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By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review Tuesday’s deadline to file to fill ballot vacancies passed without any new - comers. Only one new candidate joined the fray between the June 2 primary elec - tion and noon Tuesday, with Bruce Counterman filing as an independent last week to run for the south district Jay County Commissioner seat. Each party now has until noon Monday to fill any remaining vacancies on the ballot. Counterman, a rural Ridgeville resident, will take on Brian McGalliard in the Nov. 3 general elec - tion. With incumbent Republican Chuck Huff - man not seeking re-elec - tion, McGalliard won the Republican primary over Duane Monroe and Barb Street. The only other contested The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald race at the county level at this point is for three at- Inez Lowe relaxes outside her home in Dunkirk. She turns 100 today. She said she stays mentally sharp by large seats on Jay County doing puzzles and reading, and credits her longevity to her faith and hard work. Council. Incumbent Republican Jeanne Houch - ins, Republicans Matt Minnich and Ray Newton and Democrats Judy Aker Lowe celebrating century today and Josh Gibson are vying for those positions. By JACK RONALD was in 1935, when she became defects,” she said. “We had to and Inez moved to Florida for Republicans who are The Commercial Review the bride of Raymond Lowe, the inspect the ware. … We all “26 very happy years.” currently uncontested for It hasn’t been an easy life. But love of her life. They were mar - worked swing shift.” When Raymond’s health it’s been a good life. county offices are Jon ried for 73 and a half years before It was hard work, but Inez began to fail, they moved back to “It doesn’t seem like it’s been a Eads for circuit court his death in 2006. has fond memories of her Dunkirk to be close to their chil - hundred years,” said Inez Lowe clerk, Michael Brewster Employment in the glass years at the plant. dren. of Dunkirk. “And I don’t feel like industry brought the couple to “Dunkirk is fortunate to Since his passing, Inez has for coroner, Brad Daniels a hundred.” for surveyor, Paula Miller Dunkirk in 1958. have it,” she said. continued to live independently She was born July 1, 1920, in She and Raymond worked for By then, the couple had at her home on Moore Avenue. for treasurer, Rex Journay Logan County, West Virginia. for commissioner repre - nearly 20 years for the glass con - seven children — Warren, “The kids all come in and help “It was a little coal-mining tainer plant that was then part of Sharon, Deb, Gordon, me,” she said. “They don’t hesi - senting the north district town,” she recalled. “My dad was Armstrong Cork and later Clarence, Alton and Virginia tate or complain. … I am blessed and Gail Dues for superior a miner.” became Kerr Glass Manufactur - — four born before World War with having good health.” court judge. Childhood may have lacked ing. Today, the same plant is a II and three after Raymond She keeps mentally sharp by Journay and Dues both luxuries, but it had other com - part of Ardagh Group’s North returned from service in the working puzzles and reading defeated incumbents in pensations, including her child - American Glass division. war. All survive except Sharon, voraciously. the primary election, hood sweetheart. Raymond worked in the batch who was lost to cancer seven “I could get a lot more done if I knocking off Mike Leon - “We were married very young house, and Inez sorted ware. years ago. didn’t read so much,” she said. hard and Max Ludy, — at 15 and 17,” said Inez. That “We had to watch for Upon retirement, Raymond See 100th page 2 respectively. See Deadline page 2 New laws in effect By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Using a handheld cell - phone while driving will Handheld devices banned become illegal on Indiana roads under a new state while operating vehicle law taking effect this week. The move aimed at com - bating distracted driving mobile device while oper - and didn’t ban actions such was among numerous laws ating a moving vehicle. as emailing or using going onto the books today Republican Gov. Eric Hol - Snapchat, Twitter and after being approved by comb encouraged legisla - other apps. the state Legislature this tors to approve the ban, Violators can be fined up year. arguing that distracted to $500 and they could lose Other new laws include driving increases the risk their driver’s license for tougher penalties on stores of a crash by more than 3½ repeat violations. But for selling smoking or vap - times. It was to blame in at motorists who are ticketed ing products to anyone least 860 injury crashes and before July 1, 2021, will not The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney younger than 21 years, and 48 crashes with deaths receive points on their a requirement that anyone across Indiana last year, license, which can lead to younger than 18 obtain a according to state police. license suspension. judge’s permission before The new law allows cell - Rain barrel work getting married. phone use by drivers only Cigarette sales Tom and Bettie Jacobs work together to assemble a rain with hands-free or voice- A new law doubles the barrel during Jay County Solid Waste Management District’s rain barrel Cellphone ban operated technology, except fines stores can face for sell - workshop Tuesday night. The district’s reuse center was packed for the Indiana is joining more in emergencies. It broadens ing tobacco or vaping prod - event, which offered attendees a free barrel. than 20 other states in pro - a previous state ban on tex - ucts to anyone younger hibiting drivers from hold - ting while driving that offi - than 21 years old. ing or using a handheld cials found unenforceable See Laws page 2

