February 28, 2015

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Turn to pages 6-7 to read letters
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Proposed increase state sales tax concern for border counties

By NANCy KLiNe
DHI Media Correspondent
nkline@putnamsentinel.com
OTTAWA Ohio Governor
John Kasichs proposed increased
state sales tax, replacing voting
machines, and the indigent defense
fund are financial concerns for
county commissioners in northwest
Ohio. On Friday, commissioners in
Senate District I met in Ottawa with
members of the Ohio General Assembly and representatives of federal officials to discuss their concerns
and proposals about these issues.
Major speakers were State Representatives Tony Burkley and Robert McColley, representing House
Districts 82 and 81.
In the governors budget, he
likes to throw out a lot of stuff and
see where it sticks, Burkley said.
He said one area of concern was the
proposed increase in state sales tax

and cigarette tax.
Defiance County Commissioner
Thomas Kime said people will go
where it is cheaper to buy products.
Defiance County is a state border
county in Senate District I along with
Williams, Paulding and Van Wert.
We even saw that with our landfill rates, he said. A lot of people
went to Indiana.
Indiana has a flat seven percent
sales tax. The average sales tax in
Ohio is 7.5 percent including the
percentages added on by individual
counties.
Im afraid big ticket items will
go to Indiana, said Kime.
Things that may sound good for
the centralized part of state arent
necessarily good for people here,
Rep. Burkley responded.
Platform priorities were given by
members of the Legislative Counsel
for the County Commissioners Association of Ohio.

Legislative Counsel representative John Lentz said they have a
goal of a 50/50 partnership with the
state for the indigent defense fund.
States have a constitutional mandate
to provide legal representation to
indigent persons. Ohio has chosen
to transfer this responsibility to its
counties, initially reimbursing them
for 50 percent of the costs incurred.
Currently, the state reimbursement
stands at 40 percent.
We would like to see the transition of the responsibility for indigent defense go from counties to the
state, said Lentz.
Representative McColley said as
a former indigent defense attorney
he was concerned about what these
lawyers were paid.
SALeS TAx/16
Local hoteliers unhappy

with proposed bed tax
George Mox, one of the owners of the Microtel Inn and Suites in Delphos,
addresses Allen County Commissioners Friday during a meeting conerning
the proposed increase in the county lodging tax for hotels. (DHI Media/
Nancy Spencer)
By NANCy SPeNCeR
DHI Media Editor
nspencer@
delphosherald.com
DELPHOS Allen
County hoteliers got little
satisfaction from a meeting
with county commissioners
Friday morning concerning a proposed increase in
the countys lodging tax to
boost the Veterans Memorial Convention and Civic
Center in downtown Lima.
The property is owned by
the county.
Commissioners are considering legislation to reduce the countys current
three percent lodging tax

by 1.25 percent with companion legislation to institute an additional three percent lodging tax, equaling a
net 1.75 percent increase. A
portion of the increase will
be used to hire a marketing
specialist for county properties, including the Civic
Center and Allen County
Fairgrounds.
George Mox, one of the
Delphos Microtel Inn and
Suites owners, questioned
what impact the tax increase would have on the
the laundry list of improvements and repairs needed at
the center.
Defiance County Commissioner Otto Nicely and Putnam County

Commissioner Vince Schroeder, on right, listen as Rep. Robert
McColley (R-Napoleon) and State Rep. Tony Burkley (R-Payne)
talk about legislative issues during a meeting of Senate I
district commissioners. (DHI Media/Nancy Kline)
Yarger handling changes

as assistant prosecutor
By eD GeBeRT
DHI Media Editor
egebert@timesbulletin.com
VAN WERT Assistant Van Wert
County Prosecutor Eva Yarger knows
she has an important job. Its important
to protect the community and advocate
for victims like from domestic violence
and child abuse and property crimes,
she said. Its important to keep a lid on
the community. There is a lot out there
that goes on, and it would be worse if we
didnt keep doing it.
Yarger was born in Van Wert, but
moved to Elida to start school.
I am technically a native! she declared. I may be a 25-year carpetbagger, but I was born at Van Wert County
Hospital and my parents lived out on
Dog Creek Road and my brothers went
to Lincolnview for a while before moving away.
She graduated from Elida High
School and moved on to Ohio State University. She then earned her law degree
from Arizona State. Her first position
brought her back to Van Wert in December 1989.
The first job I got was with Don
Johnson. He was with Marty Burchfield in Johnson and Burchfield back
then. Yarger explained. After three
years she moved to a firm with Steve
Diller, Ed Hatcher, and Earl Rice until 1996 or 1997. Then I came in with
Chuck [Steele], Kevin [Taylor], and Bob
[Young] in Young Taylor Steele & Yarger, then it became Young Taylor Yarger
and now its Young and Yarger because

everybody leaves to become judge, she
said with a smile.
Yarger laughed that since 1989 she
has worked in downtown Van Wert
within a three-block radius. Now, with
the appointment of Marty Burchfield to
Common Pleas Court judge, Yargers
role in the County Prosecutors Office is
changing.
Ive just switched from being the Juvenile Court prosecutor now with Judge
Burchfield moving up to the bench, to
step up to do mainly adult cases, she
shared. Ive been doing child abuse and
sex cases for a long time and it will be
nice to take on some different types of
cases. So my focus now will be the adult
felony cases. I work with the Van Wert
Police Department while [Van Wert
County Prosecutor] Charlie [Kennedy]
works with the Sheriffs Office. So Im
kind of getting into the new groove. In
Juvenile Court, the hearings might be
any day of the week, but adult criminal cases are mainly held on Wednesdays and occasionally on Fridays, so its
just a matter of rearranging my schedule. With the grand jury meeting the
first Friday of every month, the police
department will either send me cases
for consideration or they bring them to
me and I decide if and what to charge
them with. Right now there are six trials
scheduled between now and May. I keep
a calendar on the wall here to keep track
of what is going on.
yARGeR/16
Theyve been throwing

out $3.9 million to bring the
facility up to where it needs
to be and this tax only generates about $300,000 a
year and nearly half of it is
earmarked for marketing,
Mox said. What business
sense does it make to throw
a few hundred thousand
dollars a year at a $3.5
million project? The Civic
Center is upside down.
Mox also offered information on how many people stay at his hotel and use
the Civic Center.
BeD TAx/16
Assistant Van Wert County Prosecutor Eva Yarger poses for a photo.
Yarger has recently moved from handling juvenile cases to adult
cases in the Van Wert County Court system. (DHI Media/Ed Gebert)
Vancrest of Delphos found deficiency-free

By NANCy SPeNCeR
DHI Media Editor
nspencer@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS The administration
and staff at Vancrest of Delphos is celebrating its recent Ohio Department of
Health annual Your Health and Life
Safety survey which scored the facility deficiency free.
Administrator Mick Murphy said a
lot of hard work and due diligence goes
into such a rating.
They look at everything from patient care to safety protocols for fires,
Murphy said. Its quite an accomplish-
ment for a facility this size to be declared deficiency free.

Surveyors went through their investigation at Vancrest on Feb. 12 and
found the nursing home to be in compliance with state rules and regulations
for licensure requirements.
Examples of what investigators
looked at included compliance with
treatment, medication passage, physician involvement and dining service as well as fire and security protocols.
They look at every single thing
we do here, Murphy said. If we had
a patient take a fall, they investigate
the entire incident to see if it could
have been prevented or if it was just
an unfortunate accident. If we had
someone develop pressure sores
theyll investigate to see if they patients received the proper care. They
look at it all.
VANCReST/16
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Real Estate ..............15
Local/State ...........3-4
Obituaries .................2
History ......................5
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Todays World ...........8
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US appeals court rules

marathon bombing trial
can stay in Boston
In this May 14, 2013 file photo, Leonard Nimoy arrives at the LA premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness at
The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Nimoy, famous for playing officer Mr. Spock in Star Trek died Friday,
Feb. 27, 2015 in Los Angeles of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. (Photo by
Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Leonard Nimoy, famous as Mr. Spock

on Star Trek, dies at age 83
By LyNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) In 1975,
Leonard Nimoy published an autobiography with the defiant title, I Am
Not Spock an attempt to show the
world he had many more facets than the
pointy-eared character that had come to
define him.
Yet two decades later, after proving
that with a career that became a rich
blend of roles beyond Star Trek along
with directing, writing and photography,
he bowed to fate with I Am Spock, a
revisionist sequel.
Nimoy had come to appreciate Mr.
Spocks enduring legacy and the inspiration the man of logic provided the actor
and his fans alike.
Hes a part of me, he wrote in his
second memoir. Not a day passes that I
dont hear that cool, rational voice commenting on some irrational aspect of the
human condition.
And if Im not listening to Spocks
voice, then Im listening to the voices of
those who know the Vulcan and consider him an old friend. It always amazes me and touches me to discover how
deeply the series affected so many peoples lives people who chose careers
in science, astronomy, space exploration,
all because of one television show called
Star Trek.
Nimoy had skillfully turned what
could have been a caricature into a dignified, inspiringly intellectual and even
touching figure, a half-human, half-Vulcan who was a multicultural and multiethnic touchstone, well before it was hip.
Nimoy died Friday of end-stage
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
at his Los Angeles home, with family at
his side, said his son, Adam Nimoy. He
was 83. His final public statement, last
Sunday on Twitter, was thoughtful and
bittersweet.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory, he wrote, followed
by his customary LLAP signoff
shorthand for Live long and prosper,
Spocks catch phrase.
The reaction to his death was swift,
on Earth and in space.
I loved him like a brother. We will
all miss his humor, his talent, and his
capacity to love, said William Shatner,
whose often-emotional Captain Kirk
was balanced by the composed Nimoy.
President Barack Obama said, I
loved Spock.
Long before being nerdy was cool,
there was Leonard Nimoy, Obama said
in a statement. Cool, logical, big-eared
and level-headed, the center of Star
Treks optimistic, inclusive vision of humanitys future.
Live Long and Prosper, Mr.
(hashtag) Spock! tweeted Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, aboard the
International Space Station.
George Takei, Mr. Sulu of Star
Trek, called Nimoy a great man and
friend.
We return you now to the stars,
Leonard. You taught us to Live Long
and Prosper, and you indeed did,
friend, Takei said.
In a 2009 interview with The Associated Press, Nimoy recalled how an early
stage role left him obsessed with pursuing work that had a social impact.
Ive fulfilled that dream, including
Star Trek, for that matter, he said. If
thats part of the legacy, then Im very
pleased with that. I would hope the work
I chose to do had some reason for being
done other than just simply being a job.
After Star Trek ended, the actor
immediately joined the hit adventure series Mission Impossible as Paris, the
mission teams master of disguises. He
also hosted the syndicated TV series In
Search of , which attempted to probe
VISITATION & SERVICES

Methel Densmore
Funeral services will be

conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, at United
Methodist Church, Melrose.
There will be visitation one
hour prior to services at the
church on Saturday.
Marta LeRoy
You are invited to celebrate Martas life at an open

house on Sunday, March 1
from 12-4 pm at the W.K.
Kellogg Manor House, 3700
such mysteries as the legend of the Loch

Ness Monster.
Other notable roles included Israeli
leader Golda Meirs husband opposite
Ingrid Bergman in the TV drama A
Woman Called Golda; he continued to
work well into his twilight years, playing
wealthy genius William Bell in the Fox
series Fringe.
He also directed several films, including the hit comedy Three Men and
a Baby, and appeared in plays and published books of poems, childrens stories
and his own photographs.
But that work was always eclipsed
by the role of the green-blooded space
traveler that took him overnight from
bit-part actor to TV star.
Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry and set in the 23rd century,
had an unimpressive debut on NBC on
Sept. 8, 1966, and it struggled during its
three seasons to find an audience beyond
youngsters and teenagers, according
to The Complete Directory to Prime
Time Network and Cable Shows by
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh.
A recently published history of the
show, the three-volume These Are the
Voyages by Marc Kushman, paints a
different, far more positive picture of the
shows ratings and its audience.
The space adventure seemed headed for oblivion after it was canceled in
1969, but its dedicated legion of fans,
who called themselves Trekkies, kept
its memory alive with conventions and
clubs and constant demands that the cast
be reassembled for a movie or another
TV show.
Trekkies were particularly fond of
Spock, often greeting one another with
the Vulcan salute and Live long motto
that Nimoy was credited with bringing
to the character. He pointed out, however, that the hand gesture was actually
derived from one used by rabbis during
Hebraic benedictions.
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Saturday in the Reinsel Funeral Home 116 Bissell Ave.,
Oil City, PA 16301. Mass of
Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m. Saturday in
St. Stephens Church.
BOSTON (AP) The trial of Boston Marathon bombing

suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can stay in Massachusetts, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
said that any high-profile case would receive significant media
attention, but that knowledge of such case does not equate to
disqualifying prejudice.
Distinguishing between the two is at the heart of the jury
selection process, the panel wrote.
Tsarnaevs lawyers argued that intense media coverage of
the case and the large number of people personally affected by
the deadly attack made it impossible for him to find a fair and
impartial jury in Massachusetts.
Prosecutors insisted that Judge George OToole Jr.s individual questioning of prospective jurors has successfully weeded
out people with strong opinions on Tsarnaevs guilt.
Tsarnaevs lawyers had asked OToole three times to move
the trial, but he refused, saying bias among prospective jurors
could be rooted out through careful questioning about their
thoughts on Tsarnaev and the death penalty.
As of Thursday, the day the appeals court heard arguments,
OToole had provisionally qualified 61 jurors, finding that they
are capable of being fair and impartial. He said once he qualifies 70 people, Tsarnaevs lawyers and prosecutors will be allowed to eliminate 23 people each for strategic reasons.
A panel of 12 jurors and six alternates will be chosen to hear
the case. The same jury will decide whether Tsarnaev lives or
dies. If he is convicted, the only possible punishments are life
in prison without pariole or the death penalty. Only jurors who
said they are willing to give meaningful consideration to both
punishments can be seated on the jury.
Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured
when twin bombs exploded near the marathon finish line on
April 15, 2013.
In arguments before the appeals court, federal public defender Judith Mizner said the local jury pool is connected to
the case in many ways and cannot be counted on to be fair
and impartial.
This attack was viewed as an attack on the marathon itself
and an attack on the city of Boston, Mizner said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb told the appeals
court that prospective jurors who have strong opinions have
unhesitatingly admitted them, allowing the judge to rule
them out as jurors.
Mizner also argued that the trial needed to be moved to
maintain public confidence in the judicial system.
La. teen accused of knocking

school bus driver unconscious
BATON ROUGE, La.
(AP) One Louisiana teen
has been charged with assault and another with saving
the day: The first knocked a
school bus driver unconscious
and the second prevented the
bus from crashing.
The 26-year-old female
driver had stopped the bus
Thursday afternoon to exchange words with a student
who was unruly, said Baton
Rouge Police Department
spokesman Cpl. LJean McKneely.
The driver told authorities the 15-year-old boy then
walked up behind her and
punched her several times in
the head, knocking her unconscious, McKneely said.

