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By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review FORT RECOVERY — The Washington D.C. trip has been rescheduled. The district's youngest students will be getting new assignments this week. Plans are being consid - ered for prom. Those were among the updates Fort Recovery Local Schools administra - tors shared Tuesday amidst the continued stay- at-home order. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has mandated that schools should be closed until at least May 4. As of the latest updated Tuesday after - noon, Ohio has 2,199 con - firmed cases of COVID-19, including two in Mercer County, with 55 deaths from the disease. Fort Recovery Middle School principal Tony Stahl in a letter to parents announced the annual Health department announced Tuesday that eighth grade trip to Wash - ington, D.C., has been post - poned. It was originally a Jay resident tested positive for COVID-19 scheduled for April 13 By RAY COONEY consultation with the The health depart - through 17. The Commercial Review Indiana State Depart - ment is in the process of Those students will still Jay County has its first Coronavirus confirmation ment of Health (ISDH) notifying those who may get to make the visit, but it confirmed case of and the local medical have been in contact has been moved to their COVID-19. Jay County Health Department announced community, has con - with the patient who freshman year — Sept. 28 Jay County Health just before 8 p.m. Tuesday that the county has firmed the first case of tested positive for through Oct. 2. Department on Tuesday its first confirmed case of coronavirus. Below novel coronavirus COVID-19, working with “In addition to the order evening announced the is a look at the timeline of the first reported (COVID-19) in a county health care providers made by Governor first confirmed case of cases in the region. resident,” the health and the patient involved DeWine, we must consider coronavirus in the coun - department’s press in order to do so. The the safety of our students ty. Indiana — March 6 release said. “The patient state department of Adams County — March 9 and community, the likely “The person at this is presently self-isolating health will also help closures of major attrac - point is isolated at Darke County — March 12 at home. No additional make sure Jay County tions or buildings on our home,” said health Wells County — March 13 information about the Health Department trip agenda, and potential department administra - Delaware County — March 20 patient will be released reaches all of those it travel bans or “stay at tor and environmentalist Mercer County — March 24 due to privacy laws.” needs to contact. home” orders to halt the Heath Butz in an inter - Randolph County — March 26 When a patient tests “They’ll help guide us view just before 8 p.m. spread of the virus,” said Jay County — March 31 positive for COVID-19, in that process, especial - Stahl in the letter. Tuesday. “We’re going to they are required to be ly on our first case,” said Blackford County — None While Fort Recovery stu - follow up with all the quarantined. They will Butz. “Since there’s close contacts of the remain isolated for seven already been a lot of dents in third through 12th individual to make sure days from the onset of cases, there’s pretty good grade are utilizing Google that they are taken care symptoms or three days guidance from the state Classroom and other elec - of as far as being quar - test. As of midnight Butz could not give after their temperature as far as the process we tronic options for “emer - antined, those that need Monday, Jay County was additional information is less than 100.4 without take. We’re working with gency remote learning” to.” one of just 11 counties in about the patient or fever-reducing medica - them to get the process assignments, kindergarten Indiana State Depart - the state that had not when the test occurred. tion and other symptoms done as quickly and as through second graders ment of Health has been recorded a positive case “The Jay County are improving, whichev - thoroughly as possible.” were sent home with pack - notified of the positive of COVID-19. Health Department, in er is longer, Butz said. See Confirmed page 5 ets when they left school for the last time March 16. See Update page 5 Life and death ‘Hell of a bad two weeks’ are coming By AAMER MADHANI, Americans to take seriously their the rigorous social-distancing KEVIN FREKING role in preventing the spread of guidelines set out by the Centers and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR disease, she said. for Disease Control and Preven - Associated Press Added Dr. Anthony Fauci, the tion or the stricter “stay at home” WASHINGTON — President government’s top infectious dis - restrictions set by many gover - Donald Trump warned Ameri - ease expert, “This is a number nors across the country. Still, the cans to brace for a “hell of a bad that we need to anticipate, but we White House was not looking at a two weeks” ahead as the White don’t necessarily have to accept it nationwide order. House projected there could be as being inevitable.” “We live in a nation that has a 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the Trump called it “a matter of system of federalism, and the U.S. from the coronavirus pan - life and death” for Americans to governors get to make the deci - demic even if current social dis - heed guidelines and predicted the sions,” Dr. Jerome Adams, the tancing guidelines are main - country would soon see a “light at surgeon general, told NBC’s The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald tained. the end of the tunnel” in a pan - “Today” on Wednesday. “But Public health officials stressed demic that in the United States we’re gonna give them the best Tuesday that the number could has infected about 190,000 people possible guidance we can, and be less if people across the coun - and killed more than 4,000, that’s to stay at home and to Giving blood try bear down on keeping their according to figures compiled by social distance.” Portland police officer Josh Stephenson and distance from one another. Johns Hopkins University. “This is going to be one of the retired educator Michael Eads give blood Tuesday “We really believe we can do a “I want every American to be roughest two or three weeks afternoon at the Jay Community Center. American Red lot better than that,” said Dr. Deb - prepared for the hard days that we’ve ever had in our country,” Cross personnel screened all blood donors by taking orah Birx, the coordinator of the lie ahead,” Trump said. Trump said. “We’re going to lose their temperature before giving blood. White House coronavirus task The White House figures thousands of people.” force. That would require all assume that Americans follow See Life page 5

