Saturday, September 14, 2019 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 JC exceeds Indiana averages By RAY COONEY Corporation students to reach The corporation also sur - The Commercial Review the proficiency level was above passed the state proficiency Scores across the state were the state average on 12 of those numbers on both the science not encouraging. 15 tests. (50.5-47.4) and social studies But Jay County compared 56.2 percent of local students Jay County outpaced the state (42.7-46) tests. favorably to Indiana averages. average across the board in “That tells me our teachers Jay School Corporation’s per - scored ‘proficient’ in math math. In total, 56.2 percent of did a great job,” said Gulley. centage of students who compared to 47.8 statewide local students were deemed pro - “Our principals did a great job showed proficiency on ILEARN ficient as compared to 47.8 per - leading that. … And kids tests was higher than the state cent statewide. preparing for and taking the average in almost every catego - Local students outpaced the test.” ry. state proficiency average in Broken down by grade level, “Very pleased,” said Jay it’s been done, so no one really English/language arts and math. third, fourth, fifth and eighth Jay County’s third graders had Schools superintendent Jeremy knew what to expect.” Fourth and sixth graders also grades on the English/language the best results on the math test Gulley in reference to the ILEARN, which was new for take a science test, and fifth arts test. Overall, Jay Schools with 63.8 percent showing profi - results. “This was an extremely the 2018-19 school year, evaluates graders take a social studies test. had a 50.8 proficiency rate com - ciency. difficult test. It’s the first year third through eighth graders in The percentage of Jay School pared to 47.9 across Indiana. See Exceeds page 2 Subpoena issued for director By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House intelligence committee has issued a subpoena to the acting Director of National Intelligence, saying Joseph Maguire is withholding a whistle - blower complaint from Congress. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a statement Friday evening that the committee will require that Maguire tes - tify Thursday unless he complies with the sub - The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney poena. The chairman did not detail the subject of the whistleblower com - plaint, but said he was aware the intelligence community’s inspector general had determined Prepping it to be credible and a matter of “urgent con - to be cern.” Schiff said Maguire is required to share the Patriots complaint with Congress Future Patriots were welcomed but won’t do so. to Harold E. Schutz Memorial Stadium on Friday night during the Jay County High School football team’s game against Couple Adams Central. Jay County middle school and pee wee football teams (above) were facing announced and either walked across the track or played a mini football game on the field at neglect halftime. Cheerleaders (at left and right), who had attended charges clinics over the course of the By RICK CALLAHAN last two weeks, cheered Associated Press alongside the Patriots during the INDIANAPOLIS — Indi - first half. ana prosecutors have charged a couple with abandoning their adopted daughter in 2013 and mov - ing to Canada, leaving the girl, who was just 11 years old and has dwarfism, in a rented apartment but pro - viding her with no other financial support. Opioid suit split falls along party lines Tippecanoe County pros - ecutors filed neglect By STEVE KARNOWSKI necessarily be explained by than $680,000 to its cam - familiar with the talks. The first federal trial charges Wednesday against and GEOFF MULVIHILL the fact that the Republican paign operation from 2014 Under the deal, the compa - over the toll exacted by opi - Kristine Elizabeth Barnett, Associated Press Party is considered more through 2018. The company ny would declare bankrupt - oids is scheduled to start 45, and Michael Barnett, 43. MINNEAPOLIS — The friendly to big business. also gave to the organiza - cy and remake itself as next month in Cleveland. They had not been booked opioid crisis has hit virtual - Some of the attention has tion’s Democratic counter - “public benefit trust,” with The only states with or arraigned as of Friday ly every pocket of the U.S., focused on the role played part, the Democratic Attor - its profits going toward the Democratic attorneys gen - and online court records from rural towns in deeply by Luther Strange, a neys General Association, settlement. An Associated eral to sign on are Missis - don’t list an attorney for conservative states to big Republican former Ala - over the same five-year Press survey of attorney sippi and Michigan, which them. cities in liberal-leaning bama attorney general who period, but far