Elphos Erald: Opponents Put Ohio Election Law On Hold

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
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Schools celebrate grandparents
Stacy Taff photos
St. Johns second-graders sing Grandma, Grandpa, to the tune of Frere Jacques
while their grandparents listen during a special performance on Grandparents Day.
St. Johns Elementary students walk their grandparents through the line of
refreshments at St. Johns Grandparents Day celebration Thursday afternoon.
Elementary students at Ottoville perform Old McDonald Had a Farm, for their
grandparents on Grandparents Day Thursday.
Second-
grader Claire
Knott shows her
grandparents,
Mark and
Elaine Knapke,
her classroom
at Ottoville
Elementary.
Opponents
put Ohio
election law
on hold
By ANN SANNER
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS Ohios
new election law that short-
ens the swing states early
voting period was placed on
temporary hold Thursday
after opponents submitted
more than 300,000 signatures
in their effort to get a repeal
question on 2012 ballots.
At least for now, local
election officials will have
to operate under the old law.
That means early voting for
the Nov. 8 election will start
on Tuesday.
Elections officials must
verify the 318,460 signatures
submitted Thursday to see if
they meet the states referen-
dum requirements. Secretary
of State Jon Husted told local
election boards the signature
checks didnt need to be done
until after the November elec-
tion.
Opponents need 231,147
valid signatures to get a ref-
erendum before voters next
year, and they plan to con-
tinue to circulate petitions.
If they are successful, the
law would be in limbo until
after the presidential election.
Thats the earliest chance for
voters to decide whether the
law should be tossed out.
The states Democratic
Party, President Barack
Obamas re-election cam-
paign and a coalition of groups
called Fair Elections Ohio
have been circulating peti-
tions and gathering signatures
over the last six weeks in an
effort to block the law. About
a third of the signatures came
from paid circulators, while
the rest were gathered by vol-
unteers, organizers said.
Opponents contend the
elections overhaul will lead
to longer lines and make it
difficult for working people
to cast a ballot.
Brian Rothenberg of
ProgressOhio, a member of
Fair Elections Ohio, called
Thursdays signature submis-
sion a victory that will make
it easier, more accessible and
simpler for people to vote.
Democrats are also trying
to protect a method of voting
they see as a boon for their
party.
About 30 percent of the
states total vote or rough-
ly 1.7 million ballots came
in ahead of Election Day in
2008. Ohio is one of 32 states
that allow voters to cast an
early ballot by mail or in per-
son without an excuse.
An extended voting peri-
od is perceived as benefiting
Democrats because it increas-
es opportunities for Hispanics,
blacks, new citizens and poor
people harder to reach for
an Election Day turnout to
vote.
Watchdog: Regulators
bowed to banks on bailout
WASHINGTON (AP)
Federal regulators bowed
to pressure from big banks
seeking a quick exit from the
financial bailout program and
did not uniformly apply the
governments own conditions
set for repaying the taxpayer
funds, a new watchdog report
says.
The report was issued today
by the office of Christy Romero,
the acting special inspector
general for the $400 billion
taxpayer bailout of the finan-
cial industry and automakers. It
found that regulators, to vary-
ing degrees, bent to pressure
from the banks in late 2009 and
relaxed the requirements put in
only weeks earlier.
The regulators also were
motivated by a desire to cut the
governments stake in the banks
it had bailed out in September
2008 when the financial crisis
struck, the report says.
Meanwhile, the banks want-
ed to get out quickly from the
so-called Troubled Asset Relief
Program, or TARP, because
they wanted to avoid its lim-
its on executive compensa-
tion and the stigma associated
with receiving rescue money,
according to the report.
The report focused on the
sales of stock to raise capital
and bailout repayments by four
major banks: Bank of America
Corp. and Citigroup Inc., which
each received $45 billion from
the government; Wells Fargo
& Co., which received $25
billion; and PNC Financial
Services Group Inc., which got
$7.6 billion.
Because the regulators
failed to enforce the policy for
repayments set by the Federal
Reserve, the new report says,
the process to review a TARP
banks exit proposal was ...
inconsistent. That policy
required banks to issue at least
$1 in new common stock for
every $2 in bailout money they
repaid.
But the banks doggedly
resisted the regulators demands
to issue common stock, seek-
ing instead to use cheaper and
less sturdy alternatives such
as selling assets or issuing pre-
ferred stock, the report found.
Issuing common stock is a bet-
ter way to shore up a banks
capital base, it said.
When Bank of America,
Citigroup and Wells Fargo
repaid the government in
December 2009, only Citigroup
fully met the 1-for-2 require-
ment, the report said.
The regulatory agencies
overseeing the banks, which
negotiated the repayment
terms with them, were the
Federal Reserve, the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. and
the Treasury Departments
Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency. Treasury itself
ran the bailout program, and
the report said its involvement
in individual banks repayment
proposals was greater than was
previously known publicly.
It said Treasury encour-
aged the banks to speed repay-
ment, raising the criticism
that Treasury officials put that
goal ahead of ensuring that the
banks were strong enough to
exit TARP safely.
The result was nearly
simultaneous repayments by
Bank of America, Wells Fargo
and Citigroup in an already
fragile market, the report
said. The three banks issued a
combined $49.1 billion in new
common stock as part of their
repayments.
Tim Massad, Treasurys
acting assistant secretary for
financial stability, said Were
pleased that the report acknowl-
edges that the nations large
banks are much stronger today
as a result of the actions taken
by Treasury.
Taxpayers will recoup the
full amount invested in banks,
around $245 billion, and will
make an additional $20 billion
or so in profit, Massad said in a
telephone interview Thursday.
Stadium Club
sets work day
The Delphos Stadium
Club will work at Stadium
Park near the Little
League Diamonds along
the canal on Saturday,
Forms will be set to extend
the sidewalk east and to pre-
pare a concrete pad for pavers
at the Little League entrance.
Work will start
around 8 a.m. All vol-
unteers are welcome.
Scouts to sell
popcorn
Delphos Cub Scout
Pack 42 will conduct its
annual Trails-End Popcorn
fundraiser from 10 a.m
to 1 p.m. on Saturday in
front of the Alco Store.
Library to host
meteorologist
The Delphos Public
Library will host an
afterschool program
from 4-5 p.m. on Oct.
13 with special guest
meteorologist Adam
Klotz from WLIO-TV.
Klotz will share about
weather predicting,
weather safety, and giv-
ing the weather forecast.
Children in grades
K-5 are welcome to sign
up beginning today.
Todays slate
Football
NWC (7:30 p.m.):
Evergreen at Columbus
Grove (non-league), 7 p.m.;
Crestview at Jefferson
(NWC); Spencerville at
LCC; Paulding at Ada;
Allen East at Bluffton.
MAC (7:30 p.m.):
St. Johns at Versailles;
Coldwater at Parkway;
Fort Recovery at Minster;
Marion Local at St. Henry;
New Bremen at Anna.
WBL (7:30 p.m.): Kenton
at Elida; Celina at Van
Wert; Shawnee at Bath;
Defiance at St. Marys;
Wapak at Ottawa-Glandorf.
BVC (7 p.m.): Hardin
Northern at Leipsic;
McComb at Cory-Rawson;
Vanlue at Pandora-Gilboa.
NWCC: Perry at
Fairbanks; St. Wendelin
at Ridgemont (non-
league); Sidney Lehman
at Upper Scioto Valley
(non-league); Riverside
at Waynesfield-Goshen.
Other: Lima Senior at
St. Johns Jesuit, 7 p.m.
Boys Soccer
Ottoville at Miller
City (PCL), 5 p.m.
Saturday time change
The St. Marys Memorial
at Fort Jennings boys var-
sity soccer match will begin
at 10 a.m. (Senior Parents
Day) Saturday, with the
junior varsity to follow.
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Family and friends of Carl
and Ruth Broecker are wel-
come to gather at St. Josephs
Catholic Cemetery in Fort
Jennings to deliver them to
their final resting place at
10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
The Rev. Joseph Przybysz
will perform the graveside
ceremony.
Ruth passed away on May
15, 2009. Carl left this world
on May 16, 2011.
Carl W. Broecker
Ruth Calvelage
Wieging Broecker
By GREG RISLING
LOS ANGELES (AP)
Paramedics who responded to
Michael Jacksons mansion
the day he died are expected
to testify today in the trial of
the pop stars doctor who has
been charged with involuntary
manslaughter.
Martin Blount and Richard
Senneff had previously testi-
fied at a preliminary hearing
that Dr. Conrad Murray never
mentioned giving Jackson the
powerful anesthetic propofol
and told them the singer lost
consciousness moments before
an ambulance was called. Both
men believed the singer had
died by the time they arrived in
June 2009, but Murray insisted
the performer be taken to a
hospital for more resuscitation
efforts.
The prosecution witnesses
will likely provide jurors more
insight into Jacksons final
moments as futile attempts
were made to revive the unre-
sponsive superstar as the trial
enters its fourth day.
On Thursday, a pair of
Jackson staffers described the
chaotic scene at the rented
mansion. Personal chef Kai
Chase said she was prepar-
ing a spinach Cobb salad for
Jackson when a panicked and
flustered Murray came down a
spiral staircase shouting for her
to get security and the singers
son, Prince.
His energy was very ner-
vous and frantic, said Chase,
who added she ran to get
Jacksons son in a nearby room.
I said, Hurry, Dr. Murray
needs you. Something may be
wrong with your father.
Chase said later she saw
paramedics and security run-
ning upstairs to Jacksons bed-
room where he lay and some
of the house staff were crying,
unsure of what was happening.
The children were cry-
ing and screaming, she said.
We started hugging. We came
together, held hands and we
began to pray.
Bodyguard Alberto Alvarez
said he went to help Jackson
after the singers assistant
called him on his cellphone.
Shocked at seeing Jackson
lying motionless in his bed,
eyes slightly open, Alvarez
barely had time to react when
he heard the singers daugh-
ter scream Daddy! from
the doorway. He led her and
Prince from the room, trying to
comfort them.
Alvarez then said Murray
told him to put vials of medi-
cine he scooped from Jacksons
nightstand into a bag. Alvarez
complied and also placed an
IV bag into another bag.
Alvarezs testimony was
key for prosecutors who con-
tend Murray, who has plead-
ed not guilty, was intent on
concealing signs that he had
been giving the singer doses of
propofol as a sleep aid.
Alvarez said he thought
Murray might be preparing to
take the items to the hospital,
but the bags never made it to
the hospital and the bodyguard
never questioned the doctor.
If convicted, Murray, 58,
could face up to four years in
prison and lose his medical
license.
Defense attorney Ed
Chernoff asked whether there
was enough time for Alvarez
to shield Jacksons children,
survey the room and stow
away the drugs in the brief
period that phone records show
he was in the home before call-
ing emergency responders.
The bodyguard insisted
there was, telling the attorney,
Im very efficient, sir.
Chernoff was not con-
vinced, questioning whether
30 seconds was enough time
for the dramatic sequence to
play out. Alvarez assured him
there was.
The defense attorney also
challenged Alvarezs recollec-
tion, asking whether the col-
lection of the vials happened
after paramedics had come and
whisked Jackson to a nearby
hospital. Alvarez denied it hap-
pened after he called 911.
Chernoff questioned why
Alvarez didnt tell authorities
about Murrays commands to
bag up the medication imme-
diately after Jackson died, but
instead waited until two months
after the singers death. The
bodyguard said he didnt real-
ize its significance until seeing
a news report in late June in
which he recognized one of the
bags detectives were carrying
out of Jacksons mansion.
The burly Alvarez became
emotional as the 911 call was
played for jurors. Jacksons
mother, Katherine, appeared
distraught and her son, Randy,
huddled next to her and put his
arm around her.
BOHLEIN, John A., 91,
of Kentucky and formerly of
Landeck, Mass of Christian
burial will begin at 10:30
a.m. Saturday at St. John the
Baptist Catholic Church in
Landeck, the Rev. Melvin
Verhoff officiating. Memorial
contributions are to Hosparus
(Hospice of Louisville) or St.
Judes Childrens Research
Hospital.
AYERS, Ruth L., 92, of
Bluffton, Graveside services
will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday
at Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Following burial, a memorial
service will be held at 11 a.m.
at the First Mennonite Church
in Bluffton. Friends may call
from 6-8 p.m. today at Chiles-
Laman Funeral and Cremation
Services, Bluffton. Memorial
contributions may be made to
First Mennonite Church.
High temperature Thursday
in Delphos was 71 degrees,
low was 52. Rainfall was
recorded at .42 inch. High a
year ago today was 76, low
was 48. Record high for today
is 94, set in 1997. Record low
is 31, set in 1993.
WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
Associated Press
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of
showers in the evening. Then
partly cloudy after midnight.
Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows around 40. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
SATURDAY: Mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
North winds 10 to 20 mph.
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Clear. Areas of frost after
midnight. Lows in the mid
30s.
EXTENDED FORECAST
SUNDAY: Sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
SUNDAY NIGHT,
MONDAY: Mostly clear.
Lows in the lower 40s. Highs
in the upper 60s.
MONDAY NIGHT-
WEDNESDAY: Mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
Paramedics up next in
trial of Jacksons doctor
Delphos weather
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A boy, Grant David, was
born Sept. 23 at Kettering
Medical Center in Dayton to
David and Stacy Weinandy of
Brookville.
He was welcomed home by
a sister, Lauren.
Grandparents are Bob and
Paul Weinandy of Elida and
Clay and Rita Wagner of
Wapakoneta.
US strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen
By AHMED AL-HAJ
SANAA, Yemen In a
significant new blow to al-
Qaida, U.S. airstrikes in
Yemen today killed Anwar
al-Awlaki, an American
militant cleric who became a
prominent figure in the ter-
ror networks most danger-
ous branch, using his fluent
English and Internet savvy to
draw recruits for attacks in the
United States.
The strike was the big-
gest U.S. success in hitting
al-Qaidas leadership since
the May killing of Osama bin
Laden in Pakistan. But it rais-
es questions that other strikes
did not: Al-Awlaki was an
American citizen who has not
been charged with any crime.
Civil liberties groups have
questioned the governments
authority to kill an American
without trial.
The 40-year-old al-Awlaki
was for years an influential
mouthpiece for al-Qaidas
ideology of holy war, and his
English-language sermons
urging attacks on the United
States were widely circulated
among militants in the West.
But U.S. officials say he
moved into a direct opera-
tional role in organizing such
attacks as he hid alongside al-
Qaida militants in the rugged
mountains of Yemen. Most
notably, they believe he was
involved in recruiting and pre-
paring a young Nigerian who
on Christmas Day 2009 tried
to blow up a U.S. airliner
heading to Detroit, failing
only because he botched the
detonation of explosives sewn
into his underpants.
Yemens Defense Ministry
said another American mili-
tant was killed in the same
strike alongside al-Awlaki
Samir Khan, a U.S. citizen of
Pakistani heritage who pro-
duced Inspire, an English-
language al-Qaida Web mag-
azine that spread the word
on ways to carry out attacks
inside the United States. U.S.
officials said they believed
Khan was in the convoy car-
rying al-Awlaki that was
struck but that they were still
trying to confirm his death.
U.S. and Yemeni officials
said two other militants were
also killed in the strike but
did not immediately identify
them.
Washington has called al-
Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula,
as the branch in Yemen is
called, the most direct threat
to the United States after it
plotted that attack and a foiled
attempt to mail explosives to
synagogues in Chicago.
In July, U.S. Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta said
al-Awlaki was a priority target
alongside Ayman al-Zawahri,
bin Ladens successor as the
terror networks leader.
The Yemeni-American had
been in the U.S. crosshairs
since his killing was approved
by President Barack Obama
in April 2010 making him
the first American placed
on the CIA kill or capture
list. At least twice, airstrikes
were called in on locations
in Yemen where al-Awlaki
was suspected of being, but he
wasnt harmed.
todays success was the
result of counterterrorism
cooperation between Yemen
and the U.S. that has dra-
matically increased in recent
weeks ironically, even as
Yemen has plunged deeper
into turmoil as protesters try
to oust President Ali Abdullah
Saleh, U.S. officials said.
Apparently trying to cling
to power by holding his
American allies closer, Saleh
has opened the taps in coop-
eration against al-Qaida. U.S.
officials said the Yemenis
have also allowed the U.S. to
gather more intelligence on
al-Awlakis movements and
to fly more armed drone and
aircraft missions over its terri-
tory than ever before.
The operation that killed
al-Awlaki was run by the U.S.
militarys elite counterter-
rorism unit, the Joint Special
Operations Command the
same unit that got bin Laden.
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By TRAN VAN MINH
HANOI, Vietnam (AP)
A tropical storm whacked
into Vietnam today, forcing
20,000 people to be evacu-
ated, as the Philippines braced
for a new typhoon and several
Asian countries reeled under
floods after some of the wild-
est weather this summer.
Prolonged monsoon flood-
ing, typhoons and storms
have wreaked untold havoc
in the region, leaving more
than 600 people dead or miss-
ing in India, Thailand, the
Philippines, Japan, China,
Pakistan and Vietnam in the
last four months. In India
alone, the damage is estimated
to be worth $1 billion, with
the worst-hit state of Orissa
accounting for $726 million.
Several studies suggest an
intensification of the Asian
summer monsoon rainfall with
increased atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentrations, the state-
run Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology said. Still, it is not
clear that this is entirely because
of climate change, especially in
India, it said.
After pummeling the
Philippines and China this
week, Typhoon Nesat was
downgraded to a tropical storm
just before churning into north-
ern Vietnam this afternoon with
sustained wind speeds of up to
73 mph (118 kph), according
to the national weather fore-
casting center.
Heavy rains were reported
in northern and central areas.
Warnings were issued for flash
floods and landslides in moun-
tainous regions, and for flood-
ing in low-lying areas. High
winds whipped through the
streets of the capital, Hanoi.
The storm had flooded
streets across the southern
Chinese island of Hainan
on Thursday, forcing some
300,000 people to flee their
homes, Chinas official Xinhua
News Agency said.
On Tuesday, Nesat bashed
the Philippines, killing at least
43 people and leaving 30 oth-
ers missing after causing one
of the worst floods in decades
in the capital, Manila.
The damage was estimated
at $91 million, and prepara-
tions were already under way
for Typhoon Nalgae, which
was headed toward the north-
ern Philippines. Its expected
to pack winds of 87 mph (140
kph) and gusts of 105 mph (170
kph), gaining more strength
before making landfall early
Saturday and dumping heavy
rains, forecasters said.
Asia reels
from floods
as storm
whacks
Vietnam
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, Sept. 30,
the 273rd day of 2011. There
are 92 days left in the year.
Todays Highlight in
History:
On Sept. 30, 1955, actor James
Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car
collision near Cholame, Calif.
On this date:
In 1777, the Continental
Congress forced to flee in
the face of advancing British
forces moved to York, Pa.
In 1791, Mozarts opera
The Magic Flute premiered
in Vienna, Austria.
In 1809, a treaty was
signed by Indiana Territory
Gov. William Henry Harrison
and representatives of four
Indian tribes under which the
Indians sold some 3 million
acres of land to be used for
U.S. settlements.
In 1846, Boston dentist
William Morton used ether as
an anesthetic for the first time as
he extracted an ulcerated tooth
from merchant Eben Frost.
In 1938, after co-signing
the Munich Agreement
allowing Nazi annexation of
Czechoslovakias Sudetenland,
British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain said, I believe it
is peace for our time.
In 1949, the Berlin Airlift
came to an end.
In 1954, the first nuclear-
powered submarine, the USS
Nautilus, was commissioned
by the Navy.
In 1962, black student
James Meredith was escorted
by federal marshals to the
campus of the University of
Mississippi, where he enrolled
for classes the next day.
In 1986, the U.S. released
accused Soviet spy Gennadiy
Zakharov, one day after the
Soviets released American
journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
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From the Vantage Point
The 13th annual Van
Wert County United Way
Day of Caring was held
on Sept. 23. More than 75
Vantage students partici-
pated to help make a dif-
ference.
The senior Medical
Office Management stu-
dents and their teacher,
Linda Bales, purchased
groceries for the Vantage
food drive from money col-
lected from the Vantage
high school programs. In
all, just over $1,400 was
donated. Vantage students
and staff were able to con-
tribute over 3,000 non-per-
ishable food items to the
Salvation Army this year.
Providing some much-
needed muscle to load and
unload the donated food
on and off the collection
trucks were students from
the Vantage Building and
Grounds program and their
teacher Larry Mengerink.
The Vantage student
ambassadors, along with
teacher aide Nancy Keith
and American Studies teach-
er Tony Unverferth worked
at the Salvation Army Food
Drive, helping to unload,
sort, count, box and store
donated food items from
around the county.
Shirley Jarvis and her
senior Health Careers stu-
dents volunteered their
expertise at the bloodmo-
bile held at Trinity Friends
Church Family Life Center.
Using what theyve learned
from class and their prac-
tical experiences, they
performed duties on the
bloodmobile floor and in
the kitchen and canteen to
assist the American Red
Cross and insure that things
went as smoothly as pos-
sible.
Although Robin Burns
and the Culinary Arts class
stayed at school, they par-
ticipated in the days activ-
ities by preparing delicious
chicken noodle soup (with
homemade noodles) and
potato soup for the Red
Cross workers and the vol-
unteers at the bloodmobile.
Community service proj-
ects provide a real oppor-
tunity for students to learn
how to work well with oth-
ers. Being able to give help
without expecting anything
back in return, is an impor-
tant lesson in life.
Vantage joins the Day of Caring
Vantage senior Health Technology students (clock-
wise from left) Miranda Temple (Parkway), instructor,
Shirley Jarvis, Elizabeth Smith (Wayne Trace), Courtnie
Billingsley (Continental), Crystal Morgan (Lincolnview)
and Julia Schilb (Wayne Trace) surround the Blood Drop
(Vantage student Jordan Breece, Van Wert) at the United
Way Day of Caring Bloodmobile.
Vantage Student Ambassadors Nikki Hughes (Antwerp),
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sort donated food items at the Salvation Army Food
Drive.
Vantage Medical Office Management students converge
in the same grocery store aisle as they shop for Day of
Caring Food Drive items.
Ohio close to
relocating
death row
By ANDREW
WELSH-HUGGINS
COLUMBUS Ohio is
close to a decision on relocat-
ing death row to save money
and open up beds for violent
inmates, with a southern Ohio
prison under serious consid-
eration, the prisons agency
said Thursday.
The move would be the
third time the state has moved
the home of Ohios con-
demned prisoners since re-
enacting capital punishment
in 1981.
If adopted, the move would
bring together 117 death row
inmates currently housed at
the Ohio State Penitentiary in
Youngstown and 29 housed
at Mansfield Correctional
Institution in a mental health
unit.
Chillicothe Correctional
Institution, a medium-secu-
rity prison with about 3,000
inmates, is being considered
because of its proximity
to the state death house in
Lucasville, said Carlo LoParo,
spokesman for the Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation
and Correction.
The possible move was
first reported Thursday by the
Columbus Dispatch.
A move makes sense from
a security and efficiency per-
spective, LoParo said.
It opens up several high-
security cells for inmates,
while keeping death row
inmates in very secure envi-
ronment, he said.
The proposal is part of
prisons director Gary Mohrs
efforts to make the best use of
the overcrowded prison sys-
tems space and employees.
Last month, Mohr
announced a plan to isolate
gang members from across
the system into three units
where prisoners would be in
cells up to 23 hours a day.
The death row move
would cut the cost of mov-
ing inmates to the death
house at the Southern Ohio
Correctional Facility. Right
now, it costs $1,200 to move
an inmate from Youngstown
to Lucasville a distance
of 253 miles and $406
to move an inmate from
Mansfield, a distance of 147
miles, according to the pris-
on.
Chillicothe is only about
37 miles north of Lucasville.
Ohio housed death row at
Lucasville from 1981 until
the 1993 prison riots that
left a guard and nine inmates
dead.
It moved death row first to
Mansfield and then, in 2005,
to the supermaximum facility
in Youngstown.
This would be a longer
move but simpler in one
respect: Ohio has 194 death
row inmates in 2005, com-
pared with 146 today.
Death row is shrinking for
a variety of reasons, includ-
ing the execution of several
inmates, the commuting of
several sentences, deaths by
natural causes and a shrinking
number of inmates sentenced
to death in the state.
Executions are in the
midst of an unofficial lull in
Ohio, following two commu-
tations and three postpone-
ments since June. The next
execution is scheduled for
November.
Ohio panel to
reconsider state
Senate lines
Ohio lets guns
in bars, arenas
COLUMBUS (AP)
A state panel charged with
drawing Ohios new legisla-
tive districts is reconvening to
address what the leader of the
legislative Black Caucus says
are civil-rights concerns over
boundaries approved earlier
this week.
The state Apportionment
Board, which meets again
Friday afternoon, has until
Saturday to approve a map for
the next decade.
State Rep. Sandra Williams,
head of the Ohio Legislative
Black Caucus, on Wednesday
proposed adjustments to
two Cleveland-area districts
those of state Sens. Nina
Turner and Shirley Smith,
who are both black.
She said the plan improves
African-American representa-
tion.
Turner and Smith said
Thursday they had not been
consulted about the chang-
es and could not support
Williams plan.
COLUMBUS (AP)
Ohioans with concealed-carry
permits can take their firearms
into bars and other facilities
where alcohol is served and
consumed, as long as they
dont drink, under a law tak-
ing effect today.
Supporters say the mea-
sure is about allowing people
who legally have concealed
weapons to carry the firearms
into restaurants that happen to
serve alcohol, instead of leav-
ing them behind in a vehicle.
Opponents have said it will
lead to a dangerous mix of
booze and firearms.
Businesses dont have to
allow the weapons, and facili-
ties home to Ohios major
professional sports teams plan
to continue to ban weapons
for safety reasons.
The law also allows a per-
son with the proper permit to
have a loaded handgun in a
vehicle even if the gun is not
secured in a holster.
COLUMBUS (AP)
In Toledo on Thursday,
Ohio Gov. John Kasich on
Thursday made his first per-
sonal appearance to promote
a collective bargaining over-
haul he signed into law this
spring. A few dozen protest-
ers rallied outside.
Opponents are seeking
to overturn the law, which
limits the bargaining abilities
of 350,000 teachers, nurses,