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Jay County had a high tem - Jeanette Robbins , 79, Red - The Portland Board of Page 4 — It’s more than a perature of 44 degrees Tues - key Works meeting that was sched - blizzard, but we will survive day. The low was 34. Leland Whitenack , 87, rural uled for Thursday has been can - this storm together. Back in Tonight’s low will also be in Ridgeville celed. the Saddle. Linda Dues , 75, Celina, Ohio the mid 30s. Expect the high to See Saturday’s newspaper Norma Van Camp , 88, Pen - climb into the upper 50s for an update on how local gov - Page 8 — A look at what nville Thursday under mostly sunny ernment agencies will be han - the stay-at-home order means Diana Renner , 69, Richmond skies. dling meetings during the coro - to one Jay County High School Asher Hawkins , 78, Bluffton For an extended forecast, navirus pandemic. baseball player. Details on page 2. see page 2. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Capsule Reports House fire The fire was contained to the porarily closed to provide space In total about 20 firefighters COVID-19: Guidance for Small A house caught on fire at 7256 house’s living room, where it for authorities to respond to the responded to the scene in eight Businesses at 10 a.m. Thursday. N. U.S. 27 at about 5:55 a.m. this started, and was put out by about fire. It reopened at about 7:30 a.m., fire trucks. A damage assessment All Indiana businesses are invit - morning in northern Jay County 6:19 a.m. after which authorities left the of the scene is pending. ed to attend, though space is lim - near Bryant. The house is owned by Randy scene. ited. Geneva Fire Department was Betz, who also notified authori - Other responding agencies Webinar set Businesses interested in the first agency to respond to the ties of the fire. An investigation included Bryant Fire Depart - Indiana Better Business attending can register here at fire, arriving about five minutes into how the fire started is pend - ment, Jay County Sheriff’s Office Bureaus are collaborating with bit.ly/BBB-SBA. Registration after it was called in, according to ing. and Jay County Emergency Med - the U.S. Small Business Admin - details are also available online a Geneva fire department report. A stretch of U.S. 27 was tem - ical Service. istration to present a webinar, or any of the BBB’s social media. CR almanac Obituaries Jeanette Floyd and Pete Hill; and cautions, a private grave - Linda was a member of Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday two sisters, Mary Jo side service will be held Holy Trinity Church in 4/2 4/3 4/4 4/5 4/6 Robbins Weinstein and Anna at Lawndale Cemetery, Coldwater, the Coldwater Feb. 3, 1940-March 29, Davis. west of Deerfield. Eagles, Coldwater Ameri - 2020 Services will be private Arrangements are can Legion Auxiliary, Jeanette Robbins, 79, at the convenience of the entrusted to Williamson- Celina V.F.W. Auxiliary, of Redkey, Indiana, family with burial to fol - Spencer and Penrod Celina Moose and the passed away peacefully low in Hillcrest Cemetery. Funeral Home in Port - Catholic Order of 58/40 61/46 62/46 62/47 67/53 Sunday, March 29, 2020, at At the family’s request land. Foresters. She graduated her residence. and in order to keep fami - Memorials may be from Fort Recovery High The sun Tempera - Chance of The week Tempera - will be more tures will rain through - will start with tures will rise, Jeanette was born in ly and friends safe during directed toward Calvary School in 1962, worked at visible and, return to the out the day, warm temper - as will the Wilder, Tennessee, on this difficult time, a Cele - United Methodist the former Mersman and consequently, 60s. Should particularly in atures. No chance of bration of Life Service Church, 200 S. Portland temperatures be a good day the afternoon. rain is current - rain. 50% Feb. 3, 1940, a daughter of Huffy plants in Celina will rise again, to get out of Mostly cloudy ly projected. chance of rain the late Pearl will be held at a late date St., Ridgeville, IN 47380. and retired from Setex in approaching the house. with warm during the day (Crownover) and Payton in light of the coron - Condolences may be St. Marys. She enjoyed 60 degrees. temperatures. and night. Hill. She avirus pandemic. expressed at williamson - crocheting and playing was a grad - In lieu of flowers, dona - spencer.com. cards uate of tions may be made to Because of COVID-19, a Lotteries Clark State of the Heart Hos - Linda Dues private family Mass will pice for all the wonderful Range High April 15, 1944-March 31, 2020 be held at 10:30 a.m. on School in care they gave Jeanette's Friday, April 3, 2020, at Daily Four: 4-8-2-6 Linda Louise Dues, age Powerball Tennessee, late husband Duke dur - Holy Trinity Church, Quick Draw: 1-13-17- 75, of Celina, Ohio, died Estimated jackpot: and was the ing his final days. Coldwater, with live 18-19-25-27-29-30-32-35-39- Tuesday morning, March $170 million loving wife Arrangements have stream at bit.ly/Dues - 41-47-58-69-73-75-77-78 31, 2020, at The James of the late Robbins been entrusted to MJS Mass. Burial will follow Cash 5: 2-8-27-42-44 Medical Center in Colum - Mega Millions Gene Mortuaries – Redkey in St. Elizabeth Cemetery, Estimated jackpot: bus. 8-17-51-57-70 (Duke) Robbins who she Chapel. Coldwater. $115,000 She was born April 15, Mega Ball: 2 happily married in 1962 1944, in Celina to the late In lieu of flowers, and sadly lost in 2019. Megaplier: 4 Ohio Leland Stephen and Rosella memorials may be made Estimated jackpot: Jeanette was a dedicat - to the James Cancer Cen - Midday Whitenack (Minnich) Braun. On $121 million ed homemaker, wife and Sept. 14, ter (cancer.osu.edu) or Pick 3: 2-0-9 mother who adored chil - June 11, 1932-March 30, 2020 the wishes of the family. Pick 4: 2-2-8-5 1963, she Hoosier dren. She enjoyed church Leland “Lee” White - married Condolences may be Pick 5: 4-0-9-6-0 activities, reading her nack, age 87, a resident of left at hogenkampfh.com. Midday Evening Donald bible, gardening, listen - rural Ridgeville, passed Dues and Daily Three: 9-4-4 Pick 3: 4-0-4 ing to gospel music, quilt - away on Monday, March Daily Four: 9-9-1-6 he survives Norma K. Van Camp , Pen - Pick 4: 1-0-8-8 ing, crocheting, watching 30, 2020, at IU Health Jay nville, March 11, 1932- Quick Draw: 1-13-17- in