Commercial Review wins 13 awards INDIANAPOLIS — For the High School graduate and for - picked up four first-place record-breaking effort at the Garbacz currently works at third year in a row, The Com - mer Commercial Review intern awards — three for managing IHSAA Gymnastics State The Daily Journal (Franklin). mercial Review was honored James Brosher also won several editor Ray Cooney and one for Finals as well as third place for The Commercial Review, Saturday as one of the best awards. publisher Jack Ronald. Cooney sports action photo and head - which has won more than 30 small newspapers in Indiana. The general excellence award took the top spot for sports com - line writing. Ronald also placed awards over the last three The Commercial Review is presented to the top three mentary for Rays of Insight, second for general commentary years, also took second place earned the most honors in its newspapers in each division sports feature photo and gener - for his weekly column Back in for business section/pages. history at the Hoosier State based on a point system taking al news photo, and Ronald was the Saddle. Brosher, a photographer for Press Association Better News - into account awards in all other honored as the top editorial Former county reporter the South Bend Tribune, paper Contest awards ceremo - categories. The CR was second writer. Steve Garbacz picked up sec - earned first-place awards in ny with 13, including second behind The Tribune (Seymour) Cooney won more individual ond-place honors for The CR for Division I (newspapers with a place for general excellence in out of the 26 newspapers in awards (seven) than any other news coverage with no deadline circulation of 35,000 or more) Division III. It placed third for Division III, which includes journalist in Division III, pressure for his stories about for feature photo and multiple general excellence in both 2011 daily publications with a circu - adding second-place honors for Confined Animal Feeding Oper - picture group. He added a third- and ’12. lation of 6,000 or fewer. sports section and sports event ations in Jay County and use of place award for still photo story Dunkirk native, Jay County The Commercial Review coverage for Katie Snyder’s graphics. with audio or video. First place Best editorial writer Jack Ronald Leadership needed on pool Leadership doesn’t throw up Even the most optimistic esti- 10 years, it should also be possi- lem. its hands when confronted with mate of private fund-raising ble to begin setting aside capital The pool deserves a spot at the a challenge. would top out about $500,000. improvement funds in the city top of the agenda. It gets to work, struggles to The bulk of the money is obvi- budget so that a “savings There’s no point in getting find creative solutions, keeps its Editorial ously going to have to come account” is accumulated. Those bogged down in discussions eye on the goal, and stays per- from public funds, local tax dol- funds and private donations about whether a new pool is in sistent until the job is done. lars. could reduce the size of any Hudson Family Park or at the It should be clear to everyone Mayor Randy Geesaman eventual bond issue. current pool site. by now that the days of the cur- soon for a replacement. insists that the city isn’t in a We don’t pretend to know the That’s about as useful as argu- rent Portland Pool are num- That’s the challenge, and it’s a position to take on another bond solution, but we know that the ing about how many diving bered. big one. issue, and he may be right. challenge is real. boards it has. It’s more than 50 years old. It A new municipal pool is esti- But it’s also true that there And leadership from city gov- The challenge is figuring out leaks more than a million gal- mated to cost something like $2 are ways around the 2-percent- ernment — the mayor, the park how we’re going to do this. It’s lons of water a year. And ongo- million to $2.5 million. That’s of-assessed-valuation limit board, and the city council — is time to get to work, find creative ing maintenance costs keep not the sort of money you raise when it comes to bond issues. what’s needed. solutions, keep our eyes on the mounting. with bake sales and charity auc- Given the pool’s estimated This isn’t someone else’s prob- prize, and keep at it until the job Clearly, the time is coming tions. remaining lifespan of less than lem. It’s city government’s prob- is done. — J.R. Grant process seems backwards This seems backwards. and a well-defined concept first, chase for grant money. that we realize it would look a The city of Portland is scurry- then seeking available grant dol- It would also be foolish to cob- little greedy to be asking for ing around, trying to figure out lars later, it looks like dollars- ble together a grant application more money when we haven’t whether it should or should not first-ideas-later. just for the sake of asking, with- really erased the earlier loss? apply for a Stellar Communities Editorial In other words, it looks as if out giving it the thoughtful con- And, most of all, doesn’t it grant from the Indiana Office of we have things backwards. sideration it deserves. That’s the make sense for any Stellar Com- Community and Rural Affairs. Sure, there are some worthy sort of thinking that has made munities grant application to be Why the hesitation? ideas being talked about. But the Americans cynical about “Uncle born from ideas first — not just Because the city is still under missing from the equation: A best of those — a new municipal Sugar.” a chase for “free money”? a black cloud with OCRA until credible proposal for how any swimming pool comes to mind Doesn’t it make sense to take a We think so. the ill-fated Geesaman Indus- potential grant dollars would be — don’t fall into the realm of step back? And we also think the folks at tries grant is behind us. used. what Stellar Communities Doesn’t it make sense to let the OCRA are smart enough to City officials, including Mayor In other words, the city has — grants are all about, as we folks who run OCRA know that appreciate the difference Randy Geesaman, are hopeful once again — fallen into the understand things. the city is chastened and hum- between a community that’s that black cloud will dissipate same old trap. And it would be foolish to try bled by the Geesaman Industries chasing grant dollars and one soon. Instead of developing consen- to force the square peg into a fiasco, that we’re grateful a reso- that’s seeking assistance for an But there’s still something sus, strong community support, round hole simply to be in a lution has been reached, and idea-driven project. — J.R.

What would Jonathan Daniels think? One wonders what Jonathan The rules were rigged, officials places in town that would Daniels would have had to say were arrogant and dishonest, serve non-whites. At the about the Supreme Court’s and the whole thing was an entrance, Daniels was stopped major surgery on the Voting embarrassment to the rest of by a self-appointed protector of Rights Act this week. Editorial America. That’s why a white the southern power structure, Never heard of Jonathan student from New Hampshire ... the whole a white guy with a shotgun. Daniels? felt it was his duty, his obliga- thing was an Daniels died instantly from That’s not surprising. Few tion, to step forward in an his wounds. The priest would Americans have. effort to change the situation. embarrassment take months to recover. But those who recall the early In other words, he was some- His reasoning was pretty to the rest Their offense: They tried to days of the civil rights move- one who wanted to share the simple: Being an American change Alabama, and they ment and the struggle for fair rights he enjoyed with others carried with it certain rights, of America. were part of a larger move- voter registration in the Deep who were entitled to the same and those rights belonged to all ment to change the entire Deep South may know the name. rights. Americans regardless of the South. They may remember a young In Lowndes County, the right color of their skin. That sort of horrific vio- Episcopalian seminarian from to vote was limited almost That may sound obvious lence was endemic during that New Hampshire who made his exclusively to those who were today, but it was far from obvi- ed on Aug. 14, 1965, after pick- era, and memories of that vio- way down to Alabama to help white. Though the population ous in 1965 when Jonathan eting a whites-only store in lence still haunt the region. African-Americans register to of the county was overwhelm- Daniels was “agitating” in Fort Deposit, Ala. He remained So one has to wonder what vote. ingly black, less than 4 percent Lowndes County. In fact, the in jail in Hayneville, Ala., until Jonathan Daniels would have He worked for a bit in Selma, of the eligible black population effort to register black voters Aug. 20, when the last of the to say about the Voting Rights then with the sanction of his was registered. was viewed as an enormous protesters were released on Act’s evisceration this week. seminary he returned to Ala- An elaborate, shameful threat by the political and bail. Would he say that things bama and went to work in structure had developed that social power structure. While awaiting a ride out of have changed enough over Lowndes County. made the simple act of regis- And that power structure town, Daniels and a white nearly 50 years? He was, in the parlance of tering anything but simple for was capable of fighting back. Catholic priest and two black Or would he, instead, suggest that era and that locale, an black residents of Alabama Jonathan Daniels was among female protesters decided to that ghosts of a brutal past “outside agitator.” and the rest of the Deep South. a group of 29 protesters arrest- get a soft drink at the few still haunt us today? — J.R. First place Best sports commentary Ray Cooney

Rays of Insight Victory could change season By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review Stepping into the Jay County High School gym on Tuesday night was a jolt to the senses. E A glance up at the score- board after making the short walk from the pool where the Patriot swim Insight ... team had just defeated Hagerstown showed Jay Continued from page 12 ning shot with 3.3 seconds remain- At some point in that final quar- County had just nine They missed six foul shots in the ing. ter, the Patriots started believing in points. It wasn’t the first quarter, but made 5-of-6 in the final It was stunning. themselves. Instead of being quarter, or even the first minute with the game on the line. No one in the gym could have resigned to a loss, they decided to half. There were just six Alex Loy hit the last two of those, guessed the Patriots could erase a do everything they could to try to minutes left in the game. pulling Jay County to within a 10-point deficit in a matter of min- win. The Patriots were sure- point with 21.5 seconds left. utes. They hadn’t shown that kind It was the kind of victory that can ly headed toward their Freshman guard Abby Wendel of offensive prowess in at least a turn around a season. third straight defeat and deflected the ensuing inbound pass month, and had been held to fewer The road is not easy for Jay Coun- 10th loss of the season. off of a Huntington North player than 30 points in each of their last ty, which plays its next two games But at some point in those final six minutes, every- and out of bounds to get the ball two games. against teams that have a combined thing changed. back for the Patriots. And then But after scoring just four points 21 victories. But now the Patriots Suddenly Jay County, Katlin Petro grabbed an offensive in the first half against the Vikings, should have confidence that when which had struggled late rebound off of a miss by Bre McIn- JCHS racked up 13 in the final 2:11. they work together, big things can in games most of the sea- tire and powered up the game-win- Why did it happen? happen. son, started making plays. Instead of being the team that was giving the ball away against full- court pressure, the Patri- ots were swarming Hunt- ington North and forcing turnovers. Instead of falling away from the bas- ket on their shots, they Rays were driving aggressively and drawing fouls. of See Insight page 11 Insight Break time? land hitting the game-tying lay- up with 1.2 seconds left. “I’m still shaking,” said Words McFarland after that game, which JCHS won by five in McFarland overtime. “That was probably the most fun game I’ve ever on verge played in my whole life.” spark of scoring Jay County went on to beat The Commercial Review Homestead and Fort Wayne Page 11 Thursday,record February 21, 2013 Sports South Side to win its first Class belief 4A sectional title. McFarland hit his career By RAY COONEY high with 34 points against The Commercial Review Wayne last season as he helped Never underestimate lead the Patriots to an 18-4 mark the impact one can make ByBreak RAY COONEY ... The Commercial Review as they set the school record for Review on another’s life. ContinuedBrock McFarland, from page 12Kegan the Patriots besthave regular-season had winning Even the smallest Comer,He added Scott 34 pointsSchwieterman, later together. And hepercentage, knows he a mark they could preview moments can have a Tylerin the Back season and in Darrena win over Bogen- wouldn’t be onb reakthe vergeFriday. That squad also major influence. Neal schutzHuntington have North,a chance and to hit make JCHS scoring leaders of history withoutset the them. school mark for defen- Friday - 6 p.m. Fennig is proof of that. theirthe game-winning Senior Night shotone inof the “I’ve just gotsive topoints give allowed, giving up Neal may not even mosta 42-39 special sectional in school semifinal history. Brock McFarland is 10 points away from becoming Jay Coun- thanks to alljust the 35 team- per game. victory over Wapahani. ty High School boys basketball’s all-time leading scorer. Listed below are mates and the coaches,” Bellmont remember the story about They can set the Jay County the top 10 scorers in school history. In addition to all of the team to be shared here, but His career came to an McFarland said.milestones “That’s this season, McFar- High School record for best reg- Dan Ferrell 1,155 Trent Bailey 853 Braves Josh Lykins does. And end in the next game, a 72- the main thing.land I know became it’s just the second ular-season winning percent- Brock McFarland 1,146 Andrew Michael 849 Decatur, 4-15 that’s what is important. age56 losswith to a Delta win inover the Bellmont sec- Mark McEwen 959 Corey Comer 846 an individual playerrecord, inbut school history to tional championship Brian Bickel 926 Tony Overton 846 it really is a team record Coach: John Baker, second year It’s a story Josh, a Jay on Friday. They can tie marks Mark Hardwick 914 Kegan Comer 821 break the 1,000-point barrier. County High School jun- forgame. most wins in a single season more than anything.He reached With- that milestoneConference: early Northeast Hoosier ior, shared Tuesday as he andFerrell longest continuedwinning streak. his out my teammatesin the second and half ofTuesday a win Jan. vs. Bishop Dwenger: Bellmont trailed prepared for the IHSAA outstandingAnd McFarland senior can season cement coaches, I wouldn’t18 over Winchester. be by just four at halftime, but couldn’t quite keep up Boys Swimming and Div- hisby placeleading in JCHS JCHS history to sec- as theversity and was drafted by sure as he closes in on Fer- anywhere close to“In where Indiana I highwith school the Saints bas- in a 55-46 loss. Lance Vergara, the ing State Finals. He’ll school’stional and all-time regional leading cham- scorer.the Florida Marlins before rell’s record, but also said am. ketball to be a 1,000-pointteam’s lonescorer senior, finished with 13 points. swim in Indianapolis on pionshipsAfter scoring in baseball. 14 points The retiringin from baseball in the experience has been “You can’t dois anya huge of it deal,” said JCHS Friday along with James Tuesday’sleft-handed win pitcher over Norwell, went he1997. fun because of the team by yourself. I’mcoach just Craig so Teagle. “To be the Keen, Cody White and ison just to play10 away at Indiana from breakingUni- McFarland has felt pres- success he and the rest of grateful for everybody.”leading scorer in your schools at Sok Vormohr in the 400- the record of 1,155 points set by history makes that deal even yard freestyle relay. They 1993 graduate Dan Ferrell. bigger. Jay County comprise the first Patriot “It feels great,” said McFar- “I think the thing that’s been relay team to advance to landPacers of the historic opportuni- clobber New Yorkmost impressive aboutPatriots (McFar- the state meet since 2003. ty. “Looking back, I never would land) is how he’s advancedPortland, as 19-2 a INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indi- coming back,” George said. “I think leaders. It was Indiana’scomplete largest player. Every year he I asked Josh how it felt have thought that I’d be even Coach: Craig Teagle, 15th year ana Pacers looked ready for the we really showed it tonight.” margin of victory this gotseason better and defensively. He’s a to be going to the state close to where I am now. I kind Conference: Independent finals. He expressed his ofplayoffs. haven’t grasped the whole David West had 18 points and Thenine CommercialNew York’s Review/Ray worst Cooney loss. really good rebounder. He got thingThe yet.” New York Knicks looked like rebounds, and Lance Stephenson “We didn’t show up,”better Knicks at delivering Tuesdaythe ball vs. to Norwell: Jay County fought off a rally disbelief. by the Knights in the third quarter and pulled away “It’s crazy. I don’t know theyMcFarland, wanted who a islonger averaging All-Star added Jay14 pointsCounty for High Indiana School (33-21), seniorcoach Brock Mike McFarland Woodson said.the open “They guy. … That’s what’s 18break. points per game this season, puts whichup a shotpulled during within Tuesday’s a half-game win of overwhipped Norwell. our He (expletive) needs mfromade begin-him so valuable,for a 68-52 not just victory. Kegan Comer and Scott Schwi- how to explain it,” he eterman each shot 7-of-9 from the field as they led said. “I never expected to hasPaul been George a starter scored for the 27 Patri-points and10 pointsthe Knicks to break for 1993second JCHS place graduate in the ning Dan toFerrell’s end. It school was nothingthat he pretty can score but that he’s a the Patriots with 17 and 15 points respectively. be going to state. … I otsthe since Pacers the powered moment their he walked way closerscoringEast. record of 1,155 points. about tonight’s game. It’scomplete unaccept- basketball player on Season leaders (per game): Points — Brock never expected to be ontoto the the No. high 2 seed school in the floor. Eastern He Con- The Pacers shot 53 percent from able. I mean, we didn’tboth compete. ends of the floor.” going anywhere as a wasference just by the beating sixth the player Knicks in 125-91 the field, scored a season-high point That’s on all of us.” Ferrell brokeMcFarland Mark 18, Scott Schwieterman 13.8, Kegan on Wednesday night. total and had a season-best 28 Tyson Chandler led New York (32- swimmer.” JCHS history to start the sea- into a much larger role as a Huntington North in the open- McEwen’s scoringComer record 12.7.of 959 Rebounds — Schwieterman 7.1, “We were focused, since day one assists against the Atlantic Division 19) with 19 points and 11 rebounds. The sound of his voice son opener during his fresh- sophomore. ing round of the sectional tour- points with a 29-pointMcFarland effort in4.8. a Assists — Comer 4.5. and the look on his face man season. One of his career highlights nament. The Patriots trailed by 76-63 loss to Anderson Highland made it clear his thoughts He averaged 6.7 points per came during that season when 10 in the second half, but rallied in January of 1993. were sincere. game that year before stepping Jay County met up with host all the way back with McFar- See Break pageLast 11 season: Jay County trailed by seven early So I asked him what Insight ... in the second quarter, but dominated the rest of changed. What was the the way for a 59-24 victory over the Braves. Kegan turning point for a kid Continued from page 12 freestyle relay. His time, to hear in order to spur swimming abilities just Comer scored 18 points to lead the Patriots, who who never thought he Six boys swimmers 48.68 seconds. him along. two years ago. outscored Bellmont 51-12 in the final three quar- would go anywhere in reached that goal last sea- His goal for the state Or maybe not. We’ll He didn’t have dreams of ters. Brock McFarland added 15 points, and Trey swimming? What made Kahligson, and more than 125scoresfinals is to break the 48- never know for sure going to state. It seems as if Teagle scored 11. the difference and made have done so in Jay Coun- second mark on his leg of because Neal was there to he never even thought he’d Game notes: In addition to the career scoring him believe that he could ty history. the relay. The 50-second give him the inspiration. be one of the better swim- record (see related story) JCHS could tie or get to where he is now? Josh wasn’t confident club is a distant memory. “Ever since getting mers on his own team. But break several other milestones. A win would set Josh’s answer was 1,000thhe’d be able to reach that pointJosh probably would that at sectional my he is now. And it’s largely a new Patriot record for regular-season winning striking. mark. Neal, then a Patri- have made the 50-second freshman year I’ve just because he got the right I percentage as well as tie records for the most When he was a fresh- ot senior, told him he club even without the been chasing to get big- words of encouragement at overall wins (20) and the most consecutive wins man, he said, Neal told could. encouragement from ger and better,” said the right time. (14) ... Bellmont has struggled since beating him that he could make So he worked for Collegiateit. Neal, who now swims at Lykins of the 50-second So if you have something both of its Adams County rivals (Adams Central the 50-second club. And during the sectional Ball State University. club. positive to say to someone, and South Adams) in late December. The Braves For those who don’t meet in his freshman sea-Check-upMaybe he also would Josh’s goal next season pass it along. If you believe have lost 10 of their last 11, including five in a know, the 50-second club son, he reached that goal. have continued to grow will be to make the state in someone, let them know. row ... Jay County finished 18th in this week’s includes any swimmer He swam another 100 into the swimmer he has finals in an individual Don’t hold back. Class 4A poll voting by The Associated Press. who breaks the 1-minute freestyle on Saturday — become today. Maybe event as well as a relay. You never know where They are 25th in both the Sagarin and Freeman mark in the 100-yard the final 100-yard leg legeof someonerecord Saturday else would as have It’s amazing to be able to your words will lead them. computer rankings. freestyle. Jay County’s sectional-the women’sstepped inswim and team offered say that, knowing what Neal’s started Josh on the See Insight page 11 championship 400competedhim thein the words Ohio he Ath- needed he thought of his own path to state. letic Conference Champi- onships at Akron. Ohio Miller broke her own NorthernCollegiate University on school record in the... 1,650- Feb. 13. yard freestyle by 27 sec- Kahlig,Continued who is fromFort pageonds 12 as shelege finished on at 11ththe MIAA Champi- Billy Wellman The senior also turned in a Tim Lehman Recovery’sMoore all-time and teammate lead- Gretchenin the eventonships, in 19 minutes, scoring points for the Jay County – 2009 time of 1:23.75 for fourth place South Adams – 2012 ing scorer,Spahr reachedclaimed his two col- of 29.18the topseconds.Knights She in aalso pair of events. Came off the bench Sunday to in the 600 run. Ran for the Goshen College legiatethree milestone spots in on the a 3-5,000-meterjoined JacquelineHudson Loock, posted a time of 2 help lead the Ball State Univer- men’s track team at Saturday’s pointerrun. with 7:01 left in Nicole Tankminutes, and Brittany 33.24 seconds to take sity baseball team to its first Jordan McMillan Fred Wilt Boilermaker Invita- the secondSpahr half.was the He runner-up fin- Pease in the to break10th placethe Defi- in the 200-yard win of the season, 5-1 over Mid- Jay County – 2011 tional hosted by Purdue. ishedevent, the andgame Moore with finished11 ance third 1,600breaststroke. freestyle relay She was also 11th dle Tennessee in the last of a Picked up a fifth-place finish Lehman gave the Maple Leafs points,in 19three minutes, rebounds, 36.35 seconds.record in 4:02.26.in the 100 breaststroke in 1:11.1. three-game series. Friday as the Ball State Univer- two athletes in the top five in the two blocks and an assist. The freshman was also Wellman made the most of sity women’s track team hosted 600-meter run. He finished fifth TheKendra senior Brunswick had 23 13th in theJoanna 400 individual Snyder his only at bat in the game, the Ball State Quad. in 1 minute, 27.65 seconds while medley in 5:04.97 and 16th points,Fort seven Recovery boards, one– 2011 Fort Recovery – 2009 blasting a two-run home run for McMillan was fifth in the 200- his teammate, Brock Gun- with a time of 5:43.32 in assist andHad one team steal highs Feb. 14in rebounds Led the NCAA Division III the Cardinals (1-2) in the sev- meter dash in a time of 26.38 derkline, placed third. the 500 freestyle. in aand 69-52 assists victory Wednesday over in the No. 4 Ohio Northern University enth inning. He also had a run seconds for the Cardinals, who Ashland.Edison He leadsCommunity the Oil- College to its 23rd straight win Satur- and an RBI for BSU on Saturday were last in the group behind Jason Pottkotter ers (17-6)women’s at 16.1 basketball points per team’sHannah 80-70 Mooreday by a 77-42 score over Capi- in an 11-6 loss. Western Michigan, Northern Fort Recovery – 2012 game and also averages loss to Owens. South Adamstal. – 2012 Illinois and Miami-Ohio. She Contributed to the University 5.0 rebounds and 1.4 Brunswick lead the ChargersHad a top-threeSnyder finishshared the team high Pazia Speed also posted a time of 8 seconds of Northwestern Ohio men’s assists. with seven rebounds forand the six Huntingtonof 15 points Univer- for the Polar Bears, Jay County – 2010 flat in the 60 dash. basketball team’s 82-61 victory assists, and also had 16sity points women’swho track finished team theas regular season Powered the Huntington Uni- Saturday over Marygrove in its Eme Miller and two steals. She had 13it points,competed24-1 at theoverall DePauw and won their first versity women’s basketball Kylie Kahlig final game of the regular sea- Jay fiveCounty assists, – 2012three steals Classicand two on Saturday. Ohio Athletic Conference title team to a 69-64 victory over Tay- Fort Recovery – 2012 son. Brokerebounds a Defiance on Saturday Col- againstSee Collegiatesince 1988page with11 an 18-0 record. Pottkotter hit three free lor in the opening round of the Helped lead the University of Cuyahoga. She also had five rebounds, four throws and finished with five Crossroads League Tourna- Northwestern Ohio women’s The sophomore was also assists and a steal. ment. points for the Racers (17-13). He basketball team to a 54-41 named the National Junior Col- The College Sports Informa- Speed shot 7-of-14 and hit all also had three steals, one rebounding advantage Saturday lege Athletic Association Divi- tion Directors of America also of her five free-throw attempts rebound and one assist. in its 77-50 victory over Mary- sion II Player of the Week for named the senior to the Divi- to finish with 20 points. She also grove. Jan. 28 through Feb. 3. She has sion III Women’s Basketball had four rebounds, four assists Katie Simmons been the Ohio Community Col- Capital One Academic All- and two steals. Kahlig grabbed 10 rebounds for the Racers (11-20) and also Jay County – 2012 lege Athletic Conference Player America First Team. The junior had 18 points, five Also competed at the Fred had nine points, one assist and of the Week twice this season. Ohio Northern will play its rebounds, two assists and a Wilt Boilermaker Invitational, one steal. She totaled one point, first game of the OAC tourna- steal as the Foresters (18-12) running in a couple of events Erika Waugh ment at home against Wilming- closed the regular season by four rebounds and three assists for the IPFW women’s team. South Adams – 2011 ton at 7:30 p.m. tonight. beating Spring Arbor 70-60 on Wednesday as the team finished Simmons posted her top fin- Turned in a pair of top-five fin- Saturday. its season with an 84-58 loss to ish with a time of 10 minutes, ishes to help the Calvin College Megan Taylor Davenport in the quarterfinal 46.97 seconds for 10th place in women’s swim team to its ninth Jay County – 2011 Brandon Reynard round of the Wolverine-Hoosier the 3,000-meter run. She was straight Michigan Intercollegiate Was part of a runner-up relay Jay County – 2009 Athletic Conference Tourna- also 13th in the mile in 5:25.58. ment. Athletic Association champi- finish for the Manchester Col- Contributed to a first-place onship. lege women’s track team at Sat- relay finish for the Indiana Dexter Shreve Waugh’s best effort came in the urday’s Heartland Collegiate Tech men’s track team Saturday Brianna Nevil Jay County – 2009 200-yard breaststroke as she fin- Athletic Conference Indoor at the Wolverine-Hoosier Ath- South Adams – 2012 Competed for the Kent State ished fourth for the Knights in 2 Championships hosted by Defi- letic Conference Indoor Cham- Powered the offense Monday University men’s track team minutes, 8.75 seconds. She was ance. pionships. for the Hesston College softball Saturday as it hosted the Kent also fifth in the 100 backstroke in Taylor and teammates Sarah Reynard, Austen Barnes, team in a 9-8 loss to Tabor. State Tune-up. 59.99 and 10th in the 500 freestyle Stahl, Anna McGowen and Brit- Dareyus Person and Harris Nevil smacked a two-run sin- Shreve turned in a sixth-place at 5:15.34. tany Shuler posted a time of 13 Edwards III won the WHAC title gle and scored a run in the third finish for the Golden Flashes minutes, 42.08 seconds, for the in the 4x400 relay in 1:18.49. inning as Hesston built an 8-2 with a time of 8.52 seconds in Mary Hudson Spartans to finish second in the They were more than three sec- lead before Tabor rallied for the the 60-meter hurdles. He was Jay County – 2012 distance medley. She was also onds faster than the team from win. She also had an RBI single also 11th in the pole vault at 14 Also competed for Calvin Col- 14th in the 400 dash in 1:09.2. Cornerstone. in the first inning. feet, 5¼ inches. Sports on tap Scoreboard Marion Local 2 6 9 11 .450 Cincinnati at Connecticut (ESPN); Geor- 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday the sectional tournament at 7:30 p.m. Men’s college basketball Parkway 0 8 2 18 .100 gia at Arkansas (ESPN2); Minnesota at North Dakota State at Akron (ESPN2); and Thursday, and from 7:45 a.m. to on March 1. IPFW 77, Oakland 45 Ohio State (BTN) Saint Louis at Butler (ESPNU) 1:30 p.m. Friday. Boys sectional tickets Evansville 79, Illinois State 62 Local schedule 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Miami 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Minneso- will also be available from 7:45 a.m. to JCHS hosting community swim Ohio State 71, Minnesota 45 Heat at Chicago Bulls (TNT) ta Timberwolves at Oklahoma City Thun- 4 p.m. Monday and 7:45 a.m. to 1:30 Jay County High School will host a Today 8:15 p.m. — Men’s College Basket- p.m. Tuesday. community swim session Sunday. Jay County — EJMS vs. WJMS wrestling der (ESPN) NBA basketball ball: Penn State at Illinois (BTN) 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Advance tickets are $4 for students The community swim will run from 2 – 6 p.m.; WJMS sixth grade boys basket- 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: and $6 for adults. All tickets at the door to 4 p.m., and admission is $2. An adult Indiana 125, New York 91 ball vs. Montpelier – 6 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Long Beach State Duke at Virginia Tech (ESPN); California (ESPNU) will be $6. must accompany children 12-and- at Oregon (ESPNU); Iowa at Nebraska younger. Friday 9 p.m. — Boxing: Friday Night Fights (ESPN2) Sectional tickets are on sale Standings Jay County — Boys basketball vs. Bell- – Kendall Holt vs. Lamont Peterson Midwest Athletic Conference 10 p.m. — NBA Basketball: San Anto- Tickets for the Class 4A Sectional 6 Registration open for JCC programs mont – 6:15 p.m.; Boys swimming at (ESPN2) nio Spurs at Los Angeles Clippers (TNT) boys basketball tournament at Hunting- Registration is open for Jay Commu- Boys basketball IHSAA state finals – 6 p.m.; EJMS vs. 10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: San Conf. Overall 11 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: ton North, which includes Jay County nity Center’s spring Boomer soccer and WJMS wrestling – 6 p.m. Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors W LW L PCT BYU at St. Mary’s (ESPN2); Stanford at High School, are on sale. flag football programs. Fort Recovery — Boys basketball vs. (ESPN) St. Henry 7 1 18 3 .857 Marion Local – 6:30 p.m. Oregon State (ESPNU) Sectional passes, which are good for Both leagues are for preschool St. John’s 7 1 14 5 .737 South Adams — Boys basketball vs. Local notes all five tournament games, will be sold through eighth graders, and games will New Bremen 7 2 16 5 .762 Eastbrook – 6 p.m. Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the JCHS be played on Saturdays. The registration Versailles 5 4 15 5 .750 3:30 p.m. — NASCAR Racing: FR tickets are on sale athletics office. Sectional passes are fee is $40, and the deadline is March 6. Ft. Recovery 4 4 17 4 .810 Nationwide Series – Dayton qualifying Tickets for Fort Recovery High $10, and individual game tickets will be There will also be a soccer and foot- Minster 3 5 12 8 .600 TV schedule (ESPN2) School’s games in the boys and girls $6 at the door. ball skills clinics at JCC on March 10. New Knoxville 3 5 9 11 .450 Today 6:30 p.m. — Men’s College Hockey: sectional tournaments are on sale. JCHS will play Huntington North or For more information, contact JCC at Coldwater 3 5 8 11 .421 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Michigan at Ohio State (BTN) They will be sold in the FRHS office Homestead in the semifinal round of [email protected] or (260) 726-6477. Thursday, March 7, 2013 Boston beats Pacers JCHS gymnasts to on last-second shot, compete at regional, see story on page 11 Sports see Sports on tap

