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Relay team sets
fundraisers
The Gilead Lake Gang
Relay for Life Team in
Delphos has two fundrais-
ers going on right now.
The annual Bowling
Tourney is set for 6:30
p.m. on April 29.
Contact Carrie Rahrig
at 419-234-3739 to reg-
ister by April 22.
The team is also selling
10-inch petunia hanging
baskets and 4-inch pots.
The flowers will
be delivered the week
before Mother’s Day.
Contact Rahrig at 419-
692-1994 or temanca@
hotmail.com to order.
Putnam ESC to
sponsor Autism
Resource Fair
The Putnam County
Education Service Center
at 124 Putnam Parkway,
Ottawa (across from the
YMCA), will sponsor an
Autism Resource Fair free
for families and professionals
from 6-8 p.m. on March 31.
The fair will have
displays and resources
regarding autism, along
with speakers and refresh-
ments. There will also be
on-site daycare provided.
For more informa-
tion, contact Marcie
Osborn or Tim Calvelage
at 419-523-5951.
Sheriff’s office
continues to
collect unwanted
prescription drugs
The Van Wert County
Sheriff’s Office is still
accepting unwanted
prescription drugs.
“We’re trying to take any of his plans to fill a $8 billion
unused, unwanted medica-
tions off the shelves,” Sheriff
Stan Owens explained. “We
get people all the time ask-
ing how they can get rid of
their expired medications
and if you just do it on one
day, people forget or get
too busy to come by.”
Items can be brought
in through April to 113 N.
Market St. in Van Wert. The lier policy on Monday so jour-
drugs will in turn be given
to the DEA for disposal.
Jefferson to host
send-off rally
A pep rally to send
the Jefferson girls basket-
ball team off to state is
set for 7 p.m. Wednesday
in the Jefferson High
School gymnasium.
Tickets for Thursday’s
8 p.m. Jefferson girls bas-
ketball state semifinal vs.
Canal Winchester Harvest
Prep (Schottenstein Center)
will be sold to the public 8
a.m. to 7 p.m. today and 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the sale of five prisons, a re-
the Jefferson Administration routing of state liquor pro-
Building. Cost of tickets is $8 ceeds to the new JobsOhio
pre-sale and $10 at the door. economic development panel,
The school gets a percentage and reductions in social pro-
of the pre-sale tickets sold.
Forecast
Rain
Wednesday
morn-
ing, sunny
afternoon.
High in low
50s. See page 2.
Index
Obituaries
State/Local
Politics
Community
Sports
Classifieds
Television
World briefs
pennant in Wednesday’s
paper!
Delphos City Schools
District loses $123,000 in tax mishap
Allen County Auditor Rhonda Eddy-Stienecker, right, explains why Delphos City
Schools received nearly $123,000 less on tax receipts for the first half payment this year as
Allen Economic Development Group President/CEO Marcel Wagner and board meeting
attendee Tony Kriegel look on.
BY NANCY SPENCER
nspencer@delphosherald.com ing, Allen County Auditor tax entities involved, it was
DELPHOS — Delphos explained why.
City Schools learned on
Friday its tax revenue from applied for their tax abate- 40 percent to the tax entities,”
Allen County for the first half ment on their new building Eddy-Stienecker said. “When
of 2011 was nearly $123,000 in 2002, they asked for 60 we processed their paper-
less than expected. During percent. When the final con- work, my employee picked
Facing critics, Kasich
prepares to unveil budget
COLUMBUS (AP) —
Gov. John Kasich made final
preparations Monday for the
unique unveiling of his first
state budget, even as protests
and a new poll signaled that
Ohio residents were skeptical
shortfall.
Kasich, a former con-
gressman who was chairman
of the U.S. House Budget
Committee, planned to present
his two-year spending blue-
print to residents today during
an invitation-only town hall
meeting that will be broadcast
on government television.
His office reversed an ear-
nalists would be allowed to
broadcast sound and images
gathered during a media brief-
ing preceding the town hall
event.
Spokeswoman Connie
Wehrkamp said the reversal
was prompted by concerns
raised by Statehouse journal-
ists and media outlets. They
objected to rules limiting them
to notepads, pens and tape
recorders, which were to be
used only to check accuracy.
Video and photos also were to
be prohibited.
Kasich’s budget pack-
age will reportedly include
grams, education spending
and state subsidies to local
governments.
The budget will restore an
income-tax cut to Ohio resi-
Radiation level soars after Japanese nuclear plant fire
By ERIC TALMADGE
and SHINO YUASA
The Associated Press
2 SOMA, Japan — The region was shattered
3 Dangerous levels of radia-
4 tion leaking from a crippled
nuclear plant forced Japan to
5 order 140,000 people to seal
6-7 themselves indoors today
8 after an explosion and a fire
9 dramatically escalated the
10 crisis spawned by a deadly
tsunami.
In a nationally televised
statement, Prime Minister
Naoto Kan said radiation had
Telling The Tri-County’s Story Since 1869
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday’s school board meet- tract was signed with all the
Rhonda Eddy-Stienecker agreed at 100 percent because
that was the norm at the time.
“When Vanamatic Co. Vanamatic then agreed to pay
dents that was suspended for
the past two years, Kasich
has said. It also will include
innovations, including new
ways to look at state Medicaid
spending and mental health
care.
Kasich’s approval rating
stands at just 40 percent of
Ohio residents heading into
the big day, according to an
Ohio Poll released Monday by
the University of Cincinnati’s
Institute for Policy Research.
Results showed disapprov-
al highest among blacks, resi-
dents of southeast Ohio, those
with less than a high school
education and union house-
holds affected by a Kasich-
backed divisive collective bar-
gaining bill making its way
through the Statehouse.
Union groups sought
Monday to tie budget con-
cerns to the collective bar-
gaining bill.
Speaking at an event
organized by the American
Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees,
student mobilizer Will Klatt
said he would like to see the
Kasich administration work
together with unions to cre-
ate jobs.
He said state officials
would be “essentially asking
students and youth to take the
burden of the economic crisis”
if they increase college tuition
costs.
“Essentially the crisis that
was started in 2008 by the
banks is being handed over
to students and young people
and working people, and they
want us to pay for it,” said
spread from the four stricken
reactors of the Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear plant along
Japan’s northeastern coast.
by Friday’s 9.0-magnitude
earthquake and the ensuing
tsunami that is believed to
have killed more than 10,000
people, plunged millions into
misery and pummeled the
world’s third-largest econo-
my.
Japanese officials told
the International Atomic
Energy Agency that the reac-
tor fire was in a fuel stor-
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Nancy Spencer photo
Klatt, who attends Ohio State
University. “That’s unaccept-
able, and we’re not going to
let it happen.”
Party loyalists are divided
in the poll, with 63 percent
of Democrats disapproving
and 65 percent of Republicans
approving of the job Kasich is
doing. More than half of inde-
pendents disapprove.
Thirty-eight percent of
adults approve of Kasich’s
handling of the economy; 49
percent disapprove.
Kasich’s initial popular-
ity lags three of four recent
governors: Ted Strickland,
with 68 percent; Bob Taft,
with 49 percent; and George
Voinovich, with 61 percent.
Only Richard Celeste was less
popular at the start of his term,
with a 32 percent approval
rating.
The telephone survey of
908 Ohio residents over the
age of 18 was conducted
from March 1 to March 9.
The sampling error margin
is plus or minus 3 percentage
points.
The poll showed that most
residents want to see Kasich
balance the budget with a
combination of spending cuts
and tax increases. Thirty-five
percent favored only cutting
programs and services —
with the largest percentage
of respondents targeting local
governments for cuts.
Fifteen percent said the
governor should cut prisons
and public safety, while 13
percent said cuts to colleges
and universities would be the
way to go.
age pond — an area where
used nuclear fuel is kept cool
— and that “radioactivity is
being released directly into
the atmosphere.” Long after
the fire was extinguished,
a Japanese official said the
pool might still be boiling,
though the reported levels of
radiation had dropped dra-
matically by the end of the
day.
Late today, officials at the
plant said they were consid-
ering asking for help from the
U.S. and Japanese militaries
to spray water from helicop-
up the 60 percent from the
application instead of the 100
percent from the contract. In
essence, Vanamatic was pay-
ing 80 percent from 2004-09
instead of the 40 percent.”
Vanamatic Chief Fiscal
Officer Patricia Morris found
the discrepancy last month.
“I was looking over our tax
paperwork and was curious
about some of the numbers
so I called the auditor’s office
with questions,” Morris said.
“Several weeks later we got a
check in the mail.”
Vanamatic was reim-
bursed $166,155 for six
years of overpayment. Eddy-
Stienecker said the prompt
attention to the mistake was
necessary to clear her books.
“Our policy is that when
there is an overpayment, we
refund the money immedi-
ately,” she said.
Morris said she would
have liked to discuss options
so the company’s refund
would not be such a harsh
blow to the tax entities.
“We never got the oppor-
tunity to discuss with the
county if we could stretch
that out so it wouldn’t be so
devastating to the schools,”
Morris. “I understand they
have to balance their books
because they get audited like
Bill Himmel, left, and Eric Kohart will manage Kohart
Surplus and Salvage in Delphos beginning April 4. The
company will accept various metals for recycle.
Koharts open salvage yard
Staff reports
DELPHOS — Bill Himmel
and Eric Kohart will manage
Kohart Surplus and Salvage
in Delphos beginning April
4. The company has locations
in Paulding and Fostoria. It
will accept various metals for
recycle.
“We will accept all grades
of metal and process them;
they’ll be melted and re-used.
We’ll buy aluminum, copper,
ters into the pool.
That reactor, Unit 4, had
been shut down before the
quake for maintenance.
If the water boils, it
could evaporate, exposing
the rods. The fuel rods are
encased in safety contain-
ers meant to prevent them
from resuming nuclear reac-
tions, nuclear officials said.
But they acknowledged that
there could have been dam-
age to the containers. They
also confirmed that the walls
of the storage pool building
were damaged.
Delphos, Ohio
everyone else. It’s just unfor-
tunate for the school district
and the others that received
the money they shouldn’t
have.”
Superintendent Jeff Price
said he and Treasurer Brad
Rostorfer have been working
on a contingency plan since
Friday to fill in the $123,000
hole.
“We have worked hard
over the last year to have
close to that amount as a
carry-over on our books on
June 30,” Price said. “We will
freeze all spending and try to
come up with that amount.”
Other tax entities involved
include the City of Delphos,
the Delphos Public Library,
Allen County, Marion
Township, Mental Health
and Allen County parks.
In other matters, local
public and parochial students
will enjoy a two-hour delay
on Friday. Price said he and
St. John’s administration
worked together for the delay
due to the Jefferson girls state
semifinal game on Thursday,
which will put students and
fans back into Delphos early
Friday morning.
Landeck Principal Mark
Fuerst has agreed to resign
See SCHOOL, page 2
Mike Ford photo
brass, stainless steel, iron and
car batteries,” Himmel said.
The company is family-
owned and operated by Ken
and Denise Kohart and has
existed since 1932.
The company is expanding
to Delphos out of Kohart’s
friendship with local resident
George Mox.
It will be open at 905 S.
Main St. from 8 a.m, to 4:30
Monday-Friday and 8 a.m. to
noon on Saturday.
Experts noted that much
of the leaking radiation was
apparently in steam from
boiling water. It had not been
emitted directly by fuel rods,
which would be far more vir-
ulent, they said.
“It’s not good, but I don’t
think it’s a disaster,” said
Steve Crossley, an Australia-
based radiation physicist.
Even the highest detected
rates were not automatically
harmful for brief periods, he
said.
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Japan
(Continued from page 1)
“If you were to spend a sig-
nificant amount of time — in
the order of hours — that could
be significant,” Crossley said.
Less clear were the results
of the blast in Unit 2, near
a suppression pool, which
removes heat under a reactor
vessel, said plant owner Tokyo
Electric Power Co. The nucle-
ar core was not damaged but
the bottom of the surrounding
container may have been, said
Shigekazu Omukai, a spokes-
man for Japan’s nuclear safety
agency.
Though Kan and other offi-
cials urged calm, today’s devel-
opments fueled a growing panic
in Japan and around the world
amid widespread uncertainty
over what would happen next.
In the worst case scenario, one
or more of the reactor cores
would completely melt down,
a disaster that could spew large
amounts of radioactivity into
the atmosphere.
“I worry a lot about fallout,”
said Yuta Tadano, a 20-year-
old pump technician at the
Fukushima plant, who said he
was in the complex when the
quake hit.
“If we could see it, we
could escape, but we can’t,” he
said, cradling his 4-month-old
baby, Shoma, at an evacuation
center.
The radiation fears added to
the catastrophe that has been
unfolding in Japan, where
at least 10,000 people are
believed to have been killed
and millions of people were
facing a fifth night with lit-
tle food, water or heating in
near-freezing temperatures and
snow as they dealt with the
loss of homes and loved ones.
State cites Notre Dame violations in student death
By HASAN DUDAR
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — A four-month inves-
tigation into a student’s death has found the
University of Notre Dame did not maintain
safe working conditions and failed to heed
wind warnings when the hydraulic lift he was
standing on to film football practice toppled
over in 51 mph gusts.
Indiana Department of Labor Commissioner
Lori Torres said today that the school will be
fined $22,500 for five violations, including
failing to properly train Declan Sullivan,
the 20-year-old junior film student from the
Chicago suburb of Long Grove, Ill. who died
in the Oct, 27 accident.
LOCAL PRICES Local law enforcement, OSHP sets
Corn: $6.46
Wheat: $6.20
Beans: $13.22
TRASH TALK
Allen County Refuse provides
garbage and recycle collection in
Delphos.
The Allen County portion of
Delphos is collected on Thurs-
days, with residents placing
garbage containers on the curb
Wednesday evening and recycle
every other Wednesday.
The Van Wert County portion
of Delphos is collected on Friday,
with residents placing garbage
containers at the curb on Thurs-
day evening and recycle every
other Thursday.
Recycle is collected this
Thursday and Friday.
If a holiday falls during the
week, collection is pushed back
a day. For example, the week of
Memorial Day, collection in Allen
County will be Friday and in Van
Wert County it will be Saturday.
See the full schedule at
cityofdelphos.com.
MARCHOCOLATE
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Up to 450,000 people are in
temporary shelters.
Hundreds of aftershocks
have shaken Japan’s northeast
and Tokyo since the original
offshore quake, including one
tonight whose epicenter was
hundreds of miles (kilometers)
southwest and inland.
Officials have only been
able to confirm a far lower toll
— about 3,300 killed — but
those who were involved in the
2004 Asian tsunami said there
was no question more people
died and warned that, like the
earlier disaster, many thou-
sands may never be found.
Asia’s richest country
hasn’t seen such hardship
since World War II. The stock
market plunged for a second
day and a spate of panic buy-
ing saw stores running out of
necessities, raising government
fears that hoarding may hurt
the delivery of emergency food
aid to those who really need it.
In a rare bit of good news,
rescuers found two survivors
today in the rubble left by the
tsunami that hit the northeast,
including a 70-year-old woman
whose house was tossed off its
foundation.
The Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear complex, along that
battered coastline, has been the
focus of the worries. Workers
there have been desperately
trying to use seawater to cool
the fuel rods in the complex’s
three reactors, all of which
lost their cooling ability after
Friday’s quake and tsunami.
Today, the complex was hit
by its third explosion since
Friday, and then a fire in a
separate reactor.
Afterward, officials in
Ibaraki, a neighboring prefecture
just south of the area, said up to
She said the university also was at fault
for allowing Sullivan to be in the lift after the
National Weather Service had issued a wind
advisory.
She said Notre Dame knowingly exposed
Sullivan and two other videographers to
unsafe conditions. She said the school has
been fined $55,000 for that.
The school has until April 7 to respond to
the state report.
Less than an hour before the incident that
led to his death, Sullivan had tweeted his con-
cerns about what he described as “terrifying”
weather.
“Gusts of wind up to 60 mph today will
be fun at work ... I guess I’ve lived long
enough.”
St. Patrick’s Day overtime enforcement
St. Patrick’s Day has
become a big night out for
many people but it is also
becoming a dangerous night
on Ohio roadways. That is
why local law enforcement
announced that they will be
out cracking down on and
arresting drunk drivers over
the St. Patrick’s Day week-
end.
In 2010, 21 people died
in 18 crashes on Ohio roads
over St. Patrick’s Day holiday
period.
If attending a St. Patrick’s
Day celebration and planning
on using alcohol:
— Designate a sober driv-
er before the party begins and
give that person the car keys;
— Don’t starve before or
during the party; enjoy the
food as well;
— Avoid drinking too
much alcohol too fast – eat,
take breaks, alternate with
non-alcoholic drinks;
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•DOWNTOWN-ELIZABETH AT MARKET
•WEST-ALLENTOWN AT CABLE
For The Record
100 times the normal levels of
radiation were detected today.
While those figures are worrying
if there is prolonged exposure,
they are far from fatal.
Tokyo reported slightly
elevated radiation levels, but
officials said the increase was
too small to threaten the 39
million people in and around
the capital, about 170 miles
(270 kilometers) away.
Amid concerns about radia-
tion, Austria moved its embas-
sy from Tokyo to Osaka.
Meanwhile, Air China
and China Eastern Airlines
canceled flights to Tokyo
and two cities in the disas-
ter area. Germany’s Lufthansa
airlines is also diverting its
two daily flights to Tokyo to
other Japanese cities. None
mentioned radiation concerns,
instead giving no explanation
or citing the airports’ limited
capacities.
Closer to the stricken
nuclear complex, the streets in
the coastal city of Soma were
empty as the few residents
who remained there heeded
the government’s warning to
stay indoors.
Kan and other officials
warned there is a danger of
more leaks and told people
living within 19 miles (30 kilo-
meters) of the Fukushima Dai-
ichi complex to stay indoors
to avoid exposure that could
make people sick.
“Please do not go outside.
Please stay indoors. Please
close windows and make your
homes airtight,” Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yukio Edano told
residents in the danger zone.
“These are figures that
potentially affect health. There
is no mistake about that,” he
said.
If “buzzed” don’t even
think about getting behind
the wheel. Ask a sober friend
for a ride home; call a cab,
friend, or family member.
Driving impaired, or riding
with someone who is impaired,
is not worth the risk — the
consequences are serious and
real. Not only are drivers
risking killing themselves or
someone else but the trauma
and financial costs of a crash
or an arrest for driving while
impaired are significant.
Don’t test your luck this
St. Patrick’s Day; designate
a sober driver in advance –
before the festivities begin.
If you plan on using alcohol,
never drive while impaired,
never ride with someone who These Ohio lotteries were
is impaired, and, if you think drawn Monday:
they are impaired, never let
your friends drive. Always
buckle up —it’s the best
defense against impaired
drivers.
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Mabel Wright, 91, of rural Vol. 141 No. 231
Spencerville died at 6:21 Nancy Spencer, editor
a.m. today in the Otterbein- Ray Geary, general manager
Cridersville Retirement Delphos Herald Inc.
Center. Don Hemple, advertising manager
Arrangements are incom- Tiffany Brantley,
plete at Thomas E. Bayliff circulation manager
Funeral Home, Spencerville.
The Daily Herald (USPS 1525
Helen Ann Birt 8000) is published daily except
Sundays and Holidays.
Walker By carrier in Delphos and
Nov. 17, 1927-March 13, area towns, or by rural motor
2011 route where available $2.09 per
Helen Ann Birt Walker, week. By mail in Allen, Van
Wert, or Putnam County, $105
83, of Spencerville, died at
9:20 p.m. Sunday at Joint
Ella ‘Louise’ Wilson per year. Outside these counties
Nov. 12, 1931-March 13, $119 per year.
Township District Memorial Entered in the post office
Hospital in St. Marys. 2011
Ella “Louise” Wilson, 79, in Delphos, Ohio 45833 as
She was born Nov. 17, Periodicals, postage paid at
1927, in Toledo to Frank and of Delphos, died at 9:19 p.m. Delphos, Ohio.
Cleon Hoover Ickes. Sunday at her residence. No mail subscriptions will
In 1949, she married Paul She was born Nov. 12, be accepted in towns or villages
A. Birt Sr., who died in 1992. 1931, in Floyd County, where The Daily Herald paper
Then in 1995, she married Kentucky, to Thomas and carriers or motor routes provide
James E. Walker, who died Margaret (Osbourne) Salyers. daily home delivery for $2.09
On June 19, 1955, she mar- per week.
in 2007. 405 North Main St.
Survivors include children ried Richard Monroe Wilson,
who died March 24, 1990. TELEPHONE 695-0015
Frank (Judy) Kohn of Lima, Office Hours
Paul (Deb) Birt Jr. of St. Marys, Survivors include daugh- 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Linda (Michael) McMurray ters Kay (Randy) Feathers of POSTMASTER:
of Wapakoneta, Jimmy Birt Paducah, Ky., Kathy Walker of Send address changes
of Fredericksburg, Pa., and Greeley, Colo., Waneta (Mark) to THE DAILY HERALD,
Sharon (Tom) McCormick Conner of Columbus Grove 405 N. Main St.
of Spencerville; stepchil- and Pam (Jeff) Honigford of Delphos, Ohio 45833
dren Bob (Elaine) Walker of Cloverdale; and two grand-
Spencerville and Pat (John) daughters, nine grandsons and
Etzler of Middle Point; sisters four great-grandchildren. Scholars of the Day
Alice Johnson of Spencerville, She was preceded in death
Barbara (Robert) Steinecker by 11 siblings; son-in-law
of St. Marys and Rose Ickes Terry Walker; and nine grand-
of Sidney; sisters-in-law children.
Bonnie Ickes of Middle Point, Mrs. Wilson was a home-
Dorothy (Jim) Doyle of Lima maker. Immediately after
and Marlene (Dave) Gilman graduating from Prestonburg
of Lima; aunt Sally Meier of High School in Kentucky,
Spencerville; 14 grandchil- she started a career at Lima
dren, eight stepgrandchildren, Telephone as a long-distance
26 great-grandchildren, 12 operator.
stepgreat-grandchildren and She was the matriarch of St. John’s Scholar of the
one stepgreat-great-grand- her family. She was an avid Day is Maya
daughter. Ohio State football fan. An Gerker.
She was preceded in death accomplished songwriter and Congratulations
by six brothers, Raymond self-taught at guitar and banjo,
she sang and played with her Maya!
Ickes, Maurice Ickes, John
Ickes, Max Ickes, and infants family all her life. She loved Jefferson’s Scholar of the
Lewis and Bernard Ickes; and learning new things: paint- Day is Emily
two sisters, Betty Cottrel and ing, crocheting and especial-
ly networking on Pogo and Lambert.
Elizabeth Ickes. Congratulations
Mrs. Birt Walker retired Facebook. She was not afraid
of any challenge in life. Emily!
from the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Co., St. Marys with Services will begin at 11 Students can pick up their
35 years of service. She was a.m. Thursday at Harter and awards in their school offices.
School
a lifelong member of the First Schier Funeral Home, the
Baptist Church, Spencerville. Rev. Wayne Prater officiating.
She was a member of the Harry Burial will follow in Walnut
J. Reynolds American Legion Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call from 2-8 (Continued from page 1)
Post 191 Auxiliary and the
Bowersock Brothers Veterans p.m. Wednesday and one hour
of Foreign Wars Post 6772 prior to services Thursday at and rehire if he is considered
the funeral home. for rehire in the same position
Auxiliary in Spencerville.
for the 2001-12 school year.
She was also a member of
WEATHER
The retirement and pending
the Lakewood Village Resort
in Wapakoneta. She enjoyed
rehire is at Price’s request to
save the district money.
travel and camping, reading, Delphos weather “Mr. Fuerst has every
embroidery, cards, puzzles
High temperature Monday intention of continuing his
and loved her animals.
in Delphos was 43 degrees, employment with the district
Services will begin at 11
low as 30. High a year ago for the 2011-12 school year
a.m. Wednesday at Thomas
today was 46, low was 37. and beyond,” Price said.
E. Bayliff Funeral Home; There will be a public hear-
Record high for today is 77,
Pastor Jim Fletcher will offici-
set in 1957. Record low is 3, ing on the matter on April 11
ate. Burial will be in Kossuth as part of the regular school
set in 1975.
Cemetery. board meeting.
Friends may call from 2-8 WEATHER FORECAST The board accepted the res-
Tri-county
p.m. today and after 10 a.m. ignation of Sue Wilkin as of
Wednesday at the funeral Associated Press May 31. Wilkin is retiring
home. after 35 years in the school
Memorial contributions TONIGHT: Cloudy. Rain district. She currently is the
showers in the evening. Lows
may be made to the Humane elementary Title I reading
Society or to the American in the mid 30s. South winds teacher.
5 to 10 mph becoming south-
Cancer Society. The board also approved
west after midnight. Chance volunteer track coaches Scott
LOTTERY of rain 80 percent.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly
Boggs, Joel Brown, Doug
Sanders and Jason Cross.
CLEVELAND (AP) — cloudy with a chance of rain The board retreated into
showers in the morning. Then
mostly sunny in the afternoon.
executive and adjourned with
Highs in the lower 50s. West
no further business.
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YWCA offers
aquatic arthritis
classes
The YWCA has worked
with the Arthritis Foundation
for almost 30 years to bring its
aquatic program to the com-
munity.
According to the Arthritis
Foundation, water is a safe,
ideal environment for reliev-
ing arthritis pain and stiffness.
Therefore, the foundation
offers an Aquatic Program
designed to safely keep joints
moving and improve well-
being.
The YWCA Arthritis
Foundation Aquatic Program
allows for exercise without
putting excess strain on joints
and muscles. The gentle activ-
ities in warm water, with guid-
ance from a trained instructor,
will help gain strength and
flexibility while decreasing
pain and stiffness.
The YWCA Arthritis
Foundation Aquatic Program
provides a friendly and sup-
portive atmosphere that can
help decrease feelings of
depression and isolation. The
Arthritis Foundation sings
many praises of the program
but none more importantly
than the programs ability to
lead to greater independence
and improved self-esteem.
The YWCA is proud to
offer Arthritis Foundation
certified programs, including
its Joint Effort class, focused
on loosening sore and ach-
ing joints. The YWCA offers
the Joint Effort classes four
times per week in its unique
moveable bottom warm water
therapy pool, maintained to
the Arthritis Foundations stan-
dard of between 84-88 degrees
Fahrenheit.
For information, contact
Executive Director Stacy
Looser at 419-238-6639.
YMCA develops
new web site
The YMCA of Van Wert
County has developed a new
and improved web site at
www.vwymca.org.
The new site has links/
pages for each of the Y’s
departments including a Home
Page with a blog link, About
Us, Membership, Aquatics,
Fitness, Sports/Programs, and
Camp Clay.
Also available now at www.
vwymca.org is online registra-
tion for Y classes and online
donations. In order to set-up
accounts for either of these,
register an e-mail address with
kallie@vwymca.org. Once
registered, a log-in and pass-
word will be e-mailed.
The online text notifica-
tions will be used to keep Van
Wert residents and Y mem-
bers who have registered their
cellular numbers, informed of
any Y updates, changes in
classes, games or practices,
etc.
In addition to the afore-
mentioned new options, the
Y also plans to keep updated
pictures of events, adult and
youth sports and aquatics
classes, summer camps and
more.
YWCA selling
geraniums
The annual YWCA
Geranium Sale lasts until
April 22.
Geraniums are hardy root
plants sold in 4 1/2 inch pots.
Colors available are: red,
white, lavender, fuchsia, pink
and light salmon. The dead-
line for orders and payment
is 5 p.m. April 22. Geraniums
will be available for pickup
