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Recently born at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, as reported by their parents:

• Clairsie Weyer, girl, Theodore and Sarah Weyer, Findlay, March 8.

• Henry Michael Stark, boy, John M. Stark Jr. and Bethany D. Stark, Fostoria, March 9.

• Dietrich James Schumacher, boy, Nathan and Katie Schumacher, Bluff-ton, March 9.

• Kyla Sue Fredritz, girl, Doug and Emily (Kuenzli) Fredritz, Alvada, March 9.

• Vada Jo Rook, girl, Jason and April Rook, Risingsun, March 10.

• Jordyn Isabella Heacock, girl, Neil Heacock and Jaycie Wagner, Findlay, March 10.

• Everleigh Iris Kirkland, girl, James and Ashley Kirkland, Findlay, March 10.

• Greyson Matthew DeAmicis, boy, Chad DeAmicis and Kyla Blan-ton, Carey, March 10.

• Jacob Matthew Burrow, boy, Brandon and Jennifer Burrow, Find-lay, March 12.

• Elyjah Phillip Myers, boy, Bailey Myers, Carey, March 12.

• Nova Lynn Myers, girl, Trent Myers II and Ashlee Humm, Findlay, March 12.

• Zayn A. Nelson, boy, Devon and Keyana Nelson, Findlay, March 13.

• Shayne Lynn Kelly, girl, Luke Edward Kelly and Ashley Lynn Kelly, Findlay, March 13.

• Greenlee Grace Haupert, girl, J.R. and Kamber Haupert, Fostoria, March 14.

• Sloane Riley Weaver, girl, Troy and Samantha Weaver, Arcadia, March 14.

• Avery Rose Byers, girl, Charles E. Byers and Alexandria R. Serrato, Bowling Green, March 14.

• Ezra Michael Beckett, boy, Austin Michael Beckett and Kati Jean Beckett, Defiance, March 15.

• Owen William Downing, boy, Robert Downing and Peggy Griffin, Findlay, March 15.

• Kensley Grace Lumpkins, girl, Summer Danielle Conley, Carey, March 15.

CELEBR ATIONS ! THE COURIERTUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2017T2

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Best-selling books for the week ended March 12, according to the Wall Street Journal.

FICTION 1. “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr.

Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

2. “Dangerous Games” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)

3. “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

4. “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

5. “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

6. “Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet)

7. “Silence Fallen” by Patricia Briggs (Ace)

8. “Norse Mythology” by Neil Gaiman (W.W. Norton)

9. “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

10. “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

NONFICTION 1. “Unshakeable” by Tony Robbins

(Simon & Schuster) 2. “Portraits of Courage” by

George W. Bush (Crown) 3. “The Legend of Zelda” (Piggy-

back) 4. “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance

(Harper) 5. “There’s No Place Like Space”

by Tish Rabe (Random House Books for Young Readers)

6. “Killing the Rising Sun” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co)

7. “Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur?” by Bonnie Worth (Random House Books for Young Readers)

8. “The Little Things” by Andy Andrews (Thomas Nelson)

9. “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson)

10. “The Lose Your Belly Diet” by Travis Stork (Ghost Mountain)

FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Silence Fallen” by Patricia

Briggs (Ace) 2. “The Shack” by William P.

Young (Windblown) 3. “Dangerous Games” by Danielle

Steel (Delacorte) 4. “The Billionaire Takes All” by

J.S. Scott (Montalke Romance) 5. “The Secret Wife” by Gill Paul

(HarperCollins) 6. “Cross the Line” by James Pat-

terson (Little, Brown) 7. “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken

Follett (Penguin) 8. “Brighter than the Sun” by Maya

Banks (Penguin) 9. “The Ship of Brides: A Novel”

by Jojo Moyes (Penguin) 10. “Blush for Me: A Fusion Novel”

The best-sellers list

See BOOKS, Page T3

NEW YORK (AP) — In Milo Ventimiglia’s trailer on the set of NBC’s “This is Us” hangs a black-and-white photo of himsel f at maybe 3 or 4, leaning on his dad’s knee, father and son smiling in the front yard near a tall tree.

