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

• Ethan John Brickner, boy, Katy and Curt Brickner, Columbus Grove, June 27.

• Tatum Michael Schroeder, boy, Mary and Elliott Schroeder, Findlay, June 27.

• Emilio Valentin Tyson, boy, Taylor Sanchez and Isaac Tyson, Findlay, June 28.

• Ashton Ray Agaba, boy, Alana and Clifford Agaba, Findlay, June 29.• Ash Weston Ramirez, boy, Skylar Durain and David Ramirez, Findlay,

June 29.• Jolene Madison Danowski, girl, Tiffany and Zachary Danowski, Findlay,

June 30.• Zayne David Mizen, boy, Amanda Buchanan and Albert Mizen, Findlay,

June 30.• EmmaLee O’Dell, girl, Jeanette Jenna O’Dell and Christian Jordan,

Deshler, June 30.• Joseph James Oehler, boy, Laura and Jared Oehler, Findlay, June 30.• Elliott Dean Walters, boy, Brooke and Zachary Walters, Findlay, June 30.• Holden Briggs Maas, boy, Leah and Clay Maas, Gilboa, July 1.• Kenzie Rose Massie, girl, Raquel and Terry Massie, Kenton, July 1.• Ava Greer Perrone, girl, Kelly Ann and Thomas Michael Perrone, Findlay,

July 1.• Cooper James Benavides, boy, Shelby Lynn and Nicholas Benavides,

Findlay, July 2.• Madison Renee Mockensturm, girl, Wahneta and Chad Mockensturm,

Tiffin, July 2.

CELEBR ATIONS ! THE COURIERTUESDAY, JULY 9, 2019T2

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Best-selling books the week ended June 29, according to the Wall Street Journal.

FICTION 1. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by

Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 2. “Backlash” by Brad Thor (Atria) 3. “Summer of ’69” by Elin Hilder-

brand (Little, Brown) 4. “Lost and Found” by Danielle

Steel (Delacorte) 5. “Diary of an Awesome Friendly

Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) 6. “City of Girls” by Elizabeth Gil-

bert (Riverhead) 7. “Unsolved” by James Patterson

and David Ellis (Little, Brown) 8. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by

Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)

9. “Moon’s First Friends” by Susanna Leonard Hill (Sourcebooks Wonderland)

10. “Mrs. Everything” by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)

NONFICTION 1. “Educated” by Tara Westover

(Random House) 2. “Unfreedom of the Press” by

Mark R. Levin (Threshold) 3. “The Pioneers” by David

McCullough (Simon & Schuster) 4. “The Peach Truck Cookbook” by

Stephen K. Rose and Jessica N. Rose

(Scribner) 5. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama

(Crown) 6. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving

A F*ck” by Mark Manson (Harper) 7. “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel

Hollis (Thomas Nelson) 8. “StrengthsFinder 2.0” by Tom

Rath (Gallup) 9. “Girl, Stop Apologizing” by

Rachel Hollis (HarperCollins Lead-ership)

10. “Songs of America” by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw (Random House)

FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Backlash” by Brad Thor (Atria) 2. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by

Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 3. “Breathless” by Helen Hardt

(Helen Hardt) 4. “Lost and Found” by Danielle

Steel (Delacorte) 5. “Running Blind” by Lee Child

(Jove) 6. “In the Darkness” by Mike Omer

(Thomas & Mercer) 7. “Summer of ’69” by Elin Hilder-

brand (Hachette) 8. “The Solar War” by A.G. Riddle

(A.G. Riddle) 9. “Seven Nights of Sin” by Kendall

Ryan (Kendall Ryan) 10. “Say No to the Duke” by Eloisa

James (Avon)

NONFICTION E-BOOKS

1. “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow (Penguin)

2. “Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover (Random House)

3. “A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts” by Pottermore (Pottermore)

4. “A Journey Though Potions and Herbology” by Pottermore (Pot-termore)

5. “Isaac’s Storm” by Erik Larson (Vintage)

6. “Tools of Titans” by Timothy Ferriss (Houghton Mifflin)

7. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama (Crown)

8. “The Pioneers” by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)

9. “Essentialism” by Greg McKe-own (Crown Business)

10. “Ten Reasons Why We’re Wrong About the World” by Hans Rosling (Flatiron)

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

The best-sellers list

EAST WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Police and bystanders teamed up to rescue a 6-foot-long snake that had wrapped itself around the engine block of a car in Connecticut.

East Windsor police say the reptile had to be removed from a resident’s vehicle on July 4.

