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The Brown County Press - Sunday, June 26, 2011 - Page 5
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Livestock liability legislation is signed into law State Representative Danny R. Bubp (R-West Union) attended Governor Kasich’s bill signing of House Bill 22, which revises laws regarding civil and criminal penalties levied against livestock owners. HB22 ensures that livestock owners whose animals are intentionally set free by an unauthorized person opening a gate or cutting a fence would not be held criminally liable for failing to keep their livestock from running at large. Previously, a livestock owner would have been charged criminally for circumstances beyond their control, regardless of how responsible the owner is. “House Bill 22 will clarify the duty of care for animal owners and yield a balanced approach to the problem of animals running at large,” Rep. Bubp said.According to House Bill 22, in cases where animals escape due to a storm or a neighborhood prank, the owner will not be criminally liable if proven that he or she acted in a reasonably prudent manner to prevent or rectify the escape. Alternatively, liability will be imposed if the animal owner or keeper fails to maintain barns, fences and gates or does not respond to the knowledge that the animals are at large. House Bill 22 had passed from the House in February with unanimous support. It was introduced at the request of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Pictured L-R: Erica Wilson- LA for Rep. Bubp, Rep. Danny Bubp, Governor John Kasich, Senator Cliff Hite (R-Findlay), Beth Vanderkooi- State Policy Director for the Ohio Farm Bureau, Alexandria Mock-LA for Senator Hite, Ruby Marcum- AA Senator Hite.
59 New Domestic Relations Cases Filed or Reopened: 63 Domestic Cases Completed: 36 Domestic Cases Pending: 200 For further information, contact Joni Dotson, Court Administrator, Brown County Common Pleas Court, 101 S. Main Street, Georgetown, Ohio 45121 (937) 378-3188.
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Should statistics seem Gov. Kasich signs pill shocking, stay skeptical mill Executive Order
ary tale to take statistics with a grain of salt. Whether it’s some new miracle cure, or the latest doom and gloom story. For instance in 2007 and 2008 there were 32 reported shark bites in Florida, but in 2009 there were only 19 according to the University of Florida. If there were 29 the next year some newspaper might report that shark attacks were up over 50 percent over last year, even though there were fewer attacks than in 2007 or 2008. Without any historical data those numbers might sound staggering. I sure don’t think everyone should run out and enroll in a statistics class before reading the newspaper; that would be silly. What you would want to remember is that if a company pays for a study, they usually wield the power to say whether the study is published or not. As Mark Twain liked to say, “there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” If you have a question you’d like me to address, stop in and see me at Pamida pharmacy, call me at 3786849, or send an email to PRXM093@Pamida.com.
NOTICE - PERRY TOWNSHIP The Perry Township Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public zoning hearing per the request of Mr. Joseph Johnson, 18013 St. Rt. 68, Fayetteville. Mr. Johnson is requesting a variance that would allow him to construct a pole barn that does not meet the setback guidelines as outlined by the Perry Township Zoning Resolution. The barn is replacing an old barn that was destroyed in a storm. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. at the Perry Township Community Building, Fayetteville, Ohio. All interested parties should attend. PERRY TOWNSHIP BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Ellen Molitor, Charles Bates, Terry Hardesty, Steve Parcell, Jeff Wolfer
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The Huntington Hotshots 4H Club is sponsoring a Baby Show, Little Mr., Miss and Jr. Miss Contest on Monday, July 4, 2011 at the Aberdeen Park. Registration will begin at 11 a.m. and the Baby Show will start at 12 p.m. followed by Little Mr., Miss and the Jr. Miss contests. Registration fee is $10.00. Classes for the baby Show are girls and boys, newborn to 6 months, 7 - 12 months, 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old. Little Mr. and Miss 5, 6, 7, and 8 years old and Jr. Miss 9, 10, 11, and 12 years old. For more information call (937) 549-2941 or (606) 7590421.
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mills.” The Executive Order follows a request by the State Medical Board of Ohio for an emergency determination. House Bill 93 (Burke, Johnson) authorized the State Medical Board of Ohio to promulgate rules establishing standards and procedures for the operation of pain management clinics, the physicians providing care and the owners who supervise and direct clinic personnel.
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On Monday, June 20,Gov. John R. Kasich signed an Executive Order authorizing the State Medical Board of Ohio to establish standards and procedures for pain management clinics in Ohio in order to help fight prescription drug abuse by preventing clinics from operating as “pill
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“Cell Phone Towers Cause Pregnancy” Well not really but that was the headline a radio show in Britain was hoping for last December when they released the results of a recent study. They would then use the absurd headline to promote the program. The radio show called “More or Less” examined the number of cell phone towers in each county in the United Kingdom, then compared it to the number of live births for each county. They found that for each additional cell phone tower there were 17.6 more babies born above the national average. The correlation between the two was very strong (for those of you with statistics background the P value was 0.00003). It seems fairly obvious that cell towers don’t cause people to become pregnant, so what was the idea behind this study? The show “More or Less” is about numbers and statistics and they were trying to show the difference between cause and correlation. In this particular case there is a strong correlation between cell towers and live births because they are both related to population density. The more people that live in an area the more cell towers they will need and more people leads to more births. Now in this case the fallibility of the cause and effect is pretty obvious, but that’s not always the case. This was presented as a caution-
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Brown County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott T. Gusweiler reported on the following actions undertaken by the Court for the month of May 2011: New Civil Cases Filed or Reopened: 79 Civil Cases Completed: 103 Civil Cases Pending: 280 New Felony Criminal Cases Filed:14 Criminal Cases Completed: 32 Criminal Cases Pending: