Wednesday, October 23, 2019 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 Myers makes campaign swing for 2020 By JACK RONALD ond term of Republican Gov. on Tuesday as he made his way Indiana State Health Depart - a successful career with Indiana The Commercial Review Robert Orr. He stayed in that around the region, talking to ment, Myers took a high profile Blue Cross Blue Shield (now Woody Myers wants your post during the first term of small city mayors about their position in support of young Anthem) and went on to serve as vote. Democratic Gov. Evan Bayh. concerns and their issues with AIDS patient Ryan White’s right the chief healthcare officer for Not in this election, the one a Today he’s one of a handful of state government. to attend school at a time when a Ford Motor Company. He was few weeks from now. But in 2020, the election that’s Democratic candidates who “I’m hearing very serious con - climate of fear and misinforma - later chief executive officer of more than 375 days away. have already surfaced to chal - cerns about the property tax cap tion about the disease prevailed. Corizon, a company focused on Dr. Myers, 65, first made his lenge incumbent Republican and the circuit breaker,” Myers He left the Indiana post to providing healthcare to those in mark as Indiana State Health Gov. Eric Holcomb. said during a brief interview. become health commissioner prison or jail. Commissioner during the sec - Myers stopped in Jay County During his stint leading the for New York City. He then built See Myers page 2 Envoy raised Fright nights alarm about Ukraine talks By RACHAEL BADE, ing investigations of ANNE GEARAN, [Democratic presidential KAROUN DEMIRJIAN candidate Joe] Biden and and MIKE DEBONIS 2016 election interfer - The Washington Post ence.” WASHINGTON — “’Everything was America’s top diplomat in dependent on such an Ukraine delivered a force - announcement, including ful blow to President Don - security assistance,” Tay - ald Trump’s account of his lor said he was told by Gor - “perfect” dealings with don Sondland, U.S. ambas - that nation, telling law - sador to the European makers Tuesday that the Union. White House had threat - A seasoned diplomat, ened to withdraw much- Army veteran and meticu - needed military aid unless lous note taker, Taylor told Kyiv announced investiga - lawmakers that former tions for Trump’s political national security adviser benefit. John Bolton and other offi - The explosive, closed- cials from the Pentagon, door testimony from act - the State Department and ing ambassador William the CIA tried unsuccess - Taylor Jr. undermined fully to get a meeting with Trump’s insistence that he Trump to persuade him to never pressured Ukrain - release the money — near - The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald ian officials in a potential - ly $400 million intended to ly improper “quid pro help Ukraine defend itself Things will be going bump in the night at the Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department’s quo.” against Russia. It also offered House But Trump’s hold on the Haunted Woods, a Halloween tradition now in its 25th year. investigators an expansive aid extended well into Sep - road map to what Taylor tember, and Taylor said he called a “highly irregular” found himself considering channel of shadow diplo - resignation. “I could not Firemen ready to scare macy toward Ukraine that and would not defend such lies at the heart of the a policy,” Taylor said. impeachment inquiry. The blockbuster testi - By JACK RONALD In a 15-page opening mony came hours after The Commercial Review statement, obtained by Trump escalated his A patch of woods on the north - The Washington Post, Tay - attack on the impeach - east edge of Dunkirk is making lor repeatedly expressed ment inquiry, tweeting its annual transformation. his shock and bewilder - that it was a “lynching” And it’s not for the faint of ment as he watched U.S. and drawing swift condem - heart. policy toward Ukraine get nation from Democrats “This is our 25th year,” says overtaken by Trump’s and some Republicans for Dunkirk fire chief Steve Fields demand that newly elected equating the constitution - as he wanders along the wooded president Volodymyr al process with the barbar - path of the Dunkirk Volunteer Zelensky “go to a micro - ic killing of African-Amer - Fire Department’s Haunted phone and say he is open - icans. Woods. “It’s pretty much the same set up, but it’s a little differ - ent every year.” What Fields calls “the same set Russians deploy up” might scare the daylights out of you. “We’ve had them pee their at Syrian border pants,” says haunted woods vol - unteer Tammy Lindsey. AKCAKALE, Turkey forces as protection from Work on the Halloween attrac - (AP) — Russian military Turkey, were given a dead - The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald police began patrols on line of next Tuesday part of the Syrian border evening to pull back from John Willoughby explains some of the devices used to Wednesday, quickly mov - border areas they