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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 BLUFFTON, INDIANA • Wells County’s Hometown Connection 50¢
Bluffton man ‘critical’ after crash
By CHET BAUMGARTNER
A Bluffton man remains in critical condition
after his vehicle crossed the center line on Ind. 1
after midnight Monday and collided with another
vehicle head-on.
Daniel W. Clements, 33, was unconscious and
pinned in his vehicle after the 12:28 a.m. accident
on Ind. 1 north of 800N; he suffered head injuries
and injuries to his right ankle and wrist.
A Lutheran Hospital representative could not
say if Clements had regained consciousness.
His passengers — wife Lindsay and children
Shelby, 8; Connor, 6; and Damian, 9 — were also
transported to Lutheran Hospital and treated.
Lindsay Clements complained of neck and knee
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pain; Shelby Clements reported neck and knee pain
and suffered an abrasion from the seat belt; Connor
was cut on his forehead, and Damian complained
of pain in his chest.
The driver of the other vehicle — Jeffrey A.
Zerkle, 52, Fort Wayne — said he injured his neck,
a finger and his right big toe. He was taken to
Parkview North Hospital.
Zerkle told Wells County Sheriff’s Deputy Chad
Bradley, who investigated the accident, that he was
driving north when Clements “abruptly” and completely
entered his lane.
Zerkle said he didn’t have time to avoid the collision.
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Shady continues his
career in food service
By KAYLEEN REUSSER
When Clyde Shady of Bluffton
purchased 16 acres of land
with his brother in 1997 on
400N just east of Ind. 1, it was
like coming back home.
“My family bought an
80-acre farm just one mile east
of here in 1932,” he said. “They
paid $5,700, which was a lot of
money then.”
At the time of the purchase
in 1997, Shady’s plans were to
create a truck patch of fruits and
vegetables on the extensive lot,
which was covered by woods.
Using a chain saw to clear
it, Shady was happy to discover
black dirt, which would be good
for a garden. “It had never been
farmed so all of the nutrients
were still there,” he said.
Today, Shady and his wife,
Phyllis, own the acreage. When
the weather starts to warm, he
can be seen in the 80-feet by
100-feet plot planting, weeding,
and watering the various plants.
In 2012 it stretched to 100 feet
by 100 feet, but that was more
than Shady could manage.
“I just want to grow and sell
enough to not drain our checkbook,”
he said.
Strawberry season is nearly
done, having begun in March.
One year Shady had 400 strawberry
plants. He has lowered
that number slightly but is still
thrilled with his strawberry production
this year. Clyde Shady of Bluffton has picked 300 quarts of strawberries in 2013.
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(Photo by Kayleen Reusser)
No one hurt in Markle crash
The Huntington County Sheriff’s Department and Markle Fire
Department respond to an accident Monday afternoon on Ind. 116
near U.S. 224. (Photo by Chet Baumgartner)
(Continued on Page 2)
By CHET BAUMGARTNER
Two Wells County residents
escaped serious injury Monday afternoon
when one apparently crossed
the center line in his vehicle on Ind.
116 near U.S. 224 in Markle.
Huntington County Sheriff Terry
Stoffel said Don Souder, age and specific
address not available, crossed
the center line in a Toyota while navigating
the curve just south of U.S.
224.
His vehicle hit from the side a
pickup truck driven by Ivan Beeks,
age and specific address not available.
Both drivers refused treatment.
The accident occurred between
1:30 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.
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Vol. 84 No. 205
TUESDAY
July 2, 2013
Moore draws ire
of judge in first
court appearance
By JESSICA WILLIAMS
Wells County Circuit Court
Judge Kent Kiracofe entered a
preliminary plea of
not guilty Monday for
Shawn L. Moore, 35,
who faces eight Class D
felony counts of receiving
stolen property in
connection to the recent
outbreak of vehicle
break-ins.
He was nearly found
in contempt Monday, as
well.
As Kiracofe read
Moore his rights during
his initial hearing Monday
afternoon, Moore’s
leg was stretched out in
front of him.
Moore, of Bluffton,
leaned forward when
he was told the possible
penalties for the Class
D felonies, for which he
was arrested Saturday.
Throughout his hearing,
Moore interrupted
Kiracofe several times,
leading to a warning
from the judge.
Amanda Johnson, 31, of Bluffton,
also appeared in court in connection
to the break-ins on one
count of fraud – using someone’s
stolen debit or credit card – and
one count of receiving stolen
property, both Class D felonies,
for thefts on June 19.
A preliminary plea of not guilty
was entered for Johnson as well.
When the judge said Moore
was facing eight felony charges,
Moore questioned them.
“I’m not understanding the
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charges,” he said.
Deputy prosecutor Rick Myers
explained that the property of
eight different victims
was found in his Chevy
Cobalt, leading to the
eight counts.
Moore also questioned
his bond and why
it was so high.
When he was told
$5,000 on each Class
D felony led to the
$40,000 combination
bail, $30,000 cash and
$10,000 surety, he interrupted
the judge.
Kiracofe told Moore
to stop interrupting him
and later warned Moore
for his language.
“These are serious
allegations you’re
charged with, sir,” Kiracofe
said.
When later asked to
answer a question out
loud, Moore initially
refused and only nodded.
Kiracofe told Moore
he must answer audibly.
“I’m sorry, I was mad at you,”
Moore said.
Larry Mock was appointed
Johnson’s public defender. She
received a pre-trial hearing date of
Sept. 4 at 1 p.m.
Moore received Jeremy Nix as
his public defender. His pre-trial
hearing date is Sept. 4 at 9 a.m.
Monday’s hearing was not
Moore’s first encounter with the
law. He was convicted in 1995 of
conspiracy to commit murder.
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Celebrations and closures
to mark Independence Day
It’s almost time again for the
Fourth of July.
With it comes celebrations –
and closures.
The Bluffton Independence
Day celebration is set for Thursday
evening at the Bluffton High
School/Bluffton Middle School
campus.
Adam Strack will present a
concert, which will begin at 8 p.m.
rain or shine. In the event of rain,
the concert will be held inside
Bluffton Middle School.
Fireworks will then be set off
at 10 p.m. near Bluffton High
School. Seating will be available
in the Fred F. Park Field grandstand,
but people are also encouraged
to bring their own lawn
chairs and blankets.
Concessions will be available
for purchase.
According to the City of Bluffton’s
website, carpooling, walking
and biking is encouraged as the
means of getting to the festivities;
parking along Harrison, Spring,
Stogdill and Wayne streets in the
area is prohibited.
In the event of rain or high
winds, the fireworks will be held
Friday night.
The Wells County Public
Library will close at 5 p.m.
Wednesday, July 3, and remain
closed through Thursday in observance
of Independence Day.
The Wells County Courthouse
and Bluffton’s City Hall are closed
Thursday as well, and there will be
no mail delivery.
Can a state without same-sex
marriage have same-sex divorce?
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An
Indiana man who married his
same-sex partner in Massachusetts
is testing his home state’s legal
boundaries, having filed a divorce
petition there despite the state’s
refusal to recognize such unions.
Donald Schultz Lee doesn’t
meet the residency requirement
for a divorce in Massachusetts, so
his attorney filed his petition to
divorce Justin Schultz Lee with
the Marion County clerk’s office
in Indianapolis.
Clerk Beth White told WISH-
TV that last week’s U.S. Supreme
Court ruling on the Defense of
Marriage Act is likely to “create
some situations I think all around
the state of Indiana that many of us
are not used to handling.”
Indiana courts have already
ruled that the state doesn’t recognize
same-sex divorce. State
law defines marriage as a union
between a man and a woman, and
lawmakers are expected to push
next year to write that ban into the
Indiana constitution.
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Bluffton man ‘critical’
(Continued from Page 1)
Lindsay Clements said
she was sleeping before the
crash and did not know what
happened.
Zerkle voluntarily submitted
to a blood draw at
Parkview. Bradley contacted
a judge and obtained
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“We picked about 300
quarts,” he said.
He plants the breed of
strawberry called Honeye.
“They are sweet and produce
well,” he said.
He staggers the growth
of the strawberry plants to
maintain a steady production.
While a strawberry
plant may last up to five
years, it does not usually
produce well the first or
second years. By the third
year it is productive, then it
begins tapering off the following
two years. A plant
Same-sex divorce?
(Continued from Page 1)
Kathy Harmon, the attorney
for Donald Schultz Lee,
said laws need to change in
Indiana or Massachusetts in
order for her client to dissolve
his marriage.
“If we’re successful, my
client gets a divorce, which
a search warrant to obtain a
sample of Daniel Clement’s
blood.
Both were sent to the
Indiana Department of Toxicology
for testing; the investigation
is pending until
results are returned.
The Indiana State Police,
Ossian Police and Ossian
usually must be replaced
after the fifth year.
Although the strawberries
are nearly done for this
year, Shady has plenty of
work in caring for the rest of
his plants. He plants green
beans, potatoes, onions, lettuce,
radishes. In the fall
there are pumpkins. Besides
weeding, Shady hand waters
each plant, using jugs he
fills at home and transports
to the garden in the back of
his truck.
Shady has worked in the
food industry most of his
life. After working at his
is what he’s seeking,” Harmon
said. “If that makes
new law, then that makes
new law.”
Harmon said she expects
Judge David Shaheed to
reject the divorce petition
but plans to appeal if that
happens.
Fire Department also
responded to the accident.
Firefighters had to extract
Daniel Clements, who was
pinned for about 10 minutes,
Fire Chief Ben Fenstermaker
said.
Damage exceeded
$5,000.
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family’s store in Bluffton —
Farling’s Finer Foods — he
later worked for Maloley’s
Supermarkets, Wiseguy
Foods in northern Indiana
and another grocery store in
Wisconsin. Upon retiring in
2005, Shady has put his love
for produce into his garden
The labor-intensive work
might intimidate another
gardener but Shady is content.
“I’ve thought about
reducing the size of the garden,
but it gives me something
to do,” he said.
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Donald Schultz Lee said
he doesn’t want to be a pioneer
and simply wants to
end his marriage.
“Unfortunately, my marriage
didn’t work out,” he
said. “That happens, and
I’m just proceeding with my
life the way anyone would.”
U.S., World Roundup
NSA leaker Snowden ends
asylum request to Russia,
faces hurdles in Europe
MOSCOW (AP) — NSA leaker Edward
Snowden’s attempts to seek refuge outside
the United States hit hurdles Tuesday, after
Russian media reported he canceled his
asylum bid in Russia and several European
countries said such applications wouldn’t be
considered if they were made from abroad.
Russian news agencies Tuesday quoted
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry
Peskov as saying that Snowden withdrew
his request when he learned about
the terms Moscow has set out. Putin said
on Monday that Russia is ready to shelter
Snowden as long as he stops leaking U.S.
secrets.
At the same time, Putin said he had no
plans to turn over Snowden to the United
States.
Several of the other countries where the
WikiLeaks says Snowden has applied for
asylum have said he cannot apply from
abroad. Officials in Germany, Norway, Austria,
Poland, Finland and Switzerland all
said he must make his request on their soil.
WikiLeaks said requests have also been
made to Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador,
France, Iceland, India, Italy, Ireland,
Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain and Venezuela.
Egypt’s military says it will
intervene unless Morsi
meets protester demands
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military issued
a “last-chance” ultimatum Monday to President
Mohammed Morsi, giving him 48
hours to meet the demands of millions of
protesters in the streets seeking the ouster
of the Islamist leader or the generals will
intervene and impose their own plan for the
country.
The military’s statement, read on state
TV, put enormous pressure on Morsi to step
down and sent giant crowds opposing the
president in Cairo and other cities into delirious
celebrations of singing, dancing and
fireworks. But the ultimatum raised worries
on both sides the military could outright
take over, as it did after the 2011 ouster of
autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
It also raised the risk of a backlash from
Morsi’s Islamist backers, including his powerful
Muslim Brotherhood and hard-liners,
some of whom once belonged to armed militant
groups. Already they vowed to resist
what they depicted as a threat of a coup
against a legitimately elected president.
Pro-Morsi marches numbering in the
several thousands began after nightfall in a
string of cities around the country, sparking
clashes in some places. An alliance of the
Brotherhood and Islamists read a statement
at a televised conference calling on people
to rally to prevent “any attempt to overturn”
Morsi’s election.
“Any coup of any kind against legitimacy
will only pass over our dead bodies,”
one leading Brotherhood figure, Mohammed
el-Beltagi, told a rally by thousands of
Islamists outside a mosque near the Ittihadiya
presidential palace.
Obama defends U.S. spying
on Europe and others as
normal for all nations
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Barack Obama had a simple answer to
European outrage over new allegations that
the U.S. spies on its allies: The Europeans
do it too.
Obama said Monday during his trip to
Africa that every intelligence service in
Europe, Asia and elsewhere does its best
to understand the world better, and that
goes beyond what they read in newspapers
or watch on TV. It was an attempt to blunt
European reaction to new revelations from
National Security Agency leaker Edward
Snowden that the U.S. spies on European
governments.
“If that weren’t the case, then there’d be
no use for an intelligence service,” Obama
told reporters in Tanzania.
“And I guarantee you that in European
capitals, there are people who are interested
in, if not what I had for breakfast, at least
what my talking points might be should I
end up meeting with their leaders,” Obama
said. “That’s how intelligence services operate.”
European spies have been spying on the
U.S. for years, according to two former
intelligence officials who spoke on the condition
of anonymity because they weren’t
authorized to discuss espionage programs.
They said such spying includes tracking
senior U.S. officials to see what they are
doing in countries like France and Germany,
which have both complained bitterly about
the EU reports.
Kerry: U.S., Russia want
transitional government
for Syria ‘sooner than later’
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei
(AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
says both the U.S. and Russia are seriously
committed to holding an international conference
to set up a transitional government
to end the Syrian crisis.
Kerry says the two countries both believe
the meeting should take sooner rather than
later, but acknowledged it might not be possible
until August or later.
Kerry spoke outside the U.S. Embassy in
Brunei after a 90-minute-plus meeting with
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on
the sidelines of an Asian security summit.
Russia has been a key backer of Syrian
President Bashar Assad regime’s in the twoyear
civil war that has claimed more than
93,000 lives.
Kerry said the objectives of both countries
remain the same — to “save the state of
Syria and to minimize destruction.”
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Urban-rural alliance does not
stay intact for farm bill vote
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For
decades, country and city interests had come
together every few years to pass the farm
bill, a measure that provided billions of dollars
in subsidies to farmers and businesses in
rural areas and food stamp money for urbanites.
No more.
The recent defeat of this year’s farm bill
— traditionally a sturdy, albeit lonely pillar
of cooperation in Washington — highlighted
how the country-city political marriage
became yet another victim of partisan politics
in polarizing times. The divorce throws
into doubt the future of sweeping agriculture
and nutrition spending.
Here’s how the breakdown of a longtime
coalition happened: Newly emboldened
conservative groups pressured rural-state
Republicans — many representing agricultural
districts — with radio ad campaigns to
oppose the five-year $940-billion bill, calling
its proposed cuts to food stamps too little.
Hardly faultless, Democrats, whose districts
mostly encompass urban areas home
to food-stamp recipients, refused to budge
on cuts they considered too deep. Each party
was fearful of angering their core supporters.
It was the height of partisanship over a
measure that long had been devoid of it.
“That kind of thing wouldn’t have happened
at another moment in time,” said Rep.
Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania Democrat
who opposed the measure.
Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., voted for it,
and bemoaned the result of House failure to
pass it: “Doing nothing is worse than doing
something.”
Traditionally, Democrats and Republicans
have worked closely together to pass
farm bills.
Long ago, conservative rural lawmakers
whose numbers in Congress were shrinking
became aware that they alone couldn’t
muster enough votes to pass a measure paying
for farm programs. So they agreed to
include food-stamp money in the farm bill
in exchange for support from their more liberal
urban peers.
It was a mutually beneficial relationship.
Conservative lawmakers were mindful that
the measures included subsidies for farmgrowing
regions home to their core constituents,
while liberal lawmakers were keenly
aware that they contained dollars for food
assistance that largely went to their bedrock
voters in big cities. Each party needed the
other to pass the measure that melded both
farm and food money, and it almost always
passed with bipartisan support.
But this year, when House Speaker John
Boehner urged lawmakers to support the
bill and put it up for a vote, it failed to get
enough support, shocking longtime congressional
observers and lawmakers alike. Tea
party-backed conservatives refused to budge
in their demands for even deeper cuts to the
food stamp program, which has doubled in
cost over the last five years to almost $80
billion annually and now helps feed 1 in 7
Americans.
The House version already had proposed
slashing the $955 billion version of the bill
that the Democratic-controlled Senate had
passed by $20.5 billion in food-stamp cuts.