Police wrote in Facebook post that it “was not exactly the call” they were expecting on the July Fourth holiday. Later, they said: “This may surprise you but we, the police, are not nor-mally in the business of wrangling snakes.”

The reptile was put in a crate and will be turned over to a nature center.

Police said the snake might have been a boa constrictor and speculated that it was an escaped pet. They tried calling an animal control officer or another expert, but none were avail-able because of the holiday.

Police and residents rescue 6-foot snake from car engine

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Van Buren M.S.Van Buren School has announced

its honor roll for the fourth nine-week grading period.

The following students were named to the A Honor Roll:

Eighth graders — Allison Bad-ertscher, Sasha Busey, Jack Camp-bell, Jillian Clymer, Casey Donaldson, Peter Harrington, Katie Krantz, Ava Leal, Alexis Nivison-Brassell, Claire Recker, Hudson Sendelbach, Ryleigh Smith.

Seventh graders — Abigail Bad-ertscher, Vivian Brant, Yung Chien Chang, Erica Coffey, Anna Durliat, Kayla Fisher, Landon Fisher, Zoe Fruth, Madelyn Fry, Ryan Harmon, James Homan, Morgan Johnson, Kashinath Rohidas, Curtis Ware, Maggie Wehrle.

Sixth graders — Agnishekhar Basu Sarkar, Lacey Bowman, Dylan Buff, Yung-Chi Chang, Olivia Coutinho, Caitlyn Curry, Hannah Deiter, Sophia Endicott, Lillian Grady, Seth Gregory, Lucas Harrington, Skyler Howard, Camryn Masters, Veer Mehta, Abir

Modak, Maria Eduarda Oliveira, Maria Isabel Oliveira, Rylee Orchard, Ansh Patel, Aedan Riesen, Alyssa Ring, Carlie Roeber, Paige Ryan, Vic-toria Schroeder, Aiden Sproles, Wil-liam Stacy, George Thomas, Henry Thomas, Tobias VanScoder, Nigel Woodall, Zane Yoder.

The following students were named to the A-B Honor Roll:

Eighth graders — Shelbee Atchi-son, Allyson Ballew, Paige Bowman, Lucas Brown, Natalie Brown, Brandon Buff, Alexia Camarano, Bella Carroc-cio, Nathan Curry, Kennedy Diemer, Logan Dilgard, Ryleigh Doyle, Madi-son Elliott, Alexander Gearhart, Gabriel George, Mason Greenawalt, Jackson Gregory, Avery Heitkamp, Weston Heitkamp, Tay Hill, Michael Huffman, Brienna Hutchins, Kennedy Jones, Brianna Kimmel-Nyitray, Mad-ison Martin, Carter Miller, Ashton Moore, McKenna Morey, Peyton Odey, Catheryn Roy, Nathaniel Ryan, Cassandra Saltzman, Sydney Sherick, Summer Siefer, Faith Smith, Carter Thomas, Cody Thomas, Griffin VanS-coder, Jillian Walters, John Wheeler.

Seventh graders — Parker Beil-

harz, Rebecca Betts, Dillan Blosser, Abigail Bowen, Adam Carey, Jayden Dennis, Molly Egts, Madisyn Fer-guson, Carson Foltz, Blake Francis, Abigail Haley, Reed Harmon, Landen Heath, Brooke Ingwersen, Andon Keckler, Tram Le, Sara Martin, Annie Moro, Gabrielle Parsell, Brylee Ponn, Nathan Reynolds, Ella Ser-rano, Kenzie Steveson, Lydia Taylor, Easton Vackert, Seth VanHorn, Caleb Waltmire, Grant Welte.

Sixth graders — Ahmed Almehm-adi, Clara Brant, Briahna Brenneman, Alec Busey, Nicholas Carey, Drew Carr, Benjamin Chambers, Josiah Chapin, Gavin Couchot, Trevor Couchot, Brock Daniel, Isaac Dyer, Aaron Elliott, Cayden Endicott, Parker Fenstermaker, Cale Henry, Jack Holtgreven, Ryleigh Keckler, Audrey Krupp, Bailey Lance, Grady Mason, Emma Myers, Emalee Noel, Madisyn Nye, Makenna Osborne, Keely Parsell, James Patton, Michael Pendergast, Kyle Schmitt, Phoenix Siferd, Courtney Snyder, Olivia Ster-ling, Cohen Stevens, Natalie Treece, Grace Webster, Baylor Wilkin.

