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Each year at this time The
Herald staff takes a look back

at the happenings in the area
in the past year. Here is the
third of four year-end wra-
pups.
July
July 9
Betty Ford, the former
first lady whose triumph over
alcohol and drug addiction
became a beacon of hope for
addicts and the inspiration
for her Betty Ford Center,
died at the age of 93. Her
husband, former President
Gerald Ford, preceded her in
death in 2006.
July 12
It was announced that
Mark Fuerst would take the
helm at Franklin and Landeck
Elementary schools as princi-
pal in August 2011. Twinning
the schools was done to save
the district $20,000 per year
during Fuersts contract.
Former Franklin Principal
Damon Ulm accepted a posi-
tion to teach fifth grade at
Landeck for the 2011-12
school year.
July 22
Hundreds of spectators
braved the heat to line Main
Street in Ottawa to wel-
come the Vietnam Memorial
Traveling Wall to town. Led
by approximately 700-800
motorcycles, the wall left
Findlay around 6 p.m. and
made its way to Ottawa at
7 p.m., where it was dis-
played at the Putnam County
Fairgrounds for three days.
July 29
After a local resident was
assaulted in her home on
Dewey Street by a neighbor
under the influence of the
designer drug bath salts,
the City of Delphos made
a pledge to clean up the
neighborhood.
July 30
Martin Krutak took over as
Store Manager of ALCO after
Wil Baughn retired. Krutak
had trained at the Delphos
store three years previous and
had served as manager of the
Delphi store in Indiana. Prior
to his training with ALCO,
Krutak spent 17 years man-
aging retail locations in Fort
Lauderdale.
August
Aug. 10
The Delphos Public
Library Board of Trustees
held its first meeting in the
recently purchased and reno-
vated building on First Street.
The board named the build-
ing The First Edition.
Aug. 11
The National FFA
Organization announced four
Delphos FFA members were
chosen as finalists for the
National FFA Proficiency
Awards. The four chosen
were Chad Hoersten, Cory
Osting, Jason Michel and
Dulton Moore.
Aug. 12
The Delphos Optimist
Club named Delphos Fire
and Rescue Platoon Chief
Kevin Streets its Firefighter
of the Year. He was nomi-
nated for the honor by Chief
Dave McNeal and chosen by
the Optimist Respect for the
Law Committee. Streets also
serves the EMS as an EMT-
Basic.
Aug. 13
Work officially started
on the sixth Habitat home
in Delphos. Future resident
Susie Bonifas helped several
volunteers frame the house.
I am so excited to be a
homeowner again, she said.
Its been a long time. My
son, Anthony, is also excited
about having his own room.
Aug. 18
Trevor Kroeger was cho-
sen as the Delphos Knights
of Columbus Council 1362
Youth of the Year for the
2010-11 fraternal year.
Kroeger planned to attend the
University of Cincinnatis
College Conservatory of
Music to study music educa-
tion in hopes of pursuing a
career in opera conducting.
He was presented with a $300
reward by Grand Knight Jim
Mesker.
During a special meet-
ing, the Delphos City
Schools Board of Education
accepted the resignation of
Superintendent Jeff Price and
thanked him for his four years
of service. Price accepted the
position with the district in
2007 and led the school dis-
trict to obtain its first excel-
By STACY TAFF
staff@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS When
Denise Cressman applied
for a position at the Delphos
Public Library 13 years ago,
she was given one that com-
bined two loves: books and
working with children.
I applied for any position
that was available because Im
a bibliophile. I love books;
always have, she said. They
called me and I was offered
the position for childrens
librarian and that was perfect
for me. I had done some sub-
stitute teaching before that
and I worked at a childrens
book store while my kids
were growing up, so I was
at home with children and
childrens literature. Most of
the preparation for the posi-
tion was on-the-job training
but having been in charge
of large groups of children
and having experience with
childrens literature has really
been a help.
Prior to her work with the
library and substitute teach-
ing, Cressman said she had
started on a much different
career path.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2011
DELPHOS HERALD
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Community 5
Sports 6-7
Church 8
Classifieds 10
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Index
Mostly sunny
Saturday with
high in mid
40s and low
in upper 30s
with 20 per-
cent chance of rain New
Years Eve. See page 2.
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WRAPUP
File photos
Elida sixth-grader Skylar Gutman holds a boa constric-
tor during the Elida FFA Apple Butter Day Nature Tour
in September.
Delphos firefighters line up at the Veterans Memorial Park to help mark the 10th
anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Stadium Park was filled with hundreds of residents as the city celebrated Fourth of July
with the Delphos Kiwanis Club.
See WRAPUP, page 12
Wastewater completes two
sewer projects in 2011
BY MIKE FORD
mford@delphosherald.com
DELPHOS As city
departments look back at
2011, Wastewater Director
Todd Temen is happy to have
completed a couple sewer
projects in addition to regular
maintenance work.
We completed the Menke
sewer project where we cor-
rected a bad spot in our col-
lection system, he said It
was in the creek bed there
on SR 66; we were getting
some infiltration because it
had some cracks. Anytime the
creek rose, it would flow into
the sewer, making the station
work harder and wed have
excessive flow. That was
funded with an 80/20 match
Ohio Public Works grant.
The other project was near
Erie Street.
We also installed 230
feet of 8-inch sanitary line
with the Erie Street sewer
project, which was 100 per-
cent funded with Community
Development Block Grant
money, he said.
Temen said his department
cleaned 11,759 feet of com-
bined sewer line around the
community throughout the
year.
They go out with a jetter
truck and clean the debris
sediments with a high pres-
sure stream of water, then
vacuum it up. That increases
our capacity and allows lines
to flow freely to the plant.
It allows the system to drain
quicker instead of backing
up, he said.
US Postal Service:
Here we go again?
BY MIKE FORD
mford@delphosherald.com
TOLEDO In a flash-
back to January 2010, United
States Post Office workers and
residents vigorously opposed
the proposed closure of the
mail processing center here
during a meeting Thursday
night at the Stranahan Theater
with several hundred in atten-
dance. A similar meeting was
held nearly two years ago
at Lima Senior High School
when Chu Falling Star of
the USPS district office in
Cincinnati announced the clo-
sure of the Lima Processing
and Distribution Center.
Toledo employees questioned
the dollar figures the postal
service claims it will save,
much like Lima employees
had. The USPS claims it will
save more than $19 million
by processing Northwest and
West Central Ohio mail in
Columbus and Detroit.
Delphos residents may be
thinking something like here
we go again after bad expe-
riences with lost mail and late
mail after the Lima facility
closed in October 2010. That
action on the part of the post-
al service is something it now
admits did not go well.
Admittedly, Lima
didnt go well at all, said
Representative David Van
Allen. We learned from it,
though, and those mistakes
wont be repeated. Lima is a
bad mark on our process but
this has been done around
the country and the rest have
gone quite smoothly.
He said the Lima closure
was handled by one arm of
the USPS but the Toledo
study is part of a national
Area Mail Processing study
conducted by another arm of
the postal service.
The plan announced Sept.
15 was driven by headquar-
ters and that was a new plan
analyzing 252 plants across
the United States. Weve
been consolidating process-
ing plants for several years
and Lima had been identi-
fied in that process. However,
with the huge deficits of the
last three years, we have to
get more aggressive in our
approach, he said.
Between the aftermath of
the Lima closure and what
would happen if Toledo
closes, Van Allen says the
two are not exactly alike but
local mail remaining in the
area would be delivered more
slowly than residents are used
to.
Part of the problem with
Lima was that AMP study
supported a 1-3 day service
See USPS, page 3
See PROJECTS, page 3
See CRESSMAN, page 3
Admittedly,
Lima didnt go
well at all. We
learned from it,
though, and those
mistakes wont be
repeated. Lima
is a bad mark
on our process
but this has been
done around the
country and the
rest have gone
quite smoothly.
David Van Allen.
USPS representative
Its My Job
Denise Cressman
Library perfect fit for
bibliophile Cressman
Todays Slate
Boys Basketball
St. Johns at Van
Wert, 6 p.m.
Jefferson at
Coldwater, 6 p.m.
Ottoville at
Lincolnview, 6 p.m.
New Knoxville at
Spencerville, 6 p.m.
Ada at Kalida, 6 p.m.
(ppd. from Dec. 2)
Columbus Grove vs.
Ottawa-Glandorf (Stroh
Center, BGSU), 7 p.m.
Miller City at
Crestview, 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball
Lincolnview at Parkway
Holiday Tournament, TBA
Wrestling
Spencerville at LCC
Holiday Tournament,
9:30 a.m.
Van Wert at GMV
Holiday Tournament, 11 a.m.
A benefit for Mary
Schramm to help defray med-
ical expenses from battling
cancer will be held from noon
to 6 p.m. Sunday at VFW
Post 3035, 213 W. Fourth St.,
Delphos. The meal includes:
sausage, mashed potatoes,
kraut, beef and noodles,
roll and dessert for $6.
A DJ, raffles and a
50/50 are also planned.
Benet set Sunday
for Schramm
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2 dead, 61 hurt in 40-vehicle
New Orleans pileup
Delphos weather
Corn: $6.28
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Beans: $11.61
ST. RITAS
A girl was born Dec. 29 to
Jason and Jennifer Bockey of
Delphos.
By JANET
McCONNAUGHEY
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS Two
men died and 61 other people
were injured Thursday in a
pre-dawn pileup involving
about 40 cars, vans and other
vehicles on a busy interstate
that crosses New Orleans,
closing the route for hours
both ways, police said.
Drivers said they drove
into thick smoke or fog that
abruptly limited visibility on
westbound lanes of Interstate
10 heading across eastern
New Orleans. Those who
came upon the scene said they
heard injured motorists plead-
ing for assistance.
You just hear all kinds of
calls and people screaming
for help, tow truck driver
Wesley Ratcliff told local
broadcaster WWL-TV. In 13
years responding to wrecks,
he added, this is the worst
Ive ever seen it.
Officer Garry Flot, a police
spokesman, would not talk
about possible causes, includ-
ing whether those may have
included smoke or fog.
All lanes were reopened
late Thursday afternoon as the
investigation continued, let-
ting commuters head home at
rush hour.
The highway is heavily
trafficked, a major corridor for
thousands of commuters who
enter New Orleans each day
from its eastern suburbs and
the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Those driving the route at the
time of the wrecks said they
suddenly found themselves in
utter darkness, unable to see
the lights of cars ahead.
I thought it was fog;
my husband thought it was
smoke, Stacie Williams told
WWL-TV. Cars were driv-
ing in front of us and before
you know it, it seemed as if
they had dropped off the face
of the Earth.
Seven people were taken to
south Louisianas top trauma
center, where several were in
critical condition, said Marvin
McGraw, spokesman for the
Interim LSU Public Hospital.
Flot said 25 people were
taken to hospitals with injuries
ranging from minor to critical.
He said they included a 62nd
injured person a firefight-
er whose face was cut while
working at the scene. Flot said
37 others refused treatment
for minor injuries.
The police spokesman
wouldnt say whether police
believe smoke or fog contrib-
uted to the wreck, noting the
investigation is ongoing.
He said the dead were
a pickup truck driver and a
54-year-old passenger in
another pickup, both from
Louisiana. He wouldnt say
whether their pickup trucks
were among the first vehicles
to crash or part of the pileup
that followed.
Cars, tractor-trailers, vans
and other vehicles collided on
lanes approaching the citys
business district. Eastbound
lanes were closed to let emer-
gency vehicles get in, and
traffic was detoured off the
highway through morning
rush hour and well into the
afternoon.
Interstate 10 stretches from
Florida to California and is a
major corridor for commercial
truck traffic.
High temperature Thursday
in Delphos was 47 degrees,
low was 29. Rainfall was
recorded at .02 inch. High a
year ago today was 47, low
was 34. Record high for today
is 66, set in 1965. Record low
is -13, set in 1983.
US finalizes deal to sell
F-15s to Saudi Arabia
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WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
Associated Press
TONIGHT: Cloudy with a
40 percent chance of rain and
snow through midnight, then
mostly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s. West
winds 5 to 15 mph.
SATURDAY: Partly
cloudy in the morning then
becoming mostly sunny. Highs
in the mid 40s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
NEW YEARS EVE:
Partly cloudy with a 20 per-
cent chance of rain. Lows in
the upper 30s.
NEW YEARS DAY:
Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain
showers in the morning, then
slight chance of rain and snow
in the afternoon through early
evening. Windy. Highs in the
lower 40s. Chance of measur-
able precipitation 30 percent.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Cloudy
with a 50 percent chance of
snow showers. Lows in the
mid 20s.
MONDAY: Cloudy with
a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Windy. Highs in the
upper 20s.
MONDAY NIGHT:
Partly cloudy with a 20 per-
cent chance of snow showers.
Lows 15 to 20.
TUESDAY, TUESDAY
NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 20s. Lows 15 to
20.
WEDNESDAY: Partly
cloudy. Highs around 30.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
Partly cloudy with low in
mid 20s.
THURSDAY: Partly
cloudy with high in mid 30s.
By JULIE PACE
HONOLULU The
sale of $30 billion worth of
F-15SA fighter jets to Saudi
Arabia has been finalized,
the Obama administration
said Thursday, boosting the
military strength of a key
U.S. ally in the Middle East
to help counter Iran.
Under the agreement,
the U.S. will send Saudi
Arabia 84 new fighter jets
and upgrades for 70 more.
Production of the aircraft,
which will be manufactured
by Boeing Co., will sup-
port 50,000 jobs and have
a $3.5 billion annual eco-
nomic impact in the U.S.,
the White House said.
The sale is part of a
larger U.S. effort to realign
its defense policies in the
Persian Gulf to keep Iran
in check. The announce-
ment came as U.S. officials
weighed a fresh threat from
Tehran, which warned this
week it could disrupt traf-
fic through the Strait of
Hormuz, a vital Persian
Gulf oil transport route,
if Washington levies new
sanctions targeting Irans
crude exports.
Administration offi-
cials said the timing of
Thursdays announcement
was not tied to the new
threat from Tehran. But
they did make clear that the
fighter jet sale would help
Saudi Arabia counter poten-
tial troubles with Iran.
This sale will send a
strong message to coun-
tries in the region that the
United States is committed
to stability in the Gulf and
broader Middle East, said
U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State Andrew Shapiro. It
will enhance Saudi Arabias
ability to deter and defend
against external threats to
its sovereignty.
The fighter jet sale is
part of a larger 10-year, $60
billion arms deal with Saudi
Arabia that also includes
helicopters, a broad array of
missiles, bombs and deliv-
ery systems, as well as radar
warning systems and night-
vision goggles. Congress
gave the deal the go-ahead
about a year ago.
The plan initially raised
concerns from pro-Israeli
lawmakers, but U.S. offi-
cials reassured Congress that
Israels military edge would
not be undercut by the sale.
Additionally, there is now
broad agreement among
Israel, the Gulf Arab states
and the West that Iran poses
a significant and unpredict-
able threat.
Saudi Arabia and Iran
are bitter regional rivals.
Tensions between them were
further stoked earlier this
year after the U.S. accused
Iran of plotting to assassi-
nate the Saudi ambassador
to the U.S. in Washington.
Saudi Arabia is already
the most militarily advanced
of the Arab Gulf states, one
of the richest countries in
the world, and central to
American policy in the
Middle East. It is also vital
to U.S. energy security, with
Saudi Arabia ranking as the
third-largest source of U.S.
oil imports.
But relations between the
U.S. and Saudi Arabia grew
frosty earlier this year, as
the allies found themselves
at odds during the protests
that swept through the Arab
world. The Obama admin-
istration angered the Saudis
by pulling support from for-
mer Egyptian leader Hosni
Mubarak, a longtime ally of
both countries. And the U.S.
bristled when Saudi Arabia
sent troops into Bahrain to
quell protests there.
The White House
announced the agreement
with Saudi Arabia from
Hawaii, where President
Barack Obama is vacation-
ing.
LOCAL PRICES
This sale will
send a strong mes-
sage to countries
in the region that
the United States
is committed to
stability in the
Gulf and broader
Middle East. It
will enhance Saudi
Arabias abil-
ity to deter and
defend against
external threats to
its sovereignty.
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Secretary of State
Andrew Shapiro
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thousands
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protest govt
BEIRUT (AP) Hundreds
of thousands of Syrians
poured into the streets across
the nation today in the largest
protests in months, shouting
for the downfall of the regime
in a defiant display invigo-
rated by the presence of Arab
observers, activists said.
Despite the presence of the
monitors, activists said Syrian
forces killed at least 19 peo-
ple, most of them shot during
anti-government protests.
Rami Abdul-Raham, who
heads the British-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights,
said the crowds were largest
today in Idlib and Hama prov-
inces, with 250,000 people
each. Other massive rallies
were held in Daraa province
and the Damascus suburb of
Douma, he said.
The ongoing violence in
Syria, and new questions about
the human rights record of the
head of the Arab League moni-
tors, are reinforcing the opposi-
tions view that Syrias limited
cooperation with the observers
is nothing more than a ploy
by President Bashar Assads
regime to buy time and fore-
stall more international con-
demnation and sanctions.
There is broad concern
about whether Arab League
member states, with some of
the worlds poorest human
rights records, were fit for
the mission to monitor com-
pliance with a plan to end
to the crackdown on political
opponents by security forces.
The United Nations says some
5,000 people have been killed
in the government campaign
since March.
One of Assads few remain
allies, Russia, voiced its
approval of the observer mis-
sion so far, saying the situation
was reassuring. At the same
time, a group of dissident sol-
diers who joined the opposi-
tion announced it has halted
attacks on regime troops since
the observers arrived in a bid
to avoid fueling government
claims that it is facing armed
terrorists rather than peace-
ful protesters.
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Today is Friday, Dec. 30,
the 364th day of 2011. There
is one day left in the year.
Todays Highlight in
History:
On Dec. 30, 1936, the
United Auto Workers union
staged its first sit-down
strike at the General Motors
Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in
Flint, Mich. (The strike lasted
until Feb. 11, 1937.)
On this date:
In 1813, the British burned
Buffalo, N.Y., during the War
of 1812.
In 1853, the United States
and Mexico signed a treaty
under which the U.S. agreed
to buy some 45,000 square
miles of land from Mexico for
$10 million in a deal known as
the Gadsden Purchase.
In 1860, 10 days after South
Carolina seceded from the
Union, the state militia seized
the United States Arsenal in
Charleston.
In 1903, about 600 people
died when fire broke out at
the recently opened Iroquois
Theater in Chicago.
In 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin
proclaimed the establish-
ment of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics.
In 1940, Californias first
freeway, the Arroyo Seco
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Teen charged
with murder in
alleged assault
Woman charged
with murdering
grandmother
CINCINNATI (AP) A
southwest Ohio prosecutor
Thursday charged a 17-year-old
boy with murder after a youth he
is accused of assaulting at a group
home died from his injuries.
Butler County Prosecutor
Mike Gmoser said 16-year-old
Anthony Parkers death result-
ed from a brutal, unjustified
assault. He said an autopsy
showed Parker died from blunt
force trauma to his head.
The Cincinnati Childrens
Hospital Medical Center said
Parker died Wednesday night.
He had been taken to the hospi-
tal Dec. 19.
Fairfield Township police
have said Parker was body-
slammed to the floor and hit his
head in a dispute over a flash-
light. Gmoser said the death
resulted from an attack against
Parker, not from a fight.
The older boy had been held
in a juvenile detention center on
a charge of aggravated assault.
Gmoser said the next steps
will be to have the youths case
moved to adult court, and then
to take it before a grand jury.
He didnt release the boys
name because he is still in the
juvenile system.
Gmoser said he applied the
murder charge because the death
resulted from a felonious assault.
With a conviction, the murder
count carries a potential sentence
of 15 years to life in prison.
The boys were at One Way
Farm, a nonprofit group home for
children who have been abused,
neglected, have disabilities or
are otherwise troubled. Officials
there said it was the first time an
altercation has resulted in death;
nearly 9,000 children have been
cared for in the homes 34 years
of operation.
The Ohio Department of
Job and Family Services, which
licenses the home, began inves-
tigating shortly after this trag-
ic incident, spokesman Ben
Johnson said Thursday. It is
difficult to say when that inves-
tigation will conclude, because
the criminal investigation takes
precedence.
CINCINNATI (AP) A
woman accused of beating
her 86-year-old grandmother
to death and stealing her TV
to sell it for drug money was
indicted Thursday on aggravat-
ed murder and other charges in
southwest Ohio.
The grandmother, Mary
Muha, was found dead at her
home in Washington Township,
a Dayton suburb, on Dec. 20.
The indictment indicates she
died between Dec. 16 and Dec.
20, prosecutors spokesman
Greg Flannagan said.
Aisha Sanders sold her
grandmothers TV to get the
money for drugs and took her
grandmothers car, prosecutors
said. Authorities found Sanders
on Dec. 21 in Preble County in
her grandmothers car, which
had run out of gas, they said.
A Montgomery County
grand jury in Dayton indicted
Sanders on one count of aggra-
vated murder with prior calcu-
lation and design and one count
of aggravated murder during
the commission of an aggra-
vated robbery, prosecutors
said. Sanders also was indicted
on two counts of aggravated
robbery and one count of tam-
pering with evidence in the
slaying of her grandmother,
they said.
Ohio prepares to privatize
some state prisons
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press
MARION David Kah
will report to the same job
in the same training kitchen
at Ohios 17-year-old state
prison in Marion in January
but much about his life will
be changed.
Kah (pronounced KAY) is
leaving the public payroll and
taking a job with Management
& Training Corp., the
Centerville, Utah-based pris-
on vendor that takes over
operation of North Central
Correctional Institution on
Saturday. The longtime culi-
nary arts instructor, whos
67, says hell see significant
reductions in pay and vacation
days, but hes looking forward
to the new operators plans for
his program.
Ohio turns over the keys
to MTC at 10 p.m. Dec. 31,
the start of the last shift before
the management transfer. The
prison is among five state facil-
ities seeing management or
operations changes that night
in a consolidation and priva-
tization effort by Republican
Gov. John Kasich.
Everybodys a little anx-
ious, Kah said. Any time
you go from a union, unions
are just a lot different, so when
you work for the private guy
theyre going to do things a
little different. But really Im
excited about it.
NCCI will be merged with
an adjacent previously shut-
tered juvenile prison as part
of the changes. The result-
ing camp will be renamed
North Central Correctional
Complex.
In other changes, the pre-
viously private North Coast
Correctional Treatment
Facility in Lorain County will
be returned to state control and
merged into one complex with
adjacent Grafton Correctional
Institution.