have not control special effects at the Haunted Woods. Dozens of ing to implement an already left. Iraq, mean - volunteers are involved in the project each year. accord with Turkey that while, closed the door on divvies up control of the U.S. military’s attempt northeastern Syria. The to keep the troops leaving tion, located on county road 450 stations,” says Fields. Kremlin told Kurdish Syria on its soil. Iraqi South between 1100 West and Those include: The Pumpkin fighters to pull back from Defense Minister Najah al- 1150 West, began in the final days Patch, Monster Alley, The Mau - the entire frontier or else Shammari told The Asso - of August and was ready for visi - soleum, The Clown House, The face being “steamrolled” ciated Press that those tors Oct. 18. It continues Oct. 25 Maze and The Box, which has by Turkish forces. troops were only “transit - and 26 and Nov. 1 and 2. three different rooms featuring Turkish President ing” Iraq and would leave The price is $7 per person or $6 everything from zombies to a Recep Tayyip Erdogan within four weeks, head - per person with a donation of a giant spider. echoed those warnings, ing either to Kuwait, canned good for local food “The animated spider is back,” saying his military would Qatar or the United States. pantries. says Fields. “The last couple of resume its offensive Al-Shammari spoke Fields estimates about three years we didn’t have it.” against Kurdish fighters after meeting U.S. Defense dozen volunteers are involved in Visitors go in groups, with a if the new arrangements Secretary Mark Esper, setting up the Halloween attrac - guide at the front of the group are not carried out. who earlier this week had tion each year, including a group and one at the back of the group Erdogan and Russian said the American forces of Cub Scouts and their leaders. to make sure no one wanders off. President Vladimir Putin from Syria would remain And when the haunted woods “It’s a pretty good walk,” says reached an agreement in Iraq to fight the Islamic is open to visitors there will be Fields, though he admits it’s not Tuesday that would trans - State group. Iraqi’s mili - some 50 to 75 volunteers on hand, for everybody. The Commercial Review form the map of northeast tary quickly said they did some in costume and some work - “We get volunteers wherever Syria, installing their not have permission to do ing behind the scenes. we can get them,” he says. “We’re forces along the border so. The reversal under - Dunkirk Fire Chief Steve It takes about 40 minutes for a always needing tour guides.” Fields points to a roster of and filling the void left by scored the blow to U.S. guided group to make its way All proceeds from the attrac - the abrupt withdrawal of influence on the ground in volunteers who have helped along the path through the tion go to support the Dunkirk American troops. The the wake of President with The Mausoleum site. woods. “There are about seven Volunteer Fire Department. Kurdish fighters, who Donald Trump’s order for once relied on the U.S. U.S. troops to leave Syria.
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The Jay, Adams, Blackford 4 p.m. Nov. 5 to view the Skies should be clear and Wells Soil and Water Con - demonstration and learn more tonight with an overnight low servation Districts and the about cover cropsfrom experi - of 49. Upper Salamonie River Water - enced landowners and profes - Susan Delee Dick , 48, Port - Thursday’s forecast calls shed are partnering on a cover sions. Support for the event land for cloudy skies and a high of crop demonstration site. also comes from the Indiana Details on page 2. 59. Ag producers with ques - Department of Agriculture An extended forecast tions, concerns or just curios - and the Indiana Department appears on page 2. tity about cover crops can stop of Environmental Manage - by 2459 E. Division Road, half ment. a mile east of road 200 East at There is no fee for the event. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Obituaries
Susan Dick graduate, mem - Portland, one son Christopher in the Baird-Freeman Funeral lishes death notices for those with ber of Jay County Hudson of Portland, two daugh - Home with Pastor Jeff Horsman a connection to our coverage area Sept. 30, 1971-Oct. 21, 2019 Cancer Society ters Shelby Capetillo (husband: presiding. free of charge. They include the Susan Delee Dick. age 48, of and Cancer Walk Portland passed away Monday. Caleb) of Portland and Carla Visitation will be Friday from name, city of residence, Committee. Dick of Portland, one brother 3 to 7 p.m. Memorials can be birth/death date and Oct. 21, 2019 at her residence. She was very Michael McLaughlin (wife: made to the Jay County Cancer time/date/location of services. She was born in Portland active in 4-H and Sept. 30, 1971 the daughter of The Rock Church. Erika) of Chicago, one sister Society, 4-H or The Rock Church. There is a charge for obituar - Harry and Ruth (Johnson) Surviving are Dick Debra McLaughlin of Ander - Online condolences at ies, which are printed as they are McLaughlin. She was a child her parents son, and six grandchildren www.bairdfreeeman.com. received. We accept obituaries day care provider. She was a Harry and Ruth McLaughlin of Funeral services will be Sat - •••••••••• only from funeral homes or mor - 1989 Jay County High School urday October 26, 2019 at 10 a.m. The Commercial Review pub - tuary services. CR almanac