firefighters, police and other
public workers around the
state. It bans strikes, scraps
binding arbitration and elimi-
nates teacher step increases.
A Quinnipiac poll released
Tuesday showed more
Ohioans disapprove than
approve of both Kasich and
the union law.
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COLUMBUS (AP)
An official says it will cost
Ohio less than expected to
advertise the three statewide
ballot issues in newspapers
this fall because of a change
in the process.
The Columbus Dispatch
reports the state constitu-
tion requires the full ballot
issues to be printed in daily
newspapers three times
ahead of the election.
The chief operating
officer at the Secretary of
States office told a spend-
ing oversight panel that the
state turned to an affiliate
of the Ohio Newspaper
Association called AdOhio
instead of negotiating with
each publication. He says
that means distributing the
60-page insert will cost
$2.1 million instead of the
estimated $4.5 million.
Most of that is for print-
ing the new 300-page law
that limits collective bar-
gaining for public workers
and is the focus of Issue 2.
State expects to
save ad dollars
I dont know whether war is an interlude during peace,
or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau, French statesman (1841-1929).
IT WAS NEWS THEN
POLITICS
Moderately confused
One Year Ago
The St. Johns High School 2010 Homecoming Court
included Morgan Jostpille, Christie Carder, Myriah Jackson,
Alyssa Berelsman, Emma Boggs, Mallory McLennan,
Heather Vogt, Gwen Neumeier, Cody Looser, Jake Hays,
Dylan Krendl, Evan Burgei, Chris Pohlman, Queen Alicia
Ankerman, Ty Bergfeld, Joey Grubenhoff, Austin Jostpille,
Andrew Metzger, and Luke MacLennan.
25 Years Ago 1986
The Fort Jennings Lions Club held its third annual sweep-
stakes banquet and drawing recently at the Fort Jennings
Elementary School. Top winner of the $1,500 cash or a trip
for two to Las Vegas was won by Norman Wiechart of Fort
Jennings. Second place winner of $400 was Tom Bruskotter
and third place winner of $200 was Dan Recker, both from
Fort Jennings.
Middle Point PeeWee Softball Apple Dumplings went
through their season undefeated. Team members are Becky
Stutz, Kelly Klausing, Carry Klausing, Kristy Klausing, Cami
Delgouto, Michelle DuVaull, Sabrina Delgouto, Amy Smith,
Summer Sennebougen, Brandy Stutz, Becky Metzger, Jody
Pollock, Amy Delgouto, Paula Walter, Jennifer DuVaull,
Mindy Miller and Adrianna Hammons.
The Landeck team claimed the $10 fourth prize in the
Battle of the Youth competition held at St. Anthony Parish,
Columbus Grove. Some members of the Landeck team are
Randy Mueller, Brian Klausing, Kevin Grothaus, Tammy
Youngpeter, Scott Bonifas and Kathy Grothaus.
50 Years Ago 1961
Carl A. Wieging, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wieging,
was elected to the presidency of the Auglaize County
Teachers Association at the September executive board
meeting. Wieging teaches sixth grade and is Junior High
football and basketball coach. He has done work at Findlay
College and will graduate next summer.
Robert Swartz, local auto body repair man, set a new
track record at the local race track here Thursday night. His
time for the new record was listed at 12.4 seconds. In the
singles race, Tom Stallkamp lead in the slow heat with E. E.
Brown taking the fast heat and Stallkamp coming in first to
take the slow feature with Dan Mesker in second place.
Mrs. Paul Kaverman was hostess to the members of the
Del-Otto Club and one guest, Mrs. Frank Senbert, Wednesday
evening in her home on West First Street. Cards formed the
evenings entertainment and at the close of the evening, first
prize was awarded to Mrs. Albert Grothouse, second to Mrs.
Senbert, and low to Mrs. Richard Shumaker.
75 Years Ago 1936
The Giants, with Hubbell pitching masterful ball, walked
off with the opening game of the World Series by a score of
6 to 1. The Yankees took the lead in the third inning when
they scored their lone run, a homerun by Selkirk. A homer
by Bartell tied the count in the fifth. The Giants added one
in the sixth and four more in the eighth on three hits and two
errors.
A Get Acquainted party honoring all new members, all
other girls new to Jefferson High School and all new teach-
ers and wives, sponsored by the Girl Reserve Club was set
Oct. 1 in Jefferson auditorium. Betty Evans was in charge of
the entertainment and Billie Jean Apger was set to direct the
singing and music.
Dorotha Kimball entertained the members of her club,
the Alpha Theta Bridge, and several guests at her home
on West Fifth Street Tuesday evening. Mrs. Leslie Peltier
and Avanell Davies, Bernie Fox and Velma Kloeppel were
guests. In bridge, Ladonna Lockhart held high score of the
club members. Avanell Davies received guest honors.
By ROBERT BURNS
AP National
Security Writer
WASHINGTON Even
before taking over as chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, the highest military
office in the land, Army Gen.
Martin Dempsey made one
thing clear. He differs with
his predecessor on one of
the most important issues of
the day: the threat posed to
national security by a grow-
ing national debt.
Dempsey was to be sworn
in today as successor to Navy
Adm. Mike Mullen, who is
retiring. At his Senate con-
firmation hearing in July,
Dempsey was asked wheth-
er he agrees with Mullens
oft-repeated assertion that
the debt crisis is the single
biggest threat to American
national security.
I dont agree exactly with
that, Dempsey said.
In his view, developed in
the course of a 37-year career
that includes two tours of
command in Iraq and one in
Saudi Arabia, American glob-
al power and influence are
derived from three strengths:
military, diplomatic and eco-
nomic.
You cant pick or
choose, he said; none of the
three is paramount.
Its too early to know how
much change Dempsey will
foster in his role as the top
U.S. military officer, but its
certain that pressures to cut
the defense budget and
what that implies for the mili-
tary and for American foreign
policy will be a dominant
issue from Day One of his
tenure.
So while he sees the debt
problem as highly important,
Dempsey believes the United
States cannot be successful in
managing its national secu-
rity and international affairs
without asserting influence
through a combination of a
powerful military, an effec-
tive diplomatic corps and a
sound economy.
His will be among the key
voices in recommending how
to cut hundreds of billions of
dollars from the defense bud-
get over the coming decade.
By law, the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs serves as
the senior military adviser to
the president, the presidents
National Security Council and
the secretary of defense. But
the chairman is not directly
in the chain of command that
extends from the president
to the secretary of defense to
commanders in the field. He
is the public face of the U.S.
military and weighs in on
major policy decisions but is
not actually in charge of any
troops.
Dempsey is the first Army
general to hold the job since
Hugh Shelton retired in
2001.
One of the legacies of
Mullens four years as chair-
man was his less-than-suc-
cessful effort to persuade
Pakistans military chief,
Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani,
to do more to contain and dis-
able violent extremist groups
like al-Qaida and the Haqqani
network that use Pakistan as
a haven.
In the final week of his
tenure, Mullen made his
biggest headline by telling
a Senate committee that the
Haqqanis are a veritable
arm of Pakistans intelli-
gence service and by assert-
ing that Pakistani intelligence
supported and facilitated a
string of Haqqani attacks on
Americans in Afghanistan.
His statement infuriated the
Pakistan government and
arguably set back, at least
temporarily, an already frayed
U.S.-Pakistani relationship.
Dempseys views on
Pakistans importance to suc-
cess in Afghanistan appear
similar to Mullens, although
he has been less specific about
the role of the Haqqanis. In
his July testimony, he said it
has never been clear to him
why the Pakistani govern-
ment goes after some extrem-
ist groups but not others. He
said that as Joint Chiefs chair-
man he would work with the
Pakistanis to improve border
security.
Like many who rise to
the highest ranks of the U.S.
military, Dempsey is not
known for his public out-
spokenness. He took over as
Army chief of staff in April.
Before that he commanded
the Armys Training and
Doctrine Command, and he
previously served for several
months as acting commander
of U.S. Central Command
with responsibility for all
U.S. military operations
and relations in the greater
Middle East.
He graduated from the
U.S. Military Academy at
West Point in 1974.
New military chief seeks
balance in US power
By JAY REEVES
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
The police chief of a small
town in the Appalachian foot-
hills of Alabama didnt know
what to do about checking
the immigration status of a
Hispanic man his department
recently arrested on an old
warrant. So he didnt do any-
thing.
Alabamas strict new
immigration law, which was
largely upheld Wednesday
by a federal judge, requires
police to jail anyone who
cant prove he or she is in the
country legally.
Much of the law goes into
effect immediately, but that
doesnt mean there will be
mass roundups of thousands
of illegal immigrants any-
time soon. Across Alabama,
police charged with enforc-
ing the nations toughest law
targeting illegal immigrants
are trying to figure out how
to enforce the law and pay
for it.
The police chief, Chris
West, and his three officers
patrol Crossville, a rural town
of 1,300 people that adjoins a
Hispanic community of hun-
dreds and maybe more. The
nearest jail is 20 miles away.
The law is complicated and
they have little money for
training.
Right now were waiting
to find out whats in the law,
and then were going to start
enforcing it, he said.
The law is described by
both supporters and oppo-
nents as the toughest state
law in the U.S. targeting ille-
gal immigrants. U.S. District
Judge Sharon Blackburn,
a Republican appointee,
wrote in a 115-page opinion
Wednesday that some parts
of the GOP-backed law con-
flict with federal statutes, but
others dont. Left standing
were several key elements
that help make the Alabama
law stricter than similar laws
passed in Arizona, Utah,
Indiana and Georgia.
Among other things,
Alabamas law requires pub-
lic school officials to check
the immigration status of stu-
dents, though they can still
attend. Authorities can hold
suspected illegal immigrants
without bond and state courts
are barred from enforcing con-
tracts involving illegal immi-
grants. Its a misdemeanor
for illegal immigrants to not
have immigration papers.
Now police are trying to
make sense of what their offi-
cers should do when they
pull over Hispanic motorists
or patrol communities that
are home to the estimated
185,000 Hispanic people now
in the state.
We just need to know
what to do without getting
everyone in trouble, said
Boaz Police Chief Terry
Davis, president of an associ-
ation of 365 Alabama police
chiefs. Were all sort of con-
fused right now.
In Coffee County, where
poultry plants and the annu-
al tomato harvest are mag-
nets for immigrants seeking
work, Sheriff David Sutton
said holding suspected ille-
gal immigrants could cause
overcrowding in his 124-bed
jail, particularly because no
one knows how long it might
take federal officers to pick
up people for possible depor-
tation.
Immigration law upheld in fed. court
By DOUGLAS BIRCH
Associated Press
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho
U.S. utilities and other
crucial industries face an
increasing number of cyber
break-ins by attackers using
more sophisticated methods,
a senior Homeland Security
Department official told
reporters during the first tour
of the governments secretive
defense labs intended to pro-
tect the nations power grid,
water and communications
systems.
Acting DHS Deputy
Undersecretary Greg Schaffer
told reporters Thursday at
one of several nondescript
buildings that house Control
System Security Program
facilities that the worlds utili-
ties and industries increasing-
ly are becoming vulnerable
as they wire their industrial
machinery to the Internet.
We are connecting equip-
ment that has never been
connected before to these
global networks, Schaffer
said. Disgruntled employees,
hackers and perhaps foreign
governments are knocking
on the doors of these systems
and there have been intru-
sions.
According to the depart-
ment, the number of private
organizations asking for the
departments help in protect-
ing their automated control
systems rose from 57 last
year to 81 so far this year.
The number of times that
the departments Computer
Emergency Response Team
for industrial systems has
deployed rose from one in
2009 to six in 2010. So far this
year, the team has responded
to seven reported instances of
attacks or vulnerabilities in
control systems.
Department officials
declined to give details about
emergency response team
deployments, citing confiden-
tiality agreements with the
companies involved. Under
current law, the reporting
of cyber attacks by private
organizations is strictly vol-
untary.
The Obama administration
has proposed making report-
ing mandatory, but the White
House is likely to find the
idea difficult to sell at a time
when Republicans complain
about increased regulation of
business.
Officials said they knew of
only one recent criminal con-
viction for corrupting indus-
trial control systems, that of
a former security guard at a
Dallas hospital whose hack-
ing of hospital computers
wound up shutting down the
air conditioning system. The
former guard was sentenced
to 110 months in prison in
March.
The Homeland Security
Departments control system
security program at the Idaho
National Laboratory includes
the emergency response
team, a Cyber Analysis
Center where control sys-
tems are tested for vulnera-
bilities, a malware laboratory
for analyzing cyber threats
and a classified watch and
warning center where data
about threats are assessed and
shared with other cyber secu-
rity and intelligence offices.
Marty Edwards, chief of
the control system security
effort, said the malware lab
analyzed the Stuxnet virus
that attacked the Iranian ura-
nium enrichment facility in
Natanz last year. He did not
describe the groups findings
in detail, except to say that
they confirmed that it was
very sophisticated.
Edwards and other officials
denied reports that the cyber
research at Idaho National
Laboratory, which included
studying the vulnerabilities of
the kind of industrial control
systems Iran used at Natanz,
had aided in the development
of Stuxnet.
US: Cyber attacks on utilities, industries rise
By STEPHEN
OHLEMACHER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON So
much for pushing back the
start of primary season.
Despite efforts by both
political parties to avoid a
repeat of 2008 by delaying
early presidential primaries
and caucuses, states trying
to increase their influence
are leapfrogging their dates,
threatening to push the first
Republican contests into early
January again.
A Florida commission is
expected to announce today
that its presidential primary
will be held Jan. 31, accord-
ing to Florida House Speaker
Dean Cannon, though GOP
officials from other states are
lobbying Florida to recon-
sider.
The move by Florida could
spark a stampede by Iowa,
New Hampshire, Nevada and
South Carolina, which were
granted special status by both
political parties, allowing
them to hold the first nomi-
nating contests.
The bottom line is, if
Florida moves, Im moving,
said South Carolina GOP
Chairman Chad Connelly,
who has the authority to sched-
ule the states Republican pri-
mary. Were going to be the
first in the South presidential
preference primary, no matter
what it takes.
Connelly said he would try
to schedule South Carolinas
primary as close to Floridas
as possible, perhaps holding
it the Saturday before the
Florida vote, on Jan. 28. That
scenario could push the Iowa
GOP caucuses to Jan. 9, fol-
lowed by the New Hampshire
primary Jan. 17 and the
Nevada causes Jan. 21.
This scenario, however,
assumes that no other state
jumps into January.
Iowa will be first. The
only open question is the
date on which we hold our
first in the nation caucuses,
Iowa GOP chairman Matthew
Strawn said. Ironically, in
attempting to assert increased
relevance in the process,
Floridas move only elevates
the importance of Iowa and
the other early states. A com-
pressed caucus and primary
calendar makes doing well
in the four kickoff states a
necessity for a candidate to
secure the Republican nomi-
nation.
Georgia broke the trend
Thursday, announcing it will
hold its primary March 6,
the 2012 version of Super
Tuesday.
The RNC deadline for
setting primary and caucus
dates is Saturday, though
some states may miss it.
Those states could have
their delegations challenged
at the national convention in
Tampa, Fla. Four years ago,
New Hampshire waited until
Nov. 21 to schedule its pri-
mary, which was held Jan. 8.
That year, the Iowa caucuses
led the way on Jan. 3.
By law, New Hampshire
Secretary of State William
Gardner must schedule the
Granite States primary at
least seven days ahead of all
similar contests. State party
rules require Nevada to hold
its Republican caucuses four
days after New Hampshires
primary, Nevada GOP
Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian
said.
GOP primaries
may shufe
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1-4 p.m. Interfaith Thrift
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9 a.m.-noon Interfaith
Thrift Store is open for shop-
ping.
St. Vincent DePaul Society,
located at the east edge of the
St. Johns High School park-
ing lot, is open.
10 a.m to 2 p.m. Delphos
Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. Testing of
warning sirens by Delphos
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Main St., is open.
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Johns Little Theatre.
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Center, 301 Suthoff Street.
7 p.m. Delphos City
Council meets at the Delphos
Municipal Building, 608 N.
Canal St.
Delphos Parks and
Recreation board meets at the
recreation building at Stadium
Park.
Washington Township
trustees meet at the township
house.
7:30 p.m. Spencerville
village council meets at the
mayors office.
Delphos Eagles Auxiliary
meets at the Eagles Lodge,
1600 Fifth St.
8 p.m. The Veterans
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Whats Your Number? (R) Fri.:
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SPORTS
Senior Nadine Clarkson flips one off the hands of
Spencerville defenders for a Jefferson point Thursday
night at Jefferson. The visiting Bearcats grabbed a 4-set
NWC triumph.
Tom Morris photo
St. Johns senior Cody
Kundert follows through on
his chip shot on 18 Thursday.
He helped the Blue Jays to a
318 team score and advance
on to district play at Stone
Ridge Country Club in
Bowling Green.
Jim Metcalfe photos
Jefferson junior Nick
Gallmeier follows the flight
of his chip shot on No. 18
Thursday afternoon at
Auglaize Country Club.
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS After
splitting the first two sets,
Spencervilles volleyball team
rolled the third and fourth
sets Thursday night, handing
host Jefferson a 25-16, 21-25,
25-11, 25-17 Northwest
Conference loss.
With both teams looking
for their first NWC victo-
ry of 2011, both started off
slowly this night and strug-
gled to maintain consistency
throughout the night, espe-
cially on the hitting front. The
Bearcats (4-12, 1-5 NWC)
slowly began to take com-
mand early on, using a 6-0
spurt to take a 9-6 lead to a
15-6 one on a hitting error by
the Lady Wildcats (31 for the
night versus 19 for the visi-
tors). After a kill by sopho-
more Lindsay Deuel stopped
that run, the hosts answered
with a 4-0 span. However,
that was broken when senior
Taylor Elchert (11 kills; 4
aces) put down an overpass to
get a 16-11 edge. That was all
the visitors needed to steadily
pull away and take set one on
a hitting error off a good spike
by junior Shelby Mulholland
(3 aces out of 19).
Whereas the young hosts
committed 10 hitting errors
of one form or another in set
one, they cleaned it up more
in set two. That was the dif-
ference. Neither team could
get on a serious spurt to take
command and neither had
more than a 6-point lead
12-6, Delphos, on a hit off the
block by sophomore Rileigh
Stockwell (4 kills). The visi-
tors battled back to notch a
21-all tie on a hit off the
defense by Elchert. However,
a serving error (8 for the night
versus 6 for the Wildcats) by
the visitors started a 4-0 clos-
ing spurt: two hitting miscues
and an ace by junior Fallon
Van Dyke (2 aces of a team
total of 9; 12 assists); to knot
the match at 1-1.
We cleaned up our hit-
ting in the second set. I was
pleased with how we came
back after the first set,
Jefferson first-year coach Joy
Early noted. For us, its all
about communication on the
court. Our last two sets, we
stopped talking and thats
when it fell apart for us.
Bearcat rookie coach Kari
Wisher concurred.
When we stop talking, our
game falls apart. Thats what
happened the second set,
she explained. We got back
to that the third and fourth
set and the results speak for
themselves.
The Red and White netted
the first three points of the
third set but the Wildcats
attack began to struggle find-
ing the range. Still, it was
close for the first 20 points,
with a 10-10 tie after a Van
Dyke ace. A hit off the block
by senior Morgan Pugh jump-
started a killer run by the
Black Attack: a 10-0 spurt on
the serves of senior Shanna
German (3 aces): with Elchert
and junior Abby Freewalt
(12 kills; 3 aces) helping
take charge. A serving error
stopped the bleeding briefly
but the Bearcats closed with
two kills from Freewalt and
three aces by Elchert, includ-
ing on set point, for a 2-1
edge in the match.
Spencerville continued
that momentum into the
fourth frame, with Pugh and
freshman Schylar Miller (4
aces; 13 assists) serving three
straight aces to take a 9-3 edge
on a stuff by Mulholland.
The Wildcats received a hit-
ting miscue and an ace by
sophomore Katie Goergens
(8 kills; 2 aces) to stop that
bleeding but when freshman
Katie Merriman put a spike
off the block, that started a
7-0 span three points on
aces by Freewalt to take
a commanding 16-5 edge.
From there, it was a matter of
time before the visitors salted
the match away, getting a kill
by Freewalt of match point to
finish it off.
Senior Nadine Clarkson
put down six kills for Jefferson
(1-13, 0-6 NWC), senior
Kelsey Goodwin and sopho-
more Gabrielle Pimpas added
two aces each And freshman
Desteni Lear added four digs.
All 11 healthy players on the
varsity roster (junior Alyssa
Miller is injured) was time.
I was running out of
players. I was trying differ-
ent people to try and break
their momentum but I replace
inexperienced players with
even less-experienced play-
ers, Early added. There are
things that we constantly talk
about, such as being in the
right spots for spike coverage,
but its something that contin-
ues to plague us. That is what
were battling through.
Senior Jackie Bowser
had 17 assists and classmate
Devan Hanjora 13 digs for
the Lady Bearcats.
We won the first set and
then sat back and thought we
had this match. That has been
an issue for us this year; we
need to realize we cant let
up because the other team
wont, Wicker added. Abby
played a really good match.
She stepped up big in the last
two sets. We also just started
swinging hard instead of try-
ing to aim, like we did the
second set.
Jefferson grabbed the
junior varsity match 7-25,
25-20, 25-18 to move to 3-11
(1-5 NWC).
Spencerville visits Lima
Temple Christian 6 p.m.
(varsity only) Monday, while
Jefferson visits Allen East
Thursday (6 p.m. JV start).
Lady Bearcats win 1st
NWC match of 11
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
DEFIANCE Most
everyone would have predict-
ed that St. Johns, Ottoville
and Kalida were going to
advance out of the Division
III sectional boys golf tour-
nament on a wet and windy
Thursday at Auglaize Country
Club near Defiance.
They would have been
correct as the Wildcats shot
a 312, the Big Green 316 and
the Blue Jays 318.
Ottoville had edged Kalida
Wednesday in the PCL tour-
nament at Pike Run.
We focus a lot on the
short game, as every coach
does, and its paying off now.
This is when you want to be
peaking, Kalida mentor Ken
Schnipke noted. We have
really done very well the last
two weeks, not just today or
Wednesday. It was a tough
course under tough condi-
tions due to weather but all
three teams that moved on
golfed very well.
Big Green head man
Jim Brown was more than
pleased.
After an emotional PCL
win Wednesday, I would
have taken three 80s and a
320 score. Its not ideal for
any of the kids to have the
PCL and sectional back-to-
back days but they handled
it well, Brown said. There
wasnt much roll today on the
fairways but we posted five
good scores: all three teams
that advanced all have five
solid scores with less-than-
ideal conditions. I didnt care
if we came in first or third;
all the goal was today was
survive and move on.
That was also the goal of
the Blue Jays and coach John
Klausing after their 318.
It took a 322 to win it
last year, so the golf was
great today despite the wind
and wet grounds. Most of
our players golfed here last
year and that makes a dif-
ference, Klausing explained.
As weve gone on, Ive been
able to settle on the same
five. That really helps. These
guys understand course man-
agement: a swing is still a
swing but they understand
situations, like what club to
use at what distance. This
was the lowest team score
weve had this year.
All three crews advance to
Thursdays Bowling Green
District tournament at Stone
Ridge Country Club.
Of the local teams
that did not advance, Fort
Jennings was seventh out of
13, Jefferson was 10th and
Crestview 12th.
Its about where I expect-
ed wed be, Musketeer
coach Todd Hoehn said. Our
scores were what they have
been most of the year but a
little better as we went on.
Right now, all it comes down
to is working at the game and
playing whenever they can.
With only one senior,
Tyler Miller, among his top
five, Wildcat coach Chad
Brinkman has a lot of expec-
tations already for next fall.
Im pleased with how we
handled this today. We have
steadily improved, though it
might not have always been
reflected in the scores,
Brinkman added. I felt we
really learned two things this
year: what clubs to use for a
shot what club is associ-
ated with what distance
and the important of hitting
greens. I kept those stats all
year and you could see them
going in the right direction.
Four of the five we had today
will return next year, so I am
excited about that.
The Crestview team ended
an inconsistent season.
We have been up and
down all year and that was
the same today with a dif-
ficult course under difficult
conditions, Crestview coach
Jeremy Best noted. The guys
were solid two or three holes
and then would have a seven
or an eight; at this point of
the season, those are hard
to overcome. Unfortunately,
four of the five guys we had
golfing today were seniors,
so we will be starting from
scratch again next fall. Golf
is very much a mental game,
especially when you throw
the elements like today. You
either play well or you go
home.
Team Scores (top 3 teams advance
to Bowling Green District):
Kalida 312: Andy Horstman 75,
Cody Mathew 77, Neil Recker 78, Zach
Erhart 82, Eric Kahle 84.
Ottoville 316: Zach Weber 75, Kyle
Karhoff 78, Travis Maag 80, Luke
Schimmoeller 83, Derek Schimmoeller
84.
St. Johns 318: Cody Kundert 75,
Nick Kayser 76, Eric Bergfeld 82,
Isaac Klausing 85, Sean Flanagan 85.
Wayne Trace 340: Grady
Gudakunst*# 73, C. Linder* 82, R. Myers
92, Z. Mansfield 93, R. Jewell 100.
Tinora 347: M. Overmyer 83*, N.
Olson 84, A. Frank 88, R. Rennolet 92,
Q. Lambert 100.
Ayersville 354: A. Jerna 80*, M.
Engle 86, Z. Rensi 89, C. Claud 99, J.
Ritter 118.
Fort Jennings 359: Kurt Warnecke
84, Cody Warnecke 88, Zach
Schuerman 89, Josh Wittler 98, Nate
German 106.
Antwerp 367: K. Reinhart 86, T.
Jones 91, J. Wilson 92, E. Miesle 98, A.
Stout 107.
Leipsic 368: T. Niese 84, J. Niese
86, N. Haselman 99, L. Selhorst 99, Z.
Erhart 110.
Jefferson 383: Nick Gallmeier 93,
Tyler Miller 94, Carter Mox 96, Jacob
Violet 100, Tyler Wrasman 102.
Fairview 393: E. Hearne 89,
J. Elchinger 95, B. Fitzwater 101, J.
Breininger 108, K. Culler 112.
Crestview 398: Jake Wortman 92,
Derek Bissonnette 99, Jared Hallfeldt
100, Jake Mengerink 107, Zach
Schaadt 107.
Pettisville 434: T. Hershberger 101,
R. Behnfeldt 108, Z. Kempf 109, B.
Graber 116, L. Meller 120.
* - Advanced to District as
Individual
# - Medalist
Ottoville, Kalida, St. Johns top 3 at Auglaize
By DAVE BONINSEGNA
The Delphos Herald
zsportslive@yahoo.com

