Friday, June 12, 2020 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 Third trial for murder will be moved New date for Knapke will be set in July 2 hearing

By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review The third woman charged with the Janu - ary murder of a Portland man will have her trial moved from its originally scheduled date. Jay Circuit Court Judge Brian Hutchison this week granted a con - tinuance for Hannah Knapke, Fort Recovery, for both the pre-trial hearing that was sched - uled for July 2 and the four-day jury trial that was slated to begin July 20. Knapke is one of three The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney women charged with the Jan. 12 murder of Shea Briar. Royal reactions Her attorneys had filed a motion Tuesday to con - Reigning Jay County Fair Queen Klarisa Hemmelgarn (left) and 2019 Miss Congeniality Shalynn Overholser laugh tinue the trial. A new in reaction to 2019 fan favorite Cerridwen Harris during the “get acquainted” meeting for the 2020 Miss Jay County Fair trial date will be set dur - Queen pageant. The veterans of last year’s pageant shared advice with this year’s contestants during the meeting at the ing a scheduling hearing Optimist stand and Farmer’s Building at Jay County Fairgrounds. This year’s pageant is slated for 6 p.m. July 5 in the Bubp July 2. Building at the fairgrounds with limited attendance. Trials for Esther Stephen, Portland, and Shelby Hiestand, rural Portland, that were scheduled for this sum - mer were postponed last month. Stephen’s trial is Dunkirk’s shows will go on slated to run Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, with Hies - By ROSE SKELLY The shows will run from 7 tand’s set for Nov. 16 The Commercial Review p.m. to 8:30 p.m., with refresh - through 19. The shows will go on. ments for sale beginning at 6:30 Police arrested Knapke The Dunkirk Beautification p.m. on Jan. 24. Stephen and Committee has decided to hold Concert series continues Given the state’s regulations Hiestand had been its annual Webster Depot Park about large gatherings during arrested 10 days earlier. summer concert series as sched - Saturday with Moment’s Notice the coronavirus pandemic, the Probable cause affi - uled, but with extra measures in committee was first unsure if it davits filed in connection place to help protect the atten - would be able to host the con - with the case say Hies - dees. certs. However, after getting tand and Stephen admit - The series of free concerts Moment’s Notice on Saturday with Harmony Quartet on July last-minute approval from Jay ted to plotting to kill began with John Beatrice’s per - night. Mix Factory will follow on 11, Boot Hill Band on July 18 and County Health Department, Briar over a custody dis - formance on June 6 and will con - June 20, with Sweet Sounds June Jay Fox Band on July 25. Memo - chairperson Donna Revolt decid - pute. Stephen and Briar tinue every Saturday (except for 27. After the break for Independ - ry Lane will play Aug. 1 before ed to move forward as sched - shared a child. July 4) through Aug. 8. ence Day fireworks at Dunkirk Spittin’ Image closes out the uled. See Trial page 2 Up next on the schedule is City Park, the series will resume series for the year on Aug. 8. See Shows page 2 Reassessing removal By SARAH RANKIN and DAVID CRARY Associated Press The rapidly unfolding move - ment to pull down Confederate Movement to take down monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death Confederate monuments at the hands of police has extend - ed to statues of slave traders, and other statues imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, continues to expand including Christopher Colum - bus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and, in some cases, accused of killing indigenous that hiding our history is not the acts of vandalism have taken Maori people in the 1860s would route to enlightenment.” place in such cities as ; be vandalized. The city has no Near Santa Fe, New Mexico, ; Paris; Brussels; and plans to change its name. activists are calling for the Oxford, England, in an intense At the University of Oxford, removal of a statue of Don Juan re-examination of racial injus - protesters have stepped up their de Oñate, a 16th-century Spanish The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney tices over the centuries. Scholars longtime push to remove a statue conquistador revered as a His - are divided over whether the of Rhodes, the Victorian imperi - panic founding father and reviled campaign amounts to erasing alist who served as prime minis - for brutality against Native history or updating it. ter of the Cape Colony in south - Americans, including an order to Arbuckle accepts New Zealand’s fourth-largest ern Africa. He made a fortune cut off the feet of two dozen peo - Noah Arbuckle receives his diploma jacket city removed a bronze statue of from gold and diamonds on the ple. Vandals sawed off the stat - from principal Chad Dodd during Jay County High the British naval officer Capt. backs of miners who labored in ue’s right foot in the 1990s. John Hamilton, the city’s name - brutal conditions. In Bristol, England, demonstra - School’s drive-in graduation ceremony Saturday sake, today, a day after a Maori Oxford’s vice chancellor tors over the weekend toppled a afternoon. Students lined up 6 feet apart and Dodd tribe asked for the statue be Louise Richardson, in an inter - statue of 17th-century slave trad - wore a face mask, but the members of the Class of taken down and one Maori elder view with the BBC, balked at the er Edward Colston and threw it in 2020 were able to make the traditional walk across threatened to tear it down him - idea. the harbor. City authorities said the stage. self. The city of Hamilton said it “We need to confront our past,” it will be put in a museum. was clear the statue of the man she said. “My own view on this is See Removal page 5

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After nine consecutive days with high temperatures in the Jay County Solid Waste 80s, Jay County’s mark topped Saturday — A look back at Management District will out at 79 degrees Thursday. a Jay County resident’s year have recycling trailers avail - Nicholas H. Minnich , 66, The low was 59. in office. able Saturday. Trailers will be rural Geneva Expect a low of 58 tonight open from 9 a.m. to noon in the Details on page 2. followed by rain showers Sat - Wednesday — Coverage of shopping center at 220 Lincoln urday morning. Saturday’s Tuesday’s Redkey Town Coun - St., Portland, and Dunkirk high will be 72. cil meeting. City Park. See page 2 for an extended outlook. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local/Indiana Friday, June 12, 2020 Chamber leader: Recovery will be long By TOM DAVIES ic hit is a reason for optimism ment of Labor statistics dents received unemployment recovery as it will face competi - Associated Press about an economic rebound, released Thursday. That’s about benefits for the week ending tion from other states. — It could be said Kevin Brinegar, president one-sixth of Indiana’s weekly May 30, down about 6,500, or Indiana’s private sector a year or more before Indiana’s of the Indiana Chamber of Com - peak of 139,000 new unemploy - 3%, from the previous week, employment during April fell by economy fully recovers from the merce. ment claims in late March when according to the federal jobs 380,500 workers from March, the coronavirus-sparked recession “It will be well into next year, coronavirus-related business report. state Department of Workforce that put one in six people out of but the underlying economy closures first hit hard. Indiana had the country’s Development said. The hardest- work, the leader of the state’s was strong and we should be National figures marked the fifth-highest unemployment hit sectors were leisure and hos - largest business group warned poised for a strong and relative - 10th straight weekly decline in rate for April at 16.9%, topping pitality, with 116,000 job losses, Thursday. ly, compared to past recessions, applications for jobless aid since the national rate of 14.7%. and manufacturing, which lost Even as more of Indiana’s quick recovery,” Brinegar said. mid-March. The state chamber raised con - about 