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www.delphosherald.com Vol.145No.88

Project Recycle will beheldfrom9-11a.m.Saturdayat Delphos Truck Fuel andWash.

When recycling, allcontainers must be clean.Participants are asked tocrush milk jugs and twist/crush/replace caps on waterbottles if possible to savespace.

Plastic and glass can beco-mingled.

Itemsthatneedtobesepa-rated are: tin cans, maga-zines, newspaper, aluminumandcleancardboard.

Recycle does not acceptstyrofoam,saltor feedbags,windoworornamentalglass,TVsorcomputermonitors.

Computer and electricalequipment and batteries areaccepted.

In addition to regularitems,ProjectRecycleiscol-lectingoldanddamagedU.S.flags.

Proceeds benefit GirlScouts and ColumbianSquires.

Delphos Mayor MichaelGallmierisseekingapplicantsfor the position of councilpresident to finish the unex-pired term which ends Dec.31,2015.

Interested individuals,whomustbearesidentofthecity of Delphos, can contactthe mayor at 419-695-4010beforeOct.24.

Mayorseekingcouncilpresident

BY STEPHANIE GROVESDHI Media Staff Writer

sgroves@delphosherald.com

DELPHOS — The Delphos Inter-FaithThrift Shop continues to evolve as a cus-tomer-centric operation and in an effort tomeettheneedsofthecommunity,OperationsManager Becky Strayer has announced thestore’snewhoursofoperationfrom11a.m.-4p.m.onFridaysbeginningNov.7.

“Wewantedtoopenourdoorsandaccom-modatethosepeoplewhowouldliketoshopon

Fridaysduringtheirlunchtime,”Strayersaid.Strayer explained with the store getting

larger, they havemade changes to the orga-nization— frommerchandise to employeesto volunteers — and have become moreefficient.

“Our re-organization of the departmentsmakesthestoreflowmuchbetter,”shesaid.

BarbHaggard, volunteer coordinator, saidthenewseasonaldepartmentwillbechockfullofChristmasdecorationsforsalethisweek.

ThriftShopexpandshours,Boutique

Employees and volunteers work in the Boutique at the Thrift Shop, moving glass display cases and other fixtures to make way for close to 200 additional square feet of merchandise space. Boutique Manager Loise Sroufe, far right, and her crew, from left, Janice Etzkorn, Gary Sroufe and Evan Mox, move and re-set a heavy display case. (DHI Media/Stephanie Groves)

ProjectRecyclesetSaturday

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M o s t l yc l o u d ytoday witha chance ofs h o w e r s .Partly cloudy tonight. Highsin themid60s.Lowsaround50.Seepage2.

Ottovilletoretirebondearly;savetaxpayers1.6mills

BY NANCY SPENCERDHI Media Editor

nspencer@delphosherald.com

OTTOVILLE—PropertyownersinOttovilleLocalSchoolDistrictwillseealightertaxsoonerthanexpected.Theschoolboard passed a resolutionWednesday evening approving theretirement of the bond on what’s left of the former schoolbuilding to a tune of $581,050. The resolution transferred$303,867.76totheBondRetirementFundtobringtheaccounttotheamountneededtopayoffthebond.

The move will eliminate interest the district would havepaiduntil thebondnaturally retired in2022and reduces themillage collected by the district through property taxes by1.6 mills. That will save taxpayers approximately $50 per$100,000ofvaluationperyear.

“Thisisagoodtimetopaydownsomedebt,savethedis-trict somemoney and pass along savings to our taxpayers,”TreasurerBobWebersaid.

BoardPresidentKevinLandinsaidtheoptionwasasoundfinancialmoveforthedistrict.

“Withthelimitedoptionswehaveininvestingandthepoorreturnswiththoseinvestments,thisisagooduseofthatmoneyanditgivesmoneybacktothetaxpayers,”hesaid.

Withthebondretirement,thedistrictwillhaveeliminatedalittlemorethan7mills.Thedistrictsdidn’trenewitsPermanentImprovementLevyin2012orEmergencyLevyin2013.

Jenningsyearbookearnsnationalexcellenceaward

BY STEPHANIE GROVESDHI Media Staff Writer

sgroves@delphosherald.com

FORTJENNINGS—FortJenningsSchoolBoardmembersannouncedandcommendedteacherHeatherHarmonandtheyearbook staff for earning “TheNationalYearbookProgramofExcellence”awardforthe2013-14schoolyearduringtheschoolboardmeetingWednesdaynight.

Approximately350schoolsinthenationreceivethisaward,anhonorthatrecognizesyearbookprogramsforachievingsuc-cessincreatingameaningfulbookforallstudents,havingatleast70percentoftheirstudentspurchasethebookandexhib-itingeffectiveprojectmanagement.

Boardmembersacceptedthedonationof$3,597fromFortJenningsActivityBoostersfortheBandTripFund,approvedthe5-yearForecastandthetuitionrateof$4,002for2014-15schoolyear.

FortJenningsHighSchoolPrincipalNicholasLanghalssaidit’sthesecondyearandtheforecastisthebestguesstimate.

“Weliketobeconservative,”hesaid.“Staterevenuesandtaxchangesaffecttheforecast.”

Inaddition,membersapprovedtheSeniorTripandContracttoWashington,D.C.,whichwilltakeplaceApril16-19,2015,andtheuseoftheoldgymforakaratetournamentthisNovember.BoardmembersapprovedtheNEOLAupdates.Langhalsexplainedtheupdatesarerevisionstothestudentrecordspolicy.

“Theywerethemostcurrentrevisionsandkeepallstudentinformation confidential,” he explained. “The revisions out-linedthepolicymoreclearly.”

Members also approved MOU between Jennings LocalBoardofEducationandFortJenningsEducationAssociation.

TheMOUmeans theBoardofEducation, inconsultationwith teachers employed by the board, adopts the standards-based evaluation procedure in conformance with the frame-workforevaluationofteachersdevelopedandmaintainedbytheStateBoardofEducationandwill follow theproceduresforevaluationasoutlinedinchapter3319oftheOhioRevisedCode.TheJenningsLocalSchoolDistrictCrisisManagementPlanwasalsoapproved.

Delphos St. John’s held its annual Children’s Festival Wednesday where elementary stu-dents got to enjoy play-ing games, winning priz-es and raising money for their parish. High school students, teach-ers, parents and grand-parents joined forces to share some qual-ity time with students. Left: Kindergartener Colt Cross watches his colorful ring bounce back and forth off of the pegs in Plinko. (DHI Media/Stephanie Groves)

Fall Festival kicks off with Children’s Festival

Nurse with Ebola had visited family in OhioKANTELE FRANKO

Associated Press

AKRON—ATexasnurse’sEboladiagnosisafter a visit to Ohio prompted public healthalerts, precautions and worries Wednesday asofficials tried to determinewho had close con-tactwithherandkeeptheillnessfromspreading.

Officials in Summit County, where thewoman visited family over the weekend, saidoneindividualinOhiowhohadhouseholdcon-tact with 29-year-oldAmber Joy Vinson self-quarantined at home Tuesday after Vinson’sfamily was notified that she developed Ebolasymptoms.Officialsdidn’tidentifytheisolatedperson.

Vinson had treated the Liberian man whodiedofthediseaseinaDallashospital.Medicalrecords provided to The Associated Press byThomasEricDuncan’sfamilyshowVinsonwasactively engaged in caring forDuncan and thatsheinsertedcatheters,drewbloodanddealtwithDuncan’sbodyfluids.

Officials say Vinson didn’t exhibit Ebolasymptomswhile inOhio.PassengerswhowereonMonday’sFrontierAirlinesFlight1143fromCleveland to Dallas with Vinson have beenaskedtocalltheCentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention.

InOhio, local and state officials atmultiplepressconferencessoughttowardoffanypublicpanicbyemphasizingthatthestatehasnocasesofEbolaandmanystepsarebeingtakentolimitfurtherinfection.

OfficialssaidClevelandHopkinsInternationalAirport disinfected key areas of its facility andwasprovidingpersonalprotectionforequipmentemployees. The airport director said the planeonwhichVinsonflewbacktoDallaswasdecon-taminated twice andwould be used for a flightonWednesday,butthatflightwascanceled.

ClevelandMayorFrankJacksonurgedpeopletobe reasonableand relynoton rumorsbutonfacts.

“Is there a need for people to have precau-tion?Yes,thereis,”Jacksonsaid.

The Cleveland airport is implementing itsinfectiousdiseaseprotocol,and thecitysaid itsemergency medical responders added Ebola-specificquestionstobetterscreenincomingcallsformedicalhelp.

Kent State University, Vinson’s alma mater,was abuzz about its links to the Ebola caseaftertheschoolannouncedthatthreeemployeesrelatedtoVinsonhavebeenaskedtoremainoffcampusforthreeweeks.Vinsondidn’tvisitcam-pusduringherrecenttrip,theschoolsaid.Itisn’tidentifyingtherelatedemployees.

Theannouncementabouttheemployees’con-nection left freshmanKatherine Fothergill con-cerned.

“I’mtryingtostaycalm,”saidFothergill,18.Her boyfriend, 18-year-old student Jared

Shoup,waslessworried.“Ifeellikeit’snotasbigofadealaspeople

aremakingitouttobe,”hesaid.Ebola is spread through direct contact with

thebloodorotherbodilyfluidsofsomeonewiththevirus.

Ohio and Summit County health officialsareworkingwith theCDC to identify andalertpeoplewhomayhavebeeninclosecontactwiththewomanandimplementquarantinesifneces-sary,saidOhio’sstateepidemiologist,Dr.MaryDiOrio.ShesaidhealthdepartmentsthroughoutOhiowillbekeptapprisedofthesituationastheinvestigationcontinues.

ThestatesaidtheCDCagreedtosendaliai-sontoOhiotohelpanswerquestions,alongwithat least one worker skilled in identifying whomayhavehadcontactwithaninfectedperson.

Gov. John Kasich requested that helpWednesdayinatelephonecallwithCDCDirectorTom Frieden, Kasich spokesman Rob Nicholssaid.He saidKasich also spoke by phonewithHealth and Human Services Secretary SylviaMatthewsBurwell.

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VFWtohostHunterSafetyCourse

VFW Post 3035 Delphoswill host a Hunter SafetyCoursefrom8a.m.to4p.m.Saturday.

Thiseventisfreeandopentothepublic.

Breakfast and lunch willbeserved.

TODAYVolleyball

Sectionals - All First- andsecond-roundmatchesat6p.m.

Division IV (Van WertDistrict)

12Waynesfield-Goshenat9Ottoville(winnerat1St.HenrySaturday); 10 Lima TempleChristianat7St.John’s(winnervs.NewBremen/PerrywinnerSaturday) ; 11 Spencerville at8Lincolnview(winneratNewKnoxvilleSaturday).

8Kalidaat5PatrickHenry(winner vs. Cory-RawsonSaturday); 13Miller City at 3Crestview(winnervs.Arcadia/Pandora-Gilboa winnerSaturday).

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ALLEN COUNTY — Allen County Sheriff Samuel A. Crish announced recent-ly the Ohio Department of Public Safety Office awarded $49,577.93 in federal traf-fic safety funding to Allen County Sheriff’s Office for the federal fiscal year 2015.

“Partnerships are critical to the long-term success of any safety effort and we are com-mitted to working with law enforcement and other local and state safety partners to address traffic safety concerns in Allen County,” Crish said. “These funds will help ensure that we can dedicate time and personnel to there efforts.”

The Allen County Sheriff’s Office has identified unsafe drivers are impacting the safe-ty of our residents of Allen County. To help save lives and make our roadways safer, the Allen County Sheriff’s Office will use the grant funds to focus on traffic-related fatal crashes, alcohol-related crash-es and safety belt enforce-ment on the major highways and local roadways in Allen County.