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The Commercial Review will publish on a modified Thursday — Coverage of Jay County had a high temper - calls for a high of 90 under sunny schedule this week. Friday’s tonight’s Portland Rockets ature of 87 degrees Tuesday. The skies. Highs are expected to be in newspaper will be a morning game against Panthers. low was 71. the 90s for the next two weeks. edition. There will be no news - Tonight’s low will be in the See page 2 for an extended out - paper Saturday because of the Tuesday — Photo of the mid 60s. Thursday’s forecast look. Independence Day holiday. We winner of the 2020 Miss Jay will resume our regular pub - County Fair Queen Pageant. lishing schedule Tuesday. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local/Indiana Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Laws ... Continued from page 1 part of a bill increasing Indi - ters for Disease Control and Legislators heard during a lence, along with higher poverty The penalties, which were ana’s minimum age for smok - Prevention. committee meeting from women and high school dropout rates. last increased a decade ago, will ing and vaping from 18 to 21 to who were 15 or 16 when their grow until a third violation conform with a new federal law. Marriage age parents forced them to marry Gas tax hike within a year would carry a But the Republican-sponsored Indiana’s new marriage age men who had raped or molested The state gasoline tax went up maximum $2,000 fine. measure didn’t include any law replaces the previous law them and then faced more abuse by a penny to 31 cents per gallon Supporters said the tougher additional taxes on cigarettes allowing those as young as 15 to before being able to escape the today. That is the maximum penalties will help reduce Indi - or regulations on vaping liq - marry if they have parental con - relationship. increase allowed under a 2017 law ana’s high smoking rates by uids as sought by health advo - sent. The new law only allows Republican Rep. Karen Engle - under which the tax was making it more difficult for cates. 16- or 17-year-olds to marry man of Georgetown, the law’s increased by 18 cents a gallon to youths to obtain tobacco-relat - Indiana’s 21.8% smoking rate someone no more than four sponsor, cited concerns that 28 cents to help pay for road proj - ed items such as cigarettes or e- among adults was the 7th high - years older after obtaining girls who marry before 18 are at ects. The tax has gone up auto - cigarette liquids. est in the country for 2017, approval from a juvenile court greater risk of becoming vic - matically each year since then as The additional penalties were according to the federal Cen - judge. tims of sexual and domestic vio - an inflationary adjustment. CR almanac Felony arrests Possession unlawful possession of a after he was arrested held without bond in Jay Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday A Portland man and a syringe, a Level 5 felony. Monday and charged with County Jail after he 7/2 7/3 7/4 7/5 7/6 Dunkirk man were arrest - He is being held in Jay two counts of possession apparently violated his ed recently on drug County Jail on an $11,000 of cocaine, narcotics or probation for the second charges. bond. methamphetamine, a time. Anthony Todd Jacob David E. Fernandez, 23, Level 6 felony. Raider D. Newton, 22, Gregory, 32, 902 W. North 7397 N. 375 West, Bryant, 2504 W. Indiana 67, had an St., was arrested and pre - is being held on $4,500 Probation violation original Class B felony 89/67 92/59 92/69 92/70 91/70 liminarily charged with bond in Jay County Jail A Portland man is being charge of burglary. Sunny with It will be a Independ - Even hot - Still hot temperatures nice day to go ence Day will ter on a Sun - with a 30% climbing near outside for be sunny and day with chance of the 90s, a those don’t hot with tem - sunny skies rain and a trend which have to work peratures hov - and a high possible will continue with sunny ering around temperature thunder - into the long skies and the 90s most in the low storm. Oth - weekend. radiant heat. of the day. 90s. erwise sunny

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High School ty Sheriff Thomas confirmation process Continued from page 1 against Democrat Woody Fleming then brought marked by allegations Daniels, who is seeking Myers and Libertarian Friday 5-6 p.m. him back to Jay County of sexual harassment. his seventh term, turned Donald G. Rainwater II. along with deputy Glen In 1997 , Hong Kong away a challenge from Jeff At the top of the ticket, Arbaugh. reverted to Chinese Hopkins. Eads, Brewster President Donald Trump, a Country: In 1944 , delegates rule after 156 years as a and Miller were all uncon - Republican, will seek a sec - from 44 countries began British colony. tested in the primary. ond term in office against Group A: 11-1 meeting at Bretton In 2002 , the world’s At the state level, Jay Democrat and former Vice County voters will choose President Joe Biden. Group B: 11-1 Woods, New Hamp - first permanent war between incumbent Repub - For U.S. Representative Place cooler end of drive shire, where they crimes tribunal, the lican J.D. Prescott and in District 3, which agreed to establish the International Criminal Democrat Julie Snider for includes Jay County, International Monetary Court, came into exis - state representative in Dis - incumbent Republican Jim Fund and the World tence. trict 33. And the governor’s Banks will face a challenge Town Bank. —AP and The CR race features incumbent from Democrat Chip Cold - Friday 11-1 Republican Eric Holcomb iron. Citizen’s calendar Westlawn, Redkey, Jay County Pennville, East Jay Monday Park Board, council Sheriff’s Department 5:30 p.m. — Portland chambers, fire station City Council, council 1616 N. Franklin St. is now taking applications for chambers, fire station 7 p.m. — Pennville 