78,000 jobs. business restrictions are lifted, “It is, nevertheless, going to take Indiana began easing restric - cerns in a report released Brinegar said he expected federal statistics show about a year or so and take us well into tions on businesses in early Thursday about Indiana trail - tourism- and convention-related 24,000 residents applied for next year before we’re back to May. Movie theaters, bars and ing neighboring states in some businesses will face the tough - unemployment benefits last something resembling where we casinos will be allowed to areas such as post-high school est recoveries. week, for a 12th week of signifi - were prior to this pandemic.” reopen, with safety measures in education and health measures, “It will depend on how com - cant job losses since widespread New jobless aid applications place, under a statewide order including smoking and obesity fortable and how safe people feel closures started in March. submitted last week in Indiana from Gov. Eric Holcomb that rates. it is to travel, to go to a conven - Indiana’s unemployment rate were roughly equal to the week takes effect Friday. Brinegar said those factors tion, to stay in a hotel, to go to a of about 3% before the pandem - before, according to U.S. Depart - About 227,000 Indiana resi - could slow down Indiana’s sporting event,” he said. Indianapolis will wait a week CR almanac By TOM DAVIES restaurants and retail stores start - in the number of new COVID-19 cases Associated Press ing today. and hospitalizations since April. Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis 6/13 6/14 6/15 6/16 6/17 Indianapolis has been easing “We still have sufficient capacity if will wait another week before follow - restrictions slower than most of the we should see a second surge of ing state’s lead in lifting more coron - rest of the state because of its higher COVID-19 that occurs this summer,” avirus restrictions on businesses, the concentration of COVID-19 infec - she said. “We are well equipped in mayor said Thursday. tions. Mayor said the one- order to handle the surge if it The city will keep its current lim - week delay will give businesses in the occurred during the summer before 72/49 73/51 80/56 84/61 87/65 its in place until June 19, while a state’s largest city more time to make influenza season starts.” new statewide order from Indiana needed preparations. The statewide order Holcomb Tempera - Same Tempera - Tempera - It will get tures will be weather from tures will tures are pro - warmer again Gov. Eric Holcomb will allow movie Dr. Caine, director of the signed Thursday allows social gather - cooler, espe - Saturday with rise to the jected to rise with tempera- theaters and bars to reopen and Marion County Public Health Depart - ings of up to 250 and retail stores and cially at night no rain cur - 80s and will into the mid tures increas- with a high rently project - stay near the 80s under ing closer to greater number of customers at ment, said the city had seen declines malls to operate at full capacity. temperature ed. A bit 60s at night. mostly sunny the 90s of 72 during warmer. how - Still sunny, skies. under mostly the day. ever. sunny skies. Obituaries Trial ... Nicholas H. Minnich , Lotteries Continued from page 1 Hiestand shot Briar once in the back, the Geneva, Sept. 4, 1953-June The affidavits say Knapke met Stephen documents say. 10, 2020. Services will be and Hiestand at a rural Portland church Briar was found on the bridge about 2 Powerball 21-27-32-36-38-40-46-53-54- 11 a.m. Monday at Downing and used her vehicle to pick Briar up at a.m. Jan. 12 and died later the same day & Glancy Funeral Home in Estimated jackpot: $20 56-62-65-68-73-75-76 his home. Then they drove to the county Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. million Cash 5: 9-12-24-33-35 Geneva. road 125 West bridge over Loblolly Creek, All three women are being held with - •••••••••• Estimated jackpot: just south of county road 850 North, out bond at Jay County Jail. In Indiana, $130,000 The Commercial Review Mega Millions where Stephen distracted Briar in order murder carries a sentence of 45 to 65 publishes death notices for Estimated jackpot: $20 to allow Hiestand to retrieve a gun. Knap - years, with an advisory sentence of 55 Ohio those with a connection to million ke was standing next to Hiestand when years. our coverage area free of Midday charge. They include the Hoosier Pick 3: 0-8-1 name, city of residence, Midday Pick 4: 1-2-3-8 birth/death date and Daily Three: 2-8-4 Pick 5: 6-6-8-6-9 Indiana canal will be dredged time/date/location of serv - Daily Four: 5-9-7-5 Evening EAST CHICAGO, Ind. The U.S. Army Corps of ana reported. The dredg - ices. Quick Draw: 4-16-20- Pick 3: 5-6-3 (AP) — More sediment will Engineers plans to dredge ing process is expected to There is a charge for 24-25-31-36-42-43-54-55-58- Pick 4: 4-1-6-8 be removed from an Indi - 182,300 cubic yards of sedi - start in July, said Fernando obituaries, which are 60-61-64-69-73-75-77-80 Pick 5: 9-2-9-1-5 ana canal to allow barges ment from the Indianan Treviño, executive director accepted only from funeral Evening Rolling Cash 5: 5-9-14- with full loads to use water - Harbor Ship Canal, The for the East Chicago Water - homes or mortuary servic - Daily Three: 00-7-8 35-39 way. Times of Northwest Indi - way Management District. es. Daily Four: 00-1-8-00 Estimated jackpot: Quick Draw: 8-9-14-16- $100,000 Markets Felony arrests Burglary lated his lifetime suspension for cocaine, narcotics or methamphet - Sunrise Central States An Ohio man was arrested and habitually violating traffic laws, a amine, a Level 6 felony. taken to Jay County Jail on Thurs - Level 6 felony. St. Anthony Montpelier day after he was charged with bur - Zackary C. Harc, 41, 13 W. Leisure Probation violation Corn ...... 3.30 Corn ...... 3.31 glary, a Level 5 felony. Lane, is being held on $5,000 bond. A rural Portland woman is being July corn ...... 3.30 July corn ...... 3.33 Joshua R. Allen, 43, 272 Pickett held on $700 bond in Jay County Beans ...... 8.71 Beans ...... 8.62 Road, Union City, Ohio, is being Possession Jail after she was arrested Thurs - July beans ...... 8.71 July beans ...... 8.64 held on $10,000 bond. A Portland woman was arrested day for allegedly violating her pro - Wheat ...... 4.93 Wheat ...... 4.82 and taken to Jay County Jail this bation. July wheat ...... 4.92 Habitual offender morning after she was allegedly Ashley N. Jump, 30, 5357 E. 300 Cooper Farms A D u n k i r k m a n w a s a r r e s t e d f o u n d w i t h i ll e g a l d r u g s . N o r t h , h a s a n o r ig in a l c h a r g e o f Fort Recovery The Andersons Thursday and booked into Jay Annette A. Wible, 42, 105 E. Elder battery on a person under 14 years Corn ...... 3.47 Richland Township County Jail after he apparently vio - St., was charged with possession of old, a Level 6 felony. Wheat ...... 4.80 Corn ...... 3.38 July corn ...... 3.38 POET Biorefining Beans ...... 8.66 Portland July beans ...... 8.66 Corn ...... 3.49 Wheat ...... 4.98 Shows ... Oct./Nov. corn ...... 3.23 July wheat ...... 