Thursday, December 15, 2016 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 75 cents County warms to new hires By NATHAN RUBBELKE months without that position, The Commercial Review and then someone comes avail - Tempers flared at a feisty Jay able, then all of sudden, that posi - County Council meeting Wednes - tion has to be filled.” day evening during discussion of Council He said if the department head Truck drivers a proposed “hiring chill” with an came forward about the open elected county official accusing lifts ‘chill’ position, he’d want to know why council of micromanaging the position needs to be filled departments run by elected offi - during fiery after being open so long. will get raises cials. “I don’t want to micromanage By NATHAN RUBBELKE ommendations made late last In the end, the hiring chill was people but that is not right,” said meeting The Commercial Review month by Jay County Person - scrapped by council. Champ County highway depart - nel Committee. Discussion on the issue began His comments drew rebuke ment truck drivers and sur - when Jay County Commissioner The approved recommen - from Jay Circuit Court clerk veyor department heavy dations lift truck drivers and Doug Inman approached council Ellen Coats. are currently at least six depart - equipment operators will get heavy equipment operators for guidance on how the county’s “I’m sure you’re probably refer - a raise next year. Two retire - personnel committee, of which ments with openings and wanted into a higher job classifica - ring to my office,” said Coats, ment center employees tion and will increase their Inman is a member, should han - council’s opinion on how the per - who is term-limited and leaving sonnel committee should handle won’t. wages to $15.68 per hour. dle the hiring chill included as office at the end of the year. That’s the decision Jay one of the two dozen recommen - that issue. Council member Ted They currently make $13.59 Champ responded by saying he County Council made per hour. dations submitted from the coun - Champ spoke in favor of the hir - was referring to all county Wednesday, approving rec - See Raises page 2 ty budget committee and ing chill. offices. approved by council earlier this “Unless the information I’m Coats addressed open positions year. receiving is wrong and I do not in her office and said she has The chill would require depart - believe it is wrong, is that some of hired employees that haven’t ment heads to meet with the per - these positions are staying open worked out for a various reasons. During her remarks, she “It’s harassment. It’s my sonnel committee when they have for a long time until certain peo - She addressed a recent opening accused council of micromanag - office. You guys don’t even come openings in their department for ple become available and then we in her office and said the employ - ing departments. in and know how we work,” she approval to fill the empty spot. want to fill that position then,” ee was let go because of incompe - “It’s our departments, we were said. Inman had mentioned there Champ said. “So if we went six tence. elected,” said Coats. See Warms page 2 Rebels are now leaving Aleppo By LOUISA LOVELUCK The Washington Post BEIRUT — Ambulances with wounded civilians rolled out of the last rebel- held districts in Syria’s embattled Aleppo today, beginning a possible major evacuation effort after earlier failures to ferry out frightened resi - dents and defeated fight - ers. But the deal had already been thwarted twice in just 24 hours, underscor - ing the complex politics dominating Syria’s war and the deep stakes over strategic Aleppo — which appeared poised to now fall under full control of Syrian government forces. Convoys of ambulances and buses were assembled in the rebel zones, but it remained unclear when Indiana University Communications/James Brosher the large-scale departures could commence. Syrian Snowy campus state TV showed images A light layer of snow blankets the landscape Wednesday morning in the area near the Indiana University Student of ambulances carrying Building (background) on the west side of the Bloomington campus in this photo by Dunkirk native James Brosher. The away wounded civilians former Commercial Review intern works for the university’s communications department. in what could be the first phase of the evacuations. Syrian forces and their allies have pushed rebel fighters into a sliver of enclaves after nearly a month of relentless South Adams makes counter attacks to reclaim control By JACK RONALD playground, but board members ing the initial Biggs offer, that While preparing to sell one of the strategic city. Win - The Commercial Review Tuesday leaned toward the proposal was defeated by a 4-3 piece of property, the board also ning back full control of Biggs Indiana Properties LLC Adams County offer. vote, with board members approved a purchase agreement Aleppo would be a huge of Decatur has until 5 p.m. Fri - The high offer — $500,000 — Arlene Amstutz, Amy Orr, John to acquire two acres of land prize for the government day to respond to a counteroffer came from Casey’s Marketing Mann and Landon Patterson in adjacent to the “school block” of Syrian President from the South Adams School Co., which operates convenience opposition. from Tim and Michele LeFever Bashar Assad, but a stag - Board on the purchase price of stores throughout the Midwest. Litwiller then proposed mak - for $21,000. gering blow to the opposi - former school property at U.S. 27 Biggs made an offer of $375,000 ing a counter offer to Biggs seek - The board was unanimous in tion groups that have and Indiana 218 in Berne. accompanied by a $75,000 com - ing $475,000. That won approval approving the scope and budget fought his regime for Biggs and an Iowa-based con - mitment from the Berne Com - on a 6-1 vote with board member of the high school renovation more than five years. venience store company had munity Development Corpora - Julie Mansfield dissenting. No project and expects to review The buses arrived as both submitted offers on the tion for a total of $450,000. plans for how Biggs might devel - proposals from design-build part of a historic exit deal land, which was the former site Though superintendent Scott op the property have been made firms on Feb. 1. for rebels and civilians. of an elementary school and Litwiller recommended accept - public. See Counter page 5 Brokered by Russia and Turkey, the agreement could see the largest evac - uation of Syria’s conflict. But any flare-up in fight - Republicans call for a tax increase ing could once again By BRIAN SLODYSKO Indiana’s roads and squeamish when it comes increase during the session “I think we all recog - cause the plan to unravel. Associated Press bridges have been rated in to acting because the con - that begins in January. nize that we don’t have “The buses are there, INDIANAPOLIS — Key the bottom third of U.S. sistent takeaway has been Republican state Sen. enough revenue to even the ambulances are there, Republican leaders said states, officials say. Law - that taxes or fees need to be Luke Kenley, the Senate’s sustain our maintenance 100 staff are there. The Wednesday that Indiana makers have batted around raised to pay for the chief budget writer, says program,” said Kenley operation is still ongo - lawmakers must increase ideas, hired consultants improvements. lawmakers need to “face up who suggested a gasoline ing,” said Ingy Sedky, a taxes if they’re going to and studied the issue for Now even those who have to the fact” that more tax increase or adding spokeswoman for the move forward on plans to several years. But many in resisted the idea are signal - money is needed. Last ses - tolls on the state’s high - International Committee improve the state’s infra - the Legislature’s Republi - ing that they are ready to sion he opposed a tax ways. of the Red Cross. structure. can majority have been move forward with an increase. See Increase page 5 See Leaving page 6

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Portland’s weather station 25 with a chance of light snow Jay County High School Today measured an overnight low in the afternoon. Snow, freezing student council will offer free 5 to 7 p.m. — Decoration temperature of 2 degrees. Wind rain and sleet are expected after gift wrapping during basket - crafts and Santa visit at Jay chills dropped below negative- midnight Friday with winds ball games tonight and Satur - County Public Library 10. Wednesday’s high topped gusting to 20 miles per hour. As day. Those interested can drop Friday out at 21. much as an inch of accumula - their gifts off at the beginning 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. — Bryant Tonight’s low will be 8, with tion is possible. of either game and pick them Wesleyan Church Live Nativi - wind chills dropping as low as For an extended forecast, see up when the game is over. ty negative-5. Friday’s high will be page 2. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Thursday, December 15, 2016 Warms ... Continued from page 1 During discussion, council one. It was for you all to do your •Approved additional appro - •Approved the 2017 salary Champ asked why Coats does - president Mike Leonhard said fiduciary responsibility to priations from the general fund ordinance. n’t fill the position before she elected officials should have make sure that the taxpayers' in the amount of $5,000 for com - •Granted approval for numer - leaves office, in an effort to help the responsibility to hire dollar is being spent appropri - pensation and $20,000 for utilities ous departments to transfer the newly elected clerk. employees to fill budgeted posi - ately. That was it,” he said. at Jay County Jail. Council also funds from one line-item to “Am I allowed to appoint tions. However, he said that if Ultimately, council settled on, approved an additional appropri - another. myself to a position? You tell the vacancy isn’t filled for a with Champ dissenting, amend - ation of $13,282.71 for equipment •Reappointed Roy Bunch to me,” she responded. certain amount of time, it ing the recommendations budg - repairs at the jail to come out of the Jay County Regional Sewer Jay Superior Court Judge should be looked at for elimina - et committee had previously the Public Safety Local Option District board. Max Ludy spoke in favor of tion. approved to allow department Income Tax fund. •Denied appropriating $10,000 Coats’ position and said council Council and budget commit - heads to replace open positions •OK’d additional appropria - has a budgetary process where tee member Jeanne Houchins with the ability to review tions from the infrastructure from the general fund for the it can address problems it said the proposal was not vacancies during the budgeting fund of $5,200 for an air condi - coroner autopsy expense. It was might have with how an elected meant to cut positions or block process. tioner at the county health council’s understanding the official is running their depart - department heads from hiring In other business, council department, $9,780.75 in costs to funds were to get the office ment. employees, but rather to allow members Gary Theurer, Bob repair at Jay County Landfill and through the rest of the year. “I don’t think you do it mid - time for review. Vance, Mike Rockwell, Cindy to put $257,809 into the line-item Auditor Anna Culy said the stream. You already made your Inman agreed with her. Newton, Leonhard, Champ and for new dispatching equipment office currently has about budget,” he said. “It’s not to micromanage any - Houchins: for Jay County Sheriff’s Office. $1,200 left in its budget. Raises ... CR almanac Continued from page 1 who shared the same clas - the retirement center, sur - ings, the firm recommend - The two retirement cen - sification, for a 4-percent veyor’s office and highway ed the truck drivers and Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday ter employees — a wage increase in 2017. department heads to heavy equipment opera - 12/17 12/17 12/18 12/19 12/20 cook/housekeeper super - However, that decision review job descriptions tors jump up a class, visor and maintenance was reviewed by the per - with a consultant from bumping up their wages, worker — will stay in their sonnel committee after Waggoner, Irwin, Scheele while retirement center current classification and retirement center assis - and Associates, the con - employees remain in their will not receive a salary tant director Tammy sulting firm that devel - current classification. The 25/24 44/17 19/0 15/9 27/21 bump. Davis voiced concerns. oped the county’s classifi - personnel committee and In September, council The personnel commit - cation system. county council decided to There is a Snow, freezing Skies will be Sunny, but Sunny skies approved the employees, tee initially decided for Based on those meet - follow the firm’s plan. chance of rain and rain mostly cloudy cold. Skies will with tempera - snow begin - are expected with tempera - remain clear tures climbing ning in the in the early tures peaking overnight. into the 20s. early after - morning fol - in the high noon. The high lowed by rain teens. will be in the later in the Felony mid 20s. day. arrests Lotteries Narcotic possession A Portland woman was Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: arrested Wednesday Estimated jackpot: $173,500 afternoon on drug-relat - $59 million Hoosier Lotto: 17-19- ed charges. 