That wasn’t enough for some Republicans
and their allies, who were looking ahead to
the 2014 midterm congressional elections
and worried about the impact of supporting
the measure.
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Obituaries
Rebecca Heare, infant
Rebecca Mukisa Heare, infant daughter of Bud and
Irene Heare, passed away on Friday June 28, 2013, at
Riley Hospital in Indianapolis.
Rebecca was born on Nov. 4, 2012, in Uganda and
was loved and raised in America by her forever family.
Rebecca was united with her forever family by a true
miracle of God. Rebecca brought much joy and faith to
many with her gentle smile, laugh and big brown eyes.
Rebecca came into the world without much love but left
knowing she was loved by many.
Rebecca is a member of the Rock Church, Portland.
She is survived by her parents Bud and Irene Heare of
Portland; older brother James C. Heare and older sister
Emily E. Heare, both of Fortville; grandparents Clara J.
“Red” Newbold of Geneva; honorary grandparents Jajaa
Kim McAbee of Portland, Mark and Midge Hinshaw of
Portland and Dick and Nila Johnson of Decatur; Honory
Uncle Jeff and Aunt Linda Horsman of Portland; godparents
Josh and Molly Butler of Decatur; and aunts and
uncles Jerry and Diane Brown of Decatur, Rose Jenkins
of Decatur, Rose Combs of Decatur, Jim and Norma
Newbold of Berne.
She is survived by many other aunts, uncles and cousins
and many others that called her their own.
She was preceded in death by David and Evelyn
Heare and Gerald “Jerry” Newbold.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in
the Baird-Freeman Funeral Home in Portland. Private
family services will be held.
Memorials can be made to the Sanyu Babies Home
Medical Fund in care of the Rock Church. Checks can
be made to the Rock Church.
Arrangements are being handled by Baird-Freeman
Funeral Home in Portland.
Online condolences at www.bairdfreeman.com
Nancy P. Carroll, 78
— arrangements pending
Nancy P. Carroll, 78, of Bluffton died at 1:25 p.m.
Monday, July 1, 2013, at River Terrace Estates in Bluffton.
Funeral arrangements are pending at this time with
the Thoma/Rich, Chaney & Lemler Funeral Home in
Bluffton.
Police Notebook
INCIDENTS
City:
Monday, 12:07 p.m., report someone
threw fireworks from a vehicle at McDonald’s,
984 N. Main St.
Monday, 6:32 p.m., someone stole a red
2004 Dodge Ram pickup truck from Parlor
City Pawn, 2357 N. Main St. Incident
remains under investigation.
Monday, 6:48 p.m., Save-On Liquor
South. Report of a man and a woman arguing
in the parking lot. Officers responded.
David Crenshaw, 23, Fort Wayne, arrested
on a warrant out of Allen County charging
him with failure to appear in court.
Monday, 7:50 p.m., Rich Lautzenheiser
accidentally backed into the mailboxes at
Valley Park Apartments.
Monday, 8:50 p.m., report of a man
shooting fireworks toward the Pak-A-Sak
south gas station, 904 S. Main St. An officer
spoke with the man who said he was shooting
them out over the street.
Monday, 9:14 p.m., report of a 13-yearold
girl smashing glass bottles in the street
in the Sleepy Hollow mobile home park.
When a neighbor reportedly asked her to
refrain from the activity, she reportedly
responded by smashing another bottle. Officers
responded and spoke with the girl and
her mother.
Monday, 11:07 p.m., two tires slashed
on a vehicle parked in the 500 South Beth
Street.
County:
Monday, 1:05 p.m., Uniondale man
received a call from someone claiming to be
from the sheriff’s department and asking for
personal information. The call actually came
from someone in Sabin, Minn.
Monday, 4:30 p.m., someone stole a stop
sign from the intersection of Meridian Road
and 1000N.
Monday, 4:36 p.m., 1000N east of 300W.
Officer pulled over Tim Shake, rural
Ossian, and cited him for driving while suspended.
ACCIDENTS
County:
Monday, 12:46 p.m., Hoosier Highway
at a curve just west of Ash Road. Marcus J.
Hill, 33, Fort Wayne, driving a box truck for
Iron Mountain Information Management of
Mt. Laurel, N.J. Truck hydroplaned, went
off the road, clipped an REMC pole and
then broke a second pole in two, knocking
out power to the area. Total damage exceeded
$2,500.
Monday, 5:30 p.m., 600E north of
700N. John D. Buskirk, 45, rural Blufton,
was southbound on 600E in a pickup truck
when he tried to make room for an oncoming
vehicle as he approached a bridge. He
moved over too far, overcorrected when
coming back onto the road, the truck spun
sideways and struck a bridge barrier. Damage
exceeded $2,500.
Monday, 11:45 p.m., Ind. 116 south of
200N. Justin J. Miller, 19, Ossian, hit a deer
with a sport utility vehicle. Damage to the
vehicle exceeded $1,000.
FIRE RUNS
Monday, 2:32 p.m., report of smoke in
the basement of a residence at 1100NW-Ind.
116. Uniondale Fire Department responded.
Incident was terminated by 3:13 p.m.
Monday, 5:26 p.m., Wells County Public
Library, 200 W. Washington St. Woman
stuck in the elevator. The elevator had
moved about three feet up from the ground
floor and stopped and the doors would not
open. Firefighters used a tool to force the
doors open and the woman was able to step
out of the elevator.
ARRESTS
Darren Lee Sively, 26, Huntington; probation
violation. No bond set.
Jeremy J. Turner, 39, Fort Wayne; dealing
methamphetamine and possession and/
or sale of precursors for the manufacture of
methamphetamine. Bond set at $25,000.
Drainage Board will do away with per diem pay
By JESSICA WILLIAMS
County Surveyor Jarrod Hahn
told the Wells County Drainage
Board members that they would
be paid $59.58 per meeting for the
rest of the year at Monday’s regular
meeting.
When it comes time for the Wells
County Council to determine the
budget for next year, however, the
decision to continue per diem pay
TIPTON, Ind. (AP) — A consumer
advocacy group that backs
a proposed central Indiana wind
farm has accused the project’s
opponents of spreading misinformation
about the electricity-generating
turbines in an attempt to
keep it from being built.
The Indianapolis-based Citizens
Action Coalition sent a letter
to the Tipton County Plan
Commission last week calling the
opponents’ arguments off-the-wall
and unsubstantiated, the Kokomo
Tribune reported.
or to wrap the pay into the commissioners’
salaries will lie with County
Council, Hahn said.
He said he has budgeted $55 per
meeting for next year if the council
wants to continue per diem.
By consensus, the drainage board
members, who are also Wells County
Commissioners – Kevin Woodward,
Blake Gerber and Scott Mossburg
– decided they would rather
One wind farm developer last
year finished building 125 turbines
in Tipton County and neighboring
Madison County, while some residents
of Tipton and Howard counties
are fighting plans by another
company to put up nearly 100
more turbines.
Jeff Hoover of Tipton County
Citizens for Responsible Development,
a group that opposes the
project, said it’s time for county
officials to realize how many
people don’t want industrial wind
farms in the area about 40 miles
have the payment included with their
commissioners’ pay.
In other business, the drainage
board approved a project near the
Wells-Adams county line.
Jody Kraatz requested an allowance
to build a structure within 30
feet of the joint Werling Lambert
drain’s right-of-way.
With the qualification that Kraatz
would pay for cleaning expenditures
north of Indianapolis.
“We have provided scientific
and empirical data,” Hoover said.
“That data shows property value
loss and health and safety concerns.
Every group has the right to
their own opinion.”
Colorado-based juwi Wind
is seeking approval to build
about 90 turbines for the Prairie
Breeze Wind Farm in a rural area
northwest of Tipton. Its request
includes a reduction in the county’s
required 1,500-foot distance
between the wind farm’s turbines
in the future, the allowance was
approved 3-0.
Hahn also provided a few updates:
• The contractor started the Shady
Tile project Friday.
• The project at 500s and 500W is
slated to begin today.
• The Wabash River near Ind.
303, about 1,000 feet downstream,
needs clearing out.
jessicaw@news-banner.com
FSSA lets
some info
be open
to public
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— The personal information
of at least 14 Indiana welfare
clients was shared with
others because of a contractor’s
computer programming
error, Indiana officials
said Monday. The security
breach potentially affects
more than 187,000 people.
The Indiana Family and
Social Services Administration
said some of the personal
information possibly
shared with others included
the Social Security numbers
of as many as 3,926 clients.
“We do not believe this
was a widespread disclosure
of information,” FSSA
spokesman Jim Gavin said
in an email message. “To
this day, we have been made
aware of 14 instances where
information was received by
the wrong person.”
A programming error
by FSSA contractor RCR
Technology Corp. resulted
in an undetermined number
of documents being sent to
the wrong clients. In addition
to the Social Security
numbers, FSSA said, information
disclosed possibly
included monthly benefit
amounts; financial information,
such as monthly
income and expenses, bank
balances and other assets;
and medical conditions.
“We are ultimately
responsible for the safekeeping
of that information
and regret that in this rare
instance some information
may have been accidently
shared inappropriately,”
FSSA Secretary Debra
Minott said in a statement.
The error occurred April
6 and affected correspondence
sent to clients from
that date until May 21,
FSSA said.
Consumer group backs Tipton County wind farm
Large hog farm near youth camp OK’d
MONTICELLO, Ind.
(AP) — A northern Indiana
county approved plans
Monday for a 9,200-hog
farm near a youth camp
whose leaders fear the
farm’s odors will impact life
at the popular camp.
The White County Commissioners
approved a zoning
petition allowing for the
farm’s construction following
two hours of testimony
for and against the farm,
which will be about a halfmile
from the YMCA-operated
Camp Tecumseh.
Six children wearing
YMCA T-shirts who attended
the meeting carried signs,
one of which accused the
hog pig industry of being
bullies.
The camp’s activities
include camps for children
with asthma and kidney
troubles, and those who
have suffered burns. The
90-year-old facility attracts
more than 35,000 campers
a year.
Local farmer John Erickson
plans to build two large
hog barns about a half-mile
from Camp Tecumseh,
which is about 20 miles
north of Lafayette.
The Journal & Courier
reported that Camp Tecumseh
CEO Scott Brosman
told the commissioners he’s
convinced the farm will
cause water contamination
or odors to waft over the
600-acre camp, impacting
its outdoor activities.
“That’s our biggest concern,”
Brosman said last
week. “If people start and
continue to notice odors,
the chances of them coming
back diminish greatly.”
The commissioners’
3-0 vote changes the zoning
for a 7-acre tract from
agricultural to agriculturalindustrial
— a designation
that allow for a more intense
agricultural use of the land.
That will allow Erickson to
build a concentrated animal
feeding operation capable of
housing nearly 10,000 hogs
in two buildings.
Before Monday’s
approval by the county
commissioners, Erickson
had already received a state
permit for his planned hog
farm and approval from the
White County Plan Commission
for the project.
Heading into Monday’s
meeting, Erickson
had assured camp officials
that the hogs — and their
manure — would have no
effect on Camp Tecumseh.
Erickson, a fifth-generation
farmer, spoke briefly at
Monday’s meeting, calling
the big hog farm a natural
extension of his longtime
family farm.
Erickson’s attorney, Joe
Bumbleburg, told commissioners
the hog farm represents
the type of farming the
county wants. He noted that
the county approved a plan
in 2011 calling for entrepreneurial
farming.
Dueling marriage rallies draw hundreds in Fort Wayne
FORT WAYNE, Ind.
(AP) — Two rallies supporting
opposing views of marriage
have drawn hundreds
of people to the lawn of the
Allen County Courthouse.
The Stand Up for Marriage
Rally sponsored by
several ministers Monday
promoted marriage from a
biblical perspective and as
a foundation of culture and
the role marriage plays in
religious liberty.
The Journal Gazette
reports police estimated
about 400 people gathered
for the ministers’ rally while
State: Most OK with smoking ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say only a tiny
percentage of businesses covered by Indiana’s first statewide
smoking ban have been cited for violations in the year
since the law took effect.
State Excise Police say just 108 of the 300,000 Indiana
businesses covered by the law have been cited for violating
the law, which took effect in July 2012.
The law bans smoking in most indoor workplaces,
including all restaurants, and requires people to stand 8 feet
from an entrance before lighting up.
Travis Thickstun of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco
Commission’s enforcement division says the vast majority
of covered businesses are complying with the law.
200 others stood with rainbow
flags and signs promoting
equality in marriage.
The rally came days after
the U.S. Supreme Court’s
decision striking down key
provisions of the Defense of
Marriage Act.
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feet from homes on properties
not involved with the project and
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properties.
Construction finished late last
year on 125 turbines in eastern
Tipton County and northern Madison
County for the Wildcat Wind
Farm developed by E.ON Climate
and Renewables of Chicago. Nearly
200 more turbines are planned
in neighboring Howard and Grant
counties in later phases.
Kerwin Olson, executive director
of the Citizens Action Coalition,
disputed claims that property
values decrease around a wind
farm and said data indicates wind
power is less expensive than electricity
from a new coal-fired plant.
Olson said it isn’t clear who is
paying for the research cited by
wind farm opponents.
“We don’t doubt that there are
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Don’t be embarrassed
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I spent some time away from the
office last week ... time to rest and
rejuvenate and get ready for what is
usually a hectic July.
When I got back, I had 155 e-mails
waiting to be read. That’s not a surprise,
though, as in the past, before
we toughened our junk mail filters,
I would probably have had close to
1,000 to sort through.
One caught my eye, though. It
was from Ossian Fire Chief Ben
Fenstermaker.
“Glen, over the past six months I have seen an influx
of people calling the administrative line at the fire station
for actual emergencies instead of calling 911. I
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think a lot of it stems from thinking what they have isn’t
an ‘emergency’ or they are embarrassed to bother the
fire department when in fact that is exactly what we are
here for.”
Now that’s quite a change from what you usually
hear reported. We’ve all heard the stories of the 911
operator who had to deal with the idiot who called complaining
that his sandwich was cold, or the guy who
needed someone to buy cigarettes for him. But seldom
do you hear when someone does the opposite — someone
who has an emergency, but doesn’t want to be a
bother, so instead dials an administrative line.
“For example since Jan. 1 until (June 25) I have
had one chimney fire, two carbon monoxide calls,
two power lines down and one gas leak called into the
administrative lines instead of citizens calling 911. Just
by chance the chimney fire and the two carbon monoxide
runs someone was actually at the station to take the
call,” said Fenstermaker.
“Several years ago we actually had a bathroom fire
on South Jefferson Street that the homeowner called the
station and again someone was here to take the call,” he
added.
This reminds me of something a Wells County EMS
medic told me years ago. He said more people die of
embarrassment in Wells County than of any other ailment.
I asked him to clarify and he said that people will
refuse to call 911 for an ambulance because they don’t
want it to show up “lights and siren” at their house.
Over the years I’ve seen many an incident recorded
on the police log where people have called 911 but
have asked the fire department, police or ambulance to
respond silently.
Since the Ossian/Jefferson Township Fire Department
is a volunteer fire department, there isn’t always someone
there to answer the phone. As a matter of fact, most
of the time there isn’t someone there, especially late
at night. Fenstermaker observed that people using the
administrative line have, in the past, left a message with
the answering machine.
It could be hours before anyone listens to the
machine, observed Fenstermaker.
“I do not have an answer for why it seems to be more
regular now that people are calling here. Our answering
machine says ‘If this is an emergency hang up and dial
911,’ but people still just leave a message,” he said.
“Every firefighter in the county does this job to help
out and make the community safe. We will never be
upset with someone who calls 911 in the middle of
the night to make sure a neighbor in our community is
safe,” he added.
“I can not stress enough the importance to contact
911 for any emergency big or small and we will
respond,” stated Fenstermaker.
So, if it’s an emergency, don’t call the administrative
line and leave a message, stressed Fenstermaker.
