LLllooyydd IInneeiicchheenn, 79, GenevaJJaacckk HHaaffffnneerr, 80, PortlandHHuugghh GGrriiddeerr, 76, PortlandRRiicchhaarrdd MMiiddllaamm, 86, AlbanyDetails on page 2.

Portland had a high temper-ature of 14 degrees Monday,and the overnight low droppedto 1.There is a chance of snow

tonight with a low of 11, andskies will be partly sunnyWednesday with a high of 21.For an extended forecast,

see page 2.

The Fort Recovery Cham-ber of Commerce awards ban-quet is scheduled for March 8at Fort Recovery Elemen-tary/Middle School. Thoseinterested in attending shouldRSVP by contactinginfo@frchamber.org or (419)375-2530. The deadline is Fri-day.

WWeeddnneessddaayy —— United StatesArmy Field Band to performSunday at Jay County HighSchool. Story, photos.

FFrriiddaayy —— Jay County HighSchool gymnastics team hoststhe Hagerstown Tigers. Story,photos.

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Representatives of the Indi-ana Department of Transporta-tion will be coming to JayCounty to discuss concernsabout the state of local high-ways.Portland Mayor Randy

Geesaman told Jay CountyCommissioners on Monday thatafter an editorial critical ofINDOT appeared in The Com-mercial Review, state officials

suggested a meeting to hearlocal concerns.Geesaman said Brandye Hen-

drickson, INDOT Deputy Com-missioner for the GreenfieldDistrict, offered to set up themeeting.Though no date has been set,

commissioners decided Mondaythat county engineer Dan Wat-son should attend to representthe county’s interests.

Commissioners also met withCraig Frazee of Dynamic Busi-ness Solutions of Portland todiscuss a complete overhaul ofthe county’s website. Frazee isexpected to return to the com-missioners next week with aproposal.In other business, the com-

missioners:•Agreed to look into options

to repair or replace the doors on

the barn at the Jay CountyRetirement Center. Countycouncil president Mike Leon-hard told commissioners hebelieves the doors should bereplaced as soon as possible.•Asked county auditor Anna

Culy to get quotes for a newserver for the courthouse com-puter system.•Approved use of courthouse

restroom facilities during a

May 16 cruise-in sponsored byArch Bridge Kroozers.•Suggested county surveyor

Brad Daniels meet with mem-bers of the Jay County FairBoard, the Jayland TrottersAssociation and Tri-State GasEngine and Tractor Associationto discuss drainage issues atJay County Fairgrounds.Daniels said about 500 feet of 15-inch tile needs to be replaced.

INDOT representative to visit

The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald

Piling upA City of Portland dump truck leaves a load of snow this morning in the parking lot at

Portland Pool. About 5.5 inches of snow fell this weekend in Jay County.

By RAY COONEYThe Commercial ReviewFORT RECOVERY —

Local schools will soonhave a new superintend-ent.Shelly Vaughn, super-

intendent of Fort Recov-ery Local Schools, hasaccepted a new job assuperintendent of Mer-cer County EducationalService Center. Herduties will begin July 13.She will replace Andy

Smith, who retired Dec.31 but has been rehiredfor four months to help

with the transition to anew leader.“My passions in educa-

tion are special educa-tion and high quality pro-fessional development,”said Vaughn. “Those arethe things that are in mywheelhouse. This joballows me to focus on thethings I really love.”MCESC serves as a hub

for a variety of services,including those for spe-cial education, at-riskstudents, school psychol-ogy and speech.

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Vaughn tolead MCESC

By MOLLY DISCHNERAssociated PressJUNEAU, Alaska —

Alaska today became thethird U.S. state to legalizethe recreational use ofmarijuana, but organizersdon’t expect any public cel-ebrations since it remainsillegal to smoke marijuanain public.In the state’s largest city,

Anchorage police officersare ready to start handingout $100 fines to make suretaking a toke remainssomething to be donebehind closed doors.Placing Alaska in the

same category as Washing-ton state and Coloradowith legal marijuana wasthe goal of a coalitionincluding libertarians,rugged individualists andsmall-government Repub-licans who prize the priva-cy rights enshrined in theAlaska state constitution.When they voted 53-47

percent last November tolegalize marijuana use byadults in private places,they left many of thedetails to lawmakers andregulators to sort out.That has left confusion

on many matters.The initiative bans

smoking in public, but did-n’t define what that means,and lawmakers left thequestion to the alcohol reg-ulatory board, whichplanned to meet earlytoday to discuss an emer-gency response.That’s left different com-

munities across the stateto adopt different stan-dards of what smoking inpublic means to them. InAnchorage, officials triedand failed in December toban a new commercialmarijuana industry. ButPolice Chief Mark Mewsaid his officers will bestrictly enforcing the pub-lic smoking ban. He evenwarned people againstsmoking on their porchesif they live next to a park.But far to the north, in

North Pole, smoking out-doors on private property

will be OK as long as itdoesn’t create a nuisance,officials there said.Other officials are still

discussing a proposed cul-tivation ban for the KenaiPeninsula.In some respects, the

confusion continues a four-decade reality forAlaskans and their rela-tionship with marijuana.While the 1975 Alaska

Supreme Court decisionprotected personal mari-juana possession and a1998 initiative legalizedmedicinal marijuana, statelawmakers twice criminal-ized any possession overthe years, creating an oddlegal limbo.As of today, adult

Alaskans can not onlykeep and use pot, they cantransport, grow it and giveit away. A second phase,creating a regulated andtaxed marijuana market,won’t start until 2016 at theearliest. That’s about thesame timeline for Oregon,where voters approvedlegalizing marijuana thesame day as Alaska did butthe law there doesn’t gointo effect until July 1.Washington state and Col-orado voters legalized mar-ijuana in 2012 and saleshave started there.And while possession is

no longer a crime understate law, enjoying pot inpublic can bring a $100fine.That’s fine with Dean

Smith, a pot-smoker inJuneau who has friends injail for marijuana offenses.“It’s going to stop a lot ofpeople getting arrested fornonviolent crimes,” hesaid.The initiative’s backers

warned pot enthusiasts tokeep their cool.“Don’t do anything to

give your neighbors reasonto feel uneasy about thisnew law. We’re in the midstof an enormous social andlegal shift,” organizerswrote in the Alaska Dis-patch News, the state’slargest newspaper.

