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RELATIVES OF Salah Abu Laban, Sahar Qouidar, Ghassan Abu Laban and Reem al-Sebaei, all victims of EgyptAir Flight 804, grieved today following prayers for the dead at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo.

Plane wreckage found in sea, Egypt army says

By MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press

CAIRO — Egyptian air and naval forces have spotted a body part, passengers’ personal belongings and other debris from EgyptAir flight 804 that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66 passengers and crew who were en route from Paris to Cairo, the Egyptian army and Greek defense minister said today.

It is not yet known what caused the crash, but some experts and officials have not ruled out terrorism

as a possibility.

Greece’s defense minister Panos Kammenos said Greek authorities received notification that Egyptian authorities had spotted the body part, two seats and suitcases during their search in the Mediterranean for the wreckage of the Airbus 320. The plane disappeared off radar at 2:45 a.m. local time Thursday.

The debris was found around 180 miles north of the coastal city of Alexandria, Egyptian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement. The

Egyptian military continued to search for further debris from the downed passenger jet, he said.

France, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and the U.K. had joined the Egyptian search effort, Egypt’s defense ministry said. Authorities had been scouring a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete.

A team of Egyptian investigators led by Ayman el-Mokadam — along with French and British investigators and an expert from Airbus — will inspect what the army has found, Continued on Page 4

By CHAUNCEY ROSS

The budget calls for HomerCenter to collect about 1 percent more property tax revenue in the coming year.

Because of the Indiana County property reassessment project, the effect on property owners will vary widely. Some owners will see significant cuts, others will see steep increases, and many will get tax bills nearly the same as this past year.

Some directors said even a small increase in the district tax rate would mean a bigger Continued on Page 11

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CENTER TOWNSHIP — On a divided and emotional vote, the Homer-Center School District board of directors on Thursday put the district’s tentative 2016-17 budget up for public display.

For now, it details about $16.3 million of expenses and $15.6 million of new revenue, but the numbers could be significantly different when the board brings up the budget for final adoption on June 23.

By SEAN YODER

“NOBODY JUST snaps. ...

The process to get to a place where you commit an act of violence is a term we call ‘psychological erosion.’”

Dr. Ralph May, Community Guidance Center

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Is your organization prepared for an active shooting incident? Is it even possible to be prepared?

Local businesses and agencies filled the activity room at Aging Services Inc. on Wednesday to learn what can be done to make their employees safer in the case of such an attack.

Leading the discussion were Dr. Ralph May, chief clinical officer at the Community Guidance Center, and Kelly Pidgeon, administrator at Beacon Ridge

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Federal law enforcement’s agreed-upon definition of an active shooter is “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.”

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SHEILA CHARLES spoke Thursday at Homer City United Methodist Church.

Three of her children were born addicted to crack. One of her sons weighed only 14 ounces when he was born.

“By the time I got to federal prison for the third time, everything in my life that was really good had been destroyed,” she said.

“Everything that I had. I lost everything.”

Along with losing her children to child protective services, losing her mother to lung cancer and losing her father’s financial and emotional support, Charles’ addiction caused her to also lose her singing career.

“Every time I was Continued on Page 12

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They say you have to hit rock bottom to find yourself. For Sheila Raye Charles, rock bottom came during her third visit to federal prison, sprawled on her jail cell’s cold, concrete floor.

But that’s also when she says she had her first conversation with God. The daughter of legendary musician Ray Charles, she shared her story of how the Lord helped her overcome her battle with addiction at an event Thursday evening hosted by Indiana Area Celebrate Recovery.

Charles struggled with an addiction to crack-cocaine for 22 years, was locked away in federal prison three times, and was in and out of treatment “at least 17 times,” she told community members at Homer City United Methodist Church.

“And so I made a covenant with God that I would share my testimony everywhere I go, and that I would talk about what God has done for me in my life,” she said.

She spoke in a way that demanded each audience member’s individual, undivided attention. As she preached about the goodness she has found in God, she revealed bits of her own personal struggles, like checkpoints for her listeners.

During her battle with addiction, Charles became a mother to five children from four different fathers.

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law enforcement personnel and citizens have the potential to affect the outcome of the event based upon their responses,” according to a report from the FBI and Texas State University. The report detailed responses to 160 active shooter situations from 2000 to 2013. All but two of the incidents involved a single shooter. In 64 cases the shooter committed suicide. In all but six cases the shooter was male.

Most of the damage happens in a small space of time. Sixty-three incidents Continued on Page 12

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Trump has tried for two decades through the Federal Aviation Administration and the courts to force departing airliners to turn before reaching the historic and exclusive 17-acre estate, which is 2.5 miles east of the airport’s primary runway.

An Associated Press analysis of airport data between late April and early May found the majority of planes flew directly over or near Mar-a-Lago, some taking off or landing at an altitude between 500 and 2,000 feet. On a typical day, for example, the AP tracked scores of planes flying over Trump’s resort before heading north or continuing east.

The presumptive Republican nominee charges in his current lawsuit that the jetliners’ roar disturbs his members, who pay $100,000 initiation fees and $14,000 annual dues. He also says the vibrations and jet exhaust damage the fragile Dorian stone, antique Spanish tiles and Cuban roof tiles used by cereal tycoon Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, financier E.F. Hutton,

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to build the 126-room, 10,000-square-foot mansion in the mid-1920s, a decade before the airport opened and three decades before passenger jets took flight.

While the legal games are being played, if elected, Trump could play the ultimate trump card. As president, he could order the FAA to shift Palm Beach International’s takeoff and landing patterns to avoid Mar-a-Lago.

But would he? It is a possibility airport manager and Trump nemesis Bruce Pelly raised in a 2011 interview with The Palm Beach Post during an earlier noise fight where the airport refused to bend. “The solution for him is to get elected president,� Pelly said. Through a spokeswoman, Pelly recently declined to comment.

Trump, in a recent interview with the AP, said he wouldn’t use the presidency to settle the issue. “I would stay out of it,� he said. But he said the airport should fan out departing planes, having some turn north or south almost immediately instead of having them head straight east.

That, he said, would allow planes to take off with less time in between and turn one runway into the equivalent of three.

Trump has long held particular scorn for Pelly, singling him out in his latest lawsuit and calling him “the worst airport manager in the U.S.� in a signed 2011 letter to the FAA obtained by the AP through a public

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Sid McGuirk, a lawyer and an associate professor of air traffic management at Florida’s Embry-Riddle University, said Trump as president could order the FAA to direct planes to avoid Mar-a-Lago, “but, boy, the backlash.� Changes

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to takeoff and landing patterns require safety and noise studies and allow time for public comment, he said.

Circumventing the process by executive order would lead to congressional investigations and lawsuits by those now underneath the departing planes, he said. “Would it be worth it? It would be on the front page of The New York Times and Washington Post for weeks,� McGuirk said. Of course, he added, anytime President Trump visited Mar-a-Lago, the airspace would become a no-fly

zone as is anywhere a president visits, but those are usually temporary.

Trump purchased Mar-aLago — “The Greatest Mansion Ever Built,� according to its website — from Post’s foundation in 1985 for $10 million and renovated it.

After using the estate as a residence for 10 years, he opened it as a club in 1995.

The property now boasts 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a 20,000-square-foot ballroom, tennis and croquet courts and three bomb shelters.

With buildings totaling 77,000 square feet, it has an appraised market value of

Clinton fills coffers in battleground states

By KEN THOMAS

pected to grow as the campaigns ramp up their activities.

Sanders’ campaign has criticized Clinton’s use of the joint fundraising committee, arguing that it has been used to build her donor email lists and direct mail campaigns and evade more restrictive individual limits during the primary.

Clinton’s campaign says it has followed the rules and the money will help Democrats up and down

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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton, seeking a governing coalition if she wins the White House, is pumping millions of dollars into key battleground states at the heart of her presidential map and Democrats’ quest to regain control of the Senate.

The Democratic National Committee and state parties are spending about $2 million initially to build coordinated campaigns in eight battleground states with competitive Senate races. The money is being raised by Clinton’s campaign through her Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee that allows Clinton to raise large checks of more than $350,000 from wealthy donors.

Democrats say the coordinated effort, now a staple in presidential campaigns, will try to build up the party’s network of field organizers earlier in the election and work more closely with Senate, House and state and local campaigns than in previous election cycles.

The fortunes of Clinton and the Democratic Senate candidates are tightly wound. Democrats need a net gain of five seats to recapture control of the Senate, which could be pivotal for Clinton to move her agenda through Congress if she wins the White House.

And many Senate candidates could see their futures shaped by Clinton’s performance.

The DNC has hired a few hundred field staffers and expects to bring on more organizers in the coming months. Many will be shifting over from working on the presidential campaigns of Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who recently laid off hundreds of field staffers. “This is my third presidential cycle in Ohio and we are actually starting earlier than before,� said Rebecca Pearcey, campaign manager for former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who is challenging Sen. Rob Port-

the ballot.

The ground game will be crucial in Florida, which has an Aug. 30 Senate Democratic primary between Rep. Patrick Murphy, the preferred candidate of Senate Democrats, and Rep. Alan Grayson, a liberal favorite who has bucked the party’s leadership. The winner will need to quickly pivot to the fall campaign, leaving little time to build a robust field operation on its own.

$20.3 million, according to county tax records. That number is artificially low primarily because Trump signed away its development rights to the National Trust, lowering his property taxes. Otherwise, Mar-aLago’s value would easily be $60 million to $80 million, said county property appraiser Gary Nikolits.

Trump filed his first noise lawsuit against Palm Beach County, which owns the airport, in 1995. It was settled a year later with the county agreeing to lease him the land where he built Trump International Golf Club. But the truce did not hold.

Trump filed a lawsuit against the county in 2010 to block preliminary plans to add a second east-west runway, telling the FAA in a letter that the proposal was “a deeply embarrassing performance, which has already wasted millions of dollars of public funds. The consultant who did it should be fired.�

Responding to Trump’s letter, airport attorney Peter Kirsch told an FAA administrator in a 2011 email he would call him, adding, “You might not be surprised to learn that most of what Mr. Trump states in the letter is not accurate.�

The lawsuit was withdrawn that year.

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The DNC is using the Clinton fund to build up state organizations in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Six of the eight states have Republican Senate incumbents and all of the states will be targets for Clinton against Republican Donald Trump. The states also were the key battlegrounds of the 2012 campaign between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

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OBITUARIES Viola Jane Gett Viola Jane Gett, 87, Needham, Mass., formerly of Indiana, passed away on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.

The daughter of Peter and Anna (Viella) Attilio, she was born March 23, 1929, in Beyer.

Viola retired from the National Bank of the Commonwealth where she worked as an executive assistant.

She will be remembered as a loving wife of the late Peter D. Gett, mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother.

Surviving are her sons, Robert L. (Lisbeth) Gett, Boston, Mass., and Gary A. Gett, Port Saint Lucie, Fla.; grandchildren, Robert Gett, Laura Riordan, Peter Gett

and Kristin Gett; and greatgrandchildren, Ella and Jack Riordan.

Preceding Viola in death were her parents and her husband, Peter D. Gett.

Friends and family will gather at the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home on Saturday, May 21, 2016, from noon to 1 p.m. to offer their condolences, with a memorial service immediately following in the Lefdahl Chapel with Father Thomas Federline officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Interment will follow in the St. Bernard Cemetery. w w w. l e f d a h l f u n e r a l home.com

Robert E. Goodlin Robert E. Goodlin, 70, of Lovejoy, went to rest with his Father in Heaven on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, from the Indiana Regional Medical Center, Indiana.

The son of Rudell “R.J.” “Nick” J. and Edith M. (Calhoun) Goodlin, he was born on July 13, 1945, in Lovejoy.

Bob served in the U.S. Army as a sergeant during Vietnam with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 50th Infantry, 2nd Armed Division.

Among his decorations, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal with two Bronze Service Stars.

He had been employed as a carpenter with Buterbaugh Construction and had also worked for Season-All. Bob loved to take walks.

He enjoyed writing poems and short stories. He looked forward spending time outdoors hunting deer, turkey and rabbits.

He had a wonderful ability to connect with children and kids loved him in return. Bob was especially adored by his nieces, nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews.

Bob is also fondly remembered by his brothers and sisters as being the most compassionate and loving brother that a person could ever wish to have.

He is survived by his six siblings: Don Goodlin and wife Helen, of Bessemer; Larry Goodlin and wife

Jeannette, of Indiana; Leland “Skip” Goodlin of Sagamore; Wanda Elbell, of Fairbanks, Alaska; Sandra Anderson, of Ernest; and his twin sister, Roberta Little, and husband Richard, of Indiana; his 17 nieces and nephews; and his numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Lois H. Goodlin; and his two brothers-in-law, Donald Elbell and Donald Anderson.

Family and friends will be received from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, May 22, 2016, at the Rairigh Funeral Home, Ltd. in Hillsdale, where an 11 a.m. funeral service will be held on Monday, May 23, 2016, with Pastor John Sykes officiating. Interment will follow at the Cookport Methodist Cemetery, Cookport. Military honors will be accorded by the Clymer American Legion Post #222.

Kai Hrabovsky Kai Paul Hrabovsky, born March 29, 2000, in Indiana, was taken from us too soon in a tragic accident Saturday, May 14, 2016.

Kai was a Summa Scholar, a committed athlete, an outdoorsman and an adventurer. He had the unique ability to transcend barriers and connect with everyone he met. He was passionate about basketball, music, family and his friends. Kai’s smile would light up the room and his humor knew no bounds.

His role of mentor, confidant and protector made a positive impact on every life he touched, the scope of which is larger than anyone could have realized.

Kai was a sophomore at Homer-Center High School and had just begun Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s dual enrollment program.

Kai was a member of the Wildcat basketball team and had lettered in cross country and track and field.

He was inducted into the National Honor Society and served as the sophomore class secretary. He was a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a member of various school clubs. After graduation, Kai had plans to attend IUP to earn a degree in safety science.

Kai is survived by his mother, Jennifer Ponish, of Homer City; and his parents, Daniel and Elaine Hrabovsky (Hill), of Marion Center; sisters Vaida Ponish, Ava Mae Hrabovsky and Elizabeth (Albert) LaBryer; grandparents Anthony and Victoria Ponish, of State College; Paul and Pamela Hrabovsky, of Rural Valley; and Eleanor Hill, of Indiana; aunts and uncles Elyse Ponish, of Pittsburgh; Matthew (Angela) Ponish, of Hanover, Md.; Erik (Margo) Tamez-Hrabovsky, of Vernon, British Columbia; Eve (Travis) Ferris, of Indiana; Seth (Rachel) Hrabovsky, of Rural Valley;

Edward Patterson, of Clymer; Lisa Rainey, of Texas; Daniel (Michelle) Hill, of Plumville; Evelyn (Thomas) Gill, of Marion Center; and Elmer (Donna) Hill, of Plumville; niece and nephew Maddison and Lucas LaBryer; cousins Courtney, Tristan, Asia, Jazmin, Aria, Maura, Milpa, Hawk, Justin, Lily, Derek, Dalton, Bryce, Bobby, Christopher, Jasmine, BrookeLynn, Kyle, Kayla and Carson; and his loyal dog, Shyla.

Family and friends will be received from 2 to 8 p.m.

Friday at the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home in Homer City. At the request of the family, no formal viewing or service will be held. The informal visitation is intended to embody Kai’s spirit and will be casual, unstructured and focused around sharing memories and celebrating his life. Guests are encouraged to bring a picture of themselves with Kai to pin on the memory curtains.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made in Kai’s name to the Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE), the Homer-Center Boys Basketball Association (HCBBA), or directly to the family toward the establishment of a scholarship in Kai’s name.

John Mills Dr. John Wuensch Mills, 90, of Indiana, passed away Sunday, May 15, 2016, at St. Andrew’s Village.

A son of the late John J. and Margaret Dickie Mills, he was born April 23, 1926, in Elmira, N.Y. Dr. Mills graduated from the University of Rochester in 1949. He graduated from New York Medical College in 1953. Dr. Mills interned in McKeesport and completed his OB/GYN residency in Rochester, N.Y. He also served in the Air Force in Peru, Ind. Dr. Mills worked in Indiana, Pa., for almost all of his career, except for a short time when he worked for Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals.

On April 4, 1953, he married the former Jane Finch.

He was a long-standing and active member of Calvary Presbyterian Church, where he served as a ruling elder.

John was a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Indiana County Medical Society and a past trustee for the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

In his spare time, he enjoyed traveling with his wife, gardening, working on his 1929 truck and building televisions, radios and an organ from DIY kits. John was an avid model railroader and train lover. He was a founding member of the Indiana County Model Railroad Club. One of his greatest joys was completing a course to be a brakeman on the Pacific/SW railway in Campo, Calif.

Dr. Mills was a very downto-earth man. He was very dedicated to his immediate and extended family, especially his aunts and uncles.

He was a caring and compassionate physician who was much loved and respected by his patients and colleagues. Dr. Mills was also influential in the lives of his children’s friends.

He is survived by four children: Elizabeth Mills, of San Diego, Calif.; Dr. John F.

Mills and wife Bonnie, of Midlothian, Va.; Susan Mills and husband Joe Aurigemma, of Cumberland, Md.; and Stephanie Mills and husband Dr. Todd Bush, of Franklin; nine grandchildren: Caitlin, Rachel and Megan Allcock; Ciara and Barrett Mills; Sean and Marisa Aurigemma; and Alexandra and Madeline Bush; a sister, Nancy Wienecke, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; and a sister-in-law, Jeannie Finch, of Georgia.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Jane Finch Mills, in 2013; a brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Edward and Joyce Mills; and three brothers-in-law: Dr. Robert Wienecke, William Finch and James Finch.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Robinson-Lytle Inc., Indiana.

Additional visitation will be held from 3:30 p.m. until the time of the funeral service at 4 p.m. Saturday at Calvary Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. David J. Hanna officiating.

The family kindly suggests memorial contributions be made to Calvary Presbyterian Church, 695 School St., Indiana, PA 15701 or to the Alzheimer’s Association, Greater PA Chapter, 1100 Liberty Ave., Suite E-201, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

The family would like to thank the staff of St. Andrew’s Village, especially Pastor Jerry, and 365 Hospice for their wonderful care of John. www.robinsonlytleinc. com

Plane wreckage found in sea Continued from Page 1 Egyptian officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The office of Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, issued a statement expressing its condolences to the relatives of the 66 killed. It said the presidency “expressed its deep regret and sadness for the victims” of EgyptAir flight 804. “God give great mercy and host them in his heaven,” it added.

The statement marked the first official recognition

by Egypt’s government that the missing plane had crashed.

On Thursday, Kammenos said the plane swerved wildly before plummeting into the sea. The Egyptian military said no distress call was received from the pilot.

The country’s aviation minister Sherif Fathi said the likelihood the plane was brought down by a terror attack is “higher than the possibility of a technical failure.”

Yet France’s foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, asserted today on France-2 television that there is “absolutely no indication” of what caused the crash.

The junior minister for transport, Alain Vidalies, said on France-Info radio that “no theory is favored” at this stage and urged “the greatest caution.”

Amid fears the plane was downed by an extremist attack, Vidalies defended security at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, saying staff badges are revoked if there is the slightest security doubt.

Families of the victims spent the night in a hotel in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, while they awaited the news of their loved ones.

Egyptian officials said some arrived from Paris late Thursday, among them eight relatives of the 15 French passengers on board the missing jet.

Today, relatives of four of the victims held prayers for the dead at Sultan Hussein Mosque in Cairo. Some of them cried as they prayed.

Helen L. Warren Helen L. Warren, 90, passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2016.

She was the beloved wife of the late Carl Warren and the loving mother of Kathyanne (William) Dobda, of Canal Winchester, Ohio; Patricia (Mark) Jones, of Home; Carla (Vincent) Leta, of St. Mary’s; Edward (Rhonda) Warren, of Home; Terry (Donald) Sarokon, of Pittsburgh; Melissa (Lou) McCoy, of Mohnton; Shirley (James) McGonnell, of St. Mary’s; and Nancy (William) Moore, of Clearwater, Fla. She was the daughter of the late Harry and Ruth Fair. She was the sister of Vivian (late Clyde) Murphy, of Arvada, Colo.; Harry “Bud” (Nancy) Fair, of Dripping Springs, Texas; the late Marie (late William) Filer; the late Roberta Fair; and the late Joan (late William) Brooks. She was the grandmother of Jocelyn (Ben) Perry, Richard (Erin) Dobda, Heidi (Joe) DiSaia, Laura Shaffer, Vikki (Andrew) Gearhart, Jimmy (Valerie) Leta, Kenneth (Heather) Warren, Christopher (LeeAnn) Warren, Ashley Warren, Nicole (Matt) Dunsmore, Eric (Katie) Sarokon, Morgan McCoy, Sean McCoy, Julie (Jim) Kimbrell, Joy (Rick) Clontz, Jeff (Jayne) McGonnell, Joel (Kibby) McGonnell, Jim (Kate) McGonnell, Jane (John) Kitko, Tammy (Kevin) Lewis and Paul (Jodi) Moore. She was the

great-grandmother of Warren, Amy, Katie, Lisa, Isaac, Elijah, Tristan, Mason, Maren, Madeline Rose, Alec, Grady, Dominic, Nicholas, Alex, Amanda, Rachel, Eric, Mily, Selena, Ben, Setler, Willie, Anna, Megan, JJ, Jackson, Joey, Stephanie and Sarabeth.

She was the great-greatgrandmother of Caylyn.

She was also survived by her loving companion Gwen.

Friends will be received from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21, 2016, at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at The Marion Center First United Methodist Church, followed by burial at the Marion Center Memorial Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Visiting Nurse Association of Indiana County. www.bowserminich.com

Teresa C. Yancy Teresa C. (Halmes) Yancy, 97, Homer City, died Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at Indiana Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late Stephen and biological mother Ludmula (Popiesz) Halmes, and mother Anna (Popiesz) Halmes. She was born Oct. 31, 1918, in Coral.

She was a member of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish. Teresa enjoyed bingo, playing Skat and watching the Pittsburgh Pirates. She especially loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and watching them in all their activities.

She is survived by three children, Elizabeth “Betty Ann” and husband Michael Savage Jr., Clune; Robert and wife Eva Yancy, Graceton; Richard and wife Susan Yancy, Homer City; grandchildren, Michael (Lisa) Savage, Mark (Tami) Savage, Melissa Savage, Lisa (Rob) Worcester, Robert Yancy Jr., Carrie Yancy, Chad (Katie) Yancy and Amanda Ellis; and greatgrandchildren Hailey, Gabe, Rachel, Emily, Jonathan,

Olivia, Isabella, Abby, Tanner, Aurora and Gus. She is also survived by siblings Edward Halmes, Parma, Ohio; Dorothy Holmes, Coral; Mildred and John Dechman, Josephine; and William “Bill” and wife Marge Holmes, Coral; and her sister-in-law, Patricia “Pat” Halmes, Blairsville.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her loving husband, Victor, and siblings Joseph Holmes, Agnes Vresilovic, John “Jack” Halmes and infant sister, Maryann Halmes.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City. A Blessing Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the funeral home, followed by a Funeral Mass at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Coral. Interment to follow in the St. Francis Cemetery.

LATE DEATHS DOMINO, Evelyn “Gloria,” C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City, (724) 479-9422 YAMRICK, Joseph G., John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home, Indiana, (724) 463-4499

TOMORROW’S FUNERALS GETT, Viola Jane, 1 p.m., John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home, Indiana McCREARY, Patrick, noon, IUP’s Waller Hall, BowserMinich Funeral Home, Indiana MILLS, John Wuensch, 4 p.m., Calvary Presbyterian Church, Robinson-Lytle Inc., Indiana STAPLETON, John J. “Butch,” 10:30 a.m., Venerable Church, Mentor, Ohio, Brunner Sanden Deitrick Funeral Home

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Morley Safer, veteran ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent dies

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — During a visit May 13 with a frail Morley Safer, Tom Brokaw exchanged memories with him about fellow journalists Ben Bradlee, Don Hewitt and others who had died.

“All the great ones are gone,” Safer said quietly to Brokaw, the veteran NBC newsman recalled. “I said, ‘No, Morley, you’re still with us.’”

On Thursday, Safer’s death at age 84 swelled the loss. The “60 Minutes” mainstay represented a bridge between the glory ink-stained-wretch days of

foreign correspondents — Ernest Hemingway was an early inspiration — and the blooming electronic age of TV news.

Safer spun artful stories about the good life but was equally adroit reporting on social injustices or exposing a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans’ view of the war.

In declining health, he died at his home in Manhattan.

He announced his retirement last week and “60 Minutes” aired a tribute hour on Sunday, which he watched from his home, CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco said.

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Cosby spending millions on defense lawyers

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In any given week, teams of highpriced lawyers fan out across the country to defend Bill Cosby amid a cascade of sexual assault allegations, defamation claims and insurance disputes.

The disgraced TV star is spending millions in a frenzied bid not just to stay out of prison but to salvage what is left of his reputation. Legal experts say he has nothing to lose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This thingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be tied up in litigation anyway, so you might as well look like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the aggrieved party,â&#x20AC;? said Professor Laurie Levenson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best defense is a good offense.â&#x20AC;?

