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Estimates to be sought for work on roof, porch and siding

By ROSE SKELLY The Commercial Review REDKEY — The park cabin may be getting some repairs. Redkey Town Council on Thursday voted to look into renovating the Red - key Morgan Park cabin, which is in need of repairs to its roof, porch and siding. It also approved a pay - ment for sewer lining in the town. The town has submitted insurance claims for the cabin, the concession building and the little dia - mond building. After a $1,000 deductible, the town was offered $1,178 for the cabin roof and $2,049 for the concession building. The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz The money would not be enough to rehabilitate the cabin, council presi - Delta downed dent Terri Taylor pointed The Jay County High School volleyball team, including from left Grace Brewster (3), Natalie Miles, Pacie Denney out. (13), Sara Hemmelgarn (back right), Hallie Fields (middle right) and Madison Dirksen (15), celebrate the Patriots' 3-1 upset “My concern is, we have of the Class 3A No. 6 Delta Eagles. It was the first win against the Eagles in more than 30 years. to figure out what we want to fix and where the money’s going to come from,” Taylor said. “I think this porch is a dire need.” Concern rises about Amazon fires Town attorney Wes Schemenaur reminded By MARCELO to curb widespread defor - Thursday with France’s Literally. The Amazon rain sationalist tone he used council that the town has SILVA de SOUSA estation. president over the fires. forest — the lungs which does nothing to solve the $50,000 in economic devel - Associated Press The threat to what some French President produces 20% of our plan - problem.” opment funds from the RIO DE JANEIRO — call “the lungs of the plan - Emmanuel Macron called et’s oxygen — is on fire,” Onyx Lorenzoni, the Bluff Point Wind Energy Amid global concern about et” has ignited a bitter dis - the wildfires an interna - Macron tweeted. president’s chief of staff, Center project available raging fires in the Amazon, pute about who is to blame tional crisis and said the Bolsonaro fired back earlier in the day accused for projects. Brazil’s government com - during the tenure of a leaders of the Group of 7 with his own tweet: “I European countries of “You should really plained Thursday that it is leader who has described nations should hold urgent regret that Macron seeks to exaggerating environmen - strongly consider that being targeted in smear Brazil’s rainforest protec - discussions about them at make personal political tal problems in Brazil in because I know this is campaign by critics who tions as an obstacle to eco - their summit in France this gains in an internal matter order to disrupt its com - something you guys have contend President Jair Bol - nomic development and weekend. for Brazil and other Ama - mercial interests. talked about out here for sonaro is not doing enough who traded Twitter jabs on “Our house is burning. zonian countries. The sen - See Fires page 5 years, is being in dire need of some repairs,” Scheme - naur said. “And this is like manna from heaven.” N. Dakota agency disregarded own policy A complicating factor is By JAMES MacPHERSON site have been done in the past two state last October that it had was in a file, but people (the pub - that if Jay County were to Associated Press years as cleanup continued. recovered 240,000 gallons of the lic) didn’t know where to find it.” win the Stellar Communi - BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dako - Oklahoma-based Oneok Part - liquid gas. The second sum was An incident report has not been ties designation — the Jay! ta’s Health Department disregard - ners LP reported a 10-gallon (38- not put into an incident report done since June 2017. At that time, Region is currently one of ed its own policy in updating the liter) spill of natural gas liquids, that can be accessed on the the report said the spill site would four finalists in the state volume of a 2015 pipeline spill at a or “condensate,” from an under - agency’s website. be inspected quarterly. Glatt said — the town could receive natural gas processing plant, and ground pipeline at its Garden “It should have been updated,” he was investigating whether that funds to revamp the it remains unclear whether prom - Creek gas plant near Watford City State Environmental Quality had happened. cabin. ised quarterly inspections of the in July 2015. The company told the Chief Dave Glatt said Thursday. “It See Policy page 2 See Cabin page 2 First exhibit Longtime visitor displaying Stirlings By LOUISE RONALD Of course, most of the exhibits at the Special to The Commercial Review show provide insight into how households, Dale Kohler of Although Dale Kohler of Delaware, farms and factories were run before elec - Delaware, Ohio, shows Ohio, has attended the Tri-State Gas tricity became commonplace. But the tech - off his Stirling engine Engine and Tractor Association Show for nology that powers Kohler’s engine pre - Wednesday afternoon at years, 2019 marks his first year to set up as dates the internal combustion engines that the Tri-State Gas Engine an exhibitor at Jay County Fairgrounds. dominate the show. and Tractor Association Compared to the surrounding displays, The Rev. Robert Stirling of Scotland, one Show at Jay County his is a modest one. of a family of inventors, developed the Fairgrounds. Kohler is a A medium-sized trailer is dominated by Stirling engine in the early 1800s. It takes an engine about 5 feet tall bolted to the longtime attendee of the advantage of the principle that hot air floor. The engine powers a garden fountain expands and cool air contracts, moving the show, but has his own of about the same height just outside the air between cylinders to create a regular, display set up for the trailer. A few pumps, posters, other quiet motion. first time. machines and more small engines are One of the most striking differences sprinkled around. between Kohler’s display and his neigh - Then there’s Kohler himself, keeping an bors’ is how quietly his engine runs. eye out for visitors, ready and willing to Another difference is how little time explain each part of his display to every - Kohler needs to spend adjusting or tinker - one who stops to listen. ing with the engine. To find him, look for a black trailer with “It can run all day without anyone “Before Electricity” emblazoned on both attending it,” he said. Special to The Commercial Review/Louise Ronald sides. See First page 2