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Medical School, he also Sunrise Dec. corn ...... 4.35 He made an unsuccess - Myers sees that as an “You have teachers leav - expressed concern about St. Anthony Jan. corn ...... 4.37 ful bid for Congress in opportunity. According to ing to go to Kentucky Hoosier health. “Our Corn ...... 4.26 2008, coming in second in one poll, he said, less than because the pay is better. infant mortality rate is Nov. corn ...... 4.26 Central States a crowded field in the 40 percent of Indiana vot - … And we wasted so much close to Mississippi’s,” he Beans ...... 8.81 Montpelier Democratic primary in ers could identify Hol - money. The State Board of said. Nov. beans ...... 8.86 Corn ...... 4.13 the 7th Congressional Dis - comb as governor. Education is not paying Some of that, he added, Wheat ...... 5.01 Nov. corn ...... 4.16 trict. “Education, that’s first attention.” is because Indiana still Beans ...... 9.15 “I thought I could get on my list (of issues),” While acknowledging has a large percentage of Cooper Farms N o v . b e a n s ...... 9 .2 5 p o l i t i c s o u t o f m y s y s - M y e r s s a id . I n d i a n a t h a t t h e H o o s i e r e c o n o m y s m o k e r s . C a l l in g fo r h ig h - Wheat ...... 5.26 tem,” he laughed. teacher pay, he said, is lag - is doing pretty well, Myers er taxes on cigarettes, Fort Recovery While incumbent Gov. ging way behind the said, “The jobs we’re Myers said, “People are Oct. corn ...... 4.33 The Andersons Holcomb has run a low- nation as a whole. attracting are at the lower addicted to nicotine. It’s Nov. corn ...... 4.33 Richland Township key administration far “Mitch Daniels (gover - end, not the higher end. the only product that used Dec. corn ...... 4.37 Corn ...... 4.13 less polarizing than his nor) destroyed the funding A graduate of Harvard as directed will kill you.” Nov. corn ...... 4.13 POET Biorefining Beans ...... 9.08 Portland Nov. beans ...... 9.03 Oct. corn ...... 4.32 Wheat ...... 5.16 Felony court news Nov. corn ...... 4.30 Nov. wheat ...... 5.16 Probation violation Sycamore St., was found in Lincoln Ave., was found in pleaded guilty in Jay A Redkey woman was violation of her probation violation of his probation Superior Court to a drug sentenced in Jay Superior on the original charge of on the original charge of paraphernalia charge. Today in history Court for violating her operating a vehicle while unlawful possession of a Amanda M. Adams, 32, probation. intoxicated with a prior syringe, a Level 6 felony. 126 High St., pleaded On Oct. 23, 1973 , sands of women parad - Kayla M. Halsey, 28, 80 N. conviction, a Level 6 He was ordered to serve an guilty to unlawful posses - President Richard ed up Fifth Avenue in felony. She was ordered to additional 60 days of the sion of a syringe, a Level Nixon agreed to turn New York City, demand - serve an additional eight sentence imposed on Aug. 6 felony. She was sen - over White House tape ing the right to vote. months of the sentence 29, 2017, and was given 60 tenced to one year in Jay imposed on Sept. 13, 2016, recordings subpoenaed In 1925, talk show days credit for 30 days County Jail with all but and was given 218 days by the Watergate special host Johnny Carson SERVICES served. His probation was 80 days suspended and credit for 109 served. Her prosecutor to Judge was born in Corning, Thursday terminated unsuccessfully. was given eight days probation was terminated In a separate case, John J. Sirica. Iowa. credit for four days Abels , James: 10:30 a.m., St. unsuccessfully. Morales was found in vio - In 1707, the first Par - In 1944, the World served. Paul Catholic Church, 517 Meir - lation of his probation on liament of Great War II Battle of Leyte She was assessed court ing Road, Fort Recovery. Trial scheduled the charge of possession costs of $185 and placed Britain, created by the (LAY'-tee) Gulf began, A man’s trial was sched - of methamphetamine, a on formal probation for Acts of Union between resulting in a major Saturday uled in Jay Superior Level 6 felony. He was 285 days. As part of a plea England and Scotland, Allied victory against ,, Susan:: 10 a.m., Baird- Court. Zachary Fellers, 26, ordered to serve an addi - agreement, a charge of held its first meeting. Japanese forces. Dick Freeman Funeral Home, 221 N. who is currently incarcer - tional 60 days of the sen - possession of metham - In 1910, Blanche S. In 1956, a student- Meridian St., Portland. ated in the Indiana Depart - tence imposed on Aug. 29, phetamine, a Level 6 Scott became the first sparked revolt against . ment of Correction, will 2017, and was given 60 days felony, was dismissed. woman to make a public