Board makes financial moves

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
The Commercial Review
Portland, Indiana 47371
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www.thecr.com
Board makes financial moves
By JACK RONALD
Jay Schools will receive
an estimated $391,000 less
in its State Basic Grant in
2015 under the final version of the school funding formula adopted by
the Indiana General
Assembly.
But because of cost-cutting measures already
put in place that should
translate to a negative
cash flow of $192,000 for
the year and leave the
Jay Schools sells Garfield building,
won’t replace some retiring teachers
school corporation with a
year-end general fund
balance of about $984,000.
And more steps continue to be taken to improve
the financial situation.
On Monday, the Jay
School Board:
•Agreed to sell the former Garfield building to
Chris
Fennig
of
MyFarms for $82,200.
•Approved refinancing
bonds
from
an
of
improvement project at
Jay County High School,
a move that should produce more than enough
cash to pay off an energy
savings contract and
leave some money for capital projects.
•Learned 19 retirements and resignations
had been received so far
this spring and that not
all the positions will be
filled with new employees.
Board members have
been
struggling
for
months to get a handle on
general fund expenditures and have been faced
with proposals from
Superintendent Tim Long
that would close schools
and re-shuffle students in
the county.
But board president
Mike Masters noted after
Monday’s meeting that
it’s expected that any
school closing decision
would be part of a larger
cost-cutting strategy and,
while not off the table,
isn’t likely to come before
the board soon.
See Makes page 5
Judge
weighs
BMV
lawsuit
By RICK CALLAHAN
Associated Press
The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney
Walter works
Ben Walter of Jesse Walter Construction screws a gutter into place Monday evening while working with Ty
Huntsman at a home at 1105 W. Main St. in Portland.
Carrera, Pennville get abatements
By KATHRYNE RUBRIGHT
Portland City Council Monday unanimously approved two
tax abatements for Pennville
Custom Cabinetry and Carrera
Manufacturing.
Council also got an update on
blight elimination and reset the
tax rate on the Cumulative Capital Development Fund.
Pennville Custom Cabinetry’s
abatement is for $325,000 in real
property over 10 years. The company will add 7,000 square feet
to its facility, as well as three
new positions.
Carrera’s abatement was originally presented to council in
October. It is now investing
twice as much, but creating
fewer jobs.
“We’re
making
another
investment of about another
$1.2, $1.3 million to buy some
additional presses, improve
some automation, and with that
came some lower projections on
the new employees,” company
president Jim Hiester said.
Now the company expects to
add 60 new jobs instead of the
previously projected 102, said
Bill Bradley, executive director
of Jay County Development Corporation.
The amended abatement for
$100,000 in real property and
$2.4 million in personal property was approved without being
returned to the tax abatement
advisory committee. Council
member Judy Aker, who is also
a member of that committee,
motioned to approve the abatement.
Council members Bill Gibson,
Mark Hedges, Mike Brewster,
Don Gillespie, Kent McClung,
Kip Robinette and Aker also
unanimously approved a $75,000
loan to Carrera. The loan is the
city’s required matching funding for a grant Carrera is applying for.
The loan will essentially be a
grant that will not need repaid
if Carrera invests and creates
jobs according to the development agreement, Mayor Randy
Geesaman said.
Carrera has a “proven track
record in Portland,” something
council member Kent McClung
said he took into account in voting.
Rayanna A. Binder, director
of Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority’s Blight Elimination Program, spoke about Portland’s
progress in the program. Seven
properties are included, with
$15,000 per property for acquisition and demolition covered.
See Abatements page 2
Iraqis forces
repel IS attack
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
and SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces and
allied Sunni tribesmen repelled
an Islamic State attack overnight
on a town west of Baghdad, a
tribal leader said today, as the
government renewed its commitment to arm anti-militant Sunni
tribes following the loss of the
key city of Ramadi.
IS militants routed Iraqi
troops and seized Ramadi, the
Anbar provincial capital, over
the weekend in their most significant advance since a U.S.-led
coalition
began
airstrikes
against the extremists last summer.
The Cabinet said today that
the Sunni tribesmen in Anbar
province would be armed in
coordination with the local government. The move is apparentAssociated Press
ly aimed at winning the Sunnis
in embattled Anbar ahead of
Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi wait in the open
decisive offensive to retake
Monday as security forces close the Bzebiz bridge west of
Ramadi.
Baghdad, Iraq, to prevent them from crossing to the capital.
See Repel page 6
Deaths
Weather
In review
James Bailey, 80, Geneva
Details on page 2.
The high temperature Monday at Portland’s weather station was 78 degrees. There was
0.2 inches of rain, and the low
this morning was 48.
Tonight’s low will be 40, and
the high Wednesday will be 58
under partly sunny skies.
For an extended forecast,
see page 2.
United Way of Jay County,
Community and Family Services and Second Harvest Food
Bank will hold a free food tailgate from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday at Jay County
Fairgrounds. Those participating are asked to use the
Morton Street entrance.
Income verification is not
required.
INDIANAPOLIS — A judge is
weighing the fate of a lawsuit
targeting the Bureau of Motor
Vehicles after he heard arguments Monday in the case
alleging that the BMV overcharged motorists by tens of
millions of dollars for fees and
services.
Monday’s hearing came a
week after an independent
audit concluded, in part, that
the BMV may have overcharged motorists more than
the $60 million it has previously disclosed.
Carl Hayes, a private attorney for the BMV, asked Marion
Superior Court Judge John
Hanley to approve the agency’s
motion for summary judgment
and dismiss the suit. He
argued, among other points,
that the woman named as having lodged the suit didn’t file a
required tort claim notice
before filing the complaint in
December 2013.
Hayes, who called the case a
“costly, legally flawed lawsuit,”
also told Hanley that while
Tammy Raab had paid some
BMV fees the Indianapolis
woman lacks standing to sue
for repayment of dozens of
other agency fees because she
has never paid those.
“Basically all of the BMV’s
fees are included in the lawsuit
at this point,” he told the judge.
Hayes also said Raab lacks
the private right to ask a judge
to enforce the BMV’s “ratedefining statutes.”
Attorney Irwin Levin, who
filed the suit, argued that
because the complaint seeks to
force the BMV to return millions of dollars that resulted in
its “unjust enrichment” by
overcharging for vehicle registrations and other services, it’s
not a tort claim at all and therefore no tort claim notice was
needed.
Levin also said in arguing for
allowing the suit to proceed to
trial that the BMV is trying to
end the case by contending that
citizens such as Raab cannot
seek reimbursement of fees for
which they were overcharged.
“If the BMV’s theory was law
no citizen would ever be able to
get their money back from the
BMV,” he said.
Hayes responded later that
that’s not the case and refund
forms are available in BMV
license branches.
The lawsuit does not specify
how much it seeks to have
repaid to motorists, but Levin’s
law firm has previously
described that amount as being
in the tens of millions of dollars.
See BMV page 2
Coming up
Wednesday — Indiana Lt.
Gov. Sue Ellspermann makes
visit to Dunkirk. Story, photo.
Friday — Coverage of the
JCHS girls tennis sectional
tournament.
Local/Indiana
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State is pushing against new rules
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
Indiana environmental officials and Republican Gov.
Mike Pence are pushing
back against new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency that
would reduce the amount
of ozone levels allowed in
the atmosphere.
Indiana Department of
Environmental Management officials say the
state’s current air quality
improvements are adequate. They’re also downplaying what medical
researchers say is an unacceptable public health risk,
saying that consensus science behind the proposed
changes can’t be trusted,
the Indianapolis Star
reported.
More than 1,000 studies
have proved that breathing
ozone reduces the ability of
even the healthiest lungs to
draw in air, according to
public health researchers.
And those suffering from
asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and pneumonia are
particularly at risk.
But the state’s top airquality regulators claim
lowering ozone levels won’t
help people with asthma
and other conditions made
worse by ozone, and they
argue that the proposal will
kill jobs and diminish the
quality of life in Indiana.
