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Upfront Tornado hits Celina,

Water quality
report ready
The Village of Middle
Point Water Quality Report is
now available to the public.
It can be viewed at the
Village Municipal Office
Building, 103 N. Adams
St., Middle Point.
Optimists plan
Easter egg hunt
The Delphos Optimists
will hold their annual Easter
Egg Hunt at 1 p.m. Saturday
at Waterworks Park.
Children age 2-4; 5-7;
and 8-9 will find eggs filled
with candy and special slips
no local damage
BY MIKE FORD
mford@delphosherald.com
CELINA — A heavy storm blew
through Ohio Tuesday night into this
morning, bringing at least one tornado
to the Celina area. The Delphos Police
Department had only received a report
of a tree limb down as of early this
morning.
American Electric Power represen-
tative Shelly Clark reported there were
255 customers in Western Ohio without
power with 130 of these customers in
the Spencerville area. Service restora-
tion was expected to be completed by
noon.
Van Wert County Emergency
barns about two miles east of town. It
also flipped a semi-truck on US 33.
There were widespread power outages
and also smoke reported at the Parkway
school building. Search and rescue was
being conducted but I have no reports
on whether there were injuries or not,”
he said.
McCoy said during the evening hours
Van Wert County was placed under a
severe thunderstorm watch with Mercer
and Auglaize counties being placed
under a tornado watch.
“The warm front had just lifted north
of the Mercer and Auglaize County
lines as the squall line approached and
this was the mechanism for a tornado
to develop just south of the front in Photos submitted

of paper for prizes during the Management Director Rick McCoy Mercer County in Celina. Both Van
event, explains what took place in and near
Celina.
Wert County and Mercer County were
under Severe Thunderstorm Warnings K of C names
Council sets “Further to the south in Celina, the at the time,” he said. “The only damage
essay winners
special meeting first report of a tornado on the ground
came in to 9-1-1 from a private citi-
reported to the Van Wert EMA office
at this time is a small barn destroyed Knights of Columbus, 4th
The Middle Point Village zen. The tornado cut a path on the in the southeast corner of Van Wert Degree Bishop NeumannAssembly
Council will hold a special east side of Celina heading northeast County on SR 116. It was report- announced the 2011 Patriotism
meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday into the rural area towards Auglaize ed that the debris from the building Essay winners. In first place is
at the Village Municipal County. The National Weather Service was scattered across the roadway and Megan Klausing, above right, of
Office Building. in Wilmington then issued a tornado through the field. Power was also out St. John’s High School; second
Church to hold
warning for eastern Mercer County and in the area. Local residents in the vicin- place went to Steven Rickard, left,
Auglaize County. In Celina, I received ity reported a loud roar and pressure of Crestview High School; and
events on Friday information that there was heavy dam-
age at Aldi’s, Walmart, Menards and
change in their homes when the event third place went to Evan Burgei
of St. John’s, above left. Read
happened. Further investigation by the
Delphos Wesleyan Church a local hotel. Automobiles flipped and Van Wert EMA office will occur today their essays on page 10.
will hold an Easter “Spring homes were also damaged. As the tor- to see what caused the damage.”
Treasure Hunt” for children nado traveled northeast out of the city,
ages 1-12 at 1 p.m. Friday at it completely destroyed homes and See TORNADO page 9

Wrasman to head Jennings

Waterworks Park.
The church will also show

maintenance department
a film “To Save a Life” at 5
p.m. with speaker Dave Clark,
focusing on drugs, suicide,
sexting, drinking and other BY NANCY SPENCER concession stand and diamond
destructive behaviors and their nspencer@delphosherald.com areas on March 19; the local
consequences. Refreshments fire department and other vol-
will be served and the event FORT JENNINGS — Self- unteers washed off the tennis
is free and open to the public. employed farmer Ted Wrasman and basketball courts, asphalt
Teens and adults are invited will take over Fort Jennings and concrete pads for the shel-
Village maintenance for retir- ter houses and seating under
and a $50 prize will be award- ing Paul Kramer. the bleachers on March 26;
ed to the person or group who Wrasman was hired by volunteers helped drop, cut
bring the most friends with council Tuesday from a pool of and remove four dead or dying
them. 30 candidates narrowed down trees on April 3; and the local
to six final considerations. Lion’s Club and others cleaned

Sports Wrasman will begin his

duties on Monday and work
with Kramer to learn his
Baseball try-outs responsibilities.
Kramer has been with the
Thursday Three Elida Local School District employees were given the Elida Employee
Stacy Taff photo village for 13 1/2 years and
announced his official retire-
Baseball try-outs for Excellence Award at Tuesday’s Board meeting. Superintendent Don Diglia, left, along ment in January. His last day
9-year-olds to place a child on with Board President Brenda Stocker, right, present the awards to (middle from left) will be May 31.
The village will support
a team for minor leagues will Ann Green, Eric Miller and Connie Mault.
up brush and debris from the
trees on April 16.
Council approved a bid of
$120 from Teman Tree remov-
al Service in Delphos to grind
the stumps of the four trees
removed at the park.
Siefker said the board is
planning a Mayberry Days in
conjunction with the Delphos
Museum of Postal History

Elida school tightening budget

be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at
the Little League Diamond at
Stadium Park.
Kill named
football coach
at Perry
St. John’s graduate (2004)
Jesse Kill has been hired as
the new Perry High School
football coach, replacing Dale
Adams.
He takes over a program
that has gone 6-14 the last two
seasons.
Weather changes
The St. John’s at St. Henry
varsity and JV MAC base-
ball games postponed from
Tuesday will be played 4:30
p.m. Thursday.
The Blue Jays’ scheduled
home game versus Ottoville
Thursday has been scratched.
Forecast
BY STACY TAFF
staff@delphosherald.com
ELIDA — The Elida
Board of Education met in
regular session Tuesday night
to discuss the budget plan and
honor both staff and students.
During his Superintendent’s
Report, Don Diglia shared
with those gathered the
lengths to which Elida is
going to tighten its budget.
“With all of the state cuts,
we’re really on a financial
cliff and we’re trying to
reduce spending as much as
we can,” he said. “We did
$300,000.00 in reductions
two years ago and this year
we’re doing another $900,000
and next year we’re planning
on cutting another $400,000.
We’re operating on basically
the same budget we had in
2005, which was the year of
Elida’s reduction plan will
inevitably bring about the
closure of one of its build-
ings.
“For the 2012-13 school
year, we’re looking at clos-
ing the Gomer building,”
Treasurer Joel Parker said.
“The second phase will help
us cut back about $433,000,
with the Gomer part of it sav-
ing us $279,000. Altogether,
we’re going to be cutting
roughly $1,291,000 in costs.”
Elida’s reduction plan
allows for a third phase, in the
event that more cuts should
be needed, which would
bring further staff cuts and as
a last resort, reducing all-day
kindergarten to half-day.
Elida staff members Ann
Green, Connie Mault and Eric
Miller were honored with the
Elida Employee Excellence
Award. Their nominations
by staff were supported by
the award committee and the
superintendent.
The students of the month
for April are as follows: Elida
Elementary School— Jessica
Donley, Adrien Fingerle,
Allen Folz; Elida Middle
School—Cameron Chambers,
Bailey Kuhn, Brennan Swick;
Elida High School— Ian
Dukehart, Jenna Graham,
Torie McAdams, Jordan
Schimpf.
The board approved a res-
olution for the appreciation
of the teaching staff of Elida
for May 2-6, during National
Teacher Appreciation Week.
Resolutions of apprecia-
tion were also approved for
Elida bus drivers for Bus
Driver Appreciation Day;
Elida secretaries for National
See ELIDA page 9
the Fort Jennings Bicentennial
publication to be printed and
sold prior to the 200th ‘birth-
day’ of the village in 2012.
Books will be printed in hard
and soft cover at a cost of $45
and $35, respectively. The cost
is $20,250. Any proceeds will
be realized by the Bicentennial
Committee and donated to the
Fort Jennings Park Board. The
committee hopes to have the
first proofs back by early sum-
mer.
Kramer reported 108 catch
basins in the village were
cleaned with nearly 15 tons
of material removed, including
rocks, debris and stone.
Park Board President
Jerry Siefker gave an update
on his group’s activities. The
board’s web site is fortjenning-
spark.com. The Bicentennial
Committee will have a page on
the site as well as the village.
Four separate cleaning
efforts were completed in the
park with assistance from the
Fort Jennings High School
baseball team, coaches and
other volunteers cleaning the
and has added a canoe race to
the July 23 Grand Prize Party
event. All paid entries will be
put in a ticket drum and at 8
p.m., one entry will be drawn.
If the entry-holder is present,
they will receive $2,500. If
they are not present, they will
receive $1,250. If the $1,250
is awarded, a new entry will be
drawn every half hour, receiv-
ing $250, if present.
The student-seller of the
grand prize entry will receive
$50 and top sellers in three
brackets will win $250 for first
place, $100 for second place
and $50 for third place. Entry
sellers of weekly Pick 3 win-
ners will receive $5.
Proceeds from the fundrais-
er will support park upkeep and
projects.
Police Chief Ethel Vaughn
reported a barking dog issue
was resolved when the resi-
dents in question moved. She
said the property is in disre-
pair but she does not have the
authority to enter the property.
The next meeting will begin
at 7:30 p.m. May 17.

Putnam County joins storm alert program

Partly cloudy the renewal levy, and we’re
Thursday incorporating this plan to try
with high and push out what we have
in mid 50s. for two more years, without
See page 2. BY MIKE FORD text and e-mail notification.”
going to the taxpayers for mford@delphosherald.com Brubaker said there are several areas of the county not
more money. We’ve met with covered by alert sirens and there is concern many cannot hear
Index all of the buildings and pro-
vided them with the budget
Putnam County 911 has contracted with the Emergency the sirens in the middle of the night while they are asleep. The
Communications Network “Code Red” program. Anyone township and mayors’ associations were asked to support pur-
Obituaries 2 information and I think it’s who registers will receive a telephone call in case of a weather chasing the software, which costs $7,500 per year and would
State/Local 3 been very well received. It’s a emergency. only cost $250 per year for each entity with full participation.
Politics 4 very proactive approach. The county’s participation is coordinated by the sheriff’s The program is free to residents.
Community 5 “We’re also offering department’s Lt. Brad Brubaker. “All individuals and businesses should take the time to
Sports 6-7 retirement incentives,” Diglia “This is a notification system people have to sign up for; visit our web site and add contact information to include cell
Business 8 continued. “Maybe if we can it’s not automatic. After someone is in the database, they’ll phones as well as e-mail and text information. If one’s contact
Classifieds 12 get some of the faculty who get a call whenever the National Weather Service issues a information is not in the database, you will not receive a call
TV 13 are nearing retirement to go tornado warning, severe thunderstorm warning or flash flood when an urgent message is sent,” Brubaker said.
World News 14 ahead and retire, then we can warning for their area of the county. They can sign up for any Any Putnam County resident or business wishing to receive
bring in some of the newer one of them or all three of them,” he said. the Code Red Weather alert can sign up by visiting sheriffoff.
teachers and possibly save “We also have a database and can send out emergency com or pcops.org and clicking on the Code Red weather warn-
some money.” information when we have a missing child or a hazardous ing link. Additional phone numbers can be added to the initial
The second phase of material spill in someone’s neighborhood and this includes form after it is filled out.
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For The Record

Texans return to WEATHER FUNERAL The Delphos

scorched homes
By APRIl CASTRO
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — David
and Kris Griffin returned home
from out-of-town weekend trips
on Monday to find that their
house was one of at least 20
in their Austin neighborhood
destroyed or nearly destroyed
by a weekend wildfire.
Nearly all of their posses-
sions went up in flames, and
George, their cat of 11 years,
was missing. Making their
loss even tougher to grasp, the
homes on both sides of theirs
survived relatively unscathed.
“All the other houses got
saved except ours ... we’re just
kind of speechless right now,”
said Kris Griffin. She said find-
ing the cat was their priority,
because their possessions were
replaceable.
Authorities charged a
60-year-old homeless man with
arson on Monday, saying he
defied a nearly statewide burn
ban and left a campfire unten-
ded Saturday when he went to
a store to buy beer. Fire offi-
cials say wind-blown embers
ignited the blaze, which spread
quickly through a suburban-
like area of southwest Austin
and forced the evacuation of
homes in the affected area
and significantly damaged
10 others, and those numbers
were likely to rise as fire offi-
cials continued searching the
affected area, said Austin Fire
Department spokesman Palmer
Buck.
One of the driest spells in
Texas history has left most of
the state in extreme drought,
and wildfires in various parts
of the state have burned more
than 1,000 square miles of land
in the past week — an area that
together would equal the size
of Rhode Island.
Flames continued to drive
residents from their homes
along the shore of a North
Texas lake, with at least 18
homes and two churches
burned Monday near Possum
Kingdom Reservoir on the
Brazos River, 70 miles west
of Fort Worth, said Trooper
Gary Rozzell of the Texas
Department of Public Safety.
Rozzell said at least three
large wildfires approached
consolidation into one mas-
sive one called the Possum
Kingdom Complex. The
heat from the flames grew so
intense Monday that it sent cin-
ders high into the atmosphere,
where they became icy and
“They tell me it’s like a roof
falling in,” he said.
Palo Pinto County Judge
David Nicklas, the county’s
chief executive, said flames
from that fire touched off a
storage building filled with
fireworks. No injuries were
reported.
Gov. Rick Perry asked
President Barack Obama on
Sunday for federal disaster
funding, and forestry officials
said Monday that the threat
of new wildfires remained
extremely high in the western
part of the state.
“We really need the federal
government to step up at a sub-
stantially greater role that they
have been playing,” Perry said
Monday.
He also urged Texas resi-
dents to use extreme caution
with any outdoor fires and to
remove dried vegetation that
can fuel wildfires.
“There are some really
serious conditions out there,”
Perry said.
Federal Aviation
Administration spokesman
Lynn Lunsford said Monday
that two people who appar-
ently wanted to see one of the
West Texas fires from the air
were killed when their single-
Delphos weather
The high temperature
Tuesday in Delphos was 58
and the low was 37 with .97 of
an inch of rainfall. A year ago
today, the high was 62 and the
low was 39. The record high
for today is 84, set in 2005
and the record low of 25 was
set in 1956.
WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
Associated Press
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to
20 mph in the evening.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
northeast in the afternoon.
THURSDAY NIGHT:
Mostly cloudy with a chance
of rain. Lows in upper 30s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph becoming
10 to 20 mph after midnight.
Chance of measurable rain 40
percent.
EXTENDED FORECAST
FRIDAY: Rain showers
likely and chance of thunder-
storms. Highs in upper 50s. East
winds 10 to 20 mph becoming
southeast 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipita-
tion 60 percent.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Showers
and thunderstorms likely. Lows
around 50. Chance of precipita-
tion 70 percent.
POHl, Helen E., 89,
Services will begin at 11
a.m. Thursday at Thomas E.
Bayliff Funeral Home; the
Rev. Kenneth Baker will
officiate. Burial will be in
Amanda Baptist Cemetery,
east of Spencerville.
Friends may call from 2 to
4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the
funeral home.
LOCAL PRICES
Corn: $7.34
Wheat: $7.11
Beans: $13.30
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Scholars of the Day

Van Wert County

about 200 homes. fell in a process called “ice- engine biplane crashed the day
The blaze destroyed 10 capping,” he said. before.

