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Jay Schools to advertise budget
By RAY COONEY
The Commercial Review
Jay School Board has started
its budget process.
Board members Monday unanimously approved advertising
the 2015 budget at just over $37
million, which is up about
$300,000 from 2014.
The budget must be advertised
twice prior to a public hearing
scheduled for the board’s Aug. 18
meeting. It is slated for adoption
on Sept. 15.
Jay Schools business manager
Brad DeRome will advertise a
budget of $37,073,459 for 2015,
which includes nearly $26 million for the general fund. All general fund dollars come from the
state.
The rest of the budget is split
Jay Schools 2015 budget
Jay School Board voted Monday to give business manager Brad DeRome permission to advertise the 2015 budget. Below is the budget breakdown.
General fund
Debt service
Capital projects
Transportation
Pension debt service
Bus replacement
Tota l
between debt service (about $4
million), capital projects ($3.4
million), transportation ($2.38
million), pension debt service
and bus replacement. That
$25.9 million
$4.1 million
$3.4 million
$2.4 million
$979,655
$376,000
$37,073,459
money is raised through local
property taxes estimated at $1.37
per $100 of assessed value.
However, DeRome emphasized
the tax rate will likely be lower
because he was conservative in
making his budget projections.
For example, he advertised the
2014 tax rate at $1.37 per $100 of
assessed value and it actually
came in at $1.13 (three cents
lower than the 2013 rate).
The board had few questions
about the overall budget, but
member Greg Wellman raised a
concern about the year-end general fund balance that has dipped
to about $2 million. It was at
more than $5 million in the mid
1990s and hovered at about $3
million from 2006 through 2012.
“In the old days we used to
argue about two options —
either raise taxes or cut expenses,” said Wellman in regard to
the board’s desire to get the balance back to the $3 million mark.
“Well, it almost looks like
they’ve taken raise taxes out of
the equation.”
“It’s there, but it’s pretty difficult,” said superintendent Tim
Long. “It’s pretty tough … The
state taking over the entire general fund, you’re right, it’s continually looking for what we can
morph, move, change or reduce.”
The board also approved hiring 13 new employees (see list
below) as part of shuffling that
has continued throughout the
summer. Long noted that the corporation had employees decide
to retire Friday.
“Staffing has been a big concern for us this summer, but I
think we have most of the things
done,” he said.
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CAFO
faces
delay
By KELLY LYNCH
The Commercial Review
The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney
Ready for school
Jay County High School freshman Aylin Montes smiles as she chats with Jeannette Hoffman (left) while her mom,
Cinthia Montes (right), fills out paperwork Monday during a registration session in the commons. Also pictured, from left,
are Aixa Lopex, Aryan Montes and Anhely Montes.
Stop signs may cause delay
By SAMM QUINN
The Commercial Review
The Lafayette Street extension
is expected to open by the end of
the week.
Portland
Mayor
Randy
Geesaman told city council at its
meeting Monday the extension
was supposed to open Wednesday,
but that may be delayed because
stop signs for the street weren’t
ordered until this week.
Council also approved several
ordinances.
Geesaman said if the stop signs
come in, the street will open this
week.
“We need stop signs before you
Lafayette Street
construction is
nearly complete
open a one-mile stretch of road,”
he said. “It’s iffy if it’s going to be
Wednesday.”
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to
celebrate the new stretch of road
will take place in the next few
weeks.
Also on Monday, council
approved an ordinance to amend
the employee policy and procedure manual to allow new city
employees to take days off under
special circumstances.
The mayor will be able to grant
unpaid time off to employees if
needed. Previously an employee
who took time off before earning
vacation or sick days would be
written up, regardless the reason
for the day off.
“The only way you would get it
is if you don’t have time built
up,” Geesaman said. “What it
was put in there for was to avoid
the fact you would be written up
because you took off unauthorized time.”
Council, absent Michael Brewster and Kent McClung, also
approved an amendment to an
ordinance related to the Downtown Façade Funding program.
Portland Redevelopment Commission requested the funds the
Downtown Façade Funding Program receives from tax increment financing (TIF) and economic development income tax
(EDIT) funds be separate
accounts.
See Cause page 5
Commission must amend its plan
By SAMM QUINN
The Commercial Review
Portland
Redevelopment Commission this
morning learned it has
some additional steps to
take to be in compliance
with a new state law.
It also voted to approve
spending about $100,000
on combined sewer overflow flap gates.
City attorney Bill Hinkle told commission members House Enrolled Act
118, which went into
effect July 1, requires
redevelopment commissions to create a budget
for their funds to be
approved by city council
and amend its economic
development plan to
include those projects.
In June, Portland City
Council approved a budget that included proposed
expenditures equaling $2
million for education,
parks and recreation projects, infrastructure, airport runway expansion,
downtown revitalization,
Brownfield cleanup and a
Deaths
Paul Snow, 78, Portland
Martha Kessler, 92, Portland
Details on page 2.
TIF district expansion
study.
Now the commission
has to specify the projects
it seeks to undertake in
its economic development
plan before any funds can
be spent. The amendment
process takes 45 to 60
days.
The
commission
already has requests from
representatives of various ongoing projects in
the TIF district.
Rusty Inman, executive
director of John Jay Cen-
Weather
The high temperature Monday at Portland’s weather station was 84 degrees. The
overnight low was 61.
There is a chance of thunderstorms tonight with a low
of 64. Wednesday’s high will
be 78.
For an extended forecast,
see page 2.
ter for Learning, was at
this morning’s meeting to
request $45,276.20 to build
perimeter walls to protect
sump pumps and a
French drain installed in
the basement to prevent
flooding.
John Jay Center for
Learning, in partnership
with Jay Schools, is renovating the basement to
develop a career technical
education center.
The
center will be used as a
site to train students to
meet local industry needs.
In review
The Portland Park Board
meeting that was scheduled
for tonight has been canceled.
“We’re just trying to
make a building that’s in
the TIF district more
usable for the community,” Inman said.
The commission’s proposed budget includes
$200,000 for John Jay Center for Learning and Jay
Schools projects.
John Young and Rob
Weaver, who are heading
the new Portland Pool
fundraising campaign,
also made a request for
funds.
See Amend page 2
A proposed concentrated
animal feeding operation
(CAFO) may have counted
its chickens before they
were hatched.
A J-Star Farms representative approached Jay
County Commissioners
Monday morning to negotiate the timeline for
receiving a building permit.
Commissioners also discussed nepotism issues
pertaining to Jay County
Retirement Center and
approved recommendation
of $100,000 in infrastructure funds for the construction of Portland Pool.
J-Star Farms applied for
a permit with Jay County
Building and Planning in
June, but with no public
notices yet sent or 30-day
comment period initiated,
the company could lose
$1.8 million in ordered
chickens for a site that may
not be built before their
arrival.
Mike Veenhuizen of
Livestock
Engineering
Solutions Inc., representing J-Star, told commissioners that when the company approached Bill Milligan, building and planning director, to apply for
the permit, his office said
it would send out the mandated public notices within
a week and then begin the
30-day public comment
period. In anticipation of
receiving the permit, the
company ordered its chickens to arrive in December
or January, but now with
the delay in receiving a
permit, the chickens may
arrive before the structure
is built and have to be
destroyed.
“This 30-, 40-day delay is
a $1.8 million loss to J-Star
Farms. Totally unexpected
to us,” said Veenhuizen.
Milligan explained that
he didn’t send out the public notices right away
because the company’s site
plans continued to change
in that period and to issue
a permit the county needs
an exact location layout.
Veenhuizen asked commissioners to expedite the
comment period to fast
track the permit, but county attorney Lon Racster
saw no way to work
around the system, especially with a project that’s
already had some negative
feedback.
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Coming up
Wednesday — Coverage of
today’s South Adams School
Board and Geneva Town
Council meetings.
Friday — JCHS cheerleaders prepare to head to state
with new coach leading the
way.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Obituaries
A veteran of the United States
Navy, he was a truck driver and
Jan. 30, 1938-Aug. 3, 2014
had worked for Landon TruckServices for Paul Max Snow, ing, Naas Foods and Haynes
78, 504 Floral Ave., Portland, are Milling, all of Portland.
10 a.m. Thursday at Baird-FreeMemberships include the
man
Funeral
Teamsters Union, American
Home in Portland
Legion Post No. 211 and Fort
with Pastor Hugh
Recovery V.F.W.
Kelly officiating.
Surviving in addition to his
He died Sunday at
wife are a son, Dave Snow, Mesa,
his home.
Ariz.; two daughters, Angie
Born in PortByrum (husband: Jerry), Portland to Robert
land, and Jayni Snow, Bradford,
and Mamie (KantOhio; a sister, Betty Haffner
ner) Snow, he
(husband: Jack), Portland; a sisSnow
married Sandy
ter-in-law; eight grandchildren;
Baughn on July
nine great-grandchldren and
18, 1959, and she survives.
several nieces and nephews.
Paul Snow
Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday and prior to services
on Thursday at the funeral
home.
Memorials may be sent to the
donor’s choice.
Condolences may be sent to
www.bairdfreeman.com.
Martha Kessler
Dec. 12, 1921-Aug. 3, 2014
Services for Martha C.
Kessler, 92, Portland, are 10 a.m.
Friday at Redkey Church of the
Nazarene. A former Millgrove
resident, she died Sunday at Persimmon Ridge in Portland.
Born in Hartford City to
Charles Allen and Lottie Opal
(Twibell)
Holdren, she was a
graduate
of
Eaton
High
School.
Preceding her
in death was her
husband Ralph
Eugene Kessler.
She had worked
Kessler
as an Avon distributor for more
than 35 years and attended Redkey Church of the Nazarene.
Memberships include Order
of Eastern Star Chapter No. 230
since 1942 and charter 70-year
member of Blackford County
Extension Homemakers.
Surviving are two sons, Ralph
Allen Kessler (wife: Mary),
Hartford City, and David
William Kessler (wife: Faye),
Downers Grove, Ill.; a daughter,
Judy Kathryn Harty, Lynn;
seven grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren and 16
great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the church.
Burial will be in Union Cemetery in Eaton.
Dunkirk Memorial Chapel is
in charge of the arrangements.
Condolences may be sent to
www.wilsonshookfuneralhomes.com.
Felony arrests
Possession of
marijuana
A Geneva man was
arrested Monday and preliminarily charged with
possession of marijuana,
a Level 6 felony.
Travis Minnich, 29,
10375 S. 000 Road, faces the
charges following a traffic
stop in Bryant.
A Jay County Sheriff ’s
Office deputy stopped
Minnich for a dim tail
light on his vehicle at the
intersection of U.S. 27 and
Ind. 18. The deputy
allegedly smelled marijuana and asked Minnich if
he had marijuana in the
vehicle, when Minnich
allegedly pulled out two
small bags of the drug.
Minnich was booked at
11:07 p.m. in Jay County
Jail. He was released
under a $3,000 bond at
12:15 a.m. this morning.
Superior Court bench
warrant.
Anthony Fisher, 19, 224
W. Central Avenue, turned
himself in to Jay County
Sheriff ’s Office on a bench
warrant for possession of
a syringe, a Class D felony.
Possession of a
He was arrested and
syringe
A Redkey man was booked at 12:02 p.m. into
arrested Monday on a Jay Jay County Jail, where he
remains under no bond.
Possession of a
syringe
A Dunkirk man was
arrested Monday on multiple Jay Superior Court
bench warrants.
Jay County Sheriff ’s
Office arrested Curtis
Neal, 34, 3038 W. 850 South,
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Markets
Closing prices as of Monday
New crop..................5.79
Fort Recovery
Equity Inc.
Aug. corn ................3.54 POET Biorefining
Sept. corn ................3.55 Portland
New crop..................3.41
The Andersons
Richland Township
Corn ........................3.44
Dec. corn..................3.55
Beans ......................12.53
Dec. beans ..............10.47
Wheat ......................5.42
Central States
Montpelier
Corn ........................3.42
New crop..................3.43
Beans ......................12.64
New crop ................10.53
Wheat ......................5.49
Aug. corn ................3.57
Sept. corn ................3.55
New crop..................3.50
Jan. crop ..................3.66
Trupointe
Fort Recovery
Corn ........................3.54
New crop..................3.38
Beans ......................12.53
New crop ................10.23
Wheat ......................5.27
Cooper Farms
Fort Recovery
Corn ........................3.55
New crop..................3.45
Hospitals
Jay County
Hospital
Portland
Admissions
There was one admission to the hospital
Monday.
County
Hospital,
including:
Portland — Lisa Johnson, Nevin Phillips and
Laura Wimmer.
