmore
lives with his 96-year-old
wife, Betty, Creeky the
Clown returns to life.
At home in his kitchen,
while Betty dozes in the
living room, Creekmore
pulls on a multi-colored,
striped jacket and dons a
bright orange wig topped
by a yellow hat. He glues
on a rubber nose, carefully
ties his shoes.
When his shaky right
hand sends a line of make-
up askew on one side of
his face, Creekmore just
makes the other side a little
crooked, too.
Ill stay back from the
crowd so they dont notice,
he says.
Others have laid claim
to the title of worlds old-
est clown, including an
81-year-old member of the
Moscow Circus, Oleg The
Sun Clown Popov and
Andy Bumbo Beyer of
Santa Ana, Calif., who was
widely publicized as the
oldest until his retirement
three years ago at the age
of 91.
But turns it out that
Creekmore had a 20-month
advantage all along, clown-
ing away in his low-key
style in eastern Montana.
He now carries the impri-
matur of Guinness World
Records, which declared
him worlds oldest per-
forming clown in February
after friends applied on his
behalf.
Fel l ow performers
and family members says
Creekmore has started to
slow down, yet gives no
sign of ending his periodic
performances.
Even if his body is tell-
ing him no, his mind wont
stop, said grandson Tom
McCraw.
Back in his kitchen,
Creeky is almost ready to
go. He picks out a dis-
appearing handkerchief
and a gag-rope as props,
offers a goodbye to Betty
Doesnt he look good?
she remarks from the din-
ing room table and eases
into his sons Volkswagen
Beetle. A few minutes later
hes mounting the steps
into the crowded Shrine
Auditorium.
Just inside the entrance,
hes approached by gag-
gles of glow-stick waving,
popcorn-spilling children.
Creeky shakes hands, tries
out his rope trick, throws
out grins.
Dont pinch the nose,
he warns an over-eager boy
sporting a Mohawk haircut.
Creeky stays on his flop-
py feet through the flash-
ing lights of the tiger tam-
ers act, endures the roar
of a daredevil motorcycle
act accompanied by hard-
thumping rock and roll.
When some jugglers take
the stage Creeky ducks out
to the lobby for a quick
rest, then is back at his post
in time to see a favorite
performance, a dog act that
includes a pair of long-
jumping Afghans and a
massive St. Bernard in a
tight red dress.
During intermission
Creeky is competing for
the crowds attention with
elephant rides and a 7-foot-
tall Chuck E. Cheese. His
voice barely audible amid
the din, Creeky manages
to spark laughter with each
brief interaction.
Its a routine Creekmore
nailed down over eight
decades, since his intro-
duction to clowning in the
1930s.
When the Barnum and
Bailey Circus passed
through the Montana city
of Great Falls and other
youths sought odd jobs
in exchange for tickets to
the show, Creekmore says
he sought out the clowns,
looking for insights.
At 15, Creekmore had
moved out of his familys
house to work on a string
of central Montana ranch-
es while he put himself
through high school.
His interest in clowning
was known in his home-
town of Coffee Creek. So
when he was invited to per-
form in a local parade he
pulled together a costume
from old clothes and lip-
stick and found himself
hooked on the laughter he
drew.
Even if his
body is telling
him no, his mind
wont stop.
Tom McCraw, grandson
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Sophie Ann
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Sophie Ann Dunaway, you
took a part of us with you
and touched our hearts for-
ever when you entered into
the presence of Jesus April
3, 2012.
Stillborn at 8:06 a.m.,
weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces
and 20 inches long, Sophie
is survived by parents Shawn
& Jodi (Will) Dunaway of
Delaware; grandparents Jeff
and Dianne Will of Delphos
and Lori Dunaway of New
Albany; great-grandparents
Marylou Metcalfe, William
and Shirley Dorn, Lyle Starr;
uncles and aunts Shannon
(Toby) Buckler, Josh Will,
Kristy (Travis) Gallmeier,
Steven (Josie) Dunaway;
cousins Grace, Braden, Caleb,
Cameron, Brynna, Ava; and
numerous great-aunts, great-
uncles and cousins.
She was preceded in
death by grandfather Michael
Dunaway; great-grandparents
James Dunaway, Jamie Starr,
Carroll Archie Metcalfe and
Merle and Rita Will.
The family will receive
friends 6-8 p.m. Monday
at Schoedinger Northeast
Chapel, 1051 E. Johnstown
Rd., Gahanna, where servic-
es will be held at 11 a.m.
Tuesday, Pastor Mike Brown
and Father Jacob Gordon offi-
ciating, with visiting one hour
prior.
Burial will following at
Maplewood Cemetery, New
Albany.
Visit www.schoedinger.
com to leave condolences.
Contributions may be
made in Sophies honor at
www.mtcarmelfoundation.
org; please specify St. Anns
Infant Loss Program
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, April
6th, the 97th day of 2012.
There are 269 days left in
the year.
Todays Highlight in
History: In 1199, King
Richard the Lionheart of
England died from a wound
sustained at the siege of
castle Chalus-Chabrol in
France.
On this date:
In 1889, George Eastman
placed the first Kodak
Camera on sale.
In 1896, the first modern
Olympic Games opened in
Athens.
In 1936, a tornato in
Gainesville, Georgia killed
203 people and injured
1,800.
In 1917, the United States
formally declared war on
Germany and entered World
War I. Florence Green,
the last surviving veteran
of World War I, died in
February 2012 at age 110.
In 2004, the University
of Connecticut became the
first university to win the
NCAA Division I mens and
womens basketball champi-
onships in the same year.
Todays Birthdays:
Lincoln Steffens (1866-
1936), journalist; Gerry
Mulligan (1927-1996),
jazz musician; Billy Dee
Williams (1937- ), actor;
Merle Haggard (1937- ),
singer; Barry Levinson
(1942- ), director/producer;
Michelle Phillips (1944-
), rocker, Mamas and The
Papas; John Ratzenberger
(1947- ), actor; Janet
Lynn (1953- ), ice skater;
Paul Rudd (1969- ), actor;
Zach Braff (1975- ), actor;
Candace H. Cameron Bure
(176- ), actress, Full House.
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4-H holds Senior and Donor Recognition Banquet
The first Richard Jellison Advisor Award was presented
to Jill McCoy, right, 4-H Advisor of the Fashion Board and
Udder Dairy Club.
The 4-H Senior Class of 2012 includes, front from left, Julia Dickman, Julie Bonifas, Brice Schulte, Lauren Buchanan,
Jacob Wortman, Ericka Priest and Morgan Pugh; center, Nicole Winhover, Meagan Hempfling, Brooke Keber, Ashley
Knittle, Kelsie Preston, Sabrina Barnhart, Alexis Line and Beckah Klopfenstein; and back, Nathan profit, Becca Jo
Baker, Alex Campbell, Molly Gamble, Sydney Reithman, Adam Rager and Beth Klopfenstein.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
IT WAS NEWS THEN
POLITICS
Moderately confused
One Year Ago
Fort Jennings students will attend the State Science
Fair on May 7 at The Ohio State University. They include
Logan Sickels, Alyssa Schimmoeller, Craig Stewart, Keri
Eickholt, Aaron Neidert, Kristen Maag, Alex Sealts and
Dillon Schimmoeller.
25 Years Ago 1987
PTO Variety Show winners in the high school divi-
sion were Reid Thompson, Randy Stone and Scott Wurst.
Winners in the middle school division were Kerri Harman and
Stephanie Teman. Elementary school winners were Margot
Downey and Harmony Brenneman tied for first; Julie Rahrig,
Jamie Mox and Melanie and Sarah Pohlman tied for sec-
ond; and Dickie Diltz and Scott Wannemacher tied for third
place.
Senior Craig Allemeier and junior Mike Williams led
the way again for the St. Johns basketball program as they
received awards at Sunday nights boys basketball program.
Allemeier was awarded a plaque for being a member of the
District 8 all-star team, while Williams received a trophy as
top free throw shooter on any of the teams honored.
At the Elida Young Farmers and Your Farmers Wives
annual awards banquet Judy and Clyde Ditto received the
community service award. Judy serves as president of her
group and also received the leadership award. Clyde also
received the 1986 Young Farmer Award and the corn and
soybean awards for efficiency. Larry Vandemark received the
soybean yield award for the northwest area.
50 Years Ago 1962
More than 1,000 persons representing 49 aeries and auxil-
iaries began to arrive in Delphos for the Northwest Ohio Zone
Conference of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to be held here
Saturday and Sunday. If weather permits there will be a parade
Sunday which will feature bands, other marching units, city
officials and dignitaries of the organization.
Delphos merchants are looking twice today as cash
registers ring. An unusual amount of two dollar bills are
in circulations as the result of the Huffman Manufacturing
Company employees being paid with this denomination of
currency. Over 40 employees received all two dollars in their
pay envelope.
Twenty-six members of the Good Hope Group of the
American Lutheran Church Women of St. Peter Evangelical
Lutheran Church, and three guests, Rev. and Mrs. Fred
Zangmeister and Alice Raabe, attended the meeting of the
group held Wednesday afternoon in the parish hall. The spe-
cial event of the afternoon was conducted by Mrs. Homer
Pollock in showing aprons brought by various members.
75 Years Ago 1937
Dr. G. K. Miller of this city, president of the Ohio State
Board of Optometry, made his debut over the radio Monday
afternoon over the National Broadcasting hookup from WLW,
Cincinnati. Dr. Miller gave an address Sunday night before the
Cincinnati Research Academy of Optometry.
Appearing before a group of more than 100 persons, Mrs.
Depew Head of Columbus, presented a review of The Street
of the Fishing Cat by Jolan Foldes. The program marked the
annual Tourist guest day and was given at the Presbyterian
Church. Mary Copus, pianist, played as the Tourist Club
members and their guests were assembling. Mrs. Guy Tilton
and Frances Baxter sang a group of three numbers.
Clarence Sopecht, superintendent of schools at Fort
Jennings, announced the following honor roll for the high
school: A Honors Ruth Kohls, Eleanore Wittler, B
Honors Joseph Mack, Luella Allemeir, Florence Calvelage,
Honorable Mention Marguerite Boehmer, Arthur Cramer,
Susan Plasic, Anastasia Calvelage, Carolyn Dahling, Dorothy
Schimmoeller, Margaret Helmkamp, Viola Calvelage,
Bernadine Berelsman.
WASHINGTON (AP)
Republican presidential can-
didate Rick Santorum met
privately with conservative
leaders on Thursday to craft
plans to stop Mitt Romneys
march to the Republican
presidential nomination,
with pressuring rival Newt
Gingrich to leave the race
part of their overall strategy.
An official close to the
campaign confirmed the
northern Virginia meeting,
which included a host of
fiscal and social conserva-
tives who have long doubted
Romneys conservative cre-
dentials. The group decided
to apply more pressure on
Gingrich to quit, which they
see as allowing divided con-
servatives to unite behind
Santorum, according to the
official.
The effort may be too
late. Romney has twice as
many delegates as Santorum,
according to The Associated
Press count, and is on track
to having a majority of del-
egates in June. Gingrich has
ignored calls to leave the
race for weeks and shows no
sign of bowing out even after
scaling back his campaign.
The private meeting came
as Romneys supporters,
including high-profile con-
servatives from across the
country, intensified pressure
on Santorum to leave the
race to allow Romney to
focus on a general election
campaign against President
Barack Obama. The
Democratic president infor-
mally launched the general
election earlier in the week,
going after Romney by name
in a speech and a multistate
advertising campaign.
The Santorum campaign
insisted that the former
Pennsylvania senator will
not leave the contest, despite
Romneys near-insurmount-
able delegate lead. Romney
has collected 658 dele-
gates compared to 281 for
Santorum, 135 for Gingrich
and 51 for Ron Paul, accord-
ing to the AP tally.
Santorums strat-
egy depends on winning
Pennsylvanias primary
on April 24 and, with that
momentum, finding success
in a series of May contests.
But Santorum would need
80 percent of the remain-
ing delegates to win the
nomination before the par-
tys national convention in
August. That wont happen
as long as Romney stays
in the race because most
upcoming primaries use
some type of proportional
system to award delegates,
making it hard to win large
numbers of delegates in indi-
vidual states.
Santorums only hope
is a contested convention,
which becomes less and less
likely with each Romney
victory.
Thursdays meeting aside,
Santorum is largely taking
a break from the campaign
trail to observe the Easter
holiday. He returned to his
Virginia home Wednesday
night after appearing at some
campaign events and going
bowling in Pennsylvania,
which he represented in
Congress for 16 years.