Hungary's Communist have a two-day jury trial credit for 30 days served. In a separate case, a solo airplane flight, rule began; as the revo - beginning March 4. He is Service listings provided by charge of public intoxi - reaching an altitude of lution spread, Soviet charged with theft, a Level Syringe possession cation, a Class B misde - 12 feet at a park in Fort forces started entering PROGRESSIVE 6 felony. A Redkey woman meanor, was dismissed. Wayne, Ind. the country. OFFICE PRODUCTS In 1915, tens of thou - — Associated Press 120 N. Meridian St. Probation violations A Dunkirk man was sen - Portland, Indiana 47371 tenced in Jay Superior Citizen’s calendar (260) 726-9201 Court for violating his pro - progressiveofficeproducts.com bation. DVFD’S 26TH ANNUAL Noah R. Morales, 29, 519 Thursday ment District, executive 9 a.m. — Portland session for employee Board of Works, evaluation, district mayor’s office, Portland office, 5948 W. Indiana Union Chapel Church haunted woods City Hall. 67, Portland. 3:30 p.m. — Jay Coun - Friday ty Solid Waste Manage - HOMECOMING 8 a.m. — Portland ment District, district Special Services Redevelopment Com - office, 5948 W. Indiana mission, Community 67, Portland. Friday, Oct. 25 • 7pm Oct. 18,19,25,26 Nov. 1,2 Resource Center, 118 S. 7 p.m. — Dunkirk City Meridian St. Council, city building, 131 S. Main St. Saturday, Oct. 26 • 7pm Monday Sunday, Oct. 27 • 10:30 am 7:30 to 11:00 pm 9 a.m. — Jay County Wednesday Commissioners, com - 11 a.m. — Portland Noon meal provided. For more Info: missioners’ room, court - Housing Authority Phone: 765-768-6122 house, 120 N. Court St., Board, community Address: County Road 450 South You are Welcome! Between 1100 W & 1150 W Portland. room, Jay County Pub - Dunkirk, Indiana 3 p.m. — Jay County lic Library, 315 N. Ship 260-997-6678 $7 per person Solid Waste Manage - St., Portland. $6 with canned good 6200 N 375 W Bryant, IN Come to Dunkirk and follow the signs The Commercial Review Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Family Page 3
To wed in November Long lost dad found, Lauren only to be lost again Leugers DEAR ABBY: I grew up win, and if they don’t, it’s not knowing who my bio - temporary. logical father was. My roommate gets real - and When I met him for the Dear ly mad when I watch or first time, I was 18. Abby even talk about the movies Kyle Dirksen When we met, I felt I had I watch, but becomes real - found a piece of who I ly defensive when I com - was. pare them to what she Lauren Leugers and Kyle Dirk - I loved him immediately, watches. sen are planning a Nov. 2 wedding. as if I had known him my My roommate is very The daughter of Dennis and Jill NEW YORK whole life. fragile emotionally and Leugers, Coldwater, Ohio, Lauren DEAR MISSING: Not We talked and hung out knowing your father, cries, withdraws and is an accounts receivable specialist for the next four months shuts down when I do this. at Lefeld Industrial and Welding it’s hard to guess his until I moved in with him reason for distancing The last time, she insinu - Supplies. She is a 2015 graduate of to escape an abusive rela - ated I was less of a person Coldwater High School and a 2019 himself from you and tionship. his grandchild. for liking these things. graduate of Wright State Universi - I was pregnant at the Ultimately, I felt sorry for ty Lake Campus with a degree in It does appear that he time and spent half my is punishing you for bringing it up, and she business. pregnancy living with still refuses to acknowl - The son of Bob and Carol Dirk - something. him, my stepmother, half- Could he have been edge that we are allowed to sen, 6184 N. Liberty Road, Bryant, brother and stepbrother. I like different things with - Kyle is a 2014 graduate of Jay Lauren Leugers and Kyle Dirksen hurt or angry that you moved back in with my chose to live with your out being bad people. County High School and is self- mom a few months later. I need to know how to employed as a farmer. mother rather than stay Since then, my father with him and your step - bring up that how she has cut me off. mother? responds to the things I I have been trying so Because it has been like hurts me, and commu - hard to get him to talk to four years, you may nicate that I have nothing me. have to accept that this against what she watches, Indiana church creates He hasn’t met my son estrangement will be even if it’s not my taste. yet, rarely responds to my permanent and find a How can I communicate texts and never answers way to cope with the my feelings without feel - fun by flinging pumpkins my calls. loss. If you have a reli - ing like I’m being insensi - I have invited him to gious adviser, start tive for asking her to stop every birthday party, sent berating me? — JUST A By AMY LAVALLEY most of the work, Murray feet. there. him cards for every holi - MOVIE IN THE MID - Merrillville Post-Tribune said, and while they’ve Ric Franke-Polz is a DEAR ABBY: My room - day, begged him to see me WEST Fahrfunflinger has used the same machine retired engineer with U.S. mate loves watching