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Class of ‘75 to discuss reunion

Members St. John’s High School class of 1975 are invited to the Rustic at 7 p.m. on Tuesday to share information and/or ideas for the upcoming 40th reunion.

For more informa-tion, call 419-235-8619.

Putnam County Help Me Grow Early Childhood Specialists will be available to screen Putnam County infants, toddlers and preschoolers free of charge. Developmental screenings that are available include: hearing, vision, physical development (crawling, walk-ing, etc.), speech and language, behavioral and play skills.

The free screenings are offered to Putnam County residents monthly. The next screening will take place from 1-4 p.m. on Tuesday.

Screenings are by appointment only; call 419-523-6059 or toll free at 1-877-738-1866.

Developmental screenings set

BY STEPHANIE GROVESStaff Writer

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FORT JENNINGS — Dean of Students Todd Hoehn announced Griffin Morman, Zach Piasecki, Rachel Luersman and Makenna Ricker each achieved Superior scores at the District Science Fair Wednesday night.

“Congratulations to all the students who received Superior scores,” Hoehn said. “Morman and Piasecki will participate in the State Science Day on May 10 and Luersman and Ricker will serve as alternates.”

Hoehn also announced stu-dent council members and the school’s leadership team will be involved in the upcoming Farmers Day, which will be held from 8:30-10:30 a.m. on May 9.

“Farming families will be the guests and served coffee and doughnuts, take a tour of the school and see our tech-nology — iPads and Smart Boards,” Hoehn detailed.

Elementary Principal Kathleen Verhoff reported

that the elementary school speech contests winners were: first place, Eric Wieging; sec-ond place, Chloe Fields; and Mackenna Stechschulte, alter-nate.

“The topic was healthy life-styles and their presentations exceeded all others,” Verhoff said.

Board members accepted $1,070 from Fort Jennings Activity Boosters for the Band Trip Fund.

Members of the board com-mended Rose Mary Warnecke and the entire cast and crew for a fine performance of the school’s musical, “Annie, Jr.”

Warnecke was also re-hired as music instructor for the 2014-15 school year.

Board members approved the following summer stu-dent workers on an as needed basis: Alex Berelsman, Alex Sealts, Aaron Neidert, Jessica Young, Sydney German, Alyssa Wiedeman and Marissa Metzger. These students will be operating mowers as well as other school equipment.

Achievement highlights school board meeting

Ottoville School Board soft on speed limit support letter

By NANCY SPENCERHerald Editor

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OTTOVILLE —A letter in support of the efforts of a local developer to have the speed limit reduced in front of Ottoville Schools may be drafted but if Wednesday’s response from school board members is any indication of the outcome of a vote at the next meeting, the proposal will have to move for-ward without the board’s support.

John Schimmoeller and Greg Bockrath, a civil engineer with Bockrath and Associates — working on Schimmoeller’s behalf — approached the school board for the third time Wednesday to garner the letter in support of reducing the speed limit in front of the school to 35 mph with the exception of during school hours (7 a.m. to 4 p.m.), when it would be 20 mph.

The speed limit in that area is currently 55 mph except dur-ing school hours.

Schimmoeller said he was frustrated with the board’s reluc-tance to support his efforts.

“Does it really matter what goes in there?” he asked the board. “Wouldn’t you like to see the speed limit reduced regardless?”

Board President Kevin Landin expressed his concern that a rumored retail store across from the school could lead to costly safety enhancements in sidewalks, etc., on the school’s property along U.S. 224.

Teens work ‘1,000 Paper Cranes’ projectAyron McClurg, left, Katlynn Schleeter and Luke Ketcham hone their origami skills while making paper cranes for the “1,000 Paper Crane” project. Their efforts will decorate the Teen Room at the Delphos Public Library. The project kicked off this week during National Library Week. (Delphos Herald/Nancy Spencer)

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Mostly sunny today with highs in the lower 60s. Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the mid 40s. See page 2.

Herald observes Good Friday hours

The Delphos Herald office will close at noon on Friday in observance of Good Friday.

Regular office hours will resume on Monday.

Ministerial Assoc. sets Good Friday service

Herald Staff Reports

“At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until 3 p.m. At that time, Jesus cried out ‘My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?’ Jesus shouted again and He gave up His spirit. At that moment, the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.” Matthew 27: 45, 46, 50 and 51.

DELPHOS — The Delphos Ministerial Association will offer its Good Friday service at noon on Friday at St. Peter Luteran Church.

The theme will be “Restored in Christ — Broken Curtain.”The association has seen good participation in the Lenten

Luncheons this year, held six Thursdays prior to Holy Week.“Turnout for the luncheons has been very good as long as

the weather was good,” Pastor Linda Wannemacher said. “I think we get a few more people each year, so we are reaching out and bringing people together to oberve the Lenten Season.”

Special music will be provided by Jaye Wannemacher, Erin Stokes and Pastor David Howell, with liturgical dance and flags by Deb Tenewalde and Pastor Wannemacher.

Scripture readings, prayers, hymns and the sermon will be given by Pastors Harry Tolhurst, D.J. Fuerstenau, Jane Brown, Ron Lumm and Angela Kehbeb.

All are welcome.

The VFW Ladies Auxiliary got busy Wednesday morning coloring, pick-ling, slicing and dicing close to 4,000 hard-boiled eggs for the Easter Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. until sold out Saturday. Homemade goodies galore will be found along with colorful eggs, pickled and deviled eggs, egg salad and homemade noodles. (Delphos Herald/Stephanie Groves)

The Delphos Senior Citizen’s Center is holding its annual Easter Candy Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. Center employee Shirley Jarman says this year’s offerings include the traditional chocolate treats and some new items including colorful plastic eggs with painted faces filled with minia-ture chocolate eggs and new flavors of candy bars. Folks should get to the sale early for the best selection, as they sell out early. All proceeds from the sale benefits programs provided by the center.

Easter eggs, baked goods, sweet abound

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Jan. 16, 1945April 16, 2014

DELPHOS — Richard Alan Martin, 69, of Delphos died at 2:50 a.m. Wednesday at Lima Memorial Hospital with his loving family sur-rounding him.

He was born Jan. 16, 1945, in Lima to Ernest and Dorothy (Crider) Martin, who preceded him in death.

He married Cathy Smith on Feb. 18, 1968 and they remar-ried on Sept. 25, 1993. She survives in Delphos.

He is also survived by his daughter, Nancy Martin Clay of Delphos; his son, Ross (Anja) Miller of Russells Point; two sisters, Judy Mayer of Delphos and Linda VanHoose of Lakeview; five brothers, Gary (Arlene) Martin of Bellefontaine, Tom (Deb) Martin of Dublin, Don (Elaine) Martin of Lima, Steve Martin of Bellefontaine and Dennis (Barb) Martin of Dayton; six grandchildren, Lucas and MaeLynn Clay of Delphos and Avery, Scarlette, Claire and Cooper Miller of Russells Point; two sisters-in-law, Dianna Bowers (Norbert McEvoy) of Delphos and Marlene (Roger) Larson of Forest Park, Ga.; many beau-tiful friends; and two special couples, Rick and Shirley Layson of Jonesboro, Ga., and Phil and Chris Campbell of Convoy.

He was also preceded in death by his brother, Larry Martin; and his nephew, Mark VanHoose.

He retired from John Mansville in Defiance; before that, he had worked for Trim Trends and Century Link. He served in the Army in Korea and Vietnam.

He was a life member of the VFW #3360 of Defiance and the AMVETS in Lakeview. He was a member of Bass Masters of Indian Lake and fished in the tournament for over 25 years.

He loved fishing, painting and playing cards and games. He loved rock and roll and could name any singer to any song and also loved spend-ing time with his family and friends.

Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. Friday at Harter and Schier Funeral Home with military grave rites by the Delphos Veterans Council following the service at the funeral home. The Rev. David Howell will officiate. Burial will be at a later date.

Visitation will be 1-6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the family.

To leave condolences for the family, visit www.hart-erandschier.com.

Wheat $6.61Corn $4.63Soybeans $15.42

ST. RITA’SA boy was born April

15 to Michele and Doug Martz of Delphos.

A boy was born April 15 to Maria and Bruce Rellinger of Cloverdale.

The following individuals appeared Wednesday before Judge Charles Steele in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court:

Bond violationChristopher Britt, 24, Van Wert

appeared for a bond violation for fail-ing to report to probation. His bond was changed to $10,000 cash.

SentencingsTyler Kast, 22, Van Wert, was sen-

tenced on a charge of vandalism, a felony of the fifth degree.

His sentence was: three years com-munity control, up to six months at the WORTH Center, additional 30 days jail at later date, 200 hours community service, two years intensive probation and he was ordered to pay restitution of $141.41,

court costs and partial appointed counsel fees.

A 12-month prison term was deferred pending completion of community con-trol.

Nicholas Bendele, 31, Van Wert, was sentenced for possession of drugs, felony of the fifth degree.

His sentence was: three years commu-nity control, 30 days jail at a later date, 30 days Electronic House Arrest or jail, 200 hours community service, two years intensive probation, driver’s license sus-pended for six months and he was ordered to pay court costs and partial appointed counsel fees.

A 12-month prison term was deferred pending completion of community control.

22 officers complete advanced emergency vehicle operations training

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LEXINGTON — Twenty-two officers from 10 agencies completed advanced emergency vehicle operations train-ing Tuesday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. Law enforce-ment officers from around the state were able to put their skills to the test at Mid-Ohio’s premier 2.4-mile, 15-turn road race course.

Local officers included Shawn Feldner, Nate Music and Scott Patterson from the Allen County Sheriff’s Office.

Using law enforcement casino train-ing funds, Ohio Department of Public Safety and the Ohio State Highway Patrol Emergency Vehicle Operations Instructors, along with veteran race car

drivers, designed the training to heighten the skill level of officers around the state to operate a patrol vehicle in the most efficient and safest manner possible. The six-hour training incorporated both class-room instruction and practical exercises.

“The leading cause of on-duty deaths of law enforcement officers nationally is automobile-related traffic crashes,” said Director John Born, Ohio Department of Public Safety. Driving skills are perish-able. This advanced training provides officers from across Ohio the opportunity to improve their skills.

Before these casino law enforcement training funds were available, it was the responsibility of the individual agencies to incur the cost of sending officers to advanced training opportunities like this.

Hubert HorstmanHubert Horstman, 93, of

Fort Jennings, died 5:43 p.m. Tuesday at the Meadows of Kalida.

Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Love-Heitmeyer Funeral Home, Jackson Twp.

Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Fort Jennings.

Condolences may be expressed at www.lovefuner-alhome.com.

Safe Communities releases traffic fatalities update


PUTNAM COUNTY — The Putnam County Safe Communities Coalition reports from Jan. 1-March 31 there was one traffic death in Putnam County.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, each fatality has a comprehensive cost of $3,366,388 associated with it. The fatality cost in Putnam County for January through March was $3,366,388.

Mike Klear, Putnam County Safe Communities, said, “It is up to each of us in Putnam County to be smart and to buckle up and do not drink and drive. With the spring weather coming there will be more tractors and slow moving vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles on our roadways. Please be aware and not distracted while you are driving in a motor vehicle.”