4.98 Continued from page 1 dling. In years past, the scheduled a year in Revolt said the concerts “It’s something you can committee has sold ham - advance, were all eager to provide a way for Dunkirk do for free and get out of burgers, hotdogs and play, Revolt said. That, residents to relax in the the house and still prac - grillers; this year it’s only along with a $3,385 grant summer and see their Today in history tice social distancing and serving soda, water and the committee received friends. She encouraged enjoy,” Revolt said. “So popcorn. from The Portland Foun - people to come and listen On June 12, 1994 , state laws prohibiting many things are shut “The soda and the water dation, motivated the com - to the shows, and to give Nicole Brown Simpson interracial marriages. down or cost money, so it is in bottles and cans, and mittee to keep the shows recommendations for and Ronald Goldman In 1978 , David just made sense.” we have paper-covered on the calendar. The artists they’d want to hear were slashed to death Berkowitz was sentenced The committee is straws for them,” Revolt events are further funded next year. outside her Los Angeles to 25 years to life in encouraging concert- said. “The popcorn is by donations from local “I wish more people home. (O.J. Simpson was prison the “Son of Sam” goers to wear masks and microwavable popcorn residents and businesses would participate, so later acquitted of the killings in New York. to sit at least 6 feet away and it’s still in the sealed and from concession sales. come on out and give us a killings in a criminal In 1987 , President from those outside of bag when we give it to Dunkirk City Council also try,” Revolt said. “They trial but was held liable Ronald Reagan, during a their household. Atten - them.” sponsored the concert can always request in a civil action.) visit to the divided Ger - dees often bring their own The bands, which are series for $300 in May. songs.” In 1963 , civil rights man city of Berlin, lawn chairs or sit in their leader Medgar Evers, 37, exhorted Soviet leader vehicles to listen to the was shot and killed out - Mikhail S. Gorbachev to concerts. side his home in Jackson, “tear down this wall.” There will also be hand Mississippi. In 1995 , Portland Plan sanitizer available and a In 1964 , South African Commission learned that reduced menu of food that black nationalist Nelson revisions to the city’s requires minimal han - Mandela was sentenced zoning ordinance that to life in prison for com - were slated to take about UNITED mitting sabotage against six months might instead the apartheid regime. take a year to 18 months. In 1967 , the U.S. Bonar and Associates SERVICES Saturday WITH YOU Supreme Court, in Lov - was working on the proj - ing v. 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Arts Place is extending its Regional Student Art Exhibit through Friday, June 26. Taking The exhibit features art from students throughout Note the area. It was originally meant to be displayed March 20 kindergarten for the next through April 19, but the school year. coronavirus pandemic Parents should stop by made that impossible. A the library to pick up a digital tour was posted on KiPS bag, which includes artsland.org and is still worksheets, crafts and available online. school supplies that are Student artists, their coordinated with the families and community videos. members may view the The program is avail - exhibit at Arts Place able to the first 100 to reg - beginning Monday during ister. For more informa - regular hours. tion, contact the library at The exhibit is free. (260) 726-7890. Masks are required to be worn by visitors and Reopening social distancing should Minnetrista in Muncie be observed. If a person is working on plans for does not have a mask, one increased public offerings will be provided, Arts as the reopening process Place personnel said. begins during the coron - avirus pandemic. Virtual KiPS “Minnetrista Leader - Jay County Public ship has been careful dur - Library will be offering a ing this time not to lose virtual kindergarten pre - the heart of the organiza - paredness school (KiPS) tion. We have looked to this summer as a way of our mission and values as working around the a compass during this COVID-19 pandemic. storm, pointing us in the From June 16 through right direction at the July 21, there will be inter - crossroads of every deci - active instructional sion. Times of crisis like videos posted each Tues - these can test an organiza - day at 10 a.m. on the tion’s commitment to its library’s Facebook page. values. We are confident Virtual KiPS ill include that we have remained six weeks of activities, sto - true,” a spokesman said. ries and skill development Since May 2, an adapted to help prepare children version of the Farmers’ for kindergarten. Market has been operat - To register a child for ing on Saturdays in com - Photo provided the no-cost program, visit pliance with guidelines the library’s website — from the Centers for Dis - jaycpl.lib.in.us — or the ease Control and the One way to cool off library’s Facebook page or Delaware County Health stop by the library at 315 Department. Jake Arnold, 8, and Lucy Arnold, 6, of Portland, found a great way to keep cool by N. Ship St., Portland. On June 14, Oakhurst running through the sprinklers. The program is aimed at Gardens will reopen to the children age 4 to entering public. 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The Commercial Review The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Friday, June 12, 2020 Keep the history where it belongs St. Louis Post-Dispatch Northam’s move followed Crow oppression of black citizens ting. Suppose you were strolling protests that have swept Virginia, was in full swing. Those symbols A federal judge this week tem - through Forest Park and came Guest as in Missouri and around the were looming reminders to porarily halted the removal of across a flattering statue of Adolf nation, over the death of George African Americans of where they the Lee statue to consider a law - Hitler. Or Fidel Castro. Or Osama Floyd in the custody of Min - stood, even generations after suit claiming Virginia is contrac - bin Laden. Of course, nations Editorial neapolis police. Northam’s Emancipation. tually obligated to “affectionately don’t generally bestow statuary announcement noted the “false St. Louis knows something protect” it in perpetuity. That upon enemies — unless those version of history” that “pre - about this. Three years ago, a 32- promise, made at the dawn of the enemies happen to be Confeder - tends the Civil War was about foot-tall, 40-ton monument that Jim Crow era, should hold no ate leaders in the Civil War. back, has towered over downtown ‘state rights’ and not the evils of had stood in Forest Park since weight today when even the U.S. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s Richmond, the former capital of slavery.” 1914, idealizing a Confederate sol - call to remove a statue in the state the Confederacy and now a It’s not only the history of the dier going off to war, became the military is, at last, considering capital, Richmond, of Confeder - majority-black city. For modern Civil War that’s too often falsified center of controversy in light of removing the names of Confeder - ate Gen. Robert E. Lee should be African American citizens to but also the history of the statues, modern racial strife. Mayor Lyda ate leaders from its bases. only the beginning. These monu - have to walk in the shadow of the Confederate flags and other Civil Krewson ultimately had the mon - This isn’t, as some wrongly ments to slavery and treason man who led the crusade to pre - War symbolism. While the 1890 ument dismantled and taken claim, an attempt to purge the don’t belong in positions of honor serve slavery is a daily slap in the Lee statue is an exception, much away by the Missouri Civil War Confederacy from history, but to in public spaces. face — indeed, to any American of that symbolism around Amer - Museum in Jefferson Barracks, keep that history where it For 130 years, the 60-foot-tall supportive of racial justice amid ica arose in the early- to mid-20th with the agreement that any belongs: in history books and monument, topped with the recent reminders of how elusive century, when the war itself was future display of it would be in a museums, not to be celebrated in bronze statue of Lee on horse - it still is. a distant memory — but Jim museum or other appropriate set - the public square. Lockdowns were not an overreaction By HENRY OLSEN Special To The Washington Post From the beginning of the pandemic, many some Henry have argued that the lock - downs were an overreac - Olsen tion to the novel coron - avirus and that they are causing unnecessary eco - nomic pain. Recent stud - ies, however, show that this to Italy’s level because of argument is wrong. hospital overcrowding, Lockdowns and other more than 691,000 more measures to inhibit the people would have died. spread of COVID-19 likely The anti-lockdown argu - saved hundreds of thou - ments ignore these data sands of lives in the United entirely. They instead rely States alone. We know this on the published number because of the way the of COVID-19-related deaths virus spreads exponential - to date, saying that this rel - ly. Without lockdowns and atively paltry number is other measures, every more akin to a bad flu year infected person would and hardly justifies the