Honor Roll

CELEBR ATIONS !THE COURIERTUESDAY, JULY 9, 2019 T3

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Tuesday, July 9, the 190th day of 2019. There are 175 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history:

On July 9, 1850, the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, died after serving only 16 months of his term. (He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore.) On this date:

In 1755, British General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded as his troops suffered a massive defeat during the French and Indian War (he died four days later).

In 1776, the Declaration of Indepen-dence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

In 1816, Argentina declared inde-pendence from Spain.

In 1918, 101 people were killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tennessee. The Distinguished Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.

In 1937, a fire at 20th Century Fox’s film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, destroyed most of the studio’s silent films.

In 1947, the engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mount-batten was announced.

In 1962, pop artist Andy Warhol’s exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell’s soup cans opened at the Ferus Gallery

in Los Angeles. In 1974, former U.S. Chief Justice

Earl Warren died in Washington at age 83.

In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed in Kenner, Loui-siana, shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 145 people aboard and eight people on the ground.

In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate. Former CBS News commentator Eric Sevareid died in Washington at age 79.

In 1995, Jerry Garcia performed for the final time as frontman of the Grate-ful Dead during a concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field (Garcia died a month later).

In 2001, a divided court in Chile ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental condition, a ruling that effec-tively brought the 85-year-old former dictator’s legal troubles to an end. Ten years ago:

The Group of Eight industrial-ized nations opened their summit in L’Aquila, Italy, to Group of Five devel-oping countries Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, as well as Egypt.

The Dutch government turned over

dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad’s ambassador.

Michael Phelps broke the then-world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. national championships in India-napolis, swimming the two-lap final in 50.22 seconds. Five years ago:

President Barack Obama began a two-day visit to Texas, where he met with state officials, including Gov. Rick Perry, to discuss the influx of unaccom-panied children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Modeling agency founder Eileen Ford, 92, died in Morristown, New Jersey. One year ago:

President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conser-vative, politically connected federal appeals court judge, for the Supreme Court to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Anthony Ken-nedy. (Kavanaugh would be confirmed in October after a contentious nomina-tion fight.)

Starbucks announced that it would eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans.

Former movie mogul Harvey Wein-stein pleaded not guilty to new sexual assault charges involving a third woman. Thought for today:

“If writers were good business-men, they’d have too much sense to be writers.” — Irvin S. Cobb, American humorist (1876-1944).

Today in history

The time has come to spend more time with my family.

Thank you for a fun 36 years!

Laura Ferrell

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This week’s celebrity birthdays include: Sunday:

Bandleader Doc Severinsen is 92. Drummer Ringo Starr is 79. Singer-guitarist Warren Entner of the Grass Roots is 76. Actor Joe Spano is 73. Singer David Hodo (the construction worker) of The Village People is 72. Country singer Linda Williams is 72. Actress Shelley Duvall is 70. Actress Roz Ryan (“Amen”) is 68. Actor Billy Campbell (“Once and Again”) is 60. Bassist Mark White of the Spin Doctors is 57. Singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard (“Ally McBeal”) is 56. Comedian Jim Gaffigan is 53. Bassist Ricky Kinchen of Mint Condition is 53. Actress Amy Carlson (“Blue Bloods”) is 51. Actress Jorja Fox (“CSI”) is 51. Actress Cree Summer (“A Different World”) is 50. Actress Kirsten Vangsness (“Criminal Minds”) is 47. Actor Troy Garity (“Bar-bershop”) is 46. Actress Berenice Bejo (“The Artist”) is 43. Actor Hamish Linklater (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”) is 43. Rapper Cassidy is 37. Actor Ross Malinger (“Sleepless in Seattle”) is 35. Comedian Luke Null (“Saturday Night Live”) is 29. Singer Ally Hernandez of Fifth Harmony (“The X Factor”) is 26. Drummer Ashton Irwin of 5 Seconds Of Summer is 25. Country singer Maddie Marlow of Maddie and Tae is 24. Yesterday:

Singer Steve Lawrence is 84. Drum-mer Jaimoe Johanson of The Allman Brothers is 75. Actor Jeffrey Tambor is 75. Actress Kim Darby is 72. Actress Jonelle Allen (“Dr. Quinn, Med-icine Woman”) is 71. Children’s singer Raffi is 71. Actress Anjelica Huston is 68. Actor Kevin Bacon is 61. Coun-try singer Toby Keith is 58. Guitar-ist Graham Jones of Haircut 100 is 58. Keyboardist Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode is 58. Singer Joan Osborne is 57. Actor Rocky Carroll (“NCIS”) is 56. Actor Michael B. Silver (“Instinct,” “NYPD Blue”) is 52. Actor Billy Crudup (“Almost Famous”) is 51. Actor Michael Weatherly (“NCIS,” “Dark Angel”) is 51. Singer Beck is 49. Country singer Drew Womack of Sons of the Desert is 49. Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is 46. Guitar-ist Stephen Mason of Jars of Clay is 44. Actor Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us,” “Gilmore Girls”) is 42. Actress Sophia Bush (“Chicago P.D.,” “One Tree Hill”) is 37. Guitarist Jamie Cook of Arctic Monkeys is 34. Actress Maya Hawke (“Little Women,” “Stranger Things”) is 21. Actor Jaden Smith (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) is 21. Today:

Singer-actor Ed Ames of The Ames Brothers is 92. Actor James Hampton (“F Troop”) is 83. Actor Brian Den-nehy is 81. Actor Richard Roundtree is 77. Singer Dee Dee Kenniebrew of

The Crystals is 74. Actor Chris Cooper is 68. TV personality-turned-musi-cian John Tesh is 67. Country singer David Ball is 66. Singer Debbie Sledge of Sister Sledge is 65. Actor Jimmy Smits is 64. Actor Tom Hanks is 63. Singer Marc Almond of Soft Cell is 62. Actress Kelly McGillis is 62. Singer Jim Kerr of Simple Minds is 60. Singer Courtney Love is 55. Bass-ist Frank Bello of Anthrax is 54. Actor David O’Hara (“The District”) is 54. Actress Pamela Adlon (“Louie”) is 53. Actor Scott Grimes (“ER,” “Party of Five”) is 48. Musician Jack White is 44. Singer-guitarist Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse is 44. Actor Fred Savage is 43. Singer Dan Estrin of Hoobastank is 43. Actress Linda Park (“Star Trek: Enterprise”) is 41. Singer-actress Kiely Williams of 3LW (“Chee-tah Girls” films) is 33. Actor Mitchel Musso (“Hannah Montana”) is 28. Tomorrow:

Actor William Smithers (“Dallas,” “Peyton Place”) is 92. Composer Jerry Herman (“Hello Dolly”) is 88. Singer Mavis Staples is 80. Actor Mills Watson (“B.J. and the Bear,” “Lobo”) is 79. Actor Robert Pine (“CHiPS”) is 78. Guitarist Jerry Miller of Moby Grape is 76. Actress Sue Lyon is 73. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 72. Bass-ist Dave Smalley of The Raspberries is

70. Singer Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys is 65. Banjo player Bela Fleck of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is 61. Actress Fiona Shaw (“True Blood,” “Harry Potter” films) is 61. Drummer Shaw Wilson of BR549 is 59. Country singer Ken Mellons is 54. Guitarist Peter DiStefano of Porno for Pyros is 54. Actor Alec Mapa (“Ugly Betty” “Half & Half”) is 54. Actor Gale Harold (“Hell-cats”) is 50. Country singer Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts is 49. Actress Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) is 47. Singer Imelda May is 45. Actor Adrian Grenier (“Entourage,” “Cecil B. DeMented”) is 43. Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) is 42. Actress Gwendoline Yeo (“Desperate Housewives”) is 42. Actor Thomas Ian Nicholas (“American Pie”) is 39. Singer Jessica Simpson is 39. Bassist John Spiker of Filter is 38. Actress Heather Hemmens (“Hellcats”) is 35. Rapper-singer Angel Haze is 28. Thursday:

Singer Jeff Hanna of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is 72. Ventriloquist Jay John-son (“Soap”) is 70. Actor Bruce McGill (“Animal House”) is 69. Singer Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sis-ters is 69. Actor Stephen Lang is 67. Actress Mindy Sterling (“Austin Powers”) is 66. Actress Sela Ward is 63. Singer Peter Murphy of Bauhaus is 62. Reggae singer Michael Rose of Black Uhuru is 62. Actor Mark Lester (“Oliver”) is 61. Jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum is 61. Guitarist Richie Sambora

(Bon Jovi) is 60. Singer Suzanne Vega is 60. Actress Lisa Rinna is 56. Bassist Scott Shriner of Weezer is 54. Actress Debbe Dunning (“Home Improvement”) is 53. Actor Greg Grunberg (“Heroes,” “Alias,” “Felicity”) is 53. Actor Justin Chambers (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 49. Actress Leisha Hailey (“The L Word”) is 48. Actor Michael Rosenbaum (“Smallville”) is 47. Rapper Lil’ Kim is 44. Actor Jon Wellner (“CSI”) is 44. Singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie is 43. Rapper Lil’ Zane is 37. Actor David Henrie (“Wizards of Waverly Place”) is 30. Singer Alessia Cara is 23. Friday:

Actor-comedian Bil l Cosby is 82. Singer Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 76. Actress Denise Nicholas (“In the Heat of the Night”) is 75. Singer Walter Egan is 71. Fitness guru Richard Simmons is 71. Actress Cheryl Ladd (“Charlie’s Angels”) is 68. Actress Mel Harris (“thirtysomething”) is 63. Gospel singer Sandi Patty is 63. Guitarist Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum is 57. Singer Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms is 54. Actress Natalie Desselle Reid (“Madea’s Big Happy Family,” TV: “Eve”) is 52. Actress Lisa Nicole Carson (“Ally McBeal”) is 50. Country singer Shannon Lawson is 46. Rapper Magoo is 46. Actress Anna Friel (“Pushing Daisies”) is 43. Singer Tracie Spencer is 43. Actress Alison Wright (“The Americans”) is 43. Actor Steve Howey (“Reba”) is 42. Actor Topher Grace

(“That ‘70s Show”) is 41. Actress Michelle Rodriguez (“The Fast and The Furious” films, “Lost”) is 41. Actress Kristen Connolly (“Zoo”) is 39. Singer-guitarist Kimberly Perry of The Band Perry is 36. Actress Nata-lie Martinez (“Under the Dome”) is 35. Actress Ta’Rhonda Jones (“Empire”) is 31. Actress Melissa O’Neill (“The Rookie”) is 31. Saturday:

Actor Patrick Stewart is 79. Actor Robert Forster (“Banyon”) is 78. Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn of The Byrds is 77. Actor Harrison Ford is 77. Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 73. Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid (“Eve,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) is 71. Actress Didi Conn is 68. Actor Gil Birmingham (“Twilight” films) is 66. Country singer Louise Mandrell is 65. Bassist Mark “The Animal” Mendoza of Twisted Sister is 63. Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 62. Actor Michael Jace (“The Shield”) is 57. Comedian Tom Kenny (“Sponge-Bob SquarePants”) is 57. Country singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw is 57. Bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent is 57. Country singer Neil Thrasher (Thrasher Shriver) is 54. Actor Ken Jeong (“Dr. Ken,” “Community”) is 50. Drummer Will Champion of Coldplay is 41. Actor Steven R. McQueen (“The Vampire Diaries”) is 31. Singer Leon Bridges is 30. Actress Hayley Erin (“General Hospital”) is 25. Actor Kyle Harrison Breitkopf (“The Whispers”) is 14.

Happy birthday to all

CELEBR ATIONS ! THE COURIERTUESDAY, JULY 9, 2019T4

� e family ofMartha Cramer

invites you tocelebrate her

90th Birthday with an open house at

the Forest-JacksonPublic Library,

102 West Lima St., Forest, Ohio

from 2 to 4 p.m on July 14.

No gi� s please, but contributions to the

Forest-Jackson Public Library are acceptable.

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM ASSOCIATED PRESS

DEER LAKE, Pa. — The rustic Pennsylvania training camp where Muhammad Ali prepared for some of his most famous fights has undergone an elaborate restoration and is now open to the public as a shrine to the heavyweight icon’s life and career.

The famed Deer Lake camp was in disrepair when California real estate investor Mike Madden bought it shortly after Ali died in June 2016 at age 74. Madden, son of retired broad-caster and NFL Hall of Fame coach John Madden, said his aim was to save an important part of Ali’s legacy.

“It will always be a monument to the guy who created it,” said Madden. “It’s about preserving a piece of sports history, American history and prob-ably world history.”

Ali bought the wooded, out-of-the-way property about 90 miles from Philadelphia in 1972 and installed 18 primarily log buildings, including a gym, dining hall, small mosque, visi-tors’ cabins and a horse barn. It was at Deer Lake where Ali prepared for his epic bouts against George Foreman and Joe Frazier, attracting crowds who watched him work. Ali once pro-claimed he was “more at home with

my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill,” New Jersey.

He trained at the camp until his last fight in 1981.

“Ali loved it up there,” said his longtime business manager, Gene Kilroy, an area native who brought Ali to Deer Lake. “He built it the way he wanted to build it, and he credited that camp with helping him win his biggest fights.”

Ty Benner, whose father brought him to see Ali train every time he was at Deer Lake, returned Saturday for the first time in nearly 40 years, donating a T-shirt he got at the camp as a kid.

“My dad was a big Ali fan,” said Benner, 48, of Beaver Springs, which is about two hours away. “I pretty much grew up here.”