26-32-36-40 Nicole R. Stone, 26, 997 Powerball Estimated jackpot: S. Boundary Pike, Apart - 18-26-37-39-66 $3.3 million ment 33, was arrested by Powerball: 15 Portland Police Depart - Power Play: 3 Ohio ment on preliminary Estimated jackpot: Midday charges of two counts of $119 million Pick 3: 4-3-0 possession of a narcotic Pick 4: 4-9-9-2 drug and unlawful pos - Hoosier Pick 5: 0-4-8-8-9 session of a syringe, all Midday Evening Level 6 felonies, and pos - Daily Three: 1-8-1 Pick 3: 1-8-0 session of parapherna - Daily Four: 2-6-7-9 Pick 4: 0-2-0-8 Photo provided lia, possession or use of a legend or precursor drug Quick Draw: 3-4-6-8- Pick 5: 4-6-5-0-4 and public intoxication, 16-18-19-20-21-29-31-36-42- Rolling Cash 5: 3-5-6- all Class A misde - 46-48-51-53-62-69-70 17-34 Pet of the week meanors. Evening Estimated jackpot: Suki, a female beagle mix, is available for adoption for $100 She was booked at 2:46 Daily Three: 7-6-6 $110,000 from Jay County Humane Society, 1313 Shadeland Ave., Portland. The p.m. into Jay County Jail Daily Four: 7-1-6-6 Classic Lotto: 2-8-10- shelter can be reached at (260) 726-6339. and is being held there on Quick Draw: 10-17-23- 18-34-46 a $4,500 bond. 24-26-27-31-32-44-46-47-49- Kicker: 5-4-7-2-4-9 54-59-61-66-68-69-77-78 Estimated jackpot: Cash 5: 7-24-25-28-35 $6.4 million Felony court news Markets Common nuisance Syringe possession Dealing narcotics A Portland woman was sentenced A Pennville man was sentenced A Syracuse man was sentenced in Sunrise Feb. corn ...... 3.75 recently in Jay Superior Court. recently in Jay Superior Court on a Jay Circuit Court recently on a drug- Fort Recovery March corn ...... 3.76 Kelly M. White, 33, 130 W. McNeil drug-related charge. dealing charge. Corn ...... 3.52 St., pleaded guilty to a charge of Steven J. Hirst, 34, 410 E. Max Adam C. Alfont, 21, 611 E. North Jan. corn ...... 3.53 Central States maintaining a common nuisance – Drive, pleaded guilty to the charge Shore Drive, pleaded guilty to dealing Beans ...... 9.97 Montpelier controlled substances, a Level 6 of unlawful possession of a syringe, in a narcotic drug, a Level 5 felony. As felony. As a part of a plea agree - a Level 6 felony. As a part of a plea a part of a plea agreement, additional Jan. beans ...... 9.97 Corn ...... 3.59 ment, charges of unlawful posses - agreement, charges of possession charges of maintaining a common Wheat ...... 3.75 Jan. corn ...... 3.60 sion of a syringe and neglect of a of marijuana and possession of nuisance – controlled substance and Jan. wheat ...... 3.85 Beans ...... 10.02 dependent, both Level 6 felonies, paraphernalia, both Level 6 unlawful possession of a syringe, Jan. beans ...... 10.06 were dismissed. felonies, were dismissed. both Level 6 felonies, were dismissed. Cooper Farms Wheat ...... 4.10 She was sentenced to one year in He was sentenced to two years in He was sentenced to three years in Jan. wheat ...... 4.13 Fort Recovery Jay County Jail, with all but 180 Jay County Jail with all but 180 days the Indiana Department of Correc - Corn ...... 3.77 days suspended, and given 180 days suspended and given 174 days credit tion with two years suspended and Jan. corn ...... 3.78 The Andersons credit for 90 days already served. for 87 days already served. Hirst was given credit for time served since his March corn ...... 3.79 Richland Township She was assessed court costs and assessed court costs of $183 and date of arrest Aug. 10. He was Dec. Corn ...... 3.57 ordered to attend and pay $150 for ordered to attend and pay $150 for assessed court costs of $183 and a $200 POET Biorefining Jan. corn ...... 3.57 the “Thinking for Good” program. “Moral Recognition Therapy.” He drug abuse, prosecution, interdiction Portland Dec. Beans ...... 9.93 She was placed on formal probation was placed on formal probation for and correction fee, and placed on for - Dec. corn ...... 3.76 Jan. beans ...... 9.99 for six months. 18 months. mal probation for two years. Jan. corn ...... 3.78 Wheat ...... 3.85 Today in history Capsule Reports

On Dec. 15, 1791 , the were killed in Grand Hit and run Mumby told police the tion with county road 300 struck a deer with her vehi - Bill of Rights, the first River, South Dakota, The car a Portland man owner of the maroon car South. Decker drove the cle Wednesday morning ten amendments to the during a confrontation was driving was damaged told him that he didn’t L200 straight through the south of Portland. U.S. Constitution, went with Indian police. in a hit and run accident have auto insurance and intersection and struck a Marsha J. Medler, 57, 1645 into effect following rati - In 1966 , movie pro - Wednesday evening south - left the scene. utility pole on the south W. 350 South, told Portland fication by Virginia. ducer Walt Disney died west of Portland. Damage in the 5:32 p.m. side of county road 300 Police Department she was In 1814 , the “Hartford in Los Angeles at age 65. Shawn B. Mumby, 49, accident was estimated South. driving her 2008 Buick Convention” began as In 1986 , Marion 2447 S. Blaine Pike, told between $2,500 and $5,000. He was transported to Enclave north on Blaine New England Federal - County Circuit Court Jay County Sheriff’s Ball Memorial Hospital Pike, south of the intersec - ists opposed to the War Judge John Ryan dis - Office he was driving a Utility pole struck after a complaint of pain tion with county road 150 of 1812 secretly gathered missed a lawsuit chal - 2006 Pontiac G6 southwest A rural Dunkirk man to his face. South, when a deer entered in the Connecticut capi - lenging the system used on Blaine Pike, when he struck a utility pole with Damage in the 11:20 p.m. the roadway. She struck the tal. (America’s victory to select South Adams came to a stop at the inter - his vehicle Wednesday accident was estimated animal with her vehicle. in the Battle of New School board members. section with county road night. between $2,500 and $5,000. Damage in the 8:30 a.m. Orleans and the war’s A system to elect board 200 South. Mumby said he Robert R. Decker, 57, 1542 accident was estimated end effectively discredit - members went into pulled into the intersec - N. 875 East, in Blackford Deer struck between $2,500 and ed the Convention.) effect two years earlier. tion to cross county road County, was driving his A rural Portland woman $5,000. In 1890 , Sioux Indian They had previously 200 South and the driver 2001 Saturn L200 south on Chief Sitting Bull and 11 been appointed. side of the G6 was struck county road 1100 West, other tribe members —AP and The CR by a westbound car. approaching the intersec - Citizen’s calendar

Friday 5:30 p.m. — Portland 4 p.m. — Jay County City Council, council Election Board, clerk’s chambers, fire sta - office, Jay County tion, 1616 N. Franklin Courthouse, 120 N. St. Court St., Portland. 7 p.m. — Ridgeville Town Council, Fire Monday station/library, 306 N. 9 a.m. — Jay County Walnut St. Commissioners, com- 7:30 p.m. — Fort missioners’ room, Jay Recovery Village Coun - County Courthouse, 120 cil, village hall, 201 S. N. Court St., Portland. Main St. The Commercial Review Thursday, December 15, 2016 Family Page 3

To wed December 17th Amazon makes its Maria first drone delivery Murphy By ALAN LEVIN and was received and the which in July made its SPENCER SOPER items were packaged, the own household delivery Bloomberg cargo was automatically via drone from a 7- and Retail giant loaded onto the under - Eleven store in Reno, Amazon.com has made side of a quad copter. Nevada. Flirtey co- Seth its first drone delivery to The drone then lifted founder and CEO Matt an actual customer, drop - off and flew using the Sweeny envisions cus - ping off a Fire TV device company’s automation tomers paying a fee of Huelskamp and a bag of popcorn to a software for guidance. A about $10 for the conven - house in the rural Eng - human operator was ience of quick drone Maria Murphy and Seth Huel - lish countryside 13 min - standing by to take over delivery, and is experi - skamp are planning a Dec. 17 wed - utes after receiving an in the event of a failure. menting with the con - ding at Holy Trinity Catholic online order. The drone landed with venience store chain on Church, Bryant. The delivery occurred the help of a target delivering over-the- Maria is the daughter of Mitchell Dec. 7 near Cambridge in placed on the ground to counter medication, and Anna Murphy, Bryant. She is a a zone that British avia - guide the craft’s sensors which could appeal to 2012 graduate of Jay County High tion authorities have to a safe touchdown parents of sick children. School and a 2016 graduate of Ball authorized for drone test zone. Project Wing, a unit of State University where she earned a flights, according to a Drones could play a Alphabet, which also tweet Wednesday by key role in helping Ama - owns Google, experi - bachelor’s degree in special educa - Maria Murphy/Seth Huelskamp tion. She is employed as a special company Chief Execu - zon manage costs while mented with dropping education teacher at Norwell High tive Officer Jeff Bezos quickly delivering off burritos to students School, Ossian. He is a 2008 graduate of St. Henry and a video documenting online orders. The com - and other test subjects Seth is the son of Mark and High School and is employed at the flight. Bezos owns pany has expanded its last September at Vir - The Washington Post, Sandy Huelskamp, St. Henry, Ohio. Lefeld Welding in Coldwater, Ohio. Prime Now service, ginia Tech in Blacks - which has a business which delivers tens of burg, Virginia. relationship with thousands of products All these tests were Bloomberg News. commonly found in con - effectively simulations While the flight was venience and drug stores of how deliveries would conducted under British in as little as an hour, to work and not the fully restrictions that for now combine the ease of automated robotic Registration is being prohibit such deliveries online shopping with the flights the companies on a widespread basis, it instant gratification of hope will eventually marks a milestone in the getting goods at a store. become routine. held for piano, guitar r ace by companies like Amazon’s proposed While routine commer - Amazon and Alphabet to use of drones may drive cial drones flights have Arts Place, Blackford Beginners will practice to 5:30 p.m. each Thurs - use unmanned vehicles down the cost to deliver been approved in the County Arts Center, is from 4 to 4:45 p.m. or 4:45 day for 10 weeks. to transform how cus - small packages U.S., they’re not allowed accepting registrations to 5:30 p.m. each Tuesday Intermediate students tomers buy and receive crosstown to as little as over people and must for individual music les - for 10 weeks. will practice from 5:30 to goods. The company is $1, a fraction of existing stay within sight of an sons and piano and guitar Intermediate students 6:15 p.m. each Thursday. beginning broader deliv - same-day delivery operator on the ground. labs. will practice from 5:30 to The cost is $25 and an ery trials in an attempt options, according to a Until companies can Individual lessons are 6:15 p.m. each Tuesday. acoustic guitar may be to gather safety data to 2015 study by New York- prove to the Federal Avi - available for band instru - The cost is $25 and a borrowed at no extra justify expansion of the based ARK Invest that ation Administration ments, guitar, mandolin, keyboard may be bor - charge. program. tried to quantify the sav - and other regulators ukulele, piano, violin, rowed at no extra charge. Blackford County Arts Amazon is making its ings from the use of around the world that voice and cello and will The guitar lab is for Center is located at 107 W. drone-delivery service drones compared with radio links, collision- begin the first week in fourth, fifth and sixth Washington St. in Hartford available to customers delivery trucks and avoidance technology January. grade students and will City. For more information who live within a few couriers. and guidance systems The piano lab is for sec - begin Feb. 9. or to register, call Amy Day miles of a facility it built In the U.S., Amazon are reliable and safe, ond and third graders and Beginners will practice at (765) 348-4154 or email to test deliveries. faces competition from widespread deliveries will begin Feb. 7. from 4 to 4:45 p.m. or 4:45 amyday@arts land.org . After the Dec. 7 order startups like Flirtey, won’t be feasible. Uncle should discuss ‘caveman’ manners DEAR ABBY: I’m a 50-some - situation, considering how been rude to try to interrupt my tion. If that’s the case, per - thing single man living with my many social occasions conversation. She thinks I disre - haps it would be better if you elderly mother. My father revolve around food. If no spected her and our marriage by saw Dick on a one-to-one passed away a while ago, and the Dear one ever took the time during putting conversation with my basis without the wives only members of my family left the last 27 years to explain friend above her. This happens around. That way you won’t are me, my mom and my older Abby basic table etiquette to Jeff, often when the four of us are be interrupted. sister, who has a 27-year-old son, you can’t blame your nephew together. ——— “Jeff.” They do not live with us. for his atrocious manners. Am I being insensitive to my Dear Abby is written by Abi - My sister has been divorced You should speak to him wife’s feelings? We frequently gail Van Buren, also known as for 10 years. Jeff and his parents sees the problem, but doesn’t about this — but privately — disagree, but we have been mar - Jeanne Phillips, and was found - never had a scheduled dinner - want to say anything for fear of and ask if he would like you ried 44 years. Your input would ed by her mother, Pauline time, and they never ate togeth - offending him. His mother sees to give him some pointers. be appreciated. — ALWAYS A Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at