come into contact with a massive unemployment large number of uninfect - and economic pain the ed people every day. A cer - lockdowns have caused. tain percentage of those But this overlooks the fact people would contract the that this number is much disease and would then lower because of the lock - further spread the disease downs. That’s the epitome to other uninfected people. of comparing apples to Left unchecked, diseases oranges. such as COVID-19 become Americans are no differ - like a raging wildfire, ent from people all around burning everything in the globe: They prefer safe - their path. ty over liberty when their That’s what the initial lives are at stake. Had the How will crises affect change? mantra of coronavirus anti-lockdown ideologues By MICHAEL HICKS larger, more geographically dis - control — “flatten the gotten their way in mid- The interesting and turbulent age persed cities, with more businesses curve” — was meant to March, when battles we inhabit urges us think about the renting flexible work spaces instead convey. When the spread of reportedly were raging lasting impact of current events. For Michael of downtown offices. the disease is displayed as inside the Trump adminis - an economist, chief among the ques - The pandemic alters what we buy a graph, one observes a tration over whether to tions to ask is how will the agents of Hicks and where we recreate. The rapid rapid climb with a slight give sanction for states to change we now experience affect the shift to e-commerce may be perma - curve. The slower the implement lockdowns, location of economic activity. I don’t nent, shuttering a significant share climb, the flatter the curve. more Americans would have answers, but offer a way to think of retailers. The shock to recreation, Flattening the curve have died and the lock - about them. restaurants and bars may lessen over meant the disease spread downs would have Halfway through 2020, we find our - ing, but it may have profound impact time, but we may also see measurably more slowly, ensuring that occurred anyway. Elected selves locked into a trade war that on where we shop, live, work and large, permanent declines in the hospitals and other health- officeholders were never pushed much of the nation near recreate. The most immediate share of consumer spending on these care facilities could treat going to sit passively while recession by the end of 2019. We face thought about COVID-19 is that it will items. the patients who arrived. Americans died by the a global pandemic that continues to make dense urban centers less popu - The current recession will likely Graphs of the actual truckload. kill Americans at a stunning rate, and lar. However, few Americans live in magnify current trends of occupa - spread of the disease None of this means we which has no realistic end in sight. places that are dense in global terms. tional growth. As with previous before and after the lock - should continue the lock - That pandemic led directly to an eco - Our city centers have high rise apart - downturns, the most stable occupa - downs show this hap - down regimes today. nomic downturn that left a full quar - ments, but American metropolitan tions are those requiring a college pened. Research suggests that ter of workers unemployed. Our areas remain mostly suburban education. The unemployment rate The most relevant study, COVID-19, like many respi - economy is in the deepest downturn places. Earlier pandemics did little to among high school grads is more from researchers at the ratory illnesses, might since the Great Depression and faces reduce the popularity of cities, and it than twice that of those with a bache - University of California at transmit less efficiently years of recovery. As I write this, a seems unlikely this one will either. lor’s degree. Places with a large share Berkeley, estimates that during the warmer sum - protest movement with overwhelm - The inevitable movement of millen - of high-skilled workers face a less lockdowns and other meas - mer months. The health- ing polling support has entered near - nials to suburbs will impose a larger volatile business cycle. This recession ures prevented 4.8 million care system is also better ly every American city. population shift than disease risk should end the fact-free claims of confirmed infections and equipped to handle new Most of the analysis of this is polit - from COVID-19. worker shortages that have animated nearly 60 million total cases than it was in March, ical, but surely it has some lasting However, the response to COVID-19 Indiana’s education policy for most infections in the United and its capacity to care for effect on local economies. It is too will cause us to rethink how we work. of the past decade. Sadly, it probably States. The authors don’t the sick grows daily. At early to make predictions, but it is a A large share of workers, particular - won’t. calculate how many lives this point, most places in good time to think about the direction ly in metropolitan areas, are now Finally, we have to consider the this saved, but given the the United States can and and power of forces that will realign working at home. For many, that urban unrest that affects every city in known fatality rates for should cautiously reopen. economic activity between urban, experience has been successful, and the nation. I don’t know how long it COVID-19, we can be sure COVID-19 may not be gone, suburban and rural places. at least one high-quality study found will last, or what nature they will ulti - it’s a lot. The United States but its progress has been The trade war did precisely what a higher productivity among those who mately take. But, as I write this col - has a confirmed case fatal - largely checked. Our prior - tax on trade would do. It raised the were randomly assigned to work at umn, several polls show overwhelm - ity rate of 5.58%. Applying ity now should be to help price of manufactured goods and home. It is certain that many busi - ing support for protesters. This is not that percentage to the esti - Americans get their lives reduced consumption. As it turns nesses will migrate away from expen - surprising. From what I can tell, mated 4.8 million addition - and livelihoods back in out, executive orders cannot repeal sive urban offices. If this happens these protests are about our failure to al cases means that about order. the law of demand. Evidence thus far across a plurality of businesses or fully realize the promise of the Con - 268,000 lives were saved by Conservatives who sup - is that the trade war may have begun across whole occupations, it will stitution and Preamble to the Decla - the U.S. interventions. port the reopenings now a slow migration of manufacturing change the urban form. Workers who ration of Independence. If they are That result is likely an should accept the obvious. away from China. Multinational feel confident in finding employment successful in creating a more perfect underestimate of the true The lockdowns were neces - firms are smart to disperse factories in remote work will be less con - union, then these protests will number of lives saved. The sary, and they worked. Mil - across more nations, but there is no strained by their choice of home. improve the economic prospects of United States implemented lions of Americans who evidence of production moving to the This force will spread cities more America’s urban centers. If not, we its measures early enough would have died or lost a United States. All we got from the broadly, vexing urban planners but will all be worse off. that its health systems loved one are thankful that trade war was less manufacturing, delighting workers and employers. •••••••••• were never overwhelmed they did. just as all but one economist predict - Another force is at play in urban Hicks is the George and Frances Ball like those in Italy and •••••••••• ed. size. More at-home work means lower Distinguished Professor of Economics Spain. Spain’s confirmed Olsen is a senior fellow at This pandemic may last for a long prices for urban office spaces. This and the director of the Center for Busi - case fatality rate is 9.4%, the Ethics and Public Policy time and will do more to spread man - would in turn attract more business - ness and Economic Research at Ball and Italy’s is 14.4%. Had Center. Follow him on Twit - ufacturing out of China than any tar - es to have a modest presence in large State University. His column appears the U.S. fatality rate risen ter @henryolsenEPPC. iff. It will do little to U.S. manufactur - urban centers. It is easy to imagine in Indiana newspapers. The Commercial Review HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