He said Madden had done an “amazing” job restoring it.

Visiting from the Philadelphia area, Karen Hauck was also impressed.

“I love this,” she said while her kids and their friend, 11-year-old Benny Quiles-Rosa, took turns at the heavy bag. Benny, an aspiring boxer, gave it quite a beating.

“I can’t wait till I’m allowed to spar,” he said. Seeing where Al trained, he said, “is a really big deal for me.”

By the time Madden bought the camp, the exteriors of the log build-ings were deteriorating and needed extensive repair.

Inside, the gym has a new ring and sleek display of blown-up photos that show Ali living and working at the camp, slugging it out with opponents inside the ring and clowning around with other famous faces, such as The Beatles.

A video retrospective of Ali’s career, narrated by Howard Cosell, plays on a flat screen, and some of Ali’s famous quotes (“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”) adorn the walls.

In an adjoining room, you can see where Ali kept track of his weight while training for a 1978 champion-ship rematch with Leon Spinks. The actual notations are still there on the wall in pencil.

Madden, a lifelong fight fan like his father, was listening to sports talk radio after Ali’s death and said he became irritated by the misin-formation he was hearing about his boyhood idol, whom he had met as a teen. It was the same when Madden turned to the internet — some of the stories about Ali’s life got the details wrong, he said. He stifled an impulse to comment.

Then Madden read a piece that mentioned Deer Lake, Googled it and found out the camp was for sale.

“I literally had an ‘Animal House’ moment. I had an angel and a devil on my shoulders. Are you going to be the bitter guy who blogs anonymously when it comes to Ali? Every room you’re in, ‘They don’t have the story right.’ Are you going to be that guy?’” Madden recalled thinking.

“Here’s an opportunity to have a hand in maybe not writing history, but preserving some,” he added. “I looked at it as a calling. This found me.”

Madden paid $520,000 for the property and spent at least $650,000 on renovations.

Other buildings open to the public include the mosque, dining hall and Ali’s sleeping quarters, complete with coal stove, hand-operated water pump and a video of Ali giving TV host Dick Cavett a tour of the same cabin 40 years ago.

The hilltop camp, dubbed “Fight-er’s Heaven,” is open to the public on weekends. Admission is free, though visitors may donate to charities desig-nated by the camp. It’s also available for corporate retreats.

It’s the greatest: Ali’s training camp opens to public

CELEBR ATIONS !THE COURIERTUESDAY, JULY 9, 2019 T5

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Tyree Daye will finally have some time to really write, and not think too much about money.

“I can take the summer off and pay down some debts,” Daye, from Youngsville, North Carolina, said after accepting his $50,000 Whiting Award, given annually by the Whiting Foundation to 10 emerging artists.

Established in 1985, the Whitings have been given to such future literary stars as Tony Kushner, Colson White-head and Lydia Davis.

This year’s recipients are a mix of poets, playwrights and prose writers, some not yet published, some with a handful of works out. Winners besides Daye include poets Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, Kayleb Rae Candrilli and nonfiction writers Terese Marie Mail-hot and Nadia Owusu.

Others honored were fiction writers Nafissa Thompson-Spires

and Merritt Tierce and playwrights Lauren Yee and Michael R. Jackson, who said the Whiting would help him focus on the production of “A Strange Loop,” premiering in May at Play-wrights Horizons in Times Square.

“It will also help me with rent and other little details,” Jackson said.

The ceremony was held at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, with hundreds of writers, editors and other members of the publishing com-munity.

The keynote speaker was 2009 Whiting winner Adam Johnson, who later told The Associated Press that he had been out mountain climbing and, when he reached the top, had enough of a signal on his phone to receive an email notifying him of his prize.

At the time, he was working on what became the Pulitzer Prize-win-ning novel “The Orphan Master’s

Son.” He and his wife were raising three small children.

“The Whiting helped me teach less and write more,” he said. “It helped me make connections and allowed me to finish the book.”

Program guides included excerpts of the winners’ work, and an introduc-tion by a member of the class of 1989, “The Liars’ Club” memoirist Mary Karr. At the time she learned of the award, she was a working mother under such duress she often “woke up from screaming.”

The Whiting was so unexpected that she initially hung up on the foun-dation, convinced it was a practical joke. When she got a second call, the same “patrician voice” was on the line.

“Send up a hurrah for the young writers facing the same blessing I faced,” she wrote. “They look young, but, I swear, each has come a far piece.”