The biggest threat facing the comedian is the lone criminal case against him, involving allegations he drugged and sexually violated Andrea Constand at

his suburban Philadelphia home more than a decade ago. Cosby, 78, could get 10 years in prison if convicted.

Unless he can convince the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that a previous district attorney made a binding promise that Cosby would never be prosecuted, the comic and his cadre of high-priced litigators will be back in court Tuesday for his long-delayed preliminary hearing.

Cosby also is contending with two sexual assault lawsuits, two disputes over whether his homeowner policies should cover his legal expenses, and a dozen defamation claims brought by women who came forward too late to sue over sexual assault but say they were smeared by Cosby or his representatives.

The criminal and civil cases have generated countless spinoff battles over such things as whether Cosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife can be questioned at a deposition and whether Constandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent

No charges recommended in school sex scandal PITTSBURGH (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A grand jury has recommended no criminal charges against officials in a school district where two teachers have been convicted of having sex with students and two more face related charges.

The report issued Thursday by the Allegheny County district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office found â&#x20AC;&#x153;systematic failures to protect studentsâ&#x20AC;? in the Plum Borough School District but concluded no school official broke laws requiring police to be notified of teacher sex allegations or other inappropriate conduct. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We attribute these failures in large part to an academic culture that encouraged the protection of friends and colleagues over students, insularity, avoidance of personal responsibility in favor of shifting the onus onto others without follow up, and turning a blind eye to obvious signs of teacher misconduct,â&#x20AC;? the report says.

School Superintendent Tim Glasspool told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he agreed with the decision not to recommend charges but disputed the accuracy of some testimony detailed in the report.

The grand jury began investigating after teachers Joseph Ruggieri and Jason Cooper were charged last year with having inappropriate sexual relationships with two female students.

Ruggieri, 41, pleaded guilty last month to charges of institutional sex assault and corruption of minors and was sentenced to two to five years in prison. He

also pleaded guilty to witness intimidation after authorities said he contacted his victim while free on bond.

Cooper, 39, pleaded guilty earlier to student sex charges and was sentenced to 1½ to 3 years in prison.

Still facing charges are Michael Cinefra, a former substitute math teacher and baseball coach charged with having sex with a female student, and Drew Zoldak, a suspended teacher accused of trying to intimidate Ruggieriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victim by pointing her out in class and telling other students he was interviewed by detectives because of her.

Both have continued to deny wrongdoing.

The grand jury said it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;tempted to affix criminal liability on other individuals who were clearly derelict in their duties to protect the children in their careâ&#x20AC;? but the way statutes are worded and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;lack of documentationâ&#x20AC;? by administrators and the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school resource officer prevented that.

The grand jury noted that some of the allegations that led to the teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; arrests occurred as state law was changing regarding who had a legal duty to report such information and how that was to be done.

State laws changed greatly after the child sex scandal at Penn State University, where former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was accused of molesting several boys, some on campus. Sandusky was convicted in 2012 and is in prison but maintains heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innocent.

Prosecutor: Officer destroyed phone, lied about stop

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

READING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Pennsylvania police officer lied about the reason behind a traffic stop, then smashed the motoristâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cellphone and punched her in the face after pulling her over without sufficient cause, prosecutors said.

Reading Officer Jesus Santiago-DeJesus, 27, turned himself in and was arraigned Thursday on charges that include official oppression and evidence tampering. He was charged a day earlier after the Berks County district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office reviewed surveillance video of the early-April altercation. Santiago-DeJesus declined to comment after his arraignment, but his lawyer, Allan Sodomsky, rejected the charges, saying the stop was good and the motorist had assaulted the officer first.

The officer claimed in a police report that he pulled over Marcelina CintronGarcia, 30, for failing to use a turn signal. Investigators later reviewed surveillance

video that showed her right front turn signal was on, according to a police affidavit.

After the stop, an argument ensued, and CintronGarcia began recording the encounter with her cellphone. Surveillance video played by authorities at a news conference Wednesday appeared to show a struggle between her and Santiago-DeJesus over the phone.

After the officer smashed the phone onto the sidewalk, she struck him with her left hand, and he punched her in the face and threw her down, court papers said. Her head struck a pipe, opening a gash that required three staples.

Prosecutors said the officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s false claim that she did not use a turn signal prompted another officer to wrongly charge her with a traffic violation.

That charge, and other charges against CintronGarcia that included aggravated assault, were withdrawn after she filed a complaint and prosecutors launched an investigation, the Reading Eagle reported.

cooperation with police violated the confidentiality agreement surrounding the financial settlement she reached with Cosby in 2006.

The lawsuits stretch from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh to Worcester, Mass., not too far from where Cosby and his wife, Camille, have a home. In the past two years alone, some two dozen Cosby lawyers have done his bidding in a variety of courts, arguing in front of local magistrates, a state supreme court and federal appeals court judges.

His attorneys have flown from California to Philadelphia, for example, for a brief hearing over who can see the file from Constandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original 2005 police complaint. And they have gathered from Los Angeles, Washington and Philadelphia to pack the defense table for the so-far unsuccessful bid to get the criminal charges thrown out over the purported non-prosecution agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s angry that

he thought he made a deal with someone ... and then all of a sudden the whole thing blows up on him and his whole reputation is ruined,â&#x20AC;? said celebrity lawyer Larry R. Feldman of Los Angeles, who is not involved in the Cosby case but represented a 13-year-old who sued Michael Jackson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried about him financially, but nobody at this stage of his life and his career, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure, wants to be defending these types of claims.â&#x20AC;?

Joseph Cammarata, a lawyer for seven women suing Cosby in Massachusetts, said he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t concerned about the size of Cosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal team, which he jokingly called an â&#x20AC;&#x153;economic recovery plan for lawyers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Only one person can speak at a time. In no way, shape or form do I think I am at a disadvantage,â&#x20AC;?

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Cosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insurer, AIG, is fighting Cosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to have two $1 million homeowner policies, along with $35 million in excess liability coverage, kick in. AIG argues that its policies exclude coverage for sexual assault cases; Cosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyers say these are defamation cases.

The litigation filed around the country is almost dizzying.

In California, for example, Cosby faces a lawsuit filed

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by Judy Huth, who says she was sexually assaulted at the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15.

In a defamation case, model Janice Dickinson claims Cosby drugged and raped her in Lake Tahoe in 1982. Cosby has denied any wrongdoing.

In Massachusetts, Cosby faces three defamation lawsuits by nine women who say they were branded liars.

His wife has been forced to give a deposition, though Cosby was granted a delay because of the criminal case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like I have a great big scarlet â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; painted on me,â&#x20AC;? plaintiff Kristina Ruehli, 72, of Windham, N.H., told the AP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you get that off?â&#x20AC;?

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Trump takes lying to new level

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oliticians bend the truth. All politicians spin the facts. But Donald Trump is mounting an audacious experiment in mendacity: How brazenly can a candidate lie and get away with it?

Consider the bizarre (and, in any other context, comical) events of last week.

The Washington Post published a 1991 audiotape with the voice of a man who sounded uncannily like Trump, but he identified himself as “John Miller,” a Trump spokesman. In the recording, Miller told People magazine that Trump, newly divorced, was fending off a surfeit of girlfriends (not counting Madonna, in whom Miller said Trump had “zero interest”).

When the 2016 candidate was asked about the 1991 tape, his denial was absolute.

“It was not me on the phone,” he told NBC. Not only that, “I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time.”

Yet, back in 1991, Trump admitted it was him on the phone. People printed his apology back then for what he called a joke that went awry.

And that wasn’t Trump’s first brush with pseudonymity. In a 1990 court case, he testified under oath that he also made phone calls under the name of “John Barron,” the Post reported.

A trivial controversy? Not really, because it fits into a rich pattern of whoppers and falsehoods — often Doyle McManus followed by equally bogus denials. is a columnist for Trump fibs so often that the factchecking website Politifact awarded the Los Angeles him its 2015 “Lie of the Year” award Times. His for his entire body of work, a lifetime column is achievement award for prevaricadistributed by tion.

Tribune News He’s lied about small things and Service. large.

He’s lied so many times that some of his falsehoods are famous in their own right: His assertion that he watched Muslims cheer as the World Trade Center collapsed and his charge that the Mexican government deliberately sends criminals across the U.S. border.

Bizarrely, he has lied about statements that are easy to check. In January, he denied a report that he had called for a 45 percent tariff on imports from China. “It’s The New York Times; they’re always wrong,” he said. The Times published the tape; “Forty-five percent,” Trump said.

In March, when asked if he would reject the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Trump said: “I just don’t know anything about him.” That was nonsense; in 2000, Trump publicly denounced Duke as a racist.

On foreign policy, Trump says he’d be a better president than Hillary Clinton because he opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011 war in Libya. But that’s not true: Trump publicly supported those wars before they started.

Even when he’s not exactly lying, Trump often shows little regard for consistency. His claims about his economic proposals — the heart of his bid for the presidency — make no sense at all.

If there are undecided voters out there, fact-checking could help them decide not to vote for Trump (although it wouldn’t guarantee that they’d vote for Clinton).

Trump has called for a gigantic tax cut that would reduce federal revenue by an estimated $10 trillion over 10 years. His campaign says the tax cut would produce an economic boom, generate $7 trillion in new revenue, and wipe out the federal deficit.

He doesn’t seem to have noticed that $7 trillion (the new revenue) is smaller than $10 trillion (the added deficit, piled atop the existing deficit).

Will any of this matter?

It’s true that Trump’s likely Democratic opponent has had problems with credibility too. Some polls suggest that voters consider Trump the least honest candidate in the race, but others give that honor to Hillary Clinton.

Still, say what you like about Clinton, she plays by traditional rules. She doesn’t deny her past statements when they’re on tape.

It’s also true that media fact-checking exposés (like this one) don’t always work. Political scientists have long noted that partisan voters are hard to shake from their allegiances, no matter what the facts. They call it “motivated reasoning,” the tendency of people to disbelieve arguments that challenge their beliefs (Democrats practice it as well as Republicans).

Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College has even found that fact-checking makes some voters more committed to their candidate, not less — a phenomenon he calls the “backfire effect.”

But Trump’s cost-free dissembling may be coming to an end, Nyhan told me via email. “It didn’t hurt him in the Republican primary race, but he’s heading into the general election with the worst favorable/unfavorable ratings ever.”

If there are undecided voters out there, he said, factchecking could help them decide not to vote for Trump (although it wouldn’t guarantee that they’d vote for Clinton).

The question, he added, is how much fact-checking the media will do from here on out.

“It’s unclear how much critical news coverage Trump’s falsehoods will attract. To what extent is it even considered news when he says something inaccurate at this point?”

This campaign will be a test of Trump’s own advice from his 1987 bestseller — and it really was a bestseller, no lie — “The Art of the Deal”: “You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole.

But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com

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Hamilton: the man, the musical T he popularity of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” offers us all an opportunity to consider the wisdom of one of our most prolific Founding Fathers — while we wait in line for tickets.

Alexander Hamilton, like the rest of our Founders, provided the solution to dysfunctional, overreaching and costly government, long before it became dysfunctional, overreaching and costly.

In a speech to the New York Ratifying Convention in 1788, Hamilton said: “Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power.”

Isn’t this what is missing today, a perfect balance between liberty and power?

None of the presidential candidates talks about liberty. Hillary Clinton is captive to the notion that big government, not individual liberty, is best. “Fighting for

us” is her campaign slogan, all? Because the passions of as she seeks to out-promise man will not conform to — and outspend — Bernie the dictates of reason and Sanders’ socialist propos- justice without constraint.” als of free stuff for everyone Even a microwave dinner and a 90 percent tax rate on comes with instructions. high earners to feed the When the instructions are government beast. As for followed it produces a satDonald Trump, who isfying meal. America knows? comes with an “instruction James Madibook,” it’s called son, the princithe Constitution. pal author of the It is precisely beConstitution, cause government wrote in Federalhas escaped its ist 45: “The powboundaries that ers delegated by we are in trouble the proposed — economically, Constitution to politically and in the federal govvirtually every ernment are few other way. Couand defined.” pled with a growThomas Jeffering number of son wrote, “ConAmericans who gress has not unbelieve they are limited powers entitled to other to provide for the people’s money general welfare, and the fruits of Cal Thomas but only those their labor — inspecifically enu- writes a stead of using merated.” their success as column Jefferson and models for their distributed by Hamilton debat- Tribune Media own — the result ed how strong is the equivalent Services. the national govof a burned miernment they crowave dinner. were creating should be, In that same 1788 but it is fair to say both speech, Hamilton adwould be shocked at the dressed the necessary balmonster it has become. ance between the national It was Hamilton who reit- government and the states: erated the purpose of gov- “The State governments ernment, which Jefferson possess inherent advanarticulated in the Declara- tages, which will ever give tion of Independence, them an influence and aswhen he wrote in Federal- cendancy over the National ist, no. 15, “Why has gov- Government, and will forernment been instituted at ever preclude the possibili-

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ty of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.”

That is no longer true.

The federal government consistently overturns state laws that do not conform to its unconstitutional dictates, i.e., transgender bathroom laws, illegal immigration statutes, restrictions on abortions. It is one of many reasons why things are out of balance.

The solution is simple.

The Founders gave it to us in the Constitution. If the federal government would return to its boundaries, which provide a safe harbor against excess, many of the problems we are facing would either be solved or well on their way to resolution.

In the musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, the author and star of the show, sings: “The ten-dollar, Founding Father without a father/got a lot farther by working a lot harder/by being a lot smarter/by being a selfstarter.”

Today, where does one hear in our political conversation anything about self-starting? It’s all about the government and not about the individual.

If we won’t learn from history, perhaps the musical can teach us. tcaeditors@tribpub.com

More focus needed on medical errors

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irst, do no harm. Doc- agrees. What’s worrisome is tors get that. They em- the complicated, overbrace it. It’s neverthe- loaded state of a health less the conclusion of a care system that, without major study that medical the necessary remedies, mistakes kill at least will maintain its role in 250,000 Americans a year, propagating mishaps now trailing only heart disease affecting as many as 25 and cancer as a threat to percent of all hospital pahuman life. tients.

Here’s an overWith most ly hushed horror medical misthat needs mastakes, the victim sive attention, can grin and bear and scurrying it, but there are loudly to the also grisly inciscene are John dents and then Hopkins Univerthose quarter of a sity and a promillion instances fessor there, in which death Martin Makary. occurs. That’s just He’s the lead for inpatients. author of this The number analytical study, could grow greatwhich examined ly if outpatients four other nawere added on. tional investigaCut off the tions while also wrong leg — searching for rel- Jay Ambrose, a something that evant data elsehas actually hapcolumnist living where. pened — and the in Colorado, is What he points syndicated by the error will likely to, one learns get publicity and Tribune News along with much make eyes pop.

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In one actual case, a To err is human, Makary woman had a transplant,

JAY AMBROSE

seemed to be fine, then encountered difficulties that took her life. The reason?

Her liver had been accidentally cut by a needle. The death certificate said she died from cardiovascular disease.

What’s needed?

For starters, Makary wants to find ways to shine a bright light on the actual facts, getting them openly reported in detailed, standardized fashion.

Here will be one step facilitating much deeper, broader research in a “more open and honest conversation.”

We can then turn to systemic adjustment, as in putting better safeguards in place, revising rules of procedure and assuring better team work. We can reach beyond some of the scattered, relatively small efforts going on and do what is done in cancer research — putting statistics in a national registry where they can be constantly probed in great depth and used for the right kind of decision-making.

Here is no small matter.

For context, consider that, in 2014, deaths from accidents of all kinds were something more than 130,000, some 120,000 fewer deaths than those caused by medical error.

Then note that accidental,

homicidal and suicidal gun deaths over the entire past decade were about 280,000, just 30,000 more than the number of deaths from medical error in one year. The number of Americans lost both in and out of combat in World War II was 407,000. The number of Americans dying from medical error during a similar four-year period today would be a million.

Getting multiple times more serious about this third leading cause of death would not mean the numbers would get to zero overnight, obviously, but research does pay off, and assiduous effort over time does get results.

What’s happening to cancer, for instance? We’ve come a long way and treatments are getting more effective daily.

In 1972, we had 54,000 traffic deaths in this country. After determined civic and governmental pushes in many directions, the deaths were down to 32,675 in 2014.

This country can save lives from medical error with the right focus, and no matter what the hindrances and threats, we need politicians and medical practitioners to stand tall. The chief culpability would be doing too little. speaktojay@aol.com

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Okla. lawmakers OK abortion bill OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill’s sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The bill, which abortion rights group Center for Reproductive Rights said is the first of its kind in the nation, also would restrict any physician who performs an abortion from obtaining or renewing a license to practice medicine in Oklahoma.

It passed 33-12 Thursday with no discussion or debate; a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats in voting against the bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Nathan Dahm.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, an anti-abortion Republican, has until Wednesday to sign the bill into law or veto it.

Senate approves Zika funds Vote sets up tricky talks ahead

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved its $1.1 billion plan to combat the Zika virus, setting the stage for difficult negotiations with House Republicans over how much money to devote to fighting the virus and whether to cut Ebola funding to help pay for it.

The 68-30 vote added the Zika measure to an unrelated spending bill and follows

party-line passage of a separate $622 million House bill on Wednesday. The White House has signaled that President Obama would accept the Senate compromise measure but has issued a veto threat on the House bill, saying it doesn’t provide enough money.

The Zika virus can cause severe birth defects and can be spread by mosquitoes and sexual contact. The most recent statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say more than 500 people in the continental U.S. have contracted the virus.

So far, U.S. cases are travel-related but it is feared the virus will spread more widely as mosquito season

heats up.

CDC Director Tom Frieden said the House measure is “just not enough” and would hamper the government’s ability to monitor women and babies with the virus over coming years, fight the mosquitoes that spread it and develop better diagnostic tests.

“This is an unprecedented situation,” Frieden said.

“We’ve never had a situation before where a single mosquito bite could result in you giving birth to a child with a terrible birth defect that could change the rest of your life.”

The Senate broke a filibuster of the legislation on Tuesday. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

played a key role in the outcome. The underlying bill, funding transportation, veterans and housing programs, easily passed shortly after the vote on Zika. The House passed a companion veterans spending bill on Thursday as well.

The key difference between the competing versions is that House GOP conservatives insisted that spending cuts accompany the measure rather than adding its cost to the budget deficit.

Obama and the Senate want to declare Zika an emergency and add the funding on top of current budget limits. The House bill also only provides enough money to fight Zika through the end of the

Food recall includes hundreds of items

India records its hottest temp ever NEW DELHI (AP) — A city in western India has suffered through the country’s highest temperature in history — a scorching 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

The record was set Thursday in the city of Phalodi, in the western state of Rajasthan. India’s meteorological department said the previous high was 123 F, reached in 1956 in the city of Alwar, also in Rajasthan.

Authorities have issued a severe heat wave alert for the next two days in the western states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and parts of the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Palace trespasser was convicted murderer LONDON (AP) — A convicted murderer climbed over a wall and wandered the grounds of Buckingham Palace while Queen Elizabeth II was at home, British prosecutors said today.

Dennis Hennessy, 41, pleaded guilty to trespass during an appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

He was arrested in the palace grounds on Wednesday evening. Police said he was not armed, and claimed security measures had “worked effectively.”

Prosecutor Tom Nicholson told the court that Hennessy walked around the gardens for about 10 minutes toward the palace before being arrested. As he was detained he asked “is Ma’am in?” — a courtesy term used for the queen.

In a police interview he said had “walked through the gardens admiring the view.”

Prosecutors said Hennessy was on parole after being convicted of the murder of a homeless man in 1992.

Eiffel Tower to be turned into rental PARIS (AP) — Four lucky competition winners are set to be the first people in history to use the Eiffel Tower as a vacation home next month.

Rental company HomeAway is taking over part of the first floor of the iconic 300-yard landmark for the duration of the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament in Paris, and transforming it into Hausmannian-style living quarters.

The competition opened Thursday for the chance to stay in the famous monument, which provides panoramic views onto the Arc de Triomphe, the Sacre Coeur and the Seine river.

Brian Sharples, HomeAway CEO, called the move “unprecedented” and said it was “guaranteed to provide the most epic vacation memories of a lifetime.”

budget year on Sept. 30.

Obama requested $1.9 billion three months ago for the fight against Zika.

Democrats and the White House have been hammering at Republicans for dragging their feet on Zika, but the political tempest in Washington hasn’t been matched by fear among the public, at least according to recent polling. GOP leaders see a political imperative to act as the summer mosquito season heats up.

The House bill, however, provides one-third of the request and limits the use of the money to the current budget year.

To help offset the additional Zika money, the bill cuts funds provided in 2014 to fight Ebola.

By DAVID PITT

Associated Press

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NIGERIAN PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, second right, received Amina Ali Nkeki, left, the rescued Chibok schoolgirl, at the presidential palace Thursday in Abuja.

Two girls rescued in Nigeria

By MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military reported rescuing a second “Chibok girl” in a forest battle with Islamic extremists, but a community leader said today she is not on the list of 218 students missing from the 2014 mass abduction from the school by Boko Haram that sparked worldwide outrage.

Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said soldiers freed the girl after a Thursday night battle in the northeastern Sambisa Forest in which it liberated 97 women and children and killed 35 extremists.

He said she is 157 on the list of

218 missing girls seized more than two years ago from a boarding school in Chibok.

But number 157 has a different name, Chibok community leader Pogu Bitrus told The Associated Press.

The list has two other young women sharing the surname given by the military and the rescued girl may have been visiting older sisters at the school the night of the kidnapping, said Bitrus.

The first Chibok teenager to be freed was found with a 4month-old baby and was discovered by hunters wandering on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest on Tuesday.

On Thursday, Amina Ali Nkeki,

19, was flown to Abuja to meet with Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.

Parents of the kidnapped girls, the Bring Back Our Girls movement and aid workers all have criticized the Nigerian government and military for their handling of the development, with Refugees International charging her escape is being politicized and that she should not be paraded in public but getting urgent medical care for sexual abuse and psychosocial counseling.

Ali has revealed that a few of the girls died in captivity but most remain under heavy guard in the forest, according to family doctor Idriss Danladi.

Paris suspect refuses to talk

By PHILIPPE SOTTO Associated Press

PARIS — The last known survivor of the team that carried out last November’s Paris attacks refused to talk during questioning today by anti-terror judges, and the session ended abruptly.

Salah Abdeslam’s lawyer, Frank Berton said his client invoked his right to silence.

Abdeslam, 26, had said last month he wanted to explain all.

Berton told reSALAH porters that AbABDESLAM deslam was disturbed by the 24-hour video surveillance in his maximum-security cell, and called the practice illegal.

“He can’t tolerate being watched on video 24 hours a day,” Berton said. “Psychologically that makes things difficult.”

Today was the first time Abdeslam was questioned since his extradition from Belgium last month. At that point, Berton said his client wanted to talk to investigators and explain his path to radicalization. It was unclear why the suspect changed his mind.

Abdeslam, a French citizen of Moroccan origin, was handed a half-dozen preliminary terrorism charges after his transfer on April 27 from Belgium, where he was arrested after four months on the run.

LAURENT CIPRIANI/Associated Press

MEMBERS OF the French military task force GIGN secured the convoy transporting Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam as they left the Paris courthouse today.

He is the only suspect still alive believed to have played a direct role in the Nov. 13 bloodshed at a concert hall, stadium and Parisian café, which killed 130 people. The other attackers died in suicide bombings or under police fire.

Authorities and families of attack victims had hoped Abdeslam’s testimony will shed light on how IS plotted the attacks, solve mysteries that remain about what exactly happened Nov. 13, and identify others who might have been involved, or support networks still hiding in the shadows.

Abdeslam’s precise role in the attacks has never been clear. The Paris prosecutor has said he was equipped as a suicide bomber, but abandoned his plans and fled to Belgium, where he had grown up.

Abdeslam’s older brother blew himself up at a café during the Paris attacks.

Abdeslam was captured March 18 at a hideout near his childhood home in Brussels’ Molenbeek neighborhood. Four days later, suicide bombers detonated their explosives in the Brussels airport and metro, killing 32 people.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers and check for products they may have bought as far back as 2014.

It’s one of the largest food recalls in recent memory, with well over 400 products from CRF Frozen Foods in Pasco, Wash., sold under more than 40 different brand names at major retailers like Costco, Target, Trader Joe’s and Safeway.

So far, eight people have been sickened by listeria that’s genetically similar to that found in CRF vegetables, and two have died, though listeria was not the primary cause of death.

“Unquestionably, this is a lot of product. ... It reflects the severity of listeria as an illness, the long duration of illnesses and the outbreak and the long shelf life of the products,” said Matthew Wise, who leads the outbreak response team at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The initial recall started April 22, covering 11 frozen vegetable products. On May 2, CRF expanded it to include all of its frozen organic and traditional fruit and vegetable products manufactured or processed at its Washington plant since May 1, 2014.

Thanks to recently developed wholegenome sequencing of food-contaminating bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration and CDC found that the listeria bacteria found in the blood of a person sickened in 2013 is genetically similar to the listeria tied to the recall.

