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‘The more we can help, the better’

By JESSICA BRICKERA local organization is pre-

paring for multiple big changes in the coming weeks.

Community Care of Wells County is rebranding and its thrift store and relief resource center are relocating in April, Director Christine Walker said this week.

With new logos, the organization will become Community Care of North-east Indiana, opening the door to serve other counties in the area, Walker added.

The thrift store will move from its Marion Street location and the Connecting Center will move from its John-son Street location, where they will be side-by-side at 117 and 119 S. Main St.

“We’re expanding our thrift store square footage while creat-ing inviting new spaces for both our resource center (Connecting Center) and thrift store (Change Up),” the organization shared on social media. “We love the new place and we know you’re going to love it too.”

The new thrift store space will provide room to sort dona-tions, increasing the amount of donations that can go out in the community and then come back in to the store.

“The store has just blos-somed,” Walker said.

The new space will also allow

room for a corporate office.While the residential housing

program for men was discon-tinued at this time and will be reexamined in the future, efforts continue at the other Commu-nity Care ministry for women — Grace and Mercy.

Renovations in the previously unusable space are ongoing with more bedrooms, bathrooms and activity rooms being added.

Walker said it’s pretty unusu-al to have children in a resi-dential facility like Grace and

Mercy. The program connects women to recovery efforts, child services and other resources in the community.

While they have tapped into many local resources, Walker said they haven’t connected to all of them yet.

The board — made up of President Janella Stronczek, Vice President Rachel Owen, Secretary Kurt Oliver, Treasur-er Jerry Zeigler and members Father David Violi and Johan-na Kwandrans — is undergo-ing strategic planning work.

The goal is to create a model to show the programming offered in Wells County can be duplicated and implemented elsewhere, Walker said. There have been talks with other coun-ties about branching out servic-es.

“Let’s take it somewhere else,” she said. “The more we can help, the better.”

Community Care is planning a golf outing fundraiser June 18 in Bluffton. More information will be announced.

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Community Care announces changes coming up in April with relocations, rebranding efforts underway

By DAVE SCHULTZSteve Surbaugh, pas-

tor of the Life Community Church, is not John Mellen-camp, but he could sing the same tune as the legendary Indiana rocker does: Liv-ing in a small town is “good enough for me,” to use the lyrics from Mellencamp’s song “Small Town.”

Life Church was the shel-ter for those displaced by Thursday afternoon’s fire at the Capri Meadows II apart-ment complex. No official number has been released as to the number of house-holds displaced, but several estimates of around 50 have been reported.

Most of those who were affected by the fire found shelter with relatives or friends Thursday night, as 13 people spent the night at the Oak Street church. The number expected to stay there tonight is six.

“We hear all the time

about what people say about living in a small town, but when there’s a need, people help,” Surbaugh said Friday afternoon.

The shelter will operate until Tuesday, if needed, and then the Red Cross will no

longer have it open. If addi-tional help is needed, the Salvation Army will assist. Neil Ainslie, the Salvation Army’s representative for Wells County, said he has been authorized to assist with housing in local motels if any rooms are avail-able through the Salvation Army’s Emergency Disaster Services program.

There are a number of ways for people to help, but one thing that is not needed — at least, not right now — is bedding. With the shelter being phased out, pillows and blankets aren’t needed.

However, Ainslie said, when the apartments are once again habitable — whenever that happens — the residents of Capri Meadows II will need bed-ding and household items of all kinds to replace that destroyed or significantly damaged in the fire.

A bright blue sky peeks through the fire-damaged building at Capri Meadows II Friday afternoon. (Photo by Dave Schultz)

After the fireDisplaced Capri fire victims get

assistance, but more will be needed

Joining the bandBluffton School Resource Officer Phil Kurut joins the Bengal Brigade at the half of Friday night’s season-ending boys basketball game at The Tiger Den. Kurut wowed the crowd with his skills in “Devil With a Blue Dress On.” It was a good night for the Tigers as they ended a 10-game losing streak with a convincing 65-38 win. (Photo by Glen Werling)

Commissioners limit scope of camera data usageBy JESSICA BRICKER

The same day the City of Bluff-ton approved the purchase of license plate cameras, the Wells County commissioners limited the scope of usage of the data being collected at the cameras on the 300W bridge over the Wabash River, setting the tone for any future camera purchases through-out the county.

“There’s a lot of public com-ment about the use of traffic cam-eras and there’s significant con-cern on the commissioners’ part regarding privacy (and) the rights of citizens,” County Attorney Colin Andrews said Tuesday morning before introducing an ordinance

on the matter. “That always has to be weighed against protection of property and personal injury, so there’s some law enforcement con-sideration but then there’s also deep concern for creeping, feeling of a nanny state or something like that.”

The Bluffton Police Depart-ment received the Board of Public Works and Safety’s approval Tues-day afternoon to purchase four cameras from Flock Safety. They will be used to identify license plate numbers and vehicle make, model and color, which will be fed into servers in the event that the vehicle has been linked to a crime or missing person.

The county, on the other hand,

installed the cameras on the 300W bridge south of Ind. 116 in an effort to deter — or capture evi-dence of — further damage to the expensive, historic-select structure after it was struck by an oversized load, which led to its closure and taxpayer-funded repairs.

“The commissioners have con-sidered the competing concerns of county property protection and the threat of governmental gath-ering of private individual data through clandestine photography and video,” Andrews said. “The Wells County commissioners are committed to protecting individual privacy and furthermore aware of the threat of intrusive government

action into the lives of private citi-zens of Wells County.”

Authorization of the release of the recorded information is sub-ject to commissioner approval, and those instances include personal injury, property damage or felonies.

“We’ve limited the scope of what we’re utilizing it for and we’re ensuring that the public knows that it’s a big concern when we have this surveillance state,” Andrews said. “It’s out there, it’s in other places. You see it happen-ing everywhere. And hearing from the commissioners, (we) want to ensure that at least the citizens of the county know that we’re aware of that and we won’t put up with

that sort of incursion into your ordinary life.”

The ordinance was drafted spe-cifically with the cameras on the 300W bridge in mind, but the ordi-nance isn’t limited to just those cameras.

“This is not just affective for those cameras (on 300W),” Andrews stressed. “If, 10 years from now, Wells County wants to put in more cameras, it has to comply with this provision or the commissioners would have to be public about rescinding this and instituting another policy, so there’s an added protection out there as well.”

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BHS Drama Club performance is SaturdayThe Bluffton High School Drama Club’s play “Let Him Sleep ‘Till It’s Time for his Funeral’” is at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for the general public. Pictured are cast members Aubree Williamson, on the couch, Kiana Coleman, back left, and Josie Platt, back right. Not pictured are Erica Hartman, Isabel Castro and Kenlie Thomas. The director is senior Jayleigh Corbat. (Photo submitted)

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine’s capital early Saturday as explosions reverberated through the city and the president urged the country to “stand firm” against the siege that could determine its future. He vowed to stay: “The fight is here.”

Hundreds of casualties were reported in the fight-ing, which included shell-ing that sliced through a Kyiv apartment building and pummeled bridges and schools. There also were growing signs that Russia may be seeking to over-throw Ukraine’s govern-ment, which U.S. officials have described as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ultimate objective.

The assault represented Putin’s boldest effort yet to redraw the world map and revive Moscow’s Cold War-era influence. It triggered new international efforts to end the invasion, including direct sanctions on President Vladimir Putin.

As his country fended off explosions and gunfire, Ukraine President Volody-myr Zelenskyy appealed for a cease-fire and warned in a bleak statement that multi-ple cities were under attack.

“This night we have to stand firm,” he said. “The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now.”

For their part, U.S. defense officials believe the Russian offensive has encountered considerable resistance and is proceed-ing slower than Moscow

had envisioned, though that could change quickly.

The Kremlin accepted Kyiv’s offer to hold talks, but it appeared to be an effort to squeeze conces-sions out of the embattled Zelenskyy instead of a ges-ture toward a diplomatic solution.

The Russian military continued its advance, lay-ing claim Friday to the southern Ukraine city of Melitopol. Still, it was unclear in the fog of war how much of Ukraine is still under Ukrainian control and how much or little Russian forces have seized.

The U.S. and other global powers slapped ever-tougher sanctions on Russia as the invasion reverberated through the world’s econ-omy and energy supplies, threatening to further hit ordinary households. U.N. officials said millions could flee Ukraine. Sports leagues

moved to punish Russia and even the popular Eurovision song contest banned it from the May finals in Italy.

Through it all, Russia remained unbowed, veto-ing a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that it stop attacking Ukraine and withdraw troops immedi-ately. The meeting exposed Russia-Ukraine frictions, including when Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kys-lytsya requested a moment of silence to pray for those killed and asked Russian Ambassador Vassily Neben-zia to pray “for salvation.” Nebenzia retorted that the remembrance should include people who have died in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Pro-Rus-sian separatists there have been fighting the Ukrainian government, which Rus-sia accuses of abuses. A moment of tense silence did ensue.

Olivia Lusher, execu-tive director of the Ameri-can Red Cross for northeast Indiana, has been in the community coordinating shelter efforts. She says the efforts of the non-profits tell a story.

“When non-profits have fundraisers,” she said, “it’s so that we can have stability at these times in the commu-nity.”

There are still ways that people can help.

Pamela Beckford of the United Way of Wells County notes that her organization’s Faith Fund would be an investment in assistance.

“While you may not personally know any of the dozens of people impacted by the fire, someone you know may know someone,” she said in an email to sup-porters. “My ask of you is to share the United Way Facebook post (not just like it) to your Facebook page please.”

“While we have funds in our general account for the Faith Fund, they could be depleted pretty quickly assisting with new rents for people,” she said. “So, to that end, I have sent out a mailing to most of the Bluff-ton churches asking for a church donation beyond their normal Faith Fund con-tribution. That letter will be out in tomorrow’s mail and (hopefully) they should have it on Saturday.”

Surbaugh said area churches have responded to the need — not only his congregation but others in the community. With a smile in his voice, he refers to the cooperative churches as “the Church of Wells County” as they have provided food and other necessities of life for those who have lost their homes.

Ainslie is also asking for support for the Yehoshua (“God saves”) program, which is an effort to “fill in the last cracks in the needs

of the county.” To contrib-ute, visit the Salvation Army office at 116 S. Johnson St. or call 260-307-2205. Dona-tions may also be taken to the First Bank of Berne; the last four digits of the account are 1260.

Ainslie is also keep-ing track of those offering to assist at 260-622-8441. When the need is evident and people are ready to return to permanent hous-ing, he said, those willing to donate will be contacted.

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Ukraine Crisis Updates

Bluffton Board of Works to meet Tuesday afternoonThe Bluffton Board of Public Works

and Safety will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in the meeting room on the first floor of City Hall, 128 E. Market St.

Topics on the agenda include:• Insurance for paid on-call firefight-

ers, brought to the board by Fire Chief Don Craig.

• Opening of sidewalk and concrete bids.• A request to purchase, brought to

the board by Brad Penrod of the Electric Department.

• A personnel matter, brought to the board by Fire Chief Don Craig.

• Information technology projections.• A personnel matter, brought to the

board by Clerk-Treasurer Tami Runyon.• Consideration of a nuisance dog issue.

Bluffton Common Council will meet Tuesday evening

The Bluffton Common Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in the Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 128 E. Market St.

Topics on the agenda include:• New city firefighters will be sworn in.• A public hearing for a new sewer rate

ordinance.• A budget transfer resolution.• An information technology update, pre-

sented to the council by Kaleb Dienelt.• Consideration of a capital assets resolu-

tion.• A funding request, brought to the coun-

cil by the Northeast Indiana Strategic Devel-

opment Commission.• A comment on camera ordinances,

brought to the council by Matt Yergler, local chair of the Libertarian Park.

Also on the agenda as old business are the maintenance of the Bluffton NOW! Alleyways project and variances for the Pre-mier Flats and Parlor Bluffs project.

Bluffton Parks Board will meet Thursday eveningThe board of the Bluffton Parks and Rec-

reation Department will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in the conference room on the first floor of City Hall, 128 E. Market St.

Topics on the agenda include:• Financial and participation reports.• Grant and donation reports.• League facility requests.• Swim team requests.• Summer hiring.• Tree planting program.

Area Plan Commission will meet Thursday eveningThe Wells County Area Plan Commis-

sion will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in Room 105, the multi-purpose room on the lower level of the Wells Carnegie Gov-ernment Annex, 223 W. Washington St.

Topics on the agenda include:• A review of the draft of the Wells Coun-

ty Vision 2035 comprehensive plan.• A resolution concerning remote partici-

pation.• A review of five violations.

By The Associated PressThe latest on the Russia-Ukraine crisis:

Will Japan join in sanctions?TOKYO — Japanese Foreign Minister

Yoshimasa Hayashi says he spoke with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on the phone Saturday and they agreed they must respond to Russia’s inva-sion of Ukraine properly to prevent it from becoming “a wrong lesson” because of its potential influence in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region.

Hayashi declined to comment if Japan plans to join the United States, Britain and the European Union in imposing sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Hayas-hi said Japan will stay in close touch with other Group of Seven members and other international leaders while watching the developments.

Hayashi told reporters that he and Blink-en reaffirmed their commitment to work closely with the rest of international society and they agreed it is necessary to reject Rus-sia’s unilateral act to change the status quo.

Russian transport said shot downKYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine’s military says

it has shot down a Russian military transport plane with paratroopers on board.

According to a statement from the mili-tary’s General Staff, the Il-76 heavy trans-port plane was shot down near Vasylkiv, a city 40 kilometers south of Kyiv. The Rus-sian military has not commented on the incident so far, and the report could not be immediately verified.

Russia vetoes UN resolutionUNITED NATIONS—Russia has vetoed

a U.N. Security Council resolution demand-ing that Moscow stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops.

Friday’s vote was 11-1, with China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstaining. It showed significant but not total opposition to Russia’s invasion of its smaller, militarily weaker neighbor.

The United States and other support-ers knew the resolution wouldn’t pass but argued it would highlight Russia’s inter-national isolation. The resolution’s failure paves the way for backers to call for a swift vote on a similar measure in the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly. There are no vetoes in the 193-member assembly. There’s no timetable as yet for a potential Assembly vote.

Bulgaria blocks airspaceSOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria on Friday

introduced a ban on the entry of Russian air-craft into the country’s airspace.

All aircraft licensed by the Russian Fed-

eration may not enter the sovereign airspace of the Republic of Bulgaria, including the airspace over its territorial waters, the gov-ernment announced. The ban is effective starting Saturday.

