By TOM WEHRHAHN

MANAGING EDITOR

Almost 200 people showed up at the Golden Fresh Farms distribution center Wednesday to attend an open house and of-ficially welcome the Canadian firm to Wapakoneta.

The spacious facili-ty was transformed for the occasion as be-fits a gala event, with lounge areas, stand-up tables and beverage centers offering a vari-ety of beer, wine and soft drinks. On one side of the room, a chef prepared light dishes. Throughout the afternoon, servers criss-crossed the room offering a selection of hors d’oeuvres.

According to Costin Beliciu, marketing specialist for Red Sun Farms, about 200 peo-

ple were expected to attend. Judging by the small number of name tags left over at the registration desk, there were only a few no-shows.

Throughout the event, which ran from 1 to 4 p.m., videos of Red Sun Farms’ opera-tion streamed on two large screens in the front of the room and smaller ones in the lounge area. Adding to the decor were dis-plays of the products Red Sun Farms is fa-mous for.

Golden Fresh Farms Vice President Paul J. Mastronardi wel-comed the guests and explained the journey his company took to get to Wapakoneta.

“This vision and journey began in Janu-ary of 2015,” Mastro-nardi said. “It was a new year and begged

the question, ‘where do we go from here.’”

The “where” even-tually became Ohio,

and more specifically, Wapakoneta.

“It was clear that Ohio, and Wapakone-

ta, became our first choice. The Wapako-neta economic devel-opment group spent

endless hours to en-sure our future loca-

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Wapakoneta Middle School sixth

graders Ethan Jackson and Jocelyn

Jackson took third and second place

respectively in the 12 to 13 year old

division of the God, Flag and County Oratory Contest

conducted by the Wapakoneta Eagles.

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Golden Fresh Farms opens doors

Lenten lunches focus on 'I am'

Congregants prepare to get their ashes Wednesday

during Lenten Lunch at St. Joseph Catholic Church.Staff photo/

Dave Vorhees

By REBECCA LAPP

STAFF WRITER

The Wapakoneta Fraternal Order of Eagles #691 held the Aerie level competi-tion for the God, Flag and County Oratory Contest last week-end, and students from Wapakoneta and New Knoxville faired very well.

New Knoxville students placing in the contest were Sam Anspach, who took first place for the 14 to 15 year olds; Lib-erty Menke, who

won first place for the 12 to 13 year olds; and Ella Resor, Thomas Bills and Noah Holland, who took first, second and third place re-spectively in the 10 to 11 year old divi-sion.

Wapakoneta Mid-dle School sixth graders Jocelyn Jack-son and Ethan Jack-son took second and third place respec-tively in the 12 to 13 year old division.

"I think I knew I was going to get sec-ond or third but I

knew I was not go-ing to get first be-cause (Menke) was amazing and phe-nomenal at her speech. She didn't have to have a paper

or anything," said Jocelyn. Her speech was about the Revo-lutionary War, disre-spect of the flag and the first settlement in Jamestown, Vir-ginia.

Ethan, Jocelyn's cousin, said he also talked about the Revolutionary War and the different freedoms to which people have the right.

The God, Flag and Country Oratory Program began in

Students celebrate God, flag and country

See STUDENTS, Page 5A

By DAVE VORHEESSTAFF WRITER

The Wapakoneta Ministerial Associa-tion is offering Lent-en Lunches for the third year. The first service was held Wednesday, which was Ash Wednesday, the first day of lent. Lent is the practice of fasting in which Christians will give up something for the next six weeks to help them prepare for repentance and absolution.

Every Wednesday at noon the St Jo-seph’s catholic church will host a different local pastor for a sermon. The ser-mons will be based upon the “I am” statements of Jesus

Christ. This week the first sermon was about the “I am the bread of life” sermon and was conducted by Father Pat Slon-aker. After the ser-vice lunch was pro-vided as it will be every week.

Many from differ-ent Christian faiths attended Wednes-day's service. The sermons are not just about preaching the gospel but also about uniting the Christian faithful under one roof in spirit and body.

Next week the “I am the light of the world” sermon will be given by Pastor Bob Gibson of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

Cutting the ribbon were From left, Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David T. Daniels,

Wapakoneta Area Economic Development Council Executive Director Greg Myers, Golden Fresh

Farms Vice President Paul J. Mastronardi, Golden Fresh Farms co-owner Louis Chibante and Red

Sun Farms President Jim DiMenna cut the ribbon on the Golden Fresh Farms greenhouse and the

Red Sun Farms distribution center.

Staff photo/Dave Vorhees

See OPEN, Page 5A

The God, Flag and Country OratoryProgram began in 1967 with the inten-tion of stirring patri-otism among youth.

By ANDREW WILSONSTAFF WRITER

ST. MARYS — Dur-ing Wednesday’s meeting, Auglaize County Health De-partment Emergency Response Coordina-tor Don Jump updat-ed Auglaize County Local Emergency Planning Committee members about the plans for a tabletop exercise the health de-partment will be con-ducting in April.

At approximately 10 a.m. April 12 at the Auglaize County Health Department, the health department will conduct a table-top exercise scenario that will create the need to provide medi-cation to the county's entire population in a short period of time. The exercise will re-quire the participa-tion of county part-ners.

“Basically, it’s go-ing to be just the health department staff,” Jump said. “I’m not sure what level, but the hospital says they are going to be doing an exercise at the hospital at the same time. We will be in contact with the EMA or any other county partners that we may need to be in contact with. It’s go-ing to be primarily the health department staff that going to be exercising. We’ll also be in contact with the

regional partners, as well; they’re coordi-nating the exercise. All 18 counties in the northwest (Ohio) re-gion will be doing this exercise at the same time on the same day. All the lo-cal health depart-ments are doing about the same thing and the hospitals also.”

Curt Anderson, en-vironmental health director for the Aug-laize County Health Department, will serve as the controller for the tabletop exer-cise.

In the full-scale ex-ercise, a fictitious doc-tor named Leslie Kin-dred, a primary care physician who is also a member of a church group and a graduate of Ohio State Univer-sity, moved to Berlin, Germany, seven years ago to assist the Doc-tor Without Boarders office in Germany as a mission coordinator.

She has founded a collaborative mission group called Corn-field Missions, a group comprised of individuals from churches and reli-gious organizations from across northwest Ohio. A Doctors With-out Borders office in Germany received a request to assist a small village in Sierra Leone with a drinking water filling station and other humanitar-ian activities. She was not able to get enough Doctors Without Bor-ders people, so she called Cornfield Mis-sions to see if they would help. Having completed work like

this before, Cornfield Missions accepts the mission and sends 50 volunteers over. Kin-dred assists in the mission trip as lead physician and mission organizer.