The bus started to move
after the unconscious drivers hands and feet slipped
off the wheel and brakes, said
Keith Bromery, a spokesman
for East Baton Rouge Parish
schools. He said after the
15-year-old fled, the 14-yearold male student ran forward
and stepped on the brake, put
the bus in park and called 911.
The 15-year-old boys
mother later turned him in
to police. He is charged with
battery of a bus driver, second-degree battery and aggravated obstruction of a
roadway.
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group and date, time and place of the event. Please include a
daytime phone number when submitting calendar items.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28
9-11:30 a.m. The Equestrian Therapy Program will hold
a volunteer orientation and training session at Fassett Farm,
22532 Grubb/Bowsher Road, Cridersville, Ohio 45806. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Sarah Potts at
The Equestrian Therapy Program: (419) 657-2700 or sarah@
etpfarm.org. For more information about volunteering, go to
the website: www.etpfarm.org.
9 a.m.-noon Interfaith Thrift Store is open for shopping.
9 a.m. St. Vincent dePaul Society, located at the east edge
of the St. Johns High School parking lot, is open.
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Delphos Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. Testing of warning sirens by Delphos Fire and
Rescue.
1-3 p.m. The Delphos Canal Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
7 p.m. Bingo at St. Johns Little Theatre.
8 p.m. AA open discussion at First Presbyterian Church.
SUNDAY, MARCH 1
1 p.m. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803 has its monthly meetings at the VFW post home, located at 111 N. Shannon St., across from the YMCA, on the corner of Jackson and
Shannon streets. For more information check out their website:
vfwpost5803.webs.com or contact them at email: vanwertvfw5803@gmail.com.
1-3 p.m. The Delphos Canal Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
2 p.m. AA open discussion at 1158 Westwood Dr.
4 p.m. Convoy Fire & EMS meets the first Sunday at the
fire station.
MONDAY, MARCH 2
8 a.m. Chrysler Retirees breakfast will be held at the
Orchard Tree Restaurant.
11:30 a.m. Mealsite at Delphos Senior Citizen Center, 301
Suthoff St.
1 p.m. Senior Citizens Club will meet in the CoA Building.
5 p.m. Weight Watchers will hold its weigh in. Meeting
will follow at 5:30 p.m. Both are held in the Fellowship Hall
on the second floor at Trinity United Methodist Church, South
Walnut St., Van Wert.
6 p.m. Willshire Village Council will meet in the village
hall.
6:30 p.m. Shelter from the Storm support group meets in
the Delphos Public Library basement.
7 p.m. Delphos City Council meets at the Delphos Municipal Building, 608 N. Canal St.
7 p.m. Delphos Parks and Recreation board meets at the
recreation building at Stadium Park.
7 p.m. Washington Township trustees meet at the township house.
7 p.m. American Legion Post 178 will have a meeting.
7:30 p.m. Spencerville village council meets at the mayors office.
7:30 p.m. Delphos Eagles Auxiliary meets at the Eagles
Lodge, 1600 Fifth St.
8 p.m. The Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at the hall.
8 p.m. Jennings Township, Van Wert County, trustees
will meet at the township house.
8 p.m. AA Big Book meeting at First Presbyterian
Church.
Popular Van Wert coffee

house closes after 14 years
INFORMATION
SUBMITTED
VAN WERT After a
monumental ride in downtown Van Wert, Perks Caf
has shut its doors after 14
years.
Opened in 2001, Perks,
as many loyal customers
came to call it, was the first
of its kind in northwest Ohio.
Perks was established under
the guiding principle of providing high-quality roasted
coffee drinks in a warm, family-friendly atmosphere.
Despite the challenges of

opening in what was then
a somewhat lagging downtown business atmosphere,
owner Laura Harshman was
committed to locating her
business on Main Street. A
lifelong resident of Van Wert,
Harshman believed that this
unusual big city concept
was not too large for the citizens of a small town. She
also hoped, accurately, that
the unusual caf would spur
new growth in downtown retail business.
I believed that Van Wert
needed a gathering place that

could be a place to sit, chat
with friends, read or just become an oasis in an otherwise
hectic day, Harshman said.
Im proud to say that Perks
Caf became just that.
Though the success of the
small business has been exponentially realized, Harshman
decided it was time to close.
I am very excited for
what the next chapter of my
life will be. I took a lot of
time to make the decision,
and closing is a little sad. But
I just want more time with my
family and to discover new

things to do with my life,
Harshman said. Of course,
it will be strange not to arise
at 4 a.m. every morning, and
I will miss seeing all of the
smiling faces of customers
that have become my friends,
but I know that there are great
things to come for my family
and me.
The space will be available for lease. In the meantime, Harshman, her family
and the Perks staff wish to
thank all of those that helped
to make Perks Caf a success.
Deadline is nearing to order tree seedlings

INFORMATION SUBMITTED
VAN WERT Orders will be accepted until March 13 from the Van
Wert Soil and Water Conservation. The
seedlings are available in packets of 10
at a minimal cost.
The seedlings available: American
Arborvitae, Austrian Pine, Colorado
Blue Spruce, Eastern Red Cedar, Eastern White Pine, Norway Spruce, Arrowwood, Black Chokeberry, Forsythia, Pin
Oak, Red Bud, Sawtooth Oak, Sugar
Maple, Sweet Gum and White Flowering Dogwood.
Special assorted packets that are

available are:
Homeowner Packet which consists of
two of the following: Norway Spruce,
Black Chokeberry, Pin Oak, Red Bud,
Sugar Maple.
Three seed packets that include:
wildflower seed, hummingbird seed
and bird and butterfly seed. The 1 oz.
wildflower seed contains 10-12 different annual and 10-12 different perennial
species adapted for this area that will
cover 250 square feet. The half ounce of
hummingbird seed contains four to six
different annual and four to six different
perennial varieties that will cover 150

square feet. The one ounce of bird and
butterfly seed contains seven to nine different annual and seven to nine different
perennial varieties that will cover 250
square feet.
This program is open to the public.
Order forms are available in the SWCD
office, 1185 Professional Drive, Van
Wert, on the web at www.vanwertswcd.
org, or by calling (419) 238-9591. Orders
will be accepted until Friday, March 13.
The delivery date is mid April. Payment
(cash / check) is required when placing
the order.
Elks select Students of Month for February

VAN WERT Van Wert

Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has selected Clarrisa J. Clay and Baylee N.
Neate, seniors at Lincolnview High
School, as the recipients of the Students of the Month for February.
Students are nominated by their
high schools to receive this award.
Each Student of the Month receives
a monetary donation along with a
certificate from the Van Wert Elks
Lodge 1197 with the possibility to
be named the Student of the Year.
Students are judged on the basis of
multiple achievements volunteerism, character, leadership, service,
citizenship and scholastic.
This program is designed to recognize outstanding young men and
women for their achievements in
school and community. The Elks
watercolor, etc.
INFORMATION
wish to recognize and praise those
Drawings: pastels, col- students for their accomplishments,
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ored pencil, pencil, charcoal, their activities, and their contribu- Pictured are Clarrisa J. Clay with Linda J. Stanley, Elks Student of the
Month chairperson. Baylee Neate was unavailable and is not shown.
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(R-OH) announced on Fri- dimensional
Prints: lithographs,
day the opening of the 2015
Congressional Art Competi- silkscreen, block prints
Mixed Media: use of
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for students to subThe Congresmit their artwork is
sional Art CompeApril 1. Applicants
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tition is a tremencan drop off their
website, or on Facebook. The registration forms are due back
dous opportunity
application and artHAVILAND The Wayne Trace National Honor Society to the Wayne Trace High School by March 20 to be guaranteed
for us to showcase
Latta
work at one of the will hold its annual Glow-in-the-Dark 5K on Saturday, April 11, a T-shirt. Local businesses who have not already been contactthe wealth of artisCongressmans dis- at the Payne ball park across from the Payne Elementary School. ed can also sponsor the event by calling the Wayne Trace High
tic talent in Ohios
Any money raised this year will go towards the medical School extension 229. For more information about the 5K,
Fifth Congressional District, trict offices located in:
Bowling Green 1045 treatment for Chase Holt, a Payne elementary student. Holt email waynetracenhs@gmail.com or call Joni Klopfenstein or
said Latta. I encourage all
high school students to sub- N. Main Street, Suite 6, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Neurofi- Heather Hatcher at the Wayne Trace Jr./Sr. High School. Your
bromatosis Type 2 (NF2). He has undergone several surgeries support is appreciated.
mit their artwork this year Bowling Green;
Defiance 101 Clinton to remove tumors but still suffers from many side effects of
and look forward to seeing
our districts artwork on dis- St., Suite 1200, Defiance; and NF2. The medication that has shown success for other disor Findlay 318 Dorney ders is only considered experimental for Holt; therefore, the
play in the United States CapPlaza, Room 302, Findlay.
insurance company will not cover the medication at this time.
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District staff is also avail- The Holts hope to raise $40,000 for his care and already have
All artwork will be on display at the Dudley and Mary able to pick up artwork from raised $21,783 towards their goal. The WT NHS would like
Marks Lea Gallery in the Uni- students. To arrange a pick-up to help close that gap in needed funds and encourage all who
versity of Findlays Virginia time, contact Congressman can attend the 5K to come out and show their support for this
B. Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion Lattas office toll-free at 800- young boy in the community.
Registration forms are available at local businesses, at the
from April 27 through May 541-6446.
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Or, victims may be told

they have a refund due to
try to trick them into sharing private information.
If the phone isnt answered, the scammers
often leave an urgent
callback request.
Note that
the IRS will
never:
1)
call
to
demand
immediate
payment,
nor will the
agency call
about taxes
owed without first having mailed
you a bill;
2) demand that you pay
taxes without giving you
the opportunity to question
or appeal the amount they
say you owe;
3) require you to use a
specific payment method
for your taxes, such as a
prepaid debit card;
4) ask for credit or debit card numbers over the
phone; or
5) threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement groups to have
you arrested for not paying.
An aggressive and sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including

recent immigrants, has been
making the rounds throughout the country.
Callers claim to
be employees of
the IRS, but are
not. These con
artists can sound
convincing when
they call. They
use fake names
and bogus IRS
identif ication
badge numbers.
They may know
a lot about their
targets, and they usually alter the caller ID to make it
look like the IRS is calling.
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Wayne Trace names February

Students of the Month
HAVILAND Wayne Trace JH-HS teachers recently nominated and voted on February Students of the Month.
Nominees were seventh grade: Max Laukhuf, Richard Williams, and Adynn Elston; eighth grade: Sara Edwards, Clark
Laukhuf, Matthew Stouffer, Olivia Klinker, and Courtney
Kirk; freshmen: Alexis Martinez, Owen Brigner, Leah Maassel, and Lily Sinn; sophomores: Ethan Dunham, Brandon
Laney, Payton Granger, Ethan Linder, and Sean Stuckey; juniors: George Clemens, Austin Fast, and Noah Stoller, and seniors: Molly Crosby and Darius Hale.
After tallying the teacher votes; the February Students of the
Month pictured above are seventh grade: Max Laukhuf, eighth
grade: Sara Edwards, freshman: Alexis Martinez, sophomore:
Brandon Laney, junior: Noah Stoller, and senior: Darius Hale.
They all received a Raider Pride Pay Forward T-shirt as
part of their award.
Alexis Martinez
Brandon Laney
Max Laukhuf
Sara Edwards
Noah Stoller
Darius Hale
Western Buckeye ESC Superintendent speaks out on proposed state budget

VAN WERT The Western Buckeye
ESC Governing Board held its regular monthly board meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday,
Feb. 25 at the Van Wert ESC office. Board
President Billy Poe II welcomed board members and school personnel to the meeting.
Treasurer Kim Jones reviewed the current financial reports, investments and the monthly
expenditures with the board.
Superintendent Brian Gerber updated the
board on Governor Kasichs proposed executive budget, legislative issues, personnel items,
and ESC activities. Gerber spent the majority
of the meeting discussing Kasichs proposed
executive budget. Governor Kasich is proposing a 25 percent cut in ESC funding over
the next two years. During the past four years,
the governor has been advocating shared services to reduce cost. Western Buckeye ESC
has reduced the cost to our partner schools
through a shared services delivery model.
The governors proposal of a 25 percent funding cut will negatively impact our ability to
reduce costs by sharing services. Without a
shared services model, its possible our partner
schools will see an increase in their spending
throughout the next two years. Its very hyp-
ocritical of the governor to advocate shared

services to reduce cost, then turn around and
propose a 25 percent funding cut to the ESCs
who lead in providing a shared services model
to the schools they serve. Shared service delivery includes sharing speech, occupational, and
physical therapists. We share school psychologists, gifted education personnel, and grant
writing personnel. ESCs provide curriculum directors and special education directors to meet
the needs of our partner schools. ESCs all over
Ohio are providing similar academic and operational support services to schools every day to
ensure every child in every zip code has access
to high quality educational opportunities.
Other ESC instructional services include
itinerant special education and related services staff, paraprofessional support, preschool special education support, 21st Century after-school programs, and alternative
schools. Our alternative school tailors curriculum around the emotionally disabled students to meet their specific learning needs.
It effectively operates an opportunity school
that serves those students who need to recover
credits in order to meet graduation requirements. The administration and staff at the
alternative/opportunity school work together
with our partner schools to support and de-
velop a standards based curriculum that will

allow their students to succeed and graduate.
This is directly related to the economic vitality of our community and state. These students range from the most gifted to the most
at-risk, including special needs students and
other at-risk populations such as dropouts and
adjudicated youth. Ive been in this business
long enough to know the governors proposed
executive budget is a process. The proposed
budget has to go through house hearings, senate hearings, and then conference committee,
followed by passage. Fortunately, our legislatures could see the value of the ESCs in Kasichs first biennial budget four years ago and
then again in his second biennial budget two
years ago. Our legislators applied common
sense in reversing the governors devastating
funding cuts. Hopefully good common sense
will continue to prevail over radical thinking.
The most frustrating thing about this issue is
that Ohio is much healthier financially than it
was in the previous four years. With all factors in consideration, the 25 percent funding
cut makes little sense.
In other matters, the board:
Extended a one-year limited contract
to Jenna Stoller-Sherry as physical therapist
for the 2015-16 school year, contingent upon
receiving licensure. Position will be effective

Aug. 1, 2015, for 190 days with salary set at
$61,750.
Accepted the retirement/disability resignation of Paula Lugibihl, physical therapist,
effective March 16, 2015, and thanked her for
her years of service to Western Buckeye Education Service Center and the children of Van
Wert and Paulding County.
Approved budget revisions for the FY
15 Alternative School Grant and FY15 21st
Century Grant
Approved the contract with Therapy
Solutions to provide physical therapy services
for the remainder of the 2014-2015 school
year.
Approved the submission of the Ohio
Childrens Trust Fund SFY16 and the HMG/
Part C Subsidy Grant for SFY16.
Approved the calendar year 2014 Paulding County FCFC annual report
Approved necessary revision to the
FCFC budget for 2013-14 year audit costs.
The board meeting adjourned at 7 p.m.
with no additional action. The next regular governing board meeting of the Western
Buckeye Educational Service Center will be
on Wednesday, March 18, starting at 6 p.m. at
the Paulding ESC office.
Asset allocation: Tips for tending to your portfolio mix

In todays complex financial markets, you have a seemingly infinite array of investment vehicles from which to select.
Each investment also carries some risk, making it important
to choose wisely if you are selecting just one. The good news
is that there is no rule that says you must stick
with only one type of investment. In fact, you
Planning
can manage your investment risk and potentially increase your chances of meeting your investment goals by practicing asset allocation.1
Asset allocation refers to the way in which
you combine different investments in your portfolio in order to try to meet a specific objective.
For instance, if your goal is to pursue growth
(and you are willing to take on market risk to
do so), you may decide to place 20 percent of
your assets in bonds and 80 percent in stocks.2
The asset classes you choose, and how you weigh your investment in each, will probably depend on your investment
time frame and how that matches with the risks and rewards
of each asset class.
Stocks, Bonds and Cash Equivalents
Here is a closer look at the key risk and reward characteristics of the major asset classes:
Stocks - Well known for fluctuating frequently in value,
stocks carry a high level of market risk (the risk that an investments value will decrease after it has been purchased) over
the short term. Keep in mind, however, that stocks historically
have earned higher returns than other asset classes, although
past performance is no predictor of future results. Importantly,
stocks also have a better track record of outpacing inflation
the rising prices of goods and services than any other asset
class, and therefore carry very low inflation risk.
Bonds - In general, these securities have less pronounced
short-term price fluctuations than stocks, and therefore offer
lower market risk. On the other hand, their overall inflation
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return potential is also lower. Bond returns may be influenced
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Cash equivalents - These assets are defined as
being
short-term, low-risk, low-return and highMatters ly liquid.
Cash equivalents include U.S. government Treasury bills, bank savings accounts and
bank certificates of deposit. 3
Diversification: A Companion Strategy
By Jan
Before exploring just how you can put an asEdwards
set allocation strategy to work to help you meet
your investment goals, you should first underLPL
stand how diversification the process of helpFinancial
ing reduce risk by investing in several different
types of individual funds or securities works
hand in hand with asset allocation.
When you diversify your investments among more than one
security, you help reduce what is known as single-security
risk, or the risk that your investment will fluctuate widely
in value with the price of one holding. Diversifying increases
the chance that, if and when the return of one investment is
falling, the return of another in your portfolio may be rising
(though there are no guarantees 3). Neither asset allocation
nor diversification guarantees against investment loss.
Asset Allocation: A Matter of Age and Objective
Although the ideal asset allocation will vary from person
to person, standard investment wisdom states that the younger the investor, the more heavily a portfolio can be weighted
toward stocks. As investors age, they may need to gradually
shift to a more conservative asset allocation.
Risk Level
Aggressive
Moderate
Low
Stocks
80%
70%
50%
Bonds
15%
20%
40%
Cash
5%
10%
10%
equivalents
Chart illustrates hypothetical portfolio asset allocations:
Aggressive Risk (younger investors); Moderate Risk (middle-aged investors); Low Risk (those nearing or in retirement).
Allocations are presented only as examples and are not intended as investment advice. Please consult a financial advisor if
you have any questions about how these examples apply to
your situation.
A Simple Process, With Dramatic Potential

