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THE COURIER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016
Today in History
Recently born at Blanchard
Valley Hospital , Findlay, a s
reported by their parents:
• Aa’Sezlee Raiyne MadisonGrace Girdler, girl, Travis and Amber
Girdler, Fostoria, Oct. 4.
• Ryan David Steward Jr., boy,
Ryan Steward and Alexis Eddington,
Findlay, Oct. 5.
• Everlyn Joy Lewis, girl, Heath
and Maria Lewis, Carey, Oct. 5.
• Liahm Richard Griffin, boy,
Darrell Richard and Madelyn Kae
Griffin, Maumee, Oct. 6.
• Jaxson Everett Schroeder, boy,
Joe and Esther Schroeder, Findlay,
Oct. 6.
• Caine Paul Bradley, boy, William and Jennifer Bradley, Fostoria,
Oct. 6.
• James Richard Gase, boy, Mark
and Lindy Gase, Findlay, Oct. 6.
• Levi James Klass, boy, John and
Jessica Klass, Bluffton, Oct. 7.
• Alexander Mason Helms, boy,
Jake and Nikki Helms, Perrysburg,
Oct. 7.
• Colbie Ann Row, girl, Tarren
and Erica Row, Wharton, Oct. 7.
• Mackenzie Leighann Davis,
girl, Kevin and Kelsie Davis, Findlay, Oct. 8.
• Namasui Abhilash, girl, Abhilash Sivankutty and Soumya Abhilash, Findlay, Oct. 10.
• Ellington Ann Cole, girl, Tyson
and Mellisa Cole, Carey, Oct. 10.
• Jonathan David Kramer, boy,
Kevin and Amber Kramer, Findlay,
Oct. 10.
• Liam Anthony Reyes, boy,
Alexis De Los Reyes, North Baltimore, Oct. 10.
• Zaedyn Isaac Easterday, boy,
Josh Easterday and Tasha Webb,
Findlay, Oct. 11.
• Jaxson Allan Rathjen, boy,
Robert and Jennifer Rathjen, Fostoria, Oct. 11.
• Easton John Schumm, boy, Josh
and Leslie Schumm, Carey, Oct. 11.
• Dylan Michael Ross Newman,
boy, Cody Newman and Ellysha
Clement, Forest, Oct. 12.
The Bestsellers List
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FICTION
1. “Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition” by
J.K. Rowling, art by Jim Kay (Arthur
A. Levine Books)
2. “Two by Two” by Nicholas Sparks
(Grand Central Publishing)
3. “Magnus Chase & the Gods of
Asgard” by Rick Riordan (DisneyHyperion)
4. “Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child” by Jack Thorne (Arthur A.
Levine Books)
5. “Woman of God” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
6. “Home” by Harlan Coben
(Dutton)
7. “Twelve Days of Christmas” by
Debbie Macomber (Ballantine Books)
8. “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
9. “The Fever Code” by James Dashner (Delacorte)
10. “The Trespasser” by Tana
French (Viking)
NONFICTION
1. “Killing the Rising Sun” by Bill
O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry
Holt and Co.)
2. “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen (Simon & Schuster)
3. “Jesus Always” by Sarah Young
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Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 18, the
292nd day of 2016. There are 74
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 18, 1962, James D.
Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the doublehelix molecular structure of DNA.
On this date:
In 1685, King Louis XIV signed
the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking
the Edict of Nantes that had established legal toleration of France’s
Protestant population, the Huguenots.
I n 1767, t he M ason - D i xon
line, the boundary between colonial Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Delaware, was set as astronomers
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
completed their survey.
In 1867, the United States took
formal possession of Alaska from
Russia.
In 1892, the first long-distance
telephone line between New York
and Chicago was officially opened
(it could only handle one call at a
time).
In 1922, the British Broadcasting
Co., Ltd. (later the British Broadcasting Corp.) was founded.
In 1931, inventor Thomas Alva
Edison died in West Orange, New
Jersey, at age 84.
In 1944, Soviet troops invaded
Czechoslovakia during World War
II.
In 1954, Texas Instruments
unveiled the Regency TR-1, the first
commercially produced transistor
radio.
In 1969, the federal government
banned artificial sweeteners known
as cyclamates because of evidence
they caused cancer in laboratory
rats.