After 28 days on the trip, the mission-aries return to north-west Ohio, and soon after, Kindred returns to Germany. There is no requirement for quarantine or track-ing. Soon after arriv-ing back in Germany, Kindred begins to feel ill with a headache, back pain, joint pain and fever. At the same time, several of the missionaries in north-west Ohio begin to feel ill with similar symptoms. Shortly af-ter realizing they are sick, they go to the hospital, which be-gins the process of treating them, recog-nizing the condition they have and pre-venting it from spreading.

“It’s something that can really happen,” Anderson said. “It happened with H1N1, communities will have meningitis out-breaks from a high school or college, we have a mumps out-break in Mercer County right now, it’s not far fetched like some scenarios, it’s something real world.”

At the same time, Joint Township Dis-trict Memorial Hospi-tal will reportedly do a full-scale exercise, a northwest district lo-cal hospital and local

Members of VFW Post 8445 honor their post's namesake, Alvin W.

Metzger with a rifle salute Tuesday, the 75th anniversaryof his death.

Staff photo/Tom Wehrhahn

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COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney Gener-al Mike DeWine on Thursdayday issued a report indicating that more than 158,000 concealed carry li-censes were issued in Ohio in 2016, the larg-est number since li-censes were first is-sued in 2004.

According to statis-tics reported to the Attorney General’s of-fice, county sheriffs in Ohio issued 117,953 new licenses and 40,982 renewal licens-

es in 2016, or 158,982 total licenses, the larg-est in a single year since licenses were first issued in 2004. The previous record for new licenses is-sued and total licens-es issued was in 2013, when 96,972 new li-censes and 145,342 to-tal licenses were is-sued. The record for renewal licenses was in 2014 when 52,146 li-censes were renewed.

The Attorney Gen-eral’s Office compiles an annual report as

required by law about the number of licens-es issued each year. Each sheriff must re-port concealed hand-gun license statistics quarterly to the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission within the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

To learn more about Ohio’s concealed car-ry laws or to view this year's report and oth-er statistics, visit www.OhioAttorney-General.gov/Con-cealedCarry.

Concealed carry licenses hit new record of 158,000

By TOM WEHRHAHN

MANAGING EDITOR

Wapakoneta’s Al-vin W. Metzger VFW Post 8445 honored the namesake of the post Tuesday.

Metzger was killed during World War II while serving on the USS Houston, which was sunk by the Japa-nese on Feb. 28, 1942. He was the first from this area to die in the service of his country during World War II.

Although Metzger’s ship sunk on that date, Metzger's

death was not official-ly acknowledged by the government until Dec. 15, 1945. The de-lay was driven by hope that Metzger may have escaped to an island, as other crew members had.

Tuesday’s ceremo-ny marked the 75th anniversary of Metzger’s death and included a color guard, a rifle salute and the playing of taps.

A Wapakoneta na-tive, Metzger was born on July 20, 1916 to the late Mr. and

Mrs. Albert Metzger, of East Benton Street.

He played basket-ball on the first team at St. Joe for three sea-sons. He also played outfielder for the Wapak Nationals. He graduated from St. Joe in the class of 1934.

Records show he was also a member of the 136th Field Artil-lery in a National Guard Medical De-tachment.

He enlisted in the Navy on Dec. 20, 1937 and became a ma-chinist’s mate second class.

VFW post honors its namesake, Alvin W. Metzger

By ANDREW WILSONSTAFF WRITER

NEW BREMEN — New Bremen Village Councilors approved the second and third readings of a resolu-tion, as an emergency, for the installation of Wavetronics radar de-tection devices at a cost of $35,625 during a recent meeting.

With the passing of the resolution, the in-stallation of a Wa-vetronix radar detec-tion — or signals — on Monroe Street and Washington Street will soon begin. Although an exact date of installation wasn't given, the ra-dar detection devices are expected to be in-stalled within the

next couple months. "For instance,

Washington Street, which is (Ohio) 66, will get the majority of the traffic, they'll let that go through as much as possible," Mayor Jeff Pape said. "But if somebody comes up on Monroe, the radar will pick that up, and it will stop Washington (Street) traffic and then allow the Mon-roe (Street) traffic to go through. It's a new-er technology so that we could speed up traffic getting through those stoplights at the corner of Monroe and Washington (streets) and Monroe and Main (streets)."

The electric depart-

ment will reportedly observe the installa-tion of the radar de-tection in case the de-vices ever need changed. The over-head light will not change at this time.

A radar-type sys-tem, Wavetronix ra-dar detection will rec-ognize when cars are coming instead of the loops in the road that a person drives over to activate the traffic lights.

"You can do some creative things, let's say at midnight you want to keep (Ohio) 66 open, you can make it where it would only turn on if a car comes up to that from midnight until 5 a.m.," Pape said.

COLUMBUS — State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defi-ance) today announced the Ohio House’s pas-sage of legislation that creates the definition of “microbusiness” in statute.

House Bill 5, spon-sored by Representa-tives Dorothy Pelanda (R-Marysville) and Theresa Gavarone (R-Bowling Green), de-fines a microbusiness as an independently owned and operated for-profit business en-tity that is located in

Ohio and has fewer than 20 full-time em-ployees.

“By defining a mi-crobusiness, we are making positive strides to help the growth of small busi-nesses,” said Rep. Rie-del. “I am in full sup-port of House Bill 5 and will continue to support legislation that benefits the business community.”

The current defini-tion of “small busi-ness” in state law in-

Bill creates definitionof "microbusiness"

See BILL, Page 5A

See LEPC, Page 5A

LEPC plans exercise

Council OK's radar devices

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Looking BackThrough the pages of the

Wapakoneta Daily News100 YEARS AGO, MARCH 2, 1917

The C.H. & D. pumping station is out of com-mission: the boiler which had rusted thru was re-moved Tuesday. A new boiler has not yet arrived. Water for the locomotives is being supplied from the city mains.

An egg about the size of an ordinary hickory nut is on display in the show window of the Heinl & Swonguer furniture store. It is one of the first of the season, found by Leo Heinl in his pens, and he is of the opinion that his hens are on a strike as a result of the high cost of feed and the probably cutting down of daily rations in their direction. Several other persons have reported at the Heinl & Swonguer store tat they have found these min-iature productions in their coops also.

Work on the Dr. H.R. Faulder residence, cor-ner of Blackhoof and Auglaize street, has been resumed after more or less intermittent efforts to proceed with the construction all winter. The building is being rapidly placed under roof.