Santorum has sched-
uled fundraising events
for Monday and planned
to resume campaigning
Tuesday in Pennsylvania.
By ANN SANNER
Associated Press
COLUMBUS One of
the most successful and lon-
gest-serving Republican Party
chairmen in Ohio could return
to the job, now that the current
state chairman has announced
hes stepping down next week
amid bitter party infighting
with Republican Gov. John
Kasich.
Bob Bennett has indicated
a willingness to take over for
Ohio Republican Party chair-
man Kevin DeWine, said
Doug Preisse, a Kasich ally
and chairman of the Franklin
County Republican Party.
Bennett told The
Associated Press on Thursday
that he is grateful for the sup-
port among GOP members,
and he hopes to arrive at a
final decision in the next day
or so. He declined to com-
ment further.
DeWine announced in a
Wednesday night letter to the
partys governing body that
hell step aside at the com-
mittees meeting on April 13.
He said he plans to preside
over the election of his suc-
cessor by the 66 members at
the meeting.
The GOP leaders deci-
sion comes as Kasichs allies
had recruited a slate of chal-
lengers to the partys state
central committee, who they
had believed would support
DeWines ouster.
DeWine, chairman since
2009, said in a March 18 letter
to committee members that he
would not seek another term
as chairman when his ends in
January. Kasich allies had said
that didnt go far enough, and
Republican leaders in seven
of Ohios largest counties had
sent a letter to DeWine asking
him to resign.
DeWine on Wednesday
night said he wanted to avoid
a divisive vote next week over
party leadership.
Factions within our party
are aligned to fight over who
is best to lead us forward,
DeWine wrote. A meeting
looms where that fight could
erupt into a party-splitting
dispute that no one will win
and everyone will lament.
DeWine was unanimously
elected by the state central
committee to a second term
in 2011. He oversaw the
GOPs resurgence in the state
in the 2010 elections, when
Republicans swept Ohio
Democrats out of four state-
wide offices including the
governors and grabbed
control of the Legislature.
Among those winners was
Secretary of State Jon Husted,
Ohios top elections official,
who on Thursday came to
DeWines defense.
I told Kevin (that) hes
the only chairman thats
going to resign undefeated,
Husted told reporters after a
state Ballot Board meeting.
Asked whether DeWines
resignation puts an end to
the strains within the party,
Husted said, I was focused
on supporting my friend
Kevin DeWine and Im
focused on being secretary of
state. Well leave the future
of the Republican Party to
those who are interested, were
interested, in taking it over.
DeWine and other
Republicans, including
Bennett, had expressed con-
cerns the infighting could jeop-
ardize the partys efforts to
deliver the swing state this fall
to the Republican challenger to
President Barack Obama.
No Republican has ever
won the White House without
winning Ohio.
DeWine will remain on
the state central committee,
and plans to continue rais-
ing money for the GOP as a
member of the national par-
tys finance committee.
Republican National
Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus and U.S. House
Speaker John Boehner of
Ohio praised DeWines lead-
ership in separate written
statements.
By ANNE GEARAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
President Barack Obama is
laying groundwork to make
the majority-conservative
Supreme Court a campaign
issue this fall, taking a politi-
cal page from Republicans
who have long railed against
liberal judges who dont vote
their way.
The emerging Democratic
strategy to paint the court
as extreme was little noted
in this weeks hubbub over
Obamas assertion that over-
turning his health care law
would be unprecedented.
His statement Monday
wasnt completely accurate,
and the White House back-
tracked. But Obama was
making a political case, not
a legal one, and he appears
ready to keep making it if
the high courts five-member
majority strikes down or cuts
the heart out of his signature
policy initiative.
The court also is likely to
consider several other issues
before the November elec-
tion that could stir Obamas
core Democratic supporters
and draw crucial indepen-
dent voters as well. Among
those are immigration, vot-
ing rights and a revisit of a
campaign finance ruling that
Obama has already criticized
as an outrage.
We havent seen the
end of this, said longtime
Supreme Court practitioner
Tom Goldstein, who teaches
at Stanford and Harvard uni-
versities. The administration
seems to be positioning itself
to be able to run against the
Supreme Court if it needs to
or wants to.
While Obama has predict-
ed victory in the health care
case now before the court, his
administration could blame
overreach by Republican-
appointed justices if the law
is rejected, said Goldstein,
who wrote a brief supporting
the laws constitutionality.
This can be dangerous
ground, as Obama discov-
ered. Since Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, few presidents
have directly assailed the
Supreme Court. In Obamas
case, he issued an indirect
challenge, but the former
constitutional law professor
tripped over the details.
Obama told a news con-
ference on Monday that
he was confident that the
Supreme Court will not take
what would be an unprec-
edented, extraordinary step of
overturning a law that was
passed by a strong majority
of a democratically elected
Congress.
The Supreme Court does
sometimes overturn laws
passed by Congress. Obama
later clarified that he was
referring to a narrow class of
constitutional law, but even
then Republicans and some
court scholars took issue.
Whats not in question is that
the law wasnt approved by a
strong, majority the vote
was a slim 219 to 212 in the
House.
A Republican-appointed
federal judge took umbrage
at the suggestion that fed-
eral courts might be power-
less to overturn such laws,
and ordered the Justice
Department to provide writ-
ten assurance. He insisted
the response be at least three
pages, single-spaced.
Attorney General Eric
Holder took on that task
himself, telling the judge
Thursday that the longstand-
ing, historical position of the
United States regarding judi-
cial review of the constitu-
tionality of federal legislation
has not changed.
He also took the oppor-
tunity to cite Supreme Court
case law supporting the
premise that laws passed by
Congress are presumptively
constitutional.
By KASIE HUNT
Associated Press
TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.
Mitt Romney is sharpen-
ing his focus on President
Barack Obama and broaden-
ing his pitch to independents
and Democrats. He has more
security around him, his cam-
paign team is growing and his
crowds appear more excited to
see him. Its a different world
for Romney now that hes
the almost-certain Republican
presidential nominee.
The transition from the
primary season is well under
way for Romney and his team
as the former Massachusetts
governor campaigns this week
across Pennsylvania, which is
sure to be a general election
battleground state.
It isnt about one per-
son or about even one party,
Romney told a cheering
crowd Thursday at his state
headquarters in Harrisburg.
Working to appeal not just
to his party any more but
to the country at large, he
said, Were Republicans and
Democrats in this campaign,
but were all connected with
one destiny for America.
With a broad appeal like
that, its easy to forget that the
GOP primary season is still
under way and that Romney
still faces a Republican chal-
lenge though a weak one
from former Pennsylvania
Sen. Rick Santorum.
Santorum badly trails
Romney in delegates and is
looking to revive his strug-
gling candidacy on April 24
when this states Republicans
weigh in on who should get the
chance to challenge Obama
this fall. Newt Gingrich and
Ron Paul also have refused
to abandon their bids despite
huge losing streaks.
Romney is more than half-
way to the 1,144 delegates
needed to clinch the partys
nomination, and he could
reach that total by June if not
earlier at his current pace. On
Tuesday, he racked up victo-
ries in Wisconsin, Maryland
and Washington, D.C., and
immediately shifted his focus
to the Democratic incum-
bent with a pair of blister-
ing speeches that castigated
Obama and cast the fall
contest as a choice between
two competing ideological
visions.
In the days since, Romney
has returned to the campaign
trail with a confident tone
despite the significant hurdles
he faces as he seeks to over-
take an incumbent president at
a time when the economy
on which Romney has based
his campaign is showing
signs of improvement.
Its not just Romneys
message thats evolving.
The Secret Service agents
protecting him have started
to implement additional mea-
sures now that hes the pre-
sumptive Republican nomi-
nee.
His campaign announced
Thursday that former
Republican National
Committee Chairman Ed
Gillespie will serve as a senior
adviser, the first of what aides
say will be a big expansion of
the Boston-based campaign
team. Until now, Romney
has kept his campaign on the
small side and has relied on
an intimate group of advisers.
He knows he needs more as
he prepares to compete across
the country against a major
Obama re-election effort.
In recent days, the sup-
porters who have showed
up at Romney events in
Pennsylvania have been treat-
ing him like a well-known
general election candidate.
And Romneys
Pennsylvania campaign head-
quarters buzzed with activity
on Thursday.
Its the general election
that we really need to be fight-
ing for, said Larry Furr, 53.
He was among four volun-
teers who made phone calls
to urge supporters to vote for
Romney, reading from scripts
that emphasized what they
said was their candidates
electability against Obama.
I really think he gives us
our best chance to win in
November, the scripts said.
Supreme Court may be campaign issue
Bennett could replace DeWine as Ohio GOP chairman
Romney changes strategy as
the all-but-certain nominee
Santorum ghts
to hang on by
huddling with
conservatives
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CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
TODAY
1-4 p.m. Interfaith Thrift
Store is closed on observance
of Good Friday.
SATURDAY
9 a.m.-noon Interfaith
Thrift Store is open for shop-
ping.
St. Vincent DePaul Society,
located at the east edge of the
St. Johns High School parking
lot, is open.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Delphos
Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. Testing of
warning sirens by Delphos
Fire and Rescue
1-3 p.m. Delphos Canal
Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
7 p.m. Bingo at St.
Johns Little Theatre.
SUNDAY
HAPPY EASTER!
MONDAY
11:30 a.m. Mealsite at
Delphos Senior Citizen Center,
301 Suthoff Street.
6 p.m. Middle Point
Village Council meets
7-9 p.m. The Delphos
Canal Commission Annex
Museum, 241 N. Main St.,
will be open.
7 p.m. Marion Township
trustees at township house.
Middle Point council meets
at town hall.
7:30 p.m. Delphos
American Legion Auxiliary
meets at the post at 415 N.
State St.
8 p.m. Delphos City
Schools Board of Education
meets at the administration
office.
At the movies . . .
Van Wert Cinemas
10709 Lincoln Hwy. Van Wert
The Hunger Games (PG-13) Fri.-Sun.: Mon.-
Thurs.: 5:00/7:45
Mirror Mirror (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 2:00/4:30/7:00;
Mon.-Thurs.: 5:00/7:15
Wrath of the Titans (PG-13) Fri.-Sun.:
2:00/4:00/6:00/8:00; Mon.-Thurs.: 5:00/7:00
21 Jump Street (R) Fri.-Sun.: 2:00/4:30/7:00;
Mon.-Thurs.: 5:00/7:15
American Reunion (R) Fri.-Sun.: 2:00/4:30/7:00;
Mon.-Thurs.: 5:00/7:15
American Mall Stadium 12
2830 W. Elm St., Lima
Saturday and Sunday
American Reunion (R) 1:15/1:25/4:25/4:50/7:15
/7:35/9:50/10:15
Titanic 3D (PG-13 1:00/2:10/5:00/7:00/9:00
Mirror Mirror (PG) 1:20/2:15/4:15/4:55/6:50/7:
25/9:30/9:55
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every evening at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. with Saturday
and Sunday show times at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.
(Theater will be close Easter Sunday afternoon and
open for the 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. shows.)
In the Waiting
Room ...
with Dr. Celeste Lopez
The appalling
silence
Last week my son came
home from school very upset
about what they had talked
about in social studies. They
had discussed and read about
the Treyvon Martin shooting
and he couldnt understand why
an arrest hadnt been made. He
has always thought of the police
as the people who protect the
innocent and punish the guilty.
Treyvon was just a kid
walking home to watch a bas-
ketball game. He was suspi-
cious to George Zimmerman
not because of what he was
doing but because of what he
looked like. The argument that
he isnt a racist is immaterial to
the situation because it doesnt
matter how he normally acts,
the question is how did he act
that night.
Just as a bank robber
wouldnt be any less guilty if he
argued that he had gone to other
banks all over town and never
robbed them. The point is, he
is being tried for robbing that
bank, not whether he robbed
every bank he ever entered.
George Zimmerman saw
black skin and a hoodie and
it made him suspicious. He
assumed he was up to no good
and he wasnt going to let him
get away. The problem is,
the only thing Treyvon was
trying to get away from was a
strange man who was follow-
ing him. In the dark of night,
a scared man with a gun and
a scared teenager found them-
selves alone together believing
that the other was bent on hurt-
ing him.
The stand your ground law
states that a person who feels
threatened has the right to fight
back with deadly force. What
a flawed law. Give a paranoid
person a gun and any murder
he causes is legal? What about
all the self-defense courses that
tell you to fight back if you are
accosted? If you fight back in
Florida, the attacker is justi-
fied in killing you for attacking
him.