Celina. Pick 5: 7-0-3-7-5 Jeopardy and Wheel of hospital in Portland. March 30, 2020. A grave - 18-19-25-27-29-30-32-35-39- Also sur - Rolling Cash: 15-24-25- Fortune and, most of all, Lee was born on June side service will be held at 2 41-47-58-69-73-75-77-78 35-38 viving are spending time with her 11, 1932, in Ridgeville to her chil - Dues p.m. Friday at Brookside Evening Estimated jackpot: grandchildren. Walter and Ocie (Nixon) Memorial Park. Daily Three: 8-7-8 $110,000 dren, Jeffry Jeanette is survived by Whitenack. Dues of New Bremen, Diana Renner , Richmond, two sons, Mike Robbins Lee gradu - Keith Dues of Celina and a former Jay County resi - and Steve Robbins (wife: ated from Marie and Roland dent, Oct. 28, 1950-March Markets LeAnna); one daughter, Jefferson Bruggeman of Portland; 28, 2020. A private memori - Shawna Eley (husband: High School grandchildren Michael al service will be held at Todd); one brother, in Deerfield and Jackie Bruggeman Williamson-Spencer and Beans ...... 8.77 Sunrise Charles Hill (wife: Sue); in 1950. He and Mitchell Bruggeman; Penrod Funeral Home in St. Anthony May beans ...... 8.77 13 grandchildren; 16 married great-granddaughter Portland. great-grandchildren; and Charlene Asher L. Hawkins , Corn ...... 3.14 Wheat ...... 5.47 Whitenack Riley Bruggeman; sib - May corn ...... 3.14 several nieces and (Sommer) lings and in-laws Carl and Bluffton, a relative of Jay Beans ...... 8.81 nephews. on May 19, Judie Braun, Ivo Braun, County residers, April 4, POET Biorefining She was preceded in 1951. They lived at the May beans ...... 8.87 Rita Heyne, Loudonna 1941-March 29, 2020. Pri - Portland death by her parents; hus - Whitenack family farm and Carl Van Den Bosch, vate family visitation will be Wheat ...... 5.49 band Duke; two brothers, that had been in the fami - Corn ...... 3.17 Viola Braun, Alice and held Saturday with burial at ly for 165 years. Roger Klosterman, Brookside Memorial Park in Cooper Farms L e e w o r k e d f o r t h e Fort Recovery Arnold Westgerdes, Bob Montpelier. The Andersons Portland Forge for 42 and Joey Dues, Mary •••••••••• Apri corn ...... 3.30 Richland Township years. He loved hunting, Jane Dues, Janet Dues The Commercial Review May corn ...... 3.30 SERVICES going to auctions, telling Corn ...... 3.32 Date withheld and Patricia and Greg publishes death notices for June corn ...... 3.31 hunting stories, making Myers. those with a connection to April corn ...... 3.32 , Leland: private Whitenack bluebird houses to give Linda was preceded in our coverage area free of Beans ...... 8.84 services at Lawndale Cemetery, away and most of all eat - Central States condolences may be expressed death by a son Steve; charge. They include the April beans ...... 8.84 ing Charlene’s good cook - granddaughter Michelle name, city of residence, Montpelier at williamsonspencer.com.. ing. Wheat ...... 5.60 Bruggeman; and siblings birth/death date and Corn ...... 3.24 Lee was a member of May corn ...... 3.26 April wheat ...... 5.60 Friday and in-laws Esther and time/date/location of the Calvary United Otis Marchal, Marcene services. Dues , Linda: 10:30 a.m.; pri - Methodist Church in vate Mass at Holy Trinity Church and Louis Burris, Virgil There is a charge for Ridgeville. He was a Braun, Linus and Ginny obituaries, which are in Coldwater, Ohio, will be live member of the Randolph Today in history streamed at bit.ly/DuesMass. Braun, Virginia and accepted only from funeral County Antique Club, , Betty: private servic - Alfred Knapke, Viola West - homes or mortuary servic - Boroff Tri-State Antique Gas es, condolences may be gerdes and James Dues. es. On April 1, 1976 , Major League Baseball expressed at ciscofuneral - Engine and Tractor Asso - Apple Computer was players’ strike began; it home.com. ciation and a supporter founded by Steve Jobs, lasted 12 days. Van Camp , Norma: 2 p.m., of the Jay/Randolph Soil Steve Wozniak and In 1984 , Marvin Gaye Brookside Memorial Park. and Water Conservation. Ronald Wayne. was shot to death by his RedkRedkeyey High School Saturday Although they weren’t In 1789 , the U.S. House father, Marvin Gay (cor - rich, the Whitenacks of Representatives held rect), Sr. in Los Angeles, Hawkins , Asher: private, always enjoyed the things Alumni Banquet its first full meeting in the day before the record - condolences may be expressed at glancyfuneralhomes.com. money can’t buy. New York; Frederick ing star’s 45th birthday. Survivors include: Muhlenberg of Pennsyl - (The elder Gay pleaded Sunday His wife of 68 years — vania was elected the guilty to voluntary Charlene Whitenack, Will be cancelled first House speaker. manslaughter and Snyder , Bradley: 1 p.m., rural Ridgeville In 1891 , the Wrigley received probation.) Intercontinental San Diego, 901 Bayfront Court, San Diego. Three sons — Leslie Co. was founded in In 1985 , a 15-year-old Whitenack (wife: Linda), for 2020. Chicago by William was taken into custody April 26 Deerfield, Jeffery White - Wrigley, Jr. after entering Pennville nack (wife: Melanie), WWee will not be rescheduling. In 1945 , American Paint and Body Shop Williamson , Ted: Noon, First Universalist Church and Deerfield, and Douglas forces launched the with a .22 caliber rifle Society of Barnard, 6211 Ver - Whitenack (wife: Barbie), amphibious invasion of and demanding “a fast mont 12, Barnard, Vermont. Portland Okinawa during World car and money.” Owner Two daughters — Ros - Alicia Corwin War II. (U.S. forces cap - Gary McKibben dis - Service listings provided by alyn Landess, Winches - Pennville tured the Japanese island armed the teen by throw - ter, and Connie Snyder on June 22.) ing hot coffee in his face. PROGRESSIVE (husband: Bruce), Win - Town Council In 1954 , the United McKibben initially OFFICE PRODUCTS chester President States Air Force Acade - thought the incident was 120 N. Meridian St. Ten grandchildren my was established by an April Fools joke. Ten great-grandchil - President Dwight D. In 1987 , in his first Portland, Indiana 47371 dren The 2020 Census will Eisenhower. speech on the AIDS epi - (260) 726-9201 One great-grand grand - be sending the census In 1963 , the daytime demic, President Ronald progressiveofficeproducts.com daughter survey to your home in drama “General Hospi - Reagan told doctors in Because of health pre - tal” premiered on ABC- Philadelphia, “We’ve the upcoming weeks TV. declared AIDS public In 1970 , President health enemy no. 1.” Richard M. Nixon signed In 1992 , the National a measure banning ciga - Hockey League Players’ Hello, this is Alicia Corwin, Pennville Town Council President. rette advertising