docu - and my son. DEAR JUST A come a long way. over the years, tweaks Steel’s Midwest Plant in mentaries about serial It’s been four years now, MOVIE: The most diplo - The first year its cre - have been made. More Portage and Murray said killers, psychopaths and and I’m heartbroken. matic solution would be ators used the slingshot bands will launch pump - he’s nearing retirement as other criminals. I don’t I miss him so much. I for the two of you to contraption to launch kins farther, he said, but a project engineer for like them. pumpkins, they hit the also cause more damage to Superior Construction. feel like a piece of my To me it feels like a glo - agree that certain sub - 300-foot range. the “pumpkin delivery “I think the thought heart has been ripped out. rification of a person who jects of conversation Saturday, at Faith Evan - system,” as it’s billed on a process — it helps,” Mur - My grandmother told me did evil. should be avoided — gelical Bible Church’s fact sheet. ray said, adding he and that because my older On the flip side, I watch this being one of them. Eighth Annual Punkin The team also has Franke-Polz are able to half-sister left with her tons of spy movies, super - And if you can’t agree Launch, they set a new moved on to a power predict what could go kids without saying good - hero movies and action to respect each other’s course record for fall wench, which replaced a wrong and fix problems as bye to him, it broke his films that depict violence. viewing habits without squash catapulting — 874 manual one after it got too they arise. heart, and he is afraid I But the distinction lies in being judgmental, you feet. difficult to use with more Fahrfunflinger was one will do the same. that what I watch is fic - should find other room - Team Fahrfunflinger, bands, Murray said. These of four launchers at Satur - What should I do? — tion. mates as soon as your comprised of Ric and Lau - days, Fahrfunflinger is day’s event, which also MISSING MY DAD IN Usually the good guys lease is up. rie Franke-Polz, of Porter, graced with a black and included the In“Tim”ida - and Jim and Kari Murray, maroon flag and red flash - tor, with a team from of Chesterton, traces its ing lights. Kouts; Team Hot Shot beginnings to 2004, when The team travels from Valparaiso; and Hints from Heloise the two couples went to throughout the area for Medieval Mayhem, a tre - Morton, Ill., to watch a competitions, Murray buchet operated by the pumpkin launching com - said, going to events in Valparaiso-area church’s Dear Readers: A tasty min A, which is essen - calories and low in petition and the wives Buchanan, Mich., Morton, pastor, Andy Wenthold. and healthy vegetable is tial in the development starch. Since zucchini is decided the husbands Bloomington and The church started the zucchini. It’s a good of cells. a low glycemic food, you could build a launch of Bluffton. In 2016, in offering the event after source of vitamin C and feel full longer, which their own, Jim Murray Bloomington, the team set one of its members went copper. For dieters, this is a helps to keep down the said. its own record, launching to the national competi - It is also high in fiber, good vegetable to stock urge to snack. —- Ric Franke-Polz did a 5-pound pumpkin 926 tion. beta carotene and vita - up on because it’s low in Heloise Community Calendar
Notices will appear in Wednesday in the Zion Meridian St., Portland. TER OF NATIONAL noon each Saturday at Jay more information, call Community Calendar as Lutheran Church, 218 E. For more information, SOCIETY OF DAUGH - County Courthouse. (765) 768-1544. space is available. To sub - High St., Portland. For call (206) 726-9625 or (260) TERS OF THE AMERI - ALCOHOLICS ANONY - PREGNANCY CARE mit an item, email more information, call 703-0534. CAN REVOLUTION — MOUS — Will meet at 10 CENTER — Free pregnan - [email protected]. (260) 726-8229. MENDING FAMILIES- Will meet at 5:45 p.m. a.m. upstairs at True cy testing with ongoing A BETTER LIFE – BRI - NAR-ANON GROUP — A Thursday, Oct. 24, in the Value Hardware, Meridi - support during and after Wednesday ANNA’S HOPE — A faith- 12-step, self-help group for auditorium at Jay County an Street, Portland. For pregnancy. The center is ALCOHOLICS ANONY - based recovery group for families and friends of Courthouse. Janice more information, call located at 216 S. Meridian MOUS — Will meet from all kinds of addictions, addicts, will meet from 7 Stucky and Jane Ann (260) 729-2532. St., Portland. Hours are 1 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. each will meet from 6:30 to 8 to 8 p.m. each Wednesday Spencer will present a Monday to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday upstairs at p.m. each Wednesday at in conference room A at program about the histo - PORTLAND BREAK - Friday. For more informa - True Value Hardware, Redkey United Methodist Indiana University Health ry of the courthouse at 6 FAST OPTIMISTS — Will tion or an appointment, Meridian Street, Portland. Church, 122 W. Main St. Jay Hospital. p.m. A chapter