NATALIE KNOTHStaffWriternknoth@tdnpublishing.com

TROY —Miami County’s firstand only clinic specifically for re-productive health – funded by a$55,000 Ohio Department ofHealth grant – has served about40 patients since its opening inDecember.The Reproductive Health &

Wellness Clinic, 510W.Water St.,has been successful in providingcare based on a sliding pay scale,but Miami County health com-missioner Chris Cook noted thatdonations are needed to expand

the hours of operation and en-hance the clinic, particularly thewaiting room.“We have one common waiting

room, and we don’t have a goodplace for educational materials ortoys for kids to play with,” Cooksaid. The room – shared with theWellness Center’s other two clin-ics, Prenatal and Well Child –also needs a new coat of paintand places to display healthbrochures.The clinic particularly serves

low-income, under-insured anduninsured people in Miami

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Easter eventPIQUA — The Easter

“Egg” stravaganza, a com-munity festival with lots offun Easter events includingEgg hunts and activities

that’s for kids birthto fifth gradewill be heldSa tu rday,April 7 from1-3 p.m. (reg-i s t r a t i o nstarts at12:30) atUpper Valley

Community Church, locatedat 1400 Seidel Parkway inPiqua. Call 778-8822 formore information or look ontheweb atwww.uvcc.org.Look to Wednesday’s

Daily Call formore informa-tion.

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BY JOHN HAUERFor the Daily Calleditorial@dailycall.com

PIQUA — For PiquaJunior High Schoolprincipal Jeff Clark, itis ‘all in the family.’ ThePiqua native and vet-eran educator followsthe best advice he everreceived. “Early in myadministration career, Iwas told to run the build-ing like it is a family,” hesaid. “I apply that toeveryone — students,staff, and parents.”

Clark graduated fromPiqua High School in1992. He was in StudentCouncil and was a classofficer for three years. He

played basketball for leg-endary Piqua coach DaveZeller. “I went to collegeat Ohio University,”Clark said. “My major

was undecided until Itook a course in educa-tion, and it all fell intoplace.” He earned a bach-elor’s degree in elemen-tary education in 1996.Later, he completed amaster’s degree in edu-cational leadership anda principal’s license fromthe University of Day-ton.“The OU experience

was very helpful,” hesaid. “I had a wide vari-ety of observations from

Doctorsdoubtfulfavoritisminvolvedin CheneytransplantMARILYNNMARCHIONEAP Chief Medical Writer

CHICAGO (AP) — Doc-tors say itis unlikelythat for-mer VicePresidentDick Ch-eney gots p e c i a ltreatmentwhen hew a sgiven anew heart that thousandsof younger people alsowere in line to receive.After spending nearly

two years on a waitinglist, Cheney received atransplant Saturday. The71-year-old underwentsurgery at the same Vir-ginia hospital where doc-tors implanted a smallheart pump that has kepthim alive the past fewyears.Cheney was recovering

Sunday at Inova FairfaxHospital in Falls Church,Va. He had severe conges-tive heart failure and hadsuffered five heart attacksover the past 25 years.Dr.Allen Taylor, cardiol-

ogy chief at MedStarGeorgetown UniversityHospital, said Sundaythat the heart transplantwaitlist is “a very regi-mented and fair process,and heavily policed.”

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Upper Valley Career Center Announces2012 Hollywood Nights Court

King Candidates:KJ Geise (Fort Loramie) Son of Angie

and Kevin GeiseMathew Rohrer (Fairlawn) Son of

Sharon and Jamie RohrerJosiah St. Myers (Houston) Son of Bonnie

and Larry DavisNathan Tufts (Piqua) son of Jennifer

TuftsTimothy Burch (Jackson Center) son of

Holly and Timothy BurchJames Allen Stoner (Newton) son of

Stephanie and Tod Stoner

Queen Candidates:Jessica Rayl (Fairlawn) daughter of

Nance Conatser and Scott RaylNicole Dunne (Troy) daughter of Peg and

Steve DunneCrysta Louise Clegg (Sidney) daughter of

Francine and Kenneth CleggMary Stickel (Russia) daughter of Renee

and Phil StickelBrianna Overney (Sidney) daughter of

Monica Schulten and Jason OverbeyAlyse Saine (Troy) daughter of Leah

Mason and Anthony Saine

Date: March 31Time: 7:30 p.m. – 11 p.m.

Court Procedure will begin at 10 p.m.Where: Upper Valley Career Center

Dining Commons The Dance has beenProvided by the UVCC Student Senate

Directed by: Jennifer Weaver

Dance CandidatesDance Candidates

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INSIDE: McMakenloyal Covington bas-ketball fan. Page 8.

INSIDE: Music to bea feature at Taste of theArts. Page 3.

INSIDE: Piquaboys and girlsopen track season.Page 13.

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BY SHARON SEMANIEFor the Daily Calleditorial@dailycall.com

TROY — Nearly 200 farmers,agricultural leaders, their spousesand family members assembled atTroy Christian Elementary SchoolSaturday morning to discuss topicsranging from proposed Farm Bill2012 to crop insurance, conservationprograms and how federal budgetcuts might impact the future ofOhio’s farmers.The occasion marked the 21st an-

nual Farm Forum hosted by House

Speaker John Boehner for con-stituents in the 8th CongressionalDistrict. “As the

agriculture in-dustry evolves,it is importantthat we stayinvolved andgain a betterunderstand-ing of bothlocal and na-tional issues,” Boehner said.Surrounded by members of the

Secret Service, a blue jean-clad

Boehner mingled with the large con-tingent who gathered early to snapphotos, shake hands and thank theHouse Speaker for “not forgetting hisroots.”As a member of the House Com-

mittee on Agriculture for 16 years,The forum was an opportunity to beupdated on agriculture policy, towhich he is “very much committed,”Boehner said.Bobby Mosher, vice president for

agricultural administration anddean at The Ohio State University,

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MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTO

Speaker of the House JohnBoehner speaks at Saturday’sOhio Farm Forum at Troy Chris-tian Elementary School.

Boehner speaks at farm forumBill, crop insurance, and concerns part of agenda

“We’re at a historical

turning pointfor farmers.”

— Adam Sharp

Piqua Junior High Schoolprincipal Jeff Clark tendsto paperwork at his desklast week.

See Dance/Page 2

See Clinic/Page 2

See Clark/Page 9

See Forum/Page 9

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Melette Bailey, R.N.,left, and Dr. JimBurkhardt, right,discuss generalhealth issues suchas cholesterol andblood pressurewith clients, includ-ing Mark Jonnigan,at the ReproductiveHealth & WellnessClinic at MiamiCounty PublicHealth in Troy onThursday.

First county reproductive health clinic opens in Troy

It’s ‘all in the family’ for Clark

CHENEY

American Profileinside today’s Call

Before wooden, steeland concrete bridges,Americans crossed riversand lakes on poled, cabledand steam-powered ferries.Ferries of various types andsizes continue to transportpeople and vehicles acrossthe nation’s inland and ma-rine waterways.

Charity eventTROY — A Change for

Charity event with proceedsto benefit Hospice of MiamiCounty will be held on Sun-day, April 22 from 1-4 p.m.(doors open at 1 p.m.) at ZionLutheran Church in TippCity (corner of Main andThird). Tickets are $2 eachand may be purchased atHospice of Miami County’soffice located at 550 SummitAvenue, Troy (335-5191).Limited tickets will be avail-able at the door. There will benumerous vendors, includingThirty-one Gifts, PremierDesigns, Longaberger,Scentsy, and more.Special drawings from 2-4

p.m.

SOUTH CHARLESTON— James Forrest Wisecup,82,of SouthCharleston,diedFriday evening, March 23,2012,afterashort illness.Hewas born Dec. 26, 1929, theson of the late Wilbur andChloeWisecup of Cedarville.In addition to his parents,hewaspreceded indeathby thelove of his life for 58 years,Bettye (Bach)Wisecup.Jim is survivedbyhis son,

Vice-Admiral Phil Wisecupin the United States Navyanddaughter-in-lawAnneD.Wisecup; five grandchildrenwhomhe loveddearly:Marie,Madeleine, Sarah, Nathalie,andPaul.Hedearly lovedhiscousin Keith Wisecup, Fla.,and his local “SouthCharleston family” Cendyand Luke, Marc and Sue,Cathy andRoger,Diana andBrad, Tomand Lindaand Larryand Julia,and all oftheir chil-dren and numerous nieces,nephews and friends.Jim was a graduate of

Cedarville College, MiamiUniversity of Ohio and BallState University where hewasawardedhisdoctorate ineducation.After two years intheArmyduring theKoreanWar, he married the love ofhis life, Bettye. He spentmany years in education,startingasa teacher,a schoolprincipal, and eventually be-came a superintendent ofschoolsatBuckeyeValleyHS

near Delaware, as well asPiqua,PennHillsPa.,and fi-nally Billings, Mont. Beforehe leftPiquahewas involvedin the establishment of theUpper Valley Joint Voca-tional School in the 1970s.He had a passion for teach-ing and never stopped. Hewas also a great athlete, andbaseball was the sport heloved best.He played secondbase, along with his life-longand best friend, MarcusTownsley, who was a greatpitcher. In 1950 he hit .544and won the NABF leaguebatting crownwith31hits in57 at-bats.Hewas a life-longfan of the Reds and OhioStateBuckeyes.He andBet-tye lived in many places be-fore finally settling down inClark County and SouthCharleston almost 20 yearsago. This area was the placehe loved best.Amemorial servicewill be

held at 2 p.m.Wednesday atSouth Charleston UnitedMethodist Church, 15 EastJamestownStreet.Visitation will be held

fromnoon until time of serv-ice. Burial to follow atNorth Cemetery, Cedarville.In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be madein memory of Jim to theSouth Charleston UnitedMethodistChurch,P.O.BOXG, South Charleston, Ohio45368. Arrangements incare of Ingling WilliamsFuneral Home. Condo-lences may be expressed towww.jacksonlytle.com.

LUDLOW FALLS —Hugh A. Rademachir, 83,of Ludlow Falls and for-merly of Troy, passedaway at4 : 2 5p.m. onMarch2 4 ,2 0 1 2 ,at GoodSamar-i t a nHospi-tal inD a y -ton.He was born March 8,

1929, in Troy, to the lateLowell E. and Nellie M.(Turner) Rademachir. Hewas mar-ried toF r a nMoler andshe sur-vives.Other survivors include

three sons: Bill (Andera)Rademachir of Troy; Brad(Deanna) Rademachir ofAustin, Texas; and Bruce(Lori) Rademachir of Troy;one daughter, BrendaRademachir of Troy; onebrother, Jack A.

Rademachir of DarkeCounty; 11 grandchildrenand 11 great-grandchil-dren. One brother, John A.Rademachir, and one sis-ter preceded him in death.Hugh was a 1948 grad-

uate of Troy High School.He was a veteran of theU.S. Air Force, havingserved during the Koreanconflict. Hugh was a mem-ber of the Bee Cave Bap-tist Church in Austin, TX.He was a retired self-em-ployed carpenter.A memorial service will

be held at 7 p.m. Wednes-day at Fisher-CheneyFuneral Home, Troy. Amilitary service by theVeterans Memorial Guardof Troy will be held at thefuneral home followingthe memorial service.Friends may call at the fu-neral home from 5-7 p.m.on Wednesday. Contribu-tions may be made to theMid-County Church ofChrist, 1580 N. DorsetRd., Troy. Condolencesmay be expressed to thefamily at www.fisher-ch-eneyfuneralhome.com.

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Prince Candidates:TyreeseSpann (Piqua) sonofElainaSpannandWilliam

SpannCody Jones (Houston) son of Rachel and Jason JonesGabriel Cole (Troy) son ofAngie BeamandDougColeDamien Kettering (Tippecanoe) son of Jill Burnett and

Chris KetteringSamSchulze (For Loramie) son of Pat and JohnSchulze

Princess Candidates:MeganHunt (Bradford)daughterofLoriandDaveHuntAshley Vanchure (Troy) daughter of Lisa and Tony

VanchureHaley Martin (Piqua) daughter of Sherri and Anthony

MartinJessicaDye (Bradford) daughter ofVicki DyeStarr Osborne (Anna) daughter ofAnitaAdamsLindsey Coverstone (Fort Loramie) daughter of Tracy

Holt andDannyCoverstone

DanceContinued from page 1

Vivian Bernice BurchCOVINGTON—Vivian

Bernice Burch, 81, passedaway at 10:40 p.m. March9, 2012, at Covington CareCenter,Coving-ton, ofan ex-tendedillnessfollow-ing astroke.S h e

w a sb o r nJan. 7,1931, in Troy to the lateChester Enoch Spain andRoma Ellen Jenkins Kiser,who survives at 103 yearsold.She is survived by her

boyfriend, Robert Weng ofFt. Myers Beach, Fla.; ex-husband Richard A. Burchof Greenville; three chil-dren, Linda and CraigCota of Covington, Rowdyand Julie Burch of WestMilton and Teresa andRon Miller of Covington;four grandchildren, Aliciaand Brock Fields of Cov-ington, Lindsay Millerand fiance Chris, of Michi-gan, Lane Miller of Cov-ington, Jada Burch ofKentucky; step grandson,Logan Fields of Coving-ton; great-granddaughter,Marisa Cota Fields of Cov-ington; siblings, Joe andVirginia Spain of Sidney,Donnie Spain of Muncie,Ind., Judy and AlanHemenway of Vancouver,Wash.,Terry and Su Spainof Steilacoom,Wash., Bev-

erly and Larry Simmonsof Piqua, Esther and JimDyke of New Carlisle, andRaymond Kiser Jr. ofPiqua.She was preceded in

death by her siblings,Richard Spain, JeanneSpain Shaw, ChesterSpain, and Doris SpainBell.Mrs. Burch was a for-

mer member of the PiquaChurch of Christ, was amember of the PiquaYMCA and the PiquaAmerican LegionPost 184 Women’s Aux-

iliary. She helped hermother Roma Kiser cookat the YMCA and sheworked at HeartlandNursing Home for manyyears. Vivian will be sadlymissed by all who knewher.She had an incredible

thirst for life. She lovedher boyfriend Robert of 12years, and she adored herchildren and grandchil-dren.She was a caregiver

most of her life, takingcare of those who were ill.She was famous for hercooking and she lovedcountry music, makingcrafts and flower garden-ing.A memorial service will

begin promptly at 5 p.m.Friday,March 30, at PiquaBaptist Church, 1402 W.High St., Piqua.Memorialcontributions may bemade to Piqua BaptistChurch or Miami CountyHospice.