er. Jeff’s meals consisted of it, too, but does nothing. However, if he refuses, you LOVING HUSBAND www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box whatever he wanted, eaten in Jeff has no girlfriend or sig - might be happier eating else - DEAR LOVING HUSBAND: 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. his bedroom. nificant other at the moment, where when your mother It is generally considered Abby shares more than 100 of Once a week, my mother but if he were to go to any invites Jeff and his mom for rude to interrupt someone her favorite recipes in two book - makes a nice dinner and invites “nice” restaurant, he’d end up dinner. when he or she is talking. lets: "Abby's Favorite Recipes" my sister and nephew over. The looking idiotic. It has reached DEAR ABBY: Recently, my The next time your wife does and "More Favorite Recipes by problem is, Jeff was never the point that I can no longer wife and I went dancing with my it, stop and ask her what’s so Dear Abby." Send your name taught proper table manners. He look at him while we are at the friend “Dick” and his wife. important. (Could it be that and mailing address, plus check eats like a caveman, slurps his table because it ruins my While I was in the middle of a the band is playing your or money order for $14 (U.S. food and holds the utensils like appetite. How can someone tact - conversation with Dick, my wife song?) funds) to: Dear Abby, Cookbook - a 2-year-old. It’s embarrassing. fully teach this kid how to eat kept trying to interrupt. She However, if you have been let Set, P.O. Box 447, Mount Mor - When I mention this to my and conduct himself properly? even laid her hand on my arm to droning on with your buddy ris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and mother, she gets on my case — CAVEMAN'S UNCLE try to get my attention. I ignored for a long time, she may sim - handling are included in the about “criticizing” him. She DEAR UNCLE: This is a sad her and told her later she had ply be craving some atten - price.) Community Calendar Notices will appear in Community Calendar as space is available. To sub - JAY COUNTY TRAILS CLUB — Will meet from 10 Saturday mit an item, email Virginia CLUB — Will have a to 11 a.m. each Friday at ALCOHOLICS ANONY - Cline at [email protected]. Christmas dinner meeting West Jay Community Cen - MOUS — Will meet at 10 at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Lil ter in Dunkirk. Chairs will a.m. upstairs at True Today Bistro in Redkey. be used for seated and Value Hardware, North CELEBRATE RECOV - standing support. For Meridian Street, Portland. Sudoku ERY — A 12-step Christian Friday more information, call For more information, call recovery program, the LIFE LINERS FITNESS Kathy at (765) 768-1544. (260) 729-2532. group will meet at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. each Thurs - day at A Second Chance At Th e C Life Ministries, 228 S. R Meridian St. in Portland. The CR For more information, call Brenda Eads at (260) 726- 9625 or Dave Keen at (260) 251-8792. JAY COUNTY HUMANE

SOCIETY — Will meet at R The C The C R 5:30 p.m. the third Thurs - day of each month at Jay County Public Library. REDKEY The public is welcome. MISSISSINEWA CHAP - CR TER NATIONAL SOCIE - WALKING TY DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU - TION — Will meet at 6:30 ROUTE p.m. Thursday at Jay County Historical Society Museum. Speaker will be Looking for extra money? Rusty Inman of John Jay Wednesday’s Solution Center for Learning. The public is welcome. For Retired, Need Exercise, Bored? The objective is to fill a more information, call nine-by nine grid so that Regent Paula Confer at each column, each row, and (765) 369-2656 or Sue Som - each of the nine three-by- mers at (260) 726-2678. three boxes (also called PORTLAND LIONS Only 1 hour a day=$$$ blocks or regions) contains CLUB — Will meet at 6:30 the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Portland Lions Civic Center, 307 W. 100 North. Call Kim: 260-726-8141 The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Thursday, December 15, 2016 Indiana 26 is wonderful Thanks INDOT. Thanks Milestone. At no time in history has Indiana 26 west from Portland to Indiana 1 Editorial looked so good and been so safe to drive. The thank you to INDOT should come with an asterisk, since local and its employees who residents have been com - brought the project to plaining to the Indiana fruition. Department of Trans - Milestone, which has portation about that an office in Portland, is stretch of highway for part of the Heritage more than 40 years. Group, a large, multi- It was dangerously nar - faceted company based in row for today’s traffic, Indianapolis. Among its had a pair of 90-degree holdings, in addition to intersection turns, and Milestone, is U.S. Aggre - had deteriorated so badly gates, which operates the in recent years that it former Meshberger was often safer to drive in Brothers stone quarry the wrong lane rather west of Portland. than brave the chuck - Did those local ties holes and ruts. make a difference? Milestone, the contrac - Maybe not. tor on the seven-mile But it couldn’t have project, fixed all that. In hurt to have people con - fact, they made it a better structing the highway highway than most of us who had ties to the com - Cabinet picks are bizarre could have imagined. The munity it serves. state’s engineers solved Thanks to everyone By CLARENCE PAGE fighting poverty, expressed in his the 90-degree turn situa - involved for a job well Tribune Content Agency speeches and writings, leans heavi - tion, but it was Milestone done. — J.R. As low as my expectations might ly on quaint, old-fashioned, self- be for the Donald Trump presiden - Clarence help values. Poverty, he once told a cy, he finds new ways to drop the television interview in a much- bar even lower. Page replayed clip, “is really more of a Take his cabinet nominees. choice than anything else.” Be alert for Please. That might be true for those of They aren’t all bad. Retired us who were born poor but fortu - Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, nate enough to have resources at the president-elect’s choice for sec - latest in a series of lawsuits he’s hand, such as a fully functional energy scams filed against the agency Trump retary of defense, comes well-rec - family and good schools. But what It’s the busiest time of would now like him to head. ommended by old guard defense do you do for those who were not the year for most of us. experts like Sen. John McCain (R., And I can’t leave out Sen. Jeff born so lucky? Sessions (R-AL). A tough critic of While retailers enjoy Letters to Arizona) and turns out to be Trump’s urban “disaster” views the extra business and we nowhere near as nutty as his nick - the Voting Rights Act, Trump has sound frozen in the riot years of enjoy the holidays with name implies. tapped him to be attorney general, the ‘60s. Poverty fighters in both family and friends, it’s the editor And it’s hard to dislike the bipar - a move that, aided by a Republican parties whom I have covered in also a time that can bring tisan appeal of Gov. Nikki Haley Congress, puts him in an excellent recent decades have learned a lot out the worst in scam - (R-S.C.), although Trump’s choice position to launch a Reconstruc - of valuable lessons about what mers and con artists. In to name her U.N. ambassador is a tion-style collapse of civil rights works and what doesn’t in urban If you receive such a particular, all consumers puzzlement. She has little experi - enforcement with the enthusiasm policy. phone call, it’s best to should keep their guard ence in foreign relations but she of a fox guarding a henhouse. Sometimes the lessons have come hang up right away. If the up about scams involving opposes President Obama’s Iran Still, the prizewinner for puz - with unintended consequences. For caller demands that you nuclear deal, so maybe that’s good zling choices may well be Trump’s example, the demolition of Chica - their utility services. use a pre-paid debit card enough for Trump. naming of Dr. Ben Carson, his for - go’s public housing high-rises Here’s what typically or a money order to pay But some of Trump’s other mer rival for the Grand Old Party’s restored peace to some violently happens: A consumer the alleged debt, that’s a choices illustrate how dramatical - presidential nomination, to be sec - troubled real estate. But it led to a (often a small business) red flag. ly an election can swing our gov - retary of Housing and Urban dispersal of street gangs into some will receive a call from Simply don’t do it. ernment’s executive branch into a Development. of the city’s poorest neighborhoods someone claiming to Many utilities across Bizarro World version of its for - Sure, Ben Carson is a nice guy — and one of the highest gun vio - work for his or her utili - the country are support - mer self — like the fictional planet with a great ghetto-to-Gold-Coast, lence rates in the nation. ty. The consumer’s caller ing Utilities United in DC comics where everything is pull-up-your-bootstraps narrative. But there’s enough good news in ID may even be tricked Against Scams (UUAS) — the reverse of life on Earth. The retired neurosurgeon has been public-private partnerships, hous - into showing the utility’s a new, national coalition This is particularly true when the subject of best-selling books ing vouchers and other innova - name and what appears to protect customers government appointees don’t seem and a made-for-TV movie, “Gifted tions to make many “inner-city” to be a legitimate phone from such fraud. UUAS is to care very much for government. Hands,” starring Cuba Gooding Jr. neighborhoods into oases of gen - number. The caller will a welcome initiative. For secretary of labor, Trump as Dr. Ben. trification. To help those who have claim the customer’s bill If you are ever worried wants Andrew Puzder, a fast-food But what does he know about been left behind by these signs of is past due and demand about your billing status, executive with a negative attitude housing and urban development urban hope, our nation needs wise that the customer pay call your utility using the toward additional overtime pay for policy? Well, he owns a house and leadership that doesn’t require on- within an hour or service customer service number workers and raising the minimum grew up in Detroit. Fine. But driv - the-job training. will be shut off immedi - on your bill. wage. ing a car does not make you an •••••••••• ately. Happy Holidays to all. To head the Environmental Pro - auto mechanic. Page, who is substituting for Be aware: Indiana utili - But please be on the tection Agency, Trump proposes HUD doesn’t need a brain sur - Leonard Pitts Jr., is syndicated ties are required to pro - alert. Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney geon. It needs people with good columnist and member of The vide written notices David Stippler general, a climate-change skeptic, brains for housing and urban Chicago Tribune’s editorial board. before disconnecting cus - Indiana Utility Con - who is currently engaged in the development. Carson’s views on Email him at [email protected]. tomers for nonpayment. sumer Counselor Eliminate waste during the holiday season By TAMI SILVERMAN requests to help youth workers, ry feelings of the holidays with - thank-you note to a special coach, The ideals of the holidays — educators and parents with build - out overindulging our children? mentor or neighbor. The idea is sharing special faith traditions ing self-discipline, resilience or Obviously, gifts are not the only to help children build connec - and spending time with family Tami “grit” in our kids. According to way to celebrate. Experts suggest tions with family and communi - and friends — can easily be over - psychologist Dr. David Walsh, for - we set gift limits, focus on esteem- ty. shadowed by the barrage of Silverman mer president of the National building gifts and teach the joy of The holidays can be a wonder - advertisements, sales and the Institute on Media and the Fami - giving. ful time of the year, and a bit of pressure to deliver the perfect ly, “There’s research showing Instead of increasing the num - indulgence is expected. Yet gifts for our kids. that self-discipline is twice as ber of gifts each child receives, overindulgence, especially when The National Retail Federation strong a predictor of school suc - focus on the items and experi - it comes to gifts, can actually be estimates Americans will spend lead to increases in destructive cess as intelligence.” ences that create lasting memo - harmful to children. Especially at an average of $935 this year for behavior, lower self-esteem and The holidays are an ideal time ries. Involve children in selecting this time of year, our kids need us the holidays. But many experts decreases in overall happiness. to help our children learn self- gifts for others. Both adults and to model generosity and self-con - say we should refocus our holiday The overindulgences often start control by managing their children often report greater hap - trol. efforts on giving to others in at a young age and continue impulses and behavior. Dr. Ken - piness in giving gifts than in By engaging our kids in cre - order to raise happy, empathetic through adolescence. While neth R. Ginsburg with the Ameri - receiving them. The goal is to ative ways to celebrate and con - and resilient kids. unwrapping a stack of gifts may can Academy of Pediatrics sug - build thoughtfulness and grati - nect with others, we can develop Try asking the children in your seem joyful, child development gests parents must overcome tude, while setting clear bound - new family traditions beyond life to name their favorite gifts experts say the effect is short- impulses to over-purchase. We aries for gift-giving. gifts. Raising thoughtful, grateful from last year. Chances are they lived and often leads to increas - need to teach our children that Look for ways to engage your and resilient children takes prac - may only remember a couple. ing requests and demands for some items must wait for special children beyond presents. Have tice and constant reinforcement. Overindulgence, even when well- more. Conversely, teaching our occasions, some must be earned them help decorate, go caroling Even when Santa’s coming to intentioned, can have serious children the value of delayed and some are out of bounds. Not or collect donations for others. town. consequences for children. gratification and self-control can only is it okay for us to say “no” to Arrange a day for them to help •••••••••• According to research high - create lasting benefits. some of our children’s requests, grandma bake the traditional Silverman is the president and lighted in Psychology Today, giv - At the Indiana Youth Institute, it’s also beneficial. cinnamon rolls or decorate cook - CEO of the Indiana Youth Insti - ing children too many gifts can there’s a growing number of How can we keep the celebrato - ies. Have your child write a tute. Email her at [email protected]. The Commercial Review HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