1616 N. Franklin St. Town Council, town 7:30 p.m. — Fort Recov - hall, 105 N. Washington RESERVE DEPUTY ery Village Council, vil - St. (may not be paid county employee) lage hall, 201 S. Main St. 7 p.m. — Salamonia Town Council, School - Applications may be picked up at the Tuesday house Community Cen - Jay County Sheriff’s Department 7 p.m. — Portland ter. 224 W. Water St., Portland. E.O.E. The Commercial Review Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Family Page 3 Parade opens a gate to joy By TED KOOSER U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 I was once on Deer Isle, American Maine, on the Fourth of Life July, and attended their own town parade. in Poetry Deer Isle isn’t big enough to mount a very long parade, so they ran it a wonderful institution. past us twice, first down to And here’s a parade for the water, and then back you, by Rosemerry Wahto - up. la Trommer, who lives in And we applauded as southwest Colorado. much with our second Her newest book, Hush, viewing as we did with the has just been published by first. July 4th parades are Middle Creek Press. In the Fourth of July Parade

Right down the middle of main street the woman with the long red braids and fairy wings strapped to her back Photo provided rode a unicycle more than two times taller than she was—rode it with balance and grace, her arms stretched out, as if swimming through gravity, Optimists pitch as if embracing space—her smile an invitation The Breakfast Optimist Club presents a check to sponsor a Portland Junior League to join in her bliss. How simple it is, really, team. Pictured are Breakfast Optimist President Jeff Bowen, left, and Portland Junior League to make of ourselves a gate that swings open President Brian Ison accepting the check. to the joy that is. How simple, like tossing candy in a parade, to share the key to the gate.

We do not accept unso - mer, “In the Fourth of licited manuscripts. July Parade,” (2019). Poem Town talking about her husband American Life in Poetry is reprinted by permission made possible by The of Rosemerry Wahtola DEAR ABBY: My hus - her remarks? acknowledgment. They Poetry Foundation Trommer. Introduction band of 43 years, an alco - When she makes them, have my number, and I'm (www.poetryfoundation.or copyright @2020 by The holic, has started going to it hurts my feelings. I don't obviously home at a cer - g), publisher of Poetry Poetry Foundation. the local grill/bar in our Dear react because I know if I tain hour of the day. Do magazine. It is also sup - The introduction’s small town. do it will hurt her feelings you think that because ported by the Department author, Ted Kooser, served He spends three to four Abby and cause friction in the they helped me out, they of English at the Universi - as United States Poet Lau - hours there, six days a office, which I don't need. felt they deserved my gift ty of Nebraska, Lincoln. reate Consultant in Poetry week. He would go more But I'm sick to death of and a thank-you wasn't Poem copyright ©2019 by to the Library of Congress often if they were open on people like her who have necessary? I am at the Rosemerry Wahtola Trom - from 2004-2006. Sundays. you cannot change him. children saying those point where I no longer People who know us tell Contact a divorce things about people like want them to do anything me things that have been lawyer and find out me. — FREE FOREVER for me. 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The objective is to fill a nine-by nine grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine three-by- three boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Have a fun and safe celebration By JACK RONALD where you could sit in the shade Somewhere along the line, of Big displays have never held The Commercial Review under a bridge over a creek and course, things changed. much appeal to me. My wife A Fourth without fireworks? Back toss those miniature explosives Indiana became one of those and daughters love them. We’ve That’s hard to imagine. into the water, terrorizing the states selling “out-of-state” fire - gotten plenty of mosquito bites Fortunately, though the big cel - in the crawdads. The echo was excel - works. Temporary merchants over the years. ebration at the Jay County Fair - lent, making the explosion even began to pop up in vacant lots But after a while, I stayed grounds has been canceled Saddle better. selling a variety of products that home. My excuse was that I because of the coronavirus pan - The real stuff — fireworks that I could not have dreamed of in needed to comfort our dog demic, there will still be substan - shot into the sky — were much my childhood. Shadow. The truth is I could tial displays in Dunkirk and Red - harder to come by. So, of course, I was a sucker for only say, “Oooh” and “Ahhh,” so key. right person, someone who had But kids still found a way to get the stuff. many times before I started My experience with fireworks bought a cache of the stuff out of their hands on them. When our daughters were looking for the exit and worry - is a little mixed at best. state and brought it back to Indi - I still remember coming home small, it seemed only natural that ing about traffic on the way Under the laws in place during ana. from school one day to encounter dad would spend some cash on home. my childhood, fireworks were If you had a neighborhood an acrid smell on our enclosed skyrockets and witch whistles That, in and of itself, is indis - hard to come by. buddy with the right connections back porch. It seems that one of and coo-coo-coo-coos, then light putable proof that I’m old and And they were puny. — as I had — you could get access my older brother’s friends had them with a match at dusk on a getting older. For about a quarter, you could to cherry bombs, ladyfingers and thought it might be fun to set off summer’s night to