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Continued from page 1 Helping Across Belgium, statues of BEIRUT — Leopold II have been defaced in Lebanon’s money half a dozen cities because of the changers said the king’s brutal rule over the Congo, country’s central where more than a century ago he bank agreed today to forced multitudes into slavery to inject fresh dollars extract rubber, ivory and other into the market to resources for his own profit. prop up the national Experts say he left as many as 10 currency following a million dead. night of protests “The Germans would not get it spurred by the dra - into their head to erect statues of Hitler and cheer them,” said matic plunging of the Mireille-Tsheusi Robert, an Lebanese pound. activist in Congo who wants The protests, which Leopold statues removed from Bel - degenerated into gian cities. “For us, Leopold has attacks on several committed a genocide.” bank branches, and In the U.S., the May 25 death of the tumbling of the Floyd, a black man who died after a currency prompted white Minneapolis police officer an emergency Cabi - pressed a knee to his neck, has led net meeting today. to an all-out effort to remove sym - Despite previous bols of the Confederacy and slav - efforts to control the ery. currency deprecia - The Navy, the Marines and tion, the Lebanese NASCAR have embraced bans on pound sold for more the display of the Confederate flag, than 6,000 to the dol - and statues of rebel heroes across lar Thursday on the the South have been vandalized or black market, down taken down, either by protesters or from 4,000 in recent local authorities. days. The pound had On Wednesday night, protesters Washington Post/John McDonnell maintained a fixed pulled down a century-old statue of rate of 1,500 to the Confederate President Jefferson The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is loaded onto a tow truck after it dollar for nearly 30 Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the was pulled off its pedestal on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. years. former capital of the Confederacy. The 8-foot (2.4-meter) bronze figure Increased had already been targeted for that pedestal,” Stoney said, calling their names off military bases taking, fought to defend not slavery removal by city leaders, but the Davis a “racist & traitor.” such as Fort Bragg, Fort Benning but states’ rights. LOS ANGELES — crowd took matters into its own Elsewhere around the South, and Fort Hood. For protesters mobilized by The number of home - hands. No immediate arrests were authorities in Alabama got rid of a President Donald Trump on Floyd’s death, the targets have less people counted made. massive obelisk in Birmingham Wednesday rejected the idea of ranged far beyond the Confederacy. across Los Angeles It stood a few blocks away from a and a bronze likeness of a Confed - renaming bases. But Republicans Statues of Columbus have been County jumped 12.7% towering, 61-foot-high (18.5-meter- erate naval officer in Mobile. In in the Senate, at risk of losing their toppled or vandalized in cities such over the past year to high) equestrian statue of Gen. Virginia, a slave auction block was majority in the November elec - as Miami; Richmond; St. Paul, more than 66,400 and Robert E. Lee, the most revered of removed in Fredericksburg, and tions, aren’t with Trump on this. A Minnesota; and Boston, where one authorities fear that all Confederate leaders. Democrat - protesters in Portsmouth knocked GOP-led Senate panel on Thursday was decapitated. The city of Cam - figure will spike ic Gov. Ralph Northam last week the heads off the statues of four approved a plan to take Confeder - den, New Jersey, removed a statue again once the full ordered its removal, but a judge Confederates. ate names off military installa - of Columbus. Protesters have impact of the coron - blocked such action for now. The monument is believed to be tions. accused the Italian explorer of avirus pandemic is The spokesman for the Virginia located where a slave whipping Supporters of Confederate mon - genocide and exploitation of native felt, officials said division of the Sons of Confederate post once stood, and removing it is uments have argued that they are peoples. today. Veterans, B. Frank Earnest, con - a small step in the right direction, important reminders of history; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, The majority of demned the toppling of “public Portsmouth activist and organizer opponents contend they glorify who is Italian American, said he those experiencing works of art” and likened losing Rocky Hines said. those who went to war against the opposes removal of a statue of homelessness were the Confederate statues to losing a “It’s not a history that we as a U.S. to preserve slavery. Columbus in Manhattan’s Colum - found within the city family member. nation should necessarily be proud The Davis monument and many bus Circle. of Los Angeles, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, of. For us, the history is a lot of his - others across the South were erect - “I understand the feelings about which had a 13.6% who has proposed dismantling all tory of slavery and hatred,” he ed decades after the Civil War dur - Christopher Columbus and some increase to 41,209, Confederate statues in the city, said. “It’s bothered people for a ing the Jim Crow era, when states of his acts, which nobody would according to data asked protesters not to take mat - long time.” imposed tough new segregation support,” he said. “But the statue released by the Los ters into their own hands for their In Washington, House Speaker laws, and during the Lost Cause has come to represent and signify Angeles Homeless own safety. But he indicated the Nancy Pelosi said it is time to movement, in which historians appreciation for the Italian Ameri - Services Authority. Davis statue is gone for good. remove statues of Confederate fig - and others sought to recast the can contribution to New York. So The increase came “He never deserved to be up on ures from the U.S. Capitol and take South’s rebellion as a noble under - for that reason I support it.” a year after the previ - ous tally also found a 12% jump in the county with one of California gunman the nation’s highest concentrations of residents living on is shot and killed the streets. Califor - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lira’s father told The nia has an estimated A man recently released Associated Press he 150,000 homeless peo - from jail in Central Cali - thinks the shooting at the ple, the most in the fornia was shot and killed police station might have U.S. at the end of a 36-hour been a suicide attempt. hunt that followed the Jose Lira said his son shooting of a sheriff’s had been diagnosed with Located deputy and other attacks schizophrenia, Asperg - L’AQUILA, Italy — that wounded three other er’s syndrome and atten - Italian authorities on law enforcement officers. tion deficit hyperactivity Thursday unveiled a Mason James Lira, 26, disorder. He said his son stolen artwork by was killed Thursday after - has been in and out of jail British artist Banksy noon after he emerged and treatment centers, that was painted as a from a brushy riverbed in didn’t take his medica - tribute to the victims Paso Robles where he’d tion and often thinks he of the 2015 terror hidden all night, climbed is a special agent or a sol - attacks at the Bata - a steep hillside and ran dier. clan music hall in toward a vineyard, “He lives in a fantasy Paris. authorities said. world,” Jose Lira said. L’Aquila prosecu - He had two stolen hand - “He doesn’t have a beef tors said the work guns and investigators with the police.” was recovered on found a box of ammuni - The series of attacks Wednesday during a tion, Paso Robles Police began before dawn search of a