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Recently born at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, as reported by their parents:

• Carey Elaine Battle, girl, Lawrence Marvette Battle and Crystal Yvonne Sellers Battle, Bluffton, Feb. 20.

• Dawson Russell Corron, boy, Joseph and Alexia Corron. Findlay, Feb. 21. • Jaxon Franklin Dean Nye, boy, Timothy Nye Jr. and Aspina Nye, Findlay,

Feb. 21.• Brigstan Gregory Cramner, boy, Kory and Shena Cramner, Carey, Feb. 22. • Owen Louis Gibbs, boy, Brett and Cheryl Gibbs, Findlay, Feb. 23. • Ava Mackenzie Jones, girl, Mark Jones and Marie Andricks, Findlay,

Feb. 23.• Cooper Bowyer, boy, Dustin and Amanda Bowyer, Findlay, Feb. 23.• Chloe Wallen, girl, Justin and Amanda Wallen, McComb, Feb. 23.• Elias Lendell Pruitt, boy, Jacque Pruitt II and Krista Pruitt, Findlay,

Feb. 24.• Oliver Grayson Hartman, boy, Evan and Alyssa Hartman, Findlay, Feb. 26. • Kember Marlene Eller, girl, Shaun Eller and Averi Gamache, Findlay,

Feb. 26. • Isabelle Rose Schrecengost, girl, TJ Schrecengost and Kayla Weyer,

Findlay, Feb. 26. • Jonas Michael Cope, boy, Justin Cope and Hannah Dunson, Findlay,

Feb. 26. • Blaize William Alexander Cooper, boy, Ozzy Cooper and Laci Woolf,

Carey, Feb. 26.

CELEBR ATIONS ! THE COURIERTUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018T2

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Best-selling books for the week end Feb. 25, according to the Wall Street Journal.

FICTION 1. “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr.

Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)

2. “Dog Man and Cat Kid (Dog Man 4)” by Dav Pilkey (Graphix)

3. “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss (Random House)

4. “The Great Alone” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)

5. “Fifty Fifty” by James Patterson and Candice Fox (Little, Brown)

6. “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)

7. “The Woman in the Window” by A.J. Finn (William Morrow)

8. “Mother Bruce” by Ryan T. Hig-gins (Disney-Hyperion)

9. “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)

10. “The Getaway” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)

NONFICTION 1. “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote

to Chaos” by Jordan B. Peterson (Random House Canada)

2. “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff (Henry Holt & Company)

3. “Obama: An Intimate Portrait” by Pete Souza (Little, Brown)

4. “There’s No Place Like Space” by Tish Rabe (Random House Books

for Young Readers) 5. “Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-

saur?” by Bonnie Worth (Random House Books for Young Readers)

6. “Educated” by Tara Westover (Random House)

7. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson (HarperOne)

8. “StrengthsFinder 2.0” by Tom Rath (Gallup)

9. “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker (Viking)

10. “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton)

FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “The Great Alone” by Kristin

Hannah (St. Martin’s Press) 2. “Fifty Fifty” by James Patterson

and Candice Fox (Little, Brown) 3. “Agent in Place” by Mark Gre-

aney (Berkley) 4. “Gentleman Nine” by Penelope

Ward (Penelope Ward) 5. “The Woman in the Window” by

A.J. Finn (HarperCollins) 6. “The Last Tudor” by Phillipa

Gregory (Touchstone) 7. “An American Marriage” by

Tayari Jones (Algonquin Books) 8. “The Girl You Left Behind” by

Jojo Moyes (Penguin) 9. “Nobody Does It Better” by Lexi

Blake (Lexi Blake) 10. “The Tuscan Child” by Rhys

Bowen (Lake Union)

NONFICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Educated” by Tara Westover

(Random House)

2. “Village of Secrets” by Caroline Moorehead (HarperCollins)

3. “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” by Jordan B. Peterson (Random House Canada)

4. “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Malcolm X and M.S. Handler (Random House)

5. “Fifty Things You Need to Know” by Hugh Williams (Harper-Collins)

6. “The Autoimmune Solution” by Amy Myers (HarperCollins)

7. “The Girl With Seven Names” by Hyeonseo Lee and David John (Harp-erCollins)