from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on May 5.
Cash and carry extra orders
may be made from 8 a.m.-4
p.m. on May 6.
Hanging baskets will also
be available for purchase for
$18 on May 5 and 6.
The Annual Geranium
sale supports the work of the
YWCA through out the year
including the Transitional
Living Program and the
Summer Food Program.
EVERYBODY’S
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YMCA announces Spring swim session
Registration for the
upcoming Spring swim ses-
sion at the YMCA of Van
Wert County will be held
through March 26 for Y
members and March 23-26
for potential (non)mem-
bers.
Registration fees are $15
for family members, $25 for
youth members and $60 for
potential members.
This session’s classes will
run March 28 through May
21.
“The Y provides the most
up-to-date American Red
Cross approved swimming
Y schedules
summer camps
The YMCA of Van Wert
County’s Summer Camp
schedule is out and all ages
6-12 may register. The sched-
ule is as follows:
— Water Works from June
13-17
— Float My Boat from
June 20-June 24
— Fly Me to the Moon
from June 27-July 1
— Active X Sports from
July 11-15
— Water Works 2 from
July 18-22
— Pioneer Adventures
from July 25-29
— Dinosaurs to Dogs from
Aug. 1-5
— Backpack Fun from
Aug. 8-12
— Tag, You’re It from
Aug. 15-19.
Each camp is from 8 a.m.-
4 p.m. and rates are $70
for Van Wert Y members
Eks honor organist
Van Wert Lodge No. 1197, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, has recognized Gerry Knapke. He retired
as the lodge organist after 38 years and was recently
presented a special plaque for his years of service to the
organization by Exalted Ruler Linda Stanley.
Union strikes against 6 Rite Aid stores
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Union employees on strike
against six Rite Aid drug-
stores in northeast Ohio are
picketing with signs urging
customers not to shop at the
company’s stores.
Local 880 of the United
Food & Commercial Union
complains that the retailer
won’t accept anything less
than concessions, includ-
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and water safety program,”
stated Martha Martin, Van
Wert YMCA aquatic direc-
tor. “It keeps a fun atmo-
sphere, while combining the
best in swim instruction with
an even stronger emphasis
on drowning prevention and
water safety—ideal for any-
one wanting to enjoy the
water safely, regardless of
age or skill level,” Martin
added.
All YMCA classes are
taught by Red Cross Certified
Instructors with over 120
years of combined aquatic
instruction experience.
and $110 for potential non-
members. There are a couple
price specials; including buy
three camps, get the fourth
free. Also, if a Y member
brings a potential-member,
the potential-member gets the
member weekly camp fee. In
order to receive this special,
the potential-member must
attend with the sponsoring
member.
Information about this and
other programs available at
the Y can be found by visiting
vwymca.org, where one can
also download the flyer for
a complete list of camps and
field trips, as well as the reg-
istration form; or e-mailing
Program Director Mitch Price
at mitch@vwymca.org.
Parent volunteers are
needed for driving and super-
vision. If interested, contact
Price.
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ing changes in the workers’
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Rite Aid spokeswoman
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Pa.-based company wants
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Custody fight ends,
girl to stay in Calif.
DAYTON (AP) — A cus- hourly basis since her birth,”
tody fight over a girl born said Heck, whose office rep-
in Ohio ended Monday with resents the county children’s
an agreement that will grant services office. “My office has
legal custody to the Southern always maintained that the best
California woman with whom interest of the child is served by
she has lived since she was staying with the only parent the
born, an Ohio prosecutor said. child has ever known.”
Montgomery County pros- Heck said the grandmother
ecutor Mathias Heck Jr. said will be granted limited visi-
2-year-old Vanessa will stay tation rights and the father,
with Stacey Doss of Rancho Benjamin Mills Jr. of Dayton,
Santa Margarita, Calif., who can attend the visitation ses-
was in the process of adopt- sions if they occur during the
ing the girl when the child’s day and in a public place.
biological father filed for cus- “Part of the agreement is
tody in 2008. The girl’s bio- to offer some visitation, very
logical paternal grandmother limited at first, to the paternal
also had sought custody. grandmother with the goal of
“The only parent this trying to have some visita-
Photo submitted child knows is Ms. Doss in tion and letting the child know
California. That is ... the only about her family here, and
person who has cared for that especially her siblings who are
child on a minute by minute here in Dayton,” Heck said.
For help placing your
child in the appropriate class,
one may contact the Y at
419-238-0443, check out a
complete schedule of classes
by clicking on the newsletter
link of the Y’s web site at
www.vwymca.org, or e-mail
Martin at martha@vwymca.
org.
During the appropriate
timeframe, online registration
is also now available.
Open, lap and fam-
ily swims are also avail-
able throughout each week,
including Saturdays. Contact
the Y for times.
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POLITICS “You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re work-
ing without any real feeling.”
Obama’s team
IT WAS NEWS THEN seeks to fire
One Year Ago
• Shane Lear of Lear’s Martial Arts was the entertain- up his base
ment for the Delphos Canal Commission’s annual Boatman’s
Breakaway Dinner Sunday at the Delphos Eagles Lodge. By CHARLES
He showed attendees a general overview of Eastern Healing BABINGTON
Arts. Associated Press
25 Years Ago – 1986 WASHINGTON — Barack
Obama rode a wave of voter
• Nancy Mericle, who has worked 21 years at the Delphos
passion in 2008 fed largely
Public Library, has been named its director. She has served as by intense dislike of President
interim director since James Dennis submitted his resignation George W. Bush and the Iraq
in December. Her appointment was made by the library board war, plus excitement among
of trustees at its meeting earlier this week. young and minority voters
• “Wee Win Toys are the Christian alternative to your at the notion of electing the
usual commercial toy,” said Ellen Ditto. Ditto became inter- nation’s first black president.
ested in these special toys that convey a Christian message Now, as Obama cranks up
when their son was born. Her distributorship is located in her his re-election campaign, all
home on Delphos-Jennings Road. those factors are absent.
• Taking part in a presentation given by the agri-services The president has many
division of The Toledo Trustcorp in Delphos were Delphos tools, of course, for inspir-
branch manager of Toledo Trust Bill Kill; Martin Rossol of ing and exciting potential vot-
Andersons, Maumee; Commercial Loan Representative Tim ers. But he faces a different
Connell of Delphos; Economist of Toledo Trust Tom Daney landscape, one in which key
and Steve Beier of Andersons. supporters are disappointed by
concessions he has made to
50 Years Ago – 1961 Republicans, and discouraged
• Students of the Ottoville School will present a half-hour by huge Democratic losses last
variety show at the annual Paulding REA meeting, which fall.
will be held at Paulding High School March 16. Participants Obama acknowledged the
will include Bob Stepleton, Randy and Robert Maher, John challenge last week in Boston.
Plescher, Jim Niedecken, Tom Klima and Dennis Horstman, “Somebody asked me, how do
who will form a German band and present several old time we reinvigorate the population,
musical selections. the voter, after two very tough
• The Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary met in regular years?” he told Democratic
session Monday evening in the Eagles club rooms with Vala donors. “How do we recapture
Pavel, vice president, presiding. It was announced that the that magic that got so many
young people involved for the
auxiliary president, Winnifred Gallagher, has been asked to
very first time in 2008?”
serve on the panel at the zone conference, to be held in Lima
on April 8-9. Naomi Allemeier, local secretary, was asked to One answer, the president
said, is to persuade hardcore
serve on the registration committee. liberals to swallow their anger
• Jefferson High School was represented at the Northwest over political compromises
Basketball Conference spring meeting at Harrod High School the administration reached
Monday. Attending from the local school were Mr. and Mrs. with Republicans, even when
W. J. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Lucas and Mr. and Mrs. Democrats controlled both
Calvin Fox. chambers of Congress.
Obama’s concessions
75 Years Ago – 1936 include dropping his proposed
• A change has been made in management at the local public option for health insur-
Western Union office. M. G. Winemiller has been transferred ance, and extending Bush-era
from Ada to the Delphos office. He will be succeding T. E. tax cuts for the wealthiest.
Golden as manager. Mr. and Mrs. Golden and their daughter “There’s no weakness in
left on Friday afternoon for Bloomfield, New Jersey. Mr. us trying to reach out and see-
Golden will attend the Western Union Simplex School at that ing if we can find common
place. ground,” the president said.
• The spring baseball season was a very much unsettled Despite his pleas, many
matter for Delphos schools. Progress on the WPA project Obama supporters clearly are
for a community athletic field has been very slow. Jefferson disappointed. When he was
School authorities stated that they will have a baseball team inaugurated, 83 percent of
if they have a place to play. Rev. H. B. Lammers, faculty Democrats said they expected
manager and coach of the St. John’s baseball team, planned his presidency to be above
to have a team. average, and nearly half pre-
• Eighty-three couples attended the Navy dance of the Girl dicted it would be “outstand-
Reserve Club March 13 in Jefferson Auditorium. Chaperons ing,” an AP-GfK poll found.
were Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. John Horine, Two years later, 68 percent of
Democrats rated it above aver-
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Floyd and Dr. and Mrs. G. P. Bohlender.
During intermission entertainment was enjoyed in the floor
age so far, and just 20 percent
called it outstanding.
show program. Last fall’s elections were a
disaster not only for the hun-
dreds of Democrats voted out
Moderately confused of Congress, governorships
and state legislatures. They
raised questions about Obama,
too.
Thirty-seven percent of vot-
ers told exit pollsters they cast
ballots explicitly to oppose the
president, while 23 percent
said their votes represented
support for him.
Top Obama aides say things
will look better by mid-2012,
for several reasons.
They say GOP-led efforts
to end state workers’ collective
bargaining rights in Wisconsin
and elsewhere are dramatical-
ly galvanizing the labor move-
ment, a key Democratic con-
stituency. Some union activists
wish Obama would speak up
more forcefully for them. But
campaign aides say they think
he is walking the right line
by supporting unions without
appearing unduly beholden to
them.
Another key group, gays
and lesbians, may shrug off
several disappointments and
work hard for Obama’s re-
election because he signed leg-
islation beginning the repeal
of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask,
don’t tell” policy, which barred
gays from serving openly in
the military.
— Billie Holiday, American singer (1915-1959)
Obama wants education
legislation by September
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Urging Congress to send
him a new education law by
fall, President Barack Obama
focused Monday on the big
concerns of parents and law-
makers alike: how student
progress is measured and
how schools that fall short
are labeled.
Citing new estimates,
Obama said four out of five
schools may be tagged as
failures this year under pro-
visions of the Bush-era No
Child Left Behind law.
“That’s an astonishing
number,” he said. “We know
that four out of five schools
in this country aren’t failing.
So what we’re doing to mea-
sure success and failure is out
of line.”
Obama’s call for a rewrite
of the education law appears
unlikely, at least by his
September deadline. The
House education commit-
tee’s Republican chairman
acknowledged the need for
improvement but called the
president’s time line “arbi-
trary.”
While the law enacted in
2002 under George W. Bush
has become an easy political
target, Obama acknowledged
that it set the “right goals”:
educating all children, having
a highly qualified teacher in
every classroom, and high-
lighting the achievement gaps
between rich and poor, white
students and many minori-
States cut mental health care funding
DENVER (AP) — At the
Ohio Department of Mental
Health, Christy Murphy’s
days are filled with calls from
people seeking help she can’t
seem to give.
They plead with her, but
budget cuts have trimmed ser-
vices so much that she is not
sure where to send them.
The desperation on the
other end of the line hits
painfully close to home for
Murphy. Her 19-year-old son,
Christopher, suffers from a
range of mental problems,
including one that’s linked
to a short-tempered, hostile
attitude. Although he has
coverage through Medicaid,
he can’t get the services he
needs. His mother says he has
no psychiatrist, no case man-
ager and no medication.
“I think it’s 100 percent
about money,” said Murphy,
who lives in Columbus with
her son.
An onslaught of budget
cuts has hit mental health
services in states struggling
to weather economic woes.
Even in better times, help
could be hard to find. Now,
just as demand is soaring, bil-
lions of dollars in cuts have
shuttered facilities, prolonged
waiting times to get services
and purged countless patients
from the rolls.
“We’re getting some epi-
demic-proportion demands
Promises, promises: Little transparency progress
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Two years into its pledge to
improve government trans-
parency, the Obama admin-
istration took action on fewer
requests for federal records
from citizens, journalists,
companies and others last
year even as significantly
more people asked for infor-
mation. The administration
disclosed at least some of
what people wanted at about
the same rate as the previous
year.
People requested informa-
tion 544,360 times last year
under the U.S. Freedom of
Information Act from the 35
largest agencies, up nearly
41,000 more than the pre-
vious year, according to an
analysis by The Associated
Press of new federal data. But
the government responded to
nearly 12,400 fewer requests.
The administration refused
to release any sought-after
materials in more than 1-in-3
information requests, includ-
ing cases when it couldn’t
find records, a person refused
to pay for copies or the
request was determined to be
improper under the law. It
refused more often to quickly
consider information requests
about subjects described as
urgent or especially news-
worthy. And nearly half the
ties, and students with and
without disabilities.
But he said improvements
are needed in measuring stu-
dent progress and labeling
schools that fall short. He
called for measuring creativ-
ity and critical thinking along
with math and reading skills,
and for rewarding good teach-
ers while showing little leni-
ency for bad ones.
“In the 21st century, it’s
not enough to leave no child
behind,” Obama said. “We
need to help every child get
ahead. We need to get every
child on a path to academic
excellence.”
The Education Department
estimated last week that the
percentage of schools labeled
as “failing” under the law
could more than double this
year, jumping from 37 per-
cent to 82 percent as states
boost standards to try to sat-
isfy the law’s mandates. The
law set a goal of having all
students proficient in math
and reading by 2014, a stan-
dard now deemed unrealistic.
Schools that fail to meet
yearly targets over time are
labeled as needing improve-
ment, a designation that
upsets many parents who
consider it an unfair stig-
ma. Such schools often are
described as failing, although
the law itself does not use
that term. Obama suggested
it does, however, by repeat-
edly using the word “fail-
for services,” said Mary Ruiz,
chief executive at the Manatee
Glens mental health facility in
Bradenton, Fla., which has
had to cut charity care for the
indigent by $2 million a year.
State mental health funding
was on a steady upward trajec-
tory for three decades until the
Great Recession hit in 2007.
Over the last two fiscal years,
states have cut a combined
$1.8 billion from the public
mental health system, accord-
ing to a recent report by the
National Alliance for Mental
Illness, an advocacy group that
tracks mental health spending
in all 50 states.
All of this comes as
experts see the dueling eco-
nomic stresses of job losses
and home foreclosures esca-
lating depression, anxiety and
suicide. Nine state mental
health agencies have reported
increased emergency-room
visits for psychiatric care
since the recession began,
and five more reported higher
suicide rates, the state mental
health association reported.
The cuts have hit every
aspect of state behavioral
health systems, which served
6.4 million people nation-
wide in 2009, according to
the most current federal gov-
ernment statistics. Only four
states made no cuts to mental
health services between fiscal
2009 and the fiscal year that
agencies that AP examined
took longer — weeks more,
in some cases — to give out
records last year than during
the previous year.
The government’s respon-
siveness under the Freedom
of Information Act is wide-
ly considered a barometer
of how transparent federal
offices are. The AP’s analysis
comes a day before a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing
examining the Obama admin-
istration’s progress.
There were some improve-
ments. The administration
less frequently invoked the
“deliberative process” exemp-
tion under the law to withhold
records describing decision-
making behind the scenes.
President Barack Obama had
directed agencies to use it
less often, but the number of
such cases had surged after
his first year in office to more
than 71,000. It fell last year
to 53,360. The exemption
was still commonly invoked
last year at the Homeland
Security Department, which
accounted for nearly 80 per-
cent of cases across the whole
government.
Overall, the decidedly
mixed performance shows
the federal government strug-
gling to match the promises
Obama made early in his
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ing” to describe such schools
during Monday’s appearance
at an Arlington, Va., middle
school.
Obama said he wants a
more flexible system focused
on preparing graduating high
school students for college
and career, and assessing
whether that goal is being
met. Reading, math and sci-
ence proficiency will continue
to be emphasized, he said, but
skills like critical thinking,
creativity and collaboration
should also be measured.
He also called for better
efforts to prepare and sup-
port teachers that encour-
age their creativity yet holds
them accountable for student
progress and doesn’t make
excuses for the occasional
bad teacher.
Obama has met sev-
eral times this year with a
bipartisan group of House
and Senate lawmakers lead-
ing efforts to rewrite the
law. Both Republicans and
Democrats agree that an
update is needed; they dis-
agree on the federal govern-
ment’s role in education and
on what’s the best way to turn
around schools with a history
of poor performance.
The Senate committee
handling education held 10
hearings on the issue last year
and its chairman, Sen. Tom
Harkin, D-Iowa, has said he
is working with Republicans
to introduce a bill by Easter.
will end in 2012, according
to the National Association of
State Mental Health Program
Directors. As states face the
end of federal stimulus spend-
ing, mental health advocates
expect the situation to get
much worse this year and
next.
“I’m begging for help.
Begging. And there’s no one
who can help me,” said Sandra
Roskilly of Denver, whose
15-year-old son Gregory left
the Colorado Mental Health
Institute at Fort Logan when
its children’s ward was shut-
tered last year due to budget
cuts.
Roskilly’s son has returned
home, where his grandmother
has moved in to help care
for him. But she worries the
boy is getting worse without
residential treatment, some-
times breaking furniture and
shoving his grandmother. She
wonders aloud if he might
pose a threat to others without
the proper care.
“What’s going to happen
when he kills somebody?” she
remembers asking a doctor.
Mental health advocates
often say every dollar cut from
their budgets ends up being
spent elsewhere, particularly
in prisons. In some instances,
violent crimes involving the
mentally ill have raised new
questions about the risks of
funding cuts.
term to improve transparency
and disclose more informa-
tion rapidly. “Transparency
promotes accountability and
provides information for citi-
zens about what their govern-
ment is doing,” Obama said
when he took office.”
The White House said it
was voluntarily disclosing
more information, forestall-
ing a need to formally make
requests under the law, and
said that agencies released
information in nearly 93
percent of cases, excluding
instances when it couldn’t
find records, a person refused
to pay for copies or the
request was determined to be
improper.
“A lot of the statistics need
to be taken with a grain of
salt, but they may understate
our successes,” said Steven
Croley, a special assistant to
the president for justice and
regulatory policy.
At an event on Monday
celebrating Sunshine Week,
when news organizations
promote open government
and freedom of information,
Associate Attorney General
Tom Perrelli announced the
unveiling of a website, foia.
gov, to provide the public with
a centralized resource that
details how to file requests
for government records.
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COMMUNITY
LANDMARK Paws to Consider Classes for seniors begin in April
The life of a princess The Lifelong Learning
Institute (LLI) at The Ohio
State University Campus in
Participants should not
worry if they have to miss
one or more class sessions,
BY DR. JOHN JONES Having parents with ready steadfast devotion to her diet, Lima is registering students and should still enroll in the
access to a blood chemistry constantly tweaking her pro- for spring classes for retired program. Classroom size is
For years we kept on our machine meant a serum pro- tein and carbohydrate sources or partly-retired individuals limited and organizers ask
refrigerator an old “Peanuts” file was in order. to keep her interested in eat- who enjoy learning about members not to register for a
comic strip. Charlie Brown Bunny had been hypothy- ing. One more meal meant new topics. course if you do not think you
tells Snoopy, “What would roid for years and a liver one more day. We knew Six classes will be held on will be attending. People can
each Tuesday and Thursday enroll in one class or all six
Putnam County Courthouse you say if I told you I was enzyme (ALT) had been ele- we were losing the battle, in April, beginning on April for the $40 fee.
going to devote the rest of vated for quite some time but though, as her creatinine val-
my life to making you happy? she showed no ill effects from ues kept creeping up in spite 5. A box lunch will be pro-
CALENDAR OF We’ll go for
long walks in
either. A test of Bonnie’s efforts.
taken a month Euthanasia is something
The classes for this April
will include Opera: The
vided on the second Tuesday
class, otherwise, lunch may
EVENTS the woods and earlier revealed my wife and I deal with vir- Great Scenes, Photography be brought in or participants
romp around in no major chang- tually every day and we are For The Non-Professional, may eat in the cafeteria in
the yard. You’ll es. The results constantly impressed by the Medicine (problems) and The Reed Hall.
TODAY sit in my lap of this new test, courage, dignity, and grace Aged, an Armchair Traveler The classes are held in
1-3 p.m. — Delphos Area and I’ll scratch however, caught shown by our clients when Series, a Classical Music the OSU-Lima Public Service
Visiting Nurses offer free your ears and us completely they make this difficult and Series, East Meets West in Building, Rooms 212-213 on
blood pressure checks at we’ll watch TV off-guard — and painful decision. We, too, Chengdu, China and The the second floor. A limited
Delphos Discount Drugs. and I’ll give you not in a good have had to make this deci- National Football League and number of handicapped park-
6 p.m. — Weight Watchers cookies.” way. sion for some of our own pets Integration. ing spaces are available next
meets at Trinity United To which Bunny was but even the thought of doing The four-week spring term to the Public Service Building
Methodist Church, 211 E. Snoopy replies, in kidney fail- that to Bunny was heartbreak- costs $40, which includes and all classes are handicap
Third St. “What kind of Dr. John Jones, DVM ure. Her creati- ing and inconceivable. membership, and that enables accessible. Elderhostel estab-
6:30 p.m. — Delphos cookies?” nine value, an Early one Monday morn- members to take as many of lished the Lifelong Learning
Lions Club, Eagles Lodge, That in a nut- amino acid used ing in January, that decision the ninety minute classes as Institute in the mid-1980’s.
1600 E. Fifth St. shell was the essence of our to monitor renal function, was was taken from us. At 3:20 they wish, as well as partici- LLI-Lima started in 1991 and
7 p.m. — Delphos Area little Welsh Corgi, “Bunny.” substantially high. This was an a.m., we were awakened by pate in other LLI activities. is run by volunteers in coor-
Art Guild (DAAG) will meet She was known to many instantaneous, slap-in-the face a single gasp and Bunny was LLI-Lima draws partici- dination with The Ohio State
at their new location in the of her friends and fans as realization that our precious gone. The little princess who pants from the west central University-Lima Office of
second floor gallery of the “Princess Bunny.” Maybe little dog was going to die. took so much of our hearts Ohio counties of Allen, Continuing Education.
Delphos Postal Museum of because of my own Welsh But, that didn’t mean we (and our treats), at the very Auglaize, Hardin, Mercer, To receive a brochure for
History at 339 N. Main St. roots, I was never completely were going to let her go with- end of her life, gave us a Putnam, and Van Wert to pro- registration, contact the Office
7:30 p.m. — Elida School comfortable with that royal out a fight — especially her great gift. vide low-cost, college-level of Continuing Education at
Board meets at the high school title and usually referred to mother, “The Bon.” Yes, that So what kind of cookies? courses for persons over 55 The Ohio State University-
office. her as “The Bun.” And I think could be confusing. Whatever kind she wanted. who want to keep on learn- Lima at 419-995-8863. The
Alcoholics Anonymous, she liked that. Possible causes were She was really cute. ing. The format is infor- registration address is 4240
First Presbyterian Church, But the title certainly suit- considered and explored, mal…no attendance records, Campus Drive, Lima, OH
310 W. Second St. ed her. Unlike our Border a plethora of tests run and John H. Jones, DVM oper- no tests, no credits. But the 45804. The deadline is March
Fort Jennings Village Collies, whose goal in life every known treatment tried. ates a mixed animal prac- students, usually retirees, are 31, 2011. Registrations are
Council meets at Fort Jennings is to be eternally busy and Bunny lost no weight during tice in Delphos with his wife, alert, eager to learn, and want accepted on a first-come,
Library. devoted to their sheep herd- this time and continued to Dr. Bonnie Jones. Questions to be part of an interactive first-served basis to a maxi-
ing “job,” Princess Bunny look good and act, for the about animal care may be classroom experience. mum of 45 persons per class.
WEDNESDAY
never really cared much for most part, like her old prin- sent to: Dr. John H. Jones,
9 a.m. - noon — Putnam Delphos Animal Hospital,
work even though Corgis are cess self.
County Museum is open, 202
technically a herding breed. Bunny maintained this 1825 E. Fifth St., Delphos,
E. Main St. Kalida.
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was very, very cute — “too Dolly Sheeter
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meets at the Eagles Lodge,
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Christ Associates meet in the of givers and takers, Bunny Ella Martz
St. John’s Chapel. was a bit of a taker — a taker
6:30 p.m. — Delphos of treats and affection and a
Kiwanis Club, Eagles Lodge, stealer of hearts. Somewhat
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7 p.m. — Bingo at St. involved, she quickly became
John’s Little Theatre. your best friend. She was For all the news that matters,
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214 Free and Accepted tion, too, and would reward
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FINAL AP TOP 25 State playoff preview