Above and below the snapshot are handwritten signs, reminders that have helped the actor mold his popular character, Papa Jack Pear-son, on one of network TV’s weepi-est family shows of the moment:

“Be a Good Father,” Ventimiglia penned above, with “Be a Good Husband” below.

“I saw my mom and dad with a great, great healthy marriage,” said the kind-faced Ventimiglia, neither father nor husband himself.

“I think I would absolutely love to have that, have a family, have a wife, have a partner. You think about who is that one person that you’re going to be with that you can just walk shoulder-to-shoulder with in life, support, and they sup-port you, you know,” he added in a recent interview.

Ventimiglia, at 39 already in the business more than two decades, said he poured other aspects of his parents into the character and his on-screen marriage to Mandy Moore’s Rebecca, including their very human challenges and f laws as the show headed into Tuesday’s first-season finale.

The elder Ventimiglia, Pete, wasn’t a crier, for instance, just as Jack is often the dry-eyed stoic while others in the Pearson clan tear up around him. Oddly, tears — and Jack’s lack thereof — were a topic of conversation between Ven-timiglia and “This is Us” creator Dan Fogelman.

“I didn’t see my father cry until I was maybe 21 years old, when his father passed away,” Ventimi-glia said. “And I thought to myself, ‘Wow I’ve never seen my dad cry, until then. Why is that? ’ And I started breaking that apart and thinking, ‘I believe that my father was trying to give me strength as a young man moving forward in life.’”

While on another NBC hit, “Heroes,” Ventimiglia spent time on a USO tour, hanging with vet-erans who served in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. He remains com-mitted to the cause of helping vets. His dad was an enlistee during the Vietnam War, in the Army Corps of Engineers. He built bridges and roads and bases.

“I know he was in some pretty hot spots,” Ventimiglia said. “He was 20, 21 years old. To know that my father experienced war, like some of my friends have now expe-rienced war, it gives me a different perspective and care when it comes to just what they’ve seen at such a young age.”

A teaser of the season’s closer revealed that Jack, too, is a Viet-nam vet, serving as a mechanic.

“I very much likened that to my father’s experiences,” Ventimiglia said. “My father, it broke his heart being in Vietnam and seeing what was happening to the people there. There’s gotta be a better way to solve the problems that we have.”

Milo Ventimiglia poured his dad into Jack on ‘This is Us’

CELEBR ATIONS !THE COURIERTUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2017 T3

by Kristen Proby (HarperCollins) NONFICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Lost City of the Monkey God”

by Douglas Preston (Grand Central Publishing)

2. “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance (HarperCollins)

3. “Sickened” by Julie Gregory (Random House)

4. “Ripper” by Patricia Cornwell (Thomas & Mercer)

5. “100 Days of Real Food” by Lisa Leake (HarperCollins)

6. “Clementine” by Sonia Purnell (Penguin)

7. “Nudge” by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (Penguin)

8. “Catch Me If You Can” by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding (Crown Archetype)

9. “Authentic Mexican” by Rick Bayless (HarperCollins)

10. “The $100 Startup” by Chris Guillebeau (Crown)

NPD BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from about 16,000 loca-tions across the U.S., representing about 85 percent of the nation’s book sales. Print-book data provid-ers include all major booksellers and web retailers, and food stores. E-book data providers include all major e-book retailers. Free e-books and those sold for less than 99 cents are excluded. The fiction and non-fiction lists in all formats include both adult and juvenile titles; the business list includes only adult titles. The combined lists track sales by title across all print and e-book formats; audio books are excluded. Refer questions to Michael.Boone@wsj.com.

BooksContinued from page T2

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Tuesday, March 21, the 80th day of 2017. There are 285 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On March 21, 1952, the Moondog

Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena.

On this date: In 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the

former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy.

In 1685, composer Johann Sebas-tian Bach was born in Eisenach, Ger-many.

In 1804, the French civil code, or the “Code Napoleon” as it was later called, was adopted.

In 1925, Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signed the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. (Ten-nessee repealed the law in 1967.)

In 1935, Persia officially changed its name to Iran.

In 1946, the recently created United Nations Security Council set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in The Bronx, New York.

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Min-ister Harold Macmillan began a four-day conference in Bermuda.

In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney Gen-eral Robert F. Kennedy.

In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Dunn v. Blumstein, ruled that states may not require at least a year’s resi-dency for voting eligibility.

In 1981, Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama, was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (A lawsuit brought by Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae Donald, later resulted in a landmark judgment that bank-rupted one Klan organization.)

In 1997, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slash-ing nuclear weapons arsenals.

In 2006, the social media web-site Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”

Ten years ago: Former Vice President Al Gore

made an emotional return to Con-gress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global

warming; skeptical Republicans questioned the science behind his climate-change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Five years ago: A previously divided U.N. Secu-

rity Council sent a strong and united message to the Syrian government and opposition to immediately imple-ment proposals by international envoy Kofi Annan to end Syria’s yearlong bloodshed.

Meting out unprecedented punish-ment for a bounty system that tar-geted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for the coming season and indefinitely banned the team’s former defensive coordinator; in addition to other sanctions, Commissioner Roger Goodell fined the Saints $500,000 and took away their second-round draft picks for the current year and the next.

One year ago: Laying bare a half-century of ten-

sions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prod-ded each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana.

A former U.S. State Department employee who had used his govern-ment-issued computer to prey on vulnerable young women and manip-ulate them into sharing nude photos was sentenced in Atlanta to five years in federal prison.

Thought for today: “History is principally the inaccu-

rate narration of events which ought not to have happened.” — Ernest Albert Hooten, American anthropolo-gist (1887-1954).

Today in history

U.S. Air Force Airman Javier S. Garcia graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Garcia is the son of Samuel Garcia, of Findlay, and Vanessa Caraballo of Ottawa. He is a 2016 graduate of Ottawa-Glandorf High School.

U.S. Air Force Airman Astacia C. Richardson graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Richardson is the daughter of Stacy Kern and stepdaughter of Marcus Kramb of Fostoria. She gradu-ated in 2016 from Hopewell-Loudon High School.

In Service

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Who is taking up residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this summer.

Caesars Entertainment announced Monday that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will become the first rock band to take up residence at the hotel-casino’s Colosseum since the venue opened in 2003.

The first run opens July 29 with six shows through Aug. 11. Tickets go on Friday at prices from $76 to $501.

The Who have sold more than 100 million records since forming in 1964. Their hit albums include “My Genera-tion,” “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia.”

The Who will take up Las Vegas residency this summer

By PABLO GORONDI ASSOCIATED PRESS

Colin Hay, “Fierce Mercy” (Com-pass Records)

Colin Hay’s pop skills get a Nashville customization on “Fierce Mercy,” a frequently introspective album that ranks among the best by the former Men at Work front man.

Hay’s songwriting elegance has no need for bells and whistles, but a graceful string section and classic arrangements blending folk, coun-try rock and pop provide an attrac-tive foundation for as strong a set of songs as he’s recorded in a 13-album solo career.

Hay’s vocals are one of the most easily recognizable in rock and he has the ability to adapt it to a wide array of settings and styles without losing any of its character and emo-tion.

Whether eulogizing his departed mother on “She Was the Love of

Mine,” relating the return home of a war veteran on “Frozen Fields of Snow” or recounting an opportunity for nostalgia caused by a seemingly fickle May-September romance on “I’m Going to Get You Stoned,” Hay’s scenarios are never forced or artificial.

“Two Friends,” written by fre-quent collaborator Michael Geor-giades, is about a couple of his pals who died in the same week.

The Nashville sessions — several tunes were also recorded in Califor-nia — provide a strong opening with “Come Tumbling Down.”

As for musical touchstones, there are echoes of late ‘80s R.E.M. in “I’m Inside Outside In,” an Elton John piano solo would fit snugly on “The Best in Me” and Roy Orbison could have contributed “Secret Love” to a Traveling Wilburys album.

A distinguished bunch, as are Colin Hay’s songs.

REview: Colin Hay makes Nashville pit stop on ‘Fierce Mercy’

Congratulations to the Findlay Area Swim Team (FAST)! The team had 8 swimmers qualify to swim at the Short Course Junior Olympic State Championship. The meet was held March 10-12 at The Ohio State University.

The swimmers included 6 girls and 2 boys from Findlay, Ada and Ottawa. All swimmers competing at this championship meet must attain a specifi c time standard assigned to each event by age group to qualify. They represent the top swimmers in the state. These athletes have been preparing for this meet since September. They practice 5-6 days a week year round in order to compete at this level. FAST is a USA Swimming team that provides professional swim training at all levels in a fun, positive, team environment. www.fastswim.com.

Rose-SandersMr. and Mrs. Mark Rose, of

Arlington, announce the engagement of their daughter, Marisa, to Robert Paul (Robbie) Sanders. The couple met while both were members of The Hancock Young Guns, a competitive trap shooting team.

Marisa graduated from Arlington High School in 2013, and Bluffton University in December 2016, with a degree in History Education. She is employed by Renhill Group as a substitute teacher.

Robbie is the son of Brian Sanders and Melissa Sanders, of Findlay. He graduated from Van Buren High School in 2013, and is a machinist at RPM Carbide, in Arcadia.

The couple will be married May 20, 2017 at First Lutheran Church, in Findlay, Ohio. They will reside in Findlay, Ohio.

ENGAGEMENT

This week’s celebrity birthdays include:

Sunday: Actress Renee Taylor (“The

Nanny”) is 84. Actress Phyllis Newman (“To Tell The Truth”) is 84. Actress Ursula Andress (“Dr. No,” “Casino Royale”) is 81. Singer Clar-ence “Frogman” Henry is 80. Singer Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters is 71. Actress Glenn Close is 70. Film producer Harvey Weinstein is 65. Actor Bruce Willis is 62. Actress Mary Scheer (“iCarly,” “MadTV”) is 54. Guitarist-keyboardist Gert Bet-tens of K’s Choice is 47. Rapper Bun B of UGK is 44. Drummer Zach Lind of Jimmy Eat World is 41. Actress Abby Brammell is 38. Actor Craig Lamar Traylor (“Malcolm in the Middle”) is 28. Actor Philip Bolden (“Are We There Yet?”) is 22.

Yesterday: Actor-producer Carl Reiner is

95. Actor Hal Linden is 86. Coun-try singer Don Edwards is 78. Coun-try singer-guitarist Ranger Doug of Riders in the Sky is 71. Actor Wil-liam Hurt is 67. Drummer Carl Palmer (Asia; Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 67. Guitarist Jimmie Vaughan (Fabulous Thunder-birds) is 66. Guitarist Jimmy Seales of Shenandoah is 63. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 60. Director Spike Lee is 60. Actress Theresa Rus-sell is 60. Actress Holly Hunter is 59. Drummer Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats) is 56. Model Kathy Ireland is 54. Actor David Thewlis (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”) is 54. Guitarist Adrian Oxaal of James is 52. Actress Jessica Lundy (“Party of Five,” “Hope and Gloria”) is 51. Actress Liza Snyder (“Yes, Dear”) is 49. Actor Michael Rapaport (“Boston Public”) is 47. Actor Alexander Chaplin (“Spin City”) is 46. Actor Cedric Yar-brough (“Speechless,” “Reno 911!”) is 44. Actress Paula Garces (“Harold and Kumar” films) is 43. Singer Chester Bennington of Linkin Park is 41. Michael Genadry (“Ed”) is 39. Actress Bianca Lawson (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 38. Comedian Mikey Day (“Saturday Night Live”) is 37. Guitarist Nick Wheeler of All-Amer-ican Rejects is 35. Actress Christy Carlson Romano (“Even Stevens,” “Kim Possible”) is 33. Actress Ruby Rose (“Orange is the New Black”) is 31.

Today: Actress Kathleen Widdoes (“As

the World Turns”) is 78. Songwriter Chip Taylor (“Wild Thing”) is 77. Singer-guitarist Keith Potger of The Seekers is 76. Singer-keyboardist Rose Stone of Sly and the Family Stone is 72. Actor Timothy Dalton is 71. Singer-guitarist Ray Dorset of

Mungo Jerry is 71. Singer Eddie Money is 68. Singer-guitarist Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 67. Bassist Conrad Lozano of Los Lobos is 66. Singer Russell Thompkins Jr. of The Stylistics is 66. Comedian Brad Hall (“Saturday Night Live”) is 59. Actress Sabrina LeBeauf (“The Cosby Show”) is 59. Actor Gary Oldman is 59. Actress Kassie Depaiva (“Days of Our Lives”) is 56. Actor Matthew Broderick is 55. Actress-comedian Rosie O’Donnell is 55. MC Maxim of Prod-igy is 50. Keyboardist Jonas “Joker” Berggren of Ace of Base is 50. Guitar-ist Andrew Copeland of Sister Hazel is 49. DJ Premier of Gang Starr is 48. Actress Laura Allen is 43. Actor Scott Eastwood (“The Longest Ride”) is 31. Actor Forrest Wheeler (“Fresh Off The Boat”) is 13.

Tomorrow: Composer Stephen Sondheim

is 87. Actor William Shatner is 86. Actor M. Emmet Walsh is 82. Singer Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy is 76. Singer-guitarist George Benson is 74. News anchor Wolf Blitzer is 69. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 69. Actress Fanny Ardant is 68. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 65. Country singer James House is 62. Actress Lena Olin is 62. Singer-actress Stephanie Mills is 60. Actor Matthew Modine is 58. Comedian Keegan-Michael Key of Key and Peele is 46. Actor Guillermo Diaz (“Scandal”) is 42. Actress Anne Dudek (“Mad Men”) is 42. Actress Kellie Williams (“Family Matters”) is 41. Actress Reese Witherspoon is 41. Drum-mer John Otto of Limp Bizkit is 40. Actress Tiffany Dupont (“Murder in the First”) is 36. Rapper Mims is 36. Actress Constance Wu (“Fresh Off The Boat”) is 35. Guitarist Lincoln Parish of Cage The Elephant is 27.

Thursday: Comedian Marty Allen of Allen

and Rossi is 95. Singer Ric Ocasek (The Cars) is 68. Singer Chaka Khan is 64. Actress Amanda Plummer is 60. Actress Catherine Keener is 58. Actress Hope Davis (“About Schmidt”) is 53. Actor Rich-ard Grieco is 52. Country drummer Kevin Griffin of Yankee Grey is 52. Actress Marin Hinkle (“Two and A Half Men”) is 51. Singer-keyboardist Damon Albarn of Blur is 49. Drum-mer John Humphrey of The Nixons is 47. Bandleader Reggie Watts (“The Late Late Show with James Corden”) is 45. Actor Randall Park (“The Interview,” “Fresh Off The Boat”) is 43. Actress Michelle Monaghan is 41. Actress Keri Rus-sell is 41. Gossip blogger Perez Hilton is 39. Singer Paul Martin of Marshall Dyllon is 39. Actress Nich-

olle Tom (“The Nanny”) is 39. Friday: Actor R. Lee Ermey (“Full

Metal Jacket”) is 73. Singer Nick Lowe is 68. Bassist Dougie Thom-son of Supertramp is 66. Come-dian Louie Anderson is 64. Actor Robert Carradine is 63. Actress Donna Pescow is 63. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 57. DJ Rodney “Kool Kollie” Terry of Ghosttown DJs is 56. TV personality Star Jones is 55. Guitarist Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers is 53. Actor Peter Jacobson (“House”) is 52. Singer-violinist Sharon Corr of The Corrs is 47. Actress Lauren Bowles (“True Blood”) is 47. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 47. Rapper Maceo of De La Soul is 47. Actress Megyn Price (“Rules of Engagement,” “Grounded For Life”) is 46. Actor Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) is 44. Drummer Chad Butler of Switchfoot is 43. Actress Alyson Hannigan (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Buffy The Vam-pire Slayer”) is 43. Actress Olivia Burnette (“Sons of Anarchy”) is 40. Actress Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Help”) is 40. Actor Amir Arison (“The Blacklist”)

is 39. Actress Lake Bell (“The Practice”) is 38. Bassist Benj Ger-shman of O.A.R. is 37. Bassist Jesse Phillips of St. Paul and the Broken Bones is 37. Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes (“The Nativity Story,” “Whale Rider”) is 27.

Saturday: Singer Anita Bryant is 77.

Singer Aretha Franklin is 75. Actor Paul Michael Glaser (TV’s “Starsky and Hutch”) is 74. Musi-cian Elton John is 70. Actress Bonnie Bedelia is 69. Actress-come-dian Mary Gross is 64. Actor James McDaniel (“NYPD Blue”) is 59. Sax-ophonist Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet is 57. Actress Brenda Strong (“Desperate Housewives”) is 57. Actress Marcia Cross (“Desperate Housewives”) is 55. Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton (“The Practice”) is 53. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is 52. Turner Classics Movies host Ben Mankiewicz is 50. Singer Mela-nie Blatt of All Saints is 42. Actor Domenick Lombardozzi (“Board-walk Empire”) is 41. Actor Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies”) is 38. Comedian Alex Moffat (“Saturday Night Live”) is 35. Singer Katharine McPhee (“Smash,” “American Idol”) is 33. Rapper Big Sean is 29. Producer Ryan Lewis of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis is 29. Actor Matthew Beard (“The Imitation Game”) is 28. Singer-actress Aly Michalka of Aly and AJ (“Hellcats”) is 28.

Happy birthday to all

CELEBR ATIONS ! THE COURIERTUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2017T4

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A 200-year-old tavern has been moved in its entirety from Massachu-setts to Connecticut.

The MetroWest Daily News reports that hundreds of pieces of the nine-room Woodbury Tavern that had been stored in a barn behind Paul Bourdon’s Southborough, Mas-sachusetts, home were trucked about 100 miles to Guilford, Connecticut, on Saturday.

The federal-style building dates to 1808. In 2006, Bourdon bought and dismantled it, hoping to rebuild it for use as a home. But the project proved too costly and time-consuming.

Bill Butterly saw the tavern for sale online and jumped.

Butterly, who has experience with similar projects, plans to reconstruct the tavern and use it as a home on his property in Guilford. A plaque detailing the building’s history will be placed outside.

200-year-old tavern moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

GRACE STEEGMAN

CELEBRATING 100 YEARSMARCH 25, 2017

With Love,From Your Family

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey developer who has long wanted to bring a family water park to Atlantic City plans to build one at a former casino.

Ronald Young’s R&R Development Group said Monday it has bought the former Atlantic Club casino and plans to turn it into a non-gambling family resort. He told The Associated Press his group plans to invest $135 million into hotel renovations and construc-tion of an indoor water park, and hopes to have 300 hotel rooms open by the fall.

The water park will be the cen-terpiece of the project at the Board-walk site that once was Steve Wynn’s Golden Nugget casino in the early days of casino gambling in Atlantic City. Young said he was rebuffed in his offer to build a water park and marina near the former Bader Field airport site, where a satellite campus for Stockton University is now being built.

“It would have been the most fabu-lous thing that Atlantic City had ever done,” he said. “But that’s OK. This

project will be a great family attrac-tion, and the people I’m bringing in are the best at doing water parks.”

If it comes to fruition, the project will mark the third of five Atlantic City casinos that shut down since 2014 coming back to life. The former Show-boat casino is open as a non-gambling hotel, and Hard Rock International is reopening the former Trump Taj Mahal as a new casino next year.

R&R bought the property for an undisclosed price from Clearwater, Florida-based TJM Properties, which in turn bought it from former owner Caesars Entertainment following the shutdown. TJM will continue to hold an ownership stake in the property, Young said.

Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian said Young brought a group of inves-tors to the city a year ago with plans for a water park that did not come to fruition.

“However, I believe that this new location and timing are much better to assure success,” Guardian said. “Mr. Young and his investors have a world class indoor waterpark design

that will be a great use for the Atlantic Club.”

Young said restoring casino gam-bling at the site was never given a thought.

“I don’t even want to say the ‘C’ word,” he said.

The Atlantic Club is one of sev-eral former casino properties in Atlantic City whose use is limited by deed restrictions imposed by former owners, stating that they cannot be used as casinos for a specified length of time.

The Atlantic Club was the first of four Atlantic City casinos to close in 2014.

In January 2016, a deal to sell the property to Endeavor Property Group fell through. Endeavor AC, a property company based in Ambler, Pennsylva-nia, had announced plans in 2015 to convert the Atlantic Club into a non-casino resort with an 81,000-square-foot, indoor-outdoor water park. Plans also called for conference and event facilities, a family entertainment center, new restaurants and retail space along the Boardwalk.