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Gregg tried to make the lack of He has also expressed support for Gov.-elect Eric Hol - “laser focused” on taking Indiana Holcomb said more details are clear policy details a campaign completing construction of Inter - comb has reappointed to the “next level,” but the Repub - coming after the start of the leg - issue, though Holcomb said he’s state 69, a project that is currently Mary Beth Bonaventu - lican has yet to offer much more islative session in January and “not losing any sleep” over it and underway. And he has reiterated a ra as director of the than platitudes about improving he’s focused on “getting it right” noted that “the campaign trail call from GOP leaders to develop Indiana Department the economy, infrastructure and before unveiling his agenda. turned out OK” for him. an infrastructure funding plan of Child Services. education while also combating But GOP lawmakers are already One area Holcomb has offered that could cover the next 20 years. Holcomb announced the state’s addiction crisis. talking about the necessity of limited specifics on is infrastruc - “I’m chomping at the bit to get the reappointment of That didn’t change Wednesday crafting an austere two-year budg - ture, though he backs ideas that going,” Holcomb said. “I’m opti - the former Lake Coun - when Holcomb, who is Indiana’s et and have floated the possibility were already proposed or under - mistic about taking these issues ty juvenile court judge current lieutenant governor, of raising taxes to pay for way. on.” Wednesday to lead delivered his first major speech improvements to the state’s crum - Holcomb said he would like to When asked if he was moving Indiana’s child protec - since November’s election victory bling infrastructure. One lead see U.S. 31, running north from slower to roll out his agenda and tion efforts, a post she over Democratic former State - Republican budget writer has Indianapolis to South Bend, built make appointments than his pred - has held for four years. house Speaker John Gregg. raised doubts about expanding a to the point where it is like an ecessor, Holcomb said: “I don’t Holcomb also “We have a lot of good things low-income preschool program interstate. He would also like to measure the past. I measure what announced he’s reap - going for us, but we can’t take our that is currently offered in five see the state add another port in we have in store for the future.” pointing three other state officials who have served under out - going Gov. Mike Pence. Yahoo Gripped Closings are today MINNEAPOLIS — reveals Dangerously cold tem - peratures gripped the Upper Midwest in a hack advance of a storm By MICHAEL LIEDTKE that’s expected to Roof trial AP Technology Writer bring several inches of SAN FRANCISCO — snow in coming days, will go to Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an while schools and offi - jury soon unnerving but increas - cials in the Northeast ingly common phenome - braced for their own non — massive hacks blast of wintry weath - that steal secrets and er. other potentially reveal - A wind chill adviso - By JEFFREY COLLINS ing information from our ry enveloped North Associated Press personal digital Dakota, Minnesota CHARLESTON, S.C. — accounts, or from big and Wisconsin on In the days after nine organizations that hold Wednesday and black worshippers were sensitive data on our stretched into parts of killed in their Charleston behalf. church at the end of Indiana, Ohio and On Wednesday, Yahoo Bible study, President Pennsylvania. Those disclosed a gargantuan Barack Obama called Associated Press/Chuck Burton breach affecting more advisories remained Dylann Roof blinded by in effect through this than a billion user hate and Charleston’s In this June 18, 2015, file photo, Charleston, S.C., shooting accounts, the largest morning and beyond. mayor said he was “pure, The cold claimed at suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County such attack in history. pure concentrated evil.” The company said that least one life: A 34- Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. Now some 18 months attack happened in year-old woman died later, the people asked by August 2013, although of hypothermia in St. the government to judge 3. But Roof never con - biggest change to come Yahoo only discovered it Paul, Minnesota. She Roof will gather at the Defense attorney fessed any regrets, stick - from the June 17, 2015, recently. was found Monday, federal courthouse less David Bruck put up no ing to his assertion that killings was the removal Worse, the company’s when temperatures than a mile from the witnesses. The first the killings had to hap - of the Confederate flag announcement followed a dropped to 3 below church where the June words in his opening pen after he researched from in front of the South similar announcement zero and wind chills 2015 massacre happened statement last week were “black on white crime” Carolina Statehouse after last September of a 2014 were minus 19. and decide whether to to tell jurors everything on the internet and it spent 50 years flying hack — one Yahoo hold him responsible for the prosecution had just accepted as fact dozens over the capitol or on its ascribed to an unnamed Man dies those deaths. accused Roof of doing of lies about white supe - grounds. foreign government — Closing arguments are were true. riority, leading him to Also placed into evi - that affected 500 million EVANSVILLE, Ind. expected today in Roof’s Roof’s own two-hour believe he needed to kill dence were dozens of accounts. — Authorities say a 67- trial, with jurors likely confession was played in black people. He said he photographs of Roof — a Neither Yahoo breach year-old man has died being asked to deliberate its entirety for the jury, in chose a church because strange travelogue of has yet been linked to after falling into a vat the 33 charges — includ - which he confessed bare - that setting posed little him alone at South Car - online fraud or any specif - of paint in southern ing hate crimes — before ly a minute after waving danger to him. olina sites important to ic repercussions for Indiana. lunch. If they come back his rights and seemed so Roof said in his confes - the Civil War or African- Yahoo users. But their The Vanderburgh with guilty verdicts, the far from grasping the sion, a journal found in American history. There disclosure closely follows County coroner’s same jury will decide if reality of the killings at his car and a statement also were photos of him U.S. intelligence concerns office says Joseph R. the 22-year-old white man Emanuel African he posted online that he holding the Confederate about Russian hacking of Ward of Newburgh gets the death penalty or Methodist Episcopal wanted his killings to flag, which ended more Democratic emails during was pronounced dead life in prison without church that he was lead to a return of segre - than a decade of inaction the presidential cam - stunned when FBI agents at the scene on parole in another phase gation or perhaps a race on the rebel banner at the paign — not to mention of the trial starting Jan. told him nine were dead. war. Instead, the single Statehouse. other recent attacks on a Wednesday at Red Spot major health insurer, a Paint in Evansville. medical lab-test company The fire department and the government office says it responded to a that manages millions of report that a person federal employees. had fallen into a vat. “The lesson is clear: no An autopsy was sched - Counter ... organization is immune to uled for today to deter - Continued from page 1 tion will come no later than 9:30 McClung. compromise,” said Jeff mine cause of death. The project is expected to cost a.m. •Approved leaves of absence for Hill, director of product less than $2 million and will focus •Approved a 2017-18 school calen - Sandy Mertz and Kristi Cressman. management for cyberse - Implemented on the media center at the high dar that calls for the first student day •Hired Alanna Drennen as a part- curity consultant Preva - school and surrounding class - on Aug. 14, fall break from Oct. 25 to time aide, Kaylea Kongar as a full- lent. And since most of us BOSTON — Having rooms. 27, winter break from Dec. 21 to Jan. time aide, Jesse Gaskill as middle are dependent on big spent nearly three In other business, the board: 2, spring break from March 26 to 30, school wrestling coach, Steve Tatman organizations that hold decades crusading for •Heard a review of inclement and the last student day May 23. With as drama director, Curt Amstutz as our digital lives in their relaxed marijuana weather policies by Litwiller. South few exceptions, the calendar coin - musical producer, Jennifer Thomson hands, in a broad sense Adams has the option of using two- cides with those adopted by nearby that effectively means no laws in Massachusetts, as vocal director, Karen Moser as hour and three-hour delays, though corporations, including Jay Schools, one is safe. Bill Downing is greet - accompanist, Danna Kistler as cos - ing the state’s new it has yet to use the three-hour to help accommodate students who Of course, it’s not that option since it was implemented in travel between schools for classes. tumer and Trish Moser as choreogra - simple. recreational marijua - pher. na law with a mix of December 2014. The initial decision •Approved a contract with Bixler The most sophisticated to delay or cancel school is made by Insurance for workers’ compensation •Approved a field trip request by break-ins are likely the satisfaction and trepi - Dots in Blue Water. A group of about dation. 6:30 a.m. If a two-hour delay is coverage at a cost of $117,541 through work of digital burglars 28 students and 10 adults are plan - working for foreign gov - The voter-approved called, a decision about whether Selective Insurance Company. classes will be held will be made by •Accepted the resignations of mid - ning to travel to Haiti in June 2017. ernments that are mostly measure took effect 8:30 a.m. If a three-hour delay is dle school wrestling coach Drew Tay - •Re-appointed Andrew Briggs to interested in manipulat - today, making it legal called, a final decision on cancella - lor and boys golf coach Kevin the Adams Public Library Board. ing their enemies. for adults to possess, grow and use limited amounts of pot. “I am both celebrat - ing and worrying that Increase ... Cooper Farms the law might not be Continued from page 1 Last session, Bosma and Incoming Republican Located in Fort Recovery, OH is actively seeking implemented proper - GOP House Speaker House Republicans put Gov. Eric Holcomb has a detail oriented individual to fulfill the role of our ly,” said Downing, Brian Bosma says he’s forward a roads funding said he wants to develop member liaison for looking to the gas, excise plan that would have an infrastructure plan 2nd Shift Vehicle the Massachusetts and cigarette taxes. Other raised Indiana’s cigarette that could cover the next Cannabis Reform Republicans, including tax by $1 a pack and 20 years. Maintenance Technician Coalition. Senate leader David Long, tacked 4 cents onto the But he has yet to weigh state’s 18 cents-a-gallon in on specifics and hasn’t —Associated Press have concurred with the The Vehicle Maintenance Technician will assist in keeping general proposition. gas tax, which hasn’t been indicated his stance on a increased since 2002. But tax increase. all machinery, trucks and equipment in proper working GOP Senate leaders and State consultants have condition as well as being able to work independently and Republican Gov. Mike said Indiana needs to Pence opposed the plan spend $1 billion or more a work on multiple types of equipment. Technicians will also and didn’t want to vote on year on roads. work closely with the preventative maintenance program a tax increase in an elec - Democrats opposed the while keeping vehicles serviced and records up to date. tion year. tax increase last session. The qualified candidate should have 2 years of maintenance experience and a Class A Commercial Driver’s License. Applicants must also own and use their own tools and toolboxes. Cooper Farms is more than a workplace.