Once you have a carefully crafted asset allocation, maintain it. Review it on at least an annual basis, making alterations as your goals and other circumstances warrant. And
rebalance the investment mix if the performance of one asset
class throws it off kilter. Do this by adding new money to the
asset class that is underrepresented in your portfolio or shift
money from the overrepresented class to the others.
Regardless of the asset allocation strategy you choose and
the investments you select, keep in mind that a well-crafted
plan of action can help you weather all sorts of changing market conditions over the long term as you aim to meet your investment goal(s).
1 Asset allocation does not assure a profit or protect against
a loss.
2 Investing in stocks involves risks, including loss of principal. Bonds are subject to market and interest rate risk if sold
prior to maturity. Bond values will decline as interest rates rise
and are subject to availability and change in price.
3 There is no guarantee that a diversified portfolio will enhance overall returns or outperform a nondiversified portfolio.
4 U.S. Treasury securities (Treasuries) are issued by the
federal government and are considered to be among the safest
investments you can make, because all Treasury securities are
backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
Certificates of deposit are FDIC insured and offer a fixed rate
of return if held to maturity.
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Inc. The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or
recommendations for any individual.
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Clay wins heavyweight title against Liston, never stops talking

BY KIRK DOUGAL
DHI Media Group Publisher
kdougal@timesbulletin.com
This was when it would all stop.
The incessant chattering and bragging that droned on, screaming at
the top of his lungs, Look at me!
I am the greatest!
All that noise would finally
stop when Sonny Liston shoved
his ham-sized fist into Cassius
Clays face, accomplishing what
so many people wanted to happen,
making Clay shut his mouth.
The world heavyweight championship fight would end that way
because Liston was the most intimidating man in boxing. His arms
were massive and rope-muscled.
Trainer Johnny Tocco worked
with Liston, George Foreman,
and Mike Tyson throughout his
career and he claimed Liston was
the hardest puncher of all three,
no question. Boxing officials were
afraid Sonny was bad for the sport,
not necessarily because of his outof-ring troubles - multiple arrests
and close connections with organized crime families - but because
it appeared he could not be beaten. He won his last three fights
leading up to the bout with Clay,
all knockouts in the first round,
including two wins over former
champion Floyd Patterson.
Analysts believed he would
demolish the fast-talking Clay
whose best skills were his lightning reflexes and hand speed. He
had won the light heavyweight
gold medal at the Rome Olympics
in 1960, but his professional career had been up-and-down, winning decisions against journeymen
fighters and being knocked down
by the light-hitting British champion, Henry Cooper.
Besides, Clay fought with an
awkward style that a real professional, like Liston, would expose
Boxing World Buzzes About Clays Victory
From the
Archives
MIAMI BEACH (AP) - Cassius Clay, the fascinating Louisville blowhard who proved his fists talk
as loud as his words is the new king of the heavyweights and the boxing world still buzzed today over
the bizarre events that led to the dethronement of the
champion who couldnt lose, Sonny Liston.
The bull-strong, tiger-mean Liston yielded his
crown while slumped ingloriously in his corner between the sixth and seventh rounds, blood gushing
from a gash under his left eye and his left shoulder
in severe pain.
It went into the books as a seventh round technical
knockout - one of the most astounding ring upsets of
all time but one that left the millions of fans pondering unanswered questions.
How did it happen? When did it happen? Why
didnt Liston, the awesome ring killer, demolish the
loquacious Kentuckian as he had done to his other
rivals in the last three years?
Liston was rushed to the St. Francis Hospital
where eight physicians subjected him to a 3 1/2 hour
series of X-rays and other examinations.
The group issued a statement which said the champion had suffered an injury of the left shoulder which
prevented him from defending himself.
The statement said there was a separation and a
tear of muscle fibers with some bleeding, but gave
no other details.
Liston, dressed in a red shirt and slacks, pushed his
way out of the hospital without comment. His aides
said he planned to go to his Miami Beach temporary
home and would make no statement immediately.
His purse from the gate attendance had been ordered held up by the Miami Beach Boxing Commission pending outcome of the doctors examination.
Jack Nilon, the ex-champions adviser, said Liston
wrenched his shoulder in training but that the two of
them decided to try to bluff their way through be-
By
Kirk Dougal
with brutal force. Cassius tended

to let his guard drop and lean away
from punches. He moved side-toside constantly, rarely stepping
inside to mix it up. Sure, this left
his opponents often hitting nothing but air but that was not how
fighters won in the heavyweight
division. In fact, one columnist,
Jimmy Cannon of the New York
Journal-American, called Clay a
freak, a 200-pound bantamweight.
But then it was fight night in
Miami Beach. Liston and Clay
met at the center of the ring for
the referees instructions and the
ringside writers noticed that Clay
met the champions glare with one
of his own, staring down at Liston
who was three inches shorter.
Liston was furious at the
younger fighters lack of fear. He
charged out at the first bell, swinging wildly in an attempt to end the
bout early on one punch.
But Clay slipped from side to
side, counter punching jabs and
straight rights into Listons face.
He made the champion look slow
and out of control. At the end of
the round he mocked the reporters by the ring, acting as if he was
shouting in fear.
The second round was Listons
best, landing several body blows,
including a left hook that Clay
later admitted shook him down to
his shoes. But Clay outlasted the
punch and then took control again
in the third and on into the fourth

round.
The fifth round was the strangest of the fight. Clay screamed in
the corner that his eyes were on
fire and he could not see. He de-
manded his gloves be cut off his

hands and the fight stopped. Trainer Angelo Dundee, realizing the
referee was about to call the bout
for Liston, shoved Clay into the
ring and told him to Run! Clay
Searchers find body of Floyd Collins

Horse Cove, Ky. Found by
bloodhounds only 500 yards from its
resting place in Crystal Cave, the body
of Floyd Collins was back on exhibition today.
The body of the explorer, who
met death several years ago while
exploring a cave he had discovered,
was stolen from its metal glass casket
yesterday, Dr. H.B. Thomas, owner of
Crystal Cave, said.
He said when he and an attendant
went to open the cave, they found a
chain on the door broken and the empty casket 100 feet away.
Bloodhounds were put on the trail
and, taking a scent from the coffin,
ran directly to the body on the bank of
the Green River, 500 yards away. The
only clues to the ghouls were a suit
of overalls, a cap and a pair of gloves
near the body.
Mountaineers of the section,
aroused by the theft, searched three
counties for the culprits.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 20, 1929
Public Sale Near

Here in 1837
F.B. Bryan, living north of Delphos, left at this office an inventory
of a public sale held by his father,
David Bryan near this place, in
Sept. 1837. The paper was unearthed
among some of his personal effects.
The sale was conducted in about the
same manner as those of today. Notes
were taken for a great many of the
articles sold, even those that brought
only seventy five cents. One hog
was sold for $8.67 1/2 and another
for $4.56 1/4. The item that brought
the largest amount was a wagon that
sold for $78, and the next was a horse
that brought $52.27. The paper is
well-preserve and is being kept as a
relic.
Delphos Herald,
Feb. 25, 1905
Files Second Request

For Citizenship
Miss Martha Jane Garber of Bluffton who passed her final naturalization examination in the last term of
court and failed to become a citizen
because she refused to take the oath
of allegiance, insofar as it referred to
the bearing of arms, has filed for naturalization in Allen County Common
Pleas Court again.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 20, 1929
Plan To Form
Auxiliary to
Eagles Lodge
Plans are being made for the or-
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PAST
By
Bob Holdgreve
ganization of a ladies auxiliary to the

local Eagles lodge. This organization
will be known as the Ladies Auxiliary, F.O.E.
The preliminary arrangements
have been made and a meeting will
be held within the next few weeks to
make definite plans for the organization.
Good progress is being made on
the improvements which are being effected in the meeting place of the local
Eagles.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 22, 1929
Masters Body Found

by Help of Dog Friend
Whitefish, Mont. The unfailing
love of a dog for his master resulted in
the finding of the body of Phillip Tanas, who was killed when a snowslide
hit a Great Northern mail train near
Single Shot recently.
The bodies of Benjamin Stumpf
and Gus Mazios, the other victims of
the avalanche, were not buried deep
in the snow, and were soon recovered. But the search for the body of
Tanas was unsuccessful until a little
mongrel dog, part cocker spaniel, led
members to a spot deep down in the
ravine.
Searchers were attracted to the
spot by the dogs whining and sudden
digging in the snow. They substituted shovels for the animals paws and
found the body buried under four feet
of snow.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 23, 1929
Giant German Bomber

Fails to Come
Out of Tail-Spin
Hollywood, Calif. While cameras in three other planes recorded the
tragedy, a mechanic was carried to his
death in a huge German Gotha bomber which could not be brought out of
a tail-spin into which it had been put
so movie audiences might be given a
thrill.
For 18 months, Phil Jones worked
aboard the great plane as it soared
through battle scenes of Hells Angels, an epic of war in the air. And
cause we thought we could get away with it.

Nilon pointed out that Liston stopped boxing six
days before the fight but others recalled that Sonny
showed no signs of an ailment in other phases of
training and even declared himself in the best shape
ever.
This was just one of the many contradictory aspects of the bout, which was a financial flop at the
gate with 8,000 paying only $400,000 for the privilege of watching - half of the figure needed to break
even.
Clay, the exultant, hysterical and almost berserk
new champion, himself sought to erase any stigma
from his spectacular victory even before any had
been officially cast.
Unsettled by the ringing boos that rocked the arena, he screamed to all within earshot:
This was no fix. I closed both his eyes. He didnt
touch me. I didnt stop the fight. The doctors did.
Seasoned boxing writers, accustomed to all sorts
of weird occurrences in this sometimes sordid sport,
were seeking answers to questions which they said
left them befuddled.
Why wasnt Liston, the sullen destroyer who twice
put away former champion Floyd Patterson in the first
round, able to unleash the same devastating punching
power on the fast but supposedly vulnerable Clay?
In the fifth round, when Clay came out at the bell,
blinking and groping his way around the ring, as if
half-blinded, why wasnt the deposed champion able
to nail him with his fistful of dynamite?
Even if his shoulder was painful, why didnt Liston, a brute of a man, try to bull his way through,
waiting for perhaps a lucky punch, against a fighter
renowned as a powder-puff hitter?
Doesnt this amazing development set the stage for
a return bout, which might set financial records yet
undreamed of in the sport?
then, as fate would have it, he plunged

to earth yesterday in the shot that was
to have been his last of the picture.
While he tossed helplessly in the
forward cabin of the plane, from
which he could not escape, Al Wilson,
noted movie stunt flier, drifted to safety in his parachute.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 23, 1929
Hunting on Bicycles
In Sweden
Fox hunting on bicycles across the
ice of a lake is the latest fad in Swedish winter sports. This happened recently when three boys from the small
village of Lysvik saw a fox dart from
the woods and set out over the frozen
water of Lake Fryken.
Hurrying for their bicycles, they
started in pursuit over the smooth
ice. The fox ran for his life, but the
lads were speedier and about a kilometer from shore, they caught up
with him and killed him. To their
alertness they were rewarded with
100 crows from the local forestry
warden.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 23, 1929
Son of Former Slaves,

Born Near Van Wert
Arthur Lang, who may have been
the oldest person in the United States,
has died. The former boxer and businessman was believed to be 115 years
old.
Langs birth date was not authenticated, but his family said he was
born May 4, 1877, on a farm near Van
Wert, OH. If so, he would have been
several months older than the oldest
living person whose birth date can
be authenticated. Lang was born to
former slaves and came to Chicago
in 1910. In 1935, he started Langs
Bar-B-Que restaurant beneath his
southside home. He worked until he
was nearly 100, and his son-in-law,
Modella and Andrew Cotton, then
operated the restaurant until it closed
two years ago.
Delphos Herald,
Aug. 12, 1992
Drew The Color Line

Jerry Delaney, a Van Wert man,
has filed suit for $300 damages,
against A.L. Klopfenstein, proprietor
of a billiard hall. Delaney alleges that
Klopfenstein refused him the privileges of the place on account of his color.
Delphos Herald,
Apr. 5, 1901
WInDOW/16
stayed away from Liston for most

of the round, later saying he could
only see a shadow that he thought
was Liston.
CLAY/16
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

BY DHI MEDIA STAFF
info@timesbulletin.com
25 Years Ago
This week in 1990, the Ohio Senate was trying to decide
if they would join the House of Representatives in overriding
Gov. Richard Celestes veto of a bill authorizing lethal injections in death penalty cases. If the bill became law, injections
could be used as an alternative to the electric chair. Celeste
was on the record as opposing capital punishment in any form,
leading the Democrats pushing the bill to keep silent on whether or not they had the votes in the Senate.
The man suspected of robbing the Willshire branch of the
Van Wert National Bank was extradited to Van Wert County. Marvin Eugene Lucas had been captured in Cullman, Alabama, and was also wanted in connection with a bank heist in
Indiana. The Willshire robbery had taken place on January 29.
Melissa Ann Deaton of Delphos was selected a state finalist
in the preteen division (ages 8-12) of the American Coed Pageant. Deaton, daughter of Ronald and Ruth Deaton of Delphos
and student at Christian Heritage School, was a special guest
at a get-acquainted party at the Hyatt Regency, Columbus. The
party was held for state finalists.
50 Years Ago
This week in 1965, 23-year-old Marina Oswald completed
her classes at the University of Michigan. The Russian-born
widow of Lee Harvey Oswald left with little fanfare, much like
her time spent on the Ann Arbor campus which saw almost no
mention of her or of public acclaim. Marina had taken English
classes as a part of the English Language Institute.
Van Werts David Miller was in high demand in Hollywood
as a dialect coach, teaching actors Native American languages.
Miller was instructing Delores del Rio, Gilbert Roland, Ricardo Montalban, and most of the cast of the Warner Bros. movie,
Cheyenne Autumn. Miller also had a small role in the film as
a cavalry officer with Richard Widmark.
Dedication ceremonies were conducted for the newly-built
First Christian Union Church, 470 S. Franklin St. Rev. Gene
Miller was the pastor. The original First Christian Union
Church of Delphos was established in a rented store room on
South Main Street with only 18 members. In 1885 James Bryan
donated a portion of land on which a new church was built. The
church was dedicated on Aug. 30, 1885.
75 Years Ago
This week in 1940, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd reported
to the U.S. Navy that he had discovered a large mountain range
on the South Pacific coast of Antarctica. Byrd, commander of
the mission, photographed the coast line nearly 1,200 miles
from Little America. Explorers had been recording attempts
to reach the mountain for at least 166 years with no previous
success.
Four Van Wert boxers won their bouts in the Lima District
Boxing meet. Arthur Schuster of Middle Point (novice featherweight), Mike Jauregi of Wren (open featherweight), Bud
Hershey of Hicksville (open middleweight), and Paul Peterson of Van Wert (open welterweight) all moved on to the next
round of competition with the wins. The meet was put on by
the American Legion.
The city of Delphos was set to have two new bridges over
the Miami-Erie Canal. The bridges were to be constructed over
the canal at Cleveland Street and at Clime Street to take the
place of the current structures which had been declared unsafe
for heavy traffic.
Times Bulletin/
Delphos Herald
Times Bulletin & Delphos Herald

WEEKEND EDITION
KIRK DOUGAL
Group Publisher
Nancy Spencer
Ed Gebert
Delphos Editor
Van Wert Editor
A DHI Media Publication serving Van Wert, Delphos & Area Communities
Live Long and