You might not get an answer before your house burns
down.
miller@news-banner.com
Who’s Who
A continuing series on how to contact government officials
BLUFFTON CITY ELECTED OFFICIALS
Ted Ellis (D), Mayor, City Hall, 128 East Market St.,
Bluffton, 824-1520. Home address: 427 West Wiley Ave.,
Bluffton, phone 824-3839. E-mail: mayor@ci.bluffton.
in.us or mayorsoffice@ci.bluffton.in.us (Brenda Jackson)
Tamara Runyon (R) Clerk-Treasurer, City Hall, 128
East Market St., Bluffton, 824-0612. Home address: 128
E. Wiley Ave., Bluffton, 824-0053. E-mail: cityclerk@
ci.bluffton.in.us
Bette Erxleben (D) 1st District City Council. Home
address: 1712 Sutton Circle, Bluffton, 824-1499. E-mail:
council1@ci.bluffton.in.us
Carl W. Perry (R) 2nd District City Council. Home
address: 42 Hi-Lo Drive, Bluffton, 824-2822. E-mail: council2@ci.bluffton.in.us
Michael Morrissey (D) District 3 City Council. Home
address: 426 West Spring St., Bluffton, 824-4067. E-mail:
council3@ci.bluffton.in.us
James Phillabaum (D) District 4 City Council and City
Council President. Home address: 1125 Summit Ave.,
Bluffton, Indiana, 824-4244. E-mail: council4@ci.bluffton.
in.us
Melanie Durr (D) At-Large City Council, 421 East
Central Ave., Bluffton, 824-4047. E-mail: council5@
ci.bluffton.in.us
Bob Bate (R) City Court Judge, Police-Fire Building,
200 East Market St., Bluffton, 824-3392. E-mail: court@
ci.bluffton.in.us
Justice Kennedy’s contempt
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has
contempt for a swath of his fellow citizens.
If you disagree with him about gay marriage,
indeed, if you merely think the federal government
should continue to define marriage the traditional
way while the states define it however they want,
then you are a bigot. Your views deserve no political
representation.
They should be ground underfoot by the five
mightiest and most broad-minded people in the land,
presiding from their temple of rationality and tolerance
at the United States Supreme Court.
Kennedy wrote the majority decision striking
down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which
defines marriage as a union between a man and a
woman for purposes of federal law. The decision
declared a position that had been held by President
Barack Obama until the day before yesterday as
being a relic of barbarism, and set the predicate for
the court -- in its wisdom, nay, in its heightened state
of enlightenment -- to enshrine its view of marriage
as the law from sea to shining sea.
The majority held that DOMA inflicts an “injury
and indignity” on gay couples so severe that it denies
“an essential part of the liberty protected by the Fifth
Amendment.” It is motivated by a “’bare congressional
desire to harm a politically unpopular group.’”
There is, in short, nothing to be said for it or the
point of view of its supporters. Period. Full stop.
Kennedy mumbles about federalism concerns,
but it’s hard to argue that the federal government
can’t work from its own definition of marriage. As
Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
points out, it has myriad programs that require such
a definition.
“Under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code,”
Whelan writes, “a person who is legally separated
from his spouse, but not yet divorced, is treated as
unmarried, as is a person whose spouse is a nonresident
alien. Likewise, under the immigration laws,
a marriage entered into for the purpose of gaining
an immigrant’s admission will be disregarded even
though that marriage remains valid under state law.”
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, July
2, the 183rd day of 2013.
There are 182 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 2, 1963, President
John F. Kennedy met
Pope Paul VI at the Vatican,
the first meeting between a
Catholic U.S. chief executive
and the head of the
Roman Catholic Church.
On this date:
In 1776, the Continental
Congress passed a resolution
saying that “these
United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and
independent States.”
In 1881, President James
A. Garfield was shot by
Charles J. Guiteau at the
Justice Antonin Scalia asks in his dissent,
If a gay couple marries in Albany, where
gay marriage is recognized, and moves to
Alabama, where it is not, is the federal government
supposed to defer to the law of New
York or Alabama? DOMA settles the question.
In the end, Kennedy simply declares the
supporters of DOMA hateful people. The
members of Congress who passed the act
and the president who signed it are morally
no better than members of the Westboro
Baptist Church who picket military funerals
with their heinous “God hates fags” signs.
Bill Clinton, apparently, despised gays. So did 342
members of the House and 85 senators.
Bill Clinton now wishes he hadn’t signed it. Like
so many others, he changed his mind on the issue.
Fine. There is nothing to stop Congress from overturning
what Bill Clinton considers his mistakes. It
did it with “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It could have done
the same thing -- eventually -- with DOMA.
But Justice Kennedy and his colleagues don’t
want to wait for the democratic process to play itself
out, not when they have such immense power to do
whatever the hell they want.
Properly understood, the court’s role here is minimal,
and the decision could have been rendered in a
sentence. To wit, as Scalia wrote, “It is enough to say
that the Constitution neither requires nor forbids our
society to approve of same-sex marriage, much as it
neither requires nor forbids us to approve of no-fault
divorce, polygamy or the consumption of alcohol.”
The court stipulated that it still permits the states,
if not Congress and the president, to debate and
decide the issue themselves. This is a false assurance,
though. Once the high court has declared that
the traditional definition is a product of irrational
animus, over time it won’t be allowed to stand anywhere.
It is Anthony Kennedy’s country. We only live in
it.
comments.lowry@nationalreview.com
Washington railroad station;
Garfield died the following
September. (Guiteau
was hanged in June
1882.)
In 1937, aviator Amelia
Earhart and navigator Fred
Noonan disappeared over
the Pacific Ocean while
attempting to make the
first round-the-world flight
along the equator.
OPINION
Rich
Lowry
Leadership: Democracy’s essential ingredient
For those of us who think and
write about democracy, few things
are more appealing than a book
about how to make it work better.
My shelves are groaning with them.
They contain a lot of good and
helpful ideas. There are proposals
on how to improve elections and
plans for strengthening legislative
bodies, judicial systems, and the rule
of law. There’s a whole body of literature
on how to make government
and civil institutions
stronger and more
effective. There are
ideas for buttressing
the press and the public’s
access to information,
and schemes for improving
the civic organizations, think tanks,
watchdog groups and policy-focused
nonprofits that make our democracy
so vibrant.
But over time, I’ve concluded
that as complicated as democracy’s
workings might be, one thing matters
above all else: effective leadership. It
might not guarantee results, but without
it, nothing much happens.
I saw this throughout my career
in Congress, but it was most obvious
in the counties and communities that
made up my district. What struck me
over and over was the difference that
good leadership — both within and
outside government — could make.
For instance, we now have fairly
elaborate programs for the education
of special-needs children. In my own
state of Indiana, and in many others,
this was not true a relatively short
while ago. But over the years, parents,
teachers, school leaders and others
recognized the need, stepped forward,
and pressed for change at every
Lee
Hamilton
Comments
on Congress
level from the school
board to Congress.
Similarly, managing
water resources
has been an enormous
challenge — dealing
with floods when
there’s too much and
drought when there’s
too little is a pressing
matter in both rural
and urban areas. But
over the years, I’ve
watched countless
local leaders do the
hard and sometimes
tedious work of developing
watershed programs.
Our water supply today is far
better managed than it used to be.
Everything from getting a gate
put in at a dangerous rail crossing to
strengthening local health-care facilities
to building an effective local lawenforcement
system — with capable
police chiefs, dedicated judges and
energetic prosecutors — demands
that people step forward and lead.
Strong leadership matters: to quality
of life, to how well communities
respond to challenges, and to how
vital our communities are.
Being an active citizen matters,
too, but as citizens we know that we
depend heavily on good leaders to
make our communities work. We rely
on people to roll up their shirtsleeves
at every level of our democracy, and
we demand a great deal of them. We
want them to set goals and motivate
us. We expect them to plan, organize
and manage effectively. We hope that
they can take the disparate strands of
our communities in hand and make
sure they’re all pointed in the same
direction. We look for a sort of toughminded
optimism, a conviction that
“I can make a difference and so can
you,” so that we’ll be inspired and
energized by it.
That’s why communities pay so
much attention to leadership development
— to identifying and training
young leaders who can make a difference
to the places they live. Strong,
capable, determined leadership provides
the energy that improves the
quality of life in a community and
breathes life into our representative
democracy.
One of the eternally refreshing
gifts of our representative democracy
is that it encourages people to solve
problems in their community — to
remember, as the saying goes, that
democracy is not a spectator sport.
Maybe they love where they live and
want to make it better; maybe they
have a child with special needs who is
not being served well by the schools;
perhaps they know in their hearts
that they can do a better job than the
people who are in charge right now.
Whichever it is, people step forward
— often out of nowhere — to take
matters in hand. That’s what moves
us forward as a society.
“I believe in Democracy because it
releases the energies of every human
being,” Woodrow Wilson said. It is
the great paradox of representative
democracy: we are free to remain
passive, but we can’t make progress
unless skillful, can-do people recognize
that with freedom comes the
responsibility to lead.
Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center
on Congress at Indiana University. He was
a member of the U.S. House of Representatives
for 34 years.
In 1964, President Lyndon
B. Johnson signed into
law a sweeping civil rights
bill passed by Congress.
In 1982, Larry Walters
of San Pedro, Calif., used
a lawn chair equipped with
45 helium-filled weather
balloons to rise to an altitude
of 16,000 feet; he
landed eight miles away in
Long Beach.

LIFESTYLES TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 • The News-Banner • Page 5
Carlie Crosbie
and
Adam Gerber
to marry
July 12, 2013
Carlie Jean Crosbie and Adam David
Gerber, both of Bluffton, will exchange
wedding vows during a ceremony
July 12, 2013 at Grace Baptist Church
in Bluffton.
Parents of the couple are Barry and Jo
Ellen Crosbie, Phil and Penny Kleinknight
and Dean and Jaci Gerber, all of Bluffton.
Miss Crosbie is a graduate of Bluffton
High School. She will complete her associate’s
degree in Health Sciences this fall.
Her fiance is a graduate of Adams
Markle News
Today I thought I would talk a little
bit about animals again. I was told
that you really like my animal stories.
To start off I want to ask you a
question. Just how do you make a hot
dog stand? Well there is only one way
and that is to take away his chair.
Do you know why dogs don’t
make good dancers. I was told that it
was because they have two left feet.
By the way do you know why the
chicken crosses the road? I found out that it
is for some foul reason or just to show the
possum that it can be done.
Today I’m going to throw in a few bird
jokes for you to read.
Do you know why hummingbirds hum? I
was told it was because they don’t know the
words to the songs.
Do you know what you would have if
your canary got caught in your lawnmower?
They told me it was shredded tweet!
MARKLE WILDCAT DAYS AUG. 23-25
On Aug. 10 there will be a golf tournament
at the La Fontaine Golf Course which
is located in Huntington. This tournament
is to help raise funds for Markle’s Wildcat
Days weekend. All you need to do is call
Diane Wedler at 260-433-7930 for more
information. They can use lots of players.
Friday night, Aug. 23, there will be a special
time for dining and dancing at the Markle
Fire Station.
Saturday, Aug. 24, there will be another
giant parade in the morning. After the
parade, State Road 116 will be closed from
the Pickle down to the bank. Children’s
by Donna
Brown
July 2 — 4-H Sewing, Consumer
Clothing, and Fashion Revue Judging,
Community Center, 4-H Park, Bluffton,
Check in 5:30 p.m., Judging 6 p.m.
July 4 — Extension Office Closed -
Independence Day
July 5 — Due in Extension Office: Parade
& Livestock Pen Forms
July 6 — 4-H 5K Fun Run/Walk, 4-H
Extension Calendar
Adam Gerber & Carlie Crosbie
Central High School. He has earned
an associate’s degree in Business
Management. He is a member of the
Marine Corps Reserves.
activities will be going strong out at
the Markle Park from noon until 4
p.m. This year we are trying to get
some country and western music
for you to enjoy. You can purchase a
snack and set under the park tent.
MASTER’S PANTRY
The golf outing to raise funds for
the pantry will be held in September.
It was originally scheduled for
June but due to circumstances had to
be postponed until September. More news
later. Last years outing was really a success.
We can always use more and more
articles of food especially canned items
that will not spoil. Paper products always
come in handy such as napkins, paper tissues,
toilet paper, paper towels, and soaps
of all kinds, (dish, washing liquid, laundry,
hand and face), hand lotion, deodorant,
and other things that you use around
the house. This summer maybe even bug
and ant spray would come in handy for the
seniors who like to sit out on the porch in
the evenings.
FARM WAGON
Every Tuesday at 1 p.m. the Farm
Wagon appears in the Markle United Methodist
Church parking lot. They hand out
produce to anyone that stops by.
MARKLE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Don’t forget about the Karing For kids
Carnival on Aug. 4 at 4 p.m. Karing For
Kids supplies back packs and basic school
supplies to children in need from Huntington
and Wells Counties. If you would like
to contribute call 260-348-5089.
Park, Bluffton, 7 a.m. Registration, 8 a.m.
Race
July 6 — 4-H Park Work Day, 8:30 a.m.-
noon
July 6 — 4-H Poultry Blood Testing,
Cookhouse Patio, 9:30 a.m.-noon
July 8 — 4-H Foods Judging, Community
Center, 4-H Park, Bluffton, Check-in 5:30
p.m., Judging 6 p.m.
A resident shops locally.
Made in Canada
By MELISSA YUAN-INNES
* * *
I buy Canadian. This
sounds old-fashioned nowadays.
I just had a baby, and
the sleepers I received as
gifts were made everywhere,
from China to Tunisia. I am
grateful, and I dress my
baby in them every day and
night.
But if I have a choice, I buy
goods made in Canada. I check
the labels. I buy honey from the farmer
down the road. Our neighbor keeps cows
(Belted Galloway steers, to be exact) on our
land, and if we eat beef, I try to buy it from
him.
One day, I was working in the emergency
room and the nurses started talking about
cross-border shopping. We work in Cornwall,
Ontario, an economically depressed
town with a handy bridge to upstate New
York. The nurses raved about how much
more cheaply they could buy groceries and
clothes across the border.
“It’s so worth it,” said one.
“I love it,” said another. “The border
guards don’t give you too hard a time
if you’ve got groceries and baby clothes.
What about you, Melissa?”
I shook my head. “I don’t do it.”
“But it’s so much cheaper. Don’t you
want to buy clothes for Max?”
I tried to explain without hurting anyone’s
feelings: “I have a lot of hand-medown
clothes for Max. I’ve hardly bought
anything for him, between that and some
gifts.”
“What about for yourself, then? They
have lots of nice stuff.”
“I don’t really need another shirt. So if
Bluffton Farmer’s
Market on
Wednesdays and
Saturdays
The Farmer’s Market is
open at the Dutch Mill Plaza
(Main Street at the bridge) on
Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m.
and Saturdays from 8 a.m.
to noon. Current features
include: bedding and garden
plants, fresh baked foods and
frozen meats, hand crafted
and woodworking products
and more. (Pd. Advt.)
I’m
What’s Up!
Busy July ahead for
the History Center
Summer will be in full
swing at the History Center
with its participation in
the Three Rivers Festival,
Miami Indian Heritage Days
and the Barr Street Market.
Three Rivers and
Northern Indiana Train
(T.R.A.I.N.) model railroading
exhibit will be back for
another year from July 15 to
July 20 with an HO scale,
fully operational freight
yard run by the T.R.A.I.N.
model railroad club. Regular
museum admission
applies for the event.
During the Barr Street
Market, the public can tour
The History Center at no
charge during the market
hours every Saturday rain or
shine through mid-September
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. An
old-fashioned photo booth
will be available on July 6
for photos.
On Monday, July 15, the
History Center and ARCH
will lead a tour of Fort
Wayne’s historical Lindenwood
Cemetery. The tour
runs from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
and is free to the public.
July 16-18 is the annual
Follow the Pipes self-guided
tour of area churches and
“We’re very patriotic. It’s hard to pinpoint,
the Canadian thing. It’s almost
like a small-town mentality.” -- Mike Weir
going to buy something, I
prefer to buy it from someone
local. There are a lot
of cool designers in Montreal.”
Montreal used to be
a clothing manufacturing hub, and
you can still find Canadianmade
baby goods, well-cut
boots and women’s clothing
with a certain je ne sais
quoi. I’ve also driven in the
other direction, to Ottawa,
for their designers. I’ve searched online to
support artisans. I’d rather buy a few wellmade
items than many cheap ones that fray
and stain and end up in a rag pile or, worse
yet, a landfill site.
One other nurse said she shopped locally,
too, but the three cross-border shoppers
stared at us in incomprehension. I thought
about pointing out that all of us had relatively
well-paying jobs. Heck, just the fact that
we had jobs put us ahead of many people
in Cornwall, especially since the paper mill
closed down. If the locally employed people
didn’t support the stores in town, those
shops would close down, too, and we’d lose
even more jobs.
But I could tell I wasn’t going to change
anyone’s mind that day, so I quietly went
back to work, armed with my conviction.
When I can, when it’s available, I shop
Canadian.
* * *
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their pipe organs. Several
churches will be featured
each day with music, a brief
history of those churches,
as well as a concert at the
Embassy Theater featuring
their pipe organ “Miss
Page”. For more information,
call the History Center
at 260-426-2882 or view the
center’s web site at: www.
fwhistorycenter.com.
Blackford County
4-H Parade July 8
The Blackford County
4-H and Open Fair Parade
will be held Monday, July 8
in Hartford City.
Anyone interested in
participating in the parade
can do so by stopping by
119 N. High Street in Hartford
City or by calling the
Purdue Extension Office at
765-348-3213. Deadline for
entries is June 28, 2013.