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Area churches are listed with location, pastor and phone number, as well as email address and Web site where available. All services are Sunday, unless Candlelight service is Sunday otherwise indicated. Fort Recovery Church of the after the program. The church Nazarene will have a Candle - is located at 202 Floral Ave. in This Area Asbury United Methodist light Christmas Communion Church Portland. 204 E. Arch St., Portland Service at 6 p.m. Sunday. Church page is Jill Howard Also a Christmas Celebration roundup Christmas services made possible (260) 726-8464 Service will be held at 10 a.m. Noble Congregational Chris - Services: 8 a.m., 10:15 a.m. Dec. 25. There will be no tian Church will have a Candle - through Sunday school: 9 a.m. Wednesday Night Ministries light and Communion Christ - the courtesy of Director of youth and young for children and teens on Dec. mas Eve service at 6 p.m. Dec. adult ministries: Julie Tarr 21 and 28. Saturday at Bryant Wesleyan 24. Aaron Huey will be preach - the following asburyministries.org The church is located at 401 Church, 209 S. Hendricks St. ing. sponsors! Office hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. E. Boundary St. in Fort Recov - Services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday ery. Pierceys to perform Dec. 25. Huey will again be “Moments of Devotion” can be Vernon, Ashley and Josh speaking and there will be no heard each Sunday at 7 a.m. on Life Nativity Piercey will sing at 6 p.m. Sun - Sunday school. WPGW radio. The church has a A Live Nativity will be held day at Church of the Brethren. The church is located at 1964 The nursery available. from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Refreshments will be served N. 800 East. Handicapped accessible.

Theatre Banner Christian Call for Assembly of God Collett Nazarene (260) 726-4844 open each Wednesday from 5:30 to 1217 W. Votaw St., Portland 450 South, 1 mile west of U.S. 27 Services: 11 a.m. 7 p.m. movie info Michael Burk Billy Stanton Bible study: 9:45 a.m. Handicapped accessible. (260) 726-4282 (260) 251-2403 Service: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday 260-726-RITZ (7489) Services: 10:30 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Associate pastor: Sue Wade Geneva Nazarene www.ritzportland.com Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. http://www.thefamilyworship - 225 Decatur St., Geneva Bible study: 6:30 p.m. Wednes - Bible study: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday center.org Brenda Haddix day Youth director: Cassi Alberson Radio broadcasts can be heard (260) 346-2172 A nursery and children’s A nursery and children’s church at 8:30 and 9 a.m. on Sunday on Services: 10 a.m., 6 p.m. MAY church are available. FINANCIAL are available. WPGW-AM and FM. Sunday school: 9 a.m. GROUP, INC. The church accepts non-perish - Handicapped accessible. Prayer meeting: 7 p.m. Wednes - Bellefountain Specializing in: able food items, soap and paper day Affordable Care United Methodist products for the food bank. Fellowship Baptist Marketplace Insurance 440 S. 600 East Handicapped accessible. 289 S. 200 West Gilead Church Enrollment Gordon Jackson Hugh Kelly County road 650 North, one- Services: 9 a.m. Cornerstone Baptist (260) 726-8895 quarter mile east of Balbec JEFF HALL your hometown agent Sunday school: 10 a.m. 211 E. Main St., Portland Services: 10 a.m., 6 p.m. Services: 10:30 a.m. for 25 years Wayne Ward Sunday school: 9 a.m. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. (260) 729-5200 Bethel United Methodist (260) 726-7714 Assistant pastor: Mitch Corwin 111 W. Main Street Indiana 167, 4 miles north of Services: 10 a.m. Handicapped accessible. Grace Bible Portland, IN Dunkirk Sunday school: 9 a.m. P.O. Box 67 Scott McClain Services can be seen on cable First American Baptist 6626 Village Way, Berne Services: 10:45 a.m. channel 7 on Sundays at 10 a.m. 427 S. Main St., Dunkirk Jeff Gaskill Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Monday and Friday Dan Coffman (260) 589-2687 Bible study: 7 p.m. Tuesday at 7 p.m. (765) 768-7157 Services: 10 a.m., 6 p.m. A nursery is provided. Services: 10:40 a.m., 5 p.m. Sunday school: 9 a.m. Bluff Point Friends Handicapped accessible. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday 80 E. 650 South Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Services: 10 a.m. Cross Community Church Harvest Time Bible Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. 315 W. Main St., Berne First Church of Christ 11015 S. 600 East, Keystone, Rev. Joseph Gerkin (interim pas - 1049 Union City Road, Fort Wells County Boundary St. Paul tor) Recovery Tony Robles Corner of Treaty Line Road and (260) 589-2752 David J. Nicholson (260) 273-0877 county road 300 East Services: 10 a.m. (419) 375-2860 Services: 10 a.m. Ava Gannon Sunday school: 9 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m. Bible study: 7 p.m. Thursday (260) 726-2373 Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible classes: 9:30 a.m. MAY Services: 9:30 a.m. [email protected] Youth and adult programs: 6:30 Hickory Grove FINANCIAL A staffed nursery is available for p.m. Wednesday Church of the Brethren GROUP, INC. Bryant Wesleyan children age 3 and younger. www.fccftrecovery.org Indiana 1 and Indiana 26 Now offering 209 S. Hendricks St. A nursery is provided. Earl Doll Medicare D Paul VanCise Deerfield United Methodist (260) 731-4477 and (260) 997-6231 U.S. 27, south of Indiana 28 First Community Baptist Services: 10:30 a.m. Medicare Advantage 341 S. Meridian St., Redkey Sunday school: 9:25 a.m. Plans, Life & Health Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Belinda Pinkstaff Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. (765) 789-4511 Everett Bilbrey Jr. BRIAN BROWN Services: 9:30 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. High Street your hometown agent [email protected] (260) 729-5200 om [email protected] Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. United Methodist 111 W. Main Street There is also children’s church, Prayer service: 7 p.m. Wednes - 435 High St., Geneva Portland, IN “The Garden”, for preschoolers Dunkirk Nazarene day Rev. Michele Isch and a staffed nursery. 226 E. Center St., Dunkirk Radio broadcast “Gospel Truth” (260) 368-7233 Handicapped accessible. Tom Fett can be heard on Sunday at 1:30 Services: 9 a.m. (765) 768-6199 p.m. on WPGW. Sunday school: 10:15 a.m. Calvary United Methodist Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. 301 N. Main St., Dunkirk Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. First Free Will Baptist Holy Trinity Catholic Susan Durovey-Antrim Prayer service and children’s 12369 W. 600 South, Dunkirk 7321 E. Indiana 67, Bryant (765) 499-0368 ministry: 7 p.m. Wednesday Marion Donathan Rev. David Hoying, C.PP.S. Services: 10 a.m. Children’s pastor: Gloria Hamil - Services: 11 a.m., 6 p.m. Services: 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., [email protected] ton Sunday school: 10 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Saturday rg Dunkirk Food Pantry, located at Prayer service: 6 p.m. Wednes - Confessions are heard on Satur - the church, is open the second and day day at 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. or by request. Center United Methodist fourth Thursday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. First Missionary County road 500 West and Indi - Hopewell of Life Ministries ana 26 950 S. U.S. 27, Berne County road 200 South, 2 miles Gary Phillips Erastus United Methodist Rev. Don Williams east of Indiana 1 (765) 768-7540 Erastus-Durbin Road, Celina, (260) 589-2991 Ohio Services: 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m. Rev. Ruth Funk Services: 8:30 a.m. (260) 251-8581 Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Allan Brown Sunday school: 8 a.m., 9 a.m., (419) 678-2071 10:15 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Services: 9 a.m. www.fmcberne.com Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Church of Jesus Christ Sunday school: 8:30 a.m. Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Executive Director, of Latter-Day Saints Assistant pastor: Rev. David Gor - First Presbyterian Amanda Hirschy, LPN Indiana 167, between 150 and 200 don 402 N. Ship St., Portland Immaculate South, Dunkirk Call us or visit to find out more C. Stanley Gockel, interim pas - Conception Catholic Services: 10 a.m. Evangelical Methodist tor 506 E. Walnut St., Portland 260-726-3577 930 W. Main St., Portland (260) 726-8462 Robert Moran 745 Patriot Drive Church of the Living God Steve Arnold Services: 9:30 a.m. (260) 726-7341 Portland, IN (Miracle Missions, Inc.) (260) 251-0970 www.firstpcportland.org Services: 8 a.m., 10 a.m.; 5:30 8472 S. 800 East, Union City Services: 10:20 a.m., 6 p.m. A nursery is provided. p.m. Saturday Services: 10:30 a.m. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Handicapped accessible. Bible study: 11:10 a.m. Sunday Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Bible study: 6 p.m. Wednesday CCD: 7 p.m. Wednesday The church radio broadcast can Fort Recovery Church Church of God of Prophecy be heard at 9:15 a.m. Saturday on of the Nazarene Integris Community 797 N. Creagor Ave., Portland WPGW. 401 E. Boundary St., Fort Recov - 601 N. Charles St., Portland Nanette Weesner Handicapped accessible. ery Greg Haisley (260) 766-9334 (24-hour calls and Rev. Dennis Kelley (765) 283-6315 texts) Fairview United (419) 375-4680 [email protected] Services: 10 a.m., 6 p.m. 217 E. Pearl St. Methodist/Jay County Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m.; 7 Services: 6 p.m. Saturday; 6 p.m. Bible study: 6 p.m. Thursday 2875 E. 200 South p.m. Wednesday Tuesday Portland, IN www.portlandcogop.org Gordon Jackson Prayer: 9:15 a.m. Sunday. Sun - www.integrischurch.com (260) 726-2833 [email protected] Lay leader: Beth Stephen day school: 9:30 a.m. Handicapped accessible. (260) 726-9184 [email protected] Kingsley Full Gospel Services: 10:15 a.m. 4030 S. 700 East, Dunkirk Church of the Brethren Sunday school: 9:15 a.m. Fort Recovery Stuart Phillips Behind every project is a Floral and Chicago avenues, Handicapped accessible. United Methodist Services: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., 7 Portland 309 E. Boundary St., Fort Recov - p.m. Wednesday Kevin McClung Fairview United ery Portland True Value (260) 729-7295 Methodist/Randolph County Rev. Allan Brown Latter Day Saints Services: 10 a.m. Indiana 28, 2 miles east of (419) 678-2071 Indiana 167, 2 miles north of Shop Local Nursery care is provided for Albany Services: 9 a.m. Dunkirk Save Time • Save Money children age 5 and younger. Ryan Campbell Assistant pastor: David Gordon Mike Baker Handicapped accessible. (765) 760-2432 (260) 726-6263 (765) 256-0331 Services: 9:30 a.m. Full Gospel Services: 10 a.m. 1100 N. Meridian St. Church of the Living God Sunday school: 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. Lighthouse Tabernacle Sunday school: 11:15 a.m. Portland, IN South Broad Street, Dunkirk Bible study: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday 468 E. Washington St., Dunkirk Youth: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Rev. Theodore Wagoner A nursery is available. Robert Thomas Services: 7 p.m., 7 p.m. Friday (765) 348-4620 Little Salamonia Williamson, Sunday school: 9:45 a.m. Faith Evangelical Services: 9:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m., 6:30 Christian Church “River of Life” may be heard 9560 W. 200 South, Dunkirk p.m. Thursday 1098 E. 300 South, Portland Spencer & Penrod each Sunday at 8 a.m. on WPGW Harold Miller Adam Ridenour Funeral Homes, Inc. radio station. (260) 894-2257 Geneva First Services: 11 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m. United Methodist Todd & Rob Penrod Clear Creek Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. 100 W. Line St., Geneva Mary Help of Christians “Serving As We Congregational Christian Prayer/Bible study: 6:30 p.m. Barry McCune 403 Sharpsburg Road, Fort Would Be Served” 5016 N. U.S. 27, Winchester Wednesday (260) 368-7655 Recovery From 2 Convenient Locations Tom Sells A nursery is available. Services: 9:30 a.m. Rev. Ned Brown (765) 584-1564 Sunday school: 10:45 a.m. (419) 375-4153 PORTLAND (260) 726-7111 Services: 9:30 a.m., 7 p.m. Family Worship Center Bible study: 7 p.m. Monday (for Services: 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 PENNVILLE (260) 731-8811 Wednesday 200 E. Elder St., Portland women) a.m., 6 p.m. Sunday Sunday school: 10:45 a.m. David Wade Lord ’s Table Food Pantry is See page 7 The Commercial Review Thursday, December 15, 2016 Church Page 7

