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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 BLUFFTON, INDIANA • Wells County’s Hometown Connection 50¢<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> teen injured in Spring Street crash<br />

By CHET BAUMGARTNER<br />

Brandon Betz, 19, <strong>Bluffton</strong>, suffered<br />

minor injuries and was treated at <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

Regional Medical Center Wednesday, after<br />

he drove his vehicle into a tree in a yard just<br />

south of the Morgan-Spring street intersection.<br />

Betz was taken by Wells County EMS<br />

to the hospital where he was treated and<br />

released.<br />

The force of the impact Wednesday initially<br />

spun the vehicle Betz was driving, a<br />

1998 Kia Sport registered to Stephen Malott,<br />

and flipped it onto the driver’s side, trapping<br />

Betz inside.<br />

The crash also started a fire that spread<br />

into the interior of the car, though it doesn’t<br />

appear that Betz suffered any burn injuries.<br />

One neighbor said it sounded like a car<br />

had hit a dumpster.<br />

The crash also spread pieces of the car,<br />

including one of its doors and a rearview<br />

mirror, and flecks of windshield across the<br />

yard.<br />

After Steele arrived, he pulled Betz from<br />

the back of the vehicle, and he and Scott<br />

Turmail, an EMT and field operations coordinator<br />

for Community Corrections, then<br />

carried the semiconscious driver away from<br />

the vehicle, Steele said.<br />

While medical workers treated Betz,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> firefighters extinguished the blaze.<br />

They also used a spreader to tear into the<br />

car, as emergency personnel didn’t know if<br />

The American Legion will observe<br />

its 93rd birthday, and members of the<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> post will hold a celebration<br />

“of this significant milestone,”<br />

Grover Sheets Post<br />

111 Commander Richard<br />

Beck has announced.<br />

On Saturday, March 10, a<br />

birthday dinner will be held<br />

at the post home with the<br />

keynote address to be given<br />

by Richard “Dick” Jewell,<br />

the leading candidate for the<br />

office of Indiana Department<br />

Commander for the year<br />

2012 – 2013.<br />

A special part of Saturday<br />

night’s celebration will be the<br />

presentation of a “Certificate<br />

of Appreciation” to a local citizen as<br />

well as recognition of four individuals<br />

who serve northeastern Indiana in the<br />

law enforcement profession.<br />

There will also be recognition<br />

of members of Post 111 who have<br />

attained the milestone of 50 and 60<br />

years of continuous membership in the<br />

American Legion.<br />

Inside<br />

Richard<br />

Jewell<br />

By FRANK SHANLY<br />

Show choir competition returns to Wells<br />

County this weekend with 23 choirs scheduled<br />

to perform at Saturday’s 22nd annual<br />

Norwell Show Choir Invitational.<br />

Competition will start at approximately<br />

8:30 a.m. in both the high school auditorium<br />

and the gymnasium. There will be six groups<br />

of competition this year, with both large and<br />

small mixed show choir divisions being contested.<br />

Other divisions will be middle school<br />

and also women’s show choir, concert choir,<br />

and solo.<br />

As host school, Norwell will be unable to<br />

compete at the event. However the school’s<br />

three show choirs will all present exhibition<br />

performances of their 2012 competition routines.<br />

The Knight Sounds (middle school choir)<br />

will perform in the auditorium at 2:05 p.m.,<br />

the Knight Stars (women’s choir) will perform<br />

in the gymnasium at 3:25 p.m., and the<br />

Outside<br />

Windy, rainy and the<br />

temperatures will drop<br />

Today Friday Saturday<br />

High 50 High 40 High 49<br />

Low 29 Low 22 Low 36<br />

More Weather on Page 2<br />

another passenger was trapped inside.<br />

Steele said he doesn’t know yet why Betz<br />

drove into the tree, but before he did, witnesses<br />

told Steele, the 19-year-old ignored<br />

the stop signs at the Silver and Spring intersections<br />

while driving south on Morgan<br />

Street.<br />

Steele also said Betz sideswiped a 1999<br />

Dodge Caravan registered to Paul and Susan<br />

Thomas while driving just north of Townley<br />

Street.<br />

After hitting the Caravan, Steele said,<br />

Betz then drove into a yard at 926 S. Morgan<br />

St., on the northwest corner of the<br />

Townley and Morgan intersection, and hit a<br />

closer meter.<br />

He then exited the yard, crossed over<br />

Townley and hit the road sign on the southwest<br />

corner of the intersection before driving<br />

through Spring Street.<br />

Betz finally drove onto a driveway at 502<br />

W. Spring St., where he hit the tree, stripping<br />

it of its bark.<br />

After EMS took Betz to the hospital,<br />

Steele received a search warrant from the<br />

prosecutor’s office to take blood samples<br />

from him to help determine the cause of the<br />

accident.<br />

Steele is awaiting results from the Indiana<br />

Department of Toxicology. He said he<br />

expects results in two to three months.<br />

Steele also said he doesn’t know yet if<br />

he’ll cite Betz. He plans to speak with the<br />

(Continued on Page 2)<br />

<strong>Local</strong> American Legion post<br />

to celebrate 93rd anniversary<br />

The festivities in <strong>Bluffton</strong> are<br />

part of a celebration at the more than<br />

13,000 American Legion posts located<br />

throughout the United<br />

States and in many parts of<br />

the free world.<br />

“The American Legion<br />

is proud of its past and committed<br />

to greater accomplishments<br />

in the future,”<br />

Beck said.<br />

The American Legion,<br />

since its founding, has<br />

strived to assist veterans,<br />

their widows and children<br />

and their fellow citizens.<br />

The American Legion was<br />

responsible for the creation<br />

of the GI Bill, used by millions<br />

of veterans to obtain assistance in<br />

education and home loans.<br />

A resident of Bath, Ind., and a<br />

member of Liberty Post 122, Jewell<br />

served in the U.S. Army on active duty<br />

from 1968 through 1977 as an aircraft<br />

engine repairman and a helicopter<br />

flight engineer.<br />

He retired with the rank of staff<br />

23 choirs to perform at Norwell Invitational<br />

Knight Moves, undefeated in competition<br />

during 2012, will perform in the gymnasium<br />

at 11:30 p.m., immediately before the final<br />

awards presentation.<br />

Two years ago, Center Grove came north<br />

and swept the competition winning the<br />

Mixed Show Choir, Women’s Show Choir<br />

and Concert Choir divisions, and also the<br />

Grand Champion title. Amanda Belkamp<br />

from Center Grove also won the solo division.<br />

They missed the event last year, and the<br />

honors were more evenly spread. Huntington<br />

North took top honors in the Large Mixed<br />

and Concert Choir divisions, and the clash<br />

between the two schools this year should be<br />

one of the highlights of the event.<br />

Last year, Plainfield took top honors<br />

in the Women’s Division, and its absence<br />

this year will guarantee a new champion is<br />

crowned in this division. Indian Springs will<br />

also not be returning to defend its middle<br />

(Continued on Page 2)<br />

Online<br />

Get a taste of spring at our<br />

“Sports and Outdoors”<br />

blog. Watch video of baseball<br />

and track practice.<br />

Browse our blogs at<br />

www.news-banner.com<br />

Vol. 83 No. 108<br />

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drove it into a tree shortly after noon Wednesday at 502 W. Spring St. The accident started<br />

a fire in the car. (Photo by Chet Baumgartner)<br />

sergeant. His career with the American<br />

Legion consists of holding virtually<br />

every office at his home Post<br />

122 and also serving the 10th District<br />

as its Commander in 1994-1995. He<br />

has served the Indiana Department as<br />

northern vice commander, membership<br />

chairman, and as chairman of all<br />

four department commissions. He is<br />

currently serving the national organization<br />

in his fourth three-year term as<br />

Indiana’s representative to the National<br />

Veterans Assistance and Rehabilitation<br />

Commission.<br />

Also attending Saturday night will<br />

be: Billie Bubala, Indiana American<br />

Legion auxiliary department president;<br />

W. Darrell Hansel, national executive<br />

committeeman from Vevay; Paul<br />

Steward, alternate national executive<br />

committeeman from Elkhart; Allen<br />

Connelly, department northern vice<br />

commander from LaGrange; John<br />

Wrolen, department northern vice<br />

Commander from Hobart; Ron Lowe,<br />

past department commander from<br />

Whitestown; Charles Krumrine, 4th<br />

(Continued on Page 2)<br />

Norwell's "Knight Moves" (pictured above), "Knight Stars" and "Knight Sounds" will provide<br />

exhibition performances of their respective 2012 show choir competition routines at the<br />

22nd Annual Norwell Invitational this weekend. Competition will begin just after 8:30 a.m.<br />

(Photo provided by Norwell Music Boosters)<br />

page 9<br />

Indiana smoking<br />

ban, police entry<br />

bills unsettled<br />

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Legislators finished work<br />

Wednesday without an agreement yet on just how comprehensive<br />

a statewide smoking ban they might adopt and<br />

without the support of a major police group for a proposal<br />

laying out when residents might be legally justified in<br />

using force against police officers.<br />

Both issues are in the hands of House and Senate<br />

negotiators trying to reach compromise versions for lawmakers<br />

to vote on ahead of Friday’s planned adjournment<br />

of this year’s legislative session.<br />

Sponsors of the smoking ban bill said they were still<br />

pushing to have bars included in the ban even though a<br />

draft compromise circulating among lawmakers Wednesday<br />

would exempt bars.<br />

That is one of the major sticking points. The House<br />

approved a ban on smoking in most public places that<br />

gave an 18-month exemption to bars, while the Senate<br />

passed a watered-down version last week that gave bars a<br />

complete exemption.<br />

Democratic Rep. Charlie Brown of Gary, a sponsor<br />

of the bill, said he hadn’t decided whether having the bar<br />

exemption in the bill would cause him to not agree with a<br />

compromise version.<br />

“That is what backs me up several feet,” Brown said.<br />

(Continued on Page 2)<br />

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Page 2 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012<br />

Biggest solar storm in<br />

years races toward Earth<br />

WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest<br />

solar storm in five years was due to arrive<br />

on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake<br />

the globe’s magnetic field while expanding<br />

the Northern Lights.<br />

The storm started with a massive solar<br />

flare earlier in the week and grew as it raced<br />

outward from the sun, expanding like a giant<br />

soap bubble, scientists said. When it strikes,<br />

the particles will be moving at 4 million<br />

mph.<br />

“It’s hitting us right in the nose,” said Joe<br />

Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic<br />

and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder,<br />

Colo.<br />

The massive cloud of charged particles<br />

could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite<br />

networks and GPS services, especially<br />

in northern areas. But the same blast could<br />

also paint colorful auroras farther from the<br />

poles than normal.<br />

Astronomers say the sun has been relatively<br />

quiet for some time. And this storm,<br />

while strong, may seem fiercer because<br />

Earth has been lulled by several years of<br />

weak solar activity.<br />

The storm is part of the sun’s normal 11year<br />

cycle, which is supposed to reach peak<br />

storminess next year. Solar storms don’t<br />

harm people, but they do disrupt technology.<br />

And during the last peak around 2002,<br />

experts learned that GPS was vulnerable to<br />

solar outbursts.<br />

Because new technology has flourished<br />

since then, scientists could discover that<br />

some new systems are also at risk, said Jeffrey<br />

Hughes, director of the Center for Integrated<br />

Space Weather Modeling at Boston<br />

University.<br />

A decade ago, this type of solar storm<br />

happened a couple of times a year, Hughes<br />

said.<br />

“This is a good-size event, but not the<br />

extreme type,” said Bill Murtagh, program<br />

coordinator for the federal government’s<br />

Space Weather Prediction Center.<br />

The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the<br />

most noticeable effects should arrive here<br />

between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST Thursday,<br />

according to forecasters at the space weather<br />

center. The effects could linger through Friday<br />

morning.<br />

Center forecaster Rob Steenburgh said<br />

that as of 2:30 a.m. EST Thursday, there<br />

Indiana smoking<br />

(Continued from Page 1)<br />

“I don’t know whether I can sign it<br />

with all those bars in there.”<br />

Republican Senate President Pro<br />

Tem David Long has said the exemption<br />

for bars was necessary to get support<br />

from lawmakers such as himself,<br />

who had opposed previous attempts to<br />

ban smoking.<br />

The House-passed bill also exempted<br />

casinos, private clubs and tobacco<br />

and cigar stores. The Senate also added<br />

new carve-outs for assorted businesses<br />

such as veterans homes and nursing<br />

homes and included a provision prohibiting<br />

cities and counties from adopting<br />

new tougher local restrictions.<br />

Sen. Beverly Gard, R-Greenfield,<br />

said she didn’t yet know how many<br />

of those Senate-added changes needed<br />

to stay in the bill, which senators<br />

23 choirs<br />

(Continued from Page 1)<br />

school crown.<br />

Whiteland will however<br />

be looking to successfully<br />

defend its Small Mixed<br />

Division title.<br />

At approximately 5 p.m.<br />

in the gymnasium, a preliminary<br />

awards presentation<br />

will take place along<br />

with the announcement<br />

of the choirs and soloists<br />

that have progressed to the<br />

evening session. The final<br />

awards will be presented at<br />

the conclusion of the evening<br />

session and are scheduled<br />

to begin at approximately<br />

midnight.<br />

There is a $15 admission<br />

fee for the full day, or<br />

$10 each for only the morning/afternoon<br />

or evening<br />

sessions. Lunch and dinner<br />

will be served in the cafeteria<br />

but are not included<br />

<strong>Local</strong> American<br />

(Continued from Page 1)<br />

district commander from<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>. Also in attendance<br />

will be Past Department<br />

Commander Robert Newman<br />

from Garrett and Past<br />

Department Northern Vice<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> teen<br />

(Continued from Page 1)<br />

prosecutor’s office about<br />

that as well.<br />

Assisting Steele were<br />

Sgt. Mike Miller and Officer<br />

in the cost of admission.<br />

Dinner will be catered by<br />

Preble Gardens.<br />

For those unable to<br />

attend the event, the competition<br />

will be broadcast<br />

via live feed on the Internet<br />

through the Northern Wells<br />

Community Schools web<br />

site at www.nwcs.k12.in.us<br />

The full performance<br />

schedule is as follows:<br />

Small Mixed Show<br />

Choir Division (gymnasium):<br />

8:30 – Martinsville<br />

9:05 – Whiteland<br />

9:40 – Shelbyville<br />

10:15 – Pendleton<br />

Heights<br />

10:50 – Northridge<br />

Large Mixed Show<br />

Choir Division (gymnasium):<br />

were no noticeable effects on Earth. But he<br />

said there were some indications from a satellite,<br />

which registered a slight rise in low<br />

energy particles.<br />

The region of the sun that erupted can<br />

still send more blasts our way, Kunches<br />

said. He said another set of active sunspots<br />

is ready to aim at Earth right after this.<br />

“This is a big sun spot group, particularly<br />

nasty,” NASA solar physicist David Hathaway<br />

said. “Things are really twisted up and<br />

mixed up. It keeps flaring.”<br />

Storms like this start with sun spots,<br />

Hathaway said.<br />

Then comes an initial solar flare of subatomic<br />

particles that resemble a filament<br />

coming out of the sun. That part already hit<br />

Earth only minutes after the initial burst,<br />

bringing radio and radiation disturbances.<br />

After that comes the coronal mass ejection,<br />

which looks like a growing bubble and<br />

takes a couple days to reach Earth. It’s that<br />

ejection that could cause magnetic disruptions<br />

Thursday.<br />

“It could give us a bit of a jolt,” NASA<br />

solar physicist Alex Young said.<br />

The storm follows an earlier, weaker solar<br />

eruption that happened Sunday, Kunches<br />

said.<br />

For North America, the good part of<br />

a solar storm — the one that creates more<br />

noticeable auroras or Northern Lights —<br />

will peak Thursday evening. Auroras could<br />

dip as far south as the Great Lakes states or<br />

lower, Kunches said, but a full moon will<br />

make them harder to see.<br />

Auroras are “probably the treat we get<br />

when the sun erupts,” Kunches said.<br />

Still, the potential for problems is widespread.<br />

Solar storms have three ways they<br />

can disrupt technology on Earth: with magnetic,<br />

radio and radiation emissions. This is<br />

an unusual situation, when all three types<br />

of solar storm disruptions are likely to be<br />

strong, Kunches said. That makes it the<br />

strongest overall since December 2006.<br />

That means “a whole host of things”<br />

could follow, he said.<br />

North American utilities are monitoring<br />

for abnormalities on their grids and have<br />

contingency plans, said Kimberly Mielcarek,<br />

spokeswoman for the North American Electric<br />

Reliability Corporation, a consortium of<br />

electricity grid operators.<br />

approved on a 29-21 vote.<br />

“I think we saw last week on the<br />

floor how tough it’s going to be,” Gard<br />

said.<br />

Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels<br />

said Friday he wanted as few exemptions<br />

as possible but would accept a<br />

weakened version if that’s what it takes<br />

to get some sort of smoke-free measure<br />

approved during his final year in<br />

office.<br />

Bill sponsor Rep. Eric Turner, R-<br />

Cicero, said he was holding out for<br />

including bars in the ban and believed<br />

the governor’s support was helping<br />

chances of getting a ban approved.<br />

“He and I are on the same page: We<br />

want the minimum number of exemptions<br />

and to maximize the number of<br />

locations that are smoke free,” Turner<br />

said. “I’m going to work to the very<br />

Commander Norbert Bultemeier<br />

from Decatur.<br />

The membership is<br />

reminded to bring a covered<br />

dish and their own place setting.<br />

The dinner program<br />

begins at 6:30 p.m.<br />

Andrew Ellis. The accident<br />

blocked traffic on Spring<br />

Street while officers investigated.<br />

chetb@news-banner.com<br />

1:05 – Noblesville<br />

1:40 – Huntington North<br />

2:15 – Anderson<br />

2:50 – Center Grove<br />

Also in Gymnasium<br />

during day session:<br />

4:40 - Norwell “Knight<br />

Stars” (Exhibition only)<br />

5 – Preliminary Awards<br />

presentation<br />

Middle School Show<br />

Choir Division (auditorium):<br />

8:35 – Woodside<br />

9:10 – Shawnee<br />

9:45 – Miami<br />

10:20 – Kekionga<br />

2:05 – Norwell Knight<br />

Sounds (Exhibition only<br />

at conclusion of Women’s<br />

Division competition)<br />

Women’s Show Choir<br />

Division (auditorium):<br />

10:55 – Noblesville<br />

11:30 – Anderson<br />

12:05 – Center Grove<br />

Check out the Community Calendar at the<br />

Weather<br />

Today: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm<br />

before 1 p.m., then a chance<br />

of showers between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m..<br />

Temperature falling to around 40 by 5<br />

p.m.. West wind between 15 and 20 mph,<br />

with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of<br />

precipitation is 100 percent. New rainfall<br />

amounts between a tenth and quarter of<br />

an inch, except higher amounts possible<br />

in thunderstorms.<br />

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low<br />

around 29. West wind between 10 and 15<br />

mph.<br />

WASHINGTON (AP)<br />

— U.S. companies will have<br />

to keep hiring steadily to<br />

meet their customers’ rising<br />

demand.<br />

That’s the message that<br />

emerged from a report<br />

Wednesday that employers<br />

are finding it harder to<br />

squeeze more output from<br />

their existing staff. It also<br />

helps explain why ADP, a<br />

payroll provider, estimated<br />

Wednesday that companies<br />

added 216,000 workers last<br />

month.<br />

Those findings reinforced<br />

confidence that 2012 will<br />

mark a turning point for the<br />

long-suffering job market<br />

and the economy. Applications<br />

for unemployment<br />

12:30 – Lunch break<br />

1:30 – Northridge<br />

Concert Choir Division<br />

(auditorium):<br />

3:45 – Northridge<br />

4:05 – Huntington North<br />

4:25 – Center Grove<br />

Evening Session (gymnasium):<br />

6:30 - Solo competition<br />

finalists (3)<br />

7 - Women’s Choir<br />

Finalists (3)<br />

8:30 - Mixed Choir<br />

Finalists (6)<br />

11:30 - Norwell “Knight<br />

Moves” (Exhibition only)<br />

Midnight - Final awards<br />

presentation.<br />

Watch for photos and<br />

video from the competition<br />

next week on our “Showtime!”<br />

blog at www.newsbanner.com.<br />

frank@news-banner.com<br />

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<strong>Bluffton</strong>, IN 46714<br />

2401 N. Main St.<br />

260-824-1040<br />

Thursday, March 8<br />

(24-hour observations<br />

at 8 a.m.)<br />

Hi: 67<br />

Low: 49<br />

Soil Temp: 45<br />

River Level: 4.44 ft.<br />

Precipitation: .23”<br />

(rain)<br />

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benefits have tumbled. Consumer<br />

confidence is at its<br />

highest point in a year. And<br />

the stock market has been on<br />

a tear since the year began.<br />

Feeding on themselves,<br />

those trends tend to fuel further<br />

economic growth.<br />

The brighter signs come<br />

two days before the government<br />

will issue the February<br />

employment report. It’s<br />

expected to show a third<br />

straight month of strong hiring.<br />

Business executives are<br />

sensing the shift. A survey<br />

released Wednesday by<br />

Duke University’s Fuqua<br />

School of Business found<br />

that confidence among U.S.<br />

chief financial officers has<br />

risen to its highest point in<br />

a year. As a result, the survey<br />

found that companies<br />

expect to increase hiring for<br />

full-time jobs by 2.1 percent<br />

over the next year, up from<br />

1.5 percent in a survey in<br />

December.<br />

“This rebound is encouraging<br />

because increases in<br />

chief financial officer optimism<br />

have historically preceded<br />

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Graham, a finance professor<br />

who directed the survey.<br />

The survey was released<br />

the same day that the government<br />

reported a paltry gain<br />

in worker productivity at the<br />

end of last year. The 0.9 percent<br />

annualized increase was<br />

half the growth rate from<br />

the July-September quarter.<br />

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end to try to get that.”<br />

Negotiators are also working on<br />

a bill written in response to the public<br />

uproar over a state Supreme Court<br />

ruling last year that residents couldn’t<br />

resist officers even during an illegal<br />

entry. It is apparent the legislators are<br />

going to end their session without consensus<br />

from law enforcement groups<br />

on the measure.<br />

Indiana State Fraternal Order of<br />

Police attorney Leo Blackwell told a<br />

House-Senate conference committee<br />

that the group worries the proposal will<br />

give people improper justification for<br />

attacking officers.<br />

Negotiators are trying to reach a<br />

compromise on the measure that specifies<br />

people are protected by the state’s<br />

self-defense law if they reasonably<br />

believe force is necessary.<br />

FAA forecast:<br />

High air fares most<br />

of this decade<br />

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air fares are likely to<br />

stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel<br />

grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a<br />

government forecast issued Thursday.<br />

In its annual economic analysis, the Federal Aviation<br />

Administration said travelers won’t get much<br />

relief until airlines start getting more competition,<br />

which is years off. The FAA predicted that more airline<br />

mergers and consolidation will shrink the number<br />

of cities served and the number of flights available in<br />

the nation’s air travel network.<br />

U.S. airline travel is expected to nearly double<br />

over the next 20 years, the FAA said, but in the near<br />

term, airline capacity will shrink.<br />

The forecast is for the number of miles flown by<br />

paying passengers to rise from 815 billion in 2011 to<br />

1.57 trillion in 2032, with an average increase of 3.2<br />

percent a year.<br />

“Imagine a carrier the size of Jet Blue coming into<br />

the system every 10 months,” Michael Huerta, the<br />

FAA’s acting administrator, said in a statement. “That<br />

is the demand we are forecasting.”<br />

Airlines are expected to do their best to match the<br />

number of seats available to consumer demand so<br />

that planes fly as full as possible.<br />

Last month, Southwest, JetBlue, United, Delta,<br />

American and US Airways raised prices on many<br />

medium-length and long flights by $10 per round<br />

trip, citing the high cost of jet fuel. Airlines raised<br />

fares about a dozen times in 2011.<br />

The price of oil is expected to remain high,<br />

increasing to $110 a barrel by 2015 and $138 a barrel<br />

by 2032, the FAA noted.<br />

Major airports forecast to see the greatest growth<br />

in air traffic — better than 2.5 percent a year — are<br />

Midway in Chicago, John F. Kennedy International<br />

in New York, Washington Dulles International in Virginia,<br />

McCarran International in Las Vegas, Orlando<br />

International in Florida and Houston Intercontinental.<br />

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Obituaries<br />

Pastor David Allen Terhune, 62<br />

Pastor David Allen Terhune,<br />

62, of Rochester, passed<br />

away at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday,<br />

March 7, 2012, at his residence.<br />

Dave was born in <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

on Jan. 17, 1950, to Thomas<br />

“Big Tom” and Dorothy Steffen<br />

Terhune. The oldest of the<br />

Terhune kids, Dave shared his<br />

childhood with two brothers,<br />

Keith and Kent, and a sister<br />

Kim.<br />

He was a 1968 graduate of<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> High School. During<br />

his high school years, Dave met Susan<br />

Captain, and they quickly became high<br />

school sweethearts. Their relationship<br />

evolved into a life long commitment<br />

when on Aug. 8, 1970, Dave and Susan<br />

married. Their marriage of more than 41<br />

years produced three wonderful children,<br />

Brad, Clayton, and Nicole. Later came<br />

the added blessing of four grandchildren,<br />

Rachel, Daniel, Sarah, and Andrew, all<br />

dearly loved by their Papa.<br />

As a young man just out of high<br />

school patriotism beckoned him. Dave<br />

answered the call as a member of the U.S.<br />

Air National Guard. During his six-week<br />

boot camp he shared platoon membership<br />

with former U.S. President George W.<br />

Bush. During his stint he served as a jet<br />

engine mechanic. Returning to <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

he worked as a radio dispatcher for the<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> Police Department. It was their<br />