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Portland Municipal Airport Saturday — Results from Jay County got about 0.8 inch - degrees. will host its annual pancake tonight’s JCHS football game es of rain Thursday. The high A high of 80 is expected Sun - breakfast and fly-in Saturday. against Norwell. temperature was 76 degrees, and day under mostly sunny skies Breakfast will run from 6 to the low was 67. before scattered storms are pos - 10:30 a.m. at the airport, 661 W. Tuesday — Coverage of Tonight’s low will be in the sible Monday and Tuesday. 100 North. Flights in airplanes Monday’s Dunkirk City Coun - low 50s. Skies will be mostly See page 2 for an extended out - and helicopters will begin at 8 cil meeting. sunny Saturday with a high of 75 look. a.m. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local/Nation Friday, August 23, 2019 Cabin ... Continued from page 1 end of July, in time for the U.S. while constructing wind tur - •Were informed that the locks to vacate Wayne Avenue (on the “So are we going to wait for Department of Agriculture’s bines in Richland Township. on the park cabin will be west side of Indiana 1 across the Stellar, are we going to wait Aug. 1 deadline. Stanley told council a hydrant changed. There have been issues from Wayne Street). Schemenaur for it (the cabin) to fall down Council approved a payment has been installed at the inter - with unauthorized individuals told council the resident would around us, are we going to patch of $421,287.61 to Brackney, Inc., section of Indiana 1 and gaining access to the cabin, tak - have to formally make a request what we need to patch or what the contractor for the lining Mitchell Street for the company ing the supplies stored there and in writing, notify the neighbors, are we going to do?” Taylor work. The money comes from a to use. leaving trash in the building. publish a notice in the newspa - asked. grant from the USDA. •Discussed but ultimately •Approved leak adjustments per and have a public meeting Council ultimately decided to In other business, council decided against modifying the of $101.48 for Loretta Ful - before council could vote on ask a contractor to provide spec - members Dave Dudelston, Doug water ordinance to allow lenkamp, $228.74 for Jeanette vacating a street or alley. ifications for the building, giv - Stanley, Randy May and Taylor, licensed plumbers to access Templeton and $297.96 for •Donated $400 to A Better Life ing estimates for how much var - absent Ted Friddle: meter pits without permission Champ Properties Inc. – Brianna’s Hope from the ious repairs to the roof, porch •Purchased a portable water from the town. •Paid claims of $317,040.13. town’s promotional fund. and siding would cost. meter from Utility Supply Com - “That’s our utility,” Stanley •Heard that the town will send •Acknowledged the Redkey Council also heard an update pany of Indianapolis for said. “We should know when letters to property owners with Festival Committee for a suc - on the sanitary sewer lining $1,461.54. It was $110 more than people are in there.” multiple residences on one prop - cessful Gas Boom Days on Aug. work that took place this sum - the meter from Midwest Meter, •Reimbursed Melissa Wright erty (such as a duplex). Each res - 10. mer throughout the town. but of higher quality and avail - $60 for recently renting the park idence must have its own meter, •Scheduled a special meeting Mitch Hansel of Fleis and able immediately. The meter will cabin. The cabin was not according to town ordinance. for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to dis - VandenBrink told council that be used to assess how much cleaned and there were no paper •Were informed that a resident cuss getting new playground the lining was completed at the water Scout Clean Energy uses supplies available for her event. is interested in asking the town equipment. Church cites freedom of speech CR almanac INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis asked a judge church illegally inter - Layton Payne-Elliott, Catholic church leaders in Wednesday to dismiss a fered in his contract with teaches at Brebeuf Jesuit Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Indianapolis are citing lawsuit by Joshua Payne- the school. But in a court Preparatory School in 8/24 8/25 8/26 8/27 8/28 the First Amendment as a Elliott, who worked at filing, the archdiocese Indianapolis. Brebeuf defense to a lawsuit filed Cathedral High School for says its decisions are pro - refused to fire Layton. The by a teacher who was fired 13 years. The school fired tected by the First Amend - archdiocese said it no because he’s in a same-sex him in June on orders ment and the separation longer recognizes Bre - marriage. from the archdiocese. of church and state. beuf as a Catholic institu - The Archdiocese of Payne-Elliott says the Payne-Elliott’s spouse, tion. 75/53 80/64 74/67 77/60 78/59 The high Expect Rain is Scattered Expect temperature mostly sunny expected in thunder - sunny skies will again be skies with a the morning storms are with a high of in the mid high of 80. with scattered expected 78. Felony arrests 70s under thunder - again. The mostly sunny storms to fol - high will be in skies. low in the the upper New charges possession of a syringe and posses - cotics or methamphetamine and afternoon. 70s. A Redkey man faces several new sion of methamphetamine, both possession of a syringe, both Level 6 charges after being arrested Thurs - Level 6 felonies, and public intoxica - felonies, and possession of a con - day on several warrants. tion, a Class B misdemeanor. Addi - trolled substance and resisting and Richard D. Hall, 33, 58 E. Charles tional preliminary charges stem - office, both Class A misdemeanors. Lotteries Way, Redkey, was arrested Thursday ming from the arrest about 10 p.m. He is being held in Jay County evening on warrants for unlawful were possession of cocaine, nar - Jail on a $14,500 bond. Powerball 10-11-14-36-46-52-61-62-64- Estimated jackpot: $50 68-69-72-75-79-80 million Cash 5: 2-8-12-23-32 Estimated jackpot: Capsule Reports Mega Millions $323,000 Estimated jackpot: $90 Intersection crash through the intersection in Engine and Tractor Associ - went off the road and million Ohio A collision between vehi - his 2006 Toyota Camry and ation Show at Jay County struck a pole Tuesday Midday cles driven by a Dunkirk the vehicles collided. Wat - Fairgrounds. morning. Hoosier Pick 3: 6-5-8 man and a Ridgeville son’s vehicle went off the According to a Jay Coun - Carly L. Hess, 30, told road and into a ditch. ty Sheriff’s Office reports, Jay County Sheriff’s Midday Pick 4: 8-3-4-0 woman resulted in an Kyleigh Weiss, Roger W. Sheets, 73, Maren - Office she was driving Daily Three: 9-0-3 Pick 5: 8-6-1-6-8 injury Tuesday afternoon. Evening Ron Berry, 79, Dunkirk, Ridgeville, a passenger in go, Ohio, was backing his north on county road 300 Daily Four: 5-2-9-0 Watson’s vehicle, com - golf cart at the fairgrounds Pick 3: 7-8-9 was driving east on county East near county road 125 Quick Draw: 1-2-4-7-8- plained of neck pain follow - when it struck a parked South and was tending to Pick 4: 8-3-6-5 road 400 South and stopped 15-16-18-22-26-33-39-57-58- at its intersection with ing the collision. 2012 Ford F150 registered to her daughter in the back Pick 5: 3-6-6-2-6 61-64-67-68-76-80 county road 250 West on Estimated damage in the Galen L. Bauman of seat. As she was doing so, Evening Rolling Cash 5: 8-12-13- Tuesday afternoon. Accord - 12:39 p.m. collision was Bluffton. her 2005 Ford Escape went Daily Three: 9-2-0 29-39 ing to a Jay County Sher - between $5,000 and $10,000. Damage in the 6 p.m. off the east side of the Daily Four: 3-0-7-0 Estimated jackpot: iff’s Office report, he failed accident was estimated road and struck a Jay Quick Draw: 2-4-5-7-8- $100,000 to see a 2012 Kia Optima Show strike between $1,000 and $2,500. County REMC utility driven by Olivia D. Watson, Minor damage was pole. 21, Ridgeville, approaching caused Monday evening Off the road Damage was estimated Markets from the south. Berry when a golf cart struck a A vehicle driven by a between $5,000 and $10,000 attempted to proceed vehicle at the Tri-State Gas rural Portland woman in the 7:45 a.m. accident. Sunrise Oct. corn ...... 4.01 St. Anthony Nov. corn ...... 3.99 Corn ...... 4.06 Central States Exhibit ... Sept. corn ...... 4.06 Beans ...... 8.50 Montpelier Continued from page 1 beyond the means of most house - Kohler’s attention gradually shift - Sept. beans ...... 