Continued from page 1 Mount Tabor United Methodist 216 W. Pleasant St., Dunkirk Rick Koop (765) 768-7273 Services: 9 a.m. Sunday school: 10:15 a.m. This Area Church page is Mount Zion made possible United Methodist County roads 600 East and 200 through North the courtesy of Rev. Darrell Borders (260) 726-4786 the following Services: 9 a.m. sponsors! Sunday school: 10 a.m. New Beginnings Holiness Church of Blaine 4017 W. 200 South Randy Smith Associated Press/Petr David Josek Matt’s Garage (260) 251-2406 Services: 10 a.m., 6 p.m. Master brewer Jiri Kratochvil looks into a beer kettle Dec. 6 at a brewery located Youth group: 6:30 p.m. Wednes - inside a 12th century complex of the Zeliv monastery in Zeliv, Czech Republic. Once badly day decimated by the former Communist regime the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic has Youth pastor: Garrett Smith been taking steps to become self-sufficient following a grand restitution deal. www.nbholiness.com 205 W. Union St. There is a nursery and children’s Portland, IN 47371 church. Handicapped accessible. 260-726-8761 Call us today! New Covenant Church starts beer line Fellowship By KAREL JANICEK the Catholic church to get into approved in 2012, the churches Associated Press business and become self-suffi - and religious groups have been 1238 W. 450 South ZELIV MONASTERY, Czech Terry Bye cient in the Czech Republic, receiving compensation for Republic — Inside the 12th cen - (260) 726-6247 where for decades its activities property seized by the Commu - tury Zeliv monastery, over - Services: 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. had been suppressed by the for - nists together with assets such Sunday school: 10 a.m. looked by crucifixes on stone mer Communist regime’s ambi - as farmland, forests, art and Prayer service: 6:30 p.m. Wednes - walls, is modern machinery that tion to create a fully atheist soci - buildings whose return they’ve day a visitor might not expect to ety. sought since the 1989 Velvet Rev - The church radio broadcast may find: a brand new beer produc - The church needs to get into olution toppled the totalitarian be heard on WPGW at 2 p.m. each tion line. business. In a grand restitution rule. Sunday. It’s part of a broader plan by plan worth billions of dollars See Starts page 8 A nursery is provided. New Life Ministries 415 S. Helen St., Portland (260) 997-6787 Bible study and brunch: 10:30 Rev. Michael Morgan Dr. Kay Fairchild Services: 10 a.m. a.m. (352) 425-5914 Baird-Freeman (260) 755-6354 Sunday school: 9 a.m. Services: 10:20 a.m., 6 p.m. Services: 6 p.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Handicapped accessible. Southside Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Funeral Home Thursday Church of Christ Youth: 5 p.m. Sunday drkayfairchild.com Redkey Faith 1209 S. Shank St., Portland Son Shine Club, Teen Bible Builders Ministry Flint Redwine study: 7 p.m. Wed.  e Teeter Family New Mt. Pleasant 422 N. Union St., Redkey (260) 726-7777 There is a nursery and children’s United Methodist Ken Fuller Services: 10:20 a.m., 6:30 p.m. church on Sunday. 5905 S. Como Road (765) 524-5378 Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Handicapped accessible. 221 N. Meridian St Tim Wallace Services: 4 to 6 p.m. Portland, IN 47371 (765) 499-7838 Ladies Bible study: 5:30 p.m. St. James Lutheran Union Chapel Church Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday County road 600 East, south of of the Nazarene (260) 726-7171 Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. county road 400 South County road 900 North, Jay- Redkey Faith Ministries Robin Owen Wells Co. Line Road Noble Congregational 9811 W. Indiana 67, southwest of Services: 10:30 a.m. Pastor: Fred Stevens Used Auto and Truck Parts Christian Redkey [email protected] Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. 1964 N. 800 East Rev. Craig and Robin Cotherman Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Aaron Huey (765) 369-2920 St. Joseph Catholic Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Services: 10:30 a.m. Services: 10 a.m. 1689 St. Joe Road, Fort Recovery Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Children’s church and youth will Rev. Ned Brown Vineyard Christian We buy Youth group will meet at 6 p.m. meet after offering prayer on Sun - Services: 7:30 a.m. Sunday Fellowship every other Sunday . day. Late-Model wrecks 101 S. Meridian St., Portland www.williamsautoparts.com Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Wednesday service: 6:30 p.m. St. Mary’s Catholic (John Jay Center) 127 Detroit Ave. www.RedkeyFaith.org 346 S. Broad St., Dunkirk Kevin Culy Portland, IN 47371 Oak Grove A nursery is provided. Rev. Dave Newton (260) 251-2843 (260) 726-8001 United Methodist Services: 10:30 a.m. Sunday, 5:30 Services: 10 a.m. 829 S. Indiana 1 Redkey First Christian p.m. Thursday Rick Koop Union and Malin streets, Redkey Walnut Corner (765) 716-1941 Jeff Hammers St. Paul Catholic County roads 200 North and 500 Services: 10:30 a.m. (765) 468-6172 517 Meiring Road, Fort Recovery West Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m. Rev. Ned Brown Steve Rogers Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Services: 8:30 a.m. Sunday (765) 728-5227 Pennville Friends Bible study: 7 p.m. Thursday Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Maple Street and Indiana 1, Pen - St. Peter Catholic Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. nville Redkey United Methodist 1477 Philothea Road, Fort Recov - Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Great Food, Dee Hartman 122 W. Main St., Redkey ery Services: 10:30 a.m. Randy Davis Rev. Ned Brown Wesleyan Tabernacle No Bull! (765) 369-2085 Services: 10 a.m. Sunday 122 E. Race St., Portland 1204 W. Votaw Portland Pennville United Methodist Services: 10:30 a.m. Phill Jellison 190 W. Main St., Pennville Bible study: 6 p.m. Wednesday Sugar Grove Nazarene (260) 726-7237 (260) 726-9647 Gary Phillips Office hours: 7 to 11 a.m. Monday County roads 400 North and 550 10 a.m. Bible study (260) 731-3801 through Friday West Services: 10:30 a.m. The Redkey Community Food Rev. Dan Sickels Westchester Pantry at the church is open each Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. (260) 731-4733 United Methodist Food pantry hours are Wednes - Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Martha’s Pantry is open the second 4487 E. 400 North day from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Darrell Borders Wednesday of each month from Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. (260) 726-6311 Pleasant Hill Handicapped accessible. Services: 10:35 a.m. 9945 N. 800 East, Union City (Jay- Redkey Church Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Randolph county line) Sugar Grove There is a staffed nursery. Bruce Bryan of the Nazarene United Methodist Handicapped accessible. (765) 964-3664 801 W. High St. County roads 600 South and 1150 Services: 9 a.m., 6 p.m. Robert Farris West, Dunkirk (765) 369-2676 West Walnut Sunday school: 10:30 a.m. Scott McClain Church of Christ Bible study: 7 p.m. Wednesday Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Services: 9 a.m. http://www.mypleas - Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. 204 W. Walnut St., Portland Sunday school: 10 a.m. Gil Alicea anthillchurch.org Service: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Handicapped accessible. Transportation is available. (260) 726-4691 Handicapped accessible. Services: 10 a.m. Portland First Temple Baptist Sunday school: 9:15 a.m. Church of Nazarene Indiana 167, between Dunkirk Youth minister: Gene Hummel 920 S. Shank St., Portland River of Life and Albany 722 W. Main St., Portland Ladies Bible studies: 10 a.m. Stephen Hundley Collins Glenn Wednesday- (260) 726-8040 Paula Hunnicut (765) 768-7708 (260) 273-3144 at the home of Alice Alexander. Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m., and Services: 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., 7 7 p.m. first and third Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Services: 11 a.m., 6 p.m. p.m. Wednesday Bible study: 6 p.m. Thursday the church. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Sunday school: 10 a.m. www.westwalnutchur - www.portlandnaz.com The ROCK chofchrist.org A nursery is provided. Trinity Lutheran Pre-school and a nursery are 1605 N. Meridian St., Portland Handicapped accessible. 301 N. Wayne St., Fort Recovery available. Jeff Horsman Robin Owen Portland Friends (260) 726-7474 (419) 375-4498 [email protected] White Chapel Church WALL TAX SERVICE 226 E. Main St., Portland Services: 9 a.m. (contemporary County roads 725 East and 500 Byron Dealey, Herb Hummel Services: 10 a.m. service, fourth Sunday) Accounting • Taxes • Payroll Youth pastor: Brian Henry North, Albany • Notary • Truck Filings (765) 541-9556 Adult Sunday school: 10:15 a.m. Todd Castor (260) 729-7393 Youth: Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Youth Christian Education: 6:30 • Electronic Filing office Services: 10:30 a.m. • W-2’s • Year-End Accounting Services: 10:15 a.m. p.m. Wednesday Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. [email protected] [email protected] Bible study: 6 p.m. Thursday ROCKids ministry director: Handicapped accessible. 122 East Adams friendscare4others.net Heather Keller Word of Life Portland, IN A nursery is provided. [email protected] Trinity United Methodist Worship Center Handicapped accessible. Activities are provided for chil - 323 S. Meridian St., Portland 1395 Ellis Road, Union City, Ohio (260) 726-7435 dren nursery through fifth grade. Gregory Norton Rev. George Hughes Praise Chapel (260) 726-8391 (937) 968-5544 Church of God Salamonia United Services: 10 a.m. Services: 10 a.m. 4527 E. 1000 North (Jay, Randolph Church of Christ Sunday school: 11:20 a.m. Sunday school: 9 a.m. County line) 3900 S. 600 East Youth: 6 p.m. Wednesday The service can be heard on Joy Pastor Gerald Roesly Bruce Phillips [email protected] FM (88.9) broadcast at 10 a.m. (765) 584-7045 (260) 335-2017 portlandtrinity.com Services: 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Services: 9 a.m. The food pantry is open from 6 to Zion Evangelical Your Discount Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. Sunday school: 10 a.m. 8 p.m. the second and fourth Lutheran Church Supermarket Prayer meeting: 6 p.m. Wednes - Wednesday of each month. 218 E. High St., Portland day Second Chance A nursery is available. Mark Strietelmeier 7 DA YS A WEEK ! at Life Ministries Handicapped accessible. (260) 726-8832 218 W. Lincol n Redeemer Lutheran 228 S. Meridian St., Portland Services: 10 a.m. Deli – 726-2423 Malin and Elm streets, Bryant Dave Keen (260) 251-8792 Union Chapel Sunday school: 9 a.m. Pastor Robert Abner Mike Eads (260) 703-0733 6238 N. 375 West, Bryant Handicapped accessible. The Commercial Review Page 8 World Thursday, December 15, 2016 Sanctions pass without signature By JOSH LEDERMAN part of the nuclear deal, istration retains other authori - back on Tehran’s other trou - President-elect Donald Associated Press Earnest said in a statement. ties to punish Iran, if necessary, bling behavior in the region. Trump has been sharply criti - WASHINGTON — In an unex - Under the Constitution, the and has expressed concern that The bill passed the Senate unan - cal of the nuclear deal and has pected reversal, President president has 10 days after Con - the renewal may undermine the imously and the House by an threatened to try to renegotiate Barack Obama declined to sign gress passes a bill to sign it, veto nuclear deal. overwhelming margin. it, and Israel’s prime minister a renewal of sanctions against it or do nothing. If Congress has Iran had vowed to respond if The Obama administration has said he plans to lobby Iran but let it become law any - adjourned, failing to sign it is a the sanctions were renewed, stressed that Iran would be Trump to undo the deal. Repub - way, in an apparent bid to allevi - “pocket veto” that prevents the arguing they violate the nuclear unaffected by the renewal, as lican supporters of the sanc - ate Tehran’s concerns that the bill from becoming law. But if deal between Iran and world long as it continues honoring tions had argued that renewing U.S. is backsliding on the Congress is still in session, the powers, which eased sanctions the nuclear deal. Secretary of them would ensure that Trump nuclear deal. bill becomes law with no signa - in exchange for curbs on Iran’s State John Kerry said he’d told would have the authority to Although the White House ture. Although lawmakers have nuclear program. Iran’s govern - his Iranian counterpart that “to reinstate penalties that Obama had said that Obama was returned home for the holidays, ment has complained to the ensure maximum clarity,” he’d eased. expected to sign the 10-year- Congress technically is still in United Nations about the renew - issued new, redundant waivers Under the nuclear deal, the renewal, the midnight deadline session and holding “pro- al, and on Tuesday, Iran’s presi - exempting Iran from sanctions U.S. and world powers suspend - came and went today with no forma” sessions this week. dent ordered up plans to build lifted under the deal. ed sweeping oil, trade and other approval from the president. Though Obama’s move nuclear-powered ships and to “Extension of the Iran Sanc - financial sanctions that had White House press secretary doesn’t prevent the sanctions formally accuse the U.S. of vio - tions Act does not affect in any devastated Iran’s economy. In Josh Earnest said Obama had renewal from entering force, it lating the terms of the deal. way the scope of the sanctions exchange, Tehran agreed to roll decided to let it become law marked a symbolic attempt by Yet U.S. lawmakers argued relief Iran is receiving under back its nuclear program, without his signature. the president to demonstrate that renewing the law, first the deal or the ability of compa - though the deal’s critics say the “The administration has, and disapproval for lawmakers’ passed in 1996 and renewed sev - nies to do business in Iran con - agreement is flawed because it continues to use, all of the nec - actions. The White House has eral times since, was critical to sistent with the JCPOA,” Kerry didn’t halt all Iranian activity essary authorities to waive the argued that the renewal is maintaining pressure on Iran to said, using an acronym for the and because key restrictions relevant sanctions” lifted as unnecessary because the admin - abide by the deal and to pushing nuclear deal. eventually expire.

