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'You Just Don't Know' Friday, September 6, 2019 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 Effort underway By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press ABACO, Bahamas — A few meager possessions stuffed in plastic bags, some of the haggard Bahamians who lost Effort picks up homes to the ravages of Hurricane Dori - an are waiting at a small airport hoping to help Bahamas to catch planes out of the disaster zone as an international humanitarian effort following Dorian to help the Caribbean country gains momentum and the death toll has risen to 30. A few hundred people sat at the partly The Bahamian health ministry said heli - flooded Leonard M. Thompson airport copters and boats were on the way to on Abaco island Thursday as small help people in affected areas, though offi - planes picked up the most vulnerable cials warned of delays because of severe survivors, including the sick and the eld - flooding and limited access. erly. The evacuation was slow and there At least 30 people died in the hurricane was frustration for some who said they and the number could be “significantly had nowhere to go after the Category 5 higher,” Bahamian health minister hurricane splintered whole neighbor - Duane Sands told The Associated Press hoods. in a telephone interview late Thursday. The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney “They told us that the babies, the preg - The victims are from Abaco and Grand nant people and the elderly people were Bahama islands and include some who supposed to be first preference,” said died from injuries after being flown to Out for the day Lukya Thompson, a 23-year-old bar - New Providence island, he said. Easton Johnson leaps from the steps as he leaves tender. But many were still waiting, she The hurricane hit Abaco on Sunday Bloomfield Elementary School for the day Thursday. said. and then hovered over Grand Bahama Despite hardship and uncertainty, for a day and a half. those at the airport were mostly calm. See Effort page 5 N.Y. is leading Facebook ‘You just don’t know’ antitrust Local cancer patient cherishes each day inquiry By RAY COONEY By TAYLOR TELFORD The Commercial Review and TONY ROMM “Shock.” The Washington Post Susan McLaughlin- New York is leading a Dick thought she had an multistate investigation ear infection. of Facebook for possible She went to her doctor’s antitrust violations, Attor - office and got medication ney General Letitia James that should have cleared announced today, kicking up fluid in her ears. But off a bipartisan wave of when she went back two independent state weeks later, the fluid was inquiries targeting the still there. And the dizzi - social media giant as well ness she had initially as Google’s parent compa - experienced was getting ny, Alphabet. worse. James will work with By the time she the attorneys general of returned again, on Jan. Colorado, Florida, Iowa, 25, 2016, she could barely Nebraska, North Caroli - walk. na, Ohio, Tennessee and “It took my son and my the District of Columbia daughter’s boyfriend that on an inquiry focused on morning — they pulled “Facebook’s dominance in the car up to the steps — it the industry and the took them to get me out of the house,” she said. “I potential anti-competitive was that weak.” conduct stemming from Upon arriving at the Photo provided that dominance,” accord - doctor’s office, she was ing to a news release. immediately sent to Jay “Even the largest social Susan McLaughlin-Dick’s life has had its ups and downs since she was diagnosed three County Hospital. That led years ago with a stage IV gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Her experience has taught her that tomorrow media platform in the to blood work that showed world must follow the law is not guaranteed and to cherish her time with her children Carla (left), Shelby (center, behind Susan) dramatically low hemo - and Chris, and her six grandchildren. “We’re going to keep fighting this,” she said. and respect consumers. I globin levels, which led to am proud to be leading a a CT scan. bipartisan coalition of And that’s when they fit that same word as well. said the 47-year-old Port - have started to stop work - stage I to stage IV. The attorneys general in inves - found it — a gastrointesti - Susan’s initial hemoglo - land resident. “They did ing.” larger the number, the tigating whether Face - nal stromal tumor. bin level — 2.1 — was well not know — doctors, Susan was still alive more the cancer has book has stifled competi - Cancer. below the normal range nurses — did not know and kicking. But the diag - spread. tion and put users at risk,” So, yes, Susan was of between 13 and 15. how I was still living. nosis was startling. Susan’s tumor was James said in a news shocked. “I was the talk of the