The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in The
Associated Press’ final 2010-
11 college basketball polls, with
first-place votes in parentheses,
3, Long Island U. 1.

Ballots Online: http://tinyurl.

com/cfbse4
Wildcat girls embody teamwork
records through March 13, total ---- By JIM METCALFE our best, that is what is hap-
points based on 25 points for a WOMEN jmetcalfe@delpho- pening.
Record Pts Pvs
first-place vote through one point
for a 25th-place vote and last 1. Connecticut (37) 32-1 973 1 sherald.com “Fortunately, we’ve been
week’s ranking: 2. Stanford (2) 29-2 928 2 winning some games lately
MEN 3. Baylor 31-2 890 3 It may be Jefferson’s first when teams have managed to
Record Pts Pvs 4. Tennessee 31-2 873 4 foray into the girls basketball slow us down. We’ve gone up
1. Ohio St. (51) 32-2 1,611 1 5. Xavier 28-2 803 5 state tournament Thursday against bigger teams — which
2. Kansas (14)
3. Duke
32-2 1,574 2
30-4 1,472 5
6. Duke
7. Texas A&M
29-3
28-5
782 6
721 8
when the Lady Wildcats isn’t saying much because we
4. Pittsburgh 27-5 1,406 3 8. UCLA 27-4 697 7 face off with top-ranked and are outsized in virtually every
5. Notre Dame 26-6 1,332 4 9. Notre Dame 26-7 684 10 defending Division IV state game we have played — and
6. San Diego St. 32-2 1,322 7 10. DePaul 27-6 612 9 champion Canal Winchester done well against bigger girls,
7. North Carolina 26-7 1,189 6
8. Texas 27-7 1,069 10
11. Miami
12. Michigan St.
27-4
26-5
564 11
512 12
World Harvest Prep. like JoEllen Fickel (Wayne
9. Connecticut 26-9 1,019 21 13. Wis.-Green Bay 32-1 465 13 However, veteran head Trace) and Abby Siefker
10. BYU 30-4 977 8 14. North Carolina 25-8 461 14 coach Dave Hoffman doesn’t (Ottoville). However, with
11. Kentucky 25-8 928 15 15. Florida St. 23-7 410 15 expect a “deer-in-the-head- World Harvest, with their
12. Syracuse
13. Purdue
26-7 922 11
25-7 903 9
16. Maryland
17. Kentucky
23-6
24-8
367 16
348 17
lights” look when his team skill set with Watts inside and
14. Louisville 25-9 874 14 18. Ohio St. 22-9 315 18 takes the court. their guards’ ability to handle
15. Florida 26-7 840 12 19. Marist 29-2 248 19 “I have never seen fear the basketball, a half-court
16. Wisconsin 23-8 619 13 20. Gonzaga 28-4 217 20 in their eyes, no matter who game may not be in our best
17. Arizona
18. St. John’s
27-7 516 16
21-11 433 17
21. Oklahoma
22. Georgetown
21-11
22-10
157 21
141 23
they are playing; I just see interest.”
19. Utah St. 30-3 333 23 23. Georgia Tech 23-10 110 24 confidence. We had high Still, it’s not all about the
20. Xavier 24-7 270 18 24. Marquette 23-8 83 25 expectations going into this opponent, either.
21. Kansas St. 22-10 240 19 25. Iowa 22-8 67 — season and I have not seen And it’s not as if the
22. West Virginia 20-11 178 20
23. Washington 23-10 176 — Others receiving votes: any evidence of nerves at any Wildcats are completely lack-
24. Texas A&M 24-8 152 — Houston 57, Penn St. 57, West time; I don’t anticipate a reac- ing in big-time action.
25. Vanderbilt 23-10 130 — Virginia 33, Iowa St. 21, Texas tion when we take the court “Four of our girls: Morgan,
Tech 19, Louisiana Tech 13, Thursday, either, outside of Emily, Bridget and (junior)
Others receiving
Georgetown 129, Temple 124,
votes: Kansas St. 7, N. Iowa 7, Temple
7, Rutgers 5, Bowling Green 4, confidence,” Hoffman, who Kennedy (Boggs); were in
Cincinnati 115, Old Dominion 65, Princeton 4, BYU 3, Fresno St. enters the contest with a 385- the stake finals in track last
Richmond 47, UNLV 38, Gonzaga 3, Georgia 3, St. John’s 3, James 247 career mark in 29 sea-
spring. I really believe that
30, Butler 18, Villanova 17, Madison 1. sons at the helm of the Lady
Belmont 13, Missouri 13, George
Wildcats, explained. “We carries over and gives you an
Mason 10, Memphis 7, Clemson Ballots Online: http://tinyurl.
have six seniors that have File photo idea of what it’s like in other
4, Colorado 3, Marquette 3, UCLA com/ykagzmr
venues, though it is a bit of a

MEN’S DIVISION II/

played a lot of basketball Jefferson senior Kristin Klausing helps up senior team-
in their four years of high mate Bridget Culp after a hard foul in Saturday’s regional different situation,” Hoffman
school basketball. We have final versus Bucyrus Wynford. The duo will try to guide added. “I firmly believe there

III TOURNAMENT
The Associated Press
Division II
Regional Finals
Monday’s Result
West Region At Ellensburg, Wash.
Brigham Young-Hawaii 79, Dixie
State 73
Today’s Games
Midwest Region At Louisville, Ky.
Ferris State vs. Bellarmine, 7 p.m.
South Central Region At Edmond,
Okla.
Midwestern State vs. Central
Oklahoma, 8 p.m.
South Region At Huntsville, Ala.
Stillman vs. Alabama-Huntsville, 8:30
p.m.
Central Region At Mankato, Minn.
Fort Lewis vs. Minnesota State
Mankato, 8 p.m.
Southeast Region At Augusta, Ga.
Anderson (S.C.) vs. Augusta State,
7 p.m.
Atlantic Region At West Liberty,
W.Va.
Indiana (Pa.) vs. West Liberty, 7
p.m.
East Region At Waltham, Mass.
Bloomfield vs. Bentley, 8:30 p.m.
had three of them (Bridget the Lady Wildcats past another major obstacle in Harvest is a correlation between suc-
Culp, Morgan Fischbach and Prepatory Thursday in one Division IV state semifinal at cess in one sport and another
Emily Fought) playing varsi- because it comes down to the
Value City Arena.
At Springfield, Mass.
ty since their freshmen years same work ethic and ability
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, March 22 out of necessity and Kristin the post but what this team counters; 41% from the field) to elevate your effort when
Midwest champion vs. South Central
(Klausing) would have if has is other girls that can play and Chelsey Fischer (2.0 things get tighter and more
champion, Noon
South champion vs. Central cham- she hadn’t injured her knee. inside as well as a few 3-point counters, 2.5 boards; 48% intense.
pion, 2:30 p.m. They have been playing since shooters to spread the floor. fielders) provide the bench “This team has been a per-
Southeast champion vs. Atlantic
fifth grade and they really “They do like to get the ball help. fect example of team. They
champion, 6 p.m.
East champion vs. Brigham Young- enjoy the game. They work out and go, so they do extend Overall, Jefferson has shot have embraced roles. Kristin
Hawaii, 8:30 p.m.
well together and they enjoy their defense with pressure 46 percent from the floor is our primary ballhandler
Semifinals
Wednesday, March 23 the game together. This has man-to-man. However, with (627-of-1,358), including but Kennedy and (junior)
Midwest-South Central winner vs. been a great group of girls to their size inside and perimeter 97-of-319 3-pointers (30%), Courtney (Lewis) have
South-Central winner, 6 p.m.
coach. shooting, as well as their abil- and 247-of-382 from charity stepped in to take some of that
Southeast-Atlantic winner vs. East-
West winner, 8:30 p.m. “We have basically settled ity to get to the basket, they (65%). Their defensive num- load off her. Bridget is our
Friday, March 25
on a 7-girl rotation — we can play the half-court game bers are 375-of-1,060 from center but we are confident
Championship
Semifinal winners, 1 p.m. aren’t as deep as we’ve been pretty well, too.” the field (35%), 79-of-302 on we can bring her up and help
---- in the past — and foul trou- The Wildcats — who triples (26%) and 207-of-335 us handle the ball, as well as
Division III
ble is a concern. However, finished the regular season singles (62%). They more put her on the perimeter and
Friday’s Semifinals
At Salem, Va. we have been able to deal ranked eighth in Division than tripled up their oppo- hit 3s. In fact, because of that
Wooster vs. Williams, 6 p.m.
with that because of how well IV and have defeated two nents on steals (496-157) and and her leaping ability, she
Middlebury vs. St. Thomas, Minn.,
8 p.m. these girls work together and unbeatens (Wayne Trace and halved their foes’ turnovers has been able to more or less
Saturday’s Championship how much each has stepped Arlington) along the tourna- (336-695). They have battled neutralize some of the bigger
At Salem, Va.
up when called upon. I com- ment trail — will match their their foes on the boards: 692 girls we’ve faced and pres-
Semifinal winners, 3:30 p.m.
pare the way we play to a 63.9 points-per-game scoring (257 offensive) versus 818 ent her own matchup prob-

WOMEN’S NIT
The Associated Press
First Round
Wednesday’s Games
Pepperdine (18-11) at Oklahoma State
(16-14)
Portland State (20-11) at Wyoming
(22-8)
Butler (20-13) at Wisconsin (15-14)
Wichita St. (17-14) at Kansas (20-12)
Delaware (19-11) at Toledo (23-8)
Loyola-Maryland (20-12) at Old
Dominion (20-10)
Liberty (22-10) at Charlotte (23-9)
Appalachian State (25-6) at South
Carolina (17-14)
Thursday’s Games
UC Riverside (19-12) at Colorado (15-
15)
California (17-15) at Cal Poly (18-12)
UC Santa Barbara (19-11) at Southern
Cal (19-12)
Nevada (21-10) at St. Mary’s Calif.
(19-12)
Arizona (21-10) at Utah State (17-14)
Denver (19-11) at BYU (23-8)
Central Michigan (20-10) at Illinois
Boston Coll. (18-12) at Yale (14-14)
VCU (19-11) at St. Joseph’s (19-11)
Morgan State (17-14) at Virginia (16-
15)
Friday’s Games
UMBC (20-11) at Florida (18-14)
Drexel (19-11) at Florida Gulf Coast
(27-3)
———
Second Round
March 19-21
Pepperdine-Oklahoma State winner
vs. Portland State-Wyoming winner
Butler-Wisconsin winner vs. Central
Michigan-Illinois State winner
Wichita State-Kansas winner vs. Kent
State-Duquesne winner
Delaware-Toledo winner vs. Auburn-
Tennessee Tech winner
Loyola-Maryland-Old Dominion winner
vs. Morgan State-Virginia winner
Liberty-Charlotte winner vs.
Appalachian State-South Carolina win-
ner
UC Riverside-Colorado winner vs.
California-Cal Poly winner
tornado; it just goes where it
does without fear. We’re like
that but we have a purpose.”
However, the Lady
Warriors may be the biggest
hurdle of this 2010-11 season
for the Wildcats (23-2).
“They are big, deep and
athletic; as far as I know, they
have three girls that are going
or being recruited to Division
I colleges. They remind me a
lot of Lima Senior, who we
have played the last couple of
years, only I think this team
is bigger,” Hoffman contin-
ued. “They have the big girls
inside at 6-1 (Shicole Watts)
and she is pretty good. She
will occupy a lot of our defen-
sive attention in helping in
average versus the Warriors’
74 points (the Wildcats cede
41.4 and the Lady Warriors
38.1). Three senior starters
lead the way: Klausing (18.3
points, 4.9 assists, 4.0 steals,
3.6 boards; 48% field goals
with 29-of-103 on 3s; 68% free
throws), Culp (10.4 markers,
5.6 caroms, 3.8 thefts; 47%
field goals, 73% free throws)
and Fischbach (5.7 counters,
4.2 caroms; 41% field goals)
and juniors Kennedy Boggs
(15.1 points, 3.4 thefts; 47%
field goals with 29-of-77 on
3s, 66% free throws) and
Courtney Lewis (5.1 mark-
ers, 4.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists;
38% from the field, 66% free
throws). Seniors Fought (3.1
(302 offensive) for a 27.7-
32.7 per-game average.
Though the Warriors are
an up-tempo team, Hoffman
would prefer that pace than a
half-court game.
“For us to really have a
chance to be more successful,
I would prefer up and down.
One, that best fits our person-
nel and style; two, that might
help take their size more out
of the equation,” Hoffman
added. “Our key to success
all season has been for our
defense, whether full-court
man pressure, a full-court
zone press or our half-court
defense, to create turnovers
and getting us transition
looks. When we are playing
lems. Courtney, Morgan and
Emily aren’t the tallest girls
out there — they’re about
5-5 — but they aren’t afraid
to mix it up inside.
“Again, it boils down to
how well these girls work
together. I am thankful for
them. I’ve been coaching for
nearly three decades and to
finally get to this point is a
credit to them. I have had
many good players and good
teams that just could not quite
get there — our sectional and
district is so tough to even get
out of — so I am grateful for
this group.”
Tipoff Thursday at Value
City Arena is scheduled for
8 p.m.