on radio Association went on its Any day now, Jay County residents should start receiving their and television, to take first-ever strike, which Census Forms in the mail. e Census form will be addressed effect after Jan. 1, 1971. lasted 10 days. to the residence and not to the people living in the household. I In 1972 , the first —AP and The CR would like to remind you to return your Census form in the mail by April 1, 2020. If you do not return your form, a census worker will come to your door and request the information that is on the Citizen’s calendar form. If you get a call saying it is the Census asking for information, it is Monday Tuesday not the US Census Bureau. e Census does not call. If someone 5:30 p.m. — Portland 7 p.m. — Pennville says they are from the Census and ask for information such as City Council, council Town Council, town hall, social security number, income, or banking information, it is not chambers, fire station 105 N. Washington St. the Census. Even when they visit your home, they will only ask 1616 N. Franklin St. 7 p.m. — Salamonia for the same information that is on the Census form: name, age, 7:30 p.m. — Fort Recov - Town Council, School - gender, and birthdate. Please be safe and be counted Jay County! ery Village Council, vil - house Community Cen - lage hall, 201 S. Main St. ter. BE COUNTED JAY COUNTY The Commercial Review Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Family Page 3 Seeing what we do not see By TED KOOSER, U.S. Poet Laureate Jane Hirshfield, who American lives in California, is one Life of our country’s finest poets. I found this beauti - in Poetry ful meditation in Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness recent book of poetry is Poems, published by the newly- Grayson Books of West published “Ledger: Hartford, CT. Poems” from Alfred A. Ms. Hirshfield’s most Knopf, Inc. Meeting the Light Completely Even the long-beloved was once an unrecognized stranger.

Just so, the chipped lip of a blue-glazed cup, blown field of a yellow curtain, might also, flooding and falling, ruin your heart.

A table painted with roses. An empty clothesline.

Each time, the found world surprises— that is its nature.

And then what is said by all lovers: “What fools we were, not to have seen.”

American Life in Poetry gy of Mindfulness Poems, is made possible by The (Grayson Books, 2017). Poetry Foundation (poet - Poem reprinted by permis - ryfoundation.org), pub - sion of Jane Hirshfield Photo provided lisher of Poetry magazine. and the publisher. Intro - It is also supported by the duction copyright @2020 Department of English at by The Poetry Foundation. Smiles in the sunshine the University of Nebras - The introduction’s author, Carter Poore, 7, and his brother Bentley, 1, get some fresh air and exercise during our ka, Lincoln. Poem copy - Ted Kooser, served as stay-at-home time last week. How are you spending your stay-at-home time? Send your photos right ©1994 by Jane Hirsh - United States Poet Laure - field, “Meeting the Light ate Consultant in Poetry as JPEG files to [email protected]. Completely,” from Poetry to the Library of Congress of Presence: An Antholo - from 2004-2006. 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You must think the name of another man. tells Dad things I confided ed. in two booklets: "Abby's me not to do it. She gets I'm daffy to believe this What do you make of this? to her over the years, and Your father is remain - Favorite Recipes" and mad, and I get a lecture letter is legit. — CURIOUS IN CALIFOR - he is coming back to me ing true to character, "More Favorite Recipes by from Daffy about how he DEAR ABBY: How do NIA with whatever she has told but your friend has Dear Abby." Send your isn't to blame and he never you address a letter to DEAR CURIOUS: him. betrayed your trust. You name and mailing makes a mistake. 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Tuesday’s Solution

The objective is to fill a nine-by nine grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine three-by- three boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Wednesday, April 1, 2020 We will make it through together By JACK RONALD My friend Andy in California But local news has shrunk as We’ll bring back the Communi - The Commercial Review quoted a woman in his weekly well. ty Calendar and the church page This is not a blizzard. Back column who summed the uncer - Much of what any community when events begin to return to When the COVID-19 story tainty up perfectly: “Nobody newspaper covers involves com - normal. started to become increasingly in the knows and everybody knows that munity gatherings: Basketball Like you, we’ll look forward to real in America, I first tended to nobody knows.” games, public hearings, festivals, coverage of local sports again. think of it in blizzard terms. Saddle So, still in the midst of the government meetings and all We might even enjoy reading You know, there’s a big event maelstrom, the story assign - that. about local traffic accidents, as over a period of a handful of ments keep coming. For every COVID-19 erased them. long as they’re not ours. days, then it trails away, melts one that’s checked off, two or The Community Calendar on But here’s the thing: For a com - and we all move on. Kids go reading on your computer three more appear. And they’ll the Family page of The CR has munity newspaper to survive back to school. And we all trade screen. continue to appear when those been put on hiatus because virtu - when a pandemic has taken a stories while we settle into our With a blizzard, newspaper cov - stories are done as well. ally all of those groups are not huge toll on local businesses and old, familiar routines. erage was pretty straightforward: We’ll get to them, but some - meeting. 