home in Chief Ty Lewis said. Wednesday when a gun - the countryside of He clearly had been man opened fire on the Tortoreto, near the planning to attack police, police station in Paso Adriatic coast in the possibly for days, the Robles, a wine and tourist Abruzzo region’s Ter - chief said. town with little crime. amo province. It had The specific motive for County sheriff’s been “hidden well” in the attacks was under Deputy Nicholas Dreyfus, the attic, prosecutors investigation but one 28, was hit in the face said. thing was clear, San Luis when he and his partner No arrests have Obispo County Sheriff answered a call for aid. been made. Ian Parkinson said: “He Dreyfus underwent sur - —Associated Press did want to shoot law gery Thursday and was in enforcement.” guarded condition. Syrian economy struggling By BASSEM MROUE lenge of governing while more than 80% Associated Press of his people live in poverty. BEIRUT — In scenes not witnessed for In government-held areas, prices go up years in government-controlled parts of several times a day, forcing many shops to Syria, dozens of men and women marched close, unable to keep up with the chaos. through the streets this week, protesting a This week the Syrian currency dropped to sharp increase in prices and collapse of a record 3,500 pounds to the dollar on the the currency, some even calling for the black market — compared to 700 at the downfall of President Bashar Assad and beginning of the year. Some staples such his ruling Baath party. as sugar, rice and medicine are becoming “He who starves his people is a traitor,” hard to find. some of the protesters chanted at the “The Syrian economy has spiraled out protest in the southern city of Sweida. of control and the regime cannot control In Syria nowadays, there is an impend - the Syrian pound anymore,” said Osama ing fear that all doors are closing. After Kadi, a Canada-based Syrian economic nearly a decade of war, the country is adviser. crumbling under the weight of years-long The pain is likely to grow under the new Western sanctions, government corrup - U.S. sanctions, which Washington says tion and infighting, a pandemic and an aim to punish Assad and his top lieu - economic downslide made worse by the tenants for crimes committed during the financial crisis in Lebanon, Syria’s main country’s conflict. link with the outside world. Effectively, the sanctions prevent any - Syria faces near complete isolation as one around the world from doing business the toughest U.S. sanctions yet start to with Syrian officials or state institutions come into effect next week. While Assad or participate in the war-ravaged coun - may have won the military war against his try’s reconstruction. They also target any - opponents with the help of allies Russia one involved in smuggling to Syria, mostly and Iran, he now faces an even bigger chal - from Iraq and Lebanon. The Commercial Review Page 6 Comics Friday, JUne 12, 2020

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Memory ... Continued from page 1 The Panthers did a bit of while Griffin and Hoyt Indiana a four-point lead tied at 16 each ahead of his The Jay County Pan - Leading up to the USA winning, too, when they chipped in six points each. and the defense prevented late-game heroics. Reck led thers, however, returned to Games that June, the Pan - got to Princeton to compete The following day, Missouri from getting any the team with 16 points Indiana with bronze thers became more and at the nation’s highest “Team Indiana” defeated closer in a 46-42 win, giving and 10 rebounds. Griffin medals draped around more of a family; complete level. Alabama 32-17 after lead - the Panthers a perfect 3-0 and Hoyt added eight their necks. with the frustration at one Jay County won its open - ing 19-4 at halftime. Griffin record for pool play and a points apiece. More than a year of another when correctable er against South Dakota 34- led the way with 10 points, spot in the medal round. Team Indiana suffered preparation, practice and mistakes were made. 27 behind eight Scott Scott had six points while Against Missouri, Indi - its only loss at the most anticipation turned the 10 That mindset comes points and six rebounds Hoyt and Reck added five ana started slowly and fell inopportune time, its first individuals into a family, when a team is itching to from Reck. The Panthers each. behind 10-2. Scott, who fin - game of the medal round. and they got to create play someone other than led by as many as 22 points In the next game, Scott ished with 14 points, hit a Minnesota topped Indiana memories with one anoth - themselves and had a in the second half. Scott made a layup in the final 30 3-pointer as the Panthers and went on to beat New er they’ll remember for strong desire to win. finished with 10 points, seconds of overtime to give went into intermission York for the gold medal. years to come. PGA ... Continued from page 8 the fans. They definitely provide Rahm (69) and Brooks Koepka a thumbs-up after the players hit atop the leaderboard with a “People are going to watch golf a ton of energy and atmosphere.” (68) — played in the same group, their drives, and he returned to round so clean he putted for back home and be interested to Golf is the second major sport and they had the largest follow - the tee box alone at 8:46 a.m. birdie on every hole. watch it tomorrow, and that’s a in the U.S., behind motor sports, ing late in the afternoon. There That starting time was listed “If I’m thinking about win - great thing.” to resume a schedule shut down were 14 people outside the ropes on the tee sheet without any play - ning a golf tournament right Justin Rose and Harold Varner by the COVID-19 pandemic. behind the 10th green — six ers. The tour is keeping that now, I’ve probably lost it,” Varn - shared the lead at 7-under 63, Among the safety measures are involved in the broadcast (radio empty all four rounds for a er said. “Yeah, I know what’s with Justin Thomas among those coronavirus tests for every play - and TV), four writers, two pho - moment of silence. It’s a tribute going on, but when I’m on the a stroke back. Tom Lehman, a 61- er, caddie and essential person - tographers, one coach and one to Floyd, who was handcuffed golf course, I’m trying to play year-old former champion at nel. Of the 487 tests at Colonial, trainer. while a white police officer well. The reason I have a plat - Colonial, got in on the act with a the results were all negative. The telecast began with an pressed his knee to the back of form is because I’m really good 65. “We’re all taking risks playing apology. Right when Golf Chan - the black man’s neck for 8 min - at golf. I just need to focus on Conditions were ripe for good golf, obviously,” Palmer said. nel came on the air, Rahm utes, 46 seconds. Floyd died after that.” scores with no cheers. “Being back out here, everybody chipped in for birdie on the par-3 pleading for air. Fans will be kept away from “It kind of feels like a competi - leaves the club, they’re going out eighth and someone — it could Varner is one of four players the first five tournaments as the tive practice round,” said Rose, to dinner and doing things, so have been inside or outside the of black heritage with full PGA tour takes a conservative return who won at Colonial two years everybody is taking that risk to ropes — was heard to say, “Pretty Tour status, and he delivered the to golf, hopeful of no setbacks in ago. “But obviously, I think we all be here. Everybody is pretty con - (expletive) good, there.” strongest words last week in a the sport from a spike in the new know what’s on the line. We all fident that we’re going to all be “Well, we were hoping for bet - social media post. He also sat coronavirus. know what we’re playing for. We safe. I think everything has been ter audio with no fans,” CBS down with Monahan for a 10- Monahan, asked Thursday all know the competition this done the right way.” anchor Jim Nantz said. minute video on what golf can morning what would constitute week especially, the field is The top three players in the PGA Tour Commissioner Jay do. a successful tournament, said, incredible. Obviously, we miss world — Rory McIlroy (68), Jon Monahan gave the opening group And then he found himself “Getting to next week.”