Page 12 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Purdue falls short By JIM JOHNSON “I just think we’ve all 16 7-10 Big Ten) fell behind Associated Press came together at the end 21-9. Marcius had 13 points WEST LAFAYETTE, of the season, saved our and five rebounds before Ind. — The Purdue Boiler- best basketball for last.” injuring his ankle with makers feel like they’re Davis said. “We’ve just 13:45 to play in the second playing their best basket- been playing hard, putting half. ball. everything together and Stauskas made free After their upset of Wis- start forgetting about our- throws and a 3-pointer to consin on Sunday, the selves and start playing extend the lead and Burke Boilermakers felt they for the coaches, the alum- added two free throws still had some steam. ni and the fans.” with 20 seconds left to They just didn’t have Trey Burke had 26 make it 77-73. enough for a second points and five rebounds, After Burke gave the straight upset. Nik Stauskas had 17 Wolverines a four-point Terone Johnson scored points and Tim Hardaway, lead late, Terone Johnson a career-high 35 points Jr. added 16 points and five scored to make it 77-75. and Rapheal Davis added rebounds for the Wolver- “I felt like we put our- 15 for Purdue, which fell ines (25-5, 12-5). selves in a good position to The Associated Press/AJ Mast short in an 80-75 loss to Sandi Marcius scored win,” Terone Johnsn said. No. 7 Michigan on Purdue’s first nine points, “We just didn’t come out Michigan’s Glenn Robinson III, left, battles with Purdue forward Wednesday night. but the Boilermakers (14- with it in the end.” Sandi Marcius during the first half Wednesday in West Lafayette. Patriots deserve pat on the back By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review One loss does not define Rays you. Yes, the Jay County of High School boys basket- ball team’s loss Friday to Insight Homestead was a tough one to swallow. It was diffi- cult to see a group of ath- letes that talented go out ment record in Class 4A in their first tournament prior to 2011. In the last game. three seasons it went 4-2 in But the Patriots should sectional play and won its be remembered not for first Class 4A title. falling short against a The only other Class 4A strong Homestead team in sectional championship in a game that came down to any sport came from the the wire. volleyball team in 1997. They should be remem- Coach Craig Teagle has bered for an outstanding said several times that regular season that saw this group is the best he them rack up more wins has had in his 15 years at than any team in school JCHS. I’ve been at The history, tie the record for Commercial Review for 12 wins set by the 2005-06 years, and agree that this Class 3A state runner-up is the best Patriot team I squad and tie the record have ever seen. for longest winning streak Brock McFarland is the set by the 2007-08 team. best scorer in my time This group of seniors here. He established him- should be remembered for self as such in becoming helping lead the team to 55 the school’s all-time lead- wins over the course of ing scorer this season, fin- the last three seasons and ishing with 1,177 points. setting a new standard for Only one other player in competing at the Class 4A Jay County history has level. broken the 1,000-point Competing in Class 4A, mark. especially as one of the The Patriots have had smallest schools in the some strong point guards group, is just significantly through the years, but I’ve more difficult than Class never seen anyone pass 3A. the ball like Kegan Comer. In six seasons compet- He has incredible court ing in Class 3A JCHS won vision and the ability to 10 sectional titles — four deliver the ball to his in boys basketball, three teammates in a position to in girls basketball, two in score. volleyball and one in base- Scott Schwieterman is ball. Jay County is now in the best big man I’ve seen its 10th season competing play for Jay County. He in Class 4A and has won obliterated the single-sea- just two sectional champi- son record for field goal onships. percentage (62.2) this year, TheThe Patriot Commercial boys basket- Reviewshooting 71 percent. ball teamThursday, had a 1-7 March tourna- 7, 2013See Insight page 11 Sports Page 11 KahligInsight triple ... In review Continued from page 12 summer, with Homestead edging Friday night, his brother, Chase, And, most importantly, they Reds roll keyTyler Back, for Jacob Schlosser Oilersthe Patriots in sudden-death over- stepped onto the court to give him deserve to know that we’re proud and Trey Teagle would all have time in the championship game a pat on the back. That’s what of them. GOODYEAR, Ariz. beenThe Universitystars on less of talented Find- teams, of the Purdue Shootout. every player on this year’s team Our wins and losses do not — Ryan Ludwick and laybut men’s played basketball their roles team perfectly Their tournament game came deserves from all of us. define us. Our reaction to those Miguel Olivo hit three- trailedfor the by Patriots eight at this halftime season.Collegiatedown to the wire as well, and it They deserve to know how wins and losses does. run homers Wednes- of its first tournament Jay County and Homestead took a 3-pointer in the final sec- much they’ve meant to us over A strong fan base not only day night and the game. But the Oilers ral- went into the tournament Check-upevenly onds for the Spartans to sneak by the course of the last four years. cheers for its teams when they Cincinnati Reds piled lied in the second half matched. Teagle knew that. Spar- Jay County again. They deserve to know how much are at their best, but supports up 18 hits for a 12-2 with a Fort Recovery High tans coach Chris Johnson did as It was a tough loss, but it came fun we’ve had watching them them when they are down. victory over Canada’s School graduate giving well. And so did the Patriot play- against a quality opponent. throughout their careers. They The Patriots were heartbroken team in the World them the lead for good. Baseball Classic. ers. ana TechAfter men’s McFarland’s track desperation deserve to know how much we after Friday’s loss. It’s our job to Greg Kahlig, FRHS class The Canadians The teams had met duringteam the at 3-pointerthe NAIA missed Indoor at the buzzer on appreciate all of their hard work. lift them back up. of 2010, hit a 3-pointer at managed only four Track and Field Champi- the 8:40 mark of the sec- hits in a tuneup for onships. ond half Wednesday, push- their opening WBC Reynard ran the third ing Findlay to a 47-45 lead. game on Saturday. leg of the 4x400-meter The Oilers went on to win Reds first baseman 62-55Indiana over Ferris State in relay for theloses Warriors, to the Celtics Joey Votto, who is on the INDIANAPOLISopening round of the(AP) who posted a time of 7 Canada’s team, didn’t Great— The Lakes Indiana Intercolle- Pacers minutes, 44.57 seconds. play. giatelost Conferencethe lead, thenTourna- lost They edged Northwestern Mat Latos pitched msent,ight with of Jeff Kahlig Green. hitting (Iowa) by 0.08 seconds for three innings for fourKevin free throwsGarnett in foundthe fifth place. Cincinnati, allowing finalGreen 19 seconds all alone to under seal the the two runs on a homer victory.basket for a layup with Billy Wellman by Adam Loewen. 0.5Kahlig seconds finished remaining with 11 to Jay County – 2009 points,finish five off rebounds, a fourth-quar- four Powered the Ball State assistster comeback and three stealsfrom in14 University baseball Champ leads thepoints victory. down, and the team’s offense Monday in IDITAROD, Alaska BostonThe senior Celtics hadbeat 27the the first game of a double- — Four-time champi- points,Pacers five 83-81 rebounds on Wednes- and header sweep of More- on Lance Mackey is threeday night.blocks as Findlay head State. the first musher to (20-7)“Happy won its it regular-sea- went in,” Wellman broke open a reach the halfway sonGreen finale said. 74-66 “Greatover Hills- pass tie game with a bases- mark in the 1,000-mile daleby onGarnett. Saturday. Great execu- loaded double down the Iditarod Trail Sled tion by us. Good draw up left-field line in the eighth Dog Race. Brandonby Doc (Rivers). Reynard inning. He finished 2-for-4 Mackey last won in Jay“We County have found– 2009 ways to with two doubles and 2010. He pulled into win.Was partThe oftrust a fifth-place is there three RBIs. the ghost town of Idi- relaynow. finish Guys for are the givingIndi- See Collegiate page 11 tarod at 8:36 p.m. what Doc wants. We are Wednesday and was finding a way.” awarded $3,000 in Garnett led the Celtics gold. with 18 points and 10 Sonny Lindner was rebounds and dragged second into the check- Boston back after they point, and another trailed most of the final four-time champion, three quarters. Green had Jeff King, was third. 11 points off the bench. From Iditarod, Paul George scored 16 mushers turn their teams west toward the points for the Pacers, The Associated Press/Darron Cummings who had all five starters frozen Yukon River. in double figures. David Paul George of the Indiana Pacers pressures Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce (34) during the West added 11 points and second half Wednesday in Indianapolis. Boston defeated Indiana 83-81. Heat win 16 rebounds, and George MIAMI — LeBron Hill finished with 14 James scored 26 also his 14th of the sea- “We just didn’t talk and made a couple threes. Jet Hill and a fast-break dunk points. points, including a go- son. didn’t communicate,” made a 3. Garnett down with a 3 of his own to put Center Roy Hibbert had ahead layup with 3.2 The Celtics’ final two George said about the low. the Pacers up 81-72. his 14th double-double of seconds left, and the baskets both came off final play. “Other guys are step- “I just didn’t think we the season with 12 points Miami Heat scram- busted defensive assign- Jason Terry scored ping up.” had a good rhythm all and 12 rebounds. Lance bled late to beat the ments. Avery Bradley was eight of his 10 points in The Pacers (38-23) were night,” West said. “We Stephenson returned to Orlando Magic 97-96 left all alone under the the fourth quarter. 4 for 20 in the fourth quar- thought we did a good job the starting lineup with on Wednesday night basket to tie the game at “We got stops, we got ter and didn’t score a sin- defensively, having them Danny Granger back and extend their fran- down with a sore knee 81 off an assist from Gar- easy transition points,” gle point in the last 4:35 of under control. We just chise-record winning and chipped in 12 points. nett. The same happened Green said. “Guys made the game after George had weren’t able to respond on streak to 16 games. West’s double-double was on Green’s layup. some tough shots. Paul followed two 3-pointers by the offensive end.” Dwyane Wade scored 24 points and Chris Bosh added 17 points and 10 Collegiate ... rebounds for the Heat, who blew a 20-point, Continued from page 12 finish with 20 points. She added 11 in the 100-yard breaststroke. She to earn the honor. She had also second-half lead and He also had a single and a run rebounds and narrowly missed a was also 24th in the 200 breast- been named to the Capital One then rallied from a as the Cardinals (5-6) won the sec- triple-double as she also dished stroke and 26th in the 50 freestyle. Academic All-America First five-point deficit in ond game 12-2. He added a single out nine assists. She teamed with Jillian Team earlier this season. the final minutes. Wednesday in BSU’s 14-4 loss to Bischoff, Carlena Magley and The senior’s career came to an Nic Vucevic had 25 sixth-ranked South Carolina. Cori Vormohr Elaine Pitsas for eighth in the 200 end Saturday as the No. 3 Polar points and 21 Jay County – 2009 freestyle relay. Bears lost 63-48 to No. 2 Hope in rebounds for the Kendra Brunswick Competed at the Mid-American the second round of the NCAA Magic, who got 16 Fort Recovery – 2011 Conference Championships Feb. Joanna Snyder Division II Tournament. She fin- points apiece from Led the Edison Community Col- 28 through March 2 for the Ball Fort Recovery – 2009 ished with seven points, four Jameer Nelson and lege women’s basketball team in State University women’s swim Was named to the All-Ohio Ath- rebounds, two assists and a steal. Tobias Harris, 13 from scoring Saturday as it closed the team. letic Conference Academic Team Snyder had 12 points, four Arron Afflalo and 12 regular season with an 82-66 victo- Vormohr’s top individual finish for the third straight year. rebounds, four assists and a steal from Maurice Hark- ry over Columbus State. in the meet hosted by the Univer- Snyder was one of five mem- Friday as ONU (27-2) won its tour- less. Brunswick hit three 3-pointers sity of Buffalo came with a time bers of the Ohio Northern Uni- nament opener 86-68 over —Associated Press and shot 7-of-9 from the foul line to of 1 minutes, 4.82 seconds, for 20th versity women’s basketball team Hanover. On tap Scoreboard Men’s college basketball Michigan 80, Purdue 75

NBA basketball Boston 83, Indiana 81 Local schedule Friday Jay County — Gymnastics regional at Huntington North – 6 p.m. TV schedule Today 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Kentucky at Georgia (ESPN); Virginia at Florida State (ESPN2); Penn State at Northwestern (ESPNU) 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Oklahoma City Thunder at New York Knicks (TNT) 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Wisconsin at Michigan State (ESPN); Ore- gon at Colorado (ESPN2); Oregon State at Utah (ESPNU) 10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Los Angeles Clippers at Denver Nuggets (TNT) 11 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Long Beach State at UC Davis (ESPN2)

Friday 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Kent State at Akron (ESPN2) 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Atlanta Hawks at Boston Celtics (ESPN) 9 p.m. — Boxing: Friday Night Fights – Victory Cayo vs. Emmanuel Taylor (ESPN2) 10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Hous- ton Rockets at Golden State Warriors (ESPN) Local notes Registration deadline extended The registration deadline for Jay Com- munity Center’s spring Boomer soccer and flag football programs has been extended to Friday. Both leagues are for preschool through eighth graders, and games will be played on Saturdays. The registration fee is $40. There will also be a soccer and football skills clinics at JCC on Sunday. For more information, contact JCC at [email protected] or (260) 726-6477.

DJL registration is Saturday Registration for Dunkirk Junior League baseball and softball is scheduled for Sat- urday. The registration session will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at West Jay Community Center. The league is for boys ages 3 to 13 and girls ages 3 to 15. First place Best sports feature photo Ray Cooney

The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney Jay County High School’s Keenan James (5) celebrates with a chest bump with teammate Kyle Selvey after James delivered the game-winning hit May 18 in the championship game of the Patriot Invitational at JCHS. Also joining the celebration are Landry Inman (11) and Nick Clemens (right). James’ line drive to left field plated Jason Houston to break a scoreless tie and give Jay County a 1-0 win over the Heritage Patriots.

First place Best general news photo Ray Cooney

The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney Fort Recovery High School graduate Maleia Fullenkamp (second from left) takes a cell phone picture with classmates Sunday, May 19,2013, following commencement ceremonies. Joining Fullenkamp, from left, are Janelle Schwieterman, Sara Schoenlein and Claire Pottkotter. Second place Best general commentary

The Commercial Review Page 4 The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion JaWednesday,ck SeptemberRon 19,a 2012ld Opinion Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Companies The blink are greedy By MICHAEL HICKS A reader recently sug- of an eye gested that I write a cri- tique of corporations akin Guest By JACK RONALD to that offered for unions. The Commercial Review That is a fine idea, and I Opinion The thing about clichés Back begin with a couple is that they get to be points. clichés because they’re in the My observation about true. private sector unions was team at the expense of Even that simple obser- Saddle simply that their declin- owners. vation is a cliché. I know ing membership marked In another irony, this led I’ve made it before, proba- to executive compensation them for imminent irrele- bly in these pages. the beneficiary. vancy. reforms that linked CEO This is a concern that is pay to stock performance, And one of those true I remember going to see shared, if not admitted, by enabling the wild bonuses clichés is that the older him in the final weeks. the union’s own leader- of corporate executives. you get, the faster time A hospital bed had been ship. Whatever mischief This may be a problem, seems to slip away. put in his study at my par- private sector unions do but it is a matter between When you’re 10, a sum- ents’ home in Richmond. or do not engage in, it is owners and managers, not mer afternoon can feel He was still dictating let- mostly a private affair. government. like a lifetime. When ters from bed, which my That makes it ripe for Corporations, like busi- you’re in your 60s, a life- mother duly pounded out political, not policy, ness and labor in general, The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald time seems to have passed on the typewriter at his action. I write about the lobby for special tax as quickly as a summer desk. He’d been vice presi- Portland resident Dave Frasher, right, who led fundraising for a grave marker for George latter. breaks and government afternoon. dent for development at In contrast, public sec- favors. Codling at Green Park Cemtery in Portland, speaks during a dedication ceremony Saturday. In just a few days, it will tor unions have left hun- Earlham College before Corporations, like other be 30 years since I received dreds of American munic- businesses and house- his retirement, and he was the phone call that told me ipalities on the brink of holds, sometimes pollute, still working on behalf of Keep emotion out of debate bankruptcy. sometimes treat employ- my father had died. the college in his final That is a policy matter, ees poorly and sometimes Thirty years, though it days. By JEFFREY GOLDBERG may choose to be compli- One expert on the irra- and I will continue to make poor products. Act of redemption seems an instant ago. The desk was a beauty. Bloomberg News ant, play dead, or fight for tionality of the gun debate remark upon it. Markets and, on rare Thirty years ago, our I’d known it all my life. It A few weeks ago, a Dem- Guest your life.” In offering such is Dan Baum. A self- The point is that I have occasions, government By JACK RONALD And then a funny thing hap- twins — now married and was Dad’s when he was ocratic Colorado state rep- guidelines, universities described liberal, Baum is little to say about private can help some of this, but The Commercial Review pened. living in Boston and rais- resentative, Joe Salazar, are admitting the obvious: also a “gun guy” — the Think of it as an act of plant manager and secre- unions and public policy. singling out corporations Back As people started reminiscing worked his way into trou- Opinion redemption. ing families and building tary of The Jay Garment They can’t guarantee the name of his most recent It is likewise with corpora- is silly — perhaps because about George, sharing stories, and ble during a debate over A group of about 15 to 20 peo- careers — were 5-year- Company. It was his when safety of their students book. In “Gun Guys,” tions, whose ill behavior is corporations are easy to in the remembering his often pitiable ple gathered at Green Park olds. Thirty years ago, our he was publisher of The gun laws. The specific and faculty. And yet most Baum explains why so a matter among consent- malign. condition, they wanted to do issue is one that has preoc- ing adults who either own Cemetery in Portland on Satur- Saddle something to make things right. youngest — soon to finish Commercial Review and Saine, said, “My daugh- refuse to allow for the pos- many Americans feel com- Real-life company presi- day afternoon to dedicate a head- law school — wasn’t even The News and Sun. And it cupied Colorado for some ter’s going to be going off sibility that licensed and pelled to arm themselves. or work for corporations. dents are never as heart- Maybe they recalled their own Still, it is useful to inven- stone for George Codling. indifference. Maybe they felt a a twinkle in the eye. was his while he served at time: Should people with to college in about 10 trained civilians can play Like me, Baum is an advo- less as their faceless cor- Chances are, unless you grew was scooting around town. He permits to carry concealed years. I can’t imagine her a role in their own protec- cate of universal back- tory some of these cri- porate brethren. The sense of shame that they respond- And yet it all happened Earlham. tiques and assess their up in Jay County during a cer- died in 1969 after a stint in the ed with fear. Maybe they felt a yesterday. To protect its surface, it firearms be allowed to only option is going to be tion. ground checks, and strin- Occupy Wall Street move- tain era, you’re wondering, hospital, a nursing home and — bring guns into university reason. ment is especially fond of touch of guilt for cruel words or I remember the night had a thick sheet of glass. to outrun her attacker to a James Alderden, the for- gent training and licens- George who? finally — the Jay County Retire- actions aimed in George Codling’s Corporations differ criticizing corporations, my father called and let On my last visit, knowing buildings? call box. I think she’s going mer sheriff of Larimer ing. But he is also a critic from other business in George Codling was, by any ment Center, known in those direction. mostly for greed. me know he had lung can- that hospice had already Arguing against those to be responsible enough County, which includes of liberal friends who that their ownership is dif- standard, a character. days more colloquially as “the Maybe they thought of all the Ironically again, a com- cer. been involved, I perched who think that women to handle a gun.” Fort Collins, told me would deny others the fused across people who For decades, he ran a popcorn county home.” others who slip through society’s mon source of youthful To say I didn’t take it should be able to carry Many liberals see recently that “No one right to self-defense have purchased shares of stand at the corner of Main and He was buried at Green Park cracks: The kids with “cooties,” myself on the corner of outrage among the OWS guns to protect themselves the company. Karl Marx Meridian streets. How it came to in a pauper’s grave, with only a the classmates who wore the same well would be an under- the desk and listened Saine’s formula as mad- could show me any study because they’re uncom- referred to these owners crowd is that corporations exist on a city street in the coun- metal marker with a paper label clothes to school every day, the statement. I called him while he offered words of from rapists, Salazar said ness. But there is no proof that concealed-carry leads fortable around firearms. as capitalists. are treated like people by ty seat, with power lines strung acknowledging the spot. guy down the street who was the back a few minutes later advice. that campuses have call that allowing licensed gun to more crimes and more “People on the left get It is a sweet and satisfy- the tax and legal codes (a from light poles and no discern- And that might have been the target of taunts. when I’d regained some of And when he was done, I boxes and “safe zones,” owners to carry concealed violence. My idea of self- the heebie-jeebies at the ing irony that today more simplifying measure in a able plumbing, is anyone’s end of it. Just another of Whatever the motivation, dona- my composure. His words: stood up. And as I did, the and that women are free to weapons on campuses defense is not those red thought of individuals than 60 percent of U.S. tax and legal code that rev- guess. humanity’s damaged individu- tions started coming in to pur- “Keep your feet in the glass top of his desk carry rape whistles. What leads to trouble. At Col- rape phones on campus, being vigorous and els in false complexity). households own stock at When he wasn’t running the als, ill-treated or ignored by most chase a headstone for the man. buggy.” It was his way of cracked. Just a little bit. worried Salazar was that a orado State University, in where you get on the empowered and capable some point. What strikes me is the popcorn stand and in the years of the community, and then for- And so, working through the woman who feared she childlike simplicity of letting me know that he Just the corner where I’d Fort Collins, the crime phone and tell someone enough to use a gun,” he Most of these capitalists after it was closed by the health gotten for the ages. historical society, Dave Frasher had the reins and while perched to listen to him. was being followed by a rate actually declined after you’re getting raped.” told me. After the mass are like me and simply these OWS folks who cry department, George could be Except for Dave Frasher. made it happen. He tracked down there was a wild ride I was embarrassed, and rapist might overreact concealed-carry permit Alderden touches on shooting at a movie the- buy retirement mutual against corporate greed, seen trundling around town on Dave’s an amateur historian the burial plot. A proper stone funds. We own tiny por- but then howl against the an old bicycle. active with the Jay County His- ahead, my job was to stay it could have ruined the dangerously: “If you feel holders were allowed to something important: The ater in Aurora, Colo., last was purchased. And on Saturday like you’re going to be tions of hundreds of com- trivial legal treatment of He never really pedaled, just torical Society. Retired from afternoon it was dedicated. calm and not make things moment. bring firearms onto cam- role of emotion in the July, “There was this panies. corporations as people. pushed with one foot and then Portland Forge, he remembered George’s bicycle was there. more difficult than they But my father didn’t let raped, or if you feel like pus. debate over guns. Many sneering on the left about This diffuse ownership In isolation, either argu- the other. George Codling from his child- Portland city councilman Bill already were. it. He blamed the glass. He someone’s been following Many schools that don’t conservatives and Second the idea that things could offers the only coherent ment has merit, but greed Some kids found him frighten- hood and turned the local histor- Gibson acquired it years ago, res- I’d never heard him use blamed the desk. But he you around, or you feel allow concealed weapons Amendment absolutists have been better in the the- criticism of modern cor- is a wholly human sin. ing. Others — particularly ical spotlight on his quirky life. cuing a local relic. Two of that expression before, but didn’t blame me. I would like you’re in trouble when issue guidelines about see licensing and back- ater if someone had shot porations. So if corporations are teenagers — saw him as the tar- The result was an exhibit in George’s nieces were there, along I’ve used it countless always be forgiven. That’s you may actually not be,” how to confront “active ground checks as stalking back at the killer. Why Writing in the 1930s, two truly greedy, we must treat get for ridicule, harassment and the Classics Tent at the Jay with a handful of other distant times since then in times something that comes he said, a woman might shooters.” Some of them horses for a government- wouldn’t you want to have economists, Berle and them like people. cruelty. On at least one occasion, County Fair in 2011. That was relatives. of adversity or challenge. with being a father, as I’ve “pop a round at some- border on the comical: mandated gun seizure and a gunfight in that theater? Means, noted that the Michael Hicks is direc- kids stole his bicycle and tossed followed by a presentation to the But in a way, the whole commu- “Keep your feet in the learned. body.” West Virginia University the eventual imposition of How could it have been divergence of interests tor of the Center for Busi- it into the Salamonie River. historical society by Frasher on nity was there as well, performing buggy” is pretty darned That was in 1983. Thirty Salazar’s record betrays recommends that students tyranny. This kind of worse? between owners of corpo- ness and Economic Sometime in 1968 or 1969, his Codling’s life as one of the coun- an act of both remembrance and rations and their manage- Research and an associate bicycle was hit by a car while he ty’s more colorful characters. redemption. good advice. years ago. A lifetime. A no animus toward women. should “act with physical thinking is hysterical. But The recent debate in the ment led to decisions that professor of economics at I remember visiting his blink of the eye. What he dislikes is the aggression and throw many liberals see advo- United States over how to enriched the management Ball State University. hospital room at the IU I’m grayer now, just idea that concealed guns items at the active shoot- cates of individual self- prevent mass killings has Med Center in Indianapo- seven years away from the represent one possible er.” The university pro- defense as radical libertar- obscured three facts. One, lis. age my father was when answer to the problem of vides a list of “items” that ians who care not at all for our country is hopelessly Thirty years ago, a diag- he died. violent crime. And in his includes shoes, belts, the greater good, and saturated with guns. Two, nosis of lung cancer was a But he still whispers in distaste for individual mobile phones and iPods. therefore seek the forcible new gun laws will only Rebound from Romney is still possible death sentence. Dad had my ear now and then. He’s armed self-defense, he is Wichita State University disarmament of others, have a marginal effect on agreed to take part in an still the yardstick I’d use completely within his By MARGARET CARLSON recommends that “if the even those who use the ability of violent peo- over Libya before the Republi- convention. He then threw out center. Every campaign owns experimental chemo pro- to measure my own life. Bloomberg News can presidential nominee knew the speech he ordered as a such a toy, though most are sly party’s mainstream. person(s) is causing death firearms responsibly. This ple to arm themselves. WASHINGTON — The what he was talking about; a replacement (save for that one enough to use it without admit- gram in hopes it might And I still feel a little bit Several Republican state or serious physical injury represents a profound mis- And three, most people remarkable revelations from Margaret bungled convention; and a sense memorable detail about Rom- ting they are doing so. advance the fight against guilty for breaking that legislators challenged to others and you are reading, and mistrust, of who own guns are actually Mitt Romney’s strategists about that Mr. Fix-It can’t put meat on ney’s father leaving his mother a Besides, we live in the United cancer. If it did, he was not piece of glass on his desk. Salazar’s views. One, Lori unable to run or hide, you the public. quite careful, and sane. his flailing campaign should Carlson the bones of his plan to fix the rose at their bedside table every States of Amnesia, where no one give his supporters hope: After economy. Outside consultants day), and he and the candidate (except maybe the press) remem- all, if the Romney campaign has have been bellyaching for weeks started writing together. They bers Romney’s mistakes if they been this wrong about every- about Romney’s campaign. produced a speech that neglect- happened more than a month thing else, then it is almost cer- be three debates, which Romney Now the complaints are com- ed national security, the obliga- ago. Who can forget when he Courage lacking to tackle big problems tainly wrong about the Romney aced during the primaries. He ing from the inside, mostly at the tory salute to the troops, and left criticized the British, our closest By MICHAEL HICKS In 2013, federal tax revenues are has more money than President campaign. expense of the campaign’s chief little time for rehearsal. ally, for not being as good at run- on path to set a record. Rats don’t usually leave a sink- Barack Obama. There is a world Four months ago in this col- strategist, ad maker and speech- If you can’t see the tire tracks ning the Olympics as he was umn, I predicted we would drive This will prove stubbornly ing ship until Leonardo of looming catastrophes, some writer, Stuart Stevens. Remem- on Stevens, look at the organiza- (turned out it was)? Guest Today, we borrow 49 cents for every DiCaprio has gone under and nuclear. There is an economy ber that “Sesame Street” song tion chart. Ed Gillespie, a Repub- During the Republican pri- off the fiscal cliff and that it inconvenient news for those the Titanic has started to sub- that won’t budge and a president about how one of these things is lican consultant and a former maries, the press pretended would be “less injurious” than tax dollar we collect. At some who argue our federal govern- merge. James Baker didn’t real- whose favorability ratings, not like the others? That thing is party chairman, is now increas- there was an actual contest for most believed, with the tax Opinion not-too-distant point, we will have to ment is plagued by a revenue ly disappear from the doomed unconventionally high com- Stevens. ing his commitment to the cam- the nomination even though the increase causing the most pain. problem. 1992 George H.W. Bush cam- pared with his other numbers, The campaign bus is rolling paign. Will he marginalize other candidates were a bunch We have now driven off that collect more than we spend, and pay Today, we borrow 49 cents for paign until late October. Steve can only go down. back and forth over Stevens, who Stevens and his partners? Who’s of ninnies who didn’t stand a cliff, and the dramatic reintro- every tax dollar we collect. At Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace Romney’s campaign called was already suspect because he the boss? chance against Romney. Now the duction of payroll taxes makes This is becoming tiresome, so I down the debt. To do so, we can some not-too-distant point, we didn’t spill their guts about how Obama’s several-point bounce is a social liberal and self- styled Again, this could all be prema- press is saying the race is over this year’s tax increase most think it useful to talk a bit about raise tax rates or cut spending will have to collect more than we messed up John McCain’s cam- after the convention a “sugar intellectual who has written sev- ture: This is September, a new because of a few polls in a few injurious to the working poor the political economy of the end spend, and pay down the debt. paign was until it was all over high.” That bounce has now eral highly regarded “travel beginning for schoolchildren swing states that show Romney and the lower-to-middle-income game. dramatically. Either option will slow To do so, we can raise tax rates but the voting. faded. This campaign is far from memoirs” to boot. He appeals to and presidential candidates behind, which will surely be families. There are two great debates at economic growth. or cut spending dramatically. So why are Romney’s advisers, over. that tiny corner of Romney that alike. There’s time for a new overtaken soon enough by a few Disposable income plummet- hand: one about the size and Either option will slow econom- consultants and hangers-on The recriminations are com- wishes he were more whimsical. pencil box, fresh composition other polls showing the opposite. scope of government in the long spilling the beans to Politico so ing ahead of schedule partly According to Politico, Stevens tablets, and a few more twirls of Or the press will come up with ed more last January than in ic growth. soon? There are several lifetimes because of Romney’s screechy threw out a serviceable accept- the Etch-a-Sketch buttons to try another way to keep the seesaw any month on record (we started run, the other about short-run fiscal discipline, we can still bor- Social Security eligibility age Conversely, we could fix our to go until November. There will putdown last week of Obama ance speech a week before the and move the candidate to the narrative going until November. keeping these data in the Eisen- federal policy in the current dis- row this money at about a 0-per- and impose a lifetime limit on tax system, making it more fair, hower administration), and mal economic climate. cent interest rate. Even modest- Medicaid and other guaranteed while shifting our spending things will get worse before they We are in a bad spot. ly higher interest rates would be programs. toward things that motivate get better. Unemployment is high, disastrous. To avoid this fate, we The sequester will achieve the work and productivity. Given The second step of the incomes have remained flat for must demonstrate fiscal disci- same goal at much higher cost. our current leadership, I’d sequester — the spending cuts several years, and — in an effort pline. We lack the courage and gump- wager we’ll take the unnecessar- The Commercial Review — has now begun. These are to extricate ourselves from this Like most economists, I think tion to tackle the big problems, ily painful path. real reductions in spending, mess — our federal government the best way to show we are so we stand in longer lines at the Hicks is the director of the US PS 125820 HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus with measurable impact that has borrowed roughly $6 tril- grown-ups is to handle large, airport instead. Center for Business and Eco- the administration sought to lion, or $40,000 per household. long-term problems first. We Over the long run, we wrestle nomic Research at Ball State JACK RONALD MIKE SNYDER The Commercial Review is published daily except “Were it left for me to decide whether we should maximize for political gain. On the faith of our eventual could modestly change the with the scope of government. University. Sundays and six holidays (New Years, Memorial Day, President, Editor, Publisher Managing Editor have government without newspapers or newspapers Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and without government I should not hesitate to prefer the Christmas) by The Graphic Printing Co. Inc., 309 W. latter.” – Thomas Jefferson Main St., Portland, Indiana 47371. Periodical postage RAY COONEY JEANNE LUTZ paid at Portland, Indiana. Postmaster: Send address Assistant Managing Editor Advertising Manager Subscription rates: City carrier rates $10 per month. changes to The Commercial Review, 309 W. Main St., P.O. City delivery and Internet-only pay at the office rates: 13 Box 1049, Portland, Indiana 47371 or call (260) 726-8141. weeks – $28; six months – $54; one year – $99. In Jay VOLUME 140–NUMBER 119 County mail or motor route pay at the office rates: 13 We welcome letters to the editor. Letters should be WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 weeks – $35; six months – $62; one year – $114; Mail The Commercial Review 700 words or less, signed and include a phone number outside Jay County: 13 weeks – $40; six months – $68; for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit one year – $119. US PS 125820 HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus letters for content and clarity. Newsroom e-mail: Home delivery problems: [email protected] www.thecr.com Call (260) 726-8144. JACK RONALD MIKE SNYDER The Commercial Review is published daily except “Were it left for me to decide whether we should Sundays and six holidays (New Years, Memorial Day, President, Editor, Publisher Managing Editor have government without newspapers or newspapers Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and without government I should not hesitate to prefer the Christmas) by The Graphic Printing Co. Inc., 309 W. latter.” – Thomas Jefferson Main St., Portland, Indiana 47371. Periodical postage RAY COONEY JEANNE LUTZ paid at Portland, Indiana. Postmaster: Send address Assistant Managing Editor Advertising Manager Subscription rates: City carrier rates $10 per month. changes to The Commercial Review, 309 W. Main St., P.O. City delivery and Internet-only pay at the office rates: 13 Box 1049, Portland, Indiana 47371 or call (260) 726-8141. weeks – $28; six months – $54; one year – $99. In Jay VOLUME 140–NUMBER 266 County mail or motor route pay at the office rates: 13 We welcome letters to the editor. Letters should be WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 2013 weeks – $35; six months – $62; one year – $114; Mail 700 words or less, signed and include a phone number outside Jay County: 13 weeks – $40; six months – $68; for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit one year – $119. letters for content and clarity. Newsroom e-mail: Home delivery problems: [email protected] www.thecr.com Call (260) 726-8144. The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Wednesday, November 28, 2012 This job was just a little fishy By JACK RONALD The Commercial Review Whose idea was this Back anyway? It sure wasn’t mine. in the But, as a kid, my job wasn’t to plan or come up Saddle with ideas. I was merely labor. That was particularly true when I was a teenag- er, and my payment for services was usually the continued use of the fami- ly station wagon when I I was feeling needed it. (Gasoline wasn’t included in that much less privilege.) But as any laborer can confident tell you, inevitably jobs five minutes come along that simply make no sense. Yet if the later as person giving the orders is every Mom or Dad, there’s little choice but to attempt the bounce or impossible. bump It was about 1965. My parents had bought seemed a small farm in rural Jack- capable of son Township and built a little house there with up-ending visions of eventually retir- the whole ing to the country. They A new view from ‘cliff’ had a small pond excavat- thing, fish Bloomberg News interest loophole that As we have noted, such a ed and had dreams of lazy and all. The following editorial allows private-equity and tax would barely make a afternoons spent with a appears on Bloomberg Guest hedge-fund managers to dent in the budget deficit, fishing pole. View: pay taxes of just 15 per- raising about $47 billion But if you’re going to go Here’s the state of play cent. over the next decade. More fishing, it’s important to on the fiscal-cliff- Editorial Add it all up, and one important, it runs the risk have fish in the pond. avoidance talks a month can see the makings of a of being perceived as an That’s where I came in. before the deadline: Presi- deal: The Bush tax cuts act of class warfare. Drop- My mother had been I was feeling much less dent Barack Obama and The Buffett contribu- would end for those earn- ping the idea would make studying up on all sorts of confident five minutes his Democratic allies tion is his proposal to ing more than $500,000 — it easier for Republicans services available from later as every bounce or insist on raising $1.6 tril- define the rich as house- about 760,000 households. to swallow a tax-rate the U.S. Department of bump seemed capable of lion in new taxes, the bulk holds earning $500,000 or Marginal rates would rise increase. Agriculture. She’d already up-ending the whole thing, of which must come from more, or twice Obama’s from 33 percent and 35 per- Where does this get us? had me plant dozens of fish and all. higher tax rates on the preferred cutoff. cent to 36 percent and 39.6 According to the Congres- evergreen saplings to By then, I was already rich. Republicans just as By raising the bar on percent, respectively — sional Research Service, form a windbreak. (The wondering about the wis- adamantly oppose higher what constitutes “rich,” the same as under Presi- allowing the Bush tax cuts fact that my father eradi- dom of the whole thing. rates. Buffett seeks to close the dent Bill Clinton. to expire on earnings cated about 75 percent of After all, if the USDA It’s a classic standoff. Or gap between the no-tax- Capital gains and divi- exceeding $500,000, com- them with his riding baby fish had survived so it would seem. Look rate-increase Republicans dends would be taxed at bined with 20 percent cap- mower didn’t deter either shipment by the post more carefully, and impor- and the president, who higher rates, preferably at ital-gains and dividend one of them.) office, couldn’t they have tant players on both sides sees the tax code as a way the same level as ordinary taxes, would yield about The pond needed fish, hung on for 20 more min- appear willing to cede ter- to level the income- income but no less than 20 $566 billion over 10 years, and the USDA had fish to utes? Then I could have ritory. inequality scales. percent. or 72 percent of the rev- offer. So my mother just emptied the packages The latest salvo comes The Buffett compromise Low investment taxes enue gain from Obama’s ordered fish. into the pond. from billionaire investor builds on one that Republi- overwhelmingly benefit plan to raise taxes on And then, for reasons But that’s not what the Warren Buffett, whose cans have been offering. the wealthiest Americans, those with incomes of that are long lost to the instructions said. And Nov. 26 New York Times To raise revenue, they are with 96 percent of the tax more than $250,000. Cap- mists of time, the rest of those weren’t the orders I op-ed debunks the idea willing to close loopholes savings going to the top ping deductions between the family went out of had been given. that the wealthy would and cap tax expenditures, income quintile, accord- $25,000 and $50,000 would town. Finally, driving more simply quit investing if such as mortgage interest ing to the Tax Policy Cen- bring in between $1.2 tril- I had my freedom and slowly than usual and their taxes went up. It’s and charitable contribu- ter. Tax deductions would lion and $749 billion, the station wagon, but I probably irritating every- fair to say that Buffett’s tions, as an alternative to also be capped between respectively. That puts also had been assigned an one else on the road, I experience confers higher rates. $25,000 and $50,000, negotiators well within impossible chore. arrived at the farm. authority on his argu- In addition, there depending on the remain- Obama’s $1.6 trillion ball- The fish were arriving That’s when I faced a ment: As a stockbroker in appears to be a growing ing revenue hole. park. by mail at the post office more serious problem. the 1950s, when marginal willingness to entertain It’s worth pointing out Both parties say they in Portland. What I needed Even with a significant rates topped out at 91 per- higher taxes on invest- that this deal would obvi- understand that averting to do, I was told, was to get amount of the water cent (versus 35 percent ment income, including ate the need for the so- the fiscal cliff will require a clean trash can, put it in sloshed over the inside of today) and capital gains taxing capital gains at 28 called Buffett rule, a pro- compromise; now they the back of the station the station wagon, a trash- were taxed at 25 percent percent and dividends at posed 30 percent surtax on need to understand that wagon, fill it with water, can of the remainder is (versus 15 percent today), ordinary income-tax rates, Americans with incomes the outlines of that com- dump the newly-arrived incredibly heavy. he made good money. and to close the carried- of more than $1 million. promise are within reach. fingerlings (or whatever Getting it out of the car they were) into the water, was going to be challenge then drive out to the farm enough. Getting it across and stock the pond. several hundred yards of Piece of cake, right? open landscape was going Few clues in voucher case Wrong. to be impossible. For starters, the station I drove as far as I could, Journal and Courier money. ly wound up going to reli- wagon was the wrong dodging what few ever- (Lafayette) The plaintiffs — includ- gious-backed schools? vehicle for the job. A pick- green saplings my father The Indiana Supreme Hoosier ing four with ties to Wouldn’t that be a de facto up truck was clearly need- had failed to mow down, Court justices left plenty Lafayette School Corp. — funding of parochial ed. but eventually there was to the imagination about argued again that funnel- schools? And what mecha- The top of the trashcan no choice. how they might rule in a Editorial ing state money to reli- nisms were in place for the nearly touched the roof in Lifting and hauling, case that controls the gious-based schools was state to trace the amount the cargo area of the sta- moving a few feet at a future of Indiana’s new prohibited by the Indiana of money that went tion wagon. To run a hose time, with water and trau- school voucher plan. to direct or indirect state Constitution. toward religious training in and fill the can, I had to matized baby fish splash- Anyone hoping for a aid from state coffers. “The problem for me is versus straight academ- leave the back window ing about, I made my way hint about the court’s lean The state has argued the ‘the benefit of,’” Chief Jus- ics? open. up a hill, through a field of based on the line of ques- indirect route, contending tice Brent Dickson said at A lot hinges on a deci- Even then, the can was- weeds, and down to the tioning must have left dis- that the voucher program one point. The state con- sion. The arguments came n’t quite big enough. muddy shore. appointed after hearing was designed to put school stitution doesn’t allow a day after the Indiana To meet the guidelines By now, I figured, most arguments on Nov. 21. The choice money into the state money to be spent for Department of Education provided by the USDA, I of the fish were scarred five-member panel — hands of parents. Where the benefit of religious announced that participa- nearly had to fill the thing. for life. And maybe half of including the first hearing parents took that tuition institutions. tion in the voucher pro- And by the time I had them wouldn’t last a week. for former Tippecanoe money was up to them. Justices wanted to gram more than doubled, driven a block, at least But with a mighty Superior Court 3 Judge The state, therefore, had know: Were vouchers on from 3,919 in its first year half a gallon has sloshed splash, I dumped the Loretta Rush — put both no direct control over the same plane as state to 9,324 in its second year. out. trashcan into the pond. sides through the wringer. which schools — scholarship money that How the court inter- Still, I was feeling confi- How many fish sur- What it boiled down to parochial, charter or a students spent at the Uni- prets direct and indirect dent when I stopped by the vived? More than I ever was whether the vouchers, public school outside the versity of Notre Dame? state funding will have post office, claimed the expected. And they cer- offered on income-based home district — received What if virtually all of the wide implications for Indi- package, and dumped its tainly did better than the qualifications, amounted those students and that school vouchers eventual- ana’s schools and beyond. contents into the water. evergreens I planted. The Commercial Review US PS 125820 HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