“Raising the cost of living for Hoosiers without
obtaining a corresponding
increase in their quality of
life, especially in documented health improvements, decreases the overall quality of life for the
Hoosiers we are here to pro-
tect,” Indiana Department
of Environmental Management Commissioner Tom
Easterly said in a press
release.
In November, the Environmental
Protection
Agency proposed that
smog-forming ozone be limited from 75 parts per billion to as low as 60 parts per
billion. The federal agency
estimates that in the next
decade the new regulations
would prevent between
320,000 and 960,000 asthma
attacks in children, as well
as between 710 and 4,300
premature deaths. The proposal is in response to scientific evidence showing
how lung function is
reduced even in healthy
people when exposed to the
current ozone levels, public
health officials said.
Abatements ...
Continued from page 1
The city is still working on
acquiring two of the seven properties, Geesaman said. Binder
said the city could substitute
another qualifying property if
necessary.
Properties first go through
Indiana Landmarks to make
sure none are historically
important, and then pre-demolition inspections are done.
Binder estimated Portland
might finish acquiring properties in late summer and see
them demolished during the
fall.
“So we’re looking at all summer with properties that won’t
be maintained,” council member Mark Hedges said.
Council member Mike Brewster expressed concerns about
the properties, saying some of
them are overgrown.
Binder said the city could be
reimbursed for mowing expenses out of the property maintenance money that becomes
available after demolition. A
CR almanac
total of $1,000 per property per
year is available for three years.
Gary and Judy Smith live next
to 1007 W. Main, one of the properties with maintenance problems.
“Not only is it an eyesore, it is
unsafe. It stands full of water in
the basement,” Judy Smith said.
“They attached a plastic tarp to
the top of it two years ago, which
is now in shreds. Every time we
go out into our yard we have to
pick up debris from that house.”
That property is also one of
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Closing prices as of Monday
Corn..........................3.72
June corn ................3.72
Beans ........................9.43
June crop ................9.43
Wheat ......................4.87
July crop ..................4.87
Cooper Farms
Fort Recovery
Corn..........................3.70
June corn ................3.70
July corn ..................3.70
Oct. corn ..................3.58
POET Biorefining
Portland
May corn ..................3.69
June corn ................3.69
July corn ..................3.69
August corn ............3.69
New crop ..................3.60
Central States
Montpelier
Corn..........................3.68
New crop ..................3.64
Beans ........................9.65
New crop ..................9.08
Wheat ......................5.22
New crop ..................5.22
The Andersons
Richland Township
Corn..........................3.62
July corn ..................3.61
Beans ........................9.60
July beans ................9.57
Wheat ......................5.02
July wheat................5.02
Hospitals
Jay County Hospital
Portland
Admissions
There were three
admissions to the hospital Monday.
Dismissals
There were four dismissals, including:
Union City, Ohio —
Lindsey Schlarman and
daughter.
Emergencies
There were 47 people
treated in the emergency rooms of JCH,
including:
Portland — Justin
Duke and Granton
Lewis.
Citizen’s calendar
Today
6:30 p.m. — Fort
Recovery School Board,
meeting room, FRHS,
400 E. Butler St.
Wednesday
3:30 p.m. — Portland
ried to Mary Ann Grogg in
Portland. She survives.
A member of the National Rifle Association, he
worked at Franklin Electric in Bluffton for 35
years. He attended High
Street United Methodist
Church in Geneva.
Surviving in addition to
his wife are five sons,
James Duane Bailey II
(wife: Shari), Geneva, Ger-
ald Lynn Bailey (wife:
Vicki), Portland, Allan Lee
Bailey (wife: Linda), Seymour, Stuart Owen Bailey
(wife: Amanda), Geneva,
and Curtis Ralph Bailey
(wife: Nicky), Germany; a
daughter, Cindy New (husband: Clyde), Bryant; a sister, Judith Glessner, Portland; 16 grandchildren and
several great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 2
to 4 p.m. Wednesday at
Downing and Glancy
Funeral Home, 100 N.
Washington St., Geneva.
A memorial service will
follow at 4 p.m. with Pastor Michele Isch officiating.
Memorials may be made
to High Street United
Methodist Church, Geneva.
Capsule Reports
Markets
Trupointe
Fort Recovery
•Heard Geesaman thank the
Plant, Hoe and Hope Garden
Club for volunteering to plant
flowers and noted the large attendance at the tractor and engine
show swap meet.
•Got project updates from
Geesaman. He asked for patience
and cooperation with detours for
the Indiana 26 East (Water
Street) project. The “substantial
completion date” for the water
park is Oct. 30. Sewer separation
on the city’s west side should
begin this week or next week.
Obituaries
Jan. 3, 1935-May 17, 2015
James Duane Bailey Sr.,
80, rural Geneva, died Sunday morning at Swiss Village in Berne.
Born in Geneva, he was
the son of Ralph Alden and
Elna Florence (Weaver)
Bailey. He graduated from
Geneva High School and
on Dec. 29, 1951, was mar-
Lotteries
the two the city is still trying to
acquire. Geesaman said getting
the property condemned may
pressure the bank to cooperate.
Council voted to increase the
Cumulative Capital Development Fund rate from 0.037 percent to its original rate of 0.05
percent, which should increase
revenue from $79,876 to $107,941.
In other business, the council:
•Discussed tree stumps downtown. Hedges said he continues
to get feedback about the lack of
progress on removing them.
Board of Aviation, Portland Municipal Airport,
county road 100 North.
Thursday
6 p.m. — Redkey Town
Council, former town
hall, 20 S. Ash St.
Weather courtesy of American Profile Hometown Content Service
Purchased
Jay County Commissioners
authorized the purchase Monday
of a new mower and bush hog for
Jay County Retirement Center. The
mower will cost $6,453 and the bush
hog $1,780 after trade-ins. The
equipment will be purchased from
Bryant Combine Parts LLC, which
had the lowest quote, and $5,000 of
the purchase price will come from
the county’s infrastructure fund.
In other business, the commissioners agreed to continue the
county’s partnership with East
Central Indiana Regional Plan- drive across the street by Jacob M.
ning, formerly known as Energize Waters, 31, 121 Boundary Pike.
ECI.
Garage fire
Backing accident
A pair of drivers backing out of
their driveways backed into one
another about 4:30 p.m. Monday on
Boundary Pike.
Portland police estimated damage between $2,500 and $5,000 after
Nelda G. Shimp, 71, 124 Boundary
Pike, backed her 2012 Honda out of
her drive and collided with a 2003
Cadillac being backed out of a
Mike Pence will
run for governor
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS — Gov.
Mike Pence plans to
announce that he’ll run
for reelection during the
GOP’s spring dinner next
month.
Indiana
Republican
Party Chairman Jeff
Cardwell revealed the
news to supporters Monday in an email about the
dinner on June 18.
Pence — once considered a possible presidential candidate — had said
he’d announce his campaign plans after the legislative session, which
ended last month. But it
had become increasingly
clear that Pence would not
enter the crowded Repub-
BMV ...
Monday’s hearing came
a week after an independent audit concluded that
the BMV lacks oversight,
uses a complex fee schedule and may have overcharged motorists more
than the $60 million since
2013 that it has previously
disclosed.
In September, the BMV
admitted that it has overcharged state residents
$29 million in refunds and
a year earlier it settled a
class-action lawsuit that
accused the BMV of overcharging customers $30
million. The audit also
found 10 additional undercharges to motorists.
Redkey native Kent
Abernathy, who took over
as BMV commissioner in
February, said internal
improvements
already
have begun, including the
hiring of a chief of staff
and the formation of a
central internal audit
team.
lican presidential field
and instead seek a second
term as governor.
“We are excited the governor
will
formally
announce his plans to
seek re-election during
our annual Spring Dinner,” Cardwell said, “and
we look forward to hearing his ideas for the future
of our great state.”
The dinner is scheduled
for 6:30 p.m. at Primo Banquet Hall in Indianapolis.
Tennessee
Gov.
Bill
Haslam is the keynote
speaker.
