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Region’s opioid crisis requires a comprehensive response, and the help of state and federal authorities

Can we kick this?

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he drugs known as opioids possess merciful, mind-altering powers to block the pain of flesh laid open by a surgeon’s scalpel or a tumor consuming a cancer patient’s frame. But the relief conveyed by an opioid can reach beyond physical pain to suffuse the mind with a euphoria that proves ruthlessly irresistible to some.

It delivers a sense of well-being users are compelled to seek again and again, until finally, feelings of joy are no longer available without the drug. It becomes more important than anything else. Even family. Even life.

Those ensnared by addiction and their loved ones suffer the most agonizing consequences of Erie County’s and the nation’s opioid crisis. In a special report produced

by Erie Times-News staff and found within these pages, Lisa Gensheimer describes ibes the night state police troopers camee to her North East home in the early morning orning hours of Valentine’s Day to tell her that her 35-year-old son, Jon Miller, an art teacher eacher and musician, had died of an overdose, ose, despite his repeated stints in treatment. ment.

“I just started screaming,” she said. id.

Hers is a unique, terrible pain inflicted icted on families at an ever-increasing rate. te.

As of Aug. 29, 98 Erie County residents ents

died of accidental drug overdoses in 2017, surpassing the 95 who accidentally overdosed in all of 2016, as our special report details. Opioids, which can make a person stop breathing, caused most of the deaths, according to the Erie County Coroner’s Office. The narcotic drugs include heroin, a natural derivative of the opium poppy, and potent man-made varieties, such as fentanyl and oxycodone.

Nationwide, drug overdoses are the leading cause of death of people under 50, claiming 142 lives a day, more than those lost to car accidents and gun killings combined. In Pennsylvania, more than 4,600 people died in 2016, about a 30 percent increase from the year before. And the tally is climbing, especially as lethally

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Warner project delayed, again Uncertain state budget bumps theater’s renovations another year

By Kevin Flowers kevin.flowers@timesnews.com

The Warner Theatre’s long-planned multimilliondollar renovation is delayed once again — this time because of an unsettled state budget — and as a result Erie Events has scrapped plans to close the historic downtown theater in April 2018 as part of the project’s final phase.

Officials from the state Department of General Services have told Casey Wells, Erie Events’ executive director, that an $11 million state grant to expand the Warner will not be released until a new state budget is in place.

Almost three months into a fiscal year that began July 1, state lawmakers continue to debate how best to balance the state budget and deal with a roughly $2.2 billion deficit.

DGS manages nonhighway projects involving state money. The 86-year-old theater is state-owned, but managed by Erie Events.

Wells said that Erie Events had tentatively scheduled to close the Warner, 811 State St., on April 15, 2018, and reopen Oct. 29, 2018 to allow renovation work to be finished.

However, Wells said, “given the delay in the state budget, which will delay remobilization of the final phase of the Warner Theatre See WARNER, A8

See our 10-page special report on the opioid crisis in Erie.

Coming Tuesday Join us online for a Facebook Live event at 2 p.m. Tuesday, which will include Erie County President Judge John J. Trucilla and reporters Madeleine O’Neill and Ed Palattella.

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Good government takes beating (again)

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miss adults. You know, the kind who wouldn’t take their ball and go home for weeks, leaving pressing matters unresolved and unattended.

Weeks past their June 30 constitutional deadline for approving a state budget — an entire budget, not just the easy parts — members of the state House of Representatives did what comes naturally in Harrisburg.

They ditched those tiresome responsibilities in favor of an extended summer break.

Have to take advantage of the nice weather, right? Summer’s fleeting in Pennsylvania.

House members finally deigned to go back to work last week. Or to be more precise, the small cabal of legislative leaders who really call the shots deigned to summon them.

Awaiting was the small matter of finding $2.2 billion to cover the deficit the Legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf left in the 2016-17 budget and the $700 million in new 2017-18 spending all involved agreed to on June 30. Of figuring out how to pay for it all, in other words.

The GOP-dominated Senate passed a revenue plan in late July. Wolf and the House Democratic minority also are on board.

It’s not a pretty piece of work, with its reliance on one-time revenue and regressive consumer taxes. Still, it would at least pay the bills in a

Pat Howard (mostly) sustainable way.

But taxes of any kind don’t sit well with the right-most reaches of the House GOP caucus. So when that chamber passed its version last week, it went in a different direction.

The House version would break even by replacing the Senate’s tax increases with $630 million in onetime transfers from various special funds dedicated to things like transit and environmental protections. It would balance the books, that is, in a way that would all but guarantee another round of budget bingo next summer.

That’s because the spending portion of the budget, already in effect, authorizes hundreds of millions of dollars in new expenditures. The House GOP plan includes little recurring revenue, and most of that is theoretical at this point.

PennLive.com reported that the House version projects nearly $200 million from an unspecified expansion of legalized gambling.

Remember that part of what produced this pickle is that the 2016-17 budget was balanced in part with a $150 million gambling expansion

that never happened.

Some pols and pundits reliably retreat to the ideological trenches, charging that Harrisburg has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Perhaps, but that’s beside the point at this juncture.

Lawmakers and the governor have already agreed on how much to spend and what to spend it on.

It’s a math problem now.

Governing responsibly requires covering those outlays in credible and sustainable ways. Anything else is grandstanding. Argue about spending again next year.

Of course, it’s not lost on anyone that next year will bring a gubernatorial election. Sealing this budget hole with duct tape and paper clips would guarantee another yawning deficit as Wolf stands for re-election.

Meanwhile, the state has been operating in a manner akin to a household that covers its living expenses with plastic and scratches along by paying the minimum each month.

But now even the credit card has been revoked.

The House’s counteroffer came as the state faced the imminent prospect of going broke for the first time in its history, and state Treasurer Joe Torsella said he wasn’t inclined to enable further intransigence with more short-term borrowing. Also looming is another downgrade of Pennsylvania’s shaky

credit rating — you know, the one that tells lenders when borrowers can’t be trusted — which would boost the state’s costs.

The House action came also as a right-leaning lobbyist, a Republican state representative and a businessman filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court arguing that Wolf, the Legislature and other officials having been violating the state Constitution by approving spending backed by revenue that hasn’t materialized — or never will.

One of the defendants, state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, told an Allentown television station that the plaintiffs have a case.

In the days leading up to the House vote, the chamber’s parliamentarian issued a memo reminding male members that they must wear a coat and tie on the House floor. The dress code projects “a sense of professionalism that impacts performance,” Allegheny County state Rep. Rick Saccone wrote in an email obtained by the Associated Press.

If that’s the case, might I suggest tuxedos, or even top hats and tails?

Clearly the coats and ties aren’t getting it done.

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CORRECTION Seneca High School’s Joey Trayer was misidentified in Saturday’s edition. He scored on a 65-yard reception in the Bobcats’ 34-28 win over Iroquois on Friday.

THE LOOK BACK Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 17, 1967, The Doors appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on CBS-TV for the first — and last — time. The group was banned from the program after Jim Morrison ignored a producer’s request to change the line, “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” to “Girl, we couldn’t get much better” while singing “Light My Fire” during the live broadcast.

On this date: In 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

Sept. 17, 1947: A hurricane “slammed against 200 miles of Florida’s east coast resort area today as mounting winds reached a steady strength of 110 mph from Miami to Titusville,” the Erie Daily Times reported. Fort Lauderdale was particularly hard hit. Residents who hadn’t evacuated in a “bumper to bumper highway cavalcade and by special trains and buses” huddled together in shelters, including county courthouses. The storm, at one point a Category 5, killed at least 51 people in the Bahamas, Florida, New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf Coast.

President Abraham Lincoln’s head was dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault.

In 1947, James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.

In 1957, two male attorneys “stood in” as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti were married by proxy in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

(Legal issues later forced an annulment; the couple wed in Sevres, France, in 1966.)

In 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland.

In 1971, citing health reasons, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, 85, retired. (Black, who was succeeded by Lewis F. Powell Jr., died eight days after making his announcement.)

In 1937, the likeness of

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Investigators probe Cuba mystery ‘Health attacks’ on US diplomats bewilder experts, getting close scrutiny

By Josh Lederman and Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — There must be an answer.

Whatever is harming U.S.diplomatsinHavana, it’s eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence analysts scouring for answers. Investigators have chased many theories, including a sonic attack, electromagnetic weapon or flawed spying device.

Each explanation seems to fit parts of what’s happened, conflicting with others.

The United States doesn’t even know what tocallit.SecretaryofState Rex Tillerson used the phrase “health attacks.”

The State Department prefers “incidents.”

Either way, suspicion has fallen on Cuba. But investigators also are examining whether a rogue faction of its security services, another country such as Russia, or some combination is to blame, more than a dozen U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

Those officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. The AP also talked to scientists, physicians, acoustics and weapons experts, and others about the theories being pursued.

Perhaps the biggest

A U.S. flag flies Aug. 14, 2015, at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. U.S. investigators are chasing many theories about what’s harming American diplomats in Cuba, including a sonic attack, electromagnetic weapon or flawed spying device. [DESMOND BOYLAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO]

mystery is why the symptoms, sounds and sensations vary so dramatically from person to person.

Of the 21 medically confirmed U.S. victims, some have permanent hearing loss or concussions, while others suffered nausea, headaches and ear-ringing. Some are struggling with concentration or common word recall, the AP has reported. Some felt vibrations or heard loud sounds mysteriously audible in only parts of rooms , and others heard nothing.

“These are very nonspecific symptoms.

That’s why it’s difficult to tell what’s going on,” said Dr. H. Jeffrey Kim, a specialist on ear disorders at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital who isn’t involved with the investigation.

To solve the puzzle, investigators are sorting symptoms into categories, such as auditory and

neurological, according to individuals briefed on the probe.

Therecanbealagbefore victims discover or report symptoms, some of which are hard to diagnose. So investigators are charting the timeline of reported incidents to identify “clusters” to help solve the when, where and how of the Havana whodunit.

While Cuba has been surprisingly cooperative , even inviting the FBI to fly down to Havana, it’s not the same as an investigation with the U.S. government in full control.

“You’re on foreign soil,” said David Rubincam, a former FBI agent who served in Moscow.

“The quality of the information and evidence you collect is limited to what the host government will allow you to see and hear and touch and do.”

Especially when you don’t even know what you’re looking for.

The first signs pointed to a sonic attack. But what kind?

Some victims heard things — signs that the sounds were in the audible spectrum. Loud noise can harm hearing, especially high-decibel sounds that can trigger ear-ringing tinnitus, ruptured ear drums, even permanent hearing loss.

But others heard nothing, and still became ill. So investigators considered inaudible sound: infrasound,toolowforhumans to hear, and ultrasound, too high.

Infrasound often is experienced as vibration, like standing near a subwoofer. Some victims reported feeling vibrations.

And it’s not impossible that infrasound could explain some of what diplomats thought they heard.

Though infrasound is usually inaudible, some people can detect it if the waves are powerful enough. For example, individuals living near infrasound-generating wind turbines have described pulsating hums that have left them dizzy, nauseous or with interrupted sleep. Such effects have prompted fierce scientific debate.

The balance problems reported in Havana?

Possibly explained by infrasound, which may stimulate cells in the ear’s vestibular system that controls balance, scientists say.

But there’s little evidence infrasound can causelastingdamageonce the sound stops.

And the pinpointed focus of the sound, reported by some? Infrasound waves travel everywhere, making them difficult to aim with precision.

“There’s no efficient way to focus infrasound to make it into a usable weapon,” said Mario Svirsky, an expert on ear disorders and neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine.

Ifnotinfrasound,maybe ultrasound?

Athigh-intensity,ultrasound can damage human tissue.That’swhydoctors use it to destroy uterine fibroidsandsometumors.

But ultrasound damage

requires close contact between the device and the body. “You cannot senseultrasoundfromlong distances,” Svirsky said.

No victim said they saw a weirdcontraptionnearby.

None of these sound waves seems to explain the concussions. Usually, those follow a blow to the head or proximity to something like a bomb blast.

“I know of no acoustic effect or device that could produce traumatic brain injury or concussion-like symptoms,” said Juergen Altmann, an acoustic weapons expert and physicist at Germany’s Technische Universitaet Dortmund.

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NATION&WORLD US coastal growth continues despite lessons of past storms

By Jeff Donn The Associated Press

Rising sea levels and fierce storms have failed to stop relentless population growth along U.S. coasts in recent years, a new Associated Press analysis shows. The latest punishing hurricanes scored bull’s-eyes on two of the country’s fastest growing regions: coastal Texas around Houston and resort areas of southwest Florida.

Nothing seems to curb America’s appetite for life near the sea, especially in the warmer climates of the South. Coastal development destroys natural barriers such as islands and wetlands, promotes erosion and flooding, and positions more buildings and people in the path of future destruction, according to researchers and policy advisers who study hurricanes.

“History gives us a lesson, but we don’t always learn from it,” said Graham Tobin, a disaster researcher at the University of South Florida in Tampa. That city took a glancing hit from Hurricane Irma — one of the most intense U.S. hurricanes in years — but suffered less flooding and damage than some other parts of the state.

In 2005, coastal communities took heed of more than 1,800 deaths and $108

UK makes ‘significant’ arrest but attack seen imminent

By Gregory Katz The Associated Press

Debris surrounds a destroyed structure Wednesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Big Pine Key, Fla. [ALAN DIAZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

billion in damages from Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. Images of New Orleans under water elicited solemn resolutions that such a thing should never happen again — until Superstorm Sandy inundated lower Manhattan in 2012. Last year, Hurricane Matthew spread more deaths, flooding and blackouts across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. From 2010-2016, major hurricanes and tropical storms are blamed for more than 280 deaths and $100 billion in damages,

according to data from the federal National Centers for Environmental Information.

Harvey, another historically big hurricane, flooded sections of Houston in recent weeks. Four counties around Houston, where growth has been buoyed by the oil business, took the full force of the storm. The population of those counties expanded by 12 percent from 2010 to 2016, to a total of 5.3 million people, the AP analysis shows.

During the same years, two of Florida’s fastestgrowing coastline counties

— retirement-friendly Lee and Manatee, both south of Tampa — welcomed 16 percent more people. That area took a second direct hit from Irma after it made first landfall in the Florida Keys, where damage was far more devastating.

Overall growth of 10 percent in Texas Gulf counties and 9 percent along Florida’s coasts during the same period was surpassed only

by South Carolina. Its seaside population, led by the Myrtle Beach area of Horry County, ballooned by more than 13 percent.

LONDON — British police made an apparent breakthrough Saturday in the race-against-time subway bombing investigation with what they called a “very significant” arrest, but the country remained on a “critical” alert, meaning that another attack is judged imminent.

Police arrested an 18-yearold man in the port of Dover — the main ferry link to France — and then launched a massive armed search in the southwestern London suburb of Sunbury in which they evacuated residents, established a huge cordon and imposed a no-fly zone above the property being searched.

Police did not say that they had nabbed the man believed to have planted the bomb that partially exploded on a crowdedLondonsubwaytrain Friday morning, but Home Secretary Amber Rudd and others said the arrest was of major importance.

The man is being held under the Terrorism Act and has been brought to London for questioning. His identity is a closely guarded secret and police have implored the press not to speculate while the inquiry unfolds.

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Rohingya Muslim children follow a truck carrying people throwing chocolates at them near Mushani refugee camp in Bangladesh on Saturday. United Nations agencies say an estimated 409,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar’s military to launch “clearance operations” in Rakhine state. Those fleeing have described indiscriminate attacks by security forces and Buddhist mobs. [DAR YASIN/THE

Pro independence supporters wave “estelada,” or pro independence flags, with Basque flags, or “Ikurrina,” during a rally in support for the secession of the Catalonia region from Spain on Saturday. Last week, Spain’s constitutional court decided to suspend an independence referendum that Catalan leaders had penciled in for Oct. 1 while judges decide if it is unconstitutional. [ALVARO BARRIENTOS/THE ASSOCIATED

Father Tom Uzhunnalil wipes tears from his eyes Saturday in Rome after a moment of commotion during a press conference on his recent rescue from Yemeni militants. Uzhunnalil had worked for more than four years as a chaplain at the home in Aden in southern Yemen established by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity and was abducted by militants in March 2016 when they attacked the home, killing 16 people, including four nuns. [ANDREW

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Authorities say one of two inmates who escaped by overpowering guards in northwest Oklahoma and stealing a prison transport van has been arrested in Pennsylvania.

The Major County, Oklahoma, sheriff’s office said on its Facebook page that 32-year-old Andrew Foy was arrested Friday.

Details of the arrest and where it took place were not released and the sheriff did not return a phone call for additional information.

Authorities say Foy and 37-year-old Darren Walp escapedAug.22nearFairview, Oklahoma. The Facebook post says Walp remains at large.

The van was later found abandoned and the men were last seen driving a stolen tractor-trailer rig in the Tulsa suburb of Sapulpa.

At least 36 Burundian refugeeshavebeenkilledinclashes withCongolesesecurityforces whoallegedlyfiredindiscriminately at protesters, the U.N. envoytoCongosaidSaturday.

Maman Sidikou said he was “deeply shocked” at the violence.Another117peoplewere wounded and one Congolese officer was killed, he said in a statement. Thirty-nine gravely wounded Burundian refugees were evacuated by helicopter to the city of Bukavu, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo said.

Friday’s clashes erupted in Kamanyola in Congo’s South Kivu province when Burundian refugees and asylum-seekers protested the expulsion of four of their countrymen from Congo, Sidikou said, citing “credible reports” received by the peacekeeping mission.

Chicago police say four people were shot and killed while sitting in a car, including a woman who investigators believe was pregnant.

Police say the attack happened Friday night on the city’s southwest side when one or more people in an SUV opened fire on the car.

The victims were dead when officers arrived at the scene. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified them as 21-yearold Michelle A. Cano, 24-year-old Joel Sandoval, 27-year-old Miguel Sandoval and Ida Arvizu, whose age was not immediately known.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says investigators believe a woman was pregnant, but they won’t know for sure until an autopsy was conducted.

Thousands of Houston firefighters were told to stay home at the height of Harvey’s flooding even as calls for help overwhelmed 911 dispatchers, the president of the city’s firefighters union said Friday.

In an interview with Houston television station KHOU , Marty Lancton said that the fire department could have done more during the storm.

“I don’t want to hear about lack of resources,” Lancton said. “Emergencies are something you prepare for.

You don’t have the answers, but you prepare. In this case, they weren’t prepared.”

On Sunday, Aug. 27, as fast-rushing water chased people onto their rooftops, about 3,000 firefighters were instructed not to report to work, according to Lancton, an agonizing order for many eager to assist with rescues.

Authorities say an Indiana man who robbed a gas station made off with food, drinks and cigarettes. What he didn’t steal was gas.

The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports that a state trooper arrested 33-year-old Sean Harris on Wednesday after finding him stranded by the side of a two-lane highway with his vehicle out of fuel.

Police say the South Bendarea man’s blood alcohol level was above the legal limit.

Authorities say Harris was arrested not long after he entered the Lacrosse gas station, implied he had a gun and took the items. Records show Harris is being held in LaPorte County jail. He made a preliminary appearance Friday in LaPorte County Circuit Court on a felony robbery charge.

Inmate who escaped is caught in Pennsylvania

UN: 36 Burundi refugees killed in clashes with Congo forces

Pregnant woman believed to be among four slain in attack

Union: Thousands of firefighters didn’t work during Harvey

Gas station robbery suspect’s getaway car runs out of fuel

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Questions of gun planting, outburst key in officer’s verdict

By Roxana Hegeman The Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. — A judge’s decision to acquit an officer of murder in the death of a black suspect came down to two major questions: Did the officer plant a gun, and did his outburst about killing the man seconds before the shooting signal premeditation?

St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson determined Friday that prosecutorsfailedtoprove beyondareasonabledoubt that Jason Stockley’s use of deadly force was not justifiable self-defense.

Anthony Lamar Smith was killed in the 2011 encounter.

“Ultimately when people argue about this case, they are going to be arguing whether the judge drew the right conclusion from the evidence and probably less about the law,” said Ben Trachtenberg, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri.

Here’s a look at how the judge parsed those arguments in his ruling : Did the officer plant the gun?

Theofficerswereinvestigating what appeared to be a drug transaction in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. The car sped away and a highspeed chase ensued.

Police slammed their SUV into Smith’s car. Stockley then got out and fired five shotsintoSmith’scar,killing him. A handgun was found in the car after the shooting.

Prosecutors argued the presence of Stockley’s

Police line up as protesters gather Friday in St. Louis after a judge found a white former St. Louis police officer, Jason Stockley, not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase in 2011.

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DNA — and absence of Smith’sDNA—onthegun proved the gun must have beenplantedbytheofficer.

They also noted curious details after the shooting, includingStockleydigging into a bag in the back seat of the police SUV before returning to Smith’s car.

But the defense countered that Stockley heard his partner yell “gun” and saw the driver’s hand on a gun as the car sped by him. Stockley testified he did not draw his service weapon and fire until he saw Smith reaching around inside the vehicle after it was stopped. He said Smith changed his demeanor, suggesting he found the gun.

Stockley testified that aftertheshootinghefound the gun tucked down between the seat and the center console, and he rendered the gun safe by unloading cartridges from the cylinder and then left the gun and cartridges on the passenger seat.

In his ruling, Wilson wrote that “a fact issue that is central” to the case is whether Smith had the gun when he was shot. He found the state’s

contentionthattheofficer plantedthegunisnotsupported by evidence.

As for Stockley digging around in a bag in the police SUV, Stockley testified that he retrieved

a “quick clot” pack, a medical item designed to stop serious bleeding, and put it in his shirt pocket.

In the police video showing Stockley looking in the bag, a viewer can’t see whathe’sdoingorwhathe mighthavetakenoutofthe bag.

Thejudgefoundtheidea that Stockley took a gun from the police SUV to Smith’s car not credible.

A full-sized revolver was too large for the officer to hide in his pants pockets and he was not wearing a jacket, the judge said. If the gun had been tucked into his belt, it would have been visible on a bystander’s video that showed Stockley walking between the police car and Smith’s car, he found.

Did the officer’s outburst indicate premeditation?

Smith drove at speeds of up to 87 miles per hour onwetroads,endangering other drivers and pedestrians. About 45 seconds before the chase ended, police dashcam video captured Stockley saying, “going to kill this (expletive), don’t you know it.”

Prosecutors argued that statement proved the officer deliberated about killing Smith even before the pursuit ended.

Whenquestionedabout his statement at trial, Stockley said he could not remember saying those words. The ruling noted Stockley testified he had not made a decision to kill Smith and could not recall the context in which the statement was made. The judge said in his decision that it was apparent from the dashcam audio and video that the pursuit was stressful, both because of itshighspeedandtheconfusion caused by multiple radios and communications with the dispatcher.

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potent painkillers like fentanyl and the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil, produced in foreign clandestine labs, have made their way into the illegal drug trade.

The loss of human potential alone is reason to act.

Beyond inflicting heartbreak, the opioid epidemic tests every stitch of our social fabric and demands an equally comprehensive response. Those with substance use disorders often breach family ties, personal responsibilities, even the law, to feed an addiction. As one recovering addict from Millcreek Township recalled, pain pills gave her energy and relief. “I also turned into a terrible person,” she said.

Volunteers at local hospitals comfort newborn infants of drug-addicted mothers.

At the Erie County Courthouse, Office of Children and Youth workers have had to petition judges to remove dozens of children from their families because opioid abuse impaired their ability to care for them.

Police officers work at the chaotic crossroads of the forces fueling this epidemic.

They respond to overdoses, often reviving victims with blasts of the overdose reversal drug naloxone, and probe drug trafficking, while also steering users to treatment and educating the public.

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fund their addictions and And yet, the death also with those who seek toll climbs. to profit from the deathThis epidemic promises dealing drug trade. only to deal more misErie County leaders conery and waste without a fronted the scourge early more vigorous response on and forcefully. The Erie every level and from every County Department of angle, based on the premise Human Services created that addiction is an illthe Heroin Overdose Comness that also fuels crime. munity Awareness Task A National Heroin Task Force in 2014. Starting in Force convened by President 2015, Erie County Sheriff Barack Obama and Congress John Loomis and concluded in District Attor2015 that subney Jack Daneri This epidemic stance use disworked with promises only order is a brain Saint Vincent to deal more disease that can Hospital and misery and be effectively UPMC Hamot waste without a treated, and that to equip local more vigorous solutions require police and other response on close coopfirst respondevery level and eration between ers with naloxfrom every public health one. Hundreds angle, based on and law enforceof overdose the premise that ment officials. victims have addiction is an President been revived illness that also Donald Trump as a result. fuels crime. must heed the David Sanner, recommendathe director of tions of his the county’s Office of Drug own opioid commission, & Alcohol Abuse, helped which reaffirmed many of local hospitals create “warm these earlier findings, and handoff” programs. Local formally declare a national drug treatment staff are on emergency. That could hand at the hospital to steer free up federal funding and overdose victims from the would identify the crisis as emergency room to treata true national priority. He ment resources, immediately must work with Congress in some cases. In the first half and other parties, includof 2017, the programs coning the insurance indusnected 88 overdose patients try, to increase treatment with treatment. Erie County capacity immediately. is home to several treatOnly 10 percent of the ment resources, including nearly 21 million Amerithe Esper Treatment Center, cans who have a subwhich has been recognized stance use disorder are in by the state for providing treatment.Those on the cutting-edge, comprehenfront lines in Erie County sive care, includingmedireport that those in need cation-assisted treatment. of treatment sometimes

experience waits of weeks or months, time that could mean life or death.

Trump’s commission concluded the opioid crisis began in the nation’s health care system via the overprescribing of opioid pain medications. Solutions to end it must be sought there.

Researchers say 80 percent of heroin users report their habit began with prescription painkillers. Government funding and policy must support scientific research into less addictive alternatives and also, in light of the successes seen with medication-assisted treatments such as methadone, seek to formulate more and better addiction remedies. Health care reform efforts must strive to improve access to treatment, not restrict it.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf worked with the Republican-controlled Legislature to pass a raft of important bipartisan measures in 2016 that helped restrict and monitor pain medication prescriptions and mandate training for providers. Those bipartisan efforts must not cease.

Law enforcement must find ways to shut down the illegal trade of those drugs, especially fentanyl and carfentanil, drugs so powerful that overdose reversal efforts fail. Trump’s commission called for funding and manpower to intercept these dangerous opioids being shipped through the mail from China. Start there.

A recent University of Pittsburgh report about western Pennsylvania’s

opioid epidemic strategy, produced with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, urged officials on the local level to gather data from coroners, health care providers, insurers and more to help create a “big picture view of the current problem” and enable more effective strategies to address it.

Erie County leaders are deploying the sound, research-based strategies to save lives. They must continue to pursue data-driven solutions, but also make that work more transparent through a high-profile, visible point of reference for the community. Report both the efforts being made and the outcomes. We will know we are winning when the death rate falls and more treatment beds open. The Erie County Heroin Overdose Awareness Task Force seems well-suited to the task.

Erie County, New York, might offer a helpful model.

Its Opiate Task Force posts reports online about every dimension of the community’s campaign against the crisis, from medical training and community education efforts to detailed data on the specific drugs involved in overdose deaths and where they are clustered.

Clearly, this crisis, so widespread and complicated, won’t end without sound policy, legislation and increased funding from state and federal sources.

But neither can this effort be successful without the community’s understanding, support and participation in the fight.

The unsettled state budget is creating another delay for the final, $14.5 million phase of the Warner Theater’s renovation. [FILE PHOTO/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

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project, I’ve begun booking events into the theater for the summer of 2018. We had hoped we’d be able to close the theater then for work on the project.

“Tentatively, now we’re looking at a closure in the summer of 2019,” Wells said, with the project being finished sometime that fall.

Starting with Gov. Tom Ridge in 1996, governors and the Legislature have approved the $11 million grant, and the money is earmarked for the Warner project.

However, a series of delays over the years has stalled the

project, including a complicated property acquisition that took roughly five years to complete and was not finalized until December 2016.

Elizabeth D’Aurora, Erie Events’ coordinator of communications, has said the renovations will create 13,750 square feet of new space; rehabilitate 9,000 square feet of existing space; increase the stage’s depth by 20 feet.

It will also add new rigging, an updated sound system, new loading docks, additional production equipment and a customized orchestral shell.

Wells said the latest setback is “frustrating” regarding the Warner, which opened April 10, 1931, and is on the National Register of

Historic Places.

“We’re in a holding pattern,” Wells said. “This has been very frustrating for the past 15 years. But we know what’s holding it up. The state has to pass a budget at some point.

“And once they do,” Wells said, “We can move forward. The best things are worth waiting for.”

DGS officials could not be reached for comment.

Wells and other Erie Events officials have said the upgrades will allow the theater to accommodate larger shows. The $11 million in state funding, combined with $3.5 million in private donations in escrow with the Warner Theatre Preservation Trust, will fund the project.

State Rep. Pat Harkins

of Erie, D-1st Dist., said the Warner delay underscores why legislators need to resolve the state budget soon.

“Everything state related has been in a holding pattern since early July, from hiring for necessary positions to funding for higher education,” Harkins said. “This is so senseless and non-productive. In the end, no one gains anything by drawing something like this on and on.”

Harkins made reference to the 2015-16 budget impasse, which dragged on for eight months.

“I thought we all learned a valuable lesson two years ago with the long, drawn-out budget battle and the innocent people who were hurt, but I’m

quickly realizing some of my colleagues didn’t learn anything from that,” Harkins said.

Previous state money, totaling $3 million, funded two earlier phases of Warner Theatre upgrades that included new seats, a new roof and interior decorative painting.

An additional $2.5 million phase, combining tax dollars and private donations, paid for an expansion that was completed in 2007 that included additional restrooms, concession areas, and a new entrance and electronic marquee off French Street.

Kevin Flowers can be reached at 870-1693 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNflowers.

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UN leaders face crises in North Korea, Myanmar

By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Facing an escalating nuclear threat from North Korea and the mass flight of minority Muslims from Myanmar, world leaders gather at the United Nations starting Monday to tackle these and other tough challenges — from the spread of terrorism to a warming planet.

The spotlight will be on U.S. President Donald Trump and France’s new leader, Emmanuel Macron, who will both be making their first appearance at the General Assembly. They will be joined by more than 100 heads of state and government, including Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders who is said to be bringing a 70-member entourage.

While Trump’s speeches and meetings will be closely followed, it will be North Korea, which Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls “the most dangerous crisis that we face today,” that will be most carefully watched. No official event addressing Pyongyang’s relentless campaign to develop nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States is on the U.N. agenda, but it is expected to be the No. 1 issue for most leaders.

Not far behind will be the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, victims of what Guterres calls a campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven nearly 400,000 to flee to Bangladesh in the past three weeks.

The Security Council, in its first statement on Myanmar in nine years, condemned the violence and called for immediate steps to end it. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is hosting a closed meeting on the crisis Monday, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s contact group on the Rohingyas is scheduled to meet Tuesday.

Guterres said leaders would also be focusing on a third major threat — climate change.

The number of natural disasters has nearly quadrupled and he pointed to unprecedented

weather events in recent weeks from Texas, Florida and the Caribbean to Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sierra Leone.

While Trump has announced that the United States will pull out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, Macron will be hosting a meeting Tuesday to spur its implementation.

And a late addition to the hundreds of official meetings and side events during the ministerial week is a high-level session Monday on the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.

Several terrorismrelated events are on the agenda. Macron is holding a meeting Monday with leaders of five African nations — Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad — that are putting together a 5,000-strong force to fight the growing threat from extremists in the vast Sahel region.

A side event Wednesday on “Preventing Terrorist Use of the Internet” will be attended by senior representatives of major social media companies.

Co-hosts Britain, France and Italy said a global response is needed “to make the online space a hostile environment for terrorists.”

Trump has accused Iran of supporting terrorists and is threatening to rip up the 2015 deal to rein in its nuclear program. With a U.S. decision due in October, ministers from the six parties to the agreement are expected to meet next week. The five others strongly support the deal.

Trump has also been critical of the United Nations and has promised to cut the U.S. contribution to its budget, which is the largest. So some diplomats were surprised that the United States would sponsor an event Monday on reforming the 193-member world body.

Trump and Guterres will speak, and the United States has asked all countries to sign a declaration on U.N. reforms. Over 100 have added their names, but Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Friday that “we are not sure we will sign this

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference March 8 at the UN in Nairobi, Kenya.

Guterres has invited world leaders to a special event Monday on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse — an issue that has left a black mark on the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations and persists despite U.N. vows to combat the scourge. [KHALIL SENOSI/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTOS]

declaration.”

He said that while “lots of ideas contained in this document are important and look similar to what the secretary-general proposes,” U.N. reforms should result from negotiations among all countries instead of from “a declaration of likeminded countries.”

The Security Council is holding a high-level meeting Wednesday on U.N. peacekeeping operations, which cost nearly $8 billion a year. The United States, which pays over 28 percent of the peacekeeping budget, is reviewing all the missions in an effort to cut costs and make them more effective.

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Tax cuts quiet once-noisy GOP call for fiscal discipline

By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republicans spooked world markets in their ardor to cut spending when Democrat Barack Obama was in the White House. Now, with Republican President Donald Trump pressing for politically popular tax cuts and billions more for the military, few in the GOP are complaining about the nation’s soaring debt.

The tea partyers and other conservatives who seized control of the House in 2010 have morphed into Ronald Reagan-style supplysiders while the GOP’s numerous Pentagon pals run roughshod over the few holdouts. Tax cuts in the works could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the debt while bipartisan pressure for more money for defense, infrastructure and domestic agencies could mean almost $100 billion in additional spending next year alone.

The bottom line: The $20 trillion national debt promises to spiral ever higher with Republicans controlling both Congress and the White House.

“Republicans gave up on caring about deficits long ago,” bemoaned Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who was elected in the 2010 tea party class.

It’s a far cry from the Newt Gingrich-led GOP revolution that stormed Washington two decades ago with a mandate to balance the budget and cut taxes at the same time. Or even from Republicans of 2001, who enthusiastically cut taxes under President George W. Bush, but only at a moment when the government was flush with money.

Now, deficits are back with a vengeance. Medicare and Social Security are drawing closer to insolvency. Fiscal hawks and watchdogs like the Congressional Budget Office warn that the debt is eventually going to

drag the economy down.

But like Obama and Bush before him, Trump isn’t talking about deficits. Neither much are voters.

“Voters, frankly, after these huge deficits, are saying, ‘Well, how much do deficits really matter?’” said former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., a two-time presidential candidate.

“We’re not Greece yet, right?”

Topping the immediate agenda, however, is a debt-financed drive to overhaul the tax system.

Top Capitol Hill Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had promised for months that a tax overhaul would not add to the deficit, with rate cuts financed by closing loopholes and other steps.

Instead, Republicans are talking about tax cuts whose costs to the debt — still under negotiation — would be justified by

assumptions of greater economic growth.

“We want pro-growth tax reform that will get the economy going, that will get people back to work, that will give middle-income taxpayers a tax cut and that will put American businesses in a better competitive playing field so that we keep American businesses in America,” Ryan said in an AP Newsmakers interview this past week.

“That’s more important than anything else.”

Trump still focus of competing DC rallies The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump skipped town for the weekend, but that didn’t stop demonstrators from making him the focus of competing rallies in the nation’s capital that highlighted the stark political divisions in the United States.

Kicking off a Saturday of diverse demonstrations, about two dozen protesters gathered in Lafayette Square, a park just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, to demand that Trump take strong action against Russian leader Vladimir Putin in retaliation for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

They carried signs that said “We’re not PUTIN up with it!” and “Protect American Democracy.”

After their rally, marchers headed to the home of the Russian ambassador a few blocks away.

Nearby,on theNational Mall close to the Washington Monument, about 500 Trump supporters assembled for an all-day demonstration and concert, though organizers predicted that number would grow as the day progressed.

The event’s website appealed for people to “help send a message to Congress, the media & the world” that “we stand united to defend American culture & values.”

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Later, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, juggalos, as supporters of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are known, rallied and readied for a concert. They are pushing their demand that the FBI rescind its classification of juggalos as a “loosely organized hybrid gang.”

The rap duo has developed an intensely devoted fan base over the course of a 25-year career, and some fans held signs that said, “Music is Not a Crime.”

A 2011 report by the Justice Department’s Gang Task Force placed the juggalos, who favor extensive tattoos and outlandish face paint, in the same classification as overtly violent gangs such as the Bloods and the Crips.

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Union: GE talks moving in right direction

By Jim Martin jim.martin@timesnews.com

Only about a week of the 60-day bargaining period remains between GE Transportation and its union workforce in Erie.

But there was good news Friday from both sides. “ I t h i n k th e d i sc u ssions have gotten much

better,” said Scott Slawson, president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, which would lose more than 560 of its members under a proposal put forth by the company on July 27.“We seem to be coming to some understanding on both sides.

We are getting ready to be putting a proposal together

that hopefully meets them halfway.”

Slawson said no formal proposal has been made yet and probably won’t be until Monday. In the meantime, negotiators for both sides were expected to meet both Saturday and Sunday mornings.

For Slawson, who has expressed doubt about the

decision bargaining process from the outset, Friday’s comments represented a bit of a turnaround.

He did stress Friday that he never would have entered into the process if he hadn’t held out some hope.

Slawson said he doesn’t expect the company to jump at what the union offers Monday, but he does

it expect “it will give them food for thought.

“I think Monday will be a good day for us and a good day for them,” he said.

The company made no official comments Friday, but did release a bargaining update to salaried employees, a copy of which was See GE, B4

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The passing of 69-yearold Charlie Schmitz of Meadville leaves a hole in the hearts of all who have been touched by or witnessed his life’s work of healing, restoring and bringing dignity to the lives of fellow veterans. He leaves behind an institution, informal networks and a legion of activists that ensure those who serve will never face the sometimes lethal lack of support he and other Vietnam veterans experienced.

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Members of the Gannon University competitive cheer team, from left, Alexis Palmiotto, 19, Maddie Gresco, 18, and Makenzie Williams, 18, pick up trash around the Elk Creek Access Area in Girard Township on Saturday. [GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Volunteers collect 3,000 pounds of trash on Coastal Cleanup Day

By Matthew Rink matthew.rink@timesnews.com

Jerry Covert hopped out of his car and made his way into the Elk Creek Access Area of the Erie Bluffs State Park Saturday morning.

“I’ve got my picker stick,” Covert said jokingly to two Department of Conservation and Natural Resources officers.

Covert used the long, pointed wooden stick to pierce trash and debris that has built up at the tranquil 587-acre park along Lake Erie and then plop it into black, plastic trash bags.

Covert was one of more than 700 volunteers who took part in the Lake Erie International Coastal Cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Volunteers covered 261 miles of land, picking up more than 3,000 pounds of trash. Seventeen sites across the Erie County were cleaned up, including Downtown Erie and Presque Isle State Park.

The 76-year-old Edinboro resident is chairman of the Presque Isle State Park Advisory Committee. He uses park land along Lake Erie frequently for walking, hiking, biking, to launch his kayak and enjoy other recreational activities.

“It’s part of my payback,” Covert said. “I feel a commitment to keep the parks as clean as possible. I try not to litter and I try pick up when someone else does.”

Brittany Prischak, 30, was one of three event organizers. The sustainability coordinator for the Erie County Department of Planning, Prischak said she recently moved to Lake City in part because of Erie Bluffs State Park, which largest undeveloped section of lake shore in Pennsylvania.

“This is our playground,” she said.

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valerie.myers@timesnews.com

TITUSVILLE — A tractor-trailer might have permanently closed a popular Titusville thrift store.

The truck crashed into the front of the Love Re-Stored Boutique and Gift Shoppe on April 26. The shop has been closed since.

But Love in the Name of Christ, which operated the store, is restoring the building at 220 W. Central Ave. and plans to reopen the store in November.

Directors of the organization,

which coordinates missions work with area churches, never considered shuttering the shop and walking away, said Fred Bryant, a member of the Love INC board of directors.

“We just felt like that was another bump in the road, and not an ending,” Bryant said. “We’re anxious to reopen.”

The building is being renovated by contractor Ruben Gillenwater, of Neiltown, to be better than new. Its facade will resemble the building’s appearance in the late 1800s, when it See STORE, B3

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Number of hours volunteers spent picking up trash and debris as part of the 15th annual International Coastal Cleanup.

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Volunteers who participated.

Miles covered.

302 - Bags of trash collected.

3,046 collected.

Pounds of trash

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Tavern will follow path of popular restaurant Cork 1794 will move to Millcreek next spring

By Valerie Myers valerie.myers@timesnews.com

NORTHEAST—ApopularNorthEastrestaurant will leave something behind when it moves to the revamped West Erie Plaza next spring.

Cork 1794 will continue serving meals at its 17 W. Main St. location in North East Borough through the end of this year and will move to the plaza in Millcreek Township in spring.

The restaurant’s managing partners in June announced that they would open a second location of Cork 1794 in the plaza, located on PittsburghAvenueinMillcreek. They announced in a prepared statement this

week that they will move the restaurantfromNorth East instead.

The restaurant’s bar will remain in North East and will be expanded. The newSkunk&GoatTavern, named for taxidermy in the restaurant’s existing lounge,isexpectedtoopen in February.

The tavern will serve up the same gastropub food, international wines, craft cocktails and live music now offered at the Cork 1794 bar, as well as some oftherestaurant’sfavorite meals.

“Several of the Cork’s populardisheswillremain on the new Skunk & Goat menu, but we are thrilled to offer new and exciting small plates, appetizers for sharing and signature entrees,” executive chef Kristian Young said in the prepared statement.

Staff are also creating new drink selections, includingproprietarydraft beer recipes and “more novel surprises,” General Manager Blaine Ballard said.

Staff that contributed to the restaurant’s success since 2014 will also continue,BillLewis,managing partner, said in the prepared statement.

“All the key attributes that made Cork 1794 successful in North East will continue at the Skunk & Goat Tavern as we make this transition,” he said.

“The same team that currently operates Cork 1794 will manage the Skunk & Goat Tavern.”

Valerie Myers can be reached at 878-1913 or by email. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmyers.

Troop E Sunny Day Camp attracts about 50 participants Staff report

About 50 children and adults with special needs participated Saturday in the Pennsylvania State Police Troop E's first "Sunny Day Camp'' at Edinboro University.

The free camp, which included lunch and a camp T-shirt,was open to any special needs child or adult in the Pennsylvania Troop E area, which consists of Erie, Crawford, Venango and Warren counties.

The Erie Kiwanis and Edinboro University collaborated with state police in staging the event.

"Everybody, regardless of age and ability, was able to participate,'' said Trooper Michelle McGee, a community service officer at the state police barracks in Franklin and an event organizer. "We had participants ranging in age from 3 to 67.''

All participants were required to be accompanied by a parent or caregiver during the entire camp, which began at 9 a.m. and concluded at4 p.m.

Morning activities included an opening ceremony and static displays of first responder vehicles.

Participants spent the afternoon competing in several events of various skill levels. Each participant selected two events, and each activity lasted 30 minutes, with one rotation.

A closing ceremony followed the afternoon activities during which each participant was recognized and presented acertificate. The concluding activity was a T-shirt signing and photos in which participants had troopers, volunteers and

other participants sign their shirts and take pictures to commemorate the day.

About 10 Troop E troopers and several volunteers oversaw activities.

"We wanted all

participants to have a positive experience with law enforcement and we wanted them to have a feeling of belonging and accomplishment,'' McGee said."We're very excited to make this an annual event.''

Mayor candidates Schember, Persinger to debate Oct. 25

By Kevin Flowers kevin.flowers@ timesnews.com

The two major party candidates for Erie mayor in the Nov. 7 municipal election will square off in a televised debate on Oct. 25, sponsored by the Erie Times-News/GoErie. com and WICU-TV. Democrat Joe Schember and Republican John Persinger will outline their platforms and answer questions regarding the mayor's race during the debate, which will take place at East Middle School, 1001 Atkins St. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the debate begins at 7 p.m.

Admission and parking are free, and the public is encouraged to attend.

Erie Times-News and GoErie.com editor of opinion and engagement Pat Howard and WICU anchor/reporter Lisa Adams will ask questions of the candidates during the debate, which will be televised live by WICU and streamed live at www.GoErie.com and

John Persinger, center, Republican candidate for Erie mayor, and Joe Schember, at right, Democratic candidate for Erie mayor. [CHRISTOPHER MILLETTE/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

www.erienewsnow. com.

Schember, 66, a retired PNC Bank vice president and former member of Erie City Council, defeated six other Democrats in the May 16 municipal primary.

Persinger is a 35-year-old lawyer at the MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton law firm who handily won the Republican nomination in May's primary.

Since Democratic Mayor Joe Sinnott cannot run again because of city term limit rules, Erie voters will elect a new mayor for the first time in 12 years. Sinnott, who was elected in 2005, is serving his third fouryear term and will leave office in January.

Kevin Flowers can be reached at 870-1693 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at twitter. com/ETNflowers.

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TREC’s Sunset Celebration awards ceremony set for Sept. 28 Staff report

The Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation and Presque Isle Advisory Committee will presentseveralawardsat the 10th annual Sunset Celebration Sept. 28 at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive.

The event, presented

by PNC and Erie Insurance, begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception, followed by an awards ceremony in

the center’s Big Green Screen Theatre. An “After Sunset” celebration on the center’s patio is scheduled following the awards ceremony.

The Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation will present Distinguished Service Awards to John Lyons and Sally Kohler. The 2017John C. Oliver Environmental Leadership Award will be presented to the Erie-based Purple Martin Conservation Association.

Other awards include the

2017 Presque Isle Legacy Award, presented to Waldameer Park & Water World owner and Chief Executive Paul Nelson, and the 2017 Volunteer of the Year Award to Ann DiTullio.

In addition, Presque Isle Advisory Committee member Joe Pfadt will present the 2017 Mixed Media Student Art Competition Award to Kelsey Green of Girard High School.

For information, visit trecf. org/sunset, or for reservations, call (814) 835-1384.

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correct what he saw as an injustice to returning veterans,” recalled longtime friend and fellow veterans advocate Michael Rossi, a Meadville-area resident who now serves as a senior magisterial district judge.

The spark was the suicide of a veteran friend who Schmitz believed could have been saved had the proper supports been in place. At the time, Rossi, a Marine and Vietnam veteran, was working as an aide for then-Congressman Tom Ridge. In the wake of the suicide, Rossi recalls Schmitz calling on Ridge’s office and making it clear that things had to change promptly. The two worked closely in the decades since to monitor, lobby for and make improvements to government services offered to veterans.

But that was not enough.

In 1993, knowing how much being outdoors and hunting helped ease the trauma left by his 188 combat missions, Schmitz founded WCJ Ranch in Crawford County’s Richmond Township. The nonprofit facility hosts and organizes hunting and fishing events for disabled veterans and inexperienced youth hunters.

But that was not enough.

The retired Meadville police officer also moved to fill in gaps left by public and private assistance organizations. Schmitz established informal networks that allowed him to aid veterans in need of almost anything —housing, food, a job, transportation, access to benefits and more.

I saw how fast and effective these networks are more than a few times when a veteran or a military

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is one goal of the cleanup program.

“We have so many tributaries and streams,” she said. “Litter all the way up in Summit, it’s going to end up in the lake as it comes down from storms washing it through. It’s important for us to capture it before it gets to the lake because once it gets there it is almost too late.”

The debris can affect the habitats of fish, birds and other animals, and can dirty the water and shorelines.

Erie Bluffs State Park, located off West Lake Road in Lake City, is a popular spot for fishermen — about a dozen cast lines into Elk Creek Saturday morning — hunters, and people who want to take in a sunset.

It has eight miles of trails, which in recent years have

Charlie Schmitz, second from left, receives Community Champion recognition from U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, second from right, at WCJ Ranch in Richmond Township, Crawford County. At far left is Schmitz’s son, Shawn, and at far right is Tony Digiacomo, a member of Kelly’s staff who has veterans affairs among his duties. [COURTESY REX NICHOLS/WCJ RANCH]

family in crisis called the newsroom. My next call would be to Schmitz, who stepped up with a helping hand each and every time.

If he couldn’t take care of the issue personally, he had contacts who would.

Eventually I came to understand that fielding calls and solving problems was Schmitz’s full-time job.

“He never slowed down,” Rossi said. “You could call him any time of day or night. You name the problem and there’s a solution in his Rolodex. Every conversation was about helping somebody. This was 24 hours a day since I can remember,” Rossi said. “He never wavered from that responsibility.”

Nobody knows just how many lives Schmitz touched as most of his work was done quietly, behind the scenes. But as word of mouth spread about his ability to help, the number of people asking for his attention grew. And so did the number of people motivated by his example to step forward and help.

Those mourning his passing can take great solace in that fact. His work built a support

been cleared of overgrowth and fallen trees.

In Covert’s trek, he found mostly discarded plastic bottles and hundreds of pieces of Styrofoam.

About 42 students and three instructors from Gannon University’s competitive cheer team scoured the park as part of the school’s annual Give Day. Wearing work gloves, sneakers and maroon “Give” shirts, the students uncovered unused lighters, candy wrappers, aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles and jug that might have once stored motor oil or coolant.

Participants are asked to classify each piece of trash they collect. That was Marley Lucas’s job Saturday. The 20-year-old junior at Gannon said she was impressed by how clean the park already is.

“I like being out here,” said Lucas, who in past years cleaned up areas along the West Bayfront with her teammates. “It’s more

infrastructure that endures.

“There is no stopping it now, but that first Domino went down with Charlie,” Rossi said.

“That legacy goes on. It can survive without us.”

Among those carrying the legacy forward is Rex Nichols, a Corry resident and veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom who serves on the board of WCJ Ranch. He and the other board members, including Schmitz’s son and daughter, will continue to provide opportunities for veterans to find peace, fellowship and release in nature.

“Charlie touched so many lives and helped me personally through my rough times with posttraumatic stress disorder and other health issues,” Nichols wrote in an online exchange. “I could talk all day about what Charlie did and that he never asked for much in return. Charlie was one of a kind for sure,” he wrote. “Charlie will never be forgotten.”

Pat Bywater can be reached at 870-1722 or by email at pat.bywater@ timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNbywater.

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natural. It’s beautiful here.”

The mother-daughter duo of Maggie Tully, 27, and Barb Olin, 60, took part in the cleanup for the first time.

Finding litter is disappointing, they said, but they also recognize that much of the debris makes it to the parkland by accident. Tully is the outdoor education director at Camp Fitch YMCA. Olin retired from a similar post at Camp Fitch.

“Not only is it beautiful,” Tully said, “but we’re able to give back and help keep our beautiful Lake Erie as pristine as it can be.”

Matthew Rink can be reached at 870-1884 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNrink.