Alaska votesfor legalization

By VIRGINIA CLINEThe Commercial ReviewDUNKIRK — Council made the

final payment on the wastewatertreatment plant project on Mondayevening.An ordinance will also be amended

to allow new storage units to be builtin the city and quotes will be taken toreplace a car for the Dunkirk PoliceDepartment.Council members Tom Johnson,

Jesse Bivens, Judy Garr, Lisa Streetand Jack Robbins approved a changeorder a total of $24,886.23 in deduc-tions for work done at the Dunkirk

Wastewater Treatment Plant. Theyalso agreed to make the final pay-ment of $140,677.62 to MK Betts Engi-neering and Contracting, Anderson,holding back $10,000 for any remain-ing work that may need to be fin-ished. MK Betts began updating thefacility in 2013 at a cost of $4.275 mil-lion.Robbins, who is zoning administra-

tor for the city, said city attorney BillHinkle is working to amend an ordi-nance for rezoning to allow storageunits to be built at 240 HighlandAvenue, next to West Jay MiddleSchool. The amendment will run for

10 days in the newspaper and thenthe Dunkirk Planning Commissionwill meet to approve the ordinance.Robbins also asked for permission

to get quotes to replace the 2010 Fordpolice car that has 100,000 miles on it. In other business, council:•Agreed to pay $534.83 for work

done on the Simplicity mower for theDunkirk Park Department.•Donated $500 to Dunkirk Junior

League.•Agreed to write off five delinquent

checks totaling $120.36, at the requestof clerk-treasurer Phonnie Kesler. •Paid claims totaling $94,927.49.

Dunkirk makes payment

By LORNE COOKand RAF CASERTAssociated PressBRUSSELS — Greece’s

creditors in the 19-countryeurozone today approved alist of reforms Athens pro-posed to get a 4-monthextension to its bailout,which should keep thecountry afloat over thecoming months.An encouraging reaction

from the so-called institu-tions — the European Com-mission, European CentralBank and InternationalMonetary Fund — to thereforms Greece proposed ina letter late Monday wasbacked by the eurozonenations.Greece had to make the

proposals in order to get thebailout extended. Withoutthe financial lifeline overthe coming few months,Greece faces the possibilityof going bankrupt, impos-

ing capital controls andditching the euro.“The three institutions

agreed to start the processwith this. They thought itwas a serious enough listand all the countries havejust agreed with that in themeeting so we can start,”said eurogroup presidentJeroen Dijsselbloem onRTL television.The proposal to extend

Greece’s bailout, whichends at the end of themonth, now goes to somemember nations forapproval.The reform plans, which

include measures to dealwith tax evasion and cor-ruption and were sent justahead of Monday’s dead-line, also met with a favor-able response in the mar-kets. The main stock mar-ket in Athens was uparound 9.8 percent in lateafternoon trading.

Though the reform meas-ures were welcomed, theeurozone ministers saidGreece had to take furthersteps to flesh out thedetails.

“We call on the Greekauthorities to further devel-op and broaden the list ofreform measure,” the euro-zone said in a statement.

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Eurozone supports plan

Associated Press/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

Dutch Finance Minister and the head ofthe eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem, right, sits todaynext to the chairman of the Committee onEconomic and Monetary Affairs Roberto Gualtieriduring a meeting of the committee at the EuropeanParliament in Brussels.

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Ground Chuckin 5# Bags = $17.95

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10 lbIdaho Potatoes....................................................$399 lb.

Tomatoes ........................................$159 lb.

Kraft 7.25 oz.Mac-n-Cheese .....................................99¢

Boneless, SkinlessChicken Breast ..................................$219 lb.Whole in the Chunk $2.29 lbBoneless Butterfly (Tenderloin)

Pork Chops.................................................$279 lbWhole in the Bag (Sliced Free)New York Strip ....................................$699 lb.

Freezer Wrap 25¢ lb. • Single Steaks $7.99 lb.

Prairie Farms 1lb

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Smoked Sausage 42 oz.................................$699Smoked Chops.......................$399lb

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Pepsi 1.5 Litres 99¢

Prairie Farms2% milk ............................................2/$600

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Town House & ClubCCrraacckkeerrss ................................................................2/$600

16 ozOven Fresh................................................89¢Colby or CoJack Cheesein precut chunks............................................

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County LineMini Colby Cheese.........................$499lb.

Eckrich Franks ...............................3/$500

24 pkCharmin ..................................................$799

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Ham.......................................................$359 lb

Trupointe Fort RecoveryCorn..........................3.91March corn ..............3.93Beans ......................10.03March crop ............10.03Wheat ......................4.83March crop ..............4.83

Cooper Farms Fort Recovery Corn..........................3.92March corn ..............3.92April corn ................3.94May corn..................3.95

POET BiorefiningPortlandFeb. corn ..................3.93March corn ..............3.94

April corn ................3.99May corn..................3.99New crop ................4.02

Central StatesMontpelierCorn..........................3.79New crop ..................3.83Beans ......................10.01New crop ..................9.50Wheat ......................5.06New crop ..................5.04

The AndersonsRichland TownshipCorn..........................3.86March corn ..............3.86Beans ......................10.18March beans ..........10.18July wheat................5.02

Closing prices as of Monday

Jay CountyHospitalPortlandAdmissionsThere were two

admissions to the hospi-tal Monday.

EmergenciesThere were 21 people

treated in the emer-gency rooms of JCH,including:Portland — Katie

Westfall, Mariah Ullom,Crozli Stewart andEfren Ruiz Herrera.

DismissalsThere was one dis-

missal.

Wednesday5:30 p.m. — Jay Coun-

ty Hospital Board, con-ference rooms A and B,JCH, 500 W. Votaw St.,Portland.6:30 p.m. — Dunkirk

Park Board, city build-ing, 131 S. Main St.

Thursday 9:45 a.m. — Portland

Board of Works execu-tive session, mayor’soffice, city hall, 321 N.Meridian St.10 a.m. — Portland

Board of Works,mayor’s office, city hall,321 N. Meridian St.2 p.m. — Common

Construction WageHearing for the Port-land Water Park project,council chambers, firestation, 1616 N.Franklin Street.

Monday9 a.m. — Jay County

Commissioners, com-missioners’ room, JayCounty Courthouse, 120N. Court St., Portland.

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Lotteries

Dies of exposureThe body of Catherine

Bogir, 97, was found deadabout 9:40 a.m. Monday inthe Mooney Street alley inRedkey.According to Jay County

Coroner Jason White, shehad wandered outside andfallen before eventuallysuccumbing to exposure inthe cold weather.

Fake billsUnion City police are

investigating the passing ofcounterfeit money there.A counterfeit $50 bill was

passed about a month ago,and a counterfeit $5 bill waspassed last week.

Breakfast setThe Jay County Ag Day

breakfast is scheduled for5:30 to 9 a.m. March 17 atJay County Fairgrounds.For more information, call(260) 726-4707.

Lloyd IneichenLloyd E. Ineichen, 79, Gene-

va, died Sunday at Jay CountyHospital, Arrangements arepending at Downing & GlancyFuneral Home in Geneva.

Jack HaffnerApril 14, 1934-Feb. 23, 2015Jack L. Haffner, 80, 564 W. 100

North, Portland, died earlyMonday at his home.Born in Portland to Kenneth

and Katherine (Glassford)Haffner, he married BettySnow on Dec. 29, 1953, and shesurvives. He was a farmer and retired

machinist at Teledyne PortlandForge.Surviving in addition to his

wife are a son, Randy Haffner(wife: Lynn), Pendleton; twodaughters, Karen Hirschey(husband: Michael), Portland,

and Teresa Myers (husband:Mark), Dunkirk; a sister, AnnRidgeway (husband: Harold),Portland; five grandchildren;and four great-grandchildren.Visitation is 3 to 6 p.m.

Thursday at Baird-FreemanFuneral Home in Portland, fol-lowed by 6 p.m. services withPastor Hugh Kelly officiating. Memorials may be sent to

State of the Heart Hospice.Online condolences may be

sent to http://www.bairdfree-man.com.

Hugh GriderMay 2, 1938-Feb. 23, 2015

Hugh “Butch” Grider, 76,Portland, died Monday at hishome.Born in Portland to William

and Deloris (Corle) Grider, hewas a 1956 graduate of Port-land High School.

He married Linda Fisher onDec. 18, 1981, and she survives.He was a self-employed pro-

fessional carpet installer in JayCounty for many years. Surviving in addition to his

wife are three sons, Mark Grid-er (wife: Elizabeth), GooseCreek, South Car-olina, Gary Grid-er (wife: Debra),Hartford City,and MitchellGrider (wife:Karen), Milroy; adaughter, KelliShores (husband:Tim), Poneto; asister, JudyAlexander (husband: Dick),Portland; eight granddaugh-ters; and 10 great-grandchil-dren.Visitation is noon to 2 p.m.

Thursday at Williamson andSpencer Funeral Home in Port-

land, followed by 2 p.m. servic-es with Pastor Hugh Kelly offi-ciating. Burial will be in Anti-och Cemetery, southeast ofPortland.Online condolences may be

sent to http://www.williamson-spencer.com.

Richard MidlamNov. 10, 1928-Feb. 21, 2015Richard D. “Dick” Midlam,

86, Albany, died Saturday at IUHealth Ball Memorial Hospital.Born in Redkey to Darrell

and Orpha L. (Wilson) Midlam,he married Betty Lou Shrackon Sept. 15, 1972, and she sur-vives.A veteran of the United

States Army Air Force, heserved in Korea and retired asa Military Police Officer. He was a member of Redkey

United Methodist Church,

Dunkirk American Legion andRedkey American LegionColor Guard.Surviving in addition to his

wife are two daughters, KarenL. Case (husband: Stephen),Albany, and Kathy L. Fuqua(husband: Rock), Farmland; ason, Richard A. Midlam (wife:Sherry), Aurora; seven grand-children; 18 great-grandchil-dren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a daughter-in-law.Services are 11 a.m. Thurs-

day at MJS Mortuaries-RedkeyChapel with Pastor RandyDavis officiating. Burial willbe in Gardens of Memory,Muncie.Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeralhome.In lieu of flowers, memorials

may be sent to Dunkirk Amer-ian Legion Post No. 227.

Obituaries

Grider

Continued from page 1The county’s five

school districts — Celina,Parkway, St. Henry, Cold-water and Fort Recovery— partner in those areasin order to provide servic-es they could not affordon their own.Vaughn was one of two

finalists for the job alongwith Parkway superin-tendent Greg Puthoff. Shewas offered the job lastweek, and will be official-ly hired at the MCESC’sMarch 9 board meeting.The former Fort Recov-

ery Elementary Schoolteacher and principalsaid she sees great oppor-tunities in her new jobwith STEM (science, tech-nology, engineering andmath) and careerresources.She has been Fort

Recovery’s superintend-ent since 2012, when shereplaced the retiring PatNiekamp. She will contin-ue in that role throughJune and help with thetransition for her replace-ment.“I love Fort Recovery.

There are great peoplehere doing great thingsfor kids,” said Vaughn.“That made the decisionto apply very difficult,because I didn’t want toleave Fort Recovery. Thisis just a really greatopportunity for me pro-fessionally to impact thewhole county.”

CapsuleReports

Lead ...

By TOM DAVIESAssociated PressINDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana

House on Monday approved a Republi-can-led push for eliminating the statesystem that sets wages for public con-struction projects, although its fate inthe state Senate is uncertain.House members voted 55-41 to support

eliminating the boards that set con-struction wages for each state or localproject costing more than $350,000. Thir-teen Republicans joined all 28 Democ-rats who voted in opposing the bill.Supporters of the repeal say it would

save tens of millions of tax dollars eachyear through an estimated 10 percent to20 percent price cut on public construc-tion projects by allowing more contrac-tors to pay wages below union scale.Opponents argue the change would hurt

many Indiana-based companies byopening the door for low-paying, out-of-state contractors to underbid on proj-ects.The five-member boards, which

include people appointed by laborunions and an association of non-unioncontractors, set what is known as thecommon construction wage that anycontractor on a building project mustpay workers.Rep. Martin Carbaugh, R-Fort Wayne,

told House members the free marketshould determine the cost of publicprojects and that repealing the con-struction wage law would open biddingup to more contractors.“We have to remember that all this

wage that we’re paying is taxpayermoney,” Carbaugh said. “We have to beresponsible with people’s money.”

House backs repeal

Associated Press/David J. Phillip

Icy IndyA Southwest Airlines plane is de-iced this morning at the

Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis. The early morningtemperature at the airport was below zero.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —The sponsor of a bill tolegalize Sunday alcoholsales in Indiana says theissue is dead for this leg-islative session.Republican Rep. Tom

Dermody of LaPorte saidTuesday he doesn’t haveenough votes for it topass.

The issue has pittedgrocery chains and con-venience store ownersagainst liquor stores overproposed restrictions onwhere alcohol could bedisplayed and sold.The bill called for gro-

cery stores and pharma-cies to keep beer and winein one designated area of

a store and store liquorbehind the counter.This is the first year that

legislation to lift the state’s80-year-old ban on Sundayalcohol sales had made it sofar in the Legislature. Indi-ana has the last statewide“blue law” prohibitingSunday retail sales of beerand other alcohol.

Sunday sales bill dead

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TodayJAY COUNTY CANCER

SUPPORT GROUP — Willmeet from 5 to 6:30 p.m. inconference room C at JayCounty Hospital. Opendiscussion for cancerpatients, survivors, familymembers, or anyone inter-ested in helping with thegroup. For more informa-tion, contact Deb Arnoldat (260) 726-1809, BevInman at (260) 726-4641, orLinda Metzger at (260) 726-1844.