Water park eyed at ex-Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Mobile City Clerk Lisa Lambert says she’s been complaining for years about a stench in her ninth-floor office, and now she knows what caused it: dead rats and pigeons behind a wall.

Lambert tells Al.com that work crews tore out the plasterboard wall last week and found the creatures’ bodies.

Mobile County owns the 10-story Government Plaza building, which was built in the early 1990s.

The County Commission “just became aware of the situation” in Lambert’s office, spokeswoman Dena Pollard said.

“We are in the process of evaluat-ing the issue and planning on how to proceed,” said Pollard.

Lambert has moved to a nearby office for now.

She said she thinks $3.2 million in roof work in 2014 led to the problems with her office, which she blames for her migraines and sinus trouble.

She first heard pigeons in the walls as the work was going on, she said.

“The next thing you know, we got gnats and blow flies coming out the vents,” Lambert said.

The 10th-floor office above hers was occupied by Colby Cooper, who served until recently as the mayor’s chief of staff. Lambert said they’d sometimes talk about the stench.

“We would ask each other if there had been a sewage leak somewhere,” Lambert said.

In an email to AL.com, Cooper said he had an air purifier in his office for over a year. He said the city “con-stantly” informed county officials about the odor, “but to no avail.”

“The stench was so potent (espe-cially after a rain) on a regular basis it smelled like a barnyard and was nau-seating,” Cooper wrote. “I am glad the issue, as disgusting as it is, has been identified and is being remedied.”

Work crews cut into Cooper’s office wall, found rats, and put glue traps and odor-elimination bags were placed inside the wall, Lambert said.

But the problems persisted in her office.

“The odor was so bad that I was having migraines,” Lambert said. “I didn’t know what it was.”

When work crews cut out a hole into a portion of a wall on the eastern side of Lambert’s office last month, she said, “feathers flew out.” That was when the dead rats and pigeons were discovered, she said. Mold had also accumulated inside the walls.

Lambert, who has worked at Gov-ernment Plaza since it opened, said she’s hopeful that she can return to her old office, but she’s worried about the effects on her health.

“I’ve been to the doctor about this,” she said.

That stinks? Clerk says dead rats, pigeons leave awful odor

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected a black hole that’s taken a record-breaking decade to devour a star — and it’s still chew-ing away.

The food fest is happening in a small galaxy 1.8 billion light-years from Earth.

University of New Hampshire research scientist Dacheng (dah-CHENG) Lin said that black hole feed-ing frenzies have been observed since the 1990s, but they’ve lasted just a year. At 11 years and counting, this is the lon-gest known one yet.

Lin and his team used data from orbiting X-ray telescopes to study the monstrous munching. X-ray flares erupt when a star gets swallowed by a black hole and cooked millions of degrees. Black holes clearly like their stars well done.

“We have witnessed a star’s spectacu-lar and prolonged demise,” Lin said in a statement.

The X-rays coming from this black hole surpass expectations in another way.

“For most of the time we’ve been looking at this object, it has been grow-ing rapidly,” said the Harvard-Smith-sonian Center for Astrophysics’ James Guillochon, a co-author. “This tells us something unusual — like a star twice as heavy as our Sun — is being fed into the black hole.”

The binge eating by this particular black hole began around July 2005. Based on computer models, the feasting should taper off over the next decade.

The discovery was reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Binge Eater: Black hole taking over decade to devour star

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife officials warned people Tuesday to keep their distance from grumpy moose after two close calls this past weekend.

One of the animals walked up behind a woman tending chickens in the city of Homer on Sunday and started eating chicken food from a bucket she carried. When she turned, the startled moose kicked her.

“It pulled its nose out of the bucket, looked at her, reared back and kicked her right in the noggin’,” said Jason Her-reman, assistant area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Another agitated moose twice charged skiers in a lift line Saturday at Alyeska Resort, a downhill ski venue in the resort town of Girdwood, said Ken Marsh, spokesman for Fish and Game.

“Not all moose are looking for a fight right now, but they do tend to get a little cranky this time of year,” Marsh said.

In summer, moose eat lush leaves but turn to twigs and other woody material in winter, which are not as nutritious, biologists said. The animals are tired and ready for spring, Marsh said.

Most Alaska residents know better than to get near a moose in mating season or between a moose mother and a new calf, but they generally regard the

animals as docile. At the ski resort, the moose was

positioned at a blind corner. Skiers had to pass the animal to get to the lift line. As more skiers appeared, the moose became increasingly agitated and charged people twice.

“It sort of ended up resembling the running of the bulls in Pamplona,” Marsh said.

Feeding moose can trigger attacks, and the woman who was kicked in the head unintentionally was doing just that, Herreman said.

She had been allowing her chickens to roam and would periodically throw them feed, not knowing that a moose born last year had been chasing the chickens off to eat the feed, he said.

The young moose defended itself as it would against a wolf: “They rear up on their back legs a little bit and then kick out with their front ones,” Herre-man said.

The woman had a welt on her head afterward. A blow to the head from a large cow could have been fatal, he said. Adult moose range from 800-pound small cows to 1,600-pound large adult bulls.

“Now she’s keeping her chickens in the coop and feeding them in the coop,” Herreman said.

Alaska residents warned to give grumpy moose their space

In Memory ofRosaline M. (Lydick)

WheelerMarch 31, 1925 ~ March 18, 2013

WE MISS YOU A LOT& WISH YOU WERE HOME

Jim, Grandson Tyler,Grandaughter Brittney, Tyler K.,

Tom, Richard & FamilyBill & FamilyEd & Family

MarieMary & Mary Alice Hobbs & Family

Grandchildren & Great-Grandchildren& Friends

In Loving Memory of

DOC THOMASMay 11, 1940 ~ March 23, 2015

Wherever I go,Whatever I do

Memories keep menear to you.

Miss You Every DayLove, Your Wife Dee

& Family

The CourierIf you read it in The CourierThen you know it’s all true.The reporters at The CourierAre working hard for you.

There’s news, views and want ads,Recipes and funnies too.Sports, of course, and new fads,And Trump news for us too!

Then, of course, on each TuesdayCelebrations are in store.There are Birthdays, Anniversaries,Weddings, Poetry, and so much more.

So read it in The CourierFor you know it’s all true.The reporters at The CourierAre working hard for you.

Ellie GustinFindlay

Truck Drivin’ Son of a?Hey trucker, you’re drivin’ way too fastHey trucker, now ya won’t let me passHey trucker, you sprayed my car with slushHey trucker, don’t think I like you muchWhen we’re out here on this highwayyou always box me inWhat ya doin’ out here anywaydrivin’ in this wind?Hey trucker, you’re tailgatin’ way too closeHey trucker, that’s what I dislike the

mostBut you brought me my cigarettes,my grill and ol’ Jim BeamYou bring me my T-bone steaksand my nudie magazinesHey trucker, maybe I misspokeHey trucker, can’t ya take a jokeHey trucker, bring your truckin’ butt over hereHey trucker, I’m buyin’ you a beer.

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Injured SoulWe all have an injured soul;a past of woes untold.Regrets we piled up so high;now chained in straps so cold.

With a troubled mind,and a heart that weeps;emotions in the ocean deep.Down in our injured soul we keep.

Life seems to be so bittersweet;so mixed and tossed within the sea.Let Christ break your chains and set you free,for time waits not for you or me.

So stop and put the past behind;forget your earthly woes.Turn your eyes now upon Jesus;your pain He understands and knows.

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Poetry Corner

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NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t an ordinary police call for someone trying to duck a subway fare.

New York City officers found themselves chasing down a duck that strayed onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station Friday morning.

Police arrived at the Jefferson Street station on the L line around 9 a.m. to find the duck down in the tracks.

Officers Frantz Chauvet and Anastasiya Mishchenko and detec-tives Kevin Conway and Michael Black worked to rescue it.

The New York Police Depart-ment’s Transit Bureau posted video on Twitter of the officers carrying the bird along the platform, and later releasing the duck in a park from a police-tape-wrapped box.

The bird hopped out and wad-dled off down a snowy path.

Chief Joseph Fox quipped that the “apprehension went swim-mingly.”

Quacks on the tracks: NYPD rescues duck from subway line

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