OTTOVILLE There
was more than a Putnam
County League volleyball
match involved Thursday
night at L.W. Heckman
Gymnasium.
It was Volley For The
Cure night as the Lady Big
Green and Leipsic wore the
pink colors in support for
breast cancer awareness
and to help raise funds for
research.
It was the second such
night in three days for the
Vikings, who were coming
into the contest with their
third match in as many days
and with a record of 14-0.
The match up at the net of
Ottovilles 6-4 Abby Siefker
(8 kills) and Leipsics 6-2
Kelly Nadler proved interest-
ing during the evening but in
the end, the service and sets
of the Lady Vikings prevailed
as the guests took their third
sweep in a row, downing the
Green 25-15, 25-16, 25-20.
Emily Gerten led the
Vikings with 26 assists,
Molly Ellerbrock added 14
digs and Nadler provided 10
kills and three aces in the
Leipsic win.
In set one, the teams were
knotted on seven different
occasions. Siefker provided
a trifecta of kills at
the net, including
a spike that gave
the hosts their big-
gest lead of the set
at 15-11, but the
duo of Nadler and
Amber Gerdeman
gave the Vikings
the next four points and tied
the set at 15-15.
The following six points
teetered back and forth as
ties of 16, 17 and 18 ensues.
However, Gerten gave Leipsic
the lead for good at 19-18.
The Vikings took six out of
the next seven points and
finished the set on a Gerten
kill at 25-19.
Set two was almost a
repeat of the first: four ties
and a close contest until late
in the set. Taylor Mangas
provided scoring for the Lady
Green, giving the hosts their
only lead of the set at 6-5.
However, a Gerdeman
delivery to the open court
tied it at 6-6;. After a Siefker
knock to the Leipsic side pro-
vided the last tie of the set at
9-all, the Vikings went on a
10-2 run. With the game at
17-12, Rachel Rieman
delivered three con-
secutive aces to put
the Vikings in the
drivers seat.
Nadler finished the
set-two win for the
visitors the same way
it started; with a drive
into the Ottoville court, giv-
ing the guests a 2-set advan-
tage.
Ottoville did something in
the third set that they had not
been able to do in the previ-
ous and that was to get the
first point; it provided some
momentum in giving the hosts
an early advantage. Siefker
and Nadler exchanged kills at
the net for their prospective
teams but a Kylee Schweller
ace put the Green up 5-2 and
appeared to bring a shift in
the impetus of the contest.
Nonetheless, unforced
errors by Ottoville brought
the Vikings back into the set
and after a 6-6 tie, the visitors
in pink and purple went on
an 8-0 run and were seem-
ingly in control again. But
Megan Bendele (10 kills) and
Tonya Kaufman (13 assists)
used their combined efforts
to bring Ottoville right back
at tie it at 14-14.
Leipsic has thrived on
communication and their
passing ability this season
and it was evident that this
would be no different; with
the score at 16-15 in favor of
the Vikings, Gerten delivered
a pass to Gerdeman that the
sophomore punched across to
the far side of the Big Green
court, giving the guests a
17-15 advantage.
Siefker delivered a like
push of the ball later to pull
the hosts to within four at
22-18 but three hitting errors
later by the home team
allowed the Vikings to com-
plete the sweep.
Leipsic won the junior var-
sity matchup 25-15, 25-19.
The Lady Green (5-8, 1-3
PCL) visit St. Johns 10 a.m.
Saturday (JV start).
Vikings sweep Ottoville in Volley For The Cure
By MALLORY
KEMPER
The Delphos Herald
mkemper2011@hotmail.com

LIMA The girls ten-
nis teams of Elida and Van
Wert girls tennis
teams both move
on to Saturday
in the Western
Buckeye League
Cha mpi ons hi ps
playing the first
round at the UNOH
tennis courts
Thursday morning.
Van Wert came
into the championships with
a record of 9-3 (6-3 WBL)
while Elida came in with a
record of 5-12 (3-6 WBL).
The Lady Cougars had
all five entries in the tourna-
ment advance to Saturdays
semifinals (9 a.m.)
Brook Keeber for Van
Wert (first singles) and sec-
ond singles Jenna Waterman
knocked off their respective
foes Monica Tieu (Elida)
and Kim Kahle (Ottawa-
Glandorf) and won 6-2,
6-1 and 6-2, 7-5.
Third singles Katie Etter
was matched up with oppo-
nent Annie Harrod
from Wapakoneta
and won her
match 6-2, 6-0.
The Cougars
first doubles of
L. Smith and G.
Klinker clubbed
K. Martin and
K. Wellons from
Wapakoneta 6-1,
6-0.
The second doubles of
Paige Dunlap and K. Kline
also crushed their opponents,
J. Ward and M. Audiwumi
from St. Marys Memorial,
6-1, 6-3.
Today went very good;
we had at least every girl
win one match and we have
a lot of girls coming back
to play again on Saturday,
Van Wert co-coach Mitch
Price said. We have had a
strong season but we are los-
ing five seniors. The leader-
ship of the seniors has done
a great job this year but I am
excited to see Katie Etter and
Paige Dunlap
come back next
year.
In the sec-
ond singles for
Elida, Abby
Orians pounded
her opponent,
Madison Pauff
(Bath), to move on with a
score of 6-0, 6-1 but lost to
Brianna Beougher (Celina)
6-1, 6-1.
In the third singles,
Lauren Greeley fought hard
against Katie Peterson from
St. Marys but fell 6-3, 6-1.
In the second doubles,
Hailey Hurst and Cera
Savage beat E. Brown and
P. Dodson from St. Marys
6-4, 6-2.
In the first doubles Robin
Klaus and Erin Kesler
played hard but lost to A.
Zimmerman and A. Dodson
(St. Marys) 7-6 (8-6), 6-2.
As for Elida, co-coach
Jamie Hilborn stated that
this season was a
rebuilding year for
the team but was
very happy with
the way the girls
played Thursday.
We have a lot
of newer players
this year who have
really improved from the start
of the season until today,
Hilborn added. I would like
to give a shout out to our
second doubles, Hurst and
Savage, who played really
well today. They never beat
St. Marys in the season this
year, so it was really neat to
see that.
The WBL semifinals start
9 a.m. Saturday at UNOH.
Van Wert advances whole team in WBL meet;
Elida second doubles also remains
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Bowling Reports
Thur. Classic Six
WON LOST
1. D.R.C. 28 12
2. The Fort 26 14
3. Schrader Realty 26 14
4. Chuck Peters Realty 18 22
5. Sleets Coins 12 28
6. I & K 10 30
GAMES OVER 175
Shannon Moreo 211, Nikki Rice 221,
Trina Schuerman 212, Brandy Kerhsner
216, Tammy Ellerbrock 178, Lisa
VanMeter 190, Sandy Fisher 211
Tuesday Merchant
Sept.20,2011
Adams Automotive 28-4
Surveyors 26-6
Topp Chalet 20-12
R C Connections 20-12
Ace Hardware 20-12
Delphos Sporting Goods 16-16
Kerns Ford 16-16
Unverferth Mfg. 7-25
Caballeros 7-25
Men over 200: Dan Stemen 221-260,
David Newman 215-204-201, Rob Logan
213, Scott Scalf 266-278-279, Bruce
Haggard 236, Dave Moenter 233-210-217,
Lenny Klaus 225-268, Randy Fischbach
233-202-201, Greg Clouse 233, Don
Rice 221-217, Dan Grice 219-210-236,
Josh DeVelvis 221-223, Russ Wilhelm
232, Andrew Schimmoller 233-210-247,
Zach Sargent 228-246, Kyle Early 223-
236, Ryan Keis 211-207, Denny Dyke
211-202, John Adams 207-202, Larry
Etzkorn 202-204, Bruce VanMetre 225-
223, Alex VanMetre 279, John Jones 211,
John Allen 264, Carter Prine 201, Jason
Wagoner 222, Joe Geise 223-211
Men over 550: Dan Stemen 654,
David Newman 620, Scott Scalf 823,
Bruce Haggard 611, Dave Moenter 660,
Lenny Klaus 672, Randy Fischbach 636,
Jason Mahlie 554, Don Rice 628, Dan
Grice 665, Josh DeVelvis 636, Russ
Wilhelm 565, Andrew Schimmoller 690,
Zach Sargent 654, Kyle Early 652, Jerry
Mericle 559, Don Honigford 552, Ryan
Keis 589, Denny Dyke 613, John Adams
601, Bruce VanMetre 595, Alex VanMetre
663, John Jones 558, John Allen 662,
Jason Wagoner 598, Joe Geise,606
Wednesday Industrial
Sept,21,2011
K&M Tire 26-6
Moes Dougout 22-10
Villager Tavern 21-11
D R C 13th Frame Lounge 18-14
Delphos Restaurant Supply 16-16
Topp Chalet 15-17
Cabos 14-18
Rustic Cafe 12-20
D&D Grain 10-22
Neideckens 6-26
Men over 200: Don Rice 235, Dale
Metzger 215, Shawn Allemeier 242-201,
Bruce VanMetre 238-279, Dan Grice
209, Shawn Stabler 206, Dave Kreischer
212, Butch Prine Jr. 211, Jeff Kreischer
226-216, Don Honigford 225, Coda
Henze 215, Justin Rahrig 203-224, Shane
Schimmoller 268-229, Duane Kohorst
226, Jeff Bolenbaugh 221, Brent Beck
209, Dave Miller 214-203-230, John
Beebe 203-204-268, Frank Mmiller 244-
242-212, Joe Geise 207, John Allen 204,
John Jones 215-223, Seaqn Hulihan 244-
214, Terry Trentman 204-223, Lenny
Hubert 216-237-223,
Men over 550: Don Rice 618, Shawn
Allemeier 639, Bruce VanMetre 700,Dan
Grice 598, Dave Kreischer 597, Butch
Prine Jr. 589, Jeff Kreischer 590, Don
Honigford 584, Justin Rahrig 587, Shane
Schimmoller 696, Duane Kohorst 612,
Ben Jones 556, Brent Hollar 580, Dave
Miller 647, John Beebe 675, Frank Miller
698, Joe Geise 570, John Allen 575,
John Jones 631, Sean Hulihan 635, Terry
Trentman 608, Lenny Hubert 676
Thursday National
Sept.22 ,2011
Day Metals 28-12
Sportsman Club 26-14
K-M Tire 26-14
D R C Big Dogs 26-14
Bowersock Hauling 22-18
V F W 18-22
First Federal 18-22
Westrich 16-24
Wannemachers 16-24
Men over 200: Phil Fetzer 226, Frank
MMiller 279-235-212, Tim Koester 224,
Ted Wells 227-232, Brad Thorhburgh
232-204, Doug Milligan Sr. 214, Jeff
Lawrence 225-244, Jim looser 205, Lenny
Klaus 226, Mark Jettinghoff 245-207, Dan
Wilhelm 226, Randy Fischbach 216-227-
236, Jason Mahlie 213-238-230, Don Rice
244-213-217, Scott German 237-204-216,
Rob Ruda 220-268, Lenny Hubert 240,
John Jones 235-214, Ryan Keis 248-224,
Doug Milligan Jr. 252-244, Jeff Menke
208-216, Randy Ryan 210-207, Bobby
Jakel 259-202-246, Don Eversole 257,
Bruce VanMetre 213-213, Chuck Verhoff
214-262, Todd Menke 244-202, Dave
Miller 226-214
Men over 550: Frank Miller 726,
Tim Koester 581, Ted Wells 632, Brad
Thornburgh 612, Jeff Lawrence 625,
Jim Looser 567, Lenny Klaus 587, Mark
Jettinghoff 634, Dan Wilhelm 614, Randy
Fischbach 679, Jason Mahlie 681, Don
Rice 674, Scott German 657, Rob Ruda
686, Lenny Hubert 607, John Jones 630,
ryan Keis 640, Doug Milligan Jr. 640, Jeff
Menke 606, Randy Ryan 601, Bobby Jakel
707, Don Eversole 638, Bruce VanMetre
605, Chuck Verhoff 651, Todd Menke
646, Dave Miller 622
Jefferson freshman Kylee Haehn splits 2 Crestview
defenders Lauren Schmid and Riley Guest and
unleashes a solid kick which slips past the goalie for the
first of her 2 goals Thursday night at Hamel Memorial
Field. Due to rain, the match was suspended with a 3-3
tie.
Tom Morris photo
Wildcats, Knights end in a 3-3 tie after rain delay
By MALLORY KEMPER
The Delphos Herald
mkemper2011@hotmail.com