Kasich put five state pris-
ons on the block, but only
the privately-run Lake Erie
Correctional Institution in
Conneaut was sold. It was
bought by Corrections
Corporation of America, the
nations largest prison vendor,
for $72.7 million in the first
deal of its kind in the nation.
CCA already ran the facility.
The sale generated more
than enough to close a $50
million prison budget gap
that loomed, so other offers
were rejected and the ensuing
management changes were
announced. The state says the
changes will bring ongoing
savings of $13 million a year.
The savings will be real-
ized even as the state adds
702 beds to its overcrowded
50,200-inmate prison system,
said prisons spokesman Carlo
LoParo.
Annette Chambers-Smith,
deputy administration direc-
tor at the Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Correction,
says the bulk of the savings
come from more liberal staff-
ing requirements allowed at
private institutions, where
fewer employees can be
scheduled to cover vacations,
sick days, and absences for
training and other work-relat-
ed matters than under public
union contracts.
No state prison work-
ers lost jobs in the move. At
North Central, MTC has hired
70 employees to stay, 297
transferred to other state jobs,
and eight retired.
Tim Roberts, president
of the Ohio Civil Service
Employees Associations cor-
rections assembly, met with
prison officials Wednesday.
The union disagrees with
the privatization effort, but
is working to assure things
go well for both the roughly
2,300 inmates and about 350
staff, he said.
If Ive been at a facility
for 20 years, and all of the
sudden Im being uprooted
some have to go as far as
Mansfield, Marysville, Lima
theres not an excitement
about that, he said.
Kah says he will collect his
public pension while working
for MTC to cushion the blow
of a pay cut. He noted many
others staying on are retirees.
I just want to pay my
house off, plus I felt too good
to retire, he said. What they
offered me financially was a
big hit, nevertheless its an
excellent wage if you want to
be part-time. It was just a way
to make some extra money.
Many younger workers
opted to take transfers offered
by the department, though not
always happily.
NCCI instructor Nate
Conrad says he received a
lackluster offer from MTC
to continue his award-winning
horticulture-skills training
program. So hell transfer to
Lorain Correctional Institution
in Grafton, about a two-hour
drive, to teach other subjects.
It will be rewarding, but
not in the way Im used to,
in the way I like, he said.
Im looking at going back to
school for a Ph.D.
The luckiest employees
generally the most vet-
eran are transferring next
door to Marion Correctional
Institution, a 57-year-old
state-owned facility.
Healthcare Administrator
Polly Schmalz calls that
a positive: Thats where I
started, so its kind of like
going home.
Transferring information
on inmates ongoing health
needs is one of the many
jobs that must be done before
the transition. State prisons
director Gary Mohr said the
department has held a week-
ly conference call to discuss
the changes for the past three
months.
Spokesman Issa Arnita
said MTC will retain most
prison programs includ-
ing Conrads horticulture
program, Kahs culinary arts
program, and college courses
taught by faculty from nearby
Marion Technical College.
Some things will change:
Medical services provided by
Ohio State University may
not be re-commissioned, and
food service is to be out-
sourced. LoParo said the
state assured in its contract
language that fundamental
services and programming
would remain.
Cressman
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I got my bachelors degree
in social work. For a handful of
years after college, when I was
first married, I worked in social
work and that wasnt for me,
she said. When I was given an
opportunity to get out of that, I
jumped at it.
While Cressmans job is one
that varies from day to day and
season to season, there are still
some functions she must per-
form on a regular basis.
All of us here at the library
still work the counter and answer
phones, she said. I also have
to do a lot of ordering and pro-
cessing books. I search for pro-
gram ideas, too, for after-school
programs and the summer read-
ing program. Occasionally, the
question of whether or not we
can do a certain program pops
up and its usually a question
of logistics. We have to ask
ourselves things like: do we
have enough space to do this?,
or how many children do we
have signed up? We may have
a great idea and be unable to
use it. We also share a lot of
stuff with other libraries. Were
constantly trading ideas, taking
their ideas and making them our
own to fit our library. No two
libraries are alike.
Cressman loves being sur-
rounded by books all day but
says her favorite part of the job
is working with children.
The time I spend with
the children is probably my
favorite part, whether its
with the little ones during
story time or doing projects
with the school-age kids, she
continued. A close second
for me would be develop-
ing the collections. Thats the
part of my job where I decide
what to buy and where to put
it, figuring out where it will
get the best use.
Cressman says her least
favorite part of the job is what
library personnel call weed-
ing.
With weeding, youre basi-
cally doing just what youd
do in the garden, Cressman
said. Youre going through the
shelves and deciding whats no
longer popular or relative. It
could be a good book that just
sits there and never gets read.
You have to do that occasion-
ally to make room for newer
books that you know people
will want to read. The whole
process is time-consuming and
since its not as important as
other aspects of my job, it usu-
ally gets saved for last.
Having dealt with many
large groups of Delphos chil-
dren over the years, Cressman
feels the parents and families
of the community deserve her
thanks.
The parents and families
in Delphos have really done a
great job raising their children,
she said. When Im with the
kids, even if its a group of 100
in one of the summer programs,
theyre very easy to work with
and very respectful. Sure, they
get loud and have fun but thats
what theyre here for. I just
really appreciate that I can count
on these kids to be on their best
behavior and thats because they
come from good families.
Cressman, who was raised
in Lima, has lived in Delphos
for 27 years. She and her hus-
band have two grown children
and one grandchild.
Im hoping to have my
grandson Dalton in some of
my toddler programs soon, she
concluded. Thats something
Ive really been looking for-
ward to for a long time.
USPS
standard. Should it go forward,
this plan would support a 2-3
day delivery standard. This
means first class mail would
not have an overnight expecta-
tion. So, when you mail some-
thing from Delphos to a nearby
community, right now, you
expect it to be there the next
day and it usually is, but if the
Toledo plant closes, it would
be 2 or 3 days, he said.
Van Allen stresses this is
merely a proposal and no final
decision has been made. Other
Ohio processing centers being
considered for closure include
Akron, Athens, Canton,
Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Dayton,
Steubenville and Youngstown.
The post office heavily-
argues its decline in mail use
on the part of the general pub-
lic, as well as the $5.5 billion
it is mandated to pre-pay for
retiree benefits over 10 years. It
says mail volume has declined
by 43 billion pieces in the last
five years and continues to
decline. Total First class mail
has dropped by 25 percent and
is not expected to return to
peak levels when the economy
fully recovers.
Senator Sherrod Brown and
several others in Congress have
placed a moratorium on any
final decisions until May 15. In
theory, this gives the USPS time
to consider other options but
it also gives Congress time to
make decisions concerning the
financial hardship of pre-paying
retiree benefits totaling $5.5 bil-
lion. The postal service says it
would return to making profit if
that component of its crisis were
not part of the picture.
The post office is accepting
written statements about the
proposal that may be mailed by
Jan. 13 to Manager of Consumer
and Industry Contact, Northern
Ohio District, 2400 Orange
Ave., Room 25, Cleveland OH
44101.
Projects
The department also makes
it a regular practice to inspect
sewer lines with a camera to see
if any repairs are needed. Temen
said 5,500 feet of sewer line
were inspected in this manner.
He also said 26 catch basins were
repaired, 6 manholes were tend-
ed to and 15 sinkholes fixed.
It also supplied materials for
the Delphos Stadium Clubs
sidewalk improvement project.
This included 5 catch basins and
piping.
We put in new blowers
and they save us money but
theres room for improvement.
So, were trying to custom fit
the programming that controls
the blowers to get the most bang
for our buck, he said. We also
have the solar panels and figured
up that we saved about 50,000
kilowatt hours. This reduced our
CO2 emissions by 35,000 kilo-
grams and saved us somewhere
between $7,000 and $8,000.
Thats not a lot, compared to
our budget but it helps and the
community needs to remember
those were paid for with grant
money.
Ohio Right to Life to replace exec. director
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
COLUMBUS The anti-
abortion group Ohio Right to
Life is seeking a new execu-
tive director after a tumultu-
ous year of feuding inside the
anti-abortion community.
In a statement Thursday,
board chairman Marshal
Pitchford said the opening
follows a decision to ele-
vate current director Mike
Gonidakis into a new role.
Gonidakis will be the groups
point person on national
issues, oversee its political
action committee and advise
staff members on state legis-
lative matters.
Pitchford characterized the
move as strategic restructur-
ing of the states oldest and
largest anti-abortion group.
Due to the historic suc-
cess we realized in 2011
and the unexpected growth
of Ohio Right to Life, we
have determined that elevat-
ing Mike Gonidakis posi-
tion while engaging an addi-
tional pro-life advocate will
best position our efforts to
protect mothers and save the
unborn, his statement said.
Gonidakis leadership has
been criticized by some anti-
abortion activists who have
defected from Right to Life
this year and have joined
forces with a rival coalition
backing a bill banning most
abortions at the first detect-
able fetal heartbeat.
Some of those who disaf-
filiated linked their decisions
to Ohio Right to Lifes deci-
sion to remain neutral on the
so-called Heartbeat Bill out
of concern that it was uncon-
stitutional. Among those who
defected was Jack Willke,
a Cincinnati physician who
helped start Ohio Right to
Life and launch the national
movement against abortion.
Ohio Right to Life coun-
tered the defections with
announcements of the forma-
tion of several new county
chapters of its own organiza-
tion.
Despite an unusually
intensive lobbying effort
that featured balloon deliv-
eries, prayer meetings and
Statehouse flyovers, the
Heartbeat Bill stalled in the
state Senate before the holi-
day break.
Gonidakis said Thursday
he was excited about his new
role. He said it represents a
promotion, not any type of
discipline.
Ohio Right to Life is lead-
ing a 50-state effort to pass
state legislation requiring
pregnant women to view or
listen to the fetal heartbeats
before consenting to abor-
tions, which will be among
Gonidakis new advocacy
priorities.
Promoters of the 50-state
effort say the measure stops
short of protecting the unborn
through abortion restrictions,
but Right to Life has coun-
tered the measure has a bet-
ter chance of withstanding a
court challenge.
Gonidakis said he also
will be working to keep the
abortion issue in the public
eye during next years presi-
dential election.
Abortion rights groups
oppose both heartbeat bills
as too restrictive on wom-
ens rights to make their own
health decisions.
The meek shall inherit the earth if thats all right with you.
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One Year Ago
The end of 2010 marks the end of Radio Shack in
Delphos. After 32 years in business, the store will officially
close as a Radio Shack when owner Judy Williams closes up
shop on Friday. She said she had been thinking about retir-
ing for some time but had made no formal plans until Radio
Shack expressed a desire for her to invest untold dollars in
the store.
25 Years Ago 1986
Associated Charities Inc., a private foundation with head-
quarters in Van Wert, presented $1,000 to the Delphos Fire
Department toward the purchase of additional equipment for
extricating accident victims from vehicles. Lloyd Basil, vice
president of the corporation presented the check to Fire Chief
Don Schimmoller.
The Fort Jennings Catholic Ladies of Columbia St. Ann
Council 88 held its Christmas party in the grade school gym
with 49 members. The Rev. John Shanahan was given a gift
certificate from the council for the Delphos Country Club.
Prizes were won by Alice Ricker, Alice Wannemacher, Mary
Sergeant, Norma Maag and Sharon Calvelage.
William E. Thompson, state representative-elect from
the first district will take the oath of office Jan. 5, 1987 in
Columbus. Thompson made the announcement at his first
public input meeting in Delphos, held Monday afternoon at
Delphos Chamber of Commerce.
50 Years Ago 1961
Joyce Landin is now operating the Diana Beauty Shop in
Ottoville. She recently purchased the shop from Ginny Byrne
of Delphos. Landin, who has been employed as a beauty
operator at Ginnys shop in Delphos, and in the Diana shop,
is a graduate of the Richard Weston School of Beauty Culture
in Lima.
The Catholic Daughters of America Juniorette troops held
their annual Christmas party Thursday in the Little Theater
of St. Johns School. The following girls received awards for
the highest sales of Christmas cards in their individual troops:
Susie Stallkamp, Joan Ernst, Susie Heidenescher, Elaine
Odenweller, Diane Picker, Susan Kaverman, Becky Seffernick,
Sharon Schleeter, Susan Metzger, Deborah Kimmet, Melanie
Osting and Jenny Beining.
Airman Basic David J. Lisk, son of Martha M. Lisk of
Delphos, is being assigned to the United States Air Force
technical training course for supply specialists at Amarillo
AFB, Tex. Airman Lisk, who has completed his basic military
training at Lackland AFB, Tex., was selected for the advanced
course on the basis of his interests and aptitudes.
75 Years Ago 1936
With the annual St. Johns Alumni vs high school
games scheduled for next Sunday afternoon, some of St.
Johns famous grads will be given an opportunity to
limber up their bones. The roster of the Alumni Stars will
include Dick Wulfhorst, Spike Schmersal, Ed. Rott, Elmer
Scherger, Romus Brandehoff, Jerr Schmelzer and Arthur
Grone.
The Delphos Eagles basketball team lost their third game
Tuesday night in a game played at Ottoville. The Ottoville
merchants clipped the Eagles wings and battered the bird to
the tune of 50 to 21. A. Schlagbaum proved the big scoring
ace for Ottoville. He scored 12 field goals and one free throw
for a total of 25 points.
Mrs. John Tegenkamp, South Clay Street, entertained the
members of the J. T. Club at her home Tuesday afternoon.
Tables were arranged for pinochle and at the conclusion of
the games, Mrs. Joseph Schmidt was high, Cecilia Kaverman,
second and Mrs. James Dillon was low. In a contest, Mrs.
Kaverman received the honors.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)
With time running short,
Republican presidential can-
didates Rick Santorum, Rick
Perry and Newt Gingrich
battled Thursday to win over
a pivotal crop of undecided
conservative voters. Of all the
candidates, only Mitt Romney
seemed to largely escape
attack as he worked to win a
state that long seemed out of
reach until this week.
Dont settle for whats
not good enough to save the
country, the newly ascendant
Santorum implored Iowans at
city hall in Coralville, urg-
ing voters to put conservative
principles above everything
else and suggesting that his
rivals, and specifically Ron
Paul, lacked them.
For the first time, though,
the former Pennsylvania sena-
tor became a target.
When he talks about fis-
cal conservatism, every now
and then it leaves me scratch-
ing my head because he was
a prolific earmarker, Perry,
the Texas governor, said of
Santorum as the day began,
referring to special spending
projects members of Congress
seek. He loaded up his bill
with Pennsylvania pork.
Santorum defended the prac-
tice as part of lawmakers con-
stitutional role as appropriators,
telling CNBC that he owed it to
Pennsylvanians to bring money
to the state. He said earmarking
became abused and he would
support a ban on them if he
were president.
Perry also slapped at
Santorum in a radio ad and in a
new TV commercial that lumps
him in with Minnesota Rep.
Michele Bachmann, former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
and Paul and says: The fox
guarding the henhouse is like
asking a congressman to fix
Washington: bad idea.
The maneuvering under-
scored the fluid if not con-
voluted state of the GOP
presidential race as Tuesdays
caucuses loom while cultural
conservatives and evangelical
Republicans, who make up the
base of the electorate here,
continue to be divided. That
lack of unity paves the way for
someone who is seen as less
consistently conservative.
Five days out, public and
private polling show Romney
and Paul in strong conten-
tion to win the caucuses,
with coalitions of support
cobbled together from across
the Republican political spec-
trum and their get-out-the-vote
operations beefed up from
their failed 2008 bids at the
ready. Theyre the only two
with the money and the orga-
nizations necessary to ensure
big turnouts on Tuesday.
Three others Santorum,
Perry and Gingrich will have
to rely largely on momentum
to carry supporters to precinct
caucuses. Each was working
to convince fickle conserva-
tives that he alone would sat-
isfy those who yearn for a
nominee who would adhere
strictly to GOP orthodoxy.
Bachmann, meanwhile,
worked to convince backers
that her cash-strapped cam-
paign was not in disarray after
a top supporter in Iowa aban-
doned her to back Paul.
After state Sen. Kent
Sorenson bolted as her Iowa
campaign chairman, Bachmann
continued to bleed staff, los-
ing her Iowa political director,
Wes Enos, on Thursday. Some
evangelical pastors have said
theyve urged her to quit the
race.
By ANNE GEARAN and
KATHY GANNON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON The
Obama administration hopes
to restore momentum in the
spring to U.S. talks with the
Taliban insurgency that had
reached a critical point before
falling apart this month
because of objections from
Afghan President Hamid
Karzai, U.S. and Afghan
officials said.
One goal of renewed talks
with the insurgents would be
to identify cease-fire zones
that could be used as a step-
pingstone toward a full peace
agreement that stops most
fighting, a senior admin-
istration official told The
Associated Press a goal
that remains far out of reach.
U.S. officials from the
State Department and White
House plan to continue a
series of secret meetings with
Taliban representatives in
Europe and the Persian Gulf
region next year, assuming
a small group of Taliban
emissaries the U.S. considers
legitimate remains willing,
two officials said.
The U.S. officials spoke
on condition of anonymity
to describe the sensitive and
precarious U.S. outreach to
the Taliban leadership.
The U.S. outreach to the
Taliban this year had fits and
starts but had progressed to
the point that there was active
discussion of two steps the
Taliban seeks as precursors
to negotiations, the senior
U.S. official said. Talks are
on an unofficial hiatus at
Karzais request, U.S. and
other officials said.
Those trust-building
measures were a Taliban
headquarters office and the
release from the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, of about five Afghan
prisoners considered affili-
ated with the Taliban. Those
steps were to be matched
by assurances from at least
part of the Taliban leadership
that the insurgents would cut
ties with al-Qaida, accept the
elected civilian government
of Afghanistan and bargain
in good faith.
The Taliban office idea
is seen the most likely to
regain traction next year, but
its unclear when it might
open. A political office in a
neutral third country would
be authorized to conduct
talks on a peaceful end to the
10-year war.
Karzai remains opposed
to the more difficult pris-
oner transfer plan, which is
further complicated by new
congressional restrictions on
any prisoner transfers.
The U.S. tentatively had
agreed to transfer a hand-
ful of Afghan prisoners to
house arrest in a third coun-
try, probably Qatar, before
the deal unraveled, U.S. offi-
cials said.
has learned the identity of
some of the proposed trans-
ferees, including Khairullah
Khairkhwa, former Taliban
governor of Herat, and
Mullah Mohammed Fazl, a
former top Taliban military
commander believed respon-
sible for sectarian killings
before the U.S. invasion that
toppled the Taliban gov-
ernment in Afghanistan in
2001.
Karzais own advis-
ers seeking peace with the
Taliban had named those
men among several Afghan
Taliban prisoners it wanted
released from Guantanamo
as a goodwill gesture, but
Karzai wants the prison-
ers to come to Afghanistan,
not a third country, a senior
Afghan official in the region
said.
Sending Afghans to an
Arab country could offend
Afghans sense of sovereign-
ty and suggest that the U.S.
does not think Afghanistan
is fit to hold or try the men,
officials said.
By CHRISTOPHER
S. RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON The
long-suffering job market is
ending the year better off than
it began.
The number of people
applying for unemploy-
ment benefits each week has
dropped by 10 percent since
January. The unemployment
rate, 8.6 percent in November,
is at its lowest level in nearly
three years.
Factory output is rising,
business owners say theyre
more optimistic about hiring
and consumer confidence has
jumped to its highest level
since April. Even the belea-
guered housing market is
looking slightly better.
We are ending the year on
an up note, says Joel Naroff,
president of Naroff Economic
Advisors.
Still, 25 million Americans
remain out of work or unable
to find full-time jobs. Most
analysts forecast a stronger
economy and job growth in
2012 and rule out a second
recession but they caution
that could change if Europes
debt crisis worsens or consum-
ers pull back on spending.
On Thursday, the Labor
Department said the number
of people applying for unem-
ployment benefits last week
rose 15,000 to 381,000. But
the four-week average, a less
volatile measure, dropped to
375,000 the lowest level
since June 2008.
When applications for
unemployment benefits con-
sistently fall below 375,000,
economists consider it a
reasonable sign that hiring
is rising enough to push the
unemployment rate lower.
The four-week average has
remained below 400,000 for
seven weeks, the longest
stretch since April.
A mildly positive report
on housing also came out
on Thursday. The National
Association of Realtors said
the number of people who
signed contracts to buy homes
rose in November to its high-
est level in a year and a half.
The association sought to
temper enthusiasm by noting
that the number of canceled
contracts is also on the rise.
But financial markets seized
on the good news in both
reports.
The Dow Jones industrial
average rose more than 113
points in afternoon trading.
The recovery in the labor
market is maintaining its
momentum, says Michael
Gapen, an economist at
Barclays Capital.
Thats noteworthy for an
economy faced with a debt
crisis in Europe and, as
recently as last summer, scat-
tered predictions of a second
recession at home.
There was plenty of reason
for gloom. A political stand-
off over the federal borrow-
ing limit brought the United
States to the brink of default
and cost the nation its top-
drawer credit rating.
Most analysts now say
another recession is unlikely.
The economy likely grew
at an annual rate of 3 percent
or more in the final three
months of this year, analysts
say. That would top the 1.8
percent growth rate in the
July-September quarter, and
the 0.9 percent growth rate in
the first half of the year.
Employers have added
an average of 143,000 net
jobs a month from September
through November. Thats
almost double the pace for
the previous three months.
Although its below the pace
from the first quarter of
2011,
Next year should be
even better for hiring. The
Associated Press surveyed 36
economists this month who
said they expect the econo-
my to generate an average of
about 175,000 jobs per month
in 2012. Thats almost double
the pace for the previous three
months, but not as high as job
growth in the first quarter of
the year.
Job listings website Indeed.
com says its revenue has more
than doubled in the past year
as companies spend more on
recruiting. CEO Paul Forster
says the healthcare, energy
and information-technolo-
gy sectors have the greatest
increase in job openings.
By SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press