The government said it took the action in connection with the escalation of the mili-tary conflict and in solidarity with Ukraine.

Australia expands sanctionsSYDNEY—Australia is imposing sanc-

tions against all 339 members of the Rus-sian parliament and is considering sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne also announced on Saturday sanc-tions against eight Russian oligarchs close to Putin. Australia was also taking steps to imposed sanctions on key figures in the Belarusian government who had aided the Ukraine invasion.

Payne said she was seeking advice from her department on following western allies’ example in sanctioning Putin.

“It is an exceptional step to sanction leaders, but this is an exceptional situation,” Payne said.

Ukraine requests more actionsWASHINGTON—Ukraine’s top diplo-

matic envoy in the U.S. is urging countries to sever diplomatic relations with Russia over its invasion of their country.

Ambassador Oksana Markarova’s request came in an emergency meeting Fri-day at the Washington-based Organization of American States, whose members were debating a resolution condemning the mili-tary attack ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

“It’s hard to imagine that something like this happens in the center of Europe in the 21st Century,” an emotional Markarova said during the meeting. She urged delegates to supply Ukraine with defensive weapons and follow the lead of the Federated States of Micronesia, a Pacific island nation that ear-lier Friday broke all ties with Russia.

Alexander Kim, a senior diplomat at Russia’s embassy in Washington, towed closely to the Kremlin’s unsubstantiated claim that the military incursion was an attempt to “de-Nazify” a government that had committed scores of atrocities against civilians.

“We are open to diplomacy,” Kim told representatives of more than 30 Latin Amer-ican governments, many of whom have pur-sued closer relations with Moscow in recent years. “However, diplomacy presumes an ability to negotiate. It is not a tool for black-mailing and imposing the decision of Wash-ington and its satellite states.”

After the fire

Ukraine’s capital under threat as Russia presses invasion

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to charges in the stabbing of a classmate in a bathroom at Adams High School in January after stealing a THC vape cartridge from him.

The boy entered the plea Thursday to charges of rob-bery, battery with serious bodily injury and bringing a weapon onto school prop-erty.

The student will be sen-tenced next month in juve-nile court and will remain in custody at the Juvenile Jus-tice Center until then.

15-year-old pleads guilty

in South Bend school stabbing

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana teacher was fired and banned from school property after an incident Friday in which he allegedly slapped a student.

Baugo Communi ty School Superintendent Byron Sanders said Jimtown High School teacher Mike Hosins-ki confronted a student about a hoodie sweatshirt the stu-dent was wearing.

The two argued in a hall-way and Hosinski slapped the student in the face so hard the student’s head hit a wall, Sanders said.

The student suffered vis-ible injuries and was treated by medical staff, Sanders said.

Hosinski has been barred from the school grounds,

Sanders said.“Any action that threat-

ens to harm any student will be quickly, directly and

severely addressed. All Jim-mies must be able to learn in a safe environment,” Sand-ers said in a statement.

Wells Superior CourtCriminal Cases

One count of driving while suspended with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misde-meanor, dismissed for Ste-ven E. Edwards II, 36, India-napolis.

———Preliminary plea of not

guilty entered for Elizabeth Hernandez, 28, Huntertown, charged with battery result-ing in bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor. Bond con-tinued at $1,500.

Hernandez is charged with battering a woman at an Ossian residence during an argument in the garage of the residence Feb. 11.

———Erika Lynn Dissinger, 28,

Garrett, pleaded guilty to one count of theft, a Class A misdemeanor.

Sentenced to a year in the Wells County Jail, with all but 10 days suspended — credited as time served, and placed on probation for 355 days.

Ordered to serve 30 days of home detention and pay court costs and probation fees.

As part of a plea agree-ment, one count of organized theft, a Level 6 felony, and eight other counts of theft, all Class A misdemeanors, were dismissed.

On March 21, 2021, Bluffton police were con-tacted by an asset protection employee at the Bluffton Walmart Supercenter on a report that between Janu-ary and March of 2021, the store’s surveillance video had captured Dissinger, Joseph Cleveland Rollins, 28, Bluffton and Briann R. Black, 26, Bluffton, all steal-ing items from the store.

In all, there were 18 separate incidents of theft, of which Black and Rollins allegedly were present for 11 and Dissinger was allegedly present for 12.

The officer noted in his report to the court that there appeared to be an intentional effort in which two of the three were present for every episode. One would pay for part of the merchandise while the other would push the cart out of the store with both paid and unpaid mer-chandise.

In all, the three reportedly managed to steal $808.91 in merchandise between Jan. 15 and March 19.

Dissinger was also charged with using Black’s electronic benefits transfer (food stamps) card.

Black pleaded guilty to one of 10 charges of theft against her and was sen-tenced Dec. 14, 2021, to a year in the Wells County Jail, with all but four days suspended — credited as time served, and was placed on probation for one year.

She was ordered to serve 90 days of home detention.

Rollins was sentenced the same day as Black. He pleaded guilty to organized theft, a Level 6 felony, and was sentenced to 547 days in prison, with all but four days suspended — credited as time served, and was also ordered to serve 90 days of home detention. In his case the court dismissed nine counts of theft, all Class A misdemeanors.

Marriage LicensesBrandon Scott Shoemak-

er, 38, Bluffton, and Alicia Marie Moya, 38, Bluffton.

James Michael Welch, 48, rural Ossian, and Stepha-nie Marie Hershberger, 40, rural Ossian.

John David Wile, 52, rural Bluffton, and Jeana Lyn Rohrbaugh, 56, Bluff-ton.

Olivia Marie Mossburg, 26, rural Bluffton, and Zach-ary Joy Binegar, 27, rural Montpelier.

Alexis Dawn Hathaway, 26, rural Markle, and Ean Phillip Degitz, 23, Decatur.

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Mondays, April 18 – May 16 11 a.m. — Book/Movie Club at the

Wells County Public Library will be led by Catherine Campbell. Join us in watch-ing Patrick Swayze in his blockbusters “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost.” The first 15 people to sign-up by April 6th, will receive a copy of his entertaining and inspirational memoir, “The Time of My Life.”

12 p.m. — Senior STEAM at the Wells County Public Library will be taught by Emily Marshall. This class combines technology and art into a fun program where you will learn a few basic skills on the library iPads, launchpads, or the “Try It Kit” devices. There will be a few easy-to-do art projects that will use some aspect of technology to help you complete them.

2 p.m. — Games Galore at Washing-ton Park Pavilion. Join us for a fun after-noon playing a variety of card, dice, and board games.

Mondays, April 25, May 2 & May 16

3 p.m. — Healthy Living Classes at Washington Park Pavilion. Molly Hoag will be presenting on the following top-ics: (No classes on April 18 or May 9)

April 25, Train Your Brain: The focus of this program is to under-stand dementia, the warning signs, the benefits of early detection and diagnosis, and steps to better overall brain health. Participants will learn what healthy life-style choices may decrease their risks of cognitive decline and dementia.

May 2, Physical Activity Across the Lifespan This presentation reviews the terms, recommendations, and benefits of physical activity. Participants will learn creative forms of physical activity and an opportunity to set a personal movement goal.

May 16, Food Labeling: What’s in There Anyway? Learn to identify pri-mary components of food labels, market-ing claims, and understand how to make informed food decisions.

Wednesdays, April 20 – May 18 10 a.m. — Wells County History at

the Museum. Enjoy an in-depth look at local history from a variety of speakers.

Thursdays, April 21 – May 1910 a.m. — Foreign Countries at

Washington Park Pavilion. Listen to area high school exchange students from Norwell Schools talk about life in their home country. Countries include Spain, Germany, Malaysia, and Italy.

11 a.m. — Crochet Lessons at Washington Park Pavilion with instruc-tor Kathy Gehrett. New and advanced students are invited to the crochet class. Bring a size H hook, class size is limited to the first 12 who register.

We want to give a big ‘Thank You’ to the following donors for contributing to this summer’s Kehoe Concert Series. Dr. George and Janice Babcock, Doug and Heidi Fear, Edward Jones; Bluffton Family Eye Care; General Manufactur-ing and the Howard & Beverly Rich Endowment Fund. If you would like to be included as a sponsor the deadline to reach out to us is March 15.

Have a great week!

&News Notes

Bluffton &Parks Rec

By Brandy Fiechter

Doris Williams Martinez, 83, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, at her home in Santa Ana, Calif.

She was born Aug. 6, 1938, in the small town of Piper City, Ill., to Charles Wayne Williams and Anna Margaret Johnson Williams, and was the oldest of her three siblings, Shirley Jean-ie Reeves (deceased in 2010), Richard Wayne Williams, and Mary Williams Kizer.

The family moved to Poneto when Doris was a young child, and she attended Chester Center School, graduat-ing from high school in 1956.

After high school, Doris moved to Min-neapolis, Minn. to attend business and airline school. She worked for Eastern Airlines in Detroit, Mich., as a reservation agent and later worked as a secretary for many years. Doris welcomed her first child, Melissa “Missy” Jane Williams New-man in 1959. Several years later during a night out, Doris met Juventino “Tino” G. Martinez, and he would go on to be her life partner and husband of over 55 years.

Doris was a stepmother to Ramon “Ray” R. Martinez, Juventino “Tino Jr.” R. Martinez Jr. (deceased in 2016), Juan “John” R. Martinez, Benigna “Bennie” Mar-tinez Dase, and Roberto “Bob” R. Marti-nez.

In the late 1960s, Doris and Tino moved to Dallas, Texas, until 1975, when they continued west and settled in the southwest Los Angeles community in

California. Doris welcomed her second daughter, Esperanza “Espie” Martinez, in 1981. She worked for various companies as a bookkeeper in the greater Los Angeles area, retiring from the business management firm A. Morgan Maree Jr. and Associates in 2003.

Doris and Tino moved to Bluffton to retire and enjoy a quiet life, but after two winters they were reminded of why

they initially moved west. They relocated back to the southwest L.A. community and lived in Lynwood, Calif., from 2005-2015, until moving to Santa Ana to be closer to their daughter.

Doris enjoyed sewing, crocheting, vari-ous crafts, cooking, learning about dif-ferent cultures, and traveling to various parts of Mexico to vacation, visit family, and embrace the culture. She also loved spending quality time with her chihua-hua dog, Rusty, and liked to stay up to date on current events by watching the news and was active on social media.

She is survived by her husband Tino Sr., daughters Missy and Espie, stepsons Ramon, John and Bob, stepdaughter Ben-nie, 16 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchil-dren, three great-great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

A funeral and memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 8, at the Hilgenfeld Mortuary, 120 E. Broadway, Anaheim, CA 92805

Doris Williams Martinez, 83

INCIDENTSCity:Friday, 12:03 p.m., 600

block of South Marion Street. Caller reported a stray cat got into her car and turned on her hazard lights and now she can’t get the hazard lights to turn off. Officer responded and turned off the hazard lights.

County:Thursday, 8:56 p.m.,

1100S at 600W. Five cows in the road. Deputy dis-patched and located the owner to round up the cows.

ACCIDENTSCity:Thursday, 2:46 p.m.,

Main Street at Dustman Road. Marty K. Grover, 65, Bluffton, was southbound on Main Street in a 2000 Chevrolet S-10. He attempt-ed to change lanes and col-lided with a 2016 BMW 328 driven by Victoria C. Stech, 29, Fort Wayne, in the adja-cent lane. Damage exceeded $1,000.

County:Wednesday, 9 p.m., Nor-

well High School, 1100E-U.S. 224. Beverly J. Jolloff, 69, Bluffton, backed a 2020 GMC Sierra pickup truck

into a parked 2013 GMC Acadia that had been driven by Rochelle K. Neeley, 33, Ossian. Damage exceeded $2,500.

Thursday, 3:45 p.m., Ind. 218 west of 200W. Chris-topher a Brooks, 36, Mont-pelier, was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt west on Ind. 218 when an oncoming vehicle slid into his lane. To avoid a crash with the vehi-cle, he swerved and because of the icy road conditions he lost control of his Cobalt and struck a church warn-ing sign. Damage exceeded $2,500.

Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Ind. 116 at 100E in Murray. Eric K. Matlock, 29, Bluffton, was driving a 2004 Dodge Ram northwest on Ind. 116. As he attempted to negoti-ate the curve at 100E, the pickup truck slid out of con-trol on the icy roadway and crashed into two road signs. Damage exceeded $2,500.

Thursday, 5:34 p.m., Ind. 1 at 500N. Jake A. Kaehr, 18, rural Decatur, was driv-ing south on Ind. 1 when he attempted a right turn onto 500N. The 2004 Pon-tiac Grand Prix he was driv-

ing slid on the icy roadway and crashed into the side of a 2015 Ford pickup truck stopped facing east at the intersection, that was driven by Michael Meredith, 46, rural Craigville. Damage exceeded $5,000.

Ossian:Friday, 6:44 a.m., Jef-

ferson Street at Davis Road. Heather Spaw, 23, New Haven, was driving a black Kia south on Jefferson Street when she tried to come to a stop for traffic that had lined up behind a vehicle wait-ing for oncoming traffic to clear to make a left turn onto Davis Road. Spaw could not get stopped because of the icy roadway and slid into the back of a large Ford passen-ger van driven by Deyonna Jefferson, 30, Fort Wayne, that was headed to Berne Apparel. A passenger in the van, Timothy Haney, 38, Fort Wayne, was injured in the crash and was taken by Wells County EMS to Lutheran Hospital. Spaw suffered from chest pain but declined trans-port to the hospital. Total damage exceeded $5,000. Ossian Fire Rescue was also dispatched to the scene.

Teacher fired after slapping student

O P I N I O N • The News-Banner • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Members of our com-munity suffered a tragedy Thursday with the loss of Capri Meadows Apart-ments. Mr. Fred Rogers said, “When something bad happens, look for the help-ers.”

Many talented helpers were found at Life Commu-nity Church under the lead-ership of Pastor Steve Sur-baugh. By Thursday eve-ning, most of the displaced tenants had secured food and housing for the night. The Red Cross and Salva-tion Army had provided necessities, set up cots for people, some of whom had lost all of their possessions in the fire.

A mental health worker trained in crisis counseling was available and a local youth pastor transported people where they needed to

go. Life Community Church had been transformed into a haven for the homeless and hurting.

Each one of us comes to God empty handed and in spiritual poverty. In His mercy, God exchanges our sinfulness for His salva-tion through His Son. The Great Exchange displays God’s grace as He provides all we need and lavishes His temporal and eternal blessings on us. God’s plan for his children include our interactions within a local church. Wells County has a rich, spiritual heritage and several thriving churches where we can serve and for-tify our faith. Don’t be spiri-tually homeless. Let’s go to church this Sunday.

MRS. HOLLY WITTBRODT

Bluffton

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Four-day workweek? I wish.

Three-day weekends sound good to me.

According to Business Insider, a movement is afoot for companies to offer employees four-day work weeks — 10 hours a day over four days, rather than eight hours over five days — so they may enjoy three-day weekends.

More employers say that a four-day work week will help them retain and attract employees who, during COVID, reported “working longer, taking fewer breaks, and signing on at all hours of the day and night.”

The pandemic exposed millions of new work-from-home employees to the experience that the growing class of self-employed gig workers have been living for some time.

The era of going to an office, putting in your eight hours, then leaving your work worries behind ended for millions of workers long ago. Computers, email and virtual meetings allowed office workers to ditch their traditional jobs working for one employer to provide on-demand services — such as copywriting or software engineering — to multiple clients located anywhere in the world.

These devices also result in working longer hours, taking fewer breaks and signing in at all hours day and night — but individuals are free to choose how many hours they want to work and how many breaks they want to take.

To be sure, the line between one’s work life and one’s personal or leisure life have been forever blurred. So it is interesting to revisit how the 40-hour work week became the working standard in the first place.

As industrialization transformed America, millions worked long hours on assembly lines and often in very unpleasant and unsafe circumstances. According to PBS, when the U.S. government began tracking work-ers’ hours in 1890, the average workweek for full-time manufacturing employees was an exhausting 100 hours — prompting the growth of the labor movement. By the early 1900s some private companies, such as Ford, had begun to adopt the 40-hour standard, but it wasn’t until 1938 that the federal government got involved.

Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which limited the workweek to 44 hours in specific indus-tries. In 1940 Congress amended the Act, limiting the workweek to 40 hours. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which covered about a fifth of the country’s work-force, also established a minimum wage (25 cents an hour), overtime pay and put an end to oppressive child labor.

Though government policy was helpful in a highly industrialized era when millions worked in awful and unsafe conditions, should the government butt into the digital workplace debate in 2022? According to U.S. Today, one U.S. congressman proposed a bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act and mandate a 32-hour work week as the new standard — employers will have to pay overtime for any hours beyond 32.

As the world of work gets ever more individualistic and creative — as organizations that need services are able, thanks to technological innovation, to engage a variety of different talents and skills to address their needs — is another one-size-fits-all federal mandate really a solution? Or will it be the source of multiple unintended problems?

This self-employed gig worker is of the latter opin-ion.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to my work life of long hours, infrequent breaks and signing in at all hours of the night — a work life I have happily and freely chosen.

Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. [email protected].

TomPurcell

Don’t be spiritually homeless

A civilizational challenge A clash of civilizations is upon us.Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine doesn’t

just herald a new era in European security, it under-lines a growing threat to the American-led interna-tional order by two revanchist powers, Russia and China.

What they represent, in broad brush, is a civi-lizational challenge. China and Russia don’t have a formal alliance and their current cooperative arrangement may well break down over time, but they share the same interest in ending the long era of Western preeminence.

Russia can punch above its weight, but funda-mentally represents a regional threat, in particular to a NATO alliance that has been a keystone of Western security. Moscow seeks to divide Euro-pean countries from one another and diminish U.S. influence in Europe toward the end of reversing the post-Cold War settlement that was the fruit of the West’s triumph over the Soviet Union.

What Putin seeks is consequential, but not nearly as sweeping as Beijing’s goal of supplanting the United States at the top of the hierarchy of nations. China wants nothing less than to restore itself as the Middle Kingdom, owed the respect and obeisance of the rest of the world.

What unites Russia and China is that they are two civilizations that feel they were humiliated and trampled by the West (Russia at the end of the Cold War, China from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th) and need to regain their rightful place in the sun.

There is an ideological element to the grow-ing challenge, as these two authoritarian regimes confront the democratic world, but the crux of the matter is cultural — neither Russia nor China has ever been a liberal democracy and each country is reacting against international norms they’ve never embraced.

The phrase “clash of civilizations” was made famous by a 1993 essay, later turned into a book, by the late social scientist Samuel Huntington. His paradigm hasn’t been borne out in all particulars — many post-Cold War conflicts have been between

nations or sects within the same civilization. But his basic contention looks prescient right now. “The fault lines between civilizations,” he wrote, “will be the battle lines of the future.”

It is imperative that the United States, as the leader of the West and the only nation capable of maintaining the international order that it has built over the last seven decades, rises to this challenge.

The previous hegemonic power, Britain, had a soft landing because Pax Britannica was replaced by Pax Americana, run by a partner that shared similar values and mindsets. The same wouldn’t be true if we hand the baton over to China.

Consider the seas. As the navalist Jerry Hendrix notes, the U.S. Navy has kept the seas safe and free for decades now. It’s no accident that there’s been a surge of global trade during this period that has made countries around the world more prosper-ous. Russia and especially China are a threat to this system, seeking greater control of the seas for their own purposes.

If the U.S. lacks the resources or will to resist this Chinese aggrandizement, the rules of the road of international commerce will change drastically in China’s favor. Imagine a kind of perpetual supply chain crisis imposed by China as a matter of policy.

A China that has achieved mastery in Asia and a position of global predominance won’t leave us to tend our own garden at home. Former Trump official Elbridge Colby warns that “it could intrude into and shape our national life, using its position to coerce, bribe, and cajole companies, individuals, and governments to do its will.”

Resisting the growing challenge to the West will require continued engagement around the world and the return in certain respects to a Cold War footing. Ducking our leadership role will mean inevitable decline and the creation of a more hostile world, beholden to the values and interests of rival civilizations.

Rich Lowry is on Twitter @RichLowry

RichLowry

Russian President Vladi-mir Putin was emboldened to launch his full-scale invasion of Ukraine because he believed that President Biden was bluff-ing when he threatened serious consequences.

On Thursday, Biden proved him right.

Not only did the United States and its NATO allies fail to kick Moscow out of the SWIFT banking network used by almost all major financial institutions to wire money — which would effec-tively exclude Russia from the global economy — Biden failed to sanction Putin’s two most significant exports: oil and natural gas. To the contrary, Biden announced that he had specifi-cally designed the sanctions “to allow energy payments to continue.”

Putin gambled that Biden was not willing to risk sanctioning his lucrative energy exports, and thus driving up energy prices for U.S. consumers just months before the midterm elections. The bet paid off.

This failure of deterrence shows the folly of Biden’s war on fossil fuels. He inherited a nation that was an energy superpower. During his four years in office, President Don-ald Trump opened 100 million acres of public land and water, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to exploration. He withdrew from the Paris climate accord, approved the Keystone XL pipeline between the United States and Canada, and rolled back Obama-era regulations such as the Clean Power Plan that held back domestic exploration and produc-tion. Trump’s policy was “drill, baby drill.” The result? On his watch, the United States supplanted Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer.

This newfound energy inde-pendence transformed the national security landscape, strengthening the United States vis-a-vis Russia and other revanchist powers. But on tak-

ing office, Biden squandered the position of strength he inherited from Trump. He prioritized climate change over energy independence and launched a policy of energy disarmament. Biden rejoined the Paris agreement and canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which by itself would have transported 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas — far more than the 538,000 barrels

we import every day from Russia). He suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and sought to deliver on his campaign promise to ban all “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters.” And he made clear his intention to tax and regulate the fossil

fuel industry out of business, prom-ising that his administration would “end fossil fuel.”

These policies have backfired — undermining the United States in its confrontation with Russia today. Thanks to Biden’s climate policies, and the record inflation his adminis-tration has helped unleash, the price of gasoline has risen from an average of $2.38 a gallon under Trump to $3.53 today — the largest year-over-year price rises in at least 30 years. That leaves little room to absorb the impact of massive oil and gas sanc-tions on Russia. The highest U.S. price for a gallon of regular gas has been $4.11. If Biden were to impose

the kinds of crippling energy sanc-tions required to truly punish Russia, prices could rise far higher.

Putin knew Biden couldn’t take that risk. He saw that Biden’s approv-al rating was in free fall, and that the U.S. president had no political capital to spend at home in confronting Rus-sia’s aggression against Ukraine. And Putin had prepared for this moment by amassing more than $630 billion in reserves of gold and hard currency to ride out any sanctions we impose. When it came to an energy standoff, Putin knew Russia had the upper hand. He was right.

On Tuesday, after the first Rus-sian forces crossed Ukraine’s border into the Donbas region, a senior U.S. State Department official told Putin he need not worry about his energy exports if he launched a full-scale assault on Kyiv. “The sanctions that

are being imposed today, as well that could be imposed in the near future, are not targeting and will not target oil and gas flows,” said the official, speaking on the condi-tion of anonymity. “We would like the market to take note that there’s no need for increasing the price at the moment.” This is pathetic. The Biden administration pub-licly announced that it was more concerned about the reaction of the energy market than about how Putin would react in Ukraine.Biden’s war on fossil fuels has

weakened America and strengthened Russia — because he apparently cares more about fighting climate change than he cares about stop-ping Putin’s aggression or the cost to Americans at the gas pump.

What Biden and the Democrats don’t seem to understand is that you cannot simultaneously wage war on fossil fuels and stop Russia from waging war against Ukraine. Biden’s energy disarmament has weakened America on the world stage. The first step in reversing Putin’s aggression is to restore American energy indepen-dence.Marc A. Thiessen is on Twitter, @marcthiessen.

MarcThiessen

Biden’s war on fossil fuels has strengthened Putin and weakened America

C H U R C H PA G E SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022 • The News-Banner •

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN

CHURCH - COUNTRY1970 S.-800E., Bluffton9:45 & 11:45 a.m. -

Worship.

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN

CHURCH - NORTH630 E. Dustman Rd.

9:45 & 11:45 a.m. - Worship.

ASBURY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST

8013 W.-1100S.-90,Montpelier

9:30 a.m. - Worship. 10:30 - Sunday School.

BETHEL(Independent Bible)

4500E-300S, Bluffton9 a.m. - Sunday School.

10 a.m. - Worship.

BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN

CHURCH LCMS6114E-750N, Ossianbethlehemossian.org

9 a.m. - Divine Service. 10:15 - Adult Bible Class, Youth Bible Class & Sun-day School. 11:30 - Voice of Bethlehem on 92.7 FM.

BLUFFTON CHURCH OF GOD327 W. Cherry St.

10 a.m. - Sunday School. 11 a.m. - Wor-ship. 6 p.m. - Service.

CALVARY LUTHERAN, ELCA

1532 N. Main St.9:30 a.m. - Worship.

BLUFFTON WESLEYAN CHAPEL(Independent Holiness

Church)1309 W. Washington St.

blufftonwesleyan.net9:30 a.m. - Sunday

School. 10:30 & 6:30 p.m. - Worship.

BOEHMER UNITED METHODIST

3467 S 600 W, Liberty Center

boehmerumc.org9:30 a.m. - Worship.

10:45 - Sunday School.

CHESTER CENTER900S-300W, Poneto

9:30 a.m. - Sunday School. 10:30 - Worship.

CHRISTIAN NEW LIGHT

1011 W. Washington St.9:45 a.m. - Sunday

School. 10:30 - Worship. 6 p.m. - Praise & wor-ship.

CHURCH OF CHRIST735 S. Marion St.

10 a.m. - Bible Study. 10:45 - Worship.

COVENANT CHAPEL3550 S. SR 1

mycovenantchapel.org9:15 a.m. - Sunday

School. 10:15 - Worship. (Children’s Church for ages 6-12).

DILLMAN UNITED BRETHREN

8888S-1100W-90, Warren

9 a.m. - Worship. 10 a.m. - Sunday School.

DOMESTIC CHURCH OF CHRIST

9 a.m. - Sunday school. 10 a.m. - Church service.

EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST

1204 W. Cherry St.9:30 a.m. - Worship.

10:40 a.m. - Sunday School.

FAIRVIEW CHURCH OF GOD

5511 W. Yoder Rd., Yoder

fairviewlife.com9 a.m. - Sunday School.

10 a.m. - Worship.

FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST210 W. Townleyfbc-bluffton.com

9:30 a.m. - Sunday School. 10:30 - Worship.

FIRST BAPTIST202 W. Cherry St.fbcbluffton.com

10:15 - Worship.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSSIAN

1001 Dehner Dr.9:30 a.m. - Sunday

School. 10:30 a.m. - Worship. 6:30 - Service.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

909 W. Spring St.FCCfamily.com

9:30 & 11 a.m. - Wor-ship.

FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

1515 Clark Ave.blufftonnazarene.org

9 a.m. - Sunday School. 9-10 a.m. - Free ESL classes. 10:15 - Worship. 6 p.m. - Service.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN215 E. Dustman Rd.

firstpcbluffton.org9:30 a.m. - Children/

youth & Adult Sunday School. 10:30 - Worship.

GRACE BAPTIST1621 S. 350 E. Stogdill Rd. Ext.gbcbluffton.com

9 a.m. - Sunday School. 10 a.m. & 6 p.m. - Wor-ship.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN (EVANGELICAL)

123 S. Jefferson St., Ossian

www.OssianChurch.com9:15 a.m. - Sunday

school for all ages. 10:30 - Worship.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF BLUFFTON

301 W. Cherry St.9:15 a.m. - Sunday

School. 10:30 - Worship.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST

325 W. Washington St.9:30 a.m. - Worship.

10:45 - Sunday School.

FORGIVEN CHURCH1409 S. Main St.forgivenonline.org

10 a.m. - Worship.

HARVEST TIME BIBLE11015S-600E, Keystone9:10 a.m. - Prayer. 10

a.m. - Worship.

HOPE MISSIONARY429 E. Dustman Rd.hope4thefamily.com

8 a.m., 9:30 & 11 a.m. - Service at Main Campus. 9:30 a.m. - Service, north campus, Ossian.

KEYSTONE CHURCH10556S-200W

9:30 a.m. - Worship. 10:30 - Sunday School.

LANCASTER CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST4510 E 400N, Craigville9 a.m. - Sunday School.

9:40 - Fellowship. 10 a.m. - Worship.

LIBERTY CENTER BAPTIST

3071 W. Cherry St.8:30 a.m. - Pastor/Dea-

con’s Prayer. 9 - Sunday School. 9:55 - Fellow-ship. 10:15 - Worship.

