Saturday, January 4, 2020 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 U.S. to bolster Ed on agenda Middle East forces By LOUISA LOVELUCK The Washington Post BEIRUT — Iran vowed revenge Friday in response to a U.S. airstrike that killed Tehran’s most powerful military commander, sharpening tensions across the Middle East as the Trump administra - tion said it was sending thousands of troops to bolster security in the region. Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a towering figure as Iran projected power across the Middle East, with close links to a network of paramilitary groups stretching from Syria to Yemen. And his death in the smoldering wreckage of a convoy in the Iraqi capital, Bagh - dad, marked the most dra - matic escalation in hostil - ities between the United States and Iran since Pres - ident Donald Trump with - drew from the landmark The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018 and reimposed State Rep. J.D. Prescott (R-Union City) presents a plaque to Rock and Kathy Fuqua in October during a celebration sanctions. of their auto dealership’s 50 years of operation in Dunkirk. Prescott and the state’s other legislators return to Indianapolis The deadly U.S. drone on Monday for a session that is expected to be highlighted by education issues. strike left U.S. outposts and personnel bracing for retaliatory attacks Friday and sent oil prices shoot - ing upward. The U.S. Prescott discusses 2020 session Embassy in Iraq told By RILEY EUBANKS access in rural areas, a bill he Americans to leave the The Commercial Review plans to work on himself. country “immediately.” Jay County students reported Most of these ideas are prior - The Pentagon said it back to school this week. On itized by Gov. Eric Holcomb and was preparing to deploy Monday, state lawmakers will Legislative calendar listed in his 2020 agenda. One of an additional 3,500 sol - report back to the Statehouse for Holcomb’s five “pillars” in 2020 diers from the 82nd Air - the first day of the legislative ses - Indiana’s 2020 legislative session begins Monday in Indianapolis. Below is a look at key dates for legislators this year. is “workforce & education borne Division to the sion, the first gathering since reform.” region. According to two November’s “Red for Ed” rally. Monday — Session begins One of the first bills Prescott defense officials, the mili - Education policy is expected to said he expects to pass out of tary also has put hun - be one of the most discussed top - Thursday — Deadline to introduce bills the House would keep schools dreds of soldiers from the ics in this year’s session. Rep. from being penalized for the Army’s 173rd Airborne J.D. Prescott (R-Union City), who Feb. 4 — Deadline for bills to cross chambers first year of ILEARN test Brigade in Italy on alert represents Jay and Randolph scores, which were much lower for potential deployment. counties and part of Delaware March 4 — End of session than expected. Trump told reporters County, said he visited every “The first year of standard - Friday that the United school district he represents in ized testing usually has States had killed the fall and is planning to intro - abysmal results,” said Prescott, Soleimani in a bid to “stop duce and vote for bills that would who supports the bill. a war.” The president, reduce education regulations. demanding an increase in House of Representatives to ILEARN replaced ISTEP+ as speaking at his Mar-a- State lawmakers were the sub - teacher pay and other changes to vote on education reform as well the statewide standardized test Lago resort in Florida, ject of the education rally, which public education policy and as increasing the legal smoking for students beginning in the urged Iran not to retaliate. saw thousands of educators funding. age from 18 to 21 years old and third grade. “We did not take action to gather around the Statehouse Prescott said he expects the increasing broadband internet See Agenda page 2 start a war,” he said. See Bolster page 2 Congress at impasse By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON — Con - gress opened the new year with the Senate dead - locked over President Don - No signs of negotiating ald Trump’s impeachment on impeachment trial First trial, leaving the proceed - ings deeply in flux as Republicans refuse to bend baby to Democratic demands The first baby of for new witnesses. Democratic-led House. trial, only the third in U.S. 2020 at IU Health Senate Majority Leader “It’s the Senate’s turn history. Jay didn’t waste any Mitch McConnell showed now to render sober judg - Trump was impeached no signs Friday of negoti - ment as the framers last month by the House time. Emery Grace ating with the Democrats intended.” on charges that he abused Feltz was born on as he aims for Trump’s Pelosi responded that power and obstructed New Year’s Day to swift acquittal. At the McConnell’s stance Congress in his dealings Brad and Stacy Feltz same time, the Republi - “made clear that he will with Ukraine. Trump of St. Henry, Ohio. can leader acknowledged feebly comply with Presi - withheld nearly $400 mil - She weighed 8 the Senate cannot begin dent Trump’s cover-up of lion in military aid for pounds, 6 ounces. the historic undertaking his abuses of power and Ukraine, an Eastern until House Speaker be an accomplice to that European ally that Nancy Pelosi delivers the cover-up.” depends on U.S. support articles of impeachment The House and Senate to counter Russia, after — which she is refusing to gaveled in for brief ses - asking President do until he provides sions Friday with the sud - Volodymyr Zelenskiy to details on the trial’s den crisis in the Middle publicly announce an scope. Neither seems will - East only adding to the investigation into Trump ing to budge. uncertainty about how rival Joe Biden. The aid Photo provided “Their turn is over,” lawmakers will proceed was ultimately released McConnell said about the with the impeachment after Congress objected.