WASHINGTON
Melody Barnes is leaving as
White House chief domestic
policy adviser at a time when
President Barack Obamas
administration is getting little
notice for its work on the
home front to fix the strug-
gling economy.
Barnes, who will be gone
by Tuesday, is quick to point
out that there have been many
domestic achievements, even
though the public is dissatis-
fied.
I completely understand
what the American public is
feeling, she said in an inter-
view in her tidy West Wing
office. Real people are hurt-
ing in a significant way. ... At
the same time, Im proud of
the things weve been able to
accomplish over the last few
years.
Her office is wrestling with
multiple thorny issues now
just as it was when Barnes
started as Obamas domestic
policy team director in 2009.
Back then, the economy
plunged into free-fall and the
country was in its worst eco-
nomic crisis since the 1930s.
Jobs were being lost at a rate
of about 750,000 a month
a number Barnes still finds so
staggering she said she has
to double-check it every time
she says it.
Homes were being fore-
closed, unemployment was
skyrocketing and reaching
double the national average
in the black community. The
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
dragged on, an outbreak of
H1N1flu virus became a pan-
demic, and a tsunami that hit
Japan crippled a nuclear plant
near Tokyo, to name some of
the highlights.
Even her chance to play
golf with the president, the
first time a woman joined
him, was a response to what
was a public image crisis for
Obama. The president was
getting flak for playing bas-
ketball with men and foster-
ing complaints about a boys
club in the White House.
Just before Christmas,
the president and Congress
wrangled over a two-month
extension of a Social Security
payroll tax cut and unemploy-
ment benefits. Obama won
a victory when the proposal
won bipartisan support in the
Senate and finally was accept-
ed by House Republicans
under extreme pressure.
Barnes, a Richmond, Va.,
native with a career in govern-
ment and private sector work,
is bowing out of the politi-
cal arena as Obama struggles
with low approval ratings on
his handling of the economy.
A majority of Americans
do not think the president
deserves a second term,
according to the most recent
Associated Press-GfK poll.
But at the same time, the
unemployment rate has
dropped to 8.6 percent, the
lowest level since March
2009. The presidents overall
approval rating stands at 44
percent, the lowest of his term
in AP-GfK surveys.
His strong stance against
House Republicans in the pay-
roll tax standoff has caused an
uptick in approval ratings in
subsequent polls.
Barnes expects the list of
legislative victories that she
and others pulled off amid
the hemorrhaging economy
will become more clear in
the coming year as the dark
clouds of the economy dis-
perse.
She tops that list with the
early work to stabilize the
economy, 21 months of con-
sistent job growth and the
presidents long-term invest-
ments in education overhaul,
an area that became her spe-
cialty.
US wants 2012 talks for
Taliban political office
US job market ends year in better shape
Domestic policy chief starts, leaves amid crises
Republicans
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SATURDAY
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Delphos
Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. Testing of
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1-3 p.m. The Delphos
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MONDAY
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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
of Foreign Wars meet at the
hall.
TUESDAY
11:30 a.m. Mealsite
6 p.m. Weight Watchers
meets at Trinity United
Methodist Church, 211 E.
Third St.
7 p.m. Delphos Coon
and Sportsmans Club meets.
7:30 p.m. Alcoholics
Anonymous, First Presbyterian
Church, 310 W. Second St.

WEDNESDAY
9 a.m. - noon Putnam
County Museum is open, 202
E. Main St., Kalida.
11:30 a.m. Mealsite
11:45 a.m. Rotary Club
meets at the Delphos Eagles
Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth St.
6 p.m. Shepherds of
Christ Associates meet in the
St. Johns Chapel.
6:30 p.m. Delphos
Kiwanis Club meets at the
Eagles Lodge, 1600 E. Fifth
St.
7 p.m. Bingo at St.
Johns Little Theatre.
Delphos Civil Service
Commission meets at
Municipal Building.
7:30 p.m. Hope Lodge
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Masons, Masonic Temple,
North Main Street.
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At the movies . . .
Van Wert Cinemas
10709 Lincoln Hwy. Van Wert
Alvin and Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G)
Fri.-Sun.: 1:00/3:00/5:00/7:00/9:00; Mon.:
1:00/3:00/5:00/7:00; Tues.-Thurs.: 4:30/7:00
We Bought a Zoo (PG) Fri.-Sun.:
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Tues.-Thurs.: 4:30/7:00
Adventures of TinTin (PG) Fri.-Sun.:
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
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1:00/3:45/6:30; Tues.-Thurs.: 4:30/7:00
American Mall Stadium 12
2830 W. Elm St., Lima
Saturday
The Darkest Hour 3D (PG-13) 12:35/
3:05/5:15/7:35/10:30
War Horse (PG-13) 12:25/3:45/7:00/10:10
We Bought a Zoo (PG) 1:25/4:30/
7:15/10:00
The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG) 1:15/
4:05/7:20/9:50
The Adventures of Tintin (PG) 12:35
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R)
12:40/3:20/4:10/6:40/7:40/10:05
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (PG-
13) 12:30/3:30/4:00/6:30/7:10/9:25/10:15
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
(G) 1:00/1:35/3:10/4:40/5:20/7:05/9:15
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
(PG-13) 12:50/1:20/3:40/4:20/6:50/7:25/9:4
0/10:25
New Years Eve (PG-13) 7:30/10:20
Eastgate Dollar Movies
2100 Harding Hwy. Lima
Saturday and Sunday
Tower Heist (PG-13) 4:20/(Sat. only 9:20)
Puss in Boots (PG) 1:00/3:00/5:00/7:00
Footloose (PG-13) (Sat. only 9:00)
Real Steel (PG-13) 1:10/4:00/6:50/(Sat.
only 9:20)
Courageous (PG-13) 1:00/4:15/7:00(Sat.
only 9:25)
Dolphin Tale (PG) 1:15/7:10
Shannon Theater
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
(G) Shows every evening at 7 p.m. and 9:30
p.m. with daily matinees at 1:30 p.m. and 4
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DEC. 31
Jim Schroeder
Nicole Williams
Jordan Heitmeyer
Brendon Stoner
Allen County Museum to
host Ricky Nye Jan. 11
The Allen County Historical Society, in
conjunction with the Blues Committee of
Lima, will host an evening program with
Ricky Nye at 7 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the Allen
County Museum, 620 W. Market St., Lima.
Nye was born in Cincinnati in 1956 and
was bitten by the music bug at the age of 5.
Upon his return to the area in 1979, his musical
journeys on piano, organ and accordion have
taken him through jazz, funk, rock & roll,
country, zydeco, New Orleans styles, boogie-
woogie and blues knowledge which has
landed him on countless recording sessions
and as accompanist to renown blues artists
such as James Harman, Junior Watson, Jason
Ricci, Francine Reed and Darrell Nulisch.
Ricky performs solo as well as with his two
bands, Ricky Nye and the Red Hots, and
Ricky Nye Inc. Nye won Best Solo Act in the
2001 and 2002 Cammy Awards.
This program is free and open to the pub-
lic. For more information call the museum at
419-222-9426.
Nye
CAMPUS NOTES
Weber member of the SCRUBS
Society at Ashland University
Kelsie Weber of
Delphos is a member of the
SCRUBS Society at Ashland
University.
Weber is majoring in mid-
dle grades education.
Weber serves as ritual mas-
ter of the SCRUBS Society.
The SCRUBS Society
seeks to provide positive rep-
resentation, leadership and
encouragement to students,
and increase enthusiasm
toward the College of Nursing
and the nursing profession
through promoting positive
and active roles in the com-
munity, by demonstrating
good conduct, volunteering,
mentoring, and serving as a
liaison between students, fac-
ulty, and staff.
Weber is also a member of
the College of Nursing Co-Ed
Soccer Team at Ashland
University.
The teams purpose is to
advance the sport of soc-
cer among students of the
College of Nursing, within
a safe, healthy environment
that fosters the development
of individual and team skills
regardless of ability, encour-
age fair play, enjoyment, and
the values of good sport, and
promote cooperation and
mutual respect within the soc-
cer community.
Krendl earns UT
bachelors degree
Justin M. Krendl graduated
Dec. 17 from The University
of Toledo
during cere-
monies held
at Nitscke
Hall.
He re-
ceived his
bachel or s
of science
degree in
mechanical
engi neer -
ing.
He is the son of Terry
and Teresa Van Grootheest,
Grandparents are Bernard and
Edith Calvelage and John and
Mary Krendl and his fian-
ce is Kelsey Martin, all of
Delphos.
Krendl has accepted a posi-
tion at Ford Motor Company,
Lima.
Krendl
CLC to meet Tuesday
The Delphos chapter of the
Catholic Ladies of Columbia
held its monthly meeting and
Christmas Party on Dec. 6 at
the K of C Hall.
There were 19 members
present and four guests. A
delicious dinner was served
by Ben Neumeier and staff.
After dinner, the commit-
tee led the group in several
games, including the famous
JINGO. Gifts were exchanged
with those who brought one.
A short meeting followed.
Roll call was read and all
officers were present.
50-50 winners were Pat
Patton, Cathy Hammons,
Maria Meils, Raylene
Fischer, Rose Weber, Lois
Blankemeyer, La Donna
Klima and Winefred Seifker.
The next meeting is at 7
p.m. on Tuesday at the K of
C Hall.
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The St. Johns wrestling team took second place at the 41st Marion Harding Wrestling Classic Wednesday and
Thursday, finishing only 14 points behind Division I power Lakewood St. Edwards.
Photo submitted
The Delphos Herald
MARION Logan
Heiing was the lone champi-
on for the St. Johns wrestling
team in the Marion Harding
Wrestling Classic held
Wednesday and Thursday.
He took the title in the
195-pound weight class to
become the first Blue Jay to
win a title at the Classic, fin-
ishing its 41st year.
This is our third year
going to Marion Harding
and weve come home with
two runner-up trophies. Last
year, we were down because
of injuries and two of our
wrestlers not making weight
but we bounced back strong
this year, head coach Derek
Sterling noted. My first year
of coaching at St. Johns,
the football team made it to
the state game, which hap-
pened to be on the same day
as our first tournament at
Gibsonsburg. I had to drop
that meet and we picked up
Marion instead.
Heiing was the only one
that brought home a medal.
Senior Adam Haunhorst was
runner-up in the 220-pound
class, with Austin Martin
(138) and Luke Wrasman
(170) taking thirds; Will
Buettner (152) and Gunnar
Lucius (106) in fourth; and
Logan Looser (160) and Brett
Schwinnen (182) in eighth.
Even though the final
standings dont show it, I
thought that Brett and (fresh-
man) Wes (Buettner) wres-
tled extremely well. Luke has
been wrestling awesome the
last two weeks; we expect big
things from him as the season
progresses, he added.
Next action for St. Johns
is the Catholic Invitational
Tournament in Cincinnati on
Jan. 14 and 15.
41st Marion Harding Wrestling
Classic:
Team Scores: Lakewood St.
Edwards 175.5, St. Johns 161.5,
Highland 136, Dublin Jerome 126,
Shawnee 116, Marietta 114.5, Allen
East and Big Walnut 111, Black
River 110.5, Ashland 109, Philo
102, St. Charles 101, Cambridge
99, Mapleton 97.5, St. Marys
Memorial and Marion Harding 84.5,
Pleasant 78.5, Galion 76, Sylvania
Northview 68.5, Rossford 68,
Thomas Worthington 66, Buckeye
Valley 64.5, Olentangy 61, Kenton
55, Westerville South 51, Griveport
Madison 37, Liberty Center 32,
Elgin 28, Lima Senior 27, Mount
Gilead 8.
Place Winners
106: 1. Sebastian Vidika (BR)
14-3; 2. Josh Transue (DJ) 9-3;
3. Mike Stewart (HIG) 15-2; 4.
Gunner Lucius (DSJ) 9-2; 5.
Donny Didion (BW) 14-5; 6. Evan
Reed (CAM) 7-4.
113: 1. Zon Fields (PLE) 13-0;
2. Zack Durbin (MAP) 20-1; 3. Mike
Hozan (BR) 16-2; 4. Zac Tupps
(GAL) 17-3; 5. Derek Kuhlman
(SHA) 10-4; 6. Luke Clemens
(HIG) 11-5.
120: 1. Trace Plaugher (SHA)
9-1; 2. Cameron James (PHI)
16-1; 3. Tim Rooney (STC) 13-1;
4. Spencer White (BR) 13-4; 5.
Tyler Baker (AE) 14-4; 6. CJ Ball
(ROS) 14-6.
126: 1. Todd Enis (SYL) 14-1;
2. Bebbett Comfort (DJ) 11-4; 3.
Deshawn Haynes (BUC) 8-4; 4.
Quintin Fettes (CAM) 14-8; 5.
Adam Suhr (STC) 12-6; 6. Kane
Plaugher (SHAW) 12-3.
132: 1. Colin McDermitt (SHA)
15-0; 2. Curt Fedoush (BUC)
9-3; 3. Caleb Carter (ASH) 14-4;
4. Ty Schrader (PLY) 21-2; 5.
Jesus Rosales (ROS) 10-3; 6. DJ
Williamson (STE) 12-3.
138: 1. Zach Carter (ASH)
13-3; 2. Justin McDaniel (GAL)
14-4; 3. Austin Martin (DSJ) 12-3;
Kyle Miller (SHA) 12-6; 5. Anthony
Nye (HAR) 9-3; 6. Joe Ciacchi
(STE) 16-5.
145: 1. Colt Lovejoy (AE)
16-1; 2. Sawyer Leppla (CAM)
17-5; 3. Jack Austin (DJ) 10-5;
4. Caleb Llaneza (WES) 14-6; 5.
Lloyd Furuta (STC) 15-5; 6. Steven
Frazier (PHI) 13-7.
152: 1. Caleb Brown (MAR)
18-2; 2. Tyler Schenz (BW) 13-4;
3. Nate Hissom (ASH) 10-4; 4.
Will Buettner (DSJ) 12-4; 5. Brett
Naymik (MAP) 19-5; 6. Ryan Slife
(SMM) 10-5.
160: 1. Justin Hasley (MAR)
12-0; 2. JR Conyers (AE) 13-2;
3. Robbie Rogers (STE) 17-5; 4.
Cody Kucera (HIGH) 14-4; 5. Kyle
Harness (DJ) 12-4; 6. Aaron Gase
(BW) 14-3.
170: 1. Josh Edington (ELG)
11-0; 2. Shane Tanner (PHI) 13-4;
3. Luke Wrasman (DSJ) 15-2; 4.
Logan Horn (PLY) 17-5; 5. Alec
Eisnnicher (BW) 4-4; 6. Jeremy
Johnson (HIGH) 9-6.
182: 1. Andrew Shackleford
(WOR) 12-2; 2. Tanner Roller
(CAM) 17-2; 3. Grant Criblez (AE)
11-5; 4. Jeff Shell (HIG) 11-6; 5.
Neil Perry (SMM) 11-5; 6. Lucas
Gladish (STE) 4-7.
195: 1. Logan Heiing (DSJ)
15-0; 2. Gabe King (KEN) 11-1; 3.
Parker Knapp (STE) 8-1; 4. Dustin
Baker (HIG) 9-3; 5. Daniel Renner
(GAL) 15-4; 6. Joe Armpriester
(OLE) 9-3.
220: 1. Ralph Nichols (STE)
12-3; 2. Adam Haunhorst (DSJ)
10-3; 3. Tyler Shank (MAP) 20-4;
4. Terry Sas (BR) 13-4; 5. Chase
Ballard (HAR) 3-2; 6. Drake
Colbree (PLE) 7-5.
285: 1. Joe Belford (STE)
16-0; 2. Brett Mowery (DJ) 12-2;
3. Jason Griffith (BW); 4. Keifer
Johnson (MAR) 16-3; 5. Eric Hines
(HAR) 5-2; 6. Kyle Robbins (ROS)
13-9.
St. Johns Wrestlers
(Thursdays results):
Semifinals:
106: Gunnar Lucius (fourth
place): pinned by Sebastian
Vidika (BR), 1:12; pinned Donny
Didion (BW), 4:59; lost 9-7 to Mike
Stewart (HIGH)
138: Austin Martin (third place):
lost 19-4 technical fall to Justin
McDaniel (GAL); decision Anthony
Nye (HAR) 2-0; decision Kyle Miller
(SHAW) 3-0.
152: Will Buettner (fourth
place): lost 16-2 major decision to
Tyler Schenz (BW); decision Brett
Naymik (MAP) 1-0; lost decision to
Nate Hissom (ASH) 3-0.
195: Logan Heiing (Champion):
decision Parker Knapp (STE) 7-5;
decision Gabe King (KEN) 4-2.
220: Adam Haunhorst (sec-
ond): decision Chase Ballard
(HAR) 13-9; pinned by Ralph
Nichols (STE), 3:27.
Consolation:
145: Aaron Deffenbaugh: lost
18-1 technical fall to Lloyd Furuta
(STC).
160: Logan Looser: decision
Ahmed Huessein (OLE) 5-3; lost
decision to Robbie Rogers (STE)
5-3 (OT).
170: Luke Wrasman (third):
pinned Brent Esposito (GAL), :43;
pinned Max McAdoo (AE) 3:18;
pinned Alec Eisnnicher (BW) 2:05;
decision Logan Horn (PLY) 9-4.
182: Brett Schwinnen: techni-
cal fall Chase Carter (OLE) 16-1;
lost decision to Neil Perry (SMM)
6-4.
Heiing wins title, Haunhorst 2nd at Marion
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com
FORT JENNINGS Fort
Jennings had to overcome a
height disadvantage
against McComb
Thursday night, espe-
cially 6-1 junior Lady
Panther Briana Herr.
The Lady
Musketeers did so
thanks to an aggres-
sive full-court defen-
sive scheme and stay-
ing even on the glass
in a 59-51 non-league
girls basketball vic-
tory on the court of The Fort to
finish the 2011 portion of this
season at 2-7.
We knew we had to make
it a full-court game with our
quickness against their height.
Whatever defense we were in,
whether zone or man, we wanted
to extend the floor, Musketeer
coach matt Myerholtz noted.
Our guards were very aware
of when Herr got the ball in
the post and we got a lot of
help. She got her points but
she didnt dominate us like she
could have.
For McComb coach Jeremy
Herr, the pace wasnt the prob-
lem.
We dont mind pushing the
tempo. What hurt us was poor
decisions with the ball; we got
in too much of a hurry with the
ball, he acknowledged. That
led to a lot of easier shots for
them. Plus, we are not the same
team, especially defensively,
when Briana is not in there. She
got in foul trouble and we lose a
lot without her.
In an entertaining, back-and-
forth affair, the Musketeers drew
first blood. They got Briana
Herr (17 markers, 13 boards,
9 blocks) in early foul trouble
her second at the 4:20 mark
and the Panthers (6-3) were
most definitely a different team
without her on the floor. The
hosts owned the backboards
12-5 in the first period (losing
the game 40-33, 17-18 on the
offensive side) and forced five
miscues (22 for the game; 12
of their own). Their lead was as
much as 12-5 on a spin move by
senior Kelsey Von Lehmden (13
markers) at 1:43 before a 3-ball
by Kristen Buck (14 markers)
with 51.3 ticks showing made it
a 12-8 scoreboard after one.
With Herr back in until
picking up her third foul at 4:29
to start the second stanza,
the Panthers made a quick 9-0
splurge in the first two minutes
six of her points. That didnt
last for long. Once Herr went
to the bench with that third
foul and her team up 19-16, the
Lady Musketeers rode Cassie
Lindeman (7 points in the peri-
od, 9 overall; 9 caroms) and a
closing 11-2 span to assume a
27-21 edge at the break on a
steal and layin that beat the horn
by junior Macy Schroeder (9
assists, 6 steals).
With Panther coach Herr jug-
gling his juniors minutes in the
second half, trying to avoid that
fourth foul, the Panthers had
much better success, at least at
the start of the third stanza. She
was blocking shots and helping
to instigate the attack as the visi-
tors roared back to tie the score
twice the final time at 34-34
on her basket with three min-
utes left. However, the Orange
and Black Musketeers had the
answer: a 9-1 splurge five
from Von Lehmden; to
take a 43-35 edge on
her drive with a minute
left. When Brenna Dee
(6 assists, 9 points) hit
a short banker at the
25-tick mark, that put
the score at 43-37, Fort
Jennings, entering the
finale.
The visitors rallied
to tie the score at 43
at the 5:45 mark of the
fourth on a power move
by Emily Clymer (11 markers,
6 caroms). Lindeman answered
with a basket at 5;22 and the
Panthers could not answer. Von
Lehmden was huge down the
stretch, scoring eight of her
points in the last 1:35 to per-
sonally help keep the Panthers
at bay.
McComb finished 22-of-51
from the floor (2-of-9 3-point-
ers) for 43.1 percent and 5-of-12
freebies (41.7%). Devyn Wilson
led the defense with five steals.
They accumulated 14 fouls and
will host Fostoria St. Wendelin
next.
We held our own on the
boards. The girls worked hard at
positioning and battling for the
ball, Myerholtz added. What
I was pleased with was the great
ball movement we had offen-
sively. When you have a girl
Macy with nine assists,
that tells me she is seeing the
floor well. All the girls were;
we were taking good shots and
finished.
Fort Jennings canned 24-of-
61 shots (2-of-7 downtown) for
39.3 percent and 9-of-14 singles
(64.3%). They were assessed
14 fouls and visit St. Johns
Tuesday.
In junior varsity activity, the
Panthers outscored the hosts 6-2
in overtime to take a 30-26
triumph.
Hailey Buck netted eight for
the victors (3-5), while Alyssa
Schimmoeller countered with
eight for the Lady Musketeers
(2-7).
VARSITY
MCCOMB (51)
Briana Herr 8-1-17, Brenna Dee
4-1-9, Devyn Wilson 0-0-0, Hannah
Bundy 0-0-0, Brittany Ishmael 0-0-0,
Emily Clymer 5-1-11, Kristen Buck 5-2-
14. Totals 20-2-5/9-51.
FORT JENNINGS (59)
Kaitlin Stechschulte 2-0-4, Kristen
Maag 2-0-4, Morgan Schroeder 5-2-
13, Macy Schroeder 3-1-8, Kelsey Von
Lehmden 5-3-13, Ashley Gable 0-0-0,
Cassie Lindeman 3-3-9, Gabbi German
4-0-8, Gina Stechschulte 0-0-0. Totals
22-2-9/14-59.
Score by Quarters:
McComb 8 13 16 14 - 51
Ft. Jennings 12 15 16 16 - 59
Three-point goals: McComb, Buck
2; Fort Jennings, Mo. Schroeder, Ma.
Schroeder.
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JUNIOR VARSITY
MCCOMB (30)
Hailey Buck 3-1-8, Allison
Hammond 2-3-7, Kayla Mustard 0-0-
0, Kendall Newcomer 1-1-3, Madison
Pierce 0-0-0, Kara Reigle 2-2-6, Jordan
Smith 0-0-0, Caelie Reed 3-0-6. Totals
10-1-7/14-30.
FORT JENNINGS (26)
Nicole Ricker 2-0-4, Keri Eickholt
0-0-0, Alyssa Schimmoeller 3-0-8,
Hannah Clay 0-0-0, Marisa Good 0-0-
0, Erin Osting 1-5-7, Gabby Clippinger
0-0-0, Emily Kehres 1-1-3, Alyssa Louth
0-0-0, Jenna Calvelage 2-0-4, Kelsey
Klausing 0-0-0. Totals 7-2-6/10-26.
Score by Quarters:
McComb 2 10 8 4 (6) - 30
Ft. Jennings 2 7 9 6 (2) - 26
Three-point goals: McComb, Buck;
Fort Jennings, Schimmoeller 2.
Lady Musketeers end
2011 on winning note
VonLehmden
TCC downs Bulldogs
TOLEDO Neither
Elida nor Toledo Central
Catholic got much going
offensively Thursday night
at the Huntington Fieldhouse
in Toledo but the host Irish
handed the
v i s i t i n g
Bu l l d o g s
a physical
48-36 loss
to knock
them out of
the ranks of
the unbeat-
en (7-1).
Keith Towbridge led the
Irish (5-1) with 15, while
Nate Harris and Danielle
Turner added 12.
Reggie McAdams led all
scorers with 17 (4 treys) for
Elida.
Elida hosts St. Marys
Memorial Jan. 6.
ELIDA (36)
Ebin Stratton 1-0-1-3, Mike
McDonald 2-0-0-4, Reggie
McAdams 1-4-3-17, Aric
Thompson 0-2-0-6, Dakota
Mathias 1-0-0-2, Cory Royster
2-0-0-4. Totals 7-6-4/7-36.
TOLEDO CENTRAL
CATHOLIC (48)
Dexter Johnson 1-1-0-5, Nate
Harris 5-0-2-12, Danielle Turner
5-0-2-12, Deontoe Cole 0-1-1-4,
Keith Towbridge 6-0-3-15. Totals
17-2-8/14-48.
Score by Quarters:
Elida 8 7 10 11 - 36
TCC 5 13 11 19 - 48
Three-point goals: Elida,
McAdams 4, Thompson 2;
Toledo Central Catholic, Johnson,
Cole.
JV score: 45-34 (TCC).
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Beavers move into
McDonalds final with
94-54 rout of OSU-Lima
By Josh Bruner
Sports information
assistant
BLUFFTON The
Bluffton University men
hosted the Ohio State-Lima
Barons on Thursday n the
first round of the McDonalds
Holiday Tournament.
The Beavers took a 43-23
lead at the half and continued
to pour it on in the second
period to claim a 94-54 vic-
tory.
Bluffton snapped a
4-game skid in improving to
6-4, while the Barons fell to
4-13.
The game went back-and-
forth as a Nick Lee (Vanlue)
three gave Bluffton a 3-2 lead
following a Marvin Barnes
jumper. The Barons answered
with two more buckets to
take a 3-point lead at the
16:34 mark.
The Beavers responded
with a 4-0 run to reclaim
the lead (7-6) after two Nate
Heckelman (Norwalk) free
throws. The teams continued
to trade buckets over the next
few minutes but consecutive
Blade Tackett (Crestline/
Colonel Crawford) 3-point-
ers gave Bluffton a 15-11
lead at the 12:31 mark.
The Barons would not give
in and they tied the game back
up at 17 midway through the
first half. However, the home
team found its groove, sti-
fling the Barons with a 19-0
jag over a 6-minute span for a
36-17 lead with just 4:28 left
in the half.
A Donyale Tyree layup
pulled the visitors within
15 but another Lee three
followed by a Josh Fisher
(Rockford/Parkway) layup
put Bluffton back up by 20
with two minutes left in the
period. The Barons added
a bucket at the 1-minute
mark before a Jon Fowler
(Cincinnati/St. Xavier) layup
pushed Bluffton to a 20-point
spread (43-23) at the break.
The Beavers started the
half with consecutive three-
pointers by Mychal Hill
(London/Jonathan Alder) and
Lee to push the lead to 26.
The Barons slowly chipped
away as a Dontraa Hutchins
old-fashioned 3-point play
made the score 51-34 five
minutes into the second
half.
Bluffton answered the call
over the next five minutes as
a Steve Swick (Elida) layup
gave Bluffton a 70-36 lead
midway through the second
stanza. A Matt Gerdeman
(Delphos/Jefferson) free
throw at the 4:45 mark gave
Bluffton its largest lead of the
night, 88-41.
The Barons outscored the
hosts 13-6 down the stretch
but the outcome was never in
doubt as 14 Beavers scored in
the 94-54 victory over OSU-
Lima. The Beavers advanced
to the championship game
of the holiday tournament
today, while the Barons play
in the consolation game at
1 p.m.
Pacing the Beavers was
Lee with 14 points on 4-for-
5 shooting from downtown.
Fisher added 13 points on
5-of-8 from the field. Jon
Fowler chipped in with a
career-high 12 markers and
Will Pope (Somerville/Preble
Shawnee) finished the game
with 10 points and 12 boards
for his fourth
career double-dou-
ble. Brent Farley
(Li ma/ Shawnee)
just missed out on a double-
double with eight points, 12
boards, five takeaways and
two blocks. Mychal Hill con-
tributed with eight counters
and five dimes. The Barons
placed two players in dou-
ble digits. Zac Reames and
Brady Schroeder each tallied
10 points.
The Beavers were impres-
sive from the floor, going
38-of-65 (58.5 percent) and
8-of-20 (40 percent) from
deep. The Barons struggled,
making just 21-of-63 (33.3
percent) from the floor and
3-of-16 (18.8 percent) behind
the arc. Bluffton dominat-
ed the boards, pulling in 22
more than the visitors (49-
27). The Beavers turned it
over two more times (19-17)
than OSU-Lima.
The Beavers will be
back in action today when
they face Grove City in
the championship game of
the McDonalds Holiday
Tournament. The contest
is scheduled to begin at 3
p.m. and it will follow the
consolation game featuring
OSU-Lima and Muskingum
College at 1 p.m.
----
St. Marys rides strong
first half to 68-57
win over Beavers
WESTERVILLE The
Bluffton University women
fell behind 37-19 late in the
first half and were unable
to make up the defi-
cit as St. Marys (Ind.)
held off the Beavers
for a 68-57 victory in
day two of the Smokey
Ballenger Classic at Otterbein
University.
Bluffton fell to 2-9 overall,
while St. Marys improved to
5-7 on the season.
Bluffton took advantage
of a St. Marys turnover on
the games first possession
when senior Alicia Amis
(Woodstock/Mechanicsburg)
got to the rack for a quick
deuce. The Beavers grabbed
a 9-7 lead when senior Rachel
Daman (Defiance/Tinora) bur-
ied a long triple less than three
minutes into the contest.
Trailing by just two points
(15-13) following a Brenna
Kurilec (Mt. Gilead/Gilead
Christian) layin, the Beavers
watched St. Marys take con-
trol with a 22-6 jag that made
the score 37-19 with 3:28 to
go in the first period. Trifectas
by Beth Yoder (Marshallville/
Smithville) and Francena
Tate (Fostoria/St. Wendelin)
helped Bluffton tame the
Belles as the Beavers made it
an 11-point game (39-28) at
the break.
The home team on the
scoreboard continued to chip
away at the deficit, pulling
within seven (45-38) follow-
ing deep makes by Daman and
Brittany Stegmaier (Garfield/
Trinity) and chip shots by
Lauren Hutton (New Riegel)
and Tate. The St. Marys lead
teetered between nine and 13
points until a pair of Brittany
Lewis (Springfield/Shawnee)
charity tosses made the score
55-48 with 6:39 showing on
the clock.
Nine straight counters for
the Belles pushed their lead
to 16 points (64-48) a little
more than two minutes later.
Consecutive Amis hoops
and a pair of Hutton free-
bies allowed the Beavers to
pull within 10 points, but a
Shanlynn Bias jumper with
1:06 to play sealed the 68-57
win for St. Marys.
Hutton was a nearly per-
fect 5-of-6 from the field for
a team-high 13 points and she
also ripped down a team-best
nine rebounds. Francena Tate
just missed double digits with
nine markers. Kurilec pulled
down six boards and Lewis
dished out three assists.
St. Marys hit 30-of-64
(46.9 percent) from the field,
compared to 21-of-52 (40.4
percent) for the Beavers.
Bluffton pulled down five
more rebounds (38-33) but
turned it over 11 more times
(25-14). St. Marys picked
up 11 steals and doled out
17 assists. Five of the nine
Belles who saw action tallied
double figures in their win
over the Beavers.
Bluffton returns home
for a Heartland Conference
battle with rival Defiance
College on Wednesday. The
first contest of a womens
and mens doubleheader with
the Yellow Jackets is slated
for 6 p.m. in Founders Hall.
LOCAL ROUNDUP
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Toronto 1 1 .500
Philadelphia 1 1 .500
New York 1 2 .333 1/2
New Jersey 1 2 .333 1/2
Boston 0 3 .000 1 1/2
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami 3 0 1.000
Atlanta 2 0 1.000 1/2
Orlando 2 1 .667 1
Charlotte 1 1 .500 1 1/2
Washington 0 2 .000 2 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Indiana 2 0 1.000
Chicago 2 1 .667 1/2
Cleveland 1 1 .500 1
Milwaukee 1 1 .500 1
Detroit 0 2 .000 2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
New Orleans 2 0 1.000
San Antonio 2 1 .667 1/2
Houston 1 1 .500 1
Memphis 0 2 .000 2
Dallas 0 3 .000 2 1/2
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Oklahoma City 4 0 1.000
Portland 3 0 1.000 1/2
Denver 2 1 .667 1 1/2
Minnesota 0 2 .000 3
Utah 0 2 .000 3
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
Golden State 2 1 .667
L.A. Clippers 1 1 .500 1/2
L.A. Lakers 2 2 .500 1/2
Sacramento 1 2 .333 1
Phoenix 0 2 .000 1 1/2
Thursdays Results
Orlando 94, New Jersey 78
Houston 105, San Antonio 85
Oklahoma City 104, Dallas 102
Chicago 108, Sacramento 98
Portland 111, Denver 102
L.A. Lakers 99, New York 82
Todays Games
Orlando at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
New Jersey at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
Phoenix at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Miami at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Washington at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Utah, 9 p.m.
Chicago at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Denver at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m.
Indiana at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Atlanta at Houston, 7 p.m.
New York at Sacramento, 8 p.m.
Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Utah at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Golden State, 9 p.m.
NBA GLANCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
N.Y. Rangers 35 22 9 4 48 103 76
Philadelphia 36 22 10 4 48 123 106
Pittsburgh 37 21 12 4 46 120 97
New Jersey 36 20 15 1 41 100 104
N.Y. Islanders 35 12 17 6 30 80 112
Northeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Boston 34 24 9 1 49 121 64
Toronto 37 18 14 5 41 116 122
Ottawa 37 17 15 5 39 113 128
Buffalo 36 17 16 3 37 97 106
Montreal 38 14 17 7 35 97 107
Southeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 37 19 11 7 45 99 101
Winnipeg 37 18 14 5 41 101 105
Washington 35 18 15 2 38 104 106
Tampa Bay 36 16 17 3 35 99 120
Carolina 39 13 20 6 32 101 130
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 37 23 10 4 50 122 105
Detroit 36 23 12 1 47 118 81
St. Louis 36 21 11 4 46 94 80
Nashville 37 19 14 4 42 98 104
Columbus 37 10 22 5 25 91 124
Northwest Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Vancouver 38 24 12 2 50 128 92
Minnesota 39 21 12 6 48 93 91
Colorado 39 20 18 1 41 104 113
Calgary 38 18 16 4 40 93 102
Edmonton 36 15 18 3 33 99 100
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
San Jose 34 19 11 4 42 99 83
Los Angeles 38 18 14 6 42 82 89
Dallas 36 20 15 1 41 96 105
Phoenix 38 18 16 4 40 98 101
Anaheim 36 10 20 6 26 85 120
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Thursdays Results
N.Y. Islanders 3, Calgary 1
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2
Carolina 4, Toronto 3, OT
Tampa Bay 4, Montreal 3
Minnesota 4, Edmonton 3
Winnipeg 1, Los Angeles 0, OT
Columbus 4, Dallas 1
Colorado 3, Phoenix 2
Vancouver 5, Anaheim 2
Todays Games
Buffalo at Washington, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 3 p.m.
Carolina at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.
Phoenix at Minnesota, 6 p.m.
Montreal at Florida, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Washington at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Boston at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Colorado at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
NHL GLANCE
By PAUL J. WEBER
SAN ANTONIO If that
really was Heisman Trophy
winner Robert Griffin IIIs
final college game, what an
incredible way to go out.
Just ask him.
We went out in style!
Griffin shouted to his team-
mates.
It was amazing the Baylor
quarterback had any breath
left at all. Not after a record-
shattering Alamo Bowl that
might not only be remem-
bered as the highest-scoring
regulation bowl game in
history but also possibly as
Griffins last addition to his
legacy in Waco.
The AP Player of the Year
wasnt dazzling Thursday
night, but he didnt need to be
as No. 15 Baylor still pulled
out an incredible 67-56 vic-
tory over Washington.
If it was RG3s final
showcase before jumping to
the NFL, it was a gripping
goodbye to watch. One of
the nations most electrifying
players was upstaged by an
even more exciting nail-biter
that shattered the previous
record for points in regulation
set in the 2001 GMAC Bowl.
Fans showered Griffin with
chants of One more year!
One more year! as he parad-
ed the Alamo Bowl trophy
around the field. He stopped
at the front-row stands and
showed off his prize to his
mother, who has already been
looking at her sons NFL draft
prospects.
For now, there was still the
craziness of this game to sort
through.
I want Baylor nation to
enjoy this, Griffin said. Its
not about me. Ive got about
two weeks. Ill enjoy this the
next day and then the next
day, and then Ill make it.
The previous bowl record
for a regulation game was 102
points in the 2001 GMAC
Bowl between Marshall and
East Carolina. That game
went to double overtime and
ended with a combined 125
points, which still stands as
the overall bowl record.
Baylor, which a bowl
game for the first time since
1992, and Washington (7-6)
also set a bowl record for total
offense with 1,397 yards.
We just knew we needed
to score, Washington quar-
terback Keith Price said. We
needed to score fast, just to
give our defense a boost.
Griffin had an unremark-
able night, throwing just one
touchdown pass and run-
ning for another score. But
Terrance Ganaway starred
ably in his place, rushing for
200 yards and five touch-
downs. His last was a 43-yard
run with 2:28 left to seal
Baylors first 10-win season
since 1980.
Price outplayed his
Heisman counterpart, going
23 for 27 with 438 yards and
four touchdowns. He also ran
for another three scores.
Griffin was 24-of-33 for
295 yards and his only
touchdown throw came on the
games opening drive.
Blown out in four other
games against ranked oppo-
nents this season, the Huskies
finally made one interesting.
Not that it started that way
after Baylor ran up 245 yards
of offense alone in the first
quarter awful even by the
standards of Washingtons
defense, which is among the
nations worst.
Price, a sophomore who
threw a school-record 29
touchdown passes in his first
year as the starter, began cut-
ting into a 21-7 deficit with
a 12-yard scoring strike to
James Johnson. Seven min-
utes later, Washington tied it
when Devin Aguilar somer-
saulted over the goal line after
catching a 1-yard lob.
The overwhelming crowd
of Baylor fans decked
in green-and-gold Heisman
shirts and armed with signs
such as Superman wears
RG3 socks stood in
stunned silenced. That gave
way to disbelieving gasps
on the next series, when the
typically sure-handed Griffin
fumbled after getting popped
by Andrew Hudson.
After that, it was practical-
ly a free-for-all of big plays.
A 56-yard touchdown
dash by Chris Polk. An
80-yard touchdown catch
by Washingtons Jermaine
Kearse two plays into the sec-
ond half. An 89-yard scor-
ing rumble Ganaway. Kearse
again, catching and darting
for 60 yards before getting
dragged down, setting up
Prices fourth touchdown toss
the next play.
Back and forth, back and
forth. One after another. In
all, five plays covered 50 or
more yards, three of them for
scores.
That was crazy, Baylor
coach Art Briles said.
For an Alamo Bowl short
on drama and light on match-
ups in recent years, it was
a thrilling scoring spree that
overshadowed the mere nov-
elty of featuring the Heisman
winner. And that in itself was
a rarity for a bowl of this stat-
ure. Not since Ty Detmer took
BYU to the Holiday Bowl in
1990, had a Heisman winner
played in a bowl before New
Years Day.
Plenty came to see this
one.
Anticipating a surge of
Heisman gawkers, Alamo
Bowl officials added 800 tem-
porary seats and opened up
others with obstructed views
that required ticket-buyers to
sign a form acknowledging
the poor sightlines. Those
seats sold, anyway, and the
announced attendance of
65,256 was the fifth-largest in
the bowls history.
Others had better seats.
That includes Miami
Dolphins general manager
Jeff Ireland, who kicked for
Baylor in the late 1980s but
was here on business scout-
ing Griffin in case the fourth-
year junior enters the draft.
Griffins parents, two sisters
and fiancee watched from
front-row seats.
Griffin acknowledged this
week his parents are look-
ing at his draft prospects but
denies having any substantial
talks with them.
Win or lose, it was an
impressive finale for
Washington after stum-
bling into the postseason
losing four of its last six.
Particularly against a ranked
team after then-Top 25 oppo-
nents Nebraska, Stanford,
Oregon and USC all crushed
the Huskies by an average of
24 points.
No. 25 Florida State 18,
Notre Dame 14
ORLANDO, Fla. Florida
State rallied from a 14-point sec-
ond-half deficit and used a pair of
touchdown passes by E.J. Manuel
and two field goals from Dustin
Hopkins to slip past Notre Dame
in the Champs Sports Bowl.
The victory was FSUs fourth
straight bowl win. FSU receiver
Rashad Greene, who caught one
of Manuels touchdown passes,
was named the games MVP.
The No. 25 Seminoles trailed
14-0 early
in the third
q u a r t e r
before find-
ing some
momentum
t h r o u g h
the air. The
Semi nol es
closed the
gap to 14-9
with an
18-yard touchdown pass from
Manuel to Bert Reed to open the
fourth quarter but failed on their
2-point conversion attempt.
They took the lead just 1:32
later after Nigel Bradham inter-
cepted a Hendrix pass inside
the Notre Dame 20 to set up
an 18-yard touchdown catch by
Greene to make it 15-14 with just
over 13 minutes to play following
another failed 2-point try.
The Seminoles added their
second field goal of the game a
series later.
Thursdays Results
Champs Sports Bowl
At Orlando, Fla.
Florida State 18, Notre Dame 14
Alamo Bowl At San Antonio
Baylor 67, Washington 56
Todays Games
Armed Forces Bowl
At Dallas
Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), Noon
(ESPN)
Pinstripe Bowl At New York
Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State
(6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Music City Bowl At Nashville,
Tenn.
Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Wake
Forest (6-6), 6:40 p.m. (ESPN)
Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.
Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5),
10 p.m. (ESPN)
Saturdays Games
Meineke Car Care Bowl At
Houston
Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern
(6-6), Noon (ESPN)
Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas
Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah
(7-5), 2 p.m. (CBS)
Liberty Bowl At Memphis,
Tenn.
Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati
(9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Fight Hunger Bowl At San
Francisco
UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6), 3:30
p.m. (ESPN)
Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta
Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5),
7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Mondays Games
TicketCity Bowl At Dallas
Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston
(12-1), Noon (ESPNU)
Capital One Bowl At Orlando,
Fla.
Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina
(10-2), 1 p.m. (ESPN)
Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla.
Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State
(10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC)
Gator Bowl At Jacksonville,
Fla.
Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6),
1 p.m. (ESPN2)
Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.
Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-
2), 5 p.m. (ESPN)
Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.
Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma
State (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Tuesdays Game
Sugar Bowl At New Orleans
Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech
(11-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
BOWL GLANCE
Griffin, Baylor win record-
breaking Alamo Bowl
By DAVE BONINSEGNA
The Delphos Herald
zsportslive@yahoo.com