Prosper
Leonard Nimoy died yesterday.
For those of you who are having trouble placing the name
with a face, Nimoy was the 83-year-old actor who was most
well known for portraying the character of Spock, the unemotional Vulcan science officer, in the long-running television series and movies of Star Trek.
Before he first glued on the pointed ears and let his face go
blank for the cameras, Nimoy was already a working actor.
He had dozens of semi-regular appearances on series as wide
ranging as Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Twilight
Zone, Combat!, and Wagon Train. This success followed years
of community theater started at the age of 8, broken up by the
two years he served in the U.S. Army.
At first, his time spent on Star Trek must have seemed to
be just another addition to a string of television jobs. The original show lasted only three seasons, needing a letter-writing
campaign from rabid fans to earn the third year of production
before the final cancellation. It was not until the first Star Trek
convention in 1972 and the following few years of rerun syndication that the popularity of the characters and show grew to
the point a string of movies were made. Multiple series in the
Star Trek universe followed and the rest, as they say, is history.
Nimoy reportedly struggled with his Spock persona once
the popularity and the fan base grew. In the immediate years
after Star Trek was canceled, he was a regular on Mission Impossible but acting jobs soon dried up as his face became synonymous with his Vulcan character. He hosted the series, In
Search Of, for several seasons. Late in his career, he broke
away from the type with his role on the science fiction television show, Fringe. But in the end, Nimoy made peace with his
most famous alternate personality and continued to play Spock
in movies.
By now you might be asking why we are mentioning Nimoys passing in an editorial space.
Recently we were reminded of the controversial 1993 Nike
ad featuring NBA star Charles Barkley where he declared,
I am not a role model. At the time, Barkley said his point
was kids were looking up to professional athletes as heroes.
He called those goals unrealistic because such a small number
of players would ever be paid to play sports and that children
should be idolizing teachers and nurses.
But kids have a funny way of choosing who they want to
emulate and what they want to accomplish with their lives. We
wonder what Nimoy would have said on the final day of shooting for the last of the 79 original episodes of Star Trek if he had
been told the television show would inspire the following:
- Martin Cooper invented the first mobile phone after seeing
the communicators on the show.
- Physicist Miguel Alcubierre has theoretically proved a
warp drive is possible, the first step toward allowing mankind
to leave the solar system in search of other planets, a plan that
NASA engineers are currently researching. The warp drive
was based upon the same technology on Star Trek.
- The chief technologist of Google Earth, Michael Jones,
cited the Star Trek tricorders mapping capabilities as the inspiration for Google Earth.
- Mae Jemison, American physicist and the first African
American woman to travel in space, said Star Trek fueled her
desire to be involved in the sciences.
- Ronald McNair, Space Shuttle astronaut killed during the
Challenger explosion, chose his career based upon the show.
- The iPad is shaped and used like the portable touch-based
control panels utilized by Star Trek crews.
- Wireless communicators used in the television show resemble todays bluetooth technology.
Also, USB drives, voice activation, and GPS were seen on
Star Trek decades before they were invented in the real world.
Does it matter where the students of today find their inspiration for the world-changing inventions of tomorrow? Perhaps the future researcher who discovers the cure to cancer
will choose their career after reading Patricia Cornwell novels.
Maybe the person who invents pollutionless energy sources
will be inspired by a television show still in the script stage.
Somewhere a toddler will one day grow up to be the first human to pilot a spaceship out of our solar system, fulfilling their
dreams after growing up on the upcoming Star Wars movies.
So, does it matter where our engineers, scientists, and doctors find the inspiration to dream so big that our notions of
reality can no longer contain their ideas? We dont think so.
We just hope Nimoy understood he helped plant the seeds of
some of those ideas.
You know Homer, and

Marge, and Bart
Every once in a while,
I will come across a story
about how U.S. students dont
know as much as they should
about something or another.
An interesting survey of
adult Americans finds that
only one in four Americans
can name more than one of
the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment
(freedom of speech, religion,
press, assembly and petition
for redress of grievances.)
But more than half can name
at least two members of the
Simpson cartoon family.
The study by the new
McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22
percent of Americans could
name all five Simpson family members, compared with
just one in 1,000 people who
could name all five First
Amendment freedoms and
more people could name the
three American Idol judges than identify three First
Amendment rights.
It also showed that people
misidentified First Amendment rights. About one in five
people thought the right to
own a pet was protected and
38 percent said they believed
the right against self-incrimination contained in the Fifth
Amendment was a First
Amendment right.
Ill be honest and tell you
that I only knew the first
four. I do, however, know
the names of the five members of that lovable cartoon
family: Homer, Marge, Bart,
Lisa and Maggie. I know the
name of the dog, too, if thats
worth bonus points. His name
is Santas Little Helper. I also
know all three judges on
Idol and feel it is a privilege
to own a pet.
It seems I see too few celebrations of our rights and
what it is to be Americans
compared to the number of
protests and unrest when
we feel our rights have been

abused or taken away from
us.
These are the very basis
for why our soldiers lay down
their lives; the very ideals
they fight for so they can be
instilled in others. The numbers seem to show we are
lackadaisical about who we
are and why those five freedoms were put to paper and
have been used for hundreds
of years as benchmarks.
The Simpsons are so
recognizable because they
have had so much exposure.
We see them in commercials,
through syndication and on
Sunday evenings and in the
toy store. I dont recall those
five freedoms getting that
much exposure. Perhaps we
are watching the wrong channels.
If we dont know what
our freedoms are, how do we
know when they have been
abused? If we dont know
on the
other
hand
By Nancy
Spencer
what our freedoms are, how

do we know we have them?
Who wrote those darn
things anyway?
Editors note:
Leonard Nimoy, who
played Spock on Star Trek
and subsequent movies of the
same title, died Friday from
complications from chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. He said he had
quit smoking some decades
ago, but obviously not soon
enough.
I know where you think
Im going with this, but Im
not. Yes, Im a smoker and,
yes, his words hit home for
me but Im not going to expound on his smoking, the
lack thereof, or mine.
HAND/A7
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So, whats in the bag?

Ive never really been a
big party person. I dont plan
them, and I rarely attend. Id
usually rather be in a smaller
group. Having experienced
college, Ive already seen
enough senseless drunks on
display, thank you very much.
Being an outsider to the party
world, I have never attended
a party where everyone gets
gifts from the host.
The party bag is not
talked about much. I have a
sneaking suspicion they are
used only for parties that no
one wants to attend. Then
every year I hear about the
party bags given to celebrities who attend the Academy
Awards.
I figure these self-absorbed
pretend-celebrities
shouldnt need guaranteed
door prizes to attend a shindig where they are treated
like a celebrity and possibly

win a gold trophy and endless
attention from the public. But
apparently they do.
Those attending the Oscars last weekend got goodie bags worth more than
$160,000. A quick admission: Ive never made that
much money during a single
year of my life. So if I could
get a job as an Oscar attender,
Id be living the Life of Riley.
And Id only have to show
up for work one day a year
(granted, it would be a LONG
day!) and put up with people
who live the celebrity life
24/7/365.
The only familiarity with
the party bag concept I have
is from being a father with
children who occasionally
get invited to birthday parties. One night, my oldest
child returned from a party
with a bag full of candy and

things he needed to complete
by using a crayon.
It was a party bag, and it
looked like a cross between
trick-or-treat and a handful
of Happy Meal prizes. But it
was a hit with the kids! Even
if the birthday boy wasnt
usually well-liked, he could
be a star after bribing a classroom of kids to come to his
party!
Now for the Oscar hopefuls who get this bag, the
contents can be extravagant,
cheap, foolish, or anywhere
in between. Those who were
handed a party bag this year,
received a $12,500 luxury
outdoor vacation, a ninenight Italian vacation worth
$11,500, and a years worth of
car rentals valued at $20,000.
Hmmm, I never dug any of
those things out of a party bag
My
Two
CenTs
By
Ed Gebert
my kid brought home from a
night of slurping down sugar
and playing video games!
There were plenty of odd
things too, like a $100 sonic
toothbrush, a Couples Love
Shot, which I can only hope
is some sort of photography
session, a $40 pair of flip
flops, a $250 vibrator, a pair
of two-packs of luxury condoms, and a $75 ration of
apples grown in the State of
Washington at the peak of
flavor. Oh, and dont forget
the $20,000 astrology reading.
CENTS/7
GUEST COLUMNS
Aggregation in a nutshell
I refuse to join any club
that would have me as a
member.
Groucho Marx
Woody Allen used this
quote at the beginning of
the movie Annie Hall to
describe his relationships
with women. Great movie if
youve never seen it. A paraphrase of that quote could describe how some people feel
about government I refuse
to join any club that the government would prefer I be a
member.
But sometimes there are
benefits to joining the herd,
especially when the herds
bargaining power can be
used to wrestle better prices
out of everyones second favorite punching bag after the
IRS - utility companies. That
is the point of the countys
government electricity aggregation program.
Have you ever been to a

meeting where people discussed a topic that you really
didnt understand so you sat
quietly and nodded your head
whenever someone looked
your way? About twice a
year, the representative from
Palmer Energy, our electricity aggregation broker, comes
to the commissioners office
to give us an update on our
program. For two years, I sat
quietly and nodded my head
when someone looked my
way.
Unable to learn much
through the sheer force of
time and osmosis as Id
hoped, when he came this
week, I just flat out admitted
that I didnt understand what
any of it was about. I live in
a co-op service area that isnt
eligible for aggregation anyway. But I figured if I had
this much exposure and still
didnt understand it, there
must be several people similarly adrift in that boat. Our

rep was more than happy to
very slowly explain.
In 2012, certain townships, villages, and the City of
Van Wert, voted to enter into
a government electricity aggregation program. This put
individual consumers into a
county-wide pool to increase
bargaining power. There are
two parts in providing power
to your home - the delivery
and the supply. The delivery
part involves the lines and
the poles and billing and the
company doing that in much
of the county is AEP, which
has an absolute monopoly in
its zones of operation.
Electrical aggregation affects the supply part of the
equation. There are several
companies that supply power
basically purchasing it from
power plants and reselling it.
The supply price for the parts
of the county that entered

aggregation in 2012 has remained $5.85 per kWh ever
since. AEPs delivery charges
add on another two or three
cents to the total rate.
If your governing entity,
meaning your township or
town, voted to enter aggregation, then you are automatically signed-up and have to
take some action to opt out
of it. Heres where some confusion began. First Energy
is the company that won the
2012 contract, so everyone
in an aggregation zone was
automatically signed up with
that company. But then, another division of First Energy
began trying to sell a different contract in the county.
Some people understandably
thought that they had to sign
that contract to enter into or
remain in the aggregation
program, but really, they
were opting out of aggrega-
Citizen Wolfrum
tion into a different program.
First Energy was eventually convinced to knock it
off although other companies
continued to sell their products. You may still get flyers
and calls trying to sign you
up with different electricity
suppliers. Doing so would automatically remove you from
aggregation.
Another source of confusion derives from the fact that
your utility companies are far
from perfect. Just because
you should have gotten the
lower rates doesnt mean you
werent conveniently overlooked in a billing program.
This is more common than
you might think.
If you are in an AEP service area and your bill does
not have First Energy on
it as the supplier, you are
not getting the aggregation
price. Dont be afraid to call
and complain. Also dont be
By Todd D.
Wolfrum
afraid to be put on hold for

longer than would seem necessary.
It is easier to list the places in the county that are not
in aggregation than it is to
list the ones that are. First,
if your electric company is
Midwest Electric or Paulding-Putnam Electric, you are
in a co-op and not eligible for
aggregation. That is why, like
me, you may have been blissfully ignorant of the drama
with aggregation and the outlier supply companies. About
half of the rural population
is served by one of these two
co-ops.
WOLFRUM/7
OpiniOns
Instant gratification usually prevails

If its a good idea, go
ahead and do it. It is much
easier to apologize than it is
to get permission. This credo was popularized by U.S.
Navy Rear Admiral Grace
Hopper.
There are several other
versions of this old management adage, such as, Its
better to beg for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
And, It is easier to do what
you suspect is right first,
then apologize (ask for forgiveness) later when the plan
doesnt work.
Im wondering if there is
a similar adage for Americas
dietary habits? Something
like, well eat anything and
everything we want, then
deal with the harmful nutritional consequences at a later
date.
For example, we know eating rich restaurant food is bad
for us, but we do it anyway.
We know most food served at
a party or family celebration
breaks every law of healthy
nutrition but we refuse to feast
on Aunt Marthas seven-layer
kale salad on Thanksgiving.
Two weeks ago a panel of

nutrition experts recruited by
the Obama administration
recommended a new set of
U.S. dietary guidelines. We
all know Americans are losing the battle against obesity,
and the health issues that result. But were trying.
As we might expect, the
committee
recommended
that we eat less red and processed meat, and increase the
amount of fruits, vegetables
and whole grains. They said
we consume way too much
sodium, saturated fats and
sugar. Our diets are loaded
with those unhealthy ingredients.
Many restaurants and
food factories are getting the
message (sales are slumping)
from concerned consumers
and are rethinking their unhealthy recipes.
In a bit of a surprise, the
panel said dietary cholesterol
was no longer a big concern
but dont take that as permission to ignore this part of a
healthy lifestyle.
The experts also said consuming three to five cups of
coffee a day can reduce the

risk of Type 2 diabetes and
cardiovascular disease.
How do you measure up?
The Agriculture Dept. announced the following information from 2009-10 data
titled: Percentage of total energy intake by largest categories. Does this represent your
typical diet? Is your diet light
on green foods or heavy on
comfort foods?
Burgers, sandwiches and
tacos represent 13.8 percent,
desserts and sweet snacks
8.5 percent, vegetables 7.6
percent, sugary drinks 6.5
percent, rice, pasta 5.9 percent, chips, crackers 4.6 percent, pizza 4.3 percent, meat,
poultry, seafood dishes 3.9
percent, alcoholic beverages
3.8 percent, yeast breads 3.8
percent, higher fat milk/yogurt 3.5 percent and breakfast
cereals and bars 3.5 percent.
In another study conducted for the American Heart
Association, researchers said
dieters should eat at least 30
grams of high-fiber foods
each day. On average, Americans eat just 16 grams of fiber
a day. Sadly, a healthy diet basically eliminates 80 percent

of the foods we crave. Most
of us prefer to splurge today
and pay the consequences tomorrow.
The heart association says
we should eat fish twice a
week, get protein from vegetables and lean meats, get 50
percent to 53 percent of calories from carbohydrates, 15
percent to 20 percent of calories from protein, and 30 percent to 35 percent of calories
from fat, including just 7 percent of calories from saturated fat and less than 1 percent
from trans fat, eat fewer than
300 milligrams of cholesterol per day, minimize sugar,
sodium and sugar-sweetened
beverages and go moderate
on the intake of alcohol.
If this is all true, why does
God provide us with so much
fast food, junk food, comfort food, fried food and the
sweetened beverages to wash
it all down?
********
Heres the thinking of todays inventors: Lets throw
this all out (existing tech-
nology) and do something

new. This is from Meredith
Perry, 25, founder of uBeam,
a technology that wirelessly
charges electronic devices
when you step into a room.
If my remote control
can beam power, why cant
you amplify that signal and
charge something? she asks.
The dream is to replace all
electrical outlets with uBeam
transmitters. Your devices will be charging in your
house, your car, at your gym,
at your hotel, at work, everywhere and anywhere.
The future is all about our
use of mobile devices. They
need to be constantly recharging. Extending battery
life is a major challenge.
Her innovative ideas have
attracted big-money backers
and well probably hear a
lot about her in the coming
years. She believes uBeam is
on to an idea orders of magnitude better than anything
else out there, as reported in
a recent USA Today feature.
Another thought that Perry has is, I want to make
inter-city travel possible
PeoPle
Make the
difference
By
Byron
McNutt
through low-cost, high-speed
blimps that land on rooftops.
Its crazy to me that we use up
precious and valuable real estate for movement.
Did you know: The cell
phone has been the most
quickly adopted consumer technology in history?
Ninety-seven percent of U.S.
households have mobile
phones; 40 percent of them
are mobile phone only
households, according to an
article in the March issue
of The Rotarian, written by
Kate Nolan.
The number of subscribers
to mobile phone services in
2003 was 1 billion; now it is
3.4 billion. The industry generated, directly or indirectly,
more than $2.4 trillion, or
3.6 percent of the worldwide
gross domestic product, in
2013. That figure is expected
to increase to five percent by
2020.
Husteds office to hold open office hours across state Kurdish fighters rout IS
COLUMBUS Secretary of State Jon Husted Thursday

announced March regional office hours. Regional liaisons for
the Secretary of States office will be in 33 counties around
Ohio including: Adams, Athens, Butler, Champaign, Clark,
Clinton, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga, Defiance, Erie,
Fayette, Greene, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Madison, Mahoning, Meigs, Miami, Morgan, Pike, Portage, Preble, Sandusky, Scioto, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas,
Washington and Wood Counties. The purpose of open office
Time
2pm - 4pm
1pm - 3pm
10am - 12pm
12pm - 4pm
12pm - 2pm
10am - 12pm
12pm - 2pm
2pm - 4pm
9am - 11am
2pm - 4pm
hours is to give local residents an opportunity to learn more

about, and stay connected with, the Secretary of States office
in an informal and accessible setting.
In addition to making voter registration forms and election
information available, regional representatives will be on hand
to answer questions and distribute materials to those interested
in learning more about the other functions of the office such
as the business services division and initiatives including the
Ohio Business Profile and Military Ready-to-Vote program.
The events will be held at the times and locations listed in
the box below:
County
Trumbull
Madison
Pike
Summit
Sandusky
Clinton
Defiance
Mahoning
Hocking
Tuscarawas
Date
3/4/2015
3/5/2015
3/9/2015
3/10/2015
3/11/2015
3/12/2015
3/12/2015
3/12/2015
3/12/2015
3/13/2015
Stark
3/14/2015 11am - 3pm
Greater Stark County Urban League
Clark
3/15/2015 9am - 11am
Clark County Public Library
Miami
Cuyahoga
3/16/2015 11am - 1pm