8. “Unbelievable” by Katy Tur (HarperCollins)

9. “Life in a Medieval City” by Grances Gies and Joseph Gies (Harp-erCollins)

10. “All Over But the Shoutin’” by Rick Bragg (Knopf/Doubleday)

NPD BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from about 16,000 locations across the U.S., represent-ing about 85 percent of the nation’s book sales. Print-book data providers include all major booksellers and Web retailers, and food stores. E-book data providers include all major e-book retailers. Free e-books and those sold for less than 99 cents are excluded. The fiction and nonfiction lists in all formats include both adult and juve-nile titles; the business list includes only adult titles. The combined lists track sales by title across all print and e-book formats; audio books are excluded. Refer questions to [email protected].

The best-sellers list

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson says it will collaborate with Alta Motors on the motorcycle maker’s plans for an electric bike.

The Milwaukee company said Thursday that it has made an equity investment in Alta Motors, an inno-vator in lightweight electric vehicles. Harley-Davidson wasn’t specific on the investment.

The company has previously said it’s committed to aggressively invest-ing in electric vehicle technology and has announced the planned release of its first electric motorcycle in 2019. Alta Motors’ manufacturing opera-tion is headquartered in Brisbane, California.

Harley-Davidson invests in electric vehicle company

For more info, call (419) 424-7036or visit www.hancockveterans.com

Hancock County Veterans Service Office1100 East Main Cross, Suite #123 • Findlay OH 45840

Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

VETERANSCORNER

Transitioning to Civilian Life withHancock County Veterans Service Offi ce

------------------------------------------------------------------Tools for Employers

Seeking Veterans as Employees

Resources forVeterans Seeking Employment

March 15, 6:30 – 7:30 PMLindamood Room at

Findlay-Hancock Library

You will have an opportunity to hear from the Hancock County Veterans Service Offi ce, the Ohio Department of Veterans Service Offi ce of Employment, Education and Policy and the Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Services. How often do you have an opportunity to have local, state and federal government presenting together? This is a great opportunity for veterans and employers to learn about the resources and tools available to them.

Speakers to include:Nichole Coleman, CVSO/ Executive Director - Hancock County

Veterans Service Offi ceDanny Eakins, DVS Policy Manager- Ohio Department of Veterans

Service Offi ce of Employment, Education and PolicyDarrin Adams, Director-State of Ohio DOL VET – U.S. Department of

Labor Veterans Employment and Training

This is being presented as part of CommunityREAD – Hillbilly Elegy

Love, Sue Gillen

St. MichaelSt. Michael School has announced

its honor roll for the second quarter.The following students were

named to the A Honor Roll:Eighth graders — Hannah Bodie,

Samantha Brzozka, Alexis Buddel-meyer, Nora Conrad, Sarah Coutinho, Patrick Gilgen, Grace Griffith, Van-essa Heck, Allie Hiegel, Aidan Jordan, Elizabeth Laird, Chelsea May, Mollie Quaid, Adam Reimer, Andrew Schro-eder, Emily Stall, Anne Traver.

Seventh graders — Natalie Alten-burg, Alaina Bahn, Josh Baker, Spencer Bihn, Alicia Casselman, Elizabeth Denike, Felicity Goebel-Komala, Dominic Gonzalez, Megan Gurney, Brianna Hogan, Jessica Hughes, Paul Klein, Alexis Leslie, Brandon Maag, Eva Mallamaci, Isa-bella Nigro, Johnny Phung, Matthew Reuille, Matthew Ricker, Henry Rill, Ross Trenkamp, Justy VonLehmden, Kadin Warner, Zachary Zitkovic.

Sixth graders — Sophia Barbara, Lucian Chan, Ryan Clarke, Maya Domachowski, Shana Frankart, Joseph Gerardi, Ava Hatch, Brice Hogan, Joslyn Hunt, Brenna Lay, Benjamin Mayle, Olivia McDaniel, Kathryn Meyer, Abby Reindel, Mark

Scherger, Lucas Schroeder, Carson Skulina, Graham Sprague, Katelyn Stechschulte, Madilyn Stechschulte.