SIDNEY — KathrynEisenhut Bell, 89, of 744S. Brooklyn Ave., Sidney,passed away Saturday,March 24, 2012, at 3 p.m.Funeral Services will be

held Thursday at the Trin-ity Church of TheBrethren, 2220 N. MainAve, Sidney.Arrangements are in

the care of Cromes Fu-neral Home, 302 S. MainAve, Sidney.

JACKSON CENTER —Leslie Fedele Miller, 52,of 120 Red Bud Circle,Jackson Center, wasgranted her angel wingson March 23, 2012.In following with

Leslie’s wishes, her bodywill be cremated.There will be no public

visitation or services.Arrangements are in thecare of Cromes FuneralHome & Crematory, 302

S. Main Ave. Sidney.

PATASKALA — RogerLee Tangeman Jr., 51,8652 Morse Rd.,Pataskala, and formerly ofJackson Center, died onThursday,March 22, 2012,at Licking Memorial Hos-pital in Newark, of an ap-parent heart attack.Memorial services will

be held Tuesday at Salm-McGill and TangemanFuneral Home in Sidney.

Obituaries

Death Notices

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Patty L. Cooper-ClarkPIQUA — Patty L.

Cooper-Clark, 81, ofPiqua, died at 7:45 a.m.Friday, March 23, 2012 atP i q u aManorN u r s -i n gHome,Piqua.S h ew a sborn inP i q u aon Jan.1 8 ,1 9 3 1 ,to the late Earl and Hen-rietta “Faye” (Niesley)Frey. On Dec. 12, 1947, inCovington, she marriedRobert L. Cooper. He pre-ceded her in death. OnFeb. 19, 1978, in RandolphCity, Ind., she marriedNorman Clark. He pre-ceded her in death on Oct.26, 1991.She is survived by four

sons and daughters-in-law: Robert L. and Rose A.Cooper of Celina, EdwardS. and Kimberly Cooper ofSparta, Tenn., Williamand Anita Cooper ofPiqua, and Mark A. andLori Cooper of Sidney; twodaughters and son-in-law:Sheryl and Donald De-Brosse and Lorri Cooper,all of Piqua; four step-chil-dren; twenty grandchil-

dren and 42 great-grand-children.Patty was a member of

Covington Church of theBrethren. She was ac-tively involved in her chil-dren’s lives as they weregrowing up. She was anavid NASCAR fan andloved her cats, many ofwhich she adopted. Pattymanaged the shoe depart-ment at Elder Beerman inPiqua for 30 years. Shealso was a volunteer atthe Miami and MercerCounty Red Cross for over10 years.Funeral services will be

held at 1 p.m. Tuesday atMelcher-Sowers Fu-neral Home, Piqua, withthe Rev. Scott Stremmelofficiating. Burial will fol-low in Miami MemorialPark, Covington. Friendsmay call from 11 a.m. to 1p.m. at the funeral home.Memorial contributionsmay be made to AcclaimHospice 7887 WashingtonVillage Dr. Suite 350 Day-ton, Ohio 45459 orCatholic Social Services1201 Fairington Rd. Sid-ney, Ohio 45365 or TheMiami County HumaneSociety P.O. Box 789 Troy,Ohio 45373. Condolencesmay be expressed to thefamily at www.melcher-sowers.com.

COOPER-CLARK

Hugh A. Rademachir

RADEMACHIR

Robert “Bob” Joseph BeyCONOVER — Robert

“Bob” Joseph Bey, 59, ofConover,passed awayunex-pectedly on Thursday,March 22, 2012. He wasborn on July 21, 1952, inGreenville, son of the lateK e n -neth L.a n dM a r y(M a g -a t o )Bey. HemarriedD e b o -rahKayKies onAug. 16,1 9 8 0 ,and together they raisedtwo children: Hannah Beyof Columbus and Daniel(Janelle) Bey of Conover.Heis also survived by a brother,Donald L. Bey of PleasantHill; a sister Judy (Gene)Dammeyer of Covington;brother-in-law, Jesse(Rhonda) Kies of Rosewood,and several nieces andnephews.In addition to his parents,

hewas preceded in death bya sister, Regina.Bob was a 1970 graduate

of Troy High School, he re-ceived his bachelors degreein education from BowlingGreen University, his mas-ters degree in educationfrom the University of Day-

ton, and he had a weldingcertification from the Ho-bart School ofWelding,Troy.He served in theOhioArmyNational Guard, Piqua, forfive years. Bob was an in-dustrial arts teacher whosecareer spanned 35 yearshaving taught one year inLucasville and 34 years atGrahamHigh School, SaintParis. He retired in 2011.Bob was a member of St.John’s Lutheran Church,Sidney.Funeral services will be

held at 10:30 a.m.Wednes-day in the Atkins-ShivelyFuneral Home, 216 S.Springfield Street, SaintParis, with the Rev. JonSchriber presiding. Burialwill follow in Cedar PointCemetery, Pasco. A gather-ing of friends and familywill be held from 4 to 8 p.m.Tuesday in the funeralhome.Memorial contributions

may be made to St. John’sLutheran Church, 120 W.Water Street, Sidney, Ohio45365 or to the AmericanCancerAssociationOhioDi-vision, Southwest Region,2808ReadingRoad,Cincin-nati, Ohio 45206.Envelopeswill be available in the fu-neral home. Condolences tothe family may be sent towww.sh ive ly funera l-homes.com.

James Forrest Wisecup

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County, though the pro-gram is open to people ofall financial standingacross the area.Explained Deb French,

director of nursing:“Maybe their bill is $200,but according to the slid-ing pay scale, they pay 50percent. So it’s $100.”Those with private in-

surance also are welcomeat the center.Services include pap

smears, pelvic exams,breast exams and screen-ings for cervical cancer,HPV, HIV and other

STDs. HPV vaccinationsand a variety of contra-ceptives are offered at theclinic as well.“The purpose of the Re-

productive Health &Well-ness Clinic is to promotehealthy lifestyles andprovide a place to be caredfor and establish a repro-ductive life plan,” Cooksaid. “We ensure peopleare physically, emotion-ally and financially readyto have children.”Walk-in pregnancy

testing is available Mon-day through Friday from 8a.m. to 3 p.m. as well as

walk-in HIV testing from1-3 p.m. Thursday. Ap-pointments must be madefor the clinic, which is inoperation from 8 a.m. tonoon Wednesday forwomen only and Thursdayfor both sexes.A social worker is on

hand for preliminarycounseling. Referrals arethen made to centers spe-cific to the need, such asalcoholism or domestic vi-olence.“We want it to be con-

venient and to be able tohelp people get all theservices they need,” Cook

said.Under grant guidelines,

the clinic does not performabortions or offer abortioncounseling.The clinic employs one

osteopathic physician, amedical doctor, two regis-tered nurses and a li-censed social worker. TheCity of Piqua Health De-partment is partneringwith Miami County PublicHealth to offer financialsupport and advertising.For more information,

contact the ReproductiveHealth & Wellness Clinicat 573-3505.

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Miami County sheriff’s office reports

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Music to be a feature at Taste of the Arts

PIQUA — Music during Main-street Piqua’s annual Taste of theArts extravaganza will featureKim Kelly’s 17-piece Orchestraalong with Miami Shelby Barber-shop Quartet, Lamp Post 4. Bothmusical groups will highlight theFriday night event May 18 pre-sented by Mainstreet Piqua.The Kim Kelly Orchestra re-

turns to Taste of the Arts for thethird year and will perform musicfrom the modern swing of HarryConnick and Michael Buble toclassic rock favorites includingThe Spencer Davis Group,Chicago and Blood Sweat andTears. Their show also featuresthe traditional big band music in-cluding the works of the StanKenton Orchestra, Frank Sinatraand the Duke Ellington Bandalong with contemporary rock,Latin, ballads, ethnic and Broad-way shows. The Orchestra includes four

vocalists and the musicians hailfrom Columbus, Cincinnati andthe Dayton area. Many have pro-fessionally performed with

groups such as Count Basie, StanKenton, Woody Herman andBuddy Rich.“Everyone is guaranteed to

hear something that they like be-cause of the wide spectrum ofmusic that we play,” said Kelly.“You can sit and enjoy the musicor even try some dancing if themood hits you,” he added. The Lamp Post 4 quartet will

entertain attendees as they strollthrough the downtown. Thegroup has been singing togetherfor 10 years and mixes their per-formance up with a variety ofsongs including ballads, comedy,50s, 60s and gospel. They aremembers of the Miami-ShelbyChapter of Barbershop HarmonySociety.Quartet members include Ken

Crawford singing baritone, RonVentura sings bass, Paul Webb isthe lead and Don Zerkle is tenor.They have a combined 58 years inbarbershop singing but have en-joyed music as a hobby for manyyears.The group has performed at

country clubs, churches, restau-rants, wedding and other venues.“We just love to sing and enter-tain,” said Webb, spokespersonfor the group. “We really enjoybeing part of Taste of the Artsand moving throughout thedowntown area singing andadding to the entertainment forthe night,” they all agreed.The Kim Kelly Orchestra will

perform in the 300 block of N.Main Street from 5:30-8:30 p.m.Lamp Post 4 will move through-out the downtown area as theysing from 6 - 8 p.m.Taste of the Arts also high-

lights area artists, offers of tastersize portions of popular menuitems from local and area restau-rants, children’s activities and artdemonstrations during the 5-9p.m. annual extravaganza.There will also be local and

area authors featured at thePiqua Public Library duringevent hours. For more informa-tion about Taste of the Arts, callMainstreet Piqua at 773-9335.

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The Lamp Post 4 quartet (above), along with Kim Kelly’s 17-piece Or-chestra (inset) will entertain attendees as they stroll through the downtown

for Taste of the Arts on Friday, May 18. Quartet members include Ken Crawford singing baritone, RonVentura sings bass, Paul Webb is the lead and Don Zerkle is tenor.

MIAMI COUNTY —The following informationis provided by the MiamiCounty Sheriff ’s Office:March 15Vehicle damaged: A

windshield was broken ona vehicle located at 170Court St., Pleasant Hill.There also was a cementblocked placed on the hoodof the vehicle with explicitwords.Wallet stolen: A black

Coach wallet was stolenfrom a vehicle parked atthe Brukner Nature Cen-ter. The wallet contained$200, driver’s license andtwo credit cards.Bike stolen:A $300 bi-

cycle was stolen from 204Chestnut St., Laura.Purse stolen: A purse

was stolen from a vehiclelocated at 8920 NewCarlisle Road, NewCarlisle.Money missing: A re-

port of $700, credit cardsand checkbook was stolenfrom Upper Valley Med-ical Center. The victimsreported the items miss-ing from a safe that waslocated in the security of-fice outside of the emer-gency room.March 17DUI & Drugs: Miami

County Sheriff ’s Officecharged Israel Millhouse,

36, of Fletcher with OVI,marked lanes, possessionof drugs and possession ofdrug paraphernalia. Thetraffic stop was made atthe intersection of LooneyRoad and County Road25-A in Piqua.No license to drive:

John Stephan, 24, ofPiqua, was charged withoperating a motor vehiclewithout a valid license,possession of drug para-phernalia and possessionof drugs. The traffic stopwas made at the intersec-tion of Wyndam Road andPiqua-Troy Road.Traffic stop nets

drug charge: Miami

County Sheriff ’s officialscharged Matthew Haley,25, of Piqua with posses-sion of drugs. The trafficstop was made at the in-tersection of West Peter-son Road and Piqua-TroyRoad.March 18DUI in Troy: Miami

County Sheriff ’s Officialscharged MichaelSchricker, 44, of Troy, withdriving under the influ-ence of alcohol and im-proper illumination ofrear license plates. Thetraffic stop was made at12:10 a.m. at Lincoln Av-enue and West MarketStreet, Troy.

LillianaWillcoxAge: 4Birthdate: March 27,

2008Parents: Chris Willcox

and Brittany Robbins ofPiquaGrandparents: Ron-

nie and Terri Robbins andGreg and Ginger Willcox,all of PiquaGreat-grandparents:

Fred and Kay Tamplin,Lois Robbins and RuthBryan, all of Piqua Lilliana Willcox

Claire ElaineLargerAge: 11Birthdate: March 16,

2001Parents: Jeff and

Heather LargerSibling: EthanGrandparents: Thom

and Marsha Baker andShirley and the lateJames LargerGreat-grandparents:

Lou and MaryLou Have-nar and Jo Baker

Claire Elaine Larger

SIDNEY — Fifteen LehmanCatholic High School students partici-pated in the 2012 District Science Fairat Central State University on March17. Eight of the students returned withSuperior ratings and the opportunity toadvance to the State Science Fair. Twoof the eight earned perfect scores of 40points.Junior Samantha Neumeier re-

ceived a perfect score of 40 on her Bio-chemistry project “The Effect of Milk onPlant Growth.” Senior Nicole Larger re-ceived a perfect score of 40 on her Engi-neering project “The Efficiency ofInsulators.” Larger was also the recipi-ent of a scholarship from Central StateUniversity.Other Lehman students receiving

Superior ratings were junior LaurenBosway (“Comparing the Amount ofSaturated Fats in Oils,” sophomoreMaKenna Cabe (“Music’s ManyMoods”), senior Katie Catanzarite (“TheEffects of UV Rays on the Bacteria inRaw Milk”), senior William Duritsch

(“Phosphate Removal in Water”), seniorDaniel Sehlhorst (“Ascorbic Acid Break-down: A Time Trial”), and sophomoreGrace Winhoven (“Percent of Time aHouse Fly Spends Grooming Itself byBody Parts”). In addition to their supe-riors, Duritsch and Catanzarite re-ceived $500 cash awards from Battelle.Students receiving excellent ratings

at the district fair were freshman JoshWest, senior Lexie Froning, freshmanMaria Pannapara, junior KathrynRossman, and senior Kandis Sargeant.West received the Navy Science Award- a medal, certificate, and $50 cash —for his civil engineering project “BestAngle for the Propellers on a Wind Tur-bine.”West District Science Day is spon-

sored by the Ohio Academy of Science.The mission of the academy is to fostercuriosity, discovery, and innovation forthe benefit of society. Saturday’s eventshowcased more than 423 student proj-ects. The state science fair is scheduledfor May 5, at The Ohio State University.

The state science fair is the pinnacleof student originated, inquiry-based sci-ence education for Ohio’s students. Theacademic equivalent of a state athleticchampionship, this year’s event is thelargest of its kind in the nation.Drawing upon an annual base of

more than 30,000 students at morethan 1,000 local school science days orscience fairs, more than 1,000 studentsin grades 7-12 from nearly 300 schoolswill be evaluated this year on their sci-entific research and communicationskills. They will compete for more than100 different scholarships and awardsvalued at more than $2,500,000. Bothindividual and team student researchprojects will be recognized.First held in 1949, the 58th Annual

State Science Day is sponsored by TheOhio Academy of Science. Additional fi-nancial sponsors include AmericanElectric Power, The Ohio Environmen-tal Education Fund, Boehringer Ingel-heim Roxane Inc., Battelle and TimeWarner Cable.

Lehman students participate in science fair

PIQUA —The UpperValley Career Center willhost a Technical CareerFair from 3-7 p.m. Thurs-day, March 29 at the Ap-plied Technology Center,8901 Looney Road, Piqua.Opportunities on how to

upgrade your work skillswill be offered.“Every day, everywhere

you look, you’re beingasked to upgrade. Upgradeyour mobile phone package.Upgrade your cable. Buthow often do you stop tothink about upgradingyour future?” said RoseHemm, a member of theTechnical Career Fair

TeamFor 37 consecutive years,

the Upper Valley CareerCenter Adult Division hasfocused on providing train-ing in the areas of careertechnical education —manufacturing, heatingand cooling, healthcare, of-fice/computer technology,management, safety —that meet the individual’scareer/job needs as well asthe needs of local businessand industry.Career and technical ed-

ucation provides adultswith skills to use in theworkforce. Compared to

other training options, ca-reer and technical educa-tion can be completed in ashorter amount of time. It’saffordable, flexible, and canlead directly to a specificpaying occupation. Careerand technical educationplays a major role in shap-ing tomorrow’s local andglobal economy, Hemmsaid.The career fair is funded

in part by theSidney/Shelby CountyChamber of Commerce,Adult Basic Literacy Edu-cation, and the Upper Val-ley Career Center. Checkus out — come to the careerfair and learn about our ca-reer and technical training— full or part-time — andour student support serv-ices (ABLE, GED, Finan-cial Aid, CareerA s s e s s -ment/Counseling/Advance-ment, etc.) that will helpyou enhance your employ-ment opportunities. The ca-reer fair is free, open to thepublic, and there will bedoor prizes and refresh-ments.For more information,

call 778-8419 or 800-589-6963 or visit www.upper-valleycc.org

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Greetings from WDTN-TV andStorm Team 2! I’m ChiefMeteorologist Brian Davis. The torna-does we experienced on March 2show that we already are off to anearly severe weather season. The LaNina weather pattern we have experi-enced for the last two years can leadto an active thunderstorm pattern,and that appears to be the case. Ourprimary months for severe weatherare April, May and June, but severeweather can happen any time of dayand any month of the year.

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Watches may be issued hoursbefore a storm. The sky may besunny when you first hear a tornadoor severe thunderstorm watch.Remember, a watch just means thatconditions are favorable for severethunderstorms and/or tornadoes.

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Don't be caught off guard! Whilewatches may be issued beforestorms form, thunderstorms may bedeveloping when the watch is posted,or thunderstorms may be ongoingand moving into the area. By check-ing the weather information again,you will be aware of what is going onaround you.

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Severe thunderstorms can and doproduce tornadoes. They also cangenerate as much damage as weaktornadoes and over a larger area.Whatever method you use to stay up-to-date on severe weather informa-tion, make sure you do so. Beingaware of what's going on around youis very important.WHEN ATORNADOWARNING IS

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DO NOT seek shelter under ahighway overpass. They are not safe!

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DO NOT go outside to find the tor-nado, even if you think it's far away!

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Chapter Ten:Week Ten

Here’s the last of Uncle Ethan’sletters:November 11, 1864Dear Wilf,I am sitting on a hill in the state of

Georgia watching a whole city burn. Ihave witnessed terrible deeds, seenhorrors that no one should ever have tosee. I do believe, though, that this maywell prove the saddest. Even so, had Ito do this again, I would.We were taught, Wilf, you and I,

that men are men, no matter theirappearance. This I do believe. I alsohold dear the sentiment that all mendeserve freedom and the opportunityto make what they can from the lifethey have been given. From this, all ofthis, it is my sincere hope that the fol-lies of our past will have washed away.I pray for that with all my heart.When this is finally done, I want

nothing more than to return home, towatch the sun rise and set on ourfields. I am done with all of this fight-ing. But there is yet tomorrow andundoubtedly tomorrows beyond thatwhich will hear the cannon and thedrum.Tell Ma that I hope to see her soon.

Tell Da that I am not afraid.EthanThere’s something you need to

know. When I said “here’s the last ofUncle Ethan’s letters,” that’s just whatI meant. He died on November 17,1864, within a week of the burning ofAtlanta. Those were the last words heever wrote. So there are no distantrelations I can call up or text or what-ever to see what they know.

And Uncle Ethan wasn’t the onlyone. So many soldiers died, bothUnion and Confederate, that no one’sreally sure exactly how many. Over600,000; that much they do know.Probably not more than 620,000.That’s such a crazy big number. I’mtrying to imagine it, but it’s like look-ing up at the stars and trying to countthem. There are just too many. Toomany stars. Too many bodies. And allof that in just four short years. The firstshots of America’s Civil War werefired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861,in South Carolina and the war endedon April 18, 1865, in AppomattoxCourt House, Virginia, when theConfederacy surrendered.And here we are, a little more than

one hundred and fifty years after thewar started. We still have racism, andwe have it from both sides. We stillhave people pointing fingers and shak-ing fists and shouting some really hor-rible things. We still have hate crimesand violence and murder. But I dobelieve these United States of Americaare a better place than they were then.And I do believe that it’s getting betterall the time. I think that most peopleare honestly trying to do the rightthing.And I think that if you could ask

him, Uncle Ethan would think so, too.

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CHAPTER TEN: QUESTIONS &ACTIVITIES

Josh mentioned many civil Warfigures from Ohio, but he didn’t gointo detail about them. Pretend thatyou are a newspaper reporter livingduring the Civil War. You have theopportunity to have an exclusive inter-view with one of the most influentialpeople living during that time. Make alist of reporter's questions to ask theperson, then conduct research toanswer the questions. To extend theactivity, have two friends role play aninterview and the rest write a featurestory based on what happens.General Sherman took his army

from Atlanta to the sea at Savannah,Georgia, but the march continued allthe way to Columbia, South Carolina.This part of his miltary career was alsorecorded as his "scorched earth" cam-paign and his March to the Sea. OnNovember 15, 1864 he cut the lasttelegraph wire that linked him to hissuperiors in the North. Why would hehave risked that lack of communica-tion? Why did he feel it necessary todestroy everything in the path?Blogs are the core of what has

come to be called personal publishing.But a blog adds to the form of the jour-nal diary because a blog uses technol-ogy that gives the writer (blogger) thecapacity to link to new and usefulresources for their readers. Think of itthis way: a blog looks outwards to oth-ers and a journal looks inward throughthe personal thoughts and experiencesof the writer. What are some of theresources or types of information thatJosh could in link to that would helphis teacher and readers find out moreabout his subject? Your newspaper’sweb site may include an editor’s blogfor your to consider.

A summer stormmay pass throughquickly, clearing theair, or it may bring vio-lent winds and damag-ing hail. In winter, astorm may dumpmany inches of snowon an area or leavetrees, grass, and roadscovered with ice. Astorm is basically anydisturbance of theatmosphere accompa-nied by winds. A stormmay bring rain, snow,hail, sleet, or thunderand lightning.

The making of a stormIn the world’s mid-latitude regions,

large masses of high-pressure air usu-ally bring good weather. Low-pressureareas bring storms of all kinds. Anylow-pressure area can form a depres-sion, another name for a low-pressuresystem.

Because the prevailing winds in theUnited States are from the west,depressions usually move from westto east across the country. The cold,dry air masses moving north from thetropics come together in a depression.When the air masses meet, the warmair rises above the cold air. As cold airflows in to replace the warm air, windsstart to swirl around the low-pressure

region, cold air following warm.Soon, the system has a zone of

warm air rising in a gradual slope overa sea of cold air. The place where thecold and warm air meet is called afront. A system in which warm air risesover a wedge of cold air is called awarm front. Along this front, as thewarm air rises and its moisture con-denses, rain or drizzle occurs. Since

the warm front forms a gradual slope,this bad weather may continue for sev-eral days until the front passes.

Although the weather might clearup for a while after the warm frontpasses, the worst is yet to come. Acold air mass soon moves in on theheels of the warm air. Cold air nosingin under a mass of warm air creates adifferent type of front called a cold

Stormy weather: A look at depressions, fronts, thunder, and lightning

front. In a cold front, the slope wherethe air masses meet is much steeper,and the storms that result, while theypass more quickly, are more severe.

The cold air helps push the warmair up sharply, so that strong updrafts(upwardly moving air currents) form.These updrafts can cause violentwinds and heavy rains all along thefront in a squall line. Depending on theconditions, a cold front may give birthto heavy thunderstorms or even torna-does.

All the elements of weather mustcombine in certain ways for a storm tooccur. Air masses of different tempera-tures must collide, and enough mois-ture must be present for precipitationto form.

A low-pressure system can formand pass over an area without causinga storm if the difference in temperaturebetween air masses is slight and thereis little moisture. The greater the differ-ence in temperature and the moremoisture, the greater the severity ofthe storm. If the difference in tempera-ture is slight, the result might be noth-ing more than a soft breeze.

A thunderstorm may also occur byconvection, when moist air is heatedby the hot ground, rises, cools, andcreates huge cumulonimbus cloudsfull of water droplets. When the waterdroplets become heavy enough, theyfall in a heavy, though usually brief,thundershower.