In review Installed BEIJING — China appears to have installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man- made islands in the strategically vital South China Sea, a U.S. security think tank says, upping the stakes in what many see as a potential Asian powder keg. The Center for Strategic and Interna - tional Studies said in a report late Wednesday that the anti-aircraft guns and close-in weapons systems designed to guard against missile attack have been placed on all seven of China’s newly created islands. The outposts were built in recent years over objections by the U.S. and rival claimants by piling sand on top of coral reefs, followed by the construction of mili - tary grade 10,000-foot airstrips, barracks, lighthouses, radar sta - tions and other infra - structure. Associated Press/Andy Wong Traces found CAIRO — Traces of explosives have been Christmas celebration found on some of the Kindergarten children wearing Santa Claus costumes gather backstage Wednesday during a Christmas event in victims of an EgyptAir Beijing. Although Christmas is not traditionally celebrated in China, some private schools welcome the festival with flight from Paris that organizing activities for the children and their parents. crashed in the Mediter - ranean Sea in May, Egypt’s government said today, a finding that could deal another major blow to the coun - try’s vital tourism sec - Leaving ... tor. Continued from page 1 blamed the attack on Syrian gov - been buried in shallow mass Jan Egeland, a U.N. humanitar - A Civil Aviation Min - A planned evacuation Wednes - ernment troops or Iran-backed graves, it claims. ian adviser, said he was hopeful istry statement said a day was held up by objections from militia, saying they had “targeted The International Committee of the plan could still proceed. criminal investigation Iran, a key backer of Assad, injured civilians.” the Red Cross said it expected Inside the rebel enclave, resi - will be launched into according to a U.N. official inter - The United Nations cited between 200 and 250 wounded peo - dents spoke of deep relief. the crash of Flight 804, viewed by Agence France-Presse, “alarming” reports this week that ple to leave in the first wave of “You don’t understand what we which killed all 66 peo - and three rebel commanders. And pro-government militia went evacuations. The area’s hospital have lived through here. Death ple on board and came early today, rescue workers and house-to-house as they swept network has been ravaged through hung above us, the world turned just seven months after construction workers came under through several rebel districts last attacks by Syrian and Russian their backs,” said Mohamed al- a Russian passenger a hail of gunfire as they cleared a week, executing civilians. warplanes. Rebel fighters were Halabi, an electrician whose plane was blown up road leading to an agreed evacua - Nearly 1,000 people have been expected to leave during the sec - entire family was killed in an over the Sinai Peninsu - tion point. killed in east Aleppo during the ond stage of the evacuation, but airstrike on his workshop. la in an attack claimed Labib Nahas, who represents past two weeks, according to the questions remained on how they “Maybe today, finally, they will by the Islamic State the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group, Turkish government. Many have would fare after leaving the city. help us.” group. That attack, which killed all 226 people on board in October 2015, led to widespread flight Starts ... cancellations and emp - Continued from page 7 “It’s clear to us that we koruna ($37 million) in an priests, monks and nuns Production increased tied out Egypt’s Red But as the state gradually cannot afford to make a investment fund that has were executed or killed in almost ten-fold to reach Sea resorts. Tourism reduces its contributions, mistake because we won’t generated a 4 percent yield. prisons while others were 2,000 hectoliters a year. has been sharply down the Catholic church, which be getting the capital The church created over driven to suicide amid the So far, only a small team in much of the rest of has been the biggest benefi - again,” Stanislav Pribyl, 3,100 jobs in 2015, and the state’s brutal campaign of of three brews four differ - the country following ciary of those restitutions, the secretary general of number this year sur - terror. ent kinds of craft beer, with years of unrest is testing out ways to put the Czech Bishops’ Confer - passed 4,000 and should Zeliv itself had a role in additional specialties cre - unleashed by the 2011 that money to work and ence, told The Associated grow further, Pribyl said. It the Communist regime’s ated for Christmas, Easter uprising that toppled become financially inde - Press. “Another thing is employs another 7,500 peo - campaign. It became a con - and other holidays. The autocrat Hosni pendent. It’s investing in that we cannot cease to ple in its charity activities, centration camp where beers bear names of memo - Mubarak. everything from farming to exist as a standard compa - making it a top-ten private almost 500 priests and rable local abbots, includ - financial markets. ny or to get restructured. employer. other church members ing the very first one, God - At the Zeliv monastery, Simply, we have to prevail The land and other were detained in the 1950s. salk, who took charge in Talking they’re focusing on brew - here, which demands that assets the church is getting It was later turned into a 1149. NAGATO, Japan — ing — seemingly a safe bet we invest responsibly and back were valued at 75 bil - lunatic asylum. They also opened a new Japanese Prime Minis - in a nation where average eliminate all possible lion koruna ($3.7 billion) in Today, it’s a small scale restaurant and plan to ter Shinzo Abe said he consumption of beer is the risks.” 2012. example of what is going rebuild a hotel in the and Russian President highest in the world. The church in November The church also gets 59 on nationwide. monastery complex, which Vladimir Putin spent “It is a good promotion for the first time revealed billion koruna ($2.9 billion The Premonstratensians attracts some 10,000 visi - much of their first for us to have the beer here figures about its new busi - as of 2012) in financial returned in the early 1990s tors yearly. All of this round of talks at a hot because it is a very popular ness activities. They show compensation to be paid and began restoring the might be too much for the springs resort in west - drink in the Czech Repub - it invested 1.2 billion through 2043, and the state dilapidated property into a monks to handle, who ern Japan today dis - lic,” said Father Tadeas koruna ($47 million) in will gradually stop cover - place of worship. could have to hire more cussing a territorial from the Canonry of Pre - 2015, mainly in farming, ing its expenses by 2030. Nowadays, six of them workers. dispute that has divid - monstratensians, a forestry, buildings, and It all began in 1948, when based here and 29 others in “Our concern is that we ed their countries for Catholic order that came to financial products. It the Communists seized nearby parishes employ cannot afford to neglect 70 years. Zeliv in the 12th century. opened another new brew - power in the former some 30 people to take care our main mission due to For Putin, the sum - “Sometimes we joke that ery in the northern city of Czechoslovakia and confis - of 1,500 hectares of wood - worries about the proper - mit meeting in Nagato it’s a tool for evangelizing.” Litomerice. cated all the property lands and other assets. The ty,” said Father Tadeas. city marks his first offi - The Catholic church had It spent 1.1 billion owned by churches and brewing originally opened “Our brothers in the past cial visit to a G-7 coun - for centuries run business koruna ($43 million) on persecuted priests and in 2005, renewing a tradi - knew how to succeed in try since Russia activities in the region but church schools and the nuns. Churches were tion that dates to 14th cen - both because they could annexed Crimea in now, after a 40-year period restoration of more than allowed to function only tury, but it was this year share their experience gen - 2014. of persecution, the risk is 6,500 historic buildings. It under strict state control. that its output was ramped eration from generation. —Associated Press that it lacks the experience. has so far put 940 million At least 65 Catholic up to create a business. We’re still at the start.” The Commercial Review Page 9 Thursday, December 15, 2016 Comics STATEWIDE STATEW 190 FARME R S CLASSIFIED ADS ID40 NOTICES 60 SERVICES SPEED BUMP Dave Coverly days incorrectSTATEWIDE copy. We 150 BOATS, SPORTING 010CLASSIFICATIONS Card of Thanks try hard not to make WENDEL SEAMLESSFor all 020 In Memory mistakes, but they do GUTTERINGyour guttering and leaf 030 Lost, Strayed or happen, and we may cover needs. Call us for Found not know unless you a free quote. 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Hoop shooters Dunkirk Elks Lodge crowned its annual hoop shoot winners in three age groups on Sunday at West Jay Community Center. Pictured at left are the 12 and 13 year old division; female runner up Olivia Bohanon, male runner up Graiden Miller, female champion Isabel Rodgers, male champion Luke Jones and finalst Devlin Stanton. Bottom left are the 10 and 11 year old division; female champion Madyson Fraley, male champion Caleb Jones, male runner up Hunter Linn and female runner up Makinsey Murphy. Bottom right are the 8 and 9 year old division; female runner up Elizabeth Bamidele, female champion Jozey Shimp, male runner up Garrett Ranes and male champion Draydon Rodgers. The winners will compete in the district competition Jan. 22 at Yorktown High School.