The following students were named to the A-B Honor Roll:

Eighth graders — Ben Christian-sen, Hannah Domachowski, Emily Fennema, Ben Garcia, Rachael Hammer, Emma Holdgreve, Bren-dan McCauley, Aiden Mowrey, Paige Pinion, Alexander Reimer, Eli Schro-eder, Victoria Seckel, Ellie Steffen, Selby Wilt.

Seventh graders — Vincent Adkins, Xavier Ball, Brockton Beard, Zachary Doepker, Nicholas Feighner, Madeleine Goshe, Emilio Hernandez, Vincent Himebaugh, Isa-belle Hopkins, Jaycie Kinn, Nicolas Kreuz, Nina Kreuz, Jillian Nicholson, Kristin Nickerson, Preston Perkins, Madilynn Reinhart.

Sixth graders — Miles Bowman, Teryn Currie, Trystan Duvall, Evelyn Essinger, Karaline Fay, Collin Gal-lagher, Alexandra Gonzalez, Olivia Gonzalez, Ava Keiffer, Olivia Laird, Jackson Lane, Poppy Link, Josh Meier, JJ Mihalik, Sophia Myers, Anderson Reimer, Anthony Reimer, Sophie Reinhart, Jimmy Steffen, Sebastian Thiel, Grant Warner, Ade-laine Wilt, Chayse Wolke.

Honor Roll

The following college student was recently honored:

• Brent Warren of Jenera received the Dean’s Award at Eastern Ken-tucky University for being named to the dean’s list at least three times in his college career. Warren is a senior majoring in fire protection administra-tion and is the son of Bob and Becky Warren.

College Corner

CELEBR ATIONS !THE COURIERTUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018 T3

PARIS (AP) — French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus, more than eight years after it was reported stolen.

The French Culture Ministry said Friday that customs agents in Marne-la-Vallee were surprised to find a work of art bearing the signature “Degas” inside a suitcase in the bus’ luggage compartment. The ministry says none

French customs officials findstolen Degas in luggage on bus

See DEGAS, Page T5

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This week’s celebrity birthdays include:

Sunday: Actress Paula Prentiss (1975’s “The

Stepford Wives”) is 80. Movie director Adrian Lyne (“Fatal Attraction”) is 77. Singer Chris Rea is 67. Actor-singer Ronn Moss of Player (“The Bold and the Beau-tiful”) is 66. Actress Kay Lenz is 65. Musi-cian Emilio Estefan of the Miami Sound Machine is 65. Actress Catherine O’Hara (“Home Alone,” “A Mighty Wind”) is 64. Actor Mykelti William-son (“Forrest Gump”) is 61. Actress Patricia Heaton (“The Middle,” “Everybody Loves Raymond”) is 60. Actor Steven Weber (“NCIS: New Orleans,” “Wings”) is 57. Former Metal-lica bassist Jason Newsted is 55. Actress Stacy Edwards (“Chicago Hope”) is 53. Rapper Grand Puba (Brand Nubian) is 52. Drummer Patrick Hannan of The Sundays is 52. Singer Evan Dando of The Lemonheads is 51. Actress Patsy Kensit is 50. Actress Andrea Bendewald (“Sud-denly Susan”) is 48. Drummer Fergal Lawler of The Cranberries is 47. Coun-try singer Jason Sellers is 47. Jazz drum-mer Jason Marsalis is 41. Actress Jessica Heap (“The Young and the Restless”) is 35. TV personality Whitney Port (“The Hills”) is 33. Actress Audrey Esparza (“Blindspot”) is 32. Actress Margo Harshman (“NCIS,” “The Big Bang Theory”) is 32. Actor Josh Bowman (“Revenge”) is 30. Actress Andrea Bowen (“Desperate Housewives”) is 28. Actress Jenna Boyd (“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”) is 25.