8.25 Corn ...... 3.77 All a Stirling engine requires is a holds. Stirling engines always have ed from gas engines to the Stirling source of heat: wood or coal in the been more expensive than their gas technology. Wheat ...... 4.77 Sept. corn ...... 3.73 Beans ...... 8.57 early days, kerosene or gas later. counterparts, Kohler said. Not sur - “I like unusual things,” he said. Kohler uses a propane tank to fuel prisingly, many were scrapped “The more I learned about them, the Cooper Farms S e p t. b e a n s ...... 8 .5 1 Wheat ...... 4.77 his. when electricity became widely more interested I was.” Fort Recovery Stirling engines were built in all available. A few of the exhibits around Aug. corn ...... 4.01 sizes to power everything from den - Old ones, especially old ones that Kohler’s have more Stirling engines, The Andersons tist drills in the Old West to self-pro - have what they need to be opera - but he said they are not often seen at Sept. corn ...... 4.01 Richland Township Oct./Nov. corn ...... 3.99 pelling fans to window displays at tional, are rare. Kohler got his from shows. He described the machines Corn ...... 4.00 Macy’s Department Store in New a collector in Colorado. Only after as “heavy but delicate.” So not only Sept. corn ...... 3.90 York City, Kohler said. They still are he bought it did Kohler realize that are they hard to move, they also are POET Biorefining Beans ...... 8.34 being built today for use in parts of Colorado man had purchased it easy to break. If one topples over, Portland Sept. beans ...... 8.39 the world where electricity isn’t from Delaware, Ohio, his own home it’s done for. That’s why Kohler’s has Aug. corn ...... 4.06 Wheat ...... 4.67 available or service is intermittent. town. a permanent home bolted to the Sept. corn ...... 3.96 Sept. wheat ...... 4.67 Kohler’s engine — a Caloric man - “It came full circle,” he said. floor of his trailer. ufactured by the Bremen Co. of Bre - It was in high school in Delaware He seems to relish the role of men, Ohio — is a size that often was that Kohler, a retired machinist, exhibitor and to have the chance to hooked up to an attic cistern or a became fascinated with engines. He talk about his engine. Today in history well to pump running water through credits that to his teacher, Allan “Very few people are aware of a house. The 350-pound engine usu - King, an author and longtime regu - Stirling engines and how they oper - On August 23, 1927 , statue, inspired by the ally lived in the basement. lar at Tri-State shows before his ate,” said Kohler. amid worldwide Hans Christian Ander - The cost of such an engine was death several years ago. Not if they stop and listen to him. protests, Italian-born sen story, was unveiled anarchists Nicola Sacco in the harbor of the Dan - and Bartolomeo ish capital. Vanzetti were executed In 1914 , Japan Policy ... in Boston for the mur - declared war against Continued from page 1 ders of two men during Germany in World War He said the agency is now a 1920 robbery. (On the I. working to develop a user- 50th anniversary of In 1939 , Nazi Ger - friendly tracking system on their executions, then- many and the Soviet its website to update the Massachusetts Gov. Union agreed to a non- status and include all docu - Michael Dukakis issued aggression treaty, the ments on reported spills. a proclamation that Molotov-Ribbentrop “It’s all going to be right Sacco and Vanzetti had Pact, in Moscow. there,” Glatt said, adding been unfairly tried and In 1966 , Jay United that he did not know when convicted.) Fund For You (now Unit - it would be in place. In 1775 , Britain’s ed Way of Jay County) Glatt previously had told King George III pro - announced its annual The Associated Press that claimed the American campaign goal at $48,818. the agency does not update colonies to be in a state In 1999 , The Dow initial public reports on of “open and avowed Jones industrial average spills. rebellion.” soared 199.15 to a then- In 1913 , Copen - record of 11,299.76. hagen’s Little Mermaid —AP and The CR SERVICES Saturday Citizen’s calendar Craig , Gail: 1 p.m., Little Sala - monia Church, 1098 E. 300 Today 5 p.m. — Dunkirk South, Portland. Park Board, park Grim , Ruth: 1 p.m., Salamo - 3:30 p.m. — Jay Coun - nia United Church of Christ, ty Solid Waste Manage - garage. 3848 S. 600 East, Salamonia. ment District, district 7 p.m. — Dunkirk City office, 5948 W. Indiana Council, city building, 67, Portland. 131 S. Main St. Service listings provided by PROGRESSIVE Monday Wednesday OFFICE PRODUCTS 11 a.m. — Portland 9 a.m. — Jay County 120 N. Meridian St. Commissioners, com - Housing Authority, com - missioners’ room, court - munity room, Jay Coun - Portland, Indiana 47371 house, 120 N. Court St., ty Public Library, 315 N. (260) 726-9201 Portland. Ship St., Portland. progressiveofficeproducts.com The Commercial Review Friday, August 23, 2019 Family Page 3

Farming workshop set for Sept. 17 A workshop for farmers is scheduled for next month. “Weathering the Storm in Agriculture,” a program being put on by Jay Count’s Pur - due Exten - Taking sion office Note and Jay County Farm Bureau, will be held at 4 p.m. Sept. 17 at Homan Farms, 6285 N. 1025 West, Pennville. The event will feature Kelly Heckaman, a Kosciusko County Purdue Extension educator focus - ing on agriculture and nat - ural resources, and Angela Photo provided Sorg, a DeKalb County Purdue Extension educa - tor focusing on health and human sciences. They will Officers elected discuss how to cultivate a Jay County FFA recently held officer elections for the 2019-20 term. Pictured, front row from left, during their productive mindset in trip to Louisville, Kentucky, for officer training, are Devan Bennett (secretary), Victoria Kunk (historian), Paige Finch agriculture. (reporter), Ava Stockton (vice president), Gabi Paxson (president), Lindy Mercer (historian), Hannah Muhlenkamp A meal will follow the (chaplin) and Logan McGinnis (treasurer). Back row, from left are Faustina Muhlenkamp (student advisor), Rachel hour-long presentation. Muhlenkamp (parliamentarian), Jackson Lyons (sentinel), Tim Muhlenkamp (reporter), Maria Dirksen (treasurer), Sara To make a reservation, Muhlenkamp (vice president), Lucas Lyons (secretary). contact Larry Temple at [email protected] or (260) 726-4707. Loans available Small Business Admin - istration loans are avail - Alzheimer’s keeps couple at home able to farmers to help them recover from dam - DEAR ABBY: I have been mar - better than she is. Social stimu - DEAR O.M.D.S.: I disagree ages and crop losses from ried 35 years. During the last six lation is important, and the with your husband. 