In 1977, West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa
jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages
and killing three of the four hijackers.
In 1982, former first lady Bess
Truman died at her home in Independence, Missouri, at age 97.
In 1997, a monument honoring
American servicewomen, past and
present, was dedicated at Arlington
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Your hard work has paid off!
The 7-week restoration on
the tower roof of the Hamlin
House in Mt. Blanchard looks
awesome, especially the new
gold topper addition!
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016
Happy Birthday to All
This week’s celebrity birthdays
include:
Sunday:
Actress Angela Lansbury is 91.
Actor Barry Corbin (“One Tree Hill,”
“Northern Exposure”) is 76. Bassist C.F.
Turner of Bachman-Turner Overdrive is
73. Actress Suzanne Somers is 70.
Guitarist Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead
Books
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(Thomas Nelson)
4. “Love Your Life, Not Theirs” by
Rachel Cruze (Ramsey Press)
5. “Is This the End” by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson)
6. “Divine Dance” by Richard Rohr
(Whitaker House)
7. “Think Better, Live Better” by
Joel Osteen (Faithwords)
8. “Food Freedom Forever” by
Melissa Hartwig (Houghton Mifflin)
9. “Strengths Finder 2.0” by Tom
Rath (Gallup Press)
10. “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance
(Harper)
FICTION E-BOOKS
1. “Two by Two” by Nicholas Sparks
(Grand Central Publishing)
2. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula
Hawkins (Riverhead)
3. “Missing” by James Patterson &
Kathryn Fox (Grand Central Publishing)
4. “Magnus Chase & the Gods of
Asgard” by Rick Riordan (DisneyHyperion)
5. “The Trespasser” by Tana French
(Viking)
6. “Witness to a Trial” by John
Grisham (Doubleday)
7. “Home” by Harlan Coben
(Dutton)
8. “The Cinderella Murder” by Mary
Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
9. “Poisonfeather” by Matthew
is 69. Producer-director David Zucker
is 69. Actor-director Tim Robbins is 58.
Guitarist Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
is 57. Actor Randy Vasquez (“JAG”) is
55. Bassist Flea of the Red Hot Chili
Peppers is 54. Actor Christian Stolte
(“Chicago Fire”) is 54. Jazz trumpeter
Roy Hargrove is 47. Actress Terri J.
Vaughn (“All of Us,” “The Steve Harvey
FitzSimmons (Thomas & Mercer)
10. “Twelve Days of Christmas” by
Debbie Macomber (Ballantine Books)
NONFICTION E-BOOKS
1. “Killing the Rising Sun” by Bill
O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry
Holt and Co.)
2. “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen (Simon & Schuster)
3. “Guilty as Sin” by Edward Klein
(Regnery Publishing)
4. “Perfect Metabolism Plan” by
Sara Vance (Red Wheel/Weiser)
5. “Mindfulness, Meditation, and
Mind Fitness” by Joel Levey & Michelle
Levey (RedWheel/Weiser)
6. “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance
(Harper)
7. “The Avators” by Winston Groom
(National Geographic Society)
8. “Better Brain at Any Age” by
Sondra Kornblatt (Red Wheel/Weiser)
9. “Pressure Perfect” by Lorna J.
Sass (HarperCollins Publishers)
10. “Enslaved by Ducks” by Bob
Tarte (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Nielsen BookScan gathers sales
data from about 16,000 locations,
representing about 85 percent of the
nation’s book sales. Print-book data
providers 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 for less than 99 cents are
excluded. The fiction and nonfiction lists in all formats include adult
and juvenile titles. Audio books are
excluded. Refer questions to Michael.
Boone(at)wsj.com.
In appreciation of our Pastor: Gregg & Samantha King
From: Bridgeport Church, Dunkirk, OH
Show”) is 47. Singer Wendy Wilson of
Wilson Phillips is 47. Rapper B-Rock of
B-Rock and the Bizz is 45. Singer Chad
Gray of Mudvayne is 45. Actor Paul
Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) is 45.
Actress Kellie Martin (“Christy,” “Life
Goes On”) is 41. Singer-songwriter
John Mayer is 39. Actor Jeremy Jackson is 36. Actress Caterina Scorsone
(“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 36. Actress Brea
Grant (“Heroes”) is 35.