Dunkirk
—
Johnathan Blankenship
and Erika Stewart.
An Anderson woman and a Geneva man were involved in an accident
Monday morning on Middle Street
in Portland, near the intersection of
Water Street.
Jaylene A. Bear, 43, 3223 Maryland
Ave., Anderson, told Portland Police
she was traveling east on Water
Street and stopped at the stop sign at
the intersection of Middle Street.
She then continued through the
intersection and the 2007 Jeep Commander she was driving, registered
to Michael Daugherty and Bear,
Daleville, collided with a 2002
Chrysler PT Cruiser, driven by
Jason L. Gibson, 42, 310 N. Main St.,
Geneva. Bear said she didn’t see the
Dismissals
There were three dismissals.
Citizen’s calendar
Today
5:30 p.m. — South
Adams School Board
work session, high
school conference room,
1075
Starfire
Way,
Berne.
6:30 p.m. — Geneva
Town Council, Geneva
Town Hall, 411 E. Line
St.
7 p.m. — Pennville
Town Council, Pennville Town Hall, 105 N.
Washington St.
7 p.m. — South Adams
School Board special
meeting, high school
conference room, 1075
Starfire Way, Berne.
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Hits back of car
Two Portland men were involved
in an accident Sunday afternoon in
Portland.
Brandon A. Norris, 24, 926 W. Race
St., told Portland Police he was traveling north on Meridian Street when
his 2004 Cadillac SRX struck the
back end of a 2003 Cadillac CTS,
driven by Jason M. Huntsman, 39,
3667 S. 325 East.
Norris said Huntsman entered his
lane and hit his brakes, causing the
two cars to collide.
After the accident, Norris didn’t
stop and continued to drive until
stopping at 127 E. North St. He told
police he was scared.
Huntsman told police he changed
lanes and Norris sped up behind
him. He tapped his brakes, and Norris continued to accelerate causing
the car to collide with Huntsman’s
vehicle.
A child in the Norris vehicle,
Macey Norris, was injured in the
accident and taken to Jay County
Hospital for abrasions on her back.
Damage in the 5:34 p.m. accident
was estimated to be between $2,501
and $5,000.
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The campaign aims to
raise $1 million, which is
needed to meet the estimated remaining costs of
the $3.3 million facility
after Portland City Council voted to pay 68.4 percent of the total cost.
The Portland Foundation gave a $250,000 donation. And the Jay County
EDIT Advisory Council
has
recommended
a
$100,000 contribution from
Jay County Council while
Jay County Commissioners have recommended a
$100,000 donation from
landfill tipping funds.
The commission preliminarily
designated
between $150,000 and
$200,000 to park and recreation projects, which
would include a contribution to the new facility, but
did not determine the
exact dollar amount of its
contribution to the pool
project.
“This is a once-in-ageneration project and
this is our chance to make
it happen,” Weaver said.
“We would appreciate any
support you can give us.”
The commission voted
to begin working toward
amending the economic
development
plan
to
include those two projects
and others they are considering, such as a TIF district expansion study.
Hinkle said the body is
able to review the budget
it created and amend the
figures.
The committee also
approved spending about
$100,000 on CSO flap gates.
The city is working with
Emergencies
There were 29 people
treated in the emergency rooms of Jay
PT Cruiser, which was traveling
north on Middle Street, until the
cars collided.
Damage in the 11:58 a.m. accident
was estimated to be between $1,001
and $2,500.
on bench warrants for possession of a syringe, a
Class D felony, driving
while suspended, a Class
A misdemeanor, and operating while intoxicated, a
Class C misdemeanor. He
was arrested and booked
at 7:02 p.m. into Jay County Jail, where he remains
under a $10,000 bond.
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‘This is a once-in-a-generation project
and this is our chance to make it happen.’
—Rob Weaver, Portland Pool fundraising committee
engineering firm Jones &
Henry to replace flap gates
on 10 of the city’s combined sewer overflows,
which is expected to alleviate flooding issues.
The cost of the project is
$108,000.
Portland Mayor Randy
Geesaman said it will take
about 4 to 6 weeks to get
the project completed.
The commission is able
to spend that money
because sewer work is
included in its original
economic
development
plan.
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Those change orders
include
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$3,500 to pave a section of
Creagor Avenue, approximately $14,500 to replace a
field tile and approximately $3,100 to cover the costs
of a concrete additive the
contractor had to use. The
county has agreed to pay
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that cost.
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to table the discussion
until final numbers are
available.
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Sarah is the daughter of Roger
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Davenport, Portland. She is a 2011
graduate of Jay County High
School and is attending Ivy Tech
Community College for business
administration. She is employed at
Old National Bank.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CLUB
— Will meet at 8 a.m. in
the east room of Richards
Restaurant. All women
are invited to attend.
Includes activities and
devotional time.
PORTLAND ROTARY
CLUB — Will meet each
Wednesday at noon at Harmony Cafe, 121 N. Meridian St.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS — Will meet each
Wednesday from 6:30 to
7:30 p.m. upstairs at True
Value Hardware, North
Meridian Street, Portland.
For more information, call
(260) 729-2532.
FAIR
PENNVILLE
BOARD — Will meet the
first Wednesday of each
month at 7 p.m. at the Pen- served at 6:30 p.m. and the
nville Community Center. meeting will begin at 7
p.m.
RANDOLPH COUNTY
Thursday
SENIOR
CITIZENS TEA PARTY — Will meet
CARD CLUB — Will meet Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at
the first and third Thurs- the Moose Lodge, 181 N.
day of the month at 12:30 Middle School Road in
p.m. at Jay Community Winchester.
Center. All seniors are
Friday
welcome.
AL-ANON
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STITCH ‘N CHATTER
QUILT CLUB — Will meet GROUP — New BeginThursday at 1 p.m. for a nings, a support group for
regular meeting at Church friends and families of
of the Brethren, Portland. alcoholics, will meet each
CELEBRATE RECOV- Friday at 7 p.m. in the Zion
ERY — A 12-step Christian Lutheran Church, 218 E.
recovery program, the High St., Portland. For
group will meet each more information, call
Thursday at 10 a.m. and (260) 726-9719.
6:30 p.m. at A Second
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109 S. Commerce St. in
GOODYEAR FAMILY —
Portland. For more infor- Will meet Saturday, Aug. 9,
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(260) 726-9187 or Dave Keen Portland. Remind other
at (260) 335-2152.
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body. Mostly, that led to
eating more vegetables,
buying meat from local
farmers
and
putting
grass-fed butter instead of
milk and sugar in my coffee.
It also made me rethink
dessert.
No longer could I grab
half of a cookie from the
free-food table next to my
desk at work, or a handful
of M&Ms on the way to the
next meeting. Yet I still
craved the sugar-filled
packaged foods, so I went
Googling for recipe ideas.
I tried searching on “clean
desserts” and “paleo
treats,” as well as “something that tastes delicious
but won't make me feel terrible.”
I found way too many
blogs with way too many
so-called healthful treats.
Finding ways to incorporate sweets was starting to
feel like cheating. Wasn’t I
trying to eat well?
I was faced with a
choice: Make treats like
those, or stop eating anything sweet at all. Ever.
The latter seemed sad
and a little extreme.
Instead, I chose to
experiment.
I
went
through endless amounts
of honey and coconut oil.
I tried xylitol as a sweetener; it didn’t agree with
my stomach. I tested
batches of sad, flat brownies. I fell in love with
frozen bananas, cashew
butter and dates.
At last I found a delicious recipe on an aptly
named blog: CleanEatingWithADirtyMind.com. It
was for nut butter cups.
They seemed easy, but
they looked like candy
bars. Candy bars are filled
with the foods I was avoiding.
This recipe, though,
called for Enjoy Life
Chocolate Chips, which
are dairy-, soy- and glutenfree, with no refined sugars. I was in.
They are simple to construct. I melt the chocolate
on the stove, drizzle it into
silicone baking cups and
put them in the freezer to
set. Meanwhile, I get out
the sunflower seed butter,
honey, coconut oil and
vanilla to create the filling; often, there’s some
left over, and this mixture,
kept in the refrigerator,
makes a good snack on its
own. The filling goes on
top of the first layer of
firm chocolate. Then it’s
back to the freezer to set
while I soften the remaining chocolate on the stove
for the top layer.
After 15 minutes or so of
freezer time, I peel away
the liners to reveal the perfect treat for me. They are
like those famous peanut
butter cups — but better,
because they do not contain several sugars and
alphabet-soup ingredients
such as TBHQ (a preservative) and PGPR (an emulsifer). Once I saw that I
could create something
that good, it made me feel
a little better about my
pursuit to keep some
sweets in my life. I think
the no-nut butter cups are
helping me think about
food in a new way. If I’m
going to have a dessert, it’s
going to be something I
make myself.
And I do, every month
or so. I like to keep them
on hand, in the freezer, for
those times when choco-
late is necessary — which
is, at least, at the end of a
long work week and, at
most, after evening meals.
I’ve brought the no-nutbutter cups to the office
for potlucks, hoping the
trend might catch on. Who
knows? Maybe someday
nobody will tempt me with
their M&Ms.
I definitely consider
these cups a caloric
splurge. But I’d rather
take high fat content than
ingredients I can’t pronounce.
When you make these,
be prepared to share,
because everyone loves
them. Even my friends
who still eat Cheetos.
No-Nut Butter Cups
12 servings
This riff on those
famous peanut butter cups
— with a sunflower seed
butter alternative — is a
cinch to make and nice to
have on hand for snacking.
You’ll need a 12-well
muffin pan and baking
cup liners with ridged
sides.
MAKE AHEAD: The
cups can be refrigerated
for about 1 month.
Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet
Chocolate Mega Chunks
are widely available.
Adapted from the Clean
Eating With a Dirty Mind
blog.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Enjoy Life
Semi-Sweet
Chocolate
Mega Chunks (see headnote)
1 cup sunflower seed
butter
1/2 cup coconut oil, liquefied
1/3 cup raw honey
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
extract
Steps
Heat a few inches of
water in a medium
saucepan over medium
heat.
Place the chocolate
chunks in a heatproof
bowl seated on top of the
saucepan; once they have
melted, stir until smooth.
Remove the bowl from the
heat; reduce the heat to
low and keep the water in
the saucepan warm.
Spoon a dollop of the
chocolate into each baking
cup liner in the muffin
pan; use the spoon to evenly coat the bottom and
halfway up the sides.
Transfer to the freezer to
firm up, about 10 minutes.
You should have more
than half of the melted
chocolate left over.
Meanwhile, combine the
sunflower seed butter,
coconut oil, raw honey, sea
salt and vanilla extract in
a food processor; puree
until well incorporated.
Use a spoon to evenly
divide the nut butter mixture among the chocolatelined cups. Return them to
the freezer for 30 minutes,
until the nut butter mixture is firm.
Use a spoon to spread
and completely coat the
top of each nut butter cup
with the remaining melted
chocolate. (Return the
bowl of chocolate briefly
to the saucepan as needed,
to loosen it up.) Return the
completely coated cups to
the freezer; freeze until
firm, about 15 minutes.
Transfer the nut butter
cups to an airtight container;
store/stack
between pieces of waxed
or parchment paper, if
desired, and refrigerate.
Nutrition Per serving:
390 calories, 6 g protein, 32
g carbohydrates, 29 g fat,
15 g saturated fat, 0 mg
cholesterol, 180 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 22 g
sugar
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people who wish to use
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someone’s name when
naming their child should
seek permission (whether
the person is living or
dead)?
Obviously, some people
will use the name regardless of being granted a
blessing or not, but I’m
wondering what is appropriate in this situation. —
PREGNANT IN ILLINOIS
DEAR PREGNANT: In
the Jewish faith, it is traditional for a baby to be
named for a deceased parent or g randparent — or
at least given a name with
t h e s a m e f i r s t i n i ti a l .
H owever, if the pers on
who died was a child of a
close relative, I can see
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how that could be very
pai nful for the parents
who lost their child.
The appropri ate thing
t o d o wo u l d b e t o f i r s t
have a conversation with
the survivi ng f ami ly
member(s) to be sure it
wi ll be cons ide red the
honor it is intended to be
a nd no t o p e n f r e s h
wounds. If it would cause
pain, perhaps the expectant parents should consider making the name of
the deceased their baby’s
middle name instead of
first name.
DEAR ABBY: During
my teens, I was diagnosed
with depression and institutionalized following a
suicide attempt. Depression is something I live
with daily. Unfortunately,
my parents and siblings
have a “don’t ask, don’t
tell” policy when it comes
to anything that may stir
up emotions. I feel that it’s
detrimental to my wellbeing.