3/16/2015 11am - 3pm
Troy-Miami County Public Library

Cleveland Urban League
Greene
Erie County
Stark
Columbiana
Butler
Fayette
3/17/2015
3/17/2015
3/18/2015
3/18/2015
3/18/2015
3/19/2015
Xenia Community Library

Sandusky Library
Ohio Means Jobs Office
Leetonia Community Public Library
Fairfield Lane Library
Carnegie Public Library
Tuscarawas
3/19/2015 1pm - 3pm
Newcomerstown Public Library
Preble
Meigs
Champaign
Athens
3/19/2015
3/20/2015
3/20/2015
3/20/2015
Eaton Library
Meigs County District Public Library
Champaign County Public Library
Athens County Public Library
Morgan
3/23/2015 1pm - 3pm
1:30pm - 2:30pm
12pm - 2pm
1pm - 4pm
2pm - 4pm
3pm - 5pm
1pm - 3pm
12:30pm - 2:30pm
1pm - 3pm
11am - 1pm
9am - 11am
Location
Hubbard Public Library
London Public Library
Garnet A. Wilson Public Library of Pike Co
Akron Public Library
Birchard Library
Wilmington Library
Defiance Public Library
Poland Library
Logan-Hocking County District Library
Tuscarawas County Public Library
Kate Love Simpson Morgan County Library
Hardin
3/23/2015 10am - 12pm
Washington 3/23/2015 10am - 12pm
Mary Lou Johnson Hardin County District Library

Belpre Public Library
Scioto
3/24/2015 1pm - 3pm
Portsmouth Public Library -Wheelerburg Branch
Jackson
Portage
Highland
Wood Co
Adams
3/25/2015
3/26/2015
3/26/2015
3/26/2015
3/30/2015
Markay Cultural Arts Center

Reed Memorial Library
Highland County District Library - Hillsboro
Wood Public Library
Adams Co Services Annex Conference Room
Coshocton
3/31/2015 1pm - 3pm
1pm - 3pm
1pm - 3pm
10am - 12pm
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WOLFRUM
(From page 6)
As for the towns: Delphos does its
own aggregation and is not in the county plan. Ohio City is not in aggregation
because it has its own municipal power
supply. Venedocia, Scott, and Elgin are
not in aggregation but should consider it
as they are all served by AEP.
The only townships not in aggregation are Tully and Hoaglin. Ninety-five
percent of Tully and 80 percent of Hoaglin are served by Paulding-Putnam and
not eligible for aggregation. Willshire
Township joined aggregation a year late.

Partly because of that and partly because
it has some areas served by Dayton Power and Light, that township gets different
rates and different suppliers than the rest
of the county.
Nothing keeps you from opting for a
different supplier than the aggregation
supplier. It is unlikely your purchasing
power would get a better price than you
and all your neighbors in the county
combined but you can try. Some might
offer sweet deals for a year but beware
what could befall in year two. If there is

an optimal supplier, the county program
will opt for that supplier or wrangle that
rate out of its current supplier when the
contract is reviewed at the end of every
two-year period anyway.
Almost always, the government electricity aggregation rate will be the best
option. You can exercise this option by
doing nothing and continuing to do so, a
remarkably easy thing to do considering
how complicated the utility companies
have tried to make it.
CENTS
(From page 6)
Its like this every year, but
the expensive stuff changes
over the years. Past bags have
included things like home spa
systems, memberships to a
meditation gym (gym?), $23
worth of reusable dry-cleaning bags, and coupons for
procedures to stimulate a
womans sex drive. Extravagant, huh? And can you
imagine some self-important

celebrity pulling out a coupon to get his meditation gym
(gym?) membership?
It would be like seeing
Sean Connery at a restaurant whipping out his Golden
Buckeye card to get a discount on his bacon and eggs.
Again the rich get richer simply because they are already
rich. Or more accurately
because they are famous to

some people.
Companies line up to have
their products included in the
gift bag each year. Theyd
love to get some celebrity
hooked on their special product be it hair transplants or
distinctive flip-flops. And to
get in the spirit, Im thinking
of allowing the Oscars to include as gifts, items brought
gain information to save the day and his

neck pinch to incapacitate the enemy.
By the way, the neck pinch thing is real.
I know I am not alone in remembering
him because as soon as word of Nimoys
passing hit social media it began trending
under #LLAP and #livelongandprosper,
his famous Vulcan aphorism he shared
with many during the airing of Star Trek
and beyond as the phrase became a part
of our vocabulary and culture.
While reading his obituary, I found
BEIRUT (AP) Backed

by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish fighters
fought their way Friday into
a northeastern Syrian town
that was a key stronghold of
Islamic State militants, only
days after the group abducted dozens of Christians in
the volatile region, Syrian activists and Kurdish officials
said.
The victory marks a second blow to the extremist IS
group in a month, highlighting the growing role of Syrias Kurds as the most effective fighting force against
the Islamic State. In January,
Kurdish forces drove IS militants from the town of Kobani
near the Turkish border after
a months-long fight, dealing a
very public defeat to the extremists.
But it is also tempered by
this weeks horrific abductions by IS militants of more
than 220 Christian Assyrians
in the same area, along the
fluid and fast shifting front
line in Syria.
The town of Tel Hamees
in Syrias northeastern Hassakeh province is strategically important because it links
territory controlled by IS in
Syria and Iraq.
The province, which borders Turkey and Iraq, is predominantly Kurdish but also
has populations of Arabs and
predominantly Christian Assyrians and Armenians.
We are now combing the
town for explosives and remnants of terrorists, said Redur Khalil, a spokesman for
the Kurdish fighters, known
as the Peoples Protection
Units or YPG.
Speaking to The Associated Press over the phone
from the outskirts of Tel Hamees, he said the town was a
key stronghold for IS and had
served as a staging ground for
the groups operations in the
Iraqi town of Sinjar and the
city of Mosul.
Dislodging the group from
Tel Hamees cuts a supply line
from Iraq, Khalil said.
The push on the towns
eastern and southeastern
edges came after the Kurdish troops, working with
Christian militias and Arab

tribal fighters, seized dozens of nearby villages from
the Islamic State extremists.
U.S.-led coalition forces provided cover, striking at IS infrastructure in the region for
days.
More than 200 militants
died in the fighting, and at
least eight troops fighting
alongside YPG, including an
Australian national who has
been with the Kurdish forces
for three months, Khalil said.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria,
said IS defenses collapsed
and the militants fled after
Kurdish fighters broke into
Tel Hamees from the east and
south.
The Observatorys director, Rami Abdurrahman, said
the Kurds seized more than
100 villages around Tel Hamees and that ground battles
and air strikes around the
town have killed at least 175
IS fighters in the past several days in some of the latest
losses for the group since Kobani.
Some 15,000 villagers
have fled the fighting, he added.
The Kurds in Syria and
Iraq have emerged as the most
effective force fighting IS,
which controls about a third
of Iraq and Syria much
of it captured in a lighting
blitz last spring and summer,
as Iraqi army forces melted
away in the face of the militant onslaught.
In Syria, they have teamed
up with moderate rebels for
territorial gains against the
group.
Elsewhere in Hassakeh, IS
fighters this week captured
dozens of mostly Christian
villages to the west of Tel Hamees taking at least 220
Assyrian Christians hostage,
according to activists. The
fate of those abducted was
still unknown.
On
Thursday,
video
emerged of IS militants
smashing ancient Mesopotamian artifacts in a museum in
Mosul, Iraqs second largest
city.
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home from the party bags

received by my children over
the years.
That way, next years hot
movie stars will go home
with stale Sponge Bob candy,
coloring pages from Disney
movie coloring books, and a
lucky few will receive the remaining vintage Happy Meal
toys.
The stars will thank me.
Your local source for real
HAND
(From page 6)
Spock was a mainstay in my house
when I was younger. My brother and I
marveled at his cool disposition, not letting anything ruffle his logical feathers.
He was the voice of reason during impossible situations faced by the USS Enterpises crew on hostile planets.
He remained calm, cool and collected
while others around him were excited,
agitated, and even sometimes hysterical. He often used his mind-meld to
militants from town
things I didnt know about that man who

blasted into my living room on Star Trek.
He was quite prolific behind the camera
as well. He directed Three Men and an
a Baby, The Good Mother and Star
Trek III and Star Trek IV to name a few.
He was also a poet, singer and photographer.
His final public words were Live
long and prosper. Godspeed, Mr. Nimoy. Ill look for you in the stars.
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US, Cuba
cite progress
on restoring
diplomatic ties
WASHINGTON (AP)
The United States and Cuba
claimed progress Friday toward ending a half-century
diplomatic freeze, suggesting
they could clear some of the
biggest obstacles to their new
relationship within weeks.
After Fridays talks in
Washington, the second round
of U.S.-Cuban discussions in
the last month, diplomats of
both countries spoke positively about fulfilling the promise
made by Presidents Barack
Obama and Raul Castro in
December to restore embassies in each others capitals.
The U.S. even held out hope
of clinching a deal in time
for Aprils summit of North
and South American leaders,
which Obama and Castro are
expected to attend, however
unlikely that appeared.
We made meaningful
progress, Roberta Jacobson,
the State Departments senior
envoy to Latin America, told
reporters, calling the negotiations open, honest and sometimes challenging, but always
respectful.
Her Cuban counterpart,
Josefina Vidal, indicated she
received assurances that the
U.S. would move on two of
the biggest hurdles remaining: Cubas inclusion on the
U.S. state sponsor of terrorism
blacklist and its inability to
conduct normal banking operations in the United States.
She expressed confidence of
progress on both priorities
within the following weeks.
Cubas 33-year status on
the terrorism list appeared
the biggest hurdle, with Vidal
saying the issue needed to be
resolved if the Cold War foes
were to improve ties.
STORY OF THE DAY
Russian opposition
figure assassinated
By LAURA MILLS And VLAdIMIR ISACHEnKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir
Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a
day before a planned protest against the government.
The death of Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime
minister, ignited a fury among opposition figures who assailed the Kremlin for creating an atmosphere of intolerance
of any dissent and called the killing an assassination. Putin quickly offered his condolences and called the murder a
provocation.
Nemtsov was working on a report presenting evidence
that he believed proved Russias direct involvement in the
separatist rebellion that has raged in eastern Ukraine since
last April. Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of backing
the rebels with troops and sophisticated weapons. Moscow
denies the accusations.
Putin ordered Russias top law enforcement chiefs to personally oversee the probe of Nemtsovs killing.
Putin noted that this cruel murder has all the makings
of a contract hit and is extremely provocative, presidential
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies.
President Barack Obama called on Russias government to
perform a prompt, impartial and transparent investigation
In this file photo taken on Saturday, March 15,

2014, Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy
prime minister and opposition leader addresses
demonstrators during a massive rally to oppose
president Vladimir Putins policies in Ukraine,
in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander
Zemlianichenko, File)
to bring the perpetrators to justice. Obama called Nemtsov a
tireless advocate for the rights of Russian citizens.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Nemtsov committed his life to a more democratic Russia, and to strong
relationships between Russia and its neighbors and partners,
including the United States.
Nemtsov assailed the governments inefficiency, rampant
corruption and the Kremlins Ukraine policy, which has
strained relations between Russia and the West to a degree
unseen since Cold War times.
WASHINGTON (AP)
Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock
repaid $40,000 from his personal checking account for
redecorations to his congressional office in the style of the
TV show Downton Abbey,
according to financial records
reviewed by The Associated
Press.
Schock paid $35,000 earlier this month to the owner of the Illinois decorating
firm Euro Trash, and $5,000
more on Thursday, the records
showed. His official House expense account had previously
paid the group for its services.
Schock, a rising star in the
Republican Party, has been under scrutiny for using taxpayer
money to pay for the redecorating, as well as using his official and campaign funds for
flights on donor-owned planes
and concert tickets.
The Washington Post was
first to describe the office decorations in early February. A
watchdog group has since requested a House ethics review
of the congressmans spending.
Congress tries bill to keep Homeland Security open

WASHINGTON (AP) On a day
of high drama, the Republican-controlled Congress struggled into the
night Friday to pass emergency legislation to keep the Homeland Security
Department in full funding for one
week and avert a partial shutdown
threatened for midnight.
Acting without fanfare, the Senate
cleared the measure less than four
hours before the deadline that would
have triggered a partial shutdown at
the federal agency with anti-terrorism
responsibilities.
That sent the bill to the House,
where only a few hours earlier, 52
rebellious Republicans unexpectedly
joined with Democrats to vote down

a three-week funding bill. The vote
was 224-203. Conservatives were furious that the leadership had dropped
provisions repealing Obama administration directives that shield immigrants from deportation. Democrats
demanded longer-term funding as
their price for passage.
You have made a mess, House
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said
accusingly to Republicans as the vote
neared.
In the aftermath, even some Republicans agreed.
There are terrorist attacks all
over world and were talking about
closing down Homeland Security.

This is like living in world of crazy
people, tweeted Rep. Peter King of
New York, a former chairman of the
Homeland Security Committee.
The debacle in the House set a
chain of events in motion.
First, Homeland Security officials
circulated a lengthy contingency plan
indicating that about 30,000 employees could expect to be furloughed
without passage of funding legislation.
Then the White House announced
President Barack Obama had spoken
with Pelosi and Senate Democratic
Leader Harry Reid. Moments later,
Some California farmers to go without

federal water
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
(AP) The federal government said Friday it wont
send any of its reservoir water
to the Central Valley for the
second straight year, forcing
farmers in Californias agricultural heartland to again
scramble for other sources or
leave fields unplanted.
Many farmers had been
bracing for the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamations announcement
as Californias drought enters
its fourth year. Some farms
are exempt from complete
cuts under Californias antiquated water rights system
dating to Gold Rush-era days.
But many farmers are running out of short-term options
to deal with water shortages,
such as uprooting orchards
and tapping groundwater
wells.
They were able to BandAid things together last year
just to keep their trees alive,
said Ryan Jacobsen, executive director of the Fresno
County Farm Bureau. The
first aid kit we had last year is
really not available this year.
The Central Valley Project
Lawmaker
reimburses costs
for office decor
conveys water through a system of dams and reservoirs

and 500 miles of canals. The
agency says it can irrigate up
to a third of Californias agricultural land when water is
flowing.
When planning deliveries, the federal government
has mandatory obligations
to farms and communities
holding senior water rights,
including the city of Sacramento, and wildlife refuges
protected by federal law to
restore fish habitats, said Ron
Milligan, a Central Valley
Project operations manager.
Agriculture ends up bearing much of federal water cuts
during dry periods. Farmers
in the San Joaquin Valley
only received 10 percent of
their requested amounts in
2009 and 20 percent in 2013.
Two consecutive years of no
allocations is unprecedented.
Farmers are instead turning to storage supplies and
pumping from largely unregulated groundwater wells that
are quickly being depleted.
Paul Betancourt spent
$40,000 to renovate wells
In this June 25, 2013, file photo, a mechanical

harvester picks tomatoes in the Westlands Water
District near Five Points, Calif. A federal agency
said Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, it will not release water
for most Central Valley farms this year, forcing
farmers to continue to scramble for other sources
or leave fields unplanted. Many farmers had been
bracing for the news as Californias drought enters
its fourth year. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka, File)
on his 765-acre west Fresno
County farm, where his family grows cotton, almonds,
wheat and onions. He can
keep watering his crops this
year but says groundwater
isnt a long-term solution.
We are draining a finite
supply of water, he said. It
was ugly last year, and its going to get uglier this year
California is increasing
distribution from a separate

state-operated system of reservoirs and canals with fewer mandatory obligations.
The State Water Project announced last month that it
could provide local agencies
and farmers 15 percent of the
water they requested, up from
5 percent last year.
Some communities and
endangered wildlife that rely
on federal water will receive
some water but still suffer
cuts. Urban areas, including
the San Francisco Bay Area
and Sacramento area, will
receive a quarter of typical
water allotments but could
receive more if public health
is threatened.
The water in the snowpack, Californias primary
water source, is at a fifth of
its normal level, according to
state officials.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of