FORT JENNINGS
Jefferson hosted Crestviews
girls soccer team Thursday
night in the rain at Keith R.
Hamel Memorial Field in Fort
Jennings and scored three
goals but it wasnt enough as
Crestview also scored three
to end in a 3-3 Northwest
Conference tie.
Jefferson (3-6-1, 2-1-1
NWC) took nine shots on-
goal while Crestview (4-4-2)
attempted 12.
It was a very aggressive
game for both Crestview
and us and we muscled up
and hung tough with them,
Jefferson coach Lindsey
Drerup said. The game lied
within the midfield and who-
ever controlled the midfield
was going to come out on top
but it was pretty much even.
The first goal came early
with 37:36 to play in the first
half. Jefferson goalie Cassidy
Bevington was out of the goal
box as she came up to try
to stop Madison Etzler from
scoring but Brooke Bowen
was right there on the right
side to give Crestview a slight
edge, 1-0.
Crestview took control of
the ball at the 32:40 mark
when Rachel Gent passed to
Madelyn Black on the right
side about 10 yards out and
she shot right at Bevington,
who came up with the save.
The Wildcats got their
first attempt two minutes
later when senior Elizabeth
Schosker darted a 10-yard
laser at Crestview goalie
Megan Foster.
Three minutes later, anoth-
er attempt by Schosker on the
right side of the goal six yards
out was far left.
Bowen had her chance at
the 27:30 mark of the open-
ing half when she was left
wide open with a pass from
teammate Gent but the ball
bounced off the post and went
out of bounds.
Freshman Kylee Haehn for
the Lady Wildcats used her
dribbling skills as she made it
past the Crestview defenders
and shot on the right side of
the goal eight yards out; the
ball made it to the back left
corner of the net as Foster
dove but couldnt get her
hands on it for a 1-1 score.
The Wildcats used their
momentum to keep the ball
down on their end and seven
minutes later at the 12:12
mark Schosker was tripped
outside the goal box and
received a free kick at the
Crestview goal. She used that
to her advantage as she kicked
it just over Fosters head for
a Jefferson goal to take the
lead, 2-1.
The Wildcats were on
fire again as Haehn used her
quickness to make her way
to the left of the goal box and
shoot from about six yards
out as the ball traveled past
Foster for a 3-1 Jefferson lead
with 10 minutes to play in the
first half.
Crestview kept battling in
the rain as Catelyn Mefferd
fought hard for a shot at the
9:40 mark but Bevington
deflected it and then came up
with it.
At the 6:32 mark, Mefferd
got another chance at the goal
on the right side about six
yards out and took a shot right
past Bevington for a Lady
Knight goal to end the half
down by one, 3-2.
After halftime, the rain
started to fall harder but the
two teams kept on going as
Mefferd was pumped up after
her first two goals and got
the ball again at the 38:11
mark of the second half; she
took a shot on the left side as
Bevington dove but couldnt
save it for a 3-3 game.
With 28 minutes left,
there was a 20-minute rain
delay but right after the delay,
Crestview was ready to go
at it.
Mefferd used her speed as
she dribbled around Jefferson
defenders and got the ball in
the middle of the goal for a
shot but it hit the top of the
goal post and went out of
bounds.
The two teams played
almost even as Jefferson only
attempted three shots the sec-
ond half and Crestview took
five. With less than two min-
utes in action, Mackenzie
Richard for the Lady Knights
took a shot as she was left
open but the ball went far
right to end in a 3-3 tie.
We just need to learn how
to finish more shots but I am
happy with the way we played
and it was a hard-fought bat-
tle, Drerup added.
Crestview coach Melissa
Mefferd liked how her team
played strong but stated that
the biggest problem of this
season so far has been finish-
ing their shots on-goal.
I think our biggest thing
is we just need to learn how
to relax and finish our shots
while going strong at the
ball, Mefferd added.
Jefferson plays St. Johns
Monday (5 p.m.) while
Crestview travels to Van Wert
11 a.m. Saturday.
SCORING
Player Team TD 2-pt. XP FG
Total
D.J. Manning SM 13 6 3 0 93;
Jason Pottkotter FR 10 1 0 0 62;
Jake Heitkamp ML 10 0 0 0 60;
Mitchell Campbell VE 9 3 0 0 60;
Kenny Wenning FR 8 1 0 0 50;
Cole Fergason AN 7 0 0 0 42; Riley
Bransteter PA 6 1 3 0 41; Braelen
Bader CE 4 0 12 0 38; Derek Gaerke
FR and Troy Kauffman MI 6 0 0 0 30;
Lee Pierron ML 3 0 15 0 33; Jordan
Bergfeld SJ/Zach Hembree CE/Nick
Campbell VE/Caleb Siefring CW 5
0 0 0 30; Elliott Westerbeck NB 4
2 1 0 29; Troy Otten CW 0 0 17 3
26; Alex Post SH 3 0 8 0 26; Devon
Poeppelman MI 2 0 10 1 25; Ethan
Bruns VE/Aaron Mestemaker CW/
Matt Osterholt SH/Korey Schultz MI
4 0 0 0 24; Aaron Vagedes FR 2 9
0 0 21.
RUSHING
Player Team Car. Yds. Ave.
TD
D.J. Manning SM 172 1,238 7.2
13; Jake Heitkamp ML 105 582 5.5
9; Cole Fergason AN 87 518 6.0
7; Kenny Wenning FR 89 516 5.8
7; Riley Bransteter PA 93 400 4.3
4; Zach Hembree CE 98 383 3.9
3; Nick Campbell (VE) 66 298 4.5
5; Troy Kauffman MI 66 298 4.5
5; Jason Pottkotter FR 71 291 4.1
9; Austin Bruns CW 69 282 4.1 2;
Elliott Westerbeck NB 80 249 3.1 4;
Jordan Bergfeld SJ 48 206 4.3 5;
Korey Schultz MI 40 196 4.9 3.
RECEIVING
Player Rec. Yds. Ave. TD
Braelen Bader CE 36 334 9.3
3; Derek Gaerke FR 29 462 15.9 5;
Mitchell Campbell VE 29 454 15.7
9; Derek Luth PA 29 361 12.4 3;
Derek Waterman CE 29 243 9.4 2;
Caleb Rodriguez PA 29 231 8.0 0;
Daniel Gusching MI 25 236 9.4 2;
Craig Welker CE 24 267 11.1 2; Matt
Osterholt SH 24 204 8.5 3; Chandon
Williams AN 21 360 17.1 3; Ethan
Bruns VE 21 333 15.9 4; Lee Pierron
ML 20 361 18.1 3; Aaron Vagedes
FR 20 331 16.6 2; Ben Chaney NB 20
295 14.8 1; Alex Post SH 18 284 15.8
2; Zach Hembree CE 16 234 14.6 2;
Tanner Calvelage SH 15 295 19.7
2; Kent Stammen SH 15 285 19.0
2; Caleb Siefring CW 15 214 14.3
5; Cain Ponsler PA 15 177 11.8 2;
Aaron Mestemaker CW 13 186 14.3
3; Troy Williams NB 11 170 15.5 1;
Tre Sherman SM 7 157 22.4 2.
Q U A R T E R B A C K
EFFICIENCY RATING
Player Team Comps. Atts. Pct.
Yds. TD/Int. Efficiency*
Nick Campbell VE 83 140 59.3
1,344 19/6 176.14; Adam Bertke
ML 39 69 56.5 609 6/3 150.66; Jay
Meyer AN 50 85 58.8 734 4/2 142.12;
Austin Bruns CW 62 114 54.4 858
10/3 141.29; Mark Boggs 21 38 55.3
336 3/3 139.80; Kyle Stahl SH 92
145 59.0 1,200 10/5 138.33; Jason
Pottkotter FR 59 113 52.2 953 8/6
135.80; Braden Billger CE 131 207
63.3 1,354 12/5 132.53; T.J. Powell
SM 15 35 42.9 256 4/2 130.58; Riley
Bransteter PA 104 179 58.1 1,009
9/6 115.34; Adam Niemeyer MI
62 116 53.4 582 5/6 99.47; Elliott
Westerbeck NB 52 112 46.4 633 3/9
86.67.
* - Efficiency formula is [{(8.4 x
yards) + (330 x touchdowns) - (200
x interceptions) + (100 x comple-
tions)}/attempts].
TACKLES
Player Team Number
Brett Schwinnen SJ 52; Zach
Dickman CW 51; Tyler Jettinghoff
SJ 49; Austin Dennison PA/Jordan
Chapin CW 48; Trevor Homan ML 46;
Caleb Maurer AN/Justin Rutshilling
ML 45; Kyle Neumeier SJ 43; Jordan
Klosterman CW/Dakota Hucke PA
40; Kenny Wenning FR 39; Daniel
Gusching MI/Elliott Westerbeck NB
38; Justin Heitkamp NB 37; John
Rollins PA 36; Alex Post SH 35;
Mason Evers FR/Jake Heitkamp ML/
Mitch Kremer ML/Jordan Osterholt
SH/Mitch Fowler SM 34; Ryan
Douglas SM/Jalen Knous CE 33;
Steven Luttmer SH 32.
SACKS
Player Team Number
Mark Brunet CW 5; Maverick
Long AN 4; Troy Williams NB
3.5; Justin Heitkamp NB/Jordan
Klosterman CW/Nick Reier AN/Rob
Wente MI 3; Alex Speelman NB/
Kyle Timmerman FR 2.5.
INTERCEPTIONS
Player Name Number
Derek Gaerke FR 4; Tanner
Calvelage SJ/Aaron Vagedes FR/Jay
Eilerman MI/Tre Sherman SM 3.
FUMBLE RECOVERIES
Player Team Number
Jordan Chapin CW 3; Cody
Looser SJ/Adam Green CE/Troy
Otten CW/Eric Schlagetter AN/Luke
Schlater VE/Nick Reier AN 2.
PUNTING
Player Team Atts. Ave.
Kyle Bergman CW 16 40.8;
Maverick Long AN 17 37.4; Tanner
Calvelage SJ 21 36.1; D.J. Manning
SM 15 36.0; Alex Post SH 10 35.5;
Devon Poeppelman MI 16 34.8;
Aaron Vagedes FR 10 34.7; Braden
Billger CE 17 34.5; Jonathon Fent PA
12 33.1; Mitch Kremer ML 11 32.6;
Neven Frazee NB 16 32.3.
HS Football Leaderboard
LOCAL ROUNDUP
Cardinals fly past
Blue Jays
NEW BREMEN Host
New Bremen handed St.
Johns a 25-16, 25-18, 25-18
Midwest Athletic Conference
volleyball loss Thursday.
Senior Shelby Reindel
led the Blue Jays (3-14, 0-6
MAC) with 11 kills and
four blocks, along with
junior Heather Vogt (10
kills), junior Katrina
Etzkorn (15 digs),
junior Madison Zuber
(9 digs) and classmate
Christie Carder (21
assists).
St. Johns hosts
Ottoville 10 a.m. (junior
varsity start) Saturday.
----
Musketeers goose-
egg Lady Lancers
MIDDLE POINT
The Fort Jennings girls
soccer team handed host
Lincolnview a 7-0 loss
Thursday afternoon.
Junior Marissa Mesker
scored a pair of goals for
the Lady Musketeers (8-2-
1), along with single tallies
from junior Macy
Schroeder, sopho-
more Ashley Gable,
sophomore Emily
Grone, junior Kristen
Maag and senior Gina
Clay.
We controlled
the game from the onset;
even though we controlled
the game, Lincolnview got
a few good runs to goal,
Musketeer coach Rodney
Wagner noted. We con-
trolled the game but still need
to improve our possession
and passing. it was shortened
by weather after about 10
minutes of the second half;
never got into sync that half
,only getting one good look
in that 10 minutes.
Lincolnview hosts Grant
County 11 a.m. Saturday,
while the Musketeers host
Allen East 5 p.m. Tuesday.
----
Bearcats whump
Rockets
PANDORA
The Spencerville
co-ed soccer team
handed Pandora-
Gilboas co-ed unit
a 7-1 loss Thursday
at Pandora.
Austin Oehlhof
registered a hat trick for the
Bearcats (1-10), as well as
getting goals from
Byron Gay, Travis
Patterson, Caitlin
Roberts and Austin
Swartz.
The Rockets got
its only tally from
Dakota Harshbarger.
The Bearcats won the
shots on-goal 12-5. Zach
Gay saved three for
the guests and Chris
Wagler five for the
hosts.
Spencerville visits
New Knoxville 5 p.m.
Tuesday.
----
Bulldogs sweep away
Lancers
MIDDLE POINT The
Ada volleyball team headed
to Lincolnview High School
and the Lancerdome Thursday
and came back with a 25-20,
25-15, 25-21 Northwest
Conference sweep.
Lincolnview is in a tri-
match at Wayne Trace 10
a.m. Saturday.
----
Elida garners WBL
volleyball sweep
KENTON The
Elida volleyball unit
hit the road to Kenton
Thursday and came
back home with a
27-25, 25-14, 25-13 Western
Buckeye League victory.
Leading the way for the
Lady Bulldogs (7-6, 3-2
WBL) were Aubrey Williams
(12 kills), Ally Bader (4
aces), Kelsey Smith (27
assists), Alex Hambleton (16
digs) and Torie McAdams (2
blocks).
Elida won the junior var-
sity match 2-1
but the Wildcats
took the freshmen
matchup 2-0.
Elida is in
the Van Wert
Invitational 10
a.m. Saturday.
----
Holtkamp gets hat trick as
LadyCats shut down Blue
Streaks
ARCHBOLD
Kalidas girls soccer
crew shut out previous-
ly-unbeaten Archbold
3-0 Thursday in a
matchup of Northwest
Ohio powers at Archbold.
Even though the shots on-
goal were even at 6-6, junior
Summer Holtkamp netted all
three goals for the LadyCats
(8-0-2).
Emily McElroy had an
assist.
Erika Brinkman stopped
all six Blue Streak (9-1-1)
shots, while Nichole Wood
gathered three saves.
Kalida visits Bluffton 11
a.m. Saturday.
----
Kalida nets win
over Archbold
ARCHBOLD
Kalida traveled
to Archbold and
picked up a 3-1 volleyball
win Thursday by scores of
17-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-23.
Leading the LadyCats
(10-5) were Halie Zenz (8
kills and 15 assists), Haley
McIntyre (7 kills), Brandi
Merschman (7 kills), Kayla
Siefker (7 kills) and Julia
Vandemark (32 digs).
Kalida is in Saturdays
Van Wert Invitational 10
a.m. Saturday.
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Bulldogs grab NWC vol-
leyball win
COLUMBUS GROVE
The Columbus Grove
volleyball team secured a
25-19, 22-25, 25-10, 25-17
Northwest Conference vol-
leyball triumph over invading
Bluffton Thursday
night.
Topping the
Lady Bulldogs
were Anna Ricker
(15 kills), Emily
Tabler (23 digs),
Hope Schroeder (3 aces) and
Nicole Langhals (20 assists).
The Bulldogs also won the
junior varsity tussle 25-18,
25-16.
Grove visits Continental
10 a.m. (JV start) Saturday in
a PCL matchup.
POST SEASON GLANCE
DIVISION SERIESV(Best-of-5; x-if necessary)
All games televised by TBS
American League
New York vs. Detroit
Todays Game: Detroit (Verlander 24-5) at New York (Sabathia 19-8),
8:37 p.m.
Saturdays Game: Detroit (Fister 11-13) at New York (Nova 16-4), 8:37
p.m.
Mondays Game: New York (Garcia 12-8) at Detroit, 8:37 p.m.
x-Tuesdays Game: New York at Detroit, TBA
x-Thursdays Game: Detroit at New York, TBA
Texas vs. Tampa Bay
Todays Game: Tampa Bay (Moore 1-0) at Texas (C.Wilson 16-7), 5:07
p.m.
Saturdays Game: Tampa Bay (Shields 16-12) at Texas (D.Holland 16-5),
7:07 p.m.
Mondays Game: Texas at Tampa Bay, 5:07 p.m.
x-Tuesdays Game: Texas at Tampa Bay, TBA
x-Thursdays Game: Tampa Bay at Texas, TBA
National League
Philadelphia vs. St. Louis
Saturdays Game: St. Louis (Lohse 14-8) at Philadelphia (Halladay 19-6),
5:07 p.m.
Sundays Game: St. Louis (J.Garcia 13-7) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 17-8),
8:07 p.m.
Tuesdays Game: Philadelphia at St. Louis, TBA
x-Wednesdays Game: Philadelphia at St. Louis, TBA
x-Friday, Oct. 7: St. Louis at Philadelphia, TBA
Arizona vs. Milwaukee
Saturdays Game: Arizona (I.Kennedy 21-4) at Milwaukee (Gallardo
17-10), 2:07 p.m.
Sundays Game: Arizona (D.Hudson 16-12) at Milwaukee (Marcum
13-7), 4:37 p.m.
Tuesdays Game: Milwaukee at Arizona, TBA
x-Wednesdays Game: Milwaukee at Arizona, TBA
x-Friday, Oct. 7: Arizona at Milwaukee, TBA
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Contact: 419-695-3566
Sunday - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study with
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Thursday - 7:00 p.m. For Such A
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(Basement), 310 W. 2nd St. Delphos -
Everyone Welcome.
DELPHOS BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Terry McKissack
302 N Main, Delphos
Contact: 419-692-0061 or 419-302-6423
Sunday - 10:00 a.m. Sunday School
(All Ages) , 11:00 a.m. Sunday Service,
6:00 p.m Sunday Evening Service
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study,
Youth Study
Nursery available for all services.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
310 W. Second St.
419-692-5737
Pastor Harry Tolhurst
Sunday: 11:00 Worship Service -
Everyone Welcome
Communion first Sunday of every
month.
Communion at Van Crest Health
Care Center - First Sunday of each
month at 2:30 p.m., Nursing Home and
assisted living.
ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH
422 North Pierce St., Delphos
Phone 419-695-2616
Rev. Angela Khabeb
Saturday-8:00 a.m. Prayer Breakfast
Sunday - 8:45 a.m. Sunday School;
10:00 a.m. Worship Service
Monday - 9:00 a.m. Noodle Making
Tuesday - 10:00 a.m. Good Morning
Good Shepherd; 6:30 Relay for Life
Meeting
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. InReach/
OutReach Meeting
Saturday-8:00 a.m. Prayer Breakfast;
2:30 p.m. Brickner/VanHoose Wedding
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Where Jesus is Healing
Hurting Hearts!
808 Metbliss Ave., Delphos
One block south of Stadium Park.
419-692-6741
Senior Pastor - Dan Eaton
Love and Power Services
with the Healing Ministry of Dan
Mohler on Friday and Saturday at 7:00
p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and
6:00 p.m.
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. - Sunday wor-
ship Celebration @10:30am with Kids
Chruch & Nursery provided; 6:00 p.m.
Youth Ministry at The ROC
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Prayer
Other ministries take place at vari-
ous times. Check out www.delphos-
firstassemblyofgod.com.
DELPHOS CHRISTIAN UNION
Pastor: Rev. Gary Fish
470 S. Franklin St., (419) 692-9940
9:30 Sunday School
10:30 Sunday morning service.
Youth ministry every Wednesday
from 6-8 p.m.
Childrens ministry every third
Saturday from 11 to 1:30.
ST. PAULS UNITED METHODIST
335 S. Main St. Delphos
Pastor - Rev. David Howell
Sunday - 9:00 a.m. Worship Service