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This institution m or public hearing at 11:00 am on 10:00 AM is an Equal Opportunity www.auctionzip.com ID# June 23, 2020 virtually through JD tractor, mower; 1969 Provider and Employer. Microsoft Teams, to investigate Commercial 12805 800-373-6363 off PublicLEGAL NOTICENotice the propriety of holding an al- Volkswagon Dune TIRED OF NON-PAYING Notice is hereby given that the AC#31200014 coholic beverage permit by the Buggy; Victrola w/rolls; RENTERS? For just Newsstand prices Jay/Portland Building & Plan- applicants listed below. Precious Moments; ning Department Inter-Local Review 100 JOBS WANTED 10% of monthly rent/ life Information on accessing the Royal Doulton Figurines; could be 100% better. Joint Board will meet on Tues- day, June 16, 2020 at 6:00 pm in virtual meeting can be found at train pieces; AMISH CREW LOOK- Property managing. https://www.in.gov/atc/2855.htm. Subscribe at the Community Resource camera/monitor setup; ING FOR any work. No Heather Clemmons 765- Building, Conference Room, DL3832079 Beer Wine & C Very large collection of job is too big or small. 748-5066 clemmon- 118 S Meridian Street, Port- Liquor - Package Store Car Decanters: Famous Pole barns, roofing, spropertiesllc.com land, Indiana. Included on the TRANSFER thecr.com Indiana Liquor Group LLC Firsts, many large/small remodeling. 260-849- agenda will be the Depart- INMAN U-LOC Storage. ment 2021 Budget and 2020 An- 1102 S. Main St. Dunkirk IN sets of Beam, Garnier, 2489. CVB, Double Springs. Mini storage, five sizes. nual Report. D/B/A Hughes Pic-A-Pac L Security fence or 24 hour John Hemmelgarn David Hartley 4449 Majestic 8, 16, 32 scale trucks 110 HELP WANTED Zoning Administrator/Director Oak Ct. Westfield, President access units. Gate or call tractors combine, imple- Jay/Portland Building Depart- NATHAN FELTMAN 12585 hours: 8:00-8:00 daily. ments; signs: Farmall, RETAIL SALES days, ment CHYERTON CIR Carmel, Pearl Street, Portland. A McCormick more. nights & weekends. June 9, 2020 Secretary 260-726-2833 CR 6-12-2020 HSPAXLP CR 6-12-2020- HSPAXLP Tractor collector items, Clean work environment, 260-726-8141 Farm toys: Farmall, good hourly pay. Must be Mcormick, JD, IH trac- 21 or older. Apply @ m Contract h S tors/implements. Northside Carry Out, o 250 PUBLIC NOTICE Jeff Kill, Deceased 1226 N. Meridian, Port- Bridge p By Penny Kill land, IN. Attn: Ruth By Steve Becker Loy Auction S AU31600027 PACKING ROOM & 260-726-2700 POULTRY operation. NOTICE OF APublic HEARING ON Notice PROPOSED RATES AND CHARGES Auctioneers Fort Recovery 419-852- 0309 Property owners, ratepayers and other interested I Gary Loy AU01031608 parties in or served or to be served by the sewer utility of Ben Lyons AU10700085 NEED SOMEONE TO the Town of Redkey, Indiana are hereby notified that Travis Theurer PAINT buildings for the Ordinance No. 2020-1 establishing rates and charges for AU11200131 summer. Warnock Paint- services to be rendered by the sewer utility was F Aaron Loy AU11200112 ing 419-852-0309 introduced at a meeting of the Town Council on May 21, 2020. At a meeting of the Town Council to be held at 6:00 PUBLIC AUCTION WAITRESS AND COOK p.m. on the 25th day of June, 2020 in the Redkey Park Located Bubp Exhibition NEEDED for 2nd shift. 3 Cabin, Redkey, Indiana there will be a public hearing on I Hall, Jay Co Fairgrounds days on, 3 days off. Call the matter of rates and charges and consideration of the Saturday June 13, 2020 between 6am-2pm 260- adoption of Ordinance No. 2020-1 which provides as 10:00 AM 997-8300 follows: Curio; bedroom suite; (b) Effective September 1, 2020, the water usage schedule E Pyrex; crocks; jugs; OWNER OPERATORS on which the amount of said sewage rates and charges salt/peppers; Spanish needed for daily, dedicat- shall be determined shall be as follows: Quantity of Water Used Charge per American War atlas; ed routes. NE Indiana to Lafayette. Our authority. per Month 1000 Gallons Beam “Police’ and First 2,000 gallons $11.94 D “Woodie” decanters; Paid weekly. No touch. 800-832-7036 ex 1626 Next 4,667 gallons $10.08 mantle; park bench. Next 10,000 gallons $8.22 Simplicity Prestige for info. Next 33,333 gallons $6.48 w/cultivator, snowplow, NEW STARTING BASE Next 66,667 gallons $6.06 plow and grader blade; PAY - .50 cpm w/ option Over 116,667 gallons $3.72 Craftsman saws, to make.60 cpm for The minimum charge for any user, where the user is a metered water consumer, shall be based upon the meter routers, sanders; hand Class A CDL Flatbed tools; air compressor; sizes as follows: A Drivers, Excellent Bene- Meter Size Per Month tool chests; garage fits, Home Weekends, 5/8 – 3/4 inch meter $23.88 items;grill; more. Call 800-648-9915 or 1 inch meter $30.61 Dave & Sheila Wolford, www.boydandsons.com 1 1/2 inch meter $48.73 Owners 2inch meter$91.69 D Loy Auction PENNVILLE CUSTOM 3 inch meter $152.66 AU31600027 CABINETRY has several 4inch meter$244.18 260-726-2700 jobs available including 6inch meter$366.38 Auctioneers kitchen designer, finish- Section (c) is hereby deleted. S Gary Loy AU01031608 er, and sander. Apply in All other provisions not amended hereby remain in full Ben Lyons AU10700085 person at 600 E Votaw force and effect. Debbie James, Clerk-Treasurer Travis Theurer St, Portland. Please wear a mask. 260-726- Town of Redkey, Indiana 726-8141 AU11200131 CR 6-12-2020-HSPAXLP Aaron Loy AU11200112 9357 Friday, June 12, 2020 Saturday’s paper will Portland to host look back at a playoff Chiefs at 7 p.m. on the sectional course Sports Tuesday at home

