75¢ Saturday, Serving the Grand Lake March 7, 2020 area since 1848 The DailyCelina, Ohio • © 2020 StandardS PrintingT Co. All Rightsan Reserved • dailystandard.comDarD Set your clocks ahead one hour Ex-CIA op a judge on ‘Spy Games’ TV show By WILLIAM KINCAID time on the show that concludes in episode 5. He tears into one [email protected] at 10 p.m. Monday. “I was like, of the show’s 10 contestants fac- ‘They didn’t tell me to ‘Do you understand how intense ing elimination after she makes COLDWATER — When pro- it is to go through the Farm?’ the mistake of rolling her eyes at ducers of Bravo’s “Spy Games” be mean but they did They’ll fillet you. They will open him. told Douglas Laux of Coldwater you up.” “That’s exactly what pisses to approach the reality TV con- tell me ... “Doug, treat That’s exactly what they had me off,” he responds to her. “I test as if it were the real deal, in mind for the show that finds would have been bounced in one he turned into a hard-as-nails it like it was for you.” ’ 10 contestants vying to outwit second if I rolled my eyes at an instructor, the type he endured one another in a series of cloak- instructor. You don’t get it. This at the Central Intelligence Agen- — .Doug .Laux .on .TV and-dagger missions to become is your second time here, and I’m cy’s training facility called The the top spy and collect a $100,000 seeing the exact same (bleeped Farm. producers’ .instructions prize. expletive) every single time.” Laux said his performance as “They did ask me to step back Laux was approached about one of the show’s three judges into that persona. It’s kind of like signing on to the show not too Photo .submitted makes Simon Cowell look like a said, ‘Doug, treat it like it was for asking somebody, ‘Get back into long after he had finished work Coldwater’s Douglas Laux is a judge and teddy bear. you,’” the 37-year-old retired CIA uniform,’ ” he explained. as executive producer and star of instructor on Bravo’s “Spy Games.” The “They didn’t tell me to be operations officer told the news- Laux delivered the goods, his show’s finale airs at 10 p.m. Monday. mean but they did tell me, they paper while talking about his style perhaps best encapsulated See SPY, page 9 Inside n President’s CDC visit turns into defense on virus. Page 2 S IME n Economic impact of virus sinks in. A T Page 11 n NCAA hoops game held in empty GOES BY gym. Page 12 126-year-old .clock’s .mechanism to .get .tweak .for .daylight .saving .time 21 aboard By AARON SNYDER n Video available online at [email protected] ship test dailystandard.com/video The original clock installed in the First Church of New Knoxville counts 86,400 seconds every day, and has done so hen First Church of in better working order.” New Knoxville’s found- “The only modifications made for the past 126 years. ers laid the corner- to it when it was refurbished and positive Wstone of their church at reinstalled was the counterweight the intersection of St. Marys and system so that it doesn’t have to Bremen streets, they built upon be manually wound when the that rock a clock tower. time comes to do that,” he contin- for virus The tower and the original ued. “But everything you see here SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twen- timepiece are still in operation is original to when the clock was ty-one people aboard a mammoth today, much as they were 126 first installed 126 year ago.” cruise ship off the California coast years ago. A single driveshaft begins tested positive for the new corona- virus and 19 of them are crew mem- “This original part of the the ascension to the top of the bers, Vice President Mike Pence sanctuary and the clock tower tower and the clock faces from said Friday, amid evidence the ves- have been a part of it since the the balcony level of the sanctuary, very beginning,” sel was the breeding ground for a where the time- deadly cluster of more than 10 cases the Rev. Joel piece resides. Bucklin said. during its previous voyage. It climbs four He said federal officials were “So as the town flights to a has changed, as working with California authori- central cog that ties on a plan to bring the ship to a additions have spins four other been made to non-commercial port. There was no shafts that immediate word on where or when the church, the connect to the clock tower has the vessel will dock. Everyone on clock faces. board was staying in their rooms. been a part of “Churches it that whole “All passengers and crew will be have always tested for the virus,” Pence said. “Those time.” been the centers The machine that will need to be quarantined will be of communities, quarantined. Those who will require that keeps especially small medical help will receive it.” time by today’s towns. When Pence said 46 of the more than standard is a town is first 3,500 people aboard were tested hundreds of The church’s bells, covered with founded and in the first round. A military heli- pounds of steel the writing of previous attendees, settled, that’s copter crew lowered test kits onto and brass, are suspended two flights below one of the first the 951-foot Grand Princess by rope ticking away the four clock faces. The bells things that’s Thursday and later retrieved them with the aid of ring on the hour. established is for analysis as the vessel waited a pendulum a a church, and off San Francisco, under orders to perfect second it’s a center of that community,” keep its distance from shore. at a time. The piece was made in Brucklin said. “So having a clock Health officials trying to estab- Massachusetts and installed in in the day and age when people lish whether the virus is circulating 1894, one story above its current didn’t have iPhones and watches on the Grand Princess undertook location. to wear around themselves, it was the testing after reporting a passen- “It was installed as part of this a way to center the community and ger on a previous voyage of the ship, original church building, and it a source to keep time for the day. in February, had died of the disease. has been functioning here ever And that’s why the bells toll at the Health authorities disclosed that since then,” Bucklin said. “In 2010 hour and everything. Obviously at least 10 other people who were on we actually had it disassembled, it’s kind of unnecessary in a lot the same journey also were found to be infected. And some passengers refurbished, restored and rein- of ways now, but we still do it as a Ryan .Snyder .photos/The .Daily .Standard stalled here. So what you see here part of that tradition and history on that trip stayed aboard for the is still the original mechanisms of The clock tower of First Church of New Knoxville rises above the current voyage — increasing crew the clock, but refurbished and put See TIME, page 9 structure at the corner of Bremen and St. Marys streets. members’ exposure to the virus. Kids’ .glass .butterfly .art .will .take .off By LESLIE GARTRELL thing.” [email protected] Students first designed their but- ‘She’s giving them terflies with colored pencils to use COLDWATER — A group of Cold- later as a stencil. The kids learned water Elementary School first-grad- the freedom to do about the different types of glass ers will see their artwork take flight they would be using, such as wafer in May during a butterfly-themed their own thing.’ glass to break into small pieces for traveling art exhibit. color and frit glass to fill in areas of Kari Forsthoefel, an art teacher color and build layers. at the school, and 23 students were — .Principal .Mike .Etzler .of . The students were excited and chosen to participate in Brazee art .teacher .Kari .Forsthoefel worked hard on their glass mas- Street Studio’s 10th Annual Kid’s terpieces, often consulting with Glass Exhibition. The Cincinnati each other to ask if their butterfly studio selected Coldwater Ele- In July the students’ butterflies looked good or if they liked the mentary School as one of 39 Ohio will migrate from the studio show color. Forsthoefel emphasized that schools chosen to exhibit out of 80 to the Cincinnati Contemporary Art students were free to be as creative applicants. Center, where they will be on dis- as they liked and reassured them it Brazee Street Studio supplied play from July-October. was all right it their butterfly didn’t the class with materials to create “Kari is outstanding,” elemen- come out perfectly. glass monarch butterflies. Once tary school principal Mike Etzler The art teacher said she was completed, the butterflies will be said. “It’s a great experience for excited to have a class participate on display as an installation at the the students. It’s amazing watching in the project and hoped to have Dan .Melograna/The .Daily .Standard studio with an opening reception Kari work because art class can had it wrapped up by the end of Kendall Rolfes adds colored glass to her butterfly project on Friday on May 2.