The Putnam County Safe Communities Coalition is dedi-cated to keeping our county roads safe so we don’t have to grieve over someone in our county.

The Safe Communities pro-gram was developed through the Ohio Department of Public Safety to establish and/or expand community partnerships to cre-ate safer, healthier communities throughout Ohio.

For more information about the Economic Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes or the Putnam County Safe Communities Coalition, contact Klear at the Putnam County Educational Service Center.

VW Municipal Court releases March activity reportInformation submitted

VAN WERT — The Van Wert Municipal Court has released the activ-ity report for March.

There were a total of 498 cases for the month as follows: 561 traffic cases, 58 criminal cases and 64 civil cases.

The court performed one wedding.Fines and costs in the amount of

$91,580.22 were distributed to govern-ment agencies by the Municipal Court as follows: $27,846.83 to the State of Ohio, $52,379.77 to the City of Van Wert, $7,657.53 to the County of Van Wert, $167.26 to the Van Wert Sheriff’s Dept., $17 to Crime Stoppers, $1 to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, $400 to the Village of Convoy, $715 to Capital Recovery, $1,094.83 to the County Law Library, $80 to the City of Delphos and $50 to the Village of Ohio City.

The above disbursements include $1,441 to Legal Aid, $4,198 to Victims of Crime and $2,771.80 to Computerization.

The total amount collected in back fines from Capital Recovery for the year is $9,760.43.

The Court’s Supervision Fund brought in $3,668.50 for the month for a total of $8,040.50 for the year.

Monies collected for judgment creditors by garnishment for the month totaled $47,632.08. The nature of the offense and the arresting authority are factors. which affect the distribution of the fines.

The charging authorities were: traf-fic cases — driving under the influ-ence (25), State patrol (11), SHF (one), Village (one), Delphos (two) and SVW (10); general traffic (536) — OSP (454), Van Wert Police (64), Delphos (seven), Sheriff (11) and Village (zero); criminal charges (58) — City Police (35), Ohio State Patrol (three), Sheriff (17), Delphos (two), Village (zero) and ODNR (one); and civil cases (64) — regular money-only complaints (53), evictions (nine), other-BMV driving privileges (one) and small claims complaints (one).

Judge Jill Leatherman signed two search warrants during the month.

Traffic/Criminal Activity: The court had 369 scheduled arraignments, 177 pre-trials, four trials to the court, no suppression hearings, eight preliminary

hearing, nine probation violation/show cause hearings, no bond hearings, four sentencings, no change of pleas, zero no contest hearings, no extradition hear-ing, no 12-point suspension hearings, no scheduled jury trials and four ALS hearings.

The following information has been submitted to the judge from the proba-tion department for the month.Number of persons off probation: 40Total intakes for probation: 14Total office visits: 40Total home visits: threeTotal number of persons on probation: 260Total number on intensive probation: 61Total persons arrested by probation: zeroTotal community service hours com-pleted: fourIn-home alcohol units: threeNumber placed on electronic house arrest: fiveCases reviewed by court: 132Total successfully completing EMHA: twoProbation violations filed: oneIgnition interlock units issued: 13UDSs completed: 12Diversions: zeroRehabilitation placement: zero

RATLIFF, Robert G. “Rob,” 49, of Delphos, friends may call from 1-3 p.m. today at Grace Community Church, 4359 Allentown Rd., Lima. A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. today at the church, the Rev. John Heyward officiat-ing. In lieu of flowers, friends can give to The Gideons International. Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home & Crematory, Van Wert, is in charge of local arrangements. Online condo-lences can be given at alspach-gearhart.com.

HOHLBEIN, Kyler, 25, an open house will be held from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at the home of John and Dorothy Hohlbein.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

VAN WERT COURT NEWS

One Year AgoElida’s students of

the month for April were announced at Tuesday’s Board of Education meet-ing. They were given pins by Superintendent Don Diglia and Board President Dennis Fricke. Students honored were Caitlyn Henderson, Brady Kirk, Ben Osmon, Alexis Bowman, Darren Harris, Briana Mason, Austin Smith, Nicholas Bader, Lauren Greeley, Emily Schaefer and Ericka Smith.

25 Years Ago – 1989Placing fourth in the

Ohio Mathematics League contest were eighth-grade Delphos Jefferson Middle School students Phillip Lawrence, Jeremy Reynolds, Mike Gilbert, Kristi Poling and Michael Domin. Math teacher is Quincy Kiracofe. The stu-dents competed as a team with students from Allen, Hancock, Hardin and Wyandot.

St. John’s took advan-tage of two Coldwater errors in the bottom of the seventh inning and scored twice to beat the Cavaliers 5-4 Friday at Stadium Park. Scott Suever went the dis-tance for St. John’s, giv-ing up four runs on eight hits, walking four and strik-ing out two. Suever, Bruce Odenweller and Brent Grothaus had doubles for St. John’s. Grothaus also had a single.

Planting trees in Fort Jennings Community

Park were Greg Gasser, Charles Murphy and Gary Schimmoeller. Planting trees was one of the proj-ects in the annual park cleanup. Park board offi-cers include Don Ricker, president; Gary Wieging, vice president; and Rick Metzger, secretary. Other members are Schimmoeller, Bob Kleman, Mary Menke, Charlotte Streets, Bill Von Lehmden, Tom Bruskotter and Tim Gasser.

50 Years Ago – 1964Three Spencerville

High School juniors have been named delegates to Buckeye Girls State to be held in Columbus the week of June 20-28. They are Suzanne Brown, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brown; Susan Maurer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Maurer; and Linda Morrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morrison.See ARCHIVES, page 10

WEATHER FORECASTTri-county

Associated Press

TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Not as cool. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows in the upper 40s.

MONDAY: Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s.

MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.

TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY: Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the mid 40s.

CLEVELAND (AP) — These Ohio lotteries were drawn Wednesday:

Classic Lotto1 5 - 2 5 - 2 6 - 4 0 - 4 4 - 4 7 ,

Kicker: 6-6-5-2-0-0Est. jackpot: $67 millionMega MillionsEst. jackpot: $38 millionPick 3 Evening2-1-7Pick 3 Midday2-2-4Pick 4 Evening7-8-5-0Pick 4 Midday3-1-4-1Pick 5 Evening7-4-1-5-5Pick 5 Midday4-7-9-4-1Powerball3 4 - 3 9 - 4 2 - 4 4 - 5 9 ,

Powerball: 8, Power Play: 3Rolling Cash 510-12-20-32-37Estimated jackpot:

$448,000

E - The Environmental MagazineDear EarthTalk: What’s behind the

rise in public transit in the U.S. in the last few years, and how does our transit use compare with that of other developed countries?

— Angie Whitby, New Bern, NCTransit ridership is indeed at its highest

level in the U.S. in 57 years. According to data collected by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), Americans took 10.7 billion trips on public transportation in 2013 — the highest num-ber since the 1950s when many fewer of us owned our own cars.

And this increase “isn’t just a one-year blip,” says APTA. Since 1995 — when Congress passed the landmark ISTEA legisla-tion and other surface transportation bills that greatly increased funding for public transit — U.S. ridership has risen 37.2 percent, topping both population growth (up 20.3 percent) and vehicle miles traveled (up 22.7 percent). “There’s a fundamental shift going on,” says APTA’s president Michael Melaniphy. “More and more people are deciding that public transportation is a good option.”

A number of factors are contributing to Americans’ embrace of transit in recent years. For one, the flow of federal dollars

to transportation alternatives since 1995 has meant more options than ever are available to those leaving their cars behind: Melaniphy reports that in the last two years, upwards of 70 percent of transit tax initiatives have passed, providing lots more funding for beefing up transit projects coast-to-coast. Another factor is the economic recovery.

“When more people are employed, pub-lic transportation ridership increases, since nearly 60 percent of the trips taken on public transportation are for work commutes,” says Melaniphy. “People in record numbers are demanding more public transit services and communities are benefiting with strong eco-nomic growth.”

Despite these gains, the U.S. still lags way behind other developed nations. In a recent issue of The Atlantic, Ralph Buehler cites 2010 statistics showing that, while Americans drive for 85 percent of their daily trips, Europeans opt for cars only 50-65 per-cent of the time.

“Longer trip distances only partially explain the difference,” reports Buehler, add-ing that 30 percent of daily trips are shorter than a mile on both continents. “But of those under-one-mile trips, Americans drove almost 70 percent of the time, while Europeans made 70 percent of their short trips by bicycle, foot or public transportation.”

The U.S. ranked last in the National Geographic Society’s Greendex survey of transit use across 17 developed nations. Only five percent of Americans surveyed reported using public transit on a daily basis and only seven percent reported using it at least once a week. Internationally, 25 per-cent of respondents reported daily public transportation use, with 41 percent using it at least once a week. According to Greendex, Canadians are more than twice as likely to report weekly or more transit usage than Americans, while Germans are almost five times more likely to use transit at least week-ly. Russia topped the list with 52 percent of

respondents using public transit daily and 23 percent using it at least once a week.

Given America’s suburban sprawl—and the car-based infrastructure that has built up to support it—it’s hard to believe the U.S. will ever catch up with other developed countries in transit usage. But that won’t

stop millions of forward-thinking Americans from trying.

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

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Chief’s to hold 6th annual Good Neighbor Day


DEFIANCE — The effects of the downturn in our economy are being felt in West Central and Northwest Ohio, where the number of families needing assistance to keep nutritious food on the table is on the rise. In response to this critical need, Chief Supermarket is sponsoring Good Neighbor Day at all store locations on Tuesday. This is the sixth annual Good Neighbor Day at Chief. More than $190,000 has been donated to local food pantries since 2009.

On Tuesday, Chief will donate a percentage of sales to support local food pantries. Customers can also choose to donate $1, $3 or $5 when they check out at the register. Suggested non-perishable food items will be displayed just before the registers for customers who would

like to purchase and donate food directly to the pantries.

Additionally, local food pantry volun-teers will be manning the popular Chief Buck-A-Brat from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday. Proceeds from the Buck-A-Brat will be donated to the pantries.

According to Annette Hoeffel, Chief Supermarkets’ Director of Marketing, hunger is a growing problem for many families in every community.

“Part of being a community is look-ing out for each other and helping where you can. As a family-owned, local com-pany, Chief is helping our neighbors by making sure they have enough of the right kind of food to eat every day,” Hoeffel said. “No one should have to feel the pain of hunger. Together we can make a difference in our neighbor-hoods.”

National statistics show:

• 1 in 6 people in America face hun-ger

• Households with children reported a significantly higher food insecurity rate than households without children; more than 1 in 5 children is at risk of hunger.

• 14.5 percent of US households struggle to put enough food on the table.

Funds donated will allow local food pantries to purchase staple food items, including produce, meat and frozen foods, at greatly reduced prices from the West Ohio Food Bank, which serves more than 200 programs in 11 counties throughout West Central Ohio. Each dollar donation to West Ohio Food Bank will provide 25 pounds of food that will make 19 meals, enough to feed two peo-ple for three days. Selected local food pantries that are not part of the West Ohio Food Bank group will also benefit directly from the donated fund.