WednesdayWEDNESDAY MORN-

ING BREAKFAST CLUB— Will meet at 8 a.m. inthe east room of RichardsRestaurant. All womenare invited to attend.Includes activities anddevotional time.PORTLAND ROTARY

CLUB — Will meet at nooneach Wednesday at Har-mony Cafe, 121 N. Meridi-an St. EUCHRE CLUB — Will

meet at 2 p.m. the fourthWednesday of each monthat Chalet Village Healthand Rehabilitation in theNorth Lounge. There willbe refreshments andprizes. SINGLES AND SEPA-

RATES SUPPORT GROUP— For anyone who’s lost aloved one or has a spouseliving in long-term care orsuffering from an illness,the group will meet at 2p.m. the first Wednesdayof each month in theArthur & Gloria Musel-man Wellness Pavilion inBerne. For more informa-tion, call Sarah Conrad at(260) 589-4496.COMMUNITY RELA-

TIONS TEAM — Will playeuchre at 6 p.m. the secondand fourth Wednesday ofeach month at the Tele-phone Warehouse, 301 E.6th St. in Portland. Thepublic is invited.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY-MOUS — Will meet from6:30 to 7:30 p.m. eachWednesday upstairs atTrue Value Hardware,North Meridian Street,Portland. For more infor-mation, call (260) 729-2532.AL-ANON FAMILY

GROUP — New Begin-nings, a support group forfriends and families ofalcoholics, the group willmeet at 6:30 p.m. eachWednesday in the ZionLutheran Church, 218 E.High St., Portland. Formore information, call(260) 726-8229.

ThursdayNOBLE BUSY BEES —

Will meet at 9 a.m. Thurs-day at Richard’s Restau-rant. Rachel Stultz is thehostess, Emily Daughertywill give devotions andNancy Cheeseman willgive a lesson. Roll call:Quote a Valentine fromone you’ve received. Wearred or pay 25 cent fine. RANDOLPH COUNTY

TEA PARTY — Will meetat 6:30 p.m. Thursday atthe Moose Lodge, 181 N.Middle School Road inWinchester.PORTLAND LIONS

CLUB — Will meet thefirst Thursday of themonth at Portland LionsCivic Center, 307 W. 100North. The meal will beserved at 6:30 p.m. and themeeting will begin at 7p.m.

FridaySOFT SHOULDERS — A

support group for anyonewith a loved one sufferingfrom a physical or mentallimitation, the group willmeet at 10:30 a.m. thefourth Friday of eachmonth in the FireplaceRoom at Edelweiss Placeat Swiss Village in Berne.For more information, call(260) 589-3173.

DEAR ABBY: I havebeen married to “Carla”for 16 years. It’s my secondmarriage. My problem is Inever see her. She hasalways spent more timewith her mother than withme. We see each other forabout an hour a day aftershe returns from hermom’s, usually at 9:45 to 10p.m.I have had several con-

versations about this withher over the years, butnothing seems to work.We’ll argue and she startsto cry, and it ends withouta resolution. Her motheris in her mid-80s and hashad her share of healthproblems.Carla has a sister who

could help out, but rarelydoes. I have had healthproblems of my own — akidney transplant and sev-eral bouts of skin cancer— but she doesn’t seem tocare as much about myproblems as she does hermom’s. Her mother eventells her to go home to bewith me, to no avail. I love my wife, but my

isolation and lonelinessare finally getting to me.How can I convince herthat this isn’t fair to me or

our marriage? How muchlonger do I take it? —LONELY IN ILLINOISDDEEAARR LLOONNEELLYY:: II ffeeeell

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By VIRGINIA CLINEThe Commercial ReviewPennville Elementary recent-

ly named its Science Fair classchampions.Annah Helm, first grade, won

for “Expansion of Frozen Liq-uids,” She is the granddaughterof Debora McCowan.Hannah Armstrong, second

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Phillip and Amy Weaver, for“Cold Feet.” In fourth grade were Benter,

Madison Springer, the daughterof Nathan and Wendy Springer,for “Homopolar Motor,” andAlizabeth Stotler, the daughterof Melissa Stotler and ChadStotler, for “Iron Our YourCereal.”In fifth grade were Landin

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for “Not So Bright Smile.” Sheis the daughter of Joe and AmyVore.Karyssa Denney, first grade,

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JEANNE LUTZAdvertising Manager

American politics has had araucous, rough and tumble his-tory, but it has seldom sunklower than it did last week.Now it is apparently accept-

able to suggest that the presi-dent of the United States does-n’t love his country.Now it’s apparently more

important to portray the sit-ting president as “the other” —something alien, somethingdifferent from you and me —than to behave with simpledecency.Do the people saying these

things — and the list goesbeyond Rudy Giuliani if youcount the folks who lack the

spine to disavow his comments— really believe what they aresaying?If they do, they ought to be

embarrassed by their igno-rance. If they don’t, they oughtto be ashamed.And by their behavior, they

cast a shadow over what wasonce a great political party, the

party of Lincoln once upon atime.To their credit, some Repub-

lican leaders have stepped for-ward — Marco Rubio, RandPaul, and Lindsey Grahamamong them — to draw theimportant distinction betweendifferences in policy and politi-cal philosophy and questioningsomeone’s patriotism and loveof country. Sen. John McCaingot that one right as well dur-ing his campaign for the presi-dency.But to a startling degree, the

hucksters among the GOP’sspotlight-chasers have signedonto the Giuliani canard.

So, once and for all, does thispresident love his country? Ofcourse he does. He’s expressedhis love of country scores oftimes.Does that mean he believes it

to be perfect? Nope. He’s madethat clear plenty of times aswell. But any politician whotells you it is perfect is lying toyou.Is this president a Christian?

Under our constitution, it does-n’t matter. But the fact is, he is.Does that mean his version

of Christianity is the same aseveryone else who has everattended a Christian church?Nope. There are as many fla-

vors of Christianity as thereare churches.Does he believe that history

always shows Christianity in agood light? Nope again. Andthe record on that is prettyclear.Was this president born in

America? Don’t even start withthat nonsense.The real question — job per-

formance and policies aside —is why this particular presi-dent, unlike any other in ourcountry’s history, merits thissort of craziness from theopposition. And the answer tothat, unfortunately, is clear. —J.R.