Yesterday:
Actress Julie Adams (“Creature
From the Black Lagoon”) is 90. Country singer Earl Thomas Conley is 75.
Singer Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts
is 74. Singer Gary Puckett of Gary
Puckett and the Union Gap is 74.
Actor Michael McKean is 69. Actress
Margot Kidder is 68. Actor George
Wendt is 68. Country singer Alan Jackson is 58. Actor Grant Shaud (“Murphy
Brown”) is 56. Animator Mike Judge
(“King of the Hill,” “Beavis and Butthead”) is 54. Comedian Norm Macdonald is 53. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is
48. Actor Wood Harris (“The Wire”) is
47. Singer Wyclef Jean of The Fugees is
47. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick of ‘N Sync
is 45. Rapper Eminem is 44. Actress
Felicity Jones (“The Theory of Everything”) is 33. Actor Chris Lowell (“The
Help,” “Private Practice”) is 32.
Today:
Singer-guitarist Chuck Berry is
90. Actress Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s
Island”) is 78. Actor Joe Morton is 69.
Actress Pam Dawber is 66. Actress Erin
Moran (“Happy Days”) is 56. Actor
Jean-Claude Van Damme is 56. Jazz
trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is 55. Actor
Vincent Spano is 54. Bassist Tim Cross
(Sponge) is 50. Singer Nonchalant is
43. Actress Joy Bryant (“Parenthood”)
is 42. Guitarist Peter Svensson of The
Cardigans is 42. Actor Wesley Jonathan is 38. Singer Ne-Yo is 37. Country
singer and “American Idol” contestant
Josh Gracin is 36. Country musician
Jesse Littleton (Marshall Dyllon) is
35. Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding
is 32. Actor Zac Efron (“High School
Musical,” “Hairspray”) is 29. Actress
Joy Lauren (“Desperate Housewives”)
is 27. Actor Tyler Posey is 25.
Tomorrow:
Artist Peter Max is 79. Actor
Michael Gambon (“Harry Potter”
films) is 76. Actor John Lithgow
is 71. Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 71.
Singer Patrick Simmons of The Doobie
Brothers is 68. Singer-keyboardist Karl
Wallinger of World Party is 59. Singer
Jennifer Holliday is 56. TV host Ty Pennington (“Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition”) is 52. Singer-guitarist Todd
Park Mohr of Big Head Todd and the
Monsters is 51. Actor Jon Favreau is 50.
“South Park” co-creator Trey Parker is
47. Comedian Chris Kattan (“Saturday
Night Live”) is 46. Singer Pras Michel
of The Fugees is 44. Actor Omar Gooding (“Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”) is 40.
Country singer Cyndi Thomson is 40.
Writer-director Jason Reitman (“Juno”)
is 39. Actress Gillian Jacobs (“Community”) is 34. Singer Zac Barnett of
American Authors is 30. Actress Hunter
King (“The Young and the Restless”)
is 23.
Thursday:
Actor William Christopher
(“M.A.S.H.”) is 84. Rockabilly singer
Wanda Jackson is 79. Musician Tom
Petty is 66. Actress Melanie Mayron
(“thirtysomething”) is 64. Actor Viggo
Mortensen (“Lord of the Rings”) is
58. Drummer Jim “Soni” Sonefeld of
Hootie and the Blowfish is 52. Bassist
Doug Eldridge of Oleander is 49. “The
View” co-host Sunny Hostin is 48.
Actor Kenneth Choi (“Sons of Anarchy”) is 45. Rapper Snoop Dogg is 45.
Country singer Jimi Westbrook of Little
Big Town is 45. Actor John Krasinski
(“The Office”) is 37. Bassist Daniel
Tichenor of Cage The Elephant is 37.
Actress Katie Featherston (“Paranormal Activity”) is 34. Actress Jennifer
Nicole Freeman (“My Wife and Kids”)
is 31.
Friday:
Actress Joyce Randolph (“The
Honeymooners”) is 92. Keyboardist
Manfred Mann is 76. Guitarist Steve
Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s is
75. Singer Elvin Bishop is 74. TV judge
Judy Sheindlin (“Judge Judy”) is 74.