My doctor has suggested cutting my family out
of my life. Dealing with
them gives me great anxiety. My mother is a master
manipulator who denies
my suicide attempt ever
happened, and I’m afraid
she will tell my extended
family members (many of
whom I have relationships
with) that I have “abandoned the family.”
No one outside my
immediate family knows
about my depression or
suicide attempt, and I feel
I may be forced to reveal
that very private part of
my life in order to defend
my actions. I don’t know
what to do. — RELUCTANT TO REVEAL
DEAR RELUCTANT TO
REV EA L: I think you
s hould follow your doctor’s advi ce and not be
intimidated. You have an
i l l n e s s — d e p r e s s i on —
that, according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, is shared
by about 9 percent of our
population. It is nothing
to be ashamed of.
Be caus e you’ re afr ai d
of what your mother will
say, explain to those relatives you feel close to what
you need to do and the rea-
sons for it. I can’t guarant e e th a t s o m e o f t h e m
won’t take sides, but I’m
sure not all of them will.
Sadly, not all f amilies are
functional. Not all parents
are g ood parents, and
some of them are toxic.
P.S. Because your strugg le with de pres s ion is
ongoing, I hope you are
still under the care of a
psychotherapist. If you’re
not, please consider it.
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Abigail Van Buren, also
known as Jeanne Phillips.
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Opinion
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
History lessons are becoming lost
To the editor:
As a youth in my teens growing up in Elwood in the 1980s I
lived in a different America
than today.
My generation was taught
what it meant to be an American, a love for country and a
appreciation of it’s institutions
and patriotism. We learned
proper history, correct history.
I talk to our youth today and
they are totally clueless about
what it means to be an American. You ask them something
about American history and
they have no idea what you are
talking about sadly enough. I
suppose the fault lies upon all
of us, from the history books
Letters to
the Editor
they read in schools today,
teachers and at home with us
the parents.?
Americans today are a bunch
of spoiled brats. We have had it
to easy for way too long, and we
have forgotten the generations
before us that built America
from blood, sweat and tears.
Our youth today has no sence
of patriotism. Thanks to the
liberal left they are being
taught that America is the
problems of the world, that capitalism is bad and our forefathers were just rich white slave
owners. ?
America isn’t perfect, what
nation is?
But America has done more
good for the world and mankind
than any other nation.
America has saved Europe
from tyrants not once but twice
(WWI, WWII). We fought a cold
war for over five decades
against communism. America
sent a man to the moon, and
America is the first country to
help around the globe when
their is a natural disaster.
If we want to save this sinking ship we call America we
have to do a better job and teach
our youth that America is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of
enterprise. Teach our youth
that freedom is special and rare
and it’s fragile, it needs production.
We have to go back to teaching our nation’s true history,
things like why the pilgrims
came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was and what 30 seconds
over Tokyo was about just to
name a few.?
In closing I would like to give
a special thanks to America’s
greatest generation. Your gen-
eration saved the world from
fascism. Rather you were on the
battlefields of Europe, in the
south Pacific somewhere, fighting on land, air or sea. Perhaps
you were the wife of a serviceman waiting for your sweetheart to come home from war.
You all sacrificed so much for
freedom. So I want to personally thank you for your sacrifice
and your service. Sadly we are
losing over 1,500 WWII veterans a day. God bless you and
may God bless America.
See you at the polls in November. Let’s take our country
back.
Randy Harmon
Farmland
Progress possible
despite divisions
By CASS R. SUNSTEIN
Bloomberg News
While we endure endless
speculation about who will
run for president in 2016, an
important question is being
left unaddressed: How will
the ultimate winner be able
to take any useful action?
In answering, let’s make
two stipulations. One, the
national government will
probably remain divided.
At least one of the two
houses of Congress is likely to be controlled by a
party other than the president’s. Two, the nation will
face serious economic and
social challenges. In these
circumstances, presidential aspirants, along with
voters, ought to keep in
mind three ways that serious problems can be solved
even amid divided government.
First, a new president
has much greater power to
achieve legislative change
during the initial 16
months of the term. The
nation typically unifies
around a president-elect,
partly because there has
been no time for the new
administration to have
made apparent mistakes or
wandered into huge controversies. In 2009, after
Barack Obama assumed
office, Congress enacted the
$787 billion stimulus bill;
the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and
Disclosure Act; the Family
Smoking Prevention and
Tobacco Control Act; and
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay
Act. In 2010, Obama signed
the most important statutes
of his presidency, the
Affordable Care Act and
the Wall Street Reform Act
— and for good measure,
the Healthy Hunger-Free
Kids Act.
But this window of
opportunity closes quickly.
After 16 months, the
midterm elections loom,
and Congress tends to
freeze.
Second, presidents can
take strong action throughout their time in office
when they are able to
obtain broad grants of
authority. After the Sept. 11
attacks, for example, the
George W. Bush administration asked for and
received the power “to use
all necessary and appropriate force against those
nations, organizations, or
persons he determines
planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on
September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations
or persons.” For the rest of
his presidency, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force enabled President Bush to do most of
what he sought to do.
In a similar fashion,
important provisions of
the Clean Air Act allow the
Cass R.
Sunstein
Environmental Protection
Agency to issue national
air-quality standards that
are “requisite to protect the
public health.” The Obama
administration has used
phrases of this sort to control a number of air pollutants, including greenhouse gases. Whenever a
president seeks new legislation, it is in his or her interest to seek authority of this
kind.
Finally, under creatively
designed laws, significant
reform can happen as a
result of congressional
inaction. Consider, for
example, the Defense Base
Realignment and Closure
Act of 1990, which enables
the president to appoint the
nine members of a baseclosing commission. The
commission produces a list
of recommended militarybase closures, and if the
president approves, they
happen — unless Congress
enacts a resolution of disapproval within 45 days. If
Congress does nothing, the
closures go into effect.
A more controversial
example is the sequester. In
2011, Congress and President Barack Obama completed a difficult negotiation by agreeing that unless
Congress enacted new legislation, automatic (and
aggressive) spending cuts
would go into effect in 2013.
If the goal is to make
changes in Social Security,
to alter fiscal policy or even
to produce immigration
reform, it’s possible to
imagine a strategy of this
kind: With or without the
help of a commission, Congress could allow specified
reforms to occur on a specified date unless a future
Congress says no.
Of course, even when
government is divided, a
determined president may
be able to work out compromises. Maybe we will see
such deals during the
remaining years of the
Obama presidency. Since
2011, however, the nation
has faced a harmful combination of daunting challenges and a generally paralyzed Congress. It is imperative to find ways to meet
those challenges in the face
of persistent divisions.
••••••••••
Sunstein, the former
administrator of the White
House Office of Information
and
Regulatory
Affairs, is a professor at
Harvard Law School and a
Bloomberg View columnist.
Culture says something about us
By JOHN KRULL
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS — When former
Indianapolis Colts coach Tony
Dungy said he wouldn’t have drafted Michael Sam — the first openly
gay player to enter the National
Football League — he provoked a
small firestorm.
Dungy’s argument seemed to be
that Sam’s sexual orientation
would be a distraction and cause
tension in the locker room.
Dungy later tried to mitigate the
damage by doing a little bit of
media bashing. He said the TV
cameras following Sam around
would be the distraction, not Sam
himself.
It was an odd argument coming
from a man who now makes his living as a TV commentator — much
less coming from the former coach
of Peyton Manning, a man who
seems to have cameras follow him
everywhere but the bathroom.
Dungy’s comments received
attention because they tracked
with the way Michael Sam fits into
a larger narrative: Will one of
America’s most prominent sports
accept a player who happens to
love another man?
And we’ve seen evidence from
locker rooms in Minnesota and
Miami that the answer to that
question may be in doubt.
There’s another firestorm in the
NFL right now, a wave of outrage
about the punishment handed
down to Baltimore Ravens running
back Ray Rice for knocking his
then fiancée (now wife) unconscious in the elevator of an
Atlantic City casino earlier this
year. (A video camera captured
him pulling her inert body out the
elevator doors.)
The NFL suspended Rice for two
games, a penalty advocates for victims of domestic violence deem
not so much a slap on the wrist as
a mild shake of the head.
Rice also faces criminal charges
in the incident.
John
Krull
What I find curious about all of
this is that no one is questioning
whether Ray Rice will be welcomed back into the locker room
or out onto the practice field.
No one is saying the Ravens —
who actually have mounted a public relations offensive on Rice’s
behalf — won’t consider Rice fully
a member of the team or league
even though he, a superbly conditioned 220-pound man, hit a
woman so hard she lost consciousness.
Apparently it’s a greater cause
for concern in the locker rooms
and practice fields to love someone than it is to beat up a woman.
Some of this doubtless can be
attributed to the fact that Rice is a
star performer, a mainstay of a
team that won the Super Bowl just
two years ago, while Sam still is
an untried rookie.
But some of it also stems from
the reality that the NFL is a culture built on violence. The league
finds it easier to forgive an assault
than it does to accept an embrace.
Many years ago, I wrote a newspaper column about Mike Tyson
and O.J. Simpson that provoked
angry responses. I noted that both
men had been rewarded for using
violence at every point in their
lives, that hitting and hurting people had been their ticket to both
riches and fame.
Why, I asked, did we assume
they always would respect boundaries when we lavished adulation
and wealth on them for actions
that would be criminal anywhere
but the boxing ring or the playing
field? Why did we think they never
The league
finds it easier
to forgive
an assault
than it does
to accept
an embrace.
would resort to the thing — hitting and hurting people — that
had served them so well when they
wanted to resolve a problem or get
something they wanted outside of
the ring or off the field?
I should acknowledge that, when
I was young, I boxed and played
some football — and enjoyed both
sports. But I’d be less than candid
if I didn’t say that a large part of
the appeal of those sports and
many others is that they unleash
the beast within us.
The NFL may be the dominant
professional sports league in the
United States. The Super Bowl is
the equivalent of a secular holiday. That our lives so often seem to
revolve around what happens on
Sunday afternoons shows how
deeply the league is embedded in
our way of life.
And the fact that the culture of
the NFL finds it easier to tolerate
hitting a woman than loving a
man says something about the
league.
And about us.
••••••••••
Krull is director of Franklin
College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI
90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of
TheStatehouseFile.com, a news
website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
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In other business, board members Mike Masters, Kristi Betts,
Ron Laux, Beth Krieg, Larry Paxson, Mike Shannon and Wellman:
•Heard from Long that there
will be a welcome breakfast at 7
a.m. Friday at Jay County High
School to kick off the school year
followed by a meeting at 8 a.m.
The first day for students is Monday.
•Approved hiring teachers
Autumn Rodeffer (special education – East Jay Middle School),
Megan Hunley (special education
– Westlawn Elementary), Michael
Karn (Jay County Annex), Curtis
Little (social studies – West Jay
Middle School), Gina Brockman
(eighth grade math – EJMS), halftime teachers and half-time
instructional assistants Karen
Shawver (Pennville Elementary)
and Amy Hollowell (EJMS) and
instructional assistants Elizabeth
Snively (Jay County High
School), Amber Willoughby
(WJMS), Ashley Motter (General
Shanks Elementary), Megan
Milthaler
(EJMS),
Amber
Edmundson (JCHS) and Elizabeth Strausburg (Westlawn, Redkey and Pennville elementaries).
Also approved transfers for
Amber Detro (social studies
teacher – JCHS), Erica Eason
(bus aide – JCHS), Richard
Raines (custodian – WJMS) and
Donna Hirschy (custodian –
JCHS).
•Accepted resignations from
Karen Petro (food service –
JCHS), Heather Keller (instructional assistant – General
Shanks), Ross Patz (technology
assistant – Jay Schools), Holly
Patz (math teacher – EJMS),
Amanda Hilty (instructional
assistant (EJMS) , Megan Burke
(special education teacher –
EJMS) and Jeff Dollar (maintenance – Jay Schools), Eric Myers
(assistant wrestling coach –
JCHS), Holly Patz (assistant softball coach – JCHS) and Williams
Saxman (sixth grade basketball
coach – EJMS).