Obama faces particular crazinessEditorial

By CASS SUNSTEINBloomberg NewsThe U.S. has a pressing

need to increase the num-ber of well-educated grad-uates in science, technolo-gy, engineering and math,pretty much everyoneagrees.Jeb Bush contends that

we’re not producing “any-thing approaching thenumbers we need to sus-tain and grow our econo-my, much less to maintainour leadership in globaltechnology.” PresidentBarack Obama says that“we’ve got a whole bunchof talent” being wastedbecause we’re not gettingenough girls interested inthese fields.But why, exactly, aren’t

more girls focusing onmath and science?It’s a persistent ques-

tions and, over the years,many people haveanswered it by suggestingthat girls are simply lessinterested. Others have said boys

have more talent; maybetheir spatial skills are bet-ter (perhaps for evolution-ary reasons) and that givesthem higher aptitude inmath. Still others suggestthat boys and girls responddifferently in competitivesituations and that, inmath and science, high lev-els of competition end upadvantaging boys.A new study points in a

different direction. It indi-cates that much of theproblem lies with biasedprimary school teachers,who have major and endur-ing influences on femaleachievement. That’s really hard to

prove, but Victor Lavy ofthe University of Warwickand Edith Sand of Tel AvivUniversity found a way bystudying children in Israel.In primary schools

there, boys and girls aresubject to two kinds oftests: a “blind” externalexam, graded anonymous-ly, and a “nonblind” inter-nal exam, graded in theclassroom. It is well- established

that the difference betweenblind and nonblind assess-ments is a good measure ofsex discrimination—atleast if the two tests aregauging the same basicthing. In this case they were, so

Lavy and Sand could com-pare the outcomes to seewhether teachers showedany tendency to down-grade girls.In tests on Hebrew lan-

guage, the researchersfound no bias on the basisof sex; girls did a bit betterthan boys on both externaland internal exams. Inmath tests, in contrast,girls did better on theexternal exams, but worse

on the internal ones — astrong suggestion of bias.Moreover, some teach-

ers showed a significantbias, whereas othersshowed none. Becausestudents are randomlyassigned to teachers with-in primary schools, Lavyand Sand were able toinvestigate the conse-quences, for both boysand girls, of having abiased primary schoolteacher.The biased teachers

turned out to have signifi-cant effects: Girls whohad a biased teacher inprimary school were lesslikely to continue withmath and science in highschool. In contrast, boyswith biased teachers weremore likely to completethe advanced math andscience studies.That’s an important dif-

ference, because thosecourses are a prerequisitefor university schoolingin a number of fields,including computer sci-ence and engineering.Thus, a biased fourth-grade math teacher canlimit a woman’s careeropportunities. And if significant num-

bers of primary schoolteachers show a sex bias,they will reduce the totalnumber of female stu-dents who pursue science,technology, engineeringand math.It’s possible, of course,

that findings in Israelwould not generalize tothe U.S. But it’s more reason-

able to think that biasedprimary school teachers,reacting to stereotypesabout boys and girls,would not be unique to asingle nation.For those who want to

produce more Americangraduates in science andmath, the policy implica-tion is clear. Even at early stages,

primary school teachersgive their students a pow-erful sense of who’s goodat what. If they treat girlsand boys equally, they canhelp give them an equalchance.

••••••••••Sunstein is a Bloomberg

View columnist and for-mer administrator of theWhite House Office ofInformation and Regulato-ry Affairs, is a professor atHarvard Law School.Email him atcsunstei@law.harvard.edu.

Attitudes canbe formed early

By JOHN KRULLTheStatehouseFile.comINDIANAPOLIS — Together,

Derek Thomas and Carol Rogerspaint a picture that is disturbing,even scary.Thomas is the senior policy analyst

for the Indiana Institute for WorkingFamilies. Rogers is the deputy direc-tor and chief information officer forthe Indiana Business Research Cen-ter. The three of us are on the air talk-ing about a report Thomas’ organiza-tion released on the status of Indianaworking families.The report shows Indiana as a state

moving in different and, in someimportant ways, conflicting direc-tions.There is good news. The unemploy-

ment numbers have dropped, whichshows that the worst of the economicdownturn now seems to be in the rearview mirror.The problem is that the recovery

has been uneven. The number ofHoosiers living in poverty now is at arecord high — despite the fact thatthere has been significant growth inthe number of jobs.“The poor are getting poorer,”

Thomas says.The why of that is troubling.While Indiana is attracting or cre-

ating a lot of jobs, too many of themdon’t pay a living wage. Those jobsswell the state’s employment num-bers without lifting many Hoosiersout of poverty.This is sad and distressing news for

the hundreds of thousands of indi-vidual Hoosiers who struggle to pro-vide for themselves and their chil-dren, but it also is tragic news for thestate as a whole.The greatest growth in the number

of the state’s working poor is foundamong those Hoosiers falling out ofthe middle class. They’re living the

American Dream in reverse — losingtheir holds on lives of some comfortand security.Thomas says the numbers show an

Indiana middle class that is begin-ning to evaporate.I mention that this is not a new or

isolated trend.Many economists have predicted

that we are headed into a new era.Instead of an economic structureanchored by a large and thriving mid-dle class, we instead may find our-selves living with an “hourglass econ-omy,” one in which there are increas-ing numbers of people at the top andat the bottom — and relatively few inbetween.I ask Rogers how our lives in this

state will change if this trend contin-ues and the hourglass takes shape.“We don’t know,” she says and

shakes her head.The sense of concern — one that

approaches panic — that manyHoosiers feel about facing this possi-ble new world comes through in thecalls and messages to the show.One woman barks that immigrants

shouldn’t be allowed to take Hoosiers’jobs. A man sends an email saying thestate’s leaders don’t care about ordi-nary people and just want to rewardtheir wealthy cronies. And still anoth-er man calls to say both politiciansand business leaders are more inter-ested in breaking unions than theyare about creating jobs that pay peo-ple enough to live on.

The subtext to the calls and notesisn’t hard to find: We’re scared we’regoing to lose the life we’ve worked forand no one seems to care.While we talk on the air and the

nervous calls and emails come in, theleaders of Indiana’s state governmentindulge themselves with a paralyzingand non-productive battle to overturnthe election of the state’s superin-tendent of public instruction. Theythrow themselves into divisive strug-gles to change the common construc-tion wage and dabble in other union-busting measures — just a couple ofyears after they split the state in halfin a war about a right-to-work law.At the time of the right-to-work

warfare, proponents said the lawwould bring new jobs to Indiana.Opponents said it would depresswages.The evidence now seems to suggest

that both sides might have been right— and that’s the problem.Many of the fights we’re having

over economic development in Indi-ana are products of the 1980s, 1950s oreven the 1800s. While the unfolding21st century thrusts us into an econo-my and an era that is likely to be Dar-winian in nature — only the strongwill survive, much less thrive — ourleaders devote themselves to settlingold scores.As the future rushes up to meet us

with all its hopes and terrors, ourleaders look to drag us back into apast that continues to disappear, dayby day.And paycheck by paycheck.

••••••••••Krull is director of Franklin Col-

lege’s Pulliam School of Journalism,host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indi-anapolis and publisher of TheState-houseFile.com, a news website pow-ered by Franklin College journalismstudents.