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Memorable Moments Panthers provided lasting memory Editor’s note: Whether mate prize; they were guard, with court vision key plays, incredible selected to represent and quickness necessary achievements or milestone Team Indiana at the 2014 out of the position. Grif - events, sports are full of USA Games in Princeton, fin, another guard, had instances that stick out New Jersey. the handles and assumed more than others. Sports For 14 months, the 10 the role of the vocal editor Chris Schanz has Panthers — Sam Glessner, leader. Hoyt played more seen a ton of them. In this Josh Griffin, Conner as a forward but could “Memorable Moments” Hoyt, Mark Knipp, Shelli shoot anywhere on the series, he’ll revisit some Roser, Ron Smith, Ethan court while also grabbing important moments in Wendel, Ty Weesner, Reck rebounds as easily as area athletics. and Scott — practiced for Reck’s 6-foot, 3-inch •••••••••• a couple hours a night frame. By CHRIS SCHANZ three days a week at East Wendel and Weesner The Commercial Review Elementary. had motors that didn’t A perennial winner dur - Coached by Chuck Wen - stop, and were capable of ing the state tournament, del, Ethan’s father, and wearing out defenses just the Jay County Panthers siblings Alex and Cather - by running around trying were a skilled basketball ine Dunn, the Panthers to get open. team. went on to win their third Glessner, Smith and Led by point guard Kyle straight sectional and Knipp came off the bench Scott and forward Tyler repeated as state champi - to surprise defenses in Reck, the Panthers had ons in early 2014. spot roles sinking shots. won back-to-back Indiana Along the way, the Pan - Roser, the 2013 Special The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz Special Olympics section - thers became better bas - Olympics Indiana athlete al championships in 2012 In this June 9, 2014, photo, Tyler Reck (right) of the Jay County ketball players individual - of the year, assumed the Panthers Special Olympics basketball team drives to the hoop around 2014 and ’13. ly, but also came together role as a hard-nosed play - Months after their sec - as a team. Each of them er but also acted as the Jay County High School graduate Zach Fullenkamp during the Panthers’ ond title — and a state found their respective mother of the group as practice at Jay Community Center. Reck and the Panthers represented Team championship as well — roles. the team’s only female. Indiana during the USA Games later that month in Princeton, N.J., and brought the Panthers got the ulti - Scott was the point See Memory page 7 home a bronze medal. PGA swings back to action By DOUG FERGUSON chosen to hit the first offi - AP Golf Writer cial shot on the PGA Tour FORT WORTH, Texas — in three months. Those The start was even more gathered around the first quiet than usual for a tee could barely hear him Thursday morning on the announced. The starter PGA Tour, only the silence was wearing a mask, and never left over the next 12 his voice competed with the hours as golf was back to hum of a generator behind business at the Charles the ninth green. Schwab Challenge. Quiet as it was, Colonial Sung Kang made a hole- came to a standstill at 8:46 in-one on the 13th hole and a.m. when everyone on the didn’t realize it until he was course honored a moment 50 yards from the green. of silence for the death of “I’m like, ‘Wow, it’s in the George Floyd and the out - hole.’ It wasn’t really crazy. rage it has sparked world - Nobody was really up wide on racial injustice. there, only a few people out It was a most unusual there just clapping a little round of golf. bit,” Kang said. “I still But it was golf. appreciated it, though.” “I think just being out Phil Mickelson made a here is successful, to be birdie and instinctively honest with you, getting pinched the brim of his cap started,” Palmer said. “I to acknowledge a crowd don’t see anything holding that wasn’t there. us back moving forward. I Ryan Palmer, a Colonial think today was the biggest member who raised money day, just getting this first for COVID-19 relief efforts day off. during the shutdown, was See PGA page 7 NFL commits $ for social justice By BARRY WILNER video, though never men - AP Pro Football Writer tioning Kaepernick, who The NFL is committing has not found an NFL job $250 million over 10 years to the last three seasons. social justice initiatives, That distrust was targeting what it calls “sys - expressed Wednesday by temic racism” and support - 49ers star cornerback ing “the battle against the Richard Sherman. ongoing and historic injus - “They’ve tried their best tices faced by African to throw money behind it Americans.” for a long time,” he said. “It The league, which has takes more than that. It raised $44 million in dona - takes you literally calling tions through its Inspire out bigotry and being moti - Change program, vated. It’s not just pleading. announced the additional It’s being consistent year in $206 million commitment and year out that you’re Thursday. It plans to “work combating this issue and collaboratively with NFL that this is a problem that players to support pro - needs to change. And it’s grams to address criminal not just this year, not just justice reform, police 2016, not just 2017, but reforms, and economic and ‘Black Lives Matter.’ They educational advancement.” have to matter forever.” Less than a week ago, The Players Coalition Commissioner Roger Good - was established in 2017 to ell denounced racism in a work for social justice, video prompted greatly by growing out of the Kaeper - a players’ video seeking nick-inspired protests and NFL action. pledging to improve “I am listening, and I will police/community rela - be reaching out to players tions, champion criminal who have raised their voic - justice reform, and pro - es and others on how we mote education and eco - can improve and go for - nomic advancement in ward for a better and more communities across the united NFL family,” he nation. said. Earlier this week, the The players want to see coalition collected more definitive action, of course. than 1,400 signatures from There has been increasing active and retired athletes, distrust of the NFL since coaches and executives San Francisco quarterback from a variety of sports Colin Kaepernick and oth - and presented them to Con - ers began kneeling during gress this week in support the national anthem in 2016 of a bill seeking to elimi - to protest social injustice nate qualified immunity and police brutality. The regarding police brutality. message was misconstrued That bill was introduced in by the league and many response to the deaths of team owners as anti-mili - George Floyd and Breonna tary and anti-flag. Goodell Taylor while in police cus - admitted as much in his tody.