Yesterday: Actor Paul Sand (“St. Elsewhere”) is

86. Actor James B. Sikking (“Hill Street Blues,” “Doogie Howser, M.D.”) is 84. Actor Dean Stockwell (“JAG,” “Quantum Leap”) is 82. Actress Samantha Eggar (“The Molly Maguires,” “Dr. Doolittle”) is 79. Actor Michael Warren (“Soul Food,” “Hill Street Blues”) is 72. Actor Eddie Hodges is 71. Singer Eddy Grant is 70. Keyboardist Alan Clark of Dire Straits is 66. Actress-comedian Marsha

Warfield (“Night Court”) is 64. Magi-cian Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller is 63. Actress Talia Balsam (“Divorce,” “Mad Men”) is 59. Musicians Charlie and Craig Reid of The Proclaimers are 56. Actor Paul Blackthorne (“Arrow,” “24”) is 49. Guitarist John Frusciante is 48. Singer Rome is 48. Actor Kevin Con-nolly (“Entourage”) is 44. Actress Eva Mendes is 44. Actress Jolene Blalock (“Enterprise”) is 43. Actress Kimberly McCullough (“General Hospital”) is 40. Actor Sterling Knight (“Sonny With A Chance”) is 29. Actor Jake Lloyd (“Star Wars” films) is 29.

Today: Actress-writer Joanna Miles is 78.

Actor Ben Murphy is 76. Singer Mary Wilson of The Supremes is 74. Drum-mer Hugh Grundy of The Zombies is 73. Guitarist David Gilmour of Pink Floyd is 72. Actress Anna Maria Hors-ford (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) is 71. Actor-director Rob Reiner is 71. Singer Kiki Dee is 71. TV personality John Stos-sel is 71. Actor Tom Arnold is 59. Actor D.L. Hughley (“The Hughleys”) is 54. Actor Shuler Hensley is 51. Actress Connie Britton (“Nashville”) is 51. Actress Moira Kelly is 50. Actress Amy Pietz (“Aliens in America,” “Caroline in the City”) is 49. Guitarist Chris Broder-ick of Megadeth is 48. Country singer Trent Willmon is 45. Guitarist Shan Farmer of Ricochet is 44. Rapper Beanie Sigel is 44. Rapper Bubba Sparxxx is 41. Drummer Chris Tomson of Vampire Weekend is 34. Rapper-producer Tyler, the Creator is 27. Actor Dillon Freasier (“There Will Be Blood”) is 22.

Tomorrow: TV personality Willard Scott

(“Today”) is 84. Actor Daniel J. Tra-vanti (“Hill Street Blues”) is 78. Bass-ist Chris White of The Zombies is 75. Singer Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band is 72. Keyboardist Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum is 72. Guitarist Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers is 66. Actor Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) is 62. Actress Donna Murphy (“Mercy Street,” “Murder One”) is 59. Actress Mary Beth Evans (“Days of Our Lives”)

is 57. Singer Taylor Dayne is 56. Actor Bill Brochtrup (“Major Crimes,” “NYPD Blue”) is 55. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 54. Actor Jonathan Del Arco (“Major Crimes”) is 52. Drummer Randy Guss of Toad The Wet Sprocket is 51. Actress Rachel Weisz is 48. Actor Peter Sars-gaard (“Kinsey,” “Garden State”) is 47. Actor Jay Duplass (“The Mindy Proj-ect”) is 45. Singer Sebastien Izambard of Il Divo is 45. Singer Hugo Ferreira of Tantric is 44. Actress Jenna Fischer (“The Office”) is 44. Actor Tobias Men-zies (“Outlander,” “Game of Thrones”) is 44. Actor TJ Thyne (“Bones”) is 43. Actress Laura Prepon (“Orange Is the New Black,” “That ’70s Show”) is 38. Actress Bel Powley (Film: “Diary of a Teenage Girl”) is 26. Actress Giselle Eisenberg (“Life in Pieces”) is 11.

Thursday: Actress Sue Ane (correct) Langdon

is 82. Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 74. Actor-director Micky Dolenz of The Monkees is 73. Bassist Randy Meisner (The Eagles, Poco) is 72. Singer Peggy March is 70. Singer Gary Numan is 60. NBC News anchor Lester Holt is 59. Actor Aidan Quinn is 59. Guitar-ist Jimmy Dormire (Confederate Rail-road) is 58. Actress Camryn Manheim (“The Practice”) is 57. Singer Shawn Mullins is 50. Actress Andrea Parker (“Less Than Perfect”) is 48. Actor Boris Kodjoe (“Code Black,” “Madea’s Family Reunion”) is 45. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 42. Actor James Van Der Beek (“CSI: Cyber,” “Dawson’s Creek”) is

41. Singer Kameelah Williams of 702 is 40. Actor Nick Zano (“Minority Report,” “2 Broke Girls”) is 40. Singer Tom Chap-lin of Keane is 39. Guitarist Andy Ross of OK Go is 39. Singer Kristinia DeBarge is 28.