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Jay County had a high tem - Filing for the 2020 primary perature of 49 degrees Friday. election begins at 8:30 a.m. Snow showers are possible Wednesday at Jay County Monday — Results from today with a high in the mid Courthouse. Offices up for tonight’s JCHS boys basket - Ryan Shreeve , 39, Indi - 30s. The low will be 26. Expect election this year include Dis - ball game at Muncie Central. anapolis windy conditions with a high trict 33 state representative, Details on page 2. in the mid 40s Sunday. Skies commissioner seats for the Wednesday — Coverage will be partly cloudy Monday north and south districts, of Tuesday’s Portland Park with a high of 39. three county council seats, Board meeting. See page 2 for an extended three school board seats and a forecast. variety of others. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local/World Saturday, January 4, 2020 Agenda ... Continued from page 1 school corporation replaces it “I support the effort to take of this year’s bill so that it cannot be found at his website indi - Just 37% of Indiana students with a different literacy test, a things off the plate,” said Gulley, be exploited if it becomes law. anasenaterepublicans.com/2020- passed both the math and Eng - measure Jay School Corporation who added that reduced costs for A farmer himself, Prescott said legislative-survey-holdman . lish portions of the test, which superintendent Jeremy Gulley eliminating unneeded testing he expects to work on any bill This session will be the last for was taken for the first time last said he supports. could go toward increasing that would legalize industrial the longest serving Speaker of spring. The bill is designed to Jay County third graders per - teacher wages. hemp if/when it is introduced in the House in Indiana history, keep schools from being with - formed well on the IREAD-3 test “I’m a limited-government the House’s Agriculture and Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis), held funding because of the low last year with 92.1% students conservative, so I’m going to try Rural Development Committee, who announced his retirement at scores. passing, 4.8 percentage points to eliminate as much regulation of which he is a member. Organization Day at the State - Jay County students per - higher than the state average. as possible,” said Prescott. Prescott has voiced support for house in November, the same day formed better than the state aver - “If we’re getting 90% on Prescott also plans to reintro - industrial hemp in the past. as the Red for Ed rally. age but still just 42.7% passed IREAD-3 every year, I say we’re duce a bill he authored last year Items such as rope can be made “His sheer knowledge is going both the math and the English hitting the mark,” said Gulley. which would allow Hoosiers to from it and it is completely to be missed,” said Prescott, who portions of the test compared to Jay Schools conduct quarterly move money from their college absent of THC, the component in added that Bosma possesses “one 55.7% of students passing both assessments to make sure their 529 account, an education sav - marijuana that people get high of the sharpest political minds on ISTEP+ in 2018. students are at the reading level ings account, to a retirement from. I’ve come across.” Prescott said he is planning on they need to be. Under Prescott’s account without a penalty from Sen. Travis Holdman (R- Prescott said he feels “a lot introducing an education bill of proposed bill, those assessments the state. He said last year’s bill Markle), who also represents Jay more comfortable” heading into his own that would make the could substitute as the state man - didn’t meet the “sniff test” of County, asked about the legaliza - his second year as a state repre - IREAD-3 literacy test given to dated literacy test if the school state treasurer Kelly Mitchell, so tion of medicinal marijuana on sentative. He’ll face re-election third graders optional if the corporation approves it. he’ll be tweaking some language his legislative survey, which can this year. CR almanac Obituaries Ryan Shreeve with Diabetes and tor Hugh Kelly presiding. Burial was an avid Colts will be in the Spring Hill Cemetery Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Aug. 10, 1980-Jan. 2, 2020 1/5 1/6 1/7 1/8 1/9 fan. He was commu - in Fort Recovery. Visitation will be Ryan Shreeve, age 39, of Indi - nity manager for Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. anapolis and a former Jay County Cardinal Group and Memorials can be made to the resident passed away Thursday, had worked for First Diabetes Foundation. Jan. 2, 2020, in the Riverview Hos - Bank of Berne, Pace - Condolences may be expressed at pital in Noblesville. setter and Pon - bairdfreeman.com. 44/27 42/30 39/23 36/29 48/43 He was born Aug. 10, 1980, the derosa, all in Port - Shreeve •••••••••• son of Steve and Donna (Lanning) land. The Commercial Review publish - It’s be a The high Expect Skies will Expect Shreeve. Ryan was a 1999 Jay Coun - breezy day temperature cloudy skies be sunny with partly cloudy Surviving are his parents Steve es death notices for those with a con - with consis - will be in the with a high a high in the skies with a ty High School graduate and and Donna Shreeve of Portland; nection to our coverage area free of tent winds low 40s temperature mid 30s. high of 48. earned his bachelor’s degree from brother Travis Shreeve of Port - from 20 to under partly of 39. There is charge. They include the name, city 30 mph cloudy skies. a slight Ball State University and was land; and several aunts, uncles and of residence, birth/death date and under partly chance of working on his master’s degree. cousins. time/date/location of services. cloudy skies. snow flurries. He was a member of National Funeral services will be Sunday, There is a charge for obituaries, Apartment Association, helped as Jan. 5, 2020, at 3 p.m. in the Baird- which are accepted only from funer - Lotteries a camp counselor for Children Freeman Funeral Home with Pas - al homes or mortuary services.