OTTAW The Ottawa-
Glandorf Lady Titans used a
14-1 start in their non-league
girls hardwood game on
Thursday evening at The
Supreme Court and held
off a pesky Columbus
Grove Lady Bulldogs
crew to come away with
a 43-36 victory.
The Titans held their foe to
just one point in the first quar-
ter and didnt allow a basket
from the field until nearly two
minutes into the second when
Sydney McCluer scored the
first bucket for the Bulldogs
to make it a 14-4 contest.
Eleven Titan players got
into the scorebook, led by
Nikki Ellerbrock with nine,
including a 3-of-6 perfor-
mance from the line down the
stretch.
Anna Ricker scored for
the Bulldogs with 10 mark-
ers; however, the Columbus
Grove senior made just three
shots from the field but was
3-of-4 from the line.
The stingy O-G
defense held the
Bulldogs at bay for the
first half as the hosts
took a 26-10 lead into
the break. Nonetheless, Grove
came out in the second half
and turned the tables on their
hosts by scoring the first eight
points of the third period,
cutting the deficit down to
28-20.
Katelyn Scott began the
charge with her only points
of the game but Ricker would
follow with a pair of baskets
and by the end of the canto, the
Titans lead was down to 31-22
as the Dogs held their hosts to
just two baskets from the field.
The final period would
bring more of the same for
the guests as it looked as if
they would pull off a tre-
mendous comeback. Breanne
Halker hit back-to-back shots
from behind the arc late in
the period, the second com-
ing with 58 seconds left to go,
making it a 36-31 contest.
After McCluer drained a
triple with under 30 seconds
to play, the Bulldogs were
within another trey of tying
the game as it was a 39-36
contest.
However, the long jour-
ney back from 13 points
down wasnt to be as Elissa
Ellerbrock delivered from the
charity stripe down the stretch
to seal the victory for the
hosts.
The Bulldogs outscored
Ottawa-Glandorf 26-17 in the
second half but the 11-1 first
canto and cold spell from the
field in the first half was just
too much to overcome.
Columbus Grove (36)
Breanne Halker 2-2-8, Sydney
McCluer 2-3-9, Anna Ricker 3-3-9,
Nikki Stechschulte 3-0-6, Katelyn
Scott 0-2-2, Cece Utendorf 1-0-2.
Totals 7-4-10/14-36.
O-G (43)
Niki Ellerbrock 2-4-9, Michelle
Maag 1-0-2, Carly Johnson 1-0-2,
Elissa Ellerbrock 1-2-4, Kristen
Miller 2-2-6, Chelsea Maag 2-0-4,
Libbey Recker 1-0-2, Molly Closson
1-0-3, Kenzie Everett 1-0-3, Danielle
Schroeder 1-1-3, Alyssa Ebbeskotte
0-5-5, Kialee Koch 0-0-0. Totals 10-3-
14/24-43.
Score by Quarters:
Col. Grove 1 9 12 14 36
Ott.-Glandorf 11 15 5 12 - 43
Three-point goals: Columbus
Grove, Halker 2, McCluer 2; Ottawa-
Glandorf, N. Ellerbrock, Closson,
Everett.
Lady Titans get good start and a 7-point win
OKLAHOMA CITY
Kevin Durant scored 30
points and hit a 3-pointer at
the final buzzer to lift the
Oklahoma City Thunder
to a 104-102 victory over
the Dallas Mavericks on
Thursday night in a rematch
of last seasons Western
Conference finals.
The Thunder let Dallas
wipe away a 5-point def-
icit in the final 46 sec-
onds to go ahead on Vince
Carters 3-pointer with 1.4
seconds remaining. That
was just enough time for
Oklahoma City to get the
ball to Durant, who drilled
a 3 from the right wing that
improved his team to 4-0.
Dirk Nowitzki had 29
points and 10 rebounds to
lead the Mavericks, whose
title defense is off to an
0-3 start.
Russell Westbrook had
16 points and seven turn-
overs in another subpar
performance but made up
for it with a few critical
plays down the stretch.
ROCKETS 105, SPURS 85
HOUSTON Kevin Martin
scored 25 points, Luis Scola
added 18 and Kyle Lowry had
16 points, nine rebounds and
eight assists for Houston.
The Rockets took advantage
of the Spurs poor shooting at
the start to build a big lead.
First-year Houston coach Kevin
McHale was able to rest his
starters in the fourth quarter,
with his team playing the first
of three games on consecutive
nights.
DeJuan Blair scored 22
points and grabbed 12 rebounds
for San Antonio, which shot 38
percent (35-of-93) and went
2-for-17 from 3-point range. Tim
Duncan scored four points and
Richard Jefferson five.
MAGIC 94, NETS 78
ORLANDO, Fla. Ryan
Anderson scored 22 points,
Dwight Howard had 16 points
and 24 rebounds and Orlando
had little trouble handling New
Jersey.
Jason Richardson added 16
points for the Magic including
15 in the first half and J.J.
Redick scored 15 points off the
bench.
It was the 49th career
20-rebound game for Howard,
who neared his career high of
26 rebounds.
Rookie forward MarShon
Brooks led the Nets with 17
points. Deron Williams missed
his first six shots and finished
2-of-12 from the field with 10
points.
LAKERS 99, KNICKS 82
LOS ANGELES Kobe
Bryant scored 28 points in yet
another dynamic performance
against the Knicks and the Los
Angeles Lakers pulled away in
the fourth quarter for their ninth
straight victory over New York.
Pau Gasol had 16 points,
10 rebounds and five assists for
the Lakers.
Carmelo Anthony scored 27
points in his first showdown with
Bryant since joining the Knicks
and Amare Stoudemire had 15
points on 4-for-17 shooting as
New York again struggled down
the stretch in the middle stop of
a 3-game West Coast road trip.
Steve Blake scored 11 points
and hit two big 3-pointers while
the Lakers opened the fourth
quarter with a 17-3 run, taking
a 22-point lead and forcing the
Knicks to miss nine of their first
10 shots while committing seven
turnovers. Bryant didnt even
need to score in the fourth quar-
ter, contributing three assists as
Los Angeles roared away.
The Lakers have dominated
this rivalry between the signa-
ture teams from the nations two
largest cities in recent years,
winning every meeting since
February 2007 with Bryant aver-
aging more than 34 points per
game.
Tyson Chandler had 13
points and 11 rebounds in his
hometown for the Knicks, whose
9-game skid against the Lakers
is their longest current stretch
against any opponent.
TRAIL BLAZERS 111,
NUGGETS 102
PORTLAND, Ore. Wesley
Matthews had 25 points, includ-
ing five 3-pointers in the sec-
ond half, and Portland defeated
Denver to stay undefeated after
three games this season.
Raymond Felton had 23
points, including a 3-pointer with
1:45 left as the Blazers pulled
away from the Nuggets, who
knotted the game at 98 midway
through the fourth quarter.
Portland led by as many as
13 points in the first half but
the team was plagued by 25
turnovers.
Ty Lawson had 25 points and
eight steals for the Nuggets.
BULLS 108, KINGS 98
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Derrick Rose had 19
points and eight assists and
Chicago earned a victory over
Sacramento.
The Bulls ran off 15 straight
points early in the game and
never trailed again in defeating
the youthful Kings, the NBAs
youngest team.
Carlos Boozer had 16 points
and 15 rebounds for the Bulls
(2-1). Richard Hamilton also had
16 points, while reserve Ronnie
Brewer led a productive Chicago
bench with 12 points. Luol Deng
also scored 12 points.
Marcus Thornton had
20 points and Tyreke Evans
had 19 for Sacramento (1-2).
DeMarcus Cousins, who fouled
out in the fourth quarter, had
15 points and 12 rebounds.
Rookie Jimmer Fredette scored
14 points and John Salmons
had 12.
NBA CAPSULES
PITTSBURGH Jaromir
Jagr and Max Talbot both scored
in their return to Pittsburgh,
leading the Philadelphia Flyers
to a 4-2 win over the Penguins
on Thursday night.
Kimmo Timonen and Matt
Read scored for the Flyers and
Claude Giroux added two assists as
Philadelphia ended the Penguins
4-game winning streak.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped
24 shots for the Flyers, who
improved to 4-0 at Pittsburghs
Consol Energy Center since the
arena opened a year ago.
Tyler Kennedy had a goal and
an assist for Pittsburgh. Jordan
Staal scored his 15th of the sea-
son but the Penguins spent most
of the night being dominated by
their cross-state rivals.
Jagr and Talbot helped lead
Pittsburgh to Stanley Cup titles
during their careers but signed
with the hated Flyers as free
agents during the summer.
ISLANDERS 3, FLAMES 1
UNIONDALE, N.Y. John Tavares
scored a goal and added an assist and
Evgeni Nabokov made 29 saves to lead
the New York Islanders over Calgary.
Andrew MacDonald and Brian
Rolston also scored for New York,
which snapped a 3-game losing streak.
Tim Jackman scored the lone goal
for the Flames and Miikka Kiprusoff
stopped 31 shots, but Calgary had its
4-game winning streak broken.
HURRICANES 4, MAPLE LEAFS
3, OT
RALEIGH, N.C. Eric Staal scored
a power-play goal 3:09 into overtime
to lift Carolina to a comeback win over
Toronto.
Staal had two goals and an assist
and Zac Dalpe and Brandon Sutter also
scored for the Hurricanes. Cam Ward
made 21 saves for Carolina, which ral-
lied from a 2-goal deficit.
Nikolai Kulemin, Joffrey Lupul and
Nazem Kadri had Torontos goals.
James Reimer made 30 saves
for the Maple Leafs. Reimer entered
with a 3-0 record against Carolina and
had allowed only two goals to the
Hurricanes.
LIGHTNING 4, CANADIENS 3
TAMPA, Fla. Vincent Lecavalier
scored a tie-breaking goal mid-
way through the third period, Steven
Stamkos netted his NHL-leading 23rd
of the season and Tampa Bay beat
Montreal.
Lecavalier gave Tampa Bay, which
trailed 3-2 after two periods, the 4-3
advantage on a rebound goal at 8:37.
Tampa Bay also got goals from J.T.
Wyman and Marc-Andre Bergeron..
Michael Cammalleri, David
Desharnais and Erik Cole scored for
the Canadiens.
WILD 4, OILERS 3
ST. PAUL, Minn. Dany Heatley
scored his third goal in four games to
help Minnesota snap an 8-game losing
with a victory over Edmonton.
Mikko Koivu, Jarod Palmer and
Pierre-Marc Bouchard also scored for
the Wild. Niklas Backstrom improved
to 16-0 at home against the Oilers, the
best record of any NHL goalie against
an opponent.
Marek Zidlicky had three assists
and fellow defenseman Greg Zanon
had two for the Wild, whose 17-game
home winning streak against the Oilers
ended on Nov. 25.
Taylor Hall, Ladislav Smid and
Shawn Horcoff scored for the Oilers,
who have lost six of seven. Their only
win in that stretch was against the Wild
last week.
BLUE JACKETS 4, STARS 1
DALLAS Rick Nash scored
twice, Steve Mason made 36 saves
and Columbus earned its first regulation
road win of the season.
Antoine Vermette added a goal and
John Moore contributed two assists for
the Blue Jackets, who had been 3-12-2
on the road.
Fedor Tyutins empty-net goal with
2 seconds left clinched the victory for
the Blue Jackets.
Vernon Fiddler had a goal for Dallas
and Kari Lehtonen stopped 25 shots
in his return from a 12-game absence
while recovering from a groin injury.
JETS 1, KINGS 0, OT
WINNIPEG, Manitoba Evander
Kane scored the only goal of the game
69 seconds into overtime and Chris
Mason made 31 saves in Winnipegs
win over Los Angeles. Kane scooped
the puck out of goalie Jonathan Berniers
pads and fired it into the net.
Bernier and fellow backup Mason
were the stars throughout until Kanes
winner. Mason earned his first shut-
out of the season and Bernier was
the tough-luck loser despite making
26 saves.
The Kings havent lost in regulation
since Darryl Sutter took over as coach,
going 3-0-2. However, Los Angeles
failed on five power plays and has
scored only four man-advantage in the
last 17 games.
AVALANCHE 3, COYOTES 2
DENVER Semyon Varlamov
made 25 saves, Gabriel Landeskog
had a goal and an assist and Colorado
beat Phoenix.
Kevin Porter and Stefan Elliott also
scored for Colorado, which went 8-1 at
home in December.
Mikkel Boedker had two goals and
Kyle Chipchura had two assists for the
Coyotes. Jason LaBarbera stopped 32
shots in the loss.
The Avalanche sustained a blow
when center Matt Duchene left the
game early in the first period with a
knee injury. Duchene got hurt as he
right skate got caught in the ice as he
tried to deliver a check. He skated to
the bench and went immediately to the
locker room.
CANUCKS 5, DUCKS 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. Daniel Sedin
scored two goals, twin brother Henrik
had a goal and two assists and
Vancouver also got goals from Cody
Hodgson and Mason Raymond in a vic-
tory over Anaheim.
The Canucks tied Chicago for first
place in the overall NHL standings at 50
points with their 15th win in 19 games.
Corey Schneider made 30 saves in his
first start since giving up four goals in a
loss at Carolina on Dec. 15.
The Ducks began a 6-game home-
stand with their 16th loss in 20 games.
Bobby Ryan and Nick Bonino
scored third-period goals for Anaheim.
Jonas Hiller stopped 12-of-16 shots
before being replaced by Dan Ellis at
7:59 of the second period after Daniel
Sedin scored his 16th goal to give
Vancouver a 4-0 lead.
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NEW TESTAMENT FELLOWSHIP
Rev. Linda Wannemacher-Pastor
Jaye Wannemacher-Worship Leader
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
Sunday- 10:00 a.m. Worship
Service
Monday - Office Closed
Tuesday - 7:00 pm. Altar Guild
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. InReach/
OutReach
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
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. - New Years Day
Celebration Service @ 10:30 a.m.
Monday - Prayer- 7:00 p.m.
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
Sunday - No Sunday School; 10:30
a.m. Worship Service; 11:30 a.m. Radio
Worship on WDOH, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Mary Schram Benefit @ VFW Carry-out
or dine-in; New Years Day
Monday - Office Closed; 6:15 p.m. UM
Mens Spaghetti Dinner
Thursday - 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m Suppers
on Us
Friday - 3:00 p.m. Mustard Seeds