The funds are passed through ODPS from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to sup-port the efforts of safety part-ners statewide and focus on traffic safety priority areas such as restraint use, impaired driving, motorcycle safety and youthful drivers.

Nancy A. Vondran

Feb. 20, 1940-Oct. 14, 2014LIMA — Nancy A.

Vondran, 74, of Lima passed away Tuesday at St. Rita’s Medical Center.

She was born Feb. 20, 1940, in Delphos to William R. and Vera C. (Strayer) Loetz. Both preceded her in death.

On June 8, 1963, she was united in marriage to Norman H. Vondran, who survives in Lima.

She is also survived by one daughter, Anne (Joel) Eckerman of Venice, Florida; three sons, Marc (Beth) Vondran of Lima, Jay (Michelle) Vondran of Bradenton, Florida, and Chris (Tracy) Vondran of Columbus; three sisters, Carolyn Mason of Lexington, Kentucky, Kathleen (David) Calvelage of Englewood, Florida, and Susan (Larry) Grothouse of Delphos; four brothers, Carl (Rosalyn) Loetz of Jenera, Rodney (Charlotte) Loetz of Archbold, William R. Loetz Jr. of Windsor and Joseph Loetz of Van Wert; and nine grandchildren.

Nancy was a homemaker. She was a member of New Creation Lutheran Church in Lima and was formerly a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Delphos. Nancy had been a swimming official and a leader in the YMCA and Sherwood competitive swim programs. She was also an avid reader. She filled her life with lifelong learning. Most importantly, Nancy was a very devoted and dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and friend.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at New Creation Lutheran Church in Lima, the Rev. Samuel Payne officiating. Burial will be in Walnut Grove Cemetery.

Visiting hours will be from 2-8 p.m. Friday at Harter and Schier Funeral Home in Delphos.

Memorial contributions may be made to New Creation Lutheran Church.

To leave condolences, visit harterandschier.com.

HONIGFORD, Marguerite M., 77, of Ottoville, Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. today at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Ottoville, the Rev. Mark Hoying officiating. Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Ottoville. Memorial contributions may be made to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Condolences may be expressed at lovefuneralhome.com.

WEISGERBER, Carole A., 76, of Worthington, the family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. today at the Schoedinger Worthington Chapel, 6699 N. High Street, Worthington, Ohio 43085. A Memorial Mass will be held 11 a.m. Friday at St. Peter Catholic Church, 6899 Smoky Row Road, Columbus, Ohio. Internment will be held privately at a later date. If they wish, friends may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society or OhioHealth Hospice. Visit www.schoedinger.com to send online condolences to the family.

MCGUE, Mary Louise (Mueller), her friends are invited to share a celebration of Mary Lou’s life from 5-7 p.m. today at the Lima Holiday Inn or at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Traverse City, Michigan, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Memorials in her honor should be directed to the Grand Traverse County Commission on Aging (520 W. Front St., Suite B, Traverse City, 49686).

BLAUSER, Betty Jane (Brenneman), 90, of Troy, private services will be held at the convenience of the family. The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Baird Funeral Home, Troy. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105; or Hospice of Miami County, P. O. Box 502, Troy OH 45373. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

One Year AgoSt. John’s Elementary School held its

annual Children’s Festival Wednesday afternoon. Students, parents and grandpar-ents spent some quality time together play-ing games. Among the children playing were pre-kindergartener Faith Cross trying her skill at Bean Bag Toss. Blaize Karhoff, 2, and his sister, Kailyn Dienstberger, a second-grader, played Fish Pond.

25 Years Ago – 1989Bees and the honey they produce have

been a part of the Hoehn family for three generations, having been started by Joseph Hoehn over 75 years ago. Today, the father-son partnership of Jerry and Roger Hoehn carries on the tradition. They will soon start readying their bee colonies, located in Allen, Auglaize, Putnam and Van Wert counties, for the winter months, making sure they have enough food.

Only an earthquake can save San Francisco now. Nothing else has stopped the Oakland Athletics. Terry Steinbach hit a three-run homer and the A’s showed no respect for Big Daddy Sunday, strolling halfway to a sweep of the Bay Area World Series with a 5-1 triumph over the Giants.

Approximately $2,000 was raised for The COTA for Krysti fund during the poker run Sunday afternoon sponsored by the Delphos Area Car Club. There were 56 entries and Rodney Sutter took first place. Second place went to Jim Calvelage and Byron Nolan third. Among those reg-istering were Keith Flick and Jennifer Brizendine, top pledge earners; and Jerry Picker, Ron Siefker, Jim Goergens and Woodrow Mullenhour.

50 Years Ago – 1964Psi Chapter, Alpha Delta Omega

National Sorority held its annual dessert smorgasbord and card party Tuesday eve-ning at the Franklin School. Door prizes were awarded to Rose Ricker, Sue McGue, Joyce Wittler, Cecilia Goetz and Mrs. Dan Clark. Psi Chapter will hold a Halloween

party Oct. 27 at the home of Jane Lloyd.Thirty-eight members attended the sup-

per and meeting of the Landeck Catholic Ladies of Columbia Tuesday evening. Shirley Etzkorn and Bertha Kill took the oath of obligation into the council. Ann Miller received the attendance prize. Other prizes during the social hour went to Rosella Kill, Ethel Burgei, Freda Kill, Rose Marie Hilvers, Anna Miller and Agnes Rode.

The New York Yankees sent a rookie, Mel Stottlemyre, out to do a man’s job against the St. Louis Cardinals today in the 1964 World Series. The Yankees stole a page from the Cardinals’ book of come-backs Wednesday when they rode back-to-back solo homers by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle and a grand slammer by Joe Pepitone to an 8-3 victory that knotted the best-of-seven series at three victories apiece.

75 Years Ago – 1939Delphos people will have an opportunity

of seeing the huge snow cruiser which will be used by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his next expedition to the Antarctic. The snow cruiser is being driven from Chicago to Boston under its own power where it will be shipped to the polar regions. According to the schedule, the cruiser will leave Chicago at 6 a.m. Oct. 21.

Officers of Delphos Aerie of Eagles were in Dayton Sunday in attendance at a school conducted by Grand Aerie auditors. Those in attendance from Delphos were President Joseph Meyers, Vice President Doyle Fuller, Secretary Frank Holden and Trustees R. J. Williams, H. D. Bickel and Carl Stopher.

The annual physical examination of Delphos school pupils started this week under the sponsorship of the Delphos Chapter, American Red Cross. Sally Grothouse is in charge of the examining of pupils in the public schools and Maneta Westrich is in charge at St. John’s School. Both are graduate nurses.

Associated Press

Today is Thursday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2014. There are 76 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Oct. 16, 1859, radi-cal abolitionist John Brown led a group of 21 men in a raid on Harpers Ferry in western Virginia. (Ten of Brown’s men were killed and five escaped. Brown and six followers were captured; all were executed.)

On this date:In 1793, during the French

Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded.

In 1934, Chinese Communists, under siege by the Nationalists, began their “long march” lasting a year

from southeastern to north-western China.

In 1939, the comedy “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, opened on Broadway.

In 1943, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly officially opened the city’s new sub-way system during a ceremo-ny at the State and Madison street station.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.

In 1964, China set off its first atomic bomb, code-named “596,” on the Lop Nur Test Ground. Harold Wilson of the Labour Party assumed office as prime minister of Britain, succeed-

ing Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

In 1969, the New York Mets capped their miracle season by winning the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles, 5-3, in Game 5 played at Shea Stadium.

In 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he took the name John Paul II.

In 1984, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of non-violent struggle for racial equality in South Africa.

In 1987, a 58-1/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.

In 1991, a deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria, killing 23 people

before taking his own life.In 1999, a New York Air

National Guard plane res-cued Dr. Jerri Nielsen from a South Pole research center after she’d spent five months isolated by the Antarctic win-ter, forced to treat herself for a cancerous breast lump.

Ten years ago: The Soyuz spacecraft was forced to manually dock with the International Space Station after it closed in on the sta-tion at a dangerously high speed. Pierre Salinger, a jour-nalist who’d served as press secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died in France at age 79.

Five years ago: The gov-ernment reported that the federal budget deficit for the just-ended fiscal year totaled an all-time high of $1.42 trillion (a record which still stands). Agricultural officials said pigs in Minnesota had tested positive for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, the first such cases in the U.S.

WEATHER FORECASTTri-County

Associated Press

TODAY: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Southwest

winds 5 to 15 mph.FRIDAY: Partly cloudy.

Highs in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy through midnight. Then mostly cloudy with a 20 per-cent chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.

Van Wert lawyer accused of misappropriating funds

BY ED GEBERTDHI Media Editor

egebert@timesbulletin.com

VAN WERT — Long-time Van Wert attorney C. Allen Runser is being charged with misconduct in a case filed last month by Disciplinary Counsel in the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline for the Ohio Supreme Court. Specific charges against Runser include failure to hold property of clients separate from the lawyer’s own property, not complying with reasonable requests for information from the client, not promptly delivering funds to a client or third party, not hold-ing property of clients separate from the lawyer’s own property, engaging in conduct involving fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation and not acting with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.

Runser has been practicing law since being admitted to the bar in 1967. That

same year he established a practice. Shaun A. Putman was included as a partner in 2004.

Putman released this statement about the current situation: “I have a deep respect for the legal system, for the Plaintiffs, and for the Court, and as such I will not speak to any specifics of the pending lawsuit other than to say that I look forward to continuing to distance myself from the allegations at hand. I can assure you that my personal integrity and ethics were never, and will never, be compromised. I am excited to begin my own firm under the name of Putman Law Offices, LLC, and look forward to providing the same high standards of legal counsel as I have in the past. The current matter is certainly unfortunate, shocking, and disappointing,

but it has also given me a new eagerness and determination that will only enhance

my current practice.”There are three counts

in the Supreme Court com-plaint. The first deals with the guardianship of Jeanne Koch between 2005-11. During this time, Runser is accused of not filing proper and timely guard-ian’s reports or an inven-tory of Koch’s assets as required. The case outlines several past-due notices sent to Runser from Van Wert County Probate Court, plus one notice of a final account which was

to be filed within 30 days of the termination of the guardianship. Koch died June 13, 2011. That account was finally filed on Sept, 7, 2012.

Runser

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E - The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: What’s the latest on efforts to ban plastic bags? How many U.S. locales have instituted some kind of ban, and have these initiatives made a dent in the amount of plastic litter?

— Melinda Clarke, New York, NY

California made big news recently when it announced the first statewide ban on plastic shopping bags set to kick in during the middle of 2015. Beginning in July, large grocery stores, pharmacies and other food retailers in the Golden State will no longer be able to send shop-pers home with plastic bags, while con-venience markets, liquor stores and other small food retailers will join the ranks a year later

Back in 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. municipality to ban plastic shop-ping bags. In intervening years upwards of 132 other cities and counties in 18 states and the District of Columbia instituted similar measures. Of course, Americans are late to the party when it comes to ban-ning plastic bags: The European Union, China, India and dozens of other nations already have plastic bag bans or taxes in place.

But the trend here toward banning plas-tic shopping bags comes in the wake of new findings regarding the extent and harm of plastic in our environment. Since plastic isn’t biodegradable, it ends up either in landfills or as litter on the landscape and in waterways and the ocean. Plastic can take hundreds of years to decompose and releases toxins into the soil and water in the process.

Littered plastic is also a huge problem for the health of wildlife, as many ani-mals ingest it thinking it is food and can have problems thereafter breathing and digesting. The non-profit Worldwatch Institute reports that at least 267 species of marine wildlife are known to have suffered from entanglement or inges-tion of marine debris, most of which is composed of plastic; tens of thousands of whales, birds, seals and turtles die every year from contact with ocean-borne plastic bags. A recent European Commission study on the impact of litter on North Sea wildlife found that some 90 percent of the birds examined had plastic in their stomachs.