requirement that dispatchers be trained at<br />

the Fort Wayne Police Academy so dispatchers<br />

could also work patrol.<br />

Officer Terhune enjoyed working the<br />

beat and began his lifelong adventure<br />

serving humanity when he initiated the<br />

Police Athletic League Club. The PAL<br />

Club helped more than 200 kids daily,<br />

keeping them off the streets with a variety<br />

of gym activities, from kick boxing<br />

to basketball to occupy their time and<br />

crime rate was reduced by more than 40<br />

percent.<br />

Answering a call to serve the ministry<br />

in 1975, Dave took classes at Taylor<br />

University while accepting a two-point<br />

charge, pastoring at the Petroleum United<br />

Methodist Church and the Phoenix<br />

United Methodist Church, both in central<br />

Indiana near Upland. Following his<br />

graduation from Taylor in 1981, Pastor<br />

Dave and Susan returned to <strong>Bluffton</strong>, and<br />

with great enthusiasm started the Sonlight<br />

Wesleyan Church. The congregation<br />

grew as it answered the spiritual needs<br />

for many of the community members.<br />

In 1984, Pastor Dave and Susan were<br />

sent to Bedford, Texas, where they founded<br />

the second Sonlight Wesleyan Church.<br />

With the church up and going, they followed<br />

their hearts back to the Midwest<br />

and became the assistant Pastor of Kentwood<br />

Community Church in Kentland,<br />

Mich. With a desire to lead, unlimited<br />

energy and an evangelical spirit, Pastor<br />

Dave and Susan were led to Plymouth.<br />

For the next nine years they transformed<br />

the Plymouth Wesleyan Church into a<br />

dynamic house of worship.<br />

After leaving the Plymouth area, Pastor<br />

Dave served as the senior pastor of<br />

the Lakeview Wesleyan Church in Marion<br />

for four years and then spent seven<br />

years leading the Park Place Wesleyan<br />

Church in St. Petersburg, Fla.<br />

As grandchildren were born and retirement<br />

years were getting closer, Dave and<br />

Susan began to feel the pull back to Indiana.<br />

After months of prayer and direction<br />

from the Lord, he gave his notice in May<br />

of 2009 to return to Indiana and start<br />

a new Wesleyan Church in Rochester<br />

Pastor David<br />

Terhune<br />

which he would simply name,<br />

The Cross.<br />

From the humble beginnings<br />

at the Rochester Middle<br />

School, to Alejandra’s Banquet<br />

Hall, to a final church home<br />

at the corner of 3rd and Main<br />

streets, the Lord has been at<br />

work through this faithful servant.<br />

With a heart for the community<br />

and those in need, The<br />

Cross is a blessed church that<br />

gives back. The Harbor House,<br />

the Just Work It Out program,<br />

the Jail Ministry, and Matthew’s<br />

Market are the four outreach ministries<br />

dear to the pastor’s heart.<br />

A little known fact about Pastor Dave<br />

is not long ago, he was bestowed an honorary<br />

Doctorate from Georgetown University<br />

for his unselfish work, leadership<br />

with a vision and purpose in the area of<br />

Humanities. Our community is a better<br />

place, with the innovative ideas that were<br />

implemented and became reality, because<br />

of this Pastor.<br />

A great humanitarian, his influence<br />

has a ripple effect that has impacted thousands<br />

of lives. He will long be remembered<br />

for his compassionate heart and<br />

genuine love for Jesus. He lived his life<br />

with a passion to win souls for the Lord.<br />

He often quoted and encouraged people<br />

to live by his favorite prayer/poem:<br />

Others<br />

Lord, help me to live from day to day,<br />

In such a self-forgetful way.<br />

That even when I kneel to pray,<br />

My prayer shall be for…Others<br />

Others, Lord, yes others<br />

Let this my motto be.<br />

Help me live for others,<br />

That I may live like Thee.<br />

Dave is lovingly remembered by his<br />

wife and best friend, Susan; a daughter,<br />

Nicole Terhune of Indianapolis, two<br />

sons, the Rev. Brad (Kari) Terhune and<br />

their children, Rachel, Daniel, Sarah and<br />

Andrew of Marion, and Clayton Terhune<br />

(fiancé Mackenzie Depferd of Dallas,<br />

Texas); parents, Tom and Dorothy<br />

Terhune of <strong>Bluffton</strong>; a sister, Kim Smith<br />

of Fort Wayne; and two brothers, Keith<br />

(Patty) Terhune of Olympia, Wash., and<br />

Kent Terhune of <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />

He was preceded in death by his mother<br />

and father-in-law, Louis and Doris Captain.<br />

Pastor Dave would like to share the<br />

plan of Salvation with you, one more<br />

time...<br />

• All of us have sinned- Romans 3:23<br />

• The cost of Sin is separation from<br />

God -Romans 6:23<br />

• We all must be Born Again- John 3:3<br />

• We must believe Jesus is the Savior,<br />

and we must receive him into our life-<br />

John 1:12<br />

• Ask Him to Love You, Start living<br />

for JESUS<br />

A celebration of the life of David Terhune<br />

will be at 2 p.m. Monday, March<br />

12, in the Plymouth Wesleyan Church,<br />

11203 S. Michigan St., Plymouth, with<br />

Mr. Walker Conley, Pastor Don Bayne<br />

and Pastor John Branch officiating. There<br />

will be no visitation.<br />

In lieu of flowers, the family requests<br />

memorials may be made to The Crossn<br />

Benevolence Fund, 100 W. 3rd St., Rochester,<br />

IN 46975.<br />

Online condolences: www.goodfamilyfh.com<br />

Suzanne Kathryn Eiler-Miller, 86<br />

Suzanne Kathryn Eiler-<br />

Elaine Frieden of North Man-<br />

Miller, 86, of Zionsville,<br />

chester, and her dear friend<br />

passed away Tuesday, March<br />

Helen S. Kogan of Zionsville,<br />

6, 2012, surrounded by her<br />

survive her. Also surviving<br />

three daughters and son.<br />

are her children, James E.<br />

She was born on June 30,<br />

(Serene) Miller of Oxford,<br />

1925, in North Manchester,<br />

Ohio; Gail L. (Robert) Suer of<br />

to Cecil L. and Mae E. Eiler,<br />

Muncie, Lora J. (Jim) Jones-<br />

She completed her studies at<br />

McClure, M.D. of Muncie<br />

Manchester College with high-<br />

and Gretchen J. (Jim) Ratliff<br />

est honors. She was an accom-<br />

of Indianapolis; and her many<br />

plished gardener, calligrapher,<br />

artist, and literary editor.<br />

She was past president of<br />

Suzanne<br />

Eiler-Miller<br />

grandchildren.<br />

Private services will be<br />

held in North Manchester, offi-<br />

the Indiana State Medical Auxciated<br />

by her cousin, the Rev.<br />

iliary and Charter Member of Callig- J.P. Freeman.<br />

raphy Guild of Indiana. She supported The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory<br />

the American Pianists Association, is in charge of arrangements.<br />

American Lung Association, and Eagle Memorial contributions may be made<br />

Creek Nature Preserve. She will remain to the American Pianists Association,<br />

a creative inspiration to her family and North Manchester College, or the Amer-<br />

friends.<br />

ican Lung Association.<br />

Her husband, John D. Miller, M.D., Online condolences: www.meeksmor-<br />

preceded Suzanne in death. Her sister, tuary.com<br />

D. Martelle Rhoton, 82, of Noblesville<br />

and formerly of Montpelier, died at<br />

3:45 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at the<br />

Indiana Heart Hospital in Indianapolis.<br />

She was born on June 14, 1929, in<br />

Blackford County, to Sherman Jerry and<br />

Mabel (Swindler) Helm.<br />

Surviving relatives include four sons,<br />

Estel R. (Carolyn) Rhoton of Lebanon,<br />

Steve R. (Lee) Rhoton of Noblesville,<br />

Jay (Lisa) Rhoton of Poneto and Dee T.<br />

(Jo) Rhoton of Knob Noster, Mo.; four<br />

sisters, Imogene (Dwight) Schmidt of<br />

Hartford City, Donna Lou (Don) Brown<br />

of Montpelier, Christine (Dean) Rinker<br />

of Hartford City and Joyce (Louie) Willmann<br />

of Hartford City; one brother, Bud<br />

D. Martelle Rhoton, 82<br />

(Rosemary) Helm of Hartford City; and<br />

11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.<br />

She was preceded in death by a son,<br />

Joe Randall Rhoton; a daughter, Cris<br />

Arlene Rhoton; two brothers, Sherman<br />

and Dale Helm; and her former husband,<br />

Carl N. Rhoton.<br />

Calling hours will be from 3 to 7 p.m.<br />

Friday, March 9, at the Walker and Glancy<br />

Funeral Home in Montpelier. Funeral<br />

services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday,<br />

March 10, at the funeral home. Burial<br />

will be at Brookside Memorial Park in<br />

Montpelier.<br />

Online condolences: www.glancyfuneralhomes.com<br />

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Finding corn<br />

Wells County woman's leader, Patty Baker, allows kindergartner, Jacob Runkel, to help with<br />

an activity titled "Where Can You Find Corn After it Leaves the Farmer's Field?" Indiana<br />

Farm Bureau supplied each county with 2 books titled "Corn" for 5 to 8 year olds and one<br />

for 8 to 11year olds. "The idea is to read and discuss these books to the appropriate ages<br />

and then donate the books to the school classroom or library. This week is Ag Week and<br />

today is National Ag Day. Farm Bureau wants to educate children about farming because<br />

most children are now three generations removed from the farm," said Baker. The students<br />

participated in several other activities demonstrating the importance of corn in thjeir lives.<br />

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Police Notebook<br />

INCIDENTS<br />

City:<br />

Wednesday, 2:37 p.m.,<br />

Sunset Drive. Officer investigated<br />

report of two males<br />

driving recklessly. Officer<br />

was unable to locate the driver.<br />

Wednesday, 2:42 p.m.,<br />

Wells County Annex, 223 W.<br />

Washington St. Beth Davis<br />

reported the theft of a digital<br />

voice recorder and other<br />

equipment from the Wells<br />

County Commissioners<br />

room.<br />

Wednesday, 3:09 p.m.,<br />

800 block of Helen Drive.<br />

Officer spoke with a man and<br />

his son about reported harassment.<br />

Wednesday, 6:02 p.m.,<br />

700 block of Eastmoor Drive.<br />

Officer spoke with husband<br />

after wife asked officer to tell<br />

him to leave their residence.<br />

Another family member was<br />

given a no trespass warning.<br />

Wednesday, 11:06 p.m.,<br />

300 block of West Wabash<br />

Street. Officer responded to<br />

report of possible break in.<br />

The caller chased away two<br />

juveniles who were reportedly<br />

in his truck. Nothing<br />

was taken.<br />

Wednesday, 11:37 p.m.,<br />

200 block of North Bond<br />

Street. Officer assisted female<br />

with a child exchange.<br />

Wednesday, 11:42 p.m.,<br />

Fastenal Company, 100 W.<br />

Monroe St. Officer spoke<br />

Harry J.<br />

Longenberger<br />

Calling: 1-8 p.m.<br />

Thursday.<br />

Funeral: 10:30 a.m.<br />

Friday at Apostolic<br />

Christian Church East.<br />

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with drive who was parked at<br />

company. Driver said she was<br />

staying at Holiday Inn and<br />

soon went back to the hotel.<br />

Thursday, 1:03 a.m., 800<br />

block of Avondale Drive.<br />

Officer attempted to locate<br />

a male reportedly walking<br />

around the area and under the<br />

influence of something.<br />

Thursday, 3:09 a.m., Pizza<br />

Hut. Officer stood by while<br />

employee left the business<br />

after employee said she saw a<br />

van parked nearby.<br />

County:<br />

Thursday, 9:23 a.m.,<br />

600W south of 600S, Poneto.<br />

Jonathan Wyatt reported<br />

someone took a well tank<br />

from a property he owns.<br />

Thursday, 6:36 p.m.,<br />

Ossian Deli, 404 N. Jefferson<br />

St. Employee reported that a<br />

female in a white Grand Am<br />

left without paying for $30.80<br />

in fuel.<br />

Thursday, 8:56 p.m.,<br />

Ossian Deli, 404 N. Jefferson<br />

St., Employee reported that a<br />

male driver in a black diesel<br />

truck left without paying for<br />

$56 in fuel.<br />

Thursday, 9:02 p.m., 400<br />

block of Parent Drive, Ossian.<br />

Caller reported that a teenager<br />

rapidly rang her doorbell<br />

and ran away as she opened<br />

the door. Caller said she saw<br />

the teen also ring doorbells at<br />

other houses. Officer could<br />

not locate.<br />

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O/N corn $5.33.<br />

March beans $13.15, April beans $13.14,<br />

S/O/N beans $12.57.<br />

March wheat $6.51, April wheat $6.44,<br />

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City:<br />

Chris T. Pfister, 50, rural<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>, was attempting to<br />

back into the post office parking<br />

lot when he drove a 2007<br />

Dodge Ram into an adjacent<br />

alley. Pfister’s vehicle then<br />

struck a 2001 Oldsmobile<br />

Intrigue GX that Diane K.<br />

Mason, 60, <strong>Bluffton</strong>, was<br />

driving south through the<br />

alley. Damage exceeded<br />

$2,500.<br />

FIRE<br />

Wednesday, 2:13 p.m.,<br />

191 N. Wausau Court. <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

Fire Department responded<br />

to smell of natural gas in<br />

the laundry room. Leak was<br />

coming from water heater.<br />

Firefighters shut off gas and<br />

advised them to contact landlord.<br />

ARRESTS<br />

Leo N. Bridenthal, 21,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>; domestic battery<br />

and adult probation violation.<br />

No bond set.<br />

TICKETS<br />

Gary D. Rhodes, 504 E.<br />

Townley St.; illegal storage<br />

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Matthew G. Reinhard,<br />

322 W. Wabash St.; illegal<br />

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Dana M. Horn, 23, Fort<br />

Wayne; seat belt violation,<br />

500 block of North Main<br />

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Amber K. Grove, 20,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>; seat belt violation,<br />

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Remain vigilant to keep<br />

children safe from harm<br />

The tragedy of just one innocent child dying from<br />

neglect or abuse should horrify us all.<br />

In 2010, there were 25 Indiana youths who died from<br />

injuries they suffered at the hands of parents or guardians<br />

who clearly lack the skills necessary to handle a crying<br />

infant, a seemingly defiant child or a baby who won’t go<br />

back to sleep.<br />

The number of fatalities<br />

is down from the 38<br />

reported last year and 54 in<br />

2005, according to a report<br />

released by the Indiana<br />

Department of Child Services.<br />

The department’s annual<br />

review is a valuable document<br />

that tracks the fatali-<br />

ties and notes whether the Department of Child Services<br />

had previous contact with the victims or their guardians.<br />

Four of the fatalities in fiscal year 2010 had previous DCS<br />

contact, though in two, the contact was with siblings of the<br />

children who died.<br />

The document also gives caseworkers and the public<br />

insight into the mindset of those responsible for the deaths.<br />

Over and over again, the document mentions the words<br />

“mother’s boyfriend.” Of 19 fatalities due to physical<br />

abuse, 11 were inflicted by the mother’s boyfriend. In 15<br />

cases, the caregivers were living together; in three, the child<br />

lived with a single parent and in one case, the parents were<br />

married.<br />

The report also notes that a majority of the attackers had<br />

less than a high school education and few were over the age<br />

of 35.<br />

Clearly, more young adults who decide to have children<br />

need to be prepared for the realities of parenthood. Relatives,<br />

churches, neighbors and schools can all help in this<br />

effort.<br />

To the other end, those same groups and individuals<br />

should call authorities when they suspect abuse or physical<br />

abuse. The Department of Child Services and Prevent Child<br />

Abuse Indiana offer a 24-hour hotline at (800) 800-5556.<br />

Don’t hesitate to call local police, too.<br />

Relatives, it should be noted, play an important role in<br />

helping achieve stability for children who are in unsafe living<br />

conditions. Over the past five years, the number of children<br />

temporarily placed with relatives has increased 160<br />

percent. In January 2012, 3,453 children in need of services<br />

were placed with relatives. That’s a more comforting statistic<br />

than one suspects — knowing that a child’s life won’t be<br />

completely uprooted as his or her parents receive guidance<br />

or treatment.<br />

While cases of abuse and neglect of children will sadly<br />

continue to fall through the cracks, this study gives critical<br />

statistics to develop ways to tighten the gaps that currently<br />

exist and to provide measures in preventing these unnecessary<br />

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Kelly Sommers (6th birthday),<br />

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on February 29 and only<br />

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On February 28, 2004 a<br />

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That same year State<br />

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sure Kelly and Rod as well,<br />

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February 29. For those who<br />

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on a Friday so they can<br />

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for those celebrating annual<br />

birthdays, but February 29<br />

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well and celebrate each day,<br />

for it is a precious blessing.<br />

My birthday this February<br />

29th was as follows:<br />

many cards and e-mails, a<br />

family gathering for cake<br />

and ice cream, singing, hugs<br />

and well wishes. Then there<br />

was a trip to Fort Wayne to<br />

a large furniture store where<br />

there was a leap day celebration<br />

from 2 to 9 pm. For<br />

going to the store and showing<br />

my birth certificate and<br />

drivers license I received a<br />

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phone calls from grandchildren<br />

off afar.<br />

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as I need to kick back<br />

in it and take a nap from all<br />

the excitement of the 29th of<br />

February 2012.<br />

Sincerely yours,<br />

(for another four years)<br />

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Who’s the true conservative?<br />

The theme for this year’s primary season was<br />

set back in May 2011. Recall that the Republicandominated<br />

House of Representatives had just done<br />

something that cynics said would not and could not<br />

be done. They voted for a budget -- the Ryan budget -<br />

- that actually began to tackle the problem of limitless<br />

entitlement spending.<br />

The cliche about entitlements (the “third rail”) had<br />

been largely true. Neither Republicans nor Democrats<br />

had shown the courage to tell middle-class voters that<br />

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security would have<br />

to change. But on April 15, all but four Republicans<br />

(and zero Democrats) voted for a budget that would<br />

block grant Medicaid to the states and gradually<br />

transform Medicare from the whale-shark entitlement<br />

that threatens to swallow all other federal spending<br />

into a premium support program.<br />

Naturally, the Republicans got no credit for this<br />

principled vote from the usual suspects (the press,<br />

the liberal commentators, the professors). But you’d<br />

think fellow Republicans and conservatives would<br />

offer at least a clap on the back. Nope. Just a few<br />

weeks later, former Speaker of the House Newt<br />

Gingrich, appearing on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press,”<br />

labeled the Ryan budget “too radical” and “rightwing<br />

social engineering,” which Gingrich explained<br />

that he opposed as much as “left-wing social engineering.”<br />

As Rep. Paul Ryan said at the time, “With allies<br />

like that, who needs the left?”<br />

It set the tone for what was to come. While claiming<br />

to save the Republican Party from the supposedly<br />

“moderate” Romney, one after another of the Republican<br />

presidential candidates has seized the slogans<br />

of the left -- even of the Occupy movement -- to<br />

make his case. Judging by campaign rhetoric, there is<br />

really only one conservative left in the race, and that’s<br />

Romney.<br />

A few weeks after “Meet the Press,” Gingrich<br />

reversed himself on the Ryan budget. A spokesman<br />

said, “There is little daylight between Ryan and Gingrich<br />

on Medicare.” But Gingrich was soon sounding<br />

like Michael Moore regarding Romney’s career at<br />

Bain Capital. “Is capitalism really about the ability<br />

of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives<br />

of thousands of other people and walk off with the<br />

money or is that somehow a little bit of a flawed system?”<br />

asked the self-styled “Reagan conservative.”<br />

Romney’s wealth, Gingrich said, came from a model<br />

of “leverage the game, borrow the money, leave the<br />

OPINION<br />

Angelkeep vegetation assessment month<br />

The damage done to<br />

vegetation at Angelkeep<br />

during cold, blustery,<br />

days in wintertime gets<br />

a review typically in<br />

the month of March. Finally the<br />

weather is warm enough, but not as<br />

warm as desired, to do a bit of walk<br />

about through the yard and path<br />

around Angelpond. God provides a<br />

calculated method of controlling the<br />

vegetation on earth, causing a season<br />

for everything, like the Bible says.<br />

A March day will soon initiate the<br />

spring season, the one devoted to new<br />

beginnings, new growth, new life,<br />

and a renewal of Angelkeep outdoor<br />

life by humans, animals, and plants.<br />

Can’t wait! So a review of the previous<br />

season is the order of the day.<br />

Spring, also known for birth, follows<br />

death, or winter. Death is largely<br />

considered to be a less than desirable<br />

part of life, but not always is that true.<br />

If some of the weeds of Angelkeep<br />

were not killed off during a Hoosier<br />

winter, the continual growth would<br />

soon have Angelkeep’s beauty and<br />

delight looking more like an impenetrable<br />

jungle forest capable of devouring<br />

even humans who try to inhabit<br />

a wee segment. Little more than a<br />

decade ago, the center of Angelpond<br />

was such an impenetrable jungle of<br />

grape vine that literally stopped a<br />

bulldozer from pushing through its<br />

entanglement. Without a winter to kill<br />

weeds, Angelkeep might now possess<br />

Queen Anne’s lace plants, as tall as<br />

Florida palm trees, as thickly barked<br />

as California redwoods, and as plentiful<br />

as this year’s Angelkeep dandelions<br />

already discussing their lawn<br />

carpeting intent among each other.<br />

Come to think of it, hundred-foottall<br />

wild carrots would make interesting<br />

firewood for the spring’s patio<br />

campfires, soon to come. Instead of<br />

smoke smelling of pine tar or burning<br />

maple sap, it might smell like cooked<br />

carrots or stew.<br />

Winter ice plus wind serves as<br />

Angelkeep’s tree trimmer of choice.<br />

Apple trees, crabapple trees (God<br />

Angelkeep<br />

Journals<br />

Alan<br />

Daugherty<br />

debt behind and walk off with all the profits.<br />

... I think it’s exploitive. I think it’s not<br />

defensible.”<br />

Rick Santorum, to his credit, resisted<br />

the Occupy Wall Street-style Bain bashing.<br />

But on the day of the Michigan primary, he<br />

sponsored robo-calls that urged Democrats<br />

to cross over and vote for him, saying,<br />

“Romney supported the bailouts for his<br />

Wall Street billionaire buddies but opposed<br />

the auto bailouts. That was a slap in the Mona<br />

face to every Michigan worker.”<br />

Really? Was opposing the bailout of Charen<br />

GM and Chrysler a “slap in the face” to the<br />

Michiganders who work for Ford, a company that<br />

declined to seek a bailout? And, by the way, every<br />

Michigan worker paid for that bailout. Is Rick Santorum<br />

now adopting the left’s posture -- and of President<br />

Obama -- that being pro-worker means favoring<br />

government bailouts of companies that make poor<br />

business decisions? And doesn’t Santorum feel even<br />

a twinge of embarrassment at making these arguments<br />

when 1) he claims to be a free marketeer, and<br />

2) he himself opposed the auto bailouts?<br />

To hear Gingrich and Santorum tell it, Romney is<br />

a plutocrat and a dreaded “Massachusetts moderate.”<br />

But the former Pennsylvania senator voted against<br />

right to work legislation and voted in favor of a vast<br />

new entitlement, the prescription drug benefit, as well<br />

as No Child Left behind. Newt Gingrich’s apostasies<br />

gush forth like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.<br />

Mitt Romney backed an individual mandate in<br />

Massachusetts. OK. That’s a demerit. But the individual<br />

mandate (which is perfectly constitutional when a<br />

state, as opposed to the federal government, imposes<br />

it) is only a fraction of what’s wrong with Obamacare.<br />

That 2,000-plus page monstrosity deforms onesixth<br />

of our economy, imposes countless new regulations<br />

and mandates, and intensifies everything that<br />

is wrong with our current health care mess. Romney,<br />

like the others, is committed to repealing it.<br />

So he’s for a free market reform of health care,<br />

cutting spending, tackling the soaring debt, reducing<br />

taxes, simplifying the code, eliminating regulations,<br />

drilling for domestic energy, appointing conservative<br />

judges, and keeping our military the strongest on<br />

Earth. And Romney has not attacked his competitors<br />

from the left but from the right because that’s where<br />

they, far more than he, are vulnerable.<br />

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planted them, He<br />

prunes them),<br />

corkscrew willow,<br />

dead ash, and other<br />

varieties get annual<br />

pruning without<br />

human assistance.<br />

Fallen branches<br />

and twigs get collected<br />

in the March<br />

days before the<br />

lawn’s grass asks<br />

for “a little off the<br />

top.” Those twigs<br />

become patio pan<br />

kindling, dry and<br />

efficient. It’s much<br />

easier finding<br />

good aspects to winter in the month<br />

of March. Knowledge that the worst<br />

weather is past makes the natural reasons<br />

for death and dormancy acceptable.<br />

Angelkeep has a persistent newgrown<br />

attempt toward forestation<br />

via volunteer evergreens, crabapple,<br />

ash, and oak trees. During late spring,<br />

after peas are setting bloom and onion<br />

sets display pungent green tops, many<br />

of the young ash get clipped off to the<br />

ground. It doesn’t kill them, and they<br />

will re-sprout, providing next winter’s<br />

ash saplings as food for deer. In winter,<br />

when farmers’ fields are bare, and<br />

leaves impossible to find, deer turn to<br />

eating the tenderest of wood.<br />

New apple tree branches are deerdelectable.<br />

So much so they sometimes<br />

are seen standing on hind legs<br />

reaching upward into the tree after all<br />

lower limbs have been stripped of the<br />

newest twigs. Next on the tree/shrub<br />

most-enjoyed deer menu is arborvitae<br />

and small soft-needle evergreens.<br />

The ash saplings are often devoured<br />

almost totally. Only the lowest foot of<br />

a small trunk remains in March, often<br />

indicating the depth of a snowdrift<br />

during a severe winter storm.<br />

Deer were also watched and photographed<br />

close enough to the house<br />

that, as wife Gwen states, “They<br />

are close enough to count their eyelashes.”<br />

Many women would give<br />

much for eyelashes the length of a<br />

doe’s. Deer prune the leaves and newest<br />

branch growth off of Abraham<br />

Darby. Old Abe is a three-year-old<br />

rose climber now six feet tall standing<br />

at the southwest corner of the patio.<br />

That’s was eaten in the bottom half<br />

down to the main stems. Apparently<br />

that portion was too thorny for doe<br />

munching comfort.<br />

The March damage assessment<br />

discovered a ball arborvitae in the<br />

flowerbed behind the garage so<br />

devoured on the east side, away from<br />

the house view, that it looked as<br />

though the bush/tree was leaning at a<br />

fourty-five degree angle to the west.<br />

Other arborvitae tall-slender varieties<br />

were also winter treats and the<br />

remaining shape looks like early stages<br />

of intentional topiary artistry. Ivy<br />

vines, fall clematis, and honeysuckle<br />

(located on the southeast patio corner)<br />

all were chew-pruned by the deer.<br />

Angelkeep considers deer viewing as<br />

delightful as flower viewing. After<br />

all, the deer are enticed to Angelkeep<br />

by piles of corn kernels daily replenished.<br />

That feeding act protects the<br />

deer from being Angelkeep hunted,<br />

but also puts Angelkeep vegetation<br />

at risk.<br />

As the deer damage is evaluated,<br />

including a 2 inch diameter corkscrew<br />

willow tree trunk debarked by<br />

antler rubbing, another March occurrence<br />

is noticed. On the far side of<br />

Angelpond’s bank the first signs of<br />

abundant daffodils are rising. These<br />

are Angelkeep’s second flowers of<br />

spring, closely behind crocus. They’re<br />

in an early stage of growth, but soon<br />

will burst forth with yellow color as<br />

welcomed as the golden warm spring<br />

sun’s rays. They will thrive their full<br />

season of life. Deer do not eat daffodils.<br />

But deer will return for the daylilies<br />

currently leafed about the same<br />

March daffodil height.<br />

Mr. Daugherty is a Wells County<br />

resident who, along with his wife Gwen,<br />

enjoy their back yard and have named it<br />

“Angelkeep.”