How can this law make
anyone feel safer? Does every
fight have to end in a death?
If George Zimmerman didnt
have a gun what would have
happened? Two people would
have been bruised? Perhaps
Zimmerman wouldnt even
have dared follow him and the
police would have told him that
Treyvon was just a kid going to
his dads house.
The really sad parts of this
case are:
1. That an arrest wasnt made
immediately. Surely, he has the
right to mount any defense he
chooses, but shouldnt a homi-
cide at least be decided by a
jury?; and
2. Why did George
Zimmerman think this kid was
suspicious anyway? His crite-
ria seems very broad young,
dark skin and wearing a hoodie.
As the mother of a son who
meets that criteria, I find this
frightening. Does he deserve to
be in the cross-hairs of George
Zimmerman, or anyone else,
simply because he fits a pro-
file?
The outrage we see on the
news is personal and goes
beyond Treyvon. The phrase I
am Treyvon comes from the
belief that this could have hap-
pened to anyone who fits that
profile. The anger is important
because it shines a light on an
appalling situation. Should we
as a society continue to con-
done the idea that somebody
who looks a certain way should
be presumed guilty until proven
innocent? This isnt the way
America was meant to be; it
isnt the way America was sup-
posed to be; and it isnt the way
we as Americans should allow
our country to be. We are better
than that.
Martin Luther King once
stated in regard to civil rights
but which I believe is apro-
pos here History will have to
record that the greatest tragedy
of this period was not the stri-
dent clamor of the bad people
but the appalling silence of the
good people.
Dont be silent. This isnt a
question of black or white, its a
question of right or wrong.
My son is watching the news
waiting for an arrest. He wants
to believe that the police, who
he has always thought were
there to protect, would be there
to protect him, too. Should I
fear for my son every time he
walks out the door because of
what he looks like? I would like
to think that people would just
see him for who he is. Hes just
a kid, just like your kid, just like
Treyvon.
Dr. Celeste Lopez graduated
cum laude from The University
of Utah College of Medicine. She
completed her Pediatric resi-
dency training at the Childrens
Hospital of Michigan. She is
certified with The American
Board of Pediatrics since 1992.
In 2003 she moved her prac-
tice, Wishing Well Pediatrics,
to Delphos and is located at
154 W. Third Street. She is the
proud mother of a 12-year-old
son.
April 7
Jeff Laudick
Kim Laudick
Paul Feathers Jr.
Jeff Moorman
Scott Scalf
Michael Birkmeier
Charles Gerdeman
Lynn Koenig
Frank Spieles
Tom Rekart
Sandy Abner
Debby Hurt
Photos submitted
Utrup wins Optimist Essay Contest
Winners of the Delphos Optimist Clubs Essay Contest were breakfast guests of the
Optimists. Gary Levitt, chair of the Essay Contest, introduced the winners, who read
their winning essays. Rebecca Violet, left, a seventh-grader at Jefferson Middle School,
was runner-up and received $25. She is the daughter of Cindy and Trevor Violet.
Lauren Utrup, right, wrote the winning essay and received $100. She is a junior at St.
Johns High School and the daughter of Mark and Angie Utrup.
Justin Rode was hon-
ored as the Student
of the Month by the
Delphos Optimist Club.
Superintendent Frank
Sukup presented him with
a certificate for a $50 sav-
ings bond and a plaque in
his school colors. He is a
senior at Jefferson High
School and the son of Gary
and Elaine Rode.

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SPORTS
Leipsic coaches Ralph Westrick and Darren Henry talk with Gene Yogi Von Lehmden
and Fort Jennings coach Jeff Swick talks to Dan Orson Mangas after pre-game ceremo-
nies for a fundraiser to raise money for ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease) prior to Leipsic and
Fort Jennings playing in a Putnam County League baseball game. VonLehmden was a
baseball umpire for 30 years, while Mangas was a member of Leipsics 1976 champion-
ship team. The two men are battling ALS.
Charlie Warnimont/Putnam County Sentinel photo
JEFFERSON (1)
ab-r-h-rbi
Austin Jettinghoff 2b/ss 4-0-3-0,
Ross Thompson 3b 3-0-0-0, Curtis
Miller 1b/p 3-0-0-1, Zach Kimmett dh
3-0-0-0, Drew Kortokrax pr 0-0-0-0,
Jeff Schleeter p 0-0-0-0, Evan Neubert
lf 0-0-0-0, Justin Rode c 3-0-0-0, Tony
George ss 3-0-1-0, Zach Ricker 2b/1b
0-0-0-0, Mike Joseph cf 2-0-0-0, Kyle
Anspach rf 1-1-1-0, Seth Wollenhaupt
lf/2b 3-0-0-0. Totals 25-1-5-1.
LIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC (5)
ab-r-h-rbi
Colin Stolly 2b 4-1-2-0, Travis Clark
p/3b 3-2-1-1, Bill Taflinger 3b/p 3-0-0-
0, Connor Dee c 3-0-1-0, Kian Duffy
lf 2-0-0-1, Ben Stolly 1b 3-0-0-0. Nick
Watkins ss 3-0-0-0, Luke Baumgardner
dh 3-1-1-0, Sam Heider rf 0-0-0-0,
Corey ODowd cf 3-1-2-0. Totals 27-5-
7-2.
Score by Innings:
Jefferson 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1
Lima CC 2 3 0 0 0 0 x - 5
E: George 2, Jettinghoff,
Thompson, Watkins; LOB: Jefferson
10, Lima Central Catholic 6; DP: Lima
Central Catholic 1; 2B: Jettinghoff, C.
Stolly, Clark, ODowd; SB: George;
CS: George (by Dee); Sac; Clark; SF:
Duffy.
IP H R ER BB SO
JEFFERSON
Schleeter (L, 2-1) 5.0 7 5 2 0 5
Miller 1.0 0 0 0 0 3
LIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC
Clark (W, 2-1) 5.2 5 1 1 5 6
Taflinger 1.1 0 0 0 0 0
HBP: Anspach (by Clark),
Thompson (by Clark).
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delpho-
sherald.com
LIMA For the second
game in a row, Lima Central
Catholics baseball team took
advantage of its opportunities
early and then held off their
opponent.
Wednesday night, it was a
road game at St. Johns.
This time, it was a
home game and
the Northwest
Conference opener
against Jefferson,
finishing its 2-game
sweep of the Delphos
baseball nines
Thursday night with
a 5-1 victory over the Wildcats
at windy Thunderbird Players
Field in Lima.
After Thunderbird start-
er Travis Clark (2-1; 5 1/3
innings pitched, 5 hits, 1
earned run, 5 bases-on-balls,
6 strikeouts; 110 pitches, 63
strikes) induced an inning-
ending double play in the
Jefferson half of the first, the
T-Birds (4-3, 1-0 NWC) got
it rolling against Jefferson
starter Jeff Schleeter (2-1; 5
IPs, 7 hits, 5 runs, 2 earned,
5 Ks; 96 pitches, 67 strikes);
opening back-to-back doubles
to left by left-swinging Colin
Stolly (2-for-4) and Clark
(after Wildcat leftfielder Seth
Wollenhaupt ran into the
fence in foul territory chasing
a foul ball) for one run and
then a 1-out single by Connor
Dee and a sacrifice fly to cen-
ter by Kian Duffy.
Tony George singled with
two outs in the Jefferson (4-4)
second and stole second but
was gunned down trying to
burgle third by Dee.
LCC put its last three runs
on the board in the home
half: two hits, including a
double by Corey ODowd;
and two errors; allowing Luke
Baumgardner, ODowd and
Clark to touch the dish.
After that, Schleeter and
reliever Curtis Miller shut
down the hosts.
Jeff pitched OK. He
settled down after the first
two innings but the damage
was done, Jefferson coach
Doug Geary said. We didnt
make the plays in the field we
needed to. We cant afford to
be giving teams extra at-bats
like that, especially teams that
hit the ball well. What hurts
us right now is we dont have
that pitcher that can strike
people out consistently over a
game, like a Drew Kortokrax.
We need our defense to do its
job and we had some plays
we didnt make tonight; LCC
did.
Which is just fine by LCC
coach John Schneiders.
We capitalized on
what our opponents
gave us. That is part of
high school baseball;
your opponents will
make mistakes, he
explained. You just
have to take advantage
by being aggressive at the
plate and on the basepaths.
At the same time, you want
to minimize your mistakes.
We have done that the last
two games, while we made
our share of mistakes before
that.
The Jeffcats had a major
chance in the third: a 1-out
hit batter (Kyle Anspach),
a 2-out double (Austin
Jettinghoff), another hit batter
(Ross Thompson) and a walk
to Curtis Miller that plated
Anspach. However, Clark
got out of the inning with
no more damage, leaving the
bases full of Wildcats (10 for
the game).
The Red and White again
let a major opportunity slip
away in the fourth, getting
runners on first (Anspach on a
single) and third (Mike Joseph
on a walk) with two down but
failed to get either home.
LCC loaded the bases with
one down in the home half
on two hits and an error
including a bizarre rundown
that ended up with a Jefferson
fielder called for interfer-
ence, loading the bases
but Schleeter fanned Dee and
induced Duffy to bounce out
to George at short.
That was the last opening
for the T-Birds.
The Wildcats again loaded
the bases in the fifth, get-
ting one error, a forceout and
two walks that put Thompson,
Zach Kimmett and Justin rode
on with two outs. However, a
run was not in the cards.
That was the story of the
game as well; our leaving so
many runners on base. We
didnt get any big hits in those
situations, Geary added. Until
we can get that big hit or hits in
those times, we will continue
to struggle; we cant string
them together. We are making
progress; were 4-4 (0-1 NWC)
until some quality competition,
about where I thought wed be.
However, I wish wed have
more wins.
The visitors chased Clark
in he sixth, getting Anspach
(walk) and Jettinghoff (sin-
gle) on second and first, forc-
ing Schneiders to bring in Bill
Taflinger to pitch with two
down. He induced a forceout
at third to end that threat.
The senior then retired the
Wildcats in order in the sev-
enth to end the game.
That is what you expect
from a 4-year letterwinner; he
comes in when the game is on
the verge of getting close and
does what he needs to do,
Schneiders added. Travis
gave us a quality start. We
really have needed him to step
up and being that number one
pitcher. We have an overall
young team, so I like our
progress.
Jefferson visits Bath for
a noon-time doubleheader
Saturday, while LCC plays
Ada Monday.
T-Birds finish sweep of
Delphos varsity baseballers
By BOB WEBER
jmetcalfe@
delphosherald.com
FORT JENNINGS
Thursday night, the Leipsic
Vikings played the Fort
Jennings Musketeers in their
Putnam County League
match up of two traditional
powers in baseball.
However, on this night,
the Fort Jennings Village
Park stage and a huge
crowd belonged to Eugene
Yogi Von Lehmden and
Dan Orson Mangas.
The Muskeeters, play-
ing on behalf of Mr. Von
Lehmden, wore TEAM YOGI
shirts for the contest. Not
to be outdone, the Vikings
wore TEAM ORSON on the
backs of their uniforms for
Mr. Orson.
Before, during and after
the game, a fundraiser for
ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease)
took place. All monies
received were to go to ALS
research.
Muskeeteer head coach
Jeff Swick addressed the
crowd before the game with
some statistics about the dis-
ease: One in every 50,000
people have been diagnosed
with ALS; however, theres
5 known cases in Putnam
County. Thats 1 out of every
7,000 people in our county.
Both gentlemen were in
attendance for the game and
joined their related baseball
squads at the beginning of
the game, watched members
of their families throw out
the first pitch and took part
in post-game pictures. Yogi
and Orson were both very
active athletically during
their younger years and have
always been there to sup-
port their local communities
teams.
It was a wonderful tribute
to both men, both baseball
teams and coaching staffs,
the related communities and
their fans and to all that put
on a tremendous event on
Thursday night.
As for the game, the
Vikings used a big third
inning in which they scored
four runs to come away with
a 7-4 victory over the host
Musketeers.
After a scoreless first
inning, both teams plated one
run in the second inning. The
Vikings used a leadoff walk
to Devin Mangas, a steal of
second and a 2-out hit by
Daniel DeLarosa.
The Musketeers also used
a walk by Nick Verhoff,
followed by a hit by Zach
Schuerman and a groundout
by Dylan Van Loo, to score
their run.
In the third inning, the
Vikings used two walks, two
singles, a double by Logan
Haselman and a sac fly by
Jaysen Niese to score four
runs and take a 5-1 lead.