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REGIONAL BRIDGE SCORES Sept. 5 Erie Bridge Association NS A & B 1. Rita SchmittJudy Buchman 2. Sandy Morris-Martha Sinden 3.

Dave McConahy-Marge McConahy 4. Greg WolfeRich Sollman NS C 1. Phyllis Cohen-Betty Watts EW A & B 1. Bruce Swanson-Kathy Claunch 2. Judy Kissman-Marily Renkes 3.

Sue Weber- Terry McCammon 4. Ellen Callahan-Diane Blake EW C 1. Bud Brown-Candy Brown Sept. 6 Lakeshore 1. MaryLouFaulkner-Mary Listerman 2. Sandy MorrisMartha Sinden Regency ½ Mary Alice Smith-Penny Churley/Ruth RhollansJackie Alexancer 3. Arlene Engel-Elaine MacKalvey Erie Bridge Association OA A 1. Marc SylvesterFrank Grzegorzewski 2.

Kathleen Horan-Jane Yusavage 3. Ido Millet-Jim Davis 4. Steve GrzegorzewskiAllen Selling OA B 1. Mary Tseng-Amy Lund 2. Rick Klapthor-Judy Lyons Sept. 7 Mercy Hilltop NS 1. Doug MoorheadMarlene Moorhead 2. Dale Scott-Greg Wolfe EW 1. Al Walz-Bev Walz 2.

Esther Tregler-Dave Foster Sept. 8 Regency NS 1. Jackie Alexander-Jean Selkregg 2. Arlene LanierMary Lou Kellenback EW 1. Sharon Tefft - Wilda Sundburg 2. Arlene EngelDoris Swan Grand Slam NS A 1. Allen Selling-Doris Kirsch 2. Steve DylewskiKathy Claunch 3. Kay Kramer-Jim Mershon NS B 1. Steve DylewskiKathy Claunch 2. Kay Kramer-Jim Mershon NS C 1. Kay Kramer-Jim Mershon EW A 1. Shirley Irish-Enid Marcus 2. Paul ValinskyDave Szymanowski 3. Frank Grzegorzewski-Peggy Weiblel EW B 1. Paul ValinskyDave Szymanowski 2.

Kathy Dammeyer-Kathy Dobrzynski EW C 1. Paul Valinsky-Dave

Szymanowski Newcomers OA A 1. Nancy DiCola-Harry Beerman 2. Keith GilbertBev Parshall ¾ Betty Watts-Susie Richardson/ Anne Flickinger-Jim Deininger OA B1. Keith Gilbert-Bev Parshall 2/3 Betty WattsSusie Richardson/Anne Flickinger-Jim Deininger Sept. 9-10 Erie Sectional Tournament Open Pairs OA A 1. Shirley IrishMarc Sylvester 2. Christy Kellogg-Bert Hargesheimer III 3. Barb GrzegorzewskiJim Davis OA B 1. Peter Gilewicz-Jane Gilewicz 2. Rob Flynn-Diana Bever 3. Diane Blake-Steve Dylewski 1.99er’s OA 1. Martha Sinden-Sandy Morris 2. Maureen BradleyGretchen Stearns 3. Ruth Randall-Bev Parshall 4.

Dottie Rimdzius-JudyLipsitz Open Pairs OA A 1. Shirley IrishMarc Sylvester 2. Allen Selling-Ido Millet 3. Bert HargesheimerIII-Christy Kellogg OA B 1. Allen Selling-Ido Millet 2. Bill BlackburnPeggy Blackburn 3. Bob Flynn-Diana Beaver 1.99er’s OA ½ Rita Schmitt-Archie Narducci/Maureen BradleyGretchen Stearns Team Game OA A 1. Shirley Irish-Marc Sylvester-Francis TsengJudie Lamberton OA B 1. Elaina Dylewski-Lois DiPlacido-Peggy WeibelDoris Kirsch OA C 1. Kay Kramer-Norma Herbstritt-Paul ValinskyJudy Lyons Sept. 13 Erie Bridge Association OA A 1. Lois DiPlacidoFrancis Tseng 2. Doris Kirsch-Jim Davis 3. Marc Sylvester-Amy Lund 4.

Kathleen Horan-Rick Klapthor OA B 1. Kathleen HoranRick Klapthor 2. Jim Mershon-Mary Tseng Lakeshore 1. Joanne Ciampa-Sue Lang 2/3 Mary Lou FaulknerMary Listerman/Karen Gierach-Martha Sinden

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“The response was phenomenal. We just couldn’t believe it.

People just started donating things, including some brandnew things in original containers.”

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housed a furniture factory and showroom.

“There will be more of an antique brick facade, and a knee wall. The building in the 1880s didn’t have windows that went clear to the ground; it had a knee wall beneath,” Bryant said.

A receded, double-door entry is also planned.

Other buildings near Titusville’s Scheide Park have also redone facades to resemble their late 19th-century appearance.

Restoration of the Love Re-Stored building for now will be confined to the ground floor.

The second and third floors may be restored as funding allows, Bryant said.

The store is tentatively scheduled to reopen with a “Thanksgiving and Great-fulness” event Nov. 3. The store is expected to be open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

The Love Re-Stored Boutique originally was opened in November 2016 as a “pop-up” store for the holidays. Then open only on Fridays and Saturdays, the store quickly became popular

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Love INC board of directors member Fred Bryant

enough to be operated by Love INC volunteers year around.

“The response was phenomenal,” Bryant said. “We just couldn’t believe it. People just started donating things, including some brandnew things in original containers.”

And people who needed furniture, lamps and other household items were able to buy them at low prices, Bryant said.

Sale proceeds benefited ministries, including the Garden of Hope, a program that helps people explore their past, accept their present and move forward.

A new session of weekly classes begins in December.

“We’ve seen the Lord’s hand in this in so many ways,” Bryant said.

Valerie Myers can be reached at 878-1913 or by email. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmyers.

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OBITUARIES Joan Specht Howlett

Joan S. Howlett, age 78, of Saline, Michigan, died Saturday, September 9, 2017. She was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the daughter of the late John K. and Luella (Miller) Specht. She resided in Edinboro, Pennsylvania for more than 40 years with her husband, Dorn Howlett, before moving to Michigan.

She was an artist, biologist, and teacher, as well as a loving wife and mother. She received a B.S. in Design from the University of Michigan and a M.S. in Biology from Edinboro University. She taught art in the Whitehall City School District in Ohio and at Edinboro University.

Her award winning paintings and prints have been exhibited in Warren, Pa., Ashtabula, Ohio, at the Erie Art Center and at Edinboro University.

Later in life, she began a second career as a field research ornithologist. She studied the ecology and breeding behavior of forest song birds and authored several significant scientific papers on the Hooded Warbler and Blue-headed Vireo. In recent years, she maintained her longtime involvement with art through photography. One of her photos was featured on the cover of the Canadian Journal of Zoology.

She was an avid birder and an active member of the Presque Isle Audubon Society, leading field trips, acting as compiler of the Erie Christmas Bird Count, and designing and maintaining their website. She taught a Continuing Education Course on Birding. She participated in the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas Project, and volunteered at the Erie National Wildlife Refuge, and for the Purple Martin Conservation Association.

She is survived by her daughter, Dria S. McCauley (and husband Michael Jr.) and her brother, Karl J. Specht.

She was preceded in death by Dorn Howlett, her husband of fifty-two years, and a daughter, Shana.

Private services will be held.

Sign the Guestbook at www.GoErie.com/obits.

Eleanor Humphries

Eleanor Humphries, age 100, of Washington Township, Ohio, passed away September 12, 2017, at home, with her family. She was born April 29, 1917, in Erie Pennsylvania, y , the daughter of Julius and Rose Metz.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years, Herbert F. Humphries, as well as her parents, three brothers, and one great-granddaughter.

Eleanor is survived by her daughter, Mary Lou Young (Darrell), her son, Tom Humphries (Glenna), and her daughter, Kathy Buck (Jerry). Also surviving are her grandchildren, Jeffrey Young (Mary Jo), Elizabeth Treon (Chris), Susan Young (John Hyland), Amy Young (Jim Allen), Leah Humphries (Roland Kljunich), Michael Humphries (Emma), Alison Buck (Will Woods), and Richard Buck (Kristina), great-grandchildren, Emily Young, Carly Blodgett, Megan Young, Owen Blodgett, Alexander Hazuda, Matthew Young, Emma Smith, Eleanor Smith, June Humphries, Julia Humphries, and Krystal Price, and three nephews and one niece.

A family ceremony will be held from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 16, 2017 at Routsong Funeral Home, in Kettering, Ohio. A private burial will take place in Calvary Cemetery, Erie. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Louis Children’s Hospital, One Children’s Place, St. Louis, MO 63110, or to the charity of one’s choice. The Francis V. Kloecker Funeral Home, Inc. is in charge of local arrangements, www.kloeckerfuneralhome.com.

Sign the Guestbook at www.GoErie.com/obits.

Joseph J. Milewski

Joseph J. Milewski, age 89, of Millcreek Twp., passed away Saturday, September 16, 2017. Arrangements will be announced by the Dusckas-Martin Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 4216 Sterrettania Rd.

Ruth P. Miller

Ruth P. Miller, age 82 of Erie, passed away on September 16, 2017 at her residence. Arrangements will be announced in Thursday’s paper by Burton Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc. 602 W. 10th Street, Erie.

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obtained by the Erie Times-News.

That update said in part: “Discussions with UE 618 and GE have been very productive. This week, UE 618 and GE’s negotiations team have shared counterproposals associated with the proposed transfer of work.”

While that stands to be important news for the members of 618, a union of laboratory and testing employees, the impact is likely to be modest. The local, part of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, had been expected to lose seven of its nine members as part of the proposed layoffs announced July 27.

The remainder of

the roughly 570 layoffs would affect members of UE Local 506.

A posting on the UE 506 website, made earlier in the week, sounded a less hopeful tone, noting that the company hasn’t yet provided the union with the financial information it needs to make valid cost comparisons between the company’s plants in Erie and Fort Worth, Texas.

“The information provided assumes that the (Fort Worth) facility and the thirdparty vendors will be more profitable than Erie. The financials are once again based only on assumptions,” the UE website said.

The deadline for bargaining is Sept. 25.

Jim Martin can be reached at 870-1668 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ ETNMartin.

Thomas Frank Wycech

Thomas Frank Wycech, 88, formerly of Marianna Avenue in Erie, and currently of Niagara Village in Erie, passed away unexpectedly, on Friday, September 15, 2017, with his loving wife, Frances, by his side.

He was born and raised in Erie, having boasted to have moved several times in his childhood due to his father purchasing and fixing many homes and taverns in the lower east side. Tom was the son of the late Walter and Lottie Wycech and stepson of the late Sophie Wycech.

He was preceded in death by his brothers, Theodore, Edmund, Raymond, and Thaddeus (Ben) Wycech and his sister, Dorothy Holby.

Tom served in the United States Army, 111st Airborne Division, in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Korea and the occupation of Japan following WWII. He attained the rank of Corporal and was a cook and paratrooper. He loved to tell people he took off in a plane 22 times but only landed twice, having jumped the other 20.

Upon his return to Erie, he began a 40-year career as a mechanic. He worked for the joint dealership of Knobloch Oldsmobile / Roth Cadillac. He was well-respected by his customers and co-workers as being honest, trustworthy and a hard worker.

He married the former Frances C. Wronek on December 30, 1950, while home on leave for the holidays.

Fran followed him to Fort Campbell until his discharge. When they returned to Erie, they were blessed with three children.

Tom is survived by his sons, Gary T. (Mary Ann) and Gregory Wycech, and his daughter, Janice M. (Brian) Thompson. He is further survived by his grandchildren, Karla (Sean) Reicherd, Angela Al-Baara, Cara Wycech, Peter (PJ) Wycech and Lilly Thompson and great-grandsons, Cody, Zachary, Anthony, Zaide, and Joseph.

Tom, his father, and brothers learned many skills early in life. They used those skills to build Tom and Fran their home on Marianna Avenue, where they lived for 48 years until recently moving to Niagara Village. The house was their constant project and pride.

Friends are invited to call on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at the Brugger Funeral Homes & Crematory, 1595 West 38th St., at Greengarden Blvd. Services will be held there on Monday at 9:30 a.m. followed by a funeral mass at St. George Church at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Condolences may go to www.bruggerfuneralhomes.com.

Sign the Guestbook at www.GoErie.com/obits.

Esther (Cornwell) East

Esther (Cornwell) East, 90, of Fairview, passed away on Friday, September 15, 2017, at Pleasant Ridge Manor.

She was born on October 15, 1926, a daughter of Joseph “Paul” and Sylvia (Richardson) Cornwell, in Albion, Pa. She attended Academy High School and was married to Richard E. “Dick” East on April 18, 1947. She assisted her husband on the family dairy farm in McKean for many years and also worked for General Electric and the Diana Shop in the Millcreek Mall. She loved visiting with her friends and family and her family was her main priority throughout her life.

Esther was a member of the McKean United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women. She enjoyed traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe with her husband and making ceramics and enjoyed baking.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard E. “Dick” East; and two brothers, Richard “Dick”and Paul “Buster” Cornwell.

Esther will be greatly missed by her family, which include three daughters, Susan C. More (Larry Majersky), Barbara A. Vanderhoof (Scott), and Vicki L. Lasher (Daniel); two sons, Richard J. East (Sheila) and Patrick A. East (Melissa); a sister, Arlene Byrne; a brother, John B. Cornwell; thirteen grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews Friends may call on Sunday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Edder Funeral Home, Inc., 309 Main Street East, Girard, and are invited to attend services there on Monday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Barb English officiating.

Memorials may be made to The United Methodist Women, c/o McKean United Methodist Church, 5041 N. Main St., McKean, PA 16426.

Burial will be in Erie County Memorial Gardens.

Esther’s family would like to express their gratitude to the staff, for the love and care their mom received while a resident of unit A, Pleasant Ridge Manor.

To send condolences, visit edderfuneralhome.com.

Sign the Guestbook at www.GoErie.com/obits.

Kelsey M. Haft

Kelsey M. Haft, age 24, of Erie, passed away Friday, September 15, 2017. She was born in Erie on March 16, 1993, daughter of Paul N. and Barbara D. Medwid Haft.

Kelsey graduated from Iroquois High School and loved going to the casino, playing scratch-off lottery tickets and couponing. She enjoyed sleepovers with her nieces and nephews.

Kelsey would light up any room she walked into and made sure she left you with a smile. But more than anything, she cherished her time spent with her daughter.

Besides her parents, Kelsey is survived by her daughter, Gabriella “Gabby” Sanko; two sisters, Paula (Russ) and Nicole Haft; one brother, Michael Haft; her boyfriend, Johnathon Vicary; her grandmother, Mary Medwid; and many cousins, aunts and uncles. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Ken Medwid, and Norman and Marilyn Haft.

Friends may call at the Dusckas Funeral Home, Inc., 2607 Buffalo Rd., on Monday from 2 to 4 pm and from 6 pm until the time of the Funeral Service there at 8 pm.

Burial will be private. Memorial contributions may be designated to the family through the funeral home.

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Michael D. O’Leary

Michael D. O’Leary, 63, of Erie, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at UPMC Hamot. He was born in Erie on August 12, 1954 a son of Shirley Glance O’Leary and the late Bernard O’Leary, Sr. Michael served in the United States Air Force and attended Penn State University. He worked with G.E. for over 15 years.

In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Helen Glance and his paternal grandparents, Bernard and Walberga O’Leary.

Survivors include his four children, Christopher O’Leary and his wife, Marie, of Pittsfield, PA, Karen Hall and her husband, Mario, of Erie, Amy O’Leary and her fiancé, Adam Cozzens, of Erie, and Lorraine Fries and her husband, Bill, of Amesbury, MA; two sisters, Tammy O’Leary and Fred Estok of Erie and Julie O’Leary of North Carolina; three brothers, Buddy O’Leary and his wife, Sherry, of East Springfield, Kevin O’Leary of Erie, and David O’Leary and his wife, Jeanne, of Erie; six grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were private and burial will be held at the convenience of the family. Funeral arrangements were made by the Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home Inc., 5000 Wattsburg Rd., Erie, 16504.

Memorial contributions can be made to the American Stroke Foundation, 6405 Metcalf Ave, Suite 214 Overland Park, Kan., 66202.

Please visit www.SchmidtFuneralHomeErie.com to sign the Book of Memories.

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Vivian Small

Vivian Small, formerly of Summit Township, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 15, 2017. She was born in Cherry Tree, Pa., on September 24, 1924, to the late John and Lorella Sheesley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Mervin “Bud” Small Sr., whom she was married to for 70 years; her daughter, Dorothy Kerr and daughter-in-law, RuthAnn Small.

Survivors include her sons, Mervin Small Jr. and his wife Lorna, Meredith Small and his wife Tania; her daughter, Barbara Dolph and her husband Dennis; and her sonin-law, Ed Kerr. She had five grandchildren, Lisa Osborne and her husband Keith, John Small and his wife Julie, Jennifer Small, Michael Dolph and his wife Valerie and Donald Dolph and his wife Wendy. She was also blessed with 9 great-grandchildren.

Vivian had worked at Niagara Plastics and Dahlkemper’s Dept. Store. She was a member of Glenwood United Methodist Church. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting and making hand-stitched quilts.

She loved to travel and snowmobile with her husband in her younger years.

Friends and family may call at the Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home, Inc. 5000 Wattsburg Rd. on Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. until the time of the funeral service there at 1 p.m. Burial will follow at Erie County Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the organization of one’s choice.

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OBITUARIES Linda M. Burton Zimmer

Karen (Case) LeClair

Karen (Case) LeClair, 51, of Albion, died on Saturday June 10th and was pronounced deceased on Tuesday, July 4, 2017.

She was born on August 10, 1965, in Erie, a daughter of the late Francis and Gladys (Pappas) Curlowitz Case.

Karen graduated from McDowell High School in 1983. Following high school, she assisted in the operation of the Hobby Stop in Erie, and later worked at Superior Toyota in Erie in the accounting department.

She was a member of the Erie Yacht Club and the Charterboat Captains Association, and enjoyed shopping, traveling and scuba diving.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Lydia M. Fowler, Gussie D’ Onofrio and Judy Jones.

She will be greatly missed by her family, which include her brothers and sisters, Barbara J. Case-Snyder of Chewelah, Wash., Francis G. Case of Ft. Wayne, Ind., Frank M. Case Sr. of East Springfield, George J. Curlowitz of Meadville, Ray A. Case (Amanda) of Ft. Wayne, Ind., Patrick L. Case (Kristen) of Tuskahoma, Okla., Arthur G. Case (Deborah) of Ft. Wayne, Ind., James Curlowitz of Yucaipa, Calif., Michael H. Case (Laura) of Suffolk, Va., and Theresa F. Case-Renfro of Terra Haute, Ind. and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Friends may call on Monday from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Edder Funeral Home, 309 Main Street East, Girard, and are invited to attend a Memorial Service at the Federated Church of East Springfield on Tuesday at 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Karen LeClair memorial fund, c/o Edder Funeral Home.

Interment will be in the Springfield Cemetery.

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Beverly Ann Brown

Beverly Ann Brown, age 78 of York, SC, passed away on Monday, September 13,2017 at Palmetto Village of Chester, S.C. She was born March 10, 1939 in Erie, Pa., a daughter of the late Martin J. Schuller, Sr. and Ruth I. Beckman Schuller.

Beverly was a graduate of McKean High School. She enjoyed playing cards.

In addition to her parents, Beverly was preceded in death by her husband Paul T. Brown in 2015, as well as a great grandson, Nathan Kruse.

Survivors include her daughter, Elizabeth Vazquez, of Union City; Six step-children, Linda Beatty, of Franklin, PA, Tom Brown (Sue) and Tina Myers, of Jamestown, NY, Phillip Brown (Deanna) and Belinda Brown, of York, SC and Paul Brown, Jr.(Sue), of Erie, PA. along with brothers; Michael Schuller (Rose) and Martin Schuller (Billie) both of Moon Township, PA and Paul Schuller (Nancy) of Erie, PA. Many grandchildren, great grandchildren and nieces and nephews also remain.

Friends may call at the Burton Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 602 W. 10th St., Erie, on Monday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the services there at 12:00 p.m.

Burial will be in Garland Presbyterian Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Erie City Mission, 1017 French Street, Erie, Pa., 16512 . Send condolences at www.Burtonfuneralhome.com.

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Dennis R. Dearbeck

Dennis R. Dearbeck, 74, passed on to eternal life on September 15, 2017 not making it to his 75th birthday, September 16th. Dennis was born to Carl and Betty Dearbeck and was raised by his beloved grandfather, Ward Huston.

Dennis served honorably in the U.S. Army and upon discharge, joined his brother Carl as an agent or American General Insurance.

He retired as Stationary Engineer for Pleasant Ridge Manor in 2004.

Dennis was a caring, unique, and bright guy who could fix or build just about anything including his mini helicopter that went two feet off the ground before crashing, dumping his brother, Bobby on the lawn. He built the first low-to-theground bike that was the talk of Presque Isle and the town of Girard. Dennis was an avid jazz music lover and enjoyed playing his saxophone to anyone who had the stamina to listen. He will now join his jazz buddies to play for our Heavenly Father. Dennis will also be with his beloved cat, Lu Lu who left his side in 2015.

Dennis is survived by his sisters, Patricia Culbertson and Beverly Dearbeck, and brothers, Carl “Buzz”, Jerry, Robert and Martin Dearbeck; many nieces and nephews; and his best friend Roger Tackett of Columbus, Ohio.

Burial arrangements are being handled by the Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home, Inc. 5000 Wattsburg Rd., with private internment at Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Regional Home Health and Hospice - 2564 Village Common Dr., Erie, Pa 16506.

A special heartfelt thank you to Rich and Carrie of Regional Hospice for their compassionate support to help Dennis make his heavenly transition.

Please visit www.SchmidtFuneralHomeErie.com to sign the Book of Memories.

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Linda M. Burton Zimmer, 66, of Millcreek, passed away peacefully at her residence on Thursday, September 14, 2017. She was born in Erie on May 23, 1951 a daughter of the late Charles and Dora Kasper Burton.

Linda graduated from McDowell High School and was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church. She loved spending time with her family and grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband, David J. Zimmer; one son, Chad Zimmer and his wife, Wendy, of Erie; three grandchildren, Megan, Carl, and David; three brothers, Gary Burton and his wife, Sharon, of Millcreek, Chad Burton and his wife, Brenda, of Saegertown, and Jody Burton and his wife, Kathy, of Erie; and many nieces and nephews.

The family wishes to extend a special thank you to Regional Hospice for the love and care they gave to Linda.

Funeral services and burial were private in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were made by the Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home Inc., 5000 Wattsburg Rd., Erie, 16504.

Please visit www.SchmidtFuneralHomeErie.com to sign the Book of Memories.

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Betty Lou Bish

Betty Lou (Desin) Bish, age 88, passed away on September 15, 2017 at Corry Memorial Hospital.

She was born in North East, PA on April 15, 1029.

Betty Lou enjoyed music, and loved her pets Barley and Gypsy. She was devoted to her family and was always there for her family and friends.

She is survived by her children, Walter Paul (Jeanette) of North East, Edward, Linda, and Judy (Baginski) of Millcreek, Mark and Randy (Cari Rogers) of Wattsburg, and Melissa Cory (Rick Lombardo) all of Erie; her brothers, Edward and David Desin; her sisters, Joanne Greider, Jackie Forbes; her sister in law, Alberta Hookey; 6 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, and 11 great great grandchildren. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Van Bish in 1996, her great great grandson, C.J. Jeter in 2016, and her grandson, Scott Baginski in 2006.

A Memorial Services for Betty Lou will be held on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. at Walnut Creek Baptist Church, 6015 West Ridge Road. Kenny Devine will be officiating.

The family requests memorial donations be made to Hospice of Metropolitan Erie, Inc., 202 East 10th Street, Erie, Pa. 16503, or the Anna Shelter, 1555 East 10th Street, Erie, Pa. 16511.

Askins Cremation Funeral Services, 8354 Wattsburg Rd., Erie, Pa. 16509, is assisting the family with arrangements.

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Kathy Ann Bizzaro

Kathy Ann Bizzaro, 60, of Erie, passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, at UPMC Hamot.

She was born on August 2, 1957, in Erie, daughter of the late Angelo g and Gretchen (McIntyre) Bizzaro.

Kathy was employed as a contracted housekeeper, working for many years at G.E. She enjoyed puzzles and scratch-off lottery tickets.

She is survived by her husband, James Charles Stein, children, Stephanie Stein, Robin Stein, James Stein, Kathy Parker (Victor D. Parker, Jr.), Kerry Stein (Jeffery Pulling), Norma Stein and Shane Stein (Andreanna Lewis), 17 grandchildren, brothers and sisters.

Arrangements are private and under the direction of Brugger Funeral Homes & Crematory, Pine Avenue Branch, 845 East 38th Street.

Memorials may be made to the family.

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Rick Schenker

Rick Schenker, 59, former Erie County Executive, born on September 25, 1957, went to be with the Lord on August 10, 2017, after battling leukemia for three years.

He was the husband of Terry Schenker and father to Ashley Schenker, and son of the late Henry and Clara Schenker of Millcreek.

Rick was the youngest of seven, Tom (Judy) Schenker of Northeast, Bob (Carolyn) Schenker of Millcreek, Jim (Jean) Schenker of Fairview, Ed (Joanne) Schenker of McKean, the late John (Bonnie) Schenker of Millcreek, and the late Donna Rigdon of Florida.

His Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 2 p.m., Erie First Assembly on Oliver Rd. Rick’s passion for Christ, and his zeal for truth, compelled him to love endlessly and serve others selflessly. His unshakable faith in God withstood the test of time and adversity. Now present with his Lord, Rick was undoubtedly greeted with these words . . . “Well done good and faithful servant. Well done.”

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Joseph Costa Jr.

Joseph Costa Jr., born in Erie, Pa. on August 18, 1936, died September 7, 2017, at his home in Chicopee, Mass., surrounded by family.

He is survived by his wife Rosemary, four children, several grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Costa Sr., he was raised and educated in the Erie area. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was retired from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1996.

Services will be private.

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William M. Spencer

William M. Spencer, 78, of Erie, passed away Thursday, September 14, 2017 at St. Vincent Hospital. He was born in Erie, on May 6, 1939, the son of the late Boyd and Juanita Smith Spencer.

William served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He worked for Burn’s Gas Station, where he later purchased to become the owner and operator of Spencer’s Keystone Gas Station for over 50 years, retiring in 2000.

After retirement he worked for the Baymont Inn & Suites working as their van driver.

In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his two brothers, John and Reid Spencer; and his great-grandson, Tobias Handley.

Survivors include his wife, Valerie J. Harvey Spencer; his children, Sandy Cranston, Connie Gennock, William Spencer (Heather), Crystal Hawk, Lisa Crotty (Jim), Thaddeus Zysk; his sister, Janet Heeter; his two brothers, Richard and Donnie Spencer; 15 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; and his very special friend, Judie Powell.

Friends may call at the Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home, Inc. 5000 Wattsburg Rd., on Monday from 2-4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. and are invited to services there the following morning at 10:00 a.m. Burial will be private and at the convenience of the family.

Please visit www.SchmidtFuneralHomeErie.com to sign the Book of Memories.

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Jacqueline M. Gentile

Jacqueline M. Gentile, age 84, of Summit Twp., passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, September 13, 2017, surrounded by her family, following complications from an extended illness. She was born in Erie on December 6, 1932, a daughter of the late Leo Dooher and Marion Rekitt.

Jacqueline retired from GTE after 25 years of service. She enjoyed spending time with her family and was an excellent cook. She was an avid reader and often completed an entire novel in one to two days.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one daughter, Sandra Timblin, an infant son, Mark Anthony Gentile and one brother Michael Dooher.

She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Ralph Gentile; one daughter, Pamela Gentile of Erie; one son, John Gentile of the Dallas Fort Worth, TX area; granddaughter, Kimberley (Brock) Walker of Davenport, FL and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were private and held at the convenience of the family, with interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made in Jacqueline’s name to the charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements were under the care of the Dusckas-Martin Funeral Home & Crematory Inc. 4216 Sterrettania Rd.

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Anita “Ann” Gallant Kondrat

Anita “Ann” Gallant Kondrat passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Scott Funeral Home, 2104 Myrtle Street.

David A. Markiewicz Sr.

David A. Markiewicz Sr., 63, of Erie, passed away September 15, 2017 at his residence. Arrangements are being handled by the John R. Orlando Funeral Home, Inc., Erie, PA and will be announced Monday.

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T H O U G H T F O R T O DAY Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. — Psalm 86:1

ANOTHER VIEW

Edinboro faces change with resolve The issue: Plans for EUP emerge Our view: Process yields strong start

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arly this year, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania launched research meant to guide the transformation of the university in the face of steep challenges. Enrollment had fallen 28.1 percent over the past five years, a minority of students were completing degrees in four years, and officials found themselves dipping into cash reserves to balance the budget.

Avoidance was one option, especially since the potential for conflict amid the change was strong.

University President H. Fred Walker did not retreat into denial but instead deployed a brisk, collaborative and data-driven strategy.

University stakeholders, including community members, gathered in a series of meetings to analyze data about the university and identify its strengths and weaknesses. Walker said the goal was to rewrite “the DNA” of the university and realign it with its core mission — meeting workforce needs of the region and state.

In recent days, Walker has rolled out a smart, student-centered vision of the university’s future that resulted from that process. As detailed by Erie Times-News reporter Valerie Myers, the university has taken immediate steps to raise admission standards to attract stronger students and improve graduation rates.

The university’s Porreco College on West 38th Street in Millcreek Township will shift its focus to night and weekend courses to help adult students complete four-year degrees. Though Edinboro will no longer offer community college-style associate degree programs, the Porreco facility, in what seems an excellent fit, will be made available for use by the Rural Regional College of Northern Pennsylvania and perhaps the proposed Erie County community college.

Four cornerstone academic programs will be retained: arts and digital entertainment; business, science and professional programs; education; and social and mental health services. Programs that attract lower student interest will be eliminated, but in a way that allows students now enrolled in those programs to complete their degrees.

No faculty will be cut in the coming year except through attrition. New academic programs will be added.

One aspect gives us pause. Walker won’t yet reveal what academic programs are on the chopping block. That information — basic facts about a public university’s offerings — should not be withheld.

Edinboro is part of the larger Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, which is trying to reverse student and financial losses. In a meeting with the Erie Times-News Editorial Board, Walker noted that change at the local level won’t come swiftly due to the unwieldy state bureaucracy in which the university is enmeshed.

Walker and the Edinboro community have identified a viable path forward that should strengthen both the university and the region as a whole. We urge PASSHE to enable the transformation as quickly as possible.

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Roundabouts save drivers fuel and time As I read Larry Merritt’s recent letter on roundabouts, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He must have a very low opinion of the intelligence of Americans as compared with citizens in other countries.

I have driven cumulatively for more than six months in Britain (on the left side of the road) and have passed through more than 1,000 roundabouts in the process. These roundabouts range from as small as a solid white circle at a rural intersection to the huge football field-size roundabouts where two expressways intersect. No one, and I mean no one, has the slightest trouble with any of these.

They speed up traffic flow and reduce the waste of fuel in stopping, starting and just sitting at the intersection.

I can’t tell you how many times I have sat at an intersection such as the one at Routes 6N and 98, at a red light with no one in sight, and wasted time and fuel for no reason. If we had a lot more roundabouts in this country, travel times would be significantly reduced and a lot of fuel would be saved.

— David L. Wagner, Edinboro

Pa. residents must rise up against inheritance tax Fellow Pennsylvanians, are you aware of the Pennsylvania inheritance tax? If not, let me explain. Should you leave your child $1 as a legacy, the state will claim 4.5 to 5 cents of this dollar as tax. Should you bequeath $1,000, the state will take $45; $100,000, $4,500 from your child’s inheritance.

This is an obnoxious form of robbing your child of the legacy you would leave. There are only four other states of the 50 that resort to this type of thievery.

It is time to deluge the Legislature in Harrisburg with a plaint that we Pennsylvanians find this practice intolerable and that Pennsylvania must fall in line with the majority of states that do not resort to such heinous taxation.

Let’s help our children benefit from our legacies, fully.

— E.L. Jeska, Erie

Don’t believe in climate change? Study coral reefs Ken Nelson ......................President and Publisher Doug Oathout .............................. Executive Editor Pat Howard .......Editor/Opinion and Engagement Lisa Thompson ..............................Editorial Writer Matt Martin.............................Editor/Online News Jeff Kirik ............................................ Sports Editor

Informed President Donald Trump voters know all of the fuss about global warming is just fake news fabricated by the world’s top universities and climate scientists

along with the Democratic politicians who want to ruin American freedom.

Trump followers and other climate science deniers, however, might want to check out the film documentary on Netflix called “Chasing Coral.”

It shows in time-lapse photography the coral bleaching and death of about 29 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in the aftermath of the 2016 El Niño event, which increased ocean temperatures in the western Pacific Ocean by seven to nine degrees. The scientists in this film claim this was caused by global warming from the accumulation of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Are we really supposed to believe that more than 500 kilometers of the world’s richest ecosystem, that has been there for more than 8,000 years, was destroyed in a single year by warm ocean water just because scientists have pictures showing that it happened?

What’s more, this film claims that more than 50 percent of the world’s coral reefs, which are the spawning grounds and nurseries for about 30 percent of the world’s ocean fish, have been killed off by warming ocean waters and pollution over the past 30 years, and the rest of the world’s reefs could be gone in another 20 or 30 years.

Well, since big fish in the

ocean eat the little fish (the ones that are hatched in living coral reefs), it’s clear these climate scientists are predicting Americans will not be nearly as free to eat tuna salad sandwiches very soon.

But wouldn’t such a huge ecological crisis in the world’s oceans, which will soon deplete the food supply and endanger the livelihoods of more than half a billion people, qualify as real news? Surely our climate scientist in chief would recognize such stark facts, if they were true, and lead the world to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Precisely, and that’s how all of us conservative citizenscientists can know that none of it is true. Otherwise, our president wouldn’t be telling us that global warming is a hoax and that we need to ramp up U.S. coal production, right?

Who would lie to the American people about something that huge?

— Bruce Baldwin, Erie

Bible passage was good way to start school day When I was in school, the Bible was read every morning. It quieted us down even though the verses chosen were not especially meaningful.

It was an effective way to start the day. We were then ready to learn. Who can argue with that?

— Eva Bretz, Erie

79 Days

without a complete state budget The state Legislature is more than 11 weeks past its constitutional deadline to pass a complete 2017-18 budget. Lawmakers in late June approved a $32 billion spending plan but no revenue package to balance it.

The Senate on July 27 passed a $2.2 billion revenue package that is meant to cover a $1.5 billion deficit from the 2016-17 budget and a projected $700 million gap in this year’s budget. That measure is now before the House for consideration.

You can call the offices of Gov. Tom Wolf or our state legislators to discuss this issue.

• Gov. Tom Wolf: Erie regional office, 878-5719; Harrisburg, (717) 787-2500.

• State Sen. Dan Laugh-

lin, of Millcreek Township, R-49th Dist.: 453-2515.

• State Sen. Michele Brooks, of Mercer County, R-50th Dist.:

Edinboro, 734-2783, or Greenville, (724) 588-8911.

• State Rep. Patrick Harkins, of Erie, D-1st Dist.: 459-1949.

• State Rep. Flo Fabrizio, of Erie, D-2nd Dist.: 455-6319.

• State Rep. Ryan Bizzarro, of Millcreek, D-3rd Dist.: 835-2880.

• State Rep. Curt Sonney, of Harborcreek Township, R-4th Dist.: Harborcreek, 897-2080;

or Corry, (814) 664-9126.

• State Rep. Brad Roae, of

East Mead Township, Crawford County, R-6th Dist: Meadville,

(814) 336-1136, or Fairview Township and Cranesville Borough, (800) 770-2377.

• State Rep. Parke Wentling, of Mercer County, R-17th Dist.:

Girard, 774-3105, or Conneaut Lake, (814) 382-7200; or toll-free, (855) 249-2427.

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Lining up behind Sanders, Democrats have become socialists

Dana Milbank

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hen Bernie Sanders launched his bid for the Democratic nomination, he was often asked whether he, a democratic socialist, would actually become a Democrat.

Now, more than a year after he ignited a movement with his unsuccessful bid, that question is moot. The Democrats have become socialists.

This became official, more or less, Wednesday afternoon, when Sanders rolled out his socialized health care plan, Medicare for All, and he was supported by 16 of his Senate Democratic colleagues who signed on as co-sponsors, including the party’s rising stars and potential presidential candidates in 2020: Elizabeth Warren. Cory Booker. Kamala Harris. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Several of them dutifully joined Sanders, who is threatening another presidential run himself, at the rollout event in one of the largest hearing rooms on

Capitol Hill and praised the guru of the single-payer movement for governmentrun universal health care.

“I’m all in on this. Thank you, Bernie,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley (Oregon).

Gillibrand (New York): “I will be standing with Bernie.”

Warren (Massachusetts): “I want to say thank you to Bernie for all that you have done.”

“The reason we have a chance to achieve” singlepayer health care, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), “is because of advocates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.”

This is a dramatic shift. In 2013, when Sanders introduced similar legislation, he didn’t have a single cosponsor. By contrast, you could have been forgiven for thinking Wednesday’s rollout, with Sanders, Warren, Booker, Harris and Gillibrand testing their messages, was the first Democratic cattle call of the 2020 campaign.

There were a couple of hundred liberal activists in the room (many of them veterans of the Sanders campaign and a few wearing “Join the Political Revolution” Sanders T-shirts) and another 50 in an overflow room.

This embrace of an unabashedly socialist position by the Democrats delights nobody more than the original socialists, the Democratic Socialists of America. David Duhalde, the group’s deputy director, was one of the first in line for the event, carrying a Medicare for All sign.

“Socialism has been most successful in this country when its ideas have been adopted by other parties,” he said, listing the enactment of labor laws, Social Security and Medicare. But “this is a high-water mark,” he said.

In the short term, I’ve argued, this development is a bad thing for Democrats. The nation’s focus has been on divisions among Republicans and their inability to enact any sort of agenda under President Donald Trump. The single-payer issue highlights Democratic divisions and united Republicans.

Notably, only one Democrat who faces a competitive re-election, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), signed on with Sanders. The socialized-medicine bill is popular with the Democratic base but is a liability for Democratic candidates in the swing districts and

Republican states that Democrats need to win to retake the House and Senate.

The divisions were on display Wednesday: As Harris spoke, a member of the left-wing group Code Pink held up a large cutout of the head of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), who is up for re-election and doesn’t support the Sanders bill. Beneath Feinstein’s photo were the words “Healthcare Denier.”

The Republican National Committee, seizing the rare opportunity to play offense, sent out a news release and a video attacking the plan: “Legislation does NOT include how to pay for the $32 trillion program. ...

Plans of 156M(!!) Americans would be upended.”

And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), announcing yet another attempt at repealing Obamacare on Wednesday, tried to use the Sanders plan to revive the moribund effort.

He said his bill was Republicans’ “best and only chance” to prevent single-payer health care.

It’s not hard to see Graham’s prophecy coming true over time, particularly if Republicans, unable to replace Obamacare,

continue to sabotage the program and let it fall apart, leaving millions without health care.

Republicans have another problem fighting singlepayer care now. Because they called Obamacare “socialized medicine,” even though it’s a market-based plan, they have nothing worse to fire at Democrats for embracing the real thing.

Sanders lost the nomination battle to Hillary Clinton (who favored a more incremental approach to health care and gives the single-payer debate little mention in her new book about the campaign). But he seems to be winning the war over the direction of the Democratic agenda.

Sanders now has 35 percent of the Senate Democratic Caucus, and some of the biggest names in the party, embracing his call.

So when he predicts, as he did Wednesday, that “this nation, sooner than people believe, will in fact pass a Medicare for All, singlepayer system,” it doesn’t sound as crazy as it once did.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post columnist.

Email him at dana. milbank@washpost.com.

Documentary series renews the case for ‘Vietnam syndrome’

George Will

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any Americans’ moral vanity is expressed nowadays in their rage to disparage. They are incapable of measured judgments about past politics — about flawed historical figures who were forced by cascading circumstances to make difficult decisions on the basis of imperfect information. So, the nation now needs an example of how to calmly assess episodes fraught with passion and sorrow. An example arrives Sunday night.

For 10 nights on PBS, Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War,” 10 years in the making and 18 hours in length, tells the story of a war “begun in good faith by decent people, out of fateful misunderstandings,” and “prolonged because it seemed easier to muddle

through than admit that it had been caused by tragic decisions” during five presidencies. The combat films are extraordinary; the recollections and reflections of combatants and others on both sides are even more so, featuring photos of them then and interviews with many of them now.

A 1951 photo shows a congressman named John Kennedy dining in Saigon. There is an interview with Le Quan Cong, who became a guerrilla fighter in 1951, at age 12.

Viewers will meet Madame Le Minh Khue, who was 16 when she joined the “Youth Shock Brigade for National Salvation”: “I love Hemingway. I learned from ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Like the resourcefulness of the man who destroys the bridge.

I saw how he coped with war, and I learned from that character.” As did another combatant who loves that novel, John McCain.

Eleven years after his Saigon dinner, President Kennedy said, “We have not sent combat troops in the generally understood sense of the word.” Obliqueness

and evasions greased the slide into a ground war of attrition. Kennedy, his successor (who said, “Foreigners are not like the folks I’m used to”) and their advisers were determined not to make the Munich mistake of confronting an enemy tardily. Tapes of Lyndon Johnson’s telephone conversations with advisers are haunting and horrifying: To national security adviser McGeorge Bundy: “What the hell am I ordering (those kids) out there for?”

In 1966 alone, 18 largescale U.S. offensives left more than 3 million South Vietnamese — approximately one-fifth of the country’s population — homeless. Just on the Laos portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, more tons of bombs — 3 million tons — were dropped than fell on Germany and Japan during World War II. By body counts, America was winning. As an Army adviser says in episode 4, “If you can’t count what’s important, you make what you can count important.”

Vincent Okamoto earned in Vietnam the Army’s

second-highest honor, the Distinguished Service Cross.

He recalls the platoon he led: “Nineteen-, 20-year-old high school dropouts. ...

They looked upon military service as like the weather: You had to go in, and you’d do it. But to see these kids, who had the least to gain, there wasn’t anything to look forward to. ... And yet, their infinite patience, their loyalty to each other, their courage under fire. ... You would ask yourself, ‘How does America produce young men like this?’”

Or like Okamoto. He was born during World War II in Arizona, in a JapaneseAmerican internment camp.

Karl Marlantes, a Rhodes Scholar from Yale who voluntarily left Oxford for Marine service in Vietnam, recalls a fellow lieutenant radioing to battalion headquarters over 20 kilometers away the fact that he had spotted a convoy of trucks. The battalion commander replied that this was impossible because intelligence operatives reported no trucks near there. In a Texas drawl the lieutenant

replied: “Be advised. I am where I am and you are where you are. Where I am, I see (expletive) trucks.”

Weary of hearing the prudence that was so painfully learned in Indochina derided as the “Vietnam syndrome,” Marlantes says (in his Wall Street Journal review of Mark Bowden’s book “Hue 1968”): “If by Vietnam syndrome we mean the belief that the U.S. should never again engage in (a) military interventions in foreign civil wars without clear objectives and a clear exit strategy, (b) ‘nation building’ in countries about whose history and culture we are ignorant, and (c) sacrificing our children when our lives, way of life, or ‘government of, by, and for the people’ are not directly threatened, then we should never get over Vietnam syndrome. It’s not an illness; it’s a vaccination.” The Burns/Novick masterpiece is, in Marlantes’ words about Bowden’s book, “a powerful booster shot.”

George Will is a Washington Post columnist. Email him at georgewill@washpost.com.

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SPORTS Ravens defense next test for Browns’ Kizer The Associated Press

BALTIMORE —In his NFL debut, Cleveland quarterback DeShone Kizer went up against the Pittsburgh Steelers, whose reputation for playing rugged defense began long before the Browns rookie was born.

Having survived that test, Kizer on Sunday will face the Baltimore Ravens, whose similarly renowned defense opened the season by forcing five turnovers in a 20-0 rout of Cincinnati.

“Welcome to the NFL. Welcome to the AFC North,” Kizer said with a chuckle.

“This is Kizer what we signed up for when Cleveland decided to bring me in here.

Going against Baltimore and Pittsburgh, I will learn quickly what it takes to win in this conference.”

See BROWNS, C2

NFL Browns at Ravens Today, 1 p.m.

Today on TV Bills at Panthers, 1 p.m., WSEE Vikings at Steelers, 1 p.m., WFXP Cowboys at Broncos, 4:25 p.m., WFXP Packers at Falcons, 8:20 p.m., WICU Game previews, C2 John Dudley’s NFL picks, C3

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Jeff Kirik Sports editor 870-1679 jeff.kirik@timesnews.com

It’s Steelers vs. the unknown today at Heinz Field

John Dudley The Steelers haven’t played the Vikings since 2013, when they lost to Minnesota 34-27 at Wembley Stadium in London.

They’ve never faced Sam Bradford, the former No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 draft who is trying to resurrect his career with a team that lost franchise quarterback Teddy Bridgewater for

the foreseeable future to a gruesome knee injury.

Those two factors contribute to a level of unknown surrounding the Steelers’ home opener today at Heinz Field, where they host an infrequent opponent and a hot passer whom they’ve never met in the flesh.

Coach Mike Tomlin, during his weekly press conference on Monday, referred to the Vikings as “a really talented group,” but one he knows mostly through film study.

“You know any time you are stepping outside See DUDLEY, C3

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SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS Area teams face off at Iroquois girls volleyball tournament

Edinboro suffers lopsided loss to West Chester Despite rout, Fighting Scots QB Sisson throws for 4 TDs Staff report

Stephane Patry, of the Erie Otters tries to get a shot past his teammate Anand Oberoi, on Sept.

6 during practice at Erie Insurance Arena. Oberoi, who is fluent in French, is serving as Patry’s interpreter while Patry learns English. [JACK HANRAHAN/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Patry, Otters building bonds through shared language

By Victor Fernandes victor.fernandes@timesnews.com

StephanePatrybegantraining immediately after the Erie Otters selected him in the first roundoftheCHLImportDraft in June.

He had to get up to speed because he was ready to make a statement, as much with his grasp of English as his skills on the ice.

“It’s not easy, but day after day I feel better,” Patry, 17, said as he glanced at Anand Oberoi, 18, one of two fellow French-speaking rookies on

the club who have served as interpreters since he arrived from Switzerland two weeks ago.

Hockeyplayersfromvarious backgroundsshareaninstinctiveconnectionontheice.Still, some European players arrive in North America needing to overcome language barriers to break the ice with their new team. Patry started the learning process this summer through online courses.

There is more work ahead, associate coach B.J. Adams See OTTERS, C7

Erie Otters openers Season opener: Thursday, at Peterborough, 7:05 p.m.

Home opener: Sept. 30, vs.

Kitchener, 7 p.m.

View Erie Times-News photos of Erie Otters teammates Stephane Patry and Anand Oberoi: GoErie.com/photos

Inside Former Otters star Alex DeBrincat eyes spot on Blackhawks, C7

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A year after the biggest turnaround in Division II history, Edinboro had a flashbacktothebadolddays on Saturday.

The Fighting Scots, who went from 0-11 to 9-2 last season and had won their first two games this season, allowed48pointsinthefirst half and were trounced by West Chester 62-28 in a PSAC crossover game at John A. Farrell Stadium.

It was the most points Edinboro had allowed since an 84-63 loss to West Liberty in 2009.

There were some bright spots for Edinboro (2-1) in the lopsided loss, as Jake Sisson threw four touchdown passes, three going to James Clark. Sisson completed 29-of-52 passes for 213 yards, including TD passes to Clark of 1, 12 and 9 yards.

By the time Sisson and the Fighting Scots’ offense got untracked, however, the Rams had built a 34-0

PSAC football Edinboro 28 West Chester 62 Game stats, C3 Area college football highlights, C3

lead. Jarel Elder had touchdown runs of five and 43 yards and also scored on a 58-yard reception of a P.J. Long pass. West Chester had 322 yards total offense while building a 48-14 halftime lead.

The Rams got points from their defense, also, with Kevin Duggan scoring on a 31-yard interception return and Justice Smith going in on a 12-yard return of a blocked punt.

Rams quarterback Paul Dooley finished 12-of-19 for164yardsandthreeTDs, while Elder led the ground game with 85 yards on 13 carries.

Walter Fletcher sparked the Edinboro offense with 142 yards on 17 carries and was on the receiving end of Sisson’s first TD pass in the second quarter.

Edinboro begins PSAC West play next Saturday at Indiana (Pa.).

Indians beat Royals, close in on AL Central title Cleveland clinches at least tie for division championship The Associated Press

CLEVELAND — Francisco Lindor hit an RBI double and theClevelandIndiansbounced back after having their record streakstoppedat22bybeating the Kansas City Royals 8-4 on Saturday to move to the brink of an AL Central title.

Lindor’s double in the sixth off Jason Hammel (8-12) gave the All-Star shortstop an extra-basehitinaclub-record 10 straight games. The major league record is 14 straight, shared by Chipper Jones

AL Central Royals 4 Indians 8 Box score, standings, C6

(2006) and Paul Waner (1927).

Carlos Carrasco (16-6) pitched into the seventh as the Indians improved to 32-5 in their last 37 games.

With the win, the Indians clinched at least a tie for the division and dropped their magic number for repeating aschampstoone.IfMinnesota loses its night game at home againstToronto,Clevelandwill clinch and take the next step in getting back to the World

Series. The Blue Jays-Twins gamedidnotendbypresstime.

AvictorybytheTwinswould meantheIndianscouldlockup the division on Sunday, when ace and Cy Young cofavorite Corey Kluber starts the finale of the season’s longest homestand at Progressive Field.

Edwin Encarnacion hit his 35th homer for Cleveland.

Alex Gordon connected for the Royals, whose wild-card hopes took another blow.

Less than 24 hours after losing for the first time in three weeks, the defending ALchampionIndiansreturned to the business of taking their secondstraightdivisioncrown and ninth since 1995.

Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor greets Austin Jackson after Jackson scored on a throwing error by the Royals’ Drew Butera during the sixth inning in Cleveland on Saturday.

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Winning in this division has never been easy for the Browns, who have seemingly made the cellar their permanent residence in the AFC North in part because of their struggle at quarterback.

Cleveland can only hope Kizer will make a

Texans 13, Bengals 9: Deshaun Watson won his first NFL start, scoring the game’s only TD on a 49-yard run.

GAME PREVIEWS For broadcast information on teams of area interest, check TV/radio listings.

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Pts 14 13 13 11 11 11 10 9

difference for a team that went 1-15 last season and hasn’t won a road game since 2015 (in Baltimore).