“The idea is that it’s possible that it could be linked to this plant as far back as that because of the match. As a result the company, working with the FDA, decided to do the recall that far back,” CRF spokesman Gene Grabowski said.

The CRF plant closed two weeks ago and Grabowski said the company is still trying to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

Wise said his concern is that consumers check the online recall lists discard the products from of their freezers.

“Listeriosis always makes us worry because it’s such a serious infection,” he said. The CDC says listeria is most harmful to adults over 65 with weakened immune systems and pregnant women.

Products were both packaged for sale as individual products and repackaged by places like Piggly Wiggly, Kroger and ConAgra foods as ingredients in a host of other store-brand and private-label products for stores like Trader Joe’s and Costco.

Also, retailers including Target and regional distributors such as Midwest grocery chain Hy-Vee Foods have recently recalled products made by Tokyo-based Ajinomoto Windsor due to the company recalling 70 of its Asian variety products that contain CRF vegetables — about 47 million pounds worth — some of which were also sold in Canada and Mexico.

The FDA and CDC have developed a system to track the genetic makeup of salmonella, listeria and E.coli. Once a food-related illness outbreak is identified, scientists can match the DNA from contaminated food with the bacteria making people sick and potentially trace it to the originating food processing plant.

In this outbreak, of those eight who were sick, six were in California. The two people who died were from Maryland and Washington.

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60TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Albert Craig Jr., of Seward, recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.

Mr. Craig and the former Freelove Fox were married May 18, 1956, at Oldstone Presbyterian Church, Winchester, Va., by the Rev. Raymond G. Womeldolf.

Mr. Craig retired from Johnstown Plant Bethlehem Steel Corp.

The Craigs are the parents of four children: Robert Sr. (Sherri), Gregory (Rose), Bonnie (Dave) and Jennifer (Eric). They have 14 grandchildren: Danielle, Michael, Kayla, TOM PEEL/Gazette

THE EVERGREEN AARP recently installed new officers. Pictured, from left, are Bob Whitmer, treasurer; Jack Stile, president; Denny Thurston, vice president; Don George, past president; and Viona Sesti, recording secretary.

House-trained bison gets new home

By CHARLES SCUDDER

The Dallas Morning News

ARGYLE, Texas — Meet Bullet — the housebroken half-a-ton pet bison, who loves to stare at fish tanks, chill in the shade, and has proven to be the most faithful companion to her owner Karen Schoeve.

Bullet has been living with her Argyle, Texasbased owner for five years now. She roams around freely through the threeacre property, including the house and all of its rooms.

While the picture looks quite idyllic, it’s not that easy to imagine waking up and finding a giant bison peeking at you in your sleep.

“Scary? No, she’s not scary,” Schoeve said. “She’s got a great personality.”

The bison likes staring at Schoeve’s fish tank, which can make her owner nervous. Last week, she ate the Mother’s Day flowers in Schoeve’s room, which made her owner none too happy. Charlie, Schoeve’s terrier, likes to bark at Bullet from the second-floor landing and paw at her nose, and Bullet pays him no mind. But it’s time for Bullet to leave the house, for good this time. Two months ago, Schoeve put an ad on Craigslist: “Tame/housebroken buffalo cow — $5,950.”

“Cash only,” she wrote.

“No trades.”

After five years with Bullet, Schoeve has to say goodbye.

‘SHE DESERVES THE BEST’ Schoeve lives on 3 acres in Argyle, across from a golf course and country club.

There, Bullet has led a happy life, rolling in the mud and hanging out in her paddock with two paint ponies, Deuteronomy and Bam-Bam. In the evenings, Bullet lounged in the shade with Schoeve and snuck inside for a tour of the house whenever she could.

But Schoeve knew it couldn’t last. She works full time as a court reporter and can’t spend all day taking care of her little herd. She’s been slowly selling off the horses, making sure they have a good home. Now, it’s

VERNON BRYANT/Associated Press

BULLET WALKED through the hallway of Karen Schoeve’s home on May 13 in Texas.

Bullet’s turn.

“I’m working and feeding animals and working and feeding animals. It’s just been hard for me to keep up,” Schoeve said. “The best thing for me is to get everybody a good home, especially Bullet, because she deserves the best.”

Bullet got out of her pen easily, Schoeve said. Once, she snuck out in the middle of the night and Schoeve had to call the police to help track her down. Another time, when Schoeve was out of town, Bullet wandered to the golf course across the street. But Bullet takes care of herself well.

Schoeve will clean her eyes and nose and help the bison shed her thick winter coat, but Bullet stays healthy and she’s never had to call the vet. Schoeve says it’s part of Bullet’s genetics.

“She’s good, hardy stock,” Schoeve said.

WILD AND BELOVED Bullet isn’t the only house-bison. A handful of friendly bovines have made headlines over the years. In 1876, legendary cattleman Charles Goodnight rescued a small herd from slaughter, allegedly raising some as pets, helping to protect the species from extinction.

Ever since, people have raised bison for preservation, slaughter and, yes, even for companionship.

“Yes, it’s possible. Is it a good idea? Those people who have done it think that it is,” said Cecil Miskin, president of the Texas Bison Association. “We continually advise people that bison are wild. It’s difficult to breed the wild out of them.”

The American bison now

stands along with the bald eagle as a national symbol.

Earlier this month, President Obama signed into law the National Bison Legacy Act, which designates the bison as the official mammal of the United States.

“No other indigenous species tells America’s story better than this noble creature,” Rep. Lacy Clay, a Missouri Democrat who sponsored the bill, said in a statement recently. “The American bison is an enduring symbol of strength, Native American culture and the boundless western wildness.”

Miskin said he has raised some bison calves by hand, but has always turned them out to the herd when old enough. He said the association gets weekly calls from people interested in raising bison as pets, but doesn’t recommend it.

Bison, although beloved, can be very dangerous, especially in the wild. In Yellowstone, for example, bison-related injuries far outnumber the injuries from any other animal. The increase in selfie-culture has been especially problematic, causing a spike in the number of gorings in recent years.

“That’s why people shouldn’t mess with buffaloes, but Bullet’s a dog,” Schoeve said. “She doesn’t have a mean bone in her body.”

A SPECIAL BOND Bullet’s temperament isn’t unique among bovines.

Courtney Daigle, an assistant professor of animal welfare at Texas A&M, said studies have been done re-

cently to train Canadian dairy cows to do their business outside, for example, to minimize manure mess.

But house-training a fullgrown bison? That’s an ungulate of a different color.

“In my house? I probably wouldn’t prefer it,” Daigle said. “It’s not unheard of ...

There’s always a risk when you have an animal in your house, but there’s a risk when you have a dog in your house or a cat in your house of getting scratched or bitten.”

Daigle said wild buffalo roam in maternal groups with males that move from herd to herd — the original bachelors of the Old West.

That’s likely why Schoeve and Bullet have developed such a strong bond, she said. The two of them make up their own mini-herd.

That bond is part of the reason Schoeve was so set on finding the right fit for Bullet. For better or worse, the bison was domesticated long before she lived with Schoeve. To turn her out to pasture with a wild herd would be even more irresponsible than keeping her in Argyle, Schoeve said.

“It’s the way she came. It’s the way she is,” Schoeve said.

“She doesn’t need more buffaloes, she doesn’t need to be with cattle.”

She had offers from petting zoos, roadside attractions, Californians and Texans. One person offered $10,000 for the bison. She even had someone suggest Ted Nugent’s ranch as a sanctuary for Bullet. But Schoeve said she didn’t find the perfect fit until late last week, when the story received international media attention.

A landowner in Flower Mound, Texas, offered up the perfect place for Bullet.

Schoeve introduced Bullet to her new home Saturday at dusk. Bullet started by introducing herself to the two other cows she’ll share a pasture with for now.

They, like Bullet, were also rescued from Craigslist ads.

When Schoeve turned to leave, the bison ran up to say goodbye, for now. Schoeve has the gate code to visit Bullet’s pasture whenever she wants.

ALBERT and FREELOVE CRAIG Dennis, Robert Jr., Latoya, Caleb, Joshua, Randy, Dylan, Jesse, Connor, Ethan and Travis; and seven great-grandchildren: Michael, Trinty, Brendan, Shayleigh, Corey, Jelysa and Robert III.

CLUB NEWS SMICKSBURG UNITED METHODIST WOMEN

door prizes were awarded.

The Smicksburg United Methodist Women met at 7 p.m. May 11. There were 12 members and five youths present.

The devotions were “Women of the Bible.”

The program was titled “Feet and Hands.”

The minutes from the previous meeting and the treasurer’s report were approved as read.

The annual Family Day banquet was held recently. Members decided to donate $40 to the Western Pennsylvania “Mission U” as in past years.

The annual Trash and Treasure Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 11, rain or shine.

It will be held in conjunction with the Smicksburg Strawberry Festival and the UMW will have hoagies, baked goods, soft drinks and water available for lunch.

The president reported that she purchased regular canning jars to use for the fall festival. There should be enough for two years. All of the widemouth canning jars will be sold at the yard sale this year.

The group briefly discussed the Fall Festival on Oct. 8. Decisions will be made in July about serving style, number of apple dumplings to be made, etc.

The group will make UMCOR Emergency Health Kits again this year. Donations are needed by May 29.

The meeting closed with the reading of the litany. After the prayer, the group had a snack and

INDIANA BPOE #931 LADIES AUXILIARY The Indiana BPOE #931 Ladies Auxiliary’s meeting on May 5 started off with a picnic buffet at 6 p.m.

Husbands and guests were invited. A great time was had by all. Thanks was given to Edward Fiala for cooking hamburgers and hotdogs. The dinner committee was chaired by Jean Reefer, Rosetta Jobe, Twila Montgomery, Linda Short, Cherise Cunningham, Linda Connell, Kathy King and Connie Minich.

A short business meeting was called to order by President Sabina Fiala.

The club scholarship was discussed and awarded to Caroline Keefe, who resides in Cranberry Township. She attended Robert Morris College for two years and is transferring to Pitt University to major in pre med. Caroline is the granddaughter of Jack and Barb Norland, of Indiana.

Bar Bingo will be held at 7 p.m. tonight. Bingo is also planned for the third Thursday of each month and all members and guests are urged to attend.

May birthdays were Doris Zombotti and Kathy King.

Penny Drill was won by Linda Short on the first try. Door prizes, donated

by Jobe, were won by Carole Neese, Connie Minich, Donna Durant, Norland, Ginny McGinnis and Reefer.

The next meeting will be held Oct. 6. Dues are still being collected.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Shirley Anthony, Indiana • Sophia Bowman, Indiana • Kenneth Duncan, Homer City • Rashel Jade Fairman, Indiana • Dave Hebenthal, Brush Valley • Jessie Helsley, Indiana • Brady Houser, Cherry Tree • Sherry Howard, Blairsville • Donald Kellar, Creekside • Jen Lawson, Homer City • Nicole Miloser, Home • Penny Rolley, New Florence • Carson Wells, Marion Center

What to do about that gifted silver

By PHILIP GALANES The New York Times

SOCIAL Q’s

QUESTION: I am a single 76year-old woman. Years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer and did not expect to live long. I began giving away my possessions, including my most valuable one: a set of silver flatware that I inherited from my mother. I was offered $8,000 for it, but gave it to my best friend’s daughter instead. Since then, five years have passed, and I have not seen the daughter or met her new baby. Needless to say, I am hurt. I also need money. (I live on Social Security.) Would it be acceptable to ask for the silver back? — ANNE-MARIE, NEW YORK ANSWER: No clawing back gifts. Once given, consider them gone. Still — and there’s often a “still,” isn’t there? — if my mother’s best friend told me she was

strapped for cash and asked me to consider returning some silverware she had given me years earlier, I would return it in a heartbeat (or offer to buy it, if I were smitten with the silver). Stuff happens, and my mother’s BFF falls inside the circle of people I want to look out for.

But the way you posed the question makes this more complicated. You didn’t open with need; you opened with hurt at the daughter’s neglect of you. I sympathize with your feelings. But gifts do not entitle us to mandatory visits. That would be a contract for services, not a present.

Before deciding what to do, try to untangle the strands. Do you really need the cash, or are you motivated by hurt? If the issues are inextricably linked, but

the need is real, say nothing about your feelings when you ask for the silver back.

Your request seems acceptable (to me, anyway) if it springs from financial difficulties, not from the daughter’s behavior. (And keep in mind: She may say no.)

QUESTION: My girlfriend and I agreed not to see other people. I didn’t force this on her; we discussed it after dating for three months. But I just learned that she still uses her online dating account. She didn’t deny it; she said she looks at guys online occasionally, but would never actually meet anyone. I believe her, but I feel as if she tore up the spirit of our agreement.

Should we try to tape it together again? — JIM G. ANSWER: Speaking of office products, better to think of your relationship as a rubber band than a taped-up sheet of paper. As the excellent duo Every-

thing but the Girl once sang: “Now you can pull a little bit. There’s a little give and take. And love will stretch a little bit, but finally it’s going to break.”

You and your girlfriend will have a jumbo-pack of issues to decide over the course of your relationship.

Glancing at men on dating sites will probably be one of the easier ones. So, buckle in for lots of talking. It’s good to know, early on, that you interpret rules broadly, while your girlfriend takes a more literal reading. As long as you trust each other and keep communicating, I’d say there’s plenty of stretch left in the old rubber band. But more important, how do you two feel?

QUESTION: We live in a small town in New Hampshire. Last week, I heard that our neighbor’s collegeage son had developed a problem with heroin, had gone to rehab and has been

doing well since he came home. No one in the neighbor’s family said anything to us, but you know how small towns are. My husband and I see the boy, and our lives have been touched by addiction.

Would it be OK if we told him we’re impressed by his hard work? — LYNNE ANSWER: I come from a small town, too. It’s nice to look out for our neighbors and know that they’re looking out for us. But when you’re the person being stared at by lots (and lots) of folks — particularly as a late adolescent and for behavior that may include streaks of shame as well as redemption — small-town living can feel like residency under a microscope.

Be friendly and solicitous to the young man without mentioning heroin or rehab.

Let him make that opening move. Your everyday

kindness is plenty for now.

QUESTION: I am a college student and keep up with friends from home by social media. Many of them have been posting about a book exchange promising that if you buy and send one book, you will receive 36 in return.

I did some research and discovered that it’s a pyramid scheme. I don’t want them to be tricked, but I don’t want to embarrass them or sound condescending, either. Thoughts?

— ANONYMOUS ANSWER: Who wants 36 books chosen by strangers?

Post that you were tempted by this offer, too (putting yourself in the same boat as them), but after some research, you learned that it’s a Ponzi scheme.

Some pals may feel gullible, but that’s not on you. And you’ll be saving others from falling into a disappointing trap.

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Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tsai treads lightly during inaugural

By JOHNSON LAI and RALPH JENNINGS Associated Press

TAIPEI, Taiwan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen tread carefully around the thorny issue of relations with China in her inaugural address today, emphasizing the importance of two decades of growing exchanges without mentioning the one-China principle fundamental to Beijing.

Tsai said in her speech that she respected the â&#x20AC;&#x153;joint acknowledgements and understandingsâ&#x20AC;? reached between the sides at a landmark 1992 meeting seen by China as underpinning all subsequent contacts and agreements.

However, Tsai made no explicit mention of the concept that Taiwan is a part of China. Beijing claims the self-governing island as its own territory and says failing to endorse the one-China principle would destabilize relations.

In Beijing, the Cabinetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement noting Tsaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reference to the 1992 meeting, but saying she had taken an â&#x20AC;&#x153;ambiguous stanceâ&#x20AC;? over the nature of the relationship between the sides.

Her failure to explicitly endorse what China calls the â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;92 consensusâ&#x20AC;? embodying the principle of one-China, or to offer a â&#x20AC;&#x153;specific proposal to ensure the peaceful and stable development of relations between the sidesâ&#x20AC;? had left the question unanswered, the office said.

The statement, issued about five hours after Tsaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech, also reaffirmed Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rigid opposition to Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formal independ-

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NEW TAIWAN PRESIDENT Tsai Ing-wen, left, and Vice President Chen Chien-jen waved during their inauguration ceremonies today in Taiwan. ence, stating that: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, our determination to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity is unshaken, our capability is strengthened and we will resolutely contain any â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Taiwan independenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; separatist acts or plots in whatever form they take.â&#x20AC;?

In her address, Tsai called for Taipei and Beijing to â&#x20AC;&#x153;set aside the baggage of history, and engage in positive dialogue, for the benefit of the people on both sides.â&#x20AC;?

She said her administration would â&#x20AC;&#x153;work to maintain peace and stabilityâ&#x20AC;? in relations between the sides. However, she added that Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s democratic system and the will of its 23 million people must be respected in the course of cross-strait dialogue.

The Nationalist Party govern-

ment of Tsaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predecessor Ma Ying-jeou had repeatedly endorsed the one-China principle and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;92 consensusâ&#x20AC;? and reached a series of economic and civil agreements between the sides.

China maintains that Taiwan must unify with the mainland eventually, by force if necessary.

However, Taiwanese public opinion is strongly against any sort of political union, instead favoring the status of de facto independence and robust social and economic interactions.

While the Nationalists favor unification, Tsaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Democratic Progressive Party advocates formally establishing Taiwan as an independent nation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said the issue of unification

cannot be put off indefinitely and Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military has conducted saber-rattling war games in recent days along the coastline facing Taiwan.

Tsai is Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first female president and the first woman elected as head of state in Asia not related to a prominent male politician.

Much of her speech focused on reviving Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high-tech, export-oriented economy, which is now in recession, and increasing opportunities for young people who largely blame Chinese competition for shrinking the pool of well-paying jobs.

The inauguration was festive, with bands and cheerleaders, and included presentations on Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. One segment took on a politically charged event, the 1947 massacre of Taiwanese intellectuals by Nationalist troops from mainland China. Actors portraying executed political prisoners fell to the ground in the plaza in front of the Presidential Office Building.

While Tsai faces challenges on several fronts, she will be aided by the DPPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commanding majority in Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parliament. The partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landslide victory in the January polls was seen as a keen expression of concern that the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is under threat from the mainlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic juggernaut.

While leaving Beijing unsatisfied, Tsai avoided provoking Beijing by referring to Taiwan as an independent sovereign nation, said Li Fei, deputy director of the Taiwan Research Institute at Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Xiamen University. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a speech that can be accepted by the international community and endured by the main-

land,â&#x20AC;? Li said, adding that Beijing will be watching what Tsai does in coming days as she forms her administration.

China has multiple ways of registering its dissatisfaction, including cutting exchanges and regular contacts, tightening the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diplomat isolation and barring Chinese tourists from visiting the island.

China may also block Taiwanese observers from attending the U.N. World Health Organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual World Health Assembly in Geneva next week.

Asked about Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future participation in international organizations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying offered few clues, saying only that the matter could be discussed between the two sides â&#x20AC;&#x153;on the premise that it will not result in â&#x20AC;&#x153;two Chinasâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;one China, one Taiwanâ&#x20AC;?

Taiwanese political scientist Shane Lee said he expected China to react, although not too strongly.

China will continue to â&#x20AC;&#x153;have a bit of this and that around the world to make sure the new government gets the message China is not that happy,â&#x20AC;? said Lee, who teaches at Chang Jung Christian University in the southern city of Tainan.

Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., said Beijing will see Tsaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarks as â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuing to be ambiguous.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could read into it whatever you want to read into it,â&#x20AC;? Glaser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My guess is that the Chinese will choose to see this as insufficient.â&#x20AC;?

PM Trudeau apologizes again after elbow

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press

TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized before the Canadian Parliament for a third time Thursday, saying he expects better behavior of himself after elbowing a female lawmaker in the chest and grabbing another lawmaker.

Trudeau, 44, said he should not have made physical contact with the one lawmaker and said he accidentally bumped into the female lawmaker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I made a mistake. I regret it and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking to make amends,â&#x20AC;? Trudeau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I expect better behavior of myself.â&#x20AC;?

Opposition lawmaker Ruth Ellen Brosseau said she had to leave the House of Commons chamber after being elbowed.

TV footage shows Trudeau hurriedly wading into a clutch of lawmakers who were blocking a law-

maker from getting to his seat as Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Liberals tried to get a vote in on time.

The video shows Trudeau pulling the lawmaker in order to get a vote started on limiting debate on the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s euthanasia legislation. As Trudeau turned around to pull the lawmaker, Brosseau can be seen grimacing in pain.

Lawmakers said the prime minister used an expletive.

The kerfuffle comes as a blow to Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image as a modern, feminist leader who has talked about bringing â&#x20AC;&#x153;sunny waysâ&#x20AC;? to politics and threatens to end his honeymoon after Octoberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election.

He apologized before Parliament twice on Wednesday and again Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ask Canadiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; understanding and forgiveness,â&#x20AC;?

Trudeau said.

Geoff Regan, the House of Commons speaker and a member of Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Liberal party, admonished him

on Wednesday, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;it is not appropriate to manhandle other members.â&#x20AC;?

The Speaker concluded that Brosseauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s privileges as a member of Parliament had been breached, which means the encounter will be examined by an all-party committee. Trudeau said he is fully prepared to accept its decision.

Physical contact between lawmakers is rare in legislatures in Canada. Still, the incident reminded Canadians of when late former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford barreled over a 63-year-old female city councilor while rushing to defend his brother, Councilor Doug Ford, who was insulting spectators in the council chamber. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His behavior was unbecoming for the office of the prime minister,â&#x20AC;? interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose told Parliament on Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was unsettling for all of us.â&#x20AC;?

The incident has already

impacted the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agenda and could delay the passing of the euthanasia bill. Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government backed down on a controversial motion that would have taken away some of the procedural tools opposition members use to delay the government, including on the euthanasia bill.

Ambrose called it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;great start.â&#x20AC;? Liberal House leader Dominic LeBlanc said they still hope to pass the euthanasia bill before a Supreme Court deadline of June 6.

Conservative lawmaker Peter Kent went so far as to suggest that Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions were in contempt of Parliament. Conservative Candice Marie Bergen said Trudeau, a one-time boxer and bar bouncer, has to deal with his â&#x20AC;&#x153;anger issues and his temper and his entitlementâ&#x20AC;? and noted he previously stuck out his tongue in a childish manner at the opposition.

Opposition New Democrat lawmaker Dan Davies, a former labor lawyer, said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a workplace in Canada where an employee would be allowed to be physically moved along by their boss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While an apology is absolutely essential, that is not sufficient,â&#x20AC;? Davies said.

Nelson Wiseman, a political scientist at the University of Toronto, said the incident is getting a lot of attention and â&#x20AC;&#x153;tarnishes Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image.â&#x20AC;?

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Today is Friday, May 20, the 141st day of 2016. There are 225 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 20, 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first Norman Rockwell cover; the illustration shows a scowling boy dressed in his Sunday best, dutifully pushing a baby carriage past a couple of young baseball players, one of whom mockingly doffs his cap.

On this date: In 1712, the original version of Alexander Pope’s satirical mock-heroic poem “The Rape of the Lock” was published anonymously in Lintot’s Miscellany.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to encourage settlements west of the Mississippi River by making federal land available for farming.

In 1902, the United States ended a three-year military presence in Cuba as the Republic of Cuba was established under its first elected president, Tomas Estrada Palma.

In 1925, the newly built headquarters of the United States Chamber of Commerce was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. (Because of weather and equipment problems, Earhart set down in Northern Ireland instead of her intended destination, France.)

In 1956, the United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 1970, some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York’s Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.

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H-C budget proposal calls for tax increase Continued from Page 1 burden on property owners, and they called for administrators to hold the line on taxes next month.

The board voted 6 to 3.

Director Michael Bertig said during discussion that deficit spending would push the district toward bankruptcy if something isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done, and he voted no.

Board member Gerald Bertig lamented the lack of growth in the district tax base. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if we need to add to the sticker shock of the reassessment,â&#x20AC;? he said. He also voted against the budget.

Director Dan Fabin said his family farm had been reassessed at 250 percent higher than its former tax value and his home also had a sharp increase. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So a 1 percent increase is not going to make a difference,â&#x20AC;? Fabin said, and he voted yes on the budget.

Logan Dellafiora also voted for the tentative budget but cast his vote under protest, saying he intends to propose a â&#x20AC;&#x153;zero percent tax increaseâ&#x20AC;? in the final budget on June 23.

Director Julie Rado cautioned her colleagues against changing the budget to a rate the district could not sustain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be worse, in the public eye, to vote for no tax increase today and then to enact the increase in June.â&#x20AC;?

Directors Fred Hayes, James McLoughlin and President Vicki Smith also voted yes. Justin Smyers voted no. After voting, Smith asked Superintendent Charles Koren and Business Manager Gregory Cessna to draft â&#x20AC;&#x153;numbers with no increase, and how much of the fund balance we would have to use if we do not do any of this.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Or further budget cuts without dipping into the fund balance,â&#x20AC;? Michael Bertig suggested. He alluded to possible faculty cuts, to be explored in an executive session, as a way to balance the budget.

The budget includes a wage tax of 0.9 percent, a real estate transfer tax of 0.5 percent, a local services tax of $5 on each person employed at a business in the district, and an overall real estate tax of $5,015,000.