Hoosier Pick 4: 1-0-4-2 Midday Pick 5: 9-4-8-9-2 Bolster ... Daily Three: 5-8-0 Rolling Cash: 1-4-19-21- Continued from page 1 nomic interests in the Persian Gulf Mahdi called the attack “an assassi - Daily Four: 2-4-2-3 27 The drone attack, which struck a would be the likely targets. nation” that was in “flagrant viola - Quick Draw: 11-12-13- Estimated jackpot: two-car convoy on an access road The Pentagon said it was prepar - tion of the conditions authorizing 14-16-17-18-20-21-29-30-34- $100,000 near Baghdad International Air - ing to deploy an additional 3,500 sol - the presence of U.S. troops” on Iraqi 38-50-54-58-59-64-67-69 port and also killed several of diers from the 82nd Airborne Divi - soil. Soleimani’s local allies, sent anxi - sion to the region. According to two The country seemed to be holding Powerball Ohio eties rippling across a region defense officials, the military also its breath. Streets were quiet. Many Estimated jackpot: Midday already roiled by rising tensions has put hundreds of soldiers from restaurants were deserted. Along Pick 3: 3-4-6 $237 million between Washington and Tehran. the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade checkpoints down the streets, young Pick 4: 5-7-9-6 Iran responded swiftly, promot - in Italy on alert for potential deploy - soldiers and militiamen clutched Pick 5: 0-0-5-6-4 Mega Millions ing Soleimani’s deputy within ment. their weapons tightly, appearing Evening Estimated jackpot: $60 hours of the commander’s death. Trump told reporters Friday that nervous at what might follow. Pick 3: 1-6-3 million “His work and path will not the United States had killed In Iran, Friday was a day of public cease, and severe revenge awaits Soleimani in a bid to “stop a war.” mourning as tens of thousands of those criminals who have tainted The president, speaking at his Mar- people took to the streets to decry their filthy hands with his blood a-Lago resort in Florida, urged Iran the U.S. attack, even as many pri - Markets and the blood of the other mar - not to retaliate. “We did not take vately expressed worry about the tyrs,” Iran’s supreme leader, Aya - action to start a war,” he said. escalating conflict with the United tollah Ali Khamenei, said in a The drone attack, which struck a States. Sunrise Mar. corn ...... 4.19 statement. two-car convoy on an access road While the killing of Soleimani St. Anthony April corn ...... 4.18 The country’s defense minister, near Baghdad International Airport came after a week of spiking ten - Corn ...... 4.19 Amir Hatami, said the nighttime and also killed several of sions, including a siege of the U.S. Feb. corn ...... 4.21 Central States strike ordered by Trump would be Soleimani’s local allies, sent anxi - Embassy in Baghdad by supporters Beans ...... 9.15 Montpelier met with a “crushing” response. If eties rippling across a region of an Iranian-backed militia, the Feb. beans ...... 9.16 Corn ...... 4.04 Iran were to order a reprisal, already roiled by rising tensions general had been one of the United Wheat ...... 5.39 Feb. corn ...... 4.06 experts said U.S. troops in Iraq, oil between Washington and Tehran. States’ most daunting adversaries Beans ...... 9.35 tankers or other American eco - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul for two decades. Cooper Farms F e b . b e a n s ...... 9 .3 6 Wheat ...... 5.59 Fort Recovery Jan. corn ...... 4.18 The Andersons Felony courts Feb. corn ...... 4.18 Richland Township March corn ...... 4.22 Corn ...... 4.08 Pleaded Indiana Department of Feb. corn ...... 4.08 A Portland man pleaded Correction for possession POET Biorefining Beans ...... 9.35 guilty to three felony of methamphetamine and Portland Feb. beans ...... 9.33 charges in Jay Superior unlawful possession of a Jan. corn ...... 4.21 Wheat ...... 5.60 Court, all of which violated syringe, both Level 6 Feb. corn ...... 4.19 July wheat ...... 5.60 his original probation. felonies, to run consecutive Thomas A. Emerick, 27, to a previous sentence. He 2835 S. Southtown Place, was given credit for 466 was sentenced to 364 days days credit for 233 days Today in history in Jay County Jail starting already served. Dec. 18 for auto theft, a The court said it will con - Level 6 felony, and given 332 sider modifying his sen - On Jan. 4, 1964 , Pope Lyndon B. Johnson deliv - days credit for 166 days tence if he completes a Paul VI began a visit to ered his State of the already served. Concur - drug treatment program. the Holy Land, the first Union address in which rently, he was sentenced to He was assessed $370 in papal pilgrimage of its he outlined the goals of 364 days in Jay County Jail court costs and $200 in drug kind. his “Great Society.” for operating a vehicle abuse, prosecution, inter - In 1904 , the U.S. In 1974 , President while intoxicated, a Level 6 diction and correction fees. Supreme Court, in Gon - Richard Nixon refused to felony, and given 332 days As part of his plea agree - zalez v. Williams, ruled hand over tape record - credit for 166 days already ment charges of possession that Puerto Ricans were ings and documents sub - served. of methamphetamine and not aliens and could poenaed by the Senate He was also sentenced to possession of marijuana as enter the United States Watergate Committee. 364 days in Jay County Jail well as a notice to seek freely; however, the court In 1999 , former profes - starting Jan. 3 for posses - habitual offender status stopped short of declar - sional wrestler Jesse sion of methamphetamine, were dropped. ing them citizens. (Puer - Ventura took the oath of a Level 6 felony. to Ricans received U.S. office as Minnesota’ s citizenship in March governor. Possession 1917.) In 2010 , the Jay Coun - A man whose last known WWee have In 1935 , President ty High School girls swim address was in Portland Franklin D. Roosevelt, in team edged Celina 155.5- pleaded guilty to two felony his State of the Union 154.5. The margin proved possession charges in Jay expanded! address, called for legis - to be especially slim, as Superior Court lation to provide assis - Elaine Hemmelgarn’s Noe R. Castillo, 42, was tance for the jobless, eld - decisive victory in the sentenced to four years in Our TeamTeam is erly, impoverished chil - 100-yard breaststroke dren and the handi - came by just one hun - here to help capped. dredth of a second. plan your In 1965 , President —AP and The CR SERVICES ¿QDQFLDO Sunday future. Citizen’s calendar Shreeve , Ryan: 3 p.m., Baird- Freeman Funeral Home, 221 N. Meridian St., Portland. Monday ery Village Council, vil - lage hall, 201 S. Main St. Annette R. Alexander TTamraamra D. Kaufmann 9 a.m. — Jay County Monday Commissioners execu - Financial Advisor Financial Advisor Senior VViceice President, Investments tive session, commis - Tuesday Harshman , Linda: 10 a.m., MJS Mortuaries, 109 N. Walnut sioners’ room, court - 7 p.m. — Portland Park Brandon K. Mock Paula S. 