annoy the But that’s just me. buy little black cylinders that, even an occasional M-80. a Roman candle there. neighbors and terrorize the birds. So enjoy the shows this week - when set afire, smoked and sent I never seemed to have money Not a good idea. And then, as quickly as the end. Celebrate America. Be cau - out a snake-like ash. Not exactly a to burn, so mostly I just watched For years I had a windbreaker impulse had manifested itself, the tious around fireworks, and be big deal. and listened as backyard explo - with a small burned hole in it as a urge passed. safe when it comes to COVID-19. Firecrackers were hard to sives went off. There was a memento of that bit of foolish - I haven’t bought a witch whis - And fire up a witch whistle come by. You had to know the favorite spot not far from town ness. tle in a couple of decades. for me. Colleges should be shielded from suits The Washington Post Public health measures to stop the novel coron - Guest avirus from spreading have forced necessary but disruptive changes on Editorial institutions across U.S. society, and nowhere has the adjustment been more dramatic than in higher education. From online classes to canceled commencement ... schools are ceremonies, the spring semester of 2020 will long determined be remembered as a time that tested the resilience to resume of colleges and universi - in-person ties as never before. And schools are deter - operations mined to resume in-per - as safely son operations as safely as possible in the fall, as possible both to fulfill their educa - in the fall, tional missions and to sal - vage their badly stressed both to finances. Of 1,035 institu - fulfill their tions surveyed by the Chronicle of Higher Edu - educational cation, some 63% plan to missions and bring students back. They are spending millions to to salvage supply masks, retrofit their badly facilities for social dis - Reaction has shades of 1918 tancing and step up test - stressed ing, according to the Wall By JON WEBB masks,” a Courier columnist wrote, finances. Evansville Courier & Press Street Journal. This is the “a guy will have a job keeping from With a deadly disease raging imagining he’s in Turkey.” price of short-term around the world, Evansville offi - reopening — which is Jon Lawrenceville, Illinois — just cials gathered for a serious discus - west of Vincennes — took the itself a precondition for sion. Webb long-term viability. urban. Rather, the goal angry response even further. Schools had already been closed. According to the Courier, towns - What institutions of should be a requirement Dozens of area residents were sick. that plaintiffs prove they people refused an order from their higher education do not And business leaders wondered what mayor to close schools, churches yet have is assurance that were harmed due to some - the city should do about it. thing more than mere and movie theaters. they will not be met with One possibility was an ordinance order this spring triggered heated Others did all they could. The negligence, the usual costly litigation if, as requiring masks to be worn in pub - protests in Indianapolis, and a mask Red Cross handed out masks, and seems inevitable, some - benchmark in tort law. lic. San Francisco and Indianapolis requirement would likely, and ridicu - some citizens flocked to pick them one gets sick on campus How, exactly, to enact that had both greenlit similar rules the lously, do the same thing. up. Nurses also put out calls asking despite their best efforts. heightened standard is month before and saw promising Despite the fact that masks help men to work as janitors in flu-rid - The issue extends well also up for debate: Tort results. curb transmission of both COVID dled hospitals, but the fellas — ter - beyond students, faculty law is the province of the Some at the meeting supported and the Spanish flu, we didn’t like the rified of contracting the disease — and staff to the broad states, so, ultimately, they that. Others didn’t. After all, the pan - idea of face coverings in 1918, either. declined to take the job. range of people — main - would have to decide. demic wasn’t as bad in Evansville, Just like today, misinformation, fake “Roast them for us,” a Red Cross tenance contractors, per - Congress could encour - they argued. cures and public anger all flourished nurse said. “Tell them we are forming artists, tourists age them by conditioning And anyway, masks are annoying. as the illness spread. ashamed of them.” — who may come onto col - aid to the states on it dur - They could cause undue fear, one ‘One of the best preventatives’ At one point that November, lege property on any ing the next economic businessman said. The very sight of On Nov. 20, 1918, as the first wave local infections soared past 200, given day. Given the stimulus package. them could especially terrify women. of the Spanish flu started to crest, and the Evansville area saw sever - importance of higher Liability protection is If you read the news today, some of Mayor Benjamin Bosse dictated a al deaths. education, and the eco - not a panacea; higher ed that will sound familiar. story for the Evansville Courier. False “cures” started to pop up nomic pressures it faces, has other legal defenses COVID-19 continues to hound He laid out the “drastic action” he as well. An ad in the Courier there’s a case for provid - without it, anyway, Evansville and cities all across the planned to take. His biggest plea was claimed the flu could be “con - ing general protection including the existing globe. The nationwide response has that street cars and hospitals keep quered by chiropractic adjust - that will shield schools requirement that plain - been plagued with shifting informa - windows open at all times to improve ments.” And an official in Bosse’s making good-faith, scien - tiffs prove a causal link tion, different