The Vikings tacked on
lone runs in the sixth and
seventh innings to grab a 7-1
lead.
The Musketeers were held
in check until the seventh
inning when they rallied
for three runs behind three
hits (Nolan Neidert, Troy
Hellman, Cody Warnecke)
and an error by the Vikings
to plate three runs but it was
too little, too late.
Nick Verhoff pitched
all seven innings for the
Musketeers, giving up eight
hits, striking out four and
walking five in the loss.
Neidert led his team with two
hits, a run scored and one run
knocked in.
Travis Schroeder pitched
6 2/3 strong innings in getting
the win for the Vikings. The
Musketeers could only mus-
ter five hits off of him and he
struck out seven and walked
four. Trevor Schroeder came
in to close out the win for the
Vikings with a strikeout of
Verhoff. Ty Maag had two
hits, two runs scored and one
RBI. Mangas scored twice,
had three stolen bases, one hit
and knocked in one run for
the contest.
On a night that all those
present helped shed light
on ALS, Yogi and Orson
once again were treated to
an excellent baseball game,
one which they loved to play
themselves, share a story or
two, or simply give a smile,
hug, or a GO MUSKIES or
GO VIKINGS shoutout.
The Musketeers (4-4, 1-1
PCL) will go on the road
to face Perry Saturday for
a noon doubleheader. The
Vikings (7-1, 4-0 PCL) will
host Hicksville Saturday for
a doubleheader.
Leipsic (7)
Trevor Schroeder 3-1-0-0, Travis
Schroeder 2-1-0-1, Nate Schey
4-0-1-0, Ty Maag 4-2-2-1, Devin
Mangas 2-2-1-1, Jaysen Niese 2-0-
1-1, Logan Haselman 3-0-1-1, Nate
Mangas 1-0-0-0, Daniel DeLarosa
2-0-1-1, Austin Brown 1-1-0-0, Brady
Schroeder 3-0-1-0. Totals 27-7-8-6.
Ft. Jennings (4)
Kurt Warnecke 4-0-0-0, Nolan
Neidert 4-1-2-1, Troy Hellman 4-1-
1-0, Cody Warnecke 4-0-1-2, Nick
Verhoff 2-1-0-0, Zach Schuerman
2-0-1-0, Alex Vetter 2-0-0-0, Dylan
Van Loo 2-0-0-0, Josh Wittler 1-0-
0-0, Mark Metzger 3-1-0-0. Totals
28-4-5-3.
Score by Innings:
Leipsic 0 1 4 0 0 1 1 - 7
Ft. Jennings 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 - 4
WP - Travis Schroeder; Save -
Trevor Schroeder; LP - Nick Verhoff.
2B: Haselman.
Vikings down Musketeers in ALS game
By Sean Lafontaine
Times Bulletin
Correspondent
sports@timesbulletin.com
MIDDLE POINT The
Lincolnview Lancer baseball
team hosted the Crestview
Knights Thursday evening
in their annual cross-county,
Northwest Conference rivaly.
The Knights used a 7-run
first inning to defeat the
Lancers 12-2 in five
innings.
Crestview used
patience at the plate
against Lincolnview
starting pitcher
Clayton Longstreth to fuel
their big first inning. Senior
Matt Holden started the
game off with a walk. After
Holden advanced to second
on an errant pickoff attempt,
Damian Helm hit a double
to score Holden and put the
Knights up 1-0. Two more
Knight batters were walked
before a pitch, which forced
in Crestviews second run of
the inning, hit Kole Rolsten.
Lincolnview then had a
fielding error on a ball hit by
Venice Roberts, costing two
runs, putting the Knights up
4-0. Longstreth walked two
more batters, which resulted
in another Crestview run,
before Lincolnview went to
its bullpen; Eli Farmer. He
faced Jacob Wortman, who
came through with an RBI
single, giving Crestview its
sixth run of the inning. All
nine Crestview batters reached
base without recording an out.
Farmer struck out the next
two batters before walking
another, giving the Knights
the 7-0 lead.
After the big first inning
by Crestview, the Lancers
looked to fight their way
back into the game against
Crestviews starting pitcher
Wortman. With one out, Kyle
Williams gave the Lancers
their first base-runner of the
game. Longstreth followed
with a single, advancing
Williams to third. After a
Tyler Lovett walk, Conner
McCleery hit a sacrifice fly
to left field, scoring Williams.
A walk loaded the bases and
Mike Klausing hit a ground
ball that the Knights could not
handle that gave the Lancers
their second run. The Lancers
ended the inning with bases
loaded down 7-2.
The Knights responded
in the second inning.
Roberts hit a
single to begin
the inning and
advanced to sec-
ond on a Jared
Hallfeldt ground-
out. Alec Heffner sin-
gled to advance Roberts to
third and Heffner took second
on the throw. Wortman again
came up big for Crestview
and hit a 2-RBI single to
extend the lead to 9-2.
Wortman settled in and
got stronger as the game pro-
gressed. He did not allow a
run for the rest of the game
and caused Lincolnview to
leave seven runners on base.
Crestview scored one
more run in the fourth on an
RBI single from Holden that
scored Heffner from second
and two more in the sixth on
a 2-RBI single by Wortman to
give the Knights a 12-2 lead.
Lovett and McCleery
reached base with two outs in
the bottom of the fifth to give
Lincolnview some hope to
extend the game but Wortman
got a groundout to end the
game.
Wortman had an all-around
good game for the Knights.
He picked up the victory on
the mound, throwing all five
innings and giving up two
hits and having one strikeout;
however, the KNights com-
mitted six errors. He also led
the Knights at the plate, going
3-4 with five RBIs.
We knew coming in that
Jacob was going to have to
throw well for us tonight
because we are a little thin
on pitching and we have a
doubleheader coming up
on Saturday, so we needed
this great outing from him,
said Crestview coach Jim
Wharton. I dont think the
score was really indicative of
the game because if you take
the 7 spot away, its a very
tight game. Defensively, we
need to continue to work and
get better. Before the game,
we talked about pre-pitch
intensity and I thought
our verbals during plays
were better. We are still
making some mistakes
that we cannot make at
this level, so we need to
shore that up.
Lincolnview coach
Brad Mendenhall felt the
Lancer deficit in the first
inning was tough to overcome:
When you spot a team seven
in the first inning, its hard to
come back, but I thought we
did a good job after that first
inning to score a few runs and
get ourselves back in it. Eli
came in and gave us a good
effort and I commend him
for that, but we just couldnt
get things going offensive-
ly. I thought we were too
impatient and swung at some
pitches we shouldnt have
and helped them out a little
bit. Defensively, I thought
we played pretty well if you
take out all the walks and the
struggle to throw strikes.
Longstreth was charged
with the loss for the Lancers
after giving up seven runs
on one hit and allowing five
walks. The Lancers (2-7, 0-1
NWC) host Wayne Trace for a
noon doubleheader Saturday.
Helm, Holden, Roberts and
Heffner all added two hits out
of the 11 the Knights had, also
getting three Lancer errors.
The Knights (4-3, 1-0 NWC)
host Kalida for a Saturday
noon doubleheader.
Score by innings:
Crestview 720 12 12
Lincolnview 200 00 - 2
WP Wortman. LP Longstreth.
2B: (CV) Helm. RBIs (CV) Holden
1, Helm 1, Owens 1, Rolsten 1,
Roberts 1, Heffner 1, Wortman 5; (LV)
McCleery 1.
By Jim Cox
Times Bulletin Correspondent
sports@timesbulletin.com
MIDDLE POINT -
Crestviews high-powered
softball team banged out 16
hits and took advantage of
eight Lincolnview errors to
rout the Lancers 17-1 in the
Northwest Conference open-
er for both teams Thursday
afternoon.
The Knights are now 7-3
overall and 1-0 in the NWC.
Lincolnview is 3-3 and 0-1.
The Knights were coming
off of a disappointing show-
ing in a 15-14 loss to Van
Wert on Wednesday, while
the Lancers had battered one
of the best pitchers in the area
-- Perrys Abbie Patton -- in a
9-6 win on Tuesday. Thus, it
looked like Lincolnview was
ready to challenge the peren-
nial power from western Van
Wert County. It didnt hap-
pen.
Crestview scored in every
inning and had seven players
with two hits -- McKenzie
Nofer, Holly Genth, Taylor
Hamrick, Kirstin Hicks,
Danica Hicks, Terra Crowle
and Taylor Springer. Genth,
Danica Hicks and Crowle
had a double apiece. The RBI
producers were Genth (2),
Hamrick (4), Kirstin Hicks
(1) and Danica Hicks (3).
I was pretty happy with
everything, said Knight
coach Owen Pugh. But well
be working on our hitting
tomorrow inside with hitting
stations. We have a few girls
that are in desperate need of
some work there. They strug-
gled tonight, a couple of them.
Otherwise, we hit the ball
pretty well. The Lincolnview
pitcher did a nice job to begin
with, then we started to time
her up.
Crowle went the distance,
giving up one run (earned) on
three hits, striking out six and
walking only one. She threw
75 pitches, of which 47 were
strikes.
The bright spot for
Lincolnview was Baylee
Neate. Batting ninth, the
freshman shortstop hit a solo
homer off of the left-field foul
pole screen in the third and
lined a single to right in the
fifth. The Lancers other hit
was an infield single up the
middle by Devann Springer in
the second inning.
That was the first one ever
for her, said Lancer coach
Kent McClure of Neates
homer. In the last three
games, shes 8-for-10. Shell
be moving up in the order.
Defensively, shes trying to
replace Kaitlyn Brant, whos
one of the better shortstops in
the area in my opinion.
Brant is out for the season
with a knee injury.
Lincolnview pitcher
Ashley McClure pitched
three innings-plus, giving up
16 runs, only seven of which
were earned, on 14 hits, strik-
ing out five and walking three.
She was relieved by Courtney
Gorman in the fourth after the
first five batters reached base.
Gorman went two innings,
giving up one run, unearned,
on two hits, walking two and
striking out two.
I dont think our pitcher
pitched that bad, added coach
McClure. Our heads were
just not in it. Our fielding
took us out of it. Defensively,
you saw it -- it was embar-
rassing -- and we just didnt
have the sticks tonight.
Crestview (ab-r-h-rbi)
Nofer cf 3-3-2-0, Genth ss 5-3-2-
2, Hamrick 2b 4-2-2-4, Kirstin Hicks
dp 5-1-2-1, Danica Hicks 3b 3-1-2-3,
Richard c 4-0-1-0, Crowle p 3-0-2-0,
Morgan McClure cr 0-2-0-0, Helt lf 3-2-
1-0, Springer 1b 3-3-2-0, Taylor ph
1-0-0-0, Riggenbach rf 0-0-0-0. Totals
34-17-16-10.
Lincolnview (ab-r-h-rbi)
Doner cf 3-0-0-0, Ashbaugh
1b 2-0-0-0, Mohr 3b 2-0-0-0, Carly
Springer dp 2-0-0-0, Calvert c 1-0-0-
0, Devann Springer 2-0-1-0, Diller lf
1-0-0-0, Longwell ph 1-0-0-0, Peel 2b
1-0-0-0, Thatcher ph 1-0-0-0, Neate
ss 2-1-2-1, Ashley McClure p 0-0-0-0.
Totals 18-1-3-1.
Score by Innings:
Crestview 254 60 - 17 16 0
Lincolnview 001 00 - 1 3 8
WP - Crowle. LP - Ashley McClure.
LOB - Crestview 9, Lincolnview 3. 2B
- Genth (CV), Danica Hicks (CV),
Crowle (CV). HR - Neate (LV).
First inning carries Knight baseballers past Lancers
Lady Knights batter Lancers 17-1
1
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Boston 30 24 .556
Philadelphia 29 25 .537 1
New York 28 27 .509 2 1/2
Toronto 20 35 .364 10 1/2
New Jersey 19 37 .339 12
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
x-Miami 39 14 .736
Atlanta 32 23 .582 8
Orlando 32 23 .582 8
Washington 12 43 .218 28
Charlotte 7 45 .135 31 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
x-Chicago 43 13 .768
Indiana 33 21 .611 9
Milwaukee 26 28 .481 16
Detroit 21 33 .389 21
Cleveland 17 35 .327 24
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
San Antonio 38 14 .731
Memphis 30 23 .566 8 1/2
Dallas 31 24 .564 8 1/2
Houston 29 25 .537 10
New Orleans 14 40 .259 25
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
x-Oklahoma City 40 1 4
.741
Denver 29 25 .537 11
Utah 28 27 .509 12 1/2
Portland 26 29 .473 14 1/2
Minnesota 25 31 .446 16
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
L.A. Lakers 35 20 .636
L.A. Clippers 33 22 .600 2
Phoenix 28 26 .519 6 1/2
Golden State 21 32 .396 13
Sacramento 19 36 .345 16
x-clinched playoff spot
Thursdays Results
New York 96, Orlando 80
Detroit 99, Washington 94
Chicago 93, Boston 86
L.A. Clippers 93, Sacramento 85
Todays Games
Oklahoma City at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
Memphis at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Portland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
New Orleans at San Antonio, 8:30
p.m.