Actor Everett McGill (“Twin Peaks”)
is 71. Trumpeter Lee Loughnane of
Chicago is 70. Actor Dick Christie
Good Luck to Drew Ashcraft
in his first year at the
Ohio Northern University’s
Pettit College of Law, and
Logan Ashcraft as she
finishes her Masters Degree
in Environmental Sciences
at Yale University.
Love, Grandma Dena
and Rod & Joy Ashcraft,
and Grandpa Bill & Diane
and Cynthia Jaqua
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(“The Bold and the Beautiful”) is 68.
Guitarist Charlotte Caffey of The GoGo’s is 63. Actress Carrie Fisher is 60.
Guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto is 59.
Singer-bassist Nick Oliveri (Queens of
the Stone Age) is 45. Keyboardist Charlie Lowell of Jars of Clay is 43. Actor
Jeremy Miller (“Growing Pains”) is 40.
Singer Matthew Ramsey of Old Dominion is 39. Actor Will Estes (“American
Dreams”) is 38. Actor Michael McMillian (“True Blood”) is 38. Reality TV
star Kim Kardashian is 36. Actor Matt
Dallas is 34.
Saturday:
Actor Christopher Lloyd is 78.
Actor Derek Jacobi is 78. Actor Tony
Roberts is 77. Actress Catherine
Deneuve is 73. Guitarist Leslie West
of Mountain is 71. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 64. Keyboardist Greg Hawkes
of The Cars is 64. Bassist Cris Kirkwood of Meat Puppets is 56. Actor Bob
Odenkirk is 54. Singer-songwriter John
Wesley Harding is 51. Comedian Carlos
Mencia is 49. Country singer Shelby
Lynne is 48. Reggae rapper Shaggy is
48. Director Spike Jonze is 47. Rapper
Tracey Lee is 46. Actress Carmen Ejogo
(“Selma”) is 43. Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Modern Family”) is 41. Guitarist Jon Foreman of Switchfoot is 40.
Actor Michael Fishman (“Roseanne”)
is 35. Guitarist Rickard Goransson
of Carolina Liar is 33. Drummer Zac
Hanson of Hanson is 31. Actor Jonathan Lipnicki (“Stuart Little,” “Jerry
Maguire”) is 26.
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CELEBR ATIONS !
THE COURIER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016
This is what climate change sounds like, in D Minor
Despite spending countless hours
of her Ph.D. at Stanford making visits
to remote stretches of Alaska, poring
over yellow cedar measurements and
photos and ultimately publishing her
findings, Lauren Oakes was about to
experience her data in a new way.
Driving for a weekend trip to the
Sierras, she turned the volume way
up in her car and hit play. A cascading piano was joined by a flute, cello
and other instruments. As the piece
continued, the piano’s high staccato
notes gave way to lower, more intermittent ones before ending on a wave
of strings, leaving a sense of another
movement yet to be written.
Oakes had just heard the sound
of climate change in Alaska’s yellow
cedar forests and the ways it’s already
altered the landscape. It wasn’t just
a composer’s impression of her
research, though.
She had just heard her data, data
meticulously collected and pored
over for years, translated from numbers and charts into music.
“To hear the patterns it took me
years to understand was incredible,”
she said.
The piece has the potential to
change how researchers and the
public engage with data. Music based
on data has the potential to reveal
new patterns to scientists and get
data out of the arcane language of
empirical orthogonal functions,
p-values and Kruskal-Wallis tests
and into a language that everyone
can understand.
The research Oakes had just
heard came courtesy of Nik Sawe, a
fellow Stanford student at the time
the music was created and a current
researcher there. He had emailed a
group of fellow students at the university hoping to find some data to
turn into music after going to a talk
about using a technique called data
sonification to make music from seizure data.
“When you look at the readout
that a doctor could analyze, it looked
like noise,” he said. “But when you
hear the stuff with one speaker playing the healthy side of a brain and
one playing the afflicted side, you can
hear the difference with this structured noise.”
If it worked for medical data, Sawe
thought it could work for environmental data as well. He had written
a computer program that essentially
reads data as sheet music, much like
a player piano.