The Indiana Constitution was amended in 1972
to allow governors to
serve two consecutive
terms in office.
A garage and its contents were
heavily damaged by fire late Monday afternoon.
Portland firefighters were called
to 710 E. Arch St. about 5:50 p.m.
Wendy Deboy is the occupant of
the rental property at that location,
which is owned by Michael Bubp,
Portland. Fourteen firefighters
responded to the call, returning to
the fire station about 6:50 p.m.
Thank You
Thanks for everything and everyone.
Especially Rev. Kevin McClung and the special
people from the Church of the Brethren.
The family of Joy Jean Scotten
Family
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The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald
Speedcats of 1965
Members of the Dunkirk High School Class of 1965 gathered for their 50th reunion Saturday evening at the Dunkirk High School Alumni
Banquet at West Jay Middle School. Front row, from left, are Jamie-Lynne Scribner, Suzi (Harrison) Moeschl, Gayle (Burgess) Martin, Jane (Chilcote)
Shatto, Brenta (Vincent) Clem, Karen (Coughlin) Dee, Marilyn (Hamilton) Folkerth, Sharon (Butcher) Shaffer, Betty Jones, and Albert Miller. Back row,
from left, are Marilyn (Everhart) Shultz, Marcia (Fulkerson) Reichard, Diana (Wilkes) Iliff, Judy (Meier) Geesaman, Darnella (Whetsel) Conway, Les Bantz,
Edward Lewis, Farrell Wells, Joel Taylor, Maurice Jones, and David Littler.
Husband’s caring ministry goes too far
DEAR ABBY: I have
been married to the same
man for 20 years.
He likes having people
around ALL the time, and
because he is a minister,
we often can’t avoid it. I
have tried to accommodate his friends and hangers-on, but lately it’s
becoming unbearable.
He will say “yes” to people who have been evicted,
and I find myself sharing
living quarters with perfect strangers or church
members without prior
notice.
I have tried over the
years to make sense of his
attitude toward me (also
Dear
Abby
toward those he’s offered
help). I feel he cares for
others and what they
think of him more than
what I feel or think.
When I complain about
his latest live-in’s attitude
— or anything — he
brushes every issue aside
and basically tells me to be
a good Christian.
Right now, we have a
family of three sharing
our three-room house
with us and our three
boys.
I’m thinking of leaving
him when the youngest
one is 13. I don’t want to
hurt my kids.
How can I explain to
them that their “nice” dad
is unreasonable and irresponsible with money, and
I can’t bear it anymore? —
REACHED MY LIMIT IN
NIGERIA
DEAR REACHED: I suspect your problems “come
with the ter ritory” of
being married to a minister. But a caring husband
would respect and consult
hi s wife before i nvi ting
ho u s e g u e s t s i n t o t h e i r
home.
If you finally decide you
are so unhappy you need
to leave, be honest with
your sons. The way you
have expressed your reasons to me are clear and
well stated. Because they
have g rown up with things
always having been this
way, they may think it is
nor mal. Or, you may find
they ag ree with you.
DEAR ABBY: I am a
young woman who proposed to my high school
sweetheart after graduating from college. It may
seem odd for a woman to
do, but I initiated our relationship in high school
and then attended an allwomen’s college. Suffice it
to say, he said he wasn’t
going to be the “one.”
I can’t understand why
he rejected me, and I don’t
know what to do now. I
thought I was making a
sound decision choosing
my friend because he is an
engineer.
Could it be that he doesn’t regard me as a good
enough partner because I
have an art degree, or
could it be insecurity on
his part?
I can’t imagine why he
doesn’t want to marry at
this stage in life. We are
23. We were together for
four years, and for both of
us, this was our longest
relationship. Part of me
wonders, if I change, will
he change his mind? Or
does this seem like a hopeless case? — JANE DOE IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
DEA R JANE : If you
would like to know his reas o n s f o r no t a c c e p t i n g
your proposal, the person
you m ust ask is him .
Whi le you feel ready to
make a lifetime commitm ent, your boyfriend
apparently hasn’t reached
that stage of life.
Community Calendar
DEMOCRAT PARTY —
Notices will appear in
the Community Calendar Will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesas space is available. To day at headquarters.
submit an item, call family editor Virginia Cline at Wednesday
(260) 726-8141.
WEDNESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CLUB
— Will meet at 8 a.m. in
Today
PSI IOTA XI SORORITY the east room of Richards
— Will meet at 6:30 p.m. Restaurant. All women
Tuesday at John Jay Cen- are invited to attend.
ter for Learning in Com- Includes activities and
munity Room 205. Bring devotional time.
JAY COUNTY REPUBthree items for the food
pantry. Cancel with Linda LICAN WOMEN — Will
meet at noon Wednesday
Selvey or Jane Switzer.
FRIENDS
OF
JAY at Jay County Public
COUNTY LIBRARY — Library. There will be
Will meet at 6:30 p.m. the guest speakers for the
third Tuesday of each upcoming fall election.
PORTLAND ROTARY
month at the library.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS — Will meet at 10
a.m. upstairs at True
Thursday
Value Hardware, North
STITCH ‘N CHATTER Meridian Street, PortQUILT CLUB — Will meet land. For more informaThursday at Church of tion, call (260) 729-2532.
the Brethren, Portland, at
9:30 a.m. for a lesson on
making prairie points.
SALE PRICES WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY MAY 20-23
Bring pins, scissors and a
10 lb
Ground Beef
6-inch ruler. Regular
$ 69 lb. Idaho Potatoes....................................................$ 99 lb.
meeting is at 1 p.m. New
in 5# Bags = $13.45
members are welcome.
Lesser Quantities $2.99 lb.
Tomatoes .........................................$ 59 lb.
CELEBRATE RECOV2/$600gal.
ERY — A 12-step ChrisBoneless, Skinless
Prairie Farms 2% Milk .............................
$ 19 lb.
tian recovery program,
Chicken Breast ..................................
Eckrich
the group will meet at 10
Whole in the Chunk
$2.29 lb
$ 99
a.m. and 6:30 p.m. each
Boneless Butterfly (Tenderloin)
1 lb Bacon..................................................................
$
79
Thursday at A Second
Pork Chops.................................................
$ 00
lb
14 oz Bologna.......................................................
Chance At Life MinWhole in the Bag (Sliced Free)
$ 00
$ 99 lb.
istries, 109 S. Commerce
Franks .............................................................................
New York Strip ....................................
St. in Portland. For more
$ 99
Freezer Wrap 25¢ lb. • Single Steaks $7.99 lb.
Virginia & Honey Ham ...............................
information, call Judy
2/$400
16 oz Prairie Farms
Smith at (260) 726-9187 or
Smokey Links ..................................................
Dip & Sour Cream ..................$ 99
Dave Keen at (260) 335Colby or CoJack Cheese
$ 69lb.
2152.
in precut chunks............................................
$
99
SENIOR
CITIZENS
Smoked Sausage 42 oz.................................
CARD CLUB — Will meet
Line
Smoked Chops.......................$ 99lb County
at 12:30 p.m. the first and
Mini
Colby
Cheese .........................$ 99lb.
third Thursday of the
Cumberland Gap
month at Jay Community
$ 99
Kraft
oz. Mac-n-Cheese
..............99¢
pk7.25
Charmin
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Lions Civic Center, 307 W.
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True Value Hardware,
North Meridian Street,
Portland. For more information, call (260) 729-2532.
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friends and families of
alcoholics, the group will
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Wednesday in the Zion
Lutheran Church, 218 E.
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Opinion
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Thank you for
new uniforms
To the editor:
A little over a year ago,
the Jay Patriot Band Boosters embarked on a challenge to raise funds to purchase new uniforms.
There are many groups
and individuals to thank
for making this vision
become a reality.
First, many thanks to
Rob Weaver and the uniform committee for putting
in the hours to make phone
calls and visits with various individuals and organizations regarding contributions towards our goal.
Second, thanks to the
Portland Foundation for its
very generous grant donation of $40,000 helping meet
our goal of $80,000.