Another reason for banning plastic bags is their fossil fuel burden. Plastic is not only made from petroleum—producing it typically requires a lot of fossil-fuel-derived energy. The fact that Americans throw away some 100 billion plastic gro-cery bags each year means we are drilling for and importing millions of barrels worth of oil and natural gas for a convenient way to carry home a few groceries.

It’s hard to measure the impact of pre-existing plastic bag bans, but some initial findings look promising. A plastic bag tax levied in Ireland in 2002 has reportedly led to a 95 percent reduction in plastic bag litter there. And a study by San Jose, California found that a 2011 ban instituted there has led to plastic litter reduction of “approximately 89 percent in the storm drain system, 60 percent in the creeks and rivers, and 59 percent in City streets and neighborhoods.”

Environmental groups continue to push for more plastic bag bans. “As U.S. natural gas production has surged and prices have fallen, the plastics industry is looking to ramp up domestic production,” reports the Earth Policy Institute. “Yet using this fos-sil fuel endowment to make something so short-lived, which can blow away at the slightest breeze and pollutes indefinitely, is illogical—particularly when there is a ready alternative: the reusable bag.”

EarthTalk® is written and edited by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss and is a reg-istered trademark of E - The Environmental Magazine (www.emagazine.com). Send questions to: earthtalk@emagazine.com.

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Putnam County Leadership Day spurs volunteerism in teens, communities

BY STEVE COBURN-GRIFFIS

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MILLER CITY – Some of the best and brightest stu-dents Putnam County has to offer converged on Miller City on Tuesday, participat-ing in the fifth annual Putnam County Leadership Day.

The brainchild of three influential county residents – Pathway’s Beth Tobe, Jason Hedrick of the Ohio State University Extension Office and Fort Jennings School District faculty member Jeff Jostpille – the 2014 confer-ence was designed to instill an even greater sense of civic responsibility in high school students already predisposed toward such a mindset.

Roughly 100 students representing seven of the county’s nine school dis-tricts – Columbus Grove, Continental, Fort Jennings, Kalida, Miller City-New Cleveland, Ottoville and Pandora-Gilboa – participated in the event. Students partici-pating in the conference were selected from all four grades, freshman through senior, and were often chosen based on participation in such activities as student council, National Honor Society, Key Club, Future Farmers of America and other similar activities. The contingent representing Fort Jennings was a dispa-rate group nominated by the school’s faculty with the stu-dents receiving the most nom-inations elected to attend.

The day began with a series of both physically energizing and team-building exercises intended to invigorate and devel-op a network of mutual support between the students, many of whom had never met before that morning. Then, in the afternoon, participants were provided the

opportunity to meet representa-tives of a variety of charitable and community service-orient-ed organizations operating in Putnam County.

“The goal of this is to get the high school students in Putnam Count together to learn about volunteerism and service leadership and to rec-ognize that our county has a lot of opportunities where they can do those kinds of activities,” Jostpille said.

To that end, seven organi-zations were invited to dis-cuss their programs and goals with the participants: Habitat for Humanity, Challenged Champions, Columbus Grove Leo Club, Kalida Cats Who Care, the Putnam County Thrift Store, the Putnam County YMCA and the Putnam County chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters.

After rotating through each organization’s presenta-tion in groups of 10 to 15, the students, returned now to their home-school con-tingents, were challenged to prepare a service/volunteer project plan within a 45-min-ute time frame. Provided for them was a framework that raised questions about the nature of the project, its cost, the frequency of plan-ning meetings, number of necessary participants and other key concerns for the development of a successful campaign.

For Fort Jennings senior and student council treasurer Jenna Calvelage, the event, while somewhat familiar, was a success.

“Our school is heavily involved in the Ohio Association of Student Councils, so this is very much review,” she said. “Once the games got going, everybody was interacting well and we all came out of our shells. This helped open up our personalities.”

In addition, attendants were encouraged to return to their communities with information about the organizations that presented during the event. The intent behind these dis-cussions is to not only provide a boost to the participating organizations, but to engender the self-same volunteer men-tality in the students’ home communities as they were encouraged to develop over the course of the day.

“That is a definite must,” Jostpille emphasized. “That’s the first thing we said when we started today; that what-ever they learn here could be personal growth for them in any activity, including in their school and community.”

Fort Jennings teacher Jeff Jostpille hands out service/volunteer project plan guidelines to students Andrea Krendl, Continental High School, and Alex Kern, Miller City High School, during the Putnam County Leadership Day held in Miller City. (DHI Media/Steve Coburn-Griffis)

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MARION TOWNSHIP — The Marion Township Trustees held their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday with the following members present: Howard Violet, Jerry Gilden and Joseph Youngpeter.

The purpose of the meeting was to pay bills and conduct ongoing business. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved as read. The trustees then reviewed the bills and gave approval for 21 checks totaling $23,121.

Road Foreman Elwer reported that all berming has been done that was needed due to the 2014 road program.

DJL Material called and stated the material and machine to do the crack sealing will be coming.

A resident in the 2600 block of McBride Road will apply for a conditional use permit, which all information was forwarded to the Zoning Appeals Board.

The pavement that was damaged by the downed power line on Sharf Road has been repaired.

Fiscal Officer Kimmet gave the trustees the Bank Reconciliation and Fund Status reports to review and sign.

Police Chief Vermillion gave the trustees the September activity report he received from the Allen County Sheriff’s Department.

Gilden presented a meeting notice from the Allen County Health Board to be held on Oct. 23 that he will attend.

A public meeting will be held before the next regular meeting to discuss any issues of the rehire of Gilden as trustee.

There being no further business, Gilden made a motion to adjourn, which was seconded by Youngpeter and passed unanimously.

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VAN WERT — The Van Wert County Fruit Growers will be out in full force for the 28th edition of the Van Wert Apple Festival from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with apples and other tradi-tional autumnal treats at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds.

Food will be plentiful with apple dumplings, caramel apples, apple cider, apple pie, sandwiches, soups and many other treats.

A craft show will be featured again this year, as well as horse-drawn wagon rides around the fair-grounds. Pony rides will be available, the Homestead Donkeys and a petting zoo.

For those longing for the freshest-made treats, there will be apple butter, maple syrup and caramel corn, all made on the grounds. And of course, you’ll be able to buy apples.

Also on the agenda for the week-end is the Van Wert County Youth Art Contest/Display, a one-mile fun run and children’s games.

Admission and parking is free. Also free are the wagon rides and the entertainment at the festival.

The Apple Festival is also spon-sored by the Van Wert County Agricultural Society.

Apple Festival set this weekend

Surviving members of class of 1934 hold reunionWednesday afternoon was special for two life-long friends living in Vancrest Health Care Center. Alice (Lammers) Pohlman, left, and Rita (Wahmhoff) Grubenhoff celebrated their 80th St. John’s High School class of 1934 reunion with a special lunch surrounded by family members. Pohlman high-lighted some of the fun she and Grubenhoff had as kids including pulling stunts during trick-or-treat, bicycling around town, “borrowing” a vehicle and driving in the country and attending the Allen County Fair on North Main Street. (DHI Media/Stephanie Groves)

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COLUMBUS – The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) is bringing together experts to intensify its exami-nation of the complex formula used in calculating Current Agricultural Use Value (CAUV). Many landown-ers have raised concerns as values are rising at the same time crop prices are falling. OFBF’s goal is to provide solutions to those concerns while preserving the integ-rity and purpose of the pro-gram. CAUV is designed to accurately value land as farm ground rather than as devel-opment property.

Forty-one counties under-went reappraisals and updates in 2014. Record high crop prices in preced-ing years combined with record low interest rates have created significant spikes in values under CAUV. Farmers in other counties experienced similar increases in 2012 and 2013.

“The CAUV program has worked very well over the past 40 years and is a program that must be preserved. While the recent increases in values have been anticipated, it doesn’t make them easier to stomach, especially at a time when crop prices are declining,” said Jack Fisher, OFBF executive vice president.

The challenge is how to address the factors that have caused today’s drastic increases in taxes while ensuring that the aspects of this program that have contributed to its long-standing useful-ness to farmers remain intact. Farm Bureau is working to make sure that any changes will consider both short- and long-term ramifications.

During its September meeting, OFBF’s state policy development committee talked extensively about the CAUV formula and heard presen-tations from three other state Farm Bureaus on how their states’ agricultur-al property tax programs are conducted and calculated. OFBF’s board of trust-ees plans to address CAUV during its October meeting.

In addition, Farm Bureau members are encouraged to provide additional data about their situations and suggestions for changes to the for-mula by completing an online CAUV survey at ofbf.org. The survey must be completed by Oct. 31.

The accumulated information will be used in the state policy develop-ment session in November to for-mulate policy proposals for consid-eration at OFBF’s annual meeting in December.

Over the past year, Ohio Farm Bureau has conducted more than 20 informational meetings and webinars statewide to help members understand the CAUV formula and the reasons for recent increases.

Additionally, Ohio Farm Bureau has reached out to lawmakers who have been hearing concerns from con-stituents about rising property taxes on farmland. OFBF conducted a CAUV educational session for members of the Ohio General Assembly and their staffs, met individually with numer-ous legislators and sent a letter to all lawmakers this month making them aware of the organization’s research and seeking their input for possible improvements.

FAA working on plan to integrate UAVs in agriculture use

BY JAMES HOORMANPutnam County

Extension Educatornews@delphosherald.com

Drones are becoming more important in agriculture every day. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been authorized by Congress to final-ize a plan for “safe integration” of UAVs (Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles) by Sept. 30, 2015.

According to John Dillard with Farm Journal, FAA will release its proposed regulations for drones that weigh less than 55 pounds this fall. Current altitude limits are 400 feet for flying drones and fixed wing aircraft. Current FAA regula-tions say “you can fly a drone for fun, but you can’t use one to make money for business decisions.” That interpretation is being challenged and changed with new regulations. However, current drone use is not legal, even for farm use, because it is regulated by the FAA.

John Barker, OSU Knox County Extension Educator specializes in drone education. Barker says there are two types of aerial vehicles: fixed-wing or airplanes and rotary-wing or helicopters.

Each have pros and cons. Airplane pros are they fly faster, they have longer range, gener-ally longer battery life and can carry a larger payload. Airplane cons are they need a mechanical launching assistance, require a bigger landing area, can’t hover and durability is an issue.

Helicopter pros include ver-tical takeoff/landing, precise positioning (hovering) and low/variable speed capabilities. Helicopter cons include shorter battery life, shorter range and much smaller payloads.

UAVs have a number of agricultural uses. They can help farmers gather data about their farm including real-time aeri-

al photographs of their fields. Farmers can scout for weeds, insects, diseases, plant stands and plant health. Farmers can document wildlife damage, drainage issues, and map and find existing tile lines. Farmers also can use drones to tailor their use of pesticides, herbi-cides, fertilizer and other appli-cations based on how much is needed at a specific point in a field, a process known as pre-cision agriculture, saving the grower money from unneces-sarily overusing resources while at the same time reducing the amount of runoff that could flow into nearby rivers and streams.

With new technology, there are many components to learn about including onboard equip-ment and ground stations. Onboard equipment can include your flight camera for fixed photographs, video cameras for real time motion, camera gimbals (gyroscope to deter-mine location), anti-vibration dampners, infra-red cameras, flight controllers (autopilot,) RC (radio controlled) receivers, video transmitters, GPS (global positioning systems) antennas and batteries. Ground station equipment may include remote control equipment, tripods, video monitors, data link trans-mitter, video antenna/receiv-ers, googles for controlling the AUV equipment and iPad for auto flight. If you like gadgets and new technology, drones and UAVs are constantly changing and being upgraded.