That compares to an overall property tax budgeted at $5,113,000 this year, but it represents a 1 percent increase over the amount billed after certain properties were devalued or lost, according to Cessna.

Cessna said the budget includes a $282,500 â&#x20AC;&#x153;reserveâ&#x20AC;? line item for unexpected costs, and $150,000 taken from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;committed fund balanceâ&#x20AC;? to cover the higher contribution to the retirement fund.

The budget requires only

$305,000 from the fund balance to meet expenses.

Cessna said spending will increase $438,000 (2.67 percent), led by a $296,000 hike in the contribution to the PSERS retirement fund.

The Indiana County commissioners recently voted to certify the new property values in the county, but the courthouse has not provided new tax base values that would allow schools and municipalities to determine their 2016 tax millage rates.

Homer-Center last year charged a real estate tax of 128.9 mills. With a 1 percent increase, Cessna said, the tax in 2016-17 would be 130.189 mills â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though that tax rate wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear on the bills and very few property owners will be charged within 1 percent of their 2015-16 tax bills.

In other business Thursday, the board: â&#x20AC;˘ Approved a list of 53 seniors who qualify for graduation June 1, pending their completion of academic requirements. â&#x20AC;˘ Accepted a bid from Waste Management of Pennsylvania Inc. to provide trash removal and recycling services at base fees of $9,669.71 for 2016-17; $9,959.80 for 2017-18; and $10,258.59 for 2018-19.

The district will save $49,672 over the rates charged in the former contract with WMI, Cessna said.

â&#x20AC;˘ Approved the Indiana County Technology Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2016-17 school year budget in the amount of $5,928,254.

The districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of the budget will be about $334,700 representing a 0.8 percent increase. â&#x20AC;˘ Adopted a new policy governing the availability and administration of naloxone, a drug used as an antidote for opioid overdoses. Setting a policy will qualify the district to receive a free supply of the drug from the state. â&#x20AC;˘ Appointed director James McLoughlin as board treasurer for a stipend of $900 a year, and named Michael Bertig as assistant board treasurer. McLoughlin said he would donate the money back to the district. â&#x20AC;˘ Designated First Commonwealth Bank, S&T Bank, Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust and Pennsylvania School District Liquid Asset Fund as depositories. â&#x20AC;˘ Approved a package of sports accident, voluntary student accident and catastrophic accident insurance coverage by United States Fire Insurance Co. through the local Walbeck Insurance office for $7,730. â&#x20AC;˘ Hired CPA Conrad Seigel Actuaries to perform a mandated valuation of district assets and property following the GASB 45 standards for the two fiscal years end-

ing June 30, 2016, and June 30, 3017, at a fee of $3,550. â&#x20AC;˘ Approved a contract with Bayada Home Health Care Inc. for two elementary students at a rate of $44 an hour for next school year. â&#x20AC;˘ Narrowly voted to approve an extension of the ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & Me preschool program from 6 to 8 days this summer. Directors voted 5 to 4, with Smith, Hayes, Rado, McLoughlin and Michael Bertig in favor, and Dellafiora, Smyers, Fabin and Gerald Bertig opposed. â&#x20AC;˘ Appointed McCrory and McCrory CPAs to perform the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2015-16 annual local audit at a fee of $12,500. â&#x20AC;˘ Acknowledged three cash donations to the distinct, all earmarked for the Elementary School playground enhancement project, from Homer City American Legion Post 493, the Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Natural Gas Company. â&#x20AC;˘ Accepted the resignation of part-time custodian Joseph Marinas, effective May 6, and hired his son, Kristopher Marinas, as a part-time custodian at a rate of $10.58 an hour retroactive to May 8. â&#x20AC;˘ Granted seven requests from teachers to attend seven regional conferences, approved two requests for student field trips.

The meeting was con-

ducted under a pall of sadness in the wake of the death of Homer-Center High School sophomore Kai Hrabovsky in a pedestrian accident early Saturday along a rural road in Pine Township. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The past six days have been days of sadness and grieving,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The entire community has shared this sorrow.â&#x20AC;?

Board members commended High School Principal Jody Rainey and the faculty for their efforts to comfort and support Hrabovskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classmates and close friends the past week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had the fortune of coaching Kai the past two years, I really got to know him, and what a great kid â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he will sorely be missed,â&#x20AC;?

McLoughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I appreciate everybody at the high school and how you handled the situation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been too many over the past year and a half and we need to heal.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;At points you have to realize that education goes to the back burner, and healing and dealing with the situation at hand moves to the forefront,â&#x20AC;? Dellafiora said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No principal wants so deal with that and you did your best with the terrible hand you were dealt, so I want to commend all the staff for handling that, and just pray for healing within the community.â&#x20AC;?

Indiana High School students earn scholarships The following Indiana Area Senior High School students earned scholarships this school year. â&#x20AC;˘ Alpha Delta Kappa Scholarship: Kacey Raible â&#x20AC;˘ Andy Koma Nursing Scholarship: Olivia Nupp â&#x20AC;˘ Bausch And Lomb Honorary Science Award: Sooraj Sharma â&#x20AC;˘ Bob McQuaide Scholarship: John Douglas Hilditch â&#x20AC;˘ Bradley and Brent Lundstrom Memorial Scholarship: Susannah Nickas â&#x20AC;˘ Case Western Reserve University Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholarship: Rachel Baumler â&#x20AC;˘ Cecil Spadafora MVP Award: Connor Tshudy â&#x20AC;˘ Charlie Hogan Memorial Scholarship: Joel Santoro â&#x20AC;˘ CNB Bank Scholarship: Cole Shaffer â&#x20AC;˘ Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship: Connor Tshudy â&#x20AC;˘ Dr. Robert P. Martin Memorial Scholarship: Alexandra Peters â&#x20AC;˘ Frank Sibley Memorial Scholarship: Jacob Zilinskas â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Area Education Association Scholarship: Juliano Estrada Donatelli â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Area School District/Sportsmans Club Scholarship: Lauren Peightal â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Art Association Scholarship: Neva Morris â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana County Counselors Association Scholarship Award: Connor Tshudy â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana County Music Educators Association: Amy Varner â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana County Naifa Scholarship: Susannah Nickas â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana County Sports Hall Of Fame Award: Logan Everett, Jacob Zilinskas â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Football Boosters Scholarship: Connor Tshudy â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Franklin Lodge #313 Masonic Scholarhsip: Olivia Nupp â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Kiwanis Club Memorial Scholarship: Susannah Nickas â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Optimist Club Norm Park Award: Benjamin Snyder â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Optimist Club Tiny Everett Award: Brendon Curry â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Rotary Club Robert L. Woodard Memorial Scholarship: Susannah Nickas â&#x20AC;˘ Indiana Soccer Boosters Scholarship: Brendon Curry, Emily Reese, Hunter Scherf, Kellen Short â&#x20AC;˘ IUP Board Of Governors Scholarship: Benjamin Strong â&#x20AC;˘ IUP Eberly Business Honors Program Scholarship: Brianna Dalessio â&#x20AC;˘ IUP Robert E. Cook Honors College Scholarship: Sarah Cash, Anna Manges, Sophia Manges, Amy Varner â&#x20AC;˘ IUP Joseph W. Serene Memorial Scholarship: Brianna James â&#x20AC;˘ IUP Sutton Scholarship: Stephanie Anna, Brianna Dalessio, Anna Manges, Sophia Manges, Olivia Nupp

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bra I tests. â&#x20AC;˘ Robert Morris University Scholarship: Zachary Wilson â&#x20AC;˘ S&T Bank Scholarship: Olivia Nupp, Ann Trimarchi, Meghan Zbignewich â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Francis University Grant: Kate Montgomery â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Francis University Occupational Therapy Fellowship Award: Kate Montgomery â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Francis University Presidential Scholarship: Kate Montgomery â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Francis University The Civilian Marksmanship Program: Cassidy Fairman â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Vincent College Alumni Scholarship: Izaak Gray â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Vincent College Faculty Scholarship: Joel Santoro, Meghan Zbignewich â&#x20AC;˘ Saint Vincent College Scholar Award: Izaak Gray â&#x20AC;˘ Salsgiver Nursing Scholarship: Sophia Manges â&#x20AC;˘ Salvatore Agnello Scholarship: Nicholas Kucinski, Cassidy Newman â&#x20AC;˘ Sara L. Steve Memorial Scholarship: Sarah Zarpentine â&#x20AC;˘ Slippery Rock University Achievement Award: Dylan Stapleton â&#x20AC;˘ STA Education Foundation Scholarship Award: Brendon Curry, Cassidy Newman â&#x20AC;˘ The Pennsylvania Society Scholarship Program: Kellen Short â&#x20AC;˘ Tiffin University Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholarship: Savanna Michele â&#x20AC;˘ Tim Woods Memorial Scholarship: Danielle DiGiorgio â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Air Force Award: Thomas Zolocsik â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Army Reserve National Scholar Athlete Award: Kasey Raible, Dylan Stapleton â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Marines Distinguished Athlete Award: John Appolonia, Brianna Dillon â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award: Rachel Baumler â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Marine Corps Semper Fidelis Award For Music: Amy Varner â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Navy Inspirational Leadership Award: Kacey Raible â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Navy Outstanding Athlete Award: Kellen Short, Alicia Kunkle â&#x20AC;˘ U.S. Navy Outstanding Scholar Award: Connor Tshudy â&#x20AC;˘ University of Cincinnati Century Scholarship: Maria Ali â&#x20AC;˘ University of Pittsburgh Andy Kuzneski Scholarship: Connor Tshudy â&#x20AC;˘ University of Pittsburgh Academic Scholarship: Sooraj Sharma

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George, John, Monopoly, market, WyoTech INSIDE INDIANA

CONDOLENCES

To whom it may concern — Remember our piece last week on Indiana native George E. Hood Jr. and his quest for the Guinness World Record for planking at the International World Cup Plank Challenge in China?

Hood took second place in the competition, where he was vying against Chinese rival Mao Weidong for the record, which Hood had set in May 2015 in Oceanside, Calif., at 5 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds.

His time in China was a personal best plank of 7 hours, 40 minutes and 4 seconds.

Mao was able to hold the position, similar to a pushup, for 8 hours, 1 minute.

“Weidong was up against the best and I have the most absolute respect for his finish,” Hood said in a news release.

During his attempt last weekend, Hood burned nearly 4,100 calories and drank nearly a gallon of liquids.

“I’m proud to have set this new personal best, which sends a clear message around the world that I’m passionate about this particular exercise and very honored to be a part of China’s effort to showcase it.”

This was Hood’s second trip to the event.

Our recent obituaries included John Mills, a well-known Indiana gynecologist described in his obituary as “a very down to earth man” who was dedicated to his family.

In addition to delivering many Indiana County babies, John was a founding member of the Indiana County Model Railroad Club, an avid model railroader and a train lover, it said.

He also enjoyed gardening, working on his 1929 truck and using DIY kits to build televisions, radios and even an organ.

John passed away Sunday at St. Andrew’s Village, and is survived by four children and nine grandchildren. He was 90 years old.

adults and $3 for seniors and students. For tickets call (724) 4645220 or visit www.familypromise indianapa.com.

FARM FRESH Community Foundation for the Alleghenies recently awarded Lifesteps $5,000 to support the Family Care Mobile Library. The mobile library is provided free to Indiana County residents and offers materials on topics such as child development, divorce/relationships, disabilities/special education, geriatric issues, grief and loss, health care, parenting skills, step-parenting and teen parenting.

Lifesteps, a local nonprofit agency, offers family-focused services in a caring, nurturing environment to communities in 10 western Pennsylvania counties.

FREE FUN The national Kids Bowl Free program is set again for this summer at Mohawk Lanes in White Township, where children can receive a pass for two free bowling games a day through the season.

To register, visit www.KidsBowl Free.com/Mohawk and register each child in the family.

Passes will be received weekly via email.

GAME ON Family Promise of Indiana County is offering an inaugural Monopoly Challenge, which will feature a life-size, live board game at the Indiana Area Senior High School gym.

The game will benefit the county’s homeless and is set for June 24. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the game begins at 6 p.m.

Cost is $10 per family, $5 for

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Area farmers are gearing up for the opening day of the Indiana County Farmers Market, set for June 4.

The market is set up from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays at Eighth and Church streets, Indiana, and 3 to 5:30 .m. Wednesdays at Wayne Avenue, across from the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

The market offers a variety of fresh produce and much more.

Organizers are also looking for local musicians, artisans and community groups to occupy special tents on Saturday morning.

Interested? Contact Jenna at indianafarmmarket@gmail.com for more information or to schedule a date.

SAVE THE DATE Marion Center First United Methodist Church will host an ice cream social from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Memorial Day at the church.

The social will include sloppy Joes, hot dogs and strawberry shortcake, as well as a bake sale.

Proceeds benefit children attending the United Methodist Church camps.

AND WYOTECH auto school in Blairsville will celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary in June with an open house event that offers fun for all.

The open house is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 11 at its facility at 500 Innovation Drive, Burrell Township.

The event will feature a car cruise, music and food, campus tours, children’s activities and more.

SHOP TALK AT SIX Gas prices at most Indiana area service stations remained unchanged today at $2.45 a gallon, compared to $2.44 statewide and $2.28 nationwide (www.pennsyl vaniagasprices.com). … With the start of May Mart, Willie, our exshoeshine boy, says he found this short quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson appropriate: “Earth laughs in flowers.”

Good evening!

This column is compiled by Gazette staff writer Margaret Weaver. Email items for submission to mweaver@indianagazette. net.

Charles: Faith helped break grip of addiction

CAREER DAY

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“But God told me to be transparent, because there are people who need to know the depth of Hell that God is willing to take you out of.”

During her testimony, Charles related her recovery story to the biblical story “The Woman with the Issue of Blood,” a notable miracle of Jesus from the Gospels. In the story, the woman has been bleeding for 12 years and cannot be healed by any physicians. She is often shunned by fellow townspeople because they consider her “unclean.” When Jesus touches her, she is immediately healed.

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FIFTH- AND sixth-grade students at Elderton Elementary School learned about chiropractic care from Dr. Steven Brown, of Mills Chiropractic in Kittanning, during a career day held Thursday. The program also included presenters from Indiana Regional Medical Center, Elderton State Bank, the Eastern Armstrong County Municipal Authority, Norris Pallet, S&T Bank, Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, B&M Lawncare, Butler Memorial Hospital, Delval Equipment, Penn United Technologies, the Armstrong County Sheriff’s Office, Young Brothers Tae Kwon Do and Ford City Ambulance Center.

Charles — that I had become a crackhead, and I was considered unclean,” she said. “He could have led me to any story, but He led me to this one.”

Once she was clean and sober, Charles was reunited with her children, who asked if they could call her “Mom,” and her new husband, “Dad.” And just as she has recovered, her 14-ounce baby boy is now a healthy, 6-foot2, 200-pound man.

At the end of her testimony, a church band played songs while audience members gathered around the altar, knelt and prayed together. One man was so inspired by her presentation that he shared his own testimonial prayer with everyone in attendance.

“I know that there are things that I’ve done wrong in my past, but I know you’ve already forgiven me.

You’ve taken my sins and thrown them into the sea of forgiveness,” he said. “So

break these chains from my legs. The devil’s been holding onto me for too long, Lord.”

Charles and her husband, Michael “Tony” Steptoe, have been traveling the world spreading the word of God since both of their lives were turned around by their overwhelming faith.

Charles will be speaking in Indiana again on May 27 at 7 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church.

Celebrate Recovery is a national, biblical program that strives to “help those struggling with hurts, hangups and habits by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through a recovery process,” according to the group’s website.

“We have a serious situation in the world. Drugs are killing our young people,” Charles said. “Somebody’s gotta be bold and spread the word and tell the truth.

Right now it’s my job, and I’m so grateful that God has given that job to me.”

Are you prepared for a shooting incident?

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“Even when law enforcement was present or able to respond within minutes, civilians often had to make life and death decisions,” the report said.

In 21 of those cases, the FBI said unarmed citizens faced the active shooter and successfully disrupted the killing. Eleven of those cases involved unarmed principals, teachers, school staff or students confronting the shooters and ending the threat.

The FBI identified 39 shootings at education-related facilities from prekindergarten to higher ed.

These were among the instances with the highest body count, with 117 people killed and 120 wounded.

Incidents at businesses open to pedestrian traffic were the most common type, and many ended when shooters committed suicide, in 19 of 44 cases.

Nine shooters were apprehended at the scene, eight fled and were later caught, four were killed by law enforcement, two were not apprehended, one was killed by an off-duty officer and one was killed by a citizen with a valid firearms permit. In these cases 124 people were killed and 181 wounded. Tuesday was the most likely day for an attack, with 10, and Saturday was the least likely, with three.

The study also breaks down the shootings into the following categories: • Businesses closed to pedestrians: 23 incidents

• Malls: 6 • Government: 16 • Open space: 15 • Residences: 7 • Places of worship: 6 • Health care facilities: 4

MENTAL PREPARATION Dr. May talked Wednesday about the psychological effects during and after attacks and how to help prepare a staff mentally for an active shooter situation.

He cautioned that violent actions cannot be predicted. Professionals can only assess a risk level. He said a general diagnosis of a mental disorder is not necessarily, on its own, an increased risk of violence for a particular person. Things that may increase a person’s risk are substance abuse, history of violence, threats, impulsivity or sudden personal losses.

He challenged the idea that people could just “snap” and go on a violent rampage.

“Nobody just snaps,” May said. “There may be an event that occurs as a triggering mechanism. But the process to get to a place where you commit an act of violence is a term we call ‘psychological erosion,’ where the individual’s capacity to cope is worn down over time, whether that be by illness, psychological stress, social losses, usually a combination. The person reaches a point where there’s a cognitive switch that goes off.”

Many school shootings were actually forewarned, he said, but the threats were ignored. He told the story of Truman Templeton at West Albany High School in Oregon. Templeton was concerned about threats from fellow student Grant Acord.

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and the community. After a shooting comes the emotional response, and May said it is important that there be support for everyone who needs it.

He said post-traumatic stress disorder is not a guaranteed long-term response and happens to about 10 percent of victims and witnesses to trauma.

People should be allowed to talk about their feelings, but only when they are ready, May said. And never, ever say “get over it.”

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Templeton told his mother, who communicated with 911, who then dispatched police, who found six crude bombs hidden in Acord’s bedroom.

Though many other peers heard Acord’s threat, only one student took it seriously.

May also talked about the fight, flight and freeze responses that all people have, to a degree, to extremely stressful situations.

Some of the teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary, he said, had the presence of mind to hide children in a safe place and did not freeze.

The goal in such situations is obviously survival and personal resilience could increase someone’s chances. He said some of the factors of resilience are actively facing fears and

Health care facilities

problem solving, regular physical exercise, optimism, moral compass, social support and open mindedness. He said it was important to keep under control, mentally clear and act based upon training and judgment, not impulse.

The doctor is also a member of the Critical Stress Incident Debrief Team. Its function is to help groups — be they first responders or businesses — recover from traumatic incidents. Programs like this are part of the response to traumatic incidents.

He asked the audience to imagine concentric circles of impact. In the center circle would be those who were hurt but survived an active shooter situation, followed outward by witnesses, people who were there, families of affected victims

Pidgeon said Beacon Ridge could be a target for a potential gunman because of the drugs kept for patients there.

They’ll have to make it past her first. Pidgeon is an ALICE certified trainer, which stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. She also runs a side business, Armed & Feminine, that provides female-focused NRA pistol courses.

She told people to ask themselves how many entrances there are to their buildings, who has keys to other doors, if doors are being propped open for smoke breaks and if a receptionist is at the front desk at all times. Cameras are great to record a crime, but if someone isn’t watching at all times they don’t stop a determined attacker.

Pidgeon cautioned that you can buy a Dominos or UPS uniform online and pointed out that deliverymen often have unrestricted access to many places.

She also cautioned against “beautiful people” and told a story of how two welldressed, attractive people once made it to the rear of

her facility without being stopped.

Her presentation focused on health care facilities, where workers may not think an attack could happen there because they take care of a fragile population.

But she said these locations are also highly visible, public facilities. There have been numerous attacks on hospitals in just the last several years. The number of attacks has increased steadily over time.

“We don’t want to live our lives being paranoid. We just want to be aware,” she said.

She said people must act the moment a gunman is observed and put full measures into effect, not wait until they start shooting.

Employees should be encouraged to flee if they can since simply hiding under desks makes it easy for a gunman. If fleeing isn’t an option, doors should be barred.

A professor barricaded and locked students in his office during the Virginia Tech massacre, one of the deadliest mass shootings in history. The professor was killed when he left the room, but the students remained safe.

Pidgeon said shooters are looking for targets and won’t linger if their progress is impeded.

Shooters’ movements through the building should also be tracked. There’s no need for codes, she said.

Identifying that there is a gunman and spelling out his location clearly and loudly is essential to giving staff and patients, customers and guests plenty of time to get to safety. The goal is buy time and distance, she said.

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The Pirates won, 8-2, to take three out of four games from the Braves.

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DISTRICT 6 CLASS AA PLAYOFFS: Marion Center 3, Blairsville 0

Ryen pitches no-hitter, homers to lift Stingers

By JOE BACCAMAZZI

jbaccamazzi@indianagazette.net

MARION CENTER — After falling short of its goal of claiming a third straight Heritage Conference title, Marion Center entered the district playoffs with a chip on its shoulder.

Unfortunately for conference rival Blairsville, that much was evident during its dismal day at the plate.

Marion Center’s Laken Ryan tossed a 12-strikeout no-hitter and smacked a solo home run to again lead the seventh-seeded Stingers over 10th-seeded Blairsville, 3-0, in a District 6 Class AA first-round playoff softball game at Marion Center Community Park.

Marion Center will travel to play second-seeded Central, which topped the Stingers in last year’s district

championship game, 6-5 in 10 innings, at 4 p.m. Monday. Central had a first-round bye.

Ryen also contributed to a thrilling win over the Bobcats on April 26, smacking a two-run homer in the eighth inning that became the game-winner, but it was her performance on the mound Tuesday that proved how valuable is to the Stingers.

“Definitely,” Marion Center coach Ed Peterson said. “When you get to a playoff atmosphere with a big crowd, and everybody knows if you lose one, you go home, it puts a little more in the stakes of it. And (Ryen), I can’t speak enough about her. I made a comment here a couple weeks ago, ‘She’s the best all-around

player I’ve ever coached.’ She can pitch, she can hit for power, she hits for average, bunts, fields her position well. And as we were going through the game there, I thought, ‘If they’re going to hit to pitcher, let them do that.’

Because she’s like a vacuum machine out there.”

In addition to recording a season-high 12 strikeouts, Ryen secured multiple fly balls in the circle, including the game’s final out. She surrendered two walks, and only two other Bobcats reached base, one on an error and another on a fielder’s choice in the final inning.

“Laken was throwing strikes tonight,” Blairsville coach Frank Harsh said.

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WPIAL TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

KEVIN STIFFLER/Gazette

LAKEN RYEN struck out 12 and allowed no hits to pick up the win Thursday in the first round of the playoffs.

INDIANA COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Passionate and Talented IHS standout follows dreams to Division I

• EDITOR’S NOTE: This is

sixth of a seven-part series profiling the individuals who will be inducted into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame. Tomorrow: Jim Meighan.

NICOLE SINCLAIRTORRE

By CARLY KROUSE

ckrouse@indianagazette.net

JAMIE EMPFIELD/Gazette

INDIANA JUNIOR Jessica Stever won the girls’ high jump and placed third in the long jump Thursday to qualify for the state meet in both events for the third straight year. She won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 6 inches.

High Competition

Two from IHS advance to states

By MIRZA ZUKIC

moz@indianagazette.net

PITTSBURGH — On the surface, Indiana High School’s track and field athletes appeared to have a disappointing day Thursday.

But after a closer look at the Indians’ performances in the WPIAL Individual Championships at Baldwin High School, it’s easy to understand why coach Steve Cochran didn’t see it in that light. That’s because for Cochran, it was more about quality than quantity.

Despite the fact only two Indiana athletes advanced to next week’s PIAA Championships in Shippensburg, it wasn’t a bad day for the In-

dians. Jessica Stever won the Class son, PRs in a lot of stuff,” Cochran AAA girls’ high jump title and said. “Our girls in that (3,200 relay), placed third in the long we ran a PR time by 8 or 9 jump to qualify in both seconds and just missed events for the third straight that qualifying time for season. Meanwhile, on the states. Our guys’ (3,200 boys’ side, first-year track relay) ran their best time of athlete Taylor Hudzicki took the year. Sam (Lenze) in the third place in the boys’ Class mile ran his best time of the AAA high jump — on a bad year. The (state-qualifying) hip nonetheless — as the Instandard is 4:24, and he was dians earned six medals on all over that. It was really the day. The top eight finishclose. We had a couple of ers in each event earn near misses. But we’re bringTAYLOR medals, and the top four ing home some medals, and HUDZICKI earn automatic berths to that’s just as important as the PIAA Championships. making it to the state meet for a lot “In almost every race we ran close of these kids. This is one of the to if not our best times of the seaContinued on Page 15

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS: Penguins at Lightning, 8 p.m.