Third, thank you to the
several individuals, groups,
and organizations who
kindly donated money to
help reach our target.
Also, many thanks to the
groups who planned events
on behalf of the Patriot
Letters to
the Editor
Band Boosters to help raise
funds for the new uniforms
We realize that we are
extremely fortunate to live
in the Jay community
where people so freely give
their resources of time, talent, work, and monetary
gifts to make goals come
true.
We invite the Jay community to come celebrate
with the Patriot Band on
July 4, and witness the
debut of our new look at
the Portland July 4 parade.
We hope you can join in the
celebration.
Kelly Smeltzer
JCHS band director
Jay Patriot Band Boosters
RFRA flap is Door is open for Walker
far from over
Jennifer
By JENNIFER RUBIN
The Washington Post
By LESLEY WEIDENBENER
TheStatehosueFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS — When the
General Assembly’s session
ended last month, Gov. Mike
Pence and legislative leaders
insisted that the controversy
over the religious freedom
restoration act was over.
But the state’s jobs agency
must not think so.
The
Indiana
Economic
Development Corporation is
paying $750,000 to a New York
public relations firm for the
first part of a “reputation
enhancement initiative.”
And one thing that might
have to go — according a story
in the Indianapolis Business
Journal — is the state’s “Honest to Goodness” slogan. It
seems the traditional sentiment sounds just a little too
downhome for a state trying to
recover from criticism that
leaders sought to legalize discrimination against people
who are gay.
“It’s difficult to see Honest to
Goodness as a slogan for state
tourism at this point in time,”
Jo Wade, president of Visit
Lafayette-West Lafayette, told
the Indianapolis Business
Journal. “People want to grab
anything they can to remember their anger toward our
state, and Honest to Goodness
could be a flare-up. At the time
we passed RFRA, people didn’t
see that as honest or good.”
Those who backed the socalled RFRA law say discrimination was never the goal. But
legislative leaders were concerned enough about the backlash to pass a “fix” for the law,
one that Gov. Mike Pence
signed. And then they said the
controversy was over.
Now, it seems that was just
wishful thinking.
The $750,000 contract finalized last week is just the down
payment on what’s expected to
be a $2 million effort to fix the
state’s reputation.
Tourism leaders across the
state have said it’s needed.
Conventions have expressed
concern about locating their
events in Indiana and some
entertainment venues have
had groups seeking refunds.
The Indianapolis Star reported
last week the International
Association of Fairs and Expositions chose another city for
its 2018 and 2019 conventions,
in part because of RFRA.
And The Star also had
Lesley
Weidenbener
Leonard Hoops, president of
Visit Indy, quoting an executive from a group that decided
not to come to Indiana saying,
“The bad taste of that single
action, even though it has been
changed, will last for quite
some time.”
In case state leaders still
don’t think it’s a big deal, they
should consider this, also from
the IBJ: Carrie Lambert, executive director of the Indiana
Tourism Association said
there’s a feeling of urgency
among her members.
“Our biggest fear is the bid
cycle that is going on right
now,” Lambert said. “We have
a lot of meeting and tour planners telling us that now is just
not the time to announce
you’re coming to Indiana. The
bookings are drying up and
that could cause a big issue in
three to five years.”
Many have called on lawmakers to try again to fix the
problem by adding sexual orientation to a law that bans discrimination based on gender,
race and religion. Certainly,
that would help.
But the damage is probably
done anyway. It’s unlikely passage of anti-discrimination
law would ever get the national
attention that RFRA gained.
After all, roughly half of the
states already have that law
and so it’s not unusual. What
makes it news in Indiana is
only that it’s an about face
from RFRA.
It will take more than that to
undo the RFRA damage. And
the first step has to be a persistent effort by Republican
leaders — who have a stranglehold on state government — to
resist taking actions that reinforce the reputation RFRA has
thrust upon the state. Until
that occurs, there’s not much a
public relations effort can fix.
••••••••••
Weidenbener is the executive
editor
of
TheStatehouseFile.com, a new
website powered by Franklin
College journalism students.
Contact her at LWeidenbener@franklincollege.edu.
The 2016 presidential race
took an unexpected turn last
week.
Jeb Bush took an agonizingly long time to get to the
obvious answer on Iraq:
“Here’s the deal: If we’re all
supposed to answer hypothetical questions — knowing
what we know now, what
would you have done — I
would have not engaged. I
would not have gone into
Iraq.”
Even the answer suggested
a lack of understanding about
the rules of the game in 2015
— “if we’re all supposed to
answer hypothetical questions.” Of course, you are all
supposed to, especially the
one candidate who is trying to
assert he will be his “own
man.”
By contrast, Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker, just back from
Israel, wrote via email: “Any
president would have likely
taken the same action [President George W.] Bush did with
the information he had, even
Hillary Clinton voted for it,
but knowing what we know
now, we should not have gone
into Iraq.” He continued,
“President Bush deserves
enormous credit for ordering
the surge, a courageous move
that worked. Unfortunately,
President Obama and Secretary Clinton hastily withdrew
our troops, threw away the
gains of the surge, and
embarked on a broader policy
of pivoting away from the
Middle East and leading from
behind that has created chaos
in the region.”
That’s about as good an
answer as one can give, evidence of increased foreign
policy prowess.
So now a question mark
looms over Jeb Bush. Is this
guy someone with sufficient
political skill, verbal dexterity and aggressiveness to take
it to opponents, specifically
Clinton?
Right now the answer is no.
But — one cannot repeat it too
many times — it is so very
early in the race and so few
voters are paying attention
that most errors are correctable. It will be interesting
to see whether the candidate
who wanted to run a wholly
positive campaign is now
forced to show he can throw
some punches. That, too, is
Rubin
what the GOP contenders are
“all supposed” to do.
The second concern, less
obvious but more potent for
Bush, is whether Clinton will
survive. Her favorability rating is dropping like a stone;
her trustworthiness is cratering. And she has avoided the
press for 24 days, not a sign of
confidence.
It is not out of the question
that former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley or some
other left-leaning challenger
could either pull an upset in
Iowa or come very, very close.
And if Clinton goes down, will
Republicans want a Bush?
To a large degree, Jeb
Bush’s viability depends on
Clinton’s. His dynasty issue is
offset if she is in the race. His
“candidate of the past” problem is lessened if Clinton
(“the candidate further in the
past”) is running.
Otherwise, a Bush going up
against a fresher, more forward-looking Democrat face
will be untenable in the eyes
of many Republicans.
In the same week Bush was
struggling, Walker logged travel time in Israel. Steadily over
the past few months, he has
been acquiring a reservoir of
foreign policy expertise. The
Israel trip is one more step in
the process, providing needed
detail and experiences he can
then share with media and voters. (“As I was saying to Prime
Minister Netanyahu …”)
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,
will have more granular detail
on many foreign policy issues
as he demonstrated in a sterling performance at the Council on Foreign Relations this
week, but Walker is demonstrating enough understanding of the issues to pass the
commander-in-chief
test.
More important, he will have
the leadership card to play.
Few will doubt he has steel in
the spine and pugnaciousness.
Both are needed to win the
presidency and then to govern.
Walker also announced last
week the appointment of
Andrew Bremberg, an adviser
Steadily
over the past
few months,
he has been
acquiring
a reservoir
of foreign
policy
expertise.
to Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, as policy
director for the Our American
Revival
group.
Politico
reports, “Bremberg has been
with McConnell since March
of 2014 and acts as conduit
between conservative groups
and the Senate Republicans as
they fill slots on bipartisan
boards and commissions such
as the National Labor Relations Board and Securities
and Exchange Commission.
He also was on Mitt Romney’s
transition team in 2012, laying
the groundwork for the repeal
of Obamacare had the GOP
nominee he won.”
In conservative circles, he is
widely respected for expertise
on health care, having worked
as a health-care expert at the
MITRE Corp. and served in
the George W. Bush administration in a variety of healthcare posts.
Bremberg is “a very smart
hire” for Walker, said Penny
Nance, head of the conservative group Concerned Women
for America. “He is a thoughtful, principled and extremely
capable conservative. He will
provide solid direction in policy. He’s a huge get.”
If Walker can combine his
political skills and moxie with
policy chops and a domestic
and foreign policy agenda, he
will be a formidable contender. With Bush’s troubles
this week, Walker once again
has the opportunity to present
himself as a someone who can
both win and govern.
••••••••••
Rubin is a conservative
blogger for The Washington
Post’s “Right Turn.” Her Twitter handle is @JRubinBlogger,
and she can be reached at
rubinj@washpost.com.
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Nation
In review
To sentence
BOSTON — A judge
has indicated that he
will formally sentence
Boston
Marathon
bomber
Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev to death
next month after hearing from about 20 victims.
Judge
George
O’Toole Jr. said during
a status conference
Tuesday that Tsarnaev’s formal sentencing hearing will be
scheduled some time
in June. He did not set
an exact date.
A jury last week
determined that Tsarnaev should get the
death penalty in the
2013 attack. Three people were killed and
more than 260 were
injured when Tsarnaev and his brother
placed two pressurecooker bombs near the
marathon finish line.
Uncertain
PHILADELPHIA —
Federal authorities
said they are uncertain
if
anything
struck the windshield
of an Amtrak train
before it derailed in
Philadelphia
last
week, but they have
not ruled out the possibility.
Investigators, however, said they are certain a gunshot did not
strike the train before
the May 12 derailment,
which killed eight people and injured more
than 200 others.
Rules set
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Disney World is looking to crack down on
guests who use selfie
sticks on rides at the
park.
The Orlando Sentinel
reports
a
spokesman said Monday guests can bring
selfie sticks on the
rides but must securely store them.
Disney policy forbids visitors from
using the sticks, which
can be used to extend
cameras out up to 3
feet. One ride, Thunder Mountain, has had
a number of incidents
in which the ride had
to be stopped because
of selfie-stick use.
Removed
NEW YORK — It
wasn’t a monster making a ruckus under the
floor of a New York
City bedroom. But it
was still a bit scary.
An expert called to
find the source of a
loud, buzzing noise
found about 40,000
bees in a Queens
home.
Retired
NYPD
Detective
Anthony
Planakis took more
than two hours to
extract the unwanted
residents on Monday
night.
—Associated Press
Page 5
Officials offered warning
Memo warned
of animosity
between gangs
By EMILY SCHMALL
Associated Press
WACO, Texas — Texas law
enforcement authorities warned
weeks ago of growing animosity
between rival motorcycle gangs, a
feud that erupted into violence this
week with a deadly lunchtime
shootout between the two groups
in a crowded Waco restaurant.
In a memo dated May 1, the
Texas Department of Public Safety
authorities
about
cautioned
increasing violence between the
Bandidos and the Cossacks, Dallas
TV station WFAA reported Monday. The county sheriff has said all
nine people who were killed in the
melee Sunday were part of those
two groups.
The shootout at a Twin Peaks
restaurant also left 18 injured, and
about 170 bikers have been
charged with engaging in organized crime.
The DPS Joint Information Center bulletin said the tension could
stem from Cossacks refusing to
pay Bandidos dues for operating in
Texas and for wearing a patch on
their vest that claimed Texas as
their turf without the Bandidos’
approval.
“Traditionally, the Bandidos
Associated Press/Jerry Larson
Waco Police Sgt. Patrick Swanton addresses the media as law enforcement continues
to investigate the motorcycle gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant Monday in Waco,
Texas, where nine were killed Sunday and over a dozen injured.
have been the dominant motorcycle club in Texas, and no other club
is allowed to wear the Texas bar
without their consent,” the bulletin said, according to WFAA.
The bulletin said the FBI had
received information that Bandidos had discussed “going to war
with Cossacks.” It also outlined
several recent incidents between
the two groups, including one
instance in March when about 10
Cossacks forced a Bandido to pull
over along Interstate 35 near Waco
and attacked him with “chains,
batons and metal pipes before
stealing his motorcycle,” WFAA
reported.
That same day, a group of Bandidos confronted a Cossack member
fueling up at a truck stop in Palo
Pinto County, west of Fort Worth,
the bulletin said. When the Cossack member refused to remove
the Texas patch from his vest, the
Bandidos hit him in the head with
a hammer and stole it.
Makes ...
Meanwhile, the board
heard Monday from teachers concerned that any
cost-cutting steps should
be taken in a way that’s
equitable to all involved.
Jay Classroom Teachers
Association president Paul
Szymczak told the board
that when inflation and
increased health insurance
costs are taken into consideration, his members are
moving backwards.
“Our situation is not sustainable if teachers are
expected to take these
kinds of losses,” he said.
David Golden, who has
been co-chair of the JCTA
contract negotiating team
the past few years, was
even more direct.
“We can’t avoid saying
that we have not lost
administrators or administrative positions” while
teaching positions have
been eliminated, said Golden. “I’m pointing to this as
an equality of sacrifice
issue.”
Members of the teachers’ union took a financial
hit in recent years because
of changes in the employee
health insurance plan,
while some administrators
still enjoy a $1 per year
health insurance package
as part of their contracts.
The board has said it
wants to do away with the
$1 insurance “perk” and
has considered making a
pay adjustment to make
the change more palatable
to the administrators
involved.
Golden
called
that
unfair. “We lost about
$2,000 each (when health
insurance changed). To
give $6,000 back to them
doesn’t seem fair to us,” he
said.
Despite the need for
funds, the board was split
5-1 on whether to sell the
Garfield building at 404 E.
Arch St., Portland, to Chris
Fennig and MyFarms,
even though Fennig was
the sole bidder.
The MyFarms bid of
$82,200 represented 90 percent of the average of
three appraisals, making it
the only legal bid.
But board members indicated they believed there
was the possibility of reuse of the facility by Youth
Service Bureau for an asyet-unfunded project.
“We had another proposal but not with a bid,” said
board president Mike Masters. “It’s extremely difficult to pass up on an active
bid.”
Board member Kristi
Betts dissented, while
member Corey Gundrum
was absent. Mike Shannon, Ron Laux, Beth Krieg,
Greg Wellman and Masters, who voted in favor of
sale
to
MyFarms,
expressed interest in working with the Youth Service
Bureau on meaningful
projects in the future.
Refinancing of more
than $3 million in bonds to
get a better interest rate
won 6-0 approval. The Jay
Schools Building Corporation met prior to the board
meeting and gave its
approval to the refinancing. The total amount of
savings won’t be known
until the new bonds have
been sold.
In other business, the
board:
•Learned that Structural
Engineering Services LLC
had examined the stage
floor framing over the old
orchestra pit at Jay County
High School and found it
“structurally sound as
built.” A similar stage over
an orchestra pit collapsed
in Westfield earlier this
spring.
•Was told by Long that a
Junior Reserve Officer
Training Corps program at
Blackford High School will
be made available to interested JCHS students. The
cost of establishing a separate program at JCHS was
deemed to be unrealistic.
•Heard 91.5 percent of
Jay County’s third graders
have passed the IREAD
exam. The state average
was 84.2 percent. Jay
Schools’ percentage is
expected to rise after a second test is administered
June 2.
•Approved a memorandum of understanding with
John Jay Center for Learning that covers rent for the
Alternative Placement Center, rent for the JCHS
Annex, the cost of an adult
education receptionist and
oversight of adult basic
education programs at a
total cost of $53,320.
•Approved a 10 cent per
meal increase in the prices
of school lunches. New
prices for the 2015-16 school
year are: Elementary lunch
$2.30, middle school $2.55,
high school $2.55, breakfast
$1.75, adult breakfast $2.05,
a la carte milk 40 cents,
adult lunch $3.05. There is
no change in reduced price
lunches, 40 cents, or
reduced price breakfasts, 30
cents.
•Adopted new German
textbooks for levels 3, 4 and
5, which are accepted by
Indiana University for dual
credit.
•Accepted a $4,000 donation from Century Link for
technology in the classroom at Bloomfield Elementary School and a $50
donation from the Pennville Alumni Association
to the school’s activity
fund.
•Approved new preschool
fees for the next school year.
The new fees will be $75 per
semester per child for children registered to attend
two days a week, $100 per
semester per child for children registered to attend
three days a week and $125
per semester per child for
children registered to
attend five days a week.
•Made no changes in
rates for the latch key program.
•Made no changes in pay
for substitute teachers, substitute bus drivers, after
school tutors or credit
recovery staff.
•Learned that the administrative retreat will be
Aug. 5.
•Hired Emilie Garringer
as a summer band instructor at East Jay Middle
School and Ted Habegger
and Dennis Dwiggins as
driver education teachers
this summer at JCHS.
•Approved the retirements of Barry Weaver as a
physical education teacher
at JCHS, Bonita Frazee as a
fourth grade teacher, Cindy
Rudrow as an art teacher,
Nancy Evans as a physical
education teacher, Angela
Crouch as a reading recovery teacher, Susan Williams
as a special education
teacher, Kay Alexander and
Madonna Phelps as school
bus drivers, and Emma
Keever as an instructional
assistant.
•Accepted the resignations of Holly Johnson as a
special education teacher,
Elizabeth Dennison as a
school psychologist, Chris
Weaver as an instructional
assistant, Clara Shaw as an
instructional
assistant,
Donna Revolt as an instructional assistant, and Cassia
Alberson as a science and
language arts teacher.
•Approved leaves of
absence for fourth grade
teacher Bonita Frazee, first
grade teacher Chandra
Dawson and attendance
secretary Brandy Chowning.
•Made a pay-rate correction for Julie Carner, an
instructional assistant.
•Approved extracurricular assignments for Pazia
Williams as assistant softball coach at JCHS and
Ryan Smitley as assistant
varsity football coach at
JCHS.
•Accepted the extracurricular resignations of
Barry Weaver as boys’
swim coach and Cassia
Alberson as academic coordinator and sixth grade volleyball coach.
•Approved field trips by
the East Jay Middle School
sixth grade and the JCHS
choir.
•Approved a bus request
by the Jay County Summer
Swim Team.
World
Page 6
In review
58 killed
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Fire rescue
A police officer and a fire fighter help child victim of an apartment building fire today in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani officials say 16 people have died and more than 50 have been injured in a fire at an apartment building in Baku,
the capital. The massive fire quickly engulfed 16-story apartment building today and took hours to contain.
ASEAN facing important test
By MALCOLM FOSTER
Associated Press
BANGKOK — The Southeast
Asian grouping known as ASEAN
has made a point of not pressuring member nations over internal
issues such as rights abuses, and
in the case of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, the policy has come back to haunt it.
Three other ASEAN nations —
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
— now must contend with a
humanitarian crisis involving
thousands of Rohingya and
Bangladeshis stranded off their
shores. After years of ignoring
the issue, their chances of using
diplomacy to achieve any change
in Myanmar’s behavior appear
bleak.
The crisis is among the 10nation group’s biggest tests since
the Vietnam War, both in whether
it can protect migrants’ lives and
to what extent the group can con-
front one its members — in this
case Myanmar. The stakes for
ASEAN are high, given the global
attention the crisis is getting and
the possibility that many
migrants could die if no country
takes them in.
“This is a test for ASEAN, for
ASEAN’s sustainability. Its legitimacy will depend on this, and how
it is resolved,” said Charles Santiago, a Malaysian parliamentarian
who is chairman of a regional
lawmakers’ group pressing for
human rights and has spoken out
about the need to rescue the
refugees and migrants floating in
Malacca Strait waters.
Some cracks in the group’s
bedrock principle of non-interference have appeared.
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said over
the weekend that Myanmar
should take responsibility for
resolving ethnic tensions with the
Rohingya to prevent other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from being
burdened, according to the
national news agency Bernama.
Rohingya in Myanmar have
been persecuted for years, and
only more so since 2011, when a
long-ruling junta gave way to a
nominally elected government.
More than 120,000 Rohingya have
fled the country since 2012, as
Buddhist mobs killed up to 280 of
them and drove tens of thousands
from their homes. Those displaced are forced to live in camps
where they can’t work, get an adequate education or receive medical care.
In Thailand, leaders have said
the migrant crisis isn’t their problem but needs to be addressed by
the “origin country” — without
being more specific. Myanmar
refuses to even use the word
“Rohingya,” saying the group ille-
gally migrated from Bangladesh,
though Rohingya have lived in
Myanmar for generations.
Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry
said in a statement tonight that it
is “equally concerned about the
migrant crisis” and will patrol its
waters with planes and ships to
“save those in trouble.”
However, Myanmar denies it is
the source of the crisis and
appears unwilling to join in
regional talks to address it. Its
government has cast doubt on
whether it will attend a conference to be hosted by Thailand on
May 29 that is to include 15 Asian
nations affected by the emergency.
Foreign
ministers
from
Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
— countries where about 3,000
migrants washed ashore in
crowded boats in recent weeks but
have turned away other vessels —
are scheduled to hold a meeting
Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur.
SALGAR, Colombia
— An avalanche of
mud and debris roared
through an alpine town
in western Colombia
before dawn Monday,
killing at least 58 people in a flash flood and
mudslide triggered by
heavy rains.
were
Residents
stirred from bed in the
dead of the night by a
loud rumble and neighbors’ shouts of “The
river! The river!” as
modestly built homes
and bridges plunged
into the Libordiana
ravine. Survivors barely had enough time to
gather their loved
ones.
The disaster hit
around 3 a.m. local
time (4 a.m. EDT) in the
town of Salgar, about
60 miles southwest of
Medellin.
Deal near
ATHENS, Greece —
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
said Monday that he
expects an agreement
with bailout creditors
within the next week,
which would save the
cash-strapped country
from fast-approaching
bankruptcy.
For almost four
months, Greece’s radical left-led government
has been haggling with
its creditors from the
19-country eurozone
and International Monetary Fund over economic reforms it must
make to secure a 7.2 billion euro ($8 billion)
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launched five years ago
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Islamic State militants
launched an attack shortly before midnight Monday to try and capture the
town of Khaldiya, which
lies between Fallujah and
Ramadi, Sheikh Rafie alFahdawi said. The extremists first captured a small
village outside Khaldiya,
he said, adding that no
troops or tribal fighters
were killed in the clashes.
The loss of Ramadi
prompted Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi to order
Shiite militias to prepare
to go into the restive
Sunni province following
a request from the local
government and some
tribes.
The paramilitary forces,
known as Popular Mobilization Units, played a
major role in dislodging IS
militants from the northern city of Tikrit last
month and rolling back
the extremists elsewhere
in the country.
But rights groups have
accused the militiamen of
carrying out revenge
attacks against Sunnis
and of
looting and
destroying property. Militia leaders have denied the
allegations.
On Monday, the Islamic
State militants searched
door-to-door for policemen
and pro-government fighters in Ramadi and threw
bodies in the Euphrates
River in a bloody purge.
Officials put the number
of people killed since Friday at least 500, including
civilians and security
forces.
Enlisting the help of
Anbar’s tribes was critical
to the success of U.S.
efforts to stabilize Iraq in
the latter stages of the
Iraq war in 2007 and ’08.
After the withdrawal of
U.S. troops, the tribal leaders have grown disillusioned with the Shiitedominated government in
Baghdad and claimed that
Sunnis are receiving second-class treatment.
Till now, the Baghdad
government has been
reluctant
to
provide
weapons to Sunni tribes
due to the lack of mutual
trust.
JERUSALEM
—
Israel’s new Cabinet
has approved a plan for
development at the
Western Wall, a key
Jewish holy site next to
Jerusalem’s most combustible area.
Past
development
projects in the area
have sparked tensions
with Palestinians, who
accused Israel of
threatening a compound that is holy to
both Muslims and
Jews.
Arrested
LONDON — More
than 200 British police
swooped down on suspected jewel thieves
today, making arrests
in the notorious Hatton
Garden heist that took
place in London over
the Easter weekend.