Iain Butler, drone and UAV specialist, offers these UAV tips:

1. Preplan your mission, do a site visit or use Google Earth for site info. Look out for power-lines, airports, tree lines, towers and other safety hazards.

2. The higher you fly, the less images you need, which means less processing time. Also, the higher you fly, the larger the area you can map. Currently,

400 feet is the maximum alti-tude.

3. Always check your images when in the field to make sure your equipment is working. Fly at noon to limit shadows from vegetation and to maximize your data collection.

4. Use an observer to make sure the equipment is working correctly. It is easy to lose sight of your AUV equipment. Paint your AUV equipment orange. Sooner or later you will crash and orange is a bright color and easier to find.

5. Crop analysis is 20 per-cent flying and 80 percent data processing. Flying is fun but for agriculture, the payoff is in using the data to increase crop yields. Spend the time using the data to improve your farm.

Agricultural drones range in cost from $2,000 for a cheap plane to around $25,000 for equipment with infrared cam-eras, sensors and other tech-nology controlled by a pilot. The cost may be steep, but the data collected (from iden-tifying insect problems, water-ing issues, assessing crop yields) help farmers recover the investment, often within a year.

If you are going to operate a UAV make sure you have ade-quate insurance. Liability insur-ance should include personal-injury protection and invasion of privacy. Property insurance covers aircraft damage and whole insurance coverage is more comprehensive but it is difficult to predict what drones will or won’t do. (Potter, Farm Journal, 2014)

For more information about Drones and UAVs, go to the following websites: www.FarmWithDrones.com; Ben Potter, Farm Journal at www.agweb.com/farmjournal/article/sky-high_potential_NAA_Ben_Potter; or FAA website at www.faa.gov/uas.

EPA approves new weed killer for engineered cropsWASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental

Protection Agency has approved a new version of a popular weed killer to be used on genetically modified corn and soybeans.

The EPA said Wednesday that it will allow the use of a 2,4-D weed killer called Enlist Duo, a new version of the popular herbicide used since the 1940s. It is designed to be used with geneti-cally modified corn and soybeans approved by the Agriculture Department last month.

The seeds are engineered to resist the her-bicide, so farmers can spray the fields after the plants emerge and kill the weeds while leaving crops unharmed.

The agriculture industry has anxiously awaited the approvals, as many weeds have become resis-tant to glyphosate, an herbicide commonly used on genetically modified corn and soybeans now. Enlist includes a combination of both the new version of 2,4-D and glyphosate.

Critics say they’re concerned the increased use of 2,4-D could endanger public health and more study on the chemical is needed. The USDA has predicted that the use of 2,4-D could increase by an estimated 200 percent to 600 percent by the year 2020.

The EPA said in a release that the agency’s decision reflects a large body of science and that officials used “highly conservative and protec-tive assumptions to evaluate human health and ecological risks.” The EPA said the herbicide meets safety standards for the public, agricultural workers and endangered species. This is the third time EPA has reviewed the safety of the herbicide in recent years.

2,4-D is now used on other crops, including

wheat, and on pastures and home lawns. It is the world’s most popular herbicide and the third most popular in the United States, behind atrazine and glyphosate.

Groups lobbying the agency to prevent its expanded use say they are concerned about 2,4-D’s toxic effects and the potential for it to drift. Corn and soybeans are the nation’s largest crops, and the potential for expanded use is huge.

Dow AgroSciences, which manufactures Enlist, says the new version has been engineered to solve potential problems, like drift before and after the herbicide hits the plant.

To further address concerns, the EPA is requir-ing a 30-foot buffer zone where the herbicide can’t be sprayed. The agency is also requiring farmers to stop spraying if wind speed is over 15 miles an hour. And the approval announced Wednesday only allows the use of the weed killer in six states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

The agency said it is taking comments on whether to register the herbicide in 10 additional states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and North Dakota.

Critics have expressed additional concern that weeds will eventually become resistant to the herbicide, as they have glyphosate. EPA says it is requiring better surveying and reporting of weeds to try and get ahead of that problem, and the approval will expire in six years, allowing EPA to revisit the issue of resistance.

Opponents were unmoved. The advocacy groups Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice each indicated they were considering lawsuits.

Peanut farmers deal with fallout from salmonella

A L B U Q U E R Q U E , N.M. (AP) — There will be significantly fewer peanuts pulled from the ground in eastern New Mexico this harvest season because of lingering fallout from the bankruptcy and sale of a peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and nationwide recall.

Peanut farmers are expected to bring in 6 million pounds less this year, according to fore-casts released this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That rep-resents nearly a 30-per-cent drop in production in New Mexico from the year before.

The forecast calls for nationwide production to approach 5 billion pounds, an increase over last year, but those numbers won’t include as many Valencia peanuts as in years past. Grown along the New Mexico-Texas border, the sweet variety is coveted for making natural butters and is what fueled the process-ing plant in Portales before it closed.

With no plant, there were no contracts and no bonuses for farmers to grow Valencia peanuts this year.

Portales residents

remain anxious because it’s unclear whether the plant’s new owner, Golden Boy Foods, will resume operations.

“They’ve got a new sign up, but there’s still no activ-ity there at all. We don’t know what their plans are,” said Wayne Baker with the New Mexico Peanut Growers Association. “I wish they’d either get with the program or sell it to somebody else because we need the industry to get going again.”

The closure of the organic peanut butter plant has had a significant effect on the industry, with lost jobs, income and tax rev-enue, New Mexico State University peanut expert Naveen Puppala said.

Retailers including Costco and Trader Joe’s have since found other peanut butters to fill their shelves, and Portales-area farmers have found ways to stay afloat this year by planting cotton, grain and corn for silage.

The community is also getting relief from the drought, the dairy busi-ness is picking up and a highway project that ham-pered downtown busi-ness for over two years is nearly done — all reasons for spirits being so high as

Portales gets ready for a weekend celebration that will mark 100 years of peanut production in the region.

“People have weath-ered it all really well — in Portales style, with a stiff upper lip,” said Karl Terry, executive director of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce.

The annual Peanut Valley Festival is expect-ed to attract about 5,000 people from throughout the region. Visitors will be able to find everything from Cajun-flavored pea-nuts to green and red chile brittle.

Peanuts have been syn-onymous with the Portales area for decades. In fact, it’s still home to a pro-cessing plant operated by North Carolina-based Hampton Farms, which contracts with Major League Baseball to provide nuts to ballparks across the country.

Stuart Ingle, a Portales resident and minority floor leader of the New Mexico Senate, said the region has a century of experience and the type of sandy soil required for growing pea-nuts.

“The industry is going to be here for a long while. It sure is,” he said.

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Broccoli Bake1 (16-oz.) bag frozen broccoli florets, thawed and

drained2 (14-1/2 oz.) cans stewed tomatoes2 tablespoons cornstarch1 teaspoon sugar1 teaspoon Italian seasoning, divided1/4 teaspoon pepper1-1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese2 cups unseasoned bread cubes, crushedPreheat oven to 350 degrees. Place broccoli in single

layer in 9x13-inch baking dish, cutting any large florets in half. In a medium bowl, mix tomatoes, cornstarch, sugar, 3/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning and pepper. Pour over broccoli. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over tomatoes. Mix melted butter with remaining 1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning and Parmesan cheese. Toss with dry bread cubes. Sprinkle over broccoli mixture. Bake 30 minutes or until top is lightly browned. Makes 8 servings.

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The Putnam County District Library in Ottawa will have local author Ray Woods at 2 p.m. on Oct. 23.

Ray’s book is about his ser-vice as a radarman on the USS O’Brien during World War II. Ray survived six major inva-sions from D-Day Normandy to Okinawa. His books will be available for purchase and signing.

The Putnam County District Library Fort Jennings location will have a presentation for Fort Jennings area residents at 6 p.m. on Oct. 30.

Learn about government aggregation, electric and natu-ral gas choice and your rights and responsibilities as utility customers. You have options when it comes to your electric-ity and natural gas providers and some cost less than others. Attendees are encouraged to bring copies of their own ener-gy bills for answers to specific questions.

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EDWARD JONES INVESTMENTSClose of business October 15, 2014

By JIM METCALFEDHI Media Sports Editor

jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com

Are the Kansas City Royals making it to the World Series one of sports’ — any sport? — all-time surprises?

Like The ‘Mazing Mets of 1969?They perhaps clinched that possible auspicious honor

Wednesday night by finishing off the sweep of the Baltimore Orioles.

I can remember — ahem, vaguely; I was awful young then! — the last time the Royals made the playoffs and won the World Series in 1985, beating the dreaded St. Loius Cardinals of the Show Me State title.

Yeah, I know; those who remember recall the Don Denkinger boneheaded call that helped lead the way but that is for another time and place.

Think about it: it had been 29 years — a generation and a half — since the Royals had even made the playoffs again.

They have broken the hearts of many a Royal fan in what I consider one of the all-time best baseball towns of MBL’s glorious — and at moments, inglorious — times.

Associated PressPGA TOURSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR

CHILDREN OPENSite: Las Vegas.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: TPC Summerlin (7,255

yards, par 71).Purse: $6.2 million.

Winner’s share: $1,116,000.Television: Golf Channel

(Today-Sunday, 5-8 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.).

Last year: Webb Simpson shot 64-63-67-66 for a 6-stroke victory.

Last week: South Korea’s Bae Sang-moon won the sea-son-opening Frys.com Open in Napa, California.

Notes: No. 19 Hideki Matsuyama is the top-ranked player in the field. No. 21 Jimmy Walker, No. 33 Simpson, No. 34 Kevin Na and No. 39 Graham DeLaet are the only other players in the top 40 in the event. … In 2010, Jonathan Byrd made a hole-in-one on the fourth extra hole to beat Martin Laird and Cameron Percy. … The McGladrey Classic is next week at St. Simons Island, Georgia, followed by the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

___EUROPEAN TOURVOLVO WORLD MATCH PLAY

CHAMPIONSHIPSite: Ash, England.Schedule: through Sunday.Course: The London Golf Club

(7,026 yards, par 72).Purse: $2.86 million. Winner’s share:

$826,900.Television: Golf Channel (Today-

Saturday, 6:30-11:30 a.m.; Sunday, 3-7 a.m., 7:30-11:30 a.m.).

Last year: Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell won the May event in Bulgaria, beating Thongchai Jaidee 2 and 1.

Last week: France’s Alexander Levy shot 63-61 to win the rain-shortened Portugal Masters.

Notes: After round-robin play in four 4-man groups, the top two in each group will advance to the quarterfinals. McDowell is grouped with Levy, Joost Luiten and Mikko Illonen. U.S. Ryder Cup player Patrick Reed is in a group with Jamie Donaldson, Jonas Blixt and Paul Casey. Victor Dubuisson, second in the WGC Match Play in February in Arizona, is grouped with Stephen Gallacher, Pablo Larazzabal and Shane Lowry. Thongchai is grouped with Henrik Stenson, Francesco Molinari and George Coetzee.

___LPGA TOUR

LPGA KEB-HANABANK CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Incheon, South Korea.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: Sky 72 Golf Club, Ocean

Course (6,364 yards, par 72).Purse: $2 million. Winner’s share:

$300,000.Television: Golf Channel (Today-

Saturday, 11:30 p.m.-3 a.m.).Last year: South Korea’s Amy Yang

beat countrywoman Hee Kyung Seo with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.

Last week: China’s Shanshan Feng rallied to win the LPGA Malaysia for her fourth LPGA Tour title.