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BY JIM KUHNHENN

WESTMONROE, La. (AP) Republican presiden-tial nominating contests often reveal a rural-urban split in the party, but what sets this

year’s campaign apart is the emphasis Rick Santorumis placing on that divide and wearing his successes insmall-town America as a badge of honor.To hear Santorum tell it, the ability of front-runner

Mitt Romney to win in big-city suburbs is a mark of ide-ological weakness, not political strength.“Gov. Romney does well in the counties where De-

mocrats do well, and we do well in the counties whereRepublicans do well,” Santorum said this week. “Thatmight give you some indication as to who the candidateis who best reflects the values of the Republican party.”Whereas President Barack Obama once infamously

tried to explain rural culture with an anthropologist’sdetachment, saying rural Americans “cling to guns orreligion” out of a sense of economic desperation, Santo-rum happily embraces the culture. He worships withPentecostals in central Louisiana one day and cam-paigns at a gun range in the north on another, testinghis marksmanship by pulling the trigger of a .45-calibersemiautomatic Colt pistol.Crisscrossing Louisiana this week and Illinois before

that, Santorum thrived in small cities and rural areaswhere social conservatism runs deep,where the stressesof a slow economic recovery are intensely felt and wherehis faith-based, small-government message resonatesmore deeply than in cities and suburbs.In state after state since he began to emerge as the

not-Romney candidate in the Republican field, Santo-rum has beaten Romney in rural areas, even in statesRomney ultimately won. In Michigan and Ohio, stateswhere Romney barely prevailed, Santorum won therural vote 43 percent to 34 percent, and 46 percent to28 percent, respectively, according to exit polls.In Illinois, where Romney easily won, Santorum still

took the rural-small city vote 45 percent to 35 percent.On Saturday, Santorum is expected to win in

Louisiana, where he has campaigned more vigorouslythan Romney.And while Santorum continues to collect delegates off

his success in rural counties and congressional districts,his relative weakness elsewhere raises doubts about hisability to slow Romney’s march to the nomination.“He needs to do a lot better in the suburbs than he

has recently,” John Feehery, a Republican strategist andformer top House Republican leadership aide, said ofSantorum. “He’s definitely the candidate of the sticks.”Stuart Roy, an adviser to a super political action com-

mittee that supports Santorum, said Santorum’s in-ability to break through in the suburbs and cities is ina part a function of his conservative message.“He is maximizing the social conservative base in

most states,” Roy said. “In doing that you are going tolose some of that suburban moderate vote. There is atrade-off there. The idea here is to win the primary orcaucus. It’s not about where the vote comes from.”But he said another factor is limited money. Santo-

rum’s campaign operates on a shoe-string budget andthat means buying television advertising in cheapermarkets, which tend not be in the big cities.As a result,suburban voters aren’t as exposed to his message asthey are to Romney’s, along with Romney’s deep-pock-eted campaign and super PAC.

Jim Kuhnhenn covers politics for The AssociatedPress.

OnMarch 14, the Rom-ney campaign’s polit-ical director, Rich

Beeson, sent out a messagetouting Mitt Romney’s re-cent delegate pickups. Yes,Rick Santorum had won Al-abama, Mississippi andKansas, Beeson said, but“Governor Romney’s winsover the same period inWyoming, the NorthernMarianas, Guam, the U.S.Virgin Islands, Hawaii and AmericanSamoa have helped expand his delegatelead, pushing him closer to the nomina-tion.”Indeed, in early March it was Rom-

ney’s wins in the island territories —Marianas, Guam, Samoa,Virgin Islands— that gave Romney the edge in dele-gates. And then, on March 18, Romneywon the primary in Puerto Rico. It’s pos-sible that if Romney finally reaches the1,144 delegates needed to clinch the Re-publican nomination, his delegate mar-gin of victory will have come from theislands.Which leads to the question: Why are

places that are not states, whose resi-dents cannot vote for president, and thathave no electoral votes allowed to play apotentially critical role in selecting theparty’s nominee?“I have no idea at all,” says a former

Republican National Committee official.“I don’t know,” says a current RNC of-

ficial.It’s not just a Republican thing; the

Democratic Party also awards delegatesto the islands. And usually a presiden-tial candidate wins by such a large dele-gate margin that the islands don’t makeany difference. But maybe not this time.It’s not that the islands, or at least

most of them, are so big that their voicessimply must be heard. From an Associ-ated Press account of the March 13 cau-cuses in American Samoa: “About 70Republicans in the U.S. territory located2,300 miles south of Hawaii met in cau-cus Tuesday. The six delegates selectedat the meeting and three superdelegatesto the Republican National Conventionall said they would support Romney.”Just by themselves, those nine dele-

gates, selected by a grand total of 70 par-ticipating Republicans, accounted forRomney’s entire delegate lead over San-torum in the March 13 contests.In the Virgin Islands, it appears Ron

Paul actually edged Romney, 112 votesto 101 votes, but because of complexrules of delegate allocation, Romneywalked away with seven delegates toPaul’s one.In Guam, Romney picked up nine del-

egates when he won unanimously, with atotal of 215 votes.The big prize, at least in the number

of votes, was the Northern Marianas,

where Romney won anothernine delegates on thestrength of 740 votes. “TheNorthern Mariana Islandsmay be far away from themainland, but one of thegreat things about ourdemocracy is that everyvoice has a chance to beheard in selecting a presi-dential candidate,” Romneysaid in a victory statement.If those results trouble

any Republicans, they shouldn’t blameRomney. He’s just playing by the partyrules. And playing smart, sending Rom-ney’s son Matt to campaign in theNorthern Marianas and in Guam justbefore the caucuses. The 18-0 delegatepickup in those two places alone eclipsedRomney’s delegate margin of victory inMichigan and Ohio combined, wheremore than 2 million votes were cast.Should the non-voting islands have

such power?“There really is no purpose to it,” says

David Norcross, former general counseland chairman of the RNC rules commit-tee. “There is no, in my mind, particu-larly compelling argument for it.”With the exception of American

Samoa, people born in the islands areU.S. citizens. But the Constitution givesnone of these non-states the right tochoose a president. Their situation iscomparable to that of the District of Co-lumbia, whose residents could not votefor president before 1964. It took the23rd Amendment to change that; nosuch amendments are in the offing forthe island territories.Delegates in the GOP presidential

race, however, are controlled by the Re-publican National Committee. “The res-idents of the islands are U.S. citizenswho are active and engaged members ofthe RNC,” a committee spokesman says,“and part of the primary process thatwill produce the next president of theUnited States.”The RNC’s statement doesn’t explain

why the policy is what it is, but of coursethere are political reasons. For example,there’s no doubt the Puerto Rico pri-mary was closely watched by Puerto Ri-cans in the United States — in placeslike the I-4 corridor in the critical swingstate of Florida, which Republicansneed to win in November. Island dele-gates have also played key roles in elect-ing RNC leadership; recent chairmanMichael Steele owed his victory to is-land support.But the presidency? It could be that

by the end of this primary season, placeslike the Marianas and Samoa will be keyfactors in choosing the next resident ofthe White House.

Byron York is chief political corre-spondent for TheWashington Examiner.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)Ohio-based fast-food chainWendy’s Co. is trying to bemore humane to the chick-ens and pigs it uses in itsfood.The company’s animal

welfare council said Fri-day that one of its chickensuppliers, O.K. Foods Inc.of Ft. Smith, Ark., hasstarted using a low-atmos-pheric pressure systemthat renders the chickensunconscious before thebirds are handled by plantworkers. The process,known as LAPS, replacesthe industry standardpractice of stunning chick-ens with electricity.Wendy’s said it is the

first quick-service restau-rant chain to back the sys-tem, which it deemed amajor improvement to in-dustry standards. It urgedother chicken producers toembrace the practice.The company declined

to disclose what percent-age of its chicken comesfrom O.K. Foods but said itwas a “sizable amount”.Wendy’s also said that it

was working with its U.S.and Canadian pork suppli-ers to eliminate the use ofsow gestation stalls overtime. Animal rightsgroups say the tightly-packed stalls are inhu-mane. Pork producers saylarger stalls increase laborand food costs.However, several major

pork producers have re-cently agreed to phase outgestation crates and tightpens and switch to larger,more open pens as senti-ment about the practicechanges.Major pork buyerMcDonald’s Corp.(NYSE:MCD) announcedin February that it wouldphase out gestation stallsin a move that was pre-dicted to be a major shiftfor the industry.Animal welfare group

People for the EthicalTreatment of Animals saidthat it supported Wendy’smoves. PETA has workedwith the fast-food chainfor several years, urgingimprovements in its prac-tices.

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Wendy’s seeksmore humanetreatment

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A questionable bid cancome back to haunt the per-petrator in many ways. Itmight, for example, causethe partnership to go over-board during the bidding,or to double an opposingcontract that cannot be de-feated. It might also lurepartner into misdefendingduring the play.A case in point is this

deal from the 1988 Spin-gold team championship.North-South were JeffMeckstroth and Eric Rod-well, pitted against Nor-man Kay,West, and EdgarKaplan, East.After Rodwell had

openedwith one heart,Kayelected to make a lighttakeout double, no doubtinfluenced by the favorable

vulnerability. When Meck-stroth leaped to four hearts,Kaplan, holding the besthand at the table, ex-pressed his doubt that de-clarer could make thatcontract.Kay led the king of dia-

monds, and Kaplan over-took with the ace in orderto shift to his singletonspade. He planned to splithis trump honors when aheart was led from thetable, win the next heartand then put Kay in withthe ace of clubs to gain aspade ruff.These four tricksplus the king of clubswouldyield a 500-point set.ButKay did not have the

ace thatKaplan thought hehad to have for his double,and disaster ensued. Afterwinning the spade returnwith dummy's king, Rod-well led a trump to thequeen and ace, and con-ceded a trump to the king.Kaplan returned a club,but, unfortunately,Rodwellproduced the ace.Declarer drew the last

trump, cashed the Q-A ofspades and ruffed a spade.He then ruffed a diamondand discarded a club ondummy's established spade

to make his contract for ascore of 790 points.Had Kaplan shifted to a

club at trick two, as he nodoubt would have withoutKay's double, declarerwould have had to lose twoclubs, a heart and a dia-mond for down one.At the other table, Ka-

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DEAR ABBY: What doyou think of a grand-mother who has her 7-year-old grandson sit in ababy car seat when she’sdriving? The boy weighs65 pounds and is 4 1/2 feettall. His parents don’twant to cause a rift withher, as she helps themafter school. He looksridiculous and must feelembarrassed in front ofhis friends. Should rela-tives intervene?

— GRANNY’SNEIGHBOR

DEAR NEIGHBOR: Itook your question to apublic affairs specialistwith the National High-way Traffic Safety Admin-istration. He said thatchildren through the ageof 12 should always ride inthe back seat. He also re-minded me that seat beltswere designed for adults,not children.According to the

NHTSA, the 7-year-oldshould be in a “booster”seat. A booster seat posi-tions the seat belt so it fitsproperly over the shoulderand chest — the strongestparts of the child’s body —so it won’t cut him or heron the neck or face in caseof an accident.The NHTSA used to

recommend that children8 to 12 years old or 4 feet 9inches and under use abooster seat. However, itNOW recommends thatparents visit its website,www.nhtsa.gov, to choosea correct seat. Click on thechild safety section, andyou’ll find an area titled“Which Car Seat Is theRight One for Your Child.”There are also videos inthis section showing par-ents how to install theseats correctly.The recommendations

are national and do notvary among the states.And yes — this informa-tion should be shared withthe child’s parents and thegrandmother in order toensure the boy’s safety.

DEAR ABBY: At theage of 2, I was diagnosedwith Type 1 diabetes. Ihave been involved withthe American DiabetesAssociation since I was 6.As its 2012 NationalYouth Advocate, I’d like toinvite your readers to joinme by participating in the24th Annual American Di-

abetes Association AlertDay tomorrow, March 27.Alert Day, held on the

fourth Tuesday in March,is a one-day “wake-upcall.” On that day, theAmerican public is invitedto take the Diabetes RiskTest to find out if they areat risk for developingType 2 diabetes. It’s a se-rious disease that strikesnearly 26 million childrenand adults in the UnitedStates. Many of themdon’t know they have it.Unfortunately, people

are often diagnosed withType 2 diabetes seven to10 years after it has set-tled in their system. Bythen, the major symptomshave already developedand harmed the body, soearly diagnosis is critical.Please urge your read-

ers to “Take it. Share it.”Let them know they canprotect their health andstop this disease by takingthe free risk test. Just an-swer a few simple ques-tions and share the factwith everyone you careabout that there is a test.If they take it, they couldbe saving lives.

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DEAR LOGAN: Con-gratulations on your selec-tion as the 2012 NationalYouth Advocate. Readers, be-cause diabetes is a serious —but manageable — condition,and there are simple ways tofind out if you could be atrisk, please pay attention toLogan’s message. Visit theAmerican Diabetes Associa-tion Facebook page, go tostopdiabetes.com or call 800-342-2383.