Kizer, a star at Notre Dame, held up well last week in a 21-18 defeat.

He completed 20-of-30 passes for 222 yards and a touchdown, and also ran for a score.

Now, the kid hits the road for the first time against a defense that last week harassed veteran Andy Dalton from start

Cleveland (0-1) at Baltimore (1-0)

Buffalo (1-0) at Carolina (1-0)

Arizona (0-1) at Indianapolis (0-1)

Tennessee (0-1) at Jacksonville (1-0)

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, CBS Opening line: Ravens by 8 Series record: Ravens lead series 27-9 Last meeting: Ravens beat Browns 28-7, Nov. 10, 2016 Last week: Browns lost to Steelers 21-18; Ravens beat Bengals 20-0 Notes: Browns winless on road since win at Baltimore in Oct. 2015.

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, CBS Opening line: Panthers by 7½ Series record: Bills lead series 5-1 Last meeting: Bills beat Panthers 24-23 on Sept.

5, 2013 Last week: Bills beat Jets 21-12; Panthers beat 49ers 23-3 Notes: Bills’ 214 yards offense allowed last week were fewest since 2013.

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Cardinals by 3½ Series record: Colts lead series 18-17 Last meeting: Cardinals beat Colts 40-11, Nov. 24, 2013 Last week: Cardinals lost to Lions 35-23; Colts lost to Rams 46-9 Notes: WR T.Y. Hilton needs 122 yards receiving for No. 4 in Colts history.

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, CBS Opening line: Pick-em Series record: Titans lead series 25-20 Last meeting: Jaguars beat Titans 38-17, Dec. 24, 2016 Last week: Titans lost to Raiders 26-16; Jaguars beat Texans 29-7 Notes: Titans trying to avoid first 0-2 start since 2012. Mike Mularkey is 2-3 vs former team.

Philadelphia (1-0) at Kansas City (1-0)

New England (0-1) at New Orleans (0-1)

Minnesota (1-0) at Pittsburgh (1-0)

Chicago (0-1) at Tampa Bay (0-0)

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Chiefs by 4½ Series record: Eagles lead series 4-3 Last meeting: Chiefs beat Eagles 26-16, Sept.

9, 2013 Last week: Eagles beat Redskins 30-17; Chiefs beat Patriots 42-27 Notes: Eagles have won three of past four meetings.

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, CBS Opening line: Patriots by 4 Series record: Patriots lead series 9-4 Last meeting: Patriots beat Saints 30-27, Oct. 13, 2013 Last week: Patriots lost to Chiefs 42-27; Saints lost to Vikings 29-19 Notes: DE Trey Flowers has four games since 2016 with multiple sacks.

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Steelers by 7 Series record: Vikings lead series 9-8 Last meeting: Vikings beat Steelers 34-27, Sept. 29, 2013 Last week: Vikings beat Saints 29-19; Steelers beat Browns 21-18 Notes: Vikings’ last win in Pittsburgh came on Sept. 24, 1995.

Time: Sunday, 1 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Buccaneers by 6½ Series record: Bears lead series 38-19 Last meeting: Buccaneers beat Bears 36-10, Nov. 13, 2016 Last week: Bears lost to Falcons 23-17; Bucs had bye (Hurricane Irma) Notes: Bears QB Mike Glennon, signed in free agency from Tampa Bay.

Miami (0-0) at L.A. Chargers (0-1)

New York Jets (0-1) at Oakland (1-0)

Dallas (1-0) at Denver (1-0)

Washington (0-1) at L.A. Rams (1-0)

Time: Sunday, 4:05 p.m.

EDT, CBS Opening line: Chargers by 4 Series record: Dolphins lead series 17-15 Last meeting: Dolphins beat Chargers 31-24, Nov. 13, 2016 Last week: Dolphins had bye (Irma); Chargers lost to Broncos 24-21 Notes: Chargers make Los Angeles debut after 56 seasons in San Diego.

Time: Sunday, 4:05 p.m.

EDT, CBS Opening line: Raiders by 14 Series record: Raiders lead series 24-19-2 Last meeting: Raiders beat Jets 34-20, Nov. 1, 2015 Last week: Jets lost to Bills 21-12; Raiders beat Titans 26-16 Notes: Jets allowed league-worst 18 plays of at least 10 yards vs. Bills.

Time: Sunday, 4:25 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Pick-em Series record: Broncos lead 7-5 Last meeting: Broncos beat Cowboys 51-48, Oct. 6, 2013 Last week: Cowboys beat Giants 19-3; Broncos beat Chargers 24-21 Notes: Since ‘07, Broncos (.714) rank second and Cowboys (.686) third in Sept. winning percentage.

Time: Sunday, 4:25 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Pick-em Series record: Redskins lead 25-13-1 Last meeting: Redskins beat Rams 24-10, Sept.

20, 2015 Last week: Redskins lost to Eagles 30-17; Rams beat Colts 46-9 Notes: Rams QB Jared Goff earned first victory last week with 306 yards passing, one TD.

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San Francisco (0-1) at Seattle (0-1)

Green Bay (1-0) at Atlanta (1-0)

Detroit (1-0) at N.Y. Giants (0-1)

Time: Sunday 4:25 p.m.

EDT, Fox Opening line: Seahawks by 12½ Series record: Seahawks lead 22-15 Last meeting: Seahawks beat 49ers 25-23, Jan. 1 Last week: 49ers lost to Panthers 23-3; Seahawks lost to Packers 17-9.

Notes: Seahawks have won six straight overall against 49ers.

Time: Sunday, 8:30 p.m.

EDT, NBC Opening line: Falcons by 2 Series record: Packers lead 17-15 Last meeting: Falcons beat Packers 44-21, Jan. 22 in NFC championship Last week: Packers beat Seahawks 17-9; Falcons beat Bears 23-17 Notes: Weather permitting, stadium to have roof open for first NFL game.

Time: Monday, 8:30 p.m.

EDT, ESPN Opening line: Giants by 4 Series record: Series tied 21-22-1 Last meeting: Giants beat Lions 17-6 on Dec. 18, 2016 Last week: Lions beat Cardinals 35-23; Giants lost to Cowboys 19-3 Notes: Matthew Stafford has 27 winning drives in 4th quarter/OT since ’11.

to finish.

“He’s going to face a very hostile crowd and a really good defense.

That’s what I’ve told him,” Browns coach Hue Jackson said. “The Baltimore Ravens are one of the flagship organizations and have done a great job with coach (John) Harbaugh.”

If Kizer ever gets to play on a team with a defense as good as Baltimore’s, he will learn that winning

isn’t always dependent upon the quarterback’s performance. Coming off a back injury that forced him to miss the entire preseason, Ravens starter Joe Flacco didn’t complete a pass in the second half last week because, well, he didn’t have to.

“It was obviously one of those games where we weren’t going to go crazy and throw for 600 yards,” Flacco said. “It doesn’t really matter to

me. I just want to win.”

Some things to know about the BrownsRavens matchup: STRONG DEBUT: The Ravens put their retooled secondary on display last week, and the results were even better than anticipated. Free-agent pickups Brandon Carr and Tony Jefferson contributed heavily: Carr picked off a pass and Jefferson had nine tackles and a sack. “That was a

START ’EM QB: Jameis Winston, Tampa Bay vs. Chicago.

RB: Marshawn Lynch, Oakland vs. N.Y. Jets; Leonard Fournette, Jacksonville vs. Tennessee.

WR: Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona at Indianapolis; Brandin Cooks, New England at New Orleans.

SIT ’EM QB: Kirk Cousins, Washington at L.A. Rams.

RB: Paul Perkins, N.Y. Giants vs. Detroit; Carlos Hyde, San Fran at Seattle.

WR: Any Colts, Indianapolis vs. Arizona; Rishard Matthews, Tennessee at Jacksonville

dream come true. I never pitched a shutout in the NFL,” Jefferson said.

NO SECOND CHANCES:

Though Cleveland’s Isaiah Crowell was limited to 33 yards on 17 carries last week, he moved past Bobby Mitchell into ninth place on the team career list with 2,298 yards.

He also peeled off an 85-yard touchdown run against Baltimore last season.

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Bills to face Panthers Buffalo coach McDermott returns to familiar territory The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. —Sean McDermott spent the previous six seasons going up against Cam Newton daily in practice.

So you’d expect the Bills’ first-year coach and former Panthers defensive coordinator to know a thing or two about how to slow down the league’s 2015 MVP, right?

“The problem is I’m not out there playing,” joked McDermott.

McDermott, now the headcoachin Buffalo,has spent the week relaying the Panthers’ strengths

and weaknesses to his players as the Bills prepare to head to Charlotte in a game some are calling“Carolinavs.Carolina North.”

WhenMcDermotttook a promotion in Buffalo earlier this offseason, a parade of former Panthers followed.

The Bills hired longtime Panthersfrontoffice executive Brandon Beane astheirnewgeneralmanager. They signed former Panthers All-Pro fullback Mike Tolbert, quarterback Joe Webb and wide receiver Philly Brown too, although Brown has since been released. They even struck a trade with the Panthers.

McDermott said he

wanted guys with the “right DNA” to help build his team in Buffalo.

Given his six-year tenure in Carolina, McDermott’s familiarity with the Panthers has been a hot topic all week.

But both sides seem to think that when push comes to shove the game will ultimately be decided by the players on the field, not McDermott’s influence.

Newton said the Panthers can’t deviate much from their game plan and should try to use their familiarity with McDermott’s play calling tendencies to their advantage on both sides of the football.

“Yes,heknowsus.Yes,

we know him,” Panthers safetyKurtColemansaid.

“But it’s going to come down to guys just beating the guy across from them.”

The Bills, meanwhile, are learning about McDermott’s defensive line rotation, which includes almost equal playing time for starters and backups. Defensive tackle Marcell Dareus only played 34 snaps against the Jets, but said he likes the rotation.

“It takes a little getting used to, but at the same time we all feel fresh,” Dariussaid.“We’reready for the fourth quarter.

The other thing (is) we’ll be ready later on in the season.”

WEEK 2 NFL PICKS Cleveland Browns (0-1) at Baltimore Ravens (1-0), 1 p.m.

The skinny: The Ravens’ offseason investment on the defensive side of the ball paid dividends with a shutout last week. Browns go from one tough matchup to another.

Pick: Ravens 23-13 Buffalo Bills (1-0) at Carolina Panthers (1-0), 1 p.m.

The skinny: Reality check for the Bills, who celebrated a debut win by coach Sean McDermott last week at home against the punchless Jets.

Pick: Panthers 24-14 Arizona Cardinals (0-1) at Indianapolis Colts (0-1), 1 p.m.

The skinny: The Colts have to endure at least one more week without Andrew Luck. Cardinals QB Carson Palmer looks to bounce back from a three-pick opener.

Pick: Cardinals 20-16 Tennessee Titans (0-1) at Jacksonville Jaguars (1-0), 1 p.m.

The skinny: This matchup looks tougher for the Titans coming off a loss in their opener against a Jags team that looked

surprisingly good in beating the Texans.

Pick: Titans 24-21 Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) at Kansas City Chiefs (1-0), 1 p.m.

The skinny: As Eagles fans know, Chiefs coach Andy Reid’s teams are tough to beat when Reid has extra time to prepare. K.C. has been off since stunning the Patriots on opening night.

Pick: Chiefs 27-23 New England Patriots (0-1) at New Orleans Saints (0-1), 1 p.m.

The skinny: Drew Brees and the Saints present another challenge for a New England defense that was shaky in its opener.

Pick: Patriots 31-27 Minnesota Vikings (1-0) at Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0), 1 p.m.

The skinny: The Steelers will be interested in establishing their running game after a subpar effort in that area against the Browns. They’ll have to contend with a hot QB in Sam Bradford.

Pick: Steelers 28-21 Chicago Bears (0-1) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-0), 1 p.m.

The skinny: The silver lining to Irma’s dark clouds is that the Bucs are now able to open the 2017 season at home in front of fans who put football on the back burner for a week.

Pick: Buccaneers 26-17 Miami Dolphins (0-0) at Los Angeles Chargers (0-1), 4:05 p.m.

The skinny: The Dolphins start their season a week late against the Chargers, who need a win to avoid falling into a hole in the deep AFC West.

Pick: Chargers 29-20

Washington Redskins (0-1) at Los Angeles Rams (1-0), 4:25 p.m.

The skinny: Coming off a disappointing loss in their home opener, the Skins get a road game against one of Week 1’s most surprising teams.

Pick: Rams 20-17 San Francisco 49ers (0-1) at Seattle Seahawks (0-1), 4:25 p.m.

The skinny: There are 0-1 teams like the 49ers and 0-1 team like the Seahawks, and no one should confuse the two.

Pick: Seahawks 27-10

New York Jets (0-1) at Oakland Raiders (1-0), 4:05 p.m.

The skinny: Every week is going to bring a tough matchup for the Jets, but this one looks legitimately bleak with the Raiders locked in on a playoff run.

Pick: Raiders 30-16

Green Bay Packers (1-0) at Atlanta Falcons (1-0), 8:30 p.m.

The skinny: Rematch from last year’s NFC Championship Game in the debut game at the Falcons’ new stadium.

Should be worth staying up for this one.

Pick: Falcons 27-24

Dallas Cowboys (1-0) at Denver Broncos (1-0), 4:25 p.m.

The skinny: Both teams want to run the ball, and no offense does it better than Dallas’. A difficult challenge for Broncos coach Vance Joseph in his second game.

Pick: Cowboys 23-21

Last week: 9-6 (. 600) Season: 9-6 (. 600)

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Trick play helps Mercyhurst rally, beat East Stroudsburg Staff report

EAST STROUDSBURG — Quarterback Doug Altavilla was on the receiving end of the biggest play in Mercyhurst University’s comeback victory vs. East Stroudsburg on Saturday.

The Lakers, down 13-0 at halftime, scored 25 unanswered points over thesecondhalffora25-20 win at Gregory-Douds Field at Eiler-Martin Stadium. The outcome left eachteamwith1-2overall records.

Mercyhurst trailed 13-12 early in the fourth quarterwhencoachMarty Schaetzle called for atrick play.

On first-and-10 from the Lakers’ 39, Altavilla got the ball into Brad Novak’s hands. The wide receiver paused, and then caughtEastStroudsburg’s defense napping.

Novakthrewtoanopen Altavilla,whoscoredfrom 61 yards out with 10 minutes, 50 seconds left to play. The ensuing twopoint conversion failed, but Mercyhurst took a permanent lead at 18-13.

Garrett Owens padded Mercyhurst’s lead when he scored on a five-yard carry with 4:51 left. It was thesecondtouchdownrun for the North East graduate, who finished with 133 rushing yards.

The Warriors pulled within five on Elijah Rehm’s 36-yard TD pass from Ben Moser with 1:29 to play. Mercyhurst, though, recovered the hosts’onsidekickandthen ran out the clock.

Bloomsburg 27, Gannon 10: At Bloomsburg, Marc Jones rushed for 173 yards and a touchdown, but the rest of the Gannonoffensesputtered

Saturday as the Golden Knights were beaten by Bloomsburg 27-10 in a PSAC crossover game at Redman Stadium.

The defeat was the second in a row for Gannon (1-2) as Bloomsburg improved to 2-1.

The Huskies broke out on top 10-0 on a Qmar Quiteh 6-yard TD run in the first quarter and a 26-yardfieldgoalbyRyan Abbott in the second. The Knights got on the board on a Karch Holland field goal early in the second quarter and were putting together an impressive drive in an attempt to tie the game. But Isaiah Young fumbled at the Bloomsburg 45 and the Huskies’ Chris Gary returned the ball 55 yards for a backbreaking score.

Jones scored from 6 yards out late in the third quarter to bring Gannon within 17-10, but Chris

Palubinsky hit Michael Allen with a 41-yard touchdownpasstorestore the Huskies’ cushion.

Denison 62, Allegheny 26: At Meadville,CanaanGebelethrew for 407 yards as Denison amassed746yardsoftotal offense in routing Allegheny in an NCAC game at Frank B. Fuhrer Field.

It was the second straight defeat for the Gators (1-2) after a season-opening victory, and inthetwolossesAllegheny hassurrendered111points.

Gebele finished 22-of30 for three touchdowns and added 81 yards and a TD on the ground.

Gators quarterback Logan Lee completed 24-of-37 passes for 313 yards and two scores.

Tristan Rhodes was Lee’s primaryreceiver,grabbing eight passes for 139 yards and the two TDs.

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your conference, you’re concerned about a lack of familiarity,” said Tomlin, who was Minnesota’s defensive coordinator in 2006 under then first-year Vikings head coach Brad Childress.

Childress is now an assistant on Andy Reid’s staff in Kansas City. And those Vikings from the last meeting between the two teams four years ago?

They’vemostlydispersed, with then-running back Adrian Peterson now a disgruntled New Orleans Saint and then-quarterback Matt Cassel now backing up Marcus Mariota in Tennessee.

So if the Steelers are sometimes a bit of an enigma — struggling at times to move the ball last week in Cleveland; often coming out flat in the favorite’s role— good luck predicting how they will perform today amid the adrenaline rush of a home crowd against a quarterback who has flirted with both greatness and rejection.

Bradford tied an NFL record for touchdowns over the first eight games of a rookie season in 2010, puttinghimalongsideDan Marino, Peyton Manning and Ben Roethlisberger.

Five years later he was effectivelydiscarded,sent to Philadelphia in a trade for Eagles quarterback Nick Foles and two draft picks.

“You know,” Tomlin said of Bradford, “sometimes people seem to forget how credible his resume is.”

Bradford was every bit of credible in Week 1. He completed 84 percent of his passes (27-of-32) and threw for 346 yards and three touchdowns in a 29-19 victory over the Saints.

He made quick decisions, moved well in the pocketandthrewintotight windows.WhentheSaints paid too much attention to Stefon Diggs (seven catchesoneighttargetsfor 93 yards and two scores) and rookie running back Dalvin Cook (127 yards on 22 carries), Bradford went to former undrafted free agent receiver Adam Thielen,whofinishedwith nine catches on 10 targets for 157 yards.

It was the sort of quarterback play and overall offensive balance that has given the Steelers’ problems in the past, and it will be a test for a defense that expects to have outside linebacker Bud Dupree, if notdefensiveendStephon

Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner, a McDowell graduate, warms up before last Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland.

Conner and the Steelers face the Minnesota Vikings today at Heinz Field. [AP PHOTO/RON SCHWANE]

Tuitt, back from injuries today.

Defensive coordinator Keith Butler suggested that generating the same pressure the Steelers did in sacking Browns rookie quarterback DeShone Kizerseventimeslastweek will be a greater challenge against Bradford.

“He got the ball out of his hands,” Butler said of Bradford’s Week 1 performance. “By the time he hit his back foot, he let it go. He looked like he had good command of what he was doing.”

In other words, the Steelers might need to blitz more than they did last week, when they were often able to get to Kizer with base fronts. That exposes their improving but still-vulnerable secondary.

Of course, that won’t matterasmuchiftheyfind awaytoscoremorepoints.

The expectation is that the Steelers’ offense will be better today than it was against the Browns.

Le’VeonBellandMartavis Bryant have had a week to shake off rust. Tomlin said eliminating the presnap penalties that led to the Steelers being flagged 13 times for 144 yards in Week 1 was a point of emphasis in practice.

But how well will the Steelers’ rebuilt defense handle Bradford, Diggs, Cook, Thielen and the rest of Minnesota’s offensive skill players, a group that produced 470 total yards against the Saints?

That answer is just as importantasitisunknown.

John Dudley can be reached at 870-1677 or john.dudley@ timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNdudley.

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No. 9 Oklahoma Statedrills Pittsburgh Rudolph has 5 TD passes before giving way to backup in 3rd quarter

Oklahoma St. Pitt Game stats, C3

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Ateman (109) and Dillon Stoner (100) also reached the 100-yard receiving mark, the first time in 12 years a team has had four 100-yard receivers in a game. The Cowboys did it despite missing LSU transfer Tyron Johnson, suspended for the game for a violation of team rules.

The Cowboys reached the end zone on each of their first seven possessions, including a pair of touchdown runs by Justice Hill. Oklahoma State converted all nine of its third downs in the opening half.

“You don’t have to do much besides your job

PITTSBURGH — Mason Rudolph threw five touchdown passes, all in the first half, and No. 9 Oklahoma State drilled Pittsburgh 59-21 on Saturday.

Rudolph completed 23-of-32 passes for 497 yards before being pulled in the middle of the third quarter with the Cowboys (3-0) in full command. He did throw his first interception of the season, ending a streak of 216 consecutive passes without a pick dating back to last season. It was the longest active streak in the FBS.

Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph passes over Pittsburgh linebacker Elijah Zeise in the first quarter Saturday in Pittsburgh. Oklahoma State won 59-21. [AP PHOTO/KEITH SRAKOCIC]

“He made some big plays today at crucial times and you see the importance of having a quarterback that can make plays,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy

said.

Jalen McCleskey caught seven passes for 162 yards and three touchdowns. James Washington added 124 yards receiving. Marcell

59 21

and you look up James, or Marcell or somebody is out there scoring a touchdown,” Hill said. “If they’re not doing something, either I’m running the ball or JD is running the ball.”

Pitt (1-2) simply couldn’t keep up. Struggling graduate transfer quarterback Max Browne lasted just over a quarter before being replaced by sophomore Ben DiNucci.

DiNucci guided the Panthers to touchdowns on his first two drives but fizzled in the second half, completing 13 of 25 passes for 228 yards with a touchdown and two picks.

“We have a decision to make,” Panthers coach Pat Narduzzi said.

Oklahoma State held off Pitt 45-38 in Stillwater

last season behind a school-record 540 yards passing by Rudolph.

The rematch was a mismatch. The Cowboys did whatever they wanted whenever they wanted during a first half in which they rolled up 516 yards.

When Rudolph hit McCleskey over the middle for a 48-yard touchdown pass with 3:40 left in the second quarter, Oklahoma State was up by 42 and a large portion of the home crowd was on its way to the exit despite an enticement from Pitt officials for students to stay.

The Cowboy’s 49 points in the first half were the most given up

by Pitt since it allowed 52 in the first half of a 72-0 loss to Ohio State in 1996.

Franks’ 63-yard TD pass as time Wimbush, Notre expires helps Vols beat No. 24 Florida Dame run past BC The Associated Press

GAINESVILLE,Fla.— Feleipe Franks heaved a 63-yardtouchdownpass to Tyrie Cleveland as the clockexpired,andNo.24 Floridabeat23rd-ranked Tennessee 26-20 in a wild, wacky and sometimes unwatchable rivalry game Saturday.

Franks scrambled away from the rush on a first-and-10 play with 9 seconds remaining and found Cleveland behind safety Micah Abernathy for a Hail Mary that no one—especiallytheVolunteers — saw coming.

The final play capped a crazy fourth quarter in which the teams combined for 37 points and little, if any, defense.

Tennessee (2-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) can blame three missed field goals for notbeingaheadlate.The Gators (1-1, 1-0) looked as if they had the game in hand early in the final frame, but found a way to let the Volunteers get back in it.

No. 7 Michigan 29, Air Force 13 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Donovan Peoples-Jones returned a punt 79 yards for a score and Quinn Nordin tied a school record with five field goals, helping Michigan overcome offensive struggles. The Wolverines (3-0) didn’t lead by more than three points until

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PSAC

West Division Team California IUP Slippery Rock Edinboro Gannon Mercyhurst Clarion Seton Hill

East Division Shippensburg Bloomsburg Kutztown West Chester Cheyney East Stroudsburg Millersville Lock Haven

Conf. Overall W-L W-L 0-0 3-0 0-0 3-0 0-0 3-0 0-0 2-1 0-0 1-2 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

3-0 2-1 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 1-2 0-3

Saturday’s games West Chester 62, Edinboro 28 Bloomsburg 27, Gannon 10 Mercyhurst 25, E. Stroudsburg 20 IUP 65, Cheyney 16 Kutztown 62, Seton Hill 17 Shippensburg 31, Clarion 0 California 29, Millersville 13 Slippery Rock 33, Lock Haven 7

Peoples-Jones’ touchdown early in the third quarter.

The Falcons (1-1) failed to convert a pass until Arion Worthman threw a short pass to Ronald Cleveland and the receiver turned it into a 64-yard touchdown play with 11:54 left in the quarter that pulled the service academy within three points again.

No. 8 Ohio State 38, Army 7 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Freshman J.K. Dobbins ran for 172 yards and a pair of touchdowns and Ohio State rebounded from a deflating loss to rout Army. Dobbins broke away for an electrifying 52-yard touchdown run to open the second half after romping for 22 yards on the previous play, extending Ohio State’s 17-7 halftime lead. The Buckeyes (2-1) then got touchdowns on two of their next three drives to pull away.

No. 10 Wisconsin 40, BYU 6 PROVO, Utah — Alex Hornibrook threw for 256 yards and four touchdowns for Wisconsin.

The Badgers (3-0) met little resistance as they put the game away in the first half and led 24-6 at halftime. Hornibrook missed on only one pass all day. He completed 10 of 11 passes in the first half for 149 yards and two touchdowns. The second

half was more of the same as he hit on all eight attempts. The sophomore put up career highs in passing yards, passing touchdowns and completions. Jonathan Taylor gave the BYU defense fits as he repeatedly sidestepped defenders and finished runs with power.

The freshman running back gained 128 yards and scored once on 18 rushes.

The Cougars dropped to 1-3.

No. 15 Auburn 24, Mercer 10 AUBURN, Ala. — Kamryn Pettway ran for 128 yards and three touchdowns and Auburn overcame five turnovers to hold off FCS school Mercer. After being held without a touchdown in a 14-6 loss at third-ranked Clemson the previous week, Auburn (2-1) could at least point to a stout defensive opponent as the reason for its troubles. Not this time. Mercer (1-2), which only resumed its football program five years ago and plays a division down in the Southern Conference, gave the Tigers all they could handle, much to a chagrin of a disgruntled crowd at Jordan-Hare Stadium .

No. 16 Virginia Tech 64, East Carolina 17 GREENVILLE, N.C. — Redshirt freshman Josh Jackson threw for 372 yards and five

WC — Duggan 31 interception return (Lambritsios kick) WC — Elder 58 pass from Long (Lambritsios kick) Second Quarter WC — Smith 12 blocked punt return (Lambritsios kick) E — Fletcher 5 pass from Sisson (Cushma kick) WC — Elder 43 run (Lambritsios kick) E — Clark 1 pass from Sisson (Cushma kick) WC — Karpinski 36 pass from Dooley (Lambritsios kick) Third Quarter E — Clark 12 pass from Sisson (Cushma kick) WC — Karpinski 13 pass from Dooley (Chegia kick) Fourth Quarter E — Clark 9 pass from Sisson (Cushma kick) WC — Dukes 44 run (Chegia kick)

Rushing E: Fletcher 17-142, Galyk 3-27, Sisson 6-4.

WC: Elder 13-85, Dukes 5-65, Class 7-32, Dooley 5-24, Long 6-22, Team 1-(-2), Nasir 1-(-4).

Passing E: Sisson 29-52-2-213, Gregory 0-1-0-0.

WC: Dooley 12-19-2-164, Long 3-5-0-80.

Receiving E: Clark 12-104, Dowdell 5-38, Fletcher 5-17, Gregory 4-31, Williams 2-12, Tomko 1-11.

WC: Karpinski 4-78, James 4-50, Sydnor 3-32, Elder 2-67, Dukes 2-17.

Bloomsburg 27, Gannon 10 West Chester 62, Edinboro 28 G E WC First Downs 16 First Downs 21 22 Rushes-yards 42-112 Rushes-yards 26-173 38-222 Comp.-Att.-Int. 14-21-1 Comp.-Att.-Int. 29-53-2 15-24-2 Passing yards 207 Passing yards 213 244 Total yards 319 Total yards 386 466 Penalties-yards 4-45 Penalties-yards 00-00 00-00 Fumbles-lost 3-0 Fumbles-lost 8-88 6-63 0 3 Edinboro 0 14 7 7 — 28 Gannon 7 10 West Chester 27 21 7 7 — 62 Bloomsburg First Quarter First Quarter WC — Elder 5 run (kick blocked) B — Quiteh 6 run (Abbott kick) WC — Janes 29 pass from Dooley Second Quarter (Lambritsios kick)

touchdowns — three to Cam Phillips — to help No. 16 Virginia Tech beat East Carolina. Phillips had a program-record 14 catches for 189 yards to help the Hokies improve to 3-0 for the first time since 2011. He punctuated his day with a perfectly executed route that left him wide open, and Jackson hit him in stride for a 45-yard score with 7:46 left in the third quarter.

No. 20 TCU 56, SMU 36 FORT WORTH, Texas — Jalen Reagor made a leaping 38-yard catch between four defenders in the end zone on the last play of the first half, finally putting TCU ahead to stay against upset-minded SMU. The Mustangs (2-1) led 19-7 before Kenny Hill threw three TD passes in the final 7 ½ minutes of the second quarter. The last was Reagor’s catch in a crowd of Mustangs.

BOSTON — Brandon Wimbush ran for four touchdowns and 207 yards — a record for a Notre Dame quarterback — and Josh Adams had 229 rushing yards on Saturday to help the Irish respond to their fall from the rankings with a 49-20 victory over Boston College.

Wimbush scored on runs of 1, 2, 3, and 65 yards, setting up two other touchdowns with 46- and 32-yard runs. Adams broke free for 65- and 64-yard runs but was chased down both times by BC defensive back Isaac Yiadom.

In the matchup of the only two Catholic schools in FBS a rivalry known

as the “Holy War” Notre Dame (2-1) led just 14-13 midway through the third quarter before scoring the next three touchdowns to beat the Eagles for the sixth straight time.

After BC (1-2) was stuffed on a fourth-and-1 on the Notre Dame 30, Wimbush broke downfield for 46 yards to set up Tony Jones’ 1-yard touchdown. Adams opened the next Irish possession with a 36-yard run, Wimbush connected with Durham Smythe for 33 yards, and then two plays later the quarterback headed for the pylon to give the Irish a 28-13 lead en route to the blowout.

In all, the Irish ran for 515 yards on 51 carries.

Memphis 48, No. 25 UCLA 45 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Riley Ferguson threw for 398 yards and six touchdowns, and Jacobi Francis broke up a fourth-down pass in the closing seconds in Memphis’ victory over UCLA. Francis’ breakup with 56 seconds left prevented another fourth-quarter comeback

by Bruins quarterback Josh Rosen.

B — Abbott 26 field goal G — Holland 30 field goal B — Gary 55 fumble return (Abbott kick) Third Quarter G — Jones 6 run (Holland kick) Fourth Quarter B — Allen 41 pass from Palubinsky (Abbott kick) B — Abbott 36 field goal

Rushing G: Jones 22-173, Young 2-5, Keefe 6-(-26).

B: Quiteh 23-67, Gooden 14-56, Popson 1-6, Palubinsky 4-(-17).

Passing G: Keefe 15-27-2-169.

B: Palubinsky 14-21-1-207.

Receiving G: Palka 6-90, Jones 2-13, Brooks 2-11, Owens 2-11, Young 1-37, Smith 1-4, Brend.

Klemensic 1-3.

B: Allen 5-79, Popson 4-98, Strang 2-21, Gilhool 1-7, Allison 1-4, Gaugler 1-(-2).

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Rushing M: Owens 16-133, E.Smith 13-60, Thompson 1-3, Team 3-(-10), Altavilla 7-(-12).

ES: Anderson 22-131, Fells 3-24, Moser 8-24, Bell 3-7.

Passing M: Altavilla 19-30-3-216, Novak 1-1-0-61.

ES: Moser 13-31-0-196, O’Brien 1-1-0-12.

Receiving M: Z.Smith 5-66, Altavilla 1-61, Mostoller 4-51, Novak 3-34, Blackston 5-34, Owens 1-25, E.Smith 1-6.

ES: Wilson 6-98, Rehm 3-50, Buffalo 1-25, Guarino 2-15, Linder 1-12, Bell 1-8.

NCAC Team

Wooster Denison DePauw Wabash Wittenberg Oberlin Hiram Ohio Wesleyan Allegheny Kenyon

Conf.

W-L 2-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 0-1 0-1 0-2 0-2

Mercyhurst 25, East Stroudsburg 20 M ES First Downs 23 15 Rushing yards 174 186 Comp.-Att.-Int. 20-31-3 14-32-0 Passing yards 277 208 Saturday’s games Total yards 451 394 Denison 62, Allegheny 26 Penalties-yards 6-42 10-88 Wabash 62, Kenyon 7 Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-1 Wooster 38, Ohio Wesleyan 20 Mercyhurst 0 0 6 19 — 25 DePauw 55, Hiram 28 East Stroudsburg 3 10 0 7 — 20 Wittenberg 34, Oberlin 0

First Quarter B ES — Walters 29 field goal 14 Second Quarter 30-152 ES — Walters 27 field goal 15-27-2 ES — Anderson 1 run (Walters kick) 169 Third Quarter 321 M — E.Smith 20 run (kick blocked) 3-30 Fourth Quarter 2-2 M — Owens 53 run (kick blocked) 7 0 — 10 M — Altavilla 61 pass from Novak (pass 0 10 — 27 failed) M — Owens 5 run (Cole kick) ES — Rehm 36 pass from Moser (Walters kick)

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Denison 62, Allegheny 26

Overall W-L 3-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-1 1-1 0-2 1-2 0-3

A — Balla 2 run (Bednarowicz kick) D — Minton 30 run (Kramer kick) Team — Scoring Description Second Quarter D — Webster 72 pass from Gebele (Kramer kick) A — Balla 14 run (kick failed) D — Farley 15 run (Kramer kick) D — Webster 60 pass from Gebele (kick failed) Third Quarter D — Shackleford 4 run (Kramer kick) A — Rhoades 3 pass from Lee (Bednarowicz kick) D — Gebele 79 run (Kramer kick) A — Rhoades 65 pass from Lee (kick failed) Fourth Quarter D — Minton 1 run (Kramer kick) D — Biddle 16 pass from Baldinger (Kramer kick)

Rushing D: Farley 5-113, Gebele 4-76, Minton 8-50, Shackleford 2-12, Henkey 5-10, Biddle 1-6.

A: Balla 20-108, Wilson 6-28, Sellers 1-4, Victor 1-1, Lee 7-0, Greer 1-(-4).

Passing D: Gebele 22-30-0-4-7, Baldinger 5-5-0-72.

A: Lee 24-37-313, Greer 1-1-0-22, Balla 0-1-0-0.

Receiving D: Weimar 8-120, Mueller 7-133, Webster 4-157, Oursler 3-29, Iammarino 2-20, Farley 2-4, Biddle 1-16.

A: Rhoades 8-139, French 6-60, Shaw 2-27, Bachik 2-23, Diaz 2-18, Victor 1-45, Sellers 1-8, Wojnar 1-8, Balla 1-4, Wilson 1-3.

D A 27 24 DIVISION I 25-267 36-137 Non-conference 27-35-0 25-39-1 479 335 OKLAHOMA ST. 59, PITT 21 746 335 Oklahoma St. 21 28 7 3 — 59 4-22 10-94 Pittsburgh 0 14 7 0 — 21 0-0 1-1 14 20 14 14 — 62 First Quarter 7 6 13 0 — 26 OKS — Hill 20 run (Ammendola kick), 13:00 OKS — Stoner 54 pass from Rudolph First Quarter (Ammendola kick), 7:46 D — Mueller 35 pass from Gebele (Kramer OKS — Ateman 69 pass from Rudolph kick) (Ammendola kick), 3:33 First Downs Rushes-yards Comp.-Att.-Int. Passing yards Total yards Penalties-yards Fumbles-lost Denison Allegheny

Second Quarter OKS — McCleskey 8 pass from Rudolph (Ammendola kick), 13:41 OKS — McCleskey 40 pass from Rudolph (Ammendola kick), 11:22 PIT — Moss 5 run (Kessman kick), 9:25 OKS — Hill 15 run (Ammendola kick), 6:15 OKS — McCleskey 48 pass from Rudolph (Ammendola kick), 3:40 PIT — Araujo-Lopes 14 pass from DiNucci (Kessman kick), :16 Third Quarter OKS — Phillips 10 interception return (Ammendola kick), 9:54 PIT — Pinnock 0 fumble return (Kessman kick), :08 Fourth Quarter OKS — FG Ammendola 25, 10:08 A — 38,952.

OKS First downs 27 Rushes-yards 35-104 Passing 572 Comp-Att-Int 26-37-1 Return Yards 41 Punts-Avg. 1-45.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 Penalties-Yards 4-30 Time of Possession 28:28

PIT 17 34-103 288 20-35-2 85 6-45.33 0-0 6-50 31:32

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Oklahoma St., Hill 11-91, King 16-35, L.Brown 4-8, Rudolph 1-(minus 3), (Team) 3-(minus 27). Pittsburgh, Moss 1236, Ffrench 3-34, DiNucci 7-18, Araujo-Lopes 1-10, Ollison 7-6, Q.Henderson 1-1, Hall 1-1, Browne 2-(minus 3).

PASSING: Oklahoma St., Rudolph 23-32-1497, Cornelius 3-5-0-75. Pittsburgh, Browne 7-10-0-60, DiNucci 13-25-2-228.

RECEIVING: Oklahoma St., McCleskey 7-162, Washington 5-124, Stoner 5-100, Ateman 4-109, Ty.Wallace 2-49, Hill 2-2, Abbott 1-26. Pittsburgh, Araujo-Lopes 6-89, Flanagan 3-43, Mathews 3-32, Ffrench 3-16, Q.Henderson 1-74, Moss 1-12, Hall 1-8, Ollison 1-7, C.Clark 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: Pittsburgh, Kessman 49.

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Junior’s final season ends without championship The Associated Press

JOLIET, Ill. — Fan enthusiasm hasn’t waned forDaleEarnhardtJr.even ashe’sstumbledthrougha disheartening final season that will end without a NASCAR Cup championship in his 18-year career.

Earnhardt, a two-time Daytona 500 champion, hasjustonetop-fivefinish this season and hasn’t finished better than 12th in his past 10 races in the No. 88 Chevrolet. When NASCAR’s version of the playoffs open Sunday at Chicagoland, Earnhardt starts with a more modest goaloffinishingtheseason inside the top 20 in the standings.

“We should’ve run well all year and gotten ourselves into the playoffs forallofourfans,”hesaid.

Earnhardt has been feted at tracks all season, receiving donations in his name and framed photos of great moments. At Chicagoland, he cuddled a puppy as the track announced an $8,800 donation to a Chicagobased animal shelter.

He strides through the garage hounded by autograph-seekers who know this is their last chance to receive that favored souvenir on their die cast, hat or poster.

There are 16 drivers in theNASCARplayofffield.

There’s only one driver with the stature of Dale Junior.

Earnhardt has been plagued by concussions the last several years, and he missed half of last season recovering from a head injury. He delayed contract talks on an extension to drive the No. 88 Chevrolet, and the winner of 26 career Cup racesdecidedinthespring to call it quits this season.

Earnhardt is 22nd in points and qualified 20th for Sunday’s race. He has one career win at Chicagoland.

Allgaier wins Xfinity Series race at Chicagoland JOLIET, Ill. — Justin Allgaier pulled away off the final restart and won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at

VIC’S PICK Victor Fernandes picks his winner for the Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway: • Kyle Busch (No. 18 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing): Busch’s aggressive style of racing has produced 40 career wins on the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series. But consistently strong runs wins championships, and Busch is in search of his second Cup title in three years. His pursuit begins at a track where he has a win (2008) and has finished in the top nine

Online Read Victor Fernandes’ Monster Energy Cup Series playoffs prediction: GoErie.com/sports

every year since 2011.

So expect him to add to those impressive totals.

Federated Auto Parts prediction: David Ragan (27th) 2017 regular-season record Total races: 26; Wins: 3; Top 5s: 9; Top 10s: 13; Avg. finish: 15th

Leishman keeps lead at BMW The Associated Press

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Marc Leishman finished with a birdie for a 3-under 68 on Saturday to extend his lead to five shots over Jason Day and Rickie Fowler going into the final round of the BMW Championship.

Leishman gets another chance to win a FedEx Cup playoff event and get one of the top five seeds at the Tour Championship. It’s a much better opportunity than he had two weeks ago at the TPC Boston, when he shared the 54-hole lead with Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth was right behind.

This time, the affable Australian has a big cushion.

Fowler and Day failed to take advantage of the scoring holes on the back nine at Conway Farms, and both had to settle for a 70.

Leishman was at 19-under 194 Jutanugarn fires 68 to lead 2nd round at Evian major EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand shot 3-under 68 to lead in the Evian Championship second round on Saturday.

Seeking to follow her younger sister, Ariya, as a major winner, Jutanugarn’s 9-under total was four shots clear of three players in the clubhouse, including Jennifer Song of the United States, whose 65 was best among the morning starters.

First-round leader Sung Hyun Park, the U.S. Women’s Open champion, dropped two shots early in her second round to be 6 under.

British Women’s Open champion In-Kyung Kim was also 5 under early in her round.

Chicagoland Speedway.

Allgaier, from nearby Riverton, won for the second time this season in NASCAR’s second-tier series. JR Motorsports had a banner day with Allgaier’swinandtheofficial coronation of Elliott Sadler’s regular-season championship.

Newgarden in control of title race at Sonoma SONOMA, Calif. — Josef Newgarden moved a step closer to his first IndyCar title by leading a Penske parade into the IndyCar season finale.

Four of the five drivers still mathematically eligible to win the championship Sunday are from Team Penske. In qualifying, they showed they havetherawspeedtograb this title.

But it’s Newgarden, in his first season driving for Penske, who led the charge. He’s the points leader and three times broke the track record in Saturday’s qualifying session. His final run in his Chevrolet was at 1

minute, 15.5205 seconds and gave Newgarden just the second pole of his career.

The bonus point he earned for the pole gives hima four-point lead over Scott Dixon heading into Sunday’s season finale.

The race is worth double points.

Dominant Vettel takes F1 pole for Singapore GP SINGAPORE — Sebastian Vettel showed his mastery of the Marina Bay circuit to take pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday, while championship rival Lewis Hamiltonstruggled

throughout and finished fifth.

Max Verstappen qualified in second place ahead of Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo, with Kimi Raikkonen steering his Ferrari to fourth place ahead of Hamilton and his MercedesteammateValtteri Bottas.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION TEAM W Boston 85 New York 82 Tampa Bay 72 Baltimore 72 Toronto 69

L 63 66 77 77 79

PCT. .574 .554 .483 .483 .466

GB — 3 13½ 13½ 16

WCGB — — 6 6 8½

L10 8-2 8-2 3-7 1-9 5-5

STR W-3 W-4 L-3 L-3 W-1

HOME 46-28 43-27 37-38 44-30 39-36

AWAY 39-35 39-39 35-39 28-47 30-43

CENTRAL DIVISION TEAM W z-Cleveland 92 Minnesota 77 Kansas City 73 Detroit 61 Chicago 59

L 57 70 75 86 88

PCT .617 .524 .493 .415 .401

GB — 14 18½ 30 32

WCGB — — 4½ 16 18

L10 9-1 6-4 4-6 3-7 5-5

STR W-1 L-1 L-1 W-1 L-1

HOME 44-30 38-38 39-36 33-39 34-40

AWAY 48-27 39-32 34-39 28-47 25-48

WEST DIVISION TEAM W Houston 90 Los Angeles 75 Seattle 74 Texas 72 Oakland 65

L 58 72 75 75 82

PCT .608 .510 .497 .490 .442

GB — 14½ 16½ 17½ 24½

WCGB — 2 4 5 12

L10 5-5 5-5 5-5 3-7 7-3

STR HOME AWAY W-3 43-31 47-27 W-1 40-33 35-39 L-2 39-36 35-39 L-4 39-35 33-40 W-1 42-33 23-49 z-clinched playoff berth

NATIONAL LEAGUE

The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Sal Romano pitched a career-high eight shutout innings, Jesse Winker homered and the Cincinnati Reds beat the reeling

Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Saturday.

Romano (5-6) allowed five hits, struck out six and walked none while improving to 3-1 over his past six starts. Elias Diaz’s one-out double

in the fifth was the only runner to get past first base against the rookie right-hander.

Pittsburgh avoided a shutout when Andrew McCutchen hit his 26th homer in the ninth. But

Cody Reed came in with a runner on first and retired Gregory Polanco on a grounder to second for his first career save.

The Pirates have dropped four straight and nine of 10.

B OX S C O R E S

EAST DIVISION TEAM W x-Washington 89 Miami 68 Atlanta 67 New York 63 Philadelphia 57

L 59 79 79 84 90

PCT. .601 .463 .459 .429 .388

GB — 20½ 21 25½ 31½

WCGB — 12½ 13 17½ 23½

L10 5-5 1-9 7-3 4-6 5-5

STR HOME L-2 44-32 L-6 36-36 W-1 34-39 L-5 33-41 L-1 31-38

AWAY 45-27 32-43 33-40 30-43 26-52

CENTRAL DIVISION TEAM W Chicago 82 Milwaukee 78 St. Louis 77 Pittsburgh 68 Cincinnati 65

L 66 69 71 81 84

PCT .554 .531 .520 .456 .436

GB — 3½ 5 14½ 17½

WCGB — 2½ 4 13½ 16½

L10 7-3 6-4 6-4 1-9 5-5

STR HOME W-5 45-32 W-3 41-33 L-2 42-32 L-4 39-34 W-2 38-36

AWAY 37-34 37-36 35-39 29-47 27-48

WEST DIVISION TEAM W z-Los Angeles 96 Arizona 86 Colorado 81 San Diego 65 San Francisco 57

L 52 62 67 82 92

PCT .649 .581 .547 .442 .383

GB — 10 15 30½ 39½

WCGB — — — 15½ 24½

L10 4-6 6-4 7-3 3-7 3-7

SCHEDULES

Pirates’ slide continues as Romano pitches Reds to win

STR HOME AWAY W-4 52-23 44-29 W-3 48-27 38-35 W-1 42-31 39-36 L-4 39-35 26-47 L-3 33-41 24-51 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division

T O D AY ’ S G A M E S ( A l l t i m e s E a s t e r n )

AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore (Jimenez 5-10) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 11-5), 1:05 p.m.

Boston (Rodriguez 5-5) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 8-8), 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Covey 0-5) at Detroit (Boyd 5-10), 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Duffy 8-8) at Cleveland (Kluber 16-4), 1:10 p.m.

Seattle (Moore .1) at Houston (Verlander 12-8), 2:10 p.m.

Toronto (Biagini 3-10) at Minnesota (Gibson 10-10), 2:10 p.m.

Texas (Gonzalez 7-11) at L.A. Angels (Richards 0-1), 3:37 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh (Cole 11-10) at Cincinnati (Stephenson 4-5), 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gsellman 6-7) at Atlanta (Teheran 11-11), 1:35 p.m.

Milwaukee (Woodruff 1-2) vs. Miami (Peters 0-1) at Milwaukee, Wis., 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 11-7) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 10-11), 2:20 p.m.

San Diego (Chacin 12-10) at Colorado (Gray 8-4), 3:10 p.m.

Arizona (Walker 9-7) at San Francisco (Stratton .2), 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 5-7) at Washington (Strasburg 13-4), 8:08 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE Oakland (Manaea 10-10) at Philadelphia (Alvarez 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

ROUNDUP CUBS 4, CARDINALS 1: The Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis to increase their NL Central lead.

YANKEES 9, ORIOLES 3: Didi Gregorius and Greg Bird both homered for the second straight game.

ASTROS 8, MARINERS 6: Dallas Keuchel pitched six effective innings to help Houston reach 90 wins for the first time since 2004.

DODGERS 3, NATIONALS 2: Cody Bellinger hit his 38th homer to match the NL single-season record for rookies.

RED SOX 3, RAYS 1: Rick Porcello took a shutout into the eighth inning.

REDS 2, PIRATES 1 Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Frazier 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .281 Luplow lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .241 McCutchen cf 4 1 2 1 0 1 .276 Bell 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .256 Freese 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .266 1-Bostick pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .222 Polanco rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .254 Diaz c 3 0 2 0 0 0 .242 Mercer ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .252 Nova p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .020 Runzler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —a-Jaso ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .214 Neverauskas p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —Totals 32 1 6 1 1 7 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Winker rf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .275 Cozart ss 3 1 1 0 0 1 .302 Votto 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .318 Suarez 3b 2 0 0 0 1 1 .267 Gennett 2b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .298 Schebler cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .236 Duvall lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Barnhart c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Romano p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .045 b-Kivlehan ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .206 Shackelford p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Reed p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 26 2 4 2 2 7

Merrifield 2b Cain cf Orlando cf Hosmer 1b Cabrera rf Moustakas 3b Cuthbert 3b Moss dh Escobar ss Gordon lf Butera c Totals

4 3 0 4 4 3 0 3 4 4 4 33

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 4

2 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 9

Cleveland AB Lindor ss 4 Jackson cf 4 Santana 1b 4 Encarnacion dh 3 Bruce rf 4 Diaz 3b 3 Gonzalez 2b 1 Almonte lf 3 Allen lf 0 Gomes c 4 Urshela 2b-3b 4 Totals 34

R 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 8

H 3 2 2 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 13

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4

0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 7

.286 .303 .167 .324 .287 .271 .227 .210 .253 .208 .242

BI BB SO Avg. 2 1 0 .281 1 1 1 .307 1 0 0 .267 2 0 1 .252 0 0 0 .255 0 0 1 .270 0 0 0 .275 1 0 0 .233 0 0 0 .200 0 0 0 .224 0 0 0 .224 7 2 3

Kansas City 001 100 200 — 4 9 1 Cleveland 012 004 10x — 8 13 0 E: Butera (2). LOB: Kansas City 5, Cleveland 6. 2B: Cabrera (27), Escobar (32), Butera (4), Lindor (40), Bruce (27). HR: Gordon (7), off Carrasco; Encarnacion (35), off McCarthy.

RBIs: Merrifield (71), Moss (47), Gordon Pittsburgh 000 000 001 — 1 6 0 (43), Butera (14), Lindor 2 (81), Jackson (32), Cincinnati 000 000 20x — 2 4 0 a-lined out for Runzler in the 8th. b-walked for Santana (78), Encarnacion 2 (92), Almonte (14). SB: Merrifield (30), Diaz (2). SF: Moss, Romano in the 8th.

Encarnacion, Almonte.

1-ran for Freese in the 9th.

Runners left in scoring position: Kansas City LOB: Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 2. 2B: Diaz 1 (Hosmer); Cleveland 2 (Almonte, Urshela).

(11), Cozart (23). HR: McCutchen (26), off RISP: Kansas City 2 for 5; Cleveland 3 for 10.

Shackelford; Winker (6), off Nova. RBIs: Runners moved up: Urshela. GIDP: Hosmer, McCutchen (79), Winker (12), Gennett (86).