Penguins find a new gear in finals

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer

SIDNEY CROSBY

TAMPA, Fla. — Few NHL teams have the quickness, speed, skill and depth to overwhelm the Tampa Bay Lightning, which the Pittsburgh Penguins have done through three games of the Eastern Conference finals.

Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and a talented supporting cast that includes the sizzling line of Phil Kessel, Carl Hagelin and Nick Bonino have outplayed the speedy Lightning for significant stretches of

each game to gain a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup.

Game 4 is tonight at Amalie Arena, and the Penguins are looking to turn up the pressure even more.

“When you’re playing such good teams at this point, you know you can’t afford to look past the game in front of you,” said Crosby, who’s scored the past two games after going eight straight without a goal.

Malkin assisted on Crosby’s powerplay goal that proved to be the winner in Game 3 on Wednesday night, Malkin’s first point since Game 2 of Continued on Page 14

There’s a joke that resonated for many years at the Sinclair household in Indiana: that Dan Sinclair, a basketball official and the father of two little girls, would finally find time to spend with his daughters once they were big enough to pick up a basketball.

“We still joke around with him about it,” said Nicole, the youngest daughter. “My dad was always very into it.

We said he was interested in us once we became more tomboy-ish. That’s when he was excited to have daughters.”

While that might have been the family joke for years, Nicole’s basketball career turned out to be no laughing matter.

For as long as she can remember, Sinclair wanted to be on the basketball court.

When she was a kid, she dreamed of being a standout high school player.

When she was a star on multiple travel teams, she worked toward earning herself a Division I scholarship.

After a great career in college, she now spends time playing in recreation leagues, giving private lessons and hopes to someday get into coaching the sport she loves.

“It was always my passion,” she said.

Even when she played junior high basketball, her coaches knew there was something special about her.

It wasn’t her just her tall frame, and it wasn’t just her athletic ability that put her above the rest on the basketball court. She had the skills, but it was her pure determination to be the best that made Nicole Sinclair stand out.

“I knew it’s what I wanted to do,” she said.

She was one of the best girls’ basketball players to ever come out of Indiana High School. She averaged a double-double and scored more than 1,000 points and

Age: 32 Residence: Shamong, N.J. Family: Husband, Christopher; parents, Dan and Mary Lou Sinclair; sister Danyelle Occupation: Veterinarian Education: Indiana Area High School 2002, Duquesne University 2007, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine 2011.

Career Highlights: Scored more than 1,000 points and had more than 1,000 rebounds during her career as a standout basketball player at Indiana … Scored more than 800 points and had more than 800 rebounds at Duquesne, a Division I program …

Was named Academic AllAmerican while at Duquesne … Took sixth place at PIAA track and field championships in the shot put in 2002. had 1,000 rebounds in her high school career. She went on to play Division I basketball and became an Academic All-American. She was also a great track and field athlete. For all of her accomplishments, Sinclair will be welcomed into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday at the annual induction banquet.

Continued on Page 17

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MLB: Pirates 8, Braves 2

The Indiana Gazette

PIRATES PREVIEW

COLORADO (20-20) vs.

PITTSBURGH (22-18)

KEITH SRAKOCIC/Associated Press

THE PIRATES’ John Jaso slid into third base with a triple as the ball got away from the Braves’ Chase d’Arnaud during the second inning of Thursday’s game in Pittsburgh. Jaso went 3-for-4.

Polanco powers Bucs to win

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle moved Gregory Polanco into the third spot in the lineup earlier this month curious, to see what the still somewhat raw right fielder could do.

Turns out, maybe a little bit of everything.

Polanco hit a two-run home off Mike Foltynewicz and later tripled and scored as the Pirates raced by the Atlanta Braves 8-2 on Thursday night for their fourth win in five games.

The 24-year-old Polanco is hitting .461 (12-for-26) in his last seven games, including his long drive to leftcenter in the second, a spot in PNC Park few left-handed batters reach.

“It stands out in this ballpark when you can take it out there,” Hurdle said.

“That’s a big reach for right-handed hitters. When you get some lefty who can hit it out there, (you see) he’s got that kind of power.”

He has speed, too. Polanco led off the fifth with a triple to right-center while hitting behind star Andrew McCutchen, a spot Polanco suddenly looks very comfortable in.

John Jaso went 3-for-4 with a triple, an RBI and two runs scored for the Pirates, who scored 29 runs while taking three of four from the Braves. Jaso led off the bottom of the first with a single and later scored when Starling Marte — returning from paternity leave following the birth of his daughter on Sunday — hit a blooper to right field that fell in front of Nick Markakis to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead.

Jaso’s two-out triple in the second eventually set up Polanco’s shot that made it 5-0, giving starter Jeff Locke time to settle in.

Unlike teammates Jon Niese and He was taken to a local hospital and Juan Nicasio, who labored while replaced by Daniel Castro, who went pitching with a significant lead earlier 0-for-4 as his averaged dropped to in the series, Locke (2-3) was steady. .198.

The left-hander has endured a rocky Braves manager Brian Snitker said start at the back end of the rotation Aybar was fine and returned to the and was touched for six runs team during the game but was in a loss at the Chicago Cubs unable to play because he’d on Saturday. been sedated while undergoFacing an offense that came ing treatment. in ranked near the bottom of Wilfredo Boscan pitched two the majors in most statistical scoreless innings in his major categories, Locke found better league debut for Pittsburgh, filuck. Though at least one Atnally making his way onto the lanta batter reached base in mound, a call he never reeach of Locke’s seven innings, ceived while getting called up he avoided major trouble to from Triple-A Indianapolis GREGORY give Pittsburgh’s scuffling three separate times last seabullpen a break while allowing son.

POLANCO two runs and seven hits with “I’ve definitely been waiting six strikeouts and two walks. for this opportunity since last year,” “We wanted to try and limit the Boscan said. “It’s been a very emodamage as much as you can,” Locke tional night. I’m just excited to give said. “It feels good to eat up some in- my 100 percent.” nings.”

Boscan replaced reliever Cory LueFollowing eight shutout innings in a bke, whose long comeback from two win at Kansas City on Saturday, reconstructive elbow surgeries hit a Foltynewicz struggled. The 23-year- speed bump when the Pirates sent old lasted just three innings, giving up him to Indianapolis. five runs and seven hits as the Braves The 31-year-old Luebke made the fell to 10-30, the worst record in the team as a non-roster invitee in spring majors. training but struggled in four appear“I think I just tried to do too much,” ances, including giving up three runs Foltynewicz said. “I tried to throw the while getting just one out on Monday. ball too hard. I tried to throw the slider Hurdle said he hopes Luebke, who and the curveball a little too much missed three full seasons while his left there in certain situations with two elbow recovered, will get regular work strikes. Everything was just up and in the minors in hopes of regaining his they got the bat on it.” form.

Jeff Francouer went 3-for-4 with his The Pirates open a three-game fifth home run of the season for At- weekend series with the Colorado lanta.

Rockies today. Gerrit Cole (4-3, 3.05), Atlanta was forced to scratch Erick coming off eight shutout innings in a Aybar a few hours before the game win over the Cubs on Sunday, will after the shortstop arrived at PNC start. Pittsburgh swept three games Park expressing discomfort in his from the Rockies in Colorado last chest after swallowing a chicken bone. month.

MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP

White Sox’s Sale improves to 9-0

By The Associated Press Chris Sale went the distance on a masterful four-hitter on Thursday night, becoming the first major league pitcher since 2008 to win his first nine starts, and the Chicago White Sox edged the Houston Astros 2-1 to snap their season-high four game losing streak.

Sale walked none and struck out a season-high nine en route to his second straight complete game. No other pitcher has more than seven victories in the big leagues this season.

The Arizona Diamondbacks’ Brandon Webb had been the last to post a 9-0 record in his first nine starts. The last White Sox to accomplish the feat was Eddie Cicotte in 1919, when he won 12 in a row.

Houston broke the shutout bid in the eighth, when Evan Gattis clubbed Sale’s first pitch for a home run.

BLUE JAYS 3, TWINS 2: Troy Tulowitzki drove in the go-ahead run with a twoout, two-strike single in the 11th inning the Toronto stopped a five-game losing streak.

Edwin Encarnacion’s two-run home run tied the game in the sixth for the only big hit during a duel between Marco Estrada and Ervin Santana, who pitched eight innings apiece.

Estrada and Roberto Osuna (2-0) held the Twins hitless from the fourth through the 10th, and Joe Biagini worked the 11th inning for his first save.

MARINERS 7, ORIOLES 2: Adam Lind broke open a close game with a threerun homer in the sixth inning, and Seattle beat Baltimore to complete another successful road series.

Leonys Martin also homered for the Mariners, who took two of three from Baltimore to improve to an AL-best 15-7 in away games. Seattle is 6-0-1 in seven road series.

Nathan Karns (4-1) allowed one run and four hits in five innings, striking out five and walking none.

YANKEES 4, ATHLETICS 1: Ivan Nova pitched six innings for his second win since moving into the starting rotation, Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer and New York held on to beat Oakland.

Aaron Hicks added an RBI double while Brett Gardner had two hits and two walks to help the Yankees win the opener of the four-game series.

Nova (3-1) allowed one run and four hits in his latest outing since replacing the injured CC Sabathia in the Yankees’ rotation.

Josh Reddick homered for Oakland before leaving after appearing to injure his left hand stealing second base in the seventh.

NATIONAL LEAGUE BREWERS 5, CUBS 3: Junior Guerra struck out a career-high 11, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Chris Carter homered and Milwaukee slowed Chicago.

Jason Hammel (5-1) allowed four runs and five hits in six innings. He had been 8-0 with a 2.37 ERA in 11 career starts against the Brewers. Chicago, a big-league best 28-11, has lost three times in a four-game span for the first time this season. The Cubs scored seven runs in the three-game series.

NATIONALS 9, METS 1: Unbeaten Stephen Strasburg struck out 10, Daniel Murphy homered against his old team and Bryce Harper finally got a hit off shaky Matt Harvey as Washington routed New York.

Slumping Ben Revere singled to start a seven-run burst in the third inning and capped it with a two-run triple for a 9-1 lead, chasing Harvey and sending boos bouncing all around Citi Field.

The NL East-leading Nationals handed the Mets their sixth loss in seven games.

Strasburg (7-0) gave up one run and six hits in six innings, and tied Cubs ace Jake Arrieta for the league lead in wins. Harvey (3-6) was tagged for a career-worst nine runs.

CARDINALS 13, ROCKIES 7: Matt Carpenter homered and drove in a career-high six runs and Matt Adams added four RBIs to lead St. Louis.

Stephen Piscotty, hitting cleanup for only the third time this season, had three hits and drove in two runs for the Cardinals.

Trevor Story hit his 12th home run of the season for the Rockies, a solo shot in the seventh. He had three hits.

GIANTS 3, PADRES 1: Jeff Samardzija pitched eight strong innings, Joe Panik had four hits and Brandon Crawford homered for NL West-leading San Francisco, who beat San Diego for their season-high eighth straight victory.

The Giants went 7-0 on a swing through Arizona and San Diego.

Samardzija (6-2) held San Diego to three hits and one run.

INTERLEAUGE INDIANS 7, REDS 2: Carlos Santana hit two two-run homers, and Josh Tomlin stayed unbeaten by allowing only five hits while pitching into the eighth inning, leading Cleveland to its the first sweep of their annual intrastate series.

The Indians won two games in Cleveland and two at Great American Ball Park by outscoring the Reds 4316. Neither team had swept the season series that started in 1997.

ANGELS 7, DODGERS 4: Johnny Giavotella singled in the tying and goahead runs with two outs in the fifth inning and the Angels rallied to beat the Dodgers, taking three out of four games in the Freeway Series.

Mike Trout homered for the second straight game and Carlos Perez added a solo shot for the Angels, who have scored 52 runs in the last eight games after just eight in their previous five games. They have won six of seven.

Trout was 2 of 3 and drove in three runs in front of 45,007, the largest crowd for a regular-season game since Angel Stadium was renovated in 1998.

When: 7:05 p.m. today, 4:05 p.m. Saturday and 1:35 p.m.

Sunday Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh On the air: Root and WCCS-1160 AM All-time series: Pirates lead 96-91.

So far this season: Pirates lead 3-0. The Pirates swept the Rockies in a three-game series at Coors Field in April.

Managers: Pirates: Clint Hurdle (sixth season with Pirates, 453-397). Rockies: Walt Weiss (fourth season with Rockies, 228-298).

About the Pirates: The Pirates are 22-18 after winning three of four games in a home series against the Braves. ...

The Pirates have won four of their last five games. ... Gregory Polanco is third in the National League with 23 extra-base hits. The right fielder tallied four doubles, a triple and a home run in the Braves series. ... Gerrit Cole has won his last two starts. The right-hander has limited opponents to two runs over 14 innings and has struck out 14 batters. ... Josh Harrison has collected a hit in seven of his last eight games.

During that stretch, Harrison is batting .308 with a triple, a home run and four RBIs. ... Mark Melancon has successfully converted nine straight saves. During that span, the righthander has allowed just six hits and no runs over 8 1-3 innings.

About the Rockies: The Rockies are 20-20 after losing two of three games in a road series with the Cardinals. ... Nolan Arenado is first in the league with 13 home runs and is fourth with 33 RBIs. So far this month, Arenado has three home runs and 11 RBIs. ... Charlie Blackmon has reached base safely in 15 straight games. During that span, Blackmon is batting .350 with eight extra-base hits, 10 RBIs and seven runs scored. ...

Jake McGee has converted six consecutive saves. During that stretch, the left-hander has allowed four hits and no runs over six innings. ... Trevor Story is in the midst of a seven-game hitting streak, in which he is batting .367 with six extra-base hits, four RBIs and three runs scored.

Probable starters • Eddie Butler (2-1, 4.74) vs. Gerrit Cole (4-3, 3.05) • Tyler Chatwood (5-3, 3.20) vs. Jon Niese (4-2, 5.28) • Chad Bettis (4-2, 4.18) vs. Juan Nicasio (4-3, 4.66) Projected lineups Pirates Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. John Jaso 1B .301 3 15 2. Andrew McCutchen CF .248 8 19 3. Gregory Polanco RF .308 5 22 4. Jung Ho Kang 3B .257 5 11 5. Starling Marte LF .324 3 16 6. Francisco Cervelli C .280 0 20 7. Josh Harrison 2B .308 2 21 8. Jordy Mercer SS .297 1 15 9. Starting Pitcher SP — — — Bench: Chris Stewart (C), Sean Rodriguez (utility), David Freese (INF), Matt Joyce (OF), Cole Figueroa (INF).

Bullpen: Mark Melancon (R, closer), Tony Watson (L), Neftali Feliz (R), Arquimedes Caminero (R), Jared Hughes (R), Ryan Vogelsong (R), Wilfredo Boscan (R).

Rockies Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. Charlie Blackmon CF .287 2 14 2. Trevor Story SS .277 12 31 3. Nolan Arenado 3B .307 13 34 4. Gerardo Parra LF .303 3 20 5. Carlos Gonzalez RF .287 5 13 6. Mark Reynolds 1B .313 2 13 7. DJ LeMahieu 2B .308 2 13 8. Dustin Garneau C .269 0 4 9. Starting Pitcher SP — — — Bench: Tony Wolters (C), Daniel Descalso (INF), Christian Adames (INF), Ryan Raburn (OF).

Bullpen: Jake McGee (L, closer), Justin Miller (R), Boone Logan (L), Chad Qualls (R), Gonzalez Germen (R), Carlos Estevez (R), Scott Oberg (R), Christian Bergman (R).

Next: The Pirates welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks to PNC Park for a three-game series, Tuesday through Thursday.

Penguins finding new gear in finals Continued from Page 13 Pittsburgh’s second-round victory over Washington.

While the Penguins’ biggest stars were trying to get back on track, Kessel, Hagelin and Bonino heated up at precisely the right time.

The trio had a huge impact Wednesday night, as well, with Kessel delivering his team-leading seventh goal of the playoffs off a nifty pass from Bonino after earlier setting up Hagelin’s goal that snapped a scoreless tie.

“You don’t win consistently without (depth). That line’s been great all playoffs long,” Crosby said. “You look at the way Phil’s playing ... he creates so much. Haggy’s got a ton of speed. And Bones is a really smart player. He works really well with those two guys. They’ve given us a lot of momentum.”

Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper acknowledged the line has been tough matchup for a team that’s accustomed to wearing opponents down with its own deep roster.

“You look at their team, Phil Kessel probably doesn’t get near the respect he deserves. I mean, he’s scored a ton of goals in this league.

Bonino’s kind of one of those underrated players. ... You look at the teams he’s playing, and there’s always been named stars ahead of him.

Hagelin’s won everywhere he’s gone, the teams he’s played on. But they get overshadowed by the big-name

guys,” Cooper said.

The Penguins have outshot Tampa Bay 124-70, a trend the Lightning can’t allow to continue if they expect to win the series.

Tampa Bay won all three regular-season meetings between the teams before taking Game 1 of this series on the road, so coaches and players say there’s no need to panic.

Cooper reunited the “triplets” line of Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat during the third period of Game 3, and the trio that was instrumental to Tampa Bay’s run to the Stanley Cup final a year ago produced two late goals.

Goalie Ben Bishop practiced Thursday and said he remains hopeful he’ll return at some point in the series.

Cooper said he doesn’t expect it to be for Game 4.

With Vasilevskiy playing as well as he has, and Tampa Bay’s track record as a resilient team, the coach remains confident this still will be a “long, tough” series.

“It’s not something where we’re sitting here saying: ‘Oh, we can’t beat this team.’

We couldn’t beat them in the last two games, and that’s the way we’re looking at it,” Cooper said.

“But in saying that, Pittsburgh’s put us in a position to be like that,” the coach added “Now it’s we served, they volleyed back. Now it’s our turn to send it back to them.”

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Ryen, Marion Center shut out Blairsville Continued from Page 13 “We practiced the last three days on timing that pitch, and we just didn’t do it. We batted all this year at .211 as a team, so it didn’t surprise me that we didn’t hit a quality pitcher that well. We tried to small-ball a couple innings, and we couldn’t get it done that way. They were the better team today.”

Ryen broke the shutout from the leadoff spot in the third inning in her second trip to the plate on a second-pitch solo shot, her eighth home run of the sea-

son, to opposite field with no outs on the board. She walked on her three other at-bats, but she was glad to take advantage of her one opportunity.

“It just felt good because I got walked the first at-bat and I didn’t think I’d see another pitch,” Ryen said.

“But I did, and it just felt good coming off the bat. It’s just upsetting I didn’t get another one to hit after that.

“We were actually expecting this to be a really tough game, which it was, and they played a great game.

But we were just ready and willing to do whatever it took to win.”

Batting near the bottom of the order, Trinity Ashbaugh and Jenna Strittmatter contributed the rest of Marion Center’s scoring.

Strittmatter plated Ashbaugh in each of the fourth and sixth innings.

Morgan Straw went 3-for4 to lead Marion Center.

Ashbaugh smacked a single and a double, and Strittmatter had two hits.

Kelsey Shondelmyer took the loss. She struck out three and walked four.

LOCAL SCOREBOARD HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD WPIAL INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

At Baldwin High School Note: The top four finishers in each event qualify for PIAA Championships on May 27-28, along with all other athletes who met the state-qualifying standards listed in parentheses.

CLASS AAA BOYS

CLASS AAA GIRLS

32,00 relay (8:02.04) — 1. North Allegheny 7:59.73, 2. Seneca Valley 8:04.03, 3. Chartiers Valley 8:04.51, 4. Franklin Regional 8:08.50, 5.

Norwin 8:10.52, 6. Greensburg Salem 8:11.11, 7. Baldwin 8:14.28, 8. Indiana 8:18.20.

110 hurdles (15.10) — 1. Roundtee, Kiski 14.26; 2. Kimball, Mount Lebanon 14.37; 3.

Batiste, Penn Hills 14.94; 4. Spino, Hempfield 15.01; 5. Yakich, Hampton 15.59; 6. Foulk, North Allegheny 15.59; 7. Allie, New Castle 15.67; 8. Todd, Bethel Park 15.76.

100 (11.10) — 1. Dudek, Armstrong 10.88; 2. Watts, West Mifflin 10.95; 3. Younger, Pittsburgh Central Catholic 11.12; 4. Trower, Penn Hills 11.15; 5. Speca, South Fayette 11.22; 6. Kibbie, Butler 11.24; 7. Teeter, Plum 11.25; 8. Leckenby, Upper Saint Clair 11.28.

1,600 (4:24.22) — 1. Kolor, Seneca Valley 4:13.23; 2. Kennedy, Kiski 4:17.84; 3. Stupak, North Allegheny 4:18.40; 4. Kalapos, Mount Lebanon 4:21.78; 5. Harris, Mount Lebanon 4:23.64; 6. Beveridge, Butler 4:23.68; 7. Lenze, Indiana 4:26.71; 8. Batykefer, Pine-Richland 4:28.50.

400 relay (43.25) — 1. Penn Hills 42.57, 2.

Belle Vernon 43.05, 3. Gateway 43.36, 4.

Woodland Hills 43.57, 5. North Allegheny 43.60, 6. Pittsburgh Central Catholic 43.71, 7.

Canon-McMillan 43.97, 8. Connellsville 44.06.

400 (50.09) — 1. Hill, Penn Hills 49.80; 2.

Leckenby, Upper Saint Clair 49.99; 3.

Turcovsky, Norwin 50.26; 4. Colcombe, Norwin 50.30; 5. Hibbard, Mars 50.36; 6.

Zabrosky, Hempfield 50.55; 7. Arch, Hampton 50.74; 8. Wiliams, Latrobe 51.05.

300 hurdles (39.80) — 1. Owens, North Allegheny 38.34; 2. Kimball, Mount Lebanon 39.06; 3. Eberhardt, Hampton 39.31; 4. Smith, Seneca Valley 39.62; 5. Reed, Gateway 39.90; 6. Foulk, North Allegheny 39.96; 7. Allie, New Castle 40.41; 8. Devine, Elizabeth Forward 40.75.

800 (1:57.32) — 1. Kolor, Seneca Valley 1:54.12; 2. Bailey, Penn Hills 1:54.72; 3.

Ehling, North Allegheny 1:56.14; 4. Bove, Fox Chapel 1:56.16; 5. Stephens, Albert Gallatin 1:56.45; 6. Pisarski, Connellsville 1:57.24; 7.

King, Greensburg Salem 1:58.80; 8. Voto, New Castle 1:59.55.

200 (22.50) — 1. Watts, West Mifflin 21.86; 2. Owens, North Allegheny 22.11; 3. Elliott, Ambridge 22.31; 4. Powell, Belle Vernon 22.51; 5. Williams, Ringgold 22.56; 6. Carl, Latrobe 22.77; 7. Fair, Woodland Hills 22.90; 8.

Vandusen, Ringgold 23.00.

3,200 (9:31.71) — 1. Wolk, Peters Township 9:13.68; 2. Migliozzi, North Allegheny 9:16.17; 3. Susalla, Plum 9:16.37; 4.

Westrick, Chartiers Valley 9:16.61; 5. Conboy, Baldwin 9:19.95; 6. Gunzenhauser, Mount Lebanon 9:25.38; 7. Provenzo, Franklin Regional 9:26.20; 8. Blechman, North Allegheny 9:27.45.

1,600 relay (3:24.03) — 1. Penn Hills 3:22.56. 2. Seneca Valley, 3:24.20. 3. Latrobe, 3:24.59. 4. Hampton, 3:24.66. 5. North Allegheny 3:25.02. 6. Gateway, 3:25.33. 7.

Hempfield, 3:25.75. 8. Baldwin, 3:26.

High jump (6-5) — 1. Turner, Kiski 6-3; 2.

Jones, Laurel Highlands 6-3; 3. Hudzicki, Indiana 6-1; 4. Mitchell, Penn hills 6-1; 5.

Wilson, Uniontown 6-1; 6. Febinger, Deer Lakes 6-1; 7. Todd, Bethel Park 6-1; T8.

Garner, Pittsburgh Central Catholic 5-11; T8.

Baum, Derry 5-11.

Pole vault (14-3) — 1. Fox, Hempfield 15-6; 2. J.Kelly, Pine-Richland 14-6; 3. D.Kelly, PineRichland 14-0; 4. Johnston, Baldwin 14-0; 5.

Khuu, Baldwin 13-6; 6. Nobbs, North Allegheny 13-6; 7. Colcombe, Norwin 13-0; 8.

Georgetsen, Hopewell 13-0.

Long jump (22-0) — 1. Watts, West Mifflin 22-8; 2. Kane, Upper Saint Clair 22-4.75; 3.

Martinka, Highlands 22-0.50; 4. Thomas, Pittsburgh Central Catholic 21-11.25; 5.

Anderson, Canon-McMIllan 21-9.50; 6. Taylor, Bethel Park 21-8; 7. Bagwell, Shaler 21-6.50; 8. Trax, Canon-McMillan 21-5.25.