•Hired coaches Lindsey Current (WJMS sixth grade volleyball), Shannon Current (WJMS
seventh grade volleyball), Violet
Current (WJMS eighth grade volleyball), Paul Scott (WJMS football assistant), Cheree McCallister
(WJMS
cheerleading),
Lynette Sisco (WJMS assistant
cheerleading), Larry and Annette
Stultz (WJMS cross country),
Chuck Wendel (JCHS assistant
boys soccer), Jeff Heller (JCHS
assistant wrestling), Kyle Love
(WJMS assistant seventh grade
football), Larry Wilson (Pennville
boys basketball) and Melissa
Stotler (Pennville girls basketball). Also approved extra-curricular assignments for Curtis Little
(WJMS athletics director), Connie Aker (science chair – JCHS),
C.J. Yoder (thespian club – JCHS),
Irene Taylor (WJMS student
council, honor society and pep
club).
•Granted permission to advertise the sale of equipment for
wireless communication that
became obsolete for the school
corporation when it shifted to
using a fiberoptic line.
•Approved the purchase of new
textbooks for principles of business management and advanced
chemistry classes.
Israel, Hamas
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and PETER ENAV
Associated Press
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“We cannot waive that 30 days,”
said Racster. “We cannot take action
that would remove from the citizens
of Jay County the right to make
objections.”
While a resolution couldn’t be
found at the meeting, both Veenhuizen and Racster agreed to look
for a solution that would allow room
for public comment but also permit
construction to begin as soon as possible.
Commissioners also approved a
recommendation to Jay County
Council to award $100,000 in infrastructure funds to the Portland Pool
project.
Having already received $250,000
from The Portland Foundation and a
recommendation for $100,000 in economic development income tax
(EDIT) funds, campaign chairmen
John Young and Rob Weaver see a
contribution from the county as a
great kick-off to the $1 million they
hope to raise through pledges for the
estimated $3.3 million project.
“If you haven’t been to the Portland Pool recently, it’s horrendous.
It’s served its time. This is a once in
a generation (project),” said Weaver.
“All of us are anxious to have … best
quality of life for our citizens. We
feel like a new Portland Pool is a part
of that whole process, that formula.”
Commissioners
unanimously
approved recommending the pledge
at Jay County Council’s next meeting Aug. 13.
Commissioners also discussed the
soon-to-be vacant positions at Jay
County Retirement Center and
whether nepotism laws apply to
them.
Rob and Teresa Smith, superintendent and matron of the center
respectively, recently tendered their
resignations effective Aug. 31. As
husband and wife, they worked at the
center for more than a decade.
Because the positions require the
employees to live at the center, commissioners would like to hire another couple. But new nepotism laws
make that arrangement illegal
because the superintendent serves
as the matron’s supervisor.
Racster told commissioners he
would contact the attorney general
for guidance on the issue, but the
timeline on receiving an answer may
be longer than the few weeks they
have before the Smiths leave.
One suggestion included making
both jobs superintendent positions,
putting the two on equal footing, but
Racster told commissioners he’d
like to see what he can find before
they make a decision.
“It’s a big elephant in the room,”
said commissioner Faron Parr.
“Need to come up with something
here, pretty quick.”
In other business, commissioners:
•Heard an announcement from
Larry Temple, Jay County Purdue
Extension Coordinator, that Jay and
Adams counties will host the 83rd
Annual Farm Management Tour on
June 23 and 24, 2015.
•Approved Rumschlag Technical
Services, Inc., to perform engineering inspections for small bridges —
between 3 feet and 20 feet — in
Bearcreek and Wabash Townships
this fall. Rumschlag conducted
inspections for Jackson and Penn
townships earlier this year, and
county engineer Dan Watson told
commissioners he wanted to continue on with the company to do each
township through the next few
years. Each bridge inspection will
cost $145, with each township estimated to have around 100 culverts.
Flood clean up begins
By RIAN MELLEY and
RAQUEL MARIA DILLON
Associated Press
MOUNT
BALDY,
Calif.— They came with
shovels, hands and heart
to dig out their neighbors
in the aftermath of deadly
Southern California flooding.
Dozens of muddy volunteers attacked tons of
muck that were left a day
after flash floods sent dirt,
rock and mud roaring
down on the tiny mountain towns of Mount Baldy
and Forest Falls east of
Los Angeles — in some
cases burying homes up to
their roofs.
Joo Hwan Lee, 48, of El
Segundo, was driving on a
road on Mount Baldy
when his car was smashed
by a wave of mud and
debris Sunday that swept
the Toyota Prius 200 feet,
authorities
said.
It
smashed it up against
boulders and a tree, with
its windshield shattered
and the inside filled with
dirt. Lee died at the scene.
The floods stranded
thousands of
people,
washed away and inundated cars and damaged
about 30 homes, including
a dozen that were uninhabitable in Mount Baldy
and Forest Falls.
Roads to both places
were ruled by bulldozers
and other heavy equipment working under
sunny skies Monday to
clear mud and rocky
debris.
But it was boots and
backs that helped Gloria
Flickinger dig out after a
river of rock flowed into
her Mount Baldy backyard. Two bearded men
ferried wheelbarrows of
stone and grime out of her
backyard Monday.
Her rear entrance was
buried nearly 2 feet in
muck and her garage basement with laundry and
school supplies for her
special education class
was flooded in ankle-deep
water.
“I almost had a heart
attack when I came
home,” she said.
She was up until 3 a.m.
trying to clean up the
mess.
Pat Marks sat in the dirt
and rock covering her
driveway and dug her
white Mini out of the
muck with three helpers.
She was trying to clear
enough room so a loader
could come remove the
rest. She had been working since the rain stopped
late Sunday afternoon.
“I hope to get the mud
out before it turns to concrete,” she said.
Brief but fierce storms
dumped nearly 5 inches of
rain on Mount Baldy and
as much as 3 ½ inches on
Forest Falls some 50 miles
away, the National Weather Service said.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
— Israel said it withdrew
the last of its ground forces
from Gaza today as it and
Hamas began a temporary
cease-fire. The calm sets
the stage for talks in Egypt
on a broader deal for a longterm truce and the rebuilding of the battered, blockaded coastal territory.
Both sides halted crossborder attacks as the threeday truce took effect at 8
a.m. today. The shelling
stopped and in Gaza City,
where streets had been
deserted during the war,
traffic picked up and shops
started opening.
If the calm holds, it
would be the longest lull in
almost a month of fighting
that has killed nearly 1,900
Palestinians
and
67
Israelis.
In coming days, Egyptian mediators plan to shuttle between Israeli and
Palestinian delegations in
Cairo to try to work out
new arrangements for
Gaza.
As details of the Palestinian demands emerged,
there were some signs that
Hamas is willing to give
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a role in Gaza
as part of rebuilding
efforts.
Hamas seized control of
Gaza from Abbas’ Palestinian Authority in 2007,
prompting the EgyptianIsraeli blockade of the territory. Abbas’ return would
presumably aim to reassure Israel and Egypt,
allowing an easing of the
closure.
The Palestinian delegation in Cairo presented a
joint list of demands to
Egypt, said Hana Amireh,
a West Bank-based PLO
official who is in touch
with the delegation.
The demands include a
call for internationally
funded reconstruction.
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Clerk-treasurer Mickey
Scott said the redevelopment commission requested the amendment so it
can keep track of what the
money is being spent on.
In other business Monday, council members Bill
Gibson, Kip Robinette,
Judy Aker, Don Gillespie
and Mark Hedges:
•Approved an ordinance
that establishes a fund for
improvements and maintenance
at
Portland
Memorial Park. The PortMen’s
Softball
land
League donated $200 to the
city to go toward improvements at the facility.
•Approved continuing
Pioneer Packaging’s tax
abatement. Bill Bradley, of
Jay County Development
Corporation, said the company is in compliance
with the abatement’s stipulations. At the last council meeting, Bradley said
the city had not received
notice
the
company
turned in its compliance
form, but the assessor’s
office did have the form.
•Approved an amendment to the city’s ordinance regarding garage
sales. Council approved an
amendment that allows it
to have multiple weeks
when residents don’t need
permits for garage sales.
Previously, the ordinance
allowed for one week —
which was during the tractor and engine show.
•Approved an additional
appropriation of approximately $1.9 million for the
new Portland Pool fund.
•Received an update on
mosquito
spraying.
Geesaman said street and
park superintendent Ryan
Myers passed the test to be
licensed to spray for mosquitoes. He’s expected to
receive the license in the
mail this week and begin
spraying throughout the
city.
•Heard an update on
city ordinances regarding
trash and golf carts.
Geesaman reminded residents they shouldn’t be
setting out unbagged
trash or trash weighing
more than 40 pounds for
the city to collect. If residents are remodeling or
doing construction, they
must order a dumpster for
what they’ll be throwing
away. Also, golf carts cannot be driven on highways
and main thoroughfares,
including
Meridian
Street.
•Paid $799,120.11 in
claims.
SALE PRICES WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY AUGUST 6-9
Ground Beef
in 5# Bags = $14.95
Eckrich
2/$
Smoky Links ..................................
2
$ 99 lb.
Prairie Farms
Tea .......................................................
Lesser Quantities $3.29 lb.
2
$
59
Pork Steak .................................................... 2
$ 99
Sirloin Steak................................................ 4
$ 99
Rib Eyes ....................................................... 6
tBoneless, Skinless
Chicken Breast .....................................................
$ 69 lb.
4
5
3
Prairie Farms
2/$600
gallon 2% Milk .................................
Eckrich 14 oz
lb.
3/$ 00
Bologna ..........................................
Riggins
4/$ 00
Sour Cream & Dip .................
Cumberland Gap
$ 49lb.
Whole or Half Hams .........................
lb.
Sliced Free
lb.
Freezer Wrap 25¢ lb. • Single Steaks $7.99 lb.
Country Style
1
$229
$ 99
Idaho 5 lb.
POTATOES...........................................
Boneless
Boneless
2
$ 99
Troyer Platter Bacon ................................ 3
$ 29
Bulk Sausage .............................................. 2
lb.
Colby or CoJack Cheese
$
in pre-cut chunks ...........................
lb.
RC Cola ................................................
Ready to Eat Steak & Baked Potato
$ 50
Spare Ribs .........................................................
12 pk. Pepsi Products
$ 49 lb.
5
7
2/$ 99
State Roads 1 & 67
369
99¢
lb.
Bananas ......................49¢lb.
Pepsi 1.5 liters .......................99¢
8
Bounty 8 pk Bundle ..............$ 99
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PHOTOGRAPHY
BLACK & WHITE
SALON PRINT
Level 3
Ian Bentz - BLUE
PHOTOGRAPHY BL
& WHITE PRINT
Level 1
Haley Armstrong - RED
Madison Rinker - BLUE
Cole Robinette - BLUE
Cole Robinette - CHAMPION Raquel Wehrly BLUE
Raquel Wehrly - RES.
CHAMPION
Level 2
Eden K. Basford - BLUE
Rebecca Betz - BLUE
Shyann Harker - RED Analyn Huftel - RED
Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE Tiffany N. Robinette HONOR Tiffany N. Robinette - CHAMPION Jacob
Wangler - RED
Level 3
Maddison Baughn BLUE Maddison Baughn HONOR
Maddison Baughn - RES.
CHAMPION
Abbigayle
Dunlavy - BLUE
Abbigayle Dunlavy HONOR Krysta Grayson RED Mckenzie Hall - RED
Jessica Kerrigan - RED
Heather Lugar - BLUE
Mackenzie Overholser BLUE
Mackenzie Overholser HONOR Mackenzie Overholser - CHAMPION
Mackenzie Overholser SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR James Robinette BLUE
Katy Smeltzer - BLUE
Katy Smeltzer - HONOR
Jade A. Zorn - WHITE
Level 2
Skye Wimmer - RED
PHOTOGRAPHY
COLOR PRINT
Level 1
Adrianna R. Aker - BLUE
Haley Armstrong - RED
Abigail Benter - BLUE Abigail Benter - HONOR Lane
Chapman - RED Rachel
Heitkamp - BLUE Rachel
Heitkamp - HONOR Emma
K. Kunk - BLUE Emma K.
Kunk - HONOR Laci
McGinnis - RED
Lindy Mercer - BLUE
Lindy Mercer - HONOR
Madison Rinker - BLUE
Madison Rinker - HONOR
Cole Robinette - BLUE Cole
Robinette - HONOR
Cole Robinette - CHAMPION
Cole Robinette - SELECTED FOR STATE FAIR
Monte J. Schmiesing WHITE
Alaina Weaver - BLUE
Natalie Wehrly - BLUE
Natalie Wehrly - HONOR
Raquel Wehrly - BLUE
Raquel Wehrly - HONOR
Raquel Wehrly - RES.