State (20-10)
Kent State (20-9) at Duquesne (22-8)
Rice (18-13) at Missouri State (23-10)
Lamar (25-7) at Arkansas (19-11)
Southern (20-11) at Tulane (22-10)
Oral Roberts (21-10) at TCU (22-10)
Lehigh (21-10) at St. Bonaventure (20-
11)
Monmouth, N.J. (23-9) at Syracuse
(22-9)
Michigan (17-12) at Eastern Michigan
(22-12)
UNC Wilmington (23-8) at Richmond
(18-11)
Creighton (18-12) at Northwestern (18-
13)
Alabama (16-14) at Memphis (21-11)
Auburn (15-15) at Tennessee Tech
(23-7)
LOCAL ROUNDUP
UC Santa Barbara-Southern Cal win-
ner vs. Nevada-St. Mary’s Calif. win-
ner
Arizona-Utah State winner vs. Denver-
BYU winner
Rice-Missouri State winner vs. Lamar-
Arkansas winner Miller, 3 Lady Racers for French and Olberding, ed by an institution’s sports the Heartland Collegiate
Southern-Tulane winner vs. Oral
Roberts-TCU winner named to NAIA Scholar- while Kennedy received the information director, a stu- Athletic Conference Softball
Lehigh-St. Bonaventure winner vs. Athlete Team award for the first time. dent-athlete must maintain a Pitcher of the Week.
Monmouth, N.J.-Syracuse winner
Michigan-Eastern Michigan winner vs. LIMA — The National The NAIA has announced minimum grade point aver- The freshman pitcher
UNC Wilmington-Richmond winner Association of Intercollegiate that 114 Division II men’s age of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and tossed Bluffton’s first no-hit-
Creighton-Northwestern winner vs.
Alabama-Memphis winner
Athletics announced their basketball and 219 women’s must have achieved a junior ter in two seasons, posting a
Boston College-Yale winner vs. VCU- Scholar-Athlete Team for the basketball student-athletes academic status to qualify for 5-inning 8-0 win over Beloit.
St. Joseph’s winnner 2010-11 men’s and women’s have been named 2011 this honor. She finished the week with a
UMBC-Florida winner vs. Drexel-
Florida Gulf Coast winner basketball seasons. Daktronics-NAIA Scholar- ----- 1.24 earned run average and
The UNOH Racers placed Athletes. Owens earns HCAC posted a 2-1 record in six

WOMEN’S DIV. II one member of its men’s unit

The Associated Press
Regional Finals
Monday’s Results
South Region At Russellville,
Ark.
Arkansas Tech 85, Delta State 77
Midwest Region At Houghton,
Mich.
Michigan Tech 69, Wisconsin-
Parkside 57
South Central Region
Tahlequah, Okla.
Northwest Missouri State 82,
on the team as senior Brandon
Miller (Ottoville) received
Dickinson State (N.D.)
and Pacific Union (Calif.)
led all institutions with four
Pitcher of the Week honors
By Mallory Kemper,
appearances.
Owens threw 22.2 innings
during the week with 15
Tuesday, March 15 Sports information intern
East Region At Waltham, Mass. the honor for the second year members apiece on the men’s strikeouts and held opponents
Pace at Bentley, 6 p.m.
in a row. team, while fellow Wolverine- BLUFFTON — Freshman to a .198 batting average.
Quarterfinals The Lady Racers placed Hoosier Athletic Conference Kayla Owens (Cincinnati/ The Beavers (7-2, 0-0
At St. Joseph, Mo.
Tuesday, March 22
three: seniors Molly French, member Davenport (Mich.) McAuley) was dominating HCAC) travel to Alma for a
East champion vs. Clayton State, Alexa Kennedy and Tara leads all institutions with on the mound for the Bluffton 3:30 p.m. game Wednesday.
1 p.m. Olberding. nine members on the wom- University Lady Beavers in Bluffton opens its HCAC
The 2010-11 season is the en’s unit. her first week of collegiate schedule at Rose-Hulman
Shaw vs. Metro State, 3:30 p.m.
At Michigan Tech vs. Arkansas Tech,
7 p.m. second consecutive season In order to be nominat- softball and has been named Saturday.
Cal Poly-Pomona vs. Northwest

Central Oklahoma 70
West Region At Pomona, Calif.
Cal Poly-Pomona 68, Grand
Canyon 61
Central Region At Durango,
Colo.
Metro State 50, Adams State 35
Atlantic Region At Edinboro, Pa.
Shaw 74, Johnson C. Smith 54
Southeast Region At Morrow,
Ga.
Clayton State 76, Lander 60
SPORTS BRIEFS
Missouri State, 9:30 p.m.
Semifinals
Wednesday, March 23
Michigan Tech-Arkansas Tech win-
ner vs. Cal Poly-Pomona-Northwest
Missouri State winner, 7 p.m.
Pace-Bentley winner-Clayton State The Associated Press second straight No. 1 seed for the has granted the media access leading the agenda. Following the
winner vs. Shaw-Metro State winner, COLLEGE BASKETBALL Cardinal, who fell to UConn in the to detailed questionnaires that first session, Commissioner Gary
9 p.m. Connecticut’s path to a third title game last season. prospective jurors fill out before Bettman announced the league
Friday, March 25 straight national championship TENNIS testimony begins in the upcoming will adopt a more rigorous pro-
Championship could include a renewal of the INDIAN WELLS, Calif. Barry Bonds perjury trial. tocol for examining players with
Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.
most heated rivalry in women’s — Rafael Nadal breezed past U.S. District Court Judge possible concussions.