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Member Neeww YYorkork Stock Exchange/SIPC The Commercial Review Saturday, January 4, 2020 Family Page 3 Uneasy over tourism in Brown County By SARA CLIFFORD cialization of more of these believed that the trees would in search of fleas and swing local people to make a living, Brown County Democrat tourist homes possibly down the help to mask any noise, so being from the trees by our tails,” Kyle Deckard told the zoning Amid a night of public hear - road, or a laundromat or some - 55 feet short wasn’t a big prob - wrote an unidentified resident board on Dec. 18. ings last month about turning thing,” said Steve Padden, who lem. in a letter to the editor of Deckard is a born-and-raised houses into tourist rentals, a lives on Lanam Ridge Road. EJZ group’s request was the Brown County Democrat in Brown Countian, a proud for - familiar subtext was develop - EJZ Group, based in Indi - approved on a tight vote by the 1928. mer Lilly Scholar who earned a ing: How do Brown County resi - anapolis, was petitioning to BZA: 3-2 in favor. It started happening when full ride to college to study engi - dents and Brown County have the house across the road This was one of two new artists who’d come here in the neering. tourists successfully coexist, and down the hill from him con - tourist homes to be approved at late 1800s from the city set up He now works for Naval Serv - and are we making decisions verted to a two-guest tourist this meeting on Dec. 18. The easels on roads and streambeds ice Warfare Center — Crane. His now that will adversely impact home. The group also owns a third tourist home petition was and painted people’s houses and family roots run deep, and when the future thriving of either tourist home next door to that denied 3-2. farms. Later, cartoonist Kin he had the chance, he moved group? address. Still, when Brown County Hubbard and photographer back to raise his own children Three residents’ comments in Padden said he wasn’t so started becoming a tourist Frank Hohenberger shared var - here. particular at the December much concerned with this pro - attraction more than 100 years ied images of Brown County Operating a tourist rental Brown County Board of Zoning posal, but what it might morph ago, residents felt the same way. with Indianapolis newspaper helped make that happen for his Appeals meeting sounded like into: The interruption of the They lived in more crude cabins readers. family, he said. they could have come out of the quiet, country life they’d sought then, not the nearing-million- They all were in search of and “Tourism is our economic past, because they’re senti - by moving from the busy city to dollar property that Jerry Chas - fascinated by “a town lost in the engine of this county, but we ments that have been voiced by Brown County. teen described. But Brown past,” was the way Dillon Bustin have to have citizens here, too,” other residents over the hun - The proposed new tourist Countians then still didn’t take put it in his book, “If You Don’t Deckard told the BZA, para - dred-plus years of the county home on Lanam Ridge was not kindly to their privacy being Outdie Me: The Legacy of phrasing a quote by Brown being a tourist attraction. within the guideline for dis - interrupted by strangers. Brown County.” County businessman Andy Two were speaking against tance from another tourist “Every week … motorists That sentiment still holds Rogers. Rogers’ point was that homes near them being convert - home. The other tourist home is decide that before another sea - pull, for permanent residents for the small-town charm of ed into short-term tourist 1,265 feet away; the standard son passes they must drive and for visitors. Brown County to be authentic, rentals; one was speaking for. separation is 1,320 feet. Howev - down into these hills to hear us But if Brown County is to con - it has to be a real, working town “Our concern is the commer - er, some zoning board members chatter and paw over each other tinue to exist, it needs ways for with real, working residents. Bride’s choice of groomsman upsets groom DEAR ABBY: I am a 37- she doesn't have a brother on my right wrist. — NERVOUS GROOM-TO- the most important day year-old man who is get - who could be one of my I understand that people BE of your life. This is ting married for the first groomsmen. She has change and mature as DEAR GROOM-TO- something Holly should time. My fiancee, "Holly," Dear expressed that she would they grow older, and I'm BE: Shallow and petty? have been made aware and I went to middle like her cousin "Gerald" to OK with Gerald attending The scar on your wrist of before the two of you school and high school Abby be one of my groomsmen, the wedding. is visible, but clearly set a wedding date. Do it together, but never really so someone from her fami - But the idea of him there are others, equal - now. got to know each other ly is in our wedding party. standing next to me on the ly painful, that are not. Dear Abby is written by until a few years ago. I The problem is, Gerald biggest day of my life, I don't think it would Abigail Van Buren, also love her more than words was my main tormentor along with my best friend come across as either known as Jeanne Phillips, can describe, and I'm which made me a target from eighth grade all and two closest cousins, shallow or petty if you and was founded by her happy to be getting ready for bullies. Holly and I are through high school. At triggers too many awful explain to your fiancee, mother, Pauline Phillips. to spend my life with her. now choosing our wedding one point in 10th grade, memories. How can I exactly as you have Contact Dear Abby at Growing up, I was party. My sister will be his cruelty led to my plead this to Holly without explained it to me, why www.DearAbby.com or P.O. socially awkward, partly one of her bridesmaids. attempting suicide. I carry hurting her feelings or you prefer Gerald not be Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA due to having Asperger's, Holly is an only child, so the scar from the attempt looking shallow and petty? at the altar with you on 90069. Community Calendar