LIFESTYLES THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • Page 5<br />

Here are tips on how<br />

to fix fried beef brains<br />

It is 7 am and our six<br />

youngest children just left<br />

for school. I thought I would<br />

get this column written right<br />

away this morning. I am battling<br />

a bad head cold which<br />

kept me awake a lot during<br />

the night. It makes for a very<br />

tired mind and it doesn't help<br />

matters any when I think of<br />

the extra busy week ahead.<br />

Friday evening we butchered<br />

a 1280 pound beef. We<br />

are glad temperatures stayed<br />

cold with the thermometer<br />

now showing 20 degrees.<br />

With the mild temperatures<br />

during the winter it can be<br />

tricky to butcher meat. The<br />

girls and I plan to start putting<br />

up the beef tomorrow.<br />

Joe and the children will<br />

help when they get home. I<br />

enjoy the job of cutting up<br />

beef even though it is a big<br />

job.<br />

We washed laundry this<br />

morning because daughter<br />

Elizabeth will go to work<br />

this afternoon. While Elizabeth<br />

is working Susan and I<br />

plan to get the tables ready<br />

for the beef. We want to get<br />

everything ready today so we<br />

can tackle the big job tomorrow.<br />

Hopefully by then I will<br />

be feeling better as well. I<br />

will do some canning but not<br />

as much as I used to. It is so<br />

much easier to freeze everything.<br />

I like canned beef<br />

chunks for soups and canned<br />

Miller couple<br />

to celebrate<br />

40th wedding<br />

anniversary<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Bill (Gloria Gerber) Miller<br />

of 3414 S. Hoosier Hwy., <strong>Bluffton</strong>, Indiana<br />

46714 will celebrate their 40th wedding<br />

anniversary with an anniversary party<br />

Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 2 to 5 p.m.<br />

at The Rosewood on Main in <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />

Bill and Gloria were married March 10,<br />

1972 at Church of Christ in <strong>Bluffton</strong> by<br />

Pastor Lilburn Burroughs.<br />

They have four children, Bill Miller,<br />

Jr., Shawn Miller and Michelle Miller, all<br />

of <strong>Bluffton</strong> and Jeremy Miller of Ossian.<br />

hamburger for casseroles.<br />

The sun is shining brightly<br />

already but next week it<br />

will be an hour later with the<br />

time change. I always like<br />

to see the sun come out but<br />

even more now that we have<br />

the solar-panels to run our<br />

freezer.<br />

We want to see how much<br />

room we have in the freezer<br />

after the beef is done. If we<br />

have enough room we might<br />

butcher a hog or two yet if the<br />

weather stays cold enough. I<br />

still have a few bags of sausage<br />

left in the freezer from<br />

last year. I mostly use the<br />

sausage in chili soup and<br />

in making gravy. Also I use<br />

sausage in casseroles or pizzas<br />

sometime. A person can't<br />

be thankful enough when<br />

there is plenty of meat in the<br />

house for another year. And<br />

before we know it gardening<br />

time will be here again.<br />

The garden also helps fill the<br />

jars with food. God has been<br />

good to us but let us not forget<br />

to take time to thank Him<br />

for our blessings.<br />

Our thoughts and prayers<br />

go to the families hit by the<br />

tornadoes last week. We<br />

wish them God's blessings<br />

in their recovery and rebuilding.<br />

Although we were not<br />

in the area of the tornadoes<br />

one of the big red oak trees<br />

in our yard uprooted during<br />

a windstorm. We are very<br />

What’s Up!<br />

Friends of Animal Shelter meeting March 12<br />

The Friends of the Animal Shelter will meet Monday,<br />

March 12 at 5:30 p.m. at <strong>Bluffton</strong> City Hall conference<br />

room.<br />

Agenda topics include: Upcoming events, garage sale,<br />

Spay/Neuter Clinics and summer parades.<br />

The public is welcome to attend the meeting. For more<br />

information call 273-1742.<br />

Green and Growing program<br />

March 14 at Salamonie<br />

Children ages two to five can attend the Green and Growing<br />

program for preschoolers at Salamonie Interpretive Center<br />

Wednesday, March 14 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.<br />

Children and their parent or caregiver can enjoy time in<br />

the garden and learning about growing plants. The program<br />

will be both indoors and out, starting at the Interpretive Center.<br />

Cost is $2 per child. Register by calling 260-468-2127<br />

or visit the center at 3691 S. New Holland Road, Andrews<br />

or log onto: www.dnr.IN.gov/uwis.<br />

Fish or Tenderloin Dinner March 16<br />

Hoagland Area Advancement Association will sponsor a<br />

Fish or Tenderloin Dinner Friday, March 16 from 4 to 7 p.m.<br />

at the Hoagland Park Pavilion located at 11320 Hoagland<br />

Road.<br />

Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children ages six through 12<br />

and free for children under age six are free. For more information<br />

call 2600-447-1526 or visit: www.hoaglandin.com.<br />

Chili Supper March 17 at Poneto<br />

Members of the Poneto Volunteer Fire Department will<br />

sponsor a Chili Supper Saturday, March 17 from 4:30 to 7<br />

p.m. at the Poneto Fire House.<br />

The menu will include: chili, chicken noodle, sloppies,<br />

hot dogs, homemade desserts and drinks. A free will donation<br />

will be accepted at the event.<br />

Paws to Read program offered<br />

in March at Markle Library<br />

The Huntington Public Library Markle Branch will offer<br />

Paws-to-Read Program on the following dates: Saturday,<br />

March 17, 14 and 28 from 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. at 197<br />

East Morse Street, Markle. In the program, children ages six<br />

through 12 participate in one-on-one sessions in which they<br />

practice reading aloud to trained therapy dogs.<br />

For more information call the Huntington Library daily at<br />

260-356-0824 or the Markle Branch at 260-758-3332 from<br />

1 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to<br />

noon. Space is limited and registration is required. There is<br />

no charge for this program.<br />

Coin and Currency Show March 18<br />

The Fort Wayne Old Fort Coin Club will sponsor a Coin<br />

and Currency Show Sunday, March 18 from 9 a.m. to 4<br />

p.m. at the Allen County Fairgrounds. There will be over 50<br />

tables of Numismatic material, free parking, free admission<br />

and food available.<br />

Directions: Take I-69 to Exit 111B North on Lima to Carroll<br />

Road. Follow the signs to the show.<br />

thankful the children were<br />

not home at the time because<br />

they could have been playing<br />

in the front yard. That night<br />

it was a nice sunny evening<br />

with temperatures in the<br />

upper 60s.<br />

Yesterday we had a nice<br />

surprise visit from Joe's<br />

Uncle Solomon in Ohio.<br />

Joe's cousin's son Ben was<br />

also along. The girls and I<br />

were making breakfast so we<br />

had them eat breakfast with<br />

us.<br />

On the menu was eggs,<br />

fried potatoes, bacon, Swiss<br />

and Colby cheese, fried<br />

brains I fixed from beef we<br />

butchered. Uncle Solomon<br />

helped Joe eat them. I dip<br />

them in egg and roll them<br />

in flour and then fry them.<br />

They come out looking just<br />

like a chicken breast, you<br />

could fool someone it looks<br />

so much like chicken. I<br />

never tasted them and I don't<br />

think I want to, but Joe likes<br />

them. I told Joe I am glad<br />

that is over with for another<br />

year. Three boys tasted the<br />

brains and said they were<br />

good but none of them asked<br />

for seconds. The highlight of<br />

butchering beef for our family<br />

is having rare beef again.<br />

It is steak sliced real thin and<br />

deep-fried a few seconds on<br />

each side. Grandpa Graber<br />

added a lot of pepper to it<br />

and Mom also peppered hers<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miller<br />

The Amish<br />

Cook<br />

They also have two grandchildren, Corrie<br />

and Andrew Glisson.<br />

Bill is employed at <strong>Bluffton</strong> Motor<br />

Works. Gloria was employed at<br />

MapleWood Home. They enjoy bowling,<br />

camping and spending time with their<br />

grandchildren.<br />

Indianapolis<br />

Opera goes to<br />

the movies<br />

Lights! Camera! Opera?<br />

This March, Indianapolis<br />

Opera takes patrons to the<br />

cinema with a brand new<br />

production, Opera Goes to<br />

the Movies.<br />

On the footsteps of their<br />

acclaimed and intimate<br />

one-act productions, Indianapolis<br />

Opera continues to<br />

push the traditional opera<br />

envelope. Opera Goes to<br />

the Movies pairs live opera<br />

singers with some of the<br />

film industry’s most iconic<br />

scenes, which feature opera<br />

as the musical backdrop or<br />

setting.<br />

“Hollywood’s biggest<br />

blockbusters feature some<br />

of the greatest operatic hits<br />

of the ages,” says Nicole<br />

Brandt, director of marketing.<br />

“We’ve commissioned<br />

a true multi-media experience<br />

that pairs these timeless<br />

movie moments with<br />

the magic of live operatic<br />

performance.”<br />

Hosted at Clowes Hall<br />

on the Campus of Butler<br />

University, the evening will<br />

be emceed by Phil Van Hest<br />

and feature scenes from<br />

movies such as:<br />

Apocalypse Now<br />

Blues Brothers<br />

Mrs. Doubtfire<br />

Citizen Kane<br />

Fatal Attraction<br />

Shawshank Redemption<br />

Fifth Element<br />

The Godfather<br />

Songs will be performed<br />

in their original language<br />

with English super-titles.<br />

Members of the Indianapolis<br />

Chamber Orchestra<br />

will accompany the performance.<br />

Clowes Memorial Hall<br />

is located at 4602 Sunset<br />

Ave., Indianapolis.<br />

Tickets costs: $100 and<br />

$90 for premium seats, and<br />

$60 and $25 for regular<br />

seats.<br />

For more information,<br />

visit www.indyopera.org<br />

by Lovina<br />

Eicher<br />

a lot. Joe and I like ours very<br />

peppery but the children just<br />

a little. So I fry one stack<br />

with a lot of pepper and<br />

another stack with less for<br />

the children.<br />

Last week Jacob, Emma,<br />

Joe, and I attended the<br />

viewing of a second cousin<br />

in a nearby community. He<br />

was a bishop in that community<br />

and 69 years old.<br />

Our sympathy goes to the<br />

family.<br />

With it being beef butchering<br />

time I thought I'd share<br />

this recipe which makes for<br />

a good casserole.<br />

BEEF CHUNK<br />

CASSEROLE<br />

1 pound canned beef<br />

chunks<br />

3 eggs<br />

2 cups milk<br />

1 cup chopped onion<br />

2 tablespoons butter<br />

6 slices of bread, cubed<br />

1/2 teaspoon salt<br />

1 quart corn<br />

1 cup grated cheese<br />

Place cooked meat in<br />

a baking dish. Beat eggs,<br />

milk, salt, and add broken<br />

up bread, corn, and onions.<br />

Pour on top of the meat.<br />

Melt butter and pour over<br />

top. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.<br />

Remove the casserole<br />

from the oven and sprinkle<br />

cheese over all and bake<br />

until cheese melts.<br />

Club Calendar<br />

Thursday, March 8<br />

Bee Happy Quilt Club-<br />

-Wells County Public<br />

Library; 7 p.m. Show and<br />

Tell. Public welcome. 824-<br />

1463.<br />

River Terrace Estates--<br />

Amy Chaplin's piano students<br />

to perform; 6:30 p.m.<br />

IL.<br />

Friday, March 9<br />

River Terrace Estates--<br />

Family Ties; 1:30 p.m.<br />

Saturday, March 10<br />

Korean War Veterans<br />

Assn., Indiana Chapter One-<br />

-V.F.W. Post 857, 2202 W.<br />

Main St., Fort Wayne; 10<br />

a.m. Lunch will follow meeting.<br />

Friends and spouses are<br />

welcome. 260-485-7627.<br />

River Terrace Estates--<br />

Carol Impols. Carol Kreps<br />

playing piano and singing; 3<br />

p.m. in Healthcare.<br />

Sunday, March 11<br />

River Terrace Estates--<br />

Tressie and Vida Stair; 2:30<br />

p.m. in AL Dining.<br />

Monday, March 12<br />

ADHD/ADD Support<br />

Group--Parkwood<br />

Church, 3320 Trier Road,<br />

Fort Wayne; 6:30-8:30 p.m.<br />

Topic: Prosecuting Child<br />

Abuse Cases, What you<br />

need to know. Speaker: Laurie<br />

Gray, JD. 260-492-2181.<br />

Tuesday, March 13<br />

Homemaker's Club--Corner<br />

Depot; 11:30 a.m.<br />

Wednesday, March 14<br />

Poplar Grove Club--Corner<br />

Depot; 11:30 a.m.<br />

Bible Study Club--First<br />

United Methodist Church;<br />

12:45-2 p.m.<br />

Thursday, March 15<br />

Wells County Master<br />

Gardeners--4-H Park; 7<br />

p,m. Penny Hinsky, Master<br />

Gardener member from<br />

Adams County, will present<br />

the program entitled “Wading<br />

Into Water Gardening.”<br />

There is no charge to attend<br />

the program and the public<br />

is invited.<br />

Every Tuesday<br />

Optimist Club — Meets<br />

each Tuesday morning at<br />

6:45 a.m. at Corner Depot<br />

Restaurant in <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />

School Lunches<br />

Southern Wells<br />

Jr./Sr. High School<br />

Monday, March 12<br />

Chicken nuggets, scalloped<br />

potatoes, mandarin<br />

oranges, pudding, milk<br />

choice.<br />

Tuesday, March 13<br />

Sloppy joe, seasoned<br />

green beans, apple crisp, ice<br />

cream cup, milk choice.<br />

Wednesday, March 14<br />

Corn dog, baked beans,<br />

fresh orange, animal crackers,<br />

milk choice.<br />

Thursday, March 15<br />

French toast sticks,<br />

smokies, hash browns, fresh<br />

grapes, milk choice.<br />

Friday, March 16<br />

Taco salad, corn on the<br />

cob, rosy pears, cookie, milk<br />

choice.<br />

Menu subject to change<br />

Boundaries<br />

(Part two of two parts)<br />

Do you sometimes<br />

have a feeling that your<br />

life is out of control? Do<br />

you sometimes feel isolated,<br />

or helpless, or confused?<br />

If so, isn’t it about<br />

time that you take control<br />

of your own life? Here’s<br />

how:<br />

Insights<br />

by Joan Phelps<br />

1.) Stop trying so hard to be a people-pleaser.<br />

2.) Stop trying to take responsibility for others.<br />

3.) Take ownership of your own life.<br />

4.) Stop trying to do everything.<br />

5.) Set appropriate boundaries.<br />

Boundaries can help to define us; like a good fence<br />

defines property lines. Boundaries can help to remind<br />

us what our responsibility is; and is not. Knowing what<br />

responsibilities one owns can be quite freeing. It can<br />

define where things begin and where they end. What are<br />

you responsible for? What are you not responsible for?<br />

Know the difference.<br />

Who is one responsible to: A boss, a spouse, a family,<br />

a business, oneself? Yes. And sometimes when others<br />

have problems that are too big for them to bear alone,<br />

we are responsible for them too. On the other hand, if our<br />

responsibilities start to become too stressful or heavy, it<br />

might be wise to “cut back” before getting “crushed.”<br />

Setting healthy boundaries can be tricky. It is very<br />

important to keep nurturing things and nurturing people<br />

inside the boundary; and keep unhealthy or destructive<br />

things and people outside the boundary. In short, as one<br />

author puts it, “keep the good in and the bad out.”<br />

Other ways to set boundaries include:<br />

1.) Monitor or edit the words you say.<br />

2.) Be truthful; and avoid gossip.<br />

3.) Physically remove yourself if necessary.<br />

4.) Separate from those who continue to hurt you.<br />

5.) Create a safe place for yourself.<br />

6.) Take some time off.<br />

7.) Give yourself some space.<br />

8.) Say “no” to abuse.<br />

We each have to take responsibility for what lies within<br />

our own boundaries. We each are responsible for our own<br />

feelings; our own attitudes and beliefs; our own behaviors,<br />

choices, and values.<br />

We each are responsible for our own thoughts and<br />

desires. Setting boundaries is not always easy. Not setting<br />

boundaries is disastrous.<br />

Health <strong>News</strong><br />

March is Colon Cancer<br />

Awareness Month<br />

Five Steps to Colon Health<br />

Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine, the lower<br />

part of the digestive system. It is the third most common<br />

cancer in the United States, and – caught early – it’s also<br />

one of the most curable. Most cases begin<br />

silently as a polyp that causes no or few<br />

symptoms. Five simple steps can help protect<br />

your health and reduce your likelihood<br />

for developing colon cancer.<br />

1. Get tested<br />

All adults should begin routine colon<br />

cancer screenings at age 50. In 2008, the<br />

American Cancer Society (ACS) issued<br />

new screening guidelines to stress prevention<br />

as the primary goal and steer providers<br />

and patients toward those tests with the<br />

highest potential to prevent cancer.<br />

By: George<br />

Babcock, M.D.<br />

General Surgeon<br />

ACS recommends procedures that actually examine<br />

the interior of the colon because they can not only detect<br />

cancer, but also prevent it by identifying polyps or growths<br />

that can potentially become cancerous. These procedures<br />

include a flexible sigmoidoscopy (every five years);<br />

a colonoscopy (every 10 years); a double contrast barium<br />

enema (every five years); or a CT colonography or virtual<br />

colonoscopy (every five years). Polyps found during flexible<br />

sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy can be removed<br />

immediately, simply and painlessly.<br />

Other testing options that look for evidence of cancer<br />

include three types of stool tests – an annual fecal occult<br />

blood test, the annual fecal immunochemical test (FIT),<br />

and a periodic stool DNA test.<br />

2. Know your risk factors<br />

Know the risk factors associated with colon problems:<br />

• age<br />

• high-fat diet<br />

• family or personal history of colorectal cancer<br />

• personal history of polyps or growths inside the colon<br />

and rectum<br />

• other medical conditions that elevate your risk, such<br />

as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis<br />

• diabetes – people with diabetes have a 40 percent<br />

increased risk of colon cancer<br />

• ethnic background – African Americans have the<br />

highest number of colorectal cancer cases in the United<br />

States.<br />

3. Know the symptoms<br />

Be vigilant about scheduled screenings, and if you<br />

experience symptoms of colon cancer, see your doctor<br />

sooner. Symptoms may include persistent abdominal discomfort,<br />

a change in bowel habits (diarrhea, constipation,<br />

or a change in stool consistency), abdominal pain accompanying<br />

a bowel movement, dark stools, weakness or<br />

fatigue, unexplained weight loss, or blood in the stool.<br />

Symptoms vary, and certain foods or medications or<br />

other health problems can also mimic these symptoms. It’s<br />

best to err on the safe side and check with your doctor<br />

when you notice changes.<br />

It is important to remember that in some patients, colon<br />

cancer can be present with no symptoms, stressing the<br />

importance of routine screening.<br />

4. Practice prevention<br />

A balanced diet, regular exercise, and smart lifestyle<br />

choices may reduce your risk level. A diet rich in fruits,<br />

vegetables, and whole grains provides nutrients and antioxidants<br />

that fight disease. Low-fat dairy products and<br />

limited consumption of red meat keep saturated fat intake<br />

low. Getting vitamins and minerals through a daily supplement<br />

helps, but food-based vitamins are more effective<br />

and more easily absorbed by the body. Regular exercise<br />

– at least 30 minutes most days of the week – helps build<br />

your body’s defenses. Finally, quitting smoking and limiting<br />

alcohol consumption help, too.<br />

5. Know your options<br />

During your annual check-up visit, talk with your doctor<br />

about the best way to manage your risk. Together, you and<br />

your doctor can determine a colon cancer screening plan<br />

that works best for you.


Page 6 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012<br />

Indy loses a favorite son<br />

as Manning bids farewell<br />

By CLIFF BRUNT<br />

AP Sports Writer<br />

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Race car<br />

driver Ed Carpenter watched in amazement<br />

as Peyton Manning transformed<br />

his hometown.<br />

The longtime Colts fan remembers<br />

when the NBA’s Indiana Pacers ruled<br />

the basketball-crazed city, and saw<br />

how that shifted within a few years of<br />

the Colts drafting Manning in 1998.<br />

Carpenter reflected on it after the<br />

Colts released the four-time MVP on<br />

Wednesday.<br />

“I remember going into (Colts)<br />

games at the RCA Dome and at packed<br />

(Pacers) games at Market Square Arena,<br />

and even now you go to half-full Pacers<br />

games and packed crowds at Lucas Oil<br />

Stadium,” the 31-year-old Carpenter<br />

said. “I don’t think without Peyton that<br />

ever would have happened.”<br />

Colts fans, now forced to view the<br />

city’s sports landscape without their<br />

greatest hero, struggled to deal with it<br />

despite knowing that the move seemingly<br />

makes good business sense. The<br />

dismay stretched from the streets of<br />

Indy to the governor’s office and to<br />

Manning himself as he said goodbye,<br />

standing beside team owner Jim Irsay.<br />

“I sure have loved playing football<br />

for the Indianapolis Colts,” Manning<br />

said. “For 14 wonderful years, the only<br />

professional football I’ve known has<br />

been Colts football.”<br />

The move brings an end to a golden<br />

run in a city that Manning helped turn<br />

into an NFL power.<br />

“I think in terms of the sport and the<br />

Kentucky,<br />

Syracuse<br />

have edge<br />

for NCAA<br />

top seeds<br />

By EDDIE PELLS<br />

AP National Writer<br />

Even the chairman of the<br />

tight-lipped NCAA selection<br />

committee can’t deny this<br />

simple fact: Heading into this<br />

week’s conference tournaments,<br />

there’s Kentucky and<br />

Syracuse, and then everybody<br />

else.<br />

In a teleconference to preview<br />

Sunday’s release of the<br />

NCAA tournament pairings,<br />

committee chairman Jeff<br />

Hathaway all but handed two<br />

of the four top seeds to the<br />

Wildcats and Orange, each<br />

of whom entered their conference<br />

tournaments with a<br />

record of 30-1.<br />

“I think we all agree that<br />

if the season ended today, we<br />

know who the two best teams<br />

are,” he said Wednesday. “If<br />

you’re looking at 3 and 4 on<br />

the first line and the entire<br />

second line, we have the same<br />

handful of teams in mind but<br />

where they would be laced<br />

will be a tremendous debate.”<br />

Though Hathaway, the former<br />

athletic director at defending<br />

national champion Connecticut,<br />

did not get specific,<br />

among those lumped into<br />

consideration for the other top<br />

seeds are Duke, Kansas, North<br />

Carolina, Missouri, Ohio State<br />

and Michigan State.<br />

The brackets come out<br />

Sunday evening, with the<br />

tournament starting Tuesday.<br />

When Hathaway was<br />

pressed about his Kentucky-<br />

Syracuse statement, he tried<br />

to back off.<br />

“I don’t want to say anyone<br />

should feel secure,” he said.<br />

“If I did, those two coaches<br />

would get after me and say we<br />

took away some motivation.”<br />

He said injuries or a suspension,<br />

each of which the<br />

committee considers when<br />

making up the bracket, could<br />

change the picture.<br />

“The bottom line is, everyone<br />

today knows that if the<br />

season ended, we would say<br />

those two teams are the best in<br />

the country,” Hathaway said.<br />

As is typical in the lead-up<br />

to Selection Sunday, the chairman<br />

talked a lot about process<br />

but offered few specifics or<br />

promises.<br />

He said the Big Ten, widely<br />

perceived as the strongest<br />

conference top to bottom this<br />

season, would not receive<br />

special consideration for a top<br />

seed.<br />

“The fact of the matter is,<br />

conference RPI and conference<br />

rankings are not brought<br />

up in the rating room at all,”<br />

Hathaway said, speaking to a<br />

change the selection committee<br />

made in the time since he<br />

joined five years ago.<br />

state of Indiana, he made football relevant<br />

in Indiana,” former Colts executive<br />

Bill Polian said. “When he first<br />

arrived, Indiana was a basketball state.<br />

The pecking order was IU basketball,<br />

the Pacers, and then the Colts. Now,<br />

although IU basketball is back, and<br />

we’re thrilled about that, and the Pacers<br />

are back, and we’re thrilled about<br />

that, the Colts and football are at least<br />

sharing top billing, and that’s all due to<br />

Peyton Manning.”<br />

Just before noon, the Indianapolis<br />

Colts Grille downtown was packed<br />

with customers waiting to watch the<br />

Manning announcement, some asking<br />

for towels and tissues in anticipation of<br />

the bad news. General manager Mike<br />

Duganier said all 66 flat-screen TVs<br />

were tuned to the news conference at<br />

full volume and the entire restaurant<br />

watched in silence.<br />

When Manning finished speaking,<br />

the restaurant broke out in applause.<br />

Duganier quickly changed the channel<br />

to Big East basketball to lighten the<br />

mood.<br />

“We’re a Colts grille, not a Peyton<br />

Manning grille,” Duganier said. “We’re<br />

all Peyton fans, but this is a restaurant<br />

by the Colts for Colts fans.”<br />

Manning, who played his college<br />

ball at Tennessee and has family roots<br />

in Louisiana, has been a popular figure<br />

for years in Indianapolis. His work<br />

with kids became so prominent that St.<br />

Vincent Hospital renamed its children’s<br />

wing in his honor, and his imprint there<br />

is everywhere — autographed helmets,<br />

jerseys hanging, a painting of him in<br />

Taking advantage of Wednesday’s spring-like weather<br />

Danielle (Oman) Kunkel, a 2002 <strong>Bluffton</strong> High School graduate and now a <strong>Bluffton</strong> track<br />

coach with her husband, Brent Kunkel, instructs team members (top photo) about high jumping<br />

on Wednesday afternoon at Fred F. Park Field. While the track teams were working out, the<br />

baseball team (bottom photo) was going through preseason conditioning on the new artificial<br />

turf on the football field. A video clip of the <strong>Bluffton</strong> track and baseball teams working out at<br />

Park Field may be seen by going to the <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong>'s "Sports & Outdoors" blog by browsing<br />

our blogs at www.news-banner.com (Photos by Paul Beitler)<br />

Sports Roundup<br />

Drew Imel sees action<br />

for IPFW golfers<br />

Drew Imel, a junior at IPFW in Fort<br />

Wayne, placed 29th at the Caribbean Intercollegiate<br />

men’s golf tournament in Ponce,<br />

Puerto Rico.<br />

Imel, a Norwell High School graduate<br />

from <strong>Bluffton</strong>, shot a 229 (78-74-77) for<br />

the three-day tournament, which concluded<br />

Wednesday. Imel was fourth for the Mastodons,<br />

who placed sixth behind Rollins<br />

College, which was first with a team score<br />

of 859. St. John’s was second with 866,<br />

followed by USC Upstate with 877, Laval<br />

University 878, Old Dominion 878 and<br />

IPFW 895.<br />

E.J. Tackett, tied for 14th place, to lead<br />

IPFW with a 220. Patrick Kundenreich tied<br />

for 25th with 225. Jacob Groninger was<br />

27th with 227 and Bruno Carvalho was<br />

30th with 231.<br />

Registration for<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> Youth Baseball<br />

The <strong>Bluffton</strong> Youth Baseball Association<br />

will hold registration for its Farm League<br />

and Junior League from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday,<br />

March 10, at the City Building.<br />

Additional registration will be from 6 to<br />

8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, at the Wells<br />

County Boys and Girls Club.<br />

Farm League is for children 8-10 years<br />

old and Junior League is for ages 11-12 as of<br />

the lobby.<br />

Manning shows up, too. Employees<br />

raved about how he comes and just<br />

walks around, no reporters in sight.<br />

“He’s contributed in ways people<br />

can see, like his children’s hospital, but<br />

he has also done so many things that<br />

he insists no one know about,” Gov.<br />

Mitch Daniels said. “There have been<br />

countless times that he has called me<br />

when we’ve had some kind of need<br />

and said, ‘Governor, I want to help,’<br />

and he’ll do everything but associate<br />

his name with it. We are going to<br />

miss seeing No. 18 under center for the<br />

Colts, but I am happy to hear he will<br />

continue to call Indianapolis his home.<br />

It’s not a happy day.”<br />

Manning’s departure was news many<br />

fans expected after he missed last season,<br />

yet hoped wouldn’t come to pass.<br />

“When the Super Bowl was here,<br />

everybody talked about our ‘Hoosier<br />

hospitality,’ and this is a part of it,” said<br />

Melody Whitlow as she learned of the<br />

news. “He’s one of our own, and he<br />

always will be.”<br />

Larry Bird, the most famous Hoosier<br />

of all from his storied prep days to Indiana<br />

State to the NBA, agreed.<br />

“Peyton Manning is the best professional<br />

athlete to ever play in Indianapolis,<br />

truly a one-of-a-kind player, maybe<br />

a once-in-a-lifetime player,” said Bird,<br />

now the president of basketball operations<br />

for the Pacers. “Being a small market,<br />

having a player like him come here<br />

and do what he did on and off the field<br />

is remarkable. ... We wish him nothing<br />

but the best.”<br />

May 1. For more information call 824-6069.<br />

A team manager also is needed. Interested<br />

persons should call 385-2073.<br />

Wells Junior League<br />

sign up set<br />

Wells County Junior League Baseball<br />

registration is set for 4-8 p.m. on March 13<br />

and 15 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on March 10 and<br />

17 at New Hope Lutheran Church, which is<br />

located on the south side of Ossian on Ind.<br />

1. For more information call 260-413-2587.<br />

Junior League is for children ages 9-12.<br />

Youth baseball<br />

sign up at Ossian<br />

Registration for Northern Wells Minor<br />

League Baseball, Ossian Little League and<br />

Ossian Sandy Koufax League will be held<br />

from 4-8 p.m. on March 13 and 15 and<br />

from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on March 10 and 17 at<br />