And Oakes’ work presented a
compelling piece. There were multiple types of trees in the forest and a
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clear progression as climate change is
killing off yellow cedars. Rising temperatures are decimating snowpack,
but when still frequent cold snaps
hit, there’s not enough insulation to
protect the cedar’s shallow roots so
they die.
It’s an odd scenario, death by
freezing in a warming world, but one
that could have profound impacts on
one of the most culturally and economically important trees in Alaska
as it dies out and other, less valuable
trees take its place.
“Culturally, they’ve been used
for about 9,000 years in carvings,”
Oakes, now a lecturer at Stanford,
said. “From an economic standpoint,
they are the most valuable conifer in
Alaska. Even though right now they
comprise a lower percentage of the
forest in terms of density, when there
is a sale for timber in Alaska, they
tend to drive it.”
That’s why Sawe picked up Oakes’
data and turned it into tunes. Though
a computer played the music, Sawe
helped arrange the piece so it made
sense. He assigned different trees to
different instruments based on their
role in the forest (though in the case
of sitka spruce, he assigned it to the
cello because it’s a common wood
used in cello construction) and a key
so all the players were on the same
page (in this case, a rather foreboding
D minor).
Each note in the piece is a single
tree from one of Oakes’ study sites
while its pitch conveys the age and
loudness conveys its size. All the
parts are played by a computer using
a Musical Instrument Digital Interface, known more frequently by its
less wonky acronym MIDI.
Together, the piece conveys a
forest in flux. Sawe also isolated the
piano as a solo piece to highlight
what’s happening to yellow cedars in
particular. In that context, the lively
tinkle of notes reminiscent of Philip
Glass slips into a dirge by the end
as gaps of silence and single notes
dominate the piece.
Sawe isn’t a composer by trade.
He studies how why we make decisions on the environment using a mix
of neurology and economics. But he is
someone who wants to take complex
data and make it understandable.
“With data sonification, you can
handle a lot more dimensions if you’re
listening to data than looking at it,”
he said. “It’s useful for scientists on
the one hand but on the other hand,
the fact that you can take something
like the data from 2,000 trees in
Alaska and give someone a 20-second
description of what that song is portraying and they pick it up (means)
it has huge potential to share these
narratives with people.”
For Oakes, that’s exactly what she
was hoping for when she responded
back to Sawe’s initial email. She
wanted her data to be so compelling
that people would have to stop and
pay attention to it.
The early feedback indicates the
project has already realized some of
that potential. The California Academy of Science has reached out to
them about a public event and Stanford has expressed interest in having
a chamber music group do a live performance of the piece. And Sawe has
started working with the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute to
explore some of their Pacific Ocean
data for another data sonification
project down the road that could
add another song to the soundtrack
of climate change.
While data sonification is still
far from the mainstream scientific
process, music could be a lynch pin
for taking climate research out of
the pages of academic journals and
into our lives. And it may serve as
a reminder that we’re all composers
and our choices will define what the
next movement sounds like.
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College Corner Do-it-yourself spirit brings business to vacant Detroit land
Recently named to the dean’s list:
• Nicholas R. Sammet, son of
Lorraine and Robert Sammet, Findlay, University of Northwestern Ohio.
History
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National Cemetery.
Ten years ago:
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, visiting Tokyo, said the United
States was willing to use its full
military might to defend Japan in
light of North Korea’s nuclear test.
The Dow Jones industrial average
passed 12,000 for the first time
before pulling back to close at
11,992.68.
Five years ago:
Fifty wild animals were released
by the owner of a Zanesville farm,
Terry Thompson, who then committed suicide; authorities killed 48 of
the creatures, while the remaining
two were presumed eaten by other
animals. The Republican presidential candidates laced into each
other in their latest debate, held in
Las Vegas; Mitt Romney emerged
as still the person to beat, even as
he was called out on the issues of
illegal immigration, health care
and jobs. Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
emerged from five years in captivity as Hamas militants handed him
over to Egyptian mediators in an
exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
One year ago:
Habtom Zerhom, an Eritrean
migrant, died after he was shot by
an Israeli security guard and then
attacked by bystanders who’d mistaken him for a Palestinian assailant in a deadly bus station attack in
the southern city of Beersheba. The
Mets breezed past the Chicago Cubs
4-1 for a 2-0 lead in the NL Championship Series. Actor-comedian
Eddie Murphy was honored with
the Mark Twain Prize, the nation’s
top prize for humor, at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C.