Triple jump (45-0) — 1. Bricen Garner, Central Catholic, 47-3. 2. Josiah Davis, Uniontown, 44-3. 3. Jason Goodman, Hampton, 44-1 ½. 4. Rahmiere Knight, CanonMcMillan, 43-6. 5. Jaden Rouse, Penn Hills, 43-3 ½. 6. Michael Bagwell, Shaler, 42-8 ¼. 7.

Brendan Todd, Bethel Park 42-8. 8. Andrew Longjohn, North Hills, 42-6.

Shot put (52-0) — 1. Geist, Knoch 72-7*; 2.

Monta, Greensburg Salem 58-6.50; 3.

Marshall, Hempfield 57-0; 4. Simpson, Pittsburgh Central Catholic 52-7; 5. McTighe, Knoch 52-0; 6. Murray, Hempfield 50-11; 7.

Mastro, South Fayette 50-5; 8. Vuono, North Allegheny 49-7.

Discus (153-0) — 1. Geist, Knoch 192-11; 2. Monta, Greensburg Salem 171-11; 3.

Marshall, Hempfield 165-1; 4. White, Central Valley 163-6; 5. Mastro, South Fayette 163-4; 6. McTighe, Knoch 162-4; 7. Murray, Hempfield 161-6; 8. Gehm, Seneca Valley 1582.

Javelin (178-0) — 1. Manz, North Allegheny 208-7; 2. Biskup, Penn Trafford 191-0; 3.

Butler, Latrobe 190-4; 4. Fox, Hempfield 1897; 5. Mason, West Allegheny 178-4; 6. Rice, Laurel Highlands 175-9; 7. Fritsch, North Allegheny 173-6; 8. Jacobs, Elizabeth Forward 173-2.

3,200 relay (9:35.48) — 1. Mount Lebanon 9:23.44, 2. Latrobe 9:30.02, 3. Franklin Regional 9:32.32, 4. Oakland Catholic 9:34.36; 5. Butler 9:38.35, 6. North Allegheny 9:39.63, 7. Indiana 9:39.76, 8. Greensburg Salem 9:41.55.

100 hurdles (15.50) — 1. Ellis, Penn Hills 14.46; 2. Valeriano, North Hills 14.93; 3.

Traczynski, Hempfield 14.96; 4. Beck, CanonMcMillan 15.04; 5. Curran, Peters Township 15.11; 6. Cooper, Ringgold 15.45; 7. Brozeski, Norwin 15.91; 8. Amato, Plum 18.26.

100 (12.50) — 1. Hortsman, Butler 12.03; 2. Amato, Plum 12.18; 3. Stahl, Baldwin 12.25; 4. Upsher, McKeesport 12.28; 5. Lynn, Belle Vernon 12.46; 6. Oliver, South Fayette 12.49; 7. Aunskt, Penn Trafford 12.58; 8.

Wirick, Latrobe 12.63.

1,600 (5:12.25) — 1. Finikiotis, Oakland Catholic 5:01; 2. Moxie, Knoch 5:03.32; 3.

Aller, Kiski 5:06.29; 4. Shaw, Upper Saint Clair 5:06.39; 5. Valotta, Plum 5:09.25; 6. Penson, Ambridge 5:09.68; 7. Grzyb, Peters Township 5:09.77; 8. Miller, Fox Chapel 5:10.71.

400 relay (49.75) — 1. Pine-Richland 48.94, 2. North Allegheny 49.01, 3. CanonMcMillan 49.14, 4. Baldwin 49.25; 5. Gatweay 49.40; 6. Butler 49.46; 7. Penn Trafford 49.77; 8. South Fayette 49.88.

400 (58.80) — Heibling, South Fayette 56.24; 2. Leech, Butler 57.64; 3. Crawford, Gateway 57.97; 4. Stahl, Baldwin 58.62; 5.

Fischer, Hampton 58.85; 6. Ellis, Uniontown 58.87; 7. Manuppelli, Pine-Richland 59.17; 8.

Chakos, Trinity 59.33.

300 hurdles (46.25) — 1. Yankello, Central Valley 44.40; 2. Holmberg, Hempfield 45.12; 3. Valachovic, Hempfield 45.12; 4. Herock, Hampton 46.08; 5. Landis, North Allegheny 46.15; 6. Papik, Mars 46.39; 7. Beltran, Mars 46.65; 8. Zilka, Franklin Regional 46.73.

800 (2:18.47) — 1. Dougherty, Mount Lebanon 2:13.48; 2. Simms, Butler 2:15.31; 3.

Ehrenberger, Peters township 2:15.64; 4.

Salek, West Allegheny 2:16.16; 5. Ramsey, Latrobe 2:16.55; 6. Collini, Kiski 2:16.79; 7.

Anderson, Greensburg Salem 2:17.23; 8.

Kenawell, South Fayette 2:17.46.

200 (25.91) — 1. Horstman, Butler 25.03; 2. Aunkst, Penn Traffod 25.06; 3. Miedel, Hempfield 25.07; 4. Mangan, Mount Lebanon 25.36; 5. Beck, Canon-McMillan 25.70; 6.

Rolfsen, Mount Lebanon 25.82; 7. Wirick, Latrobe 26.20; 8. Leech, Butler 26.22.

3,200 (11:13.30) — 1. Savhik, North Allegheny 10:50.73; 2. Kwiatkowski, Greensburg Salem 11:03.89; 3. Pietrzyk, North Hills 11:07.67; 4. Urban, Fox Chapel 11:15.03; 5. Finikiotis, Oakland Catholic 11:15.30; 6. Franchi, Pine-Richland 11:17.46; 7. Hensler, Seneca Valley 11:21.42; 8. Moxie, Knoch 11:22.03.

1,600 relay (4:02.50) — 1. Butler 3:54.00.

2. Hempfield, 3:55.01. 3. Latrobe, 3:55.83. 4.

Mt. Lebanon, 3:56.12. 5. South Fayette, 3:56.12. 6. Penn Hills, 3:59.65. 7. PineRichland, 4:00.97. 8. North Allegheny, 4:01.42.

High jump (5-3) — 1. Stever, Indiana 5-6; 2. Brozeski, Norwin 5-4; 3. Cuneo, Hempfield 5-3; 4. Natter, Thomas Jefferson 5-3; 5.

Shiflet, Baldwin 5-1; 6. Bair, South Fayette 51; 7. Tilko, Butler 5-1; T8. Malcolm, Moon 51; T8. DeBone, Hempfield 5-1; T8. Handra, Trinity 5-1.

Pole vault (11-0) — 1. Phelan, Laurel Highlands 12-6; 2. DeBone, Hempfield 11-6; 3. Weaver, Butler 11-0; 4. Loeffler, Baldwin 10-9; 5. Fellers, North Allegheny 10-9; 6.

LaRosa, North Allegheny 10-3; 7. Lander, Hempfield 10-3; 8. Kimes, Bethel Park 10-3.

Long jump (17-6) — 1. Howard, Greensburg Salem 18-11; 2. Amato, Plum 183.50; 3. Stever, Indiana 18-3.50; 4. Valeriano, North Hills 18-3; 5. Ellis, Penn Hills 18-0; 6.

Hubert, Franklin Regional 17-10.50; 7.

Beirwith, Baldwin 17-10.25; 8. Holmberg, Hempfield 17-9.50.

Triple jump (36-6) — 1. Howard, Greensburg Salem 38-10.75; 2. Killins, West Mifflin 37-4; 3. Falcione, Peters Township 370.75; 4. Holmberg, Hempfield 36-11.50; 5.

Salopek, Mount Pleasant 36-2.25; 6.

Schreiber, Shaler 36-0; 7. Phoennik, South Fayette 35-7.25; 8. Benitez, Plum 35-7.

Shot put (37-6) — 1. Bernesser, Shaler 410.50; 2. Orie, Hempfield 39-11; 3.

Greggerson, Gateway 38-10.50; 4. Wozniak, Uniontown 38-7.50; 5. Fleming, Trinity 37-11; 6. Brooks, Woodland Hills 37-10; 7. Johnson, Kiski 37-9; 8. Wicks, Baldwin 37-7.

Discus (118-0) — 1. Hutchinson, Hempfield 119-5; 2. Brooks, Woodland Hills 118-5; 3. Jamieson, Seneca Valley 117-6; 4.

Loughran, Hempfield 114-9; 5. Augustine, Seneca Valley 114-9; 6. Wicks, Baldwin 1138; 7. Reinheimer, Butler 111-9; 8. Hathaway, Canon-McMillan 110-5.

Javelin (122-0) — 1. Wiltrout, Connellsville 144-8; 2. Dinnen, Chartiers Valley 124-11; 3. Smith, Thomas Jefferson 123-10; 4. Danik, Seneca Valley 123-7; 5.

Spirnak, Elizabeth Forward 123-0; 6.

Polczysnki, Norwin 121-10; 7. Greggerson, Gateway 121-10; 8. McDonald, Derry 121-10.

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS

CLASS A

5)

Games at 4 p.m.

First Round Thursday’s Games St. Joseph’s 17, United 0 Conemaugh Valley 1, Blacklick Valley 0 Portage 8, Bishop Guilfoyle 5 Williamsburg 3, Claysburg-Kimmel 0 Juniata Valley 9, Northern Cambria 2 Quarterfinals Monday’s Games St. Joseph’s (10-8) at Blairsville (15-3) Conemaugh Valley (14-6) vs. Portage (15Williamsburg (8-8) at Homer-Center (13-5) Juniata Valley (12-8) at Ferndale (14-4)

CLASS AA Games at 4 p.m.

First Round Thursday’s Games Bedford 10, Everett 0, 6 innings Forest Hills 5, Bald Eagle 0 Central 5, Southern Huntingdon 0 Mount Union 5, Ligonier Valley 1 Bishop McCort 7, Bellwood-Antis 5 Juniata 10, Penn Cambria 2 Philipsburg-Osceola 4, Chesternut Ridge 3, 10 innings Tyrone at Richland, ppd.

Today’s Game Tyrone (7-11) at Richland (13-4) Quarterfinals Monday’s Games Bedford (15-4) vs. Forest Hills (14-7) Central (15-5) vs. Mount Union (17-3)

Bishop McCort (15-5) vs. Juniata (12-4) Philipsburg-Osceola (12-6) vs. TyroneRichland winner

MONDAY’S BOX SCORE MOUNT UNION 5, LIGONIER VALLEY 1 Ligonier Valley — 1 Schott 2b 3-0-1-0, Sibal lf 3-0-0-0, Schueltz ss 3-0-0-0, Mills cf 3-0-0-0, Stouffer dh 3-0-00, J.Caldwell rf 2-0-0-0, B.Custer p 3-0-0-0, Williams cr 0-0-0-0, G.Custer 3b 3-0-0-0, Nepa c 3-0-2-0, A.Caldwell cr 0-1-0-0, Totals 26-1-3-1 Mount Union — 5 Brenneman lf 4-1-0-0, Atherton 3b 3-0-1-0, Gearhart ss 3-0-1-0, Harshbarger p 2-0-0-0, Love cr 0-1-0-0, Wilson rf 3-0-1-0, Sunderland cf 3-1-2-1, Blair c 3-0-2-0, Inch cr 0-1-0-0, Posey dh 3-1-1-1, Miller 1b 3-0-1-1, Totals 275-9-3 Ligonier Valley 001 000 0 — 1 3 1 Mount Union 041 000 x — 5 9 3 W — Harshbarger 6 K, 0 BB. L — B.Custer 1 K, 1 BB.

BOWLING

BOLIVAR LANES DOUBLE DOZEN Men: Leonard Baird 199-580, George Hall 217-573, Jim McClellan 538, Mike James 187 Women: Laura Kelly 181-487, Christine Brothers 179-483, Brooke Sisitki 177-465

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS CLASS A Games at 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals Monday’s Games Bishop Carroll at Claysburg-Kimmel West Branch at Southern Huntingdon Northern Cambria at Glendale

CLASS AA

Games at 4 p.m.

First Round Thursday’s Games Westmont Hilltop 5, Richland 2 Forest Hills 5, Penn Cambria 2 Ligonier Valley 5, Mount Union 2 Bishop McCort 11, Cambria Heights 1 Marion Center 3, Blairsville 0 Quarterfinals Monday’s Games Westmont Hilltop at Philipsburg-Osceola Forest Hills at Ligonier Valley Bishop McCort at Bald Eagle Marion Center at Central

MONDAY’S LINE SCORES MARION CENTER 3, BLAIRSVILLE 0 Blairsville 000 000 0 — 0 0 2 Marion Center 001 101 x — 3 8 1 2B — Asbaugh (MC).

W — Ryen 12 K, 2 BB. L — Shondelmyer 3 K, 4 BB.

LIGONIER VALLEY 5, MOUNT UNION 2

Mount Union 000 002 0 — 2 4 6 Ligonier Valley 400 010 x — 5 3 1 W — Petrof 12 K, 1 BB. L — Gearhart 6 K, 1 BB.

SANDLOT BASEBALL

INDIANA COUNTY LEAGUE WEST LEBANON 9, APOLLO 0 Apollo — 0 Perroz Jr. c-lf 2-0-0-0, Baker ss-p 3-0-1-0, Galo 1b 1-0-0-0, Marchek lf-cf 2-0-0-0, Johnson cf-c 3-0-0-0, Bish p-ss-3b 3-0-0-0, Laird 3b-p 3-0-0-0, Perroz Sr. lf-1b 2-0-0-0, Ament 2b 2-0-0-0, Duchene rf 2-0-0-0, Totals 23-0-1-0 West Lebanon — 9 Putt cf 4-1-2-1, Steininger 2b 1-3-1-0, A.Rebyanski ss 2-2-2-1, M.Rebyanski lf 4-1-31, Smyers 3b-1b 2-0-0-1, Beitel c 3-1-0-0, Mack rf 2-1-1-1, Shaffor rf 0-0-0-0, Griffith pdh 3-0-3-0, Bendegn 1b 2-0-0-0, McClure 3b 2-0-0-0, Newton p 0-0-0-0, Totals 25-9-12-5 Apollo 000 000 0 — 0 1 0 West Lebanon 102 213 x — 9 12 3 W — Griffith 2 K, 0 BB. L — Bish 3 K, 5 BB.

INDIANA COUNTY YOUTH LEGION MARION CENTER 17, CLYMER LEGION 6 Marion Center 522 230 3 — 17 16 3 Clymer Legion 301 200 0 — 6 3 5 2B — Badzik 2 (MC), Johnston 2 (MC), Gaston (MC).

W — Mondi 6 K, 6 BB. L — Lightner 1 K, 1 BB.

ARMSTRONG 12, INDIANA LIONS 0

Armstrong 106 05 — 12 16 0 Indiana Lions 000 00 — 0 2 0 2B —Morris (A), Klukan (A), Dillard (A), Bordick (A).

W — Herbst 6 K, 3 BB. L — Josephson 1 K, 5 BB.

Despite the disappointing end to the season, Blairsville’s coach is pleased with the progress his team made throughout the year while compiling a 10-7 record.

“Without a doubt,” Harsh said. “Am I frustrated as a coach not hitting and hitting .211 as a team? Yeah, I am. But I didn’t yell at the girls after the game. I was proud of them. All in all, I’m very, very happy with this team.

“Our goal this year was just to be .500 with the team that we had, and we ex-

ceeded that goal. And then our goal was to make district playoffs, and we did that. Could we have beaten Marion Center? Yeah. We should have beaten them twice during the regular season, but Laken was on today. She pitched a heck of a game.”

For Marion Center (13-4), retribution still lies ahead.

Thursday’s game marked a rematch of the 2014 quarterfinals, when Blairsville defeated Marion Center 41.Although the Stingers surely had their 2014 playoff loss in the back of their

mind, they couldn’t help but look ahead to what comes next — a chance to redeem last year’s championship defeat.

“We’re looking forward to it,” Peterson said. “In the back of your mind when you see the brackets — I don’t overlook one game, because you have to take one game at a time — but when I saw who would be next if we could beat Blairsville here, I got a big smile on my face. Because we have a chance to go down there and change things around.”

IHS’ Stever repeats as high jump champion Continued from Page 13 biggest athletic conferences in the country, so to place at a meet like this is just great, it’s fantastic. … The kids really performed well. I have no complaints at all.”

Stever had her best high jump of the season, clearing the bar at 5 feet, 6 inches to capture her third straight WPIAL title. But repeating as champ again wasn’t easy for the Indiana junior.

“It was definitely harder this year because there’s more competition,” she said. “I really wanted to win it again, but it was definitely harder. There was better competition than there was last year.”

“She won the high jump down here last year, but only jumped 5-4,” Cochran said.

“This year, she’s hitting her peak heights and peak distances at this meet, and I’m hoping that she’s going to continue to build that confidence, really for her, out at the state meet at Shippensburg next week. I think she’s got a legitimate shot to do well, and we’ll just hope that she takes that same aggressiveness into next week.”

Stever, whose personal-best jump is 5-8, didn’t miss a jump until the bar was set at 56, and she was the only participant to take a shot at 5-8.

“Hopefully, I’ll get to place this year,” Stever said. “Hopefully, I’ll push myself hard enough to get to finally place. Last year, I didn’t place. I placed my freshman year in long jump. But I definitely want to place this year. That’s something that I definitely want to do.”

In the long jump, Stever took third with a jump of 18-3½. She exceeded the 18-foot mark on four of her six jumps Thursday, and that pleased her more than the thirdplace finish.

“I hadn’t hit an 18 yet this year, so it definitely made me feel better that I finally got to 18,” Stever said. “I was more worried about getting into the top four than winning.”

“Jess Stever had a fantastic day today,” Cochran said. “She had her season best in the high jump with 5-6 and wins that, and then pops four jumps over 18 feet today, and I think her best coming had been something like 17-5, 17-4, so great, great job. She stepped up today in her two events and really did what she needed to do. The one thing I told her before we came here this week was that she needs to just be aggressive, and she did that. She was aggressive and attacked in both of her events.”

Prior to this year, Hudzicki didn’t participate in a spring sport. At the urging of close friend and basketball teammate Ryan Hoff, he joined the track team, and he’s glad he

did. He cleared 6-1 before passing on his three attempts at 6-3 due to a hip injury that has slowed him down in recent weeks.

“With Taylor, he’s a first-time high jumper for us, and it’s fantastic he’s making it out to the state meet,” Cochran said. “He’s got that little hip injury right now, but we’re hoping it’s going to be OK to go. He’s got a little bit over a week to recover. But just real excited for him to make it out there as a first-year kid.”

“I’m really excited, this being my first year,” Hudzicki said. “I thought it’d be a nice goal this season, and I’m just happy to be able to go. A couple of my friends talked me into it since I wasn’t doing anything in the spring so I thought I’d give it a shot. … I play basketball, so (Hoff) said, ‘Since we can dunk, we’ll be good at high jump.’ And I’m like, ‘All right, I’ll believe you.’ So first day, it was a little iffy because you didn’t have any form, but … the form came within a couple weeks, and then I started getting better over the season. As I went on, I was hoping to make it pretty far.”

Indiana’s other individual to earn a medal was Sam Lenze in the 1,600 (4:26.71). Both of the Indians’ 3,200 relay teams also walked away with medals. The girls’ placed seventh in 9:39.76, bettering their seeded time by 12-plus seconds, and the boys’ team took eighth in a season-best 8:18.20.

Also in Class AAA, Derry’s Zach Baum tied for eighth in the Class AAA boys’ high jump (5-11), and Kara McDonald placed eighth in the javelin with a throw of 121-10, earning her second WPIAL medal. McDonald missed the state-qualifying standard by a gut-wrenching two inches, and to add insult to injury, she re-aggravated a hamstring injury that forced her to miss five weeks of the season before her first meet on April 13.

“It’s not as bad as I thought,” she said of missing states by two inches. “I just keep thinking I’m lucky to be here. The doctors didn’t think I was going to make it back this season so I’m happy with that. Yes, it’s disappointing, especially missing it by two inches. I really wanted it, but just this little defeat, it teaches me to respect the sport.

It’s not a mistake to me that I didn’t throw the distance I needed. It would be a mistake if I didn’t learn anything from it.”

In Class AA competition, three ApolloRidge athletes medaled, each of them earning seventh place. On the boys’ side, Dillon Butz-Retzer placed seventh in the 100meter dash in 11.58 seconds. Jackie Rearick took seventh in the discus (108-2), while Ashtyn Bauster finished in a tie for seventh in the high jump (4-10).

AROUND THE AREA

By The Indiana Gazette

Ligonier Valley advances in playoffs LIGONIER — Fourthseeded Ligonier Valley gave Lexie Petrof all the run support she needed in the first inning of a 5-2 win over 13th-seeded Mount Union in the opening round of the District 6 Class AA softball playoffs Thursday.

Ligonier Valley, which finished with only three hits, took a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Mount Union committed six errors in the game.

Petrof, who struck out 12 and walked one in a complete game four-hitter, allowed two unearned runs in the top of the sixth inning before pitching a scoreless seventh.

Ligonier Valley (17-3) plays host to 12th-seeded Forest Hills in the quarterfinals Monday.

Ligonier baseball team ousted MOUNT UNION — Third-seeded Mount Union notched nine hits and rode the arm of Drew Harshbarger to outlast 14th-seeded Ligonier Valley, 5-1, in the opening round of the District 6 Class AA baseball playoffs Thursday.

Mount Union used four straight singles in the second inning to score the game’s first four runs.

Harshbarger allowed one

run on one hit and an error in the third before holding the Rams scoreless on three hits in the last four innings.

Ligonier Valley closed the season with an 11-7 record.

Templeton singled twice.

Clymer Legion (0-3) travels to Kelly Chrysler today, and Marion Center visits Kelly Chrysler on Wednesday.

Armstrong, Marion Center score wins

West Lebanon blanks Apollo in ICL

Jacob Herbst tossed a two-hitter, and visiting Armstrong banged out a season-high 16 hits to upend Indiana Lions, 12-0, in an Indiana County Youth Legion baseball game that was shortened to five innings due to the mercy rule Thursday.

Herbst struck out six and walked three.

Eddie Morris led Armstrong by going 3-for-3 with a double and three RBIs. Tanner Bordick singled and doubled, and Paul Cypher and Jacob Gross smacked two singles apiece.

Indiana Lions (0-3) plays host to Young Township on Saturday, and Armstrong welcomes I-Medical on Monday.

• CLYMER — Visiting Marion Center scored in every inning but the sixth and posted season highs in hits and runs to rout winless Clymer Legion, 17-6.

Winning pitcher Brandon Mondi struck out six and walked six in a three-hitter.

He also went 2-for-4, Dylan Johnston and Matt Badzik ripped two doubles and a base hit apiece, and Cody

WEST LEBANON — Matt Griffith and Andrew Newton combined to throw a one-hitter to help West Lebanon beat Apollo, 9-0, and improve to 2-0 in Indiana County League baseball action Thursday at Bertolino Field.

Griffith struck out two,

walked none and allowed one hit in six innings to earn the win. Newton allowed no hits and no walks in one inning of relief.

Griffith and Matt Rebyanski smacked three singles apiece, Bo Putt and Anthony Rebyanski ripped two each, and Eric Steininger singled and scored three runs.

Jarod Baker recorded Apollo’s lone hit, a single in the sixth inning.

Both teams play Sunday.

West Lebanon plays host to Blairsville in a doubleheader, and Apollo welcomes Bovard.

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IHS standout followed dreams to DI Continued from Page 13 Sinclair, now Nicole Sinclair-Torre after she married in May 2013, was pretty sure at a young age where she wanted to end up in life.

Basketball was her “thing” and she did what she could to keep it going.

Sinclair-Torre, a 2002 graduate of Indiana, started playing organized basketball at the age of 7. She worked her way up through the youth program, and after having some success, began playing travel basketball in Indiana at the age of 12. She was then recruited to play for the Pittsburgh Rockers, an AAU squad that played in tournaments as far away as Oregon.

“I traveled every summer across the country playing basketball,” Sinclair-Torre said. “That was my goal my entire junior high and high school career was to get a scholarship for basketball. I definitely knew that was what I wanted to do, and I was hoping that was going to happen. Everything worked out in my favor, but it was something I intended for a long time.”

As she continued throughout her junior high career, she started to realize what her coaches always saw in her — she was a special kind of player. She was tall — always listed at 6-foot even though she admits to being 5-foot-11 — but also had great ball-handling skills. Her seventh-grade coach, Doug Steve, knew right away what kind of player he had on his hands.

“She was much more advanced than anyone we played against,” he said.

“She had the work ethic, too. You didn’t know what the next five years would bring, but you knew she had potential to go Division I if she stayed on that same track. She would go up and get all the rebounds. With her height and her ability, it was hard to stop her.”

The Indiana girls’ team dominated in their seventh- and eighth-grade seasons and hoped to take their success with them to the varsity level.

Sinclair-Torre was just one piece of the puzzle, but according to Steve, she was the heart of the team at the time. She took the court with her friends Melissa Stewart, Alexis Antalis, Kayla Lazor, Jenna Raglani and Kathy Dell, who jelled to make a pretty good basketball team.

“There were six of us in our grade, and we were all pretty tall and pretty good,” Sinclair-Torre said. “We were all really good friends, and still are to this day. We had great times together. It was a great nucleus of players.”