The Celebration of Easter Crime of St. John’s Scholar of the

Dear Friend,
Are you a Roman Catholic the Week Day is Tyler
Ledyard.
who hasn’t been to church in Congratulations
awhile, or a person who has Tyler!
no church family to call your Sometime on January 1, 2011 between 2:30 a.m. and Jefferson’s Scholar of the
own? If so, we warmly invite 8:50 a.m., someone entered the American Legion Post 207 Day is Brooke
you to join our parish family in Willshire and took an undisclosed amount of cash. Culp.
If you have any information about this crime, call the
for worship this Easter. Plan Congratulations
Van Wert County Crime Stoppers at 419-238-STOP(7867).
to join us in prayer and know Tippers may remain anonymous. If the information given Brooke!
that a warm welcome awaits helps solve the crime, Crime Stoppers will pay up to Students can pick up their
you! May the solemn feast $1,000 cash reward. awards in their school offices.
of Easter draw you closer to
God through His Son, Jesus
Christ, in the joy of the Holy Our Specialty TODAY
Spirit! IN HISTORY
The People of PRIME RIB
St. John the Evangelist By The Associated Press
Church DINNER Today is Wednesday, April
20, the 110th day of 2011.
Schedule of Services Includes Salad, Potato & Roll There are 255 days left in the
year.
Wednesday of Holy Week Good Friday Balyeat’s Coffee Shop Today’s Highlight in
133 E. Main St. Van Wert History:
April 20, 7:30 p.m. April 22 On April 20, 2010, an
Closed Mondays
Service of Tenebrae 12 Noon Stations explosion on the Deepwater
12:45 Reflection and Music Horizon oil platform, leased
“Tenebrae” is the name given to a traditional service
of night prayer during the final days of Holy Week.
1:30 Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion by BP, killed 11 workers and
During the service, the lights in the church are gradu- 7:30 Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion began spewing (by govern-
ally extinguished until the darkness is complete, The gathering of worship is stark and simple: a First Presbyterian ment estimates) about 200
signifying the darkness of Christ’s painful death on Word service concentrating on John’s account of the million gallons of crude into
the cross. The Scripture used in the service reflects Passion and solemn prayers for all groups of people, Church of Delphos the Gulf of Mexico for nearly
a somber and introspective mood even as it offers a the Veneration of the Cross and a Communion 310 W. Second St. • 419-692-5737
three months.
strong message of hope in the midst of suffering. Service. In this service we are invited to reflect on Will be uniting for worship during Holy Week On this date:
the Mystery of Christ’s Passover from life to death
to Risen life. April 21 - Maundy Thursday - 7 p.m. In 1812, the fourth vice
Holy Thursday Holy Saturday
April 22 - Good Friday - Community Good Friday president of the United States,
Service at Noon at Trinity United Methodist Church
George Clinton, died in
April 21, 7:30 p.m. April 23, 8:00 p.m. April 24 - EASTER SUNDAY - 7:30 a.m. - Early morning
Washington at age 72, becom-
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Worship and Communion Service - Followed by
The Great Easter Vigil breakfast fellowship. All are welcome! ing the first vice president to
The solemn three-day celebration of the Lord’s
Death and Resurrection begins with this observance.
The joyful celebration brings to a climax the prepa- die while in office.
Recalling the Lord’s command (mandatum in Latin) to
ration of the Elect (those persons who have pre- In 1836, Congress voted
loving service of one another, the washing of the feet
pared to enter the fellowship of the Church). The to establish the Wisconsin
will take place at this Mass after the homily. Special
Easter Vigil begins with the blessing of the new Honor our Lord’s Territory.
fire, the lighting of the Easter Candle and Scripture
honor is given to the Blessed Sacrament at the place of readings reminding us of God’s mighty deeds on
Death and Resurrection In 1861, Col. Robert E.
reservation from the end of the Mass until 10:00 p.m. our behalf. All of this leads to the Baptism and Lee resigned his commission
The church building will be open during that time for
the individual prayer and adoration.
Confirmation of the Elect and is completed by our St. Peter Lutheran Church in the United States Army.
praying the great Eucharistic Prayer and sharing 422 N. Pierce St., Delphos – 419-695-2616 (Lee went on to command the
Communion.
www.stpeterdelphos.org Army of Northern Virginia,
The Solemnity of Easter Rev. Angela T. Khabeb – All are Welcome and eventually became gener-
al-in-chief of the Confederate
April 24 forces.)
Easter Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9:15 and 11:30 Maundy Thursday – 7 PM worship In 1889, Adolf Hitler was
After the Proclamation of the Gospel the Assembly renews their Baptismal promises. They are Good Friday – 7 PM worship born in Braunau am Inn,
then sprinkled with the new Baptismal water. The Easter Eucharistic Prayer continues and Easter Services – 7:30 AM / 10 AM Austria.
climaxes with the celebration of Communion.
Easter Breakfast – 8:30 / Egg Hunt at 9:00 In 1945, during World
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH War II, allied forces took con-
trol of the German cities of
Franklin and Second Streets, Delphos, Ohio Phone 419-695-4050 Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
In 1968, Pierre Elliott
Trudeau was sworn in as
prime minister of Canada.
In 1971, the Supreme Court
unanimously upheld the use of
busing to achieve racial deseg-
regation in schools. National
Public Radio made its on-air
debut with live coverage of
Delphos First a U.S. Senate hearing on the
Vietnam War.
Assembly of God In 1972, the manned lunar
module from Apollo 16 land-
ed on the moon.
In 1978, a Korean Air Lines
Boeing 707 crash-landed in
northwestern Russia after
being fired on by a Soviet
interceptor after entering
Soviet airspace. Two passen-
gers were killed.
In 1999, the Columbine
High School massacre took
place in Colorado as two stu-
dents, Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold, shot and killed 12
classmates and one teacher
before taking their own lives.
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9th annual Trivia Challenge set Friday IS FULL AGAIN!
The Delphos Union Bank Relay for Life team will host the Ninth annual Trivia Challenge at 8 p.m. Friday at
the Delphos Eagle’s Lodge on Fifth Street. Teams consist of eight to 10 members who put their heads together
to answer, on paper, 10 rounds of questions in a variety of categories such as sports, history, geography, music,
and various others. A $10 donation per person is collected. To register, or for more information, contact Lisa
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Hays at 419-741-2099, Margie Rostorfer at 419-692-5106, Doris Neumeier at 419-692-3382 or call the bank at
419-692-2010. Walk-in teams the night of the event will be welcomed as well. Pictured above is last year’s win-
The early bird gets
ning team, The Delphos Herald Headliners, who graciously donated their cash winnings back to the Delphos
Relay for Life campaign, which will be held at the Scott Memorial Track at Delphos Jefferson High School on
best selection!
June 17-18. The Delphos Herald Headliners included, front from left, Tiffany Brantley, Jay Spencer and Leslie
Hoffman; and back from left, Chuck Brantley, Roger Gossman, Nancy Spencer, Ron Hoffman, Elaine Suever, Used Furniture
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Mark Downs
Briefs One-of-a-kind
Ohio, Kentucky Y to hosts Good Friday Prayer Breakfast Pictures, lamps,
governors meet
accessories!
The YMCA of Van Wert June 23, 2005, he and his too low to continue working.
CINCINNATI (AP) — County would like to invite family were on a week-long Every day since his stroke he
everyone to attend the Annual bicycle trip sponsored by has had many mental, physi-
All at great savings
Ohio Gov. John Kasich
and Kentucky Gov. Steve YMCA Good GOBA (Great cal and emotional struggles.
Beshear say they’re creating Friday Prayer Ohio Bicycle He has learned to walk again
Breakfast at 7 Adventure) and but still has a noticeable limp
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a task force to determine
how the states might help a.m. on Friday he suffered a and exhaustion.
the Cincinnati/Northern at Willow stroke. This left Information about this and

1.00 table
Bend Country him paralyzed other programs available at
Kentucky International
Airport, where business has Club. Tickets on his left side. the Van Wert YMCA can $
decreased in recent years. are available at After months be found by calling 419-
Ohio’s Republican gover- the Van Wert of hospitals 238-0443 or visiting www.
nor met Tuesday in Cincinnati
with his Democratic coun-
YMCA for $7
each.
and rehab, he
returned home
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POLITICS “Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and
absurd the next. I guess we get what’s best for us in the end.”
— Alice Caldwell Rice, American humorist (1870-1942)

Obama again focuses on

immigration overhaul
By DARLENE Bill Bratton, the former police support for immigration over-
SUPERVILLE chief in Los Angeles and New haul and to include voices
Associated Press York City. “The idea being to often not heard in the debate,
go out into our various com- such as San Antonio Mayor
WASHINGTON — Under munities and to speak about Julian Castro and Facebook
pressure from advocates and the issue.” executive Sheryl Sandberg.
the 2012 re-election calen- Obama pledged to contin- Castro told The Associated
dar, President Barack Obama ue working to get Democrats Press afterward in an inter-
on Tuesday enlisted a diverse and Republicans to agree on view that Obama pledged to
group of elected officials and changes and said he’d lead a spend as much time on this
religious, business, labor, civil “civil debate” on the issue in issue as he spends on the defi-
rights leaders and law enforc- the months ahead, the White cit and health care.
ers to help build support for House said in a statement. The meeting also came
a long-stalled overhaul of the He also said success won’t ahead of Obama’s visit
nation’s immigration laws. happen if he alone is leading Thursday to Los Angeles to
Obama is making a new the debate. raise money for his re-elec-
attempt to fulfill his campaign “The president urged tion campaign. Immigrants
pledge to enact broad changes meeting participants to take and their advocates planned
early in his term. But his fail- a public and active role to to protest outside the Sony
Plane with first ure there has angered some lead a constructive and civil Pictures Studio, where the
IT WAS NEWS THEN lady came too
Hispanics and immigrants’
advocates, voters who helped
elect him in 2008 and whom
debate on the need to fix the
broken immigration system,”
the White House said. “He
fundraiser was being held, to
remind Obama of his cam-
paign promise and how they
One Year Ago
• The Canal Days Committee has announced the entertain- close to cargo jet he’ll need at the polls again
next year.
stressed that in order to suc-
cessfully tackle this issue they
say his deportation policies
are tearing apart their fami-
ment for the 53rd annual event set Sept. 16-19 in downtown WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House meeting must bring the debate to com- lies.
Delphos. Area band Hypnotix will perform Friday evening Air traffic controllers direct-
and Sunday afternoon and the Red Ball Jets will perform on with a group of about 70 peo- munities around the country The government forced a
Saturday. An Elvis impersonator has also been secured for the ed a plane carrying first lady ple led to no breakthroughs on and involve many sectors of record 393,000 illegal immi-
“Toast to the City” on Sept. 16. Michelle Obama to abort a the way forward, just a call to American society in insisting grants to leave the country
landing at Andrews Air Force action. that Congress act to create a last year.
25 Years Ago — 1986 Base because it was too close “The president asked the system that meets our nation’s Others at the meeting said
• American Legion Post 268 has selected four Delphos high to a military cargo jet, officials group to commit to moving needs for the 21st century and Obama acknowledged that the
school juniors to serve as delegates to Buckeye Boys State, said Tuesday. forward to keep the debate that upholds America’s his- enforcement and deportations
according to Commander George Hoffman. Students include A Boeing 737 belonging to about this issue alive, to keep tory as a nation of laws and a are affecting families, but was
Robert Aldrich and Mark Bonifas of Jefferson and Craig Geise the Air National Guard, one it alive in the sense that it can nation of immigrants.” clear that he would take no
and Scott Knebel of St. John’s. of several guard planes used get before Congress, where The meeting was an action that could be seen as
• Learning to drive a tractor was part of an Iraqi research by the White House, came the ultimate resolution of it attempt by the White House usurping Congress’ role and
fellow’s introduction to American farming and agri-business within about three miles of a will have to be obtained,” said to demonstrate far-reaching authority.
during a recent visit to the area. Rihab Yassin accompanied massive C-17 as the planes
her friend and co-worker at the Michigan Cancer Foundation, were approaching Andrews
Jan Conrad, who was visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert shortly after 5 p.m. Monday to
Obama administration eases pain of Medicare cuts
Wieging, Fort Jennings. land, according to the Federal By RICARDO ALONSO- a thinly veiled use of tax- Advantage plans that offer
• Doug Williams’ triple in the bottom of the 11th inning Aviation Administration and ZALDIVAR payer dollars for political lower out-of-pocket costs and
brought home Mike Moscinski with the winning run as St. Major Michelle Lai, a spokes- Associated Press purposes,” wrote Sen. Orrin more comprehensive benefits
John’s edged Marion Local 10-9 Friday in Midwest Athletic woman for Andrews. Hatch of Utah and Rep. Dave than the traditional program.
Conference play at Stadium Park. Leading the hitting for the The FAA requires a mini- WASHINGTON — Camp of Michigan. Camp Some of the heaviest enroll-
Jays were Moscinski 2-for-5 with three runs scored and Rob mum separation of five miles Millions of seniors in popu- chairs the House Ways and ment is in politically contest-
Vonderembse, 2-for-5. between two planes when the lar private insurance plans Means Committee, which ed states, including Florida,
plane in the lead is as large offered through Medicare will oversees Medicare. Hatch Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada,
50 Years Ago — 1961 as the 200-ton cargo jet, in be getting a reprieve from is his counterpart as rank- Minnesota and Colorado.
• Delphos St. John’s High School was notified Wednesday order to avoid dangerous wake some of the most controver- ing Republican on the Senate The health care law cut
that two of its students had received excellent ratings and one, turbulence that can severely sial cuts in President Barack Finance Committee. $145 billion over 10 years
good, at the science day exhibition held recently at Defiance affect the trailing aircraft. Obama’s health care law. Seniors are among the deep- from Medicare Advantage,
College, according to Rev. Thomas W. Kuhn, principal. The FAA is investigating In a policy shift critics see est skeptics of the new health partly to correct a widely
Excellent ratings were given to Ronald Goergens for his out- the incident as a possible error as political, the Health and care law. A recent AP-GfK acknowledged problem with
board motor boat, and to Ronald L. Suever for his Van de Graaf by controllers at a regional Human Services department poll found that 62 percent dis- overpayments to the plans.
generator. Ralph Holdgreve was awarded a “good” rating for radar facility in Warrenton, has decided to award qual- approve of Obama’s handling Those cuts start off modestly
his exhibit, a fuel cell. Va., that handles approach- ity bonuses to hundreds of of health care, as contrast- in 2012 and build up. Insurers
• Many past presidents of Delphos Aerie No. 471 of the es and departures for several Medicare Advantage plans ed with 52 percent approv- were expected to shift the bur-
Fraternal Order of Eagles and past madam presidents of the local airports, including Andrews, rated merely average. al among Americans over- den to beneficiaries in the
auxiliary attended the Past Presidents Banquet Sunday. Among where the president’s aircraft, The $6.7 billion infusion all. The poll also found that form of fewer services and
those attending were Isabel Schimmoeller, Edna Kortokrax,
Helen Vance, Hazel Prine, Alice Roberts, Rosemary Fetzer, Air Force One, is maintained. could head off service cuts that seniors are more likely to trust higher out-of-pocket costs,
Mildred David, Dolores Hoffman, Margaret Roberts, Letha The C-17 and Mrs. Obama’s would have been a headache Republicans than Democrats triggering an exodus back to
Albright, D. C. Ford, Henry Clinger, Homer Roberts, J. Carl plane didn’t have the proper for Obama and Democrats in on health. traditional Medicare.
Stopher, Kenneth Kortokrax, Hermit Minnig, F. S. Bowers, separation when controllers in next year’s elections for the The administration says “The net result is that the
Lee Schimmoeller, Herbert Hageman, Eugene Krugh, Ralph Warrenton handed them off White House and Congress. the reason for the bonuses boat didn’t get rocked,” said
Koenig, Oriez Gallagher and Virgil Vance. to the Andrews controllers, a More than half the roughly 11 is quality improvement, not independent analyst Dan
• The Green Thumb Garden Club held its monthly meet- source familiar with the inci- million Medicare Advantage politics, and the program will Mendelson, president of the
ing April 18 with a luncheon at NuMaude’s Restaurant. Mrs. dent said. enrollees are in plans rated be evaluated as it goes along. information firm Avalere
E. R. Stites and Mrs. Ralph Best were the hostesses. It was Andrews air traffic con- average. “We are looking at wheth- Health. “It’s fair to say that
announced that the Johnny Appleseed Fund is growing, the trollers initially ordered Mrs. The insurance industry er an alternative payment (Medicare) could not tolerate
funds to be used towards beautifying the highway from Toledo Obama’s plane to conduct says the bonuses will turn incentive structure would lead dislocation, given the political
to Pomeroy. a series of turns to bring it what would have averaged to broader quality improve- climate.”
farther from the military jet. out as a net loss for the plans ments across all Medicare But Mendelson also said
75 Years Ago — 1936 When that didn’t provide in 2012 into a slight increase. Advantage plans, by giving he agrees with the adminis-
• Delphos was well represented at the annual spring conven- enough distance, controllers In a recent letter to HHS incentives for a broader range tration that the new money
tion of the Van Wert County Christian Endeavor Union held realized that there might not Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, of plans to improve,” said will get more plans thinking
Saturday evening and Sunday. The program included singing, a be enough time for the cargo two prominent GOP law- Medicare spokesman Brian about how to improve qual-
solo by Thelma Adams of Olive Branch of God, music by the plane to clear the Andrews makers questioned what they Cook. ity, if they want to remain
Reidenbach-Schramm quartet of Middle Point, a solo by Mrs. runway before Mrs. Obama’s termed the administration’s Medicare covers seniors profitable.
P. H. Weihl of Ohio City and an address by Aubrey Bowen of plane landed. “newfound support” for and disabled people. About “They are giving the plans
British Guiana, South America. Controllers then directed Medicare Advantage. one-fourth of beneficiaries training wheels to improve
• Scout meetings will be held on four successive nights this the pilot of Mrs. Obama’s The shift “may represent are signed up in Medicare their quality,” he said.
week. Troop Three will meet this evening at St. John’s School and plane to execute a “go-around”
will go to the woods for an open-air meeting. The weekly meeting — to stop descending and start
of Troop Two will be held Tuesday night at the Methodist Church climbing — and circle the air- Poll: Finances dictating college, career choices
with Scoutmaster Robert Rozelle and Assistant Scoutmaster port, located in a Maryland By CONNIE CASS 8.8 percent unemployment about borrowing, with good
Richard Longemeyer in charge. Troop One will hold its meeting suburb of Washington. A go- Associated Press rate. And college prices keep reason. The U.S. Education
Wednesday at Scout headquarters with Scoutmaster Arnold Scott around is considered a type of going up, as states struggle Department says 7 percent of
in charge. Practice of the drum and bugle corps is scheduled for aborted landing. WASHINGTON — No with budget deficits. Average borrowers default within two
Thursday night at Scout headquarters. “The aircraft were never in matter how many subjects tuition, room and board rose years of beginning repayment
• The members of the Happy Dozen Club and one guest, any danger,” the FAA said in
Mary Brandehoff, were entertained Saturday afternoon at the a statement. they’re acing, most college to about $16,000 at in-state on loans that can stretch for a
home of Joan Young, East Second Street. In bunco, Ruth students these days find eco- public schools this year and decade or more. Average stu-
Aviation safety expert John nomics a grind. Tricky finan- $37,000 at private schools. dent loan debt tops $23,000.
Pohlman was high and Dorothy Mae Brendle, second. In two Cox agreed that an accident
weeks the club will meet with Mildred Grothouse, West Second cial calculations influence Most college students — Bure’s confident that
Street. was unlikely. everything from what school 84 percent — need more than she’ll earn enough to pay off
“Every professional pilot I they attend and what major one source of cash to keep up, her loans. She’s studying to

Moderately confused
have ever known has been
in situation where they were
overtaking the plane in front
of them and asked to do an
S-turn,” said Cox, a former
airline pilot. “The only issue
that could have come up was
if they’d encountered the wake
of the C-17.”
Even then, Cox said, the
737 is a “very controllable”
plane. “I don’t think Mrs.
Obama’s plane would have
been in any jeopardy.”
Jill Biden, wife of Vice
President Joe Biden, also was
on the plane with Mrs. Obama.
The first lady had been in New
York earlier in the day for a
TV interview.
The first lady’s office
declined to comment and
referred all questions to offi-
cials at the FAA and Andrews.
The president’s West Wing
press office did likewise.
The National Transportation
Safety Board is gathering
information about the incident
but hasn’t yet decided whether
it will open a formal inves-
tigation, board spokeswoman
Kelly Nantel said.
they choose to how quickly
they finish their degrees — or
whether they graduate at all.
Money problems, not bad
grades, are the reason cited
by most college students who
have considered dropping out,
an Associated Press-Viacom
poll finds.
Almost 6 in 10 students
rely on loans to help with col-
lege costs, and nearly half who
do say they’re uncomfortable
with the debt. A majority of
students at four-year colleges
say they routinely feel at least
a little worried about hav-
ing enough money to make
it through the week, accord-
ing to the poll, conducted in
partnership with Stanford
University.
Scrimping has long been
part of the college experience,
of course, but tough times
in the real world mean even
tighter money on campus.
Recession-battered parents
have less money to spend on
their kids’ tuition. Jobs that
used to be waiting upon grad-
uation aren’t there anymore
— consumed by the nation’s
the poll of people ages 18 to
24 found.
About two-thirds say they
work part-time or more to
help pay for college. That’s
supplemented by another
popular source of funds:
Mom and Dad. Six in 10 get
help from parents. The same
number rely on scholarships
for part of the bill.
“For a while, I couldn’t
find a job, and it was like,
‘How am I going to eat? And
how am I going to get to
school if I don’t have gas?”’
said Allyson Bure, 20, a nurs-
ing student who works two
part-time jobs, as a clerk at
a Fashion Bug store and as a
hotel housekeeper.
Like 57 percent of col-
lege students surveyed, Bure
depends on student loans.
Including debt she racked up
at another school, she expects
to owe about $52,000 by the
time she finishes her asso-
ciate’s degree at Trocaire
College in East Aurora, N.Y.
Then she hopes to transfer to
a university.
Many students are uneasy
become a nurse anesthetist,
a job that can pay well over
$100,000 per year. “I’ll be
secure,” she predicts.
Despite the rising costs,
85 percent of students and
recent grads say college is
worth the time and money. In
overwhelming numbers, they
express satisfaction with the
education they’ve received.
And they have wide expecta-
tions for that education: Most
say it’s very or extremely
important that colleges broad-
en students’ knowledge and
expand their minds, help them
gain life skills, expose them
to new experiences and train
them for a career.
Nine out of 10 expect to
find a job in their field. And
for most, that’s the bottom
line. Fifty-five percent say an
education that focuses on suc-
cess in the working world
is more valuable than one
focused on general knowl-
edge and critical thinking.
With that pragmatic atti-
tude, many treat education
like a commodity to be shaped
to fit their needs and budgets.
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7 p.m. — Bingo at St.
John’s Little Theatre.
7:30 p.m. — Hope Lodge
214 Free and Accepted
Masons, Masonic Temple,
North Main Street.
Sons of the American
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The Ottoville Board of
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5:30 p.m. — The Delphos
Canal Commission meets at
the museum, 241 N. Main St.
5-7 p.m. — The Interfaith
Thrift Shop is closed today.
7 p.m. — Spencerville
Local Schools Board of
Education meets.
St. John’s Athletic Boosters
meet in the Little Theatre.
7:30 p.m. — Delphos
Chapter 26 Order of the
Eastern Star meets at the
Masonic Temple on North
Main Street.
Delphos VFW Auxiliary
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W. Fourth St.
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BY LOVINA EICHER
Our house seems extra
quiet after a week with the
whole family being home.
The children were home from
school for spring break and
my husband Joe was off from
the factory. Once the children
left for school this morning,
it was pretty quiet.
Verena, however,
wasn’t able to go
today because of
another post-con-
cussive spell.
We had a We recently
warm weekend
after a rainy, cold
week last week.
We enjoyed our
first meal of dan-
delion greens. I
always make ours into salads
with diced hard boiled eggs
and homemade sour cream
poured over it. The sour
cream is something I make
with Miracle Whip, vinegar
and milk. We like to eat our
dandelion salads over boiled
potatoes and bacon. Green
winter onions also taste good
to eat with the salad.
Joe finally managed to get
our manure spreader fixed.
The boys and Joe hauled a lot
of loads of manure and spread
it across our fields. Kevin, 5,
was so proud to help with
little forkfuls of manure on
the spreader. Benjamin, 11,
and Joseph, 8, said Kevin
didn’t help too much but they
let him think he was really
helping. I guess that is how
they learn.
We managed to get one
coat of primer on the walls
and ceilings in an upstairs
bedroom. Our bedrooms are
big so it takes a little longer.
I put the painting off until
this week since I pulled a
muscle in my right shoulder.
My neck also felt sore but it
feels a lot better now. I think
it all came from doing too
much overhead painting.
Elizabeth, 16, left around 9
p.m. on Wednesday last week
and traveled to Mays Lick,
Ky. She went with her friend
Timothy and family and they
traveled with a charter bus
full of wedding guests. All
went to the same wedding
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Friday morning. It was good
to see her arrive home all safe
and sound. I was surprised
to hear she met
up with some of
my relatives and
some of Joe’s who
live in that com-
munity.
purchased a used
single buggy at a
local consignment
sale. We really
would have liked
to buy the Queen
buggy but the price was not
in our range. A Queen buggy
also just has one seat but has
space behind the seat to store
groceries. Our single buggy
has some room under the seat
and in back but not as much
as a Queen.
When Joe and I went to
get groceries and fill gas
jugs, we used our new buggy
trailer, which gives us extra
room to carry items. The
trailer has bicycle wheels
and is really light weight
for the horse to pull. We can
fit a lot of groceries in that
small trailer.
Loretta, 10, and Lovina,
6, had dentist appointments
one day last week. I took
them in the single buggy.
There were a lot of cars
there so I was glad for a
smaller buggy to park. The
dentist office does not have
a hitching post so I tied the
horse to a tree. It makes
it a little hard when there
is not a place to tie your
horse at some of the doc-
tors’ offices. Our children’s
medical doctor has a hitch-
ing post which I have been
so blessed for already. With
gas prices going higher it is
cheaper to take our buggy
instead of hiring a driver to
take us into town.
At the same sale where
we bought our buggy, Jacob
and Emma bought a horse.
We needed a way to get our
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Of concussions
and sports Saine headed to ONU
Sometimes, it’s hard By JIM METCALFE
to figure out what to JIM METCALFE jmetcalfe@delpho-
write about and then
things drop into my
lap.
Metcalfe’s sherald.com

DELPHOS — Becca
Like this week.
I was scratching my Musings Saine has had a lot of suc-
cess in her three years of
head, wondering what jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com starting for the St. John’s
was going to be in this girls basketball team.
column. The daughter of Tony
I found it last night.
Everyone knows Trainer Tom, Tom Lane, the Athletic
and Kelly Saine hopes
Trainer Certified that has plied his trade for the last decade-plus that she can continue that
at St. John’s and other area schools. success at the next level
With all the talk about concussions and such, the medical as she signed a national
community is trying to not only evaluate and treat concussions letter-of-intent to attend
but to even prevent them. Ohio Northern University
He showed me a test that the student-athletes at some schools and play for head coach
go through to establish a baseline, from which ATCs like him- Michele Durand.
self and doctors can judge an athlete that has had his or her “bell “It’s close to home. I
rung” and where they stand as far as when they can safely come also really liked the other
back from this injury. players and the coaches;
Let’s put it this way: I “co-took” it with him and it definitely they seemed genuine-
seems like a physical, from word memory to remembering ly interested in me,” she
shapes and such. explained of her decision.
I won’t say how I did on it but it was an interesting experi- “Bluffton University was
ence. my other choice but ONU Jim Metcalfe photo
Now I know a little bit more of what a student-athlete must has the major I want: exer- St. John’s senior Becca Saine, seated center, signed a national letter-of-intent to
go through in order to get himself or herself back on the field. cise physiology. It was still attend Ohio Northern University to play basketball next fall. With her are her parents,
I feel a little bit better that no one will get back onto the field a hard decision for me but I Kelly and Tony Saine, seated; and standing, head St. John’s coach Dan Grothouse.
until that person is good and ready. really feel this is the best fit
Then there was the release of the National Football for me right now.” me a starting spot, which so I have just been going their tough defense and
League schedule yesterday. She figures that the style is fine. The point guard is to open gyms and using the attacking offense. What she
That is, if we have an NFL season next fall. the Lady Polar Bears use is coming back, so she wants program (St. John’s) Coach brings to the table is her
At this point, the prospects aren’t good but methinks that at pretty much the same as she me to play the shooting (Dan) Grothouse gave us ability to do all three things
some point, the two sides will — grudgingly perhaps — get has experienced playing for guard.” last year.” when it comes to offense:
together, realize what they have in this game and give enough the Lady Blue Jays. In order for her to play The Polar Bears finished hit the 3, the mid-range
to get a deal done. immediately, she knows 2010-11 17-10. jumper and get to the bas-
Then I had this e-mailed to me. “They play an aggres-
sive defense; I’m used to one area she must get bet- Grothouse figures that ket. She is a good defender
I am old enough to remember the all-too-short-lived fierce ter at. Saine will join right in. as well. Her on-court lead-
tennis rivalry between the stoic Bjorn Borg and the hot-tem- the on-the-line, up-the-
line defense, as well as “I have to learn how “She’s been part of a lot ership and savvy will sorely
pered and tempestuous John McEnroe. to use and go to my left of wins the last three years; be missed here; she’s had a
All-too-short because after McEnroe beat him in the 1981 the aggressive, run-and-
gun game on offense,” she hand; I am pretty much a she knows what it takes to great career here.
Wimbledon and U.S Open, Borg walked away for good, though right-handed player,” she be successful and she knows “The biggest areas she’ll
no one knew at the time it was such a move. He did try to come noted. “I have been going
to their open gyms and get- added. “I haven’t got- how to win. I think she have to adjust to is the speed
back briefly but he wasn’t the same player.
With all the great — and high-strung — personalities ting to know the girls and ten their off-season work- will fit very well with what and quickness of the col-
of that era, such as the aforementioned (I stole that from coaches even more. Coach out program yet as far as ONU is doing,” Grothouse lege game and the strength
Dave Boninsegna!!!) terrific twosome, Jimmy Connors, the Durand didn’t guarantee strength and conditioning, said. “They are known for factor.”
McEnroe-before-McEnroe Ilie Nastase and Vitas Gerulaitis —