TRANSACTIONS
The Associated Press
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Optioned
1B Joe Mahoney to Norfolk (IL).
CHICAGO WHITE SOX—
Optioned RHP Anthony Carter, RHP
Freddy Dolsi, INF Eduardo Escobar
and OF Stefan Gartrell to Charlotte
(IL). Optioned RHPs Kyle Cofield and
Nate Jones to Birmingham (Southern).
Re-assigned RHPs Brandon Hynick
and Miguel Socolovich to their minor-
league camp.
CLEVELAND INDIANS—Optioned
RHP Zach McAllister and OF Nick
Weglarz to Columbus (IL). Reassigned
3B Lonnie Chisenhall, 2B Jason
Kipnis, C Juan Apodaca, RHP Alex
White and RHP Zach Putnam to their
minor-league camp.
MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned
RHPs David Bromberg, Eric Hacker
and Anthony Swarzak and OF Rene
Tosoni to Rochester (IL). Optioned
RHP Deolis Guerra, INF Chris
Parmalee and OF Joe Benson to New
Britain (EL). Reassigned RHP Kyle
Gibson, RHP Yorman Bazardo, C Jair
Fernandez, C Chris Herrmann and
INFs Ray Chang, Brian Dozier and
Justin Huber to their minor-league
camp.
NEW YORK YANKEES—
Assigned RHP D.J. Mitchell to their
minor-league camp. Announced RHP
George Kontos was returned to the
team per Rule 6 after the San Diego
Padres had previously selected him in
the 2010 Rule 5 Draft.
SEATTLE MARINERS—Optioned
LHP Edward Paredes, INF Mike Carp
and OF Greg Halman to Tacoma
(PCL). Optioned RHP Chaz Roe to
Tacoma. Re-assigned LHP Chris
Seddon to their minor-league camp.
college basketball.
For Geno Auriemma to match
Tennessee coach Pat Summitt
with an eighth national champion-
ship, he might have to go through
her Lady Vols, who earned the
top seed in the Dayton region.
The Huskies earned the No. 1
overall seed in the NCAA wom-
en’s basketball tournament.
If both come through their
regions, UConn and Tennessee
could meet again in the national
semifinals at Indianapolis.
Auriemma’s Huskies didn’t
have to face Tennessee during
its record 90-game winning streak
that was ended by Stanford on
Dec. 30. The two pre-eminent
teams in the sport broke off their
annual matchup in 2007 in a
testy split.
Baylor and Stanford were the
other two No. 1 seeds. It was the
American qualifier Ryan Sweeting
6-3, 6-1 in a third-round match as
the second week of the BNP
Paribas Open began.
Women’s top seed Caroline
Wozniacki of Denmark advanced
with a 6-1, 6-3 victory against
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
of Spain that took just over an
hour.
Dinara Safina defeated No. 4
seed Samantha Stosur 7-6 (2),
6-4 despite 16 double-faults in the
lone upset on the women’s side.
Sam Querrey beat Fernando
Verdasco 7-5, 6-4.
No. 16 Maria Sharapova beat
20th-seeded Aravene Rezai of
France, 6-2, 6-2 as the Russian
star returns to the WTA Tour after
a five-week absence because of
illness.
BASEBALL
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge
Susan Illston granted media
requests about the question-
naires, which assist the judge
and lawyers in seating a jury.
But Illston will keep the jurors’
names confidential until the end
of the trial, saying she’s con-
cerned the media and public will
attempt to interact with jurors if
their names are disclosed. Any
such communication could cause
a mistrial.
The trial is set to begin
Monday and is expected to last
at least two weeks.
HOCKEY
BOCA RATON, Fla. —
Accidental concussions in the
NHL have doubled since last
season and general managers
are looking at ways to slow the
game.
The GMs began three days
of meetings with head injuries
NHLPA executive director
Donald Fehr released a state-
ment in support of the changes.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An autop-
sy performed on Rick Martin has
determined that former Buffalo
Sabres star forward died of
hypertensive heart disease.
New York State Police issued
the findings of the autopsy per-
formed Monday, a day after
Martin was found unresponsive
after the car he was driving left
the road and struck a utility pole
in suburban Buffalo.
Dr. Diane Vertes conducted
the autopsy at Buffalo’s Erie
County Medical Center, and
ruled the cause of death to be
Hypertensive Arteriosclerotic
Cardiovascular Disease, which
is related to high blood pressure
and clogged arteries.
See BRIEFS, page 7
 www.delphosherald.com
‘First 4’ games a dilemma
for NCAA tourney pools
By JAIME ARON
The Associated Press
Filling out an NCAA tour-
nament bracket is tougher this
year; it has nothing to do with
the caliber of competition.
It’s the bracket itself that is
more maddening.
Instead of a single “play-in”
game that most pool managers
ignored, this year’s tournament
features the debut of an “open-
ing round” of four midweek
matchups. That left bracket-
meisters around the country
to decide whether to ask their
buddies to pick all 67 games
by tipoff this evening, or to
give them until the usual time
on Thursday at the risk of skip-
ping an entire layer of games
that could produce the tourna-
ment’s first upsets.
The purist might say “Pick
’em all.”
But the realists seem to be
winning this debate.
It looks like the majority
of contests are sticking with
the old way of doing things.
From ESPN.com and its pool
that drew 5.4 million entries
last year to Mark Fehrman of
Wausau, Wis., and his pool of
about 80 entries, the reasoning
was the same: People already
were pushing the Thursday
deadline, so it just didn’t make
any sense to ask them to pick
four more games in two less
days.
“I thought about it all week-
end,” said Fehrman, a paper
broker who is in his 12th year
of running his pool. “I con-
sidered offering an incentive,
maybe an extra point if they
got their bracket in on time
and got it right. But knowing
the group, everyone is going
to drag their feet. If there was
a deadline of Tuesday, a lot of
people might not enter.”
Jason Waram, vice pres-
ident of fantasy games and
social media for ESPN.com,
said his staff began kicking
around this dilemma last sum-
mer, shortly after the NCAA
decided to expand the field
from 65 teams to 68. They
also polled some contestants
to see what they thought. After
what he called “definitely a
spirited debate,” the status quo
won out.
“First and foremost, it was
about getting the most people
inside and letting them have a
chance,” Waram said. “We all
know that the more people in
this, the more fun it is.”
The same was true at
Yahoo, which had another
thing to consider — its $1
million bonus for accurately
picking every game.
Considering that no entry
has come closer than 56 out of
63, there wasn’t much of a push
to make the challenge more
difficult, said Edwin Pankau,
Yahoo’s senior product man-
ager for fantasy sports.
“I read somewhere that get-
ting perfect with 63 is about as
likely as winning the Powerball
twice in a row,” he explained.
“Getting perfect with 67 is
probably up to 10 times in a
row.”
In addition to their nation-
wide contests, ESPN.com and
Yahoo also host pools for
people who put together a con-
test among family, friends and
co-workers. This year, those
pools are limited to the usual
Briefs
(Continued from page 6)
The 59-year-old Martin was
a member of the Sabres’ famed
French Connection line in the
1970s.
PITTSBURGH — Penguins
center Sidney Crosby returned
to the ice for the first time since
missing 29 games with a con-
cussion. But if you’re looking for
the Pittsburgh captain’s return
date, it’s still anyone’s guess.
Crosby, who last played on
Jan. 5 in an 8-1 win over the
Tampa Bay Lightning, practiced
in full gear for about 15 minutes
at the Consol Energy Center.
It was a light workout. He par-
ticipated in a skating drill around
some cones and also took a few
shots on net.
The Associated Press
First Round
Today’s Games
Coastal Carolina (28-5) at Alabama
(21-11), 7 p.m.
Dayton (22-13) at College of
Charleston (24-10), 7 p.m.
Vermont (23-8) at Cleveland State
(26-8), 7 p.m.
Harvard (23-6) at Oklahoma State
(19-13), 7:30 p.m.
Murray State (23-8) at Missouri
State (25-8), 8 p.m.
UTEP (25-9) at New Mexico (21-
12), 9 p.m.
Boston College (20-12) at McNeese
State (21-11), 9 p.m.
Fairfield (24-7) at Colorado State
(19-12), 9 p.m.
Kent State (23-11) at St. Mary’s,
Calif. (25-8), 11 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Texas Southern (19-12) at Colorado
(21-13), 7 p.m.
Nebraska (19-12) at Wichita State
(24-8), 7 p.m.
Florida Atlantic (21-10) at Miami
(19-14), 7:30 p.m.
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (19-13) at
63 games. Waram and Pankau
said there may be an option for
those smaller pools to switch to
a 67-game format next year.
In a sampling of more than
a dozen pools Monday by The
Associated Press, one of the
few that bumped up its dead-
line was in the clubhouse of
the Houston Astros.
Third baseman Chris
Johnson said he and his team-
mates were scrambling to get
their ballots turned in, but they
also had extra motivation about
this year’s tournament. The
Final Four and the champion-
ship game are in Houston.
The new tournament format
caught plenty of fans and pool
organizers by surprise.
Since the old play-in game
was for a No. 16 seed and the
dubious honor of being first-
round fodder for the No. 1 over-
all seed, it was widely assumed
the “First Four” games would
serve up the fresh meat for all
four No. 1 seeds.
It wasn’t until the new-look
bracket came out Sunday that
the masses realized how differ-
ent things are.
Only two of the games will
decide No. 16 seeds. The oth-
ers will decide the No. 11 seed
in the Southwest and the No.
12 seed in the East. There
are some pretty familiar teams
in that mix — Clemson vs.
Alabama-Birmingham for No.
12 tonight and Southern Cal
vs. Virginia Commonwealth
for No. 11 Wednesday night.
So instead of pushing up the
ballot deadline, there could be
incentive to wait even longer
to see which teams snag those
11th and 12th spots, especially
since teams in those seeds have
a pretty good track record of
pulling off upsets.
“A lot of the things that we
used to do for March Madness,
we’ve had to change a little
bit,” said Bob Scucci, race and
sports book director for Boyd
Gaming in Las Vegas.
The point spread might be
different depending on whether
Clemson or UAB plays West
Virginia and whether USC or
VCU Georgetown. So Scucci
doesn’t want people filling out
entire brackets. He wants them
to wait until the actual match-
ups are set, and that will hap-
pen soon enough.
No matter how much con-
fusion the new format causes,
just remember that it could’ve
been worse.
The NCAA had been con-
sidering a tournament with 96
teams.
Oklahoma fires Jeff Capel after 2
losing seasons: Oklahoma fired coach
Jeff Capel on Monday after he followed
a trip to the NCAA tournament’s region-
al finals with the program’s first back-to-
back losing seasons since 1967.
Capel was 96-69 in five seasons
with the Sooners, but just 27-36 over
the past two after Blake Griffin entered
the NBA draft early and became the
No. 1 overall pick.
“This isn’t about our current team
or the record of this past season. This
is, again, looking at the entire pro-
gram and our ability to be successful
going forward,” athletic director Joe
Castiglione said. “I weighed all the fac-
tors, and I reached the conclusion that
a change was in the best interest of the
University of Oklahoma.”
Castiglione added his decision was
based not on one factor but on the
“totality” of the program, which landed
under NCAA investigation again just
as its probation was about to end,
encountered a severe attendance drop
and frequently lost players to early
departures.
Capel had five years left on the
contract that was extended after he
made it within a win of the 2009 Final
Four, with Griffin leading the way. He
was making $1.5 million per year, and
had annual raises and stay bonuses
WNBA
New York Liberty guard
Cappie Pondexter apologized
for Twitter postings over the
weekend about the earthquake
and tsunami in Japan.
Pondexter tweeted on
Saturday: “What if God was tired
of the way they treated their own
people in there own country! Idk
guys he makes no mistakes.”
She later tweeted: “u just
never knw! They did pearl har-
bor so u can’t expect anything
less.”
Pondexter posted an apol-
ogy Monday: “I wanna apologize
to anyone I may hurt or offended
during this tragic time. I didn’t
realize that my words could be
interpreted in the manner which
they were. People that knw me
NIT
Northwestern (18-13), 8 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman (21-12) at
Virginia Tech (21-11), 8 p.m.
Mississippi (20-13) at California
(17-14), 9 p.m.
Long Beach State (22-12) at
Washington State (19-12), 10 p.m.
Second Round
March 18-21
Coastal Carolina-Alabama winner
vs. UTEP-New Mexico winner, TBD
Murray St.-Missouri St. winner vs.
Florida Atlantic-Miami winner, TBD
Texas Southern-Colorado winner
vs. Mississippi-California winner, TBD
Fairfield-Colorado State winner vs.
Kent State-St. Mary’s, Calif. winner,
TBD
McNeese State-Boston College
winner vs. Wisconsin-Milwaukee-
Northwestern winner, TBD
Harvard-Oklahoma State winner
vs. Long Beach State-Washington
State winner, TBD
Bethune-Cookman-Virginia Tech
winner vs. Nebraska-Wichita State
winner, TBD
College of Charleston-Dayton win-
ner vs. Vermont-Cleveland State win-
built into the contract. His buyout will be
in excess of $2 million.
A clause in Capel’s contract allows
the university to avoid a buyout payment
if he was fired for cause but Castiglione
explained that’s “not something that we
anticipate being an issue.”
But the program’s fall after Griffin
departed has been even quicker than
its rise after he first put on a crimson
uniform.
Despite having three McDonald’s
All-Americans on the roster, the
Sooners finished the 2009-10 season
with nine straight losses — the second-
longest losing streak in school history
— to plummet out of the Top 25 and
end up with a 13-18 record.
Five underclassmen left the
program, including McDonald’s All-
Americans Willie Warren, Tommy
Mason-Griffin and Keith “Tiny” Gallon.
Capel restocked with largely unherald-
ed players and Oklahoma went 14-18
this season, with few signs of the quick
return to NCAA tournament success of
just two seasons ago.
Capel inherited a program saddled
with restrictions after major NCAA
rules violations involving hundreds of
impermissible recruiting phone calls
by predecessor Kelvin Sampson. Just
as that probation was running out last
year, the NCAA started investigating
the Sooners again because of a loan
Gallon has said he took from Florida
financial adviser Jeffrey Hausinger to
pay for transcripts that allowed him to
get into Oklahoma.
Documents obtained from the uni-
versity showed that Oronde Taliaferro,
a Capel assistant who resigned last
year, frequently exchanged phone calls
and text messages with Hausinger and
was even invited to stay at Hausinger’s
home in Tampa, Fla.
A joint investigation by Oklahoma
and the NCAA began a year ago but
has not yet yielded any charges.
Capel, a former Duke guard who
was an up-and-coming coach at
Virginia Commonwealth, was hired by
Castiglione in 2006 after Sampson left
to take over at Indiana. The Sooners
missed out on the postseason in his
first year at the helm but then made
it back to the NCAA tournament with
Griffin the next two seasons.
He got a $300,000 raise after the
first postseason run and a $450,000
bump after the second, plus a slew
of incentives aimed at keeping him in
Norman long term.
Castiglione provided no specifics
on what he was looking for in Capel’s
replacement, leaving the door open
for him to hire another young coach,
an assistant or even a coach from a
women’s team.
Study: Racial disparity grows for
graduation rates: A study released
Monday shows growing disparity
between graduation rates for white and
black players at schools in the men’s
NCAA basketball tournament.
An annual report by the University
of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity
and Ethics in Sport found a 2 per-
cent overall graduation rate increase
to 66 percent for Division I players but
showed the rates for white players is
increasing at a higher rate.
The gap has grown from 22 per-
cent in 2009 to a current level of 32 per-
cent. White players show a 91 percent
graduation rate, which is up 7 percent.
Black players have a graduation rate
at 59 percent, up 3 percent from last
year’s study. This is the third straight
year the gap has increased.
Richard Lapchick, the institute
director and primary author of the
study, said the gap makes it hard to
celebrate the overall progress.
“To say that it’s troubling is an
understatement,” Lapchick said. “It is
a staggering gap but I think you’ve
seen an increased percentage among
African-American athletes over the
years because of the (Academic
Progress Rate) thresholds. Losing
scholarships is a big lever there. But I
think now you have to raise the expec-
tation level of the rates.”
Information was collected by the
NCAA from member institutions for the
study. The institute reviewed the 6-year
graduation rates of each school’s fresh-
man class that enrolled in 2003-04,
then calculated a 4-class average.
Princeton was not included in the over-
all graduation rate figure because it,
like other Ivy League schools, doesn’t
report graduation rates.
Only five schools (Boston
University, Northern Colorado, Old
Dominion, Pittsburgh, North Carolina-
Ashville) have graduation rates for
black players that were higher than
their figures for white players.
The NCAA created the APR in 2004
to improve graduation rates, disciplining