LIBERTY CENTER UNITED METHODIST8:45 a.m. - Choir prac-

tice. 9 a.m. - Coffee, donuts, conversation. 9:30 - Worship w/infant nursery & children’s church. 10:45 - Sunday School. 6-8 p.m. - Youth group.

LIFE COMMUNITY428 S. Oak St.

lifecommunity.net10:30 a.m. - Service

(Children’s programs available).

LIVING FAITH MISSIONARY

17718 Bluffton Rd., Yoder

10 a.m. - Worship. 11:30 - Sunday School.

LIVING WATER UNITED CHURCH

6486 S 700E, Bluffton8:45-9 a.m. - Prayer. 9

a.m. - Sunday School. 10 a.m. - Worship.

MARKLE CHURCH OF CHRIST

455 E. Morse St.marklechurch.org

9 a.m. - Adult Bible study groups. 10:30 - Worship. Children’s & student programming both hours.

MARKLE UNITED METHODIST

145 W. Morse St.9 a.m. - Sunday Ser-

vice. 10 a.m. - Worship.

MCNATT UNITED METHODIST

9221 W 800S-90, Montpelier

8:30 a.m. - Coffee fel-lowship. 9:15 - Worship.

NEW BEGINNING2187 W. SR 218

10 a.m. - Sunday School. 10:30 - Worship.

MURRAY MISSIONARY1117 N. Washington St.,

Murraymurraymc.org

9:30 a.m. - Worship. 11 a.m. - Sunday School.

NEW HOPE LUTHERAN

(Missouri Synod)8824 N. SR 1, Ossian

newhopelutheran-ossian.webs.com

9 a.m. - Sunday School & Adult Bible study. 10 a.m. - Worship.

NOTTINGHAM1100 S. SR 1

9:30 - Sunday School. 10:30 & 6 p.m. - Worship.

OSSIAN CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

302 N. Metts St.ossiannaz.org

9:15 a.m. - Bible study. 10:30 - Service.

OSSIAN UNITED METHODIST201 W. Mill St.ossianumc.org

9 a.m. - Worship, Wor-ship child care nurse. 10 a.m. - Fellowship. 10:15 - Adult Sunday School.

PARK COMMUNITY617 S. Bennett St.

blog.parkub.org9 a.m. & 10:40 a.m. -

Connection time. 10 a.m. - Worship.

PETROLEUM UNITED METHODIST

3625 E. 2nd St.9 a.m. - Worship. 10:30

- Sunday School.

PONETO BAPTISTGrape Street

8:30 a.m. - Sunday School. 9 a.m. - Worship.

PONETO UNITED METHODIST

36 E. Walnut St.9 a.m. - Worship. 10

a.m. - Fellowship. 10:15 - Sunday School.

RIVER OF LIFE927 N. Main St.

10:30 a.m. - Worship.

SIX MILE4790 SE SR 116

9 a.m. - Sunday School. 10 a.m. - Worship.

SONLIGHT WESLEYAN2350 S. SR 1

sonlightwesleyan.org9:30 a.m. - Sunday

School. 10:30 - Worship. Nursery & Children’s classes available during Sunday School & Wor-ship.

SOUTHERN WELLS COMMUNITY CHURCH9450 S 300 W, Poneto9 & 10:45 a.m. - Wor-

ship.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC1300 N. Main St.

Saturday: 7:45 a.m. - Prayer. 8 a.m. - Mass. 8:30 - Rosary. 4 p.m. or by appointment - Confes-sions. 5 p.m. - Mass.Sunday: 7:30 & 10 a.m.

- Mass.

ST. LUKE CHURCH4960W-100N, Decatur

stlukechurch.in9 a.m. - Worship. 10:15

- Sunday School.

ST. MARK EV. LUTHERAN

16933 Thiele Rd. stmarkfw.org

8:45 a.m. - Sunday School. 10 a.m. - Wor-ship.

ST. MARK’S LUTHERAN (NALC)5912 N. Sugar St.,

Uniondale10 a.m. - Worship.

10:15 - Children’s Sun-day School.

TOWER LIFE CENTER11811 N. Wayne St.,

Zanesvilletowerlifecenter.com

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An attempt to fast-track a proposal through the Leg-islature failed after Hol-comb outlined in November his requested actions and he has since issued three monthlong renewals of the emergency declaration.

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MILLER, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe

Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed American segrega-tion.

Introducing Jackson at the White House, Biden declared, “I believe it’s time that we have a court that reflects the full talents and greatness of our nation.”

With his nominee standing alongside, the president praised her as having “a pragmatic under-standing that the law must work for the American people.” He said, “She strives to be fair, to get it right, to do justice.”

In Jackson, Biden delivered on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries.

He also chose an attorney who would be the high court’s first former public defender, though she possesses the elite legal back-ground of other justices as well.

Jackson would be the current court’s sec-ond Black member — Clarence Thomas, a conservative, is the other — and just the third in history. She would replace liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, who is retiring at the end of the term this summer, so she won’t change the court’s 6-3 conservative majority.

Jackson would join the court as it weighs cutbacks to abortion rights and will be con-sidering ending affirmative action in col-lege admissions and restricting voting rights efforts to increase minority representation.

She would be only the sixth woman to serve on the court, but she would join three others already there, including the first Lati-na, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

In brief remarks, Jackson thanked Biden, saying she was “humbled by the extraor-dinary honor of this nomination.” She highlighted her family’s first-hand experi-ence with the entirety of the legal system,

as judges and lawyers, an uncle who was Miami’s police chief and another who was imprisoned on drug charges.

She also spoke of the historic nature of her nomination, noting she shared a birth-day with Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to be confirmed to the federal bench.

“If I’m fortunate enough to be confirmed as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court United States, I can only hope that my life and career, my love of this country and the Constitution, and my commitment to upholding the rule of law and the sacred principles upon which this great nation was founded, will inspire future gen-erations of Americans,” she said.

Jackson, 51, once worked as one of Breyer’s law clerks early in her legal career. She attended

Harvard as an undergraduate and for law school, and served on the

U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency that develops federal sentencing policy, before becoming a federal judge in 2013.

Her nomination is subject to confirma-tion by the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority by a razor-thin 50-50 margin with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaker. Party leaders have promised swift but deliberate consideration.

Friday’s ceremony was attended only by White House staff, Jackson’s family and news media, in part because the Senate is out of session this week.

Her introduction came two years to the day after Biden, then struggling to cap-ture the Democratic presidential nomina-tion, pledged in a South Carolina debate to nominate a Black woman if presented with a vacancy.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said in a statement that the panel will “begin immediately” to move forward on consideration of an “extraordi-nary nominee.” Senators have set a tentative goal of confirmation by April 8, when they leave for a two-week spring recess. Hear-ings could start as soon as mid-March.

That timeline could be complicated by a number of things, including Russia’s inva-sion of Ukraine.

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Wells County BriefsCounty further edits remote employment

Following an ordinance approval in late January, the county commissioners approved a change to the employee hand-book to reflect limited remote working options.

The county’s policy is specifically for health and wellness concerns, not ongoing remote working employment.

Community Corrections Director Blake Poindexter requested a part-time staffer be allowed to work from home under the coun-ty’s new policy, but after some discussion Tuesday he was told it didn’t quite fit under the new policy.

Jeff Stringer said instead of implement-ing an exception immediately upon approv-ing the policy, perhaps the job description — in this case, for Poindexter’s part-time position — reflects the remote working duties and capabilities.

The handbook change was approved 3-0 with Stringer stressing there would be no exceptions to the policy.

Weather policy for county employment revised

With the commissioners’ approval, County Attorney Colin Andrews revamped the county’s weather emergency related policy, giving the commissioner president authority to tell department heads that their employees can take actions for their safety in the event of a weather emergency.

Andrews said the policy needed revised and now empowers the department leaders by authority of the commissioner president.

Contract withNIRCC gets OK’d

The county will use the help of the Northeastern Indiana Regional Coordinating Council to perform labor standards admin-istration for the Murray stormwater project.

County Engineer Nate Rumschlag said the effort — at a cost not to exceed $10,000 — will protect the county from liability when it comes to wage rate compliance.

“(The) project is out for bid with some local and regional interest,” Rumschlag wrote in his report about the Murray proj-

ect. “I would encourage county excavating contractors to look at this project with its bid opening on March 3.”

Commissioners discuss changing meeting timesCommissioner Jeff Stringer said he’s

fielded concerns from the public that they aren’t accessible. A suggestion was made that at least one meeting a month be an eve-ning meeting.

He wanted to bring it up for discussion and did so Tuesday.

Vice President Blake Gerber said he ran into that concern too when he first started serving but once the livestream was offered, he hasn’t heard the request since. However, he’s not opposed to making the change in 2023.

President Michael Vanover said he wasn’t sure what that would mean for the department leaders and their attendance.

Stringer said he has also heard concerns about the health board meeting at 6:30 a.m.

The commissioners will get feedback from county employees and the public, and then revisit the matter later.

Bridge work bid gets approved

Jutte Excavating was the low bid for the Community Crossings matching grant bridge project on 800S. The bid of $327,353.10 was approved by the com-missioners Tuesday. County Engineer Nate Rumschlag said the county received three firms.

Jutte’s bid is below the engineer’s esti-mate.

Jail populationreport provided

On Tuesday, the county commissioners heard a population count update from Sher-iff Scott Holliday, who reported there are 82 inmates in the jail, including 32 pre-trial holds for Superior Court, 24 pre-trial holds for Circuit Court, 10 Level 6 felons and seven from the Indiana Department of Cor-rection.

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ern Wells, 7:30 p.m. (JV 6 p.m.)TUESDAY, March 1

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By RICK SPRUNGERThe Bluffton Tigers are all smiles today.Bluffton whipped Southwood Friday

night, 65-38, to put a happy ending on an otherwise long season.

“Our guys executed the stuff,” said Bluffton coach Karl Grau after the game. “We played confident, we played together.

“It was fun to watch.”It was definitely that.A Bluffton team that has struggled on

offense all season connected on 22 of 47 shots from the field for a solid 46.8 shooting percentage.

Included in that number was a whopping 9-for-17 from 3-point range.

Andrew Ball lit the match.Ball hit three straight 3-pointers right out

of the gate on his way to six treys on the night and a game-high 20 points.

“He shot the ball well,” complimented his coach later. “He got a lot of open looks.”

Those three early threes set the tone.And while Southwood managed ties

at 14-14 after one quarter and 16-16 early in the second, a 9-0 Bluffton run mid-way through the second quarter forced the Knights to play from behind for the rest of the game.

Sam Baumgartner started it with a 3-pointer from the right corner.

Carter McConnell hit the first of two free throws, Harrison Schreiber converted a three-point play on a rebound basket, and Ball added a pair of free throws for a 25-16 lead.

Meanwhile, Bluffton was giving South-wood nothing on its offensive end.

The Tigers forced 12 first-half turnovers, three of them on offensive fouls.

“I was really pleased with how we played defensively,” said Grau. “We forced them into some tough shots and got several turnovers.”

Bluffton was still on top, 42-29, in the final minute of the third quarter when anoth-er Tiger run put this one on ice.

Max Stoppenhagen started it with a steal and a layup for a 44-29 lead to end the peri-od.

That started a streak of 12 straight points

as Ball started the fourth quarter with two more 3-pointers, and Schreiber got loose for an easy bunny underneath followed by two free throws and a 54-29 spread.

“That’s the thing about Southwood,” added Grau. “They’re capable of scoring a lot of points, and they’re capable of coming from behind.

“They scored 85 the other night (against Eastbrook), and their pressure over a full game can wear you down.

“But we didn’t get worn down.“We seemed to get stronger as the game

went on.”Schreiber joined Ball in double figures

with 17 points for Bluffton, 12 of them in the second half.

McConnell and Schreiber led Bluffton to a 36-23 domination of the boards, McCon-nell with 10 and Schreiber with nine.

No one for Southwood scored more than 7 points.

“It was just really great to see (our guys) come away with a win, especially on Senior Night,” finished Grau.

Southwood won the junior varsity con-test by a 40-37 score.

Bluffton was led by Hunter Wenger’s 15 points while Andrew Hunt added 8.

Bluffton won the freshman game, 43-11.The Tigers got 15 points from Nolan

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BLUFFTON 65, SOUTHWOOD 38At Bluffton High School

SOUTHWOOD (11-11): Nathan Lehner 2-8 2-5 6, Cole Winer 3-8 1-2 7, Derrick Smith 3-10 0-2 7, Dylan Stout 1-1 0-0 2, Jason Oprisek 3-9 0-0 6, Isaiah Sutton 2-3 1-1 5, Will Winer 0-1 0-0 0, Randy Boone 0-1 0-0 0, Kaden Rody 1-2 0-0 2, Blayne Hamilton 1-1 0-0 3. TOTAL: 16-44 4-10 38.

BLUFFTON (4-18): Max Stoppenhagen 3-13 2-3 8, Harrison Schreiber 7-11 3-3 17, Markis Crosbie 0-1 0-0 0, Carter McConnell 2-5 5-9 9, Andrew Ball 6-11 2-2 20, Sam Baumgartner 2-4 0-0 6, Tucker Jenkins 1-1 0-0 3, Fletcher Wenger 0-0 0-0 0, Hunter Wenger 1-1 0-0 2. TOTAL: 22-47 12-17 65.

Southwood 14 6 9 9 –– 38Bluffton 14 15 15 21 –– 65Three-point Goals: Southwood 2-10 (Lehner 0-3, C.

Winer 0-2, Smith 1-3, Oprisek 0-1, Hamilton 1-1). Bluffton 9-17 (Stoppenhagen 0-3, Ball 6-9, Baumgartner 2-4, Jen-kins 1-1). Rebounds: Southwood 23 (C. Winer 5, Oprisek 5), Bluffton 36 (McConnell 10, Schreiber 9, Stoppenhagen 5, Ball 5). Turnovers: Southwood 19, Bluffton 21. Fouls: Southwood 18, Bluffton 11. Fouled Out: C. Winer. Technical fouls: None.

JV: Southwood 40, Bluffton 37Freshmen: Bluffton 43, Southwood 11

Andrew Ball powers a layup past Southwood’s Jason Oprisek in the fourth quarter Friday night at The Tiger Den. (Photo by Glen Werling)

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Loyer, Spartans too much for Norwell boysBy ANDREW FEEBACK

FORT WAYNE – Two conference cham-pions collided to end the regular season for an intense matchup which saw the Norwell Knights fall to the Homestead Spartans 70-57 Friday night.

The Knights (19-4) gave the Spartans (19-5) a battle, but ultimately couldn’t keep up with one of the top teams, including one of the top players, in the state.