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The objective is to fill a nine-by nine grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine three-by- three boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each. The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Friday, August 23, 2019 Take the time to thank a teacher By SCOTT UNDERWOOD lowing, “Ring the bell for tough job today, teaching kids shrinking faster than paper in Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Shell!” who, fundamentally, aren’t much fire. Mrs. Meeks. Mrs. Leffel. Mrs. Scott None of us really knew what it different. Not all teachers, of course, are Tate. meant, other than that we needed But the challenges today seem role models and topshelf profes - Mrs. McBride. Mrs. Naragon. Under - to look alert and pay attention. greater, since schools have sionals. Some of them were never Mrs. Garner. Mr. Doubt. Mrs. Krebs had perhaps the become relied upon to provide a really well suited for the profes - Yep, I remember not only the wood greatest influence on my future, broad range of services — special sion. Not many people are. names of my elementary school recognizing my potential as a needs education, free lunches, But most are truly amazing teachers but how they looked, writer and praising my progress counseling, individualized educa - people who care about the stu - how they talked and little things in her English class. tion plans, etc. — beyond the ol’ dents and the community and they did. In sixth grade, I had Mr. In high school, Mrs. Bales fur - readin’, writin’ and arithmetic. approach their work as a profes - Mrs. Leffel, my first-grade Doubt, who seemed to ther cultivated my interest in the Now more than ever, teachers sion, not just a job. schoolmarm, once stepped over know everything about every - written word while Mr. Jones and must be thickskinned but sensi - Take the time to thank them my sleeping mat, and I inadver - thing, without a doubt. Mr. Gilbert made the study of his - tive, school wise but street smart, today. And recognize that, for you tently caught an unwanted From each of them, I learned tory intriguing. And, of course, levelheaded but bighearted. and your child, the difference glimpse of her undergarments. a foundation of facts that Mr. Underwood managed to bring Some days, it can seem like a they’re making will last a life - Still makes me blush. helped me think beyond my humor to biology while keeping thankless job. Other days, they’re time. “Bearfeathers!” my fifth-grade plans for the next recess period. his son in line. rewarded with kind words or sur - •••••••••• teacher, Mrs. Garner, frequently Top-rate teachers continued Perhaps you’re like me and prising progress from a student. Underwood is editor of the Her - exclaimed, employing an equally to pave my path through junior remember your teachers with an In Indiana, as in many other ald Bulletin in Anderson and colorful but more wholesome high, where Mr. Faudree loved appreciation that has deepened states, teachers are underpaid Community News Holding’s Inc.’s expression for calling BS on stu - to startle us by whacking the with the passing of time. and overworked. Sure, they have regional editor for Indiana and dents who were less than forth - metal frame of the overhead It was a tough job, teaching ras - the summer off, but “summer,” as Illinois. Email him at scott.under - right. screen in math class and bel - cally kids like we were. And it’s a defined by the school calendar, is [email protected]. The West needs to protect journalist The Washington Post A sigh of relief greeted the 2016 release from prison Guest of the Azerbaijani journal - ist Khadija Ismayilova after 537 days in jail. She was Editorial unjustly incarcerated to silence her investigations of high-level corruption and cronyism. But the struggle still goes on. In another blatant attempt at harassment, Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court on Aug. 7 ... Ismayilova upheld trumped-up charges of tax evasion against her. uncovered As a reporter, Ismayilova hidden uncovered hidden finan - cial links in the telecom - financial munications, construction, links in the gold mining, hotel, media and airline services indus - telecomm- tries in Azerbaijan. Then, unications, in 2014, she was arrested and imprisoned. The construction, money flows and property holdings she exposed gold mining, belonged to Azerbaijan’s hotel, media president, Ilham Aliyev, and his family, who used and airline their positions to vastly services Cancer doesn’t need cliches enrich themselves. industries in By ALEX DVORAK to chemo, through blizzards, in their Aliyev, who has ruled Special to The Washington Post four-wheel drives. I wanted our loved Azerbaijan as a personal Azerbaijan. I am not a “fighter” because I sur - ones to enjoy their sense of relief, but fiefdom, succeeded his vived Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 19. I am Alex I didn’t understand why I was the father, Heydar Aliyev, who lucky among the unlucky. focus of celebration. Everything had also ran the oil-rich former In the face of serious illness, espe - Dvorak happened to me. Unlike a soldier Soviet republic for more cially cancer, we immediately declare given an external enemy, mine was than a decade. Both have the honorarium from a patients as “fighters,” or talk about internal — when it came down to it, shown a predilection for UNESCO award she won in “winning” or “losing” the battle with the enemy was me. I was to blame for the iron fist. Reporters 2016. She is also under a the disease. That stock phrasing my family’s unrelenting fear and Without Borders ranks travel ban, and her bank shows up in news headlines and char - along with a bag of pill bottles and sleepless nights. Every congratulato - Azerbaijan 166th out of 180 accounts have been frozen. ity campaigns; it’s spoken by politi - the needles I used to give myself shots ry “You won the battle” just remind - countries and regions in its In January, the European cians, celebrities and well-meaning of white blood cells. Despite my best ed me of what I’d really, privately 2019 World Press Freedom Court of Human Rights acquaintances alike. Each person has efforts, my basic presence, a walking won: post-traumatic stress, agora - Index. ruled on Ismayilova’s 2013 the right to describe their experience reminder of death, could darken the phobia and addiction to morphine. I Freedom House says complaint that Azerbaijani of their disease as they see fit, but it mood in the room. I lifted a hood over didn’t feel victorious. Now, I had to Azerbaijan is “not free” authorities mishandled a often feels impossible to avoid terms my cancer tell — a shiny head piece my life together, wracked with and adds, “Constitutional blackmail campaign like “attack,” “invade,” and “fight,” — exchanged the word “cancer” for guilt over why I’d lived, while others guarantees for press free - against her. She received a which are so deeply embedded in can - “sick” and shoved down my anxiety — who I’d been sure would survive dom are routinely and sys - threatening letter with still cer culture. to appear put-together. — hadn’t. tematically violated, as the photographs taken from a For me, military language was a People wanted me to be the face of Yet despite this experience, when I government works to video secretly made in her way for the people around me to cancer — upbeat and optimistic, was in remission and learned my maintain a tight grip on bedroom of her having sex evade the complex realities that despite my suffering — while lym - friend was diagnosed with leukemia, the information landscape. with her then-boyfriend. accompanied my diagnosis. It put the phoma acted like a tornado in my life, I fell back on the euphemistic lan - Defamation remains a The letter demanded she gray areas of living with cancer tearing through any normalcy. In oth - guage I’d rejected. I rushed to the hos - criminal offense. Journal - “refrain from what you are — the physical anguish, and the exis - ers’ eyes, my diagnosis had put me on pital to spend time with her. Her ists — and their relatives doing, otherwise you will tential uncertainty — into stark, con - the fast track to sainthood, but on the morale was low; she was upset at her — faced harassment, be shamed.” Soon there - frontational terms. That vocabulary