schools in the form of lost scholarships
when they don’t meet NCAA standard
for academic performance. Teams that
score below 925 — equal to a gradua-
tion rate of 50 percent— can lose up to
10 percent of their scholarships. Poor
performance over time could lead to
harsher penalties.
Lapchick said he would like to
see the NCAA standard go up to 60
percent. Only 10 teams in this year’s
tournament show APRs below 925,
with 41 teams with an APR of 950 or
higher and 36 teams with an APR of
960 or higher.
A report on the teams competing in
the women’s NCAA tournament will be
released today.
would tell u 1st hand I’m a very
spiritual person and believe that
everything, even disasters hap-
pen 4 a reason and that God will
shouldn’t be questioned but this
is a very sensitive subject at a
very tragic time and I shouldn’t
even have given a reason for
the choice of words I used.”
AWARDS
COLORADO SPRINGS, The Associated Press
Colo. — Olympic champion FIRST ROUND
Evan Lysacek won the 2010 At UD Arena Dayton, Ohio
Sullivan Award, becoming the Today’s Games
fourth figure skater to be hon- No. 16 Seed Southeast: UNC
Asheville (19-13) vs. Arkansas-Little
ored as the top amateur athlete Rock (19-16), 6:30 p.m.
in the United States. No. 12 Seed East: UAB (22-9) vs.
Lysacek also won the USOC
Sportsman of the Year award
earlier this year after winning
gold at the Vancouver games
last year.
ner, TBD
Quarterfinals
March 22-23
Coastal Carolina-Alabama-UTEP-
New Mexico winner vs. Murray State-
Missouri State-Florida Atlantic-Miami
winner, TBD
Texas Southern-Colorado-
Mississippi-California winner vs.
Fairfield-Colorado State-Kent State-
St. Mary’s, Calif. winner, TBD
McNeese State-Boston College-
Wisconsin-Milwaukee-Northwestern
winner vs. Harvard-Oklahoma State-
Long Beach State-Washington State
winner, TBD
Bethune-Cookman-Virginia Tech-
Nebraska-Wichita State winner
vs. College of Charleston-Dayton-
Vermont-Cleveland State winner, TBD
Semifinals
Tuesday, March 29
At Madison Square Garden
New York
Game 1, 7 p.m.
Game 2, 9:30 p.m.
Championship Thursday, March
31
Semifinals winners, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
NCAA WOMEN
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday’s Games
At Bryce Jordan Center
University Park, Pa.
Penn State (24-9) vs. Dayton (21-
11), 11:10 a.m.
DePaul (27-6) vs. Navy (20-11), 30
minutes following
At Cameron Indoor Stadium
Durham, N.C.
Iowa State (22-10) vs. Marist (30-2),
11:15 a.m.
Duke (29-3) vs. Tennessee-Martin
(21-10), 30 minutes following
Sunday’s Games
At Harry A. Gampel Pavilion
Storrs, Conn.
Connecticut (32-1) vs. Hartford (17-
15), 12:05 p.m.
Kansas State (21-10) vs. Purdue
(20-11), 30 minutes following
At Comcast Center
College Park, Md.
Maryland (23-7) vs. St. Francis, Pa.
(22-11), 12:20 p.m.
Georgetown (22-10) vs. Princeton
(24-4), 30 minutes following
Monday’s Games
At Bryce Jordan Center
University Park, Pa.
Penn State-Dayton winner vs.
DePaul-Navy winner
At Cameron Indoor Stadium
Durham, N.C.
Iowa State-Marist winner vs. Duke-
Tennessee-Martin winner
Tuesday, March 22
At Harry A. Gampel Pavilion
Storrs, Conn.
Connecticut-Hartford winner vs.
Kansas State-Purdue winner
At Comcast Center
College Park, Md.
Georgetown-Princeton winner vs.
Maryland-St. Francis, Pa. winner
Regional Semifinals
At The Liacouras Center
Philadelphia
Sunday, March 27
Connecticut-Hartford-Kansas
State-Purdue winner vs. Georgetown-
Princeton-Maryland-St. Francis, Pa.
winner
Penn State-Dayton-DePaul-Navy
winner vs. Iowa State-Marist-Duke-
Tennessee-Martin winner
Regional Championship
Tuesday, March 29
TBD
DAYTON REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday’s Games
At Thompson-Boling Arena
Knoxville, Tenn.
Tennessee (31-2) vs. Stetson (20-
12), 11:05 a.m.
Marquette (23-8) vs. Texas (19-13),
30 minutes following
At Cintas Center
Columbus, Ohio
Georgia Tech (23-10) vs. Bowling
Green (28-4), 11:20 a.m.
Ohio State (22-9) vs. UCF (22-10),
30 minutes following
At Huntsman Center
Salt Lake City
Arizona State (20-10) vs. Temple
(23-8), 4:05 p.m.
Notre Dame (26-7) vs. Utah (18-16),
30 minutes following
Sunday’s Games
At John Paul Jones Arena
Charlottesville, Va.
Miami (27-4) vs. Gardner-Webb (23-
10), 12:15 p.m.
Oklahoma (21-11) vs. James
Madison (26-7), 30 minutes following
Monday’s Games
At Thompson-Boling Arena
Knoxville, Tenn.
Tennessee-Stetson winner vs.
Marquette-Texas winner
At Cintas Center
Columbus, Ohio
Georgia Tech-Bowling Green win-
ner vs. Ohio State-UCF winner At
Huntsman Center
Salt Lake City
Arizona State-Temple winner vs.
Notre Dame-Utah winner
Tuesday, March 22
At John Paul Jones Arena
Charlottesville, Va.
Oklahoma-James Madison winner
vs. Miami-Gardner-Webb winner
Regional Semifinals
At University of Dayton Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Saturday, March 26
Tennessee-Stetson-Marquette-
Texas winner vs. Georgia Tech-Bowling
Green-Ohio State-UCF winner
Oklahoma-James Madison-Miami-
Gardner-Webb winner vs. Arizona
State-Temple-Notre Dame-Utah winner
Regional Championship
Monday, March 28
TBD
SPOKANE REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday’s Games
At Maples Pavilion
Stanford, Calif.
COLLEGE INSIDER
The Associated Press
Monday’s First Round Result
Buffalo 75, Quinnipiac 68
Today’s First Round Games
Ohio (18-15) at Marshall (22-11),
7 p.m.
Furman (22-10) at East Tennessee
State (22-11), 7 p.m.
Jacksonville (19-11) at East
Carolina (18-15), 8 p.m.
Rider (23-10) at Northern Iowa
(19-13), 8 p.m.
North Dakota (19-14) at Air Force
(15-15), 9 p.m.
Northern Arizona (19-12) at Santa
Clara (19-14), 10 p.m.
Portland (20-11) at Hawaii (18-12),
12 mid.
Wednesday’s First Round
Games
Tennessee Tech (20-12) at
Western Michigan (20-12), 7 p.m.
Iona (22-11) at Valparaiso (23-11),
8 p.m.
Oral Roberts (19-15) at SMU (17-
MEN’S TOURNAMENT
COLLEGE ROUNDUP
Johnson strikes out nine
as Bearcats sweep Vikings
CINCINNATI – Senior right-
handed pitcher Nick Johnson
(Delphos, Ohio/St. John’s)
struck out nine batters in seven
innings to lead the University
of Cincinnati baseball team to
a 5-0 defeat of Cleveland State
University on Sunday at Marge
Schott Stadium.
Johnson allowed just three
hits and no walks to pick up his
second win of the season.
Cincinnati’s (7-5) first run was
set up by sophomore outfielder
Jake Proctor (Cincinnati, Ohio/
Oak Hills), who stole second and
third base after getting hit by a
pitch in the first inning. Senior
shortstop Chris Peters (Tipp City,
Ohio/Tipp City) drove in Proctor
with a ground ball to third base,
giving UC an early 1-0 lead.
With bases loaded in the bot-
tom of the sixth, freshman OF/
DH Justin Glass (Fort Wayne,
Texas Tech (22-10) vs. St. John’s
(21-10), 4:20 p.m.
Stanford (29-2) vs. UC Davis (24-8),
30 minutes following
At The Pit/Bob King Court
Albuquerque, N.M.
North Carolina (25-8) vs. Fresno
State (25-7), 4:15 p.m.
Kentucky (24-8) vs. Hampton (26-6),
30 minutes following
At McCarthey Athletic Center
Spokane, Wash.
Iowa (22-8) vs. Gonzaga (28-4), 4:10
p.m.
UCLA (27-4) vs. Montana (18-14), 30
minutes following
Sunday’s Games
At Cintas Center
Cincinnati
Louisville (20-12) vs. Vanderbilt (20-
11), 12:10 p.m.
Xavier (28-2) vs. South Dakota State
(19-13), 30 minutes following
Monday’s Games
At Maples Pavilion Stanford, Calif.
Stanford-UC Davis winner vs. Texas
Tech-St. John’s winner
At The Pit/Bob King Court
Albuquerque, N.M.
North Carolina-Fresno State winner
vs. Kentucky-Hampton winner
At McCarthey Athletic Center
Spokane, Wash.
Iowa-Gonzaga winner vs. UCLA-
Montana winner
Tuesday, March 22
At Cintas Center
Cincinnati
Louisville-Vanderbilt winner vs.
Xavier-South Dakota State winner
Regional Semifinals
At Veterans Memorial Arena
Spokane, Wash.
Saturday, March 26
Stanford-UC Davis-Texas Tech-St.
John’s winner vs. North Carolina-Fresno
State-Kentucky-Hampton winner
Iowa-Gonzaga-UCLA-Montana win-
ner winner vs. Louisville-Vanderbilt-
Xavier-South Dakota State winner
Monday, March 28
Regional Championship
TBD
DALLAS REGIONAL
First Round
Sunday’s Games
At Ferrell Center
Waco, Texas
Houston (26-5) vs. West Virginia (23-
9), 5:10 p.m.
Baylor (31-2) vs. Prairie View (21-
11), 30 minutes following
At Intrust Bank Arena
Wichita, Kan.
Wisconsin-Green Bay (32-1) vs.
Arkansas-Little Rock (23-7), 5:20 p.m.
Michigan State (26-5) vs. Northern
Iowa (27-5), 30 minutes following
At Auburn Arena
Auburn, Ala.
Florida State (23-7) vs. Samford (25-
7), 5:15 p.m.
Georgia (21-10) vs. Middle
Tennessee (23-7), 30 minutes following
At CenturyTel Center
Shreveport, La.
Texas A&M (27-5) vs. McNeese
State (26-6), 5:05 p.m.
Rutgers (19-12) vs. Louisiana Tech
(24-7), 30 minutes following
Tuesday, March 22
At Ferrell Center
Waco, Texas
Baylor-Prairie View winner vs.
Houston-West Virginia winner
At Intrust Bank Arena
Wichita, Kan.
Wisconsin-Green Bay-Arkansas-
Little Rock winner vs. Michigan State-
Northern Iowa winner
At Auburn Arena
Auburn, Ala.
Georgia-Middle Tennessee winner
vs. Florida State-Samford winner
At CenturyTel Center
Shreveport, La.
Rutgers-Louisiana Tech winner vs.
Texas A&M-McNeese State winner
Regional Semifinals
At American Airlines Center
Dallas
Sunday, March 27
Baylor-Prairie View-Houston-West
Virginia winner vs. Wisconsin-Green
Bay-Arkansas-Little Rock-Michigan
State-Northern Iowa winner
Georgia-Middle Tennessee-Florida
State-Samford winner vs. Rutgers-
Louisiana Tech- Texas A&M-McNeese
State winner
Regional Championship
Tuesday, March 29
TBD
FINAL FOUR
At Conseco Fieldhouse
Indianapolis
National Semifinals
Sunday, April 3
Philadelphia champion vs. Dayton
champion
Spokane champion vs. Dallas cham-
pion
National Championship
Tuesday, April 5
Semifinal winners
14), 8 p.m.
Idaho (18-13) at San Francisco
(17-14), 10 p.m.
----
Second Round
March 18-19
TBD
----
Quarterfinals
March 21-22
TBD
----
Semifinals
Friday, March 25
TBD
---
Championship
Wednesday, March 30
TBD
Note: All 24 teams compete in
the first round; four teams then get a
bye into the quarterfinals. The eight
remaining teams play for the right to
advance to the quarterfinals.
Clemson (21-11), 9 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
No. 16 Seed East: Texas-San
Antonio (19-13) vs. Alabama State
(17-17), 6:30 p.m.
No. 11 Seed Southwest: Southern
Cal (19-14) vs. Virginia Commonwealth
(23-11), 9 p.m.
Ind./Carroll) took advantage of
Cleveland State RHP Coty Bates’
full windup and stole home to
increase Cincinnati’s lead to 2-0.
Junior first baseman Nic
Spence (Victoria, Australia/St.
Joseph’s) scored on a wild pitch
in the seventh inning to give UC
its third run. Senior outfielder
Justin Riddell (Lexington, Ky./
Lexington Catholic) followed
with a 2-RBI double to centerfield
to put the Bearcats ahead 5-0.
Senior RHP Brian Sand
(Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills)
and freshman RHP Matt Ring
(Muncie, Ind./Yorktown) each
pitched scoreless innings of relief
to finish the game and complete
Cincinnati’s sweep of CSU.
The Bearcats return to action
at 4 p.m. Friday when they take
on Western Michigan University
at Marge Schott Stadium.
Cleveland St. 0 (2-10)
Player ab-r-h-rbi
Sambula lf 4-0-1-0, Carter ss 3-0-0-
0, Thompson rf 4-0-0-0, Wynn 1b 3-0-1-0,
The Herald — 7
BOWLING
Tuesday Merchant
March 8, 2011
R C Connections 14-2
Surveyor’s 10-6
M-W Trailers 10-6
Ace Hardware 10-6
Caballero’s Tavern 8-8
Adams Automotive 8-8
Unverferth Mfg. 6-10
Topp Chalet 6-10
Delphos Sporting Goods 4-12
Kerns Ford
Men over 200
4-12
Ron Mericle 233, Harold Beckner
202, Shane Stabler 215-213, Butch
Prine Jr. 206-247, Dan Wilhelm 223-
214, David Mahlie 256, Bruce Haggard
254, Mark Biedenharn 214, John
Adams 247, Larry Etzkorn 209-230-
202, Bruce VanMetre 219-269-241,
Alex VanMetre 235-236-299, Jason
Teman 215-231, Don Rice 213-263-
220, Dan Grice 226-227, Scott Scalf
224-208-224, Todd Merricle 256,
Frank Thomas 208, Randy Matthews
214-218-251, Dan Stemen 269-210-
226, Dave Stemen 258, Bill Stemen
214, David Newman 214-252-269,
Derek Kill 258, Mike Plummer 243,
Travis Hubert 215, John Jones 222-
225-208, Jeff Lawrence 243-278-234,
Jason Wagoner 237, Joe Geise 210-
266-213, Kyle Early 232-255, Josh
DeVelvis 205-246-257, Russ Wilhelm
201-224, Shawn Stabler 226, Zach
Sargent 257-241-227, Kevin Kill 225-
277-223, Ron Wilhelm 205, Terry
Johns 209-211, Mike Hughes 253.
Men over 550
Ron Mericle 613, Harold Beckner
554, Shane Stabler 618, Butch Prine
Jr. 643, Dan Wilhelm 620, Lenny
Klaus 559, David Mahlie 582, Bruce
Haggard 613, Denny Dyke 553, John
Adams 618, Larry Etzkorn 641, Bruce
VanMetre 729, Alex VanMetre 770,
Jason Teman 608, Don Rice 696,
Dan Grice 642, Scott Scalf 656, Todd
Merricle 617, Matt Metcalfe 573,
Frank Thomas 595, Randy Matthews
683, Dan Stemen 705, Dave Stemen
636, David Newman 735, Derek
Kill 605, Mike Plummer 612, Travis
Hubert 607, John Jones 655, John
Allen 559, Jeff Lawrence 755, Jason
Wagoner 599, Joe Geise 689, Kyle
Early 683, Josh DeVelvis 708, Russ
Wilhelm 616, Shawn Stabler 614,
Zach Sargent 725, Kevin Kill 725, Ron
Wilhelm 587, Terry Johns 600, Jason
Johns 554, Mike Hughes 590.
Wednesday Industrial
March 9, 2011
K&M Tire 22-10
DRC 13th Frame Lounge 22-10
Delphos Restaurant Supply 22-10
Villager Tavern 22-10
Downtown Fitness 18-14
Rustic Cafe 10-22
Rusty Buggy
Moe’s Dougout #2
10-22
2-30
Men over 200
Don Rice 279-207-247, Dale
Metzger 247, Brian Gossard 211-257-
205, Bruce VanMetre 201-258, Dan
Grice 245-215-219, Bruce Clayton 243-
242, Matt Elling 211, Brent Hollar 234-
224, John Beebe 206, Dave Miller 204,
Lenny Hubert 225-211, Travis Hubert
213-227, Terry Trentman 210, Jordan
Riggs 223, Mike Plummer 227-235-
216, Dan Kleman 218, Steve Metzger
212, Les Shafer 213, Duane Kohorst
223, Bob White 232, Frank Miller 216-
205-226, Joe Geise 216-266, Charlie
Lozano 212, John Allen 229, John
Jones 207-214, Scott German 215-
244, Justin Rahrig 207, Matt Hoffman
224-203, Josh DeVelvis 247-242,
Shane Schimmoller 203-210-215.
Men over 550
Don Rice 733, Dale Metzger 587,
Brian Gossard 673, Bruce VanMetre
627, Dan Grice 679, Bruce Clayton
677, Brent Hollar 650, John Beebe
552, Dave Miller 584, Lenny Hubert
615, Travis Hubert 630, Terry
Trentman 572, Don Honigford 559,
Jordan Riggs 596, Mike Plummer
678, Steve Metzger 578, Bob White
600, Frank Miller 647, Joe Geise 678,
John Jones 592, Scott German 620,
Matt Hoffman 599, Josh DeVelvis
664, Shane Schimmoller 628.
Thursday National
March 10, 2011
K-M Tire 28-4
Bowersock Hauling
Sportsman Club-Van Wert
28-4
20-12
Wannemacher’s 20-12
Day Metals 16-16
Westrich 14-18
VFW 14-18
First Federal 12-20
D R C Big Dogs 8-24
Men over 200
Dan Yoakam 201, Brian Schaadt
209-224-217, Don Eversole 246,
Bruce VanMetre 213-269, Tom
Schulte 203, Chuck Verhoff 213, Tom
Markward 231, Dave Miller 238-216-
225, Jeff Lawrence 204-251-236,
Ralph Brickner 211, Jim Looser 203-
216, Jim Meeks 222-259-218, Lenny
Klaus 255, Dave Moenter 202-268,
David Mahlie 221, Zach Sargent 279-
267-249, Don Rice 215-248-223,
Sean Hulihan 244-279-207, Brian
Gossard 279-213-202, Rob Ruda 242-
234-243, John Beebe 203-226, Mark
Radabaugh 213, Rick Dienstberger
232-204-239, Dave Kroeger 230-236,
Randy Ryan 202-214, Phil Fetzer 210,
Ron Mericle 235-214, Don Honigford
218-231, John Jones 234-237, Jerry
Mericle 234, Doug Milligan Jr. 201-
225, Jason Wagoner 247-219, Frank
Miller 212-224-215, Tim Koester 237-
227-230, Ted Wells 214-212-220,
Doug Milligan Sr. 227-245-228, Chip
Kayser 225-245.
Men over 550
Brian Schaadt 650, Don Eversole
616, Bruce VanMetre 682, Tom
Schulte 560, Chuck Verhoff 579, Tom
Markward 571, Dave Miller 679, Jeff
Lawrence 691, Ralph Brickner 564,
Jim Looser 585, Jim Meeks 699, Lenny
Klaus 586, Dave Moenter 648, David
Mahlie 556, Zach Sargent 795, Don
Rice 686, Sean Hulihan 730, Brian
Gossard 694, Rob Ruda 719, John
Beebe 625, Mark Radabaugh 559,
Rick Dienstberger 675, Dave Kroeger
644, Phil Fetzer 585, Ron Mericle 628,
Don Honigford 613, John Jones 671,
Doug Milligan Jr. 605, Jason Wagoner
619, Frank Miller 651, Tim Koester
694, Ted Wells 646, Doug Milligan Sr.
700, Chip Kayser 607.
Johnson cf 4-0-0-0, Finley dh 3-0-1-0, Gnedza
c 3-0-0-0, Calhoun 3b 2-0-0-0, Haditsch 2b
3-0-0-0. Totals 29-0-3-0.
Cincinnati 5 (7-5)
Player ab-r-h-rbi
Jake Proctor cf 0-1-0-0, Braden Kline lf
2-0-1-0, Ronald Cotton pr 0-1-0-0, Chris Peters
ss 3-1-1-1, Justin Glass dh 4-1-1-0, Justin
Riddell rf 4-0-2-2, Jake Saylor c 1-0-0-0, TJ
Jones lf 3-0-0-0, Matt Williams 3b 4-0-0-0, Sam
Vandenheuvel 2b 4-0-1-0, Nic Spence 1b 2-1-
0-0. Totals 27-5-6-3.
Score by Innings:
Cleveland St. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 2
Cincinnati 100 001 30X-561
E: Bates 2, Nick Johnson (UC). DP:
Cleveland St. 2, Cincinnati 1. LOB: Cleveland
St. 5, Cincinnati 6. 2B: Kline (4), Glass (4),
Riddell (6). SB: Proctor 2 (6), Wynn (2), Calhoun
(1), Glass (2), Riddell (2), Saylor (1). CS: Carter
(1), Glass (1), Vandenheuvel (1).
IP H R ER BB SO
Cleveland St.
Bates (L, 0-3)
Cooper
6.1 4 5 5 6 2
0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Ruch 0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Blankemeyer 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Cincinnati
N.Johnson (W, 2-1) 7.0 3 0 0 0 9
Brian Sand 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Matt Ring 1.0 0 0 0 2 1
WP: Cooper (1). HBP: by BATES (Proctor,
Saylor), by Sand (Calhoun).
Umpires: HP: Ron Arnsperger; 1B: Dave
Madsen; 3B: Steve Horne. Attendance: 267.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