CHAMPION
Raquel
Wehrly
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
Level 2
Eden K. Basford - BLUE
Devan Bennett - BLUE
Devan Bennett - HONOR
Rebecca Betz - BLUE
Makenzi Bye - BLUE Emily
N. Corn - BLUE Emily N.
Corn - HONOR Shyann
Harker - BLUE Shyann
Harker - HONOR Analyn
Huftel - BLUE
Carissa J. Mercer - BLUE
Carissa J. Mercer - HONOR
Emma Morgan - BLUE
Emma Morgan - HONOR
Caitlynn Muhlenkamp BLUE Caitlynn Muhlenkamp - HONOR
Caitlynn Muhlenkamp RES. CHAMPION
Caitlynn Muhlenkamp SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE
Tiffany N. Robinette HONOR Ella Roessner BLUE
Ella Roessner - HONOR
Ella Roessner - CHAMPION
Ella Roessner - RES.
GRAND CHAMPION
Ella Roessner - SELECTED FOR STATE FAIR Sarah
N. Schwieterman - RED
Morgan R. Storie - RED
Jacob Wangler - BLUE
Level 3
Shayla Bogard - BLUE
Abbigayle Dunlavy - BLUE
Abbigayle
Dunlavy
HONOR
Abbigayle Dunlavy - RES.
CHAMPION
Krysta
Grayson - BLUE
Carly Grieshop - BLUE
Mckenzie Hall - BLUE Jessica Kerrigan - BLUE Jessica
Kerrigan - HONOR
Jessica
Kerrigan
Mekayla
CHAMPION
Nichols - BLUE Courtney
Rittenhouse - BLUE James
Robinette - BLUE
Jade A. Zorn - BLUE
PHOTOGRAPHY
COLOR SALON
PRINT
Level 2
Eden K. Basford - BLUE
Devan Bennett - BLUE
Rebecca Betz - BLUE Rebecca Betz - HONOR Kady
Finnerty - BLUE Shyann
Harker - BLUE
Shyann Harker - HONOR
Shyann Harker - RES.
CHAMPION
Harker
Shyann
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Gabrielle C. Kunkler BLUE
Gabrielle C. Kunkler HONOR Gabrielle C. Kunkler - CHAMPION
Gabrielle C. Kunkler GRAND CHAMPION
Gabrielle C. Kunkler SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Vivienne R. Kunkler BLUE
Courtney Miles - BLUE
Gabi E. Paxson - BLUE
Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE Tiffany N. Robinette HONOR Ella Roessner BLUE
Ella Roessner - HONOR
Level 3
Ian Bentz - BLUE Ian
Bentz - HONOR
Shayla Bogard - BLUE
Conner Campbell - BLUE
Conner Campbell - HONOR
Bailey Corn - BLUE
Deon Denney - BLUE
Deon Denney - HONOR
Michael Denney - WHITE
Britlyn Dues - BLUE Britlyn Dues - HONOR
Courtney J. Finnerty WHITE Mckenzie Hall BLUE Mckenzie Hall HONOR
Danielle
Heitkamp - BLUE Danielle
Heitkamp - HONOR Jessica Kerrigan - BLUE Jessica
Kerrigan - HONOR Jessica
Kerrigan - CHAMPION
Jessica
Kerrigan
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Mariah Lawrence RED
Hailey Lennartz - RED
Katie Lyons - BLUE Katie
Lyons - HONOR
Abigail Muhlenkamp BLUE
Abigail
Muhlenkamp - HONOR
Mekayla Nichols - BLUE
Mekayla Nichols - HONOR
Mekayla Nichols - RES.
CHAMPION
Mekayla
Nichols
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR James Robinette RED
Katy Smeltzer - BLUE
Katy Smeltzer - HONOR
Beth Snowden - BLUE Beth
Snowden - HONOR Jade A.
Zorn - RED
PHOTOGRAPHY
CREAT/EXP SALON
PRINT
Level 2
Eden K. Basford - BLUE
Rebecca Betz - BLUE Eryn
M. Robinette - BLUE
Eryn M. Robinette HONOR Tiffany N. Robinette - BLUE Tiffany N.
Robinette - HONOR
Level 3
Conner Campbell - BLUE
Conner Campbell - HONOR
Conner Campbell - RES.
CHAMPION Bailey Corn BLUE
Bailey Corn - HONOR
Bailey Corn - CHAMPION
Bailey Corn - SELECTED FOR STATE FAIR
Katie Lyons - BLUE Katie
Lyons - HONOR
James Robinette - BLUE
James Robinette - HONOR
POULTRY
James Robinette - BLUE
James Robinette - HONOR
James Robinette - CHAMPION
James
Robinette
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
POULTRY
DISPLAY/POSTER
Carla D. Dick - RED
Level 1
Alex Ardizzone - BLUE
Alex Ardizzone - HONOR
Alex Ardizzone - RES.
CHAMPION
Madeline
Ardizzone - BLUE Madeline Ardizzone - HONOR
Madeline Ardizzone CHAMPION
Madeline Ardizzone SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
Level 2
Austin May - RED
Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE Tiffany N. Robinette HONOR Tiffany N. Robinette - CHAMPION
Tiffany N. Robinette GRAND CHAMPION
Tiffany N. Robinette SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
Level 3
Jade A. Zorn - BLUE Jade
A. Zorn - HONOR
Jade A. Zorn - CHAMPION
Jade A. Zorn - RES.
GRAND CHAMPION Jade
A. Zorn - SELECTED FOR
STATE FAIR
RABBIT POSTERS
Level 1
Emily L. Starr - BLUE
Level 2
Shyann Harker - BLUE
Shyann Harker - HONOR
Shyann Harker - RES.
CHAMPION Audrey May RED
Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE Tiffany N. Robinette HONOR Tiffany N. Robinette - CHAMPION
Tiffany N. Robinette RES. GRAND CHAMPION
Tiffany N. Robinette SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
Level 3
Carla D. Dick - BLUE
Shelby L. Dick - BLUE Shelby L. Dick - HONOR
Shelby L. Dick - RES.
CHAMPION Kyndal Huey BLUE
Kyndal Huey - HONOR
Kyndal Huey - CHAMPION
Kyndal Huey - GRAND
CHAMPION
Kyndal Huey - SELECTED FOR STATE FAIR
Julie Schubert - BLUE
Julie Schubert - HONOR
Jade A. Zorn - BLUE Jade
A. Zorn - HONOR
READING
Level 1
Anna K. Heath - BLUE
Anna K. Heath - HONOR
Anna K. Heath - CHAMPION
Anna K. Heath - GRAND
CHAMPION
Mckenna Vore - BLUE
Alaina Weaver - BLUE
Alaina Weaver - HONOR
Alaina Weaver - RES.
CHAMPION
Alaina Weaver - RES.
GRAND CHAMPION
Level 2
Ashlynn May - BLUE
Ashlynn May - HONOR
Ashlynn May - CHAMPION
Audrey May - BLUE
Austin May - BLUE
Austin May - HONOR
Austin May - RES.
CHAMPION
RECYCLING/OUR
ENVIRONMENT
Advanced
Heather Lugar - BLUE
Heather Lugar - HONOR
Heather Lugar - CHAMPION
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Heather Lugar - GRAND
CHAMPION Hope I. Lugar BLUE
Hope I. Lugar - HONOR
Hope I. Lugar - RES.
CHAMPION
Beginner
Haley Armstrong - RED
Katelyn Bihn - BLUE Blake
Caldwell - BLUE Blake
Caldwell - HONOR
Blake Caldwell - CHAMPION
Blake Caldwell - RES.
GRAND CHAMPION Pacie
Denney - RED
Erika Heitkamp - BLUE
Erika Heitkamp - HONOR
Erika Heitkamp - RES.
CHAMPION Cole Robinette
- BLUE
Cole Robinette - HONOR
Ava M. Stockton - RED
ROBOTICS
Level 1
Elayna Paro - BLUE Elayna Paro - CHAMPION
Elijah T. Southworth BLUE
Level 2
Jacob A. Grant - RED
SCRAPBOOKING
Advanced
Hannah Chapman BLUE Shelby L. Dick - RED
Mckenzie Hall - BLUE
Mckenzie Hall - HONOR
Lexie M. Hudson - BLUE
Lexie M. Hudson - HONOR
Lexie M. Hudson - RES.
CHAMPION Alison K. Jutte
- BLUE
Abigail Muhlenkamp Abigail
MuhBLUE
lenkamp - HONOR Mackenzie Overholser - BLUE
Mackenzie Overholser HONOR Courtney Rittenhouse - BLUE Courtney Rittenhouse - HONOR Katy
Smeltzer - BLUE
Katy Smeltzer - HONOR
Katy Smeltzer - CHAMPION
Katy Smeltzer - GRAND
CHAMPION
Katy Smeltzer - SELECTED FOR STATE FAIR
Beginner
Pacie Denney - RED
Kelsey Frantz - BLUE
Kelsey Frantz - HONOR
Kelsey Frantz - RES.
CHAMPION Karlie Harris BLUE
Karlie Harris - HONOR
Konner Sommers - BLUE
Konner Sommers - HONOR
Konner
Sommers
CHAMPION
Konner Sommers - RES.
GRAND CHAMPION Intermediate
Shalynn Overholser BLUE Shalynn Overholser HONOR Shalynn Overholser - CHAMPION Gabi
E. Paxson - BLUE
Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE Tiffany N. Robinette HONOR
Tiffany N. Robinette RES. CHAMPION Alexis
Slocum - BLUE
Alexis Slocum - HONOR
Skye Wimmer - BLUE Skye
Wimmer - HONOR
PION
Chaffins
Ralyn
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Level A
Katelyn Bihn - BLUE
Katelyn Bihn - HONOR
Katelyn Bihn - RES.
CHAMPION Joseph Kunk BLUE
Joseph Kunk - HONOR
Joseph Kunk - CHAMPION
Joseph Kunk - RES.
GRAND
CHAMPION
Joseph Kunk - SELECTED
FOR STATE FAIR
Level B
Haley Armstrong - BLUE
Haley Armstrong - HONOR
Haley
Armstrong
CHAMPION
Armstrong
Haley
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Abigail Benter BLUE
Abigail Benter - HONOR
Abigail Benter - RES.
CHAMPION
Level C
Alli Campbell - RED
Grace Marshall - BLUE
Grace Marshall - HONOR
Grace Marshall - CHAMPION
Grace
Marshall
GRAND CHAMPION
Grace
Marshall
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
SEWING WEARABLE
Level A
Courtney J. Benter BLUE
Courtney J. Benter HONOR
Courtney J. Benter - RES.
CHAMPION
Rachel
Heitkamp - BLUE
Rachel
Heitkamp
HONOR Rachel Heitkamp CHAMPION
Rachel Heitkamp - RES.
CHAMPION
GRAND
Heitkamp
Rachel
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR
Hannah
Muhlenkamp - BLUE
Hannah Muhlenkamp HONOR Hannah Muhlenkamp - CHAMPION
Hannah Muhlenkamp SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Natalie Wehrly BLUE
Natalie Wehrly - HONOR
Level B
Haley Armstrong - BLUE
Haley Armstrong - HONOR
Haley Armstrong - RES.
CHAMPION Abigail Benter - BLUE
Blake Caldwell - BLUE
Blake Caldwell - HONOR
Blake Caldwell - CHAMPION
Blake
Caldwell
SELECTED FOR STATE
FAIR Taylor May - BLUE
Taylor May - HONOR
Taylor May - CHAMPION
Taylor May - GRAND
CHAMPION
Taylor May - SELECTED
FOR STATE FAIR
Level C
Eryn M. Robinette BLUE Eryn M. Robinette HONOR
Eryn M. Robinette CHAMPION
SEWING Eryn M. Robinette DRESS UP
SELECTED FOR STATE
Level D
FAIR
Taylor Campbell - BLUE
Level D
Taylor Campbell - HONOR
Taylor Campbell - BLUE
Taylor Campbell - CHAMPI- Taylor Campbell - HONOR
ON
Taylor
Campbell
- VETERINARY
SELECTED FOR STATE SCIENCE
FAIR Katie Witt - BLUE
Tiffany N. Robinette BLUE Tiffany N. Robinette
SEWING - HONOR Tiffany N. RobiFORMAL WEAR
nette - CHAMPION
Level D
Tiffany N. Robinette Sarah Heitkamp - BLUE GRAND CHAMPION
Sarah Heitkamp - HONOR
Tiffany N. Robinette Sarah Heitkamp - CHAM- SELECTED FOR STATE
PION
FAIR
Sarah Heitkamp - RES.
Level 1
GRAND CHAMPION
Abigail Benter - BLUE
Abigail Benter - HONOR
Abigail Benter - RES.
SEWING CHAMPION
Courtney J.