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Reaches ... Continued from page 12 attempts Tuesday in the University The freshman came off the bench Review The NAIA No. 2 Warriors defeated of Rio Grande women’s basketball to play one minute and missed the Marian 43-3, and shut out CCSJ 51-0. team’s 79-74 loss to Indiana Universi - only shot she took. With the loss, the preview Miller, who is ranked fourth in the ty East. Foresters fall to 7-5 on the year. Friday – 6 p.m. nation at 125 pounds, moved to 13-2 on Wendel ran the court well for the the year. Red Storm (6-6), converting on a cou - Eric Hemmelgarn ple of fast break hoops as she scored Jay County – 2014 Jay County Scott Schwieterman four points. She also grabbed one Will play for the NAIA Football Jay County – 2013 rebound. National Championship with the Uni - Patriots Started for the Indiana Tech men’s The freshman tallied five points, versity of Saint Francis football team Portland, 2-3 basketball team Saturday in its 67-65 one steal and one assist in 10 minutes on Saturday in Daytona Beach, Flori - Coach: Chris Krieg, second year overtime victory over Lourdes. of action Friday in Rio Grande’s 97-72 da. Conference: Allen County Schwieterman shot 4-of-7 from the victory over Wilberforce. The fourth-ranked Cougars (12-1), Tuesday vs. Yorktown: With Yorktown keying on field and finished with eight points who are playing in the national title Jay Houck, fellow Jay County senior Jason Schloss - for the Warriors (8-4). He also had five Cindy In’t Groen game for the first time since 2006, er was nearly flawless from the field in scoring a rebounds, one block and one assist. South Adams – 2016 meet No. 2 Baker University (14-0) at 6 Played sparingly for the Hunting - p.m. Neither team has won a national career-high 22 points as the Patriots won, 54-40. Abby Wendel ton University women’s basketball championship. A 10-0 run during the fourth quarter helped JCHS Jay County – 2016 team Saturday in its 127-100 loss to The game will be streamed live on pull away from the visiting Tigers. Houck finished Made both of her field-goal Olivet Nazarene. ESPN3.com. with 15 points. He and Schlosser both had six rebounds and Cole Stigleman chipped in eight points. Season leaders (per game): Points — Jay Houck 21.0, Jason Schlosser 14.4, Cole Stigleman 4.6. Burn ... Rebounds — Jay Houck 8.6, Jason Schlosser 5.6. Continued from page 12 should have won,” George Miami didn’t score again The Pacers shot 5 for 18 Assists — Spencer Calvert 2.4. “I try to lead by exam - said. “It’s frustrating. ... We until there were 12.9 sec - in the fourth. ple,” Whiteside said. played OK. We just didn’t onds left, when Josh They went scoreless over Paul George scored 22 finish well.” Richardson sealed the win a 7-minute stretch in the at for the Pacers, who were Neither team led by with a dunk that put the second half, and Miami hoping for a season-best more than seven, and the Heat up five after Indiana took the lead for good dur - third straight win and Heat got to that margin didn’t foul. The Pacers Delta Eagles instead managed just 10 after James Johnson found missed three 3-point tries ing that drought. Muncie, 5-1 points in the fourth quar - Goran Dragic for a layup that would have tied the “They basically muscled Coach: Ryan VanSkyock, ter. CJ Miles added 15 for and a 92-85 lead with 3:35 game in the final 2 min - us and broke our offensive third year Indiana. left. They needed to hang utes, one by George and the execution,” Pacers coach Conference: Hoosier Heritage “This is a game that we on desperately from there. last two by Myles Turner. Nate McMillan said. Saturday at Hamilton Heights: Tanner Lambert’s 21-point game wasn’t enough as Delta lost to Hamilton Heights, 60-55. It was the first loss of the season for the Eagles. Josh Moore and Josh Luck ... Bryan each contributed 10 points for the Eagles, Continued from page 12 keep the Colts’ biggest star healthy “But again, it’s football. It’s December who got a 5-for-9 shooting performance from long The problem in Indy is that talk for the rest of the season. football. Nobody feels like they want distance from Lambert. about Luck’s health has become a Instead, the hits mounted and the to at this point of the year.” Season leaders (per game): Points — Tanner recurring theme in an already under - injuries didn’t go away. During Luck’s first three NFL sea - Lambert 21.0, Josh Bryan 9.8, Adam Haynes 9.7. whelming season. Luck missed the Thanksgiving sons, he was the model of consistency Rebounds — Adam Haynes 10.5, Josh Bryan 3.8. He’s been listed on the team’s night loss to Pittsburgh with a con - — starting 57 consecutive games Assists — Tanner Lambert 3.0. injury report every week this season cussion. On Wednesday, he compared including the playoffs, posting three and has missed five full practices. the current soreness in his right arm straight 11-win seasons and reaching When he sat the first time, in Septem - to the injury he had after a Week 2 the postseason all three times. ber, Pagano said it was because of a loss. But after enduring more than 450 Last season: Jay County kept Delta without a point sore throwing shoulder and as part of “It didn’t feel as good after that hits since 2012, the most of any quar - for more than eight minutes in a 33-26 victory over a predetermined maintenance plan to game as you would like,” Luck said. terback in the league, it’s taken a toll. the Eagles in Portland. Adam Dirksen had 12 of his game-high 18 points in the second half. Jay Houck added 10 points. Matt Norris led Delta with 13 points. Game notes: This is the 53rd meeting all time Sports on tap between Jay County and Delta, with the Patriots Local schedule Friday tle Invitational – 8:30 a.m.; Girls basket - ra Canyon (Calif.) vs. Oak Hill Academy holding a 32-20 advantage in the series. Jay Coun - Jay County — Boys basketball at Delta ball vs. Jay County – noon; Boys basketball (Va.) (ESPN) Today ty has won each of the last six games against – 6 p.m.; Swimming at Connersville Invita - at Parkway – 6:30 p.m.; Middle school 9:30 p.m. — Women’s College Volley - Jay County — Girls basketball vs. Her - tional – 6 p.m. girls basketball vs. Parkway – 10 a.m.; ball: NCAA Tournament semifinal (ESPN2) Delta ... Delta coach Ryan VanSkyock, a Jay Coun - itage – 6 p.m.; Freshman boys basketball Fort Recovery — Boys basketball at Middle school boys basketball vs. Parkway 10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: New ty graduate and long-time JCHS assistant under vs. Muncie Central –- 6 p.m.; West Jay boys Delphos St. John’s – 6 p.m. – 10 a.m. York Knicks at Golden State Warriors (TNT) former coach Craig Teagle, has yet to beat his basketball at Winchester Driver – 5:30 South Adams — Boys basketball triple - p.m.; East Jay seventh and eighth grade header Heritage – 6 p.m. Friday alma mater. He is 0-2 ... Jay County senior Jason boys basketball vs. Southern Wells – 5 TV schedule 7 p.m. — College Football: NCAA FCS Schlosser set a career-high scoring total in each of p.m.; West Jay girls basketball vs. Winches - Saturday Today Tournament semifinal (ESPN2) ter Driver – 6 p.m.; East Jay seventh and Jay County — Wrestling at Twin Lakes 7 p.m. — High School Basketball: New 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Los Angeles his last two games, a 22-point effort Tuesday and eighth grade girls basketball at Southern Invitational – 9 a.m.; Swimming at Con - Albany (Ind.) vs. La Luminere (Ind.) (ESPN) Lakers at Philadelphia 76ers (ESPN) 20 points Dec. 8 against Burris ... Delta is averag - Wells – 6 p.m. nersville Invitational – 10:30 a.m.; Girls 7 p.m. — Women’s College Volleyball: 10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Dallas ing 57.3 points per game offensively, and allowing Fort Recovery — Girls basketball vs. St. basketball at South Adams – noon.; Boys NCAA Tournament semifinal (ESPN2) Mavericks at Utah Jazz (ESPN) John’s – 6 p.m. basketball vs. Fort Recovery – 6 p.m.; JV 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Indiana Pac - just 40.5 points at the other end. Jay County, South Adams — Swimming at Norwell wrestling at Winchester Invitational – 9:30 ers at New Orleans Pelicans (FSIN); Chica - Saturday meanwhile, surrenders 44.8 points per game while – 5:30 p.m.; Girls basketball vs. Delta – 6 a.m.; go Bulls at Milwaukee Bucks (TNT) Noon — College Football: North Caroli - p.m.; Middle school girls basketball vs. East - Fort Recovery — Boys basketball at Jay 8:20 p.m. — NFL Football: Los Angeles na Central vs. Grambling State (ABC-6,21) scoring 53.4 points on offense. brook – 5 p.m.; Middle school boys basket - County – 6 p.m. Rams at Seattle Seahawks (NBC-2,13) Noon — Men’s College Basketball: ball at Randolph Southern – 5:30 p.m. South Adams — Wrestling at New Cas - 9 p.m. — High School Basketball: Sier - Georgetown at Syracuse (ESPN) Thursday, December 15, 2016 Jay Co. boys hoops team Dunkirk Elks Lodge names to visit Delta on Friday, its hoop shoot winners, see Review preview Sports see photos page 9

Page 12 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Dunn reaches double figures twice Heat Catherine Dunn scored in dou - ble figures four times as a fresh - man. burn She’s eclipsed that total 13 games into her sophomore season. Dunn, a 2015 Jay County High Pacers School graduate, By TIM REYNOLDS had back-to-back Collegiate AP Basketball Writer games with 14 or Check-up MIAMI — Winning more points for the consecutive games at Brescia University home for the first time women’s basketball team in a pair all season isn’t exact - of losses recently. ly something to cele - The sophomore was 6-for-8 from brate, particularly the field, including making one of when the season is her two 3-point attempts, and nearly two months drained both of her free throws to old. lead the Bearcats in scoring with 15 For the Miami Heat, points in a 97-65 loss to Asbury on it’s a start. Dec. 8. She also grabbed two defen - Hassan Whiteside sive rebounds, had two steals and a had 26 points and 22 block. rebounds, and the Dunn then totaled 14 points, five Heat clamped down rebounds, one assist and one steal defensively to beat the in a 77-65 loss Saturday to Alice Indiana Pacers 95-89 Lloyd. She added six points and a on Wednesday night. team-high five rebounds as the Miami held the Pacers Bearcats (1-13) lost to Pikeville on to 37 percent shooting Sunday, 110-33. and outrebounded The former Patriot is averaging them 58-38. 9.9 points per game for Brescia, “Guess that’s what which has lost a dozen straight you can expect with a games. Heat-Pacers game, Elijah Kahlig regardless of who the Fort Recovery – 2015 faces are,” Miami Cracked the starting lineup for coach Erik Spoelstra the first time this season and said. “It was good for helped the University of Findlay us to grind out anoth - men’s basketball team in its 91-73 er one.” victory Dec. 8 over the Northwood No, this wasn’t one Timberwolves. of those playoff bat - Kahlig was 2-for-5 from the field tles with the Pacers with all but one shot coming from The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney that featured LeBron behind the 3-point line. He finished James and Dwyane with six points, grabbed four defen - Jay County High School graduate Abby Wendel, now of Rio Grande University in southern Wade almost always sive rebounds and had three Ohio, dribbles around Bailey Dreiman of Indiana University East during the second half of the Red finding a way for the assists. Storm’s 79-74 loss Tuesday in Richmond. Wendel came off the bench and totaled four points and Heat in recent years. The junior made two of his nine one rebound. This time, it was the 3-pointers and all four of his free likes of Tyler John - throws to finish with 10 points as son and James John - the Oilers (5-3, 2-2 Great Lakes for the NCAA Division II No. 7 Sag - two steals and an assist Saturday victories Saturday in the Warrior son coming up big, Intercollegiate Athletic Confer - inaw Valley State University men’s as SVSU (9-1) suffered its first loss Duals it hosted. combining for 29 ence) lost to Lake Superior State 90- basketball team Friday in its 75-68 of the season by an 82-76 score Miller, a 125-pound sophomore, points off the bench 85 on Saturday. Kahlig also nabbed win over Ashland. against Tiffin. beat Marian University’s Christo - — and Whiteside sim - three rebounds and had a steal. Gelhaus started and hauled pher Sharp by tech fall, 20-4, in 6 ply controlling the down eight boards for the Cardi - Sawyer Miller minutes, 7 seconds. He also won by paint during his 34 Wade Gelhaus nals. He also had two points. South Adams – 2015 forfeit against Calumet College of minutes. Fort Recovery – 2013 The senior finished with eight Went 2-0 in helping the Indiana St. Joseph. See Burn page 11 Finished as the No. 2 rebounder points, three rebounds, two blocks, Tech wrestling team to a pair of See Reaches page 11

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Full Color 5.185” x10.5” Reg. Price $616 Luck expecting to play By MICHAEL MAROT games and get help just to stay in con - AP Sports Writer tention for the playoffs. Buy 2-2x5 get one 2x5 FREE INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck is Pagano said he would monitor Luck’s paying a hefty price for taking so many status with the medical staff this week hits. before deciding whether to use his quar - After getting knocked around more terback against a Vikings defense that is than a dozen times in last weekend’s loss No. 2 in the league and has 35 sacks. 2 for $229 3.413” x 5” OVER a $100 SAVINGS! to Houston, the Indianapolis Colts’ quar - Indy has given up 40 sacks this season terback missed practice Wednesday with and will be without left guard Jack shoulder and elbow injuries to his throw - Mewhort and possibly right guard Den - ing arm though he expects to play Sun - zelle Good (concussion). day at Minnesota. “I will wait for the doctors and trainers Call Jeanne, Maralene or Kim “Absolutely, very confident,” Luck said to go through the rehab process and go when asked if he’d be available this through the rest of the day (Thursday) weekend. and we will see tomorrow,” Pagano said, The Colts (6-7) desperately need him referring to Luck’s practice status. (260) 726-8141 because they have to win their last three See Luck page 11