Norwell struggled to make shots in the first half and went into halftime trailing 33-19.

“We had some good shots, but we didn’t knock very many of them in,” coach Mike McBride said. “We seemed a little bit rushed; I think their pressure and length cre-ated that. We were in a pretty good spot; we were down 4 with the ball, then they went on a 6-0 run like that, and I thought that was a big key, because once it got to double fig-ures, we were just fighting the whole night.”

The pace favored the Knights early, even though they trailed 11-7 after one.

Early in the second quarter, a back-breaking sequence swung the momentum decisively Homestead’s way.

Norwell rebounded a missed shot, trail-ing 15-11, and a foul was called on Home-stead.

But moments later, a technical foul was

called on Lleyton Bailey. That gave the ball back to Homestead,

plus two shots, and when Andrew Leeper drew a foul on the ensuing possession and made both attempts, the deficit had doubled before the Knights got the ball again.

Norwell racked up 11 fouls in the first half, leading to 15 Homestead free throws, of which it made 14.

In the second half, the Knights turned the tables on the foul count, drawing eight fouls on the Spartans before committing their first.

“We did a better job getting to the free-throw line, and I thought we made shots that we missed in the first half,” McBride saiid.

Norwell got a 3-point play from Luke McBride, a 3-pointer from Bailey and a bucket from Brody Bolyn to make it a sin-gle-digit game.

When Bailey hit another three and McBride made a turnaround jumper in the paint, Norwell was within 38-32.

That’s when Fletcher Loyer, a Mr. Bas-ketball candidate who will play at Purdue next year, more or less took over the game.

He scored all of Homestead’s points in the third quarter, including a pair of 3-point-ers that pushed the Spartan lead back into double digits.

When Norwell pulled within 45-39 with

under two minutes to go in the third, he made a mid-range jumper, then drew two fouls on Luke McBride only three seconds apart. The second one resulted in three free throws with just one second to play, and Homestead went up by 11 again.

“We lost that last minute-48 5-0, and that hurt us,” McBride said. “Our goal was to be down about 7 points at the end of the third.”

Loyer hit another trey to make it 53-42, and Norwell never got within single digits again.

“He’s definitely the best scorer we’ve faced,” McBride said. “We’ve faced some good players, but we haven’t faced anything on his level. He can get going, and he did. Give him credit; they found him and he got going. They’ve got talented players around him. It’s a good basketball team.”

Homestead pushed its lead as high as 68-51 before both teams cleared their benches.

Assisting Loyer were Kyron Kaopuiki with 11 points and Grant Leeper with 10.

McBride led the Knights with 20 points while Bailey added 19.

Although it was a tough finish to end the regular season, McBride was pleased with his team’s performance overall.

“I thought our kids competed really hard,” he said. “We just didn’t have enough

tonight.” Norwell will host Heritage in the open-

ing game of sectional play Tuesday night at 6 p.m.

The JV game went to Homestead, 48-34. Gavin Hoeppner scored 12 points, Drew Graft had 9 and Kaedyn Quintanilla had 6.

Homestead also took the freshmen game 47-30

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HOMESTEAD 70, NORWELL 57At Homestead High School

NORWELL (19-4): Jon Colbert 1-1 0-2 2, Gavin Hoeppner 0-0 0-0 0, Jake Parker 0-4 0-0 0, Luke Graft 2-2 2-6 6, Cohen Bailey 0-2 0-0 0, Lleyton Bailey 5-11 4-4 19, Luke McBride 6-15 7-8 20, Ashton Federspiel 1-2 1-2 4, Cade Shelton 0-0 0-0 0, Brody Bolyn 3-4 0-0 6. TOTALS: 18-42 14-22 57.

HOMESTEAD (19-5): Fletcher Loyer 11-17 11-12 36, Max Schiltz 2-3 1-2 5, Kyron Kaopuiki 4-9 2-2 11, Grady Swing 0-0 0-0 0, Andrew Leeper 1-6 2-3 4, Grant Leeper 3-4 4-5 10, Ifeanyi Ezeakudo 0-0 2-2 2, Elijah Marcisz 0-0 0-0 0, Kenny Austin 0-0 0-0 0, Nic Gallagher 0-1 0-0 0, Jake Sermersheim 0-0 0-0 0, Tucker Day 1-2 0-0 2. TOTALS: 22-44 22-26 70.

Norwell 7 12 20 18 –– 57Homestead 11 22 17 20 –– 70Three-point Goals: Norwell 7-22 (Lleyton Bailey 5-9,

McBride 1-7, Federspiel 1-1, Parker 0-3, Cohen Bailey 0-2), Homestead 4-15 (Loyer 3-7, Kaopuiki 1-4, Andrew Leeper 0-2, Shiltz 0-1, Marcisz 0-1). Rebounds: Norwell 23 (Bolyn 8, Graft 7, McBride 4, Parker 2, Hoeppner 1, Federspiel 1), Homestead 25 (Grant Leeper 7, Loyer 5, Kaopuiki 4, Andrew Leeper 3, Swing 2, Day 2, Marcisz 1, Gallagher 1). Turnovers: Norwell 12, Homestead 5. Fouls: Norwell 21, Homestead 19. Fouled out: None. Technicals: Lleyton Bailey.

JV: Homestead 48, Norwell 34Freshman: Homestead 47, Norwell 30

Russian athletes Rublev, Ovechkin call for peace

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ten-nis player Andrey Rublev wrote “No War Please” on a TV camera moments after advancing to the final at the Dubai Championships on Friday, a sentiment echoed a few hours later by NHL star and fellow Russian Alex Ovechkin in the U.S.

The seventh-ranked Rublev had just beaten Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) in their semifinal when he wrote his message on the camera, a common practice after matches.

Russian troops bore down on Ukraine’s capital Friday in an invasion that has fueled fears of wider war in Europe and triggered worldwide efforts to make Russia stop. Rublev wasn’t asked about the message

during his on-court inter-view immediately following the match.

Ovechkin, one of the most prominent Russian athletes in the U.S., made a plea for peace while talking with reporters after prac-tice in Philadelphia. The Moscow native said he has family and “lots of friends in Russia and Ukraine” and hopes the attack will end soon.

“Please, no more war,” Ovechkin said Friday. “It doesn’t matter who is in the war, Russia, Ukraine, differ-ent countries. I think we live in a world that we have to live in peace.”

Ovechkin has been a vocal supporter of Russia President Vladimir Putin. In 2017, Ovechkin launched the “Putin team” he said was not related to the election

the following year but rather a show of support for his country. Asked Friday about his relationship with Putin, the NHL star said: “He’s my president, but I’m not in pol-itics. I’m an athlete.”he

Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev spoke Thursday at the Mexico Open about waking up to news that his country had invaded Ukraine.

“Watching the news from home, waking up here in Mexico, was not easy,” said Medvedev, who will become the No. 1 men’s player when rankings are announced next week.

“By being a tennis play-er, I want to promote peace all over the world,” Medve-dev continued. “We play in so many different countries. It’s just not easy to hear all this news. I’m all for peace.”

Thunder top Pacers in OTBy MICHAEL MAROT

AP Sports WriterINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Shai Gil-

geous-Alexander scored 36 points and made the decisive 3-point play with 20.4 seconds left in overtime to give the Oklahoma City Thunder a 129-125 vic-tory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.

Tre Mann finished with 22 points to help Oklahoma City snap a two-game losing streak and a five-game skid in the series with its first win in Indiana since March 2019. The Thunder lost at home to NBA-leading Phoenix the night

before. Buddy Hield led the Pacers with 29 points. Rookie Isaiah Jackson had 17 points, six rebounds and five blocks as Indiana lost for the eighth time in nine games.

Gilgeous-Alexandder repeatedly got past Indiana’s defenders on drives to the baskets. He beat them the same way at the end.

Indiana had a chance to tie it with 10 seconds to go, but Tyrese Haliburton’s 3-pointer was an airball. The Thunder grabbed the rebound, made 1 of 2 free throws, grabbed the offensive rebound and ran out the clock.

BASKETBALLNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 36 23 .610 —Boston 35 26 .574 2Toronto 32 26 .552 3½Brooklyn 31 29 .517 5½New York 25 35 .417 11½

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 39 21 .650 —Charlotte 30 31 .492 9½Atlanta 28 31 .475 10½Washington 27 32 .458 11½Orlando 14 47 .230 25½

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 39 21 .650 —Milwaukee 36 24 .600 3Cleveland 35 24 .593 3½Indiana 20 41 .328 19½Detroit 14 45 .237 24½

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBMemphis 41 20 .672 —Dallas 35 25 .583 5½San Antonio 24 36 .400 16½New Orleans 24 36 .400 16½Houston 15 44 .254 25

Northwest Division W L Pct GBUtah 37 22 .627 —Denver 34 25 .576 3Minnesota 32 29 .525 6Portland 25 35 .417 12½Oklahoma City 19 41 .317 18½

Pacific Division W L Pct GBPhoenix 49 11 .817 —Golden State 43 17 .717 6L.A. Clippers 30 31 .492 19½L.A. Lakers 27 31 .466 21Sacramento 22 39 .361 27½

Thursday’s GamesDetroit 106, Cleveland 103Boston 129, Brooklyn 106Phoenix 124, Oklahoma City 104Chicago 112, Atlanta 108Minnesota 119, Memphis 114Denver 128, Sacramento 110Golden State 132, Portland 95

Friday’s GamesCharlotte 125, Toronto 93Orlando 119, Houston 111Oklahoma City 129, Indiana 125,

OTSan Antonio 157, Washington 153,

2OTMiami 115, New York 100Philadelphia 133, Minnesota 102New Orleans 117, Phoenix 102Utah 114, Dallas 109L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesBoston at Detroit, 12 p.m.Toronto at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.Memphis at Chicago, 8 p.m.San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.Sacramento at Denver, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesPhiladelphia at New York, 1 p.m.Utah at Phoenix, 3:30 p.m.Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m.Detroit at Charlotte, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7 p.m.Dallas at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.Denver at Portland, 9 p.m.New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

NCAAAll Times EST

AP Top 25 Record Pts Prv1. Gonzaga (61) 23-2 1525 12. Arizona 24-2 1461 33. Auburn 24-3 1313 24. Purdue 24-4 1299 55. Kansas 22-4 1297 66. Kentucky 22-5 1248 47. Duke 23-4 1146 98. Villanova 21-6 1071 109. Texas Tech 21-6 1066 1110. Baylor 22-5 984 711. Providence 22-3 910 812. UCLA 19-5 802 1313. Wisconsin 21-5 735 1514. Houston 22-4 734 1415. Illinois 19-7 666 1216. Southern Cal 23-4 586 1717. Tennessee 19-7 580 1618. Arkansas 21-6 502 2319. Murray St. 26-2 371 2120. Texas 19-8 349 2021. UConn 19-7 340 2422. Ohio St. 16-7 320 1823. Saint Mary’s (Cal) 22-6 148 -24. Alabama 17-10 63 2525. Iowa 18-8 59 -

Top 25 ScheduleThursday

No. 1 Gonzaga 89, San Francisco 73

No. 2 Arizona at Utah lateOregon 68, No. 12 UCLA 63No. 22 Ohio State 86, No. 15 Illi-

nois 83No. 16 Southern Cal at Oregon

St., lateNo. 19 Murray St. 76, Belmont 43No. 23 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 60, San

Diego 46Friday

No. 25 Iowa 88, Nebraska 78Saturday

No. 1 Gonzaga at No. 23 Saint Mary’s (Cal), 10 p.m.

No. 2 Arizona at Colorado, 8 p.m.No. 3 Auburn at No. 17 Tennessee,

4 p.m.No. 4 Purdue at Michigan St., NoonNo. 5 Kansas at No. 10 Baylor, 8

p.m.No. 6 Kentucky at No. 18 Arkansas,

2 p.m.No. 7 Duke at Syracuse, 6 p.m.No. 9 Texas Tech at TCU, 6 p.m.No. 11 Providence vs. Creighton,

8:30 p.m.No. 12 UCLA at Oregon St., 4 p.m.No. 13 Wisconsin at Rutgers, 6 p.m.No. 16 Southern Cal at Oregon,

10 p.m.No. 19 Murray St. at SE Missouri,

5 p.m.No. 20 Texas at West Virginia, 2

p.m.No. 24 Alabama vs. South Carolina,

6 p.m.Sunday

No. 14 Houston vs. SMU, 12:30 p.m.

No. 15 Illinois at Michigan, 2 p.m.No. 21 UConn at Georgetown, NoonNo. 22 Ohio St. at Maryland, 4 p.m.

MondayNo. 9 Texas Tech vs. Kansas St.,

9 p.m.No. 10 Baylor at No. 20 Texas, 9

p.m.No. 12 UCLA at Washington, 11

p.m.No. 25 Iowa vs. Northwestern, 8

p.m.

PrepFriday’s Scores

PREP BASKETBALLAdams Central 48, Lakewood Park

41Angola 56, Lakeland 40Argos 52, Elkhart Christian 35Austin 91, Crothersville 55Avon 81, Danville 67Barr-Reeve 62, Bloomfield 48Beech Grove 62, Whiteland 60Bellmont 41, Jay Co. 40Benton Central 58, Logansport

56, OTBloomington North 56, New Albany

38Bloomington South 55, Northview

43Bluffton 65, Southwood 38Bremen 49, Culver 36Brownstown 73, Orleans 69Calumet 54, Highland 37Cambridge City 63, Centerville 42Castle 57, Jeffersonville 55Central Christian 81, Thrival Indy 47Central Noble 59, Fairfield 49Chesterton 58, Gary West 34Christel House Manual 77, Emi-

nence 37

Christian Academy 58, Dubois 53, OT

Clay City 57, Riverton Parke 48Clinton Prairie 53, N. Newton 32Columbia City 66, Ft. Wayne Con-

cordia 58, OTConcord 48, Westview 43Crown Point 65, Lowell 17Culver Academy 57, Bowman Acad-

emy 52Delta 49, Oak Hill 43Eastbrook 66, S. Adams 57Eastern (Pekin) 70, S. Central

(Elizabeth) 49Eastern Hancock 71, Hagerstown

44Eastside 72, Churubusco 49Edgewood 59, Eastern (Greene) 51Ev. Memorial 54, Washington 39Ev. North 54, Linton 52, OTEv. Reitz 76, Ev. Bosse 60Fountain Central 65, Faith Chris-

tian 60Frankfort 66, Delphi 54Franklin 79, Jennings Co. 67Frankton 73, Sheridan 30Fremont 38, Bethany Christian

35, OTFrontier 57, Clinton Central 48Ft. Wayne Blackhawk 48, Ft. Wayne

South 44Ft. Wayne Luers 61, Blackford 51Ft. Wayne Snider 80, Marion 79, OTGary 21st Century 91, Hammond

Noll 82Glenn 52, Goshen 36Greencastle 51, N. Montgomery 34Greensburg 51, E. Central 43Hebron 78, Hammond Science and

Tech 41Heritage Hills 50, Perry Central 34Hobart 74, Wheeler 40Homestead 70, Norwell 57Illiana Christian 54, Hanover Cen-

tral 28Indian Creek 61, S. Putnam 47Indpls Ben Davis 63, Indpls Tech 60Indpls Brebeuf 51, Indpls Roncalli

49Indpls Chatard 71, Indpls Metro 59Indpls Riverside 70, Indiana Deaf 63Indpls Scecina 51, Indiana Math

and Science Academy 48Jac-Cen-Del 59, S. Ripley 50Knox 56, Triton 53Kokomo 43, Huntington North 32LaCrosse 59, Kouts 56Lafayette Catholic 54, Cass 44Lafayette Harrison 59, Lebanon 46Lafayette Jeff 61, Terre Haute

North 39Maconaquah 72, Rochester 48Manchester 61, Mississinewa 42Mishawaka 63, S. Bend St.