Triumphant police,
whose early work on
the case had been criticized because of the
failure to respond to an
alarm,
said
they
believe some of the
stolen loot has been
recovered.
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Property
Heather Clemmons 765748-5066
UPSTAIRS ONE BEDROOM apartment with
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PIEDMONT
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NEWLY REMODED, 2
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refrigerator, off street
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765-348-1989 or 765499-7254.
2 BEDROOM IN REDKEY Available now!
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REAL ESTATE Before
you list your Real
Estate or book your
Auction Call Mel Smitley’s Real Estate & Auctioneering
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Ryan Smitley 260-7292293
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Public Notice
250 PUBLIC NOTICE
State of Indiana
County of Jay, SS:
In The Jay Circuit Court
2015 Term
No. 38C01-1505-EU-23
In the Matter of the Unsupervised Estate of:
Anthony J. Snyder, Deceased
Notice of Administration
Notice is hereby given that
Sherry L. Snyder was, on the
4th day of May, 2015, appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Anthony J.
Snyder, deceased, who died
on March 2, 2015.
All persons who have
claims against this estate,
whether or not now due, must
file the claim in the office of
the Clerk of this Court within
three (3) months from the date
of the first publication of this
notice, or within nine (9)
months after the decedent's
death, whichever is earlier, or
the claims will be forever
barred.
Dated at Portland, Indiana,
this 4th day of May, 2015.
Hinkle, Racster
& Schemenaur
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Personal Representative
121 W. High St.
Portland, IN. 47371
Ellen Coats
Clerk of the Circuit Court,
Jay County, Indiana
CR 5-12,19-2015-HSPAXLP
Sports
Fall ...
South Adams (11-12) scored three
runs in the top of the second inning
thanks to a two-run single by Derek
Wanner. Monroe Central answered
with two runs in the bottom of the
frame and tied it with one run in the
third.
The Starfires scored in the top of
the fourth for a 4-3 advantage, but
the Bears plated two runs in the
fifth and held on down the stretch
for the come-from-behind win.
Jayden Dull took the loss on the
mound for South Adams. He gave up
five runs — three earned — on six
hits, while striking out three and
walking four in six innings.
Justin Nussbaum and Wanner
paced the Starfires with two hits
apiece. Chandler Ingle, Kyle Cox
and Corbin Blomeke each added singles.
loss Monday to the Bluffton Tigers
at Golf Club of the Limberlost.
Muselman, a freshman, beat
Bluffton’s Ethan Kitt and Jonas
Smith by four strokes to earn match
medalist honors
Jacob Rife followed Muselman
with 50. Nick Wurster and Lucas
Bluhm had matching rounds of 52 to
complete the Starfires’ team score.
Corbin Swygart (53) and Marcus
Teeter (58) also competed for South
Adams.
Track sectional moved
Jay County’s boys track sectional
scheduled for Thursday at Muncie
Central has been moved.
Because of the death of Delaware
County Sheriff Mike Scroggins,
whose viewing and funeral will be
held at the Muncie Central Fieldhouse on Thursday and Friday, the
track sectional will now be at Delta
SA loses to Bluffton
High School.
GENEVA — David Muselman’s
Field events will begin at 5 p.m.,
career-best 40 wasn’t enough for the and preliminaries for the running
South Adams golf team in a 194-180 events will start at 5:30 p.m.
Boolman’s beats Dunkirk
Collin Kriegbaum and Rob Garringer each drove in two runs Monday, helping Boolman’s Auto Sales to
a 10-4 win against Dunkirk in Portland Junior League’s Sandy Koufax
division.
Kriegbaum had two hits and Garringer had one to pace Boolman’s.
Cameron Langenkamp and Caleb
Grigsby both had RBI hits.
Storm McLaughlin led Dunkirk
with two singles.
GOOD LUCK FRHS BASEBALL
AT DISTRICT SEMIFINAL
WEDNESDAY,
MAY 20
7:00 PM
COLDWATER, OH
Pioneer pummels Williams
Four players had three hits apiece
Monday in PJL’s Rookie baseball
action as Pioneer Packaging pummeled Williams Auto Parts 13-1.
Dominick Bright led Pioneer with
three triples, with Jayden Comer
and Rhysin Blowers each tallying
three doubles. Maddox Huffman tallied two doubles and a single.
Cole Carpenter led Williams with
a double and a single, and Ryan Timmerman smacked a double as well.
Hinch
hits
James Hinchcliffe,
of Canada, hits the
wall in the third turn
during practice for
the Indianapolis 500
at Indianapolis Motor
Speedway Monday in
Indianapolis.
Hinchcliffe
had
surgery on his upper
leg following the
crash, and will not be
able to drive in
Sunday’s race.
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Foul ...
Oh, and qualifying would begin
five hours later than its original 10
a.m. start time.
I ran into Portland resident Isa
Minnich, who is attending the Indy
500 festivities with her family and
friends for the 13th year. She mentioned she had never seen anything
like this delay in the dozen years
she’s been going to The Greatest
Spectacle in Racing.
Just my second year at the track, it
was a strange experience for me as
well, sitting in the media center without really knowing what was going
on.
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It was an odd atmosphere around
the track, too. During interviews,
drivers were stating they and their
teams were on edge because they
only had one shot at the pole.
Amidst all the changes being made
to the cars, and the schedule, one constant remained — the drivers appreciate their fans, probably more so
than any sport I’ve noticed.
Almost every driver interviewed
for television apologized to the fans.
Graham Rahal, last year’s winner
Ryan Hunter-Reay and Carpenter all
thanked the fans for sticking out the
delay and bearing with all involved to
get Sunday’s events underway.
Carpenter’s words were slightly
more heart-felt. He apologized not
only for the delay, but also for not
signing autographs.
“I wanted to get my head right,” he
said.
Apologizing for skipping an autograph session isn’t often heard from
professional athletes. Stories of NBA
or NFL players offering an apology
for missing time with fans are few
and far between.
Carpenter’s apology was authentic. It was needed, and it was necessary.
It was indeed a strange weekend at
IMS.
Sports on tap
Local schedule
Today
Jay County — Girls track sectional at
Delta – 5 p.m.; Baseball at Blackford – 5
p.m.; Softball vs. Monroe Central – 5
p.m.; Tennis vs. Alexandria-Monroe – 5
p.m.; JV baseball vs. Adams Central – 5
p.m.
Fort Recovery — Baseball vs. St.
Henry – 5 p.m.
South Adams — Girls track sectional
at New Haven – 5 p.m.; Golf at Eastbrook/Oak Hill – 4:30 p.m.; JV baseball
vs. Blackford – 5 p.m.
Wednes day
Fort Recovery — Baseball in regional
semifinal vs. Marion Local at Coldwater –
7 p.m.
South Adams — Softball at Wapahani
– 5 p.m.; JV softball at Southern Wells – 5
p.m.
Thur sday
Jay County — Boys track sectional at
Delta – 5 p.m.; Tennis hosts sectional
semifinal against Randolph Southern – 5
p.m.; Baseball at Bellmont – 5 p.m.; Softball vs. Northeastern – 5 p.m.; JV softball
vs. Adams Central – 6:30 p.m.; JV baseball vs. Blackford – 5 p.m.
Fort Recovery — Boys and girls track in
district meet at Spencerville – 4 p.m.
South Adams — Boys track sectional
at Wayne – 5 p.m.; JV baseball vs. Bluffton
– 5 p.m.; JV softball vs. Bluffton – 5 p.m.