Notes: U.S. Women’s Open cham-pion Michelle Wie is making her first start since withdrawing during the first round of the Evian Championship in September in France after reinjuring a stress reac-tion in her right hand. … Women’s British Open winner Mo Martin is returning from a thumb injury. … Eight of the top 10 players in the world — No. 2 Inbee Park, No. 3 Lydia Ko, No. 4 Suzann Pettersen, No. 5 Feng, No. 7 So Yeon Ryu, No. 8 Wie, No. 9 Lexi Thompson and No. 10 Hyo-Joo Kim — are in the field. Park married swing coach Gi Hyeob Nam on Monday. Pettersen won in 2007 and 2012. … The Blue Bay LPGA is next week in China.

Online: http://www.lpga.com___

By DAN GELSTONAssociated Press

PHILADELPHIA — High above the city in Philadelphia’s tallest skyscraper, NASCAR’s potential future zooms into focus on a 140-inch screen.

It’s also just as clear on a mobile device.There could be a channel dedicated to

your favorite driver. Want the latest news on Jimmie Johnson? Maybe a replay of old inter-views or his winning races? Or how about live scanner traffic between Johnson and his crew chief during a race?

It could all be just a push of a remote con-trol button away.

“I’m going to be bold and say we’re going to do all of that,” said Matt Strauss, Comcast’s senior vice president of video services.

Philadelphia-based Comcast has innovative plans to beef up how NASCAR fans follow the sport, from routine news sto-ries flowing on a ticker during the week to expanded coverage from inside the pits on the weekends. Comcast Corp. signed a 10-year agreement to replace Nationwide Insurance as the title sponsor of NASCAR’s second-tier racing series beginning next season.

The series will be known as the NASCAR Xfinity Series through 2024. The deal matches the longest single agreement around title sponsor-ship of any NASCAR national series in its history and Sports Business Daily valued the package at worth close to $200 million. Xfinity is Comcast’s

residential cable and Internet provider.Unlike most sponsorship branding that has

no impact on the average fan, Comcast is try-ing to make its X1 platform as necessary for fans as four wheels on a stock car.

At Philadelphia’s Comcast Center, Strauss showed on the big screen how the X1 service could work as a computer-on-TV. Search engines, apps, real-time scores, even the lat-est trends on Twitter can be customized to fit almost any driver or hot topic in NASCAR.

And X1 works on mobile devices.Strauss said it would be possible to create

on-demand content of drivers and races could be viewed live on the mobile app.

Xfinity becomes just the third title spon-sor in series history. Anheuser-Busch spent

26 years as title sponsor and Nationwide has been sponsor the last 11 but is transitioning into team sponsorship next season.

“It’s the importance that live sports brings to our business in general as the reason we’re involved here,” said Matt Lederer, Comcast senior director of sports brand marketing. “We’re going to make a NASCAR experience unlike anything else. We’re in a very strong position with our product right now, as strong as it’s ever been. How we’re going to market the series? We’ll have to see what happens.”

One speed bump: Xfinity does not carry Fox Sports 2 on its cable systems, which the company hoped to have straightened out in time for 2015.

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Musketeers blank Lincolnview in D-III soccer tournament

BY JIM COXDHI Media Correspondentnews@delphosherald.com

FORT JENNINGS — The Fort Jennings Musketeers blasted 45 shots (25 on-goal) at Lincolnview in Division III sectional boys soccer action Wednesday, resulting in a 7-0 victory.

The win moves the fourth-seeded Ft. Jennings (8-5-4) boys into a 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon matchup with third-seeded Lima Central

Catholic at Spartan Stadium. The Lancers’ season ends at 0-14.

Any match against a Putnam County League team is certain to be a tough one. Of the 11 teams in the Kalida Division III soccer dis-trict tournament, the five PCL teams are seeded one (Continental), two (Kalida), four (Fort Jennings), five (Ottoville) and six (Miller City).

With only 30 seconds

elapsed in the match, the Lancers’ Tyler Wannemacher

launched a long, high pass into a crowd five yards in front of Lincolnview’s net and it looked like a 50/50 chance for

a goal. In the ensuing melee, however, a Lancer was called for a violation and it would be a long time before the ball got that close to the net again.

Fort Jennings broke the ice at the 31:00 mark when

Austin Wisner eluded his defender, then Lincolnview

goalie Chandler Adams, and blasted a 15-yard shot into the empty net from a sharp right-side angle.

The Musketeers quickly added a second goal at 28:50 when Wisner dropped a pass to Mark Metzger, whose 10-yarder from straight away deflected into the net off of the right post.

Lady Tribe oust ‘Dawgs in girls soccerBy JIM METCALFE

DHI Media Sports Editorjmetcalfe@delphosherald.com

ELIDA — A sense of urgency.That is what coaches seek when the

second season – in Wednesday night’s case, girls soccer — is in full swing.

As well, when you have two league teams meeting up — Elida and Shawnee from the Western Buckeye League — records and regular-season results are thrown out the window.

The fact that the Lady Bulldogs beat the Indians 2-0 in the first season meant nothing.

A young Shawnee —14 freshmen and eight sophomores among a roster of 30 — got its revenge at Elida Athletic Complex, scoring with 2:53 remaining to seize a 2-1 Division II victory on a soggy pitch.

“They played harder for 80 minutes than we did,” Elida head coach Brady Overholt explained. “They have a young team and played as if they had nothing to lose, while we had everything to lose. We had opportunities but didn’t capi-talize; we never really got in a rhythm tonight. We played hard but needed our veterans to step up and change the course of the match; that didn’t happen. We didn’t have our sweeper — (senior) Kaylee Klinger — and that affected us some defensively. Along with that, I didn’t enjoy the weather. I had concerns and they came true.”

Shawnee head coach Caroline O’Brien acknowledged her young team is starting to put it together at the right time.

“We are starting connect, which we weren’t earlier this season,” she added. “I told the girls that it’s a new season; throw out everything before, especially playing a familiar foe. The key tonight was the job (junior) Julia (Hardy) did on (senior) Brett Pauff; she followed her

everywhere and did not let her dictate the match. My back four was amazing and Nikki (goalie McPheron) did a great job of smothering. I told the girls to attack because you never know with a slick pitch like this.”

Elida senior Brett Pauff looks for ball possession as Shawnee’s Julia Hardy looks for containment in Division II girls soccer action Wednes-day at Elida. The visitors escaped with a 2-1 triumph. (DHI Media/Jim Metcalfe)

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NWC title, postseason still in play as Knights await Spencerville

By JOHN PARENTDHI Media Sports Editornews@delphosherald.com

CONVOY — Since early in the high school football season, this week’s contest between the host Crestview Knights and Spencerville has been highly-anticipated.

While both schools navigat-ed through the first six weeks without a blemish on their record, Spencerville moved to 7-0 with a rout of Bluffton last week while Crestview suffered

a loss at Ada.Even with a loss, however,

the Knights control their own destiny and are still in line for at least a share of the Northwest Conference crown. Beyond that, Crestview currently sits fourth in the Division VI, Region 20 com-puter rankings. The top eight teams in each region advance to the playoff, with the top four receiving a home game in the first round.

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BOWLING

Royals hold off Orioles 2-1By DAVE SKRETTA

Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Crown these Royals the American League champi-ons.

After nearly three decades spent try-ing to return to the playoffs, Kansas City is taking its perfect postseason ride all the way to the World Series.

With more dominant defense, an opportunistic offense that plated two runs in the first inning and a bullpen that shut down the Baltimore Orioles once again, Greg Holland and the wild-card Royals wrapped up a sweep of the AL Championship Series with a 2-1 victory on Wednesday.

Next stop: The Royals’ first Fall Classic since 1985. They’ll face the winner of the NLCS between the Giants and Cardinals. San Francisco leads that series 2-1.

“It’s been an amazing run. This is great,” said left fielder Alex Gordon, who made another jarring catch. “We’ve been playing pretty good baseball. It’s nothing better than when you win. Today, same old story: good pitching, good defense and scratch out a win.”

Outfielder Lorenzo Cain was selected MVP of the ALCS, batting .533 and leading an outstanding defense.

After holding the Orioles to three hits in Game 3 on Tuesday night, Jason Vargas and the Royals bullpen nearly turned the trick again. Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis ushered the game to Holland, who matched Dennis Eckersley’s record by saving his fourth game of the best-of-seven series.

After Holland got J.J. Hardy to ground out to third base for the final out, the Royals spilled onto the infield in a wild celebration. Fireworks shot over the crown-shaped scoreboard in center field, and a blue-clad sellout crowd that

included Royals great George Brett let out a roar.

Kansas City will host the first two World Series games beginning Tuesday. Coincidentally, it was the Cardinals who the Royals beat for their only World Series title in a dra-matic 7-game series.

Regardless of the oppo-nent, the Royals will carry an 11-game playoff win streak into the World Series, one shy of the major-league record. That includes winning their first eight games this season, something that had never been done in postseason history. Kansas City beat Oakland in the wild card and swept the Los Angeles Angels in the Division Series.

“Man, it’s incredible,” said Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer, who drove in a run. “These guys every day come to play. If they’re not doing it offensively, they’re doing it defensively with the glove, just playing complete games and we’ve got guys stepping up right now.”

The Orioles, meanwhile, will limp into the offseason after their first sweep in 21 playoff series, dating to the days when the club was called the St. Louis Browns.

Making his first start in nearly two weeks, Vargas shut down the vaunted Orioles lineup. The only damage he allowed came in the third inning, when Ryan Flaherty led off with a home run that just skirted the foul pole in right field.

By that point, the Royals had already manufactured a pair of runs.

Alcides Escobar singled off Orioles starter Miguel Gonzalez to open the game and Nori Aoki was drilled on the right knee a couple pitches later. Royals manager Ned Yost then opted to bunt with Cain, one of his hottest hitters, to

advance both of the runners.It was a questionable decision so

early in the game. But like almost every unorthodox move that Yost has made this postseason, it worked out perfectly

— for the first sacrifice of Cain’s career.

Hosmer followed with a chopping groundball, and first baseman Steve Pearce went home with it. Escobar slid safely and the ball bounded away from catcher Caleb Joseph, allowing Aoki to fol-low his teammate home and

giving the scrappy, small-ball Royals a 2-0 lead.

After that, it was up to their defense and bullpen.

Escobar turned a pair of double plays early in the game to help Vargas escape jams and Gordon made a spectacular catch while crashing into the left-field wall to rob Hardy of extra bases leading off the fifth inning. In the sixth, second baseman Omar Infante was in perfect position to snag Nelson Cruz’s line drive and leave runners on the corners.

Herrera breezed through the seventh and Davis handled the eighth, just as they have all season, and Holland slammed the door on his fourth save of the series.

And set off of a wild celebration that had been 29 years in the making.

In the midst of it all was Yost, the often-criticized Royals manager who has guided a collection of budding young stars to baseball’s grandest stage. In doing so, Yost became the first man-ager in major league history to win his first eight postseason games.

Now, just four more stand in the way of an improbable World Series championship.

TIGHT GAMESThe Royals’ win was the 14th decid-

ed by one run this postseason, topping the record set in 2011 and tied last year.