Because that low, your Gastrointestinal stro - stage IV. release. “We will use every The staff at the hospital hospital at that time,” heart, everything, should mal tumors range from See Cherishes page 2 investigative tool at our disposal to determine whether Facebook’s actions may have endan - gered consumer data, reduced the quality of VP confronted on climate consumers’ choices, or By JILL COLVIN change the president’s issue,” Coveney said, try - increased the price of Associated Press mind. ing to leverage Pence’s per - advertising.” REYKJAVIK, Iceland — But again and again, sonal connections to the The Washington Post Vice President Mike Pence Pence has appeared to country. “It’s a huge issue previously reported that is receiving a tongue-lash - brush off the efforts, which for this country right now. more than half the ing from European allies as spilled into public view It’s dominating politics he plays understudy to the nation’s attorneys general before he’d even left the air - here. It’s about trying to president on the world were readying a Google port in Shannon, Ireland. mitigate against potential stage. There, Simon Coveney, damage.” investigation, expected to From the Taoiseach of be announced Monday in the country’s foreign min - Pence, appearing less Ireland to the mayor of ister, confronted Pence than amused by the public Washington, but it was Reykjavik, leaders have with an urgent message confrontation, said he was unclear whether other been publicly confronting about the potential impact “grateful” for Coveney’s tech giants like Facebook Pence on issues such as the of Brexit. He warned a “candor” and quickly piv - The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald and Amazon would find U.K.’s exit from the E.U., return to hard borders oted. But the pleas contin - themselves in the coali - nuclear disarmament and between Ireland and ued in Pence’s meetings tion’s crosshairs. The Wall climate change. Northern Ireland would with other Irish leaders, Street Journal first report - The appeals appear part not only disrupt commerce, including Taoiseach Leo Moon shot ed that Facebook would of a desperate effort to try but could also threaten a Varadkar. A half moon was shining brightly also be subject to investi - to get through to a Trump fragile peace. “All I ask is that you over the area Thursday night as clear skies gation, and that the effort administration that follows “As somebody who bring that message back to prevailed. Mild weather continues to be in could expand to include its own norms and rules, understands Ireland well, I Washington with you,” the forecast for the next few days. other companies. and find someone— any - think you understand why Varadkar said. See Inquiry page 5 one — who might be able to it’s such an emotional See VP page 5 Deaths Weather In review Coming up Jay County had a high tem - Saturday — Results from perature of 73 degrees Thurs - Indiana Michigan Power is tonight’s Jay County High day. The low was 52. in the process of conducting School football game at South - Tonight’s low will be in the aerial inspections of high- ern Wells. Billy Fisher , 37, Geneva upper 50s. Expect cloudy skies voltage lines in East Central Details on page 2. early Saturday with some sun Indiana. The inspections, by Tuesday — Coverage of breaking through later in the helicopter, are expected to con - Monday’s Jay County Com - day. tinue through mid Sept. 13. missioners and Dunkirk City See page 2 for an extended Council meetings. outlook. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Friday, September 6, 2019 Obituaries Billy Fisher Markle, Indiana. He attended (John) Smith, Geneva, Indiana; er to share and remember at Arrangements are being han - the Global Vision Bible Church. brothers Jimmy (April) Pen - Downing & Glancy Funeral dled by Downing & Glancy Nov. 7, 1981-Sept. 2, 2019 He enjoyed woodworking, nington, Pennville, Indiana, Home, 100 N. Washington St., Funeral Home in Geneva. Billy Jack “B.J.” Fisher, 37, of Geneva, Indiana, passed away at scraping, reading the Bible, and Jason Fisher, Rockford, Ohio, Geneva, on Saturday, Sept. 7, Condolences may be 8:55 p.m. on Mon - loved being outdoors. B.J. was a and Joshua Fisher, Rockford, 2019, from noon to 2 p.m. and 4 to expressed at glancyfuneral - day, Sept. 2, 2019, gentle giant with a heart of Ohio; paternal grandmother 8 p.m. homes.com. due to injuries gold. Harriett Fisher, Berne, Indiana; A service to celebrate B.J.’s •••••••••• sustained in a He will be sadly missed by his maternal grandparents Larry life will be at Downing & Glancy The Commercial Review pub - vehicle accident father, William Eugene “Gino” and Brenda Galloway, Geneva, Funeral Home at 11 a.m. on Sun - lishes death notices for those with in Jay County.
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