precautions in differ - “ventilation” and prevent the flu administration claimed the “cool, tifically sound safety between a university’s ent states and citizens unwilling to from festering in enclosed spaces. crisp” weather would cause the efforts. Certainly, if there conduct and their alleged suffer even mild inconveniences. Anyone who didn’t follow that, he virus to shrivel. said, was a “traitor to public health.” is to be such protection illness. Nor should there But the meeting described above Eventually, the initial wave took place in November 1918, when He stopped short of requiring for profit-making corpo - be any relaxation of other began to slow. And some cities — in another pandemic — the so-called masks. Like Holcomb, here merely responsibilities institu - another similarity to today — let rations, as Senate Majori - “Spanish flu,” even though it started “strongly encouraged” them, even tions may have under their guard down. ty Leader Mitch in Kansas — sparked fear and death though he admitted “the wearing of health and safety laws According to the American Col - McConnell, R-Kentucky, everywhere you looked. face masks is considered one of the lege of Emergency Physicians, enforced by regulation. insists (and as may And 102 years later, our attitude best preventatives” of the virus’ those mask-requiring officials in indeed be justified in Still, a shield from toward pandemics has barely spread. San Francisco sent an alarm sign - some cases), it should be expensive and time-con - changed. Some residents balked at the idea. ing through the streets in November extended to these pillars suming lawsuits — tem - If you go anywhere in Evansville, And you could partly blame World 1918, telling residents that it was of the nonprofit sector. porary and narrowly tar - you’ll see only a fraction of people War I for that. now safe to remove their masks. The best approach is geted only to coronavirus- wearing masks. Kentucky and Illi - The calamity in Europe still Less than a month later, 5,000 probably not to legislate related complaints — nois have both issued orders requir - boomed, and the idea of covering new cases were reported. an exemption based on would help our nation’s ing residents to cover their faces in their faces reminded people of one of The Spanish flu ultimately hung following some set of best institutions of higher public, but they’re only sporadically the most horrifying elements of that around well into 1919. practices. There is simply learning resume teaching followed. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb war: gas masks. Poisonous gases Like all pandemics, though, it no prescription that and research, to the maxi - encouraged Hoosiers to wear masks wafted all over the muddy, rat-ridden eventually ended. But who knows would apply to the huge mum extent state and too but hasn’t issued an order. trenches of the Western front. how much faster that could have variety of institutions, local governments per - There are plenty of political rea - “If they enforce a city ordinance happened if people had done all large and small, rural and mit. sons not to do so. The stay-at-home compelling people to wear flu they could do to stop it. The Commercial Review HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

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For the first time, police — officially called the Hong police made their first arrests Hong Kong police said on Face - ing part in activities such as banned this year’s annual march. Kong Special Administrative Wednesday under a contentious book that they arrested more shouting slogans or holding up Protesters shouted slogans, lam - Region. new national security law than 300 people on various banners and flags calling for the basted police and held up signs “The enactment of the nation - imposed by China’s central gov - charges, including unlawful city’s independence is violating condemning the Chinese govern - al law is regarded as the most ernment, as thousands of people assembly, possession of weapons the law regardless of whether ment and the new security law. significant development in the defied tear gas and pepper pellets and violating the new law, which violence is used. Some protesters set fires in relationship between the cen - to protest against it on the was imposed Tuesday in a move The most serious offenders, Hong Kong’s trendy shopping dis - tral authorities and the HKSAR anniversary of the former seen as Beijing’s boldest step yet such as those deemed to be mas - trict, Causeway Bay, while others since Hong Kong’s return to the British colony’s handover to Chi - to erase the legal firewall terminds behind these activities, pulled bricks from sidewalks and motherland,” chief executive nese rule. between the semi-autonomous could receive a maximum pun - scattered obstacles across roads Carrie Lam said in a speech, fol - Police said nine people were territory and the mainland’s ishment of life imprisonment. in an attempt to obstruct traffic. lowing a flag-raising ceremony arrested under the law, including authoritarian Communist Party Lesser offenders could receive To disperse protesters, police shot and the playing of China’s a man with a Hong Kong inde - system. jail terms of up to three years, pepper spray and pepper balls, as national anthem. pendence flag and a woman hold - The law, imposed by China fol - short-term detention or restric - well as deployed water cannons “It is also an essential and ing a sign displaying the British lowing anti-government protests tion. and tear gas throughout the day. timely decision for restoring flag and calling for Hong Kong’s in Hong Kong last year, makes Wednesday’s arrests came as Hong Kong’s leader strongly stability in Hong Kong,” she independence — all violations of secessionist, subversive or terror - thousands took to the streets on