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Digital divide is more dangerous The Washington Post Living indoors to slow the spread of the novel Guest coronavirus, millions of Americans are turning to the Internet to meet their Editorial most pressing needs. Online grocery delivery services are overwhelmed by orders from those shel - tering at home. Last week, a record 3.3 million Ameri - cans filed unemployment claims, crashing benefits Over 31% websites in several states. of rural Telehealth services, which have already seen a surge Americans in demand, are poised to do not have play a critical role in con - taining the coronavirus by access to keeping infected patients broadband away from hospitals. This massive shift online poses at home; troubling barriers to the 44% of adults least digitally connected Americans. in households These barriers aren’t new, of course. As opportu - making under nities in education, $30,000 don’t employment and health care have migrated online have home over the past decades, the broadband. “digital divide” has increasingly burdened Americans without access Diffie embodied ’90s country to high-speed broadband. These burdens are concen - welcome but insufficient By EMILY YAHR board about why he decided to record in a time when the The Washington Post the track. He and his producer trated among low-income, Even if you’re a country music fan rural and nonwhite Ameri - strength of an Internet thought it was one of the “funniest, connection mediates too young to remember when Joe Emily coolest” things they had ever heard. cans: Over 31% of rural Diffie became one of the genre’s most Americans do not have access to critical informa - “There may be some younger fans tion, remote work opportu - popular singers in the 1990s, there’s a Yahr that have to do some research and fig - access to broadband at good chance you became familiar home; 44% of adults in nities, remote health serv - ure out who Joe Diffie is, but obvious - ices and more. Perhaps with him about eight years ago ly people in the business know he’s a households making under thanks to Jason Aldean. $30,000 don’t have home most concerning is the great singer and one of the best vocal - homework gap, which “Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie!” Aldean chant - ists we’ve had in this town in years.” broadband; and, even when ed on the track “1994” from his 2012 controlling for income, penalized millions of stu - parking lot, tailgate, jukebox, and cas - Diffie was beyond flattered by the album, “Night Train.” While sette player back in high school. We’ll attention and credited the song with black and Hispanic Ameri - dents without computers Aldean’s rap-singing was a bit much cans still lag behind their or speedy Wi-Fi at home miss you Joe Diffie,” Jessi Alexander helping him make a comeback after for country radio, it still made it to he took a nearly decade-long break white counterparts in even before the onset of tweeted. the Top 10 on the airplay charts and from releasing music in the mid- broadband adoption. this pandemic. As schools “Joe Diffie was one of the reasons I introduced Diffie’s legacy to a new wanted to sing country music,” 2000s. The disconnectedness across the country shutter generation of fans. References to Caylee Hammack wrote on Insta - “Jason’s great. And I tell you what, may force individuals to for weeks or months, these Diffie’s many hits (“C-O-U-N-T-R-Y,” gram. I tip my hat to him, because he’s kind make devastating deci - children — disproportion - “John Deere Green,” “Third Rock Scrolling through the dozens upon of revived my own career,” Diffie told sions and undermine the ately poor and nonwhite — from the Sun”) were sprinkled in the dozens of tributes, it was clear: Diffie a country radio station after the song fight against the coron - cannot employ the imper - lyrics, which celebrated the Grammy- meant something different to every - was released. avirus. Low-income fect solutions they have winning singer as a symbol of mid- one. There were common themes, as Other words commonly used to patients are visiting clinics relied on until now, such as 90s country music: “1994, Joe Diffie many celebrated him as one of the describe Diffie on Sunday were in person, and increasing using the Wi-Fi in parking comin’ out my radio/I’m just a coun - best voices in country music. Others “underrated” and “underappreciat - the risk of virus spread, lots of fast-food restau - try boy with a farmer’s tan, so help talked about which songs they loved ed.” It may have been true: While because they “could not rants to finish homework. me girl, I’ll be your pickup man.” the most. Artists credited him as an Diffie had plenty of huge country afford to use voice minutes In the emergency coron - Diffie, though always modest, loved inspiration for their careers. hits, he never crossed over to the to call ahead.” Fortunately, avirus relief bill, Congress it — last fall, he released a limited-edi - He had a huge impact on newer mainstream audience — partly the Federal Communica - ignored calls to appropri - tion vinyl called “Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie!” artists, who name-checked him in because the ‘90s country music explo - tions Commission has ate sufficient direct funds and started to record new music. So it songs (“Got my honky-tonk attitude sion meant there was tons of compe - eased the strain on some by for schools and libraries to was especially shocking to the from Joe Diffie,” Chris Young sang tition. temporarily waiving cer - provide Wi-Fi hotspots for Nashville community on Sunday last year on “Raised on Country”) and But with ‘90s nostalgia all the rage tain rules on Lifeline, a when Diffie, 61, died due to complica - appreciated his old-school country these days, it’s not surprising program that subsidizes students without Internet access at home. More legis - tions from COVID-19. He had revealed look (“Joe Diffie man. … Our love for Nashville singers and fans connect to broadband and voice serv - his positive diagnosis only a few days lation is likely to follow; mullets made me feel connected to his classic country ways (that mullet, ices for low-income con - before. Almost immediately, social you in a special way,” Morgan Wallen that honky-tonk twang) more than funding these hotspots for sumers. The FCC also led media was flooded with remem - tweeted.) Everyone from Luke Bryan ever. the Keep Americans Con - students should be a prior - brances from his fellow singers, who to Dustin Lynch to Locash covered Singer Adam Sanders summed it nected Pledge, through ity. praised his “pure” voice (Trisha Year - “Pickup Man” in concert. Thomas up succinctly in a tribute Sunday: which more than 550 com - For social distancing to wood) and called him “one of the Rhett, a co-writer of Aldean’s “1994,” “When you think of ‘90s country, you panies have promised for work, at-home isolation nicest stars on the planet” (Chris Jan - was four years old at the time of the think Joe Diffie. His music will con - 60 days not to terminate has to be bearable for son). song’s title, but he still idolized Joe tinue to impact generations to come phone and broadband serv - everyone. That means rec - “Oh my God. One of the all-time Diffie, and he and co-writers Barry in ways that only a few can.” ices of any consumers who ognizing and addressing GREAT vocalists. Joe Diffie was my Dean and Luke Laird wrote a whole •••••••••• are unable to pay their the needs of Americans friend. RIP buddy,” Trace Adkins song about him. Yahr is an entertainment reporter bills. who are the least digitally wrote. “I was a junior in high school in ’94. for The Washington Post. Follow her These initial steps are connected. “The soundtrack of every bonfire, Joe Diffie was huge,” Aldean told Bill - on Twitter @emilyyahr. The Commercial Review HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