Notices will appear in Bingo will begin at 11 a.m. an St. in Portland. For step program for those in ING BREAKFAST CLUB 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday Community Calendar as Euchre begins at 1 p.m. more information, call sixth through 12th grade — Will meet at 8 a.m. in in the Zion Lutheran space is available. To sub - There is a $1 donation for Brenda Eads at (260) 726- will meet at 5:55 p.m. each the east room of Richards Church, 218 E. High St., mit an item, email center’s expenses. For 9625 or Dave Keen at (260) Tuesday at 2nd Chance at Restaurant. All women Portland. For more infor - [email protected]. more information, call 251-8792. Life Ministries, 228 S. are invited to attend. mation, call (260) 726-8229. (765) 768-1544. CAREGIVER SUPPORT Meridian St., Portland. Includes activities and A BETTER LIFE – BRI - Saturday PREGNANCY CARE GROUP — Will meet at 1 For more information, call devotional time. ANNA’S HOPE — A faith- ALCOHOLICS ANONY - CENTER — Free pregnan - p.m. the first Monday of (260) 703-0777 or (260) 726- PING PONG — Will be based recovery group for MOUS — Will meet at 10 cy testing with ongoing each month at Portland 5273. played from 9 a.m. to noon all kinds of addictions, a.m. upstairs at True support during and after Place, 430 W. Lafayette St. A BETTER LIFE – BRI - each Wednesday at Jay will meet from 6:30 to 8 Value Hardware, Meridi - pregnancy. The center is For more information, call ANNA’S HOPE — A faith Community Center and p.m. each Wednesday at an Street, Portland. For located at 216 S. Meridian (800) 589-1121. based recovery group for 10:30 a.m. to noon each Redkey United Methodist more information, call St., Portland. Hours are 1 JAY COUNTY CIVIC substance abuse. Meal Wednesday at West Jay Church, 122 W. Main St. (260) 729-2532. to 5 p.m. Monday through THEATRE — Holds its starts at 6 p.m. and the Community Center in Come early for a meal. For MUSEUM OF THE SOL - Friday. For more informa - regular meeting at 7 p.m. meeting is from 6:30 to 8 Dunkirk. The public is more information, call DIER — Is open from noon tion or an appointment, on the first Monday of p.m. every Tuesday at the welcome. Pastor Randy Davis at to 5 p.m. the first and third call (260) 726-8636. Walk- each month in room 205 at Nazarene Fellowship PORTLAND ROTARY (765) 369-2085. Saturday and Sunday of ins accepted. John Jay Center for Building across from the CLUB — Will meet at noon STRESS AND ANXIETY the month. It is located at BREAD OF LIFE COM - Learning. Nazarene church, 249 E. each Wednesday at Har - CLASS — Meets each 510 E. Arch St., Portland. MUNITY FAMILY MEAL PORTLAND EVENING Center St., Dunkirk. For mony Cafe, 121 N. Meridi - Wednesday at 2nd Chance The website is museu - — Will be served from 5:30 OPTIMIST CLUB — Will more information, call an St. at Life Ministries, 228 S. mofthesoldier.com. to 6:30 p.m. at Asbury meet at 6 p.m. the first and Amanda Price at (765) 283- ALCOHOLICS ANONY - Meridian St., Portland. United Methodist Church, third Monday of each 2107. MOUS — Will meet from For more information, call Monday 204 E. Arch St. in Port - month at Richards Restau - NARCOTICS ANONY - 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. each (206) 726-9625 or (260) 703- PORTLAND BREAK - land. Everyone is wel - rant. MOUS — Will meet at 7 Wednesday upstairs at 0534. FAST OPTIMISTS — Will come. p.m. each Tuesday at True Value Hardware, MENDING FAMILIES- meet at 7 a.m. for break - TAKE OFF POUNDS Tuesday Church of God of Prophe - Meridian Street, Portland. NAR-ANON GROUP — A fast at Richards Restau - SENSIBLY (TOPS) — Will BRYANT COMMUNITY cy, 797 N. Creagor Ave. in For more information, call 12-step, self-help group for rant. meet for weigh-in at 5:30 CENTER EUCHRE — Will Portland. For more infor - (260) 729-2532. families and friends of BRYANT AREA COM - p.m., with the meeting at 6 be played at 1 p.m. each mation, call (260) 766-9334. AL-ANON FAMILY addicts, will meet from 7 MUNITY CENTER — p.m., in the fellowship hall Tuesday. The public is wel - GROUP — New Begin - to 8 p.m. each Wednesday Walking from 9 to 10 a.m. at Evangelical Methodist come. Wednesday nings, a support group for in conference room A at every Monday, Wednesday Church, 930 W. Main St., THE LANDING — A 12- WEDNESDAY MORN - friends and families of Indiana University Health and Friday. Portland. New members alcoholics, will meet at Jay Hospital. PING PONG — Will be welcome. For more infor - played from 9 a.m. to noon mation, call (260) 726-5312. each Monday at Jay Com - NARCOTICS ANONY - Marriage licenses munity Center. MOUS — Will meet at 6 WEST JAY COMMUNI - p.m. each Monday at A The following marriage Lydia Ramsey, 21, Port - TY CENTER GROUP — Second Chance At Life licenses were issued this Ministries, 228 S. 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The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Saturday, January 4, 2019 Here’s a challenge for the new year New Year’s resolutions — both attend as a requirement, but leagues for children and adults in school activities. It doesn’t have making them and breaking them we’re not sure how many mem - a variety of sports. Beyond that, to be that way. It’s important to — are beyond cliché. bers of the community ever make pick up a basketball and go shoot continue to grow. So, participate So, let’s issue this as more of a their way to a meeting again. You at a local park. Grab a racket and in a sport, as noted above. Pick up challenge than a resolution, and Editorial just might gain a better under - head to the tennis courts at JCHS. a new instrument. Run for office. one that should be relatively easy standing of how things happen. Go on a bike ride. Go for a run (or Try out for a play. Take a course at to