75 YEARS AGO, MARCH 2, 1942

Men from Auglaize county to be inducted into army in near future (include): 1496-Loren Gi-erhart, Wapakoneta; 1877—Aaron Kachelries, R. 2, Wapakoneta; 1939—Frederick Koch, R. 1 , Wapak-oneta; 2296—Adrian Wehner, Wapakoneta; 2323—Emerson Stauffer, Wapakoneta; 2372—Frank Idle, Wapakoneta; S2497—Charles King, Wapakoneta; 2522—Howard Blank, Uniopolis; 2534—Wil-bur Carter, Wapakoneta; 2553—Adam Hueb-ner, Wapakoneta; 2560--John Boltz, Wapakoneta; S2655—Lewis Sholler, Wapakoneta; 2689 Gabriel Trentman, Wapakoneta; 2699—Mark Bowsher, Wapakoneta; 2761—Rbert Tangean, R. 4, Wapako-neta; 2790 Lowell Horn, New Knoxville.

50 YEARS AGO, MARCH 2, 1967

FEMALE HELP WANTED—High School Girl, wanted to work after school and weekends in Cafeteria. Apply in person at Ly-man’s Central Restaurant.

Mrs. Jean Buchanan of the Wapakoneta High School staff is public relations chairman for the 6th annual spring conference of the Eng-lish Association of Northwestern Ohio, an event of March 11 at Bowling Green State University. English teachers and librarians from a 20-county area, form elementary through college level ate invited to attend.

25 YEARS AGO, MARCH 2, 1992

It’s a crap shoot; rolling the dice in a high stakes game against an economy which no one can predict. And gamblers apparently are in no short supply in Wapakoneta, judging by the num-ber of new housing subdivisions popping up at no less than four locations in and around the city. But in the middle of a recession? Gary Binkley is currently installing a rural subdivision near the Glynwood Road-Buckland River Road intersec-tion, to be known as River’s Bend. Schlenker De-velopment plans this spring to open a new 24-lot Woodland Village housing area, located north of the existing Lakeland subdivision.

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Courts

By REBECCA LAPP

STAFF WRITER

JAN. 5, 2017Brett S. Good was

charged with 41 counts of rape, felony of the first degree, for offenses committed from March 2011 to July 2014. His hearing for first pretrial was set on Jan. 18 at 8:30 a.m. His hearing for motion to suppress was set on Feb. 22 at 8:30 a.m. In open court, Good waived his right to speedy trial. The court ac-cepted the waiver and deemed the motion to suppress submitted. The court will render its decision in due course. Good is cur-rently in the Auglaize County Jail.

FEB. 2, 2017Sean E. Laderer of

New Hampshire was charged with abduc-tion, felony of the third degree, and as-sault, misdemeanor of the first degree, for an offense committed on Jan. 23, 2017.

Laderer was also charged with cultiva-tion of marijuana, fel-ony of the third de-gree; possession of marijuana, felony of the third degree; and trafficking in drugs, felony of the fifth de-gree, for an offense committed on Jan. 23, 2017. His hearing for pretrial was on Feb. 27 at 9:30 a.m. His hear-ing for second pretrial is set on March 30 at 8:30 a.m.

Kylee R. Close of Spencerville was charged with tamper-ing with evidence, felony of the third de-gree, and two counts of operating vehicle impaired, misde-meanor of the first de-gree, for an offense committed on July 2, 2016. Close’s hearing for pretrial was on Feb. 24 at 8:30 a.m. Close’s hearing for second pretrial is set on March 27 at 11 a.m.

Jonathan L. Slusher of Van Wert was charged with unau-

thorized use of motor vehicle, felony of the fifth degree, for an of-fense committed on Jan. 3, 2017. Slusher’s hearing for pretrial is set on March 8 at 8:15 a.m.

FEB. 24, 2017Alfred Earl John-

son of Wapakoneta was charged with nine counts of violat-ing protection order or consent agreement, felony of the fifth de-gree, for offenses committed every day from Jan. 24, 2017 to Feb. 1, 2017. Johnson’s hearing for pretrial is set on March 15 at 8:15 a.m.

Albert Earl Ray Miller of Wapakoneta was charged with four counts of harass-ment with bodily sub-stance, felony of the third degree, for an offense committed on Jan. 31, 2017. Miller’s hearing for pretrial is set on March 15 at 10:45 a.m.

Destiny D. Palmer of Wapakoneta was charged with failure to appear, felony of the fourth degree, for an offense committed on Feb. 16, 2017. Palm-er’s hearing for pre-trial is set on March 14 at 2 p.m. Palmer is currently at large.

Austin Lee Zim-merman was charged with tampering with evidence, felony of the third degree, for an offense committed on Feb. 17, 2017. Zimmer-man’s hearing for pre-trial is set on March 15 at 10 a.m. Zimmer-man is currently in the Auglaize County Jail.

Derek Alexander Woodall of Minster was charged with possession of cocaine, felony of the fifth de-gree, and operative vehicle impaired, misdemeanor of the first degree, for an of-fense committed on Feb. 15, 2017. Wood-all’s hearing date has not yet been set.

Divorces and Dissolutions

DISSOLUTION: FEB. 21:Timothy P. King, of 403 E. Benton St., Wapakone-

ta, and Natalie M. King, of 402 Ashland Ave., Wapa-koneta.

DIVORCE: FEB. 24:Todd P. Shellabarger and Faye M. Shellabarger,

both of 58 E. Ohio St., Uniopolis.

By ERIC ADAMS

STAFF WRITER

CELINA — “It’s not a job fair, it’s a community service.”

This brief senti-ment, expressed by Nidec Minster Engi-neering Director Kev-in Evers, is one cap-turing the central philosophy behind the Talent Connec-tions Forum.

On Wednesday, ap-proximately 800 ju-niors representing 12 high schools through-out Auglaize and Mercer counties de-scended upon Wright State Lake Campus for the second annual event, which was back by popular de-mand from schools and area business owners alike. Spon-sored by Hometown Opportunity, the Auglaize County Ed-ucational Service Center, the Mercer County Educational Service Center and the Auglaize-Mercer Business Education Alliance (AMBE), the Talent Connections Forum is a day of ca-reer-oriented conver-sations between stu-dents and representatives from many different fields.

Unlike other career fair-style events, the forum encouraged more one-on-one in-teraction between students and busi-ness representatives. This means students came equipped with questions, which pre-senters answered in an intimate roundta-ble discussion setting. Each half-hour ses-sion was attended by no more than 10 stu-dents, all of whom had expressed a spe-cific interest in that session before attend-ing the forum.