Charlotte at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.
Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m.
Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m.
Houston at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Atlanta at Charlotte, 8 p.m.
Orlando at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
Portland at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 10:30
p.m.
NBA GLANCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
z-N.Y. Rangers 81 51 23 7 109 225 183
x-Pittsburgh 81 50 25 6 106 278 219
x-Philadelphia 81 47 25 9 103 262 228
x-New Jersey 81 47 28 6 100 224 207
N.Y. Islanders 81 34 36 11 79 200 248
Northeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
y-Boston 81 48 29 4 100 265 199
x-Ottawa 81 41 30 10 92 247 236
Buffalo 81 39 32 10 88 215 226
Toronto 81 35 36 10 80 230 260
Montreal 81 30 35 16 76 208 225
Southeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
x-Florida 81 37 26 18 92 199 226
x-Washington 81 41 32 8 90 218 229
Winnipeg 81 37 35 9 83 222 242
Carolina 81 33 32 16 82 212 239
Tampa Bay 81 37 36 8 82 231 278
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
y-St. Louis 80 48 21 11 107 206 159
x-Nashville 81 47 26 8 102 231 209
x-Detroit 81 48 28 5 101 246 200
x-Chicago 81 44 26 11 99 245 236
Columbus 81 28 46 7 63 195 259
Northwest Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
y-Vancouver 81 50 22 9 109 246 198
Calgary 81 36 29 16 88 197 224
Colorado 81 41 34 6 88 207 214
Minnesota 81 35 35 11 81 176 222
Edmonton 81 32 39 10 74 212 236
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
x-Los Angeles 81 40 27 14 94 192 176
x-San Jose 81 42 29 10 94 225 208
x-Phoenix 80 40 27 13 93 208 202
Dallas 81 42 34 5 89 209 219
Anaheim 81 34 35 12 80 202 226
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
overtime loss.
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
z-clinched conference
Thursdays Results
Carolina 2, Montreal 1, SO
Minnesota 2, Chicago 1, SO
San Jose 6, Los Angeles 5, SO
Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 2, OT
N.Y. Islanders 5, Winnipeg 4
Philadelphia 2, Buffalo 1
Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 2
Washington 4, Florida 2
Boston 3, Ottawa 1
New Jersey 2, Detroit 1
Nashville 2, Dallas 0
Columbus 5, Colorado 2
Calgary 3, Vancouver 2
Anaheim 3, Edmonton 2, OT
Todays Game
Phoenix at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Ottawa at New Jersey, 3 p.m.
Buffalo at Boston, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
Anaheim at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.
Toronto at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Phoenix at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
St. Louis at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Nashville at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
NHL GLANCE
National League
East Division
W L Pct GB
New York 1 0 1.000
Philadelphia 1 0 1.000
Washington 1 0 1.000
Atlanta 0 1 .000 1
Miami 0 2 .000 1 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Cincinnati 1 0 1.000
St. Louis 1 0 1.000
Houston 0 0 .000 1/2
Milwaukee 0 0 .000 1/2
Chicago 0 1 .000 1
Pittsburgh 0 1 .000 1
West Division
W L Pct GB
Los Angeles 1 0 1.000
Arizona 0 0 .000 1/2
Colorado 0 0 .000 1/2
San Francisco 0 0 .000 1/2
San Diego 0 1 .000 1
Thursdays Results
N.Y. Mets 1, Atlanta 0
Philadelphia 1, Pittsburgh 0
Washington 2, Chicago Cubs 1
Cincinnati 4, Miami 0
L.A. Dodgers 5, San Diego 3
Todays Games
St. Louis (Garcia 0-0) at Milwaukee
(Gallardo 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Colorado (Guthrie 0-0) at Houston
(Rodriguez 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Lincecum 0-0) at
Arizona (Kennedy 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 0-0) at San
Diego (Luebke 0-0), 10:05 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Washington (Gonzalez 0-0) at Chicago
Cubs (Garza 0-0), 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Jurrjens 0-0) at N.Y. Mets
(Dickey 0-0), 1:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Wainwright 0-0) at Milwaukee
(Greinke 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Bumgarner 0-0) at
Arizona (Hudson 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Colorado (Moyer 0-0) at Houston
(Harrell 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (Lee 0-0) at Pittsburgh
(Karstens 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
Miami (Nolasco 0-0) at Cincinnati
(Latos 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 0-0) at San
Diego (Moseley 0-0), 8:35 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Harang 0-0) at San
Diego (Richard 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Cain 0-0) at Arizona
(Collmenter 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
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American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
Toronto 1 0 1.000
Baltimore 0 0 .000 1/2
New York 0 0 .000 1/2
Tampa Bay 0 0 .000 1/2
Boston 0 1 .000 1
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Detroit 1 0 1.000
Chicago 0 0 .000 1/2
Kansas City 0 0 .000 1/2
Minnesota 0 0 .000 1/2
Cleveland 0 1 .000 1
West Division
W L Pct GB
Oakland 1 1 .500
Seattle 1 1 .500
Los Angeles 0 0 .000
Texas 0 0 .000
Thursdays Results
Detroit 3, Boston 2
Toronto 7, Cleveland 4, 16 innings
Todays Games
Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-0) at
Texas (Lewis 0-0), 2:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Pavano 0-0) at Baltimore
(Arrieta 0-0), 3:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-0) at Tampa
Bay (Shields 0-0), 3:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Chen 0-0) at L.A. Angels
(Weaver 0-0), 10:05 p.m.
Seattle (Vargas 0-0) at Oakland
(McCarthy 0-0), 10:05 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Toronto (Morrow 0-0) at Cleveland
(Jimenez 0-0), 1:05 p.m.
Boston (Beckett 0-0) at Detroit (Fister
0-0), 4:05 p.m.
Kansas City (Hochevar 0-0) at L.A.
Angels (Haren 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Liriano 0-0) at Baltimore
(Hunter 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 0-0) at Tampa
Bay (Price 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Peavy 0-0) at
Texas (Holland 0-0), 8:05 p.m.
Seattle (Hernandez 0-0) at Oakland
(Colon 1-0), 9:05 p.m.
MLB GLANCE
By EDDIE PELLS
AUGUSTA, Ga. Leaders
are out on the course at the
Masters on a day that feels
more like a British Open.
Lee Westwood was getting
ready for a morning tee time
today, when hell try to stay
on top after shoot-
ing 5-under 67 in the
opening round.
Westwood and
the rest of the field
are being greeted by
overcast skies, blus-
tery winds and tem-
peratures in the 50s,
a stark contrast from
opening day, when it was
warm and calm at Augusta
National.
Louis Oosthuizen came
into the second round trailing
Westwood by one but made
double bogey on the second
hole to fall down the leader-
board.
That left Peter Hanson
alone in second at 4 under,
followed by a group of six,
including 1999 British Open
champion Paul Lawrie, at 3
under.
Thursday, at times, it felt
like the last day of the Masters
than the first with errant
tee shots and thoughts of
bad swings turning Augusta
National into a fragile free-
for-all for Tiger Woods, Rory
McIlroy, Phil Mickelson and
lots of other would-be leaders.
Westwood never got caught
up in the pressure cooker.
One of the best players to
never win a major took the
lead after the first round for
the first time in his career,
shooting a stress-free 5-under
67 on a day when Woods
couldnt control his
driver, Mickelson
spent time tromping
through the scrub and
the man who led for
most of the day, Henrik
Stenson, closed out his
day with a quadruple-
bogey meltdown that
sent him tumbling
down the standings.
Just trying to cruise my
way into the tournament today
and get in a good position
and then hopefully stay there,
Westwood said.
He finished with a 1-shot
lead over Hanson and 2010
British Open champion
Oosthuizen and another shot
in front of a group of six that
included Bubba Watson and
Ben Crane.
McIlroy, expected to be
part of a 2-man show with
Woods, opened the day with
a double bogey and spent the
rest of the round scrambling
to get in the red something
he finally did with a birdie on
No. 18 to close at 71.
Westwood, meanwhile,
looked to be in his com-
fort zone. He knows how to
compete at majors, with six
top-3 finishes since 2008. At
Augusta two years ago, he
was the leader heading into
the final round. On that day,
he 3-putted the ninth green to
lose the lead and ended up as
a bit player while Mickelson
won his third green jacket.
On this day, he rattled off
four straight birdies from Nos.
5 through 8 and didnt face a
putt of longer than 10 feet on
any of them.
Easy when its going that
well.
Woods, Mickelson and the
rest never enjoyed that feeling
on a damp day that was built
for scoring, save some tough
pin positions and all the mud
on the ball.
It started on the very first
swing for Woods, who hooked
his shot into the pines on No. 1,
then into a creek far left of the
fairway on No. 2. He scrambled
to save par both those times and
steadied himself through the
middle of the round, spending
some time at 2 under and near
the top of the leaderboard.
But he couldnt overcome
errant tee shots on Nos. 17 and
18. He finished with a pair of
bogeys the one on 18 com-
ing after he dropped from an
unplayable lie for a penalty
stroke and saved the 5 from
the woods.
Hard to tell what stuff
Mickelson was working with
on this day. It began bright
and early with him standing on
the first tee box watching Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and
Gary Player hit the ceremonial
first tee shots. About eight hours
later, Mickelson was stomping
through the brush with dozens
of fans, spending the full five
minutes looking for a lost ball
left of the 10th fairway.
He never found it and
ended up with a triple-bogey
7. Three birdies down the
stretch, including one of only
seven made all day on No. 18,
still left him at 2-over 74.
Stenson spent almost the
entire day in the lead at 6 under
and looked like hed be cel-
ebrating his 36th birthday with
cake, presents and at least a
share of the first-round lead.
Not to be.
He smashed his tee shot
on 18 deep into the woods,
couldnt get out after trying
to scoot the ball below some
trees, then got a bad lie on
trampled pine straw and hit a
mediocre punch out on his third
shot, which had him pounding
his club into the ground. His
fourth shot, from 122 yards,
missed the green. He chunked
his chip, then needed three
putts to limp in with an 8 and a
score of 1-under 71 in con-
tention but tied for 14th after
spending the day in first.
2nd round under way
at blustery Augusta
By JOE KAY
CINCINNATI Joey
Votto grabbed the cap off
his head and tossed it into
the joyous crowd behind the
Reds dugout as a way of say-
ing thanks on opening
day. Then he pulled
off his batting gloves
and flung those into
the stands, too.
Johnny Cueto? He
wasnt giving anything away.
Not to the Marlins, anyway.
Jay Bruce homered and
drove in a pair of runs and
Cueto dominated in his first
opening-day start on Thursday,
leading the Cincinnati Reds to
a 4-0 victory over the Miami
Marlins before one of the
biggest crowds ever at Great
American Ball Park.
Cueto (1-0) anchored the
Reds first opening-day shut-
out since 1980, when Frank
Pastore beat Atlantas Phil
Niekro 9-0. The right-hander
allowed only three hits over
seven innings, one of them an
infield single.
The 26-year-old didnt
sweat his starring role on the
citys unofficial holiday.
The young man is matur-
ing big-time before our eyes,
manager Dusty Baker said.
He doesnt fight Johnny
Cueto anymore. Before, his
own worst enemy was him-
self.
Cueto had his breakout
season last year, when he
stopped trying for strikeouts
and brooding when something
went wrong. He finished with
a 2.31 ERA and gave up three
runs or fewer in 21 of his 24
starts.
On Thursday, he pitched
like he belongs at the top of
the rotation.
Left-hander Mark Buehrle
(0-1) gave up Bruces sacri-
fice fly and Ryan Ludwicks
RBI double over six innings.
Bruce also homered
off Edward Mujica.
The crowd of 42,956
was the second-largest
at Great American,
trailing only a playoff
loss to Philadelphia in 2010.
The Marlins arrived at 3
a.m. after opening their new
ballpark in Miami with a 4-1
loss to St. Louis on Wednesday
night. They managed only
four hits off the defending
World Series champions and
werent any better after a few
hours of sleep in Cincinnati.