New Hope Lutheran Church, which is on<br />

the south side of Ossian on Ind. 1. For more<br />

information call 260-413-2587.<br />

Regional caravan slated<br />

A caravan is being arranged to follow the<br />

Norwell boys’ basketball team bus to the<br />

Blackford regional at Hartford City on Saturday.<br />

The bus will be leaving at 8:45 a.m.<br />

The caravan will form at 8:30 a.m. in the<br />

parking lot near the tennis courts. Sectional<br />

championship T-shirts are on sale for $10 in<br />

the athletic office.<br />

By CLIFF BRUNT<br />

AP Sports Writer<br />

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —<br />

Michigan State coach Tom<br />

Izzo has never seen anything<br />

like this.<br />

He says he can’t remember<br />

a Big Ten season where<br />

the top of the league was so<br />

balanced and the bottom-tier<br />

teams were so competitive.<br />

Not since he became a head<br />

coach, not since he joined the<br />

Michigan State staff in 1986.<br />

He believes the Big Ten is the<br />

nation’s best conference.<br />

“I don’t think there’s any<br />

question, and you’ll get arguments<br />

until the cows come<br />

home about what conference<br />

is the best, this and that, I still<br />

say, you look top to bottom,<br />

and if it isn’t the best, this<br />

year is the best of the 27 years<br />

I’ve been here,” Izzo said.<br />

It also means that the<br />

Big Ten tournament, which<br />

begins Thursday at Banker’s<br />

Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis,<br />

is one of the most unpredictable<br />

ever.<br />

“In years past, you would<br />

say, these two teams and<br />

maybe a surprise here and<br />

there,” Northwestern coach<br />

Bill Carmody said. “This<br />

year, I really wouldn’t know<br />

what to say. Anybody could<br />

beat anybody. I think all the<br />

way down, there could be<br />

some upsets. It’s going to be<br />

a fun tournament.”<br />

Izzo hopes the balance<br />

doesn’t work against the conference.<br />

“We’ve all beaten up each<br />

other,” he said. “Usually,<br />

there’s a couple teams at the<br />

bottom that might not have a<br />

win in a year like this. I hope<br />

it doesn’t hurt us.”<br />

Michigan State has<br />

earned the top seed as part<br />

of a three-way split for the<br />

regular-season conference<br />

crown. Michigan is the No. 2<br />

seed and Ohio State is No. 3.<br />

Those teams earned byes and<br />

will play their first games on<br />

Friday.<br />

Play began Thursday<br />

when No. 8 seed Iowa met<br />

No. 9 Illinois at 11:30 a.m.,<br />

followed by No. 5 Indiana<br />

SPORTS<br />

Rupright in the<br />

running for Indiana<br />

Girls’ All-Star team<br />

Norwell senior center Jessica Rupright has been selected<br />

to participate in the Hoosier Basketball Magazine’s Top<br />

60 Workout on Sunday, March 11, at Marian University in<br />

Indianapolis.<br />

The Top 60 senior girls were chosen<br />

by Garry H. Donna, publisher of Hoosier<br />

Basketball Magazine.<br />

A group of 28, primarily from northern<br />

and southern Indiana, will compete<br />

in the first session from 1-3 p.m., while<br />

the remaining 32 girls, primarily from<br />

central Indiana, will work out during<br />

the second session from 3:30-5:30 p.m.<br />

Two of the Top 60 invitees are from<br />

Class 4A state champion Indianapo-<br />

lis North Central — Rachael Gregory and Nariah Taylor.<br />

Three are from 3A state runner-up Mt. Vernon (Fortville)<br />

— Jessica Brown, Anna Olson and Makenzi Reasor.<br />

Other Top 60 participants<br />

include six<br />

of the state’s highest<br />

scorers: Taylor Miller,<br />

Hauser (24.3 ppg);<br />

Amanda Moore,<br />

Seymour (23.9 ppg);<br />

JoJo Daghe, Speedway<br />

(23.6 ppg); Jaidlin<br />

Delph, Sheridan<br />

(22.5 ppg); Staci<br />

Groom, Tippecanoe<br />

Valley (21.6 ppg);<br />

and Nicole Rogers,<br />

Western (21.5 ppg).<br />

The list also<br />

includes the following<br />

12 girls who will play<br />

at in-state Division<br />

I universities: Katie<br />

Brewer, Roncalli<br />

(Butler); Abby Dean,<br />

Carmel (Valparaiso);<br />

Laura Friday, Marion<br />

(Evansville); Kasey<br />

Johnson, Plainfield<br />

Jessica Rupright<br />

Jessica Rupright (left) became<br />

the all-time girls' scoring leader<br />

for Norwell after compiling 1,591<br />

points during her four-year career.<br />

(Indiana State); Blaire Langlois, Carmel (Butler); Taylor<br />

Miller, Hauser (Ball State); Jocelyn Mousty, Eastern-Pekin<br />

(Ball State); Courtney Ogle, Columbus East (IPFW);<br />

Makenzi Reasor, Mt. Vernon-Fortville (Indiana State);<br />

Nicole Rogers, Western (IUPUI); Akilah Sims, Fort Wayne<br />

Snider (IUPUI); and Brittany Webb, Heritage Christian<br />

(Indiana). Rupright will be attending Miami of Ohio.<br />

Both sessions are open to the public for an admission<br />

fee of $7.<br />

Big Ten Tournament<br />

sports balanced field<br />

against No. 12 Penn State.<br />

The evening matchups are<br />

No. 7 Northwestern against<br />

No. 10 Minnesota and No. 6<br />

Purdue vs. No. 11 Nebraska.<br />

The semifinals are Saturday<br />

and the championship is Sunday.<br />

Michigan State’s road<br />

this week and beyond will<br />

be tougher because forward<br />

Branden Dawson has torn<br />

the ACL in his left knee. The<br />

freshman averages 8.4 points<br />

and 4.5 rebounds per game.<br />

Of course, Izzo’s teams<br />

have been tournament tough<br />

for years, and perhaps his list<br />

of accomplishments — he’s<br />

been to six Final Fours and<br />

won a national championship<br />

— perhaps pushes the Spartans<br />

into a favored role.<br />

While Izzo is proven,<br />

Michigan is going through a<br />

resurgence. Michigan’s John<br />

Beilein said the effort that<br />

went into fighting for the regular-season<br />

title should help<br />

the Wolverines prepare for<br />

the tournament.<br />

“We’re going to have to<br />

have a mentality of sticking<br />

to things, and having a right<br />

mental approach because of<br />

everything that was at stake<br />

during that time that you’re<br />

trying to be a champion.”<br />

Ohio State’s Thad Matta<br />

has chosen not to look ahead.<br />

“The one thing we’ve<br />

always done in going into<br />

these tournaments is take it<br />

one game at a time, because<br />

you won’t know who you’re<br />

playing until we get there,”<br />

he said. “We never go in talking<br />

about trying to win a conference<br />

championship. We<br />

always go in with the same<br />

approach.”<br />

While Michigan State,<br />

Michigan and Ohio State<br />

are nearly certain to make<br />

the NCAA tournament field,<br />

Northwestern (18-12) likely<br />

needs at least two wins to<br />

qualify for the first time ever.<br />

“I think these guys know<br />

the history better than I do,<br />

almost,” Carmody said. “I<br />

just look at it game by game.<br />

They probably talk about that<br />

amongst themselves.”<br />

High School Calendar<br />

Friday, March 9<br />

TRACK & FIELD: ACAC Indoor Meet at IPFW, 5 p.m.<br />

Saturday, March 10<br />

BOYS BASKETBALL<br />

IHSAA Class 3A Regional at Blackford, NorthWood vs.<br />

FW Dwenger, 10 a.m.; Muncie Central vs. Norwell, noon;<br />

championship game at 7:30 p.m.


SPORTS<br />

By JANIE McCAULEY<br />

AP Baseball Writer<br />

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)<br />

— The Oakland Athletics<br />

said Wednesday that their<br />

attempt to relocate some<br />

40 miles away to San Jose<br />

is not “a move that seeks to<br />

alter or in any manner disturb<br />

MLB territorial rights.”<br />

The San Francisco Giants<br />

clearly see it the other way.<br />

They cherish their hold on<br />

technology-rich Silicon Valley,<br />

with Santa Clara County<br />

making up 43 percent of<br />

the club’s territory and generating<br />

a significant number<br />

of fans, corporate sponsors<br />

and other supporters.<br />

BASKETBALL<br />

NBA<br />

All Times EST<br />

EASTERN CONFERENCE<br />

Atlantic Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Philadelphia 23 17 .575 —<br />

Boston 20 18 .526 2<br />

New York 18 21 .462 4 1/2<br />

Toronto 13 26 .333 9 1/2<br />

New Jersey 13 27 .325 10<br />

Southeast Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Miami 30 9 .769 —<br />

Orlando 25 15 .625 5 1/2<br />

Atlanta 23 16 .590 7<br />

Washington 9 29 .237 20 1/2<br />

Charlotte 5 32 .135 24<br />

Central Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Chicago 33 8 .805 —<br />

Indiana 23 14 .622 8<br />

Milwaukee 15 24 .385 17<br />

Cleveland 14 23 .378 17<br />

Detroit 13 26 .333 19<br />

WESTERN CONFERENCE<br />

Southwest Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

San Antonio 26 12 .684 —<br />

Memphis 23 15 .605 3<br />

Dallas 23 17 .575 4<br />

Houston 21 19 .525 6<br />

New Orleans 9 30 .231 17 1/2<br />

Northwest Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Oklahoma City 31 8 .795 —<br />

Denver 22 18 .550 9 1/2<br />

Minnesota 21 19 .525 10 1/2<br />

Utah 19 19 .500 11 1/2<br />

Portland 19 20 .487 12<br />

Pacific Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

L.A. Clippers 22 15 .595 —<br />

L.A. Lakers 23 16 .590 —<br />

Phoenix 17 21 .447 5 1/2<br />

Golden State 15 21 .417 6 1/2<br />

Sacramento 13 26 .333 10<br />

Tuesday’s Games<br />

Charlotte 100, Orlando 84<br />

Atlanta 101, Indiana 96<br />

Boston 97, Houston 92, OT<br />

Detroit 88, L.A. Lakers 85, OT<br />

Miami 108, New Jersey 78<br />

Dallas 95, New York 85<br />

Wednesday’s Games<br />

Utah 99, Charlotte 93<br />

Toronto 116, Houston 98<br />

Washington 106, L.A. Lakers 101<br />

Philadelphia 103, Boston 71<br />

Miami 89, Atlanta 86<br />

Oklahoma City 115, Phoenix 104<br />

Minnesota 106, Portland 94<br />

Chicago 106, Milwaukee 104<br />

New Jersey 101, L.A. Clippers 100<br />

San Antonio 118, New York 105<br />

Cleveland 100, Denver 99<br />

Sacramento 99, New Orleans 98<br />

Memphis 110, Golden State 92<br />

Thursday’s Games<br />

Orlando at Chicago, 8 p.m.<br />

Dallas at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.<br />

Friday’s Games<br />

New Jersey at Charlotte, 7 p.m.<br />

Utah at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.<br />

Portland at Boston, 7:30 p.m.<br />

Atlanta at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.<br />

Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.<br />

L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.<br />

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.<br />

New York at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.<br />

New Orleans at Denver, 9 p.m.<br />

Dallas at Sacramento, 10 p.m.<br />

COLLEGE<br />

Men’s<br />

Wednesday’s Scores<br />

TOURNAMENT<br />

Big 12 Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Oklahoma St. 76, Texas Tech 60<br />

Texas A&M 62, Oklahoma 53<br />

Big East Conference<br />

Second Round<br />

Georgetown 64, Pittsburgh 52<br />

Louisville 61, Seton Hall 55<br />

South Florida 56, Villanova 47<br />

UConn 71, West Virginia 67, OT<br />

Big Sky Conference<br />

Championship<br />

Montana 85, Weber St. 66<br />

Conference USA<br />

First Round<br />

East Carolina 68, Rice 66<br />

Marshall 74, SMU 56<br />

UAB 72, Tulane 64<br />

UTEP 67, Houston 62, OT<br />

Mid-American Conference<br />

Second Round<br />

Toledo 75, Cent. Michigan 72<br />

W. Michigan 71, N. Illinois 54<br />

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference<br />

Quarterfinals<br />

Hampton 59, Savannah St. 46<br />

Norfolk St. 71, Howard 61<br />

Northeast Conference<br />

Championship<br />

LIU 90, Robert Morris 73<br />

Pacific-12 Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Oregon St. 69, Washington St. 64<br />

Stanford 85, Arizona St. 65<br />

UCLA 55, Southern Cal 40<br />

Colorado 53, Utah 41<br />

Patriot League<br />

Championship<br />

Lehigh 82, Bucknell 77<br />

Southland Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Lamar 76, Northwestern St. 69<br />

McNeese St. 78, UTSA 74, OT<br />

Stephen F. Austin 68, Sam Houston<br />

St. 46<br />

Texas-Arlington 96, Nicholls St. 48<br />

Southwestern Athletic Conference<br />

First Round<br />

MVSU 63, Jackson St. 60<br />

Texas Southern 75, Alabama A&M 62<br />

BIG TEN CONFERENCE<br />

Conference All Games<br />

W L PCT W L PCT<br />

Ohio State 13 5 .722 25 6 .806<br />

Michigan State 13 5 .722 24 7 .774<br />

Michigan 13 5 .722 23 8 .742<br />

Wisconsin 12 6 .667 23 8 .742<br />

INDIANA 11 7 .611 24 7 .774<br />

PURDUE 10 8 .556 20 11 .645<br />

Northwestern 8 10 .444 18 12 .600<br />

Iowa 8 10 .444 16 15 .516<br />

Minnesota 6 12 .333 18 13 .581<br />

Illinois 6 12 .333 17 14 .548<br />

Nebraska 4 14 .222 12 17 .414<br />

Penn State 4 14 .222 12 19 .387<br />

Tuesday’s Games<br />

No games scheduled<br />

The A’s released a statement<br />

Wednesday saying<br />

they hope Commissioner<br />

Bud Selig, his special committee<br />

appointed to evaluate<br />

the Bay Area issue and<br />

a vote of baseball’s owners<br />

will allow the club to leave<br />

its current venue in the<br />

aging Oakland Coliseum<br />

and build a new ballpark in<br />

San Jose.<br />

Oakland team officials<br />

insist that could help the<br />

low-budget club become a<br />

big spender that wouldn’t<br />

have to be so heavily reliant<br />

on the rest of the major<br />

league organizations.<br />

“We simply seek an<br />

Wednesday’s Games<br />

No games scheduled<br />

Thursday’s Games<br />

Illinois vs. Iowa at Bankers Life Fieldhouse,<br />

11:30 a.m. BTN<br />

Penn St. vs. Indiana at Bankers Life<br />

Fieldhouse, 1:55 p.m. BTN<br />

Minnesota vs. Northwestern at Bankers<br />

Life Fieldhouse, 5:30 p.m. ESPN2<br />

Nebraska vs. Purdue at Bankers Life<br />

Fieldhouse, 7:55 p.m. ESPN2<br />

BIG EAST CONFERENCE<br />

Conference All Games<br />

W L PCT W L PCT<br />

Syracuse 17 1 .944 30 1 .968<br />

Marquette 14 4 .778 25 6 .806<br />

Notre Dame 13 5 .722 21 10 .677<br />

Georgetown 12 6 .667 23 7 .767<br />

Cincinnati 12 6 .667 22 9 .710<br />

South Florida 12 6 .667 20 12 .625<br />

Louisville 10 8 .556 23 9 .719<br />

West Virginia 9 9 .500 19 13 .594<br />

Seton Hall 8 10 .444 20 12 .625<br />

UConn 8 10 .444 20 12 .625<br />

Rutgers 6 12 .333 14 18 .438<br />

St. John’s 6 12 .333 13 19 .406<br />

Pittsburgh 5 13 .278 17 16 .515<br />

Villanova 5 13 .278 13 19 .406<br />

Providence 4 14 .222 15 17 .469<br />

DePaul 3 15 .167 12 19 .387<br />

Tuesday’s Games<br />

UConn 81, DePaul 67<br />

Pittsburgh 73, St. John’s 59<br />

Seton Hall 79, Providence 47<br />

Villanova 70, Rutgers 49<br />

Wednesday’s Games<br />

UConn 71, West Virginia 67, OT<br />

Georgetown 64, Pittsburgh 52<br />

Louisville 61, Seton Hall 55<br />

South Florida 56, Villanova 47<br />

Thursday’s Games<br />

Connecticut vs. Syracuse, Noon<br />

Georgetown vs. Cincinnati, 2 p.m.<br />

Louisville vs. Marquette, 7 p.m.<br />

South Florida vs. Notre Dame, 9 p.m.<br />

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE<br />

East<br />

Conference All Games<br />

W L PCT W L PCT<br />

Akron 13 3 .813 21 10 .677<br />

Buffalo 12 4 .750 18 9 .667<br />

Ohio 11 5 .688 24 7 .774<br />

Kent St. 10 6 .625 20 10 .667<br />

Bowling Green 9 7 .563 16 15 .516<br />

Miami (Ohio) 5 11 .313 9 21 .300<br />

West<br />

Conference All Games<br />

W L PCT W L PCT<br />

E. Michigan 9 7 .563 14 18 .438<br />

Toledo 7 9 .438 17 15 .531<br />

BALL STATE 6 10 .375 15 15 .500<br />

W. Michigan 6 10 .375 13 19 .406<br />

Cent. Michigan 5 11 .313 11 20 .355<br />

N. Illinois 3 13 .188 5 25 .167<br />

Wednesday’s Games<br />

No games scheduled<br />

Thursday’s Games<br />

Western Michigan vs. Kent St. at Quicken<br />

Loans Arena, 7 p.m.<br />

Toledo vs. Ohio at Quicken Loans Arena,<br />

9:30 p.m.<br />

Friday’s Games<br />

Western Michigan or Kent St. vs. Akron<br />

at Quicken Loans Arena, 7 p.m.<br />

Toledo or Ohio vs. Buffalo at Quicken<br />

Loans Arena, 9:30 p.m.<br />

Women’s<br />

Wednesday’s Scores<br />

TOURNAMENT<br />

Big 12 Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Missouri 72, Oklahoma St. 68<br />

Texas Tech 81, Texas 58<br />

Conference USA<br />

First Round<br />

East Carolina 59, Tulsa 49<br />

Rice 64, Houston 50<br />

SMU 53, Marshall 52<br />

Southern Miss. 71, UCF 49<br />

Horizon League<br />

Quarterfinals<br />

Detroit 79, Cleveland St. 43<br />

Green Bay 77, Valparaiso 53<br />

Ill.-Chicago 66, Butler 53<br />

Wright St. 91, Loyola of Chicago 67<br />

Mid-American Conference<br />

Second Round<br />

Cent. Michigan 58, Ohio 55<br />

N. Illinois 61, Akron 60<br />

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference<br />

Quarterfinals<br />

Hampton 61, Norfolk St. 40<br />

Howard 57, SC State 42<br />

Mountain West Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Boise St. 68, Colorado St. 63<br />

New Mexico 61, UNLV 58<br />

San Diego St. 68, Air Force 58<br />

Wyoming 61, TCU 44<br />

Pacific-12 Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Arizona 61, UCLA 57<br />