Roberts’ 2 HRs lead D-Backs over Reds 5-4

never mind the personalities on the women’s side like Chris
Evert and Martina Navratilova — no wonder many considered
it the swan song of the Golden Age of Tennis.
A book — Steve Tignor’s “High Strung” — chronicles that
era. By JOE KAY .500 (9-8) for the first time Upton followed with a fly that ing 98 pitches, 64 for strikes. Mike
The Associated Press since they beat Milwaukee on deflected off the top of the
Dunn and Brian Sanches each worked
He talks about the hidden side of Borg — the inner madman; one perfect inning to complete the
I remember a Sports Illustrated article about his preparation for opening day. wall in right field and came 2-hitter against a team that came into
Wimbledon and that inner madman wasn’t so hidden! CINCINNATI — Good For the third game in a back, leaving him with a tri- the game with the highest road batting
average in the NL.
It’s the stuff off the court that might be just as compelling; thing for the Diamondbacks row, a Reds starter gave up at ple. The umpires reviewed Paul Maholm (0-3) allowed six runs
many times, we only see our athletes on the field and we don’t that Melvin Mora had a sore least five runs. LeCure lasted the play and confirmed the and lasted only 3 2/3 innings, his short-
est outing in four starts.
get to really see what they are like. foot. only 5 1/3 innings and gave call. Astros 6, Mets 1
Just a thought here. Ryan Roberts was a late up nine hits, including the Galarraga did better on the NEW YORK — Wandy Rodriguez
addition to the starting line- career-high four homers. It mound than on the bases, giv-
found his form against the punchless
Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 for an alleged gay slur Mets, pitching seven sharp innings to
directed at a referee the other night. up because of Mora’s injury was the most homers allowed ing up three runs, including lead the Astros to a victory.
I, for one, have been calling for more and heavier fines and hit two of Arizona’s four by the Reds in a game this Drew Stubbs’ solo homer. Michael Bourn and Carlos Lee
sparked the offense as Houston won
against players for just such behavior — let the officials offici- homers off Sam LeCure, lead- season. Brandon Phillips sin- for the fifth time in nine games fol-
ate and just play, baby!!! — but I have a question for Mr. Stern; ing the Diamondbacks to a A sore foot unexpectedly gled home a run off David lowing a 1-7 start. The Astros have
alternated wins and losses over those
if he had screamed “(unprintable) fat slob” or some such at the 5-4 victory over the slumping played a role. Mora jammed Hernandez in the eighth. nine games.
official, would the fine have been that high? Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday his left foot while running NOTES: Reds manager Dusty
Baker will let RHP Mike Leake start the
Carlos Beltran homered for the
night. the bases Sunday during a
Mets, who have dropped 11-of-13.
Just wondering. If so — if the point is to stop this boorish behav- final game of the series on Thursday They snapped a 7-game skid Sunday
ior, no matter what is spoken — then so be it. It should hurt. “It was one of those days 6-5, 12-inning win over San as planned. Leake was arrested on a in Atlanta but followed it up with a slug-
where everything you hit Francisco. He tested it before shoplifting charge Monday. ... Phillips gish effort in all facets of the game.

LOCAL ROUNDUP
was back in the Reds’ starting lineup Jonathon Niese (0-3) walked five
seems to go,” Roberts said. “I Tuesday’s game and felt after missing four games with a sore and threw 113 pitches in six innings as
don’t know how to explain it. some soreness, so manager groin.
Brewers 9, Phillies 0
New York fell to 1-7 at Citi Field, losing
its past six at home.
It’s a good thing I got in there Kirk Gibson made the lineup PHILADELPHIA — Randy Wolf Giants 6, Rockies 3
WHAC releases tennis post-season honors list tonight.” change as a precaution. pitched six crisp innings, Ryan Braun
and Casey McGehee homered and
DENVER — Jonathan Sanchez
Roberts hit a solo drive Turned out to be a fortu-
gave up two hits over 6 1/3 innings
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – It’s been at least 10 years since the Milwaukee Brewers beat Roy and the Giants beat Colorado, spoiling
the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) sponsored and a 2-run homer for his nate break. Halladay and the Philadelphia Phillies Rockies ace Ubaldo Jimenez’s return
second career multi-homer Roberts hit a solo homer 9-0 Tuesday night. from the disabled list.
the sport of tennis and crowned conference champions. The Brewers became the first team San Francisco’s offense gave
Since 2001, league mem- game. Kelly Johnson and in the first and a 2-run shot to win a series against the NL East- Sanchez (2-1) a 4-run lead to work
bers competed in the National Chris Young also connected in the fifth, when Arizona leading Phillies this season. They’ll try
to complete a 3-game sweep this after-
with thanks to Pablo Sandoval’s 3-run
homer before the lefty even stepped
Association of Intercollegiate against LeCure (0-1), helping squandered a chance to pull noon when Cliff Lee takes the mound foot on the mound.
Athletics (NAIA) as independents. the Diamondbacks pile up a away. The Diamondbacks had for Philadelphia.
Wolf (2-2) allowed two hits, struck
Aubrey Huff also went deep for the
season high in homers. a single, a double, a triple and
Giants, who go for the sweep today
Until this season, that is. The Aquinas out five and walked three against his when Matt Cain faces Jorge De La
College (22-3) men’s tennis team won the 2011 regular-season Armando Galarraga went Roberts’ homer in the inning former team. The left-hander was Rosa after cutting their 4-game deficit
six innings, matching the best but managed only two runs. Philadelphia’s ace in the early 2000s. in the NL West in half by taking the first
and conference tournament titles as the sport became a con- Sean Green, Zach Braddock and Mike two games of the series.
ference sport once again. Aquinas freshman Aaron Hendrick start of his career at 3-0. J.J. Galarraga had a lot to do McClendon each pitched an inning to Braves 10, Dodgers 1
earned Player of the Year honors and Saints head coach Jerry Putz pitched the ninth for his with it. Juan Miranda opened finish up.
Jimmy Rollins had a bunt single
LOS ANGELES — Brandon Beachy
yielded just two hits over six scoreless
Hendrick took home Coach of the Year honors. fourth save in four chances, the fifth with a double and in the first and Shane Victorino hit a innings for his first major-league victory
On the women’s side, first-year league member University of fanning Chris Heisey with a Galarraga tried to sacrifice but double in the third for the Phillies’ only
hits of the game.
and the Braves got home runs from
runner on second to end it. his bunt went right to LeCure,
Martin Prado, Freddie Freeman, Dan
Northwestern Ohio (13-7) took home both women’s titles and Marlins 6, Pirates 0 Uggla and pinch-hitter Eric Hinske to
head coach Terry Hilborn received Coach of the Year honors. Putz opened the inning by who got the out at third. MIAMI — Josh Johnson allowed rout the Dodgers.
hitting Jonny Gomes, putting When Johnson followed with two hits in seven innings and drove in Beachy (1-1) struck out seven and
Davenport University junior Diana Favela earned the confer- the first two runs to help the Marlins walked two in his seventh big-league
ence’s Player of the Year honor for her outstanding play at the himself in trouble. a single, Galarraga rounded beat the Pirates. start. The right-hander came in with a
#1 singles and #1 doubles spots. This season marks the first time The last week hasn’t been second base too far and was Johnson (3-0) lowered his ERA
to 1.00. He has allowed four hits or
5.19 ERA over his three previous out-
ings this season, including a 6-5 loss
since 1996 for a women’s champion. so good for the Reds, who caught in a rundown. less in each of his four starts; batters on Thursday against Florida at Turner
Conference honors were reinstated in addition to crowning have dropped 5-of-6. The Roberts homered into are hitting .112 against him. The right-
hander has never thrown a shutout in
Field in which he was charged with five
defending NL Central cham- the first row of seats in left
runs and four walks in 5 1/3 innings.
conference champions. The coaches selected an All-Conference 108 career starts and was pulled by Hiroki Kuroda (2-2) allowed two
team comprised of the best players in singles and doubles play. The pions are only one game over field for a 4-3 lead. Justin manager Edwin Rodriguez after throw- runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Chen goes 7 innings, Royals beat Indians 5-4

Champions of Character team includes the player from each team
who best represents the NAIA’s core character values – Integrity,
Respect, Responsibility, Sportsmanship and Servant Leadership.
Men’s Tennis All-Conference By DOUG TUCKER five strikeouts. “But the phones went on the ninth when Joakim Soria
Name
Aaron Hendrick
School
Aquinas
Pos.
Singles/Doubles
Yr.
Fr.
Hometown
Grand Rapids, Mich The Associated Press Jeanmar Gomez (0-1), the blink,” explained Yost. got his fifth save in six oppor-
Nik Artaev Aquinas Singles/Doubles Fr. St. Joseph, Mich. making his first major-league “So we had no communica- tunities even though the
Kyle Masteller Aquinas Singles So. Holland, Mich. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — start after being called up tion to our bullpen.” Indians loaded the bases with
Victor Roland
Gustavo Rueda
Davenport
Northwestern Ohio
Singles/Doubles
Singles
Jr.
So.
Natal, Brazil
Bogota, Columbia The bullpen phone quit work- from Triple-A Columbus ear- A tired Chen kept throw- two outs on a single, third
Jeff Brown Northwestern Ohio Singles/Doubles Jr. Toledo, Ohio ing at just the wrong time. The lier in the day, took the loss ing. The energized Indians baseman Wilson Betemit’s
Travis Wolf
John Telfer
Aquinas
Aquinas
Doubles
Doubles
Jr.
Jr.
Portage, Mich.
Midland, Mich.
bat boy unwittingly caused on a night when the wind kept hitting. Austin Kearns throwing error and a hit bats-
Juan Cardenas Northwestern Ohio Doubles Jr. Cali, Columbia a power hitter to lay down a chill hovered near 30 degrees. singled. Lou Marson hit a man. Shin-Soo Choo drew
Jeff Karasinski Davenport Doubles Sr. Grand Rapids, Mich. bunt in an RBI situation. He went 4 1/3 innings and 2-run double. a walk that forced in a run
Coach of the Year – Jerry Hendrick, Aquinas
Player of the Year – Aaron Hendrick, Aquinas Then in a shaky ninth gave up five runs on nine “Bruce gives up another but then Soria threw three
Women’s Tennis All-Conference inning they had an error, a hit hits, with two walks and three hit and we’re trying to get straight called strikes to
Name School Pos. Yr. Hometown batsman and a bases-loaded strikeouts. Woody up and we can’t,” Carlos Santana to end it.
Diana Favela
Jamie Hilborn
Davenport Singles/Doubles
Northwestern Ohio Singles/Doubles
Jr. San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Sr. Elida, Ohio walk. Gordon stole two bases, continued Yost. Gordon threw out Marson
Lauren Ramey Aquinas Singles/Doubles Fr. Martin, Mich. “And still we won a ball- scored a run, had two hits, Finally, it was Kansas trying to score in the seventh
Denisse Favela
Andrea Arango
Davenport
Northwestern Ohio
Singles/Doubles
Singles
Jr. San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Fr. Cali, Columbia
game,” Kansas City manager threw out a runner at the plate City’s finest to the rescue. on Michael Brantley’s single.
Kristen Heinrich Aquinas Singles/Doubles So. Ludington, Mich. Ned Yost exclaimed Tuesday and made a terrific diving The uniformed police officer Gordon singled in the first
Shaleigh McClintock Northwestern Ohio Doubles Fr. Lexington, Ohio night after the Royals held on catch in left field of pinch- near the Royals dugout used and had an RBI double in the
Coach of the Year – Terry Hilborn, UNOH
Player of the Year – Diana Favela, Davenport
for a wild 5-4 victory over hitter Grady Sizemore’s sink- his hand-held communication fifth. Since going 0-for-5 on
Men’s Tennis Champions of Character Team Cleveland. ing liner in the ninth. device to call the officer in opening day, he’s 26-for-67
Name School Yr. Hometown The long-woeful and “Gordon pretty much saved the bullpen and tell him to tell (.388) and has extended his
Matt Weiden
Aaron Hendrick
Davenport
Aquinas
Sr.
Fr.
Kentwood, Mich.
Grand Rapids, Mich. perhaps lucky Royals crept the game on that very nice Wood to get ready. hitting streak to a career-best
Craig Wassell Indiana Tech Sr. Fort Wayne, Ind. to within one game of the play on Sizemore down the In the KC eighth with a 13 games.
Alex Hagar Northwestern Ohio
Women’s Tennis Champions of Character Team
So. Wapakoneta, Ohio surprising Indians in the AL left-field line,” said Cleveland runner on base and nobody Right behind Gordon is
Name School Yr. Hometown Central with the help of Bruce manager Manny Acta. out, Kila Ka’aihue laid down third baseman Betemit, who
Kristi Kuzdal Davenport Fr. Grandville, Mich. Chen’s strong pitching and Chen cruised into the sev- a bunt that probably puzzled grounded a single up the
Jamie Hilborn
Jessica Groce
Northwestern Ohio
Indiana Tech
Sr.
Sr.
Elida, Ohio
Milford, Ind.
Alex Gordon’s strong every- enth with a 2-hitter and a 5-0 every fan in the stands. middle leading off the fourth
Cecelia Vaughn Aquinas Sr. Gross Pointe Woods, Mich. thing. lead and hadn’t allowed an Turns out the bat boy ran inning and stretched his hit-
---- Chen (3-0) went seven earned run in 20 innings. But between Yost and third-base ting streak to a career-high
Jefferson JVs 4-2 innings and beat the Indians then his stuff flattened out coach Eddie Rodriguez just 11 games.
The Jefferson junior varsity baseball team for the fourth straight time, and things got strange. as Yost was going through Alcides Escobar singled in
defeated Paulding 5-4 Monday night. stretching his personal win- After Orlando Cabrera his signs. the third and came home on
Winning pitcher for Jefferson was Tyler ning streak, dating to last sea- singled for the first hit of the Ka’aihue, to his credit, did a triple by Chris Getz, who
Rice. Seth Wollenhaupt went 3-for-4 with a son, to seven games over 11 inning, Yost grabbed the bull- get the sacrifice bunt down. scored on Melky Cabrera’s
game-winning single in the seventh. starts; he allowed two runs on pen phone to tell Blake Wood But the runner was stranded grounder. Escobar’s RBI sin-
Jefferson’s record improves to 4-2 overall. six hits, with three walks and to get ready. and the Royals had to sweat See CHEN, page 7
 www.delphosherald.com Wednesday, April 20, 2011 The Herald — 7