JACK RONALD MIKE SNYDER The Commercial Review is published daily except “Were it left for me to decide whether we should Sundays and six holidays (New Years, Memorial Day, President, Editor, Publisher Managing Editor have government without newspapers or newspapers Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and without government I should not hesitate to prefer the Christmas) by The Graphic Printing Co. Inc., 309 W. latter.” – Thomas Jefferson Main St., Portland, Indiana 47371. Periodical postage RAY COONEY JEANNE LUTZ paid at Portland, Indiana. Postmaster: Send address Assistant Managing Editor Advertising Manager Subscription rates: City carrier rates $10 per month. changes to The Commercial Review, 309 W. Main St., P.O. City delivery and Internet-only pay at the office rates: 13 Box 1049, Portland, Indiana 47371 or call (260) 726-8141. weeks – $28; six months – $54; one year – $99. In Jay VOLUME 140–NUMBER 178 County mail or motor route pay at the office rates: 13 We welcome letters to the editor. Letters should be WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 weeks – $35; six months – $62; one year – $114; Mail 700 words or less, signed and include a phone number outside Jay County: 13 weeks – $40; six months – $68; for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit one year – $119. letters for content and clarity. Newsroom e-mail: Home delivery problems: [email protected] www.thecr.com Call (260) 726-8144. Friday,Seco Julynd 20,pla 2012ce Best use of graphics The CommercialSteve Garbacz Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 50 cents BZA: No to hogs By STEVE GARBACZ The Commercial Review Jay County Board of Zoning Appeals members ruled in favor of patience and public concern Thurs- day while denying three variance requests for a controversial hog opera- tion in Bearcreek Town- ship. Board member Dennis Rodgers spearheaded the BZA’s opinion, stating that he felt the planned 4,800 head hog operation by Cody Shannon, 19, near 3794 E. 800 North, Bryant, was a bad fit for the area. “You’re really young and you’ve accomplished a lot,” said Rodgers, who also raises hogs. “Patience is a virtue and I think that really comes into play a lot. “You have to do it in the right place and my opinion is this is the wrong place,” he said. “Your dreams are good. Live them. But be patient.” Shannon, who said he has been working with hogs since he was 10 years old, came before the board in search of three setback variances —— one from his parent’s home, one from the home of Virgil Gierhart and one from Gierhart’s mother’s house. Gierhart, who has been working with Shannon in order to start the project, holds power of attorney for his mother. All three residences are less than 750 feet — the minimum required resi- dential setback in the county’s zoning ordinance The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz — from the proposed barn Shannon’s mother, The above map shows the location of 88 confined feeding operations holding current Indiana Department of Sandy Shannon, felt the Environemental Management permits in Jay County. The county contains 43 Confined Feeding Operations (CFO) and 45 variance request didn’t Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), which are larger operations. The locations of the points in the map are apply to disgruntled neigh- approximate and based on information provided by the IDEM. bors who were present at the meeting, since the farm would properly meet the setbacks from all other neighboring homes. “This is a variance that County has 88 large operations affects me and my hus- band, Virgil Gierhart and By STEVE GARBACZ tions (CFO) and 45 larger Concen- manure handling system. These are located within 2 miles of the his mother,” she said. “It The Commercial Review trated Animal Feeding Opera- numbers do not include smaller Indiana-Ohio border, including doesn’t affect anyone else. It’s hard to find a region of Jay tions (CAFO). operations unregulated by IDEM. seven chicken CAFOs within one “Cody bought this prop-Thursday,County not touched August by confined 23,An operation2012 is classified as a While Penn and Pike townships mile. Several are also located in JC football visits erty so we could keep (the feeding. CAFO when it exceeds certain have lowerTickets confined are feeding on den- saleWabash Township near Ind. 67 barn) close by,” she said. Jay County is the site of 88 Indi- animal limits — 2,500 swine above sities than other townships, a sig- Several hog CAFOs are also Blackford on Friday,“We have no problem with ana Department of Environmen- 55 pounds; 10,000 swine less than nificant numberfor FRHS are located football, near located near Ind. 26 on the west- see preview page 13it as we’ve given you in tal Management permitted con- 55 pounds; 30,000 laying hens with the Ohio border.see Sports on tapern side of the county in Knox writing.” fined feeding operations, includ- a liquid manure handling system; More than a quarter of the Township. See BZA page 6 ing 43 SportsConfined Feeding Opera- or 82,000 laying hens with a solid county’s operations — 24 of 88 — See County page 6

Page 12 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Sewer separation work Annexation of property Rays moves ahead in Redkey scheduled for September By ROBERT BANSER of By MASON SHREVE a map to the city that shows the The Commercial Review ExpensiveThe Commercial Review endeavorREDKEY — Council progress, which could be kept in the Himes quits council Work on the first phase of Port- members took a big step Insight mayor’s office. Foster said that this Council member before Thursday’s meet- land’s northside sewer project should could be done only after receiving forward Thursday night start soon after Labor Day. by approving two ordi- David Himes was absent ing, but Himes said he more information from the contrac- from the meeting, and would not change his Kent Schuch and Kevin Foster of tors. nances aimed at adding Schneider Corporation told the Port- town council president mind about resigning, Substantial completion on this proj- more than 80 acres to the z Champeve Gexplainedarbac that citing personal and fam- land Board of Works Thursday that ect should be reached by May 24, with town. graphic/St ial Review Himes had submitted a ily reasons. contractors have said they will be on final completion July 7. The long-discussede Commerc but Boston Th letter of resignation, Local Republican offi- the job during the first week of Sep- Board members Bill Gibson and oft-delayed annexation of effective immediately. cials will caucus to tember. Portland Mayor Randy Geesaman also 81 acres including Bell infielder The construction is set to start on signed the initial permits for phase Aquaculture, Redkey Champ said he called select a replacement for the west end of Lafayette Street and two of the project, which focuses Faith Ministries and bare Himes, a Republican, Himes. move eastward through mostly resi- around the north side industrial devel- ground owned by Redkey achieved dential areas. According to Schuch, opments as well as residential areas Economic Development the exact order of completion is nearRockets West Votaw Street. operate The second Corporation on a was tightapproved the budgetnorth side of Ind. 67, expressed interest in hav- unknown. phaseBy RAY should COONEY be finished during falllar ofseason.by “Butcouncil it wasmembers the Kylenament,east have of Ind.a different 1. busi- ing its property annexed. the feat To keep the public informed, howev- 2013.The Commercial Review chance of Champ,a lifetime.” Ted Friddle, nessJon sponsoringThe annexation each player’s will Water and sewer service is er, Mayor Randy Geesaman suggested TheIn the permits Major Leagues,allow Schneider deep to Davis and Joe Johnson. become official 60 days already available to all the By RAY COONEY posting updates of the construction on In Miller’s case, literally. uniform. The Commercial Review presentplayoff plansruns tomean the Indianaplayer Depart-He joined theIn Portlanda separate squad motion,Millerafter hasn’t legal noticesgone arethose pub- properties, so the annexa- the city’s website so that city residents ment of Environmental Management council members also lished. tions should not require I expected to have a lot of can keep tabs on the progress. Foster bonuses, more TV money and as a player in 1972 when his routes with the Rockets yet, questions rolling in this foran review.explosion in merchandise voted to annex the Indiana Bell launched its opera- any additional capital also suggested that Schneider provide See Sewer page 2 father, Ray,State took Police over manage- post site (nowalthoughtions he atsaid the he’d Redkey be open site in expenses for the town. month with college and pro sales. ment of theserving team. asThe town trip tohall)to on such2009, an andarrangement has persistently if a See Redkey page 2 football seasons just In the world of amateur the NABF World Series last large donor is interested in around the corner. But that baseball, winning is expen- week was the first in its 53-year becoming involved with the was not the case. Deathssive. Weatherhistory. In reviewteam. In the meantime Coming it’s out- up Fortunately the Face- The Portland Rockets’ trip Many of the teams the Rock- field banners, concession sales, book crowd rose to the to the National Amateur Base- ets found themselves stacked 50/50 drawings, personal dona- Skies will be partly cloudy occasion in the final hours ball Federation World Series up againstThe — 11Murray’sth annual Diesel, Hollowtions and one key fundraiser tonight, with a low of 59 and came up with some carried a price tag of about Block Monster Car, Truck, •Monday — 4-H shows get degrees and winds from the Peppino’s Pizza and others — that keep the team going. good baseball questions to $5,000 in hotel rooms and trav- Motorcycle and RatRod Show underway at 2012 Jay County Jack Jutte, 62, Fort Recovery northeast at 10 to 20 mph. A had corporate sponsorship. “Right now we pretty much go along with a football will be held Saturday from 11 Fair. Photos. Loretta C. Schroer, 79, Cold- totalel expenses. of .87 inch That’s of nearly rain washalf Perdue Chicks, which won the go by donation,” said Miller. question from super fan a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Tri- water, Ohio recordedof what from the organization 7 a.m. Thursday nor- Maryland regional, had trav- “Our donations are huge. … A State Engine grounds in Port- •Tuesday — Coverage of Nathan Miller. Details on page 2. tomally 7 a.m. spends today. onThe a24-hour yearly eled to the World Series on a lot of it is from the guys who land. Proceeds will benefit the Dunkirk City Council from •••••••••• highbasis. was 82, with a 24-hour chartered bus. Price tag, played and want to give back. Make-A-Wish Foundation of Robert Banser. Len Barker threw a per- low “Whenof 68 recordedyou win, today it costs,” at 7 $4,500. “Every year we keep those Indiana. fect game for the Cleveland a.m.said Miller, adding that it The Lebanon Merchants, banners in circulation. We Indians on May 15, 1981. It takes about $11,000 for the who Portland played in its pick up a little bit there. was the first perfect game Rockets to operate each regu- World Baseball Congress Tour- See Expensive page 11 in Major League history to happen in a game that fea- tured what position? —Dan Gilles, Elyria, Ohio Luck looking to eliminate miscues By MICHAEL MAROT Luck joked Wednesday. “But I’d bet- “He’s pretty focused,” said Through two games, Luck is 26 New positions aren’t AP Sports Writer ter be ready by Week 1. I owe it to Pagano. “He doesn’t let outside dis- of 41 with a league-high 363 yards, added every day, so this INDIANAPOLIS — When most the rest of the guys on this team tractions get in his way. He’s just two TDs and the two picks. piece of trivia is pretty people look at Andrew Luck’s first who have been busting their butts really a mature kid who knows The Colts can’t complain. easy to figure out. The two preseason performances, they to be ready by Week 1.” how to handle things.” “That’s the funny thing, you’d answer, of course, is the see a steady, young quarterback Luck’s teammates say they have “He doesn’t play like a rookie,” expect a young guy to be wide-eyed designated hitter. ready to emerge as the new face of no doubt that the new franchise Vinatieri said. “He’s a very pol- a little bit,” Vinatieri said. “But he The designated hitter the Indianapolis Colts. quarterback will be ready when ished guy for a young guy. He can doesn’t have that look to him.” was added in the American Luck sees the mistakes. the games start counting. They see make all the throws, and he So the man with the photograph- League in 1973 and eight As the glowing reviews pour in, a player progressing faster than processes things real fast. To do ic memory knows exactly what he years passed before Barker the hand-picked successor to Pey- anyone anticipated — and he’s got that this early in his career is real- must do to continue his progres- threw his perfect game ton Manning is convinced he can those so-called intangibles. ly fun to see.” sion. against the Toronto Blue — and must — continue to improve Kicker Adam Vinatieri, a former Many observers have raved “Hopefully, I play a little better Jays. The last perfect game before the Colts open the season teammate of Tom Brady and Pey- about Luck’s poise, resilience and this week, I’m expecting to be bet- prior to Barker’s came in Sept. 9 at Chicago. ton Manning, calls Luck “pol- talent, and Luck appreciates the ter,” he said. “I don’t want to take 1968 by Oakland’s Catfish “I wish it was by this practice,” ished.” compliments. any steps back.” Hunter. •••••••••• What is the best record for a rookie quarterback in the NFL? Fort golfers —Nathan Miller, Indianapolis The answer is 13-0. The pick up split quarterback was Ben Roethlisberger, in 2004. CELINA, Ohio — The Roethlisberger saw his Indians came away with a first action after starter split. Local Tommy Maddox was Fort Recovery High injured in the second game School’s boys golf team roundup of the regular season. The posted a score of 197 Steelers lost that game, but Wednesday at Mercer won the next 13 in a row County Elks Golf Club to and eventually lost to New finish ahead of Lincoln- England in the AFC cham- view (217) and behind cross country team has pionship game. Ottoville (175) in a three- won six straight sectional Big Ben became the team match. titles, the first two with youngest quarterback ever Derek Backs led the way McEvoy as an assistant to win a Super Bowl in his for the Indians, who are coach and the last four as second season at age 23. now 4-7, recording one par the head coach. He has also •••••••••• and five bogeys on the way led the team to three Who is the only player in to a 47. Ottoville’s Craig regional championships. MLB history to turn an Odenweller earned medal- The award is based on unassisted triple play, hit ist honors with a 42, and voting by other Ball State three home runs in a single Derek Youstey led Lincol- graduates who coach girls game and hit for the cycle? nview with a 48. track. —Aaron Likavec, Chase Bruns had two North Ridgeville, Ohio pars as both he and Elijah Ludy doubles in win Kahlig shot 49 for Fort LAKEWOOD, N.J. — The potential answers Recovery, and Stewy Alig Josh Ludy smacked yet are limited, given that completed the team score another double Monday in there have been only 15 with a 52. helping the Lakewood Blue- unassisted triple plays in Josh Pohl finished with a Claws to a 6-4 victory over MLB history. The man who 56, and Kent Retz shot 60. the Delmarva Shorebirds. also had three homers in a Ludy, a 2008 Jay County game and hit for the cycle McEvoy honored High School graduate, hit a was John Valentin. MUNCIE — Jay County’s line drive to left field for a He accomplished the Brian McEvoy has earned double in the sixth inning feats in three consecutive his second straight Ball of the Lakewood win. He seasons, starting with the State University Alumnus was also hit by a pitch in triple play in 1994. With Girls Track Coach of the the fourth. Seattle runners on first and Year Award. He also drew a walk Fri- second, the Boston short- The honor was day as the BlueClaws (29- stop caught a line drive off announced Wednesday, and 29), the Class A affiliate of the bat of Marc Newfield, McEvoy will be presented the Philadelphia Phillies, stepped on second base to with a plaque later this defeated the Greensboro force out Mike Blowers and year. Grasshoppers 15-9. then tagged Keith Mitchell McEvoy, who teaches Ludy, who was named the to complete the triple play. English at JCHS, has led Big 12 Player of the Year in A year later, also against the Patriots to three con- June while playing for Bay- the Mariners, Valentin secutive girls track section- lor University, has 10 dou- went 5-for-5 with a single, a al championships. They bles for Lakewood in 27 double and three home won their most recent games. He is hitting .269 runs. He set the MLB crown in May by 56 points with a .364 on-base percent- record for total bases by a over Delta. age, 10 RBIs and seven shortstop with 15. The Jay County girls runs. And in a 1996 game against the Chicago White Sox he needed just six innings to hit for the cycle. Reds top Philly He smacked a home run in the first inning and added a PHILADELPHIA (AP) — out four and walked none, triple in the third, a single Bronson Arroyo allowed retired the first 14 batters in the fourth and a double three hits in eight-plus before Domonic Brown’s in the sixth. innings, and Jay Bruce two-out homer in the fifth. Valentin is now the bat- homered to lead the Cincin- Arroyo has been hot lately, ting coach for the Albu- nati Reds to a 3-2 victory improving to 6-1 with a 3.50 querque Isotopes, the over the Philadelphia ERA in his last seven starts. Triple A affliate of the Los Phillies on Wednesday. Aroldis Chapman got Angeles Dodgers. Arroyo (10-7), who struck three outs for his 31st save. The Commercial Review Page 4C Business Wednesday, November 21, 2012 MyFarms ... Continued from page 1C Monsanto developing a tech- nology and data-driven Inte- grated Farming System. The back-end of the article talks about the connection between MyFarms and Burrus Hybrids, the first seed dealer to sign on with the Portland company. “The big difference is they’re coming out in 2014 and we’re in production now,” Fennig said. “So we’re about two years ahead of Monsanto. It’s exactly what we want. A major $12 bil- lion global company is spend- ing a lot of money taking the lead, and here we are with a small regional seed company ahead of them by two years to serve farmers.” The MyFarms application allows farmers to set bound- aries on their fields and then fill in some additional informa- tion about the land and their planting goals and concerns before spitting out the top four hybrids best-suited to that land. With the addition of new clients, MyFarms has been growing locally. The company opened its storefront on East The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz Main Street in Portland during the summer and its team of Chris Fennig stands near his desk in the open MyFarms office on East Main Street in Portland. The center of the developers have been working office and two of the walls are covered in white boards, marked with notes, ideas and even some staff doodles to help along to roll out the second version development of the company’s Web app. of the MyFarms application already this month. “The team we’ve assembled the overall function of the ny’s growth as measured and “You’re not guessing at what Development Income Tax is second-to-none in this indus- product. deliberate, one that’s been the market needs,” he said. funds over three years, and try,” Fennig said. “These are And on top of all that, driven by feedback from its “You’re listening intently to both approved the final $25,000 top notch people that are fully MyFarms 2.0 is a significant users. what people are saying and disbursements earlier this dedicated to excellence and upgrade from the original app. “Once we achieved success then defining the scope of the month. quality. We’ve had weekends “We’ve rewritten the entire in that first project, without work and providing a price for “We couldn’t have done it where we’re working nonstop.” software stack from top to bot- fail, without exception, it has that work … without the city and the county Continuing development has tom,” Fennig said. “It’s much led to additional work so that “It’s a great way to build a getting behind us,” Fennig been driven by the group’s faster. It’s about twice as fast now, with our partners we’re piece of software.” said. clients. As they request new as the old application. … It’s in our second, third or fourth Fennig, however, looked back “That support was invalu- features, new contracts are more maintainable. It brings contracts,” Fennig said. to the initial support the com- able and it continues to be. formed. And the second ver- more efficiency to the develop- “That’s a mark of a very pany received from the City of “With it being a Thanksgiv- sion of the application will ment process so we can build healthy way of engaging with Portland and Jay County Coun- ing edition, it would be very even allow MyFarms to create more functionality with rela- any company. We love having cil to help start up MyFarms. fair to say we’re very thankful specialized interfaces for spe- tively few developers.” our development being driven In 2010, both governments to the community for its role in cific clients without affecting Fennig described the compa- directly by strategic partners. pledged $75,000 in Economic the development.” Staffer ... Continued from page 1C being poverty and school in east central Indi- Africa, while his parents hunger,” Wideman said. “A ana. were (and still are) serving lot of the country is poor, From there he hooked as missionaries in Swazi- but you really don’t see up with MyFarms as part land. While he would get to that as much in the urban of an internship and has visit the U.S. about once areas. There’s a very rapid stayed on as a developer every five years, he spent shift from the rural, the and programmer for the his youth in a small town farm life, to the urban city company. in the landlocked African life and the difference in However, it may be the nation that is slightly larg- income and in sustenance mission life that once er than Connecticut. is huge. again takes him overseas. And although a neigh- “The second issue … is While small-town life in bor and a well-placed the threat of HIV and Indiana is the plan for now, smack of a shovel saved a AIDS is making a huge, Wideman said he feels that two-year-old Wideman huge impact on the popula- missionary work for him- from a cobra on the front tion,” he said. “Swaziland self might be in his future. porch, he characterized has the highest prevalence Wideman and his girl- his experiences as more rate per population in the friend, who also grew up mild than wild. world for HIV and AIDS in a mission family in the “We don’t really get fast and it’s decimating fami- Maldives, have talked food out there. Can’t really lies. It’s making the pover- about someday heading get out to a McDonald’s or ty issue even worse. It’s out to do God’s work. Burger King,” he said with really just a scourge on “She is pretty strong on a laugh. communities and fami- doing evangelism among The Commercial Review graphic/Steve Garbacz “People will ask, ‘Did lies.” Islamic cultures … that’s you see lions?’ Well, we Because of those two the setting she grew up can go to a game reserve factors among others, with. And I think that’s a and see lions. Swaziland has one of the good thing to pursue,” “It’s not like grass huts lowest life expectancies in Wideman said. “But for everywhere, although in the world. now, to raise a support the rural areas there defi- And it’s there that his base, I see myself staying nitely are grass huts,” he parents are still working. here in the U.S. for several said, dispelling a common His father continues to years and hopefully con- stereotype of African com- teach in a Bible school tinuing here at MyFarms.” munities. “We were living training pastors, while his Maybe that journey will in like a standard, middle- mother works in AIDS lead back to Swaziland to low-class home in the ministry, teaching life someday and maybe not. U.S., just built a little bit skills to students to help “I definitely see myself sturdier.” try to stem the epidemic. visiting Swaziland again,” The location, however, But it was the mission he said. “I don’t know was able to give him a life that helped him end up whether I would live there. dual-view of the nation — in Portland, as he heard My vision is to go into mis- one of a country plagued about Taylor University in sions myself with my girl- by some crippling social Upland from some friends, friend … and that really and economic factors. eventually making the depends where God leads “The first and major one commitment to attend us.”

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A Stoneridge Company The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz 700 Industrial Drive (260) 726-6501 Portland, IN Jonathan Wideman gets some work done at his desk at MyFarms. Wideman grew up in the south-African nation of Swaziland where his parents are missionaries and says mission work may be in his future as well. Friday, July 13, 2012 Second place Best ongoing news coverage

The Commercial Review The Commercial Review Page 5 Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 50 cents SteFriday,v Julye 13, G 2012arbacz Local/World Board says No ... SPEED BUMP Dave Coverly Continued from page 1 Planning director Bill from the county farm Board member Steve Milligan said the depart- bureau, and suggested the Ritchie spoke in support ment received “a bunch” commission take a no to ban of Houck’s graduated set- of letters and added that detailed look at the issue back idea as well. some of the ideas before acting. Ritchie, however, noted appeared unreasonable. “Look at things at a sci- that while the barns are Milligan said he wasn’t entific level and not an on CAFOs part of the concern for willing to release that list- emotional level,” she said. By STEVE GARBACZ lematic to restrict it,” Zim- residents, manure applica- ing yet until the planning Lochtefeld also said the The Commercial Review merman said, echoing tion is another and that commission reviews it issue comes down to site If the Jay County Plan- Hinkle’s statement. there are no setbacks for and pares it down. selection and being a good ning Commission has Non-voting board mem- that. After board members neighbor. made one thing clear, it’s ber Ron Laux said he trav- “You can make the finished discussion, they “I ask you not to punish that the board isn’t going els the county frequently building so far back, but opened the meeting to all of us,” she said. to try to halt new confined in his position with Jay what about the applica- public comment. Eleven •Dave Lowe spoke feeding projects. County REMC and said he But everything else tion?” he said. members of the public regarding the amount of sees many confined feed- Zimmerman made note spoke during the comment requirements and restric- appears to be up for dis- ing operations that appear cussion after the commis- to be well-thought out and that the planning commis- period. tions already imposed sion met Thursday for a respectful of neighbors. sion has no control over •Jim Bob McEwen men- upon agricultural produc- Peanuts second meeting on possi- He also reminded board manure application, tioned several new ers. ble changes to county con- members that while con- which is regulated research projects focusing “We probably wouldn’t fined feeding regulations. fined feeding operations through manure plans on confined feeding be here today if there was- About 50 people were in can sometimes be trouble- with the Indiana Depart- issues, stating that univer- n’t an unfortunate situa- attendance Thursday in some for neighbors, “It is ment of Environmental sities are making progress tion in Bearcreek (Town- the auditorium of the Jay economic development for Management. in reducing the impact of ship),” he said. County Courthouse — an the county.” Zimmerman also said agriculture on surround- “We are very deliberate increase from the first Board members briefly that farmers aren’t eager ing areas. and look into the future of meeting held two weeks discussed the topic, but to over-apply manure, “If we can put a man on what we as producers are ago. The numbers were Confer’s motion to pass bolstered by a new contin- the hold died for lack of a since as a nutrient, any the moon, we can take the forced to do or will be gent of pro-confined feed- second. excessive use is waste of smell out of manure,” he forced to do,” Lowe added. an asset. said. •Glen Priest, rural Port- ing people who were not Later in the meeting, Rose is Rose present at the first meet- rural Portland resident Confer repeated her sug- Board member at Pur- land, asked about if there ing. John Young spoke in sup- gestion from the first due Cooperative Exten- was a determined figure “It’s a process to go port of the hold and also meeting of setting up a sion educator Larry Tem- for a saturation point and through,” commission encouraged board mem- minimum numbers of ple agreed, stating that was Jay County near such chairman Jim Zimmer- bers to pass it. acres required per the researchers at Purdue are a thing. man, who operates an egg- His requests, like Con- amount of animals constantly working those “Is there any intent to laying operation along fer’s, were largely ignored planned on site. types of agriculture proj- say, ‘We’re just getting to with his brother, said in by board members, who While Houck’s idea ects. thick with these things?’” opening the meeting. showed no enthusiasm to “We’re not going to do this pass any such temporary would increase setbacks • Young, who had sent a Zimmerman said there … overnight.” ban. as head count increases, letter to board members wasn’t a saturation point The meeting opened Board members did, Confer’s suggestion would detailing his ideas, briefly determined but that the with comments and ideas however, discuss a few add increase land owner- summarized his three most recent figure he Agnes from board members — ideas they did find palat- ship requirements. points — including a tem- could recall was that including a suggestion able. Board members also porary hold on new con- about 20 percent of the from member Paula Con- Board member Shane received a packet prepared fined feeding projects, county’s farmland is need- fer that the commission Houck presented the idea by Jay/Portland Building appointing a confined ed to account for spread- approve a three-month of creating a system of and Planning Department, feeding study group to ing of all manure pro- hold on new permits while graduated setbacks, where which summarized sever- review the issue in-depth, duced by animal agricul- it works on changes in reg- the limits were decided al ideas submitted by the and producing a long- ture. ulations. based on the size of the Although she didn’t use operation being put on the public. range plan for confined •Mike Knapke said that the word moratorium, land. feeding from that study while he is aware agricul- which was brought up in A small operation might that would be approved by ture can create an uncom- the last meeting, Zimmer- be able to be fit on 10 or 20 the planning commission. fortable atmosphere for man equated the two acres, where larger opera- •Tom Young suggested people residing in rural Hi and Lois terms to the same thing tions could require 100 or In Loving Memory Of that the county change the areas, those residents and referenced a comment more acres in order to sat- rules on setbacks to state should have a reasonable from legal counsel Bill isfy all requirements. Beverly A. Caster that all setbacks should be expectation of what to Hinkle at the last meeting “We just need to come up determined from the prop- encounter while living in that such holds can be with some figures to put Portland, IN The Commercial Review / Mason Shreve erty line instead of specif- an agriculture area. legally “problematic.” into a table,” he said. “It’s January 23, 1922 - ic structures or features. •Dave Post, rural Pen- Other counties in the a place to start and take a July 10, 2012 state that have attempted look at. To me there’s no Tom Young said this nville, said that he had Fun in Pennville to pass moratoriums on way there should be a 750 Beverly A. Caster, 90, of change would project concerns that increasing Isaac Springer (top) and Stacey Cart enjoy the inflatable slide at Pennville Legion-Lion’s confined feeding have had foot setback (for a 20,000 Rural Bryant, IN, passed property owners who setbacks of land require- Fair on Thursday evening. The fair runs through Saturday and is being held at the Pennville Park. them struck down in the head hog operation),” away at 11:39 AM, Tuesday, want to develop in the ments could have the future, such as if someone effect of pushing starting courts. Houck said. July 10th, suddenly, at “I just think it’s prob- See No page 5 wanted to construct a or small-scale operators Funky Winkerbean Adams Memorial Hospital, house on a vacant lot, that out of the business. Decatur, IN. he or she would be guaran- “You can set these rules Beverly was born in Port- teed to have a barn the full but you might shut some land, IN on January 23, setback distance from people down before they 1922, a daughter of the late their home. even get a chance,” he Passion for •Jeff Steed, Jefferson said. Nevo (Haffner) Ickes and Township, suggested a •Carla Loy of Bearcreek John Stephenson. possible limit on the num- Farms spoke on her posi- She was a long time ber of animals per acre, tion of being caught assistance member of Asbury United somewhat similar to Con- between farmers and non- Methodist Church Port- fer’s suggestion. farmers, who both provide this for some time, just looking land, IN. “Jay County is notori- business to the site. Blondie for the right people. There’s a ous for the density of “I shouldn’t have to pick She was formerly em- New chaplains need for it,” said Newton. CAFOs,” he said. a side,” she said. provide help for Newton said that planning for ployed as clerk at G. C. Steed later spoke to Speaking about pro- a chaplain program began a Murphy Portland, IN. stress the importance of posed a dairy barn at law enforcement year ago. She graduated from Ft. good site selection. county roads 350 East and “The Lord put it on my heart “There are some places 800 North that spawned that this is a needed ministry,” Recovery High School class By AMANDA JOHNSON you don’t want to put the confined feeding dis- The Commercial Review said rural Portland resident of 1940 those,” he said. cussion, she said that the Imagine informing a woman Dave Peters, who approached She was the widow of •Greg Westgerdes spoke site was poorly selected her son died in a car accident, or Newton about the idea. James W. Caster. telling a child his or her father Bill Bradley, pastor of New about manure manage- and that the county should committed suicide. Pittsburg Praise Chapel Church Beverly is survived by ment plans to inform be protecting tourist oper- How would you share with of God in northern Randolph three sons Jack Caster wife those present that con- ations like Bearcreek Snuffy Smith your neighbor that his brother County, met Peters shortly after Candice of Columbia City, fined feeding operators Farms and Paradise moving to the area and said was arrested? IN. Roger Caster wife Clau- have to have a detailed Pointe. Those serving in law enforce- Peters was one of the first peo- plan filed with the state on “It is not a good loca- dia of Portland, and Randy ment must deal with tasks like ple he met. how they will handle any tion,” she said. “It should these every day. The two shared a passion for Caster wife Jean of Green- this ministry and have assisted animal waste. not be that close to a And thanks to a group of local field a daughter, Sherl, wife •Vicky Lochtefeld, Madi- tourist attraction. men, they won’t have to do it by in starting the chaplain’s pro- themselves. gram at the sheriff ’s depart- of Dan Kah, of Flint, MI.; son Township, said that “I shouldn’t have to be “We don’t want to do it, but we ment. The Commercial Review/Michelle Zeman Daughter-in-law LaDonna she was a part of the last here,” she said. “You guys want to do it right,” said Jay Before coming to Indiana, Caster of Portland, a sister discussion to increase set- as county officials should Bill Bradley, left, talks with fellow chaplains (from left) Dave Peters, Dave McClellan backs for confined feed- be protecting us,” Loy County Sheriff Ray Newton, Bradley worked at the Baltic Sharon husband James who believes that “doing it (Ohio) Fire Department, until and Chris Peterson during a meeting earlier this week at the Jay County Jail. Also part of the ing, which had backing said. right,” involves implementing a medical issues prevented him new program is Pastor Randy Davis. Peters, who approached Sheriff Ray Newton about starting Smitley of Portland, twelve Beetle Bailey chaplain program. from working. a chaplain program, has been working along with Bradley in the position for about two months. (12) grandchildren and thir- “We have been wanting to do See Passion page 2 The men will provide comfort and assistance in a variety of roles. teen (13) great-grandchil- dren. Deaths Weather In review Coming up Preceded besides her hus- Voter info band James W. Caster Sr. are son James Caster Jr. and There is a chance of an iso- A display featuring items •Saturday — Family lated thunderstorm tonight, from Jay County aviation pio- donates album to local muse- brother Jack Stephenson. sent to pets Beverly Caster, 90, rural with a low of 67 and winds neer Albert Rupel will be um with items from aviation Friends are invited to call Bryant from the south-southeast at 10 available Sunday from 1 to 4 pioneer. Story from CR intern at Asbury United Methodist OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) registered to vote. Alvin Kaup, 83, Fort Recov- to 20 mph. The high Thursday p.m. at the Jay County Histori- Kelly Dickey. — The voter registration Brenda Charlston ery at the Portland weather sta- cal Museum, 903 E. Main St., Church, 204 E. Arch Street, form arrived in the mail wasn’t the only person to Tamara Gordon, 54, Celina, tion was 91 degrees. The 24- Portland. Admission is free, •Wednesday, July 18 — Pho- Portland, IN. 47371 from last month with some key get documents for her pet: Ohio hour low was 64, with a tem- and the museum is also open tos of Jay County Marching 09:00 to 11:00am Saturday information already filled A Virginia man said simi- Details on page 2. perature today at 7 a.m. of 65. weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 Patriots featured in 2012 band July 14, 2012. in: Rosie Charlston’s lar documents arrived for For a look at the weather for p.m. For more information, go supplement. the weekend, see page 2. to www.jaycountyhistory.org. Funeral Services will be at name was complete, as his dead dog, Mozart, Asbury United Methodist was her Seattle address. while a woman in the Problem is, Rosie was a state got forms for her cat, Church, 204 E. Arch Street black lab who died in 1998. Scampers. Portland, IN. , at 11:00 am A group called the Voter “On a serious note, I on Saturday, July 14th, with Participation Center has think it’s tampering with Chaplain Rogers Durham touted the distribution of our voting system,” Charl- and Ministerial Assistant some 5 million registra- ston said. “They’re fish- tion forms in recent ing for votes: That’s how I Tom Lightle officiating. weeks, targeting Demo- view it.” Interment will be private cratic-leaning voting Every presidential elec- at convenience of the Fam- blocs such as unmarried tion cycle brings with it a ily. women, blacks, Latinos variety of registration Memorials may be sent to and young adults. drives targeting people Asbury United Methodist But residents and elec- who typically are under- tion administrators represented at the polls, Church, 204 E. Arch Street around the country also and Republicans have Portland, IN. 47371. have reported a series of long seized on sloppy or Arrangements have been bizarre and questionable questionable registra- entrusted to MJS Mortuar- mailings addressed to ani- tions as a sign of potential ies Redkey Chapel. mals, dead people, nonciti- fraud on the part of zens and people already Democrats. Friday, July 20, 2012 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 50 cents BZA: No to hogs By STEVE GARBACZ The Commercial Review Jay County Board of Zoning Appeals members ruled in favor of patience and public concern Thurs- day while denying three variance requests for a controversial hog opera- tion in Bearcreek Town- ship. Board member Dennis Rodgers spearheaded the BZA’s opinion, stating that he felt the planned 4,800 head hog operation by Cody Shannon, 19, near 3794 E. 800 North, Bryant, was a bad fit for the area. “You’re really young and you’ve accomplished a lot,” said Rodgers, who also raises hogs. “Patience is a virtue and I think that really comes into play a lot. “You have to do it in the right place and my opinion is this is the wrong place,” he said. “Your dreams are good. Live them. But be patient.” Shannon, who said he has been working with hogs since he was 10 years old, came before the board in search of three setback variances —— one from his parent’s home, one from the home of Virgil Gierhart and one from Gierhart’s mother’s house. Gierhart, who has been working with Shannon in order to start the project, holds power of attorney for his mother. All three residences are less than 750 feet — the minimum required resi- dential setback in the county’s zoning ordinance The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz — from the proposed barn Shannon’s mother, The above map shows the location of 88 confined feeding operations holding current Indiana Department of Sandy Shannon, felt the Environemental Management permits in Jay County. The county contains 43 Confined Feeding Operations (CFO) and 45 variance request didn’t Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), which are larger operations. The locations of the points in the map are apply to disgruntled neigh- approximate and based on information provided by the IDEM. bors who were present at the meeting, since the farm would properly meet the setbacks from all other neighboring homes. “This is a variance that County has 88 large operations affects me and my hus- band, Virgil Gierhart and By STEVE GARBACZ tions (CFO) and 45 larger Concen- manure handling system. These are located within 2 miles of the his mother,” she said. “It The Commercial Review trated Animal Feeding Opera- numbers do not include smaller Indiana-Ohio border, including doesn’t affect anyone else. It’s hard to find a region of Jay tions (CAFO). operations unregulated by IDEM. seven chicken CAFOs within one “Cody bought this prop- County not touched by confined An operation is classified as a While Penn and Pike townships mile. Several are also located in erty so we could keep (the feeding. CAFO when it exceeds certain have lower confined feeding den- Wabash Township near Ind. 67 barn) close by,” she said. Jay County is the site of 88 Indi- animal limits — 2,500 swine above sities than other townships, a sig- Several hog CAFOs are also “We have no problem with ana Department of Environmen- 55 pounds; 10,000 swine less than nificant number are located near located near Ind. 26 on the west- it as we’ve given you in tal Management permitted con- 55 pounds; 30,000 laying hens with the Ohio border. ern side of the county in Knox writing.” fined feeding operations, includ- a liquid manure handling system; More than a quarter of the Township. See BZA page 6 ing 43 Confined Feeding Opera- or 82,000 laying hens with a solid county’s operations — 24 of 88 — See County page 6