Ouabache State Park
Property Manager: Scott Crossley
Assistant Mgr.: Mike Miller
Interpretive Naturalist: Teresa Rody
Interpretive Naturalist: Jennifer Amstutz
Office Phone: 824-0926
4930 E. SR 201, Bluffton
Programs provided by the Upper Wabash Interpretive
Services (UWIS), www.dnr.IN.gov/uwis, 260-468-
2127. Parents and children are encouraged to attend
Ouabache’s interpretive programs together. Children
under age 10 must bring an adult. In case of inclement
weather, all hikes will meet at the Campview Shelter.
Schedule subject to change.
THURSDAY, JULY 4
1 p.m. — Fourth of July Scavenger Hunt. Locate
and answer 40 questions/items throughout Ouabache
State Park. Be the first back to the campview shelter at 4
p.m. with all the correct answers for a prize! Meet at the
campview shelter.
FRIDAY, JULY 5
Evening — Roving Interpreter. Be on the lookout
for interpretive naturalist Jennifer. Find out what she’s
carrying and ask about weekend events.
SATURDAY, JULY 6
1:45 p.m. — Pool Break Creature Feature. Check
out what creature interpretive naturalist Jennifer has
with her today on the pool lawn. Swimmers, get your
hand stamped before you leave the bath house to reenter
the pool!
5:30 p.m. — Make a Birthday Card for Smokey.
Meet at the campview shelter located in the middle of
Campground A.
6:15 p.m. — Bicycle Decorating. Join us at the
Trailsend Shelter Campground to decorate your bike for
the parade to be held in Campground A. Be sure to wear
your bike helmet and shoes.
6:45 p.m. — Smokey the Bear Parade. Follow
Smokey the Bear through the parade to his birthday
party at the campview shelter, either on foot or by riding
your bike. Adults need to accompany young children.
7 p.m. — Smokey’s Birthday Bash. Enjoy
Smokey’s birthday treats. Shake hands with Smokey
and enjoy the fun at the Campview Shelter.
SUNDAY, JULY 7
10 a.m. — Worship Service. A message will be
shared at the campview shelter located in the middle of
Campground A.
11:30 a.m. — Digital Scavenger Hunt. We’re going
on a picture hunt! Individually, or as a group, search for
the items throughout the park and take a picture of each.
Meet at the campview shelter located in the middle of
Campground A for rules and procedures. Bring your
own digital camera.
1:45 p.m. — Pool Break Macroinvertabrate Mayhem.
Discover the challenges these animals have for
survival through this game on the pool lawn. Swimmers,
make sure to get your hand stamped before you leave
the bath house to re-enter the pool!
ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buroff
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buroff of Markle will celebrate
their 65th wedding anniversary July 9, 2013.
Bob and the former Joan Sutton were married on July
9, 1948 at the Markle United Methodist Church Parsonage
by Rev. Sanks.
They have two sons, Joe (Bobbie) Buroff of Fort
Wayne and Jim Buroff of Yoder.
They have two grandsons, Ryan Buroff and Cory
Buroff, both of Fort Wayne. They also have a great-grandson,
Riley Buroff of Fort Wayne.
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The annual Wells County
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Open Class Cookie Competition
will be held at the
Wells County Community
Center at Thursday, July 11,
with registration from 4 to 6
p.m.
Four categories will be
open for entries including
bar cookies, shaped cookies,
flavoured chip or chocolate
chip cookies and miscellaneous
(all other types).
There will be a youth division
for those 9 and under.
Complete information for
entering available the Extension
Office at the Community
Center or online at www.
extension.purdue.edu/wells.
Awards will be presented on
Saturday, July 13, at 12:30
p.m. during the 4-H Fair.
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On Campus
McAfee and Reed graduate from
Manchester University
The following are area students who graduated from
Manchester University on May 19. They are:
Caleb A. McAfee of Ossian. He earned a bachelor of
arts degree in psychology. He graduated from Norwell
High School.
Kourtney L. Reed of Bluffton. She earned a bachelor
of arts degree in political science with a minor in peace
studies. She graduated from Norwell High School.
Luke Frauhiger graduates from
Grace College and Seminary
Grace College and Seminary conducted commencement
exercises on Saturday, May 11 in the Orthopaedic
Capital Center on the Grace campus. Dr. Ronald E. Manahan,
president of the college, presided over the ceremony.
Luke Ray Frauhiger, son of Jenny and Lynn Frauhiger
of Bluffton, graduated with a bachelor of science degree
in web design and development. Luke is a 2009 graduate
of Kingdom Academy in Bluffton.
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Page 6 • The News-Banner • TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013
Pacers make offer to Hansbrough
Draft pick Solomon Hill introduced to media
By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana
Pacers definitely want David West
back next season.
They’d also like to keep Tyler Hansbrough,
if they can afford it.
On the first official day of Larry
Bird’s second reign as president of basketball
operations, he reiterated that
the top offseason priority is re-signing
West. He also said the Pacers had
extended a qualifying offer to Hansbrough,
a backup forward who was one
of their more productive bench players
last season. By offering Hansbrough
roughly $4.15 million, it makes him a
restricted free agent and gives the Pacers
the right to match any offer he finds
on the open market.
There is a caveat.
“We have a budget and we’re not
going to go over the (luxury) tax for
any reason,” Bird said. “David is our
No. 1 guy.”
It’s been a busy week for the Hall
of Famer.
On Wednesday, the Pacers
announced Bird was coming back
after taking a one-year hiatus to tend
to health issues. On Thursday, he was
re-introduced to the local media in his
home state and then stuck around the
team’s draft room to discuss what Indiana
should do with its two draft picks.
Indiana pulled a first-round shocker by
taking 6-foot-7 forward Solomon Hill,
then traded their second-round pick,
Colton Iverson, to Boston for cash.
Team officials said they’re convinced
they made the right pick, even if the
analysts panned it, because other teams
showed immediate interest in trading
for Hill.
Before free agency opened Monday,
the Pacers opted to make the offer to
Hansbrough.
One thing is clear. This is not an
Signs of change popping up around Butler
By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
LONDON (AP) — Less drama and
more finesse did the trick for Sabine
Lisicki, who backed up her victory over
Serena Williams by topping Kaia Kanepi
6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday to advance to her
second career Wimbledon semifinal.
The 23rd-seeded Lisicki, who
matched Williams’ power in her stunning
victory Monday over the world’s No. 1
organization that intends to stand pat
after winning the Central Division title
and pushing Miami to seven games in
the Eastern Conference finals.
“We have to do what we can to
have a better bench,” Bird said as
coach Frank Vogel sat just a few feet
away. “Our starters are pretty good
players, but we need guys to come off
the bench and not lose the lead like
they did last year.”
While the Pacers are hoping a costefficient
Hansbrough will help stabilize
things on the bench, they’d also like
Hill to become an integral part of the
revamped bench. Hill fits a model Bird
prefers — a four-year college player
with a reputation for being a team player
and a gym rat.
Last season, Hill finished as Arizona’s
second-leading scorer (13.4 points)
and second-leading rebounder (5.3). He
considered leaving school a year early
before opting to return for his senior
year, saying he didn’t want to finish college
after a first-round NIT loss. He’s
also a solid defender and the scouting
report says he can shoot 3-pointers, too.
When asked to define a successful
rookie season for Hill, Vogel responded
with three words: “Winning a championship.”
Vogel also cited Hill’s work ethic
as a reason he’ll fit in with the Pacers,
noting that at Arizona, the Wildcats
awarded a yellow jersey to the player
who worked the hardest at practice.
Vogel said he was told Hill dressed in
yellow for nearly two dozen consecutive
weeks.
Then there’s the Bird factor.
“It’s very motivating because he’s
the legend,” Hill said of Bird. “He put
the work in, being in the gym hours
before the game, putting up hundreds
of shots.”
It’s the same philosophy Bird used to
build this team.
By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— The signs are all around
Hinkle Fieldhouse these
days.
Inside, offices have been
torn out of the front lobby,
revealing steel girders and
exposed wires to anyone
who notices. Outside, basketball
goals have been set
up in the parking lot for one
of Brad Stevens’ basketball
camps, not far from construction
equipment. And
seemingly overnight, the
words Big East Conference
are being splashed everywhere
from the shirt arm of
athletic director Barry Collier
to the front of one of
college basketball’s most
revered basketball venues.
Welcome to the Big East,
Butler.
“What you’ll find is an
overwhelming endorsement
of the move (around campus)
because it’s for more
than Butler athletics,” Collier
said Monday before
throwing out the first pitch
at Indianapolis’ minor-league
baseball game. “It gets us
aligned with more academicminded
universities and their
academic rates, their grad
rates are very good, which is
highly favored by the faculty
and administration. We also
are expanding our footprint.
We’re still in New York,
Philly and Washington, like
we were in the Atlantic 10,
and we’re also back in Chicago
and Milwaukee, places
we were out of during our
stint in the A-10. And, of
course, athletically, we’re
competing in one of the best
conferences in the country.”
At first glimpse, it looks
like the perfect move for
Butler.
Coaches and administrators
have been working
on schedules since the
announcement was made
back in mid-March. That
gave Butler three more
months than it had last year
when it announced it would
switch from the Horizon
League to the A-10 in 2013-
14 before moving up the
date to last fall in mid-June.
Fortunately for Stevens,
the men’s basketball coach,
it has prevented the mad
scramble to find opponents
and fill open dates.
When the spirit shop
opened inside the fieldhouse
on Monday morning, the
new Big East T-shirts were in
the front window and a hot
commodity on the shelves.
“It’s been the top seller
for the day in the store and
online, and today is the first
day we sold them,” said
Janine Frainier, the manager
of the bookstore and spirit
shop. “We’ve been fielding
calls all day about the Big
East merchandise.”
Why wouldn’t fans be
excited?
The Bulldogs have spent
most of the past decade
being billed as one of
player, came back less than 24 hours
later and hit six drop shots for winners in
dissecting the 46th-ranked Kanepi.
“I’ve had some great challenges on
the way to the semis, and now I’m ready
for the semis,” said Lisicki, installed as
the new tournament favorite at London
sports books shortly after she snapped
Williams’ 34-match winning streak.
Lisicki, from Germany, will face the
winner of another quarterfinal between
Sports Roundup
During Bird’s first run as president
of basketball operations, the Pacers
went from outside of the playoffs to
making the postseason in 2011, winning
a first-round series in 2012 and finally
reaching the conference finals for the
first time in nine years this past season
— after Bird left town.
To continue that steady rise,
Bird knows more must be done. He
acknowledged Monday that if the Pacers
re-sign West as they would like, the
next order of business will be finding
a backup guard and perhaps another
wing player if they can fit all three into
the budget.
The Pacers announced they had
hired Nate McMillan as associate head
coach. McMillan is a former NBA
head coach who has the playing experience
Vogel wanted from at least one
of his assistants to help replace Brian
Shaw, the new coach in Denver. Vogel
also needs a second assistant after Jim
Boylen left for San Antonio last week.
“We’re going through the process,
putting it together now and it’s going to
be a heck of a staff,” Vogel said.
Bird will take care of the rest — figuring
out contracts, finding reasonablypriced
free agents, maybe even pulling
off a trade or two — all in the quest to
reach the finals next season.
“We’ll see what happens,” Bird said.
“We know how much money we’ve got
to spend and we’ve got to be creative
with it.”
NOTES: Indiana said it will send
a 19-player contingent to the summer
league in Orlando. Among the more
notable names are Ben Hansbrough,
Tyler’s brother, Orland Johnson and
Miles Plumlee, all of whom played with
Indiana last year; former Indiana star
Christian Watford, former Syracuse star
Johnny Flynn and former Kansas star
Travis Releford and Indianapolis native
Julian Mavunga.
America’s top mid-major
programs.
They may be able to
finally shed that designation
now that they have joined
forces with the likes of
Georgetown, Marquette and
Villanova, all former national
champions; and DePaul,
Providence, Seton Hall and
St. John’s, who like Butler
have all been to the Final
Four. The two other conference
schools, Creighton and
Xavier, have been NCAA
tournament regulars.
So the Bulldogs are wasting
no time getting putting
that big-time image in public
view.
Just in front of the two
free throw lines, the basketball
court has already
been repainted with a white
background and blue lettering
that reads Big East and
a similar banner now hangs
from the decades old rafters.
At one of the baselines
Monday, four employees
from the ticket office sat
at tables doing their work
near a sign that read “Butler
is proud to be a part of
the Big East Conference.”
And, of course, there was
the huge banner outside with
the Bulldogs logo next to the
Big East logo and the phrase
“Butler’s next chapter of
excellence.”
But to those who have
been around the program,
little has changed.
As roughly 160 basketball
campers were wrapping
up their daily workouts,
Stevens was shouting
instructions to the camp
counselors and then to the
youngsters themselves. He
didn’t bother to notice the
changes around him.
“All I see is the Bulldog,”
Stevens said with
his trademark smile. “I’m
excited for the conference
affiliation, but at the same
time, you have to do your
job as well as you can to
help the university.”
Other changes have not
been as welcome.
Some season-ticket holders
are being asked to pay 7
to 10 percent more to keep
their seats, an increase that
has caused some consternation,
and all that A-10 merchandise
fans purchased last
summer is suddenly outdated.
Collier noted ticket
prices have been reduced for
upper level seats.
The Bulldogs also shrunk
the size of this year’s basketball
camps because of
the work being done during
the fieldhouse’s $34 million
renovation project.
But that hasn’t stopped
what Collier, Stevens and
others see as a critical progression
in the future of Butler
basketball.
“We’ve known we were
in the Big East for quite
a while, so this is a lot of
ways,” Stevens said. “But
it’s great for Butler, and it
will be great for a lot of years
moving forward.”
Lisicki backs win over Serena with another
Norwell’s Hanna Smith invited
Norwell junior Hanna Smith has been invited to participate
in the 11th IBCA/IHSAA Top 100 Showcase set for July
18 and July 23 at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis.
Staged by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association
with support from the Indiana High School Athletic Association,
the Top 100 Showcase events are designed to give exposure
to top basketball prospects from across the state to colleges
across the state and nation.
The 2013 Boys’ Showcase will be Thursday, July 18. The
Girls’ Showcase will be Tuesday, July 23. Both events are
NCAA certified. Both events begin at 2 p.m. and last until
about 8 p.m.
Baseball tournaments at Hartford City
Blackford Area Baseball will be hosting a 14 and under
and 15 and under baseball tournament July 26 through 28.
Cost to enter a team is $300 and two new baseballs. Three
games are guaranteed through pool play and single elimination
tournament. Games will be played at the Hartford City
Babe Ruth Park and Blackford High School. High school
No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska and No.
6 Li Na. She’ll have more time to rest.
Though the two quarterfinals began at
the same time, Radwanska had just finished
beating Li in a first-set tiebreaker at
the time Lisicki and Kanepi were shaking
hands.
Then, rain started falling and the Li-
Radwanska match had to be stopped for
about 15 minutes while the roof on Centre
Court was closed.
rules will be used. For more information call John Hendricks
at 765-348-6413 or e-mail hendricksjohn@hotmail.com.
Registration deadline is July 20.
F.O.P. 16, Standard Plastics 4
Fraternal Order of Police defeated Standard Plastics in a
Bluffton Farm League baseball game.
Carson McFarren and Julyan Barton each hit a home run
for F.O.P., while McFarren also singled. Austin Lewis added
two singles for F.O.P. McFarren also was the winning pitcher.
Kedric Sonnigsen was the losing pitcher.
F.O.P. 14, National Oil 9
Fraternal Order of Police beat National Oil 14-9 in a Bluffton
Farm League baseball game.
Austin Lewis doubled and singled twice for F.O.P. Holden
Eisaman singled twice. Traxton Hummer doubled. Carson
McFarren was the winning pitcher.
Kaden Graft hit a home run for National Oil. Jacob Duncan
doubled twice. Andrew Eubank doubled and singled.
Austin Mygrant added a double.
SPORTS
NBA Free Agent Roundup
Paul staying in L.A.,
Howard hears
pitches to leave
By BRIAN MAHONEY
AP Basketball Writer
Chris Paul’s answer was brief, just like his time on the
free agent market.
“I’M IN!!!” he wrote Monday on Twitter.
He will be staying with the Clippers, the longtime losers
he helped turned into a division champion in just two
seasons.
Dwight Howard will need more time to think.
Free agency opened Monday in the NBA with the focus
on the pair of Los Angeles All-Stars, though Paul took
himself off the market only hours after shopping season
started.
Agent Leon Rose confirmed Paul’s return, which had
been expected after the Clippers signed Doc Rivers as their
new coach. The Clippers can pay the two-time Olympic
gold medalist around $108 million for five years.