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP)— Gays and soldiers usuallydon’t mix in the conserva-tive Balkans. Neither do for-mer foes from the region’sethnic wars. Yet a tale abouta Serbian wartime fighterwho recruits enemy veter-ans to protect a gay prideevent has become an un-likely movie sensation.“The Parade,” a black

comedy made by a Serbiandirector, has been thebiggest box office hit in theformer Yugoslavia in years,even as it challenges boththe region’s ethnic divideand its deeply rooted homo-phobia.The movie has drawn

more than half a millionpeople since its release inOctober. It has been equallyacclaimed in Serbia, Croatiaand Bosnia — something nolocal film has managedsince the 1990s wars be-tween the ex-Yugoslav re-

publics.“The whole region is

united for the first time inliking this film,” directorSrdjan Dragojevic said in aninterview.“The Parade” — which

won an award at the presti-gious Berlin film festivalthis year — is set in the Ser-bian capital of Belgrade,where a gay couple tries toorganize a gay pride eventin the face of threats and vi-olence from far-right groups.To make it possible, they

enlist a Serbian war veteranto protect the parade; hebrings in a group of ragtagformer fighters from otherYugoslav republics — aCroatian, a Bosnian Muslimand a Kosovo Albanian.Using an uproarious plot

spiced with dry humor,Dragojevic tackles Balkanprejudices and the highlysensitive topics of gay rightsand postwar relations.Film critic Milan Vlajcic

says Dragojevic’s successlies in the fact that he man-

aged to send a universalmessage of tolerance, with-out turning the film into apropaganda tool.“Black humor played a

key role,” Vlajcic said.While Serbia’s gay ac-

tivists have been dividedabout the role the movieplays in promoting gayrights, Dragojevic insiststhat “it is very important forpeople to recognize the sim-ple message that it is irrele-vant what nationality youare, how you pray or whoyou go to bed with.”Wounds stemming from

the Balkans war remain asource of division years afterthe fighting ended.The frictions were appar-

ent during a recent pre-miere of Hollywood starAngelina Jolie’s directorialdebut — a love story set inthe Bosnian war — whichreceived standing ovationsin Bosnia, but was shunnedby Serbs as propaganda.“The Parade” — co-pro-

duced by companies in Ser-

bia, Croatia, Macedonia,Slovenia and Great Britain— seems to have been ac-cepted by most, if not all.In Bosnia, it has become

the most popular Serbianfilm since the war, seenmore times than JamesCameron’s “Avatar,” said thefilm’s Bosnian distributor. InCroatia, some 150,000 peo-ple have seen “The Parade.”Still, Croatia’s influential

Catholic Church banned thescreening of Dragojevic’sfilm in a church-owned the-ater in the coastal town ofDubrovnik. The church ob-jected to the gay theme andDragojevic’s alleged attemptto put equal blame for thewar on all sides.Illustrating attempts by

authorities to underline di-visions between Serbs andCroats, Croatian authoritiesrecently asked local TV sta-tions and film distributors toput subtitles on all Serbianmovies, although the twonations speak an almostidentical language.

This Oct. 10, 2010 file photo shows protesters throwing stones at riot police during an anti-gay pride marchin Belgrade, Serbia. “The Parade,” a black comedy made by a Serbian director, has been the biggest box of-fice hit in the former Yugoslavia in years, even as it challenges both the region’s ethnic divide and its deeplyrooted homophobia. The movie has drawn more than half a million people since its release in October. It hasbeen equally acclaimed in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia — something no local film has managed since the1990s wars between the ex-Yugoslav republics.

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Richard McMaken hasmissed one Buccaneerboys’ basketball game in43 years. Think aboutthat for a second and letit sink in, and then yourealize how impressive ofa feat it is. This also in-cludes the games thataren’t easy to watch —away games, games onsnowy evenings, andeven games against Na-tional Trail.So Mr. McMaken has

missed one game. How-ever, he had made it tothat one game he wouldnever see. Richard’s wifePat, from whom I re-ceived a cool note thisweek, had arrived at thegame (which was “manyyears ago”) with her hus-band. And perhaps itwas one of those snowyevenings, because Patslipped and fell on thesidewalk, hitting herhead and requiring a tripto the emergency roomat Piqua Memorial Hos-pital.No idea what the ac-

tual record is regardingconsecutive trips toBuccs basketball games,but the McMakens haveto be near the top.

The Covington Cham-ber of Commerce is host-ing a steak fry with liveand silent auctions onSaturday, May 5 begin-ning at 6 p.m. The eventtakes place at the EndZone Sports Lounge. Alltickets are pre-sale only,and must be purchasedby April 25. The cost is25 dollars per ticket andproceeds benefit the Cov-ington Chamber of Com-merce, the CovingtonSummer Bash on July 6and 7, and the FortRowdy Gathering on Oc-tober 6 and 7.Purchase tickets or

make a donation to thesilent auction by callingGlen Hollopeter at 473-0330.The Covington Bucc

Boosters is hosting a bar-becue pork dinner onSunday, April 22 fromnoon to 3 pm at the highschool at a cost of six dol-lars. Carry out will beavailable.

Library newsNational Library

Week is April 8-14. The J.R. Clarke Public Libraryis happy to announce itnow has a new website.The site is very easy touse and displays the li-brary’s catalog, a listingof new books and DVDsadded to the library, up-coming events as well asall library services andprocedures. The folks atthe library would like tothank the CovingtonHigh School AlumniClass of 1961 for donat-ing the funds to makethis site possible. The up-dated site will be avail-able the first part ofApril. Please visit thesite and give them anyfeedback you may have.“Come discover the

beauty of the people, theculture and the land-scape of Haiti. Join localChristian missionaryNathan Rapp and hisfamily as they give a pic-torial walk through theirrecent travels to thepoorest country in theWestern Hemisphere.Experience how theHaitian people work,walk and worship intheir daily life. Therewill be pictures and in-formation presented re-garding needs for

student sponsorship.Please plan to attend tobroaden your Haitianhorizons. Punch andcookies will be avail-able.”The library is setting

April 11 as AppreciationDay, during National Li-brary Week, to showtheir appreciation tothose who have beenloyal patrons to the li-brary throughout theyear. Punch and cookieswill be served.The Upper Valley

Wellness Nurse will visitthe library Tuesday,April 17, for free bloodpressure and glucosescreenings. She will bethere from 9-11 a.m.Email callingaround-

covington@gmail.com orcall 418-7428 to putsomething in print.

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LOCKINGTON — TheLockington VolunteerFire Department is seek-ing recipes to be pub-lished in a cookbook tosupport the department.There will be a specialsection for chili recipes,from mild to hot. Also, or-ganizers are seeking oldphotos or stories that re-late to the history ofLockington and the Lock-ington Volunteer Fire De-partment.Each Recipe submitted

must be on its own sheetof paper and include thename and contact infor-mation for the personsubmitting the recipe,the category for therecipe, a list of all ingre-dients, and steps to put itall together.You may also submit a

brief description or shortstory that relates to therecipe.The categories to be

used are appetizers,soups and salads, chili,breads and rolls, vegeta-bles and sides, maindishes, desserts, cookiesand confections, and mis-

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via e-mail. Please do notsend your only copy of aphoto, Photos will not bereturned.The deadline for all

submissions is Friday,May 4. All submissionsneed to be sent to MelissaAdams, LVFD Cookbook.3605 W. Versailles Rd.,Piqua, OH 45356, or viae-mail atmelissa.adams.frg@gmail.comCookbooks will be

available starting LaborDay weekend at thePiqua Heritage Festival.You may reserve a copyor copies, if you wouldlike with your recipe sub-missions. The price of thecookbook will be deter-mined on the number ofrecipes and photos sub-mitted. All proceeds fromthe cookbook will benefitthe Lockington VolunteerFire Department. Pleasehelp make this a tasty bitof firehouse history.For more information,

contact Melissa via e-mail(above) or at 773-8085.

Lockington Fire Dept.seeking recipes forcookbook fundraiser

HOUSTON — Scout-master Dan Hemmert at-tended the March 7Houston Community As-sociation meeting to ask iftrustees to re- charter hisBoy Scout troop.Hemmert said he has

six scouts in the group.Trustees agreed to re-charter the group. GaryVondenhueval will con-tinue as liaison to thescouts.An adult dance

fundraiser will be heldSaturday, St. Patrick’sDay, sponsored by theHouston Classic Festivalcommittee. Monies raisedwill benefit the festival.

The Second Annual Festi-val will he held in July.Loramie Township is

sponsoring a Clean UpDay April 14 from 8 a.m.to noon. Trash items maybe dropped off at theHouston Community Cen-ter.The association’s Fun

Day bus trip to RisingStar Casino is scheduledMarch 31. Departure is at8:30 a.m. with a 7 p.m. re-turn. The cost is $22 perperson, but members whohave Volunteer Pointsmay use them to reducethe cost. Everyone goingwill receive $15 back fromthe casino.

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introduced this year’s panelists, who fo-cused their remarks on the 2012 FarmBill. Participants included Adam Sharp,vice president of public policy, Ohio FarmBureau Federation (OFBF); Bart Fischer,chief economist, House Committee onAgriculture; Karl Gebhardt, chief, Divi-sion of Soil and Water Resources, OhioDepartment of Natural Resources; andMichael Torrey, president and chief exec-utive officer, Michael Torrey Associates.Sharp, a partner in his family’s dairy

and grain farm in Fairfield County, wasasked to lay out the range of options in anew farm bill under Title 1, the commod-ity title. A former counselor on agricul-tural policy to the administrator of theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency,Sharp said his comments were based onconversations with various farm organi-zation representatives, members of Con-gress, theAg Committee staff and others.“The Joint Select Committee’s ‘Secret

Farm Bill’ was drafted in the fall (2011),”he began. “Details were never releasedbut I think we have to look at that ‘deal’as an indicator of where we may headwith a new bill.”“If we look at the economy now and

where we are headed, we are in the

toughest spot we’ve ever been,” saidSharp, noting that the total Farm Billspending may be cut by $23 billion overthe next decade, including $15 billionfrom the commodity title. Other indica-tors of the “deal,” he added, include theelimination of direct payments, ACRE,SURE and CCP as currently written.“Of $64 billion in (the) commodity

title,” he added, “77 percent, or three-quarters of it goes to direct payment.”Marketing loans and crop insurance,

he suggested, would be maintained, andthe bill would offer replaced programswith three options, including a StackedIncome Protection Plan (Stax)-cottononly, based on planted acres); a multi-year, shallow loss Ag Risk Coverage(ARC); and a Target Price Program withhigher target prices based on plantedacres. Other ideas, Sharp said, include aSystemic Risk Reduction Program(SRRP) and various versions of “multi-year loss” presented at the Farm Billhearing by commodity groups a weekago.Sharp said myriad issues need to be

considered in the future.“This is the end of a direct payment era

— what’s next?” he asked. “Do we need asingle program for the country or differ-

ent programs for different regions ofcrops? Some are calling for set-asides andstorage programs. Crop insurance is thecore of many of these programs and itmust be kept affordable.”He cautioned audiencemembers, “Let’s

not forget that the total farm bill is lessthan 2 percent of the annual federalbudget. Seventy-five percent of the farmbill is food and nutrition programs. Lessthan one-quarter of 1 percent of the fed-eral annual budget is commodity pro-grams (7 percent of the Farm Bill).“We’re at a historical turning point for

farmers,” said Sharp, who also advocatedengaging consumers as to what theywant in the future as well as workingwith agribusiness leaders,which also wasechoed by Gebhardt.One panelist suggested, “Agriculture

will take a big budget hit” and “the com-munity must be willing to do its part.Wetake great pride (in our industry) and it’snot in the best interest to jeopardize pro-duction.We can’t solve the budget on thebacks of farmers.”Congressional research indicates that

“ongoing budget deliberations by theJoint Select Committee on Deficit Reduc-tion have generated concerns that a farmbill to reauthorize farm programs expir-

ing in 2012 may be written by budget ne-gotiators, rather than the respectiveHouse and Senate Agriculture commit-tees. Various federal budget proposalshave emerged that recommend lower fed-eral spending, including cuts to agricul-ture programs ranging from $10 billionto $40 billion over 10 years.In response, members of Congress, the

administration and a number of farmgroups have put forward proposals to re-duce government expenditures on farmsubsidies and revise farm programs.Many of these farm proposals were un-veiled in September 2011 as the JSCDRbegan its deliberations on government-wide budget cuts, the panel said.It was the consensus at Saturday’s

forum that the 2012 Farm Bill will passthis year. Fischer predicted, “It’s a littlehard to forecast before committee action… but I expect it will happen by earlysummer. Passage will hinge on the Sen-ate.”Added Gebhardt “It will happen, but

what it looks like is anybody’s guess.”“I agree,” Sharp said. “‘What happens

if it doesn’t pass?’ is the question. If youtalk $23 billion in cuts today, it can onlybecome deeper. We need to pass a FarmBill sooner vs. later.”

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from rural schools, subur-ban schools, and anurban school.” Clarklanded his first job withMiami County Educa-tional Services as an aideat an alternative school.“I worked at that positionfor one year. Next, I washired as a full-timeteacher at the school,” hesaid. “After three years, Iwas promoted toteacher/supervisor andthen supervisor.”In 2004, Clark applied

to Piqua City Schools tobecome the principal atWilder. “I didn’t get thejob, but Piqua superin-tendent Jerry Clark (norelation) told me that itwasn’t a question of if Iwould get a job with PCS,but a question of when,”Jeff said. “That was a big

boost to my attitude. And,sure enough, one monthlater I was hired to be theassistant principal ofPiqua Junior High.”He worked with princi-

pal Ed McCord for fiveyears until McCord re-tired. “Ed was my biggestinfluence as an adminis-trator, and he gave methe best advice I evergot,” Clark said. “He saidrun the building like it isa family. I’ve tried tomaintain that philosophyand apply it to everyoneat Piqua Junior High.”Clark moved into the

principal’s position andcontinued the family set-ting at the junior high.“We take pride in sayingthat if you come throughPiqua Junior High, youare always part of thePiqua Junior High fam-

ily,” he said. “We stressthat at our 7th grade ori-entation.”“It was a bite strange

returning to the juniorhigh because I was work-ing with staff who I hadhad as teachers when Iwas in junior high,” Clarksaid. “Wendy Hastings,Kim Fashner, BrendaClement, Vickie Miller,Rick Krejci, and DonHole were the qualityteachers I had. And, Iplayed junior high bas-ketball for Dan Penrod.”Under Clark’s reign,

the junior high has seennew and expanded pro-grams in many areas.The math offerings havedeveloped to having thetop seventh-graders takeAlgebra I and Geometryas eighth-graders. Topscience students can now

take the high schoolPhysical Science in 8thgrade. PJHS pioneered aWorld Languages pro-gram using RosettaStone. “Our staff is 100percent dedicated to ourstudents,” he said.“Teachers set high goalsand make sure our stu-dents reach their poten-tial.”In extra-curricular ac-

tivities, Clark has en-couraged thedevelopment of the ModelUnited Nations program.Involvement in ScienceOlypiad has increased.“Our junior high teamjust placed at the Region-als and is going to theState competition inColumbus in April,”Clark said. He and assis-tant Chad Albers startedthe 8th grade field trip to

Washington D.C.Clark may be most

proud of the resurgenceof the Jazz Band. “Theyhave grown to about 25amazingly talented stu-dents who can really playJazz,” he said. “Band di-rector Mitch Mahaneykeeps asking for moremoney to buy more musicfor this energetic group.”Away from school,

Clark enjoys spendingtime with his ‘at home’family and playing a lit-tle golf at Echo Hills. Heand his wife Lisa havebeen married 14 years.“Many of my studentsknow my wife becauseshe helps every summerat the Music Warehouse,”Clark said. The couplehas a son and a daughter.Gracie is a third-graderat High Street School,

and Evan is in a pre-School run by EdisonCommunity College.

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The City of Piqua is seeking candidates with YMCA or Red Cross Lifesaving Certification to work as lifeguards at the Piqua Municipal Pool. The candidate may work up to 40 hours per week including evenings and week-ends. Position pays $7.70 per hour.

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280 Transportation

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2 BEDROOM townhouse 1033 Jill Ct., Piqua, stove, and refrigerator, 1.5 bath, dishwasher $475 a month No pets. (937)726-0273

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2 BEDROOM upstairs in Piqua. Stove, refrigerator furnished, washer dryer hookup. Off street park-ing. Nice neighborhood. No pets. $400 monthly. (937)335-2254

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420 Farms for Sale

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582 Pet In Memoriam

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583 Pets and Supplies

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586 Sports and Recreation

POOL TABLE with ac-cessories, beautiful Ol-hausen. Must see to ap-preciate. $2750,(937)654-3613.

592 Wanted to Buy

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CASH, top dollar paid forjunk cars/trucks, runningor non-running. I will pickup. Thanks for calling(937)719-3088 or(937)451-1019

Wanted to Buy:Old Glassware, Fishing,Pottery, Tools, Jewelry,Contents of Estates,Garage, or Sheds, GunsAnything Old!Call (330)718-3843

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805 Auto

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1993 CADILLAC SevilleSTS, Northstar, V-8, load-ed, fair condition, $3,000OBO. (937)541-1272

1994 LAND Rover,Range Rover, county longwheel base, loaded, faircondition, $4000 obo.(937)541-1272

2000 GMC Sonoma, ex-tended cab, 4.3 V6,81,400 miles, CD player,electric windows/locks, Al-loy rims, newer tires.Bought new. $7250.Excellent condition.( 9 3 7 ) 4 9 8 - 1 5 9 9(937)726-3398Serious inquiries only

2001 PONTIAC GrandAm, 2 door, looks good,runs good. $2500. 602Boal Ave.

850 Motorcycles/Mopeds

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899 Wanted to Buy

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The Piqua High School trackteams opened the season Satur-day by hosting Sidney in a dualmeet. The Piqua girls defeatedSidney 77-59, while the Sidneyboys bested Piqua 79-56.In the girls meet, Kaele Snapp

captured firsts in the 1600 meterrun (5:57.6) 3200 meter run(13.38) and 800 meter run(2.44.2) and also joined CourtneyBensman, Danajha Clemmons,and Maddie Hilleary in winningthe 4 X 400 meter relay (4:32.8).Also taking first place in events

for the Lady Indians were CherylBell, 400 meter dash (67.7) Madi-son Evans, discus (87-5) and Mad-die Hilleary, shotput (32-8.5).Cody Combs led with Piqua

boys with multiple first-place fin-ishes. He won the 110 meter hur-dles (16.3), 300 meter hurdles(45.3) and the long jump (19-10).Other first place finishes for the

Piqua boys were posted by ZachFitzner, discus (116-11.5) andAzjohn Taylor, high jump (5-4).Top three placings for Piqua:Girls: 100 meter hurdles, I.

Kaye, second (18.9) and K. Ingel,third (20.1); 100 meter dash, D.Clemmons, second (13.6); 400

meter dash, O. Barhorst, third(71.9); 800 meter run, C. Bens-man, second (2.48.5), O. Barhorst,third (3:08.7); 200 meter dash, C.Bell and D. Clemmons tied forthird (28.9); 3200 meter run, K.Hayes, second (14.51.5); shot put,M. Evans, third (26-7); long jump,Maddie Hilleary, second (14-9)and A. McNutt, third (14-3); highjump, A. McNutt, second (4-2)and C. Bensman (3-10); polevault, K. Ingel, second (7-6).

Piqua splits opening meet

Next up for OSU: Kansas

AP PHOTOOhio State head coach Thad Matta celebrates as he cuts down the net after his team defeated Syracuse 77-70 in the East Regional final game in the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament Saturday in Boston.Ohio State faces Kansas Saturday in the NCAA semifinals.

Kaili Ingle clears the bar for Piqua in the pole vault event. see morephotos from the meet on Page 14.

Cody Campbell throws the discus for the Indians in Saturday's dualtrack meet with Sidney at Alexander Stadium.

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP)Instead of closing for theCincinnati Reds, RyanMadson will miss the2012 season because of atorn ligament in his rightelbow.Madson returned to

Cincinnati and was exam-ined by team medical di-rector Dr. TimothyKremchek. The Reds saidSaturday that Kremchektold general managerWalt Jocketty the liga-ment was torn from thebone of Madson’s rightelbow.“We talked to the team.

We all have to stay posi-tive,” Jocketty said. “Wehave alternatives inter-nally that we will sortthrough in the next fewdays.”Madson agreed in Jan-

uary to a one-year con-tract guaranteeing $8.5million, after a $44 mil-lion, four-year deal to staywith Philadelphia col-lapsed in November.The 31-year old re-

ported discomfort in hiselbow at the start ofspring training but in-sisted it was an annualailment that he had al-ways worked through. Hedidn’t pitch in any exhibi-tion games.Madson pitched batting

practice Tuesday and hadbeen scheduled to throw

Reds loseMadsonfor season

SPORTSSPORTSMONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012

INFORMATIONCall ROB KISER,sports editor, at773-2721, ext. 209,from 8 p.m. tomidnight weekdays.

13Piqua Daily Call • www.dailycall.com

INSIDE � Tiger Woods once again awinner. page 16.Covington girls softball pre-view. page 14.

QUOTED

IN BRIEF

STUMPER

“We think they’reexcellent. We thinkthey’re great.”

—Rick Pittino onthe Kentucky

Wildcats

When was thelast time OhioState won theNCAA basket-ball champi-onship?

Q:

A:1960

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.(AP) Todd Helton hit hisfirst two home runs ofspring training and

CaseyBlake hithis first,alldrives

off Johnny Cueto that ledthe Colorado Rockiesover the Cincinnati Reds7-3.Helton, entered with a

.375 average (9 for 24)and five doubles, hit solodrives to right in the sec-ond and to left in thefourth.Blake’s two-run homer

in the fifth was his firstextra-base hit of springtraining. Signed as a freeagent in January, Blakecame in hitting .118 (2 for17) and missed a weekwith neck stiffness aftersurgery last September.Brandon Roberts

added a two-run doublefor Colorado. StarterJhoulys Chacin allowedtwo runs and six hits infive innings.Joey Votto, in a 5-for-

31 slide coming in, hadan RBI single in the thirdand added a single in thefifth.Cueto gave up five

runs and six hits in six in-nings.

Reds fall 7-3to Rockies

�� Baseball

Piqua dropsbaseball openerINDIAN LAKE —

Colin Lavey pitched atwo-hitter for the PiquaIndians on Saturday inthe opener with IndianLake, but the Indianscouldn’t come up with atimely hit in a 1-0 loss.“He pitched a fantastic

game,” said Jared Ask-ins. “We had opportuni-ties, but couldn get a hitto bring in a run,” hesaid, noting the Indianshad men on second inthe fourth, sixth and sev-enth innings.Taylor Huebner had

the only extra base hitamong Piqua’s three hits.Lavey struck out three

and walked one in a los-ing effort. The only runIndian Lake scored wasunearned.The Indians return to

action at home todayagainst Vandalia Butler. FOR PHOTO REPRINTS, GO TO WWW.DAILYCALL.COM MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTOS

Lady Indianswin meet; boysfall to Sidney

BY EDDIE PELLSAssociated Press

One game is a grudge match be-tween teams that know each otherall too well. The other is a rare re-match between virtual strangers.The Final Four is set. In one

game Saturday, Kentucky will playLouisville in an intrastate rivalrythat puts Cardinals coach RickPitino against the school he oncecoached, then later alienated by re-turning to the Bluegrass to lead itsarchrival.

In the other semifinal, it will beOhio State and Kansas, meeting foronly the ninth time in their historybut for the second time this season.The Jayhawks won the first game78-67 in Lawrence, Kan., back onDec. 10. Ohio State’s JaredSullinger sat out of that game withback spasms. It was the first timethe teams had met since 1999-2000.The winners will play for the na-

tional title April 2. Kentucky al-ready has seven national titles butnone since 1998, the year afterPitino left. Kansas has three cham-pionships, Louisville has two andOhio State, better known as a foot-ball power, won its lone title in 1960and is making its third trip to theFinal Four since 1999.Absent from this year’s ultimate

hoops weekend, taking place at the

Superdome in New Orleans, are thelongshots and little guys who havemade March Madness so specialover the years. Although there areno Butlers, VCUs or George Ma-sons, there are plenty of good sto-ries to tell. That list starts withPitino vs. his old school.It was Pitino who restored Ken-

tucky to its former greatness whenhe arrived there in 1989 and theWildcat program was coming off thesting of NCAA violations. Pitinotook the program to three FinalFours and won one championship,but left in 1997 to take a second shotat the NBA, where he had previ-ously coached the New York Knicks.He fared far worse in four sea-

sons with the Boston Celtics, and

See cincin-nati Reds pre-view on Page15.

Kentucky facesLouisville inother semifinal

See Bucks/Page 2See Reds/Page 14

SPORTS14 Monday, March 26, 2012 WWW.DAILYCALL.COM • PIQUA DAILY CALL

BY COLIN FOSTEROhio Community Media

TIPP CITY — Withpartly-cloudy skies and 60-degree weather, track sea-son got underway for areateams on Saturday at theTippecanoe Relays.The start of this track

season, however, felt muchmore like spring than the30-degree freeze fest inTipp City that launched thebeginning of 2011 season.And out of all area teams,

it was the Covington boysthat finished the highest inseventh with 36 points.Host Tippecanoe came in13th (18 points), Bethel was15th (15) and Troy Chris-tian 16th (nine) at a meetthat mixed Greater West-ern Ohio Conference teamssuch as Butler and Wayne— which won the meetwith 117 points — againstthe likes of Central Buck-eye Conference and CrossCounty Conference schoolsin a variety of relay events.“It’s nice coming to a

relay meet like this to startthe season,” Covingtoncoach Kyle Moore said. “Ata meet like this, everybodyis working together, soyou’re focusing more on theteam aspect. I thought itwent pretty well. Every-body got a chance to partic-ipate. It was a good start.”Covington’s Sam Chris-

tian— a state qualifier lastyear — was second individ-ually in the boys shot put

with a toss of 46-7.25. ColeOwens had the 10th-bestthrow (41-5) and AlexBaskerville placed 18th (36-5.50) as the Buccs shotrelay team finished secondoverall.“Sam came out throwing

about 46-feet in the shot,”Moore said. “He worked re-ally hard in the offseason,and I think it showed.”Christian also had the

second overall throw in thediscus (142-0),while Owenshurled a 126-0 and MattReck a 106-11 to propel theBuccs to second in the dis-cus relay.Covington’s Troy Cron,

TrentTobias,Dalton Borde-lon and Ben Miller com-bined to take fifth in the4x100 shuttle hurdle relay(1:04.86). Cron, IsaiahWin-ston, Tobias andBaskerville placed fifth inthe 4x100 relay (46.63 sec-onds).“The 4x100 team was es-

pecially fast,” Moore said.“Their time (Saturday) wasabout where it was halfwaythrough last season.”The Buccs took seventh

in the 4x200 meter relay,while the Eagles finishedeighth. Cron,Winston,Bordelon andMiller once

again teamed up, finishingin a time of 1:39.10 to edgeTroy Christian’s MatthewCoots, Tyler Shinall, CalebTanner and Brennan Klin-gler (1:40.56). Cron, SethCanan, Bordelon and Win-ston earned the Buccs sev-enth in the 800 sprint(1:46.37).Justin Millhouse (8-0)

and Riley VanHise (7-6)earned the Buccs fifth inthe pole vault relay.