Moss, Encarnacion, Almonte.

CS: McCutchen (4).

DP: Kansas City 2 (Moustakas, Hosmer), Runners left in scoring position: Pittsburgh (Merrifield, Escobar, Hosmer); Cleveland 2 1 (Nova); Cincinnati 1 (Schebler). RISP: (Lindor, Urshela, Santana), (Urshela, Lindor, Pittsburgh 0 for 2; Cincinnati 1 for 3.

Santana).

DP: Cincinnati 1 (Barnhart, Gennett).

Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nova, L, 11-14 6.1 3 2 2 1 6 79 4.20 Runzler 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 9 0.00 Neverauskas 1 0 0 0 1 0 18 3.15 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Romano, W, 5-6 8 5 0 0 0 6 97 4.07 Shackelford, H, 1 0.2 1 1 1 1 1 23 5.55 Reed, S, 1-1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5.87 Inherited runners-scored: Runzler 2-1, Reed 1-0.

Umpires: Home, Joe West; First, Tom Woodring; Second, Andy Fletcher; Third, Alan Porter.

T: 2:23. A: 25,685 (42,319).

INDIANS 8, ROYALS 4 Kansas City

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hammel, L, 8-12 611 7 6 1 3 96 5.05 McCarthy 1 2 1 1 0 0 11 2.90 Morin 1 0 0 0 1 0 17 6.32 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Carrasco, W, 16-6 6.2 8 4 4 2 5 101 3.48 Miller, H, 22 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1.61 McAllister 1 1 0 0 0 1 12 2.73 Goody 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 2.58 Inherited runners-scored: Miller 1-0. WP: Hammel, Carrasco.

Umpires: Home, Ted Barrett; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, John Tumpane; Third, Lance Barksdale.

T: 2:44. A: 33,688 (35,051).

ASTROS 8, MARINERS 6 SEATTLE

HOUSTON

AB R H BI AB R H BI Segura ss 5 2 2 1 Sprnger cf 5 1 2 2 Haniger rf 4 2 2 1 Reddick rf 4 0 2 2 Cano 2b 5 1 1 2 Altuve 2b 4 2 2 0 Cruz dh 4 0 1 1 Correa ss 4 1 1 0 K.Sager 3b 4 0 1 1 Beltran dh 4 1 3 2 Vlencia 1b 1 0 0 0 T.Kemp pr-dh0 0 0 0 Alonso ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 3 1 0 0 Zunino ph-c 1 0 0 0 B.McCnn c 4 0 0 0 Heredia cf 3 0 1 0 Y.Grrel 1b 4 0 0 0 Gamel ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Fisher lf 42 2 1 C.Ruiz c 3 0 1 0 Vglbach 1b 0 0 0 0 Motter lf 2 0 0 0 Hnmann ph-cf2 1 1 0 Totals 36 610 6 Totals 36 812 7 SEATTLE 000 001 041 — 6 HOUSTON 040 020 11X — 8 E—Keuchel (5), Segura (17). DP—Seattle 1, Houston 1. LOB—Seattle 6, Houston 7.

2B—Springer (27), Reddick (32), Beltran (29), Fisher 2 (4). HR—Segura (11), Haniger (13).

IP H R ER BB SO SEATTLE Ramirez L,5-6 4 8 6 6 3 5 Simmons 1 0 0 0 0 0 Miranda 1 0 0 0 0 1 Vincent 1 2 1 1 0 0 Garton 1 2 1 1 0 0 HOUSTON Keuchel W,13-4 6 4 1 1 2 4 Gregerson 1 0 0 0 0 0 Martes 0 4 4 4 1 0 Sipp 0 1 0 0 0 0 Musgrove S,.1 2 1 1 1 0 3 E.Ramirez pitched to 3 batters in the 5th Martes pitched to 5 batters in the 8th Sipp pitched to 1 batter in the 8th Umpires—Home, Mark Ripperger; First, Rob Drake; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Tom Hallion.

T—3:21. A—33,650 (42,060).

CUBS 4, CARDINALS 1

ST. LOUIS

CHICAGO AB R H BI AB R H BI Crpnter 3b 3 1 1 1 Zobrist rf-lf 4 0 0 0 Pham lf 4 0 0 0 W.Davis p 0 0 0 0 DeJong ss 4 0 0 0 Bryant 3b 5 0 1 0 Mrtinez 1b 4 0 1 0 Rizzo 1b 42 2 0 Fowler cf 3 0 2 0 Cntrras c 2 1 1 0 Y.Mlina c 4 0 0 0 Martin pr 0 0 0 0 Pscotty rf 3 0 1 0 R.Rvera c 1 0 0 0 G.Grcia 2b 3 0 1 0 Almora cf 4 0 3 2 Wacha p 1 0 0 0 I.Happ 2b-lf 3 0 1 1 Brebbia p 0 0 0 0 J.Baez ss-2b 4 0 0 0 Shrriff p 0 0 0 0 Jay lf 30 1 0 Grichuk ph 1 0 0 0 Heyward rf 0 0 0 0 Lyons p 0 0 0 0 Hndrcks p 3 0 0 0 Edwards p 0 0 0 0 Russell ph-ss 1 1 1 1 Totals 30 1 6 1 Totals 34 410 4 ST. LOUIS 000 000 010 — 1 CHICAGO 000 210 01X — 4 DP—Chicago 1. LOB—St. Louis 5, Chicago 12. 2B—Bryant (36), Almora 2 (17). HR— Carpenter (20), Russell (11). SB—Jay (5).

S—Wacha (6).

IP H R ER BB SO ST. LOUIS Wacha L,12-8 5.2 6 3 3 5 7 0 1 2 Brebbia 1 2 0 Sherriff .1 0 0 0 0 0 Lyons 1 2 1 1 0 1 CHICAGO Hendricks W,7-5 7.2 6 1 1 1 5 Edwards H,22 .1 0 0 0 0 1 Davis S,30-30 1 0 0 0 0 2 HBP—by Davis (Fowler).

Umpires—Home, Carlos Torres; First, Bruce Dreckman; Second, Bill Welke; Third, Jordan Baker.

T—2:49. A—40,959 (41,072).

DODGERS 3, NATIONALS 2

LOS ANGELES WASHINGTON AB R H BI AB R H BI Utley 2b 4 2 2 0 T.Trner ss 4 0 1 1 Fields p 0 0 0 0 Kndrick lf 4 0 0 0 Morrow p 0 0 0 0 D.Mrphy 2b 4 0 0 0 Strplng p 0 0 0 0 Zmmrman 1b40 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0 Rendon 3b 3 1 2 1 A.Gnzal ph 1 0 0 0 Werth rf 40 0 0 Jansen p 0 0 0 0 M.Tylor cf 3 0 0 0 C.Sager ss 5 0 1 0 P.Svrno c 2 0 0 0 J.Trner 3b 2 0 0 1 Difo ph 11 1 0 Bllnger 1b 3 1 2 2 Madson p 0 0 0 0 Puig rf 4 0 0 0 A.Cole p 10 0 0 Grndrsn lf 3 0 1 0 O.Perez p 0 0 0 0 A.Brnes c 2 0 1 0 Grace p 00 0 0 Pderson cf 2 0 0 0 M.Albrs p 0 0 0 0 C.Tylor ph-cf 2 0 0 0 Lind ph 10 0 0 Hill p 2 0 0 0 R.Btsta pr 0 0 0 0 Frsythe ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Lobaton c 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 7 3 Totals 31 2 4 2 LOS ANGELES 011 010 000 — 3 WASHINGTON 000 100 010 — 2 E—C.Seager (11). DP—Los Angeles 1, Washington 2. LOB—Los Angeles 8, Washington 4. 2B—Utley 2 (19), A.Barnes (12). HR—Bellinger (38), Rendon (24). SF—J. Turner (7).

IP H R ER BB SO LOS ANGELES Hill W,10-8 5 1 1 1 2 7 Fields H,13 1 0 0 0 0 1 Morrow H,9 1 1 0 0 0 0 Stripling H,5 .1 1 1 1 0 1 Watson H,12 .2 1 0 0 0 0 Jansen S,38-39 1 0 0 0 0 0 WASHINGTON Cole L,2-5 5 7 3 3 2 5 Perez 1 0 0 0 0 2 Grace 1 0 0 0 0 2 Albers 1 0 0 0 1 0 Madson 1 0 0 0 0 1 A.Cole pitched to 2 batters in the 6th HBP—by Cole (Turner), by Cole (Barnes), by Madson (Forsythe).

Umpires—Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Hunter Wendelstedt; Second, Adrian Johnson; Third, Gabe Morales.

T—2:46. A—39,387 (41,418).

M A J O R L E A G U E B A S E B A L L S TAT I S T I C S

AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAM BATTING

AB 5088 5173 5042 5159 5102 5039 5080 5021 5046 5030 4939 4964 5026 4941 5048

R 800 698 746 714 780 642 694 650 678 730 755 671 631 653 626

H 1432 1361 1327 1347 1331 1309 1319 1301 1307 1302 1221 1223 1231 1212 1219

AB Altuve Hou 550 A.Garcia ChW 470 Hosmer KC 552 Jo.Ramirez Cle 545 Reddick Hou 452 Abreu ChW 572 Mauer Min 474 Cain KC 539 Andrus Tex 585 Schoop Bal 567 Segura Sea 492 Gurriel Hou 481 Mancini Bal 487 E.Rosario Min 487 Ma.Gonzalez Hou 416 Gregorius NYY 481 Cruz Sea 504 Springer Hou 496 Merrifield KC 524 A.Jones Bal 568 G.Sanchez NYY 427 Cano Sea 535 Bregman Hou 506 473 Headley NYY A.Simmons LAA 541

R 101 67 89 98 75 90 62 82 95 87 76 63 61 70 58 65 82 99 71 78 74 72 78 70 74

H 191 157 179 171 142 176 144 163 176 170 146 141 142 142 121 140 145 143 149 161 121 151 142 133 152

Houston Baltimore Cleveland Boston New York Kansas City Seattle Chicago Detroit Minnesota Texas Oakland Tampa Bay Los Angeles Toronto

INDIVIDUAL BATTING

HR 217 224 194 153 214 178 175 172 173 187 223 212 211 166 201

RBI 763 671 711 667 746 605 660 619 644 699 713 641 613 623 595

Avg .281 .263 .263 .261 .261 .260 .260 .259 .259 .259 .247 .246 .245 .245 .241

HR RBI Avg 23 77 .347 17 77 .334 24 87 .324 27 75 .314 13 80 .314 31 95 .308 6 60 .304 14 48 .302 20 84 .301 32 104 .300 10 44 .297 17 67 .293 24 76 .292 23 69 .292 21 80 .291 22 77 .291 33 109 .288 31 76 .288 17 70 .284 26 70 .283 31 86 .283 21 88 .282 16 59 .281 12 61 .281 14 67 .281

Benintendi Bos Dickerson TB Justin Upton Det Gamel Sea Lindor Cle Smoak Tor Judge NYY Lowrie Oak Bogaerts Bos Moustakas KC Healy Oak Y.Sanchez ChW Sano Min M.Machado Bal Castellanos Det Longoria TB C.Santana Cle Choo Tex S.Perez KC Betts Bos Pillar Tor Valencia Sea Dozier Min Gardner NYY T.Anderson ChW Bradley Jr. Bos Mazara Tex Polanco Min Buxton Min Seager Sea A.Escobar KC Encarnacion Cle Moreland Bos Mi.Cabrera Det K.Calhoun LAA Morales Tor Kepler Min Pujols LAA Morrison TB Joyce Oak K.Davis Oak Souza Jr. TB Trumbo Bal H.Ramirez Bos Beltran Hou Kinsler Det C.Davis Bal Odor Tex

523 549 459 460 597 514 496 518 517 513 531 437 416 575 554 565 521 504 443 588 548 438 568 548 532 434 501 433 411 534 549 508 466 446 522 523 467 537 474 424 520 491 538 466 436 504 415 564

75 78 81 64 88 79 114 79 81 71 62 58 75 78 67 67 89 90 53 91 67 53 89 90 63 54 60 53 63 67 66 87 66 49 69 65 62 49 69 73 83 71 78 56 57 81 60 77

146 153 128 128 166 143 137 143 141 140 144 117 111 153 147 150 138 133 117 154 143 114 147 142 137 112 129 111 105 136 139 128 117 111 129 129 115 132 115 102 125 118 129 111 101 117 90 119

19 85 .279 Gallo Tex 406 80 85 37 74 .209 26 60 .279 Gordon KC 439 44 91 6 42 .207 28 94 .279 Bautista Tor 540 86 110 22 58 .204 9 53 .278 Napoli Tex 425 60 82 29 66 .193 30 79 .278 38 87 .278 TEAM PITCHING 43 96 .276 ERA H ER BB SO Sh Sv 12 55 .276 Cleveland 3.36 1157 491 378 1463 19 32 8 56 .273 Boston 3.72 1255 556 419 1432 8 34 36 81 .273 New York 3.80 1155 555 456 1408 6 32 25 75 .271 Tampa Bay 4.02 1220 591 466 1220 7 50 11 52 .268 Los Angeles 4.21 1251 612 433 1192 9 40 28 77 .267 Houston 4.26 1213 621 485 1439 8 39 32 91 .266 Toronto 4.39 1341 655 511 1268 6 42 22 88 .265 Seattle 4.42 1275 648 464 1125 9 36 18 79 .265 Kansas City 4.62 1351 672 474 1106 5 34 23 77 .265 Minnesota 4.62 1357 671 446 1052 11 39 19 72 .264 Texas 4.68 1312 678 512 1012 6 24 25 73 .264 Oakland 4.77 1320 689 457 1092 5 28 21 88 .262 Chicago 4.81 1270 690 578 1102 3 20 16 42 .261 Baltimore 4.87 1374 712 529 1124 10 33 14 63 .260 Detroit 5.28 1439 757 481 1094 3 30 31 84 .259 INDIVIDUAL PITCHING 20 58 .259 IP H BB SO W LERA 16 53 .258 Kluber Cle 185 126 34 243 16 42.44 16 59 .258 Sale Bos 201 153 41 287 16 72.86 19 94 .257 Severino NYY 184 141 49 218 13 62.93 11 66 .256 Stroman Tor 184 186 55 155 11 83.08 15 44 .255 Pomeranz Bos 159 151 64 166 16 53.28 25 82 .255 E.Santana Min 194 159 60 158 15 73.35 5 48 .253 Cashner Tex 151 139 57 80 9 103.40 34 90 .252 Carrasco Cle 179 153 41 201 15 63.41 19 71 .251 Cobb TB 168 160 43 119 11 93.59 16 60 .249 Justin Verlander Det172153 67 176 10 83.82 17 67 .247 M.Fulmer Det 165 150 40 114 10 123.83 27 78 .247 Bundy Bal 165 145 50 150 13 94.03 17 63 .246 Archer TB 186 179 56 235 9 104.06 22 96 .246 J.Ramirez LAA 147 149 49 105 11 104.15 36 82 .243 J.Vargas KC 163 168 50 120 16 104.19 24 65 .241 Bauer Cle 163 172 57 183 16 94.41 39 102 .240 Porcello Bos 186 220 42 167 9 174.64 29 77 .240 Manaea Oak 147 158 50 130 10 104.65 23 65 .240 Tanaka NYY 166 171 38 173 12 114.73 22 55 .238 M.Perez Tex 168 206 56 107 12 114.82 14 49 .232 Gausman Bal 168 194 68 158 11 104.83 18 44 .232 Miranda Sea 158 136 62 135 8 74.90 24 56 .217 Hammel KC 165 184 45 132 8 114.91 29 70 .211 Estrada Tor 169 171 66 166 8 84.96

Nolasco LAA 166 Fiers Hou 153 Miley Bal 149 Zimmermann Det150

186 157 169 195

53 62 84 42

133 146 132 96

6 8 8 8

145.11 105.22 135.32 126.18

NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAM BATTING Colorado Washington Atlanta Miami St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Arizona Philadelphia New York Los Angeles Milwaukee San Francisco Pittsburgh San Diego

AB 5059 5047 5055 5063 4966 4990 5023 5054 5052 5002 4925 4958 5126 5004 4868

R 750 755 678 674 698 754 702 734 622 679 703 671 588 606 558

INDIVIDUAL BATTING

H 1370 1354 1343 1324 1285 1275 1281 1288 1273 1254 1233 1232 1268 1224 1135

HR 175 196 151 174 177 207 204 196 160 211 201 208 119 141 173

RBI 723 733 652 645 668 717 667 700 592 657 665 637 562 575 533

Avg .271 .268 .266 .262 .259 .256 .255 .255 .252 .251 .250 .248 .247 .245 .233

AB R H HR RBI Avg Blackmon Col 591 129 196 34 89 .332 Harper Was 402 92 131 29 87 .326 Ju.Turner LAD 425 68 138 20 68 .325 D.Murphy Was 492 86 157 22 88 .319 Votto Cin 512 98 163 35 95 .318 Posey SF 457 56 144 12 61 .315 LeMahieu Col 558 91 175 8 63 .314 Goldschmidt Ari 512 107 158 34 113 .309 Arenado Col 561 91 173 34 124 .308 Inciarte Atl 614 89 188 11 56 .306 Pham StL 392 86 120 21 66 .306 Seager LAD 490 78 149 20 71 .304 Cozart Cin 398 74 120 22 60 .302 Gordon Mia 587 99 177 2 28 .302 Rendon Was 468 72 141 23 92 .301 Ozuna Mia 560 80 168 33 110 .300 Zimmerman Was484 83 145 31 95 .300 D.Peralta Ari 486 74 143 13 49 .294 C.Taylor LAD 469 79 138 19 67 .294 Bryant ChC 507 104 148 27 67 .292

C.Hernandez Phi 464 74 135 Bra.Phillips Atl 470 68 137 Herrera Phi 474 60 137 Yelich Mia 549 88 158 Panik SF 467 53 134 Markakis Atl 535 72 150 Cabrera NYM 434 62 121 Kemp Atl 434 47 121 Rizzo ChC 527 94 147 Molina StL 474 58 132 Stanton Mia 539 111 150 Realmuto Mia 489 62 135 Do.Santana Mil 480 78 132 McCutchen Pit 522 85 143 Bellinger LAD 429 82 117 Harrison Pit 486 66 132 Shaw Mil 482 75 131 Arcia Mil 465 53 126 J.Baez ChC 435 72 118 Span SF 458 67 123 Freese Pit 392 42 105 Suarez Cin 497 85 133 Margot SD 441 50 117 Mar.Reynolds Col486 78 129 Puig LAD 462 65 122 Pence SF 457 50 119 Bell Pit 503 69 130 Peraza Cin 465 48 120 Galvis Phi 563 64 144 Mercer Pit 477 49 121 Duvall Cin 550 75 138 C.Gonzalez Col 435 62 109 Lamb Ari 502 81 125 Hamilton Cin 552 82 137 B.Crawford SF 476 54 116 Myers SD 520 73 127 Thames Mil 432 79 105 Carpenter StL 460 81 110 Reyes NYM 451 68 108 Joseph Phi 471 48 112 Schebler Cin 429 60 102 Swanson Atl 437 55 103 Story Col 451 59 105 Franco Phi 535 61 123

8 11 13 17 10 8 12 19 32 17 54 16 25 25 37 16 29 14 22 12 10 25 13 29 26 11 24 5 12 14 31 12 27 4 13 28 31 19 13 21 27 6 21 20

30 52 50 76 49 69 49 63 106 75 113 62 74 78 86 47 90 48 70 41 47 79 38 93 69 61 83 37 61 54 96 52 101 37 70 71 59 65 52 66 60 47 68 67

.291 .291 .289 .288 .287 .280 .279 .279 .279 .278 .278 .276 .275 .274 .273 .272 .272 .271 .271 .269 .268 .268 .265 .265 .264 .260 .258 .258 .256 .254 .251 .251 .249 .248 .244 .244 .243 .239 .239 .238 .238 .236 .233 .230

St. Louis Washington Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh San Diego Colorado San Francisco Philadelphia Miami Atlanta New York Cincinnati

3.89 3.90 4.00 4.09 4.31 4.58 4.60 4.62 4.69 4.75 4.77 5.01 5.22

1257 569 434 1195 570 444 1254 583 513 1180 595 512 1351 631 456 1276 663 495 1336 672 493 1416 688 459 1360 681 471 1302 692 556 1323 691 529 1400 724 538 1339 758 569

INDIVIDUAL PITCHING

Kershaw LAD Scherzer Was Strasburg Was G.Gonzalez Was Ray Ari Greinke Ari Lynn StL Arrieta ChC Nelson Mil C.Martinez StL Nola Phi Urena Mia deGrom NYM Davies Mil Wacha StL Freeland Col G.Cole Pit Corbin Ari J.Chacin SD Leake StL Straily Mia Nova Pit Dickey Atl Lester ChC Kuhl Pit Samardzija SF Roark Was Teheran Atl Lackey ChC TEAM PITCHING Foltynewicz Atl ERA H ER BB SO Sh Sv Richard SD Los Angeles 3.38 1113 494 403 1412 15 45 Blach SF Arizona 3.58 1189 525 461 1367 10 41 M.Moore SF

IP 157 184 157 185 151 186 177 160 175 194 155 152 188 176 149 150 187 175 164 154 168 174 170 165 152 197 169 169 160 154 185 159 167

H 117 117 120 143 107 155 137 139 171 166 144 131 170 183 154 158 181 197 146 169 163 190 176 162 151 196 162 168 155 169 225 177 189

BB SO 28 188 52 246 41 182 70 171 64 206 40 200 68 142 53 157 48 199 66 205 45 167 56 104 57 221 51 119 48 139 61 103 49 178 52 168 65 137 35 103 49 150 30 121 65 128 55 169 71 137 29 197 58 154 64 136 49 144 59 143 55 136 41 72 62 142

1216 1316 1226 1292 1148 1209 1160 1140 1176 1100 1127 1262 1207 W 17 14 13 14 14 16 11 14 12 11 11 13 14 17 12 11 11 14 12 7 9 11 9 11 7 9 13 11 11 10 7 8 5

12 5 10 6 12 10 7 3 5 7 6 5 7

40 42 50 34 31 41 46 31 27 31 33 31 30

L ERA 3 2.12 6 2.59 4 2.64 7 2.68 5 2.74 6 3.00 7 3.01 9 3.48 6 3.49 11 3.57 10 3.60 6 3.62 9 3.63 8 3.68 7 3.99 10 4.03 10 4.04 12 4.06 10 4.06 12 4.21 9 4.24 13 4.25 9 4.28 7 4.30 11 4.31 14 4.42 9 4.43 11 4.57 11 4.62 13 4.79 14 4.82 12 4.94 14 5.39

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Slender prospect eyes spot on Blackhawks Otters star DeBrincat gets chance to impress for Chicago The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Alex DeBrincat is listed at 5-foot-7 and 165 pounds, and that might be a little generous.

There is nothing about his appearance that even hints at his profession.

And then he hits the ice.

The 19-year-old DeBrincat is trying to grab a spot on the Chicago Blackhawks after leading the Erie Otters to the Ontario Hockey League championship in May. While he is a long shot to make the team out of training camp, there are openings on Chicago’s bottom three lines and it looks as if he could get a chance at

some point this season.

“I think I have to show them that I’m strong enough and fast enough to play in the NHL,” DeBrincat said, “and obviously I have to score goals. That’s what I’m here for. If I do those things, then it’s going to be good for me and gives me more opportunity.”

DeBrincat was one of the top attractions at the Blackhawks’ annual training camp festival on Saturday.

He was a fan’s choice for the starting lineup for the Red team, playing alongside captain Jonathan Toews and rugged winger Brandon Saad. He had a nice steal midway through the second period and fed Ryan Hartman for a wide-open look in front, but Jeff Glass got over for a terrific stop.

“I think we want to

see him do what he does best,” coach Joel Quenneville said. “I think that he’s got great instincts offensively and he finds the puck in dangerous areas and comes up with loose pucks because he’s got, the hockey sense of how he handles and uses his stick is high end and around the net he’s got great finish. So I don’t think we want to see him do anything different than how he’s played in junior and how he’s played his whole life.”

What DeBrincat has done his whole life is score a lot.

DeBrincat, a secondround pick in the 2016 draft, led the OHL with a whopping 65 goals and 127 points in 63 games last season. No other player in the league had more than 48 goals or 109 points.

Champion Penguins back to work, warily eye 3-peat Training camp opened this weekend The Associated Press

CRANBERRYTOWNSHIP — A month. That’s it.That’sallthedowntime Sidney Crosby afforded himself following one of the more dominant runs in hockey history.

At the end of an equal parts thrilling and draining two-year stretch that included over 200 games, a World Cup of hockey gold medal for Team Canada and a pair of Stanley Cup parades through downtown Pittsburgh, the Penguins captain managed to squeeze or maybe tolerateisthebetterwordfour weeks off during another abbreviated summer.

More than enough, Crosbyinsists,forthefire that burns within to start anew.

“It’s a pretty short offseason, but short offseasons are good,” Crosby said Friday as the Penguins began training camp. “Having that type of hockey fresh in your mind isn’t necessarily a bad thing either.”

Not when the prospect of history beckons.

Pittsburgh became the first team in nearly two decades to repeat as champions when they

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ended Nashville’s stunning run to the Cup final last spring. No club since theNewYorkIslandersof the early 1980s has captured three consecutive Cups.

While Pittsburgh general manager Jim Rutherford deftly kept the group that won it all in 2016 largely intact, no amount of creative accounting could help the Penguins avoid the realitythatsuccesscomes atasubstantialcostinthe salary-cap era.

Goaltender MarcAndre Fleury was sent to expansion Las Vegas following the rise of Matt Murray. Trevor Daley bolted for a big contract in Detroit. Nick Bonino didthesameinNashville.

Chris Kunitz took a oneyear deal in Tampa. Matt Cullen put off retirement onemoreyearsohecould have a last hurrah in his native Minnesota.

There are holes that need to be addressed, namely at third-line center after Bonino split for the Predators.

Yet Rutherford is in no hurry to fill them. Last he checked, the Penguins still have Crosby and EvgeniMalkin.Twoofthe best players in the world on the roster has a way of buying peace of mind.

“That’s why I don’t have to be pressured to have one for opening night when you have thosetwocenters,”Rutherford said. “They carry the load.”

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said, but Patry has made steady progress. He joked with teammates during a recent visit to Waldameer Park & Water World, and ordered a chicken sandwich at a Subway shop last week without any assistance.

“He’s actually pretty good for the most part,” Adams said. “He might have a hard time communicating, but he understands what you’re talking about. Once we get him rolling a little bit, taking some English classes to help him out, I thinkit’sgoingtobefine.”

Patryhasavenuesavailable,technologicallybased andotherwise,tocontinue learning, including translation applications like Google Translate, and a tutor who can work with him at the rink. But Patry understands the motivation to learn comes from inside.

Patry moved away from his family at home for the first time to further his hockey career. But improving his knowledge of the English language is asimportantasdeveloping hisoverallgamebecauseit can open doors on and off the ice.

“If he has the opportunity to play ice hockey in (North America), it is also good to learn English,” his father, Jacques Patry, wrote in an e-mail.

“It (will be) difficult for a few months, but (it will be) good for the rest of his life.”

Growing comfortable each day

Pittsburgh Penguins teammates Sidney Crosby, right, and Evgeni Malkin participate in a scrimmage during the team’s first practice in Cranberry, Pa., Friday. [AP

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Oberoi figures he would haveadifficulttimelearning a new language today.

It was different as a child learning French to fitinbetterintheCanadian capitalofOttawa,Ontario, where English and French are spoken. He spent four years in a French immersionschool,wherelessons are taught predominantly in French, and grew up watching French televisionshowsandlisteningto French music. He experiencedhissecondlanguage all around him every day.

Patry was exposed to some English as a child in Switzerland. But German, French and Italian are the country’s primary languages. So teammates understand the challenge he faces learning more Englishwhilegettingacclimatedtolivingandplaying hockey in Erie.

“The first couple of monthswereprobablythe most tough ones because I didn’t know anyone

Erie Otters teammates Stephane Patry, 17, left, of Switzerland and Anand Oberoi, 18, right, of Canada are shown Sept. 5 before practice at Erie Insurance Arena.

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around me. No one could speak Russian or even help me,” second-year forward Gera Poddubnyi, 18, recalled of knowing no English when he moved from his native Russia to PhiladelphiainSeptember 2013 to join the Philadelphia Jr. Flyers program.

He used Google Translate to communicate, while his coaches spent much time drawing what Poddubnyi needed to learn on whiteboards.

“It was a lot different once I started understandingmore(English),” Poddubnyi said. “It gets more comfortable.”

Patry can take advantage of a tutor and English classes. Yet, he relies less on Google Translate these days because simply interacting with coaches, teammates and his billet family provides ample opportunities to build his vocabulary.

JenBisbee,whosefamily servesasPatry’sbillet,has seen noticeable improvement since he moved into theirEriehometwoweeks ago.

“He’s got a decent base.

He’s a lot better than he gives himself credit for,” said Bisbee, whose family also has housed former Otters Sondre Olden (Norway),ArtemKuleshov (Russia) and Erik Cernak (Slovakia)since2011.“He’s very willing to learn, and he asks a lot of questions.

I have full confidence that by the end of the season he’sgoingtobewellversed in the language.”

Teammates have witnessed Patry grow more confident in sharing what he has learned.

“He’s a lot more comfortable,” said rookie Maxim Golod, 17, a Canadian-born son of Russian emigrants who speaks French and Russian.

“French is my first language,” Patry said. “But I try not to speak in French more than English. It’s good.”

Building foundation for the future Clubofficialsenvisioned meetingaplayerwithlittle to no English skills before Patry arrived in Erie.

In retrospect, “it’s not as challenging (for players to learn English) as it was even 10 years ago because they’re much more worldly,” said Jaime Cieszynski, executive assistant to chief operating officer Roy Mlakar, whocoordinatestheplayers’educationalplans.She pointed to Cernak, who knew little English when he joined the Otters in the fall of 2015 but returned fromplayingforhis native SlovakiaintheIIHFWorld Junior Championship tournament that winter with a stronger grasp of the language.

“Itwasasifanewperson came back,” Cieszynski said of Cernak, now a rookie in the Tampa Bay Lightning organization.

“When they’re able to mastertheartoflanguage, it gives them a whole new sense of self-esteem and comfort that translates on the ice.”

Patry gained valuable experience speaking English during past trips to Dallas, Texas, and Plymouth, Michigan, for tournaments. Now, his father, Jacques, wrote, “It is a great opportunity (for Stephane), not only for hockey but to gain in maturity.”

Oberoi said knowing multiple languages can create opportunities to succeed in the future, even if hockey doesn’t pan out. Family members, he said, have secured promising careers in Ottawa because, in some cases, they speak three or four languages.

Stephane Patry calls his time in Erie “a good opportunity.” Oberoi said it’s a good opportunity for the team to grow too.

“A big bond is going to be formed just based on havinganotherlanguage,” Oberoi said. “Having another language in the room is a great thing for everybody. People pick up things in different languages, and it helps everyone get closer.”

Victor Fernandes can be reached at 870-1716 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter. com/GoErieHockey.

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SCOREBOARD ON THE AIR (all times p.m. unless indicated)

TV

AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. — Formula One, Singapore Grand Prix, at Singapore, NBCSN 3 — NASCAR, Monster Energy Series, Tales of the Turtles 400, at Joliet, Ill., NBCSN 6:30 — IndyCar Series, GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, at Sonoma, Calif., NBCSN CFL 1 — Ottawa at Montreal, ESPN2 DRAG RACING 2:30 — NHRA, Carolina Nationals, finals, at Charlotte, N.C., FS1 GOLF 8 a.m. — LPGA Tour, The Evian Championship, final round, at Evian-lesBains, France (same-day tape), GOLF Noon — PGA Tour, BMW Championship, final round, at Lake Forest, Ill., GOLF Noon — LPGA Tour, The Evian Championship, final round, at Evian-lesBains, France, WICU 2 — European PGA Tour, KLM Open, final round, at Spijk, Netherlands (same-day tape), GOLF 2 — PGA Tour, BMW Championship, final round, at Lake Forest, Ill., WICU 5 — Web.com Tour, Albertsons Boise Open, final round, at Boise, Idaho, GOLF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:10 — Royals at Indians, FS1, STO 1:10 — Pirates at Reds, AT&T SportsNet 2 — Cardinals at Cubs, TBS 8 — Dodgers at Nationals, ESPN NFL 1 — Bills at Panthers, WSEE 1 — Vikings at Steelers, WFXP 4:25 — Cowboys at Broncos, WFXP 8:20 — Packers at Falcons, WICU SOCCER 7:20 a.m. — Bundesliga, Hoffenheim 1899 vs. Hertha BSC Berlin, FS1 8:30 a.m. — Premier League, Chelsea vs.

Arsenal, CNBC 9:30 a.m. — Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen vs. Freiburg, FS1 11 a.m. — Premier League. Manchester United vs. Everton, NBCSN 11:50 a.m. — Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund vs. Koln, FS2 1 — MLS, Philadelphia at N.Y. Red Bulls, ESPN WNBA 3 — Playoffs, semifinals, Game 3, Minnesota at Washington, ESPN 5 — Playoffs, semifinals, Game 3, Los Angeles at Phoenix, ESPN

(FL) 18:35.2; 5. Scott Coughanour (MP) 18:37.2; 6. Jeremy Kunco (MP) 18:38.4; 7. Joel Kweder (MP) 18:42.0; 8. Chris Dunsworth (E) 18:49.5; 9. Connor Keene (FL) 18:56.4; 10. John Fatter (E) 19:03.6.

11. Walker Wheeling (Mw) 19:05.9; 12.

Bobby Moats (CS) 19:06.4; 13. Matt Schwartz (E) 19:06.9; 14. Billy Moats (CS) 19:21.0; 15. Trenton Pace (FL) 19:22.9; 16.

Jeffery Giannelli (MP) 19:26.8; 17. Brian Webb (MP) 19:38.3; 18. Felix Bush (MP) 19:39.1; 19. Peter Zimmerman (MP) 19:43.6; 20. Austin Jones (CS) 19:57.3.

21. Danny Suder (Car) 20:00.0; 22. Austin Black (FL) 20:00.3; 23. Garret Wilcox (Mw) 20:20.7; 24. Carson Custard (Mw) 20:20.9; 25. Calvin Smithey (FL) 20:27.9.

Girls Team: 1. Fort LeBoeuf (FL) 53, 2. McDowell (Mc) 55, 3. Saegertown (Sae) 63, 4.

Mercyhurst Prep (MP) 66, 5. Cambridge Springs (CS) 144, 6. Maplewood (Mw) 147, 7. Carrick (Car) 201.

Individual: 1. Lauren Habursky (MP) 21:18.6; 2. Beka McClymonds (Sae) 21:40.5; 3.

Genna Feltmeyer (FL) 21:55.6; 4. Rachel Ramsey (Mc) 22:40.6; 5. Maddie Mondi (Sae) 22:41.8; 6. Ivy Laffan (FL) 22:51.4; 7. Nina Mangini (MP) 22:59.1; 8. Meghan Nutt (FL) 23:05.6; 9. Madelyn Petersen (Mc) 23:14.9; 10. Rachel Skelton (CS) 23:19.3.

11. Kiersten Buczynski (MP) 23:31.6; 12.

Daphne Atkins (Mw) 23:22.9; 13. Chloe Pavlov (Mc) 23:25.3; 14. Claire Belton (Mc) 23:28.7; 15. Kirsten Kucharski (Mc) 23:29.1; 16. Emma Walters (FL) 23:31.2; 17. Emily Stoyer (Sae) 23:37.4; 18. Karley Price (Sae) 23:56.4; 19. Laura Lintleman (MP) 24:10.1; 20. Leilani Merkle (FL) 24:25.6.

21. Erika Caldwell (Sae) 24:29.9; 22.

Karleigh Steiner (Sae) 24:48.5; 23.

Lauren Klapthor (CS) 24:51.7; 24. Alexa Wienczykowski (FL) 24:58.5; 25. Gina Villella (Mc) 25:02.6.

Commodore Perry Invitational (3.1 miles) BOYS (District 10 finishers) Individuals: 1. Starvaggi (Harbor Creek) 16:22; 2. Weber (Harbor Creek) 16:53; 3.

Stevens (Meadville) 16:58; 4. Bernarding (Cochranton) 17:00; 5. Tingley (Lakeview) 17:01; 6. Smith (Seneca) 17:26; 7. Cokley (Cochranton) 17:34; 8. Hart (Reynolds) 17:36; 9. Cropp (Commodore Perry) 17:46; 10. Winters (Wilmington) 17:50.

Team standings: Harbor Creek 54, Cochranton 122, Seneca 123, Reynolds 158, Fairview 165.

GIRLS (District 10 finishers) RADIO Individuals: 1. Labbiento (Sharon) 19:14; 2.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Hayes (Fairview) 19:39; 3. Javens (Hickory) 12:37 — Royals at Indians, WFUN-AM/970 19:44; 4. Oliver (Lakeview) 19:49; 5. Wanner 1:10 — Pirates at Reds, WJET-AM/1400 (Kennedy Catholic) 19:59; 6, Myers (FairNFL 11 a.m. — Bills at Panthers, WRIE-AM/1260 view) 20:01; 7. Mason (Wilmington) 20:20; Noon — Browns at Ravens, WQHZ-FM/102.3 9. Peterson (Commodore Perry) 20:57; 10.

Noon — Vikings at Steelers, WRKT-FM/100.9 Williams (Wilmington) 21:07.

12:30 — Cardinals at Colts, WPSE-AM/1450, Team standings: Fairview 72, Lakeview 91, Wilmington 113, Cranberry 126, Trinity 159.

FM 107.1 7:30 — Packers at Falcons, WPSE-AM/1450, Spartan Invitational FM 107.1 The overall winners and District 10 results from the Spartan Invitational at Boardman, Ohio: Girls Division 3 SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Team: 1. McDonald (Ohio) 49, 8. Union City BOYS GOLF 286, 26. North East 634.

Lion Cardinal Classic Individual: 1. Malina Mitchell (McDonald) Cathedral Prep at Quail Hollow Golf Resort, 19:11.2.

1:30 p.m.

Union City: 23. Abby Anaya 21:17.5; 46.

Gracey Shrout 22:13.2; 47. Andrea Myer SATURDAY’S RESULTS 22:13.4; 80. Allison Van Dee 23:07.5; 90.

Brooke Reagle 23:24.9.

North East: 18. Taylor Van Tassell 20:47.3; BOYS SOCCER 128. Sophie Durst 24:28.6; 161. Mackenzie Hartung 26:13.9; 162. Amelie Markant Non-region 26:25.1; 165. Elizabeth Currier 26:38.6.

ERIE 20—5 Boys GIRARD 00—1 Goals: E — Borovina 2, Angelotti, Mohamed, Division 3 Team: 1. East Canton (Ohio) 66, 6. North Komba; G — McDonald.

East 177, 10. Union City 356.

Assists: E — Hsotoo, Urbieta, Khadka, Individual: 1. Lucas Clark Smithville (Ohio) Gordillo.

16:14.6.

Erie 4-0-0; Girard 0-4-0 North East: 5. Josh Lewis 16:28.3; 23. Zane Courtwright 17:42.6; 33. Colin Baxter CLARENCE (N.Y.) 00—0 18:02.5; 34. Tanner Ross 18:03.2; 82. Peter CATHEDRAL PREP 01—1 Ryan 18:58.2.

Goals: CP — Anim-Soumah.

Union City: 41. Tyler Slaney 18:13.0; 65.

Assists: CP — Szparaga.

Isaac Jones 18:34.4; 68. Austin Dolan Shutout goalie: Ferrick.

18:41.0; 70. Lane Cochrane 18:44.8; 112.

Cathedral Prep 7-0-0; Clarence 6-1-0.

Braden Struble 19:38.0.

NORTH OLMSTEAD (OHIO) 23—5 GENERAL McLANE 12—3 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Goals: NO — Elkady 3, Kramer, Cairns; GM — McFadden, Benedict, Songer Iroquois girls volleyball tournament Assists: GM — Songer, Benedict playoff results: General McLane 2-3 First round Union City def. Jamestown 25-22 FRANKLIN —0 Quarterfinals BRADFORD —5 Harbor Creek def. Union City 25-11 Goals: B — Johnson, Swanson, Hart, Grady, Fairview def. Iroquois 25-19 Bosworth Conneaut def. Erie 25-13 Assists: B — Swanson 2, Degolier, Johnson, General McLane def. Commodore Perry 25-7 Marrone Semifinals Shutout goalie: Schmidt Harbor Creek def. Fairview 25-20 Franklin 2-3, Bradford 4-1 General McLane def. Conneaut 26-24 Championship General McLane def. Harbor Creek 25-22, GIRLS SOCCER 25-12

HIGH SCHOOLS

REGION 4 GENERAL MCLANE 01—1 GIRARD 30—3 Goals: GM — Patterson; G — Copus (3).

Assists: GM — Kavelish; G — Bartlett, Wahlenmayer, Koma.

Girard 2-2-0, 1-1-0; General McLane 2-3-0, 1-2-0 HARBOR CREEK 00—0 MERCYHURST PREP 12—3 Goals: MP — Chimera, Kneidinger, Michaels.

Assists: MP — Cyparski, Yeshim, Shutout goalie: VanDamia.

Mercyhurst Prep 4-2-1, 3-0-1; Harbor Creek 4-1-0, 2-1-0

Non-region BRADFORD 010—1 ERIE 101—2 Goals: B — Johnson; E — Young, Wentz.

Assists: B — Shields; E — Pirrello 2.

Erie 1-3-0; Bradford 4-2-0 McDOWELL 30—3 FAIRVIEW 00—0 Goals: F — Rosenthal 2, Cross.

Assists: F — Saur.

Shutout goalies: Kremer, Mustafa.

McDowell 1-5-0; Fairview 4-1-1 WILMINGTON — 11 SHARPSVILLE — 5 Goals: W — Hahn 4, Trott 3, Ciafre 2, Krepp 2; S — Detky 3, Kratko 2 Assists: W — Hahn 3, Welker 3, Krepp 2, Hill, Ciafre, Glavach.

Wilmington 4-2, Sharpsville 1-4 MAPLEWOOD TITUSVILLE Goals: M — West, Chamberlain Assist: M — Nageotte Shutout goalie: Donaldson Maplewood 1-4, Titusville 1-5

02—2 00—0

Late Friday TITUSVILLE 00—0 CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS 20—2 Goals: CS — Burdick 2.

Assists: CS — Repko.

Shutout goalie: Chaffee.

Cambridge Springs 2-3, Titusville 1-4

CROSS COUNTRY

BOYS WATER POLO Saturday’s results from the Tiger Classic, held at North Allegheny in Wexford: BOYS CATHEDRAL PREP—15 GOVERNOR MIFFLIN—10 Goals: CP — Behm 8, Fortin 4, Uht, Thomas, Rhaner CATHEDRAL PREP—17 McDOWELL—8 Goals: CP — Behm 8, Fortin 2, Maholic 2, Nelson, Causgrove, Rahner, Neff, Lupo CATHEDRAL PREP—13 NORTH ALLEGHENY—12 (OT) Goals: CP — Uht 4, Behm 3, Fortin 3, Rahner, Thomas, Maholic Note: Prep’s Christian Fortin scored the winning goal in overtime.

Cathedral Prep 11-0

GIRLS VILLA MARIA—9 NORTH ALLEGHENY—4 Goals: V — Bradford (3), Tirak (3), Taylor, Jefferys, Squeglia.

GOVERNOR MIFFLIN—9 VILLA MARIA—6 Goals: V — Bradford (2), Tirak (2), Taylor, Squeglia VILLA MARIA—13 MCDOWELL—5 Goals: V — Tirak (4), Sherman (2), Squeglia (2), Jefferys (2), Bradford, B. Agresti, N. Agresti.

Villa Maria 7-3

COLLEGES SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE

MEN’S GOLF AMCC Penn St. Behrend at Mt. Aloysius Invitational, 9 a.m.

Non-conference Allegheny at Carnegie Mellon Invitational WOMEN’S GOLF AMCC Penn St. Behrend at Mt. Aloysius Invitational, 9 a.m.

Non-conference Gannon, Mercyhurst at Le Moyne Invitational Allegheny at Carnegie Mellon Invitational

Behrend Invitational Saturday’s results from the varsity portion MEN’S TENNIS Non-conference of the Penn State Behrend Invitational: Allegheny at Daemen Tournament Boys

WOMEN’S TENNIS Non-conference Mercyhurst vs. Intercollegiate Tennis Association, TBD Allegheny at Daemen Tournament

Team: 1. Cambridge Springs (CS) 32, 2.

Mercyhurst Prep (MP) 51, 3. Fort LeBoeuf (FL) 75, 4. Erie (E) 86, 5. Maplewood (Mw) 123, 6. Carrick (Car) 186, 7. Union City (UC) 204.

MEN’S WATER POLO Individual (top 25): 1. Elijah Mamula (CS) 18:04.6; 2. Alec Bidwell (CS) 18:25.8; 3. Zach Bison Invitational At Lewisburg, Pa. Marraza (CS) 18:26.2; 4. Mitchell Rathburn Mercyhurst vs. George Washington, 9:15

a.m.

Gannon vs. Washington & Jefferson, 11:45 a.m.

Mercyhurst vs. Toronto, 2:15 p.m.

Gannon vs. La Salle, 3:30 p.m.

SATURDAY’S RESULTS MEN’S SOCCER

PSAC BLOOMSBURG 00—0 GANNON 21—3 Goals: G — Krigbaum, Lee Yaw. Shutout goalie: Hernandez.

Gannon 2-4-0, 2-0-0; Bloomsburg 1-4-0, 0-2-0 WEST CHESTER 21—3 MERCYHURST 01—1 Goals: WC — Slater, Goitia, French; M - Makengo.

Mercyhurst 3-2-0

WOMEN’S SOCCER

PSAC MILLERSVILLE 11—2 EDINBORO 31—4 Goals: M — Downey, Meadows; E — Chatten 2, Mutkus, Reidy.

Edinboro 3-2-1, 3-2-1; Millersville 2-3-1, 1-3-1 WEST CHESTER 10—1 MERCYHURST 00—0 Goals: WC — Wolfe.

Shutout goalie: Myers.

West Chester 3-1-1; Mercyhurst 0-2-2 BLOOMSBURG 0000—0 GANNON 0 0 0 0— 0 Shutout goalies: B — Hawkins; G — Indacochea, Pufpaff.

Bloomsburg 4-1-1, 3-1-1; Gannon 3-1-1, 3-1-1

EASTLAND: Mike Jacobs 213-214-222-649, Frank Wieser 229-619, Carole Petrunger 101-506, Joe Buki 243, Mike Olorve 226, Lenny Kisiel 223, Gene Thomas 219, John Celerski 216, Tom Sieberkrob 213-202, Ed Zelarski 213, Earl Rose 210, Wardell Durr 205, Carl Dioguardi 202, Butch Perino 2-01, Steve Oneil 200-203, Dave Desanti 200, Ruth Willert 185.

GREENGARDEN: MARK WATTLE 277-237709, Frank Broncasno 236-222-221-679, George Knittel 225-219-212-656, Frank Miller 257-226-652, Frank Miller 269-192647, Rich Mellin 226-255-642, Mark Wattle 228-215-638, Bob Giffin 214-207-204-625, Mark Wattle 234-215-612, Stan Niemic 236215-612, Gene Thomas 214-204-608, Frank Miller 201-201-203-605, Gary Miller 211-202603, Gene Thomas 213-601, Jack Pianta 266, Ange Desantis 243-199, Vincent Gardner 237, Howard Harper 233, Nick Ace 223-205, Frank Miller 223-214, Rich Mellin 223, Vincent Gardner 223-195; Vin Jaskiewicz 222-194, Roger Kaveney 219, Mike Jacobs 215-201, Bob Giffin 215, Jim Markowitz 214, Frank Cypress 213-201, Jack Kaminsky 212, Al Laskey 211-195, Dave Mackowski Sr. 211, Frank Laskowski 206-204, Bill Sekula 205, George Knittel 205-201-193; Rich Mellin 205-199, Kenny Peterson 203, John Derosa 202-202, Dave Mackowski Sr. 202, Bill Sekula 202, Nick Ace 200-200, Bob Fratto 200, Mark Wattle 199-191, Tom Nichols 199190, Roger Kaveney 198-194, Rich Mellin 198, Randy Lachowski 197, Kenny Peterson 197, Howard Harper 196, Tom Kirchgatter 196, Frank Laskowski 196, John Derosa 195-190, John Covello 195, Ken Thompson 1954, John Derosa 193-192, Dick Szocki 193, Bob Giffin 192, Frank Broncasno 192, Jim Markowitz 192, John Covello 191-190, Bob Weber 192, Jack Pianta 191, April Wygant 191, Becky Sienkiewicz 191, Bob Fratto 190, Rosie Tuten 181-160, Joan Hersperger 179166, Tiffany Barker 177, Laura Lombardozzi 173, Rosie Tuten 170-172, Ruth Ann Blystone 168, Jeannatt3e Gundrum 163, Corrine Farina 161.

NON-CONFERENCE PENN STATE BEHREND 12—3 WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON 13—4 Goals: B — Oberlander (3); WJ — Grimm (2), JUNIORS Sanders, Ruzzinin.

EASTLAND: James Oswalt 220-586, Ryan Washington & Jefferson 2-2-1; Behrend Patterson 224-524, Justin Bobango 172, Nick 4-3-0 Stora 150.

FIELD HOCKEY

BLOOMSBURG MERCYHURST Goals: B — Mahan, Suader.

Shutout goalie: Sheply.

Bloomsburg 4-2; Mercyhurst 1-3

02—2 00—0

CROSS COUNTRY

Allegheny Classic (Allegheny finishers) MEN Individuals: 1. Hughes 20:03; 5. Smith 20:23; 9. Svetz 20:30; 21. Cook 21:21; 35.

Slack-Foust 21:56; 36. Evans 21:56; 41.

Herbst 22:10.

Team standings: Carnegie Mellon 46, Allegheny 71, Indiana (Pa.) 71, Case Western 78, Washington & Jefferson 142.

WOMEN (Allegheny, Edinboro finishers) Individuals: 9. Mamula (A) 18:47; 22.

Hanish (A) 19:24; 23. Margraf (A) 19:26; 32.

Himelein-Wachowiak (A) 19:42; 37. Malley (A) 19:58; 38. Forner (A) 20:00; 40. Alberts (A) 20:11; 46. Hauser (E) 20:25; 59. Whitmoyer (E) 21:09. Winning time: 18:03.