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The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald The 6-foot rule was kept in place thanks to some rope during a single-file walk Tuesday afternoon down Arch Street in Portland. From left are Tyler Arnold, Kenny Arnold, Kendra Davis and Elizabeth Shrader. Jay County Health Department administrator/environmentalist Heath Butz recommended that local residents continue to practice social distancing following the announcement Tuesday that Jay County has its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Confirmed ... Continued from page 1 Indiana also saw its said the goal is that the The virus can be spread IU Health Jay largest increase in health care provider noti - through: announced this morning deaths, with 16 added in fy the health department •Respiratory droplets it will host a vigil 6:45 this morning’s report. as soon as possible after a released into the air by p.m. Thursday to pray for Healthcare prayer That brings the total to test is confirmed. coughing and sneezing for all healthcare work - 65. The health department •Close personal contact, ers. Those interested in IU Health Jay is organizing a vigil for all health - Case totals in counties does not have tally of how such as touching or shak - participating should care workers Thursday evening to pray for all adjacent to Jay were as many county residents ing hands begin arriving at 6:30 healthcare workers. Details are below. follows: Delaware (22), have been tested for coro - •Touching an object or p.m. and park in the Begin arriving at 6:30 p.m. Darke (13), Randolph navirus, he added. surface with the virus on front, Jay Family Prac - (three), Wells (two), Mer - IU Health continues to it, then touching your tice or Jay Family Medi - Park in the front hospital, cer (two) and Adams offer initial screenings mouth, nose or eyes cine parking lots. (Police Jay Family Practice or (one). Blackford is now via its Virtual Clinic app, before washing your will be on hand to direct Jay Family Medicine parking lots one of just nine counties which is also available at hands traffic.) statewide, and the only iuhealthvideovisit.org. To protect themselves, Participants will stay Remain in your vehicle one in the northeast Screening is the first step Butz recommended that in their car and tune in to quadrant of the state, in the evaluation process Jay County residents fol - the prayer, led by Fellow - Tune in to WPGW radio to listen in without a confirmed case. for those who may need to low Indiana Gov. Eric Hol - ship Baptist Church pas - Marion County (Indi - be tested. comb’s stay-at-home order. tor Hugh Kelly on WPGW Prayer vigil will begin at 6:45 p.m. anapolis) accounts for COVID-19 symptoms “They should continue radio. 43.5 percent of the state’s include fever, cough and to be social distancing, “The goal is to fill the cases with a total of 1,117. shortness of breath. hand hygiene, as far as not parking lot with cars of Health officials contin - Those who show symp - touching your face, the people to pray and show ue to indicate the actual toms should contact their things that they should support of the healthcare posted a positive test time until we got a case numbers are likely much healthcare provider and already be doing they workers,” IU Health Jay result as of midnight here,” said Butz. higher because testing should stay in isolation. should continue,” he said, said in a press release. Monday, coronavirus had Numbers have steadily for COVID-19 is still limit - “People need to make “and know that even “Please refrain from been confirmed in the climbed since then, with ed. sure if they are sick, though this is one case honking or making loud region for several weeks. the state this morning Though he could not they’re having symptoms here that’s positive that noises to show respect Adams County reporting its largest sin - say who notified the that are consistent with more than likely there’s during this time, instead announced its first con - gle-day jump in cases. health department in this COVID-19, that they need more than that that are turn on your blinkers to firmed case March 9. At The total is now 2,565, up particular case, Butz said to stay home, get healthy actually out there. show support and unison the time, there were by 406 from Tuesday. news can come from the before they return to “We can all flatten the in prayer.” fewer than 10 confirmed (Tuesday’s report was the health care provider work or even go out in curve and get through this Though Jay and Black - cases statewide. previous largest increase involved, the state or a public and interact with without inundating our ford counties had not “It was just a matter of of 373.) review of lab results. He people,” said Butz. healthcare system.” Life ... Continued from page 1 will actually make a difference. was a minimum that would be The jaw-dropping projections That combination is already difficult to avoid. He also sought were laid out during a grim, two- being used on thousands of to rewrite his past minimization hour White House briefing. Offi - patients, and Fauci said he would of the outbreak, saying he reject - cials described a death toll that in ‘There’s no magic bullet. want to see a rigorous test of its ed those who compared the new a best-case scenario would likely effectiveness. coronavirus to the flu when in be greater than the more than There’s no magic Trump’s comments came after fact he repeatedly did so publicly. 53,000 American lives lost during vaccine or therapy. he announced Sunday that he “This could be hell of a bad two World War I. And the model’s was extending to April 30 the weeks,’” Trump said. He added: high end neared the realm of pos - It’s just behaviors. social distancing guidelines that “You know 100,000 is, according to sibility that Americans lost to the Each of our behaviors, advise Americans to cease large modeling, a very low number. In virus could approach the 291,000 gatherings, work from home, fact, when I first saw the number Americans killed on the battle - translating into something suspend onsite learning at … they said it was unlikely you’ll field during World War II. that changes the course schools and more in a nation - be able to attain that. We have to “There’s no magic bullet,” Birx wide effort to stem the spread of see but I think we’re doing better said. “There’s no magic vaccine of this viral pandemic.’ the virus. than that.” or therapy. It’s just behaviors. —Dr. Deborah Birx, Adams said that some areas of Trump played down concerns Each of our behaviors, translat - White House coronavirus task force coordinator the country would likely need to from New York’s Andrew Cuomo ing into something that changes maintain those restrictions into and other governors that their the course of this viral pandem - May. “Well, it will be for some states’ hospitals don’t have ic.” places, it won’t be for others, enough ventilators to treat an Fauci called the numbers depending on where they are on anticipated crush of patients. “sobering” and urged Americans that was a worst-case scenario, also the frantic efforts by hospi - their curve,” he told ABC’s “Good Trump said the federal govern - to “step on the accelerator” with without efforts to slow the spread tals around the country to pre - Morning America.” ment currently has a stockpile of their collective mitigation efforts. of the coronavirus through pare for an onslaught of serious - It was an abrupt reversal for 10,000 ventilators that it plans on “We are continuing to see social distancing. She added that ly ill patients. The better pre - the Republican president, who distributing as needed. things go up,” Fauci said. “We states that have not yet seen a pared hospitals are, the greater spent much of last week target - “Now, when the surge occurs, cannot be discouraged by that spike in cases as New York has the chances of lives being saved. ing April 12 as the day he wanted if it occurs fairly evenly, we’ll be because the mitigation is actually could take action to flatten the There’s also a wild card when it to see Americans “pack the pews” able to distribute them very working and will work.” curve of rising hospitalizations comes to treatment: whether the for Easter Sunday services. quickly before they need them,” Birx said pandemic forecasts and deaths. experimental drug combination Trump called the data “very Trump said. “But we want to initially predicted 1.5 million to It’s not only social distancing Trump has touted — a medicine sobering,” saying it was his have a reserve right now. It’s like 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. But that could make a difference but for malaria and an antibiotic — understanding that 100,000 deaths having oil reserves.”

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250 PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Tax Duplicates for the several taxing units of Jay County, for the yearPublic 2019 payable Notice 2020, are now in the hands of the County Treasurer, who is ready to receive the taxes charged thereon. The fol- lowing table shows the rate of taxation on each $100.00 worth of taxable real and personal property. First installment is due on or before and delinquent after May 11, 2020. Second installment is delinquent after November 10, 2020. 2019 pay 2020 Jay Tax TAB Rates 2019 pay 2020 Penn Pennville Dunkirk Bearcreek Bryant Greene Jackson Jefferson Knox Madison Salamonia Noble Pike Richland Redkey Wabash Wayne Portland Co Cum Capital Dev 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 0.0333 JEMS 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 0.0835 County General 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 0.4024 County Health 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 0.0230 Cumulative Bridge 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 0.0450 Jay Co Jail Lease Payments 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 0.0641 Reassessment 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 0.0050 County Total 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 0.6563 Twshp Cum Fire 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0181 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 Twshp Fire fighting 0.0257 0.0000 0.0000 0.0269 0.0000 0.0199 0.0154 0.0230 0.0157 0.0105 0.0000 0.0099 0.0270 0.0262 0.0000 0.0178 0.0634 0.0000 Twshp General 0.0532 0.0532 0.0158 0.0389 0.0389 0.0086 0.0312 0.0124 0.0147 0.0134 0.0134 0.0139 0.0107 0.0158 0.0158 0.0278 0.0096 0.0096 Twshp Poor 0.0175 0.0175 0.0150 0.0017 0.0017 0.0020 0.0018 0.0000 0.0002 0.0042 0.0042 0.0063 0.0000 0.0150 0.0150 0.0000 0.0152 0.0152 Twshp Recreation 0.0187 0.0187 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 TownshipTotal 0.1151 0.0894 0.0308 0.0675 0.0406 0.0305 0.0484 0.0354 0.0306 0.0462 0.0176 0.0301 0.0377 0.0570 0.0308 0.0456 0.0882 0.0248 Library Debt Service 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 Library General 0.0433 0.0433 0.2017 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 Library Total 0.0433 0.0433 0.2017 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 0.0744 School Education 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 School Operation 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 0.5745 School Debt Service 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 0.4640 School Pension Debt 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 0.0814 School Total 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 1.1199 Corp Aviation/Airport 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0668 Corp. Cum Cap Improve 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0973 0.0000 0.0000 0.0500 Corp Cum Capital Dev 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0447 Corp Fire Pension 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 Corp General 0.0000 1.0535 1.4608 0.0000 0.5995 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.1905 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.4739 0.0000 0.0000 0.7810 Corp Parks & Recreation 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0405 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.1116 0.0000 0.0000 0.1174 Corp Park Bond 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0498 Corp Street(MVH) 0.0000 0.0000 0.1623 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.4008 City Total 0.0000 1.0535 1.6231 0.0000 0.6400 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.1905 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.6828 0.0000 0.0000 1.5105 Total Tax Rate 1.9346 2.9624 3.6318 1.9181 2.5312 1.8811 1.8990 1.8860 1.8812 1.8968 2.0587 1.8807 1.8883 1.9076 3.5642 1.8962 1.9388 3.3859 State of Indiana, Jay County, SS: State of Indiana, Jay County, SS: I, Anna M Culy, Auditor of Jay County, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of all tax levies for the taxes collectible in the year 2019 pay 2020. 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Senior’s season started with brain surgery, now in COVID-19 limbo