Associated PressAMERICAN CONFERENCEEast W L T Pct PF PAN England 4 2 0 .667 160 129Buffalo 3 3 0 .500 118 126Miami 2 3 0 .400 120 124N.Y. Jets 1 5 0 .167 96 158South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 4 2 0 .667 189 136Houston 3 3 0 .500 132 120Tennessee 2 4 0 .333 104 153Jacksonville 0 6 0 .000 81 185North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 3 1 1 .700 134 113Baltimore 4 2 0 .667 164 97Cleveland 3 2 0 .600 134 115Pittsburgh 3 3 0 .500 124 139West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 5 1 0 .833 164 91Denver 4 1 0 .800 147 104Kansas City 2 3 0 .400 119 101Oakland 0 5 0 .000 79 134NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 5 1 0 .833 183 132Dallas 5 1 0 .833 165 126N.Y. Giants 3 3 0 .500 133 138Washington 1 5 0 .167 132 166South W L T Pct PF PACarolina 3 2 1 .583 141 157N Orleans 2 3 0 .400 132 141Atlanta 2 4 0 .333 164 170Tampa Bay 1 5 0 .167 120 204North W L T Pct PF PADetroit 4 2 0 .667 116 82Green Bay 4 2 0 .667 161 130Chicago 3 3 0 .500 143 144Minnesota 2 4 0 .333 104 143

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 4 1 0 .800 116 106San Fran 4 2 0 .667 141 123Seattle 3 2 0 .600 133 113St. Louis 1 4 0 .200 101 150___Today’s GameN.Y. Jets at New England, 8:25 p.m.Sunday’s GamesSeattle at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Miami at Chicago, 1 p.m.Carolina at Green Bay, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Washington, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Buffalo, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Detroit, 1 p.m.Kansas City at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Arizona at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.San Francisco at Denver, 8:30 p.m.Open: Philadelphia, Tampa BayMonday’s GameHouston at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 23San Diego at Denver, 8:25 p.m.Sunday, Oct. 26Detroit vs. Atlanta at London, 9:30 a.m.St. Louis at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Seattle at Carolina, 1 p.m.Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Chicago at New England, 1 p.m.Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Philadelphia at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.Oakland at Cleveland, 4:25 p.m.Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m.Green Bay at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.Open: N.Y. Giants, San FranciscoMonday, Oct. 27Washington at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Associated Press(Subject to change)Today’s GamesEASTVa Tech (4-2) at Pittsburgh (3-3), 7:30 p.m.FAR WESTUtah (4-1) at Oregon St. (4-1), 10 p.m.___Friday’s GamesSOUTHWESTTemple (4-1) at Houston (3-3), 9 p.m.FAR WESTFresno St. (3-4) at Boise St. (4-2), 8 p.m.___Saturday’s GamesEASTSacred Heart (5-1) at Duquesne (4-2), NoonCCSU (2-4) at Robert Morris (0-6), NoonBryant (4-1) at St. Francis (Pa.) (2-4), NoonBaylor (6-0) at W. Virginia (4-2), NoonTowson (2-5) at Delaware (4-2), 12:30 p.m.Albany (NY) (4-2) at Maine (2-4), 12:30 p.m.Lafayette (3-3) at Harvard (4-0), 1 p.m.Columbia (0-4) at Penn (0-4), 1 p.m.Colgate (4-2) at Yale (3-1), 1 p.m.Holy Cross (2-5) at Dartmouth (3-1), 1:30 p.m.Lehigh (0-5) at Cornell (0-4), 3 p.m.E. Michigan (2-4) vs. UMass (1-6) at

Foxboro, Mass., 3 p.m.Clemson (4-2) at Boston College (4-2),

3:30 p.m.Brown (2-2) at Princeton (2-2), 3:30 p.m.SOUTHW. Kentucky (2-3) at FAU (2-4), NoonUTSA (2-4) at Louisiana Tech (3-3), NoonIowa (5-1) at Maryland (4-2), NoonFurman (2-4) at S. Carolina (3-3), NoonChattanooga (3-3) at The Citadel (2-4), NoonTulane (2-4) at UCF (3-2), NoonSyracuse (2-4) at Wake Forest (2-4), NoonVirginia (4-2) at Duke (5-1), 12:30 p.m.Norfolk St. (2-5) at Hampton (1-5), 1 p.m.Florida A&M (1-5) at Howard (1-6), 1 p.m.NC Central (3-3) at Morgan St. (3-3), 1 p.m.Stony Brook (3-4) at Elon (1-5), 1:30 p.m.Gardner-Webb (3-3) at VMI (1-6), 1:30 p.m.NC A&T (5-2) at Delaware St. (2-5), 2 p.m.Texas S. (5-1) at Alcorn St. (5-2), 3 p.m.Presbyterian (3-3) at Charleston

Southern (5-1), 3 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff (1-4) at Grambling St.

(4-3), 3 p.m.Prairie View (2-4) at MVSU (1-5), 3 p.m.Wofford (3-3) at Samford (3-2), 3 p.m.UT-Martin (2-5) at Tennessee St. (4-3), 3 p.m.Appalachian St. (1-5) at Troy (1-5), 3 p.m.Texas A&M (5-2) at Ala (5-1), 3:30 p.m.NC State (4-3) at Louisville (5-2), 3:30 p.m.UAB (4-2) at M. Tennessee (4-3), 3:30 p.m.Rhode Is (0-6) at Richmond (4-2), 3:30 p.m.Villanova (5-1) at William & Mary (4-2),

3:30 p.m.Davidson (1-6) at Campbell (3-3), 4 p.m.W. Carolina (4-2) at Mercer (5-2), 4 p.m.Lamar (4-3) at Nicholls St. (0-7), 4 p.m.Sam Houston St. (3-3) at Northwestern

St. (3-3), 4 p.m.Marshall (6-0) at FIU (3-4), 6 p.m.Bethune-Cookman (5-1) at Savannah

St. (0-6), 6 p.m.Jacksonville (5-1) at Stetson (2-4), 6 p.m.Murray St. (2-4) at Austin Peay (0-6), 7 p.m.Missouri (4-2) at Florida (3-2), 7 p.m.Abilene Christian (4-3) at McNeese St.

(3-2), 7 p.m.Tennessee (3-3) at Mississippi (6-0), 7 p.m.Ga Tech (5-1) at N Carolina (2-4), 7 p.m.Kentucky (5-1) at LSU (5-2), 7:30 p.m.Georgia St. (1-5) at S. Ala (3-2), 7:30 p.m.Notre Dame (6-0) at Fla St. (6-0), 8 p.m.Cent. Arkansas (4-3) at SE Louisiana

(5-2), 8 p.m.E. Kentucky (6-0) at Tennessee Tech

(2-4), 8 p.m.MIDWESTSan Diego (4-1) at Butler (3-3), NoonPurdue (3-4) at Minnesota (5-1), NoonMorehead St. (2-4) at Dayton (4-1), 1 p.m.W. Michigan (3-3) at BG (5-2), 2 p.m.Akron (4-2) at Ohio (3-4), 2 p.m.E. Illinois (1-5) at SE Missouri (4-3), 2 p.m.Drake (3-3) at Valparaiso (2-4), 2 p.m.S Dakota (2-4) at Missouri St. (3-3), 3 p.m.Ball St. (1-5) at Cent. Mich (4-3), 3:30 p.m.Mich St. (5-1) at Indiana (3-3), 3:30 p.m.Army (2-4) at Kent St. (0-6), 3:30 p.m.Ind St. (4-2) at N. Dakota St. (6-0), 3:30 p.m.Rutgers (5-1) at Ohio St. (4-1), 3:30 p.m.Illinois St. (5-0) at W. Illinois (3-4), 4 p.m.S. Illinois (5-2) at Youngstown St. (4-2), 4 p.m.Miami (Ohio) (1-6) at N. Illinois (4-2), 5 p.m.S. Dakota St. (4-2) at N. Iowa (3-3), 5 p.m.Nebraska (5-1) at Northwestern (3-3),

7:30 p.m.SOUTHWESTKansas St. (4-1) at Okla (5-1), NoonSouth Florida (2-4) at Tulsa (1-5), NoonCincinnati (2-3) at SMU (0-5), 3:30 p.m.Kansas (2-4) at Texas Tech (2-4), 3:30 p.m.Georgia (5-1) vs. Arkansas (3-3) at

Little Rock, Ark., 4 p.m.Oklahoma St. (5-1) at TCU (4-1), 4 p.m.S. Miss. (2-4) at North Texas (2-4), 7 p.m.Stephen F. Austin (4-2) at Houston

Baptist (1-5), 8 p.m.Iowa St. (2-4) at Texas (2-4), 8 p.m.FAR WESTUC Davis (1-5) at Montana (4-2), 2 p.m.New Mexico (2-4) at Air Force (4-2), 3:30 p.m.UCLA (4-2) at California (4-2), 3:30 p.m.San Jose St. (2-3) at Wyoming (3-3), 4 p.m.N. Colorado (2-4) at E. Washington

(6-1), 4:05 p.m.S. Utah (1-6) at Idaho St. (3-3), 4:35 p.m.New Mexico St. (2-5) at Idaho (0-6), 5 p.m.Weber St. (0-6) at Montana St. (5-2),

5:35 p.m.Colo (2-4) at Southern Cal (4-2), 6 p.m.Utah St. (4-2) at Colo St. (5-1), 7 p.m.N. Arizona (3-3) at Portland St. (2-4),

7:05 p.m.Washington (5-1) at Oregon (5-1), 8 p.m.Cal Poly (3-3) at Sacramento St. (4-3), 9 p.m.Nevada (3-3) at BYU (4-2), 10:15 p.m.Stanford (4-2) at Arizona St. (4-1),

10:30 p.m.Hawaii (2-4) at San Diego St. (3-3),

10:30 p.m.

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With 12:10 left in the first half, Troy Ricker hit the right corner of the net from 10 yards directly in front. He repeated that feat 21 seconds later to make it 4-0 and that left little doubt as to the final outcome.

After 40 minutes, the home team already had fired 26 shots (13 on-goal) to the Lancers’ two (one on-goal).

With 36:15 remaining in the match, Metzger struck a per-fect cross from the right corner and Brad Rice whacked it in from point-blank range to make it 5-0, Jennings.

Metzger got his second goal of the match at 33:56, a long beauty from the left angle that curled into the upper right cor-ner of the net.

The final Musketeer score came at 28:54 when Adams leaped high to deflect a Fort Jennings shot but Dylan Weichart kicked in the rebound.

Lincolnview ended the match with only seven shots, four of which were on goal.

Musketeer goalkeepers Ryan Koester and Kyle Hellman combined for three saves, none of them difficult.

Adams, on the other hand, had 11 saves, several of them of the acrobatic variety.

Although the outcome was decided early, the match was a hard-fought one to the final whistle. The officials dealt out four yellow cards and several warnings.

Jennings

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The teams had battled to a 1-1 tie in the first half and took the pitch for the second half.

Both back lines were playing lock-down defense, not giving their opponents many looks — let alone wide-open efforts — in the half.

Most of the shots they did give up were off-target.

Elida (9-7) had two shots on-goal in the half: at 30:38 when senior Jenna Halpern had a good look on the left wing from 17 yards but McPheron (4 saves vs. 6 shots on-goal) gobbled it up; and at 21:08, when Halpern tried a 6-yarder but was denied.

Shawnee (7-9) had three, with its first try at 24:59 when freshman Maddie O’Connell put in a 14-yarder from the right wing but Elida sophomore Lydia Burnett (2 saves, 4 shots) garnered the stop.

The next were to the Elida partisan’s

consternation. The second came at 2:57 off a clear from senior Lauren Buettner, finding McConnell behind the defense for a 1-on-1 with the keeper. Burnett came out and deflected the 23-yarder but couldn’t control it, with senior Sydney Gronas getting the ricochet and finding the mark from 14 yards with a wide-open goal for a 2-1 lead.

The Shawnee defense did not allow a real effort at their goal the rest of the match.

In the first half, with a light rain falling for the first 20 minutes, Elida had the better of the ball possession but didn’t get much going.

Neither team had a shot the first 13 min-utes, including at 27:06. Sophomore Hope Carter had a chance with a 1-on-1 with the keeper; she passed it to herself as the keeper fell down but Buettner got there first to kick the ball out of danger.

At 24:32, the Orange and Black got on board first. After a Shawnee defender tried to clear the ball from inside her box, fresh-

man Aubrey Etzler got possession outside the right post and launched a 22-yarder over the top of the keeper and into the net for a 1-0 edge.