“We want (stu-dents) to be prepared to ask questions,” AMBE President Ran-dy Hemmelgarn said. “Treat this as you would treat a job in-terview in terms of finding information, asking questions, us-ing this time wisely. You’re not going to be lectured to, this is an open conversation with the businesses.”

Mercer County ESC Curriculum Di-rector Karen Rose said, in addition to gaining more specific knowledge about their prospective ca-reer field, students should get a personal look at what their own professional path may look like.

“We really wanted the business people to tell their own per-sonal story,” she said. “How has their career developed? How have their work, educa-tional, personal expe-riences framed their career? My hope is that the kids leave here feeling as though they had an opportu-nity to build a rela-tionship with some-one.”

These relationships may prove valuable to the students and busi-

ness owners alike, ei-ther a few years down the road or even much sooner. Minster gen-eral contracting firm H.A. Dorsten was one company that reaped an immediate benefit from the inaugural Talent Connections Forum. A 2016 gradu-ate who attended the construction technol-ogy session last year formed a contact at H.A. Dorsten and was hired on shortly after he finished high school.

Matt Bertke, proj-ect manager/designer at H.A. Dorsten, said the forum informed students about local businesses and com-panies with whom they may not be fa-miliar or even aware.

“It’s really a neat thing to give them ex-posure to what’s available right here in Mercer (and) Aug-laize County,” he said. “Because they live at home, they go through their high school career and many times they’ve not even heard of us.”

Bertke said the fo-rum also gives stu-dents more specific knowledge than they would typically re-ceive at a job fair.

“The individual schools will have the career day where you speak to a certain age group, and you get them in a rotation where everyone’s lis-tening to my spiel,” he said. “But the nice thing about this is, it’s individualized. I’m sitting with a group of six kids that are ac-tually interested in the field, so now you get a little deeper in that discussion — piquing their interest, getting them fo-cused.”

More than 40 pro-fessional fields were represented on Wednesday, with al-most all participating businesses located in either Auglaize or Mercer County.

Junior CJ Vander-horst attended career sessions in skilled trades/maintenance and engineering and science technology. Though he already had a working knowl-edge of these fields from Tri Star, Vander-horst said the forum opened his eyes to the many opportunities available to him.

Job fair held for area

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COLUMBUS — Ohio’s Environmental Professionals Net-work (EPN) is holding its next monthly breakfast program March 7 in Columbus, and as the film title goes, a river runs through it.

Called “We All Need Healthy Riv-ers,” the event is a joint meeting with the Water Manage-ment Association of Ohio.

In all, Ohio has more than 29,000 miles of rivers, and organizers say their health is key to the health of the state’s citizens and environ-ment.

The Ohio River, for example, supplies drinking water to more than 5 million people in six states in-

cluding Ohio, the Ohio River Founda-tion says. But reports based on U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency data have said the Ohio has more industrial pollu-tion than any other river in the nation.

Meanwhile, only about 213 miles, or less than 1 percent, of Ohio’s rivers — in-cluding parts of the Big and Little Darby creeks near Colum-bus — are designated wild and scenic, ac-cording to the Nation-al Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

The EPN breakfast program offers two attendance options:

Breakfast and the keynote talk, “Pro-tecting Wild Rivers, Restoring Damaged Rivers, Conserving

Clean Water,” by Bob Irvin, president and CEO of the nonprofit conservation group American Rivers, from 7:15 to 9:45 a.m. in the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bu-reau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, at The Ohio State Uni-versity.

Breakfast, Irvin’s talk, plus two addi-tional talks — “Merg-ing Monitoring and Water Quality Stan-dards to Improve Management and Pro-tection of Aquatic Re-sources” by Chris Yo-der, research director with the Hilliard, Ohio-based Midwest Biodiversity Institute, and “Status of Darby Creek: An Ohio Biodi-versity Treasure” by Andrew Phillips, en-vironmental specialist

with the Ohio Envi-ronmental Protection Agency’s Division of Surface Water — that continue in the same location from 10 a.m. to noon.

Open to public, stu-dents welcome

Registration is open to members of the network, the asso-ciation and the public.

Registration for the breakfast and keynote talk only is $10 and can be done online at go.osu.edu/BqCQ (scroll to the bottom).

Registration for the entire program, in-cluding the talks by Yoder and Phillips, is $30 at go.osu.edu/BqCJ.

The civil engineer-ing firm Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber Inc. is sponsor-ing the event.

COLUMBUS — On March 10, the Ohio Aquaculture Associa-tion (OAA) will host an aquaponics work-shop in Columbus. A variety of topics will be covered during the sessions, including aspects of fish and plant management, water quality, and marketing.

“The goal of the workshop is to edu-cate those interested in establishing and expanding their aqua-ponic businesses,” said Matthew Smith, Ohio State University Extension’s aquacul-ture specialist. “We want to improve the long-term success of the aquaculture and aquaponic indus-tries.”

The workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a continental break-fast at the Quest Con-ference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place in Co-lumbus. Classroom sessions will feature Smith, along with aquaponics expert Charlie Shultz and OAA President Bill Lynch.

After a box lunch, a bus will take partici-pants to Doug and Jeni Blackburn’s Fresh Harvest Farm in Rich-wood. The Blackburns are currently con-structing their third greenhouse and grow a variety of lettuce, kale and herbs in aquaponic systems. This session will fea-ture a more hands-on learning approach

and informative tours of the facilities.

The price for OAA members to attend the workshop is $50. The price for non-members is $75. Lunch is included with registration. The deadline to register is March 6 and space is limited to 80 people. Follow this link to register: http://go.osu.edu/BqZg.

For additional in-formation about this event or about OAA, visit http://ohioaqua-culture.org/events.

The Ohio Aquacul-ture Association is the trade association for Ohio’s fish farm-ing industry. Its mem-bership is comprised of farmers, educators and industry special-ists across the state and beyond.

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Fusarium head blight (scab) has caused

substantial losses in wheat production since 1991 with 2015 the last year of sub-stantial losses. During severe infestations of Fusarium head blight, wheat yields can be re-duced by as much as 50 percent with addi-tional financial losses caused by the pres-ence of mycotoxins.

Fusarium head blight is caused by the pathogen Fusarium graminearum (asexu-al stage of fungus) and Giberalla zeae (sexual stage of fungus). Fu-sarium graminearum overwinters on infest-ed corn stalk, wheat straw, and other host plants. The fungus produces asexual spores which are dis-persed to plants and residue from rain-splash or wind.