Florida managed only three
hits off Cueto and a bullpen
depleted by the loss of clos-
er Ryan Madson and setup
man Nick Masset. Aroldis
Chapman pitched a perfect
eighth and fill-in closer Sean
Marshall retired the side in
order in the ninth, striking
out two with the crowd on
its feet.
Then, the Reds celebrated
with on-field hand slaps and
a few mementos tossed into
the stands.
Cincinnatis traditional
home opener matched two of
the majors biggest offseason
spenders.
Votto got a loud ovation
during pregame introductions,
a day after he signed a new
contract that gave him an
additional 10 years and $225
million to be the cornerstone
of the small-market franchise.
Votto singled and got an
intentional walk in four plate
appearances.
The Marlins also went on
a spending spree leading up
to the opening of their new
ballpark, shelling out $191
million to acquire NL batting
champion Jose Reyes, Buehrle
and All-Star closer Heath Bell
in a move to make the fran-
chise a contender overnight.
They also hired manager
Ozzie Guillen to oversee the
fresh start.
Buehrle struggled with his
control in the first inning on a
windy, 60-degree afternoon.
He escaped a bases-loaded,
1-out threat by allowing
only Bruces sacrifice fly to
the warning track in center.
Doubles by Scott Rolen and
Ludwick made it 2-0 in the
sixth.
DODGERS 5, PADRES 3
SAN DIEGO With Magic
Johnson and Frank McCourt watch-
ing from next to the dugout, the Los
Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego
Padres 5-3 Thursday even though
reigning NL Cy Young Award win-
ner Clayton Kershaw left after three
innings with the flu.
Former Lakers great Johnson,
part of a group buying the Dodgers
for $2.15 billion from McCourt, had a
big smile after Matt Kemp hit a 2-run
homer in the eighth, giving him three
RBIs.
Kershaw left after limiting the
Padres to two hits through three
innings. He struck out three, walked
one and singled off newcomer Edinson
Volquez in the third for the Dodgers
first hit of the season.
Josh Lindblom pitched two perfect
innings in relief of Kershaw for the
win. Javy Guerra pitched the ninth for
the save.
Volquez, Cincinnatis opening-day
starter a year ago, struck out five
through three scoreless innings and
singled off Kershaw in the third for the
Padres first hit. He then allowed two
runs on four walks, including three in
a row, and two singles in the fourth.
Volquez went five, allowing three runs,
two earned, and three hits. He struck
out seven and walked four to take
the loss.
PHILLIES 1, PIRATES 0
PITTSBURGH Roy Halladay
was nearly flawless for eight innings
and Philadelphia showed off its pitch-
ing from the start in a season-opening
win over Pittsburgh.
Halladay, a 2-time Cy Young
winner, gave up just two first-inning
singles while striking out five without
a walk. Carlos Ruiz had a sacrifice fly
in the seventh and Jonathan Papelbon
pitched a perfect ninth for his first
National League save.
The Phillies start this season as
the favorites to win their sixth straight
NL East title.
Pittsburgh starter Erik Bedard
nearly kept pace with Halladay, giving
up only one run in seven innings. He
struck out four and walked one.
NATIONALS 2, CUBS 1
CHICAGO Stephen Strasburg
frustrated Chicago for seven innings
before Ian Desmond singled in the
go-ahead run in the ninth to give
Washington the win.
Strasburg allowed one run and five
hits, including an RBI single to Marlon
Byrd in the fourth. He was lifted in the
eighth and Kerry Wood forced in the
tying run with three walks.
Washington went ahead in the
ninth when Chad Tracy hit a 2-out
double off the right-field wall against
Carlos Marmol and Desmond followed
with his third hit.
Strasburg struck out five and
walked one.
Ryan Dempster, making his fourth
opening start, struck out 10 in 7 2/3
innings.
METS 1, BRAVES 0
NEW YORK Johan Santana
pitched five innings of 2-hit ball in his
long-awaited return from shoulder
surgery and David Wright hit an
RBI single to lead New York over
Atlanta.
New Yorks revamped bullpen
picked up for Santana and shut down
the Braves, who fielded an opening-
day lineup without Chipper Jones for
the first time since 1996. Atlanta was
punchless at the plate, managing only
four hits.
Santana struck out five and wrig-
gled out of a fifth-inning jam in his first
big-league appearance since beating
the Braves 4-2 on Sept. 2, 2010. He
had surgery 12 days later.
Tommy Hanson allowed one run
on four hits in five innings with three
walks for Atlanta.
Cueto leads Reds over Marlins 4-0
By TOM WITHERS
CLEVELAND Everything
had gone so smoothly during a
sun-soaked season opener for the
Indians.
Chris Perez blew it.
Clevelands All-Star
closer (36 saves in 2011)
couldnt protect a 3-run
lead in the ninth inning,
allowing Toronto to tie it,
and the Blue Jays went on
to win the longest opening-day
game ever in the major leagues,
7-4, in 16 innings over the Indians
on Thursday.
J.P. Arencibia hit a 3-run homer
off Jairo Asencio in the 16th for
the Blue Jays.
The Indians got a dominant
performance by starter Justin
Masterson, who allowed just two
hits and struck out 10 against one
of the ALs most dangerous line-
ups. Jack Hannahan hit a 3-run
homer to stake Cleveland to a 4-0
lead and the Indians did enough
defensively to give a sellout crowd
reason to think victory No. 1 of a
new season was in the books.
Needing just three outs, Indians
manager Manny Acta turned the
game over to Perez.
The marathon eclipsed the
previous longest openers 15
innings between Cleveland and
Detroit on April 19, 1960, and 15
innings between Philadelphia and
Washington on April 13, 1926.
According to STATS LLC, this
was the longest of 1,360 opening-
day games played since 1901.
Luis Perez, Torontos sev-
enth pitcher, worked four score-
less innings for the win and
Sergio Santos got two outs
to end the 5-hour, 14-minute
game which began in bright
sunshine and ended in dark-
ness.
Jose Bautista homered and
hit a sacrifice fly for Toronto,
which did next to nothing against
Masterson before storming back in
the ninth.
Hannahan connected against
Ricky Romero in the second, giv-
ing Cleveland a 4-0 lead. But the
Indians didnt score again, blanked
for 14 innings to disappoint a crowd
of 43,190 that thinned to just a few
thousand diehards by the end.
In the 16th, Asencio walked
Brett Lawrie and Omar Vizquel
was safe on a failed fielders choice
before Arencibia, who hit 23 hom-
ers as a rookie last season, drove
a pitch onto the pedestrian plaza
in left.
The Indians squandered a poten-
tial game-winning situation in the
12th. They loaded the bases on
two walks and a single before Blue
Jays manager John Farrell brought
44-year-old shortstop Vizquel off
the bench as a fifth infielder. The
strategy worked when Asdrubal
Cabrera swung at Perezs first
pitch and bounced into an inning-
ending double play.
Toronto trailed 4-1 going into
the ninth. But the Blue Jays ral-
lied for three runs off Perez, who
missed most of spring training with
a strained side muscle and looked
awful.
He gave up two singles to start
the inning before Bautistas sacri-
fice fly made it 4-2. Kelly Johnson
took second on the play and
after Adam Lind walked, Edwin
Encarnacion hit a tying 2-run dou-
ble.
Perez got an out but walked Eric
Thames. Perez was then pulled by
Acta before hanging his head and
walking dejectedly to the dugout
showered by boos.
TIGERS 3, RED SOX 2
DETROIT Austin Jackson hit a bases-
loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning
and the Detroit Tigers overcame a blown
save by Jose Valverde to beat the Boston
Red Sox.
AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin
Verlander was dominant for eight innings and
left with a 2-0 lead. But Valverde (1-0) blew a
save for the first time in 52 chances, a streak
that included 49 in a row last season.
Boston manager Bobby Valentine lost in
his return to the major leagues after replacing
Terry Francona following the teams 7-20
September slide that cost the Red Sox a
playoff spot.
With one out in the Tigers ninth, Jhonny
Peralta and Alex Avila singled off Mark
Melancon (0-1) and Ramon Santiago was hit
by a pitch from Alfredo Aceves. Jackson fol-
lowed with a sharp grounder past diving third
baseman Nick Punto.
Prince Fielder singled his first time up for
the AL Central champions and added a sac-
rifice fly. Verlander gave up two hits, walked
one and struck out seven.
By Dave Boninsegna
The Delphos Herald
zsportslive@yahoo.com
KALIDA Early offense, led by
a 3-for-4 hitting performance by Josh
Breece, propelled the Pandora-Gilboa
Rockets to an 8-2 victory over the
Kalida Wildcats in Putnam County
League baseball action at Holy Name
Ball Park on Thursday afternoon.
The loss was the first of the season
for the Wildcats as they fell to 3-1 over-
all (1-1 PCL), while the Rockets moved
to 2-2 overall (1-1 PCL).
Breece had a homer, two doubles
and three runs batted in to lead the
Rockets, Paul Utendorf went 3-for-4
with an RBI for the hosts.
The Rockets scored two runs in each
of the first three innings before adding
another in the seventh for the win.
The Rockets got on the board in the
first inning on a Breece 2-run homer.
Levi Hovest reached base on a 2-out
single before Breece deposited a Jordan
Laudick pitch over the left-field wall to
give the guests a 2-0 lead.
P-G added two more in the second,
sending eight batters to the plate. Seth
Schmenk reached on a sacrifice and
after an Abe Basinger single, Brian
Schneck singled home Basinger. Before
that, Reed Hovest delivered an RBI hit
to put the Rockets up 4-0.
In the third inning, the Rockets used
a combination of small-ball and speed
to up their lead to 6-0. Nathan Schutz
led off the inning with a single and
then stole second. Alex Osborn singled
Schutz to third, then Schutz stole home
to make it a 5-0 contest, P-G added one
more on a Dustin Rieman sacrifice, put-
ting the Rockets in the drivers seat.
The Wildcats got on the board in the
bottom of the third. Utendorf singled
home Neil Recker but was cut down at
third on a fielders choice, ending the
Kalida threat.
In the fourth, the hosts played long
ball when Tyler Heitmeyer launched a
shot over the left-field wall for the Cats
second run.
Pandora-Gilboa got the run right
back in the fifth after Breece hit the first
of his two doubles in the game. He later
scored on a Schmenk single, giving the
Rockets a 6-run advantage again.
Kalida threatened in its half of the
fifth but came up empty. Utendorf and
Nathan Korotrax began the inning with
back-to-back singles but a fielders
choice and strikeout cut the rally short.
Rockets tacked on an insurance run
in the top of the seventh after Hovest led
off the inning by reaching on an error
and scored all the way from first on
Breeces second double of the game.
In the bottom of the seventh, Breece
came on and retired the Wildcats in
order to preserve the win.
Kalida visits Crestview for a noon
doubleheader Saturday.
Pandora-Gilboa 8 (ab-r-h-rbi)
Hovest c 4-0-1-0, Schneck p/lf 4-0-1-1,
Hovest 1b 3-2-1-1, Breece lf/p 4-2-3-3, Schutz
ss 4-1-1-0, Osborn rf 4-1-2-0, Schmenk 3b 4-1-
1-1, Rieman 2b 3-0-0-0, Basinger cf 3-1-2-0.
Totals 33-8-12-6.
Kalida 2 (ab r h rbi)
Utendorf cf/p 4-0-3-1, Kortokrax ss 4-0-1-
0, Guisinger lf 3-0-0-0, Unverferth 2b 4-0-0-0,
Heitmeyer 3b 3-1-1-1, Laudick p/cf 2-0-0-0,
Kahle ph 0-0-0-0, Jorrey rf 3-0-0-0, Schroeder 1b
3-0-0-0, Recker c 3-1-2-0. Totals 29-2-7-2.