Sewer separation work Annexation of property moves ahead in Redkey scheduled for September By ROBERT BANSER By MASON SHREVE a map to the city that shows the The Commercial Review The Commercial Review progress, which could be kept in the REDKEY — Council Himes quits council Work on the first phase of Port- members took a big step mayor’s office. Foster said that this Council member before Thursday’s meet- land’s northside sewer project should could be done only after receiving forward Thursday night start soon after Labor Day. by approving two ordi- David Himes was absent ing, but Himes said he more information from the contrac- from the meeting, and would not change his Kent Schuch and Kevin Foster of tors. nances aimed at adding Schneider Corporation told the Port- more than 80 acres to the town council president mind about resigning, Substantial completion on this proj- Champ explained that citing personal and fam- land Board of Works Thursday that ect should be reached by May 24, with town. Himes had submitted a ily reasons. contractors have said they will be on final completion July 7. The long-discussed but letter of resignation, Local Republican offi- the job during the first week of Sep- Board members Bill Gibson and oft-delayed annexation of effective immediately. cials will caucus to tember. Portland Mayor Randy Geesaman also 81 acres including Bell The construction is set to start on signed the initial permits for phase Aquaculture, Redkey Champ said he called select a replacement for the west end of Lafayette Street and two of the project, which focuses Faith Ministries and bare Himes, a Republican, Himes. move eastward through mostly resi- around the north side industrial devel- ground owned by Redkey dential areas. According to Schuch, opments as well as residential areas Economic Development the exact order of completion is near West Votaw Street. The second Corporation was approved the north side of Ind. 67, expressed interest in hav- unknown. phase should be finished during fall of by council members Kyle east of Ind. 1. ing its property annexed. To keep the public informed, howev- 2013. Champ, Ted Friddle, Jon The annexation will Water and sewer service is er, Mayor Randy Geesaman suggested The permits allow Schneider to Davis and Joe Johnson. become official 60 days already available to all the posting updates of the construction on present plans to the Indiana Depart- In a separate motion, after legal notices are pub- properties, so the annexa- the city’s website so that city residents ment of Environmental Management council members also lished. tions should not require can keep tabs on the progress. Foster for review. voted to annex the Indiana Bell launched its opera- any additional capital also suggested that Schneider provide See Sewer page 2 State Police post site (now tions at the Redkey site in expenses for the town. serving as town hall) on 2009, and has persistently See Redkey page 2

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Skies will be partly cloudy The 11th annual Hollow tonight, with a low of 59 Block Monster Car, Truck, •Monday — 4-H shows get degrees and winds from the Motorcycle and RatRod Show underway at 2012 Jay County Jack Jutte, 62, Fort Recovery northeast at 10 to 20 mph. A will be held Saturday from 11 Fair. Photos. Loretta C. Schroer, 79, Cold- total of .87 inch of rain was a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Tri- water, Ohio recorded from 7 a.m. Thursday State Engine grounds in Port- •Tuesday — Coverage of Details on page 2. to 7 a.m. today. The 24-hour land. Proceeds will benefit the Dunkirk City Council from high was 82, with a 24-hour Make-A-Wish Foundation of Robert Banser. low of 68 recorded today at 7 Indiana. a.m. The Commercial Review Page 6 Local/World Friday, July 20, 2012 Movie shooter kills 12 In review Too late? By THOMAS PEIPERT teenage girl on the ground teacher and wounding 26 WHITELAND, Ind. Associated Press bleeding outside the the- others before killing them- — A top federal farm AURORA, Colo. — A ater. selves in the school’s official who spent two gunman wearing a gas “She just had this horri- library. days touring drought- mask set off an unknown ble look in her eyes ... We Aurora police stricken Indiana gas and fired into a crowd- made eye contact and I spokesman Frank Fania farms said Thursday ed movie theater in subur- could tell she was not all on ABC’s “Good Morning that most of the state’s ban Denver at a midnight right,” Roeder said. America” said he didn’t corn crop is in such opening of the Batman Victims are being treat- know yet if all the injuries bad shape that this movie “The Dark Knight ed for chemical exposure were gunshot wounds. He week’s rainfall likely Rises,” killing 12 people apparently related to can- said some might have been won’t boost yields. and injuring at least 50 isters thrown by the gun- caused by other things U.S. Agriculture others, authorities said. man. The shooter, a man such as shrapnel. Department Undersec- Moviegoers didn’t know in his 20s, was arrested Police, ambulances and retary Michael Scuse what was happening and shortly after the attack at emergency crews told local farmers who some thought the attack 12:30 a.m. MDT at the mul- swarmed on the scene gathered at Kelsay was part of the show. Then tiplex theater at a mall in after frantic calls started Farms, a seventh-gen- they saw a silhouette of a Aurora. flooding the 911 switch- eration family farm person in the smoke at the FBI spokesman Jason board, officials said. south of Indianapolis, front of the theater near The Associated Press Pack said there’s no indi- Officers came running that 71 percent of Indi- the screen, pointing a gun cation so far of any con- in and telling people to ana’s corn crop is in at the crowd. Aurora (Colorado) Police Chief Daniel nection to terror groups. leave the theater, Salina poor to very poor con- “I told my friend ‘we’ve Oates talks to media early today at Aurora Mall, It was the worst mass Jordan told the Denver dition due to drought got to get out of here,’ but where as many as 12 people were killed and many shooting in Colorado since Post. She said some police and heat stress. then he shot people trying injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie the Columbine High were carrying and drag- Scuse said rain this to go out the exits,” Jen- theatre at a midnight show. School massacre on April ging bodies. week provided little or nifer Seeger told NBC’s 20, 1999. Students Eric Officers later found the no help because most “Today.” She said the Harris, 18, and Dylan Kle- gunman near a car behind of Indiana’s cornfields shooter made his way up month-old infant who was least 12. It was not imme- bold, 17, opened fire at the the theater. have already passed the aisle, firing as he went, shot. diately clear for the reason school in the Denver sub- “A gas mask, rifle, hand- through the crucial saying nothing. Police earlier said 14 for the revision. urb of Littleton, about 15 gun at least one additional pollination stage when Some of those injured people were dead, but later Witness Shayla Roeder miles west of Aurora, weapon (were) found kernels form on each are children, including a 3- revised the number to at said she saw a young killing 12 classmates and a inside,” he said. plant’s young cobs, a process the drought and heat stunted. “I don’t care how much rain you get. BZA ... County ... You can’t put kernels Continued from page 1 on that,” Scuse said, Continued from page 1 “There’s a lot of public Hogs and chickens Animals by holding up an ear of Board members, after interest and a lot of con- dominate the county, corn picked at Kelsay hearing several comments cern,” Rodgers said prior with capacity for 264,113 the numbers Farms that was virtu- Total IDEM permitted from neighbors and other to moving the board deny ‘I don’t nursery pigs, finishers ally devoid of butter- area residents who the variances. capacities for each type yellow kernels. oppose the and sows and 6,719,720 of animal are as follows: opposed the project, dis- The vote to deny the layer and pullet chick- Although the corn agreed. variance requests was 3-0, boy building Nursery pigs — ens. 47,365 crop can’t be helped, Rodgers cited section with Rodgers, Scott Hilfik- The majority of the rain in the coming 503.3 of the county’s zon- er and Steve Fennig voting a barn. I Finishers — layers are housed by 209,941 weeks could still help ing ordinance regarding for the denial. Board pres- oppose the Hoosier Pride Farms Sows — 6,807 soybean fields, he said. variances that states: “The ident Carl Walker did not barn being LLC (2,013,984) and Min- Beef cattle — 1,121 variance observes the vote due to a conflict of nich Poultry LLC Beef calves — 230 Risky spirit of this Ordinance, interest since he did soil built in a (1,329,000). Dairy cattle — 825 produces substantial jus- sampling work at the site Dairy heifer — 235 WASHINGTON — bad site.’ Jay leads the region in Risky lending caused tice, and is not contrary to and Steve Ritchie was confined feeding with Layers — 5,104,320 the public interest.” absent. Pullets — 1,615,400 private student loan its 88 operations. Turkeys — 49,500 debt to balloon in the Among Jay County’s Ducks — 50,400 past decade, leaving Prior to the decision, neighbors, Adams Coun- the board heard comments many Americans ty follows with 72 IDEM- struggling to pay off from several people as permitted operations, confined feeding opera- about 25 people attended loans that they can’t Randolph County is tions, although informa- afford, a government the meeting. third with 44 operations tion provided by IDEM Allen Muhlenkamp study says. and Wells County is by this morning could Private lenders gave spoke in favor of Cody fourth with 38 opera- not pinpoint whether out money without Shannon’s operation and tions. Jay holds the No. 1. considering whether his start in agriculture. Delaware County has County officials and borrowers would “All you guys know how a mere nine operations members of the public repay, then bundled hard it is to get a young and Blackford County have anecdotally and resold the loans to guy started,” he said, also has eight. claimed at recent meet- investors to avoid los- noting that the county has Jay is also among ings that Jay is No. 1 ing money when stu- no control over manure state leaders in terms of overall. dents defaulted, that Cody Shannon according to the study, intended to spread in the which is being area. “They’re still going released Friday. to have to deal with the me.” appropriate for people to Those practices are manure as long as it’s han- Cody Shannon said later live by for health reasons,” closely associated dled properly.” that he could remove that she said. with subprime mort- Tom Young, Portland, section and sign up more Sandy Shannon again gage lending, which spoke in opposition to acres of Virgil Gierhart’s spoke, saying that the pur- inflated the housing variances in general, as he land to avoid the problem. pose of the meeting was bubble and helped has done in previous hear- Walker noted that the only to consider the vari- bring about the 2008 ings. BZA does not have any ance requests. financial crisis. “I’m fundamentally jurisdiction over manure “We’re not here to “Subprime-style opposed to the variance management and that the change the setbacks,” she lending went to col- process,” he said. topic would be relevant to said. lege, and now students Bob Schmit, Wabash the Indiana Department of Cody Shannon riled are paying the price,” Township, spoke about Environmental Manage- those present when speak- said Education Secre- site selection and ment. ing as to the reduction in tary Arne Duncan, expressed his opinion Richard Muhlenkamp, a property values. whose department about Cody Shannon’s nearby neighbor to the pro- “If you live in the coun- produced the report site. posed site and who had try, you’re going to have with the Consumer “You pick a place that started a petition against livestock,” he said. “If you Financial Protection would be less likely to it, spoke about property don’t like it, you can move Bureau. offend anyone,” he said. values in the area if the to town. Bryant resident Jim barn was constructed. Cody Shannon also Spade expressed his dis- “If that hog barn is built, struck down that the issue Arriving like of the site’s proximity our property value will had anything to do with LONDON — With to Bearcreek Farms. decrease 20 percent,” he Bearcreek Farms, citing the flame comes the “I don’t oppose the boy said. “It’s just not a good conversations he had with games. building a barn,” he said. location.” owner Don Strong. Other After years of “I oppose the barn being His wife, Bonnie Muh- attendees mentioned other, preparation and built in a bad site. It’s the lenkamp, spoke in relation conflicting opinions, from months of buildup, wrong place to put it to the affect the barn could Bearcreek Farms owners London’s Olympic there.” have on nearby Bearcreek and management, muddy- moment has finally Bearcreek Township res- Farms. ing the actual opinions. arrived. ident Tom Laux presented “Do you want to take “This has nothing to do Royal Marine Mar- information about Cody that chance?” she asked. with Bearcreek,” Cody tyn Williams is poised Shannon’s manure man- “Variances are there for a Shannon said. “Someone to rappel from a heli- agement that was filed reason.” would be here for them. copter carrying the with the state, pointing out Carter Leonard, who “They’re standing up Olympic torch tonight, that the number of acres gave input during the cre- here trying to shoot me dropping down within he listed were more than ation of county zoning in down,” he said, but also the stone walls of the he obtained proper permis- the 1990s, said he thought added, “There’ll be no hard Tower of London. The sion to use. the current setbacks were feelings with me and my grand entrance Laux said some of the insufficient as they are family. We understand it’s plunges the symbol of acres listed were co-owned without granting vari- a difficult process.” the games into the by Virgil Gierhart and ances for a building even Cody Shannon and mem- city’s historic heart, Dave and Jo Ann Gierhart closer. bers of his family said bringing Olympic and that he did not obtain “The numbers that are after the meeting that find- pageantry to the permission from Dave and there were good for the ing another site or pur- British capital that Joann. time 20 years ago,” he said. chasing additional land last held the event in “Some of it down is “I think it would be a could make obtaining vari- 1948. ours,” Jo Ann Gierhart tremendous mistake (to ances unnecessary. For Londoners, it said. “It’s not Virgil’s and grant the variance).” Outside of the immedi- ignites a time of he does not have permis- Earl Muhlenkamp, Cody ate neighbors affected by tremendous excite- sion. Shannon’s uncle, said the the proposed barn, the ment — as well as four “I’m not against you issue with the barns would application and subse- weeks of extreme farming, Cody,” she said. be moot if Cody Shannon quent public reaction crowds and transport “I’m against you farming had obtained additional served as the impetus to strains. right there.” property. push the Jay County Plan- Organizers have Rodgers said later that “We can get three deeds ning Commission to tried to smooth the the discrepancy with the and get past this,” he said. review regulations regard- way. London Under- Gierharts was another rea- Audrey Muhlenkamp, ing confined feeding oper- ground subway lines son leading him to deny Richard and Bonnie Muh- ations. are festooned with big the variances. lenkamp’s daughter, spoke Those meetings are magenta and pink “It sounds to me like about the health concerns ongoing, with the next signs pointing routes there’s a conflict between of living so close to a con- occurring on Aug. 9 at 7 to the Olympic venues. the Gierharts,” Rodgers fined feeding operating. p.m. in the Jay County — Associated Press said. “That’s bothering “These things are not Courthouse Auditorium. Friday, August 10, 2012 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 50 cents CAFO setbacks might expand

By STEVE GARBACZ of the current setbacks, The Commercial Review predicting that operations Recreational sites in Jay will likely only get larger County may receive some over time. “I’m pro-farm- protection from confined ing, but it’s our responsi- feeding operations after bility as a planning com- Jay County Planning Com- mission to represent both mission members sides. approved a new uneven set- “It’s going to continue to back requirement for those get worse.” properties. The Illinois system start- A public hearing will be ed with a minimum set- held Aug. 30 on the new back of a quarter mile regulation, which would from an occupied home, create a setback of 1 mile and then increases in 220 from the west and south foot increments depending sides of recreational sites on size to a maximum set- and a half mile from the back of a half mile. north and east sides. Board members disliked Planning commission that the Illinois version members unanimously set- used animal units, which tled on this idea, which was calculate the amount of created based on typical pasture space or animal wind patterns in the coun- feed necesary for a group ty, after rejecting a plan for of livestock, as the deter- a flat 1-mile setback on a 4- mining factor. Jay/Port- 3 vote. land Building and Plan- “This is the compromise ning director Bill Milligan the way I see it,” said board suggested those should be member Mike Rockwell, translated into head count. the Jay County Council’s Although Houck never representative on the received a strong endorse- board. ment from the majority of Board members board members, both Con- acknowledged after the fer and Rockwell said meeting, however, that by they’d like to look into it squaring off the area based more. Temple said he on the differing setbacks, would work on translating that properties in the cor- “animal units” into an ners will actually be far- appropriate head count for ther than the regulated dis- The Commercial Review graphic/Steve Garbacz Jay County and board tance. members agreed to discuss For example, a property This graphic shows proposed setbacks from Bearcreek Farms, creating a CAFO-free zone near it further at their next in the extreme southwest the recreational attraction. Board members OK’d the new uneven setback for three recreational sites in meeting. corner would be 1.41 miles the county, establishing a 1-mile setback to the south and west and a half-mile setback north and east. On another matter, Con- away, a property in the A public hearing on the new regulations will be held Aug. 30. fer suggested adding a 1- northwest or southeast cor- mile setback for confined ner would be 1.12 miles feeding operations from away and a property in the The vote tied 3-3 with the south and west and ther discussion occurred regulate someone to be a each of the four incorpo- northeast corner would be Confer, Shane Houck and that larger setbacks in on some topics, Zimmer- good neighbor,” he contin- rated towns that have no .71 miles away. Mike Rockwell voting for those two directions would man was lukewarm on ued. “I think our setbacks such regulation, which are The setback will apply to and Eric Pursifull, Scott help protect the sites pushing other new regula- are adequate.” Bryant, Dunkirk, Redkey recreational areas that are Hilfiker and Larry Temple against odor without tions. Board member Shane and Salamonia. Pennville zoned commercial, of voting against. Board pres- restricting agriculture as “The process has shown Houck, however, repeated- set a 1-mile buffer when it which there are three in ident Jim Zimmerman much in the other two it does work,” Zimmerman ly stated his interest in adopted zoning and Port- the county: Bearcreek cast the decidingFriday, vote directions. Augustsaid in 31, his opening 2012 com- exploring a new graduated land has a 2-mile buffer Farms, Paradise Point RV against, stating that he felt The setbacks are not ments regarding the coun- system that would increase zone. Resort near New Mt. Pleas- the distance was too high. finalized and will have to ty board of zoning appeals’ setbacks based on the size Zimmerman suggested ant and Fox Lake Camp- “I think maybe a mile is be approved after a public decision to deny variances of a confined feeding oper- that the board check with ground at 2464 S. 300 East. excessive,” he said. hearing to be held on Aug. to a controversial proposed ation. He presented board the town boards of those Board members agreed It was Zimmerman who 30. confined feeding barn members with a graduated communities before pass- on the uneven method after suggested the uneven set- The new setback was the Bearcreek Township. “I system that has been in use ing such a setback and Mil- turning down a flat 1-mile back afterward, since pre- only official action taken think the BZA did a good in Illinois. ligan said he would radiusThe suggested by board vailing Commercial winds in the coun- by the board Thursday job. “It Review doesn’t do anything approach those boards to member Paula Confer. ty typically originate from night, and although fur- “I don’t know how you for the future,” Houck said pitch the idea. Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 50 cents Drought cuts Ranchers target forecastRecreation on setbacks passethanol By STEVE GARBACZ in reference to Bearcreek Farms area is squared off, meaning to the Jay County Commission- what animal count levels should The Commercial Review near his home. “I think it’s very that locations in the far corners ers, who must grant final serve asWASHINGTON the steps in the (AP)setback — 2012The public didn’t haveharvest much practical.” can be farther than 1 mile away. approval before the changes are table. Livestock farmers and to say on new setbacks from The board, therefore, “If you can’t have a mile, I’ll adopted. Ruralranchers Portland seeing resident their John feed recreational sites for large-scale approved the new setbacks from take a half mile,” said board In other business, commis- Young also asked about the sta- ST. LOUIS (AP) — The bushels the USDA had costs rise because of the livestock operations commercially zoned recreation member Paula Confer, referenc- sion members tabled action on a tus of creating buffer zones federal government today expected last month. worst drought in a quar- Only one person spoke during areas — which currently ing the original plan to create a proposed plan for a graduated around the smaller communi- slashed its expectations Expected yields on aver- ter-century are demand- public comment at the Jay includes Bearcreek Farms, Par- 1-mile radius all around that setback based on the size of a ties without zoning. for U.S. corn and soybean age of 36.1 bushels per ing that the Environmen- County Planning Commission adise Pointe RV Resort and Fox was voted down at the last meet- confined feeding operation until Jay/Portland Building and production for the second acre would be the lowest tal Protection Agency hearing and the board voted Lake Campground. ing. members can research the issue Planning director Bill Milligan month in a row as the since 2003. waive production require- Thursday to pass the recommen- Those setbacks are uneven — “I’m happy we didn’t make more. said he sent letters to each of worst drought in decades Today's revised outlook ments for corn-based dation on the county commis- 1 mile to the west and south and people too mad with this,” said “It takes some real thought,” those town boards asking they continues punishing key comes months after corn ethanol. sioners for final approval. one-half mile to the north and board member Mike Rockwell, president Jim Zimmerman said. make any requests to the com- farm states. farmers expected this to One-third of House “I think it is a wise decision to east — and were designed that due to the lack of public com- Shane Houck, who has pushed mission in writing. As of Thurs- The U.S. Agriculture be a record year when members have also signed protect that area,” said Tom way with the county’s prevail- ment. for the graduated setback, said day he had not received any Department cut its pro- they planted, sowing 96.4 onto a letter urging EPA Laux, the only citizen to speak, ing wind patterns in mind. The The recommendations will go the difficulty is trying to decide responses. jected U.S. corn produc- million acres — the most The Associated Press Administrator Lisa Jack- tion to 10.8 billion bushels, since 1937. But the USDA son to relax ethanol pro- down 17 percent from its now forecasts the area to A rendition of Lady Liberty stands in front of a parched corn field duction targets in light of forecast last month of be harvested to be 87.4 mil- near Crete, Neb. The front row of corn remains green because it is irrigated by corn supply concerns and nearly 13 billion bushels lion acres. a lawn sprinkler. spiking prices. and 13 percent lower than The USDA had some- FocusThe EPA says it is work- last year. That also would what foreshadowed the ing with the Agriculture be the lowest production newly lowered expecta- and pastures are faring showed that the expanse Administration reported Department and is keep- since 2006. tions, noting earlier this even worse, with roughly still gripped by extreme or Wednesday that this year's ing a close eye on crop The USDA, in its month- week that exactly half of three-fifths rated to be in exceptional drought — the first seven months were isestimates onand how they ly World Agricultural Sup- the nation's corn crop was poor to very poor shape — two worst classifications the warmest on record for might relate to the biofuel ply and Demand Esti- rated poor to very poor, up the largest area thus — rose to 24.14 percent, up the nation while the program. But so far, the mates report, now expects 2 percentage points from affected in 18 years. nearly 2 percentage points stretch from August 2011 Obama administration, corn growers to average the previous week and Friday's USDA report from the previous week. through July this year was jobsciting ample ethanol sup- 123.4 bushels per acre, creeping closer to the peak amplified the troubling That's because key farm the balmiest 12-month plies, sees no need for a down 24 bushels from last of 53 percent of 24 years picture already painted a states didn't get as much period on record. waiver.By DAVID That's ESPO an opinion year in what would be the ago. Some 39 percent of day earlier, when the latest benefit from rains as else- According to the latest sharedand ROBERT by corn FURLOW growers — lowest average yield in 17 soybeans now fall under weekly U.S. Drought Moni- where on the heels of tem- Drought Monitor map, manyAssociated of themPress in the presi- years. those two categories, ris- tor map showed that the peratures in July that fed- growers in Iowa saw their dentialTAMPA, election Fla. —battle- Mitt Soybean production is ing 2 percentage points for drought conditions in eral scientists said were so conditions further deterio- groundRomney states launched of Iowa his andfall now forecast at 2.69 billion the second straight week Plains states where pro- high they broke a record rate, with the amount of Ohiocampaign — who for continuethe White to bushels, a 12 percent and eclipsing the 1988 duction of corn and soy- set during the Dust Bowl that state in extreme or supportHouse with the mandate. The decline from last year and benchmark of 37 percent. beans is key continue to of the 1930s. The National exceptional drought more Housea rousing, letter was signed well off the 3.05 billion The nation's rangeland worsen. That update Oceanic and Atmospheric than doubling. mainlyremarkably by Republicans. personal speech to Deaths Weather In review the Republi- can Nation- There’s a 20 percent chance Road work along U.S. 27 After Labor Day,al roadconven- crews will begin millingtion andand a of showers tonight, with lows started today in Portland and Romney in the mid 50s. Saturday morn- is expected to continue repaving 12 miles of prime-timeU.S. 27 ing should be partly cloudy, throughout the fall. from a half-mile northTV of theaudi- Osia Marie Cox, 41, Muncie then skies will clear. Look for E&B Paving began work to intersection of Votawence and Thursday night, pro- Kent A. Dilworth, 51, Fort highs in the mid 70s. remove concrete and install Meridian streets in Portlandclaiming that America Recovery Lows Saturday night will be new American Disabilities south to Ind. 28 in northernneeds “jobs, lots of jobs” Details on page 2. in the mid 50s under clear Act-compliant sidewalk ramps Randolph County. and promising to create 12 skies. Sunday will be mostly and will do some minor patch- The contract completionmillion of them in per- sunny in the morning, then ing work starting next week. date is slated for Nov. ilous9. economic times. partly cloudy. “Now is the time to restore the promise of America,” Romney declared to a nation strug- gling with 8.3 percent unemployment and the slowest economic recov- ery in decades. The Commercial Review/Mason Shreve Often viewed as a dis- tant politician, he made a press-the-flesh entrance Not just clowning around into the hall, walking Kristen Frazee reacts to a hug from Mimi the Clown during the Special Day for Special People event at the Jay slowly down one of the County Fairgrounds on Thursday. The annual event for special needs people and their families is sponsored by local Optimist convention aisles and Clubs and included face painting, a petting zoo and rides in emergency vehicles. shaking hands with dozens of delegates. The hall erupted in cheers when he reached the stage and he waved to his shouting, chanting supporters before begin- Fort picks contractor for paving ning to speak. “I accept your nomina- By STEVE GARBACZ St. Marys, Ohio, to com- Corp., Berne, and The “We would anticipate include ripping up the cur- tion for president,” he The Commercial Review plete work on five streets Shelly Company, Findlay, being started within the rent concrete surface of said, to a roar of approval. FORT RECOVERY — — George, Caldwell, Har- Ohio, also bid on the prod- next couple weeks,” Diller West Milligan Street and Then he quickly pivoted Council members accept- rison, West Milligan and uct. said. “The whole project replacing it with asphalt, into personal details of ed the lowest of four bids Water streets — at a cost Village administrator should only take three- as well as paving Water family life, recounting his for a resurfacing project of $82,264.80. Randy Diller said this four days.” Street to the water depart- youth as a Mormon, the that should be wrapped up That firm came in about morning that the work While resurfacing will ment to alleviate dust son of parents devoted to by October. $1,600 lower than Wagner should begin in Septem- be done on George, Cald- issues for residents in that one another, and a mar- The council selected Paving, Laura, Ohio. ber and will be completed well and Harrison streets, area. ried man with five ram- Buehler Asphalt Paving, Lica Construction by Oct. 5. the project will also See Fort page 2 bunctious sons. He choked up at least twice, including when he recalled how he and wife State braces for Isaac remnants Ann would awake to find “a pile of kids asleep in INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rem- Tara Dudzik said Thursday after- Greenwood pre-positioned sand- advance of the storm. our room.” nants of Hurricane Isaac will noon’s updated forecast shifted bags and other supplies to shore “We hope folks are thinking Romney aimed numer- swoop into Indiana from the west Isaac’s path slightly southward, up levees and protect structures about preparedness and doing ous jabs at President and drop as much as 7 inches of with the storm’s center predicted from possible flood waters. some things for themselves and Barack Obama, his Demo- rain over five days, providing to drift from Illinois into central “It’s dry enough, the rivers and their families now to get ready,” cratic quarry in a close much-needed relief from the Indiana and toward the state’s streams are down low enough, it he said, noting that emergency and uncertain race for the drought in some areas, forecast- southeastern corner on Sunday shouldn’t cause any widespread responders could be stretched White House, and drew ers said Thursday. and Monday. problems,” said J.D. Kesler, thin over the weekend. “Our cheers when he vowed to National Weather Service She said the heaviest rainfall — deputy director for the Vigo emergency responders need to be repeal Obama’s signature experts told emergency manage- between 5 and 7 inches — was pre- County Emergency Management able to help those in need who health care law. ment officials that the storm’s dicted to fall across the state’s Agency in Terre Haute, located at need the most.” “This president can tell greatest threat could be small tor- central and southeastern coun- the northern end of a lamb chop- He also recommended us it was someone else’s nadoes. The weather service also ties over five days ending Tues- shaped swath of southwestern motorists slow down and pay fault. This president can said flooding was possible but not day. Indiana that remained in “excep- close attention to traffic. tell us that the next four certain. Those central and southeastern tional drought” on drought maps A webcast on the weather ser- years he’ll get it right. But “I feel a whole lot better today counties were expected to get 1 to released Thursday. vice’s website for Indianapolis this president cannot tell than I did yesterday,” Greene 3 inches of rain Sunday, Dudzik Indiana Homeland Security says tropical storms are prone to us that you are better off County Emergency Management said. Larger amounts were possi- Director Joe Wainscott said the produce brief, weak tornadoes, today than when he took Director Roger Axe said after the ble in some areas. best thing state residents could do and the greatest probability for office,” Romney told the briefing. Some communities including was to have emergency kits ready that occurring in Indiana was on cheering crowd. Weather service meteorologist Indianapolis, Terre Haute and and take any needed steps well in Sunday. See Jobs page 5