endorsed the new law in a said. Seattle police clearing zone By MARTHA BELLISLE and people who might be hiding LISA BAUMANN inside. Associated Press Most protesters appeared SEATTLE — Seattle to have dispersed several police showed up Wednes - hours after the operations day in force at the city’s started and armed officers “occupied” protest zone, looked on from rooftops as tore down demonstrators’ clean-up crews of workers tents and used bicycles to arrived to break down herd the protesters after tables and tarps that pro - the mayor ordered the area testers had set up in the cleared following two fatal zone. shootings in less than two Officers were investigat - weeks. ing several vehicles cir - Television images cling the area after police showed no signs of clashes saw people inside them between the police, many “with firearms/armor,” dressed in riot gear, and police said in a tweet, adding that the vehicles did The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz dozens of protesters at the “Capitol Hill Occupied not appear to have “visible Protest” zone that was set license plates.” up near downtown follow - The protesters had occu - Derby crowd ing the police killing of pied several blocks around The Derby Icons’ Metal Mayhem 2020/Spring X event drew sizable crowds Friday George Floyd in Minneapo - a park for about two weeks through Sunday, filling up the grandstand over the weekend at Jay County Fairgrounds. lis. and police abandoned a Police swarmed the zone precinct station following known as CHOP at about 5 standoffs and clashes with a.m. and a loud bang was the protesters, who called heard at about 6:15 a.m. fol - for racial justice and an end lowed by a cloud of smoke. to police brutality. Oklahoma voters expand Medicaid At least 13 people were Police said they moved in to protect the public after By SEAN MURPHY tion will prevent the Republican-con - “We have a billion-dollar shortfall arrested, said Police Chief Carmen Best. Mayor Jenny Durkan Associated Press trolled Legislature, which has resis - next year,” Stitt said recently at a issued the order for protest - “Our job is to support OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma ted Medicaid expansion for a decade, forum hosted by Americans for Pros - ers to leave. voters narrowly decided on Tuesday from tinkering with the program or perity, a conservative political advo - peaceful demonstration but “Since demonstrations at to expand Medicaid health insurance rolling back coverage. Missouri vot - cacy group that opposes the measure. what has happened on the East Precinct area to tens of thousands low-income resi - ers also will decide on a constitution - The state would have to “either raise these streets over the last began on June 8th, two dents, becoming the first state to al amendment on Aug. 4. taxes or to cut services somewhere two weeks is lawless and teenagers have been killed amend its Constitution to do so. State Question 802 will extend Med - else like education, first responders, it’s brutal and bottom line and three people have been With 100% of precincts reporting icaid health insurance to those earn - or roads and bridges” to cut addition - it is simply unacceptable,” seriously wounded in late- unofficial results, State Question 802 ing up to 138% of the federal poverty al Medicaid costs, he said. Best told reporters. night shootings,” Seattle passed by less than 1 percentage level, which is about $17,200 for an After years of legislative inaction Police tore down fences police said on Twitter. point. The question fared well in met - individual or $35,500 for a family of on health insurance proposals, sup - that protesters had erected “Police have also docu - ropolitan areas, including Oklahoma four. porters of Medicaid expansion around their tents and used mented robberies, assaults, City and Tulsa, but was overwhelm - Oklahoma was one of 14 states, launched an initiative petition last batons to poke inside bush - and other violent crimes. ingly opposed in rural counties. along with neighboring Texas and year to get the measure on the ballot, es, apparently looking for Idaho, Maine, Nebraska and Utah Kansas, that had not expanded Medi - and collected a record number of sig - have all expanded Medicaid through caid under the 2010 federal Affordable natures. The plan was endorsed by ballot questions, but did so by amend - Care Act. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt several politically powerful groups, ing state statutes, according to the and his predecessor, Mary Fallin, including chambers of commerce, nonpartisan Kaiser Family Founda - have opposed expansion, citing medical trade groups, the Oklahoma tion. uncertainty about future costs for the Education Association and the Okla - Amending the Oklahoma Constitu - state. homa Conference of Churches. Ethiopia protests spark a shutdown By MAX BEARAK Abiy Ahmed said only The Washington Post that “several” died. NAIROBI — A large Three explosions were death toll was feared as also reported Tuesday in protests rocking the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic with unspecified injuries region continued Wednes - and deaths. day following the slaying According to residents of a popular singer, but of multiple cities, protests exact information was over the death of Hachalu unclear with an Internet Hundessa continued shutdown making com - across the region on munication difficult. Wednesday. According to A spokesman from the Hachalu’s cousin, Moti Oromia region surround - Hundessa, security forces ing the capital where most in the town of Ambo, west of the unrest took place of the capital, attempted told Reuters that 50 people to take Hachalu’s body were killed Tuesday, from his house, provoking including protesters and a clash in which security forces. In a Hachalu’s uncle was 2020 speech, Prime Minister killed.