less: about general offices shows 25 is one of the few states that According to a probable ones. But a curious divide has been working for mem - $210,000. states and the District of haven’t actually sued Pur - cause affidavit filed in the has opened up. bers of the Sackler family, Strange would not com - Columbia have rejected the due. case, the couple adopted the The nation’s Republican which owns Purdue Phar - ment Friday. current offer. Michigan Attorney Gen - girl in 2010 and a doctor state attorneys general ma. The proposed settlement Purdue is perhaps the eral Dana Nessel noted the who examined her that have, for the most part, People familiar with the with the Stamford, Con - highest-profile opioid partisan split in a state - year determined she was lined up in support of a ten - negotiations say he was at a necticut-based drugmaker maker, but governments ment this week. about 8 years old. When a tative settlement with Oxy - meeting of the Republican could ultimately be worth are also suing other drug - “While I have tremen - detective spoke to Michael Contin maker Purdue Attorneys General Associa - up to $12 billion, though makers, distributors and dous respect for my Demo - Barnett earlier this month, Pharma, while their Demo - tion over the summer, critics doubt it will be close pharmacies to try to hold cratic colleagues who have he said he and his wife had cratic counterparts have sounding out members to that much. them accountable for a cri - elected to opt out of settle - the girl’s age legally mostly come out against it, about a settlement months Nearly half the states sis that has claimed more ment discussions,” she changed to 22 in June of decrying it as woefully before a tentative deal was and lawyers representing than 400,000 lives in the said, “ultimately each attor - 2012 and that his wife told inadequate. struck this week. some 2,000 local govern - U.S. since 2000, including ney general is obligated to her to tell anyone who Exactly why this is so is Purdue has been gener - ments have tentatively deaths linked to illicit pursue the course of action asked that she “looks young unclear, and some of those ous in recent years to accepted the settlement drugs such as heroin and which is most beneficial to but was actually twenty- involved suggested it can’t RAGA, contributing more deal, according to people fentanyl. our respective states.” two.” Deaths Weather In review Coming up The high temperature hit 91 Limberlost State Historic degrees Friday in Jay County Monday — Results from Site in Geneva will host its with rain passing through in today’s Jay County High final Bluegrass Jamboree of the early evening. School cross country invita - the year from 2 to 4 p.m. Sun - Janet Penrod , 78, Muncie Skies will be mostly sunny tional at Hudson Family Park. day. Musicians of all abilities Greg Miller , 57, Dunkirk today with a high of 78. are invited to attend and per - Details on page 2. Tonight’s low will be in the Wednesday — A look at form. For more information, upper 50s. Expect highs of 83 projects completed by Jay contact Curt Burnette cbur - Sunday and Monday. County High School science [email protected] or See page 2 for an extended students. (260) 368-7428 forecast. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Saturday, September14, 2019 Obituaries Janet Penrod ter in Florida after their retire - Carsten; a brother, John Carsten; of Miller Oil Co., one brother, Gary (wife: Kriss), May 8, 1941-Sept. 13, 2019 ment. and a great-granddaughter, Kenzi which was started Kansas City; and two grand - Janet Penrod, age 78, a former Janet Penrod was born May 8, Penrod. by his father. daughters, Taylor and Shelby Portland resident, passed away 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Visitation will be held on Tues - Greg Spent Brown, Redkey. Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, at The daughter of Wayne and Doris day from 1 to 4 p.m. at most of his life in Calling hours will be held at Woodlands in Muncie, Indiana. (Robinson) Carsten. On July 16, Williamson-Spencer and Penrod Dunkirk, and he MJS Mortuaries – Redkey Chapel She was a 1959 graduate of 1960, she was married to Ron Funeral Home in Portland. was a devoted on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, from 2 Elmhurst High School in Fort Penrod. Funeral services will follow at 4 father and grand - to 4 p.m. with funeral services fol - Wayne. She was a member of Survivors include: p.m. on Tuesday. Pastor Gil father. Greg loved Miller lowing at 4 p.m. The family wel - The Garden at Her beloved husband of 59 Alicea will officiate and private his pets and farm comes guest comments and sto - Gesthsemane years — Ron Penrod, Muncie, burial for the family will take animals, even though they ries about Greg as part of the Church in Indiana place at Bluff Point Cemetery, caused him many comic adven - services.