do it. Come share your love of Christ
with us.
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
699 Sunnydale, Elida, Ohio 454807
Pastor Kimberly R. Pope-Seiberlin
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. traditional; 10:45
a.m. contemporary
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
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
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
Saturday - 8:30 p.m.-Sun. 6:00 a.m.
Senior High Youth Skiiing Trip
Sunday- 8:45 a.m. Friends and
Family; 9:00 a.m. Sunday School
LIVE, 5 til 10 meet you at the Altar;
10:00 a.m. Worship LIVE
Tuesday - 9:00 a.m. MUMS
Wednesday - 1:30 p.m. Adult Prayer
& Bible Study; 6:45 p.m. Calvary
YOUTH, 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)
Tommy Sandefer, lead pastor
Ron Prewitt, sr. adult pastor
Sunday worship & childrens minis-
try - 10:00 a.m.
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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.
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
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
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)
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.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
As the year 2011 comes to a close and
2012 is upon us, we take a look at how
other countries celebrate the New Year
with their rituals and traditions.
The tradition of celebrating the New
Year began with the Babylonians around
2,000 B.C., although the actual day var-
ied from January to March, depending
on the country. The New Year has been
celebrated on January 1 in most countries
since Julius Caeser established the Julian
calendar in 46 B.C. The Julian calendar
was later replaced by the Gregorian cal-
endar in 1582.
In addition to partying, New Year tra-
ditions around the world include lighting
reworks, making wishes or resolutions,
giving gifts, and observing local super-
stitions. While our New Year celebration
lasts only one night and one day, that is
not the case in some of the other coun-
tries.
For example, the Chinese New Year
celebration lasts for a month, and the ac-
tual New Year occurs on the second new
moon after the winter solstice, which
means that it always falls on a different
day than the previous year. The Chinese
calendar is a combination of solar and
lunar calendars. It has a 12-year cycle in
which years are based on animals, and
2012 will be the Year of the Dragon.
The Chinese locals will wish you a Gung
Hay Fat Choy; translated, this means
Happy New Year in Chinese, although I
think something gets lost in the transla-
tion.
In Persia (now known as Iran), the
Persian New Year falls on March 21 and
lasts for 13 days. The locals start clean-
ing their houses several days before their
New Year, and they buy new items for
their houses as well as new clothes for
the New Year. Relatives exchange gifts,
and they settle all personal disputes in
order to avoid what they consider to be
bad luck. Children honor their elders and
also receive money from them as a New
Years gift. They also place something
sweet outside their homes on the night
before the New Year, and the rst person
to enter the home the following morning
takes the sweet snack. It is believed to be
bad luck to stay at home on the 13th day
of the New Year.
In Russia, celebrations include a New
Years Tree which is topped with a bright
star and decorated with sweets. Russians
listen to their presidents annual New
Years speech right before midnight, and
they also engage in fortune telling.
In Costa Rica, Guatemala and Chile,
it is common to prepare 12 grapes, which
signify the 12 months. In Costa Rica and
Guatemala, they do it because they be-
lieve it will bring them good luck. Many
Chileans also travel to Easter Island to
welcome the New Year.
The Germans, French, Brazilians,
South Africans and Australians all cel-
ebrate the New Year on January 1. In
France and Australia, though, the cel-
ebration lasts until January 6. More than
3 million tourists ring in the New Year in
Australia each year, either to watch the
massive reworks celebration in Sydney
or to be at one of the rst places on Earth
to see the New Year.
Happy New Year to you, or Gung Hay
Fat Choy (as they say in China), or Fe-
liz Ao Nuevo (Spain), or Glckliches
Neues Jahr (Germany) or Bonne anne
(France).
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NEW TESTAMENT FELLOWSHIP
Rev. Linda Wannemacher-Pastor
Jaye Wannemacher-Worship Leader
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
Sunday- 10:00 a.m. Worship
Service
Monday - Office Closed
Tuesday - 7:00 pm. Altar Guild
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. InReach/
OutReach
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
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. - New Years Day
Celebration Service @ 10:30 a.m.
Monday - Prayer- 7:00 p.m.
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
Sunday - No Sunday School; 10:30
a.m. Worship Service; 11:30 a.m. Radio
Worship on WDOH, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Mary Schram Benefit @ VFW Carry-out
or dine-in; New Years Day
Monday - Office Closed; 6:15 p.m. UM
Mens Spaghetti Dinner
Thursday - 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m Suppers
on Us
Friday - 3:00 p.m. Mustard Seeds

do it. Come share your love of Christ
with us.
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
699 Sunnydale, Elida, Ohio 454807
Pastor Kimberly R. Pope-Seiberlin
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. traditional; 10:45
a.m. contemporary
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
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
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
Saturday - 8:30 p.m.-Sun. 6:00 a.m.
Senior High Youth Skiiing Trip
Sunday- 8:45 a.m. Friends and
Family; 9:00 a.m. Sunday School
LIVE, 5 til 10 meet you at the Altar;
10:00 a.m. Worship LIVE
Tuesday - 9:00 a.m. MUMS
Wednesday - 1:30 p.m. Adult Prayer
& Bible Study; 6:45 p.m. Calvary
YOUTH, 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)
Tommy Sandefer, lead pastor
Ron Prewitt, sr. adult pastor
Sunday worship & childrens minis-
try - 10:00 a.m.
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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.
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
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419-647-6202
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Corner of Fourth & Main, Spencerville
Phone 419-647-5321
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Friday, December 30, 2011
As the year 2011 comes to a close and
2012 is upon us, we take a look at how
other countries celebrate the New Year
with their rituals and traditions.
The tradition of celebrating the New
Year began with the Babylonians around
2,000 B.C., although the actual day var-
ied from January to March, depending
on the country. The New Year has been
celebrated on January 1 in most countries
since Julius Caeser established the Julian
calendar in 46 B.C. The Julian calendar
was later replaced by the Gregorian cal-
endar in 1582.
In addition to partying, New Year tra-
ditions around the world include lighting
reworks, making wishes or resolutions,
giving gifts, and observing local super-
stitions. While our New Year celebration
lasts only one night and one day, that is
not the case in some of the other coun-
tries.
For example, the Chinese New Year
celebration lasts for a month, and the ac-
tual New Year occurs on the second new
moon after the winter solstice, which
means that it always falls on a different
day than the previous year. The Chinese
calendar is a combination of solar and
lunar calendars. It has a 12-year cycle in
which years are based on animals, and
2012 will be the Year of the Dragon.
The Chinese locals will wish you a Gung
Hay Fat Choy; translated, this means
Happy New Year in Chinese, although I
think something gets lost in the transla-
tion.
In Persia (now known as Iran), the
Persian New Year falls on March 21 and
lasts for 13 days. The locals start clean-
ing their houses several days before their
New Year, and they buy new items for
their houses as well as new clothes for
the New Year. Relatives exchange gifts,
and they settle all personal disputes in
order to avoid what they consider to be
bad luck. Children honor their elders and
also receive money from them as a New
Years gift. They also place something
sweet outside their homes on the night
before the New Year, and the rst person
to enter the home the following morning
takes the sweet snack. It is believed to be
bad luck to stay at home on the 13th day
of the New Year.
In Russia, celebrations include a New
Years Tree which is topped with a bright
star and decorated with sweets. Russians
listen to their presidents annual New
Years speech right before midnight, and
they also engage in fortune telling.
In Costa Rica, Guatemala and Chile,
it is common to prepare 12 grapes, which
signify the 12 months. In Costa Rica and
Guatemala, they do it because they be-
lieve it will bring them good luck. Many
Chileans also travel to Easter Island to
welcome the New Year.
The Germans, French, Brazilians,
South Africans and Australians all cel-
ebrate the New Year on January 1. In
France and Australia, though, the cel-
ebration lasts until January 6. More than
3 million tourists ring in the New Year in
Australia each year, either to watch the
massive reworks celebration in Sydney
or to be at one of the rst places on Earth
to see the New Year.
Happy New Year to you, or Gung Hay
Fat Choy (as they say in China), or Fe-
liz Ao Nuevo (Spain), or Glckliches
Neues Jahr (Germany) or Bonne anne
(France).
# # #
Paul Niemann can be reached at ni-
emann7@aol.com
Worship at the
church of your
choice this weekend.
How the New Year is celebrated around the world
Paul Niemann
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By Gary Clothier
Q: Whatever became of
Ginger Alden, the fiancee of
Elvis Presley, when he passed
away in August 1977? Did she
ever marry? -- J.S., Jackson,
Wy.
A: Five months before
Ginger Alden was to become
Mrs. Elvis Presley, the King
passed away. She entered the
world in Memphis, Tenn.,
on Nov. 13, 1956. (Presleys
birthday: Jan. 8, 1935.) Although
the two met in 1958, they were
later reintroduced when Alden
was 20 years old. Shortly
after that, Presley proposed
marriage to her. After Presleys
death, Alden made a career in
modeling, radio, television and
film. She appeared in numerous
commercials and made guest
appearances on TV shows. She
was a regular cast member of the
daytime soap opera Capitol
(along with Teri Hatcher) for
the 1986-1987 season. I have
read many biographies and
interviews of Ginger Alden,
but none mention her marital
status.
Q: There is an old poem
or quotation that goes, For
the want of a nail a shoe was
lost. For the want of a shoe ...
If you can find this for me, Im
going to have it made into a
sign and hang it on my office
wall. -- N.M, Darby, Pa.
A: This proverb, For Want
of a Nail, has been around in
many variations for centuries.
It reveals that small actions can
result in large consequences.
Here is one variation:
For want of a nail the shoe
was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse
was lost.
For want of a horse the rider
was lost.
For want of a rider the battle
was lost.
For want of a battle the
kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a
horseshoe nail.
Q: I suppose every scientific
study has a specific name. I
hope you can help me with this
one. What is the name of the
study of place names and their
origins or meanings? -- C.K.,
New Bedford, Mass.
A: Toponymy. The word
comes from the Greek words
meaning place and name.
Q: Whatever happened
to the child actor who played
Ritchie on The Dick Van Dyke
Show? -- L.S., Arcadia, Calif.
A: Born in Burbank, Calif.,
on Aug. 15, 1955, Larry Mazzeo
(stage name Larry Mathews)
became Ritchie Petrie in 1961.
After the series ended in 1966,
he took on a new role -- as
a normal kid. He graduated
from UCLA in 1976. He later
returned to show business and
worked behind the scenes on
Im a Big Girl Now, Soap,
Benson and other TV shows.
In 1983, he began working in
postproduction sales. Most
recently, he has been the
director of a video company.
Q: My daughter and I were
discussing old movies, and one
of them had us stumped. I think
it was titled Strait-Jacket,
with Joan Crawford. Is there
such a movie? Did Crawford
appear in it? Is it available on
DVD? -- D.M., Los Angeles,
Calif.
A:
Released
in 1964,
Strait-
Jacket
stars Joan
Crawford
as Lucy
Harbin
and Diane
Baker
as her
daughter.
Lucy comes
home one day and finds her
husband with another woman.
The ax swings, and body parts
fly. Lucy goes to a mental
hospital for 20 years. When she
gets out, she joins her daughter,
but things dont go much better
for Lucy. When the film opened
in movie theaters, moviegoers
received a small cardboard ax.
Strait-Jacket is available on
DVD -- without the cardboard
ax.
Q: My great-grandfather
lived in England at the end of
the 19th century. In the early
1900s, a relative called him
a corker. No one knows
what corker means! Was
he a drunk (cork on a wine
bottle)? A person with a lively
sense of humor? A swindler?
Was he perhaps a nut case?
What can you tell me about my
great-grandfather? -- L.V.P., via
e-mail
DID YOU KNOW ... Tom
Hanks turned down the role of
Jerry Maguire in the eponymous
movie? Of course, Tom Cruise
took over the part.
Q: What can you tell me
about singers Vic Damone and
Jerry Vale? -- M.L., Bonita
Springs, Fla.
A: Vic Damone (birth name
Vito Rocco Farinola) entered
life in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June
12, 1928. When he started
performing, he decided to call
himself Vic Damone, using
his mothers maiden name.
During his incredible career,
he recorded more than 2,000
songs. His final album was
released in 2002. He nominally
retired that same year, but he
has come out of retirement for
special performances. In 2009,
he released his autobiography,
Singing Was the Easy Part.
Jerry Vale (born Gennaro
Luigi Vitaliano on July 8, 1932,
in the Bronx, N.Y.) also
enjoyed an incredible singing
career. He made cameo
appearances in at least two
films. His Autobiography, A
Singers Life, was published
in 2000. He also serves as
president of his production
company, Jerifka Productions.
Vale and Rita, his wife of more
than 40 years, reside in Palm
Desert, Calif.
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Syndicate, 200 Madison Ave.,
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or two and put them to use in
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or donate them.
Heres how:
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in an empty egg carton (you
can reuse plastic Easter eggs,
too). You can use an egg carton
to wrap other gifts, such as soft
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shares: Give a year of socks
to kids!
January: White socks for
starting the year fresh
February: Valentines or
red socks
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April: Easter or spring
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or sew a school-themed button
to the cuffs
October: Halloween socks
November: Thanksgiving
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December: Holiday socks
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the following year.
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couple of cotton plugs from
over-the-counter medication
bottles. I melt wax and pour it
over the lint or cotton. These
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By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) A
television show about mem-
bers of a Muslim community
in Michigan is focusing what
may be its second-to-last epi-
sode almost entirely on the
conflicted feelings that its fea-
tured participants have about
marking anniversaries of the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The episode of TLCs
All-American Muslim airs
Sunday (10 p.m. EST). The
series attracted attention ear-
lier this month when a conser-
vative Christian group called
on advertisers to boycott the
series, calling it propaganda
that riskily hides the Islamic
agendas clear and present
danger to American liberties
and traditional values.
Two companies, the
Lowes home improvement
chain and travel planning web
site Kayak.com, announced
they were pulling ads. TLC
hasnt said how many compa-
nies responded to the Florida
Family Associations call to
stop sponsoring the show.
The controversy prompted a
backlash of people protest-
ing against Lowes. Some
new advertisers have signed
on since then, TLC General
Manager Amy Winter said
Thursday.
Filming for the reality TV
series took place during com-
memorations for the 10th anni-
versary of the attacks. Both
TLC and the shows charac-
ters, Muslims living in and
around Dearborn, a suburb
of Detroit at the heart of one
of the largest Arab-American
populations outside the Middle
East, wanted to address the
topic, Winter said.
Im very proud of it, she
said. What youll see in there
is a community with a range
of emotions that they express
over what was probably one
of the most pivotal moments
in our nations history.
Mike Jaafar, a deputy sher-
iff who participated in a Sept.
11 memorial service at Tiger
Stadium in Detroit, helped
law enforcement prepare for
any problems related to the
anniversary. He choked up
when recalling how police
officers in New York City
were killed as they tried to
rescue people at the World
Trade Center.
Nawal Auode was a high
school sophomore on Sept.
11, 2001, when her mother
called to say she was picking
her up at school. Her mother
found out about the attacks
as she was passing out flyers
to advertise a day care center
and a man spit at her and
ordered her off his porch.
It was the first time I
realized that people looked
at me as less American, said
Suehaila Amen. As a person
who was born and raised in
this country, it was very dif-
ficult.
Auode said she dreads the
anniversary of the attacks
because of a sense that mem-
bers of her community have
to defend themselves for
something they had nothing
to do with.
Thats at the root of the
biggest conflict in Sundays
episode. One woman talks
about how important it was to
attend a Sept. 11 commemo-
ration, but her adult-age chil-
dren didnt want to go.
One man, Bilal Amen, trav-
eled to New York City to visit
the Sept. 11 memorial because,
he said, I want to see the place
that changed my life.
Another woman, Nina
Bazzy, spoke angrily about
the Sept. 11 terrorists and said
they werent real Muslims
because a real Muslim would
not do anything like that.
She said Osama bin Laden
made life difficult for many
Muslims in the United States.
He ruined it for us,
Bazzy said. He ruined it for
our kids. He made us scared
in our own homes.
All-American Muslim
ends its eight-episode first
season on Jan. 8. Its ratings
are considered disappoint-
ing for TLC, and the atten-
tion caused by this months
controversy didnt improve
them. Based on ratings alone,
a second season would be
considered unlikely. Working
in its favor is TLCs pride in
a series that spotlights com-
munities that many viewers
arent familiar with.
TLC hasnt made a deci-
sion on the shows future and
its executives will meet soon
to consider it, Winter said.
By JULIE WATSON
SAN DIEGO U.S.
troops are increasingly using
an easy-to-get herbal mix
called Spice, which mim-
ics a marijuana high and can
bring on hallucinations that
last for days. The abuse of the
drug has so alarmed military
officials that theyve launched
an aggressive testing program
that this year has led to the
investigation of more than
1,100 suspected users, accord-
ing to military figures.
So-called synthetic pot
is readily available on the
Internet and has become popu-
lar nationwide in recent years,
but its use among troops and
sailors has raised concerns
among the Pentagon brass.
You can just imagine the
work we do in a military envi-
ronment, said Mark Ridley,
deputy director of the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service,
adding, you need to be in
your right mind when you do a
job. Thats why the Navy has
always taken a zero tolerance
policy toward drugs.
Two years ago, only 29
Marines and sailors were
investigated for Spice. This
year, the number topped 700,
the investigative service said.
Those found guilty of using
Spice are kicked out, although
the Navy does not track the
overall number of dismissals.
The Air Force has pun-
ished 497 airmen so far this
year, compared to last years
380, according to figures pro-
vided by the Pentagon. The
Army does not track Spice
investigations but says it has
medically treated 119 soldiers
for the synthetic drug in total.
Military officials empha-
size those caught represent
a tiny fraction of all service
members and note none was
in a leadership position or
believed high while on duty.
Spice is made up of exotic
plants from Asia like Blue
Lotus and Bay Bean. Their
leaves are coated with chemi-
cals that mimic the effects of
THC, the active ingredient in
marijuana, but are five to 200
times more potent.
More than 40 states have
banned some of its chemicals,
prompting sellers to turn to
the Internet, where it is mar-
keted as incense or potpourri.
In some states, Spice is sold
at bars, smoke shops and con-
venience stores. The packets
usually say the ingredients are
not for human consumption
but also tout them as mood
enhancing.
Service members preferred
it because up until this year
there was no way to detect it
with urine tests. A test was
developed after the Drug
Enforcement Administration
put a one-year emergency ban
on five chemicals found in
the drug.
Manufacturers are adapt-
ing to avoid detection, even
on the new tests, and skirt
new laws banning the main
chemicals.
Its a moving target, said
Capt. J.A. Cappy Surette,
spokesman for the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery.
The military can calibrate
its equipment to test for those
five banned chemicals but
underground chemists can
keep altering the properties
and make up to more than 100
permutations, Surette said.
Complicating their efforts
further, there are more than
200 other chemicals used in
the drug. They remain legal
and their effects on the mind
and body remain largely
unknown, Navy doctors say.
A Clemson University
created many of the chemi-
cals for research purposes in
1990s. They were never tested
on humans.
Civilian deaths have been
reported and emergency crews
have responded to calls of
hyper-excited people doing
things like tearing off their
clothes and running down the
street naked.
Navy investigators com-
pare the drug to angel dust
because no two batches are
the same. Some may just feel
a euphoric buzz, but others
have suffered delusions last-
ing up to a week.
While the problem has sur-
faced in all branches of the
military, the Navy has been
the most aggressive in draw-
ing attention to the problem.
It produced a video based
on cases to warn sailors of the
drugs dangers and publicized
busts of crew members on
some of its most-storied ships,
including the USS Carl Vinson,
from which Osama bin Ladens
was dropped into the sea.
Two of the largest busts
this year involved sailors in
the San Diego-based U.S.
Third Fleet, which announced
last month that it planned to
dismiss 28 sailors assigned
to the aircraft carrier USS
Ronald Reagan.
A month earlier, 64 sail-
ors, including 49 from the
Vinson, were accused of being
involved in a Spice ring.
Many of the cases were
discovered after one person
was caught with the drug,
prompting broader investiga-
tions.
Lt. Commander Donald
Hurst, a fourth-year psychia-
try resident at San Diegos
Naval Medical Center, said
the hospital is believed to
have seen more cases than
any other health facility in the
country.
Doctors saw users expe-
riencing bad reactions once
a month, but now see them
weekly. Users suffer every-
thing from vomiting, elevated
blood pressure and seizures to
extreme agitation, anxiety and
delusions.
TV show on Muslims
takes on Sept. 11 attacks
Synthetic marijuana a problem for US military
It was the first
time I realized
that people looked
at me as less
American. As a
person who was
born and raised
in this country, it
was very difficult.
Suehaila Amen
Joan Crawford
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of the newspaper.
If you like meeting people and building strong customer rela-
tionships, this challenging position is for you.
Calling on new and existing customers in a established terri-
tory, the selected candidate will be selling a variety of print and
on-line advertising products.
Hourly rate of pay, commission, bonus and mileage reimburse-
ment is part of this part-time position.
Interested applicants can forward a
brief cover letter and resume to
Don Hemple
The Delphos Herald
c/o Advertising Sales
405 N. Main St.
Delphos, Ohio 45833