FREE CHOICE
Benter - BLUE
Level C
Mitchel BRUNSWICK Irene A. Braun - BLUE
BLUE
Irene A. Braun - HONOR
Lilly Hedges - BLUE Lilly
Irene A. Braun - CHAMHedges - HONOR
PION
Lilly Hedges - CHAMPIIrene A. Braun - GRAND
ON
CHAMPION
Lilly Hedges - RES.
Irene A. Braun - SELECTGRAND
CHAMPION
ED FOR STATE FAIR
Lilly Hedges - SELECTED FOR STATE FAIR
SEWING Level 2
INFORMAL or
Charles E. Brunswick CASUAL WEAR
BLUE
Charles
E.
Level D
Brunswick - HONOR
Kyra Braun - BLUE Kyra
Charles E. Brunswick Braun - HONOR
RES. CHAMPION
Kyra Braun - CHAMPILevel 3
ON
Carla D. Dick - RED ShelKyra Braun - SELECTED by L. Dick - RED
FOR STATE FAIR
Abigail Muhlenkamp BLUE
Abigail
MuhSEWING lenkamp - HONOR Abigail
NON-WEARABLE
Muhlenkamp - CHAMPIBeginner
ON
Ralyn Chaffins - BLUE
Abigail Muhlenkamp Ralyn Chaffins - HONOR
SELECTED FOR STATE
Ralyn Chaffins - CHAM- FAIR
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vinyl siding and replacement windows. New construction and remodeling.
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LARRY VANSKYOCK
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finish, kitchens and bathrooms, laminated floors,
additions. Call 260-7269597 or 260-729-7755.
HANDYMAN
MIKE
ARNOLD Remodeling;
garages; doors; windows;
painting; roofing; siding;
much more. 28 years
experience. Free estimates. 260-726-2030;
260-251-2702.
GOODHEW’S ROOFING SERVICE Standing
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Estimates! 40 year paint
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Service 800-310-4128.
STEPHEN’S
FLOOR
INSTALLATION carpet,
vinyl, hardwood, and
laminate installed; 15
years experience; work
guaranteed. Free estimates call Stephen Ping
260-726-5017
BANKRUPTCY $25.00
to start. Free consultation; reasonable rates
and payment plans available. Chapter 13 no
money down. Filing fee
not included. Ft. Wayne
office;
260-424-0954.
Decatur office; 260-7289997. Call collect. Saturday and evening appointments. Act as a debt
relief agency under the
BK code.
WENDEL SEAMLESS
GUTTERING For all your
guttering and leaf cover
needs. Call us for a free
quote. Call Jim at 260997-6774 or Steve at
260-997-1414.
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40 NOTICES
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Truss rafter 4’ on center
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Truss rafter 4’ on center
ROCKWELL
DOOR SALES
(260) 726-9500
Garage Doors Sales & Service
$24,250 Erected
$16,200 Erected
$9,800 Erected
We do all types of construction
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Tree Trimming, Removal,
Stump Grinding.
Firewood available
765-509-1956
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Geothermal
Sales & Service
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70 INSTRUCTION,
60 SERVICES
70 INSTRUCTION,
90 SALE CALENDAR
70 INSTRUCTION,
110 HELP WANTED
150 BOATS, SPORT110 HELP WANTED
150 BOATS, SPORTING
130 MISC. FOR SALE
150 BOATS. SPORTING
200 FOR RENT
70 INSTRUCTIO N,
220 REAL ESTATE
GOODHEW’S
ALL
SEASON Construction.
Do you need a new roof
or roof repair? Specializing in standing seam
metal roofing. We offer
various colors with a 30
year paint finish warranty at competitive prices.
Metal distributor for all of
your metal needs. Call
Rodney at 765-5090191.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Friday, August 8, 2014
4:30 PM.
812 E. Race Street,
Portland, IN
3 bedroom home, living
room, kitchen/ dining
room, bathroom, utility
room, enclosed front
porch, utility shed, 48
feet by 132 feet lot.
Good investment.
Call to see.
Precious Gierhart and
Amy Brinkerhoff, Owners
www.Auction Zip.com
#11389
Mel Smitley’s Real
Estate and Auctioneering
260-726-6215 office,
260-726-0541 cell
Mel Smitley
AU0101155
Laci Smitley
AU10600051
260-729-2281
Rob Green
AU19500011
260-525-847
SUB FOR ALL ROUTES
NEEDED Portland and
surrounding areas. Apply
in person at The Commercial Review, 309 W
Main, Portland or call Kim
from 1:00pm to 6:30pm
at 260-726-8141.
PAINTER WITH EXPERIENCE Must have valid
driver’s license. Bucket
truck experience helpful.
419-852-0309
SLATE POOL TABLE
Cross bow resistant
exerciser
system,
Nordic track, deluxe
sport car cover, six foot
Christmas Tree.
REDKEY COUNTRY
HOME over 2 acre lot,
3 bedroom ranch, 1
bath, 1 car attached
garage. $875, pay
electric only. Heather
Clemmons 765-7485066.
HOME FOR SALE BY
OWNER 101 Ellis Drive,
Dunkirk. 765-768-1262
or 765-744-9852. Pictures on www.zillow.com
HILTY-EICHER CONSTRUCTION. Foundations, concrete, roofing,
siding,
residential
remodeling and new
construction, pole barns,
garages, homes. Free
estimates. Call Keith,
260-726-8283.
POWERWASHING
FERGUSON & SONS
Houses, walks, decks,
fences, etc. Spring special - ranch style onestory house. $165.00.
260-703-0364 cell. 260726-8503
70 INSTRUCTION,
SCHOOLS
ZION EARLY LEARNING CENTER Now
enrolling three, four, and
five year olds for the
2014-2015 school year.
Please call 260-7268832, between 9 a.m.
and noon or leave a
message. The school
operates
under
a
nondiscriminatory policy.
CAREERS
AIRLINE
begin here - Get FAA
approved Aviation Tech
training. Job placement
assistance - Delta,
Southwest, Boeing and
many others hire AIM
grads! CALL AIM. 877523-5807 AC0901
90 SALE CALENDAR
10TH SEMI-ANNUAL
SHETLER
Blacksmith Shop Consignment Auction
Saturday, August 16,
2014
8:30 a.m.
US Hwy 27 N to Geneva, then east at intersection on 116 go 2 1/
2 miles to CR 150 E
then North 2 1/2 miles.
Bring your items to sale
location anytime Tuesday, August 12th
through Friday, August
15th
7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Auctioneers
Samual R. Lengacher
AU10700061
260-241-8870
Jacob Stoltzfus
AU10700049
John Esh
AU10700039
Eldon Miller
AU10700050
E & M BLACKSMITH
SHOP
Consignment Auction
Friday, August 9, 2013
4:00 p.m.
2404 W 350 S
Berne, IN
Accepting consignments Aug 5-7, 4-8 pm;
all day Aug 8; & until
noon Aug 9. Accepting
quality horses, ponies,
horse drawn farm
machinery, buggies,
carts, tack, furniture,
shop/ lawn/ & garden
tools, much more.
No shoeing Aug 8 or 9.
Town & Country Auctioneers
Dave Myers
AU1045029
260-223-3700
Charlie Hill
AU10700054
260-341-4987
Kirt McLeland
AU11000038
260-223-1156
PUBLIC AUCTION
Friday, August 8, 2014,
5:00 PM
Located at Jay County
Fairgrounds Farmers
Building.
Modern Household
items, old items, oak
dresser with mirror,
curved china cabinet,
oak coffee table. Wagner cast iron skillet, oil
lamps. Radio Flyer
wagon.
Guns, Remington 870
LW Magnum 20 gauge.
Craftsman snowblower,
MTD rototiller.
Craftsman tools.
Cindy Wolverton,
Owner
Loy Real Estate and
Auction 260-726-2700
Gary Loy
AU01031608
Ben Lyons
AU10700085
Aaron Loy
AU11200112
Travis Theurer
AU1120013
Scott Shrade
AU010301
PUBLIC AUCTION
Monday, August 11,
2014
7:00 pm
Sale at Greene Township
Community Building on
500 W 1/2 Miles South
of Highway 26
Farm Located: 6 miles
west of Portland on
Highway 26 to County
Road 600 W then North
1/2 Mile.
14 Acres Tillable,
frontage on Jay County
Road 600 W in Section 9
Greene Township.
Alan & Rebecca
Peterson,
Owners.
Pete Shawver
AU010120
260-726-9621
Pete D. Shawver
AU19700040
260-726-5587
Zane Shawver
AU10500168
260-729-2229
PUBLIC AUCTION
Thursday, August 7,
2014
3:00 PM
2687 Treaty Line Road,
Portland.
Northwest edge of
Boundary City.
3.55 Acres, +/-,
Frontage on Treaty Line
Road and Boundary
Pike.
Lots 5, 6 BLK5
Boundary City,
PT frac SE 1/4 S23 R14
3.55A
(Pike Township, Jay
County) on site.
City of Portland, owner
www.Auction Zip.com
#11389
Mel Smitley’s Real
Estate and
Auctioneering
260-726-6215 office,
260-726-0541 cell
Mel Smitley
AU0101155
Laci Smitley
AU10600051
260-729-2281
Rob Green
AU19500011
260-525-847
PUBLIC AUCTION
Tuesday, August 12,
2014
6:00 pm.
Creekside Company
LLC
Biggs Indiana
Properties LLC
Owners
Auction conducted at
Blackford Golf Club,
1605 W. Water Street
(SR 26), Hartford City,
IN.
Tract 1 - 5, 8:
Developed and
undeveloped lots.
Six: 11 Courtyard
Commons
Seven: 12 Courtyard
Commons
Nine: Tracts 6,7,8
Ten: 1301 W. Water St,
Krueckeberg Auction
and Realty, 1030 S.
13th, Decatur, IN,
46733. 260-724-7402.
Josh Krueckeberg
AU19800008
Ron Wiegmann
AU08900060
110 HELP WANTED
CHALET
VILLAGE
HEALTH & REHAB
Chalet Village is needing hard working parttime and PRN LPNs and
RNs. Pay can be up to
$18.50/hr for LPNs and
$24.00/hr for RNs.
Please apply in house at
1065
Parkway
St,
Berne, IN 46711. Any
questions call 260-5892127
FOODSERVICE
fulltime/ part-time, possible
travel. Evening and
weekends, no catering,
no experience required,
will hire couples. Call
419-305-3989 3pm to
7pm.
NOW
TAKING
RESUMES for part-time
help evenings and weekends. Must be 21 years
of age or older; must be
able to work weekends;
must have references.
Northside Carry Out,
Attn: Ruth, 1226 N.
Meridian, Portland, IN
47371.
PIEDMONT
APARTMENTS is looking for a
part time Maintenance
Tech. Maintenance experience, Valid driver’s
license, own tools, reliable transportation and
clean criminal record
required. Please apply in
person at office, 778 W
7th Street or fax resume
to: 260-726-9801 or
email to: piedmontapartments@embarqmail.com
. This institution is an
Equal
Opportunity
Provider and Employer.
PART-TIME,
THIRD
SHIFT floor tech. Scrubbing/ buffing. Retired individuals welcome. Call 9
am - 12 noon. 800-6808848
WANTED PERSON for
Heavy Truck Body Shop Paint, Bodywork, Health
insurance, and paid time
off. Call Micah 260-2731245
NOT JUST ANY DRIVER. This job takes someone GREAT: Earn over
$950.00 weekly avg. 3
yrs. exp. CDL required.
RGN, SD experience
helpful. Home most
weekends. All miles,
drops, downtime, and
weekends paid if out.
Interested? Call: 260414-7003
LOOKING FOR A DIAGautomotive
NOSTIC
technician. ASE certification helpful but not
mandatory. Must be able
to use scan tools. Top
Wages paid according to
experience.
Contact
Randy at 765-499-8146
NOW HIRING FUN,
ENERGETIC, hard working, and responsible persons for servers and
cooks. Must be 18 and be
able to work nights and
weekends. Call 260-7292797 or 419-942-1774
PART-TIME HELP, 5
Brothers Bar & Grill,
apply in person, no
phone calls, 13 Main
Street, Burkettsville, OH
HELP WANTED All
Shifts. Must be 21. Apply
in person at Pits Cocktail
Lounge 214 N Meridian,
Portland 251-1544.
THE UNITED WAY of
Adams County is seeking
a highly qualified individual to serve as its Executive Director. Experience
in strategic leadership,
relationship building, and
financial
oversight
required. Successful candidates must be result
oriented, exhibit high
energy, and be of
unquestionable integrity.