Friday: Country singer Mickey Gilley is 82.

Actress Trish Van Devere is 77. Singer Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders is 76. TV anchor Charles Gibson is 75. Guitarist Robin Trower (Procol Harum) is 73. Singer Jeffrey Osborne is 70. Guitarist Jimmie Fadden of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is 70. Actress Linda Fiorentino (“Men in Black”) is 60. Actor Tom Amandes (“Eli Stone,” “Par-enthood”) is 59. Guitarist Rusty Hendrix of Confederate Railroad is 58. Actress Juliette Binoche is 54. Bassist Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five is 50. Drummer Shannon Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars is 48. Rapper C-Murder (aka C-Miller) is 47. Actor Emmanuel Lewis (“Webster”) is 47. Actress Jean Louisa Kelly (“Yes, Dear,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus”) is 46. Actor Kerr Smith (“Life Unexpected,” “Dawson’s Creek”) is 46. Actor Oscar Isaac (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) is 39. Comedian Jordan Klepper (“The Daily Show”) is 39. Rapper Chingy is 38. Actor Matthew Gray Gubler (“Criminal Minds”) is 38. Guitarist Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory is 37. Keyboardist Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes is 35. Actress Brittany Snow (“American Dreams,” “Hairspray”) is 32. Rapper Bow Wow is 31. Rapper YG is 28. Actor

Luis Armand Garcia (“George Lopez”) is 26. Actress Cierra Ramirez (“The Fos-ters”) is 23.

Saturday: Bluegrass musician Norman Blake is

80. Actor Chuck Norris is 78. Singer Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean is 78. Actress Katharine Houghton (“Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?”) is 76. Gui-tarist Tom Scholz of Boston is 71. TV personality/businesswoman Barbara Corcoran (“Shark Tank”) is 69. Actress Aloma Wright (“Scrubs”) is 68. Singer-guitarist Gary Louris of The Jayhawks is 63. Actress Shannon Tweed is 61. Actress Sharon Stone is 60. Bassist Gail Greenwood of L7 (and of Belly) is 58. Magician Lance Burton is 58. Actress Jasmine Guy is 56. Bassist Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam is 55. Music producer Rick Rubin is 55. Singer Edie Brickell is 52. Actor Stephen Mailer (“Reversal of Fortune”) is 52. Actor Philip Anthony-Rodriguez (“Grimm”) is 50. Actress Paget Brewster (“Criminal Minds”) is 49. Actor Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) is 47. Rapper-producer Timbaland is 46. Actor Cristian de la Fuente is 44. Gui-tarist Jerry Horton of Papa Roach is 43. Actor Jeff Branson is 41. Singer Robin Thicke is 41. Singer Michael Barnes of Red is 39. Bassist Matt Asti of MGMT is 38. Actor Thomas Middleditch (“Sili-con Valley”) is 36. Singer Carrie Under-wood is 35. Actress Olivia Wilde is 34. Singer Emeli Sande is 31. Country singer Rachel Reinert is 29. Actress Emily Osment (“Hannah Montana”) is 26.

Happy birthday to all


Will Celebrate

on March 8, 2018

All Our Love,Heather, Kevin, Nikki,

Andy, Drew, Alec, Bailee, Alea & Averi

Zydorczyk-Wymer

ENGAGEMENT

Cassie Zydorczyk of Toledo,Ohio, and Luke Wymer of NorthBaltimore, Ohio, are announcingtheir engagement.

The bride-to-be is the daughter ofSteve and Cheri Zydorczyk of Toledo.

The groom-to-be is the son ofTerry and Teresa Wymer of NorthBaltimore.

Patterson-DillsMark and Lori Patterson are

pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Patterson to Kevin Dills, son of Ron and Marti Dills.