Sheriff to dispose of residents’ unwanted prescription drugs

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VAN WERT — Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach has announced his office will participate in the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 26.

The Sheriff’s Office is working in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Agency to give Van Wert County resi-dents their eighth opportunity in the last three years to rid their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs while also helping prevent pill abuse and theft.

Residents can bring their pills or patches for disposal to the office at 113 N. Market St. on April 26 at any time. This is a free service and residents can remain anonymous when dropping off medications, no questions asked.

Riggenbach advised that 64 pounds were turned into the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office in October 2013. This made a total of 80 pounds of prescription drugs that were turned in to the office in 2013. In all, 492 pounds of pre-scription drugs have been turned in to the office since the beginning of this program.

Riggenbach stated the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is an initiative that addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poison-ings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet.

In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods of disposing of unused medicines — flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash — both pose potential safety and health hazards.

Riggenbach also stated as part of this initiative, his office will continue to accept prescription medications from residents throughout the year. Riggenbach is encouraging everyone to turn in prescription drugs that are expired or no longer needed.

According to data collected by the American Public Transportation Association, Americans took 10.7 billion trips on public transportation in 2013—the highest number since the 1950s when many fewer of us owned our own cars. (Missouri Dept. of Transportation photo)

Judge stays most of Ohio gay marriage rulingAMANDA LEE MYERS

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CINCINNATI — Ohio officials must immediately rec-ognize the same-sex marriages of four couples who sued over the state’s gay marriage ban, a federal judge said Wednesday, while staying the broader effects of his ruling to avoid “premature celebration and confusion” in case it’s overturned on appeal.

Judge Timothy Black stayed his ruling ordering Ohio to recognize the marriages of gay couples who wed in other states pending appeal in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The appeals process likely will take months.

Had Black not issued the stay, all married gay couples living in Ohio would have been able to immediately begin obtaining the same benefits as any other married couple in the state, including property rights and the right to make some medical decisions for each other.

Black said the stay does not apply to the four couples who filed the February lawsuit that led to the court case, and ordered Ohio to immediately list both spouses in each relationship as parents on their children’s birth certificates.

Liz Wilson and her wife are among those who will have to wait for the appeal to play out.

“It’s frustrating,” said the 44-year-old Cleveland woman, who married her wife in New York last year. “At the end of the day you just want your family to be safe and secure.”

In explaining the stay, Black said that although he doesn’t think the state’s appeal will succeed, there is still a chance the 6th Circuit could overturn his decision.

“The court recognizes that recognition of same-sex mar-riages is a hotly contested issue in the contemporary legal landscape, and, if (the) appeal is ultimately successful, the absence of a stay … is likely to lead to confusion, potential inequity and high costs,” Black said. “Premature celebra-tion and confusion do not serve anyone’s best interests.”

In a court filing arguing for a stay, attorneys for the state did not contest Black’s stated inclination to allow the four couples to both be listed on their children’s birth certifi-cates.

“We’re happy that the judge agreed to the stay,” said Rob Nichols, Gov. John Kasich’s spokesman. He declined to comment further.

Al Gerhardstein, the Cincinnati civil rights attorney who represents the four couples in the lawsuit and argued against a stay of any kind, said in a statement that “at least for these four couples, the Constitution stands on the side of love.”

“The implementation of same-sex marriage recogni-tion has started and we are all very excited,” he said. “We will try and expedite the appeals process so full marriage recognition for all same-sex couples does not trail too far behind.”

Three of the four couples who filed the lawsuit live in the Cincinnati area. One spouse in each relationship is pregnant and due to give birth this summer. The fourth couple lives in New York City but adopted a child from Ohio.

In Monday’s ruling, Black said the state’s refusal to recognize out-of-state gay marriage is a violation of con-stitutional rights and “unenforceable in all circumstances.”

“The record before this court … is staggeringly devoid of any legitimate justification for the state’s ongoing arbi-trary discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” Black wrote.

Including Black, eight federal judges have issued pro-gay-marriage rulings since the Supreme Court’s decision last June that struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law. All but one of those rulings has been stayed pending appeal.

Although Black’s order does not force Ohio to allow gay marriages to be performed in the state, Gerhardstein said he was planning to file a lawsuit in the next couple of weeks seeking such a ruling.

Volunteers lessen cost of litter pickup


COLUMBUS – Each year, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) spends $4 million on litter pick-up – a preventable prob-lem. That money could be used to pave roads, buy snowplow trucks or install guardrail or culverts.

“Not only is litter expen-sive, but it takes us away from more important road-work,” said ODOT Director Jerry Wray.

Statewide last year, ODOT spent $4.3 million picking up

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Adopt-A-Highway groups – at least one in each of Ohio’s 88 counties – clean a

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Farm Bureau applauds passage of nutrient management legislation


COLUMBUS – Ohio’s new nutrient manage-ment law is good for the state’s water resources and for responsible farm-ers, according to the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Senate Bill 150 comple-ments extensive voluntary efforts by farmers to keep fertilizer from escaping fields and getting into lakes and waterways.

“The legislation’s rea-sonable approach shows that a clean environment and profitable farming can go hand in hand,” said John C. (Jack) Fisher, executive vice president of Ohio Farm Bureau.

OFBF was actively engaged in the multi-year process of drafting, writ-ing and revising the law. The bill, the first of its kind in the nation, was passed previously by the Senate. The House passed its version today, which the Senate is expected to approve. It will then go to

Gov. John Kasich for his signature.

The final bill meets the policy goals set by Farm Bureau members, which stated that a fertil-izer applicator certifica-tion program created by the state should include an educa-tional component, be economically feasible and be a part of a compre-hensive strategy to reduce all sources of nutrients.

Another part of the law provides farmers an option to employ an affirmative defense in lawsuits related to fertilizer application. This will be an incentive for farmers to create and use nutrient management plans, an action encour-aged by Farm Bureau pol-icy.

Farm Bureau agrees with a provision in the bill that allows quick action against proven bad actors. And the organiza-tion supports record keep-

ing requirements that are in the public’s interest without invading farmers’ privacy.

“We had some serious concerns about early ver-sions of the bill,” Fisher said. “Our members were

very active, very vocal. They let the state agencies and lawmakers know what tools farm-ers need. And they pushed to avoid

unintended consequences and to assure that the law would be administered in a proper way.”

F a r m B u r e a u praised the work of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Senate joint-sponsors Cliff Hite and Bob Peterson, House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Dave Hall and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

The mandatory require-ments of the law will add to “an impressive list of voluntary actions” already

being undertaken by farm-ers, said Fisher. He cited the large number of farm-ers who are receiving training in the 4R nutri-ent reduction strategy that emphasizes correct source, rate, timing and placement of fertilizer. He also point-ed at farmers’ adoption of helpful practices and tech-nologies including cover crops, variable rate appli-cations and controlled drainage structures.

Ohio Farm Bureau also is leading the Healthy Water Ohio initiative, a coalition of agriculture, conservation, business, university and water user groups that are working to create a comprehensive strategy for the state’s water resources.

“There’s still a lot to be done in terms of meeting everyone’s expectations regarding Ohio’s water, but this new law will help” Fisher said. “Farmers are committed to accepting responsibility and acting responsibly.”

State agencies develop free online ‘Well Water Interpretation Tool’

JAMES HOORMANPutnam County Extension Office

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Ed Lentz, Hancock County Extension Educator, also contrib-uted to this article.

“Safe and available drinking water is something all of us need and often take for granted. Our municipal water treatment facilities insure that we have safe water to drink. Those who live outside of a rural water district or municipali-ties often rely on private wells for drinking water. It is recommended that private well owners test their well water regularly but they may become frustrated in locating water testing laboratories and interpreting the results.

“Trying to interpret some of these test analysis can be frustrating. Each laboratory has their own format and often they use different measure-ment units to report results. Another area of frustration for private well owners is sorting out which agency to call to answer questions on water issues or regulations. Do I call the Health Department, Environmental Protection Agency, Soil and Water Conservation District, Department of Natural Resources or other agen-cies?

“Fortunately, the Ohio State University Extension, Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency have cooperated to develop a free online ‘Well Water Interpretation Tool’ to eliminate some of these frustrations. The Well Water Interpretation Tool is located on the OSU Extension’s Ohio Watershed Network at ohiowatersheds.osu.edu. The website allows quick access to well water information on many subjects such as:

• List of labs certified to conduct

well water testing and links to their websites.

• Recommendations on what should be tested in a drinking water sample.

• Guidance on whom to contact for questions on well water.

• A program to enter labora-tory results that provides a summary and recommendations; the summary would also state whether remedial actions needs to be taken.

• Guidance on well maintenance and groundwater protection.

“First, select the ‘Know Your Well Water’ option on the top hor-izontal menu. The opening page will provide individuals instructions for the laboratory analysis interpre-tation tool. Second, the submenu ‘Well Owners’ on the left has three topics of potential interest: Test, Understand and Protect.

“Under the ‘Test’ option are three categories of interests: 1) tests rec-ommended by Ohio Department of Health, 2) who to contact for ques-tions and 3) a link to the list of certified water testing laboratories in Ohio.

“The ‘Understand’ option allows access to the online well testing results interpretation tool. This tool allows well owners to input date from the water analysis sheet.

“Under the ‘Protect’ option are some basic recommendations for good practices in and around wells. After completion, this tool also pro-vides information on understanding the results, which includes Ohio baseline levels, whether test levels exceeds Ohio standards, possible health effects and corrective actions for high levels.

“Besides these three categories of the Well Owner submenu, indi-viduals may want to investigate the Contaminant List and Resources submenus.

“The ‘Contaminant List’ option has all the potential contaminants that may be found in well water. By selecting a specific contaminant an individual may find general back-ground, level standards and health concern information.

“The ‘Resources’ option has online publications, fact sheets, and water resource links on ground water quality in Ohio, water concerns in shale gas areas and private wells.

Protection of Ohio’s water resources is important to all of us. Private well owners are responsible to test and treat their water. The new ‘Know Your Well Water’ web page should provide assistance and guidelines to insure safe and quality drinking water.” (Lentz, 2014)

For the following section, macro-nutrient numbers are listed as part per million (ppm), which is equal to milligram per liter (mg/L). For the micronutrients, numbers are listed as parts per billion (ppb).

Here are some sample num-bers and parameters on when you should take action if your levels exceed these numbers: pH (6.5-8.5), nitrates (10 ppm), chloride and/or sulfate (250 ppm) and chlorine (4 ppm). For Total coliform bacte-ria, E.Coli, Fecal Coliform, Giardia Lambi and Chryptosporidium; the acceptable limit is zero! So take action if your test comes back with any type of live organisms. Other micronutrients (all listed as ppb) include arsenic (10), cadmium (5), chromium (100), copper (1300), hydrogen sulfide (100), iron (300), lead (15), mercury (2) and selenium (5); all listed as maximum values in parts per billion. This site also lists common herbicides, insecticides and fungicides levels in well water, however; they require specific test-ing procedures and are very expen-sive to conduct.

Van Wert SWCD hosts fish fingerling sale


VAN WERT — The Van Wert Soil and Water Conservation District is conducting the annual fish fingerling sale. Types available to stock your pond are largemouth bass, blue gill, channel catfish, minnow and white amur.

The deadline to place an order is April 25. Payment is expected when placing

the order.The fish will be deliv-

ered to the Van Wert SWCD office on at 3 p.m. May 7. Orders will be boxed and ready at the time of delivery.

Order forms are avail-able in the office, 1185 Professional Drive, Van Wert, or on the SWCD website at www.vanw-ertswcd.org.

Fair Board announces new scholarship fund


VAN WERT — The Van Wert County Agricultural Society has established a new scholarship fund for county students pursuing post-secondary education to obtain a degree in an agricultural major. The new fund is for those students who have participated in the Van Wert County Junior Fair.

On Feb. 24, the Van Wert Agricultural Society set up the “Future Ag Leader Scholarship Fund” with The Van Wert County Foundation.

The new fund is also receiving a generous donation from a local resident, Bob Motycka from Meadow Lane Farm. He will plant a tree at the fairgrounds for each donation given to the new scholarship fund through the Foundation.

To order a Scholarship Tree from Meadow Lane Farm, visit their website: www.scholarshiptrees.com.

The Fair Board has scheduled an initial fundraising event on Saturday to kick off the new scholarship fund. A “Cabin Fever” evening concert and dance at the Junior Fair Building will feature three bands; ”Kill the Rabbit” and “Endever” of Van Wert and “Soft and Heavy” from Fort Wayne. These bands will play a wide variety of music for all ages and for a variety of dancing. The Cabin Fever concert will start at 8 p.m. in the Junior Fair Building. Admission is $5. Picnic-style food will be available for purchase. Anyone wishing to donate to the Future Ag Leader Scholarship Fund should make checks payable to The Van Wert County Foundation, 138 E. Main St., Van Wert, Ohio 45891.

Pictured is (left) Seth Baker, Executive Secretary of the Van Wert County Foundation, formally accepting a new scholar-ship fund from Brian Etzler, President of the Van Wert County Fair Board. The Future Ag Leader Scholarship Fund will assist students pursuing a degree in an agricultural field of study. (Submitted photo)

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I recently attended my aunt’s Bible study to talk about my book and alcoholism. Before I went, she gave me a movie to watch so I’d have some background on what they’ve been and were going to be talking about. I wasn’t really sure what to expect.

The DVD is called “Twelve Women of the Bible: A DVD Study: Life-Changing Stories for Women Today.” Several female spiritual leaders narrate the DVD, telling interesting stories about all these Biblical women and offering insight about their personalities and circumstances. They then draw a parallel from each woman’s struggle back then to a woman struggling today.

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Three deaths in the last week or so caught my eye for different reasons.

The first was about Lacey Holsworth, who I had written about not too long ago.

The 8-year-old girl had befriended Michigan State star Adreian Payne and had become a “fan” favorite of not only the player but his teammates and even the Spartan fans.

Her death came hard to all her newfound friends and supporters because they — like I and I am sure many, many more — were hoping she would win this fight.

There is something about a child dying that affects us — we ask all the questions and, quite frankly, there is no “answer” this side of The Veil; you just have to hope there is one that we will eventually under-stand and it’s all part of a Divine Plan that we cannot possibly comprehend.

By the way, her memorial service is today at MSU’s arena, the Breslin Center.

The second death was that of famed surgeon Dr. Frank Jobe, he that pioneered

the elbow procedure that came to be dubbed “Tommy John surgery.”

Most definitely, it didn‘t “bother” me as such because he was 88.

He lived a long and fruitful life as a sur-geon, basically saving the careers of many a pitcher.

A lot of people may or may not remem-ber John as a member of the Los Angeles Bums … er, Dodgers … in 1974 when he ruptured the medial collateral ligament in his left (pitching) elbow, an injury that before Jobe’s innovation meant retirement. He pitched 14 more years and won 164 more games and, surprisingly, never missed another start because of an elbow injury.

The Dodgers held a memorial ser-vice at Dodgers Stadium presided over by long(long/LONG)time broadcaster Vin Scully.

An aside here: I would love to listen to a game broadcast by Scully and Marty Brenneman, wouldn’t you?

The third was that of WWE legend The Ultimate Warrior, the former James Hellwig.

I am not sure any one word could describe him in his ring persona: crazy, colorful and maniacal come to mind.

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DELPHOS — Jefferson baseball coach Doug Geary has been looking for a steadier offense in 2014 to back a solid pitching staff and defense.

The last two games seem to show a team turning the corner.

The Wildcats bested Lincolnview 8-3 Monday night and took down Perry 8-0 on a brilliant but breezy Wednesday afternoon at Wildcat Field in Delphos.

Due to extremely wet grounds on the diamond at Perry High School, the contest was moved to Delphos but the Commodores remained the “home” team.

The “visitors” got a stellar and effi-cient complete-game 3-hit shutout from senior Ross Thompson (2-1; 7 innings, 9 strikeouts; 71 pitches, 51 for strikes).

“He was overpowering at times with his fast ball and changed speeds with the curve ball that kept them off-balance. He was on tonight; it was the kind of perfor-mance you expect from your most expe-rienced senior pitcher,” Geary noted. “He was very efficient with his pitches and they didn’t hit him hard at all. The good thing is we made all the routine plays behind him; we made it easier for him by not booting the ball around and giving up extra outs.”

Jefferson (6-5) put together an 9-hit, 10-walk attack against four Commodores (1-5) hurlers: starter A. Ogle (4 1/3 IPs, 6 hits, 4 runs, 3 earned, 4 BBs, 3 Ks), Chad Henson (1 IP, 1 hit, 3 ERs, 3 BBs, 1 K), Josh Woods (1/3 IP, 3 BBs) and Dustin Lavek (1 1/3 IPs, 2 hits, 1 ER, 4 Ks).

“It took us a couple of innings to really get going on offense. We showed great patience at the plate and we also had some solid hitting; we strung hits together,” Geary added. “The only con-cerns were a couple of base-running mistakes that we cannot have in closer games — those are minor but we need to eliminate them — and we left a lot of guys on base. Hopefully we can keep building on these last two games as we move forward.”

The Wildcats challenged early. Jace Stockwell led off with a free pass and an out later, Thompson (3-for-4, 3 runs scored, 1 run batted in) got aboard via an error. However, they became the first of

13 runners left stranded.Corey Smith blooped a 2-out single

down the right-field line in the “home” half but Thompson fanned the next bat-ter, touching off a run of 11 straight Commodore outs.

Delphos threatened in the top of the third. With two gone, Ryan Bullinger (2 BBs, 2 runs) walked and Thompson beat out an infield hit to deep short. However, with Austin Jettinghoff (2-for-5, 1 run, 1 RBI) at the dish with a 2-0 count, Ogle picked Bullinger off second.

The Jeffcats made it 1-0 in the fourth. Jettinghoff led off with a double to left center and took third on a 2-base error on a fly ball hit by Tyler Rice. With a drawn-in infield, Gage Mercer (1-for-3, 1 BB, 3 RBIs) bounced to third, scor-ing Jettinghoff but Rice was tagged out at third. Jordan Herron (2-for-3, 2 RBIs, BB) singled down the right-field

line to put runners on the corners. An out later, Josh Teman (2 BBs) walked but Stockwell bounced out to leave the sacks juiced.

The Wildcats made it 4-0 in the fifth. Bullinger got aboard via an error and scored on a double to the fence in left center by Thompson. An out later and after Rice got a free pass, Thompson scored as Mercer grounded a hit into left and Rice took third on an error on the throw home. The latter scored as Herron ripped a hit into center for a 4-0 edge and finished the pitching night of Ogle (for Henson). Nick Fitch lined a hit into center to load the bases but the Wildcats again left the bases full.

Kavion Milligan blooped a 1-out sin-gle to left in the Perry fifth.

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Jefferson senior Ross Thompson intently eyes his target during his 3-hit shutout of Perry Wednesday night at Wildcat Field in Delphos. (Delphos Herald/Randy Shellenbarger)

Jefferson sophomore Jessica Pimpas slides into home plate during the Lady Wildcats’ 13-9 non-league softball triumph over Perry Wednesday night at Lady Wildcat Field. (Delphos Herald/Randy Shel-lenbarger)

Lives lived both great and small

Information SubmittedLady ’Cats grab 1st win of 2014DELPHOS — Jefferson’s fast-pitch softball team had not

won a game since the 2012 season.That 26-game-plus losing streak came to an abrupt end

Wednesday afternoon as the Lady Wildcats downed Perry 13-9 at Lady Wildcat Field.

The non-league game was originally slated for Perry’s home diamond but due to soggy conditions there, it was moved to Jefferson High School.

Jefferson (1-8) built a 7-1 lead before the Lady Commodores battled back to assume a 9-7 lead after four frames.

Delphos then erupted for a 6 spot in the top of the fifth and made it stand up.

The winning pitcher was Claire Thompson.The losing pitcher was C. Lambert.The leading hitter for the Wildcats was Kiersten Teman,

who went 2-2 with two singles and two walks.Jefferson hosts Spencerville Monday.Score by Innings:Jefferson 0 5 2 0 6 0 0 - 13Perry 1 0 4 4 0 0 0 - 9——Information SubmittedKuhlman outduels Horstman, Pirates edge Big Green

in baseballBLUFFTON — Bluffton’s Kuhlman outdueled Ottoville’s

Alex Horstman 2-1 in a non-league baseball dandy at Bluffton.The Pirates scored the game-winning run in the bottom of

the fourth and Kuhlman made it stand up with his 6-hitter (1 earned run, 6 strikeouts, 2 bases-on-balls).

Horstman nearly matched his counterpart, ceding seven hits and two earned runs (3 BBs, 6 Ks).

Brandon Boecker went 2-for-3 for the Big Green’s only multi-hit performer.

Bricker went 3-for-4 and Kuhlman 2-for-3 for the home team.

Ottoville visits St. John’s tonight.

Local Roundup

See WILDCATS, page 7

See MUSINGS, page 7

See ROUNDUP, page 7

Cueto throws 3rd shutout as Reds beat Pirates 4-0

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CINCINNATI — That play-off loss in Pittsburgh last year? Johnny Cueto never thought about it much. So getting a chance to shut out the Pirates in a rematch wasn’t any more special.

Not to him, anyway.Cueto pitched his third career

shutout against the team that beat him in the NL wild card game and Joey Votto hit a 2-run homer that led the Cincinnati Reds over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 Wednesday for their first winning series this season.

Cueto (1-2) had his way with the lineup that beat him 6-2 at PNC Park in the playoffs. He limited the Pirates to three hits, didn’t walk a batter and struck out a career-high 12 dur-ing his first shutout since 2011.

Cueto started only 11 games last season because of strained muscles by his pitch-ing shoulder. The right-hander has been solid this season but hasn’t gotten much help from an offense that scored only one run while he was on the mound dur-ing his first three starts.