An unusual circumstance might

offer you a rather big opportunity in
the next year to make more money
from a side source than you’ve ever
made from your primary one. As long
Dear Annie: My husband ly ineffective. Telling them as everything is on the up and up, take
and I are in our mid-60s, mar- we have other plans is not advantage of it.
ried 42 years. Our marriage a deterrent. Our home has PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --
hasn’t been great, but it’s also turned into a hotel and stor- If a close friend of someone in your
family has been treated with respect,
not horrible. age facility. We love them,
About 15 years ago, my but we are at our wits’ end.
this person is now likely to be of
tremendous help to you in securing
BLONDIE
husband developed erectile Any thoughts? -- Ocean City, something big.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
dysfunction and stopped want- Md. -- Provided you don’t bring a third
ing sex. I urged him to talk to Dear Ocean City: You are party into the picture, something very
his doctor, which he did. The going to have to be more firm advantageous can be achieved by you
doctor gave him some pills, and consistent. Say, “Sorry, and your partner. Keep it just between
the two of you.
but he refused to try them. you cannot stay here.” Don’t TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
I have tried other let them in the -- Try to temporarily shelve your
remedies on my door. Don’t give regular endeavors and focus on a new
arrangement that you believe can add
own, but nothing them keys. When much to your holdings. You could be
has helped. they complain, tell quite lucky.
I admit I am not them point blank GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- A
window of opportunity could open up
beautiful, and I also that you love them, for you, in helping you accomplish
am overweight. but people leave the something that could bring about
Still, I’ve always house a mess, no multiple benefits. BEETLE BAILEY
been this way. My one contributes a CANCER (June 21-July 22)
-- Concerns about your finances
husband never cud- thing, it strains your are without foundation, so don’t
dles up to me in finances and you’ve needlessly make yourself feel uneasy
bed like he used to. had enough. You about things that may never happen.
It’s important that you discover this
He never puts his will invite them yourself.
arms around me, Annie’s Mailbox when you are ready LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t
kisses me or shows to have company. allow some petty comments that come
from a jealous person to cast shadows
any affection whatsoever and Period. They may be upset, of doubt on your thinking. You know
he refuses to discuss it. but they will only stop taking all the facts, so don’t let fear slow
I feel like I’m living with advantage of you when you your roll.
my brother. Our anniversaries insist on it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- An
enterprise in which you recently got
come and go with no celebra- Dear Annie: This is in involved has much greater potential
tion of any kind. Every little response to “Thrown for a than you might realize, but you could
thing he does seems to irritate Loop,” the wife whose husband need a lot of faith to keep you going.
me, and I can barely speak to was meeting a former co-work- Study all the ramifications yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
SNUFFY SMITH
him. Of course, when I do, er for lunch. She requested a Operating on a one-on-one basis in the
he doesn’t listen. Sometimes separation since he refused to commercial world has benefits, but
he actually walks away while stop these meetings. Although they might be limited. Try to establish
some links with several sources that
I’m talking. I don’t know he should not be keeping these have unlimited potential.
what to do anymore. Can you meetings a secret, she should SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) --
help? -- Tired of It All not assume her husband is hav- Even if it is a big account, working with
only one customer puts limitations on
Dear Tired: A low tes- ing an affair. what you accomplish. See if you can
tosterone count could be I am a single woman with simultaneously establish several new
responsible not only for a many married male friends. links with other people.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
lack of interest in sex, but for There are no affairs. I treasure 21) -- When having to make a huge
depression, as well. This is these friendships and appre- decision, do not allow yourself to
fairly common and might be ciate the wives who are not get bogged down with anything
the source of your husband’s suspicious of us. However, if trivial. Conceive the total picture first
and then fill in all the little bits and
unwillingness to work on the a wife is uncomfortable with pieces. HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
problem. Ask him to go back her husband meeting me for CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
to his doctor and get tested. It lunch, she should join us. I -- Usually one can get better terms by
not putting everything they’ve got out
could make a world of differ- would welcome her company on the table. Hold something back as
ence to him, and it would help and hopefully make an addi- a bargaining chip in case the haggling
your marriage, as well. tional friend. -- Monrovia, gets tough.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
Dear Annie: Ever since Calif. -- An important customer will have
my husband and I moved to a Dear Monrovia: We heard greater respect for you if you honor
resort area, we have enjoyed from a great many women, your commitment to the letter, instead
many family gatherings at and most of them were furi- of trying to make small changes after
you have the sale. Stand by your
our house. These were invited ous. We agree that including word.
guests at times that suited our the wife is a great idea. Copyright 2011, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
schedules. Lately, however,
the family seems to expect
our house to be a spontane-
ous crash pad because we BORN LOSER
have “the most accommodat-
ing space.”
The truth is, almost every
visit has become a finan-
cial burden and a physically
taxing occasion, especially
when they linger for days,
sometimes weeks. Our util-
ity bills skyrocket, the food
costs are insurmountable,
and this doesn’t include the
unrelenting domestic chores
with little or no help. During
their stay, our house looks FRANK & ERNEST
ransacked, with carpet stains,
damaged furniture and tons of
laundry.
These are all grown, finan-
cially secure, professional
adults. My husband I have
tried tactfully refusing them,
suggesting other places, and
designating meals and tasks,
all of which were basical-

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Fears of health risks rise amid Japan crisis