During warm, hu-mid, and wet weather conditions the sexual stage of the fungus de-velops on infested plant debris. Perithi-cia form on the surface of the residue dis-charging sexual spores called asco-spores.

The ascospores are picked up by turbu-lent wind currents and may travel great distances in the air landing on wheat heads. During wheat anthesis (flowering) extruded anthers are thought to be the site of primary infection. Infection may occur with as little as two or three days of light to moderate rainfall or greater than 90 per-cent humidity with temperatures between 59°F and 85°F.

If anthers are infect-ed just after emer-gence, the fungus will colonize and kill the florets and kernels will not develop. If flo-rets are infected after anthesis, kernels end up shriveled and wilt-ed. Kernels colonized during kernel devel-opment may not ap-pear to be affected, but may be contaminated with mycotoxin.

Infected kernels used as seed for a sub-sequent wheat crop will cause seedling blight unless seed is cleaned thoroughly and treated with a fungicide.

The first symptoms of Fusarium head blight occur about 18 days after anthesis. Diseased spikelets ex-hibit premature bleaching as the patho-gen grows and spreads within the head.

One or more spike-lets located in the top, middle, or bottom of the head may become bleached and may progress throughout the entire head. If the environment is warm and moist, aggrega-tions of light pink/salmon colored spores may appear on the ra-chis and glumes of in-dividual spikelets.

As time progresses, bluish-black spherical bodies may appear on the surface of affected spikelets. The infected kernels often have a rough, shriveled ap-pearance, ranging in color from pink, soft-grey, to light-brown.

Besides loss of wheat yield and quali-ty Fusarium gra-minearum produces mycotoxins. The major toxin produced in as-sociation with Fusari-um head blight is de-oxynivalenol (DON).

DON is sometimes called vomitoxin be-cause of its deleterious effects on the diges-tive system of swine and other monogastric animals.

Humans consum-ing wheat products contaminated with DON demonstrate symptoms of nausea, fever, headaches, and vomiting. The USDA recommends that DON levels in human foods not exceed one part per million.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the maximum DON level allowed in finished swine, poultry and dairy, and beef cattle feed is one part per million, five parts per million, and 10 parts per million of com-plete diet, respectively.

Integrated pest management is the only way to manage this disease. Plant a moderately resistant variety, eliminate corn and wheat residues with tillage and/or crop rotation, and ap-ply Prosaro, Caramba, or Proline after head-ing until six days after anthesis.

— Jeff Stachler is an OSU Extension agricul-ture and natural resources extension educator.

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tion was right here. We are proud to be part of this communi-ty and the Ohio Proud family.”

Wapakoneta Coun-cil President Steve Henderson spoke on behalf of Mayor Tom Stinebaugh, who could not attend due to his attending a con-ference in Washing-ton, D.C.

Henderson also rec-ognized the Wapako-neta economic devel-opment team, headed by executive director Greg Myers, who worked tirelessly on the project.

Henderson also thanked those who worked on the project and praised the over-all development.

“It’s amazing to me that, 10 months ago, this was a field with a house on it, and now we have this 20-acre state-of-the-art green-house facility,” Hen-derson said following his presentation.

David T. Daniels, director of the Ohio Department of Agri-culture, also spoke.

“On behalf of Gov. Kasich and Lt. Gov. Mary Tyler, I’m hon-ored to be here in this new facility.”

Daniels went on to speak of the impor-tance of agriculture to the state and the na-tion.

Daniels also pre-sented Red Sun Farms with an official com-mendation from the governor and lieuten-ant governor congrat-ulating them on their grand opening and the investment they have made to the state

and the community.Jim DiMenna, pres-

ident of Red Sun Farms, provided a brief history of the company and its de-velopment into the largest vertically-inte-grated greenhouse in three countries — Canada, Mexico and the United States.

“This new facility will be capable of pro-viding fresh produce

from any of our pres-ent locations in both Canada and the Unit-ed States within a 10-hour transport radi-us,” DiMenna said.

The final speaker was Cathy Burns, CEO of the Produce Marketing Associa-tion.

Burns spoke of the commitment Red Sun Farms has made to providing fresh pro-

duce and how the con-struction of this facili-ty contributes to meeting consumer de-mands for quality pro-duce.

The program con-cluded with a ribbon cutting at the entrance to the greenhouse. Cutting the ribbon were Daniels, Myers, Mastronardi, GFF co-owner Louis Chibante and DiMenna.

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Hello all: I saw Ivan Knapp recently died. This triggered some old memories of my year at Wapakoneta Senior High. Back then in our main sub-jects, the school would break down the class-es according to what they thought of your mental capabilities.

I was always put in the low classes. Al-though the school system thought I was a slow learner I actu-ally wasn’t. My big-gest problem was I had an ever short at-

tention span. School for a restless kid like me was pure torture.

I just barely got by, mostly getting D’s and C’s on my report cards. When a teacher would hit on some-thing I was interested

in I would totally im-merse myself and would get A’s.

I had totally forgot-ten about Mr. Knapp until I saw that he had recently died. I only had him as a teacher for a few months be-cause after the start of my sophomore year he was offered a guid-ance counselor job of guidance counselor at Marion Local. This was the 1977-78 school year.

I had Mr. Knapp for English low. Of all subjects I think I hat-ed English most. I honestly think Mr. Knapp enjoyed the

challenge of teaching us slow learners. He would tell us stories about his life and then ask us to pick out a noun or verb from his story. He would then break one of the sen-tences from his story down. He would end it all in a test.

Once a month for two or three days he would show us a real movie, not a teaching movie. I remember two that he showed us: the 1966 movie “Fantastic Voyage” and the 1960 movie “The Time Machine”.

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would be tested on what we learned. In this way of teaching Mr. Knapp got us in-terested in under-standing how to break down the English lan-guage.

We were so sad to lose him so early in our school year. He made English so much fun. After he left we got a new teacher. I have long forgotten her name. She went back to teaching in the classic way and once again my grades started to show it.

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or he must have been with his unique way of looking at things. I’m sure he was able to help many kids in his time. RIP Mr. Knapp you were one of the good ones.

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CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Lynn Williams scored her second ca-reer goal and the U.S. women’s soccer team kicked off its 2017 slate with a 1-0 victory over Germany on Wednes-day night in a match-up of the world’s top two teams.

Alyssa Naeher made an early diving save and earned the shutout for the top-ranked Americans in the SheBelieves Cup, a four-team round-rob-in tournament that

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“At every level, we got tested,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said. “But the confidence I think our players had on the ball is a big card to put in our back pocket as we move forward.”