inside, I was an angst-filled teenager, lack of freedom. “Nurses walk in and threats, violence, and after, the video was posted stamped me as brave and heroic feeling singled out and misunder - out, these IVs are stuck to me, there’s intimidation by authori - on the Internet. when I felt most weak and defense - stood. I didn’t know how to express no privacy,” she said. She asked if I ties. Many have been Ismayilova discovered less. I was convinced that I would let how others’ vocabulary affected me. knew anyone with the disease. I said detained or imprisoned on secret cameras in her everybody down. Eventually, my dad had to act as a yes, and then clammed up. I didn’t fabricated charges, while apartment and demanded When news of my diagnosis broke gatekeeper, politely telling friends I want to divulge that he’d died. others face travel bans.” an investigation. The Euro - out, my community forgot I was the wasn’t up for visitors. My mounting Reading my expression, my friend The latest insult is a tax pean Court found that it same person. They saw only illness, isolation lengthened the road to told me, “Alex, I know people die from bill the government says was not possible to prove and it showed in the way they spoke recovery. what I have. We can say it out loud.” Ismayilova must pay for “beyond reasonable doubt” to me. They tried to console me with When a fellow patient died, people Even as a survivor, I’d fallen into the Radio Free Europe/ Radio that the Azerbaijani gov - encouragement. One family friend would say, “She lost her battle, but pattern of trying to shield her, Liberty. She was the ernment had carried out confided, “I’m close with a woman you’ll win yours.” They thought that through language, from the dangers RFE/RL Azerbaijani Ser - the smear. But, the court who had a breast growth and worked this metaphor would uplift me. But already inside her body. From that vice’s Baku bureau chief said, the government had full time during treatment, didn’t the implication that someone else moment on, we had an understand - from 2008 to 2010. Ismayilo - botched the investigation even lose her hair.” A classmate died because they had, in some way, ing: no tiptoeing allowed, even with a va says there are no taxes and failed to protect Ismay - offered: “I read about this man who failed, or not been persistent enough difficult topic. That understanding to pay — the organization ilova’s rights to privacy cured his inoperable malignancy on to survive, put more pressure on my bonded us forever. is a nonprofit — and the and freedom of expression. his own. Poof, gone one day to the own health. What we both craved most during charges are part of a wider She was awardedabout next.” Within days, I had dropped out The only war raging on was the one our treatment was openness. We did - pressure campaign against $19,000 in damages and of college and moved home to get between my doctors and my lym - n’t want people to hold us up as brave her. court costs. chemotherapy full-time; my eyelash - phoma. My oncologists ordered warriors; we wanted them to face the She says the government It was a small pushback es and eyebrows fell out. I couldn’t chemo, which coursed through my discomfort with us. The sick and the accuses her of illegal entre - against Azerbaijan’s measure up to these cancer prodigies. veins to combat the tumor growing healthy are on the same side — all preneurship because, lack - relentless repression of But I did the best I could to muster on my heart and lungs. Tumor vs. scared of the same malady. But the ing foreign ministry journalists and free speech. the energy and composure that these chemo. I was a body stuck in the mid - destructiveness of cancer can’t be accreditation, “all the Now, another Western words demanded of me. I tried to hide dle. glossed over with cliches. money I earn from foreign response is needed to pro - the atrocities of my daily life from the After my course of treatment was •••••••••• media is illegal.” She told tect this courageous jour - well-wishers who seemed unable to finished, my parents threw a dinner Dvorak is a writer, speaker and can - Voice of America that she nalist from renewed perse - accept life’s impermanence with me. I party, inviting family friends who cer survivor who advocates for young is still fighting to acquire cution. hid my IV pole in my bedroom closet, made us weekly meals and drove me patients and is working on a memoir. The Commercial Review US PS 125820 HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

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Their South Bend abortion borns suffering from exposure to goal is to certify the infants as a clinic to remain open opioids in the womb have made a class later this year and bring a without a state- last-ditch plea for special legal class-action suit against drug required license until treatment for the infants and their companies under the auspices of there is a final ruling in guardians. Polster and the larger litigation. a lawsuit on the license. Lawyers representing a group An estimated 32,000 babies were The 7th Circuit Court that may number more than born with the withdrawal syn - of Appeals issued the 250,000 children have spent much drome in 2014 — about one every ruling Thursday, of the past two years seeking a 15 minutes, according to the thwarting an attempt separate trial against drug compa - National Institute on Drug Abuse. by Indiana Attorney nies but have been rebuffed twice That is a more than fivefold General Curtis Hill to by the judge who oversees the increase from 2004. reverse the opening of sprawling legal case. The children The infants are prone to low the Whole Woman’s are still included in that lawsuit, birth weights and suffer trem - Health clinic in June. along with about 2,000 other plain - bling, irritability, gastrointestinal The appeals panel also tiffs, against some two dozen problems and sleep dysfunction, ruled that the state may defendants from the pharmaceuti - Washington Post/Bill O’Leary among other symptoms. They can perform inspections cal industry. have seizures unless they are and require other med - The children’s lawyers also have Ashley Kennedy, left, watches nurse practitioner Kay carefully weaned off drugs by complained that attorneys for ical regulations, but Mathias examine her infant daughter Makenzee during a 2015 health-care providers. that the clinic can con - cities and counties spearheading Research on the long-term tinue to provide med - the lawsuit have refused to let visit. Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore has a effects of that experience is limit - ication-induced abor - them take part in settlement nego - department that specializes in weaning newborns off of heroin ed, but some experts are con - tions. tiations that are occurring as the and methadone. cerned that the children will suf - U.S. District Judge trial date approaches. fer cognitive, developmental and Sarah Evans Barker The lawyers, from 20 firms that behavioral problems from the represent children across the scription opioid epidemic, which counties “to address how [the chil - effects of exposure to opioids and ruled in May that the has killed about 200,000 people in dren’s] needs might be more ade - clinic could open with - country, insist that a settlement or withdrawal. The babies’ attor - verdict must yield billions of dol - two decades. The cases, originally quately addressed.” neys have presented opinions out a state-required filed all over the country, were Attorneys for the cities, coun - license until there is a lars specifically earmarked for from experts suggesting that opi - years-long monitoring of the phys - consolidated in a Cleveland feder - ties and other groups issued a oids are harmful to developing final ruling in the case al court, where Judge Dan Aaron statement at the time supporting next year. ical and mental health of children fetuses. born with “neonatal abstinence Polster is overseeing them all. Polster’s decision. “Judge Polster The track record of states that syndrome.” That is the formal Polster has encouraged the hun - decided not to create this separate received money from the tobacco Koch dies name for the cluster of difficult dreds of lawyers involved to work track and we believe his decision settlement is at the core of the WASHINGTON — symptoms endured by babies who out a mass settlement that helps was correct,” they said. “Commu - concerns expressed by the David H. Koch, execu - undergo withdrawal from opioids pay for treatment, emergency care nities in every part of this country infants’ attorneys. In December, a tive vice president of in the days after birth. and other costs of stopping the continue to lose lives every day, coalition of health-care groups Koch Industries Inc. Without that guarantee, the epidemic. If that does not happen, and while each of those communi - reported that states were using and a long-time philan - lawyers contend, cities and towns a test-case trial involving just two ties is unique and has its own sep - only a small portion of their thropist, has died at age are likely to spend any money Ohio counties, Cuyahoga and arate claim, this litigation is the annual payment from the tobacco 79. they receive from drug companies Summit, would begin in October. most effective path towards case settlement to fund smoking His older brother, on more pressing and popular Separately, nearly every state accountability.” prevention and cessation pro - Charles, announced the needs, as some states did with has sued drug companies in their In July, the lawyers for the cities grams. The states were set to death today, saying, “It windfalls from the $206 billion set - own courts, reasoning that they and counties also submitted con - receive $9 billion from the settle - is with a heavy heart tlement with tobacco companies have the advantage there. A ver - sultants’ reports that name preg - ment in 2019 and planned to spend that I now must inform two decades ago. dict in the first of those trials, nant women and newborns as a $655 million on those programs, you of David’s death.” “Our goal is to make sure that between the state of Oklahoma “special population” of people according to the health groups. David Koch, a billion - we do not have a tobacco-style set - and the health-care conglomerate affected by opioids that would be Smith, the lawyer, said he fears aire who lived in New tlement, where all of the money Johnson & Johnson, is expected aided by money from any verdict a similar outcome if the courts York City, was the Lib - goes to the governmental entities Monday. or settlement — signaling that don’t find some way to dedicate ertarian Party’s vice and there’s not a significant trust In December, Polster rejected a they are including those groups in funds for children born with the presidential candidate set aside to help these children,” request for a separate “track,” or their overall strategy. They esti - withdrawal syndrome. in 1980. He was a gener - said Stuart Smith, one of the trial, for the neonatal abstinence mated that those two groups alone “Who is going to take care of ous donor to conserva - lawyers representing the families. syndrome children, a status he would need $10.7 billion over 10 these children? How are they tive political causes as About 2,000 plaintiffs, most of has given to Native American years to remedy the damage going to get the educational, med - well as educational, them cities and counties, have tribes. He instructed their attor - caused by mothers’ opioid use. ical and psychological care they medical and cultural sued about two dozen drug compa - neys to instead meet with top Now, with time running out, the need, and who’s going to pay for groups. nies over culpability for the pre - plaintiff lawyers from cities and attorneys for the children filed a it?” he asked. 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THE JAY SCHOOL Friday405 S 5pm-8pm, WESTERN Satur- AVE listed. ments including physical quote. Call Jim at 260- Manufacturing, ware- CORPORATION JAY day 8am-2pm Baby **If you would like to agility testing, physical 170 PETS COUNTY, INDIANA 997-6774 or Steve at housing, assembly, distri- items, games, toys, consign to this auction– and mental testing and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, 260-997-1414. bution, offices, inside and books, baskets, DVDs, call Laci @ (260)729- Indiana Law Enforcement AKC GERMANpuppies available. SHEP- outdoor storage. Easy that the Board of School HERD Trustees of the The Jay School CDs, clothing and more. 2281.** See www.auc- Academy requirements. Good bloodline. Wormed, access to major highways Corporation (the “Owner’’) will J.Amish L. CONSTRUCTIONcrew. 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Call head cranes available. rior remodeling, drywall, AU01011555 260-726- and Fire pension; Insur- 260-223-6342 Contact Sycamore and Re-Purposing project. windows, doors, siding, 6215 Office 260-726- ance Benefit is $1 per Bids will be accepted at The Jay Group, 419-678-5318, School Corporation Adminis- ZANE’S BARN SALE8am- roofing, foundations. 0541 Cell Laci Smitley year for Employee only www.sycamorespace.co AUGUST 17-24 190 FARMERS COL- tration Office, 1976 West Tyson 5pm. 840 W 100 N (just 260-726-5062, leave AU10600051 Cell 260- coverage to include Med- m Road, Portland, Indiana, until west of airport). Antique message. 729-2281 ical, Prescription, Dental UMN 2:00 p.m.. (local time), on September 10, 2019. Bids will be furniture, crocks, primi- And Vision. $20,000 Life Spreaders: NEED MORE STOR- tives, old mowers, buggy Insurance Policy and BBI,AG RENTAL Artsway Vertical. 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New Installation Anita & The Late Stan struction documents prepared for photos. Jay County’s hours at two years, 192 and repairs. Call Rodney Mosser, Owners; Furni- by Barton-Coe-Vilamaa, Archi- Largest Barn Sale! hours at 10 years and 232 250 PUBLIC NOTICE Thornbury, owner 765- ture; Sterling Silver; tect and Engineers, Inc., which hours at 20 years employ- can be obtained from the office PUBLIC HEARING Fri- 509-0191 Dishes; Tools; House- Public Notice of Barton-Coe-Vilamaa. Call 108 MERIDIAN HTS ment. ILEA Certified Offi- NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS day/Saturday 9-?. Multi- hold & Misc. 260/489-9079 (office of Barton- cers participating in the AND ADDITIONS TO THE Family. Name brand Green Auction Coe-Vilamaa) to request an in- 1977 Police and Fire Pen- JAY COUNTY ZONING & NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS vitation to receive digital access clothing, household, toys, Visit Us At: 260-589-8474. Public Notice SUBDIVISION CONTROL OR- sion are encouraged to Complete details of the Bus Re- to the bidding documents. leaf blower hedge trim- SoldonGreen.com DINANCE apply as a Lateral Trans- Bidders will be required to file, mer, lots of miscella- thecr.com Rob Green-AU19500011 placement plan may be seen by The Jay County Plan Commis- with their bids, a certified