Team standings: Carnegie Mellon 35, Case Western 38, Waynesburg 108, Allegheny 123, Seton Hill 155, Grove City 159, Capital 179, Indiana (Pa.) 181, Washington & Jefferson 237, Chatham, 297, Edinboro 317.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Urbana Tournament GANNON (9-2) def. ROBERTS WESLEYAN (0-13) 25-8, 25-19, 25-22 G — Leitshuh 11 kills, 24 digs; Smith 8 kills; Johnson 7 kills; Beyers 28 assists; Knollman 7 assists; Crandall 21 digs.

GANNON (10-2) def. LINDENWOOD (8-3) 25-20, 25-20, 25-23 G — Ansec 13 kills; A. Smith 10 kills.

American International Tournament EDINBORO (9-1) def. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL (6-5) 25-17, 25-19, 25-19 E — Litwiler 11 kills, 14 digs; Jackson 8 kills; Sikora 7 kills; Trathen 21 assists; Breier 14 digs.

EDINBORO (10-1) def. SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE (2-4) 25-22, 25-18, 25-13 E — Jackson 15 kills; Litwiler 12 kills, 15 digs; Cantrill 7 kills; Trathen 36 assists, 7 digs; Breier 13 digs.

Bluffton Fall Classic BLUFFTON (6-5) def. ALLEGHENY (5-6) 25-13, 25-19, 22-25, 25-11

AUTO RACING NASCAR MONSTER ENERGY

Tales of the Turtles 400 After Friday’s Qualifying; race Sunday At Chicagoland Speedway Joliet, Illinois Lap length: oval, 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 187.963 mph 2. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 186.168 mph 3. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 185.893 mph 4. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 185.656 mph 5. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 185.236 mph 6. (42) Kyle Larson, Chev., 185.084 mph 7. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 185.077 mph 8. (24) Chase Elliott, Chev., 185.065 mph 9. (3) Austin Dillon, Chev., 185.039 mph 10. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 184.024 mph 11. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 183.949 mph 12. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 185.147 mph 13. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 184.641 mph 14. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chev., 184.414 mph 15. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 184.326 mph 16. (31) Ryan Newman, Chev., 184.281 mph 17. (41) Kurt Busch, Ford, 183.874 mph 18. (37) Chris Buescher, Chev., 183.231 mph 19. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chev., 182.970 mph 20. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chev., 182.914 mph 21. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 182.729 mph 22. (10) Danica Patrick, Ford, 182.648 mph 23. (13) Ty Dillon, Chev., 181.720 mph 24. (77) Erik Jones, Toyota, 184.729 mph 25. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chev., 181.904 mph 26. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 181.671 mph 27. (34) Landon Cassill, Ford, 181.659 mph 28. (27) Paul Menard, Chev., 181.415 mph 29. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chev., 181.366 mph 30. (95) Michael McDowell, Chev., 181.336 mph 31. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 180.729 mph 32. (32) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 179.647 mph 33. (23) Corey LaJoie, Toyota, 179.235 mph 34. (15) Reed Sorenson, Chev., 176.730 mph 35. (72) Cole Whitt, Chev., 176.551 mph 36. (55) Gray Gaulding, Toyota, 176.424 mph 37. (33) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chev., 175.222 mph 38. (66) Timmy Hill, Chev., 174.261 mph 39. (51) Ray Black II, Chev., 170.218 mph 40. (83) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, 0.000 mph

NASCAR XFINITY

TheHouse.com 300 Saturday at Chicagoland Speedway Joliet, Ill. WATER POLO Lap length: 1.50 miles MEN (Start position in parentheses) Bison Invitational 1. (14) Justin Allgaier, Chev., 200 laps, 0 At Lewisburg, Pa. rtg, 47 pts JOHNS HOPKINS—15 GANNON—12 2. (3) Kyle Larson, Chev., 200, 0, 0 Goals: G — Sadikovic 5, Th. Squeglia 3, 3. (6) Elliott Sadler, Chev., 200, 0, 45 Millan 2, To. Squeglia, Williams.

4. (9) Daniel Hemric, Chev., 200, 0, 34 Johns Hopkins 6-2; Gannon 1-3 5. (13) Austin Dillon, Chev., 200, 0, 0 6. (7) Matt Tifft, Toyota, 200, 0, 35 WAGNER—20 MERCYHURST—8 7. (5) Cole Custer, Ford, 200, 0, 47 Wagner 4-4; Mercyhurst 1-2 8. (17) Ty Dillon, Chev., 200, 0, 0 9. (11) Blake Koch, Chev., 200, 0, 28 WAGNER—9 GANNON—6 10. (16) Darrell Wallace Jr, Ford, 200, 0, 27 Goals: G — Millan 3, Williams 3 11. (12) Brennan Poole, Chev., 200, 0, 26 Wagner 5-4, Gannon 1-4 12. (15) Brandon Jones, Chev., 200, 0, 25 13. (19) Brendan Gaughan, Chev., 200, 0, 24 14. (24) Spencer Gallagher, Chev., 200, 0, 23 15. (18) Michael Annett, Chev., 200, 0, 22 16. (20) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 200, 0, 21 TOURNAMENT LISTINGS Mercyhurst University Alumni Golf Outing 17. (10) Ryan Reed, Ford, 200, 0, 20 18. (1) Erik Jones, Toyota, 200, 0, 0 Date: Friday, Sept. 29. Course: Lake View 19. (2) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 199, 0, 0 Country Club Shotgun start: Noon. Entry fee: $115 per foursome. Notable: Cart, lunch 20. (23) Jeremy Clements, Chev., 199, 0, 17 21. (25) JJ Yeley, Toyota, 198, 0, 16 and dinner Contact: Ryan Palm 814-82422. (34) David Starr, Chev., 197, 0, 15 3320; rpalm@mercyhurst.edu 23. (21) Ross Chastain, Chev., 196, 0, 14 24. (22) Ryan Sieg, Chev., 196, 0, 13 OCTOBER 25. (27) Harrison Rhodes, Chev., 196, 0, 12 8th annual WQLN Chili Open 26. (4) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 196, 0, 0 Date: Saturday, Oct. 1. Course: Culbertson Hills Golf Resort. Shotgun start: Noon. Entry 27. (29) Joey Gase, Chev., 196, 0, 10 fee: $50 per person, plus $5 skins. Notable: 28. (37) Spencer Boyd, Chev., 194, 0, 9 29. (31) Vinnie Miller, Chev., 193, 0, 8 Chili, cash prizes, golf merchandise and 30. (35) Chris Cockrum, Chev., 193, 0, 7 gift certificates from area restaurants to 31. (32) Mario Gosselin, Chev., 184, 0, 6 be awarded. Modified best 2 of 4 person 32. (39) Mike Harmon, Dodge, 184, 0, 5 Shamble with 75 percent of handicaps. All t-33. (8) William Byron, Chev., 166, 0, 4 extra proceeds will go to benefit WQLN. el-34. (30) Josh Bilicki, Chev., 152, 0, 3 Close to $1,000 in prizes. Contact: Jason en-35. (26) BJ McLeod, Chev., 86, 0, 2 Gibbs 814-449-9311 v-36. (28) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 33, 0, 1 en-37. (33) Garrett Smithley, Chev., 24, 0, 1 26th annual Edinboro Alumni & Friends h-38. (38) Morgan Shepherd, Chev., 23, 0, 1 Homecoming Golf Outing b-39. (36) Jeff Green, Chev., 8, 0, 1 Date: Friday, Oct. 13. Course: Culbertson v-40. (40) Matt Mills, Chev., 3, 0, 0 Hills Golf Resort Shotgun start: 9 a.m.

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BOWLING SENIORS

EASTWAY: Carl Ruff 211-225-630, John Covello 209-233-614, Dave Ogle 224-612, Rich Hayes 237-201-611, Len Szymanski 217-214-607, Jim Burek 224-600, Bill Warren 234, Bob Fratto 229, Bob Demchak 225-225, Steve Dylewski 223, Gene Sereno 219-201, John Eller 217-224, Doug Lunger 215, Charlie McCracken 215, Mark Hawryliw 215, John Abbate 214, Dolores Dudlick 214, Jim Murosky 214, Ray Laughlin 213, Mike Henry 211-206, Ron Groner 211, Jerry Olson 210, Mark D’Aurora 210, Steve Abt 209, Phil DiNicola 209, Bill Ditch 209, Butch Perino 207-201, Chuck Hawkinson 207, Joe Pietrasiewicz 206, Dennis Perry 206, Dick Pottorf 205, Gerry Abbey 205, Tom Denning 203-201, Bruce Maloney 202, Jack Baker 202, Bill Bucklin 201, Jared Daly 200, Francis Macrino 194,

Race Statistics Winner’s average speed: 133.207 mph.

Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes, 7 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 1.772 seconds.

Caution Flags: 5 for 24 laps.

Lead Changes: 11 among 5 drivers.

Lap Leaders: E.Jones 1-47; C.Custer 48; E.Jones 49-92; C.Custer 93-130; K.Larson 131-145; C.Custer 146; K.Larson 147-151; C.Custer 152; K.Larson 153-154; R.Blaney 155-182; E.Jones 183-185; J.Allgaier 186-200 Wins: W.Byron, 3; K.Larson, 3; J.Allgaier, 2; E.Jones, 2; R.Blaney, 1; J.Clements, 1; R.Reed, 1.

Top 10 in Points: 1. E.Sadler, 939; 2.

J.Allgaier, 821; 3. W.Byron, 803; 4. D.Hemric, 736; 5. B.Poole, 727; 6. C.Custer, 664; 7.

M.Tifft, 617; 8. B.Koch, 565; 9. B.Gaughan, 535; 10. M.Annett, 534.

FORMULA 1

Singapore Grand Prix Lineup After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Marina Bay Street Circuit Singapore Lap length: 3.44 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (5) Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, 1:39.491 2. (33) Max Verstappen, Red Bull, 1:39.814 3. (3) Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull, 1:39.840 4. (7) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1:40.069 5. (44) Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:40.126 6. (77) Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes, 1:40.810

LOTTERY RESULTS Drawings for Saturday, Sept. 16 Pennsylvania Day Drawings (Wild: 4): Pick 2: 5-4 Pick 3: 5-4-5 Pick 4: 6-3-6-5 Pick 5: 3-3-4-8-7 Treasure Hunt: 1-5-8-12-29 Night Drawings (Wild: 1): Pick 2: 4-4 Pick 3: 0-1-6 Pick 4: 3-1-9-5 Pick 5: 6-3-3-9-6 Cash 5: 16-22-24-34-37 Match 6: 11-12-16-21-28-39 Ohio Day Drawings: Pick 3: 2-7-6 Pick 4: 6-3-2-0 Pick 5: 3-5-7-7-9 Night Drawings: Pick 3: 8-8-9

Pick 4: 6-0-8-9 Pick 5: 9-2-2-1-1 Cash 5: 6-7-16-35-37 Lotto: 4-12-20-23-43-48 Kicker: 997653 New York Midday Drawings: Daily: 5-8-4 WinFour: 8-8-7-1 Night Drawings: Daily: 5-4-0 WinFour: 1-8-1-4 Late drawings: Friday, Sept. 15 New York Take 5: 4-21-25-32-36 Multistate lotteries Mega Millions: 18-24-34-38-58 Mega Ball: 3 Megaplier: 4

PRESQUE ISLE DOWNS SUNDAY’S ENTRIES Post Time: 5:25 p.m.

First Race, $17,000, Claiming $16,000$14,000, 3-and-up, 1 mile 70 yards 1, Mister Monk, Morales, McNeely, 116, 8-1 2, What’s On Tap, Allen Jr., Gorham, 116, 6-1 3, Cabildo, , Guciardo, 119, 5-1 4, Gotta Get Away, Gallardo, Hendriks, 117, 2-1 5, Noeyandjimmyspop, Ayala, Rice, 119, 10-1 6, On Tenterhooks, Pino, Wyatt, 119, 8-5 Andrew Demsky’s picks: 6-5-4 Second Race, $11,000, Claiming $7,500, 3-and-up, 6 furlongs 1, Distinctive Style, Ayala, Wismer, 119, 3-1 2, Randy Mac, Delgado, Dodge, 119, 30-1 3, Hayday, Allen Jr., Gorham, 119, 5-2 4, Whistlin Wesley, Villa-Gomez, Martin, 119, 20-1 5, El Mayito, Martinez, Skawinski, 116, 12-1 6, Delta Force, Gallardo, Brooks, 116, 10-1 7, Garava, Dominguez, Stabile, 119, 8-1 8, Negro Azabache, , Antus, 119, 8-1 9, Cowboy Cheyenne, Fox, Herrington, 119, 8-1 10, Daddy Duke, Morales, Capuano, 119, 7-2 Demsky’s picks: 5-7-1 Third Race, $15,000, Claiming $12,500$10,000, 3-and-up, 1 mile 1, Really Ready, Ayala, Cheeks, 120, 8-1 2, E Takes the Lead, Garcia, Brooks, 116, 6-1 3, Tuffy’s Lucky, , Thurston, 122, 8-1 4, Astute Warrior, Worrie, Englehart, 119, 7-2 5, Half Ton of Fun, Morales, Hamm, 119, 5-1 6, Simon the Cyrenian, Dominguez, Criollo, 117, 10-1 7, Brockadoodle, Villa-Gomez, Tomczak, 117, 20-1 8, Leaveitalonelarry, Gallardo, Hayes, 119, 3-1 9, Divined, Pino, Sheppard, 119, 4-1 Demsky’s picks: 4-9-2 Fourth Race, $100,000, Stakes, 2 yo, fillies, 6 furlongs 1, Dixie Serenade, Gaffalione, Coletti Jr., 115, 4-1 2, Hyperspace, Martinez, Bourke, 115, 8-1 3, P. Sue, Garcia, Connelly, 115, 15-1 4, Stardoza, Morales, Girten, 115, 6-1 5, Shemakesmehappy, Pino, Servis, 115, 3-1 6, Bronx Beauty, Gallardo, Margotta Jr., 120, 5-2 7, Goodin Puddin, Cox, Rice, 120, 20-1 8, O’Paddy, Ayala, Rice, 115, 7-2 Demsky’s picks: 6-8-4 Fifth Race, $18,000, Starters allowance $7,500, 3-and-up, fillies and mares, 1 mile 70 yards 1, Burbank Road, Gallardo, Capuano, 116, 5-2 2, Looks Like Sis, Ayala, Brooks, 118, 8-1

3, Orzo, Dominguez, Stabile, 118, 7-2 4, Peggy N Judy, Morales, Kintz, 118, 8-1 5, Marmalade, Allen Jr., McNeely, 118, 3-1 6, Conquest Sorceror, Villa-Gomez, Crawford, 116, 8-1 7, Workerbee, Garcia, Brooks, 118, 4-1 Demsky’s picks: 3-1-5 Sixth Race, $200,000, Stakes, 3-and-up, 1 mile 1, Gigantic Breeze, Boulanger, McPherson, 122, 6-1 2, Tale of the Nile, Martinez, Trombetta, 113, 12-1 3, War Correspondent, Gaffalione, Clement, 124, 9-5 4, Ghost Hunter, Gallardo, Ness, 119, 2-1 5, Western Elegance, Sanjur, Davis, 113, 3-1 6, Black Tie Event, Dominguez, Stabile, 113, 15-1 7, Downtown Cowboy, Morales, Meyers, 113, 12-1 8, Bugle Barry, Villa-Gomez, Walsh, 110, 20-1 Demsky’s picks: 4-1-3 Seventh Race, $28,000, Allowance, 3-andup, fillies and mares, 1 mile 70 yards 1, Laughs N Kisses, Morales, Meyers, 118, 8-5 1a , Comica, Allen Jr., Meyers, 118, 8-5 2, Penitence, Pino, Sheppard, 119, 5-1 3, Lulu’s Pride, Villa-Gomez, Hogue, 118, 30-1 4, Blondie Girl, Ayala, Thurston, 116, 20-1 5, Rock Sapphire (KOR), Garcia, Trombetta, 119, 10-1 6, Northern Alliance, Martinez, McNeely, 116, 20-1 7, Bitatude, Walker, Wismer, 116, 8-1 8, Sault Starr, Gallardo, Capuano, 118, 10-1 9, Citrine Harbor, , Stites, 116, 9-5 Demsky’s picks: 1-9-8 Eighth Race, $10,000, Maiden Claiming $7,500, 3-and-up, 5½ furlongs 1, Kissifur, Cox, Rice, 119, 30-1 1a , Singlebullettheory, Cox, Rice, 122, 30-1 2, Its All Good Dawg, Villa-Gomez, Russell, 122, 6-1 2b , Nolins Sieger, Allen, Russell, 122, 6-1 3, Big Als Legacy, Ayala, Antus, 122, 15-1 4, Marty, Allen Jr., Hamm, 119, 3-1 5, Jazz Loverman, Dominguez, Forde, 119, 10-1 6, Talk to the Media, Gallardo, Criollo, 122, 4-1 7, Yes I’m In, Delgado, Deville, 116, 5-1 8, Lischin to Garry, , LeCesse, 119, 8-1 9, Shoo Fly, Morales, Stoneking, 119, 7-2 Demsky’s picks: 4-6-9

Demsky’s best bet Race 7 — Laughs N Kisses Demsky’s best value Race 2 — El Mayito

YOUR SPORTS BASEBALL

• The Penn State Behrend Collegiate Baseball Skills Clinic for students in grades 9-12 will take place Oct. 7 from 1-4 p.m. on the Behrend diamond. Coaches and players will provide instruction in hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and outfielder skills. Rain date is Oct. 8. The cost is $50 and includes a T-shirt. For information, go to http://psblions.com/sports/bsb/2016-17/files/2017_ Collegiate_Skills_OUTDOOR_Flyer.pdf or send an email to coach Paul Benim at prb3@ psu.edu.

leagues will begin Dec. 3. Register online at http://erie-admirals.com. For information contact Mark at 412-952-0780.

• Registration is now open for the Little Kickers and Junior Admirals soccer program at Family First Sports Park. The programs are open to boys and girls aged 2-8 years old. Contact Emily for registration details at Etojaga@yahoo.com.

SOFTBALL

• The Ball-O-Ween 2-Pitch Co-Ed Softball Tournament for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will take place Oct. 7 at Girard FOOTBALL • The PIAA is looking for men or women who Boro Park. The entry fee is $200 per team. are interested in officiating area high school The tournament will be limited to 10 teams paid in full by Oct. 1. Must be in Halloween football. Weekly meetings and offseason costume to play. Teams must have a meetings are held to help newcomers minimum of nine players, including at least become proficient PIAA football officials. three female players. Rain date is Oct. 14.

The PIAA would allow prospective officials to shadow an official throughout the season For information, contact Mark Wagner at 814-897-5886 or send an email to softball. in the group’s monitoring program. For balloween@yahoo.com. information, contact John Simmons at 814-806-4464 or by email at jsimmons339@ The Your Sports calendar is published gmail.com.

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Community members are invited to submit The Family First indoor adult flag football information to sports@timesnews.com or leagues will begin October 2017. Contact Your Sports, Sports Department, Erie TimesBob at 814-882-4914.

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OUTDOORS Now’s the time to get serious about bear and deer seasons

Time to sign up for veterans pheasant hunt pheasants and chukars are stocked for the hunt.

The vets hunt day begins by gathering at the Forest County Veterans Club, where veterans will also be fed for the day. Hunters will be transported by the Forest County Transportation Authority in three groups.

After hunting they will be transported back to the club.

“The biggest question I’m going to be getting this year is “Am I going to need a pheasant stamp?” SchneppGiger said. “The answer is no. We got a one-day exception from the Pennsylvania Game Commission. They will need a hunting license.

They need blaze orange hat and vest. We prefer they bring their own shotguns.”

Also, Schnepp-Giger suggested that participants dress for the weather.

Comfort is important for enjoying the experience.

Layering clothing is wise.

Wear brush pants if you have them. Waterproof boots are recommended.

Gun raffles and merchandise raffles will be held throughout the day. Other entertainment is still in the planning stage. Archery is expected to return this year. This has encouraged at least one veteran to buy a hunting bow.

“We get local folks from Warren. We get folks from Erie; New York; Washington, D.C.; the Carolinas. Folks from all over are coming up here,” Schneff-Giger said.

“We don’t let folks bring their own dogs for a number of reasons.”

This event is open to veterans and active duty military. Accommodations can be made for participants who use wheelchairs. There are questions on the registration form which help organizers place participants in the most suitable hunting areas. Last year vets from World War II right up to active duty participated, and likely from every military conflict since World War II. Buzzard Swamp includes habitat that varies from open fields to brushy thickets and mature timber.

“We had some school-age kids last year and their interaction with the vets was terrific,” Schnepp-Giger said.

The registration deadline is Oct. 9, a Monday.

All registration forms must be received by this date to allow for planning. To get a reservation form, phone Schnepp-Giger at -814-450-1614, or email kgiger@nwtf.net.

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o many good things can be said about the Annual Veterans Day Hero Salute Pheasant Hunt.Good times. Camaraderie. Fresh air. Good food. Being introduced to various new activities.

Generosity. Appreciation. Meeting old friends. A day with people of similar experience. Giving back.

Enthusiasm. America at its finest. And we could go on.

This year it will be the sixth annual veterans pheasant hunt, if I may shorten the title to the term most participants use. The date is Nov. 2, a Thursday. The place of the hunt is Buzzard Swamp, with veterans gathering at the Forest County Veterans Club at Marienville.

Since a successful beginning when the event was held at Buckaloons, participation has grown to about 80 veterans per year.

Participation is limited, however, so register soon.

This event is undertaken by a partnership of the Kinzua Allegheny Longbeards Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, Pheasants Forever, the Allegheny National Forest, the Forest County Transportation Authority and veterans organizations from around the area.

“There are a ton of different vets clubs that contribute to us generously. In addition, the Forest County Vets Club, they host us, they feed us, and they contribute financially. Donations are trickling in now,” said Kristen Schnepp-Giger, National Wild Turkey Federation biologist.

The mission of the National Wild Turkey Federation is “conservation of the wild turkey and preservation of our hunting heritage.”

If you would like to thank those who laid their lives on the line for the U.S.A., you can provide financial support by making checks payable to Kinzua Allegheny Longbeards. Mail to Kristen Schnepp-Giger, 35 Arlington Drive, Warren, PA 16365.

The National Wild Turkey Federation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are tax deductible.

Tax receipts will promptly be issued for all donations.

“We stocked 400 birds last year. So that cost us $3,500.

That’s why we need donations,” Schnepp-Giger said.

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By Jerry Bush Contributing writer

It might seem hard to believe, but it’s time to prepare for the 2017 Pennsylvania big game hunting seasons.

The good news is that initial signs point to good hunting, and we will get to that, but first things first.

For rifle season, the first item is determining what firearm to use. Several calibers work well for deer and bear, including .270 Winchester, .280 Remington, 7 mm Remington Mag, 30.06, and the 300 Winchester Mag. Remember, our black bears can weigh more than 800 pounds.

Of course, it’s not a bad idea to choose something like a 45-70 for bear and a .25-06 or 6.5 Creedmoor for deer.

The next consideration is seat time at the range.

You owe it to yourself and the animal to be certain of a clean kill. You don’t want to locate a 700 pound bear or a 14-point buck and be wondering about where the bullet is going to strike.

Dedicated bowhunters have likely been shooting at least a couple times a week, but now is time to ramp up the sessions. Shoot from unorthodox positions. Be certain to launch some arrows with broadheads or practice tips accepting the same shape. Some broadhead brands provide practice tips shaped like their hunting tip.

Remember that bears and whitetail deer have extremely sensitive senses of smell. They use their noses to find food, mates, and to warn them of danger. Therefore, routinely successful bowhunters are extremely conscious of the need to control human scent to get close enough to release an arrow. It’s a great idea to launder garments with one of the commercial, scent-eliminating detergents before hanging those garments outside to dry. Extremely dedicated archers will then pack the garments in scent-prevention bags.

The cooler temperatures of September also trigger thoughts of scouting.

Hopefully you performed some scouting in the spring. Regardless, it’s very helpful to do so now.

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You could opt to hunt on public land, and, of course, we’re blessed with many state game lands and the Allegheny National Forest nearby.

No matter where you hunt across the region, early signs point to a good big game season.

“The 2016 bear season was nearly identical to 2015 and fits into the state’s four year average for bear harvests,” says Pennsylvania Game Commission bear biologist Mark Ternent.

In 2016, Pennsylvania’s bear hunters took 3,529 bears, and 522 of those animals were harvested in the northwest section of the state. Considering we didn’t really experience a hard winter, and considering the weather all year has provided favorable growing conditions, I see no reason why hunters shouldn’t expect another good year in 2017. Incidentally, I believe hunters in this area should be encouraged that 131 of those bears were tagged in Warren County. Even populated Erie County accounted for 28 bear kills. All in all, 522 bears were killed in northwest Pennsylvania in 2016 and 455 were killed in the same counties in 2015.

Steve Sorensen is a well-known northwest Pennsylvania outdoor writer who also happens to be a hunting fanatic, and he is excited about the upcoming deer season.

“Deer hunting prospects for northwestern Pennsylvania are good for this fall. Hunters running a half-dozen or more trail cameras are seeing some of the nicest bucks ever.

That’s even true in the big woods. I believe Forest County and the Allegheny National Forest, long regarded as big woods with small bucks, are going to produce some bruisers this year,” predicts Sorensen.

As this piece was being written, Game Commission officials said it was a bit early to predict mast production, but Sorensen said, “Mast production has been good the last couple of years. Considering the past winter was mild, it is reasonable to expect a decent mast crop again this year, and that means older age classes of deer should remain healthy.”

One food source I’ve found useful to monitor is the crop of wild apples.

My scouting trips reveal good production of wild apples, which puts a smile on my face because one of my favored tree stand locations is near a couple apple trees. For those who may be wondering, bears do like ripe apples. Unfortunately, they prefer to eat the delicious fruit before hunting season arrives.

Deer, on the other hand, enjoy apples from trees and long after they’ve fallen to the ground.

“Whitetail populations are stable in wildlife management units 1B and 2F,” advises Sorensen.

As a resident of Mercer County, I can vouch the same for WMU 1C. Sorensen and I agree the opportunity to fill a doe tag in northwest Pennsylvania should be great, assuming weather conditions don’t negatively impact the area.

There is every reason to be optimistic about Pennsylvania’s 2017 bear and deer hunting seasons. As is usually the case, those who prepare best will be the most likely to succeed, and the time to prepare is at hand.

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McLane wins Iroquois girls volleyball tournament Lancers sweep Huskies 25-22, 25-12 in finals

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See photos from the Iroquois volleyball invitational: GoErie. com/photos

General McLane has one of the most experienced volleyball teams in District 10 this season, and that experience paid off in a big way Saturday.

The Lancers fought off three match points in the semifinals before rallying in the championship to sweep Harbor Creek 25-22, 25-12 to win the Iroquois girls volleyball tournament.

“Volleyball is a game of momentum with a lot of ups and downs each game,” said McLane coach Danielle Hayes.

“The thing that makes a team great is getting down a few points and not letting it spiral out of control. The girls did a great job never giving up. When you make a mistake, shake it off and make the next play, and they did a great job siding out

in critical situations.”

McLane is on a roll to start the year with a 2-0 record in dual matches along with the Fort LeBoeuf team camp title and Fort LeBoeuf tournament title.

The Lancers added another trophy Saturday by surviving a tough playoff bracket. After the Lancers routed Commodore Perry in the quarterfinals, they met developing rival Conneaut, who ended McLane’s season in the District 10 Class 3A playoffs last fall.

Conneaut led 24-21 in the one-set semifinal before a McLane timeout.

“It was a crazy game for us and a rivalry that goes back a few years now,” Hayes said.

“The girls were focused in the timeout. We knew what they wanted to do, so we talked about defense and picking up the tips. We said that nothing was hitting the ground, and it was all about momentum and playing with energy.”

McLane rattled off five straight points to outlast the Eagles. Harbor Creek, which defeated Fairview in the semifinals, then took a 12-7 lead in the first set of the championship, but the Lancers rallied again. McLane tied the set at 14 before winning 25-22. The Lancers rode that momentum into a dominant second set to win the title.

McLane standouts Maddie Soboleski, a Pitt recruit, and Hailey Ingalls were named to the all-tournament team along with Bridget Bortnick (Conneaut), Ashley Haylett (Conneaut), Hannah Jackula (Iroquois) and Erin Stafford (Fairview).

Harbor Creek’s Morgan Harayda, center, hits over Union City blockers during the Iroquois girls volleyball invitational on Saturday. The Huskies lost to General McLane in the title match. [GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Fort LeBoeuf girls win Behrend cross country meet Cambridge Springs runners take top 3 spots in boys race Staff report

Erie County runners swept the individual and team titles during Saturday’s varsity girls race in the Penn State Behrend Invitational.

Lauren Habursky of Mercyhurst Prep was the fastest female over the Lions’ course. The junior crossed the finish line in 21 minutes, 18.6 seconds.

Saegertown’s Beka

McClymonds was second at 21:40.5, with Fort LeBoeuf’s Genna Feltmeyer the bronze medalist at 21:55.6.

Feltmeyer was the first of three runners who placed in the top 10 for the Bison, who won the team trophy with 53 points. Ivy Laffan (22:51.4) placed sixth and Meghan Nutt (23:05.6) eighth.

LeBoeuf edged McDowell by two points. The Trojans’ low participant was Rachel Ramsey, who returned fourth at 22:40.6.

Cambridge Springs d o mi na t ed t h e va r si t y boys competition. The

Creek’s boys and Fairview’s girls were team titlists for the Panthers’ meet.

Harbor Creek was a

68-point victor over the second-place Cochranton Cardinals. The Huskies claimed the top two individual spots thanks to Ryan Starvaggi (16 minutes, 22 seconds) and Aiden Weber (16:53).

Fairview compiled a low 72 points to Lakeview’s 91.

The Tigers’ low runner was Rowan Hayes, the race’s silver medalist at 19:39.

Sharon’s Giana Labbiento, only a freshman, was first back in 19:14.

Spartan Invitational: At Boardman, Ohio, North East’s Josh Lewis returned

fifth in the meet’s Division 3 boys final.

Lewis was timed at 16 minutes, 28.3 seconds for the Grapepickers, who placed sixth (177 points) in the team standings. Union City, led by Tyler Slaney (18:13.0), were 10th (356).

Union City and North East also entered runners in the Boardman’s Division 3 girls race.

The low time for the eighth-place Bears was

by Abby Anaya (23rd at 21:17.5). Taylor Van Tassell came back in 18th (20:47.3) for the ‘Pickers.

Blue Devils’ 32 points were largely due to the 1-2-3 times of Elijah Mamula (18:04.6), Alec Bidwell (18:25.8) and Zach Marraza (18:26.2).

Mercyhurst’s boys were second with 51 points. The Lakers had top-10 runners in Scott Coughanour (fifth at 18:37.2), Jeremy Kunco (sixth at 18:38.4) and Joel Kweder (seventh at 18:42.0).

Commodore Perry Invitational: At Hadley, Harbor

B R E A KO U T AT H L E T E S O F T H E W E E K

Staff reports Football: Lee Barney, Harbor Creek

Boys soccer: Jason Angelo, Harbor Creek

Girls soccer: Ali Tobin, Harbor Creek

Girls volleyball: Lucy Smith, Meadville

Fall sports: Ryan Ferry, Meadville golf

Barney, a senior, has stepped up as a solid running back for the Huskies, including 84 Barney yards and one touchdown on 19 carries Friday in a 44-0 win over Titusville. He also had 14 carries for 101 yards and two touchdowns in a 42-6 win over Union City last week.

Angelo, a senior, has been an offensive weapon for the Huskies as he scored four goals and Angelo dished out two assists in a 14-1 win over Eisenhower and five goals in a 6-0 win over Grove City. He also scored both goals for Harbor Creek in a 3-2 loss to Mercer.

Tobin, a freshman, is new to varsity soccer this year, but she already has a signature moment.

Tobin She scored the gamewinning goal in a thrilling 5-4 win over Grove City. She also had a goal in a win over Fort LeBoeuf and a goal in a 3-0 win over Erie.

The Bulldogs have only four seniors on the roster, but underclassmen like Smith, a Smith sophomore, are stepping up this year. She had 17 kills in a sweep of Titusville, and the 5-foot 8-inch outside hitter had 20 kills in a sweep of Franklin.

Ferry a sophomore was a co-medalist for the Region 3 mega-match held Sept. 6 at Blueberry Ferry Hill Golf Club in Warren County. He helped the Bulldogs finish second in the team results with a four-over par 76. Ferry was an all-region golfer as a freshman.

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Stakes races ahead for Presque Isle Downs Two stakes scheduled Sunday and $400,000 Masters Stakes on Monday Staff report

Ami’s Mesa and Bar of Gold are the favorites in a full field for the $400,000 Grade 2 Masters Stakes on Monday, which caps the biggest two days of thoroughbred racing at Presque Isle Downs & Casino.

On Sunday evening, Ghost Hunter will try to win a second straight $200,000 Presque Isle Mile, although War Correspondent is the favorite out of eight horses entered in Presque Isle Downs’ second-richest purse.

The first of three stakes races is Sunday’s $100,000 Mrs. Henry D. Paxson Memorial Stakes for Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old fillies.

Twelve fillies and mares and two also-eligible horses entered for the Masters, a 6½-furlong sprint and the Tapeta surface track’s signature race, the fifth on the program.

Ami’s Mesa, to be ridden by Luis Contreras, is 3-for-3 in 2017 with a pair of graded stakes wins at Toronto’s

Woodbine. Bar of Gold, who will have Irad Ortiz in the saddle, finished third in the 2016 Masters behind winner Sarah Sis and two-time winner Living the Life, both retired. Five-yearold mare Bar of Gold, with $918,500 in career earnings, could go over a million dollars in her 23rd start.

Tulsa Queen, the Mrs. Henry Paxson winner in 2016, will be ridden by Willie Martinez. Presque Isle regular Cavalia (Luis Garcia), beat also-eligible Artesia and entrant Candid Cathy (Mario Pino) in an allowance Aug. 28 in a time of 1 minute, 15.44 seconds, a half second off two-time winner Groupie Doll’s 6½-furlongtrack record of 1:14.88.

Also entered are multiple stakes placed Clothes Fall Off with Rajiv Maragh, who rode Groupie Doll to her wins in 2012 and 2013; 2016 H.B.P.A. stakes winner Minks Aprise (Rafael Hernandez), Multiple stakes winner Pretty Perfection (Nik Juarez), Ginger N Rye (Ricardo Santana), grades stakes placed Indulgent (Luis Saez), graded stakes winner Code Warrior (Anne Sanguinetti), and Carolina Shag (Sheldon

Russell). Also eligible is Lady Oak (A.J. Ayala).

The Masters Stakes has produced several Breeders’ Cup Female Sprint winners and Eclipse Award winners over the first 10 years, including Informed Decision, Dubai Majesty, Musical Romance and Groupie Doll twice.

The Presque Isle Mile, the sixth race on the card, has eight entrants.

War Correspondent, a 7-year-old ridden by Tyler Gaffalione, is a multiple graded stakes winner and slight favorite over Ghost Hunter (four-time riding champ Antonio Gallardo), who won the Arlington Handicap this season but was third in an allowance race at Presque Isle Aug. 28 to entrants Tale of the Nile (Willie Martinez) and Black Tie Event (Eddie Dominguez). Also entered are Gigantic Breeze (Gary Boulanger), Western Elegance (Santu S a nj ur ) , D o wn t ow n Cowboy (Pablo Morales) and Bugle Barry (Huber Villa Gomez).

Eight juvenile fillies are entered in the Paxson Stakes, including two-time winner Bronx Beauty, with Gallardo on board. The fourth race is set to go off at 6:45 p.m.

Oberacker bound for Point Park Hall of Fame McDowell grad set Pioneers’ record for career kills Staff report

McDowell graduate

Lindsey Oberacker will be

inducted into the Point Park Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 30.

Oberacker starred for the Pioneers’ volleyball team from 2009-12. She set Point Park’s career kills record with 1,855 and added 1,060 career digs, making her one of only five Point Park players with more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs.

She was also a two-time NAIA honorable-mention All-American, a three-time AVCA all-Northeast Region first-team selection and a four-time allconference first-team selection. She led Point Park to itsfirst-evervolleyball conference championship and NAIA national tournament appearance.

In the classroom, she compiled a 3.96 career grade-point average in biology and pre-med.

As a result, she claimed a spot on the Capital One/ CoSIDA Academic AllAmerica first team as both a junior and senior.

FOOTBALL

• Edinboro’s Brandon Anderson was picked as

the PSAC West defensive player of the week after making a career-high 19 tackles in the Fighting Scots’ 20-3 win over LockHaven.The redshirt sophomore strong safety had seven solo tackles and recovered a fumble.

GOLF

• Gannon senior Matt Barto was named PSAC men’s golfer of the week after he turned in an eighth-place finish at the Glade Springs

Intercollegiate and a 14th-place finish at the Kuhn Memorial. Barto Lindsey shot a 74-76—150 at Glade Springs and added a 78-74—152 at the Kuhn Memorial.

VOLLEYBALL

• Edinboro’s Sydney Trathen was selected as the PSAC Northwest volleyball player of the week after helping the Fighting Scots win all four of their matches in the Hawks Invitational at Saint Anselm.

A senior setter, Trathen was named the MVP of the tournament aftershe finished with28 kills, 46 digs, 150 assists, six total blocks and six service aces.

SOCCER

• Penn State Behrend

senior midfielder Amanda D o n o h u e was named AMCC and ECAC offensive women’s soccer player of the week after she scored a goal in each of the Lions’ three games, including two game-winners.

CROSS COUNTRY

• Gannon’s J o s e p h Westrick was selected as the ECAC men’s runner of the week after the sophomore finished fourth out of 139 runners at the Bethany Invitational. He recorded the best 8K time of his collegiate career with a time of 26 minutes and 46 seconds.

• Gannon’s Meredith Morse was named ECAC women’s runner of the week after the true freshman finished 11th out of 142 runners with a 6K time of 24:42 at the 16-team Bethany Invitational.

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Erie’s Mizikowski wins age group at Granite Games Staff report

ST. CLOUD, Minn.

— Erie athlete Debbie Mizikowski won her age group for the fifth annual Kill Cliff Granite Games, held Sept. 8-10 at St. Cloud State University.

Mizikowski, 60, finished first as an

unaffiliated participant in the competition’s age 55-over women’s division. She compiled 1,284 points for her three events, which were three more than silver medalist Patricia McGill of Ottawa, Ontario.

Time limits were involved in each of

the seven workouts Mizikowski completed.

Among them were a combined 400-meter swim and 1½-mile run, and lifting and carrying bags of sand for various times and distances.

Mizikowski was one of more than 1,600 athletes who participated.

Erie girls earn historic first win Staff report

Corinne Wentz scored 7:46 into overtime Saturday to give Erie its first win in girls soccer history, a 2-1 victory over Bradford in a non-region match at Veterans Stadium.

The Royals (1-3-0), who had been shut out in their first games, took the lead on a goal

by Sarah Young in the first half, but the Owls (4-2-0) knotted it on Regan Johnson’s goal in the second half.

The game remained tied until Wentz scored off an assist by Elizabeth Parrillo. The assist was

Parrillo’s second of the match, while Caitlyn Shields was credited with an assist on the goal by Johnson.

McDowell 3, Fairview 0: At Fairview, Megan

Rosenthal scored twice as the Trojans snapped a five-match losing streak and handed the Tigers their first loss.

Kylee Cross added a goal for McDowell (1-50), which scored all of its goals in the first half.

Amanda Kremer and Leila Mustafa shared the shutout for the Trojans.

Fairview dropped to 4-1-1.

Girard 3, General McLane 1: At Girard,

Emily Copus scored all three goals in leading the YellowJackets (2-2-0, 1-1-0) to a Region 4 victory over the Lancers.

Amy Patterson scored the lone goal for the Lancers (2-3-0, 1-2-0).

Mercyhurst Prep 3, Harbor Creek 0: At Vet-

erans Stadium, Megan Chimera, Kaitlyn Kneidinger and Ashley Michaels all scored in leading the Lakers(4-21, 3-0-1) to a decisive victory in a Region 4 match over the previously unbeaten Huskies (4-1-0, 2-1-0).

Ashley VanDamia was in goal for the shutout.

Gannon men blank Bloomsburg Edinboro women down Millersville Staff report

Mathias Krigbaum scored the first and last goals and Jorge Hernandez made five saves in recording his first shutout of the season Saturday as the Gannon men rolled over

Bloomsburg 3-0 in a PSAC match at McConnell Family Stadium.

Freshman Alex Lee Yaw netted the first goal of his collegiate career as the Knights (2-4-0, 2-0-0 PSAC) won their second straight. Bloomsburg d r o pp e d to 1- 4- 0, 0-2-0.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Edinboro 4, Millersville 2: At Sox Harrison Sta-

dium, Danielle Chatten and Ashley Mutkus scored in the first eight minutes and the Fighting Scots went on to win a PSAC match.

Chatten added a second goal at 15:15 as Edinboro (3-2-1, 3-2-1) spurted to a quick 3-1 lead. Millersville is 2-3-1, 1-3-1.

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Scammers seek info from relative

David Bruce

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he wife of one of my co-workers recently received a bizarre call from a probable scammer.

The caller wanted to talk to my co-worker’s sister and deliver her some sort of document but didn’t have a way of reaching her.

Neither my co-worker nor his wife know how the caller got her cellphone number.

If she couldn’t give the caller her sister-inlaw’s contact information, the caller asked my co-worker’s wife to give her the company’s name, contact number and case number.

The company’s name is Alton, Davis and Associates. A quick read of its website, www.altondavisandassociates.com, shows it is a debt collection agency based on Ontario, California.

Debt collection is a legal business, of course, but this company has engaged in behavior that has raised some red flags, said Pamela Marlowe, public relations coordinator for the Erie office of the Better Business Bureau of Western Pennsylvania.

No company named Alton, Davis and Associates is registered with the state of California, and the address listed on the company’s website is a UPS Store mailbox. The website, which consists of just two Web pages, was created in July and does not identify either Alton or Davis.

I called the office and was greeted by a man saying, “corporate offices.”

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How Equifax hackers might use information

By Craig Timberg The Washington Post

Amid the numbing drumbeat of high-profile hacks in recent years, the one reported Thursday by Equifax stands out for its seriousness and its power to spark widespread consumer rage.

The key is that the Social Security numbers of up to 143 million people may have been compromised. Social Security numbers have been exposed in some cybersecurity incidents — such as the Office of Personnel Management and Sony Pictures hacks — but

not in many others, such as the massive breaches at Target, JP Morgan Chase and Yahoo.

Social Security numbers, especially when combined with other exposed data such as driver’s license numbers, birth dates and home addresses, can allow identity thieves to impersonate you.

They can apply for loans, housing, utilities and even government benefits in your name. Or, more likely, they can sell this data on the open market to those who will use it for those purposes and perhaps for other crimes we can’t imagine.

“Once your personally identifiable information has been stolen, people can use that information to basically impersonate you. They can createfakeloansandfakebank accounts. And the names will be posted on lists that become available to future hackers,” said Fleming Shi, a senior vice president for Barracuda cybersecurity company.

Equally troubling to many consumer advocates was the six-week-long delay between the day Equifax said it discovered the hack —July 29 — and Thursday’s public disclosure. The company has

not responded to repeated requests from The Washington Post to explain this gap, a time frame when affected consumers might have taken measures to protect themselves by closely monitoring their credit card and bank statements and other financial records.

But the reality is that there are few meaningful rules on how and when companies must report hacks and other cybersecurity incidents, despite calls in Congress to legislate regulations.

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Banking on success Erie native is PNC executive

By Valerie Myers valerie.myers@timesnews.com

Growing up in Erie County, Stacy Juchno never pictured herself as an auditor.

In fifth grade, asked by her teacher to draw the career she imagined for herself, Juchno drew herself behind the wheel of a race car.

Instead, Juchno, 42, is executive vice president and general auditor for PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh, and a member of PNC’s Executive Committee that oversees the management of the bank, the country’s eighth largest by assets, according to Bankrate.

In other words, she’s one of the most powerful people in one of the country’s largest banks.

She also is a general auditor for PNC, executive leader of the PNC Military Employee Business Resource Group and a member of the PNC Foundation board of directors.

“I still like fast cars,” she said.

On Wednesday, before meeting with students at Gannon University, her alma mater, Juchno answered questions about her work, her family and growing up in Erie. Some responses have been edited for brevity.

Q : What are some of the things you remember about growing up in Erie?

A : Going to Dahlkemper’s to buy things, and the products coming across a conveyor to be picked up at the counter. You went to dinner, you went to DeDad’s.

We shopped at Children’s Palace for Christmas gifts, and my school clothes shopping was at Hill’s. All that’s

Stacy Juchno Age: 42 Title: Executive vice president and general auditor, PNC Financial Services Group.

Previously: Senior vice president and finance governance and oversight director, PNC; director of regulatory compliance for a Pittsburgh telecommunications company; audit manager, Ernst and Young.

Community work: United Way of Allegheny County, Western Pennsylvania Humane Society board of directors.

changed since I’ve grown up, and Erie’s changed a lot, but you know I truly am an Erie girl if I know those things.

Q : Where did you go to school?

A : I grew up in Summit Township, so I went to Fort LeBoeuf for several years. My parents moved to Millcreek, so I made the transition to St. George’s School, and from there, after a year of wearing uniforms, I just said: Can’t do it; McDowell, here I come. So I went to McDowell, graduated and went right on to Gannon University.

Q : How did your career goals change from race car driver to auditor?

A : Mr. Morrison, who has since retired, was my accounting teacher at McDowell. He was just passionate, engaging, and I was able to learn things quickly from him. I knew after taking classes my junior and senior year with him that it was something related to accounting that I wanted to do.

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Stacy Juchno, 42, is an executive vice president and general auditor for PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh. The Erie native and McDowell High School and Gannon University graduate spoke last week to a class of Gannon graduate and undergraduate business and finance students. [CHRISTOPHER MILLETTE PHOTOS/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Stacy Juchno speaks to a class of graduate and undergraduate business and finance students Wednesday at Gannon University’s Center for Advanced Engineering in Erie.

M OV E R O F T H E W E E K

THE BUZZ

Zanita A. Zacks-Gabriel, a lifelong resident of Harborcreek Township, has been appointed to the board of theInternational Academy of Collaborative Professionals for a three-year term.

The IACP is an international organization based in Phoenix, Arizona, that promotes collaborative practice in a voluntary dispute resolution process in which parties settle their differences without resorting to litigation.

She serves as chairwoman of thePennsylvania Bar Association’s Collaborative Law Committee and has helped to draft the Pennsylvania Collaborative Law Act. She is also certified as a trainer in the collaborative process and is the founder and former president of the Collaborative Professionals of Northwest PA. She is a graduate of of Temple University School of Law and has been in practice for more than 40 years.

Tim NeCastro, CEO of Erie Insurance,willbetheguestspeaker at the Manufacturing & Business Association’s Eggs ‘n’ Issues briefing at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

During his presentation, “Getting to the Core of a Better Erie,” NeCastro will discuss his view of what he sees as an unprecedented opportunity for the region to change its trajectory in a comprehensive and intentional way.

The event will be held at the association’s conference center, located2171W.38thSt.Costis$30 for members, $60 for nonmembers. To register, call 833-3200 or visit www.mbausa.org.

Four two-member crews and one supervisor from Northwestern Rural Electric Co-operative in Cambridge Springs left Tuesday morning to assist electric cooperatives in Georgia in restoring power to their members following storm damage from Hurricane Irma.

O’Reilly Auto Parts is building a store on Route 20 in Girard.

The store is expected to open early in 2018, O’Reilly spokesman Mark Marz said.

It will be the Missouribased chain’s fifth store in Erie County.

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At Gannon, what was really special were professors who came from local CPA firms and taught. I had friends who went to Penn State, and their classes were in an auditorium with 300 people. I was in a class with 13 or 15 people. And oh, by the way, a local CPA who actually did this for a living taught us.

Q : What will you tell Gannon students today?

A : About my career path, where I started and how it led to where I am. I want to talk to them about mentors and the importance of mentoring and the softer things, about getting involved early and volunteering for things. Part of that is networking, but also showing an interest in things.

And that students between their junior and senior years, if they're interested in being in Pittsburgh doing accounting, can reach out and talk to me.

Q : Do you still have

BRUCE Continued from D1

When I told him why I was calling, he said, “It sounds like you have a lot of time on your hands,” and declined to answer any questions.

Alton, Davis and Associates probably got the cell number for my co-worker’s wife either via a data breach, a marketing database or a website that tracks cellphone numbers, Marlowe said.

family here?

A: My mom and dad live in McKean. My brother and his wife live in Millcreek. I have a niece and nephew, one a freshman and one a senior at McDowell. They play sports, so I get up here to watch them. We won't even talk about the PrepMcDowell game.

I did the (Presque Isle) Half Marathon in July but missed the Beast on the Bay this week. That's disappointing because we get out there every year. My dad, who's turned 70, still does it.

Q : You were recently married to an Erie native, Scott Dibble?

A : In December, at a Penguins hockey game.

We're big Penguins fans.

We got married in jeans and jerseys. But I did have a little bit of wedding remorse that I didn't have the pictures on the mantel. (She bought a wedding dress for more traditional photos before her honeymoon in August.) The Penguins let us into their locker room for our pictures, and we were going to go to Mellon Park in Mount Washington for more but it started to rain. So

new challenges. But every day we're making a difference, ultimately for our customers but also for our employees and the communities we work in.

When Harvey happened, I came in thinking I'm going to pick up the phone and say to our foundation, "What are we doing?" But PNC already was donating $250,000 for relief and was going to match employees' up As an executive vice to $100,000. It makes president and general me proud to be part of auditor for PNC Financial an organization that has Services Group in a very small footprint, if Pittsburgh, Stacy Juchno, anything, in that region.

42, is one of the most It is a new market for us, powerful people in one but it didn't have to be. of the country’s largest And at PNC it's not banks. all about the Harvard graduate. in PNC's new building Gannon's just as on the 28th floor, there's important. Our CEO is this place called The Park from Allegheny College. that overlooks the city. We are a big company My second set of wed- with 50,000 employees ding pictures are there, but with a lot of smallat work. It's fitting. town touches, which Q: You say that when provide a lot of the you retire some day, it diversity of thought and will be from PNC. Why? leadership.

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A consumer from Massachusetts has filed a scam report on the company with the Better Business Bureau.

The consumer said the caller claimed they were going to pursue litigation but agreed to take a payment of a few hundred dollars if the consumer would pay by a Visa prepaid credit card.

The BBB advises against paying any debt with a prepaid credit card because it is almost impossible to stop the payment or have it returned in the event of fraud.

What should you do if you are called by a debt collection agency that is either trying to get money from you or information about a relative?

The BBB offered the following advice: Ask the debt collector to provide official “validation notice” of the debt.

Debt collectors are required by law to provide the information in writing.