DELPHOS WESLEYAN CHURCH
11720 Delphos Southworth Rd.
Delphos - Phone 419-695-1723
Pastor Wayne Prater
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. Worship; 9:15
a.m. Sunday School for all ages.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Service and
prayer meeting.
TRINITY UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
211 E. Third St., Delphos
Rev. David Howell, Pastor
Week of Oct. 2, 2011
Rt. 81 and Defiance Trial
Rt. 2, Box 11550
Spencerville 45887
Rev. Robert King, Pastor
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday school;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service; 7:00 p.m.
Evening worship and Teens Alive
(grades 7-12).
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible ser-
vice.
Tuesday & Thursday 7- 9 p.m.
Have you ever wanted to preach the
Word of God? This is your time to
do it. Come share your love of Christ
with us.
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
699 Sunnydale, Elida, Ohio 454807
Pastor Gary Rode
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. traditional; 10:45
a.m. contemporary
LIGHT OF LIFE CHAPEL
4680 North Kemp Rd., Elida
Pastor Kimberly R. Pope-Seiberling
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:30 a.m. Service; 6:30 p.m. Service.
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Midweek
Service.
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CENTER
2240 Baty Road, Elida Ph. 339-5673
Rev. James F. Menke, Pastor
Sunday 10 a.m. Worship.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Evening ser-
vice.
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH
2701 Dutch Hollow Rd. Elida
Phone: 339-3339
Rev. Frank Hartman
Sunday - 10 a.m. Sunday School (all
ages); 11 a.m. Morning Service; 6 p.m.
Evening Service.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Prayer
Meeting.
Office Hours: Monday-Friday,
8-noon, 1-4- p.m.
ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Corner of Zion Church & Conant Rd.,
Elida
Pastors: Mark and D.J. Fuerstenau
Sunday - Service - 9:00 a.m.
PIKE MENNONITE CHURCH
3995 McBride Rd., Elida
Phone 419-339-3961
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF GOD
Elida - Ph. 222-8054
Rev. Larry Ayers, Pastor
Service schedule: Sunday 10 a.m.
School; 11 a.m. Morning Worship; 6
p.m. Sunday evening.
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
4750 East Road, Elida
Pastor - Brian McManus
10:30 a.m. Worship, nursery avail-
able.
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Youth
Prayer, Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. Adult
Prayer and Bible Study; 8:00 p.m. -
Choir.
GOMER UNITED CHURCH
OF CHRIST
7350 Gomer Road, Gomer, Ohio
419-642-2681
gomererucc@bright.net
Rev. Brian Knoderer
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Worship
BREAKTHROUGH
101 N. Adams St., Middle Point
Pastor Scott & Karen Fleming
Sunday Church Service - 10 a.m,
6 p.m.
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.
CALVARY EVANGELICAL CHURCH
10686 Van Wert-Decatur Rd.
Van Wert, Ohio
419-238-9426
Rev. Clark Williman. Pastor
Sunday, Sept. 17
Sunday- 8:45 a.m. Friends and
Family; 9:00 a.m. Sunday School
LIVE; 9:55 a.m. 5 til 10 meet you at
the Altar; 10:00 a.m. Worship LIVE;
Tuesday -9:00 - Mothers Uplifting
Mothers
Wednesday - 6:45 p.m.AWANA,
Calvary Youth; 6:45 p.m. Womens
Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. Mens Bible
Study

SALEM UNITED
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
15240 Main St. Venedocia
Rev. Wendy S. Pratt, Pastor
Church Phone: 419-667-4142
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. - Adult Bell
Choir; 8:45 a.m. Jr. Choir; 9:30
a.m. - Worship; 10:45 a.m. - Sunday
school; 6:30 p.m. - Capital Funds
Committee.
Monday - 6 p.m. Senior Choir.
ST. MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCH
601 Jennings Rd., Van Wert
Sunday 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.;
Monday 8:30 a.m.; Tuesday 7 p.m.;
Wednesday 8:30 a.m.; Thursday 8:30
a.m. - Communion Service; Friday
8:30 a.m.; Saturday 4 p.m.
VAN WERT VICTORY
CHURCH OF GOD
10698 US 127S., Van Wert
(Next to Tracys Auction Service)
Darryl Ramey, Lead Pastor
Chuck Brantley, Executive Pastor
Bryce Cadawallader, Youth
& Assimilations Director
Sunday - 10:00 am Worship Service
& Childrens Ministry
www.vanwertvictorychurch.com
www.acoolchurch.com
419-232-HOPE
TRINITY LUTHERAN
303 S. Adams, Middle Point
Rev. Tom Cover
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship service.
GRACE FAMILY CHURCH
634 N. Washington St., Van Wert
Pastor: Rev. Ron Prewitt
Sunday - 9:15 a.m. Morning wor-
ship with Pulpit Supply.
KINGSLEY UNITED METHODIST
15482 Mendon Rd., Van Wert
Phone: 419-965-2771
Pastor Chuck Glover
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship
- 10:25 a.m.
Wednesday - Youth Prayer and
Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.
Adult Prayer meeting - 7:00 p.m.
Choir practice - 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY FRIENDS CHURCH
605 N. Franklin St., Van Wert 45891
Ph: (419) 238-2788
Sr. Pastor Stephen Savage
Outreach Pastor Neil Hammons
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. - Prayer time;
9:00 a.m. Worship, Sunday School,
SWAT, Nursery; Single; 10:30 a.m.
Worship, Nursery, Childrens Church,
Discipleship class; Noon - Lunch
Break; 2:00 p.m. Service for men
at Van Wert Correctional Fac.; 3:00
p.m. Service for women at Van Wert
Correctional Fac., Service at Paulding
jail
Tuesday - 1:00 p.m. - Share, Care,
Prayer Group in Fireside Room;
10-noon - Banquet Table Food
Pantry; 6:30 p.m. Quilting Friends
in Fellowship Hall; 7 p.m. B.R.E.A.L.
Womens group in Room 108.
Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Small
groups, Discipleship Series in sanc-
tuary, Christian Life Club, Nursery,
Preschool; 7 p.m. R.O.C.K. Youth; 8
p.m. Worship Team rehearsal.
Thursday - 4-5:30 p.m. Banquet
Table Food Pantry.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Ph. 419-238-0333
Childrens Storyline: 419-238-2201
Email: fbaptvw@bright.net
Pastor Steven A. Robinson
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School
for all ages; 10:30 a.m. Family Worship
Hour; 6:30 p.m. Evening Bible Hour.
Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Word of Life
Student Ministries; 6:45 p.m. AWANA;
7:00 p.m. Prayer and Bible Study.
MANDALE CHURCH OF CHRIST
IN CHRISTIAN UNION
Rev. Don Rogers, Pastor
all ages. 10:30 a.m. Worship
Services; 7:00 p.m Worship.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Prayer meet-
ing.
PENTECOSTAL WAY CHURCH
Pastors: Bill Watson
Rev. Ronald Defore
1213 Leeson Ave., Van Wert 45891
Phone (419) 238-5813
Head Usher: Ted Kelly
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School 11:10
a.m. - Worship 10:00 a.m. until 11:30
a.m. - Wednesday Morning Bible Class
6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. - Wednesday
Evening Prayer Meeting
7:00 p.m. - Wed. Night Bible
Study.
Thursday - Choir Rehearsal
Anchored in Jesus Prayer Line -
(419) 238-4427 or (419) 232-4379.
Emergency - (419) 993-5855
FAITH MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Road U, Rushmore
Pastor Robert Morrison
Sunday 10 am Church School;
11:00 Church Service; 6:00 p.m.
Evening Service
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Evening
Service
ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
CATHOLIC CHURCH
512 W. Sycamore, Col. Grove
Office 419-659-2263
Fax: 419-659-5202
Father Tom Extejt
Masses: Tuesday-Friday - 8:00 a.m.;
First Friday of the month - 7 p.m.;
Saturday - 4:30 p.m.; Sunday - 8:30
a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Confessions - Saturday 3:30 p.m.,
anytime by appointment.
CHURCH OF GOD
18906 Rd. 18R, Rimer
419-642-5264 Fax: 419-642-3061
Rev. Mark Walls
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship Service.
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
Rev. Robert DeSloover, Pastor
7359 St. Rt. 109 New Cleveland
Saturday Mass - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday Mass - 8:30 a.m.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Ottoville
Rev. John Stites
Mass schedule: Saturday - 4 p.m.;
Sunday - 10:30 a.m.

ST. BARBARA CHURCH
160 Main St., Cloverdale 45827
419-488-2391
Fr. John Stites
Mass schedule: Saturday 5:30 p.m.,
Sunday 8:00 a.m.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
135 N. Water St., Ft. Jennings
Rev. Joe Przybysz
Phone: 419-286-2132
Mass schedule: Saturday 5 p.m.;
Sunday 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
ST. MICHAEL CHURCH
Kalida
Fr. Mark Hoying
Saturday 4:30 p.m. Mass.
Sunday 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.
Masses.
Weekdays: Masses on Mon., Tues.,
Wed. and Friday at 8:00 am; Thurs.
7:30 p.m.
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. Worship Service/
Communion; 9:15 a.m. Sunday School
Classes for all ages; 10:30 a.m. Worship
Service/Communion; 11:30 a.m. Radio
Worship on WDOH; 1:30 p.m. Nursing
Home Communion
Monday-7:00 p.n. Nominations
Committee
Tuesday-6:00 p.m. Outreach Committee
Wednesday- Office Hours:8:00-Noon;
7:00 p.m Chancel Choir
Thursday - 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Supper
on Us Friday - Office Hours: 8:00-
Noon; 3:00 p.m. Mustard Seeds
MARION BAPTIST CHURCH
2998 Defiance Trail, Delphos
Pastor Jay Lobach 419-339-6319
Services: Sunday - 11:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.
ST. JOHNS CATHOLIC CHURCH
331 E. Second St., Delphos
419-695-4050
Rev. Mel Verhoff, Pastor
Rev. Jacob Gordon, Asst. Pastor
Fred Lisk and Dave Ricker, Deacons
Mary Beth Will, Liturgical
Coordinator; Mrs. Trina Shultz, Pastoral
Associate. Mel Rode, Parish Council
President
Celebration of the Sacraments
Eucharist Lords Day Observance;
Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 7:30, 9:15,
11:30 a.m.; Weekdays as announced on
Sunday bulletin.
Baptism Celebrated first Sunday
of month at 1:30 p.m. Call rectory to
schedule Pre-Baptismal instructions.
Reconciliation Tuesday and
Friday 7:30-7:50 a.m.; Saturday 3:30-
4:00 p.m. Anytime by request.
Matrimony Arrangements must be
made through the rectory six months
in advance.
Anointing of the Sick Communal
celebration in May and October.
Administered upon request.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Landeck - Phone: 419-692-0636
Administrative aide: Rita Suever
Masses: 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Saturday.
Newcomers register at parish.
Marriages: Please call the parish
house six months in advance.
Baptism: Please call the parish.
ST. PATRICKS CHURCH
500 S. Canal, Spencerville
419-647-6202
Saturday - 4:30 p.m. Reconciliation;
5 p.m. Mass, May 1 - Oct. 30. Sunday -
10:30 a.m. Mass.
SPENCERVILLE FULL GOSPEL
107 Broadway St., Spencerville
Pastor Charles Muter
Home Ph. 419-657-6019
Sunday: Morning Services - 10:00
a.m. Evening Services - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. Worship ser-
vice.
SPENCERVILLE CHURCH
OF THE NAZARENE
317 West North St. - 419-296-2561
Pastor Tom Shobe
9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30
a.m. Morning Worship; 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday Service
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST
Corner of Fourth & Main, Spencerville
Phone 419-647-5321
Rev. Jan Johnson, Pastor
10:30 a.m. Worship service.
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Spencerville
Rev. Ron Shifley, Pastor
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Church School;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service.
AGAPE FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
9250 Armstrong Road, Spencerville
Pastors Phil & Deb Lee
Sunday - 10:00 a.m. Worship ser-
vice.
Wed. - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study
HARTFORD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Independent Fundamental)
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Goodbye to that Old Mountain Religion
Travelers who frequent the winding moun-
tain roads of southern Appalachia know that,
every few miles, theyre going to pass yet
another small Baptist church sitting close to
some rushing water.
Its all about location, location, location.
Why would a preacher want to baptize new
believers in a heated, indoor tank when he can
dunk them in the powerful, living, frigid wa-
ters of the river that created the valley in which
his ock has lived for generations? Theres no
question which option the self-proclaimed
Primitive Baptists will choose, even if it adds
an element of risk.
Among Primitive Baptists, you almost
always see two ministers when they baptize
someone -- one to do the baptism and one to
hold on. Its even become part of their unique
liturgical tradition to have two ministers
there, said Baptist historian Bill Leonard of
the Wake Forest School of Divinity in Win-
ston-Salem, N.C.
As the saying goes, said Leonard, you
could get baptized and go to heaven on the
same day if there wasnt somebody there
to hang on so you didnt wash away and
drown.
This is the kind of old-fashioned faith that
Americans are used to seeing in paintings of
frontier life or grainy black-and-white photo-
graphs from the days before interstate high-
ways, shopping malls, satellite dishes and
the Internet. Appalachian religion has played
a dramatic role in American culture, helping
shape our folk art, Scotch-Irish history, roots
music and a host of other subjects.
The question, for Leonard and many oth-
er scholars, is whether the rich heritage of
mountain Christianity will play much of a
role in the nations future.
Increasingly, he said, our modern forms
of American religion and our mass media and
culture are sucking the life out of one of our
most distinctive regions.
While the region contains religious groups
with European ties, the most important fact
about the common Appalachian churches is
that they are uniquely American.
For outsiders, this can be very complex ter-
ritory.
The Calvinist, Primitive Baptists are not
the only Baptists whose sanctuaries dot the
landscape of the 1,600-mile-long strip of
mountains that run from Eastern Canada
down to the high hills of Alabama and Geor-
gia, cresting at Mount Mitchell in the heart of
North Carolinas Black Mountains. There are
Independent Baptists (of various kinds), Free
Will Baptists, Old Regular Baptists, Mission-
ary Baptists, Southern Baptists and dozens of
other brands.
Even the Primitive Baptists are a complex
bunch, noted Leonard. There are some who
avoid wine and some who make their own.
Some refuse to hire professional pastors or to
send their preachers off to seminary, fearing
they will be corrupted. Theres even a small
body of Primitives -- critics call them no-
hellers -- who insist Gods love is so strong
that everybody ends up in heaven, no matter
what.
Then there are the various kinds of Pen-
tecostal-Holiness churches, including the rare
-- but world-famous -- congregations in which
believers handle snakes, sip poison and wres-
tle with demons.
Some Oneness Pentecostal believers
baptize in the name of Jesus, alone, while oth-
ers embrace the traditional Trinity of God the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In an academic
paper entitled Looking for Religious Appa-
lachia, Leonard noted that he once heard a
Trinitarian Pentecostal preacher explain that
doctrinal feud in terms anyone could grasp:
Jesus had a Daddy. He wasnt no bastard.
Case closed, wrote the historian.
Ironically, some of the most powerful
forces that threaten these churches are the ef-
forts of outsiders to help the region -- such
as missionaries sent to evangelize the locals
or social-justice activists who want to help
the locals escape their own way of life. Then
there are the softer forms of Evangelical Prot-
estantism that arrive through television, mass-
marketed gospel music and those new, trans-
planted megachurches that keep sprouting up
like suburban superstores.
Thus, the stark Sacred Harp hymns of
the shape-note era gradually gave way to the
cheery gospel quartets of the radio era, which
were then blitzed by the pop-rock praise
bands of the Contemporary Christian music
era.
What happens when the mountain church-
es and their traditions are gone?
Appalachia still exists and it remains
something to celebrate, said Leonard. Still,
whats happening there is a danger signal to
us all. ... What was once pristine wilderness
is becoming an exploited region. Tragically, a
crucial element of Americas religious history
and heritage is being lost, as well.
Terry Mattingly is the director of the Washington Journal-
ism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universi-
ties and leads the GetReligion.org project to study religion and
the news.
TERRY MATTINGLY
On
Religion
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Contact: 419-695-3566
Sunday - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study with
worship @ ACTS Chapel-8277 German
Rd., Delphos
Thursday - 7:00 p.m. For Such A
Time As This All & Non Denominational
Tri-County Community Intercessory
Prayer Meeting @ Presbyterian Church
(Basement), 310 W. 2nd St. Delphos -
Everyone Welcome.
DELPHOS BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Terry McKissack
302 N Main, Delphos
Contact: 419-692-0061 or 419-302-6423
Sunday - 10:00 a.m. Sunday School
(All Ages) , 11:00 a.m. Sunday Service,
6:00 p.m Sunday Evening Service
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study,
Youth Study
Nursery available for all services.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
310 W. Second St.
419-692-5737
Pastor Harry Tolhurst
Sunday: 11:00 Worship Service -
Everyone Welcome
Communion first Sunday of every
month.
Communion at Van Crest Health
Care Center - First Sunday of each
month at 2:30 p.m., Nursing Home and
assisted living.
ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH
422 North Pierce St., Delphos
Phone 419-695-2616
Rev. Angela Khabeb
Saturday-8:00 a.m. Prayer Breakfast
10:00 a.m. Worship Service
Monday - 9:00 a.m. Noodle Making
Tuesday - 10:00 a.m. Good Morning
Good Shepherd; 6:30 Relay for Life
Meeting
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. InReach/
OutReach Meeting
Saturday-8:00 a.m. Prayer Breakfast;
2:30 p.m. Brickner/VanHoose Wedding
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Where Jesus is Healing
Hurting Hearts!
808 Metbliss Ave., Delphos
One block south of Stadium Park.
419-692-6741
Senior Pastor - Dan Eaton
Love and Power Services
with the Healing Ministry of Dan
Mohler on Friday and Saturday at 7:00
p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and
6:00 p.m.
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. - Sunday wor-
ship Celebration @10:30am with Kids
Chruch & Nursery provided; 6:00 p.m.
Youth Ministry at The ROC
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Prayer
Other ministries take place at vari-
ous times. Check out www.delphos-
firstassemblyofgod.com.
DELPHOS CHRISTIAN UNION
Pastor: Rev. Gary Fish
470 S. Franklin St., (419) 692-9940
9:30 Sunday School
10:30 Sunday morning service.
Youth ministry every Wednesday
from 6-8 p.m.
Childrens ministry every third
Saturday from 11 to 1:30.
ST. PAULS UNITED METHODIST
335 S. Main St. Delphos
Pastor - Rev. David Howell
Sunday - 9:00 a.m. Worship Service