Leaders seem stuck in the pastJohnKrull

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MovingILOVAYSK, Ukraine

— Russian-backedseparatists movedsome heavy weaponswell back from thefront line today ineastern Ukraine, butthe Ukrainian govern-ment disputed therebels’ claim that areal pullback hadbegun.A peace plan

worked out inmarathon talks onFeb. 12 aims to createa wide buffer zonebetween the two sides’artillery, part ofefforts to end the con-flict that has left near-ly 5,800 dead sinceApril. Heavy weaponsare to be pulled back15 to 45 miles from thefront line, dependingon their caliber.

ArrestedLODI, N.J. — Police

arrested a man sus-pected of robbing abank in New Jerseyafter they say hestopped for a cup ofcoffee a block away.Police say a man

wearing a fedora hatapproached a teller atthe Hudson City Sav-ings Bank in Lodi onMonday, placed a BB-gun on the counterand demanded money.The man fled with$4,000.Maywood Police

Chief David Pegg tellsThe Record newspa-per an officer spotteda man matching thedescription of the sus-pect near the entranceof a Dunkin Donutsdrinking coffee.

Eight killedPRAGUE — A man

opened fire today in arestaurant in theCzech Republic, anattack that left at leasteight people dead, thetown’s mayor said. Itwas the worst shoot-ing attack in the coun-try’s history.Patrik Kuncar,

mayor of the south-eastern town of Uher-sky Brod, said thegunman, a local manaround 60 years old,was among the deadafter killing himself.A waitress from therestaurant was hospi-talized, he said.The town of 17,000

lies 185 miles south-east of Prague, theCzech capital, and ishome to the CeskaZbrojovka gun plant.

—Associated Press

In review

By JENNIFER PELTZand TOM HAYSAssociated PressNEW YORK — The Palestine

Liberation Organization andthe Palestinian Authoritybacked a series of terroristattacks in the early 2000s inIsrael that killed or woundedAmericans, a U.S. jury foundMonday in awarding hundredsof millions of dollars in dam-ages at a high-stakes civil trial.The case has been viewed as

one of the most notableattempts by American victimsof the Palestinian-Israeli con-flict to use U.S. courts to seek

damages, and the verdict is asetback for the Palestinians’image as they seek to rally inter-national support for their inde-pendence and to push for warcrime charges against Israel.The damages could be a finan-

cial blow to the cash-squeezedPalestinian Authority, thoughthe Palestinian authorities planto appeal and the plaintiffs mayface challenges in trying to col-lect.In finding the Palestinian

entities liable in the attacks, aManhattan federal jury award-ed the victims $218.5 million indamages for the bloodshed in

attacks that killed 33 people andwounded hundreds more —damages their lawyers saidwould automatically be tripledunder the U.S. Anti-TerrorismAct.Palestinian Authority Deputy

Minister of Information Dr.Mahmoud Khalifa called theverdict “a tragic disservice” toPalestinians and to the interna-tional community in workingtoward a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.“The charges that were made

against us are baseless,” hesaid.The victims’ lawyers called

the jury’s decision a win in thefight against terrorism.“It’s about accountability. It’s

about justice,” attorney KentYalowitz said.While the Israeli government

said it had no involvement in thecase, Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu said officials “expectthe responsible elements in theinternational community to con-tinue to punish those who sup-port terrorism, just as the U.S.federal court has done.”The suit against the PLO and

Palestinian Authority — andanother case in Brooklyn federalcourt against the Jordan-based

Arab Bank — had languished foryears as the defendants chal-lenged the American courts’jurisdiction. Recent rulingsfound they should go forwardunder the Anti-Terrorism Act,which allows victims of U.S.-des-ignated foreign terrorist organi-zations to seek compensation forpain and suffering, loss of earn-ings and other hardship.While the Palestinian Author-

ity has settled some suits con-cerning U.S. citizens’ killings,this was the first case in which itdefended an Anti-Terrorism Actsuit through a trial, the plain-tiffs’ lawyers said.

Jury finds PLO liable for attacks

Continued from page 1Dijsselbloem also urged

Greece to move quickly,pointing out that thereform program needs tobe updated and imple-mented within fourmonths.The IMF was most

downcast of all, insistingthat the vague promisesin today’s list now neededto be turned into realaction.In a letter to Dijssel-

bloem, IMF managingdirector ChristineLagarde said that in manykey areas, the list “is notconveying clear assur-ances that the governmentintends to undertake thereforms envisaged.”Lagarde specified there

were no “clear commit-ments to design and imple-ment” VAT and pensionpolicy reforms, or“unequivocal undertak-ings” to continue previ-ously agreed policies to

open up closed sectors, onadministrative reforms,privatization and labormarket reforms.In its list of reforms, the

Greek government says itwill combat tax evasionand corruption, reducebureaucracy, review pub-lic spending, modernizethe pension system,reform the judicial systemand address rising povertythrough measures thathave “no fiscal effect.” Itsays authorities will “turnthe fight against corrup-tion into a national priori-ty.”It pledges not to roll

back any privatizationsthat have already beencompleted and to “respectthe process, according tothe law,” of any tendersthat have already beenlaunched. Privatizationwas one of the elements ofGreece’s bailout thatTsipras’ Syriza party hadpromised to cancel.

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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A South-ern California commuter traincrashed into a truck and derailedearly today, injuring dozens of peo-ple.Three cars of the Metrolink

train tumbled onto their sides inagricultural country 65 milesnorthwest of Los Angeles.Metrolink spokesman Scott John-

son told the Los Angeles Timesthat at least 30 people were injured.Television news helicopters

showed several firetrucks sur-rounding the tracks, running par-allel to a road and a field. Tarpswere lying on the street and fire-fighters were treating victims.One toppled car laid with one

end on the tracks and another on

the street. Another passenger carderailed but didn’t topple, and thelocomotive also remained upright.Little was left of the truck but

scorched and mangled wreckage— some debris was in a nearbyintersection and some close to thetracks.Oxnard police Sgt. Denise

Shadinger said the crash was

reported at 5:44 a.m. and said onlythat there was an unspecifiednumber of injuries.Metrolink’s website said the

train was on a run from VenturaCounty to Los Angeles. Calls fromThe Associated Press seeking com-ment from the regional railauthority were not immediatelyreturned.