Cueto didn’t need much help on Wednesday, putting the Pirates away with 107 pitches.

Left-hander Francisco Liriano (0-3) opened the game by walking Billy Hamilton, who stole second base and came around on two wild pitches.

That was it for scoring until the seventh inning, when Cueto singled and Votto hit his fourth homer in six games. Brayan Pena doubled home a run in the eighth.

See REDS, page 7

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Vogt shuts out Musketeers on 2-hitterBy LARRY HEIINGDHI Correspondent

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FORT JENNINGS — The St. John’s baseball team won its second game in a row Wednesday evening at Fort Jennings Village Park behind a complete-game, 2-hit 7-0 shutout thrown by freshman pitcher Eric Vogt.

The game against the Musketeers was a complete contrast to the Blue Jays’ first victory of the season on Monday over the Kalida Wildcats. At Kalida, the game took over three hours to complete with a light rain falling in which the Blue Jays committed seven errors lead-ing to two runs.

The game at Fort Jennings park was played under sunny (but cool) blue skies and St. John’s didn’t boot a single ball in the game that was completed in 90 minutes.

With the victory, the Blue Jays improve to 2-5 on the season, while Fort Jennings falls to 2-8.

St. John’s jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning off of Fort Jennings start-ing pitcher Bret Clay with-out a hit. Clay hit Ben Wrasman to open to game and his steal of second base quickly put him in scoring position. T.J. Hoersten laid down a bunt and was safe at first as Wrasman came all the way home to score. The Musketeers committed an error on Austin Heiing’s comebacker to the mound and Buddy Jackson followed with a walk to load the bases. Kyle Pohlman hit a soft roller down the third-base line and beat the throw as Hoersten scored. Clay escaped further damage by striking out Josh Warnecke.

Fort Jennings got a base-runner in their half of the inning as Dylan Van Loo garnered a 1-out walk but was gunned down on a steal attempt by catcher Jackson. Ryan Rau followed with a single to center for the first hit of the game and was forced out at second on Alex Vetter’s grounder.

The Blue Jays loaded the bases again in the second as Wrasman singled and stole his second base of the con-test. Hoersten’s single plated

Wrasman and Heiing reached on another Musketeer error. After Jackson’s infield pop out, Gage Seffernick’s grounder was bobbled for the third Jennings error. Clay stopped the threat with an inning-ending strikeout of J.R. Keirns.

Vogt struck out the side as Fort Jennings went down 1-2-3 in the second inning.

Neither team scored again until the fifth inning when Pohlman and Warnecke hit back-to-back doubles to take a 4-0 lead.

Clay and Vogt continued to dominate the game as the Fort Jennings hurler recorded four strikeouts in the game and Vogt fanned six.

Vetter entered the game to pitch the seventh inning for Fort Jennings and Pohlman greeted him with his fourth hit of the game. Andy May also nailed a single and the Jays went on to score three more runs in the final inning to put the game away.

After the game, a disap-pointed Musketeer coach Eric Schwab was looking for answers for his club.

“Our guys have played error-free for most of the sea-son and our pitchers have done well to keep us right in all of our games,” he explained. “We have seven seniors on this squad and they have the experience to

know what needs to be done. Tonight, we uncharacteristi-cally made too many errors and lost the game.”

On the other hand, St. John’s coach Ryan Warnecke was more thrilled about the error-free game than the sec-ond win.

“The big news is that we didn’t commit any errors in the game for the first time all season,” he added. When you limit chances for the other team, it helps out our pitchers. Eric Vogt pitched an outstanding game for us and gave our guys some rest.”

Pohlman led the Jays with a 4-for-4 night at the plate with a double and two runs scored. Hoersten had a pair of hits along with two RBIs.

Rau and Caleb Bankey each had a hit for Fort Jennings as the Musketeers only collected two hits off of Vogt for the game.

The Blue Jays take on their third Putnam County neighbor this week as the Ottoville Big Green come to town for a 5 p.m. first pitch today.

Fort Jennings looks to get back on track as they travel to Kalida for a Putnam County League game against the Wildcats today.

St. John’s (7)ab-r-h-rbiBen Wrasman cf 4-2-1-

0, T.J.Hoersten 1b 5-1-2-2,

Austin Heiing lf 5-0-0-0, Buddy Jackson c 3-0-0-0, Gage Seffernick 4-0-0-0, J.R.Keirns 4-0-0-0, Kyle Pohlman 4-2-4-1, Josh Warnecke 2-0-1-1, Andy May 4-1-0-1, Jorden Boone 0-1-0-0. Totals: 35-7-8-5.

Fort Jennings (0)ab-r-h-rbiConnor Wallenhorst of

3-0-0-0, Dylan Van Loo lf 0-0-0-0, Ryan Rau lb 3-0-1-0, Alex Vetter 3b 2-0-0-0, Caleb Bankey rf 3-0-1-0, Sam Vetter c 2-0-0-0, Kyle Hellman dh 2-0-0-0, Jared Hoersten cf 2-0-0-0, Mark Metzger ss 2-0-0-0, Alex Sealts lf 1-0-0-0, Josh Wittler 2b 0-0-0-0, Connor Stechschulte 1b 1-0-0-0, Ryan Hoersten 1-0-0-0. Totals: 22-0-2-0.

Score by Innings:St. John’s 2-1-0-0-1-0-3

— 7Ft. Jennings 0-0-0-0-0-0-

0 — 0LOB: St. John’s 10, Fort

Jennings 2; SB: Wrasman 2, Heiing, May; 2B: Pohlman, Warnecke; CS: Van Loo (by Jackson).

IP H R BB SOSt. John’sVogt (W) 7 2 0 3 6Fort JenningsClay (L) 6 7 4 1 4Vetter 1 1 1 1 0HBP: Wrasman (by Clay),

Jackson (by Clay); BB: Warnecke, Boone, Van Loo, A. Vetter, Wittler.

Fort Jennings first baseman Connor Stechschulte stretches out to pull in the throw ahead of St. John’s batter T.J. Hoersten Wednesday night at Fort Jen-nings. Hoersten beat the throw and the Blue Jays defeated the Musketeers 7-0. (Delphos Herald/Larry Heiing)

(Continued from page 6)

It became 7-0 in the sixth on six free passes: Bullinger (a steal), Thompson, Rice (with 1 out) — finishing Henson for Woods — Mercer (scoring Bullinger), Herron (Thompson) and a 2-outer to Teman (Rice) that brought Lavek to the mound. He retired the ninth batter of the inning to leave the bases loaded for the third time.

B.J. King blooped a 2-out hit to

short right center in the Commodore sixth.

Jefferson added its final tally in the seventh on a 1-out double to center by Thompson ad a single to center by Jettinghoff.

“We lost our control in the later innings. When you give up 15 free bases on walks and errors, you aren’t going to compete,” Perry coach Mark Hoersten said. “Throw in we only had three hits and you aren’t winning games. Their pitcher

threw a nice game but I felt we should have done better against him. I thought we were turning the corner offensively last week but we haven’t played since last week due to weather and we’re back to where we started.”

Perry visits New Knoxville tonight.

Jefferson hosts Leipsic for a high noon twin-bill Saturday.

JEFFERSON (8)ab-r-h-rbi

Jace Stockwell ss 4-0-0-0, Ryan Bullinger lf/1b 3-2-0-0, Ross Thompson p 4-3-3-1, Austin Jettinghoff 2b/c 5-1-2-1, Tyler Rice rf/lf 3-2-0-0, Gage Mercer 1b 3-0-1-3, Jesse Stemen ph/rf 1-0-0-0, Jordan Herron 3b 3-0-2-2, Kurt Wollenhaupt pr 0-0-0-0, Nick Fitch c 2-0-0-0, Hunter Binkley ph/2b 2-0-1-0, Josh Teman cf 2-0-0-1. Totals 32-8-9-8.

PERRY (0)ab-r-h-rbiBaylor Buetner 2b 3-0-0-0, B.J. King ss3-

0-1-0, Corey Smith c 3-0-1-0, Chad Henson cf/p/lf 2-0-0-0, Andrew Russell ph 1-0-0-0, A. Ogle p/cf 3-0-0-0, Kavion Milligan rf 3-0-1-0, Dalton Bunch 3b 1-0-0-0, Austin Rush 3b 1-0-0-0, Tanner Foley 1b 2-0-0-0, Sam Sanders dh

2-0-0-0, Josh Woods lf/p 0-0-0-0, Dustin Lavek p 0-0-0-0. Totals 24-0-3-0.

Score by Innings:Jefferson 0 0 0 1 3 3 1 - 8Perry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0E: King 2, Henson, Smith; LOB: Jefferson

13, Perry 3; 2B: Thompson 2, Jettinghoff; SB: Bullinger; POB: Bullinger (by Ogle).

IP H R ER BB SOJEFFERSONThompson (W, 2-1) 7.0 3 0 0 0 9PERRYOgle (L) 4.1 6 4 3 4 3Henson 1.0 1 3 3 3 1Woods 0.1 0 0 0 3 0Lavek 1.1 2 1 1 0 4

Wildcats


Whatever you think about professional wrestling, good or ill, without him and other legends, like Hulk Hogan, “Macho Man” Randy Savage and Andre the Giant, pro wrestling would not be what it is today.

Rest in peace.———Then this matter caught my eye as well.It seems that there are many New York Jets’ fans —

heck, maybe these aren’t even Jets’ fans! — that don’t want recently-signed quarterback Michael Vick to report to their team’s training cap at SUNY-Cortland this summer due his dog-fighting crimes in 2007.

These people believe that should this event occur, the team will be complicit in the crimes of this “monster and disgrace.”

I wrote about what I thought about what he did then — he was a monster and disgrace and got what he deserved — but he served his time and I believe has done everything in his power to atone for those sins.

As far as I know, he has not gone back into that life since, so to me, that ends the matter.

Does he or does he not deserve the chance at forgiveness or not? We forgive other people in the spotlight for things that are as bad or worse, so why should this be any different?

Mr. Vick has earned it.

Musings

(Cotinued from page 6)

OTTOVILLE (1)ab r h rbiAlex Horstman 4 0 0 1,

Joel Beining 2 0 1 0, Luke Schimmoeller 3 0 0 0, Brandon Boecker 3 0 2 0, Kyle Bendele 3 0 1 0, Jared Fanning 3 0 0 0, Bailey Seibert 3 1 1 0, Trent Miller 1 0 0 0, Brendon Schnipke 1 0 0 0, Wes Markward 3 0 1 0. Totals 26 1 6 1.

BLUFFTONab r h rbiPhillips 4 1 1 0, Bricker 4 1 3 1,

McClain 3 0 0 0, Luginbuhl 1 0 0 1, Belcher 0 0 0 0, Kuhlman 3 0 2 0, Rumer 3 0 0 0, Skilliter 3 0 1 0, Harrod 2 0 0 0. Totals 23 2 7 2.