The bride-to-be is a 2011 graduateof the University of Findlay with a bachelors degree in Social Work. She is employed with Findlay City Schools.

The groom-to-be is a 2004 graduateof Owens and a 2011 graduate of the University of Findlay. He is an Army Veteran, having served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently an engineer at GSW Manufacturing.

The couple will be married in June 2018 at Gateway Church in Findlay, Ohio, and will reside in Arlington, Ohio.

ENGAGEMENT


of the passengers claimed the suitcase during the Feb. 16 search.

Experts verified the artwork as Degas’ “Les Choristes” (“The Chorus Singers”), which depicts a scene from Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.”

The painting was stolen from a Marseille museum in 2009 while on loan from Paris’ Musee d’Orsay.

French Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen said she was delighted by the recovery of a work “whose disappear-ance represented a heavy loss for the French impressionist heritage.”

DegasContinued from page T3

U.S. officials consider new tool to combat mine spills: RobotsDENVER (AP) — Crumbling mine

tunnels awash with polluted waters per-forate the Colorado mountains, and sci-entists may one day send robots creeping through the pitch-black passages to study the mysterious currents that sometimes burst to the surface with devastating effects.

One such disaster happened at the inactive Gold King Mine in southwest-ern Colorado in 2015, when the Environ-mental Protection Agency accidentally

triggered the release of 3 million gallons of mustard-colored water laden with arse-nic, lead and other contaminants. The spill tainted rivers in three states.

Now, the EPA is considering using robots and other sophisticated technol-ogy to help prevent these types of “blow-outs” or clean them up if they happen. But first the agency has to find out what’s inside the mines, some of which date to Colorado’s gold rush in the 1860s.

Wastewater containing toxic heavy metals has been spewing from hundreds of inactive mines nationwide for decades, the product of complicated and some-times poorly understood subterranean flows.

Mining creates tainted water in steps: Blasting out tunnels and processing ore exposes long-buried, sulfur-bearing rocks to oxygen. The sulfur and oxygen mix with natural underground water flows to create sulfuric acid. The acidic water then leaches heavy metals out of the rocks.

To manage and treat the wastewa-ter, the EPA needs a clear idea of what’s inside the mines, some of which penetrate thousands of feet into the mountains. But many old mines are poorly documented.

Investigating with robots would be cheaper, faster and safer than humans.

“You can send a robot into an area that doesn’t have good air quality. You

can send a robot into an area that doesn’t have much space,” said Rebecca Thomas, project manager for the EPA’s newly cre-ated Gold King Superfund site, officially known as the Bonita Peak Mining Dis-trict.

Instruments on the robots could map the mines and analyze pollutants in the water.

They would look more like golf carts than the personable robots from “Star Wars” movies. Hao Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science at the Colorado School of Mines, envisions a battery-powered robot about 5 feet long with wheels or tracks to get through col-lapsing, rubble-strewn tunnels.

Zhang and a team of students dem-onstrated a smaller robot in a mine west of Denver recently. It purred smoothly along flat tunnel floors but toppled over trying to negotiate a cluttered passage.

“The terrain is pretty rough,” Zhang said. “It’s hard for even humans to navi-gate in that environment.”

A commercial robot modified to explore abandoned mines — including those swamped with acidic wastewater — could cost about $90,000 and take three to four years to develop, Zhang said.

Significant obstacles remain, includ-ing finding a way to operate remotely while deep inside a mine, beyond the

reach of radio signals. One option is drop-ping signal-relay devices along the way so the robot stays in touch with operators. Another is designing an autonomous robot that could find its own way.

Researchers also are developing sophisticated computerized maps show-ing mines in three dimensions. The maps illustrate where the shafts intersect with natural faults and provide clues about how water courses through the moun-tains.

“It really helps us understand where we have certainty and where we have a lot of uncertainty about what we think’s happening in the subsurface,” said Ian Bowen, an EPA hydrologist. “So it’s a wonderful, wonderful tool.”

The EPA also plans to drill into mines from the surface and lower instruments into the bore holes, measuring the depth, pressure and direction of underground water currents.

Tracing the currents is a challenge because they flow through multiple mines and surface debris. Many tunnels and faults are connected, so blocking one might send water out another.