TV schedule
Today
8 p.m. — Bowling: USBC Queens
(ESPN2)
8:30 p.m. — 2015 NBA Draft Lottery
(ESPN)
9 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: Western Conference Finals – Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, Game 1 (ESPN)
10 p.m. — Major League Baseball:
Chicago Cubs at San Diego Padres
(WNDY-23)
Wednesday
7 p.m. — Major League Baseball:
Texas Rangers at Boston Red Sox (ESPN)
8 p.m. — Major League Soccer: New
England Revolution at Sporting Kansas
City (ESPN2)
8:30 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: Eastern
Conference Final – Cleveland Cavaliers at
Atlanta Hawks Game 1 (TNT)
Thursday
7 p.m. — College Softball: NCAA Tournament – Super Regional (ESPN2)
9 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: Western Conference Final – Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, Game 2 (ESPN)
9 p.m. — College Softball: NCAA Tournament – Super Regional (ESPN2)
Local notes
JCHS f ootball meeting May 27
There will be an informational meeting
for the Jay County High School football
team May 27.
The meeting will be from 5:30 to 6:30
p.m. in the commons area, and is for players at all high school levels and their parents.
JCHS coach Tim Millspaugh will be conducting the informational session.
Tournaments set for June
The Ohio Fury Softball program will
host its annually Star Spangle Shootout
baseball and softball tournaments in
June.
The tournaments, which are open to
teams ranging in ages 10-and-younger to
18-and-younger, will be June 26 through
28 at KC Geiger Park in St. Marys, Ohio.
If interested, contact Mike Bright at
(419)
738-3795,
or
email
mshort@bright.net.
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Patriots meet Rebels on Thursday
INDIANAPOLIS — The Patriots are in a position to defend
their sectional championship.
In the IHSAA tennis sectional
pairings held Monday, Jay
County will square off against
Randolph Southern in the semifinal Thursday of the Sectional
28 tournament it hosts.
South Adams meets the Bellmont Squaws on Wednesday in
the opening round of the Sectional 47 tournament at Norwell.
Jay County (5-6) defeated Randolph Southern 5-0 on May 12,
and the Patriots will hope to
continue their success against
the Rebels at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Winchester plays Union City in
the other semifinal at the same
time, with the championship
match slated for 5 p.m. Friday.
The Patriots have the edge
against both the Winchester
Golden Falcons and the Union
City Indians. In a rematch of
the 2014 sectional final, Jay
County defeated Winchester 4-1
April 20, and then swept the
Indians 5-0 a week later.
South Adams meets Bellmont
at 5 p.m. Wednesday, with the
winner advancing to play the
Jay Co.
baseball
gets bye
Editor’s note: This is the launch
of a special Foul Ball column, a play
off of Chris Schanz’s normal Line
Drives column on Thursdays. Foul
Ball will appear from time to time
in print and on thecr.com.
By CHRIS SCHANZ
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — It was a
strange weekend at Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
First, Mother Nature dropped
rain in the area Saturday after two
drivers had completed the first
round of qualifying for the 99th
running of the Indianapolis 500.
IMS and IndyCar officials were
forced to postpone Saturday’s
schedule to Sunday, cramming two
days worth of activities into one.
Then Sunday morning during his
practice run, Indianapolis native
Ed Carpenter crashed into the wall,
spinning his car around, causing it
to go airborne and land upside
down.
Carpenter’s grueling wreck — he
walked away unscathed — wasn’t a
one-time thing either. Two other
drivers have had their cars leave the
ground this week.
It’s a problem some are blaming
on the new aero kits, which IndyCar
manufacturers Honda and Chevrolet debuted this year. All three were
by teams that drove Chevrolets.
Following Carpenter’s crash Sunday morning, officials from IndyCar, Honda and Chevrolet met to
discuss possible changes to ensure
the drivers’ safety. The meeting had
media members, drivers and fans in
attendance in limbo for more than
an hour wondering about the next
course of action.
Would there still be qualifying?
Will the racing teams go back to the
aero kits from last year? What
changes will have to be made?
The meeting concluded, and a
standing-room only press conference divulged details.
“This morning we saw a third car
get into the wall, turn backward
and lift into the air,” said Mark
Miles, CEO of Hulman & Company,
the parent of IndyCar and IMS. “As
a precautionary measure, IndyCar
will require that cars qualify (Sunday) in the same aero setup that
they will run in the Indianapolis 500
next weekend.”
Miles then went on to say cars
would lower the horsepower of the
engines, resulting in slower qualifying speeds, much to the chagrin of
fans and drivers.
Also, a revised, compacted schedule for the remainder of the day
was released. Rather than two sessions and a Fast Nine — the drivers
with the nine fastest speeds battling
for the pole position — each driver
would get one, four-lap shot at qualifying. There would also be no Fast
Nine.
See Foul page 9
host Knights at 5 p.m. Thursday.
The other opening-round match
has Huntington North — the
defending sectional champion
— squaring off
against
Bluffton.
Adams Central meets the winner in the other semifinal at 5
p.m. Thursday. The championship match is slated for 5 p.m.
Friday.
Associated Press/Ben Margot
High five
Chicago White Sox's Melky Cabrera, right, watches as teammates Alexei
Ramirez (10) and Adam Eaton celebrate their 7-3 defeat of the Oakland Athletics Sunday
in Oakland, Calif.
INDIANAPOLIS — Jay
County has a short road to
the sectional championship
in its last season as a Class
4A school.
In the baseball sectional
draw held this morning,
the Patriots received a bye
to the semifinal round.
South Adams has an
opening-round matchup
with Churubusco.
In the Class 4A Sectional
6 tournament at Homestead, Fort Wayne South
Side Archers meets the
Wayne Generals at 5 p.m.
May 27, with the winner
advancing to the second
semifinal against Jay
County (9-11) at 5 p.m. May
29. The first semifinal game
pits defending sectional
champion Homestead Spartans against the Huntington North Vikings.
The championship game
is slated for 1 p.m. May 30.
Jay County is moving to
Class 3A following this season.
In the Class 2A Sectional
36 tournament, host Eastside Blazers meet the
Adams Central Flying Jets
in the first opening round
game at 5 p.m. May 27. The
winner advances to play
the Bluffton Tigers in the
first semifinal at 1 p.m. May
30.
South Adams (11-12)
plays
the Churubusco
Eagles at 5 p.m. May 28. The
winner moves on to face
either the Woodlan Warriors or defending sectional
champion Canterbury Cavaliers in the second semifinal, which is 3 p.m. May 30.
The championship is set
for 7 p.m. June 1.
Golfers fall to Delta by four strokes
EATON — Jay County’s boys
golf team fell to the Delta Eagles
by four strokes Monday at Lakeview Greens Golf Course.
Delta had all four scoring players shoot 44 or better for a team
score of 167. Jay County finished
with 171.
Jay County sophomore Jay
Houck won match medalist honors with 3-over-par 38, edging
Delta’s Blake Shanayda by one
stroke.
Houck made par on five of his
first six holes before bogeying
the par-4 seventh and par-3
eighth.
Kyler Hudson followed Houck
with a score of 42, including
three pars. Graham Haines was
’Riders rough up Tribe
Local
roundup
third for the Patriots with 45, and
Collin Haines was fourth with a
46.
Nick Hayden, who birdied both
the par-4 third and par-5 fourth,
finished with a 48.
Jay County’s next match is the
Allen County Athletic Conference Tournament on Saturday at
Brookwood Golf Club in Fort
Wayne.
ST. MARYS, Ohio — One
inning was all the Roughriders
needed to hand the Tribe baseball
team its fourth loss of the season.
St. Marys Memorial, which
finished 15th in this week’s Division III voted, scored eight runs
in the second inning Monday in
an 8-1 defeat of Division IV No. 3
Fort Recovery.
Memorial (17-5) touched up
FRHS starter Jacob Homan for
seven hits, and took advantage of
three walks to score eight runs —
three earned — in the second
frame.
Fort Recovery (21-4) got one
run back in the top of the fourth
on an RBI single by Nathan
Lochtefeld, but it wasn’t able to
put together much else in the
way of offense.
Derek Backs had two singles to
lead the Indians, who got base
hits from Mitch Stammen, Chase
Bruns and Ben Will. Stammen
also stole one base — his 25th of
the season — and is two shy of
his single-season record set last
year.
Stars lose lead, game
PARKER CITY — South
Adams’ baseball team saw its
lead slip away twice Monday in a
5-4 loss to the host Monroe Central Golden Bears.
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