If you think that a caller may be a fake, ask for his name, company, street address

and telephone number.

Then, confirm that the collection agency is real.

Research them online.

Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone or through email until you have verified the call.

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Does Wells Fargo owe you money?

By Margarette Burnette NerdWallet.com

Wells Fargo said Aug. 31 that it may have opened as many as 3.5 million unauthorized accounts, a sharp increase from the 2.1 million it previously announced as part of a $185 million settlement in September 2016. That could mean many more consumers are eligible for refunds and credits.

The bank has agreed to pay out another $2.8 million, according to a Wells Fargo news release. This is in addition to more than $3 million in payments announced after the first review.

The increased figure comes after an expanded review of accounts dating back to 2009. Wells Fargo is still totaling the number of affected customers. One person can have multiple accounts, notes bank spokeswoman Jennifer Langan, so the final number is not yet known. The initial review covered a period of 4 ½ years beginning in 2011.

Here’s how to find out if you’re affected and what to do if you are.

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“Financial advisor” isn’t an official designation, and the term can apply to people with a variety of specialties. A financial advisor can also hold multiple designations and licenses.

4 types of advisors To start, it’s important to know if your advisor is a fiduciary, meaning that he or she puts clients’ interests first.

Many advisors, such as registered investment advisors and members of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Garrett Planning Network and other groups, abide by the fiduciary standard in all of their work with clients.

Here are the major types of financial advisors: • Registered investment advisor. RIAs are registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or a state regulator, depending on the size of their company.

They’re held to a fiduciary standard in dealing with clients.

• Certified financial planner.

This designation requires completing a lengthy education requirement, passing a stringent test and demonstrating

work experience. All abide by a fiduciary standard when providing financial planning services.

• Robo-advisor. These online advisors use computer software and algorithms to manage clients’ investment portfolios, often at a fraction of the cost of a live advisor.

Some offer access to live advisors as well.

• Broker. Also known as registered representatives, these people sell stocks, mutual funds and other investments at a brokerage or broker-dealer.

They’re generally required to sell products that are “suitable” for clients, a lower standard than the fiduciary standard, because a suitable investment isn’t necessarily the best one for you. For example, a suitable investment might cost more — and bring a higher commission to the broker — than an investment that’s in your best interest.

Check on fee structure One crucial distinction among advisors is how they get paid. In general, “fee-only” advisors don’t receive commissions on products they sell, avoiding a potential conflict of interest. “Fee-based” advisors charge a fee, but also might receive commissions on some products. Another category is “commission only” — these advisors get paid only if they sell certain products to clients.

Do I need one?

It might make sense to hire a financial advisor if you’re:

• Undergoing or planning a big life event. If you’re getting married, having a baby, buying a house, taking care of aging parents, starting a business or experiencing another life change, consider hiring a financial expert.

• Juggling multiple financial goals and have limited funds.

• Feeling overwhelmed by money issues, such as investing an inheritance, handling finances during an impending divorce or reducing your tax bill.

• Looking for someone to hold you accountable. “Most plans fail because they aren’t implemented,” says Robert Lindstrom, CFP and associate financial planner at the Financial Consulate. “Think of your planner as a coach.”

• Making decisions in the dark. Do you know your net worth or how to figure it out?

Do you know your retirement portfolio’s asset allocation?

If not, it might make sense to consult an expert, says Bob Carroll, a CFP, CPA and managing director of the Cincinnati office of Carnegie Investment Counsel.

• Not feeling financially secure. If your life and career are going great but your finances aren’t, Carroll says “that’s a telltale sign” you should probably talk to someone.

Keep in mind that some advisors (think: fee-only, CFP types) are happy to get hired for a few hours to answer specific financial questions.

You don’t necessarily need oodles of cash or a long-term arrangement.

The bank has promised to reach out to affected account owners, but you can start by calling Wells Fargo’s dedicated hotline: 877-924-8697. Contact the bank if you believe an unauthorized account or service was opened in your name, regardless of when the issue occurred.

You can also visit your local Wells Fargo bank location. “Our branch employees are equipped to handle questions and concerns,” Langan says.

And you should take a look at your credit score. If an account was opened in your name, it could have affected your credit. If a damaged credit score led to higher borrowing costs, you might be eligible for compensation, the bank says. $3.7 million refunded and counting Between September 2016 and July 2017, Wells Fargo refunded $3.7 million to customers for bank account fees charged on unauthorized accounts and lines of credit. A recent class-action lawsuit means another $142 million in compensation for customers.

The scandal first came to light in early September 2016, when the bank said roughly 1.5 million bank accounts and about 565,000 credit card accounts might have been created without customer authorization. The bank settled for $185 million, to be paid to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other government agencies.

How to stop being the family ATM

By Liz Weston NerdWallet.com

If you want someone to stop asking you for money, the worst thing you can do is say no and then give in after persistent pleading.

Such “intermittent reinforcement” — granting a reward after an unpredictable number of requests — makes it more likely the person will ask for another handout than if you just said yes at the start, says Brad Klontz, a certified financial planner and

psychologist in Lihue, Hawaii, who researches financial psychology. It’s the same dynamic that lures people to slot machines and lotteries.

Klontz doesn’t advise giving in. But he says understanding the psychology on both sides of what he calls “financial enabling” can help people change their behavior.

The best way to stop enabling is to first recognize when you’re doing it and then create a plan for saying no.

Ask yourself: • Will this money actually help?:

It’s one thing to aid someone who’s been financially responsible but has fallen on hard times. It’s another to give money to people who chronically overspend or under-earn.

• Is there a better way to help?: Instead of handing over cash, the rescuer could offer to pay essential expenses such as rent or medical bills if they can afford to do so. Any financial help should come with a firm deadline of when the assistance will end, such as six months, Klontz says. Offering to find or pay for

financial planning, therapy or coaching is another way to help without enabling.

• How can you make this decision stick?: Once they’re refused or cut off, the enabled may throw “adult temper tantrums” that can include guilt trips, vows to move across the country with the grandchildren, verbal abuse or even threats of physical violence, Klontz says. Enablers who worry about their safety should contact an attorney or law enforcement for help, Ford says.

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Name Last SnapInc A n 15.25 SwstAirl 54.72 SwstnEngy 5.79 SpiritRltC 8.74 Sprint 7.69 Square n 28.50 SP CnSt 55.22 SP Engy 65.84 SPDR Fncl 24.77 SP Inds 69.39 SP Tech 58.74 SP Util 54.75 StanBlkDk 148.04 Starbucks s 54.67 Symantec 33.24 Synchrony 29.02 Target 59.96 TevaPhrm 18.10 3M Co 213.35 Transocn 9.24 21stCFoxA 27.05 Twitter 18.01 US OilFd 10.20 USSteel 25.09 Vale SA 10.85 ValeantPh 13.92 VanEGold 24.13 VanE JrGld 35.28 VangEmg 45.06 Vereit 8.68 Vipshop 10.03 Visa s 105.30 WalgBoots 82.50 WeathfIntl 4.42 WellsFargo 51.66 WhitingPet 4.86 Yamana g 2.86 YumBrnds 75.25 Zynga 3.82

s 4-wk. 3.64% s YTD 5.62%

$CHG 1WK +0.14 +0.19 +0.41 +0.41 +0.81 +0.12 -0.01 +0.06 +0.34 +0.76 +0.38 +0.13 -0.06 +0.13 +0.60 -0.04 -0.36 +0.22 +1.49 +1.25 +0.66 +0.07 +0.33 -3.29 -0.04 +0.19 +1.07 +2.16 +0.02 +0.21 +0.27 +1.07 +0.31 +0.22 +1.93 +0.50 +0.51 +0.63 +0.34 +0.52 +0.07 +1.36 +0.98 +0.76 +0.14 +0.51 +0.33 +0.31 +3.70 +0.27 -1.16 -0.04 +0.69 -0.05 +0.54 -0.05 +2.40 +1.30 +0.12 +0.27 +0.19 +0.02 -0.06 +0.88 +0.44 +0.12 +0.78 +0.49 +0.07 -0.04 +0.04 +0.13 +0.72 ... ...

-0.03 +0.30 +0.22

FAMILY AB American Century American Funds

5,800

S&P 500

2,300 2,250

72.07

2.03% (wkly)

U

Russell 2000

2.31% (wkly)

s 4-wk. 5.44% s YTD 5.50%

LocalFunds

StocksRecap 26.68

S&P mid-cap

Wk Chg -.09 +1.85 +.61 +.10 -.05 +1.97 +.13 +1.44 +.67 +1.12 +.71 -.61 +.99 +1.18 +1.61 +.47 +2.69 +2.60 +7.66 +.77 +1.44 +.56 +.47 -1.87 -.26 +.31 -1.11 -1.68 +.53 +.03 +.82 +.87 +1.11 +.44 +2.08 +.86 -.22 -1.23 +.14

FUND NAV ReltvValA m 6.11 EmMktsInv d 11.80 CptWldGrIncA m 50.95 EuroPacGrA m 55.46 TheNewEcoA m 45.40 BNY Mellon AsstAllcM 12.41 NtnSTMnBdM 12.82 BlackRock GlbAllcIncInvC m 18.25 ClearBridge DivStratB m 23.13 Dreyfus StratValA f 40.48 WldwideGrA f 57.01 Elfun Divers 19.86 Inc 11.49 IntlEq 21.82 Trusts 63.41 TxExInc 11.65 Fidelity BCGrowth x 83.99 Balanced 24.46 Contrafund 120.68 EqIncome 60.01 Fidelity 42.98 Frdm2010 16.14 GrStrategies 38.02 LowPrStk x 51.35 PennsylvnMnInc 11.23 Puritan 23.04 Fidelity Select NaturalGas d 23.40 Transportation d 97.59 Franklin Templeton IncA m 2.37 Janus Henderson ContrarianT 19.61 GlobalSelectT 15.94 GrowthAndIncT 51.09 OverseasT 31.99 ResearchT 45.49 Mairs & Power GrInv 122.20 Neuberger Berman LgCpValInv 32.01 Oakmark EqAndIncInv 33.10 GlbInv 33.59 GlbSelInv 19.48 IntlInv 28.51 IntlSmCpInv d 17.95 Inv 81.10 SelInv 46.36 T. Rowe Price IntlDiscv d 69.59 IntlStk d 18.93 NewEra 34.15 NewHorizons 53.20 USAA SciTech 27.44 Vanguard 500IdxInv 231.84 BalIdxInv 33.56 HCInv 212.95 HYTE 11.42 HiDivYldIdxInv 32.07 LTTE 11.71 MdCpIdxInv 39.80 PALTmTEAdm 11.67 PrmCpAdmrl 128.93 SmCptlstIdxInv 66.02 TrgtRtr2025Inv 18.18 TrgtRtr2030Inv 32.78 TrgtRtr2035Inv 20.09 TrgtRtrIncInv 13.51 TtBMIdxInv 10.83 ValIdxInv 38.69 WlngtnInv 41.93 WlslyIncInv 26.80 WndsrIIInv 37.84 WndsrInv 22.54 Waddell & Reed Adv AstStrA m 8.87 BdA m 6.28 ContinentalIncA m 9.70 CorInvmA m 6.75 EngyA m 11.03 HiIncA m 6.77 HiIncY 6.77 MnBdA m 7.53 SciTechA m 17.25 SmCpA m 17.28

1WK +2.3 +1.6 +1.2 +0.7 +1.8 +1.0 -0.1 +0.3 +1.2 +1.9 +0.7 +0.7 -0.5 +0.6 +1.0 -0.3 +1.6 +0.9 +1.3 +2.1 +1.6 +0.4 +0.9 +1.5 -0.3 +0.8 +4.8 +2.3 +0.9 +1.1 +1.7 +2.1 +1.0 +0.5 +1.6 +1.6 +1.6 +1.9 +1.8 +1.9 +0.4 +1.7 +2.2 +1.1 +0.7 +1.5 +0.6 +1.1 +1.6 +0.8 -0.5 -0.3 +2.2 -0.4 +1.4 -0.4 +1.9 +2.0 +0.7 +0.8 +1.0 +0.1 -0.5 +2.3 +1.1 +0.4 +2.1 +2.2 +0.8 -0.5 +1.1 +2.0 +7.0 +0.1 +0.1 -0.1 +1.8 +1.3

PERCENT RETURN 1MO 1YR RANK +2.9 +18.6 2 +6.9 +33.0 1 +2.9 +18.7 3 +3.4 +20.9 2 +5.3 +26.3 1 +1.8 +13.7 1 +0.1 +1.0 3 +1.4 +10.6 3 +1.0 +16.4 +0.7 +17.0 2 +1.5 +21.3 2 +1.6 +11.8 3 +0.5 +1.5 3 +2.3 +16.8 5 +1.7 +19.9 3 +0.4 +1.0 2 +2.6 +27.1 1 +1.7 +13.9 1 +1.7 +24.0 1 +1.0 +14.3 4 +2.1 +17.7 4 +1.4 +10.0 1 +1.8 +12.5 5 +2.7 +17.8 1 +0.4 +1.2 2 +1.5 +14.0 1 +5.5 -6.4 3 +3.6 +27.7 1 +1.7 +12.4 1 +2.3 +10.8 5 +3.0 +26.6 1 +1.8 +20.7 1 +3.7 +23.3 1 +1.3 +17.2 5 +0.8 +12.3 5 +1.4 +18.3 2 +1.8 +15.3 1 +3.7 +29.6 1 +2.0 +26.3 1 +3.7 +34.9 1 +1.8 +25.0 2 +1.7 +23.4 1 +2.8 +19.4 2 +5.5 +27.0 1 +2.6 +19.6 3 +4.4 +7.8 3 +3.6 +22.6 1 +3.2 +27.1 5 +1.6 +18.7 2 +1.3 +11.1 3 +2.9 +11.6 4 +0.8 +1.8 1 +2.1 +15.9 3 +0.5 +1.5 1 +2.0 +15.9 2 +0.7 +1.9 1 +2.9 +24.0 1 +2.9 +16.1 3 +1.7 +12.6 2 +1.9 +14.0 3 +2.0 +15.5 3 +1.0 +6.1 4 +0.5 +0.8 4 +1.4 +17.3 2 +1.3 +13.3 1 +1.2 +6.9 4 +1.7 +15.7 3 +1.2 +19.7 1 +2.4 +10.9 3 +0.5 +1.2 5 +1.1 +6.3 5 +2.1 +14.0 5 +8.2 -12.7 5 +0.4 +10.0 1 +0.4 +10.2 1 +0.4 +1.1 2 +5.3 +29.3 3 +1.9 +18.9 2

5YRS* RANK +12.5 2 +7.9 1 +10.3 2 +8.7 2 +15.5 1 +7.3 4 +0.6 4 +5.0 4 +10.5 +13.2 1 +9.0 4 +7.2 4 +2.6 2 +6.1 4 +13.8 2 +3.0 3 +16.3 1 +9.7 1 +14.2 2 +10.7 4 +12.1 4 +6.1 2 +13.2 2 +12.1 3 +3.4 1 +9.8 1 -5.5 3 +18.0 1 +6.5 1 +10.2 4 +11.2 2 +13.3 2 +2.1 5 +14.0 2 +12.5 3 +12.0 2 +8.8 2 +11.9 1 +13.3 1 +11.4 1 +10.2 4 +14.3 1 +13.8 1 +13.4 1 +7.9 3 +1.0 2 +16.1 1 +19.3 1 +13.5 1 +8.8 1 +17.7 3 +4.3 1 +13.0 1 +4.0 1 +13.3 1 +4.0 1 +17.6 1 +12.4 2 +8.5 2 +9.1 1 +9.8 2 +4.6 2 +2.1 4 +13.2 1 +9.8 1 +6.9 1 +11.5 3 +13.1 1 +4.1 4 +2.0 5 +7.1 4 +10.6 5 -3.2 2 +6.0 1 +6.3 1 +2.7 4 +14.7 4 +12.1 2

RATING HHHHI HHHHI HHHHI HHHHI HHHII HHHII HHIII HHHII HHIII HHHII HHHHI HHHII HHHII HHIII HHHHI HHHHI HHHHH HHHHH HHHHI HHHII HHHII HHHHI HHHII HHHHI HHHHI HHHHH HHHII HHHHI HHHII HIIII HHHII HHHII HIIII HHHII HHHHI HHIII HHHHI HHHII HHHHH HHHHH HHHII HHHHH HHHII HHHHH HHHII HHHII HHHHH HHHHI HHHHI HHHHH HHHHI HHHHH HHHHI HHHHI HHHHI HHHHH HHHHH HHHHI HHHHI HHHHI HHHHI HHHHH HHHII HHHHI HHHHH HHHHH HHHII HHHII HHIII HIIII HHHII HHIII HHHII HHHHI HHHHH HHHII HHHII HHHHI

* – annualized. NA - not available

Fri Wk NAV Chg

Fund AMG YacktmanI d 23.60 +.25 American Century UltraInv 43.11 +.58 American Funds AMCpA m 30.58 +.57 AmrcnBalA m 26.91 +.12 AmrcnHiIncA m10.45 +.01 AmrcnMutA x 40.23 +.43 BdfAmrcA m 13.01 -.06 CptlIncBldrA m 62.65 -.09 FdmtlInvsA x 61.17 +.74 GrfAmrcA m 49.33 +.63 IncAmrcA m 23.08 +.09 IntrmBdfAmrA m13.47 -.05 InvCAmrcA x 40.06 +.52 NewWldA m 64.72 +.51 NwPrspctvA m 43.48 +.38 SmCpWldA m 55.02 +.78 TxExBdA m 13.05 -.04 WAMtInvsA x 43.95 +.55 Baird AggrgateBdInstl 10.95 -.06 CorPlusBdInstl 11.30 -.05 BlackRock EqDivInstl 22.33 +.38 GlbAllcIncInstl 20.27 +.07 GlbAllcIncInvA m20.15+.07 HYBdInstl 7.81 +.01 StrIncOpIns 9.96 +.01 DFA EMktCorEqI 22.44 +.26 EmMktsValInstl 30.51 +.17 FvYrGlbFIIns 11.03 -.05 IntlCorEqIns 13.94 +.11 IntlSmCoInstl 21.16 +.12 IntlSmCpValIns 23.00 +.12 IntlValInstl 19.39 +.22 OneYearFIInstl 10.30 -.01 RlEsttSecInstl 35.87 +.18 TAUSCorEq2Instl16.89 +.36 USCorEq1Instl 21.24 +.41 USCorEqIIInstl 20.11 +.43 USLgCo 19.52 +.31 USLgCpValInstl 37.62 +.85 USSmCpInstl 34.54 +.95 USSmCpValInstl36.77+1.25 USTrgtedValIns 23.90 +.76 Delaware Inv ValInstl 20.67 +.34 Dodge & Cox Bal 107.41+1.21 GlbStk 13.78 +.27 Inc 13.90 -.03 IntlStk 46.38 +.95 Stk 195.84+3.89 DoubleLine CorFII 11.06 -.05 TtlRetBdI 10.75 -.05 TtlRetBdN b 10.75 -.04 Edgewood GrInstl 28.94 +.29 FPA Crescent d 34.09 +.21 Federated BdA f 9.36 -.03 StratValDivIns 6.47 +.07 Fidelity 500IdxIns 87.81+1.41 500IdxInsPrm 87.81+1.41 500IndexPrm 87.81+1.41 AsstMgr50% 18.34 +.09 BalancedK 24.46 +.22 Cap&Inc d 10.18 +.04 ContrafundK 120.67+1.49 DiversIntl 40.72 +.36 DiversIntlK 40.66 +.35 EmMkts 20.96 +.33

OtherFunds

Fri Wk Fund NAV Chg ExMktIdxPr 60.19+1.23 FltngRtHiInc d 9.62 ...

Frdm2020 16.45 +.12 Frdm2025 14.21 +.12 Frdm2030 17.74 +.19 Frdm2035 14.83 +.19 Frdm2040 10.41 +.13 GroCo 174.82+3.33 GroCoK 174.76+3.33 IntlIdxPremium 42.30 +.26 InvmGradeBd 11.34 -.06 InvmGradeBd 7.97 -.04 LowPrStkK x 51.31 -3.31 Magellan 100.95+1.69 OTCPortfolio x104.16 -2.87 StratInc 11.17 -.03 TotalBond 10.74 -.06 TtlMktIdxF 72.38+1.21 TtlMktIdxPrm 72.37+1.21 USBdIdxInsPrm 11.67 -.07 USBdIdxPrm 11.67 -.07 Fidelity Advisor NewInsI 31.89 +.40 Fidelity Select Biotechnology 228.79 +.29 First Eagle GlbA m 59.21 +.19 Franklin Templeton CATxFrIncA m 7.51 -.03 FdrTFIncA m 12.04 -.03 GlbBdA x 12.25 +.19 GlbBdAdv x 12.20 +.18 Gr,IncA m 26.64 +.28 GrA m 91.01+1.02 IncAdv 2.35 +.02 IncC m 2.40 +.02 MutGlbDiscvA m32.18 +.45 MutGlbDiscvZ 32.84 +.46 MutZ 29.29 +.50 RisingDivsA m 58.27+1.06 GE RSPUSEq 56.30 +.78 Harbor CptlApprecInstl 72.37+1.18 IntlInstl 69.95 +.60 Harding Loevner IntlEqInstl d 22.06 +.22 INVESCO EqandIncA m 11.03 +.13 JPMorgan CoreBondI 11.70 -.06 CoreBondR6 11.71 -.07 MCapValL 39.06 +.61 USLCpCrPlsI 31.57 +.51 Janus Henderson ResearchD ...

John Hancock BalA m 20.04 +.21 DiscpValI 21.20 +.45 DiscpValMCI 23.09 +.47 MltMgLsBlA b 15.74 +.11 MltmgrLsGr1 b 16.75 +.17 Lazard EMEqInstl 19.46 +.11 Loomis Sayles BdInstl 14.33 -.01 Lord Abbett ShrtDurIncA m 4.29 -.01 ShrtDurIncF b 4.28 -.01 MFS InstlIntlEq 24.88 +.12 ValI 39.79 +.68 Metropolitan West TtlRetBdI 10.72 -.05 TtlRetBdM b 10.72 -.05 TtlRetBdPlan 10.09 -.05

Fri Wk Fund NAV Chg Northern StkIdx 30.23 +.48 Nuveen HYMuniBdI 17.31 -.05 Oakmark EqAndIncInv 33.10 +.51 IntlInv 28.51 +.52 Inv 81.10+1.36 Old Westbury LgCpStrats 14.59 +.13 Oppenheimer DevMktsY 41.50 +.28 IntlGrY 42.21 +.21 MnStrA m 52.99 +.66 PIMCO AlAstInstl 12.12 -.15 HYInstl 9.04 +.01 IncA m 12.44 ...

IncC m 12.44 ...

IncD b 12.44 ...

IncInstl 12.44 ...

IncP 12.44 ...

ShrtTrmIns 9.83 +.01 TtlRetIns 10.36 -.06 PRIMECAP Odyssey AgrsGr 39.40 +.75 Gr 33.91 +.72 Stk 29.64 +.65 Parnassus CorEqInv 42.99 +.41 Principal DiversIntlIns 13.70 +.14 Prudential TtlRetBdZ 14.58 -.08 Putnam EqIncA m 23.09 +.46 InvsA m 26.32 +.48 Schwab SP500Idx 39.00 +.63 Schwab1000Idx 60.64 +.99 T. Rowe Price BCGr 92.55+1.22 CptlAprc 29.25 +.09 EMStk d 42.67 +.75 EqIdx500 d 67.44+1.08 EqInc 33.83 +.75 GNMA 9.29 -.01 GrStk 67.17 +.64 HY d 6.79 ...

HlthSci 73.81 -.47 InsLgCpGr 37.41 +.43 IntlValEq d 15.11 +.18 MdCpGr 88.80 +.61 MdCpVal 30.35 +.35 NewInc 9.54 -.05 OverseasStk d 11.10 +.10 Rtr2015 15.61 +.07 Rtr2020 22.83 +.13 Rtr2025 17.56 +.12 Rtr2030 25.80 +.21 Rtr2035 18.83 +.17 Rtr2040 27.01 +.26 Rtr2045 18.22 +.18 SmCpStk 48.62 +.84 SmCpVal d 47.47+1.05 Val 37.50 +.64 TIAA-CREF BdIdxIns 10.90 -.06 EqIdxIns 18.68 +.31 GrIncRetail b 18.20 +.30 IntlEqIdxIns 19.87 +.14 Transamerica AsAlModGrC m14.11 +.12 Tweedy, Browne GlbVal d 27.74 +.14 Vanguard 500IdxAdmrl 231.90+3.72 BalIdxAdmrl 33.56 +.26

Fri Wk Fund NAV Chg BalIdxIns 33.57 +.26 CAITTxExAdm 11.88 -.04 CptlOppAdmrl 149.11+2.99 DevMIdxAdmrl 13.90 +.11 DevMIdxIns 13.92 +.11 DivGrInv 26.02 +.29 EMStkIdxInAdm 37.34 +.33 EqIncAdmrl 74.51+1.52 ExplorerAdmrl 91.13+1.61 ExtMktIdxAdmrl 79.29+1.62 ExtMktIdxIns 79.29+1.62 ExtMktIdxInsPls 195.68 +3.99 GNMAAdmrl 10.56 -.04 GNMAInv 10.56 -.04 GrIdxAdmrl 68.41 +.60 GrIdxIns 68.42 +.60 HCAdmrl 89.84 -.48 HYCorpAdmrl 5.97 ...

HYTEAdmrl 11.42 -.04 InTrBdIdxAdmrl 11.51 -.09 InTrInGdAdm 9.86 -.06 InTrTEAdmrl 14.26 -.06 InflPrtScAdmrl 26.08 -.16 InflPrtScIns 10.62 -.07 InsIdxIns 228.83+3.67 InsIdxInsPlus 228.85+3.67 InsTtlSMIInPls 56.19 +.94 IntlGrAdmrl 92.37+1.71 IntlGrInv 29.04 +.53 IntlValInv 38.40 +.45 LTInGrdAdm 10.59 -.10 LTTEAdmrl 11.71 -.05 LfStrCnsrGrInv 19.72 +.04 LfStrGrInv 32.38 +.31 LfStrModGrInv 26.46 +.16 LtdTrmTEAdmrl 11.02 -.02 MdCpIdxAdmrl 180.60+2.48 MdCpIdxIns 39.90 +.55 MdCpIdxInsPlus196.77 +2.70 MorganGrAdmrl 91.99 +1.11 PrmCpAdmrl 128.93+2.40 PrmCpCorInv 25.73 +.50 PrmCpInv 124.41+2.31 REITIdxAdmrl 120.93 +.51 REITIdxIns 18.72 +.08 SCpGrIdxAdm 52.34 +.80

Fri Wk Fund NAV Chg SCpValIdxAdm 53.51+1.24 STBdIdxAdmrl 10.48 -.04 STInvmGrdAdmrl10.71 -.03 STInvmGrdIns 10.71 -.03 STInvmGrdInv 10.71 -.03 STTEAdmrl 15.82 -.01 SeledValInv 31.95 +.71 SmCpIdxAdmrl 66.05+1.29 SmCpIdxIns 66.05+1.29 SmCpIdxInsPlus190.66 +3.75 StarInv 26.60 +.24 TMCapApAdm 128.63+2.01 TrgtRtr2015Inv 15.72 +.05 TrgtRtr2020Inv 31.10 +.17 TrgtRtr2040Inv 34.53 +.38 TrgtRtr2045Inv 21.67 +.25 TrgtRtr2050Inv 34.86 +.40 TtBMIdxAdmrl 10.83 -.06 TtBMIdxIns 10.83 -.06 TtBMIdxInsPlus 10.83 -.06 TtInBIdxAdmrl 21.81 -.13 TtInBIdxIns 32.72 -.21 TtInBIdxInv 10.91 -.06 TtInSIdxAdmrl 29.52 +.24 TtInSIdxIns 118.05 +.97 TtInSIdxInsPlus118.08 +.98 TtInSIdxInv 17.65 +.15 TtlSMIdxAdmrl 62.60+1.04 TtlSMIdxIns 62.62+1.05 TtlSMIdxInv 62.57+1.04 ValIdxAdmrl 38.69 +.88 ValIdxIns 38.69 +.88 WlngtnAdmrl 72.42 +.76 WlslyIncAdmrl 64.94 +.30 WndsrAdmrl 76.04+1.65 WndsrIIAdmrl 67.16+1.40 Waddell & Reed Adv AcculativeA m 10.18 +.15 Western Asset CorPlusBdI 11.97 -.03

Commodities FUELS Crude Oil (bbl) Ethanol (gal) Heating Oil (gal) Natural Gas (mm btu) Unleaded Gas (gal) METALS Gold (oz) Silver (oz) Platinum (oz) Copper (lb) Palladium (oz) AGRICULTURE Cattle (lb) Coffee (lb) Corn (bu) Cotton (lb) Lumber (1,000 bd ft) Orange Juice (lb) Soybeans (bu) Wheat (bu)

CLOSE 49.89 1.55 1.80 3.02 1.66

FRI. WKLY CH. CH. %YTD +2.41 +.01 +.03 +.13 +.01

-7.13 -3.49 +5.54 -18.80 -.20

-4.30 -25.60 -.09 -.42 -9.10 -40.50 -.01 -.09 +7.45 -9.55

+14.82 +10.51 +7.79 +17.24 +35.85

1.08 +.01 1.40 +.04 +.11 3.55 +.13 +.10 .70 -.05 395.20 -14.00 -4.30 1.51 -.01 -.04 9.69 +.02 +.12 4.49 +.21 +.35

-9.45 +2.15 +.78 -.74 +24.83 -23.88 -2.78 +10.05

1320.40 17.61 971.80 2.93 927.40

+.02 -.05 +.03

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D5

Sudoku Puzzles Fill in the grid so that all nine rows across, all nine columns down and all nine 3x3 boxes contain the numbers 1 through 9, each used only once. There is no math involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

Puzzle 1

Puzzle 2

Your Astrograph/September 17

Cryptoquip

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Don’t get angry when you should get moving. Putting blame where it doesn’t belong won’t help get you where you want to go. Be the master of your own devices.

LIBRA(Sept.23-Oct.23) Relationships will take an interesting turn.

Your insight and ability to handle emotional situations will put you in a good position that will lead to greater personal stability.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Leave your professional worries at your workplace. Spend time doing something you enjoy. Letting your creativity lead the way will help you avoid stress. Do what’s best for yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) A getaway may tempt you, but delays and problems will stand in your path. Consider sticking closer to home and putting more time and effort into important relationships.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You can have fun without going overboard. Taking a daytrip with people you like to spend time with will spark your imagination and give you something to think about.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Share your feelings and ideas with someone who will be affected by your decisions. Being open will help you make your plans without any disruptions or discord.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) If you feel motivated and disciplined, make some positive changes to your lifestyle that will promote good health. Proper diet and exercise will make you feel good.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) A daytrip will lead to a revelation that will affect the way you move forward.

Talking to someone with experience will help you see your situation clearly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A change in your financial status is apparent.

An unexpected gift will take you by surprise. Legal matters are best handled with the help of an expert. Take better care of your health.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Check the online job market. A professional opportunity looks interesting.

Spruce up your resume to suit the position that interests you.

Celebrate better days ahead with someone you love.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You can have fun on a shoestring if you plan your activities with someone you love. Build memories by doing things that are geared toward family participation and home improvements.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Bring about positive changes to your lifestyle.

You will diminish any uncertainty you feel if you make plans that accommodate your professional goals as well as your personal interests.

Answers to today’s puzzles Premier Crossword

Puzzle 1

Puzzle 2

Sudoku Puzzles

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Ask the Fool

Q

Mortgage vs.

Retirement

I’m thinking of paying off my mortgage with money from my IRA. Should I? — B.C., Greensburg, Pennsylvania

A

Think twice about it. With a traditional IRA, if you’re younger than 59 1/2, withdrawals will be taxed at your ordinary income tax rate, and you’ll face a 10 percent early withdrawal fee, too. In addition, the amount you withdraw will boost your taxable income, potentially moving you into a higher tax bracket. Meanwhile, by wiping out your mortgage debt, you’ll lose your mortgage interest tax deductions.

Think also of your mortgage interest rate, and compare it to the growth rate you expect for your IRA holdings. If your mortgage rate is 5 percent, paying any of it off early essentially “earns” you 5 percent. If you think you would have earned 5 percent with your IRA investments, you’re not coming out ahead. Cashing out a retirement account also means that money won’t be able to grow for you over time (tax-free, in the case of a Roth IRA).

Do the math for your particular situation, but consider keeping your IRA and trying to make extra payments on your mortgage when you can. Just a few extra payments each year can shave years off the loan and save you many thousands of dollars in interest payments.

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I made my dumbest mistake in the early 1980s. I bought some stock in Braniff — which had the hottest flight attendants I’d ever seen — and lost the modest amount I invested. I’ve bought exactly one airline stock since then, American Airlines, when it was in bankruptcy. I made some quick money and got the heck out. — W.D., online The Fool Responds: Here’s hoping you weren’t making your investment decisions based on the attractiveness of the company’s employees. Airlines can seem like great investments, but it’s a very challenging industry, and gobs of airlines have gone out of business.

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Barring lawsuits is slimy, rampant practice

By David Lazarus Tribune News Service

Equifax won’t win any prizes for its handling of a massive security breach that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people to hackers.

But it was striking that of all the things that outraged consumers, the one that drew the most attention was Equifax’s inclusion of an arbitration clause in its offer of free credit monitoring.

Yes, it was slimy for the company to try to deny people their right to sue or to join class-action lawsuits.

But no, Equifax was by no means alone in pulling such a stunt.

The reality is that many, if not most, service agreements presented by businesses to consumers contain such a provision, and they get away with it because there’s precious little outrage over this shamelessly unfair practice.

“These forced arbitration clauses are everywhere,” said Christine Hines, legislative director for the National Association of Consumer Advocates. “But I’m not sure there’s widespread knowledge of it.”

In most data breaches, the compromised business offers free credit monitoring from one of the three leading credit agencies — Equifax, Experian or TransUnion. While that monitoring routinely comes with an arbitration clause, consumers aren’t prevented by the service’s provision from suing the breached company.

In other words, Target got hacked in 2014 and offered customers credit monitoring through Experian. Experian’s arbitration clause didn’t pre-empt lawsuits against

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Equifax’s breach is different in that the company that got hacked and the one offering credit monitoring are one and the same.

Equifax clarified last week that its arbitration clause applied only to “the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products, and not the cybersecurity incident” — meaning you could still sue the company over the hacking.

Even so, the social media backlash grew and Equifax subsequently announced it was completely erasing the arbitration clause from its credit-monitoring agreement for “this cybersecurity incident.”

“To be as clear as possible,

we will not apply any arbitration clause or class-action waiver against consumers for claims related to the free products offered in response to the cybersecurity incident or for claims related to the cybersecurity incident itself,” said Wyatt Jefferies, a company spokesman.

That’s a win for consumers. But the war is still being lost.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision in 2011 that any business can include an arbitration clause in its service contract. The ruling pre-empted pro-consumer laws in various states.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced in July that financial firms under its jurisdiction — banks, credit

card companies — can’t block people from joining class-action lawsuits.

Within days, Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted to kill the rule. A similar vote by the Senate is expected this month.

Businesses say arbitration is better for consumers because it’s faster and fairer, and because it deters lawyers from filing nuisance suits in hopes of scoring a fat settlement. Some or all of that may be true.

What’s also true, though, is that arbitration overwhelmingly favors companies. The advocacy group Public Citizen found that over a four-year period, arbitrators ruled in favor of banks and credit

card companies 94 percent of the time in disputes with California consumers.

A 2015 study by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that in grievances with financial firms, “class actions provide a more effective means for consumers to challenge problematic practices by these companies.”

The same report revealed that fewer than 7 percent of consumers understood that an arbitration clause in their credit card agreements meant they couldn’t sue the company — which is to say that about 93 percent didn’t understand the provision.

Arbitration clauses are now so pervasive that it’s reasonable to assume if you have a bank account, credit card, cellphone, pay-TV service, insurance policy or airline ticket, you’ve agreed to an arbitration clause, whether you know it or not.

Many employment contracts also contain such provisions, preventing you from filing suit in the event of a workplace issue.

Aside from blocking consumers from banding together and thus wielding greater clout, arbitration is inherently unbalanced because the arbitrator’s fee almost always is paid by the company in a dispute. The arbitrator thus has a financial incentive to favor one side over the other.

Consumer advocates are hoping people will be more aware of the issue not just because of the Equifax breach but also because of the assorted scandals that have plagued Wells Fargo.

State and federal courts have tossed out lawsuits against the bank, maintaining that Wells’ arbitration clause prohibits legal action.

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New citizens take oath of allegiance

Grant funds literacy program From left, Shari Gross, director of behavioral health services, Harborcreek Youth Services; Mike Batchelor, president, Erie Community Foundation; and John Petulla, CEO of Harborcreek Youth Services; celebrate an $18,000 Helping Today grant to fund Harborcreek Youth Services’ “Strength Through Literacy” program, which is a collaborative project with the Achievement Center and will work to remediate dyslexia in children with a history of trauma. The grant reception was held July 26 at Bethesda Lutheran Services. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]

Forty-nine new U.S. citizens from 23 countries are shown following a citizenship and naturalization ceremony at U.S. District Court in Erie on Sept. 6. They included Kathryn Ulasavets, Andrei Ilyuchyk, Nataliya Petrovna Gokun, Hanna Ilyuchyk, Jimmy Ulasavets, Jose Francisco Garcia, Chrisabeth Jimenez Guillermo, Bishnu Maya Bista, Dhan Bahadur Pandey, Om Nath Khadka, Sumina Khatiwada, Karina Merkulova, Fatuma Hassan Obo, Aye Nyein Mosier, Suad Mohammed Ridha Mohammed Ameen, Sanjit Jiteshkumar Bhatt, Silas De Souza Azevedo, Karima Kaddour, Padam Lal Mangar, Claudette Ruiz Wilt, Abdulkadir Abdisalan Hassan, Silvia Yuseli Cable, Bishnu Maya Neupaney, Lyudmila V. Sychuk, Nar Bahadur Basnet, Lila Mangar, Dhan Bahadur Gurung, Liliya Stepanovna Otroda, Elizabet Hagmaier, Purna Bahadur Magar, Bunu Magar, Amrita Magar, Hari Prasad Parsai, Puspa Lal Parsai, Hari Prasad Uprety, Awet Habtom Aregay, Weeraphan Rattanakorn, Nar Bahadur Gurung, Aleksandr Stepanovich Sychuk, Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Sychuk, He Liu, Patience Ncheda Ntah, Hadi Kadhim Atiyah Albarah, Badreah Ali Hadi Kamber, Man Maya Pradhan, Katarzyna Luiza Mantch, Mohan Acharya, Chhali Maya Khadka and Tulasi Maya Sharma. Presiding over the ceremony (shown at center) are, at left, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas P. Agresti, and, at right, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Paradise Baxter. [CHRISTOPHER MILLETTE/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Event raises funds for Make-A-Wish

New pathway installed at L.E.A.F. Kevin Lozier of Network Excavating; Char Mashyna, executive director of L.E.A.F.; Ann Scott, manager, community outreach/ human resources at Erie Insurance; and Dan Dahlkemper, Board President of L.E.A.F.; are pictured on the site of the new pathway being installed at the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park. The pathway, which was funded in part by Erie Insurance, is the final link connecting the north and south sides of the Streamside Stroll at L.E.A.F. Erie Insurance also funded L.E.A.F.’s Branching Out summer nature camp, enabling students from the Erie Martin Luther King Center to attend the program. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]

Recently, Nancy and Jeff Clark held the Beth Clark Memorial Arts, Crafts & Drafts event to benefit Make-A-Wish Greater PA and WV. The event was held in memory of their daughter Beth, who would have turned 40 this past July. Beth’s wish to go to Disney World was fulfilled in February 1987. Beth’s wish was one of the very first wishes ever granted in Erie County. The event raised more than $12,000.

Beth’s Wish Team included from left, in the front row, Judy Nass, Carter Raymond, Tanner Becker, Amelia Harris, Chloe Becker, Abbey Lawson, Reagan Becker, Izzy Harris, Staci Harris, Jean Wise and Rich Wise. In the second row are Gayle Lester, Laura Lawson, Jeff Clark, Nancy Clark, Joshua Clark and Jonathan Clark. In back, from left, are Chrystie Raymond, Dave Raymond, Grant Raymond, Bob Fratus, Heidi Fratus, Michelle Hoffman, Mike Lester, John Demeter, Colleen Meyer, Bob Meyer, Peggy Blaszczyk, Lori Demeter, Kelly Becker, Kevin Becker, Austin Lawson, Keith Lawson, Jeff Haas, Jerry Blaszczyk, Ashley Laucis, Debbie Ramey, Donna Kaufman, Debbie Murray, Bob Haas, Anne Haas, Gloria Carlson, Scott Twiss and Sue Twiss. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]

Local students receive scholarships Local family celebrates 5 generations Celebrating Mother’s Day this year were five generations of the Shafer family. They included, from left, Jennifer Freeman, Aspen Freeman, Mary Shafer, Dave Shafer, and in front, Weston Nelson.

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The third annual Patrick J. Dipaolo Memorial Scholarship Banquet was held May 18. This year, 20 graduating seniors from Erie County were awarded scholarships for post-secondary education.

Scholarships ranged from $500 to $1,500 for a total of $14,000. Recipients included, from left, in the front row, Katherine Tobin, Beth Danilov, Autumn Byes, Lindsey Friello, Karle Cortes, Style Henry, Marina Tojaga, Kathleen Lynch and Megan Duggan. In the back row, from left, were Katelyn Meyer, Timothy Wheeler, Joseph Scrimenti, Patrick Madden, Alex Morgan, James Bickerstaff, Olivia Blakeslee, Derrick Jones, Joshua Puda, Jacob Watts and Sam Peterson. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]

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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the head of the Senate’s Cybersecurity Caucus and a longtime advocate for such rules, issued a statement Thursday night calling the hack “profoundly troubling” and demanding congressional action.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the Financial Services Committee, also called for reforms and accountability.

But successful political action would require the Republican majority in Congress and the Trump administration to act more aggressively on the matter than they have so far at a time when Washington is consumed — and sharply divided — by many other pressing issues.

As the criminal investigation proceeds, the public anxiety is being fueled by the sensitivity of the information collected by Equifax and the other big credit rating agencies —one of which, Experian, was hacked in 2015. Equifax, based in Atlanta, says that it

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“What’s most ironic and frightening about this breach is that many victims don’t even know the extent to which their personal information is affected. Credit reporting agencies collect information from the credit card companies, banks and public records and not just from the consumers themselves.”

Craig A. Newman, head of the privacy and data security group for Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York

operates in 24 countries, analyzing data from 820 million people and 91 million businesses.

Based on this data, little of which consumers turn over by their own choice, Equifax issues credit ratingsthat can affect access to jobs, credit, housing and more.

Equifax also acts as a data broker, slicing and dicing millions of consumers into blunt and sometimes unflattering categories such as “X-tra Needy,” “Fragile Families” and “Ethnic Second-City Strugglers.”

“What’s most ironic and frightening about this breach is that many victims don’t even know the extent to which their personal information is affected,” said Craig A. Newman, head of the privacy and data security group for Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York. “Credit

reporting agencies collect information from the credit card companies, banks and public records and not just from the consumers themselves.”

Equifax said in its news release Thursday that it had “found no evidence of unauthorized activity on Equifax’s core consumer or commercial credit reporting databases.”

But it also said the investigation was ongoing, and it released little information on the nature of the intrusion itself or what the hackers did once inside.

In hacks of other companies, the initial reports often turned out to be too limited in scope, with more troubling information coming out months or even years later. It’s too soon to say that is going to happen with Equifax, but it’s also too soon to say that it won’t.

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MUSIC & MORE Find a list of local art events including a rock painting session and a creative writing reading

SUPERHERO “The Fringe Knight,” a new comic book set in Erie, debuts at ComiCon Erie this month. Pictured is the Knight. [CONTRIBUTED ILLUSTRATION]

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FAMILY ISSUES Melissa Sulkowski, trained family mediator and divorce coach, discusses the transition of divorce for the children involved

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CAREER ADVICE Focus on your daily work attitude, as well as skills

‘The Fringe Knight’ comic book, set in the city, to debut at ComiCon here

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VIETNAM REVISITED As Ken Burns’ latest documentary miniseries, ‘The Vietnam War,’ begins tonight on PBS, he discusses the process he uses to address complex topics

eft without the help of scholarships and serving as a caregiver to his cancer-afflicted mother, 24-year-old Erie resident Anthony Urbanowiz has just shelved his dream of graduating from college.

He is adrift with uncertainty about what to do with his life and, during his worst days, he wonders if there is a point to it all.

He seems destined to become a victim of his circumstances, but then stumbles upon the underground lair of a nowdefunct secret society with a knack for inventing out-of-this-world

gadgets.

Tempted to try out some of what he’s discovered, Urbanowiz is drawn into a high-profile public incident but escapes without being identified. By the time he makes it back to the lair, the city’s social media is on fire, giving the mysterious character involved in the incident a name and back story.

Urbanowiz is torn. He had been interested in these gadgets because he thought they might help his mom. Now others have different expectations.

Erie, meet your superhero.

The first issue of “The Fringe Knight,” a See COMIC, E4

Learn more You can find out more about “The Fringe Knight” comic book set in Erie on Facebook and online at: • facebook.com/FringeKnight27/ • patreon.com/FringeKnight27/community

ComiCon Erie Erie’s ComiCon, where “The Fringe Knight” comic will debut, is Friday through Sept. 24 at the Bayfront Convention Center.

Highlights include actors from “Knight of the Living Dead,” “Gremlins” and “The Walking Dead” and “Sons of Anarchy,” professional wrestler Greg “The Hammer” Valentine, comic and tattoo artists and cosplay professionals.

A cosplay ball will be held Friday at the Bourbon Barrel, 1213 State St. Day passes purchased online before the event range in cost from $15 to $20, with a weekend pass available for $30. Admission at the door is $20.

Children younger than 12 are admitted free with a paying adult.

For more information and to purchase tickets online, go to eriepromotions.com and click on the ComiCon link.

Hurricane Irma made me rethink my weather snobbery

John Dudley

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TWO-YEAR MISSION An Erie native is now commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin

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hen you live in the Arctic Rain Forest, which we do, and when you’re always in contention for Deepest Inhabited Snowdrift in the Free World, which we are, you tend to become somewhat inward-thinking about the weather.

Here in Erie, for example, we don’t lie awake at night wondering how folks in Arizona can cope with all that heat. Nor

do we fret much for our southern friends when a thick layer of ice paralyzes the Carolinas.

I once covered a Super Bowl in Dallas during a “winter storm” and watched municipal workers dump truckloads of sand in the streets.

People were afraid to go outside. Amateurs.

But every so often, something happens that’s significant enough to get our attention, and last week that something was monstrous, relentless, havocwreaking Hurricane Irma.

Plenty of upper level tropical disturbances elude my radar. This one squatted on it for days. That’s due in part to its sheer size

and muscle, and due in part to the fact it was personal.

My parents, who recently made a permanent move to South Florida, own two homes that sat directly in Irma’s path. My wife’s relatives have a place on Cudjoe Key. Other friends of ours own properties in Bradenton and the Fort Myers area. And my best friend and his wife were at her family’s vacation home in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, when the storm took a turn for the U.S. mainland.

Needless to say, I watched more Weather Channel than NFL Network last week, and that’s saying something for a guy who covers pro football.

My parents evacuated

before the storm to my sister’s house in Virginia Beach, spending three days on the virtual parking lot that Interstate 95 became.

My buddy and his wife got flights out of Kiawah before the storm, and my wife’s relatives and our friends with places in Fort Myers were up here. We did have other friends, the DeRoses, who sat tight at their home near Tampa, choosing to wait out the storm.

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Parents OK, children OK When parents divorce, how they work together for kids’ sake matters

By Melissa Sulkowski Contributing writer

One of the most common questions I am asked when working with families in transition is, “Will my children be OK?” The simple answer to this question is that children will be as “OK” as their parents are. Given that recent statistics reflect 40 percent of marriages end in divorce, it is understandable that parents want to insulate their children from the associated pain.

Children look to their parents to figure out how to make sense of what is happening.

They become reliant on their parents’ abilities to meet their needs, and this does not change because of a divorce. These circumstances should be managed in the same way the loss of oxygen would be on a plane.

Put on your oxygen mask before securing your child’s.

So how do parents provide peace, security and predictability to their children when they are in limbo? Developing a healthy support system and ensuring good self-care are primary ingredients. Schedule something every week for yourself. Even if you don’t have a plan for the time, take the time.

Transition is a time of healing.

In suggesting healthy support, it is not only that of peers and family, it is also seeking the proper professional support. It is important for your family to receive guidance from trained professionals who specialize in divorce work. Each family has unique needs that should be delicately tended to by professionals specifically trained to assist families in conflict.

It is quite common that one party has begun to emotionally withdraw from the marriage, while the other feels blindsided.

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This emotional discrepancy often leads couples right into the heat of conflict. All too often, children find themselves in the line of fire while attempting to take on the pain of their parents.

The biggest predictor of maladjustment in children is exposure to parental conflict.

Parents should make a concentrated effort to protect their children from the adult discord.

During this difficult time, parents have an opportunity to model for their children how to move through adversity.

The other, and perhaps most important element to allowing children to thrive through divorce, is presenting a united front as parents. Parents must work together and reshape their primary relationship from that of spouses to that of parents. Sending “we” messages to children relays a sense of security and value. Unified parenting is essential in allowing children to remain children through the transition.

So what does unified parenting

look like? It looks like parents coming together to meet their children’s needs regardless of adult matters. Coming together during difficulties for them, celebrating their accomplishments and not letting it take a crisis for them to see you join forces.

Unified parenting means recognizing that children are in a parent-child relationship, which has very different needs than a spousal relationship. It is setting aside the desire to express your adult perspective to your children, as this only adds anxiety to an already saddening experience.

Lastly, it means reflecting upon and working at your contribution to the parenting relationship.

One final note: Do not be fooled into thinking that because your children are “adults” that they can tolerate the pain of being injected into adult matters any better than younger children.

Maintain healthy boundaries in the parent-child relationship.

After all, we are all children to our parents and we intrinsically

want to feel emotionally safe about where we come from.

Proper support allows parents to focus on redesigning their family.

In Family Mediation and Coparent Coaching, parents begin to understand how conflict impacts their children and they gain tools to navigate the road ahead. Having a map can be very helpful and should encompass everything from how to talk with your children about the divorce to the development of a customized shared parenting plan.