DELPHOS WESLEYAN CHURCH
11720 Delphos Southworth Rd.
Delphos - Phone 419-695-1723
Pastor Wayne Prater
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. Worship; 9:15
a.m. Sunday School for all ages.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Service and
prayer meeting.
TRINITY UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
211 E. Third St., Delphos
Rev. David Howell, Pastor
Week of Oct. 2, 2011
Rt. 81 and Defiance Trial
Rt. 2, Box 11550
Spencerville 45887
Rev. Robert King, Pastor
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday school;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service; 7:00 p.m.
Evening worship and Teens Alive
(grades 7-12).
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible ser-
vice.
Tuesday & Thursday 7- 9 p.m.
Have you ever wanted to preach the
Word of God? This is your time to
do it. Come share your love of Christ
with us.
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
699 Sunnydale, Elida, Ohio 454807
Pastor Gary Rode
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. traditional; 10:45
a.m. contemporary
LIGHT OF LIFE CHAPEL
4680 North Kemp Rd., Elida
Pastor Kimberly R. Pope-Seiberling
10:30 a.m. Service; 6:30 p.m. Service.
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Midweek
Service.
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CENTER
2240 Baty Road, Elida Ph. 339-5673
Rev. James F. Menke, Pastor
Sunday 10 a.m. Worship.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Evening ser-
vice.
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH
2701 Dutch Hollow Rd. Elida
Phone: 339-3339
Rev. Frank Hartman
Sunday - 10 a.m. Sunday School (all
ages); 11 a.m. Morning Service; 6 p.m.
Evening Service.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Prayer
Meeting.
Office Hours: Monday-Friday,
8-noon, 1-4- p.m.
ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Corner of Zion Church & Conant Rd.,
Elida
Pastors: Mark and D.J. Fuerstenau
Sunday - Service - 9:00 a.m.
PIKE MENNONITE CHURCH
3995 McBride Rd., Elida
Phone 419-339-3961
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF GOD
Elida - Ph. 222-8054
Rev. Larry Ayers, Pastor
Service schedule: Sunday 10 a.m.
School; 11 a.m. Morning Worship; 6
p.m. Sunday evening.
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
4750 East Road, Elida
Pastor - Brian McManus
10:30 a.m. Worship, nursery avail-
able.
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Youth
Prayer, Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. Adult
Prayer and Bible Study; 8:00 p.m. -
Choir.
GOMER UNITED CHURCH
OF CHRIST
7350 Gomer Road, Gomer, Ohio
419-642-2681
gomererucc@bright.net
Rev. Brian Knoderer
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Worship
BREAKTHROUGH
101 N. Adams St., Middle Point
Pastor Scott & Karen Fleming
Sunday Church Service - 10 a.m,
6 p.m.
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.
CALVARY EVANGELICAL CHURCH
10686 Van Wert-Decatur Rd.
Van Wert, Ohio
419-238-9426
Rev. Clark Williman. Pastor
Sunday, Sept. 17
Sunday- 8:45 a.m. Friends and
Family; 9:00 a.m. Sunday School
LIVE; 9:55 a.m. 5 til 10 meet you at
the Altar; 10:00 a.m. Worship LIVE;
Tuesday -9:00 - Mothers Uplifting
Mothers
Wednesday - 6:45 p.m.AWANA,
Calvary Youth; 6:45 p.m. Womens
Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. Mens Bible
Study

SALEM UNITED
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
15240 Main St. Venedocia
Rev. Wendy S. Pratt, Pastor
Church Phone: 419-667-4142
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. - Adult Bell
Choir; 8:45 a.m. Jr. Choir; 9:30
a.m. - Worship; 10:45 a.m. - Sunday
school; 6:30 p.m. - Capital Funds
Committee.
Monday - 6 p.m. Senior Choir.
ST. MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.;
Monday 8:30 a.m.; Tuesday 7 p.m.;
Wednesday 8:30 a.m.; Thursday 8:30
a.m. - Communion Service; Friday
8:30 a.m.; Saturday 4 p.m.
VAN WERT VICTORY
CHURCH OF GOD
10698 US 127S., Van Wert
(Next to Tracys Auction Service)
Darryl Ramey, Lead Pastor
Chuck Brantley, Executive Pastor
Bryce Cadawallader, Youth
& Assimilations Director
Sunday - 10:00 am Worship Service
& Childrens Ministry
www.vanwertvictorychurch.com
www.acoolchurch.com
419-232-HOPE
TRINITY LUTHERAN
303 S. Adams, Middle Point
Rev. Tom Cover
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship service.
GRACE FAMILY CHURCH
634 N. Washington St., Van Wert
Pastor: Rev. Ron Prewitt
Sunday - 9:15 a.m. Morning wor-
ship with Pulpit Supply.
KINGSLEY UNITED METHODIST
15482 Mendon Rd., Van Wert
Phone: 419-965-2771
Pastor Chuck Glover
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship
- 10:25 a.m.
Wednesday - Youth Prayer and
Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.
Adult Prayer meeting - 7:00 p.m.
Choir practice - 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY FRIENDS CHURCH
605 N. Franklin St., Van Wert 45891
Ph: (419) 238-2788
Sr. Pastor Stephen Savage
Outreach Pastor Neil Hammons
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. - Prayer time;
9:00 a.m. Worship, Sunday School,
SWAT, Nursery; Single; 10:30 a.m.
Worship, Nursery, Childrens Church,
Discipleship class; Noon - Lunch
Break; 2:00 p.m. Service for men
at Van Wert Correctional Fac.; 3:00
p.m. Service for women at Van Wert
Correctional Fac., Service at Paulding
jail
Tuesday - 1:00 p.m. - Share, Care,
Prayer Group in Fireside Room;
10-noon - Banquet Table Food
Pantry; 6:30 p.m. Quilting Friends
in Fellowship Hall; 7 p.m. B.R.E.A.L.
Womens group in Room 108.
Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Small
groups, Discipleship Series in sanc-
tuary, Christian Life Club, Nursery,
Preschool; 7 p.m. R.O.C.K. Youth; 8
p.m. Worship Team rehearsal.
Thursday - 4-5:30 p.m. Banquet
Table Food Pantry.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Ph. 419-238-0333
Childrens Storyline: 419-238-2201
Email: fbaptvw@bright.net
Pastor Steven A. Robinson
for all ages; 10:30 a.m. Family Worship
Hour; 6:30 p.m. Evening Bible Hour.
Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Word of Life
Student Ministries; 6:45 p.m. AWANA;
7:00 p.m. Prayer and Bible Study.
MANDALE CHURCH OF CHRIST
IN CHRISTIAN UNION
Rev. Don Rogers, Pastor
all ages. 10:30 a.m. Worship
Services; 7:00 p.m Worship.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Prayer meet-
ing.
PENTECOSTAL WAY CHURCH
Pastors: Bill Watson
Rev. Ronald Defore
1213 Leeson Ave., Van Wert 45891
Phone (419) 238-5813
Head Usher: Ted Kelly
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School 11:10
a.m. - Worship 10:00 a.m. until 11:30
a.m. - Wednesday Morning Bible Class
6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. - Wednesday
Evening Prayer Meeting
7:00 p.m. - Wed. Night Bible
Study.
Thursday - Choir Rehearsal
Anchored in Jesus Prayer Line -
(419) 238-4427 or (419) 232-4379.
Emergency - (419) 993-5855
FAITH MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Road U, Rushmore
Pastor Robert Morrison
Sunday 10 am Church School;
11:00 Church Service; 6:00 p.m.
Evening Service
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Evening
Service
ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
CATHOLIC CHURCH
512 W. Sycamore, Col. Grove
Office 419-659-2263
Fax: 419-659-5202
Father Tom Extejt
Masses: Tuesday-Friday - 8:00 a.m.;
First Friday of the month - 7 p.m.;
Saturday - 4:30 p.m.; Sunday - 8:30
a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Confessions - Saturday 3:30 p.m.,
anytime by appointment.
CHURCH OF GOD
18906 Rd. 18R, Rimer
419-642-5264 Fax: 419-642-3061
Rev. Mark Walls
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship Service.
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
Rev. Robert DeSloover, Pastor
7359 St. Rt. 109 New Cleveland
Saturday Mass - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday Mass - 8:30 a.m.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Ottoville
Rev. John Stites
Mass schedule: Saturday - 4 p.m.;
Sunday - 10:30 a.m.

ST. BARBARA CHURCH
160 Main St., Cloverdale 45827
419-488-2391
Fr. John Stites
Mass schedule: Saturday 5:30 p.m.,
Sunday 8:00 a.m.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
135 N. Water St., Ft. Jennings
Rev. Joe Przybysz
Phone: 419-286-2132
Mass schedule: Saturday 5 p.m.;
Sunday 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
ST. MICHAEL CHURCH
Kalida
Fr. Mark Hoying
Saturday 4:30 p.m. Mass.
Sunday 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.
Masses.
Weekdays: Masses on Mon., Tues.,
Wed. and Friday at 8:00 am; Thurs.
7:30 p.m.
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. Worship Service/
Communion; 9:15 a.m. Sunday School
Classes for all ages; 10:30 a.m. Worship
Service/Communion; 11:30 a.m. Radio
Worship on WDOH; 1:30 p.m. Nursing
Home Communion
Monday-7:00 p.n. Nominations
Committee
Tuesday-6:00 p.m. Outreach Committee
Wednesday- Office Hours:8:00-Noon;
7:00 p.m Chancel Choir
Thursday - 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Supper
on Us Friday - Office Hours: 8:00-
Noon; 3:00 p.m. Mustard Seeds
MARION BAPTIST CHURCH
2998 Defiance Trail, Delphos
Pastor Jay Lobach 419-339-6319
Services: Sunday - 11:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.
ST. JOHNS CATHOLIC CHURCH
331 E. Second St., Delphos
419-695-4050
Rev. Jacob Gordon, Asst. Pastor
Fred Lisk and Dave Ricker, Deacons
Mary Beth Will, Liturgical
Coordinator; Mrs. Trina Shultz, Pastoral
Associate. Mel Rode, Parish Council
President
Celebration of the Sacraments
Eucharist Lords Day Observance;
Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 7:30, 9:15,
11:30 a.m.; Weekdays as announced on
Sunday bulletin.
Baptism Celebrated first Sunday
of month at 1:30 p.m. Call rectory to
schedule Pre-Baptismal instructions.
Reconciliation Tuesday and
Friday 7:30-7:50 a.m.; Saturday 3:30-
4:00 p.m. Anytime by request.
Matrimony Arrangements must be
made through the rectory six months
in advance.
Anointing of the Sick Communal
celebration in May and October.
Administered upon request.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Landeck - Phone: 419-692-0636
Administrative aide: Rita Suever
Masses: 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Saturday.
Newcomers register at parish.
Marriages: Please call the parish
house six months in advance.
Baptism: Please call the parish.
ST. PATRICKS CHURCH
500 S. Canal, Spencerville
419-647-6202
Saturday - 4:30 p.m. Reconciliation;
5 p.m. Mass, May 1 - Oct. 30. Sunday -
10:30 a.m. Mass.
SPENCERVILLE FULL GOSPEL
107 Broadway St., Spencerville
Pastor Charles Muter
Home Ph. 419-657-6019
Sunday: Morning Services - 10:00
a.m. Evening Services - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. Worship ser-
vice.
SPENCERVILLE CHURCH
OF THE NAZARENE
317 West North St. - 419-296-2561
Pastor Tom Shobe
9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30
a.m. Morning Worship; 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday Service
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST
Corner of Fourth & Main, Spencerville
Phone 419-647-5321
Rev. Jan Johnson, Pastor
10:30 a.m. Worship service.
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Spencerville
Rev. Ron Shifley, Pastor
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Church School;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service.
AGAPE FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
9250 Armstrong Road, Spencerville
Pastors Phil & Deb Lee
Sunday - 10:00 a.m. Worship ser-
vice.
Wed. - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study
HARTFORD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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Goodbye to that Old Mountain Religion
Travelers who frequent the winding moun-
tain roads of southern Appalachia know that,
every few miles, theyre going to pass yet
another small Baptist church sitting close to
some rushing water.
Its all about location, location, location.
Why would a preacher want to baptize new
believers in a heated, indoor tank when he can
dunk them in the powerful, living, frigid wa-
ters of the river that created the valley in which
his ock has lived for generations? Theres no
question which option the self-proclaimed
Primitive Baptists will choose, even if it adds
an element of risk.
Among Primitive Baptists, you almost
always see two ministers when they baptize
someone -- one to do the baptism and one to
hold on. Its even become part of their unique
liturgical tradition to have two ministers
there, said Baptist historian Bill Leonard of
the Wake Forest School of Divinity in Win-
ston-Salem, N.C.
As the saying goes, said Leonard, you
could get baptized and go to heaven on the
same day if there wasnt somebody there
to hang on so you didnt wash away and
drown.
This is the kind of old-fashioned faith that
Americans are used to seeing in paintings of
frontier life or grainy black-and-white photo-
graphs from the days before interstate high-
ways, shopping malls, satellite dishes and
the Internet. Appalachian religion has played
a dramatic role in American culture, helping
shape our folk art, Scotch-Irish history, roots
music and a host of other subjects.
The question, for Leonard and many oth-
er scholars, is whether the rich heritage of
mountain Christianity will play much of a
role in the nations future.
Increasingly, he said, our modern forms
of American religion and our mass media and
culture are sucking the life out of one of our
most distinctive regions.
While the region contains religious groups
with European ties, the most important fact
about the common Appalachian churches is
that they are uniquely American.
For outsiders, this can be very complex ter-
ritory.
The Calvinist, Primitive Baptists are not
the only Baptists whose sanctuaries dot the
landscape of the 1,600-mile-long strip of
mountains that run from Eastern Canada
down to the high hills of Alabama and Geor-
gia, cresting at Mount Mitchell in the heart of
North Carolinas Black Mountains. There are
Independent Baptists (of various kinds), Free
Will Baptists, Old Regular Baptists, Mission-
ary Baptists, Southern Baptists and dozens of
other brands.
Even the Primitive Baptists are a complex
bunch, noted Leonard. There are some who
avoid wine and some who make their own.
Some refuse to hire professional pastors or to
send their preachers off to seminary, fearing
they will be corrupted. Theres even a small
body of Primitives -- critics call them no-
hellers -- who insist Gods love is so strong
that everybody ends up in heaven, no matter
what.
Then there are the various kinds of Pen-
tecostal-Holiness churches, including the rare
-- but world-famous -- congregations in which
believers handle snakes, sip poison and wres-
tle with demons.
Some Oneness Pentecostal believers
baptize in the name of Jesus, alone, while oth-
ers embrace the traditional Trinity of God the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In an academic
paper entitled Looking for Religious Appa-
lachia, Leonard noted that he once heard a
Trinitarian Pentecostal preacher explain that
doctrinal feud in terms anyone could grasp:
Jesus had a Daddy. He wasnt no bastard.
Case closed, wrote the historian.
Ironically, some of the most powerful
forces that threaten these churches are the ef-
forts of outsiders to help the region -- such
as missionaries sent to evangelize the locals
or social-justice activists who want to help
the locals escape their own way of life. Then
there are the softer forms of Evangelical Prot-
estantism that arrive through television, mass-
marketed gospel music and those new, trans-
planted megachurches that keep sprouting up
like suburban superstores.
Thus, the stark Sacred Harp hymns of
the shape-note era gradually gave way to the
cheery gospel quartets of the radio era, which
were then blitzed by the pop-rock praise
bands of the Contemporary Christian music
era.
What happens when the mountain church-
es and their traditions are gone?
Appalachia still exists and it remains
something to celebrate, said Leonard. Still,
whats happening there is a danger signal to
us all. ... What was once pristine wilderness
is becoming an exploited region. Tragically, a
crucial element of Americas religious history
and heritage is being lost, as well.
Terry Mattingly is the director of the Washington Journal-
ism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universi-
ties and leads the GetReligion.org project to study religion and
the news.
TERRY MATTINGLY
On
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Roselawn Manor currently has positions available
for State Tested Nursing Assistants on our 2nd
and 3rd and in addition, PRN openings. We offer
a dynamic benefits package to full time and part
time employees.
If you would like to work in a friendly, caring fa-
cility with the elderly and you feel you are highly
motivated, a team player and reliable, please stop
by and speak with Amber Hall - Staff Development
Coordinator at:
Roselawn Manor
420 East Fourth Street, Spencerville, OH 45887
(419) 647-4115
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STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
AND CIRCULATION
THE DELPHOS DAILY HERALD
2. Publication Number: 152580
3. Filing Date: 9/28/11
4. Issue Frequency: Daily, No Sundays or Tuesdays
5. Number of Issues Published Annually: 305
6. Annual Subscription Price: $97 in county; $110
outside county
7. Complete Mailing Address: 405 N. Main St.,
Delphos, Allen Co., Ohio 45833
Contact Person: Tiffany Brantley 419-695-0015
ext. 126.
8. Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters or
General Business Office of Publisher: 405 N. Main
St., Delphos, Allen Co., Ohio 45833
9. Full names and complete mailing addresses
of publisher, editor, and managing editor: Publisher,
Murray Cohen, 405 N. Main St., Delphos, OH 45833;
Editor: Nancy Spencer, 405 N. Main St., Delphos,
OH 45833; Managing Editor: Nancy Spencer, 405 N.
Main St., Delphos, OH 45833.
10. Owner: Delphos Publications Co., Inc., 405 N.
Main St., Delphos, OH 45833; Delphos Herald, Inc.,
405 N. Main St., Delphos, OH 45833; Murray Cohen,
403 W. Fifth St., Delphos, OH 45833; Roberta Co-
hen, 125 Dunn Ave., Stamford, CT 06905; Jennifer
Shneiderman, 6606 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA
90048.
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security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more
of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securi-
ties: None
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12 months.
13. Publication Title: Delphos Daily Herald
14. Issue date for circulation data below: 9/26/11
15. Extent and Nature of Circulation; Average no.
Copies each issue during preceding 12 months; no.
Copies of single issue published nearest to filing
date
a. Total Number of copies 3279 3250
b. Paid circulation (by mail and
outside the mail)
1. Mailed outside-county, paid
Subscriptions stated on PS
Form 3541 (include paid
Distribution above nominal rate,
Advertisers proof copies, and
Exchange copies) 57 56
2. Mailed in-county paid subscriptions
Stated on PS form 3541 63 64
3. Paid distribution outside the mails
including sales through dealers and
Carriers, street vendors, counter
sales, and other paid distribution
Outside USPS 2874 2833
4. Paid Distribution by other classes
Of mail through the USPS 0 0
c. Total paid distribution 2994 2953
d. Free or nominal rate distribution
1. Free or nominal rate outside-county
Copies included on PS form 3541 0 0
2. Free or nominal rate in-county
copies included on PS Form 3541 0 0
3. Free or nominal rate copies mailed
At other classes through the USPS 0 0
4. Free or nominal rate distribution
outside the mail 258 284
e. Total free or nominal rate
Distribution 258 284
f. Total distribution 3252 3237
g. Copies not distributed 27 13
h. Total 3279 3250
i. Percent paid 91% 91%
16. Publication of statement of ownership: if the
publication is a general publication, publication of
this statement is required. Will be printed in the
10/3/11 issue of this publication.
17. Signature and title of editor, publisher,
business manager or owner: Ray Geary, general
manager.
Date: 9/28/11
I certify that all information furnished on this form is
true and complete. I understand that anyone who
furnishes false or misleading information on this
form or who omits material or information requested
on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions
(including fines and imprisonment) and/or civil sanc-
tions (including civil penalties).
001

Card Of Thanks
I WOULD like to thank my
family and friends for all of
your visits, cards and
phone calls to me while I
was in the hospital, at
VanCrest rehab and now
at home. I appreciate all of
your kind words and
prayers.
Polly Geise
010

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WE BUY
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528 N.
Washington
419.692.0044
040

Services
LAMP REPAIR
Table or floor.
Come to our store.
Hohenbrink TV.
419-695-1229
080

Help Wanted
Billing Clerk
Part-time to assist
with preparation of
medical records for
billing in fast-paced
environment. Or-
ganized, detail-ori-
ented person; com-
puter proficiency a
must. Knowledge of
medical terminology/
coding a plus. Non-
profit agency. Send
resume by Oct. 7 to:
Community Health
Professionals
Attn: Fawn Burley
1159 Westwood Dr.
Van Wert, OH 45891
419-238-9223
www.ComHealthPro.org
080