Elida had three more efforts that could have added a big second goal: at 14:44, when junior Mychaela Johnson was denied on a 16-yarder; at 9:55, when Halpern had a defender on her hip from 14 yards on the left side that hit the post and a defender booted the orb out of danger; and at 9:01, as Etzler got behind the defense for a 1-on-1 from the right wing but McPheron deflect-ed her 14-yarder toward the other side. Halpern tried to follow but was wide left.

Shawnee only had one shot on-goal the first half but made good on it: at 5:14. Off a corner kick by freshman Madi Wohlgamuth from the right side, she found classmate Bella Fusillo inside that post and her 67-yarder header wrongfooted Burnett inside that same post for a 1-1 tie.

Shawnee will play 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Tribe

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Xfinity currently operates in 40 states and provides cable and broadband services in several cities near NASCAR tracks. Should Comcast receive regulatory approval of a $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable, Xfinity’s reach would be expanded into far more NASCAR markets.

DENNY DELIVERS: The Deliverminator has shipped to Talladega. He hoped his final address was Victory Lane.

Denny Hamlin will adopt his “Deliverminator” persona from his FedEx TV ads for Sunday’s race, from the paint scheme on the No. 11 to a firesuit straight out of Fonzie’s closet.

NASCAR

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Sitting in front of the Knights in the rankings are Tinora, Lima Central Catholic and those Bearcats.

Crestview head coach Jared Owens isn’t interested in any of that. He knows that if his Knights take care of business on the field, the rest will fall into place.

“This is the only thing going on in our football universe,” Owens explained. “The only thing we are focused on is preparing to play well against a very formidable Spencerville team.”

The Bearcats (7-0, 5-0 NWC) ran all over Bluffton last week, turning a 24-20 halftime lead into a 60-40 final score. Along the way, running back Zach Goecke piled up 231 rushing yards on 21 carries. Goecke’s performance versus the Pirates moved him ahead of Crestview quarterback Preston Zaleski for the most rushing yards in the league this year.

It’s not just Goecke that the Knights have to worry about, how-ever. Spencerville features two addi-tional rushers, Andrew Emery and Trevor McMichael, that rank among the top seven in the conference. Emery has gained 602 yards this year while McMichael has added 590 yards on the

ground. The Bearcats average better than 380 rushing yards per game.

That type of relentless rushing attack, combined with the rigors of the season already, has Owens using this week to get his players as healthy as possible as they look ahead to Friday night.

“We’ve just been focused on getting healthy; we have a lot of people banged up,” Owens noted. “We have a lot of bumps and bruises, a lot of people hurt-ing. We’ve been focused on the mental part of the game and trying to get people healthy.”

Crestview’s defense has been at its best versus the run, limiting opponents to 126 yards per game on the ground. The last time the Knights played a run-dominant offense, they held Delphos Jefferson to 143 rushing yards in a week six victory.

If the Knights can force Spencerville to the air, it will be a great sign for Crestview. No team in the NWC has thrown fewer passes than the Bearcats with just 47 pass attempts this season. When he has had to throw, however, quarterback Mason Nourse has been highly efficient. Nourse has completed 61 percent of his throws and has tossed six touchdowns versus just one intercep-tion.

On offense, the Knights will face the stingiest defense in the conference, with Spencerville allowing a mere 55 rush-ing yards per game and only nine first downs to their opponents on average. Only Jefferson has allowed fewer points than Spencerville’s 115 (16.4 per game) and the Bearcats yield just 228 total yards per contest.

While those numbers sound daunt-ing, don’t expect Crestview’s run-orient-ed offense to change its stripes.

“We don’t necessarily ever use any trickery,” Owens said. “We’re just going to line up and do what we do, and try to do it well.”

Crestview gains 316 yards on the ground per game and average 411 total yards per night. Apart from Zaleski’s prowess, the Knights will use as many as four rushers out the backfield, includ-ing Malcolm Oliver, who averages 7.6 yards per carry, and Jordan Miller, who has gained 6.5 yards per run this year.

Crestview tight end Nate Owens has been the focus of the passing game, on the rare occasion that Zaleski is forced to the air. Owens gained 66 yards last week on a pair of catches and has 307 yards receiving on the year. Owens is second in the NWC with nearly 28 yards per catch.

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They have only been close a couple of times and lately have seemed in perpetual rebuilding mode.

It turns out the management knew what they were doing, slowly biding their time, making great drafts and trades to stock-pile young talent.

They have made the occa-sional foray into free agency but haven’t spent like drunken sailors to acquire veteran help to lead all these young guys.

I had one friend of mine make a prediction before this

season — he knows who he is but will remain anonymous; otherwise, he’d have to … — to look out for Kansas City for all these reasons and he was right.

Did anyone think they would win eight in a row to reach the World Series?

Call them what you will — team of destiny; too young to know they shouldn’t be doing this; doing things the right way; getting every break in the book; etc., etc. — but when all is writ-ten on this playoff run, they have won because they have played better than their opponents each and every game.

Were the Orioles without their three top stars? Yes. They also surprised everyone with their playoff run, so that is moot.

They play great defense — how many runs have they stopped with outstanding field-ing? — and their pitching is ridiculously lights-out. They also make things happen — the bunt and stolen base are again part of baseball’s lexicon! — and don’t depend on the 3-run homer, like my O’s of yesteryear (to great effect) and this year (didn’t work the last four games) did.

And yes, they get breaks but most coaches will tell you that

happens because you make them.

Am I coronating them as MLB’s World Series champs?

Perish the thought.Of course, they could all of

a sudden “wake up” and real-ize where they “really” are and fold like a wet deck of cards.

The longer the Cardinals/Giants series goes, the more likely that could happen.

If I were KC, I’d hope the Giants clinch the next two days.

Still, it makes for an inter-esting Series no matter what happens.

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Unreal estateByron plans to sell his cows soon and retire. He

has his heart set on selling his farm for twice what it’s worth to some rich city people, who will use it as a weekend house during the summer. Then he’ll spend his golden years making lawn whirligigs in his workshop and drinking coffee down at the diner.

His farm won’t be advertised for sale locally. No one around here can afford to pay Byron double what it’s worth, which is what he’s asking. Instead, he has his agent take out ads in the big city newspapers. “Martha Stewart starter kit,” says the ad. “Only three hours from the city, this historic house could be yours. Come smell the roses.”

“What’s historic about it?” I asked him.“The plumbing and the wiring,” he said. “There’s

a sign on the fuse box that says ‘Thomas Edison slept here.’ Is that historical enough for you?”

The first city couple to see the place (he was a television producer, she was a conceptual artist) told Byron that they loved the house, that they loved the 400 acres, that they would love to pay him twice what it was worth, but they couldn’t buy it because its feng shui was all wrong.

Byron was puzzled. “My fung schwhat is wrong? I been around cows all my life, and if you think you can ‘fung shway’ them better than I can, have at it!” The couple couldn’t climb back into their giant black SUV fast enough.

Byron’s real estate agent tried to explain to Byron that feng shui was the ancient, and now very popular, Chinese theory of a house’s energy. That the angles and doors and windows of his old farmhouse were in all the wrong places to trap all the good energy and keep out the bad.

“Your house is not on the dragon’s back like it should be, Byron; it’s sitting right on the dragon’s left nostril.”

“I’d like to ask you something, if you know so much about China,” said Byron. “How do you say, ‘what a load of hooey’ in Chinese?”

The second couple (he, a musician; him, a plumbing supply salesman) weren’t quite ready for the do-it-yourself rural lifestyle.

“Who’s your cleaning person? What lawn care service do you use? We’d like to get a cook who can do vegetarian Thai-Japanese fusion cuisine. No lactose, no gluten. Who do you recommend?”

The third couple (she, an architect; he, a psychologist) absolutely loved the place. Well, she did. She told Byron it was absolutely perfect. She said she couldn’t wait to tear the place down and build something nice, something more “site specific.”

“I see a giant concrete living area,” she said. “No windows, just a wall of industrial garage doors that will open up the whole space to the elements.” The entire time she spoke, her hands would sweep and turn above her head, a walking exclamation point.

Her husband the psychologist wouldn’t get out of the car. Something about snakes. The deal never went through.

It took a couple of months longer than he thought, but Byron finally did sell his farm for twice what it was worth to a city couple (she, an ER doctor; he, a Ph.D. in botany). They paid him cash for it. She grew up on a farm, and his specialty is native species and habitats. Already, they’re out digging and planting and slowly meeting their neighbors.

Byron still comes by -- whenever he has a cold, or he’s cut his hand at the workshop or his knee is bothering him. The Doc always listens to his complaints, always looks at his wounds. Byron always asks the same question: “What do you think, Doc?”

She always gives him the same answer: “I think you should have someone look at that.”

She figures he can afford it.

(Contact Jim Mullen at JimMullenBooks.com.)

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Answers to Wednesday’s questions:The 100-year war between France and England

for control of France took place over a period of 116 years — from 1337 to 1453 — with peaceful inter-vals of varying length. The French won.

The “bulge” in the Battle of the Bulge was the break in the Allied lines caused by German advance in the Ardennes Forest in Luxembourg and Belgium, beginning on Dec. 16, 1944. The Germans advanced 50 miles on a 50-mile-long front. On Dec. 26, the Allies began to push the Germans back by the end of January 1945, the bulge in the lines had disappeared.

Today’s questions:How much did Manhattan Island cost when pur-

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Runser is also accused of not filing an inventory of Koch’s real and personal assets in a timely manner. As executor of Koch’s estate, he did not file the inven-tory by Nov. 9, 2011, as required and did not respond to an April 2, 2012, notice from Probate Court. After an extension was granted until Aug. 24, 2012, that deadline was also missed. The inven-tory was filed in November, more than 15 months after Koch was appointed as executor/administrator. The account of Koch’s estate, due Feb. 9, 2012, was not filed until January 2014.

Questions about the bank account for the estate were also raised in the case. The account was opened Jan. 12, 2012. A check for nearly $112,000 was deposited at the end of May from the sale of Koch’s residential property in Van Wert; however, instead of distribut-ing the receipts of the sale according to the instructions in her will, Runser is accused of writing a series of checks to either himself or to his law firm totaling $80,965. Another deposit was made in September 2012 of over $28,000 from other possessions.

After making partial payment from the account to those entities named in the will and the payment of estate taxes and assorted debts, there was only $4,000 remaining in the account. A $4,000 check to the law firm reduced the balance to approximately $57. The account was overdrawn by a $900 check written to the law firm a few months later. Then after depositing more than

$71,000 into the account from personal funds, the check writing resumed. After another infusion of funds from either a personal account or from another fund Runser was managing, estate distribu-tions totaling over $100,000 were finally made over 18 months after the original account deposit was made.

The charge states, “Throughout the entire administration of the estate, at least two of the three beneficiaries of the estate had been attempting to reach [Runser] regarding the status of Koch’s estate. They had an extremely hard time reaching [Runser] and when they were able to speak [with him], he was unable/unwilling to provide them with any substantive information regarding the estate.”

The accusation of misusing the funds is bolstered by the following statement from the Supreme Court complaint: “When relator inquired into the funds that [Runser] has withdrawn from the Koch estate account, [Runser] attempted to minimize his conduct by stating that the funds were for attorney and executor fees for him and Putman. [Runser) nei-ther requested, nor received, permission from the Van Wert County Probate Court to receive attorney or executor fees from the Koch estate.”

The second count deals with irregu-larities with a trustee of a trust fund for Barbara Mary Shackley. This charge contains many similar violations as charged in the first count. A trust ben-eficiary, Mary Ann Jensen, hired a law firm to get to the bottom of issues she was having with Runser. Over almost 19

months, Runser wrote check from the trust fund account to himself or his law firm totaling $471,350.

In a conversation with a repre-sentative of the law firm represent-ing Jensen, Runser allegedly admitted that he had: “inappropriately borrowed funds from the trust.” On another occasion, Runser wrote to Jensen’s attorney that he “had not done a good job in handling trust activity during the last several years,” and that he had not responded to requests for informa-tion from Jensen and that he had not completed annual trust accountings due to the “anticipated time involved in creating reports.”