Kentucky strode onto the Senate floor
and swiftly gained approval for the
seven-day measure.
Taken together, the days roller-coaster events at the Capitol underscored the difficulty Republicans
have had so far this year in translating
last falls election gains into legislative accomplishment a step its own
leaders say is necessary to establish
the partys credentials as a responsible, governing party.
Republicans gained control of the
Senate in Novembers balloting, and
emerged with their largest House majority in more than 70 years.
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CVS Health Corporation
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Deere & Company
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eBay Inc.
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Eaton Corporation plc
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Ford Motor Co.
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First Financial Bancorp.
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Goodrich Petroleum Corp.
+0.2400
General Electric Company
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Greif, Inc.
+1.08
General Motors Company
-0.25
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber
-0.61
Huntington Bancshares Inc.
-0.03
Health Care REIT, Inc.
+1.04
The Home Depot, Inc.
-0.63
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
-0.52
International Business Machines +1.07
Johnson & Johnson
-0.29
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
-0.30
The Kroger Co.
-0.94
Kohls Corp.
+2.11
Lowes Companies Inc.
-0.01
McDonalds Corp.
-0.61
Microsoft Corporation
-0.205
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Navistar International Corp.
-0.85
Nucor Corporation
-0.23
Pepsico, Inc.
-0.09
The Procter & Gamble Co.
-0.04
Rite Aid Corporation
-0.19
Sprint Corporation
+0.35
Teleflex Incorporated
+0.81
Time Warner Inc.
-0.56
Textron Inc.
+0.10
United Security Bancshares
0.00
United Parcel Service, Inc.
-0.13
U.S. Bancorp
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Verizon Communications Inc. +0.08
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
+0.13
Wells Fargo & Company
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The Wendys Company
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Fast start keys Raiders 20th win of season

BY KEVIN WANNEMACHER
DHI Media Business Mgr
kwannemacher@timesbulletin.com
HAVILAND Wayne Trace closed out
the regular season with a victory in the final
home game for four seniors as the Raiders
defeated Ottoville 62-49 Friday night at the
Palace.
Seniors Darius Hale, Jake Arend, David
Sinn and Corbin Linder all were recognized
between the junior varsity and varsity contests before the final home game of their careers in a Raider uniform.
They are a tremendous group, noted
Raider head coach Jim Linder. They have all
worked very hard and are a big part of this
team and the success we have had.
Two Ethan Linder free throws and a Hale
3-pointer quickly put Wayne Trace on top
5-0 before the Big Green answered with five
straight points.
However, the Raiders responded with nine
consecutive points to quickly grab control.
Treys by brothers Corbin and Ethan Linder
along with an old fashioned 3-point play by
Ethan Linder put Wayne Trace on top 14-5.
Following two free throws by Ottovilles
Brandt Landin, the Raiders came back with
10 straight points to widen the margin to 24-7.
Wayne Trace senior Darius Hale (14) guards Ottovilles Colin Bendele (4) on
the perimeter during Fridays non-conference game in Haviland. Hale and his
teammates rolled to a 62-49 win, their 20th this year. (DHI Media/Angela Stith)
Ethan and Corbin Linder each had four points
in the spurt with Justin Speice adding the other basket.
We were able to get off to a quick start
and took advantage of it, commented Coach
Linder. Ethan does a lot of things for us he is

able to create things for us offensively. Corbin
hit some shots and passed the ball very well
tonight.
Ottoville did get within 24-12 at the end of
eight minutes of action, getting a late basket

by Kyle Bendele along with a 3-pointer from
Colin Bendele.
Wayne Trace (20-1) started off the second
quarter right where it left off in the first.
The Raiders opened the scoring with an
Alec Vest basket followed by a Cole Shepherd
bucket to grab a 28-12 advantage. A Corbin
Linder 3-pointer and four straight points from
Ethan Linder expanded the Wayne Trace lead
to 35-14 at the 4:54 mark of the second quarter.
Our bench play continues to get better and
they are key to the success of this team, added Linder. Justin came in and gave us quality
minutes tonight and got some big baskets for
us. Alec continues to get better and is doing a
better job of playing under control. Our depth
keeps getting better and is crucial.
Trailing 37-18 at the intermission, Ottoville would make a run in the third quarter.
Three consecutive 3-pointers by Tyler
Roby on the first three possessions of the second half trimmed the Raider lead to 37-27
with six minutes left in the quarter. However,
Wayne Trace then weathered the storm with a
Corbin Linder basket and a Vest 3-pointer to
go back in front 42-29.
RAIDERs/11
St. Johns closes regular season with win

BY LARRY HEIING
news@delphosherald.com
Lincolnviews Chandler Adams (30) shoots over

Spencervilles Bailey Croft (33) during Friday nights
NWC game in Spencerville. Adams scored 13 points
for the Lancers and Croft scored six points while
grabbing eight boards for the Bearcats. Crofts team
came away with a 52-45 win. (DHI Media/Tina Eley)
Fourth-quarter rally
lifts Bearcats to
outright NWC crown
BY JOHN PARENT
DHI Media Sports Editor
sports@timesbulletin.com
SPENCERVILLE For three quarters, Lincolnview controlled Friday nights Northwest Conference tilt at Spencerville. In the fourth, however, the Bearcats cranked up the intensity and stormed from behind to grab a 52-45 victory. The
win gives the Bearcats their first-ever outright NWC title.
ROCKFORD The tail end of

a long season for Parkway brought
MAC foe Delphos St. Johns to Rockford. As each teams prepares for the
sectional tournament next week, it
was the Blue Jays who captured their
fourth straight overall in a 62-35 win.
Before the game, Parkway honored
their three seniors: Brody Adams,
Tanner Bates and Brandon Gibson.
The Panthers came out inspired as
Justin Barna scored the first points of
the game from the baseline. St. Johns
got on the board with a jumper in the
paint by Andy Grothouse. Bates put
his squad in front 5-2 with a 3-pointer, extending his own school record,
from the top of the key, but the Blue
Jays took the lead back for good on
an offensive rebound with putback by
Tyler Conley before Evan Hays hit a
jumper from the foul line.
St. Johns continued their 9-0
run with a jumper by Conley, Grothouse 3-pointer, and a steal at half
court by Austin Heiing for a layup.
Panther coach Rick Hickman called
timeout to slow the Jays streak, and
Bates responded after the break with
a 3-pointer, pulling Parkway within
13-8.
Hays finished out the Jays first
quarter scoring with a jumper and a
trey from the corner as St. Johns led
18-9 after one.
Alex Odenweller heated up in the
second quarter with four triples and
a one-handed turn-around jumper in
the lane for 14 points.
Parkway scored on a pair of free
throws by Barna and a jumper from
the foul line by Sage Dugan. The Panthers scored the final five points of
Alex Odenweller takes a jumper for St. Johns during Fridays

game in Rockford. The Jays beat Parkway to end the regular
season. (DHI Media/Pat Agelr)
the first half, as Bates scored again
and Adams connected for a 3-pointer
from the corner with the Jays holding
a 37-18 lead.
Parkway came out of the locker
room with an intense trapping defense that caused problems for the
Jays offense after Odenweller drained
another 3-pointer. Parkways offense
also got on track, as Brandon Gibson
drilled a jumper and Bates converted
a pair of free throws.

The Blue Jays turned the ball over
on five straight possessions, but Parkway couldnt take full advantage reducing the lead only to a dozen 40-28.
Conley rounded out the Jays third
quarter scoring with four points and
Bates hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
JAYs/11
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Hot-shooting Pirates finish with 8-point win over Jefferson

BY JIM METCALFE
DHI Media Sports Editor
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
BLUFFTON Both Jefferson and Bluffton were hot from the floor during their Northwest Conference boys basketball encounter
Friday night inside the Pirate Den of Bluffton
High School.
The biggest difference was the Pirates
were on fire from 3-point land, while the
Wildcats were only solid in a 64-56 regular-season-ending Bluffton victory.
The Pirates (16-6, 4-4 NWC) were a torrid 11-of-18 beyond the arc (61 percent) versus the Wildcats 6-of-14 mark (43 percent).
Overall, Bluffton was 25-0f-47 from the field
(53 percent) and the Wildcats were 21-of-42
(50 percent).
A 3-point play the old-fashioned way by
Dalton Hicks at 6:31 started it for the Wildcats, while Bret Rumer fired the first of his
three first-period 3-pointers at 5:42. Both
teams were pushing the pace and matched
7-of-13 shooting quarters. The Wildcats were
2-of-3 from deep and the Pirates 5-of-6. With
three lead changes and two ties, a basket off a
lob by Nick Freisen put the home team up 1917, a lead they never surrendered.
Jefferson (12-10, 3-5 NWC) junior Trey
Smith started to get free of the Pirates triangle-and-2 defense in the

second period and netted eight points.
However, 3-point shooting allowed
Bluffton to maintain at least a 3-point
lead. When Smith put back an offensive board at 14 seconds left in the
half, Delphos was within 33-30.
The Wildcats appeared to be tiring in the third period and the Pirates
took advantage, taking a 48-37 edge
on a transition layup by Eli Runk at
2:33, causing Jefferson coach Marc
Smith to call timeout. That seemed
to calm the Wildcats, and, with
Trey Smith canning two baskets
sandwiched around a layup by Josh
Teman, Jefferson was within 49-43.
The Pirates defense really
clamped down on Smith in the finale, holding
him scoreless. The other part of the triangle
focus, Jace Stockwell, shook loose for seven
points. However, Bluffton began to spread its
offense out and force the tiring Wildcats to
chase. A 3-point play by Rumer gave the hosts
their biggest lead of 62-50 at 3:58, and the
nearest the visitors got was seven, 62-55, on a
Drew Reiss bomb at 3:00.
We were tired, no doubt about it. Its
the luck of the schedule; sometiems you get
breaks and sometimes you dont,

Coach Smith observed. We gave
it our all and battled but we didnt
have much to give tonight. Bluffton
hit the threes from everywhere; we
knew they were capable of it. They
were hot at the start of the year, had a
6-game span when they didnt shoot
it well, but lately seem to have found
their stroke. Plus, we knew their defense would make it difficult for us.
They always do.
Jefferson finished with 8-of-10
at the line (80 percent), secured 22
boards (7 offensive) and amassed
nine turnovers.
Bluffton netted 3-of-6 foul shots
(50 percent), snapped up 22 rebounds
(6 offensive) and added five turnovers.
When you have to double-team one guy,
thats a testament to how good he is. Thats Trey;
he works so hard and is a fantastic player, Bluffton head man Todd Boblitt explained. We wanted to contain Stockwell and not give him any
easy looks. Generally, we followed out game plan
and did a solid job. Offensively, we started out hot
from three, but that can be fools gold. In the second half, we wanted to go more inside.
In junior varsity action, Bluffton held off
Jefferson 40-39 in overtime.
64
56
Gabe Denecker paced the Pirates with 11.

Guiding Delphos (13-9, 5-3) was Alex
Rode with 12.
Jefferson begins its Division III tourney run 8 p.m. Friday versus the Coldwater/
Hopewell-Loudon victor at St. Marys Memorial.
Bluffton takes on Van Buren Tuesday at
Defiance.
VARSITY
JEFFERSON (56)
Jace Stockwell 3-6-13, Drew Reiss 1-0-3, Josh Teman 5-0-13,
Trey Smith 7-0-15, Dalton Hicks 4-2-10, Grant Wallace 1-0-2.
Totals 15-6-8-56.
BLUFFTON (64)
Austin Bricker 1-0-3, Joseph Schriner 1-0-3, Eli Runk 3-0-8,
James Harrod 0-0-0, Levi Kistler 4-1-9, Mitchell Ault 4-0-8,
Joel Siefker 2-0-5, Bret Rumer 6-2-19, Nick Friesen 1-0-2, Brady
Parkins3-0-7, Nick Swisher 0-0-0. Totals 14-11-3-64.
Score by Quarters:
Jefferson 17 13 13 13 - 56
Bluffton 19 14 16 15 - 64
Three-point goals: Jefferson, Teman 3, Stockwell, Reiss, Smith;
Bluffton, Rumer 5, Runk 2, Bricker, Schriner, Siefker, Parkins.
JUNIOR VARSITY
JEFFERSON (39)
Trey Gossman 2-0-5, Cole Arroyo 0-0-0, Brenen Auer 1-1-3,
Davion Tyson 1-0-2, Alex Rode 5-2-12, Tyler Bratton 2-0-6.
Christian Stemen 0-0-0, Nick Long 2-0-4, Drake Schmitt 3-1-7.
Totals 13-3-4/11-39.
BLUFFTON (40)
Jason Bracy 0-0-0, Trevor Bassitt 0-0-0, Owen Bischoff 1-0-2,
Connor Dawson 4-0-8, Levi Mikesell 0-0-0, Antony Kingsley
1-0-2, Zane Myers 1-0-3, Gabe Denecker 5-1-11, Joseph
Schriner 4-0-8, Nick Friesen 3-0-6. Totals 18-1-1/3-40.
Score by Quarters:
Jefferson 6 11 11 8 (3) - 39
Bluffton 16 11 8 1 (4) - 40
Three-point goals: Jefferson, Bratton 2, Gossman; Bluffton,
Myers.
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pound Van Wert, 58-36
BY JIM COX
ST. MARYS It frequently boils
down simply to which team shoots
the ball better. Friday night it was St.
Marys Memorial that won that battle,
by far, in a 58-36 rout of Van Wert. The
Roughriders end their regular season
at 14-8 overall and 5-4 in the Western
Buckeye League. Van Wert is 6-15 and
2-7.
Memorial hit exactly half of its field
goal tries, 20 of 40, and that included
nine 3-pointers by five different players. The Cougars shot only 34 percent,
11 of 32, from the field, including five
triples spread among five players.
Their skill level is better than
ours, said Van Wert coach Mark Bagley. They average eight 3-pointers a
game. You can scout all you want and
do all of those things, but when you
dont score, theres game slippage, and
there was game slippage tonight. Its
hard to beat teams when you consistently dont shoot well.
The scrappy Cougars forced seven
first-quarter turnovers, which led to
their 10-8 lead after eight minutes, but
the game turned around quickly after
that. The Riders drained four 3-pointers in the second quarter, which they
won 21-8 to lead 29-18 at the break.
The third quarter was much like the
first, with neither team able to score
consistently. Van Wert won that quarter 9-8 and was still in the game at 3627. However, it quickly got out of hand
in the final period, as St. Marys started off with a 12-0 run to remove any
doubt.
Theyre a great shooting team, but
our offensive frustrations affected us
defensively, added Bagley. We were
ready to play, but when you miss shots,
that affects the psyche of a team that
struggles to score.
Neither rebounds nor turnovers
were major factors. Van Wert had fewer miscues, 10-12. The Cougs were also
a bit sharper from the line, 9 of 12 for
75 percent, with Connor Holliday, as
usual, accounting for most of those,
making 7 of 8. Memorial hit 9 of 15, 60
percent, including 7 of 12 in the fourth
quarter alone.
The Roughriders had no significant
size advantage, but they dominated the
boards 24-14.
Van Werts Josh Braun (12) grabs a loose ball as a St. Marys player
comes away empty-handed during Fridays Western Buckeye
League game. The Roughriders drained nine 3-pointers in a rout of
the Cougars. (DHI Media/Tina Eley)
Sophomore Derek Jay and junior
Nathan Wilker led the Roughrider
scoring with 14 and 10. Holliday was
Van Werts only double-digit scorer
with 10.
Its 9:15, and they (the Cougars)
have ten minutes to feel sorry for themselves, to talk about it, said Bagley just
before the team got onto the bus. Then
we have to erase this from our minds
and get ready for Carey next Wednesday (in the sectional tournament).
The Van Wert junior varsity finishes
at 13-8 after its 42-31 win. The Cougars, as usual, had balanced scoring led
by Davis Munroe, Dylan Lautzenheiser, Nick Gutierrez, Korbin Taylor, and