Deaths Weather In review Coming up There is a 50 percent chance of showers or storms tonight, •Saturday — Major sewer with a low near 70 degrees and City of Portland offices will project set on north side of Geraldine L. Horn, 88, Port- winds from the southwest at 10 be closed Monday for Labor Portland. Story on the scope land to 15 mph. The high Thursday Day. of the work from CR city Bill Heskett, 79, Dunkirk at the Portland weather sta- Trash normally picked up reporter Mason Shreve. John F. Brenner Sr., 84, tion was 87 degrees. The 24- on Monday will be collected on Montpelier hour low was 54, with a read- Tuesday. •Wednesday — Coverage of Details on page 2. ing today at 7 a.m. of 68. For a Recycling service will not be Tuesday’s meeting of the Port- look at a wet holiday weekend affected by the holiday. land City Council. forecast, see page 2. Second place Best sports section Ray Cooney

Monday, February 4, 2013 Starfires boys drop Jay plays Spartans 12th game in a row, in tourney Tuesday, see story page 9 Sports see Sports on tap

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‘The girls swam their hearts out today. ... Tribe I’ve coached a lot of good swimmers in the past, but this team is really special.’ blasts —Matt Slavik, JCHS girls swim coach ’Hawks FORT RECOVERY — The Indians were not about to endure consecutive loss- es for the second time in a SIX TO STATE week. Fort Recovery High School’s girls basketball team pulled away late in the first half and domi- FR nated the roundup second Sat- urday for a 69-37 victory over the Mississinawa Val- ley Blackhawks. The Indians (13-5) were up by just five with 2:03 left in the opening half when they pulled away. A Caley Schoenherr hoop started a 7-0 run, and Fort Recovery went on to outscore the Blackhawks 40-18 in the second half. Tori Lennartz hit four 3- poitners and paced the Tribe with 26 points. Kelsey Fiely added 14 points, six The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney rebounds, and four steals, and Chelsea Pottkotter had Jay County High School junior Caitlin Mark swims the butterfly leg of the 200-yard medley relay for the Patriots nine points and 12 boards. during Saturday’s sectional meet at JCHS. Mark, Anne Vormohr, Sophie Bader and Katy Smeltzer won the event with a Maddie Murphy paced sectional-record time, and Ashley Mark, Smeltzer, Bader and Vormohr broke sectional, pool and school records to earn Mississinawa Valley with 11 points. another state berth in the 400 freestyle relay. FRHS won the junior var- sity game 50-15 with Kelsey Evers scoring 15 poins and Jay wins six events, finishes in second Haley Knapke adding 12. Three swimmers win By RAY COONEY some. It’s been a great freestyle event in record with that great medley COLDWATER, Ohio — The Commercial Review day.” time while Bearcats were relay that took down a Marshall Hull won two From the moment “I’m excited to be going disqualified. (school) record that’s Anne Vormohr pushed events and Andy Gray and with my sister,” added “Muncie Central had been up since 1995,” said Cori Stone added one victo- off the wall to start the Team standings Caitlin Mark. “We’ve all some outstanding SAHS coach Janelle Gres- medley relay to the sec- ry apiece Saturday for the been swimming together swims,” said Jay County la. “And they took it down Fort Recovery swim teams ond she touched it to end Muncie Central 386 forever, and it makes it so coach Matt Slavik, who by almost a whole second. Jay County 375 at the Coldwater Invitation- the final race, the Patriots much better. We just was voted sectional “I was thrilled. I think al. zipped through the water Bellmont 298 Delta 263 spend so much time coach of the year. “Their they swam well.” The Indian boys scored at a blistering pace. South Adams 224 together. It’s awesome.” depth got us in the long The record relay swims 85 points to finish second in They put together the Bluffton 181 Jay County fell short of run. … served as bookends on the six-team field behind best sectional effort in Muncie Southside 141 its first sectional title as “It makes it a lot easier the big day for Jay Coun- champion Versailles (199). Jay County history, send- Norwell 123 Muncie Central, which to take overall getting ty, with Vormohr taking Blackford 75 The girls totaled 53 points ing five swimmers to the Adams Central 60 got two wins from junior beat when you broke two the lead role in the first for third place. state finals with wins in Emmy Rawson, one from relay sectional records … race and swimming the Hull dominated both of six events while breaking senior Kaitlin Kerrigan and not just breaking anchor leg in the last. his events, winning the 100- five sectional, five school and took the top spot in them, but killing them. The freshman turned yard backstroke by more and three pool records in the 200 freestyle relay, That’s pretty phenome- in her fastest career split than five seconds in 1 the process. Cousins said Vormohr of her four- won its third straight nal.” on the backstroke leg of minute, 0.47 seconds, and Sophie Bader and Vor- win day and six JCHS with 386 points. The Cady Farlow earned a the 200 medley relay, and the 100 butterfly in 59.94. mohr won two individual wins overall. “It feels Patriots were the run- regional berth for the sec- Bader, Caitlin Mark and Gray gave the Tribe boys a events apiece, and also really good. … It’s really ners-up in the 10-team ond straight season, Smeltzer continued to third win in the 50 freestyle joined Katy Smeltzer, sad to see all the seniors field with 375. breaking a pair of tear through the water as in 24.06, and was also fourth Caitlin Mark and Ashley go, but they really worked JCHS trailed by 51 records for South Adams. they surpassed the previ- in the 100 breaststroke. Mark to take first place in us. All these girls pushed points heading into the The Starfires finished ous school record by Stone powered the girls a couple of relays. us so hard this whole sea- final relay, closing the gap fifth with 224 points. more than two seconds. team as she posted a time “I wasn’t expecting it,” son. … It was just awe- as they won the 400-yard “We started out the day See State page 9 of 5:47 to win the 500 freestyle by more than 30 seconds. She was also third in the 200 individual med- ley in 2:24.41. Lane Hull was third in the boys individual medley JCHS answers Tigers’ challenge and fourth in the 500 freestyle. By RAY COONEY better job playing Jay County ter before scoring the game’s final The Commercial Review defense, keeping the ball in front, 12 points to pull away. Freshmen fall After five straight blowouts, the having a hand on the ball, taking “I just thought Jay County got a Patriots found themselves in a RUSSIA, Ohio — Fort them out of what they’re trying to little better, and we got a little less Recovery’s freshman boys battle. Countdown do. … It was a much better job efficient,” said Yorktown coach basketball team gave up 22 They trailed at halftime for just to the record focus-wise and intensity-wise.” Greg Miller, whose team played points in the opening quar- the third time this season. And The Patriots (15-2) were stum- without leading scoring Caleb ter Saturday and was they were being challenged for bling in the second quarter, trail- Morey. “A couple of our offensive unable to recover in a 45-31 this first time since losing their ing by five as Yorktown (12-5) put threats went away from us. When loss to the Russia Raiders. senior point guard to an injury. 70 together an 11-3 run. But they you’re down a shooter and a lead- Darien Sheffer had team They answered the challenge. bounced back just before half- ing scorer, you can’t have your highs of eight points and Trey Teagle came up with a time. other offensive threats go away.” six rebounds for the Indi- steal and lay-up in the closing sec- Brock McFarland is 70 points away from breaking Jay County High School’s McFarland scored in the lane The game ended a streak of ans (6-2), who trailed 22-8 onds of the first half and Jay all-time scoring record. At his current off of an assist from Trey Teagle, five-straight 30-point victories for after the first quarter. They County carried that momentum scoring pace he would surpass 1993 and then Teagle came up with a JCHS. It was the first time the held Russia to three points graduate Dan Ferrell’s mark of 1,155 into the second. It scored the first points on Feb. 19 against Norwell. teal and went the distance to pull Patriots had been challenged in the second quarter to get seven points of the third quarter Jay County to within 26-25 at half- deep into the game since a 51-37 within 10 points at half- and held an opponent to single- time. The home team built off of victory over Richmond on Jan. 5. time, but could not contin- digit in the second half for the that finish, with McFarland, “They were really physical,” ue the comeback in the sec- second consecutive night to pull Tyler Back and Scott Schwieter- said Jay County senior Scott ond half. away for a 50-34 victory over the said JCHS coach Craig Teagle, man combining for the first seven Schwieterman. “No other teams Jackson Hobbs followed visiting Yorktown Tigers. whose team limited Eastbrook to points of the second half. that we play are that physical. We Sheffer with six points, and “Much like last night, I didn’t six second-half points Friday The Patriots never trailed had to adjust a little bit. It was Chase Bruns, Tanner Koch think we were very crisp or sharp after giving up 26 in the first. “In again, but were up by just four just basically a dogfight. and Wes Wenning added defensively (in the first half),” the second half we did a much midway through the fourth quar- See Answers page 8 four apiece. Two win crowns By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review Eric Hemmelgarn finished third in the state last season, but lost his regional championship match. Hemmelgarn and Kyle Garringer had been to the region- Garringer take titles; al finals twice, dropping both matches. On Saturday, the pair of Patriots left no Ray also advances doubt that they were the best wrestlers to semi-state for JC on the mat. Garringer was in control throughout his championship match, and Hemmel- garn ended the day with an emphatic pin “(Garringer) will probably tell you he’s as they each won regional titles to lead not very impressed with his performance Jay County. in the finals. I was,” he added. “He was “Wow. He really wanted to make a state- attacking. He was aggressive. He did ment I think in the finals,” said JCHS exactly what we talked about. … He had a The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney coach James Myers of Hemmelgarn’s really good day today.” victory over Darrius Connell of Muncie Conner Ray also won his opening Eric Hemmelgarn, a Jay County High School senior, pins Darrius Central. “Eric did everything he had to. match at 120 pounds to give the Patriots Connell of Muncie Central on Saturday afternoon during the heavyweight He scored some takedowns. I think he three semi-state qualifiers. He finished in regional championship match at JCHS. Hemmelgarn and teammate Kyle broke him mentally. … I’m impressed fourth place. Garringer each won titles for the Patriots. with the way he wrestled today. See Two page 8 The Commercial Review Monday, February 4, 2013 Sports Page 9 South Adams drops to 0-6 in ACAC BERNE — The Starfires Kadin Gerig led three War- shut out in the opening period South Adams dropped the jun- weren’t able to do much to slow riors in double figures with 21 Friday as it lost 35-21 to the host ior varsity game, 26-17. down Woodlan in the opening Local points. Jaylin Bennett had 16 Bellmont Squaws. half. points, nine rebounds and two Alyssa Bluhm scored nine EJ sixth wins South Adams High School’s roundup blocks for Woodlan (9-9, 2-4 points to lead the Starfires (7-12), East Jay’s sixth grade girls bas- boys basketball team gave up 22 ACAC), and Shawn McGettigan who trailed 11-0 after the first ketball team fought off visiting points in each of the first two scored 15. eight minutes. They turned the Delta for a 31-29 victory Thursday. quarters Saturday as it dropped South Adams dropped the jun- ball over six times in the first Hannah Phillips scored seven its 12th straight game, 65-37 to the ior varsity game 44-33 with Wes quarter. points to lead the Chiefs to the visiting Warriors. 32 percent from the field. Conner Thompson scoring a team-high Lauren Smith followed with win. Kendra Muhlenkamp and The Starfires (2-12, 0-6 Allen Sealscott had eight points and six eight points. six points, and Sharon Balsiger Klarisa Hemmelgarn added six County Athletic Conference) fell rebounds to lead SAHS. scored three. points apiece. behind by 16 points after the Dustin Dellinger, Blake Fox Starfire girls fall Taylor Kuhnle powered Bell- EJMS won the B team game 24- opening period. They committed and Cal Clouser added six points DECATUR — The South mont (5-15) with 18 points. Aman- 23 in double overtime with Gwen 17 turnovers while shooting just apiece. Adams girls basketball team was da Hunter added eight. Omstead scoring nine points. In review Answers ... Continued from page 10 IU wins “We needed to focus for Box score BLOOMINGTON, all 32 minutes. We needed Ind. — Cody Zeller a game like that.” Jay County Patriots scored 19 points and McFarland highlighted vs. Yorktown Tigers Victor Oladipo had 15, the final four minutes Boys varsity summary leading No. 3 Indiana when he came up with a Yorktown (12-5) FG-FGA FT-FTA PTS to an 81-73 victory over steal and dunk with 2:03 Miller 5-8 0-0 12 No. 1 Michigan on Sat- remaining. He scored 18 Davis 4-12 3-5 12 points to lead the Patriots, Bibbs 1-2 0-0 2 urday night. Silvidi 0-0 0-0 0 It’s the third time in leaving him 70 points Preston 2-3 0-0 6 school history the away from breaking 1993 Neal 1-6 0-0 2 Paluch 0-0 0-0 0 Hoosiers (20-2, 8-1 Big graduate Dan Ferrell’s Totals 13-31 3-5 34 Ten) have beaten the career scoring record of .419 .600 No. 1 team at home, 1,155 points. Def. rebound percentage: .688 and it’s the first time “Those easy baskets are Jay County (15-2) FG-FGA FT-FTA PTS they’ve done it in back- huge,” said Teagle of the Bogenschutz 0-0 0-0 0 to-back seasons. The transition hoops. “Brock Pryor 0-0 0-0 0 win gives Indiana sole got three of them in the Schlosser 2-4 2-2 8 Teagle 2-3 0-0 5 possession of the Big second half. And those are McFarland 6-11 5-6 18 Ten lead and likely the huge plays, because every Back 3-5 0-0 6 Schwietrmn 6-13 1-2 13 No. 1 ranking it held possession in a game like Totals 19-36 8-10 50 for the first seven that is so critical. To get .528 .800 weeks this season anything easy … is impor- Def. rebound percentage: when the new poll tant.” Score by quarters: Yorktown 11 15 5 3 — 34 comes out today. Schwieterman added 13 Jay Co. 14 11 9 16 — 50 The Wolverines (20- points, eight rebounds and 2, 7-2) were led by Trey a pair of blocks, and Trey 3-point shooting: Yorktown 5-12 (Preston 2-3, Miller 2-5, Davis 1-3, Burke with 25 points Teagle dished out four Bibbs 0-1). Jay County 4-10 and Tim Hardaway Jr. assists. (Schlosser 2-3, Teagle 1-2, McFar- land 1-4, Back 0-1). with 18, but they could- It was Jay County’s The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney n’t extend their four- fourth straight game with- Rebounds: Yorktown 18 (Davis 6, Neal 6, Miller 2, team 2, Silvidi, game winning streak. out Kegan Comer, who Jay County High School’s Scott Schwieterman fights to put up a shot Preston). Jay County 16 (Schwi- Indiana took an broke a bone in his right between a pair of Yorktown defenders during Saturday’s 50-34 victory. Brock eterman 8, McFarland 3, Teagle 2, early 20-7 lead and wrist Jan. 18 against Win- McFarland finished with 18 points and Schwieterman had 13 to go along with Back 2, Schlosser). Michigan tied it only chester. He is scheduled to eight rebounds as the Patriots won their ninth straight game. Assists: Yorktown 6 (Davis 3, one time after that, at be re-evaluated today, but Neal 2, Bibbs). Jay County 10 (Tea- gle 4, McFarland 3, Schlosser, 40. The Hoosiers put it will likely miss Thurs- Back, Schwieterman). away with a late 7-2 day’s game at Delta. late in the first half and three assists, and Riley 7-0 after the opening peri- Blocks: Yorktown 1 (Davis). Jay run. The Patriots led 9-2 then dominated the sec- Neal also grabbed six od and took a nine-point County 4 (Schwieterman 2, early, but Yorktown hit ond. boards. lead into halftime. It Schlosser, Back). back-to-back 3-pointers to Record set Riley Miller and Davis outscored the Tigers 13-4 Personal fouls: Yorktown 15 (Sil- close the gap and took the each scored 12 points for Junior varsity in the third quarter. vidi 5, Neal 4, Bibbs 3, Paluch 2, NEW YORK — The lead on an Edmond Davis Yorktown, which won its The Patriots shut out Zach Fullenkamp and Preston). Jay County 9 (McFarland Baltimore Ravens’ vic- 3, Schlosser 2, Back 2, Teagle, drive midway through the first 10 games of the sea- Yorktown in the first quar- Nate Brackman each Schwieterman). tory over the San Fran- second quarter. The Tigers son, but has dropped five ter as they picked up their scored seven points for the cisco 49ers has set a Turnovers: Yorktown 13. Jay pushed head by five points of its last seven. Davis 10th win, 39-21. Patriots. Justin Dirksen County 6. record for highest before JCHS recovered added six rebounds and Jay County (10-5) was up added six points. overnight ratings in Super Bowl history. The Nielsen compa- ny reported the game scored a 48.1 rating and Sports on tap 71 share in its select Scoreboard p.m.; Middle school girls swimming at measurement of big Norwell Invitational – 5 p.m.; EJMS Sunday cities. That’s 1 percent sixth grade girls basketball at Muncie NFL football Northside – 5 p.m.; WJMS wrestling vs. over a similar meas- Super Bowl South Adams – 6 p.m.; WJMS sixth urement in last year’s Baltimore 34, San Francisco 31 grade boys basketball at Union City West Side – 4:30 p.m. game. Saturday South Adams — Girls basketball For three years in a Men’s college basketball sectional opening round vs. Bluffton at Indiana 81, Michigan 73 Bluffton – 7:30 p.m. row, the Super Bowl Butler 75, Rhode Island 68 has set a new record Notre Dame 79, DePaul 71 OT Bowling Green 70, Ball State 59 TV schedule for most-watched event Northwestern 75, Purdue 60 Today in U.S. television histo- Drake 71, Indiana State 71 OT 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: ry. Nielsen is expected Western Illinois 68, IUPUI 59 Notre Dame at Syracuse (ESPN); Okla- Missouri State 62, Evansville 61 homa at Iowa State (ESPNU) to have an estimate of Ohio State 63, Nebraska 56 7 p.m. — Women’s College Basket- how many people ball: Purdue at Penn State (ESPN2) 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: watched the game later Standings Texas at West Virginia (ESPN); Seton today. National Basketball Association Hall at Pittsburgh (ESPNU) Eastern Conference 9 p.m. — Women’s College Basket- Central Division ball: Texas A&M at LSU (ESPN2) Clarke leads W L Pct GB Chicago 29 18 .617 — Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana 28 19 .596 1 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Rotnei Clarke scored 23 Milwaukee 25 21 .543 3½ Florida at Arkansas (ESPN); Villanova Detroit 18 30 .375 11½ at DePaul (ESPN2); Purdue at Penn points, Roosevelt Jones Cleveland 14 34 .292 15½ State (BTN); Wake Forest at North Car- added 18 and No. 9 But- olina (ESPNU) ler beat Rhode Island Atlantic Division 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: W L Pct GB Ohio State at Michigan (ESPN); South 75-68 on Saturday. New York 30 15 .667 — Carolina at Kentucky (ESPNU) Brooklyn 28 19 .596 3 Clarke scored 12 Boston 24 23 .511 7 points in the first 11 Philadelphia 20 26 .435 10½ Toronto 17 31 .354 14½ Local notes minutes of the second Sectional tickets on sale half. The Bulldogs (18- Southeast Division Tickets for the Class 4A Sectional 6 4, 5-2 Atlantic 10) W L Pct GB girls basketball tournament at Home- trailed 32-30 at the Miami 30 14 .682 — stead High School are on sale in the Atlanta 26 20 .565 5 Jay County athletics office. break, then went on a Orlando 14 33 .298 17½ They will be sold until 4 p.m. today 15-3 run. Charlotte 11 35 .239 20 and from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday. Sec- Washington 11 35 .239 20 tional passes are $10 and are good for Nikola Malesecix led all games in the tournament. Rhode Island (6-14, 1-6) Western Conference Single-game tickets at the door will with 18 points in the Southwest Division be $6. W L Pct GB The Patriots will play their first tour- Rams’ fourth straight San Antonio 38 11 .776 — nament game against the host Spar- loss. Memphis 30 16 .652 6½ tans at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Houston 26 23 .531 12 Dallas 20 27 .426 17 JCHS hosting community swim New Orleans 15 33 .313 22½ Jay County High School will host a Phil rolls community swim session Sunday. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Northwest Division The community swim will run from 2 — Phil Mickelson’s 5- W L Pct GB to 4 p.m., and admission is $2. An Oklahoma City 35 12 .745 — adult must accompany children 12-and- iron shot sailed long Denver 30 18 .625 5½ younger. and right on the par-3 Utah 26 22 .542 9½ Portland 24 23 .511 11 Registration open for Boomer soccer seventh, stopping an Minnesota 18 26 .409 15½ Registration is open for Jay Commu- inch from the fringe nity Center’s spring Boomer soccer pro- and leaving him in Pacific Division gram. W L Pct GB The league is for preschool through danger of losing at L.A. Clippers 34 15 .694 — eighth graders, and games will be least a stroke to play- Golden State 30 17 .638 3 played on Saturdays. The registration L.A. Lakers 22 26 .458 11½ fee is $40, and the deadline is March ing partner Brandt Sacramento 17 32 .347 17 6. Snedeker. Phoenix 16 32 .333 17½ There will also be a soccer skills clinic at JCC on March 10. Mickelson ended up For more information, contact JCC leaving Snedeker shak- Local schedule at [email protected] or (260) 726-6477. ing his head and went Today Jay County — Boys swimming at Tribe needs track coaches on to complete a wire- Muncie Southside – 6 p.m.; Gymnas- Fort Recovery High School is looking to-wire victory Sunday tics at Muncie Central – 6 p.m.; Fresh- for track coaches for the 2013 season. man boys basketball vs. Muncie South- The Indians need a head coach as in the Phoenix Open. side – 6 p.m.; Middle school swimming well as assistant coaches. Mickelson shot a 4- at Delta – 6 p.m.; EJMS sixth grade Those interested should contact under 67 to finish at 28- boys basketball vs. Muncie Northside – FRHS athletics director Barb Sautbine 5 p.m.; EJMS sixth grade girls basket- at [email protected] or under 256, two strokes ball at Blackford – 6 p.m. (419) 375-4111. off the PGA Tour Fort Recovery — Freshman girls basketball at Fort Loramie – 5:30 p.m. Get your questions answered record of 254 set by Do you have a question about local Tommy Armour III in Tuesday college or pro sports? the 2003 Texas Open. Jay County — Girls basketball sec- Email your question to tional opening round vs. Homestead at [email protected] with “Ask Ray” —Associated Press Homestead – 7:30 p.m.; WJMS in the subject line for a chance to have wrestling vs. Winchester Driver – 6 it answered in an upcoming column. Monday, February 18, 2013 Jay boys will host Indiana set to visit Norwell on Tuesday, Spartans on Tuesday, see preview page 9 Sports see Sports on tap

Page 10 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Gelhaus IHSAA Wrestling State Finals powers Fort win FORT RECOVERY — Wade Gelhaus and Elijah FOUR MEDALS Kahlig didn’t waste any time. Kahlig hit three 3-point- ers in the first three min- Hemmelgarn, Garringer take 5th, 6th utes and Gelhaus scored 19 of his game-high 39 points By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review in the opening period. INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Gar- Their effort ringer walked away as a state led the Divi- FR hoops medalist, fulfilling a dream he sion IV No. 9 roundup had worked for his entire Fort Recov- career. ery High School boys bas- Eric Hemmelgarn picked up a ketball team to a 30-10 lead medal for the second straight at the end of the first quar- season and had an experience ter on the way to a 69-55 vic- that only added to his fire to tory over the Mississinawa bring home a state champi- Valley Blackhawks. onship next season. Kahlig hit a pair of 3- Hemmelgarn and Garringer pointers to open the scor- finished fifth and sixth respec- ing, and then Gelhaus hit tively Saturday at the IHSAA one of his own. A third Wrestling State Finals at triple from Kahlig made Bankers Life Fieldhouse, giving the score 12-4 less than Jay County High School two three minutes into the state medalists in the same sea- game, and then Gelhaus son for the first time in 16 years. went wild. They combined to score 12 The FRHS senior, who is points, giving the Patriots a committed to play next sea- 30th-place finish out of more son at Saginaw Valley State than 100 teams. University in Michigan, “Placing at state, that’s a good racked up the next 16 way to finish,” said Garringer, points for the Indians (17- fighting back the emotion after 4). He finished 16-of-29 from the final match of his career. the field for his game-high “It’s a good feeling.” scoring total and also After picking up victories in grabbed 12 rebounds. the opening round on Friday Kahlig shot an efficient night, both Jay County 7-of-11 from the field and wrestlers suffered losses in Sat- hit four 3-pointers as he fin- urday morning’s quarterfinal ished with 18 points and round. But they were able to three assists. Mason Evers bounce back. grabbed six rebounds. Garringer (195) and Hemmel- Dane Blumenstock garn (HWT) both wrestled to totaled 23 points and six scoreless first periods as they were on the mat at the same rebounds for Mississinawa time on opposite ends of the Valley. Brandon Byers had fieldhouse. 11 points and eight boards. Hemmelgarn wasted little time taking the lead in the sec- Junior varsity ond period, needing just four Fort Recovery fell into a seconds to come up with an double-digit deficit in the escape against Merrillville’s first half and then strug- Shawn Streck. Garringer start- gled in the third quarter in ed in the bottom position in the The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney a 47-31 loss to the Black- second period and also took the hawks. lead with a reversal on Justin Eric Hemmelgarn of Jay County High School tries to hold on to Merrillville’s Shawn Chase Bruns hit five 3- Berumen of Delphi at the 1:32 Streck during the consolation semifinal match Saturday at the IHSAA Wrestling State Finals pointers as he scored a mark. at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Hemmelgarn defeated Streck 3-1 and went on to game-high 15 points for the Garringer stayed in control finish fifth in the state. Indians, who trailed 25-15 the rest of the way as he scored at halftime. FRHS got four points in the final period outscored 15-6 in the third on the way to a 6-3 victory. to overtime. He snagged a single and you miss out on an opportu- them,” said JCHS coach James quarter as Mississinawa Streck came up with an leg for a takedown with just 10 nity to get into the state semifi- Myers. “They were hungry and Valley pulled away. escape to pull even with Hem- seconds remaining as he took a nals and then you bounce back they wanted to keep wrestling Dillon Whitacre and melgarn, but the JCHS junior 3-1 victory. and get a chance to wrestle for and get as high as they could.” Darien Sheffer followed would not allow the match to go “After you take a loss like that fifth place, that says a lot about See Jay County page 8 with five points apiece for the Tribe. Wes Wenning grabbed six rebounds. Dalton Rinderle finished Miller and Moser reach podium for SAHS with 12 points to lead the Blackhawks to the victory. By RAY COONEY place effort at 113 to goes to them. They have The Commercial Review Cayden Cox had 10 points become the Starfires’ done an awesome job and seven rebounds. INDIANAPOLIS — For first two-time medalist. putting in the extra time. the second straight sea- L.J. Moser broke through And you just hope that son, the Starfires walked in his second trip to the those kids serve as role Eighth grade away from the state state finals to finish in models to everybody ROCKFORD, Ohio — finals with two state eighth place at 120. else.” The Fort Recovery Middle medals. They combined to Miller’s only loss of School eighth grade boys South Adams High score 12 points, tying the day came in the state basketball team finished as School sophomore them for 30th out of semifinals as he fell by the Midwest Athletic Con- Sawyer Miller climbed more than 100 teams at pin to Hanover junior ference runner-up as it one step up the podium the state finals. Stevan Micic (48-0), who dropped the league cham- Saturday at the IHSAA “It’s pretty awesome,” went on to win his sec- pionship game 43-27 Satur- Wrestling State Finals at said SAHS coach Eric ond consecutive state The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney day to the Versailles Tigers Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Myers. “We’re fortunate title. And then Miller at Parkway. following last season’s to have kids who have bounced back to avenge a Sawyer Miller of South Adams takes Micaiah Cox and Caleb fourth-place finish at 106 worked that hard in the loss from the semi-state. control Saturday during his third-place match Martin paced the Indians pounds with a third- offseason. All the credit See SAHS page 8 against East Noble’s Connor Knapp. with nine points apiece. Fort Recovery finished the season at 14-5. Keen, Jay relay earn state berths By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review James Keen was a sectional runner-up in two events last sea- son. Team scores On Saturday, he made sure everyone else was chasing him. Delta 362 The Jay County High School Jay County 304 sophomore earned himself a Muncie Central 303 pair of individual state berths Norwell 286 as he won the 200-yard freestyle Bluffton 220 and 100 backstroke to lead the Bellmont 220 host Patriots (304 points) to a South Adams 217 runner-up finish by one point Adams Central 131 Muncie Southside 62 over Muncie Central. Keen also teamed with Josh Blackford 59 Lykins, Cody White and Sok Vormohr to win the 400 freestyle relay to give JCHS its first relay Special to The Commercial Review/Paul Yoder state berth since 2003. spot in Tuesday’s regional meet “It was really special,” said at Hamilton Southeastern. Jay County High School sophomore James Keen swims to victory in the 200-yard Keen of that win in the final The winner of each swimming freestyle at Saturday’s sectional meet hosted by the Patriots. Keen also won the 100 event of the day. “I just love that event advances to the state finals backstroke and contributed to a JCHS victory in the 400 freestyle relay. I can go through next week with while the top four divers move a group like them. … They’re on to regional competition. really good friends … I just like Delta won the sectional title events, including two each by South Adams placed seventh long time since a bunch of being able to share that with with 362 points despite the fact Andrew Dowdle and Cullen with 217 points, just three teams were fighting for the them.” that diver Landon Carpenter Tyler, but slipped to third place behind Bluffton and Bellmont. same spots as far as the team Mitchel Rigby added a third- picked up their only win of the behind the Patriots when it fin- “It was great fun,” said JCHS finish goes. place finish in diving to earn a day. Muncie Central won seven ished seventh in the final relay. coach Barry Weaver. “It’s been a See Berths page 9 The Commercial Review Monday, February 18, 2013 Sports Page 9