Howard can make even more by staying with the Lakers,
but that won’t stop him from looking elsewhere.
He met with the Houston Rockets early Monday, the
Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks also are interested,
and the Lakers have said repeatedly they want to keep him.
The Rockets got the first crack at persuading him to
leave. With Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde
Drexler joining its contingent, Houston pitched Howard on
joining All-Star James Harden.
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey wrote on Twitter
that it was a great meeting with Howard and that having
Olajuwon and Drexler there “made it obvious how
(Howard and Harden) could be the next (great) big/wing
combo.”
Hawks general manager Danny Ferry and new coach
Mike Budenholzer were visiting Howard later Monday,
trying to convince him to join his hometown team.
And he’ll meet Tuesday with the Lakers’ delegation. His
first — perhaps only — season in Los Angeles was a disappointment
and he acknowledged being unhappy at times.
But the Lakers want to keep the former Defensive Player
of the Year, believing the extra year and about $30 million
more they can give him will provide a huge advantage.
Steve Nash, who like Howard had a difficult first season
in Los Angeles, tweeted Monday that he was flying
from New York to Los Angeles to help the Lakers make
their pitch.
“(Dwight Howard) we’re coming for you,” he wrote.
“You’re going to love the statue we build for you outside
Staples in 20yrs!”
Contracts can’t be signed until July 10, after the next
season’s salary cap has been set.
The Hawks also were expected to meet with their
unrestricted free agents, Josh Smith and Kyle Korver, on
their trip to Los Angeles, a person with knowledge of the
plans told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity
because Monday’s meetings have not been officially
announced.
There is plenty of interest in Smith, a versatile forward,
and Deron Williams announced the Nets’ interest in Korver
by posting a picture of the sharp shooter in a Brooklyn
uniform on social media.
Andray Blatche will return as a backup in the Nets’
soon-to-be upgraded frontcourt. The 6-foot-11 forward-center
agreed to a multiyear deal, his agent said. Blatche will
provide minutes behind All-Star center Brook Lopez and
Kevin Garnett, who will come from Boston along with Paul
Pierce in a deal that was agreed to on draft night, but can’t
be completed until after next season’s salary cap is set.
The Knicks are hoping Andrea Bargnani relocates his
outside shot after agreeing to a deal with Toronto to acquire
the No. 1 overall pick in the 2006 draft. The Raptors will
receive Knicks reserves Steve Novak, Marcus Camby and
Quentin Richardson, who will be signed-and-traded. The
Knicks are also sending the Raptors a 2016 first-round pick
and two second-round picks, according to a person with
knowledge of the details.
Bargnani averaged a career-best 21.4 points just three
seasons ago, but finished with his worst scoring and shooting
numbers last season since he posted career worsts of
10.2 points and 38.6 percent shooting in 2007-08.
Other top players that are available include Denver’s
Andre Iguodala and Philadelphia’s Andrew Bynum —
both part of the four-way trade that sent Howard from
Orlando to Los Angeles last summer — and Indiana’s
David West. Sixth Man of the Year J.R. Smith of the
Knicks is a free agent, as is former winner Manu Ginobili
of the San Antonio Spurs, who also could lose forward
Tiago Splitter.
Miami is trying to hold onto Chris Andersen, which
would essentially keep together the entire core of the team
that beat San Antonio in seven games to win the NBA
championship.
A person with knowledge of the deal told the AP that
Eric Maynor agreed to a contract with the Washington
Wizards.
Maynor will serve as the backup point guard behind
John Wall. Maynor confirmed the news on his Twitter
account, saying he appreciated all the love and support and
was “excited to be signing” with the Wizards. He averaged
4.5 points with Oklahoma City and Portland last season.
The New Orleans Pelicans made an offer to Sacramento
Kings restricted free agent guard Tyreke Evans, two people
familiar with the situation said Monday.
Several media outlets reported the deal was for four
years and ranging between $40 million and $48 million.
Because he’s a restricted free agent, the Kings will have
the opportunity to match any offers Evans signs. Contracts
can’t be inked until July 10, after next season’s salary cap
is set.
———
AP Sports Writers Antonio Gonzalez in Sacramento,
Calif., Brett Martel in New Orleans, Charles Odum in
Atlanta and Joseph White in Washington contributed to
this report.
Colts’ safety due in D.C. court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Indianapolis Colts safety Joe
Lefeged is due in a Washington, D.C., court on a gun possession
charge.
Lefeged was arrested early Saturday after police found
a semi-automatic pistol in the car he was riding in. Police
say they also smelled marijuana in the car and found a bottle
containing vodka.
The car had been pulled over for speeding but then
sped away. Police say Lefeged and another passenger were
caught after they tried to run from officers.
He’s been ordered held pending Tuesday’s hearing in
D.C. Superior Court.
The Colts have said they’re aware of the arrest and won’t
be making additional comments until they gather more
details.
Lefeged, who grew up in Montgomery County, Md., is
entering his third NFL season.

SPORTS TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 • The News-Banner • Page 7
Defending champion could miss Chase NASCAR drivers like
By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
Tony Stewart’s defense of his 2005
championship doesn’t look so bad on
paper, and it sure seemed to be soaring
during his laborious celebratory fenceclimb
following his July win at Daytona.
It was his second win of the 2006
season, and it pushed him to fifth in
the championship standings. Little did
he know that hot summer night atop
the flag stand would be his crowning
achievement of the year.
Disastrous finishes in the next two
races dropped Stewart to 11th in the
standings with only seven races to
recover. It was too big of a hole and
Stewart stunningly became the first
defending NASCAR champion to miss
the cut for the Chase for the championship
in what was then a 10-driver field.
In true Stewart fashion, he didn’t go
out with a whimper: Stewart won three
of the 10 Chase races, but wasn’t eligible
to challenge Jimmie Johnson in what
became the first of Johnson’s five consecutive
Sprint Cup titles.
Now here we are, seven years later,
and another defending champion is in a
similar hole.
Brad Keselowski heads into Saturday
night’s race at Daytona ranked 13th in
the standings and winless this year. He’s
got nine races left to claim a berth in the
12-driver field, and is among a handful
of elite drivers jockeying for the final
few spots in the Chase:
• Keselowski: BK had three wins at
this point last season but finds himself
on the outside looking in after Sunday’s
disappointment at Kentucky, where he
had hoped to repeat last year’s victory.
His problems Sunday started 48 laps in
the race — so early that Keselowski said
“there is no reason to drive like an animal”
— when Kurt Busch drove on the
apron, then shot back up the track into
traffic and into Keselowski.
It created a messy accident that
stopped the race for nearly 20 minutes
and it dropped Keselowski four spots in
the standings to 13th. To earn a Chase
berth, he either needs to be ranked
inside the top 10 in points, or needs
wins to be eligible to claim one of two
wild card spots.
Crew chief Paul Wolfe knew the
ramifications the moment Busch hit the
No. 2 Ford.
“We were just holding onto the top
10 there, and we were one bad race
away from falling out,” he said after
the race.
There is an upside to Keselowski’s
situation. He is only 14 points behind
10th-place driver Joey Logano, his Penske
Racing teammate. That’s not bad
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
All Times EDT
East Division
W L Pct GB
Boston 50 34 .595 —
Baltimore 47 36 .566 2 1/2
Tampa Bay 44 39 .530 5 1/2
New York 43 39 .524 6
Toronto 41 41 .500 8
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Cleveland 44 38 .537 —
Detroit 43 38 .531 1/2
Kansas City 38 41 .481 4 1/2
Minnesota 36 43 .456 6 1/2
Chicago 32 47 .405 10 1/2
West Division
W L Pct GB
Texas 48 34 .585 —
Oakland 48 35 .578 1/2
Los Angeles 39 43 .476 9
Seattle 35 47 .427 13
Houston 30 53 .361 18 1/2
Sunday’s Games
Boston 5, Toronto 4
Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1
Cleveland 4, Chicago White Sox 0
Kansas City 9, Minnesota 8
L.A. Angels 3, Houston 1
Texas 3, Cincinnati 2
Oakland 7, St. Louis 5
Chicago Cubs 7, Seattle 6
Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 2
Monday’s Games
Toronto 8, Detroit 3
N.Y. Yankees 10, Minnesota 4
Tampa Bay 12, Houston 0
Tuesday’s Games
Detroit (Fister 6-5) at Toronto (Wang
1-1), 7:07 p.m.
San Diego (Erlin 1-0) at Boston (Lackey
5-5), 7:10 p.m.
Seattle (J.Saunders 5-8) at Texas
(Grimm 7-5), 8:05 p.m.
Baltimore (Hammel 7-4) at Chicago
White Sox (Joh.Danks 1-5), 8:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Kluber 6-5) at Kansas City
(Mendoza 2-4), 8:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 3-7) at Minnesota
(Deduno 4-2), 8:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Price 1-4) at Houston
(Bedard 3-3), 8:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Feldman 7-6) at Oakland
(Griffin 6-6), 10:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Lynn 10-2) at L.A. Angels
(Weaver 1-4), 10:05 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Detroit (Scherzer 12-0) at Toronto (Jo.
Johnson 1-2), 7:07 p.m.
Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 6-3) at Chicago
White Sox (H.Santiago 3-5), 7:10 p.m.
San Diego (Volquez 6-6) at Boston
(Lester 8-4), 7:10 p.m.
Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-4) at Texas
(D.Holland 6-4), 8:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Kazmir 4-4) at Kansas City
(Guthrie 7-6), 8:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 8-6) at Minnesota
(Walters 2-4), 8:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 4-9) at
Houston (B.Norris 5-7), 8:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Garza 3-1) at Oakland
(Colon 11-2), 10:05 p.m.
St. Louis (S.Miller 8-6) at L.A. Angels
(Williams 5-3), 10:05 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
All Times EDT
East Division
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 48 34 .585 —
Washington 42 40 .512 6
Philadelphia 39 44 .470 9 1/2
New York 34 45 .430 12 1/2
Miami 30 51 .370 17 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Pittsburgh 51 30 .630 —
St. Louis 49 32 .605 2
Cincinnati 47 36 .566 5
Chicago 35 45 .438 15 1/2
Milwaukee 32 49 .395 19
West Division
W L Pct GB
Arizona 42 40 .512 —
Colorado 41 42 .494 1 1/2
San Diego 40 43 .482 2 1/2
Brad Keselowski, driver of the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford, is involved in an incident during
the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway Sunday.
(Photos by Andy Lyons and Todd Warshaw/Getty Images)
considering the No. 2 team has been
docked 31 points this year in a pair of
NASCAR penalties. If Keselowski still
had those points he’d be ranked eighth.
But he doesn’t have those points
and has two months to make up the
difference.
“We have struggled before as a team
and we have worked through that and
put ourselves in position to be champions,”
Wolfe said. “I think in the past we
have not been shy of doing some different
strategies to make things happen and
over the next few weeks if we are not
getting the finishes where we need to be
then we will need to look at that over the
last month closing into the Chase.”
• Busch: The 2004 champion is in
the second year of trying to resurrect
a career that fell apart when his anger
issues cost him his job at Penske Racing.
He’s doing it now with Furniture Row
Racing, a single-car team that’s not supposed
to challenge for a Chase berth.
But Busch is in decent shape at 14th
in the standings and only 16 points out
of 10th. He’s gotten there behind four
finishes of seventh or better in the last
six races, including Sunday, when he
managed to come back from the early
incident on the apron to finish sixth. All
told, Busch has seven top-10 finishes
this season and has climbed from six
spots in the standings in three races.
“We came through when we needed
to and had another good points day,”
said Busch. “We’re creeping up in the
points and need to avoid major slips in
the next nine races.”
• Stewart: The three-time champion
won at Dover last month and that victory
is enough to make him eligible for
a wild-car.
But his situation is shaky because
he’s tied with Aric Almirola for 16th in
the standings and he could find himself
locked out. It’s a real possibility considering
Martin Truex Jr. and Greg Biffle,
who have one win each, aren’t securely
inside the top 10 and Kasey Kahne is
11th with just one victory.
Working against Stewart is that he
San Francisco 39 43 .476 3
Los Angeles 38 43 .469 3 1/2
Sunday’s Games
Miami 6, San Diego 2
Washington 13, N.Y. Mets 2
Atlanta 6, Arizona 2
Pittsburgh 2, Milwaukee 1, 14 innings
Texas 3, Cincinnati 2
Oakland 7, St. Louis 5
Chicago Cubs 7, Seattle 6
L.A. Dodgers 6, Philadelphia 1
San Francisco 5, Colorado 2
Monday’s Games
Washington 10, Milwaukee 5
N.Y. Mets 5, Arizona 4, 13 innings
Miami 4, San Diego 0
Cincinnati 8, San Francisco 1, 6 innings
Tuesday’s Games
Milwaukee (W.Peralta 5-9) at Washington
(Strasburg 4-6), 7:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (Pettibone 3-3) at Pittsburgh
(Locke 7-1), 7:05 p.m.
Arizona (Corbin 9-0) at N.Y. Mets (Hefner
2-6), 7:10 p.m.
Miami (Koehler 1-5) at Atlanta (Medlen
5-7), 7:10 p.m.
San Diego (Erlin 1-0) at Boston (Lackey
5-5), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Lincecum 4-8) at Cincinnati
(H.Bailey 4-6), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 6-5) at Colorado
(Oswalt 0-2), 8:40 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Feldman 7-6) at Oakland
(Griffin 6-6), 10:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Lynn 10-2) at L.A. Angels
(Weaver 1-4), 10:05 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Milwaukee (Lohse 3-6) at Washington
(Detwiler 2-6), 6:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (Lannan 1-2) at Pittsburgh
(J.Gomez 2-0), 7:05 p.m.
Arizona (Delgado 0-2) at N.Y. Mets
(Harvey 7-1), 7:10 p.m.
Miami (Nolasco 4-8) at Atlanta (Minor
8-3), 7:10 p.m.
San Diego (Volquez 6-6) at Boston
(Lester 8-4), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Zito 4-6) at Cincinnati
(Cingrani 3-0), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 5-2) at Colorado
(Chatwood 4-1), 8:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Garza 3-1) at Oakland
(Colon 11-2), 10:05 p.m.
St. Louis (S.Miller 8-6) at L.A. Angels
(Williams 5-3), 10:05 p.m.
MIDWEST LEAGUE
Eastern Division
W L Pct. GB
Great Lakes (Dodgers) 10 2 .833 —
Bowling Green (Rays) 8 4 .667 2
Lake County (Indians) 7 5 .583 3
x-S.Bend (Dbacks) 7 5 .583 3
Dayton (Reds) 5 7 .417 5
West Michigan (Tigers) 5 7 .417 5
Fort Wayne (Padres) 3 8 .273 6 1/2
Lansing (Blue Jays) 2 9 .182 7 1/2
Western Division
W L Pct. GB
Cedar Rapids (Twins) 11 0 1.000 —
x-Beloit (Athletics) 9 2 .818 2
Quad Cities (Astros) 8 3 .727 3
Clinton (Mariners) 6 5 .545 5
Peoria (Cardinals) 4 7 .364 7
Wisconsin (Brewers) 3 8 .273 8
Kane County (Cubs) 2 9 .182 9
Burlington (Angels) 110 .091 10
x-clinched first half
Monday’s Games
Bowling Green 6, West Michigan 1
Lake County 6, Fort Wayne 3
South Bend 5, Dayton 4, 12 innings
Great Lakes 5, Lansing 4, 10 innings
Cedar Rapids 6, Peoria 3
Beloit 8, Burlington 3
Quad Cities 9, Clinton 8
Wisconsin 4, Kane County 3
Tuesday’s Games
Kane County at Wisconsin, 1:05 p.m.
Lansing at Lake County, 7 p.m.
West Michigan at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m.
Peoria at Burlington, 7:30 p.m.
Fort Wayne at South Bend, 7:35 p.m.
Cedar Rapids at Beloit, 8 p.m.
Clinton at Quad Cities, 8 p.m.
Dayton at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Lansing at Lake County, 7 p.m.
Clinton at Quad Cities, 7 p.m.
West Michigan at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m.
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Peoria at Burlington, 7:30 p.m.
Fort Wayne at South Bend, 7:35 p.m.
Cedar Rapids at Beloit, 8 p.m.
Kane County at Wisconsin, 8:05 p.m.
Dayton at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.
BASKETBALL
WNBA
All Times EDT
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 10 1 .909 —
Chicago 7 3 .700 2 1/2
New York 5 4 .556 4
Washington 5 6 .455 5
Indiana 3 7 .300 6 1/2
Connecticut 2 7 .222 7
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB
Minnesota 7 2 .778 —
Phoenix 7 4 .636 1
Los Angeles 5 4 .556 2
Seattle 4 6 .400 3 1/2
San Antonio 3 7 .300 4 1/2
Tulsa 3 10 .231 6
Saturday’s Games
Phoenix 89, Connecticut 70
Chicago 94, Los Angeles 82
Sunday’s Games
Atlanta 93, San Antonio 67
Washington 84, Tulsa 61
Indiana 71, Seattle 63
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
Tulsa at Connecticut, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Chicago, 8 p.m.
New York at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Minnesota at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
SOCCER
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
All Times EDT
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal 9 4 2 29 27 21
New York 8 6 4 28 25 22
Philadelphia 7 5 5 26 27 26
Kansas City 7 5 5 26 23 17
Houston 6 6 5 23 19 18
New England 5 5 6 21 19 14
Columbus 5 7 5 20 21 21
Chicago 5 7 3 18 15 21
Toronto FC 2 8 6 12 14 21
D.C. 2 12 3 9 8 27
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
Real Salt Lake 10 5 3 33 27 16
really hasn’t been running all that well
this season. The No. 14 team had only
one top-10 finish before Memorial Day.
He was seventh at Charlotte and won at
Dover for his first back-to-back top-10s
all year. He carried the momentum into
Pocono and Michigan with a pair of topfives
and he’d suddenly climbed from
21st in the standings to 10th.
But the last two weeks have been two
steps back, with a 28th at Sonoma and a
20th-place finish Sunday.
“Not the greatest showing, but we
did what we could with it,” he shrugged.
• Denny Hamlin: He’s never missed
the Chase since his 2006 rookie season,
but time is running out on Hamlin’s
comeback story this year.
In fairness, a compression fracture
in a vertebra in his lower back sidelined
him for four races and likely cost him
any chance at the Chase, anyway. But he
returned determined to grab a wild-card.
He finished second at Darlington in his
first full race back, then won the pole at
Charlotte and finished fourth to go from
31st in points to 24th.
He won the pole the next week at
Dover, but a crash ended his streak of
top-five finishes. He was also wrecked
at Sonoma and had a hard hit Sunday
at Kentucky. Now he’s 25th in points
and must win over the next nine weeks
to keep his Chase hopes going. At this
stage, it will likely take him at least two
wins to make it happen.
Team owner Joe Gibbs dismissed
talk of Hamlin getting out of the car anytime
soon to fully heal, insisting the goal
is to salvage the season.
“I think Denny wants to stay after
it and we have a chance to get some
wins,” Gibbs said. “Who knows what’s
going to happen? We could get hot. I
know he’ll be the favorite at several
of these race tracks we have down the
stretch over these next nine weeks. Who
knows? Maybe a miracle in there. You
can’t have a great comeback unless
you’re behind, so we’ll just go after it
and do the best we can. He’s got a good
attitude and we’ll keep swinging.”
Portland 7 1 9 30 28 16
FC Dallas 8 3 6 30 27 22
Vancouver 7 5 4 25 26 24
Los Angeles 7 7 3 24 25 21
Colorado 6 7 5 23 21 22
Seattle 6 5 3 21 19 17
San Jose 5 7 6 21 18 27
Chivas USA 3 10 3 12 15 31
NOTE: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday’s Games
Real Salt Lake 1, Toronto FC 0
Philadelphia 2, FC Dallas 2, tie
Vancouver 1, D.C. United 0
Colorado 4, Montreal 3
Sporting Kansas City 3, Columbus 2
Chivas USA 1, New England 1, tie
San Jose 3, Los Angeles 2
Sunday’s Game
New York 2, Houston 0
Wednesday, July 3
Montreal at Toronto FC, 7 p.m.
San Jose at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Vancouver at Sporting Kansas City, 9 p.m.
D.C. United at Seattle FC, 10 p.m.
Philadelphia at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m.
Thursday, July 4
Chivas USA at FC Dallas, 9 p.m.
New York at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Columbus at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS
Monday
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Optioned
RHP Jair Jurrjens to Norfolk (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS—Sent RHP
Blake Wood to Lake County (MWL) for
a rehab assignment.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Designated
OF Jeff Francoeur for assignment.
Recalled 2B Johnny Giavotella from
Omaha (PCL).
MINNESOTA TWINS—Sent RHP Mike
Pelfrey to Cedar Rapids (MWL) for a
rehab assignment.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Placed
RHP Trevor Cahill on the 15-day DL.
Selected the contract of RHP Chaz Roe
from Reno (PCL).
ATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms
with INF Dylan Manwaring and RHPs
Carlos Salazar and Alec Grosser on
minor league contracts.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Sent
OF Carl Crawford and LHP Ted Lilly
to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for rehab
Brickyard test results
By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jamie McMurray and Juan
Pablo Montoya like what they’ve seen from the new Cup
cars at Indianapolis.
On Monday, the two former
Indianapolis winners joined a growing
list of test participants who have
raved about everything from handling
to quicker speeds to tire wear
on the 2.5-mile oval that has often
caused so much consternation for
NASCAR drivers.
“Our car has been quick at a lot
of tracks where it has not been really
fast in the past, and the testing has
been pretty good today,” said McMurray, who won the
Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in 2010. “It’s our first
time here with this car and it seems like some of the setup
stuff is a little different from what we’ve been doing here
the last couple of years.”
McMurray and Montoya are part of a small contingent
— five cars from the Cup Series and four from the Nationwide
Series — that is testing at Indy through Tuesday.
Also testing was Denny Hamlin, who was cleared to
drive Monday morning after a hard crash Sunday at Kentucky.
After the race, Hamlin complained of headaches,
but Indy’s medical team found nothing that would prevent
Hamlin from climbing into the No. 11 car and turning laps
in excess of 200 mph. Neither Hamlin or his team took
questions.
With cool temperatures, overcast skies and light winds,
the weather was ideal for top speeds, though rain postponed
most of the scheduled afternoon session.
But the common theme coming out of all the tests at
Indy is this: The new car is outperforming the old one.
On a warmer, sunny day in April, Jeff Gordon and
Trevor Bayne walked off the track and said they were
impressed with the way the cars handled in those conditions,
too, and both noted that even the tire wear was better
than usual. That’s become a recurring question since
the 2008 race turned into a series of short sprints when tire
problems brought out so many cautions.
Goodyear, the series’ tire manufacturer, has since softened
the tire compound, which produced far better results.
That part hasn’t changed.
“They’ve figured it out,” said Montoya, who won the
2000 Indianapolis 500. “The grip level is really good
today.”
Will that be the case in hotter conditions? The Brickyard
400 has traditionally been one of the hottest races in
the series.
One possible solution to the heat is adding lights at the
speedway, either permanent or temporary. Speedway officials
believe running in the cooler nighttime temperatures
could make the race better and perhaps boost attendance,
which has been dwindling since the 2008 tire fiasco.
Most Cup drivers who have come through Indy, including
McMurray, seem to embrace the thought of running
Indy’s first night race.
“I think if they do that, it would be for the fans. I’m not
sure from a driver’s perspective that it would be that much
different,” McMurray said. “But if they do that, I think it
would be great.”
assignments.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to
terms with RHP JaCoby Jones on a
minor league contract.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Reinstated
OF Bryce Harper from the
15-day DL. Optioned RHP Erik Davis to
Syracuse (IL). Sent C Wilson Ramos to
Potomac (Carolina) for a rehab assignment.
American Association
GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed
OF Branon Kendricks.
LAREDO LEMURS—Signed RHP Jake
Cowan and RHP Michael Suk.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS—Agreed to
terms with G Chris Paul.
FOOTBALL
Canadian Football League
MONTREAL ALOUETTES—Traded
FB Dahrran Diedrick to Hamilton for a
2014 fourth-round draft pick.
WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Added
DL Marquis Frazier to the practice roster.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Signed
G Sergei Bobrovsky to a two-year contract
extension. Announced director of
amateur scouting Tyler Wright is leaving
the team.
NEW YORK RANGERS—Acquired D
Danny Syvret from Philadelphia for F
Kris Newbury.
PHOENIX COYOTES—Re-signed G
Mike Smith to a six-year contract.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Re-Signed
F Pierre-Cedric Labrie to a one-year
contract.
SOCCER
National Women’s Soccer League
CHIVAS USA—Signed C Carlos
Bocanegra.
SEATTLE REIGN—Traded F Lindsay
Taylor and conditional 2014 fourthround
draft pick to Washington for a
2014 second-round draft pick.
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MAJOR
LEAGUE
SERVICE.
WASHINGTON SPIRIT—Fired coach
Mike Jorden. Named Mark Parsons
coach.
COLLEGE
AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFER-
ENCE—Promoted Tom Odjakjian to
senior associate commissioner for
broadcasting and digital content, Mark
Hodgkin to senior director of digital
media, Michael Costa to director of
football and video administration and
Lois DeBlois to executive assistant for
administration. Named John Larson
chief financial officer, Michael Coyne
assistant director of broadcast scheduling,
Catherine Carmignani branding
and event coordinator and Jamie Corun
digital communications coordinator.
CALDWELL—Named Sally Ryan women’s
assistant lacrosse coach.
DUKE—Named Kathryn Hagglund
women’s rowing recruiting coordinator.
EASTERN MICHIGAN—Named Heather
Lyke athletic director.
FURMAN—Named Richie Meade
men’s assistant lacrosse coach.
GEORGE MASON—Named Eric Skeeters
men’s assistant basketball coach.
GRU AUGUSTA—Named Jason Eller
baseball coach.
HIGH POINT—Named Jenna Burkett
women’s assistant basketball coach.
HOBART—Announced it has accepted
an invitation to join the Northeast Conference
in men’s lacrosse, effective for
the 2014 season.
LOCK HAVEN—Named Scott Moore
wrestling coach.
MICHIGAN STATE—Named Amaka
Agugua women’s assistant basketball
coach.
NEW MEXICO—Named Mike Iuzzolino
director of men’s basketball operations.
SOUTH CAROLINA—Named Ryan
Young men’s assistant tennis coach.
SIU-EDWARDSVILLE—Named Jordann
Plummer women’s assistant basketball
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County has extra millings to use
By JESSICA WILLIAMS
Leftover street grindings have
given the Wells County Commissioners
options.
Toby Steffen, with the engineering
firm Butler, Fairman & Seufert,
told the commissioners during their
regular meeting Monday morning
that he is looking at what to do with
the stockpile of street grindings in the
county highway garage from the first
phase of Adams Street – and then
what to do when the rest of Adams
Street is milled.
The recent grindings in town
went to the new 4-H Fair parking lot,
which is completed.
Steffen and the commissioners –
Kevin Woodward, Blake Gerber and
Scott Mossburg – discussed using the
new grindings to repair roads in the
county that might need them.
No decision was made Monday,
though.
The commissioners also heard
from Roger Richardson, who heads
up the county’s Information Technology
Department. He reported his
staff is still in the process of replacing
the computers in local officers’
patrol cars.
He also said they have met with
five vendors in the past month to get
ideas and figures and they have also
worked with other area police agencies.
“We want to put something in
that’s not only cost effective,” Richardson
said, “but something that’s
not breaking all the time or hindering
their ability to get the job done.”
In other business the Commissioners,
• Approved the Wells County
Historical Society’s annual $10,000
budget appropriation. No report was
given. Mossburg told the society’s
representatives present that he appreciates
the hard work that they put
into the organization.
• Approved Robin Minniear’s
re-appointment to the Wells County
Public Library board. Her current
term ends Aug. 15 and her reappointment
is for four years.
• Passed ordinance 2013-04,
which classifies employees in the
handbook based on hours to reduce
part-time employees’ weekly hour
allowance to a maximum of 28 hours
before health care reform is implemented.
It is effective as of Monday,
July 1.
• Heard there are 113 inmates in
the Wells County Jail, 15 of whom
are from the Indiana Department of
Correction.
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AREA/STATE
City worries about
street expenses
around Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — West Lafayette officials
are worried about additional expenses the city will
incur when it has to assume from the state the responsibility
for maintaining several streets near the Purdue University
campus.
That handover, which was agreed to in 1997, is expected
to take place this fall when the Indiana Department of Transportation
opens up the new U.S. 231 bypass around West
Lafayette, the Journal & Courier reported.
The city will then be responsible for maintenance and
snow removal on the streets that now carry five state highway
routes through and around Purdue’s campus.
Mayor John Dennis said he hopes the state highway
department helps defray the city’s added costs, such as it did
last year when it gave neighboring Lafayette trucks, plows
and salt spreaders, as well as millions of dollars that went
toward the completion of projects some former state highways
that city took over.
Dennis said he didn’t believe the highway department
would just walk away from the former state routes, leaving
West Lafayette in a bind.
“I cannot believe that the state would be so naive to let
that go away,” Dennis said. “It’s because of that good faith
that we’re continuing with the negotiations to make sure the
roads that West Lafayette will be taking over will be suitable
and be able to basically carry the necessary transportation
for the development for our community.”
The streets that West Lafayette is to take over have 22
traffic signals that the city will be responsible for maintaining,
in addition to the eight it currently maintains.
Alan Plunkett, the deputy commissioner for the state
highway agency’s Crawfordsville District, said talks with
city officials were continuing.
Town mourns 19 firefighters
who died in Arizona wildfire
By TAMI ABDOLLAH
and HANNAH DREIER
Associated Press
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP)
— The firefighters walked
down the bleachers in a
silent gymnasium full of
mourners, their heavy work
boots drumming a march on
the wooden steps.
They bowed their heads
for moments of silence at
the front of an auditorium
that was so packed organizers
had to send people
outside for fear of violating
the fire code. The burly men
then hugged each other and
cried at the end of a deeply
emotional memorial Monday
evening in the Arizona
mountain town of Prescott.
More than 1,000 people
gathered in the gymnasium
on the campus of Embry-
Riddle Aeronautical University
as others throughout
the state and beyond also
mourned the deaths of the
19 Prescott-based firefighters
killed Sunday outside
nearby Yarnell.
The day marked the
deadliest day for fire crews
in the U.S. since Sept. 11,
2001.
Prescott Fire Chief Dan
Fraijo spoke in a shaky
voice at the memorial as he
described throwing a picnic
a month ago for the department’s
new recruits and
meeting their families.
“About five hours ago,
I met those same families
at an auditorium,” he said.
“Those families lost. The
Prescott Fire Department
lost. The city of Prescott
lost, the state of Arizona
and the nation lost,” he said
before receiving a standing
ovation as he left the podium.
For the 19 killed, violent
wind gusts turned a
lightning-caused forest fire
into a death trap that left no
escape.
In a desperate attempt at
survival, the firefighters —
members of a highly skilled
Arizona-based Hotshot
crew — had unfurled their
foil-lined, heat-resistant
shelters and rushed to cover
themselves on the ground.
But the success of the shelters
depends on firefighters
being in a cleared area away
from fuels and not in the
direct path of a raging fire.
Only one member of the
20-person crew survived,
and that was because he was
moving the unit’s truck at
the time.
The blaze grew from 200
acres to about 2,000 in a
matter of hours, and Prescott
City Councilman Len Scamardo
said the wind and fire
made it impossible for the
firefighters to flee around 3
p.m. Sunday.
“The winds were coming
from the southeast, blowing
to the west, away from
Yarnell and populated areas.
Then the wind started to
blow in, the wind kicked up
to 40 to 50 mph gusts and
it blew east, south, west -
every which way,” he said.
“What limited information
we have was there was a
gust of wind from the north
that blew the fire backed,
and trapped them.”
Authorities are investigating
to figure out what
exactly went wrong after
the wind suddenly changed
direction. Mary Rasmussen,
a spokeswoman for
the Southwest incident
team, said Atlanta NIMO -
National Incident Management
Organization will be
the lead in the probe and
will aim to put out a report
in the coming days with preliminary
information.
The multi-agency group
of investigators arrived
Monday and was being
briefed in Phoenix. Judith
Downing, a spokeswoman
for the taskforce, said they
would go to the fire scene
Tuesday.
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Pine needles,
good or bad?
Q. My question is, can pine needles be used to mulch
rhubarb? I’ve heard that rhubarb and walnut trees don’t
mix, but would pine needles hurt rhubarb? I’m afraid to
let anyone put bark mulch around my
rhubarb because the companies providing
the bark do not know if there is
walnut in the mix. — M.S.
A. Pine needles should be fine to
use around rhubarb, a 2-3 inch layer
would do nicely. Stick with fallen needles
gathered from your own or local
pines; there have been problems with
fire ants hitching rides in pine straw
from Southern states.