By RYAN LUCASAssociated PressBEIRUT — Islamic State mili-

tants have abducted at least 70Christians, including women andchildren, after overrunning astring of villages in northeasternSyria, activists and relatives saidtoday.The Sunni extremist group,

which follows a radical interpreta-tion of Islam, has repeatedly tar-geted religious and ethnic minori-ties in Syria and Iraq since seizingcontrol of large swaths of bothcountries. Islamic State fightershave ransacked churches, demol-ished Shiite and Sunni Muslimshrines, and enslaved women of

the Yazidi community, a tiny sect ISconsiders heretical.The latest assault began before

dawn on Monday, when the mili-tants swept through the villagesnestled along the banks of KhaburRiver near the town of Tal Tamr inHassakeh province. The area ispredominantly inhabited by Assyr-ians, an indigenous Christian peo-ple who trace their roots back tothe ancient Mesopotamians.During the raids, the militants

took between 70 and 100 Assyrianscaptive, said Nuri Kino, the head ofthe activist group A Demand ForAction, which focuses on religiousminorities in the Middle East. Hesaid some 3,000 people managed to

flee the onslaught and have soughtrefuge in the cities of Hassakehand Qamishli.Kino said his organization based

its information on conversationswith villagers who fled the attackand their relatives.The Britain-based Syrian Obser-

vatory for Human Rights alsoreported the abductions, but putthe number of Christians held bythe Islamic State group at 90. TheObservatory relies on a network ofactivists inside Syria.Both groups said that most of

the captives come from the villageof Tal Shamiram, located some 50miles southwest of the provincialcapital of Qamishli.

An Assyrian Christian womanfrom Tal Shamiram who nowlives in Beirut said she has beenscrambling to find out what hasbecome of her parents, as well asher brother and his wife and kids.“Land lines have been cut, their

mobiles are closed,” she told TheAssociated Press. “Have theybeen slaughtered? Are they stillalive? We’re searching for anynews.”“My family visited me last

month and returned to Syria.There were clashes but it was nor-mal, nothing exceptional. I feel sohelpless, I cannot do anything forthem but pray,” she said by tele-phone, her voice breaking.

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SportsTuesday, February 24, 2015

FRHS girls hoops opensectional play Wednesday,see Sports on tap

Jay gymnastics teamto host Hagerstownat 6 p.m. Thursday

By RAY COONEYThe Commercial ReviewSpring is just around the

corner.At least, that’s what this

month’s questions lead meto believe. And I hope wecan all agree we’ve hadenough of this sub-zerotemperature nonsense.The questions from read-

ers range from March Mad-ness to golf to baseball, andthose last two topics bringto mind green grass andwarming temperatures.Here’s hoping those fea-

tures come sooner ratherthan later. For now, here arethe answers to those ques-tions.••••••••••What are your predic-

tions for Big Ten coach,player and freshman of theyear, and first team? Howmany Indiana schools aregoing to the Big Dance?

——JJeennaaee BBllaassddeell,, PPoorrtt--llaanndd

Let’s lead off with BigTen Coach of the Year,because it’s an easy choice.I like Matt Painter, who cur-rently has Purdue in athree-way tie for secondplace in the conference.My all-conference first

team would include leadingscorer D.J. Newbill of PennState, D’Angelo Russell ofOhio State, Frank Kamin-sky of Wisconsin and YogiFerrell and James Black-mon Jr. of Indiana.My votes for freshman of

the year and player of theyear would both go to Rus-sell. He averages 19 points,5.8 rebounds and 5.4 assistsper game while shooting 46percent from the field and43 percent from 3-pointrange.Finally, I believe the state

gets four teams in theNCAA Tournament, butthe only lock is NotreDame. The Fighting Irishare 24-4 overall and secondin the Atlantic Coast Con-ference.I also think Butler (19-8)

and Indiana (19-9) willmake the field, and Val-paraiso (25-4) is the favoriteto win the Horizon Leagueand earn an automatic bid.Purdue could give the

state a fifth tournamentteam, but its current RPI of61 is unlikely to impressthose who draw up thebrackets. The Boilermak-ers’ best case is to stay hot— they’ve won seven oftheir last eight, includingtwo victories over Indiana— and make a good show-ing in the Big Ten Tourna-ment. ••••••••••Do you think Tiger

Woods will win anothermajor? I think in two yearshe will have a special runwinning majors.

——AAlleexx HHuunntt,,KKnnooxxvviillllee,, TTeennnneesssseeee

Tiger Woods winning

another major tournamentwouldn’t be any great sur-prise. He could certainlycatch lightning in a bottlefor a four-day stretch.But I think he’s done.Woods’ last major win

came at the U.S. Open in2008. That may not seemlike so long ago, but it’sbeen seven years. That’s aneternity in the sportsworld.Let’s look at what Tiger

has done since that tourna-ment at Torrey Pines.He had a solid run over

the next six majors, finish-ing in the top six five times,including a runner-upeffort at the 2009 PGA Tour-nament. But since then,he’s finished outside the top20 nine times in 14 tourna-ments. He’s been in the topfive just three times, withhis best finish a third-placeeffort at the 2012 BritishOpen.Tiger Woods is 39 years

old. He’s struggled withinjuries, missing most ofthe 2014 season.He may win one more,

but I doubt it. And as for aspecial run and his chanceof breaking Jack Nicklaus’record of 18 majors, forgetit.••••••••••What is the highest team

ranking that a Jay CountyHigh School team has hadin a statewide poll?

——JJaann SSiimmmmoonnss,, PPoorrtt--llaanndd

This questions was actu-ally asked and answeredlast month. But it was atough one to research, andat the time I noted that I’dbe happy to revisit the ques-tion if readers were able toprovide more information.First, let’s review last

month’s answer.The 2006-07 Patriot boys

basketball team and the2008 baseball team sharedthe top spot, both reachingNo. 5 in their respectivepolls. The girls basketballteam climbed to No. 6 dur-ing the 2008-09 campaign.Simmons noted on Face-

book that he remembersthe 1982-83 baseball teamreaching the No. 5 spot inthe poll as well.Here’s what I found:The 1982-83 team topped

out at No. 6. It finished witha 26-6 record and wasranked eighth in the finalpoll of the season.The Patriots’ year ended

with a 9-6 loss to Blackfordin the sectional champi-onship. Simmons, a senioron that squad, started atshortstop and had one RBIin that game.

Four Indianateams willmake tourney

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By CHRIS SCHANZThe Commercial ReviewFORT RECOVERY — The Indi-

ans had trouble getting shots tofall in the opening quarter Mon-day.The Tigers weren’t able to keep

up in the final three frames.Fort Recovery High School’s

boys basketball team used a 21-6run — including a stretch of 11straight points — to grab a sec-ond-quarter lead, and then pulledaway in the fourth quarter for a65-44 victory over the AnsoniaTigers.“I told them it’s all about exe-

cution,” FRHS coach ChrisGuggenbiller said of the sluggishfirst quarter. “We were doing apretty good job of moving the balland getting open looks, we justweren’t hitting anything.“That second quarter, just keep

on it. We’ve got to focus and fin-ish around the basket and it start-ed coming around.”Dane Wentworth hit a 3-pointer

early in the second to give theTigers (4-17) an 18-9 lead. MicaiahCox scored at the other end forFort Recovery, and then assistedon a bucket by Caleb Martin tostart the second-quarter scoringspree. Following another Wentworth

triple, Cox benefited from a dishby Chase Bruns for the first twoof six straight points, getting theIndians within two, 21-19. Follow-ing Wentworth’s third trey, Mar-tin hit one of his own at the otherend to spark an 11-point Indianrun to end the half as they led 30-