Joseph’s 57Mishawaka Marian 80, Michigan

City Marquette 57Monroe Central 47, Randolph

Southern 29Morgan Twp. 52, Washington Twp.

33Mt. Vernon (Fortville) 77, Yorktown

33Munster 63, Whiting 30N. Decatur 59, Rushville 50N. Judson 76, Kankakee Valley 42N. Posey 55, Gibson Southern 45New Castle 58, Muncie Central

57, 2OTNew Palestine 46, Greenwood 33NorthWood 56, Elkhart 38Northridge 56, DeKalb 51Paoli 61, Crawford Co. 39Penn 70, Merrillville 49Peru 75, Wabash 72, OTPioneer 60, Tri-County 27Portage 48, Hammond Morton 38Prairie Hts. 80, Hamilton 57Rensselaer 58, Winamac 41River Forest 56, Oregon-Davis

52, OTRock Creek Academy 52, Clarks-

ville 50Rossville 76, W. Lafayette 69, 2OTS. Bend Adams 67, New Prairie 54S. Decatur 77, Knightstown 55S. Knox 59, Wood Memorial 30S. Newton 55, Attica 20Salem 76, Borden 73Scottsburg 79, Mitchell 30Seeger 65, N. Vermillion 50Seymour 63, Silver Creek 54, OTShakamak 73, Owen Valley 70Speedway 63, Triton Central 50Tri 55, Morristown 36Tri-Central 64, Northfield 49Tri-West 76, Indpls Ritter 70Valparaiso 66, Hammond Central 59Vincennes 49, White River Valley 38W. Noble 53, Garrett 35W. Washington 53, Shoals 41Waldron 55, Anderson Prep Acad-

emy 47Wapahani 50, Shenandoah 48Warsaw 62, Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 50Wawasee 42, Tippecanoe Valley 26Wes-Del 66, Alexandria 50Westville 58, S. Central (Union

Mills) 47Whitko 51, Lakeland Christian 48Woodlan 53, Leo 50

HOCKEYNHL

All Times EDTEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 52 35 12 5 75 215 157Tampa Bay 50 33 11 6 72 174 142Toronto 51 33 14 4 70 182 142Boston 51 30 17 4 64 148 141Detroit 52 23 23 6 52 149 181Ottawa 50 19 26 5 43 134 159Buffalo 53 16 29 8 40 141 191Montreal 52 12 33 7 31 121 197

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GACarolina 51 36 11 4 76 180 121N.Y. Rangers 51 33 13 5 71 155 128Pittsburgh 53 31 14 8 70 174 146

Washington 53 28 16 9 65 172 149Columbus 52 27 24 1 55 173 190N.Y. Islanders 47 19 20 8 46 119 132New Jersey 52 18 29 5 41 157 191Philadelphia 51 15 26 10 40 129 180

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAColorado 52 38 10 4 80 210 148St. Louis 51 31 14 6 68 184 141Minnesota 49 31 15 3 65 187 150Nashville 52 30 18 4 64 161 148Dallas 51 28 20 3 59 147 149Winnipeg 52 22 21 9 53 150 159Chicago 53 19 26 8 46 134 181Arizona 51 13 34 4 30 116 189

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GACalgary 50 30 14 6 66 170 121Vegas 51 29 18 4 62 169 150Los Angeles 51 27 17 7 61 150 143Edmonton 51 28 20 3 59 171 166Anaheim 53 25 19 9 59 160 161Vancouver 53 25 22 6 56 147 149San Jose 51 23 22 6 52 138 161Seattle 54 16 33 5 37 139 193

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Thursday’s GamesNew Jersey 6, Pittsburgh 1Columbus 6, Florida 3N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 1Toronto 3, Minnesota 1Nashville 2, Dallas 1, SOBoston 3, Seattle 2, OTVancouver 7, Calgary 1San Jose 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO

Friday’s GamesCarolina 4, Columbus 0St. Louis 5, Buffalo 3Chicago 8, New Jersey 5Colorado 6, Winnipeg 3Vegas at Arizona, lateLos Angeles at Anaheim, late

Saturday’s GamesEdmonton at Florida, 12:30 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 12:30

p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m.Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Nashville at Nissan

Stadium, 7:30 p.m.Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Boston at San Jose, 10 p.m.Colorado at Vegas, 10 p.m.Minnesota at Calgary, 10 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Los Angeles, 10:30

p.m.Sunday’s Games

Edmonton at Carolina, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Dallas, 2 p.m.St. Louis at Chicago, 3 p.m.Winnipeg at Arizona, 4 p.m.Pittsburgh at Columbus, 6 p.m.Vancouver at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30

p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Anaheim, 8:30

p.m.Seattle at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Komets (25-18-5-1)Thursday’s Games

No games scheduledFriday’s Games

Iowa 4, Fort Wayne 2Saturday’s Games

Fort Wayne at Iowa, 8 p.m.Sunday’s Games

No games scheduledMonday’s Games

No games scheduled

TRANSACTIONSFriday

BASEBALLMajor League Baseball

American LeagueLOS ANGELES ANGELS — Named

Lou Marson manager, Jairo Cuevas pitching coach, Brian Betancourth hitting coach, Ray Olmedo coach, Jonathan Fierro athletic trainer, Paul Cater strength and conditioning coach, Evan Roberts game planning strate-gist, Kyle Parisi video assistant and Cole Filosa clubhouse manager of Salt Lake (Triple-A West); Andy Schat-zley manager, Michael Wuertz pitching coach, Kenny Hook hitting coach, Dann Bilardello coach, Will Whitehead athletic trainer, Henry Aleck strength and conditioning coach, Ryan Santos game planning strategist, Andrew Hansford video assistant and Nicholas Irwin clubhouse manager of Rocket City (Double-A South); Jack Howell manager, Doug Henry pitching coach, Brian Rupp hitting coach, Jack Santo-ra coach, Dylan Culwell athletic train-er, Luis Cervantes strength and con-ditioning coach, Ryan Stamski game planning strategist, Gabriel Kaufmann video assistant and Jared Phillips clubhouse manager of Tri-City (High-A West); Ever Magallanes manager, Bo Martino pitching coach, Ryan Sebra hitting coach, Trevor Nyp coach, Masa Koyanagi athletic trainer, Jimmy San-chez strength and conditioning coach, Derron Davis game planning strate-gist, Veronica Cobos video assistand and Bobby Barrett clubhouse manager of Inland Empire (Low-A West); Dave Stapleton manager, Gil Heredia and Derrin Ebert pitching coaches, Sean Kazmar hitting coach, Derek Florko coach, Geoff Hosteter athletic trainer, Adam Smith strength and conditioning coach, Regan Durham game plan-ning strategist and Will Topham video assistant of the Arizona Complex League; Hector De La Cruz manager, Jose Marte and Enrique Gonzalez pitching coaches, Raywilly Gomez and Anel De Los Santos hitting coaches, Jauan Zapata outfield coach, Berbani Martinez coach, Rafael Abreu athletic trainer, Edinson Oviedo and Chris-

topher Rodriguez strength and con-ditioning coaches, Martin Balbuena clubhouse manager and Ysrael Rojas assistant clubhouse manager of the Dominican Summer League.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationNBA — Fined Miami F Jimmy Butler

an undisclosed amount for violating league rules governing media inter-view access and for noncompliance with the resulting NBA investigation.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Re-signed TE Ian Thomas to a three-year contract.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Stephen Bravo-Brown assistant special teams coach, Drew Petzing quarterbacks coach, T.C. McCartney tight ends coach, Bill Willis and Ash-ton Grant offensive quality control coaches, Callie Brownson chief of staff/assistant wide receivers coach, Jordan Thomas assistant defensive line coach and Jeff Anderson defen-sive quality control coach.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed DL Renell Wren.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ARIZONA COYOTTES — Reas-signed G Josef Korenar from Tucson (AHL) to Rapid City (ECHL). Signed D Dysin Mayo to a three-year contract.

BUFFALO SABRES — Assigned F Brandon Biro to Rochester (AHL).

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed TE Ian Thomas to a three-year con-tract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Jakub Galvas from Rock-ford (AHL) on loan.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reas-signed RW Nick Henry from Colorado (AHL) to Utah (ECHL). Reassigned D Jacob MacDonald to Colorado (AHL) from loan.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reassigned G Jet Greaves to Cleveland (AHL). Activated G Elvis Merzlikins from injured reserve.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned F Tanner Kero to Teexas (AHL).

MINNESOTA UNITED FC — Signed F Tani Oluwasey to a one-year con-tract.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Cleared D Corey Schueneman to return from COVID-19 protocols.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Matt Tennyson from Mil-waukee (AHL) on loan.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Acti-vated C Derick Brassard from injured reserve.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Recalled D Mark Friedman from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL) on loan.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Reassigned D Dmitry Semykin to Syracuse (AHL) from Orlando (ECHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Recalled LW Phil Di Giuseppe from Abbotsford (AHL) on loan.

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Activated D Zach Whitecloud from injured reserve.

East Coast Hockey LeagueFORT WAYNE KOMETS — Activat-

ed D Darien Kielb and F Oliver Cooper from reserve. Placed Fs Connor Jones and Shawn Szydlowdki on reserve.

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The NCAA has relaxed the amount of THC an athlete can have to trigger a positive test, and is recommending less-stringent penalties for athletes who do test positive for marijuana.

The threshold levels for THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, will go from 35 nanograms per mil-liliter to 150 nanograms per milliliter, which the NCAA says is in line with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s levels.

The threshold-level change is effective immediately and is retroactive to drug tests taken since fall 2021, the NCAA said Friday. Marijuana is legal in some form — medical, recreational or both — in the majority of U.S. states.

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Previously, one positive test for marijuana would mean an NCAA athlete would immediately have to miss 50 per-cent of a regular season and a second would mean an athlete would sit out for “the equivalent of one season ... of regular-season competition.”

Under the new proposal, an athlete will have to follow a school’s “a management plan and education” after testing positive a first time. The second positive test also would not cause an athlete to lose eligibility, as long as he, she or they complied with the first management plan; otherwise, the athlete would sit out 25 percent of regular-season games.

The third positive test again still wouldn’t affect eligibil-ity if the athlete was compliant with the previous two plans; if not, the athlete would lose out on 50 percent of regular-season contests. Each NCAA division will have to vote on the proposed new penalties.

“These adjustments to the NCAA drug testing program were approved after careful consideration and extensive discussion of the recommendations made by the Drug Test-ing Subcommittee, which has been meeting since last fall,” said Dr. Stephanie Chu, Colorado team physician and chair of the NCAA’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.

The NBA suspended testing for marijuana for the current season, MLB removed marijuana from its banned-substance list, the NHL and NFL also have loosened marijuana rules and the NFL is funding research on the effects of cannabi-noids on pain management and neuroprotection from con-cussion in elite football players.

The former executive director of the National Organiza-tion for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, told USA Today in July 2013 that testing positive at 150 nano-grams per milliliter would equal a “pretty dedicated canna-bis consumer.”

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and I’m tired of it. I am a pretty generous person, but I feel like she takes advantage. She has no problem asking to use or have others’ personal items.

When she first came to my office, she asked if she could use my coffee creamer. I thought nothing of it and, of course, said yes. She has since made MY coffee cream-er OUR coffee creamer. Even though she occasionally hands me $5, she uses much more than that, and I never signed up to have communal creamer or be the person sent to the store to get it on my time every week.

She has asked to use my and others’ phone chargers. She takes from people’s candy dishes, which we all do, but we refill them, and we have our own to offer one another. Beyond just eating other’s Life Savers, she uses her finger to fish around to find the flavor she likes. She uses tea bags and honey. If she sees some-one eating cheese crackers, she has no problem asking for some.

She is the boss and makes more than all of us. These items are not free, and they aren’t just dropped on our desks. We have to go buy them. How do we put an end to the greed but not make things awkward? Thank you in advance for your advice. — Frustrated With Freeloader

Dear Frustrated: Take a page out of your boss’ book and be direct. Start with the kitchen: Ask her if the company can cover the expense for and order things that most everyone uses, like ground coffee, creamer, utensils and other treats that she and your coworkers enjoy.

Confrontation and saying no can feel difficult and uncomfortable, but you don’t have to do it rudely. Lean into speaking up; you’ll never establish healthy profes-sional boundaries if you don’t.

Dear Annie: I have been married for almost 18 years. I will be the first to tell you that I am not an easy person to live with. I had a child before my husband and I got married, which he knew and said wouldn’t be a problem. This is his second marriage. I have some health issues that I manage with medicine.

We have a child together, yet he pret-ty much ignores my older child. He does what his family wants. If we have plans and a family member calls, our kids and

I are thrown aside. He puts my older child down to our child and says tak-ing the eldest places is inconvenient for him, throwing it off on me.

The kids and I are to the point where we don’t say much to him because he gets mad, pouts and/or says that he’s not going to say anything else because he always gets in trouble. I have caught him in lies, yet there are times that he talks to me like I am totally stupid, and he bullies and intimidates our kids as a form of “punishment.”

I told him that I was done and don’t care anymore. He also threatens/intimi-dates the youngest that they BETTER NOT tell their mama (me) what he said. This is beginning to affect my health more and more.