Score by Innings:Ottoville 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0Bluffton 0 0 1 1 0 0 x - 2 7 22B: Bendele, Phillips, Bricker. SB:

Boecker, Seibert, Bricker, McClain, Skilliter. SAC: Belcher, Harrod.

PITCHINGIP H R ER BB SOOttovilleHorstman (L) 6.0 7 2 2 3 6BlufftonKuhlman (W) 7.0 6 1 1 2 6HBP: Horstman 2. P-S: Horstman 112-

72; Kuhlman 96-64.——-Miller City edges Bulldogs in PCLBy DAVE BONINSEGNADHI [email protected] GROVE — Finally.After three days of weather-related

delays, there was baseball at Columbus Grove.

The Bulldogs hosted the Miller City Wildcats in a battle of the unbeatens in Putnam County League play.

Not only was baseball played but extra baseball — nine innings.

The guests got a 2-out single by Corbin

Niese to go up 7-6 in the ninth and held on in the bottom of the ninth to come away

with the win over the Bulldogs.Columbus Grove had a chance to

end the game in the bottom of the seventh with a bases-loaded, none-out situation with the game tied at 6-6 but could not plate a run.The teams exchanged runs in the

eighth.Miller City got on the board in the

top of the first after a leadoff walk to Jackson Lammers and a double by Hunter Berner put runners on second and third. Ross Lehman singled home Lammers and Adam Drummelsmith (3-for-5; 2 runs batted in) singled in Berner to give the ’Cats a 2-0 lead.

The guests tacked on another run in the third on a 2-out single by Drummelsmith to go up 3-0 before the Bulldogs came off the mat in the bot-tom of the third.

They scored once in the frame and took the lead by scoring three in the fourth. Tanner Neu led off the inning with a walk and Marcos Olivo doubled. Neu scored the first Bulldog run on a wild pitch by Lammers. Olivo scored when Zach Brinkman reached on an error. Brinkman moved to third on Jake Utendorf’s first of four singles in the game. The Bulldogs took the lead when Riley Brubaker dou-bled home a run.

Miller City tied things up at four when Lehman hit a home run to left, making it a 4-4 score.

The game wouldn’t remain tied for long as the guests regained the lead in the sixth on two errors by the Grove infield.

The Bulldogs came right back in their half of the sixth on a Brubaker 2-out single to tie the game back up at 5 apiece.

The ’Cats were retired quietly in the seventh and in the home half of the inning it appeared that the home team would emerge victorious. The Bulldogs loaded the bases with nobody out and

Miller City coach Dusty Pester brought in Drummelsmith to relieve Lammers. The reliever retired the next two batters on strikes and got Brinkman to fly out to center, leaving the bases loaded.

Miller City took advantage and scored a run in the eighth on a Berner 1-out single.

However, the Bulldogs came right back in the bottom of the eighth when Utendorf (4-for-5) led off with a single and later scored on a Reid Stechschulte single to tie the game at 7-7. For the second time, the home team had the bases loaded and a chance to win but

Neu hit a shot right back to Drummelsmith to end the threat.

The ’Cats put the leadoff bat-ter on in the top of the ninth when Drummelsmith doubled and later scored on Niese’s sin-

gle to right.Drummelsmith set the Bulldogs

down in the bottom of the ninth to pre-serve the win for the visitors and keep the Wildcats’ PCL record unscathed at 2-0; Miller City is 5-2 overall.

The Bulldogs fall to 3-4 overall and 2-1 in league play.

Grove visits Allen East tonight.Miller City (7)ab-r-h-rbiLammers p/ss 3-1-0-0, Berner c 5-1-2-

1, Lehman ss/2b 5-2-1-2, Fuka 3b 5-0-1-0, Drummelsmith 2b/p 5-1-3-2, A. Niese 1b 4-0-0-0, Dukes dh 5-1-1-0, C. Niese cf 5-1-2-1, Balbaugh rf 5-0-1-0. Totals 42-7-10-6.

Columbus Groveab-r-h-rbiBrubaker c 5-1-1-2, Stechschulte lf

5-0-2-1, Verhoff p/ss 4-0-2-1, Jones ss/p 5-0-0-0, Neu cf 4-1-1-0, Olivo 2b 5-1-1-0, Diller 1b 5-0-0-0, Brinkman rf 4-2-1-0, Utendorf dh 5-1-4-0. Totals 42-6-10-4.

Score by Innings:Miller City 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 - 7 10 4Col. Grove 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 - 6 10 3

Roundup

Associated PressEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBy-Toronto 48 34 .585 —x-Brooklyn 44 38 .537 4New York 37 45 .451 11Boston 25 57 .305 23Philadelp. 19 63 .232 29Southeast Division W L Pct GBy-Miami 54 28 .659 —x-Washing 44 38 .537 10x-Charlotte 43 39 .524 11x-Atlanta 38 44 .463 16Orlando 23 59 .280 31Central Division W L Pct GBz-Indiana 56 26 .683 —x-Chicago 48 34 .585 8Cleveland 33 49 .402 23Detroit 29 53 .354 27Milwaukee 15 67 .183 41WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBz-San Ant 62 20 .756 —x-Houston 54 28 .659 8x-Dallas 49 32 .605 12½x-Memphis 49 32 .605 12½N. Orleans 34 48 .415 28Northwest Division W L Pct GBy-Okla City 59 23 .720 —x-Portland 53 28 .654 5½

Minnesota 40 42 .488 19Denver 36 45 .444 22½Utah 25 57 .305 34Pacific Division W L Pct GBy-Clippers 57 24 .704 —x-Golden St 50 31 .617 7Phoenix 47 34 .580 10Sacramento 28 53 .346 29L.A. Lakers 27 55 .329 30½x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionz-clinched conference___Tuesday’s ResultsNew York 109, Brooklyn 98L.A. Clippers 117, Denver 105Wednesday’s ResultsIndiana 101, Orlando 86Charlotte 91, Chicago 86, OTUtah 136, Minnesota 130,2OTOklahoma City 112, Detroit 111Atlanta 111, Milwaukee 103L.A. Lakers 113, San Antonio 100New Orleans 105, Houston 100Washington 118, Boston 102Cleveland 114, Brooklyn 85Philadelphia 100, Miami 87New York 95, Toronto 92Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.Phoenix at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.Golden State at Denver, 10:30 p.m.Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

NBA Glance


Pirates left fielder Jose Tabata left the game in the fifth inning with what appeared to be a mild concussion after he slammed into the outfield wall while catching Pena’s fly ball. Tabata fell, held up his glove to show he’d caught the ball and sat on the warning track for several minutes.

A trainer examined Tabata’s neck, jaw and head and he was helped off the field.

INDIANS 3, TIGERS 2DETROIT — Yan Gomes hit a 2-run triple, Zach McAllister

allowed a run and four hits in six innings and the Cleveland Indians held on for a 3-2 win over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.

McAllister (2-0) walked two and struck out four and John Axford pitched the ninth for his fifth save for Cleveland.

Axford got out of a jam with a runner on third to seal the win. Alex Avila doubled and went to third on an error by center fielder Michael Bourn with one out. Axford then struck out pinch-hitter Don Kelly and got Rajai Davis on a groundout to end the game.

Brian Shaw pitched a scoreless seventh but Cody Allen gave up an unearned run in the eighth when Indians manager Terry Francona called for a replay review on the play at first base on a bunt single by Detroit’s Ian Kinsler and the safe call was upheld. That put runners on first and second with no outs. Torii Hunter grounded into a double play and Miguel Cabrera singled to make it 3-2. Victor Martinez followed with a single but Allen fanned Austin Jackson to end the inning.

Miguel Cabrera drove in both runs for the Tigers. Detroit starter Anibal Sanchez (0-1) gave up three runs — two earned — and two hits in five innings, walking four and striking out eight.

Gomes gave the Indians a 3-1 lead in the second with his triple that scored Asdrubal Cabrera, who reached on an error by Cabrera at first, and David Murphy, who walked.

Murphy made sliding catches in right on line drives by Nick Castellanos in the second and Cabrera in the fourth.

Cleveland got a run in the first as Sanchez minimized the dam-age after walking the first three batters to load the bases. No Indians batter swung at his first 19 pitches before Carlos Santana grounded into a run-scoring double play on pitch No. 20. Sanchez then got Michael Brantley on a foulout to end the inning.

Detroit tied it at 1 in the bottom of the first on Cabrera’s RBI groundout.

NLBRAVES 1, PHILLIES 0PHILADELPHIA — Julio Teheran (3-1) ) retired his first 12 batters and pitched

a 3-hitter for his first complete game in 38 career starts.Evan Gattis homered among a career-best four hits. Cliff Lee (2-2) struck out 13

and pitched around 11 hits in a complete game, throwing a career-high 128 pitches.METS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 2PHOENIX — Dillon Gee (1-0) retired his first 14 batters and allowed three hits

in seven scoreless innings as the Mets completed a three-game sweep.Arizona finished an 0-6 homestand in which it led at the end of just one inning

and dropped to 1-11 in home games, including a pair of losses in Australia that started the season. At 4-14, the Diamondbacks are off to their worst 18-game start.

Anthony Recker hit a solo homer off Brandon McCarthy (0-3), who gave up three runs, nine hits and three walks — two intentional — in 5 2/3 innings. Aaron Hill and Paul Goldschmidt homered off Jose Valverde in the ninth.

BREWERS 5, CARDINALS 1MILWAUKEE — Wily Peralta (2-0) allowed one run and six hits in 6 1/3

innings as Milwaukee avoided a series sweep.Milwaukee, which entered the series with a 9-game winning streak, had one run

and six hits in losing the first two games to St. Louis.Cardinals starter Joe Kelly (1-1) gave up an unearned run and three hits in four

innings. He left in the middle of the fourth inning with left hamstring tightness after trying to beat out a bunt attempt in the top half.

NATIONALS 6, MARLINS 3MIAMI — Jayson Werth’s homer scored three unearned runs against Jose

Fernandez as Washington overcome a 3-0 deficit.Two errors in the sixth inning by Marlins catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia helped

the Nationals. Pinch-hitter Zach Walters broke a tie in the eighth inning against Mike Dunn (0-2) with his second career homer — and his second in as many nights.

Drew Storen (1-0) got the final two outs in the seventh and Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his third save in as many chances.

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Today I saw my first crocus popping up after the long winter. It was in a picture a friend posted on Facebook. Suddenly, it seemed everyone was posting pictures of buds on trees, robins on the lawn, green shoots coming up in the garden. It was almost enough to make me go outside and take a look for myself.

But not quite. I'm only on level 156 of "Candy Crush," and it may take me most of the year to get to the 560th level, where I will find total and complete understanding of the universe. Or become a vegetable.

Yes, spring is in the air, but my pollen filter catches most of it and scrubs it before I have to breathe it. I see other people posting pictures of themselves out of doors, pretending to enjoy the weather, and I wonder why they take the risk of going outside. Why risk getting stung by a bee or killed by a zombie or being hit by a meteorite when they could be inside playing "FarmVille" or growing a digital garden from the safety and comfort of their basement? My weather app says it will be near 70 today, but they never tell you what the wind chill will be when the temperature goes above freezing. It may be 70 degrees on the thermometer, but it might "feel" like 65. I don't think that's warm enough to go outside in my PJs.

Besides, if spring means anything, it means baseball. That's right, it means the long wait for Fantasy Baseball is finally over. "Take me in to the ball game, don't make me go to the park. Make me some pizza and Hot Pockets, 'cause I don't care if I ever go out ..." Why on earth would I leave the house to go to a real stadium when I can sit at home in my jammies and manage my own team? I never have a bad seat, and I've got my own personal concession stand only a few yards away. And the parking's a breeze.

Spring, of course, is the time for me to start

spring cleaning, or as Sue calls it, spring re-hoarding. She says I never actually throw anything away, I just put it in different places -- which is not true at all. Why, only yesterday, I threw out a connecting cable to a computer I haven't had for 15 years, a VCR, VHS tapes of things you can get anywhere on the Internet for free, and a box of unused floppy disks. I was happy to get rid of them; they were becoming a burden. Besides, I had to make room for a bunch of new stuff I bought on Amazon.

Of course, like everyone else, I have a case of spring fever -- I've set the ringtone on my smartphone to chirp like baby birds, my screen-saver is a picture of apple trees in blossom and I watch a lot of videos of half-naked, drunk college kids on Spring Break. Face it, who needs to relax more than a bunch of 20-year-old kids who get up at noon and can afford $50,000 a year to go to college? I mean, it's not like they could possibly wait for the summer to do this.

Spring also means the first commercials for weed killers, lawn fertilizers and riding lawn mowers. I have to say that I have never fertilized my lawn, and it looks pretty healthy -- at least the part I can see from my security cam. I think the neighbors' dogs keep it pretty well fertilized. And it's funny, I've never seen an ad for that particular kind of fertilizer.

Well, I've got to go. The weather's so nice, I think I'll play some computer golf.

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Tomorrow’s HoroscopeBy Bernice Bede Osol

Dear Annie: Several years ago, I went to a mas-sage parlor and paid a wom-an for sex. This same wom-an recently got a job in the office where I work. There are only nine employees. This is an unbelievable co-incidence. We get along pretty well as co-workers and are respectful toward each oth-er. But it’s awk-ward when we bump into each other in the nar-row hallways or for the occasional elevator ride.

I have been carrying around a letter in my pocket for a long time. It is not a love letter. The wom-an is married, and I am not interested in her. The mes-sage in the letter is simply to reassure her that I have never gossiped about her to anyone, especially our co-workers. I want to put her mind at ease. I’d give her this letter, but I’m afraid of her reaction. Should I just leave things alone? — Sleepless

Dear Sleepless: Yes. Please. In time, she will re-alize that you can be trusted not to ruin her work reputa-tion, and she will relax. Her concerns in the meantime are not your business, and we doubt she would ap-preciate a reminder of your encounter. Behave around her as you would any other co-worker. Your awkward-ness only adds to her dis-comfort.

Dear Annie: I belong to a small group of friends who gather often at one an-other’s homes. One of our friends recently moved into a larger “dream home” and now wants gatherings at her place more often. The trou-ble is, they have two cats and for some odd reason have placed the litter box directly in front of the toilet. Worse, most of the time, the box is not clean. It smells and can be downright nasty. Since they live a good dis-tance from town, it’s dif-ficult for us not to use her bathroom before we leave.

We were recently invited to another gathering there. We turned it down, saying we had other plans. Should we address this head on or ig-nore it and hold our breath? We can’t refuse all celebra-tions at their home. — Not

a Party PooperDear Party:

Here’s what you say: “We love the gatherings in your lovely home, but there is a problem with the litter box being placed in front of the com-mode. None of us is comfortable using your bath-room. We don’t want to hurt your

feelings, but we thought you would want to know.”

Dear Annie: I totally agree with your advice to “Omaha, Neb.,” who wants to grow old with his wife, who is 100 pounds over-weight. Three years ago, I weighed 280 pounds, was Type II diabetic and had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I walked into an Overeaters Anony-mous meeting and found loving support and people I could relate to. A month lat-er, I joined Weight Watch-ers because I liked the diet, and a year after that, I added a structured exercise program.

Today, I am 90 pounds lighter, my numbers for dia-betes, blood pressure and cholesterol are all in the normal range, and I am so much happier. I still have some weight to lose, but I know that with the help of OA and the other changes I’ve made in my life, I will reach my goal. More impor-tantly, I no longer hide my feelings about my weight, and I have the support I need to keep myself strong and healthy.

I hope that “Omaha’s” wife realizes what a caring and concerned husband she has and accepts the support he offers. I also hope she finds her own way back to a healthy lifestyle. There is help out there, but she needs to seek it out. — Thankful in Florida

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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014

Compare your current situation with your projected goals. Stop contemplating and start moving. Take command of your circumstances and do your best to make the changes necessary for success. Smaller tasks should be delegated to others so you can concentrate on the big picture.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Interesting new connections will contribute to your personal prospects. Meeting someone in a learning environment or at a community event will turn out to be beneficial.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Health problems will prevail if you aren’t getting enough rest. Financial concerns or demanding family members will add to your frustration. Keep your temper under control.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Focus on your goals, but be careful not to spread yourself too thin. Timing and a steady pace will make a difference. Trying to take on too many responsibilities will be your undoing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Stay out of office debates and keep your opinions to yourself. You will get a lot more done if you are able to ignore all the disgruntled and bitter people around you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Your energy level is low. Consider joining in some competitive games or sports to help boost your stamina. Show the people you love that they are a top priority in your life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Don’t allow anyone to take advantage of you. Speak up and set your own rules. If you are assertive and you stand your ground, you will get the desired results. Do your own thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Make an effort to cooperate with family members. Older relatives may be able to offer insight into your problems. Discuss family history with an elder to discover valuable information.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Be strict about the family budget. Frivolous expenses will deplete your savings if you don’t keep track of them. Accurate financial records are essential.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- You will be able to continue engaging in pleasant activities once you have resolved a minor family problem. Keep your emotions in check, or you may end up making matters worse.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Don’t divulge secrets. Make sure your work relationships stay free of emotional turmoil. Be truthful and clear. A casual remark could be misinterpreted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- It’s great to get out and mingle, but before forming new friendships, make sure there isn’t a conflict of interest. A hastily made promise could result in an embarrassing situation.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Strong alliances with your co-workers will enable you to make great strides. Pool your ideas for maximum effect. You will provide useful suggestions for improving efficiency at work.

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Mrs. Rychie Smell, national president, and Mrs. Jackie Reed, national secretary of the Theta Chapter of Fort Wayne, were guests of Psi Chapter at the chapter’s weekly meeting last Tuesday. The meeting was at the home of Mary Ellen Gerdeman. Janice Wanamaker, projects chairman, gave out more key chain bracelets, which the chapter is selling.

The second annual Athletic Banquet was held last Saturday night in the Ottoville gym-nasium. The winner of the L. W. Heckman Award was Kenneth Knippen. He also received the most valuable player award. The foul shooting trophy went to Steve Turnwald. The trophy for the best percentage of field goals went to Jim Langhals.

75 Years Ago – 1939Dr. L. W. Kohlhorst, chiropractic physi-

cian, has purchased the office and equipment of Dr. E. W. Meyer and will be located in the Commercial Bank building in the rooms

which have in the past been occupied by Dr. Meyer. The latter’s brother, Dr. Carl Meyer, has been in Delphos for the past year taking care of the local practice. He will continue in charge for a week to come and Dr. Kohlhorst will take charge of the office May 1.

About 80 persons were present Sunday evening when members of Commemorative Post, American Legion, staged a birth-day party in honor of the members of the Auxiliary. Ed Becker, commander of the Legion post at the time the Auxiliary was organized, gave an interesting address. Emma Clinger, president of the Auxiliary, addressed the gathering as did Mrs. Med Granger, first president of the local Auxiliary.

One of the largest attendances at a district initiation was recorded here Sunday when over 250 Eagles from the old 17th District met at the local Eagles hall. A class of 123 candidates was reported. Because of the inclement weather, the street parade was cancelled. In place of the parade, the Eagles band of Delphos played a concert before the initiation in the local hall.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 2010, weighed 129 pounds. Encyclopaedia Britannica announced in 2012 that after 244 years, it would no longer produce print versions of the refer-ence books.

Oscar-nominated films Seabiscuit (2003) and War Horse (2011) featured a Thoroughbred bay gelding named Finder.

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Fears rise for missing in SKorea ferry sinking

FOSTER KLUG and YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated Press

MOKPO, South Korea — Strong currents and bad visibility hampered rescuers today in the search for 287 passengers still missing more than 24 hours after their ferry flipped onto its side and filled with cold water off the southern coast of South Korea, causing fury among families waiting for word of passengers who were mostly high school students.

Nine were confirmed dead, but many expect that number will rise sharply because the missing have now spent more than a day either trapped in the ferry or in the cold seawater.

There were 475 people aboard and frantic parents have gathered at the high school student’s school near Seoul and in Mokpo, in the south of the country, not far from where the ferry slipped beneath the surface until only the blue-tipped, forward edge of the keel was visible.

Parents, siblings and other relatives of three high school students killed in the sinking wailed and sobbed as ambulances at a hospital in Mokpo took the students’ bodies to the city near Seoul where their high school is located. The families, who spent a mostly sleepless night at the hospital, followed the ambulances in their own cars.

The family of one of the victims, 24-year-old teacher Choi Hye-jung, spoke about a young woman who loved to boast of how her students would come to her office and give her hugs. She loved teaching and loved her students and was excited about her first-ever school trip to Jeju island. There were 325 students on board, headed to Jeju for a four-day trip.

“She was very active and wanted to be a good leader,” her father, Choi Jae-kyu, 53, said at Mokpo Jung-Ang Hospital while waiting for the arrival of his daughter’s body. Choi’s mother, sitting on a bench at the hospital, sobbed quietly with her head bent down on her knee.

Meanwhile, 20 divers tried to get inside the ship’s wreckage but couldn’t because of the current, the coast guard said. More than 400 rescuers searched nearby waters overnight and into this morning.

The coast guard said it found two more bodies in the sea this morning, pushing the death toll to nine. The two were believed to be men in their 30s and 20s but authorities are trying to con-firm their identity, said an official from the coast guard’s press team who would not give her name because she did not have permission to speak to the media.

Dozens were injured. Coast guard officials put the number of survivors early today at 179.

It was still unknown why the ferry sank, but coast guard officials were interviewing the captain and crew. The Sewol, a 146-meter (480-foot) vessel that can hold more than 900 people, set sail Tuesday from Incheon, in northwestern South Korea, on an overnight, 14-hour journey to the tourist island of Jeju.

Study: Diabetic heart attacks and strokes falling

MIKE STOBBEAssociated Press

NEW YORK — In the midst of the diabe-tes epidemic, a glimmer of good news: Heart attacks, strokes and other complications from the disease are plummeting.

Over the last two decades, the rates of heart attacks and strokes among diabetics fell by more than 60 percent, a new federal study shows. The research also confirms earlier reports of drastic declines in diabetes-related kidney failure and amputations.