meeting meet at 7 a.m. for break - call (260) 726-8636. Walk- For more information, Come early for a meal. For EUCHRE CLUB — Will will follow at 7 p.m. at Jay fast at Richards Restau - ins accepted. call (260) 729-2532. more information, call meet at 2 p.m. the fourth County Historical Muse - rant. BREAD OF LIFE COM - AL-ANON FAMILY Pastor Randy Davis at Wednesday of each month um. Any questions, please BRYANT AREA COM - MUNITY FAMILY MEAL GROUP — New Begin - (765) 369-2085. at Chalet Village Health call Sue Sommers at 260- MUNITY CENTER — — Will be served from 5:30 nings, a support group for STRESS AND ANXI - and Rehabilitation in the 726-2678. Walking from 9 to 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Asbury friends and families of ETY CLASS — Meets each North Lounge. A BETTER LIFE – BRI - every Monday, Wednesday United Methodist Church, alcoholics, the group will Wednesday at 2nd Chance ANNA’S HOPE — A faith and Friday. 204 E. Arch St. in Port - meet at 6:30 p.m. each at Life Ministries, 228 S. Thursday based recovery group for PING PONG — Will be land. CELEBRATE RECOV - all kinds of addictions, played from 9 a.m. to noon TAKE OFF POUNDS ERY — A 12-step Chris - will meet from 6:30 to 8 each Monday at Jay Com - SENSIBLY (TOPS) — Will tian recovery program, p.m. each Thursday at munity Center. meet for weigh-in at 5:30 the group will meet at 10 Asbury United Methodist WEST JAY COMMUNI - p.m., with the meeting at 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. each Church, 204 E. Arch St. in TY CENTER GROUP — p.m., in the fellowship hall Sudoku Thursday at A Second Portland. Come early for a Doors open at 10:30 a.m. at Evangelical Methodist Chance At Life Min - meal. Bingo will begin at 11 a.m. Church, 930 W. Main St., istries, 228 S. Meridian St. For more information, Euchre begins at 1 p.m. Portland. New members in Portland. For more call Kevin Culy at (260) There is a $1 donation for welcome. For more infor - information, call Brenda 251-2843. center’s expenses. For mation, call (260) 726-5312. Eads at (260) 726-9625 or Dave Keen at (260) 251- Saturday 8792. FARMERS MARKET — MISSISSINEWA CHAP - Will be held from 8 a.m. to
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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 Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Procrastination lesson learned early By JACK RONALD letter to the tourism officials of a would plague me after the lights ously, their tourism officials The Commercial Review Latin American country asking went out at bedtime. Tossing and were asleep on the job. It’s late afternoon on a Thurs - Back for information, then write a turning, I would promise myself The unlikely coincidence prob - day, and I’m writing my column report on the country and present that I’d zip off those letters the ably caught her attention, but I for next Wednesday. in the an oral version of the report to next day if only I could go to was able to limp through the rest Why is that? the class. sleep. of the assignment without too Because I fear my own ability Saddle Sounds simple, right? But the next day, the assign - much humiliation. to procrastinate. It would be if you wrote the let - ment would be shelved again. Until later, when the memory For most of my 70-plus years, ter. And the deadline kept lingered. I’ve been able to keep the procras - To make matters worse, I approaching. And lingered. tination tendency in check. She was a little stern and occa - agreed — apple-polisher that I Meanwhile, my classmates — That’s a long answer to the One of the great disciplines of sionally cranky. Who wouldn’t be was at the time — to take two those unafflicted by procrastina - short question of why I would be a career in journalism is that you with a crowded classroom of countries: Chile and Nicaragua. tion — started giving their writing a next Wednesday col - learn to meet deadlines. You also about 40 fifth graders? But after receiving the assign - reports. umn on a Thursday afternoon. learn to fear them. But she also had a softer side. ment, I promptly shelved it in one I managed to produce the writ - But that experience continues And you learn to recognize She liked to read aloud to the of those corners of the brain ten versions of mine with to shape my life. your own weaknesses when it class on Friday afternoons, when reserved for procrastination. thanks to the World Book Ency - When I go on vacation, I leave comes to putting something off, most of us were already day - The assignment, as I recall, clopedia in the family den, but columns behind for advance use. then putting it off again, then try - dreaming about the weekend. On came in the fall or winter. The my classmates had brochures When I have worked overseas, I ing to forget about it entirely. one stretch of afternoons, she reports weren’t due until the and responses in writing to have left advance columns That bit of self-knowledge read “Charlotte’s Web” to the spring. show when they did their oral behind. 