Score by Innings:
Pan.-Gil. 222 000 1 - 8 12 2
Kalida 001 100 0 - 2 7 0
IP R H ER K
PANDORA-GILBOA
Schneck (W) 5 2 6 2 3
Breece 2 0 1 0 0
KALIDA
Laudick (L) 5 7 11 4 3
Utendorf 2 1 1 1 1
Indians blow lead, lose opener to Jays in 16
Rockets soar past Wildcats in PCL ball
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ties. The BBB will assist
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AREA AGENCY ON AG-
ING 3 intends to award
Older Americans Act III
funds for 2012 to provid-
ers who furnish care coor-
dination services by pro-
viding personal care serv-
ices, adult day services,
and transportation serv-
ices to persons age 60
and older within the seven
county service area of Al-
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Hardin, Mercer, Putnam
and /or Van Wert Coun-
ties. For additional infor-
mation and/or for a copy
of the Request of Pro -
posal, please contact
Teresa Heitbrink-Ireland,
Provider Relations Coordi-
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on the Provider Rela -
tions tab, there you will
find a copy of the RFP for
your review. A Pre-Bid
Meeting will be held on
04/19/12 at 1:00pm at 200
E. High St., 2nd floor,
Lima, Ohio 45801. Dead-
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10 Pharaohs amulet
12 Obstruct
13 Geishas attire
14 Herb for kitty
15 Et tu time
16 Hearty laugh
18 Baseballs Mel --
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46 Place of resi-
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56 Parthenon site
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54 Landscape or por-
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By Gary Clothier
Q: As a kid, I remember
talk about the bunco
squad. Was there really
such a thing? -- H.L.,
Brattleboro, Vt.
A: There really was
such a thing. According
to the World Bunco
Association (yes, this is a
real group), the game of
bunco dates back to the
1800s, under its original
name, 8-dice cloth. In
1855, crooked gamblers
introduced the game in
San Francisco, Calif.,
and changed the name
to banco. In Spain, there
was a card game called
banca and a similar
game played in Mexico
known as monte. After
the card game reached
San Francisco, it merged
with the dice game, and
the new game became
bunco (or bunko).
Gaming venues, called
bunco parlors, began to
sprout. In the late 1800s,
bunco became a popular
family or parlor game,
and groups would gather
to share food and drink.
During Prohibition,
bunco parlors
began to resurface,
with illegal spirits
now part of the
experience. The
term bunco
squad referred
to the detectives
who raided these
establ i shments.
The popularity of
the game dwindled
until the 1980s,
when bunco
again became a
group activity and
remains popular to
this day.
Q: Elizabeth
Taylor wore a large
diamond ring. As
I recall, her then-
husband Richard
Burton bought it for
her. The diamond
was named after
its previous owner.
If any of this makes
sense, could you
please tell me
the name of the ring? --
T.R.T., Shiprock, N.M.
A: You are making
perfect sense. The
emerald-cut Krupp
Diamond was named
after its previous owner
Vera Krupp (1909-1967),
wife of the German
industrialist Alfried Krupp
(1907-1967). Richard
Burton bought the
33.19-carat diamond in
1968 for $305,000 (about
$2 million today).
Q: When was the
original Bambi movie
released? -- S.B.,
Lansdowne, Pa.
A: Bambi,
an animated film
about a young
deer growing up
in the wild after
hunters shoot
his mother, was
released in
1942. Bambi
II, a movie
that continues
the story of the
original, came out
in 2006.
Q: What can
you tell me about
Walter Brennan?
Was he ever
married? Did
he have any
children? -- F.T.,
Cambridge, Md.
A: Walter
Brennan (1894-
1974) won
the Academy
Award for Best
Supporting Actor
three times and
is tied with Jack
Nicholson for
the most Oscar wins by
a male actor. Brennan
performed in vaudeville
while still in high school.
He served in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
In the 1920s, he moved to
Hollywood, Calif., where
he became wealthy
dealing in real estate,
but lost his fortune during
the Depression. In 1929,
he took on small parts in
films. Better roles came
quickly. Regarded as one
of the finest character
actors in motion-picture
history, he is probably
best known for his roles in
Westerns. He appeared
in more than 230 film
and television projects in
a career spanning nearly
five decades. Brennan
married Ruth Wells in
1920; they remained
married until his death
from emphysema. They
had a daughter and two
sons.
Send your questions
to Mr. Know-It-All at
AskMrKIA@gmail.com
or c/o United Feature
Syndicate, 200 Madison
Ave., New York, NY
10016.
Bunco squad? Its no bunk
Ask Mr. Know-it-all
Elizabeth
Taylor
Richard
Burton
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entering into any agree-
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business opportunities, or
work at home opportuni-
ties. The BBB will assist
in the investigation of
these businesses. (This
notice provided as a cus-
tomer service by The Del-
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Lima
(419) 229-2899
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nd
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$1 entry
April 13
th
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th
Friday Eve 5:00-9
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1006 Ft. Jennings Rd.
Delphos
Credit cards accepted
All proceeds will help Brenda
& Elise as they volunteer on
their overseas mission trips.
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$30.00. PH. 419 453-2934
510

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All very good shape.
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COUNTRY HOUSE. 1
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419-863-0088.
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Nice clean Apartment.
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Legals
AREA AGENCY ON AG-
ING 3 intends to award
Older Americans Act III
funds for 2012 to provid-
ers who furnish care coor-
dination services by pro-
viding personal care serv-
ices, adult day services,
and transportation serv-
ices to persons age 60
and older within the seven
county service area of Al-
len, Auglaize, Hancock,
Hardin, Mercer, Putnam
and /or Van Wert Coun-
ties. For additional infor-
mation and/or for a copy
of the Request of Pro -
posal, please contact
Teresa Heitbrink-Ireland,
Provider Relations Coordi-
nator at 419-879-3867, or
go t o our websi t e:
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tions tab, there you will
find a copy of the RFP for
your review. A Pre-Bid
Meeting will be held on
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E. High St., 2nd floor,
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Answer to
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ACROSS
1 Heidis mountains
5 Like some oxen
10 Pharaohs amulet
12 Obstruct
13 Geishas attire
14 Herb for kitty
15 Et tu time
16 Hearty laugh
18 Baseballs Mel --
19 Code a message
23 Honest prez
26 Job ad letters
27 Bewildered
30 Deers refuge
32 Afuent person
34 Gentlest
35 Word over a slot
36 H.H. Munro
37 EPA gure
38 Itty-bitty
39 Mariachi wear
42 Wet dirt
45 Biol. or astron.
46 Place of resi-
dence
50 Famed sci- writer
53 Cramped
55 Get back
56 Parthenon site
57 Escalator part
58 Boxing wins
DOWN
1 Sour
2 Weak, as an ex-
cuse
3 Ordinary lan-
guage
4 -- Antonio
5 Vocalist -- Sumac
6 Make a choice
7 Casino game
8 Fix a manuscript
9 Corp. section
10 Travel on powder
11 Refuse to buy
12 Gross
17 Sufx for forfeit
20 Scottish monster
21 Drop sharply
22 Stoppers
23 Rear, to Popeye
24 Glamorous wraps
25 Ms. Bombeck
28 Pour forth
29 Automotive pur-
chase
31 Cartoon shrieks
32 Barking
33 Monsieurs sum-
mer
37 PC rival
40 Hosts plea
41 Animated ogre
42 Retail center
43 Consumer
44 Chop into cubes
47 Hydrox rival
48 Beaded shoes
49 Meadow browser
51 Kiwis kin
52 Belly dance instru-
ment
54 Landscape or por-
trait
By Gary Clothier
Q: As a kid, I remember
talk about the bunco
squad. Was there really
such a thing? -- H.L.,
Brattleboro, Vt.
A: There really was
such a thing. According
to the World Bunco
Association (yes, this is a
real group), the game of
bunco dates back to the
1800s, under its original
name, 8-dice cloth. In
1855, crooked gamblers
introduced the game in
San Francisco, Calif.,
and changed the name
to banco. In Spain, there
was a card game called
banca and a similar
game played in Mexico
known as monte. After
the card game reached
San Francisco, it merged
with the dice game, and
the new game became
bunco (or bunko).
Gaming venues, called
bunco parlors, began to
sprout. In the late 1800s,
bunco became a popular
family or parlor game,
and groups would gather
to share food and drink.
During Prohibition,
bunco parlors
began to resurface,
with illegal spirits
now part of the
experience. The
term bunco
squad referred
to the detectives
who raided these
establ i shments.
The popularity of
the game dwindled
until the 1980s,
when bunco
again became a
group activity and
remains popular to
this day.
Q: Elizabeth
Taylor wore a large
diamond ring. As
I recall, her then-
husband Richard
Burton bought it for
her. The diamond
was named after
its previous owner.
If any of this makes
sense, could you
please tell me
the name of the ring? --
T.R.T., Shiprock, N.M.
A: You are making
perfect sense. The
emerald-cut Krupp
Diamond was named
after its previous owner
Vera Krupp (1909-1967),
wife of the German
industrialist Alfried Krupp
(1907-1967). Richard
Burton bought the
33.19-carat diamond in
1968 for $305,000 (about
$2 million today).
Q: When was the
original Bambi movie
released? -- S.B.,
Lansdowne, Pa.
A: Bambi,
an animated film
about a young
deer growing up
in the wild after
hunters shoot
his mother, was
released in
1942. Bambi
II, a movie
that continues
the story of the
original, came out
in 2006.
Q: What can
you tell me about
Walter Brennan?
Was he ever
married? Did
he have any
children? -- F.T.,
Cambridge, Md.
A: Walter
Brennan (1894-
1974) won
the Academy
Award for Best
Supporting Actor
three times and
is tied with Jack
Nicholson for
the most Oscar wins by
a male actor. Brennan
performed in vaudeville
while still in high school.
He served in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
In the 1920s, he moved to
Hollywood, Calif., where
he became wealthy
dealing in real estate,
but lost his fortune during
the Depression. In 1929,
he took on small parts in
films. Better roles came
quickly. Regarded as one
of the finest character
actors in motion-picture
history, he is probably
best known for his roles in
Westerns. He appeared
in more than 230 film
and television projects in
a career spanning nearly
five decades. Brennan
married Ruth Wells in
1920; they remained
married until his death
from emphysema. They
had a daughter and two
sons.
Send your questions
to Mr. Know-It-All at
AskMrKIA@gmail.com
or c/o United Feature
Syndicate, 200 Madison
Ave., New York, NY
10016.
Bunco squad? Its no bunk
Ask Mr. Know-it-all
Elizabeth
Taylor
Richard
Burton
BEETLE BAILEY
SNUFFY SMITH
BORN LOSER
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
BIG NATE
FRANK & ERNEST
GRIZZWELLS
PICKLES
BLONDIE
HI AND LOIS
Tomorrows
Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol
Sister is a better
taker than giver
Dear Annie: For 20 years,
Ive considered my sister,
Trina, my best friend. A
couple of years ago, she was
transferred into a very difficult
work position. Trina has had
a hard life and I wanted to be
there for her through thick and
thin.
However, when I needed
emotional support from her
this year, it wasnt there. I
shared how hurt I was, but
apparently I wasnt tactful
enough. Trina felt I was criti-
cizing her. Now we dont talk
on the phone anymore. She
says she is busy. Instead, we
exchange brief emails. When I
text, she replies a day
or two later, saying,
Sorry, I didnt see
your text. She has
walled herself off and
tells me, Just accept
me as I am.
The problem is, I
feel used. I was her
rock all those years,
with long, encourag-
ing calls, helping with
finances, taking trips
to support her. I dont need
her to reciprocate all of those
things, but from time to time, I
long for a little empathy.
I dont know how to deal
with my feelings. Shall I just
give up? The communication
coming from Trina is pretty
clear. If it were a friend doing
this, I would move on. Trina
has asked me to come for our
annual summer visit, but I
dont feel comfortable pretend-
ing theres a relationship when
one no longer exists.
How do I honor Trinas
feelings and also my own? --
Former Sister
Dear Sister: Trina is a bet-
ter taker than giver. She has
probably always been this way,
but you didnt notice until you
needed her. (This is not an
uncommon dynamic in many
relationships.) Trina avoids
you now because she recog-
nizes that she has disappointed
you. And shes right about one
thing: You have to accept her
as she is. Please visit her this
summer. Shes your sister.
Were sure she has many good
qualities, so try to focus on
those. You can still enjoy her
company if you understand her
limitations.
Dear Annie: My son
recently turned 50. First he lost
his job, and then he was in an
accident. I let him stay with
me until he settled the acci-
dent lawsuit, but he blew that
money and is still here.
He is on disability now and
is waiting for housing in an
apartment complex for the dis-
abled, but I have no idea how
long it will take. The stress of
him being here and all the junk
hes accumulated is wreaking
havoc with my respiratory sys-
tem and taking a toll on my
mental health.
On top of that, I would
like to care for my 3-year-old
grandson while his parents are
at work. I cant deal with both a
50-year-old and a toddler. How
can I get my son to leave? --
Tired of Mothering Him
Dear Tired: If your son is
waiting for housing, it could
take a while. In the meantime,
talk to his doctor and local
social service agencies to see
what help is available right
now. Then set a time limit, and
tell your son he has until then
to find other accommodations.