CNC MACHINING POSITIONS
AAP St. Marys Corp. is a leader in the design and manufacture of cast alumi-
num wheels for OEM automakers. As a subsidiary of Hitachi Metals America,
our reputation for high quality products and customer satisfaction has helped
us continue to grow and provide our associates with over 23 years of steady
employment. We now have unique opportunities for individuals in the following
positions:
MACHINING ENGINEER
Specifies and develops CNC machining processes, equipment and tooling,
work flow/layout, operating procedures, and work methods
Analyzes results and develops strategies to achieve continuous improvement
of quality, utilization, cycle time, and productivity
Conducts trials, testing, and time studies, and utilizes FMEA and problem-
solving tools to support effective launch of new products
Qualifications: Bachelor degree, or equivalent, and five plus years of related
process/manufacturing engineering experience with CNC lathes, mills, ro-
botic equipment is required.
MACHINING TECHNICIAN
Develops, implements, and adjusts CNC programs for high-volume produc-
tion as well as production trials
Monitors equipment/tooling, processes, and procedures and assists in imple-
menting actions to support safety, quality and productivity
May train others in set-up, operation, and maintenance of equipment
Qualifications: One year of related CNC machining experience-- including
programming, SPC, and blueprint reading-- is required; Formal CNC training
strongly preferred.
In return for your expertise, we offer a competitive starting salary, profit-sharing,
and excellent fringe benefits, including medical, dental, life, vision, and disabil-
ity insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with Company matching, paid va-
cation, paid holidays, and more. If youre looking for a career opportunity with a
growing company, please forward your qualifications and salary history to:
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
Attention: Human Resources
PROJECT ENGINEER
our reputation for high quality products and customer satisfaction has helped us
continue to grow and provide our associates with over 23 years of steady em-
ployment. We now have a unique opportunity for a Project Engineer to perform
the following duties:
Creates detailed specifications and cost justifications for machinery and
equipment purchases and capital improvement projects
Prepares project budgets, schedules, and documentation and assists in sourc-
ing and negotiating contracts with suppliers
Ensures project compliance with relevant building codes, safety rules/regula-
tions, and Company policies/procedures
Monitors project from inception through production release; oversees testing,
run-off, installation, and advance planning for equipment operation, mainte-
nance, and repair
The successful candidate must have excellent organizational skills and at least
two years of relevant project engineering experience--preferable in a high-vol-
ume manufacturing operation. Proven experience in the use of project manage-
ment software, CAD tools, blueprints, and schematics is also required. Bachelor
degree in a related engineering field, or equivalent, is strongly preferred.
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
BUYER
AAP St. Marys Corp. . is a leader in the design and manufacture of cast alumi-
employment. We now have an opportunity for an individual to perform the fol-
lowing duties:
Selects vendors and negotiates specifications, price, and delivery for wide
variety of purchased commodities
Maintains supplier performance rating system, working with vendors to
achieve quality, price and delivery objectives
Compiles various reports, files, and records for expenditures, stock item in-
ventories, and for regulatory compliance
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
ADVERTISERS: YOU can
place a 25 word classified
ad in more than 100 news-
papers with over one and
a half million total circula-
tion across Ohio for $295.
It's easy...you place one
order and pay with one
check t hrough Ohi o
Scan-Ohi o St at ewi de
Classified Advertising Net-
work. The Delphos Herald
advertising dept. can set
this up for you. No other
classified ad buy is sim-
pler or more cost effective.
Call 419-695-0015, ext
138.
040

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

Help Wanted
HR & Dispatch
Dancer Logistics, Inc. is
currently in need of an in-
dividual that is familiar
with the trucking industry
in the area of HR and Dis-
patch. The right person
will be able to handle un-
employment and BWC is-
sues as well as assist in
driver dispatch and sched-
uling of delivery appoint-
ments or other office tasks
as needed. Qualified indi-
viduals need to apply at
900 Gressel Drive, Del-
phos, Ohio between 9am
and 3pm daily. No phone
calls please!! EOE
LOCAL CLASS A CDL
Drivers Wanted
2 yrs. experience required
with tractor/trailer combi-
nation. Bulk hopper/pneu-
matic work - Company will
train. Must have Good
MVR. Full-time, home
weekly, no weekends.
Part-time work also avail-
able. Competitive wage
with QTR/YR safety bo-
nuses. Benefits include:
Health, Dental & Life in-
surance
Short/Long term disability
Paid holidays & vacation
401k with company con-
tributions
Come drive for us and be
part of our team. Apply in
person at: D&D Trucking
& Services, Inc., 5025
North Kill Rd., Delphos,
OH 45833. 419-692-0062
or 855-338-7267.
OTR SEMI DRIVER
NEEDED
Benefits: Vacation,
Holiday pay, 401k. Home
weekends & most nights.
Call Ulm!s Inc.
419-692-3951
PART-TIME
SALES/TECHNICAL
SUPPORT PERSON
Krendl Machine Company
located in Delphos, Ohio
is a progressive machine
manufacturer seeking a
P a r t - t i me S a l e s
Associate/Technical Sup-
port person. Qualified indi-
vidual must possess nego-
tiating & basic accounting
skills, extensive electrical
and mechanical knowl -
edge and have previous
customer service experi-
ence. Must be computer
literate and be proficient in
MS Office with an Associ-
ates degree in a technical
field or equivalent.
Qualified candidate send
resume AND wage re -
quirements to:
Attention: HR/Sales/Tech
Support 1211
1201 Spencerville Ave.
Delphos, Oh 45833
095

Child Care
FORT JENNINGS Area
Child care provider has
openings. Ten plus years
experience in child care.
Reasonable rates. Ages:
Newborn and up. Call
(419)236-0009.
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.)
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
501

Misc. for Sale
BRYANT 3 ton central air
conditioner. AB Lounger,
$35. 10 gallon aquarium,
$15. Best Offer. Call
(419)692-2257.
550

Pets & Supplies
FREE 4 month old black
long haired kitten. Indoor
only, litter trained. Call
419-204-6556.
590

House For Rent
2 OR 3 BR House
with attached garage.
Available immediately!
Call 419-692-3951.
600

Apts. for Rent
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.
ONE BDRM Apt., 537 W.
Thi rd St . , Del phos.
$ 3 2 5 / m o . C a l l
4 1 9 - 6 9 2 - 2 1 8 4 o r
419-204-5924
620

Duplex For Rent
104 E. 7th. 2 BR, stove &
refrigerator included, w/d
hook-up. No pets. Call
419-236-2722.
3 BDRM, 1-1/2 bath,
washer/dryer hook-up, ga-
rage. $450/mo. + $450 se-
curity deposit. Available
Jan. 1. Ph.419-233-0083.
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
RENT OR Rent to Own. 2
bedroom, 1 bath mobile
home. 419-692-3951.
890

Autos for Sale
WELL BEAT YOUR
BEST PRICE
GUARANTEED!
On all name-brand tires we sell
including Goodyear, Continental,
Michelin and more.
THE RIGHT TIRE
AT THE RIGHT PRICE!
Requires presentation of competitors
current price ad on exact tire sold by
Dealership within 30 days of purchase.
See participating Dealership for details.
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
3 DRAWER desk,
with Formica top, $50.
Call (419)605-2245.
010

Announcements
080

Help Wanted
IS YOUR
AD HERE?
Call today
419-695-0015
Expand
Your
Shopping
Network
Youll love shopping
the Classifieds!
The Delphos Herald
419-695-0015
Todays Crossword
Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Hang ten
5 Picture border
8 Casino supply
12 Operatic solo
13 Wheel buy(2
wds.)
14 Bl oodhound s
clue
15 Social climber
16 Caviar sh
18 Umps call
20 Dumbfounded
21 Visa and pass-
port
22 Batik need
23 Ursa Major
neighbor
26 Black magic,
perhaps
29 Rookie social-
ites
30 Dawn, to a poet
31 Physicist Georg
--
33 Soda-can open-
er
34 Be l l - s h a p e d
ower
35 Skewer
36 Least
38 Sioux prey
39 U2 producer
40 Marsh
41 Swarm in
44 A n y o n e
home? (hyph.)
47 Fair place
49 Make much of
51 Two ves for --
--
52 Exist
53 Mr. Pound
54 Hourglass ller
55 Actor -- Beatty
56 Ricky Ricardo
DOWN
1 Eur. airline
2 Coffee brewers
3 Public disorder
4 Textiles
5 Raccoon faces
6 Part of a.m.
7 Upsilon preced-
er
8 Tenacious
9 Proposal
10 Fly the --
11 Sea eagle
17 Synthetic ber
19 Altar vow(2
wds.)
22 Boat with oars
23 Insect killer
24 Paper quantity
25 French cleric
26 Battery unit
27 Uh-oh!
28 Indiana neigh-
bor
30 Japanese soup
32 Everest or K2
34 Tennis great
Ivan --
35 Glimpsed
37 VCR function
38 Scary yell
40 Prepared sh
41 No. crunchers
42 Pro --
43 Kiln
44 Long ago
45 Move like lava
46 Not theirs
48 Oddjobs cre-
ator
50 Mai -- (rum
drink)
Answer to Puzzle
D E A R
D O C T O R
K: Im in my
mid-60s. As I
get older, my
biggest fear
is becoming
forgetful. Ive
heard that
keeping your
mind active is
a good way to
stay sharp. Is this true?
DEAR READER: A lot of my patients have the
same fear you do. In fact, to be honest, I have
the same fear. Who doesnt? And yet we all know
that everyone is forgetful sometimes, and that we
probably get somewhat more forgetful as we get
older.
What you have heard is true: There are things
you can do to ward off memory loss. The main
thing is to keep yourself mentally challenged and
your mind active and engaged.
Heres what I tell my patients who ask me the
question you have. If you are not working, or if your
work is same-old, same-old and doesnt present
new challenges, try finding new experiences. Get
outside your comfort zone. Were not talking about
something like bungee jumping, you understand.
Even though I try to take my own advice, I dont
plan to get that far out of my comfort zone.
Instead, I am talking about things that take you
out of your daily habits and make you think. Just
varying your routine can help keep your mind
active and engaged.
The challenges you set for yourself can be pretty
simple:
-- Try cooking new recipes.
-- Figure out new driving routes to your usual
destinations.
-- Do puzzles and brainteasers. Crossword
puzzles, math and word problems are all great.
-- Rediscover challenging games you can play
alone or with friends. Scrabble, Boggle, and many
card and computer games really make you think.
-- Get on the Internet, if you arent already. Youll
be learning computer skills and gaining access to
a wealth of information.
-- Join a club to play chess, bridge or poker.
-- Find books to read that make you stretch your
mind.
The challenges can be more complex:
-- Plan a do-it-yourself project such as building a
deck or designing a new garden layout.
-- Write about your life experiences.
-- Take a class in a new or old skill, such as
playing a musical instrument or painting.
-- Learn a new language.
We have a lot more information on memory loss
in our Special Health Report called Improving
Memory: Understanding Age-Related Memory
Loss. You can find out more about it at my website
(see below).
I remember the first time I traveled outside the
United States. I was 19. In the course of a week
I traveled through three countries with different
languages, different architecture, different rules
(as on public transportation) and very different
food. Unlike at home, nothing was automatic;
I had to figure out how to do so many unfamiliar
things. Never for a moment was I bored.
Thats really the test. If you want to protect your
mind against memory loss, avoid being bored. Our
brains obey the same rules as our muscles: Use
it or lose it.
Stay mentally active to
prevent memory loss
Dr. Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.
Ask
Doctor K
HERALD DELPHOS
THE
Classifieds
Deadlines:
11:30 a.m. for the next days issue.
Saturdays paper is 11:00 a.m. Friday
Mondays paper is 1:00 p.m. Friday
Herald Extra is 11 a.m. Thursday
Minimum Charge: 15 words,
2 times - $9.00
Each word is $.30 2-5 days
$.25 6-9 days
$.20 10+ days
Each word is $.10 for 3 months
or more prepaid
THANKS TO ST. JUDE: Runs 1 day at the
price of $3.00.
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
ad per month.
BOX REPLIES: $8.00 if you come
and pick them up. $14.00 if we have to
send them to you.
CARD OF THANKS: $2.00 base
charge + $.10 for each word.
To place an ad phone 419-695-0015 ext. 122
We accept
950 Miscellaneous
COMMUNITY
SELF-STORAGE
GREAT RATES
NEWER FACILITY
419-692-0032
Across from Arbys
950 Car Care
Geise
Transmission, Inc.
419-453-3620
2 miles north of Ottoville
automatic transmission
standard transmission
differentials
transfer case
brakes & tune up
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
950 Tree Service
TEMANS
OUR TREE SERVICE
Bill Teman 419-302-2981
Ernie Teman 419-230-4890
Since 1973
419-692-7261
SNOW REMOVAL
FIREWOOD
FOR SALE
AT YOUR
S
ervice
SALES
OPENING
The Delphos Herald has an
immediate opening in the
advertising sales division
of the newspaper.
If you like meeting people and building strong customer rela-
tionships, this challenging position is for you.
Calling on new and existing customers in a established terri-
tory, the selected candidate will be selling a variety of print and
on-line advertising products.
Hourly rate of pay, commission, bonus and mileage reimburse-
ment is part of this part-time position.
Interested applicants can forward a
brief cover letter and resume to
Don Hemple
The Delphos Herald
c/o Advertising Sales
405 N. Main St.
Delphos, Ohio 45833