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She was my fifth That’s what we had been studying the corner of my brain came I told Mrs. Chandler that nei - them one of these days, if only to grade teacher at Judge Haynes in geography. back to haunt me. ther Chile nor Nicaragua had honor the memory of my fifth Elementary School. The assignment was to write a My failure to write the letters responded to my letters. Obvi - grade teacher. Avoiding tax talk doesn’t fool anyone Bloomberg Opinion Even many Democrats are criticizing Sen. Eliza - Guest beth Warren for refusing to admit, in plain words, that her Medicare for All plan Editorial will require taxes to increase. They’re right to complain. The point could hardly be simpler: All pres - idential candidates owe voters an honest account - ing of what their ideas will cost and how they’ll be paid ... commitment for. Up to now, under repeat - to genuinely ed questioning, Warren universal has refused to go further than saying that her health health plan will lower costs for insurance most Americans, without ever explaining what she is admirable, means by costs. A program but this can be as expensive as this instantly raises the ques - achieved tion of affordability in vot - ers’ minds. There’s only with vastly less one plausible answer: disruption and Taxes will have to go up. Warren’s reluctance to at much lower use the word “tax” in the taxpayer same sentence as Reckoning with China is overdue “Medicare for All” is not expense by By JOHN A. BURTKA IV as their pocketbooks or their next just wrong; it’s bewilder - Special To The Washington Post deal in the PRC. ing. The idea that voters means of a Thomas Jefferson once observed, The consequences of decades of won’t worry about how to subsidized “Merchants have no country. The John A. liberalized trade with China rever - finance the plan unless mere spot they stand on does not berate far beyond the halls of power. somebody says “tax” is an “public option.” constitute so strong an attachment Burtka IV My home state of Michigan has been insult to their intelligence as that from which they draw their ravaged by the loss or displacement and a blatant attempt at gains.” of more than 80,000 jobs since China evasion. As a tactic, it’s ris - This timeless wisdom was on full entered the World Trade Organiza - ible, and the attacks War - All vary by trillions of dol - display this week with National Bas - tion in 2001. My current place of resi - panies are forced to choose who they ren is facing on the matter lars (hardly reassuring) ketball Association superstar dence, Chester County, Pennsylvania, will serve. only underline its useless - and that many “revenue LeBron James’s wild claim that also suffers at the hands of Chinese showing solidarity for protesters in It’s long past time to render a ness. streams” (but never say mercantilism. The spotted lanternfly, Hong Kong could lead to physical, value on the United States’ 40-year Warren has explicitly “taxes”) might be implicat - an invasive Chinese insect that emotional and spiritual harm for relationship with the People’s endorsed the Medicare for ed. arrived on cargo ships, could cost All plan devised by her fel - “so many people.” Republic of China (PRC). What nearly $18 billion in damage to The Medicare for All that The United States is at a cross - result of it has come to the Ameri - low candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and Warren are statewide agriculture products. Chi - Sanders. He is happy to roads. We live in a country where can heartland besides an opioid epi - nese mushrooms of questionable pitching is a bad idea, and the titans of industry have betrayed demic, rising suicide rates, the explain that his plan will not only because of what it legality have bankrupted a local cost trillions of dollars, the national interest in search of destruction of the world’s greatest mushroom farm in Kennett Square; would cost (some $30 tril - profits from a communist dictator - manufacturing base, low-wage serv - that taxes will rise to pay lion over 10 years). It would and Coatesville, once known in Penn - for it, and that most taxpay - ship. Companies that have pros - ice jobs, and the big-box stores that also throw a large part of sylvania as the “Pittsburgh of the ers — so he claims — will pered on account of the United have killed the American main East,” suffered the horrific conse - the U.S. economy into tur - nonetheless be better off States’ political and economic free - street? Not to mention the hundreds quences of deindustrialization for once you consider that they moil and deny tens of mil - dom, infrastructure, and military of billions of dollars lost to stolen decades until Trump’s tariffs provid - and their employers will no lions of Americans the pri - protection, now limit the speech of technology, the dumping of excess ed much-needed aid to boost the city’s longer pay health-insur - vate health insurance they Americans and others seeking free - product in markets to destroy U.S. steel industry. Prediction: The candi - ance premiums. Question - currently have and