BY BEN ROBINSONGoBuccs.com

COVINGTON — Lastyear the Covington LadyBuccs found their identityas a softball team. And itled to a season for theages as Covington ad-vanced to the state finalfour for just the secondtime in school history.But gone from that

team are two premierplayers pitcher ChloeShell and first basemanAubrye Cain, both whoare playing at the colle-giate level — Shell atBluffton and Cain atCedarville.“We definitely lost two

leaders with Chloe andAubrye,” said Covingtoncoach Dean Denlinger.“That’s always hard tofill, but with the team wehave I think we’ll be fine.We need to find our iden-tity.”Finding an identity is a

challenge, but one thatdetermines the success ofa season.“You can bring back the

same team from one yearto the next, but it’s still atotally different team be-cause you have to start

over,” Denlinger ex-plained. “You have to geta feel for each other, de-velop that continuity andchemistry — become one.We’ve yet to do that.”To facilitate that

process Denlinger iscounting on his two sen-ior leaders, Hannah Pondand Shainna Grilliot.“Hannah is a four-year

starter and this isShainna’s second year,”Delinger said. “Theirleadership will vital toour success — lead by ex-ample. They’ve done anice job of that so far.”The void left by Shell

on the mound seems in-surmountable, but CassieYingst has all of the toolsto fit the bill.And it was Yingst to

came into her own duringa tournament run a yearago.“Chloe was our work-

horse, we don’t go to statewithout both of them,”Denlinger stated. “Cassiecame into her own insome big tournamentgames last year and she’seven better now. Nowshe’s the work horse.”And Denlinger has two

more capable arms withfreshman Morgan Arbo-gast and junior HeidiSnipes.“It’s nice having three

kids who can throw,” said

Denlinger. “And we’ll usethem.”As important as the

pitcher is, it’s just as im-portant to have an all-around solid catcherbehind the plate. AndCovington has one of thebest in Connor Shaeffer.She has a rocket arm andhas a knack of helpingher pitcher out behind theplate.“It’s nice to have Con-

nor back,” Denlinger said.“In my opinion she is thebest catcher in ourleague.”The Lady Buccs will be

solid in the infield onceagain with the return ofHeidi Snipes at third,freshman Cassidy Cain atshort, Jessie Shilt andJessica Dammeyer at sec-ond and the flexibility ofhaving BrittanyFlora or Morgan Arbo-

gast at first.The outfield will be just

as dependable withShainna Grilliot, HannahPond, Haley Adams andJessie Shilt all seeing ac-tion in the green.Plus, sophomore Mor-

gan McReynolds returnsfrom a season-ending in-jury from a year ago.“We have a lot of talent

coming back and somenew girls coming into theprogram,” commentedDenlinger. “With 18 girls

compared to the 12 or 13we have available lastyear, we have more depththis year.”And Covington has

more speed, which will bebeneficial consideringDenlinger’s aggressivestyle of coaching.“We like to be aggres-

sive, so the speed willhelp,” he said. “Unfortu-nately we lost one of ourfast girls in Heidi Cron,but we still have morespeed than we had lastyear. That’s somethingyou can’t teach. Eitheryou have it or you don’t.”With the talent and ex-

perience on what is still arelatively young roster,the expectations remainhigh once again — evenin a stacked Cross CountyConference.“Our league is as tough

as they come,” said Den-linger. “You have Newton,Miami East, Twin ValleySouth, Bradford, NationalTrail, us — that’s a toughleague. You can’t forgetabout Arcanum either.Anybodycan beat anybody on

any given day and that’swhat makes it so muchfun to play the teams weplay.”It’s also why finding an

identity will be the key tothe success of the 2012Lady Buccs.

Covingtontakes 7th atTipp Relays

Lady Buccs look for big season

More scenes from Piqua’s opening meet

Tyrone Collier high jumps for the Piqua Indians inSaturday’s opening meet.

Amber McNutt competes in the long jump forPiqua.

when the call back to thecollege game came, itcame from Louisville, lo-cated only 70 miles up theroad from Lexington andvery much in thecrosshairs of Kentuckyfans. It has been 11 yearssince his dramatic return,and most of the shock hasworn off from what wasonce deemed an unforgiv-able betrayal. But there’snothing like a Final Fourmeeting to stir up someold memories.“It is in our state.

They’re a great program.We’re in two differentleagues,” Kentucky coachJohn Calipari said afterthe Wildcats beat Baylor82-70 in the South Re-gional to advance to theFinal Four for the secondstraight year. “The city ofLouisville drives ourstate. The University ofLouisville drives that city.So it’s a very importantthing for our state, and it’simportant that that schooldoes well.”Maybe just not next

Saturday.The teams play every

season, and most recently,they were ranked Nos. 3and 4 in The AssociatedPress poll when they meton New Year’s Eve. Ken-tucky won at home 69-62.Now, it’s top-seeded Ken-tucky against Louisville, aNo. 4 and the worst-

seeded team in the FinalFour.“We think they’re excel-

lent. We think they’regreat. I coached there. It’sgreat. Great tradition,”Pitino said Saturday, afterLouisville rallied for a 72-68 win over Florida thatput the Cardinals in theFinal Four for the secondtime since the coach ar-rived. “But we want to beLouisville. We have a dif-ferent mission. They havea different mission. Butwe both want to get to aFinal Four and win achampionship.”Led by a group of fresh-

men who may or may notreturn for a second year,Kentucky was establishedas an early 8.5-point fa-vorite in the game. TheWildcats endured a briefscare when freshman An-thony Davis, their leadingscorer, went down hard inthe second half againstBaylor with an injuredknee. But it was only aknee-to-knee collisionwith a Baylor player andthe injury isn’t expected tobe serious.“The guys told me it

was knee to knee,” Cali-pari said of the early re-port from the trainers. “Isaid, ‘Get up, mama’s boy,’and he was fine.”Pitino’s team does not

have as many NBA-readystars as Calipari’s, butthey are Final Four mate-rial. A series of injuries

and starts and stops led toa 10-8 Big East regularseason that impressed noone. But the coach keptbelieving and coaxing.TheCardinals won the BigEast tournament and aretwo wins away from win-ning the NCAAs, too.“I really didn’t have any

lofty expectations, becausewe had so many injuries,”Pitino said. “We were justtrying to survive duringthe season. We justwanted to make the tour-nament and start fresh.”In the other semifinal,

Sullinger got what hewanted when he decidedto return to Ohio State forhis sophomore year a tripto the Final Four. TheBuckeyes are early 2.5-point picks over Kansas inthe matchup of No. 2seeds.They finished in a

three-way tie for first inthe Big Ten, widelyviewed as the toughestconference in basketballthis year, but settled for aNo. 2 seed in the NCAAsafter losing the conferencetournament final toMichigan State. It wasn’tthe first or last time crit-ics underestimated ThadMatta’s team this season.“People were asking,

are we mentally toughenough, are we physicallytough enough, can we dothis, can we do that?”Sullinger said. “I relayedthose questions back to

the team. We did somesoul searching, and nowwe’ve taken this to awhole other level.”Sullinger scored 19

points Saturday in OhioState’s 77-70 win overSyracuse to make theFinal Four.Tyshawn Taylor scored

22 points Sunday in an80-67 win over North Car-olina to lock in thematchup against theBuckeyes. The Jayhawksreached the Final Four forthe first time since 2008,when they won it all afterrallying from nine pointslate in the title game tobeat Memphis (and Cali-pari, before he moved toKentucky) in overtime.Taylor finished with 13

assists in the Dec. 10game against Ohio Statedespite playing with anailing knee.The Buckeyes, mean-

while, had to do withoutSullinger. Playing theirfirst road game of the sea-son, they lost by 11 todrop to 8-1.Seems like quite a long

time ago.“We caught a break the

first time when Jared did-n’t play, and we were kindof finding ourselves,”Kansas coach Bill Selfsaid. “We knew they werea team that could make arun and win a nationalchampionship. They haveso many pieces that are sogood. It starts with Jared.”

BucksContinued from page 1

again on Friday.“He looked very good on

Tuesday. He felt sometightness the next day,”Jocketty said. “He felt fineall spring until lately. Evenafter he sat out for a littlebit and came back he feltreal good. After the livesession the other day it felttight but even when he leftthe other day, he felt fine.”Dr. Kremchek explained

to Jocketty that bleedingmade it appear the tear

was recent.Madson saved 32 games

in 34 chances last year forthe Phillies and was tohave replaced FranciscoCordero as the Reds’ closer.SeanMarshall, obtained

from the Chicago Cubs inDecember, becomes a lead-ing candidate for closer.Hard-throwing AroldisChapman could be shiftedto a bullpen role.“Those are some of the

things we’ll sort through inthe next week or so,” Jock-etty said.

RedsContinued from page 1

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Covingtonsoftball teambids for repeat

ATLANTA (AP) Ken-tucky could’ve cut the netsdown at halftime.Actually, the Wildcats

probably would’ve beengood skipping the cere-mony altogether.A South Regional title is

fine, but what matters tothis bunch of future NBAstars is breaking out thescissors in the Big Easy.Top-seeded Kentucky

advanced to the Final Fourfor the second year in a rowwith a 82-70 blitzing ofBaylor, setting up a Blue-grass showdown with rivalLouisville in the nationalsemifinals Saturday atNew Orleans.Michael Kidd-Gilchrist

scored 19 points, AnthonyDavis added 18 points and11 rebounds, and TerrenceJones dazzled in all theoverlooked areas to leadtheWildcats (36-2) on Sun-day. For all the hoopla sureto surround the next gamein its basketball-crazedstate, Kentucky won’t con-sider the season a successunless it wins two moregames culminating in a na-tional title.“I’m not satisfied yet,”

Kidd-Gilchrist said.This group sure has the

look of a champion, shak-ing off an early blow by theBears (30-8) a very goodteamwith a daring fashionsense that was simply no

match for coach John Cali-pari’s latest group of FabFreshmen. Kentucky tookcontrol with an early 16-0run and led by 20 at half-time.

Kansas 80,North Carolina 67ST.LOUIS (AP) Nothing

personal, Roy.Tyshawn Taylor broke

out of his slump in a bigway Sunday, scoring 22points and leading Kansasback to the Final Four withan 80-67 victory over for-mer coach Roy Williamsand top-seeded North Car-olina.The second-seeded Jay-

hawks (31-6) will play OhioState on Saturday in theirfirst Final Four appearancesince winning the 2008 na-tional championship.“It’s awesome,” center

Jeff Withey said. “There’sno better feeling than thisright now.”And how’s this for sym-

metry? Kansas began thisyear’s tournament inOmaha, Neb., the sameplace as four years ago.As the game ended,Tay-

lor much maligned for hisshooting struggles duringthe first three games of theNCAA tournament ran toKansas fans and raisedboth arms in the air.TravisReleford tossed his sweat-bands into the crowd.

Buccs’ scorehighest amongarea schools

Kentucky, Kansasearn Final Four spots

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CINCINNATI (AP) Reds managerDusty Baker sat back in his chair at thestart of spring training in Arizona andconsidered that it’s his final seasonunder contract.Worried? No. How a manager does

usually comes down to the depth of tal-ent on his roster. And Baker likes whathe has to work with this time around.“It boils down to the more talent you

have, the better your chances are,” Bakersaid. “I genuinely like this team.”The Reds have done a philosophical

about-face.After winning the NL Centralin 2010, they kept the roster virtually in-tact to make a run at another title. In-stead, they fell to third place. Thatprompted a much different approach thispast offseason.They changed closers andadded a setup man. They traded some oftheir best young players for a startingpitcher.No staying pat in 2012. This is a team

that thinks it has a legitimate chance towin a second NL Central title in threeseasons.They know there’s a lot riding on this

year.“I’m excited about this season,” said

outfielder Jay Bruce, whose game-endinghome run secured Cincinnati’s title in2010. “Right now it’s all just on paper,and we’re getting used to playing to-gether. But if we stay healthy, we can do

some really spe-cial things.“We’ve im-

proved ourbullpen.We’ve im-proved our start-ing pitching.Management hasbrought in someoptions for thebench. We have achance to improvein every aspect.”There’s a lot to

like.The Reds have

one of the bestgroups of young players in the division,built around Bruce, 2010MVP JoeyVottoand outfielder Drew Stubbs. The offenseis never an issue they score enough runsto be a contender every year.The rotation let them down last sea-

son, when injuries and illness were amajor issue. Right-hander Johnny Cuetodeveloped a sore shoulder during springtraining. So did right-hander Homer Bai-ley. And right-hander Bronson Arroyocame down with mononucleosis that lefthim even thinner than usual and tiredwell into the season.With the constant changes in the rota-

tion because of injury, the club never goton a good, long streak.General manager Walt Jocketty de-

cided the Reds needed another top-of-the-rotation starter, and got Mat Latosfrom San Diego for a package of playersthat included two former first-rounddraft picks and starter Edinson Volquez.With Arroyo fully recovered from his

mono and his badseason a club-record 46 homersallowed the rota-tion seems solid.“I think we’re in

a better positionbecause there isnot as muchriffraff meaning,we don’t have 10guys competing forfive spots,” Arroyosaid. “We’re prettysolid with six,maybe sevenguys.”