“You put your finger in the dike here, where’s the water going to come out?” Thomas said.

Once the EPA finishes investigating, it will look at technologies for cleansing the wastewater.

Options range from traditional lime neutralization — which causes the heavy metals dissolved in the water to form particles and drop out — to more unusual techniques that involve introduc-ing microbes.

The choice has consequences for tax-payers. If no company is found financially responsible, the EPA pays the bill for about 10 years and then turns it over to the state. Colorado currently pays about $1 million a year to operate a treatment plant at one Superfund mine. By 2028, it will pay about $5.7 million annually to operate plants at three mines, not includ-ing anything at the Bonita Peak site.

The EPA views the Colorado project as a chance for the government and entre-preneurs to take risks and try technology that might be useful elsewhere.

But the agency — already dealing with a distrustful public and critical pol-iticians after triggering the Gold King spill — said any technology deployed in Colorado will be tested first, and the public will have a chance to comment before decisions are made.

“We’re certainly not going to be in the position of making things worse,” Thomas said. “So when I say we want to take risks, we do, but we want to take cal-culated, educated risks and not worsen water quality.”

Congratulations On Completing MarathonFeb. 18, 2018 • Austin, Texas

You can now cross that o� your bucket list!We are proud of you!

Dave & Deb CarpenterNatasha, Shane, Christopher, Emma, Aaric, Carissa, Dusty,

Cadence, Jerrica, Jeremy, Jase, Isaiah, Isaac, JavanGrandparents: Dave & Diana Kelbley, Carson Rose Carpenter

Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2018. There are 300 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history:On March 6, 1836, the Alamo in

San Antonio, Texas, fell as Mexi-can forces led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna stormed the fortress after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.

On this date:In 1475, Italian artist and poet

Michelangelo was born in Caprese in the Republic of Florence.

In 1853, Verdi’s opera “La Tra-viata” premiered in Venice, Italy.

In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruled 7-2 that Scott, a slave, was not an American citizen and therefore could not sue for his freedom in federal court.

In 1933, a national bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at calming pan-icked depositors went into effect. Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak,

wounded in an attempt on Roos-evelt’s life the previous month, died at a Miami hospital at age 59.

In 1944, U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.

In 1953, Georgy Malenkov was named premier of the Soviet Union a day after the death of Josef Stalin.

In 1967, the daughter of Josef S t a l i n , Svet l a na A l l i luyeva , appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and declared her inten-tion to defect to the West. Singer-actor Nelson Eddy, 65, died in Palm Beach, Florida.

In 1970, a bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village town-house by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.

In 1983, in a case that drew much notoriety, a woman was gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts, called Big Dan’s; four men were later convicted of the attack.

In 1988, the board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washing-ton, D.C., a liberal arts college for

the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school president; outraged students shut down the campus, forcing selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.

In 1998, the U.S. Army honored three Americans who risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.

In 2016, former first lady Nancy Reagan died in Los Angeles at age 94.

Ten years ago: A Palestinian killed eight stu-

dents at a Jewish seminary in Jeru-salem before he was slain; Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip praised the operation in a statement, and thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza to celebrate. Twin bombings in a shopping dis-trict in Baghdad killed at least 68 people and wounded 130 others.

Five years ago: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a critic of

the Obama administration’s drone

policy, launched an old-style filibus-ter to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director; Paul lasted nearly 13 hours before yielding the floor. Syria’s accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone as the number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million, half of them chil-dren.

One year ago: Without fanfare, President

Donald Trump signed a scaled-back version of his controversial ban on many foreign travelers, one that still barred new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries and tem-porarily shut down America’s refu-gee program. Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of clas-sic Hollywood, died in New York at age 84. The world’s most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod, started with 71 mushers setting off from the heart of Alaska and embarking on a nearly 1,000-mile trek across the wilderness. (Mitch Seavey, 57. won the race in 8 days, 3 hours and 40 minutes.)

Thought for today: “Best be yourself, imperial,

plain and true!” — Elizabeth Bar-rett Browning, English poet (1806-1861).

Today in history


YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Researchers are working to use DNA to identify whether a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck belongs to the infa-mous pirate Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy.