How do you talk to someone who DOESN’T seem to think you are being serious? I don’t want to leave and take my kids from their home! — Feeling Stuck

Dear Stuck: The best way to show someone like your husband that you mean business is to follow through on taking action. Every day that the three of you continue to be exposed to his manipulation and emotional abuse does more and more damage. Your health is suffering, and so is your kids’ mental health.

Your husband is greatly flawed as a partner to you and as a father. Pursue family therapy and counseling to help the kids work through their individual trau-ma. If needed, supplement it with couples counseling, too. Starting here will help you determine if it’s possible to transform and rebuild your family and your marriage.

“How Can I Forgive My Cheating Part-ner?” is out now! Annie Lane’s second anthology — featuring favorite columns on marriage, infidelity, communication and reconciliation — is available as a paperback and e-book. Visit http://www.creatorspublishing.com for more informa-tion. Send your questions for Annie Lane to [email protected].

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Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Closure, Part II”

Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Legacy”

Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Baby Killer”

Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Noncompliance”

Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Asunder”

Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Taken”

Law & Order: Special Vic-tims Unit “Pixies”

WPTA/ABC 21 4 3 21 21 NHL Hockey: Rangers at Penguins

ABC21 News at 6

ABC World News

Modern Family

Last Man Standing

NBA Count-down (N)

NBA Basketball Brooklyn Nets at Milwaukee Bucks. From Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. (N) (Live)

ABC21 News at 11

(:35) Seinfeld (12:05) Mod-ern Family

Outdoors-man

WPTA2/NBC 21.2 8 8 33 14 PGA Tour Golf Honda Clas-sic, Third Round. (N)

Fort Wayne’s NBC Nightly News

Family Feud Family Feud Law & Order A notorious entertainer is murdered.

Dateline NBC Saturday Night Live (N) Fort Wayne’s (:29) Saturday Night Live John Mulaney; LCD Soundsystem performs. (N) (Live)

WPTA3/MNT 21.3 10 21 - - Boundless Access Hollywood (N) Mom Mom Forensic Files

Forensic Files

Monk A marathon runner has an airtight alibi.

››› White Zombie (1932, Horror) Bela Lugosi. Voodoo master of sugar-mill zombies holds damsel in Haiti.

›‡ Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) Helen Mirren.

WISE/CW 33 7 4 34 33 Bloodline Detectives “Chris Van Buskirk” (N)

Bob’s Burg-ers

Family Guy MacGyver A criminal tries to get a dirty bomb.

Great Chocolate Show-down (N)

Funniest Ani-mals

Funniest Ani-mals

The Gold-bergs

›› America’s Sweethearts (2001) Julia Roberts. A publi-cist tries to cover up a feud between movie stars.

To the Res-cue (N) (EI)

WFWA/PBS 39 13 5 39 39 Dr. Fuhrman’s End Dieting Forever! Treat-ing medical conditions naturally.

Life’s Third Age With Ken Dychtwald Au-thor Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D.

Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang - Copacabana Beach, Rio The Rolling Stones perform.

Buddy Guy: True to the Blues Guitarist George Buddy Guy.

MotorWeek A Chef’s Life

WIPB/PBS 49 3 - - - The Longev-ity

Around the World In 80 Days Unpacking

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Uncovering America

Buddy Guy: True to the Blues Guitarist George Buddy Guy.

Tommy Emmanuel: A Music Gone Public Special Tommy Emmanuel performances.

Memory Rescue With Daniel Amen, MD Ways to strengthen one’s memory.

WFFT/FOX 55 6 6 55 55 College Bas-ketball

Inside the Big East (N)

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory

Young Shel-don

MLS Soccer New England Revolution at Portland Timbers. From Provi-dence Park in Portland, Ore. (N) (Live)

FOX 55 News First at 10 (N) I Can See Your Voice Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

CABLE CHANNELS

LIFE 23 113 108 252 (4:00) Girl in the Bunker (2017) Julia Lalonde.

Girl in the Basement (2021) Stefanie Scott. The horrific story of Sara, who is a vibrant teenage girl.

Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez (2022) Ben Savage, Lindsay Navarro. Premiere.

(:12) Cleveland Abduction (2015, Crime Drama) Taryn Manning, Raymond Cruz, Pam Grier.

Girl in the Shed: Kidnap-ping of Abby

FX 24 132 136 248 Horrible ›› The Hangover Part II (2011) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. ››› Wedding Crashers (2005) Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn. ››‡ Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019, Action)

TVLAND 25 - 106 304 Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

E! 26 142 114 236 (4:00) ››› Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint.

››› Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. New dangers lurk for Harry, Dumbledore and their friends.

››› Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Daniel Rad-cliffe. Harry sets out to destroy the secrets to Voldemort’s power.

PARMT 30 - 241 241 (4:30) ›››› Forrest Gump (1994, Comedy-Drama) Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise. A slow-witted Southerner experiences 30 years of history.

To Be Announced ››› 42 (2013, Biography) Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie. Jackie Robinson breaks baseball’s color barrier.

ESPN 31 50 140 206 (4:00) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live)

College Basketball Duke at Syracuse. From the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. (N) (Live)

College Basketball Kansas at Baylor. From the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas. (N) (Live)

College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live)

ESPN2 32 54 143 209 College Basketball College Basketball Texas Tech at TCU. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) UFC 272 Countdown

BSMW 33 - 418 671 Sharp Shoot-ers

Sports Stars of Tomorrow

Girls High School Basketball IHSAA Class 3A Champion-ship: Teams TBA. (N) (Live)

Girls High School Basketball IHSAA Class 4A Champion-ship: Teams TBA. (N) (Live)

Girls High School Basketball IHSAA Class A Champion-ship: Teams TBA.

Girls High School Bas-ketball

USA 34 133 105 242 (4:30) College Basketball VCU at Massa-chusetts. (N) (Live)

››‡ Bad Boys (1995, Action) Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Tea Leoni. Two Miami cops attempt to recover stolen police evidence.

›› Bad Boys II (2003, Action) Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà. Two detectives battle a drug kingpin in Miami.

(12:02) Chicago P.D.

DISC 35 72 182 278 Lone Star Law “Armed and Dangerous”

Lone Star Law An illegal deer hunting case.

Lone Star Law A race against time; a foot pursuit.

Lone Star Law (N) (:01) Lone Star Law “When Deer Attack”

(:01) Lone Star Law “Poach-ers & Liars”

(:01) Lone Star Law “Shock on the Bay”

Lone Star Law

TLC 36 73 183 280 1000-Lb. Best Friends 1000-Lb. Best Friends 1000-Lb. Best Friends Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction Stuck Stuck Addiction Addiction

HIST 38 77 120 269 American Pickers Danielle scores a few racy relics.

American Pickers “Smoking Hot Chevy”

American Pickers An old-school general store.

American Pickers A collec-tion of classic cars.

American Pickers “Picture Perfect Pick; Hollywood Pick of Fame” A late photographer’s hide-away. (N)

(:05) American Pickers An-tique motorbikes; Zephyr.

(12:03) American Pickers

A&E 39 134 118 265 ››‡ Den of Thieves (2018, Crime Drama) Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber. ›››‡ Hacksaw Ridge (2016, War) Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington. (:04) Secrets of Playboy (12:03) Hacksaw Ridge

HALL 40 117 185 312 (4:00) Falling for You (2018, Drama) Taylor Cole.

Sweet Pecan Summer (2021) Christine Ko. Sparks fly be-tween a young woman and her ex-boyfriend.

Welcome to Mama’s (2022) Melanie Scrofano. A woman teams up with a chef to relaunch a restaurant.

(:01) Love, Fall & Order (2019) Erin Cahill, Trevor Dono-van. A woman heads back to her hometown.

(12:01) The Golden Girls

(:31) The Golden Girls

SYFY 41 135 122 244 ››‡ Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008, Chil-dren’s) Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson.

›› London Has Fallen (2016) Gerard Butler. A Secret Service agent must save the captive U.S. president.

››‡ The Maze Runner (2014) Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario. Youths find themselves trapped inside a massive labyrinth.

›› Elektra (2005, Action) Jennifer Garner, Terence Stamp, Kirsten Prout.

TBS 43 130 139 247 (4:00) ››‡ Aquaman (2018, Action) Jason Momoa. ›› Justice League (2017, Action) Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill. ›››‡ Wonder Woman (2017, Action) Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen. Won Woman

TNT 44 131 138 245 (4:30) ›‡ Rush Hour 3 (2007, Action) Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker.

NHL on TNT Face Off (N) (Live)

NHL Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning at Nashville Predators. From Nissan Stadium in Nash-ville, Tenn. (N) (Live)

NHL on TNT Postgame

›› Rush Hour 2 (2001, Action) Jackie Chan. Detectives battle a Hong Kong gangster and his henchmen.

AMC 45 - 131 254 (4:00) ›››› Jaws (1975) Roy Scheider. A man-eating shark terrorizes a New England resort town.

››› Gran Torino (2008, Drama) Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang. A veteran faces his longtime prejudices.

›››‡ The Fugitive (1993, Suspense) Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward. An innocent man must evade the law as he pursues a killer.

›››‡ Apollo 13

COM 47 - 107 249 Despicable ›‡ Blended (2014) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale. To Be Announced ›‡ Blended (2014) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale. South Park

FS1 48 64 150 219 NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series Production Alliance 300. From Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (N) (Live)

Drag Racing College Basketball Creighton at Providence. From the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, R.I. (N) (Live)

College Basketball Colorado State at Utah State. From Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah. (N) (Live)

Horse Race

NWSNTN 53 - 239 307 Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man NewsNation Prime (N) NewsNation Prime (N) Dan Abrams Live Banfield On Balance NewsNation Prime WE 57 - 128 260 NCIS “Lost & Found” NCIS NCIS “Tribes” NCIS “Stakeout” NCIS “Dog Tags” NCIS “Internal Affairs” NCIS “In the Zone” NCIS “Recoil” FOOD 59 153 110 231 Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive BRAVO 60 140 129 237 Superbad › Mr. Deeds (2002) Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder. ›‡ Grown Ups (2010, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Kevin James. › Mr. Deeds (2002) Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder. ›‡ Grown Ups (2010) NICK 68 - 170 299 SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends DISN 69 30 172 290 Amphibia Ladybug Ladybug (:20) The Proud Family Movie (2005) Big City Big City Big City Big City Big City Ghost Ghost Ghost Ladybug Ladybug

FREE 70 32 180 311 (3:45) ›› Keeping Up With the Joneses (2016)

(:15) ›› Sweet Home Alabama (2002, Romance-Comedy) Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas. A New York fashion designer has a secret in the South.

(8:50) ››‡ The Proposal (2009) Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds. A woman pretends to be engaged to evade deportation.

›››‡ Hustlers (2019) Constance Wu, Jen-nifer Lopez. Premiere.

HBO 301 - 300 501 Real Time, Bill Maher

(:43) ››‡ Fast & Furious 6 (2013, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. Hobbs offers Dom and crew a full pardon for their help.

››› Free Guy (2021) Ryan Reynolds. Premiere. A bank teller discovers he’s a character in a video game.

Gemstones The Gilded Age (:20) Euphoria “The Theater and It’s Double”

(:45) Antlers (2021)

MAX 325 - 310 515 (4:50) ›‡ Runner Runner (2013, Suspense) Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake.

(:23) ››‡ The Clearing (2004, Suspense) Robert Redford, Helen Mirren.

›› The Butterfly Effect (2004) Ashton Kutcher. A young man travels back in time to change the future.

(9:55) The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006, Sus-pense) Eric Lively, Erica Durance.

(:29) ››‡ The X-Files (1998) David Ducho-vny, Gillian Anderson.

SHOW 351 - 318 545 (3:30) ››‡ Shutter Island (2010) Mark Ruffalo

Gary Owen: Black Famous ››› Road to Perdition (2002, Crime Drama) Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law.

Billions “Rock of Eye” Boxing Chris Colbert vs. Roger Gutierrez. Colbert takes on Gutierrez for the WBA World Super Featherweight title from Las Vegas. (N) (Live)

TMC 375 859 327 553 Talented-Ripley

Cut Bank (2014, Suspense) Liam Hems-worth, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich.

(:05) ›› Reindeer Games (2000) Ben Affleck. An ex-convict is involved in a scheme to rob a casino.

Aquarium of the Dead (2021, Action) Vivica A. Fox, D.C. Douglas, Erica Duke.

Aquaslash (2019) Nicolas Fontaine, Brittany Drisdelle.

(:45) Aquarium of the Dead (2021, Action) Vivica A. Fox, D.C. Douglas.

M-Mediacom A-Adamswells D1-Dish D2-DirecTV

TV & Entertainment Weekly February 26 - March 4, 2022 Saturday evening 5

Q: I am studying the early church and my profes-sor claims that the Reforma-tion is what saved Christi-anity. Does that mean that before this change people were no longer experiencing the new birth — salvation in Christ alone? — R.C.

A: Man is ever reform-ing, but reformation at best is only temporary. The new birth that comes about when a person repents of sin and receives Christ’s forgiveness and salvation is far more than reforma-tion. Man’s nature must be transformed. Transforma-tion begins when a person is saved, and salvation in

Christ alone is the cen-terpiece of Christ’s church, and Jesus said that the gates of Hell would never prevail (Matthew 16:18).

A group of barbers at their annual convention decided to exhibit the value of their tonsorial art. They found a derelict on skid row, gave him a haircut, a shave, and a bath, and they dressed him in new clothes of the finest tailoring. They had demonstrated to their satis-faction the worth of outward excellence, but three days later the man was in the gutter again. He had been transformed into a respect-able-looking man, but the impulses and drives of his inner being had not been changed. He had been pow-dered and perfumed, but not changed.

Through the new birth,

the Bible teaches that man enters a new world. There is a new dimension of living. The change that comes over a man is expressed in the Bible in various contrasts: lust and holiness, darkness and light, death and resur-rection, a stranger to the Kingdom of God and now a citizen. The man who has experienced the new birth is called a member of God’s household. The Bible teach-es that his will is changed, his objectives for living are changed, his disposition is changed, his affections are changed, and he now has purpose and meaning in his life.

(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)

©2022 Billy Graham Literary Trust. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Stock Market IndexeS

36,952.65 30,547.53 Dow Jones Industrials 34,058.75 -20.43 -.06 -6.27 +10.11 18,246.51 13,020.90 Dow Jones Transportation 15,207.21 +236.24 +1.58 -7.71 +14.07 984.42 792.08 Dow Jones Utilities 938.25 +22.48 +2.45 -4.34 +17.93 17,439.51 14,765.55 NYSE Composite 16,427.96 +35.63 +.22 -4.29 +9.44 16,212.23 12,397.05 Nasdaq Composite 13,694.62 +146.56 +1.08 -12.47 +3.81 4,818.62 3,723.34 S&P 500 4,384.65 +35.78 +.82 -8.00 +15.05 2,925.93 2,406.18 S&P MidCap 2,661.60 +29.11 +1.11 -6.35 +6.62 49,089.39 39,172.95 Wilshire 5000 44,260.12 +393.56 +.90 -8.67 +9.26 2,458.85 1,894.45 Russell 2000 2,040.93 +31.59 +1.57 -9.10 -7.27 19,434.71 14,604.21 Lipper Growth Index 15,402.65 +22.41 +.15 -15.64 -4.19

52-Week Wk Wk YTD 12-mo High Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg

the Week In revIeW

Mutual FundS

American Funds AmrcnBalA m MA 102,455 31.83 -0.1 +9.0/A +9.4/B 5.75American Funds CptWldGrIncA m WB 59,345 59.10 -0.2 +3.5/E +10.3/C 5.75American Funds CptlIncBldrA m IH 68,315 68.79 -0.1 +10.0/B +7.0/B 5.75American Funds EuroPacGrA m FG 25,098 58.05 -1.6 -10.5/E +8.8/D 5.75American Funds FdmtlInvsA m LB 66,395 70.29 +1.3 +9.8/E +12.6/D 5.75American Funds GrfAmrcA m LG 130,272 64.15 +0.1 +1.5/D +15.8/D 5.75American Funds IncAmrcA m AL 83,726 25.26 +0.2 +11.1/A +8.3/D 5.75American Funds InvCAmrcA m LB 77,081 48.15 +1.0 +12.8/D +12.0/D 5.75American Funds NwPrspctvA m WG 62,410 58.30 -1.8 +1.4/C +15.2/B 5.75American Funds WAMtInvsA m LB 76,209 57.35 +0.9 +17.6/A +12.9/D 5.75Davis NYVentureA m LB 5,457 28.36 -0.8 +0.8/E +10.5/E 4.75Dodge & Cox Inc PI 69,927 13.53 -2.1 -2.5/C +3.3/B NLDodge & Cox Stk LV 98,699 244.58 +0.2 +19.6/A +12.9/A NLFidelity 500IdxInsPrm LB 387,086 152.42 +0.8 +16.1/B +15.2/A NLFidelity Contrafund LG 117,056 16.18 -0.2 +8.3/B +17.4/C NLFidelity TtlMktIdxInsPrm LB 73,221 122.71 +1.1 +11.7/D +14.6/B NLFidelity Advisor EquityGrowthA m LG 1,602 15.34 +2.3 +7.0/C +20.6/A 5.75Fidelity Advisor GrowthOppsA m LG 3,530 121.09 +3.5 -9.5/E +25.5/A 5.75George Putnam BalA m MA 1,364 22.12 -0.4 +6.3/C +10.2/A 5.75INVESCO MnStrA m LB 9,257 52.60 +1.5 +15.2/B +12.6/D 5.50PIMCO IncInstl MU 82,301 11.59 -1.8 -0.6 +4.0 NLPutnam DiversIncA m NT 721 6.08 -2.9 -10.8/E +1.1/D 4.00Putnam SustLeadersA m LG 5,694 109.91 -0.3 +7.8/B +17.7/C 5.75Putnam TEIncA f ML 719 8.37 -1.8 -0.6/D +3.3/C 4.00Schwab SP500Idx LB 68,137 67.25 -2.6 +10.8 +14.7 NLThornburg IntermMnA m MI 313 13.88 -1.3 -1.2 +2.2 2.00Thornburg LtdTrmUSGvtA m GS 71 12.66 -1.1 -3.2 +0.9 2.25Vanguard 500IdxAdmrl LB 429,578 405.51 +0.8 +16.1/B +15.2/A NLVanguard GrIdxAdmrl LG 61,833 142.54 +0.9 +10.5/B +19.2/B NLVanguard InTrTEAdmrl MI 83,382 14.24 -1.4 -0.8/C +3.0/B NLVanguard MdCpIdxAdmrl MB 59,823 288.85 +2.4 +8.9/B +12.4/A NLVanguard PrmCpAdmrl LB 66,324 158.02 +0.4 +5.5/E +15.0/A NLVanguard TtBMIdxAdmrl CI 113,476 10.71 -2.1 -2.6/B +2.5/C NLVanguard TtInSIdxAdmrl FB 77,211 32.60 -0.9 -0.4/C +7.6/B NLVanguard TtInSIdxInv FB 188,281 19.49 -0.9 -0.4/C +7.6/C NLVanguard TtlSMIdxAdmrl LB 321,584 107.77 +1.1 +11.7/D +14.6/B NLVanguard TtlSMIdxInv LB 126,548 107.73 +1.0 +11.6/D +14.5/B NLVanguard WlngtnAdmrl MA 107,054 78.16 -1.1 +10.6/A +10.0/A NL

Total Assets Total Return/Rank PctName Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, FB -Foreign Large Blend, GS -Short Government, IB -World Bond, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MI -Muni National Intermediate, ML -Muni National Long, NT -Nontraditional Bond, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Source: Morningstar.

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FRIClose: 34,058.75

1-week change: -20.43 (-0.1%)

Dow Jones industrials

Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

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Australia 1.3831 1.3968Britain 1.3411 1.3385Canada 1.2713 1.2815Euro .8878 .8937Japan 115.59 115.70Mexico 20.3786 20.5939Switzerlnd .9263 .9259

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FEBRUARY 26 - 9:30 a.m. - Nancy Kline Estate, sellers. 3061 N 300 E, Huntington. 3.533 acres w/2,036 sq. ft., 7 room ranch home w/3 bedrooms, 3½ baths, full finished walk-out basement, 2 car attached garage, plus 24x24 detached garage. Note: There is a 2 acre shared pond. Ness Bros. Realtors & Auction-eers, Steve Ness, auction mgr., 260-417-6556, www.NessBros.com, 260-356-3911. For free recorded msg. call 1-877-297-7407, ID 5092.MARCH 2 - 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET - ONLINE - Farm: Susan M Harrison. Property location: 10 miles south of Bluffton. Quality farmland, 148.08+/- total acres, 3 tracts, Wells Co., Nottingham Twp. Tract 1: NW corner of 1000 S and SR 1. Tracts 2 and 3: NE corner of 1100 S and SR 1. Tract 1: 68.45+/- acres. Tract 2: 39.63+/- acres. Tract 3: 40+/- acres. Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, Rick Johnloz, 260-827-8181, halderman.com, 800-424-2324.MARCH 3 - 6 p.m. - Fred A. Lengerich, owner. 965 W State Road 124, Monroe. Real estate auction! Great investment opportunity! Zoned: Commercial C-2, 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, 1,287 sq. feet, partial basement, sitting on 2.440 acres, access on Hwy. 124 & 100 W. Kruecke-berg Auction & Realty LLC, 260-724-7402, kjauction.com.BIDDING NOW OPEN AND CLOSES MARCH 8 - 6 p.m. - Estate of Timothy Mares, K.A.S.T LLC, owner. 609 Schirmeyer Street, Decatur. Court ordered online only real estate auction! Four bedroom, 1 bath, 832 sq. feet home, crawl space, 50’x132’ lot, .15 acres, fenced in back yard, utility shed. Open house by appointment only. Krueckeberg Auction & Realty LLC, 260-724-7402, kjauction.com.BIDDING NOW OPEN AND STARTS CLOS-ING MARCH 11 AT 9 A.M. EST - Secured creditors & various consignors, owners. 815 Adams Street, Decatur. Live, on-site and online bidding! Offering 400+ lots! Off lease, bank repo units! Semi sleeper, day cabs & trailers, util-ity trucks (buckets, dumps, service), box trucks, pickups, cars, SUV’s utility trailers, 40’ container full, skid steer attachments, shop equipment, more. Call Trevor Gray or Darrell Muldoon for consignments/more information! Preview March 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Krueckeberg Auction & Real-ty LLC, 260-724-7402, kjauction.com.MARCH 15 - 6 p.m. - Siberline Manufacturing Company Inc., owner. Siberline Manufacturing and Warehouse Facilities, 2500 Guy Brown Dr., Decatur. Offered in three parcels, entirety, com-

bination. Tract 1: 56,990+ SF building (approxi-mately 46,500 SF manufacturing, 10,500 SF office/break room), 15,000 SF warehouse, sits on nearly 7.5A. Tract 2: 37,700 SF warehouse, 4,314 SF manufacturing, 864 SF building, sits on approximately 6.689A. Tract 3: More than 900 ft. Guy Brown Drive road frontage. Contact Jerry Hurst, 260-223-1405, for preview. Town and Country Auctioneers/Realtors, 260-724-8899, www.town-countryauctions.com.MARCH 21 - 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET - Online Only - Woods: Hodson & Foust. Property loca-tion: 3 miles SW of Liberty Center on CR 400S between 500W & 600W. Classified Forest, Qual-ity woodlands, 20 +/- Acres, 1 tract, Section 19, Liberty Twp., Wells Co. Halderman Real Estate & Farm Mgmt., Rick Johnloz, 260-827-8181, halderman.com, 800-424-2324.BID NOW TILL MARCH 22 AT 3 P.M. - Daniel J. Leonard, sellers. 427 Matilda St., Warren. One story building, approximately 2,272 sq. ft., 3 large offices, lobby area, reception area, confer-ence room w/small kitchenette area, restroom, 18x26 display or meeting room. City utilities and gas force air heat and central air. Open hous-es March 6 & 13, 1-2 p.m., March 8, 5-6 p.m. Ness Bros. Realtors & Auctioneers, Steve Ness, auction mgr., 260-417-6556, www.NessBros.com, 260-356-3911. For free recorded msg. call 1-877-297-7407, ID 5122.BIDDING ENDS MARCH 23 AT 3 P.M. - Scott Rose, seller. 13.521 acres, Huntington County, approximately 1,225 ft. of road frontage along St. Rd. 124, creek borders north part of prop-erty, zoned agriculture. Building restrictions: No mobile home, doublewide, or manufactured home. House minimum size (excluding garage) no less than 1,450 SF for one-story and 1,200 SF on first floor for two-story. Ness Bros. Real-tors & Auctioneers, Steve Ness, auction mgr., 260-417-6556, www.NessBros.com, 260-356-3911. For free recorded msg. call 1-877-297-7407, ID 5142.MARCH 26 - 10 a.m. - Wanted: Farm equip-ment. Farmers Grain & Ag, LLC, Willshire, OH. Excellent visibility from State Road 33! Clean farm or industrial equipment. Turn excess equip-ment into cash. Loading available. Affordable rates. Call Farmers Grain & Ag, 419-495-2338, Ritter Cox, 260-609-3306, or Tim Kreider, 260-413-8008. Deadline March 11. Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709, schraderauction.com.

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INDIANA AUTO AUCTION,INC. Huge Repo Sale March3, 2022. Over 100 repos-sessed units for sale. Cash on-ly. $500 deposit per personrequired. Register 8 am-9:30am. No public entry after 9:30am. All vehicles sold AS IS!4425 W. Washington CenterRoad, Fort Wayne. (A)

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Room additions, fix old saggyfloors, all types remodeling.Redo bathrooms, old founda-tion repairs. Marv Schwartz:260-525-8877.

LOCAL COMPANY NEEDSpart time office personnel.Must be an honest person andhave a good personality asyou would be helping cus-tomers pick out items. This op-portunity would also need theright person to have flexiblehours, including working halfday Saturdays, and someonewho knows QuickBooks andhas a knowledge of Ebaysales. You would also help un-load deliveries and stay overyour lunch break. If you thinkthis would be a good match foryou, please write to Box 107,c/o Bluffton News-Banner, POBox 436, Bluffton, Indiana46714.

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OFFICE STAFF JOB summa-ry: We are seeking a reliable,organized, part time office staffemployee to join our growingcompany. You should possesincredible multitasking and or-ganizational abllities, be ableto effectively prioritize assign-ments, and complete them in atimely manner. A postive atti-tude, strong work ethic, andcustomer service focus are amust. Office staff job dutiesand responsibilities: ensure anorganized, clean, and tidyworkspace; maintain and re-stock office supplies asneedsed; complete basicbookkeeping and record keep-ing duties with a strong point inQuickbooks; answer phones,direct call, take and delivermessage as needed. Officestaff job requirements andqualifications: high schooldiploma or GED equivalent;strong verbal and written com-munication skills, excellentcustomer service skills; hardwork ethic with willingness tolearn. Nice to have: previousoffice experience and under-standing of office procedureand processes is a major plus;knowledge of Ebay and Ama-zon. Send resumes to News-Banner, File No. 102, P.O. Box436, Bluffton, Indiana 46714.

FOOD SERVICE positionopen at Wells CommunityBoys & Girls Club. If you liketo cook simple meals and en-joy feeding children andyouth, this may be the job foryou! Part time; after schooland summer schedules.Competitive wage. ContactSue or Vicki (260) 824-5070.https://wellscommunityboysgirlsclub.com

OTR DRIVERS - $2,000 signon bonus, transport oversizeloads inc. windmill compo-nents. Personalized dispatch,great weekly pay, excellenthealth, disability & life ins.,401K, direct deposit, & wellmaintained equipment. Musthave good Class A CDLrecord. Sycamore Spec. Carri-ers, 3400 Engle Rd., Ft.Wayne, IN 46809. Phone:877-478-6377, Ext. #4. E-mail:[email protected].(A)

WANTED: CLASS "A" driverflat bed. Family owned and op-erated, small but growing com-pany. You will be driving aKenworth truck. Your incomewill be $1,400 plus per week.We DO NOT work weekends,and you will be home throughthe week a couple times. Youwould be running 1,500 to2,000 miles a week. Paid va-cations and holidays. Sign onbonus. Call Ed, 260-438-5507,anytime.

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HELOISE HINT: If you need shelf covering for pots and pans. Instead of using shelf pa-per, which can tear, buy cheap vinyl tiles. You can cut them to fit. Just pull off the backing to install them. And then they can be cleaned easily by just wiping them off. Write to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001.

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Contracted Evening Swimming Lesson InstructorContracted Swimming Lesson Instructor position opening at the Arthur & Gloria Muselman Wellness Pavilion. Evening hours and � exible schedule. Previous teaching experience preferred; must

enjoy teaching children; must be comfortable in water. Next available teaching opportunity would be May & June 2022.

Application deadline: March 8th, 2022Interested applicants may send resumes to:

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