Today’s Non-Show Business
Birthdays : Sportscaster Keith
Jackson is 88. College and Pro
Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka
is 77. International Tennis Hall of
Famer Martina Navratilova is 60.
Boxer Thomas Hearns is 58. Tennis
player Michael Stich is 48. Olympic
gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn is 32.
T hought for Today: “ Slow
down and enjoy life. It’s not only the
scenery you miss by going too fast
— you also miss the sense of where
you are going and why.” — Eddie
Cantor, American comedian-singer
(1892-1964).
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit resident Ron Shelton knows it’s a gamble
to sink his scant finances that include
earnings from carpentry work into a
small apple orchard and cider mill in
a neighborhood with vacant land and
aging homes.
“A profit would be nice. I’d have to
see where that goes,” Shelton, 51, said
after hauling a rusting apple grinder
from a pickup truck’s bed into his backyard.
He and others are using a do-it-yourself approach to start businesses amid
Detroit’s overabundance of vacant
land and wide open spaces. The city’s
population loss of about 1.1 million
people since the 1950s and subsequent
bulldozing of empty and dilapidated
houses have left it with about 120,000
vacant lots. Spread across Detroit, the
lots are part of about 24 square miles of
empty real estate, enough to fit nearly
all of Newark, New Jersey, and about
half of Miami.
Other former manufacturing hubs
are dealing with what to do with empty
lots once houses are torn down. Chicago has sold more than 400 vacant
parcels since 2014. In Milwaukee,
homeowners next to a vacant lot can
buy it for $1. Detroit’s Land Bank
charges homeowners $100 for cityowned side lots next to their homes.
Shelton, who began planting apple
trees last year on two borrowed lots
near the house he bought from a friend
for $1,500, said there’s plenty of room
to grow and build things cheaply in
Detroit. Besides the 55 trees he has
on the two lots, he has two more trees
growing elsewhere in the neighborhood. He’s still collecting machinery
for the mill he’s assembling in a garagelike building he constructed behind his
home.
Others are turning cheap, vacant
Detroit land into projects, too. A theater collective is holding plays and
other programs on side lots near two
homes it owns. A nonprofit has created
a flowering prairie amid urban blight.
Jeff Adams has started Artesian
Farms with a 7,000-square-foot building he bought in 2014 for $35,000.
“You have to pick and choose what
you are capable of and what can make
money,” said the 61-year-old Adams,
who used to sell tech applications to
the auto industry and now grows and
harvests kale, lettuce and basil in the
building formerly used by an auto supplier.
He admits the space that sat vacant
for years is an odd place for an indoor
farm, but said good business principles
can be applied almost anywhere.
Edward Lynch, a planner for Detroit
Future City, said the amount of vacant
land in Detroit is “larger than what we
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can use for potential development.”
Thousands of derelict houses are
razed each year or await demolition,
and little new housing is coming to
neighborhoods outside the greater
downtown area.
“The market demand to do a lot of
things isn’t there,” Lynch said.
Detroit Future City, announced
in early 2013, is proposing ideas for
how to best use land in the city over
50 years.
“With 120,000 vacant lots throughout the city, that essentially means
every single street, every single block
ends up being impacted,” said Anika
Goss Foster, executive director of the
Detroit Future City Implementation
Office. “Because most of these lots
are undevelopable, they become an economic detriment to neighborhoods.”
She said finding ways to transform
property into something productive
“strengthens the economic capacity”
of those areas.
City officials are being deliberate
in how they identify vacant land for
development. Detroit planning director
Maurice Cox said they want projects
that can become long-lasting examples
of neighborhood revitalization and “not
simply an interim solution or land use
of last resort.”
The city has identified 10 acres in
northwest Detroit for ecological, agri-
cultural, energy, crop or other uses.
“What hasn’t been proven yet is if
these kinds of productive, land-based
businesses can be a generator for
neighborhood revitalization as we try
to repopulate,” Cox said.
Hungry pigs chomp
lawns in Northern
California neighborhood
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Wild
pigs are eating front yards in at least
one Northern California neighborhood.