25. Derek Backs and Brandon“Speedy” Schoen both hit shotsfrom long range.Fort Recovery limited Ansonia

to two second-chance points inthe final 16 minutes, and Guggen-biller stressed the significance ofkeeping the opposition to oneshot per possession.“It is the utmost importance,”

he said. “We’ve talked all yearabout limiting teams to one pos-session. When we get in trouble iswhen we give up two or threeshots on one possession.”Cox grabbed a game-high 13

rebounds and Chase Brunschipped in with nine. DarienSheffer, Schoen and Backs eachadded five, as the Indians had a44-28 rebound margin. Additionally, Fort Recovery

was able to share the ball offen-sively. Four players reached dou-ble figures — Cox and Martinboth had 13, Sheffer tallied 12 andSchoen added 10 — and 20 of its26 scoring plays had assists.Schoen led the way with eightassists, two shy of notching adouble-double.Schoen could have surpassed

the 10-assist margin, however,but a few of his attempts were offthe mark. He tossed a couplealley-oop attempts to a cuttingKyle Schroer that didn’t fall, andhe almost had an assist late in thefourth quarter but Cole Hull hadhis shot blocked from behind.“That’s something we’re get-

ting pretty good at lately is hav-ing a high assist percentage,”

Guggenbiller said. “That is theteam game. We don’t have toomany guys that can break a kiddown and get to the cup.“We do have guys that can

move the ball and make solidpasses and finish off those pass-es.”Ansonia tied the game at 34

midway through the third quar-ter, but a 12-4 run to close out thequarter created some separation.The Indians continued the pres-sure on both ends of the court inthe fourth, outscoring the Tigers19-6 in the final eight minutes.“We ran out of steam, ran out

of gas,” Ansonia coach DarrickBarga said. “It’s happened to usall year.”

Junior varsityFort Recovery overcame a slug-

gish first quarter and limitedAnsonia to two points in the sec-ond in a 40-34 victory.The Indians trailed 11-6 after

the first quarter, and caught firefor 15 points in the second as ithad a 21-13 lead heading intointermission.Fort Recovery extended its lead

to 33-24 after three, and hung ondown the stretch for the win.Cade Wendel shared the game-

high with 11 points to lead FortRecovery. Kyle Knapke addedeight points and Jackson Hobbstallied seven. Tanner Koch andEthan Schoen chipped in withfive and four points respectively.Brayden Swabb paced the

Tigers with 11 points.

Tribe tops Tigers

The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz

Fort Recovery High School senior Derek Backs reaches in to knock the ball away fromAnsonia’s Nick Peters in the second half Monday at Fort Site Fieldhouse. Backs had seven points,five rebounds, two assists and a steal in the Indians’ 65-44 victory over the Tigers.

Second-quarter run lifts Indians

Kaitlin Dow and LilliClemmons had their handin four victories Mondayas the Jay County middleschool swim team defeat-ed the Norwell Knights,169-128.The Jay County boys

lost, 193-74.Dow took first in the

100- and 200-yardfreestyle events, whileClemmons won both the50 freestyle and 100 back-stroke. They teamed upwith Eliza Bader andAshlyn Dow, swimming tovictory in the 200 medleyand 200 freestyle relays.Ashlyn Dow and Bader

picked up individual vic-tories as well. The lattertouched the wall first inthe 50 butterfly, and theformer won the 500freestyle.

For the boys, TaylorSmeltzer was the lonedual-event winner, swim-ming to victories in the100 individual medleyand the 50 butterfly.Smeltzer joined

Matthew Minnich,Sammy Crump and BenStrausburg to place sec-ond in the 200 freestylerelay.Finishing second for

the girls were RieleyBrewster (50 butterfly),Ashlyn Dow (100 IM) andBader (100 breaststroke).Pacie Denney, Jenna

Dunfee, Kaitlyn Hicksand Brewster were sec-ond in the 300 freestylerelay. Hannah James,Emma James, KearstenMyers and Strausburgfinished third in the sameevent.

Dow, Clemmonslead JC tankers Scoreboard

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Local scheduleTTooddaayy

Jay County — Christian Phillips atIHSAA Diving regional at Fishers – 6 p.m.;WJMS wrestling at Daleville – 5:30 p.m.;EJMS wrestling vs. West Side – 5:30 p.m.

South Adams — Boys basketball atWinchester – 6 p.m.

WWeeddnneessddaayyFort Recovery — Girls basketball sec-

tional semifinal vs. Lima Perry at Coldwater– 8 p.m.

South Adams — SAMS swimming vs.Blackford – 5:30 p.m.

TThhuurrssddaayyJay County — Gymnastics vs. Hager-

stown – 6 p.m.; East Jay wrestling at WestJay – 5:30 p.m.

South Adams — SAMS wrestling atBluffton – 5 p.m.; SAMS swimming atAdams Central – 5:30 p.m.

TV scheduleTTuueessddaayy

7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:Wisconsin at Maryland (ESPN); Texas atWest Virginia (ESPN2)

8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Indiana Pac-ers at Oklahoma City Thunder (FS-IN)

9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:Florida at Missouri (ESPN)

WWeeddnneessddaayy7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:

Indiana at Northwestern (BTN); VirginiaCommonwealth at Richmond (ESPN2)

8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Los AngelesClippers at Houston Rockets (ESPN)

9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:Duke at Virginia Tech (ESPN2); Illinois atIowa (BTN)

10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: SanAntonio Spurs at Portland Trail Blazers(ESPN)

11 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:Washington at UCLA (ESPN2)

TThhuurrssddaayy7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:

Minnesota at Michigan State (BTN)8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Golden

State Warriors at Cleveland Cavaliers (TNT)9 p.m. — Men’s College Hockey: Michi-

gan State at Minnesota (BTN)9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball:

Rutgers at Purdue (ESPN-U)10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Oklaho-

ma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns (TNT)

Local notesJJCCCC ttoo hhoolldd ttoouurrnnaammeennttss

The Jay Community Center Cabin FeverTriple Crown tournaments will continuewith a dodgeball tournament March 31.

Both tournaments will begin at 1 p.m.and cost is $60 per team.

For more information, contact the JayCommunity Center at (260) 726-6477.

CCoommmmuunniittyy sswwiimm ooppeenn The community swim schedule for the

2014-15 school season is underway.Each swim will be Sundays from 2 to 4

p.m. at Jay County High School and is opento the public.

Cost is $2 per swimmer, and childrenunder the age of 12 must be accompaniedby an adult.

For more information, contact BarryWeaver at bweaver@jayschools.k12.in.us.

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