fer. Applications may be visiting the website of this unit sion hereby gives notice of a neous. check made payable to the The obtained by visiting the of government at the following Public Hearing to be held on Jay School Corporation or a Bid Located:PUBLIC 4525 AUCTION S 500 E Dunkirk Police Dept at address: https://www.jayschool- September 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm in m corp.org Bond for an amount not less Contract h Hartford City, IN 130 S Main St, Dunkirk or the Auditorium of the Jay o Notice is hereby given to tax- than five percent (5%) of their p County Courthouse, to consider Bridge Saturday Aug 31, 2019 at cityofdunkirkin.com maximum bid or bids. Should a payers of Jay School Corpora- the following proposed amend- 10:00 am where a downloadable successful bidder withdraw its By Steve Becker tion that the proper officers of ments and additions to the Jay bid, or fail to execute a satisfac- Dry sink; butcher block; Application Packet is Jay School Corporation will County Zoning and Subdivision tory Contract, The Jay School Cabinets; cupboard; sec- available. Application conduct a public hearing on the Control Ordinance and also to Corporation may then declare retary; flat irons; gran- deadline is August 26, year 2020 proposed Bus Re- consider repealing Ordinance the bid deposit or bid bond to ite/porcelain; amber 2019. The Dunkirk Police placement Plan pursuant to IC 2018-3 establishing a morato- 20-40-18. Following the public be forfeited as liquidated dam- glass jugs; crocks; quilts; Department is an Equal rium on wind farm develop- hearing, the proper officers of ment. The Jay County Plan ages. horse-hair lounge; wood- Opportunity Employer. Jay School Corporation may Commission is the initiating Each successful bidder shall be en wagon wheels; primi- adopt the proposed plan as pre- required to furnish an ap- Look- party of these proposed amend- tive smalls; wooden bar- sented or with revisions. ments. The amendments in proved Performance Bond and ingRV for TECHNICIAN experienced, struc- a Labor and Materials Payment rels; Public Hearing Date: their entirety may be examined tural & mechanical RV September 16, 2019 Bond which cover faithful per- Pyrex; Fire King; refrig- in the office of the Plan Com- technician in Celina, Ohio. Public Hearing Time: 6:00 p.m. mission, which is the Jay/Port- formance of the contract and erator; Grandmother the payment of all obligations Pay commensurate Public Hearing Place: land Building & Planning De- clock; gas tanks on arising thereunder. A Mainte- w/experience. Contact 1976 W Tyson Road, partment, 118 S Meridian wheels; hide stretchers; Portland, IN 47371 Street, Suite E, Portland, Indi- nance Bond shall also be re- Curt @ 419-305-2878 for grinding wheels; much Taxpayers are invited to attend ana, or the Jay County Auditor’s quired. Said bonds shall remain interview. the meeting for a detailed ex- Office, Monday through Friday in full force and effect for more. twelve months from the sub- Anderson Family Trust planation of the plan and to ex- from 8:30 and to 4:30 pm. Per- ercise their rights to be heard sons may offer an oral opinion stantial completion of the Work. Auction #31600027 260- ADVERTISINGWe are SALES look- The contract will be awarded POSITION on the proposed plan. If the pro- at the hearing or submit written 726-2700 ing for a goal oriented posed plan is adopted by reso- comments to the Plan Commis- to the lowest responsive and re- Auctioneers self-starter to sell adver- lution, the resolution will be sion office ten (10) days prior to sponsible bidder complying submitted to the Department of the hearing. The hearing may with the conditions for bidding, Gary Loy AU01031608 tisements in the Fort provided the bid is reasonable Ben Lyons AU10700085 Recovery/Mercer County Local Government Finance as be continued thereafter to a fu- per IC 20-40-18-9(d). ture date. and it is to the best interest of Travis Theurer area. This will be a part- the Owner to accept it. The CR/NS 8-23,9-4-2019- HSPAXLP Amendments & Additions to AU11200131 time position. Set your the Jay County Zoning Owner reserves the right to re- Aaron Loy AU11200112 own hours. We will train Ordinance: ject the bid of any or all bidder the right person. Apply in Amend Article 2, Section 202 in accordance with Indiana Zoning Districts - Delete “UR” Code 36-1-12. person along with your PublicNOTICE TO TAXPAYERSNotice Bids not reaching said office by resume or mail in your Urban Residential District Notice is hereby given to tax- Amend Article 2, Section 205, 2:00 p.m., on September 10, 2019 Out resume to: The Commer- payers of Jay School Corpora- 206, 207, 209, 210, 211 District De- will not be opened and will be √ cial Review PO Box 1049, tion that the proper officers of velopment Standards returned unopened to the orig- The CR 309 W. Main St., Portland, Jay School Corporation will Amend Article 2, Section 206 inal bidder. IN 47371 Attn: Advertising conduct a public hearing on the Agricultural Residential Dis- Dated this 20th day of August Classifieds year 2020 proposed Capital Pro- 2019. 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Page 8 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Bruns, Indians set more FR school records VAN WERT — Jalyn Bruns already had the record for an 18-hole match. Local She’s got the mark for roundup nine holes now, too. Jalyn Bruns, a Fort Recovery High School sophomore, fired three birdies on her way to a Patriots win opener school-record 1-over par RICHMOND — Jay 36 on Thursday in leading County’s boys soccer team the record-setting Tribe came out on top in its sea - girls golf team to a 191-212 son opener on Thursday, victory against the Lin - defeating Seton Catholic 4- colnview Lancers at Wil - 1. low Bend Country Club. Jay County (1-0) went The team’s 191 was the into halftime tied 1-1, but a The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz lowest in program histo - barrage in the final 40 min - ry, and Bruns added her utes gave them the win. Gio Natalie Miles, a Jay County High School junior, dives in an attempt to keep a ball alive before name to the record books Perod tallied two goals and it hits the floor during a match with the Class 3A No. 6 Delta Eagles on Thursday at JCHS. Miles and the again after shooting an 83 an assist for the Patriots, Patriots used stellar defense throughout in upsetting their sectional rival, 25-20, 20-25, 25-19, 26-24. in the season-opening while Cristian Marentes invitational. notched a goal and a helper Bruns birdied both the as well. Hunter Shumaker par-4 first and fifth holes, also had a goal, and Ian and made birdie on the Ruiz made two saves. par-5 sixth hole. Her only blemishes were a bogey Tribe tops Knights Down goes Delta and a triple bogey. FORT WAYNE — The Shelby Stammen was Fort Recovery volleyball By CHRIS SCHANZ largest for either team on the night. Fields (eight digs each), coming up second on the team with team swept the Bishop The Commercial Review Delta rattled off four straight points, with one-handed saves to prevent the 46, and Alli Vaughn shot Luers Knights on Thurs - Molly Hunt smacked a pair of kills aided by a couple net violations, but ball hitting the floor. 