Colorado 55, Utah 41<br />

Washington 72, Oregon 56<br />

Washington St. 65, Oregon St. 56<br />

Southwestern Athletic Conference<br />

Quarterfinals<br />

Alcorn St. 54, Southern U. 44<br />

MVSU 70, Texas Southern 47<br />

Western Athletic Conference<br />

First Round<br />

Fresno St. 66, New Mexico St. 58<br />

Idaho 67, San Jose St. 63<br />

Louisiana Tech 63, Hawaii 54<br />

Utah St. 75, Nevada 66<br />

approval to create a new<br />

venue that our organization<br />

and MLB fully recognizes<br />

is needed to eliminate our<br />

dependence on revenue sharing,<br />

to offer our fans and<br />

players a modern ballpark,<br />

to move over 35 miles further<br />

away from the Giants’<br />

great venue and to establish<br />

an exciting competition<br />

between the Giants and A’s,”<br />

Oakland’s release said, adding<br />

it would, “enable us to<br />

join the fine array of modern<br />

and fun baseball parks that<br />

are now commonplace in<br />

Major League Baseball.”<br />

At the January owners<br />

meetings, Selig said the situ-<br />

<strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> Scoreboard<br />

HOCKEY<br />

NHL<br />

All Times EST<br />

EASTERN CONFERENCE<br />

Atlantic Division<br />

GP W L OT Pts GF GA<br />

N.Y. Rangers 65 42 16 7 91 180 137<br />

Pittsburgh 66 40 21 5 85 212 170<br />

Philadelphia 65 37 21 7 81 213 193<br />

New Jersey 66 37 24 5 79 184 176<br />

N.Y. Islanders 66 28 29 9 65 155 195<br />

Northeast Division<br />

GP W L OT Pts GF GA<br />

Boston 65 39 23 3 81 214 154<br />

Ottawa 68 35 25 8 78 209 201<br />

Buffalo 67 31 28 8 70 166 188<br />

Toronto 67 30 30 7 67 200 209<br />

Montreal 67 25 32 10 60 174 189<br />

Southeast Division<br />

GP W L OT Pts GF GA<br />

Florida 65 31 22 12 74 163 184<br />

Winnipeg 67 32 27 8 72 176 187<br />

Washington 66 32 28 6 70 175 188<br />

Tampa Bay 66 31 29 6 68 187 226<br />

Carolina 67 25 27 15 65 177 203<br />

WESTERN CONFERENCE<br />

Central Division<br />

GP W L OT Pts GF GA<br />

St. Louis 67 42 18 7 91 174 132<br />

Detroit 67 43 21 3 89 211 156<br />

Nashville 66 38 21 7 83 188 171<br />

Chicago 68 36 25 7 79 203 200<br />

Columbus 66 21 38 7 49 156 216<br />

Northwest Division<br />

GP W L OT Pts GF GA<br />

Vancouver 67 41 18 8 90 211 166<br />

Colorado 68 35 29 4 74 178 181<br />

Calgary 67 30 25 12 72 164 185<br />

Minnesota 67 28 29 10 66 144 187<br />

Edmonton 66 26 34 6 58 175 198<br />

Pacific Division<br />

GP W L OT Pts GF GA<br />

Dallas 67 36 26 5 77 179 180<br />

Phoenix 67 33 25 9 75 173 170<br />

San Jose 65 33 24 8 74 181 166<br />

Los Angeles 66 31 23 12 74 147 143<br />

Anaheim 67 29 28 10 68 170 188<br />

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point<br />

for overtime loss.<br />

Tuesday’s Games<br />

Edmonton 3, San Jose 2, SO<br />

Boston 5, Toronto 4<br />

New Jersey 4, N.Y. Rangers 1<br />

Philadelphia 3, Detroit 2<br />

Carolina 4, Washington 3, OT<br />

Columbus 3, Phoenix 2<br />

Ottawa 7, Tampa Bay 3<br />

St. Louis 5, Chicago 1<br />

Los Angeles 5, Nashville 4<br />

Colorado 7, Minnesota 1<br />

Calgary 5, Montreal 4<br />

Dallas 5, Vancouver 2<br />

Wednesday’s Games<br />

Buffalo 3, Carolina 2, OT<br />

Pittsburgh 3, Toronto 2<br />

Thursday’s Games<br />

Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.<br />

N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 7 p.m.<br />

Florida at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.<br />

Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m.<br />

Los Angeles at Columbus, 7 p.m.<br />

N.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.<br />

Anaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.<br />

Colorado at Nashville, 8 p.m.<br />

San Jose at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.<br />

Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.<br />

Montreal at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.<br />

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 10 p.m.<br />

Friday’s Games<br />

Florida at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.<br />

Los Angeles at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.<br />

N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.<br />

Winnipeg at Calgary, 9 p.m.<br />

CHL<br />

All Times EST<br />

TURNER CONFERENCE<br />

GP W L OL Pts GF GA<br />

Fort Wayne 58 36 18 4 76 197 161<br />

Evansville 58 36 18 4 76 191 165<br />

Missouri 56 32 19 5 69 181 170<br />

Rapid City 56 31 19 6 68 192 152<br />

Quad City 57 32 23 2 66 199 178<br />

Dayton 57 20 25 12 52 151 196<br />

Bloomington 57 21 29 7 49 161 208<br />

BERRY CONFERENCE<br />

GP W L OL Pts GF GA<br />

Wichita 56 39 15 2 80 203 152<br />

Allen 55 30 16 9 69 176 151<br />

Texas 57 30 19 8 68 146 135<br />

Rio Grande Val 59 26 26 7 56 172 183<br />

Tulsa 56 25 25 6 56 171 184<br />

Laredo 57 23 32 2 48 151 197<br />

Arizona 57 17 31 9 43 158 217<br />

x-clinched playoff berth<br />

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a<br />

win, one point for an overtime or shootout<br />

loss. Overtime or shootout losses<br />

are only denoted in the OL column, not<br />

the loss column.<br />

Tuesday’s Games<br />

Dayton 4, Fort Wayne 3<br />

Missouri 4, Evansville 2<br />

Rapid City 3, Tulsa 1<br />

Quad City 3, Allen 2<br />

Wednesday’s Game<br />

Rio Grande Valley 3, Laredo 1<br />

Thursday’s Game<br />

Quad City at Allen, 8:05 p.m.<br />

Friday’s Games<br />

Bloomington at Dayton, 7 p.m.<br />

Evansville at Fort Wayne, 8 p.m.<br />

Missouri at Texas, 8:30 p.m.<br />

Allen at Laredo, 8:30 p.m.<br />

Arizona at Rio Grande Valley, 8:30 p.m.<br />

Quad City at Tulsa, 8:35 p.m.<br />

Wichita at Rapid City, 9:05 p.m.<br />

ation was on the “front burner.”<br />

He appointed a committee<br />

in March 2009 to study<br />

the issues facing the teams,<br />

but there is no indication a<br />

ruling is imminent.<br />

“The committee is still at<br />

work,” MLB spokesman Pat<br />

Courtney said Wednesday<br />

night. “No decisions have<br />

been made.”<br />

Selig, who was a fraternity<br />

brother with Oakland<br />

managing partner Lew Wolff<br />

at Wisconsin, has repeatedly<br />

said the A’s can’t survive in<br />

their current ballpark.<br />

The City of Oakland still<br />

believes it has several suitable<br />

locations to build a<br />

SPORTS TRANSACTIONS<br />

WEDNESDAY<br />

BASEBALL<br />

American League<br />

NEW YORK YANKEES—Agreed to<br />

terms with 2B David Adams, OF Zoilo<br />

Almonte, RHP Dellin Betances, LHP<br />

Cesar Cabral, C Francisco Cervelli, 2B<br />

Corban Joseph, RHP George Kontos,<br />

3B Brandon Laird, OF Justin Maxwell,<br />

OF Melky Mesa, RHP Brad Meyers,<br />

RHP William Mitchell, RHP Ivan Nova,<br />

SS Eduardo Nunez, SS Ramiro Pena,<br />

RHP David Phelps, RHP Michael Pineda,<br />

C Austin Romine and RHP Cory<br />

Wade on one-year contracts.<br />

SEATTLE MARINERS—Announced the<br />

retirement of INF Carlos Guillen.<br />

BASKETBALL<br />

National Basketball Association<br />

NBA—Fined Dallas G Jason Kidd<br />

$25,000 for for public criticism of officiating<br />

after Monday’s game.<br />

LOS ANGELES LAKERS—Assigned<br />

G Darius Morris to Los Angeles of the<br />

D-League.<br />

FOOTBALL<br />

National Football League<br />

BUFFALO BILLS—Re-signed WR<br />

Ruvell Martin.<br />

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Released QB<br />

Peyton Manning.<br />

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Released CB<br />

Marcus Trufant.<br />

HOCKEY<br />

National Hockey League<br />

DETROIT RED WINGS—Assigned F<br />

Chris Connor to Grand Rapids (AHL).<br />

Extended their affiliation agreement<br />

with Grand Rapids (AHL) for five years<br />

through the 2016-17 season.<br />

MONTREAL CANADIENS—Reassigned<br />

F Andreas Engqvist and F Louis<br />

Leblanc to Hamilton (AHL).<br />

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Recalled G<br />

Dustin Tokarski from Norfolk (AHL).<br />

American Hockey League<br />

AHL—Suspended Norfolk RW Eric Neilson<br />

three games, Norfolk LW Pierre-<br />

Cedric Labrie two games, Springfield<br />

C Adam Mair three games and Springfield<br />

D Greg Amadio two games and<br />

fined each club undisclosed amounts<br />

for their actions during pregame warmups<br />

before Saturday’s games.<br />

BINGHAMTON SENATORS—Recalled<br />

F Corey Cowick from Elmira (ECHL).<br />

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Assigned<br />

G Mike Spillane to Arizona (CHL).<br />

East Coast Hockey League<br />

READING ROYALS—Signed D William<br />

Lacasse.<br />

Central Hockey League<br />

FORT WAYNE KOMETS—Waived G<br />

Larkin Saalfrank.<br />

SOCCER<br />

Major League Soccer<br />

CHICAGO FIRE—Signed D Arne Friedrich.<br />

D.C. UNITED—Signed M Lance Rozeboom.<br />

FC DALLAS—Named Fernando Clavijo<br />

technical director.<br />

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION—<br />

Placed MF Sainey Nyassi on the DL.<br />

COLLEGE<br />

BIG EAST CONFERENCE—Announced<br />

Temple will join the conference for football<br />

next season and all other sports<br />

in 2013.<br />

ARIZONA—Suspended G Josiah Turner<br />

indefinitely for violating team rules.<br />

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE—Announced<br />

the resignation of Errol Rogers woman’s<br />

basketball coach.<br />

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ORDINANCE NO. 2012-1<br />

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING<br />

FOR THE LICENSING AND<br />

REGULATION OF SEXUALLY<br />

ORIENTED BUSINESSES IN THE<br />

COUNTY OF WELLS, INDIANA<br />

WHEREAS, the Commission-<br />

ers of Wells County, Indiana has<br />

authority under the Acts of the Indi-<br />

ana General Assembly to make all<br />

necessary police regulations for the<br />

preservation of the rights, property,<br />

health, safety and welfare of its citi-<br />

zens; and<br />

WHEREAS, the members of the<br />

Commissioners of Wells County,<br />

Indiana believe that the interests<br />

of the residents of the City of Bluff-<br />

ton, Indiana would be served by the<br />

regulation of sexually oriented busi-<br />

nesses by the county<br />

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COM-<br />

MISSIONERS OF WELLS COUN-<br />

TY, INDIANA AS FOLLOWS:<br />

Section 1: This ordinance shall<br />

be added to the Code of Ordinanc-<br />

es of Wells County, Indiana and<br />

shall read as set forth in Exhibit<br />

A attached hereto and shall be<br />

enforced as an ordinance of Wells<br />

County, Indiana.<br />

Section 2: This Ordinance shall<br />

take effect and be in force after its<br />

adoption and publication as required<br />

by law.<br />

Passed by the Commissioners<br />

of Wells County, Indiana this 21 day<br />

of February, 2012, by the following<br />

vote:<br />

AYES 3 to-wit: NAYS 0 to-wit:<br />

ABSENT 0 to-wit:<br />

s/________________________<br />

Kevin S. Woodward – President<br />

s/________________________<br />

Paul I. Bonham – Vice President<br />

s/________________________<br />

C. Scott Mossburg<br />

ATTEST: s/________________<br />

Lisa McCormick – Deputy Auditor<br />

EXHIBIT “A”<br />

General Provisions<br />

01 Purpose and Findings<br />

02 Definitions<br />

03 Location restrictions<br />

04 Measurement of distance<br />

05 Exemptions and defenses<br />

06 Existing businesses; grandfather<br />

provisions<br />

07 Permits; enforcement responsi-<br />

bility<br />

08 Application procedure<br />

09 Investigation<br />

10 Issuance or denial<br />

Specific Provisions<br />

11 Fees<br />

12 Inspection of premises<br />

13 Permit expiration<br />

14 Suspension<br />

15 Revocation<br />

16 Administrative and judicial<br />

review<br />

17 Permit transfer restricted<br />

18 Minors on premises prohibited<br />

19 Advertising and display; lighting<br />

20 Hours of operation<br />

21 Public nudity prohibited<br />

22 Conduct Regulations for a Strip<br />

Club.<br />

23 Operating without valid permit<br />

prohibited<br />

24 Culpable mental state required<br />

to establish liability<br />

25 Injunction<br />

GENERAL PROVISIONS<br />

§ 01 PURPOSE AND FINDINGS.<br />

(A) Purpose.<br />

(1) The purpose of this chap-<br />

ter is to regulate sexually oriented<br />

businesses in order to promote the<br />

health, safety and general welfare<br />

of the citizens of the county, and to<br />

establish reasonable and uniform<br />

regulations to prevent the deleteri-<br />

ous secondary effects of sexually<br />

oriented businesses within unincor-<br />

porated areas of the county.<br />

(2) The provisions of this chap-<br />

ter have neither the purpose nor<br />

effect of imposing a limitation or<br />

restriction on the content of or rea-<br />

sonable access to any communi-<br />

cative materials, including sexually<br />

oriented materials.<br />

(3) Similarly, it is neither the<br />

intent nor effect of this chapter to<br />

restrict or deny access by adults to<br />

sexually oriented materials protect-<br />

ed by the First Amendment to the<br />

United States Constitution or Article<br />

I, § 9, of the Indiana Constitution, or<br />

to deny access by the distributors<br />

and exhibitors of sexually oriented<br />

entertainment to their intended mar-<br />

ket.<br />

(4) Adoption of this chapter will<br />

allow the county to obtain the iden-<br />

tity of persons licensed and to be<br />

licensed for the operation of sexu-<br />

ally oriented businesses to ensure<br />

proper identification of those per-<br />

sons responsible for the operation<br />

of the businesses so as to assist<br />

in the proper enforcement of this<br />

chapter.<br />

(5) It is an important public pur-<br />

pose to protect children and the<br />

family environment from the delete-<br />

rious and harmful secondary effects<br />

of sexually oriented businesses.<br />

(6) It is not the purpose of this<br />

chapter to establish community<br />

standards on obscenity nor to per-<br />

mit persons to engage in any activity<br />

which is in violation of law, including<br />

but not limited to, state laws pertain-<br />

ing to the advertising, promotion,<br />

distribution or sale of obscene mat-<br />

ter or matters portraying a sexual<br />

performance by a minor, or state<br />

laws pertaining to the use of a minor<br />

in a sexual performance or promo-<br />

tion of sexual performance by a<br />

minor, or the use of a minor to dis-<br />

tribute material portraying sexual<br />

performance by a minor.<br />

(7) Neither is it the intent nor<br />

effect of this chapter to condone or<br />

legitimize the distribution of obscene<br />

material.<br />

(B) Findings. Based on evi-<br />

dence of the adverse secondary<br />

effects of adult uses presented<br />

in hearings and in reports made<br />

available to the Board of Commis-<br />

sioners, and on findings, interpreta-<br />

tions, and narrowing constructions<br />

incorporated in the cases of City of<br />

Littleton v. Z.J. Gifts D-4, LLC, 124<br />

S.Ct. 2219 (June 7, 2004); City of<br />

Los Angeles v. Alameda Books,<br />

Inc., 535 U.S. 425 (2002); Pap’s<br />

A.M. v. City of Erie, 529 U.S. 277<br />

(2000); City of Renton v. Playtime<br />

Theatres, Inc., 475 U.S. 41 (1986),<br />

Young v. American Mini Theatres.<br />

426 U.S. 50 (1976), Barnes v. Glen<br />

Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1993);<br />

California v. LaRue, 409 U.S. 109<br />

(1972); and Schultz v. City of Cum-<br />

berland, 26 F.Supp.2d 1128 (W.D.<br />

Wisc. 1998), aff’d in part, rev’d in<br />

part, 228 F.3d 831 (7th Cir. 2000);<br />

Blue Canary Corp. v. City of Milwau-<br />

kee, 270 F.3d 1156 (7th Cir. 2001);<br />

Matney v. County of Kenosha, 86<br />

F.3d 692 (7th Cir. 1996); Berg v.<br />

Health & Hospital Corp., 865 F.2d<br />

797 (1989); DiMa Corp. v. Town of<br />

Hallie, 185 F.3d 823 (1999); Graff v.<br />

City of Chicago, 9 F.3d 1309 (1993);<br />

North Avenue Novelties, Inc. v. City<br />

of Chicago, 88 F.3d 441 (1996);<br />

Chulchian v. City of Indianapolis,<br />

633 F.2d 27 (7th Cir. 1980); Bigg<br />

Wolf Discount Video v. Montgomery<br />

County, 256 F. Supp. 2d 385 (D. Md.<br />

2003); County of Cook v. Renais-<br />

sance Arcade and Bookstore, 122<br />

Ill. 2d 123 (1988) (including cases<br />

cited therein); World Wide Video of<br />

Washington, Inc. v. City of Spokane,<br />

368 F.3d 1186 (9th Cir. 2004); Ben’s<br />

Bar, Inc. v. Village of Somerset, 316<br />

F.3d 702 (7th Cir. 2003); People ex<br />

rel Deters v. Effingham Retail 27,<br />

Inc., No. 04-CH-26 (4th Judicial<br />

Circuit, Effingham County, Ill., June<br />

13, 2005); Annex Books, Inc. v. City<br />

of Indianapolis, No. 1:03-CV-918,<br />

Summary Judgment Order, Aug. 27,<br />

2004 and Order Denying Motion to<br />

Alter or Amend, Mar. 31, 2005 (S.D.<br />

Ind.); Andy’s Lounge et al v. City<br />

of Gary, No. 2:01-CV-327, Order<br />

Granting Summary Judgment, Mar.<br />

31, 2005 (N.D. Ind.): LLEH, Inc. v.<br />

Wichita County, 289 F3d 358 (5th<br />

Cir. 2002); and based upon reports<br />

concerning secondary effects<br />

occurring in and around sexually<br />

oriented businesses, including, but<br />

not limited to, Austin, Texas - 1986;<br />

Indianapolis, Indiana - 1984; Gar-<br />

den Grove, California - 1991; Hous-<br />

ton, Texas - 1983, 1997; Phoenix,<br />

Arizona - 1979, 1995-98; Chatta-<br />

nooga, Tennessee - 1999-2003; Los<br />

Angeles, California - 1977; Whittier,<br />

California - 1978; Spokane, Wash-<br />

ington - 2001; St. Cloud, Minnesota<br />

- 1994; Littleton, Colorado - 2004;<br />

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - 1986;<br />

Dallas, Texas - 1997; Greensboro,<br />

North Carolina - 2003; Amarillo,<br />

Texas - 1977; New York, New York<br />

Times Square - 1994; Kennedale,<br />

Texas - 2005; and the Report of the<br />

Attorney General’s Working Group<br />

on the Regulation of Sexually Ori-<br />

ented Businesses (June 6, 1989,<br />

State of Minnesota), the Board of<br />

Commissioners finds:<br />

(1) Sexually oriented business-<br />

es should be regulated and should<br />

be segregated from one another<br />

and from religious institutions,<br />

schools, boys’ clubs, girls’ clubs,<br />

parks, residences and residential<br />

neighborhoods to protect the public<br />

health, welfare and safety because<br />

sexually oriented businesses, as a<br />

category of commercial uses, are<br />

associated with a wide variety of<br />

adverse secondary effects, includ-<br />

ing, but not limited to, personal and<br />

property crimes, prostitution, poten-<br />

tial spread of disease, lewdness,<br />

public indecency, illicit drug use and<br />

drug trafficking, negative impacts on<br />

surrounding properties, urban blight,<br />

litter and sexual assault and exploi-<br />

tation; and<br />

(2) Each of the foregoing nega-<br />

tive secondary effects constitutes<br />

a harm which the county has a<br />

substantial governmental interest<br />

in abating and/or preventing in the<br />

future, and this substantial govern-<br />

ment interest exists independent of<br />

any comparative analysis between<br />

sexually oriented and non-sexually<br />

oriented businesses.<br />

§ 02 DEFINITIONS.<br />

For the purpose of this chapter,<br />

the following definitions shall apply<br />

unless the context clearly indicates<br />

or requires a different meaning.<br />

ADULT ARCADE. A commer-<br />

cial establishment where, for any<br />

form of consideration, one or more<br />

still or motion picture projectors,<br />

slide projectors or similar machines<br />

or other image producing machines,<br />

for viewing by five or fewer per-<br />

sons each, are regularly used to<br />

show films, motion pictures, video<br />

cassettes, digital video disks (e.g.<br />

DVDs), slides or other photographic<br />

reproductions which are character-<br />

ized by the depiction or descrip-<br />

tion of specified sexual activities or<br />

specified anatomical areas.<br />

ADULT BOOKSTORE or<br />

ADULT VIDEO STORE. A commer-<br />

cial establishment which has a sig-<br />

nificant or substantial portion (25%<br />

or more) of its stock-in-trade or inte-<br />

rior business space allocated to, or<br />

derives 25% or more of its revenues<br />

from the sale or rental for any form<br />

of consideration of, any one or more<br />

of the following: books, magazines,<br />

periodicals or other printed matter,<br />

or photographs, films, motion pic-<br />

tures, video cassettes, digital video<br />

disks (e.g. DVDs), slides or other<br />

visual representations which are<br />

characterized by the depiction or<br />

display of specified sexual activities<br />

or specified anatomical areas.<br />

ADULT CABARET. A nightclub,<br />

bar, restaurant, bottle club or similar<br />

commercial establishment, whether<br />

or not alcoholic beverages are<br />

served, which regularly features:<br />

(1) Persons who appear semi-<br />

nude or in a state of semi-nudity; or<br />

(2) Live performances which<br />

are character-ized by the exposure<br />

of specified anatomical areas or by<br />

pictures, video cassettes, digital<br />

video disks (e.g. DVDs), slides or<br />

other photographic reproductions<br />

which are characterized by the<br />

depiction or description of specified<br />

sexual activities or specified ana-<br />

tomical areas.<br />

ADULT MOTEL. A motel, hotel<br />

or similar commercial establishment<br />

which:<br />

(1) Offers public accommoda-<br />

tions, for any form of consider-<br />

ation, which provides patrons with<br />

closed-circuit television transmis-<br />

sions, films, motion pictures, video<br />

cassettes, digital video disks (e.g.<br />

DVDs), slides or other photographic<br />

reproductions which are character-<br />

ized by the depiction or descrip-<br />

tion of specified sexual activities<br />

or specified anatomical areas and<br />

which advertises the availability of<br />

this sexually oriented type of mate-<br />

rial by means of a sign visible from<br />

the public right-of-way, or by means<br />

of any off-premises advertising<br />

including, but not limited to, news-<br />

papers, magazines, pamphlets or<br />

leaflets, radio or television; and<br />

(2) Offers a sleeping room for<br />

rent for a period of time less than<br />

ten hours; or<br />

(3) Allows a tenant or occupant<br />

to sub-rent the sleeping room for a<br />

time period of less than ten hours.<br />

ADULT MOTION PICTURE<br />

THEATER. A commercial establish-<br />

ment where films, motion pictures,<br />

video cassettes, digital video disks<br />

(e.g. DVDs), slides or similar pho-<br />

tographic reproductions which are<br />

characterized by the depiction or<br />

description of specified sexual activ-<br />

ities or specified anatomical areas<br />

are regularly shown for any form of<br />

consideration.<br />

ADULT THEATER. A theater,<br />

concert hall, auditorium or similar<br />

commercial establishment which,<br />

for any form of consideration, regu-<br />

larly features persons who appear<br />

in a state of semi-nudity or live per-<br />

formances which are characterized<br />

by exposure of specified anatomical<br />

areas or by specified sexual activi-<br />

ties.<br />

CHARACTERIZED BY. This<br />

term means the essential charac-<br />

ter or quality of an item. As applied<br />

in this chapter, no business shall<br />

be classified as a sexually oriented<br />

business by virtue of showing, sell-<br />

ing or renting materials rated NC-17<br />

or R by the Motion Picture Associa-<br />

tion of America.<br />

COMMERCIAL SEXUAL<br />

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER. Any<br />

commercial establishment not oth-<br />

erwise described herein which as<br />

one of its principal uses regularly<br />

offers matter, services or entertain-<br />

ment appealing to adult sexual<br />

interests if the establishment or its<br />

entertainment, services or goods<br />

are advertised by or on behalf of the<br />

establishment in a manner patently<br />

designed to appeal to the adult sex-<br />

ual interests.<br />

EMPLOYEE. Any person hired<br />

by or suffered or permitted to work<br />

in a sexually oriented business<br />

establishment whether that person<br />

receives remuneration or compen-<br />

sation directly from the operator or<br />

owner of the establishment, from<br />

patrons of the establishment or from<br />

any other source whether by con-<br />

tract of employment or otherwise,<br />

for work or services performed for<br />

the benefit of the sexually oriented<br />

business establishment. EMPLOY-<br />

EE does not include a person exclu-<br />

sively on the premises for repair<br />

or maintenance of the premises or<br />

for the delivery of goods, such as<br />

foods, to the premises.<br />

ESCORT. A person who, for any<br />

form of consideration, agrees or<br />

offers to act as a companion, guide<br />

or date for another person, or who<br />

agrees or offers to privately model<br />

lingerie or to privately perform a<br />

striptease for another person.<br />

ESCORT AGENCY. A person or<br />

business association who furnishes,<br />

offers to furnish or advertises to fur-<br />

nish escorts as one of its primary<br />

business purposes for a fee, tip or<br />

other consideration.<br />

ESTABLISH or ESTABLISH-<br />

MENT. Includes any of the follow-<br />

ing:<br />

(1) The opening or commence-<br />

ment of any type of sexually ori-<br />

ented business as a new business<br />

after the adoption of this chapter;<br />

(2) The conversion of an exist-<br />

ing business, if not a sexually ori-<br />

ented business, to any of the sexu-<br />

ally oriented businesses defined in<br />

this chapter;<br />

(3) The addition of any of the<br />

sexually oriented businesses<br />

defined in this chapter to any other<br />

existing sexually oriented business;<br />

or<br />

(4) The relocation of any sexu-<br />

ally oriented business.<br />

KNOWINGLY. A person engag-<br />

es in conduct KNOWINGLY if, when<br />

he or she engages in the conduct,<br />

he or she is aware of a high prob-<br />

ability that he or she is doing so.<br />

LICENSEE. A person in whose<br />

name a license to operate a sexu-<br />

ally oriented business has been<br />

issued, as well as the individual or<br />

individuals listed as an applicant on<br />

the application for a sexually orient-<br />

ed business license.<br />

MASSAGE PARLOR. Any<br />

place where, for any form of consid-<br />

eration or gratuity, massage, alcohol<br />

rub, administration of fomentations,<br />

electric or magnetic treatments, or<br />

any other treatment manipulation of<br />

the human body which occurs as a<br />

part of or in connection with speci-<br />

fied sexual activities, or where any<br />

person providing this treatment,<br />

manipulation or service related<br />

thereto, exposes his or her specified<br />

anatomical areas. The definition of<br />

sexually oriented businesses shall<br />

not include the practice of massage<br />

in any licensed hospital, nor by a<br />

licensed hospital, nor by a licensed<br />

physician, surgeon, chiropractor,<br />

osteopath or certified massage ther-<br />

apist, nor by any nurse or technician<br />

working under the supervision of a<br />

licensed physician, surgeon, chiro-<br />

practor, osteopath or certified mas-<br />

sage therapist, nor by trainers or<br />

any amateur, semi-professional or<br />

professional athlete or athletic team<br />

or school athletic program.<br />

NUDITY or STATE OF NUDITY.<br />

Any of the following: the showing of<br />

the human male or female genitals,<br />

pubic area, anus or anal cleft with<br />

less than a fully opaque covering,<br />

the showing of the female breast<br />

with less than a fully opaque cover-<br />

ing of any part of the nipple, or the<br />

showing of the covered male geni-<br />

tals in a discernibly turgid state.<br />

OPERATE or CAUSE TO<br />

OPERATE. To cause to function,<br />

or to put or keep in a state of doing<br />

business.<br />

OPERATOR. Any person on<br />

the premises of a sexually oriented<br />

business who operates or manages<br />

the business or exercises overall<br />

control of the business premises. A<br />

person may be found to be operat-<br />

ing or causing to be operated a sex-<br />

ually oriented business regardless<br />

of whether that person is an owner,<br />

part owner or licensee of the busi-<br />

ness.<br />

PERMITTED OR LICENSED<br />

PREMISES. Any premise that<br />

requires a license or permit and that<br />

is classified as a sexually oriented<br />

business.<br />

PERMITTEE. Synonymous with<br />

LICENSEE.<br />

PERSON. An individual, propri-<br />

etorship, partnership, corporation,<br />

association or other legal entity.<br />

PRINCIPAL USE. A substantial<br />

or significant use, but not necessar-<br />

ily a majority of the business activ-<br />

ity or stock in trade. The fact that<br />

a business may have one or more<br />

other PRINCIPAL USES unrelated<br />

to sexually oriented business shall<br />

not relieve the business from the<br />

provisions of this chapter applicable<br />

to sexually oriented business estab-<br />

lishments. PRINCIPAL USE shall<br />

exist in the following circumstances:<br />

(1) Where a business establishment<br />

dedicates, or permits the use of at<br />

least 25% of the utilized square<br />

footage of its premises for sexually<br />

oriented business activity or activi-<br />

ties; or<br />

(2) Where at least 25% of the<br />

gross receipts of a business estab-<br />

lishment, excluding food and bev-<br />

erage receipts, result from sexually<br />

oriented business activity or activi-<br />

ties.<br />

PUBLIC BUILDING. Any build-<br />

ing owned, leased or held by the<br />

United States, the state, the county,<br />

a city, town, township, any special<br />

district, school district or any other<br />

agency or political subdivision of<br />

the state or the United States, which<br />

building is used for government pur-<br />

poses.<br />

PUBLIC PARK or RECRE-<br />

ATION AREA. Public land which<br />

has been designated for park or rec-<br />

reational activities, including but not<br />

limited to a park, playground, nature<br />

trails, swimming pool, reservoir,<br />

athletic field, basketball or tennis<br />

courts, pedestrian or bicycle paths,<br />

open space, wilderness areas or<br />

similar public land within the county<br />

which is under the control, opera-<br />

tion or management of the United<br />

States, the state, the county, a city,<br />

town, township, any special district,<br />

school district or any other agency<br />

or political subdivision of the state or<br />

the United States.<br />

RECKLESSLY. A person<br />

engages in conduct RECKLESSLY<br />

if he or she engages in the conduct<br />

in plain, conscious and unjustifiable<br />

disregard of harm that might result<br />

and the disregard involves a sub-<br />

stantial deviation from acceptable<br />

standards of conduct.<br />

REGULARLY. As used in the<br />

phrases herein such as REGULAR-<br />

LY FEATURES and REGULARLY<br />

OFFERS, a consistent and repeat-<br />

ed course of conduct engaged in<br />

or permitted by the operator of the<br />

business.<br />

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION.<br />

Any church, synagogue, mosque,<br />

temple or building which is used<br />

primarily for religious worship and<br />

related religious activities.<br />

RESIDENCE. Any structure,<br />

manufactured home or mobile<br />

home used by one or more persons<br />

as a dwelling.<br />

RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT OR<br />

USE. A single-family, duplex, town-<br />

house, multiple-family or mobile<br />

home park or subdivision and<br />

campground as defined in the coun-<br />

ty code.<br />

SCHOOL. Any public or private<br />

educational facility, including but<br />

not limited to child day care facili-<br />

ties, nursery schools, preschools,<br />

kindergartens, elementary schools,<br />

primary schools, intermediate<br />

schools, junior high schools, middle<br />

schools, high schools, vocational<br />

schools, secondary schools, con-<br />

tinuation schools, special education<br />

schools, junior colleges and univer-<br />

sities. SCHOOL includes the school<br />

grounds, but does not include the<br />

facilities used primarily for another<br />

purpose and only incidentally as a<br />

school.<br />

SELF-DESIGNATED SEXU-<br />

ALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS<br />

CENTER. Any establishment which<br />

designates all or a portion of its<br />

premises as for adults only and has<br />

a policy of excluding minors from<br />

its premises or from a portion of its<br />

premises and which advertises so<br />

as to convey the impression that the<br />

services, entertainment, matter or<br />

goods available at the premises or<br />

at the portion of the premises desig-<br />

nated for adults only are character-<br />

ized or distinguished by displays of<br />

human genitals or sexual activities.<br />

SEMI-NUDE. A state of dress<br />

which shows the female breast<br />

below a horizontal line across the<br />

top of the areola and extending<br />

across the width of the breast at<br />

that point, or the male or female but-<br />

tocks. This definition shall include<br />

the lower portion of the human<br />

female breast, but shall not include<br />

any portion of the cleavage of the<br />

human female breasts exhibited<br />

by a dress, blouse, shirt, leotard or<br />

similar wearing apparel, provided<br />

the areola is not exposed in whole<br />

or in part.<br />

SEMI-NUDE MODEL STU-<br />

DIO. Any place where a person,<br />

who regularly appears in a state of<br />

semi-nudity, is provided for money<br />

or any form of consideration to be<br />

observed, sketched, drawn, painted,<br />

sculptured, photographed or similar-<br />

ly depicted by other persons.<br />

SEX CLUB, also known as a<br />

SWINGERS CLUB. (SHALL NOT<br />

BE PROHIBITED UNDER THIS<br />

ORDINANCE) An establishment<br />

which provides patrons the opportu-<br />

nity to voluntarily engage in and/or<br />

view live consensual sexual activity<br />

and which collects remuneration of<br />

any kind, including entrance fees,<br />

facility use fees, gratuities, fees for<br />

goods provided far in excess of their<br />

value, and/or donations.<br />

SEXUAL DEVICE. Any three-<br />

dimensional object designed and<br />

marketed for stimulation of the male<br />

or female human genital organ or<br />

anus, or for sadomasochistic use<br />

or abuse of oneself or others, and<br />

shall include devices such as dil-<br />

dos, vibrators and penis pumps,<br />

and shall also include other devices<br />

with non-sex related utility, such as<br />

leather whips, straps and ligatures,<br />

when the devices are marketed in a<br />

context suggesting sexual or sado-<br />

masochistic purposes. Nothing in<br />

this definition shall be construed to<br />

include devices primarily intended<br />

for protection against sexually trans-<br />

mitted diseases or for preventing<br />

pregnancy. Nothing in this defini-<br />

tion shall be construed to restrict<br />

sales by any pharmacy, drug store,<br />

medical provider or any establish-<br />

ment primarily dedicated to provid-<br />

ing medical or healthcare products<br />

or services.<br />

SEXUAL DEVICE SHOP. A<br />

commercial establishment that<br />

regularly features sexual devices.<br />

Nothing in this definition shall be<br />

construed to include any pharmacy,<br />

drug store, medical clinic or any<br />

establishment primarily dedicated<br />

to providing medical or healthcare<br />

products or services.<br />

SEXUAL ENCOUNTER<br />

ESTABLISHMENT. (SHALL NOT<br />

BE PROHIBITED UNDER THIS<br />

ORDINANCE) A business or com-<br />

mercial establishment that, as one<br />

of its primary business purposes,<br />

offers for any form of consideration,<br />

a place where two or more persons<br />

may congregate, associate or con-<br />

sort for the purposes of specified<br />

sexual activities. The definition of<br />

sexually oriented businesses shall<br />

not include an establishment where<br />

a medical practitioner, psycholo-<br />

gist, psychiatrist or similar profes-<br />

sional person licensed by the state<br />

engages in medically approved and<br />

recognized sexual therapy.<br />

SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSI-<br />

NESS. Any of the following busi-<br />

nesses, as defined herein: adult<br />

arcade, adult bookstore, adult nov-<br />

elty store, adult video store, adult<br />

cabaret, adult motel adult motion<br />

picture theater, adult theater, escort,<br />

escort agency, massage parlor, self-<br />

designated sexually oriented busi-<br />

ness center, semi-nude model stu-<br />

dio, sex club, sexual device shop or<br />

sexual encounter establishment.<br />

SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL<br />