NBA PLAYOFFS Celtics overcome Melo’s

The Associated Press
FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7)
Tuesday’s Results
Boston 96, New York 93,
Boston leads series 2-0
Orlando 88, Atlanta 82, series
tied 1-1
Dallas 101, Portland 89, Dallas
leads series 2-0
Today’s Games
Denver at Oklahoma City, 8
p.m., Oklahoma City leads series
42 for 2-0 lead on Knicks
1-0
Memphis at San Antonio, 8:30
p.m., Memphis leads series 1-0
New Orleans at L.A. Lakers,
10:30 p.m., New Orleans leads
series 1-0
Thursday’s Games
Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.,
Chicago leads series 2-0 By HOWARD ULMAN driving to the basket. pass instead of going up with Rondo, threading his way
Miami at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.,
Miami leads series 2-0
The Associated Press Anthony matched his the shot. at high speed through New
Dallas at Portland, 10:30 p.m. career playoff high for points Knicks then fouled Delonte York’s big men, had 14 of
BOSTON — Amare and set a new high with 17 West, who made two free Boston’s first 18 points after

NHL PLAYOFFS
The Associated Press
FIRST ROUND
(Best-of-7)
Tuesday’s Results
Chicago 7, Vancouver 2,
Vancouver leads series 3-1
San Jose 6, Los Angeles 5,
OT, San Jose leads series 2-1
Today’s Games
Washington at N.Y. Rangers,
7 p.m., Washington leads series
2-1
Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7
p.m., Pittsburgh leads series 2-1
Philadelphia at Buffalo, 7:30
p.m., Philadelphia leads series
2-1
Anaheim at Nashville, 8:30
p.m., Nashville leads series 2-1
Detroit at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.,
Detroit leads series 3-0
Thursday’s Games
Boston at Montreal, 7 p.m.,
Montreal leads series 2-1
Chicago at Vancouver, 10
p.m.
San Jose at Los Angeles,
10:30 p.m.
Stoudemire didn’t play in the
second half and Chauncey
Billups didn’t play at all and
still the Boston Celtics need-
ed more late heroics from one
of their Big 3 to beat the New
York Knicks in Game
2 of their first-round
series.
“We were lucky
to win,” coach Doc
Rivers said after Boston
overcame Carmelo
Anthony’s 42 points
in a 96-93 victory on
rebounds as the Knicks held throws with 0.6 seconds to go. scoring just 10 in Game 1. He
a 53-37 advantage on the The Knicks had gone ahead went to the bench for the rest
boards. Toney Douglas had 91-88 with 2:35 left when of the quarter with the Celtics
14 points in place of Billups. Anthony took a pass beyond ahead 18-11 with 3:59 left.
Paul Pierce had 20 points the left arc and made a 3-point- Mavericks 101, Trail Blazers 89
after missing his first five er despite being bumped by DALLAS — Peja Stojakovic tied
shots and Ray Allen, Pierce. Pierce followed with his career playoff best with five
3-pointers and had 21 points and
who hit the game- two free throws, then both Jason Kidd continued showing off
winning 3-pointer in teams missed jumpers. a surprising scoring touch with 18
Boston’s 87-85 win in On the next possession, points, powering Dallas to a 2-0
lead over Portland in a first-round
the opener, scored 18. Pierce drove the lane to draw series.
Now the sixth-seeded a defender and fed a wide- Dirk Nowitzki scored 14 of his
Knicks, who have tested open Garnett for a dunk that 33 points in the final quarter for
Dallas, which hadn’t won the first
the third-seeded Celtics, put the Celtics on top 92-91 two games of a playoff series since
must win at least 1-of- with 49 seconds to go. the 2006 NBA finals.

MLB
Tuesday night. 2 at home to bring the Jeffries followed with a Portland led most of the first half
but the Mavericks went ahead on a
Kevin Garnett sank series back to Boston. layup, giving New York its 3-pointer by Kidd seconds into the
the go-ahead basket with “The Celtics didn’t last lead at 93-92 with 20 second half and never trailed again.
The Associated Press Washington 8 7 .533 1 1/2 14 seconds left then stole do anything special,” seconds left. Dallas spread out its scoring, tight-
ened up its defense and protected
American League Atlanta 8 10 .444 3 the ball with four sec- Anthony said. “They With the score tied at 59, the ball — zero turnovers the final
East Division
W L Pct GB
New York
Central Division
5 12 .294 5 1/2
onds remaining as the Knicks won two games on their home the Celtics went on a 15-4 28:42.
New York 9 6 .600 — W L Pct GB gave the Celtics all they could court. Now it’s our turn to go run led by Pierce’s seven LaMarcus Aldridge scored 24
and Gerald Wallace and Wesley
Tampa Bay 8 9 .471 2 Cincinnati 9 8 .529 — handle in falling into an 0-2 to our home court and try to points. Allen and Jeff Green Matthews regained their scoring
Toronto 8 9 .471 2 Milwaukee 9 8 .529 — hole in the series. do the same thing.” hit 3-pointers during the surge touch after struggling in the opener.
Baltimore
Boston
7 9 .438 2 1/2
5 11 .313 4 1/2
Chicago
St. Louis
8 8 .500
8 8 .500
1/2
1/2 “I probably (have) never Rivers wasn’t raving about that put Boston up 74-63 with But the Trail Blazers got only 11
points from their bench, none in the
Central Division Pittsburgh 8 9 .471 1 been more proud of a team his team’s play, either. 45 seconds left in the third. second half.
W L Pct GB Houston 6 11 .353 3 and how they battled the cir- “We didn’t execute very Then Anthony single- Magic 88, Hawks 82
Cleveland 12 5 .706 — West Division cumstances,” Knicks coach well,” he explained. “We handedly brought the Knicks ORLANDO, Fla. — Dwight
Howard had 33 points and 19
Mike D’Antoni said, “how played hard. ... Hard is great. back by scoring their first
Kansas City 11 6 .647 1 W L Pct GB
Detroit 8 10 .444 4 1/2 Colorado 12 5 .706 — rebounds, Jameer Nelson added
Chicago 7 10 .412 5 San Francisco10 7 .588 2 hard they played and how Hard and smart is better.” seven points of the fourth 13 points and eight rebounds and
Minnesota 6 11 .353 6 Arizona 7 8 .467 4 tough they played.” Garnett, who had 12 points quarter, while Boston man- Orlando held off Atlanta.
The Magic evened the best-of-7
West Division
W L Pct GB
Los Angeles 8 10 .444 4 1/2
San Diego 7 9 .438 4 1/2
Billups had a strained left and 10 rebounds, hit the deci- aged only a jumper by Pierce. series, with Game 3 Friday night in
Los Angeles 11 6 .647 — ——— knee and his status for Game sive jump hook after backing New York was making a Atlanta.
Texas 11 6 .647 — Tuesday’s Results 3 on Friday night at Madison Jared Jeffries into the lane. game of it, down only 76-74 Orlando used a 10-1 run to
close the third quarter to take an
Oakland 9 8 .529 2 Milwaukee 9, Philadelphia 0 Square Garden is uncertain. Anthony was the obvi- with 10:01 to play. At that 11-point lead into the fourth and
Seattle
———
6 12 .333 5 1/2 Arizona 5, Cincinnati 4
Houston 6, N.Y. Mets 1
Stoudemire had back spasms ous choice to shoot on New point, Anthony had scored the fought off a late Atlanta charge
Tuesday’s Results Florida 6, Pittsburgh 0 but expects to be back when York’s final possession. Knicks’ previous 13 points down the stretch.
After allowing the Hawks to
Tampa Bay 2, Chicago White Sox 1 San Diego at Chicago, ppd., rain the best-of-7 series resumes. So Pierce and Glen Davis and 18-of-20. become the first opponent in 16
Baltimore 11, Minnesota 0 Washington at St. Louis, ppd., rain Rajon Rondo led the swarmed him when he got the After a timeout, Ronny straight playoff games to score
Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 5, 10
innings
San Francisco 6, Colorado 3
Atlanta 10, L.A. Dodgers 1
Celtics with a career playoff- ball just inches from Boston’s Turiaf tied the game for the 100 points against it in Game 1,
Orlando’s defense tightened around
L.A. Angels 15, Texas 4 Today’s Games high 30 points, 14 of them in bench, forcing him to pass to Knicks at 76 with a short Atlanta’s shooters in Game 2. The
the first quarter when he kept Jeffries, who tried an interior jumper.