Ryan McCracken with 9, 9, 8, 8, and 7.
Score by quarters
Van Wert 10 8 9 9- 36
St. Marys 8 21 7 22- 58
Van Wert (36)
Kelly 4, Smith 9, Keber 0, Holliday
10, Cross 0, Henry 3, Braun 6, McCracken 3, Munroe 1, Ferckel 0, Myers
0
St. Marys (58)
Young 13, Fitzgerald 6, Bowman 3,
Hastreiter 2, Fisher 0, Wilker 10, Grannon 2, Jay 14, Zaerr 7, Slife 1
And all they care about is lead had grown to 34-17.

winning, and we have done After the timeout, Recker
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year on a high note.
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BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER
COLUMBUS GROVE While Connor Lautzenheiser and
Jace Darbyshire might have stolen the show Friday night, it was
Columbus Groves ability to find a second scorer which really
led the Bulldogs to a 65-53 Northwest Conference win.
Darbyshire led Columbus Grove
with 31 points making 10-of-11 free
throws in the fourth quarter but
Tanner From spelled the difference
for the Bulldogs (15-7, 6-2 NWC). The
6-foot-3 senior forward had 18 points
and five rebounds off the bench.
Tanner can play, Columbus
Grove coach Ryan Stechschulte said.
He really stepped up tonight. Hes a
pretty good shooter. We had him at
the line at the end of the game because he shoots foul shots well. When
were in the right frame of mind, we
have a lot of kids who can do stuff
like that.
Giving From credit takes nothing
away from the performance Darbyshire put on, though. The 5-10 senior is the primary ball handler for
Grove, and the offense runs through
him. He hit four 3-pointers among
his eight field goals and finished with
an 11-for-12 night at the free throw
line.
Hes been doing that quite a bit of
the year, Stechschulte said. Hes put
in more work than any kid Ive coached in 12 years. Its not
even close. Hes all self-made, from his physique to his shot.
Hes as good as it gets among point guards in this area.
Lautzenheiser had 33 points for the Knights, but only Nate
Owens got close to joining him in double figures with eight
points. Like his counterpart on the other side, Lautzenheiser
had the ball in his hands for the majority of the game. He had
seven field goals, with six 3-pointers, and went 13-of-17 from
the foul line.
As the game wore on, the Knights reliance upon their junior
guard became more noticeable: he had 21 of their 29 second
half points.
We tried to jump Lautzenheiser in the backcourt so he
would get rid of it, then we wanted to make him work as hard
as possible for any catch, Stechschulte said. He never really
caught it in scoring position, he got himself there. Hes a really
good player.
Crestview (12-9, 5-3 NWC) wasnt too deep to begin the
season, but now its dealing with the loss of starters Preston
Zaleski (knee) and Cody Mefferd (wrist). However, Crestview
coach Jeremy Best wasnt using their absences as a crutch or
excuse.
We came a thousand miles from where we were Tuesday
night to where we were tonight, Best said. I thought we did a
lot of things well. All our guys played with a little more sense
of purpose and belief in what they were doing.
Yeah, we lacked some things, just from a physical standpoint, but it wasnt from an effort standpoint, he added.
To bear out Bests point, the game was anything but a blowout for the majority of its length. The Knights were within two
points at the end of one quarter and three at halftime, but Grove
out-scored them 38-29 in the second half.
Grove opened the second half with a pair of 3-pointers
to push the lead to 33-24, but Lautzenheiser hit a trey of
his own after a timeout to temporarily stop the bleeding.
Grove responded with a 7-0 run, but again Lautzenheiser
came up big, scoring seven of Crestviews eight points the
rest of the third and helping close the gap to 42-35 after
three.
The fourth became a free-throw shooting contest Crestview made 10-of-11 and Grove hit 15-of-17 and the lead hovered around 10 for the quarter. Darbyshire had 12 points and
From had eight for Grove, and Lautzenheiser had 11 for the
Knights.
Our guys were still battling hard, Best said. (The Bulldogs) rat you up so much defensively and force you into playing
faster. They just didnt let you run stuff, you had to make
plays.
The win gave the Bulldogs sole possession of second place
in the NWC after Spencerville beat Lincolnview. Crestview
finished the season third in the conference.
With 22 games down, both teams turn to the sectional
tournament. The Bulldogs open their tournament in a sectional final March 6 at Ottawa-Glandorf. Crestview awaits either
Leipsic or Fort Jennings in a sectional final March 6 at Van
Wert.
For Best, it gives his team another week of practice to build
on the positives he saw against Grove and to further solidify the
new roles some of his players find themselves in.
We still have a lot to play for, Best said. We have a
week of practice to grow and get better again and prepare
for our sectional game Friday, and thats what were going
to do.
Columbus Grove 65, Crestview 53
CRESTVIEW Connor Lautzenheiser 7-13-33, Nate Owens 3-0-8, Mitchell Rickard 1-0-3, Spencer Rolsten 0-3-3, Jake
Lippi 1-2-4, Derek Stout 1-0-2. Totals 13-18-53.
COLUMBUS GROVE Jace Darbyshire 8-11-31, Gabe
Stechschulte 2-0-6, Logan Diller 1-2-4, Tanner From 5-6-18,
Rece Roney 2-0-4, Bryce Sharrits 1-0-2. Totals 19-17-63.
Crestview 10 14 11 17 53
Columbus Grove 12 15 15 23 65
3-point goals: Lautzenheiser 6, Owens 2, Rickard; Darbyshire 4, Stechschulte 2, From 2.
J.V. score: Columbus Grove, 30-27
Records: Crestview 12-9, 5-3 NWC; Columbus Grove 15-7,
6-2 NWC.
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as Andrew Renner had 15
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Isiah Frazier each added
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BY MicHaeL MaROt
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came Jan. 29, 2010.

And this one seemed doomed
from the moment coach David Blatt
decided to sit James, one night after
he scored a season-high 42 points.
James wasnt even on the bench with
his teammates for Clevelands third
loss in 21 games. James has missed
11 games this season, nine because
of a back injury.
But Cleveland still had chances.
It used a 9-0 fourth-quarter run
to close to 76-70 with 7:18 left. Indiana answered with nine straight
points, then gave up 11 straight to
the Cavs, who got within 85-81 with
1:35 left.
Stuckey 3-pointer with 1:14 to go
made it 88-81 and Indiana closed it
out at the free throw line.
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TIP-INS
Cavaliers: Friday night marked
the first time the Cavaliers played
without Irving and James since
Jan. 5 at Philadelphia. The two
All-Stars average a combined 41.7
points and 12.5 assists. Not surprisingly, Cleveland lost both of those
games.
Pacers: Paul George has returned
to practice, but hes still not suiting
up for Indiana. The two-time AllStar sat on the Pacers bench dressed
in a brown sport coat and dark
slacks. Hes hoping to make his season debut in mid-March, less than
eight months after having surgery to
repair his broken right leg.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) With

LeBron James and Kyrie Irving
sidelined, Rodney Stuckey scored
19 points and George Hill had his
first career triple-double Friday
night in the Indiana Pacers 93-86
victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Hill finished with 15 points, 10
rebounds and 12 assists as Indiana
won for the seventh time in nine
games including twice over the
Cavaliers in the past three weeks.
James sat out with soreness in
his lower back, while Irving stayed
home after hurting his left shoulder.
So the Cavs relied on J.R. Smith,
who had 21 points, and Kevin Love,
who finished with 17 points and 10
rebounds.
The Cavs responded by jumping
to a 21-8 lead midway through the
first quarter. But without their two
All-Stars, the Cavs couldnt maintain that pace.
Indiana led 51-45 at halftime, extended it to 74-59 in the third quarter
and twice fended off fourth-quarter
charges to hold on.
The Pacers and Atlanta are now
the only teams to beat Cleveland
twice this season.
For the Cavs, it was another miserable trip to Indianapolis, where
theyve lost 10 straight regular-season games. Their last win in Indy
Cleveland Cavaliers center Kendrick Perkins, right, has the ball knocked away by Indiana
Pacers center Ian Mahinmi during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis,
Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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Hays made sure that the Panthers wouldnt
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seven points as the Jays led 55-33.
Parkways Bates was fouled on a 3-point
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the Panthers final points of the night.
Coach Hickman then had the opportunity
to pull seniors Adams, Bates and Gibson off
the court for the final time in between free
throws by Robby Saine and Jaret Jackson for
St. Johns. The Blue Jays out-rebounded the
Panthers by 16 (26-10) to offset their 15 turnovers in the game while Parkway only turned
the ball over 8 times. St. Johns shot 58 percent from the floor and was 8 of 17 from long
range. The Blue Jays (15-6, 6-3 MAC) were
lead in scoring by Odenweller with 20 points
for the second straight game.
Also in double digits for the Jays was Hays
with 14 and Conley added 12. Senior Tanner
Bates finished his final home game with 23
points including three triples. The Panthers (417, 0-9 MAC) connected for 5 of 22 attempts
(23 percent) from 2 point range and four three
pointers on 16 attempts.
In junior varsity action, St. Johns improved
to 4-17 overall with a 49-22 victory.
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Though Austin Leeths
steal and coast-to-coast layup
gave Lincolnview a 38-32
margin with 28 seconds left,
the Lancers wouldnt score
again until the 5:45 mark
of the fourth. Meanwhile,
Spencerville switched gears,
moving to a much more aggressive pressure defense and
making a conscious effort to
get to the rim on offense. The
result was a series of trips to
the free throw line and, eventually, a 42-40 lead on Mason
Nourses fastbreak layup.
They picked up the intensity and kind of popped
us right in the mouth, Coach
Hammons said.
The Lancers (13-9, 3-5
NWC), who had been the
aggressor early in the game,
no longer found easy lanes
to penetrate and began settling for jumper. Many of
those shot fell short and the
Bearcats turned those empty possessions into points at
the other end. Nourse hit four
straight free throws before
Spencerville put an exclamation point on the conference
championship with a dunk
from Damien Corso to all but
sew up the game.
Lincolnview was held to
seven fourth-quarter points
and went just 3-for-13 from
the field in the period. Two of
those three made hoops came
very late when the game was
all but decided.
Defensively, we were a
lot better in the second half,
Coach Sensibaugh said. We
did a much better job defending the ball. We pressured the
ball, we put them in tough
spots, we got them out of
rhythm, and it helped us.
The Lancers had five turnovers in the final period while
Spencerville went 10-for-15
from the line in the fourth
quarter alone.
In the first three quarters,

we were getting to the hoop
and scoring in the paint. In
the fourth, we started settling
for 15-foot jump shots and we
werent hitting them, Hammons added. We got away
from what got us our lead.
Going against good
teams like Spencerville, going against good team like
well play in the tournament,
you cant play three good
quarters, Coach Hammons
explained. Weve got to understand that teams will play
in the tournament are going
to get up and pressure us.
Weve got to be able to handle it.
Though ending the regular
season with a loss is rarely
ideal, Coach Hammons says
the Lancers can build upon
the things they did against a
good Spencerville team.
We did a great job on
the glass, and we did a great
job pushing the ball for three
quarters, Hammons added.
We went on a four-game
winning streak there because
we got out and ran. For the
first three quarters (tonight),
we did a pretty good job of
that.
Score by quarters
Lincolnview 14 14 10 7- 45
Spencerville 9 14 11 18- 52
Lincolnview (13-9)
Austin Leeth 2-4 0-0 4, Derek Youtsey
1-4 0-0 2, Justis Dowdy 4-12 4-6 14,
Chandler Adams 6-13 1-1 13, Hayden
Ludwig 3-9 0-0 8, Josh Leiter 0-0 0-0 0,
Trevor Neate 1-4 2-2 4; Totals- 17-46 7-9
45
Spencerville (14-5)
Damien Corso 3-9 0-0 6, Jacob Meyer
0-1 0-0 0, Grant Goecke 0-1 0-0 0, Zach
Goecke 3-6 6-8 13, Bailey Croft 2-3 2-5
6, Mason Nourse 2-7 4-4 9, Garrett Croft
3-4 0-0 6; Totals- 17-41 14-20 52
Three-point field goals: Lincolnview (49)- Dowdy 2, Ludwig 2; Spencerville (413)- ZGoecke, Prichard 2, Nourse
JV score: Lincolnview 46-42
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Offensively, it took us
a while to get it going; we
were trying to find things that
would work, Spencerville
coach Kevin Sensibaugh said.
We ended up running one
of our continuity offense, the
assistant coaches insisted on
it, actually, and it worked. It
kind of got us into a rhythm
offensively.
It was a great game; a
very fun win.
Spencerville (14-5, 7-1
NWC) led briefly in the first
period at 5-4, but the Lancers reclaimed the lead when
Chandler Adams converted a
3-point play and didnt give it
back until there was 5:02 left
to play in the final period.
In between, Lincolnviews
offense, keyed by Adams
in the low block and Justis
Dowdy on the wing, controlled the game and helped
the Lancers to a 14-9 lead
after one quarter and a 28-23
lead at halftime.
Chandler Adams played
well in the post, Lincolnview head coach Brett Hammons said. Justis played well
(also).
An Adams tip-in to open
the third put Lincolnview up
by seven, and, minutes later,
another Adams scored from
the low post extended the
Lancers lead to 34-26.
Spencervilles
Dakota
Prichard then stepped up and
drained a 3-pointer from the
left wing with 2:18 to play in
the quarter, and, less than a
minute later, hit another one
from the top of the arc to pull
the Bearcats back to within
four.
It kept us in the game,
Sensibaugh said of Prichards
long-distance success. There
were some times where we
went down by a couple (possessions), and if he doesnt
hit those threes, it could have
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After a 3-pointer by Ottovilles Colin Bendele, a basket by Vest was followed by a steal
and two free throws by Luke Miller to put the
Raiders on top 46-32. The Raiders went on to
post a 48-36 lead entering the final quarter.
Ottoville came out and hit some big
shots, Linder said. We knew they were capable of shooting the ball well, but we tried to
adjust and limit (Kyle) Bendele inside. They
came out and battled us and we had to make
adjustments.
Two Landin free throws brought the Big
Green within 48-38 early in the fourth quarter
but Ottoville would get no closer.
Seven straight Raider points, coming from
two Speice baskets and a Miller 3-point play,
widened the Wayne Trace lead to 55-38.
Everybody made a play of some kind tonight, Linder stated. We had guys hit a big
shot or they would come up with a key defensive play or get a big rebound at a key time.
We have had different players step up and
make plays this season and that is something
we need to continue.
Ethan Linder finished with 20 points to
pace all scorers in the contest while Corbin
Linder added 15 points and Speice chipped in
10. Darius Hale had three points in his final