Melissa Sulkowski is a trained family mediator and divorce coach specializing in conflict work in Erie. She has worked in private practice for nearly 17 years and holds licenses as a professional counselor and registered nurse and has been working with children and families for more than 23 years. She is a mom in a blended family and the owner of Nurturinse, a practice that promotes a holistic approach to health and offers peaceful alternatives to healing.

Do you always give 100 percent?

Learn to be excellent in attitude (along with skills)

By Debbie Peterson Contributing writer

I recently heard a story about three baggage handlers at an airport who were videotaped hurling passenger’s suitcases onto the conveyor from over their heads. Subsequently, all three workers were fired, and if you’ve ever traveled and received your baggage looking like it had been through a war zone, then you’re probably saying “good deal!”

It got me thinking of how we show up at work. I’m sure no one reading this would be as blatant as the airport workers, but are there times that you show up at work and are less than excellent? Others may guess that you’re off your game, or not putting the

effort in, but only you know if you’re putting your all in or if you’re holding back.

You know what it’s like to be operating at a level of excellence because it is an internal state; it’s unique to you. You know when you’re engaged and committed and when you’re just not feeling it. Do you ever not put in 100 percent even though you know you have the ability to do that? More than just holding back, it’s a form of disrespect to yourself and can start a whole cycle of disengagement that leaves you feeling unmotivated, dissatisfied, stuck and unhappy.

So here’s the good news.

Excellence is individual to you and not what someone else does. You already know what it looks like and feels like to you. You already know how to do it.

Here’s the bad news.

Just because you know it doesn’t mean

you do it. Right?

So to get you thinking and behaving with the mindset of excellence in your career, here are three tips for continuing to move in the direction of excellence.

1. Know what you want.

Excellence in your career or business is knowing what exactly you want to achieve (to the best of your ability). It may be a five-year plan, it may be a shortterm project outcome or even a certification. By having a goal in your professional life, it allows you to focus your time, gives you direction and purpose, and establishes a record of achievement.

2. Who are you when no one is looking? When no

one is watching your performance, when it’s not about getting the pat on the back or promotion,

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who are you then? When you demonstrate excellence consistently, it becomes a habit that serves you and your self-worth in addition to rewards you can reap at work.

3. Have strong emotional intelligence. Knowing what

your emotional triggers are and how to handle them in a positive way is important.

That means being aware of how you may trigger others with your own behavior, as well as being able to maintain relationships

when things are triggered on either side. It requires a good deal of flexibility, but pays off with increased personal influence.

What it comes down to is that it’s not about being excellent in skills, it’s about being excellent in attitude.

What does excellence mean to you? Here’s wishing you the clarity you deserve.

Debbie Peterson is the president of Getting to Clarity, LLC and is a mindset expert empowering the careers of professional women.

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About this page: Snapshot is a look at life in northwestern Pennsylvania. If you have an idea for a Snapshot photo page, contact photography supervisor Christopher Millette at 870-1712 or e-mail chris.millette@timesnews.com.

Visitors enter Glass Growers Gallery during the last Gallery Night in Erie. [GREG WOHLFORD PHOTOS/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Gallery Night Reflected in a mirror, 14-year-old twin brothers Alton Northup, far left, and Aidan Northup look around at Black Eagle Goods during Gallery Night in Erie in July.

Art lovers fill local galleries

By Greg Wohlford greg.wohlford@ timesnews.com

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Art fans attend a Gallery Night event at Bayfront Gallery earlier this year.

lack Eagle Goods owner David Steele was busy ringing up sales during a recent Gallery Night.Stephen Maynard spun records near aisles packed with people. Some sampled fresh tacos from Federal Hill Smokehouse and beer from Lavery Brewing Company. Many mingled on the sidewalk outside near West 24th and Peach streets.

“The best part of Gallery Night so far is bringing people to Federal Hill to see what we’re all about,” Steele, 41, said.

Organized by the Erie Art Museum, the first Gallery Night was held in January 2007.

Art museum education director Kelly Armor said the next event, scheduled for Sept. 22, will see 19 venues participating, the most ever for the popular series.

“It’s been transformative for the community,” Armor said. “We have

Glass artist Barbara Thomas Yerace talks to visitors while creating artwork at the Erie Art Museum in July.

smaller venues joining the event and it creates a synergy around town. People visit different galleries and make a night of it.”

Back at Black Eagle Goods, photographer Roxann Marie Hudock presented original prints of her recent work.

“I’m very excited,” Hudock, 29, said. “I’m honored to be a part of it, this is my favorite local shop.”

After Friday’s event, the last Gallery Night of the year is planned for Dec. 1. For more information visit www.

ErieArtMuseum.org or call 459-5477.

Greg Wohlford can be reached at 870-1696 or by email. Follow him on twitter at www.twitter. com/ETNwohlford.

Online See photos from a recent Gallery Night: GoErie.com/photos

During Gallery Night in May, Ryan Goodban, 35, of Erie, photographs unique motorcycles handmade by Jerry McGinty, on display at Voodoo Brewery in Erie.

Maybe you were there. Or you wish you had been. Relive the big moments by exploring online galleries of Erie TimesNews and GoErie.com photos. You can also order reprints online. Go to GoErie.com/photos

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avoided both wind and flood damage. As far as we know, pretty much everyone else emerged unscathed, too, including the DeRoses, who affixed their hurricane shutters and settled in for a weekend of uncertain outcome. Despite 100 miles-per-hour winds “everything held nicely,” Chris DeRose said in a text message Monday.

I had made contingencies to reconfigure my remaining time off for the year to travel to Florida and help my parents salvage whatever was left of their homes.

Instead, they’re camped out at my sister’s house, waiting for power to be restored before returning so as not to unnecessarily compete with less fortunate souls who desperately need basic supplies like clean water and fresh food.

One day last week, my wife observed after stepping out of the hot shower that she had just done something we take for granted every day, but that plenty of affected people in the Caribbean and in the South might have to go without for days, if not weeks.

So, as we plow toward another winter undoubtedly filled with lake-effect snow and mind-numbing cold, I’ll try not to be such a weather snob.

superhero comic set in Erie, makes its debut at ComiCon Erie on Friday, Saturday and Sept. 24 at the Bayfront Convention Center. “Fringe Knight” creator Daniel Doing of Meadville and artist Chris Brown of Panama, New York, will be at a booth where the new comic will be sold all three days of the event. They will answer questions, meet fans and sign copies of the first issue, which has 32 pages and sells for $5.

John Dudley can be reached at 870-1677 or john.dudley@timesnews. com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter. com/ETNdudley.

Birth of a comic For 28-year-old Meadville native Doing, the publication of the “The Fringe Knight” completes a circle that started in third grade as his reading skills fell behind expectations.

“They tried to get me to read but it was all this boring stuff,” Doing recalled.

His mom found the cure at a comic book shop.

Young Daniel couldn’t get enough and moved up and on to comics with more complex stories. Within a year he was reading above expectations for his grade level and a lifelong love was born. He became, in his words, a “hard-core nerd.”

As he got older, he thought about writing his own comic, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to create a new character and embrace the many challenges doing so would present.

Key encouragement came from his girlfriend, Shannon Roae, as well as an actor he enjoys, Jason David Frank, who played the Green Ranger in the TV series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.” The men met in 2015 at the

Shown is an action sequence from “The Fringe Knight,” a new comic book set in Erie. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]

Cleveland ComicCon, and Doing recalls that Frank told him, “You can do anything you want. Don’t doubt it. Just go for it” It took Doing about six months to complete the script for the first issue.

He now has scripts that can take the Fringe Knight through 12 issues that may go into production if the first issue is successful.

Getting it done From the outset, Doing wanted to set the story in a real place that wasn’t already associated with a superhero. Erie was the choice because “I’ve always been fascinated with the town,” he said.

The name also works well for the supernatural connections to “The Fringe Knight” story.

Borrowing from movie content ratings, Doing describes the storyline as PG. Beyond the struggles Urbanowiz experiences finding his path in life, an overarching theme of the comic is that “ingenuity and curiosity can lead

Twenty-eight-year-old Meadville native Daniel Doing is the creator of an Erie-based superhero comic, “The Fringe Knight,” which has its debut at ComiCon Erie. [PHOTO COURTESY SHANNON ROAE]

people to incredible destinations. It’s an adventure story as well as a story about a hero,” Doing said.

He sought out Brown to serve as the artist for the comic at the suggestion of clients at Actiontoyman, an Erie comics, action figures and collectibles seller. Doing was attracted

by Brown’s work because it is “sharp, yet sleek” and “very dynamic.” He was confident the 33-yearold Brown, a self-taught artist with comic book experience, could pull off the “minimalist color tone, old noir detective feel” he wanted for “The Fringe Knight.”

An added benefit is Brown’s knowledge of Erie, having lived in the city for a time. “We are going to try to keep it as Erie as possible” in terms of locations, Brown said, while the themes in the story are universal.

Creating the art for the first issue took nearly three weeks, Brown said.

Doing “gives me the story and I give him the art, and then it’s back and forth,” Brown said.

“It’s a constant refining process,” Doing said.

About 200 copies of the first issue will be printed, with additional printing if interest is adequate, Doing said. He is expecting to have “Fringe Knight” at area comic book sellers after the ComiCon. Plans are also in the works for placement with comixology, which provides digital access to numerous comics, in mid-October.

For now, however, Brown and Doing are focused on ComiCon Erie. Reaction there to the “The Fringe Night” may make or break the effort, and this is the first time an event of this size with this theme has been held in Erie in recent memory.

They expect the event to do well as Doing has heard from people as far away as Pittsburgh who are coming.

“We will see how it goes,” said Doing, “and everyone’s welcome to stop by and see us.”

Pat Bywater can be reached at 870-1729 or by email.

Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNbywater.

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MUSIC&BOOKS Coming full circle for balladeer Sam Beam

By David Bauder The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Songwriter Sam Beam prefers to think of his career direction less as looking back and more as going full circle.

Whatever terminology is employed, Beam — who records under the name Iron & Wine — has returned both to the Sub Pop label where his career started and the warm, acoustic sound of his early material. His sixth album, “Beast Epic,” came out Aug. 25 and was much anticipated in the indie rock world. Some dates in his fall tour of small theaters are already sold out.

“You can’t really listen to this record and say it sounds like the old records,” Beam said. “There’s a lot more going on. But at the same time, the approach felt familiar again. I was writing more introspective songs and approached the making of this record in a more intuitive way. It felt similar, but it felt like it took me doing all of the other records to get to this one.”

The North Carolina-born Beam was a film professor who painted and wrote songs on the side before he caught the attention of Sub Pop, which released the first Iron

& Wine disc in 2002.

He describes much of his subsequent work as trying on different sounds and styles to see what fits.

“I was just sort of doing music for a hobby and won the lottery, basically, and had a music career,” he said.

“So I had to figure out what I wanted to be, because I hadn’t thought about it.”

Beam makes some of the loveliest music in the indie rock world. He dates his melodic sense to the hymns he heard while going to church as a boy, and his parents’ Motown records.

He enjoys listening to harder stuff, to punk and metal, but he recognizes his strengths and what fits his voice.

Jonathan Poneman, cofounder of Sub Pop, said Beam has a devotion to craft with a rival impulse to cast aside orthodoxy.

“Sam is thoughtful, rebellious but disciplined, so that he canleverageahugenaturalgift to serve something as fleeting as a mood, idea or feeling and do so with an unerring feel — what some would call soul,” Poneman said.

Beam left Sub Pop to record at a couple of larger labels but returned for “Beast Epic.” Poneman said Sub Pop isn’t big on prodigal son stories, but Beam “is so

Sam Beam, of Iron & Wine, during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Beam has returned both to the Sub Pop label where his career started and the warm, acoustic sound of his early material. His sixth album “Beast Epic” was released Aug. 25. [JACK PLUNKETT/INVISION/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO]

beloved and respected in our organization that doing anything other than proceeding would have felt wrong.”

Like many artists, Beam likes something to tie an album together; his 2007 album, “The Shepherd’s Dog,” had a dog in every song. This time the characters in his songs all had some

degree of frailty.

Now 43, this father of five daughters is less interested in the problems of youth than in people who persevere after being knocked around by life.

The cover of “Beast Epic” is a caricature of Beam — you can tell it’s him by the guitar and big, bushy beard — with

a blindfold.

“All these things keep hitting us over the head, no matter how old you are,” he said. “You say one day I’ll be all grown up and I’ll figure it all out, but you don’t. You just keep on learning the lessons over and over again.

And that’s what these songs are all about.”

MUSIC REVIEW

i T U N E S T O P 1 0 For the week ending Sept. 7

Lost 1976 acoustic record finally out

Top Songs 1. ...Ready For It?, Taylor Swift 2. Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift 3. 1-800-273-8255 (feat. Alessia ..., Logic 4. Sorry Not Sorry, Demi Lovato 5. Despacito (feat. Justin Bieber), Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee 6. Strip That Down (feat. Quavo), Liam Payne 7. Feel It Still, Portugal. The Man 8. Thunder, Imagine Dragons 9. Bodak Yellow, Cardi B 10. What Lovers Do (feat. SZA), Maroon 5

By Scott Bauer The Associated Press

‘Hitchhiker’ Neil Young (Reprise Records)

In 1976, Neil Young walked into a Malibu recording studio, armed with his acoustic guitar and harmonica, and laid down a bunch of tracks in a single session.

They sat unreleased for more than 40 years until now.

Dubbed “Hitchhiker,” the 10-track archival release is a treasure trove for Young fans with two previously unreleased songs and intimate renditions of some of his best loved tunes.

One of those, “Powderfinger,” takes on a much more haunting tone than when it was officially released in 1979 with the full force and weight of Crazy Horse’s electric mayhem behind it. Two other

songs that also later showed up on 1979’s “Rust Never Sleeps” get an early run-through here: “Ride My Llama” and “Pocahontas.”

No studio versions of “Hawaii” or “Give Me Strength” — a standout on “Hitchhiker”that Young has occasionally performed live — have made it out of the vault before.

“Captain Kennedy” didn’t make itontoarecorduntil1980,whilethe title track had a much longer wait.

It didn’t appear until 2010’s “Le Noise,” and then in a dramatically altered form.

Speaking of altered, Young has written he was “pretty stony” the night he recorded the “Hitchhiker” songs, fueled by marijuana and other drugs. Maybe that’s why he wasreluctanttoputitoutuntilnow.

It was worth the wait.

BOOK REVIEW

Robin Sloan serves up culinary delight

By Lincee Ray The Associated Press

‘Sourdough’ Robin Sloan (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

Since Robin Sloan has already proven himself worthy in the adventuregenre,herecentlymoved on to writing about another topic many love: Food. In his second novel, Sloan serves his audience a culinary delight in “Sourdough.”

LoisClaryworksendlesshoursas a software engineer. Day after day, it’s the same routine: Work, skip lunch, work some more, lament overthelackofasociallifeandorder the absolute best spicy soup and sandwich from Clement Street for dinner.Gotobed.Wakeup.Repeat.

When the owners of Clement Street are forced to leave the country due to visa issues, Lois is baffled to learn that they have gifted her, their favorite customer, with their sourdough starter. Lois barely uses her kitchen and offers zero experience in any cooking arena. How is she supposed to keep the starter alive?

The good news is that all the starter needs is a little flour and water, as well as a sound system to play the starter’s favorite music

fromthespecialCDthrustintoLois’ handsalongwithaceramiccrockof gray glop. After a few hours of light sourdough research, Lois finds her starter bubbling, singing and even emitting strange smells. She mixes theingredients,bakesthebreadand is floored when her first two loaves turn out beautifully.

Lois tends to the starter like a beloved child. She even builds an outdooroven andsellsloavesto the chefatherworkplace,whogivesher the green light to share her baking skills with everyone who shops at the local farmer’s market. Suddenly Lois must decide between her stable, yet dull, job as a software engineer or a new adventure as a bread maker with an incredibly rare and special sourdough starter.

“Sourdough” is the story we all secretly dream about. Could we leave our mundane lives and take a leap of faith in the direction of our newfound passion? Sloan takes readers on a thought-provoking journeytoanswerthatquestionand asksthemtoconsidertheironythat it takes a living concoction of yeast and microbes to force Lois to consider living her best life.

Top Albums 1. american dream, LCD Soundsystem 2. Evolve, Imagine Dragons 3. Vol. 2 Guardians of the Galaxy..., Various Artists 4. Rainbow, Kesha 5. Trolls (Original Motion Pictur..., Various Artists 6. This One’s for You, Luke Combs 7. Freedom Child, The Script 8. ÷ , Ed Sheeran 9. Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert 10. 21 Totally 80s Hits, Various Artists

B E S T- S E L L I N G B O O K S The Wall Street Journal’s list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books for the week ending Sept. 3.

FICTION 1. “Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties” by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic) 2. “Glass Houses” by Louise Penny (Minotaur) 3. “The Right Time” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 4. “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers) 5. “Y is for Yesterday” by Sue Grafton (Marion Wood Books/ Putnam) NONFICTION 1. “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton) 2. “Strengths Finder 2.0” by Tom Rath (Gallup) 3. “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson (HarperOne) 4. “Make Your Bed” by William H. McRaven (Grand Central Publishing) 5. “Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (Harper) FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Glass Houses” by Louise Penny (Minotaur) 2. “Shattered” by Helen Hardt (Waterhouse Press) 3. “The Right Time” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 4. “Y is for Yesterday” by Sue Grafton (Marion Wood Books/ Putnam) 5. “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate (Ballantine) NONFICTION E-BOOKS 1. “The Glass Castle: A Memoir” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) 2. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou (Random House) 3. “Praying the Psalms” by Elmer Towns (Destiny Image) 4. “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance (HarperCollins) 5. “You’re Never Weird on the Internet” by Felicia Day (Toudhstone)

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Library offers rock painting session Participate in a rockpainting craft, Tuesday, 2 to 3 p.m., at Iroquois Avenue Branch Library, 4212 Iroquois Ave. Cost: Free; materials provided.

Info: Call 451-7082.

LEFT: A rock-painting craft is among the events coming up at the Iroquois Avenue Branch Library. [SHUTTERSTOCK]

Craft Corner set for Wednesday Bring your favorite knitting, sewing, needlework or handicraft and share ideas with other crafters, Wednesday, 1 to 3 p.m., at Iroquois Avenue Branch Library, 4212 Iroquois Ave. New members welcome.

Cost: Free.

Info: Call 451-7082.

Mercyhurst presents Faculty Recital Series Faculty members of the D’Angelo Department of Music at Mercyhurst present their annual concert, Wednesday, 8 p.m., at Walker Recital Hall, Mercyhurst University.

Cost: Free.

Info: Call 824-2394.

Author to read from work at Smith Chapel Smith Creative Writing Readers Series: Fiction and nonfiction writer Eric Freeze, author of “Hemingway on a Bicycle,” reads from his work Thursday, 6 p.m., at Smith Chapel,

Penn State Behrend, 4701 College Drive. A reception takes place at 5:30 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: Call 898-6209.

Artist reception set for Thursday An artist reception featuring the work of Amy Gierlack, Ray Maholtz, Lisa Salvia, Jan Shilling and Linford Toy, takes place Thursday, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Swan Tavern at the Schoolhouse, 6610 West Lake Road, Fairview.

Cost: Free admission; cash bar.

Info: Call 881-3621.

Church hosts rug braiding session A session of the fourstrand method of rug braiding takes place Saturday, 10 a.m., at Woodcock United

Methodist Church, 23048 Gravel Run Road, Saegertown. Proceeds benefit the church.

Cost: $12; includes materials to start braiding rug; reservations requested by Wednesday.

Info: Call 814-382-4128 or send email to audreylovewell@windstream.net.

Audition for ‘The Nutcracker’ You can audition for the 59th annual performance of “The Nutcracker,” Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Lake Erie Ballet Studios, 1020 Holland St. Check website for age-specific times.

Cost: Free.

Info: Visit lakeerieballet. org or LEAD@lakeerieballet.org.

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Burns, Novick spent a decade trying to untangle the Vietnam War Documentary ‘The Vietnam War’ starts tonight on PBS

By Libby Hill Los Angeles Times

Maybe it’s a stretch to suggest that PBS’ “The Vietnam War” is the magnum opus of Ken Burns’ illustrious career. This is, after all, the man who made his name with epic and oftentimes definitive documentaries on everything from baseball to jazz to the Civil War. But his latest labor of love with longtime collaborator Lynn Novick manages the impossible: Clocking in at 18 hours starting Sunday, it untangles one of the most complicated narratives in American history.

Burns and Novick recently sat down with The Times to discuss their process and the last decade making sense of a conflict that divided the nation.

Q: Watching the first few episodes, I found myself wishing the miniseries had come out at a less politically divisive time. Yet as the episodes continued, I found it more resonant now than ever. Was that a feeling you experienced at all?

Burns: The miniseries has been more than 10 years in the making, and all of those things that resonated with this moment were resonant in 2006, only more so now. We’re not putting arrows toward this. In fact, at one configuration before we went to 10 episodes, we were going to be out in the fall of ‘16 and we really didn’t want to be. We realized we don’t want to be interrupted by scandals

and “Access Hollywood” tapes and things like that.

We’re happy to be drafting in the “relative quiet” of the Trump administration.

Q: The series is populated with so many knowledgeable individuals, from every walk of life. Where did you find your experts?

Novick: Let me give you an example that’s pretty indicative of our process.

Ken knew (Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator) Max Cleland for many years, and one of the very first interviews in the series is with him and you see him in the introduction of the film. Max is always on the phone. We’ve had dinner with him and talk to him all the time and he’s always calling with random ideas.

About a year and a half after his interview, Max calls and says, “Tony McPeak, you’ve got to talk to him.”

“Why?” “Tony McPeak, he just came back from Laos.”

Gen. McPeak is the chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, the organization that safeguards our cemeteries overseas, and a colleague of Cleland’s, so I called him.

Turns out he knew all about the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and when we were going to Vietnam to talk to people who had worked on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, we asked him what he wanted to know from the people he had bombed. In return, we asked the people in Vietnam what they would ask Gen. McPeak.

It’s a very organic fluid process. We didn’t set out to find McPeak. There’s no way we could have mapped

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that out, but every single story you can imagine, extrapolate from that.

Q: You also made use of known Vietnam War authorities, such as author Tim O’Brien (“The Things They Carried”).

How did you choose to incorporate him?

Burns: We made a conscious decision obviously to include him and Karl Marlantes (author of “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”), but we don’t tell you who they are other than the grunts that they seem to be throughout this war.

Now, Tim O’Brien’s book is the most-read book in every school that ever teaches Vietnam, and it’s arguably the best that’s ever been written about Vietnam, but we just wanted him talking about experiences before he was Tim O’Brien, right?

Novick: He was one of the first people we reached out to for the project. We felt, “Well, we can’t do it without Tim O’Brien.”

We went to see him long before we did anything

else, and he said, “Don’t even try. Forget it. You’re never going to be able to do it, it’s impossible.”

We feel very grateful he was with us as an adviser too. He came to an early screening and he said, “It’s not as good as it could be.”

The film wasn’t done, it was very rough. But he had the courage to say that.

He wasn’t wrong.

Q: You mention that the 18-hour “Vietnam War” has been in the works for the last decade, but in that same time, you’ve both produced and directed several other documentaries.

When do you sleep? How do you piece these things together while working on so many other projects?

Burns: It’s just what you do. It’s hard work, and we just stay at it. You have a 10-year project and a 10-year plan and you try to stick to it and you work with really extraordinary people.

Our writer, Geoff Ward, Sarah Botstein, the senior producer, amazing editors, people who are looking for footage, people who are looking for pictures,

people who are listening for weeks and months on end to presidential audiotapes ... . We’re a family, and we work together, and we work really hard.

But it doesn’t mean you can’t do something else.

In fact, I find it really wonderful to do something else. To leave an editing room early in the process with several months of work and to go off and be working on something else, promoting “Prohibition” or “The Dust Bowl” or “Central Park Five,” and then coming back to find out where “Vietnam” is at and being a little bit clear of what that is.

Q: I have to ask: Are we getting an 11th inning of “Baseball” for the Cubs?

Burns: We have to do it. We promised that we would do it. We thought the one thing that would compel an 11th inning would be the Cubs winning the World Series, so we’re duty bound to make it. Right at this moment we don’t see where the daylight is for that but ....

Q: Someday.

Burns: Someday.

Keeping a few Mantel masterpiece moves from rubbish pile to the MFA treasures to pass

By Tracee Herbaugh The Associated Press

When interior designer Heidi Pribell spotted a dust-covered mantelpiece in the basement of a client’s newly purchased home, it was the start of a long relationship.

The ornate white marble mantelpiece, with two caryatids flanking each side, was sitting amid rubble and construction debris. But Pribell, a Boston-based designer and antiques dealer, convinced her client the mantelpiece was worth keeping.

That was in 1999.

Fast forward to 2011, and Pribell purchased the mantelpiece — roughly 6 feet wide and 4 feet high — from the client. Her “obsession” with the piece led her down a historical rabbit hole in search of its provenance. And this year, more than two decades after the basement discovery, Pribell sold the once dilapidated mantel to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for an undisclosed sum.

“It was no secret, I adored it,” she says.

It’s the kind of story that makes television shows like “American

This undated photo provided by interior designer Heidi Pribell shows Pribell unfixing the 1805 marble mantlepiece from the wall of a home in Boston. Pribell sold the mantlepiece to the Museum of Fine Arts later.

When Pribell spotted a dust-covered mantelpiece in the basement of a client’s newly purchased home, it was the start of a long relationship.[RHEA NAWAR/HEIDI PRIBELL VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Pickers” and “Antiques Roadshow” so popular.

Many people are looking for the next undiscovered masterpiece.

“It’s more common than you think,” says Ezra Shales, a professor of art history at

Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Once-popular works often get thrown out when society’s tastes change, he says.

“The cycle of forgetting and then remembering our history is

part of the cycle of art history,” says Shales.

As a trained antiques dealer, Pribell knew how to qualify items in terms of good, better, best. (Museum-quality artworks are, in general, sold in excellent condition with original fixtures and the like.)

This piece, Pribell says, was “exquisite.”

“It was all about the quality and depth of the carving,” she says.

The mantelpiece also had a story befitting a museum-quality artwork. The Carrera marble mantelpiece, crafted in 1805 in Italy, had stayed in the same building on Joy and Beacon Streets, across from Boston Common, through three different owners.

It was originally commissioned by diplomat and art importer Thomas Appleton, who acquired it for wealthy apothecary Dr. John Joy, whose mansion was on Joy Street.

During Appleton’s time as a rising diplomat in Europe, he imported many artworks to the United States, including a bust of George Washington that’s in the White House.

down sparks a special kind of joy

By Nicole Anzia Special to the Washington Post

Clients will often seek my approval before making a final decision to throw something away, donate it or sell it. And if they definitely no longer want or need the item, I usually reassure them that they are making the right decision, especially if someone else could use it.

But, and this may come as a surprise, I also find myself regularly trying to convince people that something they consider disposable may be worth keeping. Not because it’s valuable in a monetary sense but because it is, or may be, priceless to someone in the future.

Yes, I’ve read Marie Kondo’s popular book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” and yes, a large part of my job involves helping people declutter their homes. But I’m not totally on board with the notion that we shouldn’t keep something unless it

sparks immediate joy and is useful. It’s true that some objects are just objects and that many household items can easily be replaced, but there are some things that can’t, and shouldn’t, be replaced.

Let me explain.

Technology and other innovations are changing the way we value important pieces of our lives. Handwritten letters are becoming a relic. Instead, we have thousands of emails and texts. Our phones have enabled us to take more photos than ever, but we’re printing far fewer. Because of those changes and the speed with which we can do things now, things like letters and printed photos from our past can feel irrelevant and extraneous.

But I would argue that those tangible memories are invaluable, and that passing down at least some of those possessions creates an important connection between generations and has a vital part in a family’s history.

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PEOPLE, ETC. Erie native becomes Coast Guard commander Woman’s Clubs, which is international in scope.

Bill and Janet Miller

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oast Guard Lt. Linden Dahlkemper Vingua became

commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin on Aug. 25 in Tampa, Florida.

The Erie native will have this assignment for two years and be responsible for the ship, its mission and the crew. Moored off the coast of Tampa, the ship was in dry dock for previously scheduled repairs when the storm of the century occurred.

Fortunately, the newly commissioned officer and all-male crew of 24 were able to ride out the devastation as Hurricane Irma pummeled the peninsula.

Only two weeks before, Linden’s husband, Mark Vingua, attended the commissioning ceremony along with her parents, Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper and Dan Dahlkemper, of Erie, and

grandfather, Springhill resident Chuck Dahlkemper. Mark, management consultant at Accenture Federal Services in Washington, D.C., is originally from Colton, California.

It’s been a remarkable five months since Linden and Mark’s marriage on April 22 at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in the nation’s capital, the couple’s home base for the time being.

They and their bridal party of 10 savor wedding album photos taken on the White House grounds before the dinner reception for some 250 guests in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The middle child of five, Linden most recently worked as a White House fellow, working on the presidential transition team and in the Office of the Administrator of the General Services

Lt. Linden Dahlkemper Vingua and her husband, Mark Vingua, are shown in Tampa, Fla., during an August ceremony awarding her a U.S. Coast Guard assignment as a commanding officer.

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Administration. Prior to her selection as a White House fellow, she taught at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. She previously served on the Coast Guard Cutter Aspen in San Francisco and the Coast Guard Cutter Walnut in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The James Rankin, homeported in Curtis Bay, Maryland, is part of the Keeper Class of coastal buoy tenders. One of its proudest duties is caring for the Francis Scott Key Memorial Buoy in Baltimore Harbor, marking the spot where Francis Scott Key penned the national anthem while watching the British bombardment of Fort McHenry.

Hilltop school’s hurrah The hilltop school at East 29th and State streets, facing Veterans Memorial Stadium, will be abuzz with exciting activity come Saturday. It’s all about Erie Academy 100, a celebration of the brick edifice’s 100th anniversary. As many well know, the school was renamed Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy in 1997, beckoning the best area students.

Former Academy High and Collegiate Academy

Cleveland resident Kathy Sperrazo Montejo, of the Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy class of 2005, donated a hand-crafted sterling silver and gemstone necklace as an auction item for the upcoming Erie Academy 100 celebration.

alumni and guests are welcome to gather for free between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., for tours, basket raffles, entertainment in the auditorium, and memorabilia displays. Ground-floor classrooms will display yearbooks from earlier eras.

A shout goes out to AHS 1951 grads Carol Palmer DePanfilo, Dorothy Vannucci Romecki and Rena Vitelli Weirbinski, who helped with addressing more than 600 postcards to graduates of classes for which there were mailing lists. More than 10 former graduates, many from out-of-state, have donated items for the Arts & Entrepreneurs Auction, a silent auction that will be available to all in attendance.

Tickets for the evening’s 7 to 10 p.m. Party-onthe-Promenade are $25 in advance. There will be hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and live music by Ruby Port in the dining hall. The party will benefit a new alumni association. For tickets, contact Collegiate Academy at 874-6300. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

Collegiate Academy Dean Jim Vieira, 1983 Academy graduate Karen Klemm Rugare, andretired Collegiate Academy teacher Colleen Holmes are spearheading

the committee, which includes Kim Davis, Stacey Moon, Robert Causgrove, Rick Schneider, Laura Beier Will, Barb Guelcher, Karen Bloom Bollard, Susan Vitale Leone, Pam Blakely, Barb Johnson, Jan Zimmerly Hubler and Colleen Hogan Pamula.

For more information, check out the Erie Academy 100 website at www. erieacademy100.org.

Noteworthy gathering Judy Santone Husted, in her unprecedented fifth year as president, is glowing with reports on the Woman’s Club of Erie’s recent anniversary milestones: The club mansion’s origin in 1892; birth of the service organization in December 1897; and its eventual purchase of the brick manse as its clubhouse in 1921.

The recent anniversary gala took over the West Sixth Street landmark, indoors and out, with two musical ensembles, refreshments, house tours and basket raffle.

Shelly Smolnery, an officer from the state organization, came from Baden for the celebration. She’s first vice-president/dean of district directors of the General Federation of

of Sabella’s Catering researched popular foods of the 1890s and created a wonderful display of delicious fare including smoked salmon, potted crab dip, ham with Madeira wine sauce, chicken bites in Champagne sauce and salted tiny potatoes.

Many thanks to Angelle Sundberg for her donation of a delicious lemon cake, designed as a miniature of the clubhouse, surrounded by tea cookies and fresh flowers by Joel’s Flower Shoppe. Sundberg has a cottage business, a licensed, commercial kitchen in her home, Angellicakes, featuring artistically decorated cakes and dessert catering for special occasions.

Jeff Gibbens’ Trio was such a hit Husted booked him for the Woman’s Club reception Nov. 10, which will kick off the organization’s three-day Christmas in the Mansion House Tour and Boutique. Also, the club is participating again this year with the Erie Philharmonic’s Holiday Tour of Homes on Nov. 11 and 12, Husted said.

Woman’s Club member Cynthia Reid heads and arranged for the Erie County Clarinet Choir to perform outdoors during the anniversary gala. The choir will also be performing at the clubhouse/ manse during the Erie Phil’s Tour of Homes. The Siebenbuerger Singing Society will also entertain.

Circle Sept. 21 on your calendar for the meet and greet/new member orientation, 5 to 7 p.m.

POSTSCRIPT: Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), American author, diplomat, Connecticut congresswoman.

Meg Loncharic can be reached at newsmeg@aol.com.

DEAR ABBY

Religious differences driving couple apart Jeanne Phillips Dear Abby:For the first time in my life, I am in love.

We met about a month ago. I know he’s the man I have waited my entire life

to meet. I am 33, so I know what I feel isn’t just lust.

We have one huge hurdle, though: religion. He’s actively religious, while I am not, and he doesn’t believe our relationship can survive this difference.

On every other level, we are wonderful. We want the same things in life and share similar values. Our difference isn’t that I don’t believe in God. I do. But

that isn’t enough for him.

I told him I would go to church with him, and raise our children (his and mine) in a Christian home, but when they are old enough we should allow them to make their own decisions. He says that would be “just going through the motions” and I’d eventually resent him for it.

Must I let him walk away? Or should I fight for what could be (next

to my kids) the best thing that’s ever happened to me?

— Heartbroken in Texas Dear Heartbroken: In what way do you plan to “fight”? Do you plan to convert to his religion and devote the kind of time to it that he does? Think carefully about what that would mean.

While his fervent religiosity is laudable, what this man doesn’t realize is that regardless of the example

he wants to set for his children, eventually they are going to make up their own minds and live their lives the way they wish.

This “one difference” is a deal-breaker. He is looking for a spiritual clone.

You’re not it, so let him go.

Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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HEALTH What you don’t know about food safety

Jenna Snider

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e all have experienced symptoms of the 24-hour flu: vomiting and diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever and chills, and feeling just plain miserable.

In fact, about 48 million Americans are sickened by food-borne illness every year.

Many of these illnesses occur because of some old-school thinking or myths.

Some of these illnesses occur from mistreating foods that we didn’t even know could grow bacteria.

Here are a few lesser known facts about food safety: 1. Cooked pasta, potatoes, veggies, beans, and raw sprouts must be handled the same way that cooked meats are handled.

These foods must be held hot (135 degrees or above) or cold (41 degrees or below), or they will grow bacteria that release toxins that aren’t destroyed by future cooking.

Also included are popular cooked grains like quinoa, couscous and barley.

2. Do not wash chicken or meats. This practice is unnecessary because any bacteria found on chicken and meat will be killed during the cooking process.

The greater danger is that those bacteria are spread throughout the sink, and will contaminate fruits and veggies waiting to be washed.

3. A digital thermometer must be used to ensure that foods are fully cooked. We all have our own ways of checking our chicken and meats to see if they’re done, but the most accurate way to ensure safe food is to check the temperature.

In addition to ensuring safe food, you are also more likely to have tastier, juicier food that’s not dried out from overcooking. Thermometers are available at most grocery or retail stores.

4. Contaminated food usually doesn’t smell bad. Pathogenic, or disease causing, bacteria like Salmonella and E.coli don’t have any odor at all.

Just because a food looks, smells and tastes great doesn’t mean that it isn’t harboring bacteria or viruses.

5. If you have been sick with any gastrointestinal illness, you can spread it to people through the food that you are preparing. If you’re not feeling well, let someone else cook, order out or reschedule.

Jenna Snider is an environmental protection specialist with the Erie County Department of Health.

Drug diversion Hospices grapple with stolen meds as part of the opioid crisis

By Melissa Bailey Kaiser Health News

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othing seemed to help the patient — and hospice staff didn’t know why.

They sent home more painkillers for weeks. But the elderly woman, who had severe dementia and incurable breast cancer, kept calling out in pain.

The answer came when the woman’s daughter, who was taking care of her at home, showed up in the emergency room with a life-threatening overdose of morphine and oxycodone. It turned out she was high on her mother’s medications, stolen from the hospice-issued stash.

Dr. Leslie Blackhall handled that case and two others at the University of Virginia’s palliative care clinic, and uncovered a wider problem: As more people die at home on hospice, some of the powerful, addictive drugs they are prescribed are ending up in the wrong hands.

Hospices have largely been exempt from the national crackdown on opioid prescriptions because dying people may need high doses of opioids. But as the nation’s opioid epidemic continues, some experts say hospices aren’t doing enough to identify families and staff who might be stealing pills. And now, amid urgent cries for action over rising overdose deaths, several states have passed laws giving hospice staff the power to destroy leftover pills after patients die.

Blackhall first sounded the alarm about drug diversion in 2013, when she found that most Virginia hospices she surveyed didn’t have mandatory training and policies on the misuse and theft of drugs. Her study spurred the Virginia Association for Hospices and Palliative Care to create new guidelines, and prompted national discussion.

Most hospice patients receive care in the place they call home.

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Most commonly prescribed opioids for hospice patients 1. Liquid morphine 2. Hydrocodone/acetaminophen tablets (e.g. Vicodin, Norco) 3. Morphine tablets 4. Oxycodone immediaterelease tablets 5. Fentanyl patches

Source: KHN/Enclara Pharmacia, a national hospice pharmacy serving over 500 hospices and over 84,000 hospice patients per day. Ranked by percent of total dispenses, from April to June 2017. Excludes the small amount of medicine in the emergency comfort kits that most hospice patients receive.

These settings can be hard to monitor, but a Kaiser Health News review of government inspection records sheds light on what can go wrong. According to these reports: • In Mobile, Ala., a hospice nurse found a man at home in tears, holding his abdomen, complaining of pain at the top of a 10-point scale.

The patient was dying of

TIP OF THE WEEK

Zika still a concern Though Zika is not making the same headlines it did a year ago, federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found mosquitoes capable of spreading Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses are now found in more counties in the United States than in 2016.

cancer, and his neighbors were stealing his opioid painkillers, day after day.

• In Monroe, Mich., parents kept “losing” medications for a child dying at home of brain cancer, including a bottle of the painkiller methadone.

In other cases, paid caregivers or hospice workers, who work largely unsupervised in the home, steal patients’ pills.

Hospice, available to patients who are expected to die within six months, is seeing a dramatic rise in enrollment as more patients choose to focus on comfort, instead of a cure, at the end of life.

There’s no national data on how frequently pain medications go missing. But “problems related to abuse of, diversion of or addiction to prescription medications are very common in the hospice population, as they are in other populations,” said Dr. Joe Rotella, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a professional association for hospice workers.

“It’s an everyday problem that hospice teams address,” Rotella said.

In many cases, opioid

painkillers or other controlled substances are the best treatment for these patients, he said. Hospice patients, about half of whom sign up within two weeks of death, often face significant pain, shortness of breath, broken bones, or aching joints from lying in bed, he said. “These are the sickest of the sick.”

There is no publicly available national data on the volume of opioids hospices prescribe. But OnePoint Patient Care, a national hospice-focused pharmacy, estimates that 25 to 30 percent of the medications it delivers to hospice patients are controlled substances, according to Erik Jung, a vice president of pharmacy operations.

Though Blackhall helped spark a national discussion about hospice drug diversion, she said she’s also worried about restricting access to painkillers. Hospices must strike a balance, she said.

“It’s important to treat the horrible suffering that people have from cancer,” said Blackhall. But substance abuse is another form of suffering which is “horrible for anyone in the family or community that might end up getting those medications.”

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SPECIAL REPORT: ERIE’S OPIOID CRISIS [SHUTTERSTOCK.COM]

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Erie County, like communities across the nation, is plagued with opioid addiction. But families and local officials are finding ways to persevere.

By Tim Hahn, Madeleine O’Neill and Ed Palattella

LEFT TO RIGHT: Jonathan Miller was a teacher and artist.

Jessica Horwath was the hope for her family’s business.

Paul Weber battled addiction for 30 years.

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essica Horwath had a future in the bar and entertainment business.

Her mother, Elena Marasco, knew it.

So did her father, Dennis J. Horwath.

They knew it as soon as Jessica Horwath turned 18 and started working at Bobby’s Place, a bar at West 18th and Cranberry streets known for its outdoor bocce courts and, in recent years, live music.

Marasco’s father, Bobby Marasco, bought what became Bobby’s Place in the mid-1970s, when the warehouse district around the Erie bar hummed with factories — Erie Forge and Steel, Marx Toys, Firch Baking Co. — that were filled with scores of hungry workers who liked a beer and a shot with lunch.

Bobby Marasco died at 86 in 2013, but Elena Marasco by then had run the bar for eight years, hoping to keep it thriving despite the factory closings. She planned for her daughter to take over Bobby’s Place eventually.

Marasco and Dennis Horwath liked that Jessica Horwath was at the bar. Besides appealing to her gregarious nature, the work kept their daughter busy and less likely to be alone and around drugs.

By the time she was 18 or 19, Jessica Horwath had developed a

drug addiction.

As soon as she started working at the bar, and especially as she got old enough to serve drinks, Horwath showed how skilled she was at pleasing customers and booking the bands.

“She always said she loved her job,” Dennis Horwath said.

“And she was amazing at it,” Elena Marasco said. “She flew through here. She had, like, wings on her feet. She could handle the crowd.”

Bobby’s Place is closing soon.

Marasco said she has no reason to keep it open any longer.

Jessica Horwath died on April 25.

She was a victim of an accidental overdose. While at her house on Hazel Street, in Erie, she injected herself with a lethal mixture of drugs. The most powerful was fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid that, along with heroin, has been fueling the opioid crisis nationwide, including in Erie.

Horwath was 27.

“I was only keeping it open to keep her alive, and with a smile on her face,” said Marasco. “And now that she is not here, I don’t want to do it anymore.

“We’re done.”

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advantages in the fight, said David don’t understand that.” speak up,” she said days before the Sanner, the director of the county’s So many other survivors in Erie meeting — when it was her turn to talk.

Office of Drug & Alcohol Abuse. It is County are remembering their loved She listened intently, at times leaning The opioid crisis is worse than ever home to a number of drug-treatment ones in the same way— as caring, forward and nodding in agreement, as in Erie County. facilities and programs, providing promising men and women who sucothers spoke.

By Aug. 29, the number of accidental local options to those struggling with cumbed to an addiction, to a disease, Wieczorek credits the meeting, and overdose deaths in the county had hit addiction. that came to control them. The surthe people attending it, for helping to 98, already eclipsing the 95 overdose And Sanner’s office pushed for the vivors also are trying to find a way to save her life. deaths in 2016, which was a record early adoption of a “warm handoff” struggle against the void of so many She said she wanted to die as she year. program, in which staff go to emerlives lost. struggled with the addictions of her Most of the overdose deaths, gency rooms to meet with overdose “Nobody holds that child’s hand, son, Erie resident 45-year-old Paul according to the Erie County Coroner’s patients and offer help getting into watches them graduate from high Weber, who died of a heroin overdose Office, are due to opioids, including treatment as quickly as possible. The school, and thinks that they are going in February 2016; and of her 24-yearheroin, which is naturally derived from program has been implemented at to come up with an illness or a disease old grandson, Cody Weber, who is in the opium poppy, and synthetic drugs several area hospitals since last fall, of some sort,” Elena Marasco said. “It prison. such as fentanyl and the prescription and has aided 88 people in getting into just takes you over. And these people “It bites you. It takes a piece of painkiller oxycodone. treatment between January 1 and July are extremely creative, beautiful, talyour heart. It’s something you live The crisis has been growing in Erie 31, Sanner said. ented, lovable.” with every day,” said Wieczorek, 65.

County and nationwide since the early “It’s very difficult to take on new “You try that drug and it possesses “This is a disease that has caused other to mid-2000s. initiatives,” Sanner said. “But you still you and it takes over your body,” she people to die. They can’t take it. I Today, drug overdoses are the lead- have to do everything you can, because said. “And then mentally you become wanted to die.” ing cause of death among Americans it’s a crisis. obsessed by it.” younger than 50. President Donald “The epidemic has just grown so far, Trump in August said he was prepared so fast,” he said. “Now the response to Waging a battle to officially declare the opioid crisis a that just has not been able to match the SPEAKING UP national emergency — a designation level of the epidemic, unfortunately.”

Years ago, when the family was that, if it occurs, could make fed“It affects every walk of life,” Erie Paula Wieczorek likes to arrive early living in Texas and Paul Weber was eral money available to the states to County District Attorney Jack Daneri at the Millcreek Township church close fighting alcoholism, he suggested to combat the opioid crisis. said. “It is everywhere. Just look at the to her home. his mother that she attend Al-Anon, The president’s Commission on obituaries. You will see a 26-year-old She recently greeted a friend as she a support group for those whose lives Combating Drug Addiction and the and someone in his mid-50s dying on walked into the building, and said hello have been affected by a loved one’s Opioid Crisis recommended in its the same day from the same drug. It is to another as she entered the meetdrinking. Wieczorek started going to interim report, released July 31, that all-consuming.” ing room and settled into her spot in meetings and built strong relationships Trump immediately declare a national Jessica Horwath’s obituary hid noth- a circle of chairs. The chairs filled up with others battling the same issues. emergency. ing about how she died. quickly, and the circle expanded as After the family moved back to Erie “The opioid epidemic we are facing “Jess is no longer struggling,” it more people arrived and more chairs County, Wieczorek started going to is unparalleled,” the commission read. “She has earned her peace. Sadly were pulled from a closet and from Nar-Anon, an anonymous 12-step wrote. “The average American would another beautiful loving person lost to another room. program for the family members of likely by shocked to know that drug heroin addiction.”

This Wednesday night meeting of people who are addicted. Shesaid overdoses now kill more people than Elena Marasco said the obituary Nar-Anon began with 17 in attenshe continues to attend as many as gun gun homicides and car crashes included those lines because “if that dance. Wieczorek and the other possible. combined.” day ever came, it would not be a secret. attendees spent an hour sharing their She said it’s important for her to be In 2015, according to the most recent Jess never kept it a secret. We never experiences of living with a loved one reminded, through the shared experistatistics from the Centers for Disease kept it a secret. It’s just sad.” in the throes of addiction. ences presented at the meetings, of the Control and Prevention,more than “It’s not dirty,” Dennis Horwath Wieczorek spoke softly but directly painful truths that the loved ones of 52,000 people in the United States died said. “It is an illness. A lot of people — “People are always telling me to those struggling with opioid addictions from a drug overdose, a record.

Of those, 33,091, or 63.1 percent, involved a prescription or illicit opioid, also a record.

And since 2000, according to the CDC, “more than 300,000 Americans have lost their lives to an opioid overdose.”

In Pennsylvania, fatal overdoses in 2016 rose 37 percent, to 4,642, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, which said prescription or illegal opioids were involved in 85 percent of the deaths.

The DEA also reported that the drug-related overdose death rate in Pennsylvania in 2016 was 36.5 per 100,000 people, an increase from 26.7 per 100,000 people in 2015.

Nationwide, the national drug overdose death rate was 16.3 per 100,000 in 2015.

In Erie County, the overdose-related drug overdose rate in 2016 was 32.08 per 100,000 people, according to the DEA. That ranked Erie County 22nd out of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties in 2016.The county’s rate in 2015 was the Elena Marasco, 67, left, Dennis J. Horwath, 64, and DJ Horwath II, 30, talk at Bobby’s Place about the death of Jessica Horwath, 27, who 24th highest in the state. was Elena and Dennis’ daughter and DJ’s sister. She died of an opioid-related overdose on April 25. Bobby’s Place is owned by Marasco.

Gov. Tom Wolf, who has Jessica Horwath worked there as a bartender. [CHRISTOPHER MILLETTE/ERIE TIMES-NEWS] made fighting the opioid epidemic one of his priorities, called the latest DEA statistics “extremely disturbing.”

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Lisa Gensheimer, who lost her son Jonathan Miller to an opioid-related overdose earlier this year, talks about his struggle with addiction. [JACK HANRAHAN/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

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have to learn to accept: They didn’t cause their loved one’s addiction, they can’t control it and they can’t cure it.

“It’s like if your son decided go off to war. As a parent or loved one you are waging that battle, wondering how they are doing each day and hoping someday they’ll come home,” Wieczorek said. “And so every day that they’re still alive with this disease you are doing a battle like they are, and you have to learn ways to manage and to go on and to live.”

She said that, at times, she goes back to “some of my old ways,” feeling depressed and anxious. But she knows what she needs to do in such moments, and that is to rely on people and programs like Nar-Anon to help her through.

“This war that goes on, you learn how to deal with it. And you do have post-traumatic stress from it. I do,” Wieczorek said. “Sometimes I tend to isolate, and then I know I’m getting in trouble. It’s cunning, baffling and powerful, this disease, and everyone around them is affected.

It’s not just their disease.”

There are currently four Nar-Anon meetings in the Erie region each week.

Wieczorek said she especially likes the Wednesday night meetings, which is a “beginner’s meeting” for newcomers. People who have been dealing with addiction for some time, like her, offer “experience of strength and hope” to the newcomers, she said.

“They can actually see some of us smiling and laughing over things,” Wieczorek said. “I think they feel a sense of camaraderie that you went through it.”

Her advice to the newcomers is to keep coming back. Get a sponsor.

Just hang in there.

“Take home from the meeting what you like and leave the rest. Find something to hang onto and focus on your health, because you’ve become addicted to the addict,” she said.

‘HE WAS TORMENTED’ The harsh buzz of the doorbell.

Footprints left in the snow on the path leading to her home in North East.

The sound and images have stayed clearly in Lisa Gensheimer’s mind since the night earlier this year when she learned her son’s fight with addiction had ended in the same way so many others have.

The doorbell was pressed by Pennsylvania State Police officers who had come to inform her early in

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the morning on Valentine’s Day that her 35-year-old son, Jon Miller, had died of an overdose.

The footprints, left behind after the officers had gone, kept reminding her that what she was experiencing was not a dream. It was real.

‘What are we dealing with here?’

Gensheimer, 61, learned that her son was struggling with addiction —and had been for far longer than she’d realized — on August 30, 2016, after he was in a car accident that he’d explained unconvincingly.

When she later asked him what had happened, he began to cry.