Bolland, Blackhawks rout Canucks to avoid sweep

Kansas City 5, Cleveland 4
Oakland 5, Boston 0
Seattle 13, Detroit 3
Today’s Games
Boston (C.Buchholz 0-2) at Oakland
(G.Gonzalez 2-0), 3:35 p.m.
Detroit (Porcello 0-2) at Seattle
(Bedard 0-3), 3:40 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Humber 1-1)
at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 1-2), 6:40
p.m.
Minnesota (Blackburn 1-2) at
Baltimore (Britton 2-1), 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Colon 0-1) at Toronto
(Cecil 1-1), 7:07 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Weaver 4-0) at Texas
(Harrison 3-0), 8:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Masterson 3-0) at Kansas
City (Hochevar 2-1), 8:10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Chicago White Sox (Floyd 1-1) at
Tampa Bay (Niemann 0-2), 6:40
p.m.
Minnesota (S.Baker 0-2) at Baltimore
(Guthrie 1-2), 7:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Tomlin 3-0) at Kansas
City (O’Sullivan 1-1), 8:10 p.m.
Boston (Beckett 2-1) at L.A. Angels
(Chatwood 1-1), 10:05 p.m.
Oakland (McCarthy 1-0) at Seattle
(F.Hernandez 1-2), 10:10 p.m.
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National League
East Division
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 10 6 .625 — Philadelphia (Oswalt 2-0) at San
Florida 9 6 .600 1/2
Chen
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gle made it 3-0 off Gomez
in the fourth, then back-to-
back doubles by Cabrera and
Gordon in the fifth were fol-
lowed by Jeff Francoeur’s
RBI single.
Santana had an RBI single
off Blake Wood in the eighth.
Brantley had three hits for the
Indians.
Orioles 11, Twins 0
BALTIMORE — Matt Wieters
drove in four runs, Vladimir Guerrero
hit a 3-run homer and the Baltimore
Orioles snapped an 8-game losing
streak by defeating Carl Pavano and
the Minnesota Twins 11-0 Tuesday
night.
Jake Arrieta (2-1) pitched six
innings of 4-hit ball for the Orioles, who
built an 8-0 lead in the fifth inning and
coasted to their first win in 10 days
after a 6-1 start. The 11 runs were a
season high; all of them came with
two outs.
Pavano (1-2) gave up seven earned
runs and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings. The
right-hander had allowed only one run
in his previous 16 innings.
Wieters hit an RBI single in the
third inning, a 3-run double in the fifth
and scored a career-high three runs.
Rays 2, White Sox 1
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — James
Shields struck out nine in a 4-hitter and
the surging Rays beat the White Sox
for their seventh win in eight games.
Shields (1-1) outpitched John
Danks and walked one in his sixth
career complete game.
Danks (0-2) gave up two runs and
seven hits in seven innings for the
White Sox, who have lost six in a row.
The left-hander struck out five and hit
two batters.
Blue Jays 6, Yankees 5, 10
innings
TORONTO — Travis Snider dou-
bled home the winning run in the 10th
inning and the Blue Jays beat the
Yankees.
Toronto scored twice off New York
closer Mariano Rivera in the ninth to tie
it before winning it against Ivan Nova
(1-2). Edwin Encarnacion opened the
10th with a single. After Jayson Nix
and Yunel Escobar flied out, Snider
drove a double to right center, scoring
Milwaukee (Narveson 1-0) at
Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 2-1), 1:05 p.m.
Washington (Lannan 1-1) at St.
Louis (Westbrook 1-1), 2:15 p.m.,
1st game
San Diego (Moseley 0-3) at Chicago
Cubs (Garza 0-2), 2:20 p.m., 1st
game
San Francisco (Cain 2-0) at Colorado
(De La Rosa 2-0), 3:10 p.m.
San Diego (Harang 3-0) at Chicago
Cubs (J.Russell 1-1), 7:05 p.m., 2nd
game
Arizona (I.Kennedy 1-1) at Cincinnati
(Arroyo 2-1), 7:10 p.m.
Houston (Norris 1-1) at N.Y. Mets
(Dickey 1-2), 7:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Morton 2-0) at Florida
(Nolasco 1-0), 7:10 p.m.
Washington (Zimmermann 1-2) at
St. Louis (J.Garcia 2-0), 8:15 p.m.,
2nd game
Atlanta (D.Lowe 2-2) at L.A. Dodgers
(Garland 0-1), 10:10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Arizona (D.Hudson 0-3) at Cincinnati
(Leake 2-0), 12:35 p.m.
Washington (Gorzelanny 0-1) at St.
Louis (Lohse 2-1), 1:45 p.m.
Atlanta (Jurrjens 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers
(Kershaw 2-2), 3:10 p.m.
Houston (Happ 1-2) at N.Y. Mets
(Capuano 1-1), 7:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 0-1) at
Florida (Volstad 0-1), 7:10 p.m.
Diego (Latos 0-2), 10:05 p.m.
Encarnacion with the winning run.
Jon Rauch (1-1) pitched one inning
for the win as Toronto snapped a
3-game losing streak.
Angels 15, Rangers 4
ARLINGTON, Texas — Angels
rookie first baseman Mark Trumbo
homered and drove in four runs to
back a solid outing by fill-in starter Matt
Palmer as Los Angeles broke out for a
victory over the Rangers.
Trumbo, playing his 24th career
game since his call-up last September,
had three hits. Maicer Izturis and Peter
Bourjos also homered among his four
hits for the Angels, who have won 10
of their last 13 games.
Palmer (1-0), in his second start for
injured Scott Kazmir, limited Texas to
one run and three hits over six innings.
The right-hander struck out three and
walked one.
Colby Lewis (1-2) took the loss.
Athletics 5, Red Sox 0
OAKLAND, Calif. — Brett Anderson
struck out eight and outdueled usual
Oakland nemesis John Lackey for
his first victory of the season as the
Athletics beat Boston to snap the Red
Sox’s 3-game winning streak.
David DeJesus got Oakland on the
board with a first-inning RBI groundout,
then Hideki Matsui added a 2-run dou-
ble and Daric Barton and Kurt Suzuki
each hit RBI singles in a 4-run eighth.
Anderson (1-1) didn’t even need all
that support in an efficient 109-pitch
outing in which he helped the A’s (9-8)
move over .500 for first time this year.
Boston remains winless away from
Fenway Park.
Mariners 13, Tigers 3
SEATTLE — Doug Fister struck
out a career-high seven in 6 1/3 innings
and the light-hitting Seattle Mariners
capitalized on 11 walks allowed by
Detroit, routing the Tigers.
The Mariners entered as the worst
hitting team in the American League
with runners in scoring position. That
quickly changed thanks to a first-inning
outburst kept alive by an error from
Detroit starter Phil Coke (1-3) and
a 2-out, 2-strike single from Chris
Gimenez that made it 4-0.
The clutch hitting continued in the
fourth when Chone Figgins got his first
hit all season with a runner in scor-
ing position, driving in Ichiro Suzuki.
Seattle added five runs in the seventh
off Detroit’s bullpen and the 13 runs
were a season high.
Fister (1-3) gave up two runs and
five hits.
Hawks shot 39 percent.
By RICK GANO conducts, one of those handed Sharks 6, Kings 5, OT at 6:53. Logan Couture pulled the
The Associated Press out to Torres. LOS ANGELES — Devin
Setoguchi scored 3:09 into overtime
Sharks to 4-3 with a shot that found
the upper right corner of the net at
“We were down by quite a to give the San Jose Sharks a 6-5 13:32.
CHICAGO — Dave few goals and there was a lot victory over the Los Angeles Kings, The Kings answered 5 seconds
Bolland’s long and difficult going on out there. We’ll just who blew a 4-goal lead, in Game 3
of their first-round playoff series on
later, with Ryan Smyth’s goal at
13:37 keeping them ahead 5-3.
road just to get back on the leave it at that,” Vancouver Tuesday night. Then the Sharks scored 54 sec-
ice landed him in the playoffs. coach Alain Vigneault said. The Sharks lead the series 2-1, onds apart to tie the game at 5-all.
And his Chicago Blackhawks The Blackhawks got an with Game 4 at Staples Center on
Thursday.
With Quick pulled wide right, Clowe
found plenty of open space for a
teammates were singing offensive lift from their defen- Setoguchi’s wrist shot beat shot on the left side at 18:35. Joe
“Welcome Back” after he semen as Brian Campbell and Jonathan Quick to cap the Sharks’ Pavelski’s shot hit the right post and
made sure they’ll get to play Duncan Keith scored 17 sec- rally from a 4-0 deficit in the second
period, when the teams combined
went in with 31 seconds left in the
second period, when the Sharks
at least one more game. onds apart in a 4-goal second for seven goals. outshot the Kings 18-8.
Bolland returned after period. Michael Frolik also After the offensive barrage in the Mitchell and rookie Kyle Clifford
missing 17 games with a con- had a second-period goal on a second period, both teams failed to scored 13 seconds apart during a
cussion and had an immediate breakaway after taking a pass convert scoring chances in the third,
when there were no penalties.
3-goal first period for the Kings.
Mitchell’s wrist shot and a back-
impact for a desperate team, from Bolland. It was the Sharks’ second over- hander by Clifford stunned Niemi
scoring a goal and assist- Bryan Bickell scored a goal time win of the series. They won the twice in the game’s first 2 1/2 min-
ing on three others Tuesday 1:43 into the game to get the opener 3-2.
Antero Nittymaki stopped 11
utes, getting and keeping the Kings’
white towel-waving fans on their feet.
night as the defending Stanley Blackhawks and the crowd shots after replacing Antti Niemi, Dustin Penner earned his first point
Cup champions routed the going. who was pulled early in the second of the series, assisting on Mitchell’s
Vancouver Canucks 7-2 to Sami Salo scored on a after the Kings scored their fourth
consecutive goal.
goal along with Dustin Brown.
Los Angeles led 3-0 when Michal
avoid elimination. power play for the Canucks Quick made 30 saves for the Handzus’ first goal of the series
Vancouver still leads the in the first period and Daniel Kings, who had no shots in overtime sailed under Niemi’s legs.
series 3-1, headed home for Sedin added a power-play goal when the Sharks had two.
Patrick Marleau triggered three
Brad Richardson won a faceoff
against Couture in the neutral zone,
Game 5 on Thursday night. on a tip-in in the final period. straight goals by the Sharks in the then had a takeaway in the offensive
“Obviously, he (Bolland) Chicago goalie Corey second when he tipped in a shot zone to set up his first goal of the
helped a lot tonight but he’s not Crawford had 21 saves and
at 3:08 for his first point of the playoffs 44 seconds into the second.
playoffs. Richardson got the puck by Niemi,
a guy who is going to change got a rare assist on Campbell’s San Jose’s Ryane Clowe scored who had lost his stick, to extend the
the series,” said Canucks goal for making the initial pass the game’s lone power-play goal to Kings’ lead to 4-0 and chase Niemi.
goalie Roberto Luongo, who to Kane. make it 4-2. The puck went off Willie The announced sellout crowd of
Mitchell’s left hand and into the net 18,216 was standing room only.
was pulled in the third peri-
od shortly after giving up his
sixth goal.
On March 9, Bolland took
an elbow to the head against
Tampa Bay — and for 5 1/2
weeks, he dealt with physical
problems and bouts of depres-
sion stemming from the con-
cussion.
“There was a time when I
didn’t think I was gonna come
back. You never know when
you’re going to get out of
the headaches, the fuzziness,”
Bolland said.
He passed a final test
Tuesday morning and after
getting acclimated during a
first shift, he provided some
of what the Blackhawks have
been missing.
“He gave us that spark
and not just offensively,”
Chicago’s Jonathan Toews
said. “He brings balance to
our four forward lines. He got
us going.”
Can the Blackhawks ride
the momentum into the next
game at Rogers Arena, where
they lost the first two games of
the series?
“The last time I checked,
we’re up 3-1 in the series. We’ve
done it all year. We’re a team
that’s overcome a lot of things,”
Luongo said. “Obviously we’re
disappointed we lost but if we
said we’re going to be up 3-1
after four games, we would
have taken it.”
Chicago’s Patrick Sharp
scored two power-play goals

NBA TEAM STATS

in a chippy final period that “Best in your field and ours!”
featured pushing, shoving,
jawing and a fight between
The Associated Press Philadelphia 2 162 81.0
Vancouver’s Kevin Bieska and 502 N. Main St., Delphos
Playoffs / Includes games of Tuesday, ——— Chicago’s Viktor Stalberg.
April 19, 2011 Team Defense The teams don’t like each
Team Offense

New Orleans 1
G Pts
109
Avg
109.0
Miami
Dallas
G
2
2
Pts
162
170
Avg
81.0
85.0
other to start with; things got
even testier after Chicago’s
419-695-1060
Oklahoma City 1
Denver 1
107
103
107.0
103.0
Boston
Atlanta
2
2
178
181
89.0
90.5
Brent Seabrook was ruled out
Memphis 1 101 101.0 New York 2 183 91.5 of Game 4 with an upper-body
L.A. Lakers
Chicago
1
2
100
200
100.0
100.0
Orlando
Chicago
2
2
185
189
92.5
94.5
injury, the result of a hard hit
San Antonio 1 98 98.0 Portland 2 190 95.0 to the head from Vancouver’s
Miami 2 191 95.5 Philadelphia 2 191 95.5 Raffi Torres.
Dallas 2 190 95.0 Memphis 1 98 98.0
Indiana 2 189 94.5 Indiana 2 200 100.0 “All score-related,” Chicago
Atlanta 2 185 92.5 New Orleans 1 100 100.0 coach Joel Quenneville
Boston
Orlando
2
2
183
181
91.5
90.5
San Antonio 1
Oklahoma City 1
101
103
101.0
103.0
explained of the final-period
New York 2 178 89.0 Denver 1 107 107.0 unpleasantries that featured
Portland 2 170 85.0 L.A. Lakers 1 109 109.0 numerous penalties for mis-
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From
Caution: ‘Scary’ annuities

the director’s
From DEAR BRUCE: My BRUCE WILLIAMS
husband is looking to retire
Chamber and he knows someone who
is suggesting annuities. It is
Smart

chair
Executive scary that you cannot touch
the money once you sign up
Director for the annuity. What is your
take on them? -- Toni, via Money
Jennifer Moenter e-mail
DEAR TONI: You
mentioned “someone” is had a credit union account
suggesting annuities. I would at McCord Air Force Base
be very surprised if that Credit Union. I had a small
someone is not an insurance savings account and before I

Chamber keeps businesses winning salesman. There are so many

annuities available today. It
is difficult to say that one is
shipped elsewhere I withdrew
all but about $25. After all the
time that went by, does the
against or for. However, more account close and go to the
In a traditional business merce. ones heart that one goes for a business, what do we and more salespeople are state property fund? -- B.O.,
setting, how does a company Each day, within any of to work, does the best one do? Give them their con- pushing variable annuities via e-mail
survive? Why does a busi- our businesses, we win cus- could and didn’t get “that” tact information if they are a of one kind or another, and DEAR B.O.: It’s coming
ness grow? Simply stated, it tomers, we lose customers. customer; one can sleep ok chamber member. It is truly most have one unfortunate up on 50 years since you
is because of customers, cli- Can we control a portion of at night. rewarding when the person characteristic -- the money returned safely home from
ents, members, patients, etc. the business we gain/lose? I recently talked with on the other end of the line must be left there for a Vietnam. After a period of
(For simplistic purposes, I Sure we can. Is there some a member and they didn’t says, thank one and I know substantial period of time, time when there is no activity
will refer to any of the above business that we would not even know I was “going to they will be contacting that which is usually seven or by the owner of the account
as customers in this column) get no matter how hard we bat” for them. They were business. The alternative more years, unless it’s left or (you), the credit union, bank
It’s a fundamental business worked to get it? Sure there almost shocked that they also happens, no, I am sorry if it’s withdrawn early. The or other agencies obliged to
concept – if one does not is. What is the goal? To win didn’t ask me to speak up – they are not a chamber penalties can be substantial. advertise the account on some
have customers, one does more than one lose! And, for them. I said, “Hey, it’s member. I get asked, well The older the annuity is local vehicle and if it’s not
not have business. Correct? isn’t it hard not to take it per- my job. This is what we do then how will I get a hold of the more troublesome that claimed, the money is turned
Yes. As most people know, sonal when we lose certain here at the chamber. If we them. The unfortunate thing could become. The money over to an estate. Any interest
the chamber is in existence customers? I know it is. For do not have members, we for the “non-member” busi- may very well be needed or that has been accrued up until
because of our members others, it’s like “yeah-yeah; would not exist.” If I were ness is that – people also talk wanted, there is obviously that time also goes to the
(those who pay a yearly I could walk on the moon not “going to bat” for busi- about that too. I’ve heard a distinction. In most estate. You can always claim
due to belong). Right? Yes, for so-and-so and they still nesses that are members, I it said, well I called the circumstances, I would want for recovering those funds but
just as any other business, wouldn’t be happy.” Any would encourage anyone chamber but they weren’t a a great deal of investigation the moment the state receives
we would not exist without business has those custom- and everyone to question member. You might say I by a neutral party (not the the money, the interest meter
businesses, individuals and ers or people to deal with. why I am in this position. am a little biased about the salesperson) before an is turned off permanently.
organizations being mem- Keep this in mind, if one Each time the phone rings chamber. Of course I am it’s annuity is considered. There There is maybe $20-$30
bers of our chamber of com- knows in ones head and and the person is looking my job! are situations where the bucks there that you could
income can be justified, but apply for. You can simply
move very softly. write to the Escheat fund in
BBB warns of Social Security scam DEAR BRUCE: What the state of Washington and
Your New Best Friend..... Recently, the BBB has victim hung up and realized
reverse mortgage company
will keep paying you on your
ask them if there are funds
held in your name. Don’t
been receiving inquiries what had happened (as is reverse mortgage when it is expect to get rich, but it’s not
The FREE Consumer Action Website — its got from consumers regarding a often the case) and proceed- already upside down. I’m a bad investment.
thousands of links to companies and government deceptive method of market- ed to call the bank to take sure a value was agreed upon DEAR BRUCE: Long
agencies — the names, numbers, advice, and con- ing “supplemental Medicare the necessary steps to protect and the payments will come time reader, but I don’t
nections you need to get your wrongs righted. insurance.” their money. until this amount is reached. remember you addressing
The approach varies If this happens: Credit cards don’t work when tax liens. We (my wife and I)
somewhat but in general it — Find out all the infor- their maxed out. -- G.G., via currently live in an apartment
Log on to www.pueblo.gsa.gov. and click on goes something like this: mation you can about the e-mail that, due to the owner’s
the FREE Consumer Action Web Site. The caller tells the elderly caller (the more questions DEAR G.G.: You raise economic problems, may be
recipient they must purchase you ask, the more frustrated an interesting point. Reverse foreclosed on in a year. We
www.pueblo.gsa.gov a “new social security card” the caller becomes because mortgages work like this, have no debts. Both of us
or the one they are current- they are looking for the “easy assuming there are no other are disabled, 65 years old. Is