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required.
We offer a competitive
salary. Submit resume to
United Way, 218 E Monroe St., PO Box 594
Decatur, IN 46733
PEDIATRIC NURSING
SPECIALISTS of Home
Care Network is seeking
an experienced LPN
home health nurse in
Portland, IN. G-tube,
Trach and Vent trained.
Send resumes to auhlenhake@hcnmidwest.n
et or call 419-464-7190
25 DRIVER TRAINEES
NEEDED NOW! Learn
to drive for TMC Transportation. Earn $800 per
week! Local 15 day CDL
training. TMC can cover
costs. 1-877-649-9611
MERRY
MILLER’S
MANOR of Dunkirk, an
equal
opportunity
employer and 100%
employee owned company, is hiring for a PT
CNA. Please apply in
person at 11563 West
300 South, Dunkirk or
@www.millersmerrymanor.com.
130 MISC. FOR SALE
PLACE YOUR OWN
CLASSIFIED AD
ONLINE!
Go to www.thecr.com
and click the
“Classifieds” link.
Next, you enter your
information, create your
ad, review it, and pay
with a credit card.
Proper grammar,
punctuation and
spacing is necessary.
All ads must be
approved prior to
appearing online and
in the newspaper.
Our Classified Deadline
is noon the day before
you want the ad to run,
and noon on Friday
for Monday’s paper.
Call us with questions,
260-726-8141.
ALUMINUM SHEETS
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Clean and shiny on one
side..35 cents each or
four for $1.40, plus tax.
The Commercial
Review, 309 W Main,
Portland 260-726-8141.
NEED EXTRA CASH?
Sell unwanted items in
The CR Classifieds. Call
Linda at 260-726-8141
or go online to
www.thecr.com Simply
click on “Classifieds” to
place your ad!
FOR SALE: Black &
brown mulch. Top soil.
Will deliver. 260-2511596. Donnie
Tonight
may be the
night you...
• Sell that old bicycle.
• Get rid of that old
refrigerator.
• Sell that set of
drums the neighbors
have been
complaining about.
• Sell that shotgun,
fishing rod, golf clubs
or binoculars.
That is, if you listed
your items for sale in
the
Commercial Review
Want Ads
(260) 726-8144
110 HELP WANTED
FCC (Adams), LLC has openings in
its Production Control Department.
Responsibilities include:
- Production Scheduling
- Procurement
- Inventory Accuracy
- Problem Solving
- Working directly with the customer
in a professional manner
- Developing and implementing
improvement and cost down ideas
Candidate
must
have
problem
solving/independent thinking skills.
College
degree/Production
Control
experience is preferred but not required.
If you are looking for a challenging and
stable career; competitive benefits package
and the opportunity for advancement you
may apply in person or send resume to:
FCC (Adams), LLC
ATTN: Human Resources
936 East Parr Road
Berne, IN 46711
QUART
CANNING
JARS $ 5 per dozen,
260-335-2597. 5640 E
900 S.
MULCH Black and
brown. Call 726-5489.
GRANDMA’S ATTIC.
422 E Water, Hwy 26 E,
260-726-0614. Used
furniture, memorabilia,
antiques, books, magazines, Graphic newspapers. Stop and visit!
150 BOATS, SPORTING
EQUIPMENT
GUN SHOW! Muncie,
IN - August 9th & 10th,
Delaware County Fairgrounds,
1210
N.
Wheeling Ave., Sat. 9-5,
Sun 9-3 For information
call 765-993-8942 Buy!
Sell! Trade!
200 FOR RENT
INMAN U-LOC Storage. Mini storage, five
sizes. Security fence or
24 hour access units.
Gate hours: 8:00-8:00
daily. Pearl Street, Portland. 260-726-2833
LEASE SPACE available, Coldwater, OH.
Manufacturing, warehousing, assembly, distribution, offices, inside
and outdoor storage.
Easy access to major
highways and railroad
access with loading
docks and overhead
cranes available. Contact Sycamore Group,
419-678-5318,
www.sycamorespace.c
om
WHY RENT when you
may be able to buy for
zero money down. Call
for more information.
Heather
Clemmons.
765-748-5066.
MAPLE
HEIGHTS
APARTMENTS at 701
S Western Avenue,
Portland, Indiana, is
now taking applications
for one and two bedroom apartments. Rent
based on 30% of
adjusted gross income.
Barrier free units. 260726-4275, TDD 800743-3333. This institution is an Equal Opportunity Provider and
Employer.
NEED MORE STORAGE? PJ’s U-Lock and
Storage, most sizes
available. Call 260-7264631.
TIRED OF NON-PAYING RENTERS? For
just 10% of monthly
rent/ life could be 100%
better. Property managing. Heather Clemmons
765-748-5066
DUNKIRK 3 bedroom
house.
$550
plus
gas/electric; 2 bedroom
house/garage
$500
plus all utilities. Heather
Clemmons
765-7485066
DUNKIRK
CLEAN
DOWNSTAIRS 2 bedroom apartment. $400
plus electric; Large
older 3 bedroom apartment $525 utilities
included.
Heather
Clemmons
765-7485066 765-748-5066
REDKEY
SMALL
COUNTRY LOT 2/3
bedroom house. $600
month. Pay electric only.
No garage. Heather
Clemmons
765-7485066
HARTFORD CITY 1
bedroom upstairs $375
plus electric. 1 bedroom
downstairs $475 utilities included. Heather
Clemmons
765-7485066
RENT TO OWNS Gaston,
Hartford
City,
Anderson,
Muncie.
Ranging $300 to $575
monthly, $1000 down.
ALL need TLC. Heather
Clemmons
765-7485066
PORTLAND RITZ 1
bedroom
upstairs
apartment, $350 plus
electric; Clean 2 bedroom
house/carport
$500 plus utilities.
Heather
Clemmons
765-748-5066
ALBANY
DUPLEX
large
remodeled
upstairs 2 bedroom,
washer/dryer hookup.
$425 plus all utilities.
Heather
Clemmons
765-748-5066
MOBILE HOMES FOR
SALE OR RENT. Briarwood M-H Park Berne,
IN. Phone 260-8493137 or 419-217-2859
4 BEDROOM HOUSE
116 W Second Street,
Portland. $475/month
260-251-3726
ONE AND TWO BEDROOM APARTMENTS
Lake of The Woods,
Geneva, water included with rent, no pets,
260-223-3367
PORTLAND 1 Bedroom upstairs apartment. $375 per month
plus deposit. Utilities
included. Great for one
person. No pets. 260729-1803
LARGE, NICE TWOBEDROOM downstairs
apartment. 416 West
Water. Washer/dryer
hookup, $450 plus
heat&elect.
Extra
rooms. Off street parking.
Deposit/references. 260-703-0364
BEAUTY SHOP FOR
RENT Two station; 110
W. Arch. $300 month.
Call
765-438-2303
leave message.
CLEAN 2 BEDROOM
downstairs apartment.
120 E Arch, Portland.
Appliances,
laundry
room, storage shed.
No smoking/pets. $380
monthly, deposit/references. 260-997-6645
PENNVILLE 3 bedroom house Washer/
dryer hookup. Stove/
refrigerator furnished.
No
pets.
Deposit
260-731required.
4491
210 WANTED TO
RENT
WANTS TO RENT a 1
bedroom
furnished
apartment with utilities
included in rent. Call
Larry at 616-696-5642.
250 PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice
Notice of Sheriff's Sale
To the owners of the within
described real estate and all
interested parties:
By virtue of a certified copy of
a Decree to me directed from
the Clerk of Circuit Court of
Jay County, Indiana, in Cause
No. 38C01-1210-MF-66 wherein
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association was Plaintiff, and Jack J. Hardymon and
Barbara C. Kinder a/k/a Barbara C. Hardymon, et al. were
Defendants, requiring me to
make the sum as provided for
in said Decree with interest
and costs, I will expose at
public sale to the highest bidder, on the 4th day of September, 20l4, at the hour(s) of
10:00 am, of said day, at Courthouse, 120 North Court Street,
Portland, IN 47371 Jay County,
Indiana, the fee simple of the
whole body of Real Estate in
Jay County, Indiana:
A part of the Southwest
Quarter Of Section 9, Township 23 North, Range 15
East, second principal
meridian, Noble Township,
Jay County, Indiana, more
particularly described as
follows, to-wit:
Commencing at a cornerstone at the southwest corner of the southwest
quarter of Section 9, Township 23 North, Range 15
East; thence east along the
south line of the Southwest
Quarter, a distance of two
thousand fifteen and forty six hundredths (2015.46)
Feet to an iron pin for the
point of beginning; thence
north 02 degrees 30' 00"
west (assumed bearing) a
distance of one hundred
thirty -four and sixteen
hundredths (134.16) feet to
an iron pin; thence south 89
degrees 30' 00" east a distance of one hundred
eighty-two and forty-eight
hundredths (182.48) feet to
an iron pin; thence south 02
degrees 30' 00" east a distance of one hundred
thirty-four and sixteen hundredths (134.16) Feet to an
iron pin on the south line of
the Southwest Quarter;
thence north 89 degrees 30'
00" west along the south
line of the Southwest Quarter, a distance of one hundred
eighty-two
and
forty-eight
hundredths
(182.48) Feet to the place of
beginning. Containing 0.56
Acres, more or less.
Commonly known as:
6416 E 100 North, Portland,
IN 47371
Together with rents, issues,
income, and profits thereof,
said sale will be made without
relief from valuation or appraisement laws.
Larry R. Newton, Jr.
Sheriff, Jay County, IN
Foutty & Foutty, LLP
155 E. Market Street,
Suite 605
Indianapolis, IN 46204-3219
CR 7-29,8-5,12-2014 -HSPAXLP
HOME FOR SALE BY
OWNER. 3 bedroom, 1
1/2 bath, 627 East Water
Street, Portland. Call
726-0776 or 260-7292765.
LAND CONTRACT 422
E Water Street, Portland.
Newly remodeled, large,
two bedroom home with
attached,
INCOME
retail
PRODUCING
store. Stove, refrigerator,
and
washer/
dryer
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Floor, Courthouse, Portland,
IN 47371, the fee simple of the
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Lot Number Two (2) in
Silas A. Smith's Sub-Division of Out Lot Six (6) in
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City of Portland, except all
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A. Smith's Subdivision of
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the West Addition to the
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Indiana, for the point of beginning, thence South One
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
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Insight ...
Continued from page 10
He recovered, but that moment
is one I, and anyone in attendance,
will never forget.
I’ve seen similar broken legs in
both football and gymnastics. And
I’ve witnessed more than my share
of torn anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL), most notably sitting
just a few feet away when 2010 Fort
Recovery High School graduate
Nicole Pottkotter’s senior season
came to an end in the girls basketball sectional championship game
at Van Wert.
The Indians went on to lose 56-55
to Archbold in the district semifinal without Pottkotter, their captain and leader in rebounds,
assists, steals and blocks. I remain
convinced that had Pottkotter not
suffered the injury, FRHS would
In review
‘High school sophomores tend to think
they have plenty of time to accomplish
their goals. But graduation comes fast.’
have made a run to the state finals.
(It went to the state final four a
year later.)
And that brings me to my point.
In sports, opportunities are fleeting. The “wait ’til next year” mentality just doesn’t work.
Just last summer it seemed like
a good bet that the Indiana Pacers
would win an NBA title in the next
five years. They were loaded with
young talent and had pushed the
Miami Heat to seven games in the
Eastern Conference Finals.
But after a great start this year,
Indiana struggled down the stretch
and barely squeaked through the
first two rounds of the playoffs
before being dispatched by the
Heat. And now, Lance Stephenson
has departed through free agency
and George faces the possibility of
missing the entire 2014-15 season
because of his injury.
All too often athletes don’t learn
this lesson until it’s too late.
High school sophomores tend to
think they have plenty of time to
accomplish their goals. But graduation comes fast.
Professional athletes might
believe they have plenty of time to
win a title, especially if they have
some early success. But there are
scores of examples like Dan Marino, who went to the Super Bowl in
his second season, lost, and never
got there again.
Hopefully George makes a full
recovery and returns to all-star
form.
And hopefully he and the Pacers
can achieve the kind of success
they once seemed destined for.
But his injury should also serve
as a reminder to take advantage of
today. We never know what tomorrow will bring.
Saturday vs. Cedar Rapids: The
struggle continues for Josh Ludy, who
saw his average dip below .100 after he
went 0-for-3 with a pair of strikeouts
Saturday in the Beloit Snappers’ 5-2
loss to the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Kernals.