Perhaps his siblings, relatives
or friends will lend a hand until
his housing options become a
reality.
Dear Annie: This is in
response to Steve in Ohio,
who asked about family mem-
bers having the same name. It
is an Italian custom to name the
firstborn son after the grand-
father. My oldest uncle
named his son Salvatore,
as did another uncle two
years later. A year after
that, my parents named
me Salvatore. Our par-
ents eliminated confu-
sion by calling one Big
Sal, the other Little Sal
and I was Roger, my
middle name.
It worked out fine
until I went into the mil-
itary. An investigation revealed
that there was no one with
that name born at the hospital
I had indicated. To straighten
everything out, I had to legally
change my name to Roger. --
The Villages, Fla.
Dear Annie: Would you
please ask your readers to list
a charity or medical organiza-
tion in lieu of flowers in death
notices? Too many people send
flowers when there is a decline
in giving to medical research.
At a recent visitation, there
were two rooms full of flowers.
Within a few hours, flowers
die. Please help raise aware-
ness that there are other sig-
nificant ways to remember the
deceased. -- Friend of a Young
Lung Cancer Victim
Dear Friend: We are all
in favor of donations to char-
ity and medical research, and
we hope family members who
place death notices in the news-
papers and online will keep this
in mind as a way of honoring
the deceased. It means a great
deal to these organizations to
have the financial support.
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012
Your leadership qualities could
become much stronger
in the year ahead than
theyve ever been.
There are some strong
indications that youll
create and oversee a
daring, innovative enterprise.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) --
Although you can accomplish a lot for
yourself right now, it might not be a
good day to mend fences with a co-
worker. The other party needs much
more time to be able to heal.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) --
Instead of doing things that could add
to your resources and turn a profit,
you might do anything but. Dont let
your emotions override your common
sense.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
-- The only way to get others to
follow you is to lead by example. If
you attempt to be overly assertive or
dictatorial, all youll do is create more
problems for yourself.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
-- If youre fearful of being taken
advantage of by others, theres a
chance you could conduct yourself in
ways that exploit other people first.
Dont do it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Its
generally unwise to do business with
friends, but this could be one of those
days when youll do so anyway. If
thats what you feel you have to do,
be extremely careful.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
-- Take care not to do anything that
makes you look good at the expense
of another. Even if you get away with
it for the moment, it will cost you
dearly down the line.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
Although you might do some nice
things for others based on a personal
desire to get something from them,
nothing will change and the world will
treat you the same as it always did.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) --
Even if you usually do everything for
yourself, you might have to depend
on others to open doors for you at this
time. Unfortunately, their priorities
and yours could differ.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
21) -- When it comes to partnership
arrangements, youre going to have
to be firm and decisive in order to
succeed at getting what you want. If
you arent, you wont.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
-- Dont look to others to quell your
emotional distress, because it isnt
likely they would be up to that kind of
assignment. Only time will heal what
ails you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
-- Avoid at all costs arguing with
friends over silly, minor social issues.
An innocent discussion could quickly
turn nasty if someone says the wrong
thing.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- If
you hope to finalize a matter of critical
importance, it is going to take strong
willpower on your part. Coasting
along wont work this time.
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Inc.
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Answers to Thursdays questions:
Entomophagists eat insects or microlivestock, as
some euphemistically put it.
Wham-O gave us the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop, the
Superball and the Boogie Board.
Todays questions:
What is the top speed of Amtraks Acela Express, the
fastest train in the U.S.?
What 1996 Tim Burton film was based on a series of
bubble gum trading cards?
Answers in Saturdays Herald
Todays words:
Housage: storage
Roorback: a dirty rumor used against a political
opponent
The Outstanding National Debt as of 8:45 a.m.
today was $15,624,200,977,544.
The estimated population of the United States is
312,535,532, so each citizens share of this debt is
$49,992.
The National Debt has continued to increase an
average of $4.01 billion per day since Sept. 28, 2007.
Coast Guard sinks ship adrift since tsunami
By MARK THIESSEN
and RACHEL DORO
Associated Press
OVER THE GULF OF
ALASKA A U.S. Coast
Guard cutter poured cannon
fire into a Japanese ghost ship
that had been drifting since the
last years tsunami, sinking the
vessel in the Gulf of Alaska
and eliminating the hazard
it posed to shipping and the
coastline.
The cutters guns tore holes
in the 164-foot Ryou-Un Maru
on Thursday, ending its long,
lonely journey across the
Pacific that began when the
deadly tsunami set it floating
more than a year ago.
The crew pummeled the
ghost ship with high explosive
ammunition, and the derelict
Ryou-Un Maru soon burst into
flames, and began taking on
water, officials said.
A huge column of smoke
could be seen over the gulf as
a Coast Guard C-130 cargo
plane, sent to observe the sink-
ing, dropped a buoy to monitor
for any possible pollution.
The Coast Guard warned
mariners to stay away, and avi-
ation authorities did the same
for pilots.
In about four hours, the
ship vanished into the water,
said Chief Petty Officer Kip
Wadlow in Juneau.
It sank into waters more
than 6,000 feet deep, about
180 miles west of the southeast
Alaska coast, the Coast Guard
said.
Officials decided to sink the
ship rather than risk the chance
of it running aground or endan-
gering other vessels in the busy
shipping lanes between North
America and Asia.
The ship had no lights or
communications system, and
its tank was able to carry more
than 2,000 gallons of diesel
fuel. Officials, however, didnt
know how much fuel, if any,
was aboard.
Its less risky than it would
be running into shore or run-
ning into (maritime) traffic,
Coast Guard spokesman Paul
Webb said.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
and the Environmental
Protection Agency studied the
problem and decided it is safer
to sink the ship and let the fuel
evaporate in the open water.
A light sheen and mini-
mal debris were visible as the
vessel sunk, but the sheen is
expected to quickly dissipate,
the Coast Guard said in a news
release.
The ship was at Hokkaido,
Japan, and destined for scrap-
ping when a magnitude-9.0
earthquake that struck the
country in March 2011 trig-
gered a tsunami.
The waves dislodged the
vessel and set it adrift. In total,
about 5 million tons of debris
was swept out to sea.
The boat did not have any
cargo aboard, Webb said. He
said he didnt know who owned
the Ryou-Un Maru, which had
been traveling about 1 mph in
recent days.
As the Coast Guard was
readying to fire on the vessel,
a Canadian fishing vessel, the
62-foot Bernice C, claimed sal-
vage rights over the ghost ship
in international waters.
Board seeks
Marines
dismissal in
Facebook case
By JULIE WATSON
Associated Press
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
A military board has recom-
mended dismissal for a Marine
sergeant who criticized President
Barack Obama on his Facebook
page, including allegedly putting
the presidents face on a Jackass
movie poster.
The Marine Corps administra-
tive board said after a daylong
hearing late Thursday at Camp
Pendleton that Sgt. Gary Stein has
committed misconduct and should
be dismissed.
The board also recommended
that Stein be given an other-then-
honorable discharge. That would
mean Stein would lose his benefits
and would not be allowed on any
military base.
The boards recommendations
go to a general who will either accept
or deny them. If the general dis-
agrees with the board, the case could
go to the secretary of the Navy.
Steins lawyers argued that the
9-year Marine, whose service was
to end in four months, was express-
ing his personal views and exercis-
ing his First Amendment rights.
Were truly surprised and dis-
appointed but it was an honor to
fight for a hero like Sgt. Stein and
every other Marines right to speak
freely, Steins defense attorney
Marine Capt. James Baehr said.
Stein addressed board members
during Thursdays hearing, telling
them he loved the Marine Corps
and wanted to re-enlist, Baehr
said.
Baehr expressed hope that the
recommendation would be rejected
by the general, saying the case will
go forward. The issues are too
important for this to end today,
he said.
During the hearing, the pros-
ecutor, Capt. John Torresala, said
Stein went as far as superimpos-
ing images of Obamas face on a
poster for the movie Jackass.
Torresala argued that Steins
behavior repeatedly violated
Pentagon policy that limits the free
speech rights of service members,
and said he should be dismissed
after ignoring warnings from his
superiors about his postings.
The government submitted
screen grabs of Steins postings
on one Facebook page he created
called Armed Forces Tea Party,
which the prosecutor said includ-
ed the image of Obama on the
Jackass movie poster. Stein also
superimposed Obamas image on a
poster for The Incredibles movie
that he changed to The Horribles,
the prosecutor said.
Torresala also said anti-Obama
comments by Stein that were post-
ed on a Facebook page used by
Marine meteorologists were preju-
dicial to good order and discipline,
and could have influenced junior
Marines.
Steins security clearance was
taken away and he has no future in
the Marine Corps because he cant
do his job without that clearance,
Torresala said.
The Marine Corps commu-
nity views the commands lack
of action as some kind of knock
on good order and discipline,
Torresala said. Our own people
are questioning why this Marine is
not being held accountable.
Baehr said during the hearing
that prosecutors were trying to
dredge up any damaging informa-
tion they could against Stein.
There is no basis in this case,
Baehr said. Sgt. Stein has broken
no law.
The military has had a policy
since the Civil War limiting the
free speech of service members,
including criticism of the com-
mander in chief.
Pentagon directives say military
personnel in uniform cannot spon-
sor a political club; participate in
any TV or radio program or group
discussion that advocates for or
against a political party, candidate
or cause; or speak at any event pro-
moting a political movement.
Commissioned officers also
may not use contemptuous words
against senior officials.
Backed by a team of lawyers
and congressmen, Stein has said
he is fighting for his constitutional
rights and should be allowed to
stay in the military. His lawyers
and the American Civil Liberties
Union contend his views are pro-
tected by the First Amendment.
Wyoming town with 1 resident sold for $900,000
By BOB MOEN
BUFORD, Wyo. Buford is a small place
for sure, but so is the world.
A remote, unincorporated area along busy
Interstate 80 that advertised itself as the smallest
town in the United States, Buford was sold at auc-
tion for $900,000 on Thursday to an unidentified
man from Vietnam.
Its owner for the last 20 years, Don Sammons,
served with the U.S. Army as a radio operator in
1968-69.
After meeting the buyer, an emotional
Sammons said it was hard for him to grasp the
irony of the situation.
I think its funny how things come full
circle, he said.
The buyer attended the auction in person but
declined to meet with the media or to be identi-
fied. Sammons and others involved in the auction
would not discuss the buyers plans for Buford.
It will take about 30 days for all the paperwork
to be completed before ownership of the place
located almost equidistant between Cheyenne and
Laramie in southeast Wyoming changes hands,
Sammons said.
The new owner will get a gas station and
convenience store, a schoolhouse from 1905, a
cabin, a garage, 10 acres, and a three-bedroom
home at 8,000 feet altitude overlooking the
trucks and cars on the nearby interstate on one
side and the distant snowcapped mountains in
Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado on
the other.
The town traces its origins to the 1860s and
the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Buford had as many as 2,000 residents before the
railroad was rerouted.
Sammons, who moved to the Buford area
about 30 years ago from Los Angeles to get away
from the busy city life, bought the trading post on
Jan. 31, 1992. He plans to retire from his unof-
ficial title as mayor and write a book about his
experiences in Buford, he said.
I felt my time here has been very happy for
me, and hopefully the new owner will be able to
enjoy what Ive enjoyed over the years con-
versations with people, the uniqueness of the
area and so on and keep the history alive,
Sammons said.
As workers boarded up the windows of the
convenience store behind her, Rozetta Weston, a
broker with a Cheyenne real estate auction com-
pany that represented the buyer, said the buyer
was excited to own a piece of the United States.
But she declined to discuss the buyers future
plans for Buford.
Weston said the buyer and a companion
arrived in Wyoming their first trip to the
United States on Monday, touring Cheyenne
and the University of Wyoming at Laramie before
the auction.
Williams & Williams Co. of Tulsa, Okla., con-
ducted the auction on a sunny, windy day outside
the trading post, which has been closed since Dec.
31. The number of bidders was not released.
Dozens of people, including some of the
125 residents who live in remote areas and get
their mail at the outdoor post office boxes on the
property, showed up for the event. Officials with
Williams & Williams stood out in their business
suits among the locals dressed in jeans and west-
ern attire.
Inside the convenience store, most of the
candy, snacks, pop, beer and all the Marlboro
cigarettes had been sold off already. Bags of char-
coal, whistles made from animal antlers and doz-
ens of T-shirts proclaiming Buford as the smallest
town in the United States remained unsold.

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