“We grew more cohesive once we entered high school, but there was a group of us that became very close friends,” said Stewart, who is also being inducted into the Hall of Fame this weekend. “We played a lot of basketball together. You play sports because it’s fun and it’s enjoyable, but it made it all the more special playing with that group of girls.”

Despite breezing through their junior high years, they failed to make a run in the playoffs in high school.

They were ousted in the first round in each of their four appearances in the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs, including an upset loss in 2002 — their senior season — to Seneca Valley.

“It is something that you always remember,” Sinclair-Torre said. “You have that aspiration every year that you want to win a championship. It was my senior year, and I absolutely still think about it. We had big goals that season. But it happens, and that’s life. It’s something you wish you had, but you wouldn’t give up the ride along the way.”

At that time, the Indians could never seem to get over the playoff hump.

They always ran into some sort of trouble in the postseason even with a tall, talented squad.

“It was disappointing,” said Dave Woodall, who is still the girls’ varsity coach at Indiana.

“It was always something, and it just didn’t go our way.

I knew how talented our girls were. But it was we were more forward-oriented, and they’d be more guard-oriented. Or our opponent would just have a great game. It was hard, but it doesn’t take away from what these girls accomplished at Indiana or how hard they worked at it.”

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NICOLE SINCLAIR-TORRE dribbled around a defender during a game against Penn-Trafford early in her senior season.  Another of Sinclair-Torre’s favorite teammates was her sister, Danyelle. Danyelle was two years older and — also a very good basketball player — served as mentor for Nicole during her freshman and sophomore seasons, on and off the court.

“It was wonderful to have that camaraderie there, and who can you rely on through the good and the bad more than your sister?”

Sinclair-Torre said. “She was always there for me, from start to finish. It was a great experience, and she was very good, too. It made for a fun time for both of us, and playing with her is something I’ll never forget.”

Sinclair-Torre scored her 1,000th career point in her junior season, and already had an idea that she might fulfill her dreams of becoming a Division I player. During that junior campaign, she attracted interest from different schools, but eventually narrowed it down to just two.

Her top two options were the University of Maine and Duquesne University. Both are good schools, and Sinclair-Torre had to follow her heart. Early in her senior year, she signed a national letter of intent to play for Duquesne the following season.

“It ended up coming down to wanting to stay local,” she said. “It was important to me and to my family for them to be able to easily attend my games.

My sister went to school in Pittsburgh also — she played at Carnegie Mellon — so she was there. We all stayed pretty close. Also, it’s obviously a wonderful school and had a wonderful basketball program. I was just happy to be fulfilling my longtime dream.”

Having already picked a college, Sinclair-Torre felt free to play her senior season with no added pressure. She took the court each game, playing not for herself but for her teammates. Through that hustle, though, she inched closer and closer to a milestone she never saw coming.

“I guess if you’d ask someone else, they’d say my strongest was muscling up and going to the basket and definitely rebounding,” she said. “That’s what I was known for. It was the work I put in to go and get the ball.”

So nobody around her was surprised when she pulled down that 1,000th rebound.

She was the first in school history to reach the mark.

“I didn’t really even think about it when I was in school until it started getting closer,” she said. “The thing with rebounding is it’s a highly undertracked stat.

It’s a highly unappreciated statistic. It’s all work — that’s what it is. You can go out and be a good shooter, and that’s a skill. Rebounding is also a skill set, but it’s more of a mentality and a passion.”

Sinclair-Torre averaged 15.5 points and 12.7 rebounds per game her senior season to lead the Indians to a share of the section title, and she was named to the All-Gazette first team.

She was a four-time selection.

Most athletes don’t play the sport for the accolades.

They go out to have fun and compete. That’s why Sinclair-Torre was taken aback by her selection for the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame.

“People told me I’d always be remembered for what I did in my basketball career, but I didn’t think something like this would come so early in life,” said the 32year-old, who was selected in her first year of eligibility.

“I thought maybe if I was in my 50s or 60s that someone would go back through the archives and remember me, but I didn’t think it would happen so soon.

There have been a lot of people honored for their accomplishments, and it’s wonderful to be a part of this. I thought maybe there would be a chance people would remember that I was part of the girls’ basketball team that was good at that point, but this is amazing.”  In her high school days, Sinclair-Torre wasn’t just a great basketball player. She took her athleticism to a different team each spring, suiting up as a track and field athlete.

She began as a sprinter in junior high, but eventually competed in the throwing events by the time she was at the varsity level. Her best friend, Stewart, might have had something to do with that.

“Yeah, I think Melissa might’ve influenced me a little to do the throwing events,” Sinclair-Torre said, laughing. “I’ll blame that on her.”

Sinclair-Torre competed in shot put, discus, high jump and was a part of the 1,600-meter relay — just another example of her allaround athleticism.

“I know she was doing other things, but I wanted her as a thrower,” said Scott Mossgrove, Sinclair-Torre’s throwing coach.

“I knew she was just a pure athlete. Nicole is just a wonderful athlete in just about everything she did. It was kind of secondary for her because her first love was basketball, obviously, but she could’ve easily been a Division I thrower if that would’ve been her passion.”

In the spring of 2002, Stewart and Sinclair-Torre qualified for the PIAA Track and Field Championships in shot put.

After releasing what she remembers as a “bad throw,” Sinclair-Torre turned around and walked out of the circle, convinced she lost a chance to place at the state meet. The shot actually sailed three-quarters of an inch past 40 feet, good enough for a sixth-place medal.

“I remember that she was extremely nervous,” Mossgrove said. “I watched her put the shot up to her neck, and I could see her hand shaking from nervousness.

She played in some big basketball games, but when you’re in the at circle all by yourself, it’s overwhelming.

Even though she didn’t think it was a great throw, I knew if she was over 40 feet, she’d be in medal contention.”

Sweeter yet? Stewart placed third.

“That’s really rare, to have two people in the same event from the same school place at states,” SinclairTorre said. “And I was lucky enough to do it with my best friend. That was one of the best things. We were there to support each other.”

Stewart went on to throw at Duquesne, and the two were roommates for the last four of their five years of college. Stewart even tried to get Sinclair-Torre to go out for the track and field team after she used up her basketball eligibility.

“As much as they wanted me to, and as much as I thought I wanted to, I decided that my passion was still basketball,” SinclairTorre said. “I just really wasn’t into it anymore.”

Instead, she took a job coaching high school girls’ basketball at Vincentian Academy, Duquesne’s prep school, as the junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach. She thoroughly enjoyed it, and said coaching could be in her future.

“Nothing has transpired with coaching yet, but I do think about it,” she said. “I know how influential it was on my life at that age, and I think I’d be a great mentor for kids. Sports is a great avenue for kids, and I love to be a part of it.”  While at Duquesne, Sinclair-Torre received significant playing time as a freshman and even started toward the end of the season under coach Dan Durkin.

She was a go-to player for the Dukes all four years, averaging 8.0 points and 7.9 rebounds per game her senior season.

She totaled 840 points and 824 rebounds in her career, and was a CoSIDA District 2 Academic All-American selection three times.

Sinclair-Torre was the 2005 Atlantic 10 Women’s Basketball Academic StudentAthlete of the Year.

She was also named a 2006 ESPN The Magazine First Team District 2 Women’s Basketball Aca-

demic All-America honoree with a 3.85 cumulative grade-point average.

“For athletes from around here to go on and play Division I basketball and to become leaders in college, that’s a big deal,” Mossgrove said. “We’ve had some tremendous female athletes come out of this county, and she was one of them.”

Sinclair-Torre entered college planning to go into the medical field and took on a health systems management major. She completed her classes and thought until her sophomore year that she wanted to go to medical school. But after a stint working at Mercy Hospital, she quickly changed her mind and reverted to her childhood dream.

“When I was little, I always said I was going to be a veterinarian,” she said. “I know a lot of people say that, but I really thought I could be that when I grew up. Once I got older, I thought I should go into the medical field for humans.

But I went back to my initial passion and tried to figure out how I could combine science and my love for animals. It was my dream, and then it changed, and now I’m back where I was always meant to be.”

Sinclair-Torre continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where she met her future husband, Christopher.

The two now reside in Shamong, N.J., and both are veterinarians. Christopher is originally from the New Jersey area and co-owns his own practice.

“This is where we kind of settled,” Sinclair-Torre said.

“My parents have the flexibility to travel a lot, so they come out to see us. And my sister lives in north Jersey, so I see her a lot since we’re close in proximity. It’s nice.”  Looking back, there is a lot that Sinclair-Torre remembers about her basketball career, and a lot she doesn’t. There are a lot of great times to look back on, and only a few bad ones.

She continually uses the word “passion” to describe the sport and repeatedly admits she fulfilled her childhood dream of playing Division I basketball and becoming a veterinarian.

But dreams don’t come true without some hard work, and that’s something she’ll be remembered for.

“It’s unusual at a young age to see the work ethic she had. That’s what set her apart,” Steve said.

“She wasn’t just good on the court, she was good in the classroom, too,” Woodall added. “She was always working toward something.”

And from the time she was able to pick up a ball — when her father jokingly finally wanted to spend time with her — Sinclair-Torre was working on her basketball career.

It didn’t come easily, but she wouldn’t have had it any other way.

“I did put a lot of effort into it,” she admitted. “But that’s all I wanted to do, for as long as I can remember, and not many people can say they made their dreams come true.”

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James had 23 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists as the Cavs became the fourth team in NBA history to start 10-0 in the playoffs, joining the Los Angeles Lakers (1989, 2001) and San Antonio Spurs (2012).

Only the second Lakers team won a title, and the Cavs are now two wins from appearing in their second straight NBA Finals and trying to end Cleveland’s 52-year sports championship drought.

Kyrie Irving scored 26 and Kevin Love 19 for Cleveland.

The Raptors managed to hang around longer than in Game 1, when they were blown out by 31. But Toronto lacks the necessary firepower to stay with a Cleveland team playing its best basketball this season, one that James likened to a football team.

“We play offense, we play defense and we’re great at special teams as well,” he said.

Game 3 is Saturday in Toronto, where Raptors All-Star guard Kyle Lowry can only hope the rims at Air Canada Centre are kinder than the ones in Quicken Loans Arena.

Lowry scored 10 points and is shooting 8 of 28 from the field, including 1 of 15 on 3-pointers.

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LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heaven help the next generation of American women if â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighbors 2: Sorority Risingâ&#x20AC;? represents what Hollywood thinks of them. In Nicholas Stollerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sequel to his 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighbors,â&#x20AC;? even the withit girls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ones too freethinking to join a cookiecutter sorority â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are so dumb they make the bros in the first movie look like elder statesmen. Smarts arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the point, of course â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the reason these freshmen strike out on their own, renting a house next to Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, is that they hunger for their very own place to get stoned. But in their awkward attempt to shoehorn these kids into the first picâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formula, Stoller and his writing collaborators care far less about creating believable characters than getting to the next laugh.

Those yuks are plentiful enough to ensure a reasonable box-office return. But viewers prone to worries about Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treatment of women â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a fair chunk of whom are young students this film wants to attract â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may be laughing less loudly than those around them.

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STARRING IN â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighbors 2: Sorority Risingâ&#x20AC;? are, from left, Zac Efron, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. The movie is in theaters today.

In an uncharacteristically flat performance, Chloe Grace Moretz plays Shelby, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit the Barbie mold at the sorority sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rushing, Phi Lambda.

She sticks with rush even after learning that sororities canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t host their own parties, and must go to frat houses to get wasted. But at her

first such party, the rapey vibe is so intense (is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Means Yes!â&#x20AC;? banner perhaps too subtle a clue?) she and new friends Beth (Kiersey Clemons) and Nora (Beanie Feldstein) decide to start their own club.

The search for a party house to call their own leads them to the vacant

Louis C.K. talks tour LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Louis C.K. is leaving Hollywood.

For now.

The actor-comedian has pushed pause on his FX series and is launching a yearlong â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or more, he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decided yet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stand-up comedy tour composed of all-new material.

The Emmy-winning star of FXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Louieâ&#x20AC;? kicked off the trek Tuesday in Baltimore and has summer dates mapped out across North America and Europe, with stops in such cities as Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago, London, Paris and Jerusalem. He plans to continue through at least December.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trumboâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue Jasmineâ&#x20AC;? actor-comedian discussed keeping his ticket prices to about $50, performing for international crowds and being inspired

by Prince. (Material has been edited for brevity.)

Associated Press: Why did you want to do this tour now?

Louis C.K.: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing stand-up for the last 31 years. For the last few years, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been taking part of the year to tour and the other part to do productions, like my series. I think since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing the series on FX, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been splitting the time.

I realized this year that the best you can be as a stand-up is when all youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ever doing is stand-up, so I wanted to devote a lot of time to being on the road.

AP: You have several international dates. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re performing in a place like Jerusalem, do you alter your material?

Louis C.K.: No, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that makes any sense. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there to see an American comedian. I think when you try to gear anything to an audience, you end up as a softer, weaker version of yourself.

I remember when I saw â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Trainspotting.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That was purely made for Scottish people. I loved it, but I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand half the (expletive) they were saying. It was exciting and kept you on the edge of your seat. If they had done an American version where they slowed it down and used our words, it would have sucked.

AP: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re again keeping ticket prices low for fans

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Neighbors 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122; RATED: R for crude sexual content, brief graphic nudity, language, drug use and teen partying RUN TIME: 92 minutes party provides weird madcap action, and yes, it offers the frequently shirtless Efron the opportunity to strip-tease for panting college girls. But another involving iPhone sabotage is incoherent, depending on nonsensical responses from the adult victims.

The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neo-sorority villains are not the only brain-deprived characters onscreen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Teddy doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand boiling water; Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend is 8.97 months pregnant and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how labor works.

But especially in a sequel that deprives its adult female lead of the comic opportunities she did so well with in the first film, their depiction here feels like a provocation to any woman or man in the crowd who yearns for more sentient female characters in pop culture.

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AP Entertainment Writer

home next door to Mac and Kelly Radner (Rogen & Byrne), who successfully ran Zac Efron and his crew out in the last picture.

But how will three girls pay the $5,000 rent?

Enter an unlikely mentor: Efronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Teddy Sanders, whose bros have done an astonishing amount of

growing up in the two years since we saw them (and, in the case of Dave Francoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pete, come out of the closet).

Mac and Kelly, getting set to have a second child, have just managed to sell this house and buy a bigger one in the suburbs. But this one is in escrow, with the new owners having 30 days to make random inspections and back out for any reason. Reasons like, say, a yard full of beer cans next door.

Teddy, looking to get even with his old neighbors (letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forget they actually patched things up after the last movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents-vs.-fratboys warfare), sets out to host parties so outlandish no prospective homebuyer could ignore them.

But as they come into their own as party animals, the girls give Teddy the heave-ho, saying the most hurtful thing a low-IQ stud like this could hear: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not like us, dude. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an old person.â&#x20AC;? Teddy rebounds by joining Mac and Kelly in their attempt to shut the sorority down.

The ensuing back-andforth assault is often funny, but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work nearly as well as the first filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action.

A set piece involving a massive weed heist at a tailgate

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LOUIS C.K. has paused his FX series and is launching a yearlong stand-up comedy tour. and fending off scalpers, which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done for several years now. Is it getting easier or more difficult to do that?

Louis C.K.: For me, the bigger rooms I play and more work I get, the less I should charge. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just my personal formula. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m making more money, I can afford to charge less. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense to go in the other direction, which is: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m making more, so I can charge more, then I make more.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting crazy. When I look at the math, if I lower my tickets to this price, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still making plenty and happy with it. I always look at comedians who are not as popular as me and try to charge less than them.

AP: You said in an interview with Howard Stern last month that you were millions of dollars in debt after self-financing your online series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horace and Pete.â&#x20AC;? Why not use the tour as an opportunity to fill your coffers back up?

Louis C.K.: When I told Howard I went into debt, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually lose that money.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all back now. The showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already made back the debt. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m out. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the black now.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just from sales of the series. With all the charging less and investing money to keep the

prices down, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still making a ton of money.

AP: How does your democratization of ticket sales affect the crowd?

Louis C.K.: When I started doing this, I noticed a change immediately. Before, I would look in the front row and see guys that look like they should be in Cigar Aficionado. Sometimes, they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even fans.

They just wanted to show off that they could get a tough ticket. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fun to play for those people. When we do the tickets this way, people freak that they can buy frontrow seats for face value. I get off on that. It makes for a better crowd.

AP: I imagine it electrifies your fans? I remember the last time I saw Prince.

It was at the Forum for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;21 Night Standâ&#x20AC;? residency, and I only paid $25.

Louis C.K.: Yeah, one of the independent promoters I work with who used to work with Prince told me that he would send batches of tickets for his shows to record stores in the middle of the cities he was playing, you know, like black record stores in Harlem or Cincinnati or wherever, so that fans whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been with him since the beginning could get tickets. I found that really inspiring when I heard that story a few years ago.

BEIJING (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; It lacks the building blocks of characters and a plot for now, but a Chinese-American studio hopes to turn the Tetris video game into a blockbuster movie.

Threshold Global Studios is budgeting $80 million to strategically rotate, slide and drop the famed 1980s stacking game into a sci-fi thriller.

The project is the first for the studio, a newly formed joint venture between Chinese entertainment investor Bruno Wuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seven Star Works and producer Larry Kasanoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Californiabased Threshold Entertainment Group, which produces live-action movies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For our debut project, Threshold Global Studios will bring one of the most beloved, cross-generational gaming brands in the world to the big screen as an epic, sci-fi thriller,â&#x20AC;? Kasanoff said in a statement.

The video game requires players to arrange and clear bricks that fall faster and

faster into a rectangular matrix at the bottom of the screen before they run out of space. Tetris has survived the transition from desktop to console to smartphone better than most other popular video games from the 1980s, such as Pac-Man. Whether it will survive the transition to the big screen is less clear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that I loved playing Tetris when I was an elementary student doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean I will see the film at all. Actually, the idea of making it into a film sounds extremely silly,â&#x20AC;? said personal trainer Xu Jie, 30, interviewed in downtown Beijing on Wednesday.

Tetris was invented in 1984 by Russian Alexey Pajitnov, who drew inspiration from a puzzle board game. He named it after the Greek word â&#x20AC;&#x153;tetra,â&#x20AC;? meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;four,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;tennis,â&#x20AC;? his favorite sport. In China, the

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, MICHAEL S. LAMER A/K/A MICHAEL LAMER ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GREEN COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUBER 2013-238960 TAX PARCEL 20-038-135 87 MUSSER STREET COMMODORE, PA 15729 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF THE BANK OF WELLS FARGO BANK, NA VS MICHAEL S. LAMER A/K/A MICHAEL LAMER CS #12105 CD 2013 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT P. WENDT (215-563-7000) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, ROBERT B. ALLEN ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF INDIANA COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 84 PAGE NUMBER 622 INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2012-235007 TAX PARCEL 25-004-602.00..-000#25657 1369 WATER STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. VS ROBERT B. ALLEN CS #11191 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT P. WENDT (215-563-7000) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, MARK W. BENAMATI ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF SALTSBURG COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1333 PAGE NUMBER 724 TAX PARCEL 036-003-200 202 MARKET STREET SALTSBURG, PA 15681 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF MIDFIRST BANK VS. MARK W. BENAMATI CS #10473 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: LEON P. HALLER (717-234-4178) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, RYAN C. WOODS & VALERIE E. WOODS ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GREEN COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2014-257110 TAX PARCEL #20-020-147-03 89 BLACK LANE COMMODORE, PA 15729 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF INDIANA FIRST BANK, FORMERLY INDIANA FIRST SAVINGS BANK VS RYAN C. WOODS & VALERIE E. WOODS CS #10257 CD 2011 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT F. MANZI (724-463-8791) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, DERRIK KUHNS ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST WHEATFIED COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1627 PAGE 645 TAX PARCEL 41-022-271 181 CHESTNUT STREET ROBINSON, PA 15949 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK VS DERRIK KUHNS CS #12703 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: MATTHEW K. FISSEL (215-627-1322) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, JOSEPH GEISWEIDT & CORINNE GEISWEIDT ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST WHEATFIELD COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED DEED BOOK 1364 PAGE 36 TAX PARCEL #41-10-111.06 1268 GERMANY LUTHERN CEMETERY ROAD NEW FLORENCE, PA 15944 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) VS JOSEPH GEISWEIDT & CORINNE GEISWEIDT CS #12123 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: HEATHER RILOFF (610-328-2887) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, LIBBY G. SCHAFER ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF CENTER COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1486 PAGE 001 TAX PARCEL 12-037-106 147 FIRE ACADEMY ROAD HOMER CITY, PA 15748 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., A TRUSTEE FOR CENTEX HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-D VS LIBBY G. SCHAFER CS #10026 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: CRYSTAL ESPANOL (215-627-1322) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, DOMENIC ROMANI ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, PARCELS; 39-019-105 DB 670 P 491, 39-108-113 DB 863 P 210, 39-018-113.01 DB 827 P 517 AND THE BOROUGH OF CREEKSIDE, PARCELS; 17-001-625 DB 683 P 477, 17-001-108 DB 846 P 486, 17-001-100 DB 863 P 210.

TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF CHRISTINE ROMANI-RUBY, JESSICA ROMANI, TRACY ROMANI VS DOMENIC ROMANI CASE #10769 CD 2012 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: CHRISTOPHER WELCH (724-463-6050) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, NICHOLAS MICHAEL HORCHAK AND RACHAEL M. HORCHAK ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GRANT COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2009-196155 TAX PARCEL 19-010-102.05 1790 MUMAU ROAD GLEN CAMPBELL, PA 15742 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF 1ST SUMMIT BANK VS NICHOLAS MICHAEL HORCHAK AND RACHAEL M. HORCHAK CS #12313 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: THOMAS A. YOUNG (814-535-3513) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

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NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Certificate of Organization was filed with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of State, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on or about May 11, 2016, for the purpose of organizing a limited liability company.

The name of the proposed company to be organized under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law, approved May 5, 1933. PL 364, as amended is Oakland Hall Investor, LLC of 506 South 13th Street, Indiana, PA 15701.

The corporation shall have unlimited power to engage in and to do any lawful act concerning any or all lawful business for which corporations may be organized under the Business Corporation Law. Thomas A. Kauffman, Esquire 52 South Ninth Street Indiana, PA 15701 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, CHRISTOPHER W. CALVERT, INVIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE R. CALVERT, GERALDINE C. CALVERT, THOMAS J. CALVERT AND CATEY M. CALVERT ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF INDIANA COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2010-211361 TAX PARCEL NO. 25-003-840 354 NORTH 8th STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION VS CHRISTOPHER W. CALVERT, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE R. CALVERT, GERALDINE C. CALVERT, THOMAS J. CALVERT AND CATEY M. CALVERT CASE #11150 CD 2014 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: BRETT A. SOLOMAN, ESQ. (412-566-1212) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE EXECUTOR’S NOTICE JOHN A. HANNA, ATTORNEY Letters Testamentary on the Estate of BETTY C. WEINSTEIN, a/k/a BETTY WEINSTEIN, late of White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said Estate are requested to present them duly authenticated for settlement, and those knowing themselves to be indebted are requested to make prompt payment.

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, LEO S. DZIADOS & NINA R. DZIADOS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BRUSH VALLEY COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 12520 TAX PARCEL #08-007-126 1303 CAMPGROUND ROAD INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST VS LEO S. DZIADOS & NINA R. DZIADOS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CASE #10042 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: KERI P. EBECK (412-434-7955) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

NOTICE NAME CHANGE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS INDIANA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA NO.10877 CD 2016 IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Kane David Costas NOTICE AND NOW, on Petition of Alecia Grguric the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, has set a hearing on the Petition for the Change of Name of Kane David Costas to Kane David Grguric, for May 26th, at 2:45 p.m. in Courtroom No. 3 of the Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana, Pennsylvania, when and where all interested parties may appear and show cause, if any, why the request of the petitioner shall not be granted.

Alecia Grguric 805 Birds Road Shelocta, PA 15774 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, MATTHEW J. FISHER & TIFFANY L. FISHER ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1606 PAGE NUMBER 362 TAX PARCEL #42-058-107.02 DEED BOOK VOLUME 80 PAGE NUMBER 96 TAX PARCEL #42-04-132 551 ROUTE 110 HIGHWAY NORTH INDIANA, PA 15701 AND NORTH BEN FRANKLIN ROAD INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF INDIANA FIRST BANK, FORMERLY, INDIANA FIRST SAVINGS BANK VS MATTHEW J. FISHER & TIFFANY L. FISHER CASE #10198 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT F. MANZI (724-463-8791) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE Barbor, Sottile & Darr, P.C., Attorney ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE Letters of Administration on the Estate of Harley Dawn Lowmaster, Late of Green Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said estate are requested to present them duly authenticated and those knowing themselves to be indebted are requested to make prompt payment.