accomplish. (Feel free to ask questions, polite - start with a walk). John Jay Center for Learning. In 2020, try something new. ly. Government officials are there •Take in a local event. It’s a Sign up for an art class. Simply read a new book, watch to serve you.) common refrain that “there’s You don’t have to be an expert a new TV show, listen to some including the Elks, Lions, Rotary, •Take advantage of your local nothing to do here.” But all too Eagles, Moose, Optimists and any in any of these areas in order to new music or try a new meal at a library. If you haven’t noticed, the often when there is something to participate, just willing to learn. restaurant and you’ve accom - number of others. library isn’t just about books any - do, residents still stay home. Trying something new is an plished it. You can start with our •Clubs aren’t your thing? Vol - more. Libraries hold all sorts of Instead, attend a concert at Arts list from yesterday’s “The CR Rec - unteer for an individual event or activities and host many different Place or one of our local schools, extremely low-risk proposition. ommends” feature or hunt down activity. Secret Families of Jay clubs that might be of interest. go to one of our several trivia Maybe you won’t like it. If you your own new options. County had more than 100 volun - •Coach a youth sport through nights in the community, head to don’t, no big deal. There’s no long- But, we’d encourage you to also teers show up last month. Their Portland Junior League, Jay The Blind Tiger in Redkey for its term commitment. take it a step or two further. time commitment was a single County Pee Wee Football, Jay open mic night, attend a sporting But you also might just find a Try something new by getting day. There are so many organiza - Community Center, West Jay event, visit a festival or spend a new favorite food, make a new off of the couch and away from tions and events that could use Community Center, Pennville day at a museum. friend or develop a new passion. your phone. Here are some sug - help, even if only for a few hours. Soccer Club, CYO or any number •Participate. All too often as You might just find something gestions: •Attend a local government of other options. adults, we are wrapped up in the that changes your life. •Join a service club. There’s meeting. Students in Jay County •Better yet, participate in a new activities of our children and/or You never know until you try. certainly no shortage of options, High School government classes sport. The community center has bask in the glory of our high — R.C. Good riddance to Qassem Soleimani By BOBBY GHOSH Bloomberg Opinion Qassem Soleimani was never going to die peace - Bobby fully in his bed. As leader of the Quds Ghosh Force of the Iranian Rev - olutionary Guard Corps, and puppet-master of militias and terrorist groups across the Middle ly brazen attacks on their East, he had the blood of shipping and oil installa - hundreds of thousands tions. Perhaps they thought he couldn’t risk on his hands: Syrians, a war, or a crisis that Iraqis, Yemenis, would send oil prices Lebanese, Palestinians, spiking, in an election Israelis, Americans and year. fellow-Iranians, among Or perhaps they others. thought he simply didn’t His death was hoped have the stomach for a for and prayed for by the confrontation. families of his victims, Whatever their reason - and plotted by their gov - ing, playing chicken with ernments. the American president It is a measure of was a hideous mistake. Soleimani’s brashness Contrary to that he nonetheless strut - Khamenei’s taunt, ted around Baghdad in Trump could do many the company of other things, ranging from wanted mass killers, tightening the economic whose faces, in another sanctions that have age, would be on “Want - already cost Iran dearly, ed” posters on the walls to striking Iran’s proxies, of local post offices. It as with last Sunday’s was incautious to the bombing of Muhandis’s Sandler is the uniter we need point of suicidal that he Kataieb Hezbollah. These By SONNY BUNCH who is lying to his wife, Audrey should have been doing may have been acceptable Special To The Washington Post (Aniston), about having made detec - so in the days after his outcomes for Khamenei: In these turbulent times, an era of tive. Granted, there are still Sandler - most brazen stunt: the After all, a man who only pronounced incivility, one in which Sonny ian moments — no one can yell in New Year’s Eve assault weeks ago ordered the division is the standard and unity exasperation quite like the Sand - by his Iraqi proxies on slaughter of hundreds of seems impossible to achieve, there is Bunch man — but this is a looser, riffier the U.S. embassy in Bagh - Iranians is unlikely to an unlikely hero sitting right there thing than “Uncut Gems.” You get dad. balk at causing more in front of us, making silly faces, the sense that everyone was having a Soleimani’s death-by- pain to his own people or tugging at our heartstrings, giving good time making this whodunit drone was the pre - proxies. us palpitations. A man whose appeal about the Spitzes trying to solve the grew up cheering for in “Billy Madi - dictable denouement of But Khamenei failed to is broad and who has brought joy to murder of a patriarch who cut his son” and “Happy Gilmore.” his escalating reckless - reckon with Trump’s own millions for decades now. A figure family out of the will at the behest This isn’t the first time the one - ness over the years. That capacity for recklessness. who towers over his peers. A trail - of an interloping seductress as the time “Saturday Night Live” star has his top local lackey, Abu Rather than merely blazer who simultaneously cast traveled across Europe on a lux - Mahdi al-Muhandis, ratchet up sanctions, the embraces new distribution methods been lauded with praise for going ury yacht. should have perished president chose to order and props up the fading glory of an serious: “Punch-Drunk Love” and Whereas “Uncut Gems” demands with him is appropriate. a drone attack that empire past its prime. “Funny People” earned him similar to be seen in a theater, where you The Iraqi had been the brought a fiery end to the I speak, of course, of Adam San - plaudits, though neither, sadly, can’t pause or change the channel to instrument of life and career of one of dler. resulted in an Oscar nomination. escape the tension it unleashes, Soleimani’s decision to Iran’s most fearsome and That’s right: The Sandman is a If Sandler is shut out from Oscar “Murder Mystery” is the sort of step up rocket attacks on important military com - uniter, not a divider. He’s currently gold again, he’ll just have to comfort movie that helps pass the time dur - U.S. bases, leading to the manders. the favorite of both the smart set himself with the knowledge that the ing a perfectly pleasant evening in. trigger event of this What now? and the populist populace, if head - people love him even more than the It’s a “kids in bed, work’s done, noth - week’s turmoil: the The cycle of reckless - lines are to be believed. He recently elites. Netflix announced this week ing but repeats on TV” sort of killing of an American ness that the supreme delivered the biggest five-day open - that “Murder Mystery,” a whodunit movie: You wouldn’t necessarily go contractor at a base near leader began leaves him ing in indie darling studio A24’s his - starring Sandler, Jennifer Aniston see it in movie theaters, but it’s a the northern city of little option except to tory, leading “Uncut Gems” to $18.8 and Luke Evans, was the most- pleasant enough time to take in at Kirkuk. keep raising the stakes. million at the box office after the watched original program on the home. It’s got some laughs, it’s kind This escalation in deed But he must now do so movie became more widely avail - streaming service last year. of sweet, it features luxurious matched a similar inten - without his most effec - able. This isn’t the film’s only As always with Netflix’s numbers, locales, it’s not too challenging. It’s sification in word by tive instrument of terror, accomplishment: “Uncut Gems” one must note a series of caveats: We pleasant! Soleimani’s boss, a commander distin - generated an impressive $107,000 per are being asked to simply trust what Sandler was one of the first Supreme Leader Ali guished for his unques - screen during the first week of its the service reports, and the num - megastars to sign on with Netflix Khamenei, who goaded tioned obedience and limited release. bers are based on a bizarrely limited — ahead of the Coen Brothers, President Donald Trump apparently inexhaustible Sandler is deservedly getting buzz metric (“subscribers who watched ahead of Martin Scorsese — and the in the manner guaran - appetite for violence. for an Oscar for his role as Howard at least two minutes of a series, gambit has paid off for him. He’s got teed to get his goat: by Those are qualities Ratner, a gambling junkie trying to movie or special during its first 28 a home base for his work for the taunting him on Twitter. Khamenei will surely juggle his work life, his home life and days on the streaming service,” masses. He can still freelance with “You can’t do anything,” miss amid the mayhem his addiction while struggling to sell according to CNN). Still, the fact prestige filmmakers such as the Khamenei tweeted, after he has unleashed. a massive opal that Kevin Garnett, that this is a ranking — showing Safdie Brothers and prestige studios Trump blamed Iran for •••••••••• playing himself, has absconded with how the service measures each indi - such as A24. He effortlessly bridges the embassy attack. Ghosh is a columnist after being convinced it is a good- vidual property against the other the divide between slob and snob. Khamenei and and member of the luck charm. His performance here is — makes it more interesting than He is the hero we need right now. Soleimani seem to have Bloomberg Opinion edito - electric, and the drama flows natu - the specific numbers the service Let us hope that the awards-season calculated that Trump rial board. He writes on rally from the manic comedy that occasionally lets escape from its tastemakers are paying attention. would respond to their foreign affairs, with a spe - has so defined his career. The twitch - black hole of stats. ••••••••• provocations just as the cial focus on the Middle iness that defines the character and Sandler plays a character who is Bunch is the editor in chief of leaders of Saudi Arabia East and the wider Islam - the mood swings that make him feel almost the exact opposite of Ratner Cinestate.com and a cohost of the and the United Arab Emi - ic world. Follow him on real are natural outgrowths of the in this movie. Here he’s calmer and Sub-Beacon podcast. 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Old scrapbook; Randolph BUY ONE County plat book; buggy wheels; wooden flfloor lamp with leaded shade; Red Colemman lantern; Griswold and WagnWagner cast iron skillets; hide scales; antique I tools; Dr Cranes Quaker Remedy store display case; brass hames knobs; unusual FFOOR horse bbits; glass carboys; ½ gallon Amber Lightning jar; Blue Ball jars; crockery bowls; fishing items; salt dips; Goofus glass; Turkey on nest; pitcher & 6 $ 95 tumbleers; spice cannister set; Ironstone dishes; pitcher & bowl; German square E bowl; old utensils; mantle clock; wood utensils including mashers and rolling 6 pins; lladles; comb case; Green depression S & P; foot warmer; Fenton basket; Carnivval; cake stand; wash tubs; watering cans; baskets; lightning rod stand; old GET windoows; glider; Indian stone hammer; and many other items not listed. GUNS D ONE FFOOR Beretta Model 21A breakover 22 long rifle pistol; Smith & WessonWesson Model 60; Smith & WesWesson Model 28 Highway Patrolman 357; Smith & WeWesson Model 10- 6 / 38 special; Colt Remington 1911 semi-automatic 45 caliber; Glock M22 $ 50 semi-automatic 40 caliber; Smith & WeWesson M & P 15-22 semi-automatic 22 caliberr riffle;le; Ruger 556 semi-automatic rifle; Thompson Center 223 – 50 caliber B3iirrthddaayyss, with innterchange 50 caliber scopes; Ruger 1022 semi-automatic 22 caliber with red doot scope; Stevens M200 – 22/250 bolt action with scope; Savage M12 – Anniverrssariiees, 223 caliber bolt action with scope; Inland M1 carbrbine 30 caliber; Remington 03- A Get WWeelll,, A3 boolt action; LymanLyman Professional reloading equipment; DYES: .223, 30-06, 30 caliiber, 22-250, 38 special, 357 and 45 caliber; gun cases; and spotting scope. Just Because, Auctiooneers Note: This auction offfersfers a wide variety of quality items. Please VVaalentiinne’’ss Dayy,, note theh earlier start time. Auction preview will be held on January 10th from 1:00 too 5:00 p.m. D and MMaany Otherrss. DOUG CULLERS