The Whydah Pirate Museum in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, publicly displayed the bone Monday. It was found near what’s believed to be Bellamy’s pistol.

The objects were pulled from the Whydah Gally shipwreck sev-eral years ago.

The museum has enlisted foren-sic scientists to extract DNA and compare it with DNA from a living Bellamy descendant. Testing will take about a month.

The Whydah sank in 1717. The wreck was discovered in 1984. Most of its treasure is thought to remain on the ocean floor.

Forbes has listed Bellamy as the highest-earning pirate ever, plun-dering about $120 million worth of treasure in a little over a year.

Was pirate Black Sam Bellamy found? DNA test could tell


Give of yourselfThere are people who give up on lifebecause they are all aloneNo friends, no job, no familyno place to call their ownbut what if we could change all that and help all those in needhold out your hand, give yourself rewarded you’ll be, indeed.

Guana MorehartFindlay

Mom’s ApronHanging on a pegNear the kitchen doorWas mom’s apronWhich everyday she wore

Daily mom took changeof things that needed to be doneWhether small or large —

with her apron on

Moving quietly to the kitchen stovea hot breakfast soon would appearas they drew near — onto mom’s kitchen — with her apron on

From breakfast to other chores of the dayMom stayed busy — with her apron onDoing washing, ironing, mendingor baking as the day moved along there was mom — with her apron on

I hope to again see mom someday in that land so far away —From so many angels to pick from I’ll know her right awayAs she’ll be the one with her apron on!

Robert Van HornNorth Baltimore

Poetry Corner

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When is a penny worth $300,000?

When it’s one of the first copper coins struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia,

in 1793. The annual Florida United Numisma-

tists (FUN) convention was held in Tampa this week. It’s considered one of the five largest coin and currency collectors’ shows in the nation, experts say, and three his-toric coins, including the pricey penny. In all, the auction drew $24.9 million in sales.

Mark Borckardt, a senior numismatist with Heritage Auctions in Dallas, said the George Washington-era penny is one of about 500 in existence.

Other high-value U.S. coins sold at auc-tion included a half-dollar minted in New Orleans in 1838. It was one of the first 20 produced there. A $4 gold piece called a “Flowing Hair Stella,” sold for $750,000. “It was an experimental piece that the government produced, hoping to create an international coinage,” Borckardt said. “It’s literally the forerunner of today’s Euro. The government finally decided no, that’s not going to work.”

There are only about 15 to 20 of those quarter-sized gold coins in existence. The coins had high value due to their rarity and excellent condition.

“Collectors interested in these have a very strong sense of history, both Ameri-can history and financial history,” said Borckardt.

Rare U.S. coins sell for prettypenny at auction in Florida

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Admirers of Annie Glenn will be able to watch a videotaped 98th birthday tribute to her online and leave the widow of astronaut John Glenn well wishes.

A spokesman for the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University says faculty and staff will tape the greeting at a private birthday celebration in her honor.

Spokesman Hank Wilson says Annie Glenn is in good health but is not expected to attend. The college will post the video on its Facebook page on her birthday, which was Saturday. The date falls three days before the anniversary of John Glenn’s famous flight. He became the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962.

College named for John Glenn to honor widow’s 98th birthday

ROCKFORD, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan couple with 13 sons is expecting a 14th child in April but waiting until birth to learn the sex.

Jay and Kateri Schwandt say adding another child to their large family won’t be too big of a logistic change or financial burden, WOOD-TV reported. Kateri Schwandt said she’s used to large families, as one of 14 children herself.

“If you have three, it’s the same as having 10 at this point, if you ask me,” Kateri Schwandt said. “It’s just more chaos, more noise. It’s nothing we’re not used to at this point.”

Like with their last few children, the couple has decided against learning the baby’s sex before the birth. “I would love to have a girl, but I just don’t think it’s in the cards,” Jay Schwandt said. This will likely be their last child, he added.

“It just feels like this is going to be it, and we’re going to enjoy every second of it,” Jay Schwandt said.

But Kateri Schwandt said the couple also thought their 13th baby would be their last. The couple said it’s hard to imagine their home without a baby in it.

Michigan family with 13 sons expecting next child in April

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