Review preview Tuesday - 6 p.m. Norwell Knights Ossian, 13-5 Coach: Randy Hawkins, fourth year Conference: Northeast Hoosier Friday at Woodlan: Norwell dominated the sec- ond and third quarters on the way to an 85-50 vic- Special to The Commercial Review/Paul Yoder tory over the Warriors. Josh VanMeter scored 23 points to lead the Knights, who outscored Woodlan Josh Lykins, a Jay County High School junior, swims the 100-yard butterfly during the sectional 47-24 in the middle two periods. meet Saturday at JCHS. Lykins joined James Keen, Sok Vormohr and Cody White to win the 400-yard Season leaders (per game): Points — Josh Van- freestyle and finished third in the butterfly and second in the 50 freestyle. Meter 20.2. Rebounds — Cam Denney 8.4. at Berths ... Jay County Continued from page 10 “That’s really cool, especially the 200 individual medley and “It’s nice to be in the middle of with a freshman, two sophomores 1:01.85 for eighth in the 100 butterfly. Patriots that and fortunately we got over the and a junior,” said Weaver. “That’s Willie Skiver capped his career Portland, 18-2 hump in the last few events, scoring great. … The relay was a big plus.” with a sixth-place finish in the 100 a lot of points and managed to get Rigby, a first-year diver as a sen- breaststroke in 1:10.58, and Kaleb Coach: Craig Teagle, 15th year into second. ior, was on the outside looking in Baldwin was seventh in the 100 back- Conference: Independent “We’re happy to advance three after the first round of dives as he stroke in 1:04.23. Saturday vs. Union City: Jay County allowed just events on to the state meet and a sat in fifth place. But he climbed to Also scoring for the Patriots in one first-half field goal and led 39-3 at halftime as it diver on to the regional. We’re fourth after the semifinals and consolation events were Conner dominated the Indians 69-19. Kegan Comer paced extremely proud of the kids. They’ve edged Bellmont’s Dakota Massman Dailes (10th – 200 individual medley, the Patriots with 18 points, and Brock McFarland done a great job all year and I can’t for the No. 3 spot by less than two 10th – 100 backstroke), Ian Bentz added 17 points, eight assists and five rebounds. hardly wait to keep it going for points as he finished with 296.05. (13th – 100 breaststroke), Skiver (14th Season leaders (per game): Points — Brock another week.” Carpenter won with 373.3, and – 50 freestyle) and Travis Barton McFarland 18.2, Scott Schwieterman 13.8, Kegan Keen set the tone for his day in the Ben Miller of Bluffton was second (16th – 500 freestyle). Comer 12.4. Rebounds — Schwieterman 7.3, first individual event of the meet, with 337.65. JCHS started the year at 0-5 before McFarland 4.4. Assists — Comer 4.4. taking the early lead in the 200 “It’s neat because he’s really been finishing with 11 consecutive wins. freestyle and making the rest of the willing to work hard at it,” said The second-place sectional finish field chase him. Weaver. “He’s been fearless as far as was the Patriots’ best effort since Last season: Norwell turned a technical foul into No one ever caught up as the JCHS trying new things. … He’s been 2009. sophomore won by more than 2.5 sec- more than willing to keep at it and “It just showed me how far our a six-point possession that started a 10-0 run in the onds in 1:51.16. work … He’s just steadily gotten bet- whole team has come from the five fourth quarter that keyed the Knights’ 46-38 victory He was a heavy favorite in the 100 ter through out the whole year. … It losses at the beginning of the sea- over Jay County. Brock McFarland scored 12 points backstroke after finishing as the run- was a good day for him.” son,” said Keen, noting that his team for the Patriots, who shot just 29 percent in the first ner-up by less than a second last sea- Cory Sank turned in the top finish finished ahead of fourth-place Nor- half and 36 percent for the game, and Scott Schwi- son. He dominated the race, taking for South Adams as he placed third well after finishing more than 50 eterman scored 10. Caleb Featherston scored 16 the top spot by more than three sec- in the 500 freestyle in 5:25.39. He was points behind the Knights at their points for Norwell, and Josh VanMeter and Garrett onds over fellow sophomore Josh also eighth with a time of 2:06.71 in invitational in early December. “As Bucher each added nine. Minch of Delta in 55.13. the 200 freestyle. the season progressed, I think every- Game notes: Jay County senior Brock McFarland “I think James had himself under Mitchel Kaverman added a body got more into it and wanted to needs 24 points to break the school’s career-scor- control and was able to swim the way fourth-place effort in the 100 breast- contribute and win. … Everyone ing record. Dan Ferrell, a 1993 graduate, holds the he has all year,” said Weaver of Keen, stroke in 1:07.32. He was also sixth kind of got that mentality.” current mark at 1,155. McFarland became just the who broke his own school record of in the 200 individual medley in Shad Swygart finished sixth for second player in JCHS history to reach the 1,000- 55.79 in his backstroke win. “He con- 2:18.42. South Adams with a time of 1:03.89 point mark in a Jan. 18 victory over Winchester ... trolled the races the whole way. He Lykins came up just short of earn- in the 100 backstroke, and Jesse Sut- just had a good day of swimming.” ing a state berth in a pair of hotly- ton was eighth in 1:04.68. Drew Norwell’s victory over the Patriots last season Vormohr and White put the Patri- contested individual events. He was LeFever finished seventh in 58.61 in came as part of a 10-game winning streak that ots in position in the final relay as the runner-up to Dowdle by 0.39 sec- the 100 butterfly, and Chris Inniger took the Knights all the way to the Class 3A state they were tied for second with Nor- onds in the 50 freestyle in 22.58 and was eighth in the 500 freestyle at championship game. They lost the state champi- well a couple of seconds behind finished third in the 100 butterfly by 5:47.21. onship game 76-67 to Guerin Catholic ... JCHS Delta, and then Keen and Lykins less than a second in 55.34. LeFever (ninth – 200 individual leads the state in defensive average as it allows brought home the win. They turned Shelby Wendel capped his career medley), Inniger (10th – 200 just 34.9 points per game. Norwell is one of the in consecutive legs of 48.82 and 48.68 as he edged Kaverman for the No. 3 freestyle), David Steffen (11th – 100 best offensive teams in the state at 75.9 points seconds to give Jay County its first spot in the 100 breaststroke in freestyle, 13th – 50 freestyle), Xavier per game, including 110 last week in a win over state berth in a relay since Kyle 1:07.21. White placed fourth in the Rupp (12th – 100 butterfly) and Daniel South Adams. Weaver, Ryne Fulton, Derek Arnold 500 freestyle in 5:26.38 and the 200 Burson (16th – 200 individual medley, and Dustin Lee advanced in the 200 freestyle in 1:58.91, and Vormohr 16th – 100 breaststroke) competed in freestyle event a decade ago. posted times of 2:18.35 for fifth in consolation events for South Adams. Patriots draw a bye INDIANAPOLIS — Each of the Patriots’ potential semifinal opponents pres- ents a unique challenge. They will play either the Class 4A - Sectional 6 host school, or the defend- Opening round - Tuesday, Feb. 26 ing champions. 6 p.m. — Wayne (11-8) vs. South Side (3-14) Jay County High School’s 7:30 p.m. — Homestead (16-4) vs. Huntington North (10-11) boys basketball team got a Semifinal round – Friday, March 1 bye through the opening 6 p.m. — New Haven (14-5) vs. Wayne/South Side round in Class 4A Sectional 7:30 p.m. — Jay County (18-2) vs. Homestead/HN 6 as the IHSAA held the state tournament draw Championship Sunday. It will play its first Saturday, March 2 – 7:30 p.m. sectional game in the semi- final round at 7:30 p.m. March 1. South Adams will take on the Wayne/South Side win- on the South Adams/East- Eastside as it hosts the ner at 6 p.m. Jay County side winner. action in Class 2A Sectional will play Huntington Both championship 36. North/Homestead winner games will be at 7:30 p.m. The Class 4A tournament at 7:30 p.m. March 2. at Huntington North will Adams Central (11-6) will Jay County and New start with Wayne (11-8) play Churubusco (3-18) in Haven are both undefeated playing Fort Wayne South the first opening-round against sectional oppo- Side (3-14) at 6 p.m. on Feb. game at South Adams at 6 nents this season at 1-0 and 26. The game between p.m. Feb. 26, and the 3-0 respectively. The Patri- Homestead (16-4), which Starfires (2-15) will play ots’ win came by a 55-40 won the sectional title last Eastside (8-11) at 7:30 p.m. score over Wayne. season, and Huntington In the semifinal round South Adams is 0-2 North (10-11) will follow. March 1, Bishop Luers (12- against its sectional rivals The semifinal round will 6) will play the Adams Cen- with losses of 67-44 to be played March 1 with tral/Churubusco winner Bluffton and 53-44 to Adams New Haven (14-5) playing and Bluffton (14-5) will take Central. 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Southeast Division grade boys basketball vs. Hartford City Scoreboard W L Pct GB – 6 p.m. Sunday Miami 36 14 .720 — Men’s college basketball Atlanta 29 22 .569 7½ Tuesday Wisconsin 71, Ohio State 49 Washington 15 36 .294 21½ Jay County — Boys basketball vs. Orlando 15 37 .288 22 Norwell – 6 p.m.; Mitchel Rigby at diving Saturday Charlotte 12 40 .231 25 regional at Hamilton Southeastern – 6 Men’s college basketball p.m.; EJMS wrestling vs. Union City West Indiana 83, Purdue 55 Western Conference Side – 5:30 p.m.; WJMS wrestling at Butler 68, Fordham 63 Southwest Division Daleville – 5:30 p.m. IPFW 64, South Dakota 51 W L Pct GB South Adams — Boys basketball at Eastern Michigan 56, Ball State 50 San Antonio 42 12 .778 — Winchester – 6 p.m. Providence 71, Notre Dame 54 Memphis 33 18 .647 7½ North Dakota State 75, IUPUI 39 Houston 29 26 .527 13½ Bradley 80, Indiana State 68 Dallas 23 29 .442 18 TV schedule Creighton 71, Evansville 68 New Orleans 19 34 .358 22½ Today Detroit 84, Valparaiso 74 Northwest Division 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: W L Pct GB Notre Dame at Pittsburgh (ESPN); Nor- Oklahoma City 39 14 .736 — folk State at Hampton (ESPNU) Standings 7 p.m. — Women’s College Basket- National Basketball Association Denver 33 21 .611 6½ Utah 30 24 .556 9½ ball: West Virginia at Kansas State Eastern Conference (ESPN) Central Division Portland 25 28 .472 14 Minnesota 19 31 .380 18½ 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: W L Pct GB West Virginia at Kansas State (ESPN); Indiana 32 21 .604 — Rutgers at Villanova (ESPNU) Chicago 30 22 .577 1½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB 9 p.m. — Women’s College Basket- Milwaukee 26 25 .510 5 ball: Baylor at Connecticut (ESPN2) Detroit 21 33 .389 11½ L.A. Clippers 39 17 .696 — Golden State 30 22 .577 7 Cleveland 16 37 .302 16 L.A. Lakers 25 29 .463 13 Tuesday Sacramento 19 35 .352 19 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Atlantic Division Phoenix 17 36 .321 20½ Duquesne at Butler (WNDY-23); Indiana W L Pct GB at Michigan State (ESPN); Florida State New York 32 18 .640 — at North Carolina State (ESPN2); LSU at Brooklyn 31 22 .585 2½ Local schedule Tennessee (ESPNU) Boston 28 24 .538 5 Today 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Philadelphia 22 29 .431 10½ Jay County — Gymnastics vs. Florida at Missouri (ESPN); Virginia at Toronto 21 32 .396 12½ Hagerstown – 6 p.m.; WJMS sixth Miami (ESPNU) The Commercial Review Page 8 Sports Monday, February 18, 2013 Patrick wins pole for Daytona 500 By MARK LONG “I think when pressure’s on Good Morning America, was about two hours as 37 fellow popular she is, what this will do AP Sports Writer and when the spotlight’s on, I the first woman to lead laps in drivers tried to take her spot. for our sport. Congratulations DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — feel like it ultimately ends up the Indianapolis 500. She fin- Only four-time Cup champion to her. Proud to be on there with Danica Patrick is at her best in becoming some of my better ished third in 2009, the highest Jeff Gordon even came close to her.” the spotlight. moments and my better races finish in that illustrious race for knocking her off the pole. Gor- The rest of the field will be set Good thing, too, because she’s and better results,” Patrick said. a woman. And she became the don was the only other driver in duel qualifying races Thurs- going to be there all week. “I just understand that if you only woman to win an IndyCar who topped 196 mph in qualify- day. Patrick won the Daytona 500 put the hard work in before you race when she did it in Japan in ing. He locked up the other guar- However the lineup unfolds, pole Sunday, becoming the first go out there that you can have a 2008. anteed spot in next week’s sea- all drivers — including woman to secure the top spot for little peace and a little peace of Her latest stamp in the histo- son-opening Daytona 500. boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. any race in NASCAR’s premier mind knowing that you’ve done ry books came with a lap at “It’s great to be a part of his- — will line up behind Patrick’s circuit. It’s by far the biggest everything you can and just let 196.434 mph around Daytona tory with Danica being on the No. 10 Chevrolet SS. achievement of her stock-car it happen.” International Speedway. Patrick pole,” said Gordon, who joked “I was brought up to be the career. She’s braced for the atten- Patrick, who taped interviews went out eighth in the qualify- that at least he was the fastest fastest driver, not the fastest tion that will follow. Sunday with CNN, ESPN and ing session, then had to wait guy. “I think we all know how girl,” she said.

m Contract h o Bridge p Jay County ... By Steve Becker Continued from page 10 Hemmelgarn, who was third in the state last sea- son, looked as if he was headed to the state semifi- nals again as he built a 5-1 lead in his quarterfinal match Saturday. But he got caught with a roll 30 seconds into the third period, fell behind 7-4 and suffered a loss by pin in 5:09 to Austin Little of North Posey. After his victory over Streck he won by disqual- ification in the fifth-place match when Joshua Bar- toszek of Hanover was called for an illegal throw. Hemmelgarn landed hard on the mat and was down for several minutes, but was able to walk off under his own power. “This morning I had control the whole match and just one mistake cost me,” said Hemmelgarn, who finished the season at 47-2. “I was rolled right to my back and he pinned me. … I felt like I couldn’t move. It happened so fast. “It fuels the fire for next year definitely,” he added. “My goal … is I’m going to win the title, no doubt about it. I’m going to work hard.” Garringer’s quarterfi- nal loss came to one of the best pound-for-pound wrestlers in the state. He fell by pin in 1:12 to Mitch The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney Sliga, a Fishers senior who went on to win his Kyle Garringer of Jay County fights off Justin Berumen of Delphi second consecutive state Saturday during their consolation semifinal match at the IHSAA Wrestling championship. State Finals in Indianapolis. Garringer defeated Berumen 6-3 and went on to After his win over finish sixth in the state at 195 pounds. Berumen, Garringer meet up with Benton Cen- tral’s Jacob Ricks in the through the second period had to hold back. I was career. … He’s a state fifth-place match and the and was limited the rest pretty limited.” medalist,” said Myers. “I pair went back and forth of the way. He gave up a Garringer, a leader of the know that’s what he’s for the first three min- takedown just six seconds Patriots’ program for the always wanted to do. utes. Garringer fell after returning to the mat last four seasons, finished “He means a lot to our behind 2-0 early before following the injury time his career with 140 victo- program because of how pulling even with an and was unable to pull ries and a 47-3 record in his hard he worked in the escape 31 seconds into the even again as he fell 7-3. senior season. He won two wrestling room all the time. second period. “I wasn’t nearly as sectional titles and a He’s a good kid. I know he’s But Garringer aggra- aggressive,” said Gar- regional title and was a upset right now … but he’s vated a right shoulder ringer of the way he was four-time semi-state qualifi- going to look back … and injury that he has battled forced to wrestle after er. this is an experience that for several years midway hurting his shoulder. “I “He had an outstanding he’ll never forget.” SAHS ... Continued from page 10 The sophomore took on East Noble’s Connor Knapp in the third place match and took the early lead with a first-period takedown. Knapp closed the gap to 2-1 with an escape in the second period, and then grabbed a one-point lead when he caught Miller in a cradle for a two-point near fall. Miller (43-3) came up with an escape to force overtime, and then got 20 seconds into the first overtime period. “I hit my lift single, which I used a lot last season, but I didn’t use any this year really,” said Miller. “My coaches really wanted me to start hit- ting it at state. So I practiced it a lot during the week and I hit it multiple times.” “It felt really good to come back and win,” said Miller, who had lost 12-2 to Knapp in the semi-state semifinal round. “My goal was to win state The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney twice. Hopefully I can get it next year.” South Adams senior L.J. Moser grapples with Andrice Miller’s first win of the day Satur- Martin of Franklin Central during the final match of his career at day came by a 4-3 decision over Saturday’s IHSAA Wrestling State Finals at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Damon Kuhn of Evansville Reitz in Indianapolis. Moser finished eighth in the state at 120 pounds. the quarterfinals. He became the third South Adams wrestler to win his final match at the He dropped his quarterfinal and round last season. “It’s a way better state finals. His third-place finish consolation semifinal matches by feeling knowing that you made it to ranks second in Starfire history only decision, falling 7-2 to Corydon Cen- Saturday. to Todd Batt’s runner-up effort last tral’s Bailey LaHue and 3-0 to Merrill- “(Winning on Friday) was probably year. ville’s Adam Garcia. He was tied at 2- the coolest experience I’ve ever had.” “He just had an awesome tourna- 2 with Franklin Central’s Andrice Moser finished the season at 29-4 ment,” said Myers. “He lost to who I Martin early in the second period of and totaled 121 victories in his career. think is the best wrestler here, peri- the seventh-place match, but gave up He became just the eighth wrestler in od. Other than that he racked up a takedown at the 1:42 mark and could school history to earn a state medal. three wins, and three pretty good not recover as he fell behind by four “For him to come from where he wins. And then to beat a kid that beat points before getting pinned in 4:47. was in middle to school to where he is him 12-2 last week is just awesome, Even though Saturday didn’t go as now is really awesome,” said Myers. icing on the cake.” well as he would have liked, Moser “I’m really proud of the kid. Moser had a difficult run Saturday said he was thrilled to end his career “He thought for a little while he after earning himself a state medal as a state medalist. was regional quality and he wanted with a 2-0 victory over Luis Munoz of “Wrestling on Saturday is way bet- to be better than that. He put in the Warsaw in Friday night’s opening ter than wrestling on Friday night,” time in the offseason to do it. He made round. said Moser, who lost in the opening himself top eight in the state.” Monday, February 11, 2013 Patriot boys extend Jay gymnasts host winning streak to 11, Vikings on Tuesday, see story on page 8 Sports see Sports on tap