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Page 8 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Streak ends at five Fort Recovery falters late in loss to ’Cats By CHRIS SCHANZ quarter, Fort Recovery held a 34- The Commercial Review 31 lead only to have Minster MINSTER, Ohio — No matter later go out front 39-36. how many times the Indians tried Grant Knapke, who led the to pull away, the Wildcats came Indians with 14 points, came off firing right back. a screen to drain a game-tying 3- Ten straight points put the pointer from the left wing, but Tribe out front by seven early in Jacob Salazar matched it to the second quarter, but a Wildcat break the deadlock. surge tied the score at the half. Fort Recovery was never able Then, after the Indians had a to pull ahead again. lead again in the third, the Wild - Even at 48 with 1:42 remain - cats simply would not go away. ing, Justin Nixon put the Wild - And when the Tribe fell behind cats in front by two and then a little bit later, it never got back assisted on two Roetgerman over the hump. insurance points. The Fort Recovery High School “Justin was pretty good one- boys basketball team held a lead on-one when we needed him to on four separate occasions, but be and that’s kind of what we after falling behind midway leaned on,” McClurg said. through the third quarter it never The Indians had a chance to claimed the advantage again as it pull within one after Clay came up short in a 52-50 loss to Schmitz was sent to the line to the Minster Wildcats on Friday. complete an old-fashioned three- “It’s a good test of character,” point play with 9.3 seconds first-year Fort Recovery coach remaining, but his free throw Jim Melton said. “Hopefully our was off the mark. Eric Schmidt team galvanizes from this. I tracked down the loose ball in always say, an ‘L’ is not a loss, it’s the corner and McClurg called a learning process and that’s timeout with 5.7 ticks remaining what we’re going to do from this. to all but seal the streak-continu - “We’ll learn from it, we’ll grow ing victory. and mature as young men and “We knew there was a chance become a better team, hopefully.” he could miss because he only Fort Recovery, which had won had one (free throw already),” its previous five games, fell to 6-2 McClurg said. “We knew we had overall and 1-2 in the Midwest to check out. They got a hand on Athletic Conference, while Min - it, whether it was over the back I ster (8-1, 1-1 MAC) won its fourth The Commercial Review/Chris Schanz don’t know, but then it goes to consecutive game. the corner and we put it to our “I thought our kids, start to fin - Fort Recovery High School junior Regan Martin (left) and classmate Ryne Post fend chin. ish, every single kid that was in off Eric Schmidt of Minster in battling for a loose ball during the first half of their Midwest “Thank god we got a timeout.” and had an opportunity to be in Athletic Conference battle Friday at Minster. The Indians lost a lead twice in the third quarter Said Melton: “Hats off to Min - played really hard,” said Minster and came up short in a 52-50 loss to the Wildcats. ster. They made some plays coach Michael McClurg. “That down the stretch that counted.” was kind of what pulled it out. We Nixon led all players with 16 just grinded that one out. It defi - Martin hit a 3-pointer from the from the opposite corner — to mental breakdowns for the rest points, including a pair of third- nitely wasn’t pretty.” right corner, and Grant Knapke make it 18-11 Indians. of the period allowed Minster to quarter 3-pointers, which Melton Minster led 11-8 at the end of a fed Bihn in the post for two Martin scored all 11 of his claw its way back for the first said he wasn’t expecting out of rather sloppy first quarter, but points. Two possessions later, points in the second period, and time as Trent Roetgerman tied the 6-foot, 4-inch senior forward. Fort Recovery’s Regan Martin Bihn put back his own miss for a Bihn finished with 10 for the the game at 26 in the final Roetgerman tossed in 10 and Brian Bihn swung the game basket, and Martin followed Indians. minute of the opening half. points to give the Wildcats a trio in favor of the Indians. with another triple — this time What Melton described as Midway through the third of players in double figures. als in McCaffrey leads All-Pros T Speci By BARRY WILNER McCaffrey’s achievement was comple - HO AP Pro Football Writer mented by the unanimous selections of NEW YORK — Christian McCaffrey’s New Orleans receiver Michael Thomas versatility and superb statistics helped and New England cornerback Stephon him to a rare double: The Carolina Pan - Gilmore. Ravens sensation Lamar Jackson thers running back has made The Associ - was chosen as quarterback. ated Press NFL All-Pro Team at two posi - Rams DT Aaron Donald and Seahawks tions. LB Bobby Wagner, each were selected for a McCaffrey rushed for 1,387 yards and 15 fifth time; Cowboys right guard Zack Mar - touchdowns while catching a phenomenal tin and Ravens kicker Justin Tucker for a WWOOOWW 116 passes for 1,005 yards and four TDs. He fourth time. Bears kick returner Cordar - became the third player in NFL history to relle Patterson made his third All-Pro ros - finish with 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 ter, as did Eagles center Jason Kelce and yards receiving in the same season, join - Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins. 1 TTiTimmmee ing Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk and All-Pros for the second time included Roger Craig, who is on the senior ballot for Thomas, Gilmore, Cardinals edge rusher the hall this year. Chandler Jones, Steelers DT Cam Hey - That so impressed the 50 members of a ward, Patriots special teamer Matthew media panel who regularly cover the NFL Slater, Colts left guard Quenton Nelson, a YYeYeaeaaar!r! for McCaffrey to be voted the first-team and defensive backs Marcus Peters and running back and the top flex player. Tyrann Mathieu of the Chiefs. 11/2/2/2 ppaaagege aadd Sports on tap

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