AREAS. Includes any of the follow-<br />

ing:<br />

(1) Less than completely and<br />

opaquely covered human genitals,<br />

pubic region, buttocks, anus or<br />

female breasts below a point imme-<br />

diately above the top of the areola;<br />

or<br />

(2) Human male genitals in a<br />

discernibly turgid state, even if com-<br />

pletely and opaquely covered.<br />

SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVI-<br />

TIES. Masturbation, intercourse,<br />

oral copulation or sodomy, or excre-<br />

tory functions as a part of or in con-<br />

nection with any of these activities.<br />

SUBSTANTIAL ENLARGE-<br />

MENT OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED<br />

BUSINESS. Increase in the floor<br />

areas occupied by the business by<br />

more than 15%, as the floor areas<br />

exist on 2/21/2012.<br />

TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP<br />

OR CONTROL OF A SEXUALLY<br />

ORIENTED BUSINESS. Includes<br />

any of the following:<br />

(1) The sale, lease or sublease<br />

of the business;<br />

(2) The transfer of securities<br />

which constitute a controlling inter-<br />

est in the business, whether by sale,<br />

exchange or similar means; or<br />

(3) The establishment of a trust,<br />

gift or other similar legal device<br />

which transfers ownership or control<br />

of the business, except for transfer<br />

by bequest or other operation of law<br />

upon the death of a person pos-<br />

sessing the ownership or control.<br />

§ 03 LOCATION RESTRIC-<br />

TIONS.<br />

No person shall cause or per-<br />

mit the establishment of any sexu-<br />

ally oriented business in the unin-<br />

corp-orated areas of the county, as<br />

defined above, within 2,640 feet of<br />

another sexually oriented business<br />

or within 2,640 feet of any religious<br />

institution, school, boys’ club, girls’<br />

club, public park or within 1,000 feet<br />

of any residence or property zoned<br />

for residential use.<br />

§ 04 MEASUREMENT OF DIS-<br />

TANCE.<br />

As regarding § 03 above, the<br />

distance between any two sexu-<br />

ally oriented businesses shall be<br />

measured in a straight line, without<br />

regard to intervening structures,<br />

from the closest exterior structural<br />

wall of each business. The distance<br />

between any sexually oriented busi-<br />

ness and any religious institution,<br />

school, boys’ club, girls’ club, public<br />

park or any residence or property<br />

zoned for residential use, shall be<br />

measured in a straight line, without<br />

regard to intervening structures or<br />

objects, from the nearest portion<br />

of the building or structure used as<br />

part of the premises where the sexu-<br />

ally oriented business is conducted,<br />

to the nearest property line of the<br />

premises of a religious institution,<br />

school, boys’ club, girls’ club, public<br />

park or any residence or property<br />

zoned for residential use.<br />

§ 05 EXEMPTIONS AND<br />

DEFENSES.<br />

(A) It is a defense to an action<br />

for any violation under this chapter<br />

if the person appearing in a state of<br />

nudity did so for a modeling class<br />

operated:<br />

(1) By a proprietary school<br />

licensed by the state; a college,<br />

junior college or university support-<br />

ed entirely or partly by taxation;<br />

(2) By a private college or uni-<br />

versity which maintains and oper-<br />

ates educational programs in which<br />

credits are transferable to a college,<br />

junior college or university support-<br />

ed entirely or partly by taxation; or<br />

(3) In a structure:<br />

(a) Which has no sign visible<br />

from the exterior of the structure<br />

and no other advertising that indi-<br />

cates a nude person is available for<br />

viewing;<br />

(b) Where, in order to participate<br />

in a class a student must enroll at<br />

least three days in advance of the<br />

class; and<br />

(c) Where no more than one<br />

nude model is on the premises at<br />

any one time.<br />

(4) It is a defense to prosecution<br />

for a violation of this chapter that<br />

an employee of a sexually oriented<br />

business, regardless of whether or<br />

not it is permitted under this chap-<br />

ter, exposed any specified ana-<br />

tomical area during the employee’s<br />

bona fide use of a restroom, or dur-<br />

ing the employee’s bona fide use of<br />

a dressing room which is accessible<br />

only to employees.<br />

§ 06 EXISTING BUSINESSES;<br />

GRANDFATHER PROVI-<br />

SIONS.<br />

(A) (1) Generally. A sexually ori-<br />

ented business, existing and oper-<br />

ating lawfully in all respects prior to<br />

2/21/2012, that is in a location that<br />

does not comply with § 03 above,<br />

may continue to operate for one<br />

year following 2/21/2012 in order<br />

to make a reasonable recoupment<br />

of its investment in its current loca-<br />

tion. At the conclusion of the one<br />

year, the sexually oriented business<br />

will no longer be allowed to operate<br />

at any location that does not com-<br />

ply with § 03 above. The sexually<br />

oriented business may seek one<br />

or more six-month extension(s) of<br />

the original one-year period upon<br />

a showing of financial hardship. An<br />

application for an initial extension<br />

based upon financial hardship shall<br />

be made at least 60 days before the<br />

conclusion of the aforementioned<br />

one-year period. If a hardship exten-<br />

sion is granted, subsequent applica-<br />

tions for hardship extensions shall<br />

be made at least 60 days before the<br />

conclusion of the sexually oriented<br />

business’s then-current extension<br />

period.<br />

(2) Procedure for seeking hard-<br />

ship extension. An application for a<br />

hardship extension shall be filed in<br />

writing with the Board of Commis-<br />

sioners, and shall include evidence<br />

of purchase and improvement<br />

costs, income earned and lost,<br />

depreciation and costs of relocation<br />

and evidence of compliance with the<br />

county ordinances applicable to the<br />

business. The Board of Commis-<br />

sioners shall schedule the matter for<br />

a public hearing at the next regularly<br />

scheduled Board of Commissioners<br />

meeting. The Board shall issue a<br />

written decision within ten days after<br />

the public hearing on the application<br />

for a hardship extension.<br />

(B) (1) A sexually oriented<br />

business lawfully operating as a<br />

conforming use is not rendered a<br />

nonconforming use by the location,<br />

subsequent to the grant or renewal<br />

of a sexually oriented business per-<br />

mit or license, of a religious institu-<br />

tion, school, boy’s club, girl’s club,<br />

or public park within 2,640 feet or<br />

residential district or residence with-<br />

in 1,000 feet of the sexually oriented<br />

business.<br />

(2) This provision applies only<br />

to the renewal of a valid permit or<br />

license and does not apply when an<br />

application for a permit or license is<br />

submitted after a permit or license<br />

has expired or has been revoked.<br />

(C) A sexually oriented business<br />

existing and operating lawfully in<br />

all respects prior to 2/21/2012 shall<br />

apply for the permit provided for by<br />

§ 07 below within 30 days of the<br />

effective date of this chapter.<br />

§ 08 APPLICATION PROCE-<br />

DURE.<br />

(A) No person shall maintain,<br />

operate, conduct or cause to be<br />

conducted, any sexually oriented<br />

business within the limits of the<br />

county without first obtaining a per-<br />

mit under this section.<br />

(B) An applicant for a sexually<br />

oriented business permit shall file<br />

with the Plan Commission Director<br />

of the county a completed applica-<br />

tion made on a form prescribed and<br />

provided by the Plan Commission<br />

Director of the county. An applica-<br />

tion shall be considered complete if<br />

it includes the information required<br />

in this section. The applicant shall<br />

be qualified according to the provi-<br />

sions of this chapter. The applica-<br />

tion is complete when it includes the<br />

information and items required in<br />

divisions (B)(1) and (2) below:<br />

(1) An application for permit<br />

must contain the following informa-<br />

tion:<br />

(a) The full true name of the<br />

applicant, and any other names or<br />

aliases used in the preceding five<br />

years;<br />

(b) The applicant’s current busi-<br />

ness or mailing address;<br />

(c) Proof that the applicant is at<br />

least 18 years of age, consisting of<br />

either:<br />

1. A copy of the applicant’s birth<br />

certificate and current photo;<br />

2. A copy of the applicant’s driv-<br />

er’s license with picture; or<br />

3. Another picture identification<br />

document issued by a government<br />

agency.<br />

(d) The name of the busi-<br />

ness, the business location and<br />

legal description of the property, a<br />

description of the type of sexually<br />

oriented business;<br />

(e) A sketch or diagram show-<br />

ing the configuration of the prem-<br />

ises, including a statement of total<br />

floor space occupied by the busi-<br />

ness. The sketch or diagram need<br />

not be professionally prepared,<br />

but shall be drawn to a designated<br />

scale or drawn with marked dimen-<br />

sions of the interior of the premises<br />

to an accuracy of plus or minus six<br />

inches;<br />

(f) A signed statement stating<br />

the following:<br />

1. That the business is autho-<br />

rized by the state to conduct busi-<br />

ness within the state;<br />

2. That the site being applied<br />

for meets the requirements of § 03<br />

above; and<br />

3. The name and address of<br />

the statutory agent or other agent<br />

authorized to receive service of pro-<br />

cess.<br />

(g) If a person wishing to operate<br />

a sexually oriented business is an<br />

individual, he or she shall sign the<br />

application for a permit as applicant.<br />

If an entity (partnership, corporation,<br />

limited liability company and the<br />

like) or group of individuals seeks to<br />

obtain a permit, each individual with<br />

30% or greater ownership interest<br />

must sign as an applicant under<br />

oath and provide the information<br />

required in this division.<br />

(2) The applicant shall be<br />

required to pay a non-refundable<br />

application fee as set forth in § 11<br />

below.<br />

(C) The information provided by<br />

an applicant in connection with the<br />

application for a permit under this<br />

chapter shall be maintained by the<br />

county on a confidential basis, and<br />

may be disclosed only:<br />

(1) To other governmental agen-<br />

cies in connection with a bona fide<br />

law enforcement or public safety<br />

function; or<br />

(2) As may otherwise be<br />

required by law or a court order.<br />

(D) Applicants for a permit under<br />

this section shall have a continuing<br />

duty to promptly supplement appli-<br />

cation information required by this<br />

section in the event that the infor-<br />

mation changes in any way from<br />

what is stated on the application.<br />

The failure to comply with this con-<br />

tinuing duty within 30 days from the<br />

date of the change by supplement-<br />

ing the application on file with the<br />

Plan Commission Director of the<br />

county, shall be grounds for suspen-<br />

sion of a permit.<br />

(E) In the event that the Plan<br />

Commission Director of the county<br />

or his or her designee determines or<br />

learns at any time that the applicant<br />

has improperly completed the appli-<br />

cation for a proposed sexually ori-<br />

ented business, the Plan Commis-<br />

sion Director shall promptly notify<br />

the applicant of that fact and allow<br />

the applicant ten days to properly<br />

complete the application. The time<br />

period for granting or denying a per-<br />

mit shall be stayed during the period<br />

in which the applicant is allowed an<br />

opportunity to properly complete the<br />

application.<br />

§ 09 INVESTIGATION.<br />

(A) Upon receipt of an applica-<br />

tion properly filed with the county<br />

and upon payment of the non-<br />

refundable application fee, the Plan<br />

Commission Director or his or her<br />

designee shall immediately stamp<br />

the application as received and<br />

shall immediately thereafter send<br />

photocopies of the application to<br />

the county agencies responsible for<br />

enforcement of this chapter. Each<br />

department or agency shall prompt-<br />

ly conduct an investigation of the<br />

applicant, application and the pro-<br />

posed sexually oriented business in<br />

accordance with its responsibilities<br />

under law and as set forth in this<br />

chapter. The investigation shall be<br />

completed within 20 days of receipt<br />

of the application by the Plan Com-<br />

mission Director or his or her desig-<br />

nee. At the conclusion of its investi-<br />

gation, each department or agency<br />

shall indicate on the photocopy of<br />

the application its approval or disap-<br />

proval of the application, date it, sign<br />

it and, in the event it disapproves,<br />

state the reasons therefore.<br />

(B) After its indication of approv-<br />

al or disapproval, each department<br />

or agency shall immediately return<br />

the photocopy of the application to<br />

the Plan Commission Director or the<br />

county or his or her designee.<br />

§ 10 ISSUANCE OR DENIAL.<br />

(A) Within 30 days after the<br />

receipt of a completed application,<br />

the Plan Commission Director shall<br />

either issue a permit or issue a writ-<br />

ten denial of a permit to the appli-<br />

cant.<br />

(B) The Plan Commission Direc-<br />

tor shall approve the application and<br />

grant a sexually oriented business<br />

unless one or more of the following<br />

is true:<br />

(1) An applicant is less than 18<br />

years of age;<br />

(2) An applicant has failed to<br />

provide information required by § 08<br />

above, or has provided false infor-<br />

mation on the application;<br />

(3) The premises to be used for<br />

the sexually oriented business are<br />

not in compliance with the locational<br />

requirements of § 03 above;<br />

(4) The applicant failed to pay<br />

the non-refundable permit applica-<br />

tion fee; and/or<br />

(5) The applicant has a permit<br />

under this chapter that has been<br />

revoked within the previous year.<br />

(C) The granting of a permit to<br />

a permittee for a sexually oriented<br />

business shall be for one year and<br />

is nontransferable to any other per-<br />

son other than the applicant(s) listed<br />

on the application and is valid only<br />

for the location listed on the applica-<br />

tion.<br />

SPECIFIC PROVISIONS<br />

§ 11 FEES.<br />

The application fee for a sexu-<br />

ally oriented business permit shall<br />

be $100.<br />

§ 12 INSPECTION OF PREM-<br />

ISES.<br />

Sexually oriented business per-<br />

mittees and their employees shall<br />

permit officers or agents of the<br />

county to inspect, from time to time<br />

on an occasional basis, the portions<br />

of the sexually oriented businesses<br />

premises where patrons are per-<br />

mitted, for the purpose of ensuring<br />

compliance with the specific regu-<br />

lations of this chapter, during those<br />

times when the sexually oriented<br />

business is occupied by patrons<br />

or is open for business. This sec-<br />

tion shall be narrowly construed by<br />

the county to authorize reasonable<br />

inspections of the permitted prem-<br />

ises pursuant to this chapter, but not<br />

to authorize a harassing or exces-<br />

sive pattern of inspections.<br />

§ 13 PERMIT EXPIRATION.<br />

(A) Each permit shall expire<br />

one year from the date of issuance<br />

and may be renewed only by mak-<br />

ing application as provided in § 07<br />

above; for renewals, filing of the<br />

original survey, if applicable, shall<br />

be sufficient.<br />

(B) Application for renewal shall<br />

be made not more than 120 days<br />

and not less than 90 days before<br />

the expiration date, and when made<br />

less than 90 days before the expira-<br />

tion date, the expiration of the per-<br />

mit will not be affected.<br />

§ 14 SUSPENSION.<br />

(A) The county shall issue a<br />

written notice of intent to suspend a<br />

permit for a period not to exceed 30<br />

days if a permittee has knowingly<br />

violated any section of this chap-<br />

ter or has knowingly allowed an<br />

employee of the sexually oriented<br />

business to violate this chapter.<br />

(B) The issuance of a written<br />

notice of intent to suspend shall not<br />

be a prerequisite to issuance of a<br />

written notice of intent to revoke a<br />

permit per § 15 below.<br />

§ 15 REVOCATION.<br />

(A) The Board of Commission-<br />

ers of the county or its designee<br />

shall issue written notice of intent<br />

to revoke a permit if a cause of<br />

suspension in § 14 occurs and the<br />

permit has been suspended for<br />

any reason within the preceding 12<br />

months.<br />

(B) The Board of Commission-<br />

ers of the county or their designee<br />

shall issue written notice to revoke<br />

a permit if:<br />

(1) A permittee gave false infor-<br />

mation in the material submitted<br />

during the application process;<br />

(2) A permittee has knowingly or<br />

recklessly allowed possession, use<br />

or sale of controlled substances in<br />

or on the premises;<br />

(3) A permittee has knowingly<br />

or recklessly allowed prostitution on<br />

the premises;<br />

(4) A permittee has knowingly<br />

or recklessly operated the sexually<br />

oriented business during a period<br />

of time when the permittee’s permit<br />

was suspended; or<br />

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NATION<br />

U.S., World Roundup<br />

GOP activists say Romney<br />

will be the nominee<br />

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican<br />

activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential<br />

campaign that almost certainly will<br />

nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him<br />

weakened in a fall battle against President<br />

Barack Obama.<br />

Interviews Wednesday with GOP officials<br />

and strategists in several states found<br />

no panic or calls for Romney to crank up<br />

his criticisms of Rick Santorum to secure<br />

the nomination. But they expressed varying<br />

degrees of worry that Santorum’s and<br />

Newt Gingrich’s attacks on Romney are<br />

inflicting wounds that might not fully heal<br />

by Nov. 6.<br />

“The shelf life is 48 hours for a lot of<br />

this,” including small-bore disputes over<br />

policy differences, said Steve Lombardo, a<br />

veteran of many GOP campaigns.<br />

“The bigger concern is the negatives<br />

the governor has built up on his unfavorable<br />

rating,” Lombardo said, referring to<br />

impressions that Romney, the former Massachusetts<br />

governor, waffles on key principles<br />

and can’t relate to working-class<br />

people. “Those can be harder to reverse,”<br />

he said, and Romney would like to address<br />

them without potshots from his own party.<br />

South Carolina Republican Chairman<br />

Chad Connelly is more upbeat. He says<br />

Romney won’t suffer from a protracted<br />

nominating process.<br />

Hunt for missing U.S. troops<br />

set to resume in N. Korea<br />

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wounded in<br />

both legs and wearing a U.S. Army field<br />

coat peppered with bullet holes, 1st Lt.<br />

Robert Schmitt led a desperate U.S. hilltop<br />

assault against advancing Chinese forces in<br />

one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean<br />

War. He never returned.<br />

The hunt for thousands of fallen American<br />

troops like Schmitt, missing from a<br />

conflict fought six decades ago, is about<br />

to resume in North Korea as tensions ease<br />

between the wartime enemies.<br />

A decade of search operations that led to<br />

the recovery and identification of 92 troops<br />

was suspended seven years ago, with the<br />

U.S. citing worries about the security of its<br />

personnel. That ended the only cooperation<br />

between the militaries of the two nations,<br />

which formally remain at war because the<br />

1950-53 conflict ended with a cease-fire<br />

and armistice, not a formal peace treaty.<br />

While Washington says the renewed<br />

search for remains is a purely humanitarian<br />

endeavor, the October resumption agreement,<br />

through which North Korea receives<br />

millions of dollars in compensation, comes<br />

amid intense efforts to coax the impoverished<br />

country into nuclear concessions.<br />

That culminated last week in a commitment<br />

by the North to freeze nuclear activities<br />

and allow international nuclear inspections<br />

in exchange for food aid.<br />

A U.S. ship already has transported<br />

equipment for the searches to North Korea,<br />

and a U.S. advance team is due to arrive<br />

this month. Searches are expected to begin<br />

in April.<br />

Syrian deputy oil minister<br />

defects on YouTube<br />

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s deputy oil minister<br />

announced his defection in an online<br />

video that emerged Thursday, making him<br />

the highest ranking official to abandon<br />

President Bashar Assad’s regime since the<br />

country’s uprising erupted a year ago.<br />

Abdo Husameddine said he was defecting<br />

because of the “brutal” crackdown on<br />

dissent which has claimed the life of thousands<br />

of Syrians in the past year.<br />

There has been a steady stream of army<br />

defections who have joined a group of dissidents<br />

known as the Free Syrian Army,<br />

now numbering in the thousands, but civilian<br />

government officials have remained<br />

largely loyal to Assad’s regime.<br />

In the video posted on YouTube,<br />

Husameddine identified himself as an<br />

(Continued from Page 9)<br />

(5) A permittee has knowingly or<br />

recklessly allowed any act of sexual<br />

intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation,<br />

masturbation or any other<br />

specified sexual activities to occur<br />

in or on the permitted premises.<br />

(C) When the county revokes a<br />

permit, the revocation shall continue<br />

for one year and the permittee shall<br />

not be issued a sexually oriented<br />

business permit for one year from<br />

the date revocation became effective.<br />

§ 16 ADMINISTRATIVE AND<br />

JUDICIAL REVIEW.<br />

(A) If facts exist for denial, suspension<br />

or revocation of a permit<br />

under this chapter, the Plan Commission<br />

Director shall notify the<br />

applicant or permittee (respondent)<br />

in writing of the intent to deny, suspend<br />

or revoke the permit, including<br />

the grounds therefore, by personal<br />

delivery or by certified mail.<br />

The notification shall be directed to<br />

the most current business address<br />

on file with the Plan Commission<br />

Director. Within five working days of<br />

receipt of the notice, the respondent<br />

may provide to the Plan Commission<br />

Director, in writing, a response<br />

that shall include a statement of<br />

reasons why the permit should not<br />

be denied, suspended or revoked.<br />

Within three days of the receipt of<br />

respondent’s written response, the<br />

Board of Commissioners shall notify<br />

respondent in writing of the hearing<br />

date on respondent’s denial, suspension<br />

or revocation proceeding.<br />

(1) Within ten working days of<br />

the receipt of respondent’s written<br />

response, the Board of Commissioners<br />

shall conduct a hearing at<br />

which respondent shall have the<br />

opportunity to be represented by<br />

counsel and present evidence and<br />

witnesses on his or her behalf.<br />

The Board of Commissioners shall<br />

issue a written opinion and deci-<br />

sion within five days of the hearing.<br />

If a response is not received by the<br />

Board of Commissioners in the time<br />

provided or, if after a hearing, the<br />

Board of Commissioners finds that<br />

grounds as specified in this chapter<br />

exist for denial, suspension or revocation,<br />

then the denial, suspension<br />

or revocation shall become final five<br />

days after the Board of Commissioners<br />

sends, by certified mail, written<br />

notice that the permit has been<br />

denied, suspended or revoked. The<br />

notice shall include a statement<br />

advising the applicant or permittee<br />

of the right to appeal the decision to<br />

a court of competent jurisdiction.<br />

(2) If the Board of Commissioners<br />

finds that no grounds exist for<br />

denial, suspension or revocation of<br />

a permit, then within five days after<br />

the hearing, the Board of Commissioners<br />

shall withdraw the intent to<br />

deny, suspend or revoke the permit,<br />

and shall so notify the respondent in<br />

writing by certified mail of the action<br />

and, in the case of an application for<br />

a permit, shall contemporaneously<br />

issue the permit.<br />

(B) When a decision to deny,<br />

suspend or revoke a permit<br />

becomes final, the applicant or<br />

permittee (aggrieved party) whose<br />

application for a permit has been<br />

denied, or whose permit has been<br />

suspended or revoked, shall have<br />

the right to appeal the action to a<br />

court of competent jurisdiction. The<br />

following shall apply to businesses<br />

that have previously obtained a<br />

license under this chapter: upon the<br />

filing of any court action to appeal,<br />

challenge, restrain or otherwise<br />

enjoin the county’s enforcement of<br />

the denial, suspension or revocation,<br />

the county shall immediately<br />

issue the aggrieved party a provisional<br />

permit. The provisional permit<br />

shall allow the aggrieved party to<br />

continue operation of the sexually<br />

oriented business, and will expire<br />

upon the court’s entry of a judgment<br />

“assistant” to the oil minister and a member<br />

of the ruling Baath Party. Ministers in<br />

Syria may have several assistants known as<br />

deputies. He is shown wearing a suit and<br />

tie and sitting on a sofa at an undisclosed<br />

location, reading from a paper.<br />

“I, Abdo Husameddine, deputy oil and<br />

mineral resources minister, announce my<br />

defection from the regime and resignation<br />

from my post ... and declare that I am joining<br />

the dignified people’s revolution,” he<br />

said.<br />

10-mile evacuation zone<br />

may not be adequate<br />

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.<br />

should customize emergency plans for each<br />

of the nation’s 65 nuclear power plants, a<br />

change that in some cases could expand the<br />

standard 10-mile evacuation zone in place<br />

for more than three decades, an expert<br />

panel is recommending.<br />

That’s one of the lessons to emerge in<br />

a 40-page report to be released Thursday<br />

— three days before the one-year anniversary<br />

of Japan’s nuclear disaster — from a<br />

committee that examined the incident for<br />

the American Nuclear Society. The panel<br />

includes a former chairman of the Nuclear<br />

Regulatory Commission, a fellow at an<br />

Energy Department laboratory and seven<br />

other nuclear scientists.<br />

The report concludes that U.S. nuclear<br />

power oversight is adequate to protect public<br />

health and safety but that emergency<br />

zones “should not be based on arbitrary<br />

mileage designations.”<br />

Under rules in force since 1978, communities<br />

near nuclear plants must prepare federally<br />

reviewed evacuation plans only for<br />

those living within 10 miles of the facility.<br />

That’s because in a severe accident most<br />

of the early deaths — those from radiation<br />

sickness, not cancer — are predicted to<br />

occur within the first 10 miles. While that<br />

zone can be adjusted during an accident,<br />

the panel says emergency plans should<br />

account for how each nuclear power plant<br />

would react in a disaster before it happens.<br />

“It’s a matter of planning,” said Michael<br />

Corradini, director of the University of<br />

Wisconsin’s Institute of Nuclear Systems<br />

and the panel’s co-chair. “For certain types<br />

of events and certain severities, they may<br />

change how they evacuate, or who would<br />

evacuate.”<br />

U.S. activist group launches<br />

video of vicious African militia<br />

SAN DIEGO (AP) — American filmmakers<br />

who reported on wartime atrocities<br />

in Africa for a 50-minute work called<br />

“Invisible Children” drew more attention<br />

than they imagined when their project was<br />

released in 2005. They soon founded a<br />

nonprofit organization to campaign against<br />

the brutality.<br />

The group’s new 29-minute video is<br />

gaining even more attention, thanks to<br />

social media. The work released Monday<br />

is part of an effort called KONY 2012 that<br />

targets the Lord’s Resistance Army and its<br />

leader, Joseph Kony, a bush fighter wanted<br />

by the International Criminal Court for<br />

crimes against humanity.<br />

Uganda, Invisible Children and<br />

(hash)stopkony were among the top 10<br />

trending terms on Twitter among both the<br />

worldwide and U.S. audience on Wednesday<br />

night, ranking higher than New iPad or<br />

Peyton Manning. Twitter’s top trends more<br />

commonly include celebrities than fugitive<br />

militants.<br />

Ben Keesey, Invisible Children’s 28year-old<br />

chief executive officer, said the<br />

viral success shows their message resonates<br />

and that viewers feel empowered to<br />

force change. It was released on the website,<br />

www.kony2012.com.<br />

“The core message is just to show that<br />

there are few times where problems are<br />

black and white. There’s lots of complicated<br />

stuff in the world, but Joseph Kony<br />

and what he’s doing is black and white,”<br />

Keesey said Wednesday.<br />

on the aggrieved party’s action to<br />

appeal, challenge, restrain or otherwise<br />

enjoin the county’s enforcement.<br />

§ 17 PERMIT TRANSFER<br />

RESTRICTED.<br />

A permittee shall not operate a<br />

sexually oriented business under<br />

the authority of a permit at any place<br />

other than the address designated<br />

in the application for permit.<br />

§ 18 MINORS ON PREMISES<br />

PROHIBITED.<br />

A person is in violation of this<br />

chapter if he or she operates or<br />

causes to be operated a sexually<br />

oriented business, regardless<br />

of whether or not a permit has been<br />

issued for that business under this<br />

chapter, and knowingly or with reasonable<br />

cause to know, permits,<br />

suffers or allows:<br />

(A) Admittance of a person<br />

under 18 years of age to the business<br />

premises;<br />

(B) A person under 18 years of<br />

age to remain at the business premises;<br />

(C) A person under 18 years of<br />

age to purchase goods or services<br />

at the business premises; or<br />

(D) A person who is under 18<br />

years of age to work at the business<br />

premises as an employee.<br />

§ 19 ADVERTISING AND DIS-<br />

PLAY; LIGHTING.<br />

(A) All off-street parking areas<br />

and premises entries of the sexually<br />

oriented business shall be<br />

illuminated from dusk to closing<br />

hours of operation with a lighting<br />

system which provides an average<br />

maintained horizontal illumination<br />

of one foot-candle of light on the<br />

parking surface and walkways. This<br />

required lighting level is established<br />

in order to provide sufficient illumination<br />

of the parking areas and walkways<br />

serving the sexually oriented<br />

business for the personal safety<br />

of patrons and employees and to<br />

reduce the incidence of vandalism<br />

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RACING NEWS<br />

Staying on Track<br />

By The Associated Press<br />

All Times Eastern<br />

NASCAR<br />

SPRINT CUP<br />

KOBALT TOOLS 400<br />

Site: Las Vegas.<br />

Schedule: Friday, practice<br />

(Speed, 3-4:30 p.m.; qualifying<br />

(Speed, 6:30-8 p.m.); Saturday,<br />

practice (Speed, 12:30-<br />

1:30 p.m., 3-4:30 p.m.); Sunday,<br />

race, 3 p.m. (FOX, 2:30-6<br />

p.m.).<br />

Track: Las Vegas Motor<br />

Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).<br />

Race distance: 400.5 miles,<br />

267 laps.<br />

Last year: Carl Edwards<br />

raced to his lone victory of the<br />

season, winning for the second<br />

time at the track. Tony Stewart<br />

rallied to finish second after<br />

dropping to 22nd following a<br />

late four-tire stop.<br />

Last week: Denny Hamlin<br />

won at Phoenix, leading the<br />

final 59 laps. Kevin Harvick<br />

challenged Hamlin over the<br />

final few laps, but ran out of gas<br />

and finished second.<br />

Fast facts: Two-time Indy 500<br />

winner Dan Wheldon was killed<br />

in an accident at the track last<br />

year in the IndyCar finale. ...<br />

Hamlin leads the season standings.<br />

... Jimmie Johnson has<br />

a record four victories in Las<br />

Vegas. ... Kyle Busch won the<br />

2009 race on his home track.<br />

Next race: Food City 500,<br />

March 18, Bristol Motor Speedway,<br />

Bristol, Tenn.<br />

Online: http://www.nascar.<br />

com<br />

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NATIONWIDE<br />

SAM’S TOWN 300<br />

Site: Las Vegas.<br />

Schedule: Friday, practice<br />

(Speed, 1:30-3 p.m., 5-6:30<br />

p.m.); Saturday, qualifying<br />

(Speed, 1:30-3 p.m.), race, 5<br />

p.m. (ESPN2, 5-8 p.m.).<br />

Track: Las Vegas Motor<br />

Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).<br />

Race distance: 300 miles,<br />

200 laps.<br />

Last year: Mark Martin raced<br />

to his then-record 49th Nationwide<br />

victory, taking the lead<br />

when Brad Keselowski cut a<br />

tire on the final lap.<br />

Last week: Elliott Sadler won<br />

his sixth career Nationwide victory<br />

and first in 14 years, passing<br />

Keselowski after a caution<br />

with 33 laps left at Phoenix.<br />

Fast facts: Martin is making<br />

his first start for Joe Gibbs<br />

Racing in the No. 18 Toyota,<br />

the car that Kyle Busch drove<br />

to his last 36 victories and 38<br />

of series-record 51 wins. Busch<br />

is driving his own Kyle Busch<br />

Motorsports No. 54 Toyota.<br />

and criminal conduct. The lighting<br />

shall be shown on the required<br />

sketch or diagram of the premises.<br />

(B) Nothing contained in this<br />

section shall relieve the operator(s)<br />

of a sexually oriented business from<br />

complying with the requirements of<br />

the county in this chapter, commonly<br />

known as the sexually oriented<br />

business ordinance, as it may be<br />

amended from time to time, or any<br />

subsequently enacted county ordinance<br />

or regulations.<br />

(C) All Signage and Displays visible<br />

from the outside of sexually oriented<br />

business shall not include any<br />

photographs, silhouettes, drawings,<br />

or pictorial representations of nudity,<br />

semi-nudity, or sexual activity.<br />

§ 20 HOURS OF OPERATION.<br />

(A) It shall be unlawful and a<br />

person is in violation of this chapter<br />

if he or she operates or causes<br />

to be operated a sexually oriented<br />

business, regardless of whether or<br />

not a permit has been issued for<br />

that business under this chapter,<br />

between the hours of 11:00 p.m.<br />

and 7:00 a.m. of any particular day.<br />

(B) This section shall not apply<br />

to prohibit the operation of businesses<br />

licensed by the State Alcoholic<br />

Beverage Commissioner during<br />

the lawful hours of operation as<br />

provided by the State Alcoholic Beverage<br />

Commission.<br />

§ 21 PUBLIC NUDITY PRO-<br />

HIBITED.<br />

(A) The U.S. Supreme Court<br />

decision in Barnes v. Glen Theatre,<br />

Inc. 501 U.S., Ill 560 – (1991),<br />

which upheld the rights of local<br />

governments to prohibit live public<br />

exposure of a person’s private<br />

parts, specifically applies to sexually<br />

oriented businesses, regardless of<br />

whether or not a permit has been<br />

issued to those businesses under<br />

this chapter, including those businesses<br />

where no alcoholic beverages<br />

are sold, served or consumed<br />

at the premises.<br />

Next race: St. Patrick’s Day<br />

300, March 17, Bristol Motor<br />

Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.<br />

Online: http://www.nascar.<br />

com<br />

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CAMPING WORLD TRUCK<br />

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(B) Public nudity is prohibited<br />