Administrator: William L. Lowmaster, Jr. 31 Watsons Road Glen Campbell, PA 15742-8512 5/13, 5/20, 5/27

Real Estate Transfers John Melott by SHF and Pamela Melott by SHF to Tammac Holdings Corporation, Armstrong Township, $1 Cassandra L. Landers AKA Cassandra L. Slezak and Steven J. Slezak to Chantal L. Townsend, Blairsville Borough 3rd Ward, $90,000 Residential Asset Securities Corporation Home Security and Mortgage Asset Backed Pass Through Certificates Series 2001-KS3 by TR by AIF to Matthew P. Gornick and Kristin R. Gornick, East Wheatfield Township, $22,244 Carl A. Romagna and Shirley M. Romagna to Mark Faught and Jennifer Trimble Faught, Cherry Tree Borough, $20,000 Isabel Anderson and Edward Anderson to Carol A. Vanscavich and Stephanie Vanscavich, Indiana Borough 2nd Ward, $1 William R. McCrory Jr. Est. to Jonathan Warnock, Indiana Borough 4th Ward, $74,000 Robert L. Orr Revoc LVG TR by TR, Nancy L. Orr Revoc LVG TR by Tr, Robert L. Orr and Nancy L. Orr to Michael Orr, Washington Township, $1 Frank A. Kurcsics and Bonni L. Kurcsics to Sandra Fink and Terry Fink, Burrell Township, $25,200

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, ROBERT FAILS ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1587 PAGE NUMBER 221 TAX PARCEL #42-037-304 424 MAPLE STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS ROBERT FAILS CASE #10353 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: M. TROY FREEDMAN (215-572-8111) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that Articles of Incorporation were filed with and approved by the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the 7th day of April, 2016, for the purpose of obtaining a Certificate of Incorporation of a business corporation which was organized under the Business Corporation Law of 1988. The name of the corporation is Babaz Mart, Inc. The purpose or purposes for which it was organized: To engage in and to do any lawful act concerning any or all lawful business for which corporations may be incorporated under the Business Corporation Law of 1988, under the provisions of which this corporation has been incorporated, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of said Act of Assembly.

John Eric Bumbaugh, Esquire Bumbaugh & Nicola 10526 Old Trail Road N. Huntingdon, PA 15642 (724) 864-6840 5/20

NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Indiana will hold a public Hearing on, May 26th 2016 at 5:00 p.m., in the Council Room of the Indiana Borough Municipal Building at 80 North Eight Street, Indiana PA, as provided by the Zoning Ordinance for the following request: Anselment Properties LLC, owner of 520 Philadelphia St., being tax parcel 23-02-102 located in a C-1 zone, is requesting a variance of Art. V of Ch. 460, § 460-32.4(G) of the Code of the Borough of Indiana for the maximum percentage of coverage for a permanent window sign.

Vapor Expressions LLC, tenant of 22 N 5th St., being tax parcel 22-02-108 located in a C-1 zone, is requesting a variance of Art. V of Ch. 460, § 460-32.4(G) of the Code of the Borough of Indiana for the maximum percentage of coverage for a permanent window sign.

5/9, 5/20

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NOTICE NAME CHANGE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS INDIANA COUNTY PENNSYVANIA NO. 10863 CD 2016 IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Sarah Elaine Bolyard NOTICE AND NOW, on Petition of Sandra K. Lefdahl the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, has set a hearing on the Petition for the Change of Name of Sarah Elaine Bolyard to Sarah Elaine Lefdahl, for June 1, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. in Courtroom No. 3 of the Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana, Pennsylvania, when and where all interested parties may appear and show cause, if any, why the request of the petitioner shall not be granted.

Sandra K. Lefdahl 2720 Melloney Ln Indiana, PA 15701 5/20

05-20-16

Real Estate Transfers Jacob N. Kwisnek, Lori Kwisnek, Irene Burks, James Burks, Mark Kwisnek, Jennie Kwisnek, Christine Olenick, Daniel Kwisnek, Sharon Kwisnek, Denise Kwisnek, Sharon Kwisnek, Denise Kwisnek and Matthew Kwisnek to Troy E. Klingensmith Jr., Burrell Township, $72,000 Lawrence J. Shock Sr. and Mindy L. Shock to Antonio J. Gonzales and Amanda J. Gonzales, Indiana Borough 1st Ward, $131,500 Lena Pearl Conner Est. to Matthew J. Straw and Jade Taylor, Montgomery Township, $46,350 Melvin O. Miller to Levi R. Miller and Reuben R. Miller, Canoe Township, $82,200 Paul D. Byler and Sara J. Byler to Albert A. Troyer Jr. and Ellen R. Troyer, East Mahoning Township, $32,500 Joseph Michael Frye AKA Joseph M. Frye and Suzanne E. Frye to Nicholas J. Zak, John J. Zak and Zak Rentals T/D/B/A, Rayne Township, $305,000 Terrance E. Obney to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Department of Transportation, Blacklick Township, $1 Gracie Mae Properties LLC to Joseph C. Hildebrand, Pine Township, $70,000 Ruth V. McNaughton Revoc LVG TR by TR to Kristopher J. Bruns, White Township, $295,000 Bruno Family Revoc TR by TR to KPDS Inc., White Township, $660,000

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, DAPHNI L. SNOW & LARRY E. SNOW SR. ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF EAST WHEATFIED COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1145 PAGE 517 TAX PARCEL #40-021-300 RD 2 BOX 90 A/K/A 12250 ROUTE 56 HIGHWAY WEST SEWARD, PA 15954 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-RP2, BY ITS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS DAPHNI L. SNOW & LARRY E. SNOW SR. CS #10809 CD 2013 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ANDREW J. MARLEY (215-572-8111) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, JODI L. MUMAU ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF PINE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2009-204026 TAX PARCEL #33-022-306 63 1st STREET HEILWOOD, PA 15745 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP VS JODI L. MUMAU CASE #10046 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ADAM H. DAVIS (215-563-7000) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE Public Sale At Lug-It to Larch’s Self Storage, 4346 Rt. 286E, Indiana location for units #53 Lorne Lee Engle; #79 Jerauld Gibbons; #135 Tina Gray; #159 Cindy Edward.

Sale begins at 10:00 a.m., May 21, 2016, Indiana (4346 Rt. 286-E) location. Highest Bid takes all per unit. Cash Only.

All contents to be removed that day. Call 724-463-3110.

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The United School District Board of Education has scheduled the following meeting to be held in the Central Office Board Room located in the High School Building: a Special Board Meeting for the Budget & other business purposes at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 23, 2016.

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Avail. 7/1 (724) 388-3388 BRAND NEW: 1 Bdrm Apts, ALL UTIL. INCL. free dish & internet. East Pike $660/mo No pets.

(724) 549-2059

In Loving Memory Of Darrick A. Wooten 1/19/67 - 5/20/2012 “I remember the day you were born, The little red face came screaming in the early morn, as I watched you grow thru the years. There was so much happiness, so many tears. I remember the spinning sprinkler, so fascinating, you always had to figure out the inner-makings. Mothers, always cherish every moment, they grow so fast looking back , It’s almost heartbreaking.

Then came the day, our Lord took you home, so unexpected, but could not be prevented.Now I can only cherish the memories, knowing you are safe from all harm for eternity . No more laughter , no more tears, only the memories for the rest of my years.

Sadly Missed By Mom, Georgia, & Twin Brother Sean

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www.joyrealty.com joy@joyrealty.com

BUFFINGTON Twp, 1 acer, Country living, 1800 sq ft, 3 bdr, lg rec. rm, living, dining, kitchen, laundry room, 1 bath, wraparound porch. For sale by owner, United Sch. Dist. $155,000 (814) 243-8578

PRICE REDUCED! IND BORO: 550 S 6th, ForSaleByOwner.com $82,900. (724) 349-3642.

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Furnished 1 BR, central air, dishwasher, $585 + elec., pkg, np & ns . Call (724) 349-2638 INDIANA BORO: 1bdr, 2nd flr, a/c, w/d, utils. incld., avail. 6/10, $650 mo + sec.dep, n/s & n/p, no noise. (724) 422-7619

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FOR SALE BY OWNER Turn Key Auto Repair Business, all tools & equipment included, 50x 60 repair shop, 24x32 & 28x40 buildings also included, great road frontage, located near Penns Manor High School. Call (724) 840-9195

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1 BEDROOM apartments available now in Homer City. Rent ranges $385 to $450 some utilities included. (724) 479-9759 2 BDRM Upstairs apt. includes some util., stove, fridge & microwave in apt. $600/mo. Call (724) 465-6895 / (724) 464-3258 1-3 BDR Apartments Westgate Group Apartments: Quiet community near campus and shopping. Pet friendly! Free parking! W/D on site.

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BLACK LICK: 3 bdr, electric heat, no pets, $400 mo. + security. Call (724) 479-2592 CLYMER: 1 or 2 BDRS avail., can be furn or unfurn, $500/mo or $550/ mo incl. free heat, very clean. No pets, Non smoking. 724-254-4777 COLONIAL MANOR 1 bdr furnished. & unfurnished. 2 bdr unfurnished.

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Call (724) 349-5880 NEW 1 bdr, Indiana, $540/mo. incl sewage, garbage & water. No Pets. Call (412) 289-0382 NEWLY Remodeled, 1 bdrm apt in Homer City, No pets, includes all utilities, $560/mo plus security. (724) 762-3520 Two BR, private patio, $542 - $695 + elec, ns, np. (724) 349-2638

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OFFICE Space for lease, 3500 sq ft., 57 S. 9th St. Entire 1st floor, downtown Indiana, PA; Parking available, furnished, utilities included. Phone (724) 465-9333

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ATTRACTIVE 2 bdrm. Indiana, $625/mo. plus util., non smoking, no pets, Call (724) 388-3337

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HOMER CITY: 1 bdrm, $500 + security, utilities included. (724) 840-3530 HOMER CITY: 4 bdrm, $750/mo plus utilities and security. (724) 840-3530 LARGE Farm House 2 miles from Ind. water & gas incl. $1,250/mo. Call (724) 388-0040. Ava 6/1.

Nice 2 bdr duplex in McIntyre , newly remodeled, $495/mo (724) 840- 2399 Nice 2 bdr in Aultman, appliances included , $650/mo. (724) 840-2399 PATIO home near Chestnut Ridge G.C. Amazing view, contemporary 2 bdrm, ceiling fans, AC, skylight. (724) 459-7514 THREE bedrooms - 2 baths, 2 story house in Homer City. No pets, ref. required. $550 month. + $200 security deposit, 724-422-6836 Leave name and phone number.

VARIETY of Rentals, short or long term, furnished or unfurnished. $455/mo. to $1200/mo.

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INDIANA Boro 2 Bdrm, 1st fl, off st. pkg., w/d hu, neat/clean. n/p, n/s, $600 + utilities. (412) 309-0379 INDIANA BORO: N. 7th St. 3 bdr, 1 ba, on quiet St., 3 unrelated individuals. permitted, off St. prkg, $700 mo + util.

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by Eugenia Last Don’t hide the way you feel. The more you open up about your expectations and intentions, the easier it will be to achieve your goals.

Romance and personal development will result in satisfaction and the confidence to take on challenges you veered away from in the past.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Keep an open mind, but don’t believe everything you are told.

Someone will take advantage of your vulnerability and tempt you with excessive behavior.

Show discipline and make wise choices.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Share your personal feelings and intentions with others. Once you’re plans out in the open, you will get the feedback you require to make things happen.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Seek out activities that will help bring about positive personal change. Don’t be swayed by someone with bad habits who tries to deter you from living a fit and healthy life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Use your knowledge and experience to overcome any adversity you face.

Don’t be surprised if someone tries to take advantage of your good nature. Be careful while operating equipment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — If you speak from the heart regarding money and contractual matters, you will be offered alternatives that will help you get back on track. Take action and learn from your mistakes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — A partnership will bring you more opportunities to follow your heart and

your dreams. Discuss your plans, and organize a romantic celebration to reinforce your position.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t feel obliged to make a move. Excess in any form will turn out badly. Gauge your every move in order to avoid regret. Use caution while traveling or dealing with aggressive individuals.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Share your adventures and experience with people who have something to offer in return. Engage in activities or procedures that will help you achieve your greatest potential. Romance is highlighted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Domestic projects will bring you great satisfaction. Use your living space as part of a plan that will help you bring in extra cash.

Don’t let emotional issues cloud your vision.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — Make one of your plans a reality. Don’t wait for someone else to go first. If you develop and present what you want to do, personal gain will come your way.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — Make every move count. If you use your energy wisely, you will discover something that will help you expand what you have to offer.

Negotiate, formulate and concentrate.

Financial gain is within reach.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Getting along with others will allow you to share your thoughts and convince everyone to support your plans.

Diplomacy coupled with a solid offer will encourage someone worthwhile to team up with you.

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HOW CAN PARTNER HELPYOU TO WIN? Jack Benny said, “Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”

Give me playing cards, a bridge table and an expert partner, and you can keep the golf course!

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example. After a lengthy auction, South is in four hearts. West leads the diamond ace and cashes the diamond king, East playing up the line to show that he started with a tripleton (because with a doubleton, he would have played high-low).

What should West do next?

In the auction, North might have made a negative double on the first round to show spades. However, with such a strong hand, it is preferable to bid his suits in length order: first clubs, then spades.

West should count up the high-card points. He has 12, and dummy has 16.

That leaves only 12, yet South opened the bidding. East’s job is to avoid reneging.

To beat the contract, the defenders, with no more side-suit winners available, need two trump tricks. Which card must West hope that his partner holds?

West should lead a third diamond, take the first round of trumps, and play a fourth diamond, hoping his partner can ruff with the heart nine. This effects an uppercut, gaining a trick for West’s heart 10. Keep counting those points.

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At Lug-It to Larch’s Self Storage, 4346 Rt. 286 E, Indiana location for units: #53 Lorne Lee Engle; #79 Jerauld Gibbons; #135 Tina Gray; #159 Cindy Edward.

Sale begins at 10:00 a.m., May 21, 2016, Indiana (4346 Rt. 286-E) location. Highest Bid takes all per unit. CASH ONLY. All contents to be removed that day.

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12” CRAFTSMAN Bandsaw, with stand, asking $125.

Call (724) 465-7679 Die Hard Battery Charger, 200 amp engine starter, 40/2 manual charge,like new, w/ owners manual , asking $50.

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2 CRACKER Barrel Oak Rocking Chairs, excellent condition, asking $150, Call (724) 397-2834 2 Dark Oak Mission Style Rocking Chairs, excellent cond., asking $60/both ,Call (724) 397-2834 30” WHIRLPOOL Gas Range, good working condition, white & black, asking $150/OBO, Call (724) 541-8858 HOSPITAL Bed with side rails and a vinyl covered mattress. Excellent condition. $75 obo. (724) 463-0385 KENMORE Heavy duty, super capicity washing machine, like new, asking $200.

Call (724) 349-2789

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AVONMORE: Community Yard Sale. Sat. May 21, 8am-? Food available.

BLAIRSVILLE: 143 Ridge View Ave & Hazel St, behind DQ. Fri 5/20 & Sat 5/21, 8-2, Multi-family!

Needed.

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BLAIRSVILLE: 164 & 200 E. Chestnut; Fri. 5/20 & Sat. 5/21. 8am-2pm. Rain or Shine.

BLAIRSVILLE: 3 Oak Lane, Fri. 5/20 & Sat. 5/21, 9 - ?, Vintage suit cases, dishes & dolls, bikes, misc.

BLAIRSVILLE: MultiFamily, 55 1st Ave, Sat & Sun.; 8-4pm. Tools, safe, diecast, household items, books, rain/shine.

INDIANA: 152 Meadow Wood in Shadowood, Multi - Family , Fri. 5/20 & sat. 5/21 8-3, tools, kids- adults, decor, priced to sell.

INDIANA: 1613 Hood School Rd, off Airport Rd, Fri. & Sat. 8-4p. Collection of bells, dolls, fancy dishes, home goods, etc.

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INDIANA: FOREST MANOR, S.6th St. to Ferguson Rd. May 21; 8amNoon. 15+ Families!

Toys, Name brand kids/ adult clothes, books, furniture, jewelry, tools, 16” scroll saw, A/C, exercise equip, china, golf, lawn & garden, plants, DVD’s, ice cream maker, crock pot, electronics, computers, thermos’s, DBL Jog Stroller, dog crates, holiday, food, free items, etc.

INDIANA: 1892 Warren Rd, 5/20, 8-3, 5/21, 8-10, gun locks & rack, O gague track/switch, Vera Bradley, clothes women’s S-XL, boy’s 10-14, Nerf guns, helmets, more misc.

INDIANA: 230 N. 3rd St., Fri. 5/20 8-2 & Sat. 5/21 8-12, dressers, tables, tools, area rugs, humidifier, barn wood items, country decor, name brand clothing all sizes, Little Tikes tricycle, chairs, strollers, boys & girls newborn-5t, and so much more. Money Made Will Profit Our Adoption!

INDIANA: Huge 13 families! Fri. & Sat. 8-4, 1267 White Oak Rd. Signs from Warren Rd. Sheetz or Rt 422 to Parkwood Rd. Boys 2T-8, girls NB-16, Men & women sz XS-XXL. Brand Names!

Justice, Abercrombie, Holister, AE, Gym, & Gap! Priced Cheap! Furniture, household, electronics, construction items. Rototiller, elliptical and treadmill. New gas grill. Maternity and tons of toys and baby gear! American Girl Doll! Bikes! Books & tools!

DECKERS POINT: Community Yard Sale (Including Deckers Point, Dixonville & Sheesley Rd) 5/19 & 5/20, 8am-4pm & 5/21 8am-noon.

HUGE INDOOR SALE!

INDIANA: 452 Water Street, Fri. 5/20 & Sat. 5/21 8-3, MULTI-FAMILY SALE!

Indiana: 2015 Oakland Ave., Saturday: 8am-?, furniture, households, lots of misc.

INDIANA: Sandro Street 6 Family Garage Sale, Sat. 5/21 9-1, furniture, kids clothing-toys-books, glass lighted display case, framed pictures, x-mas items, snow blower, chandelier, rims & tires for mustang

INDIANA: 475 S. 13th St, Elk Lodge, Sat. 8am1pm. Furniture, household & much more. Come find your treasure

INDIANA: 1006 Phila. St., Fri. 5/20 & Sat. 5/21, 8-2 pm; Jr Girls XS clothes, paint equip, ladders, hand & power tools, etc.

INDIANA: 1470 Bethel Church Road at Bethel Presb. Congregational Multi-Family Yard Sale, Sat. 6/4, 8am - 4pm

INDIANA: 833 Country Lane, Fri. 5/20 & Sat. 5/21 8-2, old avon bottles, santa collection, cup & saucer collection, christmas decor., older tools, yard tools, glassware, households, gun cabinet, 47” TV, womens clothing (mostly size L), lots of misc.

INDIANA: Stormer Rd(off East Pike), Sat. 5/21 9-3, Multi-Family, Oak entertainment center & other furniture, household items, fall & Christmas decor, baby items, children’s clothing & more.

Featuring “Dandi Crafts

by Fairman”. Bake Sale with proceeds benefiting Pathway Homeless Shelter. Rain or Shine. No Early Birds Please.

INDIANA: Chappy’s Pl, Fri. 8-1pm & Sat 8am-?

Rain/Shine. Children lap top computer, kids bikes, ammo, aluminum ladder.

To much to mention!

JOSEPHINE: 565 Old Indiana Rd, Thurs. 9-? & Fri. 8-6, antiques, table saws & sanders, misc.

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King Size Bed, wooden head & foot boards, good condition. asking $250.

Call (724) 465-2944 LIFT Chair, brown upholstry, wooden arms, good working condition . Call (724) 465-2944 MAGIC CHEF, Gas oven & stove, in good condition, asking $150. Call (724) 388-0900 METAL Bed Frame, adjusts from single to queen size, on wheels, asking $25. Call (724) 717-6979 TRADITIONAL Classic cherry entertainment center, excellent condition, 78” high by 38” wide.

Storage on bottom, $375.

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GOLDEN-DOODLE Puppy, adorable, sweet, low shed, 1st generation, 10 weeks old, male, $700.

For details (724)397-2738 or text (724) 640- 6799

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Sports Equipment For Sale

ADJUSTABLE Portable Basketball hoop & stand, $20 obo. (724) 388-6720 PRO-FORM Walk Tread Mill, excellent cond, folds up for storage, asking $100, (724) 397-2834 TRIPOD Corn feeder 50 GAL, good condition nothing wrong, asking $65. (724) 464-8195

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Bicycles For Sale

ADULT Schwinn Tricycle, new chain and brake cable, $325.

(724) 349-6517 MONGOOSE, Men’s 21 Speed, 26”, like new, $100 obo, (724) 464-9629

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Miscellaneous For Sale

1200 HARD BACK Books, romance, kids books, autobiography, time life, good condition.

All for $150 obo. (724) 541-4228 3/4” SOFT Copper Tubing, 19 ft, Two 12 ft, 21 ft, $1.00 per ft. (724) 422-1044 BEAUTIFUL Hand crafted bar with lighting system & 5 Amish made swivel bar stools. $2,600 obo. Assortment of antique furniture & decorative items.

(724) 388-3455 LARGE Collection of old sewing items (spools, pin cushions & etc.) $25. for all. (724) 459-8861

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Swimming Pools For Sale

302 FORD V8 Engine with automatic overdrive transmission, 28,000 miles. $350. (724) 549-5891

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TIRES: 2 P225/75R15; 2 205/65R15 all season, approx. 25% $30 per pair. Call after 5pm. (724) 463-8238

RV Units For Sale

MOTORHOME: 32’, Class A, 38K miles, garage kept.

(724) 463-3613

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

4 TIRES, 215-75-r14, excellent condition, whitewalls, 1 does have plug, used on antique car, asking $125/all. Call (724) 801-2291 4 TIRES, Brand New, mounted on rims, 215/70/14, white walls, $220/all.

Call (724) 5495891

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Farm Equipment For Sale

1973 INTERNATIONAL 1 ton dump truck, 33,000 miles, 340 engine, twin hoist, grain racks, cattle racks, good tires, A-1, $3,500 obo 724-254-4884 HAYBINE: Hesston 1120, A1, new guards. Call (724) 254-4884

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Livestock & Poultry For Sale

YEARLING Beef bulls for sale, Angus X, Simmentel X, 724-244-0765

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Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

HEDGE Trimmer , 20” cordless, asking $25, Call (724) 464-9443 JOHN Deere L10 Lawn tractor, 42” cut, runs good. $500 obo. (724) 464-9641

LIONEL TRAIN Set with board, $200. Good working condition. (724) 397-2993 METAL Swing Set, 7.5 ft. wide plus slide, like new, $45. (724) 479-9926

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70’S or Earlier 12 string acoustic guitar, in good condition. Call (724) 463-0565 ask for Karen WANTED Christmas Trees, Fraser Fir, Concolor or what have you.

Call (412) 678-7300

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SPRINGER SPANIEL, can be puppies or adult dog, want the color to be liver & white and a full coat. Call (412) 678-7300

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

Pools: 19’ x 31’ above ground, $899 installed FREE- site prep extra.

1-800-548-1923

SNAPPER High Vac Riding Lawn Mower, w/bagger , electric/pull start both, 8p motor, good condition, asking $550.

Call (412) 289-0084

STEELER Season Tickets, 2 Seats-Section III, Row P, Seats 12-13, Face Value $2,652, 4 SeatsSection 128, Row S Seats 15-18 Face Value $4,272.

Parking Pass, Call Tom Zaucha 724-388-2616

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Autos For Sale

2003 DODGE Caravan, seats 7, pw/pd, air, runs good, clean interior, remote start, 115,000 miles, asking $2000. Call (724) 349-5666 2005 Chevy Colbolt, 88K, $2,500.

2003 Dodge caravan, $170K $1,295.

1998 Dodge Caravan 182K, $800.

1995 Chevy S-10 TK St. 186K $1,200.

2004 Chevy Blazer, 202K, $1,995.

(724) 840-6100

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Trucks For Sale

1997 TOYOTA Tacoma, 4X4, 4 cyl, 5 speed, 44K miles, $2,500. (724) 465-9412

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Vehicle Repairs

2013 ESCAPE SEL FWD Moonroof, Heated Leather, $ 11,300 Mi. .........

22,099

2013 F150 SC XLT 4x4 Eco Boost, $ V6, 31,800 Mi. ..

31,137

2007 EDGE SEL AWD Heated Leather, $ 103,700 Mi. .......

11,561

2008 MUSTANG GT Premium, $ 84,900 Mi. .........

14,738

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www.NoelFord.com 2005 Chrysler Sebring Limited Convertible, 39K, Black w/white leather int. $8500. (724) 479-8708 To subscribe to the Indiana Gazette, phone (724)465-5555 and ask for Circulation.

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Motorcycles For Sale

2006 KAWASAKI Motorcycle , custom , 900 cubic inch, fuel injected, 4,385 miles low mileage, ready to ride, asking $3300.

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Motorcycles For Sale

HARLEY Davidson 2008 Sportster 883 custom XL, 13k, $4,200 obo (724) 349-3717 / 717-512-5915

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Boating Needs

WANTED Boat with TwoLick Pass. Call (724) 349-4030