The third count involves Runser’s Interest on Lawyer Trust Account (IOLTA), which was overdrawn several times in 2014.

The complaint contends, “At a mini-mum, [Runser] used funds from his IOLTA to repay a personal and/or busi-ness line of credit. He also withdrew funds from his IOLTA on an ‘as-needed’ basis, rather than ‘as-earned,’ and he ran estate funds through his IOLTA rather than depositing them into a separate estate account. Furthermore, [Runser] misappropriated client funds from his IOLTA resulting in a shortage of at least $15,739.36.”

The case against Runser is not on the schedule of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline posted online. This body is the same one former Judge Phil W. Campbell was brought before in 2010 on judicial misconduct charges.

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“Christmas tree and wreath displays will go on sale next week,” Haggard said. “Keep an eye out for trees and wreaths on dis-play and for sale through-out the store.”

In addition, the new store departmental signage will be installed this week.

“The signs will be high-ly visible and hang from the ceiling to identify our departments,” Haggard said. “This will help streamline people from one department to the next and give them more space to shop.”

The store’s Retail Coordinator Kel ly Williams said holiday/party clothing, like formal dresses, sweaters, fancier shoes and suits, will be on display and for sale in mid-November.

“The Annex is now our storage area, which allows us more retail space,” Williams said. “We really appreciate our customer’s patience during our reorga-nization.”

The Boutique is also going through a transfor-mation. Boutique Manager Loise Sroufe said by mov-ing the existing glass dis-play cases and adding a newly-purchased display case, almost 200 square feet of retail space will be added to the department.

“It will make shopping much more convenient and allow us to display and sell more merchandise,” she said. “The plan is to have Christmas trees inte-grated into the Boutique, as well.”

Strayer said Christmas sales went very well last year and in turn, it helped them help many people.

“Because of the gen-erosity donations of the community and our dedi-cated workforce, we were able to assist many people without jobs with utility and rent payments and pro-vide them with groceries,” Strayer said.

Store hours are Thursday 3-7 p.m., Friday 1-4 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-noon.

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Weber also shared good news on the dis-trict’s 5-year Forecast he will file with the Ohio Department of Education by Oct. 31. Ending bal-ances are well into the black for all five years, with $4,649,997 on June 30, 2015; $4,912,244 in 2016; $5,042,863 in 2017; $5,002,895 in 2018; and $4,828,491 in 2019.

An addition to the Treasurer’s Report was the district’s receipt of $10,545 in the form of a Bureau of Worker’s Compensation rebate.

The board also approved a Memorandum of Understanding between Ottoville Local Board of Education and Ottoville Education Association as follows: “The Board of Education, in agreement with teachers employed by the board, adopts the standards based evaluation procedure in confor-mance with the framework for evaluation of teach-ers developed and maintained by the State Board of Education. The OLEA and Administration will follow procedures for evaluation as outlined in the local NEOLA policies 3220 and 1530.”

Superintendent Scott Mangas said the MOU

will alleviate frequent changes to the district and OLEA’s negotiated agreement when changes come down from the state.

A motion was approved to acknowledge the Ottoville Athletic Boosters for all the hard work and funds they have donated to the school to ben-efit the students. The total contributed since 2002 is $419,859.30. Mangas said the boosters have recently approved press boxes and soccer shelters.

“These projects will add approximately $50,000 to that total when they are completed,” Mangas added.

Mangas also announced Ron Miller had placed second in Small School Transportation in the Ohio State Highway Patrols’ Bus Inspection. Miller placed first last year.

“I think we need to acknowledge Ron has been in the top two the last two years,” Mangas said. “He does a really good job keeping our buses in tip-top shape.”

In other business, the board:• Accepted and thanked the following indi-

viduals/businesses for their generous donations to Ottoville Local Schools:

Kalida Pioneer Days — $ 300 — Kalida Pioneer Parade; and miscellaneous $50 band donations;

• Approved the increase in the substitute rate of pay to $8.10 per hour for all classifications with the exception of bus drivers to correspond with the increase in the State of Ohio 2015 Minimum Wage Rate;

• Granted permission for the senior class to plan a senior class trip to New York City. Itinerary and chaperons will be given to the board once all events/attractions are finalized. Additions this year include visiting the 9-11 Museum, the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty;

• Approved Wesley Markward, Brandon Kimmet, Ryan Kimmet, Brandt Landin, Drew Williams and Trevor Fischer as student custodian workers on an as-needed basis. They will be operat-ing mowers as well as other school equipment and paid the state minimum wage rate; and

• Approved the updated policy changes effec-tive with this school year for reimbursement of mileage, scouting limits, clinics, state tournaments and all related expenses. The policies had not been updated since 2007.

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Obama: Ebola monitoring must be ‘more aggressive’By JIM KUHNHENN

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his adminis-tration would provide “much more aggres-sive” monitoring of Ebola cases in the United States and warned that in an age of frequent travel the disease could spread globally if the world doesn’t respond to the “raging epi-demic in West Africa.”

In his most urgent comments on the spread of the disease, Obama also sought to ease growing anxiety and fears in the U.S. in the aftermath of a second nurse being diagnosed with Ebola after treating a patient in a Dallas hospital. He said he had directed the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention to step up its response to new cases.

“We want a rapid response team, a SWAT team essentially, from the CDC to be on the ground as quickly as possible, hopefully within 24 hours, so that they are taking the local hospital step by step though what needs to be done,” he said.

Obama spoke after cancelling a politi-cal campaign trip to convene a session of top Cabinet officials involved in the Ebola response both in the U.S. and in the West African region where the disease has been spreading at alarming rates.

Participants in the meeting were a roster of Cabinet secretaries and top Obama advisers, including Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel,

Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.

Hours before Obama canceled his trip, officials confirmed that a second nurse at a Dallas had tested positive for the virus after treating an Ebola patient who later died. The disclosure raised new fears regarding the exposure by other health care workers. Officials also revealed that the nurse was on a commercial flight the evening before being diagnosed.

The Texas developments added a new domestic element to what has developed into an Ebola crisis in the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Obama

has been pressing the international commu-nity to step up its assistance in combating the disease.

On Wednesday, Obama spoke by phone with British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Franois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The White House said Obama stressed that the world must provide the finances and personnel needed “to bend the curve of the epidemic” and said it amounts to a “human tragedy as well as a threat to international security.”

He made a similar case to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, the White House said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — How come nurses wearing protective gear can catch Ebola from a patient, but health officials keep saying you almost certainly won’t get it from someone sit-ting next to you on a plane?

First, the odds of an Ebola-infected seatmate in the U.S. remain tiny, even after the news that a nurse coming down with the disease flew commercial across the Midwest this week.

Then there’s the extra screening that’s begun on airline passengers arriv-ing from West Africa.

But even if you were to draw that unlucky spot next to a traveler with a yet-unknown infection, the disease experts would consider you at little or no risk.

Here’s why:———THAT PERSON ON THE BUS

OR PLANE MIGHT NOT BE CONTAGIOUS YET

People infected with Ebola aren’t contagious until they start getting symptoms, such as fever, body aches or stomach pain, research shows.

So far, two infected travelers are known to have flown U.S. commercial airlines:

—The Liberian man who died in a Dallas hospital Oct. 8 wasn’t ill when he flew to the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So passengers on his United Airlines flights aren’t consid-ered at risk.

—The nurse who flew Frontier Airlines from Ohio back to Dallas on Monday night wasn’t experiencing symptoms, either, the CDC said. But by Tuesday morning she had a fever.

Because her temperature rose so

soon after traveling, everyone on her flight will be interviewed by health officials, and passengers determined to be potentially at risk will be monitored. CDC Director Tom Frieden says that’s for “an extra margin of safety.”

“We think there is an extremely low likelihood that anyone traveling on this plane would have been exposed,” Frieden said Wednesday.

He also said the nurse shouldn’t have taken a commercial flight because she was among the hospital workers being monitored after potential expo-sure to the Liberian patient.

———BUT WHAT IF THAT GUY ON

THE PLANE IS SICK?Even if a traveler is already feeling

sick, Ebola germs don’t spread through the air the way flu does.

Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluid, such as get-ting an infected person’s blood or vomit into your eyes or through a cut in the skin, experts say.

What if a sick person’s wet sneeze hits your hand and then you absent-mindedly rub your eyes? Could that do it?

Asked about such scenarios recent-ly, Frieden allowed that, theoretically, “it would not be impossible” to catch the virus that way. But it’s considered highly unlikely. No such case has been documented.

“Should you be worried you might have gotten it by sitting next to some-one?” he said Wednesday. “The answer to that is no.”

Frieden said “what actually happens in the real world” — and he cited four decades of dealing with Ebola in Africa — is that the disease is spread through

much more direct contact with a sick person.

The World Health Organization says the same thing, and notes that few stud-ies have found Ebola in an infected person’s saliva, generally in patients who were severely ill.

Still, the CDC identifies someone who spends a prolonged period within 3 feet of a person who is sick with Ebola as a “contact” who should be watched for signs of catching it for 21 days, just in case.

Pity the poor guy who’s prone to air sickness — will other fliers suspect it’s Ebola?

———NURSES, ON THE OTHER

HAND, WORK WITH PATIENTS AT THEIR MOST CONTAGIOUS

As Ebola patients get sicker, they become more and more infectious.

The amount of virus in their bodily fluids climbs, and the disease progress-es to projectile vomiting and extreme diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding.

All the while, hospital workers are drawing blood, inserting IVs, changing diapers, wiping up.

Doctors, nurses and family caretak-ers have suffered an especially heavy toll in the West African nations where Ebola is spreading out of control, and where there isn’t enough protective equipment or help.

So far, the three people in this out-break known to have caught Ebola outside of West Africa — two in Dallas and one in Spain — all are hospital workers.

All three tended fatal Ebola cases, in hospitals where health care workers were supposed to be safeguarded by their protective equipment.

———USING THE PROTECTIVE

GEAR IS TRICKYPutting on a gown, gloves, hospital

mask and clear face shield might not sound that hard.

But once the equipment is contami-nated, the steps for carefully removing each piece without infecting yourself are painstaking. It’s easy to slip up.

Spain’s health authorities suspect the assistant nurse in Madrid was infected after touching her gloved hand to her face while taking off her gear.

U.S. officials are still investigating what went wrong in Dallas. Frieden acknowledged that the CDC did too little to help the hospital train and pro-tect its staff when they were confronted with the first Ebola case diagnosed in the U.S.

———WHO’S MOST AT RISK NOW?More than 70 other workers who

might have been exposed while treat-ing the Liberian patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, at Texas Health Presbyterian are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola.

Meanwhile, Frieden offers opti-mism about the people in Dallas who interacted freely with Duncan before he was hospitalized.

There are 48 people being watched because of their potential exposure, including the family he was staying with when he got sick. They have passed symptom-free through the time period when infected people most often come down with the illness.

As they approach the ends of their various 21-day incubation periods, Frieden said, “it’s decreasingly likely any will develop Ebola.”

Nurses in safety gear got Ebola; why wouldn’t you?

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Board members commend-ed the Senior Class of 2015, Rose Mary Warnecke and all the volunteers for a wonderful class play, “Show and Spell”.

Elementary Principal Matthew Dubé reported that CogAT testing — a cognitive abilities test that assesses stu-dents’ reasoning and problem solving abilities — and Iowa

Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) assessments — a standard-ized achievement test for stu-dents in kindergarten through eighth grade — with fourth-graders is continuing.

“The CogAT is an assess-ment for progress monitor-ing,” Dubé explained. “The ITBS identifies gifted and talented students.”

The next meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19.

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