10 emerging writers receive $50,000 Whiting grants

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By LINDSEY BAHR AP FILM WRITER

MOORPARK, Calif. — John and Molly Chester, a filmmaker and a chef, had made a decision that many urban-ites only fantasize about: They decided to leave their life in Los Angeles and start a farm that would function in harmony with nature. Their family and friends thought they were crazy, but they were determined. They’d bought 200 acres of land 50 miles away from downtown LA, in Moorpark, California, and they’d found an investor to fund the adventure.

The only problem? The land was dead and they knew nothing about farming.

Eight years later, visiting the idyllic and suspiciously lovely smelling Apricot Lane Farms — where they grow over 100 types of vegetables, 75 types of fruit, from avocado to citrus, and raise animals

including cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, guinea hens and a pig named Emma — you’d hardly know either of those things.

But the Chesters have pulled the curtain back on what it took to get there in the documentary “The Biggest Little Farm,” which opens in select theaters Friday. The film, which John Chester directed, does not gloss over the hard-ships, the doubt and the occasional death that came with their dream of not using chemicals on the crops or drugs on the animals in this intimate look at how they made a biodynamic farm out of nothing.

John Chester said it’s “life affirming” to go back and watch how far they’ve come. “It was about continuing to move forward in the presence of great failure and great embarrassment,” he said.

They didn’t set out to make a film ini-tially. John Chester had left the business behind, and, besides, he figured, they

weren’t even experts. Still, being a doc-umentarian at heart, he had the itch to film nonetheless and starting amassing footage of everything (mostly failures). But then five years in, things started to change: The farm was actually working.

“We saw the return of so much wild-life and we saw pest and predator rela-tionships start to balance things out and I was able to capture those things,” John Chester said. “I knew at that moment that we had a very unique opportunity to tell a story.”

The technique employed at Apricot Lane Farms is something known as biomimicry, which basically relies on the idea that any problem can be solved through nature. They secret to every-thing, they say, is in the soil and the cover crops that rebuilt the land and preserved the water.

“The food we grow truly is special,” said Molly Chester. “It’s very nutrient-dense and flavorful because we focus on soil development.”

The produce, meat and eggs from the farm are sold at local groceries and at various farmers’ markets, from Calaba-sas to Santa Monica.

The Chesters have already seen a raised profile for themselves and the farm through film festivals like Telluride, Toronto and Sundance, and are ready-ing themselves for even more recognition

and interest as audiences meet the film’s stars like Emma the pig, the guardian dogs, Maggie the cow and others.

In fact, they hear the same question often after screenings of the film: “Is it real?”

They do offer private tours, including some for children, but as a working farm, it’s not open to the public every day. And they’re renovating space that eventually will be usable for farm-to-table dinners and movie nights. John Chester said that the tours are a way to, “inspire people to support what we do and what other farms like us do.”

“We’re not the first to do this,” he said. “We’re mimicking many mentors who have done this far longer than we have. We’re just maybe the first in this neighborhood.”

As for whether or not they’d recom-mend following in their footsteps, both say yes, but with some caveats.

“I would recommend it on a smaller scale and not with 250 things,” John Chester said. “You can find as much joy in a quarter acre as you can on 200 acres. You have to design the farm and where it is based around the life you want to live. Learn from other farmers, volunteer, use their mistakes as your lessons. That’s something I wish we would have gotten to do more of. Less pressure, more time under somebody else’s dime.”

How a California farming oasis came to be

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By DAVID SHARP ASSOCIATED PRESS

BATH, Maine — A Hawaiian delegation brought a tropical flair to a state known for cold weather as a U.S. Navy destroyer bearing the name of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye was christened June 22 at Bath Iron Works.

There were flowery leis around the necks of dignitaries and a giant one on the warship itself as Irene Hirano Inouye, the senator’s wife and the ship’s sponsor, smashed a bottle of Champagne on the bow of the future USS Daniel Inouye, which is under construction.

The Hawaiian touch was important, she said. “The traditions of the Navy are very special and historic,” she said before the

ceremony. “But to truly make it reflect of Dan’s life, and the people on Hawaii, our team had to find ways to bring a little bit of Hawaii to Maine.”

Her late husband was a Medal of Honor recipient who broke racial barriers in Congress and represented Hawaii in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat for a half-century until his death in 2012. He lost his right arm in combat in World War II in Italy with the mostly Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He died in 2012.

The ship’s motto — “Go For Broke” — was borrowed from the 442nd. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, of Hawaii, thanked the ship’s crew for “continuing in the

tradition of Sen. Inouye’s service to our country.” “To the crew, I wish you makani olu olu. I wish you all fair winds. Go for broke,

as you serve the country on this incredible new ship,” she told them. In the Senate, Inouye served as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations

Committee. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican who served with him, praised Inouye’s valor, spirit and friendship.