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Bridge p Aaron Loy AU11200112 REAL ESTATE By Steve Becker Find it Parcel #1: 1 ½ story home with 3 bedrooms, 1 F 100 JOBS WANTED bathroom, partial basement, and a large attached AMISH CREW LOOK- Buy It garage. Home has a gas forced air furnace, electric ING FOR any work. No water heater, hardwood floors, oak kitchen cabinets, job is too big or small. Sell It! and a metal roof. This parcel includes the barn, I Pole barns, roofing, pond and approximately 7.35 acres. remodeling. 260-849- (260) 726-8141 Parcel #2: This parcel sets to the East of the house 2489. and includes approximately 3.33 acres of woods, approximately 1.43 acres in hay field for a total of E approximately 4.76 acres. Parcel #3: House, barn, pond, with approximately 110 HELP WANTED 7.35 acres(Parcel #1) and approximately 4.76 acres of field and woods(Parcel #2) for a total of approximately 12.11 acres. D MOTOR ROUTE DRIVER Parcel #4: Approximately 27.73 acres of ground with approximately 23.69 acres tillable. NEEDED Parcel #5: Entire 39.84 acres with house, barn, and Pennville, Portland area pond. 10% nonrefundable deposit day of sale with balance Call 260-726-8141 due at closing. Buyer will assume taxes due and payable in May 2021 and thereafter. Seller will ask for Nacie provide General Warranty Deed and Owners Title 8am-5pm Insurance. Seller will provide survey if property A splits. Any statements made day of sale take precedence over previously written or oral matter. PART-TIME DRIVER Owner confirmation day of sale. MARTHA BUTCHER, DECEASED D NEEDED To make newspaper bundle deliveries in By Diane Shreeve and Michael Butcher Portland. LOY AUCTION AC31600027 AUCTIONEERS S Tuesday thru Saturday Gary Loy AU 01031608 Apply at: The Commercial Review Ben Lyons AU 10700085 Travis Theurer AU 11200131 309 West Main Street • Portland, Indiana 726-8141 Aaron Loy AU 11200112 No Phone Calls Please CR 7-1,14-2020 Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Follow us Portland Rockets play on Twitter tonight and Thursday @commreview Sports at Runkle-Miller Field

Page 8 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review TinCaps’ season Swinging officially canceled There will be no professional 60-game season with expanded away baseball in Fort Wayne this year. rosters beginning in late July. Minor League Baseball on This will mark the first year Madilyn Curtis of The Tuesday announced that there without Minor League Baseball Rock Church lines up a hit will not be a 2020 season. That in Fort Wayne since 1993. With Tuesday night during her includes the elimination of the the season canceled, there are team’s Portland Junior Fort Wayne TinCaps’ schedule. plans to announce new events for League softball game “We were hopeful and opti - Parkview Field and to continue to against Portland Optimist. mistic that the TinCaps would be work on making visits to the facil - Curtis had a hit and two able to play games at Parkview ity safe in the midst of the coron - runs, but The Rock fell 13- Field this season, but that won’t avirus pandemic. 4 to Optimist. See the be the case,” said TinCaps’ presi - “While this is a major setback, dent Mike Nutter said in a press we just have to look ahead to what Portland Junior League release. re-opening Parkview Field will roundup below for details. The TinCaps are one of 160 look like,” said Nutter. Minor League teams that had Those who had purchased indi - their season canceled. The deci - vidual tickets for the 2020 season The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney sion came in the wake of Major will be able to exchange them for League Baseball’s plan to play a tickets in 2021. Geesaman leads Inman The opening nights of Masonic Lodge got a the Portland Junior combined two hits and League season saw a tie, PJL four RBIs from Madison KLEKKLENKNK’S SALESSAALES & SSEERVICERVVICES a doubleheader sweep Reier on the night. Savan - and a one-run victory. roundup nah Luger had two sin - Joe Geesaman led the gles and an RBI in game KLKLELENKNK’S’S GEGE FRFREEZEZERSRS ARARE one-run win Tuesday two. night, guiding Inman U- STSTTARTINARTINARTING TTOO TTRICKLERICKLE ININ! Loc over Portland Lions Matt’s 9, Williams 5 6-5 in Willie Mays base - hits and two runs set the pace for PG-14. Tanner Day recorded ball