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writer
Fears about health risks rose dramatically
in Japan today with news of a greater radiation
release and renewed warnings to remaining resi-
dents within 20 miles to stay indoors.
Japanese officials said that more radiation was
released at a nuclear plant disastrously damaged
by last week’s tsunami. Prime Minister Naoto
Kan said radiation had spread from four reac-
tors.
“The level seems very high, and there is still
a very high risk of more radiation coming out,”
he said.
Thyroid cancer is the most immediate risk,
and the Japanese government made plans to dis-
tribute potassium iodide pills to prevent it. Worse
case scenarios — lots of radioactive fallout —
can lead to other cancers years later.
Even a meltdown would not necessarily mean
medical doom, experts said. It depends on the
amount and type of radioactive materials.
Donald Olander, professor emeritus of nucle-
ar engineering at the University of California at
Berkeley, said even the much higher levels of
radiation are “not a health hazard.”
The world has seen two big nuclear reac-
tor scares — in 1986 at the Chernobyl plant in
Russia, and in 1979 at the Three Mile Island plant
in Pennsylvania.
At Three Mile Island, even though a quarter
of the reactor core melted, the steel containment
structure held. The radiation released was so
minuscule that it did not threaten health - the
equivalent of a chest X-ray to local folks.
At Chernobyl, where there was no contain-
ment vessel, far more radioactive material was
released, and of a more dangerous type than at
Three Mile Island. It stayed in soil and got into
plants in the Ukraine, contaminating milk and
meat for decades. Thousands of children devel-
oped thyroid cancer from radiation exposure,
and scientists are still working to document other
possible health problems.
The lessons have not been lost on the Japanese
as they grapple with the Fukushima Dai-ichi
power plant, whose cooling systems failed after
a power outage from the massive earthquake last
week.
They have evacuated 180,000 people from
areas near the troubled reactors, where relatively
minimal fallout was mostly confined at first.
They’ve told people still in the area to wear
masks, which can keep radioactive particles from
being inhaled.
Most importantly, they have stockpiled and
are making plans to give out potassium iodide
— pills that can keep radioactive iodine from
being taken up by the thyroid gland and causing
cancer.
“Those are all preventable cancers” if the
protective pills are taken right after exposure,
said University of New Mexico radiologist Dr.
Fred Mettler. He led an international group that
studied health effects of the Chernobyl disaster
and is a U.S. representative to the United Nations
on radiation safety.
At Chernobyl “they had millions of square
kilometers to cover and it was all rural areas and
they didn’t really have anything stockpiled,” he
said.
The Russian reactor also lacked a containment
vessel like those in Japan and the United States to
prevent or minimize release of the more danger-
ous types of radioactive materials, Mettler said.
“Right now it’s worse than Three Mile Island,”
Olander said, but isn’t near the Chernobyl situa-
tion. Some radioactive iodine was released before
the latest crisis today. Iodine is relatively short-
lived, and potassium iodide pills can be used to
block its uptake.
Of greater concern is the release of cesium,
which officials had said was released in small
amounts earlier. Cesium is absorbed throughout
the body — not just by the thyroid — and stays in
organs, tissue and the environment much longer,
Mettler explained.
Cesium particles are relatively large and
heavy, so they would not likely travel far in a
plume. Much of it would drop near the reactor
site, and officials hope, may be carried by winds
east over the Pacific Ocean where it would fall
harmlessly, Mettler said.
Any release of cesium is a concern envi-
ronmentally and for health, said Jacqueline
Williams, a radiation biologist and safety expert
at the University of Rochester Medical Center in
upstate New York.
“Prior to Chernobyl, we believed that the
cesium would be diluted out, that once the cloud
went through and it rained, the cesium would be
washed out. What we found out was there was an
accumulation of cesium in certain types of veg-
etation, and it accumulated rather than diluted,”
she said.
Animals fed on the vegetation and became
contaminated, and meat and milk were affected.
“You can’t be quite so blase about the fall-
out,” Williams said.
At Three Mile Island, however, “the public
health risk was close to zero because the radiation
was contained within the site itself,” Williams
said.
Mettler agreed. The research he led in Russia
documented 6,000 to 7,000 additional cases of
thyroid cancer in people who were children and
teens when Chernobyl occurred, “and there are
questionable increases of leukemia in the cleanup
workers but it’s not certain.”
And were there long-lasting problems from
Three Mile Island?
“Not that most of the scientific community
believes,” Mettler said.

Alice Cooper makes rock hall
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s
annual induction ceremony is the only place you’d find
Bruce Springsteen as just one member of a 21-piece backup
band.
The rock hall’s latest class brought together Neil Diamond,
Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Darlene Love, Dr. John and Leon
Russell, and after all the speeches were done the musicians
kept playing until the wee hours.
Springsteen brought his guitar to back Love, who cre-
ated a modern-day “Wall of Sound” and dueted with Bette
Midler on “He’s a Rebel” after her induction Monday night.
Guitarist John Mayer supported Russell in his ballad “A
Song for You.” Diamond had the crowd in the glittery ball-
room of The Waldorf-Astoria hotel dancing to the 1960s era
“Cherry Cherry.”
Alice Cooper is the stage name for singer Vincent
Furnier and his band, known for 1970s era hard rock songs
“Eighteen,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “School’s Out.”
Their concerts were steeped in horror movie theatrics, and
Cooper wrapped a snake around his neck during his speech
accepting induction. He performed a trio of the band’s hits
in a shirt spattered with fake blood.
“We’ve always been a hard-rock band,” Cooper said.
“We just wanted to decorate it a little differently.”
Cooper said he’d like to promise the rock hall that his
band wouldn’t embarrass it.
“But I can’t make that promise,” he said. “After all, we
are Alice Cooper.”
He was inducted by singer Rob Zombie, who recalled
how he painted a portrait of Cooper dripping in blood when
he was in fourth grade and was asked to make a picture
of someone he admired — drawing attention from school
authorities.
Diamond had seemed a bit loopy in his acceptance
speech, after traveling 25 hours from Australia for the
ceremony and looking ahead to another trip Down Under
to resume a concert tour. He criticized Paul Simon, who
inducted him, for giving Simon’s upcoming album a dif-
ficult-to-remember title (“So Beautiful or So What”), then
tried to recover by saying “I dare anybody in this room to
make a better album.”
Diamond got a cheer from the New York crowd for rec-
ognizing his city roots while performing “I Am I Said.”
Simon noted that Diamond, who was born in Brooklyn,
had first been eligible for the rock hall in 1991 and won-
dered, “What took so long?”
His theory: Diamond’s duet with Barbra Streisand, “You
Don’t Bring Me Flowers.”
“It’s Barbra Streisand,” he said. “It’s not rock ’n’ roll. I
don’t even think they let that DNA near the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.”
Songwriter Waits is well-versed in blues, poetry and
ballads, with songs rough and romantic. Several of his Hall
of Fame predecessors have recorded his work, including
Springsteen (”Jersey Girl”), the Ramones (”I Don’t Want to
Grow Up”), Rod Stewart (”Downtown Train”) and Johnny
Cash (”Down There By the Train”). Neil Young said Waits
is indescribable and “I’m here to describe him.” The two
later performed together; taped highlights of the rock hall
ceremony will be shown on Fuse on March 20.
Waits noted that his rock hall trophy was heavy and won-
dered if he could have a keychain version “that I can keep
with me in case I hear somebody say, ‘Pete, take the cuffs
off him. He’s a Hall of Famer.”’
“They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work
with,” he said, “and they say that like it’s a bad thing.”
Aflac’s duck to get new voice
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Aflac Inc. said Monday it has
fired Gilbert Gottfried, the abrasive voice of the insurer’s
quacking duck in the U.S., after the comedian posted a
string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami
in Japan on Twitter over the weekend.
The tasteless tweets are particularly problematic for Aflac
because it does 75 percent of its business in Japan. One in
four homes in Japan buys health insurance from Aflac. The
insurer’s CEO, Daniel Amos, flew to Japan on Sunday to
show support for the company’s employees and agents.
Aflac said in a statement Monday that Gottfried’s jokes do
not represent the feelings of the company, which previously
announced it would donate 100 million yen ($1.2 million) to
the International Red Cross to help with disaster assistance.
“There is no place for anything but compassion and con-
cern during these difficult times,” Chief Marketing Officer
Michael Zuna said.
The tweets in question were removed from Gottfried’s
Twitter feed Monday after Aflac announced it would stop
working with the comedian.
Gottfried has voiced the duck in numerous Aflac com-
mercials since 2000. His career includes a run as a cast
member on “Saturday Night Live” and a role as the voice
of the parrot in Disney’s “Aladdin.” He has also recorded a
50-minute show of dirty jokes.
The insurer said it will start a casting search for his
replacement. The company also noted that Gottfried is not
the voice of the duck in Japan. Aflac’s mascot has a softer,
sweeter voice in Japanese commercials.
Aflac is gearing up for an influx of claims in the wake
of the disaster, though it expects only a minimal financial
impact to total results. The company, which has been doing
business in Japan since 1974, said less than 5 percent of
Aflac Japan’s new sales and in-force premiums come from
the hard-hit Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures
there.
NYC bus driver’s trail before fatal crash probed
By MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — Investigators worked today to piece
together the trail of a man with numerous traffic violations and
a decades-old manslaughter conviction who crashed a tour bus
over the weekend in New York City, killing 15 people.
The bus driver, Ophadell Williams, was ticketed in 1995 for
speeding and twice for driving without a license, giving police
the alias Erik Williams, two state officials familiar with the
accident probe told The Associated Press on Monday. Williams’
driving privileges were suspended, meaning he couldn’t legally
drive in the state, after he failed to address the charges.
The bus crash occurred Saturday as gamblers were returning
to New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood, in downtown
Manhattan, after a few hours at the Mohegan Sun casino in
Uncasville, Conn. The bus was sheared in half by a sign pole.
On Monday night, another company’s luxury tour bus from
Chinatown to Philadelphia crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike,
killing the driver and a passenger. About 40 people were hos-
pitalized.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said they
were looking at Williams’ last 72 hours before the Saturday
crash, checking the casino’s surveillance video.
“We want to know what he ate, what he drank and how much
he slept,” NTSB vice chairman Christopher Hart said.
Investigators zeroed in on the 40-year-old Williams’ record
after his story that his tour bus was clipped by a tractor-trailer
fell apart when passengers and witnesses said it never hap-
pened.
Investigators are trying to follow Williams’ steps by match-
ing Social Security numbers of traffic stops under different
names, the officials said, speaking to the AP on condition
of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
Unions rush deals ahead of law
By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — School boards and local governments across
Wisconsin are rushing to reach agreements with unions before a new
law takes effect and erases their ability to collectively bargain over
nearly all issues other than minimal salary increases.
The law doesn’t go into effect until the day after Secretary of
State Doug La Follette publishes it and it doesn’t supersede contracts
already in place, fueling unions’ desire to reach new deals quickly.
La Follette said Monday that he will delay publication until the latest
day possible, March 25, to give local governments time to try to reach
agreements.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker had asked La Follette to publish
the law Monday, but the Democratic secretary of state said he didn’t
see any emergency that warranted doing so. La Follette opposed the
bill and said he sat in his office watching parts of a weekend protest
that brought as many as 100,000 people out in opposition to the law.
“This is the biggest change in Wisconsin labor management his-
tory in 50 years,“ La Follette said, describing his reasoning for hold-
ing off on its enactment.
The law ends collective bargaining for public workers over every-
thing except salary increases no greater than inflation. It also forces
state workers to make benefit concessions that amount to an 8 percent
pay cut on average.
Walker also is proposing a nearly $1 billion cut in aid to schools in
his two-year budget plan that would take effect in July. He argued that
for that reason, districts need to get more money from their employ-
ees to help mitigate the loss in aid. Walker also wants to limit the
ability of schools and local governments to pay for the cuts through
local property tax increases.
The Wisconsin Association of School Boards is telling districts to
be cautious about approving contracts that will make it more difficult
for them to handle Walker’s proposed cuts. Since Walker unveiled
the bill on Feb. 11, between 50 and 100 of the state’s 424 districts
have approved deals with unions, said Bob Butler, an attorney with
the association.
The vast majority of them included benefit concessions consistent
with what Walker proposed under the new collective bargaining law,
Butler said.
The Madison school board met in a marathon 18-hour session
Friday night to reach an agreement with the local teachers union to
approve a new contract that runs through mid-2013.
That agreement freezes wages and requires the same pension
contribution as state workers will be required to pay starting later this
month under the new law. It also allows the district to require health
insurance premium contributions up to 5 percent in the first year of
the deal and up to 10 percent in the second year.
The Racine school district voted to approve a new contract with
its teachers union on Wednesday evening, as Walker’s collective
bargaining proposal was being approved by the state Senate. Several
local governments, including the city of Janesville and La Crosse
County, also have pushed through contracts in the past month ahead
of the new law.
A handful of counties have reached deals with local unions
statewide, said John Rhineman, legislative director of the Wisconsin
Counties Association.
Rhineman said county boards want to reach deals in advance of
the law taking effect because they want to work together with their
employees who, in some cases, are seeking contracts more generous
than what would be required under the new law.
“Our people do care about their employees,” Rhineman said.
“Some of them feel the bill has gone further than they would choose
to go.”
Schools and local governments would be foolish to rush through
deals that don’t account for concessions at the same level or greater
than what is called for under the law, said Republican Rep. Robin
Vos, co-chairman of the Legislature’s budget committee.
Williams also had an incomplete log book, which is required
for commercial drivers, the officials said.
The revelations about Williams, who has a 20-year-old man-
slaughter conviction, prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo to launch
a state investigation into how Williams was able to hold a valid
commercial driver’s license at the time of Saturday’s crash.
Telephone calls to Williams’ Brooklyn home were unan-
swered Monday. A spokesman for the bus company that
employed him, World Wide Travel, declined to comment, on
the instructions of federal investigators.
Williams was convicted of crimes using two aliases. He
served just more than two years for manslaughter for his role in
a stabbing in 1990, state correction records show. He initially
had been charged with second-degree murder.
Williams served about three years, from 1998 to the middle
of 2002, for grand larceny for removing an $83,905 check from
a Police Athletic League fund, correctional services spokes-
woman Linda Foglia said.
He also was arrested by New York City police on June 4,
2003, for driving with a suspended license and for possession
of three police radios. In 1987, he was arrested on charges of
trying to get on public transportation without paying.
There are no federal regulations that would prohibit states
from issuing a license to a bus driver with a criminal record,
said Duane DeBruyne, a spokesman for the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration.
Hart, the NTSB vice chairman, said the bus and the tractor-
trailer had black box-like engine control modules that might
have stored information. He said the module from the bus had
been sent to the NTSB lab in Washington, D.C., for download-
ing; the tractor-trailer was impounded.
Hart identified the owner of the tractor-trailer as Webster
Trucking Company of Connecticut and Massachusetts and said
it was cooperating.
US eyes Libyan opposition
PARIS (AP) — Under pressure from allies and growing calls
for military intervention in Libya, the Obama administration on
Monday held its first high-level talks with the Libyan opposition and
introduced a liaison to deal full time with their ranks. But it remained
undecided about exactly how much support to lend a group it still
knows little about while turmoil and uncertainty increase across the
Arab world.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a late-night,
45-minute meeting with a senior Libyan opposition figure after dis-
cussing the widening crisis with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarkozy, along with British Prime Minister David Cameron, mean-
while, stepped up calls for world powers to isolate Libyan leader
Moammar Gadhafi with a no-fly zone, amid diplomatic differences
over how much backing to give rebels.
Clinton’s closed-door meeting with opposition figure member
Mahmoud Jibril in a luxury Paris hotel was shrouded in secrecy until
it happened, with neither the time nor the identity of her interlocu-
tors announced beforehand. Neither Jibril, an official in the newly
formed Interim Governing Council based in the eastern Libyan city
of Benghazi, nor Clinton appeared or made any comments about their
talks. Jibril met with Sarkozy in Paris last week before photographers
and journalists.
Jibril was introduced to Clinton by the administration’s new point
man for the Libyan opposition, Chris Stevens, who was until recently
the deputy chief of mission at the now-shuttered U.S. Embassy in
Tripoli. Also at the meeting was Gene Cretz, the U.S. ambassador
to Libya, who left his post for consultations in early January and has
not returned.
“They had a private and candid conversation about ways in which
the United States can assist the Libyan people in their efforts against
the Gadhafi regime,” Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said after
the talks.
Although the meeting might have been a deciding factor in the
administration’s approach to the opposition no announcements were
made after and the mystery surrounding it underscored the adminis-
tration’s lack of clarity as to who is who in the movement that has
sprung up to topple Gadhafi from the perch he has held for 42 years.
Debate over the crisis has turned increasingly heated in the U.S.
with demands from some in Congress to support the rebels with air
cover and weapons. Obama and his top national security aides have
so far demurred, fearing it would further strain America’s already
stretched military and entangle the U.S. in an expensive and messy
conflict that could be perceived as meddling. In his last public com-
ment on the matter, on Friday, Obama said all the risks and conse-
quences had to be weighed before intervening.
Answers to Monday’s questions:
Utah has designated the California gull as its official
bird in recognition of the bird’s rile in saving the crops of
Mormon settlers from a plague of crickets in 1848.
In days of yore, the occupation of a whacker was the
driver of a team of horses or oxen.
Today’s questions:
What famous American writer penned the first words
spoken on screen by Greta Garbo: “Give me a whiskey —
ginger ale on the side. And don’t be stingy, baby?”
Which five actors played gun-toting ex-con Elvis imper-
sonators in the 2001 film “3000 Miles to Graceland?”
Answers in Wednesday’s Herald.
Today’s words:
Discalceate: to take the shoes off
Vortiginous: whirling around the center