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ly carrying will be no good mark” and may just hang up mortgages on a piece of buying a house through a tax
after a certain date. This is and not call back). property when making the lien a viable option? Paul, via
only the first statement that — If you do slip up and application and these can e-mail
is untrue. It is followed by a give out too much informa- be dealt with as well. The DEAR PAUL: Ordinarily,
INSURANCE series of “scare tactics” with
the sole purpose of frighten-
tion, call your bank and put a
fraud alert on your accounts
mortgage company agrees
to pay you in lump sum or
a tax lien refers to paying
the real estate taxes on the
AGENCY, INC. ing the intended victim into
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TROUBLE BATHING? requiring a new Medicare
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regular basis as an occupation
NEW WALK-IN In one instance reported, seniors should have it, get in and taxes are paid. The fact and frequently they prosper. I
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TUB OR SHOWER caller managed to convince agency that can give profes-
that their investment is upside
down is of no interest to you.
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Gov’t to expand airline tarmac-delay rule
By DAVID KOENIG
Associated Press
DALLAS — Federal offi-
cials are expanding a tarmac-
delay rule to prohibit airlines
from holding passengers on
stranded international flights
for longer than four hours.
The change stems from
a late-December debacle in
which several planes loaded
with international travelers
were stuck for up to 10 hours
on snowy New York runways.
That’s one provision in a
new passenger-protection rule
to be issued today. The rule
also will require airlines to
refund bag fees if they lose
customers’ luggage, to include
fees and taxes in advertised
prices, and to pay passengers
more if they get bumped from
Elida
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Administrative Professionals
Week during the week of
April 24-30; and Elida school
nurses for National Nurses
Week, May 6-12.
The board also approved a
resolution for the appreciation
of the district librarian and
recognized April as School
Library Media Month and
Alcohol Awareness Month.
The following resignations
were accepted: Certified—
Dennis Schwinnen, effective
July 1, 2011; Supplemental—
Randy Apple, Head Baseball
Coach, effective March 16,
2011.
The following non-renew-
al contracts were approved:
Long-term substitute teach-
ers—Denise Ellerbrock (Grade
3), Aletia Hartzler (Grade 1),
Amy Wannemacher (Grade
K); Nurse— Nicole Sweeney
(part time school nurse at
Temple Christian); Aides—
Donna Wauben (aide at Elida
Middle School); Custodians—
Adam Patrick, Cheyenne
Ridley; Supplementals—Mary
Lou Anthony (assistant march-
ing band), Dave Sandy (build-
ing tech.), Dennis Schwinnen
(National Honor Society), Tara
Freed (musical director), Perry
Luhn (Drama Club), Guy
Alexander (7th grade football
assistant), Michelle Cahill (high
school girls track), Ann Carroll
(high school basketball cheer),
Matt Dunahay (7th grade
wrestling), Mike Eilerman
(9th grade girls basketball and
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oversold flights.
Most of the new regulations
will take effect in four months.
U.S. Transportation Secretary
Ray LaHood, whose depart-
ment will issue the new orders,
said they were designed to
make sure airlines treat travel-
ers fairly.
“It’s just common sense that
if an airline loses your bag or
you get bumped from a flight
because it was oversold, you
should be reimbursed,” he said.
The new rule expands upon
last year’s 3-hour limit on tar-
mac delays for flights within
the U.S. Consumer advocates
complained that the rule didn’t
cover foreign airlines or inter-
national flights operated by
U.S. ones, but their protests
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(swimming), Kyle Harmon
(9th grade football and high
school wrestling assistant),
Jamie Hilborn (girls tennis, 50
percent), Art Holman (faculty
manager, 50percent), Nicole
Horvath (9th grade cheer),
Elise Jenkins (8th grade girls
basketball and 7th grade soft-
ball), Jessica Lawson (cheer),
Patrick Maginnity (swimming
assistant, 50 percent), Dan
Mathias (8th grade boys bas-
ketball), Dave May (faculty
manager, 50 percent), Tyson
May (boys tennis), Brent
McAdams (9th grade boys
basketball), Matt Pauf (JV
track), Danielle Pollock (var-
sity assistant softball), Randy
Prince (JV girls basketball
and varsity baseball assistant),
Andy Schimpf (7th grade foot-
ball), Matt Smith (8th grade
baseball and varsity boys bas-
ketball assistant), Steve Smith
(JV boys basketball), Traci
Sneary (8th grade volleyball),
Rick Snyder (JV girls basket-
ball), Deb Stetler (varsity girls
basketball), Leisa Stratton (9th
grade volleyball), Mo Sumpter
(varsity football assistant, 50
percent), Marty Thomas (fac-
ulty manager, 50percent), Tom
Thomas (varsity boys soccer),
Kelly Warris (JV girls soccer),
Scott Warris (JV boys soc-
cer), Michael White (8th grade
football assistant), Matthew
Willamowski (swimming
assistant, 60 percent).
Other personnel approved
for employment were: non-
certified— Substitute Bus
Drivers Mary Beth Miller,
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airports on the East Coast.
Several inbound flights,
including ones operated by
British Airways and Cathay
Pacific, were stranded at New
York airports with no chance
for passengers to get off the
plane for hours.
Transportation Department
officials acknowledged the
incident was a major factor
in their decision to impose a
4-hour limit on tarmac delays
for international flights.
Airlines that break the rule can
be fined up to $27,500 per pas-
senger — more than $10 mil-
lion for a fully loaded super-
jumbo jet like an Airbus A380
— although the government
has never imposed anything
close to the maximum.
Airlines also will be required
to provide food, water, work-
Cheryl Musto and Paula
Frankhouser; Supplemental—
F. Kevin Bowers (EMS Dean
of Students, 2010-2011);
Substitute Teachers—Gail
Gillham, Patricia Cassell,
Kathleen Heyward, Adam
Altenburger, Matthew Keasal,
Lisa Youngpeter, Sara Oswald,
Valerie Parsell; Van Drivers—
Tyson May and Kyle Harmon.
The board approved a
number of contract renewals.
Certified: District— Carol
Blymyer (3 yr.); Elida High
School/Middle School— Jeff
Amspoker (continuing), Kevin
King (continuing); Elida
Elementary— Trisha Adcock
(2 yr.), Amy Gephart (con-
tinuing), Rebecca Hanefeld (2
yr.), Natalie Langhals (3 yr.),
Kenneth Ogle (3 yr.), Shirley
Shoup (3 yr.), Karen Sudhoff
(2 yr.), Amanda Wiltsie (2 yr.),
Kelly Yarnell (3 yr.); Elida
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Tornado
Continued from page 1 National Weather Service
ing toilets and medical care says possible tornadoes
after two hours. were reported in suburban
In comments to the McCoy also said there was Columbus, the Lima area
Transportation Department, reported damage in Auglaize and just south of Cincinnati
airline trade groups said the County but he had no further by Wednesday morning.
details. He says the storms that hit
threat of penalties will force
The National Weather the state shortly before mid-
them to cancel more interna- Service will survey the dam-
tional flights if there’s a chance night brought 1 to 2 inches
age today to give the Tornado of rain to the western and
of a long delay. They warned an EF rating on its strength.
that with some international southern parts of the state.
Tornado warnings continued
flights operating only once across Ohio into the early That’s on top of 1 to 3 inches
of rainfall in some areas on
every few days, passengers morning hours.
could be stranded far longer McCoy added that the Tuesday.
Flash flood warnings
under the new rule. next possible severe weath-
On refunding bag fees for er outbreak is expected on were in effect for Butler and
Hamilton counties in the
lost luggage, the Transportation Friday across the Ohio val-
Department decided not to ley. Cincinnati area early today,
and more than three dozen
require refunds for bags deliv- Storms that soaked sev-
eral states overnight have counties were under other
ered late. Airlines are already
prompted flash flood warn- flood advisories.
required to compensate pas- There were approximate-
sengers for the value of lost ings in parts of Ohio, spurred
reports of several possible ly 1,700 customers in the
bags, regardless of whether a
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from 1:22 a.m. to 5:15 a.m.
55,000 customers without
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Aide—Jenny Long (continu-
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Knights of Columbus Patriotism Essay winners Inquiry into

First place
Megan Klausing
Second place
Steven Rickard
Third place
Evan Burgei
‘Three Cups’
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Being a good patriot is
Love of one’s own country something that should be Webster’s Dictionary, patri- By MATT VOLZ
is a com- very important to everyone. otism is the “love for or Associated Press
mon defi- Having patriotism shows that devotion to one’s country.”
nition of you actu- I believe HELENA, Mont. —
patriotism. ally care that patri- Montana’s attorney general
My view about your o t i s m launched an inquiry Tuesday
of patrio- country is much into the charity run by “Three
tism is this and the more than Cups of Tea” co-author Greg
and more. people that. To Mortenson after reports ques-
As a good in it. It’s be truly tioned whether Mortenson ben-
citizen I wanting patriotic, efited from money donated to
am proud nothing I believe build schools in Pakistan and
of and have but the best y o u Afghanistan.
a great Klausing for your should go Attorney General Steve
love for the country, Rickard above and Burgei Bullock’s statement Tuesday to
United States. But I also have and fighting beyond the The Associated Press follows
love and pride for my state, to keep it regular call investigations by “60 Minutes”
community, school and my that way. It’s staying posi- of duty to make a difference. and author Jon Krakauer into
church. My patriotism has tive when your country is Maybe that belief comes from inaccuracies in the book and
grown and developed over going through a tough time my Catholic background how money donated to the
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My sad cushy life REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

One of the web sites I visit
regularly has a section called
First World Problems, where
contributors post complaints
we hear every day about
things that are pretty much
non-problems in a big part
of this world where many
people live on a dollar a day;
where new cars, smooth roads
and regular meals are hard to
come by; where just getting
through another day is a job
all by itself. Once you read a
few, I’m sure you can come
up with a list of your own.
Here are a few I’ve probably
said myself:
I ordered decaf but I think
they gave me regular coffee.
Our patio furniture got
knocked over in last night’s
thunderstorm.
They’ve cut the budget
for the Gifted and Talented
program at Tiffany’s school.
Our plane to Disney
World was two hours late. It
was horrible.
Our dishwasher is on the
fritz. They can’t get to it for
two days.
You call this pasta al
dente?
I’m so disappointed.
Jim Mullen
The
Village
Idiot
My cat’s video
didn’t go viral.
The birds keep messing
up my BMW.
I just buy two fish fillets
for $3 and throw the one I
don’t eat away.
I threw out the potatoes
with eyes. They’re just so
creepy looking.
I hate when the two-ply
toilet paper splits into one-
ply!
I forgot to tape last night’s
episode of “Hoarders.”
The garage is so full of
junk we have to park the third
car on the street.
How many ringtones does
one child need to buy in a
month?
Crabgrass!
I wish our maid spoke
better English.
It takes us a half hour to
get to the nearest Cheesecake
Factory.
I bought non-clumping
cat litter by mistake. What a
disaster.
There was some pulp in
my pulp-free orange juice this
morning. I should write them
a letter.
We didn’t like the people
who rented out our beach
house this year.
I spent a half hour driving
around the mall looking
for a parking spot closer to
Abercrombie.
I never get the pretty nurses
when I stay at the hospital.
The food at my golf club
isn’t that great, but I eat there
anyway.
Why are all the roads
always under repair?
What do you expect for a
two-dollar cup of coffee?
I had to wait five minutes
to use the elliptical machine at
the gym.
I had to sit through a boring
PowerPoint presentation
before I could go to lunch.
I have to use a year-old
iPad.
Our dog walker called in
sick today, so I had to take
them out myself.
My company doesn’t offer
me enough choices in my
401k.
I forgot to mail back my
Netflix today, now I won’t get
a new one for two days.
I really don’t like those
low-flow toilets. Sometimes
they don’t get the job done.
We bought granite
countertops for the kitchen, but
now all the design magazines
are showing butcher-block
counters.
I had to wait for, like, ten
minutes at the “10 items or
less” line at the grocery store.
I don’t care what they say;
liposuction hurts.
I didn’t want to eat that
much popcorn but it was only
a dollar more to get the extra-
large.
Jim Mullen is the author
of “It Takes a Village Idiot:
Complicating the Simple
Life” and “Baby’s First
Tattoo.” You can reach him at
jim_mullen@myway.com
Copyright 2011, United
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FROM BABY TO GRADUATE
It seemed like just a few short years...
Van Wert County
Raymond G. Kiehl,
Joan K. Kiehl to Raymond.
G. Kiehl, Joan K. Kiehl,
portion of section 23, Tully
Township.
Andrea L. Hess to Zachary
D. Bricker, portion of section
32, Pleasant Township.
Eugene Eash, Kathy Sue
Eash, Kathy Eash to Alberta
Hartman, inlot 1496, Van
Wert.
Habitat for Humanity to
Kimberly C. Bissonette, inlot
1496, Van Wert
Tara J. Tinnel to Brian D.
Tinnel, portion of section 10,
Pleasant Township.
Nikki L. Carlin and Nikki
L. Goodwin to David E.
Goodwin, inlot 79, Wren.
Estate of William F.
Morris to Grace C. Morris, lot
47, Delphos subdivision.
Homesales Inc. of
Delaware to FFF Properties
LLC, outlot 127, Van Wert.
Estate of Jacqueline O.
Frey to Kent J. Frey, Roxanne
S. Steele and Donna J. Miller,
portion of sections 7, 5, 6,
Hoaglin Township, portion
of section 12, Hoaglin
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Michael L. Hill and Krista
M. Hill, by sheriff, to Citizens
National Bank, lot 259, Van
Wert subdivision.
Michael L. Hill, Mike
L. Hill and Dave Hill Jr., by
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Drama in the Tomorrow’s HI AND LOIS