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more
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Ford
Lincoln
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p
p
o
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u
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i
t
y
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Professionals
needed for Mercer
& Auglaize Countys
#1 Volume Dealership.
We offer:
5 Day Work Week
Paid Holidays & Vacation
Best Compensation
Plan Around
- up to 35% of salary
+ commission
Over 240 used vehicles in
inventory to sell from
Retirement 401k program
Health insurance
Come be a part
of our success!
Call for appointment or
stop by for an
application,
1000 W. Logan St.,
Celina OR
1350 Celina Rd.,
St. Marys
419-394-7691
OTR SEMI DRIVER
NEEDED
Benefits: Vacation,
Holiday pay, 401k. Home
weekends & most nights.
Call Ulm!s Inc.
419-692-3951
OTTOVILLE HARDWARE
& Furniture Company is
seeking two (2) Part-Time
Sales Help in our Hard-
ware Department and also
in our Furniture, Floor
Covering, and Appliance
Department. Dependable,
good personaility, and
customer service skills.
To apply send resume or
call to:
Ottoville Hardware & Fur-
niture Company
P.O. Box 457
Ottoville, OH 45876
Attention: Sue Bendele
(419) 453-3338
OTTOVILLE HARDWARE
seeking Part-Time Deliv-
ery and Installation help.
Need to have a good driv-
ers license record, de -
pendable, and profes -
sional. To apply send re-
sume or call to:
niture Company
P.O. Box 457
Ottoville, OH 45876
(419) 453-3338
090

Job Wanted
HOUSECLEANING
Regular basis. Fall clean-
ing. 21 yrs. experience.
Honest, dependable, hard-
working. Good references.
(419)692-1305.
120

Financial
IS IT A SCAM? The Del-
phos Herald urges our
readers to contact The
Better Business Bureau,
( 419) 223- 7010 or
1-800-462-0468, before
entering into any agree-
ment involving financing,
business opportunities, or
work at home opportuni-
ties. The BBB will assist
in the investigation of
these businesses. (This
notice provided as a cus-
tomer service by The Del-
phos Herald.)
251

Antiques
50S STYLE Water front
walnut antique china cabi-
net, excellent condition.
$75 OBO. 419-863-9164
or 419-863-0073
280

Flea Market
MAXS FALL Flea Market
and Animal Swap.
October ! & 2
6440 Harding Highway
Lima, OH 45801
Information: 419-225-8545
290

Wanted to Buy
Raines
Jewelry
Cash for Gold
Scrap Gold, Gold Jewelry,
Silver coins, Silverware,
Pocket Watches, Diamonds.
2330 Shawnee Rd.
Lima
(419) 229-2899
300

Household Goods
BED: NEW QUEEN
pillow-top mattress set,
can deliver $125. Call
(260)749-6100.
FOR SALE: Maytag extra
capacity dishwasher in
black $150, 2 storage
cabinets $20 each. Call
419-692-0069 negotiable.
340

Garage Sales
FALL OPEN House
828 N. Franklin
Friday 5pm-8pm
Saturday 9am-4pm
Chocolate treats
hair bows
purses
make-up
Tupperware
501

Misc. for Sale
TANNING BED. Sunquest
Wolff bed. 2-1/2 years old,
barely used. $1,300 OBO.
C a l l H e a t h e r
419-302-6959.
590

House For Rent
FARM HOUSE for rent
west of Delphos. Call
(419)236-7874.
600

Apts. for Rent
1 BR Apt. Includes stove,
refrigerator, and water bill.
Good location. $330/mo &
deposit. 419-203-6810
1 BR upstairs apt.
387 W. 3rd St.
Ottoville, OH
$375/mo. Rent +
Security Deposit.
Call (419)453-3956
1BR APT for rent, appli-
ances, electric heat, laun-
dry room, No pets.
$400/month, plus deposit,
water included. 320 N.
Jefferson. 419-852-0833.
2 BDRM Apt. 910 N. Jef-
ferson. New paint and car-
pet. Stove, refrigerator,
washer, dryer, microwave.
NO PETS $475 and de-
posit. References and in-
f or mat i on r equi r ed
419-890-7232
790

Farms &
Farmland
WANTED: FARMLAND to
rent or buy in Van Wert or
Allen Co. Small farming
operation looking to ex-
pand. 50/50-60/40-70/30
or cash Send replies to
Box 158 c/o Delphos Her-
ald, 405 N. Main St., Del-
phos, OH 45833.
800

House For Sale
DELPHOS - By Owner.
4 Bed, 1 Bath, 2 Car Ga-
rage, Newly Remodeled
Bath & Kitchen, Central
Air. $55,900 or Best Rea-
sonable Offer. Inspection
Sat-Sun 12-5. Home to be
sold Sunday Night to
HI GHEST BI DDER
419-692-2175.
LAND CONTRACT or
Short term Rent to own
homes. Several available.
Addresses and pictures at
www.creativehomebuying-
solutions.com.
419-586-8220
810

Auto Repairs/
Parts/Acc.
Midwest Ohio
Auto Parts
Specialist
Windshields Installed, New
Lights, Grills, Fenders,Mirrors,
Hoods, Radiators
4893 Dixie Hwy, Lima
1-800-589-6830
840

Mobile Homes
MOBILE HOME for Sale.
3 BDRM, 2 BA,
419- 488- 4341 Pet er
Clementz. Consider lot
rental.
RENT OR Rent to Own. 2
bedroom, 1 bath mobile
home. 419-692-3951.
890

Autos for Sale
GENUINE
MOTORCRAFT
BATTERIES
TESTED
TOUGH
MAX
BXT65-650
With 100-month warranty
$
109
95
Some vehicles slightly higher
Installation extra.
Price valid with exchange.
See Service Advisor for limited-
warranty details. Taxes extra
Over 85
years
serving
you!
www.raabeford.com
RAABE
FORD-LINCOLN
11260 Elida Rd., Delphos
M 7:30-8 ; T.-F. 7:30-6:00; Sat. 9-2
419-692-0055
920

Free & Low Price
Merchandise
FREE COUCH: Mauve,
blue and gray, hide-a-bed
sectional. 419-692-0081
FREE KITTENS. Call
419-286-2121
WESTERN BOOKS $.25
each. Call 419-695-8830
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Shop Herald
Classifieds for
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Todays Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Part of RSVP
4 Caught red-handed
8 Ivy Leaguer
11 Humerus neighbor
12 Lhasa --
13 Study
14 Basin in a church
15 Traces
17 Remark
19 Dormant
20 Myrna of old
movies
21 Comfy shoe
22 Wears at the edges
25 Cereal topper
28 Lightning by-
product
29 Grab a cab
31 Ruler before Galba
33 Cask stopper
35 Pantyhose woe
37 Above, to
Tennyson
38 Browns
40 Some eclipses
42 Gator Bowl st.
43 Realty offering
44 Swollen
47 Flowering trees
51 Divides by three
53 -- colada
54 Lord Byrons
daughter
55 Faxed, maybe
56 Pen refills
57 Humble dwelling
58 Fling
59 Famous Khan
DOWN
1 Untidy person
2 Motels of yore
3 Recently
4 Know-how
5 Fencing sword
6 Mountain curve
7 Whim
8 Verge
9 Bold look
10 Part of MIT
11 Starmans vessel
16 Ancient Peruvian
18 -- Hashanah
21 Actress -- Powers
22 Prevaricate
23 Force to flee
24 Half of AD
25 Dumpsters
26 Flashy sign
27 Zone
30 Film terrier
32 Puckster Bobby --
34 Fish landers
36 Latch onto
39 Least trustworthy
41 Perfect world
43 Shoppers aids
44 Nile god
45 Karachi language
46 Authoritative
decree
47 Rockies, briefly
48 What divas do
49 My Way
composer
50 Airline to
Stockholm
52 Mgmt. biggie
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Answer to Puzzle
ALLEN COUNTY
Village of
Spencerville
Scott A. and Karen
Myers to Robert R.
Goodwin, 214 N.
College St., $88,000.
American Township
Jacquelyn A.
Dickerson and Sheriff
Samuel A. Crish to
Kathleen and John
Recker, 651 Powers
Ave., $20,000.
Cathy A. and
David C. Evans to Jon
and Jennelle Sobotka
Trustees et al., South
Wapakoneta Road,
$285,000
Donna J.
Hammond to Loddi
Inc., 2575 Chesteron
Drive, $110,000.
William L. and
Elizabeth J. Burnett
to Joseph Krumel,
236 Augusta Drive,
$155,000.
Jacquelyn A.
Samuel A. Crish to
William A. and Linda
L. Harthun Fr., 3055
Burch Ave., $20,000.
Randolph K.
Giffin to richard R.
Giffin, 735 Gloria
Ave., $35,800.
Chad D. Heffner
and Sheriff Samuel
A. Crish to Federal
National Mortgage
Association, 2574
Berry Road,
$41,000.
Byrn D.
and Deborah
J. Henry to
Stephanie L.
Luma, 1806
A r l i n g t o n
Drie, $80,000.
Mark A.
and Michelle
R. Kline Jr. to
M&D Kline
B u i l d i n g ,
2801 N.
Eastown Road,
$77,000.
Unity of Lima
to New Beginning
Ministry Baptist
Church, 1230 Brice
Ave., $55,000.
City of Delphos
SCPJ Ltd. to
Westrich Rentals, 515
E. Suthoff, $75,900.
Gregory R. and
Julie Feathers to
Brittany P. Martz,
556 E. Third St.,
$109,500.
Gable Properties to
Thomas E. Cummans
and Bethany M.
Cressman, 226
Douglas, $50,900.
Marion Township
Daniel L. and
Patricia A. Dempsey
and Sheriff Samuel A.
Crish to Gregory R.
and Julie M. Feathers,
10840 Dutch Road,
$136,000.
Donnie R. Sargent
trustee et al. to
Paul E. and Karen
L. Knippen, Ridge
Road, $183,000.
Spencer Township
James D. Pohlman
et al. to David L.
Youngpeter, Acadia
Road, $9,000.
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GARAGE SALES: Each day is $.20 per
word. $8.00 minimum charge.
I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
DEBTS: Ad must be placed in person by
the person whose name will appear in the ad.
Must show ID & pay when placing ad. Regu-
lar rates apply
FREE ADS: 5 days free if item is free
or less than $50. Only 1 item per ad, 1
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To place an ad phone 419-695-0015 ext. 122
We accept
950 Lawn Care
SPEARS
LAWN CARE
Total Lawncare &
Snow Removal
21 Years Experience Insured
Commercial & Residential
Lindell Spears
419-695-8516
LAWN MOWING
FERTILIZATION
WEED CONTROL
PROGRAMS
LAWN AERATION
FALL CLEANUP
MULCHING & MULCH
DELIVERY
SHRUB INSTALLATION,
TRIMMING & REMOVAL
950 Tree Service
TEMANS
OUR TREE
SERVICE
Bill Teman 419-302-2981
Ernie Teman 419-230-4890
Since 1973
419-692-7261
Trimming Topping Thinning
Deadwooding
Stump, Shrub & Tree Removal
FLANAGANS
CAR CARE
816 E. FIFTH ST. DELPHOS
Ph. 419-692-5801
Mon.-Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-2
OIL - LUBE FILTER
Only
$
22.95*
*up to 5 quarts oil
950 Construction
POHLMAN
POURED
CONCRETE WALLS
Residential
& Commercial
Agricultural Needs
All Concrete Work
Mark Pohlman
419-339-9084
cell 419-233-9460
POHLMAN
BUILDERS
FREE ESTIMATES
FULLY INSURED
Mark Pohlman
419-339-9084
cell 419-233-9460
ROOM ADDITIONS
GARAGES SIDING ROOFING
BACKHOE & DUMP TRUCK
SERVICE
MASSAGE
THERAPY
NEW CLIENTS
419-953-8787
$25 THE 1
ST
MASSAGE
Stephanie Adams, LMT
Destinie Carpenter, LMT
Corner of Dutch Hollow & Nesbitt
950 Car Care
Geise
Transmission, Inc.
419-453-3620
2 miles north of Ottoville
automatic transmission
standard transmission
differentials
transfer case
brakes & tune up
TOP SOIL
COMPOST
419-339-6800
On S.R. 309 in Elida
Delivery Available
950 Miscellaneous
COMMUNITY
SELF-STORAGE
GREAT RATES
NEWER FACILITY
419-692-0032
Across from Arbys
Service
AT YOUR
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Your
Shopping
Network
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419-695-0015
State Tested Nursing Assistant
Roselawn Manor currently has positions available
for State Tested Nursing Assistants on our 2nd
and 3rd and in addition, PRN openings. We offer
a dynamic benefits package to full time and part
time employees.
If you would like to work in a friendly, caring fa-
cility with the elderly and you feel you are highly
motivated, a team player and reliable, please stop
by and speak with Amber Hall - Staff Development
Coordinator at:
Roselawn Manor
420 East Fourth Street, Spencerville, OH 45887
(419) 647-4115
EE
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
AND CIRCULATION
THE DELPHOS DAILY HERALD
2. Publication Number: 152580
3. Filing Date: 9/28/11
4. Issue Frequency: Daily, No Sundays or Tuesdays
5. Number of Issues Published Annually: 305
6. Annual Subscription Price: $97 in county; $110
outside county
7. Complete Mailing Address: 405 N. Main St.,
Delphos, Allen Co., Ohio 45833
Contact Person: Tiffany Brantley 419-695-0015
ext. 126.
8. Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters or
General Business Office of Publisher: 405 N. Main
St., Delphos, Allen Co., Ohio 45833
9. Full names and complete mailing addresses
of publisher, editor, and managing editor: Publisher,
Murray Cohen, 405 N. Main St., Delphos, OH 45833;
Editor: Nancy Spencer, 405 N. Main St., Delphos,
OH 45833; Managing Editor: Nancy Spencer, 405 N.
Main St., Delphos, OH 45833.
10. Owner: Delphos Publications Co., Inc., 405 N.
Main St., Delphos, OH 45833; Delphos Herald, Inc.,
405 N. Main St., Delphos, OH 45833; Murray Cohen,
403 W. Fifth St., Delphos, OH 45833; Roberta Co-
hen, 125 Dunn Ave., Stamford, CT 06905; Jennifer
Shneiderman, 6606 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA
90048.
11. Known Bondholders, Mortgages, and other
security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more
of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securi-
ties: None
12. Tax Status: Has not changed during preceding
12 months.
13. Publication Title: Delphos Daily Herald
14. Issue date for circulation data below: 9/26/11
15. Extent and Nature of Circulation; Average no.
Copies each issue during preceding 12 months; no.
Copies of single issue published nearest to filing
date
a. Total Number of copies 3279 3250
b. Paid circulation (by mail and
outside the mail)
1. Mailed outside-county, paid
Subscriptions stated on PS
Form 3541 (include paid
Distribution above nominal rate,
Advertisers proof copies, and
Exchange copies) 57 56
2. Mailed in-county paid subscriptions
Stated on PS form 3541 63 64
3. Paid distribution outside the mails
including sales through dealers and
Carriers, street vendors, counter
sales, and other paid distribution
Outside USPS 2874 2833
4. Paid Distribution by other classes
Of mail through the USPS 0 0
c. Total paid distribution 2994 2953
d. Free or nominal rate distribution
1. Free or nominal rate outside-county
Copies included on PS form 3541 0 0
2. Free or nominal rate in-county
copies included on PS Form 3541 0 0
3. Free or nominal rate copies mailed
At other classes through the USPS 0 0
4. Free or nominal rate distribution
outside the mail 258 284
e. Total free or nominal rate
Distribution 258 284
f. Total distribution 3252 3237
g. Copies not distributed 27 13
h. Total 3279 3250
i. Percent paid 91% 91%
16. Publication of statement of ownership: if the
publication is a general publication, publication of
this statement is required. Will be printed in the
10/3/11 issue of this publication.
17. Signature and title of editor, publisher,
business manager or owner: Ray Geary, general
manager.
Date: 9/28/11
I certify that all information furnished on this form is
true and complete. I understand that anyone who
furnishes false or misleading information on this
form or who omits material or information requested
on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions
(including fines and imprisonment) and/or civil sanc-
tions (including civil penalties).
001

Card Of Thanks
I WOULD like to thank my
family and friends for all of
your visits, cards and
phone calls to me while I
was in the hospital, at
VanCrest rehab and now
at home. I appreciate all of
your kind words and
prayers.
Polly Geise
010

Announcements
Call 419-695-0015, ext
138.
Call 419-695-0015, ext
138.
DELPHOS TRADING
POST
We Buy - Sell -
Trade
Anything of
Value
More Value
for
Your Buying $$$
WE BUY
GOLD & SILVER
528 N.
Washington
419.692.0044
040

Services
LAMP REPAIR
Table or floor.
Come to our store.
Hohenbrink TV.
419-695-1229
080

Help Wanted
Billing Clerk
Part-time to assist
with preparation of
medical records for
billing in fast-paced
environment. Or-
ganized, detail-ori-
ented person; com-
puter proficiency a
must. Knowledge of
medical terminology/
coding a plus. Non-
profit agency. Send
resume by Oct. 7 to:
Community Health
Professionals
Attn: Fawn Burley
1159 Westwood Dr.
Van Wert, OH 45891
419-238-9223
www.ComHealthPro.org
080

Help Wanted
earn
more
KERNS
Ford
Lincoln
o
p
p
o
r
t
u
n
i
t
y
Internet/Sales
Professionals
needed for Mercer
& Auglaize Countys
#1 Volume Dealership.
We offer:
5 Day Work Week
Paid Holidays & Vacation
Best Compensation
Plan Around
- up to 35% of salary
+ commission
Over 240 used vehicles in
inventory to sell from
Retirement 401k program
Health insurance
Come be a part
of our success!
Call for appointment or
stop by for an
application,
1000 W. Logan St.,
Celina OR
1350 Celina Rd.,
St. Marys
419-394-7691
OTR SEMI DRIVER
NEEDED
Benefits: Vacation,
Holiday pay, 401k. Home
weekends & most nights.
Call Ulm!s Inc.
419-692-3951
OTTOVILLE HARDWARE
seeking two (2) Part-Time
Sales Help in our Hard-
ware Department and also
in our Furniture, Floor
Covering, and Appliance
Department. Dependable,
good personaility, and
customer service skills.
To apply send resume or
call to:
niture Company
P.O. Box 457
Ottoville, OH 45876
(419) 453-3338
OTTOVILLE HARDWARE
seeking Part-Time Deliv-
ery and Installation help.
Need to have a good driv-
ers license record, de -
pendable, and profes -
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or 419-863-0073
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October ! & 2
6440 Harding Highway
Lima, OH 45801
Information: 419-225-8545
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2330 Shawnee Rd.
Lima
(419) 229-2899
300

Household Goods
BED: NEW QUEEN
pillow-top mattress set,
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(260)749-6100.
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black $150, 2 storage
cabinets $20 each. Call
419-692-0069 negotiable.
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Friday 5pm-8pm
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419-302-6959.
590

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FARM HOUSE for rent
west of Delphos. Call
(419)236-7874.
600