By CHRIS SCHANZ “Sports is my thing. Doing The Commercial Review stuff is my thing. It was A brain abscess nearly just tough for me to sit at cost him the entirety of his home like I am now just senior year. doing nothing. Took the But all was back to nor - process slowly and did mal just in time for basket - what I could.” ball. Still, Noah and his par - Once again, Noah Arbuckle’s high school ents remained optimistic sports career is in limbo. he’d return to full health, In what is becoming a be back on the basketball swath of unknown, court and return to his first Arbuckle, a Jay County love — baseball. High School senior, is doing “I knew once I got out of the best he can to remain the hospital, once I got back hopeful in these uncertain to my daily routine and The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz times as high school ath - doing basic little stuff to letes across the country are get motor skills back with In this 2019 photo, Jay County High School junior Noah Arbuckle delivers a pitch during an coming to grips with the my left hand ... I’d be back fact their seasons may be to normal and ready to go,” Allen County Athletic Conference tilt against the Adams Central Jets at Don E. Selvey Field at JCHS. abbreviated, or may not Arbuckle, now a senior who overcame surgery to remove an abscess on his brain eight months ago, is he said. happen at all, because of His final year on the bas - adjusting to the uncertainty as to how much of his senior season he’ll get to play. the coronavirus pandemic. ketball court came and “It’s definitely not nor - went without a hitch. Then mal,” Arbuckle said. on March 12, more than two “The whole senior year has not been very good,” weeks before the official Noah’s mother, Sheri, start of baseball practice, chimed in. Jay School Corporation The Arbuckles — Noah, suspended extracurricular Sheri and her husband activities, athletic competi - Doug — returned from New tions and practices for 30 Orleans from a baseball days, delaying the begin - tournament before the first ning of his senior year on day of school in August. the diamond. On Aug. 8, the day before A week later, Indiana Jay County began its Gov. Eric Holcomb issued school year, Noah com - an executive order closing plained of numbness in his the state’s schools until left arm. Sheri rushed May 1, further delaying the home from work to check start of Noah and his on him, but by the time she team’s quest of defending arrived Noah’s discomfort back-to-back sectional went away. She thought it was a simple as a pinched championships. nerve. “We’re just remaining Sheri returned to work, optimistic that this will and Noah’s symptoms got pass and we can get on with worse. His entire left side his senior year, get back to was shaking. The family play a little bit in May,” later discovered he was Doug said. having minor seizures. But if the pandemic can - Doug and Sheri took cels the entirety of the Indi - their youngest son to a ana spring sports season, walk-in clinic, and while Noah still has baseball in there Noah’s speech his future. He’ll go on to became slurred and he was Huntington University in transferred to the emer - the fall to join 2017 JCHS gency room. graduate Max Moser and The following day, while the Foresters. his friends and classmates were gearing up for their “It’s not quite so devas - final year as Patriots, Noah tating because it’s not like was taken to Riley Chil - he’ll never step on a base - dren’s Hospital in Indi - ball field,” Sheri said. “Got anapolis. a real great future ahead of “We weren’t sure Riley him and a lot to look for - would take him because he ward to as well.” had already turned 18, but Regardless of when since he was still a senior Noah’s baseball career they took him, which was a picks back up, one of his blessing from God,” Sheri biggest supporters, mater - said. nal grandfather Jerald Noah had another Schwomeyer, won’t be able seizure, and was immedi - to watch him. Schwomeyer ately admitted for an MRI. passed away March 15. The neurosurgeon told “He was buried in Hunt - Doug and Sheri he was pos - ington University gear itive Noah had an abscess on the right side of his because he wanted to come frontal lobe, but he watch me play at Hunting - wouldn’t know for sure ton so bad but unfortunate - until he got into the operat - ly he was unable to make ing room. it,” Noah said. “He’s been By 6 p.m. that night, my childhood best friend Noah was having brain sur - and we were very close and gery. had a soft place in my “It was 24 hours of a heart, so the next time I whirlwind from the first step onto a baseball field, symptom,” Sheri said. I’m always going to remem - The abscess, of which no ber what he always used to one knew the cause, was tell me before a game, and slightly smaller than a ping that was ‘Look good out pong ball. After its removal, there,’ and gave me a Noah was outfitted with a thumbs up. titanium plate and three “Every game, every play, screws, and he now sports a 6-inch scar as a memento. every decision I make, Noah was in the inten - everything I do from here sive care unit for a day, and on out is for him.” then spent four more days If there’s one silver lin - at Riley for rehab. ing in this unexpected hia - “It was a whirlwind,” tus from baseball, it’s that Sheri reiterated. “Almost in Sheri and Doug get their shock; he’s just so healthy. son around a little while We had traveled all sum - longer before becoming mer with ball, just to think empty-nesters in the fall. he had this brewing.” “It’s really kind of nice,” On Aug. 14, almost a full Sheri said. “There’s the week after the first symp - side of it where we’re not so toms, Noah returned home busy and we are together with a picc line, and Sheri more. That hasn’t hap - administered antibiotics pened for a long time dur - twice a day for six weeks. ing baseball. Noah was not permitted to do any sort of physical “But then there’s the activity. As a result, he missing watching him play. missed playing powder We love to watch him. We puff volleyball one more are definitely missing that time with his senior class - just being able to see him, mates at Jay County’s spir - especially his senior year. it night. “It’s a little heartbreak - “Very tough,” he said. ing that way too.”