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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 />
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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 />
THURSDAY<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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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 />
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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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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 />
improvements in the<br />
overall economy,” said John<br />
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in worker productivity at the<br />
end of last year. The 0.9 percent<br />
annualized increase was<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 />
St. Rd. 124 East, <strong>Bluffton</strong><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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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 />
storage of junk.<br />
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 />
fatalities.<br />
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A Leap Year birthday<br />
Wow, another four years<br />
has passed and it’s once<br />
again leap year. A belated<br />
Happy Birthday to Rod<br />
Heath (9th birthday) and<br />
Kelly Sommers (6th birthday),<br />
and I celebrated my<br />
17th birthday. Being born<br />
on February 29 and only<br />
having a real birthday every<br />
four years to many would<br />
seem like being cheated out<br />
of three birthdays, but let’s<br />
review the positive side of<br />
leap year.<br />
On February 28, 2004 a<br />
very nice article appeared<br />
in the <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> picturing<br />
Kelly Sommers, Mayor<br />
Ted Ellis, Rod Heath, and<br />
myself. Mayor Ellis was<br />
honoring the three of us for<br />
our unusual birthdays. How<br />
many people do we know,<br />
beyond presidents, who are<br />
publicly honored for their<br />
birthdays? Not many, so this<br />
was a very nice recognition<br />
by Mayor Ellis and the City<br />
of <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />
That same year State<br />
Senator David Ford sent a<br />
certificate of congratulations<br />
out to me, and I am<br />
sure Kelly and Rod as well,<br />
to acknowledge our special<br />
day.<br />
On February 27, 2008,<br />
I wrote an article to the<br />
<strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> sighting the<br />
“wow” factor with mind<br />
boggling statistical information<br />
about the “why” factor<br />
of leap year and leap day.<br />
Now a new update is in<br />
order to celebrate the leap<br />
year of 2012. We who were<br />
and those still to be born,<br />
had and have a one in 1,461<br />
chance of being born on<br />
February 29. For those who<br />
like to celebrate their birthday<br />
on a Friday so they can<br />
get together with friends,<br />
it happens fairly regularly<br />
for those celebrating annual<br />
birthdays, but February 29<br />
only falls on a Friday every<br />
28 years. It was on Friday in<br />
2008 and the next time will<br />
be in 2036 so take the 29th<br />
and celebrate it all day.<br />
For all who were and will<br />
be born on February 29th,<br />
do not be saddened by having<br />
only one birthday every<br />
four years, do as I do, start<br />
celebrating on the 29th of<br />
February and celebrate it<br />
each day until four years<br />
have passed and you are eligible<br />
for another real birthday.<br />
Life is a gift from God,<br />
don’t waste it, care for it<br />
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 />
$400 gift card with which<br />
I quickly picked out a new<br />
recliner for $399 plus tax.<br />
After dinner at one of my<br />
favorite restaurants it was<br />
back home to receive more<br />
phone calls from grandchildren<br />
off afar.<br />
Wow, what a day! I can’t<br />
wait ‘til the recliner is delivered<br />
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 />
JERRY DILLON<br />
<strong>Bluffton</strong><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 />
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(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 />
Next race: Kroger 250,<br />
March 31, Martinsville Speedway,<br />
Martinsville, Va.<br />
Last race: Rookie John King<br />
won the season-opening race<br />
at Daytona on Feb. 24, holding<br />
on after turning around leader<br />
Johnny Sauter on the second<br />
of three attempts at a greenwhite-checkered<br />
finish.<br />
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com<br />
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NHRA GATORNATIONALS<br />
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p.m.).<br />
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(Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro<br />
Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro<br />
Stock Motorcycle) also won.<br />
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Robert Hight (Funny Car) and<br />
Line (Pro Stock) also won.<br />
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champion has 67 career victories,<br />
four at Gainesville. ... In<br />
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Calif., 62-year-old John Force<br />
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victory. Spencer Massey (Top<br />
Fuel) and Greg Anderson (Pro<br />
Stock) also won.<br />
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30-April 1, The Strip at Las<br />
Vegas Motor Speedway, Las<br />
Vegas.<br />
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(B) Public nudity is prohibited<br />
within the county, including any sexually<br />
oriented business. Any sexually<br />
oriented business which is found<br />
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its permit suspended pursuant to<br />
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§ 22 CONDUCT REGULA-<br />
TIONS FOR A STRIP CLUB.<br />
(A) No patron, employee, or<br />
any other person shall knowingly or<br />
intentionally, in a sexually oriented<br />
business, appear in a state of nudity<br />
or engage in a specified sexual<br />
activity.<br />
(B) No person shall knowingly or<br />
intentionally, in a sexually oriented<br />
business, appear in a semi-nude<br />
condition unless the person is an<br />
employee who, while semi-nude,<br />
remains at least six (6) feet from<br />
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(C) No employee who regularly<br />
appears semi-nude in a sexually<br />
oriented business shall knowingly or<br />
intentionally touch a customer or the<br />
clothing of a customer on the premises<br />
of a sexually oriented business.<br />
(D) No person shall possess,<br />
use, or consume alcoholic beverages<br />
on the premises of a sexually<br />
oriented business.<br />
(E) No person shall knowingly or<br />
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employee or any other person to<br />
violate the regulations in this section.<br />
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ally oriented business, regardless<br />
of whether or not a permit has been<br />
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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under this chapter for any applicable<br />
classification;<br />
(B) The business has a permit<br />
which is under suspension;<br />
(C) The business has a permit<br />
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(D) The business has a permit<br />
which has expired.<br />
§ 24 CULPABLE MENTAL<br />
STATE REQUIRED TO ESTAB-<br />
LISH LIABILITY.<br />
Where any provision or offense<br />
herein fails to state a necessary<br />
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 />
to the contrary, for the purposes of<br />
this chapter, an act by an employee<br />
shall be imputed to the sexually<br />
oriented business permittee for the<br />
purpose of establishing a violation<br />
of this chapter, or for purposes of<br />
license denial, suspension or revocation<br />
only if a permittee allowed,<br />
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violation of this chapter to occur. It<br />
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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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 />
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Apartments for Rent<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 />
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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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shower guest lists?<br />
I don’t want to hurt<br />
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CROSSWORD By Eugene Sheffer
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 />
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please don’t put it off…<br />
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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 />
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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 />
Saturday, March 24, 2012<br />
Sale starting at 9:00 a.m.<br />
520 W. Cherry St.<br />
<strong>Bluffton</strong>, IN<br />
Auction Conducted on Site<br />
REAL ESTATE – PERSONAL PROPERTY<br />
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