like. dom to appease their minders and industries, as well as egregious date with the guts to “put the screws” able as his claim may be, he The commitment to gen - masters in Beijing. The consequence human rights abuses. to those bought and sold by Chinese at least acknowledges that uinely universal health of this? The abolition of national Perhaps the greatest irony is the President Xi Jinping will win at the expensive public programs insurance is admirable, but sovereignty, individual liberty and fact that the companies such as the ballot box in 2020 and gain the affec - have to be paid for. This is this can be achieved with the consent of the governed. NBA and Google, which would pur - tion of the American people for a gen - surely the minimum that vastly less disruption and In August, President Donald port to lecture “backward” Ameri - eration. voters are entitled to at much lower taxpayer Trump was widely criticized when cans on the virtues of social justice, No matter how the trade talks turn expect. expense by means of a sub - he tweeted: “Our great American are often the ones going to bat for out, the sun is setting on the United Warren’s reticence on the sidized “public option.” companies are hereby ordered to doing business in a regime that has States’ trade relationship with China. point is all the more jarring Medicare for All Who Want immediately start looking for an put more than one million Muslims It’s time we take significant economic given that she’s built her It makes much better alternative to China including in concentration camps, has institu - measures to repatriate manufactur - campaign around dozens sense. bringing your companies HOME.” tionalized sexism in the form of a ing supply chains to the Americas of detailed commitments. It Sanders is wrong about Whether anyone took this “order” one-child policy that led to the infan - and establish a trading block that turns out that she has a the best policy, but he seriously, Trump was right then and ticide of untold numbers of girls, spans from Alaska to Argentina. In plan for everything except should nonetheless be con - still is today. We are a country with a and has polluted the environment at doing so, we’ll create an economic how to pay for the single gratulated for his honesty. market, not the other way around. If a rate greater than the United States boom in Latin America, ameliorate most expensive promise of He says his plan will cost a this country’s Fortune 500 compa - and Europe combined. We live in the tensions at the border with Mexico, her or any other campaign. fortune and that taxpayers nies value access to Chinese mar - age of populism, nationalism and and restore dignity to the United Pressed on the issue, she will bear the burden. War - kets more than the vital interests of socialism — not because the Ameri - States’ middle and working classes. even manages to make mat - ren’s refusal to do the same the United States, then it’s impera - can people are ignorant, but because •••••••••• ters worse — explaining, is fooling nobody and tive for the American people to mar - they are outraged by the hypocrisy Burtka is executive director of The for instance, that estimates reflects badly on her judg - shal both political and consumer of an elite class whose commitment American Conservative. Follow him of the cost of Medicare for ment. power against them until those com - to liberal values extends only so far on Twitter @jburtkaIV. The Commercial Review US PS 125820 HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus
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Sports on tap Servviining JaJay Standings Carolina 420 County sinince 1949 National Football League Tampa Bay 240 Atlanta 160 5845 East North Street American Conference Salamonia, IN 47381 East LT North Malcolm C. George • (2600) 726-4710 • Portland, IN (260) 335-2881 New England 700 WL T Buffalo 510 Green Bay 610 N.Y. Jets 150 Minnesota 520 Miami 060 Chicago 330 Detroit 231 South WL T West LICENSED AND BONDED IN Indianapolis 420 WL T Houston 430 San Francisco 600 OHIO AND INDIANA Jacksonville 340 Seattle 520 Tennessee 340 L.A. Rams 430 FORT RECOVERY, OH Arizona 331 North WL T Local schedule Baltimore 520 Thursday Cleveland 240 Fort Recovery — Volleyball district final Pittsburgh 240 vs. St. Henry at Kalida – 6 p.m. Cincinnati 070 CHATEAUX REAL ESTATE CO. Friday West Jay County — Football hosts sectional ADRIAN GRUBE WL T quarterfinal vs. New Haven – 7 p.m. Kansas City 520 Fort Recovery — Football vs. Marion [email protected] AUCTIONEER/REALTOR Oakland 330 Local – 7 p.m. Denver 250 OWNER L.A. Chargers 250 Saturday Jay County — Cross country semi-state National Conference at Purdue-Fort Wayne – 1 p.m. East Fort Recovery — JV football at Marion WL T Local – 10 a.m. Dallas 430 Philadelphia 340 Monday N.Y. Giants 250 Fort Recovery — JV football vs. Ver - Washington 160 sailles – 5 p.m. SSupporSuppoup orrtt TheseThesese LLocaloocac l BBuuusinessesuss neessess s South Nov. 1 WL T Fort Recovery — Football at Versailles New Orleans 610 – 7 p.m.