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U.S. captain Carli Lloyd, who won the last two FIFA Wom-en’s Player of the Year awards, was held scoreless in a home-coming but created

some dangerous chances in her first game in four months. She grew up about 30 minutes from Talen Energy Stadium, home of Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union, and was greet-ed by huge cheers from the crowd of over 16,000.

“I thought we defi-nitely outplayed them,” Lloyd said. “We definitely could have had three or more four goals.”

The game pitted the reigning champions of the last two marquee tournaments. No. 2 Germany took gold at the 2016 Olympics and the U.S. won the 2015 World Cup.

Earlier in the day at Talen Energy Stadium, No. 3 France rallied to beat No. 5 England 2-1 behind a goal from Wendie Renard on the final touch of the match.

The tournament continues Saturday at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, with the U.S. facing England. The Ameri-cans conclude SheBe-lieves Cup play vs. France at Washing-ton’s RFK Stadium on Tuesday, with the win-ner then determined based on total points through the three games.

“We want to be playing teams like this — this caliber, the best in the world,” Lloyd said. “It’s going to test us. That’s what we need ultimately.”

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Chris Nelloms of Dayton Dun-bar holds three OHSAA boys track and fi eld records: 200-meter dash in 20.47, 400-meter dash in 45.59 and the 110-meter hurdles 13.30, all of which have stood for 27 years, Nel-loms having set all three in 1990.

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The #2-seeded Redskins survived a scare from #8 Napoleon, 40-39, in their sectional opener Saturday, while #5 Defiance downed #10 Van Wert and #5 Kenton to make it to tonight’s game.

In the other semifinal at Paulding to-night, #1 Ottawa-Glandorf tangles with #4 Bath at 6:15. The winners of tonight games will be in the district final Saturday at 7 p.m., again at Paulding High School.

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They put the de-fending champs on notice that they are gearing up to chal-lenge them for their Eastern Conference throne.

Isaiah Thomas scored 31 points, in-cluding a pair of go-ahead free throws, as the Celtics outlasted LeBron James and the Cavaliers 103-99 on Wednesday night.

Boston’s win over-shadowed the seventh triple-double of the season for James, who finished with 28 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists. Kyrie Irving added 28 points for the Cava-liers, who lost for the

first time when lead-ing at any point in the fourth quarter on the road.

The game marked the third meeting this season between the top two teams in the East, and the first win by the Celtics.

“We just played to win,” Thomas said. “They’re the No. 1 team in the East. One of the best teams in the NBA, and we just wanted to protect home court and get a win. We did that to-night.”

Jae Crowder had 17 points and 10 re-bounds for Boston, which led by three en-tering the fourth quarter before there were six ties and 10 lead changes in the fi-nal 12 minutes.

It was a 3-point bar-rage down the stretch, with the Celtics con-necting on six straight attempts during one stretch. They also made this more diffi-cult for a Cavs team that had averaged 126

points in its wins over the Celtics.

Deron Wil-liams, signed by Cleveland earlier this week, scored

four points in 24 min-utes in his Cavaliers debut. But it did little to help the Cavs over-come a night in which they were out-rebounded 47-41.

It was tied at 99 when Thomas con-nected on a pair of free throws to put Boston in front 101-99. Irving then missed a jumper and Tristan

Thompson grabbed the rebound and got it to Deron Williams, who then missed from the corner. Crowder got the re-bound, was fouled and made his two foul shots to seal it.

“I saw Crowder running to me, he jumped and then I saw Marcus Smart running toward me,” James said of the Cavs’ missed oppor-tunity in the waning seconds. “I saw D-Will naked in the cor-ner, so I gave him an opportunity and he just missed it. We got the shot we wanted.”

Despite the loss, coach Tyronn Lue was pleased with his team’s effort.

“It was a good game — went down to the wire, shot for shot,” Lue said.

Thomas, Celtics overcome James, Cavs

U.S. booters off to a great start in 2017

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Kendall Pol-lard and Kyle Davis each grabbed clutch defensive rebounds and were perfect in four tries at the free-throw line in the last 16 seconds as Dayton held off a challenge from VCU for a 79-72 win in the battle for the Atlantic 10 Con-ference championship and top seed into the conference tourna-ment.

Charles Cooke and Scoochie Smith scored 20 points each for Dayton, which never trailed, led by as many as 14 in the sec-ond half and ends the regular season on a nine-game win streak. Davis added

12 points and seven rebounds, Pollard 11 points and five boards for the Flyers (24-5, 15-2).

JaQuan Lewis con-verted a 3-point play for VCU (23-7, 13-4) that made it a two-point game with three minutes to go. After each team missed from the field, Pollard and Davis made two each at the line and Smith 1 of 2 — all fouled after grabbing defensive rebounds (27 of Dayton’s 33 boards).

Mo Alie-Cox led VCU with 20 points, Justin Tillman added 18 with 10 rebounds and Lewis scored 15.

Flyers win A-10 crown

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‘Skins back in action

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Terrelle Pryor is uncovered, but maybe not for long.

The Cleveland Browns did not use a franchise tag Wednes-day on Pryor, who had more than 1,000 yards in his first full season as a wide re-ceiver in 2016, but the club intends to meet with his agents at the NFL combine to try and work out a long-term contract.

While he may hit the free-agent market, Browns executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown said the team sees Pryor as an im-portant part of their future.

“We’ve had good conversations with Terrelle himself through the offsea-son, he and I have spoken a number of times. He and (coach) Hue (Jackson) have

spoken. We do have some meetings set up with some representa-tives and we’ll see what happens there. We’re still looking forward to working toward finding some middle ground with Terrell to bring him back and have him as a Cleveland Brown for a long time.”

Pryor has said he wants to stay with the Browns, who took a chance on the former Ohio State and Oak-land Raiders quarter-back changing posi-tions. Pryor finished his first full season as a wide receiver with 77 catches for 1,007 yards and four touch-downs.

Pryor was one of the few bright spots as the Browns lost their first 14 games and finished 1-15.

He posted the im-pressive statistics de-spite Cleveland’s con-stant turnover at QB. Brown said the club is not worried if they can’t get a deal done before free agency opens on March 9.

“We’d like to have Terrell back and that’s a priority for us,” Brown said in India-napolis as the com-bine opened.

TORONTO (AP)—Bojan Bogdanovic had 27 points off the bench and Bradley Beal added 23 as Washington snapped an eight-game losing streak against Toron-to, winning 105-96

John Wall had 12 points and 13 assists for his 39th double-double of the season as the third-place Wizards took the first of a home-and-home series against Toronto,

moving a game up on fourth-place Toronto in the standings.