KNTV reports that the pigs strike
in the middle of the night, digging up
front lawns in the Evergreen neighborhood in South San Jose.
Resident Rod Murchison says
there are about 20 wild boars that
have destroyed more than half a
dozen lawns in the neighborhood over
a recent week.
Some pigs have also eaten geranium
plants.
Residents say they believe the pigs
are coming from nearby ranchland.
One resident put up a device that
shines a red light, simulating a pig
predator, hoping it will be enough to
keep the hungry grub hunters away.
ANNIVERSARY
Bill & Phylis Rickle
Cynthia Norway-Griffith (Great-Great-Grandmother);
Nancy Krout (Great-Grandmother); Jill Elliott (Grandmother);
Samantha Nienberg (Mother of Nora Nienberg);
Danielle Rigsby (Mother of Addison Rigsby).
Bill G. and Phylis S. Rickle,
of Wharton, will celebrate their
60th wedding anniversary on
October 20, 2016. They were
married on October 20, 1956 at
the Wharton First Church of God
with the late Reverend Robert
Fast officiating.
Bill is the son of the late Lee
and Florence (Farthing) Rickle.
Phylis is the daughter of the late
Lester and Welcome (Phillips)
Moser. Bill and Phylis have six
children: Gary (Deb); Jody Noel
(Tom Davis); Cris (Kelly); Billy
Jr. (Stacy); Brad (Peggy); and
Marybeth (Doug) Howard. They
also have 23 grandchildren, 3
deceased grandchildren and 23
great-grandchildren.
Bill is retired from Atlas/
Cummins in Fostoria, Ohio. The
couple will be celebrating with a
family dinner party.
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Poetry Corner Youthful air: Balloonists look to young to sustain sport
FALL
Fall is a wonderful time of year,
When football teams are getting in
gear.
Cider and apples are being sold
And we’re staying indoors because of
the cold.
Sit back, relax and have a cup of tea
While you watch that big game on
your TV.
The New Year is coming, it’s two
months away.
So enjoy 2016, it’s not here to stay.
Dianna Starr
Findlay
Do It
Nathaniel Hawthorne received
the notice he was out of work.
He felt so sad and defeated.
From work he never shirked.
His wife said “This is your chance”
“You have always wanted to write a
book.”
I don’t have any money. “How can I?”
She got out her savings and said “Look”
So he took the pen in hand
and wrote “The Scarlet Letter.”
His memories really paid off
People couldn’t accept it better
He showed how people reacted
Hester Prynne and child wore the
letter.
A big “A” for everyone to see
When actually they were no better.
If you feel the need to write, just do it.
Don’t fret and don’t ask if
maybe when you finish it
You will end up with a classic!
Rowena McDougle
Findlay
‘Home on the Range’
Oh, give me a “Home”
Where the Buffalo roam ...
(as in Lamar Valley, Yellowstone
Park)!
a herd of the huge beasts
were a tourist’s “eye feast”
pictured in Monday’s Courier ...
(Re: “Cellphones spill into Lamar
Valley”)
However!!
Modern day technology
Interfered with “nature’s zoology”
as the park’s
five cellphone towers
were in a “Tizzy”
keeping the cellphone users busy!
Although many had
hoped to escape
modern day distractions
others
were “tied” to their
cellphone “apron strings” (sadly)
while trying to enjoy
Mother Nature’s reality ...
That’s progress?
Phyllis Martin
McComb
PROSSER, Wash. (AP) — For most
people, the best part of turning 16 is getting their driver’s license.
McKenna Secrist’s 16th birthday in
July came with a hot air balloon pilot’s
license instead.
“I always said when I grew up I
would be a pilot,” she said. “I loved it
so much.”
Secrist joined more than a dozen hot
air balloon pilots at the Great Prosser
Balloon Rally, where they fired up their
colorful conveyances at the Prosser
Airport.
The Bothell teen is a welcome addition to a pastime that often struggles to
recruit younger enthusiasts to replace
retiring pilots.
“A lot of the younger folks have a
hard time getting up in the morning,”
said 66-year-old pilot Tim Gale, who’s
based in St. Helens, Oregon, and wore
his “Geezer Air” T-shirt to the rally.
He and his wife got their first balloon
in 1979, and they say they plan to stay in
the business until they stop having fun.