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IHSAA Girls Swimming and Diving State Finals Farlow 11th for SA By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review INDIANAPOLIS — Cady Farlow finished her freshman season as the 25th fastest breaststroker in the state. After her performance Friday and Saturday, she’s already got a state medal on her mind for next season. Farlow capped her sophomore season for South Adams Saturday by climbing another rung on the state ladder and finishing in 11th place in the 100-yard breaststroke at the IHSAA Girls Swimming and Diving State Finals at IU Natatorium. “That’s huge. Even to The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney move in to the top 16 … is a huge move,” said SAHS Anne Vormohr, a Jay County High School freshman, emerges from underwater Saturday at the start of the 100-yard coach Janelle Gresla of backstroke during the IHSAA Girls Swimming and Diving State Finals at IU Natatorium in Indianapolis. Vormohr finished fifth Farlow, who entered the in the state championship race to become the Patriots’ first state medalist in girls swimming. state finals as the No. 18 seed and then qualified for the consolation heat of the 100 breaststroke with a 12th-place finish during Friday’s prelimi- naries. “For her to finish Vormohr places 5th 11th as a sophomore, it By RAY COONEY place finish in the 100-yard ter training me. And all my just makes South Adams The Commercial Review backstroke Saturday at the cousins. I owe it all to them. extremely proud to have INDIANAPOLIS — Thirty- IHSAA Girls Swimming and It’s really cool to be the first The top eight her as part of our swim eight years is a long time. Diving State Finals at IU Nata- person to do it. And I hope I Listed below are the top eight finish- program. It’s more than twice as long es in the 100-yard backstroke from the IHSAA Gir- “I’m thrilled.” torium. can do it next year.” ils Swimming and Diving State Finals. The win- as Anne Vormohr has been “It’s awesome,” said Vor- Vormohr also finished 13th ning time set a new state record. Farlow got off to a bit alive. mohr of the experience. “It’s in the state in the 100 freestyle of a slow start as she was Until she climbed the podi- just really cool to even come after entering the weekend as Claire Adams, Carmel - 53.4 seventh out of eight Hanna House, Carmel - 54.11 um Saturday, no girls swimmer here to compete. And then to the No. 23 seed in the event. Lacey Locke, Carmel - 54.68 swimmers in the consola- in Patriot history had never get up there on the podium is Her two top-16 finishes Alex Cleveland, Zionsville - 55.96 tion heat at the midway Anne Vormohr, Jay County - 56.12 earned a state medal. an accomplishment. I’m glad I scored 18 points for JCHS, Hannah Manger, New Albany - 56.45 point of her race. But just Vormohr finished off her could do it. placing it 28th at the state Bailey Pressey, Homestead - 56.83 like in the preliminaries, record-breaking freshman sea- “I owe it to my coaches. I owe finals. Natalie Mudd, Hamilton SE - 56.82 she came on strong. son for Jay County with a fifth- it to my parents. … And my sis- See Places page 9 See 11th page 9 NCC invites Jay Co. By RAY COONEY Jefferson AD Mark Preston and The Commercial Review McCutcheon AD Ryan Walden both said The Patriots have been invited. Friday that they had not yet received invi- Jay County High School athletics direc- tations from the NCC. They could not be tor Bob Lutton said this morning the Patri- reached for comment this morning. ots have been invited to join the North Cen- Lutton said he was not sure on a tral Conference. timetable for when JCHS would make a The invitation was extended Thursday, decision about the invitation, but that he and also called for the NCC to invite three and principal Phil Ford still have some Lafayette-area schools — Jefferson, questions about how the conference, McCutcheon and Harrison — to create a specifically conference scheduling and 12-team conference. tournaments, would be structured. Anderson athletics director Steve If all four schools accept their invita- Schindler would not confirm the invita- tions, the change would likely go into effect tion this morning, only saying that the for the 2014-15 school year. “process is ongoing.” See Invites page 9 Two reach state FORT WAYNE — Eric Hemmelgarn and Kyle Garringer have been the face of Jay County wrestling all season long. They led the Patriots to wins at the Spencer Haworth Invitational, Delta Duals and East Cen- tral Indiana Classic. They each won sectional and regional titles. And now, they’ll repre- sent JCHS at the state finals. Hemmelgarn picked up a championship for the third straight week and Garringer finished as a runner-up Saturday at the semi-state tournament hosted by Snider at Allen County War Memorial Col- iseum. The pair of Patriot big men gave Jay County a Special to The Commercial Review/Paul Yoder pair of state representa- tives for the first time since Eric Hemmelgarn (HWT) of Jay County tries James Brewster and Joe for a pin against Eastside’s Matt Beard during the VanSkyock in 1999. semi-state championship match Saturday at Allen “It’s great when you take County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne. a guy, and it’s even better when you take multiples,” said JCHS coach James selves and how they wres- South Adams, which Myers. “Those two have tled.” tied for 14th with Bell- really carried our team in Hemmelgarn and Gar- mont with 23 points, will our big tournaments and ringer combined to score also send multiple they really carried us yes- 40 points for Jay County to wrestlers to the state tour- terday. earn a seventh-place finish nament for the second “It’s an honor to be out of the 68 teams repre- straight season as Sawyer coaching these kids. I told sented at the tournament. Miller and L.J. Moser them last year I was like a Yorktown won by nearly 50 each posted third-place proud papa. I’m proud of points over East Noble semi-state finishes. how they handled them- (99.5) with 148.5. See Reach page 9 The Commercial Review Monday, February 11, 2013 Sports Page 9 Indian girls top Tri-Village FORT RECOVERY — The Indians built a big lead, fought off a furious FR hoops charge and then pulled away again. roundup Fort Recovery High School’s girls basketball team rebounded from their loss Thursday to New Knoxville for a 64-56 victo- ference Tournament host- ry Saturday over the Tri- ed by Parkway. Village Patriots. The seventh grade squad The Indians (14-6) domi- lost 30-14 to Marion Local. nated the second quarter to Caleb Martin paced the take a 12-point lead into the Indian eighth grade team half and then extended the (12-5) with 10 points. Kyle advantage on a Tori Knapke added nine points. Lennartz 3-pointer to open Ethan Schoen and Cade the third quarter. Tri-Vil- Wendel each scored four lage came roaring back points for the seventh grade with 16-2 run over the squad. course of the next four min- utes, but FRHS never gave Seventh advances up the lead and pushed FORT RECOVERY — back ahead by as many as The FRMS seventh grade The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney 16 points in the fourth quar- girls basketball team domi- ter en route to the win. nated on its home floor Sat- South Adams High School’s Cady Farlow swims during the consolation heat of the 100- Kelsey Fiely totaled 16 urday, opening the Midwest yard breaststroke Saturday during the IHSAA Girls Swimming and Diving State Finals at IU points, six rebounds and Athletic Conference Tour- Natatorium in Indianapolis. Farlow finished 11th in the state in the event. six assists to lead Fort nament with a 36-9 victory Recovery. Tori Lennartz over the Marion Local Fly- had a double-double with ers. 15 points and 10 rebounds, The eighth grade Indians and Chelsea Pottkotter also ended their season with a 11th ... reached double figures 45-31 loss to the Minster Continued from page 10 just the second time of her career with 10 points. Wildcats. She closed the gap heading into in the state consolation finals. Her FRHS won the junior Chloe Metzger scored the last turn and surged past sev- only faster race came a night earli- varsity game 37-20 as nine points to lead the eral competitors in the final 25 er, when she shattered her own Kendra Siefring finished Tribe seventh graders, who yards. She finished third in the ‘Hopefully I’ll school record with a time of 1:06.58 with 13 points and 11 were up 14-0 at the end of consolation race behind Amanda be able to to earn her place in Saturday’s rebounds. the first quarter. Grace Short of Zionsville and Haley Har- meet. Thien added seven points, ris of state champion Carmel to have something She had set the previous school D key for 8th grade and Carley Stone scored place 11th overall. around my neck record of 1:07.07 a week earlier at ROCKFORD, Ohio — five. “I think it’s kind of the adrena- the Jay County sectional, where Fort Recovery Middle Whitney Will had eight line of state,” said Farlow of her next year. she broke her own record in the School’s eighth grade boys points for the eighth grade strong finishes. “I really think that That’s definitely 100 freestyle and joined three team- basketball team opened team, which finished at 8- adrenaline kicks in the last 25 mates to set a new SAHS mark in with a 26-17 victory over 10. Jocie Kaiser and Logan (yards) or so. the goal.’ the 200 medley relay. the Marion Local Flyers in Ranly chipped in six points “I got 11th place and that was Gresla believes Farlow is capa- the Mdiwest Athletic Con- apiece. actually my goal,” she added, not- ble of breaking the 1:06 mark next ing that SAHS athletics director year. And Farlow said she’s Jason Arnold told her just before straight state title by nearly 200 already thinking about a state she left school Friday that he over Penn with 397. medal. thought she could finish top-11. The top eight swimmers in each “She and I have already talked Invites ... “I’m really excited. I was happy to event earn state medals. Carroll’s that I’d like to see her in that top Continued from page 10 represent our sectional and South Ciana Heaston was eighth in the eight next year,” said Gresla. The invitation extended Adams the way I did.” breaststroke at 1:06.45 while “Hopefully I’ll be able to have to Jay County stated that if Her effort scored six points for Bethany Galat of Penn won the something around my neck next all four schools join, the Proposed the SAHS, placing it 34th at the state championship at 1:00.29. year,” added Farlow. “That’s defi- NCC would be divided into divisions state finals. Carmel won its 27th Farlow broke the 1:07 mark for nitely the goal.” two divisions. Muncie Central, Rich- East mond, New Castle, Ander- Jay County Anderson son, Huntington North and Richmond Places ... the Patriots would form the New Castle East Division, with Marion, Muncie Central Continued from page 10 and she made sure she prised to even be swim- what she had to swim she Kokomo, Logansport, Jef- Huntington North Carmel won its 27th would reach that goal. ming Saturday in the 100 focused in on it and straight state champi- She turned in the freestyle after coming in accomplished her goal. ferson, McCutcheon and West Harrison playing in the onship with 397 points, fourth-fastest second 50 as the No. 23 seed. But That’s just the type of kid Kokomo and Penn was the run- yards in the race, passing once she qualified for the that she is. If you set a West. Marion The format for confer- Logansport ner-up with 189. Homestead’s Bailey consolation finals Friday goal in front of her, she’s ence championships and Harrison “Anne finishing fifth Pressey in the final 25 night, she made the most going to reach it. Jefferson and 13th is just an out- yards to take fifth place of the opportunity. “She’s just a pleasure tournaments has not been McCutcheon finalized. standing feat,” said Jay in 56.12 seconds. She was sixth at the to work with. She works Jay County is in its third County coach Matt “I did not want to get midpoint of the consola- hard and she earns every- Slavik, noting that prior any lower than fifth,” tion race, but climbed thing she gets. She’s one season competing as an son were part of the to Saturday no Patriot said Vormohr. “I wanted one spot in the second 50 of those special kids. … independent after the Olympic Conference along girl had ever advanced to get higher, but to be to take fifth in 53.06 sec- She’s just a great all- Olympic Athletic Confer- with Jay County before through the preliminar- seeded fifth and then to onds. That effort was around athlete, a great all ence dissolved in 2010 when leaving for the HCC in 1999, ies. “I know everybody finish fifth was awesome. good for 13th place over- around person. You Anderson Highland and and Jefferson was in the on our team … is proud “I was really happy all. couldn’t ask for any bet- Anderson consolidated, NCC for more than 70 years of her. I’m super proud with it. I wanted to go a “That was a real sur- ter.” leaving the OAC with just before departing for the of her. It was just a 55, but I guess I can save prise to me,” said Vor- Vormohr’s state medal three teams. Former OAC HCC in 2003. great all-around week- that for next year, I hope.” mohr. “I wasn’t even put an exclamation point member Connersville will Representatives from the end. Despite not quite thinking of coming in on the best season in the join the Eastern Indiana North Central Conference “It’s a big deal for our breaking the 56-second and getting in the (conso- history of Jay County Conference next season, visited JCHS and Southside school. … I’m just so barrier, Vormohr’s time lation finals), but that High School swimming. while Muncie Southside on Jan. 30 to tour facilities proud of Anne.” in the state champi- was awesome. To move The Patriots broke the had also applied to become and talk with administra- Vormohr, who was onship race was still a up 10 spots at the state school record for wins for a member of the NCC. tors and coaches. They had seventh in the 100 back- school record. She broke meet is really cool.” the third straight year as Harrison, McCutcheon visited the three Lafayette- stroke in Friday’s pre- the mark of 56.29 she had Vormohr’s time was they posted a 15-1 record. and Jefferson have all been area schools on Jan. 24. liminaries, got off to a set less than 24 hours ear- the second-best of her They rewrote the record looking for a conference The North Central Con- solid start and was in lier during the prelimi- career, trailing only her book, setting new stan- solution since the Hoosier ference has been in exis- sixth place after the nary round. school record of 52.76 sec- dards in all three relays Crossroads Conference tence since 1926 with first lap of the pool. But The record prior to this onds set during the state and six individual events, announced in December Muncie Central, New Cas- her target was to finish season was 1 minute, 2.38 preliminaries on Friday. including five school that it would cut ties with tle, Richmond, Kokomo, at least in the top five seconds, set by 2002 JCHS “That was just pure records on Friday during them in order to form a Logansport and Anderson after entering the week- graduate Abby Arnold. determination,” said the preliminary round of league consisting of all all as original members. end as the No. 5 seed, Vormohr was sur- Slavik. “After she knew the state finals. Indianapolis-area schools. Marion joined the group McCutcheon and Harri- four years later. Reach ... Continued from page 10 Hemmelgarn, who finished the been working for it for a long many opportunities. He fell by a needed to do to take that next Both of them represented the regular season ranked fifth in time. It’s one of the biggest 12-2 decision to eventual cham- step. … Starfires at the state finals last the state and his now 44-1 head- goals I ever had.” pion Connor Knapp, who is 40-0, “I think it was great for him to season, along with state runner- ing into the state finals. “You’re Garringer, who entered the of East Noble in the semifinals, see that (level of wrestling), and up Todd Batt. achieving a lot when you win a tournament ranked fourth in and then knocked off North see that he is capable of being After finishing fourth at the semi-state championship. And I the state, went on to pin Zach Miami’s Alan Mock 4-3 to win there.” semi-state a year ago, Hemmel- felt I wrestled pretty well today Goodyear of West Noble in the the third-place match. Mavrick Morningstar (220) fell garn left no doubt Saturday that … semifinals. He dropped a 7-2 Moser won by major deci- just short of giving South Adams he was the top heavyweight in “It gives me a lot of momen- decision to ninth-ranked Joseph sions in each of his first two a third state berth as he fell 2-1 to the coliseum. He needed just 21 tum going into next week. … I Ross of Northfield in the cham- matches, defeating Robert Jason Nicodemus in the ticket seconds to pin Sydney Allen of believe I’m ready to take on any- pionship for his first loss of the Pinkham of Western 14-2 to round. He defeated Elkhart Cen- Western in the opening round, body that stands in my way.” season. start the day. He earned his trip tral’s Eliseo Guerra 8-4 to open and then scored decisions of 4-0 Garringer (195) fell behind in “To see him finish the match to state with a 14-6 victory over the day. over Justin Lee of Central Noble his opening match of the day as in the semis with a pin was awe- Jimtown’s Konner Chafin in the Boaz Marbach (138) and Shea and 5-1 over Hayden Schmucker he gave up a takedown early for some,” said Myers. “It was good second round before falling to Pyle (160) also won their first- of Goshen in the ticket and a 2-0 deficit. But he bounced to see him punch his ticket Andrew Ledford by a pin in the round matches, but couldn’t keep semifinal rounds respectively. back for a 6-4 win to advance to finally. ... I’m excited for him.” semifinals. He earned his third- up with their opponents with a Hemmelgarn took a 2-0 lead the ticket round for the third Miller (113), who was fourth place finish by topping Chase trip to the state finals on the line. in the first period against unde- straight year. in the state at 106 last season, Wilson of Maconaquah 8-5. Marbach defeated Tylor feated Matt Beard of Eastside The senior had ended each of and Moser (120), a 2012 state JCHS had a third participant Willms of Fremont 3-1 to open his in the championship match, the previous two seasons with qualifier, each won their first at the semi-state in junior Con- day, but fell by pin in 34 seconds and then chose the down posi- one-point losses in the ticket two matches before falling in ner Ray. He fell by a pin in 3 to Peru’s Evan Loe in the ticket tion to start the second period. round, but he wasn’t about to let the semifinal round and then minutes, 15 seconds, to Ledford, round. Pyle started his semi-state Beard tried to make a move it happen again. He stayed in bouncing back to finish in third who finished as the runner-up effort with a 4-0 triumph over from the top position, but Hem- control throughout his battle place. to top-ranked Schuyler Phillips Western’s Ben Lenahan, but then melgarn caught his leg. And with Mississinewa’s Andrew The day for Miller started of Yorktown. lost by a 16-0 technical fall to when Beard tried to escape, the Smelser and punched his ticket with a 17-1 technical fall over “Hopefully it’s a learning Johnny Tredway of Elkhart Cen- JCHS junior slapped on a to state with a 6-3 win. Brian Mullett of Westview. He experience,” said Myers of the tral. reverse half nelson and con- “It was probably the greatest added a 6-3 decision to defeat day for Ray. “We talked after the Klayton Hinshaw (170) dropped verted it for a pin in 2:35. feeling ever to finally make it to Western’s Caleb Maddox and match was over about how he his first-round match 3-0 to Con- “It’s a great feeling,” said state,” said Garringer. “I’ve earn a second state berth in as was that close and what he cordia’s Kody Jones. The Commercial Review Page 8 Sports Monday, February 11, 2013 Stone wins sectional title for Tribe AYERSVILLE, Ohio — Cori sectional tournament hosted by minutes, 5.24 seconds. She broke second place in the 100 back- Timmerman was seventh in Stone has helped the Tribe Ayersville. the previous FRHS record by 5.3 stroke in 1:01. the 100 breaststroke, and Lane break record after record this The Fort Recovery boys fin- seconds. Hull added a fourth-place fin- Hull placed seventh in the 50 season. ished seventh out of 14 teams at She also turned in a time of ish in the 100 butterfly in 1:00.17, freestyle. She is now the first swimmer the tournament, and the girls 2:27.54 to finish fourth in the 200 and Gray was fifth in 1:13.95 in Stone and Marshall Hull each to win a sectional title for the posted an eighth place finish. individual medley. the 100 breaststroke. Mackinley qualified for Friday’s district Indians. The Indians qualified for the Andy Gray and Marshall Hull Timmerman, Lane Hull, Andy tournament at Bowling Green Stone, a Fort Recovery High district meet in six events. each had a second-place finish Gray and Marshall Hull also set State University in both of their School freshman, set yet anoth- Stone led the way for the Indi- for the Fort Recovery boys. Gray a school record as they placed individual events. Also advanc- er school record Saturday as she ans as she earned her victory in was the runner-up in the 50 fifth in the 200 medley relay in ing were Gray in the 50 freestyle won the 200-yard freestyle at the the 200 freestyle with a time of 2 freestyle in 23.81, and Hull took 1:52.6. and the 200 medley relay team. Stars Jay streak reaches 11 fall in By MASON SHREVE The Commercial Review The Generals scored the first couple baskets. But the Patriots grabbed Countdown finale the lead by the end of the to the BLUFFTON — The opening quarter and con- record Starfires ran into a team tinued to hold the advan- that was just too strong on tage at the end of each Saturday night. But with a period. pair of tournament wins, Jay County High 41 they turned in their best School’s boys basketball season in more than a team went on a 12-3 run at decade. the start of the fourth Brock McFarland is 41 points away from breaking The South Adams High quarter Saturday against Jay County High School’s School girls basketball the Wayne Generals to all-time scoring record. At team’s year came to an cement its 11th straight his current scoring pace he would surpass 1993 end on Saturday as it fell victory by a score of 55-40. graduate Dan Ferrell’s 54-13 to the Bishop Luers Wayne (10-8) led for the mark of 1,155 points on Feb. 22 against Bellmont. Saints in the Class 2A Sec- first couple minutes as tional 36 championship Jay County got off to a game at Bluffton. slow start, but a Kegan The Starfires reached Comer block, full-court the sectional final with a drive and lay-up spurred graduate, holds the career 34-25 victory Friday over the Patriots (17-2) into record of 1,155 points. the Churubusco Eagles. action. And they never “Jay County’s a really SAHS (9-13) struggled to looked back. good team and … I don’t handle the Saints’ pres- JCHS held the Generals think we even showed up sure Saturday night. It to just 34 percent shoot- today,” said Wayne coach went scoreless in the open- ing. Aaron Rehrer, whose ing half and trailed 46-4 “I thought we finally team fell to the Patriots heading into the fourth today executed and during the regular season quarter. played more like I last year before bouncing Sharon Balsiger’s four thought this team was back to beat them in the points were the team high capable,” said JCHS semifinal round of the The Commercial Review/Mason Shreve for the Starfires. Macken- coach Craig Teagle, sectional tournament. zie Jennings followed with whose team had struggled “We were flat … We didn’t Jay County’s Trey Teagle is fouled by Darrius Ellison of Wayne as three. defensively, especially have it today.” he tries to drive to the basket during the third quarter of Patriots’ 55-40 Taya Andrews and Ali- during the first half, over Jay County shot 60 per- victory over the Generals on Saturday. son Butler led Bishop cent despite going 0-for-7 the course of the last four Luers (12-11) to the victory games. “I thought we from behind the 3-point with 12 points apiece. were much better defen- line, with most of those The Patriots’ first four who also had nine his team the lead when Addie Reimbold joined sively today.” misses coming in the first points in the fourth quar- rebounds, in double dig- he hit a pair with 49.5 sec- them in double figures The Patriots held half. ter all came from the foul its were Scott Schwieter- onds on the clock. with 10 points. Wayne to single-digit It has hit for at least 50 man with 18 points and line, where they shot 87 After a Jay County South Adams was also scoring in both the sec- percent from the field in percent for the game. Trey Teagle with 10. miss, Kyle Selvey came scoreless in the first quar- ond and third quarters every game this year. Jay County faced more Comer, in just his second up with a steal and then ter Friday night against and then pulled away “(The players) knew defensive pressure in the game back from a broken hit two free throws to Churubusco, but bounced early in the fourth. Brock going into the second half second half, but handled wrist, dished out nine pull the Patriots even at McFarland scored nine of with a lead (there’s) no it well. assists. 31. back to take a 9-6 lead at his game-high 19 points as reason to shoot a three as “I thought there were But Wayne’s Darias the half and then pulled Jay County pulled away long as we’re getting twos some times where they Junior varsity Davis took an inbound away in the fourth quar- ter. Alyssa Bluhm went 11- with the 12-3 run in the and we’re going to the got us to turn it over Despite leading for pass with seven seconds fourth quarter. basket,” Teagle said. because of their quick- most of the game, the left, dribbled up the court of-12 from the free-throw He also grabbed a “Once we got that lead we ness and their athleti- Patriots (10-7) lost 34-31 to and hit a three pointer as line and racked up 24 game-high nine were able to spread them cism,” Teagle said, “(but) Wayne on a last-second time expired to give the points to lead the Starfires rebounds. out. We shoot free throws we kept attacking and we shot. Generals the win. to their semifinal win. McFarland now stands pretty well so we thought got some easy ones. … Kye Black tied the Zane Shreve paced the The nine wins for SAHS just 41 points away from we’re either going to get When we do handle (a game for the Generals Patriots with 11 points. were the most for the team becoming the Patriots’ back-cut lay-ups or we’re press) well … we usually when he split a pair of Nate Brackman joined since it went 10-12 in 2000- all-time scoring leader. going to get fouled and go score.” free throws with 1:17 him in double figures 01. The Starfires had won Dan Ferrell, a 1993 JCHS to the free-throw line.” Joining McFarland, remaining, and then gave with 10. just six games in the pre- vious three seasons com- bined. FR boys top Thunderbolts, draw Flyers FORT RECOVERY — The team to a 73-65 victory over the Fort Recovery (16-3) was up by Keith Richardson scored 26 at Coldwater. No. 6 St. Henry (17- Indians knocked off a Division I visiting Northmont Thunder- 10 at halftime and pushed its points to lead Northmont (14-7). 3) and Waynesfield-Goshen will opponent on Saturday night. On bolts. advantage to as many as 14 Dominique Stollings had 12 play in the other opening-round Sunday, they learned who their The Indians will play Marion points in the third quarter. It points, and Brian Williams game at 6:15 p.m. on Feb. 27. opening opponent will be for the Local in the opening round of never let its advantage slip to added 11. The winner of the Fort Recov- Division IV sectional tourna- the Division IV sectional tour- fewer than six points in the final Fort Recovery dropped the ery/Marion Local game will ment. nament at Coldwater at 7 p.m. on period. junior varsity game 44-31 to the advance to play top-seeded New Elijah Kahlig was perfect Feb. 26. Wade Gelhaus joined Kahlig Thunderbolts. Darien Sheffer Bremen (17-3) in the first of two from the foul line and nearly as Kahlig shot 8-of-8 from the in double figures for the Indians had eight points for the Indians sectional championship games good from the field as he racked free-throw line and 9-of-11 from as he scored 17 points. He nar- in the defeat. at 6:15 p.m. March 1. The St. up 32 points Saturday to lead the the field, including 6-of-7 on 3- rowly missed a triple-double as The game between the Indi- Henry/Waynesfield-Goshen Division IV No. 8 Fort Recovery pointers. He led the Tribe to a 59 he grabbed 14 rebounds and ans and Marion Local (7-11) will winner and Minster (11-8) will High School boys basketball percent shooting effort. dished out nine assists. open the sectional tournament follow in the second title game. Sports on tap Scoreboard Western Conference ketball Midwest Athletic Conference players and cheerleaders in the FRHS Southwest Division Tournament vs. New Knoxville at Park- office from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday. Sunday W L Pct GB way – 6:15 p.m. Seventh grade girls bas- They will be sold to season ticket hold- Men’s college basketball San Antonio 40 12 .769 — ketball Midwest Athletic Conference ers from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday Indiana 81, Ohio State 68 Memphis 32 18 .640 7 Tournament vs. Minster - 6:15 p.m. and to pep band members from 3 to Evansville 84, Drake 78 OT Houston 28 25 .528 12½ South Adams — Boys basketball at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The will be sold Dallas 22 28 .440 17 Norwell – 6 p.m. to the general public from 7:30 a.m. to Saturday New Orleans 17 34 .333 22½ 4 p.m. Thursday. Men’s college basketball For the game against Mississinawa Valparaiso 80, Cleveland State 72 TV schedule Northwest Division Valley, tickets will be sold from 7:30 Nebraska-Omaha 85, IUPUI 78 Today W L Pct GB a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. North Dakota State 58, IPFW 54 2:55 p.m. — English Premier League Oklahoma City 39 12 .765 — Advance tickets are $4 for students Indiana State 66, S. Illinois 65 Soccer: Liverpool FC vs. West Bromwich Denver 33 19 .635 6½ and $6 for adults. All tickets at the door Michigan State 78, Purdue 65 Albion FC (ESPN2) Utah 28 24 .538 11½ will be $6. Notre Dame 104, Louisville 101 5OT Portland 25 26 .490 14 6:30 p.m. — Men’s College Ball State 65, Western Michigan 62 Wrestling: Indiana at Purdue (BTN) Minnesota 18 30 .375 19½ JCHS hosting community swim Butler 56, George Washington 56 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Jay County High School will host a Marquette at Georgetown (ESPN); TCU Pacific Division community swim session Sunday. at Oklahoma (ESPNU) W L Pct GB The community swim will run from 2 Cooper Farms Processing 7 p.m. — Women’s College Basket- L.A. Clippers 36 17 .679 — to 4 p.m., and admission is $2. An adult Standings ball: Maryland at Duke (ESPN2) Cooper Farms Processing in St. Henry is currently National Basketball Association Golden State 30 21 .588 5 must accompany children 12-and- 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Eastern Conference L.A. Lakers 24 28 .462 11½ younger. hiring and accepting applications for all shifts. Sacramento 19 33 .365 16½ Kansas State at Kansas (ESPN); Alcorn Central Division State at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (ESPNU) W L Pct GB Phoenix 17 35 .327 18½ Registration open for Boomer soccer These positions are full time with competitive wages 9 p.m. — Women’s College Basket- Registration is open for Jay Commu- Indiana 31 20 .608 — ball: Louisville at Notre Dame (ESPN2) and benefits that include: medical, dental, vision, & Chicago 30 20 .600 ½ Local schedule nity Center’s spring Boomer soccer pro- gram. life insurance, 401K retirement plan, monthly Milwaukee 25 24 .510 5 Today Tuesday The league is for preschool through Detroit 20 32 .385 11½ Jay County — Middle school swim- 7 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: eighth graders, and games will be played gainsharing bonuses, and perfect attendance Cleveland 16 35 .314 15 ming at Adams Central – 5:30 p.m.; Kentucky at Florida (ESPN); Seton Hall on Saturdays. The registration fee is EJMS sixth grade boys basketball at Gas at Rutgers (ESPN2); Virginia Tech at Vir- bonuses. Pre-employment drug testing is required. $40, and the deadline is March 6. Atlantic Division City R.J. Baskett – 5:30 p.m.; EJMS ginia (ESPNU) W L Pct GB There will also be a soccer skills clin- sixth grade girls basketball vs. Gas City 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: Interested candidates can apply online to ic at JCC on March 10. New York 32 17 .653 — R.J. Baskett – 5:30 p.m.; WJMS sixth Michigan at Michigan State (ESPN); Ala- For more information, contact JCC at www.cooperfarms.com or in Brooklyn 29 22 .569 4 grade boys basketball at Montpelier – 6 bama at Georgia (ESPNU) Boston 27 23 .540 5½ p.m. [email protected] or (260) 726-6477. person at: Philadelphia 22 27 .449 10 Fort Recovery — Freshman boys bas- Toronto 19 32 .373 14 ketball vs. St. Henry – 6 p.m. Local notes Tribe needs track coaches Cooper Farms Processing FR tickets go on sale Wednesday Fort Recovery High School is looking #1 Cooper Drive Southeast Division Tuesday Tickets for the Fort Recovery High for track coaches for the 2013 season. W L Pct GB Jay County — Gymnastics vs. Hunt- School boys basketball team’s game Fri- The Indians need a head coach as St. Henry, OH 45883 Miami 34 14 .708 — ington North – 6 p.m.; EJMS wrestling day at St. Henry and Saturday against well as assistant coaches. Those inter- Atlanta 27 22 .551 7½ vs. Delta – 5:30 p.m.; WJMS wrestling Mississinawa Valley will go on sale ested should contact FRHS athletics Cooper Farms is an Orlando 15 36 .294 20½ at Wes-Del – 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. director Barb Sautbine at Equal Opportunity Employer Washington 14 35 .286 20½ Fort Recovery — Girls basketball at Tickets for the St. Henry game will be [email protected] or Charlotte 11 39 .220 24 Celina – 6 p.m.; Eighth grade boys bas- available to parents of JV and varsity (419) 375-4111. SecoMonday,nd pMarchlac 18,e 2013 Fill out your SA sports awards NCAA bracket, set for Tuesday, see pageB 8est sports eSportsvent coverage see Sports on tap Page 10 Ray Coowww.thecr.comney The Commercial Review Mitchel 3rd at Katie relays MARION — Twins Han- nah and Leah Mitchel teamed to give the Starfires a top-20 finish at the indoor did it state meet. Hannah Mitchel placed third in the shot put at Sat- urday’s Hoosier State Snyder closes career Relays at Indiana Wesleyan University, and Leah was with school record just a few inches behind in fifth place. They combined By RAY COONEY to score 10 points, which The Commercial Review placed South Adams 19th MUNCIE — A 12-year out of 43 girls teams that career came down to a scored at the meet. single event — two JC’s best Bellmont scored 65 vaults for Katie Snyder points to win the meet by 13 to try to reach goals she Katie Snyder broke the points over Concordia. Jay Jay County High School had been chasing for vault record Saturday at County got a 13th-place fin- The Commercial Review ish from junior Ciera Bar- Monday, Marchfour 18, seasons. 2013 the IHSAA Gymnastics Sports Page 9 State Finals. Listed below cus in the high jump. She nailed both are the Patriot records in attempts, and then she each of the four events. See Relays page 9 waited. Vault When her score Katie Snyder 9.675 flashed, she dropped into Top ...a crouch, hands covering Uneven bars ButlerIndiana Dawn Ogden 9.6 Continued fromhe pager mouth 10 in disbelief,East tourney Saturday night, in Washington, D.C., not far from Neither Crean nor his players and then looked up at Balance beam It’s the first time since 1993 — wound up No. Nadlie1 in Runyon the Midwest 9.6 Victor Oladipo’s hometown. would identify specifically what backpicks in up and only the third timeher family in school and friendswhile Indianato was sent East. “If we don’t win in Ohio, then has gone wrong lately. see their reactions as the Floor exercise history — that Indiana has gone Indiana will Hannahopen Williams the tourney 9.7 there is no D.C. to worry about,” “It’s unfortunate we lost the into the tourney withscoreboard a No. 1 seed. turned.against It the winner of the Long Oladipo said. other day, we didn’t want to do that. top seed showed 9.675, a school tourney Indiana spent more weeks at Island-Brooklyn-James Madison This year’s celebration was far We’ve got to get things fixed,” By MICHAEL MAROT No. 1 than any otherrecord, team cementing and opening-round her game. If they win more subdued than last year’s, Oladipo said. “We’ve got to get back INDIANAPOLISAP Sports (AP) Writer — won its first Big pTenlace outrightin Patriot history.that, they’ll face either eighth- which players and coaches to playing Indiana basketball the Butler is getting BanotherLOOMINGTON, Ind. — championship since 1993Snyder’s when effort a seeded on the Northa 9.7 Carolinathat bumped State Snyder or watched on a temporary big-screen right way, keeping our edge and chance to becomeTom Crean the watched the tel- buzzer-beating tip fromvault Michigan broke theninth-seeded Jay to seventhTemple. place. television set up inside the new staying together.” NCAA tournamentevision dar- in utter amazement rolled off the rim inCounty last Sunday’s High SchoolAnd some Emilyplayers haveClancy pointed of addition at the football stadium. The Hoosiers were ranked No. 1 lings. Sunday. conference finale. mark held byto Danaethe roadC olumbuswin over East North later Car- post-This time, they kept the party pri- in the preseason and have spent the After missing theTwo tour- years ago, his Most Hoosiers fansKlatt figured that thathad stoodolina forStateed in a November9.8, leaving 2011Portage’s as vate. Crean said he urged players to whole year ranked in the top five. nament last seasonHoosiers follow- weren’t even eligi- win clinched the No.more 1 seed than in athe decade.the start ofM Indiana’sadison Kurtz remarkable and Nick-relax, be themselves and enjoy the They took shot after shot in the ing back-to-backble runner-for the NIT. Now, they’re Midwest, which almost“I wantedcertainly to justresurgence cry,” el tiedfollowing for sixth placethree andshow. toughest league in the country and up finishes, thethe Bulldogs No. 1 seed in the East would have meant playingSnyder gamessaid. “Istraight don’t losingSnyder seasons just 0.025 and points an “It was kind of neat figuring out the winning formula against them made it back intoRegion the tour- of the NCAA tour- in Dayton, about 170know miles what from to say.”NCAA scandalbehind that them left thein eighthpro- where we were going instead of has been to get physical and slow ney Sunday asn theament. No. 6 campus, and Indy, aboutThe 60 score miles hadgram her inin tatters.out of 49 competitors. watching the show and not know- the pace. The Commercial Review/Rayseed Cooney in the East“Another Region. major accom- from campus. medal position, butAfter only that, TheCrean top could six athletes be look- oning if it was an in-or-out type of This week’s new wrinkle is that They will facep lishment,”Bucknell, Crean said But three losses infor six a moment.games — Asing she wasat possibleeach event regional and in thefinal all-thing,” sophomoreJay County center High Cody Schoolthey senior won’t Katieknow whoSnyder they hits will playthe vaultanother table school afterwith awatching his- the NCAA including Indiana’s rmosteacting lopsided to hergames score, againstaround his formercompetition school, ZellerSaturday said. during the IHSAA Gymansticsuntil Wednesday State night. Finals at Balltory State of pullingtournament upsets, selection show. loss all season in Saturday’sAngola’s Alex Big NickelMarquette, was e orarned a potential state medals. rematch University’sNow comes the Worthen hard part, Arena. getting Snyder“We’ve set aalready new school started record working on theThursday event in “ToLexington, think of where we were Ten semifinals — inchanged the process the ofwith earning Butler, whoSee handed Katie page Indiana 9 backwith to a work9.675, and and fixing finished what’s eighthon twoat the teams state and meet. we’ll have looked Ky. 24 months ago ... it’s just whole equation. its first loss of the season in gone wrong over these past few at all four teams by tomorrow For the Bulldogsamazing.” (26-8), it Louisville, which won the Big December. Those games would be weeks. night,” Crean said. just won’t be the same.See Top page 9 Since their last NCAA appearance, Butler has become such a big pro- In review gram that it has already Katie ... switched from the Horizon Continued from page 10 League to the more-estab- N.D. ready “I don’t think you could lished Atlantic 10 and SOUTH BEND, Ind. have asked for much more there is speculation that — Notre Dame guard than that,” said JCHS the Bulldogs will soon join Eric Atkins believes coach Lora Schlosser. the re-formed Big East, his team is ready to “She did her best vault too. take the next step after she’s ever done in her life, “I’ve not talked to any- failing to make it past scored the best, broke the body about that here in the first weekend of school record. It was a multiple weeks,” coach the NCAA tournament nice finish.” Brad Stevens said Sunday the last three years. Vault was especially night. “So I have no idea The No. 7-seeded competitive at the state what’s going on. I’m being Irish (25-9) should cer- finals this year, with Mor- told by our leadership and tainly feel battle-tested gan Algozine of Val- administration to do as as they go into their paraiso repeating as the best as I can with the game against 10th- state champion with a group that we have, and seeded Iowa State (22- 9.875. Snyder’s 9.675 would that’s what I’m trying to 11) on Friday in the sec- have been good enough for do.” ond round of the West a medal in each of the pre- School administrators Regional at Dayton, vious four seasons, and have said, through school Ohio. the sixth-place score a spokesmen, that nothing Notre Dame is year ago was a 9.55. has changed in terms of among eight Big East Portage knocked off where the Bulldogs (26-8) teams in the tourna- Valparaiso, a team it had will play next season. ment, most of any con- finished second to at both But now they know ference. the sectional and regional where they’ll be playing levels, to earn the team over the next week and title, 112.6-112.1. Bishop where they could be play- Valpo is back Dwenger was third at ing the following week, VALPARAISO, Ind. 110.975. too. — At least Valparaiso Other individual event If Butler beats Bucknell, is back in the NCAA winners were Algozine on the No. 11 seed and Patriot tournament after a bars (9.7), Owen Valley’s League champs, they will nine-year hiatus. Anna Watkin on beam face either third-seeded Now they have to (9.575) and Portage’s Marquette or 14th-seeded contend with what Mackenzie Barcelli on Davidson. Two wins sends amounts to a road floor (9.675). Barcelli also them to Washington, game against third- scored a 38.325 to take the which could lead to a seeded Michigan State. all-around title. regional final against in- The Crusaders (26-7), Snyder headed to the state rival Indiana. It seeded 14th in their vault, her final event of would be a rematch of the first NCAA appearance the day, having not per- overtime game Butler won since 2004, are headed formed to the level she in December, handing to Auburn Hills, Mich., had hoped for on her first Indiana its first loss of the on Thursday for a three events. But she did- season. game against the Spar- n’t let those issues get to As usual, the Bulldogs tans. her. are not looking that far There was little sus- “I was just like, ‘All down the road. pense for the Cru- right, this is your last “I didn’t even know Indi- saders (26-7), who knew event. Just go. Just do it,’” ana was in our region,” they were in after said Snyder, who finished Stevens said. “I don’t know clinching the Horizon seventh at the state finals anything other than the League’s automatic bid last season with a 9.475. “I four teams in our pod.” with a win over Wright just knew I had to go in State in the tourney and do a vault. I wasn’t title game last week. even thinking school record or medal or any- Relays ... thing at the time.” Kahne wins Continued from page 10 BRISTOL, Tenn. — Everything about her The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney Yurchenko — a round-off Hannah Mitchel, who Kasey Kahne’s won the shot put March 9 at onto the springboard fol- bumper-banging battle Katie Snyder of Jay County performs on the floor exercise Saturday the New Haven-Northrop lowed by a back hand- with Brad Keselowski at the state finals. She finished 36th on the event with an 8.65 and went on HSR Qualifier, cleared the was just the warm-up spring onto the vaulting to place eighth on the vault with a school-record 9.675. 37-foot mark for the second act in an action-packed table and then a somer- straight week as she placed race at Bristol Motor sault — was about as per- third at 37 feet, 5¼ inches. Speedway. fect as it could be. She had nice height, level head … She’s elevat- Snyder, who was 30th in She trailed only Micaela Former teammates Snyder hit the back showed the nice, deep ed her skills. … She’s just the all-around competi- Hazlewood (41 feet, 3 inch- Denny Hamlin and handspring as well as she pike, and stuck a landing.” improved, improved, tion at 34.025, placed 47th es) of Linton-Stockton and Joey Logano has all season, staying All she could do then improved. She’s done very on the bars (7.75) and 48th Alyssa Lawson (38 feet, 3 exchanged words after straight and getting a good was wait, and the judges well for herself.” on the beam (7.95). inches) of Edgewood. the race because Ham- block off of the vault. Her rewarded her with the Snyder had struggled on But she came back Leah Mitchel was just lin spun Logano as somersault, in the pike best score of her career. her first three events of focused on the vault and one inch behind fourth- Logano was racing for position, was tight, and She broke the school the day, starting when she reached the school-record place finisher Alisha the lead. A flat tire she nailed the landing. record of 9.575 set by fell on her toe hecht from goal she had been chasing Bahler of Tri-County at 37 knocked Jeff Gordon Her second attempt was Danae Klatt in 2000 by a the low bar to the high bar. ever since competing on feet, 1¾ inches. and Matt Kenseth out just as good, if not better. full tenth of a point. She also had a fall on the the event at the state finals Barcus was the lone of the race while they “I hit them both, didn’t Her score was the high- balance beam as she during her freshman sea- Patriot to compete at the were running 1-2. move, wobble, nothing,” est ever recorded by a Jay scored in the 7s on both son. meet and finished in a Kahne and Keselows- said Snyder. “My (entry) County gymnast at the events. “It’s exciting,” said Sny- seven-way tie for 13th place ki staged a spectacular was a whole lot cleaner.” state finals on any event. She was stronger on the der. “I didn’t want to end as she cleared the bar at 5 battle for the lead, only Added Schlosser: “She “She’s just a hard work- floor exercise, where she with the all-around score I feet even in the high jump. for a caution to put had a good, strong back er,” said Schlosser. “She posted her second-best had … but I got a school Center Grove’s Taylor Pen- them side-by-side for a handspring. A lot of times has been since day one. … event finish of the day record. I can’t be mad nington won the event at 5 restart with 39 laps to she’s bent and archy. … She just always kept a with an 8.65 for 36th place. about that.” feet, 6 inches. go. Keselowski had an issue, he either spun his tires or the Hamlin- Logano feud disrupted Sports on tap his start, and Kahne Atlantic Division Utah 34 32 .515 15½ York Knicks at Utah Jazz (ESPN) sailed away for his first Scoreboard WLPctGB Portland 31 34 .477 18 Local notes Sunday Baseball tryouts scheduled New York 38 26 .594 — Minnesota 23 41 .359 25½ Tuesday career victory at Bris- Men’s college basketball Tryouts for the Jay County middle Brooklyn 38 28 .576 1 1 p.m. — MLB Spring Training: New Big Ten Tournament – championship school baseball team will continue April 7. tol. Boston 36 29 .554 2½ Pacific Division York Yankees at Philadelphia Phillies Ohio State 50, Wisconsin 43 Toronto 26 41 .388 13½ WLPctGB (ESPN) There will be a tryout session from 6 to Philadelphia 25 40 .385 13½ L.A. Clippers 46 21 .687 — 6:40 p.m. — Men’s College Basket- 7:30 p.m. April 7 at the Jay County High Saturday Golden State 38 30 .559 8½ ball: NCAA Tournament – North Carolina School gym. For more information, call Lea 22 straight Men’s college basketball Southeast Division L.A. Lakers 36 32 .529 10½ A&T vs. Liberty (TRU) Selvey at (260) 726-9306. 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Atlantic 10 Tournament – semifinal ning streak in NBA his- Orlando 18 49 .269 34 Local schedule 7:30 p.m. — Men’s College Basket- The first race of the Adams County 5K St. Louis 67, Butler 56 Tuesday Charlotte 14 52 .212 37½ ball: NIT first round – Kentucky at Robert Run/Walk Challenge will begin at 9 a.m. tory, pulling away in South Adams — Winter sports Morris (ESPN) Registration forms are available at NBA basketball awards – 7 p.m. the fourth quarter Sun- Western Conference 9 p.m. — Men’s College Basketball: www.swissvillage.org and at Swiss Village Philadelphia 98, Indiana 91 day to beat the Toronto Southwest Division NIT first round – Northeastern at Ala- and Muselman Wellness Pavilion. Raptors 108-91 for their WLPctGB TV schedule bama (ESPN2); NIT first round – Norfolk The registration deadline is March 31. 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Section C www.thecr.com The Commercial Review MyFarms well ahead of curve By STEVE GARBACZ The Commercial Review Two years later after its inception, MyFarms 2.0 has arrived. The web application has been rewritten and improved, the number of contract clients has grown, the business opened a storefront in Portland and staff mem- bers are coding away on a daily basis. Owner Chris Fennig thinks things are going pretty well for his busi- ness, which was first pitched in 2010. “Last year we had one client,” Fennig said. “We now have six clients, so our relationships are growing quickly. Those partners are now intro- ducing us to their col- leagues and that’s why we’re so focused on quali- ty and excellence in our software. “We have access to thou- sands of farmers that are already in relationship with the seed company where there is already trust,” he said. MyFarms started with the idea that farmers could benefit from a way to better manage data about their land, their seeds and their farming The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz practices. And the web application has created a MyFarms owner and managing director Chris Fennig sits at his desk at the company’s East Main Street office in Portland. place where growers are MyFarms, which received $150,000 in local government support, released the second version of its Internet-based farming able to store information application this month. about their fields and share that with seed com- panies or other consult- with everything a seed you’re looking at some- data to these partners and long term access and con- Fennig takes pride in stat- ants to be able to create a company knows about where between a 3 and 7 they’re given back a piece trol of that data,” he said. ing that MyFarms is more precise farming their hybrid to find the percent improvement in of paper. What it’s doing “Now what my soils con- ahead of the curve. plan. best hybrid for each field,” yield which translates is creating isolated sultant is learning about He references an article “What we’re doing is Fennig said. “There’s a lot into some serious dollars.” islands of data that don’t my fields … Ican share it in the summer edition of bringing all that data of value in getting that “The current situation interact. with my seeds dealer.” Farm Journal that opens together, basically every- answer right. If you can is flawed, it’s broken,” “(With MyFarms) they It’s a logical step as tech- with information about thing a farmer knows get the right seed on the Fennig said. “Farmers can then return electronic nological input in farming global seed powerhouse about his fields, combined right acre at the right rate, give electronic copies of copies … Now you’ve got increases and one that See MyFarms page 4C Staffer has deep roots in Swaziland By STEVE GARBACZ land hasn’t been so dras- desolate … sparse, rural The Commercial Review tic. But working in small- not very advanced,” said While growing up, town America may only be Wideman while on a short Jonathan Wideman came a temporary stop before break from his web-pro- face-to-face with a cobra. the mission life he grew gramming job with But since then he’s also up in whisks him once MyFarms in Portland. “To come face-to-face with the more overseas. that I always say I didn’t convenience of a fast food “A lot of people I’ve experience very much cul- burger joint. talked to and hung out ture shock because the For the 23-year-old, the with from other cultures culture we were in was transition from growing experience a large culture very much westernized.” up in the small south- shock. And also a lot of Wideman was born in African nation of Swazi- people I’ve talked to, they Johannesburg, South land to working in Port- think of Africa as kind of See Staffer page 4C The Commercial Review Page 4C Business Wednesday, November 21, 2012 MyFarms ... Continued from page 1C Monsanto developing a tech- nology and data-driven Inte- grated Farming System. The back-end of the article talks about the connection between MyFarms and Burrus Hybrids, the first seed dealer to sign on with the Portland company. “The big difference is they’re coming out in 2014 and we’re in production now,” Fennig said. “So we’re about two years ahead of Monsanto. It’s exactly what we want. A major $12 bil- lion global company is spend- ing a lot of money taking the lead, and here we are with a small regional seed company ahead of them by two years to serve farmers.” The MyFarms application allows farmers to set bound- aries on their fields and then fill in some additional informa- tion about the land and their planting goals and concerns before spitting out the top four hybrids best-suited to that land. With the addition of new clients, MyFarms has been growing locally. The company opened its storefront on East The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz Main Street in Portland during the summer and its team of Chris Fennig stands near his desk in the open MyFarms office on East Main Street in Portland. The center of the developers have been working office and two of the walls are covered in white boards, marked with notes, ideas and even some staff doodles to help along to roll out the second version development of the company’s Web app. of the MyFarms application already this month. “The team we’ve assembled the overall function of the ny’s growth as measured and “You’re not guessing at what Development Income Tax is second-to-none in this indus- product. deliberate, one that’s been the market needs,” he said. funds over three years, and try,” Fennig said. “These are And on top of all that, driven by feedback from its “You’re listening intently to both approved the final $25,000 top notch people that are fully MyFarms 2.0 is a significant users. what people are saying and disbursements earlier this dedicated to excellence and upgrade from the original app. “Once we achieved success then defining the scope of the month. quality. We’ve had weekends “We’ve rewritten the entire in that first project, without work and providing a price for “We couldn’t have done it where we’re working nonstop.” software stack from top to bot- fail, without exception, it has that work … without the city and the county Continuing development has tom,” Fennig said. “It’s much led to additional work so that “It’s a great way to build a getting behind us,” Fennig been driven by the group’s faster. It’s about twice as fast now, with our partners we’re piece of software.” said. clients. As they request new as the old application. … It’s in our second, third or fourth Fennig, however, looked back “That support was invalu- features, new contracts are more maintainable. It brings contracts,” Fennig said. to the initial support the com- able and it continues to be. formed. And the second ver- more efficiency to the develop- “That’s a mark of a very pany received from the City of “With it being a Thanksgiv- sion of the application will ment process so we can build healthy way of engaging with Portland and Jay County Coun- ing edition, it would be very even allow MyFarms to create more functionality with rela- any company. We love having cil to help start up MyFarms. fair to say we’re very thankful specialized interfaces for spe- tively few developers.” our development being driven In 2010, both governments to the community for its role in cific clients without affecting Fennig described the compa- directly by strategic partners. pledged $75,000 in Economic the development.” Staffer ... Continued from page 1C being poverty and school in east central Indi- Africa, while his parents hunger,” Wideman said. “A ana. were (and still are) serving lot of the country is poor, From there he hooked as missionaries in Swazi- but you really don’t see up with MyFarms as part land. While he would get to that as much in the urban of an internship and has visit the U.S. about once areas. There’s a very rapid stayed on as a developer every five years, he spent shift from the rural, the and programmer for the his youth in a small town farm life, to the urban city company. in the landlocked African life and the difference in However, it may be the nation that is slightly larg- income and in sustenance mission life that once er than Connecticut. is huge. again takes him overseas. And although a neigh- “The second issue … is While small-town life in bor and a well-placed the threat of HIV and Indiana is the plan for now, smack of a shovel saved a AIDS is making a huge, Wideman said he feels that two-year-old Wideman huge impact on the popula- missionary work for him- from a cobra on the front tion,” he said. “Swaziland self might be in his future. porch, he characterized has the highest prevalence Wideman and his girl- his experiences as more rate per population in the friend, who also grew up mild than wild. world for HIV and AIDS in a mission family in the “We don’t really get fast and it’s decimating fami- Maldives, have talked food out there. Can’t really lies. It’s making the pover- about someday heading get out to a McDonald’s or ty issue even worse. It’s out to do God’s work. Burger King,” he said with really just a scourge on “She is pretty strong on a laugh. communities and fami- doing evangelism among The Commercial Review graphic/Steve Garbacz “People will ask, ‘Did lies.” Islamic cultures … that’s you see lions?’ Well, we Because of those two the setting she grew up can go to a game reserve factors among others, with. And I think that’s a and see lions. Swaziland has one of the good thing to pursue,” “It’s not like grass huts lowest life expectancies in Wideman said. “But for everywhere, although in the world. now, to raise a support the rural areas there defi- And it’s there that his base, I see myself staying nitely are grass huts,” he parents are still working. here in the U.S. for several said, dispelling a common His father continues to years and hopefully con- stereotype of African com- teach in a Bible school tinuing here at MyFarms.” munities. “We were living training pastors, while his Maybe that journey will in like a standard, middle- mother works in AIDS lead back to Swaziland to low-class home in the ministry, teaching life someday and maybe not. U.S., just built a little bit skills to students to help “I definitely see myself sturdier.” try to stem the epidemic. visiting Swaziland again,” The location, however, But it was the mission he said. “I don’t know was able to give him a life that helped him end up whether I would live there. dual-view of the nation — in Portland, as he heard My vision is to go into mis- one of a country plagued about Taylor University in sions myself with my girl- by some crippling social Upland from some friends, friend … and that really and economic factors. eventually making the depends where God leads “The first and major one commitment to attend us.”