DeMar DeRozan had 24 points and Serge Ibaka added 22 more for the Raptors, who were again with-out All-Star Kyle Lowry following the guard’s wrist surgery that will keep him out the remainder of the regular season.

SPURS 100, PACERS 99

SAN ANTONIO

(AP)—Kawhi Leon-ard had 31 points and 10 rebounds, and San Antonio returned from an eight-game road trip to beat Indi-ana.

Leonard hit a turn-around, fade-away jumper from 16 feet against Paul George with 2.4 seconds left to win it. Indiana’s Monta Ellis missed a pair of free throws with nine seconds re-maining and George

missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

San Antonio ex-tended its winning streak to five games, including four straight to close its an-nual rodeo road trip in February.

ROCKETS 122, CLIPPERS 103

LOS ANGELES (AP)—James Harden scored 26 points and Houston shot 20 of 52 on 3-pointers in a vic-tory over Los Ange-les.

Ryan Anderson added 23 points, in-cluding a team-high six 3s, as the Rockets won for the seventh time in nine games and extended their NBA record to nine games with 20 or more 3-pointers this season.

In four games since the All-Star break, the Rockets, who lead the NBA in 3-pointers made and attempted, have hit 72 on 206 at-tempts, an average of 18 of 52 from beyond the arc.

KNICKS 101, MAGIC 90

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—Kristaps Porz-ingis had 20 points and nine rebounds, and Derrick Rose scored 19 to help New York cruise past Or-lando.

Facing a Magic team adjusting to playing with a small-er lineup, the Knicks used their superior size to their advan-tage. Porzingis, who missed the previous two games with a sprained right ankle, presented matchup problems for Orlando all night.

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By Mark WhickerTHE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

GLENDALE, Ariz. _ So you wanted to see a major league baseball game this year. Better get off the couch and get on the web-sites.

Now that the four-pitch intentional walk is gone, the stampede to buy MLB tickets will be just like the Gold Rush.

Surely you’re tired of hearing your neigh-bors say, “You know, if they would just do away with that four-pitch intentional walk, I’d be there every night. Because I love the freeways at 6:30, and $10 beers and getting my ears blown off by bad music.”

The Guys In Charge have decided that baseball games are too slow and, this time, they’re really going to do something.

By shaving the 45 seconds or so that it takes to put a guy on first, they’re starting a revolution that will wean everyone off the videogames and cellphones.

The NFL must be terrified.Just for confirmation, let’s hear from ac-

tual players.Scott Van Slyke: “If you don’t like watch-

ing baseball games, don’t watch them. I think there’s a problem with people who think it’s a problem.”

Kenley Jansen: “Games aren’t too long. This is getting out of control. There’s over 3 million people coming to watch the Dodg-ers every year.”

Why MLB is laboring to find an unneces-sary solution to an imaginary crisis is not clear.

Maybe it’s the advertisers. Maybe it’s the constant urge to cater to the “millennials,” many of whom are rising at 5:30 a.m. to go to work and can’t be expected to watch play-off games that drone past midnight.

“If they’re worried about the attention spans, that’s not going to get better, it’s go-ing to get worse,” Van Slyke said. “How many people are we actually losing? People leave games for tons of reasons.”

Attendance in 2016 was down by 6.3 mil-lion since the record year of 2007, according to BaseballReference.com. That is not insig-nificant.

But it was still the 11th-highest volume in baseball history and the 13th-best average crowd (30,131).

The slowest year on record is 2014, when games dragged on to a 3:07 average. That was also MLB’s seventh-best attendance year.

Thirty years ago the average crowd was 24,708. Games in that 1987 season were 20 minutes faster than in 2014.

People don’t go to baseball games for two hours and leave. It’s not youth soccer. The ballpark is, or should be, a destination.

“The people in charge are making it an issue,” Van Slyke said. “If you start speed-ing it up, what are you going to do about the 60-to-80 group that’s going to miss the nos-talgia of sitting there for three hours and drinking beer and talking about it?”

But the automatic intentional walk is the most benign proposed change. The most in-sidious is the idea of putting a man on sec-ond base to begin extra innings.

“That’s crazy,” Jansen said. “I’m a reliev-er. I don’t want to come in with a guy on base.”

There are 20-second pitch clocks that are part of minor league culture, and they work. Batters could be forced to quit roaming around the box.

“But people loved to watch David Ortiz walk slowly up to the plate,” Van Slyke said. “You’re going to tell him he’s got to get up there in just a few seconds?”

The obvious cure is to call strikes. Call them like the rulebook says. Don’t shrink the bottom of the zone. Raise the top line and leave the bottom line where it’s sup-posed to be.

If you do that, walks will go down but so will strikeouts, because batters won’t be taking until they fall behind 0-2.

Dead time will recede. (Speaking of that, Grateful Dead fans don’t gripe about five-hour concerts).

And let’s forget this movement to limit the number of relievers, or establish a mini-mum of hitters they face. Major league man-agers have to win games any way they can. They’re not the ones who put 13 pitchers on a 25-man roster.

The games we all remember _ Game 7 of last year’s World Series, Game 6 of the 1986 Series, the 14-inning Dodgers-Giants game in September 2015, the four-homers-in-a-row game between L.A. and San Diego in 2006 _ all lasted beyond the desired expira-tion date.

They required major investment from player and fan. No one could run out the clock. You had to get the outs. People were persuaded to sit still.

There has to be room somewhere on earth for something like that.

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Dayton seniors Da-vis, Smith, Pollard, Cooke and Jeremiah Bonsu have won a program-record 101 wins.

MARQUETTE 95, XAVIER 84

CINCINNATI (AP) — Andrew Rowsey played at Xavier on Wednesday with a bandage over his left eye, covering a cut he received from a team-mate’s inadvertent el-bow in practice on Monday.

It didn’t bother him. Rowsey was 4 for 8 from the field, including 3 for 5 on 3-pointers, and 9 for 9 on free throws while scoring 20 points as the Golden Eagles so-lidified their hopes for a Big East Tourna-ment first-round bye with a 95-84 road win over the Musketeers.

Jajuan Johnson scored 19 points, Ka-tin Reinhardt added 17 and Markus How-ard finished with 15 as Marquette (18-11, 9-8) swept the two-game season series against Xavier and moved into a three-way tie with Seton Hall and Providence for fifth place in the Big East.

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For Friday, March 3, 2017ARIES

(March 21 to April 19)You might see new uses for something that you own today. Some of you will even see new ways to make money. Clever you! Ka-ching!

TAURUS(April 20 to May 20)

Take a realistic look in the mirror today, and ask yourself what you can do to improve your appearance. How can you create a better impression on your world?