Defensively, the 2008 JCHS grad allowed three
stolen bases, but caught Jon Murphy trying to swipe
second in the top half of the seventh.
In the top of the sixth, Ludy tagged out Bryan Haar at
the plate on a throw from left fielder Ryan Matthews
after an RBI single by Max Murphy.
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1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
BB
1
CINCINNATI — The
Cincinnati Bengals are
making Andy Dalton
one of the highest-paid
quarterbacks in the
league.
Dalton signed a sixyear extension on Monday. According to multiple reports, the deal is
worth up to $115 million and will prevent
Dalton playing out the
final year of his rookie
contract.
Dalton says he is
relieved to have the
deal signed before the
season.
Inducted
GREEN BAY, Wis. —
Former Green Bay
Packers quarterback
Brett Favre will be
inducted into the
team’s Hall of Fame
and have his jersey
retired next year.
Favre writes on his
official website that it
will be an honor to
have his name placed
among others such
Bart Starr, Curly Lambeau, Ray Nitschke and
Vince Lombardi, to
name a few.
Favre says it wouldn’t be possible if not for
the foresight of former
general manager Ron
Wolf, who he says is the
greatest GM in the history of the NFL.
The Ludy Line
Season totals:
G AVG AB
4 .071 14
Signed
SO
7
Sentenced
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Finally fall
Jay County High School senior Cameron Kunkle catches a
pass Monday at JCHS during the first practice of the season. Fall
sports practices officially began Monday and the Patriot football team
prepares for its season opener Aug. 22 at home against Delta.
On tap
Scoreboard
M aj or L eag ue Bas eball
Cleveland 7, Cincinnati 1
Chicago White Sox 5, Texas 3 F/7 inn.
N.Y. Yankees 2, Detroit 1
Local schedule
We dnesd ay
Jay County — Girls golf at South
Adams Invitational – 9 a.m.
South Adams — Girls golf hosts
South Adams Invitational – 9 a.m.
Thur sd ay
Jay County — Girls golf at Muncie
Central – 9 a.m.
Fort Recovery — Boys golf at
Arcanum – 9 a.m.
Portland Rockets vs. Fort Wayne Jackers at NABF Regional – 12:30 p.m.
TV schedule
Today
5 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Southwest Regional
(ESPN2)
7 p.m. — WNBA Basketball: Minnesota Lynx at Indiana Fever (WNDY-23)
8 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Southwest Regional
(ESPN2)
Wednesday
1 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Southeast Regional
(ESPN2)
3 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Midwest Regional (ESPN2)
5 p.m. — Baseball: Little League World
Series – Southeast Regional (ESPN2)
7 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Southwest Regional
(ESPN2)
7:30 p.m. — Soccer: Fort Lauderdale
Strikers at Indy Eleven (WNDY-23)
8 p.m. — Major League Baseball:
Boston Red Sox at St. Louis Cardinals
(ESPN)
9:30 p.m. — Major League Soccer:
All–Star Game – MLS All–Stars vs. Bayern
Munich (ESPN2)
Thur sday
1 p.m. — ATP Tennis: U.S. Open
Series – Rogers Cup Round of 16
(ESPN2)
1 p.m. — Golf: PGA Championship –
First round (TNT)
2 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Great Lakes Regional
(ESPN)
3 p.m. — Major League Baseball:
Chicago Cubs at Colorado Rockies (WGN)
5 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Northwest Regional
(ESPN2)
7 p.m. — NFL Preseason Football:
Indianapolis Colts at New York Jets
(WNDY-23,FOX-55)
7 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Great Lakes Regional
(ESPN)
8 p.m. — WNBA Basketball: Chicago
Sky at Minnesota Lynx (ESPN2)
9 p.m. — Baseball: Little League
World Series – Northwest Regional
(ESPN)
10 p.m. — Major League Baseball:
Chicago White Sox at Seattle Mariners
(WGN)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
— Phoenix Suns forward P.J. Tucker has
been sentenced to three
days in jail and 11 days
of home detention
after pleading guilty to
“super extreme” driving under the influence.
Tucker issued a
statement apologizing
for his actions. Phoenix
Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon
Babby says the organization believes Tucker’s remorse is sincere
and is convinced he
will take the necessary
steps to avoid such incidents in the future.
Police say Tucker
had a blood alcohol
level of .22 after he was
arrested May 10 in
Scottsdale.
—Associated Press
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Jay grad has average
dip below .100 Saturday,
see The Ludy Line
Bengals’ QB Dalton
signs big extension,
see In review
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of
Insight
Injuries
remind
us to
value
today
By RAY COONEY
The Commercial Review
Gruesome.
That’s a word that never
turns out well. It usually
refers to knees twisting
unnaturally, feet pointed
in the wrong direction,
bones jutting out visibly
through the skin.
So when that word was
used to describe Paul
George’s injury last week,
I immediately decided to
avoid any video or photos
of the incident. I’m not a
big fan of the grisly, especially after seeing my
brother’s leg filleted open
about 20 years ago when
he fell from a tree. (My sisters and brother were no
strangers to the emergency room at St. John
West Shore Hospital in
Westlake, Ohio.)
Most sports fans have
seen video of the injury
Joe Theismann suffered
that ended his career.
Louisville guard Kevin
Ware’s nasty injury during the 2013 NCAA Tournament is another that
happened in front of a
national TV audience.
And I’ve seen enough
“gruesome” injuries in
person at sporting events
to last me a lifetime.
The worst on that list
came in 2009 on the Jay
County High School soccer field. The Patriot boys
were hosting Blackford
when less than four minutes into the game Bruins’
forward Jesse Case tried
to stop a Jeremiah Cotherman run down the left side
of the field.
As Cotherman prepared
to send a pass across the
middle, Case planted his
foot. But he landed awkwardly, snapping his lower
left leg.
Taking photos at that
end of the field, I was
probably the closest nonplayer to the action. It
wasn’t pretty.
But it was the reaction
of Case’s teammates that
told the story. They went
running off of the field,
some struggling to control
their stomachs, most
screaming in horror.
The injury delayed the
game for about a half hour
as Case was taken from
the field in the ambulance.
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The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz
Pictured is the 2014 Jay County High School girls golf team, which opens its season Wednesday at South Adams. Front
row from left are Brooke Sanders, Maddison Baughn, Carlie Wickey, Alissa Culy and Madison Brown. Back row are Malarie Houck,
Sydney Mathias, Rachel Antrim, Jess Neal, Sydney Robbins and manager Nick Hayden. Not pictured are Abby Saxman and Gracie
Runkle. The Patriots are coached by Butch Gray.
Patriot golfers open Wednesday
By CHRIS SCHANZ
The Commercial Review
Last season, senior
Katlin Petro and freshman
Sydney Mathias occupied
the top two spots for the
Jay County High School
girls golf team for most of
the season. The other
three slots were an ongoing rotation.
With Petro graduated,
Mathias, now a sophomore, will not only compete for the top spot, but
she will be fighting to stay
one of the starting five for
the Patriots.
“(There are) about seven
or eight girls who are pretty close,” said JCHS coach
Butch Gray, whose team
opens its season at 9 a.m.
Wednesday in the South
Adams Invitational at
Golf Club of the Limberlost in Geneva. “The competition is going to be fun
to watch. We saw some
shots (Monday) off the
tees that we didn’t’ see last
year until the middle or
latter part of the year.
“We’re really happy for
it.”
Other than Mathias,
who had the lowest nine-
hole average a year ago at
47, Gray has a core of
three returning golfers
who saw considerable
time at the varsity level
last year.
Maddison Baughn, a
senior, joins juniors Sydney Robbins and Abby
Saxman with sectional
experience. Baughn averaged 50 for nine holes last
year, and her 106 at the
sectional was the best
score for the Patriots. She
finished
six
strokes
behind Taylor Ward of
Wes-Del for the final
regional-qualifying spot.
Saxman (108) posted the
No. 2 score for Jay County
at Crestview Golf Club.
Robbins’ 118 did not factor
into the sectional score.
Malarie Houck, who
played volleyball each of
the last three years, is forgoing her senior season on
the court in favor of the
links. She and Baughn are
the only seniors on the
team.
Alissa Culy, Rachel
Antrim, Jess Neal and
newcomer
Brooke
Sanders round out the six
juniors on the squad. Car-
lie
Wickey,
Madison
Brown, Gracie Runkle and
Mathias make up the fourmember sophomore class.
When
the
Patriots
return to Crestview for
the sectional in September, Gray is hoping consistency throughout the season will help them crack
the top three and earn a
berth in the regional tournament.
“We’ve got two matches
on that course this year,”
said Gray, noting Thursday’s Muncie Central Invitational and a dual meet
against the Bearcats on
Aug. 14. “That gives them
a little more time to be
more familiar (with the
course).
“Golf is a sport … the
more you are on a course
the more familiar you get
with it and the more
relaxed you are.”
Jay County is on the
road for its first nine
events, including back-toback
tournaments
Wednesday and Thursday.
The Patriots then play in
the Monroe Central Invitational Saturday before
opening Allen County
JCHS girls golf
Date
Opponent
Wednesday, Aug. 6 South Adams Invite
Muncie Central Invite
Thursday, Aug. 7
Saturday, Aug. 9
Monroe Central
Tuesday, Aug. 12
Leo/Adams Central
Thursday, Aug. 14
Muncie Central
Monday, Aug. 18
Anderson
Tuesday, Aug. 19
Union
Monday, Aug. 25
Bluffton/Monroe Cen.
Tuesday, Aug. 26
South Adams/AC
Thursday, Aug. 28 Richmond
Tuesday, Sept. 2
Winchester/FR
Saturday, Sept. 6
ACAC Tourney
Tuesday, Sept. 9
Yorktown/Wes-Del
Thursday, Sept. 11 Delta
Tuesday, Sept. 16
S. Wells/Blackford
Thursday, Sept. 18
Norwell/South Adams
Home matches in bold
Athletic Conference play
at Leo on Aug. 12.
While the Patriots only
have three home matches
this season — Aug. 28
against Richmond, Sept. 2
in a three-team event with
Winchester
and
Fort
Recovery and Sept. 11
against Delta — it does
host the ACAC Tournament on Sept. 6 at Portland
Golf Club.
Time
9 a.m.
9 a.m.
1 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
5 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
9 a.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
With the Patriots competing in a conference for
the first time since 2010,
Gray is grateful his team
has something other than
the sectional to strive for.
“I think that’s really
good,” he said. “It gives
you another championship
to shoot for. The only thing
we had before was sectional. It gives us something
else and I like that.”
Colts take chance on WR Richardson
By COREY ELLIOT
Associated Press
ANDERSON, Ind. — The Colts
are giving receiver Nu’Keese
Richardson a chance for a pro
career.
The 23-year-old Richardson is a
2009 University of Tennessee
recruit who was kicked off the
team late in his freshman season
after pleading guilty to one count
of attempted robbery outside a
Pilot gas station in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
Richardson, who signed with
Indianapolis on Sunday night,
agreed to probation and avoided
jail time as part of a plea deal.
After leaving Tennessee, Richard-
son played at Hampton University, an FCS school, before finishing
his career in 2013 at the University of Pikeville, an NAIA school in
Kentucky.
Coach Chuck Pagano said Monday the Colts understood the risk
of signing a player like Richardson.
“We all know Nu’Keese’s background, we know his history,” he
said. “We know that he made a
bad choice and made a mistake as
an 18-year-old. We brought
Nu’Keese in here and worked him
out, sat him down, talked to him
at length about what he’s been
doing with himself and his life.
We just felt like we wanted to give
Nu’Keese a second chance. We all
understand there’s no do-overs.
We can’t take back the things and
mistakes that we’ve made so we
feel really good.”
Richardson faces an uphill battle to make a team with a strong
group of receivers. Reggie Wayne,
Hakeem Nicks and T.Y. Hilton all
have had 1,000-yard seasons in the
NFL. Indy also drafted Donte
Moncrief in the third round. Veterans Griff Whalen and Da’Rick
Rogers, who also was booted off
Tennessee’s team before the 2012
season, also are in the mix.
So Richardson’s best chance
may be making the team as a
return specialist. At Pikeville,
Richardson had 39 receptions for
588 yards and three touchdowns.
He also returned eight kickoffs
for 121 yards and 15 punts for 193
yards and one TD.
But he will be battling Moncrief for playing time there, too.
“We want to win and we’re trying to win every football game we
line up whether it’s a preseason,
regular season, it doesn’t matter,”
Pagano said. “If (Moncrief) gives
us the best opportunity to win as
a kick returner as well as the
receiver, then we are going to put
him out there.”