CNC MACHINING POSITIONS
employment. We now have unique opportunities for individuals in the following
positions:
MACHINING ENGINEER
Specifies and develops CNC machining processes, equipment and tooling,
work flow/layout, operating procedures, and work methods
Analyzes results and develops strategies to achieve continuous improvement
of quality, utilization, cycle time, and productivity
Conducts trials, testing, and time studies, and utilizes FMEA and problem-
solving tools to support effective launch of new products
Qualifications: Bachelor degree, or equivalent, and five plus years of related
process/manufacturing engineering experience with CNC lathes, mills, ro-
botic equipment is required.
MACHINING TECHNICIAN
Develops, implements, and adjusts CNC programs for high-volume produc-
tion as well as production trials
Monitors equipment/tooling, processes, and procedures and assists in imple-
menting actions to support safety, quality and productivity
May train others in set-up, operation, and maintenance of equipment
Qualifications: One year of related CNC machining experience-- including
programming, SPC, and blueprint reading-- is required; Formal CNC training
strongly preferred.
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
PROJECT ENGINEER
our reputation for high quality products and customer satisfaction has helped us
continue to grow and provide our associates with over 23 years of steady em-
ployment. We now have a unique opportunity for a Project Engineer to perform
the following duties:
Creates detailed specifications and cost justifications for machinery and
equipment purchases and capital improvement projects
Prepares project budgets, schedules, and documentation and assists in sourc-
ing and negotiating contracts with suppliers
Ensures project compliance with relevant building codes, safety rules/regula-
tions, and Company policies/procedures
Monitors project from inception through production release; oversees testing,
run-off, installation, and advance planning for equipment operation, mainte-
nance, and repair
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
BUYER
AAP St. Marys Corp. . is a leader in the design and manufacture of cast alumi-
employment. We now have an opportunity for an individual to perform the fol-
lowing duties:
Selects vendors and negotiates specifications, price, and delivery for wide
variety of purchased commodities
Maintains supplier performance rating system, working with vendors to
achieve quality, price and delivery objectives
Compiles various reports, files, and records for expenditures, stock item in-
ventories, and for regulatory compliance
AAP ST. MARYS CORP.
1100 McKinley Road
St. Marys, OH 45885
ADVERTISERS: YOU can
place a 25 word classified
ad in more than 100 news-
papers with over one and
a half million total circula-
tion across Ohio for $295.
It's easy...you place one
order and pay with one
check t hrough Ohi o
Scan-Ohi o St at ewi de
Classified Advertising Net-
work. The Delphos Herald
advertising dept. can set
this up for you. No other
classified ad buy is sim-
pler or more cost effective.
Call 419-695-0015, ext
138.
040

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

Help Wanted
HR & Dispatch
Dancer Logistics, Inc. is
currently in need of an in-
dividual that is familiar
with the trucking industry
in the area of HR and Dis-
patch. The right person
will be able to handle un-
employment and BWC is-
sues as well as assist in
driver dispatch and sched-
uling of delivery appoint-
ments or other office tasks
as needed. Qualified indi-
viduals need to apply at
900 Gressel Drive, Del-
phos, Ohio between 9am
and 3pm daily. No phone
calls please!! EOE
LOCAL CLASS A CDL
Drivers Wanted
2 yrs. experience required
with tractor/trailer combi-
nation. Bulk hopper/pneu-
matic work - Company will
train. Must have Good
MVR. Full-time, home
weekly, no weekends.
Part-time work also avail-
able. Competitive wage
with QTR/YR safety bo-
nuses. Benefits include:
Health, Dental & Life in-
surance
Short/Long term disability
Paid holidays & vacation
401k with company con-
tributions
Come drive for us and be
part of our team. Apply in
person at: D&D Trucking
& Services, Inc., 5025
North Kill Rd., Delphos,
OH 45833. 419-692-0062
or 855-338-7267.
OTR SEMI DRIVER
NEEDED
Benefits: Vacation,
Holiday pay, 401k. Home
weekends & most nights.
Call Ulm!s Inc.
419-692-3951
PART-TIME
SALES/TECHNICAL
SUPPORT PERSON
located in Delphos, Ohio
is a progressive machine
manufacturer seeking a
P a r t - t i me S a l e s
Associate/Technical Sup-
port person. Qualified indi-
vidual must possess nego-
tiating & basic accounting
skills, extensive electrical
and mechanical knowl -
edge and have previous
customer service experi-
ence. Must be computer
literate and be proficient in
MS Office with an Associ-
ates degree in a technical
field or equivalent.
Qualified candidate send
resume AND wage re -
quirements to:
Attention: HR/Sales/Tech
Support 1211
1201 Spencerville Ave.
Delphos, Oh 45833
095

Child Care
FORT JENNINGS Area
Child care provider has
openings. Ten plus years
experience in child care.
Reasonable rates. Ages:
Newborn and up. Call
(419)236-0009.
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.)
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
501

Misc. for Sale
BRYANT 3 ton central air
conditioner. AB Lounger,
$35. 10 gallon aquarium,
$15. Best Offer. Call
(419)692-2257.
550

Pets & Supplies
FREE 4 month old black
long haired kitten. Indoor
only, litter trained. Call
419-204-6556.
590

House For Rent
2 OR 3 BR House
with attached garage.
Available immediately!
Call 419-692-3951.
600

Apts. for Rent
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.
ONE BDRM Apt., 537 W.
Thi rd St . , Del phos.
$ 3 2 5 / m o . C a l l
4 1 9 - 6 9 2 - 2 1 8 4 o r
419-204-5924
620

Duplex For Rent
104 E. 7th. 2 BR, stove &
refrigerator included, w/d
hook-up. No pets. Call
419-236-2722.
3 BDRM, 1-1/2 bath,
washer/dryer hook-up, ga-
rage. $450/mo. + $450 se-
curity deposit. Available
Jan. 1. Ph.419-233-0083.
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
RENT OR Rent to Own. 2
bedroom, 1 bath mobile
home. 419-692-3951.
890

Autos for Sale
WELL BEAT YOUR
BEST PRICE
GUARANTEED!
On all name-brand tires we sell
including Goodyear, Continental,
Michelin and more.
THE RIGHT TIRE
AT THE RIGHT PRICE!
Requires presentation of competitors
current price ad on exact tire sold by
Dealership within 30 days of purchase.
See participating Dealership for details.
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
3 DRAWER desk,
with Formica top, $50.
Call (419)605-2245.
010

Announcements
080

Help Wanted
IS YOUR
AD HERE?
Call today
419-695-0015
Expand
Your
Shopping
Network
Youll love shopping
the Classifieds!
The Delphos Herald
419-695-0015
Todays Crossword
Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Hang ten
5 Picture border
8 Casino supply
12 Operatic solo
13 Wheel buy(2
wds.)
14 Bl oodhound s
clue
15 Social climber
16 Caviar sh
18 Umps call
20 Dumbfounded
21 Visa and pass-
port
22 Batik need
23 Ursa Major
neighbor
26 Black magic,
perhaps
29 Rookie social-
ites
30 Dawn, to a poet
31 Physicist Georg
--
33 Soda-can open-
er
34 Be l l - s h a p e d
ower
35 Skewer
36 Least
38 Sioux prey
39 U2 producer
40 Marsh
41 Swarm in
44 A n y o n e
home? (hyph.)
47 Fair place
49 Make much of
51 Two ves for --
--
52 Exist
53 Mr. Pound
54 Hourglass ller
55 Actor -- Beatty
56 Ricky Ricardo
DOWN
1 Eur. airline
2 Coffee brewers
3 Public disorder
4 Textiles
5 Raccoon faces
6 Part of a.m.
7 Upsilon preced-
er
8 Tenacious
9 Proposal
10 Fly the --
11 Sea eagle
17 Synthetic ber
19 Altar vow(2
wds.)
22 Boat with oars
23 Insect killer
24 Paper quantity
25 French cleric
26 Battery unit
27 Uh-oh!
28 Indiana neigh-
bor
30 Japanese soup
32 Everest or K2
34 Tennis great
Ivan --
35 Glimpsed
37 VCR function
38 Scary yell
40 Prepared sh
41 No. crunchers
42 Pro --
43 Kiln
44 Long ago
45 Move like lava
46 Not theirs
48 Oddjobs cre-
ator
50 Mai -- (rum
drink)
Answer to Puzzle
D E A R
D O C T O R
K: Im in my
mid-60s. As I
get older, my
biggest fear
is becoming
forgetful. Ive
heard that
keeping your
mind active is
a good way to
stay sharp. Is this true?
DEAR READER: A lot of my patients have the
same fear you do. In fact, to be honest, I have
the same fear. Who doesnt? And yet we all know
that everyone is forgetful sometimes, and that we
probably get somewhat more forgetful as we get
older.
What you have heard is true: There are things
you can do to ward off memory loss. The main
thing is to keep yourself mentally challenged and
your mind active and engaged.
Heres what I tell my patients who ask me the
question you have. If you are not working, or if your
work is same-old, same-old and doesnt present
new challenges, try finding new experiences. Get
outside your comfort zone. Were not talking about
something like bungee jumping, you understand.
Even though I try to take my own advice, I dont
plan to get that far out of my comfort zone.
Instead, I am talking about things that take you
out of your daily habits and make you think. Just
varying your routine can help keep your mind
active and engaged.
The challenges you set for yourself can be pretty
simple:
-- Try cooking new recipes.
-- Figure out new driving routes to your usual
destinations.
-- Do puzzles and brainteasers. Crossword
puzzles, math and word problems are all great.
-- Rediscover challenging games you can play
alone or with friends. Scrabble, Boggle, and many
card and computer games really make you think.
-- Get on the Internet, if you arent already. Youll
be learning computer skills and gaining access to
a wealth of information.
-- Join a club to play chess, bridge or poker.
-- Find books to read that make you stretch your
mind.
The challenges can be more complex:
-- Plan a do-it-yourself project such as building a
deck or designing a new garden layout.
-- Write about your life experiences.
-- Take a class in a new or old skill, such as
playing a musical instrument or painting.
-- Learn a new language.
We have a lot more information on memory loss
in our Special Health Report called Improving
Memory: Understanding Age-Related Memory
Loss. You can find out more about it at my website
(see below).
I remember the first time I traveled outside the
United States. I was 19. In the course of a week
I traveled through three countries with different
languages, different architecture, different rules
(as on public transportation) and very different
food. Unlike at home, nothing was automatic;
I had to figure out how to do so many unfamiliar
things. Never for a moment was I bored.
Thats really the test. If you want to protect your
mind against memory loss, avoid being bored. Our
brains obey the same rules as our muscles: Use
it or lose it.
Stay mentally active to
prevent memory loss
Dr. Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.
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Tomorrows
Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol
Difcult mom
hard to deal with
Dear Annie: My mother
lives by herself. I have not
spent a great deal of time
with her, but now that she
is aging, I feel guilty for not
being around. Mom doesnt
have any friends, and my
siblings barely speak to her.
She is a difficult woman.
Mom is very negative, has
no interests and says terrible
things about everyone. She is
a natural worrier. The glass
is always half-empty. The
only things she
ever wants to talk
about are other
peoples prob-
lems, her medical
conditions and
stories about her
childhood that
Ive heard a mil-
lion times. Just
the thought of
having to spend a
little time with her
makes me anxious
and apprehensive.
Although coun-
seling helped me deal with
growing up in an unstable
environment, it has not made
things better when it comes
to the stress I feel when Im
around my mother. Ive told
her its difficult to deal with
negative people, but she
doesnt think that applies to
her. If I told her outright, she
would never be able to get
past how much I hurt her.
I know some people will
say to be brutally honest, but
they dont understand that
Moms reaction would be
unhelpful. Shed obsess over
it, but she wouldnt change.
I love my mother, but I cant
stand to be around her. How
do I cope? -- Trying My
Best
Dear Trying: Can you
talk to Moms doctor and
ask him to prescribe an anti-
depressant for her? All those
qualities that annoy you
-- her negativity, obsessive
thoughts, worrying -- can
indicate anxiety and depres-
sion for which medication
could be enormously help-
ful. Tell her you love her and
want her to feel better.
Dear Annie: I decided
after 16 years of marriage
to divorce my husband. We
married young. He was a
good provider and father and
treated me well. We have
two beautiful children and a
home on the water and were
financially well off. But he
was also controlling and
emotionally detached.
After years of loneliness
and depression, I decided
to leave him. I stayed in
the marriage a lot longer
than I wanted for our chil-
dren, hoping my feelings
would change. After various
marriage seminars and two
years of couples counseling,
I came to realize that I was
not in love with my husband
and probably never was.
Both my husband and I
come from strong Catholic
backgrounds. When I
announced I wanted a
divorce, my husbands fam-
ily stopped communicating
with me. A mother at my
daughters school cornered
me to say I should have tried
harder.
I once had the same men-
tality. People seem to think
that if you were the one who
chose to walk away, you
are not hurting. Annie, this
pain will be with me forever.
But do I regret my divorce?
No. Staying in an unhappy,
dysfunctional mar-
riage would have
been telling myself
I dont matter. --
Starting Over in
N.D.
Dear N.D.:
Divorce is always
difficult and often
heartbreaking. No
one knows what
someone elses
marriage is like
unless they have
lived it.
Dear Annie:
You often tell readers to put
their final wishes in writing
and see that everyone has a
copy. While I agree with the
first part, the second isnt
always a good idea. In fact,
in some families it can be a
disaster.
I have been an estate plan-
ning attorney for more than
21 years. I have seen adult
children bully their parents
when they are unhappy with
the will. Also, it is not unusu-
al for people to execute sev-
eral wills in their lifetime. If
they change their mind, they
dont need everyone to know
each time. If there are going
to be unhappy people fight-
ing, it makes sense to keep
copies to a minimum.
I would encourage every-
one to discuss their fam-
ily situation with an estate
planning attorney. -- E.R.,
Woodbridge, Conn.
Annies Mailbox is writ-
ten by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-
tors of the Ann Landers col-
umn.
Annies Mailbox
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011
In the year ahead, you are likely to
strike a better balance in your personal
affairs. In doing so, you will acquire a
better balance between work and play,
allowing you to devote more time to
pleasurable pursuits.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19) -- Achieving what you hope to
accomplish might be a bit tough, not
because of circumstances or outside
influences, but due to the way you are
handling things.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
-- If you waste your time trying to
satisfy an old grudge, its likely to rob
you of time spent doing something
truly meaningful. Dont squander a
perfectly good day.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
-- Unfortunately, your family and
friends may not be as eager to share
their bounty with you as you are with
them. If this is the case, dont fault
them -- they dont see things the same
way you do.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
-- Abide by some healthy mental
standards by refusing to yield to
negative thinking, which can easily
happen if things dont go exactly as
you planned. Stay positive.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
-- Of course you have a lot on your
mind, but that doesnt justify failing
to properly acknowledge people who
have gone out of their way to help
you. Keep a good perspective.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) --
One of your secrets to getting along
with everybody and managing people
so well is letting each person think
that he or she is their own boss. You
dont need credit, just results.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) --
When a serious development arises
that requires you to make a weighty
decision, let your heart rule your head.
It would be the smartest thing to do in
this instance.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- A
matter that could look more serious
on the surface than it actually is might
cause you to pause a bit. Once you
think about it, however, youll be able
to handle it without incident.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Its
up to you to control events instead of
allowing them to dominate you. If you
are weak or wishy-washy about what
your objectives, your chances for
getting what you want are nil.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) --
Guard against inclinations not to
listen to what others want or even the
good suggestions they make just so
you can get everything you want. Life
is happiest when shared.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
-- Innately, you are a considerate,
practical and logical person, yet you
could allow your strong emotions
to surface and roll over everybody.
Regain control.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
21) -- Just because certain people
put personal gain above their nobler
inclinations doesnt mean you have to
do so as well. You can make a bigger
impact through setting an example.

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Inc.
Wrapup
lent rating from the Ohio
Department of Education in
2008-09 and maintained it for
the next two years
September
Sept. 2
With the heat index reach-
ing more than 100 degrees,
Delphos Public and Parochial
schools sent students home
early at 1 p.m. This was the
second time school was let
out early due to high temper-
atures since the policy was
put in place.
Sept. 11
The 10th anniversary of
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
brought somber remem-
brances around the nation.
From emotional services at
Ground Zero, the Pentagon
and Shanksville, Penn.,
to a local ceremony at the
Veterans Memorial Park, the
nation paused to honor the
fallen and their families.
St. Johns High School
senior Chelsea Wellmann
was chosen as the 2011 Canal
Days Queen. Wellmann was
one of 15 girls competing for
the honor of presiding over
festival events. I joined the
pageant to be most a part of
my community and meet and
spend time with more young
women my age, she said.
Sept. 13
Frank Sukup took the inter-
im superintendent position with
Delphos City Schools. The
longtime superintendent at Fort
Jennings was a top choice for
the board of education. The
ODE sent us a list of people
who were certified and willing
to take an interim position,
Board President Ron Ebbeskotte
said. There were two on the
list who stood out and Frank
rose to the top because of his
close proximity to and familiar-
ity with Delphos.
Sept. 22
It was announced that
Ottoville Local Schools
would receive the OSBAs
Humanitarian Award for its
2011 Cancer Walk. The sixth
annual walk was held on May
6 and to date, the event has
raised more than $25,000.
The first Cancer Walk was
held for faculty and students
battling cancer, then even-
tually expanded to include
community members.
Sept. 25
Elida Local Schools hosted
an open house for the opening
of its new high school build-
ing. The 169,000-square-foot
building included two gym-
nasiums, an auditorium, sep-
arate academic and athletic
wings, community meeting
room, weight room and a
20,000-square-foot courtyard.
Sept. 27
Van Wert County Veteran
Services Officer Keith
Harman was honored by the
state for his more than two
decades of service to the vet-
erans of the county. Harman,
who was set to retire, was
given special recognition
from the Ohio Department
of Veterans Services Director
Thomas N. Moe.
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Answers to Thursdays
questions:
Carnegie Mellon
University, in Pittsburgh,
Pa., offers a performance
degree in bagpipes. The
university, founded by
Scottish-born steel mag-
nate Andrew Carnegie,
has offered the degree
since 1990.
TV soap opera star
Susan Lucci was nominat-
ed 19 times for an Emmy
Award before she won
in 1999 for her portrayal
of Erica Kane on All My
Children.
Todays questions:
In personal ads, what
does the acronym DDF
stand for?
What visible color has
the shortest wavelength?
Answers in Saturdays
Herald
Todays words:
Doddard: a tree whose
branches have decayed
Unigravida: a womans
first pregnancy
The Outstanding
National Debt as
of 7 a.m. today was
$15,137,879,643,093.
The estimated popula-
tion of the United States
is 311,942,187, so each
citizens share of this debt
is $48,528.
The National Debt has
continued to increase an
average of $3.95 billion
per day since Sept. 28,
2007.
Thousands visited the Putnam County Fairgrounds in August to see the Vietnam Memorial
Traveling Wall.
Your
Community
News Source.
From sports
stats & local
events to
business news,
The Delphos
Herald keeps
you in the local
loop.
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