GEMINI(May 21 to June 20)

Something powerful and secretive is present in your life today. If you are focused and aware, whatever it is might introduce improvements into your world.

CANCER(June 21 to July 22)

Today you will attract someone powerful to you. This might be a pleasant experience - or not. It’s possible that you are the powerful person in a relationship with someone else.

LEO(July 23 to Aug. 22)

Your relationships with bosses, parents and VIPs will be intense and direct today. However, the outcome will be that the relationship is superior. Once you put your cards on the table, people will know what you want.

VIRGO(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)

You might have a powerful discussion with someone about politics, religion or racial issues today. (It’s tough to keep your shirt on if you have to get something off your chest.)

LIBRA(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)

Today you might see a better way to deal with shared property or something that is jointly owned. You also might come to a better arrangement regarding an inheritance.

SCORPIO(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)

Discussions with partners and close friends will be emotional and strong today. People will show their feelings. Fortunately, things will be better after the dust settles.

SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)

Look for ways to introduce reforms and improvements to your job or where you work. Similarly, you might even see ways to improve your health.

CAPRICORN(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)

Romance will be passionate and intense today. In fact, you might feel obsessed with some-thing.

AQUARIUS(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)

Family discussions will be intense today. However, the main focus will be introducing improvements to where you live. Don’t get carried away. Avoid major theatrics.

PISCES(Feb. 19 to March 20)

You are so powerful and convincing today that you will be successful if you are in sales, marketing, teaching, acting or writing. No one will be able to resist your words of persuasion!

YOU BORN TODAY You are hard-working, with a strong sense of purpose, and sometimes you are shy. Friendships are important to you. You seek stability in your life. This year you will be both a student and a teacher. You will be excited as you start to see the fruits of your efforts for the past six years. Expect your well-earned rewards soon!

Birthdate of: Jessica Biel, actress; Julie Bowen, actress; Ronan Keating, singer.

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Your experience speaks to the power of perspectiveDEAR ANNIE: I have 38

years of experience in the health care industry. I love my job and co-workers. I’ve been at my present job for 11 years. “Good work ethics, depend-ability, loyalty and honesty” is my work mantra. My co-worker “Samantha” has been here for a little over two years. She is doing a great job. Our duties are comparable. I enjoy work-ing with her and care for her very much.

But she is a very close friend of my employer’s and of my office manager’s, and some time ago, I learned that she is making the same hourly wage as I am. Her past experience was teaching preschool.

Needless to say, it has been hurtful; I feel slighted, and it has rattled my work confidence. Over the past 10 years, I have turned down three job offers that would have paid me a high-er wage. My employer doesn’t know this or realize my loyalty to the office. Retirement is three or four years away for me, but in the meantime, I would like to be treated fairly, and I don’t know how to handle this situation. Could you please offer me a solution or some advice? -- Undervalued

DEAR UNDERVALUED: Your experience speaks to the power of perspective. You went from being extremely satisfied to feeling cheated, not because of any change in your job or the way your employer treated you

but because you gained knowl-edge about your co-worker’s salary. Still, I understand why you’re irritated.

If you haven’t gotten a raise in a while, now is the perfect time to request one. Highlight your dedication and work ethic to your manager just as you did in your letter. And if you don’t get the answer you’re looking for, make peace with the situa-tion. Get back to your mantra. Keep your eyes on the horizon and that promising rainbow that is retirement. You’re fortu-nate to have a job you love enough to turn down higher-paying offers. Not many people can say that.

DEAR ANNIE: So many people write to you about nega-tivities in their lives. I wanted to write to you about a positive.

On Valentine’s Day, my wife and I celebrated our 47th wed-ding anniversary.

In the mid-1960s, I lost a son; then in January 1969, I lost my first wife. I found myself single, living in a rural area with five children. I was over-whelmed.

In late 1969, I went on a blind date with my current wife. I told her I had five chil-dren, and she said, “So?” This was unlike the one or two other dates I had gone on before; those women would not even let me drive them home when I mentioned my five children.

I drove home saying to myself, “I’m going to marry that

woman!”I feel blessed that my mar-

riage has been full of love and respect. We made a vow to each other when we got married never to go to bed angry at each other. It was hard a few times, but we did it.

I am ready for another 47 years with her. I love her. -- Larry G.

DEAR LARRY: Thank you very much for sharing your story. Life handed you some pretty sour lemons, and you made sweet lemonade. I am so happy for you and your wife and am sure that your son and first wife are smiling down from heaven.

What I love most about your letter is your gratitude. Having an attitude of gratitude has been scientifically proved to have many health benefits. A study from the University of California, Berkeley found that people who practice gratitude have stronger immune systems, lower blood pressure, fewer aches and pains, and better nights’ sleep. Stay thankful.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@cre-ators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read fea-tures by other Creators Syndi-cate columnists and cartoon-ists, visit the Creators Syndi-cate website at www.creators.com.

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CRSI provides ser-vices for adults withdevelopment disabil-ities. We are cur-rently accepting ap-plications for part-time Home Health-care Aides in Min-ster, Wapakoneta,and St. Marys. Allpos i t ions requ i reh i g h s c h o o ldiploma/GED, validdriverʼs license withfewer than 6 pointsand an acceptablepolice record. We of-fer incentive pro-grams for currente m p l o y e e s . T oschedule an inter-view call Sue at 419-302-1381.

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MACHINIST Con-tinental has an im-mediate openingfor a qualified Ma-chinist located inSt . Marys, OH.The Machinist isresponsible for lay-out and fabrica-tion of parts, tools,jigs and fixtures.Reads and inter-prets blueprintsand sketches tomake requ i r edparts and compon-en ts . Per fo rmssetups and oper-a tes CNC ma-chines as well asmanual mills andlathes. Operatesdr i l l s , gr inders ,band saws andoverhead cranes.Must be able touse all types ofhand and powertools and supplyown set of tools ofthe trade. Com-pletes appropriatepaperwork andmach ine docu -mentation. Assistso the r ma in ten -ance team mem-bers in meetingdepar tment re -quirements whileserving as a re-source to produc-tion, engineeringand other plantpersonnel. Otherindividual mainten-ance craft know-ledge considered aplus. The success-ful candidate mustbe able to work in-dependently, withlittle supervisionand mainta in aclean, organizedand safe work en-vironment. 5-7 yrs.Exper ience re -quired. Journey-man's card pre-ferred. I f in ter-ested, please ap-p l y o n l i n e a t :http://www.contin-entaljobs.com/ ht-tp:/ /www.contin-ental jobs. com/

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