Apts. for Rent
1 BR Apt. Includes stove,
refrigerator, and water bill.
Good location. $330/mo &
deposit. 419-203-6810
1 BR upstairs apt.
387 W. 3rd St.
Ottoville, OH
$375/mo. Rent +
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dry room, No pets.
$400/month, plus deposit,
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Jefferson. 419-852-0833.
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pet. Stove, refrigerator,
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product
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Tennyson
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Answer to Puzzle
ALLEN COUNTY
Village of
Spencerville
Scott A. and Karen
Myers to Robert R.
Goodwin, 214 N.
College St., $88,000.
American Township
Jacquelyn A.
Samuel A. Crish to
Kathleen and John
Recker, 651 Powers
Ave., $20,000.
Cathy A. and
David C. Evans to Jon
and Jennelle Sobotka
Trustees et al., South
Wapakoneta Road,
$285,000
Donna J.
Hammond to Loddi
Inc., 2575 Chesteron
Drive, $110,000.
William L. and
Elizabeth J. Burnett
to Joseph Krumel,
236 Augusta Drive,
$155,000.
Jacquelyn A.
Samuel A. Crish to
William A. and Linda
L. Harthun Fr., 3055
Burch Ave., $20,000.
Randolph K.
Giffin to richard R.
Giffin, 735 Gloria
Ave., $35,800.
Chad D. Heffner
and Sheriff Samuel
A. Crish to Federal
National Mortgage
Association, 2574
Berry Road,
$41,000.
Byrn D.
and Deborah
J. Henry to
Stephanie L.
Luma, 1806
A r l i n g t o n
Drie, $80,000.
Mark A.
and Michelle
R. Kline Jr. to
M&D Kline
B u i l d i n g ,
2801 N.
Eastown Road,
$77,000.
Unity of Lima
to New Beginning
Ministry Baptist
Church, 1230 Brice
Ave., $55,000.
City of Delphos
SCPJ Ltd. to
Westrich Rentals, 515
E. Suthoff, $75,900.
Gregory R. and
Julie Feathers to
Brittany P. Martz,
556 E. Third St.,
$109,500.
Gable Properties to
Thomas E. Cummans
and Bethany M.
Cressman, 226
Douglas, $50,900.
Marion Township
Daniel L. and
Patricia A. Dempsey
and Sheriff Samuel A.
Crish to Gregory R.
and Julie M. Feathers,
10840 Dutch Road,
$136,000.
Donnie R. Sargent
trustee et al. to
Paul E. and Karen
L. Knippen, Ridge
Road, $183,000.
Spencer Township
James D. Pohlman
et al. to David L.
Youngpeter, Acadia
Road, $9,000.
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Tomorrows
Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol
Woman surprised
by boyfriend
Dear Annie: I am a
67-year-old woman who has
been deeply hurt. My hus-
band died seven years ago
and I suffered deep depres-
sion. My psychiatrist told
me to meet new people, so
I did. I joined an expensive
dating service, which was
a disaster. Then I went to
dinner with a girlfriend in an
upscale nightclub. A good-
looking fellow asked me to
dance and we clicked imme-
diately. He was charming,
adorable and could dance. I
was smitten.
Over the next
two years, we
traveled exten-
sively, cooked
together, went
to the beach and
had a lot in com-
mon. My family
embraced him and
was so happy for
me. There were a
few concerns, but
they didnt seem
important. He
told me hed been addicted
to alcohol and tobacco, but
stopped using both 30 years
ago.
Three weeks ago, he
brought marijuana to my
home and proceeded to
smoke. I was appalled and
told him to never bring it
into my house again. He then
proceeded to sneak it in the
bathroom. He refused to quit
and said if I want to see him,
Id have to go to his place.
(His house is a wreck, and
there is no place for me to
sit.)
We had an argument and
I havent heard from him
since. I am shocked that the
man I loved is an addict. I
will never accept having a
pot smoker in my life. He
claims he didnt lie about it,
but I consider this a lie by
omission. How could he do
this after all our time togeth-
er? -- Hurt in Connecticut
Dear Hurt: There were
probably signs during your
two years together, but peo-
ple in love are prone to over-
look red flags, especially if
they are unfamiliar with the
markings. We dont doubt
that this man enjoyed your
company, but his addiction
comes first, and he isnt
willing to give it up for you.
We know you are hurting,
but please know you also
are lucky to have missed this
train.
Dear Annie: I am an ama-
teur writer and publisher of a
minority newspaper. It cir-
culates all over the U.S., so I
am becoming rather famous
in my ethnic community.
I often receive unsolic-
ited newly published books
in my native language. The
authors ask me to write some
words of praise for the book.
Whenever possible, I give
them the positive comments
I feel they deserve.
My question is, how do
I respond if the book is not
well written? Do I tell the
author my true feelings or
give no reply at all? I know
how to respond in my cul-
ture, but since I have been
living in the U.S., I think
I should do as in Rome.
Please help. -- Cultural
Stranger
Dear Stranger: You can
respond with kind words
that are not exactly praise
(You have clearly worked
hard on this or I wish
you the best of luck), or
you can tell the writer that
you are too inundated with
material to read everything,
so sorry. However,
although you are
in Rome, the
people who write
to you expect you
to respond accord-
ing to your own
cultural norms, so
you might want to
reconsider.
Dear Annie:
This is for No
Pets, Please,
whose friends and
relatives insist on
bringing their pets to her
home.
She should not worry for
one second about saying the
dogs are not welcome. I am
an officer in a breed club
and have raised and shown
dogs for years. Dogs are
welcome in my home, but if
they are staying overnight,
I request a crate and do the
same with my dogs when I
visit elsewhere. Every one
of my dogs is a four-footed
child, but it would never
occur to me to bring a dog to
someones home unless told
he was invited. Part of being
a responsible dog owner is
recognizing that not every-
one is as nuts as we are.
-- Owner, Handler
Annies Mailbox is writ-
ten by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-
tors of the Ann Landers
column. Please e-mail your
questions to anniesmail-
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to: Annies Mailbox, c/o
Creators Syndicate, 5777 W.
Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los
Angeles, CA 90045.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 2011
Regardless of how much you
enjoy having partners,
youre likely to do
better in independent
operations in the year
ahead than you will as
part of a team. Make
sure you move in
circles where you can be free to make
your own decisions.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
Some extra good news is trying to get
through to you, so be sure to listen to
all suggestions as well as check your
mailbox and email. Return all phone
calls.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) --
Should you find yourself instinctively
sensing when something is a good
investment and when it is not, follow
these hunches. A speculative urge
could pay off rather handsomely.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
21) -- The enthusiasm you show for
every activity makes others interested
in copying you. You wont have to
encourage them to do so, just simply
do your thing and the rest will follow.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19) -- If there is something you really
want that another can help you get,
enthusiastically talk about it to your
potential benefactor. Chances are that
he or she will come through for you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
-- Be sure to acknowledge everyone
wherever you go, because good things
come from being friendly. You never
know exactly what might happen.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
-- Something having to do with your
work or career, which might seem
rather insignificant at first glance,
could look entirely different to you as
time passes. Take that second look.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
-- Your good mood has you looking
for the bright side in everything you
encounter. Any adverse condition that
tries to darken your doorway wont
lurk there very long.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) --
Those very same people youve gone
out of your way to help in the past
will do what they can to look out for
you. It may be the first chance theyve
gotten to balance the books.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) --
Most everyone with whom you share
your day will find you a fun person to
be around, making you more popular
than usual. A word of warning,
however: Dont play favorites.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) --
This is likely to be one of your better
days in terms of your work or career.
However, even though good things
are in the offing, you must recognize
them in order to take advantage.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Your
wit, warmth and charm are likely to be
far more prevalent than usual, making
you an in-demand personage. Those
who meet you for the first time will
want to chum it up with you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) --
Better-than-usual developments could
be in the making for two reasons:
one, because of your able efficiency
in all matters, and, two, Lady Luck is
helping you get what you want.

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Publishers of the Old Farmers Almanac claim predictions
are right about 60 percent of the time.
Cockroach experts say the little creatures do not fancy
cucumbers.
Todays questions:
What was the minimum wage when it was introduced in
1938?
What is the increased risk of suffering a heart attack after
being fired?
Answers in Saturdays Herald.
Todays words:
Crepitate: to crackle or rattle
Purpesture: a private piece of public land
The Outstanding National Debt as of 7 a.m. today was
$14,707,936,996,980.
The estimated population of the United States
is 311,399,749, so each citizens share of this debt is
$47,232.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average
of $3.90 billion per day since Sept. 28, 2007.
Could model airplanes become a terrorist weapon?
By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press
BOSTON Model airplanes are sud-
denly on the publics radar as potential terror-
ist weapons.
A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb
was arrested Wednesday and accused of
plotting to attack the Pentagon and the U.S.
Capitol with remote-controlled model planes
packed with explosives.
These are not balsa-wood-and-rubber-band
toys investigators are talking about. The FBI
said Rezwan Ferdaus hoped to use military-
jet replicas, 5 to 7 1/2 feet long, guided by
GPS devices and capable of speeds over 100
mph.
Federal officials have long been aware of
the possibility someone might try to use such
planes as weapons, but there are no restric-
tions on their purchase Ferdaus is said to
have bought his over the Internet.
Counterterrorism experts and model-air-
craft hobbyists said it would be nearly impos-
sible to inflict large-scale damage of the sort
Ferdaus allegedly envisioned using model
planes. The aircraft are too small, cant carry
enough explosives and are too tricky to fly,
they said.
The idea of pushing a button and this thing
diving into the Pentagon is kind of a joke,
actually, said Greg Hahn, technical director
of the Academy of Model Aeronautics.
Rick Nelson, a former Navy helicopter
pilot who is now a senior fellow at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies, said
Ferdaus would have had to hit a window or
other vulnerable area to maximize damage,
and that would have taken precision flying.
Flying a remote-controlled plane isnt as
easy as it actually looks, and then to put an
explosive on it and have that explosive deto-
nate at the time and place that you want it add
to the difficulty of actually doing it, he said.
Ferdaus, a Muslim American from Ashland,
was arrested after federal agents posing as al-
Qaida members delivered what he believed
was 24 pounds of C-4 explosive, authori-
ties said. He was charged with attempting to
damage or destroy a federal building with
explosives. A federal affidavit claims he began
planning jihad against the U.S. in early 2010
after becoming convinced through jihadi web-
sites and videos that America was evil.
Ferdaus had a physics degree from
Northeastern University and enjoyed tak-
ing stuff apart and learning on my own,
according to court papers.
The model planes Ferdaus eyed were the
F-4 Phantom and the F-86 Sabre, small-scale
versions of military jets, investigators said.
The F-4 is the more expensive of the two, at
up to $20,000, Hahn said. The F-86, one of
which Ferdaus actually obtained, costs $6,000
to $10,000 new.
Ferdaus plan, as alleged in court papers,
was to launch three such planes from a park
near the Pentagon and Capitol and use GPS
to direct them toward the buildings, where
they would detonate on impact and blow the
Capitol dome to smithereens. He planned
to pack five pounds of plastic explosives on
each plane, according to prosecutors.
James Crippin, an explosives and anti-
terrorism expert, said that much C-4 could
do serious damage a half-pound will
obliterate a car. But he said getting a stable
explosive like C-4 to blow up at the right time
would have been hugely difficult.
And there were slim prospects of caus-
ing any serious damage to buildings like the
Pentagon and Capitol, which are undoubtedly
hardened to withstand explosions, according
to Crippin, director of the Western Forensic
Law Enforcement Training Center.
Basically, I think hes suffering from
delusions of grandeur, he said.
Hahn said the heavier of the two models
Ferdaus was allegedly planning to use could
carry a maximum of two pounds of plastic explo-
sive before malfunctioning. Thats not including
the weight of any GPS system, he added.
Its almost impossible for him to get this
done, he said.
Remote-controlled aircraft have been
considered by terrorists before. In 2008,
Christopher Paul of Worthington, Ohio, a
Columbus suburb, pleaded guilty to plot-
ting terrorist attacks in the U.S. and Europe
using explosive devices. Prosecutors said
he researched remote-controlled boats and a
remote-controlled 5-foot-long helicopter.
And after Sept. 11, federal agents asked
the Academy of Model Aeronautics 143,000
members to watch for any fellow enthusiasts
who might be buying planes with bad inten-
tions.
Well before the Massachusetts arrest, police
in Montgomery County, Md., put out a ter-
rorist warning to hobby shops to be aware of
customers who dont appear to be hobbyists
buying model airplanes with cash and asking
how they can be modified to carry a device.
The Federal Aviation Administration is
devising new rules for model airplanes and
other unmanned aircraft, but the restrictions
are aimed primarily at preventing collisions.
Under current FAA rules, such planes are
generally limited to flying below 400 feet and
away from airports and air traffic.
Hundreds of plants, animals
up for new federal protections
Some banks implement monthly debit card charge
By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. The
Obama administration is
taking steps to extend new
federal protections to a list
of imperiled animals and
plants that reads like a mani-
fest for Noahs Ark from
the melodic golden-winged
warbler and slow-moving
gopher tortoise, to the slimy
American eel and tiny Texas
kangaroo rat.
Compelled by a pair of
recent legal settlements, the
effort in part targets spe-
cies that have been mired
in bureaucratic limbo even
as they inch toward potential
extinction. With todays dead-
line to act on more than 700
pending cases, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service already
has issued decisions advanc-
ing more than 500 species
toward potential new protec-
tions under the Endangered
Species Act.
Observers said the agen-
cys actions mark a break-
through for a program long
criticized by conservatives
and liberals alike as cumber-
some and slow. But most of
the decisions made under the
new settlements are prelimi-
nary, and key Republicans
vowed Thursday to press
forward with their plans to
put the brakes on a law they
blame for jeopardizing eco-
nomic growth.
Still, said Patrick
Parenteau, an environmental
law professor at the Vermont
Law School, Here at a single
glance, you see the sweep of
the Endangered Species Act.
They are moving through this
large backlog at a fairly crisp
clip now. This is the larg-
est number of listing actions
weve seen in a very long
time, in decades.
Decisions on about 60
more species covered under
the settlements are expected
today, the Fish and Wildlife
Service said.
For those already list-
ed, a 2006 study from the
Government Accountability
Office found projected recov-
ery costs ranged widely
from $125 million for the
whooping crane, to $58,000
for the decurrent false aster,
a type of flower. The GAO
pegged the average cost for
the species it examined at
$15.9 million, with recover-
ies often lasting decades.
Determining the broad-
er costs to the economy is
more difficult. Lost jobs from
restrictions placed on logging
or agriculture might be off-
set by benefits to outdoor
recreational industries like
boating or fishing, said Jason
Shogren, a natural resources
professor in the economics
department at the University
of Wyoming.
Under the current settle-
ments, only 13 new animals
and plants have reached the
final step and been added
to the almost 1,400 species
on the governments threat-
ened and endangered list.
Also, not every species made
the cut to take the next step.
Roughly 40 rejections have
been meted out, including
for plains bison, the giant
Palouse earthworm of Idaho
and Utahs Gila monster.
Those rejections are subject
to court challenges.
Among species that
advanced for further consid-
eration are 35 snails from
Nevadas Great Basin, 82
crawfish from the Southeast,
99 Hawaiian plants and a
motley cast of butterflies,
birds, fish, beetles, frogs, liz-
ards, mussels and more from
every corner of the country.
Some have languished for
decades on a candidate list
of species the government says
warrant protection but that it
lacks the resources to help.
By CANDICE CHOI
AP Personal Finance Writer
NEW YORK Will a monthly debit card fee soon be the
norm?
Bank of America said Thursday that it plans to start charg-
ing a $5 monthly fee when customers make debit card pur-
chases. The fee will be rolled out starting early next year.
Paying to use a debit card was unheard of before this year
and is still a novel concept for many consumers. But several
banks have recently introduced or started testing debit card
fees. Thats in addition to the spate of other unwelcome chang-
es checking account customers have seen in the past year.
Bank of Americas announcement carries added weight
because it is the largest U.S. bank by deposits.
The fee will apply to basic accounts, which are marketed
toward those with modest balances, and will be in addition
to any existing monthly service fees. For example, one such
account charges a $12 monthly fee unless customers meet
certain conditions, such as maintaining a minimum average
balance of $1,500.
Customers will only be charged the fee if they use their
debit cards for purchases in any given month, said Anne Pace,
a Bank of America spokeswoman. Those who only use their
cards at ATMs wont have to pay.
The debit card fee is just the latest twist in the rapidly
evolving market for checking account.
A study by Bankrate.com this week found that just 45
percent of checking accounts are now free with no strings
attached, down from 65 percent last year and 76 percent in
2009. Customers can still get free checking in most cases, but
only if they meet certain conditions, such as setting up direct
deposit.
The study also found that the total average cost for using an
ATM rose to $3.81, from $3.74, the year before. The average
overdraft fee inched up to $30.83, from $30.47
The changes come ahead of a regulation that goes into
effect next month.
Starting Oct. 1, the regulation will cap the fees that banks
can collect from merchants whenever customers swipe their
debit cards. Those fees generated $19 billion in revenue for
banks in 2009, according to the Nilson Report, which tracks
the payments industry.
There is no similar cap on the merchant fees that banks can
collect when customers use their credit cards, however. That
means many banks are increasingly encouraging customers
to reach for their credit cards, in hopes of reversing a trend
toward debit card usage in the past several years.
An increasing reliance on credit cards would be particularly
beneficial for big institutions like Bank of America, which
have large credit card portfolios, notes Bart Narter, a banking
analyst with Celent, a consulting firm.
SunTrust, a regional bank based in Atlanta, began charging
a $5 debit card fee on its basic checking accounts this summer.
Regions Financial, which is based in Birmingham, Ala., plans
to start charging a $4 fee next month.
Chase and Wells Fargo are also testing $3 monthly debit
card fees in select markets. Neither bank has said when it
will make a final decision on whether to roll out the fee more
broadly.
Soldiers admit to home invasion
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) Three soldiers from an
Oklahoma Army post admitted under police questioning
that they carried out a home invasion in which four people
were shot and wounded, a detective said.
The three Fort Sill soldiers a fourth is charged with
being their getaway driver told investigators that they
were at the home of a friend, Heather Smith, and that they
told her they were going to rob her next-door neighbors,
Lawton police Det. Brenna Alvarez said in a sworn affida-
vit filed Tuesday in Comanche County court.
Pfcs. Kevon McLaren, 22, Richard Daly, 24, and Claude
Byrd II, 27, each face conspiracy, robbery and kidnapping
charges, and McLaren, who witnesses said fired the shots,
faces additional charges of shooting with the intent to kill
and burglary. A fourth soldier, Pfc. Jared Berman, 20, is
accused of helping them flee and is charged with being an
accessory.
All four soldiers were being held in Comanche County
jail McLaren on $2 million bond, Daly and Byrd on $1
million each, and Berman on $45,000 bond.
Online court records Thursday showed that none of the
soldiers had attorneys, and none of them has spoken pub-
licly about the charges since their arrests.
Smith, 20, was arrested Wednesday and is charged
with lying to police and being an accessory after the fact.
She was being held Thursday on $75,000 bond. Records
showed she also didnt have an attorney.
In his affidavit, which was filed Tuesday with the
charges against Smith, Alvarez states that Byrd, Daly and
McLaren all confessed to their involvement in the rob-
bery.
According to Alvarez, the three told police they were
hanging out at Smiths place and told her they were going
to rob the apartment next door. McLaren said Daly told
Smith they were going to do a lick, and that she said
she was afraid her neighbors would respond by shooting
her. But Byrd said she eventually came around to the idea
because she was moving out, anyway.
Byrd said Daly and McLaren knocked on the neighbors
door while he stayed at Smiths, and that she went outside
pretending to take out the trash so she could tell him what
was happening, Alvarez said.
When she returned to the apartment, Byrd said she told
him hey, McLaren got him. Get over there. Get over
there. Byrd said he found McLaren and Daly ordering
everyone to the ground at gunpoint. At one point, vic-
tims said they heard Daly on the phone saying Im at
Heathers, Alvarez said.
Detectives later determined he was calling Berman to
come pick them up along with the items they stole, which
included computers, DVDs, clothing and other items,
police said.
Byrd told police that about two minutes elapsed from
the time he heard the first gunshot to the time he heard
the last, and that they fled right after that to Byrds house,
Alvarez said. Once there, Daly told Berman to go back to
get Smith, but there were too many police cars when he got
there turned back.
According to the affidavit, Smith called police just after
the early-morning shooting to report she heard five or six
gunshots coming from the apartment next door. When
officers arrived a few minutes later, she told them that
McLaren, who she had known for almost a year, knocked
on her door after she hung up, pointed a gun at her and
demanded money. She said she gave him $200 and he left.
Smith also told police she had been hanging out with
Daly and Byrd that night and that they had left about an
hour before McLaren knocked, Alvarez said.
Assistant District Attorney Eddie Valdez said Wednesday
that he had just been assigned to the case and couldnt pro-
vide additional details, and prosecutors didnt immediately
respond to a message Thursday seeking comment.
MILWAUKEE (AP)
Avoid foreign produce. Wash
and peel your fruit. Keep it
refrigerated. None of these com-
mon tips would have guaranteed
your safety from the deadliest
food outbreak in a decade, the
one involving cantaloupes from
Colorado.
Whether its sprouts or
spinach, turkey or hamburger;
whether the government dou-
bled, tripled or quadrupled
inspections, the truth is that no
food will ever be completely
free of risk.
And a few foods have become
so risky that certain people such
as children, pregnant women and
the elderly may do best to avoid
them altogether until growers
and the government figure out
how to make them safer, some
food experts say.
An unappetizing fact:
Although the current cantaloupe
outbreak has been tied to just
one farm in Colorado, its at
least the 19th outbreak involving
that melon since 1984. Its also
the first one caused by listeria,
a germ that actually likes to be
in the refrigerator and thrives
in this fruit, which cannot be
cooked unless you want to eat
melon mush.
Listeria also prompted a
California farm to recall bags
of chopped romaine lettuce on
Thursday because of possible
contamination, though no ill-
nesses have been reported. The
greens from Salinas-based True
Leaf Farms went to an Oregon
distributor and possibly at least
two other states Washington
and Idaho.
So what should you do if you
see cantaloupe on a salad bar or
at the grocery store? Can you be
sure all of the tainted stuff has
been pulled from the market,
since the last bad melons were
shipped on Sept. 10? What if no
one knows where the cantaloupe
was grown?
If the store cant tell them or
the restaurant cant tell them, I
would not buy it at all, said Chris
Waldrop, director of the Food
Policy Institute at the Consumer
Federation of America.
Laura Anderko, a Georgetown
University public health expert,
went a step further.
Honestly, as a nurse,
I would tell people dont eat
the cantaloupe until this thing
resolves itself, she said. This
stuff happens because our sys-
tem is not as tight as it needs
to be.
What to do
about killer
cantaloupe

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