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of a sexually oriented business.<br />

(D) No person shall possess,<br />

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ally oriented business, regardless<br />

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issued for that business under this<br />

chapter, and that person knows or<br />

should know that:<br />

(A) The business does not have<br />

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(B) The business has a permit<br />

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(C) The business has a permit<br />

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(D) The business has a permit<br />

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§ 24 CULPABLE MENTAL<br />

STATE REQUIRED TO ESTAB-<br />

LISH LIABILITY.<br />

Where any provision or offense<br />

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level of culpability to establish a<br />

violation or liability, the offense shall<br />

be established upon a showing<br />

that the person acted knowingly or<br />

recklessly with regard to the predicate<br />

act. Notwithstanding anything<br />

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this chapter, an act by an employee<br />

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oriented business permittee for the<br />

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of this chapter, or for purposes of<br />

license denial, suspension or revocation<br />

only if a permittee allowed,<br />

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shall be a defense to liability that the<br />

sexually oriented business permittee<br />

was powerless to prevent the<br />

violation.<br />

§ 25 INJUNCTION.<br />

A person who operates or<br />

causes to be operated a sexually<br />

oriented business in violation of<br />

this chapter, is subject to a suit for<br />

injunction. If any injunction must be<br />

sought, attorney’s fees and costs<br />

will be assessed at the discretion of<br />

the court against the violator.<br />

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boxes, line, rope, fillet & hunting<br />

knives. Much more upon availability.<br />

Snyder’s Auction Service, Andrews,<br />

260-358-7923, www.auctionzip.com<br />

id #14249.<br />

MARCH 10 - 11 a.m. - Mr. &<br />

Mrs. Dell Shady, owners. 500N,<br />

Craigville. Prime agriculture land,<br />

42.57+/- acres, Section 1, Lancaster<br />

Township, Wells County. 2.3 miles<br />

east of St. Rd. 1 on Wells County<br />

Road 500 North or 1 mile south<br />

of St. Rd. 224 on Wells County<br />

Road 500 East to Wells County Road<br />

500 North, then east approximately<br />

1/2 mile. Ellenberger Brothers, Inc.<br />

Auctioneers, 800-373-6363, www.<br />

EllenbergerBros.com.<br />

MARCH 17 - 9 a.m. - Audrey M.<br />

Smith estate and others. <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

National Guard Armory. 2003 Ford<br />

Taurus, outstanding collection of<br />

antique toys, Marx, Wyandot, arcade,<br />

Oliver tractors, large collection of<br />

John Deere, Thomas & Friends<br />

Train accessories, antiques, collectibles,<br />

antique and modern furniture,<br />

Wurlitzer jukebox, musical instruments,<br />

and much more! Ellenberger<br />

Brothers, Inc. Auctioneers, 800-373-<br />

6363, www.EllenbergerBros.com.<br />

MARCH 21 - 6 p.m. - Prairie<br />

Crossing LLC, owner. Auction location:<br />

Lafayette Meadow Elementary<br />

School, 11420 Ernst Road, Roanoke.<br />

Farm location: Ernst and Homestead<br />

Road. 104+/- acres productive farm<br />

land with approximately 95 acres tillable,<br />

Lafayette and Aboite Townships,<br />

Southwest Allen County. Selling in<br />

one tract. Call for private showing.<br />

Steffen Group, www.steffengrp.com,<br />

260-426-0633.<br />

MARCH 24 - 9 a.m. - Iiah P. Hart<br />

estate, owner. 520 W. Cherry Street,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>. Modern 2 bedroom home<br />

attractively decorated with 1,040 sq.<br />

ft. Antiques, collectibles, modern furniture,<br />

early American antique furniture,<br />

& much more. Open house for<br />

inspection of real estate March 14<br />

from 4-6 p.m. Ellenberger Brothers,<br />

Inc. Auctioneers, 800-373-6363,<br />

www.EllenbergerBros.com.<br />

MARCH 24 - 9 a.m. - 35th annual<br />

Whitley County antique tractor<br />

auction. Whitley County 4-H<br />

Fairgrounds, Columbia City. Running<br />

and non-running tractors. Call or<br />

email, kingtractorauction@gmail.<br />

com, to consign items. KING Auction<br />

Service, LLC, 260-723-4378, www.<br />

kingauctionservice.com.<br />

MARCH 24 - 9 a.m. - Estate of Karen<br />

R. Schieferstein. 1634 Winchester<br />

Rd., Decatur. Country living, 3 bedroom<br />

ranch home, 2 baths, finished<br />

1-1/2 car garage, storage shed, large<br />

lot, shade trees, 1,454 sq. ft. Real<br />

estate sells at noon. Antiques & collectibles,<br />

costume jewelry, appli-<br />

Help Wanted<br />

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paycheck to paycheck?<br />

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JOB FAIR — FCC (Adams),<br />

LLC is having a Job Fair at<br />

the South Adams Senior Center,<br />

825 Hendricks St., Berne,<br />

IN 46711 on Friday, March<br />

16th from 1p-5p and Saturday,<br />

March 17th from 8a-noon.<br />

We are currently seeking applicants<br />

for 1st, 2nd and 3rd<br />

shifts for Manufacturing, Maintenance,<br />

Engineering, Quality<br />

Control and Supervision. You<br />

will be given an opportunity to<br />

complete an application and<br />

submit resumes.<br />

GROWING BUSINESS LOOK-<br />

ING — to hire a willing and<br />

energetic person as accountant/secretary<br />

for office. Must<br />

have basic or higher skills in<br />

accounting and/or bookkeeping.<br />

Experience in using Quick-<br />

Books would be helpful. Job<br />

hours are flexible. Please send<br />

résumé to File #33, c/o <strong>News</strong>-<br />

<strong>Banner</strong>, P.O. Box 436, <strong>Bluffton</strong>,<br />

IN 46714.<br />

For Sale<br />

Miscellaneous<br />

JAZZY POWER CHAIR—<br />

Model 1121: $1,200 OBO. 260-<br />

827-0741.<br />

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ances, electronics, tools, lawn, garden<br />

items, John Deere riding mower,<br />

household, Pro-Form treadmill, free<br />

standing gas fireplace. Wiegmann<br />

Auctioneers, 260-447-4311, www.<br />

wiegmannauctioneers.com.<br />

MARCH 27 - 7 p.m. - Sue Ann<br />

Horrell, John C. Allen & David<br />

L. Allen, owners. Dogwood Glenn<br />

Golf Club House, north of Warren<br />

on St. Rd. 5. 70.74+/- acres offered<br />

in 3 tracts. Farm land, farm homestead<br />

buildings. Open house held<br />

at Tract 1 on Sunday, March 11<br />

and 18th from 1-3 p.m. Phillip L.<br />

Gauntt & Associates Real Estate &<br />

Auctioneering, Inc., 765-661-1122,<br />

www.gaunttauctions.com.<br />

MARCH 31 - 9 a.m. - John &<br />

Edith Duffey estate, owner. 4-<br />

H County Fair Ground, Wabash.<br />

Premier lifetime estate collection,<br />

lovely Victorian & Early American<br />

artifacts. Ellenberger Brothers, Inc.<br />

Auctioneers, 800-373-6363, www.<br />

EllenbergerBros.com.<br />

MARCH 31 - 9 a.m. - Indiana<br />

antique tractor auction. Jay County<br />

Fairgrounds, Portland. 4th antique<br />

tractor & parts consignment auction.<br />

Running tractors, non-running tractors,<br />

toys, pedal tractors, machinery,<br />

primitives, hit/miss engines. Town<br />

& Country Auctioneers/Realtors,<br />

260-724-8899, www.adamscounty<br />

auctions.com.<br />

MARCH 31 - 10 a.m. - Jim and<br />

Lana Miller, owners. 0157W 200N,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>. Complete line of farm<br />

machinery, Case IH 1620 combine/<br />

heads, JD6030 tractor, JD5020 tractor,<br />

JD7200 12 row Conservation<br />

front fold planter, no-till drill, 7 bottom<br />

adjustable plow, Glenco 7400 soilsaver,<br />

Glenco 21 ft. field finisher, 18<br />

ft. wheel disc, 18 ft. cultivator, sprayer,<br />

cultimulcher, grain vac, hay baler,<br />

hopper wagons, 1972 Ford tandem<br />

axle grain truck. Shaw Real Estate<br />

& Auction, 260-824-2116, www.shaw<br />

realestateauction.com.<br />

APRIL 4 - 6:30 p.m. - Sarah J.<br />

Raunecker, owner. Jay County 4-<br />

H Fairgrounds, Portland. Five miles<br />

SW of Portland on the NW corner<br />

of the intersection of CR 400 S &<br />

400 W. 190+/- acres productive, tillable<br />

cropland & woods, Jefferson<br />

Twp., Jay County, offered in 4 tracts.<br />

Halderman Real Estate Services,<br />

800-424-2324, www.halderman.<br />

com.<br />

SUDOKU ANSWER<br />

Miscellaneous<br />

CLANCY STROCKS REMI-<br />

NISCE— Books. Set of 11. Valued<br />

at $220. Asking $60. Call<br />

260-273-9603.<br />

WHIRLPOOL DUET— Sports<br />

Washer & Dryer Pedestals.<br />

Paid $456. Asking $100 for the<br />

pair. Call 260-273-9603.<br />

MILMAR POLE BUILDINGS—<br />

Amish craftmanship, 4 year<br />

warranty, competitive pricing.<br />

30 x 40 x 10 for $11,300. 60 x<br />

120 x 14 $54,800. Or custom<br />

quote to your spec starting at<br />

$7/ft. 260-438-8357 j2graber@<br />

gmail.com. (I)<br />

Antiques/Collectibles<br />

14TH ANNUAL— Antique Show<br />

& Sale March 9th & 10th Friday-<br />

9-6 Saturday-9-4 Fulton County<br />

Historical Museum US 31 N.,<br />

Rochester. Admission-$3.00<br />

Quality Antiques & Collectables<br />

only. Food Available Info:765-<br />

628-2612. (A)<br />

Pets<br />

SCHNOODLE PUPS— Black.<br />

Friendly. 1st shots. Wormed.<br />

10 weeks old. Make good pets!<br />

$250-$275/each. 260-589-<br />

8754.<br />

Sporting Goods<br />

GUN SHOW!! North Vernon, IN<br />

- March 10th & 11th, Jennings<br />

County Community Building,<br />

4920 N. State Hwy 3, Sat. 9-5,<br />

Sun. 9-3 For information call<br />

765-993-8942 Buy! Sell! Trade.<br />

(I)<br />

Used Furniture/<br />

Collectibles<br />

DINING ROOM TABLE W/2—<br />

leaves and 4 matching chairs.<br />

Excellent condition. Also, island<br />

that matches. $400. OBO. 260-<br />

827-0741.<br />

Home Furnishings<br />

BRAND NEW IN PLASTIC!—<br />

QUEEN PILLOWTOP MAT-<br />

TRESS SET. Can deliver, $125.<br />

(260) 493-0805. (A)<br />

Travel<br />

2004 HOMESTEAD SETTLER<br />

CAMPER alumilite, 2 slides, new<br />

tires, excellent condition. $11,900<br />

OBO. 260.820.1365<br />

Rentals<br />

Apartments for Rent<br />

$99 MOVE-IN SPECIAL!— 1<br />

and 2BR upper apartments<br />

available. Water and appliance<br />

furnished. No application<br />

fee. Pet friendly. Rents start at<br />

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572-1193.<br />

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REQUIREMENTS FOR BIDDING<br />

Bids opened on March 19,<br />

2012.<br />

Time: 9:30 A.M.<br />

Place: Wells County Carnegie<br />

Annex<br />

By: Wells County Commissioners<br />

Bids to be turned into Wells<br />

County Auditor’s Office by 4:00 P.M.,<br />

Friday, March 16, 2012.<br />

All bids to be submitted on Wells<br />

County Bid Form 1.<br />

All bids to be accompanied<br />

by a 10% bond or certified check<br />

in the amount of 10% of the bid.<br />

(Out-of-state companies must have<br />

checks).<br />

Only one project per envelope.<br />

Do not include the bids for more<br />

than one project in any envelope.<br />

Each bid is to be in separate envelope.<br />

Project to meet INDOT specifications<br />

402.<br />

The Board of Wells County<br />

Commissioners reserve the right to<br />

reject any or all bids, or to accept<br />

the one which, in their judgement,<br />

will be in the best interest of Wells<br />

County being the best and/or lowest<br />

responsive and responsible bidder<br />

for each line or class of materials.<br />

Edward R. Herman<br />

Wells County Highway<br />

Dept. Supervisor<br />

SPECIFICATIONS FOR<br />

COUNTY ROAD 100S<br />

BETWEEN ADAMS STREET AND<br />

COUNTY ROAD 300W-4 MILES<br />

1. Place 100 tons of patching.<br />

2. Place 500 tons of wedge and<br />

level.<br />

3. Mill 1” of existing pavement<br />

between Adams Street and 300 W.<br />

(4 miles x 23’ wide) - project to start<br />

200’ west of the centerline of Adams<br />

Street. Mill each approach at all<br />

county roads back to stop signs<br />

(Meridian Rd., 100 W., and 200 W.).<br />

Mill two access roads at Meridian<br />

Road. Mill entire radius at 300 W.<br />

on east side. County Highway to furnish<br />

tandem trucks to haul millings<br />

away.<br />

Apartments for Rent<br />

1BR OR EFFICIENCIES—<br />

available downtown <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />

Starting at $250/month. Appliances<br />

included. 260-433-6211.<br />

1BR UPSTAIRS APARTMENT<br />

— <strong>Bluffton</strong>: $135/week. Service<br />

pets only. 260-543-2509,<br />

260-760-3117.<br />

ALL UTILITIES PAID— 2BR,<br />

$125/week. $300/Deposit, 303<br />

W. Wabash. Also, small efficiency:<br />

$85/week, $200/Deposit.<br />

Service pets only. 260-<br />

353-3227.<br />

MARCH SPECIAL!— 1st<br />

Month Rent Free! $250 Deposit.<br />

No application Fee. All<br />

Apartments single story, with<br />

Private Entrance. W/D Hookups.<br />

HAMPSHIRE COURT<br />

APTS., 510 W. Dustman Rd.,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>, IN. Open 9a-5p, M-F.<br />

Evenings and Weekends by<br />

Appointment. Call 260-824-<br />

1097.<br />

OSSIAN YELLOW RETIRE-<br />

MENT— Community. 2BR<br />

with attached garage. Includes<br />

water, washer & dryer. From<br />

$620. (Maintenance Free Living).<br />

260-424-0424.<br />

House Rentals<br />

1BR HOUSE— $350/month,<br />

1008 S. Oak. 2BR, $425/month,<br />

651 Beth. 1BR, all utilities paid,<br />

$450/month. Call 260-413-9665<br />

or 260-565-3295.<br />

Mobile Home Rental<br />

2BR & 3BR— Mobile Homes<br />

for rent in quiet, clean park. Norwell<br />

School District. Weekly, Bi-<br />

Weekly, Monthly Rates available.<br />

$300 Security Deposit/References<br />

Required. 260-824-8611.<br />

Real Estate<br />

Homes For Sale<br />

USDA 100% GOVERNMENT<br />

LOANS!— Not just for 1st time<br />

home buyers! All credit considered!<br />

Low rates! Buy any home<br />

anywhere for sale by owner or<br />

realtor. Academy Mortgage Corporation,<br />

11119 Lima Road, Fort<br />

Wayne, IN 46818. Call Brian at:<br />

260-750-9376. NLMS196930-<br />

3113-ST14834-10966. Some<br />

restrictions may apply. Equal<br />

Housing Lender. (A)<br />

HOUSE FOR SALE BY OWN-<br />

ER— 412 Greenbriar Drive,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong>. Willowbrook ranch.<br />

Call Brad at 260-273-7935.<br />

www.412greenbriar.blogspot.<br />

com.<br />

Land For Sale<br />

PROPERTY AT 826 W. WILEY<br />

— Over 2 acres w/6’ fencing. Call<br />

for more info: 260-273-1259.<br />

4. Place 2” of asphalt surface<br />

12.5 mm type A or B, between<br />

Adams Street and Peyton’s Warehouse<br />

(1.5 miles x 23’ wide). Place<br />

1 1/2” of asphalt surface 12.5 mm<br />

type A or B, between Peyton’s Warehouse<br />

and 300 W. (2.5 miles x 23’<br />

wide). Place 1 1/2” asphalt surface<br />

at all approaches (Meridian Rd.,<br />

100W., and 200 W.), access roads<br />

at Meridian Rd., and radius on east<br />

side at 300 W. Asphalt tack needs to<br />

be placed on all areas.<br />

5. Place 1’ wide compacted<br />

aggregate #73 stone for shoulders<br />

for entire project.<br />

6. Contractor to place construction<br />

signs and maintain traffic control<br />

at all times when working on<br />

project.<br />

7. Project to be completed by<br />

July 1, 2012.<br />

8. Option: Contractor to give<br />

price to stripe centerline only for<br />

entire project.<br />

SPECIFICATIONS FOR<br />

COUNTY ROAD 200 S. FROM<br />

ADAMS STREET TO NORFOLK &<br />

SOUTHERN R.R. – 1/2 MILE<br />

1. Mill 1” of existing pavement<br />

between Adams Street and Norfolk<br />

& Southern R.R. (1/2 mile x 21’<br />

wide). County Highway to furnish<br />

tandem trucks to haul millings away.<br />

2. Place 2” of asphalt surface<br />

12.5 mm type A or B between<br />

Adams Street and Norfolk & Southern<br />

R.R. (1/2 mile x 21’ wide).<br />

Asphalt tack needs to be placed on<br />

all areas.<br />

3. Place 1’ wide compacted<br />

aggregate #73 stone for shoulders<br />

for entire project.<br />

4. Contractor to place construction<br />

signs and maintain traffic control<br />

at all times when working on project.<br />

If R.R. insurance is required, it is up<br />

to the contractor.<br />

5. Project to be completed by<br />

July 1, 2012.<br />

6. Option: Contractor to give<br />

price to stripe centerline only for<br />

entire project.<br />

nb oj 3/1, 8<br />

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • Page 11<br />

Texas vulture study<br />

upends forensics<br />

SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — For more than five<br />

weeks, a woman’s body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas<br />

field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the<br />

corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours.<br />

But this was not a crime scene lost to nature. It was an<br />

important scientific experiment into the way human bodies<br />

decompose, and the findings are upending assumptions<br />

about decay that have been the basis of homicide cases for<br />

decades.<br />

Experienced investigators would normally have interpreted<br />

the absence of flesh and the condition of the bones<br />

as evidence that the woman had been dead for six months,<br />

possibly even a year or more. Now a study of vultures at<br />

Texas State University is calling into question many of the<br />

benchmarks detectives have long relied on.<br />

The time of death is critical in any murder case. It’s a key<br />

piece of evidence that influences the entire investigation,<br />

often shaping who becomes a suspect and ultimately who is<br />

convicted or exonerated.<br />

“If you say someone did it and you say it was at least a<br />

year, could it have been two weeks instead?” said Michelle<br />

Hamilton, an assistant professor at the school’s forensic<br />

anthropology research facility. “It has larger implications<br />

than what we thought initially.”<br />

The vulture study, conducted on 26 acres near the southcentral<br />

Texas campus, stemmed from previous studies that<br />

used dead pigs, which decompose much like humans. Scientists<br />

set up a motion-sensing camera that captured the vultures<br />

jumping up and down on the woman’s body, breaking<br />

some of her ribs, which investigators could also misinterpret<br />

as trauma suffered during a beating.<br />

Researchers are monitoring a half-dozen other corpses<br />

in various stages of decomposition, and they have a list of<br />

about 100 people prepared to donate their bodies to the project,<br />

which the school says is the first of its kind to study vultures.<br />

“Now that we have this facility and a group of people<br />

willing to donate themselves to science like this, we can<br />

actually kind of do what needs to be done, because pigs and<br />

humans aren’t equal,” Hamilton said.<br />

The forensic center opened in 2008, as did a similar facility<br />

at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, making<br />

Texas home to two of the nation’s five “body farms.”<br />

At the farms, forensic pathologists observe the decomposition<br />

process in natural surroundings to see how corpses<br />

react to sun and shade, whether they decay differently on the<br />

surface or below ground and what sort of creatures — from<br />

large to microscopic — are involved.<br />

Only in recent years has academic literature tried to<br />

establish formulas for death time based on stages of decomposition<br />

and environmental factors such as temperature conditions<br />

where the body was found.<br />

The vulture research has drawn interest from homicide<br />

investigators, including Pam McInnis, president of the<br />

Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists and director<br />

of the Pasadena Police Crime Lab in suburban Houston.<br />

She said the ability to account for vultures would “significantly”<br />

help investigators who already use insects and their<br />

life cycles to estimate time of death.<br />

Heritage Pointe, located in Warren, Indiana,<br />

is seeking a full-time<br />

Licensed Nurse for second shift<br />

If you are interested, please contact Tammy Gallegos,<br />

Director of Nursing, at (260) 375-2201 ext. 247.<br />

To place your ad or to<br />

subscribe, call today!<br />

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Page 12 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012<br />

An embarrassed friend<br />

Dear Annie: My best friend,<br />

“Maggie,” and I are like sisters. We<br />

have great fun, can talk about nearly<br />

anything and have supported each<br />

other through our toughest times. Our<br />

husbands also get along well, and we<br />

often do things together.<br />

Over the past year, Maggie has become<br />

increasingly critical of her husband,<br />

“Scott.” He is a likeable guy, but Maggie<br />

scolds and picks on him, rolls her eyes<br />

and basically treats him with contempt.<br />

Granted, Scott can be a little blunt, and his<br />

attempts at humor don’t always succeed,<br />

but her responses are worse. She will say,<br />

“You’re such an idiot. Why don’t you<br />

just keep your mouth shut?” Yet, the next<br />

minute, they will have their arms around<br />

each other.<br />

We often see Maggie and Scott at<br />

parties, and it is clear that others feel<br />

embarrassed by this behavior. Maggie has<br />

never mentioned marital problems to me.<br />

In fact, she says sweet and complimentary<br />

things about Scott when it’s just the two of<br />

us. I don’t want to jeopardize our terrific<br />

friendship, so how do I approach this<br />

subject? She doesn’t take criticism well,<br />

no matter how gentle. -- Baffled Friend<br />

Dear Baffled: Some married couples<br />

fall into the habit of letting criticisms<br />

become common and public. We think<br />

Maggie might simply need a little push<br />

in the right direction. The next time she<br />

says or does something critical of Scott,<br />

you might take her aside and say, “Are<br />

you angry with Scott? You seem to dislike<br />

him so much lately.” You also could give<br />

positive reinforcement when you witness<br />

affection, adding, “It’s so nice to see you<br />

two getting along.”<br />

Dear Annie: I’ve been asked to be<br />

the maid-of-honor for a friend. I was<br />

planning to throw a bridal shower with 10<br />

to 15 guests at my apartment. I had a nice<br />

luncheon-type party in mind.<br />

The other day, my friend informed<br />

me that she wants to invite 65 guests<br />

and, since my apartment is too small for<br />

that crowd, said I should host it at a local<br />

restaurant. I checked with the venue, and<br />

it is way too pricey for my budget. Even<br />

if I involve the other two bridesmaids, this<br />

will be a much bigger expense than I can<br />

afford.<br />

Are there rules when it comes to bridal<br />

My<br />

Answer<br />

By Dr. Billy<br />

Graham<br />

DON’T BE LIKE<br />

JONAH AND TRY TO<br />

RUN FROM GOD<br />

Q: Was Jonah really<br />

swallowed by a whale?<br />

Excuse the pun, but I have a<br />

hard time swallowing that. It<br />

makes a nice story, I guess,<br />

but I honestly can’t imagine<br />

that it really happened. --<br />

J.S.K.<br />

A: It may or may not<br />

have been a whale; the<br />

Bible doesn’t say exactly<br />

what kind of fish it was.<br />

It simply says Jonah was<br />

swallowed by “a great fish”<br />

which God provided for this<br />

purpose, and that it spit him<br />

out after a period of three<br />

days (Jonah 1:17).<br />

Did it actually happen?<br />

Annie’s<br />

Mailbox<br />

The book of Jonah<br />

in the Bible certainly<br />

presents it as a fact,<br />

as did Jesus when He<br />

drew a parallel between<br />

Jonah’s experience<br />

and His coming death<br />

and resurrection (see<br />

Matthew 12:39-41). But<br />

the Bible also tells us that<br />

what happened to Jonah was<br />

a miracle, caused by God’s<br />

intervention in Jonah’s life.<br />

Why did this happen to<br />

Jonah? It happened because<br />

Jonah tried to flee from<br />

God. God had told him to<br />

go to the people of Nineveh<br />

and urge them to repent<br />

-- but Jonah hated them<br />

and wanted God to destroy<br />

them. But God intervened,<br />

not only sparing Jonah’s<br />

life but using him to bring<br />

the people of Nineveh to<br />

repentance.<br />

Don’t reject the Bible’s<br />

miracles; God is allpowerful,<br />

and He is able to<br />

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MODERN LIVING<br />

By JUNE GROVE<br />

When <strong>Bluffton</strong> residents<br />

opened their newspapers that<br />

April 26 evening in 1906,<br />

they couldn’t miss the headlines<br />

in bold print across<br />

the top of the front page<br />

— “<strong>Bluffton</strong>, Marion and<br />

Fort Wayne — Three Cities<br />

to be Connected by Interurban.”<br />

Predicted in the article<br />

that followed was that <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

could grow into a “Big<br />

interurban center” which it<br />

did — kind of. Four different<br />

lines were destined for<br />

awhile to branch out from<br />

the town.<br />

“The new interurban,<br />

when completed, will connect<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> with all the<br />

systems in the state, including<br />

the Union Traction<br />

Line at Marion,” the article<br />

continued. “With other proposed<br />

lines, <strong>Bluffton</strong> will be<br />

one of the greatest interurbans<br />

in the state.”<br />

Actually, <strong>Bluffton</strong> already<br />

had one interurban line in<br />

the town when the news of<br />

the one in 1906 hit the press.<br />

The Parlor City had entered<br />

the interurban era on Dec. 1,<br />

1903 when the tracks of the<br />

Muncie, Hartford City and<br />

Fort Wayne (M.H.&FW)<br />

railway reached the city<br />

from Montpelier. It must<br />

have been quite a boon for a<br />

horse and buggy generation.<br />

Also, by 1906, there<br />

were three steam passenger<br />

trains coming through<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> and then, more<br />

news. Another interurban<br />

line — the Marion, <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

and Eastern Traction Company<br />

was headed for <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />

Soon crews of both the<br />

MBE and the B.M.&FW<br />

Traction Company were putting<br />

down track — one company<br />

working south from<br />

Fort Wayne and the other<br />

working north from <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />

It seemed like the town<br />

was entering the big time.<br />

Realizing that the two lines<br />

together was a fruitless venture,<br />

the Marion Company<br />

sold its completed portion to<br />

the Fort Wayne Company.<br />

In 1907 when the <strong>Bluffton</strong>,<br />

Geneva and Celina Traction<br />

Company was founded,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> had its four lines.<br />