The bullpen had the biggest makeover.Closer Francisco Cordero left as a freeagent, so Jocketty signed former Philliescloser Ryan Madson, who was 32 of 34 insave chances last season. Madson is nowout for the season with an elbow injury.He traded with the Cubs for Sean Mar-shall, a left-handed setup man who had a2.26 ERA last season. Marshall is now acandidate for the closer’s position.Jocketty also restocked his bench,

which was thin at times last season.Baker’s toughest job during spring train-ing was figuring out who to keep.“We have a lot of options for the

bench,” Baker said. “They’re a very im-portant position on this team.These finalcuts are usually the toughest. It’s defi-nitely tougher on a good team. If it’s abad team, you don’t have this many op-tions.”The biggest questions are the left side

of the infield and the sharing arrange-ment at catcher.

Zack Cozart impressed during an 11-game stint as a rookie that ended whenhe tore his non-throwing elbow andneeded reconstructive surgery. He alsohad his right ankle cleaned out. He’ll getto start as long as he’s healthy and isn’toverwhelmed by the promotion to every-day player.Third baseman Scott Rolen turns 37

on April 4 and is coming off surgery onhis non-throwing shoulder, which limitedhim to 65 games last season. If he’shealthy, it’ll be a huge boost for a teamthat looks to him for leadership.The Reds allowed catcher Ramon Her-

nandez to leave as a free agent. They’rereplacing him with the tandem of RyanHanigan and 23-year-old Devin Meso-raco, a first-round pick in June 2007 whois known for his hitting.“Mesoraco has been concentrating

more on catching,” Baker said. “Their No.1 job is to catch, to put the right fingersdown, to block balls in the dirt, to throwrunners out and to be my general on thefield.”The returning players like the way the

front office has been aggressive about im-proving every part of the team.“The front office did a tremendous job,”

Votto said. “It seems to be a trend. Wetook a lot of chances, but we’ve got apretty good return. I’m very happy aboutit.”The Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis

Cardinals lost sluggers Prince Fielderand Albert Pujols as free agents in theoffseason, which also would seem to im-prove Cincinnati’s chances.“I don’t care about that,” Votto said. “I

think we have enough.”

Reds seek to bounce back from ’11

Cincinnati Reds’ Scott Rolen prepares to make a throw in a game against the San Diego Padres in a recentspring training baseball game in Goodyear, Ariz. The Reds are counting on Rolen rebounding from injuriesthat sidelines him for much of last season.

Cincinnati Reds Mat Latos, who the team obtained ina trade with the San Diego Padres, pitches againstthe Los Angeles Angels in a spring training baseballgame earlier this month.The Reds open April 1.

Baseball bracing for an extra wild season

AP PHOTOS

In his last year on apact, Baker says likeswhat he sees in team

BY BEN WALKERAssociated Press

Dusty Baker would like ado-over.He’s still pained by what

happened his first year as abig leaguemanager.His SanFrancisco Giants finishedwith a whopping 103 winsyet missed the playoffs.“I went to the ballpark

every day for 10 days towatch on TV,” he recalledthis spring.“Finally,mywifetold me I had to let it go. Iwas hurting.”No such worries in Base-

ball 2012.Heck, Albert Pujols and

his new teammates on theLos Angeles Angels couldfinish in third place in afour-team division, mindyou and sweep the WorldSeries.The major leagues are

now a major free-for-all,starting March 28 whenSeattle and Oakland openin Tokyo. Credit (or blame)goes to an expanded post-season format that adds twomore wild-card clubs thisOctober.So good luck in your

farewell season, ChipperJones. Welcome back, AndyPettitte and MannyRamirez and nearly 50-year-old Jamie Moyer.Glad you’re feeling better,

Buster Posey and JohanSantana and Adam Wain-wright. Get well soon, RyanHoward and Miguel Cabr-era and Chris Carpenter.

Hope to see you around,Johnny Damon andVladimir Guerrero and RoyOswalt. And nice you couldmake it, Jesus Montero andMatt Moore and, in duetime, fellow rookie BryceHarper.Because it seems like al-

most everyone is in the play-off race this season.In Boston, fans want the

100th anniversary of Fen-way Park to become a year-long celebration ofValentine’s Day. In Texas,the two-time AL championRangers are aworldwide at-traction with Yu Darvish.In Miami, it’s all new: the

ballpark, the lineup, the uni-forms, the expectations andOzzie Guillen. MarkBuehrle,who pitched for theexcitable manager with theChicagoWhite Sox, provideda preview for Marlins new-comers Jose Reyes, CarlosZambrano and Heath Bell.“Ozzie keeps everybody

loose,” Buehrle said. “Whenhe’s talking to you, you kindof laugh and giggle. Andwhen he turns around andwalks away, you look ateverybody and say, ‘Doesanybody understand whathe said?’”There’s hope, too, in

Washington and at WrigleyField, where the Cubbies’faithful want to believeTheoEpstein will end a champi-onship drought dating to1908.It’s possible. Know this:

Five of the past 15World Se-ries champs have been wildcards, including the St.Louis Cardinals last season.To Detroit manager Jim

Leyland, whose team wontheAL Central by 15 games

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Bakerwave from the dugout before their springtraining baseball game against theChicago Cubs in Mesa, Ariz.

More teams willbe in race forplayoff berths

and then signed PrinceFielder, a bigger postseasonfield is OK.“There are a lot of mixed

emotions but as long as theplayoffs don’t get watereddown, it’s fine, but thatwon’thappen in baseball,” he said.To World Series MVP

David Freese, it’s all right.Up to a point, anyway. Re-

member, his Cardinals were10 1-2 games out of firstplace in early Septemberandmade the playoffs underthe previous system.Of course, the Cardinals

benefited from a monumen-tal collapse in the finalweeks by the Braves.TampaBay, meanwhile, took ad-vantage of a similar melt-

down by the Red Sox.The result was the most

thrilling day in recent his-tory, when the playoff pic-ture changed by the pitchduring the last hours of theregular season. In the after-math, Bobby Valentine washired to replace Terry Fran-cona as Boston’s manager.Baseball hopes the extra

wild cards will mean extraexcitement all year long.“I see where it’ll bring

more interest to more citiesand that’s good,” Freesesaid. “But I’m old school.Yougo through a six-monthgrind for a reason. I’m finewith 10 of 30 teams makingthe playoffs, but I wouldn’twant to see any more.”

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EAST REGIONALRegional Semifinals

At TD GardenBostonThursday, March 22Syracuse 64,Wisconsin 63Ohio State 81, Cincinnati 66Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 24Ohio State 77, Syracuse 70

SOUTH REGIONALRegional Semifinals

At The Georgia DomeAtlantaFriday, March 23Baylor 75, Xavier 70Kentucky 102, Indiana 90Regional ChampionshipSunday, March 25Kentucky 82, Baylor 70

MIDWEST REGIONALRegional Semifinals

At Edward Jones DomeSt. LouisFriday, March 23North Carolina 73, Ohio 65 (OT)Kansas 60, N.C. State 57Regional ChampionshipSunday, March 25Kansas 80, North Carolina 67

WEST REGIONALRegional Semifinals

Thursday, March 22At US Airways CenterPhoenixLouisville 57, Michigan State 44Florida 68, Marquette 58Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 24Louisville 72, Florida68

FINAL FOURAt The SuperdomeNew OrleansNational SemifinalsSaturday, March 31Kentucky (36-2) vs. Louisville (30-9), 6:09 p.m.Ohio State (31-7) vs. Kansas (31-6) 8:49 p.m.National ChampionshipMonday, April 2Semifinal winners, 9 p.m.

Woods ends long drought

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)Tiger Woods finallybrought the buzz back tothe very thing that madehim famous winning.Two weeks after an-

other injury scare, andtwo days before his formercoach’s book goes on sale,Woods looked dominantas ever in that red shirton Sunday to win theArnold Palmer Invita-tional.It was his first PGA

Tour victory since a sexscandal at the end of 2009

led to one of the greatestdownfalls in sports. Andwith the Masters only twoweeks away, Woods looksmore capable of ever thanresuming his pursuit ofJack Nicklaus in the ma-jors.Woods closed with a 2-

under 70 for a five-shotwin over Graeme McDow-ell.The question two weeks

ago was when he couldplay again. Now, it’swhether he can get backto player who once ruledgolf.Even though he won

the unofficial ChevronWorld Challenge last De-cember, this was mean-

ingful for Woods a fulltour event against astrong field, and a per-formance so clean that hewas never seriously chal-lenged on the back nine.The final hole was a

mere formality, andWoods tapped his putteron the ground waiting forhis turn, knowing that 30months without a win onthe PGA Tour was aboutto win. He walked off thegreen with his arm ex-tended, waving his cap toa raucous gallery.“It does feel good. It

feels really good,” Woodssaid before signing hiscard. “It’s been a lot ofhard work.”

Woods finished at 13-under 275 for his 72ndPGA Tour win, one shortof Nicklaus for secondplace on the career list.But that’s not the recordWoods wants. He has 14majors, four shot of theNicklaus standard, and hetries to end a four-yeardrought at the Masters,which starts April 5.“I am excited, no

doubt,” Woods said. “I’mlooking forward to the mo-mentum I’ve built here.”It was the first time

Woods had all four roundsunder par since he re-turned from his personalcrisis at the 2010 Mas-ters.

Stewart wins rain-shortened race at FontanaFONTANA, Calif. (AP)

When dark clouds omi-nously obscured majesticMount Baldy north of AutoClub Speedway early inSunday’s race, NASCAR’sdrivers all realized theywere probably in for a shortday on a long track.

Nobody did a better jobracing until the raindropsfell than Tony Stewart.Stewart got his second

NASCAR victory of the sea-son when rain shortenedthe race at Auto ClubSpeedway by 71 laps, ex-tending the defending

Sprint Cup champion’s un-usually strong start.Kyle Busch finished sec-

ond, andDale Earnhardt Jr.added to his good start tothe season in third.“You hate to have it end

with rain like that,” Stewartsaid. “But we’ve lost some

that way, and we didn’tback into the lead.”Stewart has won seven of

the last 15 races, includingLas Vegas last month, in aremarkable stretch of dom-inance for a driver whorarely gets rolling untilsummer.

Although Stewart seesnothing special about hisapproach to the new season,he’s clearly focused. Stewartand new crew chief SteveAddington didn’t mentionthe rain to each other untilmoments before it hit oneend of the 2-mile oval, but

they had already done thework necessary to win.“It’s been nice to get off to

a good start this year theway we have,” said Stewart,who has been even moreimpressive this year despitefiring crew chief DarianGrubb last December.

Tiger wins byfive strokes

Jackson Center loses bid for titleCOLUMBUS (AP) —

Seger Bonifant scoredseven points as Berlin Hi-land got off to a 10-2 lead,finishing with 18 points asthe Hawks beat JacksonCenter 68-36 Saturday tocapture their second con-secutive Division IV boysstate championship.It was a battle of top

teams in the final Associ-ated Press regular-seasonpoll. The Hawks (27-1)were No. 2 then, but notnow.First-team AP All-

Ohioan Dylan Kaufmanhad 17 points and NeilGingerich scored 12 for Hi-land, which captured its

third state title (1992,2011). It became just thesecond repeat small-schoolstate champ since thetournament went to fourdivisions in 1988. Colum-bus Wehrle won threestraight from 1988-90.Andy Hoying, who

shared the player of theyear award in the divisionwith Kaufman, had 15 forJackson Center (27-1).

Dayton Dunbar 54,Elida 52Andre Yates’ bank shot

in traffic with 5 secondsleft powered top-rankedDayton Dunbar, whichneeded an 18-0 second-half run to get back in the

game, to a dramatic 54-52victory over Elida in theDivision II state champi-onship on Saturday night.After Elida all-stater

and co-player of the yearReggie McAdams tied thegame with a free throwwith 11.8 seconds left,Dunbar’s Damarion Geterrebounded his second shotand passed to Yates.Yates went the length of

the court, flipping a left-handed shot high off theglass from the left block. Itset off a wild celebrationby Dunbar (28-0) fans.

Summit Country Day53,

Portsmouth 37

Kevin Johnson had 11points to go with eight as-sists, leading CincinnatiSummit Country Day toits first state champi-onship with a 53-37 vic-tory over Portsmouth onSaturday in the DivisionIII finale.

Pickerington 45,Toledo Whitmer 40Substitute guard Javon

Bess hit nothing but neton two free throws with9.1 seconds left to sealPickerington Central’sfirst boys basketball statechampionship, a 45-40 vic-tory over Toledo Whitmerin the Division I final onSaturday night.