Black walnut trees produce a substance
called juglone in all parts of
the walnut, but especially in the roots,
foliage buds and fruit husks. Juglone
is toxic to some plants, including
rhubarb, so it is best to avoid using
any part of walnut in your mulch or
B. Rosie
Lerner
compost. Other trees closely related to black walnut also
produce juglone, including butternut, English walnut,
pecan, shagbark hickory and bitternut hickory, but in such
limited quantities compared to black walnut that toxicity
to other plants is rarely observed. For more information
on black walnut toxicity, see Purdue Extension Bulletin
HO-193 “Black Walnut Toxicity.”
Q. What can I apply to string bean and escarole plants
that will deter rabbits from eating them? Also, Japanese
beetles ravage the leaves on the fruit trees I have. I have
used malthion in the past. Could you recommend something
else? Is there anything new to try? — JM, Valparaiso,
Ind
A. While there are some commercially available rabbit
repellents, they are of limited use in a vegetable garden.
What makes the vegetables taste bad to rabbits will also
make them unpalatable for humans. The most practical
method of deterring rabbits is to fence the garden or at
least the crops that are being damaged. The fence will
need to be of woven wire or 2-inch poultry netting, 2
1/2-3 feet high to exclude rabbits. The fence should be in
place at planting time as young plants are the most attractive
and most susceptible to damage. More information
on preventing rabbit damage to garden and landscape
plan ts can be found at the Purdue Wildlife Conflicts
website.
Fruit trees are among the most preferred foods of
Japanese beetles, so it is a perennial battle. Adult beetles
are most active from mid July through August and can
quickly ravage foliage and ripening fruit, when beetles
are present in large numbers. They can feed upon more
than 300 different species of plants, but are especially
fond of roses, grapes, smartweed, soybeans, corn silks,
flowers of all kinds, and flowering crab, plum and linden
trees, as well as overripe and decaying fruit. There are a
number of strategies that can be employed to help reduce
the damage. Check out Purdue Extension Bulletin E-75
“Japanese Beetles in the Urban Landscape,” for more
information.
Rosie Lerner is consumer horticulture
specialist for Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE,
Ind. — Corn and soybean
crops in Indiana and Ohio
are in the best shape among
the nation’s leading production
states, according to the
latest U.S. Department of
Agriculture Crop Progress
report.
The condition ratings are
welcome news for growers
in both states amid falling
grain prices after the release
of the latest USDA National
Agricultural Statistics
Service acreage report. The
report, released June 28,
showed an increase in U.S.
acres from 2012 for both
corn and soybeans.
“The real surprise in this
report is that we didn’t see
the shift we expected from
corn acres to soybean acres
because of delayed planting,”
said Chris Hurt, Purdue
Extension agricultural
economist.
Listen to Chris Hurt discuss
grain prices.
USDA reported national
corn acreage is estimated
at 97.4 million, up slightly
from 2012. Estimated soybean
acreage is 77.7 million,
up 1 percent from last
year.
Hurt estimated that with
current crop conditions
U.S. yields would average
about 156 bushels per
acre on corn and 43 bushels
per acre for soybeans.
However, weather conditions
appear to be improving
for crop development in
the Midwest over the next
two weeks and that could
improve yield prospects.
Hurt was quick to point
out that the report includes
both planted and intended
acres of each crop. With 6
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January corn $4.98.
Beans by July 12 $15.56,
beans balance of July
$15.56, new crop beans
2013 $12.16, January beans
$12.39.
Cash wheat $6.35, January
wheat $6.68.
Corn condition best
it’s been in five years
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Thunderstorms
moved across the state during the
week causing some wind damage and flash
flooding, according to the Indiana Field
Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics
Service.
Some southern counties received heavy
rainfall leaving standing water in many crop
fields.
The major field crops showed good
growth with the warm temperatures early in
the week and ample moisture.
Winter wheat harvest continued where
weather permitted with good yields being
reported. Some wheat acreage was blown
down during the week’s storms. Wet weather
kept spraying of herbicides and cutting of
hay to a minimum.
There were 3.1 days suitable for field
million intended soybean
acres yet to be planted,
the final acreage numbers
could change.
“These numbers certainly
aren’t the final numbers,”
he said.
As is, the report generally
is bearish for both corn
and soybean prices, which
Hurt estimated could fall
to about $5 per bushel for
the 2013 crop average and
$11.75 per bushel on newcrop
soybeans. With high
production costs this year,
these price points would
be enough to at least cover
many producers’ expenses.
Indiana and Ohio producers
are in prime position
to fare better financially
than producers in states
where delayed planting was
more serious. Strong crop
condition ratings now and a
near-term favorable weather
outlook mean the odds
favor above trend yields in
these states.
As of Monday’s (6/24)
USDA Crop Progress
report, 82 percent of Ohio’s
corn crop was rated good to
excellent, while 76 percent
of Indiana corn rated the
same.
Ohio soybeans rated 78
percent good to excellent
and 72 percent of Indiana
soybeans fell into the same
categories.
“Ohio really has the
premier corn crop of the
major production states as
of right now and Indiana is
a close second,” Hurt said.
“This is very encouraging
to producers after suffering
through last year’s
drought.”
Listen to Chris Hurt discuss
potential marketing
Agland Grain, Bluffton
824-3820
July corn $6.32, October/November
corn $4.83,
December corn $4.93.
July beans $15.62, fall
2013 beans $12.09, January
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July/August wheat $6.35.
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 • The News-Banner • Page 1a
Indiana, Ohio producers could
still benefit from bearish report
work during the week. Corn condition
improved and is rated 79 percent good to
excellent compared with 19 percent last
year at this time.
Planting of soybeans is nearing completion
in most areas with the exception of
some southern counties and double cropped
acreage. Ninety-six percent of the soybean
acreage has emerged compared with 100
percent last year and 93 percent for the
5-year average. Soybean condition is rated
74 percent good to excellent compared with
20 percent last year at this time.
Twenty-seven percent of the winter
wheat acreage has been harvested compared
with 88 percent last year and 47 percent for
the 5-year average. Winter wheat condition
is rated 76 percent good to excellent at this
time.
GRAIN PRICES
and storage strategy.
Recovering production
of corn and soybeans in
both states and nationwide
will mean lower prices
compared to those of the
2012 drought, but also less
volatile prices.
Very low inventories of
old-crop corn and soybeans
left end users battling for
short supplies, driving up
prices. Hurt said higher
yields in 2013 would help
grain stocks recover.
“Higher production
gives us a chance to begin
rebuilding more grain
inventory, which helps
keep prices from being as
extreme and volatile,” he
said. “We’ve had very low
inventories of old-crop corn
and soybeans from poor
weather in the last three
growing seasons, so we’ve
been on pins and needles
with the available supplies.”
Tight inventories and
higher prices can benefit
growers, but the combination
leaves end users, such
as livestock and ethanol
producers, to compete for
grain. The higher prices
keep some of those end
users from being profitable.
According to Friday’s
(6/28) USDA-NASS Grain
Stocks report, the U.S.
corn inventory is 2.76 billion
bushels, down 12 percent
from June 2012. Hurt
said it would take a crop
of 13 billion bushels to
meet basic demands, and
he projects this year’s crop
to come in at 13.8 billion
bushels, allowing stocks to
build.
Soybean stocks total
435 million bushels, down
35 percent from this time
last year. Hurt expects 3.3
billion bushels of soybean
production in 2013 which,
like corn, would be enough
to start adding inventory.
To view all of the
USDA-NASS reports, visit
http://www.nass.usda.gov.
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siding, remodeling, pole
barns. Specializing in redoing
old barns. Free estimates. Call
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D&J’S LAWN SERVICE- Mowing,
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The Friends of Ouabache State
Park are a little over one year old
as an organization. Recently the
group sought sponsorships for the
5K Bison Stampede and Bison
Bop Fun Run from area merchants
with all money raised from the
event going towards the purchase
of a CCC Memorial Statue to be
placed at Ouabache State Park.
We were uncertain how the area
merchants would respond to our
requests especially since we were
a relatively new local organization.
Our uncertainty was unfounded as
we found the area merchants and
employees to be extremely supportive
and interested in our cause.
The support we received was overwhelming.
We want to thank the Bluffton
and surrounding community for the
many sponsorships that allowed us
to hold a successful event and get
us started with a large portion of
funds towards the CCC Memorial
Statue. Thank you to our sponsors:
1st Source Bank, A-1 U-Stor,
AdamsWells Internet Telecom TV,
Anytime Fitness, Auto Doctor, Barb
Sheets-BKM Real Estate, Bluffton
Family Eye Care, Bluffton Inn
& Suites, Bluffton Motor Works,
Bluffton Tire, Inc., Body Solutions
Fitness and Tanning, Inc., CJ’s
Flooring, Country Squire Florist,
Craigville Appliance, Craigville
Diesel Service, Croy Machine &
Fabrication Inc., Daniel’s Jewelers,
Thank You
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angels, snowmen.
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months) and much more!
(Antique Milker, Typewriters,
Furniture, Depression
Glass, etc. 216 West 4th
Street, Warren, IN 46792.
(Old John Deere Building).
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2013. Call for terms: 260-
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Hiday Automotive Group, Hunter
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Jim Fritz’s Barber Shop,
Kroger, Lengerich Meats, Inc.,
Lowe’s, Masterson’s Clothing,
McDonalds, Meyer Building, NAPA
of Bluffton, New Holland Tri Co.,
New Image Salon, Oooh La La Pet
Spa, Oswalt Reality.
Outdoor Concepts, Inc., Party
Gallery, Pizza Hut, Posy Pot, Pretzels
Inc., Quality Car Care Center,
Reed’s Do It Best, Reimschisel
Family, Resource Maintenance
Carpet Cleaning, Sassafrass on
Main, Schwartz Plumbing, Heating
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Office Supply, Trend-new & gently
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Troxel Equipment, Tyeger’s Pizza
Parlour, Velocity Motors of Bluffton,
Walmart, Welches All Vehicle
Repair, Woodforest Bank-Bluffton
Branch, YaYa’s Mid-Century &
Moderns.
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JULY 11 - 4 p.m. - Estate of Melvin
Rynearson. 5970 N. 500 W., Decatur.
Guns, skid loader, backhoe, tillers,
tools, boat, boat motor, antiques,
16’x12’ storage shed w/loft. Wiegmann
Auctioneers, www.wiegmannauctioneers.com,
260-447-4311.
JULY 11 - 6 p.m. - Sharon Herrberg,
owner. Lighted Gardens
Banquet Hall, 10794 State Road
1, Ossian. Farm location: Between
Coverdale Rd. and Branstrator Rd.
on Hamilton Rd. Prime farm ground,
38.5 acres, Section 25, Allen County,
Lafayette Township. Offered in 1
tract. BKM Auction Company, www.
BKMauction.com, 260-824-3982,
740-7299.
JULY 13 - 9 a.m. - Connie (Mrs.
“J”) Jeffrey, owner. 7078 N. 450
W., Decatur. Simplicity 20hp 0-turn
lawn mower, 60” deck, I.H. 16hp riding
lawn tractor w/hydro drive, New
Idea manure spreader No.12a, kiln &
ceramic molds, lawn & garden, patio
furniture, tools & hardware, automotive
tools, appliances, household
items, electronics, children’s items &
more! Wiegmann Auctioneers, www.
wiegmannauctioneers.com, 260-447-
4311.
JULY 13 – 9 a.m. – Richard &
Delores O’Connell Estates, owners.
Montpelier Civic Center, 339
S. Main Street, Montpelier. Premier
private antique estate collection
including 100+ pieces Flo Blue,
German & Japan china, Carnival
glass, Hummel’s, butter churns,
primitives, BB guns, spice cabinets,
crocks, folk art, early kitchen items,
J. Estey & Co. pump organ, coffee
grinders, antique clocks, steins,
antique furniture, oil paintings,
400+ salt & peppers, John Deere
mowers, tools, lawn & garden,
Lionel electric train set and more!
Ellenberger Bros., Inc., www.EllenbergerBros.com,
1-800-373-6363.
JULY 20 - 9 a.m. - Dee M. and Jane
R. Beavans, owners. 8903 Rothman
Road, Fort Wayne. Northeast
Fort Wayne: 469 and Maplecrest
Road exit, south to first stoplight, 2
miles east. 1-1/2 story Cape Cod w/2
acres+/-. 1997 Ford F250 extended
cab pick-up truck, 1999 Cameo By
Carriage 5th wheel travel trailer,
Ford 3,000 gas utility tractor, John
Deere GT 275 hydrostatic riding lawn
mower, furniture, shop tools, more.
Open house July 9, 5-7 p.m. Ellenberger
Brothers, Inc. Auctioneers,
www.EllenbergerBros.com, 800-373-
6363.
JULY 22 – 6 p.m. – Janet L.
Echemendia, owner. 4715 Wheatridge
Road, Fort Wayne. Northeast
Fort Wayne: From Intersection of
Maysville Road & Stellhorn Road,
west on Stellhorn Road to Wheelock
Road, then north to Lockwood
Drive, then east to Wheatridge
Road. Three bedroom ranch
w/2,224 finished square footage
and 1 and ½ baths. Open house
July 8 from 5-7 p.m. Ellenberger
Bros., Inc., www.EllenbergerBros.
com, 1-800-373-6363.
JULY 25 - 6 p.m. - Elenor McClain,
owner. 3727 E 1050 N, Ossian.
From State Road 1 turn east on 1050
N. Property between State Road 1
and 450 East on north side of road.
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for canning or freezing. Willowcreek
Store, 5160W., 400S.,
Berne. Voicemail: 260-334-5080.
LOCAL FRESH RASPBERRIES
— for sale. $5 per pint. Call
260-804-5579.
Sporting Goods
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bedrooms, 2 car attached garage, 3
outbuildings, 3/4 acre stocked pond,
Northern Wells School system. BKM
Auction Company, 260-824-3982,
740-7299, www.BKMauction.com.
JULY 27 – 11 a.m. – Delores
O’Connell estate, owner. 1538 E.
Old State Road 22, Hartford City.
Five miles south of Montpelier on 300
N to old St. Rd. 22, then 2 ½ miles
west. Spacious 4 bedroom ranch
colonial country estate with 5.12
AC+/-, containing over 2,000 square
footage and 2 full baths. Open house
July 16 from 4-6 p.m. Ellenberger
Bros., Inc., 1-800-373-6363, www.
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4th. 3 Full Baths. Geothermal
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260.413.6696
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119 N. OAK— Small 2BR, 1BA
home. Small yard. Must have
own credit bureau report. $375/
month plus security deposit.
260-824-2324.
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Need Credit Bureau Report.
$445/ month. Security Deposit
required. 260-824-2324.
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sewer and trash paid. Washer/
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security deposit. 301 Lamar,
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Fridays: 9a–1p. Call Peggy
824-5820.
ALL UTILITIES PAID— 2BR,
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week, $200/Deposit. Appliances.
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353-3227.
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Apartments for Rent
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Countryside Drive. Washer/
Dryer hookup. $425/month
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Bragging about blessings
Dear Annie: I have a lifelong friend
who, over the past 10 years, has gotten
so steeped in her church that she
has become unbearable. She tells me
constantly (bragging is more like it)
about how her God has blessed her
and her family with their new house,
all her lovely grandchildren, and getting
her together with her current husband
(they met online after two divorces). She
says she has received everything she has
prayed for and goes on about what an
amazing job God has done for her family.
I mean, it’s getting hard to listen to.
I don’t want to sound sour, but my circumstances
are vastly different, and she
knows it. I lost my husband to homicide,
and my son passed away at a young age.
It seems everything in my life has been
an ice-cream cone in the dirt. After one
too many losses, I figured there was no
God and have given up on religion.
I can’t help but be jealous of her good
fortune, yet I always reply by saying
how happy I am for her. Still, it seems
as if she is trying to rub my nose in it. I
keep my mouth shut as she goes on and
on about how God is blessing her daily.
Do you have any ideas short of scrapping
the 60-year-old friendship? — Friendship
Woes
Dear Friendship: You might remind
her that “the Lord giveth, and the Lord
taketh away.” She has every reason to
be grateful for her blessings, but shoving
them in your face is ungracious and
shows a lack of consideration for your
circumstances. Perhaps this is her misguided
attempt to bring you into her religious
circle, but it is not working. Tell her
gently that you are certain she doesn’t
intend to hurt you by constantly boasting
about her blessings, but you would
appreciate it if she would stop before it
becomes too much to bear.
Dear Annie: My only child just graduated
high school. Her summer is full of
parties, working and having fun with her
friends. This includes staying out later on
weekday evenings.
As the only parent, I work full time
and need to be in bed by a decent time.
I don’t want to be awakened by her coming
home or, worse, worrying about
whether she’s OK. She’s a great girl with
Annie’s
Mailbox
a good head on her
shoulders. But as a
widow, I know firsthand
that bad things
can happen to the
people you love.