game at home to go along with two rebounds,
one assist and two steals. Corbin Linder added eight boards, six assists and a steal as well.
Jake Arend posted three rebounds and an assist.
Jake is being asked to play as a forward
and gives it everything he has every night,
Linder said. Darius has just continued to get
better and better this year. It is a good way to
end the regular season and it is a good way for
our seniors to go out.
Kyle Bendele paced Ottoville (11-10) with
15 points and Brandt Landin added 13. Kyle
Bendele also had nine rebounds for the Big
Green. Landin chipped in three assists and
two steals.
The Raiders open up sectional tournament
action on Friday. Wayne Trace will play the
winner of Tuesdays Hilltop-North Central
sectional semifinal in Division IV sectional
championship action at Paulding High School.
Score by quarters
Ottoville 12 6 18 13- 49
Wayne Trace 24 13 11 14- 62
Ottoville (11-10)
CBendele 6, Von Sossan 0, Roby 9, Honigford 4, Landin 13,
Moorman 2, KBendele 1
Wayne Trace (20-1)
Arend 0, Miller 5, Hale 3, ELinder 20, Shepherd 2, CLinder 15,
Vest 7, Speice 10
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Todays
Horoscope
By Eugenia Last
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Your intuitive insight will
lead to a remarkable adventure
this year. You will win others
over with your commitment
and passion, and your personal relationships will become
stronger and more satisfying.
A special connection will reveal secret information that
will enable you to put doubt
or uncertainty behind you.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) -- Take the initiative and
become involved in an unusual creative project. A community event or gathering will
benefit from your contributions as well as provide you a
welcome outlet.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- Now is not the best time
to use persuasive tactics to get
your way. Keep your comments to yourself, avoid confrontations and let everyone
do his or her own thing.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- Spend time away from
home. Travel to an unexplored
area of your community, take
a pleasure trip or go to your
local library to read up on exotic or intriguing destinations.
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20) -- Review your qualifications and consider a change
in vocation. If you are unsatisfied with your current position, take the steps necessary
to move on to something
more stimulating. Redo your
resume.
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22) -- Spruce up your living
space. Invest in items that
will add to your comfort and
create a welcome refuge from
your hectic lifestyle. Enlist
friends to help you out.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Dont fall for high-pressure
sales talks. Acting in haste
will be your downfall. Investigate the details of any commitment or contract thoroughly before you make a move.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
-- Attend events that appeal
to you. Your generous nature
will be a definite asset to a
group that helps a cause you
believe in. You can make a
difference.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
-- Someone is holding back
important information. Dont
rely on others opinions. You
should do some research to
determine what will be the
best course of action.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) -- Be diligent in your
work habits. Professional
gatherings or business meetings will figure heavily in
your advancement. Your commitment and drive will be observed and rewarded.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) -- Resist the impulse
to go over budget on an unnecessary luxury item. Difficulty in your financial situation will occur if you make a
hasty monetary decision. Step
back and consider the consequences.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) -- Your emotions will
be close to the surface. Dont
place unrealistic demands
on anyone, and think twice
before you say something
thats hurtful. Trying to make
amends will be difficult.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) -- If you are feeling overwhelmed, stop and give yourself time to regroup. Personal
or professional stress will limit your ability to see the situation clearly. Its better to be
safe than sorry.
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21 Round
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DEAR ABBY: My best
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she has no other friends besides me and one other person. I am the only one so far
who knows about her pregnancy. She hasnt told her dad
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shes scared theyll kick her
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will become obvious, and she
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DEAR ABBY: I am engaged to a man, Keith,
who has numerous female
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something more. Recently,
during my second pregnancy,
one of his friends decided
to follow me, but would never say a word to me. When I
tell Keith I am uncomfortable
with these women, he says I
have no right to dictate his
personal life.
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have to deal with these
friends, even if they were
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DEAR ADRIFT: Listen
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already had at least one child
with your fiance. Recognize
that Keith wont change much
if you manage to drag him to
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If he is telling you now
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(you have no right to dictate
his personal life), I hope you
realize this is how his attitude
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you luck.
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Allen County
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M. Helen Schwieterman, Mary H. Schwieterman, Edgar D.
Schwieterman and Jeffrey A. Schwieterman to Tadcu Fferm,
LLC, 929 E. Second St., Delphos, $33,500.
Village of elida
Steven J. and Carrie R. Phillips to Tyson D. and Dianna Parish, 2275 N. Cable Rd., Lima, $25,000.
Henry E. Rolfe and John Alexander Rolfe to Tyson D. and
Dianna Parish, 2275 N. Cable Rd., Lima, $27,000.
spencerville
James R. II and Melissa J. Hile to Clarissa D. Cisco and
Chad R. Leffel, 131 Primrose Pl., Spencerville, $58,000.
sugar Creek township
Deborah S. Ketteman, et al., Sheriff Samuel A. Crish and
Joann Rhodes to JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association,
5040 N. West St., Lima, $48,000.
Putnam County
Kenneth T. Meyer and Lynda E. Meyer, Lot 923, Ottawa, to
Hair Studio 232 LLC.
George Stechschulte and Teresa L. Stechschulte, .03 acre,
1.44 acres and 2.43 acres, Riley Township, to Robert W. Amstutz and Rebecca M. Amstutz.
William R. Ebbesmier TR, Marilyn L. Ebbesmier TR, Laura L. Dunno TR and Susan M. Schroeder TR, Lots 19 and 20,
Ottawa, to Robert J. Nicholas II.
Clara M. Fike, dec., Lots 563 and 564, Leipsic, to Nell Ann
Fike.
Clara M. Fike, dec., Lots 560, 561, 562, 567 and 568,
Leipsic, to Nell Ann Fike.
Robert E. Fike, dec., Lots 563 and 564, Leipsic, to Clara
M. Fike.
Traci Ann Okuley and Wade Adam Okuley, Lot 17, Continental, to Kimberly Kay Hanefeld and Dennis Earl Hanefeld.
A & K Weller Farms LLC, 32.47 acres, Monroe Township,
to Arden Weller LE and Kay Weller LE.
Michael R. Parker and Karen S. Parker, Lot 236, Glandorf,
to Michael R. Parker and Karen S. Parker.
Louis P. Laubenthal Sr., and Sharon K. Laubenthal, 1.0 acre,
Liberty Township, to Dennis K. Laubenthal.
Earl E. Goodwin TR and Elsie L. Goodwin TR, Lot 187,
Leipsic, to Elsie L. Goodwin.
Velma B. Warnimont, 1.36 acres and 77.577 acres, Palmer
Township, to Velma B. Warnimont TR.
Brad J. Schroeder and Lynette I. Schroeder, 2.125 acres,
Pleasant Township, to Brad J. Schroeder and Lynette I. Schroeder.
Cheryl A. Horstman and Michael A. Horstman, .473 acre
and .576 acre, Jennings Township, to Nancy J. Van Loo and
Peter Van Loo Jr.
Virginia L. Smith TR, Lot 924, Leipsic, to Dana K. Maag.
Julia M. Siefker, 3.427 acres, Ottawa Township, to James E.
Gulker and Laura M. Gulker.
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Laura K. Marecic to Kevin R. Matthews, Heather A. Matthews, inlot 3812, Van Wert.
Teresa Grear, John Nienberg, Jody Nienberg, Jody L. Nienberg to Barbara Irene Nienberg, inlot 765, Delphos.
Estate of Lucia A. Bartz to Frank C. Bartz, Walter C. Bartz,
Stacey L. Youtsey, Angela J. Crosby, Brian D. Bartz, lot 2-5,
Middle Point subdivision.
Randy R. Miller, Shirley M. Miller to HSBC Mortgage Services Inc., lot 303-2, Van Wert subdivision.
CNB Real Estate Holdings LLC to Mandy N. Walker, portion of inlot 39, Willshire.
Mandy N. Walker to Michael Young, portion of inlot 39,
Willshire.
Estate of Rachel Middleton to Larry Middleton, Dewey
Wayne Middleton, inlot 141, Convoy.
Creative Home Buying Solutions Inc. to Jason A. Couts,
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Board of Education of Van Wert City Schools to Van Wert
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Byron D. Thompson, Kathy J. Thompson, Kathy A. Thompson to Amanda Tice, portion of section 15, Tully Township.
Richard E. Wannemacher, Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach
to Todd Elwer, portion of inlot 1212, Delphos, inlot 1215, Delphos.
Norman A. Bidlack, Mary C. Bidlack to Susan K. Brubaker,
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too low, she said. At the same time, Yellen signaled that the Fed is moving closer to a rate hike by sketching the steps
it would take when it deemed the time
was right.
A government report issued Wednesday showed that sales of new homes
were basically flat in January, evidence
that the relatively low mortgage rates and
recent job gains have yet to spur the real
estate market. Despite the increasingly favorable economy, home sales have
been sluggish at the start of the year.
Still, many analysts expect that the housing market will gather momentum with
the start of the spring buying season.

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Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the
country at the beginning of each week.
The average doesnt include extra fees,
known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates.
One point equals 1 percent of the loan
amount.
The average fee for a 30-year mortgage was 0.6 point, unchanged from last
week. The fee for a 15-year mortgage
also remained at 0.6 point.
The average rate on a five-year adjustable-rate mortgage rose to 2.99 percent
from 2.97 percent. The fee was stable at
0.5 point.
For a one-year ARM, the average rate
slipped to 2.44 percent from 2.45 percent. The fee remained at 0.4 point.
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yarger
Debate rages over color of dress in rare light
(From page 1)
For the past few years, Yarger took care of
the juvenile cases as well as a few adult cases.
When I was still doing mostly juvenile
cases, a lot of the childrens services cases are
as a result of the drug raids, with people doing drugs around their minor children or they
cant take care of their children because of
their drug use. Sometimes they think its okay
if they do the drugs in another room away
from the children. Well, thats not okay. Its
seriously breaking up families. If you cant
kick it and a child is in foster care, they way
the rules are, if a child is in foster care 12 out
of 22 months, the state has to take permanent
custody of that child. So you only have about
12 months to get your act together, and with
these heroin addicts, they just cant do it. Maybe with the extra support of the drug court
instead of winging it on their own, that will
make the difference.
Yarger noted the case loads vary so that
some days are straightforward while at other times working late nights and weekends
is necessary. She still handles child support,
enforcements, modifications, and establishing paternity. She shares that responsibility with Assistant County Prosecutor Shane
Lee.
With the child support, a lot of it is a daily
grind, but a lot of people depend on getting
their child support, she reasoned. And find-
ing out who the father is, if they dont know

the father, a lot of times they cant get the Social Security or the Medicaid.
She said the drug problem in Van Wert
County fuels so many crimes locally and that
keeps caseloads high and Van Wert County
families in danger.
Yarger is a member of many boards of directors in the area, including Westwood Behavioral, the Brumback Library, Ohio State
University-Lima and LifeLinks Community
School.
Also I am the first woman appointed to
the Van Wert County Foundation Board since
1955, Said Yarger. So as part of that I attend
the Wassenberg Art Center board meetings.
She clearly enjoys her position and responsibilities. Yarger chose the law as a profession
and is comfortable with it.
My brother was a lawyer, my dad was a
cop. My major was political science. Not a lot
of lot of jobs out there unless I wanted to go
work for the government or the foreign service
or someone like that, she remarked. The law
was just the next thing. I just went to my high
school class reunion and there are people from
my class who are retiring, and I looked at them
and said, Im just getting to the point where I
know what Im doing! It takes that long to get
good at what youre doing. I figure, after 25
years of doing this, I kind of know what Im
doing and Im getting good at it.
Good
Luck
at State!
Its the dress thats beating the Internet

black and blue. Or should that be gold and
white?
Friends and co-workers worldwide
are debating the true hues of a royal blue
dress with black lace that, to many an eye,
transforms in one photograph into gold and
white. Experts are calling the photo a onein-a-million shot that perfectly captures
how peoples brains perceive color and
process contrast in dramatically different
ways.
This photo provides the best test Ive
ever seen for how the process of color correction works in the brain, said Daniel
Hardiman-McCartney, the clinical adviser
to Britains College of Optometrists. Ive

never seen a photo like before where so
many people look at the same photo and
see two sets of such dramatically different
colors.
The photo, taken earlier this month
before a wedding on the remote Scottish
island of Colonsay, also illustrates the dynamics of a perfect social-media storm.
Guests at the wedding could not understand why, in one photo of the dress being
worn by the mother of the bride, the clearly blue and black-striped garment transformed into gold and white. But only in
that single photo, and only for around half
of the viewers.
Bed Tax
(From page 1)
We dont have anyone who
comes to Delphos to go the
Civic Center, Mox said. I just
finished traveling in the southwest and not a single hotel I
stayed has a tax we are going
to have after this passes.
Jeff Lee, general manager of
the Howard Johnson in Lima,
was concerned the marketing
person hired by the county
would steer people away from
his hotel, which also includes a
5,000-square-foot event center
and seven meeting rooms.
Is this person going to
come in and steal my business
and move it to the Civic Center
or fairgrounds? Lee asked.
What benefit will I see from
this?
Commissioner Greg Sneary
said the marketing person will
work with everyone in the
county.
Im not going to say that
wont happen but this person
will have a relationship with
all the hotels, restaurants and
places people can gather,
Sneary said. That is the only
way they will be successful.
This position will benefit everyone. I believe bringing the
Civic Center up to where it
needs to be will benefit the en-
tire county as well.

Commissioner Jay Begg
also spoke on the subject.
It is not our intention to
take anything away from anyone, Begg said. We want a
partnership from all involved
so we can all be successful.
Marriott Senior Vice President of Operations Dan Peterson was concerned with the
lack of plan presented for the
Civic Center and what is needed and the lack of involvement
with the local hotels from the
beginning.
My major concern is if the
bed tax is going to be enough
to make the Civic Center the
revenue-generating machine it
should be, Peterson said. We
havent seen a plan. No one has
seen a plan. No one I ask can
give me a plan. We can help
but we have to be part of the
process. We should have been
in on the ground floor of talks.
We want to be part of a solution
for Allen County.
We want Allen County to
be on the map as a destination.
It needs to be exciting and vibrant and attractive and bring
guests back time and time
again, Peterson continued.
Civic Center Executive Director Cindy Wood said there
is a capital plan for the facility with a soft estimate of $3.9

million which includes upgrades to the HVAC system
and technology for the Crouse
Performance Hall and the Exhibit Hall and bringing the facility into the 21st century.
The Civic Center was stateof-the-art when it was first built,
Wood said. That was over 30
years ago. We have to upgrade
our technology so we have what
performers and groups we want
to attract here need.
Wood also said the next big
event at the Civic Center will
benefit many food-based businesses in Allen County.
We have Robert Irvine
coming in to do a food show
and hes going to showcase
Lakeview Farms and Rudolph
Foods, just to name a few,
and that will go out across the
country, Wood said. Thats
a huge boost for those companies and it will happen at the
Civic Center.
The first step will be an
assessment of the property to
a tune of approximately $2025,000.
Commissioners have until
mid-March to pass the legislation that they say will be effective April 1.
VanCreST
(From page 1)
Murphy has been at the 125-bed nursing
home since Feb. 2, previously working at Vancrest of Convoy and Sarah Jane Living Center
in Delphos. He also worked at Vancrest of Van
Wert for a total of 14 1/2 years with Vancrest.

Murphy said Vancrest of Delphos has had
at least six deficiency-free surveys in the
past 10 years.
SaleS Tax
van wert
cougars
cheerleaders
Paid for by VW Athletic Booster Club
(From page 1)
They are only getting
$40 to $50 per hour reimbursement for their time, he
said. I dont know a solution.
But this is not going to cut it.
You are not going to get good
lawyers and may be opening
yourselves up to lawsuits.
The cost to replace voting
machines in the future was
another platform priority.
The County Commissioners
Association of Ohio would
like to see a state and county partnership in purchasing
new voting equipment.
Burkley said a solution for
this may be to go back to pa-
(From page 5)
This was not the first time fighters had complained of being blinded while fighting Liston.
In fact, former title challenger Eddie Machen
said in his fight with Liston his eyes had also
felt like they were on fire for two rounds but
he had the experience not to let Liston know.
Between rounds, Dundee flushed Clays
eyes with water and the burning subsided. Able
to see again and now angry, Clay tore apart
Liston in the sixth, landing jabs and combinations at will. With one left-right combo he put
a mouse under Listons right eye and then his
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It is vital that the partnership between the state and

county government be reaffirmed and strengthened,
stated Putnam County Commissioner John Love. Ohios
county governments will be
seeking a commitment from the
administration and the General
Assembly to county government fiscal security as one of
the centerpieces of Ohios SFY
2016/2017 biennial budget.
Counties in the Senate
District I include Putnam,
Hardin, Williams, Defiance,
Paulding, Henry, Van Wert,
Hancock and parts of Fulton,
Auglaize and Logan counties.
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and Van Wert counties have
done this, he said.
McColley and most commissioners said the primary
concerns raised from their
constituents is the CAUV formula and increases farmers are
seeing in their property taxes.
Were trying to get this
done through the tax department, not legislation,said
McColley. He said they are
working to have the data used
for the formula be more updated.
Fridays event was hosted
by the Putnam County Commissioners.
right left a cut under the left, the first time the
champion had ever been cut in a fight.
The bell for the seventh round sounded and
Clay stood, Dundee giving him final instructions. But Clays attention was on Liston, staring at the other fighter who refused to get off
the stool in his corner, surrendering the fight.
And the Louisville Lip never stopped
talking.
Here now is a reprint of the February 26,
1964, Van Wert Times-Bulletin article detailing Cassius Clay winning the heavyweight title the night before against Sonny Liston.
WindoW
(From page 5)
Delphos to Have
New Confectionery
Delphos is to have a new
confectionery soon. Albert,
Henry and Hubert Weisgerber have rented a room in the
Jessie L. Danner building on
East Second Street, formerly
occupied by the Brickner Pastry Shop and plan to open a
modern confectionery there
in about two weeks.
This room is now being
placed in readiness for the
new business. New show windows are constructed and the
walls redecorated.
The firm is purchasing
new equipment and plans to
have one of the finest confectioneries in this area.
Hubert Weisgerber will be
in charge, having had eight
years experience.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 29, 1929
Still making Harness

in marian Shop
When Gottleig Eibling
was 19 he became acquainted
with the harness-makers awl.
He began as an apprentice in
a shop operated by his brother-in-law.
Today, at the age of 85, he
continues at the same trade,
conducting a little shop at the
rear of his home. Morning after morning he opens the shop
and hangs out a large horse
collar. Each evening he takes
it down and closes up shop.
And that comprises the
major part of his obsolete
business.
Delphos Herald,
Mar. 29, 1929

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