Shari Gale, also 66, said they just
bought a new balloon and that it should
survive 300 hours of flying time.
“If we put on 10, 15 hours in a year ...
we’ll be old, old, old by then,” she said.
“This’ll probably be the last balloon.”
The tight-knit pilot community is one
of the reasons the Gales enjoy flying so
much.
“Ballooning is like we’ve got all these
family members we’re not related to,”
Shari said.
Since flying conditions are best
around sunrise, balloonists have to
get used to waking up at 4 a.m. on the
weekends.
“You really have to get bitten by the
bug,” Shari said. “If I had my way, I’d be
back hugging my pillow right now. But
once I’m up, it’s worth it.”
Secrist says the early rising can be
tough. But she agrees it’s worth the
effort. “Plus you get Starbucks afterwards,” she said.
Secrist was drawn to the sport at a
very young age. She remembers begging her parents to go chase after the
hot air balloons she saw flying around
her hometown. Before long, she started
“crewing” for a pilot, helping with the
set-up and take-down, and that pilot
began teaching her the basics.
At 14, she bought her first balloon,
with help from her dad. It cost as much
as a used car.
“I pretty much saved for my whole
life,” she said, eventually socking away
thousands of dollars from baby-sitting
and any odd jobs she could find.
While she’s got her private pilot certificate already, she’s hoping to earn her
commercial license by her 18th birthday
Airborne treat: Frozen yogurt
business tests drone delivery
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — A
frozen yogurt business is trying out
the idea of making deliveries using a
drone in Michigan.
A test run of Orange Leaf Frozen
Yogurt’s drone delivery took place recently
at Hope College in Holland. Dubbed “Project Flying Orange Unicorn,” the business
says it’s planning to offer deliveries from
its Orange Leaf Holland store located a few
blocks from campus.
The effort is led by Jeremy Latchaw,
franchise owner of Orange Leaf locations in Holland and Grandville. He’s
also president of Mishigami Group,
a drone business that’s working with
fire and police departments to develop
unmanned aerial vehicle programs.
Latchaw said: “It made sense to put
the two of them together.”
The Holland Sentinel reported the
delivery was greeted by cheers and
applause from students, faculty and
other onlookers.
so she could start teaching others to fly
and take people up for paid trips.
Cost is a huge barrier to entry into
the sport, says Jesse Rafn, 29, who was
usually the youngest pilot in the room
until Secrist came on the scene here in
the Pacific Northwest.
The entire balloon system can cost
anywhere from $4,000 to $35,000, he
said, which doesn’t often fit into young
adults’ budgets when they have limited
income and many other pressing bills to
pay, such as student loans.
“That’s the main thing keeping
young people away,” the Wilsonville,
Oregon, pilot said. “(Ballooning) is a
fun thing, but it’s like a boat in the air
— you’re just throwing money at it.”
The ballooning community, which
only amounts to about 5,000 pilots in the
country, is working on ways to defray
the startup costs for younger pilots to
encourage participation, Rafn said.
For a while, he said, he was worried
the sport might die out significantly with
retiring pilots.
“We’re really trying to work on the
youth movement in the community and
bringing new blood into the sport,” he
said. “There’s a small amount of us, but
we’re growing, slowly but surely.”
It’s all about finding the right people,
those who want to invest the time,
energy and money to learn to be safe
and competent pilots, he said.
People like Secrist.
“It’s super fun; there’s a great community of balloonists, and we have a
great time together,” she said. “It’s so
awesome.”
Police: Doughnut
heist leads to capture
of wanted man
HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities
say a fugitive’s sweet tooth helped police
capture a wanted New Mexico man after
he tried to take a doughnut without
paying for it.
The Hobbs News-Sun reported that
Gregory Mendoza was arrested outside
a bakery after police received a report
he stole a doughnut.
Police then discovered the 35-yearold Mendoza was wanted on a number
of charges, including cruelty to animals
and traffic violations.
New Mexico court records show
Mendoza has 10 pending charges out
of Carlsbad Magistrate Court from July.
Mendoza also has charges pending
in Las Vegas (N.M.) Magistrate Court,
including aggravated fleeing a law
enforcement officer.
It was not known if Mendoza had an
attorney.
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