How do I deal with
this new wrinkle as my daughter teeters
on the brink of adulthood? She still
needs rules and guidance. I don’t want to
be overprotective. Is there a compromise
that will put my mind at ease and let her
enjoy her summer? — Mom
Dear Mom: You are smart to anticipate
these problems and understand the
pitfalls. First, if your daughter has a job,
she, too, needs to get some rest. Discuss
this with her. Explain the problem from
your perspective, and let her weigh in.
Work out a “contract,” in which she
agrees to respond promptly to your calls
or texts and to call if she cannot get home
safely, and you agree to pick her up, etc.
But you cannot protect her from everything,
Mom, and in the near future, you
will have no control over it anyway. It
will help if you train yourself in the difficult
task of letting go.
Dear Annie: Your reply to “Need Help
in California” was right on. My cousin
has been married to her first cousin for
more than 50 years. They have raised
four healthy, intelligent kids who have
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grandkids.
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noticed immediately that they were a
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By Dr. Billy
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ALL OF THE BIBLE IS
GOD’S IMPORTANT
MESSAGE
Q: What is the most
important book of the
Bible, in your opinion?
What is the least important?
I’d like to read the
Bible, but I don’t want to
waste my time on parts that
aren’t important. — J.J.
A: Every part of the
Bible is important, because
every part came from God,
and every part has something
to teach us about our
relationship with Him. As
the Bible itself says, “ALL
Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting
and training in righteousness”
(2 Timothy 3:16,
emphasis added).
At the same time,
the center or heart
of the Bible is Jesus
Christ — His life,
death and resurrection
for us. The Old Testament
looks forward
to His coming and tells
us how God prepared the
way for it (which is one
reason why Jesus quoted it
so much). The New Testament
records Jesus’ actual
coming, and the difference
He made in the lives of His
followers after He returned
to Heaven. Both parts of
the Bible tell us of God's
love for us.
Because Jesus is the
heart of the Bible, I suggest
you begin reading one of
the Gospels (I often suggest
John). As you read,
ask God to show you who
Jesus is, and what He can
do in your life. You’ll discover
that Jesus was more
than a great teacher; He
was God in human flesh,
who came from Heaven to
save us from our sins and
give us hope for the future.
Could anything be more
important?
Don’t read, however,
just to discover more information
about the Bible, or
about Jesus. God wants to
change your life — and He
will, as you turn to Jesus
and commit your life to
Him. Read your Bible not
only with an open mind,
but with an open heart and
will.
(Send your queries to
“My Answer,” c/o Billy
Graham, Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association,
1 Billy Graham Parkway,
Charlotte, N.C., 28201;
call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM,
or visit the Web site for the
Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association: www.billygraham.org.)
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AREA/STATE
Wells Court Docket
Wells Superior Court
Infractions
Robert D. Hargrove, 41, Berne; operating
a motor vehicle without insurance, Silver
Street at Main Street.
Norfolk Southern Railroad, Fort Wayne;
blocking of a railroad crossing for longer
than 10 minutes.
Civil Cases
Written release of judgment filed by
PNC Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Kelvin P.
Michael, rural Craigville.
Written satisfaction of judgment filed by
Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, for Melanie
Leas, rural Warren.
Complaints for payment dismissed by
Midland Funding, San Diego, Calif., for
Joseph Long, Markle; Linda Brandenburg,
Kozy Kourt.
Default judgment of $3,209.83 entered
for Bluffton Regional Medical Center for
Tabitha Robles, Bluffton.
Judgment of $1,809.02 entered for
LVNV Funding, Greenville, S.C., against
Sherry Salyers, Ossian.
Judgment of $62,296.89 plus decree of
foreclosure entered for Federal National
Mortgage Association, Irving, Texas, against
John J. Edwards, rural Markle.
Complaint for possession and nonpayment
of rent filed by Wells County
Partners against Kenneth Zent and Litany
Getts, Kozy Kourt, $254, and Teresa Woolf,
Mobile Manor, $323.
Complaints for payment filed by Credit
Control, Muncie, against: Kimberly R. Little,
Markle, $3,822.53; Aaron P. Tyner, rural
Poneto, $1,159.62; Shonn T. Trissell, Bluffton,
$15,109.44.
Complaint for payment of $1,880.46
filed by Deardorf Properties, Fort Wayne,
against Zachery Surbaugh and Scarlette
Haler, Bluffton.
Complaint for payment of $940.68 filed
by CMA Supply of Fort Wayne, against
E&S Services, Ossian.
Wells Circuit Court
Criminal Cases
Home detention revoked and jail time
ordered for Kameron J. Kutzli, 22, rural
Bluffton. Kutzli violated the terms of his
home detention agreement by failing to pay
home detention program fees. Kutzli was
originally sentenced Oct. 4, 2012, to a year
of home detention following his conviction
on a charge of escape, a Class D felony.
Jamie Mae Ramseyer 21, Bluffton,
admitted to using drugs while on home
detention. Ordered to serve 313 days in jail.
Ramseyer was originally convicted March 1
of pointing a firearm, a Class D felony.
Civil Cases
Because the claim has been amicably
adjusted by both parties, a complaint for
damages filed by Myrtle Steiner, Bluffton,
against Jared A. Brumfield, Warsaw, and
Fedex Ground Package System, was dismissed.
Written release and satisfaction of judgment
filed by iAB Financial Bank, Markle,
for Kevin E. Couch, Michelle A. Couch,
State of Indiana, Applied Card Bank, and
Wells County Treasurer.
Bridges that carry
I-64 over Wabash
will be replaced
POSEYVILLE, Ind.
(AP) — Erosion along the
Wabash River has led to
highway officials making
plans to replace the Interstate
64 bridges linking
southern Indiana and Illinois
within the next few years.
The two bridges are less
than 50 years old but that
erosion around the bridge
piers has accelerated with
changes in the river’s flow
since 1985, the Evansville
Courier & Press (http://bit.
ly/15ahtIZ ) reported.
The problem has grown
worse in recent years as
currents continue to scour
the Illinois side of the bank
about 25 miles northwest
of Evansville. The Illinois
Department of Transportation
this year completed
$2.5 million in emergency
repairs on the I-64 bridge
piers.
The estimated $71 million
bridges replacement
is included in the Illinois
highway department’s 2015-
2019 projects plan. Illinois
and Indiana will share the
project cost, with Illinois
overseeing the work.
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 • The News-Banner • Page 5a
All About Health
By Michael Roizen, M.D.
and Mehmet Oz, M.D.
Moms’ Morning Out
Wells County YMCA
Operation Wellness
at the Wells County YMCA, 1935 N. Main St. (behind Walgreens)
M others, bring your babies and young children and
w e’ll laugh and learn together:
Breastfeeding Discipline Coping Health Tips.
Facilitated by Lynne Apple, BA, IBCLC, International Board
Certified Lactation Consultant and Certified Parenting Instructor.
YMCA Members Free, Program Members $1
No reservation needed.
For more information, call Lynne at 260-565-4543
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Q: I've planted vegetables and herbs
this year, but they're getting kind of
buggy. Are there safe pesticides I can use?
-- Claudia V., Boise, Idaho
A: Pesticides are responsible for allowing
farmers to grow huge quantities of crops
for an ever-expanding population, but -- and
it's a big but -- we keep finding out they have
all kinds of unintended side effects that damage
bees (fewer bees, less pollination, fewer
crops), disrupt hormone function in people,
animals, fish and insects (affecting development
of sperm, fertility and, some conjecture,
sexual identity), cause behavior and
cognitive problems (ADHD in children) and
trigger cancer (such as leukemia). And they
show up in breast milk; some studies find 60
percent or more of samples contain harmful
chemicals.
In addition, contamination of ground
water by pesticides is a worldwide problem,
and pesticides that are banned for use on
agriculture in this country (and manufactured
by U.S. companies) are routinely shipped
overseas for use on vegetables that then are
imported back into America.
So for home gardeners, the smart move is
to make your own natural pesticides. Some
of our favorite home remedies:
--Throw a kegger for slugs! Shallow
plates of beer set out around plants (slugs
love strawberries, corn, beans, lettuce ...
and beer) will distract and drown the plantmunching
pests.
--Go Italian: Bugs hate garlic and onions.
Save all your skins and ends from cooking,
throw in a hot pepper, and soak them
in a bucket of water for 48 hours. Strain and
spray to discourage thrips, aphids, grasshoppers
and chewing and sucking insects.
--Juice 'em up: Use the peel of four organic
lemons and their juice; steep in 1 gallon
of hot water. (Some people add a teaspoon
of natural soap.) Strain and spray to control
aphids.
--Counterattack: Plant radishes next to
cucumbers to scare away beetles; rosemary,
mint and thyme near cabbage to scare away
cabbage worms.
Let us know how your garden fares this
year!
Q: I read that taking cox-2 inhibitors
or pain relievers like ibuprofen is risky for
the heart. Should I stop taking them for
my joint pain? -- Sally K., Lexington, Ky.
A: You probably are referring to a recent
study that got a lot of publicity. The study
looked only at patients who were already at
increased risk of vascular disease; it wanted
to see how non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDs) -- including the selective
cox-2 inhibitor diclofenac, and ibuprofen
and naproxen -- affected them. The findings:
Naproxen seems to pose the least risk
for vascular complications in folks with cardiovascular
problems. Cox-2 inhibitors and
perhaps ibuprofen seem to be the more risky
choices. But you need to know a bit more ...
First, cox-2 inhibitors were developed
in part to help protect the stomach (and
sometimes intestinal) lining, because traditional
NSAIDs can cause internal bleeding.
However, almost a decade ago, two cox-2
inhibitors, rofecoxib (Vioxx) and valdecoxib
(Bextra), were taken off the market because
they increased many people's risk for stroke
and heart attack. But cox-2 inhibitors that
are still available, such as celecoxib and the
newer versions like diclofenac, have helped
a lot of people manage chronic inflammation
and pain. When they're prescribed and
administered by a competent medical professional,
they are useful. And if you are at risk
for adverse stomach and intestinal reactions,
your doctor may recommend diclofenac.
On the other hand, if you're at risk for a second
heart attack or stroke, maybe you need
to take naproxen or aspirin instead. Each
patient needs to talk with his or her doctor to
determine the best choice of medication; it
depends on your overall health profile.
And we are fans of aspirin -- an effective
anti-inflammatory pain reliever that appears
to have many other far-reaching benefits,
from potential anti-cancer properties to protection
against dementia. But it, too, can
be hard on the stomach, so always take it
with a glass of warm water before and after.
And that's not a bad system for taking any
NSAID, either!
* * *
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and
Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of
Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. Email your health and
wellness questions to Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen at youdocsdaily(at
sign)sharecare.com.
(c) 2013 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D.
Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Salamonie
Summer Festival
Hometown Memories
July 5-7
All Day
46th Annual
Parade
Friday, July 5
7 p.m.
J ULY 4-7
Warren, Indiana .. .
A very special place to spend the 4th of July Celebration!
Antique Tractor & Engine Show
at the Daugherty Companies
534 E. 1st Street
Canoe Races
Saturday, July 6
10 a.m.
at the Salamonie River
FREE
Entertainment
Marshall Law Band
Saturday, July 6 • 8 p.m.
After 6 Band
Sunday, July 7 • 6-9 p.m.
Fireworks!
Sunday at Dusk
Cruise-In
Car Show
Sunday, July 7 • 3-6 p.m.
at Wayne St.
(St. Rd. 5 & 218)
THURSDAY, JULY 4
10 a.m. - Volleyball Tournament
FRIDAY, JULY 5
7:30 a.m. - Samuel L. Jones Pioneer
Breakfast at Knight-Bergman Center
All Day - Antique Tractor Show at the
Daugherty Companies
10 am-3 pm - Salamonie Valley
Museum Open at Bergman Center
5-10 pm - Photo Booth at the Pulse
Opera House Lobby
7 p.m. - 46th Annual Parade Grand
Marshall 2013 Samuel Jones Pioneer
Winner
After Parade - Garden Tractor Pull at
Knight Bergman Center Grounds. Aaron
Tippin at Wagon Wheel Stage
9 p.m. - The Amazing Magic Show at
Stage 2
SATURDAY, JULY 6
6:30-10:30 a.m. - Pancake Breakfast at
Warren Sportsman’s Club
All Day - Antique Tractor Show at The
Daugherty Companies
Buccaneers
Coming in July!
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Warren
260-375-7017
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8 a.m. - 5K Run at Hillcrest Church of
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9 a.m. - 3 on 3 Basketball at Knight
Bergman Center
10 a.m. - Canoe Races Salamonie
River
10 a.m. - Mark’s Ark at Stage
10 a.m.-2 p.m. - Friends of the Library
Book Sale at Warren Public Library
11 a.m.-1 p.m. - Fishing Derby
Registration 9 a.m. at Sportsman’s Club
Derby at Langton Estates Pond
11 a.m.-1 p.m. - USS Salamonie Open
House at Knight Bergman Center
Museum
11 a.m.-1 p.m. - Salamonie Valley
Museum Open at Knight Berman
Center Museum
12:30 p.m. - Basket Bingo at Knight
Bergman Center.
12:30 p.m. - Corn Hole Tournament at
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1 p.m. - Tai Kwando at Stage 2
2 p.m. - SAM Olympics at Knight
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3071E - 300S (Just east of 300E) 260-758-2754
Specializing in
Kawasaki & Honda
ALSO - MOST MAKES OF
SNOWMOBILES & ATV’S
Summer Hours: Mon.-Wed.-Fri. 8:00-5:30;
Tues.-Thurs. 8:00-7:00; Closed Sat. & Sun.
Chevy’s Cost Less at
Mike Anderson
Chevrolet of Ossian
Always Have.
Always Will!
Hwy. 1 at the south edge of Ossian
260-622-4115
4 p.m. - Lawnmower Races at Knight
Bergman Center Grounds
4-7 p.m. - Fish & Tenderloin Supper
at First Baptist Church at 727 N. Wayne
Street. No carry outs available
4:30 p.m. - Warren Has Talent at
Stage 2
7 p.m. - Karaoke Contest at Wagon
Wheel Stage
8 p.m. - The Marshall Law Band at
Stage 2
SUNDAY, JULY 7
All Day - Antique Tractor Show at the
Daugherty Companies
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. - Potato Bake at
United Church of Christ
11:30 a.m. - Community Worship
Service at Main & 3rd Street.
1 p.m. - Waterball Fights at Knight
Bergman Center
3-6 p.m. - Car Show at Wayne Street
5 p.m. - Free Kids Activities & Open
House at Warren Sportsman’s Club
6-9 p.m. - The After 6 Band at Tower
Park Stage
Specializing in Ceramic Tile &
Custom Shower Units
• Carpet • Vinyl • Ceramic
• Hardwood • Laminate
MASON
FLOORING & CARPET CLEANING
535 N. Clark St, Markle
Call Hal for an appointment 800-757-2793
210 W. Park Dr., Huntington
(260) 356-4111
www.smauctioneers.com
Lengerich Meats
West Van Horn Street
Zanesville
(West on 224 to 300 W., turn right
(heading north) 6 miles.)
(260)638-4123
309 N. Jefferson St.
Huntington
Lengerich
Meats
129 E. Oak Forest Dr.
Bluffton
(260) 504-2714
FULL LEGAL SERVICES AVAILABLE
961 N. Main St. • Bluffton, IN 46714
260-824-8888
9 p.m. - Drawings for the Raffles at
Tower Park Stage
9:45 p.m. - Raising the Flag at Tower
Park
Dusk - FIREWORKS at Tower Park
CONTINUING EVENTS
Food Vendors - Corner of Wayne & 2nd
Street
Flower & Art Show
Country Calico Club Baby Photo
Contest at Town Annex Friday 4-9 p.m.;
Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday Noon-6
p.m.
Crossbow Raffle & Longaberger Basket
- at Warren Sportsman
Family Fun Package Giveaway* at
Information Booth
Information Booth located at Second &
Wayne Street
50/50 Drawing* at Warren Fire
Department
Quilt Show at Church of Christ, Fri. 4-9
p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun. Noon-6 p.m.
Root Beer Floats at Pulse Opera House
Lobby, Fri. 5-10 p.m.; Sat. 5-
217 N. WAYNE STREET 260-375-9960
AARON TIPPIN
Fri., July 5 • 8 p.m.
All ages welcome!
Karaoke Contest
Sat., July 6 • Contest at 7 p.m.
Registration 6 p.m.
The D augherty
Companies, Inc.
534 E. 1st St., Warren
375-2415
“Caring People Make the Difference”
170 N. Tracy Street, Markle, IN 46770
260-758-2131
www.ASCSeniorCare.com
We Welcome New Patients!
Robert H. Berghoff,
D.D.S., PC
470 Bennett Dr., Suite C
PO Box 342
Warren, IN 46792
Phone: 260-375-GRIN
(4746)
www.w arrenindentist.com