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A Stoneridge Company The Commercial Review/Steve Garbacz 700 Industrial Drive (260) 726-6501 Portland, IN Jonathan Wideman gets some work done at his desk at MyFarms. Wideman grew up in the south-African nation of Swaziland where his parents are missionaries and says mission work may be in his future as well. The Commercial Review Saturday, January 19, 2013 Business Page 5 POET now producing corn oil A number of POET leyan. who might otherwise have In its announcement, At a special meeting Biorefining plants, includ- She has been employed problems qualifying for a Keihin officials said they Tuesday, the Anderson ing one in Portland, are Business at Zurcher’s Best-One Tire loan. would be consolidating its Redevelopment Commis- now producing corn oil. and Auto Care in Monroe Vilsack said the goal of corporate headquarters to sion said the company had Twenty-five of POET’s Roundup for 17 years. She is the the program is to create Anderson, following a six- signed a six-year lease network of 27 biorefiner- operations manager at more opportunities for year courtship involving with Flagship. ies have installed technol- that location and is part of entrepreneurship and to the city, Flagship and the “This is a done deal,” ogy that allows the plants a team that oversees 250 increase employment in Corporation for Economic said Flagship president to create corn oil, brining locations nationwide. the farming industry. Development. and CEO Chuck Staley. POET’s total capacity to POET plants. The program reportedly Since 2009, they’d oper- McLaughlin said the about 250,000 tone per Loans for farmers offers a more simplified ated at two sites: Cross- company hopes to begin year, which will create 68 FBB hires The United States application process. point Office Park in Fish- operations April 1, when it million gallons of First Bank of Berne Department of Agricul- ers and a manufacturing takes over the second floor biodiesel annually. recently announced the ture is offering loans to Expands in Anderson site in Greenfield. and part of the first floor POET has been selling appointment of Lindsey help small farmers. Auto engine manage- Keihin general manager in the main Flagship Voilå corn oil since Janu- Beer to its board of direc- Tom Vilsack, Secretary ment and climate control of administration Matt building. ARC also voted ary 2011, when a plan in tors. of Agriculture, told The systems manufacturer McLaughlin said most, if unanimously to approve South Dakota started pro- Beer is a 1997 graduate Associated Press that Keihin North America not all, of the 130 to 175 roughly $1.3 million in ducing it on a commercial of Adams Central High loans up to $35,000 are plans to open in Ander- expected management, tenant improvements and scale. According to a press School. She has a bache- being designed to help son’s Flagship Enterprise engineering and develop- rent abatement for the release, strong demand for lor’s degree from Purdue family-run farms, minori- Center, The Herald-Bul- ment employees in Ander- company, drawn from the the product prompted University and a master’s ty growers and veterans letin of Anderson report- son would be transfers city’s Tax Increment upgrades at a number of degree from Indiana Wes- looking to start a farm, ed. from those facilities. Financing funds. Longtime glass worker recalls his years at the plant By JACK RONALD The Commercial Review Talk with John B. Anderson about the old days, and the names start After seven years tumbling out. “McCombs, Carver, in packing he worked Frank Friend … Harry his way into an apprentice McDonald, Al Diener, young Jack Malloy, Sidney position, then became Manor, Bob Countryman an operator, making … Jack Mink, Bud Hare, Truman “Bud” Gutshall, 45 baby food jars a minute. George Wise …” ‘I made beer bottles, whiskey With each recollection and each story, another bottles, baby food, Evenflo, name comes up from the old days. Barbasol,’ he said. Sitting before a wood stove at Anderson’s home in Dunkirk just down the street from what is today quality control. “If you Jack Mink one time” over Verallia, the litany of packed bad ware, you had the speed of production, names seems appropriate. to re-pack ’em.” Anderson said. After all, the glass con- After seven years in A member of the Glass tainer plant on Dunkirk’s packing he worked his Bottle Blowers Associa- east side has been called way into an apprentice tion, Anderson was a many things over the position, then became an union steward for a time. The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald years. operator, making 45 baby “We need unions,” he said. It was Hart Glass when food jars a minute. Though “the hot end” John Anderson celebrated his 96th birthday last week. He worked John Anderson went to “I made beer bottles, was a challenging place to in the glass industry in Dunkirk for 43 years. work there. whiskey bottles, baby work, the company did its That was back in 1936 or food, Evenflo, Barbasol,” best to keep it safe. ’37. he said. “When I went out there, It was Kerr Glass Manu- “I made a good living we had an operator who facturing Corp. when he out there. I started in at 24 had a hand off. … But the retired. In between, it was cents an hour.” only thing I lost out there Armstrong Cork for Anderson can’t remem- was a lot of sweat,” said awhile. ber when Hart sold to Anderson. “I worked in And since Kerr, it has Armstrong Cork. But the hot end for 35 years, been Ball-Foster, Ball other memories stand out. and I only saw three guys InCon, and Saint-Gobain “I was in the first strike carried out” because of Glass Containers before they had out there,” he the heat. becoming Verallia. said. “$10 to $11 a week Four times since his With this week’s news didn’t go very far.” Then retirement in 1979, he’s that Ardagh Group is again, he added, you could gone back to the plant for acquiring Verallia from buy six gallons of gasoline one of its tours during Saint-Gobain, another for a dollar. Glass Days, finding it a name change is likely to Anderson first lived in a very different place. be on the horizon. factory-owned house, pay- “I’d be absolutely lost if “I was out at the factory ing $11 a month rent. “And I went back out there,” he for 43 years,” Anderson they (the company) paid said, noting the huge said last week while cele- the water.” changes in technology and brating his 96th birthday “Harry McDonald, he the workplace. Thirty-five of those was the plant manager,” These days, Anderson were at “the hot end,” a recalled Anderson. “He’d does his best to keep his tough working environ- bring all the operators mind sharp. Though his ment, particularly back together” to talk about vision is failing, his spirit when Anderson hired on. maintaining quality and is strong. “When I started out reaching production Names of co-workers there, I started in the goals. continue to tumble out. packing room,” he Often, balancing speed “All them old guys are recalled. Packing also and quality became a sore dead,” he said. “I don’t involved inspection and spot. “I got into it with know why I’m living.” The Commercial Review Saturday, February 16, 2013 Business Page 5 Leadership change ahead at Forge

Rural Portland resident In this new position, the facility. Don Lennartz was report is the fourth Tyson Pat Bennett, who has Sims is responsible for awarded Citizen of the Foods has produced since served has president of Business ATI Portland Forge, New name and Year; “Sisters of the Disor- 2005, but the first to ATI Portland Forge since among other ATI divi- owners der” was the Hall of Fame receive the Global Report- 2001, will retire on April 1. Roundup sions. On Dec. 1, Flamespray inductee; Brandon & ing Initiative’s (GRI) Bennett, who began his Allegheny Technologies Machine Service became Amanda Wyerick were Application Level “A.” 37-year career with ATI in Incorporated is one of the Flamepray Machine and awarded Most Improved This represents a high 1979 as am expediter and largest and most diversi- Fabrication LLC under Dwelling; Dan & Theresa degree of disclosure and customer service repre- fied specialty metals pro- the new ownership of Lennartz were presented transparency in sustain- sentative, held several be the ATI Portland Forge ducers in the world with the Best Landscaping ability reporting. GRI is a management team: Dave and Abby Clamme. positions before leaving revenues of approximate- Hours of operation are 9 award; and high school world-recognized organi- the company in 1986. He •Ralph Ussack, con- ly $5.0 billion in 2012. ATI a.m. to 6 p.m. The shop is senior Connor Rammel zation that promotes eco- returned as vice president troller has approximately 11,200 located at 237 E. Votaw St., was recipient of the annu- nomic, environmental and of sales in 1989, a position •Steve Laux, vice presi- al Chamber Scholarship. full-time employees world- Portland. social sustainability. he held until he was dent human resources wide. The Mayor’s Community Tyson Foods, founded in •Mark Paxson, director For more information, named president of the Service Award was pre- 1935 with headquarters in of sales and marketing call (260) 726-6236 or e-mail company in 2001. sented to the Sons of the Springdale, Arkansas, is •Randy Wehrly, procure- Ficosa transfers jobs [email protected]. Steve Barcus, vice presi- American Legion Post one of the world’s largest ment manager A spokesperson for the dent and general manager #345. processors and marketers •Greg Drane, operations Berne-based Ficosa facto- of ATI Portland Forge, Comcast buying of chicken, beef and pork, manager (Lebanon) ry recently told the Berne will assume leadership of Comcast recently the second-largest food •Mark McKee, opera- Tri-Weekly News that a Healthy Living Expo the company, reporting to announced that it’s buy- production company in tions superintendent company announcement The Mercer Healthy Liv- Bennett until his retire- ing General Electric’s 49 the Fortune 500 and a (Portland) signals the likely transi- ing Expo will be held ment date. percent stake in the member of the S&P 500. •Brian Hayes, metalur- tion of all 140 jobs in the March 9 from 7:30 to 11:30 Barcus, who joined ATI plant. NBCUniversal joint ven- a.m. at The Galleria, 909 E. Portland Forge in 1988, gist and special projects ture for $16.7 billion sever- manager “Ficosa has not issued a Wayne St., Celina. Volume requirements has held leadership posi- formal ‘WARN’ notifica- al years early, as the com- The event, which is free POET CEO Jeff Lautt tions in quality and engi- •Michael Irwin, quality pany takes advantage of manager tion of lay-off, but the and open to the public, issued the following state- neering. In 2007 he was company said that it want- low borrowing costs. will feature over 50 ment in response to the named vice president of In other ATI company The company is buying news, John D. Sims has ed the … employees to exhibits and include many EPA setting the proposed manufacturing with have as much information other assets from GE, such free health screening. annual volume require- responsibility for facili- been named Executive as NBC’s headquarters at Vice President, Primary and notice as possible to There will also be select ments for the Renewable ties in Portland and relative changes, said Lisa 30 Rockefeller Plaza in screenings and assess- Fuel Standard. Lebanon, Ky. He was Titanium Operations, and New York and CNBC’s Engineered Alloys and Norris, U.S. Director of ments available at a cost. “The Renewable Fuel named vice president/gen- Human Resources and headquarters in New Jer- For more information, Standard is the most suc- eral manager in June 2012. Products by Allegheny sey, for about $1.4 billion. Technologies. spokesperson for Ficaso. call (419) 678-5613. cessful program in history Reporting to Barcus will Ficosa has already The company’s shares for replacing fossil fuel mailed out letters to all the jumped $2.93 to $41.90 in Gets an A use with domestic, renew- facility’s employees after-hours trading. GE Tyson Foods, Inc., par- able energy. We’ve seen oil informing them of the shares rose 76 cents to ent company of Tyson imports drop, new jobs company plans. $23.34. Mexican Original, Port- and economic activity in Norris said Ficosa is land, has received an “A” rural America and new speaking with another Chamber awards from the Global Reporting record incomes for farm- company that may be The Fort Recovery Initiative for its latest cor- ers. The overall volume interested in acquiring Chamber of Commerce porate social responsibili- numbers from the EPA the paint processes in the recently named the recipi- ty report, company offi- reflect a logical next step plant, which could help ents of its Awards Ban- cials announced. in continuing that suc- retain some of the jobs at quet. The new sustainability cess,” he said. Dunkirk restaurant to be reborn By TED JOHNSON at specific tables. Weekley said. how everything goes first The Commercial Review and Ridgway wanted to Rumor Meal will begin and have time to get estab- Often a small town has keep that tradition going only serving breakfast and lished,” Weekley said. one place that can hold with the design, so they lunch with the hours In the days leading up to much of the community’s have planned to make the starting out as Monday the official opening, the spirit. So when Christie’s décor around each table through Friday, 6 a.m. to 2 restaurant is having car- Family Restaurant closed, suit a specific group. “It p.m. and Sunday 7 a.m. to 3 pets cleaned, a fire sup- a little piece of Dunkirk will be funny to see if peo- p.m. pression unit put in, stock- was left inside its locked ple come back and go “People have asked me ing its shelves full of food, doors. directly to their same about serving dinner, but I and preparing for a final But that spirit will hope seats as before,” Weekley tell them that I want to see inspection. to be revived as the old Christie’s will soon be open for dining under new ownership and its new name, Rumor Meal. With a tentative opening date of Feb. 24 of this year, current Dunkirk police officer Andrea Weekley and partner Lois Ridgway will dive into the world of owning a restaurant. Weekley had previously worked for Christie’s and learned under the tutelage of then owner Kathleen Christie. “She was a great mentor to me,” Weekley said. “I learned a lot of recipes from her.” Rumor Meal will look to keep the same style as the previous restaurant, serv- ing a variety of dishes that you might eat in your own home. Weekley said she wanted to continue the home-cooking theme as it was well received before. One of those dishes will be homemade biscuits with the same recipe Weekley had learned from Christie during her time working at the restaurant. Also on the menu will be homemade cinnamon rolls which come straight from her mother’s recipe book. The second-shift police officer said it will be a challenge to have her own restaurant, but she is excited and hopes the same people who ate at Christie’s before will come back and want to see the changes made. One of the major changes will be the restau- rants’ décor. 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The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney Jay County High School goalie Kevin Scott dives to try to make a save late in the Class 2A Sectional 15 boys soccer sectional championship game at Yorktown Sports Park on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. The Patriots lost 2-0 to Yorktown, which won its fourth straight title. Monday,Third April p l22,ac 2013e Follow us Jay softball hosts on Twitter Marion on Tuesday, @commreview Best headline writing see Sports on tap RaSportsy Cooney Page 8 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review SAHS earns No-no for 4-0-0 1st win FORT WAYNE — Alyssa Armenta and Shiana Scott were perfect Saturday as they helped lead the Starfires to their first victo- ry. The South Adams High School girls tennis team halted a three-match, sea- son-opening losing streak with a 3-2 victory over Local the North roundup Side Red- skins. The Starfires dropped the second half of their doubleheader 4-1 to the host South Side Archers. Scott and Armenta turned in a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Mariah Kiefer and Mary Reynolds of North Side at No. 2 doubles. They also topped South Side’s Thein Aye and Cassie Piffieriti 6-1, 4-6 (10-7) for The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney their third straight win. The other two wins for Kyle Selvey (21) of Jay County High School watches as his throw heads toward first baseman Nick Clemens while the Starfires (1-4) against Winchester’s Cullen Hall (8) hurries down the first base line Saturday at Don E. Selvey Field. The play finished off Kyle the Redskins went three Selvey’s no-hitter, which gave his father, Lea Selvey, his 400th career coaching victory. sets. Erika Miller knocked off Syahirah Aziz 6-0, 4-6, 6- 1 at No. 2 singles, and Jen- nifer Potts defeated Kyon- Selvey’s no-hitter gives dad milestone win nia Jackson-Freeman 6-2, 3- 6, 6-1 at No. 3 singles. By RAY COONEY ished with three double “We’re a young team. The Commercial Review plays for the day. “Nick … We had a couple of Jay 4th at relays Kyle Selvey turned (Clemens), when he dove guys sick this morning … toward the third-base MUNCIE — Jay County’s for the ball there at the so we had to go a little bit boys track team scored 64 dugout and pumped his end, it was a good play. He deeper with our pitch- first after his final throw ‘It felt great to know that points Saturday to finish had to dive to get it. That ing,” said Winchester fourth out of eight teams at of the game smacked was an important out. coach Jeff Clark. “Our firmly into Nick I got dad’s 400th win the Muncie Relays. They “I think they’re all first pitcher couldn’t go. trailed Kokomo (98), Hunt- Clemens’ glove. Thursday, August 30, 2012starting to relax.” His arm was sore. … So Catcher Josh Lykins on a no-hitter. ... ington North (83) and Jay football hosts Jason Houston led the we hadKiwanis to go a littleouting bit Muncie Central (78). wrapped his arms around Patriot offense with two deeper.” Wildcats on Friday, his classmate, and the It’s probably one of the set for Sept. 9, Tyler Back and Zane hits, including a double, Houston got the win, Shreve picked up the only see preview page 11rest of the Patriots quick- best feelings I’ve had.’ two runs, two RBIs and a seestriking Sports out five onbatters tap ly swarmed their pitcher victories for the Patriots. stolen base. Lykins and while allowing two runs Back finished first in the as well. Sports Kyle Selvey each had two in four innings. Chaz Car- shot put at 49 feet, 9 inches, Then the attention roll tossed one scoreless hits, a run and an RBI. and Shreve took the top shifted to Kyle’s father. inning of relief. Page 12 www.thecr.comJCHS trailed briefly 1-0 The Commercial Review spot in the 300-meter hur- Fans streamed onto the Clemens at first base, his dropped third strike that in the opener before Lea Dakota Osborne and dles in 42.3 seconds. field to congratulate Lea throw beating Cullen Lykins quickly turned Selvey gathered his play- Bryant Clark suffered the Andrew Eley placed sec- Selvey, whose players Hall by a couple of steps into an out with a toss to ers for a chat prior to losses for Winchester. ond in the discus with a emptied the contents of a for the final out. Clemens. Selvey induced their at bat in the bottom Clark went 2-for-3 with a toss of 135 feet, 10 inches, water cooler over his The junior struck out ground ball after ground of the second inning. He run in the opener. The and Cade Price was the head. four batters as he faced ball from the Golden Fal- urged his Patriots to be Garbacz On the field named for just three more than the cons (1-10), who hit the patient at the plate, runner-up with a leap of 6 Junior varsity feet even in the high jump. his grandfather, Kyle’s no- minimum. He gave up ball out of the infield just advice that led to seven WINCHESTER — Jay Dump Dylan Cope was also sec- hitter gave Lea his 400th four walks, one of which once on a fly out to center walks in the next two County used a nine-run ond in the 1,600 run. career win Saturday as was erased by a double fielder Alex Dunn. innings. All of those third inning on the way Career rebirth? Jalen Ryder, Willie Skiv- Jay County defeated the play in the fourth inning. Tanner Reynolds field- walks resulted in runs. to an 18-3, five-inning vic- er, Wil Rowles and Cope visiting Winchester Gold- “It felt great to know ed a grounder up the mid- “Let’s not help them tory over the Golden Fal- Wellmanen Falcons 7-0 to finish off tothat I gottry dad’s 400th for win d le walk-onin the fourth inning, out.spot We popped up at on two Ballcons in the St.opener, and teamed to take third place Geeslin a doubleheader sweep. on a no-hitter,” Kyle stepped on second base (high) pitches,” Lea then took game two 6-1. in the 4x800 relay. By RAY“Just COONEY winning feels Selvey said. “It felt amaz- and tossed to Clemens for Selvey said he told the Zach Pryor returned Thegood,” Commercial said Review Lea Selvey, ing. a double play. Selvey team. “We talked about Mitchel wins shot “The main ingredient from a concussion to lead whose team took the “It’s probably one of slipped on the mound plate discipline and hit- MINSTER, Ohio — was MVP to stardom is the rest of the Patriots in the opener, opening game 13-2 in five the best feelings I’ve after fielding a ground ting strikes. Twins Hannah and Leah the team.” going 2-for-3 with three innings. “Honestly I was had.” ball in the sixth, but “They did that and they Mitchel went one-two in the The words practically runs. Nate Brackman more excited for the no- Lea Selvey is in his 25th made a sitting throw to got some walks. … We put added two hits and two shot put Saturday as the for the jump off of the back of hitter. season coaching the first base for the final out the ball in play.” runs, and Levi Stant South Adams girls track Lindsey Wellman’s “Four hundred just Patriots and has led them of the frame. Clemens Houston drove in two scored three times. team finished eighth out of orange JCHS T-shirt as Rockets means I’ve been here a to five sectional titles, the came up with a diving runs with a double in the Lance Ferguson had a 12 squads at the Minster she hoists up shot after Editor’s note: It’s the long time. It means I’m last of which came in catch in foul territory for nine-run second inning single, a double and an Memorial Invitational. The shot in the gym at Wapa- Fifth Thursday Swap. If old,” he added, laughing. 2007. His teams won the second-to-last out of and also scored twice. RBI in game two. Starfire boys were eighth you’re looking for “Rays of haniKyle High SelveySchool, thefinished top- regional championships the game, and then Dunn had a single, two Chandler Jacks struck out of 14 teams. Insight,” it can be found on rankedoff the Raider no-hitter volleyball himself, in 1992 and ’93. Selvey retired Hall to fin- runs and two RBIs, out seven batters in four The Mitchels were the Family, page three. teamtracking warming down aup dribbler for The Patriots (4-4) ish off the no-hitter. Welsey Hibbard went 2- innings to take the win in only athletes to clear the 35- By STEVE GARBACZ theirin front match of behind the plate her. on played strong defense in “A couple of times we for-2 with two runs, Toby the opener. Austin foot mark in the girls shot The Commercial Review theDuring third-base her junior line atyear Don the second game against got out of jams with dou- McCallister drove in two Beasley struck out for put, with Hannah winning My personal Portland atE. Jay Selvey County, Field. Lindsey He Winchester, the lone ble plays,” said Lea runs and Reynolds scored batters in four innings for at 37 feet, ¼ inch. Leah was Rockets MVP this season wasturned the star.and Now, fired after to error coming on a Selvey, whose team fin- twice. the game-two win. the runner-up with a toss of isn’t the best player on the three years away from the 36 feet, 3 inches. field. game, all she wants is to Leah Mitchel was also Although he played his be part of a team. third at 99 feet, 7 inches, in part to lead the Rockets to Lindsey is going to the discus. the National Amateur chase that dream next Cam Lengerich turned in Baseball Federation World week, when she tries out the top effort for the boys Series, this award isn’t for Indiansfor a walk-on spot with seventh in baseball poll team, finishing as the run- the Ball State University lockdown pitching or COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Indi- ball Coaches Association Division Conference rival St. Henry (6-2), Fort Recovery went 9-17 last sea- ner-up in the 110-meter hur- power hitting or stone-wall women’s basketball team. dles in 15.88 seconds. He ans “Aftersurpassed being last forced season’s to be win IV poll of the season, which was which finished sixth in the poll. son after winning just four games fielding. total in less than three weeks, and released today. Newark Catholic (8-2) picked up combined in 2011 and ’12. The placed fourth in the 300 No, MVP Billy Geeslin out of it, I thought, ‘You hurdles. nowknow, they’re I want getting to be back some in state The Indians (10-3) earned 119 poll 201 points to take the top spot. Min- Tribe’s only losses this season have from Coldwater, Ohio, gets recognition. points to finish 19 ahead of eighth- ster (7-1) is ranked second with 193 come against Versailles, which fin- the nod from me for his out- it,” said Lindsey, noting SA baseball splits Fortthat sheRecovery had no is interest ranked in seventh ranked Springfield (7-1). They were points, giving the MAC three teams ished 14th in the Division III poll of-game contributions. in the first Ohio High School Base- 19 points behind Midwest Athletic in the top seven. voting, St. Henry and Celina. BERNE — The South In games when Geeslin playing college basketball Adams baseball team domi- wasn’t pitching or in the when she was in high nated Saturday’s opener 13- lineup as the designated school. “‘I want to be on 3 in five innings, but settled hitter — and even some that team again.’” for a split against the visit- games when he was — you Sports on tap The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney ing Eastern Comets as it An early end dropped the second game could usually find him x-Atlanta 44 38 .537 22 p.m.; Boys golf at Leo – 5 p.m.; Girls between innings with a tail ScoreboardLindsey’s high school Lindsey Wellman,Local a 2010 schedule Jay County High School graduate, dribblesLocal Tuesday notes during a 10-5. NBA playoffs Washington 29 53 .354 37 Today tennis vs. Bluffton – 5 p.m.; Track vs. Community swim set for Sunday Leo and Southern Wells – 5 p.m.; Junior of local kids following Indianacareer 107, came Atlanta to90 an abrupt Charlottebasketball 21 workout 61 .256 at 45WapahaniJay County High — School. Baseball vs.Next Adams week, more than three years afterThere her willcareer be a community ended, swim ses- Corey Seffernick hit a varsity baseball vs. Heritage - 5 p.m.; end. Orlando 20 62 .244 46 Central – 5 p.m.; Softball at Muncie sion Sunday at the Jay County High School behind him. Lindsey will try out for a walk-on spot with the Ball StateJunior University varsity softball women’s vs. Heritage basketball – 5 team. home run to lead the offen- Major League Baseball Southside – 5 p.m. (JV – 6:30 p.m.); pool. The session will run from 2 to 4 p.m., She averaged 14.7 p.m. He’d be chatting them up, Cincinnati 10, Miami 6 Western Conference Boys golf three-team match at Monroe and the entry fee is $2. An adult must sive onslaught in the first encouraging them to keep Milwaukeepoints 4,and Chicago 6.2 Cubs rebounds 2 Southwest Division Central – 4:30 p.m.; Girls tennis vs. accompany children 12-and-younger. game, finishing 2-for-3 with Minnesotafor JCHS 5, Chicago during White the Sox 2008-3 Class 4A WLPctGBand seemed SouthThe Adams disappointment – 5 p.m.; Junior invarsityother,TV theyschedule would get to play in a basketball tour- working on their baseball y-San Antonio 58 24 .707 — three RBIs and two runs. 09 season as she and fel- primed for a tournament thatbaseball loss at Deltastill – 5lingers p.m.; WJMS for trackthe job done. Today nament Registrationat Xavier open Univer- for tee-ball and telling them that it was- x-Memphis 56 26 .683 2 at Southern Wells – 4:15 p.m. 2:55 p.m. — English Premier League Registration is open for Jay Community Blake Fox had two hits and Standings x-Houstonrun, but let 45 a double-digit 37 .549 13 Lindsey — she groans at But for Lindsey, that sity, Lindsey got the news. n’t out of the question for lowNational junior Basketball Pazia Association Speed South Adams — Baseball vs. Soccer: Manchester United FC vs. Aston Center’s Boomer coach pitch and tee-ball three runs for the Starfires Dallas 41 41 .500 17 Bluffton – 5 p.m.; Softball at Wayne – 5 Villa FC (ESPN2) leagues. them to grow up and play led JayFinal County standings to its first Newlead Orleans in their 27 first 55 section- .329 31 the mere mention — but senior season never hap- She was pregnant. (6-5), who scored six times undefeatedEastern Conference regular sea- al game slip away and lost shep.m.; alsoBoys golfrecalls vs. Woodlan talking – 5 p.m.;pened.7 p.m. — Major League Baseball She Thespent leagues the are openride to thoseto ages 4 for the Rockets. Central Division Girls tennis at Jay County – 5 p.m.; Mid- (ESPN) through 6, and games will be played on in the fourth inning. son — 18-0. The Patriots Northwestto Fort Division Wayne South Side withdle school Pazia track after at Adamsthe game. Central – On7 ap.m. June — College morning Softball: of GeorgiaCincinnatiSaturday’s thinking.beginning June 1. The registra- After all, it was only a WLPctGB WLPctGB Alex Augsberger went y-Indiana 49 32 .605 — 4:30 p.m. Tech at North Carolina (ESPNU) tion fee is $40, and the deadline is May 3. handful of years ago that were ranked sixth in z-Oklahomaon a last-second City 60 22 shot. .732 — Next year, they told each the day she was headed to See Rebirth? page 11 the distance for the win, x-Chicago 45 37 .549 4½ 8 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: First round – For more information, call JCC at (260) x-Denver 57 25 .695 3 he was that kid at the ball- x-Milwaukee 38 44 .463 11½ Tuesday Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets (TNT) 726-6477. striking out four batters park, watching his dad Detroit 29 53 .354 20½ Utah 43 39 .524 17 Jay County — Baseball at Union City 10:30 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: First while allowing three runs Cleveland 24 58 .293 25½ Portland 33 49 .402 27 – 5 p.m.; Softball vs. Marion – 5:30 round – Memphis Grizzlies at Los Ange- Golf tournament is May 18 pitch for the Rockets. Minnesota 31 51 .378 29 p.m.; Girls tennis vs. Union City – 5 les Clippers (TNT) Jay Community Center will host its J. — two earned — on six hits Or he’d be in the batting Atlantic Division p.m.; EJMS track at Delta – 4:30 p.m.; Gordon Meeker Golf Tournament on May and three walks. WLPctGB Pacific Division WJMS track at Selma – 4:30 p.m. Tuesday 18 at Portland Golf Club. Chase Ingle suffered the cage, throwing batting y-New York 54 28 .659 — WLPctGB Fort Recovery — Baseball at Coldwa- 4 p.m. — College Softball: Illinois at The four-person scramble will begin practice for little ones who Starfiresx-Brooklyn 49 33 .598 5 y-L.A. roll Clippers 56 26 .683 — ter – 5 p.m.; Softball at Fort Loramie – Iowa (BTN) with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The entry loss in the second game, could barely handle the x-Boston 41 40 .506 12½ x-Golden State 47 35 .573 9 5 p.m.; Track quad at St. Henry – 4:30 7 p.m. — Major League Baseball: fee ranges from $200 to $350 per team. allowing six runs — five Philadelphia 34 48 .415 20 x-L.A. Lakers 45 37 .549 11 p.m.; Junior varsity baseball vs. Coldwa- Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds (WGN) For more information, contact JCC’s wooden bat he provided. Toronto 34 48 .415 20 Sacramento 28 54 .341 28 ter – 5 p.m.; Middle school track vs. 8 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: First round – Carolyn Carducci at (260) 726-6477. earned — on eight hits and I recall listening to him Phoenix 25 57 .305 31 Franklin Monroe and Marion Local – Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets (TNT) •••••••••• three walks in 4 2/3 overSoutheast Division Unionx-clinched playoff City spot 4:30 p.m. 10:30 p.m. — NBA Playoffs: First If you would like to have your event list- give directions during one WLPctGB y-clinched division South Adams — Baseball at Her- round – Memphis Grizzlies at Los Ange- ed in “Sports on tap”, email details to innings. Eric Pimentel had balmy weekend double- z-MiamiUNION CITY 66 16 — .805 On — z-clinched conference itage – 5 p.m.; Softball at Heritage – 5 les Clippers (TNT) [email protected]. a hit, a run and an RBI. header, telling the group of Tuesday night, the kids that he was going to Starfires needed a three- Local stop throwing BP if he set victory to knock off found any balls they failed Blackford. There was no roundup to shag inside the netted such pressure Wednesday. cage. You can bet those kids The South Adams High made an extra effort to snag School boys tennis team every last one in order to dominated the Union City keep him locked in. Indians, rolling to a 4-1 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) to Ben Van- Listening to that victory. Camp at No. 1 singles. exchange while I was shoot- The Starfires picked up Cody Simindinger and ing photos along the first a pair of shutout victories, Cody Baker each won jun- base line was a more mem- with No. 3 singles player ior varsity matches. orable experience this sum- Jared Rife blanking mer than any home runs Kullen Weiss 6-0, 6-0. SA girls place third jacked by Portland power Dylan Pierce and Blake OSSIAN — The South hitters. Baumer defeated Chris Adams Middle School It’s that kind of personal Lambdin and Austin girls cross country team interaction that makes Green by the same score at placed third out of 10 Portland Rockets baseball No. 2 doubles. teams with 89 points at special. Sure a kid might be Landon Lehman and Wednesday’s Norwell Invi- impressed by the size of the Cole Myers won the No.1 tational. stadium at a Fort Wayne doubles match 6-0, 6-1 over The East Jay girls were Tin Caps game or pro game, Reece Martin and Jacob seventh with 164 points. but I can guarantee none of Mayfield, and Dexter The SAMS boys were sixth those players are going to Miller beat Tyler Gund- out of 10 teams with 196 toss a kid batting practice lach 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2 singles. points, and the East Jay between innings. Brayden Myers took the boys were eighth with 233. See Garbacz page 11 only loss for SAHS, falling See Local page 11 Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Cincinnati knocks Jay spikers host off the Cardinals, Rebels Thursday, see In review Sports see Sports on tap

Page 12 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Cadets blank SA in Drama queens tourney BERNE — The Starfires were at their best late in Jay wins the season. But the momentum wasn’t another enough to carry them in the tournament. sectional South Adams couldn’t break through against the Concordia Cadets as it fell thriller 6-0 on its home field in the quarterfinal round of the Class A Sectional 37 girls soccer tournament. By RAY COONEY Concordia junior Cayla The Commercial Review Fagg controlled the game YORKTOWN — The Patriots as she had a part in each would much rather advance of her team’s four first- with a nice, boring multi-goal half goals. victory. They just can’t seem to Fagg scored the first avoid tournament drama. two goals for the Cadets Jay County fell behind twice Tuesday and needed a goal on a (6-11-1) with one of those Catherine Dunn penalty kick coming from a Carsen just to force overtime. Alex Loy Sassmanshausen assist. then gave the Patriots the game- She then assisted on winning goal as JCHS edged the scores by Hannah Davis Muncie Central Bearcats in the and Courtney Adams. opening round of the Class 2A Amber Klinger and Sectional 15 girls soccer tourna- Sassmanshausen each ment at Yorktown Sports Park. scored goals for Concor- “Oh my gosh,” said JCHS dia in the second half, and coach Abby Champ. “It’s nerve- Myrthe Harkenrider wracking. We’ll take a win. added an assist. (Winning in overtime) is always Senior Rachel Simon better than going to (penalty recorded the only shot on kicks). We’d like to do it in reg- goal of the game for the ulation. Starfires (7-10), who had “But you know what, a win is won four of their last five a win. I’m not going to com- games with three of those plain.” victories coming by The game marked the sixth shutout. SAHS opened the straight season in which the season with five straight Patriots have had a sectional losses before going 7-4 in game decided in the final three its final 11 games of the minutes or later. JCHS lost 2-1 regular season. to Marion in overtime in 2007; Goalie Alaina John- fell 1-0 in a penalty-kick ston, a sophomore, fin- shootout to Eastern in ’08; ished with 36 saves. topped South Adams 3-2 in sud- Concordia advances to den-death penalty kicks in ’09; play Canterbury in the and lost 1-0 to Norwell in a semifinal round at 10 a.m. penalty-kick shootout in 2010. Saturday. Canterbury Tuesday marked their second defeated Heritage 4-0 in consecutive dramatic sectional its quarterfinal game win over Muncie Central after Monday. The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney Sammi Compton scored the The remaining quarter- game-winning goal with just final games will pit Bish- Jay County goalie Brooke Reynard protects the ball as she tries to avoid a collision 2:26 in last season’s 4-3, open- op Luers against Black- with Maggie Byrnes of Muncie Central during the second half of their opening-round sectional ing-round victory. hawk Christian today and game Tuesday at Yorktown Sports Park. The Patriots won 4-3 in overtime. See Drama page 11 Eastbrook against Wood- lan on Thursday. Arians steps in for Colts By MICHAEL MAROT ness. The longtime NFL offensive coordi- AP Sports Writer nator has no illusions about the job as he INDIANAPOLIS — Bruce Arians tries to help the Colts get better while always wanted to coach his own NFL everyone hopes coach Chuck Pagano team. returns soon from leukemia treatments. The chance has arrived, and not how “This isn’t a head coaching job for me he wanted it to go. He will be replacing an right now,” Arians said after being old friend on an interim basis in the mid- named Indy’s interim coach Monday. dle of a season because of a serious ill- See Steps page 11 Fever advances to Eastern finals INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — series against the two-time The Indiana Fever respond- defending Eastern Confer- ed to Atlanta’s physical ence champions. play by pushing back and “We knew they were overpowering the Dream. going to be physical, but we Katie Douglas scored 24 stepped up to the challenge points and Erlana Larkins and were right back physi- had 16 points and 20 cal with them, and people rebounds to help the Fever don’t expect that from us,” beat the Dream 75-64 on Catchings said. Tuesday night to advance Lindsey Harding led to the Eastern Conference Atlanta with 17 points. finals. Indiana pulled away by Tamika Catchings added holding the Dream to 6- 16 points, 11 rebounds and for-18 shooting in the four blocks and Briann Jan- fourth. The Fever avoided uary also scored 16 points a repeat of last year’s con- for the Fever, who recov- ference finals when they ered from a Game 1 loss at lost to Atlanta at home in home to win the best-of-3 Game 3.