Inouye visited Bath Iron Works in 1961, while serving in the U.S. House, for the launching of the USS Leahy, she noted. He was a strong supporter of naval sea power, she said.

Irene Hirano Inouye said her husband felt that a strong military is necessary to ensure peace.

“He was someone who saw the horrors of war firsthand,” she told the crowd. “Dan always believed that the best way to avoid war to have the strongest military that we could.”

Twenty-two protesters were arrested outside the christening on charges of obstructing a public way, police said. The demonstrators numbered about 50 and included members of Maine Veterans for Peace and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

The Hawaiian tradition will continue when the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is commissioned into service; its homeport will be Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Displaying more than 9,000 tons, the 510-foot ship can easily top 30 knots while simultaneously waging war with enemy ships, submarines, missiles and aircraft.

Its combat system uses powerful computers and a phased-array radar to track more than 100 targets. It’s also equipped with ballistic missile defense capability.

Wife of late Sen. Inouye christens warship bearing his name

Flag City USA Shirts

The County Fair

This is the day — we’re going to the fair!

As a kid, I went everyday; so much to see and do.

From the time we entered the gate we’d meet up with friends,

or at night it was a date with you know who!

I can’t say what excited my expec-tations the most,

because some exhibits were made by hand,

to vegetables grown in the garden of our farm land.

In FHA when I went to school, I made a pretty dress.

Vegetables in my garden were approved by my teacher — I passed the test.

As a teenager life was different then,

fun to wander around with many friends.

Plenty of food, snacks at our will, spent time at the race track to watch farmers racing and the crowd cheer-ing, now that WAS a big deal.

Loved the bunnies, poultry, lambs, goats and cows — lots of young people close by caring for their project; hoping when sold the price would be high.

A day filled with more than I could aspire,

I can only tell you, it thoroughly filled every desire.

Let’s not forget the rides, con-tests for a special prize,

and tents that seemed to beckon, “come in and see the exhibits inside.”

The fair ended with a granstand event,

usually a Nashville guitar group — so glad that I went.

The County Fair might not be for the city slicker, but I tell you true —

To me, happiness is country living, sunshine, crowds having fun, the smell of food

cooking on a grill, ice cream, taffy, trinkets to buy

and then, it’s over — time passes by much too soon!

Reminiscing is like a rose in bloom.

Lila Rose RoszmanUpper Sandusky

Poetry Corner

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By DOUG FEINBERG AP BASKETBALL WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) — Erica McCall is still in a state of shock. She can’t believe that she got to per-form on stage with Carrie Under-wood at a concert.

The Indiana Fever center sang the guest verse of “The Champion“ at the country music star’s show Sunday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

“It’s up there, definitely an expe-rience I will never forget,” McCall said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s up there with going to the Final Four with (Stanford). I’m itching to get back on stage.”

McCall, who said she started rapping in high school and had the nickname Medium E, auditioned for the guest spot at the urgings of team vice president Tamika Catch-ings. She found out what song she’d potentially be singing a few weeks earlier and practiced in the shower,

in front of teammates and faceti-ming with family members. She said she knew the words inside and out.

She had performed at rallies in high school and also at Stanford for a class project, but nothing like Sunday.

McCall found out two days before the concert and said she was calm until right before the performance, when she was underneath the stage ready to come up.

“There were definitely some nerves,” she said. “Once I started the rap it felt natural. It felt like I was in my natural element. I wanted to interact with the fans. They gave me a head piece in my ear so all I could hear was Carrie and her band.”

The performance went viral and McCall admitted she had to turn off notifications on her phone which has “blown up”.

“I’ve been interacting with Car-rie’s fans. They say how much they enjoyed my performance. It’s still a

whirlwind and been pretty surreal. A ball hit my head in practice the other day and that brought me back to reality.”

McCall said she wasn’t a huge fan of country music before the oppor-tunity, but she knew Underwood’s song “Before He Cheats.” Now she’s a huge fan.

“She’s so sweet, incredible per-former; just watching her,” McCall said. “She had a baby four months ago. Hearing that and seeing her live is a true testimony to how pow-erful women are.”

After the concert, Underwood took photos with the Fever.

“She’s very gracious with my team and said she’s a fan of us now,” McCall said.

The singer actually followed McCall on Instagram soon after the performance .

“I was screaming, my mom was still there, she went to the concert,” McCall said. “I was so excited.”

Fever’s McCall performs with Carrie Underwood

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