three extra-base hits, OOverOvver 200200 by JulyJuly 30!30! Geesaman shut down Varen Ridgway and Roman Clamme each had four RBIs and two runs to the opposing offense, pace Matt’s Garage. Der - CallCall & reserreesserve yyoursyoours todatoday allowing just a single run two hits and two runs for Flamespray. ric Coons added three ((ChestChessst, upriguprightt, variousriousriouss models)models) in three innings on the singles, three runs and mound. He and Gavin an RBI. Speccial Purchase Byrum went 2-for-3 at the Dunkirk 9, Bently Brunswick had plate to lead the offense. Local 1620 2 three hits and two RBIs GE Natural Gas Lions got doubles from Corey Lenington for Williams. Eli Stockton, Cooper smacked a home run to doublle oven Range Reynolds and Andrew power Dunkirk to its win. Pak-a-Sak 13, Day. Black only Jackson Edwards and Barnett’s 9 In other action Tues - Ben Crouch combined to Eli Homan, Koltyn Gar - day night, PG-14 and toss a one-hitter. Flamespray finished in ringer and Sawyer Young $ each had three hits, two an 8-8 tie in Willie Mays, Optimist 13, Dunkirk topped Local runs and two RBIs for 998 The Rock 4 1620 9-2 in Sandy Koufax Park-a-Sak. Braxton JGB860BB baseball and Portland Ali Clark and Kamzy Cline followed with three Optimist topped The Johnson each had three hits, two runs and one Rock Church 13-4 in hits and three runs to RBI. GE Dishwashers Rookie softball. lead the way for Portland Finn Hemmelgarn, wwith 3rd Rack andd It was Jay County Mon - Optimist. Alyssa Wendel Kendel Glessner, Tuck uments getting the dou - added two hits and three Hemmelgarn and Cody Dry boost bleheader sweep Monday runs. Klopfenstein all had two as it topped Masonic Chloe Yates finished hits, two runs and two Avvailable in white, Black,k,, Lodge 15-9 and 14-8. In with a double, two singles RBIs for Barnett’s. Stainless Steel or slate other games, Matt’s and two runs for The Garage knocked off Rock. Therapeutics 6, Williams Auto Part’s 9-5 Fisher 1 $ and Pak-a-Sak beat Bar - JCM 15, Masonic 9 Carley Trinidad (Jay 449 nett’s Auto Parts 13-9 in JCM 14, Masonic 8 County Therapeutics) GFU630 WW, BB, ES/SS Rookie baseball, and Jay Kenzie Tobe led Monu - and Erin Aker (Fisher) County Therapeutics ments in its opening vic - went head-to-head on the defeated Fisher Meats 6-1 tory with two hits and an mound, each striking out in Minor softball. RBI, and Kady Allred had 11 batters. a pair of singles in the Trinidad helped lift her JulyJuly isis GGEE LaundryLaLauaundry MonthMoonttth PG-14 8, game-two win. Haleigh team at the plate with a Flamespray 8 Clayton picked up both pair of hits, including a Andrew Myers’ two pitching wins. home run. 4.8 cu.. ft Washer, 7.4 cu. ft.. Sensor Dryer GTW720WWS GTD72EWS Sports on tap INN Local schedule Thursday land Golf Club’s summer youth golf Stoockk 5:25 a.m. — Baseball: Kiwoom Heroes camp. Today vs. Doosan Bear (ESPN) The camp is open to boys and girls $ Portland Rockets vs. Fort Wayne first through eighth grades. Cost is Panthers – 7 p.m. Friday $25, and registration includes a t- Each 4:55 a.m. — Auto racing: Formula 1 – shirt, bottled water each day and food Thursday 5578 Rolex Austrian Grand Prix practice (ESPN2) on the final day. Portland Rockets vs. Fort Wayne 5:25 a.m. — Baseball: Samsung Lions The camp will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Blues – 7 p.m. vs. LG Twins (ESPN) July 20 through 22 at Portland Golf Club, 124 W. 200 South. Saturday Saturday COVID-19 restrictions require each Portland Rockets in Firecracker 4:55 a.m. — Baseball: KT Wiz Suwon camper to bring their own clubs or HURRY INI FOR BEST SELLECTION Tournament vs. Fort Wayne Jackers at vs. Kiwoom Heroes (ESPN) share with a sibling. Deadline to regis - Highland Park in Kokomo – 2 p.m. 5:55 a.m. — Auto racing: Formula 1 – ter to receive a t-shirt is July 10. 1125 SOUTHAMPTON DRIVE, DECAATUR,TUR, IN 46733 Rolex Austrian Grand Prix practice (ESPN2) For more information, contact PGC Local schedule at (260) 726-4646. KLENK’S SALESS 260-724-7623724-7623 Today Local notes •••••••••• TUESTUES-FRIDAFRIDAAY 99-6,6 SAT 99-55 5:25 p.m. — Soccer: Serie A – Registration is underway To have an event listed in “Sports on & SERVICE,, LTD. Bologna vs. Cagliari (ESPN) Registration is underway for Port - tap,” email details to [email protected]. Closed Sundayunday, Monday