“I said, ‘What are we dealing with here, what’s going on?’” Gensheimer recalled. “And then he told me that he had an addiction problem. ... I said, ‘How long?’ and he said, ‘Probably half of my life.’”

Miller was 34 years old at the time.

He told Gensheimer he’d been using heroin and cocaine.

She continues to ask herself how she didn’t notice that her son — a graduate of North East High School and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,who played in local bands and worked as an art teacher at an area school district —was addicted.

“I never thought this was going to happen to my family,” she said. “I never thought this would happen to my child.”

As soon as Gensheimer learned what her son had kept from her for so long, she began searching for solutions.

She got him into the detoxification program at Millcreek Community Hospital the same day. Miller stayed for several days, while Gensheimer called multiple times a day to check on him.

After his release, Miller had to wait days to get into an inpatient treatment facility in Franklin, Venango County.

“You need to strike while the iron is hot and get them a bed right away,” she said. “There’s not enough beds.

Not just Erie. I’m talking about the tri-state region.”

The wait times for people seeking residential drug treatment can vary widely depending on their needs, said Sanner, the director of the Erie County Office of Drug & Alcohol Abuse.

For an individual seeking a longterm stay at a treatment facility, the wait can be as long as one to two months, he said. But in other cases, the wait can be much shorter. He said his office can generally place people in treatment quickly, and there are often slots available at facilities in Erie.

“I think the real issue is getting the person in need of residential treatment into the right bed/location at

the right time, immediately when he or she is willing to say ‘yes’ to a program,” Sanner said in an email.

Because the programs are based on the progress of the person in treatment, it can be difficult to predict when openings will arise, he said.

While Miller was in treatment in Franklin, Gensheimer began attending Nar-Anon. She hoped that if she worked the program, her son might too.

She learned there that she would not find simple solutions to Miller’s addiction, that she had to take a step back and, in some ways, allow him to handle his addiction on his own.

“That was the hardest thing for me to learn,” she said.

After his release from rehab, Miller improved for several months.

He received Vivitrol, an injection that curbs cravings for opioids, and attended counseling.

But he stopped after two months, and by Christmas, Gensheimer knew something was wrong again.

Miller had begun drinking in dangerous quantities. He lost his job after a threatening Facebook message he’d sent another man became public.

He was admitted into inpatient mental health treatment for three days at Saint Vincent Hospital when Gensheimer worried he would harm himself. But after his release, the drinking continued, becoming so bad he began suffering convulsions.

After a frantic, dayslong struggle to get Miller into treatment again, he was eventually admitted into inpatient treatment at Gaudenzia in Erie, Gensheimer said, and had a positive experience during his three-day stay there.

“Some of the last artwork that he did, he did while he was in detox there,” she said.

He left Gaudenzia with a smile on his face and a plan to continue his treatment, she said.

But his addiction —which, he learned in treatment, had fundamentally altered his brain —was working against him.

“Jon knew, intellectually, what he had to do, but he couldn’t do it,” Gensheimer said. “He was tormented, he was struggling with it.

“A few days later, for whatever reason, he went and got cocaine, and that’s what killed him,” she said. “It was cocaine that had fentanyl in it.”

‘I just started screaming’ Fentanyl is not new. It has been used as a painkiller and has been present in some drug deaths for some time. But recently, it has become a scourge that surpassed heroin as the number one killer in Erie County’s drug-related deaths in 2016.

Opiate: Drugs derived directly from the opium poppy, including morphine.

Opioid: Typically refers to synthetic or partially synthetic drugs designed to imitate the effects of opiates, including painkillers such as Vicodin, Oxycontin and fentanyl. Opioids and opiates act on opioid receptors in the brain. They can affect parts of the brain that control emotion and pain perception, and can produce euphoria, or a "high." Long-term use can alter brain functioning.

Heroin: An opioid drug derived from morphine. It can be injected, snorted or smoked.

Fentanyl: Apotentsyntheticopioid thatcanbeusedlegallyasapainkiller and illicitly. Fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin. In illegal forms, it can be sold as a powder or on blotter paper, and is often cut with heroin.

Carfentanil: A synthetic opioid that is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl. Its common use is as a tranquilizer for elephants and otherlargemammals.Canbe soldin powder form, sometimes disguised as heroin.

Naloxone: A medication used to halt opioid overdoses by blocking opioid receptors in the brain. Also known by the brand name Narcan.

Can be administered with a nasal spray or an injection.

Medication-assisted treatment: Uses medications, which can be opioidbased or not, in conjunction with counseling and other services to treat substance abuse. Forms of MAT can include methadone and Suboxone, which are opioid-based andbindwithopioidreceptorsinthe brain,andnaltrexone,alsoknownas the injection Vivitrol, which is not opioid-based and instead blocks opioid receptors.

Opioid overdose: Because opioids affectthepartofthebrainthatregulatesbreathing,ahighdosecancause respiration to slow or stop and can lead to death.

Detoxification (also known as detox): "The physiological or medicinal

removal of toxic substances. A situation in which an individual is in need of 24-hour medical and/ or professional intervention to safely monitor and mitigate the potentially fatal physical, psychological and toxiceffects that result from the abrupt discontinuation of drugs or alcohol use. The intensity, type and duration of detoxification services must be determined by an appropriately trained and licensedprofessional and typically lasts for 3 to 5 days. Drug and/or alcohol addiction anddependency is not cured through detoxification, but rather detoxification ensures that a patient is physically stable enough to continue treatment or be dischargedtothecommunity."(Definition provided by David Sanner, thedirectoroftheErieCountyOffice of Drug & Alcohol Abuse.)

Inpatient treatment:"Inpatientresidential programs are intensive and designed totreat seriousaddictions, asdemonstrated by severe impairment of social, occupational or school functioning.Inpatient treatment typically lasts 14 to 90 days with rehabilitation as a treatment goal. Inpatient treatment may be the preferred option for those looking to get away from their current temptations and focus completely on sobriety with no distractions."

(Definition provided by Sanner) Outpatient treatment: "Rehabilitation is the goal of outpatient treatment, (which) typically lasts three months to 1 year or longer depending on individual progress and circumstances. Outpatientapproachesrangeinintensity and duration and may include the provision of guidance, advice and psychological treatment as a means to deal with the client’s emotional structure and concurrent problems with or without the use of an FDA-approvedmaintenance substance." (Definition provided

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Miller had lethal levels of fentanyl and cocaine in his system, according to the coroner’s report.

He was one of dozens of people in 2017 who were found to have fentanyl in their system when they died as of July 23, according to statistics provided

by Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook. In 2016, fentanyl was involved in 38 drug deaths, while heroin was involved in 37.

Carfentanil, an even more deadly synthetic opioid that is typically used to tranquilize large mammals, also made an appearance in Erie County in 2017. It was involved in five deaths as of July 23.

The day before his death, Miller called Gensheimer and told her he planned to have his grandmother over to cook her dinner. Gensheimer thought about stopping in to see him on Feb. 13, but decided against it because she’d learned at her Nar-Anon meetings that it could be counterproductive to check on addicted loved ones too often.

State police arrived at Gensheimer’s door at 1:30 a.m. on Valentine’s Day and asked if she was Jonathan Miller’s mother. They explained Miller had been found dead by his roommate, Gensheimer said.

“I just started screaming,” she said.

Remembering Jon At a celebration of Miller’s life held in North East’s Heard Park on June 17, a tree was dedicated in his honor and friends and family gathered to share memories.

Gensheimer remembers him as a musician, a dedicated art teacher and most of all, a compassionate man.

“I know he was a great teacher,” she said. “His students loved him.”

She received get-well cards from students who were likely too young to know the full details of what happened to Miller.

“One of them said, ‘Drink plenty of water, get lots of rest and exercise.’ If only it was that simple,” she said.

And she heard stories from people she’d never met before who remembered her son for kind acts he’d done for them in high school or for their children.

“We lost a good teacher with Jon,” she said.“To me, the grieving starts when you find out your loved one has the disease of addiction. It’s not just when they die. It starts way before that, because they are people and you see the potential.”

In Miller’s obituary, Gensheimer wrote that the disease of addiction had proved “more powerful than we could ever have imagined.”

“We grieve for all that Jon was, and could have become, once well,” she wrote.

JESS, THE ‘SHINING STAR’ By the time Jessica Horwath died on April 25, she had overdosed at least five times, most recently in October, her parents said. Dennis Horwath, her father, said she entered drug rehabilitation twice and was in detox multiple times. Once, in 2011, she overdosed and was in intensive care for 11 days.

After the overdose in October, Dennis Horwath said, his daughter went on Zubsolv, similar to Suboxone, an alternative to methadone used to treat opioid addiction. He said he drove her to an out-of-town clinic, but kept his own prescription drugs in a safe when Jessica was at his home, as he had done before.

When his daughter was sober, Horwath said, he would have “fabulous times” with her as they had long conversations, and he reveled in her company.

This was theyoung woman who had excelled at McDowell High School in Millcreek Township, the young woman who was hoping to pursue careers in modeling and acting, the young woman Horwath described as “very smart, very good business mind, very friendly, nonjudgmental.”

During one conversation, Horwath said, his daughter told him: “’Dad, when I was in high school, I was getting straight A’s. I could have taken this path, got a great education, been a fabulous businessperson or whatever. “’This path, to try every drug in the world, I can’t tell you why, but I chose this path. Nothing to do with upbringing. I had a great childhood. I just took the path of trying every drug.’”

Origins of addiction Elena Marasco, her mother, believed Jessica Horwath’s susceptibility to addiction took root in middle school. She said her daughter was prescribed painkillers after she had a

mole removed from an eyelid.

“We brought her back from that surgery,” Marasco, 67, said of herself and Dennis Horwath, 64, who have been married since the early 1980s but are in the process of divorcing, “and she said to both of us: I love the way I feel. I wish I could feel this way every day of my life. That opiate receptor (in her brain) opened and it just snowballed from there.”

“I think that opened the door,” said Jessica Horwath’s brother, DJ Horwath II, 30.

“It opened the door,” Dennis Horwath said.

“She liked that feeling,” Marasco said, “and it just got into her head.”

By her senior year in high school, Jessica Horwath was drinking and using marijuana. Her brother said she started abusing pain pills, which led her deeper into addiction and strained their relationship.

DJ Horwath and his parents never abandoned Jessica. Dennis Horwath went to Nar-Anon to understand her struggles better. DJ Horwath helped her, when he could. He said he found that “just being there for people, not shunning them” helps addicts like his sister, but he also said his sister’s behavior —continuing to use drugs and being around with people who were using — frustrated him.

“They are going to do what they want to do,” he said of those addicted to opioids. “They see the pain, the death. It really doesn’t change what they are going to do.”

“You have to love them,” Marasco said. “It’s real easy to love someone who is making you happy every day.

All you can do is be forever hopeful and try to guide them and praise them when they are doing something great. Be honest and show disappointment when it’s there.”

But Marasco feared her daughter’s death would be imminent. Marasco had revived Jessica several times on her own after overdoses, and she saw how her daughter worked to stay sober. But the addiction would not let go.

“That drug is Russian roulette,” Marasco said. “It just got worse over the last several months with the addition of the carfentanil and fentanyl.”

“She kissed death several times,” Marasco said of her daughter, “but it never took her soul. While that drug

ravaged her mind and body, it never took her soul.”

‘Always had this smile’ Jessica Horwath worked at Bobby’s Place the weekend before her death.

She was the lovable Jess, her parents said, the Jess who had regulars’ drinks waiting for them, who was ready to listen to customers, who was quick to do whatever was needed to keep the bar hopping.

“That weekend,” her mother said, “she was a shining star here.”

That Sunday, Horwath left her family with a message. She typically slept all day on Mondays and Tuesdays, because she had been up all night on the weekends, working at Bobby’s Place.

So on this weekend, she told her family “to give her a day or two and come talk to her on Tuesday,” DJ Horwath said.

On Tuesday, April 25, DJ Horwath went to his sister’s house and knocked on the door. No one answered. He climbed through a window.

Jessica Horwath, according to the coroner’s report, died of “combined drug toxicity primarily involving fentanyl and cocaine.”

Bobby’s Place is quieter these days without Jessica Horwath. Behind the bar stands a large photograph of her in a modeling pose.

She looks happy.

“She always had this smile,” Elena Marasco said.

It is a smile that Marasco and her family said they will never forget, even long after Bobby’s Place closes and goes dark.

“She was just the beacon of the bar here,” Marasco said.

Tim Hahn can be reached at 8701731. Send email to tim.hahn@ timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNhahn.

Madeleine O’Neill can be reached at 870-1728. Send email to madeleine.o’neill@timesnews. com. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNoneill.

Ed Palattella can be reached at 8701813. Send email to ed.palattella@ timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNpalattella.

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Todd Steele EmergyCare’s director of operations, says the opioid crisis hasn’t changed how paramedics medically treat patients, but it has changed the number of overdose patients who are treated. Emergency responders used to treat one person when answering a call for a suspected overdose, but now are more likely treating multiple people in the same location. [FILE PHOTO/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Opioid crisis has changed how police, emergency responders work

By Tim Hahn tim.hahn@timesnews.com

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he Corry Police Department’s drug officers are busy.

They are keeping up with training while investigating cases, giving talks to community groups, speaking to parents and working closely with other law enforcement agencies in Erie County, in Crawford and Warren counties and in neighboring New York.

The challenge for the 10-member department, Police Chief Rich Shopene says, is finding the time and the resources to do all the work. Two members of the department are its main drug investigators, but they do the work in addition to their regular police duties, Shopene said.

“I talked to the drug guys and they said we need someone every day of the week working on this. But we don’t have the manpower or the funding to do this,” he said.

Those on the front lines of the opioid epidemic in the Erie region, like the Corry Police Department, are finding the battle increasingly busy, dangerous and frustrating.

They are responding to overdoses, trying to find out where the drugs came from, educating their communities on the dangers of drugs and offering assistance to the users and their families.

John Morell, chief of the eight-officer Lawrence Park Township Police Department, agreed that sometimes he and his officers feel like social workers in battling the problem.

“Our main focus is to get these individuals help, to try and help them get off drugs,” he said. “We’re basically trying to save them (with the overdose reversal drug) naloxone, and after that we’re trying to steer them to the right programs to try to curb their addictions.”

There were 95 drug-related deaths in Erie County by the third week of August, matching the county’s total drug deaths from all of 2016. The number had hit 98

by Aug. 29.

Deadly mixtures By mid-August, the Erie Bureau of Police had responded to 76 overdose calls and 25 overdose deaths, according to the bureau’s unofficial numbers, while EmergyCare employees responded to 392 overdoses and

popular now is dealers are getting it cheaper than heroin, so the profit margins are larger,” said Detective Cpl. Adam Hardner, a drug investigator for the Millcreek Township Police Department. “A lot of times they’re not cutting it with heroin, they’re selling straight fentanyl. We’ve done drug purchases asking for heroin and getting fentanyl in return.”

Fentanyl, and the even more potent large mammal tranquilizer carfentanil, have been blamed in a number of recent overdose deaths in the Erie region. The dangers posed by those drugs, and by heroin, have forced agencies to adopt new policies for handling the drugs and the suspected users they come in contact with.

The Erie Bureau of Police and other area Many police departments, for examlaw enforcement agencies are carrying ple, have curbed field testing and set 4 mg doses of Narcan, an overdose up designated areas in their stations to reversal drug. [TIM HAHN/ERIE TIMES-NEWS] handle seized drugs, because of the risk administered 305 doses of naloxone. of exposure and possible overdose for EmergyCare responded to 442 over- officers who come in contact with them.

“Ten years ago you would have never doses and administered 324 doses of thought of basically frisking a patient,” naloxone at this point in 2016.

“As far as medical treatment, we’re Steele, of EmergyCare, said. doing the same thing we’ve always done,” said Todd Steele, EmergyCare’s director of operations.

‘A health emergency’ Steele said emergency responders used to encounter one person when Erie Police Chief Donald Dacus said the answering a call of an overdose. Now it’s opioid epidemic, which his 173-member not unusual to go to a house and have department has been dealing with for two or three patients who all overdosed several years, has “changed the way we do business” in terms of responding to on opioids, he said.

Capt. James Basinger, commander deaths. All deaths are treated as a crime of Pennsylvania State Police Troop E, scene to see what evidence police can based in Lawrence Park Township, said glean from it, he said. when he first started working narcotics “In opioid cases where we have deaths investigations as a trooper in 1999, he we’re looking to go back to the source of arrested a person who had seven bags theoverdosedeath.Ifwecantrackitback of heroin and everyone was impressed. we do so as a drug investigation,” Dacus “Very few were involved in heroin,” said. “In the death itself, we look for eviBasinger said. “Now that is the drug of dence that can help us make a criminal choice. So a guy we got back in 1999 case if the evidence exists.” coming from Buffalo with just enough The challenges in working those cases for him and his friends ... now it’s young include a portion of an act, signed into kids getting their money together and Pennsylvanialawinlate2014,thatgrants driving to big cities. Instead of going immunity from criminal liability to drug on a beer run, they’re getting heroin, userswhoseekaidforanoverdosevictim, they’re getting garbage heroin mixed Dacus said. The “good Samaritan” porwith all different types of things.” tion of the act, which also put naloxone in It’s the mixtures that have police and the hands of first responders and others, other emergency responders especially has “sort of taken away any leverage” concerned. Investigators are finding police had in finding out what drugs were increasing amounts of fentanyl, a pow- ingested, and where they came from, he erful opioid painkiller mixed with heroin said. and cocaine sold on the street, or passed “We found that their information is off as other drugs. limited without the potential of arrest,” “I think the reason fentanyl is so Dacus said.

Another challenge, Dacus said, is the way the current law is written in building a case against someone accused of drug delivery resulting in death. Police have to get an accused dealer to admit that the dealer was the one who delivered the drugs to the victim; they have to prove that the victim ingested those drugs; and theyhavetoprovethosedrugscausedthe victim’s death, he said.

“It really handicaps law enforcement without a lot of concrete evidence,” Dacus said.

Titusville Police Chief Harold Minch, who has worked drug investigations for more than 30 years in Florida and in his current community, said he is frustrated in having to play catch-up in battling a drug problem that he said authorities should have seen coming. Minch cited the explosion, years earlier, of the dispensing of prescription pain medication and the abuse that stemmed from it. And he cited what he said was a focus in many quarters that centered on the supply side of the drugs, when he said the focus should have been on curbing the demand.

“I liken it to Yugos in the 1980s. Seen one lately? Want to know why? There’s zero demand because they were dangerous and they killed people,” Minch said of the once-popular compact car.

“So we learned our lesson with the Yugo. We haven’t learned our lesson with this forever.”

Minch said putting users in jail doesn’t help, because they don’t care what the penalties are and the threat of penalties doesn’t stop them from using.

Hesaidthereneedtobefrank discussions starting in the schools about the consequences of drug use, and there need to be resources and programs available to properly treat users and to aid them in their recovery.

“We’ve got to rewire what we do. This is not a law enforcement problem; it’s a health emergency for our entire nation,” Minch said. “The substance abuse issue has to be dealt with on a mental health level, it has to be dealt with on a rehab and recovery level, and we have to give them measurable steps to success. And if we don’t do that, we’re going to have this conversation over and over.”

“It’sjustanabsolutetravestyandwe’re sweepingitundertherug,”headded.“I’m waiting for someone to get angry.”

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Drug Court perseveres through epidemic

By Madeleine O’Neill madeleine.o’neill@timesnews.com

Since its inception, Erie County’s Drug Court has reflected the drug trends that have swept through the community.

“WhenDrugCourtstartedin2000,the main drug of choice for most participants was crack cocaine,” said Dante Battles, thecounty’streatmentcourtcoordinator.

“We started to see a shift to prescription pain meds and other opioids (in) about 2005. Now most of our new participants abuse opioids.”

The heroin and opioid epidemic has presented particular challenges to the Drug Court model, officials said.

“I have never seen anything like this,” said Erie County Public Defender Pat Kennedy, who has worked in Drug Court sinceit began.“Every week some participant in treatment court stands up there and talks about friends who have died in that week.”

DrugCourt,whichisoneofthreetreatment courts in Erie County, is focused on divertingqualifieddefendantsintointensive treatment and supervision for the underlyingsubstanceabuseissuesthatled them to commit crimes in the first place.

Since 2013, 54 percent of Drug Court participants have reported abusing opioids, as opposed to other drugs, Battles said.

Erie County Judge William R. Cunningham, who founded the county’s Drug Court and continues to preside over it,saidthetreatment courtmodelisbased onchangingbehaviorusingincentivesand sanctions. Sanctions can include time in prisonandrevocationfordefendantswho fail to comply with treatment, Kennedy said.

Cunninghamsaidthenumberofdefendants who report having abused heroin and opioids have presented difficulties.

“You have the physiological cravings, which make it difficult to overcome just simply by behavior management,” he said.

Cunningham also pointedto a shortfall in the number of residential treatment beds available for defendants who need them.The wait for a bed can be as long as four to six weeks, Cunningham said, and defendants often must wait out that time in prison.

“If we don’t do that, there would be a number of people who would get out the prison door and start using and never make it to treatment,” he said.

Erie County was an early adopter of the Drug Court program, which has since beenintroducedincountiesacrossPennsylvania.The county created two other treatment courts after Drug Court was established: Mental Health Court, and Dependency Court, for parents whose childrenhavebeenadjudicateddependent and who need to engage in specialized

Erie County Judge William R. Cunningham, center top, leads a meeting of the treatment court team in his courtroom at the Erie County Courthouse in Erie recently. Other members, clockwise from Judge Cunningham, are Linda Markle, Erie County Care Management; Bill Fryling, Erie County Drug & Alcohol; Matthew Bailey and Amanda Ricci, Erie County adult probation officers; Donna Checchio, Erie County Drug & Alcohol; Kristen Heise and Michele DuShole, Erie County Office of Children and Youth. [GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

the right path, Kennedy said.

“There’s always been a misconception that it’s soft on crime,” Battles said.

“Anyone who’s familiar with how the program operates knows it’s exactly the opposite because there’s such a high level of accountability.”

Sam Riazzi, a Drug Court graduate, entered into the program in 2013 after committingaseriesofoffenses,including theft.Hewas desperate toend his dependence on heroin.

“I was breaking the law to support my heroinhabit,”Riazzisaid.“Ihadanintervention in the form of law enforcement, but I’m thankful for that day.”

Since graduating from Drug Court, Riazzi said he has kept up the good habits helearnedintheprogram.Heisemployed Erie County treatment court coordinator Dante Battles, center, is flanked by Erie County probation officers Matthew Bailey, left, and Amanda Ricci during a meeting and has reconnected with family memof the treatment court team in Judge William R. Cunningham’s courtroom recently. bers who had shunned him because of his addictionandthewayitmadehimbehave.

[GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS] Riazzi said when he entered Drug treatment to be reunited.

Court, they rise through different phases Court, “I wanted to change but I didn’t A team of officials decides whether and may attend weekly meetings before really know how, and if I could manage to candidates are qualified for Drug Court, Cunningham less often, she said. changeIwasworriedthatIdidn’thavethe Kennedy said. Among other qualifiThe average Drug Court defendant ability to sustain that change. cations, they must have committed a spends just under two years in the pro“What Drug Court did was teach me nonviolent offense, but their crime must gram, Battles said, and 40 percent of how to get it and sustain it,” he said. alsowarrantalengthyenoughprobation- participants graduate successfully. After arysentencethatwillallowforsubstantial graduation, defendants typically remain Madeleine O’Neill can be reached at on probation but can become eligible for 870-1728 or by email. Follow her on drug treatment, she said.

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DA, others focus on drug dealers Daneri’s new policy for overdose probes meant to further arrests

By Ed Palattella ed.palattella@timesnews.com

and Tim Hahn tim.hahn@timesnews.com

Elena Marasco and Dennis J. Horwath are upset that their daughter’s April 25 drug overdose death failed to lead to a full-blown criminal investigation.

They want someone to be held accountable for supplying the fentanyl and other drugs that caused the death of Jessica Horwath, 27, who overdosed at her house on Hazel Street in Erie.

“What is the difference between that and putting a gun to their head?” Dennis Horwath said of supplying drugs in overdose deaths.

Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri said he understands such frustration.

Daneri in early September introduced a protocol that all police agencies in Erie County are to follow when investigating fatal drug overdoses. The guidelines are to help the district attorney’s office develop cases against drug dealers

and others who could be charged with the first-degree felony of drug delivery resulting in death.

“Theapproachtodealingwithoverdose deathshaschanged,”Danerisaidwhenhe releasedthe policyon Sept. 1.“They need to be treated as crime scenes.”

Daneri cautioned that not all overdose deaths will yield a prosecution. Among other things, prosecutors must be able to prove that a dose of an illegal drug killed the victim and that a dealer— typically someone who sells drugs for profit— can be connected to that dose.

Daneri said the policy change was necessary mainly because the number of drug overdose deaths in Erie County keeps rising.

“The community is being ravaged,” Daneri said.

He said the protocol could also apply to nonfatal overdoses as well as older fatal overdose cases. He said a lack of evidence could hinder the older cases.

One of the more recent examples of how local police were able to develop a prosecutable case came in mid-June, when Erie County drug detectives were

investigating the overdose death of a Millcreek Township man. The detectives said they found information in the victim’s cellphone that led them to the person suspected of selling the deadly dose of heroin and fentanyl.

Investigators used the phone to set up another drug deal.

Authorities later charged 27-year-old Erie resident Damon D. Henderson with offenses including drug delivery resulting in death, based in large part from the use of that phone.

Henderson’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 4. He is in the Erie County Prison on $500,000 bond.

The Henderson case, Erie County Detective Sgt. Matt Benacci said, shows how law enforcement is using investigative technology in an attempt to curb the explosion of drug-related deaths.

“Not every case is a perfect scenario for charging drug delivery resulting in death, but we’re working on that,” Benacci said.

Erie Police Chief Donald Dacus said his department had already been investigating overdose deaths in a manner set forth in Daneri’s protocol. Dacus said he is looking to partner with the Millcreek police, the Pennsylvania State Police and the local FBI office in working drug investigations; going after those bringing heroin, fentanyl and other deadly opioids into the Erie region; and pushing for the

stiffest punishments possible.

Dacus said such a task force was formed in Pittsburgh, involving the FBI and city police there, and he is planning a trip to Pittsburgh to see firsthand the task force at work.

“The resources exist,” Dacus said. “If we can bring the resources together with the FBI, I believe the federal route is the smarter path to take.”

ThestateAttorneyGeneral’sOfficehas taken a role in prosecuting drug-related cases, and so has the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where the acting U.S. attorney is Soo C. Song. The Pittsburgh-based district includes Erie County.

Song said one of her main goals is to work with district attorneys and local police to treat an overdose scene as a crime scene to open up the possibility for state and federal prosecution.

Song called the opioid crisis “bar none, the most pressing threat to the health and welfare of people in western Pennsylvania.”

Ed Palattella can be reached at 8701813 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNpalattella.

Tim Hahn can be reached at 870-1731 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNhahn.

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Treatment never ends for Millcreek woman

Brenda Bauwin has stayed four times in residential drug treatment facilities. But the most important treatment is the one she receives every day at a meeting for fellow addicts.

By Jim Martin jim.martin@timesnews.com

Brenda Bauwin, 66, can’t say for sure when the low point came.

Maybe it was one of the times she stared into the open medicine cabinet of a friend or family member, looking for a bottle of painkillers from which a few pills surely would not be missed.

Maybe it was 18 years ago when the Millcreek Township resident was charged with multiple drug felonies for stealing 15,000 Vicodin from a pharmacy.

Or maybe, just maybe, the low point came on the long drives she made during a period of four months to visit her sister who was dying of cancer two hours away in Salem, Ohio.

“To the outside world, I was being the good sister, taking care of her,” Bauwin said. “I didn’t know how to be a sister. I was using her. I was stealing her pain medication.”

Those dark days are hard to rank in hindsight. But there were a lot of them.

From the time she was 23 and suffering from post-surgical pain after having her gall bladder removed, narcotic painkillers would be a problem for Bauwin, who worked for decades painting houses for a business operated by herself and her husband, Jim Bauwin.

At first, the pills were for the pain.

Later, they became something more, during an addiction that would last for decades.

“The pills took the reality away,” she said. “They gave my body energy.

My house was clean when I was using drugs. I also turned into a terrible person.”

Bauwin remembers in excruciating detail the low points of her life, the friends she stole from, the times she ignored her children and blamed her husband.

“I was being so rude, condescending and difficult, my kids didn’t event want to talk to me anymore,” she said.

Multiple stints in two different treatment facilities — Glenbeigh Center in Rock Creek, Ohio, and Gaudenzia in Erie — helped break what had become a destructive pattern of taking pills and drinking to alleviate surgical pain and a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s disease.

Treatment worked, but the benefits were only temporary. Bauwin would go through four lengthy residential stays before her most recent —and she hopes last —stay, two years ago at Glenbeigh.

Looking back, she doesn’t see those earlier attempts at treatment as failures, but as steps to help bring her to where she is today.

The benefits of treatment were different each time.

During one stay, she said, the greatest benefit was getting out of her house, away from her routine and away from

Millcreek Township resident Brenda Bauwin relaxes at her home recently. Bauwin, 66, has battled addictions to alcohol and prescription pain medications and has been clean for more than two years. [GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

GET HELP Erie County drug and alcohol treatment providers, based on a list of organizations with which the Erie County Office of Drug & Alcohol Abuse has current or pending contracts: • The Office of Drug & Alcohol Abuse, which offers referrals to other treatment providers, is at 155 W. Eighth St., Suite 418, in Erie, and can be reached by phone at 814-451-6877.

• Catholic Charities, 329 W. 10th St., Erie, 814-456-2091 • Esper Treatment Center, 25 W. 18th St., Erie, 814-459-0817 • Gage House, 1813 Holland St., Erie, 814-878-2100 • Gateway Community Transition Centers of Erie, 1928 Wager Road, Millcreek, 814-825-0373

the pills and alcohol that held her hostage.

“It’s not just a matter of getting sober or changing our thinking,” she said.

“It’s about changing just about everything. I had to stay away from people that were bad for me.”

Counseling also forced her to confront some unpleasant realities about herself, or about the person she used to be.

“I think the key was letting me know

‘The biggest difference is the volume’ Erie hospital ERs report sharp uptick in overdose cases

By David Bruce david.bruce@timesnews.com

Emergencyphysiciansat Erie hospitals are seeing a lot of familiar faces among overdose patients.

A majority of people who are brought into the UPMC Hamot and Saint Vincent Hospital emergency departments with an opioid overdose have already been treated for a similar problem, doctors said.

“We are seeing a fairly high percentage of repeat offenders, probably 80 percent,” said Ferdinando Mirarchi, D.O., Hamot’s director of emergency medicine. “And it cuts across social class lines. Some are poor and others are well-to-do.”

The number of opioid overdose patients, not just repeaters, has risen significantly at both hospitals in recent years.

Saint Vincent reported its ER treated 160 people for opioid overdoses during

fiscal 2015-16, more than double the 76 opioid overdoses the hospital treated just five years earlier. It already has treated another 103 during the first six months of 2017.

Hamot treated 245 opioid overdoses in fiscal 2016-17, an 81 percent increase from 135 the previous year.

“The biggest difference is the volume of overdoses we are seeing, but we’re also seeing more of a variety of overdoses,” said Jestin Carlson, M.D., a Saint Vincent emergency physician. “We’re seeing heroin, cocaine, fentanyl and people who take a mixture of drugs.”

Those who overdose on a mixture of opioids make it more difficult for physicians and nurses to treat them. They must use a bigger dose of the opiate antidote naloxone, also known by a brand name, Narcan.

“The typical dose is 0.4 milligrams but we have hadtogive patients 10times, even20timesthatamount,”Carlsonsaid.

“Some of them overdose on carfentanil,

happens every day when Bauwin attends a meeting through a well-known 12-step program.

“Because of the fact that I have an addiction, I don’t get cured, but I can kind of put it in remission by going to meetings,” Bauwin said.

She looks forward to the meetings and leaves feeling happy and energized.

But there is nothing optional about those sessions, Bauwin said. In fact, she likens her need for them to a diabetic’s need for insulin.

Even now, two years free from prescription painkillers, Bauwin doesn’t trust herself not to go.

“But I do trust the people around me to remind me of what I need to do,” she said.

And that means not straying, even slightly, from a plan that makes no room for drugs or alcohol.

“I cannot have any of that or I am right back where I started,” she said.

Bauwin knows she’s never more than one bad day away from going back to the that I am a liar,” she said. “I will make way things used to be. She doesn’t want excuses for myself and blame other that for herself or her family. people for everything. I was lying Thanks to treatment and daily meetabout so many things that I wouldn’t ings, the life of this longtime addict has have known the truth if it had hit me changed for the better.

“I don’t feel like I have my life back. in the face.”

Inpatient counseling helped change I feel like I have a life, period,” Bauwin that. said. “I never had that before.”

“It put me in touch with reality,” she said.

Jim Martin can be reached at 870The most important part of her 1668 or by email. Follow him on Twittreatment, however, is the one that ter at twitter.com/ETNMartin.

• Gaudenzia Erie, Inc., 414 W. Fifth St., Erie, 814-459-4775 • Glenbeigh Erie, 4906 Richmond St., Millcreek, 814-864-4226 • Millcreek Community Hospital Detox, 5515 Peach St., Millcreek, 814-868-8311 • New Directions Healthcare, 306 W. 11th St., Second Floor, Erie, 814-240-6216 • Pyramid Healthcare, Inc., 2409 State St., First Floor, Suite C, Erie, 814-456-2203 • Safe Harbor Behavioral Health of UPMC Hamot Addiction Medicine Services, 1330 W. 26th St., Erie, 814-451-9300 • Stairways Dual Diagnosis Program, 2919 State St., Erie, 814-464-8438 • White Deer Run Cove Forge Behavioral Health of Erie, 1921 W. Eighth St., Erie, 814-452-2991

Not only are more overdose victims showing up at emergency departments in Erie and across the country, more of them are dying.

The latest data shows there were 19.9 overdose deaths per 100,000 people in the United States from July to September 2016. It’s the highest number ever reported, Carlson said.

“We’reseeing moreoverdosesbecome fatal,” Mirarchi said. “When we see a younger person (in the ER) with cardiac arrest, it’s usually opioids.”

Jestin Carlson, M.D., a Saint Vincent To reduce the number of repeat overHospital emergency physician, says the doses, the hospitals are working with Narcan nasal atomizer he is holding is agencies to offer patients access to outused to deliver the opiate antidote to patient treatment programs. It’s called a overdose victims. [DAVID BRUCE/ERIE TIMES“warm handoff.”

NEWS] “We have someone from Gaudenzia Erie sit here in the hospital and discuss whichis10,000timesmorepowerfulthan options, including going directly to the morphine.” program from here,” Carlson said.

Overdosing on an opioid can be lifeMirarchi said Hamot works with threatening because it can shut down the Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, which person’s ability to breathe. Narcan is the recently joined UPMC. But he said much best way to quickly reverse the effects of still depends on the patient. the opioids and get the patient breathing “We can put programs in place, but again. the patient has the final say,” Mirarchi Doctors only have a short amount of said. “You can’t force someone to seek time, usually a matter of minutes, to treatment.” restart a patient’s breathing before the person goes into cardiac arrest.

David Bruce can be reached at 870“Onceapatientgoesintocardiacarrest, 1736 or by email. Follow him on Twitit’s usually game over,” Mirarchi said. ter at twitter.com/ETNbruce.

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Medication-assisted treatments offer options Despite stigma, medications such as methadone have become more widely accepted in drug-treatment world

By Madeleine O’Neill madeleine.o’neill@timesnews.com

A dose of methadone each morning has been part of Ann’s daily ritual for more than a decade.

At the same time each morning, Ann takes 60 milligrams of the medication to help maintain the life she has built since she stopped using heroin. The Erie Times-News has agreed not to use Ann’s last name because only her immediately family is aware of her history of addiction.

Ann, who is in her 50s, credits the methadone program and the counseling she gets at Esper Treatment Center, 25 W. 18th St., with helping her regain what she lost to addiction.

“I had a great job, I had a house of my own,” Ann said during an interview at the treatment center. “I lost all those things because of the addiction, and so I knew what I wanted back, and I felt that this type of program was going to help me to get my life back in order, and that’s exactly what its done for me.”

But she’s also aware there has been a stigma associated with substance-abuse treatment methods like methadone, which are also known as medication-assisted treatment. Some forms of MAT, including methadone, are opioid-based and allow clients like Ann to participate in treatment without going through painful withdrawal symptoms.

“I think sometimes people look at these and they only think about the negatives,” Ann said.

That stigma is familiar to Jennifer Esper, executive director of the Esper Treatment Center, which was named a Center of Excellence by Gov. Tom Wolf in August 2016. Centers of Excellence are hubs designated throughout Pennsylvania that receive state funding and are devoted to helping clients enter and stay engaged in treatment.

“People are always very vocal about how medication-assisted treatment is just replacing one opiate with another,” Esper said. “People stigmatize other people because they’re on MAT, thus making some apprehensive to seek out MAT just because of the stigma.”

But the opioid crisis has propelled greater acceptance of MAT, said David Sanner, director of the Erie County Office of Drug & Alcohol Abuse. Sanner said that as recently as five years ago, there was more resistance to the use of MAT in drug treatment.

“Now there’s such strong evidence that it is potentially the preferred method of treatment for many of these individuals, that there is virtually no resistance to incorporating some aspect of it,” he said.

Sanner said MAT can extend the length of time a person is willing to engage in treatment, as opposed to methods that are based on complete abstinence from all drugs.

“That philosophy has definitely

New Directions Healthcare dosing nurse Jordan Roach, L.P.N., demonstrates the dosing of methadone at the Erie facility recently.

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New Directions Healthcare Project Director Kara Bennett, C.R.N.P. [GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

taken a major shift,” Sanner said.

Not all treatment facilities permit clients to use opioid-based MAT.Gaudenzia Erie’s residential drug treatment facilities do not accept clients who are on methadone or Suboxone, another opioid-based form of MAT that contains the drug buprenorphine, said Jodie Klus, division director of outpatient services. The exceptions are Gaudenzia Erie’s detox programs and programs for pregnant women, who can risk harming their babies if they go through opioid withdrawal.

But those policies are under review in light of the opioid epidemic, Klus said, and Gaudenzia Erie facilities currently refer clients to other agencies that do provide MAT if that seems to be the best course of action.

“Everyone’s trying to come to the table and decide what we can do to stop the epidemic and help as many people as we can,” she said. “There is no one size fits all. Some people benefit from MAT, some people benefit from drugfree treatment.”

Treatments such as methadone and buprenorphine-based medications are known as agonists, which bind with opioid receptors in the brain to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

There are also medication-assisted treatments that are not opioid-based, such as the drug naltrexone. Naltrexone, which can be taken orally or in the form of a monthly injection known as Vivitrol, is an antagonist, and blocks opioid receptors in the brain to prevent users from experiencing cravings. Naltrexone users must be opioid-free to use the medication.

There are concerns about the use of MAT, including the potential for diversion of the opioid-based medications.

“The pathways to the abuse are different for the medication, but people get creative,” said Ann Ludwig, the program director at the Gaudenzia Erie inpatient facility House of Healing, 146 W. 25th St. “Street dealing of medications is a hazard.”

The use of MAT is strictly regulated, however, and Kara Bennett-VanDyke, the facilities director at New Directions Healthcare, said the protections help prevent the abuse of opioid-based medications.

Methadone can only be dispensed at a licensed facility, said Bennett-VanDyke, whose outpatient clinic offers several forms of MAT. Buprenorphine can be prescribed by an appropriately trained physician or distributed at a licensed

facility, she said.

“If they come to a clinic and it’s done properly and people don’t use anything else, it’s a tool to really help them in their recovery,” Bennett-VanDyke said.

There are also risks associated with the use of Vivitrol.

Bennett-VanDyke has said previously that aVivitrol user who attempts to abuse opioids won’t experience a high without a substantial amount of illicit drugs that can easily lead to overdose. BennettVanDyke has said that patient education is crucial to ensure Vivitrol users understand that they cannot abuse opioids while on the medication.

Bennett-VanDyke and Esper, who runs the Esper Treatment Center, both emphasized that counseling must be provided alongside MAT to help clients with their recovery.

“They need that daily structure of coming here every day, being accountable, seeing their counselor,” Bennett-VanDyke said.

MAT is covered by medical assistance and by many private insurers, she said.

County funding is also available for those who do not have insurance.

Clients can choose to slowly wean themselves off opioid-based MAT, Esper said, but there is no timeline for doing so.

“It’s patient-predicated,” Esper said.

For Ann, the client at Esper Treatment Center, methadone has been “a lifesaver.”

“Honestly, I don’t know where I would be today,” she said. “Who knows, I may not be here today if it weren’t for this.”

Madeleine O’Neill can be reached at 870-1728 or by email. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNoneill.

Cuddlers help Erie babies born to addicted mothers

By David Bruce david.bruce@timesnews.com

Eileen McLaughlin has been holding and rocking opioid-addicted babies for more than three years.

She can tell the difference between a newborn who is going through drug withdrawal and one who isn’t.

“The babies going through withdrawal are more irritable and they need a lot of holding tightly,” said McLaughlin, a retired nurse practitioner who volunteers at Saint Vincent Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. “They need a lot of soothing, so I rock them back and forth and sometimes I sing to them.”

McLaughlin is one of about 15 women who volunteer at Saint Vincent and UPMC Hamot as cuddlers. Their job is to soothe any newborn who is agitated or just needs to be comforted.

Often it’s a baby born to a mother who is addicted to opioids.

“We see about one new baby a week, maybe 50 to 55 a year,” said Michael Balsan, M.D., medical director of Hamot’s NICU. “Some of these babies need a lot of attention.”

Babies born to mothers who use opioids have a high risk of developing neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS. It is a group of conditions caused by the withdrawal of drugs the baby was exposed to while still in their

LEFT TO RIGHT: Chris Plonski, a volunteer cuddler at UPMC Hamot, rocks a baby recently in Hamot’s neonatal intensive care unit. [DAVID BRUCE/ERIE TIMES-NEWS] Lanette Erdman, R.N., left, is a nurse manager of Saint Vincent Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, and Eileen McLaughlin is a volunteer cuddler who helps babies born to mothers addicted to opioids. [DAVID BRUCE/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

mother’s womb.

Mothers who use drugs, particularly opioids, can pass those drugs to the baby through the placenta. The March of Dimes reports that babies with NAS can have the following symptoms: • Body shakes; • Seizures; • Overactive reflexes; • Tight muscle tone; • Fussiness, excessive crying or having a high-pitched cry; • Poor feeding or sucking or slow weight gain; • Breathing problems, including breathing really fast;

Babies with NAS severe enough to be admitted to the NICU are treated with decreasing amounts of morphine, methadone or the opioid medication buprenorphine to control withdrawal.

They are often given intravenous solutions to prevent dehydration and can be fed a higher-calorie formula to help them grow.

Some babies with NAS improve enough in a few days to leave the NICU, while others remain for weeks and even, in rare cases, months.

“Babies can be discharged even though they still have symptoms,” said Lanette Erdman, R.N., nurse manager of Saint Vincent’s NICU. “Our goal is to be sure they eat and gain weight, and their symptoms are reduced to a reasonable state.”

Cuddlers help by calming the babies, which helps them sleep and eat better.

Chris Plonski has been cuddling newborns in Saint Vincent’s NICU for about a year. She said the babies need the attention, especially if their mothers aren’t able to visit often due to their addiction.

“They need the cuddling, they need the closeness,” Plonski said as she rocked a baby with NAS. “I talk to them, and it’s soothing. I can feel them relax.”

• Fever, sweating or blotchy skin; • Trouble sleeping and lots of yawning; • Diarrhea or throwing up; • Stuffy nose or sneezing.

The severity of a baby’s symptoms can have little to do with the amount of drugs or alcohol the mother consumes during her pregnancy. Emily Hirsch, director of Hamot’s NICU, said one expectant mother who drank a bottle of vodka a day gave birth to twins.

“One baby has full-blown NAS and David Bruce can be reached at 870the other seemed perfectly fine,” Hirsch 1736 or by email. Follow him on said.

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County faith-based programs combat addiction Local churches and the Salvation Army offer spiritual help

By Valerie Myers valerie.myers@timesnews.com

Phil Morris, 27, is a man with a mission.

He’s working with his pastor and others to combat addiction, in weekly small group meetings in Corry and maybe one day in separate residential treatment facilities for men and women.

His New Life Restoration Center, now based at Abundant Grace Church in Corry, is one of several faith-based recovery initiatives in Erie County.Its inspiration is a successful Ohio program that state and local agencies work with to combat opioid dependence and death.

“The government actually reached out to them and said, ‘We can’t arrest ourselves out of this problem. What can churches do to help us fight this on the front lines?’” Morris said.

With Morris on the front lines are the Salvation Army and local churches, and the battle isn’t just in the city. In Erie County in 2017, victims of drug overdoses included residents of McKean, Girard, Springfield, Edinboro, North East, Waterford, Union City, Millcreek, Harborcreek and Cranesville.

“The problem is just as big in rural and suburban areas as it is in the cities,” said Jonathan Fehl, lead pastor at Corry First United Methodist Church.

Fehl came to Corry this summer after serving congregations in Pittsburgh and Westmoreland County, where he buried people who died of drug overdoses.

Victims’ ages and circumstances vary as widely as their addresses.

“I’ve done funerals for young people in their early 20s, and for parents in their 40s. It’s pretty much throughout the spectrum,” Fehl said. “Some of them grew up in comfortable homes with family support and still managed to get sucked up into it. Some of them had struggled a long time, or been clean a certain amount of time but fell back into it for whatever reason.”

Addicts today are not the “downand-outers” most people imagine, said Capt. Miriam Rader, of the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center in Erie. The center offers free, six-month residential recovery programs for male addicts from across northwestern Pennsylvania and from across the eastern United States. Local women with addiction problems are referred to one of 10 eastern district Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation programs for women.

“We’re seeing more educated, middle-class people and more young guys who are very well educated and very talented but have gotten themselves trapped on prescription pills and then mixed those things with drugs that can

Curtis Lofton and Capt. Miriam Rader, of the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center in Erie, help men addicted to opioids stay clean. [VALERIE MYERS/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

kill them,” Rader said.

Often, they’ve been in an accident and on painkillers until their prescription expires, Salvation Army intake counselor Curtis Lofton said.

“They buy the medication on the street and then realize that heroin is a little cheaper and gives them the same high,” Lofton said.

The 30 to 40 people housed at the local Salvation Army center in late August were from all over Erie County and from as far away as Kentucky.

Alternately, some local addicts choose to go to one of 25 other Eastern rehab centers for men.

“Sometimes people want to get away from their home environment and away from their dealers,” Lofton said.

The Salvation Army nationwide operates more free residential treatment programs than any other addiction rehabilitation service. The downtown Erie center can house as many as 50 men. Salvation Army thrift store purchases fund programs.

Addicts must get clean through a hospital or detox center program to qualify for Salvation Army work-based counseling and therapy. And though the therapy is also faith based, nonChristians and atheists are welcome.

“There needs to be a spiritual awakening to deal with something so huge as

For information on faith-based anti-addiction programs, contact: •

Corry’s New Life Restoration Center, at corrynewlife@ yahoo.com.

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Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center, 456-4237.

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Reformers Unanimous at Grace of Calvary Baptist Church, 866-4747.

program to help people beat similar issues, including opioid addiction. Participants from as far as Meadville and Chautauqua County meet weekly at the church and work through curriculum geared to specific addictions.

The program continues two years.

“You don’t change 30 or 40 years of issues, sometimes, overnight. It takes time to unlearn behaviors and get on the right path,” RU program Director Dennis Sanbro said.

One of Sanbro’s assistants in the program is a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict.

The Salvation Army partners with such church-based programs, often sending clients to their support groups.

“We can’t fight this on our own,” Rader said of the opioid crisis. “It takes a community, and a community of agencies and churches.”

Morris, of Corry’s New Life Restoration Center, is part of that community because of a family history of alcohol and drug addiction.

“I’ve seen the hurt and the poverty that come from that and refuse to let that be my family legacy anymore,” he said.

the opioid pandemic, and to give addicts a better chance of recovery,” Lofton said. “But we put it in God’s hands. We don’t refuse or judge people based on religion.”

While the majority of Adult Rehabilitation Center residents are recovering opioid addicts, the program also accepts alcoholics, homeless people and “people just having trouble with life,” he said.

Grace of Calvary Baptist Church, on Perry Highway in Millcreek, is one Valerie Myers can be reached by email of 600 churches nationwide offering or at 878-1913. Follow her on TwitReformers Unanimous, a faith-based ter at twitter.com/ETNmyers.

Number of children taken from parents rising

By Ed Palattella ed.palattella@timesnews.com

The opioid crisis has sent the numbers rising at the Erie County Office of Children and Youth.

“It has an impact on the entire system,” OCY Director Lana Rees said.

As of Aug. 23, the agency had already removed more children from homes for drug-related reasons this year than it had in all of 2016.

In 2016, OCY removed a total of 213 children. Of those cases, 60 were related to drugs or alcohol, and 37 of the 60 cases were related to opioid abuse, according to OCY figures.

From Jan. 1 to Aug. 30, OCY removed a total of 215 children. Of those cases, 61 were related to drugs or alcohol, and 32 of the 61 cases were related to opioid abuse.

Many of the removed children are infants who were born addicted to opioids because their mothers were users, said Rees and other officials. Other cases involved children in need of care because their parents died from drug abuse or

Erie County President Judge John J. Trucilla. [FILE PHOTO/ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

Lana Rees, director of the Erie County Office of Children and Youth. [FILE PHOTO/ ERIE TIMES-NEWS]

because their parents’ abuse endangered them.

“It is really a ripple effect that goes on throughout the community,” said Erie County President Judge John J. Trucilla, who handles most of the OCY cases in

in adoptive homes. OCY arranges services for the biological parents so they can become sober.

To further help drug-addicted parents get clean, the Erie County court system runs a dependency treatment court, in which parents involved in OCY cases must complete drug treatment to be reunited with their children.

Trucilla said he presides over “success stories” — parents who are able stay off opioids and other drugs and regain custody of their children. But he and other officials said the pull of heroin and other opioids is so powerful that many parents are never able to get sober, even if their addiction permanently separates them from their children.

“I’ve had people smuggle drugs into labor and delivery,” said Amy Jones, OCY’s senior solicitor. “That is an indication of how strong that hold is.”

court. “It has pushed everybody, I think, to their limits.”

With Trucilla and other judges providing oversight, OCY places children Ed Palattella can be reached at 870in foster care and arranges for them to 1813 or by email. Follow him on Twitbe reunited with their parents or placed ter at twitter.com/ETNpalattella.

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