Horoscope
neighborhood
By Bernice Bede Osol
Thursday, April 21, 2011

You won’t have to place too

much emphasis on your material
Dear Annie: We have I like. What really hurts is prospects, because things in this
lived for six years in a lovely to hear him talk about the department should work out to your
liking in the next year. Besides, most
neighborhood and have great lovely things he bought his of your greatest joys will come from
neighbors on both sides. My late wife. intangibles.
wife and I travel extensive- We come from different TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
-- Don’t hesitate to get involved in a
ly, often for months, and cultures. He doesn’t like my joint commercial endeavor, especially
both neighbors, “Jim” and music, my language or my if your partners are excited about the BLONDIE
“John,” have keys to our family. Every time I’ve gone subject. Enthusiasm heightens your
house and keep an eye on back to visit, I’ve had to go possibilities of success.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
things, reporting to us via alone. He makes no effort to -- Someone for whom you recently
e-mail even when our grown be part of my world. Annie, performed a kindness has filed it
children or in-laws stop by. is this really love? -- Lost in away in his or her memory bank to
make sure that it isn’t easily forgotten.
Last week, a police offi- Times Square It could be the day that he or she
cer came to our door saying Dear Lost: Love isn’t reciprocates.
that the neighbor measured by how CANCER (June 21-July 22)
-- You’ll get a lot further if you
across the street many gifts or cards aren’t hard-nosed in business-related
had reported you receive. And situations. Keep your behavior warm
seeing Jim and plenty of spouses and friendly and you’ll generate the
type of response you desire.
his wife walk- steer clear of the LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) --
ing through our in-laws. What Although an idea with which you’ve
yard, looking at matters is how he been toying may have a short shelf
our house and in treats you the other life, you should be able to utilize it
successfully by getting it to the right
BEETLE BAILEY
our windows. It’s days of the year. people. Strike while the griddle is
possible this hap- You are the only smoking.
pened while we one who can decide VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) --
It’s an excellent day to get together
were traveling, how important his with a few choice friends of yours, if
but we were last acceptance of your you find you have the time to do so.
away from home Annie’s Mailbox culture is in the The good mood everybody’s in will
stimulate the warmth of friendship.
nine months ago. overall picture and LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Find
Jim and his wife have whether his other qualities an appropriate buddy to collectively
two small dogs and spend a make up for these slights. go after something meaningful to you
both. You’ll be luckier doing things in
lot of time outdoors, occa- Dear Annie: This is in tandem rather than forging a solitary
sionally running through response to the letter from path.
our unfenced front and back “Help, Please,” the daugh- SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
-- There are strong indications that
yards, with our permission. ters-in-law who are searching you will be rewarded for something
We told the policeman this, for options for their aging in- you did for another in the past. It
and he was bewildered why laws. They should also speak won’t necessarily be a material gift; SNUFFY SMITH
it could just as well be a service or a
the other neighbor would to their local Department of kindness.
make the effort to call and Family Services, as they are SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
even take photographs of the ones who deal with the 21) -- If colleagues offer you some
Jim looking at our house. He Medicare and Medicaid pay- good ideas, you should consider
them, but without discounting your
said he’d talk to the neighbor ments for seniors. own notions. You may unconsciously
and defuse the situation. We had the same issues know certain facts that others don’t.
I called Jim the next day with my father-in-law. He, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
-- Unknowingly to you, friends who
and told them what happened. too, was worried about what have your best interests at heart may
My wife and I believe they would happen when his be working on something that could
have a right to know some- money ran out. The DFS improve your lot in life. It might
concern the romance department.
one called the police to com- people were invaluable with AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) --
plain about them. The next their help and in answering There is something in the works that
morning, there was a “For our questions. -- Been There could benefit you in some manner, so
don’t get impatient and rock the boat.
Rent” sign in Jim’s yard. in Wyoming Let things unfold in their own way HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
Were we wrong to tell Annie’s Mailbox is writ- and in their own time.
Jim? It apparently created a ten by Kathy Mitchell and PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
-- Lady Luck might be working
huge problem. Should we go Marcy Sugar, longtime edi- on something that would be more
across the street and speak to tors of the Ann Landers palatable for you than anything you
the neighbor and explain that column. Please e-mail your could put together. Give her plenty of
Jim watches our house for questions to anniesmail- room to operate and do her thing.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
us? Why didn’t they come box@comcast.net, or write -- Noticeable improvements in
to us instead of going to the to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o overall conditions should put you in
police? Should we encour- Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. an upbeat mood. This should help
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Confused
Dear Perplexed: You
were not wrong to tell Jim
about the complaint, although BORN LOSER
his reaction seems extreme.
If you want to play mediator,
go ahead, although first check
to see if there is a neigh-
borhood mediation group.
If your other neighbor did
not recognize Jim, his call
to the police was perfectly
understandable. But you can
gently explain that while you
appreciate his watching out
for you, you often ask Jim
to keep an eye on your home
when you travel. FRANK & ERNEST
Dear Annie: I married
a widower. Every time it’s
our anniversary, my birthday
or even Valentine’s Day, he
says he didn’t have time to
buy a card or a gift, telling
me, “I never know what to
buy you. It’s better if you
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Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster

By CAIN BURDEAU and
HARRY R. WEBER
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Relatives of the 11 men
who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig
are flying over the Gulf of Mexico today, back to
the epicenter of the worst offshore oil spill in the
nation’s history.
Meanwhile, on land, vigils were scheduled in
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to
mark the spill.
On the night of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater
Horizon, a rig operated by Transocean Ltd., burst
into flames as it was drilling a well for BP PLC,
killing 11 workers on or near the drilling floor.
The rest of the crew evacuated, but two days later
the rig toppled into the Gulf and sank to the sea
floor. The bodies were never recovered.
Over the next 85 days, 206 million gallons of
oil — 19 times more than the Exxon Valdez spilled
— spewed from the well. In response, the nation
commandeered the largest offshore fleet of vessels
since D-Day, and BP spent billions of dollars to
clean up the mess, saving itself from collapse.
Transocean invited up to three members of
each family to attend the flyover. They were
expected to circle the site a few times in a heli-
copter, though there is no visible marker iden-
tifying where their loved ones perished. At the
bottom of the sea, 11 stars were imprinted on the
well’s final cap.
Several families said they didn’t want to go on
the flyover, and Transocean decided to not allow
media on the flight or at a private service later in
the day in Houston.
The solemn ceremonies marking the disaster
underscore the delicate healing that is only now
taking shape. Oil still occasionally rolls up on
beaches in the form of tar balls, and fishermen
face an uncertain future.
Many questions still linger: Will the fishing
industry recover? Will the environment bounce
back completely? Will an oil-hungry public ever
accept more deepwater drilling?
Biologists are concerned about the spill’s
long-term effect on marine life.
“There are these cascading effects,” D’Elia
said. “It could be accumulation of toxins in the
food chain, or changes in the food web. Some
species might dominate.”
Meanwhile, accumulated oil is believed to lie
on the bottom of the Gulf, and it still shows up as a
thick, gooey black crust along miles of Louisiana’s
marshy shoreline. Scientists have begun to notice
that the land in many places is eroding.
For example, on Cat Island, a patch of land
where pelicans and reddish egrets nest among the
black mangroves, Associated Press photographs
taken a year ago compared with those taken
recently show visible loss of land and a lack of
vegetation.
“Last year, those mangroves were healthy,
dark green. This year they’re not,” said Todd
Baker, a biologist with the Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Land is eroding on sites where the oil has
killed vegetation, he said.
On a tour of the wetlands Tuesday, Robert
Barham, Louisiana’s wildlife secretary, showed
reporters the lingering damage.
Roseau cane is growing again where it was cut
away during early cleanup efforts, but Barham
said the 3- to 4-foot-high stalks should be a lush
green. Instead, they were pale green and brown.
“It’s because of oil in the root system,”
Barham said. He put his hand into the dirt and
pulled up mud saturated with oil. Tossing the
sludge into nearby water, it released a rainbow-
colored sheen.
Barham complained that BP had not done
enough to clean the area. “What they’ve done
thus far is not working.”
In the remote Louisiana marsh, there’s still
yellow boom in places — not to keep oil out but
to keep the tides from carrying oil to untouched
areas.
Confidence in Louisiana’s seafood is erod-
ing, too.
“Where I’m fishing it all looks pretty much the
same,” said Glen Swift, a 62-year-old fisherman in
Buras. He’s catching catfish and gar in the lower
Mississippi River again. That’s not the problem.
“I can’t sell my fish,” he said. “The market’s
no good.”
But the BP spill has faded from the headlines,
overtaken by the tsunami and nuclear disaster
in Japan, unrest in the Middle East and political
clashes in Washington.
“Nationally, BP seems like a dim and dis-
tant memory,” said Douglas Brinkley, a Rice
University historian. But the accident will have
long-lasting influence on environmental history,
he said.

Shuttle to launch on April 29 Portions of NC declared a disaster

By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
— NASA’s next-to-last space
shuttle flight is set to begin late
next week, and special prepara-
tions are under way in case the
commander’s wife, wounded
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is able
to attend.
Endeavour is scheduled to
blast off April 29 on its final
voyage, the second last before
the shuttle program ends.
Mission managers set the
launch date Tuesday.
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Mark Kelly, Giffords’ husband.
He is awaiting doctors’ permis-
sion for his wife to attend the
afternoon launch.
Giffords was critically
wounded in Tucson, Ariz.,
three months ago and has been
undergoing extensive rehabili-
tation at a hospital in Houston,
home to Kelly and the rest of
the astronaut corps.
Launch director Mike
Leinbach said he hopes Giffords
comes and stressed it would not
be a distraction to his team.
“There’s a whole sepa-
rate team working that issue,”
he told reporters. “Hope she
comes, but I don’t know if she
will or not.”
Leinbach said there are
security issues to deal with if
Giffords travels to Florida for
the liftoff. “Where does she go
and how many people ... there
are just all kinds of things.”
“I hope she comes,” he
added. “That would be cool.”
Kelly took a monthlong
leave from NASA to be at his
wife’s hospital bedside. He’s
flown three times before in
space, most recently in 2008.
Crew families view launches
at Kennedy Space Center from
a restricted area, so Giffords
likely will not be seen publicly
if she attends.
The six-man crew will arrive
Tuesday, shortly before the
start of the countdown. Liftoff
is scheduled for 3:47 p.m. the
following Friday.
Endeavour will fly to the
International Space Station and
deliver a $2 billion particle
physics experiment. The mis-
sion is scheduled for 14 days,
but NASA expects to add two
bonus days once the shuttle is
in orbit.
It will be the 134th shuttle
mission overall and the 25th for
Endeavour, NASA’s youngest
shuttle. It was built to replace
Challenger, which was destroyed
during liftoff in 1986.
By TOM BREEN and
MARTHA WAGGONER
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — The
tornado that carved through
North Carolina’s capital
killed four children, shuttered
a university for the rest of the
spring semester and felled the
signature trees in the metrop-
olis known as the “City of
Oaks.”
It was the most active sys-
tem of tornadoes on record in
the state’s history, leading to
23 deaths. In Raleigh, one of
the nation’s fastest-growing
cities, the death toll and prop-
erty damages underscored
the massive costs that can
be inflicted when a tornado
makes a rare venture into
areas of dense population.
In all, the storm killed
45 people in six states, but
North Carolina was by far the
hardest-hit.
More than three days after
the storm, crews struggled
Tuesday to restore electric-
ity and infrastructure there,
with a key commuting inter-
state briefly shut down to fix
downed power lines.
Outside her apartment in
downtown Raleigh, 71-year-
old Elsie McKeithan won-
dered whether residents
understood that a tornado
could strike an urban area,
especially with such feroc-
ity. The storm tore the roof
from the three-story apart-
ment where she lived, rain
pouring in.
“I don’t think anybody
grasped the concept it was
going to come through down-
town Raleigh,” she said.
Five blocks away, Shaw
University officials canceled
the remainder of the semester
because the storm ripped off
roofs and shattered windows
at campus buildings. Students
were to receive grades for the
work they had completed.
Up the road, even the head-
quarters of Progress Energy
— the utility that provides
electricity across much of the
region — lost power and had
to rely on a backup generator.
The electricity was restored a
day later.
The tornado inflicted its
worst damage just beyond
the city center, in a mobile
home park with winds over
110 mph. Rosa Gutierrez said
the tornado spun her trailer
off its foundation, smashed
windows and left her family
huddled together.
Inside, her husband said
prayers. Outside, she heard
car alarms, and then a neigh-
bor’s cries for help: “My kids
are under there! My kids are
under there!”
The neighbor, Christina
Alvarez, implored neigh-
bors to help lift the huge
tree that had flattened her
trailer, where she had taken
cover in a closet with her
infant daughter, son and two
nephews she was babysitting.
The three boys lay beneath
the tree.
“She was screaming,
‘Please take it off, get it
off them,’ but the tree was
too big,” Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez’s husband, Manuel,
leapt over the fallen tree. He
could feel the boys’ hands
under the branches, but knew
it was too late.
Alvarez was bleeding, and
in her arms was 6-month-
old Yaire Quistian Nino, who
was severely injured and later
died at a hospital.
“The baby’s head was
squashed,” Gutierrez said
quietly Tuesday at Heritage
High School in Wake Forest,
which had been turned into a
shelter for the residents of the
Stony Brook North Mobile
Home Park.
Yaire was the fourth
victim from the home. Her
9-year-old brother Daniel
Quistian-Nino and her two
cousins, 8-year-old Osvaldo
Coronado-Nino and 3-year-
old Kevin Uriel Coronado-
Nino were also killed.
The parents of the cousins
were at work and have been
in seclusion since Saturday,
but friends and neighbors
recalled a happy extended
family. The children were
outgoing and always had a
large cast of playmates in the
racially and ethnically diverse
mobile home park about five
miles north of downtown.
“We all know each other
here,” said Irene Ortiz
through a bilingual volun-
teer at the temporary shelter.
“They were my neighbors for
two years. The children were
always very happy, outside
playing. The boys’ mother
and father adored them.”

Russia leaves weapons program

By DOUGLAS BIRCH
Associated Press
What if a bank built WASHINGTON — Russia
is pulling out of a program that
lived the crisis that inspired its
creation. Russia came to regard
the intergovernmental program
as obsolete as the country’s
economy surged over the past
treated as a charity case.
In August, Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev’s
office issued a brief statement
announcing Russia’s with-

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government and other foreign
donors into the research labs
decade.
Russia’s U.S. ambassador,
Sergey Kislyak, who negoti-
drawal from the program in six
months. The center’s director,
Adriaan van der Meer, said he
that built the Soviet Union’s ated the establishment of the is negotiating the terms of the
vast arsenal of weapons of center, told The Associated closure and hopes to win an
mass destruction. Press that his country no longer agreement for “an orderly wind
Officials with the needs it. “The mission has been down” over the next several
International Science and accomplished,” he said. “It is a years of 355 Russian projects
Technology Center are nego- little bit outdated.” worth about $155 million.
tiating to close the Moscow U.S. congressional investi- Van der Meer said the cen-
headquarters of the organi- gators concluded that U.S. tax- ter will continue working in
zation, which was formed in payer money helped Russia’s Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and
1994, three years after the weapons institutes stay in busi- several Central Asian states,
Soviet Union collapsed. The ness by recruiting younger sci- where it runs about $95 million
center gave tens of thousands entists and retaining key per- worth of projects. Over the past
of experts in nuclear, chemi- sonnel who might otherwise 17 years, the center has tracked
cal and biological warfare the have moved to the West — a space debris, developed fusion
chance to engage in civilian finding at odds with the pro- power, searched for vaccines
research and work with col- gram’s goal of reducing the against deadly diseases like
leagues from the U.S. and other threat of weapons of mass Ebola and much more.
nations that once stood on the destruction. When the program began
other side of the Iron Curtain. Foreign aid programs after the collapse of the Soviet
The program helped pay the helped keep Russia afloat as it Union, the Russian econo-
salaries of Russian weapons lurched from crisis to crisis in my was in shambles and the
scientists who otherwise might the 1990s. But the Kremlin has government struggled to pay
have sold their services to been phasing these programs salaries in secret cities where
rogue regimes or terrorists after out in recent years, saying in armies of technicians, engi-
the Cold War, but it long out- effect it no longer needs to be neers and scientists designed
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