52 for third. Kendra Dues day, 25-23, 25-23, 25-23, in a early in the night. Jay County eventually grabbed the “(Reid) is big on being scrappy and completed the team total match played at Bishop Hallie Fields responded with one of set. picking up things and hustle,” Fields with her 57. Dwenger. her own. Reid hopes the hot start is a staple said. “At practice, that’s mainly what Paige Bihn (67) and Paige Fortkamp regis - Then Alana Kunkler set the tone of the team this year. we run, we run a lot of chasing, pick - Macey Brunswick (68) tered 10 kills to lead the for the rest of the evening. “That’s always the plan,” she said. ing up low balls, digging and serve also competed. Indians (2-0). Marissa Jay County High School’s volley - “I always want them going out and receive.” Gaerke collected eight kills ball team recorded two dozen blocks going hard. I definitely think getting After trailing 15-11 in the fourth set, Jay girls win and Whitley Rammel fin - — Kunkler had half of them — in a that momentum in the first game Delta fired off four straight points to MONROEVILLE — The ished with seven kills. 25-20, 20-25, 25-19, 26-24 upset of sec - helped. We kind of lost momentum in tie the score and later led 22-19. A dominance against con - Defensively, Olivia Patch tional rival Delta Eagles on Thursday. the second game but they were able to Hunt kill through a pair of blockers ference foes continued and Fortkamp had four “I can’t remember the last time I definitely bring it back up.” put the Eagles on the verge of forcing Thursday as the Jay blocks each, and Kierra had that much fun,” said first-year Kunkler and her confidants on the a fifth set, 24-22, but a net error and a County girls soccer team Wendel collected 15 digs. JCHS coach Karley Reid, whose team front row were mostly absent in the double hit on a set tied the score at 24 scored twice in the second Fort Recovery’s junior moves to 2-0 on the year after knock - second set, and as a result Hunt fired apiece. half for a 2-1 win against varsity team also won, 25- ing off the Class 3A No. 6 Eagles (0-2). six of her match-high 21 kills. The Hemmelgarn put the Patriots out the host Heritage Patriots 18 23-25, 15-13. “When our girls are up and excited I Eagles used a 10-1 run at one point on front with a tip over the Delta block, in the Allen County Ath - Melissa Laux and Emma feel like no one will be able to beat their way to evening the match. and Miles rifled a kill to secure the letic Conference opener. Kahlig led the team with them because when they are excited, Pacie Denney (eight blocks), Madi - win. It marked the 14th con - five kills apiece. even if they make a mistake, they are son Dirksen (three), Hemmelgarn “We were ready for it I guess,” secutive victory against getting the ball up and over.” and Kunkler returned to form in the Fields said of how the team was able ACAC opponents. Indians win Senior Hallie Fields, whose seven final two sets to disrupt the Eagle to overcome the late deficit. After falling behind 1-0 MINSTER, Ohio — Fort kills were second to Kunkler’s 11, was offense. Reid was just as excited as her team at intermission, Jay Recovery’s boys golf team all smiles after the win, the first over “They were able to shut down with every kill, every block and every County (1-1) netted the set a new season low for the the Eagles in more than 30 years. (Hunt) on the other side,” Reid said. ace — Jay County had a 7-5 edge in equalizer on a goal by fourth consecutive match, Delta also lost 3-1 on Tuesday to Class “She still got some good hits but our aces. She screamed along with her freshman Gabi Bilbrey, and this time it resulted in 2A No. 7 Wapahani. defense, we were getting passes right players after each point. She’d squat the first of her career. a win as the Tribe defeated “I think it’s because we all worked up to target — to where we needed to down and grit her teeth at times with Eliza Bader sent in a cor - New Knoxville, 181-218. together as a team and we really be — and our girls were able to put it a close play, and barked commands ner that Bilbrey convert - Grant Knapke earned pushed for it,” she said. “Everybody away, whether it was tipping it where throughout. Her hoarse voice after ed for the game-tying match medalist honors by knows Delta is a big rival for us and they weren’t in the middle of the the match was a telltale sign of her goal. firing a 40. Carson Rammel they are in our sectional, so it shows court or swinging. intensity in the match, one she hopes The visiting Patriots was five strokes behind as a lot in how far we’ve come in losing “Our front row can move moun - will springboard to a successful year. took a lead on a corner the team’s second-best seven seniors (from) last year.” tains. They are doing great.” “It sets our standards high,” she goal from Anhely Montes, score, and Zander Kunkler Sara Hemmelgarn (five blocks) and Scrappy play from back row play - said. “People know that we’re here to her team-leading third of carded 47 for third. Derek Kunkler had two stops each at the net ers to keep points alive certainly win. We’re here for the long run. the year. Lochtefeld finished with 54 in the first set, helping stake the helped too. It included Natalie Miles We’re going to do really well this sea - Tricia Ison turned away to complete the squad’s Patriots to a 22-14 advantage, the (team-high 14 digs), Denney and son.” three Heritage shots. total. Luck’s injury opens division NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) by Brissett and bulked up — The popular pick to win his roster. But Luck is the the AFC South all offseason four-time Pro Bowler and has been Andrew Luck and 2018 Comeback Player of the Indianapolis Colts. The the Year who makes Indi - ever-changing diagnosis for anapolis a top bet not only his strained left calf and in the AFC South but to win ankle is dredging up bad the conference. Questions memories of 2017, when his over whether Luck will be recovery from shoulder ready Sept. 8 against the surgery kept him out all Los Angeles Chargers season. opens the door wide open in And dampened the soar - the only division in the ing expectations for a team NFL featuring three teams coming off its first playoff with winning records in berth in four seasons. 2018. Colts general manager Defending AFC South Chris Ballard insists this is champ Houston has not 2017 all over again. Deshaun Watson and “When I came in the door, DeAndre Hopkins along one of the things we talked with J.J. Watt back healthy about was building a team and in his prime. The and it wasn’t all going to be Titans lost their playoff about one guy,” Ballard spot to the Colts in the reg - said. “I understand the ular-season finale with importance of Andrew Marcus Mariota out, and Luck. Look, he’s a top-five they protected themselves quarterback in the league, by upgrading their backup but we have another guy we spot. Even Jacksonville has like. So we’ll treat it and high hopes with Nick Foles we’ll move forward and now at quarterback; the we’ll deal with whatever we Jags are coming off a mis - have to deal with going for - erable 5-11 season after ward.” playing in the AFC champi - Ballard has backup Jaco - onship game in 2017. Sports on tap Local schedule Rotary Invitational at Wright State Lake Today Campus – 9 a.m.; Volleyball hosts Jay Jay County — Football vs. Norwell – 7 County Invitational – 9 a.m.; Girls soccer at p.m. Muncie Burris – 2 p.m. Fort Recovery — Football scrimmage at Fort Recovery — Cross country in Celi - Hicksville – 7 p.m. na Rotary Invitational at Wright State Lake Fort Wayne TinCaps at Dayton Dragons Campus – 9 a.m.; Volleyball hosts Ben – 7 p.m. Logan and Triad – 10 a.m.; Freshman vol - leyball at St. Henry – 10 a.m. Saturday Fort Wayne TinCaps at West Michigan Jay County — Cross country in Celina Whitecaps – 7:05 p.m.