At the final count, <strong>Bluffton</strong>’s<br />

four interurban lines included<br />

1. The Marion, <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

& Eastern (but it never<br />

went eastern), 2. <strong>Bluffton</strong>,<br />

Geneva & Celina (it only<br />

made it as far as Geneva), 3.<br />

The Muncie, Hartford City<br />

and Fort Wayne, and 4. The<br />

Union Traction Company<br />

known as the Fort Wayne<br />

and Wabash Valley.<br />

According to a story in<br />

the Jan. 18, 1966 <strong>News</strong>-<br />

<strong>Banner</strong>, “Like all interurban<br />

lines, the four in <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

sooner or later fell into bad<br />

financial straits and were<br />

sold, or merged, with other<br />

firms. By 1941, a total of<br />

12 interurban companies<br />

had operated in <strong>Bluffton</strong> by<br />

taking over a line which had<br />

failed under previous management.”<br />

By the winter of 1907-<br />

1908, all four lines were in<br />

operation. <strong>Bluffton</strong> seemingly<br />

was in the big time.<br />

By 1917, <strong>Bluffton</strong> was<br />

a hub of interurban activity<br />

with 48 departure times.<br />

According to a quarterly<br />

newsletter by the Wells<br />

County Historical Society,<br />

“The Indiana Union Traction<br />

System going south had<br />

14 departure times leaving<br />

approximately every hour<br />

from 5:40 a.m. until 11:02<br />

p.m. The northbound Fort<br />

Wayne and Northern Indiana<br />

line had 15 trains leaving<br />

hourly from 4:20 a.m.<br />

to 10:55 p.m. The Marion,<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> and Eastern Traction<br />

went west every two<br />

hours from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.<br />

The Marion, <strong>Bluffton</strong> and<br />

Eastern Traction went west<br />

every three hours from 5<br />

a.m. to 7 p.m.<br />

The January 1966 <strong>News</strong>-<br />

<strong>Banner</strong> article also noted<br />

that the lines often combined<br />

with other interurbans<br />

and steam rail lines to offer<br />

excursion trips to Niagara<br />

Falls and New York City.<br />

“Service was good and cars<br />

ran frequently from <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

in all directions.” All the<br />

lines were well used and as<br />

the <strong>Banner</strong> article added,<br />

“Even the anemic <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

Geneva line carried more<br />

than 90,000 passengers a<br />

year on its four daily runs.”<br />

As far as can be ascertained,<br />

a small building,<br />

which stood to the east of<br />

The Grand Theater on West<br />

Washington Street, was the<br />

embarking point for interurban<br />

passengers. It has<br />

also been noted that the<br />

building had a place in the<br />

back where wagons could<br />

drive up to load and unload<br />

freight. Imagine the continual<br />

flurry of activity around<br />

that Washington Street<br />

boarding point.<br />

What were the people of<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> like in those early<br />

days? What was going on in<br />

the world and in their lives?<br />

During that first decade<br />

of the 20th century, Teddy<br />

Roosevelt was well into his<br />

second term of being President<br />

of the United States;<br />

The Wobblies, an organi-<br />

zation of the International<br />

Workers of the World, was<br />

founded; a 10-hour working<br />

day was established in<br />

France; and night shift work<br />

for women was internationally<br />

forbidden. Oh, yes, a<br />

New York policeman arrested<br />

a woman for smoking a<br />

cigarette in public. After the<br />

elimination of yellow fever,<br />

work on the Panama Canal<br />

was in full swing.<br />

In <strong>Bluffton</strong> the town<br />

council was getting all bent<br />

out of shape trying to figure<br />

out where to install the<br />

town’s sidewalks.<br />

Women wore floor length<br />

dresses, broad brimmed hats<br />

and upswept hairdos. Buttoned<br />

dress shoes over the<br />

ankle were a hot item for<br />

men. They sold for $3.50 to<br />

$4 a pair. Along with men’s<br />

$12.50 suits at the Leader<br />

Department store, “Boys<br />

and Little Fellows” suits<br />

were also available from<br />

$1.25 to $4.95.<br />

If a person didn’t have<br />

the money to buy all that<br />

finery — or anything else<br />

— money was readily available<br />

from the Fort Wayne<br />

Loan Company — a group<br />

which advertised regularly<br />

on the front page of the<br />

newspaper no less. Under<br />

the heading of “Have you<br />

more debts than dollars?”<br />

a borrower could get those<br />

dollars — if they had some<br />

collateral. Just about anything<br />

would do —‚ household<br />

goods, pianos, organs.<br />

All that was necessary was<br />

to fill in a blank, send it to<br />

the Fort Wayne Company,<br />

and presto — a representative<br />

would soon be there to<br />

meet you — money in hand<br />

presumably.<br />

Along with all the newsbreaking<br />

items and ads on<br />

the front page in a 1905<br />

issue, was the story of Bill<br />

Stair who had caught a big<br />

carp that very day “in a<br />

struggle in which he broke<br />

his fishing pole. The carp<br />

weighed between seven and<br />

eight pounds.”<br />

Substations providing the<br />

electricity for the interurban<br />

were built. One in <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

stood near where the Dutch<br />

Mill used to be.<br />

Sometimes, interurban<br />

cars needed a place to be<br />

put to bed for the night and<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> had such a place —<br />

located on West Washington<br />

Street near the outskirts of<br />

town. It was later converted<br />

into the highway garage.<br />

When he was highway<br />

engineer, before he retired,<br />

Larry Owen wrote about<br />

the history of the garage.<br />

“The former Marion, <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

and Eastern Traction car<br />

barn was built in 1906 as the<br />

headquarters maintenance<br />

facility of two interurban<br />

railroads that were based<br />

in <strong>Bluffton</strong>. These were the<br />

Marion, <strong>Bluffton</strong> and Eastern<br />

Traction Company and<br />

its subsidiary, the <strong>Bluffton</strong><br />

Geneva and Celina Traction<br />

Company. These companies<br />

were organized by investors<br />

who resided in <strong>Bluffton</strong>. In<br />

1926 the lines were taken<br />

over by the Indiana Service<br />

Company. Use of the line<br />

was discontinued Aug. 15,<br />

1931. In 1932, the tracks that<br />

connected the car barn to the<br />

M.B.&E’s downtown passenger<br />

depot were removed,<br />

but ISC continued to use<br />

the building as a warehouse<br />

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • Page 13<br />

At one time, <strong>Bluffton</strong> was a traction empire<br />

During the 50 or so years that the interurban flourished in<br />

Indiana, there were bound to be unforeseen problems. Collisions<br />

of all sorts happened, not only crashes of two interurbans<br />

but accidents involving automobiles and people. A few<br />

were very disastrous such as the Kingsland wreck in Wells<br />

County deemed the worst one in history. But there were others<br />

in which lives were lost.<br />

Many mishaps occurred in towns or at rural crossings<br />

where an interurban would hit a car or even a pedestrian.<br />

Trying to beat the interurban across the tracks seemed to be<br />

a favorite game in those early days. “Speeds were misjudged<br />

and the unfortunate victim found that a big interurban passenger<br />

or freight car did not stop quickly in an emergency situation.”<br />

Film of those early confrontations between automobile<br />

and interurban car, show autos darting across electric railroad<br />

tracks like little flies intent on beating out the big interurban<br />

swatter, cutting across the tracks in wild abandon.<br />

In addition to all this, people tended to use the tracks as a<br />

good place to walk, especially those countryside sojourners. It<br />

was against the law to do this and the offender was subject to<br />

prosecution. So companies came up with this so-called safety<br />

device called a “fender” installed at the front of an interurban<br />

car. Presumably it would scoop up any vagrant wandering<br />

using the tracks as his guide for travel. There were no statistics<br />

on how many people were scooped up in this manner.<br />

Obviously the scooper, or fender, wasn’t to successful so<br />

the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company came<br />

Children offer somewhat unusual prayers<br />

Vicki was supervising the<br />

playground for a day care<br />

center when an ambulance<br />

sped by with its siren blaring.<br />

Vicki bowed her head<br />

and said a quick prayer.<br />

Rachel, 4, who was swinging<br />

in front of Vicki, said,<br />

“What did you do?” Vicki<br />

explained, “Well, when an<br />

ambulance goes by with<br />

its siren on, I always say<br />

a prayer for the sick person<br />

and the rescue people.”<br />

“Oh,” Rachel said. Then she<br />

bowed her head and said,<br />

“God is great, God is good,<br />

let us thank Him for our<br />

food.” It was the only prayer<br />

she knew. — Vicki Banks of<br />

Fremont<br />

Jennifer was reading<br />

“Edwina the Extinct Dino-<br />

Funny<br />

Things Kids<br />

Say...<br />

saur” to the<br />

kindergartners<br />

she mentors.<br />

When Jennifer<br />

asked, “What<br />

does extinct<br />

mean?” one<br />

student said,<br />

“It means ya<br />

stink!” — Jennifer<br />

Decker of Angola<br />

Nadine was working<br />

in the kitchen. Sophia, 3,<br />

walked up to her and said,<br />

Grace<br />

Housholder<br />

The most prominent remnant of the <strong>Bluffton</strong> interurban era is the Wells County Highway<br />

Garage. (Photo by Glen Werling)<br />

Interurbans hit more than each other<br />

up with another idea. They put a warning in a red envelope<br />

and then gave them to the motorman who was supposed to<br />

toss it to anyone wandering on the tracks. The warning indicated<br />

that it was unlawful walking the tracks and the trespasser<br />

could be arrested. Indicated also was the fact that the company<br />

was not liable for accidents or injury to the trespasser.<br />

The company figured that nine out of 10 offenders<br />

would read the warning, failing to realize that a lot of illiterate<br />

vagrants and tramps would be the recipients. What they<br />

thought about getting a pretty red envelope has never been<br />

recorded.<br />

Had the interurban remained as a viable source of transportation,<br />

one wonders if it would have alleviated some of the<br />

dependency on gasoline today.<br />

“My body wants you to<br />

hold it.” Needless to say,<br />

Nadine stopped what she<br />

was doing and held her.<br />

— Nadine Kline of Kendallville<br />

Suzy Payne of Oregon,<br />

shared these stories<br />

from her grown daughter.<br />

At church there is a<br />

song that goes, “I am a<br />

child of God; And He has<br />

sent me here; Has given<br />

me an earthly home; With<br />

parents kind and dear.” A<br />

3-year-old girl was upset<br />

with her mother. When<br />

she got to the line about<br />

parents “kind and dear,”<br />

she replaced “kind and<br />

dear” with “a really mean<br />

mommy.”<br />

Suzy’s daughter also told<br />

about a 4-year-old boy upset<br />

with his mom who in his<br />

morning prayers, petitioned<br />

“to let Mom have a really<br />

bad day.”<br />

Suzy wrote: “Yes, I know<br />

that these are not the uplifting<br />

thoughts we would like<br />

to teach our children, but I<br />

found them humorous just<br />

the same.”<br />

Thank you to everyone<br />

who contributes stories. If<br />

you have a story to share<br />

please don’t put it off…<br />

call today or email me. The<br />

number is 347-0738; email<br />

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send it to 816 Mott St., Kendallville,<br />

IN 46755. Thank<br />

you in advance!<br />

until 1945.”<br />

Subsequently it was sold<br />

to Wells County where it<br />

became part of the highway<br />

department. The original car<br />

barn had tracks leading to<br />

four entrances where interurban<br />

cars were brought in<br />

to be cleaned up and made<br />

ready for the next day’s<br />

journeys.<br />

For one reason or another,<br />

various interurban companies<br />

went belly-up making<br />

the way for another firm to<br />

acquire the lines. Low fares<br />

and high debts combined to<br />

kill companies.<br />

The Fort Wayne and<br />

Wabash Valley Traction<br />

Company, successor to<br />

the original <strong>Bluffton</strong>, Fort<br />

Wayne and Marion line, fell<br />

on financial disaster attempting<br />

to meet damage claims<br />

from the Kingsland wreck.<br />

According to the 1966<br />

<strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> account, The<br />

original Marion, Fort Wayne<br />

and <strong>Bluffton</strong> line passed<br />

through a series of ownerships<br />

when along came the<br />

Indiana Railroad System in<br />

August of 1930 — actually<br />

the interurban’s last gasp in<br />

Indiana (if you don’t count<br />

the South Shore Railroad<br />

between Chicago and South<br />

Bend).<br />

The Indiana Railroad<br />

was touted at the time as “a<br />

gigantic firm which already<br />

owned most of the operational<br />

interurban trackage<br />

in the state” including the<br />

Muncie-<strong>Bluffton</strong> line. <strong>Bluffton</strong>’s<br />

continuing interurban<br />

travel was given a reprieve.<br />

But things didn’t go well<br />

for the conglomerate despite<br />

continuous updating of cars<br />

and travel. After 10 years,<br />

the Indiana Railroad was<br />

done as was the era of the<br />

interurban.<br />

By 1940, the Indiana<br />

Railroad began to falter. It<br />

was the only company in<br />

the state offering passenger<br />

service.<br />

Contributing to the<br />

decline of the interurban was<br />

the ascending popularity of<br />

the bus, car and truck plus<br />

paved highways. Another<br />

was the ever growing gluttony<br />

for electricity. Interurban<br />

power companies found<br />

it more profitable to provide<br />

electricity for rural homeowners<br />

along the interurban<br />

route than from the interurban<br />

itself. In addition, the<br />

railroad steam engine was<br />

able to pull greater loads and<br />

more cars.<br />

The final run of the<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> interurban was on<br />

Jan. 18, 1941. It was a sad<br />

day for many who had been<br />

reliant on the interurban for<br />

so many years. Passenger<br />

travel wasn’t the only thing<br />

discontinued, so was delivering<br />

the mail as the interurban<br />

had done for years.<br />

On that final run of the<br />

interurban in <strong>Bluffton</strong>, a few<br />

people arrived at the depot<br />

to witness the interurban’s<br />

final breath.<br />

According to the <strong>News</strong>-<br />

<strong>Banner</strong> in 1966, “There<br />

was a radical change in the<br />

atmosphere surrounding the<br />

two occasions — that of 35<br />

years ago when interurban<br />

service was established.<br />

Between Fort Wayne and<br />

<strong>Bluffton</strong> having been out<br />

of loud exclamation and<br />

rejoicing while that of Saturday<br />

night was shrouded<br />

in an atmosphere of mourning,<br />

particularly for the ‘old<br />

timers’ who had spent three<br />

decades or more in operation<br />

of traction service.”<br />

Ben Harrel, a veteran<br />

interurban trainman, composed<br />

a poem reflecting<br />

his mixed feelings over the<br />

swapping of the electrically<br />

operated train for “the big<br />

yellow buses.”<br />

“My timetable now I surrender<br />

My rule book is framed<br />

in a case<br />

The cars that I manned<br />

are no longer<br />

For buses have taken<br />

their place.”<br />

The poem begins. Then<br />

the writer goes on to bemoan<br />

the loss of the interurban to<br />

him as well as others. He<br />

continues:<br />

“Old number 18 I miss<br />

you<br />

No more will we meet<br />

him at Russ<br />

A limited train has been<br />

battered<br />

And swapped for a big<br />

yellow bus<br />

My uniform hangs in the<br />

closet<br />

All dusty and needy of<br />

air<br />

My tool box is rusty and<br />

lonesome<br />

I’ll collect no more passenger<br />

fare.”<br />

Another article in that<br />

1941 paper noted, “It is<br />

anticipated that work will<br />

soon be in progress to tear<br />

up and junk the abandoned<br />

lines of the Indiana Railroad<br />

Company.”<br />

Soon all that was left<br />

were the memories.<br />

If you have Home<br />

Improvement plans ...<br />

You won’t want to miss<br />

out on our upcoming<br />

Feature<br />

Publishing in the<br />

<strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong><br />

Wed., March 21<br />

Echo & Sunriser<br />

Tues., March 20<br />

Advertising Deadline<br />

Tues., March 13<br />

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Sheriff: SUV sped up before striking 4 guards<br />

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) —<br />

Northwestern Indiana police searched<br />

Wednesday for an SUV that was damaged<br />

when its driver accelerated into<br />

four jogging jail officers, killing one<br />

and injuring the three others, Lake<br />

County Sheriff John Buncich said.<br />

Tuesday night’s collision in Crown<br />

Point killed 25-year-old Britney Muex<br />

of Crown Point and critically injured<br />

22-year-old Delano Scaife of St. John.<br />

The Times of Munster and the Merrillville<br />

Post-Tribune reported Scaife<br />

was transported to the Indiana University<br />

medical center in Indianapolis for<br />

extensive surgery. The two other officers<br />

were in fair condition.<br />

The officers were jogging singlefile<br />

near the Lake County Government<br />

Complex in Crown Point, 12<br />

miles south of Gary, and couldn’t see<br />

Wells Court Docket<br />

Wells Circuit Court<br />

Criminal Cases<br />

Isaac L. Anderson Jr., 23, of Fort Wayne, entered a plea<br />

of guilty to one count of dealing in cocaine. Anderson was<br />

charged after officers from the DETECT Drug Force arrested<br />

him as part of the “Operation Dirty Deeds” drug bust of<br />

May 31, 2011. Sentencing set for March 26.<br />

Second verified petition for revocation of suspended<br />

sentence and probation filed against Amy M. Doublin, 33,<br />

of Bryant, originally convicted of burglary, following an<br />

alleged violation of the terms of her probation.<br />

Anthony J. Hall, 20, of <strong>Bluffton</strong>, sentenced to one and a<br />

half years in prison for unlawful sale of a legend drug. Hall<br />

was charged after officers from the DETECT Drug Force<br />

arrested him during the “Operation Done Dirt Cheap” drug<br />

bust of Dec. 12. This conviction also represented a violation<br />

of the terms of probation given at the time of a previous conviction<br />

for sexual misconduct with a minor, and he was sentenced<br />

to an additional three years in prison on this matter.<br />

Cecil R. York, 43, of Richmond, sentenced to one and a<br />

half years in jail with all but six months suspended for auto<br />

theft. York was charged after officers from the Wells County<br />

Sheriff’s Department investigated a report that he failed<br />

to return a truck that he borrowed from a rural Montpelier<br />

address on April 14, 2010.<br />

Civil Cases<br />

Judgment of $134,893.26 and decree of foreclosure filed<br />

in favor of Bank of America against Jeff L. Voght of Huntington<br />

and Abby M. Voght of Huntington. The property is<br />

located at 1020 North County Line Road, Markle.<br />

Wells Superior Court<br />

Criminal Cases<br />

Tyler A. Bushee, 22, of Ossian, sentenced to one year<br />

on home detention with all but 90 days suspended and 275<br />

days of probation for driving while suspended. Bushee was<br />

charged after officers from the <strong>Bluffton</strong> Police Department<br />

performed a traffic stop on Main Street at Sutton Circle on<br />

March 3.<br />

David M. Carpenter, 45, of Markle, sentenced to one<br />

year on home detention with all but 60 days suspended<br />

and 305 days of probation for domestic battery. Carpenter<br />

was charged after officers from the Wells County Sheriff’s<br />

Department responded to a report of a domestic incident in<br />

rural Zanesville on March 3.<br />

Jose G. Delmas Jr., 23, of <strong>Bluffton</strong>, originally convicted<br />

of conversion, sentenced to 94 days following a violation of<br />

the terms of his probation.<br />

Tony Langel, 26, of <strong>Bluffton</strong>, sentenced to 60 days on<br />

home detention for operating a motor vehicle with a blood<br />

alcohol count of .08 or more. Langel was charged after an<br />

officer from the Indiana State Police performed a traffic stop<br />

on Ind. 124 east of 300W on Sept. 17.<br />

Bradley S. Martin, 29, of <strong>Bluffton</strong>, originally convicted<br />

of possession of marijuana, sentenced to 80 days in jail following<br />

a violation of the terms of his probation.<br />

Jimmy L. Miller Jr., 28, of Ossian, sentenced to one year<br />

on home detention with all but 30 days suspended and 335<br />

days of probation for check deception. Miller was charged<br />

after he presented a check for $67.88 at Ossian BP on Oct.<br />

29 and it was subsequently dishonored.<br />

Civil Cases<br />

Decree of dissolution of marriage filed terminating the<br />

marriage between Shari J. Beck and Jerod T. Beck.<br />

Petition for dissolution of marriage filed by Jeremy Cornett<br />

who is seeking to terminate his marriage to Abbie J.<br />

Cornett.<br />

Complaint for payment originally filed by Capital One<br />

Bank against Charles Sills of <strong>Bluffton</strong> dismissed.<br />

Release of judgment filed in favor of Kelly and Sharon<br />

K. Wheeler of Berne who have settled their account with<br />

Indiana Physical Therapy.<br />

A Chat with Bratt<br />

Carter is a four-year-old,<br />

pom mix, neutered, male<br />

doggie. He is housebroken,<br />

good with children,<br />

and a very happy boy!<br />

What more could you<br />

want?<br />

“Bratt” the Cat<br />

For more information<br />

contact the Wells County<br />

Animal Shelter, 1613<br />

W. Cherry St., <strong>Bluffton</strong>,<br />

824-6063.<br />

Bratt’s Cat Tips: Cats may<br />

not always be eager to please<br />

but they are trainable and<br />

respond well to intermittent<br />

(usually food) rewards. Cats<br />

also train us. The difference is<br />

that they tend to use negative<br />

reinforcement like yowling or<br />

naughty behavior to get what<br />

they want whether it’s food or<br />

attention. On the other hand,<br />

communication and understanding<br />

are the two most<br />

important links between cats<br />

and their owners. It’s obvious<br />

to sensitive and caring owners<br />

that their cats are aware when<br />

their owners are unhappy or in<br />

ill health. Likewise, the cats<br />

respond with joyful play when<br />

the owner’s mood is jolly.<br />

the SUV speeding up behind, Buncich<br />

said. But “one of the officers said he<br />

heard a loud revving of the engine, and<br />

simultaneously they were struck,” he<br />

said.<br />

“There was no attempt (by the driver)<br />

to stop,” he said.<br />

Buncich said the driver had to drive<br />

partially off the pavement to strike<br />

the four officers “off to the side of the<br />

road.” They were jogging along a welllit<br />

section of a four-lane road just near<br />

the Lake County Jail, where the officers<br />

worked guarding inmates.<br />

Investigators did not know if was an<br />

accident or the driver was targeting the<br />

officers, the sheriff said.<br />

They were focusing their search<br />

on a vehicle that left the government<br />

center’s parking lot without headlights<br />

about the time of the collision.<br />

Clancy is a five-year-old,<br />

Pomeranian, male. He’s<br />

a sweet, little, guy who<br />

loves to sit in your lap, is<br />

housebroken and good<br />

with children. Another<br />

winner.<br />

Investigators were reviewing surveillance<br />

video from the Lake County<br />

Government Complex and nearby<br />

businesses, Buncich said, as well as<br />

talking to auto repair shops. Investigators<br />

recovered a passenger-side mirror<br />

torn from the SUV by the force of the<br />

impact. He said the vehicle also sustained<br />

extensive front-end and passenger-side<br />

damage.<br />

The vehicle appeared to be either a<br />

1999 to 2006 GMC Sierra or a 2003<br />

to 2006 GMC Yukon, Buncich said.<br />

Meux died at the scene of the collision,<br />

Buncich said. An ex-Marine, Meux<br />

was a three-year veteran of the county<br />

corrections department and the single<br />

mother of a 5-month-old daughter.<br />

She was attending Indiana University<br />

Northwest.<br />

Sectional Certificates<br />

Deb Crum, right, manager of the Pak-a-Sak store on West<br />

Wabash Street, presents Sam Hirschy of rural <strong>Bluffton</strong> with<br />

$100 in gas certificates for winning the recent Sectional<br />

Contest co-sponsored by Pak-a-Sak and The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong>.<br />

Hirschy submitted a near-pefect entry, correctly predicting<br />

the winners in all but one of the 15 games in the three<br />

sectionals involving Wells County teams.<br />

SAT., MAR. 17, 2012<br />

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AREA/STATE<br />

State lawmakers<br />

adopt antique<br />

gun as state rifle<br />

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lawmakers backed a<br />

measure that would make Indiana the third state with<br />

an official gun: a 200-year-old rifle crafted by the<br />

man who also designed the state seal and served as<br />

Indiana’s first sheriff.<br />

The House voted 78-2 Tuesday in favor of the bill<br />

that includes the rifle provision and that already got<br />

the backing of the Senate, sending it to Gov. Mitch<br />

Daniels for consideration.<br />

If Daniels signs the bill, the rifle known as the<br />

Grouseland Rifle would join the list of official state<br />

emblems such as the state flower, tree, river and seal.<br />

It’s named after Grouseland, which was the Vincennes<br />

home of President William Henry Harrison. The<br />

weapon, which has pierced silver and brass inlays, is<br />

on display at that historic southwestern Indiana residence.<br />

Sen. John Waterman, R-Shelburn, submitted the<br />

rifle amendment after visiting Grouseland and seeing<br />

the weapon.<br />

“This rifle and its maker are both integral parts of<br />

Indiana history, and as such, the rifle is worthy of its<br />

designation as the Indiana State Rifle,” Waterman<br />

told The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne.<br />

The Indianapolis Star reports that if Daniels signs<br />

the bill into law it would make Indiana only the third<br />

state with an official gun.<br />

Utah became the first in March 2011, when it honored<br />

the Browning M1911 automatic pistol. It was<br />

followed in April by Arizona, which chose the Colt<br />

Army revolver, The Star reports.<br />

The Grouseland Rifle was made between 1803 and<br />

1812 by John Small, who later became the first sheriff<br />

in the state. Small also worked as a master artist<br />

and gunsmith, militia captain, tavern keeper and territorial<br />

legislator.<br />

He was also commissioned by Harrison to design<br />

the seal of the Indiana Territory, which later became<br />

the state seal.<br />

There are only six known long rifles made by<br />

Small still in existence, one of which was owned by<br />

explorer William Clark and is on display at the Missouri<br />

Historical Society.<br />

“You don’t have one for sale on every street corner,”<br />

Waterman said.<br />

Indiana Roundup<br />

Tornado-ravaged Indiana<br />

district eyes 2 school sites<br />

HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana<br />

school district where a high school and elementary school<br />

were heavily damaged in last week’s deadly tornadoes is<br />

exploring two possible temporary school sites where its<br />

students can finish out the school year.<br />

The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., reports West<br />

Clark Community Schools officials said Wednesday they<br />

are cautiously optimistic about finding temporary classroom<br />

space for the district’s 1,200 students.<br />

Superintendent Monty Schneider declined to disclose<br />

the locations under consideration, pending a Thursday<br />

night school board meeting.<br />

Administrators canceled this week’s classes after last<br />

Friday’s tornadoes heavily damaged the district’s schools<br />

complex in Henryville.<br />

Classroom computers and other items removed from<br />

the damaged schools are in storage for now, awaiting the<br />

green light for shipment to temporary school sites.<br />

Connersville police car<br />

factory denied federal loan<br />

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels<br />

and an eastern Indiana company that planned to build hightech<br />

police cars slammed the U.S. Department of Energy on<br />

Wednesday after the agency rejected the company’s bid for<br />

a $310 million loan.<br />

Carbon Motors Corp. in Connersville said it was studying<br />

its alternatives after being turned down for the loan under<br />

the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program.<br />

“We are outraged by the actions of the DOE and it is<br />

clear that this was a political decision in a highly-charged,<br />

election year environment,” William Santana Li, Carbon’s<br />

chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.<br />

The statement referred to Solyndra LLC, a Californiabased<br />

solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion<br />

dollar loan and became the first alternative energy company<br />

to receive a loan guarantee under a stimulus-law program<br />

that President Barack Obama promoted. After the company<br />

went bankrupt in September, Republicans seized on it to<br />

criticize Obama.<br />

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