The drop is mainly attributed to better screening, medicines and care. The improve-ments came even as the number of U.S. adults with diabetes more than tripled in those 20 years.

“It is great news,” said Dr. John Buse, a University of North Carolina diabetes special-ist, of the drop in rates.

“The prognosis for folks with diabetes has improved dramatically over the last two decades, at least for those with good access to care,” Buse said in an email. He was not involved in the study.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research is reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

Diabetes is a disease in which sugar builds up in the blood. The most common form is tied to obesity, and the number of diabetics has bal-looned with the rise in obesity. Today, roughly 1 in 10 U.S. adults has the disease, and it is the nation’s seventh leading cause of death, according to the CDC.

The obese are already at higher risk for heart attacks and strokes. But diabetics seem to have more narrowing of their blood ves-sels — a condition that can further foster those problems.

In the 1990s, key studies showed that diabetics could keep their blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol under control. The research suggested that vision and heart prob-lems, leg and foot amputations and other diabetes complications were not necessarily

inevitable.Meanwhile, insurance programs expanded

coverage of blood sugar monitors and diabetes treatment. Gradually, larger numbers of dia-betics were diagnosed earlier and with milder disease.

For the new study, the CDC tallied com-plication rates from 1990 to 2010 for diabetics ages 20 or older.

During that time, the heart attack rate fell 68 percent, from 141 to 45.5 per 10,000 dia-betics, according to hospital records.

The decline was so great that, despite the growing ranks of diabetics, the actual number hospitalized with heart attacks dropped from more than 140,000 to about 136,000.

The stroke rate fell less dramatically — but still declined by more than half, finishing at 53 per 10,000. The heart attack and stroke rates for diabetics are essentially even now, lead author Edward Gregg noted.

The researchers saw declines in hearts attack and stroke rates for non-diabetics as well, but those improvements weren’t nearly as big as they were for diabetics.

Amputation rates also fell by more than half. However, like strokes, the actual number increased over the two decades.

The growth in the number of diabetics “wiped out most of the gains” from the declin-ing rates, so the number who ended up in the hospital for strokes or amputations swelled, said Dr. Robert Gabbay, of Boston’s Joslin Diabetes Center.

The study also found that the rate of kidney failure dropped by 28 percent. But that wasn’t true for all ages — the rate in those 65 and older actually increased, for reasons that aren’t clear. That could be a sign diabetics are living longer — long enough to get kidney disease, Gregg speculated.

The researchers also looked at a less com-mon complication, death caused by dangerous levels of blood sugar. The rate of such deaths dropped by 64 percent; the numbers also declined by 18 percent. In 2010, those deaths totaled 2,361.

Some exempted from minimum wage, increased or not

ALAN FRAMAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Some low-paid workers won’t benefit even if a long-shot Democratic proposal to raise the federal mini-mum wage becomes law.

More than a dozen catego-ries of jobs are exempt from the minimum, currently $7.25 an hour. Those exclusions, rooted in labor law history, run from some workers with disabilities to crews on fishing ships to casual baby sitters.

Legislation sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, would gradually raise the mini-mum to $10.10 by 2016. The Congressional Budget Office estimates it would mean higher earnings for 16.5 million workers — but also would cost 500,000 others their jobs.

Harkin’s measure wouldn’t eliminate exemptions, including for live-in companions for the elderly, staffs of state and local elected officials and jobs at sum-mer camps and seasonal amuse-ment parks.

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says nearly 1.8 million hourly workers were paid below $7.25 last year — about 2 percent of the 76 million Americans earn-ing hourly wages. An additional 1.5 million earned exactly $7.25.

Some earning under that amount are covered by lower requirements. In one major cat-egory, wages for tipped employ-ees such as waiters can be as low as $2.13 hourly, as long as their pay reaches the overall federal minimum when tips are included.

Harkin’s measure would gradually raise the minimum for tipped workers to 70 percent of the minimum for most workers.

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“We can’t pay for some-thing like that and I think it would become necessary with a retail entity right there on the highway,” Landin said.

Schimmoeller countered that while at this time there is no deal with any retail business for his property, there are few opportunities for Ottoville to grow.

“If this business does come in, they are willing to invest millions without asking for a tax abatement and have an average payroll of $200,000-$300,00,” he said. “You want your town to grow.”

Superintendent Scott Mangas added that con-cerns with U.S. 224 and pedestrian students were addressed when the school was built. The result was all pedestrian traffic leav-ing the school exited out the back.

“We installed walkways so no one has to cross or walk along U.S. 224,” he said. “All our students leave from behind the school and walk across the bridge to the park. We don’t have control over our students all the time. I don’t want to see our students crossing the highway.”

Mangas added that stud-ies have shown that reduc-ing speed limits do not increase safety or reduce accidents.

Landin and members Marilyn Calvelage and Kim Wannemacher voted in favor of a letter being drafted with member Sue Bendele giving a firm “no.” Barb Hoersten was not in attendance.

Schimmoeller owns 38 acres on the south side of U.S. 224 across from the school. He petitioned Ottoville Village Council for a tap-in for village utili-ties. Council agreed with the stipulation Schimmoeller annex the front 300 feet along U.S. 224 and get the speed limit in front of his property and the school reduced.

B o c k r a t h a n d Schimmoeller would like to see the speed limit low-ered to 35 mph from Road 29-Q to the Auglaize River bridge at the village park.

Schimmoeller is also funding a traffic study to support the speed reduc-tion.

Schimmoeller had con-tacted the Ohio Department of Transportation last year and was told the proposal to reduce the speed limit didn’t meet requirements and without any further effort from the school, vil-lage or himself, the speed limit will not be changed.

Following the motion for the letter, the board appoint-ed Mangas as the district’s representative for all pub-lic meetings, council and other, concerning the devel-opment of Schimmoeller’s property and the speed reduction effort.

In his report, Mangas outlined upcoming summer projects. Repairs to con-crete at the school’s entry-ways, blacktop sealing, sports complex and gym-nasium lighting replace-ment, enhancements to the high school trophy case and the purchase of two new geothermal pumps for the school’s heating and cooling system are on the agenda.

High School Principal Jon Thorbahn announced the signage for the land lab has been received; the senior class trip to New York City was enjoyed by all; National Honor Society inductions are April 25; prom is April 26; and grad-uation will be held at 1 p.m. May 18 in the high school gymnasium.

Thorbahn also showed a video of work done by the Senior Technology class. Students learned to manipu-late and enhance photos for a magazine. The class also counts as college credit.

Technology Coordinator Shelley Mumaw said she would start working on the school’s phone systems for the switch to voice-over IP in the next several weeks. The process will contin-ue into the summer; the school’s iPad usage would nearly double next year as 40 freshmen start the year with a new tablet; and the district has declined to participate in a fifth and unfunded year of Race to the Top.

In other business, the board:

• Approved 1-year supplemental teaching contracts to: Kimberly Birt, assistant band direc-tor; Jeanne Bockey, High School Science Fair advisor and junior high girls bas-ketball; Cory Boecker, tech

theatre director; Warren Bowery, summer band, pep band director and musi-cal director; James Brown, golf coach and Scholastic Bowl; Anthony Castronova, sophomore class advisor; Alicia Haselman, Junior High Science Fair advi-sor, co-junior class advisor and junior varsity volley-ball coach; Pamela Hickey, FCCLA advisor; Kimberly Hovest, LPDC coordina-tor; Susan Jones, co-junior class advisor; Kyle Kumfer, newsletter coordinator and yearbook advisor; Michelle Leach, assistant girls bas-ketball coach; Kirt Martz, assistant athletic director; Shelley Mumaw, Student Council advisor; Mark Odenweller, athletic direc-tor and freshmen class advisor; Kathy Thomas, NHS advisor and co-senior class advisor; and Andria Wertenberger, head volley-ball coach;

• Approved 1-year non-teaching supplementals to: Jessica Beining, girls assistant soccer coach; Brian Eickholt, volun-teer soccer coach; Kaitlyn Ditto, assistant cheerlead-ing advisor; Eric Gerker, boys head soccer coach; Vaughn Horstman, boys head soccer coach; Robert Kaple, head cross country coach; Tim Kimmet, head girls soccer coach; Dave Kleman, head girls basket-ball coach; Adam Koester, junior varsity boys bas-ketball; Tammy Koester, head cheerleading advisor; Deb Lindeman, co-assis-tant girls basketball coach; Dustin Markward, boys assistant soccer coach; Traci Miller, preschool bus driver; Todd Turnwald, boys varsity basketball coach; Darrell VonSossan, assistant boys basketball coach; Matt Wannemacher, seventh-grade boys bas-ketball coach; and Ruth Wannemacher, senior class co-advisor;

• Accepted the resigna-tion of Samantha Modica as junior high basketball and junior high volleyball coach; and

• Accepted the follow-ing donations and miscel-laneous payments: $83.83 from Lima Senior for the High School Girls’ District; $43.80 from US Greenfiber for recycling; and $1,926.25 from the Ottoville Athletic Boosters from 50/50 raffles.

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The board accepted the retirement of second-grade teacher Gaya Warnecke, effective May 30. High School Principal Nicholas Langhals said she will be greatly missed.

“She’s touched so many lives in the 35 years she’s been here,” Verhoff said. “She started out here as the physical education teacher.”

Members also accepted the resignation of school custodian Melissa Rau.

In honor of Administrative Professionals Appreciation Week — observed April 20-26, 2014 — members thanked all administrative staff for their roles in the day-to-day operations of Jennings Local. Also, mem-bers proclaimed May 5-9, 2014 as Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week and thanked all employees for all

they do for students, families and the school community.

Members of the board approved the appointment of a number of non-certif-icated individuals to fill sports related positions for the 2014-15 school year. Appointments included boys basketball: Keith Utendorf, varsity; Todd Bullinger, varsity assistant; Kevin Trentman and Neil Wittler, junior high; and Dave Luersman, elementary pro-gram. Gregg Luthman was recommended for boys var-sity soccer and Alex Maag for boys soccer reserve.

Girls basketball appoint-ments included: Rhonda Liebrecht, girls varsity; Bill Calvelage, girls reserve; Jeff Kimmet, junior high; Cora Kehres, junior high assis-tant; and Jackie Siefker, ele-mentary program. Members recommended Rodney Wagner for girls varsity soc-

cer, Jim Buettner as the girls soccer assistant, Mike Knott as the track assistant and Mary Jean Schweller as the athletic secretary.

In addition, Joyce Brokamp was appointed assistant musical director.

The board also recom-mended the following cer-tificated extra-curricular positions for the 2014-15 season and/or school year, which includes: Todd Hoehn, athletic direc-tor; Rob Warnecke, ath-letic events supervisor; Jay Laubenthal, boys reserve; Melissa Sukup, girls varsity assistant basketball; Kevin Horstman, girls junior high basketball; and Rose Mary Warnecke, pep band, sum-mer band program, musi-cal director and senior play director.

The next meeting will be held in the school’s library at 7:30 p.m. on May 21.

april 17, 2014

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